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.

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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

"The hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies."

Is 66

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Leviticus 26 ISR
'Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am Yahuah your Alahym. Guard My Sabbaths and reverence My set-apart place. I am Yahuah. If you walk in My laws and guard My commands, and shall do them, THEN I shall give you rain in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field yield their fruit. And your threshing shall last till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the time of sowing. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, and shall dwell in your land safely. And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and not let the sword go through your land. And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand. And your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. And I shall turn to you and make you fruitful, and shall increase you, and shall establish My covenant with you. And you shall eat the old supply, and clear out the old because of the new. And I shall set My Dwelling Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject you. And I shall walk in your midst, and shall be your Alahym, and you shall be My people. I am Yahuah your Alahym, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from being their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright. But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commands, and if you reject My laws, or if your being loathes My right-rulings, so that you do not do all My commands, but break My covenant, I also do this to you: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, wasting disease and inflammation, destroying the eyes, and consuming the life. And you sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I shall set My face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies. And those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins. And I shall break the pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit. And if you walk contrary to Me, and refuse to obey Me, I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins, and send wild beasts among you, which shall bereave you of your children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and your highways shall be deserted. And if you are not instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me, then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall strike you seven times for your sins. And I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy. When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied. And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins. And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters. And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you. And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances. And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. And I shall scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins, and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies' land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it. And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from the sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues. And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies. And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up, and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in their enemies' lands, and also in their fathers' crookednesses rot away with them. But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies - if their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness, then I shall remember My covenant with Ya'aqob, and also My covenant Yitshaq, and also remember My covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. For the land was abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them, and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My right-rulings and because their loathed My laws. And yet for all this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I shall not reject them, nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with then. For I am Yahuah their Alahym. Then I shall remember for their sake the covenant of the ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the eyes of the nations to be their Alahym. I am Yahuah.'" These are the laws and the right-rulings and the Torot which Yahuah made between Himself and the children of Yisra'êl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh.