mizzdy

I'm not Jewish, just Messianic. This is a question that gets bantered back and forth a lot and the answers usually are no, Yeshua is the final sacrifice, the veil has been torn and we can come to Him without an earthly priest or sacrifices of any kind. I know personally I would not do any animal sacrifices nor would I go to a temple ran by men when I have my King, Savior and High Priest. We do not keep the feasts as they did when they had the temple, we do them in remembrance, in anticipation, as a memorial, and even as 'practice'. We also do not keep to rosh hoshana as the 'head of the year' since we know that God set that in the spring and not fall, the bible says this feast is Yom Teruah and that head of the year is an added for a few reasons none of which are biblical.

The land promise to Israel is the Abrahamic Covenant, not the "Old Covenant". Their ability to live in their and is the "Palestinian Covenant". The feasts are still perpetual. Palestinian covenant? where is that? I see Gods promise to bring them back into that land that belongs to Him, there is no such thing as palestinian covenant, not in Due. 29 which is where every single person suggesting this takes the idea from. God built upon each covenant, sometimes He add to or take away but they are all built upon one another, we would not have the renewed covenant if it were not for the ones prior we could not get to where we are today. We see the promise of Davids peace covenant when He returns also, so if that is long gone why bring it back. Each covenant given points to Him, each one given and failed to be lived up to by His people shows the need for Him, that is why we see the change in the priesthood, that 'old' was governed by men now we have a high priest unsoiled by mens hearts but the very mind and heart of God. Sorry to post and run! shalom, Mizz

Not really at all pertaining to the thread but did you know the Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit is also a feminine word, not something we might think or see about the Spirit. Many words have a feminine base, but the Holy Spirit is always spoken of as a He, is He not? Yes and each time its refering to Yeshua or YHWH who sends and gives the power through His Spirit, that doesn't change the fact that Ruach Kodesh is feminine. Wisdom is spoken of a she in Proverbs, I dont see that its assigning a gender to it either the Spirit or wisdom, but that both come straight from Him. Wisdom does not EQUAL the Ruach haQodesh. (It's a "qof" by the way, not a "kaf.") I had a preacher once back in the early 80s who had this view point and called them the Ideal Family. I came to the conclusion back then that it was grasping at straws and wasn't really necessary. (I believe that's how the Roman Catholics got started putting Miryam or Mary on such a high pedestal as to call her the "Mother of God." They wanted an "Ideal Family," too.) However, Eloheinu (our God) does exhibit ALL the traits of a ideal parent, male or female, father or mother. Wisdom, being an abstract concept, will have naturally feminine gender in the Hebrew language. Concrete things are often masculine in gender. (That's not a rule, nor is it always the case; it's just an observation.) However, both the words "Ruach" (meaning "Wind" or "Breath" or "Spirit") and the adjective "Qodesh" (meaning "Holy" or "Awe-Inspiring" or "Clean") are masculine words. The feminine form of "Holy" is "Qadeshah" with an ending "hei." You don't have to make the Scriptures politically correct or gender neutral. Just trust God to be able to comfort His children as easily as He might lead them into battle! I was not saying anything about anything being equal my dear brother, just pointing out that the words were feminine and wisdom was seen as feminine in Psa. Wasnt in any way trying to give a grammar or linguistic lesson. YHWH is indeed all of that there is no doubt. I am not a Hebrew scholar, yet I do know how to find the wordages and such things and when I get stuck I take to my friends who are truly scholars as well as laymen in the field. Its great to know people who know Hebrew and Greek as well a they do English! makes for digging into His word so much more exciting!

hmm i think that this occurs when men come to christ. and uh jesus said only a few things new. the verses on loving thy enemies were already in the torah. he was dealing with the perversion of the torah not some novel idea. We certainly are in that process of having all of His Torah written on our hearts but it will not be completely fulfilled until He returns since we read that part of this 'new' or renewed covenant is that no more will man teach man but all will learn directly from Him, that all will know Him. That has not yet happened we are all still trying to teach one another, not everyone knows Him, they might know of Him but they do not really know Him. When we come to Him He gives us His Spirit to learn and grow but oh what a more wonderful way to know than by the very words that come from His mouth as we sit at His feet listening to Him!

The first person to divide the Bible up into "Old Testament" and "New Testament" Scriptures was a man named Melito of Sardis way back in the 2nd Century. This is wirtten about by Eusebius. http://www.ccel.org/...ii.ix.xxvi.html Scroll down to passage #14 Ufortunately, this has created the sense that the "Old Testament" Scriptures are not relevant for us. From the perspective of the NT writers, The Tanakh was simply "The Scriptures." The NT is written out of OT knowledge. The Berean Jews tested the teachings of Paul against "the Scriptures." There is no biblical division of the Scriptures into "Old" or "New" Testament divisions. Those divisions are post-biblical. Yes, though I guess saying that the Bereans were testing new teachings against "scripture" is more correct than saying they were checking the "new" against the "old". They didn't consider the Tanakh to be old in the same way the OT is considered (by some) today. Not at all! I'm not sure at all they were testing 'new' teachings but making sure that what the apostles and Yeshua were saying measured up to the scriptures. After all there must be two witnesses to something, that whatever happened, whatever was said needed to be from God written in the prophets and the like. John the baptist would never have been there as a voice crying in the wilderness and others would have known exactly who he was proclaiming, the riding into Jerusalem on the donkey was there in scriptures for them to see. The Tanakh was considered the only scriptures to judge Messiah by and what the apostles were teaching. Sometimes I sit and think about how they finally saw that through Yeshua's death restoration came, but it was the mystery how that whole divorce and remarriage thing was going to come about that probably had them all scratching their heads and ultimately rejoicing in it all. shalom, Mizz

Do you have a Biblical basis for that? Because the OT was given during the Old Covenant, and part of the OT relates God's Word regarding his Old Covenant, from which the OT got its name. And the NT relates God's Word regarding his New Covenant, from which the NT got its name. That is explained here, at my responses 1) and 2). The division between the 'old' and 'new' are man made not ordained by God in the least. If you want to get techie about it, the beginning of the bible is called the Tanakh and the apostles writings are called the Brit Chadashah. Funny how our Messiah walked in all those 'old' things as did all the apostles, all those that followed after Him and it wasn't until the split with the body that Messiah called out did things start to change. When the greek, roman and other worldly influences took ahold and greek thinking invaded the body was there a distinction made between 'old and new'.

Not really at all pertaining to the thread but did you know the Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit is also a feminine word, not something we might think or see about the Spirit. Many words have a feminine base, but the Holy Spirit is always spoken of as a He, is He not? Yes and each time its refering to Yeshua or YHWH who sends and gives the power through His Spirit, that doesn't change the fact that Ruach Kodesh is feminine. Wisdom is spoken of a she in Proverbs, I dont see that its assigning a gender to it either the Spirit or wisdom, but that both come straight from Him.

One would hope and pray that anyone who is able to put up a stock of food will be doing so not out of selfish reasons but for the benefit of their neighbors, friends, family. Storing up for oneself is never once mentioned in the scriptures but that we must be preparing for others as well, after all Joesph wasn't sent to Egypt just for Jacob and the rest of the family.

I put this here because there are videos attached to the blog. I did quit watching Glenn Beck sometime ago but found this with Daniel Lapin, I like how he shows what Baal is and how it is in effect today in all kinds of ways. link shalom, Mizz

That sounds as if it came out of the Mishnah. The nail, or tav is what connects heaven to earth, He is what connects us to heaven, thats a pretty deep topic though!

Well ya asked for thoughts.... Personally I do not think we are in heaven alive, conscious and waiting to come back to earth yet I do know that the next thing I see when my eyes are opened again are His face! Its my thoughts that when He returns all that will be changed will rise with those alive will be gathered by the angels and meet Him where He will be and we are told that His feet will stand on the Mt. of Olives it will be split into and a valley will form. We reign with Him during the millennial reign I dont see the new earth or Jerusalem coming onto this earth until all is finished, until after the second resurrection happens. Since we see the new heavens and earth after it seems the second resurrection it does kinda fit that this is for all of the faithful body of Messiah. Since I see unchanged people alive during the millennial reign it makes sense to me that it is not for them but for us, the body and perhaps we even can go between the new city and earth? shalom, Mizz

Not really at all pertaining to the thread but did you know the Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit is also a feminine word, not something we might think or see about the Spirit.

I hope you have cash on hand and fuel in your tank. Tomorrow may well be a whole new day. Cash? hmm If the worlds economy fails and I do think thats the end game so the implementation of a worlds monetary system will be something other than dollars our cash wont mean much. Think of those long ago newspaper cartoons where even a man in a tux had to push the wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a bit of bread. We are heading for some very serious times. Yes, that is true. We keep being warned and I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. We need to remind each other more and more of this truth Matt 10:28 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. NKJV we can only succeed in this by drawing nearer to Him- so that His Presence is so evident that our actual flesh is distant to our cognitive perception... this can be done loved ones for I have experienced it in intense times! Love, Steven Of course we are to draw near to Him at all times, yet even God sent Joesph ahead to store food for the times to come and that through the body we are to help one another in times of need. Theres not a thing wrong with storing some food, putting money away, buying gold, etc. Do you think that those who do these things are not relying on God? if so I am sorry but you are wrong in that. I absolutely believe that I have nothing to fear from the person that can kill me I know my Savior has taken away the death penalty and I will rise again one day. But that does not mean that we are not to prepare, just as we prepare our hearts we do so in our lives also.

Its in response to an anti-abortion bill. If we regulate womans bodies we should do the same for men is basically what she is saying. I havent heard this response and lately I have heard a lot of stupid things from the pro-abortion people. One of our church members is one of the heads of the Pro-Life group and travels all across the country helping other orgs., he does seem to get arrested a lot too! lol

Yeah, this one kinda gets me. If we are to understand that spring is the beginning of the year then how is it said that the feast of the ingathering would be at year's end? What then about winter? Gary We tend to look at it all with our own ideas of what a calendar should be seen as yet if we look at it this way, the spring is for sowing, sowing seeds as well as the word of God, then we go through each season, watering and dryness. Then we come to the beginning of the harvest where wheat, us, are pruned, refined and finally gathered to Him and brought into the kingdom, or the wheat is harvested and stored in the grain house. Just like farmers today prepare the soil, water and tend it then gather it this is the center of Gods calendar, a prophetic time clock so to speak, the beauty of God to show us things in such simple ways. shalom, Mizz this was the original challange by GDE MOSS Here is the challenge: Using the bible as the only source for your answers, determine what God has revealed a time period of one year consists of. Please do not even mention what we know that man currently observes or historically it has been claimed to have been observed but only that which can be discovered within the pages of our Holy Bible, the Word of God. Not sure what you mean by mans currently observed calendars, the Gregorian, Juilian? I see Yah setting times and seasons, takes those very times and seasons and sets up a calendar by which His assembly should live. Moses was told to start at a certain time of the year for the Passover, we see Noahs age given in years as are so many others, but with Noahs age we see it being given as 600 years before the flood. We also see that in Egypt there was an calendar system within the Hebrews since we see ages for sons of Levi, Aaron, etc. We read about generations yet I do not think we will find God hanging a specific calendar on the wall and showing us today is such and such a day in such and such a year, I think we are called to understand the days and seasons He provides for us in scriptures, live within the confines of our present calendar systems but walk spiritually in His. Time, God's calendar started at our creation and that is in place until He returns again. Thats how I see it. shalom, Mizz

Just think how many went with Jacob to Egypt, 66 and 70 total including Joesph and his sons and then how many we see coming out of it and then crossing, millions. Then from the crossing of the Jordan to King David was around 400 years I think, just see all those who had faith in God and the Messiah. I just do not think we could ever come to a number!

I like Joi's suggestion, you may be able to find a co-opt, a group of parents who homeschool a group, kinda like a pre-school. If you can't find that or homeschool yourself public school to me would be better than an rcc one. I know so many who still even today totally dislike the schooling they had with the rcc.

I hope you have cash on hand and fuel in your tank. Tomorrow may well be a whole new day. Cash? hmm If the worlds economy fails and I do think thats the end game so the implementation of a worlds monetary system will be something other than dollars our cash wont mean much. Think of those long ago newspaper cartoons where even a man in a tux had to push the wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a bit of bread. We are heading for some very serious times.

Yes they did fire him they say over ratings some point to this video whatever reason he won't be doing his show anymore. The judge even asked for his viewers not to send anymore angry emails to Fox it seems! I do like the judge, wonder where he will go from there?

I guess this is the segment that got the Judge fired from Fox, shame since he is speaking the truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaCemmsnNk&feature=player_embedded

Yeah, this one kinda gets me. If we are to understand that spring is the beginning of the year then how is it said that the feast of the ingathering would be at year's end? What then about winter? Gary We tend to look at it all with our own ideas of what a calendar should be seen as yet if we look at it this way, the spring is for sowing, sowing seeds as well as the word of God, then we go through each season, watering and dryness. Then we come to the beginning of the harvest where wheat, us, are pruned, refined and finally gathered to Him and brought into the kingdom, or the wheat is harvested and stored in the grain house. Just like farmers today prepare the soil, water and tend it then gather it this is the center of Gods calendar, a prophetic time clock so to speak, the beauty of God to show us things in such simple ways. shalom, Mizz

That can be true, yet I know that within my small and I mean small fellowship we support a hospital program in a small country, a ministry in Cebu, as well as Samaritans purse and one more I cant remember. And we are able to support others with what we can, medical, financial as well as physical and emotional support. No we could not support a lengthy hospital stay nor life supports for someone who is so disabled they need constant care but we could help. It is the body that is called to do these things and if we had a govt who lived according to Gods principles there would be a 'temple' of sorts where all could donate and all could come as needed. I have seen what entitlement programs do to families, I through my mother and fathers family saw what happened when the 'new deal' came around, it is so far from what God wants its ridiculous. Yep I am shaded against these types of programs, yes I see that in todays society theres probably no way short of His return that we are going to get rid of them or make them in any way better, its just too bad too many see them as 'rights'. shalom, Mizz

I couldn't help applaud this guy! link

There are no commandments to own slaves only law regulating it, where are the curses and commandments legalizing slavery? That is not how God ordained things, He did set standards and used those type of relationships to show right and wrong, to show His mercy and grace. Its funny I have never had any black, white, red or purple person say they could not believe in God because those in the bible had slaves, most come to understand the freedom in Him. Man is corrupt beyond meaure theres no denying that, I guess I dont understand the thread. shalom, Mizz Actually, there have been several threads on this board where non-believers point to this issue and use it as an excuse (one of many) for their non belief, saying that God condoned slavery. Certainly it's always refuted, but it turns into a hot issue. Of course, any excuse will do. True and I generally stay away from them. And excuses are exactly what it is! I went to a lot of 'black' churches as a kid after all most of my family lived in Compton, Downey and the likes and we would visit neighborhood churches, never once in my life have I ever heard a person of color refer to not being able to believe in God nor Messiah because of that issue. What I usually hear is God is not the one who said to do that, that He shows us a better way For some reason the thread just struck me as odd thats all. shalom, Mizz

Ohh its just the illuminati readying the banks to go global and all ya know. Theres probably a bit of truth to that, I mean once Iran is taken out and a world bank is finally established within its borders there will be no stopping the beast after that! Iran is the last holdout, Libya is now part of the worlds bankings systems they had to take Qaddafi out to do that so they need to take Iran down also. I didnt read the thead over there just dont have enough time in the day to read everything!