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Sukkot 2025
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Wishing you a happy Yom Teruah in 2025!

Here are some verses we found pertaining to Yom Tru'ah.
Do you have any further suggestions?

Lev 23:23-25
Num 29:1-6

Isa 27:13
Joel 2

Ezra 3:6
Neh 8:2

Mat 24:29-31
Rev 11:15-19

092325 / 29th day of the 6th month 5786
WORD FOR TODAY “let the enemies of the LORD be scattered”: Jdg 5:31 "Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD; But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might." And the land was undisturbed for forty years.

WISDOM FOR TODAY: Pro 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; He who is cursed of the LORD will fall into it.

Ask the LORD how can you serve HIM better

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BIBLE STUDY -- ELISHA’S MINISTRY

KING JEHORAM OF JUDAH

From 2 Kings 8:1-6, 16-22; 2 Chronicles 21

After King Jehoshaphat of Judah died, his son Jehoram, who had ruled with him for a few years, became the sole king of Judah. Jehoram was the oldest of Jehoshaphat’s sons and so he became king, while his brothers received gifts of silver, gold and other valuable things as their inheritance. As soon as Jehoram was established as king, he killed his brothers and many other leading men of Judah. He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. He was an evil king, much like King Ahab of Israel. He had in fact, married Ahab’s daughter, Athaliah. Although Jehoram sinned against Adonai, Adonai was not willing to cut him off for he was one of David’s descendants and Adonai had promised David that He would keep one of his descendants on his throne forever. While Jehoram was king, the Edomites, who had been under Judah’s control, revolted and chose their own king. Then Jehoram went to Zair with his captains and his chariots and attacked the Edomites by night. While this attack was successful, Jehoram was never able to put down completely the Edomite revolt. Libnah also revolted, for Jehoram had turned away from Adonai. He built high places in the hill country of Judah, turning the people of Jerusalem and Judah away from Adonai. One day a strange message came to Jehoram from the prophet Elijah, the one who earlier had been taken to heaven in a whirlwind. “Adonai says that you have not followed your ancestors Jehoshaphat and Asa in pleasing Him,” Elijah warned. “Instead, you have followed the ways of the evil kings of Israel, turning Judah and Jerusalem away from Adonai and causing them to worship idols as Ahab did. Also, because you killed your brothers, who were better men than you, Adonai will punish your nation. You and your wives and children will become very sick with a disease which will cause your intestines to rot and fall out,” This happened to King Jehoram later, resulting in his death. Meanwhile, to add to his troubles, Adonai stirred the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Ethiopians to march against Judah. They crossed the border, attacked Jerusalem and took away all the valuables that were in the palace, including Jehoram’s wives and children. Only his youngest son Jehoahaz, also known as Ahaziah, escaped. On one occasion, when famine was about to break out in Israel, Elisha warned the Shunammite woman whose son he had brought back to life. “You and your family should move to another country, for Adonai is sending a famine on Israel for the next seven years,” he told her. The woman listened to the prophet’s warning and moved her family to the land of the Philistines for the seven years of the famine. When the famine ended, she returned and came before the king of Israel to claim the house and land she had left behind. As she came in to see the king, Elisha’s servant Gehazi was telling the king about some of the prophet’s miracles. “Tell me more of the great things Elisha has done,” the king asked Gehazi. So Gehazi told the king about the time when Elisha brought the woman’s son to life again. At this very moment, the woman came in with her son to present her claim. “Look!” said Gehazi. “Here is the boy, the one Elisha brought back to life and his mother.” The king asked the woman about the incident and she told him all that had happened. The king then gave orders to an official to see that the woman’s house and land be given back to her, along with the value of the crops that had been harvested from her fields while she was away.

COMMENTARY --- HUNGER AND FAMINE

Hunger was no stranger in Bible times. Families worked in the fields all year just to provide enough for the household. If their farms did not produce well, a year of scarcity was almost certain. Several things could cause a critical shortage of food. Drought was the most common; without enough rain, crops died. Swarms of insects could destroy crops before they were ripe. Attacking armies destroyed their enemies’ fields. More often their attack coincided with the harvest season and they fed their armies with the harvest, leaving entire villages without food. Many Israelite customs and laws dealt with hunger. It was considered a duty and a privilege to welcome strangers for a meal. The Law of Moses instructed farmers to allow the poor to glean in their fields, picking fruit and stray stalks of grain missed in the first reaping. Among farmers an unwritten understanding allowed travellers to pick enough grain to ease their hunger as they passed by a field, providing they did not take any with them. Hunger was well known, and Israelites tried to relieve it when they could. They made up for living with scarcity during festivities and holidays, for such times were always times of feasting. A feast was the mark of rejoicing and an abundance of food and drink was always cause for celebration.

BIBLE STUDY -- ELIJAH’S HEIR

THE MIRACLES OF ELISHA

From 2 Kings 4:18-44

Time passed and the son born miraculously to the Shunammite woman grew older. One day he went out to the field to see his father, who was working among the reapers. Suddenly he said to his father, “My head! My head hurts!” “Carry him home to his mother,” the father told a servant. When the child reached home, he sat on his mother’s lap until noon and then he died. The woman laid his body on the bed in Elisha’s room and closed the door as she went out. Without telling her husband what had happened, she said to him, “Send me a servant and a donkey quickly so that I may go to see the man of YHVH.” “Why go today?” he asked. “It is not the new moon or a Shabbat.” “I know that, but still I must go,” she urged. As soon as the servant and donkey arrived, the woman told the servant, “Saddle the donkey and drive it as fast as you can. Don’t slow down for my sake unless I tell you to.” At that time Elisha was staying at Mount Carmel. When he saw the woman coming, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! Here comes the woman from Shuneni. Run and ask her if she and her husband and her child are all right.” When Gehazi spoke to the woman, she almost ignored him. “Everything is fine,” she answered shortly. Then she hurried to Elisha, fell to the ground before him and took hold of his feet. Gehazi reached to pull the woman away, but Elisha stopped him. “Don’t do that!” he said. “Something is bothering her and Adonai hasn’t told me what it is.” “You told me I would have a son,” the woman said, “and I begged you not to deceive me.” Then Elisha realized what had happened. “Tie up your cloak so you can run,” Elisha told Gehazi. “Take my staff and go straight to this woman’s house. Do not stop to greet anyone or answer a greeting from anyone on the way. When you get to the boy, lay my staff upon his face.” “As surely as you and Adonai are alive, I will not go home without you,” the woman said. So, Elisha went back with her. Gehazi went ahead and did as Elisha had told him, but nothing happened. He ran back to meet Elisha. “The boy is still dead,” he reported. Elisha hurried on to the house and saw the boy lying dead on his bed. He closed the door of his room and remained alone with the boy, praying to Adonai. He stretched himself upon the boy’s body, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes and hands stretched to hands. Before long, warmth and life began to return to the child. When nothing further happened, Elisha went downstairs and walked to and fro for a while. Then he returned to the boy and again stretched himself on him. At last, the child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. He was alive again! Elisha called for Gehazi. “Tell the Shunammite woman to come here,” he said. When the woman arrived, he presented her son alive. “Take your son into your arms,” he said. The woman immediately fell to the ground at his feet. Then she took her son into her arms and went out. From Shunem, Elisha went to Gilgal, where he found a famine in the land. One day when he was teaching the young prophets who were sitting before him, he told his servant Gehazi, “put a big pot on to boil and make some pottage for these young prophets.” One of the young prophets went into the fields to gather wild herbs. He found a vine filled with wild gourds, gathered quite a number of them and put them into the pottage, not realizing that they were poisonous. As soon as the pottage was set before the young prophets and one of them tasted it, he cried out, “This pottage is poisonous, O man of YHVH!” Immediately they all stopped eating it. “Bring me some meal,” Elisha ordered. He threw the meal into the pottage and at once it was good to eat. “It is safe now,” he said. “Pour it out for everyone to eat.” The pottage was safe and the men ate it without harm. On one occasion a man came from Baal-shalisha, bringing Elisha twenty loaves of barley bread and fresh grain in a sack, all of this from the first part of the harvest. “Give this food to the young prophets to eat,” Elisha told Gehazi. “How can I feed one hundred men with such a little?” Gehazi protested. “Do it!” Elisha ordered. “Adonai says there will be food left over after they have all eaten.” Gehazi did as Elisha ordered. After they had all eaten, there was food left over, just as Adonai had said.

COMMENTARY --- A GARDEN OF HERBS

For thousands of years, herbs have been used as medicines, food seasonings and perfume fragrances. In ancient Palestine, the Israelites found many herbs growing wild throughout the country. Certain herbs grew freely in fields; some grew only near cool brooks, while others flourished in dry and sandy desert soil. The herbs included here are among those the Israelites used most often.

CHICORY

Chicory is among the plants known in the Bible as “bitter herbs.” Included were wild lettuce, dandelion, endive, sorrel and watercress (discussed below). The Israelites collected the young, tender leaves of these plants and used them as salad greens. Sometimes chicory was cooked as a green vegetable and today the plant’s dried and ground roots are used as a coffee substitute. All these herbs tasted extremely harsh, the leaves of the chicory among the most bitter. The Israelites probably learned to eat them from the Egyptians, who mixed the herbs with spicy mustard. Throughout the meal they dipped pieces of bread into the sauce mixture.

WATERCRESS

The smooth, bright leaves of the watercress were among the greens that Israelites ate as salad or as meat garnish. As its name implies, watercress grows best in the running water of a stream and was often found near the cool springs of ancient Palestine. Like other herbs, its leaves have a strong odour, but they are not as bitter-tasting as chicory or wild lettuce. Watercress belongs to the mustard family, which also includes such vegetables as broccoli and cabbage.

CORIANDER

Ancient peoples had many uses for the flowering herb known as coriander. The aromatic leaves were cooked as seasonings in soups and stews. To make a popular drink, the entire plant was left soaking for hours in a vat of wine. The sweet, gray coriander seeds were used as cooking spices or sprinkled on special cakes and sweetened breads. Oil from the seeds was also used to flavour foods, but more commonly used as a medicine for mild stomach disorders. Today coriander is still a popular flavouring for everything from curry to pudding.

WORMWOOD

Like other herbs, wormwood can be recognized by the strong pleasant scent of its leaves. It is closely related to the sagebrush of the western United States, and flourished in the sandy desert regions of Palestine. The thin leaves of the bush are terribly bitter; so much so that sheep refuse to eat them even when the ground is barren of other plants. Since ancient times, the plant has been a symbol of bitter misfortune and sorrow. But none of this kept it from becoming a popular herb. Ancient peoples used it in scenting perfumes and as a medicine. In modern times it is a seasoning, and oil from wormwood leaves is still prescribed for intestinal worms. The pungent leaves are also used to protect clothes from moths. But wormwood was, and still is, most valued for its oil; the essential ingredient in a drink called “absinthe.”

BALM OF GILEAD

Balm is the fragrant resin or gum that oozes from cuts made in the evergreen stem or branches. In ancient times the balm of a certain rare evergreen tree was made into a costly ointment thought to have great healing powers. The tree grew in mountainous regions of Arabia, but was not native to Palestine. Certain ancient historians have recorded that the queen of Sheba brought seeds for the balm tree when she visited Solomon. The reason for its name is uncertain. Perhaps Solomon planted the evergreen in Gilead, a region of Palestine east of the Jordan River.

CASTOR BEAN

The castor bean is an herbaceous plant; that is, it has characteristics similar to those of herbs. Like some herbs, the beans or seeds of the plant produce valuable oil. Ancient Israelites used this clear, sticky oil in many religious ceremonies. The Israelites never used castor oil as a medicine. In modern times it is a common laxative, and is used in the preparation of certain foods. Industry uses the oil in textile dyes and as a lubricant for jet engines. The ancient Israelites also appreciated the castor bean plant for providing shade in the summer. It has huge purple leaves, which turn green as the plant grows older. In the Mediterranean area it often grows several inches in a single day, easily reaching a height of twelve feet in one summer.

Has the modern Christian church been invaded while no one noticed? Jude 1:4, “For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed— ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” It wouldn’t take a prophet to know this, all one need do is look at history. From the time the mixed multitude left Egypt there were those who complained about and against our Creator, urging the people to turn away from God and do what ever they felt was right in their own eyes.

I just found out this morning that Jackson Snyder, my friend and my mentor, has passed away.
I am numb - I had always believed somehow that I would work with him again, that the war would end and I'd feel free to broadcast with him. I'm so sad that he is gone.
Please pray for his wife and family and all his flock - we will miss him greatly.