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Thought for Today: Monday March 06:

When YHVH does not give you any special guidance, then stay where you are. Concentrate on doing everyday tasks in awareness of His Presence with you. The joy of His Presence will shine on you, as you do everything for Him. Thus, you invite Him into every aspect of your life. Through collaborating with Elohiym in all things, you allow His Life to merge with yours. This is the secret not only for joyful living, but also for victorious living. He designed you to depend on Him every moment of your life, recognizing that apart from Him, you can do nothing. Be thankful for quiet days, when nothing special seems to be happening. Instead of being bored by lack of action, use times of routine to seek His Face. Although this is an invisible transaction, it speaks volume in the spiritual realms. Moreover, you are richly blessed when you walk trustingly with Him through every routine of your day.

SERIES I --- THE NATION UNITES --- LESSON 16

SAUL REJECTED

SOMETHING BETTER THAN SACRIFICE

From 1 Samuel 15

One day Samuel presented King Saul with orders from Adonai. ‘You are king because Adonai anointed you,’ he said. ‘Now He has special work for you. Destroy the nation of Amalek completely, for it must be punished for waylaying the Israelites as they came from Egypt. You must destroy all that the Amalekites have; every person, sheep, ox, camel and donkey. Saul gathered his army at Telaim, with about two hundred thousand men plus ten thousand men of Judah. As he came near the city of the Amalekites, he set up an ambush in the valley. Saul sent word to the Kenites, who lived among the Amalekites. ‘Move away from the Amalekites so we do not destroy you with them, for you were kind to the people of Israel when they came from Egypt.’ The Kenites listened to Saul and moved away immediately. From Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt, Saul cut down the Amalekites. He killed them all except King Agag, whom he captured and thus Saul disobeyed Adonai. Saul also disobeyed Adonai’s orders to destroy all their animals. Instead, he kept the best sheep, oxen and lambs and destroyed the others. Then Adonai told Samuel what had happened. ‘I’m sorry that I made Saul king, for he will not obey Me,’ Adonai said. Samuel was so upset when he heard what Adonai said that he cried out to Him all through the night. Early the next morning Samuel arose and went to search for Saul. ‘He went to Carmel earlier and built a monument to himself, someone told Samuel. Then he went down to Gilgal.’ Samuel kept searching until he found Saul. ‘I did exactly what Adonai said,’ Saul told Samuel when they met. ‘Is that so?’ said Samuel. ‘Then what is all the bleating of sheep and lowing of oxen that I hear?’ ‘Oh, those?’ Saul answered. ‘Those are just a few choice animals that my men brought here to sacrifice to Adonai. But we destroyed all the other animals.’ ‘Let me tell you what Adonai said about you last night!’ Samuel said. ‘Tell me!’ Saul asked anxiously. ‘When you were a nobody, Adonai made you king of Israel,’ said Samuel. ‘He gave you a job to do, telling you to destroy the Amalekites completely. Why didn’t you do as Adonai told you? Why did you steal the spoils and do what Adonai told you not to do?’ ‘But I did obey Adonai,’ Saul protested. ‘I went against the enemy as YHVH ordered. I killed everyone except King Agag. And I kept the spoils only because my men insisted that I keep them to sacrifice to Adonai at Gilgal.’ ‘Did you think your sacrifices would please Adonai as much as your obedience?’ Samuel asked. ‘It is much better to obey Him than to sacrifice. It is better to listen than to give Him the fat of rams. Rebellion is as bad as sorcery and stubbornness is as bad as sin and idolatry. Since you have rejected Him as Adonai, He has rejected you as king.’ ‘I have sinned!’ Saul confessed. ‘I have disobeyed Adonai and you, but only because I was afraid of my people and listened to them. Forgive me and go with me to worship Adonai.’ ‘No, I will not go with you,’ Samuel answered. ‘You have rejected Adonai’s Word, so He has already rejected you as king of Israel.’ As Samuel turned to leave, Saul clutched at his robe to keep him there and tore it. ‘Adonai has torn your kingdom from you today and has given it to a better man than you,’ said Samuel. ‘Adonai will not lie to you or change His mind about this.’ ‘I have sinned!’ Saul cried out again. ‘But show me some honour before my people and their leaders by going with me to worship Adonai.’ Then Samuel agreed and went with him. But when they arrived at the place of worship, Samuel had a surprise for Saul. ‘Bring King Agag to me!’ Samuel ordered. King Agag was cheerful when he came before Samuel, for he thought that he was safe now. ‘Surely the bitterness of death has passed by me,’ King Agag said. ‘No!’ said Samuel. ‘With your sword you have made many mothers childless. Now your own mother will be childless.’ Then Samuel cut Agag into pieces before Adonai at Gilgal. When Samuel left Gilgal, he went to Ramah and Saul returned home to Gibeah. Never again did Samuel see Saul until the day Samuel died, but he continued grieving for Saul. And Adonai continued to be sorry that He had made Saul king over Israel.”

COMMENTARY

SAUL’S KINGDOM

The king was supposed to lead YHVH’s people in His ways. But King Saul disobeyed YHVH by keeping some sheep, oxen and lambs which had belonged to the enemy. [You have rejected the Word of Adonai,] Samuel said angrily to Saul, [and Adonai has rejected you as king over Israel.] When Saul became king, the Israelite tribes united their fighting power behind a single leader for the first time in years. He established a capital at Gibeah and began to train an army. His soldiers had few weapons, but they managed to do together what the tribes alone could not do. Saul focused most of his strength against the Philistines, Israel’s most dangerous enemy. He did not end the Philistine threat; conflict continued throughout his reign; but battles such as those at Michmash and the Valley of Elab gradually broke the Philistines’ grip of power. The army forced them out of Israelite hill country and back to the coastal plain. The king also succeeded in pushing other enemies back to their traditional borders. These battles gave Israel control over five areas. Asher in the north extended down through the mountains of Galilee. Just south of this was the wide plain of Jezreel. Between Jezreel and the capital city were the wooded hills of Ephraim, where so many battles took place. Territory belonging to the tribes of Benjamin and Judah formed the southernmost region. Across the Jordan was the last area, the long strip of land called Gilead. Small areas in foreign control remained scattered throughout the country, but Saul ended the chaos of earlier years. Land where the Israelites lived was clearly under their control. Later kings used this as a foundation to make Israel even stronger.

"What availeth it my brethren, though a man saith, he hath faith, when he hath no works? can that faith save him?"

Ja 2

I’ve been struggling how to respond to a certain topic since I saw it in the rules on this site. I’ve heard of this in our movement just once before but apparently it’s got some fringe traction. And I’m talking about polygamy.

I used to go to a Sukkot where there was ONE husband and wife out of 1000 people who promoted polygamy. It was their hobby horse and really repulsed a lot of people. And, yes, they always corrected that it’s really polygyny, not polygamy. But I have to say that it’s just gross and creepy.

Polygamy has no place today. That's from a culture that hasn't existed for more than 2000 years. Yahweh permitted some patriarchs to have multiple spouses but we are not patriarchs. There’s something in our movement when people learn the truth of Torah all of a sudden they think they can not only live today like it’s the days of Abraham or Moses, they actually believe the can ACTUALLY BE Abraham or Moses. Brethren, just because we have a better handle on the scriptures than most doesn’t make us patriarchs. Heck, Paul didn’t even get married ONCE and none of us are fit to tie Paul’s sandals.

The men who push this in our movement today are creepy. The WOMEN who push it, just wow. None of the Apostles had multiple wives and if that was a thing in the 1st century, I'm not aware of it. And to slam this one home, there is no behavior under the sun in the last 70 years that screams CULT than a man having multiple wives or concubines. So can we just unite for once and say “no”?

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Happy purim to those that observe!

In the parable of the royal wedding feast in Matthew 22:1-14, who is the guest without wedding clothes? How did he get into the feast and where exactly does the king command his servants to throw him?
#yeshua #biblestudy

https://rumble.com/v2bv4ec-who....-is-the-guest-withou

Anyone else feeling like there's a trap that is close to being sprung?

When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.
#exodus 30:12

The census was set between the atonement for the priests and the atonement for the people. It was an integral part of the process of atonement. The 1/2 shekel tax that was used to take the census in Exodus 30:11-16 is a token given in place of the donor's blood, but it is also a statement of willingness to give all if necessary. Silver symbolizes blood and the atonement and redemption that is enabled by blood. The exact same amount of silver required of each man means that the same blood atones for all. Atonement doesn't cost more for the rich or poor, the criminal or the police.

https://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2009/03/judgmen