Thought for Today: Friday June 21

Though we may be poor ourselves in our abilities, in Him we are made rich. He is the Well from which we draw our life, there are no limits to the resources of YHVH.

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When God says go, go. When God says stay, stay. But you have to watch and listen to know which is which. Numbers 9:15-23

Vs 17-23 says the cloud lifted and settled 7 times, the people set out 7 times, the people camped 7 times, and the people obeyed 7 times. Coincidence? Nope. This is an allusion to perfect obedience to the direction of YHVH. Whether God's word comes through signs, prophets, angels, or Messiah, He expects obedience. His commands to his whole people come in a way that everyone can see and comprehend, and they are always in agreement with Moses.

Even if we hate the place where God has put us, we are to stay until the job is done. Even if we love the place where God has put us, we are to leave when he says it's time to go.

If a woman goes to college and ultimately becomes a stay home mom, using her advanced education to rear her children, she has helped to make mankind a better place.

"One's god is that which is one's ultimate reality. Therefore, it cannot be questioned. So there arose new movements, causes, ideologies, and systems of thought that could not be challenged or questioned no matter how irrational they were - because they were now gods." Jonathan Cahn, Return of the Gods.

So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.”
Luke 22:8

#yeshua told the disciples to prepare the Passover. The "Passover" isn't a ritual meal with matza and wine, but an animal. specifically a lamb or goat.

V13 says they actually prepared the Passover, and in v16, Yeshua said that he had been wanting to eat *this* Passover with his disciples. He was talking about the actual lamb, which the disciples had killed and roasted the evening before he was arrested.

In the search for truth, it seems several out there forget how they got to that truth. Because some of what they had learned previously was wrong, everything must be wrong. I will admit, that when I went searching for truth I questioned everything, but I did find that several things that I had inherited did show valid.

The notion that a translation of a word is pagan baffles me. Lord, for example, according to Merriam-Webster comes from the Old English hlaford, which is loaf (meaning head) and ward (guard) combined.

Or God, which comes from the Old High Germanic got, which means "the god" and has no evidence of being borrowed.

Couple that with the fact that the Hebrew for these terms are used in reference to things that aren't pagan gods many, many times throughout Scripture.

I once had someone tell me that those words didn't need to be translated. I don't know about everyone else, but I grew up speaking English. English is my primary language, so when I need a definition of a language I am learning, I need that definition in English. Once I am fluent in another, maybe that will change. If I hadn't studied Hebrew and someone came up to me saying something along the lines of "We have to give praise to the Elohim". I would question what they were talking about. If they really felt saying "god" was pagan, I can't picture how they would be able to define it for me. Maybe by using the word deity, which ironically according to Merriam-Webster has a definition of "god".

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Luke 22:7 says the Day of Unleavened Bread had arrived, but the Biblical feast hadn't started yet. It isn't a mistranslation or a mistake. This was an idiom referring to the Passover season, including at least several days before the official feast. It was like saying "Christmas had arrived" on the Monday after Thanksgiving Day in America.