This coming week, 23-29 March 2025 (23-29 Adar 5785), the Bible reading plan covers Pekudei (Accounts).
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And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
1 Kings 7:13
Apparently Hiram was a popular name among the Phoenicians of Tyre. This man wasn't the same as King Hiram of Tyre, but the son of another Tyrian man and an Israelite woman from Naphtali.
Despite not being an Israelite himself (in God's plan, nationality is determined by the father, not the mother), God gave Hiram a phenomenal level of talent in bronzeworking, perhaps even to the level of prophecy, like Bezalel who built the furnishings of the Tabernacle.
God chooses whomever he wills without regard to our expectations or preferences.
It's that time! Let's get prepping for Shabbat this evening.
PART 15 B
RICH MAN AND ELIEZAR
Some P'rushim who was covetous heard all these things and they scoffed at Yeshua. So He said to them, "You are those who look righteous in front of people, but Elohim knows your hearts. Those things highly esteemed to mankind are an abomination in the sight of Elohim. From the Torah and the prophets all the way to Yochanan, {in fact} from {the beginning of} time, the Kingdom of Elohim is announced and everyone forces into it {or, tries to fit it to his own life}. However, it is easier for Heaven and Earth to vanish, than it is for one punctuation of the Torah to fail. There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and lived lavishly every day. There was also a poor man named Eliezar who was laid on his porch, full of sores and wishing to be fed with the leftovers of the rich man's dinner table. In addition, the dogs came and licked Eliezer's sores. It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the messengers {of Heaven} into Avraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. While being in torment in sheol he raised his eyes and saw Avraham far away and Eliezar was in his bosom. So he cried out, 'Father Avraham! Have mercy on me and send Eliezer so he can dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am being tortured by these flames.' {Notice: the rich man still thought of himself as superior, because he wanted Eliezer to serve him.} Avraham said, 'Offspring, do you recall that in your lifetime you received good things, but Eliezer got only bad things. So now he is being comforted and you are being tortured. Besides all that, between you and us there is a wide chasm which has been permanently set, so that those who would go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone come to us from the other side.' Then the tortured man said, 'Then I beg you father, that you would send Eliezer to my father's house. I have five brothers to whom he can testify; otherwise they also may come into this place of torment.' Avraham replied, 'They have Moshe and the prophets, let them shema them.' And he said, 'No, father Avraham, if one went to them from the dead, then they will repent. Avraham said, "If they do not shema Moshe and the prophets, they will not be persuaded, even if one rose from the dead.'"
FORGIVENESS AGAIN
Then Yeshua said to the disciples, "It is impossible for offences not to come, but trouble will be on the one through whom they come! It would be better for him that a millstone was hanged from his neck and he be thrown into the sea, than for him to offend one of these little ones. So, watch yourselves! If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him, but if he repents, forgive him. If he trespasses against you seven times in a day and seven times a day does t'shuvah to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him”.
TRUST AND DUTY
The Shaliachim said to Adonai {Yeshua}, "Make us trust even more." Adonai Yeshua said, "If you had trust {in Elohim} the size of a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this fig tree, 'Be pulled up by the root and be planted in the sea' and it would obey you. But which one of you who has a servant ploughing or feeding cattle will say to him after he has come from the field, 'Go and recline?' Instead, wouldn't you say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, get your towel and serve me until I have finished eating and drinking. Then afterward you will eat and drink?' Would you thank that servant because he did the things which were commanded him to do? Of course not! So you also, when you have done all those things which are commanded you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done only what it was our duty to do.'"
RAISING OF ELIEZAR
A man was sick, who was Eliezer of Beit-Ani, the town of Miryam and her sister Marta. Therefore his sisters sent word to Yeshua, which said, "Adonai, take notice that he whom you love is sick.” When Yeshua heard he said, "This sickness is not for final death, but for the glory of Elohim, that the Son of Elohim might be glorified through it." Yeshua loved Marta and her sister and Eliezer. Yet, when He heard Eliezer was sick, He stayed two more days in the same place where He was. Then later He said to the disciples, "Let's go into Yehudah again." His disciples asked, "Rabbi, some of the leaders of the Yehudim recently sought to stone you, so, should you go there again?" Yeshua replied, "Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daylight he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night he stumbles because there is no light for him. Our friend Eliezer is asleep, but I go to wake him out of sleep." Yeshua spoke of his death. However, His disciples thought that he had spoken about resting in sleep, so they said, "Adonai, it is good for him to sleep." Then Yeshua told them clearly, "Eliezer is dead. But I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may come to trust. Now let us go to him." Then T'oma the twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Beit-Ani was near Yerushalayim, about two miles away and many of the Yehudim came to Marta and Miryam to comfort them concerning their brother. As soon as Marta heard Yeshua was coming she went and met him, but Miryam stayed in the house. He found that Eliezer had been in the grave four days already. Marta said to Yeshua, "Adonai, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. However I know that even now whatever you will ask of Elohim, Elohim will give it to you." "Your brother will rise again," Yeshua said to her. Marta replied, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." "I am the resurrection and the life," said Yeshua. "The one who trusts in Me will live, even though he was dead. Whoever lives and trusts in Me will never die. Do you trust that?” She said to Him, "Yes Adonai. I trust that You are the Moshiach, the Son of Elohim, who was to come into the world." When she had confessed, she went her way and called Miryam her sister secretly, saying, "The Rabbi has come and calls for you." As soon as Miryam heard, she quickly got up and came to Him. Yeshua had not yet arrived in the town, but He was still at that place where Marta met Him. The Yehudim, who were comforting her in the house, followed her when they saw Miryam get up and leave in a hurry. They said, "She is going to the grave to weep there." Miryam came to where Yeshua was and when she saw Him she fell down at His feet, saying, “Adonai, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Yeshua saw her weeping and the Yehudim who came with her also weeping, He groaned in spirit. He troubled Himself and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Adonai, come and see." Yeshua wept. Then the Yehudim said, "Look how he loved him!" Some of them said, "Couldn't this man who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?” Yeshua again groaned in Himself as He came to the grave. It was a cave and a stone was over it. "Take away the stone," He commanded. Marta, said, "Adonai, by this time he is reeking, because it has been four days." "Didn't I tell you that if you would trust you would see the glory of Elohim?" Yeshua reminded her. Then they took the stone away from where the dead were laid. Yeshua raised His eyes and said, "Abba, I thank You that You have heard Me. I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people which stand here I say this, that they may trust that you have sent Me."
After saying this He loudly shouted Eliezer! Come forth! Then the one who was dead came out wrapped from top to bottom with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Yeshua said, "Free him and let him go." Then many of the Yehudim which came to Miryam and had seen the things which Yeshua did, trusted in Him. But others went their ways to some P'rushim and told them what Yeshua had done.
CONSPIRACY TO EXECUTE YESHUA
Then some of the chief Kohenim and P'rushim formed a council and said, "What do we do, for this Man does many miracles? If we let Him alone this way, everyone will come to trust Him, then the Romans will come and take away both our position and our nation." One of them, Chaiyafa, being the Kohen Gadol that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all! You do not consider that it is best for us to have one man die for the people, so that the whole nation does not perish." He did not speak this on his own, but being Kohen Gadol that year, he prophesied that Yeshua should die for the nation {of Yisrael}. And not for that nation only, but also that Yeshua should gather together in one the children of Elohim who were dispersed everywhere. From that day onward they counselled together to execute Yeshua. Therefore, Yeshua no longer walked openly among the Yehudim, but went from there to a region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, where He stayed with His disciples.
PART 15 A
CHIEF OF THE P'RUSHIM HOUSE
As Yeshua went into the house of one of the chief P'rushim on Shabbat to eat, some Torah experts and P'rushim were there and watched Him. A man oozing water from his pores stood in front of Him. Yeshua asked the onlookers, "Is it proper Torah to heal on Shabbat?" They said nothing. Then Yeshua took the man and healed him, let him go and said, "Which one of you who has a donkey or an ox, if it falls into a pit, would not quickly pull it out on the Shabbat?" They could not answer Him concerning these things. Then He called some of them to Him and pointed out to them that they chose the chief places and then He gave this parable: "When you are invited to a wedding, do not sit down in the highest place, because a more honourable man than you may have been invited. Then the one who invited you will come and say to you 'Give this man your place.' Then with shame you must accept the lowest place. So when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place. That way when the one who invited you comes, he can say to you, Haver [Friend] go up higher. Then you will be served in the presence of those who sit at the dinner with you. For whoever lifts himself up will be put down and the one who humbles himself will be lifted up." Then Yeshua said to the man who had invited Him, "When you prepare a dinner or a supper, do not call only your friends or your brothers or your relatives or only your rich neighbours. They will also invite you, so a return payment will be made to you. Rather, when thou prepare a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind. You will be blessed because they cannot return payment to you. Instead you will be returned payment at the resurrection of the righteous." When one of those who sat at the dinner with Yeshua heard these things, he said to Him, "Blessed is the one who will eat bread in the Kingdom of Elohim." This prompted Yeshua to say, "A man prepared a sumptuous supper and invited many guests. He sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.' They all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground and I need to go and see it. Please excuse me.' Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen and I must test them out. Please excuse me.' Still another said, 'I got married and therefore I can't come.' So the servant came and showed his adon these things. Then the house-owner became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind. The servant said, 'Adon, it is done as you commanded and still there is room left.' So the adon said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and fences and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I assure you, none of those who were invited will taste my supper."
PRICE OF COMMITMENT
Yeshua turned and said to the large crowds of people travelling with Him, "If anyone follows Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not carry his own execution stake and follow behind Me, cannot be My disciple. For whom among you plan to build a tower and does not sit down first and consider the cost, as to whether you have enough funding to finish it? What if after he has built the foundation he cannot finish the project? Everyone who watches will begin to make fun of him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' What king who is making war against another king, does not first sit down and consult as to whether he will be able with ten thousand to fight the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? If he can't fight him, he sends ambassadors and negotiates conditions of shalom, while his enemy is still far away. So likewise, whichever one of you does not forsake all he has, he cannot be My disciple. Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its flavour, with what can it be seasoned? It is not fit for the land or for the fertilizer heap. Instead people throw it out. He who has ears to shema, let him shema."
LOST THINGS FOUND
Then many tax collectors and sinners came near to hear Yeshua. Some P'rushim and Soferim murmured and said, "This man accepts sinners and eats with them." He spoke this parable in response, "What man among you who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them does not leave the ninety- nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it? When he finds it he celebrates and lays it on his shoulders. When he comes home, he calls his friends and neighbours together and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which had been lost.' I tell you that just like, this there is celebration in heaven over one sinner who does t'shuvah. Even more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no t'shuvah. Consider the woman who has ten pieces of silver. If she loses one piece, doesn't she turn on a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? When she finds it, she calls friends and neighbours together and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which had been lost. I tell you, in the same way there is celebration in the presence of the messengers of Elohim over one sinner who does t'shuvah." "A man had two sons," Yeshua continued. “The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give to me the amount of the possessions which is my inheritance. So the father divided up the inheritance to his two sons. Not many days after that the younger son gathered all his inheritance and travelled into a distant country. While there he squandered his inheritance with wasteful living. After this son had spent all he had, there arrived a devastating famine in that land, so he began to be destitute. He went and joined himself to a citizen of that territory and the citizen put the young man into his fields to feed the hogs. The young man's mind was constantly on filling his stomach with the husks that the hogs ate, but no one would give it to him. Then he said to himself, 'How many of my father's hired servants have plenty of bread to spare? And, here I am dying from hunger! I will get up and go to my father and will say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me the same as one of your hired servants.' So he rose up and travelled back to his father. While the young man was still far away his father saw him and had compassion for him. The father ran to him and hugged his neck and kissed him. The son said to his father, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' However, the father said to his servants, 'Bring the best robe here and put it on him. Also, put a ring on his hand and shoes on feet. Bring the well-fed calf here and kill it. Then let us dine and celebrate, for this son of mine was dead, yet is alive again. He was lost and now has been found!” So they began to celebrate. "The father's oldest son was in the field and as he came near to the house he heard music and dancing. So, he called one of the servants and asked what was happening. 'Your brother has returned!' said the servant, 'and your father has killed the well-fed calf because he has returned to him safe and sound. Then the oldest son was angry and would not go in, so His father came out and invited him in. The oldest son said to his father, 'Look, many years I have served you and I have not transgressed your commandment at any time, yet you never gave me a kid so I could celebrate with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours comes, who has devoured your provision with prostitutes, you have killed the well-fed calf for him.' The father said to him, 'Son, you are always here with me, so all that I have is yours! It was right that we should celebrate and rejoice, for this one, your brother, was dead and he is alive again. He was lost and now has been found.'"
PARABLES CONCERNING MONEY
Then Yeshua spoke to His disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward and the rich man accused the steward that he had wasted his possessions. So he asked the steward, 'Why have I heard this about you? Give me an account of your stewardship, for you may not be any longer my steward. Then the steward thought to himself, 'What should I do? For my adon removes me from the stewardship. I am not able to dig. I am too ashamed to beg. I know what I'll do! When I am put out of the stewardship others will accept me to work in their homes.' So he called every one of his adon's debtors and said to the first one, 'How much do you owe to my adon?' He said, 'a hundred measures of oil.' So the steward said to him, 'Take your bill and sit down quickly and write on it fifty. Then the steward said to another, 'and how much do you owe? And he said, 'a hundred measures of wheat.' So the steward said to him, 'Take your bill and write on it sixty.' Then the adon commended the unrighteous steward, because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are wiser with their own kind than the children of light are with theirs. I tell you, make friends for yourself by using unrighteousness wealth, so that when you fail they will receive you into everlasting mishkanim [tabernacles]. The one who is faithful in the least amount is faithful also in the large amount and the one who is unrighteous in the least amount is also unrighteous in the large amount. Therefore, if you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who is going to turn over to your trust what is to be remembered? If you haven't been faithful in what belongs to another person, who will give you something for yourself? No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both Elohim and wealth."
PART 14 B
DISCERNING THE TIMES
Then Kefa said unto him, "Adonai, do You speak this parable only for us or for everyone?" Adonai Yeshua said, "Whoever is the trustworthy and wise steward, whom YHVH shall make a ruler over His household, to give the portion of food in due season! {Compare this to the patriarch Yosef in Egypt.} Blessed is that servant, whom his YHVH will find him doing this when He comes. Remember, I tell you, that He will make him ruler over all that He has. But if that servant says in his heart, Adonai delays His coming and begins to beat the servants and handmaids and to eat, drink and to be drunken, the Adonai of that servant will come in a day when he does not look for Him and at an hour when he is not aware. He will cut him off from Himself and will appoint him his portion with the untrusting. Then that servant who knew the will of Adonai and did not prepare, nor act according to His will, will be beaten many times. But the one who did not know, yet committed things worthy of punishment, shall be beaten a few times. For whoever is given much, much will be required from him and the one to whom people have entrusted much, they will ask him for more. I came to send fire on the Earth and what if I will it to be already kindled? But first I have a mikveh to be immersed in and now am I committed until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to bring shalom on earth? I tell you, no! Rather I come to bring division. From now on there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three. A father will be divided against a son and son against father; a mother against a daughter and daughter against mother; a mother in law against her daughter in law and the daughter in law against her mother in law. When you see a cloud rise out of the west you declare immediately that a shower is coming and so it does. When you see the south wind blow you say that there will be heat and it happens. You two-faced actors! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but why can't you discern this time? Don't you even judge what is right among yourselves? Yes! When you go to the magistrate with your enemy, on the way be diligent that you may be delivered from him. Otherwise he will bring you to the judge and the judge will deliver you to the officer and the officer will put you into prison. I tell you, you will not depart from there until you have paid the full fine."
ZEALOTS OF GALIL AND SINFULNESS
There was present at that season some who told Yeshua of the Zealots of the Galil, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. Yeshua said to them, "Do you suppose that these Zealots of the Galil were sinners above all those in the Galil because they suffered such things? I tell you, no! Yet, unless you do t'shuvah you will all perish like them. Also, those eighteen people upon whom the tower in Shalo-am fell and killed them, do you think that they were sinners above all people who live in Yerushalayim? I tell you, no! Yet, unless you do t'shuvah you will all similarly perish." Yeshua spoke this parable also, "A certain person had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came and looked for fruit on it and found none. Then he said to the dresser of his vineyard, 'Notice this! The last three years I have come to get fruit from this fig tree and there is none. Cut it down! Why even have it burden the ground?' The vine-dresser said to him, 'Adon, let us leave it alone one more year until I have tilled and fertilized it. We can see if it bears fruit and if not, then I will cut it down.'"
WOMAN WITH INFIRMITY SPIRIT
He was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat. There was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years and was bent over. She could not lift herself up. When Yeshua saw her He called to her, "Woman, you are now loosed from your infirmity!" He laid His hands on her and immediately she straightened up and glorified Elohim. The ruler of the synagogue was indignant that Yeshua had healed on the Shabbat and said to the people, "There are six days on which people are to work. Come on those days and be healed, but not on Shabbat." Then Adonai answered him, "You two-faced actor! Does not each one of you on Shabbat free his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it away to get water? So, shouldn't this woman, being a daughter of Avraham, whom ha’satan has bound for eighteen years, be freed from this bondage on Shabbat?" When Yeshua said these things His adversaries were ashamed and the people rejoiced because of all the glorious things that were done by Him.
KINGDOM SYMBOLIZED
Then He said, "What is the Kingdom of Elohim like? What does it resemble? It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man planted in his garden. It grew and became a large tree and the birds of the air nested in the branches of it. How will I symbolize the Kingdom of Elohim? It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until the whole batch was leavened." Yeshua continued through the cities and villages, teaching and journeying on toward Yerushalayim. Then one asked Him, "Adonai, are there few who are saved?” Yeshua answered, "I tell you, try very hard to enter in at the narrow gate, for many will seek to enter in and will not be able. Once the Home-owner has risen up and shut the door, you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, 'Adonai, YHVH open the door for us.' He will answer, saying, 'I do not know you or where you are from.' Then you will say, 'We dined and drank in Your presence and You taught in our streets.' But He will say, 'I tell you, I do not know you or where you are from. Depart from Me, all you who work against the Torah!' There will be weeping and teeth grinding when you see Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov and all the prophets in the Kingdom of Elohim, but you all are shut out. They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south and will sit down in the Kingdom of Elohim. Notice this! There are those who are last who will be first and there are those who are first who will be last." That same day some of the P'rushim came to Yeshua and said to Him, "Leave now and get away from here because Herod will kill you." Yeshua said, "You go instead and tell that fox, 'Notice this! I remove deceiving spirits and I perform healing today and tomorrow and the third day I will be finished. Nevertheless, I must walk today and tomorrow and the following days, because it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Yerushalayim. Oh Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you. How often I would have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not allow me! Now your house is left to you desolate. Amen! I tell you, you will not see me again, until you will say, 'Baruch haba b'shem Adonai [Blessed is He who comes in the Name of YHVH]'."
PART 14 A
YESHUA TEACHES PRAYER
Yeshua was praying in a certain place and when He stopped, one of His disciples said to Him,
"Adonai, teach us to pray because Yochanan taught His disciples." So He instructed them, "When you pray, say, 'Avinu [our Father] who is in Heaven, Kadosh [holy] is Your Name. May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done on the Earth just as it is in Heaven. Give us the bread we need today and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who has sinned against us. Help us not to be led into temptation, rather give us victory over the evil-one." Yeshua continued, "What if you go to your friend at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, because another friend of mine has travelled to me and I have nothing to feed him?' Won't your friend answer from within and say, 'Do not bother me, for the door is now closed and my children are safe in bed, so I cannot get up and give it to you?' I tell you, though he does not want to get up and give it, yet because he is your friend and because of your insistence, he will eventually get up and give it anyway, as much as you need. So, I tell you, 'Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened for you. For every one who asks receives and the one who seeks finds and the one who knocks will have it opened. You dads, If a son asks you for bread, will you give him a stone? Or if he wants a fish, will you give him a serpent instead? What if he asks for an egg, will you offer him a scorpion? If you then, being corrupt, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will Abba in Heaven give Ruach HaKodesh to those who ask Him?"
THE DIVIDED KINGDOM
Someone brought to Yeshua a person possessed with a deceiving spirit, blind and not able to speak. Yeshua removed the deceiving spirit. When the deceiving spirit left, the person spoke and could see. The people were amazed and many inquired, "Is this the son of David?" {Meaning the Moshiach}. But some Soferim and P'rushim who had come from Yerushalayim accused Him, saying, "He is possessed by Ba'al-Zebul and He casts out deceiving spirits through Ba'al-Zebu', the prince of the deceiving spirits." Others were tested Yeshua, asking Him to perform a sign from Heaven. He knew their thoughts, so He said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and the city or house which is divided against itself will fall. If ha’satan removes ha’satan, then he also is divided against himself. How will his kingdom stand? Because you say that I remove deceiving spirits through Ba'al-Zebul and if by Ba'al-Zebul I remove deceiving spirits, by who do your sons remove them? Thus, they will be your judges. However, if I, with the finger of Elohim, the Ruach of Elohim, remove deceiving spirits, then no doubt the Kingdom of Elohim has come upon you. When a fully armed strong man guards his palace, his goods are secure. But when someone stronger than him comes upon him, overcomes him and binds him, the stronger one takes from him all his armour which he trusted in and then divides his possessions. Therefore, the one who is not with Me is against Me and the one who does not gather with Me scatters. However, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to people and whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him, but whoever blasphemes against Ruach HaKodesh will never be forgiven. Neither in this world, nor the one which is coming. When the unclean spirit leaves a person, it walks through dry places, seeking rest and finding none. Eventually it says, 'I will return to my house where I came from.' When he comes back he finds it unoccupied, cleansed and decorated. Then he goes and collects seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and live there. The last condition of that person is worse than the first." As Yeshua taught these things a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, "Blessed is the womb which bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!" "Yes, but more blessed are those who shema the Word of Elohim and keep it!" Yeshua replied. When the people were tightly gathered together He told them, "This is an evil generation. They seek a sign, but no sign will be given to it, except for the sign of the Prophet Yonah. For the same as Yonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be a sign to this generation. The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment along with the men of this generation and condemn them. She came from a remote part of the Earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, but notice this: here now is one greater than Shlomo. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they did t'shuvah at the preaching of Yonah, but take notice: one greater than Yonah is here! No-one lights a candle then puts it in a secret place or under a bushel. Rather, it is put on a candlestick so that those who come in may see by the light. The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is pure your whole body also is full of light, but when it is evil your body is full of darkness. Be careful that there is light in you and no darkness. If your whole body is full of light, with no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle gives you light."
YESHUA DINES WITH A P'RUSH
As Yeshua spoke one of the P'rushim asked to dine with Him, so and Yeshua went with him and sat down to eat. When the P'rush saw that Yeshua did not wash first before dinner he was amazed. Then Adonai {Yeshua} said to him, "Now some P'rushim cleanses the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inward part is full of extortion and depravity. That is mindless! Did not He who made what is outside also make what is inside? They give alms of your possessions and suddenly all things are clean to them. Trouble will come to some P'rushim, because they tithe of their mint and rue and all garden herbs, yet they ignore justice and the love of Elohim. Continue doing {your tithes}, but do not leave the other undone! Trouble will come to some P'rushim, because they love the seats of honour in the synagogues and being specially greeted in the markets. Trouble will come to some of you Soferim and P'rushim who are two-faced, because you are like graves which do not appear so and people walk over them but are not aware of it." Then one of the Torah experts spoke up and said, "Rabbi, by saying this you reproach us also." "Trouble will come to some of you Torah experts also," announced Yeshua, "if you put on the people burdens too difficult to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Trouble will come to you because you build the tombs of the prophets, but your fathers killed them. Surely you provide evidence that you think well of the deeds of your fathers, because they really did kill them and you build their tombs. For this reason the wisdom of Elohim says, 'I will send them prophets and Shaliachim and they will kill and persecute them. Then the blood of all the prophets, which has been spilt from the foundation of the world, will be required of this generation. From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharyah, who perished between the altar and the Mikdash. Amen, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. Trouble will come to some of you Torah experts, because you have taken away the key of knowledge! You did not enter in yourselves and you hindered those who were entering in." Some of the Soferim and the P'rushim began to urge and provoke Him vehemently to speak of many things, waiting and seeking for Him to say something whereby they could catch Him and accuse Him.
WARNINGS TO HIS DISCIPLES
There gathered together an innumerable crowd of people, so much so that they trampled each other. Yeshua spoke privately to his disciples, "You must beware of the leaven of the P'rushim, which is deceitful and two-faced. For there is nothing covered which will not be revealed, nor anything hidden which will not be made known. Therefore, whatever you have spoken in darkness will be heard in the light and whatever you speak in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. I tell you my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more which they can do. I forewarn you whom you should really fear. Fear Him who after He has killed, also has the power to throw into sheol. Yes, I tell you to fear Him. Aren't five sparrows sold for two coins and not one of them is forgotten before Elohim? Even the hairs of your head are numbered. Do not be of little courage then, for you are more valuable than many sparrows. Also I tell you, whoever confesses Me in front of people, the Son of man will also confess him in front of the messengers of Elohim. And the one who denies Me in front of people will be denied in front of the messengers of Elohim. So, when they bring you to the councils and in front of magistrates and other authorities, do not consider how or what thing you should answer or what you are going to say. For Ruach HaKodesh will teach you at that time what you should say." One in the crowd said to Yeshua, "Rabbi, instruct my brother to divide the inheritance with me." He responded, "Mister, who made Me a judge or a magistrate over you? Be careful and beware of covetousness, for a man's life does not depend on the amount of the possessions he has." So He spoke this parable to them, "The ground of a rich man brought a bountiful harvest. He thought to himself, 'What will I do, because I have no more room to store my harvest?' So he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones. I will store all my harvest and my goods there. I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have many goods stored up for many years, take it easy now, eat, drink and be happy.' Then Elohim said to him, 'You fool! Tonight your soul will be required of you, then who will own those things which you have provided?' So also is everyone who stores treasure for himself and is not rich toward Elohim." Yeshua now spoke only to His disciples. "Therefore I tell you to not worry concerning your life, as to what you are going to eat. Nor for your body, as to what you will wear. The life is more than food and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens who neither sow nor reap and who neither have a storehouse nor a barn, yet Elohim feed them. How much better are you than the birds? Which one of you by thinking about it can add to his height one forearm's length? If you are not able to do that little thing, why worry about the rest? Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labour or make clothes, yet I tell you that Shlomo in all his majesty was not adorned with the beauty of these. If then, Elohim clothes the grass this way, which today is in the field and tomorrow is put in the oven, how much more are you worth? You have such little trust! Don't worry about what you are going to eat or what you are going to drink, nor be doubtful in your mind. For all these things the people of the world seek after, but your Abba knows that you need these things. Rather seek out the Kingdom of Elohim first! Then all these things will be added to you. Do not be discouraged, little flock; for it is your Abba's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions in order to give to the poor. In this way you will never run out of provisions. You will have securities in Heaven which never fail, where no thief can approach, nor can a moth corrupt it. For wherever your treasure is, there your heart will also be. Get your armour on, with your torches burning {in preparation}. Be as those men who wait for their YHVH to return for the wedding, so that when He comes and knocks, they may immediately open to Him. Blessed are those servants, whom YHVH when He comes will find watching. Amen! I tell you, that He will get Himself ready and make them sit down to eat and He Himself will come forth and serve them. If He comes at the second watch or the third watch and finds them working, those servants are blessed! Realize this! If the resident of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. You should also be ready; for the Son of man will come at a time you are not considering."
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