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Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that change darkness into light, and light into darkness; that change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 23 That justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! . . . .

Are you a participant in these actions? Don't answer yet. You should strive to understand what is being presented here and in the rest of this document.

Please consider Jakob Massermann observations in "My Life As A German and Jew"
Translated from the original German 1921 publication. Via Google Translate to English.
The first place I knew of this text was in a book I found called "The Holocaust -- The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 by Leni Yahil, on Google Books, displayed with permission from Oxford University Press, Copyright. Page 34. **I am not presenting Oxfords translation, but Google's. **

[ It is in vain, the land of poets and thinkers on behalf of his
To summon poets and thinkers. Every prejudice that you dismissed
believes brings, like carrion worms, thousand new to light.

It is in vain to turn the right cheek when the left
has been beaten. It does not make them in the least questionable, it
do not touch them, they were not disarmed: they hit the right.

It is in vain, in the frantic shouting words of reason
thrown. They say what he dares to open his mouth? Stuff his mouth.

It is vain to act for creating. They say: we know
nothing we have not seen anything, we have not heard anything.

It is vain to seek concealment. They say, the coward,
He hides his guilty conscience which drives him.

It is futile to go among them and provide them with a hand. they
say what he takes out his Jewish intrusiveness?

It is in vain to keep them faithful, whether as a campaigner, be it
As fellow citizens. They say he is the Proteus, he is the cause of everything.

It is in vain to help them slaves chains of the members to
stripes. They say he will have made his profit thereby.

It is vain to detoxify the poison. They brew fresh.

It is in vain for them to live and die for them. They say:
he is a Jew. ]

It seems obvious to me that what is presented in this writing is not new. It is so NOT NEW, that will learn that this goes back thousands of years.

While reviewing "Expelled No Intelligence Allowed with the Host Ben Stein" found on YouTube.com, I was reminded that Moses and the Prophets, presenting the WORD OF THE LORD, told us that these are the signs of disaster(The End of Days).

My observations on this subject are as follows.

There are many questions which those in science should be looking into, which would advance our understanding of the Life, The Earth and the Universe. For example: What is required for a planet to support advanced life forms? Like say people. If we are to travel in space what is the chance of finding a place we could live?

However, these questions cannot be considered or even acknowledged, because they may point to the evidence of GOD. This according to the Intellectual and Scientific communities is unthinkable: That there maybe an intelligent designer, or even the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as reported in the Writings of Moses. The result is quite stunning in that the amount hatred, name calling and evil actions which come into play, because Logic, Evidence, Thought and Reason have become undesirable for use.

Does it really come down to this: one is either for GOD or Against GOD? This when even the complexity of even a single cell demonstrates a designer and there is not even a theoretical possibility of an accident. So I admit that the last line makes the question a absolute YES. A million more such theoretical impossibilities makes the opposite answer 1 to a Googolplex to the 100 power. [ googolplex =  number that is equal to 1 followed by a googol   and expressed as . ]

Time for a joke: Scientist now believe that they can make a human from dirt and challenge The Creator to a showdown. The Creator accepts the challenge, and say "You First." The scientist go outside to get some dirt and a booming voice says "That's my dirt, make your own."

While I find this amusing, I also find that Science attempts only to describe in a theory, what is seen and then attempts to make predictions to see if the theory is correct. The theory only stands until it fails, and must then be altered or replaced. This is why it is good to have theories, they are not fact only an opinion and therefore are fallible. While facts and truths should always remain facts and truths. Somewhere along the way this has been forgotten. It is a Shame.

This brings me back to the Garden of Eden, where every soul is required to choose GOD or not god, and the result is what happens to your soul.

In consideration of what was presented in the Intelligent Design(ID) vs Intellectual and Scientific(IS) I found "Isaiah 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble. 6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise ungodliness, and to utter wickedness against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7 The instruments also of the churl are evil; he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, and the needy when he speaketh right. 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand."

Could this really be, the END OF DAYS?

Malachi 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say: 'Wherein have we wearied Him?' In that ye say: 'Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?'

We judge the people, the world and our own existence by what we think we know, are you aware how much theory runs your thoughts verse how much truth and facts you use? Are you sure? What makes you so sure? In the balance is your soul with little time remaining. - 0 + ? Where are you?

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Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'

Ouch! If your soul is marked for death, all that remains is DUST. - 0 + ?

A rebuttal to a commentator that quoted Gen. 3:19 as we are to be reminded that we are only dust. I tell you that if you are a '-' then you are dust, and if you are a '0' you are little better than dust, but IF you are '+' you are highly valued and a Living Soul first using a body of dust as transport.

For those that think '0' is not so bad, 0 is waiting to pass the First test and each test there after. + passed the test and is being tested again, pass = +, failed is -, 0 is restart. The GOAL that when your body dies, your soul might continue to LIVE, all else is dust and does not exist.

You can be a ++ if you want to, but you must decide to do so and then do it.

The Word as Written by Moses

Shalom,

Yaakov

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Trust . . . .

Trust, A difficult task for those older than 6 years of age, and easy for those less than 2 years of age.

The later is easy to understand because they can do nothing for themselves and therefore are required to trust, in Dad, Mom and must trust that everything will be fine, because they do not know what they need; what will happen if they don't or what will happen if they do get what they want.

The Torah and Tanakh present many examples of Trust and how we are to Trust GOD. Isaac is a great demonstration of Trust, in that at the binding(Genesis 22), he did not fight back but appears to trust both GOD and his father Abraham, that everything will be FINE. While the text does not explicitly say Isaac trusts, I will give you examples of his self restraint.

When Isaac is lead up the mountain he knows there is no sacrifice with them, when he asks his father he is told that the LORD will provide his sacrifice, Isaac continues on. When he is being bound by his father he allows this to happen(it does no matter the age of Isaac, Abraham was 100 years of age when Isaac was born, so at age 13 or 33 Isaac would be able to escape his father), Isaac allows it to continue.

Isaac must have been awake when the Word is Spoken to his father regarding the results of the test. Hence he would know that GOD wants us to trust HIS WORD and obey, everything will be fine.

Isaac is, in appearance, simply -- "Simple". I believe that he has a bad reputation, as he is demonstrating a trust in GOD. The kind of kind of trust that all of us should have. As evidence that this is what GOD is looking for, Isaac is ways, Abraham was actually tested the most because he did not understand that he needed to trust GOD. He is the first to set out on the path of learning who GOD is and what HE wants or expects from us.

As I started with the 'Binding of Issac' Story, we can move backwards from them and find Abraham's evidence upon which he should trust the LORD. From Genesis 12 until the end of the 'Binding of Issac' story in 21 The LORD made a deal and then as Abram grew in knowledge, GOD increased the deal. A great read if you want to understand GOD's teaching process for those that know nothing of HIM.

Anyway, why should Abraham just do what GOD has told him?

Everything up to this point consist of statements about Abraham and Sarah's decendants, including this:
"Genesis 21:12 And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee."

After that statement, GOD decide to do a test. The ultimate test. Saying to Abraham give me your son, the one you treasure most. The Blessing is passed on to Isaac after completing this test.

O.K., it is time to stop. Except to say: if the MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, the GOD of Fathers, ask you to Do or give anything that HE wants Do It. For HE gave it to you first. Trust HIM that HE always takes card of HIS OWN.

Yaakov

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Why keep the laws of Moses?

Why keep the laws of Moses?

This is a question I started to answer, but when I did a search on the internet and found that religion is the same as politics, say anything to win people to your ideas and your control. We are to search out the truth, execute justice and keep your hands from doing evil.

So where is the truth?  How can I know the truth?  Let's go back to the subject: Why keep the laws of Moses?

I will tell you that very few people of the earth will ever live beyond the little moment in time they call their life, spent in their dirt.

           --In reviewing this writing I see that the last line was cryptic. Please let me enlighten you. Your life , the one that is most valuable even to YOUR CREATOR, is not the breath in your lungs nor the beating of your heart, it is the Soul given during your creation. The dirt is where your body came from not so the SOUL. So, if you are unwilling to  be Righteous as defined by THE LORD, and written by the Hand of Moses, your existence will probably be only as long as the dirt survives.  Most people will not understand how important their choices are and what those choices will cost them, the life of their own soul. This is not speculation, it is fact.

Are you one that will save your soul?

Evidence

One piece here:
Isaiah 24:3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word. 4 The earth fainteth and fadeth away, the world faileth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do fail. 5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statute, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few.

Verse 5, does not say 'Jews', 'Children of Israel', Catholics, Baptist, Muslims, Hindus, .... It says the INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH TRANSGRESSED Laws, Statue and Covenant(Contract) and the LORD has spoken the destruction of the earth. This is the second time, but not by water.

So my next question is: Where are you going to go to escape? No there is no salvation there! Not even off this world will save you. If you have faith that someone, anyone who is not you, can stand before THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, The GOD OF Abraham, GOD OF Isaac, GOD OF Jacob, and save you or your soul, . . . . . . You are wrong!  If you truly know differently, SHOW ME where the GOD MOST HIGH ever said HIS contracts or HIS WORD, HE VOIDS. Or On the witness of two(prophets proven to speak in the NAME OF THE MOST HIGH) in the TANAHK or Old Testament declare this is possible. Will the LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL forget or not uphold HIS Covenants? "I Will Break MY Covenant!"

Maybe your question is "Does GOD Exist?" and you will find other writings there.

What must I do to be Righteous?

Isaiah has a concise answer again, although he is not the only one to explain this.

Isaiah 56:1 Thus saith the LORD: Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for My salvation is near to come, and My favour to be revealed. 2 Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

That was short and concise. Do justice, be righteous, keep the Seventh Day (Sabbath) Holy, keep your hands from any evil.

Where can I know what Justice is, or learn to be Righteous? What profanes the Sabbath?  What is Evil?

The basic Laws are given in Exodus Chapter 20 through 23. They are also given in Deuteronomy. These are the start, but remember GOD'S in the first Isaiah quote:" . . . . transgressed the laws, violated the statute, broken the everlasting covenant . . . ."  This is explained in the Writings Of Moses = Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The prophets of the Tanakh(Old Testament) never changed the word GOD command Moses to write. Those prophets give a view from a different direction of the same events. This is as is must be because the Numbers entry below.

There is ONLY ONE GOD, and HE is outside of time, and know every movement of  HIS CREATION.

Can you be saved? Yes. But You must change you actions and perform as Moses instructed.

Why keep the laws of Moses?  Who is Moses anyway? What is so important about Moses?

Short answer: GOD told Moses, Moses Wrote Them, GOD IS ANGRY when we don't do as HE said, Refers back to the Writings of Moses.

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?'

One more requirement, in seeking the truth go to that which is WRITTEN not the verbal. That which is written down does not change. We change it because we refuse to do it, not because it requires our input. If GOD was O.K. with our changing HIS WORD, HE would not declare Malachi 3:"22 Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances."

You have access to the WORD, to know what to do. You have a mind, ears and eyes, that you may understand and change, OR NOT.

I recommend that the links given are for the Chapters in the Tanahk, which should be read for context to the quotes. In this way you may understand the meaning of all you read and not be tricked with fancy words and word play.

Yaakov

"By The Hand Of Moses"

"By The Hand Of Moses"

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I have, we have, a problem. To wit, How can I know the TRUTH? For my whole life, I have heard many different explanations of the sources of religion and then which set of laws I am to follow.

Common phrases regarding the sources are :
1) The Five Books of Moses(Torah) are written by man.
2) There are multiply writers.
3) A living document that must be interpreted for you.
4) A Fiction
5) A nice fantasy.
6) The WORD OF GOD, Written at HIS command, by the Hand of MOSES.

The last is my position, and I have almost never found anyone that thinks along my view. Where does my view come from?

START Here:
For HIS part, The ALMIGHTY caused Moses to write the test of GOD'S WORD as follows:
Deuteronomy 18:"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."

Please allow me to explain why it matters who wrote the TORAH and WHY, to me.

For as long as I can remember, I have been seeking to do that which is right to do. This is probably from my dad, and the pain I received when I did what was wrong. Also, I had some kind (Baptist, Methodist, Church of ___, . . . .) of religious teaching at least four days a week until I was 11 years of age. The Roman teachings are in the form of : we are born with sin, consequences of sin (pain), and there is only one way out of the pain, which is to have someone die for me. But, I might sin again . . . ., I guess it had me scared of doing anything but what was right. So what is right and how can I know and do what is right?

I could think for myself, and even at age six, I figured out that those preaching, were taking only a couple of words and making them say anything they wanted. That seems very strange to me.

I decided that the TRUTH must be the TRUTH every time, and GOD must always do what HE SAYS, if not then there is no truth and no god. These are my premises and they still stand for the foundation of my knowledge.

Put another way: A god that acts fickle and does not say what he means is not a god I have time for.  After all, throughout history, when a Man gives his word and does not make it good, the result is you can not trust that man. A man who's word  is not trusted has a bad reputation and No Honor, he is of little value.

Should my god not be better that a good man?
This was to explain to you why I know that it is of maximum importance to my soul  to know if there is a god, who is this god and what he wants from me. So who’s writings should I follow? I start at the sedition of Miriam and Aaron when THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS says:

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?’”

So Moses is the prophet that THE ALMIGHTY speaks to MOUTH-TO-MOUTH, and thereby we are given the LAWS, TEACHINGS and reasons or evidence of GOD and what HE wants from me(us). Therefore if the Writings of Moses are wrong, and THE ALMIGHTY gave them to HIS MESSENGER then I will not be able to trust in the words of GOD. If the MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE has set the DNA of every cell and the sun, moon and stars in motion with supreme power and wisdom, then the transmission of HIS WORD is an easy thing to do.

This makes me extremely joyous, in that I have never found or heard any that can show even ONE event where GOD has contradicted HIS WORD. My current time of search is 53 years!

So where does it say that Moses wrote the Torah and that we are to obey.

I am glad that you asked.:

Exodus 35:29 ….which the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses

Leviticus 8:36 …. things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses
Leviticus 10:11 …. that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses
Leviticus 26:46 …. the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 4:49 …. commandment of the LORD they were appointed by the hand of Moses,
Numbers 9:23 ….at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 10:13 ….. according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 15:23 …all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses,
Numbers 17:5 ….  as the LORD spoke unto him by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 27:23 …. as the LORD spoke by the hand of Moses….
Numbers 36:13 …. which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses

Joshua 14:2 …. as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses…
Joshua 20:2 ….  I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses;
Joshua 21:2 …. The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses
Joshua 22:9 …. commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses

Judges 3:4 …. commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses

1Kings 8:53 ….  Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses

2Chronicles 33:8 …. all the law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses
2Chronicles 35:6 ….do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.’….

Nehemiah 9:14 …. command them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by the hand of Moses

“Moses wrote…”

Exodus 24:4 ….Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, ….

Numbers 33:2 ….. Moses wrote their goings forth, stage by stage, by the commandment of the LORD

Deuteronomy 31:9 …. Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests….

“the law of Moses”

Daniel 9:13 …. As it is written in the Law of Moses,

Nehemiah 8:1 ….As it is written in the Law of Moses,

Ezra 3:2 ….  it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God
Ezra 7:6 …. the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel

Joshua 8:31 ….as it is written in the book of the law of Moses
Joshua 23:6 …. do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses,

Malachi 3:22 Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

1 Kings 2:3 … keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;

2Kings 14:6 …. the book of the law of Moses, as the LORD commanded
2Kings 23:24 …. all the law of Moses

2 Chronicles 30:16 …. according to the law of Moses
2 Chronicles 23:18 …. written in the Law of Moses

For me this is more than enough to accept the TORAH as the WORD OF MY GOD.

This is a foundation, but I now add one piece of statement which was written by Moses, that GOD Spoke, has come true or is coming true.

What will you do?

Tanakh contains Torah

Yaakov