Psalm 90:10 uses the term threescore and ten but like everything else in Scripture it needs to be read in context.
Humans in modern times have been known to live to ages of just over 100 years, although much greater ages have been recorded in the distant past.
According to the Bible, pre-flood people sometimes lived for over 900 years. According to certain Creationist and Jewish views,
G-d subsequently limited the lifespan of man to 120 years.
Genesis 6:3 and the lifespan of Moses in Deuteronomy 34:7.
The oldest human ever authenticated in modern times was
Jeanne Calment of France who lived 122 years and 164 days
Circumcised of the Ears Barnabus
Barnabus Ch. 8:
1. The Scriptures again speaks concerning our ears, that G-d has circumcised them, together with our hearts …by the hearing of the ear they obey Me.
2. And again, they who are afar off, shall hear and understand what things I have done. And again, circumcise your hearts, saith the L-rd.
6. Wherefore He has circumcised our ears that we shall hear His Word, and believe.
8. Circumcise the hardness of your heart, and hardness of your heart, and harden not your neck. And again, behold, saith the L-rd, all the nations are uncircumcised, they have not lost their fore-skin: but this people is uncircumcised in heart.
10. Understand therefore, children, these things more fully, that Abraham, who we, the first that brought in circumcisions, looking forward in the spirit to Y’Shua, circumcised, having received the mystery of three letters.
11. For the Scripture says that Abraham circumcised 318 men of his house. But what therefore was the mystery that was made known unto him?
12. Mark, first the 18, and next the 300. For the numeral letters of 10 and 8 are IH. And these denote Y’Shua.
13. And because the cross was that by which we were to find grace; therefore the adds, 300; the note of which is T (the figure of His cross). Wherefore by two letters he signified Y’Shua, and by the third His cross.
14. He who has put the engrafted gift of His doctrine within us, knows that I never taught to anyone a more certain truth but I trust that you are worthy of it.
1. The Scriptures again speaks concerning our ears, that G-d has circumcised them, together with our hearts …by the hearing of the ear they obey Me.
2. And again, they who are afar off, shall hear and understand what things I have done. And again, circumcise your hearts, saith the L-rd.
6. Wherefore He has circumcised our ears that we shall hear His Word, and believe.
8. Circumcise the hardness of your heart, and hardness of your heart, and harden not your neck. And again, behold, saith the L-rd, all the nations are uncircumcised, they have not lost their fore-skin: but this people is uncircumcised in heart.
10. Understand therefore, children, these things more fully, that Abraham, who we, the first that brought in circumcisions, looking forward in the spirit to Y’Shua, circumcised, having received the mystery of three letters.
11. For the Scripture says that Abraham circumcised 318 men of his house. But what therefore was the mystery that was made known unto him?
12. Mark, first the 18, and next the 300. For the numeral letters of 10 and 8 are IH. And these denote Y’Shua.
13. And because the cross was that by which we were to find grace; therefore the adds, 300; the note of which is T (the figure of His cross). Wherefore by two letters he signified Y’Shua, and by the third His cross.
14. He who has put the engrafted gift of His doctrine within us, knows that I never taught to anyone a more certain truth but I trust that you are worthy of it.
The Scape-Goat Barnabus
Barnabus 6:6-15
6. ….a foreshow that He was to suffer for them, hear then how He appointed it.
7. Take, says He, two goats, fair and alike, and offer them, and let the high priest take one of them for a burnt offering and what must be done of the other? Let it say He be accused.
8. Consider how exactly this appears to have been a type of Y’Shua. And let all the congregation spit upon it, and prick it; and put the scarlet wool about its head, and thus let it be carried forth into the wilderness.
9. And this being done, he was appointed to convey the goat, let it into the wilderness, and took away the scarlet wool, and put it upon a thorn bush, whose young sprouts when we find them in the field we are wont to eat: so the fruit of that thorn only is sweet.
10. …Consider; one was offered upon the altars the other was accused.
11. …Because they shall see Messiah in that day having a scarlet garment about His body; and shall say: is not this He whom we crucified; having despised Him, pierced Him. Mocked Him? Certainly, this is He, who then said, that He was the Son of G-d.
12. As therefore He shall be then like to what He was on earth, so were the Jews heretofore commanded, to take two goats fair and equal. That when they see our Savior here after coming in the clouds of heaven, they may be amazed at the likeness of the goats.
14. But what then signifies this – that the wool was to be put into the midst of the thorns?
15. This also is a figure of Y’Shua, sent out to the church. For as He who would take away the scarlet wool must under go many difficulties, because that thorn was very sharp, and with difficulty to get it; so they, say Messiah, that will see Me, and come to My kingdom, must through many afflictions and trouble attain unto Me.
6. ….a foreshow that He was to suffer for them, hear then how He appointed it.
7. Take, says He, two goats, fair and alike, and offer them, and let the high priest take one of them for a burnt offering and what must be done of the other? Let it say He be accused.
8. Consider how exactly this appears to have been a type of Y’Shua. And let all the congregation spit upon it, and prick it; and put the scarlet wool about its head, and thus let it be carried forth into the wilderness.
9. And this being done, he was appointed to convey the goat, let it into the wilderness, and took away the scarlet wool, and put it upon a thorn bush, whose young sprouts when we find them in the field we are wont to eat: so the fruit of that thorn only is sweet.
10. …Consider; one was offered upon the altars the other was accused.
11. …Because they shall see Messiah in that day having a scarlet garment about His body; and shall say: is not this He whom we crucified; having despised Him, pierced Him. Mocked Him? Certainly, this is He, who then said, that He was the Son of G-d.
12. As therefore He shall be then like to what He was on earth, so were the Jews heretofore commanded, to take two goats fair and equal. That when they see our Savior here after coming in the clouds of heaven, they may be amazed at the likeness of the goats.
14. But what then signifies this – that the wool was to be put into the midst of the thorns?
15. This also is a figure of Y’Shua, sent out to the church. For as He who would take away the scarlet wool must under go many difficulties, because that thorn was very sharp, and with difficulty to get it; so they, say Messiah, that will see Me, and come to My kingdom, must through many afflictions and trouble attain unto Me.
Neither male nor female 2 Clement
A Fragment of the L-rd’s Kingdom
2 Clement Ch. 5
1. For the L-rd Himself, being asked by a certain person, when His kingdom should come? Answered, when two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within; and the male with the female, neither male nor female.
2, Now two are one, when we speak the truth to each other, and there is without hypocrisy one soul in two bodies:
3. And that which is without as that which is within; - He means this: he calls the soul that which is within, and the body that which is without. So therefore your body appears, let your soul be seen by its good works.
4. And the male with the female neither, male nor female; - He means this;
He calls our anger the male, our concrescence the female.
6. …having dispelled the mist arising from them, and being full of shame, shall by repentance have united both his soul and spirit in the obedience of reason; there as Paul say, these is in us neither male nor female.
2 Clement Ch. 5
1. For the L-rd Himself, being asked by a certain person, when His kingdom should come? Answered, when two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within; and the male with the female, neither male nor female.
2, Now two are one, when we speak the truth to each other, and there is without hypocrisy one soul in two bodies:
3. And that which is without as that which is within; - He means this: he calls the soul that which is within, and the body that which is without. So therefore your body appears, let your soul be seen by its good works.
4. And the male with the female neither, male nor female; - He means this;
He calls our anger the male, our concrescence the female.
6. …having dispelled the mist arising from them, and being full of shame, shall by repentance have united both his soul and spirit in the obedience of reason; there as Paul say, these is in us neither male nor female.
The Gehenna Factor
Gehenna – Hell 11 times in NT
Hell is the place of the future punishment call "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.
In later Jewish literature Gehenna came to be associated with a place of torment and unquenchable fire that was to be the punishment for sinners.
Joshua 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward.
Joshua 18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
Neh. 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
2 Kgs. 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
2 Chon. 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the L-RD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chon. 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the
L-RD, to provoke him to anger.
Jer. 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jer. 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L-RD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Jer. 19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
Jer. 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L-RD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
Jer. 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Y’Shua HaMashiach spoke about Gehenna many times such as in Matthew 5:22, 29 & 30 where He warned about “the danger of hell [Gehenna] fire”(Matthew 5:22). Gehenna definitely suggests real flames.
“Gehenna” means a place of fire, brimstone, and punishment (Matthew 5:22, 29, 30, also Matthew 13:40-42, 2 Peter 3:7, 10-12). These flames are yet future, at the end of the world.
The valley of Hinnom was the habitation of the giants and also it is where Judas from Iscariot hangs himself. Judas was from the tribe of Judah, the same as Y’Shua was, and that is why Y’Shua called him ‘friend’ (comrade) in the garden. Judas repented to himself than went to the valley of Hinnom on the cliff, in Acts 1:18 it says he fell headlong (the branch broke) making him burst asunder in the midst, and his bowels gushed out. He is now in the his own place in the lower compartments of the earth.
The prophets who wrote the Bible did not know the word "Hell"; they used the Hebrew Sheol, which meant the grave, and also three different Greek words that are translated as “Hell” in our English New Testaments. It’s important to know this, for they each mean something different. They are “Tartarus,”“Gehenna,” and “Hades.” Tartarus is used only once in the New Testament, in 2 Peter 2:4. The Scripture says, G-d spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Tartarus], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment (2 Peter 2:4).
Sheol (pronounced "Sheh-ole"), in Hebrew שאול (Sh'ol), is the "abode of the dead", the "underworld", or "pit". Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous dead, as recounted in Ecclesiastes and Job.
Sheol is sometimes compared to Hades, the gloomy, twilight afterlife of Greek mythology. The word "hades" was in fact substituted for "sheol" when the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek (see Septuagint). The New Testament (written in Greek) also uses "hades" to refer to the abode of the dead. Now here’s a key point: in Revelation 20:14 “Hades”(“Hell”) is eventually “cast into the lake of fire.” Thus “Hades” itself is not a fiery place, but is cast into “the lake of fire.” To make it simple,“Hades” literally means “the grave.”
The fire that G-d sends down upon the lost at the end of time will cleanse the earth of every taint of sin and it will make the way open for G-d to create a new heaven and a new earth.
G-d does not send anyone to hell – He made everyone with free will to make their own chooses. Whom do you choose to serve?
Hell is the place of the future punishment call "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.
In later Jewish literature Gehenna came to be associated with a place of torment and unquenchable fire that was to be the punishment for sinners.
Joshua 15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward.
Joshua 18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
Neh. 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
2 Kgs. 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
2 Chon. 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the L-RD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chon. 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the
L-RD, to provoke him to anger.
Jer. 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jer. 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L-RD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Jer. 19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
Jer. 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the L-RD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
Jer. 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Y’Shua HaMashiach spoke about Gehenna many times such as in Matthew 5:22, 29 & 30 where He warned about “the danger of hell [Gehenna] fire”(Matthew 5:22). Gehenna definitely suggests real flames.
“Gehenna” means a place of fire, brimstone, and punishment (Matthew 5:22, 29, 30, also Matthew 13:40-42, 2 Peter 3:7, 10-12). These flames are yet future, at the end of the world.
The valley of Hinnom was the habitation of the giants and also it is where Judas from Iscariot hangs himself. Judas was from the tribe of Judah, the same as Y’Shua was, and that is why Y’Shua called him ‘friend’ (comrade) in the garden. Judas repented to himself than went to the valley of Hinnom on the cliff, in Acts 1:18 it says he fell headlong (the branch broke) making him burst asunder in the midst, and his bowels gushed out. He is now in the his own place in the lower compartments of the earth.
The prophets who wrote the Bible did not know the word "Hell"; they used the Hebrew Sheol, which meant the grave, and also three different Greek words that are translated as “Hell” in our English New Testaments. It’s important to know this, for they each mean something different. They are “Tartarus,”“Gehenna,” and “Hades.” Tartarus is used only once in the New Testament, in 2 Peter 2:4. The Scripture says, G-d spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Tartarus], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment (2 Peter 2:4).
Sheol (pronounced "Sheh-ole"), in Hebrew שאול (Sh'ol), is the "abode of the dead", the "underworld", or "pit". Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous dead, as recounted in Ecclesiastes and Job.
Sheol is sometimes compared to Hades, the gloomy, twilight afterlife of Greek mythology. The word "hades" was in fact substituted for "sheol" when the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek (see Septuagint). The New Testament (written in Greek) also uses "hades" to refer to the abode of the dead. Now here’s a key point: in Revelation 20:14 “Hades”(“Hell”) is eventually “cast into the lake of fire.” Thus “Hades” itself is not a fiery place, but is cast into “the lake of fire.” To make it simple,“Hades” literally means “the grave.”
The fire that G-d sends down upon the lost at the end of time will cleanse the earth of every taint of sin and it will make the way open for G-d to create a new heaven and a new earth.
G-d does not send anyone to hell – He made everyone with free will to make their own chooses. Whom do you choose to serve?
Silence is not always golden!
People remained silent during the Holocaust, some out of ignorance, some just don’t want to get involved and some didn’t want the tide to turn on them.
In the mean time people got hurt and many were killed for a cause that no one would speak out for or against.
At that time what good does praying do with out following some sort of action?
Does it make it all go away?
Did it stop the killing?
Not that praying can’t move mountains, for it can, but there is a time to pray and a time to take a stand.
So guess the question is when should we remain silent and when should we speak out?
This is an individual choice and hearing how the L-rd is leading you personally.
Not everyone is meant to be a watcher or a spokesman.
Remember in the olden days they killed their prophets.
Do you know that in one’s silence it appears like a stamp of approval, you are condoling what you remain silent about!
Whether in the world or in the church there is always injustice going on?
Scripture teaches us with salvation is to be followed with action, in faith there must be action, for one cannot say “O I believe that but I am not doing anything about it.”
We are not saved by our ‘works’ but action must follow being saved.
How did one such as Hitler get to have such power?
Do you know he was actually voted in!
And through millions of people’s silence he grew bigger and bigger.
Kenny Rogers sings “you got to know when to hold them and know when to fold them”, there is a time and place for everything under the sun.
I have friends that are Lutheran; they were telling me they are looking for a new church for their church now accepts gay pastors and they did not want to put their stamp of approval on such choices.
They even mentioned that in giving their tithes to the church is approving with the church’s decision on how they spend it, I had to stop and think about that, a reminder I had forgotten.
I was taught that if you give to a mission trip you reap the rewards or failures of that mission in you’re giving.
Blessings or curses can come upon you in the choices you make in life, that should put caution upon were your putting G-d’s money.
With the last days close at hand if not upon us, many changes of good old fashion goal in the churches are rappidly changing, the good news is G-d never changes nor does His Word.
Look at Revelations to see the differences in the seven churches – which one does yours fall under?
One change is pastors are into numbers, a body in the pew is money in the pocket. I have seen this at four different places, and heard them speaking out for the sheep to get more lambs. Pastors are not to produce lambs, sheep are, in the olden days their job was to keep their nose in the Word to teach the body, but now adays most preachers only have to prepair one sermon a week.
Another change now is taught - not to frighten the lambs away, and refrain the sheep well retraining the lambs to the new ways. Hmm, sounds like what the government is doing – get rid of the old (ones who know better) and retrain the youth. Hey, come to think about it, that is just what Hitler did!
I have also witness churches going into business such as selling cars to help make money to send their children to youth camps, one was selling body oils for physical healing as well as spiritual healing, of course these were all business outside the church walls, but now business have move within and that church was design around the busness, a coffee shop (the drug of christion choice) where people are always encouraged to buy expensive coffee, for another good reason. The coffe shop is open seven days a week, to bad drinking the Word wasn't.
Hmm, seems to me Y’Shua got a little upset when the Gentiles brought in their business in the court yard for profit, of course it also had a good reason--people need to sacrifice and they were just producing the offerings.
Interesting how time seems to go backwards than forwards, we just never seem to learn.
Question I ask is how one can have mostly lambs and not enough sheep to teach them
G-d’s way?
So I guess one should stack up all questions, or silence, or even the lack of silence against the Word.
I hear many people in many different areas say ‘they are not approving what is going on in their own home church but have not felt the release to move on.’
Maybe G-d is teaching them a lesson – could it be stand up and be counted?
Scripture says “touch not G-d’s anointed.” Did you ever think that anointed also includes you?
Are you not also sent out to teach His Word? That is what disciple means ‘students’, in what you have learned teach to the lambs.
People just hang in there, interesting, for I watch them welter on the vine as their dieing spiritually, their gifting have not been capitalized on to be used for the glory of the Kingdom.
Does not the Word say YOU are a child of the King?
If you are disrespected and cast aside then maybe the light bulb ought to go on and move you to were you can be used, remember to brush off the dust from the bottom of your shoe leaving all resadue behind.
In the 10 years I was the Pastor of a church, everyone there was used, and everyone could give a sermon or teach a Bible story, right down to the very youngest, for you should be reproducing who you are. Life is not about whom stands in the pulpit but magnify the gifting within your body for we are all one body – there just are many different camps.
Can one person make a change – yes, if no one speaks up to challenge an idea.
Do not surround yourself with ‘yes people’. I hope not, for a good counsel will help you stay on the right path.
If only one in the body has a vision for the church– G-d would confirm it through others if this it was from Him.
In these last days G-d is calling in the multitudes of hurting, lost people, everyone is recovering from something --- it is not a time to change the Gospel Truths!
Lambs will follow sheep, if the sheep are not all killed off. Training and Equipping have to be done immediately to be able to withstand the impact of the flow, that should be first on the list.
Well like I said, everyone has to make a choice to speak out or remain silent – guess you can see which one I choice, you need to know speaking out does not make one popular but one will stand accountable to their Maker for what they believe is right or wrong.
In the mean time people got hurt and many were killed for a cause that no one would speak out for or against.
At that time what good does praying do with out following some sort of action?
Does it make it all go away?
Did it stop the killing?
Not that praying can’t move mountains, for it can, but there is a time to pray and a time to take a stand.
So guess the question is when should we remain silent and when should we speak out?
This is an individual choice and hearing how the L-rd is leading you personally.
Not everyone is meant to be a watcher or a spokesman.
Remember in the olden days they killed their prophets.
Do you know that in one’s silence it appears like a stamp of approval, you are condoling what you remain silent about!
Whether in the world or in the church there is always injustice going on?
Scripture teaches us with salvation is to be followed with action, in faith there must be action, for one cannot say “O I believe that but I am not doing anything about it.”
We are not saved by our ‘works’ but action must follow being saved.
How did one such as Hitler get to have such power?
Do you know he was actually voted in!
And through millions of people’s silence he grew bigger and bigger.
Kenny Rogers sings “you got to know when to hold them and know when to fold them”, there is a time and place for everything under the sun.
I have friends that are Lutheran; they were telling me they are looking for a new church for their church now accepts gay pastors and they did not want to put their stamp of approval on such choices.
They even mentioned that in giving their tithes to the church is approving with the church’s decision on how they spend it, I had to stop and think about that, a reminder I had forgotten.
I was taught that if you give to a mission trip you reap the rewards or failures of that mission in you’re giving.
Blessings or curses can come upon you in the choices you make in life, that should put caution upon were your putting G-d’s money.
With the last days close at hand if not upon us, many changes of good old fashion goal in the churches are rappidly changing, the good news is G-d never changes nor does His Word.
Look at Revelations to see the differences in the seven churches – which one does yours fall under?
One change is pastors are into numbers, a body in the pew is money in the pocket. I have seen this at four different places, and heard them speaking out for the sheep to get more lambs. Pastors are not to produce lambs, sheep are, in the olden days their job was to keep their nose in the Word to teach the body, but now adays most preachers only have to prepair one sermon a week.
Another change now is taught - not to frighten the lambs away, and refrain the sheep well retraining the lambs to the new ways. Hmm, sounds like what the government is doing – get rid of the old (ones who know better) and retrain the youth. Hey, come to think about it, that is just what Hitler did!
I have also witness churches going into business such as selling cars to help make money to send their children to youth camps, one was selling body oils for physical healing as well as spiritual healing, of course these were all business outside the church walls, but now business have move within and that church was design around the busness, a coffee shop (the drug of christion choice) where people are always encouraged to buy expensive coffee, for another good reason. The coffe shop is open seven days a week, to bad drinking the Word wasn't.
Hmm, seems to me Y’Shua got a little upset when the Gentiles brought in their business in the court yard for profit, of course it also had a good reason--people need to sacrifice and they were just producing the offerings.
Interesting how time seems to go backwards than forwards, we just never seem to learn.
Question I ask is how one can have mostly lambs and not enough sheep to teach them
G-d’s way?
So I guess one should stack up all questions, or silence, or even the lack of silence against the Word.
I hear many people in many different areas say ‘they are not approving what is going on in their own home church but have not felt the release to move on.’
Maybe G-d is teaching them a lesson – could it be stand up and be counted?
Scripture says “touch not G-d’s anointed.” Did you ever think that anointed also includes you?
Are you not also sent out to teach His Word? That is what disciple means ‘students’, in what you have learned teach to the lambs.
People just hang in there, interesting, for I watch them welter on the vine as their dieing spiritually, their gifting have not been capitalized on to be used for the glory of the Kingdom.
Does not the Word say YOU are a child of the King?
If you are disrespected and cast aside then maybe the light bulb ought to go on and move you to were you can be used, remember to brush off the dust from the bottom of your shoe leaving all resadue behind.
In the 10 years I was the Pastor of a church, everyone there was used, and everyone could give a sermon or teach a Bible story, right down to the very youngest, for you should be reproducing who you are. Life is not about whom stands in the pulpit but magnify the gifting within your body for we are all one body – there just are many different camps.
Can one person make a change – yes, if no one speaks up to challenge an idea.
Do not surround yourself with ‘yes people’. I hope not, for a good counsel will help you stay on the right path.
If only one in the body has a vision for the church– G-d would confirm it through others if this it was from Him.
In these last days G-d is calling in the multitudes of hurting, lost people, everyone is recovering from something --- it is not a time to change the Gospel Truths!
Lambs will follow sheep, if the sheep are not all killed off. Training and Equipping have to be done immediately to be able to withstand the impact of the flow, that should be first on the list.
Well like I said, everyone has to make a choice to speak out or remain silent – guess you can see which one I choice, you need to know speaking out does not make one popular but one will stand accountable to their Maker for what they believe is right or wrong.
National Desolation
How history repeats it self only because we have not learned from our mistakes, that we keep going around and around the merry-go-ground.
The prophecy contained in this first chapter stands single and unconnected, making an entire piece of itself. It contains a severe remonstrance against the corruptions prevailing among the Jews of that time, powerful exhortations to repentance, grievous threatening to the unremorseful, and gracious promises of better times, when the nation shall have been reformed by the just judgments of G-d.
Scripture said the ‘whole head was sick’ meaning: The king and the priests are equally gone away from truth and righteousness. Or, the state is oppressed by its enemies, and the Church corrupted in its rulers and in its members.
[Isa. 1:6] From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.[
7] Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Country - Israel is compared to "Sodom and Gomorrah," because of the judgments on it by "fire."
Desolated because it may be considered whether those instances of idolatry which are urged in verse 29- the worshipping in groves and gardens- having been at all times too commonly practiced, and introduced it even into the Temple.
Have we too but idolatry above G-d that our economy and government has gone bad?
Their kingdom was almost ruined and burned with fire, like the threats Israel is getting today. So miserable were they that both their towns and their lands were wasted, and yet so stupid that they needed to be told this, to have it shown to them. "Look and see how it is; your country is desolate; the ground is not cultivated, for want of inhabitants, the villages being deserted, Jdg. 5:7. And thus the fields and vineyards become like deserts, all grown over with thorns, Prov. 24:31Your cities are burned with fire, by the enemies that invade you’’ (fire and sword commonly go together); " as for the fruits of your land, which should be food for your families, strangers devour them; and, to your greater vexation, it is before your eyes, and you cannot prevent it; you starve while your enemies surplus on that which should be your maintenance.
Their land as well as our land is devoured by strangers; and is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers. Our president even says we are no longer one nation ‘under G-d’.
Strangers devour who dwell far off, and we open are arms and welcomed them in. Then because they look for no advantage of that which remains destroy all before them. The overthrow of their country and our country is as the overthrow of strangers; it is used by the invaders, as one might expect it should be used by strangers.
Jerusalem itself, which was as the daughter of Zion (the Temple built on Zion was a mother, a nursing mother, to Jerusalem), or Zion itself, the holy mountain, which had been dear to G-d as a daughter, was now lost, deserted, and exposed as a cottage in a vineyard, which, when the vintage is over, nobody dwells in or takes any care of, and looks as mean and despicable as a lodge or hut, in a garden of cucumbers; and every person is afraid of coming near it, and considerate to remove his effects out of it, as if it were a overwhelmed city. Do we want to end up that way, cause we are headed for it.
As the overthrow of strangers, that is, which strangers bring upon a land which is not likely to continue in their hands, and therefore they spare no persons, and spoil and destroy all things, which is not usually done in wars between persons of the same, or of a neighboring nation.
He sadly bewails the judgments of G-d which they had brought upon themselves by their sins and their incorrigibleness under those judgments. L-rd help us!!
In your presence - Which your eye shall see to torment you, when there is no power in your hands to deliver you.
Desolate - literally, "there is desolation, such as one might look for from foreign" invaders.
How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.”
When we consider the greatness of G-d's cleansing and pardon, it is all the more reason for us to come now. G-d wants the separation between you and He to be gone now. He doesn't want you to continue in your destructive path another moment. He wants the best for us now!
You can find hope in the midst of your chastisement, relief from empty religious ritual, and cleansing from your sin. But you must surrender your heart before G-d, and not refuse and rebel. Instead, you be willing and obedient.
Therefore the L-rd says, the L-RD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies. I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy. I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city." Zion shall be redeemed with justice and her penitents with righteousness. The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the L-RD shall be consumed. The strong shall be as tinder, and the work of it as a spark; both will burn together, and no one shall quench them.
Is history repeating it self? It is not too late to turn from our wicked ways and call out for mercy, all we need to do is repent.
The prophecy contained in this first chapter stands single and unconnected, making an entire piece of itself. It contains a severe remonstrance against the corruptions prevailing among the Jews of that time, powerful exhortations to repentance, grievous threatening to the unremorseful, and gracious promises of better times, when the nation shall have been reformed by the just judgments of G-d.
Scripture said the ‘whole head was sick’ meaning: The king and the priests are equally gone away from truth and righteousness. Or, the state is oppressed by its enemies, and the Church corrupted in its rulers and in its members.
[Isa. 1:6] From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.[
7] Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Country - Israel is compared to "Sodom and Gomorrah," because of the judgments on it by "fire."
Desolated because it may be considered whether those instances of idolatry which are urged in verse 29- the worshipping in groves and gardens- having been at all times too commonly practiced, and introduced it even into the Temple.
Have we too but idolatry above G-d that our economy and government has gone bad?
Their kingdom was almost ruined and burned with fire, like the threats Israel is getting today. So miserable were they that both their towns and their lands were wasted, and yet so stupid that they needed to be told this, to have it shown to them. "Look and see how it is; your country is desolate; the ground is not cultivated, for want of inhabitants, the villages being deserted, Jdg. 5:7. And thus the fields and vineyards become like deserts, all grown over with thorns, Prov. 24:31Your cities are burned with fire, by the enemies that invade you’’ (fire and sword commonly go together); " as for the fruits of your land, which should be food for your families, strangers devour them; and, to your greater vexation, it is before your eyes, and you cannot prevent it; you starve while your enemies surplus on that which should be your maintenance.
Their land as well as our land is devoured by strangers; and is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers. Our president even says we are no longer one nation ‘under G-d’.
Strangers devour who dwell far off, and we open are arms and welcomed them in. Then because they look for no advantage of that which remains destroy all before them. The overthrow of their country and our country is as the overthrow of strangers; it is used by the invaders, as one might expect it should be used by strangers.
Jerusalem itself, which was as the daughter of Zion (the Temple built on Zion was a mother, a nursing mother, to Jerusalem), or Zion itself, the holy mountain, which had been dear to G-d as a daughter, was now lost, deserted, and exposed as a cottage in a vineyard, which, when the vintage is over, nobody dwells in or takes any care of, and looks as mean and despicable as a lodge or hut, in a garden of cucumbers; and every person is afraid of coming near it, and considerate to remove his effects out of it, as if it were a overwhelmed city. Do we want to end up that way, cause we are headed for it.
As the overthrow of strangers, that is, which strangers bring upon a land which is not likely to continue in their hands, and therefore they spare no persons, and spoil and destroy all things, which is not usually done in wars between persons of the same, or of a neighboring nation.
He sadly bewails the judgments of G-d which they had brought upon themselves by their sins and their incorrigibleness under those judgments. L-rd help us!!
In your presence - Which your eye shall see to torment you, when there is no power in your hands to deliver you.
Desolate - literally, "there is desolation, such as one might look for from foreign" invaders.
How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.”
When we consider the greatness of G-d's cleansing and pardon, it is all the more reason for us to come now. G-d wants the separation between you and He to be gone now. He doesn't want you to continue in your destructive path another moment. He wants the best for us now!
You can find hope in the midst of your chastisement, relief from empty religious ritual, and cleansing from your sin. But you must surrender your heart before G-d, and not refuse and rebel. Instead, you be willing and obedient.
Therefore the L-rd says, the L-RD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, and take vengeance on My enemies. I will turn My hand against you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your alloy. I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city." Zion shall be redeemed with justice and her penitents with righteousness. The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together, and those who forsake the L-RD shall be consumed. The strong shall be as tinder, and the work of it as a spark; both will burn together, and no one shall quench them.
Is history repeating it self? It is not too late to turn from our wicked ways and call out for mercy, all we need to do is repent.
Ingratitude
Ingratitude, a crime of the highest nature, call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse.
Isa. 1:2-3 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
The very words of Moses (Deut. 32:1); this implies that the Law was the charter and basis of all prophecy (Isa. 8:20).
G-d is introduced as entering into a public action, or pleading, before the whole world, against His disobedient people. The prophet, as herald or officer to proclaim the summons to the court, calls upon all created beings, celestial and terrestrial, to attend and bear witness to the truth of His plea and the justice of His cause.
G-d's gracious dealings with such a peevish provoking people as we are: "I have nourished and brought you up as children; you have been well fed and well taught" (Deut. 32:6); "I have magnified and exalted you", "not only made you grow, but made you great - not only maintained you, but preferred you - not only trained you up, but raised you high."
The level-headedness of the ox and the ass, which are not only brute creatures, but of the dullest sort; yet the ox has such a sense of duty as to know his owner and to serve him, to submit to his yoke and to draw in it.
Knowing is here taken practically, as it is usually in Scripture, and includes reverence and obedience, to your Owner and Master. We know; but our knowledge does us no good, because we do not consider what we know; we do not apply it to our case, or our minds to it."
Notice:
1. Even among those that profess themselves G-d's people, that have the advantages and lie under the engagements of His people, there are many that are very careless in the affairs of their souls.
2. Inconsideration of what we do know is as great an enemy to us in religion as ignorance of what we should know.
3. Therefore men revolt from G-d, and rebel against Him, because they do not know and consider their obligations to G-d in duty, gratitude, and interest.
Ass has such a sense of interest as to know has master's crib, or manger, where he is fed, and to abide by it; he will go to that of himself if he be turned loose.
Crib is the stall where it is fed (Prov. 14:4), spiritually the word and ordinances. Consider attend to your Master (Isa. 41:8), notwithstanding the spiritual food which He provides.
G-d regards His covenant people in their designed unity, the cattishness and stupidity of Israel as well as with us. G-d is our owner and proprietor. He made us, and His we are more than our cattle are ours; He has provided well for us; providence is our Master's crib; yet many that are called the people of G-d do not know and will not consider this, but ask, "What is the Almighty that we should serve Him? He is not our owner; and what profit shall we have if we pray unto Him? He has no crib for us to feed at." He had complained of the stubbornness of their wills; we have rebelled against Him. Here he runs it up to its cause: "Therefore they have rebelled because they do not know, they do not consider." The understanding is darkened, and therefore the whole soul is separated from the life of G-d, Eph. 4:18.
An amplification of the gross insensibility of the disobedient people, by comparing us with the most heavy and stupid of all animals, yet not as insensible as they, he sets us lower than the beasts, and even than the most stupid of all beasts, for there is scarcely any more so than the ox and the ass. Yet these acknowledge their master; they know the manger of their lord; by whom they are fed, not for their own, but for his good; neither are they looked upon as children, but as beasts of burden; neither are they advanced to honors, but oppressed with great and daily labors. While we are chosen by the mere favor of G-d, adopted as sons and daughters, promoted to the highest dignity, yet acknowledged not our L-rd and our G-d; but despised His commandments, though in the highest degree equitable and just.
"Even the stork in the heavens knows her season; and the turtle, and the swallow, and the crane, observe the time of their coming: But my people doth not know the judgment of JEHOVAH.” Jeremiah 8:7.
"I drew them with human cords, with the bands of love: And I was to them as he that lifts up the yoke upon their cheek; and I laid down their fodder before them." Hosea 11:4.
A fine pass man has come to when he is shamed even in knowledge and understanding by these silly animals, and is not only sent to school to them (Prov. 6:6-7), but set in a form below them (Jer. 8:7), taught more than the beasts of the earth (Job 35:11) and yet knowing less.
We owe the continuation of our lives and comforts, and all our advancements, to
G-d's fatherly care of us and kindness to us. Our ill-natured conduct towards Him, who was so tender of us: "They have rebelled against Me." All the instances of G-d's favors to us, as the G-d both of our nature and of our nurture, aggravate our treacherous departures from Him and all our presumptuous oppositions to Him and yet rebels! G-d does not need your wisdom but He can do without your ignorance! He attributes this to our ignorance and inconsideration.
Have we become ingratitude and rebels going about our business and not His?
Have we put His Laws aside and forgotten about them?
Isa. 1:2-3 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
The very words of Moses (Deut. 32:1); this implies that the Law was the charter and basis of all prophecy (Isa. 8:20).
G-d is introduced as entering into a public action, or pleading, before the whole world, against His disobedient people. The prophet, as herald or officer to proclaim the summons to the court, calls upon all created beings, celestial and terrestrial, to attend and bear witness to the truth of His plea and the justice of His cause.
G-d's gracious dealings with such a peevish provoking people as we are: "I have nourished and brought you up as children; you have been well fed and well taught" (Deut. 32:6); "I have magnified and exalted you", "not only made you grow, but made you great - not only maintained you, but preferred you - not only trained you up, but raised you high."
The level-headedness of the ox and the ass, which are not only brute creatures, but of the dullest sort; yet the ox has such a sense of duty as to know his owner and to serve him, to submit to his yoke and to draw in it.
Knowing is here taken practically, as it is usually in Scripture, and includes reverence and obedience, to your Owner and Master. We know; but our knowledge does us no good, because we do not consider what we know; we do not apply it to our case, or our minds to it."
Notice:
1. Even among those that profess themselves G-d's people, that have the advantages and lie under the engagements of His people, there are many that are very careless in the affairs of their souls.
2. Inconsideration of what we do know is as great an enemy to us in religion as ignorance of what we should know.
3. Therefore men revolt from G-d, and rebel against Him, because they do not know and consider their obligations to G-d in duty, gratitude, and interest.
Ass has such a sense of interest as to know has master's crib, or manger, where he is fed, and to abide by it; he will go to that of himself if he be turned loose.
Crib is the stall where it is fed (Prov. 14:4), spiritually the word and ordinances. Consider attend to your Master (Isa. 41:8), notwithstanding the spiritual food which He provides.
G-d regards His covenant people in their designed unity, the cattishness and stupidity of Israel as well as with us. G-d is our owner and proprietor. He made us, and His we are more than our cattle are ours; He has provided well for us; providence is our Master's crib; yet many that are called the people of G-d do not know and will not consider this, but ask, "What is the Almighty that we should serve Him? He is not our owner; and what profit shall we have if we pray unto Him? He has no crib for us to feed at." He had complained of the stubbornness of their wills; we have rebelled against Him. Here he runs it up to its cause: "Therefore they have rebelled because they do not know, they do not consider." The understanding is darkened, and therefore the whole soul is separated from the life of G-d, Eph. 4:18.
An amplification of the gross insensibility of the disobedient people, by comparing us with the most heavy and stupid of all animals, yet not as insensible as they, he sets us lower than the beasts, and even than the most stupid of all beasts, for there is scarcely any more so than the ox and the ass. Yet these acknowledge their master; they know the manger of their lord; by whom they are fed, not for their own, but for his good; neither are they looked upon as children, but as beasts of burden; neither are they advanced to honors, but oppressed with great and daily labors. While we are chosen by the mere favor of G-d, adopted as sons and daughters, promoted to the highest dignity, yet acknowledged not our L-rd and our G-d; but despised His commandments, though in the highest degree equitable and just.
"Even the stork in the heavens knows her season; and the turtle, and the swallow, and the crane, observe the time of their coming: But my people doth not know the judgment of JEHOVAH.” Jeremiah 8:7.
"I drew them with human cords, with the bands of love: And I was to them as he that lifts up the yoke upon their cheek; and I laid down their fodder before them." Hosea 11:4.
A fine pass man has come to when he is shamed even in knowledge and understanding by these silly animals, and is not only sent to school to them (Prov. 6:6-7), but set in a form below them (Jer. 8:7), taught more than the beasts of the earth (Job 35:11) and yet knowing less.
We owe the continuation of our lives and comforts, and all our advancements, to
G-d's fatherly care of us and kindness to us. Our ill-natured conduct towards Him, who was so tender of us: "They have rebelled against Me." All the instances of G-d's favors to us, as the G-d both of our nature and of our nurture, aggravate our treacherous departures from Him and all our presumptuous oppositions to Him and yet rebels! G-d does not need your wisdom but He can do without your ignorance! He attributes this to our ignorance and inconsideration.
Have we become ingratitude and rebels going about our business and not His?
Have we put His Laws aside and forgotten about them?
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