For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions...
2 Timothy 4:3

Sometimes those passions are hedonistic. Sometimes they're legalistic. This can be a very uncomfortable truth: It is easier for a well-meaning teacher to fall into the trap of offering up an ear-tickling legalism that preaches against something that the culture condemns as immoral, but God does not. This is just as false, just as sinful as allowing what God has condemned. God's people will gleefully cheer him on because they believe they are tearing down "high places", but are actually persecuting the very body of Christ.

Elijah and Elisha "went down to Bethel" from Gilgal in 2 Kings 2:2, but Bethel is actually "up" from Gilgal. We usually think of "down" as either to the south or down hill, but the ancient Hebrews also used these terms with political and religious connotations. For example, one would go "up to Jerusalem" no matter where he started from or "down from Jerusalem" no matter where he was going, since that's where God chose to place his name in the Promised Land. Since the false temple of the northern kingdom of Israel was at Bethel, the writer of Kings might have been using "down" as an insult. If Jerusalem is up from everywhere, Bethel must be down from everywhere. The counter to this is that v23 says they went "up" to Bethel from Jericho. Maybe Jericho was even lower in the spiritual hierarchy?

Here are some #newtestament passages to study with #torah Parsha #reeh (#deuteronomy 11:26-16:17), along with commentary and videos: https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/03/24/parsha-re

On this date in history, 08/21/1831: Nat Turner leads a short-lived slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. #otd #tdih #virginiahistory

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Proverbs 16;20, “Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.” What Solomon wrote is slightly different, Solomon wrote whoever is prudent to the word will find good and whoever trusts the Creator will be happy. Those who reject the word may appear to be wealthy and some seem to be happy but where will their wealth and earthly happiness be when they leave this earth? We can not take our wealth or our earthly things to the New Jerusalem but we can take our hope and our trust that our Creator will continue to keep His promises.

Thought for Today: Sunday August 21:

May salvation spring up all around you! May you see lives changed, relationships restored and souls healed wherever you turn. May your expectancy of what YHVH can and wants to do in your midst rise exponentially. Elohim is a Star-breathing, Miracle-working, Intimately-involved Most High King.