Due to the Rosh Chodesh not being seen when we expected it, here are the adjusted calendar pages for this month and next month for Chanukkah.
Due to the Rosh Chodesh not being seen when we expected it, here are the adjusted calendar pages for this month and next month for Chanukkah.
Due to the Rosh Chodesh not being seen when we expected it, here are the adjusted calendar pages for this month and next month for Chanukkah.
FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – VAYYEITZEI:
“Vaya’an Ya’aqov vayomer L’lavan, ki yareitiy” ~ “And Ya’aqov answered and said to Lavan, ‘Because I was afraid...’”
Throughout his youth, Ya’aqov’s biggest problem was that he constantly feared. And he feared all the wrong things. He feared financial loss and exclusion, he feared his brother and his father-in-law, he feared both the present and the future. Because of his fear, he acted with guile and deceit, seeking to manipulate others in order to get his way and what he wanted. Does this sound like anyone you know?
The one person Ya’aqov did not properly fear, until later in life, was the one and only Person who deserved that fear: YHWH Shadday. He even attempted to manipulate YHWH to obtain his own desires, – and YHWH graciously but temporarily allowed this for His own purposes. Does this also sound like anyone you know?
Fear of anything or anyone besides YHWH is misplaced and unproductive. Yehoshua our Messiah said, “But I shall show you whom you should fear: fear the One who, after killing, possesses the authority to cast into Gehinnom.” Of other persons and things, he only said, “And which of you by worrying can add one amah to his lifespan? If then you are unable to affect the smallest thing, why do you worry about the rest?” He also said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of YHWH and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” We who have the blessings and promises of YHWH, whether through birth or by adoption and ingathering, have no right to fear anyone or anything else. He has promised to be our strength and our shield, as well as our provider. As occurred with Ya’aqov, fearing anything or anyone besides YHWH will only prevent or delay us from becoming who we are truly meant to be and truly realizing our hopes, blessings and dreams.
Freedom’s Call newsletter - 2025
This season’s new Freedom’s Call newsletter by Sabbath Keepers Fellowship & Prison Ministry is now completed and will soon be mailed out to our 6,000+ Sabbath-keeping inmate members nationwide. If you would like to see and learn something of what we teach and offer them, just click this link to view or download a free copy:
https://sabbathkeepersfellowsh....ip.org/documents/new
We at SKF thank you for your generous contributions which make this and all of our programs possible for our brothers and sisters behind bars. The next two are our Complete Believer’s Calendar and our nationwide Passover Package Distribution program, which must be completed by the end of this year in order to make sure they arrive in time, so please consider making a donation of any size right now.
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Reminder, tonight is our Bible Study starting 7:30 p.m.:
https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....25/11/25/bible-study
How we think of worship today is much different than how it was thought of centuries ago. Today some think worship is simply going to a church or synagogue to listen to a message. Others consider it worship to hear music with a message, while someone else may consider it worship to be alone in nature. Genesis 2:15, “Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.” The word cultivate in this translation is a word that also can be translated as worship. Although different than when Abraham took Isaac to worship in Genesis 22:5, which means to bow down, the word in Genesis 2:15 means “to be in the service of”, when we are serving our Creator it is a form of worship.
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WORD FOR TODAY “do you want to be successful” : Jos 1:7 "Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.
WISDOM FOR TODAY: Pro 19:23 The fear of YEHOVAH leads to life; one who has it is satisfied and rests untouched by evil.
Ask the LORD how you can serve HIM better
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The Christian view of faith is sitting on the porch in a rocking chair and waiting for a heavenly reward for saying a few words once upon a time.
But real faith, Calvarian faith, genuine emuna involves a lot of walking, working, and warring…and very little laying about.
It’s a long walk all The Way back to Calvary where Christianity went wrong, and it’s a hard struggle to dismantle the lies of the times and the traditions of men. It’s a war on the world, a war on the church and a war on ourselves. And it’s a treacherous trek to retrace our steps back again to the present, to rebuild aright what was allowed to be raised so wrongly. It’s a battle against all that is called blessed by men and accursed of Heaven.
That’s real true faith. Not endless motion back and forth on the front porch, hoping and praying and believing and waiting… and accomplishing nothing.
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BIBLE STUDY --- THE GOOD SHEPHERD
THE BREAD OF LIFE
From John 6:22-71
On the morning after Yeshua had fed the five thousand, the crowds were puzzled to see that He had gone. They knew that the disciples had left without Him, and all the other boats which had come from Tiberias were still there. But when these people realized that Yeshua was definitely not there, they got into their boats and went across to Capernaum to find Him. [How did you get over here?] they asked Yeshua when they had found Him. [Why are you looking for Me?] Yeshua said. [Is it because I can work miracles in your life? Or is it because I fed you until you were full? You must be careful not to work so hard for the bread that can spoil. Instead, work harder for the bread that stays fresh forever, the kind I can give you because the Father has put His seal on Me.] [What kind of work does YHVH want us to do?] the people asked. [Believe in Me,] Yeshua answered. [That is what YHVH wants you to do.] [We will believe in You when You do more miracles for us,] they answered. [Why don’t You do what Moses did in the wilderness and give us bread every day?] [It was YHVH, not Moses, Who gave the people bread in the wilderness,] Yeshua answered. [It is the same YHVH Who now provides a new kind of bread for you. He offers you a lifegiving bread that has come from heaven.] [Give it to us!] the people cried. [Give us this bread every day of our lives.] [I am the Bread of Life,] Yeshua said. [Whoever comes to Me will never hunger again. Whoever believes in Me will never thirst again. I have already told you that you have seen Me, but you don’t recognize Who I am. But some will recognize Me and come to Me, Who was sent by YHVH, and I will never turn them away. My purpose in coming down from heaven is to do what YHVH wants -- to keep safely every person He sends to Me, and to raise them up to everlasting life on the last day.] Then the people began to murmur among themselves about Yeshua. [How can Joseph’s son say that He came down from heaven,] they complained. [We know both of His parents so we know that He was born on earth.] [Stop murmuring among yourselves,] Yeshua told them. [People will come to Me only when YHVH draws them to Me. But in the last day I will raise those who do come. The prophets wrote that men will be taught by YHVH, so those who listen and learn from Him will come to Me. They will do this even though they have not seen Him, for only I have seen YHVH. Let Me assure you that anyone who believes in Me has everlasting life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and in time they all died. But whoever eats the Bread of Life from heaven will never die. I am that Living Bread. If anyone eats this Bread, he will live forever. This Bread is My flesh, which I give so that the world may live.] The people became very angry when Yeshua said this, and they began to argue. [How can Yeshua give us His flesh to eat?] they complained. [Let Me tell you with absolute sureness,] Yeshua answered, [that if you do not eat My flesh and drink My blood, you will not have life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has life that never ends, and I will raise him up on the last day. My flesh is food and My blood is drink. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood is in Me and I in him. The living Father sent Me and because He lives, I live also. In the same way, whoever feeds on Me will also live because of Me. This is the Bread that came from heaven. It is not like the bread which your ancestors ate before they died. Whoever eats this Bread will live forever.] Yeshua spoke these words while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. Many who had followed Him there, who had become His disciples, were offended by this teaching. [This teaching goes against what we believe,] they complained. [How can we accept it?] Yeshua realized what these disciples were thinking, even before they said it. [Does this teaching offend you?] He asked them. [What if you saw Me go back up into heaven? The Spirit is the source of life, not the flesh. The Words I speak are Spirit and life, but some of you find them hard to believe.] Yeshua knew from the beginning who the unbelievers would be, as well as those who would betray Him. Then He added, [This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father first makes it possible.] From that time on some of the disciples left Yeshua and followed Him no more. Then Yeshua asked The Twelve, [Would you like to leave Me also?] [Where could we go, Adonai?] Simon Peter asked. [You are the One Who has the Words of everlasting life. We know that You are the Moshiach, YHVH’s Son.] [Did I not choose you?] Yeshua asked The Twelve. [But one of you is a devil.] Yeshua was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Although Judas was one of the chosen Twelve, he would later betray Yeshua.
COMMENTARY
LIFE-GIVING LAND
During the time of Yeshua, life was tied to the land and its production, as it had been for many generations. As far back as the time of Moses, it was called a land flowing with milk and honey, a fruitful land, a life-giving land. Prosperity was tied mostly to agriculture and fishing. Boats moved freely along the Mediterranean coast and on the Sea of Galilee. In addition to fish, which was dried or salted and shipped to various cities within the land, murex shells were gathered for their precious purple dye. Towns such as Bethsaida, which means {House of Fishing,} suggested the importance of this industry. Wheat farming prospered along the coastal plains, in the broad valleys such as the Valley of Esdraelon, and in small family plots in the Judean Mountains. Barley was also grown, especially farther south. Pasture lands for sheep and cattle stretched across the land, providing milk, cheese, wool, and leather. Animals offered some meat, although meat was more common in sacrifices than in daily food. The mountainous lands were rich with olive groves and vineyards, providing olives for food, olive oil for lamps, and grapes, wine, and raisins in abundance. Galilee was known for its flax, the valley near Jericho for dates and balsam, and the Plains of Sharon for oak trees. Pottery making, weaving, spinning, and metalworking were all tied to the land. In fact, almost every facet of Israel’s economy at the time of Yeshua depended upon the life-giving land.
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