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Here's today's sermon, called "You shall be perfect." There's a special mention of Pastor Opoku in the beginning: https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....24/06/15/you-shall-b I pray this one clears up any confusion on this issue, for our boast is in Yeshua alone! Praise be to God!

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The Sabbath is crucial to understanding prophecy. I'll build on this tomorrow at 3pm central for our Pentecost message. Shabbat shalom everyone!

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Still time to join us if you like.

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Shalom, friends,We invite you to join us live on Zoom and YouTube at 4pm Central Standard Time on Sabbath afternoon, 06/15/2024, for Scripture study and pray...

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Question:
The Berean Study Bible translates "between the evenings" as "twilight". On back to back sabbaths, like today and tomorrow, is that period of time a sort of no man's land between the days? What I'm wondering is, would the market have opened for that period of up to 90 minutes in ancient times? Are we allowed to do essential chores during that time, beyond the "doing good is lawful", like drawing water? Is cooking allowed in that time? Am I making sense?

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I don't see it as such. Cooking and essential chores were never forbidden (by essential I mean cleaning up after yourself, taking care of messes that may have occurred that could lead to damage or infestation, etc...).

As far as the word being translated there is concerned, in the Hebrew of Exodus 29:39 it is הערבים, the evenings. The word before it is בין, which is where between comes from. This verse in particular is talking about the first day of the year. With it being evenings plural, and we are talking the head of the year, I wonder if this isn't the emphasis plural, like God is Elohim instead of just El. בין can have a meaning of "at" which would translate this to similar to what KJV states: offer at evening.

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Here’s an example of why we must Question Everything…

There’s a ton of great stuff in this podcast in general (and we recommend it) but episodes like this represent the Messy side of the Messianic Movement.

Repeated fictional history and mythology purportedly of Babylon but really just concocted out of a balderdash of the Reverend Alexander Hislop.

It does little good for us to come out of the proverbial Babylon that is the church only to take up another lie about the lies we used to believe when we were a part of that Babylon.

We are after the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

And a lie about a lie is still a lie.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/....podcast/the-promise-

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Shabbat Shalom!

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Do we really believe the Master when He said these kinds of things? Either He is speaking hyperbolically (as He often does) or literally (as He often does aswell).

If hyperbolically, then we need to work on our walk. If literally, then we REALLY need to work on our walk.

Either way, we need to work on our walk.

We aught to either be capable of great feats we find beyond our capacity to accomplish, or we should be able to perform the impossible.

Whichever way He meant it, we are failing miserably, and we need to get moving in The Way.

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Source, please. I will be covering this soon. If you can provide something different, I may have to change my text.

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The NT was written in Greek. They used Theos for God. They had no problem using the generic word for god in their day. The decision to use theos for god was made with the Tanakh was translated into Greek about 150 years before Yeshua.

English bibles don't substitute God for YHVH, they use LORD for that, following a similar pattern.

We who use the Names properly do so out of reverence and to be more correct. When we make us stuff about the Names that's clearly incorrect, it cheapens our efforts to spread the Gospel more accurately. Chag Sameach Shalom.

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One cannot replace "elohim" with "god" because they are the same word in two languages. "God" was not an epithet of a particular being but a term for any god true or false, just as in Hebrew "elohim" is used for any god true or false. The justification is the same justification and accommodation for anyone to speak any language other than Hebrew.

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According to his what? …belief? faith? trust? knowledge? understanding? feelings?

No.

According to his deeds.

The reward of the Master is based on our deeds not our belief.

Did you believe? Good. But did you do what you believe?

That is the difference between faith and emuna.
And what the Master’s brother Jacob (James) was trying to say to us later on in his letter to the tribes of Israel.

Believing without doing is death.
You believe? Good. Now do the deeds in accordance with that belief.

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