http://www.bethgoyim.org/Holy%....20Days/HOLY%20DAY%20
Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”
2 Kings 12:7
God didn't choose the sons of Aaron as his priests because they were more scrupulous or more righteous than others. They were just as prone to fraud and wasteful behavior as anyone else. Apparently they much preferred spending donations on flashy baubles--and probably on personal gain--than on much needed repairs to the Temple.
Jehoash's solution was a system of checks and balances: accounting by representatives of two branches of the government and at least two witnesses to every transaction.
https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/what-scoundre
https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/what-scoundre
SERIES I --- THE NATION UNITES --- LESSON 17
DAVID TO BE KING
THE DAY YHVH CHOSE A KING
From 1 Samuel 16
As the days passed by, Samuel continued to mourn for Saul, grieving because YHVH had rejected him as king. At last Adonai spoke to Samuel. ‘It’s time to stop mourning for Saul,’ He said. ‘I have already rejected him as king, so your mourning will not save him. Fill your anointing horn with olive oil and visit Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons as Israel’s next king.’ ‘How can I anoint someone else?’ Samuel asked. ‘Saul would kill me if he hears what I have done.’ ‘Go to Bethlehem to offer a sacrifice to Me,’ Adonai said. ‘Take a heifer with you and tell the people you have come to offer her to Adonai. Invite Jesse to the sacrifice and when I tell you whom to anoint, anoint him!’ Samuel followed Adonai’s orders and went to Bethlehem. When he arrived, the city elders hurried out to meet him. ‘Is something wrong?’ they asked. ‘Have you come to punish us for something?’ ‘No, I have come to offer a sacrifice to Adonai,’ Samuel answered. ‘Prepare yourselves with the purification rites and come with me.’ Samuel also prepared Jesse and his sons with the purification rites and invited them to the sacrifice. When they arrived, Samuel was impressed with Eliab, the oldest son. ‘He must be the one!’ Samuel thought. ‘No, he is not the one,’ Adonai said. ‘You must not think he would make a good king because he is tall or handsome. I have not chosen him. Men judge by the way another looks, but I see deep into his heart.’ When Jesse sent Abinadab to see Samuel, Adonai rejected him also. Shammah came next, but Adonai said, ‘I have not chosen him either.’ One by one seven of Jesse’s sons appeared before Samuel. ‘Adonai has not chosen any of them,’ said Samuel. ‘Do you have others?’ ‘Yes, my youngest son is taking care of my sheep,’ Jesse answered. ‘Send someone for him!’ Samuel ordered. ‘We will not start to eat until he comes.’ Before long the boy arrived. He was a handsome fellow, with bright eyes and a ruddy face. His name was David. ‘Anoint him!’ Adonai said. ‘He is the one I have chosen.’ While all of the brothers watched, Samuel anointed young David. The Spirit of Adonai came upon David in a mighty way and remained with him from then on. Then Samuel returned home to Ramah. About this time, the Spirit of Adonai departed from Saul and Adonai sent another spirit to torment him. Saul’s servants recognized the problem and suggested a solution. ‘By royal command, we will find a man who plays the harp well,’ they said. ‘He will play for you whenever the evil spirit torments you and perhaps this will cure you.’ ‘Find him and bring him to me!’ Saul commanded. One of the servants already had someone in mind. ‘Jesse of Bethlehem has a son who plays the harp well,’ he said. ‘He is also a brave, handsome and intelligent young man and Adonai is with him.’ Saul immediately sent messengers to talk with Jesse about his son. ‘Send your son David the shepherd to play for me,’ the king asked. Jesse was so pleased to help the king that he sent a gift with David, a donkey burdened with bread and wine and a young goat. Thus, David entered the king’s service. Saul was so fond of him that he made him his personal armour bearer. ‘Let David stay with me, for I admire him and love him greatly,’ Saul wrote to Jesse. Whenever the evil spirit troubled Saul, David played the harp, for his music soothed Saul and drove the evil spirit away.
COMMENTARY
HARPS AND LYRES IN BIBLE TIMES
David was the youngest in his family. He played beautifully on musical instruments. He cared for the family sheep. Yet YHVH chose this young shepherd boy as Israel’s next king and Commanded Samuel to anoint him. [Men judge by the way another looks, but I see deep into his heart,] YHVH told Samuel. Some of the oldest lyres ever discovered were designed in Sumeria around 3000 B.C., probably for the use of royal musicians. They were richly decorated and made of gold, silver and copper. At the front of each was a carefully wrought head of one of three animals. The stag, cow or bull may have indicated the range each lyre played; the equivalent of today’s soprano, tenor or alto musical register. These lyres have often been called the most beautiful of the ancient world. In Canaan the lyre earned a reputation as an instrument for joy and celebration, it was light enough for musicians to carry in the fields or while strolling among crowds of people. Its music came from tightly stretched strings vibrating in a sound box. The simplest strings were made of twisted grass, but threads of animal gut were tougher. A crossbar at the top kept the strings pulled taut and in tune. Harps, on the other hand, had no crossbars at the top. The simplest harps were merely two pieces of wood fastened at right angles to each other. Strings stretched between the wood gave it a triangular shape. While many lyres had only four strings, harps had up to forty and made a louder sound. Musicians usually plucked harps by hand, but they strummed lyres with a bone or ivory plectrum. The Canaanite harp and lyre probably originated in Sumeria, but almost every other country had its own unique style. In Assyria, bands of harpists would parade with large harps held vertically against their chests, the sound box in the air. These were so heavy that the musicians wore special belts to support them. In Egypt, harps were among the most important instruments of the orchestra. Some kinds were taller than the people who played them, with sound boxes resting on the floor. An earlier style, fashioned like a hunting bow, may have been the earliest harp. Called a bow harp, it was balanced on one shoulder and the musician stood as he played.
And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.'
Exodus 30:31-33
Be cautious with those mail-order "biblical" oils. God said don't make copies of the Tabernacle oil. You won't be getting closer to God by using it. Quite the opposite, in fact.
You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it...
#exodus 30:18
#kitisa
The bronze laver was placed between the bronze altar and the tabernacle. You can't get to the sanctuary without going through the cleansing of the altar and laver. The metaphorical implication of this is that repentance, justification, and a sanctified life are necessary preconditions for a life close to God.
Another thing implied by the laver's placement: Priests and rulers cannot serve God and the people effectively if they are not themselves living sanctified lives.
https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2009/03/judgmen
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One last thing I wanted to cover before we moved off of the Name is this theory I keep seeing pop up among believers. That in Revelation 13:18 when John writes in Greek the number for the beast, 666, that it is actually a name to be pronounced. I came across this theory a few years ago when someone sent it to me to get my feedback. It was on a social media network that is no longer around, so I do not have any of the information on it still. However, I do have my rebuttal, as I usually write those out in my Notes app before posting. As it has been a few years, and I have done more studying and research, I've added a few other items into the rebuttal as well.
Before I get into the rebuttal I feel like there is a lot of background I need to share so you know what I am speaking against. The number in Revelation 13:18 that translates to 666 is χξς. The theory is that this is pronounced Cheezus, or by their implication, Jesus. Thus, the Jesus of the Western world is the anti-Christ of the Bible. So, (by this theory) if you are calling on the name Jesus, you are calling on (i.e. worshipping) the anti-Christ. Now you are probably like, "What a minute? Jesus Christ, who told us about the Anti-Christ, is the Anti-Christ? That doesn't make any sense." And you would be right, but let me explain.
Where they are coming from on this is when you start looking into the Bible without the traditions passed on by the church, you find a very different picture of Jesus than what we have been previously taught. Many have come to call this the Greek Jesus and the Hebrew Yeshua. They both represent the same person, but two different viewpoints of what that person did. Essentially one is a lie, and one is the truth. We even see this happening in Scripture while He was doing His ministry. Mark 14:56 - "For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together." While these false witnesses do not reflect Jesus correctly and could be painting an opposite Jesus, or Anti-Christ, there are a lot of problems with this "666 = Jesus" theory.
1. Saying χξς should be pronounced in the way presented doesn't make sense. From my limited understanding of Greek, it needs vowels just like English does. We can see this in other words throughout the Greek New Testament. These three letters are not vowels. Even in transliterated words (non-native Greek words phonetically made out in Greek) they have vowels in them. Look at Revelation 19:1 where John writes out HalleluYah, a Hebrew word. Adding these specific vowel sounds to John's number is solely conjecture.
A sub-point to this is the "chi" letter (χ) isn't a "ch" sound like in "church", nor is the sound replicated fully in English at all. It is more similar to the ח in Hebrew, which is a gutteral "kh" type sound. Like clearing your throat before breathing out an "h". Typically, Hebrew words we use in English that use this letter, such as the first letter of Hanukkah, we just use the H sound. Making the "translation" Heezus. Which in itself defeats the theory as while "ch" and "j" could be similar in sound, "kh" and "j" are not similar at all. Just like in the comic, we can't use English sounds on non-English words and expect to be correct.
A second sub-point on this most of the manuscripts we have of the New Testament are in Greek. We already have what Jesus would be in Greek: Ἰησοῦς, which is nothing like χξς. It sounds more like the Spanish "Jesus" (Hey-Soos) than what we say in English, which is another defeating point in this theory. It is basing it on the fact that the English world calls Jesus, Jesus. It doesn't take into any considerations of other languages and how they pronounce this name. According to Babbel.com, Chinese is the number one language in the world with 1.3 billion native speakers. Compare that to the 373 million native English speakers. In Chinese, they say "Yeh Su". Again, nothing like the English pronunciation.
2. Before pointing out χξς, John says three times: ἀριθμὸς which means number. He tells us right there he is trying to write out a number. Yes, other places he wrote out different words for numbers. But to ignore the fact John says “this is a number” three times causes concern.
3. Scripture defines Scripture and we cannot read it in a bubble. I feel this theory is reading Revelation in a bubble. We have defined in Torah signs on the right hand and the forehead. — Exodus 13:9 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. Deut. 6:8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. — The context of these verses are actions and thoughts, the person’s character. Just like the previous comic on the Name, anytime “name” is mentioned it is usually talking about someone’s character rather than a verbal label assigned to someone.
4. My last point is a bit anecdotal, but if this theory is true, we are all in trouble because I do not know one person who now knows Jesus' real name is Yeshua, that didn't first call him Jesus. — Revelation 20:4 They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. — So if using the name Jesus is the mark of the beast/worshipping the beast, then we all have done that already and are doomed, so what is the point?
If you come across this theory, please keep these things in mind and even share with whomever is presenting it. I've never got a response back from anyone that has come to me with this that I have given any of these points to. Either their hearts are hard and they won't listen, or they are going back and praying and researching more. I truly hope it is the latter.
https://thestraightandnarrow.cfw.me/comics/590
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