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Galatians: "'Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham..
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Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread ..
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It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as a means of diverting the people's attention and anger.
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the past forty Jubilees, Yeshua has been that 'bread of heaven' during what many theologians call the Church Age. This 'bread of heaven,' this 'manna,' is received by faith and leads to eternal life." Enthusiastically Zane interjected, "And this Church Age is characterized by seven types of 'churches,' or assemblies. Kind of like Moses being rejected by his own people and going into the wilderness for forty years and tending the sheep for t..
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Now after almost forty Jubilees, the Jewish people are once again in the Promised Land, and Jerusalem has become the 'burdensome stone' as was prophesied by Zechariah. Three faiths now claim religious roots in the ancient city, a city which is the capital of the state of Israel but whose very heart is still controlled by Gentiles." "At least until the 'times of the Gentiles' are fulfilled," Zane added soberly. "And that brings us back to th..
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I believe the synchronized Jubilee cycle is the correct method. I believe in the congruency of the biblical record. YHWH gave a continuous repeating weekly Sabbath cycle, and I see no compelling argument in Leviticus 25 to believe his method of counting a yearly Sabbath cycle is any different. Why would the Scripture mention seven sets of seven years, implying seven Sabbath cycles, if the cycle was not continuous? He could have just said 'c..
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Another point in favor of a synchronized yearly Sabbath cycle is the Feast of Firstfruits." Glancing at Zane, he said, "Or Pentecost, as you would call it in English. Pentecost is basically a little Jubilee every year. The count begins and ends on the first day of the week, and it does so without interrupting the weekly Sabbath cycle."
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So if I understand you correctly, one Jubilee cycle would be fifty years, the second cycle would be ninety-nine years, and the third cycle one hundred and forty-eight? Do I have that right?" "Perfect," Weidenhjelm said in satisfaction. "You got it exactly right." After a moment of thought Zane replied, "This makes for quite a unique cycle, doesn't it?"
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Yes, and that is the beauty of counting the Jubilee cycle this way. The Sabbath and Jubilee cycles dance together, so to speak, each going their own way, then coming back together again when the time is just right. The cycles are never-ending but never exactly the same way twice.
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Genesis 22, the rabbi read the passage for Zane. "And the angel of YHWH called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith YHWH, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate ..
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We can follow this covenantal theme like a scarlet thread through the entire Scripture. It began with Adam, and we can follow it through Noah and Shem until the promise is confirmed in Abraham. After Abraham, we trace the thread through Isaac, Jacob, and David and finally to its culmination in the promised seed, in Yeshua the Messiah. In Romans 15:8, Paul said Yeshua was a minister to the Jewish people to 'confirm the promises made unto the..
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Isaac was born on the forty-third Jubilee from Adam!" Thinking about it, he realized the symbolism was pretty cool. It was Isaac YHWH first used to test Abraham's faith by seeing if he would sacrifice his firstborn son. Zane turned the old pages in the Bible in front of him to Genesis 22. "What faith!" he muttered as he read Abraham's explanation to Isaac. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am ..
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pieces of the complex puzzle. The conclusion seemed inescapable. This was more than just a secretive group's attempt to keep important information from becoming public. This was a struggle between the forces of good and evil, between YHWH and Satan. The times of the Gentiles were drawing to a close; this was Satan's final act of rebellion. Under the banner of a secular democratic "enlightenment," the world was being drawn into Satan's war a..
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Even though he was willing to sacrifice his only son, he knew that YHWH would provide a substitution. Not only did YHWH provide that substitution for Isaac, but exactly forty Jubilee cycles later, he provided his very own Son, Yeshua, to make atonement for all mankind. Then to make sure we all got the point, the final year of that fortieth Jubilee cycle saw the last atonement sacrifice in the temple of Jerusalem. Zane lightly tapped his pen..
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Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and the sea! for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." He looked at her gravely and said, "I believe you are correct. Once this information is made public and they can no longer work under the cover of darkness, all hell--literally--is likely to break loose."
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YHWH is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head wi..
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Fort Huachuca was home to the army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM), the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS), the Joint Interoperability Test Command, the Information Systems Engineering Command (ISEC), the Electronic Proving Ground, the United States Army Intelligence Center, and Libby Army Airfield. The fort covered seventy-six thousand acres of mountains and desert grasslands.
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Arizona had more mountains than Switzerland.
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Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name YHWH. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
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I submit myself to your will, Father. Please give me the grace and peace to carry it out. Oh, I miss him, but I thank you for the blessing of his love for the time I had it. Please strengthen me to carry on.
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I love YHWH, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of YHWH; O YHWH, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is YHWH, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. YHWH preserveth the simple: I was brought low,..
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As your servant David said, 'Please let the words of my mouth and meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Oh YHWH, my strength and my redeemer.' Father, I ask you in Yeshua's name.
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The heavens declare the glory of God! Yes, for thousands of years the very heavens had been telling the world about the Messiah and YHWH's plan of reconciliation for all mankind. But that short psalm had so much more wisdom and instruction, and even now it was touching Zane's life. He too was a bridegroom running a race YHWH had set before him, a servant of the living God who needed to be cleansed from secret faults and presumptuous sins th..
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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. ..
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The law of YHWH is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of YHWH are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of YHWH is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of YHWH is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of YHWH are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is ..
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Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O YHWH, my strength, and my redeemer.
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There was no such thing as just doing what was right anymore. It was a tightrope walk few understood. "National interests" were really corporate interests. Immigration was really about cheap labor for multinational corporations. America's Middle East policy was about cheap oil so that Big Oil could expand their reach and influence without the weak US economy imploding."
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through the biblical stories and realized that serving YHWH always seemed to come at great personal cost. So did YHWH send the testing, or did it come as a natural course of events when one was willing to serve? With those conflicting thoughts battling each other, the words of Yeshua came to mind--the words spoken on that famous night when the Son of God petitioned the Father to allow him to pass on the terrible events he knew were coming: ..
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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human nature hasn't changed. The prophet Daniel, a ruler over the affairs of Babylon and later Persia, was thrown in the lion's den because he broke a Persian law which was contrary to his faith. Early Christians were cast into the coliseums when they would not pledge allegiance to Rome and their gods. Hitler used the church of Germany and writings of Martin Luther as justification to condemn and murder the Jews. The examples are practicall..
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Genesis 11:4 for Zane: "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." "Doesn't that sound just a little familiar?" He sat back and went into full quoting mode again: "We the people ('go to, let us') of the United States ('make us a name'), in Order to form a more perfect Union, ('lest we be scattered a..
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What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man sh..
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not saying there weren't Christians in our founding government, I'm just saying our Constitution is a secular, humanistic document which calls upon 'We the people,' not God, as the guarantor of our 'Order, Union, Justice, Tranquility, and Welfare.
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I'll list for you the things I think the US has in common with the Roman Empire. Our nation, much like early Rome, rejected its early monarchy for a republican form of government. Like Rome, our republic has gradually ceded the power of the people to its leadership. If our current course continues, we, like Rome, will someday grant our leader absolute power. Like Rome, we believe in the superiority of our ideas and our form of government. W..
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Life is messy, bro . . ." Zane finished the favorite refrain with Sam. ". . . Do the best you can, learn from your mistakes, and then move on."
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don't let the sorrow and pain rob you of the purpose your Creator has for your life. Right now your world may be bathed in shadows and gray, but I promise you that someday the clouds will once again be broken with the brilliance of the sun.
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I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from YHWH, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. YHWH is thy keeper: YHWH is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. YHWH shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve..
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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. ..
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Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge,
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Biblical time as described in the Scripture is based on a lunar/solar calendar. The days and weeks are measured by the rising and setting of the sun, and the months are reckoned by the cycle of the moon. In a symbolic sense, the rising and setting of the sun regulates man's day-to-day activities--his struggle to survive, to grow, live, and love. The moon, on the other hand, regulates the religious calendar and reminds the Jewish people of t..
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From the perspective of the apostles, the biblical holy days, at least the spring festivals, were symbolic pictures fulfilled by Jesus. He was the Passover lamb which 'takes away the sins of the world.' He was also the 'the Firstfruits of them that slept.' All these prophetic pictures inherent in the biblical feast days were regulated by the cycle of the moon.
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We know the solar and lunar cycles are not the same length. So how are the two cycles reconciled?
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Our day-to-day activities and labor under the sun are reconciled with YHWH's prophetic calendar and the lunar cycle by the thirteenth month. Each day we labor reminds us of our sin and the curse of sin upon the earth. Each night we look up into the sky and are reminded of YHWH's promise of reconciliation and the eventual restoration of mankind through Jesus, or Yeshua, the promised Messiah. Matthew, in the first chapter of the first book of..
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3.141592 Next, he turned on his computer and opened his BibleWorks software, looking up the reference for the instructions of the Feast of Tabernacles during the seventh month. He remembered Zane telling him about the number of sacrifices: there were thirteen, fourteen , and he thought he remembered seven, but he wanted to make sure of the number and their order. He finally found the reference, and with incredulity he muttered, "Oh, come ..
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