ZION AND JERSUSALEM
Thursday, 16 of January of the Year of
Our LORD 2025
ט״ז בְּטֵבֵת תשפ״ה
16th of Tevet, 5785
https://www.hebcal.com/converter?gd=16&gm=1&gy=2025&g2h=1
I will take vengeance and
not be persuaded
of men,
says
our Redeemer
the Holy One of
Israel,
whose name is
Jehovah of Hosts.
In days like these, over three thousand four hundred and years ago
began the story of Moses and the exodus of the Israelite nation from the
bondage of Egypt according to the torah, the prophets and rabbinical sages of
all time to whom I am more than just thankful.
Blessed be all the hands that have kept the name of our God and the books
of remembrance of the fathers as they were given to us unaltered to the best of
their abilities. And more blessed and glorified be the holy name of him who was
full of grace and mercy to descend from the heaven of heavens above all his creations
to talk face to face to our fathers and prophets and to strengthen the hand of
his scribes and the sages.
Yea, Blessed me the eternal name of God the almighty, even He who is the
God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of the children of Israel, of
the heavens and the earth and all things that are therein and of whom we will
learn today.
For this is the time, or in days like the days we now live were when the
LORD began first to reveal his eternal name and also to take names and to
census his people, oh house of Israel who went forth to sojourn into Egypt in
the days of Joseph; and also, when they were cunningly forced into slavery but
were delivered and led out of captivity with a strong hand by the same God and
his servant Moses. And also in which days, and even up to this today, his
people in days of glory and of awe as a anion or as a remnant kept almost
intact in as a memorial by the solemn, daily and weekly readings of the Jews and
Israelites at home and in their diasporas.
In the Jewish weekly lectures called Parashat Shemot which interpreted is
names. These are days to remember names, and with names, nations and with
nations, deeds, even the names of God, the names of his children and the
multitude of nations they have become in the name of the holy one of Israel and
his interaction with them ever since and even before the boundaries of nations
were established.
But above all, and digressing a little to synchronize my speech this day with the fiery signs of
the times; in days like these, JEHOVAH, God the Eternal whose name is
Endless, for he has no beginning of days or end of years, began to reveal
himself, his name, his power and his greatness in mighty words and in deeds,
not only to his own people but to the known world and ever since from
generation to generation with a hot and strong hand; even to them who nowadays
refuse to thank him or even care a little to mention his fiery and very, very
hot name. And since God now always will be entreated or persuaded of men, he
performs his work, and he acts his strange act and marvelous works. And it is
my belief that until his Shmos is remembered and mentioned or his memorial
Parashat Shemot is past, the hills of Chaldea, the daughter of Babylon and even
Mount Carmen and Mt Miguel will continue to burn unquenched.
For, speaking about
names, the word of God is shaper than a two edge sword that penetrates all
things and cuts asunder bone and marrow.
On Sunday evening
of last week of on the fifth of January in Los Angeles, Nikki Glaser, the pompous scarlet dressed and pampered lady, the mouthpiece
of this year's Hollywood Golden Globe Awards, who also happens to be a comedian and mocker
of God, was the sweet and early dust by which God’s purposes to glorify and
magnify his own name during the memorial of Shemot Parashat were
fulfilled.
Glaser and her
handlers thought it was a wise idea to mock God in the first hours of the
award’s show. She highlighted and
also reflected profoundly that no acceptance speech was given in the first half
of the ceremony had thanked God the creator of the universe or included a
mention of his name even in the Jewish week of names. She even praised the
acceptance speech as on fire and fire is what God sent there as a memorial for
all generations of his eternal name to the world and more particularly to that
godless town and people, even the high born that live carelessly and seat in
their lees like wine in the hills of Hollywood. Even the hills, vineyards or
nest eggs, winter palaces, walled, fenced and secured or insured cities. Even
fires which have been burning ever since as recorded in the words of Zephaniah
and also in the words of Isaiah. For thus says the LORD:
I will utterly
consume all things from off the land, saith the Lord.
I will consume
man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the
sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off
the land, saith the Lord.
I will also
stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of JerUSAlem;
and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the
Chemarims with the priests;
And them that
worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that
swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;
And them that
are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor
inquired for him.
Hold thy peace
at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the
Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
And it shall
come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice,that I will punish the princes,
and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
In the same
day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their
masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
And it shall
come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be the noise of a
cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing
from the hills.
Howl, ye
inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that
bear silver are cut off.
And it shall
come to pass at that time, that I will search JerUSAlem with candles, and
punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The
Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Therefore
their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall
also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but
not drink the wine thereof.
The great day
of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day
of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
That day is a
day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation,
a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
A day of the
trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
And I will
bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have
sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their
flesh as the dung.
Neither their
silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s
wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he
shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah
1:2-18
Old Testament
Golden Globes host says no winners
thanked God:
'No surprise in this godless town'
GOLDEN GLOBES
Golden Globes host Nikki Glass says no winners
thanked God:
'No surprise in this godless town'
https://www.christianpost.com/news/golden-globes-host-says-no-surprise-no-winners-thanked-god.html
For so said God and it is written of Hollywood and Cali-Fornication and her
profiteer Babylonian ambassadors and secret lovers in the words of Isaiah
concerning Chaldea, the pompous, papered drug queen or sorcerer and bewitched whoring
daughter of Babylon in the words of Isaiah chapters 47 and 57.
See, as stubble they are burnt up in the fire, unable themselves to escape
the hand of the flame.
God
Won’t Be Mocked. Hollywood Is Done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfjTlnjfc1Y
ISAIAH 47 with
Apocalyptic commentary
With Avraham
Gileadi
https://isaiahexplained.com/commentary/47
Get down and sit
in the dust,
HO Virgin
Daughter of Babylon;
squat on the
ground dethroned,
O Daughter of
the Chaldeans.
You shall no
more be spoken of
as delicate and
refined.
By
paralleling chapters 13-23 with chapter 47, Part IV of Isaiah’s Seven-Part
Structure (Isaiah 13-23; 47) establishes the concept of a composite
entity identified as Babylon—a kind of Greater Babylon that resembles John’s
“Babylon the Great” (Revelation 17:5). From being “Mistress of Kingdoms” (vv
5-8), who rules the nations of the world, her lot is now to be a slave girl.
Her lording it over Jehovah’s people (v 6) has led to her descent into the
dust. A chaos motif, “dust” signifies her final state as she is reduced to a
nonentity in Jehovah’s Day of Judgment (Isaiah 13:19; 14:22-23; 21:9;
23:12-13).
Although
the world touts her as “delicate and refined”—as she typifies the height of
culture and sophistication—the idolatrous and oppressive establishment Babylon
represents is the opposite of Zion’s. Isaiah’s Seven-Part Structure juxtaposes
the two. This “Virgin Daughter of Babylon”—a new, end-time Babylon—is in
reality a whore whose tyranny, like that of the evil stepmother of fairy tales,
finally comes to an end: “And Babylon, the most splendid of kingdoms, the glory
and pride of Chaldeans, shall be [thrown down] as God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah” (Isaiah 13:19; cf. Revelation 18:2).
Take two grindstones
and grind flour;
undress,
disrobe, bare your legs .
wade through
streams:
your nakedness
shall be exposed
and your shame uncovered.
I will take vengeance and
not be persuaded of men,
says our Redeemer
the Holy One of Israel,
whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.
The
Harlot Babylon’s humiliation—following her self-exaltation—is complete as she
is stripped of her finery and assigned the lowest menial tasks. Zion’s
humiliation at the hands of the Harlot Babylon, on the other hand, precedes
Zion’s exaltation: Zion rises from the dust to sit on her throne clothed in
beautiful robes at the time Jehovah—“our Redeemer”—redeems her (Isaiah 52:1-3).
He who destroys Greater Babylon in Jehovah’s “day of vengeance” (Isaiah 34:8;
59:17-18; 61:2; 63:4) is the king of Assyria/Babylon (Isaiah 10:5-7, Isaiah
10:5-7, 23; 14:3-6, 20; 33:12; 37:18-19, 26; 14:3-6, 20; 33:12; 37:18-19, 26),
a murderer who kills his own kind.
Sit speechless; retire into obscurity,
O Daughter of the Chaldeans
No longer shall you be called,
Mistress of Kingdoms.
I
was provoked by my people,
so I let my inheritance be defiled.
I gave them into your hand,
and you showed them no mercy.
even the aged you weighed down
heavily with your yoke.
You thought, I, the Eternal Mistress exist
forever!
and did not consider these,
nor remember your final destiny.
She who was never speechless when
she ruled as “Mistress of Kingdoms” is silenced at last. The Harlot Babylon’s
ceaseless din ends (Isaiah 22:2, 13; 24:8) when Jehovah reverses Babylon’s and
Zion’s circumstances, blessing Zion but cursing Babylon. Although Jehovah
permits the Harlot Babylon to oppress and humble his people—as a covenant curse
for their breaking his covenant—when they repent, he redeems them and they
become candidates for higher spiritual categories. In the end, the Harlot
Babylon’s violation of Zion’s rights brings upon her the curses of Jehovah’s
covenant with his people.
The terms hand and yoke
designate the king of Assyria/Babylon, who punishes Jehovah’s people and takes
them captive (Isaiah 5:25; 10:4-7; 51:17). From that captivity Jehovah releases
those who repent after it has served its purpose (Isaiah 9:2-4; 10:24-27;
14:24-27). While the Harlot Babylon and her king assume they are invulnerable,
they forget that Jehovah is in charge, that his purpose is to raise up an exalted
people of God. The “Eternal Mistress” isn’t eternal. She should have considered
“these” (’elleh)—Jehovah’s elect people—who inherit his everlasting
salvation (Isaiah 45:17; 51:6-8; 60:14-21).
Now therefore hear this Oh pampered
lady,
securely enthroned thinking to herself, I exist,
and other than me there is nothing.
I shall not be widowed or bereaved of
children:
Bereavement and widowhood
shall suddenly overtake you both in one day.
They shall come upon you in full,
notwithstanding your many magical feats
and exceedingly strong combinations.
So
pervasive has the Harlot Babylon’s lifestyle become that she assumes her
self-indulgent way of life will never end. Her narcissism extends to her
displacing God in the world just as her exemplar the king of Assyria/Babylon
does (Isaiah 14:13-14). By thinking “I exist, and other than me there is
nothing,” she blatantly seeks to appropriate Jehovah’s divinity (Isaiah
43:10-11; 45:5-6, 18, Isaiah 43:10-11; 45:5-6, 18, 22; 46:9; 46:9). In the end,
her anti-God attitude leads to a full measure of covenant curses coming upon
her and her ilk “in one day”—Jehovah’s Day of Judgment (Isaiah 2:12; 5:30;
7:17; 10:3; 13:6, 9; 34:8; 61:2; 63:4).
Secure in your wickedness, you thought, No one discerns me.
By your skill and science you were led
astray
thinking to yourself, I exist, and there
is none besides me!
The
Harlot Babylon’s “skill” or “wisdom” (hokmatek) and “science” or
“knowledge” (da‘attek)—her sophisticated technology and human
advancements—become “wickedness” or evil when used to promote her egocentric
and self-serving agenda. So inured to her ways are people who grow up in her
materialistic utopia that they fail to recognize its idolatrous nature. What
characterizes the Harlot Babylon is that she and all who pertain to her are
“led astray,” their preoccupation with the things of this world preventing them
from discerning the fact that she embodies all that is destined to perish.
Catastrophe shall overtake you,
which you shall not know how to avert by
bribes.
disaster shall befall you
from which you cannot ransom yourself:
there shall come upon you sudden ruin
such as you have not imagined.
As
Jehovah rewards evil for evil, so the “catastrophe” or “evil” (ra‘a) the
Harlot Babylon causes in people’s lives comes back on herself. Although in her
profligacy she could bribe her way out of trouble, she doesn’t succeed this
time. Her flaws are incurable and her oppression of Zion has reached saturation
point (Jeremiah 51:24-25). “Disaster” and “sudden ruin” beyond all imagining
are the order of the day: “She has fallen; Babylon has fallen. All her idol
gods he has razed to the ground” (Isaiah 21:9); “At evening time shall be the
catastrophe, and before morning they shall be no more” (Isaiah 17:14).
Persist, then, with your combinations
and with your many magical feats,
at which you have exerted yourself since
your youth.
It may still be of use to you; perhaps you can hinder it.
But you are powerless, despite all your
tactics.
Now let those who unravel the heavens,
who observe the stars
and make predictions month by month,
stand by you and save you!
In
Babylon’s mind, her “combinations” or “unions” (habarayik) and “magical
feats” or technological “miracles” (kesapayik) may yet save her. As they
are all she has ever known, and as she answers to no one but herself, she
resorts to them even when disaster stares her in the face. Failing that, her
statisticians, forecasters of trends, or astrologers may have the solution to
her plight. Her tactics or schemes have paid off in the past. Why shouldn’t
they now? As she has always been a law unto herself—supplanting the true God
with herself—who or what is left that she can turn to that might save her?
See, as stubble they are burnt up in the fire,
unable themselves to escape the hand of the flame.
These are no
embers to warm anyone; such is no fire to sit by!
This is what
your procurers have profited you
those for whom
you have exerted yourself
since your
youth—each deviates his own way;
none is there
to save you.
The Harlot
Babylon’s “procurers,” “salesmen,” or “pimps” (soharaik)—everyone who
profits from her business—meets the same fate she does. The
archtyrant—Jehovah’s fire, hand, and flame—burns up those
in her spiritual category, Jehovah’s unrepentant people and the nations alike
(Isaiah 13:19; 37:18-19; 66:15-16). Those who reject the God of Israel, who
“deviate” or “err” (ta‘u) from his covenant, can’t save the Harlot
Babylon even as she can’t save them. De-created spiritually from what they once
were, they are now reduced to “stubble” that feeds the fire (Isaiah 5:24; 9:18-19;
33:11-14).
MANSIONS IN FLAMES
100 Celebrities who Lost Their HOMES in LA Fire Devastation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykBE205A5Oo
And as you have
now seen and heard, that with a grim reminder did our God, THE GREAT JEHOVAH
memorialize his own name in the beginning of this year. And there is more to
it, even a truck load more from where that reminder came from. And as the pimps
of the hood say, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Let them wait and see what comes to pass when
the Man comes around
For in days like
these, God chose Moses, one most humble and inquisitive man, unlike any other
of his generation, whom he called, chose and anointed to become a prophet of a
new dispensation, even a seer and a revelator, a deliverer of the oppressed who
would soon prepare all his people to meet their God.
And he indeed
Moses sought to prepare them; and they, the children of Israel would have met
God just like Moses, but they often rebelled against God and Moses and provoked
their God to anger, not much different than the globe stardom lightless stars
from Hollywood whose hate for the creator of the universe was unveiled. And, sporting
themselves, opening the mouth wide to blasphemy; they Rewarded evil unto themselves
by provoking God as the ancients.
And as a result, that
generation of ancient Hebrews lost that great privilege to meet, hear and know
their maker face to face by provoking our God to anger. And it happened not many days after they had
been delivered from bitter bondage and oppression with a mighty and strong hand.
And now as then, we know that many of perished, even the rebellious Janes and
Jambres, the magicians and sorcerers who opposed Moses and Aaron and led the
people to rebellion against God.
And since we are
still in the week of Shemot, characters like Janes and Jambres; or names like
the Harvey and Weinstein; like the pedophiles and sex organ traffickers, Jeffrey
Epstein and the Ghislane Maxwell; along with the freak out pimps of the low
life and lesser passions who pimped their guests, even a great list of Hollywood
Celebrities in public with a child on the lap, or else, their names are marred
and their houses are now charred where nothing was left half burned as in a
normal fire.
Characters like
these are the ones who as in ancient days have led a great many to senseless
and sensual idolatry; and to worship the works of their hands, even idols of
wood and stone, of silver and of gold, and many toys like the golden calf, were
swallowed by hell while they were still alive. That was a hell that had opened
and enlarged its mouth no different than the wild fires burning in California
today.
Feds
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And if that wasn’t
enough; and since God is not a respecter of persons, even the careless priests
who wanted to use a strange fire for the offering of God’s hearth altar cried
out as Ariel with heaviness of heart, perished on that day by their own sparks
when they intended to light up the fire.
But not all is
doom and gloom, to conclude this fiery journey, I leave with you as a memorial
from our God the links for the Parashat Shemot Lectures for this week with an
invitation for all to repent and come unto Christ. And in case you need help
repenting, don’t forget to read the Haftarah or Ashekanzin in Isaiah 27 and the
Haftarah for Sephardim in Jeremiah 1 where the admonition of God to his
children is painfully exquisite. I know, I Miguel repented in dust and ashes
myself and that fire from heaven and that strong soap from Isaiah and Jeremiah,
the prophets thereof gave me the inspiration to write all these things. The
Lord expects us to truly repent and by so doing to bring forth good fruit. And
as per the words of Jeremiah, if your aliyah or comeback is not sincere, the
corn stalk will be tall and beautiful in the outside but the cornmeal thereof
will be dry and black or rotten with mold which is good for nothing but to be
broken off and cast into the fire. And when the harvest is past, your souls
will not be saved.
Parashat
Shemot 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת שְׁמוֹת
18 January 2025
/ 18 Tevet 5785
Parashat Shemot is the 13th
weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Shemot (“Names”) is the
first Torah reading in the Book of Exodus. It opens describing the enslavement
of the Israelites in Egypt. Moses is born, placed in a basket on the Nile, and
adopted into Pharaoh’s household. He later encounters God at a burning bush and
begins his mission of demanding that Pharoah let the Israelites go.
Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Isaiah
27:6-28:13, 29:22-23
· 23 p’sukim
https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.27.6-28.13?lang=bi
In
days to come Jacob shall strike root,
Israel shall sprout and blossom,
And the face of the world
Shall be covered with fruit.
Haftarah for Sephardim: Jeremiah 1:1-2:3
· 22 p’sukim
The
words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the
territory of Benjamin.
https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.1.1-2.3?lang=bi
Don’t forget to
pray and to thank God for all the holy prophets and to bless the Jews and the
sages among them for their pilgrimage and all their hard work in keeping and
preserving all these records.
Better yet, return
to God with full purpose of heart and give heed to all the words and
admonitions of Malachi and stop robbing me says the LORD. Proof me in this says
the LORD and Bring the tithes and the offering unto the LORD so that there is
meat in my house. And for him to rebuke the devourer for your sakes, to become
a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against
the false swearers, and against that oppress the laborer in his wages, the
widows and the fatherless and the filthy lawyers and judges that lay the
foundation for the destruction of the people and turn aside the strangers from
his right because they don’t dear neither they honor God. For the LORD is God
and he is the same today, yesterday and forever, and so that those of you also
who are the sons of Jacob are not consumed in the great and dreadful day of the
LORD. And also because polluted bread and rotten stalks of corn just won’t do
the trick.
Because the LORD
has said today as in days of old:
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like the corn is sifted
in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. And also, For a desolating scourge shall go
forth among the inhabitants of the earth, and shall continue to be poured out
from time to time, if they repent
not, until the earth is empty, and the inhabitants thereof are consumed away and
utterly destroyed by the brightness of my coming.
And you Priests of
God, Rabbis, Shepherds and Pastors of his flocks, this word from your employers
is for you as per the words of Malachi for not repenting, for not preaching
repentance, for not keeping the covenants, for not teaching the commandments,
the laws, the statutes and the judgments of God but your own learning and your
own precepts; and therefore, the words of God are not effectual in your lives
nor in the lives of the people and your proselytes.
And in all things
you now do in TV, in BOOKS, With Podcasts and Blogs for which you now receive
much glory, kudos and change, you must not rob God of his Glory either, and take
it to yourselves but glorify him to whom it belongs, even our GOD. You must
yourselves offer an offering unto the LORD in righteousness and also teach the
people to do so or ELSE the construction of your temple will
tarry and the sins of the people will still be upon your own heads. There won’t be meat nor revelation from your
maker and the LORD will not lift the curse that for so long has been over you
and scattered Jacob, who as a people is unable to rise up mighty prophets as in
days of old, but only filthy teachers that teach lies and professing professors
that never learn the truth and profits nothing. This is not merely a call and
an admonition, but a commandment of GOD that you have refused to fulfill since
the days of Malachi and which have kept the havens closed in your midst. You
must lay the words of Malachi to heart and be quick to observe them. For thus
says the LORD:
And now, O ye
priests, this commandment is for you.
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it
to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send
a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them
already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Behold, I will
corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your
solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
And ye shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of
hosts.
My covenant
was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith
he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and
iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and
did turn many away from iniquity.
For the
priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth:
for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
But ye are
departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have
corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
Therefore have
I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye
have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Have we not
all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every
man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an
abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the
holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange
god.
The Lord will
cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the
tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
And this have
ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and
with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or
receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath
been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast
dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
And did not he
make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he
might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal
treacherously against the wife of his youth.
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he
hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord
of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Ye have
wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When
ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he
delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Malachi
2
Old
Testament
Scriptures
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/mal/2?lang=eng&verse=#p
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly
come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in:
behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
But who may
abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is
like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
And he shall
sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi,
and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an
offering in righteousness.
Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
And I will come
near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers,
and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn
aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
For I am the
Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Even from the
days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept
them.Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But
ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Will a man rob
God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes
and offerings.
Ye are cursed
with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring ye all
the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove
me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to
receive it.
And I will
rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your
ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field,
saith the Lord of hosts.
And all
nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the
Lord of hosts.
Your words
have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so
much against thee?
Ye have said,
It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance,
and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
And now we
call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that
tempt God are even delivered.
Then they that
feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard
it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the
Lord, and that thought upon his name.
And they shall
be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I
will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Then shall ye
return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that
serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi
3:1-18
Old Testament
Scriptures
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/mal/3?lang=eng&verse=1&context=1-18#p1
As you see, The LORD has sent you his messenger to prepare the way before
him. He is calling you all to repentance, to call upon God and to mourn in dust
and ashes for your sins, yea, even with strong crying and supplication and with
pain, yea with pain and deep sighs and pangs like that of a pregnant women
ready to give birth until you give birth to the spiritual child of God in you
and his spirit and power rest upon you, for it is in the desert and in the fire
of affliction when where we are chosen like silver and like gold are purified
and where only the dross of the soul is consumed. For then and only then the
LORD will suddenly come to his temple.
And there are many
offerings in righteousness than one can plead and give unto God, but there is
only one acceptable sacrifice that is acceptable to him and that sacrifice is not goats, rams of heifers as
your fathers did and yet expect to do again, but a broken heart and a contrite
spirit is what he LORD requires and has required of you even since and likewise
the prayers of Moses when he pleaded with God with strong crying and
supplication not to destroy the people and as Hezekiah, King of Judah pleaded
in your behalf all night when you as a people were again miraculously spared by
an angel while your fathers slept.
This is exactly
what Deuteronomy in Chapter 30 when Moses laid the blessings and curses before
us all whether we were on earth or in heaven in the very first, second and
third verses thereof intended to make us remember and also to do. We have
forsaken the covenant of God as a people and individually for so long, and we
need remember it. It is not a wish, a request,
an invitation or a mere insinuation, but a prerequisite and legal and lawful covenant
injunction that most people who want to return or Make Aliyah and IF it so be
that they forgiven for all their sins
can’t seem to grasp.
But we must do
this solemnly and not merely ceremonially or symbolically, but by taking the
words of the LORD to heart as if you or I were the burnt offering at the altar;
and as if our very lives and futurity depends on it in the days of atonement.
God requires the Heart, but not like my and your father’s misinterpreted it
with blood and human sacrifices plucking the heart out of people in their gross
idolatry and abominations. The LORD
wants us to return to him sincerely, not like he says Judah and Israel did or As
recorded in Jeremiah 2. For God not only called Jeremiah to proclaim these
things, but Jeremiah has visited my very own house to admonish me and he found
me asleep. Now I know why. And God has
said that every man that has been admonished with the voice of warning has the responsibility
to admonish his neighbor.
וַיְהִ֥י דְבַר־יְהֹוָ֖ה
אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר׃
The
word of GOD came to me, saying,
הָלֹ֡ךְ וְֽקָרָ֩אתָ֩
בְאׇזְנֵ֨י יְרוּשָׁלַ֜͏ִם לֵאמֹ֗ר כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֔ה זָכַ֤רְתִּי לָךְ֙
חֶ֣סֶד נְעוּרַ֔יִךְ אַהֲבַ֖ת כְּלוּלֹתָ֑יִךְ לֶכְתֵּ֤ךְ אַֽחֲרַי֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר
בְּאֶ֖רֶץ לֹ֥א זְרוּעָֽה׃
Go
proclaim to Jerusalem: Thus said GOD:
I accounted to your favor
The devotion of your youth,
Your love as a bride—
How you followed Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.
קֹ֤דֶשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙
לַיהֹוָ֔ה רֵאשִׁ֖ית תְּבוּאָתֹ֑ה כׇּל־אֹכְלָ֣יו יֶאְשָׁ֔מוּ רָעָ֛ה תָּבֹ֥א
אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃ {פ}
Israel
was holy to GOD,
The first fruits of God’s harvest.
All who ate of it were held guilty;
Disaster befell them
—declares GOD.
Hear
the word of GOD, O House of Jacob,
Every clan of the House of Israel!
כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֗ה מַה־מָּצְא֨וּ אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֥ם בִּי֙ עָ֔וֶל
כִּ֥י רָחֲק֖וּ מֵעָלָ֑י וַיֵּ֥לְכ֛וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י הַהֶ֖בֶל וַיֶּהְבָּֽלוּ׃
Thus
said GOD:
What wrong did your ancestors find in Me
That they abandoned Me
And went after delusion and were deluded?
וְלֹ֣א אָֽמְר֔וּ אַיֵּ֣ה
יְהֹוָ֔ה הַמַּעֲלֶ֥ה אֹתָ֖נוּ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם הַמּוֹלִ֨יךְ אֹתָ֜נוּ
בַּמִּדְבָּ֗ר בְּאֶ֨רֶץ עֲרָבָ֤ה וְשׁוּחָה֙ בְּאֶ֙רֶץ֙ צִיָּ֣ה וְצַלְמָ֔וֶת
בְּאֶ֗רֶץ לֹא־עָ֤בַר בָּהּ֙ אִ֔ישׁ וְלֹא־יָשַׁ֥ב אָדָ֖ם שָֽׁם׃
They
never asked themselves, “Where is GOD,
Who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
A land of deserts and pits,
A land of drought and darkness,
A land nobody had traversed,
Where
no human being had dwelt?”
אָבִ֤יא אֶתְכֶם֙
אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ הַכַּרְמֶ֔ל לֶאֱכֹ֥ל פִּרְיָ֖הּ וְטוּבָ֑הּ וַתָּבֹ֙אוּ֙
וַתְּטַמְּא֣וּ אֶת־אַרְצִ֔י וְנַחֲלָתִ֥י שַׂמְתֶּ֖ם לְתוֹעֵבָֽה׃
I
brought you to this country of farmland
To enjoy its fruit and its bounty;
But you came and defiled My land,
You made My possession abhorrent.
הַכֹּהֲנִ֗ים לֹ֤א
אָֽמְרוּ֙ אַיֵּ֣ה יְהֹוָ֔ה וְתֹפְשֵׂ֤י הַתּוֹרָה֙ לֹ֣א יְדָע֔וּנִי וְהָרֹעִ֖ים
פָּ֣שְׁעוּ בִ֑י וְהַנְּבִאִים֙ נִבְּא֣וּ בַבַּ֔עַל וְאַחֲרֵ֥י לֹֽא־יוֹעִ֖לוּ
הָלָֽכוּ׃
The
priests never asked themselves, “Where is GOD?”
The guardians of the Teaching ignored Me;
The rulers rebelled against Me,
And the prophets prophesied by Baal
And followed what can do no good.
לָכֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב
אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהֹוָ֑ה וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֥י בְנֵיכֶ֖ם אָרִֽיב׃
Oh,
I will go on accusing you
—declares GOD—
And I will accuse your children’s children!
כִּ֣י עִבְר֞וּ אִיֵּ֤י
כִתִּיִּים֙ וּרְא֔וּ וְקֵדָ֛ר שִׁלְח֥וּ וְהִֽתְבּוֹנְנ֖וּ מְאֹ֑ד וּרְא֕וּ הֵ֥ן
הָיְתָ֖ה כָּזֹֽאת׃
Just
cross over to the isles of the Kittim and look,
Send to Kedar and observe carefully;
See if aught like this has ever happened:
הַהֵימִ֥יר גּוֹי֙
אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה לֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעַמִּ֛י הֵמִ֥יר כְּבוֹד֖וֹ בְּל֥וֹא
יוֹעִֽיל׃
Has
any nation changed its gods
Even though they are no-gods?
But My people has exchanged its glory
For what can do no good.
שֹׁ֥מּוּ שָׁמַ֖יִם עַל־זֹ֑את
וְשַׂעֲר֛וּ חׇרְב֥וּ מְאֹ֖ד נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃
Be
appalled, O heavens, at this;
Be horrified, utterly dazed!
—says GOD.
י־שְׁתַּ֥יִם רָע֖וֹת
עָשָׂ֣ה עַמִּ֑י אֹתִ֨י עָזְב֜וּ מְק֣וֹר ׀
מַ֣יִם חַיִּ֗ים לַחְצֹ֤ב
לָהֶם֙ בֹּאר֔וֹת בֹּארֹת֙ נִשְׁבָּרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־יָכִ֖לוּ הַמָּֽיִם׃
For
My people have done a twofold wrong:
They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters,
And hewed out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,
That cannot even hold water.
הַעֶ֙בֶד֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
אִם־יְלִ֥יד בַּ֖יִת ה֑וּא מַדּ֖וּעַ הָיָ֥ה לָבַֽז׃
Is
Israel a bondman?
Is he a home-born slave?
Then why is he given over to plunder?
עָלָיו֙ יִשְׁאֲג֣וּ
כְפִרִ֔ים נָתְנ֖וּ קוֹלָ֑ם וַיָּשִׁ֤יתוּ אַרְצוֹ֙ לְשַׁמָּ֔ה עָרָ֥יו (נצתה)
[נִצְּת֖וּ] מִבְּלִ֥י יֹשֵֽׁב׃
Lions
have roared over him,
Have raised their cries.
They have made his land a waste,
His cities desolate, without inhabitants.
גַּם־בְּנֵי־נֹ֖ף (ותחפנס)
[וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס] יִרְע֖וּךְ קׇדְקֹֽד׃
Those,
too, in Noph and Tahpanhes
Will lay bare your head.
ם־בְּנֵי־נֹ֖ף (ותחפנס)
[וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס] יִרְע֖וּךְ קׇדְקֹֽד׃
Those,
too, in Noph and Tahpanhes
Will lay bare your head.
הֲלוֹא־זֹ֖את
תַּעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֑ךְ עׇזְבֵךְ֙ אֶת־יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהַ֔יִךְ בְּעֵ֖ת מוֹלִכֵ֥ךְ
בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃
See,
that is the price you have paid
For forsaking the ETERNAL your God
Who led you in the way.
וְעַתָּ֗ה מַה־לָּךְ֙
לְדֶ֣רֶךְ מִצְרַ֔יִם לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת מֵ֣י שִׁח֑וֹר וּמַה־לָּךְ֙ לְדֶ֣רֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר
לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת מֵ֥י נָהָֽר׃
What,
then, is the good of your going to Egypt
To drink the waters of the Nile?
And what is the good of your going to Assyria
To drink the waters of the Euphrates?
יַסְּרֵ֣ךְ רָעָתֵ֗ךְ
וּמְשֻׁבוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ תּֽוֹכִחֻ֔ךְ וּדְעִ֤י וּרְאִי֙ כִּֽי־רַ֣ע וָמָ֔ר עׇזְבֵ֖ךְ
אֶת־יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑יִךְ וְלֹ֤א פַחְדָּתִי֙ אֵלַ֔יִךְ נְאֻם־אֲדֹנָ֥י יֱהֹוִ֖ה
צְבָאֽוֹת׃
Let
your misfortune reprove you,
Let your afflictions rebuke you;
Mark well how bad and bitter it is
That you forsake the ETERNAL your God,
That awe for Me is not in you
—declares my Sovereign GOD of Hosts.
כִּ֣י מֵעוֹלָ֞ם שָׁבַ֣רְתִּי
עֻלֵּ֗ךְ נִתַּ֙קְתִּי֙ מוֹסְרוֹתַ֔יִךְ וַתֹּאמְרִ֖י לֹ֣א (אעבוד) [אֶעֱב֑וֹר]
כִּ֣י עַֽל־כׇּל־גִּבְעָ֞ה גְּבֹהָ֗ה וְתַ֙חַת֙ כׇּל־עֵ֣ץ רַעֲנָ֔ן אַ֖תְּ צֹעָ֥ה
זֹנָֽה׃
For
long ago you broke your yoke,
Tore off your yoke-bands,
And said, “I will not work!”
On every high hill and under every verdant tree,
You recline as a whore.
נֹכִי֙ נְטַעְתִּ֣יךְ
שׂוֹרֵ֔ק כֻּלֹּ֖ה זֶ֣רַע אֱמֶ֑ת וְאֵיךְ֙ נֶהְפַּ֣כְתְּ לִ֔י סוּרֵ֖י הַגֶּ֥פֶן
נׇכְרִיָּֽה׃
I
planted you with noble vines,
All with choicest seed;
Alas, I find you changed
Into a base, an alien vine!
כִּ֤י אִם־תְּכַבְּסִי֙
בַּנֶּ֔תֶר וְתַרְבִּי־לָ֖ךְ בֹּרִ֑ית נִכְתָּ֤ם עֲוֺנֵךְ֙ לְפָנַ֔י נְאֻ֖ם
אֲדֹנָ֥י יֱהֹוִֽה׃
Though
you wash with natron
And use much lye,
Your guilt is ingrained before Me
—declares my Sovereign GOD.
אֵ֣יךְ תֹּאמְרִ֞י לֹ֣א
נִטְמֵ֗אתִי אַחֲרֵ֤י הַבְּעָלִים֙ לֹ֣א הָלַ֔כְתִּי רְאִ֤י דַרְכֵּךְ֙ בַּגַּ֔יְא
דְּעִ֖י מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֑ית בִּכְרָ֥ה קַלָּ֖ה מְשָׂרֶ֥כֶת דְּרָכֶֽיהָ׃
How
can you say, “I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baalim”?
Look at your deeds in the Valley,
Consider what you have done!
Like a lustful she-camel,
Restlessly running about,
רֶה ׀ לִמֻּ֣ד מִדְבָּ֗ר בְּאַוַּ֤ת (נפשו) [נַפְשָׁהּ֙]
שָׁאֲפָ֣ה ר֔וּחַ תַּאֲנָתָ֖הּ מִ֣י יְשִׁיבֶ֑נָּה כׇּל־מְבַקְשֶׁ֙יהָ֙ לֹ֣א
יִיעָ֔פוּ בְּחׇדְשָׁ֖הּ יִמְצָאֽוּנְהָ׃
Or
like a wild ass used to the desert,
Snuffing the wind in her eagerness,
Whose passion none can restrain,
None that seek her need grow weary—
In her season, they’ll find her!
מִנְעִ֤י רַגְלֵךְ֙
מִיָּחֵ֔ף (וגורנך) [וּגְרוֹנֵ֖ךְ] מִצִּמְאָ֑ה וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י נוֹאָ֔שׁ ל֕וֹא
כִּֽי־אָהַ֥בְתִּי זָרִ֖ים וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֥ם אֵלֵֽךְ׃
Save
your foot from going bare,
And your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It is no use.
No, I love the strangers,
And after them I must go.”
כְּבֹ֤שֶׁת גַּנָּב֙ כִּ֣י
יִמָּצֵ֔א כֵּ֥ן הֹבִ֖ישׁוּ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הֵ֤מָּה מַלְכֵיהֶם֙ שָׂרֵיהֶ֔ם
וְכֹהֲנֵיהֶ֖ם וּנְבִיאֵיהֶֽם׃
Like
a thief chagrined when caught,
So is the House of Israel chagrined—
They, their kings, their officers,
And their priests and prophets.
מְרִ֨ים לָעֵ֜ץ אָ֣בִי
אַ֗תָּה וְלָאֶ֙בֶן֙ אַ֣תְּ (ילדתני) [יְלִדְתָּ֔נוּ] כִּֽי־פָנ֥וּ אֵלַ֛י עֹ֖רֶף
וְלֹ֣א פָנִ֑ים וּבְעֵ֤ת רָעָתָם֙ יֹֽאמְר֔וּ ק֖וּמָה וְהוֹשִׁיעֵֽנוּ׃
They
said to wood, “You are my father,”
To stone, “You gave birth to me,”
While to Me they turned their backs
And not their faces.
But in their hour of calamity they cry,
“Arise and save us!”
וְאַיֵּ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙
אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֣יתָ לָּ֔ךְ יָק֕וּמוּ אִם־יוֹשִׁיע֖וּךָ בְּעֵ֣ת רָעָתֶ֑ךָ כִּ֚י
מִסְפַּ֣ר עָרֶ֔יךָ הָי֥וּ אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ יְהוּדָֽה׃ {ס}
And
where are those gods
You made for yourself?
Let them arise and save you, if they can,
In your hour of calamity.
For your gods have become, O Judah,
As many as your towns!
לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יבוּ אֵלָ֑י
כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם בִּ֖י נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃
Why
do you call Me to account?
You have all rebelled against Me
—declares GOD.
וְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי
אֶת־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר לֹ֣א לָקָ֑חוּ אָכְלָ֧ה חַרְבְּכֶ֛ם נְבִיאֵיכֶ֖ם
כְּאַרְיֵ֥ה מַשְׁחִֽית׃
To
no purpose did I smite your children;
They would not accept correction.
Your sword has devoured your prophets
Like a ravening lion.
הַדּ֗וֹר אַתֶּם֙ רְא֣וּ
דְבַר־יְהֹוָ֔ה הֲמִדְבָּ֤ר הָיִ֙יתִי֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִ֛ם אֶ֥רֶץ מַאְפֵּ֖לְיָ֑ה
מַדּ֜וּעַ אָמְר֤וּ עַמִּי֙ רַ֔דְנוּ לֽוֹא־נָב֥וֹא ע֖וֹד אֵלֶֽיךָ׃
O
generation, behold the word of GOD!
Have I been like a desert to Israel,
Or like a land of deep gloom?
Then why do My people say, “We have broken loose,
We will not come to You anymore?”
הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח בְּתוּלָה֙
עֶדְיָ֔הּ כַּלָּ֖ה קִשֻּׁרֶ֑יהָ וְעַמִּ֣י שְׁכֵח֔וּנִי יָמִ֖ים אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃
Can
a maiden forget her jewels,
A bride her adornments?
Yet My people have forgotten Me—
Days without number.
מַה־תֵּיטִ֥בִי דַרְכֵּ֖ךְ
לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה לָכֵן֙ גַּ֣ם אֶת־הָרָע֔וֹת (למדתי) [לִמַּ֖דְתְּ]
אֶת־דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃
How
skillfully you plan your way
To seek out love!
Why, you have even taught
The worst of women your ways.
גַּ֤ם בִּכְנָפַ֙יִךְ֙
נִמְצְא֔וּ דַּ֛ם נַפְשׁ֥וֹת אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים נְקִיִּ֑ים לֹֽא־בַמַּחְתֶּ֥רֶת
מְצָאתִ֖ים כִּ֥י עַל־כׇּל־אֵֽלֶּה׃
Moreover,
on your garments is found
The lifeblood of the innocent poor—
You did not catch them breaking in.
Yet, despite all these things,
וַתֹּֽאמְרִי֙ כִּ֣י
נִקֵּ֔יתִי אַ֛ךְ שָׁ֥ב אַפּ֖וֹ מִמֶּ֑נִּי הִנְנִי֙ נִשְׁפָּ֣ט אוֹתָ֔ךְ
עַל־אׇמְרֵ֖ךְ לֹ֥א חָטָֽאתִי׃
You
say, “I have been acquitted;
Surely, God’s anger has turned away from me.”
Lo, I will bring you to judgment
For saying, “I have not sinned.”
ה־תֵּזְלִ֥י מְאֹ֖ד
לְשַׁנּ֣וֹת אֶת־דַּרְכֵּ֑ךְ גַּ֤ם מִמִּצְרַ֙יִם֙ תֵּבֹ֔שִׁי
כַּאֲשֶׁר־בֹּ֖שְׁתְּ מֵאַשּֽׁוּר׃
How
you cheapen yourself,
By changing your course!
You shall be put to shame through Egypt,
Just as you were put to shame through Assyria.
גַּ֣ם מֵאֵ֥ת זֶה֙
תֵּֽצְאִ֔י וְיָדַ֖יִךְ עַל־רֹאשֵׁ֑ךְ כִּֽי־מָאַ֤ס יְהֹוָה֙ בְּמִבְטַחַ֔יִךְ
וְלֹ֥א תַצְלִ֖יחִי לָהֶֽם׃
From
this way, too, you will come out
With your hands on your head;
For GOD has rejected those you trust,
You will not prosper with them.
Our God, the Bridegroom,
wants Israel and Judah to return to him, that we repent with real intent and
purpose of heart, kind of like the PM Benjamin Netanyahu did and show us in his
UN speech on September 27th last year; or as you see me here doing
today. You don’t need a preacher, a rabbi or a paid scholar to learn and practice
these things. You all can do them individually. I know I have done it. And I
can also tell also who has done it among you. All you have to do is search your
heart, be amazed with the grossness of our sins and repent. But that is just
the beginning. You must also enter by the door and bring fruits meet for
repentance. Come and see:
And it shall
come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the
curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all
the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,
And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and
shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and
thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
That then the
Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will
return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath
scattered thee…
Deuteronomy
30:1-3
Old Testament
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/30?lang=eng&verse=1&context=1-3#p1
And if after you
do these things you are keen and sensitive to the spirit of God, the spirit of
God will guide you to the choice vine to be nurtured as he did with me and with
Avraham Gileadi. You just don’t want the blessing of the early rain or the old
covenants and be content when the LORD has much more, even a truck load more in
store for you. You want the later rain
also and; inclusive, all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the
blessings of the new covenant. Only then
God will lift the curse entirely from us as a people and put it back where it
belongs, even in the head of our enemies as he promised in the book of
Deuteronomy. For so it is written:
If any of thine be driven out unto the
outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and
from thence will he fetch thee:
And the Lord
thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou
shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy
fathers.
And the Lord
thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the
Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest
live.
And the Lord
thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate
thee, which persecuted thee.
And thou shalt
return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I
command thee this day.
Deuteronomy
30:4-8
Old Testament
Scriptures
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/deut/30?lang=eng&verse=4&context=4-8#p4
I don’t know what
else to say. I took up a heavy duty beating from the LORD yesterday and the day
before for the anxiety of my soul for your welfare. It was very painful for I
strayed from the commission that the LORD had given me. It was a long journey
and I failed to deliver these words to you or other words I had written which were
not what THE LORD had intended. And yesterday I felt like Jeremiah, awful and
with much pain in my bones. And I even repented to have been born for I had
spent all my effort and strength for nothing. And I chose not to write anymore.
I wrote nothing yesterday. I couldn’t. And today I had no intention do write
anything, but who can withstand the fire of THE LORD who consumes the bones? I
didn’t complain to the LORD, but my silence and unwillingness to write were or
felt no different than open rebellion. And if this is not what he wants, I will
take yet another beating, and another until his power is made perfect in my weakness.
And how am I restrained until it has been fulfilled so I can eat my cold meal.
These things I
leave with you with faith and with hope and with all the charity in my heart,
hoping to persuade at least one soul to return with full purpose of heart unto
God. And I do it solemnly as one having authority in the sacred name of The
Messiah, even in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Attentively yours
from a Servant and Messenger in the hand of Christ
Miguel Angel Tinoco Rod-Tree-Jesse .
כזוהר וישועתה כנר בוערת.
lema'an tzyon le ashkot velema'an yerushlim
le anoch ad shetze tzdakta kazoher vishu'ata kner bo'aret.
For Zion’s
sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until
the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as
a lamp that burneth.
Isaiah
62:1
The
question matters because a familiar pattern is reappearing—one that reaches
back to the earliest post-diluvian political forms.
