Greet my kinsman Herodion....
Romans 16:11 ESV

Since several Jews are mentioned in this chapter and not called “kinsman”, this Herodion is more closely related to Paul than being another Jew, just as with Andronicus and Junia. Paul says nothing else about this man.

Based on his name--derivatives of the name Herod were common among Herod’s descendants--it’s possible that he was a member of the family of Aristobulus mentioned in v10, but if that were the case, then the whole family would be Paul’s kinsmen. Since Paul only calls Herodion his kinsman, it seems unlikely that Herodion was part of that house, unless as a servant.

Truly, “Time Is the Ally of Deceit” but it is not the evil in itself. Time is opportunity. A limited opportunity for us in the small amount offered to us and an unlimited amount of opportunity for countless peoples to have that limited opportunity.

The opportunities taken by others before in their time will determine what we’ve received from them in our time. And the opportunities we take with our time will decide what those yet to come in their time receive from us.

Time Is the Ally of Deceit because, being so far separated in time from those who gave us what we have, allows an infinite number of distortions from others over the ages who took their opportunity to add to and take away from it.

Time Is the Ally of Deceit because it allows for anyone to have put their spin on the truth or to twist it to their liking before passing it on to us. It affords them the opportunity to tell us what is true and us to be too far removed from the origin to know and prove.

But Time Is the Ally of Deceit not only because we are so far removed from the inception of these things, but because being so far removed from the origin it allows anyone in one’s own time to claim anything about the past and be believed.

If one begins to understand the gross distortions of the ancient ways and that additions and subtractions have indeed been made over the ages, this opens up their soul to potentiall further deception.

The knowledge age of the falsehood is the same opportunity as thesy of time. It is the potential to find the truth or to receive to new falsehood.

Time Is the Ally of Deceit as both the basis of the lies we were given and also the ability for the newly awoken to be lulled back to sleep in yet a different comfy bed, and dream of waking life.

Be careful with what you received anciently, and be even more careful of what you accept as the correction.

And be most careful of all what you do with your opportunities in your limited time because they will be what others believe in time, whether true or false….and they may not be able to tell the difference.

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Day 40 of counting the omer. The Number 40. The number 40 generally symbolizes a period of testing, trial or probation. The prophet Jonah powerfully warned ancient Nineveh, for forty days, that its destruction would come because of its many sins. The prophet Ezekiel laid on His right side for 40 days to symbolize Judah’s sins (Ezekiel 4:6). Elijah went 40 days without food or water at Mount Horeb. Yeshua was tempted by the devil during the 40 days and nights. Yeshua also appeared to his disciples and others for 40 days after his resurrection from the dead.

WORD FOR TODAY “then do HIS will”: Joh 9:31 "We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

WISDOM FOR TODAY: "FOR THOSE IN THE DEEP STATE" Ecc 9:5 For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.

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Daniel 12:2,” Many people who have already died will live again. Some of them will wake up to have life forever. But some will wake up to find shame and disgrace forever.” This may be the most clear verse in the Old Testament that connect with Revelation 20:12 — 13, “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And the book of life was opened. There were also other books opened. The dead were judged by what they had done, which was written in the books.  The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. Each person was judged by what he had done.”

"The Prophets that have been before me, and before thee in time past, prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of plagues, and of pestilence."

Je 28

I have tried quite a few rusk recipes in my life, and this is currently my favourite. Not too hard when it is dried, keeps its shape when dunked and chews just right. 😊

These rusks are also known as moss rusks (if they have aniseed in them) or feather rusks. Just like moss balls, they are a great treat fresh from the oven, spread with butter.

Ingredients:
1 x 397 g can condensed milk
250 ml boiling water
125 g butter or margarine, cut into cubes
180 ml sugar
2 eggs
250 ml cold water
2 packets of instant yeast
1.25 kg cake flour
10 ml salt
15 ml aniseed (optional)

Method:
Mix the condensed milk, boiling water, butter/margarine and sugar together until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved.

Beat the eggs separately and mix it with the cold water. ]

Add this beaten eggs to the condensed milk mixture.

Sprinkle the yeast over the mixture and stir to mix in the yeast.

Sprinkle over 250 g of the flour and mix thoroughly.

Cover the bowl loosely and leave in a warm place for about an hour until the mixture is bubbly on top.

Add the rest of the flour, salt and aniseed (if using) and work it into a dough. Knead the dough on a floured surface for about 10 minutes until smooth and elastic and no longer sticks to your hands.

Place the ball of dough in an oiled mixing bowl, cover loosely and leave to rise in a warm place until it has doubled in volume. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180 °C and grease three to four medium loaf pans with butter or oil.

Knead the dough a final time.

Pinch off golf ball sized balls of dough (roughly 40 g each) and pack them tightly together in the pans.

Cover the pans loosely and let the dough rise for about 15-20 minutes.

Place in the oven, immediately turn down the temperature to 160 °C and bake the rusks until golden brown and cooked through.

Turn out, let it cool slightly and then break into pieces.

Arrange on baking sheets and dry out at 70 °C to 100 °C or in the low oven.

Leave to come to room temperature and store in airtight containers.

Makes about 3 dozen average size rusk.

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Thought for Today Thursday May 29

Many of us believers are sensitive to the suffering of others until we experience them ourselves. We become wrapped up in our own circumstances, and overlook the needs of those around us – even members of our own family. But this is not YHVH’s plan. We are to show our love by bearing one another’s burdens. We cannot change the past; it may be too late to apologise to someone for our thoughtlessness. But we do not need to carry around a burden of guilt over this. When Yeshua died on the Cross, He died for every sin we have ever committed, including this one. If you confess your sins, He will cleanse you (1 John 1:9)

Today is the 40th day of the Omer Count. (On the later Omer count)
The day Yeshua ascended back to the Father.

TODAY IS ALIYATH YESHUA

Aliyath Yeshua occurs on the 40th day of the Omer, and was the day of Yeshua’s ascension into the heavens after his death and resurrection during Chag Hamatzoth, the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

The scripture readings are: Ma’asey (Acts) 1:11; Luqas (Luke) 24:50-53 and Marqos (Mark) 16:19-20.

“The first account I made, O Theophilos, of all that Yeshua began both to do and to teach, until the day when he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Set-apart Spirit to the emissaries whom he had chosen, to whom He also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them for forty days, speaking concerning the Kingdom of Elohim. And meeting with them, he commanded them not to leave Yerushalayim, but to wait for the promise of the Father, ‘which you have heard from me – because Yochanan truly immersed in water, but you shall be immersed in the Set-apart Spirit not many days from now.’ So, when they had come together, they asked him, saying, ‘Master, would you at this time restore the Kingdom to Yisra’el?’ And he said to them, ‘It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehudah and Shomeron, and to the end of the earth.’ And having said this, while they were looking on, he was taken up, and a cloud hid him from their sight. And as they were gazing into the heaven as he went up, see, two men stood by them dressed in white, who also said, ‘Men of Galil, why do you stand looking up into the heaven? This same Yeshua, who was taken up from you into the heavens, shall come in the same way as you saw him go into the heavens.’”

“If anyone then says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe. For false messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and they shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. See, I have forewarned you! So, if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe. For as the lightning comes from the east and shines to the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of Adam be. For wherever the dead body is, there the vultures shall be gathered together. And immediately after the distress of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Adam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Adam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”

“Now, brothers, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you be sad as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, so also Elohim shall bring with him those who sleep in Yeshua. For this we say to you by the word of the Master, that we, the living who are left over at the coming of the Master shall in no way go before those who are asleep. Because the Master himself shall come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of a mighty angel, and with the trumpet of Elohim, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first. Then we, the living who are left over, shall be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air – and so we shall always be with the Master. So, then, encourage one another with these words.”

“To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and has made us kings and priests to his Elohim and Father, to him be glory and rule forever and ever! Amein! See, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him! And all the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of him! Yes, Amein!”