Thought for Today: Monday January 17:
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. -- Matthew 7:24
Live by the sayings of Yeshua Moshiach and become like that wise man who built his house upon rock; an unshakable house against which the storms beat in vain. You can have an inner serenity, strength and courage that defy all the storms of life. Remember that Yeshua Moshiach is your Strength!
My Daily Reading
1Sa 21:1-15 TS2009
1 And Dawiḏ came to Noḇ, to Aḥimeleḵ the priest. And Aḥimeleḵ trembled when he met Dawiḏ, and asked him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”
2 And Dawiḏ said to Aḥimeleḵ the priest, “The sovereign has commanded me a word, and said to me, ‘Let no one know whatever of the word about which I send you, and which I have commanded you.’ And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.
3 “And now, what do you have on hand? Give five loaves into my hand, or whatever is found.”
4 And the priest answered Dawiḏ and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is set-apart bread – provided the young men have kept themselves from women.”
5 And Dawiḏ answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us about three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men are set-apart, and it is an ordinary mission, and also, it was set-apart in the vessel today.”
6 Then the priest gave him set-apart bread, for there was no bread there except the showbread which had been taken from before יהוה, in order to put hot bread in on the day it is taken away.
7 Now one of the servants of Sha’ul was there that day, detained before יהוה. And his name was Do’ĕḡ, an Eḏomite, the chief of the herdsmen who belonged to Sha’ul.
8 And Dawiḏ said to Aḥimeleḵ, “Is there not here on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the matter of the sovereign was urgent.”
9 And the priest said, “The sword of Golyath the Philistine, whom you struck in the Valley of Ělah. See, it is wrapped in a garment behind the shoulder garment. If you would take it, take it. For there is none other except this one here.” And Dawiḏ said, “There is none like it, give it to me.”
10 And Dawiḏ rose and fled that day from before Sha’ul, and went to Aḵish the sovereign of Gath.
11 But the servants of Aḵish said to him, “Is this not Dawiḏ the sovereign of the land? Did they not sing of him to each other in dances, saying, ‘Sha’ul struck his thousands, and Dawiḏ his ten thousands’?”
12 And Dawiḏ took these words to heart, and was very much afraid of Aḵish the sovereign of Gath,
13 and changed his behaviour before them, and feigned madness in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down on his beard.
14 Then Aḵish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is acting like a madman. Why do you bring him to me?
15 “Am I short of madmen, that you have brought this one to act as a madman near me? Should this one come into my house?”
1Ki 6:1-38 TS2009
1 And it came to be, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Yisra’ĕl had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, in the fourth year of the reign of Shelomoh over Yisra’ĕl, in the new moon of Ziw, which is the second new moon, that he began to build the House of יהוה.
2 And the house which Sovereign Shelomoh built for יהוה was sixty cubits long, and twenty wide, and thirty cubits high.
3 And the porch at the front of the Hĕḵal of the House was twenty cubits long, according to the breadth of the House, and its width ten cubits, from the front of the House.
4 And he made for the House windows with narrowed frames.
5 And against the wall of the House he built rooms all around, against the walls of the House, all around the Hĕḵal and the Speaking Place. Thus he made side rooms all around.
6 The lowest side room was five cubits wide, and the middle one was six cubits wide, and the third one was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the House, so as not to lay hold on the walls of the House.
7 And the House, when it was being built, was built with finished stone made ready beforehand, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built.
8 The doorway for the middle side room was on the right side of the House. And they went up by stairs to the middle side rooms, and from the middle to the third.
9 So he built the House and completed it, and he panelled the House with beams and boards of cedar.
10 And he built the side rooms of the structure against all the House, each five cubits high, and they were fastened to the House with cedar beams.
11 And the word of יהוה came to Shelomoh, saying,
12 “This House which you are building – if you walk in My laws, and do My right-rulings, and shall guard all My commands and walk in them, then I shall confirm My word with you, which I spoke to your father Dawiḏ,
13 and shall dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and not forsake My people Yisra’ĕl.”
14 So Shelomoh built the House and completed it.
15 And he built the walls of the House inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the House to the ceiling he panelled them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the House with planks of cypress.
16 And he built twenty cubits at the rear of the House, from floor to the wall
QUESTION: Who are the offspring of the 12 Tribes of Israel?
ANSWER: Modern day Jews mainly comprise the tribes of Judah,(the ruling tribe) and Levi whose task was to assist Judah in teaching all the Tribes. There are representatives of all the tribes among the Jews, but for the most part THE OTHER TEN WERE DEPORTED IN THEIR ENTIRETY BY THE ASSYRIANS SEPARATEY FROM THE JEWS. After about 100 years they left the area south of the Black Sea and began migrating north and west. Historians mention the tribes of Isaac under the names Saka and Isacka, Scyths, etc. and tell us that the Scythian and Cimmerian and Celtic tribes were in the exact areas at precisely the same time as Israel was there. So, we assume they were one and the same and can trace their migration all across Europe to the Western nations, where they are today. The Scripture also says members of all twelve tribes are scattered everywhere around the world. Yair Davidiy, along with Raymond F. McNair and Steven Collins are some of the foremost authorities on the subject of the Ten Tribes and all have excellent books on the subject of the Tribes if you are interested.
This coming week, January 16-22 (14-20 Shevat 5782), the Bible reading plan covers the portion Yitro (Jethro).
16 Jan Exodus 18:1-12 2 Kings 11:1-12:21 Luke 5:33-6:5 Proverbs 10:25-32
17 Jan Exodus 18:13-23 2 Kings 13:1-14:22 Luke 6:6-19 Psalm 55:1-8
18 Jan Exodus 18:24-27 2 Kings 14:23-15:38 Luke 6:20-36 Psalm 55:9-17
19 Jan Exodus 19:1-6 2 Kings 16:1-17:23 Luke 6:37-49 Psalm 55:18-23
20 Jan Exodus 19:7-19 2 Kings 17:24-18:12 Luke 7:1-17 Psalm 56:1-13
21 Jan Exodus 19:20-20:17 2 Kings 18:13-19:19 Luke 7:18-35 Psalm 57:1-11
22 Jan Exodus 20:18-26 Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:6-7 Luke 7:36-50 Proverbs 11:1-8
http://thebarkingfox.com/2022/....01/14/weekly-bible-r
What is our real motivation for following God? Do we really want to be His people, or is there some hidden motive - a motive we might even hide from ourselves?
http://thebarkingfox.com/2022/....01/15/faith-without-
Great teaching ideas in this post…
https://hirnhomeschoolers.com/....teaching-the-way-my-
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Isaiah 6:1
God wears a priestly robe with a ritual hem akin to the bells and pomegranates of Aaron or the tzitziyot of every Israelite. Not literally, of course. He doesn't have a physical body on which to hang a physical robe.
The seraphim cover their faces and feet in God's presence. I wonder if they consider themselves unclean by comparison. God's presence is frequently marked by fire and lightning with smoke and deep darkness. He can be kind and gentle, but his full presence is unimaginably dangerous.
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