Thought for Today: Sunday June 23

YHVH Elohiym never promised you just a sunshine garden life -- He offers something better -- His own sustaining presence through any trouble you may encounter.

Jud 1:10-16 BSB 10 These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively. 11 Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. 14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones 15 to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.” 16 These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

Beware of "teachers".

Mat 5:19 BSB So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Test EVERYTHING!

Exo 20:24 BSB You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
In every place where YHWH's Name is remembered, He will come to us & bless us. It sounds like His Name is pretty important and not to be misused or dismissed with generic "names" that are used for every idol that ever existed under the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis

On this link, under the subheading "usages in other languages - hebrew" there is a good, concise and clear chart of how to pronounce the consonantal vowels Josephus said The Name was pronounced with when he described the headdress of the high priest. It confirms how I learned it: ee-ah-oo-ah ('Yahuah).

Y'all missed a great study..if you wish, the replay is available at…

https://www.youtube.com/live/X....1kDt4Yb6d8?si=5lJ4zs

https://www.youtube.com/live/X1kDt4Yb6d8

Funny how certain passages like this are never misunderstood to be literal... how do we instinctively know in places like this that our Master is being hyperbolic but we can't manage to figure it out elsewhere?

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