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'In that day' The last days? Does a righteous man save his wives by his righteousness? Why is this possible?
Why do certain 'Orthodox' communities have wives supporting the house while the husband strives for HASHEM [studies Jewish Texts]?
A righteous man will save his soul when GOD destroys a people, nation or the world, but not his sons or daughters. (From Ezekiel 14)
I awoke this morning with this revelation regarding the need for a Man to be Righteous, to strive to know and obey THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, HIS laws and teaching by the hand of Moses(Torah--Five Books Written By Moses) in a world so close to Its Own Judgement before HASHEM.
To stand alone, dedicated to the LORD, seems lonely and a waste of Righteousness, but THE LORD GOD WASTE NOTHING, hence everything is for a reason, I am usually not fully aware of the reasons (Ezekiel 14:23 and they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings, and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.').
The idea of a waste of Righteousness, comes from spending most of my life, trying to be Good before GOD. That is the simplest term I considered using as, I thought that way at age 7. I consider myself righteous before GOD, at least as far as I personally, am to be, yet always striving to be better. Not Holy, for only THE LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL determines what is HOLY. But, Seeking the truth of GOD[Is there a GOD? What does HE want? Why should I follow? Why should I trust HIM?], striving to understand which words[Religions, books, theologies, teachers] to trust and why to trust them. Seeking the Blessings of GOD[my evidence] which I have received, to thereby Know the TRUTH OF GOD.
The Words and only the Written WORD will do, they are from the ALMIGHTY, written by HIS Moses hand, and Prophets, where learn the reasons for the Laws, The Blessings for Obeying, the Troubles[Curses] for turning away or not even trying to know GOD, the Prophecies told Before[sometimes more than a thousand years and yet come true] time and are witnessed after time specifically so that We will Know that GOD IS.
The GOD, THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE GOD OF TRUTH, THE GOD OF WISDOM, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, THIS IS MY GOD and THERE IS ONLY ONE! His word is always perfect, they are always fulfilled and are never contradicted. HE gives no value to a religion, which is only of man's design. Some of what HE finds valuable are: your Soul, HIS WORD, HIS HONOR, HIS NAME, your choices and whether you chose HIM as Your GOD or not.
How to start this: Isaiah 55: 6) Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near; 7) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have compassion upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.(My writings of my BLOGs contain many references like this, describing how easy it is to "return to GOD".
It troubles me greatly, that I should know all of these answers and while saving my soul is GREAT Blessing, why not anybody else's soul? I live and act according to what I have written here, according to the Writings of Moses and the WORD OF MY GOD. It is known by me, that I am seen, heard, and considered by people(many I did not know were watching), and by THE GOD MOST HIGH. If by my actions, words and deeds you come to seek THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, MY GOD, then I have not only saved my soul, you also will have learned from me. Just as those that SEE you, learn to act as you do. Hence,(Exodus 20:4 . . . .for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;) I shall visit the sins of the father upon the third and four generation.--The children will copy their father and mother and become more of what they are. Example: If you are say a thief, and you have been blessed with son(s) and or daughter(s), and you turn back to the GOD OF ISRAEL, and then tell your children "not to steal, not to act as I have", they will act as you have acted, fore that is what you taught them to do. They may yet change by their choice and it will be harder for them learn a new path. You must be Righteous in all your acts, to show them the way to righteousness. If you do not do this, who will show them?
How many will be saved?
This is another about the "Last Day" and does not fit in the story presented in Isaiah 10.[my notes and definition are in this style]
Isaiah 10: 16 Therefore will the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.17 And the light of Israel[GOD] shall be for a fire, and his[Israel's] Holy One[GOD] for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. 18 And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, he will consume both soul and body; and it shall be as when a sick man wasteth away. 19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto God the Mighty. 22 For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return; an extermination is determined, overflowing with righteousness. 23 For an extermination wholly determined shall the Lord, the GOD of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
What is that to do with this text? This text is about --1) As a Righteous Man, I am limited in who I might be able to save on the 'Last Day'. 2) As much as I have studied, taught, discussed, desired to show the way by example and deed, only a remnant will return to The GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob, from the children of Israel, even fewer from those not of the Children of Israel. You can chose the ALMIGHTY as your GOD, keep HIS Laws and teachings and may save more than your own soul in the remaining time.
Proof Text and Sources from Tanakh, JPS 1917 translation.
Genesis 2: 18 And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.[GOD knows that Man should not be alone.]
Genesis 2: 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.[Two pieces combine to make a great One.]
Genesis 19: 8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 12: 17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
Genesis 19: 8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 20: 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him: 'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.'
Genesis 20: 6 And God said unto him in the dream: 'Yea, I know that in the simplicity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against Me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Genesis 20: 7 Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.'
Numbers 30: 3 When a man voweth a vow unto the LORD, or sweareth an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
4 Also when a woman voweth a vow unto the LORD, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
5 and her father heareth her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father holdeth his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
6 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
7 And if she be married to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul;
8 and her husband hear it, whatsoever day it be that he heareth it, and hold his peace at her; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
9 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; and the LORD will forgive her.
10 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even every thing wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her. 11 And if a woman vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 12 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 13 But if her husband make them null and void in the day that he heareth them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, whether it were her vows, or the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD will forgive her. 14 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may let it stand, or her husband may make it void. 15 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he causeth all her vows to stand, or all her bonds, which are upon her; he hath let them stand, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. 16 But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. 17 These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
Exodus 20: 9 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;[The wife(wives) are missing because they are one with the Man of the family.see Genesis 2 above.]
Isaiah 4: 1 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying: 'We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.'[This to me only makes sense or reason based on all of these texts in this writing.]
Ezekiel 14: 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.[This is only one of several version of this in this chapter of Ezekiel. One the witness of two or more shall you judge the truth of any matter. The last line was a paraphrase of the Law of two or three witnesses to put someone to death in Numbers and Deuteronomy, but absolutely true in the actions of MY GOD. Another thing to write about.]
Yaakov
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