DEVOTIONAL
Suffering Redeemed

Look around and you’ll quickly identify suffering, grief, and injustice. Maybe you’ve experienced injustice yourself. Maybe you’ve gone through difficult seasons. Or maybe you’ve experienced deep and profound grief due to loss.

Suffering rarely makes sense. We rarely have all of our questions answered within these sorts of seasons. And the hard truth is: most of our questions regarding suffering will go unanswered.

However, Romans 8:18 provides us with a perspective that can help us in seasons of suffering:

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

In this verse, Paul, the author of Romans, points us to the future. All throughout Scripture, God has been working within His people to bring redemption and make things new.

We live in one reality, which includes suffering and grief. But one day, God will return and complete the work He has begun in Jesus. When God returns, Scripture says that all suffering will cease. There will be no more tears, pain, or sickness (Revelation 21:4). At that time, when we join God in heaven, we will be perfected and made whole.

Paul’s encouragement to us is this: persevere through your current season of suffering because what awaits you will be worth waiting for. When God returns and brings us into His presence, we will be perfect and made whole. At that time, we won’t think of the past suffering that we’ve endured. This is why Paul says that our present suffering cannot compare to what will be revealed in us in the future.

How often do you think about heaven? How often do you praise God for His continued work of redeeming us and making us new? Take some time to think about these things.

The more we consider the future and our union with God, the more this perspective will encourage us to endure difficult seasons of life.

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As the angels which are in heaven...

There are so many views of life after death, but Yeshua was very clear about marriage and gender after death when He answered the Sadducees.

I would like to know what your understand is of Mark 12:25 "For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven."

Angels who show themselves on earth are always described as being male. I say this based purely in the sense of how we physically see the difference between male and female in humans as they haven't been seen nor described when naked in the Bible. How the fallen ones had children with human women is only an assumption as Scripture doesn't say and no one lived back then who can tell us.

My mum has be hope that she will one day be united with my dad who passed away 6 years ago, but this verse always make me wonder what that reunion will be like.

Yes, there won't be any tears and we will be fulfilled, etc., having Yeshua as our king and Father amongst us. That is however not the topic on this questions.

Praise Yahuah for the good and the bad. My brother and I are being evicted because my landlord bought an ounce of cocaine and claimed to have lost $10,000 and is blaming my brother and I for stealing his 10grand. He allows literally everyone into his home and leaves the doors unlocked all the time. After two and a half months of asking, we finally got keys. I nor my brother are taking responsability for my landlord being a fool. Can y'all please pray for us to find a place with a good landlord!? Calgary isn't to bad, but it's getting there. HalleluYah!

Thought for Today: Monday July 10:

Only YHVH Elohiym gives true peace – a quiet gift He sets within us just when we think we have exhausted our search for it.

BIBLE STUDY LESSON 08

SERIES U --- THE EARLY CHURCH

CARE FOR WIDOWS

A FACE THAT GLOWED

From Acts 6:1-15

As the number of believers increased, a few problems arose among them. For example, there was the time when the Greek-speaking believers complained that their widows were not getting as much in the daily distribution of food as the Hebrew-speaking widows. When the Twelve heard about this, they called together all of the disciples. [It isn’t right for us to be taking care of the distribution of food when we should be preaching the Word,] they said. [Choose seven men with good reputations, filled with the Spirit of YHVH, men of wisdom. We’ll put them in charge of this business. Then we can spend our time in prayer and teaching YHVH’s Word.] This seemed like a good idea and was accepted by everyone. The seven who were chosen were Stephen, a man of unusual faith and filled with Ruach HaKodesh, Philip, Prochorus, Nikanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a Gentile who had accepted the Jewish faith but who later became a believer. These seven were presented to the apostles, who prayed for them and laid their hands upon them to commend them to their new work. Thus, the message of YHVH’s Word spread farther and farther, while the number of believers in Jerusalem grew daily. Even many of the priests began to believe in Yeshua. Stephen, a man of unusual faith and power, performed some outstanding miracles and wonders among the people. But some members of a synagogue called The Freedmen, along with some people from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia, and Asia Minor, started an argument with Stephen. Because of Stephen’s great wisdom and spiritual power, they could not stand up to him. Therefore, they bribed some men to lie about Stephen, saying, [We have heard this man say some wicked things against Moses and even against YHVH.] This method was used to stir up crowds, as well as the elders and the scribes, against Stephen. He was arrested and brought before the council. The witnesses who had lied against Stephen came to repeat their charges before the council. [This man repeatedly says things against the temple and the Law,] they said. [We have heard him say that Yeshua of Nazareth would destroy the temple and change the Laws that Moses gave us.] The men of the council stared at Stephen, waiting to hear what he would say. But as they looked at him, they saw that his face took on the glow of an angel’s face.

COMMENTARY

FOODS AND MEALS

The community meals shared by the early believers were far different from the meals of their Roman neighbours, especially the wealthy Romans, who enjoyed extravagant banquets. Wealthy Romans often feasted on such delicacies as roast parrot, young deer, and boiled ham. They drank rare vintages of wine and made their bread from pure wheat flour. For dessert they enjoyed honeyed pastries and imported sweets. Not all Romans were wealthy, of course, but even the poorer ones observed many of the same customs. Romans did not observe the Jewish distinction of clean versus unclean animals. Romans reclined on couches to eat instead of sitting at tables or squatting on the ground. They also began their feasts by pouring out a cup of wine as an offering to their pagan gods. Most of the believers were not wealthy, and those who were pooled their money with the others so that all lived at a modest level. Thus, their food was simple. Since early believers were Jewish, they maintained the diet common to Jewish people of that time. Early believers and their Jewish neighbours ate fruits, vegetables, and milk products, a small amount of meat, and especially fish. Common foods were goats’ milk cheese, cucumbers, beans, lentils, and onions. At harvest time pomegranates, olives, grapes and dates were plentiful. During the winter months dried figs, raisins, almonds and walnuts were used more often. Bread was the basic food. It was the symbol of YHVH’s provision. For their daily bread both believers and Jewish people gave thanks to Him.

7 Children, let no one deceive you; he who does righteousness is righteous even as The Messiah* also is righteous.

8 He who commits sin is from Satan*, because Satan* is a sinner from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this reason: To destroy the works of Satan*.

9 No one who is begotten from God commits sin, because his seed is in him and he is not able to sin because he has been begotten from God.

10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of Satan: no one who does not do righteousness, neither loves his brother, is from God.

11 For this is the commandment that you have heard from the first: "You shall love one another",

12 Not like Cain who was from The Evil One and murdered his brother; and why did he murder him? Only because his works were evil and those of his brother were righteous.

13 Do not be surprised, my brethren, if the world hates you.

14 We know that we have departed from death into life by this: Because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother remains in death.

15 For everyone who hates his brother murders a person, and you know that eternal life cannot abide* in anyone who murders a person.

16 By this we know his love toward us, for he gave his Life in our place, and it is right for us also that we would give our lives for the sake of our brothers.

17 Whoever has worldly possessions and sees his brother who has a need and withholds his compassion from him, how is the love of God in him?

18 Children, let us not love one another with words and with speech, but in deeds and in truth. 1st john 3:7-14 holy Peshitta Bible Translated by glenn david bausher used with permission.

Phinehas, Y'shua and the Fig Tree
7.8.23 Shabbat Service
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THIS WEEK
Mattot-Massei מַּטּוֹת־מַסְעֵי
Tribes-Journeys

Torah : Numbers 30:2-36:13
Prophets : Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4,4:1-2
Gospel : Luke 13:1-9; Mark 11:12-23

Torah
Numbers 30:1 Vows Made by Women
Numbers 31:1 War against Midian
Numbers 31:13 Return from the War
Numbers 31:25 Disposition of Captives and Booty
Numbers 32:1 Conquest and Division of Transjordan
Numbers 33:1 The Stages of Israel's Journey from Egypt
Numbers 33:50 Directions for the Conquest of Canaan
Numbers 34:1 The Boundaries of the Land
Numbers 34:16 Tribal Leaders
Numbers 35:1 Cities for the Levites
Numbers 35:9 Cities of Refuge
Numbers 35:16 Concerning Murder and Blood Revenge
Numbers 36:1 Marriage of Female Heirs

Prophets
Jer 2:4 God Pleads with Israel to Repent