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Feast of Tabernacles Sukkot 2011 – Leviticus 23:40 The Way We Did It part 1
23:40 and on the first day ye shall take goodly fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and thick boughs of trees, and willows, and branches of osiers from the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days in the year. We went to the “hill country” of our family land to gather these things. For the goodly fruit of the trees, we chose Persimmons. We picked about a dozen and chose one each of the choice fruits for each of us. This is obviously a fitting fulfillment of “goodly fruit of trees”. We were thinking along the lines of rejoicing for the fruit Yahweh has provided from…
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Feast of Tabernacles Sukkot 2011 Our Sukkah
Here is our homemade sukkah. Constructed of Eastern Red Cedar, a few lag bolts, paracord and deck screws. It has 3 1/2 walls and a door. The half wall is open at the bottom to allow access to the tent. The booth is our living and dining area, the tent is for a waterproof bedroom. The whole family got in on the project. It was a lot of work but entirely satisfying and rewarding.
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Don’t Call Me A Gentile
Dear Older Brother of the Tribe of Judah, I would appreciate it if you would not refer to me as a gentile. I am not. I am as much Israel as you are, perhaps more. This would depend on your status with the Mashiach. I know him, do you? It is has never been about the natural seed. If it was, I believe Scripture would read a little differently. After all, we have Cain, Ishmael, Esau and on down the line. All had natural seed and were tares just the same. It seems that the natural lineage so greatly boasted upon falls to the second born. Those Patriarchs of faith…
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What About Daniel 7:25 and the set times?
Daniel 7:25 And he will say words against the Most High, attempting to put an end to the saints of the Most High; and he will have the idea of changing times and law; and the saints will be given into his hands for a time and times and half a time. I believe that this prophetic Scripture speaks to us in our current time frame as well as holding multiple fulfillments in the past and future. I see fruit of the spirit of anti-messiah working effectively in the Constantinian religion that Yahweh was gracious enough to lead me out of. To the very core there is opposition to obedience…
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Two or Three Witnesses
2 Corinthians 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. Matthew 18:16 But if he will…
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What about Matthew 23 and calling no man rabbi?
1Then spoke Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: 3All therefore whatever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not you after their works: for they say, and do not. 4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,…
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What about Nehemiah 13:19-21??
Nehemiah 13:19-21 Jerusalem gate open 19And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day. 20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. 21Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time…
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Leviticus 23:32 A little clarification please!
Yom haKippurim is on the 10th day of the 7th month. Lev 23:32 says that the Shabbat begins on the even of the 9th and continues to the even of the 10th. Many or most seem to interpret this as the end of the 9th to the end of the 10th. This is well and good but I thought the even begins the days. So the even of the 9th would be the start of day 9 and the even of the 10th would start the 10th. It seems to me if the day does start at the even, then this Shabbat should start at the even of the 10th…
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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement October 6, 2011
The Day of Atonement begins the evening of the 9th and goes to the evening of the 10th of the 7th month. Most would agree with this but the question is, when does the timing fall according to the pagan calendar? By our reckoning, this would be 10/5/2011 to 10/6/2011. We are questioning if we are not a day late. We do not seem to feel that we are early and this is for a lot of reasons. We are going to chart the moon closely and see how the month ends up working itself out. I will admit, this is the one Shabbat that seems to make sense running…
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This day’s date
While working on our Sukkah, I took a picture of the moon just before night set in. Isha and I are still working on setting up our calendar. We are leaning toward calling this day the 8th day of the 7th month. That is a long conversation in and of itself. For the time being, consider this the official kick-off of our new blog. I am Ish and my wife is Isha. We are not quite gentile Christians and not quite Jewish either. We are in that strange outer boundary between two worlds. That too is a long conversation. I would like to share my little project with you. We…
