Prison weekly Nisen 21, 5768
Shalom
The Hebrew month is Nisan these Readings are for Shabbat Nisen 21, 5768
This weeks Torah Reading is Pesach "Passover" Exodus 33:12-34:26
This weeks Haftarah Reading is Malachi 3:4-4:6
Moses said to the Lord, "See, You say to me, 'Lead this people forward,' but You have not made known to me whom You will send with me. Further, You have said, 'I have singled you out by name, and you have, indeed, gained My favor.' Now, if I have truly gained Your favor, pray let me know Your ways, that I may know You and continue in Your favor. Consider, too, that this nation is Your people." And He said, "I will go in the lead and will lighten your burden." And he said to Him, "Unless You go in the lead, do not make us leave this place. For how shall it be known that Your people have gained Your favor unless You go with us, so that we may be distinguished, Your people and I, from every people on the face of the earth?" And the Lord said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have asked; for you have truly gained My favor and I have singled you out by name." He said, "Oh, let me behold Your Presence!" And He answered, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim before you the name Lord, and the grace that I grant and the compassion that I show. But," He said, "you cannot see My face, for man may not see Me and live." And the Lord said, "See, there is a place near Me. Station yourself on the rock and, as My Presence passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and shield you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will take My hand away and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen." The Lord said to Moses: "Carve two tablets of stone like the first, and I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered. Be ready by morning, and in the morning come up to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to Me, on the top of the mountain. No one else shall come up with you, and no one else shall be seen anywhere on the mountain; neither shall the flocks and the herds graze at the foot of this mountain."So Moses carved two tablets of stone, like the first, and early in the morning he went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, taking the two stone tablets with him. The Lord came down in a cloud; He stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed: "The Lord! the Lord! a God compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and faithfulness, extending kindness to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He does not remit all punishment, but visits the iniquity of parents upon children and children's children, upon the third and fourth generations." Moses hastened to bow low to the ground in homage, and said, "If I have gained Your favor, O Lord, pray, let the Lord go in our midst, even though this is a stiffnecked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own!" He said: I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will work such wonders as have not been wrought on all the earth or in any nation; and all the people who are with you shall see how awesome are the Lord's deeds which I will perform for you. Mark well what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Beware of making a covenant with the inhabitants of the land against which you are advancing, lest they be a snare in your midst. No, you must tear down their altars, smash their pillars, and cut down their sacred posts; for you must not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Impassioned, is an impassioned God. You must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for they will lust after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite you, and you will eat of their sacrifices. And when you take wives from among their daughters for your sons, their daughters will lust after their gods and will cause your sons to lust after their gods.
You shall not make molten gods for yourselves.
You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread--eating unleavened bread for seven days, as I have commanded you--at the set time of the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you went forth from Egypt.
Every first issue of the womb is Mine, from all your livestock that drop a male as firstling, whether cattle or sheep.
But the firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a sheep; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. And you must redeem every first-born among your sons.
None shall appear before Me empty-handed.
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor; you shall cease from labor even at plowing time and harvest time.
You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first fruits of the wheat harvest; and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. I will drive out nations from your path and enlarge your territory; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times a year.
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened; and the sacrifice of the Feast of Passover shall not be left lying until morning.
The choice first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
From Parshat Ki Tisa. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission.
Psalms 5:11 - But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee
.Shalom in Yeshua our Messiah
Well it's been awhile since I've written an update I guess I will start with the ministry van. The second van we bought blew the tranny a few weeks ago on our way over to feed. Right now we are using a borrowed suburben. Since then we found a small bus we can buy but are still praying for the rest of the money needed to purchase it.
Most of the bills have been paid and I have the funding to do the April newsletter it will be mailed out Tuesday. I need right at eight hundred to finish paying Aprils bills and pay the May bills that are in. Dan needs 190.00 to pay Radio time for May. I need about 150.00 to stock the mission. Please pray about supporting these work every bit of help is needed.
Start counting the fifty days to Penecost Monday April 28th. Unleaven bread will end at dark that day also. I'm gonna close for now I need to get this to printer before Sabbath.
May you all have a very blessed Shabbat with love sisterlinda
Shalom B'Shem Yeshua HaMashiach / Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah
Mark 9:23,10:27
" THE Truth will set you FREE"Next Weeks Torah K'doshim ("Holy Ones") Leviticus 19:1-20:27 Haftarah Ezekiel 20:2-20,22:1-19 Brit Hadashah 1 Peter 1:13-16
King David vs. President Bush After seeing the incomparably lavish reception for President Bush throughout Jerusalem, one can't help but wonder if the King David Hotel would have been so royally outfitted for King David himself. From the spit-shined parking meters to the silky American flags hanging from every lamp posts in the capital, no detail has been overlooked and no expense has been spared for this historic presidential visit. With the airtight security, blocked roads, and posters plastered throughout the city, Jerusalemites can scarcely take a step without contending with the diplomatic pandemonium. The paid advertisements that clutter the pages of Israel's newspapers are sponsored by organizations spanning the entire political gamut from the far right to the extreme left and range from calls to return to the '48 borders to affirmations not to relinquish "1 inch". All of the messages have one thing in common – they are all pleas directed at President Bush and US administration. From empowering Bush with an article titled "Mr. President, the worlds fate is in your hands" to appealing to his sense of equity with "Mr. President, would you divide New York?", the one comprehensive commonality is that Bush is the primary address for all appeals. A fundamental tenant of Jewish thought is that G-d runs the world with a guiding principle of "midah k'neged midah" or "measure for measure". While Buddhists call it Karma and other philosophies ascribe other titles, we first see the principle in the book of Genesis. Adam, ashamed with himself for his violation of G-d's only directive, hides from the omniscient G-d of the universe who reciprocates the treatment by calling out "Adam, where are you?" Adam hid from G-d, and G-d responded accordingly, measure for measure. Living through such a global event in such a spiritual city – one can catch a sobering glimpse into the national psyche of a frightened nation which is coming to terms with the reality that our very existence has never been in such jeopardy. The Muslim jihad is channeling their focus on the destruction of our tiny Jewish state and as we lay in the crosshairs of a soon-nuclear Iran, we desperately grasp in the darkness for an ally that will come to our aid. To our terror, our final hopes lie in the decision of a 51 year old Texan who struggles with the pronunciation of the word "nuclear". Knowing that G-d operates in this capacity, we can understand what G-d desires of us based on the challenges which confront us and there can be no situation better suited for the Jewish people than the one in which we find ourselves today. As the Arab world positions itself for the final offensive for which it has been patiently waiting for since our inception, The European Union and the United Nations prepare, at worst, to participate in our destruction, and at best, to sit by in complicit silence for the completion of their valiant efforts in Auschwitz just 60 years ago. If we insist on placing our faith in The US and President Bush, then G-d will, indeed, place our fate in their hands. If we place our faith in their sense of justice and fair play we will be rewarded with morally bankrupt analogies by the secretary of State comparing the Israel's treatment of the Palestinian Muslims to the treatment of the black slaves by the whites in the confederate south (one would think she would not disgrace the memory of her persecuted and enslaved ancestors by comparing them to bloodthirsty terrorists). If we place our faith in their sense in their sense of equity and fair play we will be rewarded by the most blatant and shameless of double standards (which label "racist" the State of Israel with 1.5 million Arab Israeli citizens while any the Arab state to be created would have to be free of every last Jew) which castigates a five year old in Judea an international criminal and labels a terrorist who murders a father and daughter a freedom fighter. If we place our faith in their character, loyalty, and integrity, we will be offered in turn as a sacrificial lamb to appease the Arab world by an administration under the greatest of pressure from within and without. The magnitudes of the "confidence building measures" in which we forfeit our Land are directly related to the ensuing Jihad and amount of Jewish blood. The divine message communicated to us through our long history has been clear. The "idol" of the times in which we are sure that we can place our faith inevitably ends up being the tool of our very undoing. This principal is being played out right before our eyes as the US, our greatest ally and the entity in which we place our trust, is demanding of us a surrender that will put us in the most unprecedented danger. It is time that we place one last ad in the newspapers of Israel. One last ad on the billboards in our capital. Not an ad appealing to Bush or the United States, but an ad in which we affirm our faith in G-d and appeal to the Jewish People to act on that faith with the same character, courage, and integrity we expect from the rest of the world. An appeal for the Jewish People around the world to return to Israel united as one family and claim our eternal inheritance so we can finally serve our purpose as "A Light unto the Nations".
