Rev. 6:6 talks about wheat, bread, oil, and wine. I've always read this passage literally, and wondered what was so special about oil and wine? I realized bread and barley represented daily food requirements, but did not understand the significance of oil and wine.

I now understand oil and wine to be luxuries, non necessities, the opposite of daily needs. They are always spoken of as such throughout scripture. Can they be anything else?

Anyone else come to this same conclusion?

Don’t forget! TONIGHT, at 8:45 CDT is the PREMIERE of our Special Yom Kippurim Home Worship Video Resource on our YouTube channel! We are excited to fellowship.

Hope everyone has a great Sukkot. Here's a song I've written for the occassion.

...Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you, God, may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are accused.”
Romans 3:4

If God's promises to Israel can be nullified, why do we believe he will keep his promises to us? God's promises to preserve and restore Israel cannot refer to a generic faithful remnant from among the nations, because the people who are restored must be the same people who were rejected.

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It is nearly sunset here in the UK and my house and I are celebrating Atonment from sunset today, 25 September. I'll see you on Wednesday morning again if you need me for any reason.

Shalom

2 Home work questions for all you bright minds tonight. Questions very little believers think about:

1) Can you force yourself on YHVH Elohiym, to be part of His Kingdom?

2) Does satan also give spiritual gifts to his followers?

Lilly Portion for Today:

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all: a cheerful woman is one who has cares, but does not let them get her down.

I have heard people associate doing the commands in the Old Testament as "trying to earn God's love". This could not be further from the truth.

As with the example in the comic, do you not do the same when you have guests/loved ones come over? Do you not do a bunch of preparation in order for everything in the house to look its best? Do you not make special foods for those guests? Do you not have other activities possibly planned, like a favorite board game?

Are you trying to earn their love? NO! You are showing you are paying attention to them and that you care for them. You are showing that you love them.

The same goes with the Father. You may see someone that is following what the Bible says to do on how to live and they do all this work before a rest day. All this preparation in order to make sure that on the rest day, they do not have to do anything. Why? To spend time with the Father on His appointed time! He rested in Creation and made the day special. Then He made several other rest days, the Holy Days we covered earlier, all to spend time with Him!

If you had guests over, would you go out and mow the lawn? Run to the grocery store for that weekly load of food? Of course not. Again, other things that you would plan for so that those things would not have to be done while the guests are there.

But I hear you saying "but, Joshua, God is always with us." Yes, He is. So were your parents when you were younger. Did you not have special times that the family would set aside to come together? Maybe nightly meals? Or holidays? Why would that be needed if they were there with you all the time?

Currently, I am with my children most of the day every day, but as a father, I still need that special time with them. The time of coming together as a family that everyone is present and focused. Dinner, a game night, a movie, whatever. That time is still special to me, a way for us to show love to each other. I see the Father viewing us and His appointed times the same way.

And for those celebrating: Happy Day of Atonement!

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God commanded Israel to keep #yomkippur forever, no matter where they live. Leviticus 16:29, 23:31, and Numbers 29:7

There are some aspects of Yom Kippur that are impossible outside of the Land of Israel and without a functioning temple, but God knew that when he gave these instructions. We do what we can and let God worry about the rest.

"Make no friendship with an angry man, neither go with the furious man,
Lest thou learn his ways, and receive destruction to thy soul."

Pr 22