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קָּהָל
אֶחָד
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עֲדַת
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Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Let’s pray
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Today we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the
1500’s
Today is March 17th, 2018 - in the 21 Century
March -- Mars' month
Middle English March(e)
Anglo-French March(e)
Old English Martius
Latin Martius "of
Mars"
Latin Marti(s)
"Mars" + -us (adj. suffix)
Latin Martius mensis "month of Mars"
Martius has always had 31 days. March
was the original beginning of the year, and the time for the resumption of war.
Mars is the Roman god of war. He is identified with the Greek god Ares.
St. Patrick’s
Day - in observance of the his death (NOT)
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We acknowledge Yehovah’s calendar
We are now in the 12th
month called Adar – day 28
אֲדָר Adar - to become glorious, make honorable; a cloak,
mantle
אֲדָר = “to become glorious, make honorable; a cloak, a mantle”
Esth.3 [7] In the first month, that is, the month
Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to
day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
The Purim season is
a good time to reflect and remind ourselves on the many things of the
God of Israel that are "hidden".
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mentioned in your life.
They have been deleted from
your knowledge. You haven’t a
clue they are missing.
I will try to undelete them
for you.
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A short review of the soon coming
Spring Feasts and Holy Days
Remember all the dates I give for the holy days start the evening
before
God’s New Year – March 19, Monday
God’s New Year is during Spring, March 20 - when all is new again!
(Not winter, January, February or Judaism’s made
up Tishri, in September)
Exod. 12 [2] This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
הַחֹדֶשׁ
הַזֶּה לָכֶם,
רֹאשׁ
חֳדָשִׁים:
רִאשׁוֹן
הוּא לָכֶם,
לְחָדְשֵׁי
הַשָּׁנָה
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Exod. 13 [4] This day came ye out in the month (ha) Abib.
הַיּוֹם,
אַתֶּם
יֹצְאִים ,
בְּחֹדֶשׁ, הָאָבִיב
Esth. 3 [7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan
בַּחֹדֶשׁ
הָרִאשׁוֹן,
הוּא־חֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן
Ha Aviv 14 – Passover, at sundown – Sunday - April 1 –we will be eating
the Passover meal
Ha Aviv 15 - Feast of Unleavened Bread – Sunday evening starts the
Feast until the 21th of ha Aviv, which is Sunday the 8th
of April
First fruits above, always on a
Sunday
Moving forward: 50 days later… Feast of
Weeks – Pentecost - the Feast of Harvest
In the 3rd month Sivan, day
11
סִיוָן
סִיו
(seev)
bright, splendid
April 14 - a Sabbath, until May 27, Sunday - a Sabbath
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Today’s Topic:
The New Year of God
(This Sunday evening)
"Time for a New Beginning"
The “real” Rosh Hashanah רֹאשׁ
הַשָּׁנָה / New Year (head of the year)
“The
first day of the first month” יוֹם
אֶחָד,
לַחֹדֶשׁ
הָרִאשׁוֹן
Exod.12 [2] This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
הַחֹדֶשׁ
הַזֶּה לָכֶם,
רֹאשׁ
חֳדָשִׁים: רִאשׁוֹן
הוּא לָכֶם,
לְחָדְשֵׁי
הַשָּׁנָה
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The beginning of barley harvest
Ruth 1 [22] So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of
Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning
of barley harvest.
בִּתְחִלַּת,
קְצִיר שְׂעֹרִים
2 Sam. 21 [9] And he delivered them
into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the
hill before Yehovah: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days
of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of
barley harvest.
בִּימֵי קָצִיר,
בָּרִאשֹׁנִים,
תחלת (בִּתְחִלַּת),
קְצִיר שְׂעֹרִים.
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When did January 1 become the first day of the New Year?
March was the original beginning of the year in some previous
calendars.
January 1
had become the first day of the New Year when Julius Caesar (100 B.C.E.-44 B.C.E.)
reorganized the Roman calendar and made it solar rather than lunar in the year 45
B.C.E. and moved
the beginning of the year to January 1.
We use the Gregorian
calendar
When the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, January 1 continued to be recognized as the
first day of the year in most places.
However, in England and the American colonies, March 25,
intended to represent the spring equinox, was the beginning of their year.
Under this system, March 24, 1700, was followed
by March 25, 1701.
In 1752, the British government changed the beginning date
of the year to January 1.
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Many
interesting events happened on the first day, first month, here are a few:
The 1st
month of the God of Israel called Nisan, נִיסָן and ha aviv הָאָבִיב
Here are some "new beginnings"
Gen.8 [13] And it came to pass
in the six hundredth and first year, in the first
month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the
earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the
face of the ground was dry.
Exod.40 [2] On the first day of the first month
shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
[17] And
it came to pass in the first month in the second year,
on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
[33] And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the
altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
[34] Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the
glory of Yehovah filled the tabernacle.
[35] And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Yehovah filled the tabernacle.
[36] And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the
children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
[37] But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not
till the day that it was taken up.
[38] For the cloud of Yehovah was upon the tabernacle by
day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel,
throughout all their journeys.
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Num.9 [1] And Yehovah spake unto
Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month
of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
[2] Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his
appointed season.
[3] In the fourteenth day of this month, at even,
ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and
according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
[4] And
Moses spake unto the
children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
[5] And they
kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even
in the wilderness of Sinai:
according to all that Yehovah
commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
[6] And
there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they
could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on
that day:
[7] And
those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead
body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of
Yehovah in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
[8] And
Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I
will hear what Yehovah will
command concerning you.
[9] And Yehovah spake unto
Moses, saying,
[10] Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your
posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar
off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Yehovah.
[11] The fourteenth day of the second month at even they
shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
[12] They
shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to
all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
[13] But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among
his people: because he
brought not the offering of Yehovah in his appointed season, that man shall bear his
sin.
[14] And
if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will
keep the passover unto Yehovah; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye
shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in
the land.
[15] And
on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle,
namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as
it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
[16] So
it was alway: the
cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
[17] And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the
children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the
children of Israel pitched their tents.
[18] At
the commandment of Yehovah the
children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of Yehovah they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the
tabernacle they rested in their tents.
[19] And
when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of
Israel kept the charge of Yehovah, and journeyed not.
[20] And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle;
according to the commandment of Yehovah they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment
of Yehovah they journeyed.
[21] And
so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud
was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by
night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
[22] Or
whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon
the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents,
and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
[23] At
the commandment of Yehovah they
rested in the tents, and at the commandment of Yehovah they journeyed: they kept the charge of Yehovah, at the commandment of Yehovah by the hand of Moses.
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Num.20 [1] Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and
was buried there.
2 Chr. 29 [1] Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty
years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Abijah, the
daughter of Zechariah.
[2] And he did that which was right in the sight of Yehovah,
according to all that David his father had done.
[3] He in
the first year of his reign, in the first month,
opened the doors of the house of Yehovah, and repaired them.
[4] And
he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the
east street,
[5] And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and
sanctify the house of Yehovah God of
your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
[6] For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes
of Yehovah our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their
faces from the habitation of Yehovah, and turned their backs.
[7] Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and
have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the
God of Israel.
[8] Wherefore the wrath of Yehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to
trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
[9] For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our
daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
[10] Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with Yehovah God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
[11] My sons, be not
now negligent: for Yehovah hath
chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto
him, and burn incense.
[12] Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son
of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
[13] And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
[14] And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
[15] And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came,
according to the commandment of the king, by the words of Yehovah, to cleanse the house of Yehovah.
[16] And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yehovah, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that
they found in the temple of Yehovah into the court of the house of Yehovah. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the
brook Kidron.
[17] Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the
eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yehovah: so they sanctified the house of Yehovah in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
[18] Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yehovah, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread table,
with all the vessels thereof.
[19] Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we
prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of Yehovah.
[20] Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city,
and went up to the house of Yehovah.
[21] And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and
seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and
for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the
altar of Yehovah.
[22] So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and
sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they
sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
[23] And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king
and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
[24] And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood
upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded
that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
[25] And he set the Levites in the house of Yehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to
the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet:
for so was the commandment of Yehovah by his prophets.
[26] And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with
the trumpets.
[27] And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And
when the burnt offering began, the song of Yehovah began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments
ordained by David king of Israel.
[28] And all the
congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and
all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
[29] And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were
present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
[30] Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing
praise unto Yehovah with the
words of David, and of Asaph the
seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and
worshipped.
[31] Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto Yehovah, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into
the house of Yehovah. And the
congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of
a free heart burnt offerings.
[32] And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was
threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these
were for a burnt offering to Yehovah.
[33] And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
[34] But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt
offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work
was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the
Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
[35] And also the burnt offerings were in abundance,with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for
every burnt offering. So the service of the house of Yehovah was set in order.
[36] And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the
people: for the thing was done suddenly.
Ezra.7 [1] Now after these
things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
[2] The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
[3] The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
[4] The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
[5] The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:
[6] This Ezra went up from Babylon;
and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yehovah Yehovah of Israel had given: and the
king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yehovah his Yehovah upon him.
[9] For upon the
first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the
first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand
of his God upon him.
[10] For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of Yehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and
judgments.
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One calendar, no fiscal calendar in
scripture
Fiscal: of or pertaining
to the public treasury or revenues: example - fiscal policies that may
change. Also, of or pertaining to financial matters in general.
God laws (policies) are the same all year round, they don’t change
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A few more scriptures:
Ezek.30 [20] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the
word of Yehovah came
unto me, saying,
Ezek.45 [18] Thus saith the Lord
Yehovah; In the first month,
in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the
sanctuary:
[21] In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month,
ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days;
unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Dan.10 [4] And in the four and twentieth day of the
first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Joel.2 [23] Be glad then, ye
children of Zion, and rejoice in Yehovah your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will
cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
This is how we recognize when the year starts
Gen. 1[14] And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים,
יְהִי מְאֹרֹת
בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם,
לְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין
הַיּוֹם וּבֵין
הַלָּיְלָה; וְהָיוּ
לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים,
וּלְיָמִים וְשָׁנִים
One New Year
Deut.11 [12] A land which Yehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Yehovah thy God are always upon it,
from the “beginning of the year” even unto the “end of the year”.
אֶרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ דֹּרֵשׁ
אֹתָהּ: תָּמִיד,
עֵינֵי יְהוָה
אֱלֹהֶיךָ בָּהּ--מֵרֵשִׁית
הַשָּׁנָה, וְעַד
אַחֲרִית שָׁנָה
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Saul tells the Corinthians: Keep it simple!
2 Cor. 11[3] But I fear, lest by
any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
Exod.23 [14] Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים,
תָּחֹג לִי בַּשָּׁנָה
[15] Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in
the time appointed of the month abib (ha aviv); for in it thou came out from Egypt: and
none shall appear before me empty: (offering time)
[16] And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labors, which
thou hast sown in the field:
and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year,
בְּצֵאת
הַשָּׁנָה when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.
[17] Three times in the year all thy males shall appear
before the Lord Yehovah. (Offering time)
Deut.16 [16] Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Yehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of
unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles:
and they shall not appear before Yehovah empty.
[17] Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing
of Yehovah thy God which he hath given thee.
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A good time to
"come out and be
separate"
By strength of hand Yehovah brought us out from Egypt,
From the house of
bondage (sin)
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Exod. 13
[3] And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye 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.
[8] And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done
because of that which Yehovah did unto me when I came forth
out of Egypt.
[9] And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that Yehovah's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Yehovah brought thee out of Egypt.
[14] And it shall be when
thy son asketh thee in
time to come, saying,
What is this?
that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Yehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
[15] And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of
man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yehovah all that openeth the matrix, being males; but
all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
Deut. 6
[20] And when
thy son asketh thee in
time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which Yehovah our Yehovah hath commanded you?
[21] Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and Yehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
[22] And Yehovah shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his household, before our eyes:
[23] And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he sware unto our
fathers.
[24] And Yehovah commanded us to do all these
statutes, to fear Yehovah our Yehovah, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at
this day.
[25] And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before Yehovah our Yehovah, as he hath commanded us.
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Watch out for the mixed
multitude
Exod. 12 [38] And a mixed multitude went
up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Num. 11 [4] And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel
also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Neh. 13 [3] Now it came to
pass, when they had heard the law, that they
separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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"Come out and be separate"
Exod. 33[16] For wherein shall it be known here
that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are
upon the face of the earth.
Lev. 20 [24] But I have said
unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it,
a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am Yehovah your Yehovah, which have separated you
from other people.
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
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1 Kgs. 8 [51] For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
[52] That thine eyes may be open unto the
supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to
hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
[53] For thou didst
separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy
servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Yehovah.
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Ezra 6 [19] And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the
first month.
[20] For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of
them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the
captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
[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 Yehovah 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 Yehovah, the Yehovah of Israel.
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Ezra 10 [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, on the
twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house
of Yehovah, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
[10] And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye 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.
[12] Then all the congregation answered and said
with a loud voice, As thou 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 without, 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 Yehovah for this matter be turned from us.
Neh. 9 [2] And 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 Yehovah one fourth part of the day;
and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Yehovah their Yehovah.
Neh. 10 [28] And 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 Yehovah, 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 Yehovah's law, which was given by Moses
the servant of Yehovah, 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:
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 Yehovah 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 Yehovah 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.
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Rom. 1 [1] Paul, a servant of Yeshua the Messiah, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of Yehovah,
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In the end, Messiah will separate
all
Matt. 25 [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 divideth 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, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world:
[35] For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in:
[36] Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
[37] Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
[38] When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
[39] Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
[40] And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me.
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[41] Then shall he say also unto them on the
left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels:
[42] For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
[43] I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me
not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
[44] Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did
not minister unto thee?[45] Then shall he answer them,
saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of
these, ye did it not to me.
[46] And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the
righteous into life eternal.
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Rev. 18 [4] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues.
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Separate yourselves from this
world, be "born from above, born of the water and spirit", born again.
John
3 [3] Yeshua ... said ... Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of Yehovah.
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[5] Yeshua answered, verily, verily, I
say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of Yehovah.
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[6] That which is born
of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[7] Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again!
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"A new heart and a new
spirit"
Ezek. 18 [31] Cast away from you
all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:
for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezek. 36 [26] A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony
heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
"A new creature, a new man"
Eph. 4 [22] That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according
to the deceitful lusts;
[23] And be
renewed in the spirit of your mind;
[24] And that ye put
on the new man, which after Yehovah is created in righteousness
and true holiness.
Col. 3 [9] Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man
with his deeds; [10] And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of
him that created him:
2 Cor. 5 [17] Therefore if any man be in
Messiah, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away;
behold, all things are become new.
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1 Pet. 1 [22] Seeing
ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart
fervently:
[23] Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of Yehovah, which liveth and abideth for ever.
[24] For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
[25] But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the word which by the
gospel is preached unto you.
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Rev. 21 [5] And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he
said unto me, Write: for these words are true and
faithful.
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**Please: Remember this day, in which
ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yehovah brought you out from this place.
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Judaism has four, five or six new
years, which is not scriptural.
What more can I say,
In closing:
All that joined themselves
to the God of Israel prepare for the Spring Feasts and Holy days.
Happy New Year, Happy new beginnings again!
Shabbat Shalom