I'm reading through chronologically this time.

Genesis - Check

Job - check

Exodus - Check

Leviticus - now in

Leviticus 3:17 - It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.  ((is chicken skin fat?))

Leviticus 5:17 - And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Romans 5:13 - (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Romans 3:20 - Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Galatians 3:24 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Romans 3:31 - Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Sounds like the next time a certain class is taught I may want to be in the front row...

613 Laws I
An in-depth analysis of each of the 613 Laws of God as enumerated in the Torah. Deals with such questions as: Is God’s Law relevant to Christians? Which laws are applicable to Jews today? Which laws are applicable to non-Jews? What is the purpose behind dietary laws? Which laws were culturally, rather than spiritually, relevant? What about God’s grace?

I do know there is no flaw in Torah and that it is a guide and boundary for us to know what is right and wrong.  Even though Yeshua is my Saviour, it does help to read HIS Word (Torah) and study it and yes the Holy Spirit will remind me of it in situations.

Matthew 5:17-20
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

I was using the treadclimber earlier this afternoon and my BIL came down into the basement carrying an xmess tree for storage.  I overwhelmingly felt the need to pray and ask Yeshua to please reveal the Truth to my fellow loved ones whom already know HIM as Messiah to see the Truth behind such "holly daize" and that we should not view Torah as a burden.  I wasn't sure if HE would answer that prayer any time soon and just asked for HIS strength to endure and told HIM I would not go back to accepting the things the church teaches erroneously even if it meant my family made fun of me.

And at that moment a song came on the radio and I believe HE was speaking to me:

Building 429 - You Carried Me

I've been so busy, I missed the reasons
I missed Your love, and I nearly missed it all
Still You've loved me, and You've healed me
You've given all and it brought me to Your cross
I stand only because You've given me grace to walk
Only because

You carried me
You carried me
You carried me through it all
And I believe
Yes I believe
You'll carry me all the way home
Cause mercy covers all

I know the scripture, I've known the songs
I sang the words from my hollowed heart
But You've spoken softly through the storm
I've heard Your voice and I've felt the calm
I stand only because You've given me faith to walk

You carried me
You carried me
You carried me through it all
And I believe
Yes I believe
You'll carry me all the way home
Cause mercy covers all

I know that you love me
I'll never doubt it,  I can't live without it
Your mercy has found me
I am astounded, I can't live without it

You carried me
You carried me
And I believe
Yes I believe
You'll carry me all the way home
Cause mercy covers all
Mercy covers all
And I believe
And I believe
I believe

video can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxejXxA2M_E

I was painting last week at my stepdad's and he said my sister and I were so into our ex- furch that if the pastor had told us to we were going to meet the Lord today we would have drunk the koolaid.

Now I don't think I worshipped the pastor as such but my stepdad has a point.  People gullibly believe every word that comes out of their pastor's mouth as if it came directly from God.  Pastors are just humans and they make mistakes.  I like a pastor that says read it in the WORD for yourself and don't just take my word for it.  Now that's a pastor that is admitting many people do just that, oh yeah well the pastor read this many verses on sun-day from the pulpit so I'm good until next sun-day and no need to read in the WORD for myself.

so next big day of disgust:

easter ......

here's a chat I recently had with some peeps:

Yesterday at 10:27 PM   #7

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I like the cookies story ... course we won't use it until Passover in April .... as at the moment all the priest were slaughtering the passover lambs our LAMB was also paying the price to redeem us.  What a wonderful Messiah we Trust and Obey!!!

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Today at 07:29 AM   #9

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... course we won't use it until Passover in April ....

Really?  See, I always thought that Easter ALWAYS coincided with the Jewish Passover... Is it different every year, or just this one?  Do you know why?  Because I could never figure out *when* either one was supposed to be celebrated ...

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Originally Posted by S
... as at the moment all the priest were slaughtering the passover lambs our LAMB was also paying the price to redeem us.  What a wonderful Messiah we Trust and Obey!!!

I love the imagery that God saw fit to give us, and fitting it all together.  Even to the point that it was the High Priest that pronounced the condemnation of Jesus to death (as it was his job to present the sacrifice) ... I get chills. 

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Today at 11:16 AM   #10

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A few interesting sites pertaining to Passover & Easter, dates, traditions, and such. Haven't read each site completely, so (as usual) "surfer beware."

http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps100.shtml

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/movablefeasts1.html

http://www.history.com/minisites/halloween/viewPage?pageId=684

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DC

 Today at 01:58 PM   #11

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If you look on a calendar you'll see that easter is always around the spring equinox.  Where as events on God's Calendar do not revolve around the sun that HE created.

Sometimes the dates coincide but usually not.  in western society we gullibly believe the good friday story and so every year ((perhaps for schools and business convenience))  we neatly package it and of course in an effort to rid the world of Judaism in the 2nd-4th centuries easter was set so that it would never line up with the true Passover ((thank you niceans, constantine, laodiceans, etc))

Passover is always the 14th of the 1st Month according to Leviticus 23 ... so it's not a problem with God's calendar.  This year the 14th of  Nissan ((I think the name was adopted during the exile in persia)) starts on the eve of April 19th and most calendars will say the first day of Passover is april 20th

this site may explain more about the calendars http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm

hth and thanks for asking

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Today at 03:23 PM   #12

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Thanks D -

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Originally Posted by DC
http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps100.shtml

This one had some interesting info which also ties in with some things S mentioned.

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The earliest Christians celebrated the resurrection on the fourteenth of Nisan (our March-April), the date of the Jewish Passover. Jewish days were reckoned from evening to evening, so Jesus had celebrated His Last Supper the evening of the Passover and was crucified the day of the Passover. Early Christians celebrating the Passover worshiped Jesus as the Paschal Lamb and Redeemer.

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Some of the Gentile Christians began celebrating Easter in the nearest Sunday to the Passover, since Jesus actually arose on a Sunday.

This last part would make sense to me:  "Good Friday" on the passover day, "Resurrection Day" on Sunday following.

The change does seem to be due to Constantine, according to this:

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However, when Constantine became emperor and Christianity was no longer illegal, it was possible to consider more carefully the date of Easter. One of the purposes of the Council of Nicea in 325 was to settle that date. Constantine wanted Christianity to be totally separated from Judaism and did not want Easter to be celebrated on the Jewish Passover. The Council of Nicea accordingly required the feast of the resurrection to be celebrated on a Sunday and never on the Jewish Passover. Easter was to be the Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

I certainly don't understand his logic in wanting it to be "separated from Judaism" -- it was what it was when it was, and it WAS on Passover!  Oh well, comes of being emporer I suppose and doing things his way because, well, he could ...

Further complicating matters is this:

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In the sixteenth century the West accepted the new Gregorian calendar while the Eastern and Russian churches kept the Julian calendar. Because of this, Easter is again celebrated on different dates.

... which is why "Eastern Orthodox" churches celebrate differently from Western churches.

Of course, both of these calendars are different from the Jewish calendar (which as far as I can tell from the website S gave is based on a lunar rather than solar calendar) by which the date of Passover is figured.

Whew!

I do also agree with this statement:

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It's the Meaning that Matters
In spite of the differences among the churches surrounding the celebration of Jesus' resurrection, there has been through the ages an unanimous agreement that the Resurrection is a most joyous event and the basis of all Christian hope.

Amen!!

It's sort of like Christmas, IMO -- Jesus probably wasn't born on December 25, but we celebrate that day (for whatever reason, pagan or secular) and it is the meaning that we choose to give it that matters most.

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WHEN DID THEY START SAYING YESHUA EXECUTED 15th of NISSAN???????  I've never heard that it was sometime during Pesach week until today...so when did this start?  Why would they say HE was crucified the first day of passover and that the other lambs had been slaughtered the night before?

I'm sure the year Yeshua was offered up the heathen celebrated easter but I wonder if  Passover and easter even coincided that year...like this year easter is in march yet Passover is in what is called april on the western calendar.

I've got some errands to run and we get to see another presentation on the Temple Mount this evening and anyone can see from the photos that where the dome and it's sister dome's now sit is all the Temple Mount area.

Just for fun and because I like it here's a song I'm singing as I get my errands done in preparation of Shabbat

I'm on #32 of Genesis and he's talking "lost tribes" again ... only this time it's Ephraim and Judah ....

ok so hmmmm I've heard 2 arguments:

first of all the ten northern tribes or Israel sure when after Solomon's reign and the kingdom split that new guy came in and said don't go to Jerusalem to the Temple, instead I'll set up 2 other places you can go to.  and then when Assyria came in...both times many of the other 10 tribes would have been fleeing into Judea ..... so in other words the tribes were never lost and if they were then we should all be worried that G-D could lose some people .... that's sure frightening.

and when Yeshua came HE was from a more northern region of Israel and in HIM the north and south were reunited ... that Ezekiel 37 stuff.

so I've heard the above argument and yet from others they talk about the northern tribes being assimilated into Europe and Asia and one day returning to Israel ... yet there is a weblog I read and a young lady specifically says something about if the 3rd generation also marries a non-Jew then assimilation would be complete.  And a book called DNA & Tradition makes it clear that marrying outside the Jewish line is done only maybe 1% of the time.  SO how can ministers tout there is such a thing as lost/assimilated tribes and try to say that us european background folks are those 10 lost tribes?  I say we more likely came from Japeth's line, not Shem's but in Yeshua we are all brought back together and part of the commonwealth of Israel.  Praise Yeshua!!  ((see Ephesians 2:11-22))

so what does your research show?  or am I the only one who finds such things interesting?  And remember Yah always keeps a remnant!

**this may be repeated for some of you**

IN my state, the primaries are on 2/5 and I however will not be home.  Called about an absentee ballot and it turns out since a board of elections is 12 miles from my residence I could go in person to cast my early lot. 

I had no idea there was such a thing as judge training going on though so the building was packed.

I voted and Dr. Ron Paul's name was the very first one on the R ballot -- too cool

They also let DS vote.  He chose:

Spiderman for president
thomas the train for vice president
pokemon for executive ((why he didn't choose spongebob I can only figure is because I don't allow pokemon in our home so he probably picked it because it's not a choice at home))

cookies as his fave snack and dog as his fave animal ((again not sure why he has 2 cats))  maybe because that's the expected boy response??

Then we went to a health food store, came home did phonics and ate lunch, then went to homeschool indoor swim, then to ups store to pickup the postcards I had printed for the hsreviews exchange, now I'm cooking steak and veggies for dinner.

We still need to:

straighten my hair
clean out the critter box
feed the critters
clean up the kitchen and do a load of laundry
I have 4 read alouds for DS ((Bible, Poem, MasterMaid Tale, and a short history read))
I'd also like to listen to some Handel
DS wants to buy transformers tennis shoes I can finally use that $10 gift card I won at The Educational LIfe weblog
and Hebrew Insights from the Gospels class is at 6:30-8 tonight

ok 2 hours count down starts NOW

I am upset with faux news right now.  They didn't let Ron debate 1.7.08 for NH voters so Leno invited him on his show.  You could probably google that at youtube to see it.  But tonight he was on the republican debate held in SC and everyone made so much fun of him it was not nice at all.

jokes on them though because hannity and colmes had a text in your fave debator poll and Ron got 32%, thompson 22%, huckabee 18%, then romeny like 13%, mccain 6%, and rudi 5%....

so there mr hannity who thinks all the republicans have a shot except Ron.....stick that in your pipe and smoke it.!  LOL

I never even heard of such a thing until I was late teens/early twenties but it seems it was a topic of choice in a couple of history books I was previewing for my son.

Tanglewood's year 1 curriculum suggest it and in the book Mystery of History it also includes a lesson on Sumerians and one on gilgamesh. 

I got a book the library had and noticed all the various names for false "gods"....one was shamash as the sun "god" and I was thinking hmmm thought that was what we call the middle candle on the hanukkiah ((although I had a printout where it was spelled shamus and I can't find it now))

as you know according to the urban legend gilgamesh travels to see the guy utnapishtim who build the boat to withstand the flood, which in their version only lasted a week.  I wonder if the tale just got twisted by the time it was written down.  Like maybe after being out of the ark a few generations the people went right back to worshiping things created instead of the Creator and that's why the story eventually got written down using false "gods" and details changed....ya know just embelished it or something

another thing that disturbed me was that the guy, George Smith, who first read the epic about gilgamesh meeting the guy, utnapishtim,  who lived thru the flood, was really excited about how it seemed related to the story of Noah in the Bible.  Was that guy tripping on something?  I mean how can you read such twistedness and get excited?  I wanted to puke reading the account as recorded personally.

wonder if mt nimush and ararat are the same mtns?  My son has a book on dinosaurs and in the back it tells of many other civilizations that also have their version of the Flood ... so it's possible

http://www.earth-history.com/Earth-06.htm  has an interesting text???

Conclusions chapter 6

' The Biblical story of the Flood was 'borrowed' from the much older story of Gilgamesh.

* Most of the Sumerian / Babylonian Gods have their counterpart in the different Godly names in the Bible:

'The Most High God' was the Sumerian God AN

'EL' was the Sumerian God ENLIL

'YA'EL' was the Sumerian God ANU

'YAH' was the Sumerian God ENKI ((in the book I got it calls this 3rd lesser and kinder "god" ea and that this one has a sense of humor))

These last three Gods were the leaders of the Sumerian Gods (The Triad of Gods)

* Noah and his offspring belonged to the 'Anakim' and they were Giants.

At least the book I checked into says right on the cover a look at mesopotamian myths and legends ((in other words not passing it off as truth...what a relief))

SO today we will just go over the account of the Flood right from the Bible and use a mini-book to remind us.  or here

The Flood—Genesis 6:5  -  8:22

ok so dec 22nd is the winter solstice....and those next 3 days are the ones with the least amount of sunlight for us northerners anyway....but then 12/25 is the birth of the sun the day it starts getting light out for longer....hmmm sounds like the resurrection don't it....no wonder people have no problem saying let's say that is the Source of Light's birthday.....that was something kids in a local public school here figured out....kids....why can't adults see this????

and I've been pondering...ya know we have to fall back the clock just in time for trick'r'treating and we spring forward in time for rez-day .... hmmm co-wink-y-dink?  I think not.

I'm am outraged at the amount of garbage our "elders" have let come to pass and just keep handing down....what are we really the first generation since these things started to actually ask why? 

Like why did we stop being grafted in to the Hebrew faith root and instead trade it for a hellenistic/roman one?  WHY?

I am so thankful HE has called me out of darkness and revealed the TRUTH to me....I can only pray HE will also reveal it to those I know and care for.  I'm glad also for fellow Believers who also have been shown the TRUTH and accepted it.... it really is a heart change to be willing to admit what we've been taught our whole lives at home and at furch is a semi-truth .... I want the whole TRUTH how about you?

We learned yesterday that walking in the Torah is a much easier way to leave a legacy....and not just a "look what I accomplished" ego legacy but rather see your children and grandchildren love and obey Messiah now that's a real legacy. ... not a furch building that w/o the generations being shown what it means to love and obey Messiah will end up just another building in disrepair ... what a sad "legacy"

wanted to end with sharing what  we studied yesterday in Intro to Jewish Roots class  yes still in Ephesians but Praise be to Yah HE is weekly bringing those who hunger and thirst for the whole WORD, not just what the church says is important....did you know the first century and then some Believers knew that accepting the Messiah meant being grafted in to the Hebrew faith?  They didn't want to be called gentiles.  Paul was always trying to show the physical and non-physical Jews that they were all Jews spiritually.  He many times said the law is not void and I know those of you out there who say you are saved live by the 10 commandments and of course the summary of Messiah's own words to love G-D and then our neighbor....both just ways of summing up all of Torah which really just expounds on on the TEN.  It wasn't until those in authority started saying any caught Judaizing will be put to death that we stopped observing the true Sabbath and stopped keeping the Feasts and started saying things like the New Living Translation says in Ephesians 2:15 that the Jewish law/system has been done away with...that's misleading.  The only thing done away with was the animal sacrifice needed to cover sins.  Yeshua doesn't just cover them, HE forgives them.  What a truly AWESOME YAH we serve!!!  I pray everyone's ears and eyes would be opened to desire to know and seek out the whole TRUTH and not just blindly follow furch leaders.