God gave Enoch's grandson a son who he named Noah. Gen.5:29 says "This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed." Noah's name means rest. Noah was the first man born after Adam died. He was born into a sinful, violent, wicked world but Noah walked with God. Noah obeyed God. Gen 6:22 says Noah did all that God commanded him to do.
God instructed Noah to build an ark. It took him 120 years to make. No one had ever seen rain before. When the flood waters came, Noah was not suprised. God instructed Noah to put pitch on the ark to keep the water out. The pitch is kapparah from the Hebrew root word kippor which means atonement. The pitch was red.
God instructed Noah to take on the ark 7 of each clean animal and 2 of each unclean animal.
Noah and his family entered the ark. There were eight in all and eight in Hebrew is the number of new beginnings. After being on the ark seven months, they landed on Mt. Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. A day of new beginnings and Salvation.
Jesus died on the fourteenth day of the seventh month (of the Hebrew calendar) and rose from the grave on the seventeenth day. A day of new beginnings and Salvation.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
God's Name
Yah is a shortened form of God's Name.
Jesus' name in Hebrew is Yahshua Yah is God, Shua is Salvation God Saves
Hallelujah (Alleluia) is Halleluyah in Hebrew
Hallelu Yah means Praise be to Yah the one true living God.
Elijah is Eliyahu in Hebrew and means My God is Yah. He was sent to turn people back to the pure worship of YHVH (Gods Holy Name).
The endings of the prophets names in English is iah. This came from Yah in Hebrew.
Haggiah is HagiYah
Hezekiah Is HizkiYah
Matthew is MattitYahu
Nehemiah is NechemYah
Obadiah is OvadYahu
Zedekiah is TzedekYah
Zephaniah is TzfanYah
Jacob is Yaakov Jacob (Yaakov) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau (Ackov). Jacobs name spelled in the Hebrew is the same as Esaus except for one letter. The letter Yod which means hand is the first letter in Jacobs name and represents the hand grasping onto the heel of Esau.
Isaiah is YeshaYahu
Joshua is Yahashua When Moses placed his Hands upon Hosea, he imparted his spirit and authority to him and his name was changed to Joshua (Yahashua) by the additon of the letter Yod to the front of his name. This changed his name from Salvation (Hosea) to Adonai will save (Joshua).
Jesus' name in Hebrew is Yahshua Yah is God, Shua is Salvation God Saves
Hallelujah (Alleluia) is Halleluyah in Hebrew
Hallelu Yah means Praise be to Yah the one true living God.
Elijah is Eliyahu in Hebrew and means My God is Yah. He was sent to turn people back to the pure worship of YHVH (Gods Holy Name).
The endings of the prophets names in English is iah. This came from Yah in Hebrew.
Haggiah is HagiYah
Hezekiah Is HizkiYah
Matthew is MattitYahu
Nehemiah is NechemYah
Obadiah is OvadYahu
Zedekiah is TzedekYah
Zephaniah is TzfanYah
Jacob is Yaakov Jacob (Yaakov) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau (Ackov). Jacobs name spelled in the Hebrew is the same as Esaus except for one letter. The letter Yod which means hand is the first letter in Jacobs name and represents the hand grasping onto the heel of Esau.
Isaiah is YeshaYahu
Joshua is Yahashua When Moses placed his Hands upon Hosea, he imparted his spirit and authority to him and his name was changed to Joshua (Yahashua) by the additon of the letter Yod to the front of his name. This changed his name from Salvation (Hosea) to Adonai will save (Joshua).
Monday, September 27, 2010
Feast of Tabernacles
A week long celebration - the final and most important holiday of the year - It is a season of joy - knowing your sins are forgiven and the joy of walking with God, knowing God, and being obedient to God. It is a picture of the Millenium.
This festival has universal implications. It pictures a time when all the nations of the world will come under the rule of King Messiah in the Kingdom of God, and when peace will reign over all the earth.
It was also a traditon to pray for rain, not only for Israel but also for the 70 nations of the world. Israel was considered to be a nation that was required to intercede with God on behalf of the other nations, since the nations were cut off from God because of their idolatrous practices. The connection between Tabernacles and the nations of the world comes from Zech. 14:16-19.
Each day out of the temple, there was a special ceremony. The priests were divided into 3 divisions. The 1st division were the priests on duty for that festival. They would slay the sacrifices. At this time a 2nd group of priests went out of the Eastern gate of the temple to the Motzah Valley (about 30 minutes away). There they would cut willow. The willows had to be 25 ft. in length. After this they would form a line with all the priests holding a willow. About 25 to 30 ft. behind this row of priests,allowing room for the willows, would be another row of priests with willows. There would be row after row of willows.
There would be a signal and the priests would step out with their left foot and then
step to the right, swinging the willows back and forth. Meanwhile, a 3rd group of priests went out the gate known as the Water gate. They had gone to the pool known as Siloam,(John 9:7,11) which means gently flowing waters. There the high priest had a golden vase and drew the water known as the living water(Mayim) and held it in the vase. His assistant held a silver vase containing wine. Just as the priests in the Valley of Motzah began to march toward Jerusalem so did the priests in Siloam. As they marched toward the city of Jerusalem the willows made a swishing sound in the wind as they approached the city. The word wind in Hebrew is Ruach. The word spirit in Hebrew is also Ruach. This ceremony was symbolic and represented the Holy Spirt of God coming upon the city of Jerusalem. As each party reached their respective gates, a shofar was blown. Then one man would stand up and play the flute(the flute represents the Messiah) the flute player is called "the pierced one".
The flute player led the procession - the pierced one blows the call for the wind and the water to enter the temple.
Another ceremony was the Water Libation Ceremony
This was performed everyday during the Feast
This meant that everyday the priest would go to the Pool of Siloam with a golden pitcher and draw water which was poured into a bowl at the altar. With the approach of the rainy season Israel depended on God to send rain for the next season's crops. This was a time of serious praying, asking God to open the gates of heaven and send the necessary rain. As the priest poured out the water, he visually demonstrated God's continuing and faithful love in sending rain. This was a demonstration or sign of Israel's hope for the coming of Messiah as they looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which God had promised. The priest would teach on every passage of scripture dealing with water. Is 55:1 Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, Is 58:11 And the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and you will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. Is 44:3 For I will pour out water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring and My blessing on your descendants.
Hosea 6:3 explains Christ will come as the latter and former rain. The spring feasts are during the former rain and the fall feasts are during the latter rain.
When the water was poured into a basin on the altar the priests blew the shofar, people were singing and dancing, the levites were singing sacred songs and ordinary people were chanting Ps 113 - 118 - Adonai please save us, Adonai please prosper us, Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai - God is Adonai and He has given us light.
The Rabbis associate the custom with Is.12:3 With joy shall you draw water from the wells of salvatin. They believed a connection between the possession of the Holy Spirit and ecstasy or religious joy is found in the ceremony of the water drawing.
Thousands of worshippers had come to Jerusalem for this feast and during the pouring of the water Jesus stands up and shouts "If anyone is thirsty,let him keep coming to Me and drink...Whoever trusts- believes in Me as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from his innermost being." John 7:37-38
During the feast - great golden menorah lampstands with bases 50 yards high were set up in the Temple courtyard. Each menorah had 7 branches with large bowls for oil. Four youths of priestly descent stood at the top of the ladders holding 10gallon pitchers filled with pure oil which they poured into each bowl. They would light the wicks made from worn-out garments of the priests (called swaddling clothes). It is said that the light was so bright that all of Jerusalem was lit up by them. There was not a courtyard in Jerusalem that was not lit up with the light at the libation water ceremony. The light represented the Shekinah Glory that once filled the Temple. But the brightness of the holy city at the ceremony paled in the presence of Jesus. Jesus stands in front of the enormous menorahs and says "I am the light of the world, he who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12
This festival has universal implications. It pictures a time when all the nations of the world will come under the rule of King Messiah in the Kingdom of God, and when peace will reign over all the earth.
It was also a traditon to pray for rain, not only for Israel but also for the 70 nations of the world. Israel was considered to be a nation that was required to intercede with God on behalf of the other nations, since the nations were cut off from God because of their idolatrous practices. The connection between Tabernacles and the nations of the world comes from Zech. 14:16-19.
Each day out of the temple, there was a special ceremony. The priests were divided into 3 divisions. The 1st division were the priests on duty for that festival. They would slay the sacrifices. At this time a 2nd group of priests went out of the Eastern gate of the temple to the Motzah Valley (about 30 minutes away). There they would cut willow. The willows had to be 25 ft. in length. After this they would form a line with all the priests holding a willow. About 25 to 30 ft. behind this row of priests,allowing room for the willows, would be another row of priests with willows. There would be row after row of willows.
There would be a signal and the priests would step out with their left foot and then
step to the right, swinging the willows back and forth. Meanwhile, a 3rd group of priests went out the gate known as the Water gate. They had gone to the pool known as Siloam,(John 9:7,11) which means gently flowing waters. There the high priest had a golden vase and drew the water known as the living water(Mayim) and held it in the vase. His assistant held a silver vase containing wine. Just as the priests in the Valley of Motzah began to march toward Jerusalem so did the priests in Siloam. As they marched toward the city of Jerusalem the willows made a swishing sound in the wind as they approached the city. The word wind in Hebrew is Ruach. The word spirit in Hebrew is also Ruach. This ceremony was symbolic and represented the Holy Spirt of God coming upon the city of Jerusalem. As each party reached their respective gates, a shofar was blown. Then one man would stand up and play the flute(the flute represents the Messiah) the flute player is called "the pierced one".
The flute player led the procession - the pierced one blows the call for the wind and the water to enter the temple.
Another ceremony was the Water Libation Ceremony
This was performed everyday during the Feast
This meant that everyday the priest would go to the Pool of Siloam with a golden pitcher and draw water which was poured into a bowl at the altar. With the approach of the rainy season Israel depended on God to send rain for the next season's crops. This was a time of serious praying, asking God to open the gates of heaven and send the necessary rain. As the priest poured out the water, he visually demonstrated God's continuing and faithful love in sending rain. This was a demonstration or sign of Israel's hope for the coming of Messiah as they looked forward to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which God had promised. The priest would teach on every passage of scripture dealing with water. Is 55:1 Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, Is 58:11 And the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and you will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. Is 44:3 For I will pour out water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring and My blessing on your descendants.
Hosea 6:3 explains Christ will come as the latter and former rain. The spring feasts are during the former rain and the fall feasts are during the latter rain.
When the water was poured into a basin on the altar the priests blew the shofar, people were singing and dancing, the levites were singing sacred songs and ordinary people were chanting Ps 113 - 118 - Adonai please save us, Adonai please prosper us, Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai - God is Adonai and He has given us light.
The Rabbis associate the custom with Is.12:3 With joy shall you draw water from the wells of salvatin. They believed a connection between the possession of the Holy Spirit and ecstasy or religious joy is found in the ceremony of the water drawing.
Thousands of worshippers had come to Jerusalem for this feast and during the pouring of the water Jesus stands up and shouts "If anyone is thirsty,let him keep coming to Me and drink...Whoever trusts- believes in Me as the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from his innermost being." John 7:37-38
During the feast - great golden menorah lampstands with bases 50 yards high were set up in the Temple courtyard. Each menorah had 7 branches with large bowls for oil. Four youths of priestly descent stood at the top of the ladders holding 10gallon pitchers filled with pure oil which they poured into each bowl. They would light the wicks made from worn-out garments of the priests (called swaddling clothes). It is said that the light was so bright that all of Jerusalem was lit up by them. There was not a courtyard in Jerusalem that was not lit up with the light at the libation water ceremony. The light represented the Shekinah Glory that once filled the Temple. But the brightness of the holy city at the ceremony paled in the presence of Jesus. Jesus stands in front of the enormous menorahs and says "I am the light of the world, he who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12
Monday, September 13, 2010
Rosh Hashannah
Rosh Hashannah means head of the year - also called the Feast of Trumpets and The Day that no man knows.
Forty days before Rosh Hashannah,the shofar is blown everyday and on the Feast day it is blown 100 times at the exact time all over the world. This 40 days is a fast and prayer time, a time of repentance. Jesus went into the wilderness during these 40 days. The same 40 days parallel precisely the first 40 days of Israel's 40 year wilderness journey.
Jews believe that God created the world on Rosh Hashannah.
Rosh Hashanna starts the calendar year.
God intended events on earth to affect heavenly realities. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven". It is God's desire that our lives be characterized by Heavenly values, that the temporal reflect the eternal.
The Feasts of Israel were God's appointed times to remind His people that He was Lord of the calendar, the King of Creation and that He was to be worshipped everyday.
Rosh Hashannah has 12 Themes
1. Teshuvah repentance
2. Head of the year, Birthday of the world
3. Yom Teruah Day of the Awakening Blast/Feast of Trumpets
4. Day of Judgement Yom Hadim
5. Coronation of Messiah
6. Day of Remembrance
7. The birth pangs of Jacob"s trouble
8. The opening of the gates
9. The wedding ceremony
10. Resurrection (Rapture)
11. Last Trump
12. The Hidden Day
On Wed June 7, 1967, at the height of the 6th day war, Israeli forces pushed into Jerusalem and recaptured the Temple Mount. After 2000 yrs, the Jewish people's holiest place was once again in their possession. At the Western Wall, the last vestige of the walls that once surrounded the ancient temple, hardened soldiers wept openly in joy. Others embraced the rough stones that towered above them. The Chief Army Chaplain, Rabbi Schlomo Goren, then performed a very significant act: He sounded the shofar.
People familiar with prophetic designs of the Feast of Rosh Hashannah immediately recognized the intent of Rabbi Goren. By blowing the showfar, he symbolially announced to the world Israel's return to the home of their forefathers. This is the prophetic message of Rosh Hashannah - the future return, restoration,or regathering of the people of Israel back to the land God has given to them.
Forty days before Rosh Hashannah,the shofar is blown everyday and on the Feast day it is blown 100 times at the exact time all over the world. This 40 days is a fast and prayer time, a time of repentance. Jesus went into the wilderness during these 40 days. The same 40 days parallel precisely the first 40 days of Israel's 40 year wilderness journey.
Jews believe that God created the world on Rosh Hashannah.
Rosh Hashanna starts the calendar year.
God intended events on earth to affect heavenly realities. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven". It is God's desire that our lives be characterized by Heavenly values, that the temporal reflect the eternal.
The Feasts of Israel were God's appointed times to remind His people that He was Lord of the calendar, the King of Creation and that He was to be worshipped everyday.
Rosh Hashannah has 12 Themes
1. Teshuvah repentance
2. Head of the year, Birthday of the world
3. Yom Teruah Day of the Awakening Blast/Feast of Trumpets
4. Day of Judgement Yom Hadim
5. Coronation of Messiah
6. Day of Remembrance
7. The birth pangs of Jacob"s trouble
8. The opening of the gates
9. The wedding ceremony
10. Resurrection (Rapture)
11. Last Trump
12. The Hidden Day
On Wed June 7, 1967, at the height of the 6th day war, Israeli forces pushed into Jerusalem and recaptured the Temple Mount. After 2000 yrs, the Jewish people's holiest place was once again in their possession. At the Western Wall, the last vestige of the walls that once surrounded the ancient temple, hardened soldiers wept openly in joy. Others embraced the rough stones that towered above them. The Chief Army Chaplain, Rabbi Schlomo Goren, then performed a very significant act: He sounded the shofar.
People familiar with prophetic designs of the Feast of Rosh Hashannah immediately recognized the intent of Rabbi Goren. By blowing the showfar, he symbolially announced to the world Israel's return to the home of their forefathers. This is the prophetic message of Rosh Hashannah - the future return, restoration,or regathering of the people of Israel back to the land God has given to them.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Jesus our Shepherd
Shepherds lead their sheep along narrow paths and say this is the way to go - Follow me. There are not green pastures in Israel - they have sparse tufts of grass on rocky landscapes. From one moment to the next the sheep depend on the leading of the shepherd and the sufficiency of the grazing he provides. The path the shepherd selects are the only ones that are safe and secure. No matter how difficult, how narrow, or how treacherous the path, I walked it first says Jesus. I always go before My sheep. All we have is what's sufficient for this moment. With that knowledge we can relax, relying on the effectiveness of our Shepherd to provide whatever we need in the future. We need to keep our eyes on Him because the green pastures 10 minutes from now or tomorrow or next week are only available if we follow Him. Without Him we starve. We'll lose our way - we need to trust and depend on God whatever lies ahead.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Rosh Chodesh -The new moon
Rosh Chodesh, the head of a new month, begins with the new moon. In ancient times, Rosh Chodesh was celebrated for 3 days, as soon as the new moon was sighted.
Actually, the new moon is not a moon at all. For two days, the night sky is black and moonless, usually on the third night the moon appears at dusk as a dark disc in the western sky. It has just the slightest haze around it. This is when it begins to reflect the light of the sun.
The new moon is referred to as the "birth". After two days of darkness the moon is seen as being "born again". This expression, "born again" used by Jesus, was not a new term in His day. It was already used and understood in Israel. When Gentiles from the surrounding nations came up to Jerusalem seeking God,they came out of the darkness of paganism into the light of God and were "born again," just as the new moon emerges from darkness and is also "born again."
Like the moon which has no light of its own,but reflects the sun's light, the one who comes to the God of Israel begins to reflect God's light. Through Jesus, Jews and non-Jews may emerge from spiritual darkness and be "born again," and reflect the Son's light,just like the new moon.
Actually, the new moon is not a moon at all. For two days, the night sky is black and moonless, usually on the third night the moon appears at dusk as a dark disc in the western sky. It has just the slightest haze around it. This is when it begins to reflect the light of the sun.
The new moon is referred to as the "birth". After two days of darkness the moon is seen as being "born again". This expression, "born again" used by Jesus, was not a new term in His day. It was already used and understood in Israel. When Gentiles from the surrounding nations came up to Jerusalem seeking God,they came out of the darkness of paganism into the light of God and were "born again," just as the new moon emerges from darkness and is also "born again."
Like the moon which has no light of its own,but reflects the sun's light, the one who comes to the God of Israel begins to reflect God's light. Through Jesus, Jews and non-Jews may emerge from spiritual darkness and be "born again," and reflect the Son's light,just like the new moon.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Why the World is against Israel
In Acts it says that Jesus cannot come back until the words of the prophets were fulfilled and knowing the return of Jesus spells Satan's doom, he has contrived a plan to prevent the return of Jesus.
The prophets spoke about the Jewish people being regathered to Israel, satan sought to kill the entire Jewish race or force them to lose their national identity and distinctiveness by assimilation or conversion.
If the Jews would cease to exist as a nation the words of the prophets would fail to be fulfilled and Jesus would be prevented from returning.
But God spoke clearly that Israel wold never be destroyed, or lose their national distinctiveness. Jer. 31:35-37.
Satan believes he can succeed and he can prevent Jesus from returning. This is why anti-Semitism is so widespread and so deeply evil. Anti-Semitism is a demonic spirit that hates the Jewish people - not because they are Jewish but because of their prophetic destiny in the fullfillment of Gods eternal purposes. Anti-Semitism is a demonic spirit actually attempting to prevent the return of the Messiah by destroying the Jewish people. the demonic spirit in Islam is part of this.
In Matt 23:39 says Jesus will not return till the Jewish people call for Him to return - In Judges it talks about whenever the Jewish people were facing potential destruction they called to the Lord who raised up a deliver to save them - at the end of the age when Israel is looking at certain destruction and calls upon Jesus to return and deliver them is the ultimate fulfillment of the pattern revealed to us in Judges.
The prophets spoke about the Jewish people being regathered to Israel, satan sought to kill the entire Jewish race or force them to lose their national identity and distinctiveness by assimilation or conversion.
If the Jews would cease to exist as a nation the words of the prophets would fail to be fulfilled and Jesus would be prevented from returning.
But God spoke clearly that Israel wold never be destroyed, or lose their national distinctiveness. Jer. 31:35-37.
Satan believes he can succeed and he can prevent Jesus from returning. This is why anti-Semitism is so widespread and so deeply evil. Anti-Semitism is a demonic spirit that hates the Jewish people - not because they are Jewish but because of their prophetic destiny in the fullfillment of Gods eternal purposes. Anti-Semitism is a demonic spirit actually attempting to prevent the return of the Messiah by destroying the Jewish people. the demonic spirit in Islam is part of this.
In Matt 23:39 says Jesus will not return till the Jewish people call for Him to return - In Judges it talks about whenever the Jewish people were facing potential destruction they called to the Lord who raised up a deliver to save them - at the end of the age when Israel is looking at certain destruction and calls upon Jesus to return and deliver them is the ultimate fulfillment of the pattern revealed to us in Judges.
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