Daily Bible Portion (Monday)
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(Weekly Reading>>Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, Isaiah 44:11-45:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 1 John 4:1-6)
Purity and Holiness – Power and Authority
Pursuing purity and pursuing holiness are not one and the same. When we are born again we automatically enter into the Abrahamic Covenant and we received purity (salvation) as a change of status from the realm of death to the realm of life. We then are a redeemed people about to walk out a redeemed lifestyle. When we obey the instructions of the Abrahamic Covenant, which are found only in the writings the Mosaic Covenant, we learn to walk out our redemption, which is the act of righteousness. To morally and physically walk out Scripture principles in our heart is the act of walking, obeying and applying this Covenant (the Gospel) into our daily lifestyle. This establishes His holiness in our lives. Holiness comes when we act by faith to do what our Creator asks us to do. We carry out these instructions because we believe in the Gospel. Faith is what brings holiness (Faith in Hebrew thought is a verb, to act upon what you believe or simply to hear and obey).
Yeshua, through His death and resurrection, has given to those who believe in Him, the power to overcome their shortcomings and any sins they may be dealing with. However, the authority to walk a redeemed and victorious lifestyle comes when believers put into practice His commandments (teaching and instructions – His Gospel). It is walking in these commandments that releases the authority. The provision in Yahweh’s Word for covering of our sin was through animal sacrifices. Yeshua made the sacrifices required for our own personal trespasses in the law of sin and death obsolete by the offering up of His own personal sacrifice on our behalf. Forgiveness of our sinful choices was established eternally the instant we became born again as provided through Yeshua’s sacrifice, but from that point forward, our forgiveness is also based, in Yahweh’s eyes, upon our repentance from our sin. If we sin after having received His Covenant (our Marriage Covenant/ketubah/born again status change) we still need to repent or those ‘new’ sins will be recorded against us. In the Law of Moses there were no sacrifices that covered willful sin they were all for ignorant sins and all required repentance in order that they be accepted.
Once every year in the fall, on the Day of Atonement (at-one or one accord with Him) called in Hebrew Yom Kippur, believers are required to appear before Yahweh for the cleansing of the Altar of Incense. This is an everlasting ordinance (Ezekiel 45:18-25). Today, that altar is our heart. Scripture says that we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Yom Kippur is our wedding day and if we continue to harbor the sin of dishonor (especially rebellious sin that is knowing the truth and intentionally disobeying Yahweh's instructions) this separates us from our Bridegroom Yeshua/Jesus. Any breach in our relationship is the responsibility of the Bride. Repentance has been appropriated for us at Calvary but going forward we must choose to walk in it and we must endure until the end that is to the goal, purpose, result, our wedding day! It is our job to uphold Yeshua’s perfect sacrifice for sin or His death and our relationship will be in vain. Yom Kippur concerns repentance and right hearts before Him as we go forward in the yearly rehearsal, which prepares us for our eventual wedding. Our offering on this day is a cleansed altar. We are to come before our Creator where He meets with us at The Altar (Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews 9:12-13).
Baptism/Mikvah – Repentance verses Death and Resurrection
While John the Baptist’s mikvah signifies repentance (the returning to Yahweh’s teaching and instruction/Torah), Yeshua’s mikvah is for the death of our old sinful natures and for resurrection life - filled with His Spirit. These are the steps necessary for believers to be transformed. We need both John’s and Yeshua’s mikvah. John’s represents the Mosaic Covenant, which takes believers to Shavuot/Pentecost and Yeshua’s represents the Davidic Covenant fulfillment/Sukkot/Tabernacles, which is the purpose and goal of the believer (Ezekiel 37; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 14:20; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Galatians 4:1).
Believers are to put to death old dishonoring natures of the law of sin and death (Satan’s realm) to walk in Yeshua’s resurrection power. They know they have entered into Yeshua’s mikvah when they no longer do the things that take them back under the yoke of disorder (sin and death) called the realm of death. Receiving the recompense of Yeshua’s death and resurrection purifies believers, and our obedience to His Word prepares us as holy vessels for His service called His royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9).
Acts of righteousness (holiness) produce wedding/priestly garments. It is only when clothed in these spotless priestly garments that believers may enter the Most Holy Place (Davidic Covenant). Having intimacy with Jesus Christ the Messiah/Yeshua Ha Mashiach, the Holy One of Israel is through obedience. These are called acts of holiness and righteousness. Yeshua has gone before us to prepare the way. The Book of Acts is devoted to those who walked in His principles. These events, signs and wonders, are all recorded for us in history to show believers the fruit produced by a walk in righteousness, purity and holiness – His power and authority. The apostles did not walk or believe in the merit of their own righteousness, but walked and believed only in the One who declared them righteous in Him. Their willing obedience was that which produced His unmerited favor in them and to others.
Yahweh is very clear about His instructions for our life in Him. He desires to have a marriage relationship with us. This only happens when we accept His calling upon our hearts and enter into a pursuit of holiness. That is the walk of the Bride. We alone release Yahweh’s blessings into our lives when we listen, obey and follow His teachings called: the Mosaic Covenant, the gospel, the good news, Yahweh’s teaching and instruction. On the other hand, we enter Satan’s realm of curses upon ourselves when we disobey. Curses such as financial difficulties, health issues or family alienation occur when we have stepped outside Yahweh’s covering, guidelines and provisions for our life. Checking with His Word spoken through Moses gives us direction and helps us return to His abundant blessings through repentance (Psalms 38-39).
Moses holds the entrance key into the Land. This is the only way to conquer and possess it. Moses reveals Yeshua to us and without His holiness and His righteousness active within us, we will not be able to enter, stay or be free from the enemy that abounds there (Exodus 32:26; John 10:9, Deuteronomy 9:4-6; 12:8-10; John 5:46-47; Hebrews 4; 1 John 2:1).
Blessings and Curses
Fear of Yahweh
In Hebrew thought, fear of Yahweh is equated to knowledge. Knowledge is wisdom. Wisdom is found in Moses who reveals the intimacy of our Messiah through His teaching and instruction. On the other hand, all soul based fears separate us from Yahweh. An earthly sin based nature is a counterfeit kingdom. We need to know Moses in order to embrace and put into practice Yeshua’s wisdom/fear. This creates the heartfelt desire to pursue a walk of holiness (Proverbs chapter 8; John 5:46-47).
Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal - Blessings and Cursings
Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal are about five hundred yards apart from each other at their bases and are situated forty miles north of Jerusalem in the Mountains of Ephraim, the territory given to Joseph’s family. The mountains are located close to where the great trees of Moreh stood, the entry point into the land for Abraham, and it was here he built his first altar to worship Yahweh (Genesis 12:6). The town situated between the two mountains is called Shechem. The Hebrew word shechem means: shoulder and the upper part of the back. Shechem was a Levite town designated as a city of refuge for the Children of Israel. It is also the burial site of many of the patriarchs.
Today Shechem is part of a Palestinian occupation and has been renamed Nablus. However, according to Scripture, it is to remain permanently Joseph’s land/Ephraimite territory. Thousands of years ago, Jacob’s other sons sold Joseph to a Midianite caravan on its way to Egypt. Today the House of Judah and the descendants of his brother Judah are bargaining Joseph’s portion of the Land away for a false peace. Joseph may currently be unrecognizable and hidden among the nations due to his pagan ways and looks, but his descendants are learning to return home by walking in Yahweh’s Covenant ways/acts to claim their rightful inheritance among their brethren and to help protect the land from their enemies. This can only be done if both Houses are present in the land. Therefore it is vital that Joseph’s family return. Presently Joseph is looking for all of his brothers and true to the biblical story, it will be Joseph who makes himself known to them while still in captivity. In the future, it will again be Joseph, through his descendants, who will save his brothers and bring them home. And it will be the House of Joseph along with the House of Judah that removes the occupiers from Yahweh’s property (Genesis 37:16; 38:28).
Today, only one third of the land given to Abraham has been conquered. Of the twelve tribes of Israel, only the tribe of Judah lives in and holds the land against His enemies. Judah represents one third of the twelve tribes in size numerically. Two thirds of the twelve tribes of Israel (or the ten lost tribes) are still living outside the land and two thirds of the Promised Land is yet to be conquered. We need all twelve tribes in the land to take possession. The land, from the Euphrates to the Nile River, to date has yet to be completely conquered. Muslims, through Islam, are trying to possess the eternally promised portion given to Isaac, but the land does not belong to Ishmael’s descendants. This is why there are constant battles within its biblical territories today.
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"SEE"
(Weekly Reading>>Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, Isaiah 44:11-45:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 1 John 4:1-6)
Purity and Holiness – Power and Authority
Pursuing purity and pursuing holiness are not one and the same. When we are born again we automatically enter into the Abrahamic Covenant and we received purity (salvation) as a change of status from the realm of death to the realm of life. We then are a redeemed people about to walk out a redeemed lifestyle. When we obey the instructions of the Abrahamic Covenant, which are found only in the writings the Mosaic Covenant, we learn to walk out our redemption, which is the act of righteousness. To morally and physically walk out Scripture principles in our heart is the act of walking, obeying and applying this Covenant (the Gospel) into our daily lifestyle. This establishes His holiness in our lives. Holiness comes when we act by faith to do what our Creator asks us to do. We carry out these instructions because we believe in the Gospel. Faith is what brings holiness (Faith in Hebrew thought is a verb, to act upon what you believe or simply to hear and obey).
Yeshua, through His death and resurrection, has given to those who believe in Him, the power to overcome their shortcomings and any sins they may be dealing with. However, the authority to walk a redeemed and victorious lifestyle comes when believers put into practice His commandments (teaching and instructions – His Gospel). It is walking in these commandments that releases the authority. The provision in Yahweh’s Word for covering of our sin was through animal sacrifices. Yeshua made the sacrifices required for our own personal trespasses in the law of sin and death obsolete by the offering up of His own personal sacrifice on our behalf. Forgiveness of our sinful choices was established eternally the instant we became born again as provided through Yeshua’s sacrifice, but from that point forward, our forgiveness is also based, in Yahweh’s eyes, upon our repentance from our sin. If we sin after having received His Covenant (our Marriage Covenant/ketubah/born again status change) we still need to repent or those ‘new’ sins will be recorded against us. In the Law of Moses there were no sacrifices that covered willful sin they were all for ignorant sins and all required repentance in order that they be accepted.
Once every year in the fall, on the Day of Atonement (at-one or one accord with Him) called in Hebrew Yom Kippur, believers are required to appear before Yahweh for the cleansing of the Altar of Incense. This is an everlasting ordinance (Ezekiel 45:18-25). Today, that altar is our heart. Scripture says that we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Yom Kippur is our wedding day and if we continue to harbor the sin of dishonor (especially rebellious sin that is knowing the truth and intentionally disobeying Yahweh's instructions) this separates us from our Bridegroom Yeshua/Jesus. Any breach in our relationship is the responsibility of the Bride. Repentance has been appropriated for us at Calvary but going forward we must choose to walk in it and we must endure until the end that is to the goal, purpose, result, our wedding day! It is our job to uphold Yeshua’s perfect sacrifice for sin or His death and our relationship will be in vain. Yom Kippur concerns repentance and right hearts before Him as we go forward in the yearly rehearsal, which prepares us for our eventual wedding. Our offering on this day is a cleansed altar. We are to come before our Creator where He meets with us at The Altar (Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews 9:12-13).
Leviticus 23:27-31 "Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD. And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Hebrews 10:26 “For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.”
Baptism/Mikvah – Repentance verses Death and Resurrection
While John the Baptist’s mikvah signifies repentance (the returning to Yahweh’s teaching and instruction/Torah), Yeshua’s mikvah is for the death of our old sinful natures and for resurrection life - filled with His Spirit. These are the steps necessary for believers to be transformed. We need both John’s and Yeshua’s mikvah. John’s represents the Mosaic Covenant, which takes believers to Shavuot/Pentecost and Yeshua’s represents the Davidic Covenant fulfillment/Sukkot/Tabernacles, which is the purpose and goal of the believer (Ezekiel 37; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 14:20; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Galatians 4:1).
Believers are to put to death old dishonoring natures of the law of sin and death (Satan’s realm) to walk in Yeshua’s resurrection power. They know they have entered into Yeshua’s mikvah when they no longer do the things that take them back under the yoke of disorder (sin and death) called the realm of death. Receiving the recompense of Yeshua’s death and resurrection purifies believers, and our obedience to His Word prepares us as holy vessels for His service called His royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9).
Acts of righteousness (holiness) produce wedding/priestly garments. It is only when clothed in these spotless priestly garments that believers may enter the Most Holy Place (Davidic Covenant). Having intimacy with Jesus Christ the Messiah/Yeshua Ha Mashiach, the Holy One of Israel is through obedience. These are called acts of holiness and righteousness. Yeshua has gone before us to prepare the way. The Book of Acts is devoted to those who walked in His principles. These events, signs and wonders, are all recorded for us in history to show believers the fruit produced by a walk in righteousness, purity and holiness – His power and authority. The apostles did not walk or believe in the merit of their own righteousness, but walked and believed only in the One who declared them righteous in Him. Their willing obedience was that which produced His unmerited favor in them and to others.
Yahweh is very clear about His instructions for our life in Him. He desires to have a marriage relationship with us. This only happens when we accept His calling upon our hearts and enter into a pursuit of holiness. That is the walk of the Bride. We alone release Yahweh’s blessings into our lives when we listen, obey and follow His teachings called: the Mosaic Covenant, the gospel, the good news, Yahweh’s teaching and instruction. On the other hand, we enter Satan’s realm of curses upon ourselves when we disobey. Curses such as financial difficulties, health issues or family alienation occur when we have stepped outside Yahweh’s covering, guidelines and provisions for our life. Checking with His Word spoken through Moses gives us direction and helps us return to His abundant blessings through repentance (Psalms 38-39).
Moses holds the entrance key into the Land. This is the only way to conquer and possess it. Moses reveals Yeshua to us and without His holiness and His righteousness active within us, we will not be able to enter, stay or be free from the enemy that abounds there (Exodus 32:26; John 10:9, Deuteronomy 9:4-6; 12:8-10; John 5:46-47; Hebrews 4; 1 John 2:1).
Revelation 19:7-8 “Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife [believers in Covenant with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and who have walked/obeyed/acted in His righteous commandments/ways] has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen [priestly/kingly garments], clean and bright, for the fine linen [priestly/kingly garment] is the righteous acts of the saints.”
Blessings and Curses
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of Yahweh which I command you today; the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of Yahweh, but turn aside from the way which I command you today.”
Exodus 20:20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Yahweh has come to test you, so that the fear of Yahweh will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
Fear of Yahweh
In Hebrew thought, fear of Yahweh is equated to knowledge. Knowledge is wisdom. Wisdom is found in Moses who reveals the intimacy of our Messiah through His teaching and instruction. On the other hand, all soul based fears separate us from Yahweh. An earthly sin based nature is a counterfeit kingdom. We need to know Moses in order to embrace and put into practice Yeshua’s wisdom/fear. This creates the heartfelt desire to pursue a walk of holiness (Proverbs chapter 8; John 5:46-47).
Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal - Blessings and Cursings
Deuteronomy 11:29 “Now it shall be, when Yahweh has brought you into the land which you go to possess [conquer], that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.”
Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal are about five hundred yards apart from each other at their bases and are situated forty miles north of Jerusalem in the Mountains of Ephraim, the territory given to Joseph’s family. The mountains are located close to where the great trees of Moreh stood, the entry point into the land for Abraham, and it was here he built his first altar to worship Yahweh (Genesis 12:6). The town situated between the two mountains is called Shechem. The Hebrew word shechem means: shoulder and the upper part of the back. Shechem was a Levite town designated as a city of refuge for the Children of Israel. It is also the burial site of many of the patriarchs.
Today Shechem is part of a Palestinian occupation and has been renamed Nablus. However, according to Scripture, it is to remain permanently Joseph’s land/Ephraimite territory. Thousands of years ago, Jacob’s other sons sold Joseph to a Midianite caravan on its way to Egypt. Today the House of Judah and the descendants of his brother Judah are bargaining Joseph’s portion of the Land away for a false peace. Joseph may currently be unrecognizable and hidden among the nations due to his pagan ways and looks, but his descendants are learning to return home by walking in Yahweh’s Covenant ways/acts to claim their rightful inheritance among their brethren and to help protect the land from their enemies. This can only be done if both Houses are present in the land. Therefore it is vital that Joseph’s family return. Presently Joseph is looking for all of his brothers and true to the biblical story, it will be Joseph who makes himself known to them while still in captivity. In the future, it will again be Joseph, through his descendants, who will save his brothers and bring them home. And it will be the House of Joseph along with the House of Judah that removes the occupiers from Yahweh’s property (Genesis 37:16; 38:28).
Today, only one third of the land given to Abraham has been conquered. Of the twelve tribes of Israel, only the tribe of Judah lives in and holds the land against His enemies. Judah represents one third of the twelve tribes in size numerically. Two thirds of the twelve tribes of Israel (or the ten lost tribes) are still living outside the land and two thirds of the Promised Land is yet to be conquered. We need all twelve tribes in the land to take possession. The land, from the Euphrates to the Nile River, to date has yet to be completely conquered. Muslims, through Islam, are trying to possess the eternally promised portion given to Isaac, but the land does not belong to Ishmael’s descendants. This is why there are constant battles within its biblical territories today.
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