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[‘Search terms’ are words or phrases that direct users to this website when they search. This post addresses those terms entered on dates indicated. Please note: this website is still adjusting to the effects of the recent transition we did from one host-server to another. In the process, some of our posts were affected; in fact the whole category “TORAH” which is our most important contribution to aid in the study of the revelation on Sinai disappeared from our SITEMAP. We are working on retrieving these, so please bear with us. Meanwhile, we have a back-up guide in UPDATED SITE CONTENTS. Please use that specifically for the chapter-by-chapter translation/commentary on the five books of the Torah. Thank you for your continuing interest in what this website has to offer for gentiles in transition who are not attracted to join any religion but simply wish to learn how to read the Hebrew Scriptures for personal study.—Admin1.]
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07/31/15 “covenant with god picture” –
- MUST READ: SINAI & ZION – 1
- SINAI AND ZION 2 – The Sinaitic Experience and Traditions About It
- The Ever-Renewed Covenant
07/28/15 “at what age livites center in to service in the sanctuary?” – Numbers/Bamidbar 4 – Levites ages 30 to 50 . . .serve in the Sanctuary
07/24/15 “sabbath rest quotes” – We have a liturgy for every Sabbath of the year; all are welcome to use our prayers, quotes, images; the very reason we post these is to give others an idea of how we have chosen to celebrate the Sabbath of YHWH in our own ‘gentile’ way. We’ve borrowed from Jewish tradition (lighting of Sabbath candles, drinking wine as symbol of joy and saying the Hebrew phrase l’chaim; we’ve borrowed music from Christian hymnody and wrote our own lyrics expressing our Sinaite’s creed. We’ve borrowed from published prayer collections from all over the world, but we have also written our own distinct expression of our newfound faith in YHWH, the God of Israel, Revelator on Sinai, God of the Nations, Lord of the Sabbath.
07/20/15 “moses’ successor” – Numbers/Bamidbar 27: “Take yourself Yehoshua son of Nun, a man in whom the spirit is, and lean your hand upon him.”
07/17/15 “revelation climax great harlot” – We do not have a post specifically on the book of Revelation, the final climactic apocalyptic event described in the final days according to the author named John in the Christian New Testament; what we do have is an image of the symbolic ‘harlot’ featured in our final article in the series ‘there is no such being as the devil’, so try this: The Christian Devil Finally Goes to Christian Hell
07/14/15 “awesome description for god” – The Awesome Self-Description of God
07/12/15 “who’s afraid of the old testament god”
- Is our God a “jealous, wrathful, and a vengeful God”?
- Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” 2
- “Who’s Afraid of the Old Testament God?” 3
07/09/15 “land photos of egypt” – All our images are taken from the internet, google has a collection of every image ever put out there. You are welcome to use the images we have specifically collected to use in our posts, just make sure you always acknowledge the original source as we never fail to do.
07/06/15 “musical sabbath” – In the category “A Sinaite’s Liturgy” we feature almost every other Sabbath of each month, a liturgy that is sung. We have borrowed from the music of Christian hymnody since we are familiar with it most but have change the lyrics to suit a Sinaite’s creed. All are welcome to use our liturgy for Sabbath celebrations, this is why we share them. We also provide the musical accompaniment for the songs.
07/05/15 “the revelation in a nutshell” – Revelation in a Nutshell
07/04/15
“happy sabbath” – We have a whole category titled “A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy” which offers praise, prayers, hymns, with music accompaniment as well as quotes and images from the web to ponder for every Sabbath of the year, please refer to any of those.
As for Sabbath articles, here are a few:
- The Sabbath: A Tabernacle in Time
- MUST READ – Sabbath: Day of Eternity
- The Sabbath – Its Meaning for Modern Man – Epilogue
- The Sabbath – Its Meaning for Modern Man – Prologue
- An Inconvenient Truth: THE SABBATH of YHWH
- Revisiting the 4th: “Sabbath”: Year II/ 5774
- TSTL: The Seventh Day
07/03/15
“satan snake” – Poor non-existent devil, relegated in Christian teaching as he arch-enemy to God Himself. As we’ve corrected in our articles that the Hebrew Bible does not teach that such a being exists, it does however refer to a “satan” the translation of which is simply “the adversary”. We have a whole series of articles on this, so please check in SITEMAP and you’ll find them. Meanwhile for this searcher who connected “satan” with the snake symbolism, here are some posts that might help clear up the fog:
- Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
- Prooftext 1c – Gen. 3:15 – Who are the “seed,” “offspring”?
- Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
- The Serpent, the Tree, and the ‘I’
- Shedding without blood . . .
07/03/15
“1reuven firestone harvard rabbi”
- Must Read: Reuven Firestone – 4 – Chosenness in the Ancient Near East
- Must Read: Reuven Firestone – 2 – The Language of Chosenness
- Must Read: Who are the REAL Chosen People? – by Reuven Firestone
- The ‘Redeemed’ and the ‘Elect’ in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- The First Torah-based Religion – Judaism
- The 3rd Monotheistic Religion that is from Abraham
- If Israel was ‘the chosen’ in the “Old” Testament, are the New Testament believers “the new chosen”?
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[Welcome July, no search entries as yet, so some FYI’s for now.
At this time last year, we transitioned from one web-server to another and experienced a lot of mess-ups — this time, hopefully, our transition to a new server will be smoother! Meanwhile, dear visitor, please bear with us and don’t give up on checking the many FYI articles we have posted and reposted.
Even if it doesn’t jibe with the biblical calendar as designed by the Creator, since the world operates on another time-reckoning system, we welcome the 7th month of the Gregorian calendar year, supposedly named after Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, the year of his assassination.
Trivia according to Borgna Brunner, someone who’s done the homework:
‘July’ is for Julius
The Roman Senate named the month of July after Julius Caesar to honor him for reforming their calendar, which had degenerated into a chaotic embarrassment. Bad calculations caused the months to drift wildly across the seasons—January, for example, had begun to fall in the autumn.
The high priest in charge of the calendar, the pontifex maximus, had become so corrupt that he sometimes lengthened the year to keep certain officials in office or abbreviated it to shorten an enemy’s tenure.
Effective January 1, 45 B.C.
The new calendar went into effect on the first day of January 709 A.U.C. (ab urbe condita—”from the founding of the city [Rome]”)—January 1, 45 B.C.—and put an end to the arbitrary and inaccurate nature of the early Roman system. The Julian calendar became the predominant calendar throughout Europe for the next 1600 years until Pope Gregory made further reforms in 1582.
Certain countries and institutions in fact adhered to this ancient system until well into the twentieth century: the Julian calendar was used in Russia until 1917 and in China until 1949, and to this day the Eastern Orthodox church adheres to Caesar’s calendar.
The month Julius replaced Quintilis (quintus = five)—the fifth month in the early Roman calendar, which began with March before the Julian calendar instituted January as the start of the year. Unfortunately, Caesar himself was only able to enjoy one July during his life—the very first July, in 45 B.C. The following year he was murdered on the Ides of March.
Image from serifin.net
According to the Zodiac and stargazers and those who seriously live by the daily forecasts made up by whoever, the supposed sign of July-born souls is Cancer and the symbol is the Crab.
Hmmm, wonder if that really has any bearing on a naturally crabby person’s disposition like yours truly?
Does the Torah promote belief in astrology? What do you think? Harrummmph! —Admin1]