Truth in Torah and Tanach: 2015

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Close To What?

This is a follow-up of “How Close Could We Be?”.

First be for we consider that question of “Close To What?”, it would be good to remind ourselves of some basics with GOD.

1) Everything HE said has or will come true.

2) Do we know what has not come true yet?
Questions:

A) Have the Children of Israel fulfilled this:
i.) Leviticus 26:38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary unto Me.
a) NO!

ii.) Deuteronomy 30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
2 and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;
a) NO!

B) Have then nations of the earth with their armies risen to destroy the Land of Israel?
{Ezekiel 38:8 After many days thou shalt be mustered for service, in the latter years thou shalt come against the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, against the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they dwell safely all of them. 9 And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device; 11 and thou shalt say: I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon them that are at quiet, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; . . . .15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army; 16 and thou shalt come up against My people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the end of days, and I will bring thee against My land, that the nations may know Me, when I shall be sanctified through thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

OR Isaiah 11, or there are some more things that need to happen. How long?

Okay, so what exactly is missing, that are show stoppers.
1) All of the Curses and Promises have happened
2) The Children of Israel, are so stricken by events and the punishment that they “return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;”

If those are show stoppers then what can we expect from events in the very near future? An amount of anguish, pain and suffering for the Children of Israel seven times greater than that of the last punishment. What? If the 1940’s we not bad enough to turn our hearts back to the Source of OUR Existence, and fulfill Leviticus 26 and the end of Deuteronomy, then how bad would need to be to change our hearts?

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.’

I would say that that verse is true. Knowledge, has greatly increased in the last twenty years, where he have found confirmations of theory and Tanakh texts can now be seen Fact. In every area of science we have proof that life here on this planet was not and could not be chance, but required a Designer with Knowledge and wisdom as far above our combined knowledge being equivalent to man standing on the sea shore on earth and the DESIGNER encompassing all visible galaxies with one hand. (Isaiah 55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.)
Yet, we have not understood the Living GOD of Israel, and what HE SAID through HIS Prophets.

On Prophets, we are given a by THE ALMIGHTY means of knowing HIS prophets. From the greatest to the least.

The greatest prophet is Moses, evidence for this statement: “Numbers 12:6 And He said: ‘Hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house; 8 with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?’. “

Other Prophets: Deuteronomy 18:15 A prophet will the LORD thy God raise up unto thee, from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 according to all that thou didst desire of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.’ 17 And the LORD said unto me: ‘They have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.20 But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if thou say in thy heart: ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?’ 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken; the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.

While many signs a prophecies seem to be being fulfilled, there are things not yet accomplished that must be before the Last Day happens. We are very close, within a four years. What remains to be done, is likely to pick up speed as many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished and the last punishment and preparations for the final battle are underway. To see this, read the news on the internet and how the world is lining up to bring the remaining to completion.

Other writings addressing what is coming and why are:

“The Last Day” http://ask-james.com/wordpress1/?p=222
“The Last Day Continued” http://ask-james.com/wordpress1/?p=502
“The Last Day Part 2” http://ask-james.com/wordpress1/?p=545

There are of course many of writings there which are very related. Please enjoy. If you have questions or responses please post them. Thank you.

Yaakov

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How Smart Are You?

Here are some questions that will help you find out how smart you are, O.K.?

First Question: Is the GOD Of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob REAL?

Second Question: So, what does HE want from you?

Third Question: Exactly where will you find what HE WANTS?

Fourth Question: Where are HIS rules, teachings and Commands?

Fifth Question: So, Exactly what does HE require from you to be HIS?

My answers:
1) Absolutely, Alive and Well. Put in another way, HE is the SAME NOW as when HE SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT. HE will belong after time is forgotten.

2) Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; . . . .

3) The Writings of Moses, also called the Written Torah.

4) The Writings of Moses, also called the Written Torah.

5) From the very beginning was has been to Do Exactly what HE ask of you. Another example of Exodus 19:5. . . .

If your answers are different, tell me where I am wrong. Or, ask me how I know. Either is fine with me.

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Seeking To Know What Is TRUTH

When I want to know THE LAW or the TRUTH, I always look to the Writings of Moses, aka, Written Torah, or the TORAH between the two sticks.

Why, when I want to Know what the Living GOD OF ISRAEL wants from me do I go there? “Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house; 8 with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?'”

So, if the GOD I TRUST, declares that Moses is the best source of information regarding what HE wants, WHO AM I TO SAY, I know better than Moses? My GOD has already declared Moses’s position, in that “he is trusted in all My house”, no one else has had this declaration by the ALMIGHTY. What a great referral.

I can also say that when anyone has tried to declare the “Writings of Moses” wrong, even myself; in studying those writings I have only found that the idea of an error was wrong and not the TORAH of Moses.

SO, for a long time now, instead of fighting against, I have sought to understand those writings better. What I have found and write about, is amazing and has connections to today’s world and events.

Consider please, that a document written more than 3,500 years ago, could tell of events today, 80 years ago, a 100 years ago and even 5996 years ago. How is this possible without error, and containing things we are only starting to discover in science, on and off our world. Conversations, declarations and statements then, give insight to our purpose(yours and mine) along with our relationship to the MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

A great puzzlement to me is: Why so few humans even want to know about HIM or why we should do what HE says?

Glory, Honor and Thanksgiving unto The ALMIGHTY who gave me a chance to live and to learn and then to LIVE!

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A Strange Thing Happened

Originally written 20150820.

A strange thing happened yesterday. I went for a walk to see more of Jerusalem and found myself back to the Old City and to the area of the Wall. It was very hot again with very few people in the area. I turned around went the 4km back to where I am staying, to cool off a do some writing.

Later, at 20:00 (8:00p.m.) I went out to see about getting food and to just enjoy the cool of the evening. This means that I intentionally did not take a camera, computer, smart phone, digital notebook, or a Tanakh. So, I am not weighed down with any extras.

With no one to distract me, I am thinking on some of the things I have been writing regarding the soul. When all of a sudden a verse came to me like being hit by a basketball. The understanding of the verse changed as my perception of it changed. I needed to look it up, the verse, does it really say that or am I imagining this. But, I don’t have any form of Tanakh or Torah with me. I think where can I find one? Who can I ask?

As I am walking, I glance at people to discover if they might be carrying any of the books I need. I even stop a man similar in dress to myself and looks like he is carrying an Artscroll Tanakh, on King George St. Turns out it is just a prayer book. While all of this transpires, I have a need to get back to the Wall, to see the Place, with an urgency, the reason unknown.

There is a book store to the right as one goes down to the Kotel from Chabad St. It is open, I stop there to check my facts in an Artscroll and a Jerusalem Bible, I am correct in my memory of the verse.

I go down the last steps to an over look of the Kotel and the entrances. I thank the ALMIGHTY for the insight and wait. For what I do not know, but I wait and watch. The air is cool and with a nice breeze. The sky is clearer than at any time since my arrival, it is beautiful.

A half hour later I decide to leave, I still have not eaten. There are many people on the stairs, beggars, sellers of red thread, sellers of blessings. Even a book seller is now at the top of the stairs. The book seller approaches me and starts a conversation. He learns that I am from California. He glances over his selection of books to determine which one he might be able to sell me. I stop him and say, I have something for you. He stops to listen. I say “There are two verses in the Torah of Moses that prove, your soul is the SPIRIT OF GOD.” He turns to his friend which has also been looking for someone to sell, and asks “What’s a soul?”. They discuss it a little, they came to a decision and now they both are listening. I give them both verses from Genesis and explain the meaning I found. I start to leave, and the first turns back to me and says thank you.

I go get something to eat, feeling no more urgency. Was the discussion with the book sellers the reason for the evening events? There are no accidents, The ALMIGHTY has HIS reasons.

Shalom,

Yaakov

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“Unconditional Love” ?

Is there any such thing as “Unconditional Love”?

Yes, A mother and/or a Father of a New Born. The reason there is “Unconditional Love” at that time is clear. Without “Unconditional Love”, the species would have died out long ago, because of this screeming, crying, loud, annoying, eating, peeing, messy, nasty little copy of a human, “Unconditionally TRUSTING YOU” to give them everything they require to survive. At that point, except in rare occasions, the parents are filled with “Unconditional Love” and commitment to this “bundle of joy” which is their future.

Maybe we should start with what we mean by “Unconditional Love”

merriam-webster.com online defines

Unconditional Love as:
1 : not conditional or limited : absolute, unqualified

The follow-on question must be: Except for that “Unconditional Love” between infant and parents is the above possible?

Trust In The Arm?

This is week’s Torah Portion, which is the Last Torah Portion(Vezot Haberakhah: Deuteronomy 33,1-34,12) and then The First Portion(Bereishit: Genesis 1,1-6,8) both are included in Simchat Torah(Restarting the Torah Reading Cycle done on the 8th day of Sukkot). The verse below is that blessing of Moses(Deuteronomy 33) prior to his last trip up the mountain to die.

Deuteronomy 33:7 And this for Judah, and he said: Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in unto his people; his hands shall contend for him, and Thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.(this seems to mean that Judah’s work is for himself only)

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

This last text was a prophetic statement from Jeremiah, aimed at Judah. Are these two verses speaking of the same things? I believe the answer is: YES!

This past weekend has been a little upsetting, because I have come to realize that Rabbinic Judaism is still alive and well in Jerusalem.(Rabbinic Judaism – is putting Oral Tradition, and Other writings a head of the Written Torah and then claiming that the Word Of GOD is in their hands.) Even in the Conservative Shul I attended on Erev Shabbat. The Rabbi explained to the attendees (unbidden) that rabbis get to determine who is a Jew and what they can do, what rights they have. . . . I did not say anything, being a Jew by Choice, and not accepting of the Rabbinic Rules which override the Written Law of Moses.

Only later on Simchat Torah did I make the observation about Deuteronomy 33:7 and then Jeremiah 17:5 connected on later in the day of Simchat Torah. To me it seems that Moses was warning Judah about its actions, and Jeremiah is declaring GOD’S Position regarding what Judah has become after hundreds of years.

Later my mind attached all of this to Ezekiel 34:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require My sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver My sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. (Is that last done by children leaving Judaism after Bar or Bat Miztvah so that the number of practicing Jews declines year or year? This might be another good write up.)

The Tanakh is full of GOD’S complaints regarding our turning away from HIM and HIS LAWS. Of leaders that look to their own welfare and not unto the ones that trust them to lead (Shepherds). If in doubt read Ezekiel 34, Jeremiah 23, please read the whole chapter and more if you like.

This position becomes enhanced if you consider that the Rabbis are still placing themselves over the Written Word of GOD, by the Hand of Moses.

These quoted items are a great example of how they view themselves.

{ “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

This statement was made by Hillel the Elder (in Pirkei Avot Chapter 1:14), the leader of the Jewish Supreme Court in the Land of Israel in the early part of the 1st Century CE.}

The Oven of Akhnai; based on (Leviticus) 11:33, on the rules of tumah with respect to earthenware vessels.

[Again, please read the whole chapter of Leviticus 11, to understand context of the laws. The issue is not the law, but the following statement concerning the Rabbis. This is a Rabbinic Teaching in the Talmud, I did not make this up, and it is not the only story like this in the Rabbinic writings.]

“God smiled and said: ‘My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me!’ God’s sons ‘defeated him’ with their arguments. Rabbi Yehoshua was correct in his contention that a view confirmed by majority vote must be accepted, even where God Himself holds the opposite view.” (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Metzia 59b, Steinsaltz Edition [NY: Random House 1990], Vol. III p.237)

Those who use a few words from a verse, in order to change the meaning to what ever they desire, and the continual declarations that: Not only are the rabbis better than Moses, they also belittle THE ALMIGHTY as in “God smiled and said: ‘My sons have defeated. . . . “ hence they declare they are smarter than GOD! –This makes me ANGRY, I can only get a hint of what HE THINKS of it.

These text are tied together, in that Judah works for himself and trusts his own ability above all. This seems to have been the LORD’S observation since the beginning of the relationship, but HE already knew that they were going to demonstrate these bad behaviors and be punished, but a remnant would always be saved.

This reminds me of another question: How big is a remnant?

Merriam-Webster Online http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remnant
Full Definition of REMNANT
1
a : a usually small part, member, or trace remaining
b : a small surviving group —often used in plural
2
: an unsold or unused end of piece goods
So a remnant could also equal just ONE, ref: Exodus 32: 10 Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.’ (golden calf story)

And on the witness of two or more:
Numbers 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.’ (Refusing to go into the Promised Land.)

The reason for defining a REMNANT concerns How many are needed to keep the promise?

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 shall be for a fire, and his Holy One 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.

This remnant is a big thing in the prophecies. Another Big Idea is HIS inheritance or HIS portion, but those are in a different writing.

Shalom,

May the LORD grant you eyes that see, hears that hear and an understanding heart.

Yaakov

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What I See. . . .

Israel, mostly Jerusalem is where I have been for a couple of months now. This was not my original idea to stay in Jerusalem, but The LORD had other plans.

This has been great because, instead of doing the tourist schedule of: go to this place; see as much as possible; maybe a guided tour; have dinner with your new friends and a little sleep; do it again; until the time to return home comes. Instead of that schedule mine has been move to a new location for a week or two, twice a day take a two to six mile walk to see, hear, think, reason and learn about Israel and the people here; and when possible to write. The writing part is evidenced by the number of items I have written during this trip.

This writing is about what I see or have seen. The result at the end will describe what I see as going events and the whys. The beginning is always a good place to start, and yet, it is best this time to start with the Prophet Isaiah, with my side comments[. . . . ] along the way.

Israel[The Children of] is the ALMIGHTY’S inheritance and HIS Land with Jerusalem are HIS Treasure. A land that not so long ago was a desert, mostly a waste land. Made so by the LORD as a sign, and to fulfill the Covenants(contracts).

Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly; they have forsaken the LORD, they have contemned the Holy One of Israel, they are turned away backward.
. . . . 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 floods.
. . . . 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 11:3 . . . . Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words of this covenant,
4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying: Hearken to My voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so shall ye be My people, and I will be your God;
5 that I may establish the oath which I swore unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.’ Then answered I, and said: ‘Amen, O LORD.’
. . . . 7 For I earnestly forewarned your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, forewarning betimes and often, saying: Hearken to My voice.
8 Yet they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart; therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.’
{( Verse 3, I am checking the translation:
ארור האיש אשר לא ישמע את דברי הברית הזאת Cursed is the man who can not hear the words of this covenant)
[Hear What does this mean: Isaiah 6:9 And He said: ‘Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.]}

That was a sample of only a couple Prophecies, as in Jeremiah 11:7 & 8, also in the Writings of Moses. Have these been coming true?

Well, let look at a writer from 150 years ago, he is much better that I at writing.

Mark Twain his book “Innocents Abroad” observed during 1867’s visit to Israel:

“….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”

He was amazed by the smallness of the city of Jerusalem:
“A fast walker could go outside the walls of Jerusalem and walk entirely around the city in an hour. I do not know how else to make one understand how small it is.” [Old City]

Today what do we have?
Recently, Wikipedia stated in 2013, Jerusalem had a population of 890,428 people.

Area

• City
125,156 dunams(125.156 km2 or 48.323 sq mi)
• Metro
652,000 dunams (652 km2 or 252 sq mi)
Population (2013)

• City
890,428 [1]
• Density
6,400/km2 (17,000/sq mi)
• Metro
1,029,300
So the land was to become a waste and it happened. The Land was to become alive with the Children of Israel returning, Truly this has happened and only since 1948.

The WORD of The LORD is TRUTH, and it is being accomplished NOW.

The Land has changed. I am very surprised at the diversity of planet growth here. Trees and vegetation of every sort I see here. Trees that live the wet sections of Hawaii stand near cacti, fruit trees standing along side aloe planets. I have seen in America top soil 12 to 18 inches thick of black as night loom, and all of these could not grow there. Yet, I see soil that looks volcanic in nature with a desert type color and consistency, even ready to be taken away by a strong wind. I am amazed.

The human construction is also amazing. Buildings that are hundreds if not thousands of years since the foundation was made, along side buildings that must be pieces of art. Although the later I do not think will last long, not because of the End Of Days, but just because of how they are built. Okay, current construction around the world is designed to be replaced and not to stand for centuries. Like a flower, nice to look at but soon in the trash.

The People are returning from among the Nations as it is happening even today. Yet, with all of this evidence before us and around us have we returned unto the LORD with our Hearts and Souls? In short, NO!

Here is what I see, hear and consider with a heavy heart, and great anxiety for fear of what is now coming upon US. The words of the LORD and HIS prophets are as true today as when the were written and spoken the last time.

There seems to be no one to trust, at least no human in a official capacity, also many that are not in any official capacity are unworthy of any trust or respect. Not just in Jerusalem, I have been other places. On a people to people or a person to person basis: there seems to be little difference. There seems to be a pervasive fear, mistrust or distrust of “those that are not already well know to me.” This of course is not shared by the teens and early twenty somethings, which have their own agendas, that being to find excitement, thrills and others to spend time with. This is not necessarily a good or bad thing, but definitely an idea for another writing.

There are lots of places of worship, religious learning, religions, from seemingly every possible sources and yet, I am hard pressed to find those that know or want to know about the Covenants, the Five Books by the hand of Moses. I find everything but that. So how does this relate to prophecy?

Jeremiah 11:9 And the LORD said unto me: ‘A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.
. . . . 13 For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to offer unto Baal.

Lest you think that this is just these prophets which came later;

Deuteronomy 30:17 But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

What are we suppose to do?

There are two parts to this one.
Part One
As a one Person(a Soul)

Three times: “hearken unto My voice”
Five times: “all thy soul”
Six times “all thy heart”
Seven times “love the LORD”
Nine times “hearken to the voice of the LORD”
Twelve times “keep His commandments”

Part Two
This is for the Children Of Israel to do.

This one is more difficult and will happen soon, but has not happened, EVER, YET!

First we need Witnesses that this is true, so:
How many witnesses are needed?

Numbers 35:30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

Deuteronomy 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:15 . . . .at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Even the Master Of The UNIVERSE demonstrates the LAW before it is given.

Genesis 18. Abraham is visited by three men(how are not men). When they leave, Abraham accompanies on the way. 20 And the LORD said: ‘Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.
21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto Me; and if not, I will know.’
22 And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
[It appears here that two have gone down and One Remains. Because:]
Genesis 19:1 And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he fell down on his face to the earth;

We now know the need for witnesses so what is the evidence?

Leviticus 26:38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary unto Me.
41 I also will walk contrary unto them, and bring them into the land of their enemies; if then perchance their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then be paid the punishment of their iniquity; . . . .
43 For the land shall lie forsaken without them, and shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall be paid the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected Mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes. . . . .
46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between Him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

So what are we (Children Of Israel) doing wrong?

Leviticus 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments;
15 and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant;

What is the voice of the LORD thy GOD?

To keep the Laws and Teachings of the LORD.

Where are they?

Four times: “written in the Law of Moses”
Thirteen times: “Law of Moses”
Twenty two times: “by the hand of Moses”

How do you know those are the correct laws?

This is about the Sedition of Miriam and Aaron found in Numbers 12, an important read.

Numbers 12:5 And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
6 And He said: ‘Hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house;
8 with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?’
9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed.

Deuteronomy 30:10 if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

Pick a country. Any country. Have decided on one? Who in that country’s administration do you trust with your future? Are you sure? Why are you so sure? Stop naming or declaring all of those things you have been told in the news and via public opinion, text messaging, gossip.

Look instead at every action that person has taken, every deed you can identify as being that person’s deeds. Everything that had to originate in their office or by their hand. For each deed, what is the outcome that effects you?

We are very near the Last Day, with a few things not yet done.
Some of what is left to be done:
The return to the LAW as presented above.
The Nations gathered for the end event. This is in process now — read the current news reports daily, it is happening. Like in:
Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear, and attend, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof, the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, and fury against all their host; He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter. . . .

Ezekiel 38 and 39 story of Gog.

To those that think that just because the LORD sends them to punish the Children Of Israel, would be wise to remember that NONE Of Those which have done THIS went unpunished.

Example:
Jeremiah 12:9 Is My heritage unto Me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trodden My portion under foot, they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it a desolation, it mourneth unto Me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
12 Upon all the high hills in the wilderness spoilers are come; for the sword of the LORD devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land, no flesh hath peace.
13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, they profit not; be ye then ashamed of your increase, because of the fierce anger of the LORD
14 Thus saith the LORD: As for all Mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit, behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people to swear by My name: ‘As the LORD liveth,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of My people. [This is Jeremiah and not Isaiah so I must conclude that this is the desolation of Israel two thousand years ago. So this is the Recreation of the State of Israel? Then what about this next verse?]
17 But if they will not hearken, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith the LORD.
At last a prayer:

Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and see, even from Thy holy and glorious habitation; Where is Thy zeal and Thy mighty acts, the yearning of Thy heart and Thy compassions, now restrained toward me?
16 For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name.
17 O LORD, why dost Thou make us to err from Thy ways, and hardenest our heart from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants’ sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.
18 Thy holy people they have well nigh driven out, our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.
19 We are become as they over whom Thou never borest rule, as they that were not called by Thy name. Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,
Isaiah 64:1 As when fire kindleth the brush-wood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at Thy presence,
2 When Thou didst tremendous things which we looked not for–Oh that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence!–

The servant Israel is to be a Light unto the nations, as in:

Isaiah 42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and have taken hold of thy hand, and kept thee, and set thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations

Isaiah 49:6 Yea, He saith: ‘It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the offspring of Israel; I will also give thee for a light of the nations, that My salvation may be unto the end of the earth.’

I have gone on long enough this time. These is more and more and more, yet if you will not seek you can not find the truth.

Shalom,

Yaakov

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The Wall -- Enhanced!

The Wall is Truly a troublesome place, for a couple of reasons. First it does not face the Place The LORD placed HIS NAME.

The Second trouble: Why would so many religious leaders, point their followers away from HIS NAME? I will continue this one later. Back to The Wall!

This is a picture I took 20150730, of The Wall. It is a standard first picture of the wall. What we a looking at is the western retaining wall of the Second Temple grounds. Not only is this not an original retaining wall for the Temple King Solomon built for the NAME, it is the southern section of the wall, not even close to the Place of the NAME.

2 Chronicles Chapter 6 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים בVerses 19 .. 33– Paraphrased(King Solomon dedicated the temple which he built for The LORD. Asking that HE place HIS NAME in this place, and that when ever someone faces this place and prays the LORD WILL HEAR.

Response from THE LORD 2 Chronicles Chapter 7 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב Verses 12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him: ‘I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; 14 if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now Mine eyes shall be open, and Mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25b07.htm]

On the Witness of Two or more are we to know the truth, so: 1 Kings Chapter 8 מְלָכִים א for the dedication and the prayer for King Solomon. 1 Kings Chapter 9 מְלָכִים א 3 And the LORD said unto him: ‘I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09a09.htm]

So there is the request and the Promise by THE LORD. Why is it so important that I know where GOD PLACE HIS NAME?

In Leviticus, Deuteronomy and the Prophets speaking in the LORD’S NAME in the Tanakh, we are told that we will be so bad that the LORD will not hear our prays. King Solomon, in the dedication of the HOUSE OF WORSHIP he built for the LORD, did get a commitment from the LORD to HEAR our prayers placed toward the place HE PLACED HIS NAME(Perpetually-without end). {I believe this to be the most important and wises thing King Solomon ever did.}

The next question must be: Where exactly is this place? 31° 46′ 40.8″ N, 35° 14′ 7.44″ E Funny, okay why this particular place?

1 Chronicles Chapter 21 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א This is the Story of King David, causing a count of the Children of Israel, and THE LORD’S anger and the deal. The deal for the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, where the Angel of the LORD has his sword drawn against Jerusalem. King David is to build an Alter to The LORD and sacrifice the unto The LORD. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight, and did as he was instructed by the Angel of The LORD via the prophet Gad. [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a21.htm]

2 Chronicles Chapter 3 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב :1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father; for which provision had been made in the Place of David, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25b03.htm]

Mount Moriah, Temple Mount and dome of the rock are all the same location, the place where GOD PLACED HIS NAME, as shown above.So? What has that to do with the Wall?

My question is this for you: If you what the LORD to hear your prayer, and to know that HE will hear you, to where do you face? Answer: The place HE placed HIS NAME! Mt Moriah, Temple Mount, the place King David built an alter to GOD, to stop the destruction of Jerusalem by the Angel of The LORD. Only there is the promise by GOD to Hear.

The wall is facing south of the Temple Mount not to the place of HIS NAME.

Return to The Second trouble: Why would so many religious leaders, point their followers away from HIS NAME? Why do we find it so difficult to even consider keeping the Covenant THE LORD has made with our fathers and with us?

For myself, I will go again today to the Wall, and pray not toward the wall but to The PLACE HE PLACED HIS NAME. There is only ONE Source of deliverance and help, from now on, The LORD the GOD OF Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob, My GOD is the only salvation and only hope there is.

Please, to quote Moses: “Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,” Choose the LORD that you may be heard, and return to the GOOD that you may live.

Yaakov

Addendum: 20150823, I was again at a place that affords an over site of the Kotel. Yes I am still coming to this place. I have never considered the Gold Dome which sits atop the Place of the NAME OF GOD as a good thing. More of a monstrosity and an insult to THE LORD, . . . . Until NOW.

The LORD left and destroyed the First because of our actions. HE was never in the second one, and destroyed it anyway, possibly for the same reasons. So the most important place on this planet, possible the universe has a one of a kind memento sitting on top of it that the Whole World can see. It was built by Islam, with a Gold Dome, for which no other place holy to them has. And this is not even that holy to them.

So why a Gold Dome?

Why go to such trouble for what is not the most important place to them? Why something that could be seen from space, due to its reflective brightness?

PLACE OF HIS NAME SHINES BRIGHTLY. Is it possible the THE LORD caused it to be built as a beacon to HIS NAME? Address: 31° 46′ 40.8″ N, 35° 14′ 7.44″ E, I have not found its equal in size and brilliance.

I took this photograph 20150730, showing the relationship between the PLACE OF THE NAME and The WALL.

Today I see the GOLD DOME as something more than what I saw before. The place of THE NAME is the STONE under the Gold Dome, but is that not quite a marker? One that Islam, Judaism and Christianity will not destroy. Amazing what the LORD does.

Yaakov

Enhanced:

The issue of the exact location of the site. The Rock of Israel, Is this the indicator of where the NAME was Placed, in the ROCK of Mount Moriah, also under the “Dome Of The Rock”. A name of permanence, long lasting, like: The Rock Of Israel, The Place Of The Name, HE, I do not believe place HIS NAME in the dirt, for HE already placed HIS Spirit in the dirt(Flesh).

{2 Chronicles 7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him: ‘I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice.
13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;
14 if My people, upon whom My name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land
15 Now Mine eyes shall be open, and Mine ears attent, unto the prayer that is made in this place.
16 For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.}

[2 Samuel Chapter 23 שְׁמוּאֵל ב
:3 The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: ‘Ruler over men shall be the righteous, even he that ruleth in the fear of God,]

1 Chronicles Chapter 21 דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים א: 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was about to destroy, the LORD beheld, and He repented Him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel: ‘It is enough; now stay thy hand.’ And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD standing between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

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