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Today, we use the Gregorian
calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s,
The date is April
9, 2022 (in the 21 Century)
April -- Aphrodite's month
Old English April(is)
Latin Aprilis
Etruscan Apru
Greek Aphro, short for Aphrodite.
Aprilis had 30 days,
until Numa when
it had 29 days, until Julius when it became 30
days long.
Aphrodite is
the Greek goddess of love and beauty. She is
identified with the Roman goddess Venus.
The God of
Israel has His own Calendar:
We are now in the first month
of God called ha Aviv / Nisan, day 7
Exod.12 [1] … Yehovah spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, saying,
[2] This month shall be unto you the beginning
of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exod. 13 [3]
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in
which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of
hand Yehovah brought
you out from this place: There shall no leavened bread be
eaten. [4] This day came you out in the month Abib - ha
Aviv
Esth.3 [7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan,
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Today’s Topic:
God separates
Make no marriages with them
First, some
Hebrew words:
פָּלָה palah
Meaning: 1) to be
distinct, marked out, be separated; be distinguished, to be set apart
בָּדַל badal
Meaning: 1) to
divide, to make a distinction, difference, to divide into parts, to
separate oneself from,
to withdraw from, to separate oneself unto, to be excluded
פָּרַד parad
Meaning: about
the same as above
נָזַר nazar
Meaning: 1) to
dedicate, consecrate, separate, to dedicate oneself, devote oneself, to keep sacredly separate, to
live as a Nazarite
Exod.33 [16] For wherein shall it be known here
that I and your people have found grace in your sight? is it not in that you go with us? So shall
we be separated, I and your people, from all the people that are upon the
face of the earth.
Lev.20 [24]
But I have said unto you, You shall inherit their
land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey: I
am Yehovah your
God, which have separated you from
other people.
[25] You
shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between
unclean fowls and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast,
or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you
as unclean.
Lev.22 [1] … Yehovah spoke unto Moses, saying,
[2] Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that
they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I
am Yehovah.
[3] Say unto them, whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generations, that goes unto
the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto Yehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul
shall be cut off from my presence: I am Yehovah.
Lev. 20 [24] … I have said unto you, You shall inherit their land, and
I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey: I am Yehovah your
God, which have separated you from other people.
Num. 8 [14] Thus shall you separate the
Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be
mine.
Deut. 7 [1] When Yehovah your
God shall bring you into the land whither you go to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before you,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and
the Jebusites, seven
nations greater and mightier than you;
[2] And when Yehovah your God shall deliver them
before you; you shall smite
them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make
no covenant with them, nor show mercy
unto them:
[3] Neither shall you
make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son.
[4] For they will turn away your son from following me, that they
may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yehovah be kindled against you, and
destroy you suddenly.
[5] But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their
altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.
[6] For you are a holy
people unto Yehovah your
God: Yehovah your
God hath chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth.
Deut.10 [8] At that time Yehovah separated
the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yehovah, to stand
before Yehovah to
minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
Deut.19 [2] You shall separate three
cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yehovah your
God giveth you to
possess it.
Deut.32 [8] When the most High divided to the
nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according
to the number of the children of Israel. [9] For Yehovah's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of
his inheritance.
1Kgs.8
Solomon’s prayer [53] For you did separate them from among all the people of the earth, to
be your inheritance, as you spoke by
the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our
fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Yehovah.
1Chr.23 [12] The sons of Kohath; Amram, Ishar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
[13] The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the
most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before Yehovah, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name
for ever.
Ezra.6 [21]
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such
as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the
land, to seek Yehovah God of Israel, did
eat, [22] And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven
days with joy: for Yehovah had made them joyful, and
turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in
the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra.9 [1] Now when these things were done, the
princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the
Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing
according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Perizzites,
the Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
[2]
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so
that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea,
the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
Ezra.10 [1] Now when Ezra had prayed, and when
he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God,
there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and
women and children: for the people wept very sore.
[3]
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives,
and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those
that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the
law.
[7]
And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children
of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;[8] And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the
counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited,
and himself separated from
the congregation of those that had been carried away.
[9]
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto
Jerusalem within three days. It was the
ninth month, Kislev on the
twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house
of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
[10]
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, You have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the
trespass of Israel.
[11] Now therefore make confession unto Yehovah God of
your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land,
and from the strange wives. [11] Now therefore make confession
unto Yehovah God of
your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate
yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
[12]
Then all the congregation
answered and said with a loud voice, As you hast said, so must we do.
[13] But the people
are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in
this thing.
[14] Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives
in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every
city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter
be turned from us.
[15] Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
Levite helped them.[16] And the
children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of
the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names,
were separated, and sat
down in the first day of the tenth month, Tebeth, to examine
the matter.
[17] And they made an end with all the men that had
taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
[18] And among the sons of the priests there were
found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua
the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
[19] And they gave their hands that they would put
away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their
trespass.
Then a list of names
[44] All these
had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Neh.9 [2]… the
seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood
and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. [3]
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yehovah their
God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and
worshipped Yehovah their
God.
Neh.10 [28] …
the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers,
the Nethinims, and all they that
had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters,
every one having knowledge, and having understanding; [29] They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and
entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given
by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yehovah our
Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
[30] And that we would not give our daughters unto
the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
[31] And if the people of the land bring ware or any
victuals on the Sabbath day to sell,
that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that
we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Neh.13 [1]
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and
therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come
into the congregation of God for ever;
[2] Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with
water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our
God turned the curse into a blessing.[3] Now it came
to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all
the mixed multitude.
Some
proverbs:
Prov.16 [28] A froward man sows strife:
and a whisperer separates chief
friends.
Prov.17 [9]
He that covers a
transgression seeks love;
but he that repeats a matter separates very
friends.
Prov.19 [4]
Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
The Prophets
Isa.59 [1]
Behold, Yehovah's hand
is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot
hear:[2] But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face
from you, that he will not hear. (read the rest of the Chapter,
if you can)
Ezek.14 [1] Then came certain of the elders of
Israel unto me, and sat before me.
[2] And the word of Yehovah came unto me, saying,
[3] Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and
put the stumbling block of
their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
[4] Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus said the Lord Yehovah; Every man
of the house of Israel that sets up his
idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to the prophet; I Yehovah will
answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
[5] That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they
are all estranged from me through their idols.
[6]
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yehovah; Repent, and turn yourselves from your
idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
[7] For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger
that sojourns in
Israel, which separates himself
from me, and sets up his
idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes
to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I Yehovah will answer him by myself:
[8] And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign
and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you
shall know that I am Yehovah.
[9] And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I Yehovah have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people
Israel.
[10] And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the
punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeks unto him;
[11] That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be
polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my
people, and I may be their God, said the Lord Yehovah.
Read these
chapters yourself if you can
Ezek.41 the separate place
Ezek.42 the separate place
Some people
have:
Hos.9 …separated themselves unto that shame; and their
abominations were according as they loved.
Now a few
Gospels and letters:
Matt.25 -
Messiah Yeshua
[31] When the Son
of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he
sit upon the throne of his glory:
[32]
And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and He shall separate them
one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: [33]
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
[34] Then
shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
[35] For I was an hungred, and you
gave me meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you
took me in:
[36] Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in
prison, and you came unto me.
[37] Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you an hungred, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?
[38] When saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you?
[39] Or when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came unto you?
[40] And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you
have done it unto me.
[41] Then
shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
[42] For I was an hungred, and you gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and you
gave me no drink:
[43] I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me
not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.
[44] Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,
or in prison, and did not minister unto you?
[45] Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the
least of these, you did it not to me.
[46] And these shall go away into everlasting punishment:
but the
righteous into life eternal.
Luke.6 [22] Blessed are you, when men shall hate you,
and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your
name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
[23]
Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in
heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
We are like
Paul
Rom.1 [1]
Paul, a servant of Yeshua the
Messiah, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, [2] (Which he had promised
afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
[3] Concerning his Son Yeshua the Messiah our Lord, which was made of
the seed of David according to the flesh;
[4] And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the
spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
[5] By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the
faith among all nations, for his name:
[6] Among whom are you also the called of Yeshua the
Messiah:
[7] To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace
to you and peace from God our Father, and the
Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Rom.8 [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] As it is written, for your sake we are killed all the daylong; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
[37]
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Messiah Yeshua our
Lord.
2 Cor. 6 [14] Be you not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness?
[15] And what concord hath Messiah with Belial? or what part had he that believes
with an infidel?
[16] And what agreement had the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I
will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall
be my people.
[17] Wherefore come out from among them, and be you
separate, saith Yehovah, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you,[18] And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my
sons and daughters, saith Yehovah Almighty.
Heb.7 [26] Messiah Yeshua - For
such an high priest (He) became (for) us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens; [27] Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice,
first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when He
offered up Himself.
Jude [17] …
beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Yeshua the
Messiah;
[18]
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should
walk after their own ungodly lusts. [19] These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not
the Spirit.
[20]
But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Ghost,
[21] Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our
Lord Yeshua the
Messiah unto eternal life.
[22] And of some have compassion, making a difference:
[23] And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh.
[24] Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,[25] To the
only wise God our Saviour, be glory
and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
2 John 1 [10]
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into
your house, neither bid him God speed: [11] For he that biddeth him
God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Rom.16 [17] Now I
beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to
the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid
them.
Eph.5 [11] And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them.
2Thes.3 [14] And if
any man (a brother) obey not
our word by this epistle , note that man, and have no company with him, that he
may be ashamed.
[15] Yet
count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a
brother.
So, we can
see you can be separated unto good or evil…
A few
dictionary definitions for the word “Separate”:
A noun, an
adjective, a verb
to set or keep apart : disconnect, sever
to make a distinction between : discriminate, distinguish separate religion
from magic
to keep apart or divide
to put, bring, or force apart
to set apart; disconnect; dissociate
In closing
for today:
Be separate
from sinners, male, female, unclean things, events, whatever is evil or you
will fall away.
Guard your
Eternal Life, your Salvation!
Next week, Passover,
Feast of Unleavened bread, a Holy Convocation
Passover - April 16 in Sat. evening - פֶּסַח
Feast of
Unleavened Bread - April 17 to Sat. 23 are Sabbaths - חַג
הַמַּצּוֹת
First fruits
April 24 בִּכּוּרֵי
Feast of
Weeks - June 12, Sunday a Sabbath Hag Sh'vu-ot - חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת
Feast of
Harvest Hag ha katseer - חַג
הַקָּצִיר
Pentecost πεντηκοστή - pentēkoste
Shabbat
Shalom
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