Yo searchers! Can we help you? – July 2014

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[Yo searchers indeed! Since this website was down for the latter half of June through July 7, only a few search terms showed up starting July 8 when the website was restored; still, we hope this post can help in redirecting searchers to finding answers already provided here; if not, we will provide other sources in our links. —Admin1]

8/2 “august 4th the 4th of ahv what can we exspect according to prohecy” – We have not dealt specifically with the significance of this date in prophecy and fulfillment related to Israel. You might check out the Jewish websites; the links are listed on our homepage.

8/2 “images for sabbath blessings” – As you will notice, Sabbath Liturgy posted week by week is full of images. The internet is the source of these, simply google “images for sabbath celebration” or “images for sabbath lights” or
“images for sabbath meals.” Make sure you acknowledge the source of the image; if not, sometimes it will disappear from your post, particularly those that belong to collections with charges for usage.

7/28 “davarim” – The Hebrew title for the retitled book Deuteronomy; we have all the chapters of this 5th book. For background, here are suggested posts:

7/28 “shimelites” – Probably “Ishmaelites” . . . descendants of Yismael, firstborn son of Abraham through Hagar, Sarah’s maid:

7/27 “esau a caveman” – We look at Esau differently from the way he has been presented in Rabbinical as well as Christian commentaries. In our eyes, he’s an admirable figure, not at all the villain he has been unfairly portrayed; in fact it is Yaakov/Jacob the heel, the supplanter, whose character (at least to us) is questionable, for a 3rd generation patriarch from whom would issue the 12 sons and the 12 tribes, in fact renamed “Israel” and rightly so . . . for he, as well as his descendants do “strive with God.”

7/26 “why prophecy in lsrael remain obscurity” – Q&A: “Israel prophecy” – “veiled in obscurity”?

Image from www.goddessgift.net

7/22 “odin and the god of old testament” – Left image is a statue of the Norse god Odin. All people groupings from the biblical times till the 21st century have their version of gods/goddesses. Whether they take these gods seriously or not, only their lifestyles will show. The second entry in this search term is “the god of the old testament” . . . if the searcher meant the Christian version of the Old Testament God, then that OT God—at least in the New Testament—is explained as the Trinity, with Jesus doubling as Creator, the Rock, the Shepherd, and all other roles originally attributed only to the God of Israel. The God of the Hebrew Scriptures is totally different from the God of the Old Testament. Here are some posts that might clarify the differences:

7/20 “willeme defoe miscast as jesus” – Revisited: Tempted by ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’? Kazantzakis’ Jesus: “Salvation cannot be founded on lies.”

7/20 “o israel what does the lord demand of you?” – Deuteronomy/Davarim 10: ” And now, O Israel, what does YHVH your God ask of you. . .”

The answer to this question? 12 And now, O Israel, what does YHVH your God ask of you except to hold YHVH your God in awe, to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve YHVH your God with all your heart and with all your being,

The question recalls the great utterance of the prophet Micah (VI,8), with which it should be compared: “It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, And what the LORD doth require of thee: Only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.”

7/19 “happy sabbath”/”happy sabbath logo”/”sabbath blessings quotes”/”sabbath day”/”message to wish for friends for a happy sabbath” – So sorry, we have not been able to post a weekly Sabbath Liturgy for the months of June and July due to our transition to a new server. However, there are enough posts that serve as samples or re-use-able. Once the website transition is completed and there will be no more interruptions, we will resume posting new articles including Sabbath liturgies. Please check out the following:

A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy

7/14 “image for human sacrifice” – One such image we googled

showed a huge statue of the pagan idol Molech to whom children were slaughtered or burned as sacrifices.

The GOD of Israel prohibited human sacrifices, so why should He suddenly change His rule and require the sacrifice of Himself, purportedly as Jesus, 2nd person of the Christian Trinitarian godhead, savior/messiah, a human sacrifice crucified on the cross to satisfy His own divine justice?

This doesn’t make sense and does not fit the profile of YHWH Who is very clear in His declarations in the Torah and through His prophets regarding what He requires of humankind in relationship to Him—basically and simply, condensed in Declarations 1-3 of the Decalogue.

Micah 6:8: He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does YHWH require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

7/12 – “sabbath wishes images” – you may google images by entering “images for sabbath celebration” and find a wide variety; also, “sabbath meal” and “images for family”. This is what we’ve been using for our Sabbath liturgy.

7/08- “the old testament of odin orientations only” – Sorry, we have no post on this topic.

Source: Exodus/Shemoth 24 – "the sight of the Glory of YHVH (was) like a consuming fire" -- We gentiles living in this 21st century are able to experience that climactic moment [God appearing on Sinai] by reading and studying this portion of the TORAH. Indeed, we see YHWH not quite as dramatically as the mixed multitude did, but perhaps even better through these accounts recorded in Exodus. There is a saying that hindsight is 20/20 vision, i.e., we begin to see and understand the question marks in our past only later in our lives, as we mature and hopefully become wiser and more introspective about the meaning or seeming meaninglessness of happenings in history, whether personal, national, or universal. Søren Kierkegaard adds a twist to this: “Only 20:20 vision is hindsight. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” As we endeavor to understand each portion in the TORAH of YHWH, much of it will seem irrelevant to our current situation but if we see beyond the time-bound cultural and religious situations and begin to understand what truly has not change—human nature and the Great Revelator who designed the perfect blueprint for living in peace, happily and contentedly with family, community, country and the nations, the unquestionable conclusion is: TORAH is relevant to ALL humankind, not just to Israel, to this very day.

A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy

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