today's word: Nahum 3 applies to Rome (d.b.a. "Holy See" and "Vatican City" and "STATE OF ISRAEL" and a myriad of others i have not searched out) and its franchises City Of London (d.b.a. "United Kingdom" et al) and District Of Columbia (d.b.a. "United States" and "Canada" and "Australia" ) and its associates World Health Organization, "NATO", United Nations Inc (a franchise of Wall Street) and the folks participating not only in the c-19 scam after the meeting called "Event 201" but also in the follow up scam described in the meeting called "catastrophic contagion" for what is to come next year

SERIES B --- A CHOSEN PEOPLE --- LESSON 6

YHVH’S PROTECTION

A HEAP OF STONES, A SILENT WITNESS

From Genesis 31:26-55

[What do you think you’re doing by running away from us?] Laban demanded when he caught up with Jacob. [Why are you carrying my daughters away like prisoners who have a sword over their heads? Why are you cheating me like this? I wanted to send you away with laughing and singing, with tambourine and lyre. Why didn’t you let me kiss my daughters and their children good-bye? You have been very foolish. I have the power to hurt you, but the YHVH of your father spoke to me in a dream last night and said that I must be careful not to speak rashly to you. I know that you want to go back to your homeland, but why did you steal my gods?] [I ran away because I was afraid you would force me to leave my wives behind,] Jacob answered. [But if you find your gods with anyone here, that person shall die. Show me and these men who have come with you what I have stolen, and you may take it back.] Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen Laban’s gods. Laban searched the whole camp, first in Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s, and then the tents of Bilhah and Zilpah, but he couldn’t find his gods. When Laban went into Rachel’s tent, he searched it completely, but his gods were not there. During this time Rachel was sitting on the gods, for she had put them into her camel’s saddle. [I’m sorry that I can’t get up to greet you, father,] Rachel said to Laban, [but as you may know I am having my period.] When Laban had finished searching for the gods, but could not find them, Jacob began to scold him angrily. [What have I done wrong?] he asked. [What crime have I committed that brought you chasing after me. You’ve searched everything I have. Put all that I stole out here for your relatives to see and let them decide who owns it. For twenty years I have worked for you and cared for your flock so well that not one mother goat has lost her unborn kid. I never ate one of your rams nor brought a dead animal to you and asked you to take the loss. No, instead, I took the loss myself! You forced me to bear the loss whenever any animal was stolen. For twenty years, through long hot days and cold nights, I worked for you, often without much sleep. You made me work fourteen years to marry your daughters and six years to earn a flock. Ten times you have changed my wages. You would probably have sent me away empty-handed unless YHVH of Abraham and my father Isaac had been with me. YHVH has seen how hard I have worked and how cruel you have been to me and that is why He scolded you last night.] Then Laban answered, [These are my daughters and grandchildren, and so are the flocks and your other possessions. Since I would never harm my own family, let us make a covenant that will guide us in the way we treat each other.] Jacob set up a stone for a memorial and told his men to gather small stones and pile them into a large heap. Beside this heap of stones they ate together. Laban named it Jegar-sahadutha, which meant [The Heap of Witness] in Aramaic and Jacob named it Galeed, which meant the same thing in Hebrew. [This heap of stones stands as a silent witness between us,] said Laban. Thus, it was also called Mizpah, [The Watch post] or [Watchtower.] [May Adonai watch between us while we are apart,] said Laban. [If you mistreat my daughters, or marry other wives, YHVH will be watching you, even though none of our people may see you. This heap of stones and the stone pillar will stand here as a witness that I will never go beyond it to hurt you and you will never come beyond it to hurt me. May the YHVH of Abraham, Nahor, and their father be our judge.] So, Jacob made a vow by the YHVH of Isaac his father and offered a sacrifice there on the mountain, calling upon his relatives to eat with him. That night they remained together on the mountain. Early the next morning, after Laban arose, he kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and gave them his blessing, then returned to his own home.

COMMENTARY

ANIMAL-SHAPED POTTERY

An angry Laban pursued Jacob with a small army. But YHVH warned Laban. He was not to harm his son-in-law. Their meeting was an angry one, but finally they made a mutual promise. Jacob set up a heap of stones that neither would pass to harm or attack the other. YHVH had protected Jacob again. Animals have always fascinated people and have been accepted as a vital part of daily life and even of worship. Animals have even left their influence on vessels, both now and in Bible times. A walk through almost any china shop today will reveal plates, cups, bowls, and many other vessels shaped like animals. Milk pitchers shaped like cats or cows, candy dishes shaped like chickens, platters like turkeys or fish, and a host of other shapes are available. Ancient pottery shops must have had their fair share of animal-shaped vessels, too, for many such vessels have been found by archaeologists. Did these vessels have meaning other than an interest in animals? No one is sure. But we do know that the role of animals in ancient life was somewhat different from what it is today. In ancient Egypt, many of the gods took shape as bulls, cows, cats, frogs, and numerous others. Lions and bulls were held up as symbols of great power and found their way into statues, vessels, gateways, walls, and other art forms. Ancient stories or legends involved animals. In them, the gods not only took on animal shapes, but also had the power to change humans into animals. Mythology is filled with stories of men and women transformed into animals by angry gods. Perhaps then these animal-shaped vessels had more meaning to the ancients than a cat-shaped pitcher would to us. Some may have been associated with worship, or made and used as an act of reverence. Or perhaps ancient potters merely enjoyed seeing a favourite animal as a pitcher!

This never gets old.

“Train up a child in the way [she] should go…”
Proverbs 22:6a
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Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis 37:25

When Joseph's brothers sold him to the Ishmaelites, why does the text tell us what the caravan was carrying? First, because their betrayal of Joseph is prophetic of Yeshua's death and burial, but also to remind us that there is always something good in every terrible thing that happens to God's faithful. All things work together for good to those who trust in YHWH.

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This being the 7th comic in the series and on the Sabbath, I thought it appropriate to focus on what to do for the Sabbath. I know when we first started doing the Sabbath, we weren't sure what to do. I mentioned before that teacher that made a challenge for the Sabbath. They had resources. A booklet you could print off on how to do the Sabbath. So we printed off that booklet and started doing those things. Looking back, those things were very traditional. Not necessarily Biblical. They weren't bad things, just not anything the Bible instructs us to do.

After some time, we got back to what Scripture says: rest. When the Sabbath is demonstrated at Creation, it was all about God resting. When the command was introduced again to the Israelites before Mt. Sinai, it was about resting. When it was told again as part of the 10, it was again about resting. Literally, all Scripture tells us on Sabbath is to make it set apart/holy/different from every other day, and to rest.

Some will bring up Leviticus 23:3, where it says to have a holy convocation, to take this to mean we have to meet with other believers on the Sabbath. The word translated as convocation in Hebrew is מקרא (miqra), which has a root word of קרא (qra) which is to call out, to read, to proclaim. So, translating it as a gathering really doesn't seem to fit. If we take this verse to say this is an addition to Sabbath it would be to read or proclaim something holy (as it is a holy miqra), so God's Word. Which, if you ask believers that keep the Sabbath what they do on it, most, if not all, do some type of Scripture reading during it.

Read your Bible and rest. Is this really that burdensome that we can't do this? We can't take a day off from work of our jobs or even of our own creations? Just rest and focus on God.

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Change is inevitable, everything the Creator made is designed to grow and mature. The original vegetation and animals were designed to reproduce their own kind but even the originals continued to mature and produce offspring. Genesis 1;12, “The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”

SERIES B --- A CHOSEN PEOPLE --- LESSON 5

RETURN HOME

JOURNEY TOWARD HOME

From Genesis 31:1-25

Before long, Laban’s sons began to complain about Jacob. [He is getting richer while our father is getting poorer,] they grumbled. Jacob also saw that Laban was not as warm and friendly toward him as he had once been. One day YHVH said to Jacob, [Go home to your family in the land of your ancestors and I will go with you.] Jacob sent word for Rachel and Leah to come out to the field where he watched the flocks. [Your father doesn’t like me anymore,] said Jacob. [YHVH knows this and spoke to me, telling me what we should do. You realize how faithfully I have served your father, although he has often cheated me and has changed my wages ten times. But YHVH has never let him hurt me. If your father said that the spotted animals would be my wages, then the flock bore spotted young. But if he changed my wages to all the striped animals, then the flock bore striped young. This was YHVH’s way of taking your father’s animals and giving them to me. During the mating season, I dreamed that the male goats that mated were striped, spotted, and mottled. Then the Angel of Adonai spoke to me in a dream and told me to mate these goats with Laban’s white goats so they would produce striped, spotted, and mottled young for my flock. ‘I have seen what Laban has done to you,’ YHVH told me. ‘I am the YHVH who spoke to you at Bethel, where you anointed the stone pillar and made a vow to Me. You must leave this land now and return to the land where you were born.’] Rachel and Leah agreed with Jacob. [Is there anything for us to inherit from our father?] they asked. [He treats us as foreigners, selling us and then using the money himself. All that YHVH helped you get from our father really belongs to us and to our children. Therefore, you should do whatever YHVH has told you.] Jacob waited for the right time, when Laban was away shearing his sheep. Then he put his wives and children on camels and left for the land of Canaan where his father Isaac lived. He carried with him the possessions which he had acquired in Padan-aram and drove his cattle before him. Unknown to Jacob, Rachel stole her father’s household gods and took them with her. Jacob and his caravan slipped away quietly without telling Laban, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed toward the hill country of Gilead. On the third day after Jacob left, someone told Laban what had happened. Laban immediately gathered some men of the family and pursued Jacob for seven days, finally catching up with him in the hill country of Gilead. YHVH appeared to Laban in a dream that night. [Be careful what you say to Jacob,] YHVH warned. [You must not say anything good or bad to him.] The next day Laban reached the place where Jacob had set up camp in the hill country of Gilead. Laban and his men set up their camp nearby.

COMMENTARY

RULES OF INHERITANCE

Jacob’s destiny lay in Canaan. After fourteen years in Haran, he planned to return. But his father-in-law, Laban, whose wealth had increased with Jacob in charge of his flocks, bargained with Jacob to make him stay. YHVH turned the bargain in Jacob’s favour. Six years later when Jacob and his wives and children finally did mount camels to slip away to the Promised Land, most of Laban’s wealth was theirs! In ancient Israel, the oldest son possessed the birthright. Because he was the first son born, he inherited twice as much as each younger brother upon his father’s death. Each brother in the family received a share; the oldest received two shares. Since there was no such thing as a written will, the birthright was passed to the oldest son with the father’s special blessing. Once the blessing was given, it could not be taken back. But if the son disobeyed his father any time before he died, the birthright could be taken away from him and given to someone else. For this reason and others, the father often gave this blessing shortly before he expected his death. The holder of the birthright could sell his position of honour or even give it away, but most chose to keep and respect it. The oldest son not only inherited goods and property, he also inherited the position of family leadership. He became responsible for the welfare of the family, including his widowed mother and unmarried sisters, and he supervised the family property. According to Israelite custom, a man’s sons, not his daughters, inherited his goods. Even though the male in the family might be several years younger than his sisters, he received the inheritance and the females received nothing. He became responsible for them as part of his inheritance. Only if there were no males could the daughters receive the inheritance. But then they were required to marry within their own tribe so that the property would not be lost. Often this marriage was to a cousin or some other relative. If a man died without either sons or daughters, his inheritance passed to his brothers. It was not uncommon for such a brother to marry the dead man’s widow. If he had no living brothers, the inheritance went to his uncles on his father’s side of the family. If that was not possible for any reason, then the inheritance passed to the closest living male relative. The widow did not receive any part of her husband’s property and possessions. She had absolutely no resources of her own. In spite of this, she was not neglected. Part of the inheritance was the responsibility for the widow’s welfare. In most cases, this meant one of her grown sons cared for her. If a man had children by more than one woman, the question of inheritance became somewhat complicated. The father had to decide before his death whether he wanted to accept the children of a slave woman as his legal heirs. Jacob decided to give equal portions both to his sons by the slave women and to the sons born to his legal wives.