One in Messiah
Congregation
Shabbat
Shalom
July 5, 2008
God has His own
calendar - 4th month, first day, no name in scripture
2Kgs.25 [3] And on the ninth day
of the fourth month the famine prevailed
in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
Happy Rosh Chodesh / New Moon
(We do not use, as
Judaism, the pagan name Tammuz, a Phoenician deity to name one
of the Lord's months)
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Question: Why are we here today?
Answer: We were told to remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy
The 4th Commandment is a part of the covenant given to us
at Mount Sinai in the 3rd month, Sivan
Ex. 20 [8] Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy. [9] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
[10] But the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is
within thy gates:
[11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the
sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD
blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Lev. 23: [3] Six days shall work be done: but the seventh
day is the sabbath of rest,
an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath
of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Read
also:
Isa. 56 - the stranger gets a special from keeping Sabbath
How to keep Sabbath
Isa. 58 [13] If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call
the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not
doing thine own ways, nor finding thine
own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
[14] Then shalt thou delight
thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the
earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
the LORD hath spoken it.
Neh. 13:15, to the end of the chapter. It is evil to
buy and sell on the Sabbath of the Lord.
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We read from law and the prophets every
Sabbath like in Acts after the resurrection
Acts 13 [13] Now when Paul
and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John
departing from them returned to Jerusalem. [14] But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia,
and went into the synagogue on the sabbath
day, and sat down. [15] And after the reading of the law and the prophets the
rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men
and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
[27] For they that dwell at
Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of
the prophets which are read every sabbath
day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
[42] And when the Jews were gone
out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached
to them the next sabbath.
[44]And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city
together to hear the word of God
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Acts 15 [21] For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read
in the synagogues every Sabbath day.
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60 times in the
Gospels and letters it uses the word Sabbath
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Topic
today:
It's all about Messiah,
purification for sin, Salvation, eternal life
These
things were our examples, ensample
Are
written for our admonition
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Parshah: Chukat Verses: Numbers
19:1-22:1
æÉàú çË÷ÌÇú äÇúÌåÉøÈä This is the ordinance of the law
ôÈøÈä àÂãËîÌÈä red heifer
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I see a
picture, of the patterns of things in the heavens, of Messiah, of Salvation, of Sabbath, of Baptism, of the Word, (possibly
the end of the world)
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Without
spot, no blemish, without the camp, sprinkle blood,
Water of
separation: it is a purification for sin
On the
third day, and on the seventh day - a statute for ever
He
purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean
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Num. 19
[1] And the LORD spake
unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
[2] This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot,
wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
[3] And ye shall give her
unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the
camp, and one shall slay her
before his face:
[4] And Eleazar the priest shall take of her
blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly
before the tabernacle of the congregation seven
times:
[5] And one shall burn the heifer
in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her
blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
[6] And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it
into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
[7] Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he
shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and
the priest shall be unclean until the even.
[8] And he that burneth her shall wash his
clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
[9] And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be
kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
[10] And he that gathereth the
ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto
the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for
ever.
[11] He that toucheth
the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
[12] He shall purify himself with it on the
third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day
he shall not be clean.
[13] Whosoever toucheth
the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth
not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and
that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not
sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
[14] This is the law,
when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the
tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven
days.
[15] And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is
unclean.
[16] And whosoever toucheth one that is slain
with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a
grave, shall be unclean seven days.
[17] And for an unclean person they shall
take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and
running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
[18] And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and
sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that
were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a
grave:
[19] And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on
the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe
himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
[20] But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself,
that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled
the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath
not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
[21] And it shall be a
perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth
the water of separation shall wash his
clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until
even.
[22] And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth
shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall
be unclean until even. the ashes of the heifer
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Rom. 6
[1] What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that
grace may abound?
[2] God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
[3] Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Yeshua the Messiah were
baptized into his death?
[4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Messiah was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life.
Eph. 5 [26] That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing
of water by the word, [27] That he might present it to himself a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish.
John. 13 [10] Yeshua saith to him, He that is
washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is
clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
John. 15 [3] Now ye are clean through the
word which I have spoken unto you.
Heb. 9
[1] Then verily the first covenant had also
ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
[2] For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the
candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which
is called the sanctuary.
[3] And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all;
[4] Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had
manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
[5] And over it the cherubims of glory
shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak
particularly.
[6] Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
[7] But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not
without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
[8] The Holy Spirit this signifying, that
the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing:
[9] Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service
perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
[10] Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time
of reformation.
[11] But Messiah being come an
high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
[12] Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by
his own blood he entered in once into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for
us.
[13] For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth
to the purifying of the flesh:
[14] How much more shall the blood of Messiah,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God?
[15] And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
[16] For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death
of the testator.
[17] For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of
no strength at all while the testator liveth.
[18] Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
[19] For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according
to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet
wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
[20] Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto
you.
[21] Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all
the vessels of the ministry.
[22] And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.
[23] It was therefore necessary that the
patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
[24] For Messiah is not entered
into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
[25] Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of
others;
[26] For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself.
[27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
judgment:
[28] So Messiah was once offered
to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the
second time without sin unto salvation.
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I see a
picture, of the patterns of things in the heavens, of Messiah, of Salvation
The LORD spake
saying - speak ye unto the rock
Moses
lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote
the rock twice
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] And there was no water for the congregation:
and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
[3] And the people chode with
Moses, and spake, saying, Would
God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
[4] And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this
wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
[5] And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of
pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
[6] And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and
the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
[7] And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying,
[8] Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron
thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before
their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt
bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt
give the congregation and their beasts drink.
[9] And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
[10] And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the
rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water
out of this rock?
[11] And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod
he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their beasts also.
[12] And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me
not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall
not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
[13] This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was
sanctified in them.
[14] And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith
thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that
hath befallen us:
[15] How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a
long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
[16] And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an
angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
[17] Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass
through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the
water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, we will not turn to the
right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
[18] And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not
pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
[19] And the children of Israel said unto him, We
will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will
pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing
else, go through on my feet.
[20] And he said, Thou shalt
not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a
strong hand.
[21] Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border:
wherefore Israel turned away from him.
[22] And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed
from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
[23] And the LORD spake
unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of
the land of Edom, saying,
[24] Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he
shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel,
because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
[25] Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring
them up unto mount Hor:
[26] And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar
his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
[27] And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the
congregation.
[28] And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died
there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar
came down from the mount.
[29] And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was
dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Miriam
died - Aaron died - Moses
alone now
Num. 33 [38] And
Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the
commandment of the LORD, 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.
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[6] And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
[7] Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
[8] And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
[9] And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
John.
3 [14] And as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
[15] That whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal
life.
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These
things were our examples, ensample
Are
written for our admonition
1Cor. 10
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should
be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses
in the cloud and in the sea;
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink:
for they drank of that spiritual Rock that
followed them: and that Rock was Messiah.
[5] But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown
in the wilderness.
[6] Now these things were our examples, to the
intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
[7] Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of
them; as it is written, The people sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play.
[8] Neither let us commit fornication, as some
of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
[9] Neither let us tempt Messiah, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
[10] Neither murmur ye, as some of them
also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
[11] Now all these
things happened unto them for ensamples:
and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world
are come.
[12] Wherefore let him that thinketh
he standeth take heed lest he fall.
[13] There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be
able to bear it.
[14] Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
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Num. 22 - Balak the son of Zippor - Balaam the
son of Beor
Mic. 6 [5] O my people,
remember now what Balak king of Moab
consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered
him from Shittim unto Gilgal;
that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
Josh.13 [22] Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with
the sword among them that were slain by them.
These
things were our examples, ensample
Are
written for our admonition
2 Pet. 2
[1] But there were
false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers
among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift destruction.
[2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
[3] And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth
not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
[4] For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to
hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
[5] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
[6] And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha
into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
[7] And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of
the wicked:
[8] (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
[9] The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished:
[10] But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in
the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid
to speak
evil of dignities.
[11] Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them before the Lord.
[12] But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed,
speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in
their own corruption;
[13] And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count
it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast
with you;
[14] Having eyes full of adultery,
and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they
have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
[15] Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the
way of Balaam the son of Bosor,
who loved the wages of unrighteousness; [16] But was rebuked for his iniquity:
the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
[17] These are wells without water, clouds that
are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever.
[18] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean
escaped from them who live in error.
[19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants
of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the
same is he brought in bondage.
[20] For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through
the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Yeshua the Messiah, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
[21] For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to
turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
[22] But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,
The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow
that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Shalom