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Today, we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the
1500’s,
The date is May 7, 2022 (in the 21 Century)
May -- Maia's month
Old French Mai
Old English Maius
Latin Maius "of Maia"
Latin Maius mensis
"month of Maia"
Maius has always
had 31 days.
Maia (meaning "the great one") is the Italic goddess of spring,
the daughter of Faunus, and wife of
Vulcan.
The God
of Israel has His own Calendar:
We are now in the second month of God called Zif, day 5, זִו Ziv
ziv - brightness, (figuratively)
the month of flowers
1 Kgs.6 [1] And it came to pass in the four
hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the
land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yehovah.
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Coming Feast:
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
Our seven week journey
we observe, in memorial to meet God again on Mt. Sinai to receive the
commandments and receive the Spirit of God.
From slaves in Egypt (our
last lives of sin) to the people of God
The giving of the Law (10 commandments) and the
giving of the Holy Spirit
We were told to count "Sabbaths" not omers.
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley - עמר omer - A dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 liters)
Lev.23 [15] And you shall count unto you from the morrow after
the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave
offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete:
[16] Even unto the
morrow after the
seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering unto Yehovah.
This Sabbath is the second
Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.
How will you be behaving
these 50 days? (Physically and Spiritually)
Today’s Topic:
Life is one big journey
Beware of sin!
Is the God of Israel with you? Do you hear His voice?
Are you meeting God on His appointed times, His
congregations, assemblies, seasons, feasts, solemnities, with His people?
Most of the world is all doing the wrong feasts, going to
the wrong assemblies, meeting with the wrong people and gods.
In 40 years, it looks like they took many journeys…
Let’s read:
Num.33 [1] These are the journeys of the children of Israel,
which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their
armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
[2] And Moses wrote their
goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yehovah: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
[3] And they departed from Rameses in
the first month, on the fifteenth day of
the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the
children of Israel went out with an high hand in the
sight of all the Egyptians.
[4] For the Egyptians
buried all their firstborn, which Yehovah had smitten
among them: upon their gods also Yehovah executed
judgments.
[5] And the children
of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
[6] And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which
is in the edge of the wilderness.
[7] And they removed from Etham, and
turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
[8] And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and
passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
[9] And they removed from Marah, and
came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm
trees; and they pitched there.
[10] And they removed from Elim, and
encamped by the Red sea.
[11] And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
[12] And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
[13] And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
[14] And they removed from Alush, and
encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for
the people to drink.
[15] And they departed from Rephidim, and
pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
[16] And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
[17] And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
[18] And they departed from Hazeroth, and
pitched in Rithmah.
[19] And they departed from Rithmah, and
pitched at Rimmon-parez.
[20] And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
[21] And they removed from Libnah, and
pitched at Rissah.
[22] And they journeyed from Rissah, and
pitched in Kehelathah.
[23] And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
[24] And they removed from mount Shapher, and
encamped in Haradah.
[25] And they removed from Haradah, and
pitched in Makheloth.
[26] And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
[27] And they departed from Tahath, and
pitched at Tarah.
[28] And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
[29] And they went from Mithcah, and
pitched in Hashmonah.
[30] And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
[31] And they departed from Moseroth, and
pitched in Bene-jaakan.
[32] And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
[33] And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
[34] And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
[35] And they departed from Ebronah, and
encamped at Ezion-gaber.
[36] And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
[37] And they removed from Kadesh, and
pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
[38] And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Yehovah,
and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
first day of the fifth month.
[39] And Aaron was an
hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. 123 years old
[40] And king Arad the
Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, “heard of the coming of the
children of Israel”.
[41] And they departed from mount Hor, and
pitched in Zalmonah.
[42] And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
[43] And they departed from Punon, and
pitched in Oboth.
[44] And they departed from Oboth, and
pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
[45] And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
[46] And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
[47] And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
[48] And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and
pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
[49] And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
[50] And Yehovah spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
[51] Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When you are passed over Jordan into the land
of Canaan;
[52] Then you shall drive
out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their
pictures, and destroy all their molten
images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
[53] And you shall
dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you
the land to possess it.
[54] And you shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your
families: and to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer
you shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the
place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
[55] But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you;
then it shall come to pass, that those which you let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in
your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein you dwell.[56]
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do
unto them.
Above - This is the way Israel
is today 2022
Num.34 [1] And Yehovah spoke unto Moses, saying,
[2] Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is
the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan
with the coasts thereof:)
[3] Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along
by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the
salt sea eastward:
[4] And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the
south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon:
[5] And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be
at the sea.
[6] And as for the western border, you shall even have the great sea for a
border: this shall be your west border.
[7] And this shall be
your north border: from the great sea you shall point out for you
mount Hor:
[8] From mount Hor you shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
[9] And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.
[10] And you shall point
out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
[11] And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the
border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
[12] And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be
at the salt sea: this shall be your land
with the coasts thereof round about.
**Sad, they do not have
the whole land today due to disobedience, sin.
Life is a short journey,
Fear God
Beware of sin!
Ecc.9 [18] Wisdom is better than weapons
of war: but one
sinner destroys much good.
Num. 32 [23] …you have sinned against Yehovah: and be sure
your sin will find you out.
Scripture says of our time
here:
Pss.90
[10] The days of our years are threescore years and ten 70; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years 80, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Job 7
[7] O remember that my life is wind…
[8] The eye of him that
hath seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
[9] As the cloud is
consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
[10] He shall return
no more to his house; neither shall his place know him any more
Job 8
[9] For we are but of
yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow…
Pss.90
[9] For all our days are passed away
in your wrath: we
spend our years as a tale that is told.
[12] So teach us to
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
[14] O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days.
Jas. 4
[13] Go to now, you that
say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and
continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
[14] Whereas you know not what shall be on the
morrow.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and
then vanishes away.
Matt.6 - Yeshua said:
[25] Therefore I say unto
you, Take no thought for your
life, what you shall eat, or
what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the
life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
[26] Behold the fowls of
the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
[27] Which of you by taking
thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
[28] And why take you
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil
not, neither do they spin:
[29] And yet I say unto
you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these.
[30] Wherefore, if God so
clothe the grass of the field, which today is,
and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith?
[31] Therefore take no thought, saying, what shall we eat? Or,
what shall we drink? Or, Wherewithal shall we be cloth?
[32] (For after all these
things do the Gentiles seek :) for your heavenly Father knows that you
have need of all these things.
[33] But seek you first the
kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you.
[34] Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof.
Prov.15 [24] the way of life is above to the wise that he may depart from hell beneath.
Col.3 - Saul says:
[1] If you then
be raised with Messiah, seek those things which are above, where
Messiah sits on the right hand of God.
[2] Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
[3] For you are dead, and
your life is hid with Messiah in God.
[4] When Messiah, who is
our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.
Heb.9 [27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment…
1Chr.29 … our days on the earth are as a
shadow…
A short review of
Ecclesiastes:
קֹהֶלֶת - preacher
הֲבֵל
הֲבָלִים
Vanity of vanities
הָבַל
hâval - A primitive root;
to be vain in act, word, or
expectation; specifically to lead astray: - be (become,
make) vain.
Ecc. 1:
2 - Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher / Koheleth; vanity
of vanities, all is vanity.
הֲבֵל
הֲבָלִים
אָמַר קֹהֶלֶת, הֲבֵל
הֲבָלִים
הַכֹּל הָבֶל
[4] One generation passes away, and another
generation comes: but the earth (seems like it) abides forever.
[11] There is no
remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things
that are to come with those that shall come after.
[12] I the Preacher was
king over Israel in Jerusalem. Solomon
[13] And I gave my heart to
seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven:
this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
[14] I have seen all the works
that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
[15] That which is crooked
cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
[16] I communed with mine
own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom
than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great
experience of wisdom and knowledge.
[17] And I gave my heart to
know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is
vexation of spirit.
[18] For in much wisdom is
much grief:
and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecc. 2: [15] Then
said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even
to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is
vanity.
[16] For there is no
remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now
is in the days to come shall all be forgotten.
And how dies the
wise man? As the fool…
[17] Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun
is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of
spirit.
[18] Yea, I hated all
my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it
unto the man that shall be after me.
[19] And
who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a
fool? Yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I
have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the
sun. This is also vanity.
[24] There is nothing better
for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul
enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of
God.
[26] For
God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge,
and joy:
but to the sinner
he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him
that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecc.3
[1] To everything there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven:
[2] A time to be born, and a time to die… and all the rest
[18] I said in mine heart
concerning the estate of the sons of men that God might manifest
them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
[19] For that
which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one
thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the
other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a
beast: for all is vanity.
[20] All go unto one place;
all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
[21] Who knows the
spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast
that gosh downward to the earth?
[22] Wherefore I perceive
that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works;
for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after
him?
Ecc.6
[1] There is an evil which
I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
[2] A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honor, so that
he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desire, yet
God gives him not power to eat thereof, but a
stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
[3] If a man beget an
hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many,
and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say,
that an untimely birth is better than he.
[4]
For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and
his name shall be covered with darkness.
[5] Moreover he hath not
seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
[6] Yea, though
he lives a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? – The grave
Ecc.7
[1] A good name is better than precious
ointment; and the day
of death than the day of one's birth.
[2] It is better to go to
the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it
to his heart.
[18] It is good that
you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw
not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of
them all.
Ecc.8
[1] Who is as the wise
man? And who knows the interpretation of a
thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the
boldness of his face shall be changed.
[2] I counsel you to keep
the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
[3] Be not hasty to go out
of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleases him.
[4] Where the word of a
king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What are
you doing?
[5]
Whoso keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise
man's heart discerns both time and judgment.
[6] Because to every
purpose there is time
and judgment, therefore the misery of
man is great upon him.
[7] For
he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall
be?
[8] There is no man that
hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the
day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness
deliver those that are given to it.
[10] And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of
the holy, and they
were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
[11] Because sentence
against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons
of men is fully set in them to do evil.
[12] Though a sinner do
evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged,
Yet surely I know that
it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
[13] But it shall
not be well with the wicked; neither shall he prolong his days, which
are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
[15] Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no
better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for
that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which
God gives him under the sun.
Ecc. 9:
[2] All things come alike
to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to
the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and
to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he
that swears, as he that fears an oath.
[4] For to him that is
joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead
lion.
[5] For the living
knows that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for
the memory of them is forgotten.
[6] Also their love, and
their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a
portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
[7] Go your way, eat your
bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God
now accepts your works.
[8] Let your garments be
always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
[9] Live joyfully with the
wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he
hath given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your
portion in this life, and in your labor which
you take under the sun.
[10] Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it
with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.
[11] I returned, and saw
under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
favor to men of skill; but time
and chance happens to them all.
[12] For man also knows not his time:
As the fishes that are
taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
Ecc. 12
[1] Remember now your
Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days
come not, nor the years draw nigh, when you shall say, I have no
pleasure in them;
[2] While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened,
nor the clouds return after the rain:
[3] In the day when the
keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves,
and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the
windows be darkened,
[4] And the doors shall be
shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise
up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be
brought low;
[5] Also when they shall be
afraid of that, which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond
tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall
fail:
Because
man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
[6] Or ever the silver cord
be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the
fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
[7] Then shall the dust
return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
[8] Vanity of
vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.
[9] And moreover, because
the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good
heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
[10] The preacher sought to
find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words
of truth.
[11] The words of the wise
are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are
given from one shepherd.
[12] And further, by these,
my son,(and
daughter) be admonished: of making
many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
[13] Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this
is the whole duty of man.[14] For God shall bring every work into judgment,
with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
In closing for today:
Beware of sin!
Life is one big journey with
good, bad and sad times, beware of sin.
Fear God and Keep His commandments
which are our duty to do!
Remember:
We are counting the "Sabbaths"
not omers
Next
week will be the third Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם