Blood Moons (אהיה) and Y'Ishra'al
Transcript of Blood Moons (אהיה) and Y'Ishra'al
Sola scriptura
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Zekeniam Y’Ishra’al
Sherut haRitztzuy
(the ministry of reconciliation)
by whom we have now received the
( Atonement)
Reconciliation of the Dvar HaRitztzuy
Let this day be a day of reconciliation and regeneration
(AHaYaH (He was), HoYAH (He is), and YihYAH (He will be).
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YaHuWaH
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Devarim 6:4
Hear, Y’Ishra'al: YHWH is our Aluahiym! YHWH Is One!
Devarim 6:5
And you shall love [long for] ALuaHiYM with
all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. (me'ode)
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My Memorial for generation after generation.”
Shemot 3:13-16
this is MY NAME for ever,
Aluahiym of your father’s Abraham, Yitzchak [Isaac], and Ya’aqob
[Jacob], has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my
memorial for generation to generation." and I appeared to Abraham, to
Yitzchak, and to Ya’aqob as hashadday [the almighty]. And my name,
was not well known (famous) to them.
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The ministry of reconciliation
Message of Reconciliation
Torah sh’Bichtav
(Written Torah)
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear?
“Sola Scriptura”
(the Scriptures alone is authoritative for faith)
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(in His Name)
[Yah -hoo-Wah]
is the Name of the Creator.
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(YâHuWsHúa`) is His Son
[Al-u-heem - ALHYM] means "Mighty Ones“ or "Power"
Means Set-apart, Pure.
(Qodesh) also means "Set-apart"
Raukh (Raukh) is the Ibry (Hebrew) name for His "Presence", pictured
as the Counselor, Helper, and Advocate, the One Who "proceeds from
the Father"
Tehillim 27:5
For in the day of trouble He will keep me secretly in His booth. In the
covering of His Tent He will hide me. On a Rock He raises me up.
is for you too!
Scripture speaks of a secret place where we can simply go, be alone, be
protected, pray,
and hear from
ב YâHuWsHúa.
Knowing there is such a place is a matter of faith. Going back time and
again, that's a matter of building a relationship. You need not have an
advanced degree in any subject, need not have memorized Scripture
from beginning to end, but instead
be aware the
Of Y’Ishra’al
Has a place for each Jew and Gentile who will open their minds and
hearts to Him.
Mt 6:5-8
When you pray, you shall not be as the role-fakers, for they love to
stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets,
that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have
received their reward. But you, when you pray, enter into your inner
chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father Who is in
secret, and your Father Who sees in secret shall reward you openly. In
praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think
that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Therefore don’t be
like them, don't you see that your Father knows what things you need
before you ask Him.
The truth in reality is visited in this secret place AND must be shared
by those who will live or else ... they will perish ... in darkness.
It is written
Lu 11:33
“No one, when he has lit a Lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket,
but on a stand, that those who come in may see the Light.
Tehillim. 119:105
Your Word is a Lamp to my feet, and a Light (aur) for my path.
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole
body is also full of Light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of
darkness. Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
If therefore your whole body is full of Light, having no part dark, it
shall be wholly full of Light, as when the Lamp with its bright shining
gives you Light.”
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With this in mind, heart soul and strength let us study together in the
Raukh
And now brothers and sisters
Come out of the secret place bearing light!
Who see it from afar? The Secret Place, here, shines a bit of light so
many can see from afar. The topics we have chosen are addressed to
Jew and Gentile together. We do this because that is what the Bible
does. This opens the window to make more sense of what Scripture
tells us!
In the secret place is plain language, something simple to read. This is a
mere starting place for deeper consideration.
If the Raukh of
has moved your Raukh to seek out his word
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Before the study I wish to point out that only the WORD is the
TRUTH, be it days, months, years, hence the calendar is “sola
Scriptura” based.
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Dan_7:25
And it shall speak words opposing the Most High, and it will wear
down the pure ones of the Most High Ones, and it will try to change set
times (Festivals) and Law, (Lawlessness) and they shall be granted into
its hand for a time and times and half of a time.
And then I will profess to them,
‘Never did I acknowledge you: even if you are on My lap and do not do
the will of My Father Who is in heaven, out of My lap will I cast you
away! Depart from Me, all ye workers of Lawlessness!’
So that in them is fulfilled the prediction of Yshá`Yâhuw, which says:
“You shall surely hear, but you shall not understand; and you shall
surely see, but you shall not perceive! For the heart of this people has
grown thick, and they do hardly hear with the ears, and they have shut
their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and with their ears
they should hear, and their heart should understand, and they should
return to Me and I should cure them.
The Hebrew Bible is fully aware of that. Deuteronomy declares the
worship of sun, moon,
and stars as allotted by
that is to all the other peoples
Dev 4:19.
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto Shomayim, and when thou seest
the
Shemesh, and the yarei'ach, and the kokhavim, even all the tz’va
HaShomayim, shouldest be driven to hishtachaveh (bow down, worship)
them, and serve them which Hashem Aloheicha hath divided unto kol
HaGoyim under kol HaShomayim.
Duet 4:19
"or lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens and see the sun, the
moon, the stars, and all the armies of heaven, you should be impelled
to bow down to them or enslave yourselves to these [things] that
has apportioned to all the nations under the whole heaven;
Anyone can see the heavenly bodies, but we have heard from
There is no “hard copy” of Him! People want something they can identify with, which is what makes the “god-man” concept so attractive, because it makes them
think they can be gods too. We can only understand what
Allows us to know about Himself, and we cannot control what we cannot
comprehend. Apportioned: divided, assigned, distributed; Aramaic,
"designated to serve". I.e., He gave them to all the nations and they
are common (contrast v. 20).
But none of them is to be identified specifically with
Dev 4:20
But Hashem hath taken you, and brought you forth
Out of the iron furnace, even out of Mitzrayim, to be unto Him an Am
Nachalah (a people of inheritance), as ye are yom hazeh.
Deut 4:20.
"But
has selected you, and brought you out from the crucible of iron--from Egypt--to become His own--for the purpose of being a people [that are His own] prized
possession, just as [is the case] today."
Any wood placed into a furnace for smelting iron would be consumed
immediately. Egypt completely used them up, while feeding them—like
pack animals. Even the products forged of iron there—chariots—were
used to kill them. Now they were going to a place that would serve
them rather than consuming them. Nothing in the Tabernacle was
made of iron;
Had no use for it at this point. Prized possession: How awesome! Why
throw away such a rare privilege and settle for something that the
nations all stoop to--nations that He considered a mere drop in the
bucket in comparison
Yeshayah40:15?
Surely the Goyim are like a drop in a bucket, and are accounted as dust
of the scales; surely He taketh up the iyim (islands) like fine dust.
Isa 40:15
See, nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are reckoned as dust on the
balance. See, He lifts up isles as fine dust.
Today we see the illegitimate worship of these celestial bodies, within
those who claim to WORSHIP
How many more times will Y’Ishra’al turned to
HIS CREATION and not their CREATOR
Melachim Bais 23:5,
And he did away with hakemarim (the idol priests), whom the Melachim
of YahuwDah had ordained to burn ketoret in the high places in the
towns of YahuwDah, and in the places around Yerushalayim; them also
that
Burned ketoret unto Ba'al, to the shemesh, and to the yarei'ach, and to
the mazalot (constellations) and to all the Tzeva HaShomayim.
2 kgs 23:5
And he put down the black-robed priests whom the sovereigns of
YahuwDah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the
cities of YahuwDah and in the places all around Yerushalayim, and those
who burned incense to Baʽal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the
constellations, and to all the host of the heavens
Melachim Bais 23:11
And he took away the susim that the Melachim of YahuwDah had
dedicated to the shemesh, at the entrance of the Beis Hashem, by the
chamber of Natan-Melech the saris, which was in the colonnades, and
set eish to merkevot
Hashemesh.
2 Ki 23:11
And he did away with the horses that the sovereigns of YahuwDah had
given to the sun, at the entrance to the House of
By the room of Nathan-Melek the eunuch, that were in the court. And
he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Yirmeyah 8:2
And they shall spread them out before the shemesh, and the yarei'ach,
and all the tz'va haShomayim, whom they have loved, and whom they
have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have
consulted, and whom they have worshiped; they shall not be gathered
up, nor be buried in a kever; they shall be like domen upon the surface
of ha'Âthâ´m ah.
Yirmeyah 8:2 ;( modern version)
And shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of
the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and
after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which
they have bowed themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried;
they shall be for dung on the face of the earth.
And He brought me into the khatzer Beis Hashem hapenimit [i.e., the
Court of the Kohanim], and, hinnei, at the petach (entrance) of the
Heikhal Hashem, between the Ulam and the Mizbe'ach, were about five
and twenty ish, with their backs toward the Heikhal Hashem, and their
faces toward the east; and they bowing down toward the east
worshiping the sun.
Ezek 8:16
And He brought me into the inner court of the
House of
And there, at the door of the
Hĕk al of
Between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with
their backs toward the
Hĕk al of
And their faces toward the east, and they were bowing themselves
eastward to the sun.
Yet in the creation story these celestial elements are simply taken as
creatures like any others
Any word Highlighted is a point to ponder the treasure hidden in
scripture
Blood Moon is a term popularly used to describe a Total Lunar Eclipse. When
the Earth casts its shadow on a Full Moon and eclipses it, the Moon may get
a red glow.
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In recent years, the term Blood Moon has become popular when
referring to Total Lunar Eclipses. When the Earth eclipses a full Moon,
the direct sunlight is blocked, but the sun's rays still light up the moon.
This light, however, has travelled through the Earth's atmosphere
first, and sometimes causes the totally eclipsed Moon to look red or
brownish.
דםTheir end is enwedged in their beginning and their beginning in their
end. as "that has nothing [d'leit] of her own."
da m
dawm
From H1826 (compare H119);
blood
(as that which when shed causes death)
of man or an animal; by analogy
the juice of the grape
Figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (that is, drops of
blood): - blood (-y, -guiltiness, [-thirsty]), + innocent.
The Final Jubilee Year is 2015-2016
The final Jubilee will begin on the Day of Atonement in the fall of
2015. There will have been 40 complete Jubilee cycles following
Christ’s death. Isn’t that interesting? There are so many 40’s in the
Bible and 40 is a significant number to God. The 40 Jubilees after
Christ’s death bring us to the end of probationary time.
2018 will be the YEAR of RIGHTEOUSNESS
The Sealing of the Righteous by the End of the 18th Year Confirmed:
More things have come to light that show a relationship between
the Creation Week, the Feast Days, the Sacred Calendar, the
Agricultural Year, the 6000 Years from Âthâ´m Halley's Comet,
the Messiah's Two Comings, the Seasons, the Jubilees of Days, the
Sealing of the Righteous and the Last Days.
All the units of time in
Sacred Calendar point to the 18th Year as the Year when the Sealing
of the Righteous will end and Wheat Harvest of the Righteous will
begin. Note how many times in the above you get the 18 + 22 =
40 combination where the number 40 signifies cleansing. The cleansing
will be the sifting of the Wheat when the chaff and the tares are
removed by the wind. The Wheat are the Righteous, and the chaff and
the tares are the wicked and unbelievers. The children of Y’Ishra’al
should have entered into the Promised Land at the time of the Fall
Feasts after searching out the Land for 40 Days. But because of their
fear and rebellion were forced to live in the Wilderness for 40
Years until the unbelieving and disobedient died off. The number 40 is
the number of cleansing.
18 = Righteousness and the Righteous,
7 and 22 = the Maschiyach and
26 =
The Father.
(The Land of Yehud ah will be 70 in 2018)
I call it Yehud ah because it will only be called Y’Ishra’al when
both houses become one
Even the YahuwDah people will come to now
בAnd the kneel before him
Now is the time
But seek ye first the kingdom of
And his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Thou
hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore
Even thy
Hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
The 70 Jubilees clock began when the children of Y’Ishra’al entered
Canaan, the land
had promised them. The 70 Jubilees clock will end when YHWH’s
people enter into His KINGDOM that will be here on Earth,
has promised us. From earthly Canaan to the KINGDOM of
To be setup on this earth would be is 70 Jubilees.
Total Eclipse
A Total Eclipse occurs when the moon is completely blocked from the
sun. When the Moon is in this location it is in the Umbra region of the
Earth's Shadow. The Umbra is darkest region of the Earth's shadow
and receives little or no solar radiation
The Umbra is darkest region of the Earth's shadow
The umbra (Latin for "shadow") is the innermost and darkest part of a
shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding
body. An observer in the umbra experiences a total eclipse. The umbra
of a round body occluding a round light source forms a right circular
cone; to a viewer at the cone's apex, the two bodies are equal in
apparent size. The distance from the Moon to the apex of its umbra is
roughly equal to that between the Moon and Earth. Because the Earth
is 3.7 times wider than the Moon, its umbra extends correspondingly
farther, roughly 1.4 million kilometers The Umbra is the Raukh world, a
shadow or reflection of the real. It is inhabited by Raukhs, gods,
ghosts, and various other supernatural beings. The Umbra can broadly
be thought of as all realms that exist beyond the mundane terrestrial
existence of Earth. Rather than existing as a single universe, the
Umbra embraces many versions of reality permanent inhabitants and
have considerable difficulty interacting with the day-to-day reality of
Earth (hereafter simply referred to as 'reality' for brevity's sake).
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One of the signs in the Last Days will be Blood Red Moons before
the Great Day of
I am Not a Doomsday Prophet
Some people believe that the tetrad has special significance because the eclipses coincide
with important Y’Isra’alie festivals. The two April lunar eclipses in 2014 and 2015 occur at
the same time as Passover, while the October and September eclipses occur during
the Feast of Tabernacle. This, they suggest, is connected to a biblical prophecy of the end
of times.
The fact is, eight of the tetrads since the first century have coincided with Y’ishra’ali
holidays without the world going under, so there is no reason to believe that the 2014-2015
tetrad will end the world this time either.
And the return of the Maschiyach
בWhen the SUN and the MOON DISPLAY WARNINGS
to
MANKIND
The next Lunar Eclipse will be a Total Eclipse and occur on April 4th,
2015. It will be visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific and the Americas.
Strange has it seems none of the red moons will be seen in YahuwDah
Question that is asked always
? where are we now in realtion to prophecy?
Yo’al 2:31
(This speaks of a plague in conjunction with )
“And you shall begin to hear of fighting’s and reports of fighting’s. See
that you are not troubled, for these have to take place, but the end
is not yet. “For nation shall rise against nation, and reign against
reign. And there shall be scarcities of food, and deadly diseases,
and earthquakes in places.
"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before
the great and terrible Day of
Come."
And what will take place [is that] any who may call on the name of
Will be rescued, because on Mount Tzion and in Yerushalayim there
will be a refuge [to escape to], just as
Has said, as well as among the surviving remnant whom
calls [by name].
We need to understand by study how the blood moons display that
which is about to come upon mankind
The name Yo’al
means
Is Aluahiym
His tribe and heritage prior to his father are unknown. He begins with
the immediate punishment of successive waves of locusts coming to
punish the sins of YahuwDah, then moves into the larger, but analogous,
Day of
When the final solution to the sins of the Land will be brought about.
Repentance and restoration is the main purpose behind the prophecies
of both time frames. The book is thought to have been written in the
8th century B.C.E., contemporary with Amos and Hoshea.
The darkness shadow cast by this Lunar Eclipse
Will be
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Benedict), Gubbio, Spoleto, Todi, Città di Castello, Orvieto, Castiglione
del Lago,Narni, Amelia, and other small cities.
? What Color shadow do the seas reflect on a red moon night?
Yo’al 1:1-20;
The word of
That came to Yo’al, the son of P’thu-Al:
P’thu-Al means “Äluahiym has opened up/made spacious”.
Yo’al 1:2.
Hear this, you old men, and cup your ear, all you who inhabit the Land.
Has this come about in your day, or even in your fathers’ time?
Has this: Aramaic, has anything like this…? In your day: He is
addressing those who have already lived long lives and can see that this
does not fit the normal pattern.
Yo’al 1:3.
“Tell your children stories about it, and [have] your children [recount
it] to their children, and their children to [yet] another generation.
The devastation that is coming is so vast that it will be the fuel for
campfire-tales for centuries. The reason to recount is so that they do
not repeat the same error, because
will repeat the lesson if He has to.
Yo’al 1:4.
“What the devouring worm left, the swarming locust has eaten; and
what the swarming locust left, the locust-larva has eaten; what the
locust-larva left, the stripping-locust has eaten.
Devouring worm: or cutting-locust or caterpillar; Aramaic, crawling-
locust. Stripping-locust: the root word means “to finish off”. One wave
after another comes, and a little at a time is eaten, which is just how
the Land is being given away now to Y’Ishra’al enemies.
Yo’al 1:5.
“Wake up, you drunkards! All you who drink wine, both weep and howl
on account of the [freshly] pressed-out juice, because it has been cut
off from your mouth.
Yo’al 1:6.
“Because a nation has come up over My Land, vast and innumerable, its
teeth the teeth of a lion and having the fangs of a roaring lion.
Nation: the locusts may be a picture of an actual nation that will
overrun the Land if YahuwDah does not repent. The reference to a lion
suggests Babylon, for that was its symbol.
Yo’al 1:7.
“It has rendered My vine an appalling waste, and splintered My fig
tree, stripping it completely bare and tossing it aside; its [intertwining]
branches have been made white.
My vine…fig tree: both prophetic idioms for Y’ishra’al.
Yeshayahu 5;
1. "Now I will sing for my Beloved my uncle's song concerning his
vineyard: 'My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile spur [of ground].
Uncle: or "Beloved", but a different word in Hebrew from that which
precedes it, though they share a common root. Probably both refer to
. Very fertile: literally, "son of fatness/oil". Spur: literally "horn", from
a root meaning "to send forth rays". בהיה carried the parable further.
Mark 12
2. "'And he dug [into] it and threw the stones out of it, and planted it
with the choicest of vines, and built a watchtower inside it. He also
hewed out a wine vat, and waited eagerly for it to produce grapes. But
it produced wild, rotten fruit!'
Wine vat: traditionally built as close as possible to the vineyard so as
little juice as possible is lost. The choicest of vines: California proved
that the best land combined with the best vines produces the best
wine. This is what
expected. Rotten: includes the connotation of smelling foul.
3. "'So now, inhabitants of Yerushalayim and men of YahuwDah, please
judge between me and My vineyard!
4. "'What more could have been done for My vineyard that I did not do
in it? When I was expecting it to produce grapes, why did it produce
wild, rotten fruit?
5. "'So, now, I'll go ahead and make known to you what I will do with My
vineyard: I'll take away its protective hedge, so it can be grazed in, and
make breaches in its wall, so it can be trampled down.
Had given Y’ishra’al special protection and care, but since it flouted
this in His face, He left it open to all the forces that affect all the
other nations without His special attention.
6. "'I'll let it waste away; it will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and
thorn bushes will come up. I will also command the clouds to keep from
dropping rain on it',
Compare the forsaken sukkah in 1:8.
7. "because the vineyard of
of Armies is the House of Y’Ishra’al, and the man of YahuwDah is the
plant that he handles tenderly. And He looked expectantly for justice,
but what [He found] was bloodshed! For ethical vindication, but what
[He found] was a cry for help!
Justice...bloodshed; ethical vindication...a cry for help: Hebrew
wordplays, juxtaposing mishpat
with mishpakh and tz'daqah with tz'aqah.
8. "Alas for those who make [one] house extend all the way to [the
next] house, who cause [one] cultivated field to run up close to
[another] field, until they run out of space and you are forced to dwell
in your loneliness in the middle of the countryside!
Until they run out of space: or "until the Place comes to an end". "The
Place" is often a euphemism for the Temple or the One who inhabits it.
This is reminiscent of there being no room for בהיה at his birth during
Sukkoth, when the temporary shelters were packed so thick that he
had to be born in one in the open country outside Beyth Lechem, at the
Tower of the Flock.
Micha 4:8; 5:2
But each tribe was also to have its own "standard" (banner). We are to
be set apart from other nations, but then Y’ishra’al is not meant to be a
homogeneous "melting pot"; holiness will not look the same for
everyone. Tearing down walls is not the meaning of biblical unity;
rather, each part of the Body needs to fulfill its function for the good
of the whole. Where houses and fields are all flush with each other,
there is no room for roads to lead to Yerushalayim. And this just may
be the specific intent. Bavel's dream was to stay settled when
says to be pilgrims.
9. "In my ears,
Of Armies [has sworn],
'If most [of these] houses don't become desolate, and big, prosperous
[ones] without inhabitant...!
10. "‘because the area ten yoke [of oxen could plow in a day] will
produce [only] one bath, and a homer's [worth] of seed will yield [only]
an eyfah!'
One bath...an eyfah: the equivalent volume in liquid and dry measure. A
homer: Ten times the size of an ephah, so the yield would actually be
only a tenth as much as what was planted. One would have to choose
between eating and planting.
11. "Woe to those who get up early to run after intoxicating beverage,
hanging back in the twilight; wine causes them to hotly pursue.
12. "And there were lyre and harp, tambourine, flute, and wine in their
drinking-parties, but they pay no attention to the things
Does, nor do they notice the works of His hands.
13. "For this reason My people have gone away into exile: due to lack of
knowledge. Its important ones are persons of famine, and its
boisterous crowds parched from thirst.
Gone away into exile: or "removed the covering". Remember that
clothing can be a symbol of tribal affiliation (4:1), so being "unclothed"
in exile means loss of identity. (Compare v.8 above.) Knowledge: as in
chapter 3, the structure can be intact outwardly, but if there is no
understanding of why we obey the Torah, it is easy for it to seem like a
mere burdensome tradition.
Hos. 8:12
. Though I write for Him ever so many things [about] My Torah, they
are considered like a foreign thing.
Ever so many things: or, myriads of things; alt., great things. The more
Sacred(set apart) we become, the more He teaches us, and the more
things we realize we can no longer do, because we realize they are
foreign to His way of thinking. But for many years the Church has
considered the “Old Testament” a foreign thing, a thing of the past,
something that just doesn’t fit with its culture of liberal grace. But if
we are far away from Him, which of the two has been the one to leave
14. "Therefore She'ol has made its appetite grow wider, and gaped its
mouth to the point of having no limit, and their adornment, roaring,
tumult, and the triumphant person will descend into her.
She'ol: the underworld, or the place of the dead. Remember what
happened to Qorakh.
(Num. 16)
15. "Then humanity will be brought low and man set in a lower place, and
the eyes of the haughty will be humbled,
The immediate context is Y’ishra’al before her enemies crushed her,
but this particular verse has a wider context in our day as "humanity"
(Heb., "Âthâ´m "), rather than
is being made the measure of all things. Man: or "a man"--perhaps the
counterfeit Messiah, who is also haughty.
Y’hezq’al 29:3
. “Speak and say, ‘This is what the Master
says: “Indeed I am against you, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt—the great
crocodile who stretches out in the midst of his rivers, who has said,
‘My Nile is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
Crocodile: the counterfeit of what Moshe’s rod became (Shemot 7:9,
this being an alternate pronunciation of the same word, tannin). This
arrogant one thinks he created rivers just because he can divert them.
The pope boasted that he had “changed” the Sabbath to Sunday just
to prove he had the authority to do so! Water is often symbolic of the
Word of
, and the Church has co-opted even this with its own (personally-
centered) version of the Gospel.
16. "But
Of Armies will be exalted with justice, and the Al who is set apart will
be shown to be separate through righteousness.
Exalted with justice: raised to prominence in an appropriate, rightful,
deserving manner, through due legal process, unlike those who since
Nimrod's time have tried to make a name for themselves. There are
again judges and authorities in place who do right. Shown to be
separate: includes the sense of being treated accordingly as in a class
of His own, and the way He distinguishes Himself as unique is that He
does right. We also demonstrate His sole worthiness by doing right
ourselves.
17. "Then the lambs will graze as in their own pasture, while sojourners
eat the places deserted by the fat ones.
Their own pasture: includes the sense of being accustomed to it, thus
being at ease. Fat ones: at root, the term means "obliterators". In
other words, the haughty (v. 15) who stepped on others to "get to the
top" will leave their goods to the needy who come seeking temporary
hospitality among
Flock. But even the ones who were righteous, when satisfied with
plenty, tend to forget
Deut. 32:15;
15. "But when Yeshûrûn grew fat, he started kicking. (You have grown
fat--grossly so--gorged to the point of satiety [and stubborn].) And he
deserted Aluahiym, the One who made him, and treated the Rock of his
deliverance as unimportant.
Yeshûrûn: the upright, straight, unbent one
"pet name" for Y’Ishra’al. It is only used when the whole nation is in
unity. We were healthy and well-provided for, but became spoiled,
thinking we deserved these blessings, so he stopped saying “thank you”
and rebelled. We thought we no longer needed
Yet why, then, would we think we had a need for the lesser
Äluahiym
who could not even do as much for us?
nly because they were exotic and more exciting to the flesh. So it was
not always better for us when we had the best. When we were needy
in the wilderness, we still had YHWH, and things went better. There
was a unity that did not exist after we entered the Land and were
separated out by tribes.
Prov. 30:9
Lest I become satisfied and deny You, And say,
“Who is
And lest I be poor, and steal, And seize the Name of my Äluahiym
18. "Woe [to] those who drag perversion along with worthless cords,
and [pull their] sin as with a cart rope,
19. "Who say, 'Let Him hurry and finish what He is making quickly, so
we may see it! And let what the Sacred One of Y’Ishra’al has been
devising approach and enter, so we may become acquainted with it!'
Reminiscent, perhaps, of the way the men of S'dom responded to
Messengers, this is a perverted curiosity—expecting
Work to be only spectacular excitement but not a challenge to true
Sacredness. Though we wish for
בKingdom to come "in our lifetimes and in our days", the first part of
Work to bring it about will not be "pretty" for those who are looking
for novelty.
Amos 5:18-20
. “‘Woe to the ones who long for the Day of
Whatever for? For you, the Day of
is darkness, not light!
Be careful what you ask for! This is very much like many today who
are expecting the Kingdom to be a time of peace and glory for
themselves, but are mistaken about where they stand with
Since they do not walk in His Torah.
“‘It [will be] like when a man was escaping from a lion, and a bear
attacked him, or he went into the house and rested his hand on the
wall, and a snake bit him.
Just when they thought they were safe, a worse thing befell them.
The house…snake: The counterfeit Messiah is present both within
Judaism and Christianity.
20. “‘Isn’t the Day Of?
Indeed darkness and not light, and as dark [as after the sun has set],
with no brightness in it?
20. "Woe to those who avow that evil is good, and say good is evil, who
put 'darkness' for light and 'light' for darkness, who define bitter as
'sweet' and sweet as 'bitter'.
Put...define: the same term in Hebrew; i.e., who change the definitions.
Who has not likewise shuddered in our day to hear people raving about
things they define as "wicked!" or "bad!"? But how much worse to call
pagan holidays "blessed" or say that obeying the Torah is contrary to
will.
21. "Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and holding up their
own faces [conspicuously] as intelligent!
22. "Woe to those whose claim to fame is [how much] wine [they can]
drink, and men whose [only area of] expertise is mixing intoxicating
beverage,
23. "who vindicate the cause of the wicked for a bribe, and take the
good legal standing of the just away from him
24. "Therefore, as the fire's tongue devours the chaff, and the dry
grass droops to the flame, their root will be like something rotten, and
their flower will go up [in smoke] like a cloud of dust, because they
have rejected the instruction of
of Armies, and despised what the Sacred One of Y’ishra’al utters.
25. "This is why
Breath has become hot upon His people, and He has stretched out His
hand against it and punished it. Then the hills shook and their corpses
like off-scouring in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, His
anger is not turned back, and His arm is stretched out still.
Punished: literally, struck. Off-scouring: or "dung" (to be swept away).
26. "Moreover, He will lift up a signal-flag to the distant nations, and
will whistle for it [to come] from the ends of the earth, and indeed, it
will come quickly [on] light [feet]!
27. "There is not a weary or feeble one among them; not one will be
drowsy, and not one will fall asleep. The undergarment of its loins will
not be loosened, nor will the thong of their sandals be undone,
Feeble: or "stumbling". Undergarment not loosened: i.e., they will not
even stop to relieve themselves, so quickly will they come! Nor the
thong...undone: he emphasizes that they will not stop to rest in any way!
28. "Whose arrows are sharp, and whose bows bent! Their horses'
hoofs will be considered to be like flint, and their [chariot] wheels like
a whirlwind!
Flint: i.e., very hard. Wheels...whirlwind: How reminiscent of Aliyahu's
chariot ride to the heavens.
29. "Its roaring is like a great lion, and it will roar like young lions; and
it will growl and seize the prey and carry it away, and there is none to
rescue.
30. "And in that day, it will roar over it like the roaring of the sea.
When one considers the land, then behold! Darkness and distress, and
the light is darkened by its haze."
Distress: a tight spot, oppression, or a "hard place".
Hoshea 9:10
10. I found Efrayim like grapes in the wilderness; at first their fathers
appeared to Me [to be] like the first-ripe fruits of a fig tree. [But
then] they came to Ba’al-Pe’or and consecrated themselves to a
shameful thing, and they became [as] detestable as that which they
loved.
Grapes in the wilderness: reminiscent of the great cluster brought
back to Moshe from the Valley of Eshqol. (Numbers 13) He had great
delight in them at first, like one who finds luscious fruit when very
hungry. Ba’al-Pe’or: Where Bilaam had the Moavites seduce Y’Ishra’al
into idolatrous orgies. Consecrated themselves: the same word as that
of becoming a Nazirite; LXX, were shamefully estranged; Aramaic,
attached themselves.
When the two are used together, it is usually an idiom speaking of
safety and peacetime
Mikha 4:4;
4. But each man will sit under his [own] vine and under his [own] fig
tree, and nothing will make them quake [from fear], because the mouth
of
[Commander] of Armies has spoken!
His own: He will not be tending them for someone else, but will have
his own supply. The vine and fig tree both require peacetime to produce
fruit, for they must be carefully tended, and their pruning takes time.
בalluded to this verse in Yâhuwchânâ´n 1:48-50. By saying He had seen
Nathan’al “under the fig tree”, it told Nathan’al that He would be there
when this time of peace comes, and that He would be the Messiah who
would sit on the throne in that Kingdom.
Zkh. 3:10
10. “‘In that day,’ declares
[Master] of Armies, ‘each of you will invite his fellow to [come] under a
vine and [to a place] under a fig tree.’”
Under a fig tree:
This is what
ב `was referring to when he said he had seen Nathan’al under the fig tree
(hence his astonished response in Yochanan 1:48). He was saying that
he had already seen him here in his Kingdom, where there is no guile.
“Under one’s vine and under one’s fig tree” is also an idiom for dwelling
in safety (1 Kings 4:25; compare Micha 4:4, which is clearly in the
context of the Messianic Kingdom), because both require peacetime to
tend properly, as they ripen at different times and need constant
attention to keep predators away.
Because one must be present at the time of the harvest for both
because the crops would be eaten by birds as soon as they are ripe if
not picked. As such the fig tree is an idiom for the Kingdom
Yâhuwchânâ´n 1:47
ב `
saw Nathan’al coming towards Him, and says about him:“ Look! Truly a
son of Y’Ishra’al in whom there is no deceit.” as foreshadowed by King Shlomo’s
1 Kings 4:25
And Yehud ah and Y’Ishra’al dwelt safely, each man under his vine and
his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Shelomoh.
White: the sappy heart of the fig tree is exposed by the locusts. This
is the third layer from the surface. The buds—the hope for growth in
the days to come—would have to have been removed as well.
Yo’al 1:8.
“Lament as a virgin clothed with sackcloth [weeps] over the bridegroom
of her youth!
Wine is a symbol of joy
Tehillim 104:15
And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make the face
shine, And bread which sustains man’s heart.
And if it is gone, it bespeaks cause for mourning. I.e., over being
bereaved of her betrothed husband before they could consummate
their marriage.
Yo’al 1:9.
“The tribute and the libation have been cut off from the House of
the priests who minister to YHWH have [begun to] mourn.
Though
used the lack of wine to get their attention since it seems nothing else
would (v. 5), here is the real reason for mourning when there are no
grapes: we can no longer
keep
Commands to drink-offerings along with many of the required
slaughtering.
Yo’al 1:10.
“The cultivated field has been ruined; the ground mourns, because the
grain has been devastated. The new wine is dried up; the fresh oil has
been used up.
Or, the oil-bearing tree has withered; the Aramaic Targum renders
it, the olives have fallen off.
Yo’al 1:11.
“Be dried up, you who plow! Howl, O vinedressers, over wheat and over
barley, because the harvest of the field has been lost!
So many of
Lessons are built around the motif of nature that it behooves us to be
involved more physically with crops and animal husbandry so that we
can get His point more easily.
Yo’al 1:12.
“The vine has been dried up and the fig tree has drooped!
Pomegranate, date-palm too, and apple—all the cultivated trees—have
dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of Âthâ´m
Drooped: again, a picture of the loss of hope of harvest. Most of
these trees are mentioned as part of the blessings
Would bring to those who remember to thank and obey Him.
Deut. 8:6-20
Apples, on the other hand, are seldom mentioned in Scripture without
relation to courtship and love. So even this is now lost to
His people complained when these things were missing from their diet
(Numbers 25); now He is complaining that they have not provided for
Him. They have not taken care of the vineyard He entrusted to them,
so He is taking it away
Mat. 21:33-41
“Hear another parable:
There was a certain man, a householder who planted a vineyard and
placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it and built a
watchtower. And he leased it to farmers and went abroad. “And when
the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the
farmers, to receive its fruit “And the farmers took his servants and
beat one, and they killed one, and they stoned another. “Again he sent
other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them.
“And at last he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They shall respect my
son.’ “But when the farmers saw the son, they said among themselves,
‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and let us possess his
inheritance.’ “And they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard,
and killed him. “Therefore, when the master of the vineyard comes,
what shall he do to those farmers?” They said to Him, “Evil ones! He
shall bring them to evil destruction, and lease the vineyard to other
farmers who shall give to him the fruits in their seasons.”
Yo’al 1:13.
Tie on [sackcloth] and lament, O priests; howl, O ministers of the altar!
Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my Aluahiym,
because the tribute and the libation have been held back from the
House of your Aluahiym!
Priests: Repentance should begin with those who know best, and who
are chosen to teach others.
Mal. 2:6-7
“The Torah of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not
found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and
turned many away from crookedness. “For the lips of a priest should
guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is
the messenger of
of hosts.
His protection is removed because they have not paid attention to the
sins of their brothers and corrected them. Everyone is making sure
they have enough joy, and have not noticed that the keg is almost
empty. We cannot just obey and mind our own business, for in Y’ishra’al
our brother’s actions are our business. Today we do even worse at this.
We must repent.
Yo’al 1:14.
Have a fast set apart; proclaim a restraint! Gather the elders—all who
inhabit the Land—[into] the House of
your Aluahiym, and call out to
[for help].
The priests cannot be content to themselves repent; to see the
tragedy overcome, everyone must be called together again to
concentrate on repentance and Restraint: or stopping (of work) –
“dropping everything” for the purpose of assembling together. At Yom
Kippur (and during the days leading up to it) we mourn so that we can
have absolute joy only five days later at Sukkoth. Much of Y’ishra’al is
still worshipping a god-man, when this is a concept that began with
Tammuz. We must finish cleaning the closet and tend
Vine more carefully!
Yo’al 1:15.
Alas for the day, because the Day of
is near!
Indeed, like a destruction from Shaddai it will come!
Though this is one instance of the “Day of,
There is a larger one coming, but the purpose is the same: purging His
Land of sin.
Yo’al 1:16.
Isn’t the food cut off in front of our eyes, [and] gladness and
rejoicing from the House of our Äluahiym?
Yo’al 1:17.
The grains of seed shrivel up under their clods [that are swept away].
The storehouses have been ravaged, the granaries broken into, because
the grain has dried up.
Yo’al 1:18.
How the beast gasps! The herds of cattle are confused, because there
is no [pasture] for them to feed on. The flocks of sheep, too, have
been harmed.
Yo’al 1:19.
To You, O
Will I call, because the fire has devoured meadows of the wilderness,
and the flame has scorched all the trees of the field!
Fire: Aramaic, an east wind as mighty as fire. With all the greenery
devoured, it is easy for the wildfire to spread.
Yo’al 1:20.
Even the wild animals pant longingly after You, because the water-
channels have dried up; the fire has devoured the meadows of the
wilderness.
Yo’al 2:1-32;
“Blow a shofar in Tzion! Sound an alarm-signal in My set-apart
mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the Land quake, because the Day
of
Has arrived (because it is drawing near)--
. “a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like
the dawn that spreads over the mountains—a people vast and
numerous; from ancient times, there has not been one like it, nor will
there be another after it throughout the years of generation upon
generation!
Like the dawn: this is a terrifying army, but it brings light where it
goes. Thick darkness: from a term meaning to drip, so this darkness is
like that of rain droplets so dense that they blacken the clouds
“angrily”. As in Mal’akhi 3:1-2, Yo’al might ask, “Are you really eager for
it to come?”
3. “A fire consumes in front of it, and behind it a flame will scorch.
Before them the Land is like the Garden of Eden; after them, an
uninhabited wasteland, nor is there any escaping it.
The Aramaic Targum adds, “for the wicked”.
4. “Its appearance is like the appearance of horses, and they will gallop
like steeds of war.
6. “Because of their presence the peoples will writhe in anguish; every
face will heap together glowing heat.
Heap together: Aramaic, be covered with a coating of black like a
pot.
7. “They will run like brave heroes; they scale a wall like men of war.
Each of them goes on his own path, and they will not change their
course.
8. “Not a man [among them] will crowd his brother out, and they walk
[as] a hero on the causeway he has raised up; when they attack with
missiles, they will not be stopped
Causeway: i.e., a siege-ramp.
9. “They will rush about in the city; they will run along the wall. They
will climb up onto the houses; they will come in through the windows
like a thief.
10. “The ground has begun to shake before them; the skies have begun
to tremble! Sun and moon have darkened, and the stars have withdrawn
their brightness.
This army does not look like human beings, but like horses. (v. 4) the
description seems in a way more like tanks, yet they need to be small
enough to come into windows. It could be that they are “drones”
designed to keep unwilling soldiers from needing to go to the
battlefield. There is a new type of unmanned fighting vehicle being
released by the Pentagon that is equipped with machine guns and
cameras so that it can be driven by remote control. Children today who
are becoming experts at video war games may actually grow up to
direct them, possibly even without knowing the war is real. They can
even run over bombs without being destroyed. (A possible alternate
reading of the last phrase in verse 8 is “though they lunge between the
weapons, they will not be cut down.”) The United States now controls
the palaces of Babylon, and as such may fulfill another instance of this
prophecy.
11. “And
has employed His voice before His force, because His camp is very
vast, for the one who carries out His word is mighty! Because the Day
of
is great and very terrifying; who can endure it?
Any army
Employs, even Bavel, can be called His, for He would have spared them
if they had not gloated over their victory and given themselves credit
for it.
12. “Yet even now,” declares
“Return to Me with your whole heart and fasting and weeping and
lamentation.”
Even now: It is too late to avoid this punishment completely; it has
already been determined. (v. 8) But it is not too late to repent.
13. So tear your heart and not your clothes, and return to
Your Aluahiym, because He is merciful and compassionate, slow to
anger and abounding in loving-kindness, and [can be] moved to pity in
regard to the calamity.
Tear your heart: The heart is a muscle. Tearing a muscle makes it
grow back stronger and fuller.
Takes a fatherly approach here rather than a motherly; He lets us
experience the pain so we will remember not to repeat the same error.
Not your clothes: Do not show the outward signs of mourning if you are
not actually contrite. This is Yom Kippur language. Those of us raised
on television and movies have learned to be actors, but
does not want obedience to His commandments pretended. We cannot
make things right merely by saying, “I’m sorry.” Requiring
accountability for our actions is the way of love, because we thus help
the wrongdoer make things right again. The one who was wronged has
the responsibility to rebuke and thereby teach, and both parties come
out better. This pattern fosters intimacy between Y’Ishra’alite
brothers. Someone else is sharing the same burden. But Paul warns us
to be sure the one doing the correcting is also solidly on his own path
of repentance so he does not fall into the same temptation. (Gal. 6:1-8)
Slow to anger: literally, long of nose. Remember how Nin’veh responded
to Yonah and how his prophecy was not carried out for that reason;
some prophecies are contingent on our response:
14. Who knows? He may relent and be moved to pity and leave behind
Him something to present [on one’s knees]—a contribution and a
libation for
Your Aluahiym.
He is not saying He will make the chastening less severe, but that
amidst the devastation that is bound to come, He may allow enough to
be spared to fulfill the requirements for the Temple which are in
danger of being unavailable (1:9, 13), so that at least their guilt will not
be aggravated further.
15. Blow a shofar in Tzion! Set apart a fast! Proclaim a shutdown [for
the purpose of convocation]!
Here we see a synopsis of Yom T’ruah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkoth, for
the word for shutdown is atzerah, related to Shmini Atzereth, the
“encore” added after Sukkoth to “close it all in”
. Wants us to focus on the season of repentance that leads
immediately to joy. I f we learn from it and walk in it, we will be able to
endure this chastening.
16. Gather in [the] nation! Set the congregation apart! Assemble the
elders! Collect the little children and those who nurse at the breasts!
Let the bridegroom come out of his bed-chamber and the bride from
her wedding-canopy!
Everyone, great or small, no matter how preoccupied with the best of
pursuits, needs to come be part of the collective repentance. Like the
Dr. Seuss story, it will take every last Y’Ishra’alite being about
Y’Ishra’al rather than self to save us from destruction this time. Even
the aged still have a responsibility. Even babies count too! Even
honeymooners need to put aside their pleasure and help, for we need
them to do their part too.
17. Let the officiators--the ministers of
Weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare Your
people, O
, and do not let your inheritance be given over to disgrace, so that
Gentiles would dominate them! Why should they say among the nations,
‘Where is their Aluahiym?’”
18. Then
may be jealous for His Land and have pity on His people.
May: The rest of the chapter is not a blank-check promise, but is
contingent on obedience to verses 12-17.
19. Indeed,
May respond and say to His people, “Here I am, sending you the grain
and the new wine and the fresh shining oil, that you may be satisfied
with it, and I will never again make you an object of scorn among the
nations.
20. “And I will take the northerner far away from you, and cause him
to be banished to a dry, desolate land with his face toward the eastern
sea and his rear toward the backmost sea, and his stench will ascend,
and his foul odor will go up because of causing great things to be done.
The northerner: that is, the army that is coming down from the
north (for the northern Kingdom, the Assyrians; for the southern, the
Babylonians, for both have to traverse the fertile crescent and
approach from that direction rather than taking the shorter route
across the desert). Foul odor: from the Hebrew word for putrefaction.
21. “Don’t be afraid, O ground; rejoice and be glad, because
Is causing great things to be done
22. “Don’t be afraid, O wild beasts, because the meadows of the
uninhabited land are sprouting [and greening up]—because the tree has
borne its fruit; the fig tree and the vine have employed their ability!
23. “And sons of Tzion! [You] rejoice and be glad in
Your Aluahiym, because He has given you the early rain to the right
[extent], and will cause the rain—the early and the latter in the first
[month]—to come down for you.
Early rain: pouring rains, which follow hard on the heels of the fall
festivals. (Compare Hoshea 6:3.) To the right extent: the whole phrase
can also be read “teacher into righteousness”, so we can expect there
to be a symbolic sense to this as well. This is the title of one that the
Dead Sea Scrolls described as the priestly Messiah, and is alluded to in
Yochanan 11:28. Aramaic, has given you back your teacher in
righteousness. Deut. 32:2 compares
His teaching to rain and dew. Mikha 5:7 compares the remnant of
ya’aqóv to the dew and rain from heaven in its relation to the peoples
around it. Undoubtedly this also alludes to our role as teachers, since
we have learned Torah first. Latter rain: the term means “gatherer of
the after crop” such as when one gleans the field. First month: the
month of the Aviv, in the spring, when the timely rain brings the crops
to maturity.
24. “The threshing-floor will be full of grain; the winevats will overflow
with new wine and fresh oil.
25. “Then I will cause you to be compensated for the years that the
swarming locust, the locust-larva, the stripping locust, and the
devouring worm have eaten—My great army that I sent upon you.
Compensated: with better years, according to the Aramaic Targum.
The four waves of locusts may represent the four successive empires
that enslaved YahuwDah, as laid out by Dani’al. The ways of these
nations continue to affect us, and thus we still need to be healed of
their influence on us, which did devour our heritage.
26. “And you will eat to consume, and will be satisfied, and you will rave
about the Name of
your Aluahiym, who has done extraordinary things with you, and My
people will not be disconcerted forever.
Done extraordinary things: the phraseology used in Psalm 126:3.
Disconcerted: or ashamed, disappointed. My people: here and in v. 27,
the Aramaic adds, the house of Y’Ishra’al.
27. “Then you will know that I am in the innermost part of Y’Ishra’al,
and I am
Your Aluahiym, and there is none in addition, and My people will not be
disconcerted forever.
28. [3:1 in Hebrew] “And afterward what will take place is that I will
pour out My Raukh on all flesh, and your sons and daughters will
prophesy, and your old men will dream dreams; your choice young men
will see ecstatic visions,
29. “and I will even pour out My Raukh on the slaves and maid-servants
in those days,
30. “and I will appoint conspicuous signs in the skies and on the land—
blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Columns: actually spreading wider at the top like the shape of a palm
tree (which is the root word). This strongly suggests a mushroom cloud
such as that produced by a nuclear bomb.
31. “The sun will be transformed into darkness, and the moon into blood
before the great and terrifying Day of YHWH arrives.
32. “And what will take place [is that] any who may call on the name of
will be rescued, because on Mount Tzion and in Yerushalayim there will
be a refuge [to escape to], just as
has said, as well as among the surviving remnant whom
calls [by name
Any who call: This is the answer to “Who can endure it?” in v. 11.
Those who find shelter in the “secret place of the Most High” will see
many fall right beside him, but be spared (Psalm 91—the well-known
“table in the presence of their enemies” of Psalm 23:5; compare
Yeshayahu/Isa. 26:20). Those who grieve for the failure to attend
Appointments will be gathered in. (Ts’fanyuah 3:18) An earthquake will
allow those held captive in the city to escape. (Zkh. 14:4ff) Calls by
name: Aramaic, they will be delivered whom
Appoints.
Yo’al 3:1-21
CHAPTER 3 (4 in Hebrew)
1. “Because, watch! In those days and at that time, [in] which I will
bring back the captives of YahuwDah and Yerushalayim,
2. “I will also assemble all the Gentiles and bring them down to the
Valley of Y’hoshafat and will enter into legal proceedings with them
over My people and for Y’Ishra’al, My inherited share, whom they have
caused to be dispersed among the nations and have divided up My Land.
Legal proceedings: the Hebrew word is related to the name
Y’hoshafat
has judged”
This valley may be the confluence of the Qidron and Hinnom valleys
surrounding Yerushalayim. The Aramaic has the Valley of Judicial
Decision, and I will call them to account. Divided up: to distribute
amongst themselves—just what is being done to the Land of Y’Ishra’al
today.
3. “They have also cast lots for My people and have been assigning the
boy to be a prostitute and have sold a girl with wine, and they drank
[it] up.
4. “And after all, what are you to Me, O Tzur and Tzidon and all the
districts of Filistia? Are you completing repayment to Me? And if you
are repaying Me, I will bring your recompense back on your own head
swiftly and soon,
What are you to Me: Aramaic, what are you reckoned before Me?
Bring your recompense back: Aramaic, make your deeds recoil.
5. “as you have carried away My silver and gold, and brought the
pleasant things [that] I treasure into your temples.
6. “And the children of YahuwDah and the children of Yerushalayim you
have sold to the children of the Greeks, in order to take them far away
from their border[s].
Greeks: Heb., Yavanim. This has been done to us again through the
Church, with its making the Greek version of the "New Testament"
pre-eminent over the earlier Hebrew and Aramaic versions, and thus
giving a Greek slant to everything about it.
7. “Watch as I stir them up from the place to which you have sold
them, when I have brought your recompense back on your own head.
Stir them up: Aramaic, bring them back openly.
8. “That is, I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the
descendants of YahuwDah, and they will sell them to the Shva’im—to
[go toward] a far-away nation, because
has spoken!”
Shva’im: Sabeans, the Kushite people of the Queen of “Sheba”. Since
these nations have never brought the balance and shown mercy to
Y’Ishra’al by knowing when to stop their cruelty when we had had
enough punishment, there is no mercy available to them either.
9. Call this out among the nations: “[Prepare for] a holy war! Wake up
the brave [heroes]! Let them approach! Let all the men of war come up!
Men: the particular term means “frail” or “mortal”.
10. “Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-tools into
spears; let [even] the disabled say, ‘I am a brave [hero]!’”
Disabled: Aramaic, weakling. This is the reverse of what
Says in Yeshayahu 11. The fact that the Gentiles have only plowshares
means that by this point they have pretty well made peace between one
another, but just when they think they have peace sewn up, He calls
them on the carpet with the one renegade, Y’Ishra’al, which abstains
from its unification.
is issuing a challenge and a dare like Golyath did with Y’Ishra’al. He
makes use of their pride to bring them all to the place where He can do
away with them all in “one fell swoop”. He tells them to go ahead and
rattle their swords and beat their shields, but knows there is no power
behind them. They are playing with the “Big Boy” now!
11. Hurry and come [to the aid], all [you] nations from round about, and
assemble yourselves there! O
lead [as] Your brave heroes [press] downward!
12. “Let the Gentiles be stirred up and let them climb to the Valley of
Y’hoshafat, because there I will sit down to judge all the nations from
round about [on every side].”
13. Extend the sickle, because the harvest is ripe! Come in! Get down
[to work], because the winepress is full; the wine vats have overflowed,
because their wickedness is [so] abundant!
Extend the sickle: Aramaic, Put the sword into them, for the time of
their end has arrived. Winepress: linked with
Wrath in Disclosure 19:15, which also says a sharp sword proceeds
from בהיה’s mouth to accomplish this.
14. Murmuring crowds in an uproar in the Valley of Decisiveness—
because the Day of
is near in the Valley of Decisiveness!
Murmuring crowds: Aramaic, army upon army. Decisiveness: strict,
final decision. Like the Latin-based term, which is based on the word
for cutting, as we see in the related terms “incisive” or “excise”, the
Hebrew term is also based on the word for sharpness. The outcome is
described in Yeshayahu 66:24.
15. Sun and moon have darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their
brightness.
16. , too, will roar from Tzion and employ His voice, and the heavens and
earth will quake—but
is a shelter for His people and a place of protection for the
descendants of Y’Ishra’al.
At the same time He is a violent threat to our enemies, seeing what
they are really made of, His merciful, protective side toward His own is
seen in vivid contrast.
17. “Then you will recognize that
I am
Your Aluahiym,
Who dwells in Tzion, mountain of My set-apartness, when Yerushalayim
has become consecrated and those who are alienated do not pass
through her anymore.”
18. And what will take place on that Day [is that] the mountains will
drip [with] sweet wine [that is pressed out], and the hills will bring
milk, and all the channels of YahuwDah will bring water when a spring
from the House of
Proceeds forth to irrigate the dry river bed of acacias.
Bring milk: Aramaic, flow with beneficial things.
19. “Egypt will become a wasteland and Edom a desolate wilderness due
to the cruelty of the sons of YahuwDah [in] which they shed innocent
blood in their Land.
Cruelty: injustice, wrong, violence; the Aramaic interprets it as
violence done to the people of YahuwDah, not by them. Shed innocent
blood: alt., who poured out blood with impunity (if speaking of
YahuwDah).
20. “But YahuwDah will remain forever, and Yerushalayim to generation
upon generation,
Will remain: the Aramaic interprets it as a different tense—will be
inhabited.
21. “and I will clear the blood [guilt that] I had not left unpunished,
because
Is settling down in Tzion.
I will clear: This may be a reference to the blood of
whose blood the tribe of YahuwDah called down upon themselves, and
which many of their generations have had to bear the consequences of.
When all this is accomplished, and YahuwDah as a whole repents for
killing the king of all Y’Ishra’al,
will acquit this tribe which is chiefly being addressed here.
Yo’al 3:13-15
"Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for
the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great."
Acts 2:16-21
"But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Yo’al: And it shall
come to pass in the last days, says
And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth
beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: The sun shall be turned
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable
Day of Yahuah come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall
call on the name of
shall be saved."
Disclosure 6:12-17
And I beheld when he had opened the 6th Seal, and, lo, there was a
great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and
the moon became as blood; . . . . Hide us from the face of him that sits
on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of
his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
A Blood Red Moon happens when the Earth comes between the Sun and
the Moon during a Total Lunar Eclipse. The occurrence of 4 Blood Red
Moons in sequence is a fairly rare event and is now happening.
In 2014 and 2015 there a sequence of 4 Total Lunar Eclipses called
a Tetrad. A Tetrad is a group or collection of 4 of anything. All 4 of
these Total Lunar Eclipses will be Blood Red Moons. The 1st one began
on April 15, 2014. The 2nd will be on October 8, 2014. The 3rd will be
on April 4, 2015. And the 4th and Las twill be on September 28, 2015.
Note that there will be approximately a 6 Month interval between each
of the 4 Total Lunar Eclipses (Blood Red Moons). 6 Months = 26
Weeks and the Sacred Number 26 is the number of
Sacred Name!!
Keep in mind that a Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses (Blood Red Moons) are
relatively rare. From 1600 to 1900 there were no tetrads at all! During
the 21st Century there are 8 sets of Tetrads. Another amazing thing
about the 2014/15 Tetrad is that they all fall near or on the Y’ishra’al
Calendar Sacred Days (keep in mind that the Y’Ishra’alie Calendar is a
Solar Lunar Calendar):
1st Blood Moon on April 15, 2014
Y’Ishra’alie Passover
April 15-22, 2014.
2nd Blood Moon on October 8, 2014
Y’Ishra’alie Sukkot (Tabernacles)
October 9-15, 2014.
3rd Blood Moon on April 4, 2015
Y’Ishra’alie Passover
April 4-11, 2015.
4th Blood Moon on September 28, 2015
Y’Ishra’alie Sukkot
(Tabernacles)
September 28, 2015 to October 4, 2015.
The closest on September 28 will also undergo a total lunar eclipse.
(Note
September 28, 2015 will also be a Super Moon).
Note:
A Super Moon can be a New or Full Moon closely coinciding with
perigree, the moon's closest point to Earth in its orbit. A Super Moon
looks larger than normal, and affects the Earth's tides. In 2015 there
will be 6 Super Moons:
January 20, February 18, March 20, August 29, September 28, and
October 27, 2015.
Does this not beg the question?
Talking of the Apocalypse that is about to begin
For every matter there is an appointed time, even a time for every
pursuit under the heavens: A time to be born, and a time to die; a
time to plant, and a time to uproot; a time to slay, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a
time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw
away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a
time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a
time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to
sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a
time to hate; a time for battle, and a time for peace.
Futility! Futility!” said the Qoheleth, “All is futile.”
Understanding that which is about to come upon us
The Pure Glad Tidings According To Yâhuwchânâ´n
According to
בWhat has been is what shall be, what has been done is what shall be
done, and there is no new matter under the sun. Is there a matter of
which it is said, “See, this is new”? It was here already, long ago. My
being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a
trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. The new wine shall fail,
the vine shall languish, all those glad at heart shall sigh.
I until I come.
Then I shall take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain
and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards
Is History about to repeat itself: I believe so?
Among the interpreters of the Apocalypse, both in ancient and modern
times, we find a vast diversity of opinions, but they may be all reduced
to four principal hypotheses, or modes of interpretation: -
The Apocalypse contains a prophetical description of the destruction
of Yerushalayim, of the Y’Ishra’alie war, and the civil wars of the Holy
Revival of the Holy Roman Empire (US of E)
It contains predictions of the persecutions of the Nätzräya/
Hebrew/Y’Ishra’alie under the heathen emperors of Rome, and of the
evil of the Catholic Church under the Christian emperors, from
Constantine downwards. It contains prophecies concerning the
tyrannical and oppressive conduct of the Roman pontiffs, the true
antichrist; and foretells the final destruction of popery. It is a
prophetic declaration of the schism and heresies of Martin Luther,
those called Reformers, and their successors; and the final destruction
of the Protestant religion.
“This prophecy, which predicts the calamities which
Should send on the enemies of the Gospel
, is divided into two parts.
The first is contained in the closed book;
The second, in the open book.
The first concerns the earth and the third part
, i.e., Yehud ah and the Y’Ishra’alie nation,
The second concerns many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and
kings,
The H.R.E (Holy Roman Empire.)
The book written within and without, and sealed with seven seals is
the bill of Separation (divorce) sent from
To the Y’Ishra’alie nation.
Finally
Looking unto
ב, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set
before Him endured the Gallows-tree, despising the shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of
In all things be true to the written WORD of
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye may ask what ye will,
and it shall be done to you.
ב
In His Name
Blessed be, in His name
be with you.' and they answered him,
Bless you.' "
Be not blind to the truth
And, hinnei, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that
ב Passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O
, [thou] Ben David. An
בYâHuWsHúa`
Stood still, and called them, and said, what will ye that I shall do unto you they
say unto Him
YHWH, that our eyes may be opened. So
בYâHuWsHúa`
Had compassion [on them], and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes
received sight, and they followed him.
His servant and yours
shalowm in Righteousness
by the GRACE of
GO I
KeiYAH
Nätzräya
Remember me and pray for me that
will be gracious unto me and be merciful unto my sins which I have sinned against
him. Peace be to them that read and that hear these things and to their servants:
Amein and Amein
Freely ye have received, freely give
A rule necessary, and of great extent. A servant in the Gospel Vineyard, though
worthy of his Comfortable support while in the work. Should never preach for
hire, or make a secular traffic of the Raukh (spiritual work): what a scandal is it for
a man to traffic with gifts which he pretends, at least, to have received from the
Raukh HaQodesh, of which he is not the master, but the dispenser. He who
preaches to get a living, or make a fortune, is guilty of the most infamous sacrilege
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