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May 18, 2024 Speaking On Things
Sometimes things are not addressed in relationship's they are swept under the carpet. The only way to have a sastanable relationship is through communication.
1 hr 8 min
May 16, 2024 Studying Law/Torah
Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 19:26-29 את CEPHER

But the stranger that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for ye were strangers in the land of Mitsrayim: I am Yahuah Elohaykem. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 19:34 אתCEPHER

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Yahuah Elohaykem, which brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim. Therefore shall ye guard all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am Yahuah. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 19:35-37

AND Yahuah spoke unto Mosheh, saying, Again, you shall say to the children of Yashar'el, Whosoever he be of the children of Yashar'el, or of the strangers that sojourn in Yashar'el, that gives any of his seed unto Molek; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he has given of his seed unto Molek, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes (turning a blind ) from the man, when he gives of his seed unto Molek, and kill him not: Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and את all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molek, from among their people. And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 20:1-6

Sanctify (בדל ‘Ba-dal' = separate) yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am Yahuah Elohaykem. (you're commanded to walk and righteousness , so there is no such statements as I know I'm not a righteous person or I know I'm not a holy person.) And ye shall guard my statutes, and do them: I am Yahuah Meqoddishkem. For everyone that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. And the man that breaks wedlock with another man's woman, even he that breaks wedlock with his neighbor's woman, the adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death. And the man that lies with his father's woman has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 20:7-12

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man take a woman and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, you shall kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he has discovered her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 20:13-18

And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister: for he uncovers his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. And if a man shall lie with his uncle's woman, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. And if a man shall take his brother's woman, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. Ye shall therefore guard all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey: I am Yahuah Elohaykem, which have separated you from other people. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 20:19-24

And when y'all bring us people to hold us accountable for our actions that are detestable, we fight them we fight against them.
2 hr 16 min
May 03, 2024 Being Able to Move Ahead in Life Despite Adversity Part 2
Rachel was the true zeevug (soulmate) of Yaakov. You having a child with her was his most prized possession.. and it tells you what Yosef's meant to him.
The Torah tells us that when Yosef's first son was born, “Yosef called the name of the firstborn Manasheh for ‘Yahhas made me forget all my hardship and all my father's household'”, Yosef wished to express his thanks and praise to Yahuah for causing him to forget his hardship so he named his firstborn Manasheh (In Hebrew `Nashani' means “caused me to forget”). In the pasuk his “father's household” refers to Yosef's brothers. Why did Yosef feel so fortunate that Yahuah caused him to forget his hardship and what his brothers had done to him? One may think that it may be important to remember suffering in order to be reminded of one's fallibility and keep one humble. Yosef did not say that his suffering had ended; he merely wanted to give thanks and praise to Yahuah.
1 hr 9 min
May 03, 2024 Being Able to Move Ahead in Life Despite Adversity
Rachel was the true zeevug (soulmate) of Yaakov. You having a child with her was his most prized possession.. and it tells you what Yosef's meant to him.
The Torah tells us that when Yosef's first son was born, “Yosef called the name of the firstborn Manasheh for ‘Yahhas made me forget all my hardship and all my father's household'”, Yosef wished to express his thanks and praise to Yahuah for causing him to forget his hardship so he named his firstborn Manasheh (In Hebrew `Nashani' means “caused me to forget”). In the pasuk his “father's household” refers to Yosef's brothers. Why did Yosef feel so fortunate that Yahuah caused him to forget his hardship and what his brothers had done to him? One may think that it may be important to remember suffering in order to be reminded of one's fallibility and keep one humble. Yosef did not say that his suffering had ended; he merely wanted to give thanks and praise to Yahuah.
48 min
May 01, 2024 The Power of a Man’s Love
Come with us as we discussed the power of a black man's love.
1 hr 13 min
April 25, 2024 Isaiah chapter 11,12, and 13
1Woe to those who engrave engravings of injustice and missives of perverseness they write.
2To pervert the judgment of the impoverished and to rob the judgment of the poor of My people, so that the widows are their plunder, and they pillage the orphans.
3And what will you do for the day of visitation, and for the destruction that shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for aid, and where will you leave your riches?
4Where he never knelt, in that place he will be a prisoner, and in that place they will fall slain; despite all this, His anger has not turned away, and His hand is still outstretched.
5Woe that Assyria is the rod of My wrath, and My fury is a staff in their hand[s].
6Against a hypocritical nation I will incite them, and upon the people of My anger will I command them, to plunder and to spoil spoils, and to make it trodden down like the mud of the streets.
7But he does not deem it so, and his heart does not think so, but to destroy is in his heart, and to cut off nations, not a few.
8For he says, "Are not my princes together kings?
9Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is it not like Arpad of Hamath? Will not Samaria be like Damascus?
10As my hand was able to [conquer] the pagan kingdoms, and their graven images were from Jerusalem and Samaria.
11Indeed, as I did to Samaria and to her idols, so will I do to Jerusalem and to her idols."
12And it shall be, when the Lord completes all His work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will visit retribution upon the increase of the arrogance of the king of Assyria's heart and upon the boasting of the haughtiness of his eyes.
13For he said, "With the strength of my hand I accomplished it, and with my wisdom, for I am clever, and I remove the boundaries of peoples, and their positions have I plundered, and I lowered many inhabitants.
14And my hand found the wealth of the peoples like a nest, and as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered the entire world, and no one moved a wing, or opened his mouth, or chirped."
15Shall the axe boast over the one who hews with it, or shall the saw hold itself greater than he who wields it? It is as though the rod wields those who raise it. When the staff is raised, it is not the wood.
16Therefore, the Master, the Lord of Hosts shall send leanness into his fat ones, and in the place of honor, a burning shall burn like the burning of fire.
17And the light of Israel shall become fire, and his holy one shall become a flame, and it shall consume his thorns and his worms in one day.
18And the glory of his forest and his stately forest, both soul and flesh shall it destroy, and it shall be as a tree eaten to powder by the worms.
19And the remaining trees of his forest shall be few, and a lad shall write them.
20And it shall come to pass that on that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob shall not continue to lean on him that smote them; but he shall lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
22For if your people Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, the remnant of them that shall return, shall wash away with righteousness the decreed destruction.
23For destruction and annihilation the Lord God of Hosts performs in the midst of all the land.
24Therefore, so said the Lord God of Hosts, "Fear not, my people who dwell in Zion, Assyria; with a rod may he smite you, and his staff may he bear over you in the way of Egypt."
25For [in] yet a very little [while] the fury shall be over, and My wrath, because of their blasphemy.
26And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge against him, like the smiting of Midian at the Rock of Oreb, and His staff on the sea, and He shall carry him off after the manner of Egypt.
27And it shall come to pass on that day, that his burden shall be removed from upon your shoulder, and his yoke from upon your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of oil.
28He came upon Aiath; he passed through Migron; at Michmas he deposits his luggage.
29They crossed the ford; at Geba they lodged; Ramah quaked; Gib'ath Saul fled.
30Raise your voice, Bath-Gallim; hearken, Laishah, Aniah Anathoth.
31Madmenah wandered; the inhabitants of Gebim gathered.
32Still today, [he intends] to stand in Nob; he waves his hand toward the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33Behold the Master, the Lord of Hosts lops off the branches with a saw, and those of lofty height are hewn down, and the tall one shall be humbled.
34And the thickets of the forests shall be cut off with iron, and the Lebanon shall fall through a mighty one.
1 hr 33 min
April 20, 2024 Book of Yeshayahu (Isaiah): Chapter 9 & 10
9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
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9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
9:5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
9:11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
9:14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? 10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: 10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: 10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
2 hr 15 min
April 16, 2024 Yeshayahu (Isaiah) - Chapter 7-8
1And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, marched on Jerusalem to wage war against it, and he could not wage war against it.
2And it was told to the House of David, saying, "Aram has allied itself with Ephraim," and his heart and the heart of his people trembled as the trees of the forest tremble because of the wind.
3And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Now go out toward Ahaz, you and Shear-Yashuv your son, to the edge of the conduit of the upper pool, to the road of the washer's field.
4And you shall say to him, "Feel secure and calm yourself, do not fear, and let your heart not be faint because of these two smoking stubs of firebrands, because of the raging anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
5Since Aram planned harm to you, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:
6'Let us go up against Judah and provoke it, and annex it to us; and let us crown a king in its midst, one who is good for us,'
7So said the Lord God, 'Neither shall it succeed, nor shall it come to pass.
8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and in another sixty-five years, Ephraim shall be broken, no longer to be a people.
9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah; if you do not believe, it is because you cannot be believed."
10And the Lord continued to speak to Ahaz, saying,
11"Ask for yourself a sign from the Lord, your God: ask it either in the depths, or in the heights above."
12And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not test the Lord."
13And he said, "Listen now, O House of David, is it little for you to weary men, that you weary my God as well?
14Therefore, the Lord, of His own, shall give you a sign; behold, the young woman is with child, and she shall bear a son, and she shall call his name Immanuel.
15Cream and honey he shall eat when he knows to reject bad and choose good.
16For, when the lad does not yet know to reject bad and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread, shall be abandoned."
17The Lord shall bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house, days which have not come, since the day that Ephraim turned away from Judah, namely, the king of Assyria.
18And it shall be on that day, that the Lord shall whistle to the "fly" that is at the edge of the canals of Egypt, and to the "bee" that is in the land of Assyria.
19And they shall come and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks and in all the thornbushes and in all the shrines.
20On that day, the Lord shall shave with the great razor on the other side of the river, on the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the legs, and also the beard shall be entirely removed.
21And it shall come to pass on that day, a man shall keep alive a heifer of the herd and two sheep.
22And it shall be, because of the plentiful milk produced, that he shall eat cream, for everyone left in the land will eat cream and honey.
23And it shall come to pass, that every place where there were a thousand vines for a thousand pieces of silver, will be for the worms and the thorns.
24With arrows and with a bow shall one come there, for the whole land shall be worms and thorns.
25And all the mountains that will be dug with a spade-the fear of worms and thorns shall not come there; it shall be for the pasture of oxen and for the treading of sheep.chapter 8
1And the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large scroll, and write on it in common script, to hasten loot, speed the spoils.
2And I will call to testify for Myself trustworthy witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
3And I was intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived, and she bore a son, and the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
4For, when the lad does not yet know to call, 'Father' and 'mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria shall be carried off before the king of Assyria."
5And the Lord continued to speak to me further, saying:
6"Since this people has rejected the waters of the Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
7Therefore, behold the Lord is bringing up on them the mighty and massive waters of the river-the king of Assyria and all his wealth, and it will overflow all its distributaries and go over all its banks.
8And it will penetrate into Judah, overflowing as it passes through, up to the neck it will reach; and the tips of his wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
9Join together, O peoples, and be broken, hearken, all you of distant countries. Gird yourselves and be broken, gird yourselves and be broken.
10Take counsel and it will be foiled; speak a word and it will not succeed, for God is with us.
11So has the Lord spoken to me with the overwhelming power of prophecy, and He admonished me from going in the way of this people, saying:
12'You shall not call a band everything that this people calls a band; and you shall not fear what it fears nor attribute strength to it.
13The Lord of Hosts-Him shall you sanctify, and He is your fear, and He gives you strength.
14And it shall be for a portent and a stone upon which to dash oneself and for a rock upon which to stumble for the two houses of Israel, who came to be for a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15And many shall stumble upon them, and fall and be broken, and be trapped and caught.
16Bind this warning, seal the Torah in My disciples.'
17And I will wait for the Lord, Who hides His countenance from the House of Jacob and I will hope for Him.
18Behold, I and the children whom the Lord gave me for signs and for tokens in Israel, from the Lord of Hosts, Who dwells on Mount Zion.
19And when they say to you, "Inquire of the necromancers and those who divine by Jidoa bone, who chirp and who mutter." "Does not this people inquire of its God? For the living, shall we inquire of the dead
20For the Torah and for the warning?" If they will not say the likes of the thing, that it has no light.
21And the one who passes therein shall suffer hardships and hunger, and it shall come to pass, when he is hungry and wroth, that he shall curse his king and his god and face upwards.
22And he shall look to the land, and behold, distress and darkness, weariness of oppression, and to the darkness he is lost.
23For there is no weariness to the one who oppresses her; like the first time, he dealt mildly, [exiling only] the land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali, and the last one he dealt harshly, the way of the sea, and the other side of the Jordan, the attraction of the nations.
2 hr 10 min
April 14, 2024 Active listening
Active listening is a communication skill that involves going beyond simply hearing the words that another person speaks. It's about actively processing and seeking to understand the meaning and intent behind them. It requires being a mindful and focused participant in the communication process.Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and large foreign powers.
The purpose of United Statespsychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives. They are an important part of the range of diplomatic, informational, military and economic activities available to the U.S. They can be utilized during both peacetime and conflict. There are three main types: strategic, operational, and tactical. Strategic PSYOP include informational activities conducted by the U.S. government agencies outside of the military arena, though many utilize Department of Defense (DOD) assets.[citation needed] Operational PSYOP are conducted across the range of military operations, including during peacetime, in a defined operational area to promote the effectiveness of the joint force commander's (JFC) campaigns and strategies. Tactical PSYOP are conducted in the area assigned to a tactical commander across the range of military operations to support the tactical mission against opposing forces.
PSYOP can encourage popular discontent with the opposition's leadership, and by combining persuasion with a credible threat, degrade an adversary's ability to conduct or sustain military operations. They can also disrupt, confuse, and protract the adversary's decision-making process, undermining command and control. When properly employed, PSYOP have the potential to save the lives of friendly or enemy forces by reducing the adversary's will to fight. By lowering the adversary's morale and then its efficiency, PSYOP can also discourage aggressive actions by creating indifference within their ranks, ultimately leading to surrender.
The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.
2 hr 16 min
April 11, 2024 Yeshayahu (Isaiah) - Chapter 5 -6:1-8
we continue on with today's lesson of Isaiah, chapter 5 and six. The beginning starts with an explanation and the definition of the etymology of the word god. Definition listed below.
1I will now sing for my beloved the song of my beloved about his vineyard; my beloved had a vineyard in a fertile corner.
2And he fenced it in, and he cleared it of stones, and he planted it with the choicest vines, and he built a tower in its midst, and also a vat he hewed therein; and he hoped to produce grapes, but it produced wild berries.
3And now, dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge now between me and between my vineyard.
4What more could I have done for my vineyard that I did not do in it? Why did I hope to produce grapes and it produced wild berries?
5And now, I will inform you what I am going to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; breach its walls, and it shall be trampled.
6And I will make it a desolation; it shall neither be pruned nor hoed, and the shamir and desolation will come up [over it]; and I will command the clouds not to rain upon it.
7For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel, and the people of Judah are the plant of His joy; and He hoped for justice, and, behold, there was injustice; for righteousness, and behold, an outcry.
8Woe to those who join a house to a house; a field to a field they draw near; until there is no place, and you will be settled alone in the midst of the land.
9In my ears [spoke] the Lord of Hosts, "Truly, great houses shall become desolate, yea, large ones and good ones, without inhabitants.
10For ten acres of vineyard will produce one bath, and the seed of a homer shall produce an ephah.
11Woe to those who rise early in the morning; they pursue strong wine. They sit until late in the evening; wine inflames them.
12And there are harp and lute, tambourine and flute, and wine at their drinking feasts; and the work of the Lord they do not regard, and the deed of His hands they have not seen.
13Therefore, My people shall go into exile because of lack of knowledge, and its esteemed ones shall die of hunger, and its multitude shall be parched from thirst.
14Therefore, the nether-world has expanded itself and opened its mouth without measure, and her splendor and her populace and multitudes, shall descend and those who rejoice therein.
15And man shall be humbled, and man shall be brought low, and the eyes of the haughty shall be brought low.
16And the Lord of Hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the Holy God shall be hallowed with equity.
17And lambs shall graze at their wont, and sojourners shall eat the ruins of the fat ones.
18Woe to those who draw the iniquity with ropes of nothingness, and like cart ropes is the sin.
19Those who say, "Let Him hurry; let Him hasten His deed, so that we may see; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel approach and come."
20Woe to those who say of the evil that it is good and of the good that it is evil; who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who present bitter as sweet and sweet as bitter.
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and in their own estimation, of profound understanding.
22Woe to the heroes to drink wine and valiant men to mix strong wine.
23Those who exonerate the guilty one for reward of a bribe, and the innocence of the innocent they take away from him.
24Therefore, as a flame of fire consumes stubble, and a flame shrivels straw, their root shall be like rot, and their blossom shall go up like dust, for they have rejected the law of the Lord of Hosts and the word of the Holy One of Israel they have despised.
25Therefore, the Lord has become wroth with His people, and He has stretched forth His hand upon them and has struck them, and the mountains have quaked, and their corpses were like spittle in the midst of the streets; with all this, His anger has not turned back, and His hand is still outstretched.
26And He shall raise an ensign to the nations from afar, and He shall whistle to him from the end of the earth, and behold, quickly, swiftly he shall come.
27None is weary or stumbles among them, he shall neither slumber nor sleep; the belt around his waist shall not open up, nor shall a thong of his shoes be torn.
28One whose arrows are sharpened, and all his bows are bent, the hoofs of his horses are regarded like flint, and his wheels like the tempest.
29He has a roar like a lion; he will roar like the lion cubs, and he will growl and lay hold of prey, and he will retrieve it, and no one will save it.
30And he shall growl over it on that day like the growling of the sea, and he shall look to the land and behold darkness; the distressed one and the light shall darken in its eclipse.
God; Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (source also of Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke." The notion could be "divine entity summoned to a sacrifice."
But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Greek khein "to pour," also in the phrase khute gaia"poured earth," referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. See also Zeus. In either case, not related to good.
Popular etymology has long derived God from good; but a comparison of the forms ... shows this to be an error. Moreover, the notion of goodness is not conspicuous in the heathen conception of deity, and in good itself the ethical sense is comparatively late. [Century Dictionary, 1897]
Originally a neuter noun in Germanic, the gender shifted to masculine after the coming of Christianity. Old English god probably was closer in sense to Latin numen. A better word to translate deus might have been Proto-Germanic *ansuz, but this was used only of the highest deities in the Germanic religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in English mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.
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