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Thought for Today: Wednesday June 12

We must let YHVH define good, our definition includes health, comfort and recognition but His definition? In the case of His Son, our Moshiach, the good life consisted of struggles, storms, and death, but Elohiym worked it all together for the greatest good, His glory and our Salvation!

"If any man love me, he will keep my word"

Jn 14

Today is day 46 (sunset 6/11 to sunset 6/12) of 50 days to Shavu'ot!

Without the Sabbath, there is no day of Pentecost. This Sunday is Pentecost, btw. AKA Shavuot.

'You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths. 'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD. (Lev -16)

Check out the Torah Portion reading for this week!

Tonight on YESHUATUBE! A bible study DOUBLE FEATURE... BGMCTV THE CITY GATE MESSIANIC BIBLE STUDY SHAVUOT "PENTECOST" & @ 10PM BGMCTV MIRIAM'S HEART "THE REBELLIOUS WOMEN'S MINISTRY". www.YESHUATUBE.org

You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.
Numbers 5:3

Lepers and defiled people are isolated from the community in Torah not necessarily because they sinned, but for the protection of the rest of the community and their relationship with God.

Ritual uncleanness isn't about dirt or disease per se. It's about contact with death or a loss of life-force. If someone is in such a state of impurity they could accidentally touch a holy object or a priest or someone en route to the altar. That could then cause a serious problem for everyone.

When God's presence is right there in the camp with the people, they need to be very cautious. He isn't looking for an excuse to zap anyone, but he's dangerous, like a highly charged capacitor. Touch it without the proper precautions and you could be killed, and it would be your own fault.

Homosexuality is condemed in scripture.

In #acts 6:1-7, the selection of deacons to oversee the distribution of charity to widows is presented in a chiastic structure that reveals some interesting things about the relationship between the disciples and the Jewish priests.

The Jews and Hellenists in v1 refers to 2 groups of Jews: "the Jews" and "the Hellenists". The former was fundamentalist, more Jewish, while the later group was more Greek in language, appearance, and customs.

Frequently when #yeshua and the Apostles spoke of "the Jews", they meant the religious leaders or the more fundamentalist Jews, such as the Pharisees and Sadducees, not *all* Jews. When used in that sense in the context of believers in Yeshua, "the Jews" is more or less synonymous with "the Circumcision". The Hellenists in Acts 6:1 were Hellenized Jews, meaning they were Jews who had assimilated much Greek culture, losing a lot of their Jewishness along the way.

http://soilfromstone.blogspot.....com/2018/09/chiasm-i