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The 4 Qs of Pesach 33

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:05:03 GMT

Greetings! Had a very nice Passover Seder last Sabbath.

Here’s a little meat left over from the Feast:

The four questions of the Passover – traditionally children ask them and the leader (or father) answers:

Why do we eat matzah? eat bitter herbs? dip them twice? eat reclining?

Rabbinical sources see these questions as indicative of the type of “son” asking them.

The Matzah Son is wise because he asks about a principle of Torah.
The Herbs Son is wicked because he asks as though he were not a part of Israel.
The Dipping Son is simple, for his question is only “What is this?”
The Reclining Son is underdeveloped and needs tender guidance. (His is the dumb question.)
Knowing each son’s characteristic is helpful in formulating meaningful answers in the context of Passover unity – each child, no matter the age, must be able to “discern the body” at least a little, assisted by the reply of the elder. This puts a great deal of responsibility on the grown-ups, no? If the talmid (student) is to grow into his niche in the body of believers, the elder dare never hasten through the haggadah (service) just to get to the dinner! The haste is to be in the eating, not in the memorial.
(Rabbi Leff recounts how every years his father would blaze through the Hebrew service to get to the food.)

While the tale of the four sons makes the context in which the ask clear, the recorders of the Good News are not so clear. They never come right out and say something like,

“Now Jesus was eating the Passover with his disciples; and lo! He casts a mountain of charoset onto his matzah.”

Did, according to the Evangelists, Yahshua actually eat the Passover in 33 AD. There is no bone mentioned. No easter egg. In fact, an oft-quoted passage in Luke has Yahshua saying that he has no intention of eating Passover for the next couple thousand years.

So for you who are anxious about such uncertainly, let us save ourselves from the folly of the second son: WE DO BELIEVE Yahshua did the Passover Seder! YES WE DO BELIEVE! WE DO! WE DO!

Still, an analytical study of the text reveals strong ambiguity.

One of the accounts, that of Yochanon (John), records four questions asked during what could be the set-apart time of Passover. Attend -

First son: Shimeon Kefa: “Master, why can’t I follow you now?”
Second: Toma: “Master, how can we know the way?”
Third: Philip: “Master, will you not reveal the Father to us?”
Fourth: Yahuda: “Master, how will you reveal yourself to us (and not to the world)?”

I don’t know if we can line these fellows up alongside the four sons of the rabbis’ tales, but you have to admit, there is something serendipitous (not quite coincidental) about (1) the questions being right there – AND (2) the fatherly, reasoned answers that the Beloved records from the mouth of his Master. Hey, these talmidim are already aware that something horrible is going to happen, and soon! What could this Teacher, who was about to be slaughtered, possibly say to his children that would lead them from their personal horror back to the discernment and unity of the body? Think!

There are still several days before the end of the Matzah Feast. Everyone is back to work or doing what they would normally do during non-qadosh time. Mostly, it seems, people are just worried about the future, mad at the government, or fearful of the end time. Such are reasons enough to get out the dusty book and look into Yahshua’s amazing answers to the questions of his troubled children – while it is yet the limbic time between holy days – and reconnect with the body in a more mystical fashion than that of the seder feast we enjoyed last week.

Until next time - Amein!

Hebraic New Year - Sanhedrin - Bar Kokhbah Letters - Jeremiah in Ireland

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:26:36 GMT

Hello, Netzari! Happy Hebraic New Year 6009!

This is Jackson Snyder with the Netzarim Virtual / Vero Yahad Hebraic Roots Group (NEvy.us). You are receiving this mail because, since you're my friend, I thought you might be interested. If I'm wrong (about 60% of the time), reply with "no" in the subject and you are gone!

(Next meeting April 3, 7PM and April 4, 2PM at Poinciana 441. Directions are at www.YAHpop.us.)

There are several curious questions left over from the NEtzarim Vero Yahad group meetings from month 1, days 1 & 2, 6009 (March 28 & 29). Some of our researched answers are quite unexpected to say the least. Let's get right to them:

STARTING WITH THE NEW JERUSALEM SANHEDRIN

Regarding this NEW (biblical) YEAR and whether the NEW SANHEDRIN was going to set the year from 5769 to 6009 where it belongs - (the New Testament refers to the Sanhedrin as "the Council," Mark 15:43 et al.) - I contacted my associate Rab. Baruch Lev in Jerusalem. Here are the questions I asked:

Jack Snyder: R. Lev, there is a lot of scuttlebut that the new Sanhedrin is considering adding back the years deleted by R. Akiba on account of Kokhbah’s temporary messiahship. I thought if anyone knew if there were truth about this, it would be you. (Thus it would bring us to the liturgical year 6009 last Shabbat, putting us into the Millennium, according to Apostolic sources.)

Baruch Lev: First of all, the Sanhedrin is not recognized by any as authoritative other than themselves. So it wouldn’t make much difference. No one would accept their ruling. But in any event it is extremely unlikely they would even consider fiddling with the calendar in that way. Fixing the calendar was the last decision made by the real Sanhedrin in 358.

(Note: what happened in 358 AD would be worth a Yahoo search.)

Baruch Lev: There is a principle that you can’t over turn a ruling of a previous court unless the current court is “greater in wisdom and in number,” and modesty prevents any modern court from claiming they are wiser than an earlier court.

Jack Snyder: So I’m still looking for the Siddur h’Doret, which supposedly is the decree of R. Akiba of the change of calendar in about 136 AD. Did you ever come across that or know where I could find it?

Baruch Lev:No idea, sorry. Not sure how they could claim to have something like that; the oldest extant siddur is that of Rav Amra Gaon, from the 9th century.

Jack Snyder: I also hear that Noachites may make Aliyah if they swear not to keep the Sabbath, not to utter the Name, and not to abstain from unclean foods. Any truth there?

Baruch Lev: Definitely an “urban legend.” The only people who can make aliyah are people who either have one Jewish grandparent (either side) or who had a recognized conversion to Judaism. The government could care less what kind of religious acts people who make aliyah do or don’t do. Gentiles can in theory immigrate to Israel, but it is rather difficult.

Jack Snyder: Finally, I learned that Lieberman(not Joe) is #2 in the (Israel) government now, and I had read in your journals that this man is dangerous. What’s the upshot?

Baruch Lev:Yes, Lieberman has been appointed Foreign Minister, roughly equivalent to Secretary of State. A real disaster in my opinion. The main is a racist and has greatly offended most of our neighbors. Not the sort of guy you want negotiating for you!

CAVE OF THE LETTERS | Bar Kokhba, Messiah

We had a short discussion about the letters of common citizens found along with Bar Kokhbah's military directives in caves near the Dead Sea. One of the greatest revelations from "The Cave of Letters" is the pack of documents belonging to woman named "Babatha." These letters give us an incredible look into the life of a woman from Bible times who owned property and fended for herself. The letters are worth our time, especially if we see biblical women as downtrodden chattel. Read the story of Babatha here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/life.html

The so“Cave of Letters” was, as I mentioned, a stopping-over-place for Simeon bar Kokhba, the rebel leader of the last Jewish Revolt. Several of his directives were also found in this cave, and you can look them over here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/scrolls/about.html

WHEREABOUTS OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

The resting place of the Ark came up in conversation; and though there are many theories, the Scriptures tell us where it is; that is, if you regard ALL of the Scriptures. Here is the location of the Ark, found in the Canon of 70 that I mentioned in my last post. (This passage is in context with the deportation of the Judeans to Babylon.)

2 Maccabees 2:1. It is on record that the prophet Jeremiah ordered the deportees to take the fire, as we have described, 2. and how, having given them the Torah, the prophet warned the deportees never to forget Yahweh's precepts nor to let their thoughts be tempted by the sight of gold and silver statues or the finery adorning them. 3. Among other similar admonitions, he urged them not to let the Torah depart from their hearts. 4. The same document also describes how the prophet, warned by an oracle, gave orders for the tent and the ark to go with him, when he set out for the mountain that Moses had climbed to survey Elohim's heritage. 5. On his arrival, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling, into which he put the tent, the ark, and the altar of incense, afterwards blocking up the entrance. 6. Some of his companions went back later to mark out the path but were unable to find it. 7. When Jeremiah learned this, he reproached them, ‘The place is to remain unknown,’ he said, ‘until Elohim gathers his people together again and shows them his mercy.’

Look closely at this passage! What mountain is the Maccabean historian talking about? If we find this so clearly outlined in Scripture, how can we still believe that the Ark is yet lost? I have been told by Steve Quayle (of the Q Files) that anyone can see the place of this cave on Google Earth, including the great fortifications surrounding it.

The wonderful prophecy is this: "The people of Elohim are gathering, and His mercy is to be in the revelation of the Ark." HIS MERCY IS TO BE THE REVELATION OF THE ARK!

JEREMIAH'S ESCAPE WITH THE ZERAH OF DAVID TO IRELAND

While we are on the subject of the Babylonian Captivity and Jeremiah, we were puzzled about Jeremiah's whereabouts after the Babylonian army had left Jerusalem. There seems to be some VERY STRONG circumstantial evidence pointing to Jeremiah's escape with the daughters of the king to Egypt, then off to a colony of Judeans in Ireland. If you haven't heard of this, don't dismiss it without some investigation. You may find some very compelling evidence that is very relevant in our own time. I have a little of the story for you here: www.jacksonsnyder.com/yah/page/jeremiah-in-ireland.htm and there is plenty more if you are interested in drama and mysteries.

FINALLY - KATA MATTYAH, ENOCH, BAR NABA, PASSOVER

Let me end my letter by offering you the full audio translation of Matthew for those hoping to learn enough Hebrew to understand biblical terms. Kata Mattyah is my new translation of Matthew from the earliest versions of the original languages. It is available in print at www.Apostolia.us or online at www.YAHpop.us, where you will also find the dramatic audio book with sound effects and characterizations for download.

New audio books from my translations of ~The Epistle of Barnabas~ and ~First Enoch~ are almost finished. This material is essential for gaining the mindset of the Apostles. Available NOW in both print and audio is the 2006 translation of the Authentic Preaching of Peter, which Ted Dornan and I translated (360 pages) and Ted has recorded. Yes the material is free, both audio and on-line print, and the manuscript is printed for you to get at cost at the site I named before.

Lastly, NEvy will have our Passover Seder April 11th in the evening. There are a couple seats available, so reply if you want to come or if you have questions about it. The Haggadah (the service order) is available also at www.Apostolia.us or write me and I'll send you a home Passover kit without charge.

Baruch haShem Yahweh, y'all! Until next week,
Jackson Snyder

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:14:31 GMT

The Two Yahwehs

YHWH

The Briefest Introduction to this Subject

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Where there are the three elohim, let them be divine.
Where there are the two or the one, I am with the One.
- Yahshua's Egyptian Sayings

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Gen 1:1. Elohim (2) created the sky and the earth.

Elohim is, of course, a majestic plurality that refers to more than one deity but is understood also as a unity – the Almighty One.

Deuteronomy 6: 4: `Listen, Israel: Yahweh our Elohim Yahweh is one.” or “Elohim (plural) is united ('echad).”

Gen 2:7. Yahweh Elohim (2) formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Elohim, the title, and Yahweh, the personal name are first teamed up here. El and Yah are one, but Yahweh is still Elohim (plural).

Genesis 19:24. Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven.

It is evident from this passage that there are two Yahwehs – one in the upper dimension and one in the lower, consisting of a plurality of beings in unity of purpose and action.

John 5:43. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

Yahshua, meaning “Yahweh saves,” came in his father’s name, Yahweh, which means “I exist” or “I AM.” The name Yahweh is in the name Yahshua. “Yahweh” is not found in the names “Yeshua” or “Jesus.”

John 17:25, 26. “O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me. I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

In his priestly prayer, Yahshua’s mission was to make his heavenly Father’s name known to his followers. That name had been hidden from his cohort, but he came to restore it.

Matthew 5: 19, 20. "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all that he himself is doing; and greater works than these will he show him, that you may marvel.

The Father and Son are in one accord in everything they do. Obviously, they are not the same being, but they are a father and son working a plan in unity and oneness.

Exodus 23:20,21. "Behold, I send an angel (malak) before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; for my name is in him.

The mission of the angel (messenger, malak) to the Israelites was to guard and lead. Yahweh says that the Israelites dare not rebel, for his malak has power to forgive sins because the name Yahweh was in him. We have shown that Yahweh’s name was in Yahshua, and that, by his own admittance, he came in his Father’s name.

Mark 2:6,7. Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, "Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but G-d (Elohim) alone?"

And here Yahshua is accused of forgiving sins, which he did freely. In doing so, he fulfilled the words of the scribes, for he had been capable of forgiving sins at least back to the time of the Exodus.

John 1:18. No one has ever seen Yahweh; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

John 5:37. And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen.

John 6: 46. Not that any one has seen the Father except him who is from God; he has seen the Father

We understand that nobody has seen the heavenly Yahweh. He is incapable of being seen, since he is spirit. And the Beloved Disciple knew this because this is what he wrote. But he also knew that many had seen Yahweh or, at least the angel (malak, messenger) of Yahweh.

Exodus 24: 9-11. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the El of Israel; And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld Elohim, and ate and drank. 12. Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there ...

Here Yahweh is seen and heard and eats and drinks. Moses, Sarah and a host of prophets also see Yahweh. Since there are two Yahwehs, then heavenly and the earthly, these seen / not seen dual persons demonstrate a perfect description of the two Yahwehs, the father and the son, bearing the same name. Again, we refer to Matthew 5:19ff et al. The person these people are seeing as Yahweh is the son, preexisting before his birth in Bethlehem, doing the work of his father.

Proverbs 30:4,5. (In the words of Agur son of Jakeh of Massa ) Who has ascended to heaven and descended? ... Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!

Jesus replies to the first question,

John 3: 13. No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. (Yahshua is referring to himself as the Son of Man.)

And to the second,

John 1:2,3. He was in the beginning with the Elohim; all things came to be through him, and without him nothing could have come into existence.

As to the third,

John 5:39-47 You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I know that you have not the love of Yahweh within you, for I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

Again, we find the Scripture that he was talking about replete with references to the Malak of Yahweh (Yahshua), who has ability to forgive sins and who has the name of Yahweh in him.

In summary, Elohim (plural) (G-d) is made up of Yahweh Elohim and his son and namesake, Yahshua ben Yahweh Elohim. The cherubim, seraphim and malakim are also of the Elohim family (Genesis 6:2, Job 1:6, Hebrew).

Psalms 8: 3-5. When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.

The writer of Hebrews interprets this passage identifying Yahshua as this man:

Hebrews 2:6-8. It has been testified somewhere, "What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him? Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet."

Paul, speaking of his position with the Father makes it clear that Yahshua is subordinate:

Romans 8:29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

And the latter Paul seeing Yahshua as the first-born of all creation. What this means exactly is up for debate, but the words themselves are quite clear.

Colossians 1:13-17. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all (other) things created ... And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Finally, Yahshua and Yahweh, son and father, are identified together as the two Yahwehs by comparing myriads of Hebrew with Greek Scripures with the same subject, Yahweh’s return. Here are just two, the Old Testament:

(Hebrew) Zechariah 14;3. Then shall YAHWEH go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

And the New Testament:

(Greek) Revelation 19:11-16 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of Yahweh. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND SOVEREIGN OF SOVEREIGNS.

We have but scratched the surface of the iceberg with this important teaching, but you may go from here. I’m sure many passages have popped into your mind to show the truth of this message.

And that truth is that Yahweh and Yahshua are different persons, as I am different from my own father; and that Yahweh and Yahshua bore the same name, as my father and I did. Yet Yahweh and Yahshua were and always have been in echad together – unity of purpose, mission and character. And as the Father is working, Yahshua is also working in the mission of intercession on our behalf.

It also shows us that Yahshua (Jesus) not only existed before Bethlehem, but he was very active in the affairs of humankind. Do a concordance search of “angel of the Lord” in you Bible and see how extensive has been Yahshua’s benevolent care for his people on Yahweh’s behalf.

Two popular doctrinal trends are proliferating today that this study addresses: the Trinity and the pre-existence of Yahshua.

As for the first, it is easy to unglue the Athanasian Creed (373), which states:

5. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. 6. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. 7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit. 8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated.

The Bible clearly teaches that the Son was the first born of creation.

As for the second, it grieves me to learn that so many of my cohorts in internetworking ministries have abandoned the belief that Yahshua existed before Bethlehem. It is very, very obvious through the above passages alone, that Yahshua was the messenger of Yahweh, and his son.

Psalms 2:7,8 7. I will declare the decree: Yahweh hath said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

These words are reiterated in Luke, "You are my son, the beloved. This day I have begotten you" (alternate and perhaps older version, reiterated in Hebrews 1:5).

And finally, we have averted the subject of the Holy Spirit in this essay. However, we’ll make mention of his (its) identity with just one more startling text in regard to the malak of Yahweh. Read it in light of our present learnings:

Isaiah 11:1-5. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch (natzar) shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear (reverence) of Yahweh; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of Yahweh: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

“May Yahweh open your mind to this truth so that your lips may be in echad with his purposes.” Amein.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:09:40 GMT

Shalom Kol Yisrael,

Enjoy this forward from a fellow brother. If you have a high speed connection please look at this or if you know someone who does ask them if you can watch this with them. Abba is at work during this time of restoration!

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: A M U S T S E E !

Date: Monday 12 May 2008

From: Ephrayim4Yahshua@aol.com

To: chazak_chazak@bellsouth.net

Shalom Brother Tzefanyah,

Check out this video from the Jerusalem assembly which was globally televised yesterday, May 11, 2008:

http://www.god.tv/thecall-god_ (http://www.god.tv/thecall-god) . Please

click on Session 2, specifically. Amazing proclamations were made by Lou Engels (a non-Jewish believer) and Asher Intrater (a Messianic Jewish believer).

This same convention center- which hosted this spiritually charged assembly and whose atmosphere was permeated with faith-filled historic prayers and

proclamations- was today (and will again be tomorrow) the meeting place for no less than President Bush and the Kings of the earth as they attempt to divide the Holy City of Jerusalem! Was this coincidence?... I think not!

Moreover, the proclamations made during yesterday's Jerusalem assembly were, I believe, of extreme importance from a 'Two-House' prophetic perspective; even though the majority of participants were probably unawares of this profoundly prophetic aspect being developed. Nevertheless, this great mystery which the Prophets of Truth wrote about- and that which modern-day heralds, like Angus & Batya Wooten, have long witnessed to- is now, I believe, beginning to arise and take shape in the hearts of manifold numbers of Christians and Messianic Jews around the world.

Thank you, Brother Tzefanyah, for developing this 'Chazak' group-mailing list; and for your very encouraging emails. Keep up the good work. Barchu et shem YHWH!

Chazak, Chazak V'nithazek! (Be Strong, Be Strong and let us strengthen one another!)

Aviel

Tzefanyah Pappas

Chazak Chazak v’nitchazek

Let us be strong, let us be strong and let us strengthen (encourage) one another!

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:34:23 GMT

Shalom Kol Yisrael,

This past Friday morning I saw a vision of a conductor leading a symphonic orchestra. The orchestra was playing the most amazing music! Abba then spoke to me and said, "Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:15."

Yirmeyahu 3:15 "I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding."

Our Conductor Y'shua, the Great Shepherd, is leading an orchestra. Within His orchestra are section leaders. These section leaders understand the musical score and look to the Conductor to lead them. They also realize that they are actually sheep themselves living a life of a sheep who is following the Great Shepherd. Through this example they are leading sheep in their sections. If they do not pay attention to the great Conductor, they will lose the rhythm and the intonation will be lost creating a discordant sound. The section leaders are the shepherds Abba is raising up in these last days who desire not to please themselves but the Master Conductor Y'shua - the Great Shepherd.

Our Great Conductor and Shepherd Plays a Flute

Zekaryah 10:3 “My wrath burns against the shepherds, and I lay a charge against the leaders. For YHWH of hosts shall visit His flock, the house of Yehudah, and make them like His splendid horse in battle. 4 “From him comes the corner-stone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler, together. 5 “And they shall be like mighty men, who trample down the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because YHWH is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame. 6 “And I shall make the house of Yehudah mighty, and save the house of Yoseph. And I shall bring them back, because I have compassion on them. And they shall be as though I had not pushed them aside. For I YHWH am their Elohim, and I answer them. 7 “And Ephrayim shall be as a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as if with wine. And their children shall see and rejoice, their heart exulting in YHWH 8 “I shall whistle for them and gather them, for I shall ransom them. And they shall increase as they once increased. 9 “Though I sow them among peoples, they shall remember Me in places far away. And they shall live, together with their children, and they shall return. 10 “And I shall bring them back from the land of Mitsrayim, and gather them from Ashshur, and bring them into the land of Gil'ad and Lebanon, until no more room is found for them. (emphasis added)

In ancient Yisrael the shepherd played the flute. This flute was used to call forth the sheep. The sound of the flute was called a "whistle". Our Great Shepherd is playing the shepherd's flute for Ephrayim. Its known that the call of the shepherd is very powerful. As sheep march forth toward the shepherd's flute, they become as mighty men. In this march to the shepherd's call, it has been known that any wolves in their midst will be trampled to death.

Yisrael is a shepherd nation. All the sons of Yisrael were shepherds. As we understand the role of the shepherd, we begin to understand our Great Shepherd Y'shua.

Y'shua as our Great Shepherd, is described beautifully in Tehillim 80: 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Yisra’el, Who lead Yoseph like a flock; Who dwell between the kerubim, shine forth! 2 Before Ephrayim, Binyamin, and Menashsheh, Stir up Your might, And come and save us! 3 Cause us to turn back, O Elohim, And cause Your face to shine, That we might be saved! (emphasis added)

We are moving toward that crescendo called the Greater Exodus. The Exodus is a migration. A shepherd understands that he is to lead the flock in migration. If the flock is not moved, the flock will perish because of starvation. The nations are spiritually drying up. This is Abba's plan for the Great Shepherd is leading His flock to that great pasture land called Yisrael.

Shavua Tov.

Tzefanyah Pappas

Chazak Chazak v’nitchazek

Let us be strong, let us be strong and let us

strengthen (encourage) one another!

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Sun, 04 May 2008 18:00:58 GMT

Shalom Kol (All) Yisrael,

Thursday morning I got a call from Abba at 3:30am. When you say hineni (Hebrew: here I am) to the Master, He takes you seriously! I saw a picture in my dream of the Land of Yisrael reaching out as if to shake someone's hand. Then I saw the poor, the widow, and orphan all around. I saw people losing their homes across the USA. I saw other types distress throughout the USA and sensed that this same distress was manifesting itself all over the world. I was weeping for all the sons of Yisrael.

I believe Abba was disclosing a key to how the Land of Yisrael will open up to the House of Joseph (Ephraim) and how we can become connected to one another.

Let me provide you an illustration to communicate the essence of the dream. When I was in high school (Central Minnesota) I went up with my family across the Red River into North Dakota near the Northwest Minnesota area to visit my sister. While there we attended a small Lutheran church. I was totally unfamiliar with Lutherans or their customs. During the service the minister held out his hand to me and said, "Peace be with you." I must have drifted off somewhere because I did not see his hand. My dad elbowed be gently and then I saw the hand of the minister's waiting for me to take his hand and shake with the return reply, "And also with you."

This illustration is very similar to what is happening to some of Messianic Yisrael in the diaspora. We listen to many people, but we fail to listen to the pulse beat of the Land Yisrael. Are we cognizant of what our brother is doing in the Land? Are we aware of those who are reaching out to the poor, the widow and the orphan and ministering the love of Y'shua? Are we aware that there are humble servants who are toiling in that set-apart soil? Those who are citizens have the greatest need for they see their sons and daughters going off to war to protect the nation. Daily they are praying for their children's protection.

Ephraim has not been paying attention. The hand is out for the hand shake. Our minds have drifted off and Abba is nudging us to wake up. The Land cannot receive us until we reach out for the hand of Yisrael which is represented by believers in Yisrael who are laboring for all of Yisrael's restoration. If we shake the hand and feel the pulse beat of what they are saying and doing over there, I believe the Land will open itself to Joseph. They need our prayers, our support, and encouragement. And in Abba's way all of us will begin to be connected one to another from the west coast to the east coast in the USA and to all the world's continents, coastlands, and isles of the sea. The blessings of Yah emanate from Yisrael. Acts 1:8 reinterates this same sentiment, “But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehuḏah and Shomeron, and to the end of the earth. (emphasis added)” It flows from Yisrael to us and back again.

Are we ready and are we prepared to take the next step to become a discernable nation?

Shavua Tov (Have a good week.)

Tzefanyah Pappas

Chazak Chazak v’nitchazek

Let us be strong, let us be strong and let us

strengthen (encourage) others as well!

The Standing Man, Part 1

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:57:33 GMT

Zeal, The Standing Man, and You
Lost Teachings of the Nazoreans, Part 1 - Rechabites
Psalms 69:9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. – King David

Yirmeyahu 35:18. But to the house of the Reëchabim, Yirmeyahu said, “Thus says the Yahweh Tviot Elohim of Yisrael: Because you have obeyed the command of Yonadav your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you, 19. therefore thus says Yahweh Tviot Elohim of Yisrael: Yonadav the son of Reëchab shall never lack a man to stand before me.”

Jeremiah 35:18. But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says YHWH of hosts, the Elohim of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you, 19. therefore thus says YHWH of hosts, the Elohim of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me."

1 Corinthians 7:17. let every one lead the life that Yahshua has assigned and Yahweh has called.

Pinchas’ Zeal – The phrase “Zeal for Yahweh” primarily took the form of violent acts against apostates whose unrighteousness in the camp of Israel brought on divine retribution. Zeal hails back to Pinchas (Phinehas, Numbers 25), who, in his zeal, slew the apostate Zimri and the Midianite woman Cozbi with one cast of the spear, thus staying a plague. Israel had ignored the divine command to be set-apart, and was co-mingling with practicing pagans of forbidden camps. For this stand-up act of zeal (the violence notwithstanding), Yahweh declared that Pinchas and his descendants would be priests of peace forever after. Pinchas was the standing man, in that he took unpremeditated, zealous action such that Yahweh ended the plague. That he would be rewarded by the Divine Righteousness with a priesthood of peace for what we would consider a double murder seems a great contradiction. Yet, according to the text, the gruesome deed did bring peace, saving thousands of lives!

David’s Zeal in Prayer – When Yahshua struck down the money machine in the temple courts – when he did an act of violence – his talmidim thought of David’s Psalm 69, “Zeal for your house has consumed me.” Psalm 69 – the rest of it has to do with the dishonor done to King David in the way his people dishonored Yahweh, especially in the House of Elohim. As the Psalm unfolds, ever-increasing violent retribution is suggested to the Deity by the King upon the apostates. If these unrighteous are blotted out entirely then peace will reign, the poor will be fed, the needy nurtured, and all the cities destroyed by the same recourse will be rebuilt bigger and better. (David often reckons this way in the Psalms.) If these dishonorable apostates are violently destroyed, they will serve as a more efficacious sacrifice than any animals, and all will be improved forever. The King is a standing man, interceding for True Israel and the righteous therein; and he is promised by the Righteous One that as long as his progeny remains zealous, some ancestor will stand before Yahweh as king - haOlam.

Indeed, Yahshua, the Son of David, is “seated at the right hand of Power” when he is not the “standing man” here on earth.

But why would the talmidim think of this passage, considering that they certainly knew the whole psalm by heart, and its progression I describe above? Yahshua was definitely the Standing Man, as is so often pointed out by Kefa (Peter) in the Kerygma Petrou. Was Yahshua a Zealot? Did they who walked with him know more about what was in his heart than we?

If anyone of Israel desires to repent and through my name believes in Yahweh, his sins will be forgiven him. For 12 years go into the world and preach this message so that no one may say, "We haven't heard." I have chosen the twelve because I have found them worthy to be my talmidim. I sent these, whom I was sure would be true Apostles, into the world to proclaim to all the joyous message that all may know that there is only one qeoV, and to reveal the future through those who believe in me. The end of which is that those who hear and believe might be saved; and those who do not believe may yet testify that they too have heard the message: that they might not be able to excuse themselves by saying, "We haven't heard." -Yahshua Messiah according to Kerygma Petrou

The Maccabees’ Zeal - The Pinchas Priesthood never became official in Israel, but many claimed to be priests of that order – followers of the deeds of Pinchas – describing themselves as “zealous for Torah” even to the point of violent retribution. It is Hanukkah season at this writing, and a good time to look again at the actions that set off the revolt in the second century B.C.

1 Maccabees 2:15. The (Seleucid) king's commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy (upon the Yahudaïm) came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices. 16. Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattithyahu and his sons drew apart. 17. The king's commissioners then addressed Mattityahu as follows, "You are a respected leader, a great man in this town; you have sons and brothers to support you. 18. Be the first to step forward and conform to the king's decree, as all the nations have done, and the leaders of Yahudah and the survivors in Yahrushalayim; you and your sons shall be reckoned among the Friends of the King, you and your sons will be honored with gold and silver and many presents."

19. Raising his voice, Mattityahu retorted,

"Even if every nation living in the king's dominions obeys him, each forsaking its ancestral religion to conform to his decrees, 20. I, my sons and my brothers will still follow the covenant of our ancestors. 21. May Heaven preserve us from forsaking the Law and its observances. 22. As for the king's orders, we will not follow them: we shall not swerve from our own religion either to right or to left."

23. As he finished speaking, a Yahudaïm came forward in the sight of all to offer sacrifice on the altar in Modein as the royal edict required. 24. When Mattityahu saw this, he was fired with zeal; stirred to the depth of his being, he gave vent to his legitimate anger, threw himself on the man and slaughtered him on the altar. 25. At the same time he killed the king's commissioner who was there to enforce the sacrifice, and tore down the altar. 26. In his zeal for the Law he acted as Pinchas had against Zimri son of Salu. 27. Then Mattityahu went through the town, shouting at the top of his voice,

"Let everyone who has any zeal for the Law and takes his stand on the covenant come out and follow me."

The Maccabees and later the Zealots of the first century A.D. saw themselves as standing men of the Pinchas Priesthood. The Maccabean freedom was begun with a violent and unpremeditated act of zeal – the murder of pork-eaters and Hellenizers by Mattityahu at Modein. As you recall, the “insurrectionists” banished the might of the Epiphanes, the Book of Daniel was written, and, for a time, peace, personal freedom and righteousness returned to Israel. The cost was the standing men of Israel and most of the family called Maccabees.

Rechab of the Rechabites – Now we return to the days of Bamidbar to Rechab’s tribe; Rechab makes frequent appearances in the Scripture because there is more than one. The Rechabites were Kenites – descendents of Cain thus outside the family of Israel – foreigners – Canaanites and pagans – worshipers of the gods of old. However, the Kenites were more skilled than the Israelites, so King Saul brought a group of them into the family of Israel, and a group of Kenites joined with the tribe of Benjamin and became Saul’s ally. After some intrigues, they also stood with King David.

Rechab means “a chariot with horses.” We find Rechab and his son Jonadab flying around in the Chariot of King Jehu (Yahu). Jehu shouts to Jonadab, “Let me show you my zeal for Yahweh; come on!” At this unexpected invitation, the Rechabites hop in Jehu’s chariot, drive a ways to the local shrine of Ba’al, and burn the “Worship Center” down. The house of Rechab was, like Jehu, zealous for the house of Yahweh. (Somewhere around 2 Kings 10)

Now in the days of King Jehoiakim, Jonadab son of Rechab is summoned by Jeremiah to be tested: he brings his family into the domicile section of the Temple – where everyone lived - and there all are offered bowls of wine to drink. Evidently, Rechab the Kenite took a permanent Nazarite vow (Numbers 6) on behalf of the future generations of the family, and Yahweh was set to test whether that vow had been renewed by Jonadab and his generations. (This may be in part because King Jehoiakim reversed the reforms of his famous father, King Josiah, and instituted pagan worship practices as before; also, the Chaldeans were on the march toward the ‘Holy’ City.) So who could Yahweh count on to STAND BEFORE HIM ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL IN ZEAL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS? Judah’s king would not hear the words of Yahweh’s prophet, and the King spoke for the people while the Prophet spoke for the Deity.

Righteous Examples Among the “Righteous”

Jeremiah writes: chapter 35:

5. Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, "Drink wine." 6. But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons for ever; 7. you shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.' 8. We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, 9. and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed; 10. but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.’”

As Yahshua put it in Luke 17:18. “Was no one found to return and give praise to El except this foreigner?" Jonadab proved his family’s righteousness in keeping a vow to Yahweh before all these spleenless muckety-mucks in the temple domicile. Why, these Canaanites were fulfilling the Torah while obeying their earthly father Rechab down through the generations. Who but “these foreigners” could be trusted to uphold all true worshipers in Israel, no matter what became of them.

"Thus says the Yahweh Tviot Elohim of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you, 19. Thus says the Yahweh Tviot, Elohim of Israel: “Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.”

Why couldn’t the leaders of the contemporaneous generation also be obedient?

A Kenite surely still stands before the Deity for the sake of the family of Rechabites, wherever they are now, who were to be zealous for the law.

(Though the deeds of some Standing Men were very violent, their victims were not innocent: prospering in the land of Yahweh and from his people through ill-gotten gains murdering and destroying the family of Jacob, taking the spoils that belonged to poor people – and polluting the righteousness of worship with their idols. These wretches of the nations had no fear of the wrath of Yahweh; neither did they belong to the economy of Israel. They were apostate, strangers and pagans).

Yes, there will always be an intercessor on behalf of the tribe of Rechabites, who were not Israelites by flesh, but grafted in by an anointed prophet – King Saul – and continued in obedience for generations. How many generations? You might be surprised whence they trace!

“The Zealous Will Hear that You’ve Come”

For we skip up 600 years to Acts 21. James the Just and the long beards (aqz, beard, elder) of the Jerusalem Assembly spoke to SHAUL-Paul when he came to Yahweh’s Festival one afternoon to show Jewry his outstanding orthodoxy and do penance for eating with Gentiles (I suppose).

17. On our arrival in Jerusalem the brothers gave us a very warm welcome. (The writer of Acts is there, and he is a Gentile.) 18. The next day Paul went with us to visit James, and all the elders were present. 19. After greeting them, Paul gave a detailed account of all that Elohim had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

With knowing little twinkles in their eyes, the writer has the long beards of James boasting to Paul and his bunch,

“You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Yahudaïm of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law (in other words, there was a chapter of the Pinchas Priesthood on hand, like a shotgun, cocked and ready), 21. and they have been told about you that you teach all the Yahudaïm who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moshe…. What then is to be done? They (these Zealous) will certainly hear that you have come.”

Zealous was a codeword for the protective and, if need be, violent Pinchas Priesthood. (Simon Zelotes is a name we know; and he will soon pop up in person.) Indeed, when they found out Paul was about, the Zealous would do their level best to murder him for the same reason Pinchas had pitched the spear through Zimri and Cozbi – Paul had brought foreigners (so they thought) into the Temple, defiling it.

Acts 21:23. Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; 24. take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you but that you yourself live in observance of the law.

Some scholars actually consider this an amusing set-up by James and the Long-bearded Rechabites to get rid of Paul – who was definitely NOT zealous for the Commandments – and it worked perfectly. Thankfully Paul wasn’t murdered; but he was, after this, solid gone, never to return.

Standing Men and Women

James the Just’s religious reign as Mebakker over the Qahal haQadim (30 – 62 A.D.) was a era of constant turmoil – Roman occupation, the unexpected terrorist acts of zealots, the murderous debacles of the Herods, and standing men and women standing all over the place. Look!

Acts 5:34 A Pharisee called Gamaliel, who was a teacher of the Law respected by the whole people, stood up and … 35. then he addressed the Sanhedrin, "Men of Israel, be careful how you deal with these people. 36. Some time ago there Theudas stood up (44 – 46 A.D.). He claimed to be someone important, and collected about four hundred followers; but when he was killed, all his followers scattered and that was the end of them.

Theudas stood up, zealous for the Law, to lead the tribes out of Palestine into Syria to set up the Kingdom in the Wilderness. Theudas would part the Jordan River as a sign to the people following him. But soldiers of Rome and Herod’s army were waiting for them and killed them all, crucifying and beheading.

37. And then there was Judas the Galilean, at the time of the census (6 A.D.), who attracted crowds of supporters; but he was killed too, and all his followers dispersed.

Previously, Judas the Just (Yahudah haZaddik of Gamla) stood up and started the Zealot Party, which used any means to overcome foreigners – murder, robbery, arson. This Judah the Just is thought to be a relative of James the Just, and he came along the same year Yahshua was born. There are scholarly books indentifying Judah the Just as the same person we call Jesus.

38. What I suggest (continues the standing Gamaliel) is that you leave these men alone and let them go. If this enterprise, this movement of theirs, is of human origin it will break up of its own accord; 39. but if it does in fact come from Elohim, you will be unable to destroy them. Take care not to find yourselves fighting against the Almighty."

Gamaliel’s decision forms the basis of much political policy today.

Then The Egyptian Yahud stood up to besiege Jerusalem with thousands to take back the Temple and the city for Yahweh.

Acts 21:37. Just as Paul was being taken into the fortress, he asked the tribune if he could have a word with him. The tribune said, "You speak Greek, then? 38. Aren't you the Egyptian who started the recent revolt and led those four thousand cut-throats out into the desert?"

The Egyptian and his army were massacred climbing Mount Zion (circa 56 A.D.).

Then John the Baptist stood up. Then Yahshua the Messiah stood up.

Then James the Just Stood Up

These were not violent men, especially James, who was the victim of some terribly violent acts as recorded in the history books. He was feared because of his righteousness – his lack of sinning – and his leadership of the sect of Rechabites that was growing by leaps and bounds. It is not wrong for us to call James a Rechabite – he did not drink wine nor plant seeds nor anoint himself with oil. He was a kneeling man before Yahweh. It is said that his knees were like those of a camel from interceding so many hours for the sins of a nation. Perhaps the description of his knees could be from the fact that his legs were broken by Saul of Tarsus in a much earlier meeting on the temple steps.^* If James wanted revenge on Saul / Paul, he certainly could have had it. But James was not that way.

^*(The story of Saul/Paul throwing James down the temple steps is recorded in The Preaching of Peter aka The Recognitions, Book I, Chapter LXX – here: www.apostolia.com.)

Eusebius quotes Josephus and Hegesippus in telling us that James the Just One was, in his later life, considered The Pillar upon which Jerusalem and all Israel was supported.

Galatians 2:9 James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me (Saul/Paul) and Barnabas the left foot of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles.

By 62 A.D., Cephas and John were gone. James was the only one left – the rest had been executed; so they called him the Pillar (stulon – stele – stylus) and Oblias (Obelisk) – the Standing Man! Many of the people believed that, though the former standing men had all fallen, Jerusalem could stand as long as James remained the pillar of righteousness holding it up.

James the Just was therefore despised by the temple rulers but cherished by all manner of common and pious people. There are all kinds of stories about James that put us in mind of Yahshua. I wish I could tell you all of them because I do admire James – he is as close as we can get to the “historical Jesus.” James was a writer, historian and prophet – and a number of his writings have been found in the last couple generations. AND James the Just, like Nostradamus 1500 years later, predicted his own death:

James 5:6. You have condemned, you have killed the Just One; he does not resist you.

The Crushing of the Pillar – The Falling of the City

That death came in 62 AD. The high priest had been murdered and the new one was out of town. The son of Caiaphas, named Ananus, saw his chance to crush the Pillar. During the Feast of Passover, Ananus and his kin brought James the Just to the parapet of the temple.

Matthew 4:5 The devil then took him to the holy city and set him on the parapet* of the Temple. (NJB) *Parapet – pterugion – a wing – “a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony “ – not “pinnacle.”

There the devil commanded him to renounce Yahshua before the multitudes, incensed that James the Just should be standing up there in the first place. The rehearsed question was,

“O Just One, Tell us where we may find the Gate of Yahshua?”

He was then to renounce his brother Yahshua before all the believers in the crowd. I do not think that the initial intention was to throw him off, but to get him to “stand down.” But The Just One would not cooperate. He’d been thrown down the temple before. So the Just One cried something like,

Matthew 26:64. “I tell you all, hereafter you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky."

65. Then the high priest tore his robes, and said, "He has uttered blasphemy. Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy. 66. What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death."

Then Ananus pushed the Just One down into the sky.

The Just One and the Rechabite

James the Just didn’t die immediately. One witness said that the first to get to him was a Rechabite. The Rechabite knelt down to James’ mouth, then shouted to the crowd, “Be quiet; all of you! Can you not hear the Just One is praying for you?” Of course, James was praying,

"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34).

It was this prayer that enraged the devil so much that Satan entered into a dry-cleaner who used “dashed his brains out with a fuller's club.”

(James was 94 according to one tradition, which means that he was born in 33 B.C. which would have made him about sixty years old at the Resurrection.)

Hegesippus tells us that the brave Rechabite that came to the fallen James was none other than his brother, Simon Zelotes, who would take his place as the Mebakker of the Assembly of Yahweh in Jerusalem.

And at this point zeal, righteousness, murder and the standing one all come together. If Simon was a Rechabite, from the family of Rechab, then James was also a Rechabite. Perhaps this is why the Rechabites were still a very popular sect in the first century. What does this tell us about the possibility that the whole family of Yahshua the Messiah? Nazarene / Nazarite; Rechabite / Standing Man; etc.

(Simon died in 105 A.D. at the age of 120, so he would have been born about 6 B.C., making him 37 at the time of the Resurrection. Please do not write to tell me the years do not add up.)

The Lost Josephus

In a version of Josephus that is no longer in existence (but quoted by Eusebius – 4^th century), it is written that such notorious, bloody riots against the priesthood, the Sanhedrin and the Sadducean establishment throughout Palestine on account of James the Just’s execution that within 3 years, Nero considered it a rebellion and send General Vespasian to quell the uprisings, culminating in the deaths of over a million Jews, the destruction of Jerusalem and burning of the temple.

However, one group of sects headquartered in Jerusalem escaped the conflagration on account of a Rechabite prophet, a standing man, who, forty years before, prophesied that when the armies surrounded, don’t fight but FLEE. That prophecy is found in Mark 13 and the Rechabite was Yahshua Messiah. Flee the Yahshuans did – Ebionites, Nazoreans, Elchasaites, Hosheans – to Pella east of the Jordan River – and without interference by General Titus – he allowed them get through possibly on account of the prophecy, which he certainly knew. They sects were led on their exodus across the Jabbok and Jordan north into the mountains by none other than Simon Zelotes, Rechabite, who became the Standing Man for the body of True Believers for the next 40 years.

For the whole story of this escape go to:
http://www.bible-news.com/2007-yahshua-yahweh/habeas-corpus-jesus-to-seventy.htm

The Gate of Yahshua

Why all this is important now is that it gives us an unlikely gateway into a mystical place of protection for future generations. If we are to be a priesthood of believers – a Pinchas or Melchizedek priesthood – then there will be standing men and women zealous for Yahweh and standing before him by his command.

Summing up, the Standing Men (and there were women, too, whom I failed on this occasion to mention) have, at least in a symbolic sense, knees like camels, interceding for the past, present and future for those people, places and institutions that have meaning for them in the scheme and way of Yahweh’s providence. They become Zealous because they are fed up with the pagan practices of their cities, acquaintances churches and, most relevant to the discussion, families. To be a Rechabite was to be a part of a close-nit community of frugal men and women, husbands and wives and children, whose lives were dedicated to changing the world by channeling their zeal into action – becoming leaders whether they are the leadership type or not – stepping quickly into situations of which they may affect the outcomes – judging situations, especially those they are close to, with RIGHTEOUS judgment rather than that which is tainted by sentiment or old habit – and exercising their binding and loosing power before Yahweh.

In doing these things, we discovery another mysterious lost custom of our ancestors in the faith – the Gateway of Yahshua – that which James died defending. Once through the gate, we become activists for his cause because we have given up on conventional thinking about him, and have taken up the clean slate as we once again read all about him.

Stand for Whom?

In relational terms, the signs of those whom each of us might stand in for, what we should do with them, what our attitude should be about them, how we should live for them, and what our relationship to the community and the state should be – as well as our relationship with Yahweh – are rife in these scripture passages above and many hundreds more, as well as in the few history books that remain from that sacredtime.

We can’t help but think of Devrah standing up against the Assyrian armies while General Barak was quivering - “I’ll go only if you’ll go,” he said. Avraham standing before Yahweh to entreat him to save Sodom for Lot’s sake, and Lot’s withdrawal. Or Yahshua standing before the Elohim pleading for Jerusalem, but knowing whose was his and who wasn’t his – and that he would lose only one.

There is another passage that has a lot to say about the Standing Man in our world:

1 Cor 7: 13. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14. For the unbelieving husband is consecrated (set apart unto Yahweh) through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are consecrated. 15. But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For Elohim has called us to peace (the Priesthood of Phinehas). 16. Wife, how do you know whether you will rescue your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will deliver your wife? 17. Only, let every one lead the life that Yahshua has assigned and Yahweh has called.

This kind of power is NOT for the unbelieving or the timid. Go back to the primary class. It is for you who find yourself to be a Nazoreans or a Rechabites in this life, zealous for the Commandments of Yahweh, changed into the New Man by the Gateway of Yahshua. Who delivered YOU into this life? Some Rechab or Jonadab 575 years ago through standing up for you, though he or she would never know until the resurrection!

But you are through the Doorway of Rescue, even though you have a far stranger and more precarious life in this world than the pagans next door. You will one day thank some Rechabite – a Standing Man or Woman – when you meet, and tell him or her that it was all worthwhile when you, as James before you, boast of your clan “who have believed; they are all zealous for the law!” you boast.

Note that the word in the Bible for “resurrection,” anastasis, simply means “stand up.”

Next and finally, WHO will you deliver through the Gate of Yahshua? Certainly your children – but what about your children’s children and so on down the line. Who will STAND now and, like James, be SEEN as the Standing Man while your world of tomorrow begins to stand forth before you?

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:09:15 GMT

Greetings on Yom Teruah. Today we must divert our minds from the exciting three letters. I have a message for you far more important than that.
September 12-13, 2007

Feast of Trumpets Message 2007

The Feast of Trumpets is a type of judgment – in the Old Testament, the walls of Jericho came down for a judgment. In the New Testament, there are trumpets everywhere. This is because keeping Trumpets in a biblical manner is a requirement for all who are in the covenant of Yahweh.

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The Feast of Trumpets this year is especially important. It marks the 40^th year, one biblical generation, since the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967. This is what Yahweh speaks to my heart:

If a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity (transgression of the Torah, 1 John 3:4 ), and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. Ezekiel 3:20

My friends, this is why I do what I do. I want to TROUBLE YOU with the fact of the matter because I love you and desire my conscience to be clear.

LOOK:

Yahshua Speaking:

Luke 21:24 Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (June 15, 1967)

29, 30. And he told them a parable: "Watch the fig tree (Israel), and all the trees (the nations); as soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.

32. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all has taken place. (Speaking of the generation that witnessed the end of the Times of the Gentiles – and the event in the land he mentioned earlier.)

Yahweh Speaking:

Leviticus 23:24-5. Yahweh told Moses, "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work…” (Tonight at sundown begins the seventh month.)

How long are these memorial feasts to be conducted?

Leviticus 23:31 “Forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”

But were not these feast decreed as “passed away” or “a shadow”?

Yahshua Speaking:

Matthew 5:17-20. "Think not that I have come to abolish the Torah and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. (Fulfill them means to keep them to the nth degree.) For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Torah until all is accomplished. Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Christians have relaxed the commandments of Yahweh completely out of existence. How can they expect to stand in the Great Day (John 7:37; Jude 6; 1 Thes 4:16). In fact, this is why this world is in lawless turmoil. Paul calls it, the mystery of lawlessness.

Regarding such things, Paul says:

2 Thessalonians 2:11-13. Therefore El sends upon them (that is, those who teach that the Torah is no longer valid) a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks to Yahweh always for you, brethren beloved by the Master, because Yahweh chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

How can one be sanctified – set apart – unless one knows and follow that which sets him/her apart.

John makes it clear what sets apart unto sanctification and salvation, and it is not the sinners’ prayer:

Revelation 12:17 and many other passages: [Those who are ultimately to be saved are] those who keep the commandments of Yahweh and bear testimony to Yahshua.

In fact, this is what John brought forth the Revelation (1:1,2):

THE REVELATION of Yahshua Messiah, which Elohim gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the Word of Yahweh and to the Witness of Yahshua the Anointed, even to all that he saw.

Friend or relative: the fall Feasts are upon us exactly one prophetic generation since the liberation of Jerusalem – when precisely 6000 years of Salvation History have passed. We are passing into the 7^th day Millennium. If you read and believe the Word of Yahweh, then you know Yahweh’s Festivals will be reinstituted in the Millennium. (Many prophetic passages say so, including Isaiah 56 and Zechariah 14).

If you indeed among those who will be saved in the end – who keep the Word of Yahweh and the Witness of Yahshua – shouldn’t you be modeling the Millennial Way as it is taught so plainly in scripture? Yes you should – especially in this year and in the years to come. Trumpets is tonight, Atonement is the 22^nd and Tabernacles goes from September 27 through October 4.

Plan to learn what your Heavenly Father expects from you in this Millennial time. In the past, he winked. But he winks no more. Knowledge is increased and everybody has access to all the information they need about being obedient to the Father through Internet and free books.

It’s sometimes hard to “go it alone,” but this you must do if Yahweh’s Spirit quickens the route to life in your spirit.

If you can, get your family together tonight or tomorrow. Or just get yourself together. If you have a shofar, that’s good. An empty paper towel roll will do just fine. You can get a shofar for the other feasts at one of the links below.

Here is an order you may go through for home worship with links to appropriate music.

Leviticus 23:24, 25. "Say to the people of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work; and you shall present an offering by fire to Yahweh."

Here are ten reasons for the Trumpet blasts – meditate on each scripture passage:

1. The Day of Trumpets supposedly marks the beginning of Creation (Psalm 98:6).

2. Trumpets is the first of the ten the days of Yahweh’s season of repentance (Teshuvah – 10 days before the Day of Atonement).

3. Trumpets reminds us of our stand at the foot of Mount Sinai and promise of obedience (Exodus 19:19) (Exodus. 24:7).

4. Trumpets reminds us of the words of the prophets – words like the sounding of a horn (Ezekiel 33:4-5).

5. Trumpets reminds us of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 4:19). When we hear the sound of the ram's horn, we understand that we are his rebuilt temple and we rejoice (2 Corinthians 6:16).

6. Trumpets reminds us of the binding of Isaac who, like Yahshua, offered himself. The sacrificial ram was caught in the thicket by the horn (Genesis 22:13).

7. The blowing of the ram's horn causes us to fear enough so as to bend our wills to the Creator (Amos 3:6).

8. Trumpets reminds us of the great judgment and the subsequent Millennium rule (Zephaniah 1:14-16).

9. Trumpets reminds us of the gathering of the dispersed two houses of Israel, that we may passionately long for this re-gathering family reunion in the Millennial Resurrection (Isaiah 27:13).

10. Trumpets reminds us of the resurrection of the dead, that we may believe in it. (Isaiah 18:3)

“I am prepared to fulfill Yahweh’s commandment to blow the shofar as it is prescribed in the Torah, ‘this shall be a day of blowing unto you.’”

You may listen to the blowing of the shofar in music appropriate to this day in two of our EloHymns (turn on your speakers):

Yom Teruah
Horn of a Unicorn
Shattered Pot

These are the words to Yom Teruah (Which means (“The Day of Wonder”). By the third time through, you ought to be able to take your improvised trumpet and blow right along, thus fulfilling the commandment.

Yom Teruah is the Day of Awe!
The Feast of Trumpets and the Court of Law.
Sound the Shofar in the meeting hall,
sound each doleful trumpet call!
First, sound Tekiah! (one note 4 beats)
then, sound Shevarim! (three notes one beat each)
now, the Teruah! (4 eight notes, 4 sixteenth notes, 1 eighth note)
finally, a Tekiah once again. (one note 3 beats)

Last, the Tekiah, Tekiah Gedolah,
takes the longest of breaths that we may draw.
So our Messiah, Yahshua Messiah,
may hear our Gedolah and return on this Day of Awe. (one note 16 beats)
This is the Feast of Trumpets!

"Wake up! Wake up, everyone who is asleep! Remember Elohim, your Creator! Instead of going around doing things that are not important or worthwhile, take some time to think about what you can do to make yourself into a better person. Give up doing bad things!" - Maimonides

ALL: Blessed are You, Yahweh our Elohim, Ruler of the universe, for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this season. May Yahshua our Messiah come today and set the world aright for your names’ sake. Amein.

For more on the feasts, go to my site www.bible-news.com. Thank you for taking time to read this note. Thank you for being obedient to what the Spirit is saying in our day.

Jackson Snyder
YAH Prince of Peace Tallahassee
(801) 605-1715 vm
www.JacksonSnyder.com www.EloHymns.com

Three Letters - 2 -

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:59:57 GMT

Hello - this is Klakster back as promised. I have been doing a lot of thinking about the experiences our "team" had as we literally fought devils for over three years. The intention of blogging is to tell the whole story - at least detail the main points of contact between the people of our community and the invisible (but very physical)creatures that came out of the neighbor's back-yard pit.

Allow me a little more time before starting that - I need to continue practicing blogging by presenting another piece of the Three Letters. The letters are JHS and you can read something about them in yesterday's installment.

We can say that the first letter is not a "J" at all, but a stylized "I" - for I understand that "J" came into fashion sometime in the last 400 years and not before. I want to prove that by showing you an excerpt from the REAL King James Version of the Bible that was published in 1611. Recently it was reprinted and you can get oine here:
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?event=AFF&p=1008342&item_no=631609

Anyway, there is no "J" in Jesus! Look at verses 21 & 25. It's Iesus, all you 1611 KJV people. Get closer to the truth. Call him Yehsoos, OK? (Like YEAH-soos.) Actually, all men's names in Greek and Latin from whence this text was received, ended in "s" (the second letter of our trio). Theis is not so in Hebrew, and after all, Iesus was Hebrew, no? So we might better pronounce his name YEAH-soo until we get to the next letter. Since his is the name above all?

Next, look at the heading on the page - The Wife Men. Obviously, the KJV editors were prophesying current events in the 21st century. I suspect, if this blog catches on, a number of Wife Men will be reading it.

Again we see in 24 the word wife not referring to "Wise Men." I hope some smarty pants will explain that to me.

One of the reasons I am dealing with these cryptic church letters, Ihs, is because there is some code letters that one of these devils from the back-yard pit gave to a lay pastor to identify himself. These were three Hebrew letters, though the lay pastor knew no Hebrew and traced down scribbles - three letters (not these three Greek letters, but three Hebrew letters) - letters that someone was able to translate thus nab the name of the devil.

To finish up this installment, I would like to remind you that the old testament name Joshua is exactly the same name as Jesus. The difference we see in Bibles is because the earlier translators, like the hack who did this 1611 job, didn't know enough of either Hebrew or Greek to make the Testaments consistent. Look:

I guess we would pronounce that YAH-foo-ah, although Klakster is beginning to believe that "f" is sounteded like an "s" just as it might have been in the Wise Men (instead of Wife Men).

YAH-shoo-ah is a hebrew name and undoubtedly the name Iesus is correctly pronounced (rather than GEE-zus or IEE-zus; or EE-zah as the Islamicists do).

So the first of the three letters is not a "J" or an "I" but a Greek Iota (pronounced Yoda) - and we find "J" a newcomer to our alphabet - not to be found in the 1611 King James Version. If anybody was reading this and wanted to check me out, I would have to admit that yes, there is a "J" in the 1611. We will take that up tomorrow night as I continue to put my recollections together.

Good night, KLAſTER. (Oh, there's that J)

Three Letters Part 1

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:22:07 GMT

Welcome! Klakster has been gone a long time, but it's his intentions to take up blogging about a three-year period of supernatural experiences, the like of which only fiction has thusfar been able to describe. For this time period I was engaged in trying to make sense of the hoards of incubi (sex demons) that were pouring out of a hole in a neighbor's backyard and appearing to torment many in the area.

I came into this situation as a local pastor and the neighbor was a parishioner who expected me to know how to stop up the hole. As a newcomer, I had to determine first if the neighbor was sane and, if so, what to do if anything. And so the three plus years of "fighting" unseen bullies began.

Before I do that, I have to get some blogging experience and skills; so I have been thinking of three letters lately, and want to practice by writing about them. Actually, they are my initials - jhs - and anyone who has been in a Christian church has seen these letters together on stained glass windows, huge brass crosses or on book covers. Maybe some have wondered what they meant - maybe some already know. But my mind has been taken with these letters lately. As soon as I dispense with them in the next week or so, then Klakster will get on with the true story of "The Forty-month War Against Hordes of Devils."

If you happen to see this, tell others who might be interested to tune in. I will write a new installment every evening if I can. First the Three Letters, then the Hordes.

Thank you for reading Klakster. I'll be back tomorrow.

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