Shabbat Studies

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 2021-04-03 – 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.

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.

Shabbat 2020-05-02 – Holy Spirit

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Who is the Holy Spirit?

  • Ruach – wind, breath, air, life
  • Gen 1:2 – Spirit of Elohim MOVED (rachaph) – primitive root only occurs 2 other times
    • Deut 32:11 – “As an eagle stirs up its nest, FLUTTERS over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Bearing them on its wings. YHWH alone led him, and there was no strange mighty one with him.”
    • Jer 23:9 – “My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones SHAKE. I am like a drunken man, and like a man overcome by wine, because of YHWH and because of His set-apart words.”
  • Gen 2:7 – “And YHWH Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of life. And the man became a living being.”
  • Job 27:3 – “…as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of Eloah in my nostrils…”
  • Job 33:4 – “The Spirit of El has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
  • Ecc 12:7 – “Then the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.”
  • Ez 37:9 – “He then said to me, “Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and you shall say to the spirit, ‘Thus said the Master YHWH, “Come from the four winds, O spirit, and breathe on these slain, so that they live.” ’ ”
  • John 4:24 – “Elohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.”
  • Gal 4:6 – “And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Full of the Spirit

  • Gen 41:38
  • Ex 31:3
  • Num 11:29
  • Num 24:2
  • Dan 4:8

What is the Baptism / Filling of the Holy Spirit?

  • Eze 39:29
  • Joel 2
  • John 3:5
  • John 20:6
  • Rom 8:9
  • 1 Cor 3:16

Shabbat 2020-04-25 – Declarations

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Clean & Unclean

As a foundation for understanding the declarations below we need to explore the Scriptural treatment of two central concepts: Clean & Unclean

  • Numbers 19:16-22
  • Lev 10:8-10
  • Ez 22:26

Declarations of Baptism

These 8 declarations are adapted from the “Mikvah Declarations” published by MTOI.org (Messianic Torah Observant Israel). I found them to be an excellent way to focus the study for one who wants to be baptized into Yahushua toward understanding exactly what it means, what’s involved, what it represents, and what it means for living out (not just speaking) confession of faith in Messiah. These are excellent questions and answers which help bring Scriptural clarity to the decision to become a disciple of Yahushua, and help the one making this decision to understand what this commitment does in the reality of their identity as well as what it requires of them. I have included references for the Scriptural basis for each Question / Declaration.

  1. Is it your desire to repent of your sin and be changed from unclean to clean – to be born again in Yahushua?
    (Ps 51; Rev 1:5, John 3:3-7, 1 Pe 1:3, 23)

    YHWH, of my own free will, I repent of all my sin and uncleanness before You, and ask You to forgive and cleanse me by the blood of your Son Yahushua, the Messiah.

  2. Do you chose to bury the “old man?”
    (Rom 6:1-9)

    Of my own free will, I choose to bury the “old man!”

  3. Do you of your own free will renounce your citizenship in the kingdoms of this world and HaSatan and sovereignty over yourself?
    (Gal 1:3-4; Eph 2:1-6; Col 1:9-14)

    Of my own free will, I renounce my citizenship in the kingdoms of this world and HaSatan and sovereignty over myself!

  4. Do you choose to be a citizen of the Kingdom of YHWH?
    (John 1:12; Rom 8:12-17; Eph 2:11-22)

    Of my own free will, I choose to be a citizen of the Kingdom of YHWH by receiving adoption into His Family by His grace through Yahushua Messiah!

  5. Do you of your own free will choose to submit yourself completely to the ruler-ship and authority of Yahushua?
    (Rom 10:9-11; 1 Cor 12:3; Acts 8:37, Jude 1:24-25)

    Of my own free will, I choose to submit myself completely to the ruler-ship and authority of Yahushua Messiah, who is the Son of YHWH, who came in the flesh, who died for my sins, who rose again, who sits at the right hand of the Father, and who will come again to establish His Kingdom on earth!

  6. Do you commit to take on the responsibilities of being a citizen of the Kingdom of YHWH and to strive to live by Torah, the “teachings and instructions of YHWH?”
    (Jn 15:10; 1 Jn 2:1-7, 5:1-5; Rom 7; Jer 31:33)

    Of my own free will, I commit to take on all the responsibilities of being a citizen of the Kingdom of YHWH and to strive to live by Torah, which are His Ways, instructions, and teachings in His Word, expressed in loving Him with all my heart, soul, mind & strength.

  7. Do you request that YHWH annul any and all previous agreements with any and all other organizations and authorities that you have made that are in conflict with Him?
    (2 Cor 4:1-2; Tit 2:12)

    YHWH, of my own free will I request that You annul any and all previous agreements with any and all other organizations and authorities that I have made, which are in conflict with You.

  8. Do you choose to take upon yourself the Name of YHWH and Yahushua and to commit to walk out the rest of your life to bring their Name honor and not shame?
    (Deu 28:10; Mic 4:5; Zech 10; Dan 9:19; Is 44:1-5; Amos 9:12; Acts 19)

    Of my own free will, I choose to take upon myself the name of YHWH and Yahushua, and commit to walk out the rest of my life to bring their Name honor and not shame!