...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?