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International Sabbath Fellowship – 04 (2nd half)

Regina Roundtree — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 02:58:00 +0000

This is week 4 of our Sabbath class/ Bible study. We review again from Jer6:16 and dig deeper into walking with God… Adam. Enoch, Noah, Abraham. We also look at circumcision and the inclusion of everyone in Abraham’s household.

We are beginning a new bible study about the promise to Abraham and does that promise benefit non-Jewish people. What does the Old Testament / Tanakh have to say about God/ELOHIM’s plan to “save = bless” all humanity.

All are welcome to study with us. We are not Seventh Day Adventist, Jewish/ Messianic Jews, Black Hebrew Israelites… just people looking to have a deeper relationship with our Creator who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

This class is good for Beginners and Intermediate learners for Torah study.
Join us live on Clubhouse (10/40 Window Mission Network) https://www.clubhouse.com/club/1040-window-network every Sabbath at 4am East Coast – USA 10am Pretoria , South Africa 4pm Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

We have added the transcript below to help with translation and the hearing impared community.

Saturday Jan 28, 2023 w/ Elder Regina Roundtree

00;00;47;22 – 00;01;31;25
Speaker 1
I’ve already told you about Jeff Banner. He has the mechanical translation that you’re at or you went to, and he’s with the ancient Hebrew resource Center. Keith Johnson is a black American pastor, formerly a methodist pastor, and he he you have to listen to him tell his story. But he he wanted to know the name of you. Sure.

00;01;32;19 – 00;02;09;08
Speaker 1
He’s a methodist now trying to keep the faith. Went over to Israel, met Nehemia Gordon, learned Nehemiah, taught him how to read Hebrew. So this is a black American pastor and he was about to make it big. He he was high up in the ranks. He used to travel to the Olympics as one of the chaplains. He was about to have his own television show on the major networks and got canceled when he started talking about Yeshua.

00;02;14;13 – 00;02;50;08
Speaker 1
So Jeff, John, Keith Johnson and Nehemia Gordon do a lot of things together. They have a very powerful series. They say if you’re going to start anywhere, watch the Open Door Series. It’s about ten episodes. It’s for free. You can find the link on the Hemings wall. Did I spell that right? No. The hair. Me as well. I believe it’s dot org.

00;02;52;08 – 00;03;23;02
Speaker 1
So what’s interesting with Keith and Hermia is you have Nehemiah who was born and raised to be a rabbinical Orthodox Jew, eventually became a care Jew. And Cara writes, Just believe the Tanakh. They don’t believe anything about the oral lore. Do they have their own traditions? They sure do. But they’ll tell you their traditions are their traditions. They are.

00;03;23;12 – 00;03;53;06
Speaker 1
And are they wrapped in the the Torah? Sure. And I don’t see anything wrong with that. Right. So if, for example, they may have traditions of how they prepare for Sabbath, how they have their church synagogue services, when the high holy days come around, there are certain meals that they make. That’s tradition. But they are very clear to tell you this is not Torah.

00;03;53;07 – 00;04;11;26
Speaker 1
Even in some of the writings of the Kara writes, there are prayer books and stuff. They even highlight for you when they translate them in English. What part is from the to not and what part is them? Right. So if I were to say, oh, let’s pray, bless Jehovah, we love you, Lord, we thank you, we praise you, honor.

00;04;11;29 – 00;04;46;23
Speaker 1
Well, that’s not in the Torah. That’s me. But there’s nothing that contradicts the Torah. Okay, so, yes, the Jamia Gorton, Ross Nichols, Jeff Benner, Keith Johnson, Keith and Nehemiah do a lot of good things together. There’s one other group that you’re going to find in there and you can take this or leave it. Okay. Some of you may have heard of Michael Rude with a rude awakening.

00;04;46;23 – 00;05;08;02
Speaker 1
Hum. It depends on your personality. I can take or leave Michael rude. He what’s interesting about Michael rude and a rude awakening. And it’s funny if you ever watch their show, they have Shabbat Night Live. And so they do this thing and it’s like, Shabbat Shalom, y’all, who like, you’re welcome to Shabbat Night Live.

00;05;08;03 – 00;05;14;13
Speaker 2
That’s exactly what they do there. So it’s like, oh, my God, you know?

00;05;14;23 – 00;05;43;02
Speaker 1
And if you can get past some of that, when they get into their conversations, oh, you’ll learn so much. So, Michael, rude from a rude awakening. He his family is Jewish. Was are Jews who built synagogues. But part of his family left, came over to America and he became a Baptist. They didn’t want anything to do with Jews at the time I became a Baptist well to do out later on his years, he wants to go back to his Jewish roots.

00;05;43;02 – 00;06;09;15
Speaker 1
He lives in Israel now. So he’s a messianic Jew, right? All for the Torah, all for Yeshua. So you may find that there are things when it comes to some New Testament things you can listen to. But what I love about an even Old Testament is he has some of his own particular belief, doesn’t anybody? There’s no perfect teacher on this planet.

00;06;09;22 – 00;06;39;29
Speaker 1
The last perfect teacher we know. Left, right. But you can learn a lot. Does either meet spell out the bone design youtube. You can always fast forward past sections. What I enjoy about Keith and Hermia and their relationship over the past 25 years is that as a methodist pastor who loves you, sure he doesn’t try to convert. He’s known him here for two or three decades.

00;06;40;00 – 00;07;14;18
Speaker 1
He’s not tried to convert Nahum yet to becoming a Jew, a Christian. However, because Nehemiah is a scholar. Scholar, but he’s care, right? He looks now at the Hebrew texts as something that everybody in the world should know. So he’s telling us and teaching us things that Jewish rabbis will never teach you, will never tell you about. But he believes that hits his responsibility as a Jew, as a chosen person, that he’s supposed to be teaching the world about Jehovah, about Elohim.

00;07;15;07 – 00;07;34;15
Speaker 1
So he’s this kind of one person that has to change the whole face. Now, he’s not new. He’s been around. I mean, he’s a person. But as far as writing books and coming into this thing, him and Keith Johnson met almost 20 years ago. But I’m only finding about them recently. So to me it’s like, Oh.

00;07;34;15 – 00;07;35;26
Speaker 2
My gosh, this is so new.

00;07;36;28 – 00;08;00;04
Speaker 1
But it’s not really because they’ve been teaching and talk. And when you go to Michael Rudy and you look at his stuff, when you go to Jeff Benner and you look at his stuff, when you go to Russ Nichols and you look at his stuff, it’s been posted in up there for eight, ten, 15 years. They’ve been trying to teach Gentiles about Hebrew, about Jehovah, about Elohim.

00;08;01;24 – 00;08;31;27
Speaker 1
So I say all of this because it’s our desire when we come into these Sabbath rooms, when we come together to talk, that we begin to understand it’s so important for us to understand, but we do have to be careful. Right? And so when we start talking about other things and we start talking about your Hova, I want you to have a chance to go look at what to us would be new, but it’s not really all that new.

00;08;32;26 – 00;09;11;29
Speaker 1
And Nehemiah has traveled to libraries in Russia in Rome, in Italy, taken photographs of Hebrew texts that have been sitting in libraries. Because to Jewish rabbis, it’s no concern what Gentiles do or don’t know. They have their own law. Thank you Hova for Nehemia Gordon. Thank you Hova for a Jeff Banner. Thank you, hova. For Ross Nichols. Because they are teaching us about our creator without the Judaism bent on it.

00;09;13;14 – 00;09;33;02
Speaker 1
And when they are able. What I love when you watch these things, especially with Nehemiah, because he’s a teacher, he’s going to put the Hebrew text up there. He’s going to highlight for you. He’s going to give you so that you could track back, if you wanted, how he got his information. There’s no just believe me, because I said so.

00;09;35;01 – 00;10;08;05
Speaker 1
And that is so important when we’re looking for truth. Right. So I wanted to I wanted to kind of share this with you and in this room, because we’re going to build from this as we keep having Sabbath fellowships and we’re going to learn more about about our creator, the importance of knowing his name, the importance of understanding that salvation.

00;10;08;05 – 00;10;36;28
Speaker 1
Yeshua. You know, some of you were in the room last week. You remember how we saw in Isaiah 56 one that the name Yeshua is salvation, that if you look in the Hebrew, if you use your blue letter Bible right and you look at Isaiah 56/1 one and says you are my salvation. You go, you look in that Hebrew word, it’s Yeshua, Yeshua, salvation.

00;10;36;28 – 00;11;01;08
Speaker 1
And this is how you know, many people go on, oh see Jesus was always in the Bible like, no, that’s now we’re talking. How about the fact that salvation was always here intended for us on the planet? That was always his intention. But things got in the way. So I’m sharing this with you. There’s a lot to study in this.

00;11;01;21 – 00;11;26;07
Speaker 1
You you’re not just going to get it in one weekend, but the information is there now. And so that you can begin to listen to some videos, buy some books, read some things, and you’ll find people who grew with you better than other people. Some of you may really love listening to Michael Root. Some of you may love Nehemiah.

00;11;27;04 – 00;11;51;17
Speaker 1
Some of you may really like the way that Keith Johnson teaches. And one of my tests for this is I sent things to Esther. I send her a lot of Keith Johnson. She tends to like Keith Johnson because he’s really simple, easy to understand. He can he he can read and speak Hebrew. He you know, he can teach it and he does.

00;11;52;13 – 00;12;24;01
Speaker 1
But his methods in the way he talks are simple. And the way I test it is I send stuff to her because her English is okay, as you’ve heard. But she’s also very much connected to agriculture and she’s tribal, connected to the land. And so I run things by her to test it. If she can get it, if she can understand it, then I’m pretty sure I’m like, Yeah, that’s she’s like my second witness, my second or my third witness, because I know she loves Elohim.

00;12;24;16 – 00;12;46;14
Speaker 1
But if I send her something, it may take her two or three times to listen to it, to understand the English. But if she can get it, then I’m like, okay, yeah, this is good. And she’s like, Well, I don’t know. Or, you know, she’ll ask me questions are things are not clear. And I’m like, okay, because I’m writing some things and putting things together because we want to teach this.

00;12;47;04 – 00;13;07;23
Speaker 1
But anyways, I’m done talking. I’ve been talking a whole lot. And so before we end the room, I would love to hear from you guys what your thoughts are, what your questions that you have. Good. The replays are on. So if you came in later in the room, you can always go back and listen. All right. So I’m going off mute.

00;13;08;10 – 00;13;12;21
Speaker 1
And if you have something, just open up your mic, please.

00;13;12;21 – 00;14;01;29
Speaker 3
Just a moment. I enjoyed this. I should have come in a little earlier, but I was a little busy. But this was very good. I learned of Michael Rude. Probably some 15, 20 years ago. And yeah, it can be a little. Anyway, I like listening to him, but I have not listened to any of the others. I will when there is someone on here that does a lot of what you’ve shown us.

00;14;01;29 – 00;14;35;24
Speaker 3
What was the name of the mechanical? She’s a pusO Vivian Fry. She works down. If she were a very good, very good two to go into her room occasionally, depending on what she’s talking about. And you will read a lot. So, yeah, I like this room. I will be back. God bless everyone. Sorry. Yeah.

00;14;36;24 – 00;14;37;03
Speaker 1
No.

00;14;37;24 – 00;15;09;16
Speaker 3
Okay, everybody. No, I want to. Okay. I don’t want to say I want to get in the habit of using your way all the time. But you know how long I’ve been saying gone way too long. And especially since I’ve been saying about 35 years. It takes a little while to get used to saying something else, but I’m doing it.

00;15;10;11 – 00;15;21;23
Speaker 3
All right, everyone, have a wonderful day today. One day, dinner service. This and I release.

00;15;21;23 – 00;15;49;26
Speaker 1
Thank you for that. And what you’ll find is if you go Michael Rudd, we’ll talk about it that he initially believed was the way he understands it to be Jehovah. Now, just because of the new Hebrew text and have been found and I don’t know if you were in the room Mamadi when I was talking earlier, but looking at the Hebrew letters and noting the consonants and then the vowels and the vowels tell you how the countenance is supposed to sound.

00;15;50;16 – 00;16;19;06
Speaker 1
And so you’ll find if you look at Nehemia and Keith and most Hebrews, even the rabbis know that it is Jehovah, but they don’t talk about it because it’s a sick. Oh, I didn’t get to talk about the sacred name. Okay, let me let all of you go through and then I want to give a quick summary about why they don’t say the name anymore, but they know that the name is Jehovah, but they don’t say it.

00;16;19;19 – 00;16;44;27
Speaker 1
We’ll talk about why they don’t say the name only Jeff Brenner. In his earlier writings, he says Yahweh. He has updated all of his books, but he’s the new the new transcripts that have come out, the new understanding of finding all these other texts that have. Because remember, the rabbis, the Jews, they’re not going to tell you about the name because they don’t say the name.

00;16;45;07 – 00;17;04;14
Speaker 1
So they’re not even going to tell you what it is. But if you listen to Russ Nichols, who’s in that circle, he always teaches, it’s always been Jehovah. So they know it’s your whole it’s just good, but they don’t say Jehovah, right? And so I said in this room, if we say Yahweh, if we say Jehovah, it’s okay.

00;17;04;14 – 00;17;12;12
Speaker 1
Actually, I’m going to take us to that verse to you that talks about the name. But Doreen, go ahead. You’re next.

00;17;13;27 – 00;17;46;08
Speaker 3
Shabbat shalom, everyone, and thank you for that. My question is this. And it may sound, well, why didn’t she know this? But that’s out in Exodus 20, where we have the the the commandments. And verse seven, it says, I’m reading from the King James version, thou shalt not take the name of Yahweh. Violence in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that take of his name in vain.

00;17;46;08 – 00;18;00;16
Speaker 3
What does that actually mean? Because obviously I used to hear that where you can’t call his name even though I didn’t know what his name was or spoke because you would be swearing. So if anyone’s able to explain that to me, I’d really, truly appreciate it. Thank you.

00;18;01;23 – 00;18;34;19
Speaker 1
Okay. So the word vain there actually means falsely and in a sense of cursing. Now, what you’ll also find throughout the Tanakh is that in many places they say as Jehovah lives, I don’t know if you as a Lord that God Live Earth, you’ll see some of the prophets say right in our great and our King James will say the Lord that God lives at the home and they’re swearing by the name of Jehovah.

00;18;35;10 – 00;19;19;05
Speaker 1
There is nothing wrong with swearing by the name of Jehovah. In fact, he wants you. You are to use his name to bless the people, to swear that I’m telling the truth, to make an oath. That was not the problem. The problem was taking his name falsely. So if you stand up as a prophet, let’s say, and you say as Jehovah, Lilith, blah, blah, blah, by tomorrow the water will be blue and you will grow a third arm that’s taking the name of your Hova, his name in vain, because you’re swearing falsely by the name, and then again, this is about really understanding the Hebrew.

00;19;19;15 – 00;19;56;08
Speaker 1
And so let me see if he does it. Yes. Go to the mic. If you happen to have the mechanical translation open and you go to Exodus 20 verse seven, he does use the word falseness. And so that’s the idea that you are using his name in a false way. So that’s what real false prophets are. They’re taking the name of your Hova in vain because they are saying thus saith Jehovah, you need to give me $50 today, blah blah blah blah blah.

00;19;56;09 – 00;20;02;02
Speaker 1
That’s taking his name in vain. Does that help?

00;20;02;21 – 00;20;36;09
Speaker 3
It helps a lot because that was my thinking. But sometimes you don’t want your own thinking to be carried away. So that was a thought, but I wanted clarification. That’s probably a better way to put it. But I just didn’t understand because I’m thinking, okay, I’ve not heard anyone give an explanation or if they have, I might have missed it might not be in that particular place and time, but that certainly clarifies it for me and it’s made me a very happy bunny.

00;20;36;10 – 00;20;36;25
Speaker 3
Thank you.

00;20;37;13 – 00;21;06;29
Speaker 1
You’re welcome. So, yeah, use the mechanical translation for at least the Torah you’ll be able to see better. Nehemiah has a book called Shattering the Silence, and he also, which is very good because he goes through the whole history and talking about how it came to be that the rabbis don’t say the name anymore, why they don’t say the name.

00;21;08;03 – 00;21;48;22
Speaker 1
And he goes through explaining. And even in Jeff Banner’s books and writings you’ll find on his website, he explains what name really means. And we don’t fully understand the and Ross Nichols some of his teachings, too. Ross Nichols has like a5a 50 video series on the Torah. Like, amazing. Like, they’re one hour, an hour and 15 minutes. I think he even has it categorized in a playlist and he goes through and just kind of talks to you through the Torah.

00;21;51;01 – 00;22;20;27
Speaker 1
So you’ve got a person who’s done archeology work, traveled there many times, has awesome resources, speaks, reads and writes Hebrew. He’ll read Hebrew. Then he’ll talk to you. He’ll read from the King James and he’ll talk to you. And he does not subscribe to the mission on the rabbis and all of that, just amazing teaching. So there’s a there’s a broader understanding of the word name than I have time to explain here.

00;22;20;27 – 00;22;28;26
Speaker 1
And I don’t do it justice, but. Yeah, so that’s. That’s that.

00;22;29;28 – 00;22;30;06
Speaker 3
Hmm.

00;22;31;28 – 00;22;38;06
Speaker 1
Okay. Who else would like to say something or ask a question?

00;22;38;20 – 00;22;39;10
Speaker 3
Andrew.

00;22;39;26 – 00;22;42;09
Speaker 1
Go ahead.

00;22;43;25 – 00;23;05;19
Speaker 3
It’s interesting. I know of Nehemia Gordon and I also and that’s seen some of his online and before us anything. When you say Jehovah, do you say why he h. 0vh.

00;23;07;01 – 00;23;07;19
Speaker 1
Yes, ma’am.

00;23;08;21 – 00;23;35;27
Speaker 3
Right. Okay. Well, first of all, I just want to say I know of name Maya and I know he he, he, he, he says that the way you sit is the correct way. And he says saying that your way is incorrect. I’m only saying that because of the little things I know of name, I am not going into what’s correct and what isn’t and whatever you know to mean.

00;23;36;20 – 00;24;10;08
Speaker 3
But I find it interesting that you mention him today, because I also have the Torah, the true name Torah, which is I don’t know if it’s edited by name Maya, but you certainly has the input into it. And he very what’s the word am I saying. Very kind of. He, he considers Jehovah to be correct. And this is how this Torah is written is what I want to say.

00;24;10;09 – 00;24;42;14
Speaker 3
So I just wanted you to know that yeah, I’m aware of Nehemia and of course this. But and in addition to that, I’m still sitting here thinking, so what is the correct way to say Jehovah? Yaakov. Yeah, yeah. Who do you know what I mean? And this is all I mean, I don’t get fixated on it, but I’m sitting here thinking if we’re discussing it, then so what is the right pronunciation?

00;24;42;14 – 00;25;06;22
Speaker 3
And what is his name? What is his correct name? Because I hear so many different, different ways of saying it, and I’m aware that there are different dialects. And, I mean, we’ve discussed it on the platform, Israeli and so forth. So do you know what I mean? So why? Why what is the right name then? What way? And and is there to be discussion basically.

00;25;08;07 – 00;25;14;01
Speaker 1
Okay. So I’m not a Hebrew scholar. I’m just beginning to learn.

00;25;15;02 – 00;25;32;03
Speaker 3
That that really is just out there to put it up. You do not mean because it’s is talked about and people do get caught up in in in all of that. You know what I mean? And yeah, as I said, yes. Sorry to cut in there.

00;25;33;00 – 00;26;04;15
Speaker 1
No problem. Oh, is it warm? So the 1040 window has a website and it’s under construction right now. But there are a few links there. And I put the, the link in the in the chat for our website. There’s a document that I wrote called God, Jehovah, Jesus, Yeshua, and it was my understanding. So what you’ll see when you open the document, you might be able to see it better on your laptop than on your phone.

00;26;06;01 – 00;26;38;29
Speaker 1
Is that I go through and I list the different references because you want I try to think I post for different Hebrew scholars who talk about Jehovah and, and some of them have videos where they show you the trans the transition not to transitioning. They they show you the the trans the something of the how the language changed.

00;26;38;29 – 00;27;07;29
Speaker 1
That’s what I’m trying to say. How the the language changed based on who conquered them. And just even as language changed, right. We have the old English. We don’t say the thou anymore. Right. And so some of them show you how it went from the Latin to the Greek and back and forth. And there are some people who originally say Yahweh, who now say Jehovah.

00;27;07;29 – 00;27;29;24
Speaker 1
What I want us to do is there’s a verse, I still haven’t found a second witness, but this is the beginning for me. Go to Psalms 44, 20, please. Psalms 4420. Thank you, major daughter, for posting that. So anyways.

00;27;30;19 – 00;27;32;00
Speaker 3
So did you say some?

00;27;32;00 – 00;27;34;13
Speaker 1
So I’m trying to get.

00;27;35;07 – 00;27;35;21
Speaker 3
Yeah.

00;27;36;07 – 00;28;04;07
Speaker 1
Okay. So on that website again you’ll find that document. And in that document I bring out some points and I refer you to another resource because we should have two or three witnesses. Right. And most of these references are not in Judaism, but they are Jewish. How about, say, they’re all Torah observant? We can agree on that. They’re all Tor observant.

00;28;04;20 – 00;28;39;10
Speaker 1
Follow the Hebrew Bible. No other written commentaries. And they go through and they they give their explanations and discussions. And we always know that there is new knowledge that comes. Some of it is is not good. Some of it is sound and and scriptural right that we can actually go to God ourselves in prayer. That wasn’t always taught, even 100 years ago, you know, or that you could have your own Bible and read it.

00;28;39;10 – 00;29;06;15
Speaker 1
And I think what we forget about the children of Israel is that they all didn’t have the Torah. That’s how come they would gather together at the feast, and once every seven years the Torah would be read in their hearing, or they would go to synagogue to hear the Torah, because in order to have the Torah, you had to be able to afford it, which means you had to afford to buy animal skins, right?

00;29;06;16 – 00;29;32;13
Speaker 1
And then you had to afford to pay a rabbi to sit down and translate it by hand and to duck, not translate it, transcribe it by hand onto these animal skins for you that cost a lot of money. So all you know, there’s this assumption that somehow every you know, when we read about them in Exodus, when they’re sitting and doing, we’re like, well, why didn’t they know?

00;29;32;18 – 00;29;50;09
Speaker 1
Do you know that they did not have the written Torah then? Do you know that they did not even have their own copy? There was no pocket bible, an app on their phone. You see commandments that they are to gather together because they are going to read the Torah. It’s going to be read into their hearing. That’s why the synagogue was so important to them.

00;29;50;18 – 00;30;12;15
Speaker 1
That was the only place they could go to hear the Torah. So the oh, let’s understand that, that as we’re looking at their life, we’re kind of like, Oh, well, why do you know? But every king was ordered to make his own copy of the Torah. That was part of their requirement asking they need some didn’t, as you could tell by how they lived their life.

00;30;13;11 – 00;30;22;04
Speaker 1
Others did. And so I’m getting to your question, Angela, not me.

00;30;22;04 – 00;30;56;06
Speaker 3
No, you’re fine. You’re fine. Because. Yeah, I know. I ask the question, however. Yeah, carry on, carry on. And don’t say sorry. Yeah, no, it’s fine, because I think you have to go through that because I think it’s coming to a conclusion where we have to do our own research on your own research and come to our own understanding and maybe you know, the pronunciation doesn’t matter.

00;30;57;29 – 00;31;19;07
Speaker 3
I tell you not mean. Yes, maybe the point. Yeah, you know where I’m getting you know what I mean? Because we don’t get how we can get hung up on all of this. But I think there needs to be some kind of understanding in research and personally to get to a conclusion if if that makes any sense as to I think us.

00;31;19;11 – 00;31;22;10
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry to interrupt.

00;31;22;12 – 00;32;04;09
Speaker 1
No problem. So in Exodus 44, let’s go there. Here they’re talking about when they get taken into bondage and, uh, the whole chapter they’re talking about when they get taken to bondage and let’s say of verse 18 or over 70, all this to come upon us. Yet we have not forgotten the neither have we dealt falsely in that covenant.

00;32;05;22 – 00;32;32;17
Speaker 1
So basically there are some people and the children Israel didn’t sin, but still they all got taken into bondage, right? Our heart is not turned back. Neither have our steps declined from thy way, though thou hast broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. So different countries are places where where they have been felt like they’ve just been broken apart.

00;32;32;17 – 00;33;02;23
Speaker 1
Verse 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange God, shall not God search this out, for He knows the secrets of the heart. There is obviously in Hebrew it reads a little differently. And one of the things that Nehemiah brought up in his book, that’s the only way I would know about this scripture.

00;33;02;23 – 00;33;34;09
Speaker 1
I’m trying to in his book, Shattering the silence, he breaks down what that really means in Hebrew. And what it comes out to saying is that we’ve gotten taken to these different places and we’ve forgotten your name, or it wasn’t spoken or we said your name wrong, but will you not search out our heart for knowing the secrets of the heart?

00;33;34;09 – 00;33;57;10
Speaker 1
So he searches your heart to know. I mean, some of the things we don’t have time to get into, but for a while. But all was used is a name for God. It’s a title. And there are times you’ll see in the Bible, right, that someone we would call a person of faith would call a city, but all something, right?

00;33;57;22 – 00;34;24;15
Speaker 1
And there’s a scripture where he says, you shall no more use the name Baal because but all began to be tiled with what we call his bail. But there was a time when all was used in the same way that someone would use Elohim. Another example that’s brought out in the book is we know the story of Melchizedek.

00;34;25;11 – 00;34;56;17
Speaker 1
Right. Well, he comes out and he says the most high god well in the land as far as the King of Sodom knew, there is a God called the most high God. Right. And but yet when Abraham responds, the King Sodom, he says, Your head. What? He says, Jehovah, Allah, the most high God. He’s like, I want to let you know this in case you’re thinking we’re talking about your most high God.

00;34;56;17 – 00;35;14;04
Speaker 1
I mean, Jehovah. So you’re correct in that you have to study it out. And that’s why I wrote the, that paper that I wrote and I put the different sources on there because what we can’t have happen is, is you listen to one person tell you that this is the way that it should be and they can’t show you.

00;35;14;10 – 00;35;41;27
Speaker 1
They can’t speak Hebrew. They can’t read and write Hebrew. And there are so many crazy people on the Internet. I mean, you guys know, I’m I’m sure some of you are searching and I’m listening to this person, you know, talk about. No, I believe that the name should be Yehuda. I think, you know, and this person is can’t even speak Hebrew.

00;35;42;09 – 00;36;20;06
Speaker 1
I’m just like, oh, my God, you know, this is so much out there. So and what also happens is knowledge has increased and updated and more original Hebrew documents have been found. We all believe that that’s possible, right? As we’ve gotten access to countries that we didn’t have access to before, and because there are Jews who are understanding that they were wrong for not teaching the world, and so now and they’re not asking you to become a Jew, they’re not asking you to become Jewish.

00;36;20;18 – 00;36;42;08
Speaker 1
But what they are doing is translating the Hebrew scripture telling you about the culture so that you can make the decision for yourself. And I appreciate that. I appreciate being able to look at it. So, yes, the question should be asked, but I don’t believe that you always going to punish us because you said Yahweh and I said Jehovah.

00;36;43;05 – 00;36;52;04
Speaker 1
The thing is, we want to know his name. Sid You want to know how to pronounce it correctly? I don’t know if you were here, Andre. When I was talking with Esther and her.

00;36;52;14 – 00;36;54;02
Speaker 3
Work was, I was here.

00;36;54;05 – 00;37;14;21
Speaker 1
And it’s just. Do we want to get to the place where we know what that is? Yes, but you need to make that journey for yourself. You need to have trusted people who speak and read the language, who can show it to you as much as you could possibly understand. Will you ever completely know for sure? Not until you can read the Hebrew Bible yourselves.

00;37;15;08 – 00;37;50;14
Speaker 1
Right. But along the way, are there people that are willing to show you this, explain this to you, pointed out to you, speak it to you and tell you out of more than one mouth. Yes. And I appreciate Michael Rude, who forever has believed in his Yahweh as a messianic Jew, coming to the understanding that when new documents came out and it was explained to him and shown to him and the the and understanding the Hebrew grammar that those four letters could never be pronounced Yahweh, because the grammar is wrong.

00;37;50;14 – 00;38;14;19
Speaker 1
You have to have three vowels. You can’t have two. That’s just Hebrew grammar. But unless you really knew Hebrew grammar, you wouldn’t know that in Hebrew grammar during that time, not modern Hebrew Hebrew grammar. During that time you had to have if you had those letters, you had to have three vowels. You couldn’t just have two. So it could it be.

00;38;15;15 – 00;38;34;21
Speaker 1
But unless you, you, you study and you learn with people who bring out this knowledge to you, you might not know that. And then you’d have to check it to see are there other people besides the people in this in this world who are saying the same thing? All right. And that’s a thank you coffee for saying hallelujah.

00;38;34;21 – 00;39;00;21
Speaker 1
That’s a good thing, because Nehemiah has a video where he talks about how is it Jehovah but hallelujah. Right. And it’s because the accent of where you put the where you put God’s name, if you put his name at the end, as in hallelujah. Yeah, it’s yeah. Because of the grammar and the accent. But if you have in the beginning it’s your whole.

00;39;01;01 – 00;39;32;00
Speaker 1
Any Hebrew student, any. They would know that. We don’t know that. You know, they’ve been taught the language since they were three or four. They just know it. But why should they care to tell us? Good. We believe in you. Sure you’re wrong? I’m not going to help you. And so I appreciate those Hebrew teachers who are more than just teachers sharing that truth with us and that grammar with us.

00;39;32;19 – 00;40;04;15
Speaker 1
And, you know, we have heard that your he is I am that I am and we say I am he is the God that is that was and that will be three, three verb tenses completely. So when you study, you’ll understand that the your whole yeah. Hova is past, present, future. It just, there’s just so many things that put it together.

00;40;05;02 – 00;40;43;06
Speaker 1
But unless we had Hebrew teachers who were, were actually teaching us that, who are teaching the grammar, who were understanding living by Malachi one, you know, Isaiah 56 that the that the non that the non-Jew, the mixed multitude, that those things were important, that this is happening now. They just can’t they are. So this was them talking ten, 15 years ago how they’re like so many people are looking for their their Hebrew roots, trying to understand the Bible, the Torah observant I never knew to our observant was a word.

00;40;43;06 – 00;41;16;12
Speaker 1
Right. But Torah observant people have been talking about being Torah observant 50 years ago. But as access and things have happened and, documents have been found, original Hebrew documents, because, you know, they were persecuted, they were killed, the material was burned, it was locked away from them. Well, now they’re getting access to it, but only some of them are sharing with us what’s really going on, because only some of them care that it’s their responsible bility to teach us about how to have a relationship with Elohim.

00;41;17;07 – 00;41;44;11
Speaker 1
So should you know the correct name? Yes. Do we all know and I said this at the beginning. I know you weren’t here. Do we all know that we’re talking about the God of, you know, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And I love when you see that in the Gospels, right? In the in in the Bible, because it’s like, okay, in case you were wondering if it’s Jehovah you who we’re talking about, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, you know, I’m saying it all backwards, but you know, I mean, got to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

00;41;45;13 – 00;42;12;09
Speaker 1
That’s the God we call him Jehovah. That’s who we’re talking about. In case you had a different accent, whatever. And that’s in this room. This for this room, that’s who we’re talking about. So Jehovah, Yahweh, you hear? Who do you say, Lord, it’s all cool in this room. So do you personally want to do something differently? That’s totally your personal choice.

00;42;12;19 – 00;42;32;11
Speaker 1
But I share with you some of the tools and how I found it. You don’t have to flop around trying to figure out how to found it. You find it and you can look at it and listen to it with your own eyes from people who speak and read the language. That’s the most important thing. Once you can do that, you make your own decision.

00;42;32;11 – 00;43;07;12
Speaker 3
Thank you. And we should appreciate these teachers who are coming out and speaking. And I appreciate you because you took the time to to to go through to to speak LINDSLEY on, you know, what you’ve been through. And I appreciate that, because then it puts the responsibility on myself to study and to look at these different teaching, different teachers and how you explained today as well in regards to the tools that you’ve given.

00;43;07;19 – 00;43;51;22
Speaker 3
So it’s you know, I appreciate you and thank you very much for that. I have I do. Like I mentioned before, I actually do have the Torah, the true name Torah by a golden name Maya. And he actually explains, I read some of it. He actually he goes through it. He said, is Jehovah, as you actually say? And he explains why he gives the the root word and of being on his website and he’s very, very meticulous in his teaching and will give examples and he will do because of his research, deep research.

00;43;51;28 – 00;44;23;19
Speaker 3
He also shares all of that. So and he has this tool called a Pearl Torah pearl where he goes in depth in regards to words and sentences, etc.. So it is a very, very good tool, but yet it’s another not only, but it’s another tool to assist learn in the that’s how I would put it. And in regard to our search, you know, into the name and into other and into Torah.

00;44;24;23 – 00;44;26;21
Speaker 3
So. Yes. Thank you, Regina.

00;44;27;07 – 00;44;36;27
Speaker 1
You’re welcome. I bought his other book, The Hebrew Yeshua versus the Greek Jesus. Fascinating. Well, because.

00;44;37;07 – 00;44;38;09
Speaker 3
In the chat they.

00;44;38;09 – 00;44;41;27
Speaker 1
Have, if you go to his Nehemiah Wall, you’ll see.

00;44;41;27 – 00;44;43;19
Speaker 3
Oh, okay, okay, okay.

00;44;43;22 – 00;45;12;05
Speaker 1
Just like it’s written. Look at the book, right? Yeah. Okay. And because there is a Hebrew transcript, a he the book of Matthew is written in Hebrew and they found of they found some of the saved copies. And so the Torah pearls is good because they go through sections of the Torah and they just kind of talk about it.

00;45;12;12 – 00;45;35;02
Speaker 1
But him and Keith do the Hebrew Pearls again. You’re either going to like Keith or you’re not going to like his style. You’re going to like he nicomedia or not like his style. But if you can tolerate it that you can get the meat and there’s really not any much bones that you can spit out, except maybe just their personalities might reach you the wrong way.

00;45;35;02 – 00;46;05;05
Speaker 1
I don’t know how they lasted 25 years. To me, they’re like oil and and water. But it works and the Hebrew pearls, they are going through the Hebrew. Matthew, Matthew. Shutup. So tov, Matthew. So there have been some places and what Mahinmi is done because of his scholarship and his teaching and his research, I mean, he’s he has deciphered the Dead Sea Scrolls.

00;46;05;05 – 00;46;31;15
Speaker 1
He has looked at the Aleppo codex that you just there’s just a lot. So this is not like someone who just took a Bible class or traveled the world going getting access to different libraries so that he could look at their Hebrew manuscripts and things that they have that they’ve just tossed aside they weren’t interested in. But he loves the research, so he’s been looking at it.

00;46;31;20 – 00;47;06;18
Speaker 1
And so now they found of Mark, part of Mark, part of Luke and John in Hebrew. Right. Just fascinating things. So again, you really have to make the research for yourself and study it. I’ve given you some things for different people, but thank you, Andrea, for being a second witness for me about Nehemia Gordon Just amazing. And so we learn some things right when when teachers come along and they can prove it to you.

00;47;06;18 – 00;47;12;03
Speaker 1
We all had that experience, right? You didn’t know something. And then you met this teacher who taught you these things. You’re like, Oh.

00;47;12;22 – 00;47;15;20
Speaker 2
Oh, my God, look, how come I didn’t know this?

00;47;16;02 – 00;47;46;10
Speaker 1
Well, this is different because we don’t even know anything about Hebrew or the culture. But there are people that do and you’ll like. Ross Nichols’s is a different style. I love Ross. I love his the way he teaches and the way he talks. It’s just soothing and calm. He’s not a a teacher, scholar, teacher like the here, but he will in his talking’s refer to him.

00;47;46;11 – 00;48;06;18
Speaker 1
You know him, Mia. And so when I see other people within the Hebrew scholar world referring to his work, then I’m like, okay, you’ve gained respect. Now a lot of people don’t like him. You especially all the Orthodox Jews, because they’re like, Why are you helping the Christians? They’re like, You secretly become a Christian and he’ll tell you him.

00;48;06;18 – 00;48;28;24
Speaker 1
You, to this day still tells you that he is not a Christian. He’s still waiting for the Messiah to come. However, he thinks that Jesus, Yeshua is an amazing teacher. He he now understands that you she was only speaking from the Torah and he writes about that in his book The Hebrews You Love versus the Greek Jesus. He’s like the Greek.

00;48;29;07 – 00;48;58;18
Speaker 1
The translation doesn’t really tell you all the things, and because they don’t understand Hebrew culture when they translated it, because what Hebrew teacher, you know, scholar is going to translate Hebrew into Greek? Come on. You know, so he’s reading and then translating for us. And like now this is a Hebrew issue, but he’s only following the Torah. So read get the you can download it on Kindle.

00;48;58;18 – 00;49;40;20
Speaker 1
Yeah. Just this there’s this new information, there’s other teachers now so you know, go and look and vet it for yourself and know that from Psalms 44, 2019 and 2019 through 21, that you’re the our God, our Creator, Elohim. He knows, he knows our our heart is to only search out and to love him as he’s saying. Yahweh speakers or curse or you Hova or Jehovah or you know, he’s not because he like he knows that we we know we are talking about the God of Abraham, Isik and Jacob.

00;49;42;12 – 00;50;33;29
Speaker 1
And so learning his personal name would just take time and things have changed. So yeah, who else would like to speak or ask a question? Okay then you have a lot to study and you’re just you’re not going to be able to get it all in, but the tools are there. Take your time. Don’t be judgmental. I know there are some people who are Christians who can’t even think of looking at what near the Haumea Gordon is saying because he doesn’t believe that issue is the Messiah is like, why should that matter?

00;50;35;27 – 00;51;05;21
Speaker 1
Everywhere in the Torah, people died. In the Torah, people lived in the Torah. Time. What are they not going to hell? I mean heaven because she hadn’t come yet that they not have a relationship. I mean, no. If they honor and worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, why should that be a problem? Because all your issue, it came to do was point us back to the Torah, right?

00;51;05;26 – 00;51;43;14
Speaker 1
Everything that you were saying. I don’t come in my own name. I come in my father’s name. The Jews who are listening to him would know exactly what that means about my father’s name. Read the book. Hebrews show us is the Greek Jesus and him and him and Keith. I haven’t gotten this book yet called A Prayer to Our Father, where they break down the Lord’s Prayer and Nehemiah gives you all the Hebrew references and things that you would have known being a Jew growing up in that what he was saying that are totally lost in translation.

00;51;43;14 – 00;51;51;26
Speaker 1
Yeah. So okay if you know when I’m.

00;51;52;20 – 00;51;53;06
Speaker 3
Yeah yeah.

00;51;53;06 – 00;51;55;01
Speaker 1
Name yeah.

00;51;55;07 – 00;53;24;02
Speaker 4
Major Shabbat shalom. Yes. My verses already running mostly to him. I meet in your own like I don’t want this to make them I’m on with today and maybe next week I can bring that out to have a look at that. But I just want to see just for us and this initiates this in mind and and and we just everything that you’ve written to be so as we are then in the wake of him and, and teaching and really taking time to go through his instruction manual, that’s even or that he gave all humanity, right.

00;53;24;18 – 00;54;01;29
Speaker 4
It is for everyone. I want to say, you need to remember, you know, sometime and this is what happens. I was out of bed in in the lives of many believers. Many times people want to many men and teachers teach but not application. Didn’t mind me so much in prayer. So I’m looking for English to communicate everything. I want to put you in the fellowship.

00;54;02;22 – 00;54;30;15
Speaker 4
People want to lend them lend to teach. But there’s no application in a way. No way. No. They look for this teacher. Look for the teacher full of this one. Follow that one. Constipated believers. You have not known. I’m not applying But then young man in the times in the teaching are the things that they’re not applying their life.

00;54;30;25 – 00;55;34;07
Speaker 4
So I bring that to that. We don’t fall or join that kind of material. It’s when whatever we do here, just in what is meant, what we now know, what you know to to make your place like last week in we minute this is in the previous make Jeremiah 616 where we commanded to work in talking about working within no know walk the walk working within you spoke about how he came to the garden walking then we to he was walking the word was walking in the garden you walked and then we talked about you know, worked with him and then you have not found it were no so in walked with him and asked

00;55;35;16 – 00;55;51;18
Speaker 4
Abraham to work with him. You’ve been edited and I hope you’ll allow me to. I don’t know how much time I have. I really want to bring this and then come to today. So I’m following these men.

00;55;52;20 – 00;55;53;16
Speaker 1
Think all the time.

00;55;53;16 – 00;55;53;25
Speaker 3
Man.

00;55;54;23 – 00;56;46;25
Speaker 4
Thank you so much. My two women, these men worked with Elohim because walking with him brings about that victory brings about that help brings about that help brings about that salvation brings about that salvation. They worked with him and you took us through that. Jeremiah 616 This these ones who refused, they said, will not walk in it. You stand at the crossroads and look for that pop, look for the route, look for the pathways border from what was a done by other border, from the place where others had walked.

00;56;46;25 – 00;57;28;16
Speaker 4
Now we know in that we challenged to walk. Has the challenge come to us now? To walk within as as as in our time of fellowship, we’ve been dwelling on that is it now also I challenge to walk with him like in of deep like in like Abraham deep. No, I walked with him. That’s what you said. You brought all of them.

00;57;28;29 – 00;57;56;09
Speaker 4
And are that you? I mean you can check with with you know, could that would be in Genesis chapter 524 to 20 3 to 24 or thereabouts. And then and then you go to know you walked with it. Genesis six, there’s nine. And then in the garden he was the walking voice. He came walking Genesis three eight. Do you know in our service you walked in.

00;57;57;06 – 00;58;21;09
Speaker 4
He did. And I’ll put to somebody who may not believe because you see, when we have fellowships like this and we don’t really believe what we are even learning in apply, that’s why I’m bringing the application. What believers who are just talking, talking, no evidence. Of whatever they are talking, you understand what can be that kind of a believer.

00;58;21;09 – 00;58;52;17
Speaker 4
And we are we coming to walk the Torah you walked into let me tell you this from last week’s fellowship right then we had more of the Sabbath in our church. He walked into the service and somebody will be asking how well, maybe, maybe if time allows me, I’ll show you how you walked. Because if you are not challenged, maybe I’m that kind of the pastor.

00;58;52;18 – 00;59;22;27
Speaker 4
Right? And then you come today. I don’t just want to be talking Torah or just be keeping the Sabbath and and then teaching others to do the same. I don’t want to come here every Sabbath. And it ends with me just learning or pouring or receiving, you know, or just discovering about the new teacher without going to apply wave the application.

00;59;24;20 – 00;59;52;08
Speaker 4
What must be coming to apply today? My two woman Today you come and you take us through. You see, I was delayed to come and I’m forgiven for doing today. You come, you take us through number six and you go to Beth 27. Well, he says any place you put my name, any place my title shows up, I will show up there.

00;59;52;10 – 01;00;46;11
Speaker 4
I will be there. And I will want to for me for me that join for me, that joins what you said last week for me that follow any place, wherever you put my name, number 627 and you took us to Exodus 20 best 24. Same thing. I want to put that into practice. I want to put his name and see him show up because I don’t want this to just be something that you have lent.

01;00;46;11 – 01;01;17;10
Speaker 4
All I’m talking about this is not a teaching is beyond that. This is these are not teaching. This is a way of life is is that there are ways of yeah. With these other ways is calling us to does where you put me I show and I’ll exalt you when you walk with me. You said to the children of Islam set up for yourself landmark is the same thing pathways, ways, routes.

01;01;17;10 – 01;01;52;05
Speaker 4
What this fellowship is supposed to do beyond the teaching is to help us set the landmarks so the pathways that will follow the course of life. The course of life. That’s what he said to the children of Caesar. So today, as as as I’ve been listening to you, I would put the other conversations aside, because I’m joining from last week.

01;01;52;12 – 01;02;40;09
Speaker 4
I’m joining from that other week when we started. I’m joining for me. I’m joining the dance we walk. And then we put his name and then he shows up. We see we apply what we are learning. I believe that’s where the wisdom is for sons and daughters of Elohim. I believe that’s where the wisdom is. The sons and daughters of Jehovah.

01;02;40;09 – 01;02;58;18
Speaker 4
I believe that’s where the wisdom is, when we will not apply. You know, there are so many there are so many believers who are now proclaiming the same thing or the same thing, but the fruits are not there. No fruit.

01;03;02;02 – 01;03;40;17
Speaker 4
Nothing shows. This is everlasting. This is everlasting and is full is in the alien for everybody. Can this work?

01;03;40;17 – 01;03;50;02
Speaker 1
Are you off mic on purpose or did you lose signal?

01;03;50;02 – 01;04;22;10
Speaker 4
No. Did I disappear? Can you I mean, I’m thinking this word because when you look at that, Jeremiah 616, it says that the crossroads he says, look for look for the cost of life, consult demand, bow, find out, find it out and then walk in it today. Refuse. Many still don’t walk. Many don’t walk in the Torah they talk about it’s only for talking.

01;04;22;10 – 01;05;08;24
Speaker 4
Many don’t. They don’t walk in the teachings, brothers and sisters, this is not just was true for teach, for teaching. This is not is not for us to just teach or learn. We need to walk in it. We need to walk in the teachings. The instruction manual is for us to walk in. It’s after we have found the pathway says a good way is a good way of doing found that good way.

01;05;10;20 – 01;05;40;20
Speaker 4
The next thing that to follow is to walk in the good way. They refused. I refuse to be like them. So that is how we were challenged as we are participating in partake in this fellowship. That’s how we’re challenged last week and today on on the Morrow after Sabbath, which is a Sunday service to what we want to pull this thing.

01;05;42;07 – 01;05;56;15
Speaker 4
Well, maybe to me, I’m just crazy like that, Gene. I rest and I thank you for the time.

01;05;56;15 – 01;05;58;12
Speaker 1
You always have the time. You too, daughter.

01;05;59;20 – 01;06;00;08
Speaker 3
No, man.

01;06;01;07 – 01;06;29;26
Speaker 1
Always have the time. And I. I’m telling you guys, I am blessed that this woman of God has chosen to walk. For us, to walk together with Jehovah in the 1040 window is why we started it was to see Torah taught to the nations, not Jesus. There’s so much more than that. And so the message is to teach Torah for every culture.

01;06;29;26 – 01;06;30;15
Speaker 1
And then.

01;06;32;24 – 01;06;36;22
Speaker 3
Amen.

01;06;36;22 – 01;07;05;16
Speaker 1
I reference the Scripture in the chat. If you we have the replays on so you can go back and listen to them. Each one builds upon the next one, but it’s not so deep that you can’t come into one. But I put the scriptures there, but we discuss them a lot more in detail in our last weeks class.

01;07;05;16 – 01;07;09;07
Speaker 1
Okay. I am not diverse. Go ahead.

01;07;10;01 – 01;07;39;09
Speaker 4
I know you’re not trying to rush. I don’t know if you see what you’re saying yet. Place my name in. I will come. What happens to our homes when replaces me? What happens to our marriage is our relationship. What happens to our children when we place his name on them? The thing is all I am hammering for, brothers and sisters, is for us to believe this thing.

01;07;41;05 – 01;08;29;01
Speaker 4
Because I tell you, I’ve seen believe or don’t believe what they read. Forget about understanding. They don’t believe it. Therefore why never manifested in their please my name? I will come imagine what happens. What will happen when you place his name on your business. Imagine when his name is name don’t know business name don’t know marriage. Do you think you love all the kinds of challenges you go through in the in the relationships in the marriages that day, the day we started walking into Torah, the day we started doing the Sabbath, I’m telling you, people’s marriages changed.

01;08;29;17 – 01;09;21;25
Speaker 4
Let’s just start a relationship. 11 changed, changed. I’ll tell you about people, some of them that I knew when the verge of divorce that turned around when we applied, he says, also looks into the path of Torah, of liberty notes, being a forgetful hero, not forgetting how he looks like many look into the Torah and forget all they look like it is for doing it is for application, is for us to live.

01;09;21;25 – 01;10;02;04
Speaker 4
Yes, and not forget what we saw, what we received, what we learned and go up like go do do do that. When he says that men that men will be prosperous in all these ways, that men will be successful in all these deeds, whatever you does. When I tell you I’ve looked not looking to go help others, not looking to go tell Allah look for yourself.

01;10;02;04 – 01;10;46;29
Speaker 4
Best applied it for you Has it worked for you? Who look I continuously look and every time I’m reminded of how I look because as in the Torah, where I see how I read, I see myself in the Torah and those who will see them as I’ll see them. So can you see yourself in these teachings? Have you seen yourself in everything that was shed yesterday place his name.

01;10;48;21 – 01;11;18;13
Speaker 4
Well my boyfriend of many years is my husband can tell you I like to Google things I proved them so in our how view as we are listening to you know through these things and today as expected we’ve been at place and we thinking about all the place already. Imagine how our moral of the Sabbath will be like tomorrow.

01;11;18;28 – 01;11;34;08
Speaker 4
I said this had been reignited June.

01;11;34;08 – 01;12;14;13
Speaker 1
Yes. Major daughter Yeah, we have two witnesses. Place his name and he will bless you, sir. Steady those. Walk those out. Jeremiah 616. Jeremiah 616. Isaiah 56 went through eight where our vows this in scriptures we read them the past three we read them each each service. But this one we didn’t quite get to what we went to another way, but be sure that next week we’ll be reading from Jeremiah 616, Isaiah 56, one through eight, and then we’ll jump into our our teaching.

01;12;14;21 – 01;12;51;03
Speaker 1
So that’s how how ruakaka this leads us. So yeah, walk, walk it out. Walk it out. It’s something different. I, I know you’ve been blessed because we have spoken his name, we have placed Jehovah’s name on us and that number is 26, 22, 27. Speak that in your house. Speak that over your car. Speak that and your home.

01;12;51;11 – 01;13;01;26
Speaker 1
Speak that at work where you place his name. He will come.

01;13;01;26 – 01;13;37;00
Speaker 4
I am Regina if I’m allowed to chime in. Yes, you. You have no, I, I’m I I’m going crazy because you bring out I you know what the word of Elohim excites people. You bring out Isaiah 56. Have you seen this six of that of that Isaiah have seen it. And we looked at that as that 56 we’ve been reading from this one to age, if I’m correct.

01;13;37;11 – 01;14;16;08
Speaker 4
But have you since birth six, six, he says, and the Lord says to those foreigners who become part of these people who love him, and seven who observe his, for everybody, who observe the Sabbath and faithfully keep his covenant everlasting, covenant for everybody doesn’t matter right now. So there should be no debate here. There’s absolutely no need or place for debate whether this is for us or not, for us.

01;14;16;08 – 01;14;38;19
Speaker 4
Oh, you’ve got to read it. Let me let me see. You’ve got to read you you you’ve you’ve got to go check about Isaiah is look look me. I can tell you we are proving this. We are not putting it. We are putting it. That’s where the walking comes in. That is where the walking comes in. Oh, let me open it.

01;14;38;19 – 01;15;02;10
Speaker 4
Let me go quickly then I’ll just read the 606 throws me out of the window I tell you and the Lord said, that’s what it says, that to those foreigners who become part of these people. Now, if now know what that Lord is, you’re not a blessed event when you have come to that level. It it, it doesn’t matter anyway.

01;15;02;10 – 01;15;34;08
Speaker 4
You take it this way and the Lord says to those foreigners who become part of these people who love it and seven who observe the Sabbath and faithfully keep his government. I bring you to Zion, my sacred. You give you joy in my house of prayer and accept the sacrifices you offer on my out. My temple will be called the House of Prayer for the people of all nations, not for the Jews, not for Israel.

01;15;34;08 – 01;16;08;15
Speaker 4
Oh, well, South Africa. Lord, thank you for counting us that we are coming today. We are part of this. This is what scuttles the whole room in our house. And we take the children, we line them up. So you are counted. You are among these people. Among them, we are the people. Well, and the kids.

01;16;08;15 – 01;16;14;14
Speaker 2
You don’t have the glitz. Oh, God.

01;16;14;14 – 01;17;04;02
Speaker 3
Oh, vacation I I’m listening and service and application and I’m listening because when we when you read the Torah, it’s got to be it’s what it pulsates. It’s a renewing of your mind. It’s you. You you cannot read the Torah and not apply it. Just that just doesn’t make no sense. Okay, example I’m doing, we’re coming in. I’m proclaiming Pesach right now.

01;17;05;06 – 01;17;43;21
Speaker 3
If you are reading Torah, you have to have the application. Yes. And I’m listening because I then look back to the first time that I did Pesach last year and my sister, who’s talking about application, you think to myself, it’s so true because you cannot read Torah, you cannot study without application. And I thought that to Pesach last year when I did the fullness of it.

01;17;43;21 – 01;18;13;18
Speaker 3
And let me tell you, on a personal level, I felt like I was one with our creator, he who created a heaven and earth and created each and every one of us and placed us in this earth for a reason. That application of going through the you know, with the lamb and understanding it and applying it in terms of baking your lamb.

01;18;13;18 – 01;18;47;16
Speaker 3
And you know, for me personally, Torah, you cannot understand live Torah. It gave me a better understanding of who Yeshua how much he is. So I’m just, I’m just a green application and this brought me right back to when I was doing Pesach and what that meant for me in terms of applying what I knew and understanding it gave me nothing.

01;18;47;17 – 01;19;20;10
Speaker 3
In fact, I don’t even think I can explain it properly. The spiritual understanding and the, the, the, the, the, the application gave me more understanding and, and made me feel as if I was walking with him. Yes. So I’m just kind of. Yeah. Give you my personal point of view so it you take over. But yeah, that just came to my mind and then needs to speak.

01;19;20;10 – 01;19;29;29
Speaker 1
Amen. Doreen, I saw you come off Mike, I’m sorry.

01;19;29;29 – 01;19;44;12
Speaker 3
I don’t usually speak, but just to say I’ve enjoyed everything that has been spoken today and it’s really has helped me a great deal. Thank you very much. Much appreciate it.

01;19;46;29 – 01;20;11;03
Speaker 1
The whole the gets all the glory for that. Thank you. Thank you for being with us. And those of you who’ve just joined us, we we are usually here for only 2 hours. And but the replays are on if you want to catch up. All the things we can’t possibly summarize, everything that we talked about and it was a lot, but there are some really good tools to look at her.

01;20;11;03 – 01;20;44;14
Speaker 1
She’s running. There are a lot of good tools to help you with your Hebrew and Hebrew teachers who are reputable and who speak, read, write the language and do not follow Judaism in its oral Torah. We talk about all of that in our in our conversation that we had today, because we want you to understand fully, you know, and I am just beginning to learn.

01;20;44;14 – 01;21;06;17
Speaker 1
So and I’m just sharing with you a lot of the tools that I’ve already found in the people that I have found to be trustworthy, which you can listen to so and learn from. And there’s a lot of free material out there. They have so much. So you’re going to be overwhelmed with what you can learn. And let me tell you something funny.

01;21;06;17 – 01;21;24;20
Speaker 1
She’s not in the room, Doreen. She left. She’s like, I have to go. Like, I need to study. Exodus 20. She’s using the mechanical translation that I gave that I shared with you guys. She’s like, It’s so good. And then she text me like 15 minutes ago. She’s like, Oh, I had to go back and start at Genesis one.

01;21;25;06 – 01;21;51;27
Speaker 1
So she left so she could get into the mechanical translation and and begin to look at the scriptures, the Hebrew with the Hebrew, and begin to understand it better. So yeah, where are you places his name. And that is the Old Haven. Hey And I told you guys, I’m going to tell you why it’s an unspoken name and then we’re going close the room.

01;21;53;03 – 01;22;30;27
Speaker 1
Okay. All right. So I think I have a greater appreciation for Judaism as I’ve learned more about their history and their culture. I think and and I can’t even really say this, as you know, there have been all colors of people who have been enslaved who have gone through mass murdering in their history. Esther can tell you about her.

01;22;30;27 – 01;22;54;20
Speaker 1
People in Vietnam. I’m sure people from South Africa can tell you about their people in America. We could talk about slavery, but even more so, we need to talk about the Native Americans that we slaughtered and we took their land. And I say we because I’m an American, but I wasn’t there and I wasn’t European, you know, so one could say that I had nothing to do with it, but I’m just talking about history.

01;22;55;26 – 01;23;33;14
Speaker 1
And so there’s got to be an appreciation and a deeper understanding for the type of punishment and disbursement and taking away of their culture and their language and their tongue and killing them. And even as Christians, we killed them and they killed us. And and there’s that. But one of the things I really began to appreciate as I was beginning to study Hebrew more from Hebrew scholars who speak, read and write it, who are not coming from the oral lore to to.

01;23;33;18 – 01;24;15;17
Speaker 1
But they were sharing with us and they share different parts of history of what happened. And even when, like Jeff Benner, who I told you is the ancient Hebrew resource, he’s doing the paleo Hebrew. So that’s with the pictograms. And he’s got some excellent PDF books, eBooks, $4, $6. I’m telling you, I’m telling you the just understanding a better and deeper understanding of what the Hebrew words mean has been amazing.

01;24;15;17 – 01;24;41;12
Speaker 1
To help me understand as I’m reading. So anyways, the name of your Hova was always to be spoken. And Andrea, thank you for asking that question about Axis 27, about not taking the name of the Lord God in vain, because vain meant falsely and it means something different. And if you understand it, you learn a little bit more about the Hebrew.

01;24;41;12 – 01;25;13;28
Speaker 1
Listen to some teachers, you’ll see that it’s it’s much deeper than that. A name has to do more with character than it does just a label. Our modern Western mindset just puts a label. Amen. Our modern our modern Western time just puts a label, you know, on things like names mean something. Now we name our children Mercedes and Jaguar and all these these other names that we have gone through.

01;25;14;07 – 01;25;41;11
Speaker 1
Certain cultures don’t take value in giving a name. Other cultures take very deep, great value, meaning a name because it describes a character, describes who you are. And so when when he approaches Moses and he’s like, Who do I say that? He says, I am, I am that I am, I exist, I’m here. Present, past and future names are about character.

01;25;41;26 – 01;26;05;00
Speaker 1
So I don’t also want you to think that you just go in and write the name of of Jehovah, the George VI. He put it on your wall in oh the name is here now. It’s much deeper than that because it’s about character, it’s about who he is, what it represents. It’s not just the, the visual representation of his name.

01;26;06;21 – 01;26;45;27
Speaker 1
It is putting the care picture of who he is. Right. You cannot define him just any type of way. It’s not just a name, it is a character. And it should be reverence because it’s powerful. It is absolutely powerful. So the Hebrews that you say they spoke his name out loud, they declared his name. Even if you look in the Talmud, remember I explained to you that the Talmud is a larger collection of books which have the mission The Midrash and the Gomorrah.

01;26;45;28 – 01;27;06;22
Speaker 1
I didn’t talk to you about the Gomorrah at this another time, but you can study it. Just look up, just go through and look at two or three different references, and I’m going to do a paper, a writing on it. But just to understand, what is the Talmud, right? Which has the Mishnah, the Midrash and the the Gomorrah in it?

01;27;07;19 – 01;27;34;12
Speaker 1
Because they don’t believe that they could understand that the Torah on their own. So they pronounced his name, they spoke his name. You’ll see everywhere in in the Tanakh in the Old Testament, where they placed his name, they said as Lord Guy, God Lilith. Right. That’s them saying Jehovah they were making an a proclamation. But what happened as they were being persecuted, which makes sense, right?

01;27;34;12 – 01;28;00;10
Speaker 1
If you think of it, if you look at the history of your your country, I don’t know the history of everyone’s country, but whenever there was some type of persecution, you always strip them of their culture. Right. We can talk about in America and we can talk about how we what did we do to the Native Americans? The Americans.

01;28;01;03 – 01;28;35;28
Speaker 1
We took their land. Then we forced them to go to American schools, to give up their dress, to give up their culture, to give up their names. I mean, it’s not that far away for those who live in the United States to have a history of how a dominant country came into a people that lived in the land, took their land, put them on smaller pieces of land, took away their rights, their culture, gave them blankets with measles to kill them off with sickness, got them hooked on alcohol and drugs.

01;28;35;28 – 01;29;05;13
Speaker 1
We did that. Human beings did that to other human beings, atrocious. We can talk about the slave trade, whether it’s from Africa to the U.S. or Africa to somewhere else, or Jamaica or the islands, slavery and any part in any. And it’s just been everywhere. So what happened was that as nations took over, they forbid them to practice their faith, right?

01;29;05;27 – 01;29;37;17
Speaker 1
So when they now remember, I can’t go back over everything. But for those who are just joining, there’s something about the oral father Mishnah, the authority that rabbis have so you just have to to go back and listen. But for those of you are with me, you understand that the rabbis were given that kind of authority in the earth, but when they were being tortured, what happened was there was a particular rabbi.

01;29;37;17 – 01;30;09;07
Speaker 1
The Romans started to take over that for obey them to teach the Torah and to say the name of God. So now we in America can be like, Oh, they took the Ten Commandments down. Oh, they took this off. But we’re like, Oh, but we have in God we trust on our money, you know? So you understand that that kind of idea that they had established in their culture and where they were living, that they could speak the name, they could teach, they they had religious freedoms until the Romans came in, if I can put it that way.

01;30;10;11 – 01;30;35;23
Speaker 1
And then they were forbidden. And most of all, they were forbidden to say the name of your Hova. Now, only at that time they believed that it really should only be spoken in the sanctuary or introduce me in the synagogue by the priests. Right. That Was their teaching and it was a holy name. But they would say it in there.

01;30;36;15 – 01;31;03;23
Speaker 1
They would say it with the Aryan blessing that they would do, but then as they were being assaulted and war against with the Romans, what happened was there was a priest in a city who was teaching a Torah in the public square. And to make an example of him, which they often did, they forced Jews to convert to Catholicism.

01;31;03;23 – 01;31;28;08
Speaker 1
They told him that, what are you doing? And he said, I’m teaching the Koran, I’m speaking on the name of you, Hova. So what they did is they forced him to carry a cross walk through the city town with the cross on his back, a big cross like, you know when I talk like a big, big wooden pole on his shoulder and dragged in the dirt, that’s how big it was.

01;31;28;19 – 01;32;03;23
Speaker 1
And they would whip him this is before you sure. This is hundreds of years before Yeshua and when I was reading the story I’m like, well, that’s not quite how these. But then I realized that torturing people, hanging them up, whipping them is, is, is not new, right. And so what they did is not only did they burn him at the stake, so they forced him, whipped him, he walked through the streets so people could see him.

01;32;04;23 – 01;32;31;10
Speaker 1
They hung him up on this pole and they put branches around that they were going to light on fire. But what they did was they wet, they took cloths of wool and they dipped it and soaked it in water and they tied those cloths around his chest so that he would burn longer and suffer more and they could hear his screams all through the town.

01;32;32;07 – 01;32;58;01
Speaker 1
But they I mean, it’s why don’t you just kill him, you know what I mean? But no, they why don’t you just let him burn? But no, you had to put water over his heart and over his chest so that he would be in indoor pain longer. After that, the rabbis made a decree that you will never speak the name out loud again because they didn’t want their people dying.

01;32;58;01 – 01;33;17;13
Speaker 1
So what happens is it becomes part of tradition, part of what do they do? Oh, we’re not going to do that because and I bet you if you go back in your own history of your people, your ethnicity, you can find some kind of torture or abuse or something that that you ended up doing, that you and that are still kind of traditions today.

01;33;18;06 – 01;33;42;21
Speaker 1
Right. That you honor or you celebrate or you think about. Right. And so I don’t blame them for coming to a point where like, just we cannot say that out loud. And in fact, they wouldn’t say it out loud at all. And in order to remember it, because remember, if your whole language and all your historical documents are burned, how do you remember history?

01;33;44;08 – 01;34;03;11
Speaker 1
Someone’s going to talk to someone else. Maybe there’s you know, and they didn’t have the Google and the Internet, you know, they didn’t have facsimiles, they didn’t have emails. They didn’t have any way to share all of this, you know, to communicate with one another. So there are rabbis made rules and laws to protect them and things that they did.

01;34;03;11 – 01;34;30;01
Speaker 1
And there became this trust on their religious figures. We can a lot of us can relate to having that kind of awesome trust in our pastors, in our faith, in our denomination. And we find out they’re not telling us the truth and we’re shocked and all of this. But my point being is that we put this kind of of trust, we put kind of trust in our governors and our presidents and our elected officials.

01;34;30;16 – 01;34;56;24
Speaker 1
Right. Because we think they’re upholding the law. They’re doing this. So humans are frail. But the point being is there came a specific time and event that really had them spread throughout all their lands and their nations and wherever they were that you do not speak the name out loud because we don’t want to die. And then it kind of morphed into some other things which you really need to lead and listen to some history on it.

01;34;56;24 – 01;35;21;20
Speaker 1
I’m not as good as telling the story because it was not my story. It was not something that I, you know, I studied and I know. But that’s kind of where it got going. But the problem now is, is that’s not their situation now, but yet they still will not speak the name out loud. And they believe because their rabbi is their put it their Sanhedrin.

01;35;22;00 – 01;35;47;04
Speaker 1
So it’s like their Supreme Court, their highest authority made this law. And they only believe that when that high authority comes together that they can reverse the law. That’s how much they honor the authority in their faith and in their world. So some of them may want to speak it, but they won’t break the law. Now, is it a note manmade, laws?

01;35;47;07 – 01;36;10;16
Speaker 1
You can learn about that. Sure. It was. Take a note for them to say that because it’s not in the Bible anywhere that you’re not allowed to speak it in the Torah. But they made that law for their safety like, oh, okay, I can get that. But it’s not an issue now. But because only a powerful group of their authorities put that law in place, only that powerful group of authority can reverse it.

01;36;11;09 – 01;36;33;10
Speaker 1
And they believe that when the Messiah comes that their authority realm, that new heaven in that new earth, that we as as Christians look at, that they’re looking for, that they believe Messiah is coming and he’s going to set up a new heaven, a new earth, and he’s going to rule. They believe it’s like they skipped that part, the messiah, when he was born and walking there.

01;36;33;11 – 01;36;51;29
Speaker 1
But they believe he’s coming. We believe he’s coming again. But if we could get to that point of him coming, they believe he’s coming and he’s going to set up an earthly ministry with a new heaven and a new earth. And they believe once he does that that their authorities will be there and they’ll reverse it, and then they’ll be able to say the name out loud.

01;36;52;20 – 01;37;15;28
Speaker 1
And for most of them, even in that sense, the name is Jehovah. So it’s not that they don’t know that or believe that, but they don’t believe that they have the authority to do that they need to wait until Messiah comes, that their authority is set up, and then that authority will reverse all the things had happened before.

01;37;17;17 – 01;37;38;19
Speaker 1
Maybe next week we’ll talk about the calendar and how we how how you judge the the biblical calendar, God’s calendar, as opposed to what man has done. But there are things that they know are to be done, but they won’t do it because they don’t have their Supreme Court in place to reverse the laws that were put in place.

01;37;38;26 – 01;38;00;25
Speaker 1
Now, we could say, well, the first laws were wrong in the first place, but, you know, you don’t just walk into a group of people and you haven’t lived that life with them and you’re trying to tell them they’ve got people within their own group, their own seed who are arguing with them themselves about, you know, we should say the name, this should be the true calendar.

01;38;00;25 – 01;38;27;18
Speaker 1
So even within that, you know, so who are we as outsiders to come in and be like, well, you know, you’re just wrong? No, let’s just respect and honor where they are because, you know, where does and know that. Okay. You believe when Messiah comes back, when he comes back, when he comes, he’s going to set these things up and we’re all going to speak his name with one voice, one language.

01;38;29;03 – 01;38;36;28
Speaker 1
So that’s why they don’t say the name out loud anymore. Good.

01;38;38;00 – 01;38;40;11
Speaker 3
Thank you.

01;38;41;24 – 01;39;15;11
Speaker 1
You’re welcome. So for those of you who just came in, if you’ve not, there’s a link up on our Web site, the 1040 Window. There’s an article I wrote on Jehovah, Jesus, Yeshua. And what I do is just go through and I list other references that you can go to who speak about this and they’ll show you documents, they’ll talk to you about language, they’ll give you a visual display so that you can learn.

01;39;15;11 – 01;39;38;29
Speaker 1
And a lot of this is available because even some of them were your way speakers and and we believe in this room I’m not going to argue there’s no debate about Yahweh or you Hova. If you say you are fine. If you say Lord, fine, because we are talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. If we believe that we’re good, you know, you work it out with your own self salvation.

01;39;39;00 – 01;40;15;25
Speaker 1
You work that out. It’s okay. Yahweh knows and we’ve talked about in Psalm 44, 20 like 19 through 21 that even if we call him with another name or by another God name, what is our heart saying? What if we don’t know? Many of us don’t know. Hebrew. Jehovah knows that. He knows that. We don’t know. Now, those teachers who’ve done those things, you know, Yahweh mercy on them, Jehovah have mercy on them.

01;40;16;15 – 01;40;30;11
Speaker 1
When I’m in other rooms I say Yahweh, when I’m in certain rooms I say Jehovah, one of my other places, I say Lord, because as long as I know we’re all talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, we’re good.

01;40;30;11 – 01;40;37;19
Speaker 3
We’re good, we’re good, we’re good. Uh.

01;40;39;00 – 01;41;19;24
Speaker 1
Amen. Amen. Oh, so. Okay, any questions? Take down the notes, but you can always go to the replay and get the scripture verses again. Anyone else want to share door? You’ve been quiet. Coffee. You want to say anything, Mr. Jackie? Shabbat shalom to you. Anyone want to say anything? If I may. Of course you may.

01;41;21;16 – 01;42;00;16
Speaker 3
I originally was just joining this this group just to see if I could glean a little knowledge and understanding to to enhance my worship and develop me as a child of him. And today I have been fed. Oh, my gosh, I have been fed so much. The when your daughter was talking, you know, that that really did inspire me because she’s right.

01;42;00;26 – 01;42;41;25
Speaker 3
We do to do more than just talk the talk. We have to commit. We have to live what we are seeing, what we are hearing, what we are understanding. And I just want to praise in a way and, you know, thank him for being in this space, being in Sabbath, and for really being able to do as he commanded, that I can sit in this space in his rest and just study his word and understand him.

01;42;42;19 – 01;42;50;18
Speaker 3
So we way be praised and thank you happy.

01;42;51;12 – 01;42;52;06
Speaker 1
Go ahead coffee.

01;42;52;27 – 01;42;54;06
Speaker 2
I Shabbat.

01;42;54;06 – 01;43;02;05
Speaker 3
Shalom everyone it is was just a treat and it was just one of the many gifts.

01;43;02;05 – 01;43;04;17
Speaker 1
Of Sabbath. I just came in.

01;43;05;00 – 01;43;30;27
Speaker 3
And this is my first time and it was it was overwhelming with the amount of knowledge and teaching that I got. And it was and so many resources and some a website to go to when I have like basically resource questions. So I just wanted to thank you and everybody who.

01;43;31;21 – 01;43;32;15
Speaker 1
Spoke a lot of.

01;43;32;15 – 01;43;42;13
Speaker 3
People as and questions from their questions that day and so thanks everyone and enjoy Shabbat.

01;43;45;18 – 01;44;34;11
Speaker 1
Sabbath alone. Thank you. So many of us are under the same apostle and we will be back again to study with our apostle. We give honor to him in his absence and I am so grateful to be covered by him and to have him as a teacher. Malachi 111 It’s another formative scripture for actually the 1040 window, it says, from the rising of the sun, even until the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering for my name shall be great.

01;44;34;16 – 01;45;09;01
Speaker 1
Among the heathen, says the Lord of hosts, is his intention for everyone to know his name. It is his tension for the Gentiles to know his name. The only way we would know that is if we were taught. And so, again, I just thank him for those teachers who have stepped forward years before I found them. Like I said, when you go and look at their material, some of their material is 20 years old.

01;45;09;22 – 01;45;39;25
Speaker 1
Some Of them have been walking through this, you know, for 30 years. I just come upon them. And so it’s like, well, nudity, you know and now you’re just coming upon it. It’s like new to you. But it’s been there, right? And so information understanding is progressive. We never stop learning. Right. And so if we don’t continue to learn, we may be stuck only talking about what it is that we know at that time and what we know at that current time.

01;45;39;25 – 01;45;54;24
Speaker 1
Does it mean that it’s wrong? But we’re always to keep going, to keep learning, to learn more. And I am appreciative, as many of you said, for Sabbath for that time not to. But you’re going to have to study, going to tell you that you’re going to have to study outside of Sabbath.

01;45;55;26 – 01;45;56;05
Speaker 2
Because.

01;45;56;29 – 01;46;16;06
Speaker 1
I do a lot of reading and studying and stuff outside of Sabbath, too. I mean, if you just do only do it on Sabbath, it’ll just take you longer. You can still get it. And that doesn’t mean that things aren’t multiplied some times in Sabbath, like, you know, two or 3 hours in Sabbath could be, you know, like 7 hours outside of the week, right.

01;46;16;06 – 01;46;41;17
Speaker 1
So there is I believe that there is multiplication, but if you want to to grow and to soak in it more, you’re just going to have to read outside of Sabbath. But you can still get a lot in Sabbath. And so I’m just telling you, my process, there is a lot of reading outside of Sabbath, and I’ve been keeping Sabbath only for six or seven years now.

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Speaker 1
So it’s different for me. And some of you have been keeping Sabbath for 30 years.

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Speaker 2
You know.

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Speaker 1
So I could be a baby compared to you. Yes, Minister Jackie. Good.

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Speaker 3
Shabbat shalom. I can only say that now we’re being so intentional. I had no intentions of coming into this room because one thing I am really trying to do is to be more intentional with my time on Sabbath and study, because deal with our busy lives and family and work and craziness of the world in which we live.

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Speaker 3
We often don’t have that time, but I truly some things I have heard before but I’m ever wanted to study and I give you all my thanks and praise for Apostle and being part of that ministry. I remember the first time I we I said to him how am I how how am I going to do all of this?

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Speaker 3
And he said three things. Sit down, get Bible, get a concordance. Oh fourth said, get a lexicon and to style it. I made out that I knew what the lexicon was. I figured out that that a resource to assist my learning and I was like, Well, earth is a lexicon. How am I going to do all of these things?

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Speaker 3
And I was embarrassed to say that concordance is a massive book that was in a cupboard which had been in the cupboard for 20 years because I never bothered, because what you get within certain ministries is only you only get fed on one day a week for an hour or 2 hours, and it is not enough. And so all of us on this platform, we our lives have been touched in such a wonderful way, as you always and in us together and and allowing us to share this knowledge and this learning and I and shortness in.

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Speaker 3
So all the resources that have been shared today. Absolutely. I would like to come research and I think that’s what all of us want do. But I just give you all my praise for International Sabbath Fellowship and for what he is doing through your lives and through our ministry and through our leaders, because we are not satisfied and even when we are still learning, we still want more.

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Speaker 3
And that is a good place. And I also have to just say to acknowledge major stories such so humbling to hear you speak this morning. We want more of that. You’ll be praised and you’ll be praised for your life out of and for your efforts. And can I just say, from being part of this ministry, what I have learned is how much time I used to occupy my day with entertainment.

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Speaker 3
And so now I’ve changed that into time for education. So I no longer sit in front of the television as I used to. But I’m trying to study and trying to get around groups this of other people who wish to study as well, because we haven’t yet even scratched the surface. And it’s so encouraging to. Find so many people that are on this journey along with us.

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Speaker 3
So yeah, baby price for each and every one of you and we’ll see you later as we come together. Full Sack of study under Duress Kingdom Ministries. Thank you to Regina.

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Speaker 1
You are most welcome, Minister Jackie. Most welcome. I’ve made your daughter. She’s like.

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Speaker 2
Yes, yes.

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Speaker 1
Yeah. It’s about study. It’s one of the things that was very important about the Sabbath fellowship when I was talking to you about doing it. And see, look, I said, Yeah. And sometimes I say a well, you know, so.

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Speaker 3
The.

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Speaker 1
We know who I’m talking about. It is that there was study that was so key. We have to study and I, I wanted to give the tools so that you use them. So next week when we come back and only like, okay, who wants to read from the mechanical translation? At least there’ll be a small core of people who’ll be like, Oh yeah, I know what that is, you know?

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Speaker 1
And like, okay, you know, let’s look up in the concordance, how many places? So next week we’re going to talk about yeah, how many times the name of your Hova is done in the prophetic and the poetic they call it form of. Yeah. And the thing is is nowhere in your King James Bible do you know when it’s yeah there’s like one or two places where it actually says Jah, right?

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Speaker 1
But other than that, it’s covered up with Jehovah or Lord, but they’re talking. Yeah. And so we’re going to look at that and I’m excited to look at that and just begin. But again, so you know, watch some videos and the Blue Letter Bible, there’s lots of them I’m going to do some don’t get way down in a whole bunch of stuff that.

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Speaker 1
It can do because it can do so many things. Just begin by being comfortable looking up. If you see the word Lord and you want to know, is that the yoke Lord? Hey, you know, if you see the word wariness or grace, what other places does it have? The word grace? You look up that word. You remember I showed you how to turn on the Strong’s, right?

01;52;38;08 – 01;52;59;27
Speaker 1
So you can see the number. If you see the number, you can just type in the number and it’ll show you every place that that word shows up in the Bible. So if you want to study about Esau or Canaan, when did Canaan first exist? Hey, I’m the sights, the breath, you know, whatever. So all that is there.

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Speaker 1
All that is there. Oh, okay. So yes, I’m going to rest because we all know our apostle is going to.

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Speaker 2
He’s.

01;53;10;13 – 01;53;31;03
Speaker 1
Going to stuff a whole nother meal down us. So yes, we come here to study, we meet here every Sabbath. We meet at 4 a.m., which is very early for me. But I do that because it’s international. So it’s important that those who are international, who are still in there, Sabbath, can have a place where we come in.

01;53;31;03 – 01;54;11;01
Speaker 1
We can just really study and talk and look at things and be like, Oh, you know, Andrea, you asked me really good questions. So that’s what we do. We’re just going to study and talk about as Major taught us how to apply that. How do you how do you walk that out? Anything else before we leave, Major, your daughter, can you speak numbers 22, number six, 22, 27 over us.

01;54;11;01 – 01;54;53;02
Speaker 1
Can you say that I know you? She has children and they’re young, is a busy household. Is that a yes or a no major daughter? Number six, 22 to 27. If not, I’ll do it and we’ll just have to take turns in our rooms when we have them. Somebody else can read it has the power of it is the words.

01;54;53;02 – 01;55;30;23
Speaker 1
Okay, she can’t right now. All right, so I’ll do it. And then next week we’ll ask someone else and here we go. And so, you know, I spoke unto Moses saying, speaking to Aaron and under his son, saying on this wise, you shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them Jehovah, bless the and keep the you Hova make his face to shine upon the and be gracious unto the Jehovah Lift up his countenance upon the and give the peace, and they shall put my name upon the children of Israel and I will bless them.

01;55;30;23 – 01;55;55;01
Speaker 1
I think it’s so important sometimes we stop at 26, but it’s so important to get 27 and they shall put my name upon children of Israel and I will bless them. So blessings to you. This room will end in five, four, three, two and one. Shabbat shalom.

01;55;55;01 – 01;55;55;19
Speaker 3
Shalom

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Aaronic Benediction/ The Priestly Blessing

10-40 Admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:16:24 +0000

Nehemia Gordon speaks on the topic of the Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:23-27 and about the of Mixed Seed in reference to the God’s people mixing worship of Him with false religions throughout history. Recorded May 16, 2011 at El Shaddai in Tacoma.

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International Sabbath Fellowship – 04 (1st half)

Regina Roundtree — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:58:36 +0000

We have added the transcript below to help with translation and the hearing impared community.

Saturday Jan 28, 2023 w/ Elder Regina Roundtree

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Okay.

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Esther, will you pray for us?

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And yes, you can pray in Vietnamese.

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Of course.

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You always know.

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That. Yes.

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Thank you.

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Vietnamese

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Vietnamese

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vietnamese

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vietnamese Yes, sure, I’m here.

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I mean,

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Amen

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Amen. Thank you.

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Thank you for that.

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So let’s do a little review.

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Who remembers?

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We talked about a lot of things last week.

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Is there one thing that stood out to you
last week about what we

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we talked about in our study?

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Even if you went
and listened to the replay,

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is there anything that stood out to you
about what we talked about

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last week?

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So much alone.

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She go.

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How are you?

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Shabbat shalom, everyone.

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I’m good, thank you.

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Sorry, I was just sharing your room.

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Yeah, no problem.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Nobody, huh?

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Okay.

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Well, as we had done

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in a few previous classes,
we started off in Isaiah 56,

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one through eight,

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and it’s kind of our launching pad
for a little while

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because it’s so important

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to understand who

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we are in relationship to Elohim.

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And then we ended off in

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Exodus 17

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and we went through that chapter
talking about

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how the covenant was

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given in more detail to Abraham

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with the the requirement of circumcision

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for all the males.

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And we talked about how

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even though the promise

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has been or the covenant has been

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to his seed, that there were

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other people that were not his seed

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that were brought into the covenant.

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Covenant with the act of circumcision.

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So it wasn’t something that was particular

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only to those of the bloodline,

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although it was going to be the bloodline
that was going to carry the blessing.

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It was particular

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that in order
to show your covenant connection

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to Elohim,

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you needed to make sure

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that you,

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you needed to make sure that you

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were circumcised
in order to to be connected.

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So let’s go to Isaiah 56.

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Where’s my hip?

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Okay, let’s go to Isaiah 56.

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Went through eight.

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His will refresh our minds with that

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and then we’ll take any thoughts
that anyone had.

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And then we’ll go right into Exodus 17,
talking about the Covenant.

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Remember our theme over this series for

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you know,
the next few weeks will continue to be

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understand, adding that even though

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that Elohim has promised this covenant

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to us, to all of humanity,

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but he had to pick somebody

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to be the representative

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who he could have a deep relationship
with as an example

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of what it meant to to walk with Elohim.

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And we talked about
walking in Jeremiah. 616

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So anyone want to read

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Isaiah 56 one through eight Esther,
can you read for me?

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Yes, just

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it. Okay.

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And has that the law

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it we just men and do justice

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for my salvation is needed to come

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and my righteousness to be revealed lives.

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This is the men that does is

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the son of man that lays whole on.

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It’s that he does that from unloading it

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and keep his hand from doing

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and any evil need

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to let the son of a stranger

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that had to him so to

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yeah we speak saying

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yeah we had a totally separate me
from his people

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neither let the end notes they behold

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I am a dry tree for two sat

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yeah way into the

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end nook that keep my sabat

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and choose the things that please me

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and take hold of my covenant

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even unto them we I keep in mind how

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and with doing my way of play

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that a name that the
then a son and a daughter.

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I will give them an everlasting

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name that so not be kept up.

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It’s also the son of the stranger

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that chide themselves to yeah, way

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to serve him and love the name of

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yeah way to be has served even

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every one keep the Sabbath
from polluting it

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and take coal up my covenant.

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Even them will I bring to my holy mountain
and make them joyful

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in my house of prayer,

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their burn offering and their sacrifice.

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So they accepted a Padma

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my altar for mine house
so be call on house a

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pray for all people the Lord

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God with gather

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the outcasts of is as that yet

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I will, I gather added to him

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beside those that I gathered unto him,

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all ye beasts of the feel

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come to devote, yeah,

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all ye beasts in the forest

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his watch men belie they are

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and they are dumb the

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and cannot but sleep thing

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lying down, loving to slumber Yes,

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they agreed the dark

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with can never have enough

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and they sleep,
but that cannot understand.

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They look to their own way.

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Everyone saw his in from his what?

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What the one to come.

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They say they I will fit.

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Why and we will feel
as so with strong doing

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and to morrow so these as they say,

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and much more abundant, I find is that.

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Thank you.

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I think you went further than eight.

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Yeah, a little bit, but that’s okay.

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Oh, really?

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Sorry. No, that’s okay.

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That’s okay.

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One of the reason I’m trying to wait
for a major daughter to get here

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because she said she’s on the phone,
you know, and she’ll be right here.

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One of the reasons
that it was important to me to

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I felt that

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having an international Sabbath fellowship

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and hearing from different countries
and different dialects,

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hearing different accents
kind of reminds us that

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our language, the way we talk, is

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not the only way in the world.

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If I could just share a testimony
with you,

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I grown up and lived
all my life in America

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and about this maybe going six years now

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every year I want to keep saying
five years, but I’d always add the year.

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So it may have been six years, six
and a half years ago

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when I went to Vietnam to visit

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and I had only intended to

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stay about four or five weeks
and then return,

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and I fell in love with the country.

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I believe that God had

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something special for me to do there.

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And so I never left.

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And probably

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if it wasn’t for COVID,
I don’t know that I would have come back.

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I still loved Southeast Asia,

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I loved Vietnam and the people

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and the country. I felt like it.

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The land healed me.

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So anyone ever gone, any place

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like even if you just like gone out
to nature or to park

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or to the beach and you felt different.

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Like you felt like
you connected with the universe.

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Anyone have a testimony like that
or something they can share?

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She can go ahead.

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Okay.

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So, so personally,
I find that on a Sunday in the morning.

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So I have a puppy. Right.

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That lives with me now
due to circumstances my son is not here.

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Right.

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But on a Sunday
we tend to take a walk out in nature.

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So I choose different places every week.

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Right.

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And so whether it is near lake

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or very mountainous or nature,

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but I find that is the time
it is easiest for me to speak to you.

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I don’t know.

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I just find it during that time.

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It is
there’s just so much hearing and it’s

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my mind is just so much clearer.

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And I just find that
that is just like such a sacred space.

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So for me, especially all early
in the mornings, we tend to take a walk

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really early, like five in the morning,
and then we surrounded by nature.

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That time I find is just,

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I don’t know, it’s just

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recouping, restoring,
and it’s just beautiful.

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Unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance
to travel the world

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and there are such beautiful places
outside of South Africa,

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which I’d like to see.

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I mean, within South Africa I’ve been
but I mean, outside

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of South Africa,
which definitely I would like to see.

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But yeah, that is just me.

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Thank you.

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Esther, what about you?

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I’m making the talk today.

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You know that
I am traveling for tree and tree country

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like Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia

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and it country to have it different.

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Like like in Malaysia
they have tree fallen within there,

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but they have the

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the the general language is
English natives that speak English

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and then they have another school
for its people, like for Malaysia, people

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from Chinese, Chinese have two languages,
they have

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Cantonese and do and

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Cantonese and Mandarin.

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Yes. And, and also for the India people,

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they have the Hindi for the black,
they call that is black India.

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And for the white India,
they have another language.

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And I feel like,
oh, they have a lot of language.

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And then I learn from there a lot,
especially my English

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is learned from Malaysia.

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So only when I was in Malaysia

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I have changed to speak English
and then learn English from there.

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So for me, Malaysia is just like a second
country for me and then got us.

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Yeah.

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We also changed me a lot during that time
when I was there

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because I alone, no family, no friend.

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And you know, I have I,
I have to depend on God

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and then ask us for everything
so that is film

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my relationship with him. And

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I find out like

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Malaysia language
is just like ten deep percent.

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My own language is like exactly like
Malaysia

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and I learn the history
and then find out like my people

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even that we live in Vietnam,
but our ancestor is from Malaysia.

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We come to Vietnam.

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That is an interest for me.

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That’s right.

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I feel like Malaysia is my my country.

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And I went to another country

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like some boarding even that that company
very close to Vietnam.

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But there is a lot of people, too.

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They live in the jungles just like us.

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And, you know, the way they do agriculture

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and then the way they talk
about the agriculture and then how they

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they bring the first fruit to their own
got even.

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That is not funny.

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Yeah we but I learned

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that is like they just do

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the thing that yeah we sat in the Bible
even they don’t know him

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just like that

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I you.

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Know that’s good.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for that.

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And so

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what happened?

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Obviously, I ended up staying up
five years in Vietnam.

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And I also got a chance
to travel to Malaysia,

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Singapore and Hong Kong.

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Never only went to Cambodia, just
across the border to renew my passport.

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And so Cambodia
and Vietnam share a border.

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Malaysia is an island,
so you have to get there.

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But islands, Singapore
kind of doesn’t Singapore collect Vietnam,

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connect the land to Malaysia? Yes.

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Okay.

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They have to look at the geography.

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And then of course,
Hong Kong is an island,

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so you can’t get there without flying.

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Same thing for Malaysia.

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And so

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one of the things that struck me

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as I was telling you
about being in Vietnam for five years,

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basically Southeast Asia

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was that I the land spoke to me.

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I felt initially too,
that the land healed me.

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And like you, Esther,
I obviously didn’t have too many.

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I had one person I knew there.

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They only stayed for about another three
or four months and then they left.

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And so is there by myself.

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And I did not know Vietnamese

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and what I value about our Sabbath
fellowship

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and as we as more people
join, is that we’re really having

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different culture and different language
because it’s easy to read the Bible

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and think that you understand it
if you don’t know

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what it’s written in

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or if you don’t really understand.

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And that can be a difficult thing because

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you want to trust the translator,

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you want to trust the people

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who are telling you
that this is what the word means.

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I mean, we have such technology
now that we’re able to

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we can search out a lot of things
on the Internet, but you can also get down

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into a really deep rabbit hole trying to

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to figure out who we are,

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what’s going on?

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Shabbat shalom to you, royalty.

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So good to see you again.

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How are you?

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Hi. I’m fine.

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It’s so good to see you as well.

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I love seeing the.

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1040 Window Dalmatians.

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Thank you

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so one of the things that I’m learning
later

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in my Christian walk, especially

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maybe these last seven years,

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is that

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if we don’t understand Hebrew,

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which the Bible was written in

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Hebrew, Aramaic, which Yeshua Jesus spoke,

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we kind of are shortchanging ourselves

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on all that’s meant to, to be understood.

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And today

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I’m going to do a little more
technical teaching.

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I’m on a journey to learn Hebrew
and to understand it.

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I obviously,

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I cannot speak it yet,
but I’m about to get a private tutor.

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But I’m making that commitment to myself.

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Right, because it’s that important.

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And I want to share some things with you

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and some tools with you that

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I think
are just an excellent place to start.

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When we talk about

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how it is that we need to understand

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what’s really being said.

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And I think one of the

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the biggest things

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is do we understand

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the name of God?

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And I’m here to tell you, it is

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it is not

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a one
class journey and it’s not even one that

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I’m going to lead in in Sabbath
fellowship.

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But I’m going to give you tools
and you’ll you’ll need to go

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and research that for yourselves.

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But it is

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it is something to definitely understand.

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What I’m trying to do right now is copy.

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So most of us are on our phone

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and Esther,
where you bring Doreen up for me?

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I’m just pinning this link here.

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Shabbat shalom, Doreen. Oh,

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good morning to everyone.

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Shabbat shalom.

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The morning Torah.

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Did you have anything you want
to share about outside our land?

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Nature.

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You didn’t come off, Mike,
but it went to forget.

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You know what it is.

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But thank you.

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Okay, so

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we’d love to.

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As you join our rooms.

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I love to have Esther pray

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and her
and I have been together for a long time.

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We’ve traveled and ministered together,
translated together,

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went to villages together. And

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whenever we get into an English setting,
I always want her to pray.

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I want her to speak because

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it reminds us

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that our God created so many languages

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and that

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we sometimes think that we have a superior

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understanding of something
because we can master our own language.

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So the testimony I was giving you
as I started to tell you about

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was that when I went to Vietnam,

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now I’ve never traveled
internationally before,

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like going to Jamaica once or twice.

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I don’t count that as necessarily
traveling internationally,

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but when I got there, I was in their main
city, Ho Chi Minh City.

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And Ho Chi
Minh City is like New York City.

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More like the
the yeah, it’s it’s like new.

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I mean,
lots of tall buildings, lots of concrete.

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They probably

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obviously have a lot more green areas
and green spaces than New York City does.

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But the traffic that people
around the coffee shops, shopping

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businesses, it’s just, you know,
you feel like you were dropped

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except for seeing all the motorcycles
instead of cars.

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You’d feel like you’re
in a really big city.

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You were in a big in the very big city.

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They have a, what, like

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2 million people in Minh City?

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Astor They have a lot of people.

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I mean, it’s it’s a packed step.

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It’s a big city in Vietnam.

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Yes, it’s packed.

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So I remember when I first

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got there and I’m walking around
and seeing all these people

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and I’m like, oh, my gosh,
why are there so many Americans here?

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So this is what I was doing,

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because I saw people with white skin.

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I just assumed that they were American.

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You can laugh out loud.

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You don’t have to let me know
you’re laughing.

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But I just made the assumption, oh,
my gosh, look at all these Americans.

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You know, I was like, wow, I didn’t
I didn’t know Ho Chi Minh City

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was that popular then I’d stay around
long enough and I’d hear them

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speaking different languages
or speaking English with an accent.

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And it was always kind of

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it was always kind of enlightening to me,

00;28;10;01 – 00;28;13;23
you know, to remember that, oh,
my gosh, Regina, you need to get out more,

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you know, because you just made this
assumption that because they’re white,

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they were American, like there were
no other white people in the whole world.

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And that was just my lack of exposure,
right, to traveling.

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And but then what was amazing

00;28;30;24 – 00;28;34;12
to me
was that in this Vietnamese country city

00;28;34;24 – 00;28;37;12
that there were so many people
from different nations

00;28;38;24 – 00;28;40;12
that it was a

00;28;40;12 – 00;28;43;23
a vacation spot, a travel destination,
a place to hang out

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and like, who would ever thought
that that happened in Vietnam?

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But, I mean, I never went outside
my country.

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What was I
like by the time I went to Vietnam?

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I was full.

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Oh 45 Yeah, I was 45, you know.

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So you grew up in one place.

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Now, people could say that different parts

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of the United States
have a different culture.

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Okay. Yeah.

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Mm. Sorta.

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But and it’s not even the full continent,
right.

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When you look at cause

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you’re kind of connected to South America
and then you can go up to Canada, but

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what I loved

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about being there and always
having a prayer, someone pray in a

00;29;34;17 – 00;29;36;22
a different language
and I wouldn’t recommend

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having people praying in front line
unless you knew them spiritually

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because you don’t want them
speaking something weird over you.

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But it kind of reminds us
that language is so important.

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And what I want to talk to you
about today,

00;29;52;00 – 00;29;56;26
and we’re going to use this tool,
the Blue Letter Bible today,

00;29;57;09 – 00;30;00;28
because I want to just
show you a few things and how to use it,

00;30;02;01 – 00;30;06;26
because it’s going to be so helpful
for you.

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And I’m going to share with you

00;30;10;19 – 00;30;13;29
some of the names of the people
that I study with

00;30;15;00 – 00;30;19;16
that you can find in a ton of their
material online for free.

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And this is important as

00;30;22;28 – 00;30;26;13
you I hope as you
we go through this class today

00;30;26;24 – 00;30;29;26
and you see how much you do not know

00;30;30;22 – 00;30;37;14
about your Bible
because you do not speak Hebrew.

00;30;37;14 – 00;30;41;07
So I realize that

00;30;41;07 – 00;30;44;27
if you’re using your phone for clubhouse

00;30;45;13 – 00;30;50;07
and to look at this app, it may be hard
for you to switch back and forth.

00;30;50;07 – 00;30;52;25
So I understand that.

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So I’m going to try to

00;30;55;18 – 00;30;57;11
make sure that I give you time to

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to go to it.

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So what I would like you to do is

00;31;05;11 – 00;31;10;15
you can click on that link above.

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Oh, okay, great. During

00;31;13;25 – 00;31;15;20
you can click on now

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sometimes the obviously
we all know this right

00;31;18;21 – 00;31;25;06
layout on your phone will be a little bit
different than layout on a laptop.

00;31;25;06 – 00;31;28;01
So I’m going to try
to guide you through this.

00;31;28;01 – 00;31;31;24
But what I do want you to do
is if you’ve not already clicked on that

00;31;31;24 – 00;31;35;19
link, please go to blue letter bible

00;31;35;24 – 00;31;39;25
dot org.

00;31;39;25 – 00;31;45;23
Please go to blue letter bible dot org.

00;31;45;23 – 00;31;47;05
And we’re going to look at

00;31;50;24 – 00;31;53;11
some important things.

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So up in the space where it says

00;31;56;21 – 00;31;59;29
verse or words,
I want you to just type in,

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I ask a if you just type

00;32;03;17 – 00;32;06;10
in a first few words,
because we’re going to go to Isaiah 56.

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But if you just type in Issei

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and then five, six,

00;32;12;28 – 00;32;16;05
what you’ll notice is that to the right

00;32;17;15 – 00;32;19;14
there’s a little dropdown

00;32;19;14 – 00;32;21;23
and it probably defaults to KJV,

00;32;23;05 – 00;32;26;02
which is the King James version.

00;32;26;02 – 00;32;30;05
If you click on that,
you will see that there are many different

00;32;30;05 – 00;32;34;19
translations in here,
which is cool, right?

00;32;34;19 – 00;32;36;21
And I think you should check them out.

00;32;36;21 – 00;32;38;26
There’s so much is a very powerful app.

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We’re not going to go through everything,

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but there are some key things that I do
want to show you.

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So KJV, if you want to try ESV or CSP,

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whatever, does it

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matter to me what version you go to?

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Right.

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So just hit go or hit enter.

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And we should be in Isaiah

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chapter 56.

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So you should click on the Blue Letter
Bible link

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type in Issa
or you can type in the whole word Isaiah.

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But if you spell it wrong,
they’re not going to find it for you

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to just put in is a 56

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and it’ll bring you up to

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Isaiah 56.

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So by each verse

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you’ll see there’s a little box
that says tools.

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There’s a lot of stuff in that box,
and we’re not going to go over it

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because I, you, I, I promised myself
and I’ll say this commitment out loud

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so that I do it,
that I’m going to do some teaching videos.

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There’s a lot of teaching videos

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out on Blue Letter Bible
if if you can’t wait for me to do mine.

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But there’s a lot of

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teaching that is even from Blue Letter
Bible themselves on YouTube

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and they walk you through
which screenshots and everything on

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how to how to use this.

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What I want you to do is there’s a there

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you should see the words Strong’s

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strong
G apostrophe S and a little checkbox.

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Whether you’re looking on your laptop,
it’s probably right underneath

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where you entered the verse.

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If you’re looking at your phone,
it might say Isaiah 56

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than to Collins in King James version, KJV

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and then there should be a little box
that says Strong’s

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Click that box.

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And what happens is

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it shows you

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the Strong’s references for each word
just about or phrase.

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So you’ll see this pop up with now these
little numbers H and some four numbers.

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Is there anyone

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that’s lost?

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I know you’re looking at the apps.

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You can come back and talk to me,

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but if you’re lost,

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just come back
and tell me or say, scuse me,

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you know, and we’ll help you stay with us,

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okay.

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Can can you repeat the thing
you want us to set on the blue Bible?

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I want you to put Isaiah 56.

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So just type in I as a space five six

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and hit enter or hit go.

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And it will bring you to the chapter

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of Isaiah 56

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once you’re there.

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Okay.

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Let me get your view
a minute to get there.

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Once you are there, there is.

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If you look below still at the top,

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there’s a word called Strong’s
and there’s a checkbox.

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And if you click the checkbox,
all these Strong’s numbers will show up.

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This is a concordance.

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So you’ll see H in like four numbers,
sometimes three, and it’ll just pop up

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once you hit that checkbox there, there,
if you click the checkbox, they go away.

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But I want you to hit the checkbox

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so that you see all these numbers.

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What this means
is that for each English word or phrase

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that you’re seeing,
there’s a Hebrew word or phrase behind it.

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And if you know anything about language,
you do know that

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sometimes one word cannot explain

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what the original word means, right?

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And nothing is ever exactly
a direct translation

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unless maybe you’re
talking about like colors.

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I remember when I took Spanish, like,

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I think blue is ASL and red is real.

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I think green is.

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I can’t even remember.

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But, you know, except for things
like like car or I can’t even say car

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because this but like colors for instance

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if you say the color and they say
the color, it means the same thing.

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But as we were giving the example last
week about hungry, about being I’m hungry,

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the literal

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translation of I’m hungry
in Vietnamese is I’m empty.

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So if they translate that to you,
if you see it written

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and they translate it literally,
what it means is, I am hungry, I am empty.

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You’d be like, Well, what does that mean?

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Well, that’s how they say, I’m hungry.

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They say I’m empty.

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They there’s no hungry.

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Word. So

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we’re here now.

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And Isaiah 56

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and what I want you to notice
as you just kind of scroll down,

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is there’s the word lord in all caps

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and that word Lord is h.

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And you can zoom in if it’s too small.

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Just, you know, zoom, zoom in so you can

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you can see better
if it’s too small on your phone.

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So the word Lord h3068

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if you scroll down,

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you’ll see

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that Lord

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for the most part, the capital l0rd

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is h3068.

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Right?

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Anyone not seeing that?

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What I want you to do
is click on any one of the h3068

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if you just click on it,

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it’s going to have the lexicon
in the Strong’s h3068

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and it will say something like,

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Yeah, Hova.

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And then it has the Hebrew written.

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There’s a whole bunch of other things.

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We are not getting into all those things.

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Go ahead, Esther.

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You came off mic. What you want to say?

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Yeah.

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You know, you hold that exact mic

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into the Bible language, my own language.

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Is that exactly like that, right?

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Like that’s why we need h0vs.

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Yeah. Awesome.

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Thank you for that, because

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one of the things

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we want to talk about a little bit
today is the name

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and I’m going to give you some reference,
like I said, studying

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or coming up to understand
what is the name of your Hova and why?

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It’s important to know that it’s it’s
not something that I can teach you.

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So I’m not a Hebrew scholar, number one,
and even the Hebrew scholars

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and I’m not just talking
about a Hebrew scholar who

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studied some Hebrew.

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I am talking about someone who can

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speak and read and write in Hebrew.

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So I’m not going to say Hebrew
scholar anymore because

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we’ve got people who are professors
who studied,

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you know, some Hebrew
and they think they’re Hebrew scholar.

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You need to know the culture.

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And I promise you, throughout this class,
I’m going to give you some information.

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I’ll put some links in the chat
so that you can look and listen

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to some people
who are Hebrew scholars for real,

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who know culture, who have studied it,
not just for five years.

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Most of the people that I am studying with
and reading their material,

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they’ve been Hebrew
scholars reading, speaking, writing.

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And when they teach, they read the Hebrew
and they talk about it in English.

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All right.
So it won’t be difficult to follow.

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And so they’ve been doing this
for 25 plus years, Hebrew,

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not just reading the concordance

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and trying to tell you what the word is,

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not just giving their own thoughts
about it.

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And they’ve studied Hebrew for three
or four years.

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These are people who’ve written books
and there’s spirit of discernment.

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I trust them and I’ll get to that later.

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But anyways, let’s look at Jehovah

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and so the capital l0rd

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now we’ve seen this is how

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it’s written in our English Bibles

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and you can click those
if you’re looking at on your laptop,

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you have a much wider view and it, it,

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it lays out differently a little bit.

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If you’re looking on your phone,

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you actually have to hit the plus sign

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by show Strong’s info.

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So when you click Show Strong’s info,

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it gives you some information.

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It’s message taken from h1961.

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It’s the self existent or eternal.

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It’ll say Jehovah with a J
Jewish national name of God,

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Jehovah
the Lord, and it’ll tell you to compare

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now one.

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We need to understand
that is not the Jewish

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national name of God,
it is the Hebrew name of God.

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Some of us sit under the same apostle
or teaching so and

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and some of us have known this from before
we ever came together in a congregation

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All right,
so I’m just going to kind of make

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the assumption that

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we’re kind of just renewing,
just refreshing our our memory.

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All right.

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So the Jews,

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as far as an ethnicity,

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they don’t happen till after Solomon, when

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Elohim, when God

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created the universe, there was just one.

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It was Adam and Eve and that was it.

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And this kind of basically one language.

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Now, when children were born,

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we can tell
if you ever read any of the genealogies.

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Right, that these children went off
to create nations.

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So when you get the sites

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and the parasites in the Canaanites,
in the Hittites, in the heavy

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and the Amala kites, they are nations

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that came from children.

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But for the most part,
everybody spoke the same language

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until the Tower of Babel.

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And the first time we even see anything
identified with Abraham being the Hebrew

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is in Genesis around that

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time with the story of Melchizedek
or when they took a lot,

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the people identified him as.

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Abraham The Hebrew and Hebrew meant

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that you crossed the river,
that you were a foreigner.

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That’s all.

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But that was the language

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that he was
speaking probably, or Chaldean, whatever.

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That language was

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probably obviously Hebrew because
we’re we’re following this this line.

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My point is, is that

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how do we know

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about the name

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and how do we we’ve been taught

00;45;23;03 – 00;45;26;12
a lot of things about

00;45;26;12 – 00;45;27;25
Jews,

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about Jewishness by the Jewish Bible

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and can you guys still hear me?

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I just got a read far.

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I can hear you. Okay.

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Shabbat shalom, brother.

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Nicholas, good to see you.

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It will let me invite up Esther,
our major daughter.

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Will you send an invite to Nicholas
for me, please?

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Oh, you might be on the other screen.

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Okay, let me try it again.

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Oh, no.

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Well, let me.

00;46;10;01 – 00;46;14;05
Nicholas, if you want to come up, just
raise your hand and we’ll bring you up.

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Sir, join us in conversation. So

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Jehovah

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is that

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pronunciation for those Hebrew letters

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that you’re looking at
that look like a little house?

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Looked like it.

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Well, now they remember
they read from right to left.

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So it looks like a comma.

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There may maybe like a little house
and then,

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I don’t know, like a

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little line and then like another house.

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And then you’ll see underneath
that there are two dots,

00;46;58;21 – 00;47;01;04
then like a little t
and then a dot the top.

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So these four letters are consonants.

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And you’ve heard us say, Yo, hey, hey,

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yo, is the comma, hey, is the little house

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right?

00;47;18;06 – 00;47;22;05
It looks like a little house with a little
like had a window or something.

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Vov is that third letter remember

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I’m count I’m going from right to left.

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Yo, hey, hey.

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Which is the y h v h.

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Now sometimes I want to.

00;47;41;12 – 00;47;45;04
Sometimes it’s y h w h

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and that’s just about is it vov or

00;47;48;06 – 00;47;51;09
wha is it with a V or with a W?

00;47;52;11 – 00;47;54;09
And like sometimes when you hear someone

00;47;54;09 – 00;47;57;16
say Abraham, they say, Abraham, right?

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Instead of a B, they use a V sound.

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And it’s just all about language,
that’s all.

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Nothing super spiritual, but

00;48;07;27 – 00;48;10;05
what happened is

00;48;12;06 – 00;48;15;29
there was a lot of oral tradition.

00;48;16;03 – 00;48;20;29
If you just think about oral
speaking with the hieroglyphics, right?

00;48;20;29 – 00;48;22;08
Drawing, pictures, talking.

00;48;22;08 – 00;48;25;04
But when they talked,
they knew what they were talking about.

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And so you’ll see that

00;48;28;18 – 00;48;30;15
well originally happen when we when

00;48;30;15 – 00;48;36;03
they started finding or translating
or making Hebrew available to us

00;48;36;09 – 00;48;38;23
who are not Hebrew, that
we could actually see what it looked like.

00;48;39;06 – 00;48;40;11
Right. That

00;48;41;21 – 00;48;43;23
it didn’t always have the little dots.

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Right.

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It was just the four consonants you’d
have of hey, and you knew the language.

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So you knew what that meant, right?

00;48;51;17 – 00;48;52;25
So if

00;48;53;09 – 00;48;55;23
we all speak English here,

00;48;55;23 – 00;48;58;07
so if we said can’t

00;49;00;04 – 00;49;02;05
see an apostrophe T

00;49;04;11 – 00;49;06;18
well, we know that that

00;49;06;18 – 00;49;10;00
the apostrophe means cannot write.

00;49;10;00 – 00;49;14;28
It’s actually two words can and not
but basically we’re kind of

00;49;15;07 – 00;49;17;09
they cut out the extra and in the O

00;49;18;21 – 00;49;20;27
so when they’re writing here

00;49;20;27 – 00;49;25;01
we’re seeing all the consonants
and the little dots are the vowel sounds.

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So the two dots at the bottom,
the T at the bottom, the at the top,

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that’s just telling you which vowels

00;49;34;05 – 00;49;39;15
to use with those consonants.

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That’s, that’s all.

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And so lots of different continents
and that’s what the dots

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and the things were
because when they were translating it,

00;49;48;05 – 00;49;52;04
the Jews believe now we’re talking Jews
because they were Jews by then,

00;49;52;27 – 00;49;55;04
that they should not add or take away

00;49;55;18 – 00;49;58;05
from the Hebrew Bible.

00;49;59;05 – 00;50;01;09
They shouldn’t
add anything or take anything away.

00;50;01;09 – 00;50;05;29
But as they got further away
from their native language and speaking

00;50;07;24 – 00;50;10;27
No. One, because they weren’t speaking
all the time they were into captivity,

00;50;10;27 – 00;50;14;12
we see that a lot, right
in the Old Testament that they were,

00;50;14;25 – 00;50;19;00
you know, Daniel Babylon
taken into captivity.

00;50;19;16 – 00;50;21;05
They kind of lost.

00;50;21;05 – 00;50;24;24
So when later on,
when people went back to translate,

00;50;25;10 – 00;50;28;09
they didn’t want to add or take away

00;50;28;09 – 00;50;30;21
from the number of characters

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in their Hebrew Bible.

00;50;33;27 – 00;50;37;02
So they put the dots
and the teeth underneath it.

00;50;37;17 – 00;50;42;01
So they never really added they never
made it longer than it should be.

00;50;42;08 – 00;50;47;24
Rachel If one line only had ten characters
in it, by putting the little dots

00;50;47;24 – 00;50;52;16
and dashes above and below,
they were able to still keep that line.

00;50;52;16 – 00;50;53;23
Ten characters.

00;50;53;23 – 00;50;56;18
But now the vowels were there
and we’re like, Oh,

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now we know how to pronounce it.

00;50;59;23 – 00;51;04;00
Okay, all right.

00;51;04;00 – 00;51;09;03
Just a little to let us know that like,
wow, there’s a lot going on

00;51;10;02 – 00;51;11;15
with this

00;51;11;25 – 00;51;14;02
for the most part.

00;51;14;02 – 00;51;17;11
For Hebrews,

00;51;17;12 – 00;51;21;23
the name is pronounced
how they understand it to be.

00;51;21;23 – 00;51;22;24
And we’re not going to get into

00;51;22;24 – 00;51;26;15
to be about and there’s no need to debate
about you, Hova and Yahweh,

00;51;27;01 – 00;51;30;17
because we’re talking about the God
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

00;51;31;13 – 00;51;35;16
and for our conversations right now, I’m
where it should all be good with that.

00;51;35;29 – 00;51;40;00
And people who join our circle
and only say, Lord, they don’t say Yahweh,

00;51;40;06 – 00;51;43;13
they don’t say Jehovah,
but they read exactly what they see.

00;51;44;06 – 00;51;46;11
There’s nothing wrong with that.

00;51;47;26 – 00;51;49;14
We’re all talking about the God of

00;51;49;14 – 00;51;51;29
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and

00;51;53;08 – 00;51;55;20
we are not Hebrew scholars.

00;51;57;03 – 00;51;59;04
Okay, so

00;52;02;00 – 00;52;04;01
let’s go back.

00;52;04;01 – 00;52;07;25
You should be able to, you know,
hit your arrow and, like, go back a page

00;52;08;08 – 00;52;14;11
and you should get back to the verse.

00;52;14;11 – 00;52;20;11
What’s important to understand here is
that using this, if you’re ever not sure

00;52;21;25 – 00;52;24;08
what the word is,

00;52;24;17 – 00;52;27;24
just put it in here,
put in the put in the verse

00;52;28;15 – 00;52;31;12
and click the Strong’s button.

00;52;31;12 – 00;52;34;25
Because you know how sometimes you see
Lord Little L.

00;53;15;22 – 00;53;16;12
Right in

00;53;16;12 – 00;53;20;18
the Internet is drop out and okay, here.

00;53;21;09 – 00;53;23;16
I’m back. Sorry.

00;53;23;16 – 00;53;27;17
Like I said, I was getting red bars
and it totally kicked me out the app,

00;53;27;17 – 00;53;31;13
so I had to refresh. So

00;53;33;24 – 00;53;36;22
we are going to

00;53;37;14 – 00;53;39;26
continue with

00;53;40;22 – 00;53;44;29
just having our discussion about,
as we’ve been talking about in Exodus 17

00;53;44;29 – 00;53;48;06
and talking about the relationship
with Yahweh,

00;53;48;15 – 00;53;51;28
with your Hova, with the Lord.

00;53;51;28 – 00;53;54;22
But because we all come

00;53;54;22 – 00;53;59;25
from different teachers.

00;53;59;25 – 00;54;02;17
Yeah, no, it was me. I dropped out

00;54;02;17 – 00;54;04;15
because we all come
from a different background

00;54;04;15 – 00;54;07;25
and different teachers
and have different beliefs.

00;54;07;25 – 00;54;09;23
I wanted to show you this tool

00;54;11;08 – 00;54;12;21
because

00;54;13;12 – 00;54;17;26
I want you to be able to at least begin

00;54;18;20 – 00;54;22;04
right as you’re reading
through your Bible to say, Huh,

00;54;23;01 – 00;54;26;13
I wonder who they’re talking about.

00;54;26;13 – 00;54;28;10
Hey, and so

00;54;28;20 – 00;54;30;25
you can do that

00;54;30;27 – 00;54;33;17
by clicking on this

00;54;34;19 – 00;54;38;00
now, how many of you

00;54;41;28 – 00;54;44;05
have always when you saw the Lord,

00;54;45;08 – 00;54;47;17
knew that it it wasn’t really

00;54;47;17 – 00;54;51;02
the name of God.

00;54;51;02 – 00;54;53;28
I mean, when I was in Christian,
I went to a Christian

00;54;54;14 – 00;54;57;06
school,
high school, Lutheran schools, college.

00;54;57;25 – 00;55;00;21
No one ever told me

00;55;01;08 – 00;55;03;09
that the Lord

00;55;03;12 – 00;55;06;15
was not really the name

00;55;06;15 – 00;55;11;06
anyone else.

00;55;11;06 – 00;55;12;19
I never knew it at all.

00;55;12;19 – 00;55;17;01
Never knew it at all
until I came on to apostles

00;55;18;22 – 00;55;19;16
teachings.

00;55;19;16 – 00;55;24;29
Never had any idea whatsoever.

00;55;24;29 – 00;55;26;08
Okay, you’re not. Thank you.

00;55;26;08 – 00;55;32;08
I think that I’m lucky because
even in Vietnamese and in 80 languages,

00;55;32;08 – 00;55;38;11
in my own language, the the word is Z
whole that is will translate.

00;55;38;21 – 00;55;44;09
And then when it’s call God is dual
and then Jehovah is the name.

00;55;44;26 – 00;55;47;27
So I can see it very clear but

00;55;49;03 – 00;55;51;15
just I don’t know,

00;55;51;15 – 00;55;54;12
the Jehovah is God’s name, you know.

00;55;55;05 – 00;55;58;28
And until I study with Apple Show
and then he said that

00;55;59;04 – 00;56;03;21
yeah we and then I thought
that the translate is the wrong

00;56;04;02 – 00;56;06;18
because is, is not Jehovah

00;56;07;00 – 00;56;11;04
and now you get me the blue letter Bible
and it translates

00;56;11;04 – 00;56;16;14
to whole that just exactly
how we transmit in our language.

00;56;17;02 – 00;56;20;05
So that is interesting for me.

00;56;20;05 – 00;56;22;28
Yes. I’m Regina. Mm.

00;56;23;14 – 00;56;25;25
I need to make a correction.

00;56;25;25 – 00;56;27;29
It’s simple. I make the correction.

00;56;27;29 – 00;56;31;10
It’s not that it wasn’t mentioned
that I never knew it.

00;56;32;01 – 00;56;35;24
It was said, but there was no importance

00;56;36;26 – 00;56;39;14
applied to what was taught.

00;56;39;14 – 00;56;42;29
It was just information.

00;56;42;29 – 00;56;47;17
It’s like saying if you go to the shop,
you can buy that butter

00;56;47;26 – 00;56;51;25
and that type of butter if you choose.

00;56;51;25 – 00;56;53;29
But there wasn’t even any choice.

00;56;53;29 – 00;56;56;09
It was, we’re giving you information.

00;56;56;09 – 00;57;00;10
So I’m incorrect in what I said
because that’s how I felt.

00;57;00;26 – 00;57;04;02
And we’re looking at things
now that it wasn’t important

00;57;05;11 – 00;57;07;12
to apply.

00;57;07;17 – 00;57;09;28
And sometime probably my understanding

00;57;12;12 – 00;57;14;03
is sometime it does go down on somebody.

00;57;14;03 – 00;57;19;00
If you don’t have a teacher to sorta
imply that to you,

00;57;19;11 – 00;57;22;02
you think it’s just

00;57;22;03 – 00;57;24;05
a fly by night, so to speak.

00;57;24;05 – 00;57;26;08
I hope that makes it clear.
So I apologize.

00;57;26;20 – 00;57;29;23
So given the incorrect information,

00;57;30;09 – 00;57;33;12
thank you.

00;57;33;12 – 00;57;35;00
No problem, Doreen.

00;57;35;00 – 00;57;38;25
No problem at all.

00;57;38;25 – 00;57;39;06
Yeah.

00;57;39;06 – 00;57;41;26
So let’s go to number six

00;57;42;27 – 00;57;47;22
and we’re going to talk we’re going to see
some things about why it’s important.

00;57;47;22 – 00;57;53;01
Know his name.

00;57;53;01 – 00;57;56;15
So if you can go to number six, just type.

00;57;56;15 – 00;58;00;13
If you type in and you m space six
then hit enter

00;58;01;24 – 00;58;04;22
up in that little box
there, it’ll take you to number six.

00;58;04;22 – 00;58;21;13
And we’re going to scroll down to
I think it’s like 22.

00;58;21;13 – 00;58;25;08
So probably many of us have heard that

00;58;25;13 – 00;58;29;17
Eric blessing Aaron’s
benediction, they call it

00;58;32;23 – 00;58;35;10
and I’m going to read it.

00;58;36;02 – 00;58;40;23
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying,
speak unto Aaron and unto his son

00;58;40;23 – 00;58;45;05
saying On this wise, you shall bless
the children of Israel, saying unto them,

00;58;46;14 – 00;58;48;17
The Lord bless you and keep you

00;58;48;17 – 00;58;52;09
the Lord make His face shine upon the
and be gracious unto me.

00;58;52;21 – 00;58;57;08
The Lord lift up His countenance upon the
and give the peace,

00;58;57;28 – 00;59;01;13
and they shall put my name
upon the children of Israel,

00;59;01;26 – 00;59;06;06
and I will bless them.

00;59;06;06 – 00;59;09;17
It is very important that we know the name

00;59;11;00 – 00;59;15;18
and like I said, for our room
in our conversations where we are

00;59;16;01 – 00;59;20;07
your way, your Hova,

00;59;20;07 – 00;59;24;29
Yehuda, Yehuda,
who we’re not going to argue over that

00;59;27;03 – 00;59;29;00
because we’re all talking

00;59;29;00 – 00;59;33;10
about the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Israel and Jacob Israel.

00;59;33;10 – 00;59;34;01
Jacob.

00;59;34;01 – 00;59;38;11
So as long as we’re all cool
with that, I’m cool with that.

00;59;38;11 – 00;59;40;20
And if you were reading a passage
and you say, Lord,

00;59;41;06 – 00;59;44;00
I don’t mind because I know we
we are here,

00;59;44;00 – 00;59;46;20
we know what we are talking about
in other rooms.

00;59;46;27 – 00;59;48;29
It may be different when you

00;59;49;24 – 00;59;53;26
you know, you just have to gauge yourself
by the environment you go in, right?

00;59;53;26 – 00;59;58;28
Some prayer groups or whatever
where I go, I don’t pray, Elohim.

00;59;59;09 – 01;00;01;17
I don’t even say, you show Hamas.

01;00;01;29 – 01;00;05;21
Sometimes I’ll just say, Jesus Christ,

01;00;05;21 – 01;00;09;14
you just adjust to wherever they are.

01;00;09;17 – 01;00;11;09
Because it’s not about making a fence.

01;00;11;09 – 01;00;13;12
It’s not about causing division.

01;00;14;27 – 01;00;15;21
I think

01;00;16;16 – 01;00;19;15
if you come into different studies
and if you’re looking for something,

01;00;19;15 – 01;00;22;29
you’ll find groups, you’ll find rooms
that are teaching about that.

01;00;23;19 – 01;00;25;18
So it’s important.

01;00;25;18 – 01;00;27;28
But what’s important
here is to know his name.

01;00;28;12 – 01;00;29;23
And so

01;00;30;15 – 01;00;33;22
we have to understand that he said
and Rachel

01;00;33;23 – 01;00;39;17
put my name upon the children of Israel
and I will bless them.

01;00;39;17 – 01;00;44;00
Putting
his name means putting his name in.

01;00;44;07 – 01;00;48;14
It’s speaking, proclaiming,

01;00;48;14 – 01;00;50;29
Turn on your strong

01;00;58;02 – 01;00;58;29
light

01;01;00;08 – 01;01;05;17
and you’ll see the the strong concordance.

01;01;05;17 – 01;01;08;27
Now let’s say I wanted to
better understand and they shall put

01;01;09;23 – 01;01;13;05
my name upon the children of Israel
and I will bless them.

01;01;13;24 – 01;01;19;23
Well, how does it what does it really mean
to put my name right?

01;01;19;23 – 01;01;25;15
So if you click on it, it’s h7760.

01;01;25;15 – 01;01;27;17
I’m in number 6 to 7.

01;01;29;02 – 01;01;30;14
Shabbat shalom, Andrea.

01;01;30;14 – 01;01;32;08
Shabbat shalom, Elder.

01;01;32;08 – 01;01;36;02
Good to have you.

01;01;36;02 – 01;01;38;03
Do you like to come up
and join our discussion?

01;01;38;27 – 01;01;42;22
Yes, Andrea, go ahead.

01;01;42;22 – 01;01;45;29
Oh, I was just acknowledging your
your greeting

01;01;49;09 – 01;01;51;20
of flushing
because I was acknowledging your greeting.

01;01;51;23 – 01;01;52;17
Thank you.

01;01;54;02 – 01;01;58;14
So if we look at eight seven,

01;01;58;14 – 01;02;02;26
760 now,
this is just a good place to start.

01;02;03;03 – 01;02;08;20
It doesn’t mean that you have mastered
the Hebrew at all, but it’s like

01;02;10;15 – 01;02;13;25
anyone looking at this
and you’re seeing, well,

01;02;14;21 – 01;02;16;22
there’s like

01;02;17;03 – 01;02;20;28
nine different words.

01;02;20;28 – 01;02;23;09
Yes, strong major daughter.

01;02;23;12 – 01;02;28;15
If you put the check in the Strong’s box,
all of a sudden what will happen is

01;02;28;15 – 01;02;33;10
you will see you may have stepped away
while I was teaching them how to use this.

01;02;34;06 – 01;02;35;17
If you put

01;02;36;01 – 01;02;37;25
hold on, everybody, just for a moment,

01;02;38;29 – 01;02;40;18
if you click

01;02;40;18 – 01;02;42;21
once you go into blue letter Bible,

01;02;44;14 – 01;02;45;05
that’s where we are.

01;02;45;05 – 01;02;47;27
Andreas We clicked on that
link on Blue Letter Bible

01;02;49;05 – 01;02;52;06
and we went to number six.

01;02;52;11 – 01;02;55;25
So if you just type in
and you Space six and hit enter,

01;02;56;03 – 01;03;01;16
it’ll bring you to the chapter of number
six and just at the top there should be

01;03;01;20 – 01;03;07;25
a word called Strong’s
with a checkbox to the left.

01;03;07;25 – 01;03;09;27
You’re on the app. Go to the.

01;03;10;28 – 01;03;11;24
Oh, you know what?

01;03;11;24 – 01;03;15;03
Because sometimes I understand
sometimes internet is not good.

01;03;15;03 – 01;03;17;02
So you downloaded the app?

01;03;17;02 – 01;03;19;09
Oh, anyone have the app?

01;03;19;26 – 01;03;21;29
I never use the app because.

01;03;23;13 – 01;03;25;00
Yes, I have the app.

01;03;25;00 – 01;03;28;10
You have the app. Where’s the strong.

01;03;28;10 – 01;03;32;27
Is it still there, Esther?

01;03;33;16 – 01;03;35;19
That’s what I was looking for
because I don’t know.

01;03;36;09 – 01;03;40;17
I never go to the app
and then you open the book

01;03;40;17 – 01;03;43;16
you want to read
and then you choose the verse,

01;03;44;03 – 01;03;47;00
and then you click on the verse
and then you go straight

01;03;47;14 – 01;03;50;14
and just wait for me, okay?

01;03;50;14 – 01;03;51;14
Choose a verse.

01;03;52;13 – 01;03;54;14
And then it was so you

01;03;55;19 – 01;03;59;07
line here
and then you just click on it as reads.

01;03;59;07 – 01;04;02;12
So you this strong.

01;04;02;12 – 01;04;05;20
So look for. Oh,

01;04;05;20 – 01;04;07;27
thank you, Esther.

01;04;08;03 – 01;04;10;17
Right, thank you, Esther.

01;04;11;02 – 01;04;14;02
Yeah, you can.

01;04;14;02 – 01;04;16;15
But it’s so it looks so complicated.

01;04;16;15 – 01;04;20;06
It’s not like I know, but yes.

01;04;20;10 – 01;04;22;26
I can’t get it. I can’t. I’m not.

01;04;22;26 – 01;04;23;15
Okay, so.

01;04;23;15 – 01;04;26;05
Okay, hold on. I know. Just hold on.

01;04;26;25 – 01;04;29;13
We want you to see, as you see

01;04;29;13 – 01;04;32;07
all those age and numbers,
is that what you’re seeing, Andrea?

01;04;33;24 – 01;04;36;18
I’m seeing a full page.

01;04;36;25 – 01;04;37;24
Oh, yeah.

01;04;37;24 – 01;04;38;09
Numbers.

01;04;38;09 – 01;04;42;12
Strong’s English Pass is that it?

01;04;42;20 – 01;04;43;15
Yeah.

01;04;44;02 – 01;04;46;21
First of all, it starts with

01;04;46;21 – 01;04;50;11
inflected root and transliterated
and it looks like Hebrew.

01;04;50;18 – 01;04;52;15
Then it’s got Strong’s
and it’s got the numbers

01;04;52;15 – 01;04;56;10
underneath the strings,
and then it’s got the English underneath,

01;04;56;13 – 01;04;59;07
and then some words under the English
and then something else.

01;04;59;17 – 01;05;02;20
Okay, so when you look at the word for

01;05;05;16 – 01;05;08;11
where are we, we’re in where are you
in number six?

01;05;08;11 – 01;05;10;27
Andrea Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

01;05;10;27 – 01;05;16;27
And number 627 and I clicked on the 27
and that’s what I have

01;05;17;07 – 01;05;20;05
and I’m looking at first of all h77, six

01;05;20;05 – 01;05;23;15
oh and the English is and they shall put.

01;05;23;21 – 01;05;25;24
Yes, that’s exactly where we are.

01;05;26;16 – 01;05;28;19
Yeah. Sorry about that, ladies.

01;05;29;01 – 01;05;30;04
No, no, no, no.

01;05;30;04 – 01;05;31;27
We have nowhere to be.

01;05;31;27 – 01;05;34;06
We’re in no rush right.

01;05;34;06 – 01;05;37;10
Because as. You.

01;05;38;26 – 01;05;40;27
This is a good this very.

01;05;40;27 – 01;05;43;12
Good story.

01;05;44;18 – 01;05;47;15
I just want to cut and dry like that.

01;05;47;15 – 01;05;49;27
But when reaching that, it started for me,

01;05;50;28 – 01;05;54;04
the blue bible
I also don’t know how to use.

01;05;54;17 – 01;05;58;08
And then I just day by day
now I met on it,

01;05;59;12 – 01;06;00;12
right.

01;06;00;12 – 01;06;02;05
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01;06;02;05 – 01;06;06;03
I don’t use this one
so it’s I’ll get used to it.

01;06;06;03 – 01;06;07;02
Thank you anyway. Yeah.

01;06;07;02 – 01;06;09;19
So you go on between. Yeah.

01;06;11;12 – 01;06;13;00
And so

01;06;14;25 – 01;06;17;06
we are
looking at and you’re seeing like wow

01;06;18;01 – 01;06;22;05
there’s all these different words
to put in place.

01;06;22;25 – 01;06;27;25
I don’t know if you see in parentheses
they have the qual q a l

01;06;28;12 – 01;06;31;04
and then they have like have fell
and ho fall

01;06;33;28 – 01;06;35;28
and the parentheses are no,
you can’t go back and forth

01;06;35;28 – 01;06;38;13
if you’re using your same phone. Sorry.

01;06;38;13 – 01;06;39;20
Sorry to interrupt.

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Well, we know because what you’re talking
about is what I want to understand.

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So which scripture in where
you’re finding all the filthy files,

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however you pronounce them,
which scripture. And please.

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We are number six versus seven

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and we are down at the word put.

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Okay.

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So which is H and what you can also
do since we gave you which is nice about

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this is if you just type in h7760
instead of the actual.

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So let’s so we go back to the verse,
scripture verse again number six, sorry.

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And what word.

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Come in and click on it and then you

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can so you sorry.

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Okay.

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Three, seven, seven, six three.

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Yeah I’m aware of that.

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I was just waiting for Regina to finish
because of that.

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First of all, I just wanted to know the
because she’s come on something

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which I need to and why is it not okay?

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There it is. Right.

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Okay.

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So, Regina,
you were talking about Clarence Sterling.

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How far if I’m pronouncing it properly,
you’re going to go through that now?

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Because that’s one of the things when
I’ve been looking at the letter Bible,

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what does the obviously it’s
giving me different meanings,

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but why those particular words there?

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Are they different types of Hebrew
pronunciations or whatever?

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So I’m going to lead you to explain
that to me if you kindly do that.

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I appreciate it. Thank you.

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Sure.

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So, again,
I am in the process of learning Hebrew.

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And like I said, I’m going to do a my own

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few videos on the blue on the Bible,
but you can do research on it.

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But what I do understand

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is that those are talking about

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the verb tense.

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So back to low.

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Minister Jackie, good to see you.

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Those are talking about the verb tense. So

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and there’s a chart
because I don’t know them.

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And so if what I’ll do is
I can send it to you or

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I can try to have it for our next.

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But what you’re looking at is

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let’s see,

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how would I say, okay,

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I went to the store,
I am going to the store.

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I go to the store,
I am going to the store.

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That’s all. Go right. That verb go.

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But depending on the mood,
the tense that I’m context

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that I’m using, you would say
she is going, but I am going.

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You are going.

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He went. That was past tense.

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I will go to the store tomorrow
so the qual the have for the NFL all those

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when you see them in that parentheses
there they’re talking about

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the tense

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what’s the tense.

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So in all those different tenses

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you can tell.

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The thing is, if you don’t know Hebrew,

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you don’t know exactly
which tense is being used.

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All this is doing is telling you
these are all the possible tenses.

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So you’re like.

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Oh, that’s great.

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But you know, it’s not like each
tense has its own letter.

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So we’re looking at the word to put.

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And so they’re saying, well,

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if it’s, you know, the present tense,
then it’s this.

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If it’s the past tense, then it’s that.

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If it’s future,
then it would be like this.

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But unless we actually see
the Hebrew word and the noun

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that it’s we’re

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to or the object that it’s referring to,
we don’t really know what it is.

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And that’s where you have to really you

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get a master of Hebrew,

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the Hebrew language,
and you don’t have to master that.

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Right.

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But if you want to get
the full understanding,

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then that’s always a good thing.

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Thank you so much.

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That’s all I need to know right now,
because two weeks

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I’ve been looking at those and I go, okay,
and then I read through what I’m reading

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and for some reason able supplies in

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to whatever the Scripture

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is saying.

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But for me that wasn’t good enough
because I need to know what those

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when sometimes

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they have like seven or eight of them
it goes okay, like okay, right.

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Okay.

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And I to go to a, you know, pick anyone,

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but sometimes the Holy Spirit
up at the desk will show me which one.

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But now that you give me the understand,
that’s all I want to.

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They were verb tenses. That’s it.

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I’m happy that

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you say that way.

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So faithful because this morning

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there were particular things
I was asking that I needed to know.

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And I’ve got it.

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One of them, many thank you so much.
I appreciate you.

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Thank you.

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You’re welcome. So

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I’m going to give you another tool.

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I don’t want to overwhelm you with tools,
but let’s kind of stick because there’s a

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there’s a teacher that I study with and

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he has

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he teaches only the paleo Hebrew,

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which is before the Aramaic Hebrew,

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which is the the biblical Hebrew
that you’re looking at.

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And he teaches about the culture.

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He’s got really great books, easy
to read, easy to understand.

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It’ll just give you such a depth
in being able

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to understand
and the culture and the meaning, right?

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He has this one particular

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translation.

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He only has the Torah done.

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But what you will find is

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he gives you

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the actual he’ll do just every verse

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and he’ll write the verse

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with the literal Hebrew meanings,

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and then underneath it
he’ll give you the English

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in a context that you can understand.

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And remember
I was using the example about Vietnamese,

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and when they say I’m hungry,

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then literal English translation
is I’m empty.

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Now, if you were reading that
and someone in your reading and the child

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said, I am empty, you’d be like,
What are you talking about?

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What you mean Willis?

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And it means, I’m hungry.

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So we’re not going to get into just yet.

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But these are

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what we’re doing
today is just talking about some tools

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to help us

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better grasp and appreciate what it is
that we do not know

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about our Bible,
that we pick up and read all the right.

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And so if you can see that
there are all these contexts

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because it makes a big difference
if I said, Oh, I’m

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going to the store and you’re like,
okay, great, I want to go with you.

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And what I really meant was I went to
the store, Well, you can’t go with me.

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I mean, it changes
the context of our conversation, right?

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To understand what tense
I’m talking about,

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does that make sense?

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And so looking at this, do you not get

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overwhelmed by it?

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The the reason that I’m bringing you to
this is because I want

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to talk about his name.

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Right.

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And we’re going to

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we’re going to get into that
a little bit more.

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And so we’re actually in number six, verse
27, for those of you who just joined us,

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we’re reading on

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the importance that

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that the Lord said to Moses

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to have the priests speak this over

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the children of Israel.

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And when you put my name on them,

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I will bless them.

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And so it’s really key to know

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what his name is.

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We can’t we can’t live without that.

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So we’re familiar with numbers
622 through 27.

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I want us to go to Exodus 21st, 24.

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You don’t need that.

01;15;42;07 – 01;15;43;26
You can use the blue blooded Bible
if you want to.

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You can just use your Bible
if you want to.

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It doesn’t matter.

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I’m going to come back to Blue Letter
when we get to another scripture.

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But for now, yes, Andrea.

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That was
exactly what I was going to ask you.

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Do I still need to be in

01;16;00;10 – 01;16;03;06
this? No,

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no, no.

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Again, I would just stare at.

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You and get out.

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You’re like, Oh, my God, I’m eating you.

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Have you

01;16;12;10 – 01;16;14;20
read my book? Yes.

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I know. It’s

01;16;22;08 – 01;16;24;29
oh, gosh.

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Now I.

01;16;25;25 – 01;16;28;29
I just wanted you to have just the basics
and the blue letter.

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Right, because.

01;16;30;23 – 01;16;33;27
That help helps. Yeah, a little. Yeah.

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Thank you.

01;16;35;14 – 01;16;36;03
You’re welcome.

01;16;36;03 – 01;16;39;12
So if you’re like, oh, I remember

01;16;39;12 – 01;16;41;15
some story about man drinks,

01;16;42;20 – 01;16;45;22
you know, like,
I wonder where that versus,

01;16;45;22 – 01;16;47;28
you know,
sometimes we be in our apostles class.

01;16;47;28 – 01;16;50;01
He’s like,
where’s that thing? Where’s that thing?

01;16;50;01 – 01;16;53;18
I always come here right. To.

01;16;54;10 – 01;16;54;26
Yeah.

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Because if you.

01;16;55;19 – 01;17;00;14
Oh, word man drinks
or if you type in the word Cain

01;17;00;14 – 01;17;03;28
and if you type in the word Esau Edam,

01;17;04;12 – 01;17;06;28
it’ll take you to all the verses

01;17;07;27 – 01;17;10;15
that have that word in that.

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Oh, okay. Yeah.

01;17;11;24 – 01;17;13;26
Well, yeah, my bible does that as well.

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Yeah. Okay, I got you.

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Yeah. Thanks.

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So we’re going to come back
to the letter Bible.

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You don’t have to be in there
for this next section.

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But let’s go to Exodus 20.

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Is it Exodus 20? What? Yes.

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Want Exodus 2024.

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But let’s go to Exodus 20.

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So one of the other things that I shared
with you guys earlier and

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and I keep repeating these things
just because we,

01;17;45;28 – 01;17;49;05
my people that join us or

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it’s just good to keep repeating, right?

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Is that

01;17;56;06 – 01;17;58;16
when the Hebrews translated this,

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they did not have chapters and verses.

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So how do you know?

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So you’ve had other people for you

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put in where
they thought that thought started ended.

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One of the things I learned
with the Hebrew teachers that I have

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is that there’s something to pay attention
to called White Spaces.

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And the only way you can really see
white spaces is you’re

01;18;28;04 – 01;18;32;18
looking at a Hebrew text,
or you have a Bible

01;18;32;29 – 01;18;37;16
that has the most time.

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If they have the Hebrew on one side,
in the English on the other,

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they’re going to follow

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the Hebrew.

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And so I have this Bible called the Koran.

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C I’m sorry.

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K. O.

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R. E And the Koran.

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Tanakh. And

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what I am enjoying about it right now
is that

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even though I can’t read the Hebrew,
what happens is

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I can see where a thought begins

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and ends by the white spaces.

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So it’s not just like your typical, you
know, one space between the word, right?

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They probably have like, you know, 20
or 30, you know, how you hit the spacebar

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when you’re really good.

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You know how to use the tab key
right on the computer,

01;19;30;11 – 01;19;33;25
but sometimes you just hit the spacebar
to give you some space.

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So they have

01;19;40;04 – 01;19;41;15
the spaces.

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And so a smaller space maybe,
you know, like only ten spaces.

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I’m going to Exodus 20.

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Esther

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The white spaces are smaller, right?

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So it’s a

01;19;57;17 – 01;20;00;27
it it’s just a
simple break in the thought.

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But then there are larger white spaces
which may be like,

01;20;06;14 – 01;20;09;16
oh, if a small space is maybe

01;20;09;16 – 01;20;12;15
ten or 15,
a larger space is probably double that.

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And why I’m telling you

01;20;16;24 – 01;20;20;08
this is because I’m opening
my corn bible now.

01;20;20;08 – 01;20;24;05
It has the English on one side
and the Hebrew on the other side,

01;20;24;05 – 01;20;29;02
and my English side matches
with the white spaces.

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So even though a chapter might end,

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that doesn’t really mean
that’s the end of the thoughts.

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And isn’t it important
to understand things in context?

01;20;39;23 – 01;20;43;04
So verses up and down, chapters
up and down?

01;20;43;04 – 01;20;45;06
Sure. I mean, read a chapter.

01;20;45;06 – 01;20;48;00
You want to be safe, read
a chapter before and a chapter after.

01;20;48;00 – 01;20;52;14
If there’s a particular verse
that you’re looking at, sandwich it.

01;20;54;13 – 01;20;57;14
But if you have the opportunity to look at

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or have a Hebrew Bible,
you can even look them up on the internet,

01;21;02;27 – 01;21;05;05
a Hebrew text

01;21;05;05 – 01;21;07;08
to see where the white spaces are so that

01;21;07;08 – 01;21;09;25
you really understand
ending where they intended

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to make to make the change.

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Let me put this in the text
one moment, guys.

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It’s the in

01;21;19;29 – 01;21;21;12
Tanakh

01;21;22;12 – 01;21;25;23
and it’s oops, it sounds like it’s Korean,

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but it’s not Korean. It’s

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Oh, now you don’t want to let me

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just hold on, Esther.

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Gosh, okay.

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I put it in the text for you.

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The chat.

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It’s the Korean Tanakh

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and it has the Hebrew and the English.

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And so let me get to Exodus 20

01;21;56;13 – 01;22;00;24
and I want to focus on verse 24.

01;22;01;13 – 01;22;07;01
What I’m doing right now is I’m going into
my Hebrew Bible, is I want to see

01;22;08;05 – 01;22;10;19
where the thought begin and end,

01;22;10;19 – 01;22;13;23
because that’s what we want to talk about.

01;22;13;23 – 01;22;16;01
Just give me a moment.

01;22;16;01 – 01;22;19;17
It’s hard because

01;22;19;22 – 01;22;23;14
I don’t read Hebrew
and the Bible goes from right to left,

01;22;23;20 – 01;22;28;26
so I’m always opening it on the wrong
side, like, Oh Yeah, that’s right.

01;22;29;23 – 01;22;31;22
Genesis is where Revelation should be.

01;22;31;22 – 01;22;34;03
That’s what I say to myself and I’m like,
Yeah, no.

01;22;34;22 – 01;22;39;11
Okay, let’s go.

01;22;40;11 – 01;22;42;28
We want to look at Genesis

01;22;42;28 – 01;22;48;15
2024.

01;22;48;15 – 01;22;49;26
Is that it?

01;22;50;07 – 01;22;51;15
No, I’m sorry, not Genesis.

01;22;51;15 – 01;22;52;16
Exodus.

01;22;52;16 – 01;22;55;27
Oh, guys, I think I wrote it down wrong.

01;22;55;27 – 01;23;01;20
Exodus.

01;23;01;20 – 01;23;04;23
No, no, I didn’t write it down wrong.

01;23;04;25 – 01;23;11;09
Okay.

01;23;11;09 – 01;23;14;09
Exodus 2024

01;23;18;02 – 01;23;20;06
So looking at my corn

01;23;20;06 – 01;23;25;03
bible 20

01;23;26;15 – 01;23;29;01
so they have a white space

01;23;29;01 – 01;23;37;02
starting at verse 19.

01;23;37;02 – 01;23;38;26
Oh yeah, that’s the other thing.

01;23;40;15 – 01;23;42;25
So sometimes

01;23;44;01 – 01;23;47;28
our English numbering system
is not the same as theirs.

01;23;48;26 – 01;23;52;07
For instance,
like we might have a chapter that ends

01;23;53;10 – 01;23;55;16
at 23

01;23;57;02 – 01;23;58;26
and their chapter and,

01;23;58;26 – 01;24;01;10
and for them like they end a couple verses

01;24;02;06 – 01;24;03;19
which is

01;24;05;10 – 01;24;06;08
a little awkward.

01;24;06;08 – 01;24;17;28
And these are the laws that you shall set
forth.

01;24;17;28 – 01;24;18;17
Okay.

01;24;18;17 – 01;24;22;21
So theirs is Hebrew, 20 is 20, 22, right?

01;24;22;22 – 01;24;27;03
So I told is 2024 for us,
but theirs is 2022.

01;24;27;03 – 01;24;29;26
And it goes from

01;24;29;26 – 01;24;33;05
verse 19 to

01;24;36;15 – 01;24;39;02
they and their thought

01;24;39;02 – 01;24;43;00
of verse 23, which is at verse 24.

01;24;43;13 – 01;24;47;21
Okay.

01;24;47;21 – 01;24;52;03
So we’re going to read Exodus 2019

01;24;52;03 – 01;24;54;15
through 24

01;24;55;20 – 01;24;58;08
and it and we’re doing this
because we’re talking

01;24;58;08 – 01;25;02;00
about the importance of, of, of God’s name

01;25;03;17 – 01;25;06;13
and remember, we kind of made a preference
that in our room,

01;25;06;21 – 01;25;11;06
if you say you
who are Yahweh, Jehovah, Jehovah,

01;25;12;10 – 01;25;13;11
we know that we’re all

01;25;13;11 – 01;25;16;04
talking about the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Israel.

01;25;17;13 – 01;25;19;27
So I don’t want you
to get caught up on that because

01;25;19;27 – 01;25;22;07
some say Jehovah, some say way

01;25;23;05 – 01;25;26;16
it’s okay,
we’re we’re talking about the same God,

01;25;27;23 – 01;25;29;14
but it’s important to know his name.

01;25;29;14 – 01;25;31;18
So this is what I’m trying to get at.

01;25;31;18 – 01;25;34;04
So calling him God or Lord

01;25;34;04 – 01;25;36;15
is what I’m trying to say
is not what we want to be doing.

01;25;36;16 – 01;25;39;02
Want to call him by his name.

01;25;39;09 – 01;25;41;15
And some people might be like,
well, you know,

01;25;42;17 – 01;25;46;20
Esther Esther,
say your name for me in Vietnamese.

01;25;46;20 – 01;25;48;16
Please say her full name.

01;25;48;16 – 01;25;53;04
Always put her on the spot.

01;25;53;04 – 01;25;53;23
Okay.

01;25;53;23 – 01;25;57;18
I’m sorry.

01;25;57;18 – 01;25;59;28
My name is.

01;25;59;28 – 01;26;02;09
Are you there?

01;26;02;22 – 01;26;03;15
Seth?

01;26;04;21 – 01;26;05;14
Say one more time.

01;26;05;14 – 01;26;08;10
Yeah, the name.

01;26;09;22 – 01;26;11;00
Okay, so

01;26;11;00 – 01;26;14;10
it’s spelled h i it is that correct.

01;26;14;28 – 01;26;16;15
R h it’s.

01;26;16;15 – 01;26;18;26
But it’s I b also h.

01;26;20;11 – 01;26;23;10
Yes. H So

01;26;23;10 – 01;26;26;01
they have a very tonal language like they

01;26;26;09 – 01;26;29;16
their vowels,
they can have five tones for their vowels.

01;26;29;23 – 01;26;33;23
And so if you say the wrong tone,
you’re saying the wrong word.

01;26;34;22 – 01;26;38;04
So I to not be able to say and so what

01;26;38;04 – 01;26;41;00
you’ll find in a lot of foreign countries,
especially like in Vietnam,

01;26;41;20 – 01;26;44;07
is that the Christians at least

01;26;44;27 – 01;26;47;04
will take an name from the Bible.

01;26;48;09 – 01;26;51;00
And because when they meet with foreigners
trying to get them to say

01;26;51;00 – 01;26;55;13
their name right is just too hard.

01;26;55;13 – 01;26;59;12
And so instead of having you because he

01;27;02;02 – 01;27;04;02
I say heap what is your name again.

01;27;04;02 – 01;27;06;25
Esther say it for me clearly. If.

01;27;07;24 – 01;27;10;05
Hipp Do you see how I said Heap?

01;27;10;15 – 01;27;11;21
But she said

01;27;12;29 – 01;27;14;06
it means two different things.

01;27;14;06 – 01;27;16;29
What does he mean when I said.

01;27;16;29 – 01;27;21;18
It’s mean the small I but he means that

01;27;23;04 – 01;27;24;22
unity.

01;27;25;17 – 01;27;28;00
Okay, that’s a big difference.

01;27;28;00 – 01;27;30;10
I said this. I called her the small lot.

01;27;30;10 – 01;27;35;21
I like in your head
I the small I but her name means unity.

01;27;36;07 – 01;27;38;26
It’s by simply getting the tone wrong

01;27;41;06 – 01;27;43;07
and I’d have to know the language.

01;27;43;07 – 01;27;46;15
And because even though we say h

01;27;47;05 – 01;27;49;07
i e p there’s a little

01;27;50;22 – 01;27;53;26
Esther
there’s an accent mark over the E, right.

01;27;54;27 – 01;27;55;14
Yeah.

01;27;55;14 – 01;27;58;18
Like a little the E and then that

01;27;59;19 – 01;28;01;15
and then the E.

01;28;01;15 – 01;28;06;05
So they have accent marks on top
and the bottom of their vowels

01;28;06;26 – 01;28;09;29
to tell you how to pronounce it.

01;28;11;01 – 01;28;11;27
So you know what

01;28;11;27 – 01;28;14;26
tone to make that might have been help
for us.

01;28;14;26 – 01;28;15;17
For us, right?

01;28;15;17 – 01;28;19;18
If we had the word let’s say the word red.

01;28;19;18 – 01;28;25;04
Well, I could say I read the Bible,
which is r e and then I could say

01;28;25;04 – 01;28;29;21
I read the Bible, which I did
at past tense, which is still our aid.

01;28;30;07 – 01;28;34;14
So if you see our ad on the page,
you don’t know if it’s read or read.

01;28;35;11 – 01;28;38;08
And if I just said O red, you could think.

01;28;38;08 – 01;28;40;16
I mean, the color red,

01;28;40;25 – 01;28;43;25
which is spelled R E D

01;28;45;01 – 01;28;48;04
and my point of bringing this out is that

01;28;49;11 – 01;28;53;07
that tone
does make a difference in language.

01;28;53;14 – 01;28;54;00
It does.

01;28;54;00 – 01;28;58;16
We’re we’re just starting
we’re just having this conversation.

01;28;59;02 – 01;29;01;26
And I’m going to get to a place,

01;29;02;06 – 01;29;07;06
another scripture, to help us understand
and appreciate the fact that Yahweh

01;29;07;06 – 01;29;12;02
understands, Jehovah understands
and I’m not schizophrenic because I use

01;29;15;08 – 01;29;15;16
need.

01;29;15;16 – 01;29;22;04
Your daughter is running out the door.

01;29;22;04 – 01;29;26;03
I’m not schizophrenic
when they use Yahweh or Jehovah

01;29;26;06 – 01;29;29;12
is because I realize
there are different people in the room.

01;29;29;12 – 01;29;30;07
All right.

01;29;30;07 – 01;29;33;16
But as we grown accustomed to each other
and as new

01;29;33;16 – 01;29;36;09
people begin to join, you know, we may

01;29;37;17 – 01;29;40;26
feel like,
oh, they’re saying the name wrong.

01;29;41;22 – 01;29;46;11
Shabbat Shalom, Mamadi, Silbert,
Shalom Coffey.

01;29;46;21 – 01;29;49;06
Good to see you guys.

01;29;49;06 – 01;29;52;12
Shabbat shalom.

01;29;52;12 – 01;29;53;24
Welcome.

01;29;56;08 – 01;29;59;20
So the point I was

01;30;00;02 – 01;30;02;13
I told you that I said, oh,
I was talking about tone

01;30;03;10 – 01;30;05;18
and and the name.

01;30;06;05 – 01;30;06;12
Right.

01;30;06;12 – 01;30;11;04
And so if I say her name wrong,
I’m calling her small.

01;30;11;04 – 01;30;14;12
I like instead of saying unity.

01;30;15;07 – 01;30;16;22
And so

01;30;17;18 – 01;30;19;25
then I was just like,
okay, well, just call me Esther,

01;30;21;08 – 01;30;23;16
which not her birth name,

01;30;23;16 – 01;30;27;17
but is a name that she goes
by, the name that she will answer to

01;30;29;16 – 01;30;32;02
what happened?

01;30;32;02 – 01;30;35;16
I don’t know. I think like a year in

01;30;35;16 – 01;30;37;25
now, maybe a couple of years.

01;30;37;25 – 01;30;39;25
And I was like, you know what?

01;30;39;25 – 01;30;42;10
I got convicted about?

01;30;42;10 – 01;30;43;13
And I said, You know what, Esther?

01;30;43;13 – 01;30;47;04
I need to be able to say your name
because I love you

01;30;47;12 – 01;30;52;09
that much
and I want to call you by your name.

01;30;52;09 – 01;30;53;27
But I had to practice it.

01;30;53;27 – 01;30;55;01
He it

01;30;55;19 – 01;30;58;07
he like I would have to

01;30;58;07 – 01;31;00;14
I’d have her record it for me on the phone

01;31;02;06 – 01;31;04;08
and then I’d have to listen to it
and I’d have to work it.

01;31;04;08 – 01;31;06;15
And sometimes I said, heap,

01;31;07;20 – 01;31;10;09
I’m like, come here small I,

01;31;10;16 – 01;31;14;23
I love you small I.

01;31;14;23 – 01;31;16;21
But she knew that I loved her.

01;31;16;21 – 01;31;20;17
She knew that I was not mocking her
or making fun of her.

01;31;21;02 – 01;31;21;14
Right?

01;31;22;28 – 01;31;24;12
But that honestly was trying.

01;31;24;12 – 01;31;27;14
But it was just not my language.

01;31;27;14 – 01;31;30;11
Does that give me an excuse?

01;31;32;21 – 01;31;33;14
No. No.

01;31;33;14 – 01;31;36;29
If I loved her and I plan to stick around,
it’d be good.

01;31;37;12 – 01;31;39;26
I should make the effort.

01;31;39;26 – 01;31;43;13
But if I didn’t make the effort and I
call her Esther because, most of the time.

01;31;43;13 – 01;31;44;02
You guys hear me?

01;31;44;02 – 01;31;46;20
Everybody calls her Esther
because that’s the name she has there.

01;31;47;24 – 01;31;49;16
She answers to that.

01;31;49;16 – 01;31;54;13
If you call her Esther, she doesn’t feel
like she’s being disrespected.

01;31;54;13 – 01;31;56;27
But her real name is Hee Hee!

01;31;57;22 – 01;32;00;15
Then I say it right here.

01;32;00;15 – 01;32;01;04
Not to have.

01;32;01;04 – 01;32;02;10
Was there

01;32;04;16 – 01;32;05;03
anyone else

01;32;05;03 – 01;32;08;20
want to take a gander at saying her name?

01;32;08;20 – 01;32;09;17
It’s okay.

01;32;09;17 – 01;32;11;15
You have to send me
a voice notes with that

01;32;11;15 – 01;32;16;07
so I can practice it
because I will not be saying it today.

01;32;16;07 – 01;32;18;15
Think it read right.

01;32;18;15 – 01;32;21;09
And so if it’s not your culture, it’s

01;32;21;09 – 01;32;24;13
not your language,
but you’re trying to learn, right?

01;32;24;13 – 01;32;27;21
This is where I want us to be
in this room.

01;32;28;11 – 01;32;30;18
And I don’t want us to be judgmental

01;32;31;06 – 01;32;36;04
about whether someone says
Jehovah or Yahweh or Yahoo or

01;32;36;04 – 01;32;41;10
if they only when they read the Scripture,
they just say, Lord, right.

01;32;41;19 – 01;32;43;26
Okay, enough of that.

01;32;43;26 – 01;32;44;05
All right.

01;32;44;05 – 01;32;48;09
So we are in Exodus 20 verse 19.

01;32;48;09 – 01;32;54;08
So remember in number
six, 22 to 27, we read that

01;32;55;12 – 01;32;57;16
Jehovah said, Now I say Jehovah

01;32;57;19 – 01;33;02;15
when I’m other rooms, I say Yahweh,
because that’s the culture of that room.

01;33;02;19 – 01;33;08;17
When I’m other rooms I say, Lord
or God just depends on where I am.

01;33;08;17 – 01;33;10;23
But personally myself say Jehovah.

01;33;11;19 – 01;33;15;05
And that’s just because of the information
that I’ve been taught

01;33;15;05 – 01;33;17;03
and that I’ve seen with my own eyes.

01;33;17;03 – 01;33;21;13
And then I’ve gotten from people who speak
and read Hebrew

01;33;22;05 – 01;33;24;10
their whole life, right?

01;33;25;12 – 01;33;27;09
And so to me, I’m like,

01;33;27;14 – 01;33;30;15
someone couldn’t come
and tell me how to say Esther’s name

01;33;30;29 – 01;33;33;06
because they spoke Vietnamese for

01;33;33;29 – 01;33;36;29
a couple of years,
but they can’t remember how to say it now,

01;33;37;17 – 01;33;40;16
or they couldn’t read her name
or couldn’t write her name in Vietnamese.

01;33;41;17 – 01;33;43;10
But they want to tell me that
this is how it is.

01;33;43;10 – 01;33;45;06
And so I’m like, okay, I understand.

01;33;45;06 – 01;33;49;25
We’re all talking about the God
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, right?

01;33;49;26 – 01;33;53;28
So let’s not have that judgmental,
but it is important to know his name.

01;33;54;07 – 01;33;56;23
And so we’re going to find
that out here in Exodus 20

01;33;57;29 – 01;34;00;07
through to 24.

01;34;01;20 – 01;34;04;01
And they said unto Moses,

01;34;04;01 – 01;34;06;07
Speak now with us and we will hear,

01;34;06;25 – 01;34;10;02
but let not God’s speak with us lest
we die.

01;34;11;06 – 01;34;13;05
And Moses said unto the people,

01;34;13;05 – 01;34;16;17
share not for God is come to prove you,

01;34;17;02 – 01;34;21;06
and that his fear may be before your faces
that he said Senate

01;34;22;17 – 01;34;25;03
and the people stood afar off and Moses

01;34;25;03 – 01;34;27;29
through near onto the thickness,
thick darkness, where God was

01;34;29;18 – 01;34;31;26
and the Lord all caps.

01;34;32;02 – 01;34;34;23
So Jehovah, Yahweh,

01;34;34;23 – 01;34;38;20
you Hova said unto Moses, thus
thou shall say

01;34;38;20 – 01;34;41;22
unto the children of Israel,
You have seen that

01;34;41;22 – 01;34;44;24
I have talked with you from heaven.

01;34;44;24 – 01;34;48;00
You shall not make me with gods of silver.

01;34;48;19 – 01;34;52;01
Neither shall you make unto
you gods of gold

01;34;53;11 – 01;34;58;13
and ultra of earth
thou shall make unto me and shall thereon

01;34;58;13 – 01;35;02;11
thy burnt offerings and that peace
offerings, thy sheep and that oxen

01;35;03;26 – 01;35;07;05
in all places, where I record my name

01;35;07;25 – 01;35;10;22
I will come under
the and I will bless thee

01;35;16;05 – 01;35;20;26
in in Hebrew.

01;35;20;26 – 01;35;26;21
It actually says and I was studying this
with another teacher in all the places

01;35;26;21 – 01;35;30;27
where I cause you to put my name,
where you cause my name to be.

01;35;32;01 – 01;35;34;26
I will come and I will bless thee.

01;35;35;12 – 01;35;39;13
And that’s profound to me
that the creator, the universe will be

01;35;39;13 – 01;35;42;23
wherever his name is proclaimed,
whoever his name is put.

01;35;44;15 – 01;35;46;12
We we had two or three witnesses.

01;35;46;12 – 01;35;48;13
We saw that in number six seven.

01;35;48;13 – 01;35;52;08
We’re seeing it here in Exodus 2024,
where he’s saying,

01;35;53;10 – 01;35;56;20
I will come where you put my name in.

01;35;56;20 – 01;35;59;03
I will bless you.

01;35;59;03 – 01;36;02;13
And so it is important for us

01;36;03;10 – 01;36;05;16
to know what his

01;36;05;16 – 01;36;09;11
name is. Now

01;36;11;02 – 01;36;12;14
we have about 20 minutes.

01;36;12;14 – 01;36;15;29
We only try to go 2 hours here

01;36;15;29 – 01;36;17;03
because it’s early for me.

01;36;17;03 – 01;36;21;18
I want to go back to sleep before
my apostle comes on the class, but

01;36;27;01 – 01;36;30;04
what we need to understand

01;36;30;04 – 01;36;33;04
about the name so

01;36;34;26 – 01;36;39;19
some.

01;36;39;19 – 01;36;40;27
I said I was going to do two things.

01;36;40;27 – 01;36;43;13
Okay, let me get that other website.

01;36;43;13 – 01;36;46;29
I’m going to put it up here for you.

01;36;46;29 – 01;36;51;23
It’s called the mechanical translation.

01;36;51;23 – 01;36;55;17
His name is Jeff Benner.

01;36;55;17 – 01;37;00;18
He’s been studying and teaching
paleo Hebrew.

01;37;00;18 – 01;37;03;16
So this is before

01;37;03;16 – 01;37;05;18
the Aramaic Hebrew
that we see in our Bible.

01;37;05;18 – 01;37;07;20
So this is with the pictographs.

01;37;07;20 – 01;37;09;06
All right.

01;37;10;00 – 01;37;12;18
And he has been doing this

01;37;12;18 – 01;37;15;22
probably 35 years now.

01;37;15;22 – 01;37;22;00
He’s not a Jew.

01;37;22;00 – 01;37;24;04
Hold on. Just let me remove this link.

01;37;24;04 – 01;37;28;28
I think can’t talk and chew
gum at the same time. I’m

01;37;35;21 – 01;37;38;10
okay.

01;37;38;10 – 01;37;41;12
So I put the other link up there for you
and I’ll put it in the chat

01;37;41;12 – 01;37;47;14
as well as I never know on the replays
if it always shows up.

01;37;47;14 – 01;37;51;02
And so

01;37;51;13 – 01;37;54;21
and I really

01;37;54;21 – 01;37;56;26
encourage you

01;37;56;26 – 01;38;01;07
to read his material
to learn about culture.

01;38;01;07 – 01;38;04;29
What’s amazing is the pictures of

01;38;06;06 – 01;38;11;00
the pictographs that before
they become the letters, tell a story.

01;38;11;00 – 01;38;15;07
And I think I was talking to you guys
about it last week about the name of God l

01;38;15;28 – 01;38;18;00
l then we get Elohim from

01;38;19;01 – 01;38;20;22
that in the pictographs.

01;38;20;22 – 01;38;23;01
It was the ax head and the shepherd stuff.

01;38;23;12 – 01;38;26;12
I don’t know if you guys
remember that from last week.

01;38;26;12 – 01;38;30;03
So the ox head in the Stepper
Shepherd stuff and so the ax head

01;38;30;26 – 01;38;33;01
I’m talking now
so you can click on the Torah,

01;38;33;02 – 01;38;36;01
the mechanical translation
link up there, book market, save it,

01;38;36;01 – 01;38;40;07
whatever,

01;38;40;07 – 01;38;43;21
so that you can get there.

01;38;43;21 – 01;38;44;29
Was I saying, oh yeah.

01;38;44;29 – 01;38;47;20
So the ox head and the shepherd staff,

01;38;47;29 – 01;38;51;21
that was if you saw those two together
like those pictures together,

01;38;51;29 – 01;38;57;09
then they were talking about Elohim,
the creator of the universe,

01;38;59;06 – 01;39;01;09
and the ox head meant

01;39;01;09 – 01;39;06;18
power and strength, but the shepherd stuff
meant authority, right?

01;39;06;18 – 01;39;10;14
And so when you think about it,
and this is that Doreen had corrected me

01;39;10;14 – 01;39;12;17
that England no longer has a queen
they have a king,

01;39;13;13 – 01;39;18;12
but in any kind of where there’s royalty

01;39;19;29 – 01;39;21;23
in where they still have kings

01;39;21;23 – 01;39;24;05
and queens, they have crown and a scepter.

01;39;24;27 – 01;39;27;11
So the crown has
the basically has the horns

01;39;27;28 – 01;39;30;01
and the scepter
basically is the shepherd stuff.

01;39;30;01 – 01;39;35;08
It’s just kind of translate
did more into to modern times, but

01;39;39;02 – 01;39;41;17
I’m going to the mechanical translation

01;39;41;17 – 01;39;45;25
on my laptop.

01;39;45;25 – 01;39;48;00
Excuse me. Okay.

01;39;48;05 – 01;39;52;22
So I want us to go to Exodus 20.

01;39;53;25 – 01;39;56;14
So what you see when you go here

01;39;56;14 – 01;40;02;18
is that the mechanical translation is?

01;40;02;18 – 01;40;04;05
I don’t want to get too caught up
in everything.

01;40;04;05 – 01;40;07;06
When you have time later on
you can go back and study it to understand

01;40;07;06 – 01;40;10;05
like all the little key
things he’s saying, but basically

01;40;11;05 – 01;40;11;21
you have the

01;40;11;21 – 01;40;17;15
verse,
so let’s just all go to Exodus 2024.

01;40;17;15 – 01;40;19;21
So we’re looking at the same thing.

01;40;19;21 – 01;40;22;09
Let’s go to Exodus 20

01;40;22;09 – 01;40;29;16
and then scroll down to find 24.

01;40;29;16 – 01;40;32;23
So what he does here is he gives you
the Hebrew,

01;40;34;16 – 01;40;39;05
he gives you the transliteration, right?

01;40;39;05 – 01;40;41;22
And so that is

01;40;42;10 – 01;40;44;28
you can see the Hebrew letters,
but you don’t know how to pronounce it.

01;40;44;28 – 01;40;47;25
And so what he has is
so the first word is alter,

01;40;48;27 – 01;40;51;28
we’re at Exodus 21st, 24,

01;40;51;28 – 01;40;54;25
and we’re looking at it
through the mechanical translation

01;40;56;24 – 01;41;01;21
name.

01;41;01;21 – 01;41;04;20
So 24 has the word alter

01;41;07;22 – 01;41;12;02
and in blue, if you click on that, it’s
going to take you somewhere else.

01;41;12;02 – 01;41;14;11
Don’t click on that. Right now,

01;41;14;21 – 01;41;16;06
it has the Hebrew,

01;41;16;06 – 01;41;19;14
he has the
how you might pronounce it misbah.

01;41;20;14 – 01;41;24;13
Then it has the next word ground.

01;41;24;13 – 01;41;27;17
Notice that it’s like Adama.

01;41;27;17 – 01;41;31;16
We know that from Adam Adama, right?

01;41;31;16 – 01;41;33;01
It could be a double.

01;41;33;01 – 01;41;35;25
Yeah, there’s two acts,
it’s probably Adama ground.

01;41;37;15 – 01;41;40;06
And then this is what I was talking about,
about verb tenses.

01;41;41;02 – 01;41;42;27
See how it’s like you will.

01;41;42;27 – 01;41;44;27
But if you look down, it’s like you did.

01;41;46;12 – 01;41;48;17
He actually gives you this
what I was talking about.

01;41;48;17 – 01;41;51;02
He actually gives you
the actual verb tense

01;41;51;07 – 01;41;54;00
because you need to know that for the noun

01;41;54;24 – 01;41;59;16
and the verb, the thing is,

01;41;59;16 – 01;42;02;19
is that in Hebrew,

01;42;02;19 – 01;42;05;08
literally, it’s like the altar ground

01;42;05;29 – 01;42;09;08
do sacrifice upon ascension, offering

01;42;09;17 – 01;42;12;21
an offering of restitution flocks

01;42;13;05 – 01;42;17;11
at cattle all area which remember at title

01;42;17;11 – 01;42;19;18
oh come to kneel

01;42;21;23 – 01;42;24;02
like okay

01;42;24;10 – 01;42;29;09
now if you know the language
and the grammar you would look okay.

01;42;29;09 – 01;42;34;06
Well, if it’s this tense,
then I know it’s, you know, it’s a

01;42;35;08 – 01;42;37;18
it’s a singular, it’s a feminine.

01;42;37;18 – 01;42;41;06
All of that plays into Hebrew grammar.

01;42;41;06 – 01;42;46;03
Now when you look at the are empty, right.

01;42;46;03 – 01;42;48;21
Which is he’s giving you
like a translation.

01;42;49;28 – 01;42;55;07
He says you will make an altar of ground
for me and you will sacrifice upon him.

01;42;55;26 – 01;42;59;06
Now upon him is simply
because the word ground

01;43;01;09 – 01;43;03;06
is masculine.

01;43;03;06 – 01;43;05;03
So they’re very particular about that.

01;43;05;03 – 01;43;11;25
I think that even true in Vietnamese,
right, Esther, that even nouns

01;43;11;25 – 01;43;15;11
and pronouns are feminine and masculine,

01;43;15;11 – 01;43;19;14
and your verbs have to match.

01;43;19;14 – 01;43;23;02
You may not know that.

01;43;23;02 – 01;43;25;07
And the question that you.

01;43;27;14 – 01;43;30;18
So Esther’s

01;43;30;18 – 01;43;35;08
from the ADA tribe,
which is a tribe in Vietnam.

01;43;35;14 – 01;43;36;26
It would be like for you

01;43;36;26 – 01;43;40;00
if you’re in America, I’d be like saying
she’s a Cherokee Indian.

01;43;40;23 – 01;43;43;12
Right? She is native to that land.

01;43;44;11 – 01;43;45;06
Right.

01;43;45;06 – 01;43;46;18
To to Vietnamese.

01;43;46;18 – 01;43;49;24
They can tell the difference between them.

01;43;49;24 – 01;43;52;13
For our eyes,
we can’t always tell the difference.

01;43;52;17 – 01;43;57;00
Sometimes they can’t tell
unless they say the name.

01;43;57;00 – 01;44;00;25
But so they have tribal
people who live there.

01;44;00;25 – 01;44;03;09
And then the Vietnamese came, right?

01;44;03;09 – 01;44;05;05
And so

01;44;05;24 – 01;44;08;14
maybe it’s
just the Vietnamese language, Esther.

01;44;08;14 – 01;44;10;02
And not a day.

01;44;10;02 – 01;44;13;10
But don’t they have masculine

01;44;13;10 – 01;44;18;03
and feminine nouns?

01;44;18;03 – 01;44;19;27
Do you know what I’m talking about?

01;44;20;22 – 01;44;23;01
Nothing is going in the numbers.

01;44;23;21 – 01;44;26;21
Okay, so not her language.

01;44;26;21 – 01;44;29;22
All right, in Hebrew language.

01;44;29;22 – 01;44;30;20
Okay.

01;44;31;24 – 01;44;33;21
This is.

01;44;33;21 – 01;44;37;19
There’s masculine and feminine
and they’re singular and plural.

01;44;37;23 – 01;44;42;18
And so your verbs have to match.

01;44;42;18 – 01;44;46;22
So what’s interesting is that we
look at these words, but the translation

01;44;46;22 – 01;44;51;04
is you will make an altar ground for me
and you will sacrifice upon him.

01;44;51;04 – 01;44;53;16
He’s talking about the altar,
not a person.

01;44;54;05 – 01;44;58;00
Your Ascension offerings
and your offerings of restitution,

01;44;58;15 – 01;44;59;25
your flocks and your cattle.

01;44;59;25 – 01;45;03;00
All the areas
will I make my title remembered?

01;45;03;16 – 01;45;05;27
I will come to you and I will exalt you.

01;45;07;17 – 01;45;08;29
Let’s read that again.

01;45;08;29 – 01;45;13;01
In the KJV, an altar earth
thou shalt make unto me

01;45;13;14 – 01;45;16;22
and shall sacrifice there
on thy burnt offerings and thy peace

01;45;16;22 – 01;45;20;16
offerings, thy sheep
and then oxen in all the places

01;45;20;16 – 01;45;24;27
where I record my name,
I will come onto the and I will bless thee

01;45;26;09 – 01;45;28;05
now I will bless the

01;45;28;05 – 01;45;31;11
I think to us might be different
then I will exalt thee.

01;45;32;27 – 01;45;35;12
And yet here

01;45;35;12 – 01;45;37;06
there’s this verb.

01;45;37;06 – 01;45;40;09
He will come and he will kneel.

01;45;40;13 – 01;45;45;16
So learning. Hmm?

01;45;45;29 – 01;45;48;05
You’re welcome, ladies.

01;45;48;05 – 01;45;49;25
You’re welcome.

01;45;50;13 – 01;45;53;05
This is stuff
that took me a while to find.

01;45;53;05 – 01;45;59;07
I didn’t just bump into this yesterday,
but what I realized

01;45;59;07 – 01;46;04;12
and why I’m sharing this with you
is that you cannot fully understand

01;46;04;12 – 01;46;08;27
the truth
and the revelations of our our Bible.

01;46;08;27 – 01;46;13;16
If you if you have no understanding
or concept of the Hebrew behind it.

01;46;14;19 – 01;46;15;09
Right.

01;46;15;10 – 01;46;19;23
And when start talking more about

01;46;24;19 – 01;46;27;12
about his name,
when we start talking about

01;46;27;20 – 01;46;31;04
that we are Israel, that we are included

01;46;31;04 – 01;46;36;02
in the promises of Elohim to us, that’s
how can we always start in Isaiah

01;46;36;02 – 01;46;40;05
56, one through eight.

01;46;40;05 – 01;46;44;15
We are not not included
because we are not of the bloodline.

01;46;44;25 – 01;46;49;12
But unless you start looking at this
from a different trend,

01;46;49;12 – 01;46;52;15
a different context,

01;46;52;15 – 01;46;54;23
you will feel that you are an outsider.

01;46;54;23 – 01;46;57;04
Even looking at this right
now is intimidating,

01;46;58;28 – 01;47;01;20
but this tool

01;47;01;29 – 01;47;04;15
was not available 20 years ago.

01;47;05;18 – 01;47;05;27
Right.

01;47;05;27 – 01;47;09;18
And so there’s always new knowledge
coming.

01;47;09;18 – 01;47;13;02
The Earth, there are always new people
and individuals

01;47;13;02 – 01;47;15;14
who come into the earth
and share what they know.

01;47;16;22 – 01;47;19;05
And then we this is the beginning of.

01;47;19;05 – 01;47;23;14
It has been the beginning of Elohim making
his name known through all the Earth.

01;47;25;09 – 01;47;27;06
When we read and

01;47;27;06 – 01;47;29;25
as we always started in Isaiah 56,

01;47;30;29 – 01;47;33;24
when he says The Son of the stranger
and the eunuch will come

01;47;33;24 – 01;47;36;00
to the name of your Hova.

01;47;36;00 – 01;47;38;25
They keep his Sabbath
and keep his commandments.

01;47;38;25 – 01;47;39;15
They are not.

01;47;39;15 – 01;47;40;13
They are part of it.

01;47;40;13 – 01;47;42;19
That was always his plan.

01;47;43;29 – 01;47;46;17
But if you don’t understand this,

01;47;46;17 – 01;47;50;18
it can be you.

01;47;50;18 – 01;47;52;00
It can be very difficult to come

01;47;52;00 – 01;47;56;01
to that understanding with someone
just telling you that it is so.

01;47;56;05 – 01;47;59;20
But you can’t go
and see that for yourselves.

01;47;59;20 – 01;48;02;20
And so one thing I want to

01;48;03;04 – 01;48;05;16
I want to end with as far as our teaching

01;48;06;00 – 01;48;10;08
and then I’ll if you have questions and
and stuff, great.

01;48;10;08 – 01;48;11;27
We don’t have to end at 6:00.

01;48;11;27 – 01;48;14;08
There’s no timer. But

01;48;15;10 – 01;48;16;05
I do want us to

01;48;16;05 – 01;48;18;27
always kind of
to stay on that, to our time frame,

01;48;20;06 – 01;48;22;10
something to just understand about

01;48;23;05 – 01;48;26;05
when you’re trying to look for

01;48;26;05 – 01;48;30;24
Hebrew teachers.

01;48;30;24 – 01;48;34;21
So there is

01;48;34;27 – 01;48;36;29
the paleo, the pictographs, right?

01;48;36;29 – 01;48;42;06
And then and then it transforms
into the Aramaic Hebrew mix.

01;48;42;25 – 01;48;46;25
And then we know from if you you’ve read
anything through the Old Testament,

01;48;46;25 – 01;48;53;12
you know that the the children of Israel
were conquered by different nations.

01;48;53;12 – 01;48;56;20
Think about Daniel I don’t know that
we always think that Daniel’s

01;48;56;20 – 01;49;02;00
not just sitting in Jerusalem somewhere,
you know, like he’s in captivity.

01;49;02;03 – 01;49;04;25
His people have been conquered by Babylon.

01;49;04;25 – 01;49;07;00
He is sitting in captivity.

01;49;07;21 – 01;49;09;17
That King changed their names.

01;49;09;17 – 01;49;11;01
Like we all kind of know that, right?

01;49;11;01 – 01;49;13;05
That that they changed their name.

01;49;13;05 – 01;49;14;07
Belta Nassar.

01;49;14;07 – 01;49;19;15
They changed all their names,
stripping them of their identity,

01;49;21;04 – 01;49;25;05
who they are, their cultures.

01;49;25;05 – 01;49;31;28
And so they’ve gone through changes
in their language as well.

01;49;31;28 – 01;49;40;05
When we get up to the time of Yeshua,
this is what I love

01;49;40;05 – 01;49;43;08
about having an international room
and I’ve said this in the beginning,

01;49;43;08 – 01;49;47;11
it’s worth saying again
that hearing other tones

01;49;47;12 – 01;49;52;28
as hearing other dialects reminds us that
we’re not the only people on the planet

01;49;53;19 – 01;49;56;01
and it should humble you

01;49;56;01 – 01;49;57;21
so that you remember.

01;49;57;21 – 01;50;04;25
You pick up and you read this Bible,
don’t be so arrogant

01;50;04;25 – 01;50;07;24
to think that you completely understand it
because you can read the English

01;50;08;22 – 01;50;11;02
that somehow if you go to the concordance

01;50;11;11 – 01;50;14;02
or you study this,
that somehow you know better

01;50;15;17 – 01;50;18;25
until you really can speak and read Hebrew

01;50;19;12 – 01;50;22;08
and understand the grammar, you don’t.

01;50;22;08 – 01;50;23;04
You’re close,

01;50;24;10 – 01;50;27;03
but you you really, you really,
really don’t.

01;50;27;03 – 01;50;28;10
You miss a whole bunch.

01;50;28;10 – 01;50;39;24
So the Jews,
how many of you’ve heard the the saying

01;50;39;24 – 01;50;44;19
or the conversation point about that
this name was hidden from us.

01;50;45;15 – 01;50;47;18
The name of God was hidden from us.

01;50;48;00 – 01;50;52;19
And that we we associate it to
and that the

01;50;53;01 – 01;50;55;16
that within Jewish culture,
there are a lot of Jews

01;50;55;16 – 01;50;59;02
who don’t even say the name
because they say it’s too holy.

01;51;00;15 – 01;51;02;00
For us.

01;51;03;01 – 01;51;05;18
Last year, Mike,
if you’ve ever heard that.

01;51;05;18 – 01;51;08;04
But when I was

01;51;10;05 – 01;51;10;16
okay.

01;51;10;16 – 01;51;13;10
Mamadi Doreen

01;51;13;11 – 01;51;13;27
I know.

01;51;13;27 – 01;51;16;26
Esther I know
she’s getting ready for work, so I know

01;51;16;26 – 01;51;19;23
Esther that you have to leave soon.

01;51;19;27 – 01;51;20;24
Okay,

01;51;21;16 – 01;51;25;09
so here’s the thing.

01;51;25;09 – 01;51;28;24
As we go through our study,
you’re going to begin to see that

01;51;30;02 – 01;51;31;09
the plan of

01;51;31;09 – 01;51;34;10
Jehovah
Elohim, our creator, was always that

01;51;35;19 – 01;51;37;15
the seed of Abraham,

01;51;37;15 – 01;51;40;15
it would be a blessing and he would bless
all the families of the Earth,

01;51;41;04 – 01;51;43;14
that he would bless
all nations of the Earth, that indeed

01;51;43;15 – 01;51;45;17
all nations of Earth will be blessed.

01;51;45;17 – 01;51;48;07
I mean, it says that continually.

01;51;48;07 – 01;51;51;07
It was always God’s intention
for us to be blessed because

01;51;51;07 – 01;51;54;04
they were supposed to be an example
and then show people

01;51;54;04 – 01;51;57;14
how to have an example with ELO,
how to have a relationship with Elohim,

01;51;58;21 – 01;52;01;01
and then everyone
would come into the knowledge of him.

01;52;02;13 – 01;52;05;04
Well, that didn’t happen.

01;52;05;04 – 01;52;08;18
But also some other things happened
through persecution for them.

01;52;10;05 – 01;52;12;09
Now, some things were not

01;52;12;09 – 01;52;15;11
had nothing to do with persecution.

01;52;15;11 – 01;52;16;16
One of the things

01;52;17;17 – 01;52;21;00
about Jewish, about Judaism

01;52;21;16 – 01;52;24;25
is that they believe
that there two torah’s,

01;52;26;00 – 01;52;28;00
they believe that
there’s the written Torah

01;52;28;23 – 01;52;31;22
and the oral Torah.

01;52;31;22 – 01;52;34;26
So I’m going to talk to you about
the Talmud, the mission as the camera

01;52;35;29 – 01;52;40;28
and I, I’m giving you this which you can
all go search out yourself, because

01;52;42;08 – 01;52;45;19
I want you to understand
that when you read things

01;52;45;19 – 01;52;49;11
from a Jew Day ism point of view,
because you

01;52;49;21 – 01;52;54;04
you believe that they are going
to give you access to Hebrew.

01;52;54;24 – 01;52;57;00
Some of that is true,

01;52;57;03 – 01;52;59;21
but some of it is very much
their tradition.

01;52;59;21 – 01;53;04;04
But the way that they go about it,
you would think that it’s biblical

01;53;04;15 – 01;53;06;20
because to them it is.

01;53;07;04 – 01;53;09;20
So for them

01;53;09;20 – 01;53;13;26
there are two laws, oral law and law.

01;53;14;16 – 01;53;17;20
They believe that
when Moses went onto Mount Sinai

01;53;18;03 – 01;53;20;27
that he was given to Torahs.

01;53;20;27 – 01;53;24;07
One was written and one was oral.

01;53;24;07 – 01;53;29;10
And they believe that
this oral translation right.

01;53;29;12 – 01;53;33;27
Was the the explanation of things. So

01;53;38;06 – 01;53;40;14
the commandment says,

01;53;40;27 – 01;53;43;05
thou shall not take the name of the Lord
by God in vain.

01;53;44;21 – 01;53;48;03
Well, who knows what that means, really?

01;53;49;00 – 01;53;50;06
How do you implement that?

01;53;50;06 – 01;53;51;11
How do you live that out?

01;53;51;11 – 01;53;53;26
How do you walk that out?

01;53;53;26 – 01;53;56;04
Well, obviously, there’s an oral law.

01;53;56;27 – 01;54;01;08
This is then this is the belief it
I it’s absolutely true.

01;54;02;26 – 01;54;04;15
Well obviously

01;54;04;23 – 01;54;06;15
someone needs to tell me what that means.

01;54;06;15 – 01;54;07;13
How do I live that?

01;54;07;13 – 01;54;10;04
How do I walk that out?

01;54;10;17 – 01;54;12;29
Now, we just read in Exodus

01;54;13;25 – 01;54;15;29
that when they had do you remember

01;54;15;29 – 01;54;19;28
when I was reading in 19 how they said
they didn’t want to go near to God?

01;54;19;28 – 01;54;22;13
You tell us what to do.

01;54;22;20 – 01;54;26;07
X is 2019 and they said unto Moses,
Speak Thou with us and we will hear.

01;54;26;07 – 01;54;32;13
But let not God speak us lest we die.

01;54;32;13 – 01;54;34;06
There is this sense that

01;54;35;04 – 01;54;38;07
they could not directly
communicate with Elohim, but that’s not

01;54;38;07 – 01;54;39;02
what Elohim wanted.

01;54;39;02 – 01;54;41;21
He always wanted
have a direct relationship with him.

01;54;41;27 – 01;54;44;23
And we get confused by this new covenant
thinking

01;54;44;23 – 01;54;48;01
that, you know, Oh, it came in
with the New Testament, which is not true.

01;54;48;01 – 01;54;50;26
The New Covenant is directly spoken
in Deuteronomy.

01;54;51;11 – 01;54;53;17
We’ll get to that much later
in our studies.

01;54;54;21 – 01;55;00;11
But the point being is that in Judaism
they believe there are two laws.

01;55;01;07 – 01;55;05;01
For a long time
that oral law was only passed down orally

01;55;05;10 – 01;55;11;03
from their religious leaders,
their rabbis.

01;55;11;03 – 01;55;15;17
At some point because
they were being taken in captivity,

01;55;15;17 – 01;55;17;06
the temple was destroyed.

01;55;17;06 – 01;55;19;22
They realized, you know what,
we need to write down?

01;55;20;10 – 01;55;24;03
Because if we write this down
and we’re not able to be in one location,

01;55;25;03 – 01;55;27;13
we can still train and teach other people.

01;55;27;22 – 01;55;30;19
And that is the mission.

01;55;30;19 – 01;55;34;09
So the there oral law is the Mishnah

01;55;35;18 – 01;55;39;01
they give

01;55;39;01 – 01;55;42;17
unbelievable authority to their rabbis

01;55;43;26 – 01;55;47;27
in this idea
that if the rabbis say it’s true,

01;55;47;27 – 01;55;50;13
even if you don’t find it
in the Torah, it’s true

01;55;52;07 – 01;55;54;22
because it’s in the oral law.

01;55;54;22 – 01;55;56;19
That’s the Mishnah.

01;55;57;09 – 01;56;00;06
So They’ve been taught this way

01;56;00;13 – 01;56;03;02
for centuries.

01;56;04;20 – 01;56;08;00
It’s 2000 years now,
so they’ve had a good 20 centuries

01;56;08;00 – 01;56;13;19
or and more a believing and teaching
and walking this way

01;56;13;19 – 01;56;18;18
before you show
how much you got on the earth.

01;56;18;18 – 01;56;22;01
They believed that

01;56;22;23 – 01;56;24;25
there were two laws.

01;56;25;17 – 01;56;27;28
So if there’s this oral law

01;56;28;05 – 01;56;32;01
that gives you instructions
and how to abide

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by the written law,

01;56;35;13 – 01;56;39;11
and so it’s called the Mishnah,
which is in the Talmud.

01;56;39;16 – 01;56;40;19
So the Talmud.

01;56;40;19 – 01;56;45;11
Talmud
is just a large collection of works.

01;56;45;11 – 01;56;49;20
The Mishnah is in there.

01;56;49;20 – 01;56;50;24
So they

01;56;51;25 – 01;56;54;06
believe
the Tanakh, they believe the Torah.

01;56;54;14 – 01;56;59;23
But there is also a law
that tells you what to do.

01;56;59;23 – 01;57;02;19
Now, the thing with the oral law is that

01;57;03;26 – 01;57;06;01
it may only

01;57;06;08 – 01;57;10;17
give you written instructions,
but that may not really help

01;57;10;17 – 01;57;11;29
you understand them.

01;57;11;29 – 01;57;15;19
And this is how I heard one Hebrew teacher
explain it to me.

01;57;16;20 – 01;57;18;25
Well, explain it in
the class was listening to.

01;57;20;11 – 01;57;22;17
So let’s say that

01;57;22;29 – 01;57;25;23
you go to IKEA or Wal-Mart or some store

01;57;26;18 – 01;57;29;25
and you buy a piece of furniture
that you have to put together yourself.

01;57;30;08 – 01;57;30;16
Right.

01;57;30;16 – 01;57;33;26
Or you get some instructions
to put together some piece of equipment

01;57;34;03 – 01;57;34;22
by yourself.

01;57;34;22 – 01;57;37;29
And there are written instructions.

01;57;37;29 – 01;57;41;27
Well, you may open those instructions
and look at them and be like,

01;57;42;26 – 01;57;47;17
oh, my gosh, in America
we have IKEA, and IKEA has a helpline.

01;57;47;17 – 01;57;49;24
So it’s like even if you’re
looking at these instructions

01;57;49;24 – 01;57;52;12
and you can’t figure out to do,
you can actually call someone

01;57;52;29 – 01;57;56;13
and they will explain to you
the instructions that you’re looking at.

01;57;56;21 – 01;57;57;09
Now you have

01;57;58;20 – 01;57;59;27
they’re there,

01;57;59;27 – 01;58;01;29
but you still can’t understand what to do,

01;58;03;15 – 01;58;05;18
or it’s confused,
or you get halfway through

01;58;05;23 – 01;58;08;12
and it doesn’t look like the picture

01;58;08;12 – 01;58;10;04
So what do you do?

01;58;10;11 – 01;58;12;24
You’re like, Oh, you can’t figure it out.

01;58;13;03 – 01;58;13;22
It may take you

01;58;13;22 – 01;58;17;19
all day to put together something
and it may come out crooked or whatever.

01;58;17;27 – 01;58;19;27
You miss the piece.

01;58;19;27 – 01;58;23;08
You didn’t understand
that the the screw that was only,

01;58;23;17 – 01;58;26;17
you know, two inches was supposed
to be used instead of the screw

01;58;26;17 – 01;58;29;14
that was two and a half inches,
you know, that kind of thing.

01;58;30;07 – 01;58;32;26
So you need someone to explain to you
the laws.

01;58;33;14 – 01;58;35;17
That’s the midrash.

01;58;35;18 – 01;58;39;29
So in the midrash
you have a lot of rabbis discussing

01;58;39;29 – 01;58;45;05
what they are thinking
and in how they would explain

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the Mizner.

01;58;48;18 – 01;58;49;24
So you don’t understand.

01;58;49;24 – 01;58;53;08
So you have the Torah,
but the Torah has laws.

01;58;54;08 – 01;58;55;14
That’s the Mishnah.

01;58;55;14 – 01;58;58;07
Well, while you’re reading the mission,
you may not understand that

01;58;58;07 – 01;59;01;25
because it was,
you know, a thousand years ago.

01;59;02;05 – 01;59;05;28
So then you have the midrash,
which is a bench of I don’t want

01;59;06;00 – 01;59;09;18
say Bunch, which is a group of different
rabbis giving their opinions

01;59;10;23 – 01;59;13;28
on how you execute that.

01;59;13;28 – 01;59;17;01
And it may look different
if you’re in Egypt, it may look different

01;59;17;01 – 01;59;21;14
if you’re in Lithuania or Germany
or Australia.

01;59;23;10 – 01;59;26;24
One of the
the stories that I hear often from

01;59;27;01 – 01;59;29;14
this one teacher is and

01;59;30;17 – 01;59;34;21
his name
is, I’ll give it to you afterwards.

01;59;34;21 – 01;59;38;13
But the point I want you to stay focus
since I give you the name

01;59;38;13 – 01;59;41;14
that you could go and look them up,
not hear me now, just wait.

01;59;41;14 – 01;59;44;06
I’m going to give you all the names.

01;59;44;06 – 01;59;48;09
So what he said is he was born
and raised an Orthodox rabbinical Jew.

01;59;48;17 – 01;59;52;10
It’s been in his family,
his great grandfather, grandfather, father

01;59;52;13 – 01;59;56;01
were all rabbinical Jews
in this particular line.

01;59;56;25 – 01;59;59;14
But then he always questioned
the oral law.

01;59;59;14 – 02;00;00;03
He could just

02;00;00;03 – 02;00;02;09
he’s like, Well, if it’s not in the Torah,
even at ten,

02;00;02;09 – 02;00;03;29
he’ll tell you in his testimony
or something.

02;00;03;29 – 02;00;07;03
Even at ten, he is questioning
his father and his father’s like,

02;00;07;03 – 02;00;08;12
You’re not old enough.

02;00;08;12 – 02;00;11;22
You’re trying to say that,
you know, more than the hundreds of

02;00;12;10 – 02;00;14;25
wisdom speakers that we have.

02;00;15;29 – 02;00;18;18
And he was like, But it’s not

02;00;18;18 – 02;00;20;00
I can’t find it in the Torah.

02;00;20;00 – 02;00;20;21
It’s like that.

02;00;20;21 – 02;00;23;19
And he’s the his father would say, no,
the rabbi said it.

02;00;24;10 – 02;00;26;26
The rabbis have more authority
on Earth and God,

02;00;27;26 – 02;00;30;23
this is truly what they believe.

02;00;30;23 – 02;00;34;04
The rabbis were sanctified by God
and given the authority

02;00;34;04 – 02;00;35;28
to have authority on Earth
more so than God.

02;00;35;28 – 02;00;37;16
So if they say so, this is it.

02;00;37;16 – 02;00;40;16
So my point about the midrash and the Mr..

02;00;40;29 – 02;00;43;28
So There’s a,
there’s this law in the Mishnah

02;00;45;05 – 02;00;47;05
where when you get up in the morning,

02;00;48;16 – 02;00;51;03
you have to put on your

02;00;51;03 – 02;00;53;16
left shoe first.

02;00;53;16 – 02;00;55;24
No, you’re right shoe first,

02;00;55;24 – 02;00;58;17
but you don’t tie it,
you put on your left shoe,

02;00;59;13 – 02;01;02;17
then you tie your left shoe, then
you go to your right shoe in your tie.

02;01;04;02 – 02;01;04;20
And so

02;01;04;20 – 02;01;07;17
there’s another rabbi was like, Well,
we don’t have shoe laces,

02;01;08;04 – 02;01;11;05
but we still have to put on the right shoe
first, then the left shoe.

02;01;11;26 – 02;01;13;18
So this is the the midrash.

02;01;13;18 – 02;01;16;07
There’s a and and the thing about it is,

02;01;17;07 – 02;01;20;12
there’s a lot of wisdom in there.

02;01;20;12 – 02;01;23;15
There are a lot of things
that are not absolutely not true

02;01;23;15 – 02;01;26;15
because they are laws made by them.

02;01;27;23 – 02;01;31;15
Could they be practical and good laws
to protect you and keep you safe?

02;01;31;15 – 02;01;32;14
Sure.

02;01;32;14 – 02;01;35;01
Do our parents give us laws that legally

02;01;35;23 – 02;01;39;16
aren’t binding in the earth
like you need to be home by ten.

02;01;39;16 – 02;01;41;21
You need to finish your homework
before you go outside.

02;01;42;04 – 02;01;45;05
There is no legal law in the Constitution
or in your government

02;01;45;05 – 02;01;47;07
that says that that is so.

02;01;47;07 – 02;01;51;10
But because you respect the authority
of parents, you abide by those laws.

02;01;52;00 – 02;01;54;12
It’s the same kind of idea,

02;01;54;12 – 02;01;56;19
except they’re fiddling with God

02;01;56;29 – 02;02;00;29
and they’re figuring with the Torah
and they know this,

02;02;00;29 – 02;02;05;14
they don’t hide this, they accept this,
and they give extreme honor

02;02;06;18 – 02;02;07;28
always.

02;02;07;28 – 02;02;12;20
I think some cultures we don’t understand
honor of elders and those of wisdom.

02;02;13;26 – 02;02;17;06
Sometimes we do,
but this is how they honor them.

02;02;17;06 – 02;02;19;07
But that doesn’t mean
that there’s not a lot of wisdom.

02;02;20;11 – 02;02;23;15
Many of us have read books by Joyce
Meyer, by T.D.

02;02;23;15 – 02;02;27;09
Jakes, by Miles Monroe,
and we’ve been blessed by them.

02;02;27;24 – 02;02;32;26
They’ve many of us here have written books
that have blessed other people’s lives.

02;02;33;16 – 02;02;35;12
There’s nothing wrong with doing that.

02;02;35;12 – 02;02;39;18
There’s nothing wrong with
going through the Mishnah or the midrash

02;02;39;21 – 02;02;41;13
reading what they have to say.

02;02;41;13 – 02;02;44;05
But it’s not gospel law.
It is not the Torah.

02;02;44;05 – 02;02;46;17
If it contradicts the Torah,
then you just don’t do it.

02;02;46;17 – 02;02;48;19
You eat the meat
and you spit out the bones.

02;02;49;24 – 02;02;53;21
But for those in Judaism,
this is absolutely true.

02;02;54;21 – 02;02;55;25
So this becomes a

02;02;55;25 – 02;02;59;26
problem when when we start looking for

02;02;59;26 – 02;03;03;25
Hebrew information to
to learn about our Jewish Jesus,

02;03;05;00 – 02;03;08;18
and we start getting into Judaism
not fully understand adding

02;03;08;18 – 02;03;13;20
that a lot of what they are talking about
and they live by gives authority to men

02;03;14;17 – 02;03;16;21
and these particular wise men

02;03;17;01 – 02;03;20;24
have such authority,
even so than God too such that it says,

02;03;20;24 – 02;03;24;18
Well, you just do what the rabbi says
and when you get to heaven it’ll be okay.

02;03;24;18 – 02;03;27;19
You just tell God you follow the rabbi
and God will be like, Oh, it’s okay,

02;03;27;19 – 02;03;30;18
I understand
that’s how deep it goes for them.

02;03;32;11 – 02;03;34;05
And so

02;03;34;29 – 02;03;38;28
when you’re looking for teachers,
people to read,

02;03;38;28 – 02;03;44;10
you have to be sure that they are not
the type of Hebrew teachers who believe

02;03;44;22 – 02;03;47;16
and subscribe to the Mishnah,

02;03;47;16 – 02;03;50;17
the Midrash is the Talmud, the Torah law.

02;03;50;24 – 02;03;52;06
Now, many of them.

02;03;52;06 – 02;03;56;04
The names I’m going to give you,
they speak and read English.

02;03;56;11 – 02;04;00;29
They’re very much about the gentile
is coming into the understanding

02;04;01;16 – 02;04;02;18
of their Hebrew.

02;04;03;21 – 02;04;06;27
They may
talk about the Mishnah or midrash,

02;04;07;05 – 02;04;08;29
but these gentlemen
that I’m going to give to

02;04;08;29 – 02;04;12;05
you will totally say,
I don’t find that in the Torah.

02;04;12;11 – 02;04;15;29
And so they’re outliers
in their own communities, right?

02;04;15;29 – 02;04;20;23
So even though and two of them
were not even born or raised,

02;04;21;01 – 02;04;22;07
three of three of them

02;04;22;07 – 02;04;26;03
were not even born, are raised Jewish,
but they are Torah observant.

02;04;26;03 – 02;04;30;15
Some are very much Jewish
in that they celebrate Hanukkah and Puram.

02;04;30;24 – 02;04;33;00
And we know there’s nothing wrong
with celebrating those.

02;04;33;10 – 02;04;35;21
They’re Jewish traditions.

02;04;35;21 – 02;04;39;28
They’re not required that we do that,
but they’re Jewish tradition.

02;04;39;28 – 02;04;41;24
There’s nothing wrong with them.

02;04;41;24 – 02;04;45;25
So when you’re looking to study
and you’re listening,

02;04;46;05 – 02;04;51;26
if you’re going to listen to someone
who is a rabbi, understand

02;04;51;26 – 02;04;56;01
that you’re listening to them for wisdom
only in that gospel, truth

02;04;56;20 – 02;05;00;13
and some things you have to be like,
you better hope you have a conquered dash.

02;05;00;13 – 02;05;03;04
Some people may just not want to go there
because you’re not that mature yet.

02;05;03;04 – 02;05;04;28
To be able to hear something

02;05;04;28 – 02;05;07;19
and not believe everything
that that authority person told you.

02;05;08;07 – 02;05;09;16
So there are some people like that.

02;05;09;16 – 02;05;11;19
I used to be like that, right?

02;05;11;19 – 02;05;14;16
That if you were in authority and
you told me something, then it was true.

02;05;16;02 – 02;05;20;00
So but it’s important to understand
the Hebrew.

02;05;20;00 – 02;05;24;13
So what we have
now are we are having these individuals

02;05;24;13 – 02;05;29;16
that Jehovah has raised up
who completely have come out of,

02;05;29;16 – 02;05;33;21
been born,
raise rabbinical, Jew, read it, speak it.

02;05;33;21 – 02;05;38;03
They’re scholars in their own realm,
but now they are bringing

02;05;38;03 – 02;05;42;05
light to non-Jews, to the Gentiles,
to understand

02;05;42;05 – 02;05;45;27
the Hebrew Bible,
the way the Torah is written.

02;05;46;27 – 02;05;50;11
No commentary, no interpretation.

02;05;50;11 – 02;05;52;23
Now, may they tell you about traditions
that go on?

02;05;52;24 – 02;05;55;11
They may, but they’re always going to say,
you know, the mission says this

02;05;55;11 – 02;05;56;17
or the rabbi says this,

02;05;56;17 – 02;05;59;27
but if I can’t find it in the Torah,
then it’s not true.

02;05;59;27 – 02;06;02;26
It took me a long time to find these
people, and I’m going to give them to you

02;06;04;14 – 02;06;05;04
for you free.

02;06;05;04 – 02;06;11;14
Now, say you don’t have to search them out
and make mistakes on your own. So

02;06;13;05 – 02;06;15;25
while you’re thinking of your questions,

02;06;16;10 – 02;06;20;08
let me type their names in the chat

02;06;23;20 – 02;06;25;15
so that

02;06;26;22 – 02;06;27;19
so again,

02;06;27;19 – 02;06;33;24
these gentlemen, Nehemia Gordon,

02;06;34;01 – 02;06;36;13
he has.

02;06;38;14 – 02;06;40;01
Oh, Mitch, go away.

02;06;40;01 – 02;06;41;02
Mitch,

02;06;41;26 – 02;06;44;05
you don’t want to hear from you.

02;06;44;05 – 02;06;44;17
Hear me?

02;06;44;17 – 02;06;48;05
A Gordon has nahmias wal

02;06;48;11 – 02;06;57;14
Ross Nichols.

02;06;57;14 – 02;07;00;17
Ross Nichols

02;07;00;18 – 02;07;03;01
tell you is from.

02;07;03;19 – 02;07;05;23
I better type that out.

02;07;05;23 – 02;07;07;24
Ross Nichols.

02;07;07;24 – 02;07;10;27
All of these people have tons

02;07;11;17 – 02;07;15;17
of articles, youtube videos, teachings.

02;07;16;11 – 02;07;19;24
Oh my gosh.

02;07;19;24 – 02;07;22;05
Don’t blow your brain out. Right?

02;07;22;05 – 02;07;25;10
Because you can be like a kid like, oh,
where do I start?

02;07;25;10 – 02;07;26;27
Where do I start?

02;07;28;01 – 02;07;29;25
Ross Nichols is with

02;07;29;25 – 02;07;31;29
he might be a little horrified united

02;07;33;09 – 02;07;35;03
Israel

02;07;35;16 – 02;07;37;23
World Union

02;07;41;23 – 02;07;45;07
I’ve already told you about Jeff Banner

02;07;45;07 – 02;07;47;20
he has the mechanical translation
that your ad

02;07;47;20 – 02;07;51;01
or you went to and he’s with the ancient

02;07;52;07 – 02;07;54;17
Hebrew

02;07;54;28 – 02;08;00;20
Resource Center.

02;08;00;20 – 02;08;03;17
Keith Johnson is a black

02;08;04;26 – 02;08;09;19
American pastor,
formerly a methodist pastor,

02;08;09;19 – 02;08;14;08
and he

02;08;17;17 – 02;08;19;19
he you have to listen to him
tell his story.

02;08;19;19 – 02;08;20;26
But he

02;08;23;11 – 02;08;25;13
he wanted to know the name of you.

02;08;25;13 – 02;08;26;08
Sure.

02;08;26;20 – 02;08;29;13
He’s a methodist
now trying to keep the faith.

02;08;30;08 – 02;08;37;23
Went over to Israel, met Nehemiah, learned

02;08;38;12 – 02;08;41;05
Nehemiah, taught him

02;08;42;13 – 02;08;43;12
how to read Hebrew.

02;08;43;12 – 02;08;45;29
So this is a black American pastor

02;08;46;19 – 02;08;48;20
and he was about to make it big.

02;08;49;06 – 02;08;51;08
He he was high up in the ranks.

02;08;51;08 – 02;08;55;28
He used to travel to the Olympics
as one of the chaplains.

02;08;56;09 – 02;08;59;25
He was about to have his own television
show on the major networks

02;09;00;21 – 02;09;08;14
and got canceled
when he started talking about Yeshua.

02;09;08;14 – 02;09;12;26
So Jeff, John Keith
Johnson and Nehemiah Gordon

02;09;13;23 – 02;09;15;25
do a lot of things together.

02;09;15;25 – 02;09;18;12
They have a very powerful series.

02;09;18;12 – 02;09;24;08
I say if you’re going to start anywhere,
watch the Open Door Series.

02;09;24;08 – 02;09;26;10
It’s about ten episodes.

02;09;26;10 – 02;09;28;02
It’s for free.

02;09;28;02 – 02;09;33;12
You can find the link on the Hemings wall.

02;09;33;12 – 02;09;34;28
Did I spell that right?

02;09;34;28 – 02;09;38;21
No. The hair.

02;09;38;21 – 02;09;40;21
Me as well.

02;09;41;01 – 02;09;46;24
I believe it’s dot org. So

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what’s
interesting with Keith and Hermia is

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you have Nehemiah who was born
and raised to be

02;09;54;23 – 02;09;56;28
a rabbinical Orthodox Jew,

02;09;58;05 – 02;10;00;11
eventually became a Care I Jew.

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And Cara writes, Just believe the Tanakh.

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They don’t believe anything
about the oral law.

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Do they have their own traditions?

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They sure do.

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But they’ll tell you
their traditions are their traditions.

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They are.

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And are they wrapped in

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the the Torah?

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Sure.

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And I don’t see anything wrong
with that. Right.

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So if, for example,
they may have traditions of

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how they prepare for Sabbath,

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how they have their church
synagogue services,

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when the high holy feast days come around,
there are certain meals that they make.

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That’s tradition but they’re very clear
to tell you this is not Torah.

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Even in some of the writings of the care
rites, there are prayer books and stuff

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they even highlight for
you when they translate them in English.

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What part is from the Tanakh
and what part is them?

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Right.

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So if I were to say, Oh, let’s pray,
bless Jehovah, we love you, Lord,

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we thank you, we praise you, honor.

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Well, that’s not in the Torah, that’s me.

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But there’s nothing that contradicts
the Torah.

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Okay, so.

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International Sabbath Fellowship – 03

Regina Roundtree — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:17:00 +0000

This is week 3 of our Sabbath class/ Bible study. We review again from Jer6:16 and dig deeper into walking with God… Adam. Enoch, Noah, Abraham. We also look at circumcision and the inclusion of everyone in Abraham’s household.

We have added the transcript below to help with translation and the hearing impared community.

Saturday Jan 21, 2023 w/ Elder Regina Roundtree

00;00;37;18 – 00;01;07;22
Speaker 1
So we’re we’re going to go in Jeremiah six and then Isaiah 56, and then we’ll get into our text today, which is where we left off back in Genesis 17. But we’re going to go to Jeremiah six. And I want to review a little bit and I want us to continue. I think it’s good to repeat, you know, kind of what we studied last week.

00;01;08;13 – 00;01;52;04
Speaker 1
And then there’ll be some key scriptures that we you know, we continue to, to keep studying. Jeremiah six Everyone gets there. I’m going to get there. I’m going to open them. So what I think is great is if you have different versions of the Bible, it’s always good if you have time to have at least two with you because we are going to, you know, study and there are differences in different places, which I think is is interesting but yet good for us to know.

00;01;52;29 – 00;02;36;05
Speaker 1
And so I think I shared last week that I have the Koran, which is spelled K or E and Tanakh, and Tanakh is Hebrew for the Old Testament. What we call the Old Testament was just the Hebrew Bible to them. And what I like about this current is that it has white spaces. So as I’ve been studying with other Hebrew teachers and this would be biblical and ancient Hebrew, not modern Hebrew, they’ve taught us about the white spaces, and in the Hebrew Bible you can really see it.

00;02;36;05 – 00;03;05;23
Speaker 1
And I was recommending to people to just, you know, Google a script, like a Hebrew script, so that you could see that they’re they don’t have that they didn’t have paragraphs when they were writing this, you know, in commas and things like that. So the way that they separated a thought was they had a white space. And so there are, you know, just too small and big.

00;03;06;02 – 00;03;30;20
Speaker 1
There’s two size white spaces. And so a smaller white space would be in sense where, you know, in clubhouse you can’t really see it, but there’s a small white space and then there’s a larger white space. And the larger white space would begin to tell you that that was the end of a thought. And it’s possible to have many white spaces in one chapter.

00;03;30;20 – 00;04;01;04
Speaker 1
It’s also possible to go chapters with no white space, meaning the thought is continuing. And so sometimes when we’re studying, I’ll, you know, with you guys, I’ll go to the Koran because I’d like to know where the thought begins and ends, because we can’t really tell by the chapters, at least in the English translations that we have. And so this Korean Bible has the Hebrew on one side, and English on the other side.

00;04;02;08 – 00;04;29;07
Speaker 1
And so what I want you to know is that for the thought around Jeremiah 616, it actually goes from 16 to the end of verse 20. So that’s all we’re going to read because it covers the thought. And what we really want to do is discuss a little bit of Jeremiah 616.

00;04;30;27 – 00;04;31;08
Speaker 2
And.

00;04;31;29 – 00;05;00;29
Speaker 1
So I will read from this Tanakh is anyone want to have another version that they might want to read from just so that we can can hear the difference if you do come off your mic? So I’m going to read and this is from the Koran, which is the Hebrew English Bible. Jeremiah 616 This is what and so here the only thing is because it’s Hebrew.

00;05;00;29 – 00;05;31;01
Speaker 1
English, they use the capital letters, Lord, Lord. But if you look over on the Hebrew side, it’s the the Tetra grammar can the the York board hey. And so if you say your way, if you say Lord, if you say Jehovah, we’re in this room, we know what we’re talking about and so please just feel comfortable. This is what the Lord Jehovah said.

00;05;31;26 – 00;06;08;26
Speaker 1
Stand upon the roads and reflect. Inquire about the ancient paths. What is the good way? Walk in it you will find tranquility for your souls. But you said we will not walk. I set up watchman over you listen to the call of the Rams horn but you said we will not listen therefore harrow nations and no our community what awaits them here?

00;06;08;26 – 00;06;42;08
Speaker 1
Earth, I’m about to bring evil upon this people the fruit of their schemes for they did not listen to my words. And as for my law, they rejected it. For what purpose do I need frankincense brought from Sheba or choice came from some distant land. Your burnt offerings are not desirable, nor do I find pleasure in your sacrifices.

00;06;42;08 – 00;07;20;22
Speaker 1
So that’s the end of that thought. And what I brought that up is to talk about two things. One is walking and the idea that we can settle down and walk with you Hova. So anyone tell me some of the places where we see in the Scriptures where men walked with God and went on to give a shot at that person.

00;07;20;28 – 00;07;28;16
Speaker 3
Just thinking about Adam Knack. Mm hmm.

00;07;31;10 – 00;07;32;25
Speaker 3
Those are the first two I think about.

00;07;33;15 – 00;08;23;11
Speaker 1
That’s good. Adam and Enock sometimes we forget Adam, right, but yeah. Adam. Enoch. Shabbat shalom, kelvin. Shabbat shalom, Doreen Sometimes we do forget about that. We also have Noah because he said Noah walked with, with Elohim. And then we have Abraham, who in Genesis 17 was invited to walk before him. And so what’s interesting when we look at walking, Esther was sharing that in Vietnamese the language, the word walk means more than just to take, you know, physically put one foot in front of the other.

00;08;24;29 – 00;08;58;05
Speaker 1
It means to completely obey and to follow and I love having this international fellowship because I love to hear from different cultures and communities. You know, what they get from the scriptures as we as we study them. And so here we see that you Hova has talking about the fact that he made an invitation to the people to walk with him and they said that we wouldn’t.

00;08;59;20 – 00;09;40;05
Speaker 1
And he said, I want you to heed the call. And they said that they would not. And so therefore they’re going to be punished for that. And what is interesting is the way that he stands before the world, because he said here, oh, earth in here, he nations. And we had been talking earlier, too, about with the flood with know when he made the covenant how he made a covenant with the earth right to to never flood again with water.

00;09;40;05 – 00;10;17;25
Speaker 1
And so I think it’s interesting and I think if you think about that and remember, every time that you hear the Lord call the earth into accountability, that there’s something special about this ground. And it’s I think it’s more than just the idea of us being dirt and made from earth. I think we can tell from Scripture, even when we were in in Genesis, when the Earth brought forth, there’s a relationship.

00;10;18;12 – 00;10;51;16
Speaker 1
And I think I had shared with you guys last week my theory that one of the teachers had, which I really think is a good one, that when in the beginning, when Elohim said, let us, that he was actually talking to the Earth like some people think it’s angels and or or, you know, the Trinity. But this ancient Hebrew teacher was saying that he and he broke it down because he was explaining the the word Elohim, which is plural.

00;10;52;28 – 00;11;34;04
Speaker 1
But whenever it’s referring to the creator, they have this phrase called the Majestic plural, majestic plural. So it’s that idea that of power, because this like if we saw thousands upon thousands of people, you know, we’d say, that’s a great and mighty nation. It but the idea with using Elohim in the plural is the majestic plural. And even though it’s plural, the verb that’s used with it is still singular.

00;11;34;04 – 00;12;07;19
Speaker 1
And so with this and you can look up and study this majestic plural, I think it should it will help you with understanding why you can have this word God, Elohim. But Elohim in the Testament can also mean little gods. It can also mean authority or majesty or power or judgment. Right. Shabbat shalom, Dora. I hope you’ll come up and chat with us.

00;12;08;11 – 00;12;13;00
Speaker 1
So how are you?

00;12;13;00 – 00;12;18;07
Speaker 3
I’m good. Thank you so much. Shalom, everyone.

00;12;18;07 – 00;12;44;19
Speaker 1
So the idea of plurals anyways, the let us. I believe that Elohim was talking to the Earth because at this point, you know, the Earth had been the one that brought forth all the seed in the trees and the animals. And so now he’s saying, let us. So this time he actually puts his hand in and takes out the earth and forms it.

00;12;45;02 – 00;13;10;15
Speaker 1
Anyone got thoughts on that? What, you think so? Yes. We were getting to the majestic and plural. And how did I get over there? We were talking about walking with Elohim, the different people that walked with Elohim O and the Earth, how they call the Earth into the nation. He said, Here on Earth, anyone have a different translation that they can read from that one to read?

00;13;10;15 – 00;13;37;06
Speaker 1
Where in Jeremiah 616 through 20. Yeah. So verse 19 says Here O Earth, behold, I will bring evil upon this people. So I don’t think he’s talking to people. I think he is talking to the earth because he would say here o people, I will bring evil upon this people. I believe that he is talking to the earth and giving record and accountability.

00;13;38;17 – 00;14;39;10
Speaker 1
I think he does that a lot and will notice that as we continue to do our study. So walking with Elohim is part of something special, part of something that he asks people to do, that he makes this opportunity for you to walk with him. We know that before the kind of scripted words that we have now, that ancient languages used pictographs, right pictures and one of the earliest forms of how Elohim was represented in a pictographs.

00;14;39;10 – 00;15;27;01
Speaker 1
And you could also look this up in city, but there is a person that I recommend. His name is Jeff Banner J e f and I will show you. Give me a moment. I will post a link in the chat to his website and let’s see what I completely enjoy about Jeff Benner and studying ancient Hebrew, which is absolutely fascinating, is called the Ancient Hebrew Research Center and the material that he has on there for free is amazing.

00;15;28;09 – 00;16;06;02
Speaker 1
Absolutely. There’s a lot of material. So you can it’s possible to get a little overwhelmed with all the material that he has there. And he’s got some great books, but what I wanted to bring out to you was that he explains and shows to us that the name of Elohim L was represented by an ox head and a shepherd staff.

00;16;06;02 – 00;17;11;03
Speaker 1
So the the ox head was the alef, which is the first letter of the alphabet, the a right. And then the L was the shepherd staff. And so I’m not going to get into explaining all of those things, but the ox head and the shepherd staff were the words that the pitchers put together that represented Elohim and one of the things about Hebrew culture, which I appreciated learning from him, is that obviously we understand that it’s different than our Westernized culture, but they were very concrete in the way that they they describe things, though, the way that they looked at their words, looked at how things functioned.

00;17;11;03 – 00;17;43;24
Speaker 1
And so their understanding of God, the accent might and power. Right. And the shepherd staff was authority. So if you think about how that’s translated over time, even if you’ve watched any of the Viking movies, you remember how the leaders they would wear that the the helmets with the horns right and they would walk with a shepherd’s staff.

00;17;44;03 – 00;18;24;00
Speaker 1
Many tribal nations still do that. But what’s also interesting is that we can still see that represented when we look at the UK still has a queen, they still have royalty. So there’s a crown and there’s a staff. Right. And yes, ma’am, we are in Jeremiah 616 through 20. We were talking about walking with Elohim. And then I got into because we’re in verse 19 talking about the earth, and then he was speaking to the earth, and that’s how we got over to let us.

00;18;24;18 – 00;18;54;24
Speaker 1
So we did start in Jeremiah 16, but we’re kind of talking about Genesis right now. And what I wanted to do is break down how they understood Elohim. And so in the UK and in many places they still have the crown and they still have the scepter. And because the crown speaks to the, the power that they have.

00;18;56;06 – 00;19;23;10
Speaker 1
And that’s right. You now have a king. Thank you, Dana, for explaining that to me. And that I knew that I knew that you now have a king, but you have royal families. Right. Still who monarchs who reign and what what they they do now Shabbat shalom, Wanda. Good morning to you. What they do is they.

00;19;23;10 – 00;19;25;05
Speaker 3
Still give on. Good morning to you all.

00;19;25;05 – 00;19;52;20
Speaker 1
So morning they still have the crown. They still have the accent and the shepherd’s staff. And so when they pictured Elohim as being mighty and one full of authority, they pictured him as an ox. And so an ox you put a yoke upon the ax, right? You’ve seen that where it’s usually two acts pulling, sometimes it’s just one.

00;19;53;23 – 00;20;22;28
Speaker 1
But their idea was that Elohim was this older, more mature ox, and that we are the younger ox in the yoke walking together and that he is training and he is teaching us, you know, how to work and do this work. And so then the Shepherd staff, which spoke to authority, but we also know that shepherds use their staff as weapons to protect as well.

00;20;23;28 – 00;20;59;24
Speaker 1
And so I think it’s so interesting and enlightening in a character study about Elohim that in ancient Hebrew he was an ox and a staff, and if you saw those two together, then that was representing Elohim. And so imagine if we could switch our mindset to that, to not think of God as something out in the distance, something as rural, something, you know, that you can’t really put your hands on.

00;21;00;25 – 00;21;25;21
Speaker 1
But they had this understanding that he was a mighty powerful being that walked along with them and showed them in not just being but the ark, something that was practical, that was useful, that was needed. Right. Like you, you you need the ox to plow up the land. You need the axle, pull the cart. You need the ox to do these things.

00;21;25;21 – 00;21;56;20
Speaker 1
And so if we would begin to to look at Elohim that way, right. That we would begin to understand and better. And so as we go along in our in our studies and stuff, I will share more with you that I’m learning from Jeff better. But it’s the ancient Hebrew Research Center. Amazing, lots of free material, a lot of great things.

00;21;56;20 – 00;22;26;05
Speaker 1
And you can vet him, you know, on your own, you can vet him on your home, but I said I was going to post the link and every time I get to talking I don’t post the link in the chat. Let me do that right now. Anyone have a thought they want to share about that idea of the ox and the shepherd stuff?

00;22;26;05 – 00;23;02;27
Speaker 3
Okay, that’s just a new concept for me. I think every time I think about the yoga, I think about the arts. I just think about the scripture that talks about not being okay with unbelievers. I never looked at, you know, Yahweh ever being an ox and, you know, him leading us, you know, and training us. It’s always looked at it as just another person that you’re in connection with, whether it be, you know, partnership or whatever, just making a decision to connect with another person.

00;23;02;27 – 00;23;04;27
Speaker 3
So that’s a new concept for me.

00;23;06;02 – 00;23;45;01
Speaker 1
Hey, man, thanks for sharing that. Yeah. And when I when I read it, I began to study the pictographs and and began to understand that Hebrew culture was very functional, practical, and that everything had a reason. And the way they just described it, it helped me to really pull Elohim from just something out there to this power that was walking beside me.

00;23;46;21 – 00;24;15;29
Speaker 1
And the fact that he would put the yoke on himself and me so that we could walk together and so that I could learn. And if you if you keep that in mind about walking with him. Right. Why use that term walk? You know, that idea of, you know, he came into the garden and he walked in and walked with him.

00;24;16;12 – 00;24;54;12
Speaker 1
Noah walked with him. He asked Abraham to walk with him. As you continue to go through scripture and you look at this idea of Elohim walking with them, it’s not a just, you know, cloud or something. It’s not just a spirit. It is a very powerful entity. And so putting him in that idea for them, that would be like the most powerful thing, the most valuable thing, most needed thing would be an ox for them.

00;24;55;19 – 00;25;24;07
Speaker 1
And so the idea that he not only had that power, but he had the authority. And so it I think it helps with this idea of walking because, you know, sometimes like, well, how can we walk with God? Like he’s invisible, we can’t see him. But if there was so many mentions of walking with him in the Scripture, then there’s got to be something more concrete to it.

00;25;24;22 – 00;25;58;25
Speaker 1
Right. And that’s the thing about pictographs. That’s the thing about the the Hebrew culture and probably a lot more ancient cultures in general. That idea that it was a very concrete, functional thing. One of the the other examples that Jeff used in one of his books to explain the Hebrew culture is he would say in Western culture, how would we describe a pencil?

00;25;58;25 – 00;26;39;06
Speaker 1
We would say that the pencil is yellow. You know, it’s thin, it’s long, it has a point, right? That that’s how we would describe it in Western culture. We would. And when he says Western culture, he just he means well, it doesn’t mean Western and more modern. I think there are Eastern cultures like I, I love talking with Esther because she gives me another perspective from a very agricultural based country that does things that are still biblical, like they still let the land rest every seven years.

00;26;39;21 – 00;27;09;04
Speaker 1
Right. Just like he talks about Leviticus. So anyways and so he says Western culture, that’s how we would describe a pencil. But they would describe a pencil by saying it’s something I used to write with. Like, you see the difference and we describe the color, what it looks like, how it feels, all these feeling things. But they would describe the pencil as something I used to write.

00;27;10;10 – 00;27;39;27
Speaker 1
And so there’s, there’s function in that. Esther, can you talk? Yeah. I want you to describe how how Vietnamese explain being hungry. Yeah, I remember there I had to learn the word hungry and. And what is if you actually literally translate what Vietnamese are saying? What is it?

00;27;39;27 – 00;27;41;15
Speaker 2
They were? What, hungry?

00;27;42;01 – 00;27;48;23
Speaker 1
Yeah. If I want to say that I’m hungry. You don’t really have the word hungry. What do you say?

00;27;48;23 – 00;27;51;24
Speaker 2
So how I want to eat.

00;27;52;16 – 00;27;53;22
Speaker 1
You say I’m empty?

00;27;54;23 – 00;27;58;03
Speaker 2
Yeah, I’m empty. Yes, yes.

00;27;58;03 – 00;28;08;08
Speaker 1
Listen to me telling her about her own language, but I remember it. Is that true, though? You when you say hungry, you say I’m empty.

00;28;09;13 – 00;28;13;09
Speaker 2
I yes, that is true. Well, I don’t get about that.

00;28;13;14 – 00;28;30;12
Speaker 1
Yeah, I know. It’s so common to you. You’re like, what is she talking about? But anyone else here? No foreign language. Anyone? Your me. You do research what language?

00;28;30;23 – 00;28;32;18
Speaker 3
I speak real Haitian Creole.

00;28;33;15 – 00;28;48;04
Speaker 1
Do you have any do you have any words or thoughts or things like what I’m talking about the idea that you can say a word in English, but it has a different would take you a whole paragraph to describe it.

00;28;48;11 – 00;29;02;05
Speaker 3
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I, I agree. I’m trying to think of a word is plenty, but it’s really early and okay no problem.

00;29;03;09 – 00;29;03;26
Speaker 2
But yeah.

00;29;03;26 – 00;29;04;09
Speaker 1
There are.

00;29;04;09 – 00;29;18;04
Speaker 3
Plenty. There’s just not there might be just an English word, but then you have to add a sentence. You would have to actually describe DAW because it’s not actual translation word for word.

00;29;18;15 – 00;29;33;21
Speaker 1
Exactly. Exactly. Esther, I mean that the same thing in Vietnamese, whenever we’re translating in Vietnamese, what happens? You are not with me today.

00;29;34;25 – 00;30;06;28
Speaker 2
Sorry. Just like I’m reading something because you know, I’m still stuck in Jeremiah 616. He hasn’t read it again. It sounds something is speaking to me about that because the thing that I’m doing right now is very close to this verse, like in the Bible, like I’m, you know, that I’m up in the company, you know, and then I work with the, the farmer.

00;30;06;28 – 00;30;50;10
Speaker 2
And when we do the, the farmer work and we we working with the ground, the land, the sea, and then we I have to read the history about the land, the soy from the history, what they are doing, you know, so that we not I lose the things that they are already beans that says from the Amazon. And now we need to what we need to come by for the future so that we can do it better not forget about the history, not forget about the past, because the people leap from the ends and they they have their own wisdom.

00;30;50;10 – 00;31;20;24
Speaker 2
And then they did it very well for a very long time. And now as a young people and then to do that thing, I have to read the history so that I know what they have successful doing when they do with the crowd, with the sign, with the weather, how they how they live with it. And you know, when I read this, the scripture in Jeremiah 6616 says, yeah, we’re Elohim.

00;31;20;24 – 00;31;45;27
Speaker 2
Just remind that me about that, that if you want to be baptized now, you need to see the ends and the pat and then see what is good in it. And then you work in it. Don’t forget about it. Don’t, don’t, don’t carry it out from your way, but you need to work in it and then you would do it better just like that.

00;31;45;27 – 00;31;50;24
Speaker 2
And then stuck there. Sorry, because I’m not with you when you tell about that.

00;31;51;27 – 00;32;16;15
Speaker 1
And you know, that’s good. I’m glad you shared it with us. I’m glad I kept pressing you. I that’s a good analogy. That’s. That’s good. That’s what steady as we we don’t have to, like, finish all my notes or points or anything like that. We’re just studying and whatever rock reveals to us, you know, we’re going to stop in.

00;32;16;15 – 00;32;35;13
Speaker 1
We’re going to walk with him. Right. I think that’s this whole thing that we’re even doing in our fellowship is let’s walk with him. So if he slows down for you, then let’s slow down and share with us what he’s showing you. So thank you for that. I lost my signal for a moment, so I didn’t hear everything.

00;32;35;13 – 00;33;13;22
Speaker 1
So I’ll definitely go back in the replays and and listen to it. Hey, Tommy, Shabbat shalom to you. Yeah, so we’re talking about we started in Jeremiah 616 through 20, just talking about walking and it was 619 that reminded us that he called attention to the earth. And that’s how we got over to Genesis. Just talking about when he said, let us, was he talking to the Earth?

00;33;14;07 – 00;33;45;18
Speaker 1
Because we do see him talking to the Earth a lot throughout the Tanakh, the Old Testament. And then I began to sharing with you what I learned in my Hebrew classes, and I put the link in the chat, guys, so you can go check out his website. And he has this thing about the mechanical translation of the Bible, which he has for the Torah, which is really cool, but we’ll talk about that later.

00;33;45;18 – 00;34;32;10
Speaker 1
But anyways, just the idea that God Elohim was pictured with an ox head and a shepherd’s staff. And that’s how whenever you saw that, you knew that they were talking about Elohim and that’s good. So we’re going to continue because our our study in the path that we’re on in the Sabbath Fellowship is to understand what is Elohim plan for us, for humanity, and that we need to understand that we are included in the plan, always been included in the plan, all of humanity.

00;34;32;26 – 00;35;01;27
Speaker 1
There was always a place for us. And so these are the things that we are beginning to to study out. And in order to do that, we need to to walk with him. And so this is what we’re doing on this journey now is we are going to set in our minds, we are going to walk with Elohim as we study this, which means he is yoked up with us now.

00;35;01;27 – 00;35;23;02
Speaker 1
He’s more powerful and more experienced. But I think sometimes and this is what happened, too, if you think if you if you don’t use that picture, it’s possible for you to run ahead, right? It’s possible for you to go your own way. It’s possible for you to stop when you want to stop and move. When you want to move.

00;35;23;02 – 00;36;01;24
Speaker 1
But if you keep that picture in your head about Elohim and that he is this powerful, more experienced ox that is yoked up with you, you really can’t move unless he’s moving. Right. And if he’s leaning to the right, then you’re going to go to the right. You might try to struggle to go somewhere else. And so I found that helpful to me and in ways I feel like I can actually walk with him in that idea of walking with him doesn’t seem unreachable.

00;36;02;18 – 00;36;26;25
Speaker 1
It doesn’t seem so real when have a more concrete understanding of how the Hebrew culture sort of Elohim. Anyone want to add to that or something that they’re thinking about?

00;36;26;25 – 00;37;02;05
Speaker 2
Yeah. You know that when I read there were Jeremiah 619 when said that talk to the earth like dear. And I remember that thing that Yahweh hints that in Genesis 821 to 23 after the flood, and then he mixed the covenant with the earth, and he said that all are we no longer trust the Earth because of men for the because.

00;37;02;16 – 00;37;20;20
Speaker 2
Well, I read that and then when you saw the scripture in Jeremiah and still like we see that God is talking to the earth but the people also made by the earth. So that I feel like step from.

00;37;21;04 – 00;37;23;19
Speaker 1
Can you tell me a little bit? A little bit.

00;37;24;07 – 00;37;25;03
Speaker 2
It’s just wait for.

00;37;25;13 – 00;37;25;22
Speaker 1
Okay.

00;37;30;28 – 00;37;37;00
Speaker 2
A case better. Can you hear me now?

00;37;37;24 – 00;37;40;16
Speaker 1
Yes, I can. Thank you. Go ahead. I can thank you.

00;37;41;28 – 00;37;42;28
Speaker 2
I forget my thought.

00;37;43;16 – 00;37;46;20
Speaker 1
I’m talking about the earth and Genesis eight.

00;37;47;23 – 00;38;31;22
Speaker 2
Yeah, Genesis eight. After the flood. Yeah. We Elohim which is made the covenant to the earth like he said that I will no longer curse dear because of men. And when a read in the book of Jeremiah 619 also talk about oh dear like the and and I feel like that is different that if talking is not about the earth but about the human being because human beings also to make from the Earth, i, I just forget my thoughts.

00;38;32;28 – 00;38;33;01
Speaker 2
Yeah.

00;38;33;04 – 00;38;50;00
Speaker 1
So I know that’s okay. But if you go back and you look at Jeremiah 619 when he says here, oh, earth, the thing is, is that he he mentions the people.

00;38;50;00 – 00;38;50;25
Speaker 2
Yes, yes.

00;38;50;25 – 00;39;08;09
Speaker 1
I’m open for for other people. If you want to join us in what you think, what it looks like, it’s that’s being said here. Where is it? I’m looking in this Hebrew Bible here. Yeah, it’s.

00;39;09;06 – 00;39;11;00
Speaker 2
Just.

00;39;11;28 – 00;39;39;13
Speaker 1
Where are you? There for hero nations or community. What awaits here? Earth. I’m about to bring evil upon this. People. So I think it’s two different things. I don’t think here that he means here all people. I’m about to bring evil on this people and he want go ahead and continue your thought. You you were saying that you thought it was people.

00;39;39;14 – 00;39;44;04
Speaker 1
Go ahead, Esther.

00;39;44;04 – 00;39;46;05
Speaker 2
And just just wait for me a minute.

00;39;47;02 – 00;40;22;16
Speaker 1
And and I’m going to look it up in a I’m going to go to look up that section in a right now in the lexicon and a concordance. And let’s see if the words are the same. If the words are the same, then in Hebrew, then the words are the same. But let’s see. Go ahead, Esther. Or anyone else.

00;40;22;16 – 00;41;00;21
Speaker 2
Yeah, okay. Okay. I remember my dad. It’s just like when he said that. Oh, all up here or be whole and. And I will bring evil upon this people. Just like the way Elohim talked to the Earth. And and he told the Earth what he will do with men, with the people endure. Not talk to the earth like the evil thing is not for the earth, but the evil thing is come.

00;41;00;28 – 00;41;14;04
Speaker 2
Because I reflect of the thought of men is do you get it? I don’t know that I extend that is a canard, but I don’t know how to say that.

00;41;14;16 – 00;41;42;27
Speaker 1
Now you I got you so what you’re saying is you’re saying that the word earth and people you are saying that is two different things. And what I think you’re saying is that Elohim is telling the Earth, listen, I know in in Genesis, I told you I was not going to curse you for a man’s sake. But I’m letting you know that I’m going to bring evil upon this people.

00;41;43;24 – 00;41;46;20
Speaker 1
Is that what you’re saying, that you understand that is separate things?

00;41;47;00 – 00;41;52;09
Speaker 2
Yes. Yes, that is. That is. Thank you.

00;41;52;09 – 00;41;58;00
Speaker 1
Yes, sir. I’ve been with you long enough that I. I understand what you’re trying to say.

00;41;58;08 – 00;42;08;17
Speaker 2
You know, I speak in Vietnamese. I can tell a lot of this, but because I’m English and then I just that.

00;42;08;17 – 00;42;10;11
Speaker 3
Oh, good, good.

00;42;10;27 – 00;42;38;11
Speaker 1
Yeah. He is speaking to the two separate entities here. And I think that’s important for us to to understand. I think so many things when we start looking now, we start reading in the Old Testament and you see the land and you see the earth and you’re like, he lets the land rest for on the seventh year for a year, many things.

00;42;38;11 – 00;43;15;00
Speaker 1
And even this whole idea about in Genesis eight, does he reverse the curse from Adam? Right. Because in Genesis he he told man that by the sweat of their brow, you have to toil. Right. And then when Noah, we talked about this last week, when Lamech, Noah’s father, when his son was being born, he said, finally Lee, someone has come to comfort us and save us from the toil of this land.

00;43;16;03 – 00;43;52;06
Speaker 1
And that’s actually how we left off in our last study was well. Lamech We don’t see the mark having any kind of relationship with your Hova. I mean, just because we don’t see it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. But it’s written down that he kind of prophesied what it was his son was going to do. And I’m sure Lamech didn’t know that, you know, because, you know that a flood was coming and certainly the whole land was going to be saved from their toil.

00;43;52;06 – 00;44;21;01
Speaker 1
But we do see in Genesis eight and nine, when we see the covenant with the Rainbow, that it seems like Elohim reversed that curse of the land because he said he would make a covenant. Now, he made a covenant that he would no longer flood that with water. But are there other curses and things that happened? And so we’ve got this in our forefront of our mind.

00;44;21;16 – 00;44;46;24
Speaker 1
So as we’re moving along now and we’re studying, we’re going to be thinking about, well, Elohim is an ox. He’s in this yoke, he is walking with me because that’s what he wants to do. He wants to walk with us. And there’s something special about walking with him. And then we’re going to also think about there’s something about the land.

00;44;47;17 – 00;45;11;18
Speaker 1
And these two things are important. Something that we brought up in our first study is that the promise to Abraham, which we’re going to get into now, we’re going to go to Genesis 17, is it’s always been about I’m going to bless you, make you a great nation, and then I have a promised land to give to you.

00;45;11;18 – 00;45;45;06
Speaker 1
And there’s something special about the land, and we can’t lose sight of that. We can’t lose sight of the fact that there’s something special to our creator about the Earth. But there’s a special section of the earth that he has blessed because he’s returning to Jerusalem. He’s there is this promised land and what we have to understand is that the promised land was given to his seed.

00;45;46;26 – 00;46;18;17
Speaker 1
Now, that includes and I’ve heard other Hebrew teachers talk about this, that as Jewish people, they can’t be selfish because Abraham does have other seed that are not Jews. Right. We know there’s Ishmael. Part of the reason that they’re fighting, right, is because they’re both the seed of Abraham. And then we know that with Katara, after Sarah died, he had more sons.

00;46;18;17 – 00;46;46;02
Speaker 1
So those are seeds. And and we see this promise come out all the way through to Jacob, and he’s got the 12 and we’re going to talk about that as well. But there is something very special. And so we’re pointing this out, that walking with Elohim, he wants to have relationship with us, but there’s something special about the land.

00;46;47;13 – 00;47;24;03
Speaker 1
And let’s remember too, that Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Digbeth. Shem became is where Abraham came from, right? And so Shem is the one that received the biggest blessing. And then it was told that Canaan, the son of Ham, who was coerced, that he would be a servant. Let’s not forget that the land of Canaan is Canaan.

00;47;24;25 – 00;47;52;15
Speaker 1
And so here we have we have family against each other. We’ve got Shem and Abraham being told that he’s going to possess the line of basically his nephew. He’s going to possess that land, land of Canaan. And we hear that Canaan in the Emirates. Right. The iniquity of the Emirates is not yet full. We’re going to see that Emirates come from Canaan.

00;47;54;04 – 00;48;26;25
Speaker 1
And so here you kind of have your uncle’s bloodline coming down and he is going to possess the land of his nephew because there’s a curse. And and talk about family oil, right. Talk about family turmoil. Excuse me. That’s a better, better use of that word. Right? So land is an important possession of this land. This line of Abraham.

00;48;26;25 – 00;48;57;15
Speaker 1
Abraham is going to possess the land of his nephew. So Shem is going to possess the land of Canaan. But first, Shem is going to walk through his own period. Abraham, the children of Jacob, children of Israel. They’re going to go through bondage. They’re going to be sojourners in the land. They’re going to be nomads traveling around, and they’re never going to have their own place for the longest time.

00;48;58;23 – 00;49;39;01
Speaker 1
And I think this is also important to point out, because when we get into looking further that foreigners and sojourners are included in the promises, we’re going to see that they had, you know, generations of being foreigners and sojourners in the land. So how could it now when you’re coming into your place of your own, you know, Elohim, like you can’t reject the foreigner in the sojourner if they want to dwell with you because you are foreigner and sojourners in the land.

00;49;39;18 – 00;50;19;00
Speaker 1
He says that a lot. And so this idea that unfortunately that religion has done to us is to make us think that somehow this one group of people or culture is it and that we’re kind of all on the outside looking in. All right. Which is not the case. Okay. Any thoughts or questions? We’re going to go into Genesis 17 No.

00;50;19;00 – 00;50;39;07
Speaker 1
One. Rolonda, Shabbat shalom to you. Welcome to the room. If you want to come up and just talk with us, you are welcome. Okay. No one has any thoughts or anything. Go ahead, Esther, I.

00;50;40;21 – 00;51;23;23
Speaker 2
I read through the channels. Jeremiah did this thing from 16 to 20 again, and you see that in the verse of 18, God is speak to the nation, and then he speaks to the congregation. And then in the verse of 19, he speaks to the earth. And then just like he telling the nation to congregation the Earth, that he will let the evil thing happen to the people.

00;51;24;27 – 00;52;14;19
Speaker 2
That is the result of that thought. So it’s just that. And then in the verse up 20, he said that because now the end of the verse 819 he said that because they don’t want to hear his word and then they don’t want to follow his commandment. And because of that, for whatever they do, the thing that they bring to him is not please him because they refuse to listen to his work.

00;52;14;28 – 00;52;55;11
Speaker 2
They refuse to follow his law. And just like us right now, as a Christian, we did a lot of things, we do a lot of things, and then sometimes we do the way too much. The thing that Yahweh Elohim require us to do. We have a lot of confusion. We have a lot of things happen during the week, but we just we fail to listen to his word like he want us to to to keep the Sabbath to to to to honor the Sabbath.

00;52;55;11 – 00;53;27;07
Speaker 2
Because the Sabbath is the the the holy day for him. And then we just we to doing that. And then because of that, what ever we do instead of that is not accepted due to the lot. And then that’s why we have no rest in our so and we one to have breath but we don’t follow his work.

00;53;27;22 – 00;54;15;08
Speaker 2
We not honor his law. We’ll never have the thing that we want. Even we are crying to him. We are, you know, crowd and then everything we did is still not the same. And this is very important to me that when I study with a pastor we that we are John and then he talk about to keep the Sabbath is very important for us because that is the day we fully like come before him in 24 hour we only sit quiet with the Lord and then reading His work.

00;54;15;17 – 00;55;00;23
Speaker 2
Let Him speak to us and and for the Christian. When they not doing that, the sun for them is exhausted, is no resting there. And I’m very grateful because God led me to this so that I understand the thing that got one of us to do when we said that we want to worship him, we want to honor him, to worship and to honor him is to follow his word, not to do to do what we think, because God, we got word is far away from our thought.

00;55;00;23 – 00;55;11;07
Speaker 2
It’s just like that. I’m very grateful. Hallelujah. Thank you. And you are my amen.

00;55;12;25 – 00;55;15;24
Speaker 1
Anyone else want to share anything? Chris, Dora?

00;55;16;17 – 00;55;45;07
Speaker 3
Wanda Yeah. Shabbat Shalom. Glory Hallelujah. Esther You just, you know, unction something in me. The the the time, the coming into studying and doing Shabbat, I can see a difference and I can see why the father and I’m quite sure everybody in this and anyone in this in this planet that observe Shabbat, you can see a difference in your life.

00;55;45;15 – 00;56;16;22
Speaker 3
The peace that surpasses all, understand, as with what has happened for me and I’m quite sure countless others coming in to Shabbat, you know, making sure I do it at the time I’m supposed to do it, laboring to rest, you know, and then being in rest. And then the other six days, anything that come my way, I’m not how I used to be prior to Shabbat, frazzled or anything like that.

00;56;17;01 – 00;56;40;27
Speaker 3
I’ll go to the father with it and a lot of times I get to solution in Shabbat or during the week. So I’m grateful that Yahweh, my Elohim, allow me to come here, just like Esther said, to come to to be able to observe Shabbat, and that he in the commandments, he said he made it for man and that’s man.

00;56;40;28 – 00;56;49;25
Speaker 3
And that I think I’m mixing it up. Shabbat is made for man that man made for Shabbat or help me. Help me, Virginia.

00;56;50;12 – 00;56;52;26
Speaker 1
That’s correct. Oh, I’ll put it right. Right.

00;56;52;27 – 00;57;15;10
Speaker 3
Okay, so what a blessing. And I always say to you, we thank you so much because it didn’t have to be, you know, is right there in the Ten Commandments from the beginning of time, from the foundations of the earth. And it took me to be at the place that I met. But I’m grateful at a time such as this that I am here and I release.

00;57;15;10 – 00;57;19;07
Speaker 1
Go ahead, Dora, I everyone.

00;57;19;24 – 00;57;45;27
Speaker 3
Please forgive me. I’ve had a bit of a cough, but I know that, you know, Arafat is with me, so I am healed. And I just want to say that I have spent this time over a year now getting used to understanding what Sabbath means to me and trying to understand what it means to him that I am in Sabbath with him.

00;57;46;20 – 00;58;13;28
Speaker 3
There are days when I struggle with, you know, trying to get in on time because my work doesn’t recognize it. So I have to work to a certain time. But definitely on Fridays I do get to leave a little bit earlier so that I am literally rushing to Sabbath every Friday, but I am thoroughly enjoying being at rest with him.

00;58;14;19 – 00;58;44;20
Speaker 3
My issues are my issues in the sense that sometimes because I don’t get here in time or at the required time, I think I tend to to beat myself up a little bit about that. And I do understand that he receives whatever I give him. But for me, I feel sometimes that what I’m giving him isn’t enough, right?

00;58;44;20 – 00;59;13;04
Speaker 3
One, to set issues at work. Things that have been an issue in the past are no longer an issue. And my week tends to go a lot smoother now. And if there are things that I need, I just take it to him. And I also have to recognize that his time is not my time. And as somebody said earlier, his thoughts are way off of my thoughts.

00;59;13;04 – 01;00;08;12
Speaker 3
And so sometimes I have to be at peace with what he is showing me and take the time to understand that it’s his way, it’s his will, and that he orders my steps so I am truly grateful to be able to come and to be in the things of that with with him and to rest with him. And each time I come in, I get a different or a better understanding and I want to thank you all for sharing your thoughts, because I think it makes it easier for me to get understanding, which I know, you know, I want this me to have because this is him making sure that I rest and those thoughts

01;00;08;25 – 01;00;24;21
Speaker 3
can be quite tiring. So hallelujah, praise be to him for me being here, for you being him, for sharing. I yield the mike.

01;00;24;21 – 01;00;49;03
Speaker 1
Amen. Thank you, Doro. Let’s instead of going to Genesis, let’s go to Isaiah 56. Every one of our sessions we’ve been in Isaiah 56. And it just it bears repeating and discussing even deeper because I think it it it will help us. We’re going to go to Isaiah 56 and we’re going to read one through eight is my focus.

01;00;49;03 – 01;01;35;17
Speaker 1
But it’s actually went through ten and there are three sets of white spaces in Isaiah 56, which kind of makes sense. So we have a one through four is one set actually went through. How does this break up here? Okay. It has the section with the unit in the section with the children of the stranger. This is, I think will really bless us.

01;01;35;17 – 01;02;18;21
Speaker 1
And as we read this, if you’re not there, please go to Isaiah 56. We’re going to read one through eight, maybe one through nine, possibly. Excuse me. This is the scripture verse that is on our if you read the description of the room, there’s Zachary, too. But then there’s Isaiah 56, one through eight. And this is where we know a just another place of confirmation and that it was always Elohim tent that all should be included.

01;02;18;21 – 01;02;37;05
Speaker 1
And so we’re going to go through this. Anyone want to read one, three, five? Anyone feel like reading our read?

01;02;37;05 – 01;02;38;25
Speaker 3
If it’s okay with everyone.

01;02;39;08 – 01;02;52;14
Speaker 1
Of course. Will you read Isaiah 56? Read one through five for us. First, please.

01;02;52;14 – 01;03;36;03
Speaker 3
Let’s save the Lord. Keep judgment and do justice for my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that to this, and the son of mine that lay hold on it, that keep the Sabbath from polluting it and keep his hand from doing any evil. Neither let the son of the stranger that have joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying, Now we have utterly separated me from his people.

01;03;37;08 – 01;04;11;00
Speaker 3
Neither let the unique say Behold old I, I’m a dry tree for their safety away unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths and choose the things that pleased me and take hold of my covenant even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and the name better than sons of and of daughters.

01;04;11;11 – 01;04;19;21
Speaker 3
I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

01;04;19;21 – 01;05;03;12
Speaker 1
Awesome. So right there we see two things that he says are important and that’s keeping the Sabbath and not polluting it. And now some of you are thinking of Isaiah 58, 13 and 14, but it also says to keep your hand from doing evil. And he’s talking about the commandments, his instructions. What you also see is that as we as we begin our study in looking at the blessing of Abraham, it is all about it’s always, I’m going to make you a great nation.

01;05;03;19 – 01;05;27;20
Speaker 1
I want to make you a great nation. You’re going to have children. The stars of the sea, stars in the sky sands in this, you know, beaches. It’s always about children and it’s about land. So this would almost seem completely opposite that he would bring in a unique. So for those of you who don’t know a unique is someone who’s been castrated so they cannot have children.

01;05;27;20 – 01;06;01;13
Speaker 1
Their the the part of their body that holds the sperm has been cut off from them. And so that would seem the absolute opposite as we’ve seen with all the patriarchs. Sarah struggle to have children. Rebecca That had children for a while and then we see Leah and Rachel, right? Rachel Not being able to have children for a while.

01;06;02;21 – 01;06;33;14
Speaker 1
So we understand that this idea of being able to to be to not be bear, that being bear was a curse to them. And so if you are unique, you can never have children. I mean that I mean, sure, a miraculous thing could happen. But but you’re dry tree and yet we see here and we also see there there are laws in Leviticus about becoming a unit that you should they should not do that.

01;06;34;05 – 01;07;20;12
Speaker 1
Okay. So but here we hear our father saying to us, not just the stranger, but he’s addressing the eunuch that, listen, I’m going to bring you into my house, which is territory, which is land within my walls, a place. So they get a place and they get a name. Their name was carried on through their children. But here we see him making an exception, opening up for everyone, the eunuch, that person that cannot produce at all and usually was a slave.

01;07;21;05 – 01;08;00;28
Speaker 1
Right? Because had harum in concubines. And so they need someone to protect the women, but they didn’t want you having any children with the women, any sex or anything like that. They castrated you. So not only were you a slave, but then the possibility of you ever producing or carrying on your name was cut off from you. And we see him saying, I’m going to bring you in because you keep my Sabbath and you follow my law.

01;08;00;28 – 01;08;37;22
Speaker 1
What I think is beautiful and I think we we don’t quite capture all of it is in Isaiah 56, verse one, it says thus saith The Lord, which is your heaven, Jehovah or Yahweh, depending on what you choose, keep judgments and, do justice for my salvation is near to come. Anyone have a lexicon with them? I’m I’m on blue letter Bible do or but maybe you have something on your phone or on your computer.

01;08;38;08 – 01;09;40;00
Speaker 1
If someone tell you, I’m going to tell you unless you don’t what that word salvation is, you know that that word salvation is Yeshua. Yeah. So that word, my salvation in Hebrew is Yeshua. That’s, that’s the name because Yeshua means Jehovah Salvation. What we should also understand is that, that that salvation is used many places. Before we get to Isaiah, when he talks about salvation, but he is the savior.

01;09;40;00 – 01;10;15;25
Speaker 1
And so the idea of it being near is not so much that it’s thousands of years away as much as it is right there at hand. There’s something to think about. You can do a word study on it. I think that’s interesting that the word salvation, Yeshua, that’s the word was used quite frequently in the Old Testament. So it’s not a, it’s not a new word, but the English translation covers it up.

01;10;16;03 – 01;10;45;13
Speaker 1
We’re in Isaiah 56. So let’s continue with this broader discussion about Isaiah 56 one through five. Thank you, Dore, for reading. Will you read now Isaiah 56 six through nine for me, please.

01;10;45;13 – 01;11;26;03
Speaker 3
Starting up six. Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to yell away to serve him and allow the name of reality to be his servants. Everyone that keep the Sabbath from polluting it and take hold of my covenant. Even then, will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar for mine.

01;11;26;03 – 01;12;08;12
Speaker 3
How shall be called a house of prayer for all people? Yahweh, which gathers the outcasts of Israel, sayeth, yet will I gather of this to him? Beside that are gathered unto him, all ye beasts of the field come to devour ye or ye Beasts in the forest is what men are blind, they are all ignorant, They are all dumb dogs They cannot bark Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber Can I stop there?

01;12;10;01 – 01;12;35;21
Speaker 1
Yes, please don’t. Now we see the second part about the sons of the stranger. So these are not of the bloodline. When you’re considered a stranger, you’re not part of the land. You’re not native. If you’re a stranger, right? If someone comes into our neighborhood, we’re like, Oh, they’re a stranger. So they don’t live there. They’re not part of our culture, our community.

01;12;37;18 – 01;13;29;00
Speaker 1
And the requirement that he gives are keeping the Sabbath and holding on to the covenant. And so it’s no wonder that the way that you and I feel about Sabbath, how we feel about what it does for us, because that’s our way of coming in it. The bloodline is not a requirement anymore. It never was. But he’s reiterating that here that you can come in and take hold of Jehovah through keeping the Sabbath and keeping his covenant.

01;13;29;00 – 01;14;04;05
Speaker 1
And that is that is so, so important. We’re going to see as we as we as we continue in our study that that’s what it’s about. He he doesn’t say you have to do the sacrifices. He he doesn’t say I mean keeping the covenant. There’s lots of things involved in keeping the covenant. But he’s able to break it down to two things the Sabbath and the Covenant.

01;14;04;05 – 01;14;33;21
Speaker 1
And that’s how you grab hold of him. And then notice what he’s always saying is that he’s going to bring you into his land. It’s like my holy mountain, my place, my walls walls of my place, my house, and tell you there’s a promise about land and about blessing, but there’s a way to access it if you’re not of the bloodline.

01;14;35;14 – 01;15;11;22
Speaker 1
And so don’t ever that anything that you read in the Old Testament is not applicable to you. It is because he told you so he’s telling us here now realize that Isaiah is way after, you know, Abraham and Jacob and David and Solomon. But we’re going to see just as we begin in in in looking at the blessing of Abraham, because this is our blessing to we just need to see how it started.

01;15;12;07 – 01;15;39;05
Speaker 1
We just need to see where it came from, how it got to to us. Does that make sense? Anyone have a thought or a comment on this part of Isaiah 56? It’s always a blessing to me when I read this because it reminds me that he is not left me out in that I can keep the Sabbath, I should keep the Sabbath, and I should keep his covenant, and that’s it.

01;15;40;02 – 01;16;11;08
Speaker 1
And that doing that salvation has come to me because I used to wonder sometimes where all these people before Yeshua got here, Jesus got here, were they not saved it, this whole misunderstanding of what salvation is, because when you look in the altar all over the place, he says, I am the Savior, you’re only Savior, I’m your Savior, I’m your salvation, the first person to be called Jehovah Salvation is when Moses changed his name to Joshua.

01;16;11;09 – 01;16;57;11
Speaker 1
Yeshua, Yehoshua, which is your Hova salvation. You should study that out. Moses changed. Josh That was not always Joshua Yehoshua that was always his name. It clearly says it. He changed his name from O’Shay to Yehoshua, which is Jehovah’s Salvation, and that is the route here that you see of salvation. Yeshua just opened. If you don’t have a lexical concordance, just open blue letter bible dot org on your phone and you can go into this verse.

01;16;57;11 – 01;17;35;06
Speaker 1
Isaiah 56 And just for the record, let me tell you which, which strong concordance is. It is h three, four, four, four and that name is Yeshua. So Yeshua was here even in the Old Testament. Oh certainly. I will get that link. I’m going to go get that link in post in the chat. Anyone have any thoughts about Isaiah 56.

01;17;35;06 – 01;17;38;26
Speaker 1
I would love to hear. Yes, Esther, I yeah.

01;17;39;26 – 01;18;16;23
Speaker 2
Oh okay. When I read this script in Isaiah from 650 6112 12, it remind me about what this shows said to, to the Eastern L Oh, because this is just like a hope for the Gentiles. And the warning for for that is Israel the bloodline of Israel. Because I remember when yes, she was sat to them in the book of Matthew.

01;18;16;23 – 01;18;54;16
Speaker 2
Matthew from a verse Matthew tree I will read it the that and thing not to say within yourself we have Abraham to our father. For I say unto you that yeah, we is able up this stone to rise up children unto Abraham. Like where it is, is just remember that that like this is our hope for the Gentiles.

01;18;55;05 – 01;19;27;10
Speaker 2
Like if you you you doing what Yahweh is required to you to do and keep himself sabat keep his commandment, keep his court covenants even as you add the agenda, even you at the dry tree you sat. Even you said that you are nothing. But I will bring you to my mouth and the Holy Mountain. But if you are Israel and then you are not doing this, just like I send the watchman for this earth.

01;19;27;14 – 01;19;52;09
Speaker 2
And then you know my what? You know my law. You live in that I you said that your Abraham is your father and then you not doing what I said. Sure, I will not bring you into my mountain. Sure, you are not in my house anymore. And the people who never know me, they will come to my house.

01;19;52;16 – 01;20;05;16
Speaker 2
But you set. You know me. And then if you are not doing my what? I will not bring you my house just like that I you.

01;20;05;16 – 01;20;16;27
Speaker 1
Thank you, Dora. I saw you flash your mike. Go ahead. Door. Did you want to say something?

01;20;18;02 – 01;20;50;16
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah. I just wanted to say that I felt it was very reassuring to read particularly the six where it says also the sons of the stranger, that drawing themselves to the Lord to serve Him and to love the name of the Lord Yahweh, to be His servants, everyone to keep the Sabbath from polluting it, to take hold of my covenant, even them I bring to my holy mountain.

01;20;50;16 – 01;21;21;05
Speaker 3
I just thought that was so beautiful. I’m so reassuring and it really spoke to me as a, quote, stranger. It’s not of the line of of Israel that, you know, his salvation, his love is for everyone who chooses to take hold of it, who chooses to serve him. Like I said, that was just so reassuring. Thank you. I you my.

01;21;29;15 – 01;21;58;11
Speaker 1
So I put in the chat. Thank you, Dora and Esther. I put in the chat the link to blue letter Bible talk, and I put the Strong’s concordance so you can go in there and just actually put in h three, four, four, four instead of the verse, and it will pull up the meaning of that. It’ll show you the Hebrew, and then it’ll show you all the places in the Bible where you see that verse, that word, that word.

01;21;59;26 – 01;22;33;09
Speaker 1
And then I also put in there numbers 13, 16, and this is where Moses changes his name, Joshua, which is Yahweh Salvation, Jehovah Salvation. So those are there and you can study that. So the idea that Jehovah Salvation was there early on, it’s it’s not a New Testament thing. We need to understand that his plan for salvation for us was was there back in the beginning.

01;22;34;01 – 01;23;08;08
Speaker 1
That was his plan. Always. And so, you know, this idea of I don’t want to get into that because I don’t want to be controversial about that. So anyone else have thoughts at all about what we’re saying? And thank you, Dora and Esther, for sharing. Chris, Laura, Wanda, anything. TOM Calvin. Gabriel Shabbat shalom to you, Miss Paula. Thank you for joining us.

01;23;08;08 – 01;23;11;21
Speaker 1
So let’s get to our text for today. We have 30 minutes left.

01;23;14;04 – 01;23;14;09
Speaker 2
And.

01;23;14;09 – 01;23;26;27
Speaker 1
We we even really get to our text, which is fine. I love this conversation. I love learning. I love hearing from everything. Yeah, go ahead.

01;23;26;28 – 01;24;01;13
Speaker 2
Go ahead. Oh, I just looking for the eight three, four, four, four. And then the first place mention about the salvation is in Genesis chapter 40, 49, this 18 that said that I have waited for ty salvation. Oh, Lord, yeah. Is this mean that. Yeah. Yes. Or is is the salvation me. And yet thank you for that said.

01;24;01;13 – 01;24;07;11
Speaker 2
That is clear now.

01;24;07;11 – 01;24;48;03
Speaker 1
Okay. And what’s the context of that. I think that’s important so let’s I don’t we don’t just want to read that verse out because what’s happening in Genesis chapter 49 is that Jacob is blessing his son. And so he is giving them the blessing. But the salvation here does not mean that they’re waiting for the person. So much of you sure to come as they are waiting for their salvation out of bondage, which to us is kind of the same thing, right?

01;24;48;26 – 01;25;32;18
Speaker 1
For those who who walk in and and profess themselves to be Christian, the idea is that Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the Messiah saved us from bondage, but they have yet here no concept of this person, Yeshua, as much as being saved from the bondage that they’re in. Because as we get to Genesis 17, our founding scripture, we’re going to hear the promise that Aber, that Elohim made to Abraham, that you’re going to be in bondage, but after 400 years you’re going to come out and that there’s a promised land that I’m going to take you to and that, you know, so that’s there.

01;25;32;18 – 01;26;20;16
Speaker 1
That’s what they’re looking at. They do not at this particular point in Genesis 49 necessarily are thinking that there is they don’t even know Moses yet here. Right. They’ve not met Moses. They don’t know who Joshua is. Joshua. Yehoshua. Yeah. Way salvation. Who? Who Moses. Who we all honor and revere changed his name from Osher to Yehoshua, and Joshua was the one Yeshua led them into the Promised Land, Yahweh Salvation, Jehovah Salvation.

01;26;20;16 – 01;26;46;12
Speaker 1
So I know our Apostle does a lot to help us understand that, you know, I was singing it today. All I need is king. Jesus, I don’t need nobody else. That’s not. That’s not what you came to teach us. Because when you she will walk the earth. He only had the Old Testament, right? So it is going to take a while to kind of like process that.

01;26;47;15 – 01;27;20;21
Speaker 1
But they waited for themselves, you know, Lord, I have waited for that salvation because at this point, Jacob is about to die and he has not yet entered the promised land. He’s going to die in captivity. So he is waiting for salvation. And salvation is that promise that our seed was going to be innumerable, that we were going to be kings on this earth, and that you had a promised land and freedom land flowing with milk and honey.

01;27;20;21 – 01;28;09;04
Speaker 1
For us, they have not met Moses yet. They don’t even know about. I don’t even think Joshua was a sparkle in his father’s eye yet. But Yehoshua, Joshua is going to be their leader because Moses doesn’t get to bring them over. And that’s that promise in this. And all this should this should settle you even more like anchor you even more that all through the Old Testament it is Elohim.

01;28;10;20 – 01;28;34;18
Speaker 1
It is keeping his Sabbath and his covenant that brings us salvation. And we see them as they exit, you know, and then walking through the wilderness and they’ve got the covenants and the things that they need to do. Keeping Sabbath right now, they get the Ten Commandments, like, okay, yeah, y’all need to keep the Sabbath and you need to keep the Covenant because he’s going to bring them into that promised land.

01;28;34;18 – 01;28;52;15
Speaker 1
So that idea of of walking with him, we have all of this here for us to study. Everyone okay with that?

01;28;52;15 – 01;28;58;08
Speaker 3
Amen.

01;28;58;08 – 01;29;01;18
Speaker 1
Go ahead, Dora.

01;29;01;18 – 01;29;08;21
Speaker 3
Sorry. No, I was just agreeing with you, Mr. Wanda.

01;29;08;21 – 01;29;21;24
Speaker 1
Chris, let anything now.

01;29;21;24 – 01;29;28;28
Speaker 3
I’m just listening. So my listening and gleaning.

01;29;28;28 – 01;30;06;24
Speaker 1
Okay. Made your daughter. I’m sure if you have something to say, you’ll come off Mike or you’ll bless us. Okay, so, Yehoshua. Yes? You were all throughout the Old Testament. Do words study on that? Look at that. See the places where you should also look up the word savior? Because many, many places Elohim says, I am they savior.

01;30;06;24 – 01;30;58;13
Speaker 1
Right? Okay, great. Genesis 17. We have a few minutes. We’re going to go here. Genesis 17. So at this point that we meet Abraham in Genesis 17, he’s about to get his name changed. So in the earlier chapters he gets called out of the land of Earth. Well, actually, his father too does, but dies on the stops and dies on the way.

01;30;58;13 – 01;31;59;26
Speaker 1
And then Elohim speak to him. They come and follow. And so, you know, he has Ishmael, we have lot and we have, you know, the Sodom and Gomorrah incident. And we are here now in Genesis 17. And one of the things that we brought out in our last study was just the reiteration that you hold. It always said that in you will all the nations of the earth be blessed in your seed, in your seed, will all the nations of the earth be blessed?

01;31;59;26 – 01;32;31;14
Speaker 1
So it was never just about the seed, only the seed. All the nations of the earth would be blessed by the seed, which means there’s a requirement on the seed to do some things. But what those things are and how it manifests, they have to walk some of that stuff out. And so we talked about also about how Elohim made the covenant with Abraham by himself.

01;32;31;14 – 01;33;14;20
Speaker 1
He put Abraham into sleep, he cut the animals and that the smoking furnace and the lamp walked through the cut pieces because it takes two people to walk through to make the covenant. But Yahweh covenanted with himself. So we have the two entities that pass and solidified the covenant about blessing the seed and giving him the land and so we’re here in Genesis 17 and we are going to read through this.

01;33;14;20 – 01;33;33;25
Speaker 1
Let’s see, I don’t want to break this up. Okay, Genesis 17, one through eight. Who wants to read that for me?

01;33;33;25 – 01;33;35;18
Speaker 3
I’ll read it again if you wish.

01;33;36;02 – 01;33;40;09
Speaker 1
Oh, thank you, Dora. Yes, please.

01;33;40;09 – 01;33;50;19
Speaker 3
Reading from this one. And when Abraham was 90 years old and not Abraham. Yeah.

01;33;51;12 – 01;33;53;24
Speaker 1
Yeah. I thought you said Abraham. I’m like, not yet.

01;33;53;29 – 01;34;39;05
Speaker 3
Okay. Average. Okay. Asked that again when Abraham was 90 years old and nine you know, I appeared to Abraham and said to him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be that perfect and I will make my covenant between me and the and will multiply the exceedingly. And Abraham fell on his face. And Yara talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with the and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

01;34;40;00 – 01;35;07;04
Speaker 3
Neither shall thy name be called Abraham anymore. So because Abraham, but thy name shall be Abraham for a father of many nations, have I made the and I will make the exceeding fruitful and I will make nations of the land. King shall come out of the and I stop that.

01;35;07;04 – 01;35;09;18
Speaker 1
No, go to verse eight for me, please.

01;35;10;08 – 01;35;52;00
Speaker 3
Okay. And I will establish my covenant between me and the and I see after the in the generations for an everlasting covenant to be way onto the to the I seed after and I will give unto the and to thy seed after the the land wherein our two stranger all the land of Cain for an everlasting possession. And I will be that God.

01;35;52;00 – 01;36;46;02
Speaker 1
Thank you. They’re going to get all the land of who name them. And who is Canaan? Noah. Noah, curse Canaan. Cast by cursing his son. So and we said that if you look at the genealogy, Abraham comes from Shem and they’re going to be given a land of the person who was cursed to serve his brother and and we see Elohim continuing that for an everlasting possession.

01;36;47;24 – 01;37;24;00
Speaker 1
Land is important but also progeny children seed multiplying and so that’s why it’s so amazing when we read in Isaiah 5060 hear him say even to the eunuch, you can come in if you keep my Sabbath and you keep my commandments. So we’re looking at this covenant that he’s making with Abraham, and the promise is to make him a father of many nations.

01;37;25;29 – 01;38;22;10
Speaker 1
So there’s not one nation, because even though it’s Jacob, still many nations come out of Jacob. And because of that, everyone around is going to be blessed. Verse nine And God said unto Abraham, Elohim, thou shalt keep my covenant thereof. Therefore Thou I seed after the in their generations. This is my covenant which he shall keep between me and you and I see after thee every man child among you shall be circumcised.

01;38;23;19 – 01;39;05;28
Speaker 1
So you remember that I was just saying to you, and if we need to go look at it, we can. But I think it’s in Genesis 15, where where Yahweh makes a covenant, Elohim Jehovah makes a covenant, and he and Abraham slices up the animals and separates them. But Abraham doesn’t walk through. And so you can study ancient covenant, you can study ancient covenant and you can see that there Eastern Ancient Covenant.

01;39;05;28 – 01;39;20;07
Speaker 1
That was one of the ways that they made covenant because they didn’t have, you know, lawyers and document that they were signing that at that point anyways. So if you’re going to make a covenant, you cut animal, you put him in half, and then the two of you walk through the animal, you know, you walk them through the path.

01;39;20;07 – 01;39;51;04
Speaker 1
And that’s you making that commitment right to to keep this covenant, but in this particular case, Elohim covenant with himself. So way he didn’t have to worry about anyone breaking it because he’s not going to break his own covenant with himself. So at that point, Abraham didn’t have to do anything yet. He didn’t shed any blood, if you will.

01;39;51;04 – 01;40;29;15
Speaker 1
Right. But here now there is some requirement. There is some personal sacrifice. Race in that personal sacrifice is the circumcision. The blood is going to be shed. So this is my covenant. I’m in verse ten. This is my covenant which she shall keep between me and you and I seed after the every man child among you shall be circumcised and he shall be circumcision circumcised the flesh of your foreskin.

01;40;30;02 – 01;41;07;29
Speaker 1
So he’s very clear and it shall be a token of the covenant be took me mean you and he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you every man child in your generations He that is born in the house or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seat here is very important that in order to come into the covenant you had to be circumcised.

01;41;07;29 – 01;41;36;02
Speaker 1
But he allows for circumcision of non seed people. So even if you’re a slave because you’re bought with money, you’re a servant, you’re a slave, you can partake in that covenant. In fact, you have to, right? If you’re going to come and work in his house, you have to be circumcised. You have to keep like there’s no way I’m going to practice my religion.

01;41;36;02 – 01;42;10;26
Speaker 1
And, you know, you can do your religion or your beliefs. It’s like, no, if if I buy you, if if you’re a slave and I buy you and you come you’re going to do what I do. You remember that in that that quote that Elohim says, Shabbat shalom, Pastor Spencer, good to see you. Remember that quote, that that section where when Elohim comes down to talk to Abraham and he says, Shall I hide this thing from Abraham?

01;42;11;14 – 01;42;39;15
Speaker 1
Seeing that I know him and he will teach his house. So even before Hova got to this point where he knew about Abraham was that Abraham was going to make sure that he taught everybody in his house that there was not going to be any there’s no backsliding here. Right? Everybody is going to come into understanding. Abraham is going to teach and train everybody.

01;42;40;14 – 01;43;25;04
Speaker 1
At this point. Ishmael is still with him because Isaac has not been born yet. That means that Ishmael was circumcised. There is a covenant. So verse 12 again, he that is eight days old, shall be circumcised among you. Every man, child in your generation that is born in the house or bought with money of any stranger, which is not thy seed was 13.

01;43;25;04 – 01;43;51;13
Speaker 1
He that is born in the house, he that is bought with their money must need to be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh for an ever everlasting covenant And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people and he has broken my covenant. So it’s clear that if you’re circumcised, you’re part of the covenant.

01;43;51;23 – 01;44;31;23
Speaker 1
If you’re not circumcised, you’re not part of the covenant. And already you do not have to be the seed of Abraham to be in the covenant. That’s clear. You could even be a slave and still be in the covenant in his seed. Shall all the nations of the earth be blessed? Always from the beginning we were always included.

01;44;31;26 – 01;45;06;00
Speaker 1
There was a way for us to enter in. Okay, let’s finish this chapter and then we’ll we’ll end because we’re almost at our time. Where was. Oh, okay. 14 and the uncircumcised man child who’s flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised. That shell shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant and God said Elohim said unto Abraham.

01;45;06;00 – 01;45;37;08
Speaker 1
As for Sarah, that my wife, thou shall not call her name Sarah, but Sarah shall her name be, and I will bless her and give the son also of her yay! I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations. Kings of people shall be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. Okay, so this is the first time we see laughter and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him?

01;45;37;19 – 01;46;12;16
Speaker 1
That is 100 years old, and shall Sarah that is 90 years old, Bear and Abraham said unto Elohim, Oh, that Ishmael might live before the. And Elohim said, Sarah, wife shall bear the sun indeed, and thou shall call his name. Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I’ve heard thee behold I have blessed him, will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly.

01;46;12;27 – 01;46;48;04
Speaker 1
12 Princes shall he beget? And I will make him a great nation, not just also because he’s a seed. But Ishmael is being circumcised at this time. But my covenant will establish with Isaac. Does that mean that Ishmael gets out of being circumcised? No. But there is the promise that is going to be established with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear A.D at this set time in the next year.

01;46;48;04 – 01;47;35;26
Speaker 1
And he left off talking with him and he went up from Abraham, and Abraham took Ishmael, his son and all that were born in his house and all that were bought with his money. Every male among the men of Abram’s house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in selfsame day as Elohim. It said unto him. And Abraham was 90 years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin and his son and Ishmael, his son was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin in the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael and all the men of his house, born in the house, all the

01;47;35;26 – 01;48;12;14
Speaker 1
men of his house, born in the house and bought with money of the stranger or circumcised with him now they do get away from keeping some of the things of the covenant. But here Ali makes, it very clear how to begin to enter into the covenant. And this is important to understand as we look at what is Labor’s promise, why, why are we also included in the promise?

01;48;13;15 – 01;48;40;26
Speaker 1
Because we see that there is a seed, but we see that Elohim has allowed people who not seed to come into the covenant. Now there’s something very particular about the line of Isaac. Yes, because we see here that Ishmael gets circumcised, all the people in their house get circumcised. But yet Elohim is saying, but it’s with Isaac that is going to continue.

01;48;41;24 – 01;49;08;29
Speaker 1
And that’s important because with Isaac then we see Isaac has Esau and Jacob and but the promise it like it’s split, right? And so like if you think about it, we see Noah and we see the blessing come to Shem because ham Canaan you know JP Well JP gets to live in the land. So he’s not really curse, but he’s not really identified as being truly blessed.

01;49;09;06 – 01;49;40;20
Speaker 1
But there’s line. We don’t actually say the God of a Shem, we actually start with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because it’s important to understand where the line follows, right? If you think about it, Abraham had more than one son, but with two in Ishmael, it’s like if you look at a family tree, you have Ishmael and then you see Isaac and you’re like, Oh yes, okay, the God of Abraham.

01;49;41;01 – 01;50;07;12
Speaker 1
But it’s not necessarily the God of Ishmael, it’s the God of Isaac. Right? And then you see the line split because Isaac has Jacob Venecia and it’s not the God of Esau, but it’s the God of of Jacob. So we see it come when it’s like to me I begin to understand the reason they keep saying the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is because you need to follow the blessed the line.

01;50;08;15 – 01;50;33;01
Speaker 1
Because if you just said the God of Abraham, well, he had quite a few nations that came out of him. And then you can’t just say the God of Isaac because they were Jacob and Esau. So where did the blessing flow? Where two continue to flow through? And so it is important. Like if you think about during that time they didn’t have denominations.

01;50;33;01 – 01;51;11;10
Speaker 1
So I’m Catholic, I’m Protestant, you know, I’m Methodist, I’m First Baptist. Like, Oh, I follow the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just case you weren’t sure which Elohim I’m talking about. I’m talking about this fellow him. I. And it’s exciting to see how that promise flows through. So we are have a few minutes before we end. Anyone want to share their thoughts about what we’ve talked about today?

01;51;11;10 – 01;51;33;15
Speaker 1
And there are notes in the chat and Shabbat shalom to you, Minister Jackie, Chris Lawanda. Dora, Esther. Esther, you’re getting ready for work. I know it’s that time for you.

01;51;33;15 – 01;51;59;23
Speaker 3
It’s a lot to kind of take in, but I am understanding better how that bloodline flows and what it means, which is wonderful. So I’m. Yeah, that that is quite clear. Thank you.

01;51;59;23 – 01;52;34;22
Speaker 1
Shalom, Paula. From Genesis 17, I was reading that whole chapter. Thank you for asking. Genesis 17 from Jose Salvation to Joshua or Yehoshua, Jehovah is salvation from Abraham, exalted father to Abraham, father of multitude, from individual to multitude, from one to many. Well, this is interesting. Very good. Esther. I like that. Esther put a comment in the chat.

01;52;34;22 – 01;52;59;05
Speaker 1
I was just kind of I was mumbling it, but I should have read it better. He she says from Josiah, we have salvation to Joshua or Joshua. And for those of you who are just joining us, you can see in the chat we were we were in Isaiah 56, one through eight, and we were talking about salvation. And the word salvation is Joshua.

01;52;59;20 – 01;53;36;05
Speaker 1
And so we were saying that, you sure was common throughout the Tanakh, the Old Testament. It’s everywhere. So the idea of your whole was salvation is not. And then I pointed out that in numbers 1316, Moses changes because Joshua’s name was not always Joshua or Yehoshua. They they didn’t have AJ then. So it’s Joshua that he changed it from salvation, just Moshe Salvation to Jehovah’s Salvation.

01;53;36;15 – 01;54;04;09
Speaker 1
So that the first time we see like that name Jehovah’s Salvation, give it to an individual. And it’s true because in the end it was Joshua who led them into the Promised Land, Yehoshua. And so you can read on that or listen to the replays. So from Abraham I’m exalted father to father of many nations. So from individual to multitude, from one to many.

01;54;04;14 – 01;54;39;17
Speaker 1
While this is interesting, yes, it is Esther. Yes, it is. And we are just beginning. Just just beginning. Powerful in Dora. I’m very pleased. We’re very pleased that you are getting it, that there is a bloodline to follow. But we’ve always been included and strangers have had the opportunity to be included. And so, you know, Jehovah is not schizophrenic like, well maybe I’ll bring them in one time and maybe not.

01;54;40;21 – 01;55;14;10
Speaker 1
It was always his plan for all of the nations of the earth, all the families of the earth, to be blessed, to know Yehoshua, Yaakov, a salvation was always his plan and he is salvation. He is the Savior. So very, very good. All right, anyone else before we close this room?

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International Sabbath Fellowship – 02

Regina Roundtree — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 19:49:00 +0000

This is week 2 of our Sabbath class/ Bible study. We start with isa 56:1-8 and Jer 6:16. Isa 56 takes center stage as we talk more about Yehovah making room for the “son of the stranger and the eunuch”. After this we get back into Genesis and have long discussions about Noah and Abraham.

We have added the transcript below to help with translation and the hearing impared community.

Saturday Jan 14, 2023 w/ Elder Regina Roundtree

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Speaker 1
Okay. So, Esther, you want to pray for us?

00;00;49;16 – 00;00;55;15
Speaker 2
Yeah. Okay. Can I pray in vietnamese?

00;00;55;16 – 00;01;02;07
Speaker 1
Of course you can pray in Vietnamese. You know, I love it when you pray in Vietnamese.

00;01;02;15 – 00;01;05;16
Speaker 2
Okay. Thank you.

00;01;08;20 – 00;01;43;28
Speaker 2
Okay. Vietnamese

00;01;43;28 – 00;02;35;22
Speaker 2
Vietnamese

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Speaker 2
Vietnamese

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Speaker 1
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Shabbat shalom, Shikha. How are you?

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Speaker 2
Shabbat shalom, everyone. I’m good, thank you. And you

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Speaker 1
Good. How is your Sabbath? You’re in South Africa, right?

00;03;12;02 – 00;03;26;01
Speaker 2
Correct. So it’s the morning already to Barry living here. It’s just beautiful is just what I need it. It’s not raining. The sun is out. I just need to take it in. So I’m enjoying.

00;03;26;27 – 00;03;29;24
Speaker 1
Good. So you know that made your daughters in South Africa to.

00;03;31;13 – 00;03;32;22
Speaker 2
Which part you from.

00;03;36;15 – 00;03;54;28
Speaker 1
Pretoria Major daughter. Can you put it in the chat where you are in South Africa? I think it’s near Pretoria. She may have stepped away because she’s got family and stuff, but yeah, major daughter’s in South Africa.

00;03;55;27 – 00;04;05;00
Speaker 2
So that’s wonderful. Okay, so I’m more towards where the airport is. So I’m in hotel in Johannesburg. Oh, yeah.

00;04;06;01 – 00;04;12;01
Speaker 1
I I’m going to make it over there to South Africa. I tell you, I am pleased to.

00;04;12;02 – 00;04;14;11
Speaker 2
And I’ll take you to all the nice places.

00;04;16;00 – 00;05;15;08
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, I got quite a few places I need to go. Once I hit that continent. So, yeah. So last week we talked about just beginning to look at the blessing. Oh, she did. She put it in the chat. Oh that’s spammer. How do they even get in here. But anyways they must have bots or something. So last week we, we talked about just the beginning of how important it is to understand that we, whether you are of Israelite blood or not, are still part of Elohim plan.

00;05;16;13 – 00;05;47;25
Speaker 1
We’ve always been part of the plan. And what we’re studying is really we’re going to begin studying the Abrahamic Covenant. There are there’s only one covenant before Abraham, and that’s the one that happened with Noah. And we’re going to look into that one in depth tonight. But we began talking about the different ways that Elohim began to interact with humanity.

00;05;47;25 – 00;06;17;12
Speaker 1
And we ended with a passage from Isaiah 56, which we’re going to go there in a second. But I want to I want us to read from Jeremiah six. So if you have your Bibles, go there and I will ask, you know, you guys to read with us and talk as we go through this. So I have a few different Bibles that I am working from.

00;06;19;03 – 00;06;52;08
Speaker 1
And yet last week I introduced you guys to the the transparent English Bible. Hey, you, Marie. I introduce you guys to the the transparent single. Oh, how did these spammers get in here? Now, the transparent English Bible, which only has Genesis done at this particular time. But today I am going to also introduce you to the core Tanakh.

00;06;52;08 – 00;07;30;26
Speaker 1
Right. And the core in case it sounds like Koran, K.O., R, E and and it is a Hebrew and English Bible. Right. And so it has a Hebrew on the one page and English on the other page. I really like the one of the teachers that I follow. And so I’ll be sharing with you the different teachers that I study with.

00;07;32;06 – 00;08;06;05
Speaker 1
And so now with technology and stuff, you can study with people online and they may not even know who you are. So but I do spend a lot of time studying with Hebrew scholars and who really understand the language. What’s interesting is like so there’s about four of them that I been currently, you know, for a while studying with two are like new that I just found.

00;08;07;03 – 00;08;35;15
Speaker 1
But what’s interesting about them, especially the one that referred me so the one that referred me to the current Tanakh, his name is Ross Nichols and he’s out of United Israel Worldwide Union. And so I’m not promoting anything with him, but I just want you to understand like that I’m sharing with you stuff that I also learned. So I don’t take credit for for everything.

00;08;36;14 – 00;09;04;07
Speaker 1
There’s a lot of stuff that’s that’s a revelation that I have gotten in. And I’ll really make that clear. But if I’m really quoting or referring to someone else, I will tell you who that is so that you can, you know, of course, go check. So anyways, the coin, Tanakh, he uses it even though he can read Hebrew and write it fluently and he is was not born a Jew Jewish.

00;09;04;07 – 00;09;42;00
Speaker 1
He was not born he was born into a fundamental Christian home. And later he transitioned over. He does archeology tours. He’s written a lot of books. And so I love the fact that when he teaches, he is we’re not interested, Mr. Smart, that when he teaches, gosh, you’re Mr. Smart. If you keep doing this, we’re just going to kick you out the room, okay?

00;09;42;06 – 00;09;43;17
Speaker 1
So please stop.

00;09;47;10 – 00;10;40;26
Speaker 1
When he teaches, he is not interested in following what rabbis, the mission or the Talmud, all the other rabbinical teachings. He’s really what does the word say? And so I love that about what he’s talking about is is getting into this idea of what does the word say. And so I can really you can really glean from him because he is looking at the Hebrew he studied it for a long time and he’s read and he’ll tell you when he’s teaching that he’s put he you know, this is what the rabbit, the rabbi say.

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Speaker 1
This was a mission, says what the Talmud said. And many times he doesn’t agree with them. Right. But he gives it as background in history, because commentary can give you information, but then you have to really vet it anyway. So that’s how come I got to that the Koran Tanakh. And so I want us to first start off in Jeremiah six and Ross Nichols is also the one who taught me about the white spaces.

00;11;12;23 – 00;11;39;26
Speaker 1
So in most Hebrew Bibles, you can see them in any Hebrew text. I’m talking about the Bible text that you look at, even if you can’t read Hebrew, if you look at the pages of the text, you’ll see that there are white spaces because they don’t do chapters. I mean, they have chapters and verses there as a guidepost, but in the ancient times they didn’t have paragraphs and chapters.

00;11;39;26 – 00;12;15;17
Speaker 1
And I think we understand as people that study than read the Bible that chapters and paragraphs are put in, you know, much later. And so but that’s not how the Hebrew writers began a thought or ended the thought. So what you’ll see sometimes is that a thought can end and begin with only three or four verses, right? Or it could be, you know, two and a half chapters, so you never end.

00;12;16;01 – 00;12;43;26
Speaker 1
And so we sometimes just take for granted that the thought, you know, begins at the chapter, ends at that chapter, which is not true. And so what I’ll do a lot and share with you guys a lot is where’s the white spaces? Where is the thoughts beginning and ending for the particular scripture that we’re reading in? And we may not, due to time, be able to read the whole thought.

00;12;44;18 – 00;13;15;10
Speaker 1
Right? But at least I’ll mention it. It’ll be here. You can make notes on it. Or when you listen to the replays like, you know, I’m going to go back and read the whole thought, you know, so we’re going to be in a we’re going to be in Jeremiah Chapter six. I want you to go to verse 16, and I’m in the Tanakh in the Koran.

00;13;15;10 – 00;13;46;28
Speaker 1
It’s actually pronounced Koran, but it’s spelled COR and KATAMARI and and the thought in Jeremiah 616 begins actually a verse 16 in the thought ends at verse 20. So I’m going to read those four chapters and then we’re going to go to Ava as a 56 Sheikha. Can you read? Are you able to do that?

00;13;48;18 – 00;13;50;29
Speaker 2
Yeah. Do you want me to read out of the cage?

00;13;51;17 – 00;14;13;01
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s fine. So if you’ll get prepared, I’m going to have you read up from Isaiah 56 for us when we get over there. Okay, cool. Okay, so I’m in jail. We’re in Jeremiah 616 and we’re going to read about something called The Ancient Path, which I think is interesting. Jeremiah 616 I’m reading from the Koran.

00;14;13;25 – 00;14;41;19
Speaker 1
This is what the only thing I don’t like about this. Well, you know, it’s hard to find, like, the perfect translation Bible, right. Is this is really close to translating the Hebrew into English, but they don’t they don’t put the for the English, they don’t put the name the teacher the that they don’t put the symbol and they do leave it as Lord.

00;14;43;03 – 00;15;22;18
Speaker 1
And we understand that everybody’s at different places. We have different Bible versions that we’re reading from. And so when I read Lord the Capital Aloha T, I actually translated as Jehovah. And so there’s a lot that I’ve learned about. And you know, what’s so interesting is that we’re always learning. Have you guys noticed that? And the things that we think are new sometimes to us, I’m finding when I’m studying with these teachers that they’ve been teaching this for like ten, 15 years, 25 years, you know, and I just find them and like, oh my gosh, this is so exciting.

00;15;23;07 – 00;15;49;24
Speaker 1
And, you know, they’re teaching, teaching, teaching. And I look at the video post or the date, it is like eight years ago, five years ago. So so Jehovah, some say Yahweh someday Jehovah we know that we’re talking about the creator of the the universe. And so we’re, we’re quite fine in this room with you calling him by the name that you know when you understand, right?

00;15;50;23 – 00;16;26;26
Speaker 1
So here we are. 616 This is what you Hova said. Stand upon the roads and reflect. And in your KJV it may say the ancient paths, right? This is what Yo Hova said. Stand upon the roads and reflect. Inquire about the ancient path. What is the good way? Walk in it you will find tranquility for your soul But you said we will not walk.

00;16;28;03 – 00;16;59;11
Speaker 1
I set up watchman over you listen to the call of the Rams horn that’s the shofar. But you said we will not listen. Therefore, here o nations and no o community, what awaits them here? Earth, I’m about to bring evil upon this people the fruit of their schemes, for they did not listen to my words. And as for my law, they rejected it.

00;17;00;09 – 00;17;45;08
Speaker 1
For what purpose do I need? Frankincense brought from Sheba or choice came from distant land. Your burnt offerings are not desirable, nor do I find pleasure in your sacrifices. And so I wanted to bring this up because here Isaiah excuse me, Jeremiah is writing about ancient pathways. And don’t you think that’s interesting that in his time, which was I don’t know, he was somewhere between please don’t hold me to this.

00;17;45;08 – 00;18;21;05
Speaker 1
Somewhere between like eight and 500, 500, 800 years before the B.C.E., before the common Era, before Christ. And he’s talking about ancient pathways, right? And we’re like, you know, clearly 2000 years away from him. And yet he is talking about going back, that Yahweh is saying, Jehovah is saying, look at the ancient pathways. And so there is something to even then they’re saying, get back to the basics, get back to the beginning.

00;18;22;17 – 00;19;05;12
Speaker 1
Anyone want to share something that they’ve gotten from that? Hey, cyber suits me, Gabriel. And good morning or Shabbat shalom. Doreen. We are looking at Jeremiah six and we’re about to go into Isaiah 56. But what I brought this verse out first was to say that the Lord is telling them to look at the ancient pathways and this is ancient times to us.

00;19;06;02 – 00;19;35;01
Speaker 1
But he’s telling them to go back and look at the ancient pathways, and that’s actually what we’re going to be doing. We’re going to get into Genesis in just a moment. So Chika will you read from Isaiah 56? What you do is one through eight because this is where we left off last week and it was important that we wanted to share with everyone as we’re studying it.

00;19;35;01 – 00;20;12;14
Speaker 1
Even if you are not the bloodline of Israel, then all the promises you have access to and you have access to them because that was always your plan. That was always Elohim plan, and this is before you. Zohar Mystic was always his intention for you to have access to all the promises. So Shikha, will you read for us?

00;20;12;14 – 00;21;09;08
Speaker 2
Okay, that’s saying yeah, way. Keep his judgment and do justice for my salvation is needed to come and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the men, the men that do it this and the son of men that life hold on it that keeps the service from polluting it and keeps his hand from doing any evil. Neither let the son of the stranger that has joined himself to your way speaking speed come saying your way has utterly separated me from his people never let the inner did you?

00;21;09;11 – 00;21;47;23
Speaker 2
I say that right in and say Behold I am a dry tree? Yes. Units, unit. Thank you for that. Say it way. And so the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths and choose the things that please me and take hold of my covenant even unto them will I give in my own house and was in my walls a place and a name better than of sons and daughters?

00;21;48;24 – 00;22;25;21
Speaker 2
I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. Also, the sons of strangers, they join themselves to a way to serve him, to love him, to love the name of your way, to be his servants. Everyone that keeps the Sabbath from polluting it and take it hold of my covenant. Even then, what I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of praise, they burned offerings.

00;22;25;24 – 00;22;55;01
Speaker 2
Their sacrifices shall be accepted upon me, upon my altar, for my house shall be called and house of prayer for all people your way, which gathered the outcasts of Israel safe yet will I gather others to him beside those that are gathered unto him?

00;22;55;01 – 00;22;59;10
Speaker 1
Amen. Do you have a thought? What do you think about reading that?

00;23;00;26 – 00;23;30;15
Speaker 2
So my opinion or my understanding of this verse is that if we keep the Sabbath and we keep his commandments, then what he has in store for us will come to us. He even states he will give us a new name as well as if we do not pollute Sabbath, that he will bring us he will actually give us joy in his house during pray, if that makes sense, and if we don’t polluted.

00;23;30;15 – 00;24;02;25
Speaker 2
So the polluting part I feel is like how we say, can I just come out of the Bible? Sorry, this is easier explained Davos. When a gas is near your sins. Yeah, he’s seeing that. And if you turn back your fruits from the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on my holy day and call it a delight and a holy day of Elohim, honorable.

00;24;02;25 – 00;24;14;20
Speaker 2
So I feel like this prepares you for Isaiah 58, 13 to 14, pretty much. I don’t know. Does it make sense?

00;24;15;22 – 00;24;37;22
Speaker 1
Yes, it does. And, you know, we’re even though I’m reading and guiding us a little bit, I do want you to share and to speak your thoughts about that. And I think it does you’re right. It does kind of prepare you for it. Isaiah 58, 13 and 14 about turning your foot from Sabbath and Sabbath being your delight.

00;24;38;18 – 00;24;51;05
Speaker 1
And I think that’s good that you see that he’s going to give us a name. He’ll give us joy. What else? Anything else?

00;24;51;05 – 00;24;53;05
Speaker 2
And just give me a second.

00;24;53;14 – 00;24;55;15
Speaker 1
And then I’m going to ask you, Esther, what you think.

00;24;58;14 – 00;25;24;21
Speaker 2
What he also states in in in verse eight, that he even gathers the outcasts. So so this is a big one because like initially, before I understood or before I started studying and our apostle, you know, you feel like an outcast, you feel like you don’t fit anywhere. But here he states that even if you were an outcast, he calls you in.

00;25;24;21 – 00;25;37;22
Speaker 2
He kind of brings you towards him saying that, you know what the is helpful, that we’re not just cast away. I don’t know how I saw in that one verse a very nice amen.

00;25;38;20 – 00;25;47;22
Speaker 1
Thank you. And what about you, Esther?

00;25;47;22 – 00;26;29;06
Speaker 2
Yes. Okay, this is good, because you know, when I study about the Torah and then I see a lot of prominence, Father Israelite in, you know, time, I think that’s how I can join with the Israelite there, because it’s like they have the the promise from Abraham passed out with them. But we are we are the stranger. We are not Israelite.

00;26;29;19 – 00;27;14;19
Speaker 2
We are not born as a Israelite Israel. And this is the promise for us. This is a hope. This is it’s just like the thing that yeah, we one to let us know that just like the people you keep the Sabbath and keep God’s keep God’s word and then do whatever he say. Even you are not Israel. You are not the children of Avraham in the blood, but still the from is for you.

00;27;16;00 – 00;27;19;29
Speaker 2
That is a good thing that I understand in this Scripture.

00;27;23;19 – 00;27;24;08
Speaker 1
And.

00;27;25;04 – 00;27;25;13
Speaker 2
You.

00;27;27;15 – 00;27;54;04
Speaker 1
A man. And that is the whole point of this study that we’re dealing in. So we’re going to get into Genesis now. But yeah, we are in Isaiah 56 verses one through eight and welcome to all of you who have joined us. If you want to come up, I’ve invited you all up. You can come up and just talk with us.

00;27;54;04 – 00;28;29;06
Speaker 1
But the son of the strangers, it says that what in verse six. And so there’s no doubt that he when he uses when you see the word stranger, foreigner, sojourner, that you’re definitely talking to people who are not of the bloodline of Israel. And what I love is that in verse six, it says that join themselves to Jehovah, to your way to Lord.

00;28;29;06 – 00;29;14;29
Speaker 1
If you see that in your Bible, to serve Him and to love the name of Jehovah and to be his servant. And so he doesn’t want you to join a tribe. He doesn’t need you. They didn’t have denominations back then, but we have them now. And it was about joining yourself to Jehovah and you serve him and you love the name of Jehovah and of course you’d have to know his name, the old head, but he that you can take hold of his covenant, but you have to keep the Sabbath.

00;29;15;04 – 00;29;43;26
Speaker 1
So here’s the things you need to do, right? You join yourself to Jehovah One then to serve him to then to love the name of you over three to be his servants four. It’s like he repeats it again and everyone that keep the Sabbath from polluting it. Five And take hold of my covenant. So there’s qualifications, right, to, to what happens, but none of it has to do with bloodline.

00;29;45;23 – 00;30;18;29
Speaker 1
And so if none of it has to do with bloodline, then this is amazing because the promises belong to us, all of us. And so what does he say in verse seven? Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer, their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.

00;30;20;07 – 00;30;41;28
Speaker 1
And that’s a popular scripture. We kind of hear that, you know, I’ve seen even churches called House of Prayer, you know, for all people. And you go into many prayer rooms and it’s you know, that’s a key verse, the house of Prayer for all people. But there’s a requirement for all people, right, to be joined in to the House of Prayer.

00;30;41;28 – 00;31;20;20
Speaker 1
And it it has nothing to do with bloodline, although bloodline is important. We’re not saying that, but we’re talking right now to people who are not of Jewish descent, not of Hebrew descent or Jewish is that is a culture not of Hebrew. So that’s amazing that we see that in the Scripture. And so now we’re going to go back into Genesis, where we were last week, and there were some things that we talked about in Genesis when we started.

00;31;21;28 – 00;32;03;27
Speaker 1
So we we’re looking at the progression of Elohim, of God’s relationship with humanity. And what we saw is in Genesis in the beginning, you know, one, two and three, he did not have any kind of covenant with Adam and Eve or and his wife. We never see Elohim make any covenant at all, not any promise that he was going to do something with them or for them.

00;32;03;27 – 00;32;43;09
Speaker 1
And then we realized that when we looked at Noah, that we saw is the first time that we hear Elohim say, I’m going to make a covenant with you. I’m going to make a promise with you. And that’s really important because then we see the progression of when he gets to Abraham. We we understand from that, we all study and read the Bible that there’s an even deeper and more meaningful covenant.

00;32;43;09 – 00;33;15;29
Speaker 1
And Abraham, who we’re going to focus on, but we need to backtrack a little bit, and I want us to look deeper a little bit at Noah, because we he is where everything splits off. All right. I mean, we can say Adam and Eve were the the the parents of of all living. But actually, when you think about it, it’s really it’s kind of like Noah, right?

00;33;16;01 – 00;33;45;17
Speaker 1
Because everybody was wiped off the face of the earth except for Noah and his family. So it’s like it started fresh again. Shabbat shalom, Yeshua. So good to have you with us and it’s important to if anyone’s listening to me, they’re like this. You just say so, but you love to Jesus. And I was like, Yeah, like he’s a friend.

00;33;46;05 – 00;34;16;10
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. So how do you how do you pronounce your name? Because it’s spelled differently with your pastor. Can you speak issue or. No, I see you just giving the hearts so maybe you can’t talk right now. Okay. And you know, we should study that too as well, because one of the things that I learned in studying with the different Hebrew teachers that I have been is that it was very common to have some part of the name.

00;34;16;10 – 00;34;50;26
Speaker 1
JA In the name. So even that name. You sure that Jesus, that was not a unique name. That was not like, you know, because we read it in English and we’re saying, wow, that’s the first time anyone’s ever used that name. And that is actually not true. It was very common during that time and throughout the Old Testament to have the name Ja Ja, Salvation, Jazz, Path.

00;34;50;26 – 00;35;26;23
Speaker 1
It was very important to it was very common actually to have the name ja in the name, but I digress. Let’s get back to Noah. So much alone. So let’s go. I click the wrong thing. Let’s go to Genesis chapter five. And so really kind of Noah and his family are the key. I mean, he came from Adam and Eve, but everything was wiped off.

00;35;26;23 – 00;36;00;28
Speaker 1
And so he started, you know, started fresh with him. And so we’re going to look at Noah. Oh, I want to share something else that I learned with you guys about the Book of Genesis. And if I get a chance, I’ll put these scriptures in the chat. So there is and you would only learn this if you could read the Hebrew, understand and study it and then share it with people who don’t know Hebrew.

00;36;01;08 – 00;36;27;13
Speaker 1
So I didn’t come up with this myself, but studying with others. And so one of the teachers shared with us how there’s an underlying division. This goes along with the white spaces, is the same gentleman who taught me about the white spaces. There’s an underlying the vision throughout the Book of Genesis that has nothing to do with the chapters in the verses.

00;36;27;13 – 00;37;05;21
Speaker 1
And this is the way he calls it a story within a story. And he says that it’s broken up into actually into ten sections. And the ten sections are broken up and they begin with these are the generations of. And he says what you’ll find is that each section is telling the story of that family with these other generations of now.

00;37;05;21 – 00;37;50;13
Speaker 1
Some sections are long and some are short. But the idea is that the story of Genesis is actually broken up by stories by the Hebrew writers. And so I hope that we up. Excuse me, I’m moving around here. I hope that we all can understand and appreciate that, you know, the way that the scriptures came to us at that the Old Testament, the way it was put together, is that, you know, the people in their lives, documented, wrote it down, whether they inscribed it on stone or cylinders or or on pieces of cloth or orally in the beginning until a written language came about.

00;37;51;19 – 00;38;19;03
Speaker 1
And then that there is the term they use often is like a redact or there is there are scribes who took all those pieces together, put them together and began to piece together the story. And we believe and accept it to be divine guidance. Right. That brought them to put the story together in the way that they put it together.

00;38;19;03 – 00;38;46;19
Speaker 1
But if you don’t read and understand the Hebrew, which I don’t yet, but I’m working on that, then you can’t tell the, the different nuances. Right. So if we read the King James, you know, we hear the the the thou, the should is the though, you know. And so we’re like, Oh, that’s the King’s English. But then you have like if you went to South Africa or Africa, there’s an English.

00;38;46;19 – 00;39;11;19
Speaker 1
If you go to UK, there’s an English. If you go to Australia, there’s an English. Well, it’s the same idea in the Hebrew language. There are different dialects and there’s different tone is still Hebrew. And so you realize that there are different authors who were writing or, or copy down. And so we have, you know, the Dead Sea Scrolls that they found and many other documents that are being found now.

00;39;12;06 – 00;39;49;12
Speaker 1
Or when I say now, I mean in the last ten or 15 years, right. That are and as countries are opening up, another person that I follow, he was born a rabbinical Jew, born a rabbinical Jew, and he’s now a at Jew, which is interesting. But now key because he studied the Leningrad Codex, all these major where we get our major poetic text from, right, was where you get the foundation, the Bible.

00;39;49;12 – 00;40;29;03
Speaker 1
So he studied all these things he had. He talks about how he had part of his when he was in school. What do you call that thing when you when you work in your in your field? So he had an assignment. But that’s not the word. I can’t think of the word where his job was to purposely sit down with photograph copies of the original, the best kept document, which is the upper logo, I believe, of the Old Testament, or they call the Hebrew Bible.

00;40;29;17 – 00;40;57;05
Speaker 1
And then you had to verify another Bible. They’re very meticulous about that. Every jot, every tittle, every mark, every vowel that was his job, right? Was to look at the original, the best, and then look at a transcribed and make sure that everything was in place. So he did that during his studies. He was raised from the, you know, in a rabbinical household.

00;40;57;05 – 00;41;43;15
Speaker 1
So he shares about the time he was three, his father, a rabbi, was sitting and talking to him about the discussions they were having over the Talmud. So he shares how what was my point for telling you all of that? Oh, my gosh. I lost my point about telling you why I was telling you about him. Oh, I think I was getting to the point that so that the English as we have it, we say, oh, there’s lots of translations, but it all comes from a Hebrew text which was brought together by, by different people throughout the life who documented, wrote the things down.

00;41;43;15 – 00;42;14;08
Speaker 1
And then, you know, it was copied and put together in such a way that it was then duplicated. And I don’t even know why I was saying all that, but maybe it’ll anyone know where I was trying to go? I was trying to make to you an important point about. Oh, yes, the story lines. So there are I mean, I give you the verses.

00;42;14;08 – 00;43;12;03
Speaker 1
So there’s Genesis, too, for that has these other generations of. So Genesis two, four Genesis six 910 111 ten, 11, 27, 25, 12, 25, 1936 one, 36, nine and 37 to Joe. You can go back to the replay and listen to those, but those are the generations of and so you’ll find these are the beginnings of right where we are seeing the storyline of what’s happening of a family.

00;43;13;14 – 00;43;39;12
Speaker 1
And when we begin to look at, for example, when we begin to look at Abraham, he starts out his story starts out with the generations of Torah, which is his father. But we only read about Torah for the first few verses, and then it’s all about Abraham. But then nothing changes until it’s all the generations of Torah, until you get to like chapter 25, right?

00;43;39;17 – 00;44;34;15
Speaker 1
And so there’s all these chapters about Abraham, but then he dies, and then these became the generations of Isaac and Ishmael. So it’s interesting how there is an underlying culture, an underlying storyline that is happening in Genesis, and that these are kind of the ways that we should look at the passages of scripture, right? So let’s go to I want to say go to Genesis chapter five and go down to is it chapter five or is it chapter six?

00;44;36;07 – 00;44;36;27
Speaker 2
Hold on one.

00;44;36;27 – 00;45;38;02
Speaker 1
Moment. Okay. So Genesis, chapter six does is chapter six. Let’s look at verse seven and I’m in the cage. V Hey, brother Gabriel, it’s good to see you. Good to see you, sir. Okay, so we are just beginning to look now at our study is going to be about the promise of Abraham, the promise that Elohim has towards all of humanity, and that even though we are not of the Israeli bloodline, it was always his plan to bless all the nations of the earth.

00;45;38;20 – 00;46;02;28
Speaker 1
And even that phrase should sound familiar to you. Right? But we’re looking right now at the first time that Elohim is making a covenant with humanity, because he did not make one with Adam, but he did make a first promise of something that he would do with Noah. And so I want us to look at look at this a little bit more.

00;46;02;28 – 00;46;31;03
Speaker 1
So we’re in Genesis chapter six. And let’s look at and I’m in the KJV right now, I’m going to switch back and forth between different versions, but I’m in three, four, six, four, seven and the Lord Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing in the pharaohs of the air for repentance me that I have made them.

00;46;32;15 – 00;47;17;19
Speaker 1
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. No was a just man and perfect in his generation. And Noah walked with God, walked with Elohim and no begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japeth. And what we’re going to see here is that no is identified as having walked with God. Who else remembers somewhere else that we see that that that person walked with God is enough?

00;47;17;29 – 00;47;51;17
Speaker 1
Yeah. Good. Enoch And did anyone notice when I was reading Jeremiah Chapter six, what did your way you hova, what did he ask them to do? And they said that they wouldn’t do it. I’m going to go back and read it really quick. You don’t have to go. I’m I’m back in the the Koran because I happen to have I have this paper Bible actually, this probably the the only paper Bible.

00;47;51;17 – 00;48;35;29
Speaker 1
I have with me. Most of the other ones I just use online or on my phone, but in Jeremiah chapter six, it’s that verse 16. This is what your Hova said. Stand upon the roads and reflect. Inquire about the ancient path What is the good way? Walk in it you will find tranquility for your soul. But you said we will not walk that idea of walking.

00;48;35;29 – 00;49;02;23
Speaker 1
I think obviously it means more than just, you know, taking a stroll down the street right. And yet we see that we just read here that Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation. And Noah walked with God. Esther just reminded us that Enock walked with God and he was taken. There’s another time that we see walking.

00;49;03;03 – 00;49;39;01
Speaker 1
Not quite using the word, but we do see the word walking. Who else can think of another time earlier than that that we see walking? Yes. Made your daughter. They did. They refused to walk in it. Anyone else? Where else do we see that idea of walking? Go to Genesis three. Let’s go. This was so cool to me when I was studying in it, like just leaped off the page.

00;49;39;01 – 00;50;12;06
Speaker 1
They had not put them together. Genesis three Let’s look at verse eight. I’m reading them from the the KJV and they heard of the voice of Jehovah God, Jehovah, Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Isn’t that cool? This there is this idea of walking with Elohim that is like we’re going to see it weaved all throughout our text.

00;50;14;00 – 00;50;41;14
Speaker 1
So we saw in Jeremiah that that Elohim is saying to the people, I want you to go back and look at the ancient pathways, right? And this is Jeremiah. This is your way you hova talking to them saying ancient pathways and we’re, you know, 2000 years away. We’re like, he’s talking about ancient pathways. But he said, Look at the ancient pathways and will you walk in it?

00;50;42;01 – 00;51;12;24
Speaker 1
And we see in the beginning in the garden that he was walking and then we read that Enoch walked with God and he was taken. We’re seeing the whole world now. We’re in and we’ve jumped up to Genesis five with Noah is corrupt, but Noah walked. This is interesting. When we get to let’s just because we’re just talking about walking let’s go to Genesis 17.

00;51;14;15 – 00;52;00;04
Speaker 1
I want to show you again 17 that Elohim as Abraham to walk with him. Where did I put that? No. Genesis 17 verses one. And when Abraham was 90 years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abraham. Now, now Jehovah had already, in Chapter 12, had called him out of his land, told him was going to make him a great nation.

00;52;00;04 – 00;52;33;08
Speaker 1
All right. And so he left his land with all his people and lot. And then so we see here he’s 99 when I believe is like he’s 76 he has Ishmael. So something around then and so is 99. He’s already had Israel. He still has not had Isaac yet. But this is what Jehovah says to him. And when Abraham was 90 years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abraham and sent it to him.

00;52;33;08 – 00;53;07;05
Speaker 1
I am the Almighty Elohim, I walk before me and be thou perfect and I will make my covenant between me the it will multiply the exceedingly. There is something about walking with Elohim. And so we see that in the garden, we see it with Enock, we see walking with Noah, we see the Abraham who ask him to walk with him.

00;53;07;22 – 00;53;29;02
Speaker 1
We see in Jeremiah six, when Elohim is pleading with the people like come out of their sin, he’s like, Look at the ancient path. Like Look at the past. All the people that I’ve asked to walk with me, so walk with me and they would not walk. And then there’s one more on, on walking. And then we’re going to we’re going to get into Noah.

00;53;29;14 – 00;54;25;07
Speaker 1
But I just I just love this. Go to Micah six. Go to Micah six. So we are Micah six. Look at Micah six, six. Where with shall I come before Jehovah and by myself before the high Elohim. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings and with calves of a year old? Will you Hova be pleased with thousands of rams or ten thousands of rivers of oil?

00;54;26;09 – 00;55;13;28
Speaker 1
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body, for the sin of my soul? He hath showed the man what is good. And what does your Hova require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Elohim. I’m telling you, there’s something about walking. This is that thing. This is that thing that he wants with us that he’s shown to us all throughout the Old Testament, all throughout the Hebrew.

00;55;13;28 – 00;55;28;13
Speaker 1
But to walk with him, we’ve seen that from from the beginning. And I think that that’s is such a key part of what was his purpose, what is his desire with us.

00;55;30;14 – 00;55;54;28
Speaker 1
He wants to walk with us. And in again, of course, we understand walking is not just, you know, taking a walk, but it implies relationship. Check out Esther. You show anyone, have a thought made your daughter want to be quiet for a moment?

00;55;54;28 – 00;56;36;25
Speaker 2
Yeah. And you know that walking in Vietnamese, that the meaning is we follow exactly what God said. Like we walk with mean not only walking, but we just apply obedience that is called walking in the in Vietnamese. So yeah, it’s more than that that when you see walking, I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s just like detect chapter or you copy.

00;56;36;25 – 00;56;42;03
Speaker 2
As Scott said, that is mean walking in Vietnamese I give my my.

00;58;50;24 – 00;59;19;20
Speaker 1
Oh I’m on mute. So I’m talking to you guys and I’m on mute. Okay, sorry about that. Yes. A look in the chat is you put it in the chat. Exodus 16, verse four Then Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day that I may prove them.

00;59;19;27 – 00;59;51;06
Speaker 1
Whether they will walk in my law or no. There’s something about walking with Elohim. There is something about walking. So that was a sidebar that we took on walking, but I think that’s just beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. That Scripture helps us bring everything in. So let’s go back to Noah, because we’re going to look at we’re getting to Abraham, all right?

00;59;51;09 – 01;00;26;27
Speaker 1
We’re getting to the covenant and to the place where we’re beginning to see what his plan is. But notice how we’re looking for it now in so these different we’re seeing this continuous message throughout the scriptures, right? That there is a plan to walk together, to walk with you. It’s his plan. It’s his plan for humanity. So we’re back in Genesis five.

01;00;26;27 – 01;01;25;28
Speaker 1
We’re looking at where we’re in Genesis six. We’re looking at at Noah because he is the first one that Elohim makes a covenant with. Right. And he is also kind of the the beginning, because all of humanity was wiped out except for Noah and his family. And so in Genesis 529, there’s something interesting. And what I love about when we have like these Sabbath studies and we’re studying and talking and just looking at it at the original plan of our Creator is we see things.

01;01;27;17 – 01;02;06;20
Speaker 1
And so in in Genesis 529, tell me what you guys think about this part that came to me. He called his name Noah, saying This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which Jehovah had cast. So here is a man given a name that he’s going to comfort them. He’s going to bring comfort to them, and he’s going to save them from the toil of the ground, from the curse.

01;02;08;03 – 01;02;44;16
Speaker 1
Where do we hear a story like that? Somewhere else in that everyone around him was sinful, but he was the only righteous one. And he saved his family. And they started a new anyone see what I’m hinting at? That’s like the story of Yeshua. He was given this name at his birth that he was going to save the people from the curse.

01;02;45;29 – 01;03;16;22
Speaker 1
And you in, it’s like, oh look at this Noah. He’s given a name by his father. The first time we see a name explained like this, right? We see all these other names, but here we see Noah’s name is explained. So of course, of course we know that you that you hope to plant all of this. But Noah is given a name, Noah, which means he will comfort them.

01;03;16;22 – 01;03;49;17
Speaker 1
He will save them from the toil of the land. Well, little did he. They know that Yale was going to wipe out all of the toil of the land. But the land was curse because of Adam sin. And so the land is cursed. And so now we have these generations later where we have this man saying, you know, because I’m sure Noah was community where he was didn’t just become reprobate and sinful when he was born is probably sinful for a long time.

01;03;49;24 – 01;04;16;20
Speaker 1
Right. That’s how you, however, could look at it and say it’s just it’s a mess. And so the world, the land. But this father is saying the land, they know that the land is cursed by Jehovah. How they know that maybe through oral stories, right? That Adam was explaining to his sons and his children. Eve was explaining, this is what happened.

01;04;16;20 – 01;04;51;04
Speaker 1
We used to live in this garden, but he promised that he was going to save us. And so she thought maybe through Seth, that, you know, they were going to be redeemed. That didn’t happen. So now, you know, you’ve got these hundreds of years later because people are living for eight in 900 years now and then. And he has this male child and he’s like, yes, Noah, you are going to save us from the toil of the land.

01;04;51;04 – 01;05;35;23
Speaker 1
Okay. So now we get to the next after Genesis six and we look down in verse nine, it says No was a just man and perfect in his generation. And Noah walked with Elohim. And so we understand that the the lands were coerced. And here is the first mark of a promise in verse 18 over 17, he says he’s going to bring the flood of waters and destroy all flesh and everything in the earth.

01;05;35;23 – 01;06;12;26
Speaker 1
But in Genesis 618, he says, But with thee I will establish my covenant, and thou shall come into the ark, thou and thy sons and the wife, and they sons wise with thee and every living thing of all flesh to of every sort. And so he he begins to tell him what to bring in. But this is the first time we see Elohim use the word covenant with a man who was given the name Noah because he was going to save the people from the curse of the land.

01;06;14;03 – 01;06;50;25
Speaker 1
Now, of course, God really did the saving right? So let’s jump over to Genesis nine, because the the verses in between are just talking about the flood and what happened. We want to get now to the the actual covenant is anyone want to read Esther? You want to read is okay.

01;06;51;03 – 01;06;56;11
Speaker 2
Yeah it’s okay. Just get to it. And I sent from one, right.

01;06;56;26 – 01;07;10;17
Speaker 1
Yeah. I read one 1 to 9 Genesis 9129.

01;07;12;06 – 01;08;03;03
Speaker 2
And Genesis and I went to nine and, and God loves this Noah and his sons and sat and did them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and the fear of you and the trade of of you upon every piece of the earth and upon every flow of the air, upon all that move upon the Earth and upon all the face of the sea into your hand, they delivered every moving thing that live so be made for you every as the green earth.

01;08;04;00 – 01;09;18;26
Speaker 2
Have I given you thing but flies with the lie that all with is the blood that of so ye not eight and solely your blood of your live. Will I recline at the hand of the everyplace? Will I be quiet and at the hand of men at the hand of every man’s brother? Will I cry? The life of men who so soon men let my men sell his blood be sued for in the inmate of God Meet the men and you be fruitful and multiply Bring thought abundantly the earth and multiply the in and gal with speck and to Noah and to his son with him saying and I behold I step this my and

01;09;18;26 – 01;09;27;05
Speaker 2
then with you and with your seat up there you open this great.

01;09;27;05 – 01;09;58;25
Speaker 1
Thank you so we’re seeing that idea be fruitful and multiply and abundantly fill the earth. We saw those same promises or the blessing that was given to Adam in the garden. And so it’s like he repeats the covenant, this this blessing. But it’s now a covenant, right, that he’s going to make with you and your seed after you.

01;09;58;25 – 01;10;32;15
Speaker 1
Which is interesting because as we look, the covenant is made forever, even even if the seed don’t don’t follow because he’s not given any requirements of sin yet. Right. And what I’m getting at is, as most of us have studied, so we know that he’s got ham, Cain and and Japeth. And so we know that ham gets cast right.

01;10;32;15 – 01;11;08;21
Speaker 1
And is and that happens. We know that Tower of Babel happens and everything is split up and sent. But yet there’s still this promise to the seed. Do understand what I’m saying? Like it. He’s not said. Well, only if you do this now. When he starts getting to Abraham, he’s getting a little bit he’ll get more specific. But we even see when we begin to look at Abraham that he says, I will bless you and make you in all of your seed and I will curse them that curse you, and I will bless them and bless you.

01;11;09;04 – 01;11;39;21
Speaker 1
Well, Ishmael is part of his seed, not just Isaac. Now, Isaac is the promised and will follow Isaac’s line family tree, if you will. But Ishmael, as promised, is blessed. We know that the children that he has with Katori, right? He has like seven sons and a daughter with Katara after Sarah dies. So those nations are we know that Ishmael had 12 sons of his own.

01;11;40;28 – 01;12;15;18
Speaker 1
So there are a lot of blessed seed here. But we only seem to focus on, you know, one particular family line because we’re following the people who decide to walk with Elohim. And like, that’s the key. We’re following the people. We’re following this promise of the people who decide to walk. Elohim So thank you, Esther, for reading. And I’m going to continue because it’s interesting.

01;12;15;18 – 01;12;50;00
Speaker 1
We haven’t even gotten to the Rainbow yet or the Promised he makes with the Earth. We talked about this last week, this interesting part in verse 13, where he makes a promise with the earth. So I’ll continue in verse ten and with every living creature that is with you of the foul of the cattle of every beasts of the earth, with you from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth, and I will establish my covenant with you.

01;12;50;21 – 01;13;22;13
Speaker 1
Neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth. And Elohim said, This is the token. Notice that I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the earth.

01;13;23;20 – 01;13;56;24
Speaker 1
And we’re kind of joking last week that, that. Yeah, right. Because in Genesis one we see that the whole earth is flooded like covered with water. And so we don’t know how many times that happened, but we do know of two times, right? In Genesis one, the earth is covered completely with water. And then we see here in Genesis nine, of course, thousands of years are in between, but we don’t know exactly how many.

01;13;56;24 – 01;14;30;29
Speaker 1
We’re not going to debate that here, but we can clearly at least say that this is the second time that the earth has been covered with water. And so now remember what Lamech said about Noah being the one that would save them from the toil of the land, the curse that Jehovah placed on the land. And so here we see, we’re about to see you hopeful make a promise with the earth.

01;14;31;19 – 01;15;07;20
Speaker 1
So this is a token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generation. So it’s not going to end even though the Tower of Babel happens, even though ham is cursed and we there’s a perpetual bull covenant that he promised. Verse 13. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of covenant between me and the earth.

01;15;07;20 – 01;15;34;08
Speaker 1
So is the rainbow in the cloud really the reminder for humanity or the earth? Now some people might say, Well, we are the Earth because we’re made of Earth. Yeah, but in the verses before all, he was really clear about when he’s talking to Noah and his seed, he’s really clear about when he’s talking to you and every and every living creature, you know, those would be the animals.

01;15;35;21 – 01;15;56;05
Speaker 1
And then he says that I set my boat in the cloud and it shall be a token of covenant between me and the Earth. It’s almost like he’s saying, okay, Earth, listen, I’m sorry for we only know two could have been five could have been 100 could have only been two. But he’s like, I’m making a covenant with you.

01;15;57;27 – 01;16;20;22
Speaker 1
I’m not going to cover you with water. And he said, And it shall come to pass first 14 when I bring a cloud over the earth that the boat shall be seen in the cloud. And I remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the water shall no more destroy all flesh.

01;16;21;12 – 01;16;47;04
Speaker 1
Do you think he’s still talking to the earth? I mean, sometimes we make this assumption that in verse 15, he’s, like, turned his head back again to Noah. But he already talked to Noah, right? He blessed Noah in verse one and verse 11 he said, A covenant with you and with all flesh. Okay. And then he makes this covenant in verse 12.

01;16;47;11 – 01;17;18;23
Speaker 1
He’s like, This is a token between me and you and every living creature. Okay? And then in verse 13, he says, It’ll be a token of a covenant between me and the Earth. And I think he might still be talking to the Earth, he says. And when it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you.

01;17;18;23 – 01;17;46;06
Speaker 1
And so who’s you? I think you are still the Earth. I mean, I’m being subjective. I have no, I have I you know what? I should look at the Hebrew and see if I can. There’s some ways to find out who’s the object, who, who that you is. So let’s make that an assignment. All of us. We’re going to try to find out who is that?

01;17;46;06 – 01;18;26;21
Speaker 1
You, I think, is the Earth. I’ll make I’m in verse 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, because every living creature of all flesh could be humanity, you know what I mean? And so the you could be the earth, and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, and the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it that I remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

01;18;26;21 – 01;19;04;06
Speaker 1
And God said to Noah, This is a token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. And so they went, Interesting. Anyone have thoughts they want to share? Gabriel Or Cyber? You guys want to come up or Trudy and talk with us invites or D d I invited you up as well.

01;19;05;24 – 01;20;15;00
Speaker 1
If you want to come up and talk with us. Shika Esther made your daughter okay. Well, you have something to share. You are welcome. Okay, so let’s move on because we’re getting to Abraham now. What’s important to understand, as we keep moving on is that we have his three sons, Ham, Sam and Japeth, and what happens is that we we know about the we read about the curse that happens.

01;20;15;28 – 01;20;56;11
Speaker 1
And I think this is the only time we ever hear Noah say anything as important character as he was. You know, we we have all these kind of Christian movies and stories that, you know, Noah was preaching. But we don’t see that anywhere. We never see Noah say anything until you know what happens with Ham. And Noah curses his son but doesn’t really say anything until he says a thing.

01;20;56;11 – 01;21;32;21
Speaker 1
But he blesses Shem and then Japheth kind of gets, you know, a sidebar of that blessing. I mean, down in verse 25 or so. And so he curse became a servant of servant. Shall he be unto to his brethren and blessed be you Hova, Elohim of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant, and God shall in large depth, and he shall dwell in tent of Shem and Canaan shall be his servants.

01;21;32;21 – 01;22;02;22
Speaker 1
Who knows where the promised land is that you Hova promised to Abraham is Abraham’s not even born yet, but we see here from Noah now Noah walked with Elohim. We don’t know all their conversation, but we know more about his walking him than we do say with Enock like his in our walk with him. And then Enock was taken.

01;22;03;28 – 01;22;49;23
Speaker 1
And so we see here the no was a just man. Noah walked with. Noah doesn’t say much until this point. But you wondering if if Elohim set this whole thing up, knowing that this was going to happen this way, to bless Shem because Abraham comes from the line of Shem, we’re going to see that. So here we have the three lines of the family and many have said, and I’ve not studied it, but it does make sense to me that from these next two next chapters or so you see the 70 nations come out of the three sons, right?

01;22;50;19 – 01;23;29;10
Speaker 1
70 nations. And I forgot which teacher was bringing this point out to me. But they said it was interesting that we see here 70 nations. And then when Jacob comes into Israel, comes into Egypt with Joseph, there are 70 souls that are with him. So that that that 70. But I can’t remember which teacher was teaching that. So this is important because Abraham is not arbitrary.

01;23;29;10 – 01;24;03;27
Speaker 1
Like Abraham wasn’t just picked out of the air like always like Abraham. Yeah, let’s do that. There’s a path and we can see that because Noah has three sons, Noah curses his grandson Canaan and tells him that he’ll be a servant of his uncles. But then we see later on that the land that you hope a promise to Abraham is Canaan.

01;24;05;19 – 01;24;48;28
Speaker 1
Interesting. Kanan was coerced to be a servant and. So from Shem, what we get is the Semitic people. This the Semitic line? Shem Semitic, Jews, anti Semitic. Shem, Semitic. So let’s follow this blessing now. It’s like J Peth and Ham have kind of dropped to the side. So we’re looking at the line of Shem and from the line of Shem we get, we get Tura are Turok.

01;24;49;16 – 01;25;33;06
Speaker 1
And he is the father of Abraham. So we skip through. We’re going past the Tower of Babel. Wait, I need to show you where someone helped me too. We want to find the line of Shem. I think it’s in Genesis ten. Where did I put? I put my notes somewhere in my notes. I have too many notes. Okay.

01;25;33;06 – 01;25;34;01
Speaker 1
I had one.

01;25;34;25 – 01;25;41;09
Speaker 2
Nick. Hmm? No, I just said ten. This is ten, right?

01;25;41;16 – 01;25;58;09
Speaker 1
If I. So we’re looking down around verse 20 or so, I’m looking to find where Shem where Sara.

01;25;58;24 – 01;26;03;05
Speaker 3
Uh, la la la.

01;26;03;05 – 01;26;53;05
Speaker 1
La la la la. I’m sorry, guys. I didn’t write it down better. Oh, okay. Genesis 11. Here we go. Down the verse ten. There we go. 1126 Okay, so we’ll like where this is. The line of it starts in Genesis 1110 is where we’re seeing the descendants of Shem. Right? And so it’s like what we’re beginning to see is like the parting right of ham and japheth fall to the side.

01;26;53;13 – 01;27;17;21
Speaker 1
And we really focus on Shem and we see that happen even with Abraham, right? When eight when we get to Abraham, well notice that he does have Ishmael and, then he does have a whole bunch of children after Ishmael and Isaac, he has Isaac. But then we only follow the line of Isaac, right? And then even look at it again.

01;27;17;21 – 01;27;47;00
Speaker 1
Right. Isaac has Jacob Isa. Well it all falls to the side and then we follow again just the the line of Jacob. And then Jacob has 12 sons, 12, well, two sons and a daughter. And so then we follow the 12 sons, and it’s all about walking in. It’s all about a promise. But there is a pathway that is happening that we’re seeing being revealed us that he’s narrowing it down.

01;27;47;24 – 01;28;23;21
Speaker 1
But there’s still something with with bloodline because Terah Abraham did not come from the line of ham, did not come from the line of Japheth, but came from the line of Shem, who was the one that was blessed by Noah, the just man that walked with Elohim. So if you look in Genesis 11, down around verse 28 or 27, 25, so never lived after he beget Terah.

01;28;24;28 – 01;28;56;16
Speaker 1
So this Terah is the father because in verse 26 and Terah lived 17 years and begat Abraham Maher and Haran. So Abraham had two brothers that we know, right? And then these are the generations of Terah he begot Abraham. They are Haran and Haran begot lot in Herron died. And so they’re in the land of Erv, the Chaldeans.

01;28;56;16 – 01;29;34;00
Speaker 1
And what we see is in verse 31 is Terah took Abraham and his son Lot and the son of Haran and his son sons and Sarah, his daughter in law and his son Abram’s wife. And they went forth from them out of awe of the Chaldeans. We don’t know what kind of conversation that Elohim had with Tara, but they were already on their way out of or of the Chaldeans, and they were heading towards the land of Canaan.

01;29;34;00 – 01;30;36;08
Speaker 1
We don’t know if it was just we don’t see a conversation between Tara and Elohim. We have no idea. But we know that when they get to the city called Haran, that Tara dies in verse 11, Chapter 1132. And so when we get to the next chapter, chapter 12, this is where we hear Jehovah speaks to Abraham. It says, get the out of their country for and from their kindred and from their father’s house unto a land I will show thee now we already know in previous verses that they were heading towards Canaan and must have settled down somewhere and stopped and maybe just never moved on.

01;30;36;08 – 01;31;13;23
Speaker 1
And we don’t know if Tehran told Abraham that. Yahweh spoke to me over, spoke. We don’t know. But what we see is that now we hear this interaction and we see that the creator is now narrowing his focus down to Abraham. And so this is really important. So we’re going to read 1201 now you hova said enter Abraham, get out of that country.

01;31;13;23 – 01;31;42;06
Speaker 1
And from my kindred and from my father’s house until land I will show thee and I will make the great nation and I will the it make thy name great and now shall be a blessing and I will bless them that bless the and curse him that curse of the and in the shell. All families of the earth be blessed.

01;31;42;06 – 01;32;14;10
Speaker 1
It was always Elohim plan to bless all of the earth. But what he’s doing now is is narrowing it down. Finding people who will walk with him, talk with him, stay connected to him. And it took this many generations to find a family, to find a man who is going to do those things in the earth. It’s like everything got messed up.

01;32;15;01 – 01;33;14;08
Speaker 1
And so there was just no way. No a blessed Shem. Out of the line of Shem comes Terah. And Terrell has a son called Abraham. And Tara started out of heading toward Canaan, but they settled down somewhere. Never made it on that way. And so you Hova speaks to Abraham. And so what we find in the following chapters is that and we talked about it a little bit last week, is that you Hova then makes a covenant with Abraham in such a way that he doesn’t even make that same covenant with Abraham’s that even involved in it, right?

01;33;14;12 – 01;34;01;12
Speaker 1
Abraham just simply falls asleep and then the Covenant is made because Elohim himself walks through it. And so what? We’ll look at that right now. Any thoughts so far that you want to share that you’re thinking of as we’re looking the line of how Elohim is watching this thread through humanity until he gets to to Abraham, and he’s like, Yeah, this is the guy.

01;34;01;12 – 01;35;20;07
Speaker 1
Anyone want to share anything? Okay. Um, so let’s move on. We’re going to skip to well, we know that. So he said that blessing to him in Chapter 12. The next thing we want to look at is that covenant that happened. We talked about it a little bit last week and I want us to look at it even deeper.

01;35;20;07 – 01;36;05;11
Speaker 1
Is it in verse chapter 15? I’m looking for the section where he falls asleep and yes, 15 verse nine. So had said Let you go. I wanted to know what the smoking furnace and the the lamp were. I didn’t find that out. And it’s not worth trying to go down that that rabbit hole. But so in that middle section there were in Genesis 15 down around verse 11.

01;36;05;11 – 01;36;27;27
Speaker 1
So they’re making a covenant now. And back during that time when you were making a covenant, they didn’t you like go to lawyers like we have today in draft of a piece of paper and you you know, you guarantee your house or something like that and you sign your name they would cut an animal in half and walk between the two pieces.

01;36;28;14 – 01;36;58;20
Speaker 1
That’s how they made the covenant, at least during that time. And this is historical. You can read on on that. So the way that they made a covenant is they would cut an animal in half and they would walk between the two pieces in. That was them making their covenant, their commitments. But in this particular covenant, there are not two people walking through.

01;36;58;20 – 01;37;25;14
Speaker 1
Abraham goes to sleep. Oh yeah. We put them to sleep. And, and, and he makes a covenant himself with himself because you still see two entities pass through, right. So Genesis ten. And so he took them all of these and divided them in the midst and he laid each piece against another. But the birds, he divided he not.

01;37;26;11 – 01;37;51;04
Speaker 1
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abraham drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon. Abraham kind of like the one that happened with Adam and Lowe to a horror. Great darkness fell upon him, and he said, this Elohim and to Abraham. So now he’s giving him a prophecy. They’re having about to cut a covenant.

01;37;51;04 – 01;38;28;05
Speaker 1
He goes to sleep. And so Elohim is speaking to him in a dream, prophesying to him. Now, Elohim does speak to him when he’s awake, right? But this particular time he’s to give him this message when he’s in a deep sleep. No surety that a seed shall be a stranger in the land that is not theirs and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them 400 years.

01;38;28;05 – 01;39;07;05
Speaker 1
And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge? And afterward shall they come out with great substance, and thou shall go to my fathers in peace, and thou shall be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come here. There again, for the iniquity of the Emirates is not yet full, and it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those two pieces in that same day.

01;39;07;28 – 01;39;40;09
Speaker 1
You, however, made a covenant with Abraham saying unto the I see. Have I given this land from the river Egypt unto the great river the Euphrates? And he goes through and he lists the names of the different people, and one of them is the Canaanites. But we know that the land is the Canaanite and so remember that that is the sea, the heritage that Noah Kirst, the son of Ham, Canaan, was cursed.

01;39;41;00 – 01;40;27;03
Speaker 1
And this is the land that Jehovah is giving to Shem. Remember, Shem was blessed and said that Canaan was going to be his servant. Shabbat shalom to you, Doreen. Shabbat shalom to you, Apostle, that this was the land that they were headed to. And so we see this path, this trajectory that is happening. But back to the where in Genesis 15, for those who just joined us.

01;40;27;03 – 01;40;54;18
Speaker 1
And so we see here that even though in tradition of that day, the two people walk through the land to make the covenant, walked through the split pieces. In this way, this is where we see that Yahweh, Elohim says, I’m going to make a covenant with my son. He did it by himself because he couldn’t trust anybody else.

01;40;54;18 – 01;41;24;03
Speaker 1
He couldn’t trust anyone else to make sure that it was performed. And so we do see the two representations, right? The two people, which are the smoking furnace and the lamp passed through. So this is where they made the covenant. And always at all this time what we’re getting at as we’re looking at this is that it was always Elon’s plan to bless all nations of the earth.

01;41;25;20 – 01;41;52;18
Speaker 1
Then it does not require that you have to be of the bloodline of Abraham because they are carrying the responsibility of bringing this message and how to walk. How to walk. And if you do not have a chance to join with us, maybe you can listen to the replay. But we talked a lot about this idea of walking with Elohim.

01;41;52;18 – 01;42;14;22
Speaker 1
We were started in Jeremiah six where Elohim was saying to the people, Walk with me and they said, We will not. He says, Look, the ancient pathways. Jeremiah six, six, six, 16. I think it is, yes. 616 He says to them, Look at the ancient pathways and walk with me, and they said, We will not walk with you.

01;42;15;08 – 01;42;42;21
Speaker 1
And so we looked at the ancient pathways and we saw in Genesis three where he walked in the garden, Genesis five or three or four or five when he walked with Enoch. And then we see that Noah was just and he walked with him. And then we see that Abraham, which we’re going to look at right now, walked with him and then we went to Micah six, six.

01;42;43;28 – 01;43;18;29
Speaker 1
Right when we see that Micah there talks about what is it that God desires, right? That we do justice, we love mercy, and that we walk humbly with our God. And even if she were brought in O, which is in the Exodus six teen, where Elohim is speaking to Moses, and he’s like, You know what? I’m going to I’m going to test the people to see if they will walk in his Torah, that they will walk with him.

01;43;18;29 – 01;43;59;01
Speaker 1
Not so this covenant was made. And let’s look at where this is, where now you Hova is going to change the name of Abraham to Abraham. But in Genesis 17 one it says, and when Abraham was 99 years old, he’s already had Ishmael. We kind of skip past that. He appeared to Abraham and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me, walk before me and be that perfect, and I will make my covenant between me and the and will multiply the exceedingly.

01;43;59;11 – 01;44;39;21
Speaker 1
Now he had Ishmael, I believe, almost 20 years ago. Sarah still has not had a child. He’s 99 years old and Yahweh is speaking to him, and Abraham fell on his face. Elohim talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with the and thou shall be a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name anymore be Abraham, but their name shall be Abraham for father of many nations.

01;44;40;02 – 01;45;09;19
Speaker 1
Have I made the now we know that there are many nations from him, Shem and Japeth. We talked about that they split off into what’s understood as like 70 nations. We know that the Tower of Babel happened and people were spread all over the place until. But we’re following this path and we’re looking at the Elohim as narrowed down on this family with Abraham.

01;45;11;03 – 01;45;36;27
Speaker 1
And this is who he actually cut covenant with by himself. So there’s no he’s not leaving now like nothing. It doesn’t nothing can stop it. Right. So he created Adam and Eve and they fell. You know, we go through and we see the things that happen. We see the flood happen. And then there’s Noah, and then there’s three sons.

01;45;37;06 – 01;46;13;00
Speaker 1
He makes a covenant with no one. The Earth that they shall not be destroyed with water. And he he reestablishes that idea of, please be fruitful and multiply. Then we get to Abraham. We see that he calls Tara. We don’t know. But Tara, Abraham’s father, leaves and heads towards Canaan, never makes it to Canaan. And then Elohim speaks to Abraham specifically, and he said, I will bless you and all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

01;46;14;13 – 01;46;44;00
Speaker 1
He cut the covenant with him. And then now in Chapter 17, even though in Chapter 1615, we saw that Elohim did the Covenant by himself. Right, he split. The animals were split in. They walked between them. But he Elohim did it all on his own. He did not have Abraham walk through that because this is where we see him say he made the covenant with himself.

01;46;44;14 – 01;47;23;18
Speaker 1
He could swear by no greater. He did it himself. But then there is this other covenant that’s coming now where there is a separation of the flesh. And that’s what circumcision. So now here are things that are going to be requirements on Abraham’s part that he has to fulfill and this is where we see circumcision come in, in that every male had to be circumcised in their house.

01;47;23;18 – 01;47;52;05
Speaker 1
So he’s moving along with the promise that he intends to bless all the families of the Earth. But he’s made a covenant. He’s asked Abraham to do the same thing now with the circumcision of the flesh, and it’s all the nations of the earth. So we are almost at the end of, our 2 hours that we’ve been sharing and talking.

01;47;53;03 – 01;48;20;23
Speaker 1
SHIKA Have you come back? I know you stepped away. Are you there? Okay. You’re sure? Esther? Esther, you want to share anything? You’re getting ready for work. Got it. All right?

01;48;22;17 – 01;49;09;17
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. That’s okay. Yeah, it’s good. Know, you even you talk about this, and we really read it about what we’re saying, but I’m the thing that I understand about after him and his father that God is not like God choose his father, but his father is not complete the journey. He just like said that now in Haran and then he died there.

01;49;10;04 – 01;49;45;15
Speaker 2
And then I understand that Abraham is continued the journey of his father, just like you said, that we don’t know because we didn’t see that in the Bible writing about how God is talked to who carries Abraham Father. But but he is more from his, from the play that he state and then moved to to go somewhere. But he just settled down and then not finished the journey.

01;49;45;15 – 01;50;00;29
Speaker 2
And then he died there just like that. And the state in that that that scripture. Okay. Hey.

01;50;02;04 – 01;51;08;13
Speaker 1
Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Let’s go to Genesis 18 as we begin to wrap up our conversation, Genesis 1817 and this is where we’re going to end. And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham? The thing which I do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him, for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of your Hova to do justice and judgment that you, however, may bring upon Abraham.

01;51;09;00 – 01;51;42;27
Speaker 1
That which he has spoken of him. And I think it’s great that we end kind of here on this because if it is always Jehovah’s Plan to bless all the nations of the Earth through Abraham, why Abraham? Right. Like why until I began this study and looking at things that always just seemed like he just picked Abraham out of thin air, you know?

01;51;42;27 – 01;52;11;05
Speaker 1
And if he just did that, how would I ever know what it is that he’s looking for? You know what? What was so special? And I think that we can see that there is a path throughout the generations. I never really paid attention to the fact that Noah blessed Shem and that from the line of Shem came Tura.

01;52;12;18 – 01;52;48;11
Speaker 1
And of course there was the father of Abraham. And so he started with no cause he was looking for something, and that something passed through to Shem, the same medics aid, and then through Shem, through some generations, we get to Torah and Torah up and leave the land of or heading towards Canaan. And Canaan is already destined to be the servant, right from that curse from Noah.

01;52;49;29 – 01;53;34;02
Speaker 1
And so here is the line of Shem heading towards his family’s land, right? Because Shem is the uncle to Kaitlyn. And so here Shem family line heading to and and and Elohim is promising Sam, the uncle that you are going to possess the land of your nephew. And he cut the covenant in that line with not Torah, because Torah down in the land, even though Torah was headed towards Canaan, Torah died.

01;53;34;02 – 01;53;56;26
Speaker 1
And so then we see you Hova talking to Abraham and saying, get up and go and I’ll tell you where to go. And then he makes a covenant with him, and then you hova cut the covenant with himself because the smoking furnace and the lamp representing the two people needed to cut a covenant. But they were both him.

01;53;57;12 – 01;54;38;10
Speaker 1
They were both Elohim. And then we see that at that time, even when he made that covenant and set it up, he did not really give specific instructions to Abraham. Not that we see. Right. What’s the requirement for you to keep this covenant, besides just to walk with me? But after Ishmael, right? Then there comes this. Okay, Abraham, you’re going to have to shed some blood here, and that’s circumcision, and all your males shall be circumcised.

01;54;39;14 – 01;55;11;29
Speaker 1
And so this is the beginning of more detailed instructions. And I’m like, when you think about it, though, I mean, we don’t know the hearts of humanity, but B the flood happened because there was such great evil on the earth, right? And we saw how Lamech, Noah’s father, prophesied that, Oh, this son I have here, Noah, he’s going to comfort us from the curse of the toil of the ground.

01;55;11;29 – 01;55;52;26
Speaker 1
How did he know? I mean, was. Was Jehovah talking to him? We don’t know. But he named his son Noah and that’s exactly what happened. And so then we see that there’s a covenant made, but all they’re told to do is just multiply and the covenant comes down. We see it gets Abraham and Abraham’s initially told he’s going to be a father of many nations, and Abraham has Ishmael, but he’s like, But yeah, I was like, No, no.

01;55;53;15 – 01;56;43;01
Speaker 1
I mean, with Sarah, that’s the seed because Hagar is Egypt. Egypt falls through the line of ham. Now, you might say, I wonder if Abraham knew, you know, all of this at the time. I mean, we talked about how how stories and things were told orally written down and then put together that formed the Bible that we have, but that the Hebrew Bible then when it was written then and put together and so here the line of Shem has a child with the line a ham.

01;56;44;02 – 01;57;16;27
Speaker 1
Ham is cast. That’s that’s not where the promise is coming from. It’s coming through. Sarah Now, Ishmael is blessed because he’s the seed of Abraham that that that’s not going to change. But that’s not the promise that he’s talking about. And even after Ishmael, Abraham has a whole bunch more children and still that’s not where Elohim has his focus.

01;57;18;25 – 01;57;54;07
Speaker 1
And so it passes on through to Isaac. And next week we’ll begin to dove into the study of Isaac. Eventually, we’re going to spend a lot of time on the tribes talking about that. But if the whole world was corrupt, how many generations that take it take before Elohim, like, okay, I think this man can do it because we just read that right in Genesis 18 that Elohim was like, I know him and I know that he will teach.

01;57;54;16 – 01;58;16;17
Speaker 1
He will command not just his children, but his whole household. And that’s the important thing, right, is if you’re going to make all the families of the earth be blessed, you have to be willing to teach. You have to teach with you know, you have to walk in that way and then you have to begin to teach it to your children and to your household, which means there are people.

01;58;16;25 – 01;58;52;24
Speaker 1
And the circumcision here was not just of only him and Ishmael, right? It was everybody in his house. So now they are all part of the covenant agreement. We’re seeing all the nations of the earth be blessed. We are seeing that this promise was always for us. There are some important things about land and about inheritance, and so we’re going to continue to keep studying that.

01;58;52;24 – 01;59;14;19
Speaker 1
So we are going to close up. It’s 6:00. We’ve been here for 2 hours. Thank you. For those of you who joined us, hopefully you’ll join us next week. All the rooms have been set up for the next weeks so you can RSVP in, will be here 4 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 11 a.m. in South Africa, and it’s 4 p.m. and in Vietnam.

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Reposting: Hebrew Voices #15 – The Bible of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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NOTE: This is a very scholarly discussion but one that is defintely worth listening to… It may take a few “Listens” to get it all.

In this episode of Hebrew Voices, The Bible of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nehemia Gordon talks to Professor Emanuel Tov, the world’s foremost scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls and author of the definitive “Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible.” Gordon and Tov’s discussion yields an enlightening mix of 101 material as well as fascinating (and accessible) post-doctoral details. Vyomi wrote: “Thank you Nehemia! That was fascinating information.”

If you think you know the history of Bible texts, you might want to hang tightly onto your hat. Tov explains the “five families of text” that are progenitors of the Tanakh—their histories, spelling systems, adherents, the liberties taken by their respective scribes, and the events that led to the Masoretic Text becoming the only Bible of Judaism. An accident of history or Divine Providence? Tune in and decide for yourself.

http://www.emanueltov.info/ This is the website referred to in the discussion. And this https://www.accordancebible.com/ is the software program

Hebrew Voices #15 – The Bible of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Hebrew Voices #15 – The Bible of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Nehemia: Shalom, this is Nehemia Gordon with Hebrew Voices, and I am here at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Professor Emanuel Tov, who in my humble opinion is the foremost scholar in the world in the field of the Dead Sea Scrolls and what’s called “textual criticism”. In fact, he wrote the book called Textural Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, which is a textbook of universities around the world, when people study textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, of what Christians call The Old Testament.

I was looking at his CV, his list of accomplishments, and it’s unbelievable! He’s worked in the past on something like 26 projects, each one of those any scholar around the world would be extremely proud to lay claim to. I’m just going to mention a few of them. He was the editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication project beginning in 1990. My small connection to the Dead Sea Scrolls was as Emanuel Tov’s assistant many years ago. I was his humble student and assistant, and I’m very proud of that.

He’s the co-director of the Computer Assisted Tools for the Septuagint Studies, the co-director for many years of the Hebrew University Bible Project. That is just a small number of the things that he’s done. He’s presently the co-director of a series called the Textural History of the Bible, it’s like a 2,000-page encyclopedia. He’s a senior scholar in the Green Scholars Initiative. Emanuel, shalom. I’m very honored to be here with you and talk today about the text of the Bible.

Emanuel: It’s a pleasure, Nehemia, to be with you again.

Nehemia: After many years.

Emanuel: After some time. You make me very humble when I listen to you mentioning these achievements. It’s a pleasure being with you.

Nehemia: Tell us about some of the things that you’re doing today.

Emanuel: Well, today I’m retired, and I’m in a very special position, because even though I’m retired I still do teach, and basically I continue working and I’m still involved in several projects. I edit the Dead Sea Scroll fragments, some of them personally, but mostly I oversee the work of others. I have a small team of people who for the Green Scholars Initiative published 13 small fragments, really small – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 lines.

Nehemia: But even those are important in studying the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Emanuel: They are important, as all fragments are important. They’ve come to the market say, in 1990, in 2000, and these particular fragments will be published in the year 2016.

Nehemia: Wait a minute. You’re talking about publishing fragments. Are you telling us that today, in 2015, there are unpublished fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, after all these years?

Emanuel: Yes, after all these years.

Nehemia: Wow! And you’re overseeing the publication of some of those fragments?

Emanuel: That’s correct.

Nehemia: Wow!

Emanuel: I’m not the only one, because there are two or three other groups in the world, one in Norway and two other ones in the United States of America, where simply organizations or rich people have bought these fragments – they were on the market. In fact, if you or anyone has a few pennies to spare, a few thousands…

Nehemia: Is it really thousands or millions? Okay. [laughing]

Emanuel: Yes, a few millions to spare, then I can arrange it for you to buy…

Nehemia: You heard it here. He could arrange for you to buy actual Dead Sea Scrolls. How did they get onto the market? In other words, the original Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in a cave at Qumran. Then the archaeologists went and they excavated and found more scrolls, the 11 caves at Qumran, and then at approximately eight other sites around the Judean desert in addition to Qumran. So how is it that these appeared on the antiquities market?

Emanuel: I can’t say they are secrets, but basically, I don’t know. Some of these were probably illegally held back.

Nehemia: But we don’t know that for a fact.

Emanuel: No, we don’t know these things. But they were dug up and then they somehow did not get to the people who were supposed to get them in 1948 or ’50. We don’t know these things.

Nehemia: What you’re saying is that there are benefactors, if we can call them that, who have bought these scrolls and said, “You know what? I don’t just want this to sit in my living room in a display case. I want it to be published.”

Emanuel: Oh, yes. These are good people who do this for the sake of scholarship.

Nehemia: That is great. Right now, you’re working on 13 fragments. I know some of my listeners out there, they’re into conspiracy theories and things like that. Are these unpublished scrolls, because there’s something in them like the Vatican is covering them up, or something like that? You’ve probably heard these stories. I’m going to officially ask you, is there some kind of grand conspiracy that’s preventing these final scrolls from being published?

Emanuel: Ever since I started with my work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, I’ve heard these stories. They’re all nonsense. I say nonsense about conspiracies. This basically started, I would say, about 1950 already, maybe 1960.

Nehemia: Really, that early the conspiracies?

Emanuel: That early. My view of this is that I think that certain people were disappointed in the 1950s that Jesus’ name was not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. There were such high expectations that such an enormous amount of scrolls would not have the mentioning of Jesus in those scrolls coming from the same area, so that theories developed that the Vatican did not want certain theories to be aired, because there could be bad press for Jesus. They said, “Well, the Vatican confiscated or burned certain scrolls.”

Now, this has been in the press for a long time, and all bona fide scholars say this is pure nonsense, including all Catholic scholars who are close to the Vatican. So until today, there’s no one who takes these claims as serious, and they started with John Allegro, who was…

Nehemia: Who was he, for those who don’t know?

Emanuel: The enfant terrible of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Nehemia: That was in French. Some of my listeners might not know what that is. What was he?

Emanuel: He was the enfant terrible, the naughty boy.

Nehemia: You know what? Let’s move on, past that. [laughing] But that wasn’t because of some kind of agenda to cover something up, it might have been because he had some personal issues, or something like that.

Emanuel: He did have some personal issues.

Nehemia: Let’s not deal with that. But it wasn’t some Vatican conspiracy. I could give my own testimony here, that when I was working for you as an assistant, you had me and another assistant dig through these books looking for fragments that maybe somebody forgot to publish. Not only was there no conspiracy, there was an attempt to find some little scrap of paper that maybe had a half a letter on it. Did somebody forget to publish that?

It’s possible that there are unpublished scrolls that were just overlooked, but it wasn’t a conspiracy, right?

Emanuel: No, no. You, Nehemia, you helped us out, and you have seen with your own eyes how meticulous we were.

Nehemia: Meticulous is an understatement. [laughing]

Emanuel: How meticulous we were to really do justice to the smallest piece of inscribed material. Actually, there are also people who work on uninscribed material, because even uninscribed material could have information on something.

Nehemia: Wow. I know you’re working on a lot of projects. He has a list of 51 pages on his website, emanueltov.info, and we pulled it up and he said, “Well, it’s not complete. Today, it’s actually 53 pages.” These are his publications and projects. I’m humbled by this! [laughing] These are academic publications, each one of which is peer-reviewed and goes through this process. It’s amazing. What are some of the other things that you’re working on?

Emanuel: I’m very proud of a book that I’ve written 11 years ago. It’s called The Scribal Habits of the Fragments, the scrolls that were Found in the Dead Sea Area. It’s a single book that can still be bought, that describes to the smallest details how the scribes wrote, how they made errors, how they made paragraphs, how they corrected the errors, et cetera. So it’s a whole description of all those things that we today learn in schools. It’s a handbook. It has become a handbook for all those who now work…

Nehemia: Meaning a handbook, it’s a textbook. Like this is the definitive work if I have a question or an issue. You mentioned paragraphing, and some people might be dozing off. But guys, pay attention. There are biblical passages where the interpretation hinges on, is there a space in the manuscript which indicates a new paragraph? You went and you actually studied how this was represented in the Dead Sea Scrolls and things like that?

Emanuel: I studied this for all the years that I have been editor-in-chief, and I worked with every single editor. I worked with 60 or so editors. I sat with everyone and worked with his or her text. I made notes on the side when I learned something about a certain text. I’d say, “Gee, that’s interesting for me.” Late at night I integrated that information into the book that eventually I published.

Nehemia: We’re going to post a link on my website, nehemiaswall.com, to the book. The other book, if you want a serious book about understanding the texts of the Bible, it’s called Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Like I said, they teach it in universities around the world. I’ve been working through this book the last few weeks, and I’ve got to tell you, I was brought back all these memories. I felt like I was a student. I’m taking pages and pages of notes, and I’m going late into the night. I don’t want to put it down, it’s such an amazing book. There’s more information in some of these footnotes than many people who spend their lives on the Bible know, meaning, there are people who will spend their whole life on the Bible and you have more information in some of your footnotes than those people know. It’s amazing stuff here. I really want to recommend it.

The other book, The Scribal Habits, I’m going to have a link for both of those books on nehemiaswall.com on my website. Are there any projects that you’re working on?

Emanuel: I’ll say a few things about this book, the Textual Criticism of the Bible. This is a book that I started in 1989 in Hebrew, and from the Hebrew it found its way into English. I translated it myself. From there, into German. I did not translate that myself. Into Russian. It is now being translated into Portuguese and into Korean. Just two weeks ago it was published in an electronic edition with Acordance Company. The electronic edition is really something…

Nehemia: Tell us about that.

Emanuel: Because you can do so many things that I have never been able to do with it, all kinds of very interesting searches. We had a scholarly meeting two weeks ago. I said, “One of my principles in life is, if you don’t know something, write about it.”

Nehemia: [laughing] What does that mean?

Emanuel: That means, people had a good laugh like you just did. And I really meant it. When I knew about the areas of the textual criticism of the Bible, I knew about several areas, obviously, because I started writing about it. But like the area of the Syriac Bible, I didn’t know much.

Nehemia: That’s the Aramaic Bible written by Christians in the Syriac script, for those who don’t know.

Emanuel: Or about the Masorah, which is the…

Nehemia: The Masoretic…

Emanuel: The mediaeval commentary around the Hebrew texts.

Nehemia: Oh, the Masoretic notes, you’re talking about?

Emanuel: Yes.

Nehemia: The scribal notes.

Emanuel: I didn’t know much, so at first, I thought, “I’ll ask someone to do that for me.” Then I thought, “No. Really it doesn’t work. It has to be part of my system.” So I learned and then I wrote about it. That’s what I meant when I say, “If you don’t know something, write about it.”

Nehemia: When you say you learned, you don’t mean you picked up somebody else’s book. I think usually what you do is you do original research. You’re talking about how there were 60-plus editors, and each one was an expert on a specific text. But you got this overall picture because you were the editor-in-chief and you got to deal with all the texts.

Emanuel: Yes. My way of learning is I start from the beginning. If you could see my hands you could see how I built from the beginning with the building stones, very beginning, and then make it from the basis to a large overall picture. That’s how I made my book. Really, I’m very proud of it. It’s a description of what the Hebrew text is. It is technical, and I realize one day I should write a less technical book, but it is understandable also for those who do not understand every technical detail.

It tells you what the text of the Bible is, how it has been transmitted through the different generations, what the scribes were, and what the liberties were that the scribes took when they transmitted the Bible. If you come to a verse like in Genesis chapter 2, “Vayechal Elohim beyom hashvi’i,” that’s the Masoretic text. That’s a text that you know. “And God finished his work on the seventh day.” That’s the verse you know. You would not expect that there are basically texts that say, not that God finished His work on the seventh day, but that read, “God finished His work on the sixth day,” because God did not finish His work on the seventh day. Because God forbid God should work on the seventh day. The Jews are not allowed to work on the seventh day, so why should God Himself work on the seventh day?

Because of this somewhat difficult reading, a secondary reading developed that said that God finished His work on the sixth day. That means on the end of the sixth day. Nevertheless, the reading in our Hebrew, French, English Bible is correct, because it really means that God finished His work something like by the seventh day.

But the Greek Bible, the Samaritan Bible, the Syriac Bible, have, “God finished His work on the sixth day.” This is an example showing you how a theologically different reading developed long, long ago – you might say 2,000 years ago, it’s actually probably 2,300, 2,400 years ago – and if you know these things, you know a little bit about the development of the Biblical texts. Now, this is a small detail, and there are many large details…

Nehemia: Let me just summarize. What we have here in Genesis 2 is this verse that says, “And God finished creation on the seventh day.” What you’re saying is that probably sometime around 300 BC, some scribe, maybe a righteous scribe who thought he was doing the right thing, he came along and he said, “We can’t have God working on the Sabbath. We’ve got to fix this.” Maybe he even thought it was a mistake that he was fixing. So, what he did is, he “corrected” the text making an easier reading, which is that God finished it on the sixth day – even though in the original Hebrew it probably means He finished the creation by the seventh day.

What you’re saying is, this exists in the Septuagint and in the Samaritan version of the Bible, but what we have preserved in the Masoretic text it’s probably the original reading. This is a principle that we call in Hebrew a “hagirsa hakasha adifa”, I think they say in Latin, “dificilio electio,” I may be mispronouncing that, that the more difficult reading is preferable. I remember learning this and thinking, “Wow. Wait a minute. So when I read the easy reading, that actually might be a righteous scribe who thought he was fixing it and actually corrupting the text. That’s an incredible concept.” This is the type of thing that you talk about in your book.

Emanuel: Right. This is an example about which we can have an opinion. There are also details about which I think we cannot have an easy opinion.

Nehemia: In other words, in this one there’s no question that what’s preserved in the Masoretic text and the standard English translation is the original. You’re saying other ones aren’t so clear cut?

Emanuel: No. How tall was Goliath?

Nehemia: Yeah, I don’t remember. How tall? [laughing]

Emanuel: Well, now I’m not sure exactly what is written where, but there’s one version where it says that he was four cubits tall, and in another version it says that he was six cubits tall. So one will be the Masoretic text and the other will be a Qumran scroll, and also it will be the Septuagint. The question is, how tall was he, two meters or three meters? How will we ever know? How will we ever know? There definitely is a relation between the two. Either someone changed two meters to three meters…

Nehemia: To make it sound like it was a more impressive feat of killing him, right?

Emanuel: Or someone said, “No, three meters, that’s too much.”

Nehemia: That’s not possible.

Emanuel: “We don’t someone who is three meters tall, because God is so good, He can also work with someone who’s only two meters.” That’s again a theological issue.

Nehemia: The verse here is 1 Samuel 17:4 in the Masoretic text, it in fact says, “He was ‘shesh amot vazeret.”’ I love that, vezaret. “He’s six meters and a pinkie.” [laughing] It’s very specific. You were saying there’s another version which says he’s four meters.

Emanuel: That’s in the Septuagint.

Nehemia: In the Septuagint. One of these is, someone had theological issue to change it, and as a scholar you have no way of knowing what the original text was, whether it was our Hebrew Bible as preserved today, or the Septuagint.

Emanuel: That’s my view.

Nehemia: That’s your view, okay.

Emanuel: Other people might say, “The difference is simply a scribal error.” That’s a very important thing in our field. There are so many differences of opinion, and you can never say who is right and who is wrong. It’s a slightly technical area, of course. But there is much room for human views.

Nehemia: There’s a certain amount of textual criticism which is subjective, is what you’re saying.

Emanuel: It is very subjective. This is the area that we call “judgement, evaluation”. The evaluation is subjective. It’s always subjective.

Nehemia: I see. Very interesting. Now, one of the interesting things I read about in your book is that I guess there’s a standard explanation that many scholars have, that the text of the Bible – and we’re talking here about the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible – was originally very fluid, and then there was a process of stabilization, which eventually led to what we have, called the “Masoretic Text”. You have a very different view on that. I hope this isn’t too technical. Guys, pay attention to this, this is actually really important.

In the Rabbinical literature we’ll have these discussions about the most minute letter having significance and meaning, and what you find in the Dead Sea Scrolls is things were a lot more fluid back then.

Emanuel: I will talk about this, but I will say to your listeners that if you don’t get it exactly, this is a very difficult thing, and you may have to read my book, or to read other things, because I’m going to tell you some things which are part of a much larger issue.

Nehemia: Listen, guys. I want you to listen to this two or three times. This is really important stuff, please.

Emanuel: Basically, one of the principles is that the text of the Bible is not just one text. That’s a fact. That is, the text that you have in your hand in Hebrew, in English, is the so-called “Masoretic text”. So you will have in your hands the English text, which is a modern version, like the New Revised Standard Version, and all these English versions derive in some way from the King James Version. But they are all based in some way on the Masoretic Hebrew text, a little bit different reading or not, but it’s the medieval text.

Nehemia: For those who aren’t familiar with this, basically if you walk into the bookstore in Israel or you go into somebody’s home and they have a Bible in Hebrew, that’s the Masoretic text.

Emanuel: Now you go back some. You have the Middle Ages, you go back to the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls. So we go back 2,000 years. At that time, if you would walk in the streets of Jerusalem, if you would go to the community at Qumran, if you would go to any other community in ancient Israel, you would not find one text, you would find many texts. This is a major issue for scholars to understand. Which texts would you find? Well, that’s my task. If there’s anything about which Emanuel Tov thinks the whole day, that’s the issue. I think about which texts the people had in their hands in the year 200 Before the Common Era, the year 100 Before the Common Era, the year 0. That’s what I’m thinking about.

Nehemia: Just to be clear, for example, if you’d walk into the library at Qumran when it was a city – or a village – 2,000 years ago, and you’d open up one copy of Isaiah and another copy of Isaiah and compare them, they would not be identical. Actually, you can go to the Israel Museum today to the Shrine of the Book and see that’s a fact.

Emanuel: All these things are facts, because you’ll have the text that I call the “Masoretic text”, something like it is found at Qumran, and actually more so in the places, what we call “sites”, in the sites around Qumran. For example, on top of the Masada, places called Nahal Hever, Murabba’at, et cetera. This is really a marvel. Maybe it’s not a marvel, it’s a man-made marvel, but the Masoretic text that we’re using today, without vowels, mind you, is found 2,000 years ago already in the Judean Desert.

Nehemia: That’s significant, and I think some people would call that the “proto-Masoretic text”, to use the term “M-like text”, the Masoretic-like text. But basically what we have today in the Hebrew Bible that’s in any synagogue here today in Israel, or that you get in a Hebrew bookstore, a form of that already exists 2,000 years ago. In fact, 2,250 years ago, according to what you wrote. But you’re saying in addition to the Masoretic text, there are other texts?

Emanuel: First of all, I can’t stress enough how important it is, and you did not allow me to slam the table. I will not do that…

Nehemia: Because then it comes across as this boom in the recording. [laughing]

Emanuel: …how important it is. I would say also for religious reasons, that the Masoretic text was there already 2,100 years ago in the Judean Desert. Equally important for scholars, maybe not for religious reasons, is the fact that other Hebrew texts existed in ancient Israel in the Judean Desert at that time. I cannot name them exactly. One of them would the Hebrew source of the Greek translation, of the Septuagint.

Nehemia: That’s really interesting, because a lot of times we’ll see the Septuagint is different from the Masoretic text, and I think the assumption of many people is, “Well, the Greek got it wrong.” What you have shown is that in many cases, the Greek was translating a Hebrew text which existed.

Emanuel: Yeah, the Greeks did not get it wrong. In certain books, we can clearly follow that, like in the Book of Jeremiah, in the Book of Deuteronomy, in the Book of Samuel. We can clearly follow that translation. That is clear. So that is one source. We have the so-called “Samaritan Pentateuch”.

Nehemia: The Pentateuch is the Five Books of Moses, yeah?

Emanuel: That existed already in the Judean Desert at that time. Then we have an endless number of scrolls in the Judean Desert, mainly in Qumran, that are different from all these. So it’s an endless number of texts that we know not from 500 Before the Common Era, from 250 Before the Common Era until the year 0, until the year 100 after the Common Era. Now, what happens? How do I see the development of these texts? It is here is that scholars differ in their opinions.

Nehemia: Basically, up until now, this is fact. I’m just going to throw some statistics out that I copied from your book. I counted them as five families of text. You’ve got the proto-Masoretic text, or Masoretic-like text, 55 scrolls, the pre-Samaritan text, which is only the Five Books of Moses. It doesn’t have the Samaritan theological changes about Mount Gerizim, but other than that it’s very similar to the Samaritan-type of text.

Another five scrolls, proto-Septuagint, six scrolls – meaning it’s in Hebrew, but it’s the source of the Septuagint. You call them “unaligned,” 55 scrolls. And then the QSP, which we’re going to talk more about, Qumran Scribal Practices, I’m going to try to get him to talk about that. That’s really interesting to me, 28 scrolls. That’s out of about approximately 210 scrolls of the Bible at Qumran. That’s really interesting.

Then you wrote here on page 110, “A textual plurality in the country as a whole. The Qumranites paid no special attention to textual differences.” Wow.

Emanuel: From here onwards, it’s all a matter of personal opinion.

Nehemia: So, this was fact, guys. You can like it or not, but these are facts. Now he’s going to give the interpretation with his expertise.

Emanuel: There are different views, because certain scholars, I would say most scholars, say there has been a movement of what they call “stabilization” towards the Masoretic text. Now, what does stabilization mean? That slowly, the inhabitants of ancient Israel realized that the main text of the Bible should be the Masoretic text. That is called stabilization, and that’s why today we have the Masoretic texts.

Nehemia: In other words, there were many different texts. According to many scholars, it eventually moved in the direction of just one text.

Emanuel: My view is somewhat different, because I say the Masoretic text was always there. It is an important text, and in my view it’s a very good text. In my view in the Five Books of Moses – and this is something new – in the Five Books of Moses it’s clearly the best text. Not in all books, but in the Five Books of Moses it’s definitely the best text.

Nehemia: Best meaning closest to the earliest form, is that what you mean?

Emanuel: Closest to the earliest form, yes indeed. But there were certain historical developments, because of which the Masoretic text survived and not the other ones. To be clear, if in the year 200 Before the Common Era, we have all these different text forms, there were certain things that happened in the Land of Israel. In the year 70, simply, the Temple was destroyed, there was a great chaos and many people were killed. The people who were at Qumran who had all these beautiful scrolls were killed, and there were no followers who had in their hands all these scrolls that were different from the Masoretic text.

The only ones who survived the chaos of the destruction of the Temple were the official representatives of Judaism, or the representatives of what became official Judaism, which is Pharisaic Judaism, and they had the Masoretic texts. So there was no stabilization of the text, it was a historical accident, because of which streams of Judaism did not continue having their text. Because on the one hand, as I said, the people in Qumran were killed. On the other hand, the people who had in their hands the Greek text, the Septuagint, they were not part of Judaism anymore.

Nehemia: What happened to them?

Emanuel: They became Christians. It’s as simple as that. For one generation, the early Christians were Jews, and then they became Christians. The Samaritans, they were together with the Jews for some time, but after some time they became a completely separate stream within Judaism, so…

Nehemia: I believe you wrote in one of your footnotes, if I’m not mistaken, that that happened when John Hyrcanus destroyed their Temple sometime in the 2nd century BC.

Emanuel: Right. From that time onwards, the Samaritans, they had their own Bible text, so their texts were not within Judaism anymore. So the only ones who had the Hebrew Bible according to the Jewish belief, were the Rabbis, so-to-speak. The Rabbis had the Masoretic text. So there was, in my view, no stabilization. Other people, it maybe makes no big difference, let’s say, for the general public, because at the end, the result is the same.

Nehemia: Here’s the difference. If I understand you right, if I would go to a rabbi… Not a rabbi, a proto-rabbi, whatever existed before the Rabbis in 250 BC, and I would ask him, “Show me your copy of the Book of Genesis,” his Genesis will look essentially like the Genesis in my printed Bible today?

Emanuel: Yes.

Nehemia: Whereas if I went to somebody in Qumran – they weren’t there in 250 BC – but if I went to the predecessors in 250 BC and I said, “Let me see your Bible,” it would depend on which scroll he happened to pull off the shelf, and each one might be different.

Emanuel: And if you would go to a Bible store, if there were one, in the…

Nehemia: Or a professional scribe.

Emanuel: In David Street, in the ancient city of Jerusalem, and if that man had in his store four copies of the Book of Genesis, it could be four different copies.

Nehemia: Unless he was a proto-rabbi in which case they’ll probably be all four the same.

Emanuel: Unless he was a proto-rabbi, they would be all the same.

Nehemia: I love this, because this is on page 30, footnote 16. This is amazing information. [laughing] I can’t emphasis this, guys. In this footnote he has on page 30, it is more than many scholars in the world, or people who are called scholars, know. It’s unbelievable stuff.

You talk here about how it is that in 250 BC, or whenever, that these proto-rabbis would have had, and you actually said they might be related to the Sadducees – I think you said somewhere in one of the footnotes – in the Temple. How did they have this uniform form of the Bible, this one stream within Judaism, where everybody else had this plurality? How did that come about? That’s fascinating to me, this information.

Emanuel: It is fascinating, Nehemia. But being a scholar, I should stress once again that this is all hypothesis.

Nehemia: Okay. But you’ve got some sources, which admittedly were written down later, that refer to these processes that would have kept the uniform text for one stream of Judaism.

Emanuel: In my view, I base myself on the fact that in the Judean Desert, if we find three scrolls that are really identical, three scrolls of Genesis that are identical, I ask myself, basing myself only on the argument of logics. Logics is the same in the whole world at any time. How could three scrolls be identical? They can only be identical if they are copied from the same base. Where could the same base be situated? Only in the Temple.

Nehemia: I think there’s even more than that. In other words, A, they have the same base and B, there’s a scribal practice of saying, “I have to get this exact.” For example, 1 QIsaa, which is the complete scroll, you mentioned in one of the footnotes here or somewhere, that could have been copied from the Temple scroll, he just didn’t mind changing things. Is that right?

Emanuel: That’s right.

Nehemia: There was this fluidity when he copied these freely copied texts that if there’s a word here that was used in ancient Hebrew, and in the Hebrew of the era in which he copied it wasn’t used, maybe he’ll replace it with a more common word, or something like this.

Emanuel: At that time, or at any other time, there were simply different approaches, two main different approaches in ancient Israel, maybe anywhere else in the world you could say the same. One is one of precision, and one is of not precision, of a liberal approach to the text. One of precision is the one that prevailed, and the approach of precision said, “We all copy our text from the text that was in the Temple.” And we have several verses, quotations, references, in the Talmud that talk about a copying from the Temple scroll, but we should not forget – and that’s why I say this all hypothesis – that these verses in the Talmud, the Jewish legal late body of Rabbinic exegesis, that these are late.

Nehemia: But it may preserve earlier traditions. I know scholars love to say that. “It’s a late book but it may preserve earlier traditions.” [laughing] If people want to look that up, it’s in the Babylonian Talmud Ketuvot 106A. It says, “magihim,” which I guess is something like proofreaders, “of books in Jerusalem received their fees from the Temple funds.”

So there was this category of something like proofreaders who would make sure the Bible text was copied exactly. That was one approach, this precise approach. Maybe they were a little bit autistic and they said, “We’ve got to get it exactly right, every letter.”

I know other scholars make a bigger deal of this. You kind of downplayed, I think, that there were examples where very trivial details are corrected in the direction of the Masoretic text with a little Vav added above the line. I think you kind of downplay that, but I know other scholars make a big deal about that, that somebody was clearly proofreading these proto-Masoretic scrolls. Would you say that’s fair?

Emanuel: Let’s not confuse those matters, because later on, within the Masoretic tradition, there were many corrections of that type. But that was only within the Masoretic tradition.

Nehemia: Right. We’re talking now about the Masoretic-like text. That’s what you called the “precision”. And that’s amazing. I want to read something you wrote here. This is page 30. “The Temple employed professional magihim (correctors) to safeguard the proper distribution and precise copies of scriptures. These Scrolls must have been used everywhere in Israel for public reading as well as for instruction.”

What this means is that when – and now I’m going to direct this to the Christian listeners, if I may – when Jesus went into the synagogue of Nazareth according to the Gospel of Luke, and they handed him the copy of the Scroll of Isaiah, if it was a Pharisee, for example, who handed him the copy of Isaiah, then he probably read the same Isaiah that we have today, down maybe even to the letters. But if was somebody like a Qumran person, then it may have been a little bit different.

Emanuel: I have often thought about this passage in Luke, and I think in my mind that the copy that Jesus had in his hand would not have been like the Isaiah Scroll that is displayed in the Israel Museum, because that copy is a very faulty copy. It’s a free copy, many mistakes. He would have had in his hand like a Phariseic copy, like 1QIsab, or even more precise than that, and people should think about that, because it is very easy for the public to think, because of this beautiful copy – that’s not beautiful – but this complete copy in the Israel Museum might mislead people to think that that’s the copy that Jesus could have hand in his hand.

But I don’t think so, because the rabbis would never accept that copy as a kosher copy, as an acceptable copy, because there are too many corrections in every column. The rabbis did not accept a scroll as acceptable if there were more than three mistakes per column.

Nehemia: In one of your notes somewhere in the book you mention that this might not just have been the Pharisees, this might have also been the approach of the Sadducees in the Temple. In other words, when we say “Pharisees”, it doesn’t necessarily mean just the Pharisees, but there were streams within Judaism who said, “If we’re going to read a scroll in the synagogue, it has to be one based on exactly what’s written in the Temple.”

But then there was an entirely different approach, and now let me ask you to talk about the QSP, the Qumran Scribal Practices, of which I think we said there were 28 scrolls of the Bible that you identified, I believe it was, that followed this really different, very liberal, free approach. What are some of the characteristics of that approach?

And guys, when you go to the Israel Museum, they have on display the main scroll in the center – which by the way is a photograph – but the main scroll in the center there is 1QIsaa. There’s a real piece of it on the side, which isn’t a photograph. You’re saying that is not a scroll that would have been read in public. That is something that followed these Qumran Scribal Practices. Tell me about these scrolls that you categorize as QSP, the Qumran Scribal Practices.

Emanuel: There were some real surprises when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. One of the great surprises were scrolls that were written in a spelling system that is completely different from anything we knew so far. Now, what is spelling?

Spelling is when you write the word “night” N-I-G-H-T. When you write that in American English like N-I-T-E, that’s exactly the same.

Nehemia: Or maybe it’s like “color”, C-O-L-O-R versus L-O-U-R.

Emanuel: Now, we have these scrolls from Qumran, just like the large Isaiah Scroll, has completely wild spellings, spellings that we would call in modern Israel “completely wrong”. If there are people among you who know Hebrew, you know the word “ki”, that means “because”, Kaf-Yud. In that scroll it’s written Kaf-Yud-Aleph, completely wild.

If you have the word “zot”, that means “that” in English, and that is written instead of Zayin-AlephTav, it could be written Zayin-Vav-Tav, et cetera. If you have the word – and that’s already not spelling, but it’s a form – you have the word for the English word “he,” which in Hebrew is “hu”…

Nehemia: [laughing] That’s confusing, but yeah. Meaning he, the person he is “hu” in Hebrew.

Emanuel: That is written as “hua”. There are several of those cases. These forms are probably dialectal forms. This was completely unexpected, and this shows this is a sign of the freedom of that particular scribe, because you don’t really write today a Bible with the word “night”, N-I-T-E, et cetera. It’s not very honorable to do so. But at that time, they had all the honor in the world for the Bible, but they thought that you can just do that. So, there’s a whole spectrum of things you can do to the Holy Bible through the fully acceptable Bible that is read by everyone and accepted by everyone. But the concepts of what you can do with it were different at that time.

Nehemia: At Qumran, and maybe other places. But you find that primarily at Qumran, you said, and you said that there were, again, manuscripts of the Bible that were found in, I think it was 25 manuscripts of the Bible found in eight other locations, and those were all Masoretic-like texts, whereas at Qumran you had this specific type that was very free and liberal. So, it depends who you were, basically.

In other words, what you just described might have been certain people who would have done that. But again, if you would go to the Temple and ask somebody, “Show me your Bible,” it wouldn’t have looked like that – or even the synagogue in many places.

Emanuel: Right. Well, our information is very limited…

Nehemia: Right, of course.

Emanuel: …and there must be socio-religious differences between the people in ancient Israel. First of all, we think that most of the written material, the scrolls on leather and papaya, must have perished from that period. But the little we have – and that is a lot, because from Qumran alone we have something like 230 remnants of 230 Biblical scrolls. That little is still a lot, but it’s only from a few places. So if you would come to Qumran you would find a library of very different texts. If you would go to Masada, there would be only one type, the Masoretic text.

If you go to Nahal Hever, it would be only one type. If you would go to Jerusalem, you would find them of many types. If you go to the Temple, you will find them, in my view, only of one type. So it would depend where you would go.

Nehemia: Very interesting. You made the statement that it was an accident of history that this one type survived, the Masoretic text. As a scholar, of course that’s how you look at it. I think I could make a theological statement and say from my perspective, it’s providence. But as a scholar, that’s outside your purview.

Look, guys. Here are the facts and here’s the information. Decide for yourselves. Now, you were also involved in a computer program called “Accordance”, which my listeners know because my friend Keith Johnson calls it “the tap-tap-tap program”. When we were doing these podcasts, he would say something, ask me a question and say, “Look up Nehemia in your Bible program.” I would go on my computer, tap-tap-tap, and you could hear the tapping in the recording. That’s Accordance, that’s the program I learned about from you, that you were involved in designing some of the modules and creating them. Tell us about what that is. It’s a really powerful tool.

Emanuel: For me, Accordance is the very best. It’s a program that was designed for the Macintosh, and for two years now, it’s also on the PC platform.

Nehemia: I have it here, I’m using Windows 10 and I have it on the PC.

Emanuel: Oh, great.

Nehemia: Yeah, right here.

Emanuel: This is a program that is much around the Bible, but there are many, many other things. I won’t talk about all the modules that I have for the Christian world, for the Jewish world. I’ll stay close to home, to my own world, which is the Bible world.

What you can do here, you can work with the Hebrew Bible text and around it, in parallel columns, the Greek, and the Aramaic, three, four or five different Aramaic texts, Latin text, maybe 100 different translations. And one of the things, the text, the module that you refer to, Nehemia, is one module that I developed with my team in the 1980s.

This was a project that I had in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania. It was called CATSS, a good Jewish name, Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies, and it was my concept. It sounds like long ago, and it’s a concept that in the meantime has been followed by several other projects, of having in parallel lines one word of the Hebrew and one word of a translation, or of another text. So you have, “In the beginning, bereshit…”

Nehemia: That mean the words, “In the beginning” which in Hebrew is “bereshit”. Yeah.

Emanuel: “Bara, created.” It goes according to the sequence of the Hebrew. So this is a comparison of the Hebrew and the Greek, and together with reconstruction of the Hebrew parent text of the Septuagint. Then, of course, you should realize that what you need for this purpose, you need morphological analysis and an analysis of all the base forms of all the Hebrew words, because the computer doesn’t know that the English word “went” is derived from “to go”. The same for the Hebrew word, “vayelech”, the computer doesn’t know that it is derived from “halach”. So you need all that morphological analysis for the Hebrew and for the Greek.

You can do really marvels with it. This accompanies me day and night. A book that has all those equivalences is called a “concordance”, and I don’t use my concordances anymore. I can now sit in an airplane and prepare my Septuagint classes, and do this. If I have a good flight from Tel Aviv to New York, I can prepare my classes pretty well.

Nehemia: I can’t emphasize how powerful a tool this Accordance is. In simple terms, the words in the Hebrew and in the Greek are tagged. I use this literally every day, multiple times a day. It’s funny, because I remember when I was in high school and I had a paper concordance, and the front cover would come off, and the back cover would come off, it was used so much. I would spend weeks trying to research what is the meaning of a certain word in Biblical Hebrew based on how it’s used, and the word might appear 300 times, and I have to look up every one of the 300 verses in its context. Now, I push on a button and I get them all on the screen. I can compare that, how is that translated in the Aramaic? How is it translated in the Greek? It’s unbelievable, it’s really powerful and amazing. You were involved in developing that, it’s really impressive. People are going to be using this for generations to come, and you did it. [laughing]

Emanuel: You can find this somewhere under Accordance Bible Software, or Oak Tree Bible Software. In that program, incidentally, there’s a module which has my book, The Textual History of the Bible.

Nehemia: Yeah, and you were saying you can do powerful things now with this electronic module.

Emanuel: Very powerful.

Nehemia: Wow, that’s amazing.

Emanuel: This, if you read my book, then it has hyperlinks to the Biblical text in Accordance.

Nehemia: Wow, that’s pretty cool. If you want to look up a certain verse or something, and see if that verse is referenced in the book, I’m assuming you can find that, as well?

Emanuel: That would be the other way round.

Nehemia: Yeah. I’ll give you an example here. Exodus 20 verse 24, one of my favorite verses, where God says, “In every place I will cause My name to be mentioned. There I will come and I will bless you.” You talk about that on page 88, how that’s slightly different than the Samaritan version. So if you were doing research on that verse, you could plug in Exodus 20:24 and it will pop up, “Yes, that appears in Emanuel Tov’s book, page…” and it will bring it to you?

Emanuel: That, I don’t know. I think that’s possible, but that would be called a note within Accordance, and that probably would have to be prepared. That, I don’t know.

Nehemia: For example, I know in the Gesenius module which I have, I can look up a verse, and if that verse is in there, you can search by English content, by Hebrew content, by what they call Scripture, meaning a reference like Exodus 20:24. So I’d be surprised if you can’t do that in there. Anyway, there’s amazing powerful things you can do.

It’s been a real honor to talk to you, Professor Tov. This has been an amazing, fascinating discussion. I just want to remind people that you have the book Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. Another book is the Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Text Found in the Judean Desert. These are actual textbooks that people use in universities, but a layman could read them too. You probably need to put in a little bit more effort if you’re a layman to read it. Read it a few times. It’s really powerful stuff. I’m going to have a link for both of those books on nehemiaswall.com on my website.

Guys, his website is emanueltov.info. I’ll have a link on nehemiaswall.com. This has been an amazing discussion. Thank you very much, Professor Tov.

Emanuel: You’re welcome. It was really a pleasure for me.

Nehemia: Shalom.

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International Sabbath Fellowship – 01

Regina Roundtree — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 16:52:20 +0000

We have added the transcript below to help with translation and the hearing impared community.

Saturday Jan 7, 2023 w/ Elder Regina Roundtree

00;00;37;00 – 00;01;18;09
Speaker 1
One of the reasons that we wanted to do the International Sabbath Fellowship, we did it at this time and hoping that we could connect with internationals who are still in Sabbath and have this time of fellowship. And I think one of the the things that as I was studying and even talking with major daughter, we were talking about the importance of Torah and understanding how key it is to our life and not just it’s more than just a book of instructions.

00;01;18;09 – 00;01;49;00
Speaker 1
It’s more than just stories of people’s lives. It really is the key to unlocking everything that we need. And I think you’ll find that in this study as we talk and discuss, we’re going to learn a lot about because I know I learned a lot in studying and preparing for this about what is Elohim, what is God’s plan really, for us, for humanity.

00;01;50;03 – 00;02;24;10
Speaker 1
And I think we don’t always understand or appreciate who the patriarchs are. And and maybe because, you know, it’s not in our culture to give them that kind of honor as it may be in other cultures. Right. And so when we talk about the Bible always says Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, it’s always the God, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

00;02;24;12 – 00;02;55;13
Speaker 1
And I think as Christians, we look at them as just stories and not truly understanding what it is that they have established. And so for these next few weeks, we are going to really dig into what is the actual promise from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And so let’s start with well, I want to ask a quick well, it’s just you, Esther, right now.

00;02;55;19 – 00;03;08;24
Speaker 1
Talk to me. When you were growing up and when you were studying the Bible, what was your understanding? How important was it taught to you about the promise of Abraham?

00;03;10;06 – 00;03;54;09
Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. For me, the I. I only focus about the New Testament especially we call that the gospel and not really understand. And then for me, reading the Old Testament, just reading the story to know how the history going on, not really knowing that is the Word of God so that I need to focus so that I can know who God is in my life, you know, because all we talk in our community, he is especially the Christian community, is about Jesus, what Jesus do for us, Jesus and the cross and just like that.

00;03;54;25 – 00;04;23;08
Speaker 2
So I’m not really you know, think that the Old Testament is like still apply for us and did unto this day and to a really after I either I, I read the ten commandments and then I see there is still, you know, the words that we should keep the Sabbath. But I think that Sabbath is changed to Sunday.

00;04;24;22 – 00;04;54;01
Speaker 2
That is my understanding. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm. And now, when I think that for last year, when I and Eugene had a VW, a ministry. Mm hmm. At that moment, I realized that. Oh, everything that I did for a long time, everything that I think that is my life. That is. That is God is not God anymore.

00;04;54;10 – 00;05;03;28
Speaker 2
Mm hmm. That it’s just something that the religious religion is making. Mm hmm. Yeah.

00;05;04;29 – 00;05;41;18
Speaker 1
Okay. That’s good. So let’s start with we’re going to go back to Genesis, because what we’re going to do is really begin to understand and that Abraham is really key to the all the promises that we have in Torah. And that oftentimes I know for myself, when I was a young Christian and I would hear the stories or I would read in the Old Testament, I loved the Old Testament when I got saved.

00;05;41;18 – 00;06;14;00
Speaker 1
I don’t know why. I just absolutely adored the Old Testament, but it always used to make me feel like I was not included in the promises that it was good. You know, that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes and, you know, all the things that God did. But it always seemed like, okay, they’re just examples. And there wasn’t anywhere that I was necessarily included.

00;06;15;01 – 00;06;48;16
Speaker 1
Of course, over time, in years and with study, then I began to realize that there was more to it than that. But what were really going to go into is that Torah is for everybody. It was always Elohim plan of salvation and of relationship and covenant to be with everyone. And what we’re going to see, at least in this particular session, is how that unfolded.

00;06;48;18 – 00;07;39;13
Speaker 1
Like, we’ll start with Adam and Eve and then we’ll go to Noah and then we’ll go to Abraham. So let’s go into Genesis and let’s go to Genesis one, and we’re going to go right to start at verse 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the fall of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

00;07;41;08 – 00;08;11;15
Speaker 1
So God created man in his own image and the image of God created He Him male and female created he them and God bless them. And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea. And over the fall of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

00;08;11;15 – 00;08;33;00
Speaker 1
And God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing sea which is upon the face of all the earth, every tree in that which the fruit of the of the tree yielding sea to you it shall be for meat and to every beast of the earth, into every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there’s life.

00;08;33;12 – 00;09;14;10
Speaker 1
I have given every green herb for meat and it was so and God saw everything he had made and behold it was good in the evening. In the morning where the sixth day and what I want us to see here is that immediately there are two kind of promises. There are two blessings. He wanted him to multiply and subdue the earth, and we’re going to go to No.

00;09;14;10 – 00;09;48;03
Speaker 1
One next. But what we’re going to see is this pattern that I want to point out is that for Elohim, it was always about multiplying and doing the earth. So it’s always about inheritance, about generations, and about the land. And I know I lived in a had the pleasure of living in Vietnam for five years. And the way land is important to you.

00;09;48;03 – 00;10;01;29
Speaker 1
Isn’t that true? Esther is much different than than the way we in the U.S. kind of think about ourselves in the connection to land. Is that true?

00;10;02;06 – 00;10;03;24
Speaker 2
Yes, yes, yes. Esther.

00;10;04;17 – 00;10;13;07
Speaker 1
Tell me for your people, tell me what you understand why land is important to you.

00;10;15;19 – 00;11;05;01
Speaker 2
Yeah, because we like at a tribal, we leaped depending on the land we use the moon to display and do the next play. And then we use the land for seven years. And then we will move to another place so that the land itself will be restored and then later on we just come around and then go back to the first play and then, you know, just like that, that is our tribal leap for a long, long time and to the government is not allow us to go to the jungle or go to the mountain anymore.

00;11;05;16 – 00;11;36;13
Speaker 2
And then they they they force us to set that now on somewhere. And then and only that time, we have to be up to how. But last time we also leap on the ten. So when I listen to my grandfather, when he tell the story about our own people, how we leap last them, and then I connect to the Bible, I see that, you know, it’s very connected to what God want us to do.

00;11;37;22 – 00;12;20;04
Speaker 1
And that’s interesting that you already knew that even in this like 21st century, there are still nations and cultures of people connected to the land who let the land rest for seven years. Because Leviticus talks about that, that Jehovah when he gave them instructions when they’re in their wilderness and you read through Leviticus and numbers and he talks about letting the land rest for seven years and you’re saying that your tribe actually still did that, that they would work and live on a land and then they would move because you would actually let the land rest for seven years, is that correct?

00;12;21;12 – 00;12;22;14
Speaker 2
Yes. Yes.

00;12;23;27 – 00;13;05;11
Speaker 1
See, it is amazing to me how much it’s why I love I love Southeast Asia. I love talking with people, tribes, tribal people, first nation people. It’s just a totally different connection to the land, to agriculture, because it’s so necessary for your sustain and for for your life. So that’s good. Thank you for sharing that. And so what we see is that God created a land and then he blessed the people and told them to multiply.

00;13;06;13 – 00;13;37;23
Speaker 1
Now notice in here we do not see Elohim make a covenant or any kind of oath or any kind of promise. And so it’s interesting to see how it unfolds. We’re going to go and look at Noah next, even when when there get disciplined in Genesis three, you know, he speaks to the serpent. He speaks to the woman.

00;13;37;23 – 00;14;25;12
Speaker 1
He speaks to the man, and he tells them what their punishment will be for disobedience. We never see Ellis actually, look at that. Let’s go to Genesis three. We do not see Elohim at this point make any kind of promise. It’s what what we’re going to see is that it’s gradual. It’s like, okay, he set this up. And it’s not that he did not know everything that was going to happen from the beginning, but I think this is a lesson for us in when he says many times when we get into the study, he’ll talk about that.

00;14;25;12 – 00;15;20;11
Speaker 1
He is law, he is longsuffering, he is gracious. He’s exceedingly kind. We’re going to see that play out when we see all of these the different promises and oath that he makes. But let’s go to Genesis chapter three and let’s start at first nine, and we’re going to read this section. And what I want you to listen for is that he does mete out the the discipline, but we do not hear Elohim himself make any kind of promise of what of what he’s going to do.

00;15;20;11 – 00;15;54;16
Speaker 1
Like we’ll see when we get to Noah and then like we see when we get to Abraham. So chapter three, verse nine, and Adonai or Yah over our Elohim called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? So there are times, as many of us have learned, that the Lord LRT is just a title or a place filler for the yoke.

00;15;54;18 – 00;16;24;00
Speaker 1
Hey Board. Hey the capital Y, capital H, capital W, capital h a. Some people say, some people say Jehovah I’m going to say Jehovah. So and he said I heard thy voice in the garden, oh you know what I want to do. I have this, I want to read from the transparent English Bible so it means I’m going to flip off of this on my iPad.

00;16;25;01 – 00;17;11;16
Speaker 1
So the transparent English Bible is quite interesting because it actually what they did was they took the Hebrew and as much as possible, stay transparent. That’s why it’s called a transparent English Bible, tried to stay as transparent as possible to what the Hebrew was saying. And I also like it here because they have the they have the Jehovah and Elohim, they have the names already placed in there because I’m trying to read The King James and remember to switch over.

00;17;11;23 – 00;17;45;09
Speaker 1
So I’m going to go to a transparent English Bible and I’m going to start reading. So I’m not in the app. So if someone comes in, I won’t see them. So maybe your daughter or or Esther, please invite them up because I can’t see the app because it’s on the same the same device. Okay, so I’m going to start in verse nine and Jehovah Elohim called toward the soil creature.

00;17;46;12 – 00;18;21;05
Speaker 1
So again, it is interesting because the Hebrew actually doesn’t call them Man or Adam. It’s a soil creature because he was made from the soil and he said to him, Where are you? And he said, Your voice I heard in the garden and I feared for I was nude and I was hidden. And he said, Who told you that you were nude from the tree that I charged you so as not to eat from it?

00;18;21;11 – 00;19;04;08
Speaker 1
Have you eaten? I’m in verse 12 and the soil creature said the woman. You gave her to be with me. She gave me to eat from the tree and I ate. And Jehovah. Elohim said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The Nakash, the Nakash. He deceived me and I ate and Jehovah, Elohim said toward the Nakash, So it’s serpent in your in your Bible.

00;19;04;08 – 00;19;39;19
Speaker 1
But Nakash is speaking to the evil spirit that has taken over the body of the serpent. Because you have done this curse, are you above every animal and above every living thing of the field? Upon your belly? You will walk and dust. You will eat all the days of your life and the hostility I will set between you and between the woman and between your seed and between her seed.

00;19;39;19 – 00;20;18;11
Speaker 1
He will strike you on the head and you will strike him on the heel. And then there’s a whitespace. One of the things that I learned while studying the Hebrew language, which was simply that they didn’t have punctuation in the way that we have punctuation. Hey, Elder Rogers, good to see you. They didn’t have punctuation alone so much alone.

00;20;19;11 – 00;20;53;15
Speaker 1
They didn’t have the punctuation in the way that we have it. The name of the the Bible is the transparent English Bible. It’s written by James Tabor. And when I get a chance, I’ll put put the link to it in the chat. But right now they only have the Book of Genesis done, but you can download it on Kindle for $5, and they’re working through the rest of the Torah.

00;20;53;15 – 00;21;43;09
Speaker 1
But right now it took them a long time to just get Genesis done. And so going back to the white spaces, the English format in the chapters, in the verses, and those of us who have studied understand that the chapters and verses don’t necessarily end the thought or begin the thought, but it’s really about the white spaces. And there are a few Bibles if you if you even Google and look up like the Dead Sea Scrolls or any Hebrew text and you just look at it, even though if you can’t read Hebrew, you’ll go down and you’ll see that there are times when there’s a white space and what that is, that is actually the

00;21;43;09 – 00;22;12;04
Speaker 1
end of a thought. So it’s not the amount of verses, it’s not the chapters, it’s where the writers had the thought. And so what they did is they left a white space. So there’s a bigger white space when it’s a whole thought. Sometimes there’s a smaller whites in small how do I say bigger and smaller? So maybe the end of the thought the white space might be an inch and a half.

00;22;12;22 – 00;22;40;03
Speaker 1
You know where if it’s just the the ended like a paragraph or so, it’ll be like a half inch. So I mean, it’s not huge, but it’s enough that if you’re looking at the page, you can tell where the thought ends. And so what I wanted to point out to you while I was reading in this is that the thought and here.

00;22;40;26 – 00;23;18;00
Speaker 1
Right. So he’s done speaking to the net cash. So now if you’re in your English Bible, I’m at verse 16 in chapter three toward the woman he said, making abundant, I will surely make abundant your distresses and your pregnancy in distress. You will bring forth sons and towards your men will be your craving, and he will rule in you.

00;23;19;21 – 00;23;41;25
Speaker 1
I wish we had time to like just this is such a good Bible study. If you ever get this Bible because they have all these little notes, I think Kindle’s the best way to get it because they have all these little notes and you click on the numbers and it tells you more information about the structure of the word.

00;23;41;25 – 00;24;08;28
Speaker 1
So again, then I hit a white space. So 16 is its own thought. It’s done. And that’s because he’s done speaking to the woman. And so now let’s go over 17 and to the soil creature, which is interesting. They never call him Adam. They call him the soil creature because that’s really interesting. Yeah, they call him the soil creature.

00;24;09;09 – 00;24;37;16
Speaker 1
That’s the real close to the Hebrew right and to the soil creature, he said. Because you hearken to the voice of your woman, I love this. Your woman. Hebrew really does this thing with possessions and gender, with nouns and verbs, very, very intricate. I love it. So of course it’s your woman. And you ate from the tree that I charged you saying you will not eat from it.

00;24;38;11 – 00;25;05;02
Speaker 1
Curse is the soil on account of you in distress. You eat it all the days of your life and thorn and thistle. It will sprout for you. And you’ll eat the plant of the field in the sweat of your two nostrils. You will eat bread until you return toward the soil. For from it you were taken for dust.

00;25;05;02 – 00;25;39;16
Speaker 1
You are in towards dust. You will return. And the soil creature called the name of his woman Eve, for she was the mother of all living things and Jehovah Elohim made for soil creature and his woman robes of skin. And he dressed them and you Hova Elohim said, Look, the soil creature has become like one of us. One from us has become like one from us to know good and bad.

00;25;40;14 – 00;26;10;27
Speaker 1
And now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat and live for an age, and Jehovah Elohim sent him from the Garden of Eden to service the soil from which he was taken, and he drove out the soil creature and made him dwell at the east of the Garden of Eden, the Cherubim and the flame of the sword that was revolving to guard the way of the tree of life.

00;26;11;19 – 00;26;40;15
Speaker 1
White space. So one of the the reasons that we were so we’re having this discussion is we are trying to understand what was Elohim plan for humanity the whole time. Yeah, I know. Isn’t that interesting? Elder Rogers Rule in you? Yeah. I wish we had time to stay on that.

00;26;40;29 – 00;26;42;03
Speaker 2
But we don’t.

00;26;43;09 – 00;27;17;27
Speaker 1
We don’t. What we are trying to understand is what was Elohim plan for humanity and as we look at the Torah, how do we begin to really know? Because I want us to really, really know that we are Israel, that we are included in what we see happening with the Torah. But we got to understand the story and understand what the the relationships were, what the promises were.

00;27;18;23 – 00;27;56;06
Speaker 1
And so what we’re doing right now is we’re looking at this first kind of relationship with Adam and Eve or the soil creature and Eve that Elohim does not make any kind of covenant with them. He tells them what they’re going to do, like he blesses them. He says, multiply and be fruitful and subdue the land. But he has yet to come out on his side and say, Well, I’m going to do this for you and I’m going to do this for you, and I promise I’m not going to do that.

00;27;56;06 – 00;28;37;20
Speaker 1
And so let’s now go over into to Noah. Right. And see what is the promise or the oath that’s made with him. Any question so far. And I mean, we don’t have to like rush away from from Adam and Eve just yet. But anyone have any thoughts that it’s interesting that we don’t see here where Elohim makes any kind of commitment on his happy be on his side that he’s going to do something for them.

00;28;37;20 – 00;29;00;18
Speaker 1
He just gives them instructions, he blesses them, but he doesn’t, you know, promise all these things that he’s going to do for them. So we’re still kind of watching to see what is Elohim going to do for humanity. And he won’t have thoughts or questions.

00;29;00;18 – 00;29;34;25
Speaker 3
Shalom. I think it’s very interesting and not only interesting, but it’s just when you’re creating something, you’re in control. You call the shots, you put things in order and then should you decide to want to do something else that would happen or will come, come next. Keep in mind that he knew knew the beginning from the end. However, just his plan, his plan for humanity.

00;29;36;08 – 00;30;11;12
Speaker 3
That’s why I would think that he would not just start. Okay, if you do, then I will. Basically, I guess it’s it’s inherent that if you plant the seed, it’s going to automatically grow if you understand what I’m talking about. And then the next thought I have is we cannot negate the fact that he made the, quote unquote, soil creature with a free will, then he’s accommodating for that free will also.

00;30;12;00 – 00;30;14;08
Speaker 3
That’s just my thoughts. Thank you.

00;30;15;23 – 00;30;52;15
Speaker 1
Good. Thank you. Okay, let’s go to Genesis and we’re going to get to know one now because generally we understand that this is the next place for a we see a promise or some type of interaction. Elohim has with humanity. And this is actually we see the first time that Elohim says that he’s going to do something. So I’m going to go let’s see.

00;30;52;15 – 00;31;21;00
Speaker 1
Let’s go to Genesis six and let’s start at verse 17. I’ll read them in The King James, and then I’ll go to the transparent English Bible and let’s see what the differences Genesis six seven Eldorado is. Are you able to read? Do you want to read or you want to just listen?

00;31;21;00 – 00;31;30;11
Speaker 3
I will. I will read a little bit. And then when I’m no longer able, I’ll just put a little emoji in the chip.

00;31;30;11 – 00;31;30;25
Speaker 1
Okay.

00;31;31;02 – 00;31;37;13
Speaker 3
Already. So I have the King James version. Where exactly do you want me to pick up?

00;31;38;13 – 00;31;49;29
Speaker 1
We’re going to do Genesis six. I want you to read 17 through 22.

00;31;50;25 – 00;32;25;10
Speaker 3
Okay. I just dropped it. Okay. Genesis six. Mm. 17 through 22 and the whole I even I do bring a flood of water is upon the earth to destroy all flesh we’re in is the breath of life from under heaven. And everything that is in the earth shall die. But with the will I establish my covenant and thou shalt come into the ark now.

00;32;25;14 – 00;33;11;20
Speaker 3
And I sons and my wife and our sons wives, with the end of every living thing of all flesh to of every sort, shall about bring into the to keep them alive with the they shall be male and female of fowls after their time and of cattle, after their time of every creeping thing of the earth, after his come to of their resort, shall come onto the to keep them alive and take on to the of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to the and it shall be for food for the and for them.

00;33;12;20 – 00;33;22;09
Speaker 3
Thus, Noah, according to all that, all of whom commanded him. So he so did he. That was 22.

00;33;23;27 – 00;33;56;03
Speaker 1
Okay, great. I just copied the link into the chat for the transparent English Bible. All right. I’m a negative read from the transparent English Bible, but that’s interesting that we actually hear Elohim say now that he’s going to do something. And I’m not talking about the flood. I mean, he’s saying that he’s going to bring he’s going to make a covenant.

00;33;56;03 – 00;34;42;12
Speaker 1
So this is the first time that we see Elohim make something that he’s going to establish. Okay, 917 Where are you? Okay, he says. And I look at me and making come the flood of waters upon the land to ruin all flesh, in which is a spirit which a lot word is rock or wind of life from under the skies.

00;34;42;12 – 00;35;07;21
Speaker 1
All that is on the land will expire and I have made rise my pact with you. And you will come toward the vessel. You and your sons and your woman and the woman of your sons, with you and every living thing of all flesh to of all you will make come toward the vessel to make them live with you, a male and a female.

00;35;07;21 – 00;35;34;27
Speaker 1
They will be from the flier according to its type and from the animal according to its type, and from every moving thing of the soil, according to its type to from all will come towards you to make them live. And you will take for yourselves of every eatable thing that is eaten, and you will gather toward yourselves. And it will be to you and to them for an edible thing.

00;35;35;17 – 00;36;18;03
Speaker 1
And Noah did, according to all that, Elohim charged him that he did. Hey, let’s move now to Genesis nine, because this is where the flood is over now, and we’re going to see a more detailed promise that Elohim is going to make. And we often think about, you know, the the rainbow, right? We we think about that covenant.

00;36;18;03 – 00;37;07;01
Speaker 1
But I want us to see see if you can recognize the beginnings of a covenant, because you’re going to see you’re going to see this in more detail with the next person he deals with, which is going to be Abraham. So let’s go to okay, let’s do Genesis nine and let’s start at verse one and read to. Okay.

00;37;08;04 – 00;37;14;06
Speaker 1
Elder Rodgers Well, you just read from Genesis nine one through eight for me, surely.

00;37;15;11 – 00;37;48;07
Speaker 3
And Elohim blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them the fruitful and multiply and replenish the air and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast onto you and upon every fall of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered every moving thing that live.

00;37;48;07 – 00;38;34;08
Speaker 3
It shall be neat for you. Even as the green have given you all things but flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood they will show you not eat, and surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast, will I require it? And at the hand of man, at the hand of every man’s brother will require the life of man whosoever shed man’s blood by man, shall his blood be shared, or in the image of all who made he man and you be fruitful and multiply.

00;38;34;08 – 00;39;01;24
Speaker 3
I’ll bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply their end and they will him spake unto Noah and to his sons with him same. And on the whole, I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you, and with every living thing. Not Susan, verse ten. I’ll just stop there.

00;39;01;24 – 00;39;49;23
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. So yeah, in the first eight verses or first seven verses, we see he blesses them and verse seven and you be fruitful and multiply and bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply there. And that sounds just like Genesis one 2728 Yeah. So like, okay, but now we’re going to see him, him being Elohim, we’re going to see him add on because he never made a covenant or said the words, I’m going to make a covenant with you, Adam.

00;39;49;23 – 00;40;29;15
Speaker 1
But we see him doing that now with Noah. And what’s interesting is that in verse nine, we’re going to see the word seed and we see him use it here. But then when we go and look at what he does with Abraham, we’re going to see that idea seed again. And what’s important is that we’re starting to see this pattern of multiplying your children and the importance of land.

00;40;29;15 – 00;41;05;25
Speaker 1
It’s all about the land. I haven’t quite figured out or understood it yet. It’s something that has intrigued me ever since I landed in Vietnam. This idea of Elohim, the connection to the land, to to Earth. And I’m not talking as in the, you know, conservative, you know that the tree people and things like that talking about that I’m not that that’s not important.

00;41;06;28 – 00;42;18;21
Speaker 1
But there’s something about land and it’s important to Elohim and children and multiplying. And so this idea of, you know, however it is that we think abortion is okay children and multiply are important to Elohim and so is the land. So let’s read from I’ll read from nine down to four, nine down, the 17 I’ll read and I behold I established my covenant with you and with your seed after you and with every living creature that is with you of the foul of the cattle and every beast of the earth with you from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth, I will establish my covenant with you.

00;42;18;21 – 00;42;59;18
Speaker 1
Says it again. Neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of the flood neither shall there anymore be a flood to destroy the Earth. And Elohim said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations. And so not only is he making a covenant with Noah, but he’s making it with every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations.

00;43;00;03 – 00;43;21;02
Speaker 1
So it doesn’t end. This covenant is not going to end. It does set my bow and the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Isn’t that interesting that he says it’s a token of a covenant between me and the Earth? I think I just want to do a sidebar here.

00;43;22;02 – 00;43;49;03
Speaker 1
I think one of the the things one of the the teachers, one of the people that I study with and I follow brought up this theory. It’s not my theory, but I totally do agree with him. His name is Jeff Benner, and we’re going to be studying a lot of his material as we go through these Sabbath studies.

00;43;49;03 – 00;44;29;01
Speaker 1
But he’s a scholar in the ancient Hebrew. So with the pictographs. Right. Fascinating. Just the concept of you know, every letter tells a story and has a meaning in the Hebrew culture. And but he talks about where it says, let us make man in our image. And he purports that Elohim is talking to the earth, that it’s not you know, some people think it’s the angels or the other council, like the council you have in Joe.

00;44;29;01 – 00;44;56;10
Speaker 1
You know, other people think, you know, it’s a father, son and Holy Spirit. But he is saying that when Elohim says, let us make man in our image that he’s talking to the Earth. Because at that point, the earth has brought forth everything, right? It’s like Elohim came down. He separated the waters. The earth was always there, which is underneath.

00;44;56;10 – 00;45;19;29
Speaker 1
Right. Remember? And he he brings the earth up. But then he tells the earth to bring forth. He doesn’t create. He doesn’t take his hands or anything he says Earth to bring forth and so bring forth the seed and then it bring all the living creatures. And then he says, You know what? Let us make man in our image.

00;45;19;29 – 00;45;44;07
Speaker 1
And so he goes into the earth. And so I think it’s interesting that we see here that there’s this flood that covers the Earth again. And he’s like, listen, Earth, I’m sorry about this. I will make a promise with you, a covenant between me and the Earth in verse 13. Right. And I’m not I’m not going to cover you with water again.

00;45;44;07 – 00;46;15;20
Speaker 1
So I think that’s I think that’s interesting. What is the purpose of Moonlight? I have no idea, Habib. What is the purpose of Moonlight? That’s an interesting question. One that we we might be able to take up at another time. And thank you for joining us and asking that question. But I have no idea.

00;46;15;20 – 00;46;53;10
Speaker 3
It’s somewhat mistaken if it serves as a okay, maybe I’m not understand. I know the moon in the stars they serve as purpose for the the signs and the times. That’s one of the purposes. Okay. But he’s asking for the moon light. Yeah. Okay. Oh, I guess it’s a part from the obvious. I don’t know either. And the obvious would be for the light because it is a light and he created it, you know.

00;46;53;10 – 00;47;04;25
Speaker 3
But as we know that the the light that the moon gives is just reflection from the sun. But other than that, I don’t have an idea.

00;47;06;19 – 00;47;36;15
Speaker 1
Thank you, Herbie. So he makes his covenant with the Earth. And so now I’m in verse 14, and it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. Now remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

00;47;38;00 – 00;48;06;26
Speaker 1
And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the Earth. And Elohim said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the Earth.

00;48;06;26 – 00;48;50;17
Speaker 1
So we go from Genesis one to be multiply, be fruitful, and subdue the earth and fill it to now Genesis nine, where he is, Elohim is making a covenant that he will not destroy the earth. But he also says, where is the one with the seed? In Genesis nine, I will establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you.

00;48;50;17 – 00;49;26;09
Speaker 1
So there is this idea of multiplication, of children, of your children, but of the land. So now let’s go to Abraham. And the reason again that we’re doing this is because we want to see the progression of what Elohim does to establish his relationship with humanity, with establishing his promise, because we see from Genesis one and two and three that Adam and Eve failed.

00;49;27;18 – 00;50;03;16
Speaker 1
Then we see in Genesis six, where he wiped out all of humanity and he started over again with Noah. But now we’re going to see when we approach Abraham that something more is happening, something that is important to Elohim in establishing how it is that he wants to be in relationship with humanity. Any questions or thoughts?

00;50;04;05 – 00;50;40;16
Speaker 3
This is I. I type like a turtle on speed steel slow. So green is how is trying to put it in the chat. However, when you were talking about the covenant with the earth and where he’s saying come for it was already done. So that basically speaks of what’s known as the creator race. He had already created the Earth originally, I’ll put it that way.

00;50;40;16 – 00;50;53;21
Speaker 3
And then after the Earth was covered with water, Satan was not Satan. But what was his name? What was.

00;50;53;21 – 00;50;54;01
Speaker 1
Ever.

00;50;54;11 – 00;51;30;24
Speaker 3
Yes, that’s the one destiny when he and all the angels was cast down and all of those individuals, you know, that he subdued and you know, I got to follow him after all of that was destroyed and covered with water on the earth. Then after after however many years we see Elohim coming and, you know, picking up with verse two.

00;51;30;24 – 00;52;00;27
Speaker 3
So therefore, let’s just just to talk further on what you were talking about, how it was already there. And if we don’t slowly, we will miss that and people will continue to miss that. And I missed that until, you know, it was brought to my attention that, hey, this was already there. He’s just saying, come for the light was already there.

00;52;01;16 – 00;52;21;06
Speaker 3
He just called it to come forth and basically told the darkness to move that the way he regulated them control the darkness with the you know, with the going down and of the of the sun. So I know is just very, very interesting. It’s very, very interesting. And I’ll you.

00;52;24;11 – 00;52;30;23
Speaker 1
Thank you for that. Esther made your daughter. Any thoughts?

00;52;30;23 – 00;52;36;26
Speaker 2
I yeah. You know that when you read about them the flat.

00;52;37;21 – 00;52;38;10
Speaker 1
And.

00;52;38;16 – 00;53;28;12
Speaker 2
You know I just, I just go back to the first genesis when they tell that in the beginning like that the earth is without form and voids and and and deep. Right. What is that? And the the the spirit of the lot is working on the face of the deep. So when the flood it come. And the verse of Genesis 711 said that Yahweh, Elohim is open all the fountain to the deep, and then in the day tree we see that God is just great.

00;53;28;21 – 00;53;57;13
Speaker 2
God just said that let there be a dry, and then the dry is called the land and then the sea. The water is called the sea. So I not understand that. But just like there is a picture I have in my mind that God gave me about the deep and the face of the deep and the fountain and with the dry and that.

00;53;58;02 – 00;54;28;15
Speaker 2
Yeah, we got it. Land and we made it by the land, the sea like the sacred right. You said that the word right. So I, I, I still cannot find a real lake there, but something that in it maybe I will ask God to, to, to extend that more for me. Since that thought. Are you on my.

00;54;29;11 – 00;55;01;25
Speaker 1
You will definitely write it down. This is Sabbath. Ask him to give a deeper revelation and come back and share it with us next week. Because I think you’re getting at something. What you’re saying is that the earth was covered with water and then he had it separated because he told the land to come up. And then you see in the flood where what he did was he called all the fountains from underneath the earth to release the water.

00;55;03;25 – 00;55;05;18
Speaker 2
To cover the earth again.

00;55;05;22 – 00;55;24;21
Speaker 1
To cover the earth again. So and it seems like this covenant that he made with the land, notice how he said a couple of times, I made this covenant with the earth that I will not do this again. It almost seemed like, well, maybe this is the second time and not the first time, or could be the third or fourth time.

00;55;25;00 – 00;55;41;01
Speaker 1
Like we don’t know, but we definitely know that at least twice right in the beginning in Genesis one and then now in Genesis seven. So twice the earth has been covered with water. And so Elohim is making this promise not just that.

00;55;41;06 – 00;55;44;05
Speaker 2
That this that is a ploy, I think. Yeah, yeah.

00;55;44;24 – 00;55;59;04
Speaker 1
You know, he’s making this promise that okay, creatures and the earth, they’re probably like, okay, we had enough of this water already. You know, he’s like, okay, so really.

00;55;59;12 – 00;56;29;18
Speaker 2
At this moment is that, you know, before God created man, there is no, no raining because no one to to the ground, that is it’s also talk about the water. The rain is the water. Right. But that that time is no raining. And then because the deal will will I am not remembered where I thought that was. But yes like it yeah.

00;56;29;19 – 00;57;00;23
Speaker 2
Relate that the the thing that we talk about like we don’t know how many time up is kaboom covering by water but just like you set in in this in in the book of Genesis from 1 to 7 we can see that is why the earth is covered by the water. And then after that, yeah, with Elohim, just like make the covenant with man that I’ll never do it again.

00;57;02;07 – 00;57;33;17
Speaker 2
We can see that like you said that God never said that to. Adam. He only did that with Norway when he said he will destroy the land by the water woods, that every tree that will die. And then he promised to Norway that no end and his family will be be be safe because he he make that common.

00;57;33;17 – 00;57;44;28
Speaker 2
And with them he never to never let what the poverty of anymore. Yeah. And a human life.

00;57;46;10 – 00;58;19;17
Speaker 1
Yeah and what’s important is not just with Noah he said that he would make it with all the creatures and with the earth. There is something with that relationship with the earth. And we’re going to we’re going to dig into that more. But Elohim did say not just with Noah, but with all living creatures, and he made a covenant with the earth so many times in Scripture, we’ll hear them say, Let’s bring heaven and Earth as a record.

00;58;21;07 – 00;58;51;01
Speaker 1
I don’t know if you if you remember, there are different places in Scripture where he calls Earth the Earth to give a count or to hold record. There is something with this earth I think about again, tribal people are first nation people and their understanding of that connection with the land and with the earth that it is living, that it has purpose.

00;58;51;12 – 00;59;13;18
Speaker 1
And I’m not necessarily going to say that I’m calling it Mother Earth, but I can understand where people see that. And I think there is a very we are seeing a very, very deep connection with Elohim and with the Earth in the way that it functions and that they work together.

00;59;14;24 – 00;59;57;10
Speaker 3
You know what? I was what I just thought about is the significance, how great it is that he honors the earth he takes. I don’t say pride and care. I mean, unlike us, mankind as a whole cares little or nothing about the earth. So when it comes to money, when it comes to, you know, just when he gave us dominion, looked like we just ran while without regard.

00;59;58;09 – 01;00;40;05
Speaker 3
And if you look at the the ozone layer, look at pollution, look at all of this stuff, and it’s all based on the love of money. Whereas Elohim, he created the Earth, he values the Earth, and it would do wise and beware, it would be wise. And for us to do well to value it, as you know, because it’s just really is I mean, it just really came to the forefront of my mind reading the Scriptures, how much he honors and values and even respects the Earth.

01;00;40;20 – 01;00;45;04
Speaker 3
And with that, I yield.

01;00;45;04 – 01;01;20;03
Speaker 1
Amen. But, you know, the thing is, is that there are many places in this earth where people value the land, because there are many tribal, there are many heavy agricultural communities where they honor the land, respect the land. You know, we would call it and Esther can tell you about it in in the tribes in Vietnam, major daughter can tell you about it, about the tribes in Africa.

01;01;21;11 – 01;01;47;14
Speaker 1
They honor the land. And some places the land is a god. You know, they throw their children in the river. They make sacrifices to the land to have a good harvest so we can have the flip, you know, where people create the land as their God. But there are many, many places in this world where they still honor and reverence the land.

01;01;47;14 – 01;01;59;09
Speaker 1
Even here, America, we have our Native Americans who, although we have taken their land and forced them on reservations, they still honor the land. They are still connected to the wind, to the mountains, to the water.

01;02;00;08 – 01;02;39;13
Speaker 3
You know, you are so correct. And thank you for bringing this. You know, I guess I was just basically speaking on the abuse and the neglect and the disdain. And I won’t say disdain, but just the way the earth has, you know, the the situation as it is with global warming. Perfect example, but that comes to the fact that there are more people who don’t care to the of the future of the earth.

01;02;39;13 – 01;03;00;08
Speaker 3
If you understand what I’m talking about, you are absolutely right. You are so absolutely right. However The love of money in the hearts of so many people have brought this. The condition of the earth as it is now. And with that, I yield.

01;03;00;08 – 01;03;45;04
Speaker 1
Amen. Thank you for that. Let’s get to Abraham. We’re going to go to Genesis 12. Excuse me. Sorry. So we’re in Genesis 12 and I’ll read a read from the Transparent Bible and then we’ll we’ll read from the King James. But this is now it. We see that Elohim is seeking out someone because we understand that Abraham was not even Abraham.

01;03;45;04 – 01;04;24;06
Speaker 1
Was that even thinking about Elohim, who necessarily because he lived in a culture and Chaldean with many gods. But we see in verse one that Abraham is is the focus of Elohim, attention of Jehovah, his attention, and that he is going to woo him with a promise which is much different because there’s no flood, there’s no problem. No one said, you know what I mean?

01;04;24;06 – 01;04;55;04
Speaker 1
It’s not like Adam said and they got kicked out. It’s not like Noah, you know, was on a boat in and all of humanity is dead. Like they’re living life here. And Elohim approaches Abraham and says, I want to make a great nation. So let me get to the transparent Bible and read that couple verses and then I’ll go.

01;04;55;04 – 01;05;35;23
Speaker 1
Roger So have you read as well? So we are in Chapter 12, verse one, and I’m reading from the transparent English Bible, and Jehovah said toward Abraham, Walk for yourself from your land and from those brought forth of yours and from the house of your father, toward the land that I will make you see and I will make for you a large nation, and I will bless you and I will make your name large and you be a blessing.

01;05;37;00 – 01;06;12;09
Speaker 1
And I will bless those blessing you and the one treating you lightly. I will curse and blessed in you will be all the families of the soil. And Abraham walked as you Hova spoke toward him and walked with him. And Abraham was a son of five years and 70 years in his going out from Haran elder Rodgers will you read one through five for us went through for.

01;06;15;28 – 01;06;42;24
Speaker 3
Now you always had said unto Abraham get the out of that country. And from that kindred and from that father’s house and unto a land that I will show thee and I will make the make of thee a great nation. And I will bless the and make that name great. And Thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them.

01;06;42;24 – 01;07;12;29
Speaker 3
That blessed the and curse him that curse it the and in the show all families of the earth be blessed. So Adam departed as Yahweh. We had spoken to him and went with him. And Abraham was 70 and years old when he departed out of Hurrah. That was verse for we said.

01;07;12;29 – 01;08;06;05
Speaker 1
Now we still see this thing with land is very important to Elohim, and we see that from the beginning. I think we missed this. It is Elohim, the intention that all families of the Earth be blessed. I remember, you know, when I was young, Christian, and I would read about Abraham and his story. I don’t ever think it caught my attention that it was always Elohim plan to bless all families of the Earth, all families, not just Jewish families or Muslim families or Indian families or Jamaican families or Vietnamese fam like all families, not black families, white families.

01;08;06;15 – 01;09;18;07
Speaker 1
It was all families. We’ve got to understand, again, by just reading the Torah for what it is and not through different cultures or different denominations, but to understand that this promise that’s made with Abraham is meant to bless all families like the Covenant with Noah was not to destroy the Earth again by water. But we see now this broader covenant with Abraham is to bless all families in what we’re going to see is that Elohim is going to do in such a way that he makes a covenant, he makes the oath with himself like he’s not even like regardless of what what Abraham does or doesn’t do, there an oath that Elohim is going to

01;09;18;07 – 01;09;26;04
Speaker 1
make with himself to make sure that this promise comes to pass.

01;09;28;05 – 01;10;10;17
Speaker 1
And it’s not just a promise, it’s an it’s an oath. It is Elohim desire from the beginning to bless all families through this one family. Now, that doesn’t mean that you have to be of Jewish descent, because I think we we think that it’s only the Jews that are the chosen people. And as we go through this study, we’re going to begin to understand that we will see this progression of information and unfolding of Elohim plan.

01;10;11;09 – 01;10;41;26
Speaker 1
And it does include foreigners and sojourners and strangers in the land. We’re going to even look at how in the tribes. Ephraim, him and Nasser, their mother, was Egyptian, but yet they become the strongest of all the 12 tribes, right? And the way that Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasa. But they. And he takes them in as their own.

01;10;41;26 – 01;11;15;19
Speaker 1
As his own. You’ll see that when we get over to Genesis. End of Genesis. Right. But the point being is as we move along and we really study, you’ll begin to see that Abraham and his seed are meant to be an example. And blessing so that all families, everyone is supposed to be blessed, not just the Jews. And there are no Jews right now.

01;11;16;04 – 01;11;49;27
Speaker 1
We understand that Jews don’t appear in terminology until after Solomon, but Abraham, Abraham, excuse me at this point. So we’re going to move to the next section where we see even more the promise unfold. Anyone have any thoughts or questions about this, this promise?

01;11;54;27 – 01;13;01;28
Speaker 1
Okay. Thank you all to Rodgers for joining us. All right. Let’s go to Genesis 15. And so we’ve jumped from 12 to 15 and we’re going to look at even more as Elohim begins to reveal more of the promise. And this is where we see in Chapter 15 that, Jehovah is even going to make the covenant by himself this how much he wants to bless all the families of the earth, like he’s not even going to rely on humans anymore necessarily.

01;13;01;28 – 01;13;42;07
Speaker 1
He’s going to cut this promise with himself. So let’s go to Genesis 15 and in verse one, after these things, the word of Jehovah came on to Abraham in a vision saying, Fear not Abraham, I am a shield and not exceeding great reward. And Abraham said, Adonai, Elohim, what will thou give me? Seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus, and had said, Behold to me, thou hast given no seed.

01;13;42;23 – 01;14;12;14
Speaker 1
Never. We saw that word seed back was Noah and the low one born to me in my house is mine Air and behold the word of you are the way Jehovah came unto him saying This shall not be that air, but he shall come forth out of thine own bowels, be thine air. And he brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward the heaven and tell the stars if they’ll be able to number them.

01;14;12;14 – 01;14;45;19
Speaker 1
And he said unto him, So shall I seed be? And he believed in Jehovah and counted it unto him for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am your Hova, that brought the out of earth of the Chaldeans to give the this land to inherent. Always we see this set where your Hova is always saying I brought the he reminds you, you know, I was doing a study on covenants.

01;14;45;19 – 01;15;17;16
Speaker 1
Okay, let me not jump ahead. Hold on. I can do it here. I was doing a study on covenants and and it called the the like the vassal and the Lord Covenant in their Eastern Times. When you when you go way back and you look at how they set up a and it was always between it was the idea of one king said to another Lord or prince, look, this is what I’m going to do for you.

01;15;18;18 – 01;16;04;03
Speaker 1
And so the way it would start is that the stronger or the superior would remind the lesser what he had done for them. And then he would say, These are the blessings and things I’m going to do for you. And if you don’t do them, these are the things that you mean, then these are the rules. And then if you don’t do them, these are the things that are going to happen to you and I thought I was like, Oh my gosh, when you look through the Old Testament, if you notice always, especially in Deuteronomy, Jehovah is always saying, I brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.

01;16;04;22 – 01;16;29;25
Speaker 1
I, I’m the God that delivered you. I always were seeing that Jehovah is always establishing himself, always reminding them what he did for them, how he’s going to bless them, what the rules are. They’ve got to follow the rules. If they don’t follow the rules, these are the punishments. I mean, it is a true covenant is it is such that that is what was done in the land.

01;16;30;13 – 01;17;03;14
Speaker 1
Even if you just go look at history, if you just do a search on covenants in near Eastern East, ancient times, that’s how it worked. And it’s exactly set up like this in the scriptures. Now we know that at the time that this is happening, that, you know, Abraham is not necessarily writing all these things down. Someone went back and wrote these things down.

01;17;03;27 – 01;17;40;18
Speaker 1
So there is an understanding that they that this was the time, this is what how they handled things by. But we see is we’re in Genesis 15, verse six, that Abraham believed Jehovah for righteousness sake. And he said in verse seven, I am Jehovah that brought the out of the earth of the Chaldeans to give you this land to inherit.

01;17;40;18 – 01;18;10;11
Speaker 1
And then Abraham says, Abraham says to him, Elohim, where shall I know that you shall inherited? So he wants a commitment, right? Because it’s been a few years now. It’s not like it was just yesterday. Verse, chapter 12, although it looks close to us, it’s been a few years. And so in verse nine, we’re going to see where Elohim makes his own covenant, and he swears by himself.

01;18;10;29 – 01;18;33;08
Speaker 1
And so this is how they did covenants back then is they would slice an animal in half and then the two people would walk between the animals. And the idea is that if we break this covenant, this is what should you should do to me, that this is what I’ll do to you, right? I’ll kill you and put in split you in half.

01;18;33;26 – 01;19;12;24
Speaker 1
So this was their way of making a contract that they would cut the animal in half, put it on the ground, and the two people would walk through. But what’s amazing here is that Elohim doesn’t let Abraham walk through. He does it himself. So let’s read where are we? Verse nine. And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, a she girl of three years old, a ram of three years old, and a eternal love and a young pigeon.

01;19;13;25 – 01;19;54;00
Speaker 1
And he took him all of these and divided them in the midst and laid them each piece against another, but The birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down upon the carcass, Abraham drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abraham. And lo horror of darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abraham, Abraham Vassarotti that thy seed again, this idea of progeny of children shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them for hundred years.

01;19;55;09 – 01;20;25;24
Speaker 1
And also that nation whom they shall serve. I judge, and afterwards they shall come out with great substance. So we see here the prophecy of that exodus from Egypt. He hasn’t even had children yet. And thou shall go to their fathers in peace. Thou shall be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again.

01;20;25;24 – 01;20;49;08
Speaker 1
For the iniquities of the MRA is not yet full. So he’s talking about enemies that they have not even met yet. Verse 17 And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. I still been trying to figure out what the smoking furnace and the burning lamp stand for.

01;20;50;25 – 01;21;17;18
Speaker 1
I’m going to try to do some more research, but there were two things. So when you make a covenant, the two of you walk through the middle of the animals. But in this case, Elohim made the covenant and the oath by himself without Abraham. But yet there were two entities that pass through a smoking furnace and a burning lamp.

01;21;17;18 – 01;21;50;00
Speaker 1
So one day we’re going to have to try to figure out what that means. But today’s not that day. In the same day, you, however, made a covenant with Abraham saying unto the seed, Have I given this land from the river of Egypt and to the great river, the river Euphrates? Now we know the river of Egypt, to the river Euphrates, where that is in the territories of the world today.

01;21;51;23 – 01;22;31;11
Speaker 1
So we’re winding up on our study today. But what’s important is to look at the progression of promise that Elohim is making with humanity because he is trying to bless all peoples their. There is something special about Abraham because Elohim chose him, but Elohim chose him so that he would have the responsibility of making sure that all the families are bless of the earth.

01;22;32;21 – 01;23;14;27
Speaker 1
It’s not something that’s supposed to be a secret. It’s something that he’s supposed to teach. Look at this. Go to 18. I think this is it. No, that’s not it. I want to go to. Hold on. Where is it? Maybe it’s Genesis 22. No, it’s not. It. Okay, I can’t find it. Just give me one moment to find it.

01;23;14;27 – 01;23;50;26
Speaker 1
What I’m looking for. If anyone could help me find it, it’s where Elohim is going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Right? And he says, Shall I hide this thing from Abraham because he knows him, that he will teach his his children and his household. Abraham. So I find this thing.

01;23;53;02 – 01;23;56;03
Speaker 2
Genesis 18, 18.

01;23;56;20 – 01;24;42;05
Speaker 1
Oh, so I was in the right place. Okay, I guess I was too quick. Okay So it is back in Genesis 18 where what verses it. Okay. All right. Verse 17. Okay. Over 17. And you Hova said, shall I hide from Abraham, that thing which I do, saying that Abraham shall surely become a great nation, a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.

01;24;43;15 – 01;25;19;21
Speaker 1
We’re going to see this continually as we look more. Abraham Jehovah always says that because of Abraham, all of the nations, all of the families, the earth shall be blessed. It was always Elohim claim that everyone is blessed, nothing should be hidden or secret, or you’re not allowed to have access. It was always, always meant to be open.

01;25;19;21 – 01;25;49;25
Speaker 1
Always. We see. Elohim is always saying in all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him, verse 19, for I know him that he shall command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of your Hova to do justice and judgment that you Hova may bring upon Abraham, that which he has spoken of.

01;25;49;25 – 01;26;27;29
Speaker 1
Him. It is always Elohim plan that every human is blessed, that every human understands and knows relationship with him. It is our responsibility in this inheritance of Abraham that we command our children in our household. And so for them, household be like as if they are an employer, you know, and you have staff, you have people that you influence your community, right?

01;26;28;00 – 01;27;05;08
Speaker 1
They didn’t have communities like how we have communities now. But it is our responsibility to teach our children in our households. Abraham and his seed. The responsibility is to make sure that all the nations of the earth are blessed. So this is not about me. My for no more. Just your family, just your community. That is not Elohim plan.

01;27;05;25 – 01;27;56;26
Speaker 1
He is always saying that he wants to make sure that all the nations of the earth are blessed. So let’s go to Genesis 2215. We’re going to see the same thing again. Genesis 2215 So here Abraham is going to offer up Isaac. So in verse 15, the angel of your whole will call on to Abraham out of heaven.

01;27;56;26 – 01;28;36;09
Speaker 1
The second time and said by myself, Have I sworn sayeth Jehovah four? Because that has done this thing and hath not withheld thy son nine only son that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sands, which is upon the seashore in thy seed shall possess the gates of the enemy, and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

01;28;37;03 – 01;29;49;10
Speaker 1
Why? Because thou hast obeyed my voice. We just cannot get past the fact that because of Abraham and his obedience, all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed. Now, how are they to be blessed? His Abraham is going to teach them what it means to work with Jehovah. Well, how does it happen? Well, we’re going to see that eventually we get to the giving of the Torah in Deuteronomy, but as we progress from Adam multiplying to do the land to Noah, multiply and fill the earth to Abraham, go to a land that I’m going to show you and I see shall be exceedingly great, shall be nations.

01;29;49;10 – 01;30;23;27
Speaker 1
And the thing is, is that there is no, you know, do I have 1/32 of a blood line of the seed of Abraham? I don’t know that that is what’s important, whether you can actually trace your lineage back to Abraham. I mean, when you think about it, you had Isaac and Jacob. Jacob had their tribe. But then there’s Esau.

01;30;23;27 – 01;31;00;18
Speaker 1
He’s still of the lineage. So then Esau has his own 12 tribes. And then Abraham, after Sarah has a Torah, and then he has more sons. So there are children everywhere, you know, there are his seed is is everywhere. But what we’re going to see is that it’s going to progress until the point where it’s even the stranger living in the land, the Sojourners.

01;31;00;18 – 01;31;38;22
Speaker 1
There’ll be one law for the stranger and the native born. When we start getting into and really spending a lot of time in Deuteronomy, in Leviticus, we’re going to begin to see that it was always, always Jehovah’s Plan, that we are blessed and that we are brought into relationship with him. I want us to to go to let’s go to Zachariah.

01;31;39;21 – 01;32;30;21
Speaker 1
I want us to skip here, go to Zachariah to I believe it is. Is it to. No, it’s not Zachariah to Where do I want us to go Elohim. It’s actually in the description of our club 1040 window. Hold on. Let’s see if I can get there. How do I get to 1040 window? I can’t remember which verse it is in Zachariah.

01;32;30;21 – 01;33;12;17
Speaker 1
It is. No, sorry not. It’s not Zachariah that I want. It’s Isaiah 56. Sorry. Let’s go to Isaiah 56. That’s where I want us to go. Isaiah 56 We’re going to read verse one through eight because, you know, Isaiah is obviously way after Abraham and King David and Solomon. But we see something here that I think is important for us to understand.

01;33;12;17 – 01;34;15;17
Speaker 1
Isaiah 56 went through eight, thus sayeth Jehovah, keep judgment and do justice for my salvation is near to come in my righteousness to be revealed thus save you. However, keep judgment and do justice for my salvation is near to come and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that do with this and the son of man that Laith hold on it that keep it the Sabbath from polluting it and keep this hand from doing any evil neither let the son of the stranger that has joined himself to you Hova speak, sing Jehovah hath utterly separated me from his people This is your Hova talking to the son of the stranger telling the stranger

01;34;16;04 – 01;34;57;17
Speaker 1
to say that neither let the unique say Behold, I am a dry tree for thus Jehovah unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbath and choose the things that please me and take hold of my covenant even unto them will I give mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and daughters. Now we’ve just seen all these promises that you Hova has made, especially with Abraham, that it’s your seed, you’re going to be a great nation.

01;34;57;26 – 01;35;26;10
Speaker 1
It’s always about multiplying. So doing the land filling, it’s always about having children and multiplying. But here you Hova is speaking to the eunuch and saying, Listen, I’m going to bring you into my house within my walls. I’m in Isaiah 56, verse five, and a place, a name better than of sons and of dollars. And I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

01;35;27;03 – 01;36;05;08
Speaker 1
Also, the sons of the strangers. So he is not talking to what we would consider the bloodline of Israel that join themselves. So also the sons of the strangers that join themselves to your Hova. He didn’t say join themselves to the tribes. He didn’t say join themselves to then he said join themselves to Jehovah to serve him and to love the name of you Hova to be his servants and everyone that keep the Sabbath from polluting it and take it hold of my covenant.

01;36;06;01 – 01;36;36;06
Speaker 1
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar. Now, remember, there’s a time in our understanding that only the line of Levi, only the high priests could make offerings and sacrifices. But he’s talking about bringing the son of a stranger in bringing him into the Holy Mountain.

01;36;36;25 – 01;37;09;09
Speaker 1
Bring into the house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar for my own house. So be called the House of Prayer for all people. Elohim, which gathers the outcasts of Israel, sayeth. Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered unto him? It is always Elon’s plan that all the nations of the earth be blessed.

01;37;10;09 – 01;37;39;24
Speaker 1
And there is a responsibility for us to study the Torah, to understand it, to know that there is a promise, that there is relationship, that there is covenant. It does not belong to one culture. It does not belong to one denomination. It is for all families of all nations of the earth to be blessed in. You are to be joined to Jehovah.

01;37;40;18 – 01;37;41;21
Speaker 1
That’s what he wants.

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Covenants from a Hebrew Perspective

10-40 Admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:43:12 +0000

By Jeff A. Benner

They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you.” (Genesis 26:28, ESV)

We will begin this study with the Hebrew word for a “covenant,” which is ברית (b’riyt, Strong’s #1285). This noun is derived from the verb ברה (B.R.H, Strong’s #1262), which means “to select the best.”

He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.” (1 Samuel 17:8, ESV)

In this passage the Hebrew verb ברה is used for the choosing of the best man to fight Goliath. This word can also mean to eat, in the sense of selecting, such as we see in the following verse.

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.” (2 Samuel 13:6, ESV)

The Hebrew language is a root-oriented language, meaning that every Hebrew word is derived from a root word and that root word is the foundation to other Hebrew words. Each word derived from one root will be closely related in meaning to all the other words derived from the same root. In the case of the word ברית (b’riyt) we found that it was derived from the root verb ברה (B.R.H), but also derived from this verbal root are the nouns ברות (barut, Strong’s #1267) meaning “choice meat” and בריה (bir’yah, Strong’s #1274) meaning “fattened.” Livestock that will be slaughtered are fed special grains to make them fat and thereby making the meat of the fattened livestock the choicest.

So how is fattened choice meat related to the word for “covenant?” The phrase “make a covenant,” such as we saw in the verse that began this study, appears eighty times in the Hebrew Bible and in every instance, it is the Hebrew phrase כרת ברית (karat b’riyt), which literally means “cut a covenant.”

A covenant was instituted by the two parties of the covenant who would take a fattened animal, the best of the flock or herd, and “cut” it into two pieces. Then the two parties of the covenant would pass through the pieces symbolizing their dedication to the covenant and by this action are saying, “If I do not hold to the agreements of this covenant, you can do to me what we did to this animal.” This methodology of “making” a covenant is clearly recorded in Jeremiah 34:18-20.

18 And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like[a] the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts— 19 the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf. 20 And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. (ESV)

With this understanding of a covenant, we can better understand what is going on in Genesis chapter 15.

9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. (Genesis 15:9-10, ESV)

17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made (Hebrew – karat) a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,” (Genesis 15:17-18, ESV)

Yahweh is cutting a covenant with Abram. However, Abram does not pass through the pieces, only the pot and torch, representations of Yahweh himself, pass through the pieces. Because Abram did not pass through the pieces, the actions of Abram, or his descendants, are not a condition of the covenant. The only person responsible for the fulfilling of this covenant is Yahweh and Yahweh alone.

Besides this covenant, Yahweh has made several other covenants with his people, such as the one he made with Noah and his descendants (Genesis 6:18, Genesis 9:9) and the one he made with the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made (Hebrew – karat) with you in accordance with all these words.” (Exodus 24:8, ESV)

Unlike the unconditional covenants that Yahweh made with Noah and Abram, this covenant will be upheld only on the condition that Israel obeys the words of Yahweh.

14 But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. (Leviticus 26:14-20, ESV)

And in Deuteronomy 31 Yahweh foretells of the day when Israel will break this covenant by following after other gods.

For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant. (Deuteronomy 31:20, ESV)

It is interesting to note that when Israel does break this covenant, Yahweh “cuts” Israel into “two” nations, Israel and Judah. But Yahweh promises that he will make a new covenant with the children of Israel and he will unite these two nations into one nation again.

And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. (Ezekiel 37:22, ESV)

31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jereimaih 31:31-33, ESV)

Taken from: https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/studies-interpretation/covenants-from-a-hebrew-perspective.htm

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Swearing by the Name of YHVH

10-40 Admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 02:42:12 +0000

By Ross K Nichols
This paper is a preliminary study of an ancient and long forgotten practice – swearing by the
name of YHVH. According to the Hebrew Bible, swearing by the name of YHVH was a
common practice in antiquity. Men and women, prophets and kings, swore in the name of
Israel’s God as commanded in the Torah of Moses (Deuteronomy 6:13, 10:20). After the close of
the biblical period, the practice fell into disuse, but Israel’s prophets, claiming authority from
God Himself, intimate that the practice will be restored leading to the redemption of Israel and
bringing blessings to all the families of the earth.

The Command
Two texts from the Torah’s final book declare that swearing in the name of YHVH is a
commandment.
“It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.”
(Deuteronomy 6:13 ESV)

“You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name
you shall swear.” (Deuteronomy 10:20 ESV)

In these texts we see that swearing by the name is commanded, but the text is less clear as to how
one would do it. The Hebrew Bible does provide us with examples of the ancient practice
however, and these are instructive for the present study.
“And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put
to death.” (1 Samuel 19:6 ESV)

“But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes,
and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the LORD lives
and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.” (1 Samuel 20:3 ESV)

“But Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you
for this thing.” (1 Samuel 28:10 ESV)

“Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I
will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”
(Jeremiah 38:16 ESV)

In each of these examples we read that a biblical personality swore, and in the example from
First Samuel 28:10 we see that the oath is “by the LORD.” The oath itself is confirmed by the
phrase translated into English – “as the LORD lives.” The Hebrew phrase behind this translation
is י ו הה ח י . The meaning in its basic form affirms that the words of the oath are as sure as the fact
of existence of Israel’s God – YHVH lives!

The Oath of Kings, Prophets and Commoners
Israel’s kings employed this oath. Saul used it (I Samuel 14:39, 19:6, 28:10), David did as well (I
Samuel 20:3, 25:34, 26:10, 2 Samuel 4:9, 12:5, 14:11, 22:47; I Kings 1:29-30; Psalm 18:46);
Solomon uttered this oath (I Kings 2:24), as did Zedekiah (Jeremiah 38:16). Several of Israel’s
prophets (Elijah, Elisha, Jeremiah and Hosea) either swore by the name, or made reference to the
practice (I Kings 17:1, 18:10, 15, 22:14, 2 Kings 2:2, 4, 6, 3:14, 5:16, 20, Jeremiah 4:2, 5:2,
12:16, 16:14, 15, 23:8, Hosea 4:15, 2 Chronicles 18:13). The practice was not restricted to kings
and prophets. Gideon (Judges 8:19), Jonathon, the son of King Saul to David (I Samuel 20:21),
Abigail, the wife of the infamous Nabal swore by the name to David (I Samuel 25:26), Achish
did likewise (I Samuel 29:6), Ittai the Gittite (2 Samuel 15:21), the widow of Zarephath (I Kings
17:12), the Shunammite woman (2 Kings 4:30), and Boaz (Ruth 3:13) all swore by the name
YHVH.

Do Not Swear
After the close of the biblical period, perhaps due to various exiles of the people of Israel, the
practice fell into disuse. The phrase found so frequently in the Hebrew Bible disappeared from
the lips of the people of Israel. According to the “Jewish Encyclopedia,” Philo, the Hellenistic
Jewish philosopher (25 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.) is quoted as saying, “The bare word of a virtuous man
should be like an oath, steadfast, inviolable, and true. Should necessity absolutely require an oath
let a man swear by his father and mother instead of by the name of the highest and first Essence.”
Jesus and his brother James seemingly discouraged the taking of oaths as a general rule,
preferring a simple yes or no (Matthew 5:37; James 5:12). Were it not for a word from Israel’s
ancient prophets, one might relegate the swearing by the name of Israel’s God to the biblical
period as a matter of antiquated religion.

Learning and Teaching Others to Swear by the Name
In a passage that describes a future restoration of Israel, the prophet Jeremiah gives a prophecy
that indicates a resurgence of the practice of swearing by the name of YHVH.

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be said,
‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but ‘As the
LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the
countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to
their fathers.” (Jeremiah 16:14–15 ESV, compare Jeremiah 23:7-8)

Here, the oath is mentioned twice: the first time referring to the oath as it was known among the
ancients, and once as it will be declared among the latter-day children of Israel. In yet another
prophetic passage, Jeremiah warns Israel’s neighbors, who in past times taught Israel to swear by
their gods to “learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name – as YHVH lives,” or they will
be destroyed (Jeremiah 12:14-17)! It is also Jeremiah who gives perhaps the most significant
prophecy concerning the restoration of the ancient practice of swearing by the name YHVH.

“If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your
detestable things from my presence, and do not waver, and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in
truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall
they glory.” (Jeremiah 4:1–2 ESV)

This remarkable word from the prophet Jeremiah ties the reinstatement of the ancient practice of
swearing by the name YHVH to the return of latter day Israel and promises that if the practice is
done in truth, justice and righteousness, that the nations of the world will bless themselves in
him, an obvious allusion to the promises of the Abrahamic plan (Genesis 12:3, 18:18, 26:4,
28:14).

Reference:
Jewish Encyclopedia. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11639-oath

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Natives, Strangers, Immigrants and Foreigners

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By Jeff A. Benner

In another article I discussed the different people groups of the New Testament, the Jews, Greeks, Nations and Proselytes. In the Old Testament we have four different people groups; the natives, strangers, immigrants and foreigners.

Attempting to differentiate between these different people groups can be very difficult if you are using a translation as it is not uncommon for a translation to use the same English word for different groups. For instance, the King James Version uses the word “stranger” for זור (Z.W.R, a stranger, see Leviticus 2:10), גר (ger, an immigrant, see Exodus 2:22) and נכרי (nakhriy, a foreigner, see Deuteronomy 17:15). This is why it is imperative that one use a Hebrew dictionary, such as Strong’s, when doing a study of Biblical words.

Native

The natives (sometimes translated as “home-born”) are those who are born to one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Hebrew word for a native is אזרח (ezrahh, Strong’s #249). This word comes from the verbal root זרח (Z.R.Hh, Strong’s #2224), which means to “come up” or “come out of.” So an ezrahh is one has “come out of” Israel.

All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. (Numbers 15:13, ASV)

Stranger

The Hebrew verb זור (Z.W.R, Strong’s #2114) means “to be separated out.” The participle form of this verb means a “stranger,” one who is separated out. This word is frequently used in the Torah for someone who is not from one’s own tribe.

to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah spake unto him by Moses. (Numbers 16:40, ASV)

“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. (Deuteronomy 25:5, RSV)

Immigrant

The Hebrew word for an immigrant (often translated as “stranger” or “sojourner”) is גר (ger, Strong’s #1616) and is derived from the verb גור (G.W.R, Strong’s #1481), which means to “dwell with” or “dwell among.” So an immigrant is one who is not a native born Israeli, but lives with the natives. According to the Torah, the immigrants are to live according to the same customs and laws as the natives.

One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger (גר) that sojourneth (גור) among you. (Exodus 12:49, ASV)

And they are to be treated the same way as a native because the Israelites were once immigrants.

And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 22:21, ASV)

However, there are still some differences between a native and an immigrant, as is apparent in the following verse.

Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner… (Deuteronomy 14:21, ASV)

Foreigner

A foreigner is one who was born in a foreign land, but unlike an immigrant, is not bound to the customs and laws of the native or immigrant.

Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest. (Deuteronomy 23:20, ASV)

There are two Hebrew words for a foreigner; נכרי (nakhriy, Strong’s #5237) and נכר (nekhar, Strong’s #5236). Both of these words are derived from the root נכר (N.K.R, Strong’s #5234) meaning “to be recognizable,” probably because a foreigner is easily recognizable due to their very different culture and lifestyle.

Taken from: https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/studies-interpretation/natives-strangers-immigrants-and-foreigners.htm

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