Shabbat shalom from Pennsylvania. It has been a rainy day but everything is going well. I was mudding and taping the drywall I put in the earlier half of the week. Next week, I will get some stilts to finish it since moving a ladder is not so conductive to efficiency.

Was the Last Supper the Passover Feast?

This coming week, March 12-18 (19-25 Adar), the Bible reading plan covers the portions Vayakhel (And He Assembled) and Pekudei (Accounts).

12 Mar Exodus 35:1-29 2 Chronicles 11:1-13:13 John 7:25-53 Proverbs 15:1-7
13 Mar Exodus 35:30-37:16 2 Chronicles 13:14-15:19 John 8:1-20 Proverbs 15:8-14
14 Mar Exodus 37:17-29 2 Chronicles 16:1-18:11 John 8:21-38 Proverbs 15:15-21
15 Mar Exodus 38:1-39:1 2 Chronicles 18:12-20:13 John 8:39-59 Proverbs 15:22-28
16 Mar Exodus 39:2-21 2 Chronicles 20:14-21:20 John 9:1-23 Proverbs 15:29-33
17 Mar Exodus 39:22-43 2 Chronicles 22:1-25:14 John 9:24-41 Psalm 71:1-24
18 Mar Exodus 40:1-38 Exodus 12:1-20 John 10:1-21 Psalm 72:1-20
Numbers 28:9-15 Ezekiel 45:16-46:18

The complete annual Bible reading plan for 2022-23 (Hebrew year 5783) is available at this link:

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Weekly Bible Reading For March 12-18: Vayakhel (And He Assembled) / Pekudei (Accounts) - The Barking Fox

This coming week, March 12-18 (19-25 Adar), the Bible reading plan covers the portions Vayakhel (And He Assembled) and Pekudei (Accounts). 12 Mar Exodus 35:1-29 2 Chronicles 11:1-13:13 John 7:25-53 Proverbs 15:1-7 13 Mar Exodus 35:30-37:16 2 Chronicl

You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
#exodus 31:14

To disregard the #sabbath is to disregard a gift from God. If God came to your house and handed you a present, would you just throw it in the trash? That's what we've done by rejecting the weekly seventh day Sabbath and just one of the reasons why God holds deliberate Sabbath-breaking so seriously. #shabbat

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Shabbat times for South-East of England = 05:40pm on Friday March 10 to 06:49pm on Saturday March 11

SERIES J --- THE WARRIOR KING --- LESSON 03

DAVID SAVES KEILAH

THOSE TRAITORS, THE ZIPHITES

From 1 Samuel 23:1-28

News reached David that Philistine raiders had descended on the city of Keilah, plundering its threshing floors. David asked Adonai what he should do. ‘Shall I attack the Philistines?’ he inquired. ‘Attack them and save Keilah,’ Adonai answered. But David’s men were afraid. ‘We have been frightened just living in Judah,’ they protested. ‘How do you think we will feel at Keilah, fighting the Philistine armies?’ Once again, David asked Adonai what he should do. ‘Go to Keilah,’ Adonai answered. ‘I will give you victory.’ David organized his men and marched to Keilah as Adonai directed, defeating the Philistines and taking their cattle as spoils of battle. The Philistines were thoroughly defeated and suffered heavy losses. In this way the people of Keilah were rescued by David and his men. Abiathar had gone to Keilah with David, bringing the ephod with him to help him seek Adonai’s guidance. Before long, he needed it, for Saul learned that David was at Keilah and made plans to trap him. ‘YHVH has given David to me now,’ said Saul. ‘He has trapped himself in a town with gates and bars.’ Saul gathered his army to besiege David and his men at Keilah. David soon learned of Saul’s plot and called for Abiathar and the ephod so he could seek Adonai’s guidance. ‘Adonai, I know that Saul is coming here to destroy Keilah because of me,’ David prayed. ‘Will the men of Keilah betray me? Will Saul actually come here as I have been told? Adonai, I beg You to tell me.’ Adonai answered David, ‘Saul will come.’ ‘Will the men of Keilah surrender me to Saul?’ David asked. ‘Yes,’ Adonai answered. ‘They will.’ When David heard what Adonai said, he escaped from Keilah with his men, about six hundred by this time and roamed about the countryside. Saul gave up his plans to go to Keilah, but David remained a fugitive in the hill country, living in the territory of the Wilderness of Ziph. Saul constantly tried to find David, but Adonai prevented Saul from finding him. David lived in constant fear of Saul, realizing that Saul was always trying to hunt him down to kill him. One day Jonathan visited David at Horesh, giving him renewed strength in Adonai. ‘You must not be afraid,’ Jonathan told him. ‘My father Saul will never find you, some day you will reign as king over Israel and I will be next to you. My father Saul also knows this.’ Together they renewed their covenant of friendship and then Jonathan returned home while David remained at Horesh. In a move to win Saul’s favour, the men of Ziph went to see him and offered to betray David. ‘South of Jeshimon, on the hill of Hachilah at Horesh, David hides in the caves. If you come down, we will help you capture him as you have wanted to do for a long time.’ ‘May Adonai bless you!’ Saul answered. ‘I’m so glad that you sympathize with me. But go back and make sure that he is hiding where you think he is, for he is a very cunning fellow. When you discover all the places he hides, bring me a complete report and I will go with you. If he is there, I will find him, even if I have to search the whole land.’ The men of Ziph soon returned home, but David found out what had happened so he moved with his men to a more remote place in the Wilderness of Maon, south of Jeshimon in the Arabah. Saul brought his army to the wilderness and began tracking David. At one point Saul and David were facing one another on opposite sides of a mountain. David hurried to get away, but Saul had him trapped. At the moment when it looked as if there was no escape for David, Saul received a message that the Philistines had attacked the land. Saul ordered his men to return home to fight the Philistines, so David was safe once more. Therefore, the rock where David was trapped became known as the Rock of Escape.

COMMENTARY

THRESHING FLOORS

When a border city in Israel was attacked by the Philistines, David asked Adonai, [Shall I attack the Philistines?] With YHVH’s help David saved the city of Keilah. But when Saul came with an army, the people of the city David saved were ready to turn him over to be killed! Although Keilah was protected by bars and gates, its threshing floor lay beyond the security of the city walls. It was located on the high ground outside the city in order to take advantage of the wind. But exposure to wind also meant exposure to enemies. At harvest time the threshing floor was open to attack, so farmers slept beside the floor to protect their grain from surprise raids. Ancient farmers built a threshing floor by clearing and levelling the ground until the bedrock below was exposed. The stones removed from the soil in the process were set in a circle around the floor to form a low wall that would prevent the grain from scattering. The reapers brought sheaves of grain from the fields and scattered the stalks over the floor in a deep layer. Then the farmer drove his team of oxen in circles around the floor, trampling the grain underfoot. The heavier grain sifted to the bottom while the lighter broken stalks remained on top. These two layers were separated by the process called winnowing. With a fork the mixture was pitched high into the air. The wind carried away the stalks or chaff while the grain fell back to the surface of the threshing floor.

According to the Bible...

➡️Love = patient, kind, selfless, humble, enduring, truthful, polite
➡️Love = obedient to God's commandments

True, Biblical love must encompass both requirements. If one is missing, then it's not love.

Time to start prepping for the Shabbat this evening. Happy Prep Day!

See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft.
Exodus 31:2-5

If God calls you, He will give you the skills and resources required to answer, but in His time and manner, not yours. He gave Bezalel and Oholiab great skill as artists to create the furnishings of the Tabernacle. Artistic license in God's service is a great thing, but it is constrained by His Law. Do not color outside his lines. "According to all that I have commanded you (Moses), they shall do." (Exodus 31:11)

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Soil from Stone: A Giant Chiasm in Exodus 25-40 Centered on the Golden Calf

This chiasm tells us three things at the very least: 1. There is a right way and a wrong way to approach God. We cannot bring God down ...