...Adonai-shalom...
[God send Peace]
(Jdg
6:24)
Today
we study scripture from the Jewish
Tree of Life Bible,
the Tanakh, including a portion from the New Covenant of Messianic
Writings.[The New Testament]
We
enter this reading in heartfelt anticipation of our celebration of
the earthly arriving of the Light of the Messiah, the Christ. It is
His birth, His life, His death and His resurrection from the dead
that is the reason for this season. As each year goes by, we fall
deeper and deeper into the Pagan influences of Santa Clause, reindeer
and material worship of gifts under a decorated tree. We fall
headlong into Satan's trap of relegating Jesus and His birth to the
bottom shelf of a Walmart aisle. We instead make the parties, the
gifts, the money, the sales into the Gods that are worshiped. How
horribly sad. How utterly wrong!
Jesus
was a Jew. It is only fitting, in my mind, that this message flow in
the timbre and style of the Jewish mind, from a Jewish perspective.
I pray that you will receive it in the spirit intended.
(1Ch
22:9) Behold, a son will be born to you who will be a man at rest. I
will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will
be Solomon and I will confer shalom [peace] and quietness on Israel
in his days. {TLV}
(Mat
12:42) The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this
generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to
hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, something greater than
Solomon is here. {TLV}
(Isa
9:5-6) For to us a child is born, a son will be given to us, and the
government will be upon His shoulder. His Name will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God My Father of Eternity, Prince of
Peace. Of the increase of His government and shalom there will be no
end—on the throne of David and over His kingdom—to establish it
and uphold it through justice and righteousness from now until
forevermore. The zeal of Adonai-Tzva’ot [Lord of Hosts] will
accomplish this. {TLV}
(Isa
32:18-19) My people will live in a peaceful place, in secure
dwellings, quiet resting places. Then hail will flatten the forest;
and the city will be utterly laid low. {TLV}
(Eph
2:14) For He is our shalom, the One who made the two into one and
broke down the middle wall of separation. Within His flesh He made
powerless the hostility. {TLV}
(Mic
5:5) They will devastate the land of Assyria with the sword—even
Nimrod’s land with a drawn blade. He will deliver us from Assyria,
when he invades our land, when he tramples on our territory. {TLV}
(Rev
17:14) They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will
overcome them—because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and
those with Him are called and chosen and faithful.” {TLV}
(Joh
14:27) “Shalom I leave you, My shalom I give to you; but not as the
world gives! Do not let your heart be troubled or afraid. {TLV}
This
CHRISTmas, won't you turn your full contemplation to the wondrous
gift Almighty God gave us when Jesus came into the world, and through
His life and the blood of His death on the cross, we, all creations
of God's mighty hand, can be saved unto salvation and to share in the
promise of eternal life. Believe on Him, be released from your
sentence of death and live. The Savior Lives forever.
Where
will you spend eternity?
In the Kingdom of God.............or in
Hell?
HAVE
YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?
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