My Scripture Studies: 03/16/12

This Week's Emmaus Road Sign

Nitzavim & Vayelech "Standing & He Went"

Deuteronomy 29:10 - 31:29
Isaiah 55:6-56:8; 61:10-63:9
Zechariah 14:1-21
Luke 24:1-43
Romans 7:7-12; 9:30-10:13
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Hebrews 12:1-17

The 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 and the Prophets have been unrolled and read portion by portion each week. It was definitely that way 2,000 years ago according to Acts 13:14-15.

Do you believe Yeshua's words about the Torah?

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. 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

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

Yeshua shared a big message. 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, Almighty God is leading a reconciliation between two families of Biblical faith that have begun to walk together though weekly Torah study to live by the light and way of God's voice. This restored relationship is fulfilling Psalm 133 week by week and is a big part in the mystery of the "fullness of the Gentiles" noted in Romans 11:25-27. It's about the fullness of truth, 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 unchanging word, though men fail in theirs. So, it's time to live in pursuit of the voice of God truth.

Engage with the written Word voice of God.His life lessons, promises and forever covenants all build upon each other.

Whether Jew of 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. It's time to tear out the blank page if one divides your Bible because it's time to remember, hear and walk with the spirit in the way of Kingdom truth that The LORD will reveal to you.

That's a big part of the lesson 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 picture. 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.

Bottomline, 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 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:

“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 world the 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, He laid it all out for you:

"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 Journey

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 beginning.

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

When you do you will discover it's time to return to the Biblical calendar 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 22, 2024

Nisan 15-21 Unleavened Bread - Chag HaMatzot 1st and 7th Days -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 23-April 29, 2024.

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 12, 2024 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."

--October 3, 2024 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 12, 2024 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 17, 2024 - October 23, 2024 Rest first day.

Tishrei 22 The Eight Day-Sh'mini Atzeret

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

--October 24, 2024 Rest

" I am The LORD your God."

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