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.
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.”
Thought for Today: Monday December 12:
Yeshua came to this world so we could know, once and for all, that Father YHVH is concerned about the way we live, the way we believe and the way we die. Father could have told us in other ways of course, -- and He had, throughout the pages of the Torah, the Nevi’im and the Ketuvim… BUT Yeshua was the Living Word… Every time He fed the hungry, He was saying: [I am the Bread of Life]. Every time He was healing a suffering person, He was saying: [It hurts Me to see you in pain]. Every move He made, every miracle He performed, every Word He spoke, was for the purpose of reconciling a lost world to our Loving Compassionate Father YHVH.
I know that many of you have gone through major changes in your personal beliefs about God and how he wants us to live. Those changes frequently come with lots of conflict with your family, friends, and church, and that can be especially hard when your children get in the middle of it.
In this conversation at Common Sense Bible Study, Pastor Brian Serrano gives some great advice and encouragement for families trying to work through these conflicts.
https://rumble.com/v205pqq-hel....ping-families-in-spi
New message. Ask yourself, do you really fear God?
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