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David Justice is not happy today. Sometimes watching the destruction of a nation and a world can get to be hard to watch, as many listeners can no doubt understand.

But that's no small part of the reason we do this show. Yes, we know the usual answers, and they are important to keep in mind. But it's important we be able to help others "in such a time as this" as well.

And a good part of that involves "see that you are not deceived," which goes for helping others on that score, too.

"The Dog that Did Not Bark," and Other Tools to Spot the Big Lies

This week Mark welcomes back special guest Harmon Taylor, who encourages an understanding of "Legal Reality," and observes that SOMETIMES -- and we're there! -- that reality seems to approach a literally 'comic book' level of Evil. Which is arguably the point.

It's hard not to see that the literal traitors who have been working so hard to utterly destroy this nation, and kill as many as possible in the process, are also trying to foment both civil and global war.

But, amid that over-the-top level of Evil, there is actually good news, too.

The show as-aired, to fit the 50 minute time-slot is here:

https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CooH-11-9-2023-guest-Harmon-Taylor-Comic-book-level-Tyranny-podcast-xx.mp3

But, since Mark and Harmon talked for a few minutes afterward, and decided that might be of interest to listeners, this extended version of the show is available here as a podcast:

News, and commentary for Thursday, 9 November, 2023.

Was this last exercise in national deception yet another rigged election, or just practice for something even more brazen?

Mark looks at some of the "analysis" (propaganda) from the WasteStream, to make the case that if the actual vote counts are even more suspect than the push polls, why does that say about conclusions drawn from either?

And what we should believe, or trust. Or not, as the case may be.

News, and commentary for Tuesday, 7 November, 2023.

You don't have to be a 'conspiracy theorist' to recognize facts that show just how Big of a Lie the masses are being fed. But some days, the stories are so...revealing...that the Ministry of Truth just has to ignore them.

News, commentary, and some pertinent warnings, for Monday, 6 November, 2023.

An Overview of the Tanakh - Session 9

An Overview of the Tanakh- Session 8

Overview of the Tanakh - Session 7

Continuing the thought, The Role and Effect of Remembering What Yah Has Done on Keeping Covenant, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us to more examples from scripture.

Going through a quick recap of last week’s teaching from Psalm 106: How are we to approach Elohim Most High? How does Yah consider the way we treat earthly leadership? What is one of the roles of leadership?

Continuing in Psalm 106: What is the dangerous mindset when reading scripture? How can mainstream Christianity say that the law (Torah) was done away with when we see in scripture that we provoke or please Elohim by our deeds/works/actions? Should we have any interaction with the World? To what degree? What does “tickle the ears” mean? The psalmist said, “He remembered His covenant…”–what covenant is El remembering? Abrahamic or Sinai?

Then Rabbi Steve wraps up this teaching by taking us to Psalm 111. There the psalmist says the works of Yah are righteous and those who love them search for them.

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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, Lot’s attempt to protect the angels was found out.