BIBLE STUDY LESSON 06
SERIES S --- THE SON OF YHVH
WHY OPPOSITION?
POWER FROM YHVH OR SATAN?
From Luke 11:14-54
When Yeshua came to a certain place, He drove a demon from a man who could not speak. Immediately the man’s voice returned, which caused great excitement among the people who saw it. [He drives out demons by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of demons,] some bystanders said. Others demanded a sign from heaven to prove that He truly was the Moshiach. Yeshua knew what they were thinking, so this is what He said, [A kingdom which wars against itself is soon destroyed, and a home which is divided will not last. If Satan goes to war against his own forces, how can he survive? You accuse Me of driving out demons by the power of Beelzebub. By whose power do your people drive them out? Are you saying that they are also working under Satan’s power? Let them judge whether you are right or wrong. However, if I drive out demons by YHVH’s power, then His Kingdom is here in your midst. When a powerful man guards his own palace, his possessions are safe until a stronger one overpowers him, removes his arms and armour, and plunders his valuables. Whoever is not with Me is against Me; and whoever does not gather with Me, scatters. When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it travels about through deserted lands, seeking a place to rest. When it finds none, it returns to the same person it left. Finding it clean and orderly, it brings seven more spirits even more evil and occupies that man’s life until he is worse than he was before.] One of the women in the crowd shouted to Yeshua, [Blessed is the mother who bore You, and the bosom at which You nursed.] [Even more blessed are those who listen to the Word of YHVH and practice it,] Yeshua replied. By this time the crowds were growing larger. Yeshua continued to speak to them. [This wicked generation looks for a sign to prove that I am the Moshiach. But like Jonah, I will prove Whom I am by the things I do. That will be the only sign they will receive. The queen of Sheba travelled far to listen to Solomon’s wisdom. But I have brought far greater wisdom for you than Solomon’s, so the queen of Sheba will rise up in the Judgment Day to condemn you. The men of Nineveh will also rise up to condemn you, for they were willing to repent when Jonah preached, yet Someone far greater than Jonah is preaching to you, and you won’t listen. Who hides a lamp when he lights it, putting it under a grain measure or in a cellar? Instead, he puts a lighted lamp on a lampstand so that others may see the light. Your eye is like a lamp for your body. When your eye is pure, it lets true light into your heart. When your eye is evil, it causes your body to fall into darkness. Watch that the light you think you have in you is not darkness instead. A life filled with light will radiate into the face, as though a lamp is illuminating it.] After Yeshua’ sermon, a Pharisee invited him to his home for a meal. Yeshua accepted and reclined at the man’s table to eat. The Pharisee was surprised when Yeshua did not go through the usual ritual of cleansing before the meal. [You Pharisees wash cups and plates on the outside, but you fail to cleanse your inner lives, filling them with robbery and wickedness,] Yeshua said. [Don’t you foolish people know that YHVH made the inside as well as the outside? Don’t you know that giving hands and a clean heart are related? Woe to you Pharisees, for you pay tithes on everything, down to the last herb in the garden; but then have no regard for justice and YHVH’s Love. It’s good to tithe, but not at the expense of the other things. Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the front seats, the places of greatest honour, at the synagogues; and the honour people pay you as you walk through the marketplaces. Woe to you Pharisees, for you are like hidden tombs which people walk on without knowing.] One of the experts in the Law of Moses spoke up. [You insult those of us who are teachers of the Law when you say such things,] he argued. [Woe to you teachers of the Law,] Yeshua answered. [You burden people with rules they cannot keep, while you refuse to live by your own rules. Woe to you teachers of the Law, for you approve of the murders your ancestors committed, building tombs for the prophets they killed. You know what they did, yet you agree with them. YHVH said that He would send apostles and prophets, and that you would murder some and persecute the others. You are responsible for the murders of His representatives, from the death of Abel to the death of Zechariah, who was murdered between the altar and the temple. You are guilty of each of these! Woe to you teachers of the Law, for you hide the key of truth from people. You don’t want it yourselves, and you don’t want others to have it.] From that time on the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law did all they could to trap Yeshua, questioning Him and looking for something for which He could be formally charged.
COMMENTARY
INCANTATION BOWLS AND DEVIL TRAPS
When Yeshua cast out demons by Commanding them to go, it is no wonder that the crowds marvelled. Common people of the time blamed demons or devils for all the illness and misfortune that happened to them, and were constantly trying to ward them off. Many people used small bowls about six inches wide called {incantation bowls.} They were inscribed with magic words or spells -- the incantation -- and filled with water. The water had to be rain water, from a tank or cistern that had been closed, or purified by a priest. The bowls were kept covered and away from light until used. The bowls were used for many purposes. Depending on how the water was drunk or how many sips were taken, it was thought to heal wounds, stop bleeding and even cure disease. A bruised knee might be sprinkled with it, an open wound washed with it, a sick child told to drink it in one swallow. In the house, sprinkling the rooms with the water was thought to keep demons away. But the strongest magic came from leaving several bowls uncovered -- the demons would be attracted to the inscription, read it while standing on the rim of the bowl, fall into the water and drown. Sometimes a bowl was buried upside down in the foundation of the house, where it was believed to trap the demon before he could get into the rooms.
The Hebrew phrase “Mazal tov” which many translate as good luck, is not found in the Biblical Hebrew language. This is more of a Yiddish word that evolved many years after the Old Testament was written and while the original meaning was good fortune or good luck, the basic understanding was that you would be showered with blessings. The Hebrew people of our past never relied on luck, they believed that the Creator was in control of everything. When they were obedient, they were blessed and when they disobeyed the Creator they received their punishment. That is a lesson we should remember for our lives as well.
"Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast cast away the word of Yahweh, therefore he hath cast away thee from being king."
1S 15
Thought for Today: Sunday June 18:
Did you know -- the truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.
Christ gave a parable against the envious desire for equality: when the later-hired workers were paid the same amount (for less work), the first workers were envious, though they had received what they had agreed to be paid (Matthew 20). You are due what you are due, you have no excuse to complain when more bounty is given to another.
Yet today many will condemn and speak against showing more favour to one than to another, in direct contradiction of Christ who called it good and lawful: "Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?"
Those who condemn this teach and preach envy, and in doing thus they poison families and sow discord among brethren.
"These six things doth Yahweh hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him ... a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." Proverbs 6
This is not a trivial thing!
#sabbathpost 2023/06/17
BIBLE STUDY LESSON 05
SERIES S --- THE SON OF YHVH
THE GOOD SAMARITAN
From Luke 10:25-11:13
[Teacher, what must one do to live forever?] The man who asked Yeshua this question was a well-educated teacher of Moses’ Law, and Yeshua recognized that this was a trap, so that He would say something He shouldn’t. [What does the Law of Moses say about this?] Yeshua replied. [How do you understand it?] Then the teacher of the Law answered, [You shall love Adonai your YHVH with all your heart, soul, strength and mind; and you shall love your neighbour as yourself.] [You have answered your own question,] Yeshua said. [Follow that Law and you will live forever.] The man wanted to try once more to trap Yeshua, so he asked, [Who, then, is my neighbour?] To answer the man’s question, Yeshua told this story. [Once a man was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho when robbers pounced upon him, stripped him, beat him, and left him half dead in the road. A priest saw him, but passed by to one side. A Levite also saw him, but passed by on the other side. Then a Samaritan, whom you look down on as a half-breed foreigner, looked upon the man with compassion. He stopped, bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them, and carried him on his own donkey to an inn, where he cared for him. The next day the Samaritan gave the innkeeper two denarii, worth about two clays’ wages, and told him to care for the injured man and if it required more, the Samaritan would pay the next time he passed that way. [Which of these three men was a neighbour to the injured man?] [The one who showed kindness,] the teacher of the Law answered. [Go,] Yeshua said. [Be like that Samaritan.] Later, when Yeshua travelled to Bethany, a woman named Martha invited Yeshua home for a meal. When they reached the home, Martha’s sister Mary sat at Yeshua’ feet, listening to Him. This bothered Martha so much that she complained to Yeshua. [Don’t You care that my sister lets me do all the kitchen work alone?] Martha asked. [Why don’t You tell her to help me?] [Martha, Martha, you are frustrated with all these things you are doing,] Yeshua answered. [Mary has chosen a better way today, and I don’t want to take that from her.] At another time, when Yeshua was praying, His disciples asked Him to teach them how they should pray, as John had taught his disciples how to pray. This is what Yeshua taught. [When you pray, say something like this. Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Kingdom and the Power, and the Glory for ever and ever, amen.] Yeshua said also to them, [What if you go to a friend at midnight and ask to borrow three loaves of bread, for you have a visitor who has come from a distance and have nothing to feed him. What would you think if this neighbour friend called out from his home that he was in bed with his family and could not get up to help you? He may not want to get up merely because you are a friend, but if you keep on knocking urgently at his door, he will eventually get up and help. Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. Whoever keeps on asking will eventually receive. Whoever keeps on seeking will eventually find. And whoever keeps on knocking will eventually find it opened. If a son should ask one of you good fathers for a fish, will you surprise him with a snake instead? Or, if he asks for an egg, will you give him a scorpion instead? Since you, who are sinful people, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in heaven gives Ruach HaKodesh to those who ask Him.]
COMMENTARY
BIBLE-TIME INNS
The inn to which the Good Samaritan brought the man he had rescued was not at all like a modern hotel. Bible-time inns did not provide travellers with the comforts of home, few of them even supplied beds or food. Travelers were expected to bring their own sleeping pads, and food for themselves and their animals as well. But Bible-time inns did provide one important thing -- shelter from the dangers of the night-time roads. Such protection was necessary both for the people and for their animals. The animals and their keepers stayed on the lower level, while the other travellers slept in the rooms above, looking down over the courtyard.
Our Creator established His emet - truth in the beginning. His living Word (Torah תוֹרָה) is Truth. Torah is the foundation of Truth. Ps.119:142
Torah is LOVE❣️Ro. 13:10?
When you say, "Yeshua did away with the Law (Torah)," -- you are saying Yeshua did away with the most important Command which is to Ahavah/אַהֲבָה - LOVE. *HaMashiach Yeshua ReNewed the Covenant, he did not come to do away with the Torah (abolish himself).
*During his whole year ministry, Yeshua was teaching everyone (the House of Yisra’ĕl 1st) to go back to the simple life giving instructions in the Torah [Law] of Mosheh. The Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, and Chief Priests were incensed with anger towards him.
?Yeshua was stripping authority from all these religious leaders????
*Yeshua based his authority on the Covenant given at Mount Sinai. (Note: ARA)
?The Almighty's??Covenant!?
Everytime we sin, we miss the mark.?*
???Do what Mosheh has ?written
(?Torah/instructions/LivingWord) for us to do. Mosheh gave us the Instructions but the Prophets teach us how to apply those instructions to our lives and those examples teach us how to be obedient.
(Note: Give God 90)
The Living Word is יֵשׁוּעַ❣️? ?? ??
*Mosheh wrote the ?Torah = ?Word = ?יֵשׁוּעַ????? The Covenant is passed down through inheritance (given to Ya'akov) then given to all mankind.
Ya'akov the son of Yitsḥaq is renamed Yisra’ĕl.?
?*Yisra’ĕl as a Nation was ?chosen by the Almighty to be His representative. A Kingdom of Priests to reconcile the world back to the worship of the One True G-d. ?
*The Chronological Gospels ARA
The Gospel Of The Kingdom
At all times it is our duty to acknowledge the over-ruling providence of the great Governor of the universe… -Continental Congress, March 20, 1781
"Let death seize upon them: let them go down quick into sheol: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them."
Ps 55
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