Shabbat shalom all you set apart Beloved of Israel

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Know this: the Foundation can NEVER be destroyed. God's word is sure and enduring. When you feel abandoned by God, it's only a test of #faith. He's always watching over you.

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Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
#genesis 50:25 #vayechi #endtimes #biblepatterns

Only Joseph's desiccated bones were returned to the Promised Land. Is there a connection here with Ezekiel's prophecy of dry bones? I think so.

Shabbat time South-East England = January 06: 15;53 to January 07:17;09.

SERIES D --- YHVH’S TABERNACLE --- LESSON 09

IN MOURNING

PLANS TO MOVE

From Exodus 33

[Leave this place and take your people toward the land which I promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,] Adonai told Moses. [I told them I would give this land to their descendants, the people whom you brought from Egypt. I will send My Angel before you to drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. I will not go with you Myself to this land flowing with milk and honey, for I am so angry at your stubborn people that if I went with you, I might destroy them along the way.] Adonai told Moses to say to the people, [You are a stubborn people. If I were with you now for a moment, I would destroy you. Take off all your ornaments until I decide what I will do with you.] When the people of Israel heard these things, they mourned and quickly took off all their jewellery. From the time they left Mount Horeb, they wore no jewellery. Moses kept the tabernacle quite far out of the camp and called it the tent of meeting. Whoever sought Adonai went out to the tabernacle. Whenever Moses went to the tabernacle, the people stood in the doorway of their tents and watched Moses until he entered the tabernacle. As soon as Moses entered, the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the tabernacle doorway. Then Adonai spoke to Moses. When the people of Israel saw the pillar of cloud at the doorway of the tabernacle, they went to their tent doors and worshiped Adonai. Adonai spoke in the tabernacle to Moses as a person would speak to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, a young man named Joshua, the son of Nun, remained behind at the tabernacle. One day Moses talked with Adonai concerning the journey to the Promised Land. [You say that I should take these people to the Promised Land, but You have not told me whom You will send with me,] Moses said. [You have said that You know me by name and that I have found favour in Your sight. If I have found favour in Your sight, show me clearly the way I should go, so that I may know You and please You. Remember that these people are Your people.] [Shall I go with you Myself?] Adonai said. [Will this assure you success?] [If You do not go with me, please do not let us leave this place,] Moses replied. [How can I have found favour in Your sight if You do not go with us? Is it not because of Your Presence that we are different from all other people on earth?] [You are My friend and you have found favour with Me,] Adonai told Moses. [I will go with you as you desire.] [Show me Your glory,] Moses asked Adonai. [I cannot let you see My face, for whoever sees My face will die,] Adonai answered. [But I will let My goodness pass before you and proclaim My Name before you. I will be gracious and merciful to whomever I desire. You may stand on this rock beside Me. When My glory passes by, I will put you into the cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away My hand and you shall see My back. But you must never see My face.]

COMMENTARY

LIFE THEY LEFT BEHIND: FOODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT

The Israelites had enough to eat on their journey. YHVH made sure they found quail and He supplied them with manna. But the everyday sameness of their diet made them long for the great variety of food they had in Egypt. The Egyptians, from pharaoh on down, had plenty of food. Vegetables were plentiful and so were many kinds of meat and fish. There were at least fifteen different kinds of bread and cake, many not like anything known today. For example, one cake was called a {shat cake.} It was in the shape of a tall, thin triangle. Because they were too thin to stand upright, shat cakes were laid on their sides and stacked in alternating heads and tails. Like most of the bread in Egypt, they were made with honey or water, using flour from dates, lotus roots or wheat. Onions were abundant. They made up a large part of the Egyptians’ diet. Leeks; much like an onion; were eaten often too. Several different kinds of spices were used to bring out the full flavour of food. There was a good supply of lettuce, cucumbers, olives, apples, raisins, nuts and grapes. Oil pressed from the olives was used as a dressing and in cooking. Figs or melons made up the usual dessert. Other ancient Egyptian foods are not so familiar. The pomegranate was a common fruit. Round, reddish-orange, it is about the size of a large apple. Although the pomegranate is easily found in Egypt and Israel, not too many people in the northern part of this world, have had the opportunity to tear off its thick skin and eat the juicy red seeds inside. Egyptians also ate young shoots of the papyrus plant. A hollow reed that still grows by the Nile, it was the source of the world’s first paper. The Egyptians kept a fair number of cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and pigs. But they didn’t eat meat very often. Special celebrations, feasts and religious sacrifices were the few occasions when animals were slaughtered for food. The sheep and goats, along with the cows, were used for milk. It was used for drinking or made into cheese and curds; something like a dry cottage cheese. Goat’s milk, not at all commonly drunk today, is thicker and creamier than cow’s milk. The Egyptians enjoyed capturing birds and catching fish. The lakes, ponds and the Nile River were full of both. They ate these more often than beef or lamb. The fish was often preserved by salting and drying. The Egyptians had at least five different kinds of wine. Where grapes did not grow for wine, several kinds of beer were made from barley. Black beer was the favourite. Most Egyptians may not have had as easy a life as is understood today. But most of them ate rather well by any standards.

On this date in history, 01/06/2021: More than a million protestors gather in Washington D.C. to demonstrate against widespread fraud in the 2020 elections. Capitol police allow a small number of protestors into the Capitol building where a few items are stolen or broken and one unarmed protestor is fatally shot by police. Government journalists label this peaceful protest an "insurrection", while protestors are arrested and held indefinitely without charges or trial. #otd #tdih #americanhistory #declineandfall

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YHVH is near to them that are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

#psalm 34:18 #bible #psalms #verseoftheday #dailybread #scripture #scripturepictures #scriptureart

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#goodmorning and #happyfriday! January 06 #biblestudy links to readings and study resources:

https://alittleperspective.com..../january-06-bible-re

Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Genesis 11 and 12.

The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 6.

The Greek Testament reading is in Matthew 5.

Links to essential studies.

(Bible for Beginners and all other previous studies are at the above link.)

Genesis 11:1-9, The tower of Babel rebellion, a pivotal event in human history
https://alittleperspective.com/genesis-11-and-12/

Genesis 12:17, YHVH plagues Pharaoh’s house: history that prophesies
https://alittleperspective.com..../genesis-121-1318-tr

Psalm 6, Chiastic structure
https://alittleperspective.com..../psalm-6-chiastic-st

Matthew 5, Chiastic structure
https://alittleperspective.com/matthew-5-2016/

January 2023 Bible Reading Schedule
https://alittleperspective.com..../january-2023-bible-

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SERIES D --- YHVH’S TABERNACLE --- LESSON 08

REBELLION

THE GOLDEN CALF

From Exodus 32

Back in the camp of Israel, the people grew restless when Moses did not return from Mount Sinai. At last, they sent some people to talk with Aaron. They said: [Look, we don’t know what has happened to this fellow Moses, who led us from Egypt, so make us some gods to lead us.] [All right,] Aaron replied, [but you must bring me all the golden earrings which your wives and children are wearing.] The people took the golden earrings which their wives and children were wearing and brought them to Aaron. He melted the gold and fashioned it into a golden calf. [This is the god who brought us from Egypt!] the people cried out. Then Aaron built an altar before the golden calf and proclaimed: [Tomorrow we will have a feast to this lord.] Early the following morning the people arose and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Afterward they had a great feast with food and drink, and then they began to play. But Adonai spoke to Moses at this time. [Hurry, get back to the camp,] He said. [The people you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves and have turned away from the way I have Commanded them to follow. They have moulded a calf and are worshiping it and sacrificing to it, saying that it is the god who brought them out of Egypt.] Adonai also said to Moses, [I have watched these stubborn, rebellious people. Now let me consume them with My burning anger and build a great nation from you and your descendants.] But Moses pleaded with Adonai. [Why should You consume them with Your burning anger, Adonai?] he begged. [These are Your people whom You brought from Egypt with great power and a mighty hand. Can’t You hear what the Egyptians would say? ‘Look! YHVH brought them out of our land to destroy them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth.’ Turn from Your great anger and do not send this great destruction upon Your people. Remember how You swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that You would multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven and give them the land to inherit forever through their descendants.] Adonai turned away from His burning anger and did not completely destroy the people of Israel. Then Moses descended from the mountain with the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written on both sides, engraved by the hand of YHVH. When Joshua, who was with Moses, heard the noise in the camp below, he said, [It sounds like war in the camp.] [I hear the sound of singing,] Moses replied, [but not the sound of either victory or defeat in battle.] As Moses and Joshua approached the camp, Moses became very angry as he saw the people dancing around the golden calf. In his great anger Moses threw down the tablets of stone, breaking them into pieces at the foot of the mountain. Then Moses melted the golden calf, ground the gold into fine powder, mixed it with water and made the people of Israel drink it. [What have these people ever done to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?] Moses demanded of Aaron. [Don’t let my lord’s anger burn so hot against me,] Aaron answered. [You know how these people are inclined to be evil. They asked me to make a god for them, because you had not come back and they did not know what had happened to you. I told them to bring their golden earrings. When they did, I put them into the fire and out came this calf!] Moses realized now that Aaron had let the people get out of control, to the point that their enemies could scorn them. He stood at the gate of the camp and called out to the people, [Whoever is on Adonai’s side, come to me.] When the people heard him call, the Levites gathered with Moses. [Adonai Commands you to put on your swords and move back and forth across the camp, from gate to gate,] Moses said. [As you do, kill the evildoers, even though they may be your friends, your brothers or your neighbours.] The Levites obeyed Moses and as a result about three thousand men died that day. Then Moses told the Levites, [Today you have ordained yourselves to be YHVH’s priests, for you have done what He has Commanded, even going against your own sons and brothers to obey Him. Now Adonai will bless you because of this.] The next day Moses spoke to the people of Israel. [You have sinned greatly against Adonai,] he told them. [Now I will again go to Adonai on the mountain. Perhaps I can obtain from Him forgiveness for your sin.] Moses returned to Mount Sinai to talk with Adonai. [The people have sinned greatly, making a god of gold,] he said. [But please forgive their sin. If not, then blot me out of the book which You have written.] But Adonai answered Moses, [Whoever has sinned against Me will be blotted out of My book, not you. Now return to your people and lead them where I have told you and My Angel will go before you. However, at a time I shall choose, I will punish the people for their sin.] Adonai sent a plague among the people to punish them for worshiping the golden calf that Aaron had made.

COMMENTARY

BULL WORSHIP

The bull is a very powerful male animal. For thousands of years, many people throughout the world have seen it as a sign of strength and fertility. It has often been used as a symbol of the power of their gods. The ancient Egyptians had several cattle gods. The most powerful one was called Hapi. He was their god of the Nile River. Since Egyptian crops and much else, depended on the Nile, this bull god was a very important one. It was believed that Hapi sometimes took the form of an Apes bull. This bull was marked in a very clear way. It was black, had a square spot on its forehead and an eagle-shaped spot on its back, double hairs on its tail and a beetle-shaped mark on its tongue. Bulls with markings that particular weren’t very plentiful. When the Egyptians found one, they immediately declared a holiday. The ape’s bull was killed by drowning and most of it cooked and eaten at a feast. The rest was mummified and buried in its own grave. It was given a special burial ceremony and a tombstone was put up over its grave. The Israelites had left all this behind them in Egypt, but it was certainly familiar to them. Camped in the desert at Mount Sinai, they waited for Moses to return from the mountain. Time must have passed very slowly in the unfamiliar surroundings. They thought something had happened to Moses and that he was gone forever. Very frightened without their leader, they began to miss the familiar sights of the only home they had ever known; Egypt. For the sake of security and comfort, they urged Aaron to make them a gold bull calf to worship. But at this time YHVH was Commanding Moses: [You shall make no graven images.] Despite this, the Israelites often gave in to temptation. Their life was very hard and they comforted themselves by slipping into the familiar habits of their pagan neighbours. Throughout their stay in Palestine, they sometimes forgot YHVH’s Commandment and worshiped bulls and golden calves. They used bulls in their sacrifices to YHVH. A bull’s horn was to be placed on each of the four corners of their altars. Sometimes the blood of a sacrificed bull was sprinkled on these horns. Even the cherubim which YHVH instructed them to place over His mercy seat were winged, human-headed bulls. Even today, bull worship is practiced in some parts of the world. The cow is thought sacred in India and is never killed. The bullfights of Spain are a way to prove that humankind is master of nature