ADDevo July 26, 2006
Behold, the Sovereign Yahweh Tsviot will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low. He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall. Isaiah 10:33-34
In this issue: BLOG: Christian Origins - Exactly who were the Disciples?
YATI Releases Elohymns Vol. I, “Arise, O Yah!” Don Esposito’s Teaching in Panama City Today – yes, TODAY – in Prophecy (Lebanon) The Secret Presence, Psalm 31 from Elohymns
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BLOG BLOG: Exactly Who Were Yahshua’s Disciples? This isn’t the same old fiction from Sunday School, but sketches based on modern, cutting-edge scholarship. Slay some sacred cows. Take up the blog at www.xanga.com/klakster then see if you can emulate these “simple” men.
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YATI Released Arise, O YAH! Release notes from Your Arms to Israel Publishing: EloHymns provides a worship repertoire of all the Tehillim / Psalms especially for Sacred / True Name worshipers based not only in Scripture, but also in Hebraic musical style. Hopefully, when Messiah puts us all together, we will be able to sing as one, having learned the Psalms in one accord.
Psalm singing is hardly a new idea. Classic Christianity has its Psalter which is based on the ancient Hebrew songbook. (A Psalter is defined as "a book containing the Book of Psalms or a particular version of, musical setting for, or selection from it.")
Unfortunately, very few congregations use the Psalter anymore, preferring instead "pop" Christian music (pop as in popcorn) rather than Scriptural songs. To date, we have composed and set to manuscript over two hundred Psalms summarized from True Name Scriptures. These set-apart songs of worship are still coming forth daily, HalleluYAH. They are not boring; neither are they "pop."
Your Arms to Israel Publishing (YATI) has recognized the importance and anointing of this first CD, and has offered to get it into the homes of believers world-wide. YATI Publishing thus has teemed up with my ATC Web Publishing to provide a CD set of the first twenty worship songs. To our knowledge, this is the first such endeavor of its kind (from a True Name, Hebraic music-style perspective). "Arise, O YAH!" and the other collections following will be used and remembered for many decades, perhaps for generations to come.
To purchase Elohymns Volume 1: Arise, O YAH! Go to this link. http://store.yourarmstoisrael.org/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=011&PROD=1152485954
All music, arrangements and instruments by Jackson Snyder. Text adapted from The (ISR) Scriptures, The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition and from new Hebrew or Greek translations. Music lead sheets (words) and several MP3cuts from the CDs are downloadable FREE from www.Elohymns.com.
Your purchase of Arise, O YAH! Helps support Bnai Yahshua Synagogues Worldwide and YAH Sar Shalom Congregation Tallahassee.
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Reuven Prager
Come hear Reuven Prager from Israel, Sunday, August 6, at the Oasis Bookstore, 4477 Jackson Street, Marianna, Florida around 2 pm. He'll be talking about the research and restoration of Ancient Israelite Customs in preparation for rebuilding the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Contact Bobby and Charlene Gates - (850) 421-2100
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Don
Esposito’s Teaching in Panama City
On Sabbath, July 15 we joined the Congregation of Yahweh in Panama City to hear guest speaker, Don Esposito. He and wife, Petra, reside in Jerusalem about half of the year and spend the other half traveling, speaking, and doing mission work. First he shared some amazing miracles that have happened in Africa and asked us to pray for a meeting coming up in Uganda in August.
(Don Esposito is the Elder of the Congregation of Yahshua in Jerusalem and author of the popular books, The Great Falling Away and The Chosen People.
The teaching was on discipleship. The following is a paraphrase from my note taking.
The word “Christian” is mentioned three times in Scripture, “believer” two times, “follower” four times and “disciple” 250 times.
We get the word discipline from disciple, which means to have self-control and to be corrected. In the old covenant we see scriptures that show the rod of correction and in the new the staff is used to guide us, we need both types of correction.
John 5:30,31 shows Yahshua was a disciple of Yahweh. He came in the Father’s name. We are continually shown through his life and the lives of other biblical and historical figures that there is a cost in discipleship. Take for instance the familiar cost proposal given the rich young ruler in Mark 10: 17-27
Overcoming the environment is 90% of our spiritual battle. A kingdom principle evident here shows that Yahweh gave us rulership but not ownership. Psalm 24:1: The earth is Yahweh’s and the fullness of it. Yahweh owns things. When a human being has many possessions, he/she starts thinking in terms of ownership. We need to see that when we have more, then it’s a greater opportunity to give more and serve more.
How can I use the blessings he’s given me to serve the kingdom?
According to John 18:25, Peter denies Yahshua. If we are not proclaiming Him then we are denying Him (disobedience by omission).
According to Luke 17:20-21, the Pharisees ask about the kingdom, to which Yahshua replies that the Kingdom of Yahweh is among you.
Unless the kingdom is among you then you will not be among those in the Kingdom.
What do we spend our time on? Are we excited about what Yahweh is doing? Are we in Scripture daily? Do we rejoice over scriptures such as Zechariah 8 and Isaiah 11 that speak of the children of Jerusalem (and the world) playing in the streets again? If we are excited about this, consider how excited Yahweh might be at the prospect of peace.
Luke19:12-27: The Parable of the Talents: We have all heard this parable but brother Don helped us to see it in a new light. We are responsible to USE our gifts for the kingdom. There are folks who have been believers for years, even decades, who still do not know their spiritual gifts. We must know them and use them or the little that we have will be taken away. This is not an analogy but to be understood literally.
We are ambassadors for the Kingdom of Yahweh. Romans 8 tells us that we are co-heirs with Messiah; we are kings and priests (and princesses, too). We must start fulfilling our roles in the Kingdom now.
The leaders build up disciples to go out and disciple others. If you are not discipling others, then you cannot be a disciple.
Finally brother Don shared the distinctions of an ambassador. An ambassador is:
This message was challenging and encouraging, one to be considered and applied.
- Marcelle Logue
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Today – yes, TODAY – in Prophecy
A few weeks ago in our Sabbath Study I was looking at the passage in which the Set-apart Spirit (aka the Holy Spirit) is defined as a seven-fold member of the family of Elohim that rests upon Messiah. The passage is Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 11:2. At the time, I couldn’t find the “seven folds”! So I was a little embarrassed in trying to teach this, though I had been over it plenty previously.
By the time I returned to the Scripture passage to see what I had overlooked, this Lebanon / Israel war had broken out. As I read further on past 11:2, I re-discovered that much of these first prophecies of Yesha deal with the nations around modern Israel, and that these prophecies have not been fulfilled – not until now anyway. Take a look at a few from the ISR Scriptures with some commentary:
11:11.
It shall be in that day that
This is like reading nonsense until it has been decoded. “In that day” is in the day that Messiah is present. (See 11:1.) That is definitely today. If you have read my previous studies, you will know that the time is up. There is no time left for all the vain imaginations of the TV preachers. There is no time left for the deceptions of dispensationalists. There is no time left for the business of Christianity. This is our day – the day of Messiah (Philippians 1:10).
A Second Time: There has been an urgent calling back of Jews to Israel. Indeed, the Israeli Immigration Board has little choice but to call back any friends of Israel: Jew, Gentile, Ysraelite. Israel is in desperate need of people. We know of several who are on there way back now – for good – despite hostilities. This passage is NOW – the second regathering
Ashshur is (generally) Syria and Iraq – with whom Israel has already fought five wars. There are very few Jews or Christians left in Syria – so we know this is a fulfillment since 1948. How can he call back those who are not there anymore? Pathros is Upper Egypt; Kush is Sudan, the location of a terrible genocide of Jews and Christians right now. The US military and the UN are both in Kush today. Elam is the western portion of Iran bordering on southeast Iraq. The inhabitants of this area are building nuclear weapons right now to destroy the non-Shi’ite world. Shinar is south Iraq adjacent to Elam. Shinar is Ur of the Chaldees, which is translated the “Source of Demons.” Shinar also indicates the worship of the moon god “Sin” who is still worshiped today in the form of Allah. British troops are in Shinar today. Hamath is Syrian. The islands of the sea? Plenty of those around.
Anyway, this shows that the prophecies of the earliest Isaiah are about locations that are very much in the news today, every single day. And we know that there are not many elect in any of these regions to call home – all the elect that were left have emigrated since 1948. Prophecy fulfilled now.
Skip to verse 13: And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehudah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah not trouble Ephrayim.
Ephrayim, in a literal sense, is the so-called occupied territories of the West Jordan Bank once known as Samaria. Yehudah is Judea – the modern-day state of Israel. In ancient times, there was a split between these groups of Israelites and they even made war on each other. Ezekiel 37:16 and following says that Ephrayim and Yehudah will always be separated, but Yahweh will consider them as one force in his hand.
If one has followed the migration patterns of the “Lost Israelites,” once finds the half-tribe of Ephrayim primarily in the United States and Western Europe (according to scholars). They are Christians who, like the Israelites they descended from, worship in many unauthorized and unrighteous ways. However, Christians and Jews are fairly united when it comes to incursions into the land of Israel.
Christians and Jews will NEVER be united. But they will work together against a common enemy. Ephrayim and Yehudah cannot be united – more than Messiah keeps them apart; that is, tradition, sin and unwillingness to live in covenant with Yahweh. However, Ephrayim and Yehudah have no choice but to consider their common roots in Greater Israel and work together – as one STICK IN YAHWEH’S HAND. Else Christianity and Judaism are doomed in our day. (It has only been the providence of Yah that has kept them in existence.)
Now look at what Ephrayim and Yehudah they do together
14: They shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people of the east, their hands stretching forth on Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall be subject to them.
Edom is the Negev desert south of Israel and Jordan. Moab is south Jordan and Ammon is north Jordan. The only thing left of the Philistines is the Gaza Strip, one of the five great Philistine strongholds. Can you name the other four? Only one is still in existence - Gaza.
Now this “coalition” of Greater Israel (Ephrayim and Yehudah) is certainly flying down upon the “shoulder” of the Philistines at Gaza toward the west –about which you can read of prophecy fulfilled two years ago in Zephaniah chapter 2. The hands of the coalition of Greater Israel are definitely stretching down on Jordan and southward, and that which was Jordan (now called “west bank” or “occupied territories”) has been Israel since 1973.
To go on through the next few chapters (and the previous two) show events happening right now, today. These events are such obvious fulfillments of prophecy that we are in awe that Christians are so completely oblivious to world events – and rapture-crazed. One young man recently said, “Oh, you watch too much news!” Well, sir, we read too much Bible too. We should all do the same, because these are all signs of Messiah’s presence in the present.
Consider the ignorance of the Disciples:
Matthew 24:3. And while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came and asked him when they were by themselves, “Tell us, when is this going to happen, and what sign will there be of your presence (parousia) and of the end of the age?” 4. And Yahshua answered them, “Take care that no one deceives you ….”
Friend, how much more evidence do you need? Did you know that Lebanon, which is commanded by terrorists and being destroyed by Israel, has always been a bastion of Christian presence in the Middle East? Even now, 1/3 of the population of Lebanon is Christian. Tyre and Sidon, in Lebanon, well known from reading the New Testament, the home of the Syro-Phoenician woman and the provenance of the Paleo-Hebrew Script above, are being bombed out of existence?
What did Yahshua prophesy about Tyre and Sidon? Go look it up. Where is the Rapture for the Lebanese believers? For the believer of Kush, in which we have tallied over a million Christians dead murdered in the last decade?
Ask your blind guides, your church pastors and TV evangelists. For them, and they will say, for you, “not to worry!” There will ALWAYS be seven more years ahead!
My friend, your “getting saved” is never enough. The truth has never been popular nor has it been preached widely. Everybody’s saved. Hardly anyone I know doesn’t claim to be saved or hasn’t walked the red carpet in the Baptist church at one time or another.
But if you are to go forward in what you have claimed all your life, you must putg aside the nonsense and the business, and quickly learn what true worship and covenanting with Yahweh is all about. Read the other chapters of the Isaiah prophecy and realize that the Master is on the roof! (You’ll find Lebanon just 2 verses before, in Isaiah 10:34).
If anyone is still wondering about the nine-fold Elohim of the Set-apart Spirit resting on Messiah I started with, the “folds” are
Isaiah 11:2. On him will rest the (1) spirit of Yahweh, the (2) spirit of wisdom and (3) insight, the (4) spirit of counsel and (5) power, (6) the spirit of knowledge and (7) fear of Yahweh: 3. his inspiration will lie in fearing Yahweh and his judgment will not be by appearances.
Even Messiah feared – but this fear had to do with the covenant of Yahweh entirely. Let us fear; then let us have relief from our fear by abiding by every jot and tittle of his great Covenant that saves our lives and delivers us up to vast purpose in the next thousand years.
Consider this verse from Elohymns Vol II, Psalm 31
Psalm 31:20-24 The Secret Presence
1. All
we who wait for Yahweh and cry out in our prayers
The net
that kept us captive is torn and rotten now.
We've
waited all these centuries for you, O Father, to see again.
Prayer for you today: O Father Yahweh, in the midst of the strife, confusion and noise of this fleeting society, we pray that the dear reader will experience the peace of Yahshua the Anointed, the solace that can be felt and enjoyed, but never comprehended. Amein.
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his hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are
left (in) Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush,
from Eylam and from Shinar, from Hamath and from the islands of the
sea.