One in Messiah Congregation

קָּהָל אֶחָד בְּמָּשִׁיחַ

A part of the Congregation of Israel

עֲדַת יִשְׂרָאֵל

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27 S. Maple Street, Hohenwald, Tn. 38462

Phone: 615 712-3931 - or 615 591-9820

Email: ministermalachi@comcast.net 

Shabbat Shalom

שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם

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Today we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s

Today is April 21, 2018 - 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.

We acknowledge Yehovah’s calendar

We are now in the second month called Ziv /Zif – 4th day

Ziv = Brightness – (figuratively) the month of flowers

1Kgs.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.

בְּחֹדֶשׁ זִו, הוּא הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי

[37] In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the Yehovah laid, in the month Zif…

Part of April / May 2018

***Make sure you change your Judaism calendars – The 2nd month is not Iyyar as Judaism states, it is Ziv as scriptures states.

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Our seven week journey again, spiritually speaking

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

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A short review of the soon coming Spring Feasts and Holy Days

Remember: 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 ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

[16] Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto Yehovah.

This Sabbath is the second Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.

Moving forward: We started our 7 week journey again towards  Feast of Weeks – Pentecost - the Feast of Harvest – the wheat harvest in Sivan

April 14 - a Sabbath, until May 27, Sunday - a Sabbath

Esth.8 [9] Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan…

Exod.34 [22] And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest…

Exod.23 [16] And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field…

In the 3rd month Sivan, day 20

סִיוָן

סִיו  (seev) bright, splendid

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Today’s Topic:

Life is one short journey, Fear God

Beware of sin!

Ecc. 9 [18] Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth 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: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

[9] As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth 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 thy 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 thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Jas. 4

[13] Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

[14] Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Matt.6

Yeshua said:

[25] Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye 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 feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

[27] Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
[28] And why take ye 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 to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
[31] Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

[32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

[33] But seek ye 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 ye then be risen with Messiah, seek those things which are above, where Messiah sitteth on the right hand of God.
[2] Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

[3] For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Messiah in God.

[4] When Messiah, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

1Chr.29 … our days on the earth are as a shadow…

Heb.9 [27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment…

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A review of Ecclesiastes:

From Late Latin - Greek ekklēsiastḗs - assemblyman, preacher

Ecclesiastic - noun - a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders

c.1300 – A name given to one of the Old Testament books / TaNaKh, traditionally ascribed to Solomon, from Greek ekklesiastes (see ecclesiastic), to render Hebrew qoheleth "one who addresses an assembly," from qahal "assembly."

The title is technically the designation of the speaker, but that word throughout is usually rendered into English as "The Preacher".

קֹהֶלֶת - preacher

In Ecc., the word vanity is 33 times / vanities is 4 times (I think I counted right)

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.

 

The word vanity is used 83 times in TaNaKh with different words – 3 times in the Gospels and letters with different words

Vanities 12 - 1

Ecc. 1:

2 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher / Koheleth; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים אָמַר קֹהֶלֶת, הֲבֵל הֲבָלִים הַכֹּל הָבֶל

[4] One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: 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.
[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 increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Ecclesiastes 2:

[15] Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth 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 dieth 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 labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
[19] And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed 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 labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

[26] For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy:

but to the sinner he giveth 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 every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: [2] A time to be born, and a time to die…

[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 befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth 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 knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth 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 honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth 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 cometh in with vanity, and departeth 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 live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

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 thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

Ecc.8

[1] Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

[2] I counsel thee 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 pleaseth him.

[4] Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

[5] Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth 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 knoweth 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 feareth 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 labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 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 sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth 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 know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, 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 for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

[7] Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
[8] Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

[9] Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

[10] Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

[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 falleth suddenly upon them.

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Ecc.12

[1] Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt 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 musick 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 goeth 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, saith 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, 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 be good, or whether it be evil.

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In closing:

***Make sure you change your Judaism calendars – The 2nd month is not Iyyar as Judaism states, it is Ziv as scriptures states.

How will you be behaving these 50 days? (Physically and Spiritually)

Remember:

The Feast of Weeks – April 14 - a Sabbath, until May 27, Sunday - a Sabbath

Remember: We are counting the "Sabbaths" not omers to get to the Feast of Weeks. (Pentecost)

Watch yourselves

 

5 Sabbaths left to count

 

 Shabbat Shalom all

 

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