We will be embarking on a new adventure this month... we're driving from Central-ish New Jersey to Northern North Carolina to visit Mayberry (Hubby's first time and he's a big fan) and camp in the van with our youngest three.

A. We're in search of places to park overnight... super public places are out due to too much lighting and noise (little ones won't sleep through that) and many of the places on HipCamp are very pricey and may require more advanced notice. We're boondocking but, wouldn't mind electric to recharge our Jackery systems since it's due to rain almost the entire time we're gone. We have a backup plan without hookups though.

B. We're in search of suggestions for family-friendly hiking, vegan eating and indoor (low-cost) amusement, especially for kids and history enthusiasts.

C. We would love to meet up with any of you who may happen to be along that general path.

If you have any suggestions or would like to get together, please don't hesitate to share. Prayers are greatly appreciated as well! Yah Bless!

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. -Henry Ward Beecher

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On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
Luke 5:1-2

The story in Luke 5:1-11 of #yeshua calling Peter and company to become fishers of men is literally true, but it also contains an allegory. There were two boats. One went into the mission field first, represented by the deep waters, and called the other to follow when required. Some are called to sow, others to assist in the harvest and subsequent discipling. The great haul of fish are the people who respond to the Gospel's call to faith and repentance.

SERIES D --- YHVH’S TABERNACLE --- LESSON 05

A SPECIAL CALLING

THE CONSECRATION OF AARON AND HIS SONS

From Exodus 29

While Moses was with Adonai on the top of Mount Sinai, Adonai gave him instructions concerning the tabernacle and its furnishings. Adonai also gave these further instructions to Moses concerning Aaron and his sons, who would minister to Adonai in the tabernacle: [This is what I want you to do to consecrate Aaron and his sons as priests who will serve Me. Present to Me a young bull and two rams without blemish, along with a basket of unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and unleavened wafers sprinkled with oil. Use only fine wheat flour to make the bread, cakes and wafers. Bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tabernacle and wash them there with water. Clothe Aaron with his robe, tunic, ephod, breastpiece and sash. Then put the turban with the golden plate on his head. Anoint him by pouring olive oil on his head. When this is done, dress his sons in their priestly clothes with their tunics, turbans, and woven sashes. You shall ordain Aaron and his sons to be My priests. When you have brought the young bull before the tabernacle, Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon its head. Then you will kill it before Adonai at the entrance to the tabernacle. Put some of the blood of the bull on the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour the rest at the base of the altar. Burn the fat from the inner parts, as well as the kidneys and the fat on them, upon the altar as a sin offering. As for the bull’s flesh, its skin, and its dung, take them outside the camp and burn them there. Next, take one of the rams and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon its head. Kill the ram and sprinkle its blood around the altar. Then cut the ram into pieces, wash the legs and inner parts, and burn all of these pieces, along with the head and other parts, on the altar. It is a burnt offering to Adonai, a pleasing aroma offered by fire to Adonai. Have Aaron and his sons lay their hands upon the head of the other ram as it is killed. Collect its blood and put some of it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the tip of his sons’ right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the large toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the rest of the blood around the altar. Now take some of the dried blood from the altar and stir it into anointing oil. Sprinkle some of this mixed blood and oil upon Aaron and his sons and their garments, to show that they and their garments are consecrated to Adonai. Take the fat of the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering its inner parts, the part attached to the liver, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them. Put with these things a loaf of bread, a cake made with oil, and a wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is set before Adonai. Put all these things in the hands of Aaron and his sons, and they will wave them before Adonai as a sign that they are a special offering to Him. After they have waved these things before Adonai, take them from their hands and burn them upon the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to Adonai, offered by fire to Him. Wave the breast of this consecration ram to and fro before Adonai. Then keep it as your own, for it will be your portion at this ceremony. In future offerings the breast will be waved to and fro before Adonai and the shoulder will be heaved up and down before Adonai. This meat in future offerings will be for Aaron and his sons and will continue to be so in all offerings to come. The people of Israel will always give this portion of their offerings as a gift to Adonai, whether they are making a peace offering or a thanksgiving offering. Aaron’s sacred garments will pass on to the sons who succeed him, and they will wear them when they are anointed and ordained. This will be the practice from one generation to another. Whoever comes to this office of High Priest will wear these garments for seven days before he enters the tabernacle to serve Adonai in the Holy Place. Now concerning this first ceremony, boil the meat of the consecration ram in a sacred place. Aaron and his sons shall eat this meat, as well as the bread in the basket, at the entrance to the tabernacle. No one but them will be permitted to eat these things used in their consecration ceremony, for they are holy. Any food left over until morning must be burned and not eaten, for it is consecrated food. Consecrate Aaron and his sons exactly as I have instructed you. The ceremony shall go on for seven days, with a bull offered each day as a sin offering for atonement. Each day, during these seven days, purify the altar, making atonement for it and anointing it by pouring olive oil on it. The altar shall be a holy thing and everything that touches it shall be consecrated, or set apart, for YHVH. Each day you must offer upon the altar two lambs which are a year old. Offer one lamb in the morning, along with three quarts of fine flour mixed with three pints of oil pressed from olives and three pints of wine as a libation. In the evening offer the second lamb, with a similar cereal offering and libation, as a pleasant aroma to Adonai. This offering will be continued daily before Adonai at the entrance to the tabernacle. I will meet there with the people of Israel and sanctify the tabernacle with My glory. I will sanctify not only the tabernacle, but also the altar and Aaron and his sons who serve Me as priests. I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their YHVH, so that they will know that I am Adonai who brought them from the land of Egypt. Yes, I am Adonai, their YHVH Elohiym.

COMMENTARY

SACRIFICE AT THE TABERNACLE

The Hebrew word for sacrifice; {zebach} {pronounced ze-BAG}; meant {slaughtered animal.} Among the Israelites, animals had been killed as sacrifices to YHVH since the time of Cain and Abel. Sometimes they offered flour, bread and the first fruits of the harvest as well. The pagan people around them also offered animals, but to their idol gods. The meat was thought of as food for the pagan gods, who were supposed to get hungry the way people do. Some of these neighbours believed the most highly prized offering they could make was the sacrifice of their own children. YHVH punished the Israelites at least twice by allowing them to be led astray and adopt the practice. Prophets like Ezekiel and Jeremiah cried out in protest against this, because YHVH had not allowed human sacrifice as part of His people’s worship. Adonai set forth His system of sacrifices when the priests of Israel were consecrated for the new tabernacle. There was to be a sacrifice at morning and at evening every day. These two were usually offerings of incense. Peace offerings and offerings to atone for sin had to be made, as well as sacrifices to give thanks, praise, or to express a promise, wish or desire. If the sacrifices were animals, they could be sheep, goats, bulls, pigeons or turtle doves. They almost always had to be male. And all the animals were required to be completely healthy in every way, unblemished, even without scars.

There were three exceptions to those two rules:

1 -- A red heifer; a young cow who had not yet given birth; was needed for the sin of murder;

2 -- Occasionally a peace offering could be made with a female animal;

3 -- Minor blemishes were allowed in offerings that were voluntary, not called for by religious Law.

Some offerings were completely burnt at the altar, particularly the important ones made on special holidays. Other offerings; ones and those of peace, thanks and of promise or desire; were shared among YHVH, the priest and the person making the sacrifice. The blood was poured out at the foot of the altar. The only exception to that was the sin offering. Then, the blood was taken into the tabernacle itself. The priest sprinkled it seven times on the veil of the Holy of Holies, and put some on the four corners of the altar of incense. He then returned to the courtyard, where he put more on the four horns of the sacrificial altar and poured the rest on the ground. Offerings of other things besides animals and incense were sometimes permitted. Israelites could bring unbaked wheat flour mixed with oil; the first fruits of a harvest, dry grain, bread mixed with oil and frankincense or baked unleavened bread without salt. Sometimes a little wine was thrown into the altar flames with the flour and bread.

And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.
Mark 11:15-16

Selling at a profit, even selling objects intended for use at the Temple, isn't a sin. In fact, it was necessary for people who had traveled some distance to be able to make sacrifices. The problem was the location, method, and motive.

Yeshua stopped anyone carrying anything through the Temple. If this means all things that could be carried, then this would essentially halt all Temple activities. Even if it meant only the merchandise, he had everyone's attention--priest, Levite, and worshiper--for the words that followed.

And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Mark 11:13

Why would Yeshua expect to find anything but leaves outside the season for figs? I believe this is related to Paul's instruction in 2 Timothy 4:2 to "be ready in season and out of season" to preach, reprove, rebuke, exhort, etc. The religious leaders of his day had failed miserably at being faithful teachers of the Word. Although it wasn't yet time to establish the Kingdom in a tangible sense, he knew that they would never produce usable fruit. They had to be removed from authority and replaced by a new leadership.

Shalom everyone. Here's a song I've written based on Romans 7. Hope it blesses you.

Pleroo in Greek means preach. So in Matthew 5:17 yahushuah hamashiach came to preach the law.
We know that because of the strong's exhaustive concordance and because of the verses following Matthew 5:17 that says that the law will not change until .

17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish, but to preach them. 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth shall pass away, not even one iota, nor one stroke of a letter, shall pass away from the law, until everything should happen.

19 Whoever then shall break one of the least of these commandments and shall teach others the same, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whoever shall keep and shall teach them, he will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens. 20 For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall never enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Pleroo in the Bible is translated to preach in the other places in the Bible, but Bible translators wrote fulfill here. Why?

fully preach Strong Greek #4137 - πληρόω pléroó https://www.bibliatodo.com/en/....strong-concordance/g

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PLEROO THE LAW

In Matthew 5:17, Yeshua said He came to fulfill the law, to PLEROO the Law of God. The Greek word PLEROO means to fully preach.