My Scripture Studies: 02/01/10

This Week's Emmaus Road Sign

Tazria and Metzora = "She Will Conceive and Leper"

Leviticus 12:1 - 15:33
2 Kings 4:42 - 5:27; 7:3-20
Ezekiel 45:16 - 46:18
Mark 1:40-45; 5:24-34; 9:14-50
Luke 2:22-24; 7:18-23; 9:51-10:42
Romans 6:9-23
Hebrews 13:1-5

Passover Prophecy!!

Abraham said

"God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together. Genesis 22:8

Yeshua said

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad." John 8:56

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

The narrow road to Emmaus never ends, it's a life journey and the Bible is the roadmap.

Perhaps since the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, the Torah scroll the Prophet's scrolls have been unrolled and read portion by portion each week declaring what Almighty God has to say to us. It was definitely that way 2,000 years ago in Antioch according to Acts 13:14-15.

So ask yourself, do you believe Yeshua's words about the Torah that they declare?

Yeshua of Nazareth said,

"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” John 5:46-47

What do you believe?

I believe this about that, just as Moses wrote...

"The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.' The LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.

I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.'" Deuteronomy 18:15-18 NASB95

It's critical to seek the Messiah in the Torah. He's there to light it up and sustain life.

Perhaps the best known words spoken by Yeshua (Jesus) about Moses is a famous excerpt found in John 3:16, but what many miss is how the Prophet that Moses wrote about wrapped up the discussion with Nicodemus about being born again by the Spirit.

Yeshua shared a message you may have missed. That message is don't just believe... do!

"But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."
John 3:21

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After nearly 2,000 years of religious misinformation dividing Christianity and Judaism, the Holy Spirit of Almighty God is breaking down dividing walls and leading a reconciliation between the two witnesses of Biblical faith that have begun to walk together though weekly Torah study of God's word as it is written.

This restored relationship is fulfilling Psalm 133 week by week and it's a big part in the mystery of the "fullness of the Gentiles" noted in Romans 11:25-27 because the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. .

The Father's voice has never changed, He is I am Who I am. Elohim God is always true to his word, though men fail in theirs. So, it's time to live in pursuit of the voice of God truth.

Engage with the written voice of God filled with life lessons, promises, appointed days and forever covenants that all build upon each other.

Whether Jew or Gentile, none of us were at Mount Sinai, but we all need to know what Moses said about that: "It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, but with whoever is standing here with us today before The LORD our Elohim (God), and with whoever is not here with us today..." Deuteronomy 29:14-15

The Holy Bible is unlike any other book. Its messages are written from the eternal, unchanging voice of our Creator. so, it's time to tear out the blank page if one divides your Bible.

It's time to not just study, but remember, hear and walk in the way of Kingdom truth that The LORD will reveal to you if you'll just ask.

That's a big part of the lessons given on the road to Emmaus. You can find it in Luke 24. It's also Paul's advice to Timothy: "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15

Bible study, knowledge or belief does not complete the Emmaus road trip.

Living out faith in God includes a willing spirit to not only believe and repent, but to turn back to follow The LORD God with a changed, circumcised heart along our life road and show others, that's the charge. To be a disciple you have to disciple others in the ways of the Master.

The Hebrew Bible is not an Old Testament.

It is the living light, truth and record of Almighty God's instruction providing a prophetic picture of how we are to live in His Kingdom and teach others about the redeeming work of Messiah in days past and those to come.

Yeshua of Nazareth meant it when He said these words as a young boy after Passover in Jerusalem:

“Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” Luke 2:49

Yeshua taught the written words of The Father to live by. That's the message from in His first public teaching known as the Sermon on the Mount. After repeating several blessings, Jesus laid it all out for everyone:

"For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not a jot, not a tittle, will pass from the Torah until all is accomplished". Matthew 5:18

It's easy to see all is not accomplished. Look around, heaven and earth remain as our two witnesses. There's much more to come.

This website describes my own Emmaus road trip.

Rest Stops Along The Emmaus Road

It's time for a reset, a re-awakening that The LORD's days on God's calendar begin at evening sunset. We can know that because since creation "there was evening, then day..." It's been God's timing since creation, twilight is the end and the beginning.

There's more to learn because some traditions have been superimposed over God's voice despite Almighty God's instruction to not add to or take away from what He has said. It's time to reach out to what is written in the Bible and seek out God's voice that is speaking to you.

When you do, you will discover it's time to turn to the Bible and return to The LORD's forever appointments:

"These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of The LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies."

They are summarized in Leviticus 23

Weekly Sabbath-Shabbat

"There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD."

Nisan 14 Passover-Pesach

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover."

--April 12, 2025

Nisan 15-21 Unleavened Bread - Chag HaMatzot

‘"On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work."

--April 13-April 19, 2025 Rest 1st day

Sivan 7 Pentecost-Chag HaShavuot

"You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete sabbaths.

You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD."

"On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live."

--June 2, 2025 Rest

Tishrei 1 Trumpets Day-Yom Teruah

"In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation."

--September 23, 2025 Rest

Tishrei 10 Atonement Day-Yom HaKippurim

“Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls...And you shall do no work on that same day for it is the Day of Atonement."

--October 2, 2025 Rest and Fast

Tishrei 15-22 Tabernacles-Chag HaSukkot

"The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD." "Rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. Also... you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work."

--October 7, 2025-October 13, 2025 Rest 1st day

Tishrei 22 The Eight Day-Sh'mini Atzeret

"It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work."

--October 14, 2025 Rest

" I am The LORD your God."

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