Testimony Tuesday--Take A Stand

Matthew 5:12-17; John 10:22-23; Jeremiah 1:1-4; Ephesians 6:13; John 1:4-5, 9:5, 12:46, Genesis 1:3; Isaiah 46:10, 50:8; Jeremiah 6:16; Romans 12:2; Isaiah 5:20; 2 Samuel 22:29; Jeremiah 7:2; Ezekiel 2:1; Philippians 4:1; Psalm 20:7; 1 Peter 5:8; Mark 13:33-37; James 1:5; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Psalm 4:4; Luke 11:34-36; Matthew 6:35; 1 Thessalonians 3:8; John 3:9; Revelation 3:20; Psalm 37:4-7; John 12:35; Luke 21:36; Romans 13:12; Luke 12:35-40, 2:29; Psalm 119:104-106; Ephesians 5:8; Psalm 1:1, 119:109-111


We are walking in today:  Testimony Tuesday--Take A Stand

Witness candle throughout the Bible:  H5716 niyr lamp, light

2 Samuel 22:29; Jeremiah 25:10; Job 18:5-6, 21:17, 29:2-3; Psalm 18:28; Proverbs 20:27, 24:20, 31:18; Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 8:16, 11:36, 15:8; Revelation 22:3-5

Chanukah reminds us to take a stand.  Fiveamprayer will we stand in the darkness or turn on the light?!  Chanakah, is the feast of dedication.  The restoring of proper worship and freedom to come before Yahweh as His word directs us.  The casting down of the profane and upholding the righteous and holy.  It is not allowing the darkness that to put out the light--what this celebration is about.  The miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days after cleaning and rebuilding the altar.  This is also the victory of a few zealous Jews against the the Seleucid soldiers numbering 40,000.  While both situations show us Yahweh's hand we must be aware of the thousands or more of the Jews who were slain for upholding the Torah, keeping the Sabbath, circumcision and eating kosher.  The torture, pain and cruelty that was inflicted on them was beyond inhumane--all resulting in their murders.  This is a stand for the Torah, to speak Hebrew, praying at the appointed times and location.  This refusal of the Greek culture which was the process of Hellenization that was being pushed all over the known world at this time.  An appreciation of art, science and beauty instead of focus on Yahweh and His principles.  This terrible blood shed was to deter anyone from upholding the Torah, no longer teach it to the children.  If a Torah scroll was found in a house the entire household was killed.  This attempt to erase Jewish culture and worship of Yahweh was first publicly thwarted by a priest named Matthias Maccabee who would not perform the sacrifice of a pig in the temple and rallied other Jews to stand and fight.  The two year battle resulted in the Jewish victory and in the cleansing of the temple and the rebuilding of the altar.  The new menorah was made and ready, only they had enough oil for 1 day. The process to make oil would take a total of 8 days.  The second miracle is that the oil lasted until the new batch was ready.  To read more on this click below.  To listen to this again click here. 

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What Does It Mean To Seek The Lord?

Psalms 115:14-16, 105:4; James 1:17; Colossians 3:12; Isaiah 55:6; Job 8:5; Jeremiah 29:13; Hebrews 11:6; Matthew 28; 2 Thessalonians 3:5; Exodus 8:15; Isaiah 55:6; Psalms 10:4; Leviticus 19:2; Exodus 12:3; Matthew 6:13; Acts 1:3; Luke 17:20-21; Acts 1:6; Romans 14:19; Hebrews 1:9; Psalm 45:6; 1 Corinthians 4:20; Hebrews 12:28; Acts 1:7; Matthew 3:2, 4:17, 12:25; Mark 3:22-29; Luke 11:20; Mark 12:34; Luke 10:9-12; Matthew 16:28; Luke 9:27; Mark 9:1; Matthew 26:29; Mark 14:25; Luke 22:16, 23:42-43; Revelation 12:10; Luke 1:32-33; John 18:36; Matthew 5:3, 10; Luke 6:20; John 3:3-5; Matthew 16:19, 19:4, 21:41-43; Matthew 25:31-46; Mark 9:47; Luke 13:24-30; 2 Peter 1:10-11; Acts 8:12; Matthew 4:23, 9:45, 10:7-8; Luke 9:2, 9:11; Ezekiel 47:12; Revelation 22:2; Ephesian 1:13; Matthew 4:23, 1:1; Acts 20:24; Romans 1:1, 1:9, 10:15, 1:16; Galatians 2:7; Psalm 33:4-5; John 3:1-13, 3:29; Jeremiah 3:18; Luke 12:32; Matthew 6:33; Luke 12:31; Deuteronomy 4:6; Psalm 19:7-11, 119:105; Hebrews 9:22; Leviticus 17:11; Romans 3:20, 5:20, 7:12, 8:1-4; Matthew 5:19-29; Luke 16:16-17; Matthew 13:51-52; Luke 18:28-30; Hebrews 1:9; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Matthew 13:11, 13:19, 13:31-33, 4:26-30. 13:44-46, 18:23-25, 21:6, 21:31, 22:2-14, 25:1-13, 15:14-30; Jeremiah 6:16; Matthew 21:31, 22:11-13; Luke 19:11-27; Ephesians 4:11-13; Matthew 6:16-17; John 10; Isaiah 14:12-14

We are walking in today:  What Does It Mean To Seek The Lord?

We have to really grasp the importance of the kingdom.  As we have been lead of the Holy Spirit on this line to end up at this time and season--a deeper understanding of the gospel of the kingdom which Yeshua, John and Paul all taught on.  Looking back we have to find out why different people of the Bible are noted above others.  Elisha, David, Daniel and Noah--what makes them stand out?  Their dedicated, focused search for Yahweh--His word and His presence in their lives and for their community.  This seeking of Him and constant prayer brought them into His presence which is also stated in scripture as before His face.  We must push back our carnal desires to truly seek His face with whole-hearted dedication!  How would that look?   Getting up early to seek Him in His word; constant conversation with Him to find the good and right way to go; setting yourself apart from the unholy things that they would not draw your heart way from Him.  This seek is more than a cursory glance, this is a seek that is a search, a plead, unrelenting pursuit of Him and not letting go until You bless me mindset!  Could it be similar to behavior of a stalker-- sit outside of their job, follow them home and keeping notes of daily activities--this is the level of pursuit which in being referred to here.  With Yahweh it is what He directs His people to do--Deuteronomy 6:4-9 4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.  So Fiveamprayer, is His word and Yahweh all that you talk about?  Would those around you find you still taking about Him? We have here in scripture to love Yahweh with all of our heart, soul and strength; teach with diligence to our children, talk about these commands in your house, when you walk, lie down and arise.  Sounds like the dedicated, focused thought on His instructions of His word. Which in His Torah we hear, His voice that directs and leads us.
Fiveamprayer we have to also find out if the omnipresent Yahweh is always in our presence?  Is is possible that we could turn away from Him that the closeness we are to have with Him could be diminished by our distancing from Him?  Could it be that disregard of His Torah would place space between Yahweh and us who find or allow this distance?  It is His supreme greatness that we are to seek continually.  Fiveamprayer, what is the setting of our hearts and minds?  What is the primary focus of our attention!  The Torah is pre-existing wisdom, this is what places us in harmony with His creation.  Seek Him, to be in the light of His presence.   To hear more of this awesome teaching click here.

Weekend Meditation--Let's Get Biblical!

2 Timothy 3; Genesis 2:1-2; Acts 13:42-44, 20:7; Genesis 2:13; Exodus 16:23; Jeremiah 31:30-33; Hebrews 8:8-12; Matthew 5:17; Romans 10:4-8; Leviticus 23:21; Exodus 12:14; Numbers 5:13-16; Acts 20:16; 1 Corinthians 16:8; Acts 27:17; Zechariah 14:16-21; 1 Timothy 4:1; Romans 3:31; Matthew 12:9, 13:54; Mark 1:21, 1:29, 3:1, 6:2; Luke 4:16, 4:20, 4:28, 4:38, 6:6; 7:5; Job 6:59; 12:42, 18:20; Acts 13:14, 14:1, 18:4, 18:26, 19:8; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Exodus 20; Deutronomy 5; Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42, 18:12; Hebrew 7:5-6, 8-9; Isaiah 4:6, 42:6; Genesis 12:1-3; Acts 15:1-31; Romans 11:1-10; Matthew 5:18--20; Psalm 119:89; Revelation 21:1-2, 20:10-12, 10:1-7, 19:6, 11:6; Proverbs 4:2; Romans 11:11-12; Matthew 5:21-27; Acts 2:38, 5:32; Galatians 2:20; Romans 3:31; Acts 21:20; Romans 7:7, 7:14; 2 Corinthians 4:18

We are walking in today:  Weekend Meditation--Let's Get Biblical!

Witness walk in the light throughout the Torah:  H3212 yalak to move, go foward, lead away. H216 or luminary, daybreak, light, lamp, faith of Yahweh
Isaiah 2:5, 50:11; 1 John 1:7; Revelation 21:24

This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living.  This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.

The Second Commandment-Exodus 20:4-5 You shall have no other gods before Me.  You shall not make yourself a carved image nor any likeness of that which is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the water beneath the earth.  You shall not prostrate yourself to nor worship them, for I am the LORD your God--a jealous God.

151. The Kohanim shall safeguard the Holy Place and the Altar –Numbers 18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
152. The Levite shall perform the work of the Sanctuary --Numbers 18:32  And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
153. The Levites shall give a tithe from the tithes of the Children of Israel --Numbers 18:26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
154. You shall offer male lambs, two a day, as a continual Elevation-Offering --Numbers 28:3 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
155. You shall give cities for dwelling and open space to the Levites --Numbers 35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
156. You shall not show favor to the seven Cananite nations --Deuteronomy 7:2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
157. You shall not take the silver and gold from the carved images of gods --Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
158. You shall not bring an abomination into your home --Deuteronomy 7:26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
159. You shall destroy all the places where the nations you shall possess worshiped their gods --Deuteronomy 12:2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

160. You shall not bring offerings outside the Sanctuary --Deuteronomy 12:13
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

Yeshua is the living Torah.  He never negated His Father's teaching and instruction.  Was Yeshua a Jew or gentile?  He was a Torah observant, kosher eating, feast day observing--Jew.  Then why do Christians call the Jewish Messiah, Jesus by a hellinized name?  This name He was never called in His lifetime.  His name in Hebrew, as is the language of the Jewish people, means salvation--Yeshua.  Yahweh gave us the pattern of the 7th day of rest, the Sabbath.  This was established in the beginning, would this be able to be changed if Yeshua rose on Sunday?  When actual accounts, that He rose just before sunset on the 7th day.  Remember the Hebraic count of the day is from sunset to sunset.  The women rushing to the tomb at the earliest time after sunset, to finish the burial preparations of their teacher and Messiah, that their customs would allow--found an empty tomb.   We also have that the early believers met in the synagogue for worship and study, a common practice in the very early church.  That the meeting at the close of the sabbath, sunset on Saturday would explain why Paul was preaching so late into the night for they started at sunset.  The holy day set apart by Yahweh from the foundations of this world gives us a 7th day sabbath.  The law of Yahweh is to stand forever, has His word somehow expired?  Did forever come and pass and we are in a new time--after forever? 

Why do we need the law that was given to Moses?  We are pretty good people and try to do the right things.  Who determines what is right and good?  Yeshua tells those who call Him good that only Yahweh is good.  So He would be the authority of what is good.  But where do we find out His definition of good or rather functional from the Hebraic mindset?  The instructions that He gives to His chosen people once they are delivered out of Egypt--the Torah.  This shows us where we miss the mark--this is His standard that we are to see it we are in alignment with.  How else do we know what is sin or missing the mark?  Our own judgement is faulty and not worthy of consideration.  Yeshua is our perfect sin offering for us forever and now we have the renewed covenant that His Torah is not longer on tablets of stone but written in our hearts and minds.  His word stands forever and does not pass away--hold fast to His word, the entirety of His word, it never fails!  This is absurd that the Old Testament or Tanakh is considered by many Christians as not applying to them or having been expired.  How else would you know right from wrong without it?  What would the New Testament or Brit Chadasha refer to if it was truly obsolete?!  Yeshua tells us that we have heard it said, it has been said--what is He referencing?  What is it that we are supposed to already know that would be our reference for what He is speaking about?  Having the Torah written on our hearts and minds does not mean that we know what is good but that we would have a desire to walk out His teaching and instruction in our daily lives.

Can Yahweh's Biblical feast be ignored since Yeshua died on the cross?  Did the Biblical feasts expire?  Are they only for a season?  While scriptures says eternal, perpetually and throughout the generations--sounds like a very long time to me, a time without, end.  These times that He appoints are not only for the children of Israel but to all those who come to live in there territories and come to trust in the salvation and access that Yeshua's blood gives us for a fuller understanding of the Torah, His principles.  If the feast days were over, why would Paul still observe them?  As well as those in the very early church?  We are warned that the people will come to believe and listen to false teachings--there would be no need to warn if there would not be those who would come and oppose and offer a new way that they did not know before.  For more on the awesome teaching click here.

5 Smooth Stones, Exodus 23--Yahweh Establishes The Judicial System

Exodus 23; Deuteronomy 9:15; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 16:18-20; Exodus 18:13-24; Proverbs 9:10; Psalm 25:9-10; Isaiah 2:3; Psalm 8:21; Matthew 18:15-20; Acts 15; Titus 2:4; 1 Timothy 5:17-21; Matthew 18:16; 2 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Timothy5:19; Hebrews 10:28; Proverbs 6:16-19; 1 King 4:26, 11:3; Deuteronomy 8:13-15

We are walking in today:  5 Smooth Stones, Exodus 23--Yahweh Establishes The Judicial System

Witness joyful  throughout the Bible:  H 8056 sameach joyful, merry, glad, joyful, showing joy

1 Kings 8:66; Isaiah 49:13, 56:7, 61:10; Ezra 6:22; Psalm 5:11, 35:9, 63:5, 66:1; 81:1, 89:15, 95:1-13, 96:12, 98:4, 98:6, 98:8, 100:1113:9, 149:2, 149:5; Ecclesiastes 7:14; 2 Corinthians 7:4

Yahweh in this chapter addresses a number of things in the judicial system.  How court proceedings should go and how to appoint the judges and eventually kings to direct the children of Israel.  These directions to the judges is to follow the Torah, to promote justice.  Decisions are not to be made because they are convenient nor the opinion of the crowd.  When left unchecked the opinion of the crowd is towards the evil inclinations.  The justice for the people was not to be dishonored with false reports nor bribes.  The weight of false reports is certainly seen in cases of murder, when the testimony of the witness that leads to the life being taken, are the first one to pick up the stone.  The responsibility of taking the life of a innocent man would be far more weighty if the false witness was the one hurling the first stone to take that life.  Fiveamprayer, don't forget that evil company corrupts good judgement!  We must be aware of those that we walk with and watch to see if they are moving us out of alignment with the position that He placed us.

The giving of favor for being poor or rich was also strongly cautioned.  How can there be justice if the decision is not based on facts and credible witnesses?  If that practice would continue, would not the end result be a corrupt system void of justice at all?  In the original justice system, the crimes that resulted in death were carried out, the person was not placed in prison for a lifetime sentence.  This follow through of the judgement would also curtail more people committing the same crime.  So many in our present society feel that they could handle being in prison for so many years yet if we had the original justice system of Yahweh, they would no longer be living.  By such a final judgement in place seems harsh yet it does give pause and sets the community up to be a helpful society due to not wanting to loose life.  With just judges who will not take bribes nor side with the crowd, leaves only the behavior and intentions that should be aligned with His intentions for our lives, the Torah.  We were to be self-governed and self-correcting by the study and upholding of His principles.  As the people are even directed to help even their enemy with a lost animal or an animal struggling under a burden.  Reducing the opportunities for offense and wounded pride cuts out many of a current cases that are clogging up the valid cases that require judgement, in our present day system.

The selection of those appointed to be judges were to be men that feared Elohim, a man of truth and hates bribes.  Fear, this is the revering of the all-powerful Adonai, that generates wisdom.  These men would seek to pursue truth and continued study of the Torah.  The levels of the courts were also established from the more simple cases to the cases involving taking the accused life.  These places of judgement are called beit din, house of judgement, with the highest one in Jerusalem with 71 judges and presided over by the high priest. Making a total of three levels of the courts. The directions we have from Yahweh were also to the officers of the court, which would be sheriffs to carry out the judgement.  To hear more of the awesome teaching click here. 

Torah Portion--Vayeshev, He Continued Living

Genesis 37:1-40:23; Matthew 16; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Mark 12:28-34; Genesis 15:14-16; Luke 12:48; 1 John 3:15; Luke 9:23-24; Hebrews 12:11

We are walking in today:  Torah Portion--Vayeshev, He Continued Living
Genesis 37:1–40:23; Amos 2:6-3:8; John 9-13

Witness continually throughout the Bible:  H3117 yom day, time, year, day (as opposed to night), day (24 hour period), as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1, as a division of time, a working day, a day's journey

Genesis 6:5, 8:5; Exodus 28:29; Leviticus 24:2, 24:4, 24:8; Joshua 6:13; 1 Samuel 18:29; 2 Samuel 9:7; 1 Kings 10:8; 2 Kings 4:9; Isaiah 58:11; Jeremiah 33:18; Hosea 12:6; 1 Chronicles 16:11, 16:37; 2 Chronicles 9:7; Psalm 34:1, 25:27, 40:11,40:16,42:3, 44:15, 71:3, 71:14, 119:44, 110:109, 119:117; Proverbs 6:20; Acts 6:4; Hebrews 13:15

This section of the text  gives us the lineage of Jacob and his sons.  In particular we have Joseph's story of being delivered into Egypt.  This family dynamic of favorites is not new.  As many can attest of the favorite child in families that the parents may not try to hide.  As Rebecca favored Jacob and Issac favored Esau, Joseph was favored because of being the son of Jacob's old age and of the favored wife Rachel.  The Torah was given to us by Yahweh to show us how to treat each other as well how we are to approach the King of kings!  As we have in the teaching from Yeshua that we are to treat our neighbors as ourselves.  The Hebraic understanding of neighbors is not only those who live close to you but all those in the commonwealth of Israel.  This shows us that this caring for is not only based on  proximity but by heritage.  The family within your own walls of your home, the family in your community and throughout the country.  This mindset seems to come around at the end of the Gregorian year in November and December to care for those less fortunate.  In a community based society that the Hebrews had and the principles speak about--we are to care for them at anytime.  Not only in the merriment of the time or seasons but at any time.  The question does become do those in need only have a need when you can assist them?  Yahweh directs us to not allow our brothers to be sold into slavery when we can pay their debts.  Here with Joseph we have him being sold into slavery by his brothers for being favored of their father and the sharing of the vision that he had in a dream.  

The situations that Joseph finds himself in show that Adonai is with him through it all, for things went well for him in Potifar's house and the prison.  While he upheld the things that are pleasing to Yahweh no matter what the situation.  He became a blessing to those around him where ever he went.  All the while being positioned for salvation for his family for the coming famine that takes over all of the civilized world.  This deliverance was not something that Joseph could manage on his own without Yahweh orchestrating this from years and years ago.  The entirety of Jacob's remaining sons, their wives, children, servants, and animals coming down to Egypt would not have been received in the same manor if Joseph with the hand of Elohim on him, had not been there.  

This relationship in our families we have all seen or dealt with.  We have to understand that in the natural we find that there are those that will be able to know who your grandparents are with one look at you.  The reputation of your earlier generations can be the key to lock or unlock access with some people.  With Yahweh this is not so--He only has sons, no grandsons.  This lets us know that we each have to have our own personal relationship with Him without excluding the whole community.  There is no riding in on the coattails of the relationships that your grandparents or parents have with Yahweh.  The access is for each relationship.  Certainly the blessings that were left by righteous previous generations will be bestowed on us.  Let us not rest on our laurels and not pursue our own relationship with Him!  To hear this teaching again click here.  

Testimony Tuesday--Light Of The World, Chanukah

Hebrews 5:14-16; Exodus 5:31-32; Genesis 24:2; Judges 8:30; Romans 11; Revelation 1:20; Psalm 119:105; Proverbs 6:24; Isaiah 49:6; John 8:12; Matthew 5:14'; Leviticus 24:2-3; Amos 5:18, 8:11; 1 John 1:5-7; Isaiah 8:20; Leviticus 2:30-32; John 8:8-10; Exodus 25:30-38; 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6; Matthew 7:20, 6:28-30; Numbers 1:7; Revelation 5:8; Matthew 25; Isaiah 6; Exodus 30; John 2:21; 1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Luke 4:15-20; Matthew 23:11; Ephesians 4:13-16

We are walking in today:  Testimony Tuesday--Light Of The World, Chanukah

Witness abundantly throughout the Bible:  H8317 sharats to teem, swarm, multiply
to teem
Genesis 1:20-21, 8:17, 9:7; Exodus 1:7; Numbers 20:11; Isaiah 15:3, 25:2, 55:7; 1 Chronicles 12:30, 22:5, 22:8, 31:5; John 10:10; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 1:12, 2:4, 10:15, 12:14-15; Ephesians 3:20; Titus 3:5-6; Hebrews 6:17-20; 2 Peter 1:10-11

We find in the Torah how the elements of the tabernacle were to be made.  This included the menorah which from the Greek translation is a candlestick.   This candlestick or menorah is to be made of pure gold that is to be hammered and has a total of 7 lights.  One on the shaft that is the main structure of the menorah and three branched coming out of opposite sides.  Another reason this light would be required in the tabernacle is that there was no access to natural light from the outside that would give light to the priests going about the duties of the ministry in the tabernacle.
The  Torah teaches us Israel is to be a light unto the nations.  Because this was not done, many of the nations did not receive this instruction.  Thus He called out those to go to teach the nations His principles.  This light is illuminated by the testimony of the edah, the witnessing army.  The term sons of light that Paul refers to is the light, the Torah and Torah is light.  It is this light that is to guide every act of our lives.  How is this portrayed as Christians?  A I love Jesus bumper sticker? Attending services regularly? Going out to tell everyone about Jesus being the light of the world?  We have to understand that those who oppose the Torah and uphold Jesus, are not able to actually shine the light of truth outside the Torah.  There can not be a separation of the Word of God made flesh and His word!!  Having only one and disregarding the other still is missing the whole point.  There is an belief by the ancient Hebrew sages that the letters of the Hebrew alef beit must be spoken if not the Earth would be consumed in a fervent heat in the last days.  As we can see now with all of this push back on the return to the original intent and original language.  This light of understanding that we have received is to be shared.  With the Chanukah coming up on the evening of December 16 the 9 light menorah is to observe the miracle of the oil lasting for 8 days while more oil is being prepared.  This observance is to stand against those who would come in to change the practices that Yahweh instructs us to do.  Will we stand up for the right way taught from Elohim above?  Or allow the other culture to wash over you and all that you have been taught?  Fiveamprayer will you be found standing alone according to His purpose and design instead of standing with those who would trample all over Yahweh's word and instruction for us?!  To listen to this teaching again click here.

Yahweh's Standard--The Torah

Deuteronomy 6; Galatians 5:18; 1 Corinthians 9:20; Romans 6:14; Galatians 3:10, 3:18; Romans 6:23; 1 John 3:4; Romans 6:15; 6:1-2; Galatians 5:13; John 8:11; Romans 6:12-13, 3:31; Galatians 3:24-25, 4:9-11; Colossians 2:16-17; 1 John 3:4; Matthew 5:18-19; Romans 2:11; Deuteronomy 2:17; Proverbs 11:1; Deuteronomy 25:13-14, 1:17; Proverbs 24:23; James 2:9; Romans 2:14-15; Deuteronomy 4:5-8; Leviticus 20:13; Romans 2:14-15

We are walking in today:  Yahweh's Standard--The Torah

Witness hear O Israel throughout the Bible:  H8085 shama`to hear (perceive by ear), to hear of or concerning,to hear with attention or interest 

H3478 Yisra'el Israel = "God prevails", the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel,the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob, the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split into the Northern and Southern kingdoms

Deuteronomy 5:1, 6:4, 9:1, 20:3; Mark 12:29

Unfortunately, Christianity has a poor understanding of the Torah. Due to the early church fathers seeking to divorce every bit of Hebraic culture from practices of the believers in Christ Jesus. This is where the harsh view of the Torah as law stems from.  It is this lack of understanding of His original intent, His purpose and plan for our lives, that we are in this current state.  Confusion, frustration and desires all out of control due to the lack of instruction of how we are to live and relate to one another and to Him.  Because of this view as a harsh, difficult thing, the law of Yahweh has been thrown out much to our detriment.  The absurd idea that the law of Elohim is no longer valid shows how much we do not understand His plan.  He is the King of the universe, all that a king speaks will and must stand.  When a king says a thing it instantly becomes law.  As we can see with king Ahasuerus in the dealing with his first wife, asked the council of the wise men who knew the laws in  Esther 1:10-15 to make sure that which he would set forth or decree that would not conflict with previous laws--for once it is set forth it can not be repelled.  In Mark 6:27-29 with king Herod who gave his word to give up to half of the kingdom for being pleased.  Yet his hands were tied when the request came he did not want to honor it.   Yet he would not go against his own word in his kingdom--that would undermine his own authority.  All that a king speaks is binding and absolute.  The weight of what a earthly king speaks is very weighty so how much more so than the King of kings in all that He speaks?!  We can not truly hold on to the misinformation that the law, of our King is against us and to be disregarded!  Take time to look over the commandments of Elohim, not to be incestuous, not have sex with animals, not to kidnap, not to rape women, not to lie in the court, not to kill with intent to name a few.  These same principles many of us live in our lives daily.  These directions have come to be the basis of many of societal laws or rights of the people to have a productive and peaceful community.  This moral standard is found throughout the world in many cases and upheld by local ordinances and laws for the protection of the people and the benefit of all.  Wow the all-seeing, all-powerful, all-knowing Yahweh's original plans for His creation would net this many benefits that have been duplicated in societies and communities worldwide could this be a clue that this is what we desire and are trying to find with everything else that is going on?  Click here for more on this teaching.