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News and commentary for Monday, 13 November, 2023.

In this teaching Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us into the book of Proverbs to discover the connection between wisdom, knowledge and understanding and covenant-keeping.

What is “understanding the words of understanding”?

Do you need a teacher for understanding Torah?

Are you going beyond the mechanics of keeping Torah and into the discipline of keeping Torah?

What is “ear-tickling”? How does it affect spiritual growth?

What is plaguing the Body of Messiah today? What is the cure/solution?

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This is a continuation of Blood of the Righteous Part 1.

Vayera "And appeared"

Genesis 18:1-22:4

2 Kings 4:1-37

Psalm 11

This week’s Torah portion Vayera gives insight to a city (actually five of them) cited often in Scripture, even in the New Testament. The infamous city is Sodom and its four satellite cities. This was often the case in ancient times: there was a main city, then it was surrounded by smaller satellite towns. In the case of Sodom, the wickedness of Gomorra, Zoar, Admah, and Zevoiim were simply on a smaller scale, but reflective of, the main city of the district. In fact, ancient districts were called a kikar, meaning round, like a kikar, a round loaf of barley. Sodom was likely the center of the round district, or at least the biggest and most influential. In terms of wickedness, Sodom set the example for the others. Lot chose to settle in Sodom even though he’d lived a nomadic life with Avraham and Sarah.

Oddly, Lot retained a modicum of “righteousness” even living in Sodom:

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. (2 Pe 2:1-21)

Most of us are thinking: “Ummm…righteous? Compared to what?”

And then we’re probably very thankful that Adonai doesn’t compare us when He judges us, that we have an advocate in Yeshua just as Lot had an advocate in Avraham who would pray for him and intercede. Avraham can possibly teach us something about how to intercede for those who have embedded and surrounded themselves in places of wickedness.

Peter gives us a clue about Lot. Lot benefited from living in Sodom, yet he hadn’t completely lost a sense of morality. The wickedness really did vex him day after day. The real question is why did Lot remain in such a wicked place? Why do any of us refuse to leave things from which we benefit, yet we know in our hearts that it is eaten up with immorality?

We can be a lot like Lot, surrounded by twisted thinking and sin, yet preferring to keep a low profile in order to derive a good income. Lot had held onto some shred of righteous behavior, and he tried to protect the angels by urging them to leave the city square where they would be vulnerable to sexual assault, robbery, torture, and murderous violence. He hadn’t forgotten Avraham and Sarah’s hospitality to strangers and a sense of responsibility to keep them safe.

Unfortunately,

Can it Happen Anytime Now?

Watch the video here. Originally posted 04/27/2022 but perhaps more relevant now than ever! - Or do a few other things need to take place first? Will there be one or two Gog Invasions? Who is Gog OF Magog?  We take closer look at Ezekiel 38 and 39. Who, when, where from, why & then what? These are the questions we will attempt to answer with more scriptural clarity than the traditional teachings. You might be surprised at what we find. This is part 1 of what will likely be only a 2 part series but possibly 3. Part 2 will be available a week or two after Part 1.

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They call on chariots, they call on horses, but we call on the name of the LORD our God .  Psalm 20:7

In the words of Jeremy Gimpel, Israel is currently facing a battle on three different levels:

There is a literal battle with boots on the ground, the kinetic war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Most folks are following that story pretty closely.

There is an Ideological battle in the minds and the hearts of Israelis, liberal v/s conservative, Religious v/s Secular.

And there is a Spiritual battle that is being waged in the heavens. This article will focus on that spiritual battle. What is the spirit behind Hamas? How will Israel fight and overcome that evil spirit?

Many teachers on both the Jewish and Christian side of the aisle are postulating that the Hamas operatives are motivated and energized by the spirit of Amalek. Is that true? If so, what does that mean? How do we overcome the spirit of Amalek?

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Parsha 'Chayei Sarah' (Genesis 23:1 through 25:18) is called the "Life of Sarah," but that literally is only the beginning. Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa contends that it is THE primary portion in Scripture when it comes to stories that are 'precedents' for what are literally the backbone of the Common Law, from the very standard for contract, to the first recorded property deed in human history, to marriage, and to "agency", or what it means to "come in the Name of" the Master.

In this case, the stories and thus the lessons from the parsha, from the Erev Shabbat session, are the heart of the matter:

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SSM-11-10-23-Chayei-Sarah-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3

Today, not only does "lawlessness abound," but so many of the foundations are being destroyed that we do have to look at some even broader questions.

Why did Abraham want a wife for his son from, well, a better family that he knew was available there, where he had already concluded "there is no fear of Elohim" in that land?

But this parsha begins and ends with death, and then connects things that form the heart of a free society.

Can it even exist without some degree of trust?

"Chayei Sarah: 'Life, Death, Law, and...What Our Real Goal Should Be"

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/WT-CooH-11-11-23-Chayei-Sarah-Death-Life-Law-and-THE-Reward-of-the-un-named-servant-podcast-xxx.mp3

The combined two-part teaching is here:

Season 2 Finale ends in two parts.  The first part of this episode will educate you on how missionaries share the Gospel to people who have never heard it in their native tongue through music and story telling.  The second half is music to meditate and praise God with.  The first three songs are Accapella "Pilgrims Hymn" "Hagallim" and "Salvation is Created"  Followed by two songs written by Robert Randall, the complete orchestration to the intro/outro tracks for this radio show/podcast "Hail to the King" and a Hebrew Jazz song "Brew-Jazz" as Robert calls it titled, "Baruqe Ha'ta' Ye'Ho'Vah"  

 Meditate and rejoice in Spirit and in Truth.  oBxa5CEFocstXEbpba83

 

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Mark Pitrone and Mark Call continue the study of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah from chapter 5 through chapter 7.

And if calling "evil," good, and good, "evil," sounds familiar...it should.

The Torah teachers, Mark Call and Mark Pitrone, take a detailed look at the prophecy from Isaiah chapter 3, and into chapter 4, that may be one of the most telling warnings in the Book today for a nation, and world, that looks ripe for judgment.

News, commentary and a deeper look at some of the overlooked events for the week ending Saturday, 11 November, 2023.

If you are starting to get more than a bit disgusted that so many people seem to be "drinking the Bud Lite," then this is a show to save.