have a good one! ~ Pam

If Y’shua and all the Apostles spoke Hebrew and Aramaic it would be logical to assume they also wrote in their native language.  Although the West has developed many religious ideals according to a Greek primacy, Greek was the vehicular not the vernacular language of Y’shua and his Apostles.  Additionally, the West has put much emphasis on the teachings of the Greek based “post-Apostolic” founders of the Church, but the fact is, until now, very few Christians have plumbed the depths of the original teachings and the very Words of Y’shua and his Apostles.  The Aramaic English New Testament (AENT) is the most definitive Aramaic to English translation that has come forth in nearly 2,000 years.  Not only does this Aramaic based New Testament Bible render the Ancient Aramaic in a way that is easy for every English reader to understand, but it investigates nuances, poetry and hidden codes of the New Testament that until now have only been available to Hebrew and Aramaic scholars.

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There is a growing movement of Christian practitioners of holistic (or “wholistic”) health, and of Christians who turn to such treatments for their physical maladies.⁵ Perhaps the most articulate and vigorous spokesperson for this movement is Monte Kline, Ph.D., a former staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ who became a nutritionist and “wholistic health practitioner” after a personal bout with cancer.

In his March/April 1988 Christian Health Counselor newsletter, for example, Kline devotes six pages to the subject of “New Age paranoia” in the church. He argues that Christians have often been more hysterical than rational in their approach to the New Age movement, with the result that many innocent people and legitimate ideas and practices have been tarnished with the label “New Age.” He acknowledges that “there is much, much spiritual error in the New Age movement,”⁶ and Christians need to be discerning about these elements. But the opposition of many Christian authors to certain holistic health therapies represents what he calls “flat earth Christianity.”

Flat Earth Christianity

Flat earth Christianity is the too-often-prevalent Christian mentality that considers heretical and even demonic any theory that does not fit in with its traditions and present knowledge (e.g., for many medieval Christians the idea that the earth is round and not the Center of the universe was Considered anti-Christian). Kline explains:

Their assumption is that anything outside their knowledge of the creation is supernatural in the demonic sense and therefore to be denied. Thus, the Ch’i energy of acupuncture, auras, and chakras could not possibly be just another part of God’s creation, only unknown to them….Yet man is called to exercise dominion over His [God’s] creation (Genesis 1:28), and how can man do that without exploration and discovery? True science is merely the processes of discovering, quantifying, and applying what God has built into His creation.⁷

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There has been much excitement about a new organization forming called the World Biblical Zionists. In a nutshell, this group of leaders say that they are forming a partnership with the Likkud party in Israel. I’ve been trying to find out more about this movement, but have been unable to really pinpoint any pertinent information on the various websites of those that support this movement. I would like to know more about this than the audio clips that I’ve heard on paltalk. If you know of a website that offers more detailed information - names, dates, places ect… please email me to let me update my files. On the main site, www.biblicalzionists.org there is general information, but no listing of who is actually ‘in’ the partnership - at least not as of today.

If Ephraim is to return to the land than I would think the following passages in scripture would apply first:

Ezekiel 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Ezekiel 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Shouldn’t we have ‘repentance’ first?? Shouldn’t we be clean of our idols, our transgressions our detestable things? Should we not be cleansed from above?

And then in Deuteronomy we read the ‘rest of the story’.

Deuteronomy 30:1 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, 2 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; 3 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. 4 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: 5 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. 6 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. (emphasis mine)

Now, I have nothing against anyone trying to hurry the process along, if this movement is of Yahwhe, then nothing will be able to stop it - and I’ll be running to catch up. But for now, I will have to watch and see whether this thing is of Yahweh or not.  Questions need to be answered fully and ‘partners’ need to be named, it needs not to be so vague, in my humble opinion.

blessings ~ Pam

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Consider these verses …

Mat 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it be] for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Mar 10:11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

Luk 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from [her] husband committeth adultery.

It is with great regret that I feel that I must comment on this subject. It is hard for me to even believe that this distasteful subject has reared its ugly head within the ranks of supposedly godly men who know the Truth of the Word of Yahuvah.

If you have not heard it within the newsgroups, websites and personal emails..you will. Several leaders in the Messianic movement have stepped out of the darkness and are proclaiming there is validity of polygyny-polygamy contained within the scriptures and that they are going to live out what they believe is truth. They also have separated themselves from any and all believers who have stepped up and condemned this practice as umbilical.

First, let’s go over a few details.

Yes, it’s true - the Torah has many, many stories concerning men who are married to several women. No one is denying that truth. And because of these stories, some leaders in the messianic movement have decided that Yahweh not only condones plural marriages, but encourages it! How sad for believers in this day and age to twist and malign the heart of Abba. And of course, they have twisted it to their own advantage - they have termed this practice ‘polygyny’ - which simply means that it is only the MEN who can have more than one wife! Oh my….such a sad state of affairs. Ok…let’s look at scripture.

Does YHVH approve of multiple wives for one man? Let’s look at the ‘first’ marriage - that should be our guide wouldn’t you think?

And Yahweh said - ‘they shall be ONE flesh’ - In Genesis 2:21-24 YHVH Elohim caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then YHVH Elohim made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and the wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

Ok…now read that slowly….ONE man…ONE woman…ONE flesh. I don’t read anywhere (not even between the lines) where Yahweh intended for either man OR woman to have more than one partner - otherwise, He could have just as easily taken out more than one rib, don’t you think?  Also, if scripture states over and over that ONE man and ONE woman become ONE .. then answer me this - how does ONE man having TWO or more women become one flesh? That is simply an impossibility! It is a division in the perfect plan and as such is not only not scripture, but simply put - it is adultery.

This was the original plan of our Creator - the perfect plan - the right plan - the only plan. One man, one woman, one flesh. But, He also gave us free will, didn’t He. Yes, He did. And man (and woman) have continually, from the begining, abused and misused that free will to further their own agendas, fulfill their lust and lead people astray.

Let’s move from the Original Covenant to the next Covenant and see what Y’shua has to say about the subject. In Matthew 19:3-12 he is answering the Pharisees who were questioning Him about the legalities involved in a man putting away his wife for any cause. Y’shua answers them eloquently and in that answer says, “”have you not read, that He who created from the beginning, He created them male and female? Because of this, a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and they will be both of them one flesh. Henceforth, they will not be >> two <<< rather >> one << flesh. Therefore, what Elohim has united, man should not separate.” (emphasis mine) Y’shua goes on to say that Moses allowed them a letter of divorce because of the hardness of their heart and that it was not thus from the beginning!! So here, Y’shua is confirming the original intent of the marital arrangement from the beginning.

So - we have established that from the beginning - YHVH and Y’shua both confirm that the perfect marriage is between one man and one woman.

Why do the Patriarchs in the scripture have more than one wife?  Why was it so rampant in the patriarchal days? Was it biblical? Was it godly? Was it right??

Let’s examine a few more scriptures and see how these polygamous marriages fared in real life. In Genesis 4:19 Lamech, son of Cain, had two wives. This was the first instance, I believe, that the bible gives us concerning one man with more than one wife.  Just knowing the story of Cain, who killed his own brother Abel (thus being the first murderer) is enough to turn one off, much less lifting up this family style as a template for which we pattern our own lives after! Surely there is a better example to use. And there is. For you see, it was from the line of Cain that this perversion of Yahweh’s perfect plan was birthed. But look at the line of Seth - a righteous man who had a heart seeking the face of his Creator! From Seth all the way to Noah this lineage remained true to each other in the marriage of one man and one woman. Of course…then after the flood, nothing was the same. Even with the patriarch Abraham.

And here is where the men of today want to base their belief that polygyny is the example that godly men and women should follow. But let’s look at this story of Abraham, Sarah and her handmaiden Hagar. Was there EVER any peace in this family? We all know the answer to that question! A resounding NO! The two women constantly fought and bickered with each other - they were bitter enemies and both vied for top position with Abraham. Sarah finally caused Hagar to run away with her son, Ishmael. And here we are today … 4,000 years later … still reaping the whirlwind of the fires between Isaac and Ishmael. All due to the infamous Abraham who did not have enough faith to trust Yahweh who promised him an heir through ONE wife! So those who want to set even this family plan up on a pedestal….well, they need to realize that both Abraham and Sarah fell into this faulty plan due to their lack of faith! And then, they need to take to heart the ‘end of the story.’ For if they do, they will realize that the adulterous road they are on will end in the same way.

There are various articles written on this subject by now - mine is just one more voice in the Internet winds that hopefully will be of some help to anyone searching for answers on this ‘hot’ button. Let me add this - when a man and woman unite in holy matrimony, scripture says that they become one - ‘echad’ in Hebrew.  This new spiritual entity is symbolic of the perfect harmony of the male/female attributes of YHVH.  We must, as godly women and men, be continuously conformed into the image of our Creator. We must display to our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, and to the world around us the biblical purity of our Father’s original plan.

A marriage between one man and one woman is simply, hands down, a heavenly covenant - a covenant that represents the heart and purpose of YHVH, our Abba. Anything else, especially this ‘new-old’ revelation of polygamy or polygyny or whatever you wish to call it, is simply borne out of the lust of man to the detriment of all women. Not only is it unscriptural, it is degrading and humiliating for any woman to have to share the purity of the marriage bed with another woman. Nothing but misery and perversion can come from this type of adulterous union.

So, if you or anyone you know has been led down this rose-strewn path of ‘new’ revelation by men who call themselves scholars, rabbis, pastors or ‘men of god’ .. beware of the thorns in this new bed. They will cause you to bleed and will leave many scars. The lust and twisted perversion by these men of the truth is not and never has been the plan of our loving Father!!

Beware of the WOLF in the camp!

blessings ~ Pam

Well, let’s find out - you celebrate the Sabbath, you keep the Feast Days…you don’t eat pork…is that all there is? I don’t think so.

Let’s find out - what do you think it means?

Pam…..

The three-day visit may offer the embattled premier a brief respite from the turmoil at home where he faces a crescendo of calls for his resignation over suspicions he unlawfully obtained vast sums of money from a US financier.

But Monday’s trip may well be his last as premier to Israel’s staunchest ally.

Olmert, 62, suffered two massive blows in quick succession this week when key coalition ally Defense Minister Ehud Barak demanded he quit and the cabinet number two, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, challenged his party leadership.

With the prospect of early elections growing daily, Olmert’s working visit is seen by many as his farewell from US President George W. Bush, whose hopes of seeing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year appear to be fading fast.

For Bush, who called Olmert an “honest man” when news of the graft allegations emerged in early May, the premier’s potential demise threatens to shatter a major pillar of a Middle East strategy he hoped would be his legacy.

Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas pledged to try to reach a deal before Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 at the launching of the new peace talks at in Annapolis, Maryland last November.

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