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Shabbat 2024-11-30 – Sanctuary

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Here are links and resources and songs and passages from our Shabbat time this week since several had expressed interest in exploring further. Blessings!

Songs:

Spotify:

YouTube:

Also, here is the testimony of the artist for that second one which is powerful and worth watching in its own right:

Videos:

Here is the video we started our study with:

Below are the videos of Dr. Jay Smith’s messages from which an excerpt was included in the video above discussing Mecca and Islam and textual evidence including the well / water situation in Mecca… this is a super deep dive spanning 2 church services and exploring Islam, the Quran, and Mohamed and the lies interwoven in all of that from a scholarly perspective that relates to the modern geopolitical situation in the Middle East as impacting Israel and prophecy. The first video spends quite a bit of time at first looking at Islam as a religion based on the Koran and deals with mature subject matter – including how Islam treats women. WARNING: There are some references to disturbing practices and realities. But it’s good background as he shifts gears near the end of the first video and into dissecting the claims of Islam against the actual factual textual record in the second video.

Additional Resources:

Here are some links I found for reference and additional potential research… cause it sort of begs research with initial findings either having been scrubbed or at least contrary on the surface like the current Wikipedia article describing the waters of the Zamzam well coming from a combo of rain water and aquifer… and the well being currently 100ft deep dug by hand over the years but also inaccessible to the public… it might be a little tricky to verify Dr. Jay Smith’s claims from other online resources under current search engine suppression climates.

It’s also pretty easy to find negative content towards both Dr. Smith and Dr. Crone

Scripture References:

Here’s my list of Scripture references from the study (we still have to go through all of the ones including Ez 40 and after, which we didn’t have time for all in one sitting):

  • Ez 34
  • Ez 36:1-12, 21-38
  • Ez 37:12-27
  • Ex 25:8
  • Josh 24
  • 1 Chron 22:6-19
  • Is 8:14
  • Ez 11:16
  • Ez 40:45
  • Ez 41:1-4
  • Ez 42:19
  • Ez 43:1-12, 21
  • Ez 44:1-9
  • Dan 8:9-14
  • Rev 11

Shabbat 2023-06-29 – Standing Up

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Scripture Passages:

  • 2 Tim 3:10-15, deliverance
  • Ex 8:20, 9:11, 14:13, deliverance
  • Num 22:22-34
  • Deut 7:24, 9:2
  • 1 Sam 17:16
  • 2 Sam 23:11
  • Job 1:6, 41:9-10, who then stands
  • Ps 94:16-17
  • Rom 5:1
  • 1 Cor 16:13, 2 Cor 1:24, faith
  • Eph 6:11-14
  • 1 Thess 3:7-8
  • Rev 6:17, who then stands
  • Ps 24:1,
  • Ecc 4:9-12
  • Dan 10:13

Shabbat 2021-04-17 – Patience Fruit

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Gal 5:22

Patience – Strongs G3115 – makrothymia

  • endurance
  • longsuffering
  • steadfastness
  • perseverance

G3114

  • Job 7:16
  • Prov 19:11

G3115

  • Prov 25:15
  • Is 57:15
  • Jer 15:15

G3116

  • Ex 34:6
  • Num 14:18
  • Neh 9:17
  • Ps 7:11; 86:15; 103:8
  • Prov 15:18; 17:29
  • Ecc 7:8
  • Dan 4:27
  • Joel 2:3
  • Jonah 4:2

Patience – G3116 > H0750 – arek (Greek to Hebrew via Septuagint)

  • Ecc 7:8
  • Ex 34:6
  • Jer 15:15
  • Ez 17:3
  • Nah 1:3

Patience – G5281 – hypomone

  • enduring
  • patient continuance
  • patient waiting
  • Ezr 10:2
  • Job 14:19
  • Ps 9:18; 39:7; 62:5; 71:5
  • Jer 14:8; 17:13

Patience – G5281 > H6960 – qawa (Greek to Hebrew via Septuagint)

  • Ps 39:7

Shabbat 2021-04-03 – The Talents are People

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How we love and help others is the test and purpose-training of this life. PEOPLE are the TALENTS of the parable. How we treat them – all of them in our life – determines if we are faithful servants of our King to whom they belong. Ruling and reigning with Messiah equals HEALING and HELPING the nations and the earth. It will take a thousand years to heal and help and restore all the damage from the last several thousand years of the war over creation. Nothing else matters in life. Everything – every resource every effort every focus – should be oriented towards LOVE and HELPING and HEALING.

Scripture Passages:

  • Matt 25:1-46
  • Matt 24:42-51
  • Matt 25:4 > Matt 5:13-16
  • Matt 5:1-12
  • Matt 5:4 > Ez 9:4
  • Is 3-4
  • Is 4:5-6 > Joel 2:31-32
  • Ez 20:33-38
  • Zech 13:7-9
  • Mic 6:8
  • Matt 25:10-12 > Matt 7
  • Eph 3:17-19
  • James 3:14-18

The oil is produced by the fruit (olives), which can only come by abiding in Messiah, then being HARD-PRESSED under PRESSURE. We have to bring everything to our King and allow Him to refine it and produce in us the oil that will burn and shine His light / love to those around us.

Yah’s Word of Canopy Protection

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Is 4:5-6
Then YHWH will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

Ps 121:2-8
My help comes from YHWH, who made heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
YHWH is your keeper; YHWH is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
YHWH will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
YHWH will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

Is 25:4-5
For you YHWH have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall, like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.

Ps 5:11-12
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you. For you bless the righteous, O YHWH; you cover them with favor as with a shield.

Shabbat 2020-07-06 – Love

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Scripture passages

  • Gen 22:2
  • Gen 29:30-31
  • Gen 37:3-4
  • Ex 20:6
  • Ex 21:5
  • Lev 19:18, 34
  • Deu 7:7
  • Ruth 4:15
  • 1 Sam 18:1
  • Prov 3:12
  • Jer 31:3
  • Mat 5:43-48
  • Luk 7:41-47
  • John 15:12-17
  • Rom 5:1-8
  • Rom 8:35-39
  • 1 Cor 13
  • Eph 5:1-2
  • Phil 2:1-3
  • Col 3:12-15
  • 1 Jn 3:14-23
  • 1 Jn 4:7-21
  • 1 Jn 5:3 > 2 Jn 1:6

Shabbat 2020-06-06 – Signs & Wonders

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Definitions

Scripture teaches that there are both True and False (lying) Signs and Wonders. The challenge is that they can often look nearly identical. For example, the “miracles” that the Egyptian sorcerers performed to imitate the early signs that YHWH worked through Moses and Aaron (Ex 7:10-22), the “prophesies” that were uttered through the lying spirit (1 Kings 22:22-23), and the “power of god” for which the people in Acts 8:11-13 mistook Simon the magician, all looked like signs and wonders that came from “God.”

Because the WHAT can look identical, our discernment must go way deeper than the surface appearance. We must understand from Scriptures how the WHY (the PURPOSE) of signs and wonders maps to the miracle’s kingdom of origin so that we are not deceived. Yahushua emphatically warns about this in Matt 24:24. By understanding from the Word how the purpose of a miracle reveals its origin and nature we can strengthen our discernment between true signs and lying signs.

Purpose of True Signs & Wonders from YHWH

  1. Deut 4:34-35 – To separate (set-apart) YHWH’s nation / family from all other people.
  2. Ez 24:24-27 – To make us know (yada) YHWH
  3. Deut 28:44-45 – To curse rebellion against YHWH
  4. 1 Kings 13:1-6 – To confirm a true Word (prophesy) from YHWH
  5. Ezekiel 12:1-11 – To warn YHWH’s people of coming consequences, to repent
  6. Mark 16:17-20 – To confirm the Good News / Word (Scripture) of YHWH [Most people stop reading at verse 18 or 19, but verse 20 proves that the signs are not for the validation of faith, but rather for for confirming the Truth of the Good News.]
  7. John 20:29-31 – That we might believe Yahushua is the Son of Yah and the Messiah.

Purpose of False Signs & Wonders from the enemy

  1. Deut 13:1-3 – To lead astray after other gods [this includes other false gods created in man’s imagination even though they confuse these theological inventions with the God of the Bible and Jesus and the Holy Spirit – gods with a very different character and nature than what YHWH has revealed about Himself in his Word]
  2. Deut 18:17-22 – To speak presumptuously as if they have advanced spiritual knowledge or hear clearly from god or the spirit realm.
  3. Matt 7:20-23, 12:38-39, 21:14-16 – To perform acts of power, authority and status.
  4. Matt 7:20-23, 12:38-39, 21:14-16 – To seek signs and miracle rather than Yahushua.
  5. Matt 24:24 – To deceive as many as they can including, if possible, the elect of Yah.