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I saw an armoured worm dig up through the floorboards, with a rattle, and the mysterious sound of an auger and cork. Its taciturn chitinous mask swivelled to take in the scene, then its limbless form shivered decisively into a strong corner. Its eyes, close as two beads on a thin string, gleamed sparks of glassy stillness out of the defensible obscurity into which it shrank.
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Let love be without hypocrisy—detesting what is evil, holding fast to the good.
Romans 12:9 TLV
Genuine love isn’t just love without hypocrisy, as the TLV words it, but love that is in total alignment with God’s commandments. This is why Paul added “Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good”.
Is there some activity, attitude, or object that God detests? Then love for God and your neighbor requires you to detest it as well. See Leviticus 11, Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 7:25-26, and Galatians 5:13-15.
Exhorting (parakaleo) in Romans 12:8 usually refers to some kind of teaching or homiletic speech with an intent to motivate the hearers to take some action. In other words, preaching. It could also be translated as imploring, beseeching, etc. Here are a few examples:
- In Matthew 8, Legion exhorted Yeshua to send them into the herd of swine, and then the people of the nearby village exhorted him to leave their region.
- In Acts 21:12, the believers at Caesarea exhorted Paul not to go to Jerusalem after Agabus warned him that the religious leaders there would arrest him and hand him over to the Roman authorities.
- In Jude 1:3, Jude exhorts his readers to contend for the faith.
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The reason nobody on here has been able to make a reply of faith in spirit and truth is cause they don't have it Yeshua wasn't lying the path is narrow. Get ready for the furious rebukes of Abba Yahh brothers and sisters your feasts are going to be turned into mourning and since you wouldn't wake up many of you are stuck asleep for your unworthy communion and increased transgressions. If you could hear please turn the battle back to the gate. Straitisthegate.net and don't hate those rebuking in the gate don't despise prophecy don't be covetous and taken and snared Ezikiel 14 Isaiah 28
Service (diakonia) in Romans 12:7 is not ministry in the sense of occupying a position of clerical authority. That’s an anachronistic interpretation from the more recent sense of a bureaucrat serving the needs of a king or a nation, or a congregational leader serving the needs of his congregation.
Diakonia, as used in the Bible, refers to serving without implying any kind of authority relationship over the one being served. It is much more likely to imply being under authority than being in authority.
SHABBATH HACHODESH (2025)
This coming Sabbath should be Shabbat Hachodesh, the Sabbath which falls each year on or before Rosh Chodesh Aviv – the New Moon of Green Ears. It is used as a time to review the laws of the Pesach (Passover) and prepare for it. It is also a reminder of the imminence of that Rosh Chodesh which YHWH calls “the beginning of months for you.”
The traditional scripture readings for the day are: Shemoth (Exodus)12:1-20 and Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 45:16-46:18. This portion from the prophets, or “haftarah,” on Shabbat Hachodesh describes the sacrifices and observances which will be required in the future third Temple on that day.
Rosh Chodesh Aviv should begin this year on 3/31/2025 at sunset and continue until the following sunset. That means this year’s Pesach Seder should begin just after sunset on 4/13/2025, with the full day of Chag Hamatzoth being 4/14/2025.
However, we would be remiss in not adding a caveat to that prediction: since this year is very much one of those where the Rosh Chodesh Aviv could be either 3/31/2025 or the following day, and the Rosh Chodesh may not be sighted in Yisrael on the 31st, which would defer Rosh Chodesh Aviv to the 4/1/2025, we could be wrong.
If we have to wait an extra day or month for the festival to begin, so be it – we who are observant will, as the prophets say, “Qaveh al YHWH” – Wait upon YHWH. As it is written,
“And Elohim said, ‘Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years.’”
In the unlikely event that a new moon is not sighted on 3/31/2025, we will immediately post an update of that on the Min Hazaqen Torah Study Group page to let you know.
In either case, get ready – Passover is soon coming!