GOD’S KINGDOM is made up of peoples, it is not one ethnicity.
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The War of the Eye
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Matthew 4
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The War of Pride
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Matthew 4
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The War of the Flesh
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4
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יג לֹא תַחְמֹד, בֵּית רֵעֶךָ; {ס}
לֹא-תַחְמֹד אֵשֶׁת רֵעֶךָ, וְעַבְדּוֹ וַאֲמָתוֹ וְשׁוֹרוֹ וַחֲמֹרוֹ, וְכֹל, אֲשֶׁר לְרֵעֶךָ. {פ} EXODUS 20,13 Thou shalt not delight [lustily] thy neighbour’s house; {S}
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s woman, and his man-servant, and his maid-servant, and his ox, and his ass, and all twhich is for thy neighbour. {P}
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The LORD is my shepherd and His goodness and loyalty will follow me all the days of my life. Psalms 23.6
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“Mine enemies turn back in the day that I call”
Psalms Chapter 56 M
1 For the Leader; upon Jonath-elem-rehokim.
[A Psalm] for David; Michtam; {N}
when the Philistines took him in Gath.
2 Pity Me O Mighty One because man would swallow Me up; all the day he fighting oppressing Me.
3 They that lie in wait for Me would swallow Me up all the day; for they are many that fight against Me, O Most High, 4 a day I fear, I am sure in Thee.
5 In The Mighty One–
I will praise His cause– {N}
in The Mighty One do I trust, I will not trust what flesh can do for Me.
6 All the day they trouble Mine affairs; all their thoughts are against Me for wickedness.
7 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark My steps; according as they have waited for My soul. 8 Upon evil cast him out; in anger bring down the peoples, O Mighty One.
9 Thou has counted My wanderings; put Thou My tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?
10 Then shall Mine enemies turn back in the day that I call; this I know because The Mighty One is for Me. 11 In The Mighty One–
I will praise His cause–
in THE ETERNAL ONE–
I will praise His cause–
12 In The Mighty One do I trust, I will not fear what can a man do unto Me? 13 Thy vows are upon Me, O Mighty One; I will render thank-offerings unto Thee.
14 Because Thou hast delivered My soul from death; never My feet from falling, {N} for walking in the presence of The Mighty One in the light of the living. {P}
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“Thy loyalty is great unto the heavens”
Psalms Chapter 57 M
1 For the Leader; Al-tashheth.
[A Psalm] for David; Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
2 Pity Me, O Mighty One, pity Me, because in Thee hath My soul taken refuge; {N}
yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I take refuge, until calamities be overpast.
3 I will cry unto The Mighty One Most high; unto The Mighty One that accomplisheth it for Me.
4 He will send from heaven, and save Me, when he that would swallow Me up taunteth; Selah {N}
The Mighty One shall send forth His loyalty and His truth.
5 My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame; {N}
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
6 Be Thou exalted, O Mighty One, above the heavens; Thy worthiness is above all the earth. 7 They have prepared a net for My steps, My soul is bowed down; {N}
they have digged a pit before Me, they are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah
8 My mind is stedfast, O Mighty One, My mind is stedfast; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. 9 Awake, My Presence; awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake the dawn.
10 I will give thanks unto Thee, O Sovereign, among the peoples; I will sing praises unto Thee among the gatherings. 11 Because Thy loyalty is great unto the heavens, and Thy truth unto the skies.
12 Be Thou exalted, O Mighty One, above the heavens; Thy worthiness is upon all the earth. {P}
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“The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance”
Psalms Chapter 58 M
1 For the Leader; Al-tashheth.
[A Psalm] for David; Michtam.
2 Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company?
Do ye judge with equity O sons of men?
3 Yea, in mind ye work evil; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.
4 These wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.
5 Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;
6 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, or of the most cunning binder of spells.
7 Break their teeth, O Mighty One, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O ETERNAL ONE. 8 They will melt away as water that runneth apace; {N}
when he aimeth his arrows, they will be as though they were cut off.
9 They will be as a snail which melteth and passeth away; like the untimely births of a woman, that have not seen the sun.
10 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
11 The righteous shall rejoice when He seeth the vengeance; He shall wash His feet in the blood of the wicked. 12 And men shall say:
‘Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily there is a Mighty One that judgeth in the earth.’ {P}
“The Mighty One will let Me gaze upon Mine adversaries”
Psalms Chapter 59 M
1 For the Leader; Al-tashheth.
[A Psalm] for David; Michtam; when Saul sent, {N}
and they watched the house to kill him.
2 Deliver Me from Mine enemies, O Mighty One; set Me on high from them that rise up against Me. 3 Deliver Me from the workers of evil, and save Me from the men of blood.
4 Because, lo, they lie in wait for My soul; the impudent gather themselves together for Me; {N} not My rebellion, nor My offense, O ETERNAL ONE.
5 Without My fault, they run and prepare themselves; awake Thou to help Me, and behold.
6 Thou therefore, O ETERNAL ONE, The Mighty One of Armies, The Mighty One of Israel, arouse Thyself to punish all the gatherings; {N} show no loyalty to all evil traitors.
Selah
7 They return at evening, they howl like a dog, and go round about the city. 8 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: ‘Because who doth hear?’
9 And Thou, O ETERNAL ONE, shalt laugh at them;
Thou shalt have all the gatherings in derision.
10 His strength, I will wait for Thee; because The Mighty One is My high tower.
11 The Mighty One of My loyalty will come to meet Me; The Mighty One will let Me gaze upon Mine adversaries.
12 Slay them not, lest My people forget, make them wander to and fro by Thy power, and bring them down, O Sovereign, our shield. 13 The sin of his mouth, and the word of his lips, {N}
and they will be taken in their arrogance, and from cursing and from hypocrisy they will accrue. 14 Consume in wrath, and consume him completely, and they will know it {N} because The Mighty One ruleth in Jacob for the ends of the earth. Selah
15 And they return at evening, they howl like a dog, and go round about the city;
16 They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night when they have not their fill.
17 And I, I will sing of Thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of Thy loyalty in the morning; {N} because Thou hast been My high tower, and a refuge in the day of My distress.
18 O My strength, unto Thee will I sing praises; because The Mighty One is My high tower, The Mighty One, My loyalty. {P}
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“Thy beloved will be delivered”
Psalms Chapter 60 M
For the Leader; upon Shushan Eduth; Michtam for David, for teaching; In striving with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, {N}
and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
3 O Mighty One, Thou hast cast us off, Thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; O restore us.
4 Thou hast made the land to shake, Thou hast cleft it; heal the breaches thereof; because it tottereth.
5 Thou hast made Thy people to see hard things; Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.
6 Thou hast given a banner to them that honor Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah
7 For this purpose, Thy beloved will be delivered, save Thy right hand, and answer Me.
8 The Mighty One said in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
9 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the defence of My head; Judah is My sceptre.
10 Moab is My washpot; upon Edom do I cast My shoe; Philistia, cry aloud because of Me! 11 Who will bring Me into the fortified city?
Who will lead Me unto Edom?
12 Hast not Thou, O Mighty One, cast us off?
And Thou goest not forth, O Mighty One, with our armies.
13 Give us help against the adversary; and vain is the help of man.
14 In The Mighty One we shall do valiantly; and He it is that will tread down our adversaries. {P}
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My Friday Prayer
Our Father which art in Heaven,
You deliver us from evil for Thine is the dominion, and the power, and the praise for ever. Amen.
| כד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, תּוֹצֵא הָאָרֶץ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה לְמִינָהּ, בְּהֵמָה וָרֶמֶשׂ וְחַיְתוֹ-אֶרֶץ, לְמִינָהּ; וַיְהִי-כֵן. | 24 And God said: ‘Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind.’ And it was so. |
| כה וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים אֶת-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ לְמִינָהּ, וְאֶת-הַבְּהֵמָה לְמִינָהּ, וְאֵת כָּל-רֶמֶשׂ הָאֲדָמָה, לְמִינֵהוּ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב. | 25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. |
| כו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ; וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָרֶץ, וּבְכָל-הָרֶמֶשׂ, הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ. | 26 And God said: ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.’ |
| כז וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם. | 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. |
| כח וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתָם, אֱלֹהִים, וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אֱלֹהִים פְּרוּ וּרְבוּ וּמִלְאוּ אֶת-הָאָרֶץ, וְכִבְשֻׁהָ; וּרְדוּ בִּדְגַת הַיָּם, וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבְכָל-חַיָּה, הָרֹמֶשֶׂת עַל-הָאָרֶץ. | 28 And God blessed them; and God said unto them: ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.’ |
| כט וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, הִנֵּה נָתַתִּי לָכֶם אֶת-כָּל-עֵשֶׂב זֹרֵעַ זֶרַע אֲשֶׁר עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ, וְאֶת-כָּל-הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ פְרִי-עֵץ, זֹרֵעַ זָרַע: לָכֶם יִהְיֶה, לְאָכְלָה. | 29 And God said: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed–to you it shall be for food; |
| ל וּלְכָל-חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל-עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל רוֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-בּוֹ נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה, אֶת-כָּל-יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב, לְאָכְלָה; וַיְהִי-כֵן. | 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, [I have given] every green herb for food.’ And it was so. |
| לא וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-כָּל-אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה, וְהִנֵּה-טוֹב מְאֹד; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי. {פ} | 31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. {P} |
Psalms 77,1 For the Leader; for Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
77,2 I will lift up my voice unto God, and cry; I will lift up my voice unto God, that He may give ear unto me. 77,3 In the day of my trouble I seek the Eternal One; {N}
with my hand uplifted, [mine eye] streameth in the night without ceasing; my soul refuseth to be comforted.
77,4 When I think thereon, O Mighty One, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth. Selah 77,5 Thou holdest fast the lids of mine eyes; I am troubled, and cannot speak. 77,6 I have pondered the days of old, the years of ancient times. #BIBLE2018
Exodus 6,10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 6,11 ‘Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.’ 6,12 And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying: ‘Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?’ {P}
6,13 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. {S} 6,14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. 6,15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. These are the families of Simeon. 6,16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years. 6,17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. 6,18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years. 6,19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 6,20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. 6,21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 6,22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 6,23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 6,24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. 6,25 And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families. 6,26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said: ‘Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.’
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Jeremiah 16,5 For thus saith the LORD: Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people, saith the LORD, even mercy and compassion. 16,6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; 16,7 neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 16,8 And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. {P}
16,9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. 16,10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee: ‘Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’ 16,11 then shalt thou say unto them: ‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law; 16,12 and ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not unto Me; 16,13 therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; forasmuch as I will show you no favour.’ {P}
16,14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said: ‘As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ 16,15 but: ‘As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither He had driven them’; and I will bring them back into their land that I gave unto their fathers. {P}
16,16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 16,17 For Mine eyes are upon all their ways, they are not hid from My face; neither is their iniquity concealed from Mine eyes. 16,18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have profaned My land; they have filled Mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable things and their abominations. {P}
16,19 O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: ‘Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.’ 16,20 Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods? 16,21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is the LORD. {S} 17,1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars. 17,2 Like the symbols of their sons are their altars, and their Asherim are by the leafy trees, upon the high hills. 17,3 O thou that sittest upon the mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders. 17,4 And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not; for ye have kindled a fire in My nostril, which shall burn for ever. {S} 17,5 Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 17,6 For he shall be like a tamarisk in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. {S} 17,7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is. 17,8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but its foliage shall be luxuriant; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 17,9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak–who can know it?
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Aug 24 Nehemiah 9,28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before Thee; therefore didst Thou leave them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried unto Thee, many times didst Thou hear from heaven, and deliver them according to Thy mercies; 9,29 and didst forewarn them, that Thou mightest bring them back unto Thy law; yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto Thy commandments, but sinned against Thine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them, and presented a stubborn shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. 9,30 Yet many years didst Thou extend mercy unto them, and didst forewarn them by Thy spirit through Thy prophets; yet would they not give ear; therefore gavest Thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. 9,31 Nevertheless in Thy manifold mercies Thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for Thou art a gracious and merciful God. 9,32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awful God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the travail seem little before Thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all Thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. 9,33 Howbeit Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for Thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly; 9,34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept Thy law, nor hearkened unto Thy commandments and Thy testimonies, wherewith Thou didst testify against them. 9,35 For they have not served Thee in their kingdom, and in Thy great goodness that Thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which Thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. 9,36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that Thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it. 9,37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom Thou hast set over us because of our sins; also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.’ {P}
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Luke 22,51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
52Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
54Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off.
55And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
56But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
58And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
59And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.
60And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
61And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. 62And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
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Teaching for 8-23-2018 yom chamishi day 5 [thursday] Annual Portion #156 Genesis 14:18-15:8 b”h
Teaching for 8-23-2018 yom chamishi day 5 [thursday] Annual Portion #156 Genesis 14:18-15:8 b”h
Today’s Portion is the initial mention of the exercise of “Faith.” The Apostle Paul makes a reference in his Letter to the Romans in his teaching regarding Faith.
The modern Western concept emphasizes the exercise of faith as an acknowledgement or allegiance to an object. It is used akin to the thought of ‘will-power’. It requires effort.
The un-spiritual man believes that it is a spiritual concept. That, it involves no intellectual property, only intuition. That is wrong.
IN the Hebrew word ” ‘Amen ” the meaning of to-believe means to affirm with respect to following. Faith is more about commitment than it is about obedience —
blind- or otherwise. To abide in the commitment is what Christ JESUS expounded to His disciples. “Until the end,” He said (Matthew 24).
This is the same Commitment JESUS admoshed Moses: to-love “The LORD your GOD from all your mind [intellect] by your personal decision, from all your life (beginning to end), from all of your strength (the accumulated resources of knowledge from the Holy); and JESUS expounded to His disciples, “do it wholeheartedly, undivided wholeheartedness, and nothing but wholehearted-wholeheartedness.” That is how Luke 10,27 interprets it, for JESUS, from Deuteronomy 6.
It is this style Faith that Abraham expresses to the LORD when He reveals to him that he will bring the Messiah into the world.
TEXT: 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of The Mighty One, the Most High.
19 And he did kneel and was speaking:
‘Blessed be Abram of The Almighty Most High, Maker of heaven and earth;
20 and blessed be The Mighty One, the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.’
And he gave him a tenth of all.
21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram:
‘Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.’
22 And Abram was speaking to the king of Sodom:
‘I have lifted up my hand unto THE ETERNAL ONE, The Almighty Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,
23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say:
I have made Abram rich;
24 save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion.’ {S}
Chapter 15
1 After these things the cause of THE ETERNAL ONE came unto Abram in a vision,
For He was speaking:
‘Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, thy reward* shall be exceeding great.’
2 And Abram was speaking:
‘O Sovereign, THE ETERNAL ONE, what wilt Thou give for me, and I myself am walking heirless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’
3 And Abram was speaking:
‘Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.’
4 And, behold, the cause of THE ETERNAL ONE came unto him,
for He was speaking:
‘This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.’
5 And He brought* him forth abroad, and he was speaking:
‘Look now toward heaven, and calculate the princes*, when thou be able to recount them’;
and He was speaking unto him:
‘So shall thy seed be.’
6 And he did affirm in THE ETERNAL ONE; and was regarding it to Him for righteousness.
7 And He said unto him:
‘I am THE ETERNAL ONE that brought thee out* of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.’
8 And he said:
‘O Sovereign, ETERNAL ONE, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?’
*1. reward – Messiah, son of Abraham
Answers to temporal issues are not for hope. As long as there is a tomorrow no answer to any problem on earth will bring hope.
The eternal issue must always be the concern of the heart. All problems are temporal, therefore so are the answers. Problems are redirection from Eternity and the Answer who is Christ JESUS.
*5. The LORD moves Abraham into the future – to Eternity. And the answer to Eternity is Christ.
*5. “stars” are princes. The Prince is JESUS, the topic of the revelation to Abraham.
*7. Abraham leaves his native land and gods and meets the Priest of GOD called Melchizedek.
**PRAYER**: Father in Heaven on earth, Christ JESUS our resurrected Savior King, make me loyal to Your commitment by the word of Your Mouth. Make me loyal, wholehearted unbending loyal, and nothing but. Amen
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