A beautiful vid for you and your beloveds ...
Jerusalem of Gold - Robert Stearns - Let The Lion Roar
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http://www.letthelionroar.com - September 19, 2014
Last week, in Parsha Re'eh, God set a blessing and a curse before the Israelites. The blessing would come when they
obeyed God's commandments and the curse if they forsook them. This week’s Torah reading, called Judges (Shoftim in Hebrew),
discusses the issue of justice according to a Biblical perspective. Nevertheless, Yeshua warned us that just as we give out
judgment toward others, so will we be judged ourselves. If we judge others harshly, expecting absolute perfection, being
impossible to please, this will return back on our own heads. However if we judge righteously but balanced with mercy,
then we will also receive mercy and grace in our time of need.
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Let the Lion Roar !!!
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A somber warning appears multiple times in the Bible concerning astronomical signs in the sun, moon, and stars foretelling of ominous events. There are historical records documenting signs in the heavens accompanying significant events in both Jewish and Christian theological happenings. http://www.bibleinfo.com/en/
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The time of Jacob's trouble or days of vengeance; are you rapture ready ?
The first blood moon interval took place on April 15th, the next is scheduled to take place on October 8th of this year. Historically this is the 7th blood moon or tetrad moon period where the rare four lunar eclipses happen within a short period of time. NASA said this will be the last tetrad moon period this century. [...]
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10 Things that Would Start an Armed Revolt in America
by Dean Garrison
I am often asked is what event might justify and cause Americans to bear arms against their own government. That Cliven Bundy situation was a close one. It’s a good thing that the BLM doesn’t do that everywhere.m So what would cause a Revolution? It is a tough question to answer without a crystal ball. But with the scent of Revolution “in the air” I will attempt to answer that today. These are just a few things that I believe would start an armed revolt in America. America was founded upon biblical principles and is in fact a Christian Nation.
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Shmita, What Will We Eat in the Seventh Year
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28 KJV
Shabbat Shalom
- Parsha Shoftim -
Judgment and Knowledge of Good !!!
The Hebrew text of the Torah
Shabbat Shalom
Welcome to this week’s Parsha (Torah Portion), which is
named Shoftim
(Judges).
This is the portion of Scripture that will be read this
week during the Shabbat (Saturday) morning services in
synagogues around the world. Please read along with us; we
know you will be blessed!
SHOFTIM (Judges)
Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9; Isaiah 51:12–52:12;
Matthew 26:47–27:10
“Appoint judges [shoftim]
and officials [shotrim]
for each of your tribes in every town the Lord your God is
giving you, and they shall judge
[shafat] the people
fairly [tzedek mishpat /
righteous judgment].” (Deuteronomy 16:18)
A young man reads publicly from the Torah scroll for the first time with
elders at his side.
Last week, in Parsha Re'eh, God set a blessing and a curse
before the Israelites. The blessing would come when they
obeyed God's commandments and the curse if they forsook them.
This week’s Torah reading, called Judges (Shoftim in Hebrew),
discusses the issue of justice according to a Biblical
perspective.
God commanded Moses to instruct the people of
Israel to appoint shoftim
(judges), a word derived from the verb shafat, meaning to judge or to govern, and shotrim (officials or official books, and in modern Hebrew, police
officers) to rule at the gates of the cities so that
justice would prevail.
These appointed
leaders were expected to judge the people with fairness,
equality and wisdom. They were forbidden
from perverting justice in any way, such as showing favoritism
or taking bribes.
“You shall not distort
justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a
bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts
the words of the righteous.” (Deuteronomy 16:19)
Scales of justice and gavel
So crucial is the concept of justice to the nation of
Israel that the Torah actually repeats this word twice for
emphasis, “Justice, justice
shall you pursue, that you may live and possess the land the
Lord your God is giving you.” (Deuteronomy 16:20)
All crimes were to be investigated thoroughly and
the death penalty could only be executed upon the testimony
of two or three witnesses:
“On the testimony of two or
three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one
is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.”
(Deuteronomy 17:6)
In fact, it was to be the hands of the witnesses that
would throw the first stones at the one accused of the crime
and then the rest of the people of Israel would stone the
criminal to death. Why
such harsh judgments? To purge the evil from among the
community:
“You must purge the evil
from among you.... You must purge the evil from Israel.” (Deuteronomy
17:7, 12)
Even the showing of contempt toward a judge or law
enforcement officer constituted a crime that carried the death
penalty.
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem
This week’s portion of Scripture also contains a
vital word for the nation of Israel today, as they
engage in a battle against the violence and murderous
intentions of Gaza’s Hamas terrorists:
“When
you are about to go into battle, the priest [kohen]
shall come forward and address the army. He shall say:
'Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your
enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or
be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who
goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give
you victory.'” (Deuteronomy 20:2–4)
God wants justice
and peace to prevail in Israel.
May the God of Israel give Israeli leaders wisdom to
appropriately end the reign of Hamas terror, and be with our
young men and women of the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces),
supernaturally protecting and giving them victory against all
terrorist forces that seek to destroy Jewish men, women, and
children in the Holy Land.
“Through our God we shall do
valiantly; for it is He who shall tread down our enemies.” (Psalm
60:12)
An Israeli soldier prays toward Jerusalem as he recites morning prayer.
(see 1 Kings 8:28–30, 42–44; Psalm 5:7; Daniel 6:10; and Jonah 2:4, 7)
The Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil
The entire theme of this Parsha is that of
judgment.
The question many of us ask ourselves is, “What about the
gray areas? How do we judge rightly especially in situations
that are not specifically addressed in God’s Word?”
In the beginning, in the perfect Garden of Eden, humankind
was never designed to carry the burden of judgment. God was
the only judge.
Adam and Eve (Chava) did not look down at themselves and
say, “Oh dear, we are naked; that is terrible! Shameful!”
Not until they disobeyed God and ate from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil did they receive this burden.
“When
the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food
and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining
wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her
husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of
both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;
so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for
themselves.” (Genesis 3:6–7)
Eve wanted to have supernatural wisdom like God;
therefore, she ate from
the tree that gave her knowledge of good and evil, which
was meant to be restricted to God’s domain.
Now we continue to bear the burden of Adam and Eve’s choice.
Most often, we don’t judge with supernatural
wisdom. We look in the mirror and judge ourselves
as ugly, imperfect, or shameful—usually reflecting back at
ourselves the judgments of others or the measurement we are
using to judge others. We look at the actions of others and
judge them as wrong, bad, or evil.
An Orthodox Jewish man recites Selichot (special
prayers for forgiveness) at the Kotel (Western Wall)
in Jerusalem.
Exercising Godly
Judgment and Mercy
Being judgmental and critical of ourselves and
others was never in God’s perfect plan for us.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, “Do not
Judge, or you too will be judged.” (Matthew 7:1) But
does this mean that we are never to make any kind of judgment
about anything or anyone? Of course, this would not only be
impossible, but foolish.
Yeshua was merely
warning us that instead of casting judgment on all those
around us, we should first examine ourselves.
His very next words are:
His very next words are:
“Why
do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye
and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can
you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your
eye’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye,
and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye." (Matthew 7:2–5)
Yeshiva (Jewish Orthodox seminary) students discuss the written and
oral law as they study together.
Yeshua was not telling us to never make any kind of
judgment; He only warned us against the hypocritical
self-righteous judging of others. So often, we
judge others for the very same thing we ourselves are doing.
We tell our children to obey us as their parents, but then
they see us not obeying the authority over us.
Or we tell them to have a good attitude and then they hear
us complaining.
There is a righteous kind of judgment that we are expected
to exercise carefully.
“Do not judge according to
appearance but judge with righteous judgment.” (John
7:24)
We need to make wise
and discerning “righteous judgments.” If
we are considering someone becoming our marriage partner, for
instance, we cannot say, “I’m just not going to judge this
person.” This would be ridiculous; we are expected to use
common sense and judge a person's actions according to
Biblical standards.
The
Bible says, “You shall know them by their fruits.”
(Matthew 7:16)
(Matthew 7:16)
A Jewish man pays respect to the Torah during
morning prayer at the Western (Wailing) Wall in the
Old City of Jerusalem.
Nevertheless, Yeshua warned us that just as we
give out judgment toward others, so will we be judged
ourselves. If we judge others harshly, expecting
absolute perfection, being impossible to please, this will
return back on our own heads. However if we judge righteously
but balanced with mercy, then we will also receive mercy and
grace in our time of need.
So often we seem to
want mercy (or a little special consideration because of
our circumstances) when we are at fault or
mess up, but call forth God’s wrath and judgment against those
who have wronged us.
Yeshua taught us to be merciful: “Blessed are the merciful for they shall
receive mercy.” (Matthew
5:7)
When confronted with the woman caught in the act of
adultery, Yeshua showed her mercy. He did not condemn her,
but warned her not to continue in her sin.
Like Yeshua, we need to model a balance between justice
and mercy. Some of us may be too hard-line, too judgmental,
too demanding of others that they live up to some kind of
over-idealized standard that even we can’t meet.
Or we may lean towards being such a “greasy gracie” that
we let anyone walk all over us, and we tend to get into all
kinds of foolish situations because of our failure to exercise
right judgment.
In the end, God is the only perfectly righteous and just
Judge over all the earth. Only He can achieve that perfect
balance between justice and mercy, but through prayer and
holiness, we can move toward His righteousness as we judge
ourselves and others.
The Adulterous Woman–Messiah Writing Upon the
Ground, by
James Tissot
The Fruit of Our
Lips: Placing Shoftim and Shotrim at Our Mouths
According to Rabbinic Jewish thought, the human body is
likened to a city with seven gates—our two eyes, two ears, two
nostrils and one mouth—that open to the outer world and can be
closed off as well.
Each of these seven portals is to have an
internal “judge,” which discerns what is permissible to
allow inside and what to keep out.
Through the wisdom
of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), whose judgment is
right, just and true, we may exercise discernment between
good and evil—knowing when to be open to outside
influences and when to be closed, in order that we may be
holy vessels for Adonai.
May we place shoftim
(judges) and shotrim
(officials) at our mouths to guard them from speaking
falsely.
But more than just preventing words that hurt others from
escaping our lips, may the words from our mouth be a well of
life to those around us (Proverbs 10:11).
And may the fruit of our lips feed many, nourishing and
refreshing others (Proverbs 10:21).
In these troubled, difficult last days, please pray for
the salvation of the Jewish People and help us nourish and
refresh the Holy Land as we bring the Good News of Yeshua.
"You will again
have compassion on us You will tread our sins
underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of
the sea." (Micah 7:19)
"Hear the word of
the LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands:
'He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch
over His flock like a shepherd.'" (Jeremiah 31:10)
Shabbat Shalom from the
Entire Bibles For Israel Staff!
Entire Bibles For Israel Staff!
“‘Bring the whole
tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My
house. Test Me in this,' says the Lord Almighty, 'and see
if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour
out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to
store it.’”
(Malachi 3:10)
(Malachi 3:10)
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