Actually today and yesterday were very nice days...temps low 70's and it's november...!

We just came in....it was starting to get very dark.  but it was so nice outside ya don't want to come in and in the summer when the sun starts to set and you go outside for the cool of the evening, the mosquitos come out...but not tonight....no mosquitos!

Tomorrow's forcast is 30's and then 40's clear thru next week.

I also took a managerial accounting test today...these are multiple choice sure but you can work the numbers in the complex problem in ways to get each one of the choices...there is no clear cut wrong or right answers and it boggles my mind because with math there is supposed to be a correct answer.  So I am kinda worried....

I wanted to end with:

Thanksgiving the american Sukkot

excerpt from http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday5.htm



Many Americans, upon seeing a decorated sukkah for the first time, remark on how much the sukkah (and the holiday generally) reminds them of Thanksgiving. This may not be entirely coincidental: I was taught that our American pilgrims, who originated the Thanksgiving holiday, borrowed the idea from Sukkot. The pilgrims were deeply religious people. When they were trying to find a way to express their thanks for their survival and for the harvest, they looked to the Bible for an appropriate way of celebrating and found Sukkot. This is not the standard story taught in public schools today (that a Thanksgiving holiday is an English custom that the Pilgrims brought over), but the Sukkot explanation of Thanksgiving fits better with the meticulous research of Mayflower historian Caleb Johnson, who believes that the original Thanksgiving was a harvest festival (as is Sukkot), that it was observed in October (as Sukkot usually is), and that Pilgrims would not have celebrated a holiday that was not in the Bible (but Sukkot is in the Bible). Although Mr. Johnson claims that the first Thanksgiving was "not a religious holiday or observance," he apparently means this in a Christian sense, because he goes on to say that the first Thanksgiving was instead "a harvest festival that included feasts, sporting events, and other activities," concepts very much in keeping with the Jewish religious observance of Sukkot. See Religious Beliefs of the Pilgrims and Debunking a Popular Internet Lesson Plan.

I guess an author named A Coulter has really stuck her foot in her mouth.

excerpted from ffozblog: 

To me, it is a scary thought that Christians like Coulter still believe that Judaism is a religion of legalism by which people must earn their way into heaven where as Christianity is a religion with no requirements. It’s a scary thought that Christians like Coulter consider their greatest gifts to Jews to be freedom from keeping the Torah and practicing Judaism—a process she refers to as “perfecting” them. (I know what she thinks she means, but if she would like to be a perfected Christian, maybe she should consider starting to practice Judaism in imitation of Christ.) The really scary part is that Christians like Coulter are allowed to speak on national television as if they actually know what the New Testament says.

Coulter says that Christians are on the fast track. They don’t have to obey. This is very different from what the Messiah says. Yeshua says, “Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter” (Matthew 7:21). Perhaps Coulter would be surprised that Jesus would say something so unchristian. But then again--He was Jew too--wasn’t He.

What we will be discussing tonight at HavDalah (and yes I know it may not be the actual ending of Shabbat due to the lunar/solar thing but this is when these people have invited us into their home, let's not be rude)

Chayei Sarah - חיי שרה : "Life of Sarah"
Torah : Genesis 23:1-25:18
Haftarah : I Kings 1:1-31
Gospel : Matthew 11-12

In our culture, we believe that a person should marry whoever he or she falls in love with. This is a bad plan. It is possible to fall in love with the wrong person. It is possible to fall in love with many wrong persons. Falling in love is a terrible criteria upon which to base a marriage.

This teaches that God appoints each person’s a spouse. Some people call this appointed person a soul mate.

So don’t waste time trying to find your soul mate. She/he does not exist and will not exist until you get married. Once you are married, you can be confident that your spouse is your true bashert.

Everyone remembers the matchmaker from the movie Fiddler on the Roof. (I watched this just last night) A matchmaker is called a shadkan (שרכן). A person with a special talent for matchmaking is referred to as a shadkan,......The responsibility of making matches is so important and so difficult that the rabbis claimed that God Himself has been occupied with the matter ever since creation.

• Went to the grocery store after Intro to Jewish Roots class to get a rotisserie chicken and frozen spinach .... card declined please call bank - how embarassing....DH got paid already why isn't it going thru....I get home and as soon as I walk in the door, DH tells me some lady from the bank called regarding a fraudulant use of my debit card ... so I first use the little girls room then put the food away and then call the bank back.  Turns out something called northwest g railroad club charged $3.65 and when we inquired why such a little charge flagged the bank, they said it is a tent and awning place, it didn't sound like something I'd buy, and that same place has been hitting other debit cards.....must be because all banks have either the first 8-11 digits the same on the cards and only the last 5-8 are different .... anyone with a program could generate random numbers and bingo hit paydirt .... very scary ....I just want to keep my money at home and use money orders to pay bills with or find out where I can pay in person and use cash ... not check or card ...  
• found out that we will for sure be watching the 3 year old this week -- YAY!  
• had my sister and her DH over for dinner and he re-caulked around the tub - very much needed. 
• also went to Intro to Jewish Roots at 11am.  Discussed Ephesians 2:11-22

  the thing about law as promised:

I learned recently that the book of John is the most Jewish of the gospels, pretty cool. Just because it was written in greek (actually aramaic which is a slang form of Hebrew) doesn't make what YHWH told the Israelites obsolete...

that's like saying the consitution gives us freedom to do whatever we want...yes but it's the freedom to do what's right....do not violate someone elses freedom or break the constitution because then it's no longer your "freedom" ... same thing with the ten commandments....no we can't keep them apart from Yeshua and we needed them to show us we were sinners, because I know many people who tell me they are good people or at least not as bad as so and so, but sin is sin and the commandments show us this and Yeshua even furthered that it's not just the act of sinning but even the thought of sinning that makes us sinners ... but through HIS mercy/lovingkindness we don't get something we do deserve which is death because Romans 6:23 tells us the wages of sin is death...and by Yeshua's grace/favor we do get something we don't deserve - the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord as the rest of Romans 6:23 tells us. We have HIS grace and HE didn't break even one commandment and not just the 10 but also the whole 613 that are in the first 5 books of the Bible. Of course we don't do the sacrificial laws anymore since Yeshua was our once for all sacrifice.

HUMOR

A young boy says to a priest, "is it true that man is made of dirt?"

the priest replies, "Yes we are made from the dust of the earth."

so the boy then says," can you come to my house?  there is a lot of dust under the bed and I'm not sure if it's someone coming or going."

another one:

God went to pharoah and said "I have a commandment for you."  Pharoah says "what's the commandment?"  God replies, "thou shalt not commit adultery."  Pharoah says, "we don't want that commandment."

So God goes to assyria and says the assyrian king, "I have a commandment for you."  the assyrian king asks, "what's the commandment?"  God replies, "thou shalt not commit adultery."  the assyrian king says, "we don't want that commandment."

Then God goes to Moses and tells him HE has a commandment for him.  Moses asks, "well how much does it cost?"  God tells him it is free so Moses says, "I'll take ten."

Sukkot

What I learned tonight in Hebrew Insights from the Gospels regarding Sukkot:

When Yeshua entered Jersulem and the people laid down palm branches and said Hosanna! (the KING has come to save us) they knew in Zechariah chapter 14 it talked of Sukkot as being the time when HE would come and they thought maybe it could happen at another time other than the 7th month, since this was just before Pesach. 

I find that very interesting.  Mark 11:23 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Yeshua was talking of when HE would split the mount of olives and this mount is to the east of mount moriah.  HE's saying do what you're to do to hasten HIS coming.

the below I received via email from First Fruits of Zion and you can sign up to get weekly Torah portions to read with commentary as well HERE

Torah : Leviticus 22:26–23:44
Haftarah : Zechariah 14
Gospel : Luke 2

The Apostle John uses a verb form of the same Greek word that is used to translate the Hebrew word for “booth” (sukkah) when he wrote, “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt [tabernacled] among us.” (John 1:14) He tabernacled among us, and He will tabernacle among us again in the messianic future. The celebration of the Festival of Booths (Sukkot) celebrates the Messiah who once tabernacled among us, now tabernacles within us, and in the future will again tabernacle among us.

The last appointment on God’s Leviticus 23 calendar is the Feast of Booths, a seven-day harvest celebration. The Hebrew name of the festival is Sukkot, a word that means “shelters, stables or huts.” These temporary, tent-like structures are often translated as “tabernacles” in our English Bibles. The festival is so named because Israel is commanded to annually build such dwelling places as a reminder of the post-exodus years when they lived in huts and booths, following God in the wilderness.¹ Sukkot is a time of joy and celebration, a time to celebrate the harvest and revel in God’s goodness.

Many beautiful traditions are attached to the annual Festival of Booths. For example, it is traditional to invite guests into one’s booth for a festive meal each night of Sukkot. Among the list of invitees are some auspicious names: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron and David. Each are specially invited to come into the booth and pull up a chair at the table. Obviously, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron and David are unlikely to actually attend the meal, since they are all dead. That, however, is the point of the ritual. The Feast of Booths anticipates the Messianic Age, when the dead will be raised to life again and we will all sit at the table with the aforementioned in the kingdom of heaven.

When Messiah comes, He will bring in the final harvest of God’s kingdom and institute an age of peace and prosperity upon the earth. The prophets relate that day to the festival of Sukkot, a day when every man will sit beneath his own vine and fig tree.² Isaiah 4:6 tells us that God will spread a tabernacle of glory over Jerusalem.

According to the prophets, the Feast of Booths celebrates a time when all nations will ascend to Jerusalem bearing tribute to King Messiah and celebrating the festival. In that day, all nations will ascend to His throne in Jerusalem in order to celebrate the Festival of Booths (Tabernacles). Obviously, this is a very important festival for disciples of Messiah today.

Sukkot is the great festival, the culmination of all the appointed times. Sukkot is to the other festivals what the Sabbath is to the other six days of the week. As such it is a fitting foreshadowing of that great celebration of creation when the entire world will live in peace and brotherhood under the reign and rule of the righteous Messiah King. Just as the weekly Sabbath foreshadows the millennium, Sukkot also looks forward to that great age. Therefore, the festival of Sukkot, like all the festivals, foreshadows Messiah.

also FFOZ has a weblog and here's the latest entry

PS  IF YOU WANT TO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JESUS NOW IS THE SEASON!!!

II Timothy 2:3-10

God's Army

#1 - You volunteer

#2 - now a soldier

verses 3-4  - Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

#3- get free equipment

Romans 5:15 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

I John 4:13 - Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

John 14:15-18  - 15If ye love me, keep my commandments. {from me - tune in later this week as I bring something about this verse up!}

 16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;  17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Romans 3:24 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

#4 - basic training or milk - buddy care introduced and more free stuff and how to use it

Ephesians 6:11-18

 military references:

belt of truth = have the truth and literally a belt that holds your pants on and has your equipment on it
Chestpiece = to do right and protect from accusers darts
shoes of peace = I missed this one ... maybe combat boots?
shield = believe it will protect you
helmet = guard what you see and hear Philippians 4:8
sword = the WORD John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

#5 - Tech school or the meat portion and not everyone can be a pilot but need to cross train and prepared for any situation because you may be called to fill in

Ephesians 4:11-15 - and yes I always get booed when I say this is not a 5 point ministry

I Corinthians 12: 4-18  we have all of the gifts of the Spirit, HE directs you to use them, be faithful in what HE asks of you and HE will let you do even greater things

#6 - Mission  (note many people get the free equipment and then try to skip to this step....they didn't learn and cross train first)

Terms to know here:  Military baring or witness or walk as a soldier and maintain your composure at all times.  Isaiah 26:3 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Matthew 10:16 - Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 28:19-20  -  maybe you know it as the great commission

#7 - the benefits

Ecclesiastes 3:9-13

wisdom = Ephesians 5:15 - See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

It is good to be part of God's Army! 

So I was reading earlier in Ezekiel

Chapter 9 verses 4-6 -- 4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.  5And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:  6Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

And I had to stop and make a note to compare it to Revelations chapter 7 verses 2-4 --  2And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,  3Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.  4And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Now I know that YHWH works in patterns ... was Ezekiel predicting babylon's conquest of Judah in 586ish bc or when antiochus came thru or the 70ad thing or is this also talking about end times or all?  Like each time a destruction comes, it comes in a pattern.... am I making sense of my question?

Actually many times in Ezekiel I am thinking "that's kind of what Revelation says"

I've just been reading to read and forcing myself not to jot down every verse and thought that stands out.  After I get through the book of Luke (I started in John this time thru), I'll start back at Genesis and go chapter by chapter keeping notes again and reading footnotes/commentaries and if I disagree with any footnotes/commentaries I will try to prove why I disagree.

I've also been doing TorahClass.com, attending Intro to Jewish Roots class on the first day of the week, a once a month Torah Study group here in my part of the metro, a bi-monthly HavDallah get together, and recently celebrated Rosh HaShanah and plan to fast from sundown today to sundown tomorrow for Yom Kippur because even though it falls on a Shabbat I read/heard that YK takes priority over the weekly Sabbath and YK is a fast day while Shabbat is a feast day ...  but either way I am sure a day of fasting would be good for me...I know suppose to be an affliction ... but it may be hard and yet good for me...make sense?

also a cool place right here in MO  http://ffoz.org/blogs/ and their main site, where you can sign up to be emailed the weekly Torah portion to read and some notes on it  http://ffoz.org/  or download a 5768 dates and readings pdf document http://ffoz.org/_php/download.php?file=Torah-Reading-Schedule-5768.pdf

So tomorrow night, Steak at my home!

I came across this article below recently and while I am not here to debate about "one regardeth one day and another another day"  but yes we have freedom as of now, but will we always have the freedom to choose which day (I use the word freedom loosely because if we obeyed 4th commandment, we would know what day was the proper day)

It's already Tishri 1 in Israel....lots of alignments in the sky to show the KING is coming ...  rapture time?!!

ok...so earth created in the month of Tishri so that would include mankind since the first week would have taken place in the same month...hello .... and it's been mentioned that YahShua was also born Tishri 1 or 15th.

RH (Feasts of Trumpets/Shofar) announcement

Yom Kippur repentance

Sukkot - dwell with us  (maybe I have that wrong?)

My Pastor's dad had a dream a few weeks ago and in this vision he was shown something big to take place in the next 2 years and who the ac will be and that at the time of his revealing the Believers were being raptured.  So my Pastor's wife asked him if he would reveal who it was.  He replied that he was told not to tell.  She said can you write it down for me?  He said sure but I'll seal it up and you can open it when he is revealed.  She said wait a minute that would mean I was still here to read it....so that was his way of saying he's not telling.  We may be able to have him come up and share more with us on this and I'll keep you posted.

2 years from now is RH-Sukkot of 2009 and that would be in line with Anna's thought train.....

but I thought hmmm in Exodus there was 2 days and then the 3rd day HE would reveal himself and what about when Y'Shua went to raise Lazarus HE waited 2 days before even heading that direction and there was another reference I had to search for.

Could it be the signs in the sky are announcements and we have 2ish weeks or 2ish years to repent cuz it's rapture time?

Like with the 10 virgins, when it was announced the Bridegroom had been spotted headed their way, the wise were ready but the foolish needed more oil but leaving to get some meant the gate was closed when they got back.

And remember new kings were announced with the Chatzazorot (silver trumpets) .... and Absalom tried to get the throne over Solomon so had his followers falsely announce he as king....would the ac know about this custom and announce himself as "king of the world" on the same day that our Messiah comes for us? 

Just my thoughts today.

Scripture to peruse:

Exodus 19:10-11 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

Hosea 6:1-3 - Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

John 11:6-7 - When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

Matthew 25:1-13

2 Samuel 15:9-11 - And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.  And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.

today in Intro to Jewish Roots class we learned something interesting about the cross. 

Pharoah had one on his staff, with a circle above it....sun worship....

Rome of course used crosses - that was how they crucified the "guilty" -

and even in England the buildings are all to a perfect cross in various places so the sun's equinoxes can all be seen ...

that's one thing I learned this morning....anyone know more on this?

We also learned that aramaic and Hebraic were similar....2 forms of aramaic and one of Hebraic were spoken in the Gallilea, Samaria, and Judea region in the 1st century.  And yet another more formal Hebrew was used to write.  (like we have to be more perfect in our English in school papers but with our friends we talk slang situation)

but then when Latin came on the scene that was broken into the "romantic" lingos of spanish, french, portuguese, romanian, and italian ....  but they aren't really "romantic" just derived from Rome....wow this makes me even second guess teaching DS french (I refuse to learn spanish because it's being crammed down our throats by those who want to be in our country and yet refuse to learn the lingo...wake up!)

Leaning more German and Hebrew now - or Yiddish....

in that text version it says:

It is also interesting that Hebrew Tradition is that that mysterious biblical King and Priest of Shalem, called Melchizedek, who Abraham would bow down to and give tithes, was actually Shem. And, the timing is such that it most certainly could have been……because Shem was still alive then.

but I brought that up last night at Home Church when the subject was on tithing that Melchizedek could have been Shem and Pastor said it could have been Jesus since he had no beginning or ending of days.  See Hebrews 7:2-6

(but I was thinking that to Abraham it would seem as if Shem had no beginning or ending of days because Shem was born before the flood and we have no mention of when he died....so.... but I just searched for Shem in the Bible and apparently he only lived to be 600 years old and according to Bible time-line,