Does the number 666 cause you to cringe when it is mentioned? If so your response has been programmed by years of constant training. Revelation 13:18, “Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.” This number showing up in distance or finance or even in a basic math problem has nothing to do with the number of a person or even how the letters of an name outside of the Hebrew language may add up to it. Yet many people avoid it because of their conditioning. What most people don’t realize is that this number is not used in all of the older manuscripts, there is another number and that number is 616. The number itself is not evil or demonic it serves only to prove to those who have the wisdom to calculate the number of the one who is evil.

Thought for Today: Sunday April 07

The reason why YHVH loves a humble person, is because He loves the truth. Humility is after all nothing other than the truth, whilst pride is a lie.

To be clear on a point, at the cross Christ prayed for those who did not know what they did: he said, "they know not what they do", and he spoke the truth - he spoke of the soldiers who did not know, the centurion, who only realised afterwards that this condemned man was innocent, that he was indeed the son of God.

Rather, Christ specifically condemned the Pharisees, saying to Pilate, "he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin". Those who knowingly betrayed him and did not repent received none of his forgiveness, as it is written, "These shall receive the greater damnation." Mk 12
#sabbathposts 2024/04/06

"As with dross, thou makest to cease all the wicked of the land: therefore I love thy testimonies."

Ps 119

in his commandments delighting greatly Hebrew original language Scripture from Psalm 112
"Blessed is a man fearing Yahweh, in his commandments delighting greatly."
אַשְׁרֵי־ אִישׁ יָרֵא אֶת־יְהוָה בְּמִצְוֺתָיו חָפֵץ מְאֹד

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‘In 1917, in order to win Jewish support for Britain's First World War effort, the British Balfour Declaration promised the establishment of a Jewish national home in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.’

‘More recent studies since 2017 have found that Palestinians are primarily descended from ancient Levantines present in what is today Israel and Palestine, dating back at least 3700 years.’

‘Goliath was not a Palestinebut a Philistine warrior from Greece who lived in the City of Gath, which coincidentally is now part of Gaza. There was no Palestine in the time of Goliath as Palestine was created/named by the Romans when they conquered the area.’

‘Nazareth is the largest Palestinian Arab city inside Israel and one of the holiest ‘Christian’ cities on earth. In the New Testament the town is described as the childhood home of Yahshua and as such is a centre of Christian shrines and pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.’

‘ "Most scholars believe the Roman Emperor Hadrian changed the provincial administrative name of Judaea to Palestine to erase the Jewish presence in the land,"’

‘According to Arab–Islamic–Jewish traditions, Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar was "father of the Arabs". The Book of Genesis narrates that Yahuah promised Hagar to beget from Ishmael twelve princes and turn his descendants into a "great nation". Ishmael was considered the ancestor of Muhammad the founder of Islam.’

‘Between 1517 and 1917, the Ottoman Empire—whose official religion was Islam—ruled the region. When World War I ended in 1918, the British took control of Palestine.’

‘Palestine is the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, and has been controlled by many kingdoms and powers, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel and Judah, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and his successors, the Hasmoneans, the Roman Empire, several Muslim caliphates, and the crusaders.’

‘In early times, Palestine was inhabited by Semitic peoples, the earliest being the Canaanites. According to tradition, Abraham, the common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs, came from Ur to Canaan.’

‘Levant

This name was given to the region by Greek writers in the 12th century B.C. Another term that is used to describe this region of the Middle East is “Levant,” which is an area generally defined as encompassing modern-day Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.’

‘According to the biblical account, Moses' parents were from the tribe of Levi, one of the groups in Egypt called Hebrews.’