My Scripture Studies: 02/01/10

This Week's Emmaus Road Signs

This Week's Portion

Beha'alotcha = "When You Set Up"

Numbers 8:1-12:16
Ezekiel 1:1-28
Luke 17:11 - 18:14
John 19:31-37
Acts 2:1-47

The road to Emmaus is a life journey!!

As the Torah scroll unrolls with portions read each week perhaps since the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, we should remember what Yeshua of Nazareth said about the Torah scroll:

Yeshua also 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

Do you believe?

Perhaps the best known words of Yeshua are found in John 3:16, but what may be missed by many about that is how the Master Rabbi born in Bethlehem wrapped up the teaching with Nicodemus about being born by the Spirit.

Yeshua shared these words about what to do. The 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."
Matthew 3:21

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After nearly 2,000 years of religious misinformation between Christianity and Judaism, Almighty God is leading a reconciliation between two families of faith as we have begun to walk together though weekly Bible readings to study and believe what is written and live by God's voice. This is fulfilling Psalm 133.

The Father's voice has never changed, so it's time to engage with all of His Word, Promises and His forever Covenants that are all connected and build on each other.

None of us were at Mount Sinai, but as we 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 because its messages are written from the eternal, unchanging voice of our Creator. It's time to forget the blank page that divides your Bible. It's time to read, hear and walk in the spirit of the Kingdom constitution of The Father.
That's the big message given on the road to Emmaus described in Luke 24.

Bible study, knowledge or belief alone does not equal living in faith with God. Faith includes a willing spirit to not only believe and repent, but to follow The LORD with changed hearts along our life road.

The Hebrew Bible is not an Old Testament.

It is the living truth, the record of Almighty God's teaching providing a living prophetic picture of how we are to live in His Kingdom and it reveals 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:

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

Yeshua of Nazareth taught the world words to live by. They are from in His first public teaching known as the Sermon on the Mount. After repeating several blessings, He laid it out:

"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

All is not accomplished. Heaven and earth remain as the two witnesses. There's more to accomplish.

This website describes my Emmaus road trip.

Rest Stops Along The Emmaus Journey

It's time for a reset, a re-awakening that The Lord's days on His calendar begin at evening sunset. We can know that because since creation "there was evening, then day..." it's God's timing.

There's more to see... new church traditions have been superimposed in the pulpit over the Word of God in the back of the pew despite God's instruction to not add to or take away from what He has said. Reach out to open that Bible and you will find God's voice speaking to you to return to His forever holy convocation festivals and Sabbaths:

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

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 5, 2023

Nisan 15-21 Unleavened Bread - Chag HaMatzot 1st and 7th Days -Chag HaMatzot

‘Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread."

--April 6-April 12, 2023.

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."

--May 28, 2023 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 16, 2023 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."

--September 25, 2023 Rest

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; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest"

--September 30, 2023 - October 6, 2023 Rest on the first day.

Tishrei 22 The Eight Day-Sh'mini Atzeret

"And on the eighth day a sabbath-rest."

--October 7, 2023 Rest

" I am The LORD your God."

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