“…Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever,
Exodus 3:15
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May Our Most Merciful GOD
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel
Continue to open the eyes of the "Dry Bones"
In preparation for our RETURN to our heritage
To serve and worship HIM in ways, whereby,
HE will finally be pleased with HIS Covenant People!
(Ezekiel
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"O mountains of
Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
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OUR GOD BLESS US
AND REMEMBER HIS COVENANT WITH
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB!
“I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
to be your God:
I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers 15:41
“Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;
“…thy walls are continually before me. Thy children shall make haste;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.”
Isaiah 49:15 - 17
“Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms,
and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.”
Isaiah 49:22
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LORD GOD of ISRAEL,
"I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel."
Psalm 22:22,23
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say,
The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel
out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them;
and they shall dwell in their own land.
Jeremiah 23:7,8
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Exodus 3:15
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I do
not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake,
which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them;
and the heathen shall know
that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Ezekiel 36:22,23
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“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again
the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left,
from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
Isaiah 11:11,12
“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said,
The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north,
and from all the lands whither he had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.”
Jeremiah 16:14,15
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“Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy law is the truth. Thou art near, O LORD;
and all thy commandments are truth Concerning thy testimonies,
I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Thy word is true from the beginning:
and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”
Psalm 119:142,151,152,160
“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger,
as for one of your own country:
for I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 24:22
“For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments
so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?”
Deuteronomy 4:7,8
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
Jeremiah 17:5
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“The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake;
he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.”
Isaiah 42:21
“Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments,
which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might
do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God,
to keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou, and thy sons and thy son’s son,
all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee,
and that ye may increase mightily,
as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee,
in the land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 6:1 - 3
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Jeremiah 22:29
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EXALTATIONS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD THAT CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH:
“The LORD reigneth; let the
people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims;
let the earth be moved.
The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all
the people.
Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is
holy.
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish
equity,
thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for
he is holy.
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call
upon his name;
they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
He spake unto them in the
cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies,
and the ordinance that he gave them.”
Psalm 99:1 - 7
*****
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.:
ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
*****
ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
The LawKeepers Co. Demonstration Rally on June 15th will be at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza located at 1st Avenue and 48th Street in front of the United Nations Offices in New York City starting at 8:00AM until 5:00PM. On June 20th the LawKeepers Co. Demonstration Rally will be held at the foot of the steps of the United States Capitol Building located at East Capitol Street, NE and 1st Street, NE Washington, DC. We welcome you to attend at least one if not both event locations. The following article foris another editorial from Brother Aharone:
Geopolitics, Globalization, and
Terrorism
By EZRAH AHARONE 5/2011
There’s a political and planetary solar system
at work, where the earth revolves around the sun, while it comprises near-200
nations that revolve around various interests and ideologies that cooperate,
compete, and clash.
In short,
regardless of norms or ideals, no government or society has escaped the
gravitational pull of geopolitics and globalization, which are bookend forces
that configure today’s “balance of power” to the advantage of select nations
while – either artfully or inadvertently – breeding seeds of terrorism along the way.
Globalization in benign terms refers to the
world’s ever-growing interconnectedness via common markets, technology, and
development. Within this necessary
interdependency however, colonial-like political and corporate arrangements are
maintained whereby power and wealth remain largely concentrated within the
orbital grips of Western nations and institutions. This is reflected in the 67-year-old Bretton Woods outcome
whereby only Americans would head the World Bank and only Europeans would head
the IMF. Hence, the EU’s adamancy that
former-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (who resigned amid rape charges) must
unquestionably be replaced by a European.
Geopolitics
in benign terms concerns the relationship between geography and politics . . .
a government’s legitimate activities in domestic and foreign territories. But from an operational standpoint of
certain governments to safeguard or advance their economic, security, and
foreign policy interests, geopolitics doubles as a sneaky codeword for the
political muscling, coddling, and/or finessing of particular nations that have
strategic value or pose threats, based on factors including location,
resources, intelligence, terrorism and military implications.
Invariably,
classified operations ensue that the world public never knows or imagines
because, along with geopolitics comes foreign intrigue, domestic deception of
citizens, and manipulation of media, as governments jostle for upsmanship in a
globalized pecking-order for world power.
As such,
the US has long played a dangerous game of “geopolitical roulette” in places
like Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, which – not unrelated – are places
that it now identifies as hotbeds for terrorist networks. President Richard Nixon, who set modern
precedents for America’s geopolitical approach to foreign relations, wrote in The
Real War (1980) about maintaining geopolitical leverage in the Middle East
and Africa, saying early on Page 3: “We have to recover the geopolitical
momentum, marshaling and using our resources in the tradition of a great power
. . .
We must
recognize the relationship between strategic resources and patterns of world
trade, between economic productivity and military might.”
Accordingly,
in roulette fashion, the US has no permanent enemies or permanent friends
around Middle East territory, except for Israel. Even Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak became disposable after 30 years of
expediency. Geopolitical relations have
vacillated based on oil interests and the degree to which Arab governments are
amenable to US policies. Iran for
example received billions in support after a known CIA-engineered coup
installed Shah Pahlavi (1967-1979). But
once Ayatollah Khomeini ruled Iran, America propped and supplied Saddam Hussein
in Iraqi’s war against Iran (1980-1988).
Saddam
later fell from geopolitical grace when his 1990 attempt to annex Kuwait
jeopardized US oil stability. He
thereafter became the terrorist face of “What’s Wrong With the World,” until
9/11, when Osama Bin Laden unforgivably bit America’s geopolitical hand that
fed him during the Afghan Mujahideen war against the Soviets (1979-1989).
Once Bin
Laden went turncoat, the US played roulette with Pakistan’s General Pervez
Musharraf, ignoring all warning signals . . . Musharraf already had active
sanctions imposed for his 1999 coup; his government was one of few with
diplomatic relations with the former Taliban government in Afghanistan; and
Pakistan had violated international arms agreements by obtaining missile
technology from China and conducting nuclear weapons tests.
On
September 11th 2001 Musharraf was therefore ostracized as a “military
dictator.” Nevertheless, by September
12th 2001 in haste to avenge Bin Laden, the US began to geopolitically
reincarnate the “military dictator” into the honorable stature and media image
of “President Musharraf.” He was
coddled and gift-wrapped over $1 billion for his allegiance against terrorism,
and Pakistan was seduced with over $20 billion since.
After a near-decade of this wobbly courtship, along with thinking Bin Laden was a desolate cave-dweller in Afghanistan; he was paradoxically caught and killed in – of all places – Pakistan, where he’d lived unbothered for years with his family in a million dollar urban compound in – of all places – a military neighborhood.
While the US consequently suspects Pakistan of
consorting with al-Qaeda, Pakistan resents that the US conducted the raid
unannounced. To teach America a
geopolitical lesson in return, Pakistan denied the US further access to the compound and refused to handover
wreckage of the abandoned “special forces helicopter” for 2 weeks. Eye-for-eye, it’s
well plausible that Pakistan even accommodated China’s suspected overtures to
“reverse engineer” the copter’s technology, especially knowing China has since
awarded Pakistan 50 fighter jets.
The world
is locked into a rotational axis where geopolitics, globalization, and
terrorism are fixed realities. And
since America’s globalized-edge is predicated upon strategic resources like
oil, the US cannot discontinue its risky proneness of trying to rent or convert
Arab allies who are just as diametric to Americanization as Americanization is
to them. So irrespective of the
president’s color, America will duplicitously continue to abet regimes that it
may afterwards seek to violently dismantle – under the pretext of “fighting for
freedom.”
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Ezrah Aharone is the author of two acclaimed political books: Sovereign Evolution: Manifest Destiny from Civil Rights to Sovereign Rights (2009) and Pawned Sovereignty: Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War and Reparations (2003). He is a founding member of the Center for Sovereignty Advancement. He can be reached at Ezrah@EzrahSpeaks.com.
May GOD bless you and keep you and hopefully we will see you at the rallies!!!
ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH
YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISSAC, AND JACOB!
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Halleluyah!!
Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!!
Shalom and Shalom,
Yehudah ben Yacob,
President
The LawKeepers Co.
Love GOD, Yisrael !!!!
ROSH CHODESH SHALOM TO ALL!
ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!!
Shalom, Shalom,
Yehudah ben Yacob,
President
The LawKeepers, Co.
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"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
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FROM THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE
LAWKEEPERS, CO.:
AN INVITATION TO OUR
DEMONSTRATION RALLIES
The
demonstration Rallies in New York and Washington D.C. will be coming up very
shortly, and I urge Israelites to be present and take part, as this concerns
all of us. If you
cannot make it to one of the locations in which the demonstrations are being
held, then inform friends and family who can to attend. Whether you are an
Israelite or not if you have been affected by the cruel and barbaric Slave
Trade then you ought to attend. This could be the catalyst to our freedom and
many more demonstrations to ensure Reparations.
June 15, 2011 from
8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. in New York City in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in front of
The United Nations Offices located at
48th Street and 1st Avenue.
.
June 20, 2011 from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. in Washington, D.C. before the Capitol
Building Steps. The Capitol Building is
located at 1 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C.
Just so you know for certainty that we need to leave our host nations:
If we imitate the nations’ ways and remain in our exile, we, too, will face
G-D‘s WRATH. But if we at least attempt
to get out but can‘t, then we will hopefully be the ones who are rescued at
that time. However, let’s not leave it
to chance. and let us make every effort to get out now and seek our CREATOR
G-D.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days, and
in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the
children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD
their God.
Zephaniah 1:1 - 18
1. The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah,
son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of
Judah.
2. I will
totally destroy everything from off the face of the earth, says the Lord.
3. I will
totally destroy man and beast; I will totally destroy the fowl of the heavens,
and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will
cut off man from the face of the earth, says the Lord.
4. And I will
stretch out My hand over Judah and over all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I
will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, the name of the idolatrous
priests with the ancillary priests,
5. and those
who prostrate themselves on the roofs to the host of the heavens, and those who
prostrate themselves who swear by the Lord and swear by their king,
6. and those
who turn away from following the Lord, and those who did not seek the Lord nor
inquire after Him.
7. Be silent
before the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is near. For the Lord has prepared
a slaughter; He has invited His guests.
8. And it shall
be on the day of the Lord's slaughter, that I will visit upon the princes, and
upon the king's sons, and upon all those who wear gentile garb.
9. And I will
visit upon everyone who leaps over the threshold [a Philistine idolatrous
practice], [and] those who fill the houses of their masters with violence and
deceit.
10. And it
shall come to pass on that day, says the Lord; A sound of a cry from the fish
gate, and a wail from the second gate, and great destruction from the hills.
11. Wail, O you
inhabitants of Maktesh, for the entire people of Canaan is cut off; all those
laden with silver have been cut off.
12. And it
shall come to pass on that day, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and
I will visit upon the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their
heart, "The Lord shall do neither good nor harm."
13. And their
wealth shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation, and they shall
build houses and not dwell in them, and plant vineyards and not drink their
wine. 14. The great day of the Lord is near; it is near and hastens greatly,
the sound of the day of the Lord, wherein the mighty man cries bitterly.
15. That day is
a day of wrath; a day of trouble and distress; a day of ruin and desolation; a
day of darkness and gloom; a day of clouds and thick darkness;
16. a day of
shofar and alarm against the fortified cities and against the high towers. 17.
And I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like the blind, for
they have sinned against the Lord. And their blood shall be shed like dust, and
their flesh like dung.
18. Neither
their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord's
wrath. And with the fire of His passion the entire land shall be consumed; for
an end, yea, a sudden end, He shall make of all the inhabitants of the land.
Zephaniah 2:1 –
3
1. Gather
yourselves together! Yea, gather together, O nation that has no desire,
2. before the
decree is born, as chaff that passes..the sun; before the fierce anger of the
Lord comes upon you; before the day of the Lord's anger comes upon you.
3. Seek the
Lord, all you humble of the earth who executed His judgment; Seek
righteousness, seek humility! Perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the
Lord's wrath.
For those Israelites who are waiting for G-D to come and bring judgment
(especially against the nations) and take us out , then please bear in mind
that we should not wait for this day, and we need to be cautious of falling
victim to the same judgment.
Amos 5:18-20
18. Woe to
those who desire the day of the Lord. Why would you have the day of the Lord?
It is darkness, and not light.
19. As if a man
flees from the lion and the bear meets him, and he comes to the house and leans
his hand on the wall, and a serpent bites him.
20. Is not the
day of the Lord darkness and not light, even very dark, with no brightness in
it.
In fact we should be striving to get out of our exile host nations and into the
wilderness for correction. We do not want to be caught up in this wrath that is
prophesied with the sinners. Many of
the Prophets made it abundantly clear that not only are there consequences for
sin, but that Israel is not exempt from this punishment either. Our painful exile and chastisement in fire
(Isaiah 48:10) should be a constant reminder of this.
We are daily seeing events both natural and uprising’s that are warnings to
mankind that G-D is taking HIS universe back.
What more proof do we need?
G-D does not
reward idleness and if we just wait idly for our rescue, then know for sure you
will have a long wait. This idleness has kept us in exile for so long, and the
white man knows this. In fact the white man has put measures in place to keep
us in this docile state, and it has far surpassed their expectations.
If G-D had promised this type of rescue (idleness turned to miracle), it would
be written in the scripture, but it is not. If G-D wanted us to wait idly for
our freedom then G-D’S moral laws would be of a selfish nature and most
certainly this is not the case.
Otherwise why do we have free will and a physical body obviously to use
it to exalt our CREATOR. We can only
exalt our CREATOR G-D in the way he intended when we are free.
Isaiah
48:20 and Isaiah 52:10-12
Are not these verses telling us to flee our exile (nations) with G-D before and
behind us? And in Isaiah 52:4 it discusses that if Egypt has been
punished for our captivity (where we went willingly), how much more so the
nations whom took us by force against our will? Do we want to face this judgment being amongst the heathens? We are not immune from the consequences of
sin, if we do not heed to the law.
Amos
9:8-10
8.
Behold the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy
it from upon the face of the earth; but I will not destroy the house of Jacob,
says the Lord. 9. For, behold I command, and I will scatter the house of Israel
among all the nations; as it is shaken in a sieve, and not a coarse particle
falls to the earth. 10. By the sword shall all the sinful of My people perish,
those who say, "The evil shall not soon come upon us. "
The sinners of Israel will perish alongside and within the nations.
We must fight for our freedom and not lapse into xtian ways of thinking, and
believing a Messiah will come to save us is futile. When all is said and done
only we can ensure our freedom just like Moses and the elders approached
Pharaoh we also need to approach the Pharaohs of our time. G-D uses Israelites
to do HIS bidding and even those who are sometimes considered lowly.
Judges 4; Judges 6; Judges 11 and many more.
G-D informed us that we are HIS witnesses/servants, and that we should make this
known to the nations. See Isaiah 44 and
49. G-D also informed us that HE will help/assist us in freeing our brethren,
hence we will do it aided by the HOLY ONE.
Isaiah 49:8,9
8. So said the
Lord, "In a time of favour I answered you, and on a day of salvation I
helped you; and I will watch you, and I will make you for a people of a
covenant, to establish a land, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages.
9. To say to
the prisoners, "Go out!" and to the darkness, "Show
yourselves!" By the roads they shall graze, and by all rivers is their
pasture.
Isaiah 61:1-7
1. The spirit
of the Lord God was upon me, since the Lord anointed me to bring tidings to the
humble, He sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to declare freedom for the
captives, and for the prisoners to free from captivity.
2. To declare a
year of acceptance for the Lord and a day of vengeance for our God, to console
all mourners.
3. To place for
the mourners of Zion, to give them glory instead of ashes, oil of joy instead
of mourning, a mantle of praise instead of a feeble spirit, and they shall be
called the elms of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, with which to
glory.
4. And they
shall build the ruins of old, the desolations of the first ones they shall
erect; and they shall renew ruined cities, desolations of all generations.
5. And
strangers shall stand and pasture your sheep, and foreigners shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers.
6. And you
shall be called the priests of the Lord; 'servants of our God' shall be said of
you; the possessions of the nations you shall eat, and with their glory you
shall succeed [them].
7. Instead of
your shame, which was twofold, and your disgrace, which they would bemoan as
their lot; therefore, in their land they shall inherit twofold; they shall have
everlasting joy.
(Note a year of favor or perhaps years: this difference in comparison to a day
shows that our Exodus will occur over a period of time. Other scripture supports a lengthy duration
of the second Exodus whereas the final judgment will be swift and is compared
to a day. It is the same for G-D’S drawing attention to HIMSELF by using the
elements whilst masking HIS judgment into natural occurrences. See Psalm 19th Chapter, which is
also done over a period of time.)
Also note verse 9 in Isaiah above. “And their seed shall be known among the
nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall
recognize them that they are seed that the Lord blessed.
This is something, which we will also achieve: the true identity of
Israel. See also Ezekiel 39:21-24.
Isaiah
55:11-12
G-D
has proclaimed to us our freedom. We
shall go out and into the wilderness (Ezekiel 20:34-44) just as the
Israelites went out of Egypt into the wilderness for correction and so must we.
Isaiah
55:7 Return by prayer, repentance and observing the holy
scriptures and doing what is said (as in Isaiah 52:10-12).
We
were not chosen because of our merits or favoritism.
Deuteronomy 7:6-12
6. For you are
a holy people to the Lord, your God: the Lord your God has chosen you to be His
treasured people, out of all the peoples upon the face of the earth.
7. Not because
you are more numerous than any people did the Lord delight in you and choose
you, for you are the least of all the peoples.
8. because of
the Lord's love for you, and because He keeps the oath He swore to your
forefathers, the Lord took you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the
house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
9. therefore,
that the Lord, your God He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps the covenant and
loving kindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand
generations.
10. And He
repays those who hate Him, to their face, to cause them to perish; He will not
delay the one who hates Him, but he will repay him to his face.
11. shall
therefore, observe the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I
command you this day to do.
12. it will be,
because you will heed these ordinances and keep them and perform, that the
Lord, your God, will keep for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore
to your forefathers.
So Israel and the stranger who will join with us, let us attend these
demonstration rallies. Let this be the
start of our freedom and let us seek help from the CREATOR G-D of Israel.
Deu 31:23 The charge uttered to Joshua to be strong and courageous and
go to our homeland. Is also a command to us Joshua 1:9 (Joshua 1:6-9).
Read Psalm 118 as our prayer for Reparations.
Let us finally be
Free!!!
Rosh Chodesh to All
Ham E. Lomotey,
Vice President
The LawKeepers, Co.
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"O mountains of
Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
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Tribute to the New Moon:
The service of this solar/lunar calendar of TORAH READINGS is by definition using the “LIGHTS” of the sun and moon, according to Genesis 1:14, to number the “days” of each month. And the dark phases of the moon cooperatively and conveniently provide a break between the months. If there were no dark phases of the moon, we would have a tough time determining when one month ended and when another would begin. Hence, because the Commandment is to use the “Lights” in the Heavens for “Signs” for seasons, days, and years, the New Moon Crescent is what provides us with our first lights of each new month and these lights continue waxing and waning until they are diminished to the dark phases. And then in two to three days, the New Moon Crescent reappears again starting the First Day of another new month.
Realizing that even some Israelites use the dark phase of the moon to call the new month, I would like to add one obvious fact. By definition, there can only be a “New Moon,” per se, after the dark phase interval and when the New Moon Crescent reappears, thus, we understand the concept of having a “New” moon.
If the dark phase of the moon begins the First Day of the month, then when the New Moon Crescent is “Sighted” that could approximately be as far into the month as the Fourth Day, i.e., the appearance of the “Light” in the Heavens could possibly fall on the Fourth Day. It makes no sense to start to count the first dark phase of the moon as being the First Day of the month, as this process disregards the use of the “Light” in the Heavens to determine our “days,” as we are Commanded to do in Genesis 1:14. Consider what King David said in I Samuel 20:24: “…when the New Moon was come…” He had to be speaking about the New Moon Crescent, as we are unable to “Sight” the appearance of the dark phase or rather see it “come.”
It’s the absence of seeing the moon for forty-eight or more hours that enables us to identify the approaching Crescent “Sign” in the Heavens (mentioned in Genesis 1:14) that recognizes the moon as being “New.” And upon “Sighting” this “New” Crescent” we distinguish it as being the “New Moon” and the time of the New Month, as well.
PLEASE NOTE: The Hebrew New Year is also determined by the “LIGHTS” in the Heavens and not by the “sighting of barley,” as some Black Hebrew Israelites and European “Jews” advocate.
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“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another,
shall all flesh come to worship before me,
saith the LORD.”
Isaiah 66:22,23
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<<<For The First Day of the “HEBREW” Month>>>
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COMPLETE REST or other Holy Day,
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START THE NEW MOON WATCH ON THE EVENINGS OF
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BY LOOKING IN THE “WEST” JUST ABOVE THE HORIZON.
“He appointed the moon for seasons…”
Psalm 104:19
The first “Sign” in the Heavens to provide the start of days, years and “seasons” can only begin with the “Sighting” of the New Moon Crescent - that which we can “see” in order for it to serve as a “Sign” and enable us to begin counting our days and months. Just imagine not being able to “see” the moon at all. How then could it be appointed for a “Sign” or for “seasons”?
“The natural thought might be that the moon is like a living being. It is born, grows, reaches maximum size, then fades and dies, going through all these stages in one month. Even today, we still talk of the thin crescent in the western sky as a new moon and the thin crescent in the eastern sky a month later as the old moon. Half way between is the full moon. As I explained earlier, this cycle of phases of the moon established the month as a unit of time, and the first calendars were based on this.” ISAAC ASIMOV’S GUIDE TO EARTH AND SPACE, pages 79 and 80
In that the King of Israel is supposed to be a “Righteous Judge” (II Chronicles 1:11), it stands to reason that he is also supposed to be a “Righteous Role Model.” Thus, if the King that GOD appoints over Israel observes a “feast” on the day of the New Moon, then wisdom tells the Nation of Israel to do likewise. King Saul and the anointed David observed this service (I Samuel 20th Chapter).
To their and our hurt our forefathers worshipped all manner of symbols: the sun, moon, stars, and images of gold and silver. To observe the “Sign” in the heavens as being the New Moon “Sighting” is NOT worshipping the moon, but rather it is doing as we are COMMANDED in Genesis 1:14:
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:”
Some people feel that the moon has no “light,” but according to GOD’s WORD to HIS Prophets, it most certainly does: Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 30:26; Jeremiah 31:35; Ezekiel 32:7.
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“Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
“Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
“Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast day.
“For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.”
Psalm 81:1 – 4
(A Psalm of Asaph, the Seer –
one who should be well informed about GOD’s Ways)
“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings,
and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers 10:10
Contrary to the belief of some Israelites, the moon does indeed shine! Even if the Moon shines with the aid of the sun, i.e., reflects the light of the sun, IT STILL SHINES! And the fact that Scripture attests to this fact, is what’s important: Isaiah 60:19; Jeremiah 31:35; and Ezekiel 32:7. Therefore, Genesis 1:14 is proof enough that we must use the shining New Moon Crescents as “…SIGNS, AND FOR SEASONS, AND FOR DAYS, AND FOR YEARS:”
Some Israelites, along with White Jews, use the dark phase of the moon to determine the start of a new month. If the dark phase of the moon lasts for “2-3 days,” then which of these days is supposed to be the distinguishing “Sign” that determines the First Day of the month? Or do we just arbitrarily select either/or depending on the imaginations of our hearts?
On the contrary, with the use of the sighted “Sign” of the New Moon Crescent in the Heavens we eliminate any confusion as to which day IS the First Day of the month.
“So David hid himself in the field: and WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME, the king sat him down to eat meat.” I Samuel 20:24
At the time of the dark phases of the moon (generally 2-3 days), as previously written, there is no “moon” in SIGHT. Therefore, I Samuel 20:24 sheds more light on Genesis 1:14. “WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME,” is clearly telling readers that this is a reference to a visible “Moon Crescent Sighting” - the light in the firmament…i.e., the “Sign” for (lunar) days. Thus, if we are to count all the lunar days (29.5) in a month, it only makes sense to start counting from the New Moon Crescent “when the New Moon was come” and NOT from the dark phases at the end of the month, which do not emit any “sign” or “light” in the heavens.
The only problem that presents itself when using the “New Moon Sighting” to call the First Day of the month is cloud coverage, as this prevents the ability to see the New Moon Crescent. Nonetheless, when “Sighted,” one can easily distinguish the New Moon Crescent from all the other phases due to its thin sliver and its low position in the heavens. And the reason is that no two days or rather phases of the visible moon are alike. Hence, to use the New Moon Crescent as the “Sign” in the heavens, as we are COMMANDED to do for our seasons, days, and years, negates the belief that the “commandment was given to the luminaries.” The “luminaries” fulfill GOD’s Commandments: the sun shines and the moon orbits the Earth. They have no need to determine seasons, days, and years. Hence, our New Moons are obviously of more spiritual significance to the Nation of Israel than we are aware. And for sure, the TRUTH concerning them are in GOD’s WORD to HIS Prophets/Seers - not the White Jews or other Gentiles. All we need do is use wisdom, discern what’s written in Scripture, accept it, and act accordingly!
“Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
“Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.” II Chronicles 8:12,13
Unless there is an emergency, please try not to buy or sell on this day. Conduct all financial and business transactions prior to the day of the New Moon. Interesting enough, II Kings 4:23,24 constitutes the New Moon as being a day to seek “the man of God.” Although the New Moon is NOT a Day of Rest, Our GOD did set it aside for recognition:
“Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” Psalm 81:3
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” Isaiah 66:23
“…When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?…” Amos 8:5
Probably, the Scripture that most determines and clarifies the fact that our New Moons are Feast Days is Ezekiel 45:17:
“And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the NEW MOONS, and in the Sabbaths, in ALL SOLEMNITIES of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the HOUSE OF ISRAEL.” (Caps. are mine.)
Unequivocally, our New Moons are included in these “SOLEMNITIES” mentioned in Ezekiel 45:17.
“Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the Sabbaths [Feasts – NOT 7th Day Sabbaths*] and in the NEW MOONS.” Ezekiel 46:3 (Brackets are mine.)
Thereby, this verse justifies the First Day of each month being our “Feast” Day. It should be realized that the Feast Days that Our GOD selected (Leviticus 23rd Chapter) are “Holy Convocations,” i.e., on these days we cannot do any work. However, because King Saul observed the New Moon as a Feast Day, we have every reason to do so, as well. We also have learned that our forefathers traveled to the Temple to worship the Holy ONE on the New Moon (II Kings 4:23; Ezekiel 45:17; and Ezekiel 46:1), and when HE has HIS Temple rebuilt, then we will again be able to resume this service and worship.
When we return to our heritage and worship YIHOVAH according to HIS Ways, then we can establish our own “Calendar of the Universe,” whereby, the days of the New Moon and all GOD’s Holy Days will be recognized by the whole entire World. And I am sure that it will be the desire of the Righteous Remnant and ALL the world to make a Feast to the Most High GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel every First Day of the Month.
ALSO, I believe that if Lot (Genesis 19:3) and Abraham (Genesis 21:8) can proclaim “Feasts,” then there is no stipulation for NOT establishing Feast Days, as we so desire. Therefore, to proclaim a feast to EXALT the Holy ONE of Israel on the First Day of each month is quite acceptable - given the Scripture (above) regarding worshipping Our LORD GOD of ISRAEL, Our SAVIOR, on the New Moons. We should know that throughout the Tanakh Hebrew Israelites called for “feasts” for various occasions. Therefore, we are within our rights to observe a Feast every New Moon to Our GOD, the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel. And those of us who love this WONDERFUL GOD and who choose HIM to EXALT HIM for being the ONLY LORD and SAVIOR can be at liberty to use the day of the New Moon to show forth HIS PRAISE in a “feast” and worship HIM in Jerusalem FOREVER.
“And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and [he] made a feast to all his servants.”
I Kings 3:15
*Leviticus 23:24,39 (Sabbaths of Feasts)
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A Tribute to GOD’s “HOLY” Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete REST - HIS WEEKLY ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE and SIGN between HIM and Israelites for HIS CREATION of the Heavens and the Earth:
“Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath,
to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever:
for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”
Exodus 31:17,18
Since we know for a fact that GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath is a “Sign” between HIM and Israel, why take any chance to profane it? Every passage about the Holy Sabbath of COMPLETE Rest stands strong in support of GOD’s Commandment to abide in our places on the Seventh Day (Exodus 16:29) – ever last one of them – including the passage in Jeremiah where we are Commanded to “Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;” Jeremiah 17:21 (Please read verses 21 to 27.)
Perhaps the wise thing to do would be to define the word “burden.” But more importantly, we need to determine whether or not Exodus 16:29 is a Commandment or not. And if it is determined to be one, then we should Fear the GOD of Israel and be obedient to what HE has Commanded of us.
“But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power
and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship,
and to him shall ye do sacrifice. And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law,
and the commandment, which he wrote for you,
he shall observe to do for ever more;
and ye shall not fear other gods.”
II Kings 17:36,37
Why must we debate that which is clearly written for us to do and for very good reason, if we will only consider and think about it? The Holy ONE wants us to be first to observe HIS weekly Anniversary of Creation, which is to keep HIS Holy Seventh day at REST, as HE did, in order that we might be REFRESHED!
“REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY”
Exodus 20:8
“See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” Exodus 16:29
“And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.” Exodus 35:1,2
“Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation [“HOLY DAY”]; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.” Leviticus 23:3
“Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.” Exodus 31:15 - 17
“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:2,3
Significantly, in the beginning when the Holy ONE of Israel established this Sabbath Day of COMPLETE REST and when HE clearly COMMANDED the Children of Israel in the Wilderness to observe this Holy Day, HE MADE NO EXCEPTIONS!
If “ALL” GOD’s COMMANDMENTS are sure, then for sure, we must give credence to Exodus 16:29 and abide in our places on GOD’s HOLY Seventh Day of Complete REST as we are COMMANDED TO DO!
“He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.” Psalm 111:7
GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of REST is not only one of HIS Greatest WORKS of all time, but this Holy Day is an extraordinary “SIGN” between this Most High GOD, the CREATOR and HIS Chosen People, the Children of Israel! This Seventh Day also marks the Anniversary of GOD ending the Creations of the Heavens, Earth, man, and all that is therein.
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:1 - 3
“And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
“See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” Exodus 16:23,29
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.” Exodus 24:12
“Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should DO SO IN THE LAND whither ye go to possess it.” Deuteronomy 4:5 (Caps. are mine.)
CONSIDER ALSO the fact that the CREATOR GOD of Israel only Commanded that we go to Jerusalem “THREE TIMES in the year”. Had the Holy ONE wanted us to travel to Jerusalem on HIS Holy Sabbath Day of COMPLETE REST, HE would have Commanded that, as well. Thus, given Exodus 16:29, we have to realize, understand, and accept the fact that it was never HIS intention for us to travel and/or leave our places on HIS most Holy Seventh Day.
“Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.” Exodus 23:14 - 17
“Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast” Deuteronomy 16:16
There is no Scripture indicating that Israelites traveled to Jerusalem on GOD’s HALLOWED SEVENTH DAY.
THE PLACE THAT OUR GOD OF ISRAEL CHOSE IS THE HOLY CITY JERUSALEM.
The Israelite Way of Life was set in stone in the Wilderness, as to how we are Commanded to prepare to live according to ALL GOD’s LAW, as well as for HIS Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete REST, i.e., how we are supposed to keep it, as well as the consequences for profaning it. And there are no exceptions.
CONCERNING “HOLY CONVOCATION”
The issue stemming from the meaning of “Holy Convocation” written in Leviticus 23rd Chapter is real, and the interpretation is grossly misunderstood. “Holy Convocation” does not mean “To Gather.” And the sin committed by traveling and gathering on the CREATOR’s Holy Sabbath of Complete REST has grave consequences (Exodus 31:12 - 18).
Conclusive evidence that “holy convocation” DOES NOT mean to assemble is provided in the passage on Passover. In Exodus 12:16 we are told that Passover is a “holy convocation” but yet, we are Commanded to observe this High Holy Day with our immediate families and only to join with another family if one’s members are too few for the lamb (Exodus 12:4). This proves without a doubt that “holy convocation” cannot mean to assemble, but rather to keep the holy days “HOLY.” Some call attention to the fact that because Israelites were Commanded to ”…turn in the morning and go into their tents” (Deuteronomy 16:5-7) that this is proof of an assembly. Those Israelite families that joined with others are the ones GOD Commanded to return to their tents.
The Holy ONE of Israel DOES NOT contradict HIMSELF! HE would not COMMAND us to “Rest” on the Sabbath Day of Rest and also Command us to “abide ye every man in your place on the seventh day,” and then confuse us by telling us to “assemble” on the “rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD.” This would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Therefore, if the Holy ONE of Israel said don’t bear a burden on the Sabbath Day of Rest (Jeremiah 17:21,22) and that our asses (used for travel) had to also rest, then for sure we have to “abide in our places…on the seventh day.” Thus, using our cars and paying tolls and public transportation on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of Rest is absolutely forbidden! And walking to the Temple or to any meeting place was and still is out of the question all because GOD’s Seventh Day is specifically to be kept as a DAY of “COMPLETE REST” - Shabatone (as is written in Hebrew).
The wise, obedient ones understand the great importance of observing this Seventh Day of Rest exactly as GOD Commanded and will not add to or diminish from this Law of the “Blessed,” “Sanctified,” and “Holy” Seventh Day Sabbath.
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“…we will remember the name of the LORD our God.”
Psalm 20:7
“And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee:
for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.”
Psalm 9:10
“… The LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob…this is my name for ever,
and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
Exodus 3:15
“Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant
whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me,
and understand that
I am he:
before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me.
“I, even I, am the LORD;
and beside me there is no saviour.”
Isaiah 43:10,11
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The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord.
Next, is the keeping of HIS Laws.
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THE TORAH READINGS FOR THE NEW MOON,
AND GOD’s SEVENTH DAY SABBATHS
DURING
THE MONTH OF
JUNE 2011
ARE AS FOLLOWS:
(If some of the Sabbath Readings are too lengthy for one day, then pace yourself,
and consider reading the TORAH Readings on the Sabbath
and the
rest of the Hebrew Scriptures listed throughout the week.
GOD’s LAW is our LIFE, and the added information is our Biblical History,
ALL of which we should know for our wisdom and our understanding!)
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NEW MOON CRESCENT WATCH
FOR FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH:
June 1,2,3, 2011
“Sing, O
heavens; and be joyful,
O earth;
and break forth into
singing,
O mountains: for the
LORD
hath comforted his people,
and will
have mercy upon his
afflicted.”
Isaiah 49:13
Genesis 1:14 - 19
Exodus 10:1 - 3
Numbers 10:10
Numbers 28:11 – 15
I Samuel 20:18,24;24 - 29
Psalm 81:1 – 10
Isaiah 66:23
Ezekiel 45:17
Ezekiel 46:3
Exodus 10:1 – 3
Amos 8:5
Leviticus Chapters 14 - 16
Leviticus 18:19,24,27 - 30
Genesis 31:34,35
Exodus 19:10 - 25
I Samuel 21:1 - 6
Jeremiah 10:1 - 3
Ezekiel 36th Chapter
Isaiah 58th Chapter
Zechariah 7th Chapter
Psalm 1st Chapter
“Now
these are the commandments,
the
statutes, and the judgments, which
the LORD
your God commanded to
teach
you, that ye might do them in the
land
whither ye go to possess it: That
thou
mightest fear the LORD thy God, to
keep all
his statutes and his
commandments,
which I command thee,
thou,
and thy son, and thy son's son, all
the days
of thy life; and that thy days
may be
prolonged.” Deuteronomy 6:1,2
SHABBOT READINGS – 6/4/11
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 23:12
Exodus 31:12 – 18
Exodus 35:2,3
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 8
Isaiah 58:10 – 14
Leviticus Chapters 17 - 19
Joshua 22:9 – 34
Nehemiah 12:26 – 47
Lamentations 2:7
Amos 4th Chapter
Ezekiel 22nd Chapter
Isaiah 1st Chapter
Psalm 16th Chapter
Psalm 58th Chapter
Psalm 34th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS – 6/11/11
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 23:12
Exodus 31:12 – 18
Exodus 35:2,3
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 8
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Leviticus Chapters 20 - 22
Ezekiel 11th Chapter
I Kings 12:23 - 33
I Kings 13:33,34
Jeremiah 32:17 – 44
Malachi 1:6 - 11
Psalm 81:3
Psalm 44th Chapter
Psalm 115th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS – 6/18/11
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 23:12
Exodus 31:12 – 18
Exodus 35:2,3
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 8
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Leviticus Chapters 23 - 25
Exodus 23:14 - 19
Exodus 34:21 - 26
Numbers 10:10
Deuteronomy 12:1 - 18
Deuteronomy 16:9 - 11
Deuteronomy 16:16
Deuteronomy 31:9 - 13
I Chronicles 23:24 - 32
II Chronicles 31:1 - 10
Ezra 3:1 - 6
Nehemiah 8th Chapter
Nehemiah 10:28 – 39
Isaiah 35th Chapter
Isaiah 66:18 - 24
Ezekiel 46:16,17
Zechariah 14:16 - 21
Amos 5th Chapter
Psalm 5th Chapter
Psalm 9th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS – 6/25/11
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 23:12
Exodus 31:12 – 18
Exodus 35:2,3
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 8
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Leviticus Chapters 26 & 27 and
Numbers Chapter 1
Numbers 8:24 - 26
Deuteronomy 4:12 - 20
Jeremiah 15th Chapter
Jeremiah 30th and 31st Chapters
Malachi 3rd Chapter
Isaiah 66:21
Malachi 2:7
II Chronicles 5th Chapter
Psalm 18th Chapter
SHABBOT READINGS – 7/2/11
Genesis 2:1 - 3
Exodus 16:29
Exodus 23:12
Exodus 31:12 – 18
Exodus 35:2,3
Jeremiah 17:19 - 27
Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
Isaiah 56:1 - 8
Isaiah 58:10 - 14
Numbers Chapters 2 - 4
Exodus 28:15 – 21
Exodus 39:10 - 14
Jeremiah 30:18 - 24
Isaiah 9th Chapter
II Chronicles 1:1 – 13
Malachi 2:4 - 7
Malachi 3:1 - 7
Psalm 136th Chapter
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WATCH FOR THE NEXT
NEW MOON CRESCENT "SIGHTING"
ON
JULY
1,2,3, 2011
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“And God said, Let there be LIGHTS in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night;
and LET THEM BE FOR SIGNS, and for SEASONS, and for DAYS, and YEARS:”
Genesis 1:14
“He [GOD] appointed the moon for seasons:
the sun knoweth his going down.”
Psalm 104:19
“Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day,
and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night,
which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar;
The LORD of hosts is his name:
“If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD,
then the seed of Israel also shall cease
from being a nation before me for ever.”
Jeremiah 31:35,36
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A complete TORAH Readings Hebrew Calendar for
all the months of the year, lists Scripture for
the “Holy” Sabbaths of Rest, the New Moon Watches, and
the Holy Feast Days and can be found on The LawKeepers WebSite:
www.thelawkeepers.org
Click on “TORAH Readings.”
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QUESTIONS ON
“OLD TESTAMENT” BIBLE TRIVIA TO PONDER:
QUESTIONS TWO:
“Now the sons of Eli were sons of
Belial; they knew not the LORD.” I Samuel 2:12
What are “Sons of
Belial”?
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“Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at
his footstool; for he is holy.”
Psalm 99:5
If we are told to Exalt Our GOD of Israel
and worship HIM, wouldn’t that discredit JC?
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Q & A
(QUESTION and ANSWER):
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and
a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105
“The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the
simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the
commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean,
enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD 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 thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great
reward.” Psalm 19:7 – 11
“To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light
in them.” Isaiah 8:20
How is GOD’s LAW and HIS WORD a Lamp unto
our feet and a LIGHT unto our path?
Without GOD’s LIGHT
(LAW) to show us HIS Righteous Paths that HE wants us to follow, then for sure
we would be walking in darkness. And if
we walk in darkness, then our steps would go off GOD’s already beaten path into
areas of unrighteousness. However, if
we remain on the LIGHTED PATHS of HIS LAW, we can walk without fear of our
enemies, and we will walk in GOD’s Peace, Happiness, and Prosperity.
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INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HARDY, HEALTHY HEBREWS:
HEALTH REPORT FROM THE DESK OF OUR SISTER T'ZIRAH BAHT YISRAEL:
Thank you YHWH for making me. YOU alone sustain me.
Praise YHWH for HIS majesty, for YOUR mercy, and YOUR patience with me.
I just wanted to thank YOU for making such a wonderful body.
What a creation you made. . My body is a miracle of parts and systems.
Thank you YHWH.
Praise YHWH.
HALLELUYAH! HALLELUYAH! HALLELUYAH!
Praise YHWH the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all HIS benefits-who forgives all our sins and heals all our diseases
Psalms 103:2-3
O YHWH my GOD, I called to you for help and you healed me.
Psalm 30:2
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THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE:
HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO CHANGE?
Since the Obama administration is busy attempting to "reform health care", I'd like to canvass those here at The LawKeepers Website to elicit your opinions and/or suggestions about how you think changing the system would work. I would also like for viewers to look at Michael Moore's "Sicko" documentary for some insight into the present American Health Care System.
We all are responsible for safeguarding our health and the health of those of our immediate families. And in the coming days and years we will face some real health challenges. Please send your comments and ideas in so we can discuss health and health care to find real solutions.
I'd like to know about people's experiences with either health care practitioners, e.g., doctors, nurses, Physician Assistants (PA's) or APN (Advanced Practice Nurses), Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNS), Certified Nurses Assistants (CNA's, Nurses Aides), Medical Assistants or experiences while patients are in hospitals, clinics., etc.
In the coming years we will see more and more "walk in" type clinics run by either privately run or individually controlled medical care.
I look forward to receiving your opinions and concerns.
Sister T’Zirah baht Yisrael
June E. Porter MSN RN CS
JELPO @AOL.COM
*****
On Wednesday, Dr. Oz had a show on the fastest
growing cancer in women: thyroid cancer. It was a very interesting
program and he mentioned that the increase could possibly be related to the
use of dental x-rays and mammograms.
He demonstrated that on the apron the dentist
puts on you for your dental x-rays there is a little flap that can be lifted up
and wrapped around your neck.
Many dentists don't bother to use it. Also, there is something called a "thyroid guard" for use during mammograms. By coincidence, I had my yearly mammogram yesterday. I felt a little silly, but I asked about the guard and sure enough, the technician had one in a drawer I asked why it wasn't routinely used. Answer: "I don't know. You have to ask for it."
Well, if I hadn't seen the show, how would I have known to ask?
Circulated by our Sister T’zirah (JELPO@AOL.COM)
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WHO:
CELLPHONES POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC
A branch
of the World Health Organization
announced Tuesday that cellphones are "possible carcinogens" — a
statement that was met with skepticism from many American cancer experts.
By
Spencer Platt, Getty Images
A
few studies have found that cellphone users are more likely to develop gliomas
or acoustic neuromans.
By
Spencer Platt, Getty Images
A few
studies have found that cellphone users are more likely to develop gliomas or
acoustic neuromans.
The
statement came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which
convened 31 international experts in Lyon, France, this past week to sort
through data on cellphone safety.
Experts
didn't conduct any new research, but instead analyzed exisiting studies,
including two new ones that have not yet been published.
Jonathan
Samet, of the University of Southern California,
chairman of the IARC working group, said in the statement that "there
could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link
between cell phones and cancer risk."
In its
statement, the IARC noted a possible connection between cellphones and two type
of brain tumors — gliomas and acoustic neuromas. The group says there's not
enough evidence to link cellphones to other cancers.
Even
the IARC acknowledges that the evidence for classifying cellphones as possible
causes of brain tumors is "limited."
It
also lists coffee, styrofoam cups, gasoline exhaust and common medications,
such as Valium, as possible carcinogens, says Otis Brawley, chief medical
officer at the American Cancer Society.
"When
we as consumers hear 'possibly carcinogenic,' we freak," Brawley says.
"But the data is not at all certain, and needs further study. There are
probably far more people killed in car accidents caused by cellphones than from
brain tumors caused by cellphones."
Some
people have worried about cellphones because they emit radio waves, a form of
non-ionizing, low-frequency radiation. Unlike the radiation given off by the
sun, tanning beds or CT machines, however, the kind of radiation given off by
phones is too weak to damage DNA, however, Brawley says.
Most
human studies have shown no link between cellphones and brain tumors, says cancer
epidemiologist Roberta McKean-Cowdin. A few studies have found that cellphone
users are more likely to develop gliomas or acoustic neuromans, but only after
frequent or longterm use, she says.
Yet
Donald Berry of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston notes that there's been
no increase in brain cancer rates in the USA, in spite of astronomical growth in mobile technology. If
anything, Berry says, brain cancer rates may be declining slightly.
The
notion that cellphones cause brain cancer is "just an urban myth that
keeps coming up," Berry says. "The panel somehow decided that there
is maybe something here, that's possibly carcinogenic, which ranks with
everything else in the world."
Brawley
notes that most studies about cellphones have important limitations.
Researchers typically ask people with brain cancers about their past cellphone
use, then compare their answers with those given by people who've never had
cancer. But Brawley says that people may not remember their cellphone use
correctly — especially if they've gone through something as traumatic as being
diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Georgetown
University Medical Center's Peter Shields says, "'possible' does not mean
the same thing as 'it will cause cancer.'"
Shields,
professor of medicine and oncology and deputy director of Georgetown's Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer Center, notes that there are three categories of risk:
possible, probable and known. Cellphone radiation falls under
"possible."
"This
is nothing like asbestos or smoking, which causes cancer in 1of 10 people who
smoke cigarettes," Shields says Occupational exposures to radar and
microwaves, and environmental exposures associated with transmission of signals
for radio, television and wireless telecommunication were also evaluated but
not found to cause risk at this time, because there wasn't enough data
available, says Robert Baan, a senior scientist in IARC's Monographs Program,
which evaluates carcinogenic hazards of all kinds and convenes working groups
three times per year.
Wireless
association CTIA downplayed the risks.
"The
IARC classification does not mean cellphones cause cancer," said spokesman
John Walls. "Under IARC rules, limited evidence from statistical studies
can be found even though bias and other data flaws may be the basis for the
results."
Mobile
phone use is on a steady uptick worldwide. There were 427.8 million units solds
in the first quarter of 2011, a 19% increase from the 359.6 million sold a year
earlier, according to Gartner.
Michael
Weaver, a professor of neurosurgery at Temple University Hospital in
Philadelphia, recommends people use landlines when possible — he was using one
during the interview — or use headsets with cords that keep the phone at a
distance, and opt to text instead of call.
Weaver
says there could be more brain tumors and memory problems in the heaviest
mobile device users as time goes on.
"But
it will take a decade or two to bear this out. You're not going to see the
effects of the heavier users for a decade or so," he says.
Baan
says newer cellphones, third- and fourth-generation models, emit less radiation
than those from the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the research IARC evaluted
was conducted. But, he says, millions more phones are now in use.
According
to the IARC, more than 5 billion cellphones are used globally.
The
IARC will publish its findings on the carcinogenic hazard from radiofrequency
electromagnetic fields in The Lancet Oncology's July 1 issue and online
in several days.
Contributing:
Scott Martin
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-31-cellular-radiation-cancer_n.htm?csp=34news
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[As I have always said, “WE NEED OUR OWN FARMLAND”! And the Wilderness will do just fine!!! T.Y., Editor]
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How Safe is Your Food? GMO,
Foodborne Illnesses and
Biotechnology
A Review of GRAIN's report on Food Safety
by Rady Ananda
GRAIN
has released a global report, Food Safety for Whom? Corporate Wealth vs.
Peoples’ Health, showing how governments and corporations use “food
safety” to manipulate market access and control. Rather than making food safer,
domestic and trade rules “force open markets, or backdoor ways to limit market
access.” Highlighting aspects of the report, GRAIN states:
“Across the world, people are getting sick and dying from
food like never before. Governments and corporations are responding with all
kinds of rules and regulations, but few have anything to do with public health.
The trade agreements, laws and private standards used to impose their version
of ‘food safety’ only entrench corporate food systems that make us sick and
devastate those that truly feed and care for people, those based on
biodiversity, traditional knowledge, and local markets.”
Graph: Data
compiled by GRAIN from government and UN sources, 2008-2010 (except
Australia=2005)
Canadian
raw milk producer Michael Schmidt makes a brief statement about these fake food
safety laws that violate food freedom in this video (though he has confused it
with food sovereignty, which is the right of a nation to determine food safety
standards and appropriate ag technologies despite trade agreements):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGa04mNr5p0&
In
the next video, Paul Noble discusses raw milk and government intrusion. “If God
had intended us to drink pasteurized milk, he would have put a pasteurizer on
the cow.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPj0xeeaus
GRAIN
notes, “During US President Obama's visit to India in November 2010, Indian
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar made it clear that the United States can
produce all the scientific studies it wants, and they will be respectfully
reviewed, but India will not import US dairy products that offend domestic
religious sensitivities.”
That
corporations control governments is undeniable, and we see this with the Food
Safety Modernization Act. On May 4th, citing the FSMA for its authority, the US
Food and Drug Administration declared it can seize food without evidence of
contamination. This blatantly violates the U.S. Constitution protecting citizens
from unreasonable search and seizure.
In
its 37-page report, GRAIN spends time showing how bilateral trade agreements
inhibit developing nations from controlling imports and exports. Rules
generated by the World Trade Organization, in the name of food safety, “do
little to protect public health, serving only corporate growth imperatives and
profit margins.” Several specific examples are given. (To follow developing and
ongoing bilateral trade agreements, visit Bilaterals.org.)
But
strict food standards disappear when it comes to genetically modified foods:
“At the trade negotiating table, the US government is well
known –and feared– for pushing lax standards on genetically modified foods.
Indeed, a diplomatic cable uncovered by Wikileaks shows that the George W. Bush
administration pressured the French government to ease its stance against GMOs.
In a 2007 cable, the US ambassador to France went so far as to suggest that ‘we
calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since
this [acceptance of GMOs] is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses
in part on the worst culprits.’ He added: ‘The list should be measured rather
than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not
expect an early victory.’
“Such
‘diplomacy’ is for the clear and direct benefit of Monsanto, DuPont and other
agricultural biotechnology corporations that do not like foreign countries
banning GM seeds or foods, much less requiring labels that inform consumers of
the presence of GM ingredients. US firms, especially the members of the
Biotechnology Industry Organisation, religiously use FTA talks by Washington
officials as a platform to secure market access for GMOs through aggressive
regulatory reforms.”
Though
the FDA makes a big deal of improper labeling, it refuses to label genetically
modified foods in the US. This only serves biotech corporations, since 95% of the population wants GMO
labeling.
“Besides GMOs,” GRAIN continues, “US trade policy is also
seen as destabilising other countries' sovereignty over food safety and health
matters, insofar as Washington regularly demands relaxation of rules against
the import of US farm products that others deem risky, such as beef (BSE,
hormones), veal (hormones), chicken (chlorine) and pork (swine flu).”
The
report goes on to cover the growing halal food market, animal welfare, and
transnational supermarkets. Mentioning Bayer CropScience and Syngenta, GRAIN
writes:
“With the pesticide industry so intimately involved in
developing and implementing supermarket standards, it’s hardly surprising that
pesticide contamination remains prevalent on supermarket produce. Tests done by
Greenpeace in China in 2008 and 2009 on popular vegetables and fruit found far
more serious pesticide pollution on those collected from Walmart and the other
major supermarkets than on those collected at wet markets.”
GRAIN
also focuses on the rising number of indigenous movements resisting “corporate
food safety” from the jungles of the South, to rural Maine towns declaring food
sovereignty, to major urban centers across the globe. Like a feedback loop,
these small, localized movements foster a growing sense of self-rule:
“The
Korean people's resistance to US beef has grown into an expression of profound
distrust toward Korea's system of representational democracy, including the
state's relationship with the US, not an irrational fear of prions. In
Australia, the campaign has been more about keeping Australian food within
Australian hands, a concern that many peoples across the world share with
regard to governance and control of their own country's food supplies.
“As
to anti-GMO struggles, they are as diverse as the anti-US beef campaigns, but
they have also been about profound issues of democracy, the survival of local
cultures and food systems against the onslaught of Western
"solutions", about keeping seeds and knowledge alive in communities’
hands and challenging whole models of development.”
Recognizing
that super-hygienic, sterile food destroys probiotics, the raw food movement is
taking off in industrialized nations:
“Many producer organisations and consumers groups, not to
mention large movements like Slow Food, are convinced that biodiversity and
ecological complexity – as opposed to extreme hygiene – are the keys to healthy
and stable systems. Nature abhors a vacuum, after all. Of course, these sounder
approaches to food safety also rely on short distribution circuits, getting
food from the farm or the small-scale processing plant into people's homes
through less complex, more direct distribution schemes (food clubs, all sorts
of community-support agriculture systems, co-ops, and so on).”
Heat
destroys enzymes; cooked milk lacks the probiotics that make milk a natural
wholesome food. The U.S. requires that milk be pasteurized if sold across state
lines. Not only that, but the same milk is adulterated with genetically
modified ingredients and antibiotics, both of which are fed to the cows and
which transfers into the milk.
GRAIN
concludes that “we may want to stop talking about food safety altogether and
assert instead our own demands for food quality, or something similarly more
holistic. Food safety, or food quality in broader terms, is a ground on which
big corporate agriculture and supermarket cultures cannot outperform small
producers and local markets. The challenge is to ensure that the small and the
local can remain alive and turn today's heightened concerns for food safety in
our favour.”
The
report is timely and relevant and a must-read for those who want a global
picture of the move to control the world's food.
Further Reading:
F.
William Engdahl, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of
Genetic Manipulation
David Gumpert, Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
Rady Ananda specializes in Natural Resources and administers the sites, Food Freedom and COTO Report
Rady Ananda is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Rady Ananda
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24660
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GRAIN has released a global report, Food Safety for Whom? Corporate Wealth vs. Peoples’ Health, showing how governments and corporations use “food safety” to manipulate market access and control. Rather than making food safer, domestic and trade rules “force open markets, or backdoor ways to limit market access.”
Comment by yehudahben
Yisraelite Radio Broadcasting Network (YRBN)
Sunday May 8, 2011
*****
[So much for democracy, health, and freedom,
etc., etc. The more this government
makes decisions for human beings, the more I know these rulers have got to be
losing their minds! T.Y., Editor]
***
When
the government blocked the use of food stamps and other nutritional aid for
cigarettes and alcohol, most people gave it at least tacit support. The
idea behind food stamps and welfare wasn’t to feed addictions, but to feed
people. Now, however, the government has decided to dictate choices on food, too — beginning with the
potato. Potato farmers have begun protesting a decision by the USDA’s Food
and Nutrition Service to bar participants in its food-aid programs from buying
spuds at the grocery store:
With that in mind, the Institute of
Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, recommended that
the U.S. Department of Agriculture stop participants of the federal Women,
Infants and Children program, known as WIC, from buying potatoes with federal
dollars. The institute also called for the USDA-backed school
lunch program to limit use of potatoes.
Under an interim rule, the USDA agreed to
bar WIC participants from buying potatoes with their federal dollars. Potatoes
are the only vegetable not allowed. Next year, the agency will roll out a final
rule on the WIC program, which last year served 9.3 million children and
pregnant and breast-feeding women considered at risk for malnutrition.
The WIC program is a supplemental food
program, and the determination was made that consumption of white potatoes was
already adequate, said Christine Stencel, spokeswoman for the Institute of
Medicine.
“The recommendation was made to encourage
consumption of other fruits and vegetables,” she said.
At
the same time, the USDA will act to reduce potatoes in school lunches
subsidized through its programs. Given that the government actually does
the preparation of the lunches themselves (in the form of public school
cafeterias and district kitchens), that’s less of an intrusion on choice than a
strategic decision on menu offerings. But given that schools or their
contractors control the preparation, perhaps it might make more sense to focus
on a healthier preparation than omitting a perfectly acceptable source of
nutrition altogether.
Potato
farmers point out that their crop does have significant nutritional value. Potatoes, while starchy (as
are carrots and other root vegetables), contain high levels of potassium and
Vitamin C, both essential elements in a healthy diet. The problems associated
with potatoes are more accurately assigned to the manner in which they are
cooked — deep friend or covered in cheese and sour cream. In fact, buying
potatoes at the store usually means better preparation than one finds in
chain-store restaurants.
Most offensively, the program treats subsidy recipients as if they cannot make their own food choices for themselves. People may tend to write this off by saying that aid recipients aren’t entitled to the money and that the USDA can set whatever condition it likes on the service, and that’s true. WIC and food-stamp recipients can buy potatoes with their own cash, too. But when a large number of Americans start receiving federal subsidies on health insurance — subsidies that will apply to anyone in the health exchanges with an annual salary of $88,000 or less, which is the 62nd percentile for annual household income in the US — what dictates will then be permissible? Smoking, alcohol, food? All of these impact health, and health-care costs.
[What is up with government officials who do
not want to allocate food stamps for the poor?
One of the most inexpensive foods in the market can no longer be bought
with food stamps. All intelligence has
just gone out of the windows when it comes to the decisions these public
servants make for others! T.Y., Editor]
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Potatoes have been getting a bad rap in the food
world. But the pride of Idaho actually has much to boast about. Potatoes are
filling, moderate in calories, and non-fattening, and are an excellent way to
ensure your continued success in eating healthy.
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|
Whoever coined the phrase "the lowly
potato" certainly wasn't aware of its nutrient values. And
anyone who still shuns the potato thinking it is fattening is missing out on a
food tailor-made for the calorie-conscious person.
Potatoes are
nutrient-dense, meaning you receive many nutrients for the amount of calories they have. The fiber is half soluble, half insoluble, so it helps to keep
you regular and helps to lower cholesterol. And slowing down digestion helps to keep you
full longer. Phytochemicals in potatoes include
flavanoids and a recently identified compound called kukoamine that appears to
help lower blood pressure.
With the exception of vitamin A, white potatoes have just about every nutrient. Did
you know potatoes are full of vitamin C? However, since we do not eat potatoes raw, most of
the vitamin C is lost due to the heat of cooking. In addition, one baked potato
offers about 20 percent of the daily recommended amount of vitamin B6, which is good news for your heart. They are also
very high in potassium, beating other potassium-rich foods. They are a
good source of iron and copper, too. In fact, a potato a day is good for your heart, promoting normal blood-pressure levels.
As it turns out, the bad rap belongs to the toppings and preparation methods we
often use to turn potatoes from a healthful food to a fatty, salty snack. The
health-conscious will want to bake, not fry, and be conscious of the
nutritional value of the oils, toppings, and condiments that touch our spuds.
Nutritional
Values for White Potato, Fresh, Baked (with Skin)
Serving Size: 1 large baking potato (3-4")
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278 |
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<1 g |
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Saturated Fat |
<1 g |
|
0 mg |
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63 g |
|
|
6 g |
|
|
6 g |
|
|
21 mg |
|
|
37 mg |
|
|
<1 mg |
|
|
5 mg |
|
|
1 mg |
|
|
<1 mg |
|
|
2 mg |
|
|
81 mg |
|
|
Manganese |
<1 mg |
|
224 mg |
|
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1,627 mg |
Want more information about potatoes? Try:
Vegetable Recipes: Find delicious
recipes that feature potatoes.
Vegetable Gardens: Grow a full
harvest of great vegetables this year.
Nutrition: Find out if potatoes
fit into your nutritional plan.
Gardening: We answer your
questions about all things that come from the garden.
This information is solely for informational purposes. IT
IS NOT INTENDED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. Neither the Editors of Consumer
Guide (R), Publications International, Ltd., the author nor publisher take
responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, procedure,
exercise, dietary modification, action or application of medication which
results from reading or following the information contained in this
information. The publication of this information does not constitute the
practice of medicine, and this information does not replace the advice of your
physician or other health care provider. Before undertaking any course of
treatment, the reader must seek the advice of their physician or other health
care provider.
http://home.howstuffworks.com/potatoes3.htm
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By
Shereen Jeqtivg, About.com Guide
About.com
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Potatoes are one of the most popular vegetables because they are nutritious, easy to prepare, and very versatile. They're rich in complex carbohydrates that can supply energy, but not all that high in calories. One medium-sized potato (about 3 inches in diameter) has about 150 calories. That same potato has about 5 grams of fiber, which is important for a healthy digestive tract. They're also a healthy source of vitamins and minerals.
Potatoes
contain more potassium than any other fresh vegetable in the produce department
- even more than bananas. One potato has almost 900 milligrams, which is about
20% of what you need every day. Potassium is important for body growth and cell
maintenance. It's also necessary for nervous function and for normal muscle
contraction - including the heart muscle. Potassium is also an electrolyte that
helps to balance the fluids in your body, which is important for healthy blood
pressure.
Potatoes
also contain substantial amounts of vitamins C and B6, which are vital for blood
clotting, wound healing, a strong immune system, normal nervous system function
and for converting the food you eat to energy. There's also a substance called
kukoamine found in potatoes that may help to lower blood pressure, although
more research is necessary to know for sure.
Preparing Potatoes
Potatoes
are easy to cook. You can boil them or bake them, sauté or roast them with a
little olive oil, or use them in soups or stews. Potatoes can also be mashed
with a little non-fat milk, or used in a potato salad.
While
a plain potato with the skin intact is very good for you, potatoes can have an
evil side. French fries and potato chips are full of fat, salt and calories,
and a baked potato can go from good to bad when you add bacon, cheese and a big
glop of sour cream. Keep your baked potato healthy by topping it with some
lycopene-rich salsa, or use a dab of low-fat sour cream.
Here
are some healthy potato recipes:
Roasted New Potatoes with Thyme and Garlic
Low-Fat Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Healthier Thick Cut Baked Fries
http://nutrition.about.com/od/grainsandcereals/qt/healthypotato.htm
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REGARDING OTHER MATTERS OF HEALTH AND EXERCISE…
As always, before starting ANY exercise program and/or diet, check with your doctor and get his approval. This is all about being safe rather than sorry.
And if you feel you are suffering from depression, do know that there are medications available for you. Don’t be embarrassed; this malady goes with the RAT RACE. Therefore, see your doctor, and feel better fast!
Have you started that “Walking” for weight loss and healthy heart routine, yet? There is no excuse for not going it alone, joining with someone, or even forming a group to take that walk at least five (5) times a week and for 40 minutes minimum. So, stop procrastinating and get started. Walk to the tune of Scripture or your favorite upbeat music. And if you prefer the quiet, walk and meditate with the Most High. Just make sure that you make time for your body and soul. You’ll see and feel the difference after just two weeks.
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THE 52-WEIGHT-LOSS DIET PLAN
Recently, I heard on the news that soon people will be spending a dollar out of every five for medical expenses. But if we are healthy, we don’t have to fall prey to this reckoning. As we grow older, we gain weight. I am a witness! And guess what? We do not need this extra load we are carrying. Therefore, I am doing something about it.
My friend and I have decided to embark upon a Weight-Loss Plan to lose 52 pounds in one year. We have started by promising to lose one pound a week. Thus, we hope to lose 52 pounds by the second week in February 2007. We have already started, but it’s not too late for YOU to join with us. So, hop on board and be a NEW HEALTHIER, LIGHTER WEIGHT this time next year!
Some of the things we plan to do are:
-limit our intake of “white” foods: rice, bread, potatoes, ice cream, sugar, etc.
-eliminate fast foods and processed foods
-walk at least 3 days a week
-do not eat after 8 P.M. – drink green tea with mint
-eat more fruits and veggies
-bake rather than fry our meats
-drink plenty of water and tea
-weigh in every Tuesday and E-mail the other party the new weight status
A weekly journal is kept of weight lost or gained. And there is no fair or fun cheating.
If you do not need to lose 52 pounds, then adjust the plan to the amount of pounds to lose and time frame appropriate for you. If you need any help, let me know.
The Brothers are welcomed to join in the program. By all means, do feel free to share your progress. List your name, the date you started and the weight you lose each week, or if you prefer to only post periodically, then list the date you started and the amount you lost. If you have any special ways to lose a fast pound here and there, by all means do share.
Let’s start having some fun. The more competition, the more encouraged we will ALL be to stick with this Weight-Loss-Diet Plan.
On my first week, I lost four pounds, and I could feel the difference on my walk as I climbed the hills. My husband and I both try to walk three days a week for forty-five minutes. We do about four miles each day.
Don’t forget to first check with your doctor! Better safe than sorry.
Now, get started and feel good and look even better!
Tziona Yisrael
***
May the Holy ONE of Israel be with us to keep us safe and informed in order that we make wise and healthy decisions.
Tziona Yisrael
*****
THOUGHT FOR TODAY AND FOREVER:
Let’s keep YIHOVAH and HIS LAW our focus and pray for deliverance and fulfillment of all of GOD’s WORD, so that every Nation will show forth HIS Praise and Exalt HIM above all other gods.
*******
THE GREATEST “SPOIL” OF ALL
The Israelites received Reparations for their free labor when they left out of Egypt (Exodus 12:35,36, Psalm 105:37). Note also that Reparations were given to Ezra for the building of GOD’s Temple and for the service of the House of the LORD GOD of Israel (Ezra 7:12 –21). And it is prophesied that we will again receive compensation for our free labor and bondage in this modern-day Egypt (all the lands that took Israelites captive):
“The Lord said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.” Jeremiah 15:11
*****
EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE:
FREEDOM
OUT OF THIS CAPTIVITY!
IN FRIENDLY COUNTRIES!
AND
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of
Israel and the children of Judah
were oppressed together: and all that
took them captives held them fast;
they
refused to let them go.
Their Redeemer is strong; the
LORD of hosts is his name:
he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land,
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.”
Jeremiah 50:33,34
“The LORD said,
Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause
the enemy to entreat thee well
in the time of evil
and in the time of affliction.”
Jeremiah 15:11
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have
lifted up mine hand,
Surely
the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
But
ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and
yield your fruit to my people of Israel;
for they are at hand to come.”
Ezekiel 36:7,8
O Israel,
doesn’t it strike you as odd that the CREATOR GOD of Israel has said,
“THEY
ARE AT HAND TO COME”,
yet too
many Israelites have no desires to return?!
Just as
the Judahites refused to leave out of Ancient Babylon, so also
GOD’s
Chosen Ones refuse to leave out of the Daughter of Babylon!
***
At the mouth of GOD’s Prophets, the Hebrew Scriptures are replete with DELIVERANCE for the SEED of Jacob that has been scattered into the “Four Corners of the Earth”. And more than anything Israelites should be concerned with our FREEDOM and our purpose for being formed, which is to show forth the PRAISES of the CREATOR GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. With our FREEDOM, we will be able to worship as we are required and educate our children who have been mis-educated and influenced by this Gentile society and by assimilation in this Gentile culture.
Truly,
those of us who know the GOD’s Truth must realize just how Blessed we are and
should not be satisfied with our plight.
Yes, we are still in captivity, but we have the Divine knowledge
necessary that can bring us out of this despair and savage impoverishment. We have Our GOD, and with HIM before us,
we need nothing else.
We have all come a very long way, and if we can just hold on to Our GOD of Israel and HIS LAW and remain true to HIS Ways of Righteousness and embrace humility and meekness before the EYES of Our GOD of Israel, then we should have nothing to worry about.
Just as important, remember that these are the “Latter Days”, and during these times anything can happen. Not only is the world experiencing all manner of changes in weather patterns, but also in leadership and even in the bizarre and evil attitudes of vulgar Israelites who should know better.
“Less than
five months old, 2011 has already brought us a cataclysmic earthquake, tsunami
and nuclear crisis in Japan, another tremor in New Zealand, major [deadly]
tornadoes in the American heartland and, on Saturday, a volcano eruption in
Iceland. Manmade events, from the uprisings in the Mideast to the killing of
Osama bin Laden to the ongoing struggle of the global economy, also contribute
to the sense that things are moving at a dizzying pace. And a tiny earthquake
near Family Radio's California headquarters Saturday night probably didn't help
perceptions much.” Ted Anthony, Associated Press
Our Merciful GOD of Israel is giving us warning with HIS Wondrous WORKS to either turn to HIM in Righteousness according to HIS Ways or get our houses in order, and you know well what that means.
In that we are GOD’s Chosen, the SEED of Jacob, we have to be circumspect and most cautious of our actions and the words we speak if we want Our GOD to hear our cries and help us as we call upon HIM. Seeking the GOD of Israel in Truth is our defense, or rather HE is our REFUGE and Our Help in the time of all adversity and obstacles, and HE will be against all who come up against us.
“But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 41:8 – 14
DEMONSTRATION RALLIES
AT THE
UNITED NATIONS BUILDING / NEW YORK
CAPITOL BUILDING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
(1.) http://www.thelawkeepers.org/deuteronomy28slavetrade.html
(2.) http://www.thelawkeepers.org
(3) thelawkeepers@yahoogroups.com
As
some of you already know, The LawKeepers, Co. together with the EXODUS TWO
Members are involved in two DEMONSTRATION RALLIES for the following
reasons:
FREEDOM
OUT OF
THIS CAPTIVITY!
IN
FRIENDLY COUNTRIES!
AND
Presently,
THE EXODUS TWO MOVEMENT has secured permits for two DEMONSTRATION RALLIES:
.
June
15, 2011 from 8:00 A.M. to
5:00 P.M. in New York City in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in front of The United
Nations Offices located at
48th Street and 1st Avenue.
.
June
20, 2011 from 8:00 A.M. to
5:00 P.M. in Washington, D.C. before the Capitol Building Steps. The Capitol Building is located at 1
Constitution Avenue, NW Washington D.C.
BE THERE!!!
Without question, the GOD of Israel has put it in the hearts of the ELECT of Israel to RETURN, otherwise, we would not be reiterating GOD’s WORD and prophecy about it!
Our GOD of Israel has warned us about troubled times, and HE has let us know that we should not worry, because we would be saved out of it:
“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:7
Therefore, in accordance with GOD’s WORD, we must be vigilant and use our wisdom to act wisely and prepare for these troubled times and the days to leave out of this captivity. Many Israelites have doubts about being FREE of Gentile lands, but that seems to be our only option for being hid from the destruction the CREATOR is bringing down upon the heathen for all their evils committed upon HIS Earth and against HIS People, the Children of Israel for continuing to believe in a false god.
“Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you. Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.” Zephaniah 2:1 - 3
In addition to that, if we believe the words of GOD’s Prophets and their prophecies, then we must take heed and “FLEE” as both Isaiah and Jeremiah have warned us to do:
“Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.” Isaiah 48:20
“Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.” Jeremiah 51:6
IT IS TIME FOR US TO GET OUT WHILE WE CAN WALK OUT!
“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call
ye upon him while he is near:
Let
the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:
and
let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him;
and
to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55:6,7
“Behold, THE DAY OF THE LORD cometh, cruel
both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
And
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity;
and
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,
and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.”
Isaiah 13:9 - 11
All of us are aware of GOD’s Judgments upon the
rulers-that-be and upon the nations that made us their captives. Don’t let the DAY OF THE LORD be your
destruction, too!
“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” Jeremiah 30:11
This is not a time for doubt because we have the answers. This is not a time for complacency. GOD’s Judgments are already in play and heavy upon the powers-that-be. They have so wickedly controlled GOD’s People and sustained impoverishment, discrimination, and racism for their gain and without regard for how their selfish greed and cruelty has impacted on generation after generation of suppressed peoples who do not have the voice to protest this injustice or representation in Gentile governments and societies with audacity to hope for change.
“I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.” Isaiah 47:6
Truly our fate in these Gentile lands stands before us, and we are helpless to do anything about it EXCEPT to CALL UPON OUR GOD OF ISRAEL just as our forefathers have done in the past. This is our only alternative and remedy for this merciless affliction we suffer!
Therefore, let us come together and cry out to Our GOD of Israel to help us just as HE helped and DELIVERED our forefathers, not just out of Egyptian bondage, but out of countless captivities. All our forefathers did was turn to the GOD of Israel with a contrite heart and cry out to HIM to save them from out of the hands of their enemies, and if we are sincere, this is also what we must do for our freedom, as well.
THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS
OUR DELIVERER!
BUT
HOW WILL WE KNOW IT,
IF WE DO NOT LET HIM KNOW
THAT WE ARE READY TO
LEAVE OUT OF THIS CAPTIVITY?
“And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.” Judges 10:11,12
“In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.” II Samuel 22:7,8
“He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.” II Samuel 22:18,19
“I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me” Psalm 3:4,5
“Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” Psalm 107:6 – 8
“Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” Psalm 107:13 – 15
“They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.” Psalm 107:26 - 30
“I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.” Psalm 130:5 - 8
If all we need do is make Our GOD understand that we have returned to
HIM in Righteousness according to what HE has required of us, then CRYING
OUT TO HIM will delight HIS Heart, and HE will hear us just as HE heard our
forefathers when they called upon HIM.
LISTEN UP, O ISRAEL!!! WE HAVE TO TURN TO OUR GOD and pour out our heart unto HIM for DELIVERANCE, or the people about whom HE speaks being AT HAND TO COME will not be us, but rather will be significant others! Don’t get me wrong. For sure, those who are at hand to come will be Israelites, but my point is that if we don’t act accordingly, those at hand to come won’t be us!
Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand,
Surely
the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
But
ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches,
and
yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.”
Ezekiel 36:7,8
AGAIN, I urge you to come join with us as we DEMONSTRATE for justice served that we may eventually return to our place. Our GOD is listening to us, and HE will grant JUSTICE for all the cruelty that we have endured. Surely you can see the parallels of GOD’s HAND against Egypt and HIS HAND upon Gentile lands today, especially the United States! These catastrophes (the most recent one in Joplin, MO) are because the GOD of Israel is calling attention to HIMSELF making those who rule over us understand that <YOU WILL LET MY PEOPLE GO OR PAY THE CONSEQUENCES>! We (Moses) have already approached Pharaoh, and his attitude has been that of old. Right now, he does not realize what’s going on, but in the days ahead, he will. That’s when he will recognize GOD’s WONDROUS PLAGUES and will gladly and urgently cast us out of his land and with REPARATIONS.
Join with us, Israel, as we pray for Our GOD’s Mighty HAND to DELIVER the Children of Israel out of this global captivity, just as HE has promised.
Join with us, Israel, as we EXALT the ONE True and Living GOD of Heaven
and Earth.
Join with us, Israel, as we make it known that the Children of Israel are
the “Dry Bones” whom the CREATOR GOD has awakened to HIS Truth to know
why we are in this Hellish captivity and to know how to get out of it.
Join with us, Israel, as we spread the word that the same GOD that saved the Children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage is ready to save us out of this bondage and will cause those who rule over us to entreat us well out of FEAR of HIS POWER to bring down entire communities in the bat of an eye.
JOIN WITH US, ISRAEL! TOGETHER under GOD’s LAW, we can make a
difference in our lives, as we proceed forward to be a LIGHT to the world for
GOD’s Holy Name, for HIS Righteousness’ sake, and for HIS PRAISE and GLORY
“Thus
saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set
up my standard to the people:
and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.”
Isaiah 49:22
“Surely
the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons
from far, their silver and their gold with them,
unto the name of the LORD thy God,
and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.”
Isaiah 60:9
“The LORD
said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy
to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.”
Jeremiah 15:11
“O taste and see that the
LORD is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”
Psalm 34:8
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
*****
BE EXALTED, LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. TAKE BACK YOUR UNIVERSE AND SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU ALONE ARE THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD, the All-Mighty GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel!
BLESS THE LORD, YIHOVAH,
GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL
AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME, BLESS HIS HOLY NAME!
Tziona Yisrael,
Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS PRAISE and for HIS Holy Name’s Sake!
*****
A PRAYER EXTENDED OUT OF KING SOLOMON’S PRAYER FOR
ISRAELITES WHO LIVE TODAY AND WHO ARE CAPTIVES IN GENTILE LANDS:
Dear Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, GOD and
KING of this Universe, and CREATOR of ALL things,
We need
your help – a spark to generate greater interest in YOU, your LAW, and a desire
to return. YOU cannot imagine the
Messianics that are on the Internet.
I’m
sure you look down at your People and wonder what’s wrong with them that they
just can’t worship YOU and come together under your LAW, especially after all
that has happened to us. I wonder,
also, Father. We know your Truth and
how YOU are so willing to give us your HELP, yet we still don’t care to be a
League and ONE People with YOU in harmony.
Why, Father? Is it your HAND
that is keeping us apart? And are you
again separating and calling for Israelites to “Come on the LORD’s Side”, as
YOU did in the Wilderness? If so,
Father, make your intentions known, so that those of us who really and truly
FEAR YOU will stop playing games and get serious under the umbrella of your LAW
in Righteousness. It is too late for us
to not be without a PLAN that will bring us closer to YOU. Guide us, Father, and show us your
HAND. As you know, from our wicked
past, that always worked – not for long, but even for just a short while, it
might be helpful. Help us, Father, and
make us ONE Stick in your HAND!
***
This
world of Peoples and Nations have been deceived, and yes it is greatly because
of the sins, transgressions, and disobedience of your Chosen People, the
Children of Israel. YOU established our
fathers with love in the Land YOU promised them. YOU kept your every WORD.
The Children of Israel got the Land of Canaan and possessed it, and YOU
even gave them a king, when in fact, YOU were (and still are) their KING. With your Mighty HAND YOU kept them safe
from their enemies but, at the same time, punished them at the hands of their
enemies when they were disobedient to your Book of the Law and when they corrupted
themselves with worship of false gods.
But because YOU are a Merciful GOD for not utterly destroying us in the
Wilderness and for not keeping us in utter darkness in this GREAT CAPTIVITY
throughout the world, YOU have clearly forgiven us AGAIN, and have heard our
cries, just as you forgave and considered the prayers of our forefathers.
Now, it
has been well over 2,000 years since YOU scattered the Israelites and since YOU
left to return to your Place and leave us in the hands of our enemies.
Thus,
Father, YOU know how the heathens have been heartlessly ruling over us and
keeping us repressed and without any power and without self-determination. Your Covenant People, the Children of
Israel, are NOT SAVED – not the People and not the Land, which Europeans have
usurped as their own and control with much cruelty and not at all according to
your Book of the Law.
Father,
in the past, you have removed all peoples from your Land who have refused to
live according to your Ways of Righteousness, so why then do you allow these
Europeans to stay in your Land?
Neither do they Fear YOU to promote your Laws, Statutes and Judgments,
but rather they boast of their own laws that they call “Judaism”. And they even block your People who have
returned to you from the Land that YOU gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are Witnesses and the Canaanites are
Witnesses, as well that heathenish people and their heathenish ways will have
no place in your Holy Land. When,
Father will YOU take action against those who falsely claim your Land?
Israelites
have returned to YOU, Father, not all, because YOU did say that only a Remnant
will return. However, some of us fall
asleep calling upon your Holy Name and praying daily and nightly for your
compassion that YOU show your Mighty HAND for us, just as YOU did for our
forefathers down in Egypt. If for but
ten Israelites who seek YOU in Truth, Father of Abraham, return to us, help us,
and let us live to show forth your PRAISE and spread your Righteous LAW. Return to us, Father, because we have
returned to YOU. We are the “Dry Bones”
YOU have awakened to life – your LAWS of Truth and Righteousness.
Hear
us, Father,
The
world mourns, and it is not at rest.
Everything evil and everything wicked are destroying your planet Earth: sickness, war, violence, deaths and murder,
a plethora of man-made religions, corruption, and all manner of wickedness
rule. Father, we live in days 100 times
worse than the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, and that speaks volumes, for YOU
know all that takes place in the open and done in secret. Iniquity rules, Father, because the Peoples
and Nations of today do not know YOU to FEAR YOU – not even your Covenant
People, the SEED of Jacob, for as YOU know too many Israelites yet worship
other gods, even the gods of the heathen.
YOU
said that because of the sins of the Children of Israel that YOU would cause
them to worship all the false gods they desire. YOU told Israel to see if the gods they worship would help and
save them. Well, these gods have neither
helped nor saved your People and no one else, either. Israelites are not saved, and there is Hell on your Earth. None of the hundreds of religions and their
gods have been helpful or have done anything to change the evil and wickedness
that prevails throughout the world.
Only YOU, Father of Abraham, can change the sin and blasphemous acts
that exist in the hearts of today’s peoples.
Only YOU, Father, can establish your Truth and your Righteousness in
place of what now destroys and deceives the world of peoples who have no
knowledge of YOU – the ONE True and Living GOD.
Hear
ME, My GOD and My SAVIOR of Israel; hear me for we are in great distress.
How
will people know to seek YOU, Father, if YOU do not remove the veil from off
hidden Truths? How can people find YOU,
if YOU keep your Ways of Righteousness hidden, and YOU allow false worship to
rule instead of your Truth? How can
people’s eyes be opened, if YOU do not cause them to realize that their ways are
really the ways of chaos and assured death?
How can people be saved, if evil, powerful rulers perpetuate their world
orders that sustain confusion, division, isolation, turmoil, and mayhem, even
with involvement of their religions?
How can Israel be saved, if YOU do not once again show your POWER and
your Right HAND to Deliver YOUR People out of captivity and out of the lands of
the enemy? How will your Covenant
People learn that the images and crosses around their necks are the works of
men who wrote the “New Testament” specifically because they were against your
LAWS and against your Righteous Judgments?
How will they know if YOU will not come forth to show them that what
they believe is not of your making? Because
of Israel’s evils and wickedness, your world suffers, Father, and now, once
again ONLY your POWERS, your SIGNS, and your WONDERS will cause Israelites and
all mankind to FEAR YOU in order that you will be able to change this madness
into your Ways of Righteousness.
Therefore,
RETURN, Father, Most High GOD of this Universe, RETURN to your PLACE and
re-establish your Covenant People for your Great Name’s Sake, and for your
PRAISE and GLORY, make haste. Reveal to
the world that YOU ALONE are the ONE true and Living GOD, and that there is none
else, for indeed, YOU speak of none other for YOU have said that YOU are a
“JEALOUS GOD”.
Make
haste, Father, and remember your PROMISES to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to cause
their SEED to inherit the Land of Canaan.
And take us into the Wilderness, as YOU have said at the mouth of your
Prophets, in order that we learn your LAWS and that YOU put them in our hearts
so that we NEVER TURN FROM YOU, EVER AGAIN!
Make
haste, Father, so that you will once again live in the midst of your People,
the Children of Israel.
Hear my
prayer, O GOD of Israel, for it is in YOU that I trust with all my whole heart
and soul.
As YOU
said, “Come now, and let us reason together…though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool.” The Remnant awaits YOU,
Heavenly GOD of Israel.
Be with
us, Father, in the coming months, for some of us are preparing a PLAN to go in
the midst of the rulers of this world to seek our FREEDOM out of this
captivity. It is our prayer that YOU
will be with us, LORD GOD of Jacob, just as YOU were with our forebears when
YOU made yourself known to the Egyptians, so that they would let Israel go out
of that House of Bondage.
Show us
and the world, Heavenly Father, that your Heart is turned toward your People,
Israel, AGAIN and that YOU will again cause our captors to know that our lives
and theirs, as well are in your HANDS and that YOU still live for your Covenant
People, the SEED of the Biblical Israelites to save us out of their captivity.
Show
your People, Israel, that YOU are indeed in accord with this Plan, and that YOU
will surely save us out of this captivity and AGAIN make a GREAT and AWESOME
NAME for yourself, so that all mankind will know to FEAR YOU AND KEEP YOUR WAYS
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
For a
long time, Father, YOU have been an unknown and without PRAISE and GLORY, but
now, that can all be changed. Now, GOD
of Abraham, be EXALTED and be MAGNIFIED, and soon, after we come out of the
Wilderness, let the Nation of Israel get the attention of the world with trumpets
as we boast of your GREATNESS and your Ways of RIGHTEOUSNESS from your Holy
City Jerusalem.
Let it
happen, O Shepherd of Israel, let it happen for your Holy Name’s Sake. If not, then, Father, what will YOU do unto
your great name?
“…God
said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The
LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
my name for ever, and this is
my memorial unto all generations.”
Yes, Father,
your Holy Name is ours, too, for we are named by YOU. Save us, O GOD of our SALVATION, and show the world once again
that the GOD of Israel yet lives and is taking back HIS Universe, HIS Land, and
HIS Holy City, Jerusalem, and that YOU will be Exalted above all gods upon this
Earth.
Make
haste, Father of Abraham, and let it happen – make it happen now for your Holy
Name’s Sake and for your Righteousness’ Sake!
HALLELUYAH!!! HALLELUYAH!!! HALLELUYAH!!!
SELAH!
*****
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
HALLELUYAH…
HALLELUYAH… HALLELUYAH
AND
BLESSED BE HIS HOLY NAME!
***
“O taste and see that the LORD is good:
blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”
Psalm 34:8
*****
“Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant:
I have formed thee; thou art my servant:
O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
“Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout,
ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing,
ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein:
for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.”
Isaiah 44:21 - 23
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
“But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me,
and my Lord hath forgotten me.
“Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands;
thy walls are continually before me.”
Isaiah 49:14 – 16
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
“Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded;
for thou shalt not be put to shame:
for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,
and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
“For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel;
The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
“For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
“For a small moment have I forsaken thee;
but with great mercies will I gather thee.
“In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment;
but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee,
saith the LORD thy Redeemer.”
Isaiah 54:4 - 8
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD OUR GOD OF ISRAEL
IS JUST AND GOOD!
FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH AND BE OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW
AND TO HIS WORD TO HIS TRUE PROPHETS!
*****
“The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous,
and his ears are open unto their cry.
The face of the LORD is against them that do evil,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.”
Psalm 34:15,16
“For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee;
and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.”
Psalm 36:9,10
“The right hand of the LORD is exalted:
the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.”
Psalm 118:16 - 18
“Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel:
for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,
because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.”
Hosea 4:1
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS JUST AND GOOD!
Tziona Yisrael,
Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake!
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
"O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your
branches,
and yield your fruit
to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
*****
THE SOAPBOX THAT SPEAKS:
KNOW IT ALLS
There is no question there are a lot of us who think we know everything,
and in truth these people get on other people’s last nerve. My husband is one of them. But because I love this man, I can stomach
his special personality. Sometimes I
even encourage him, especially when there’s something I want. “Yeah, honey, you are absolutely
right.” In truth, though, many
times he is, and he’s right on point, and regardless of the circumstances, I
have to give credit where it’s due.
Oftentimes people hammer their convictions to no end and without taking
a breath. Even they don’t consider the
ideas of others but just go on and on about what they believe. It could be a parent warning his child about
joining with the wrong crowd, about doing well in school, and especially about
not getting involved in drugs. These
are the times when parents do know it all.
Likewise when Israelites come forward and pound away at talking about
living and doing GOD’s LAW is the information our people need to hear even
every single day. It’s like wearing
fringe on the corners of our garments, as we are Commanded, to remind us of
living GOD’s LAW. Reason being is that
there is Hell to pay if we don’t.
“And Samuel said,
Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying
the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken
than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and
stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word
of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” I Samuel 15:22,23
If only our forefathers had stood up and demanded the keeping of GOD’s
LAW and had judged the evil and the wicked, as is required of us, instead of
strengthening their hands, we might be in the Land today. Sometimes know-it-alls with strong
convictions can make all the difference in the world.
“Neither will I
make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their
fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded
them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.” II Kings 21:8
WHITE
MAN TEACHING BLACKS
NEWS
THEY REALLY CAN USE!
Sister Hadurah circulated a YouTube video /cartoon that was most
unusual. It is about a White man trying
to school a Black person about the truth concerning the White
powers-that-be. CHECK IT OUT!
WHITE
MAN SCHOOLING A BLACK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZOywH33IGIAA
TAKE NOTE AND TAKE COVER!
The destructive and deadly tornadoes, the flooding, and the fires
plaguing the United States and its farmland should remind us of GOD’s PLAGUES
and WONDERS down in Egypt. So, take
note and take cover, if you can!
WHOSE LAND IS IT ANY WAY?
In that speech, Netanyahu said, he would "outline a
vision for a secure Israeli-Palestinian peace", but promised he would also
"speak the unvarnished truth".
"This conflict has raged for 100 years because the
Palestinians refuse to end it. They refuse to accept a Jewish state,"
Netanyahu said.
A peace agreement, he said, must assure Israel's
security.
"Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967
borders," he continued, rekindling the dispute with Obama in a possible
effort to placate territorial hardliners in the Israeli government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/24/israel-borders-indefensible-netanyahu-aipac
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According to some reports, there are approximately six billion people
walking this Earth. Of that six billion
at least five billion people can read and write, regardless of their religious
persuasions, their nationalities, and their languages. Yet, that being a given, I cannot believe
that people know so little about the Land of Israel, how it was established,
and why!
The Land of Canaan was once inhabited by Black Peoples from the Seed of Ham, one of Noah’s three sons. Hundreds of years later, the CREATOR GOD gave this Land of Canaan to HIS Covenant People: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Jacob’s Twelve Sons called the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Upon giving them the Land of Canaan, the GOD of Israel told the Twelve Tribes that if they did not live according to HIS Ways of Righteousness that HE would scatter them from the Land just as HE had scattered the Canaanites for their evil and wicked ways. Well, wouldn’t you just know it, the Children of Israel did not listen. They started living just like the idolatrous Canaanites, worshipping false gods and doing every wicked thing imaginable. And the CREATOR GOD of Israel true to HIS WORD, scattered them from HIS Holy Land just as HE had said HE would. BUT HE kept the Name of HIS Holy Land in tact unto this day!
Nevertheless, the CREATOR GOD of Israel also said that HE would cause HIS Covenant People to return to their heritage once they returned back to HIM and to HIS Ways of Righteousness. Netanyahu and President Obama should know that the Biblical Israelites are not of European extraction. Abraham came out of the Middle East (Ur of the Chaldeans/Babylon) – out of another continent to be exact.
Thus, Netanyahu need not waste his time outlining his “vision for a secure Israeli-Palestianian peace”. GOD’s Land has been in their hands for sixty years, and under their control the last thing on their minds has been peace but rather chaos and repression of the Palestinians. The Israelis should know that the CREATOR GOD of Israel does not restrict the Stranger from living in HIS Land, so long as they adhere to HIS Ways of Righteousness (Isaiah 56:6-8 and Ezekiel 47:22,23). Netanyah should know that there will never be peace for his rule of GOD’s Land, all because HE did not give it to Ashkenazim people who now call themselves Israelis.
Indeed, the CREATOR GOD of Israel knows HIS Chosen People, and HE is gathering the SEED of Jacob, whom HE named Israel, to prepare them to live in HIS Land of Israel, the same Land HE promisred to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-Israel, and said that it would be theirs FOREVER!
“And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not
build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the
days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long
enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth
for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
offspring with them. And
it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are
yet speaking, I will hear.”
Isaiah 65:21 – 24
“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.” Zechariah 2:10 - 13
Thus, if Netanyahu and President Obama will accept GOD’s WORD in the
Hebrew Scriptures, they could save themselves a lot of trouble and
hardships. The real “unvarnished
truth” is that the CREATOR GOD’s PLAN is to give HIS Land back to the SEED
of Jacob, HIS Chosen People, just as it is written at the mouth of HIS Prophets
– all of them.
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MARK?
WHAT MARK?
Does your forehead bear GOD’s Mark? If it
doesn’t, then you might have good reason to worry. If history repeats itself, then we will want GOD’s Mark in our
foreheads because this Mark speaks volumes and could save your life. It pays to read our Hebrew Scriptures!
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If you have a short but sweet item for "The Soapbox That Speaks“, please contact the Editor of The LawKeepers' Monthly JOURNAL: Afraqueen@AOL.COM
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THE SMOKESCREEN
We can assume the Universe was established by a “Big Bang,” or we can seek a more intelligent theory.
The more intelligent reasoning is that a Supreme Being did in fact Create the Heavens, Earth, and all things therein. Then the issue becomes, “Did this Supreme Being intend for HIS CREATION to exist in such a chaotic state of absolute Hell, as it is now?” If not, then it is incumbent upon us to seek answers for the present horrific state of affairs in the Land of Israel and the rest of the Middle East that is capable of spreading to other countries even to the United States.
It is not likely that this Supreme Being did not advise the people of HIS Creation IN THE BEGINNING of how to live in goodness and in peace with each other, which certainly entailed how to worship HIM for giving them life. For there not to exist harmony and happiness on this Earth, it is evident that from the looks of things and from the ever-present catastrophic events taking place on Earth, this Supreme Being is furious with the peoples HE Created.
This is where we are now. The CREATOR is Judging the peoples of HIS Creation and is taking back HIS Universe.
History proves that Jerusalem is the Holy City of the GOD of Israel, that the Israelites are HIS Chosen, Covenant People, and that the Land of Israel belongs to HIM, as well. So, why all the attention given to this area of the world that is proving to be the catalyst leading to the end of this present world system?
The Palestinians have been in the land since the reign of King Saul, and the European Israelis have been a State since 1948, opening their doors to other converted Europeans and whomsoever else wishing to take part in this Talmudic process and live off the fat of GOD’s Holy Land. The Palestinians and the Israelis have been at war ever since. If these two groups can live together anywhere in the world except in Israel, then there must be a very good reason why. However, the reason is not one that Israelis desire to make public. Israeli hatred of the Arabs is not at all the issue. There exists a more profound reason than that. Finger pointing at the Arabs is but the ubiquitous smokescreen presented to the world.
THE TRUTH ABOUT CONVERSION TO SO-CALLED “JUDAISM”
The world should connect the dots and learn the truth regarding the Europeans who control GOD’s Holy Land. There is no way the GOD of Israel will accept a conversion process that changes Europeans, Americans, and Middle Easterners into “Jews.” GOD’s Covenant is with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their SEED. Accordingly, how can we dismiss the fact that Abraham was called out of Ur of the Chaldeans – NOT out of Europe. GOD well knows HIS Chosen People, no matter that HE took their identity from them and cast them from HIS Land.
And their being scattered into the “Four Corners of the Earth” to serve their enemies has everything to do with the problems in the Middle East, as this crisis relates to the CREATOR GOD taking back HIS Universe, HIS Holy Land, HIS Holy City, and HIS Chosen People. The Israelis know this. They see the handwriting on the wall, but they are fighting the CREATOR GOD tooth and nail. That’s what this war is all about - Israeli control - to keep out the SEED of Jacob whom GOD is calling home. Hence, the Israelis, even if time permitted, would not give the Palestinians their State for fear the Israelites would seek to live there also. And just for the record, one can learn about the true identity of the descendants of Jacob by reading what the CREATOR GOD of Israel said would befall them in Leviticus 26th and Deuteronomy 28th Chapters.
The Israelis have a rabid requirement to control all the Land of Israel including the Palestinian territories for one reason and for one reason only, which has everything to do with their “Law of Return.” The Israelis and their Rabbinute (their religious party) are ever aware that the CREATOR GOD of Israel has a Covenant People – The Twelve Tribes of Jacob, and they know that according to Biblical Prophecy the CREATOR GOD of the Land of Israel and this Universe will restore HIS Chosen People to their heritage. For obvious reasons, in no way do the Israelis (European converts to what’s called “Judaism,” which is of their own making) want this to happen, for then they will no longer have control of the Land of Israel at all. However, they know their days are numbered.
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:”
Ezekiel 36:7 – 10
Now, the Truth is out. This is the reason for the decades of turmoil, death, and destruction over GOD’s Holy Land. And of a Truth, the Israeli powers-that-be have no qualms about their dilemma. They are prepared to fight to the end, but who are they really fighting? It all has to do with what prophecy foretells, and what must be fulfilled.
Conversely, Israelis are putting too much false hope in their military powers. When it comes to the Children of Israel, the CREATOR GOD fights their battles, and since it is time for their return, there is nothing Israeli’ weaponry can do to stop GOD’s Commandment from manifesting.
The Israelites were formed to show forth GOD’s Praise and to be a light to the world for HIS Ways of Righteousness – HIS Book of the Law (the teachings of the Prophet Moses – NOT the Talmud compiled by European “Jews”).
“Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;”
Isaiah 42:5,6
“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.” Isaiah 43:21
And it is for this reason the Supreme Being, or rather the CREATOR GOD of Israel is taking back HIS magnificent Universe and making it a place of Divine Peace, one that Exalts and Magnifies HIM for all HIS Wondrous Works.
The CREATOR GOD has held HIS Peace for a very long time, all because of the curses HE put on HIS Chosen People for forsaking HIM for false gods and for rejecting HIS LAW. Their rebellion caused GOD to cast HIS People into the hands of the heathen, and HE went into seclusion permitting Gentiles to run the world and teach HIS People a lesson that would send them running back to HIM seeking forgiveness with contrite spirits.
“I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.” Isaiah 42:14
For a long time people believed that the European “Jews” were really the people of the Bible, but the CREATOR knows HIS Chosen People, the SEED of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the men with whom HE made an Everlasting Covenant (Genesis 17:1 – 21).
From the Slave Trade to world hatred, and enduring racism and discrimination all over the world, Blacks have suffered at the hands of those who ruled over them. But now, the CREATOR GOD of Israel is awakening the Dry Bones and calling HIS People home to the chagrin and utter dismay of European Israelis who are helpless to do anything about it but who still have plans to thwart the WORD of GOD. Trust me, their efforts will not end in victory, and nothing since 1948 has even given them hope that they could take the place of the SEED of Jacob/Israel (Genesis 32:28) – neither by conversion nor submersion.
Thus, the reasons for the war for Israeli control of GOD’s Land and the reasons for a world of troubled times, disasters, endless suffering, despair, and many, many tears.
The CREATOR is taking back HIS Universe and keeping HIS Everlasting Promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Patriarchs of the Nation of Israel.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.” Isaiah 10:20 - 22
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.” Isaiah 11:11
“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 36:27
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.” Isaiah 66:22
“Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 30:18 – 21
“At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.” Jeremiah 31:1 – 13
“The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.” Zephaniah 3:13
“Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.” Zephaniah 3:19
And for all HIS Creations, especially man, the ONE CREATOR GOD of Israel will be acknowledged and worshipped by HIS Chosen People and all Nations remaining from HIS Wrath and destruction of the wicked. The Peoples of this world will revolve around its MAKER!
Yes, the All-Mighty CREATOR will liberate HIS Holy Land and will return to HIS Holy City Jerusalem, where once again HIS Holy Priests will minister before HIM and where people of all Nations will visit to Bless HIM for HIS GOODNESS and for HIS Holy Name’s Sake.
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” Isaiah 66:23
“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.” Zechariah 14:16
FINALLY:
“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.” Zephaniah 2:3
WHAT IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE CREATOR GOD?
“And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.” Deuteronomy 6:25
“When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.” Deuteronomy 31:11 - 13
The fulfillment of the above passage is just a matter of time.
For more understanding and respect for what’s written in the “Old Testament” read…
THUS SAITH THE LORD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419629123/sr=8-6/qid=1152215959/ref=sr_1_6/002-5765394-4504857?ie=UTF8
BLESSED BE THE MOST HIGH CREATOR GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB FOR HIS MULTITUDE OF MERCIES IN NOT UTTERLY DESTROYING THE SEED OF JACOB!
Tziona Yisrael
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WE WANT ANSWERS, BUT CAN WE HANDLE THE TRUTH?
What in the world is happening?
As people watch and experience frightening and disastrous floods, killer storms, Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, destructive fires, famine, and incurable diseases, they can only ask, “Will my loved ones and I be spared?”
As people sit in churches and temples, they wonder, “Why aren’t my prayers being answered?” And “Who can I trust to spiritually guide me?”
As people raise their children, they wonder, “How can I explain the reasons why GOD does not end hunger, impoverishment, race hatred, unhappiness, ubiquitous catastrophes, and bring peace to this Earth?”
And “Why would GOD hand HIS Earth over to the heathens?”
The ANSWERS to all these questions and many, many more can be found in “The Old Testament.”
For more respect for the Ancient of Books read
THUS SAITH THE LORD
A Book on the “Old Testament”
by
Tziona Yisrael
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419629123/sr=8-6/qid=1152215959/ref=sr_1_6/002-5765394-4504857?ie=UTF8
(Amazon.com)
In that this book details new revelations and unconventional perspectives about Christianity and so-called “Judaism” (unrelated to the LAW GOD gave to Moses), would you be so inclined to consider the answers and solutions written therein?
At a time when people fear for their lives because of the many disasters and the growing possibilities of a nuclear war, it is time to seek explanations that make sense. Therefore, read the WORD OF GOD that has been hidden for millennia in order that the reign of the heathen may be fulfilled. Read THUS SAITH THE LORD for knowledge and understanding, as all the world watches GOD’s WONDROUS WORKS unfold bringing an end to the corruption and evils that fill the Earth HE CREATED!
IT IS GOD’s TURN NOW!
WATCH
AS HE TAKES BACK HIS UNIVERSE,
CALLS ATTENTION TO HIMSELF,
AND
CAUSES ALL TO KNOW HIM AND HIS TRUTH!
THE CREATOR GOD WILL BE EXALTED AND
BILLIONS WILL BOW ONLY TO HIM!
When a child, I said I would kill whoever killed GOD.
Now, an adult, I know that no one can kill the True and Living CREATOR GOD
but rather must serve, worship, and magnify ONLY HIM or pay dire consequences, and
the order of each and every day prove to be the Truth of this matter.
Tziona Yisrael
Author
Afraqueen@AOL.COM
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BOOKS THAT OPEN THE EYES AND MAKE US THE WISER
100 years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzurg
The Classic Slave Narratives Edited and with an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates,
Jr.
The Black Holocaust for Beginners by S.E. Anderson
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews by The Nation of Islam
The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand (See how Gentiles all over the world became
“Jews” through conversion)
Jubilee by Margaret Walker (A novel that brings every
emotion of man to the fore)
THUS
SAITH THE LORD by Tziona
Yisrael
A People's History of the United States by (The Late) Howard Zinn (And the truth is told.)
The
Wake of the Wind by J.
California Cooper (A novel on Blacks coming together after the end of Slavery)
*****
[I am too pleased to add the following list of more enlightening books presented by our dear Sister Naami baht Lewi. By all means, please indulge and be the wiser. T.Y., Editor]
1. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na'im Akbar (a very short book, but it's chock full of good, good stuff);
2. Africans and Their History by Dr. Joseph E. Harris (the book is not a big book either and there's even a paperback edition. Yet, it is one of the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow books on Africa that I've read);
3. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy Learey (in my opinion, this sister, even without an Israelite perspective, has produced the definitive work on explaining some of our behaviors, thought patterns, etc. She also offers some practical solutions that can be adopted and are even more applicable because we know the origin of our pathological behavior);
4. Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams (even though Dr. Williams speaks mainly about West Indian slavery, he offers a comprehensive perspective as to why we should not embrace our oppressors - particularly when we understand what they have done to us and their mindset on the whole institution).
5. Holy Land, Whose Land?: Modern Dilemma, Ancient Roots by Dorothy Drummond (she offers an interesting perspective on the question and she offers both the scientific and historical explanations as to why this is so);
6. The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker. This is a great reference book for explaining many of the pagan origins of beliefs, practices, etc.
7. The Penguin Dictionary of Religions, edited by John R. Hinnells;
8. The Penguin
Dictionary of Symbols, by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant;
Both of these reference books offer a wealth of information as to the origin or
certain religious beliefs, how these beliefs were founded, and how various
symbols are derived from paganism, etc.
9. Anything by the late Dr. Amos N. Wilson, particularly the following: The Developmental Psychology of the Black Child; Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children; & The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness.
NOTE: Dr. Wilson was an inspired, if sometimes soporific lecturer, although his lectures were mainly delivered in the vernacular of the common man. His books are written is some common language that is easily comprehensible, while also including language that may be difficult for some to follow (i.e., written in academic language). However, folks who are good and/or avid readers will gain a lot from his work.
10. The Hidden History of New York: A guide for Black Folks by Tingba Apidta, the 3rd in a series of The Reclamation Project, Boston, MA. (This book is for those who mistakenly believe that slavery and Jim Crow were Southern U.S. phenomena.)
11. African Perspective on Colonialism by A. Adu Boahen (An African's view of his continent's conquerors. Very interesting and informative.)
12. *The Jew and the Christian Missionary: A Jewish Response to Missionary Christianity" by Gerald Segal, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., NY, 1981.
*Please note that this book may be completely out of print. When I ordered mine on amazon.com a few years ago, (The Strand and other out-of-print publishers did not have a copy) it cost me $53 (other copies were being sold for as high as $250!). A congregation might want to track this publication down and pay for a copy and then distribute without charge, copies of sections, citing the source, of course. This way, they don't infringe on copyright laws. It is one of those remarkable books that once acquired, you don't let out of your possession.
13. The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Acharya S.
14. Gospel Fictions by Randel Helms
15. Don't forget that our brother, Moreh Aesh of Baltimore, produces a long list of pamphlets, essays, etc. that we will find most enlightening much to Israelites under his Zaqen Publications. You can view the publications available by logging onto www.zaqen.info. As always, love, peace and blessings to you and yours.
Kol Khavode L'Yehowah,
Naami
16. Realms of Judaism series:
The History of the Shield of
David: The Birth of a Symbol by Gervern S. Oegema, recommended by T’zirah baht Yehudah
17. Day of
Delight: A (Jewish Sabbath in Ethiopia) by Maxine Rose Shur with pictures
by Brian Pinkney, recommended by T’zirah baht Yehudah
18. How to Run A Traditional Jewish Household
by Blu Greenberg
On Page 304-305, if
you can find the book just to copy the pages, it shows which Observances are
BIBLICAL and which are RABBINIC. It shows the months and their special
Days. Recommended by T’zirah baht
Yehudah
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A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE “KOY”
TAKE DILIGENT HEED…
“…take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,
which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,
and to cleave unto him,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 22:5
June 19, 2006
What exactly does the GOD of Israel mean when HE Commands us to take diligent heed to do HIS Commandments and HIS LAW?
IN THAT…
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:19,20
AND…
“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.” Deuteronomy 32:46,47
I would think that to take diligent heed means to be extremely cautious to keep GOD’s LAW, read and study it, DO IT, and pray to the GOD of Israel for wisdom to understand it. And in addition to that common sense would be to either join with others so determined or be alone in returning back to the Holy ONE and what’s required of the SEED of Jacob.
This might seem ever so trivial a detail to some, but it means a world to the GOD of Israel. You see, I used to belong to Ben Ammi’s group, and I left for many reasons, but mainly because he was allowing people to call him JC and “Saviour” and because he was not concerned about GOD’s LAW and much less about taking heed to live and do it.
What truly, truly disturbs me is that there are people encouraging Israelites to join up with Ben Ammi and accept his title – “Messianic Leader,” as well as the blasphemous notion that the True and Living GOD would have such a congregation to represent HIM. Yes, of course the so-called “KOY” exists, but it does not represent the GOD of Israel and HIS LAW, i.e., HIS Ways of Righteousness that HE Commanded of the Prophet Moses to teach to the Nation of Israel. This group does not in any way signify the Kingdom of YAH, and indeed it cannot in any way portray GOD’s Righteous Kingdom.
The “KOY” is a congregation of people calling themselves Israelites and living according to the Laws of Ben Ammi and the imaginations of his contrary and devious heart. The wise in the knowledge of Truth know that Ben Ammi’s camp, built on corruption, crime, lust, adultery, and death, cannot in any way be connected with the Holy ONE of Israel’s Divine and Righteous Kingdom or cannot be established to receive the Remnant GOD said would return.
“The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.” Jeremiah 23:20 – 22
“My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.” Jeremiah 50:6
Moreover, King David’s Seed will head the CREATOR GOD’s Righteous Kingdom that will exist upon this Earth, and he will know to be the perfect role model for living GOD’s LAW in Righteousness.
I have never read where Kings David and Solomon called themselves “Messiah.”
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.” Isaiah 11:1 – 5
“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.” Isaiah 11:10
And this Righteous Kingdom will be all about serving, worshipping, and PRAISING the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and about representing HIM and spreading HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments throughout this world, in order that the CREATOR GOD of Israel will be Magnified and will receive all the Praise and all the Glory, so that people will abandon the “New Testament” and its theology. Have no doubts about it, the son of David will rule from Jerusalem and the GOD of Heaven and Earth will rule over all (Psalm 103:19).
I find nothing in GOD’s WORD to support an existence of HIS Kingdom in Israel under the control of Gentile Jews. Ben Ammi has deceived hundreds into believing this lie that he is the Messianic leader of GOD’s Kingdom. How long are we going to follow leaders who use GOD’s Holy Name in vain?!
Taking heed to keep GOD’s LAW would entail staying as far from Ben Ammi as possible. And the fact that HE keeps his stores open on GOD’s Holy Day of Complete REST is a darn good red flag and eye-opener that shouts to stay away from this leader, as of a Truth, he does not FEAR the GOD of Israel to do HIS Will. And what better information exists from Our GOD to prove Ben Ammi to be one who defies the All-Mighty GOD!
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20
This passage is the best gauge Israelites have for determining and for understanding who to accept as a genuine leader or know who FEARS the Holy ONE of Israel. If Ben Ammi and the people of his camp defy the Most High GOD of Israel, then why join with them, and why take part in their beliefs unfounded in GOD’s LAW and in their disobedience?
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” Psalm 1:1,2
“I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.” Psalm 26:5
“If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:” Psalm 66:18
“Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.” Psalm 141:4
“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.” Isaiah 1:2 - 4
Another perfect incident that serves to explain why we cannot join with people who break GOD’s LAW concerns Jehoshaphat and Ahziah. And does it ever speak VOLUMES!
“And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.” II Chronicles 20:35 – 37
Let’s not pretend we don’t know about our past and how our stiffnecked and rebellious forebears loved to be connected with evildoers and how they encouraged the lawful to follow wickedness. At least admit to what THUS SAITH THE LORD!
At this late day and in the time of Jacob’s Trouble, why would we even consider joining with Ben Ammi or with anyone or with any congregation that does not make GOD’s LAW the Paths of Righteousness to follow and walk? Our GOD of Israel promises us that if we return to HIM and HIS LAW, that then we can return to our heritage (Deuteronomy 30:1-4). If people will join with Ben Ammi, then for them GOD’s Promise is made void.
“And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.” Ezekiel 11:12
“Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.” Jeremiah 30:15
“And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:” Jeremiah 32:22,23
What a crime! Ben Ammi was among the blessed to return, but just like his rebellious forefathers, he, too, refuses to be obedient to the LAWS of the GOD of Israel.
The WORD of the GOD of Israel also condemns Ben Ammi for calling himself a “Messianic Leader” in order to gather Israelites and Christians into his fold. But in no way does he emulate the “Old Testament” men of GOD!
Was Moses, Joshua, Samuel, the kings of Israel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, or any of the other Prophets who promoted GOD’s Book of the Law and who spoke “THUS SAITH THE LORD” called a Messiah? Do we need this? Is this something required of us to have before us?
I listened to a Brother in Paltalk Chat go to extremes to contrive a justifiable explanation for Ben Ammi calling himself a Messiah. The Truth of the matter is that this word is not even connected with Hebrew-Israelite Culture. “Jews” and Christians and the Book of Daniel and the “New Testament” are very much associated with the word “Messiah,” but not the Israelites who wandered forty years in the Wilderness and inhabited the Land of Israel. And if Moses was NOT given this C.E. terminology to introduce to the Children of Israel, then there is no reason for us to know about it at all. There isn’t even ANY information in this Book of Daniel or in the “New Testament” that is essential for Israelites to know and do – none at all. All that the GOD of Israel required of us to know and do was given to HIS Servant Moses and is reiterated in the books of HIS Prophets who utter “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” There is no “THUS SIAITH THE LORD” in the Book of Daniel or in the “New Testament.” Both of these books were written AFTER GOD scattered HIS Chosen People, Israel, from the land. That being the case, this literature is suspect, and proof of this is the fact that the Israelites were scattered to live in “Darkness” and to serve their enemies. So, why would the Holy ONE give them any information about seventy weeks or seventy years or seventy anything?
And even if this information is for a time after the Israelites return, the information still makes no sense. “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week…” (Daniel 9:27). This verse contradicts what “THUS SAITH THE LORD” about HIS Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31 – 34 and in Ezekiel 20:37. And not one of GOD’s Prophets makes mention of this event in the Book of Daniel.
Just for the record, “THUS SAITH THE LORD” is mentioned more than 400 times in the “Old Testament” but not even once in the Book of Daniel or in the “New Testament.” That’s no mistake. That’s for us to think logically and connect the dots! Therefore, when we do the research concerning the year the Book of Daniel was probably written, we will see that this Book of Daniel and the “New Testament” were written to deceive Israelites, and, thus, we have no reason to accept the information in either of these books as being GOD’s WORD.
GOD’s Covenants – HIS LAW and HIS Promises, as well as the “New Covenant” spoken of in Jeremiah 31:31-34 - will resume upon our return to our heritage. And there is no other WORD of GOD to have us believe that any one of these Covenants will be one week. Actually, when you consider what’s written in Daniel 9:27, none of this chapter makes any sense whatsoever.
“He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:” Psalm 105:8 – 10
“Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.” Psalm 106:44,45
The Holy ONE of Israel has not only remembered HIS Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but HE has opened our eyes to the fact that WE ARE HIS PEOPLE, but unfortunately, too many of us do not choose to do that which is necessary to stay in HIS good graces.
Another serious issue is that certain people credit Ben Ammi with moving Israelites to Liberia and then on to Israel. The GOD of Israel did not say that Ben Ammi would deliver HIS People. HE said that HE would, and when HE does, for sure HE wants all the GLORY, every whit! HE got all the GLORY in the Israelite Deliverance out of Egypt, and HE, unequivocally, will be Exalted AGAIN upon the return of the Remnant of Israel that GOD promises HE WILL GATHER. To suggest or even think for a moment that Ben Ammi deserves recognition for that which is due to the Holy ONE of Israel leads me to believe that some of us, being Israelites, have truly lost sight of what’s important to know and understand. It would appear that the Holy ONE is again proving Israelites to determine who will and who will not enter into HIS Glorious Kingdom.
And just because people think Ben Ammi to be prosperous and have more than other congregations is no reason to boast about the advancements he has made. When I hear this, I am constantly reminded of the “green bay tree” in Psalms.
“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.” Psalm 37:1 – 3
“I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.” Psalm 37:35 - 37
“They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:” Psalm 49:6,7
“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” Psalm 127:1
It would appear that people don’t yet get the full understanding of the above verse that is loaded with Truth, conviction, and certainty. Time proves everything! The Flood of Noah’s Day and the scattering of the Nation of Israel into the Four Corners of the Earth are proven facts that the CREATOR GOD of Israel does not tolerate people taking HIS Name in vain, disobedience of HIS LAW, and the worship of false gods and even of man.
Ben Ammi is not “perfect.” He, himself, said in 1996 that he is doing 60%. Thus, he isn’t even close to being “the perfect man.” He is failing and falling fast! His works and teachings speak volumes. We have history to probe for what “THUS SAITH THE LORD” and for what required of us. AND we have read what has happened to Israelites who stray from GOD’s LAW in order to establish their own direction. We have book after book in the “Old Testament” that gives us all the information we need concerning rebellious Israelites. We know what the GOD of Israel did to them, and we know that HE has not changed HIS Ordinances one iota, and that HE will NEVER change them. Hence, knowing all this, and knowing what the GOD of Moses has said about HIS LAW and the consequences for not keeping it (in Deuteronomy 28th Chapter), knowing that HE will MAGNIFY HIS LAW and put it in our hearts, knowing that we were scattered for not observing this Divine LAW, would Our GOD of Israel send such a leader as Ben Ammi who has no regard for HIS LAW but rather for magnifying himself and a bogus “KOY”? Perfect men of GOD do not grandstand and promote adverse teachings. They vehemently stress doing the WORD of the GOD of Israel and with “ONE” mindset.
Without question, “the perfect man” FEARS the GOD of Israel to live and do HIS Book of the Law. It is accepting GOD’s Righteousness and to live by it that is our ticket into the CREATOR GOD of Israel’s Peaceful Kingdom. It is not Ben Ammi’s veggie and no-salt diets. Ben Ammi is not concerned about GOD’s LAW, and neither is the GOD of Israel in his thoughts. This “KOY” in Dimona is really nothing more than the Kingdom of Ben Ammi, and he is no more the “Saviour” that he is called than is the jc of the “New Testament.” Ben Ammi and the other leaders in his Camp know exactly how to run their game, and those who they beguile either know nothing of the GOD of Israel and HIS LAW, or they have chosen to forget the GOD of Israel and HIS LAW and listen to and believe in a man whose foundation is built on lies, corruption, and death. Therefore, I caution everyone to be very cautious of what is believed, and the reason is that if we CHOOSE to believe in wickedness, then GOD will help to encourage that false belief.
“Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”
Jeremiah 6:19
“Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.” Hosea 8:11
What wills Israelites to turn from the WORD of GOD? What force is there that can make GOD’s Chosen People defy HIM? Never mind. I don’t think I want to know. In any case, those who join with Ben Ammi should know that you give up your assets and you are expected to conform to the expectations of the Camp, and you will adhere to WILL adhere to their ways or be punished by beatings and losing your flamboyant “title.” What a scam, the best since the advent of Christianity. However, only the Holy ONE will prove them a fraud and with the Righteous Remnant HE is calling – HIS Chosen Ones who have determined to serve and worship ONLY HIM.
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” Joel 2:32
“For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” Psalm 10:3,4
“My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.” Psalm 34:2,3
“In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.” Psalm 44:8
Is this a time for us to boast? Ben Ammi is subject to the will of Gentile Jews. Why is he boasting, and why are others boasting for him? Is this not a time to turn to the Most High GOD of Israel and boast of HIM and seek HIM for understanding IN HIS LAW and in HIS WORD to HIS Prophets? Should we not thirst and hunger for GOD’s Truth?
“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.” Deuteronomy 8:3
Ezekiel speaks about the Holy ONE of Israel gathering us and taking us into a SECOND WILDERNESS. If Ben Ammi, or anyone for that matter, does not observe GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of Complete REST, as it is written, will he not be purged, as the GOD of Israel has said? Can it really be that the CREATOR GOD of the Heavens and the Earth will allow Ben Ammi and his Camp to fast on HIS Holy Day and have his restaurants open defying HIS Commandment? Come on, People! Who is fooling whom?
“And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.” Ezekiel 20:34 – 38
Ironically, from this passage, Ben Ammi will not enter into the very Kingdom he boasts.
“And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.” Numbers 16:26
“I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.” Psalm 26:5
Surely, we know about Israelites who speak of the Holy ONE of Israel with their lips but have hearts far from HIM. This is the case with all Israel who acknowledge the Holy ONE of Israel but DO NOT live by HIS Book of the Law, as it is written.
“Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.” Isaiah 59:2
Some of us might think it is all right to join with congregations that defy GOD’s LAW, but this is wholly against doing what Thus Saith the LORD. The Holy ONE of Israel is not impressed with the direction some of us have taken. First of all, we do not need leaders. Our Merciful GOD has brought us out of darkness in revealing to us our true identity and has made us know that we are more than just descendants of Slaves. HE did this because of HIS Promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and because we are HIS Chosen People. Wake up, Israel! We need Our GOD, the Holy ONE of Israel. We can call upon HIM for direction, wisdom, and understanding. That’s why HE is Our GOD. HE does not tell us to call upon HIM for naught. HE did not say trust not in a friend for naught. HE did not say that those who follow after evil leaders will be destroyed for naught (Isaiah 9:16). Our GOD has always wanted to be the center of our lives and of our world. And if we are obedient and will devote our lives to HIM, HE will be our LEADER, and for choosing HIM, we will not thirst or want for any good thing. And at the designated time, HE promises to send us HIS Pastors. But until then, trust in ONLY Our GOD of Israel and see HIS miraculous WORKS for those HE loves!
People have come forward with information on Ben Ammi, and the Brother promoting the so-called “Keys to the Kingdom” is aware of this. I have also posted information on Ben Ammi and his camp to the LawKeepers Forum. And if people will still join with him, after learning about this useless kingdom, then they certainly have no one but themselves to blame for whatever might befall them. More importantly, those who will read this Message and will still seek to join and be associated with the Ben Ammi Camp can’t say they didn’t know and certainly won’t be able to plead ignorance. They can’t say their leaders are at fault. They can’t say they believed in a Brother whom they thought knew what he was talking about with some “Keys to the Kingdom.” And the reason they cannot feign all these excuses is because all GOD’s warnings and counsel are written in HIS LAW and in HIS WORD to HIS Prophets. “TAKE DILIGENT HEED…” Also, HE provides knowledge to those who earnestly seek it. The Holy ONE of Israel is a Most Merciful GOD and SAVIOR and has covered ALL bases, and HE has left out nothing of significance for us to know and do. Our GOD of Israel has even left us with HIS WORD and good reason why we should not trust in man.
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:” Psalm 146:3 - 6
“Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.” Micah 7:5
I feel like this: If I am going to fall by the wayside, it will not be because of following some stiffnecked, grandstanding, rebellious Israelite leaders. In that respect, I have learned what not to do very well and mainly from watching lawless Israelites in Ben Ammi’s Camp and listening to him speak the imaginations of his heart.
The Dry Bones have a chance to live and serve and worship the Holy ONE of Israel, but only if we will return to HIM (not to Ben Ammi) to FEAR ONLY HIM and be obedient to the Ways of the CREATOR GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It has been more than 2,500 years since we lost our heritage. And the only way we will return to it is by looking to our SAVIOR, Our ONLY HELP.
With Ben Ammi there is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD Our GOD to help us if we will only let HIM. But we must take diligent heed to follow HIS Paths of Righteousness. May Our Holy ONE of Israel bless the man courageous enough to speak HIS Truth and stand up for HIS LAW, the ONLY True Path of Righteousness.
“Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.” Psalm 33:18 – 21
“Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.” Psalm 60:11,12
“Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” Psalm 124:8
Wake up, Israel. It is a fact that Ben Ammi does not live by GOD’s LAW. This we know! And since he doesn’t, the so-called KOY, under the leadership of Ben Ammi is just another Messianic congregation in deep trouble with the GOD of Israel. As for me, I shall serve the Most High GOD of Israel and strive to be perfect in HIS LAW. And all those who FEAR the GOD of Israel will do likewise. Going home in no way entails joining Ben Ammi’s congregation, and if this is what you believe, then you are greatly deceived.
“In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.” Jeremiah 50:4
“O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?”
Micah 2:7
“And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, and we will walk in his paths: for THE LAW SHALL GO FORTH OF ZION, AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM.” Micah 4:2 (Caps. are mine.)
WAKE UP, ISRAEL! Our GOD is calling us, and HE is being very selective. HE is only taking Israelites who will vow themselves to HIM and to HIS LAW. For that reason, there will only be a “Remnant” to make it to GOD’s Kingdom – only a Remnant.
“But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.” Psalm 4:3 - 5
So, be aware, and TAKE DILIGENT HEED. This is our last shot to be returned to our heritage.
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.” Ezekiel 18:20 - 24
Thus, it is most critical that GOD FEARING Israelites discern right from wrong and denounce defiance and disobedience to GOD’s LAW.
“But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.” Psalm 103:17,18
And at the same time we must embrace wisdom and knowledge and abide by it. Don’t waste precious time on a NOTORIOUS leader who has no respect for the “SIGN” of GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of REST that binds us with Our GOD of Israel. The last thing Israelites who seek the GOD of Israel need is to hear a philosophy inconsistent with that of GOD’s Book of the Law.
What a shame to have people’s stomachs growling from their hunger pains and incessantly thinking of what they will eat when the Sabbath is ended, rather than thinking about the Mercies of the SAVIOR GOD of Israel and giving Glory to HIM for giving us a Blessed Day of REST. How do I know all this? I’ve been there and done that! What a shame to have people not enjoying food on GOD’s Seventh Day Sabbath and their giving in to blessed slumber and rest on full stomachs. WHAT A SHAME! Ben Ammi forgets that this Seventh Day is the CREATOR’s Anniversary, and it is HE that has COMMANDED, how HE wants it observed. To his hurt, Ben Ammi does not see it that way.
Those who decline from GOD’s Ways of Righteousness can expect to literally go mad and die. This is GOD’s WORD – not mine! Ben Ammi initially taught GOD’s LAW and as far as I knew abided by it. Actually, this was the reason I joined “Abeta Israel,” the Israelite congregation in which he was a member. But he allowed a former Christian preacher who joined his group to entice him to be the “Messiah” and “Saviour” of the Nation of Israel. By the way, his congregation does for sure call him “Lord and Saviour.” I have heard a woman make reference to him as being that, and Asiel, the so-called “KOY” Ambassador confirms that Ben Ammi saved him. He made this statement in the Paltalk Chat a few months ago. For this reason, Ben Ammi has gone, not just mad but, stark raving mad. I feel it is important to inform you that the woman (Rachel) who called Ben Ammi “Lord and Saviour” is now deceased. And just for the record, the man who is supposed to have “anointed” Ben Ammi is dead and has been dead for a long time, now.
ISRAEL DOES NOT KNOW!
“The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.” Psalm 104:21
Why can’t we just seek Our GOD of Israel and be obedient to what HE requires of us? After all, HIS Book of the Law and HIS WORD to HIS Prophets are our Bread of Life.
“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;” Isaiah 44:24,25
King David Feared and loved the GOD of Israel with all his heart and soul, and we have him as evidence that we, also, can indeed be people after GOD’s own heart. Notice his Psalm 101:
“I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.”
I question the motives of those who promote Ben Ammi’s so-called “KOY” and disseminate information leading people to believe that he is a Messiah. Ben Ammi’s works judge him to be nothing more than a Lawbreaker who is steadfastly working against the WORD of the GOD of Israel, and who is relentlessly expounding on his books, his diets, his authority, his being a Messiah, and his “Kingdom of Ben Ammi.”
Wake up, Israel, and take diligent heed to the LAW and WORD of the GOD of Israel before it is too late. Our GOD is taking back HIS Universe, and I PRAISE HIM, for I hate this world system that enables people to live as they choose rather than live by “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD…” (Deuteronomy 8:3).
“I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.”
Psalm 104:33 – 35
“Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting…” Psalm 106:47
“For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.” Psalm 5:12
WHO IS ON THE LORD’s SIDE, make haste to return to HIM and to HIS Book of the Law and to live and do it in Righteousness with your whole heart and soul!
BLESSED BE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL FOR HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS TOWARDS THOSE WHO SEEK HIM AND WHO ARE OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW!
Me and My GOD with me,
Tziona Yisrael
Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake
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REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD IN REGARD TO
HIS SEVENTH DAY SABBATH COMMANDMENT!
REMEMBER, THIS IS HIS ANNIVERSARY DAY OF REST,
AND OUR DAY TO KEEP IN REST AND AS A SIGN BETWEEN
HIM AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL!
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
Genesis 2:1 – 3
“…the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth
you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place,
let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”
Exodus 16:29
“…this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways
that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.”
Jeremiah 7:23,24
“And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel;
Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth
out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice,
and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:”
Jeremiah 11:3,4
As most of you know, I am a firm believer in living GOD’s Book of the Law, and that I strongly stress observance of GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath that HE proclaimed a “SIGN” between HIM and HIS Chosen People, Israel. To strengthen the great significance of GOD’s Hallowed Seventh Day, HE used this Day of REST to prove HIS People, the Israelites, to see if they would walk in HIS LAW, or no (Exodus 16:4).
It didn’t take GOD long to find out that HIS Chosen People HE had JUST DELIVERED out of Egyptian bondage by HIS Mighty Hand before their very eyes, did not FEAR HIM to be OBEDIENT to HIS COMMANDMENT of the Holy Seventh Day of Rest. The Holy ONE of Israel made no comment when the Israelites left the Manna “til the morning and it bred worms and stank.” But, it was Moses who “was wroth with them.” However, when some of the Children of Israel went out on the Seventh Day Sabbath to gather Manna, this, without a doubt, deeply upset the Holy ONE of Israel.
“And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?” Exodus 16:27,28
The Israelites had failed their test! It is obvious that the Holy ONE DID NOT want the Israelites leaving their places on HIS Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST (Shabbatone in Hebrew). And for some of us, if this is not understood, then Exodus 16:29 makes GOD’s COMMANDMENT perfectly clear without a shadow of a doubt.
“…the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”
The questions now become, Is the Holy ONE of Israel still proving us to see if we “will walk in HIS LAW, or no?” Is HE still using HIS Holy Sabbath Day as an indicator, and are we at liberty to violate GOD’s COMMANDMENT “to abide every man in his place on the Seventh Day”? Also, can we be expected to return to our heritage if we do violate this COMMANDMENT?
“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.” Ezekiel 22:26
Perhaps at this point, I should make readers aware of the basis for this particular post.
Before the recent “KenesiYAH Conference” in Jackson, Tennessee held on November 12 – 14, a notice was circulated stating, “This Conference Stars YHWH King Of The Universe!!”
Because the Conference called for activities on GOD’s Holy Sabbath Day of Complete REST, I knew that most of the attendees, if not all, would be leaving their places (homes and hotel rooms) on the Seventh Day, November 13, to take part in whatever was being offered on GOD’s Holy Day. In my heart, I was immediately critical of this Conference for going against GOD’s COMMANDMENT to abide in our places on the Seventh Day of Rest. Also, knowing fully well that the GOD of Israel is against bearing burdens on HIS Holy Sabbath Day, I thought to challenge the promoter for circulating that “This Conference Stars YHWH King Of the Universe” - words that were clearly construed to draw a crowd but displeased YIHOVAH. And I wasn’t at all in agreement with charging a fee to attend the Conference, either.
However, I, for some reason, changed my mind about contacting the promoter. And in the interim, I learned that the Conference was a success and people had really gotten something out of this gathering. Then I thought to myself how wonderful it is for Israelites to Glory and PRAISE the Holy ONE and rejoice in revering ONLY HIM. I also thought that the GOD of Israel might have been truly pleased with the Conference and that perhaps HE had changed the WAY HE wants us to observe HIS Holy Seventh Day of REST. I told myself that perhaps we CAN indeed gather and teach on this Hallowed Day. Although I had these thoughts, I didn’t seek the Holy ONE for clarification on the matter. And I left it at that without considering putting this notion of gathering on the Sabbath to the test and without further thoughts about the issue until this past Friday, November 19, just a few days after the Conference ended when the Holy ONE of Israel gave me clarification on the matter.
On this Friday, while going about my daily readings, the Holy ONE showed me that we must keep HIS LAW, as it is written or face the consequences. And no matter how zealous and passionate we are about our concerns to worship Our GOD of Israel, and no matter how jubilant and how much Praise and admiration we bestow upon HIM in a Conference, in a parade, or in the privacy of our homes, we have got to remain bound and TRUE to HIS LAWS – ALL OF THEM - to remember to do and observe them, as HE has COMMANDED, for this Divine LAW IS OUR LIFE and is to be kept (as it is written) FOREVER!
“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.” Deuteronomy 32:46,47
“Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.” Deuteronomy 11:1
“These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.” Deuteronomy 12:1
“But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.” II Kings 17:36,37
The passage the Holy ONE showed me in Scripture that caused me to recall the November 12 – 13 KenesiYAH Conference and the activities held on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of Rest entailed the relocation of GOD’s Ark. I did not search for this passage. This passage was brought to me…ALL PRAISES DUE TO THE HOLY ONE!
“And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.” I Chronicles 13:8
Without a doubt, King David and ALL Israel played before GOD WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT with SINGING, HARPS, PSALTERIES, TIMBRELS, CYMBOLS, and TRUMPETS. For sure the Israelites made a great tumultuous noise in sincere PRAISE of the Most High GOD of Israel. And indeed HE was taking notice!
I remember many years ago reading this passage for the very first time thinking about how wonderful it was for Israel to Praise GOD and how pleased HE must have been seeing HIS People Exalting HIM with such joyfulness and fervor. But at that time, as I continued reading the chapter, something happened in the passage that I’m sure has caused Israelites and the Stranger alike to wonder why this GOD of Israel would so severely punish a man, during this moment of exultation and joy of HIM, for putting forth his hand to steady HIS Ark. I read on with great sorrow for Uzza, seeking a valid reason for his death.
“And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.” I Chronicles 13:9,10
The valid reason was and still is KEEP GOD’s LAWS for HE will not forgo punishment if we don’t. For me, this passage was a tremendous wakeup call that made me realize that no matter what…we, Israelites, must take heed to obey all GOD’s COMMANDMENTS, as they are written. And when in doubt, rather than assume the wrong decision, err on the side of caution, i.e., err on the side of what's written. Then we can always say, "We followed the Commandment that is written in GOD's Book of the Law!
The Conference of November 12 – 14, I’m sure was well organized with the Holy ONE in mind to draw as many people as possible and to make as much money as possible. But given GOD’s LAW of the Holy Sabbath Day to “abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the Seventh Day,” has GOD given HIS consent and endorsed leaving our places, driving cars, teaching, and holding a Sabbath Service on this Seventh Day of Complete REST? Now, since reading the passage about Uzza, I know for sure, the Holy ONE of Israel has not changed HIS LAW of the Sabbath. It is yet valid, and we are bound to it, as well as to ALL of GOD’s LAWS. And like Nehemiah, I remind everyone of how our forefathers profaned GOD’s Holy Day of REST even after having just returned to the land out of Babylonian captivity.
“Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.”
Nehemiah 13:18
If we are specifically advised to keep GOD’s Sabbath or be punished with death, that our servants, oxen, asses, and cattle are also supposed to rest, as well, and COMMANDED NOT to bear burdens on the Holy Seventh Day of Rest, then we have no business scheduling activities on this Holy Shabbatone (Sabbath of Complete REST Day). If the Holy ONE wanted us assembling on HIS Holy Seventh Day of Rest, then HE would not have COMMANDED us to abide in our places on this Day of REST!!! Surely that makes a lot of sense, right?
“But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:10,11
“Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.” Exodus 31:13 - 15
“Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.” Deuteronomy 5:13,14
“And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.”
Nehemiah 13:19
“Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem; Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction. And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.” Jeremiah 17:21 – 25
“But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.” Jeremiah 17:27
Although there is nothing written above about picking up sticks on the Holy Sabbath Day of REST, GOD condemned a man to death for this act (Numbers 15:32-35). Doesn’t this sentence of death expound upon the great importance of observing this Holy Day, as it is written and not according to what we feel is acceptable? Of course it does! GOD is as serious as a heart attack about our KEEPING HIS Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST and about JUDGING us if we profane it. Other than picking up sticks on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of REST, what else might we do to cause Our GOD of Israel to be angry and “smite” or condemn us to death as HE did with Uzza and the man who was found picking up sticks on HIS Holy Seventh Day Sabbath? What about CARRYING all the books, charts, video equipment, teaching aids, and other paraphernalia we need for instruction and for the operation of the Conference? Who are we fooling? All of us are aware of what it entails to organize and hold a Conference. It takes a lot of WORK, as well as a lot of energy to sustain each day’s agenda, and I am only making reference to the activities that are scheduled on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbath.
What about the hot meals served at the hotels or at the meeting place on the Holy Seventh Day when we are COMMANDED to prepare on the Sixth Day the food to be eaten on the Seventh Day of REST? What about burdening someone to bear even sandwiches and beverages to drink if food is served at the meeting place? What about getting from the hotel to the meeting place? What about driving or being driven to the meeting place? Think about all the work that transpires on a three-day Conference that includes GOD’s Holy Day of COMPLETE REST.
And when we involve ourselves in all these transactions, we say, “This Conference Stars YHWH King Of The Universe.” I don’t think so! As a matter of fact, I know what “Thus Saith the LORD,” and I know better! According to HIS WORD, HE is not pleased and no more pleased with us than HE was with Uzza, King David, and the others. I also know that Our GOD is not pleased with our charging a fee to hear HIS WORD.
“The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.” Micah 3:11
I see nothing wrong with Israelites devising ways to raise money, but given the above verse, we should keep GOD’s Ways out of such plans, i.e., don’t make money off of the WORD of GOD. By all means, create jobs, have dances, parties, sell dinners, plan spring, summer, and winter attractions, and keep them above suspicion, but don’t include a fee if at all GOD’s WORD is involved. Let us be about following GOD’s Counsel and not that of our own. And I can’t stress enough that it does not entail charging and paying money to hear HIS Truth. When our hearts are right, Our GOD prospers our way. When our hearts are NOT right, there is no peace to the wicked.
When GOD did not pardon what Uzza did while King David and the Israelites were rejoicing before the Holy ONE giving HIM Praise and Glory, then what imaginations of our hearts think we can be pardoned for breaking GOD’s Law of the Seventh Day when HE distinctly COMMANDED us to “ABIDE YE EVERY MAN IN HIS PLACE, LET NO MAN GO OUT OF HIS PLACE ON THE SEVENTH DAY”? Is this not a COMMANDMENT? If you agree that it is, then how can we justify leaving our places on this Holy Seventh Day of REST to participate in any kind of service - Conference, Unity Shabbot or other function? We have more than enough time to schedule get-togethers and have spiritual assemblies. None of these gatherings should be scheduled for the Holy Seventh Day of COMPLETE REST. And regardless of what different Messianic leaders or Prophets or Levites might say to justify it, there is NO Scripture to support such meetings on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day. The Children of Israel did not gather or assemble on the Seventh Day in the Wilderness, and they are dead wrong to do so now! The GOD of Israel does not change, and HE is not going to change HIS Law of the Holy Seventh Day that dates back to the end of HIS CREATION. The Law of the Seventh Day Sabbath is to REST and keep the day “Holy.”
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” Genesis 2:1 – 3
“Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:” Nehemiah 9:13,14
GOD’s Holy Seventh Day is an anniversary in remembrance of the Six Days it took HIM to CREATE the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein. Therefore, regardless of how much we invest in this day being of spiritual significance in Conferences or other affairs to show forth HIS Praise, we are so wrong to do so. And it’s simply because Our GOD wants us in our places on HIS Holy Seventh Day Sabbath. By the way, if the Conference is on a weekend, there is nothing wrong with staying in our hotel rooms when the Sabbath begins and until it’s over.
After GOD COMMANDED us to abide in our places on HIS Holy Seventh Day, as we know, a man thought it was all right to gather sticks. Today many Israelites feel it’s quite all right to drive cars and use other means of transportation to ASSEMBLE and give Praise and Thanksgiving to Our GOD on HIS Holy Seventh Day, but when we do, we are ever so wrong. Actually, we are dead wrong!
GOD’s LAWS, COMMANDMENTS, and HIS WORD to HIS Prophets speak volumes, and unless GOD stipulated changes, there are no exceptions to HIS Ordinances. Throughout the “Old Testament,” we find that GOD sent HIS Prophets and instructed them to rise up early to go to the Israelites to urge them to return back to the LAW that HE gave to HIS Prophet Moses. I only reiterate that which has already been COMMANDED of us. And we can either accept GOD’s LAWS or contrive justification to circumvent them. If we are in agreement to accept GOD’s LAWS, then we cannot dismiss the LAW to abide in our places on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of REST. It’s just that simple. Throughout GOD’s WORD, we learn that we must follow GOD’s LAW or face repercussions.
“But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.” Deuteronomy 30:14 - 16
“Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.” Jeremiah 11:8
Let us not forget that OBEDIENCE to GOD’s LAW should be our highest priority IF it is our intention to return back to our heritage (Deuteronomy 30:1-3 and I Samuel 15:19).
“Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.”
Exodus 19:4 – 6
“But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.” Deuteronomy 4:29 – 31
“And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.” Deuteronomy 27:9,10
“If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.” Deuteronomy 28:58 – 61
“And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.” Deuteronomy 30:8 – 10
“Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.” Isaiah 42:23,24
Thus, I urge everyone to consider ALL GOD’s COMMANDMENTS, especially in regard to holding Conferences, teaching, and doing any other activities on GOD’s Holy Seventh Day of REST since we are supposed to abide in our places on this Holy Seventh Day. NO ONE is in favor of coming together to sing and give Praise to the Holy ONE of Israel, Our GOD and SAVIOR, more than myself – NO ONE! But I would make arrangements for such an occasion to be held on any day but GOD’s Seventh Day of REST! And we have six other days from which to choose for assembling and gathering for Spiritual Reunions.
Enough of seeking the imaginations of our hearts and devising new means and ways to divine and worship Our GOD of Israel. The GOD of Israel has already established how HE wants us to serve and worship HIM: according to HIS LAW and with our whole heart and soul and in Righteousness. Therefore, seek GOD’s Counsel and abide by HIS Ways that HE left written for us to follow. If revelations and the imaginations of our hearts that we embark upon are not in accord with Isaiah 8:20, then these teachings, persuasions, endeavors, events, and doings are not encouraged by Our GOD of Israel.
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20
We must not ever forget that although we are GOD’s Chosen People, “LIFE” is not about the Children of Israel. The ideal “LIFE” (style) is about keeping GOD’s Laws, Statutes, and Judgments and, in doing so, enjoying peace, happiness, and prosperity in our heritage with Our GOD in our midst! This “LIFE,” per se, is the panacea, the Divine Utopia that all peoples upon this Earth should seek for keeping GOD’s Ways of Righteousness and serving and worshipping HIM is with great rewards.
Like many of us, I seek to return to our heritage, and it will only happen when we decide to be OBEDIENT to GOD’s LAWS that HE gave to HIS Prophet Moses for us to live and do. So eager we are to be accepted, recognized, and joined with others, but is this what matters? We must be extremely cautious in all that we do. Praise is comely only for the upright. We can have a thousand with us, but if the Holy ONE of Israel is not with us, then, let’s face it, we are lost!
“The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul:
the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart:
the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever:
the judgments of the LORD 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 thy servant warned:
and in keeping of them there is great reward.”
Psalm 19:7 - 11
FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH AND HONOR AND KEEP ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS, LAWS, STATUTES, AND JUDGMENTS!
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AN UPDATED SPECIAL NOTE ON GOD's HOLY SEVENTH DAY OF COMPLETE REST!
I can understand how we would have questions about certain passages, and the reason is that not every single thing written in the Hebrews Scriptures is crystal clear. I have found that over the decades, some revelations have actually taken that long before I could come to a full understanding of what's written. Also, we must understand that the Holy ONE does not give us all that we should learn at one sitting and not even in one year. It truly takes time to internalize all the facts and Truths of the LAW and GOD's WORD and the enlightenment behind them. For that reason, we must continuously read the TORAH and GOD's WORD to HIS Prophets on a yearly basis.
However, given some passages that are crystal clear, I cannot understand how some of us can read into what's written that which is not there. I bring into issue GOD's Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete REST (called a Shabbatone in Hebrew) that we are Commanded to observe in order that we, our animals, and our servants will be refreshed.
"Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed." Exodus 23:12
Just the above verse is enough to make us understand what Complete REST is all about. But no, it really isn't. One would think we would be ecstatic to have a day off recognizing the Glorious "Sign" between Our GOD of Israel and the Children of Israel, doing nothing but sleeping and sitting on our behinds Praising the GOD of Israel with THANKS for not having to work – some literally like a slave. Unfortunately, Israelites want to use this day for just about any and everything but for Complete REST. And if the above Scripture is not enough we have others that are even more precise and to the point and without confusion:
"See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." Exodus 16:29
"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." Exodus 31:12 - 17
Some Israelites honestly believe that the Sabbath Day of Complete REST doesn't start until in the morning, i.e., from morning until evening – disregarding the fact that the CREATOR started each new 24-hour day in the evening (Genesis First Chapter) which gave us our foundation for determining each day of the week.
As I have pointed out Isaiah 30:29, makes mention of "the night when a holy solemnity is kept". That verse also tells us that Holy Days are kept in the night. But then there are other Scriptures, as well:
"I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons." Psalm 16:7
"Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." Psalm 19:2
"At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments." Psalm 119:62
If the Holy Sabbath of Complete REST is not observed at night, then what about all other activities that occur at night? Or do we just pick and choose which ones to observe at night? What about the sacrifice that is left to burn into the night? Do GOD's Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, Ordinances, revelations, and dreams bestowed upon us cease to have credibility in the night season? Hopefully, now when we think about it, starting Holy Days from morning to evening makes no sense at all. However, it does make sense that GOD's Ways and Ordinances DO NOT cease in the night season. All HIS Ways must be observed AT THEIR APPOINTED TIMES, and even in the night.
My hope is that all of us will seek a better understanding of GOD's Truth regarding HIS Law of the Holy Seventh Day Sabbath because those who profane it are subject to death, as Exodus indicates.
I have had several debates on the topic of when and how we should observe GOD's Seventh Day Sabbath. The when: Friday sunset to Saturday sundown. The how: In your places, wherever that might be and without holding classes, traveling, picnicking, cooking, spending money, and fulfilling pleasures – in essence, keeping this day "Holy" and at "REST".
Recently, I had a debate on the Sabbath that was about "holy convocation". It seems many Israelites seem to believe that although the GOD of Israel Commanded Complete REST for us and our animals that given what's written in Leviticus 23rd Chapter makes it all right to have an assembly of worship on the Sabbath Day.
"Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." Leviticus 23:3
Some people do not take into consideration that, ONE, we are Commanded to abide in our places, and TWO, we are also Commanded to REST. They seem to think that "holy convocation" means to gather, just like church folk do on Sunday, and hold Sabbath Service. They could not be more wrong! It is impossible to enjoy Complete REST while in travel and while teaching.
"Holy convocation" does not and cannot mean to assemble. My proof positive is found in the Book of Exodus, where the GOD of Israel tells the Israelites to observe the First Day of Passover:
"And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save thatwhich every man must eat, that only may be done of you." Exodus 12:16
The key point here is that on the First Day of Passover, the Children of Israel were Commanded to stay in their "households" and consume their lamb or goat.
"Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:" Exodus 12:3
"Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover." Exodus 12:21
"In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." Exodus 12:49
Hence, the Children of Israel were not Commanded to assemble, and "holy convocation" could not mean to assemble for Passover. And by the same token, Israelites cannot use "holy convocation" as reason to hold a Sabbath Service.
Why are we still like our forefathers, that is being Hell bent on deviating from what's written and leaving us to our own confusion? Check the Hebrew Scriptures. Of all the Holy Days mentioned, the two that remarkably head the list are GOD's Holy Seventh Day Sabbath of Complete REST, which is, by the way, a "Sign" between HIM and the Children of Israel, and HIS Awesome Passover – both for HIS GLORY and HIS Holy Name's Sake. The Holy ONE of Israel has made the Sabbath "Sign" for HIMSELF for being the All-Mighty CREATOR GOD and for establishing CREATION in the BEGINNING all by HIMSELF. HE has established the Passover Memorial for HIS Great and Holy Name's Sake that all the world will remember it FOREVER because of HIS Powerful Hand that brought our forefathers out of Ancient Egyptian bondage! Therefore, not under any circumstances can we err by profaning these Holy Days, or any other Holy Day for that matter. And we should always strive to observe them with utmost sincerity and heart, exactly as they are written in the LAW.
Remember, Our GOD of Israel formed us for HIS Praise. Thus, when we demonstrate HIS Ways of Righteousness and observe HIS Feast Days that then we do HIM Justice and encourage others to follow our lead. For that reason, GOD's Commandments for keeping HIS Holy Days are not encrypted and need no interpretation. It only must be in our hearts to do what's written.
"If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it." Deuteronomy 30:10 - 16
At some point, it has got to be in our hearts to FEAR the Holy ONE of Israel to follow HIS written LAW, and until it is in our hearts to do so, we are not ready to fulfill Deuteronomy 30th Chapter. And worse, at GOD's set time when HE will recover the Remnant of Israel exiled throughout the world, not all of us will be among that number.
"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, 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; 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. 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: 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. 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." Deuteronomy 30:1 – 6
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness." Isaiah 10:20 – 22
"Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there." Isaiah 65:8,9
After leaving out of Ancient Egypt and forty years in the Wilderness, the Children of Israel walked into the Land of Israel as a Nation. This time the "he goats" will be first to arrive and prepare the way for the Nation of Israel, as each arrives. But where are they? And where are Israelites who will fulfill the Second Great Exodus that Our GOD of Israel will bring to fruition?
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." Isaiah 11:11,12
"…behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land." Jeremiah 23:7,8
According to these passages the CREATOR GOD confirms exactly what HIS Plan entails - ONLY A REMNANT will be recovered!
Those of us who desire to be in that number, let us come together to make a pact to follow the Holy ONE of Israel and HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, as they are written with fasting and prayer, so that Our GOD of Israel will hear us and Deliver us speedily into the Wilderness where we will be encouraged in HIS Ways of Righteousness.
November/December 2009
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“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:2,3
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
Deuteronomy 6:4,5
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IT IS IN VAIN TO SEEK PROSPERITY AND RELIEF IN THIS CAPTIVITY!
Our afflictions result from the curses Our GOD put upon us, and nothing we do will alleviate this misery in America. And sooner than later, we will all come to know this truth. The death, sickness, suffering, and despair among us is too great for us to bear. Thus, it is incumbent upon us to get Our GOD’s attention to hear our supplications and change the times, in order that we will return to HIM and to our heritage and live according to HIS Ways of Righteousness. No one lives for the True and Living GOD. No one is in Jerusalem professing HIS Holy Name and Exalting HIM. And no one is making the sacrifices and offerings HE loves. IF things are to change, then we must start the process. After all, we were formed to show forth GOD’s Praise BUT in the land where HE has ordained Israelites to serve HIM (Ezekiel 20:40,41), and the United States has nothing to do with it! In America, Our GOD won’t let us forget that we were exiled to serve our enemies in their lands for our great sins against Our Loving GOD that gave us everything and more than that. When will we wake up to realize the power of our actions. Our love for our GOD and HIS LAW got us in the land flowing with milk and honey, and our transgressions against HIM got us enslaved under ruthless Gentiles. BUT if we use our energies to live according to GOD’s Book of the Law and appeal to ONLY HIM for Deliverance, rather than succumb to life in Gentile lands, then we can expect, through GOD’s Blessings, a dramatic change in our lives.
“HIS Hand is stretched out still,” and it’s up to us to determine our destiny. The “Dry Bones” CAN live but only if they will turn to the Holy ONE of Israel and live by HIS Book of the Law, as it is written.
“Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people,
and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them:
and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them
from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:”
Isaiah 5:25,26
“Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is
written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside
therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
“That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you;
neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
“But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.”
Joshua 23:6 - 8
“And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”
Exodus 15:26
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O LORD GOD of Israel,
Spare the Elders of Israel. Open their eyes, Father, and cause them to fear you to do your Will. Have Mercy, O LORD GOD of Israel and cause the world to know your TRUTH. FORGIVE, Father of Abraham and remember your Covenant with Jacob and your Promises to the Children of Israel. Remember your Holy City Jerusalem and remember King Solomon’s Prayer for you to hear us when we pray toward your Holy City. Save us, Father, for ONLY YOU have that power. SAVE us as you saved our forefathers out of Egypt by your Awesome SUPREMACY and MIGHT. Don’t leave us to waste away in the lands of our captivity.
In your own words, LORD GOD of Israel, “Let us reason together.” We need you, LORD GOD, like we’ve never needed you before. Make haste, Dear Father of Israel, Save the SEED of Jacob and let us LIVE FOR YOU in Righteousness.
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD
IS MERCIFUL AND GOOD!
FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH FOR WE HAVE ONLY HIM, THE ONE MERCIFUL GOD THAT IS TRUE TO HIS WORD AND THAT LISTENS WHEN WE CALL UPON HIM WITH A CONTRITE SPIRIT!
FEAR AND GLORY THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, GIVE THANKS TO HIM, AND BLESS HIS HOLY NAME!
Tziona Yisrael
Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name’s Sake!
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DEAR LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
TAKE BACK your Universe!
Don't let your enemies and the rebellious triumph over your wondrous WORKS! This is your planet.
YOU CREATED it, and you alone deserve ALL the PRAISE and GLORY!
Establish your RIGHTEOUSNESS for a world of Peace, Truth, and Happiness
for your MAJESTY and EXALTATION ALONE!
SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU STILL EXIST! LORD, TAKE BACK YOUR UNIVERSE!
TAKE BACK your Holy Land
YOU PROMISED it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
AND to the SEED of the Children of Israel!
TAKE BACK your Holy City, Jerusalem
YOU established it for your Praise and Glory and for your Holy Temple,
Wherein, all Nations will bow to you and worship YOU ALONE.
TAKE BACK your Holy People, GOD of Israel, and Save those of us who seek to follow your Book of the Law, as it is written! Save the Righteous Remnant
Save the Great Nation that YOU told Moses about - those special ones who will know only to serve and worship YOU, and who will have it no other way! And forgive us our sins, and forgive our forefathers for theirs, as well. They did you wrong, Father of Abraham, and too many of us, today, also do wrong by you. But we are waking up, and we are turning to YOU. For that reason, GOD of Israel, be Merciful, forgive, and cause THY FACE to shine upon us.
Save those of us who seek to follow your Book of the Law, as it is written! Save the Righteous Remnant for your GLORY and PRAISE!
LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
SAVE your Chosen, the SEED of Jacob, The Remnant you are Calling for Your Holy Name's Sake!
SAVE US JUST ONE
MORE TIME, HEAVENLY FATHER of Abraham!
SAVE US, so that
we may Glory in your PRAISE and your EXALTATION!
Re-establish THY
Holy Temple, so that all peoples may go before you to worship YOU and learn
that YOU ALONE are the True and Living GOD of this Universe and that all people
must live according to your Laws, Statutes, and Judgments if we are to enjoy
your Peace and Your Happiness on your Earth!
"O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name." Isaiah 63:17-19
LORD GOD of Abraham, be with those of us who have the desires to return to your Lawful Ways, Your Book of the Law, that you gave to your Prophet Moses and give us the courage, wisdom, and power to be re-established in your Holy Name. Let us show the world that YOU, the Most High GOD, the CREATOR, the Holy ONE of Israel are still in control of this Universe. Give us a steadfast heart and determination to be True only to YOU and not to falter or waiver from your desires for the Remnant you have called to return, so that YOU may perform your promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Establish that “GREAT NATION” YOU told Moses about, FATHER, – the Israelites who will be totally devoted to YOU, your Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, and who will establish your Holy Kingdom in Truth and in Righteousness.
LORD GOD of Abraham, re-establish your Holy Temple, so that all peoples may come to worship before you and learn about your Ways of Righteousness and your Merciful Kindness towards all peoples who seek to know your Truth.
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IS JUST AND GOOD!
MAY OUR SAVIOR GOD OF ISRAEL BLESS AND BE WITH ALL WHO SEEK HIM
IN TRUTH DURING THIS ROSH CHODESH AND ALL THE YEAR,
ALWAYS!
Tziona Yisrael,
Servant of the Most High GOD of Israel for HIS Holy Name's Sake!
THE LAWKEEPERS, CO.
www.thelawkeepers.org
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“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:
and his rest shall be glorious.
“And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time
to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria,
and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam,
and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
“And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
Isaiah 11:10 - 12
“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
“But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.”
Jeremiah 16:14,15
O TASTE AND SEE
THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IS JUST AND GOOD!
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“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 2:3
“Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:
and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,
which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
Jeremiah 3:14,15
“At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem:
neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel,
and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land
that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.”
Jeremiah 3:17,18
IF WE SINCERELY WANT TO BE A RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE, THEN
WE MUST FOLLOW AND LIVE GOD’S RIGHTEOUS LAW,
AND TO CHANGE EVEN ONE LETTER OF THIS DIVINE LAW
IS TO MINIMIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE OF GOD’S
ALREADY DECLARED PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid,
that the temple might be built.”
Zechariah 8:9
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL
IS RIGHTEOUS, JUST, AND GOOD!
LET US FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS TO BE OBEDIENT TO HIS LAW FOR OUR DELIVERANCE!
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“Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?
prudent, and he shall know them?
for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them:
but the transgressors shall fall therein.”
Hosea 14:9
Be wise to know that Our GOD gives us wisdom and knowledge when we keep HIS LAW!
“Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
“Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say,
Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Deuteronomy 4:5,6
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS JUST AND GOOD!
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“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:11
“Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice:
for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.”
Isaiah 56:1
“The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;
and he knoweth them that trust in him.”
Nahum 1:7
LORD GOD of Israel, remember your Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and observe that some of us seek you with our whole hearts to accept and live by ALL your Righteous and Glorious LAW; therefore, Heavenly Father, make haste to TAKE BACK YOUR UNIVERSE and re-establish the SEED of your Chosen Ones for your PRAISE and GLORY and for your Holy Name’s Sake.
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, SO SHALL YOUR SEED AND YOUR NAME REMAIN.
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.”
Isaiah 66:22,23
“For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same
my name shall be great among the Gentiles;
and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering:
for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Malachi 1:11
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“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
“But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob;
but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.”
Isaiah 43:21,22
“Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou,
that thou mayest be justified.”
Isaiah 43:26
HEAR, O ISRAEL, the LORD Our GOD is ONE LORD! And it’s our duty to show forth HIS Praise for indeed this is why we were chosen and formed!
“And they shall spring up as among the grass,
as willows by the water courses.
“One shall say, I am the LORD'S; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD,
and surname himself by the name of Israel.”
Isaiah 44:4,5
“I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.”
Isaiah 45:19
“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”
Isaiah 55:6
We have no time to waste!
FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS!
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD, OUR GOD AND ONLY SAVIOR
IS GOOD AND MERCIFUL TO ALL WHO TURN TO AND TRUST IN HIM TO DO HIS WILL!
*****
LET THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ISRAEL LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THE RIGHTEOUS REMNANT ALWAYS AND FOREVER!
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD
AND THAT THERE IS NO OTHER GOD LIKE UNTO HIM!
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Let us return to the very same GOD that Created Heaven and Earth and that saved our forefathers out of Egypt for HE is the True and Living GOD, and there is none else.
“…I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt
will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.”
Hosea 12:9
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“Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that
I may assemble the kingdoms,
to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger:
for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.”
Zephaniah 3:8
“I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
”Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
“At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth,
when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.”
Zephaniah 3: 18 - 20
HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH!
FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH ALWAYS!
*****
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD AND
THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT HIM!
BLESSED BE THE MERCIFUL MOST HIGH GOD OF ISRAEL, THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE SAVIOR TO THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM!
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“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”
Deuteronomy 32:39
“Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? Ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no God;
I know not any.”
Isaiah 44:8
“I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.”
Isaiah 44:22
For those of us who truly Fear Our True and Living GOD, let us be blessed with answers to our prayers that HE will deliver us out of bondage just as HE saved our forefathers out of bondage down in Egypt. We also pray that Our Holy ONE will deal with the Rulers of this World and call HIS Chosen Ones home to our heritage where HE will once again live among us and be Our GOD of gods and LORD of lords and where we will be a LIGHT to the World and show forth HIS Praise and Glory in Truth and in Righteousness FOREVER.
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD, OUR GOD OF ISRAEL, IS JUST AND GOOD to all those who Fear and seek HIM in Truth and in Righteousness!!! The Holy ONE was with Abram, and HE will be with us, as well if we will just turn to HIM with our whole heart. I am a Witness!
Let’s be ready for the Day of the LORD for therein lies our DELIVERANCE and our return to our heritage if we return to Our ONLY LORD and SAVIOR and be obedient to HIS LAW.
FEAR AND GLORY YIHOVAH AND HONOR HIS BOOK OF THE LAW ALWAYS!
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“FEARING” YIHOVAH and “OBEDIENCE” to HIS Ways is “Key” to our attaining everything we need to know, do, and accomplish. And for that, BLESSED BE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL FOR EVER AND EVER!
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I PRAY TO BE JOINED WITH THOSE WHO SEEK YIHOVAH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BE NUMBERED AMONG HIS SAINTS, AND BE A LIGHT TO THE WORLD FOR HIS FAME AND GLORY. I PRAY TO BE JOINED WITH THOSE WHO WILL DEMAND THE KEEPING OF GOD’s BOOK OF THE LAW AND WITHOUT ADDING TO OR DIMINISHING FROM IT!
BLESSED BE THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM AND MOSES AND EXALTED BE HIS HOLY NAME ABOVE ALL FOREVER AND EVER!
GLORY YIHOVAH, CLEAVE TO HIM, AND EXALT HIM AND HIS BOOK OF THE LAW ALWAYS!
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A RENEWED MESSAGE TO ALL MESSIANICS:
GOD’S TRUTH EXPLODES
BRILLIANTLY
“For thou shalt worship no other god:
for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:”
Exodus
34:14
March 2011
In that
JC did not save the Slaves out of Africa and has not saved the descendants of
these Slaves out of this captivity, I ask, pray tell me then at what point is
he supposed to stand up to his name? It
has been well over 2,000 years now and this world of peoples mourn, suffer,
starve, die in the millions at young
ages from sicknesses, impoverishment, malnutrition, and even despair, not to
mention that there is no peace and happiness not even with rich peoples and
nations.
While
this is a serious matter, there is another topic of even greater concern and
import that wholly questions the credibility of the man-god, JC, and the “New
Testament” that idolizes and magnifies him.
Let’s
first look at why the GOD of Israel scattered HIS People, the Children of
Israel. Throughout the Hebrew
Scriptures, we learn that the Israelites repeated rejected the CREATOR GOD of
Israel for false gods and rejected HIS Righteous Way of Life. They knew well that they were forbidden to
add other ways of worship to GOD’s Book of the Law, as well, they could not
change it either. For these reasons the
GOD of Israel said HE would scatter HIS Chosen/Covenant People, the Children of
Israel, throughout the “Four Corners of the Earth” into the hands of their
heathenish enemies. And in these lands,
they would serve gods that are no gods – gods that cannot save.
Now, here is where the GOD’s Truth explodes brilliantly:
“And
the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth
even unto the other; and there thou
shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even
wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither
shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:” Deuteronomy 28:64,65
“Assemble
yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the
nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and
pray unto a god thatcannot save.”
Isaiah 45:20
“Therefore
hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear,
O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of
their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law,
but rejected it. To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba,
and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not
acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. Therefore thus saith the
LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers
and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall
perish. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. They
shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy;
their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as
men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.” Jeremiah 6:18 – 23
“I will
scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.” Jeremiah 9:16
“Therefore
will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the
wilderness.” Jeremiah 13:24
“Blessed
is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.” Jeremiah 17:7
“A
third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be
consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round
about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw
out a sword after them.” Ezekiel 5:12
“Yet
will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the
sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. And
they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall
be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath
departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols:
and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.” Ezekiel 6:8,9
“And
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the
nations, and disperse them in the countries.”
Ezekiel 12:15
“And
all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that
remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD
have spoken it.” Ezekiel 17:21
“I
lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them
among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; Because they
had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted
my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.” Ezekiel 20:23,24
“Thus
shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even
they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.” Jeremiah 10:11
GOD’s WORD came to pass. HE
scattered HIS People into captivity into the hands of heathens, who even now
control this world of savage evils and untold wickedness, for the Children of
Israel defying HIM and for turning to false gods. And, as HE said would happen, the Israelites became Slaves and
lost their identity. It was at this time that the same heathens,
the people GOD said would be the enemies of HIS rebellious People, took the
Israelites (and all Blacks) as Slaves and converted them to the false religion
- Christianity - to ensure that they would never call upon the GOD of Israel
again. Since the Slave Masters
converted Blacks to this false religion, Blacks have devoted the pagan “Sunday”
to worship of singing and praising this man-god, JC, who has done absolutely
nothing to end the misery and suffering of Black folks. And if they say otherwise, they delude
themselves.
Thus, since we know that the GOD of Israel said
that our wicked forefathers would be scattered into the hands of our enemies
and heathens, then how can Israelites accept with conviction this religion that
our cruel and barbaric captors have bestowed upon us?
Israelites were Commanded to separate themselves from the Canaanites and
not marry them or give their sons and daughters to them in marriage, all
because these people worshipped false gods and lived heathenish lives. And the GOD of Israel knew that once they
joined unto the Canaanites that they would worship their gods and forget HIM
and HIS Righteous Walk of Life.
“And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them
before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt
make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son
from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the
LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye
shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves,
and burn their graven images with fire.
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth.” Deuteronomy 7:2 – 6
Therefore, if the GOD of Israel said HE would
cast us into the hands of our enemies/heathens (as HE certainly did), the last
thing we should do after coming into the knowledge of HIM and HIS Truth is
embrace their religions.
The Slave Masters had a fool-proof plan for
converting their Slaves to Christianity. It was to make the Slaves
believe in life and freedom in heaven and to continue with their miserable and
oppressive fate without rebellion. The
Slave Masters had tasted economic gain, power, and superiority over Black
Peoples, and thus, their greed and thirst for continued wealth was their every
desire and their reason for living. To
have their Slaves believe in a false god was a welcomed idea, especially if it
would advance and facilitate their agendas.
And they knew that if their Slaves turned to the CREATOR GOD of Moses,
that HE would save them just like HE Delivered the Children of Israel out of
their captivity. The Slavers’ Plan worked well, too well, because now, these Blacks
won’t let that fraudulent religion go.
Let the Children of Israel believe in THUS
SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL and in the things we know.
We know:
-
We know that there is but ONE CREATOR
GOD, and HE is the GOD of
Jacob/Israel.
- The GOD of Israel will gather HIS Covenant
People from the “Four Corners of the Earth”.
- The GOD of Israel will take HIS People into
the Wilderness.
- The GOD of Israel will return
the SEED of Jacob to our heritage that HE promised to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, the people of HIS Name’s Sake.
- The GOD of Israel is OUR ONLY SAVIOR and
REDEEMER!
- ONLY the CREATOR GOD that
brought these curses upon us for our transgressions against HIM has the ability
to end the suffering and affliction
that we endure.
- Calling upon the ONE True GOD
of Jacob/Israel and following HIS Ways of Righteousness is our only means of
SALVATION.
It is
easy for us to be numbered among the Righteous Remnant, but is only possible if
we are serious and want this with all our heart, soul, and might. And then it will only come to fruition if we
embrace the GOD of Israel and walk HIS Righteous Paths.
“I call heaven and earth to record this day
against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou
mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and
that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of
thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Deuteronomy 30:19,20
“For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One
of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba
for thee.
“I, even
I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.” Isaiah 43:3,11
These
are all the more reasons why Israelites who love the GOD of Israel with all
their heart, soul, and might should be striving to leave out of the countries
that hold them in captivity, as well as seek after Our GOD of Israel to again
show HIS Mighty HAND in our DELIVERANCE and our RE-ESTABLISHMENT for HIS Holy
Name’s Sake.
“And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The
LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
“For
from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall
be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be
offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great
among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 1:5,11
As we
now know all too well, Our GOD of Israel will indeed punish us if we do not
serve and worship ONLY HIM. We should
realize that HE will hold us accountable to the Covenant Joshua and our
forefathers made to serve and make HIM Our GOD.
“Therefore it shall come to pass, that
as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so
shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from
off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. When ye have transgressed the
covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served
other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be
kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which
he hath given unto you.” Joshua 23:15,16
Why
believe the JEALOUS GOD of Israel that was against serving and worshipping
other gods is now promoting the worship of this man-god, JC? Where
in the Hebrew Scriptures is such a thing found in HIS WORDS? If the GOD of Israel was against the worship
of other gods when the Israelites were in the Land of Israel, then for sure HE
is against Israelites worshipping false gods in the lands of their
captivity. The First Commandment makes
worship of the ONE GOD of Israel perfectly clear.
“And
God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which
have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love
me, and keep my commandments.” Exodus
20:1 - 6
THINK!
The CREATOR GOD scattered HIS People from the Land of Israel for
rejecting HIM for false gods! Shouldn’t
we be looking to HIM for Deliverance and for SALVATION?
“Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it
in the isles afar off, and say,
He that
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his
flock.”
Jeremiah
31:10
“If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange
gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath
done you good. And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the
LORD. And Joshua said unto the
people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you
the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. Now therefore put away, said he,
the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the
LORD God of Israel. And the
people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we
obey. So Joshua made a
covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance
in Shechem. And Joshua wrote
these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it
up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold,
this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the
LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye
deny your God.” Joshua 24:20 - 27
“But take diligent heed to do the commandment
and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD
your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to
cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 22:5
WE (AND ALL PEOPLES) HAVE GOOD REASON TO HOPE IN THE GOD OF ISRAEL:
“…the sons of the stranger, that join
themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be
his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh
hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer:
their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine
altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. The
Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others
to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.” Isaiah 56:6 - 8
“…Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast
them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the
countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where
they shall come. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you
from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been
scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.”
Ezekiel 11:16,17
“But take diligent heed to do the commandment
and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD
your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to
cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Joshua 22:5
GOD’s WORD IS CLEAR; HE IS OUR GOD AND SAVIOR!
HENCE, WE DON’T NEED JC!
“And ye shall be my people, and I will
be your God.”
Jeremiah
30:22
“Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.” Isaiah 49:22 - 26
“Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.” Jeremiah 31:2 - 4
“For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” Jeremiah 31:6 – 10
“For the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. Therefore they shall come and sing in
the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD,
for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the
herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow
any more at all. Then shall the
virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn
their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from
their sorrow. And I will
satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied
with my goodness, saith the LORD. Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard
in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her
children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were
not. Thus saith the LORD; Refrain
thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be
rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith
the LORD, that thy children shall come
again to their own border.”
Jeremiah 31:11 – 17
“For I will take you from
among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into
your own land. 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. 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. 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. And ye shall dwell in the land that I
gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.” Ezekiel 36:24 - 28
“And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become
fenced, and are inhabited. Then
the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the
ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it,
and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will
yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for
them; I will increase them with men like a flock. As the holy flock, as
the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be
filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 36:35 - 38
“…Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they
be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own
land: And I will make them
one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king
to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 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
dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they
be my people, and I will be their God. And
David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do
them. And they shall dwell in the
land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt;
and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their
children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince
for ever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it
shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply
them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My
tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be
my people. And the heathen shall
know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the
midst of them for evermore.”
Ezekiel 37:21 - 28
“And I will set my glory among the
heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my
hand that I have laid upon them. So
the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that
day and forward. And the
heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their
iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from
them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the
sword. According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I
bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of
Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; After that they have borne their shame, and all their
trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in
their land, and none made them afraid. When I have brought them
again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am
sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused
them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto
their own land, and have left none of them any more there. Neither will I hide my face any more
from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the
Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 39:21 – 29
THE JEALOUS GOD OF ABRAHAM,
ISAAC, AND JACOB
WILL HAVE IT NO OTHER WAY!!!
“Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds
among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his
wondrous works. Glory ye in his
holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD and his strength, seek
his face continually. Remember
his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his
mouth; O ye seed of Israel his
servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all
the earth. Be ye mindful always
of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations; Even of the covenant which he
made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to
Israel for an everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your
inheritance; When ye were but
few, even a few, and strangers in it. And
when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to
another people; He suffered no
man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, Saying, Touch not mine
anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Sing
unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen;
his marvellous works among all nations.
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is
to be feared above all gods. For
all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. Glory and honour are in his
presence; strength and gladness are in his place. Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD
glory and strength. Give unto
the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before
him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable,
that it be not moved. Let the
heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the
nations, The LORD reigneth. Let
the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is
therein. Then shall the trees of
the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the
earth. O give thanks unto the
LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. And say ye, Save us, O God of our
salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may
give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise. Blessed be the LORD God of
Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
HALLELUYAH! HALLELUYAH! HALLELUYAH!
“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”
Isaiah 55:6
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL!
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“Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
“And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for him.”
Isaiah 8:16,17
Let us put the Most High GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel back into our lives, our hearts, our thoughts, and in everything that we do. Focusing on HIM and HIS Ways, as we come and go in our daily routines is ever so helpful in maintaining healthy spirits and acquiring strength and knowledge of HIS Paths of Righteousness. This attitude certainly helps in making us meek, albeit but not weak, ALL PRAISES DUE TO THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.” Zechariah 8:9
“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near:”
Isaiah 55:6
*****
“I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.”
Psalm 22:22
LET US EXALT, PRAISE, AND SANCTIFY THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL IN TRUTH AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE THE WORLD FOREVERMORE! AND LET US MAGNIFY HIS LAW, WHICH IS OUR ONLY TICKET INTO HIS KINGDOM, SO THAT ALL PEOPLES WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AND WORSHIP KNOW THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM AND MOSES AND TO SERVE AND WORSHIP HIM ACCORDING TO HIS LAW, HIS WORD AND HIS WILL!
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MORE INFORMATION FOR MESSIANICS AND CHRISTIANS
THAT THEY
CANNOT IGNORE
Few people know that the “New Testament” man, Paul, and his letters to the churches helped to start the writings of the “New Testament” in approximately 50 and 62 B.C.E. (after the so-called death of JC). Then, came the so-called “Gospels” in 70 – 90 B.C.E. But still, when people do the research, they will find that there were many writers responsible for the “New Testament” Books – some known and some unknown.
That which believers in the “New Testament” should realize is that not one of the writers of the “New Testament” collaborated with the CREATOR GOD or any one of HIS Prophets. And not only that, but this book was not written with what THUS SAITH THE LORD in mind or according to HIS Ways of Righteousness. Instead, the “New Testament” writers made it a point of changing GOD’s Ordinances and inventing a “New” religion!
During the days when man contemplated this “New” religion, Christianity, it was Marcion, a ship owner of Pontus who sought to discard the “Old Testament” altogether because he found it “REPUGNANT” (How Came The Bible by Edgar J. Goodspeed, pp. 66). And it was his idea to establish Christian writings for church service, which thus, in the end, brought about the “New Testament”. Do the people who stake their lives on the writings in the “New Testament” know this? I don’t think so. And they probably don’t know that JC did not write one word found in the “New Testament”.
How Came The Bible does not go into detail about the “Virgin Birth”, nevertheless, there is one book that provides even greater astounding evidence on the fraudulent “New Testament” writings.
“Jesus Christ wrote no account of himself,
of his birth, parentage, or anything else.
Not a line of what is called the New Testament is of his writing. The history of him is altogether the work of
other people; and as to the account given of his resurrection and ascension, it
was the necessary counterpart to the story of his birth. His historians, having brought him into the
world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same
manner or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.” The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to
Read, Tim C. Leedom, Editor, pp. 84.
Another interesting fact that Messianics and Christians must research is “The notion of the Trinity developed around the second century in response to apparent heresies.” Who Tampered With the Bible by Pat Eddy, pp. 241. Do you fully comprehend what’s written here? Let me explain. If the idea of belief in a Trinity is supposed to be so Divine, how is it that it came about AFTER JC left the scene – in the second century? If there were any truth to this, wouldn’t it have been more feasible and credible for him to spread this information himself and better for the CREATOR GOD to make mention of it? But GOD has said nothing about sharing HIS Supremacy with mere man. Thus, we should understand just how much of the “New Testament” is really based on the inspirations and imaginations of mere men who fervently rejected what THUS SAITH THE LORD and who were hell bent on having a “New Testament” that reflected a man-god of love and not of Judgment. After reading Who Tampered With the Bible, one will well understand why the writings in the “New Testament” are comparable to fairy tales, of which in most cases are better articulated.
And just for the record, all you Book of
Daniel lovers out there should come to realize the controversy surrounding the
dating of this book. Regarding the Old
Testament book of Daniel: “The sections of the book purported to be
prophecy were actually written many years after most of the events took
place. Not only that but they were
written cryptically in the manner of contemporary astrological forecasts to
lend credence to the illusion that they were oracles or prophecies.” Who
Tampered With the Bible, pp. 20
In no way do I profess to be a scholar on anything, but after reading the Book of Daniel, I could see that situations written therein did not ring true and do not jibe with the other books of the “Old Testament” that expound on the WORD OF GOD. For example: In the “Old Testament” GOD’s Angels deemed their names secret and would not reveal them. But this is not so with the Book of Daniel and with the “New Testament”. Both the Book of Daniel and the “New Testament” have angels whose names are revealed, and thus this makes these angels and the books suspect. Also, Daniel’s prayer in Chapter 9 consists of verses out of the prayers of others and the Psalms in the “Old Testament”.
But here of late, there are other more pressing issues that raise red flags about the Book of Daniel. Why didn’t Daniel not return to the Land of Israel to aid in the building of GOD’s Temple as was GOD’s desire, according to HIS Prophet Haggai? Why was Daniel under scrutiny when there was a decree (See Ezra 5:13,17;6:1,3) that enabled the Israelites to return to build the temple, and that people who hindered the Judahites would be hanged (Ezra 6:11)? If as the Book of Daniel indicates, that he was around during the days of both Cyrus and Darius (Daniel 5:31;6:1;6:28;11:1), why then wasn’t he in correspondence with Ezra and Nehemiah? And given Cyrus’ and Darius’ decrees (Ezra 5th and 6th Chapters), throwing Daniel into the “lion’s den” was strictly out of the question.
Getting back to Marcion, what exactly was it that he found “repugnant” about the “Old Testament” wherein is the only place to read the WORD of GOD at the mouth of HIS Prophets?
Was
Marcion turned off by the Book of the Psalms wherein are written thousands of
verses giving PRAISE and GLORY to the GOD of Israel and where GOD said every
knee would bow to HIM (Isaiah 43:25)?
Maybe
Marcion hated the fact that the CREATOR GOD chose for HIMSELF a Covenant
People? “Israel is my son even my
firstborn.”
Could
it have been that the GOD of Israel Commanded that people cannot worship any
other god but HIM and must only CALL UPON and WAIT FOR HIM?
Surely
Marcion rejected the Righteous and “Perfect LAW” that Israelites and Gentiles
were Commanded to accept and live to a “thousand generations”.
Perhaps
Marcion detested the CREATOR GOD’s hatred of the evil and the wicked and HIS
WORD to JUDGE sinners and transgressors.
“I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay
low the haughtiness of the terrible.”
Well, surely all of the above is what Marcion found so repugnant but most of all, without a doubt he took offense to being JUDGED, as do all Christians (Matt. 7:1). After all, the CREATOR did kill all but Noah and his family with a FLOOD because of their wickedness, HE did sink Sodom and Gomorrah, and HE most certainly did scatter HIS Chosen People for their disobedience and for worshipping other gods, which is exactly what Marcion rallied around and helped to perpetuate against the WILL of the Most High GOD of Israel.
Is that a revelation or what? And from what’s written in Isaiah 13:11 and in 11:4, we can see why the CREATOR once again plans to JUDGE the wicked.
“…with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.” Isaiah 11:4
Is it any wonder why the “New Testament” writers, and only GOD knows who else, were so adamant about inventing a “New Religion”?
“Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?” Malachi 3:7
Isn’t this enough evidence to reason that the “New Testament” has no credibility?! If not, then people should consider that there are sixteen (16) other men born of a virgin who were also considered so-called “Saviours” The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors – “or Christianity before Christ” by Kersey Graves. They never saved anyone either or brought “Peace on Earth”. For some reason, people of old thought this was a really catchy idea to rake in the naive to believe the best lie ever told. It kindda worked, too. Two billion people the world over still believe in this stuff.
That’s the “New Testament” story in a nutshell Christians should research to learn how their religion came about. They should also know the real facts:
FACT: Prophets did not exist during the days of JC or during the days of the compilation of the “New Testament”.
“Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.” Lamentation 2:9
That was about 400 B.C.E. – approximately 400 years BEFORE the JC “saviour” was supposedly born of a “virgin”. Thus, these visions that the “New Testament” and all these preachers tout cannot be from the CREATOR GOD.
FACT: The Children of Israel were not in the Land of Israel at the time of JC’s supposed “Coming”, therefore, GOD did not send him to them.
“James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.” James 1:1
FACT: Read and see how Christianity has changed GOD’s Ordinances for the likes of a “New Testament” book invented by man to promote belief in a man. And according to the WORD of GOD, nothing could be further from HIS TRUTH:
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believeth.” Romans 10:4
“But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead
wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not inthe
oldness of the letter.” Romans 7:6
“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ. For
he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall
of partition between us; Having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained
in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making
peace;” Ephesians 2:13 – 15
“And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses; Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and
took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
“Let no man
therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of
the new moon, or of the sabbath days:”
Colossians 2:13,14,16
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth
came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:17
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:6
THINK!!!
Where is the wisdom in the CREATOR waiting thousands of years until the Roman Era to provide the world with a so-called “Gospel”? The CREATOR GOD presented HIS Righteous Way of Life in the very BEGINNNG for mankind to follow. If HE hadn’t, Noah would not have been called a “Righteous” man:
“And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.” Genesis 7:1
Even unto this day, the CREATOR GOD’s RIGHTEOUSNESS still stands in order that people will know HIM and learn HIS Righteous Paths to walk, live, and do. For this reason, I cannot stress GOD’s Book of the Law enough:
“Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.” Deuteronomy 4:1,2
“Only
be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to
all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to
the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever
thou goest. This book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day
and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written
therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have
good success. Have not I commanded
thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Joshua 1:7 - 9
“That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:20
“And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.” Deuteronomy 32:46,47
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.” Deuteronomy 7:9 – 15
“Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
When I
shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to
his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be
remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Again, when I say unto the
wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; If the wicked restore the
pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without
committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath
committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and
right; he shall surely live.” Ezekiel
33:11 -16
“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.” Psalm 37:1 - 7
CLEARLY THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JC!
FACT: All the above “New Testament” writings contradict everything the CREATOR GOD exemplifies and demonstrates and all that HE perpetuated in the ears of HIS Prophets and HIS People.
“If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.” Psalm 44:20,21
“Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Psalm 81:8 - 10
“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.” Hosea 13:4,5
Clearly, the teachings of the “New Testament”
are no more a path for people to take to so-called “enter heaven” than
salvation is through belief in JC.
Just as JC is an invention of man, so also is the unfounded idea of
Christians or anyone going to Heaven, a concept alien and unfounded in the WORD
of GOD and all the Scripture in the “Old Testament”. It wasn’t a good decision
for Christianity to promote going to Heaven, as there is nothing in GOD’s WORD
to indicate that man will die and go to Heaven, albeit, the very opposite. “Death” is a curse, that resulted from the
sins in Garden of Eden.
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Genesis 3:19
“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?” Psalm 6:5
As righteous as was Samuel in that GOD was with him and did not let his words fall to the ground (I Sam. 3:19), not even he died and went to Heaven.
“And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David: Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day. Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.” I Samuel 28:15 -19
“For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.” Isaiah 38:18
Because of diverse religions, the world has forgotten the CREATOR GOD and HIS Paths of Righteousness that HE set forth when HE Created the Heavens and the Earth. And at the end of the day, the CREATOR will make HIS Righteous LAW HONORABLE!
“The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.” Isaiah 42:21
More
importantly, this CREATOR GOD never needed a go between for receiving prayers
from people who chose to seek HIM to make HIM their GOD. The “New Testament” made all this up.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:6
You see, the CREATOR GOD thrives on delight in HIM. HE is a JEALOUS GOD whose Holy Name is JEALOUS, and the last thing this JEALOUS GOD wants is for people to turn to anyone or anything BUT HIM! The Children of Israel, HIS Covenant People, were scattered into the world for calling on other gods. So, why would the CREATOR GOD tell people to turn to JC, pray to him and to worship him? Given what’s written in GOD’s LAW, at HIS WORD, and at the WORD of HIS Prophets, this makes no sense at all. THINK!!!
“And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.” I Samuel 1:15
“In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.” Psalm 62:7,8
“And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Psalm 50:15
“When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.” Psalm 78:34,35
“O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.” Psalm 105:1 - 3
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Isaiah 45:22
“Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;” Isaiah 58:9
“The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.” Isaiah 61:3 - 3
“…Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.” Jeremiah 3:19
“Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.” Jeremiah 29:12
“Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.” Lamentations 2:19
“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?” Malachi 3:6,7
“Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.” Malachi 3:16,17
The
“New Testament” writers disregarded the fact that GOD’s Righteous LAW is
FOREVER, and foremost it is about worshipping HIM and living according to HIS
Divine LAW!
“And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.” II Kings 17:37 - 39
“Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.” Deuteronomy 11:1
Thus, we should all know that the CREATOR GOD will put HIS
LAW in the hearts of HIS People. AND IT
SHOULD BE PERFECTLY UNDERSTOOD THAT HIS LAW IS ALL ABOUT THE WORSHIP OF HIM,
THE CREATOR GOD OF ISRAEL!
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:31 – 34
“Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.” Joel 2:12,13
“I
smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of
your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. Consider now from this day and
upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from
the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.” Haggai 2:17,18
“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?” Malachi 3:6,7
Hence,
the “New Testament” writers and their theology are proved a fraud and are
exposed and will not continue, as this pagan book is not in agreement with
GOD’s WORD or the PROPHECY HE has planned for these latter days. GOD’s Righteousness is FOREVER, HIS Temple
will be rebuilt, and every knee will bow to HIM. And HIS Covenant People will be re-established before HIM. And to HIM every knee of Hebrew Israelites
and Gentiles will bow.
“I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.” Isaiah 45:23
“For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:11
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” Isaiah 66:23
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” Zechariah 8:22
Nowhere is there any hint of the likes of JC in this mix -
NOWHERE!
The
extraordinary TRUTH about GOD’s WORD is that it all jibes: GOD’s LAW, HIS WORD, and the WORDS of HIS
Prophets!
“Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” Deuteronomy 4:5,6
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” Deuteronomy 6:4,5
“Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?” Malachi 2:10
“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6
And the Land of Israel stands WITNESS to the fact that the CREATOR GOD of Israel will return to live in the midst of HIS People, the Children of Israel and establish HIS Ways of Righteousness, Peace, and Happiness upon HIS Earth!
“Wait
on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:
when
the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
I
have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay
tree.
Yet
he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not
be found.”
Psalm 37:34 – 36
“For
I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and
I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with
them.
And
their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the
people: all that see them shall acknowledge them,
that
they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
I
will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for
he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me
with
the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with
ornaments,
and
as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
For
as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that
are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and
praise
to
spring forth before all the nations.”
Isaiah 61:11
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EXPOUNDING ON WHEN THE CREATOR’s 24-HOUR DAY BEGINS:
I happen to be talking with my husband regarding when each new day begins. And his input was much like that of Brother Kweli’s. In essence, he said:
In The BEGINNING there was only “Darkness.” Therefore, because “Darkness” preceded “Light,” it stands to reason why the “darkness,” which was initially first, begins the new day and not the “morning.”
“In the beginning…darkness was upon the face of the deep… And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” Genesis 1:1 - 3
In my opinion, adding to this belief is the CREATOR’s pronouncement of the use of “Darkness,” or rather evening, when ending and beginning each new day:
“…And the evening and the morning were the second day.
“…And the evening and the morning were the third day.
“…And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
“…And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
“…And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Genesis1:8 - 31
If we cannot recognize when to begin our 24-hour days, how then can we observe GOD’s Holy Seventh Day Sabbaths to rest and be refreshed, and how then are we to observe HIS Holy Feast Days, as we are Commanded? Hence, it behooves us to read GOD’s WORD and take note of all the Scriptures as to when our forefathers observed each new day. The information is there, if we will only accept it. There are several specific passages that cannot be ignored.
Genesis First Chapter is already suggested. Another passage is in Judges where Samson tells the Philistines to solve his riddle “within seven days.” And “on the Seventh Day before the sun went down,” the Philistines told him the meaning of his riddle. Point being that the Philistines knew that had they waited until AFTER sundown, then they would have been in the Eighth Day and too late to receive the reward Samson had promised them (Judges 14th Chapter).
More evidence is in Nehemiah 13th Chapter. Nehemiah is angered by people profaning the Holy Seventh Day by selling their wares to the stiffnecked Israelites who did not hesitate to buy them. So, “…when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark BEFORE THE SABBATH,” Nehemiah “commanded that the gates should be shut…” Hence, Nehemiah wanted to prepare for the impending Holy Seventh Day to be sure that no sins would be committed after sundown, which is when the Sabbath or Seventh Day would obviously begin. Again, this is more evidence that the new day begins at sundown/evening/darkness.
I would be remiss if I did not also include the fact that Scripture is clear on Passover and the Day of Atonement beginning in the evening at sundown.
PASSOVER: “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.” Exodus 12:18
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT: “It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.” Leviticus23:32
The GOD of Israel is and always has been consistent in teaching us HIS Commandments. HE would not tell us to begin some Holy Days at sundown and to begin other days in the morning. There is nothing intelligent about such a directive – only confusion. T.Y., Editor
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Poetry and Prose Corner With A Message:
Returning
to the CREATOR GOD as GOD and to NONE OTHER
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Rejoicing
before the True and Living GOD and Singing HIS PRAISE
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Allowing
GOD’s LAW to lead our days and our lives
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Daily
Seeking GOD’s WORD for Righteous Judgments
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Fulfilling
Prophecy
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Being a
LIGHT to the World
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Hoping
and Trusting in the CREATOR GOD
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
Rejoicing
before the True and Living GOD and Singing HIS PRAISE
THE
GENIUS IN KNOWING TRUTH
the GOD
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
and
having it no other way!
By
Tziona Yisrael
(May
24, 2011)
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“So I took the chief of
your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you
, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and
captains over fifties,
and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the
causes between your brethren,
and judge righteously between every man and his brother,
and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect
persons in judgment;
but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall
not be afraid of the face of man;
for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard
for you, bring it unto me,
and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 1:15 – 17
“Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:
and in the hidden part
thou shalt make me to know wisdom.”
Psalm 51:6
“And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto
the children of Israel,
The LORD God of your
fathers,
the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you:
this is my name
for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
Exodus 3:15
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the
LORD.”
Jeremiah 17:9
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God,
the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant
and mercy
with them that love him
and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”
Deuteronomy 7:9
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If you have a poem that EXALTS the Most High GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that you would like to share, please do feel free to submit it for posting to Afraqueen@AOL.COM.
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O TASTE AND SEE
THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL IS JUST AND GOOD!
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MAY THE WORLD SOON LEARN THE TRUTH
REGARDING THE ONE TRUE AND LIVING GOD
THAT CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
FOR HIS FAME AND GLORY!
AND MAY ALL NATIONS FEAR HIM, SERVE HIM, AND WORSHIP HIM FOR HIS POWER TO ESTABLISH GENUINE PEACE ON THIS EARTH – HIS PEACE!
HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH!
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Your Poetry and Prose EXALTING the Holy ONE of Israel are most welcome. Please send them to Afraqueen@AOL.COM for publishing in The LawKeepers JOURNAL. We only ask that they be in Exaltation of the Most High GOD of Israel.
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“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”
Zephaniah 3:14,17
Let us mold our hearts and future NOW and succeed where our forefathers failed. Let us be obedient to Our Holy ONE of Israel and live and do HIS Book of the Law AS IT IS WRITTEN IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. Let us turn to Our GOD of Israel with our whole heart and soul and cause HIM to see that this time, we will keep our promise to make HIM Our ONE and ONLY GOD in Truth and serve HIM according to HIS Ways and Paths of Righteousness that HE decreed to HIS Prophet Moses!
“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,
“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;
“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.
“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:”
Deuteronomy 30:1 - 4
“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
“I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
“And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
“Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.” Ezekiel 36:24 - 31
“Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.” Micah 7:20
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“Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.
“And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion
with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Isaiah 35:4,10
“For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour:
I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
“Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
“Fear not: for I am with thee:
I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
“I will say to the north, Give up: and to the south, Keep not back:
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;”
Isaiah 43:3 – 6
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION (FYI):
[How disheartening it is to know that this country, built on the backs
of ours forefathers, SLAVES, still has so much animosity and hatred for us
after thirty years refuses to address Reparations for the cruel and inhumane
Slave Trade. We must speak out and end
this stalemate and this INJUSTICE.!
T.Y., Editor]
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Reparations
By John Conyers
In January of 1989, I first introduced the bill H.R. 40, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. I have re-introduced HR 40 every Congress since 1989, and will continue to do so until it's passed into law.
One of the biggest challenges in discussing the issue of reparations in a political context is deciding how to have a national discussion without allowing the issue to polarize our party or our nation. The approach that I have advocated for over a decade has been for the federal government to undertake an official study of the impact of slavery on the social, political and economic life of our nation.
Over 4 million Africans and their descendants were enslaved in the United States and its colonies from 1619 to 1865, and as a result, the United States was able to begin its grand place as the most prosperous country in the free world.
It is un-controverted that African slaves were not compensated for their labor. More unclear however, is what the effects and remnants of this relationship have had on African-Americans and our nation from the time of emancipation through today.
I chose the number of the bill, 40, as a symbol of the forty acres and a mule that the United States initially promised freed slaves. This unfulfilled promise and the serious devastation that slavery had on African-American lives has never been officially recognized by the United States Government.
My bill does four things:
- It acknowledges the fundamental injustice
and inhumanity of slavery
- It establishes a commission to study
slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves;
- It studies the impact of those forces on
today's living African Americans; and
- The commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans.
The commission established would also shed light on the capture and procurement of slaves, the transport and sale of slaves, the treatment of slaves in the colonies and in the United States. It would examine the extent to which Federal and State governments in the U.S. supported the institution of slavery and examine federal and state laws that discriminated against freed African slaves from the end of the Civil War to the present.
Many of the most pressing issues, which have heretofore not been broached on any broad scale, would be addressed. Issues such as the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery, whether an apology is owed, whether compensation is warranted and, if so, in what form and who should eligible would also be delved into.
H.R. 40 has strong grass roots support within the African American community, including major civil rights organizations, religious organizations, academic and civic groups from across the country. This support is very similar to the strong grassroots support that proceeded another legislative initiative: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday bill. It took a full 15 years from the time I first introduced it on April 5, 1968 to its passage in the fall of 1983. Through most of those 15 years, the idea of a federal holiday honoring an African American civil rights leader was considered a radical idea.
Like the King Holiday bill, we have seen the support for this bill increase each year. Today we have over 40 co-sponsors, more than at any time in the past. What is also encouraging is the dramatic increase in the number of supporters for the bill among Members of Congress who are not members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Just this past month my Colleague Tony Hall, from Ohio introduced a bill calling for an apology as well as the creation of a reparations commission. So now, for the first time we now have two bills in Congress that call for the creation of a commission.
We are also encouraged by the support of city councils and other local jurisdiction that have supported our bill. Already the city councils in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Atlanta have passed bills supporting H.R. 40. And just this past month a councilman in Los Angeles, the site of our 2000 convention has introduced a bill with the strong support of the Los Angeles community. Also, there are presently two bills in the Michigan State House of Representatives addressing the issue of reparations.
It is a fact that slavery flourished in the United States and constituted an immoral and inhumane deprivation of African slaves' lives, liberty and cultural heritage. As a result, millions of African Americans today continue to suffer great injustices.
But reparation is a national and a global issue, which should be addressed in America and in the world. It is not limited to Black Americans in the US but is an issue for the many countries and villages in Africa, which were pilfered, and the many countries, which participated in the institution of slavery.
Another reason that this bill has garnered so much resistance is because many people want to leave slavery in the past - they contend that slavery happened so long ago that it is hurtful and divisive to bring it up now. It's too painful. But the concept of reparations is not a foreign idea to either the U.S. government or governments throughout the world.
Though there is historical cognition for reparations and it is a term that is fairly well known in the international body politic, the question of reparations for African Americans remains unresolved. And so, just as we've discussed the Holocaust and Japanese internment camps, and to some extent the devastation that the colonists inflicted upon the Indians, we must talk about slavery and its continued effects.
Last year the Democratic Party included this
issue in the platform it asks that country engage in a discussion at the
federal legislative level would send an important signal to the African
American community and other people of goodwill.
Learn more about The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African
Americans Act
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H.R.40
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H.R.40
Latest Title: Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for
African-Americans Act
Sponsor: Rep
Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/6/1999)
Cosponsors
(48)
Latest Major Action: 2/25/1999 Referred to House
subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
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SUMMARY AS OF:
1/6/1999--Introduced.
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act - Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.
Authorizes appropriations.
MAJOR ACTIONS:
***NONE***
ALL ACTIONS:
1/6/1999:
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2/25/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
TITLE(S): (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty,
brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American
colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the
institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic
discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on
living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on
appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
COSPONSORS(48),
ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors
withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Rep Brady,
Robert A. [PA-1] - 3/8/1999
Rep Brown,
Corrine [FL-3] - 4/12/1999
Rep Carson,
Julia [IN-10] - 6/22/2000
Rep
Christensen, Donna MC [VI] - 2/25/1999
Rep Clay,
William (Bill) [MO-1] - 4/13/2000
Rep
Clayton, Eva M. [NC-1] - 3/23/1999
Rep
Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 2/25/1999
Rep Davis,
Danny K. [IL-7] - 2/25/1999
Rep Dixon,
Julian C. [CA-32] - 2/25/1999
Rep Dooley,
Calvin M. [CA-20] - 7/11/2000
Rep Engel,
Eliot L. [NY-17] - 4/12/2000
Rep
Faleomavaega, Eni F.H. [AS] - 4/13/1999
Rep Fattah,
Chaka [PA-2] - 1/6/1999
Rep Ford,
Harold E., Jr. [TN-9] - 6/21/2000
Rep
Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/6/1999
Rep
Hilliard, Earl F. [AL-7] - 1/6/1999
Rep
Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 1/27/2000
Rep
Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 3/8/1999
Rep
Jefferson, William J. [LA-2] - 1/6/1999
Rep
Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] - 1/6/1999
Rep
Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-15] - 3/15/1999
Rep Klink,
Ron [PA-4] - 3/27/2000
Rep Lee,
Barbara [CA-9] - 4/12/1999
Rep Lewis,
John [GA-5] - 6/26/2000
Rep
McCarthy, Karen [MO-5] - 7/27/2000
Rep
McGovern, James P. [MA-3] - 3/15/1999
Rep
McKinney, Cynthia A. [GA-4] - 7/30/1999
Rep Meek,
Carrie P. [FL-17] - 1/6/1999
Rep Meeks,
Gregory W. [NY-6] - 4/13/1999
Rep
Millender-McDonald, Juanita [CA-37] - 6/20/2000
Rep Moran,
James P. [VA-8] - 2/16/2000
Rep Nadler,
Jerrold [NY-8] - 9/27/2000
Rep Norton,
Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 3/23/1999
Rep Olver,
John W. [MA-1] - 3/8/1999
Rep Owens,
Major R. [NY-11] - 1/6/1999
Rep
Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] - 11/14/2000
Rep Pastor,
Ed [AZ-2] - 2/25/1999
Rep Payne,
Donald M. [NJ-10] - 3/23/1999
Rep Rangel,
Charles B. [NY-15] - 3/8/1999
Rep Rivers,
Lynn N. [MI-13] - 2/29/2000
Rep Rush,
Bobby L. [IL-1] - 1/6/1999
Rep Stupak,
Bart [MI-1] - 2/16/2000
Rep
Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2] - 3/15/1999
Rep Towns,
Edolphus [NY-10] - 1/6/1999
Rep
Traficant, James A., Jr. [OH-17] - 3/9/2000
Rep
Underwood, Robert A. [GU] - 3/15/1999
Rep Waters,
Maxine [CA-35] - 3/15/1999
Rep Wynn,
Albert Russell [MD-4] - 4/12/1999
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Latest Title: Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for
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Sponsor: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] (introduced 1/6/1999) Cosponsors (48)
Latest Major Action: 2/25/1999 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
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SUMMARY AS OF:
1/6/1999--Introduced.
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act - Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans to examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.
Authorizes appropriations.
MAJOR ACTIONS:
***NONE***
ALL ACTIONS:
1/6/1999:
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2/25/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
TITLE(S): (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between
1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
COSPONSORS(48),
ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors
withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Rep Brady, Robert A.
[PA-1] - 3/8/1999
Rep Brown, Corrine
[FL-3] - 4/12/1999
Rep Carson, Julia
[IN-10] - 6/22/2000
Rep Christensen, Donna MC
[VI] - 2/25/1999
Rep Clay, William (Bill)
[MO-1] - 4/13/2000
Rep Clayton, Eva M.
[NC-1] - 3/23/1999
Rep Cummings, Elijah E.
[MD-7] - 2/25/1999
Rep Davis, Danny K.
[IL-7] - 2/25/1999
Rep Dixon, Julian C.
[CA-32] - 2/25/1999
Rep Dooley, Calvin M.
[CA-20] - 7/11/2000
Rep Engel, Eliot L.
[NY-17] - 4/12/2000
Rep Faleomavaega, Eni F.H.
[AS] - 4/13/1999
Rep Fattah, Chaka
[PA-2] - 1/6/1999
Rep Ford, Harold E., Jr.
[TN-9] - 6/21/2000
Rep Hastings, Alcee L.
[FL-23] - 1/6/1999
Rep Hilliard, Earl F.
[AL-7] - 1/6/1999
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr.
[IL-2] - 1/27/2000
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila
[TX-18] - 3/8/1999
Rep Jefferson, William J.
[LA-2] - 1/6/1999
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice
[TX-30] - 1/6/1999
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C.
[MI-15] - 3/15/1999
Rep Klink, Ron [PA-4] -
3/27/2000
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9]
- 4/12/1999
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5]
- 6/26/2000
Rep McCarthy, Karen
[MO-5] - 7/27/2000
Rep McGovern, James P.
[MA-3] - 3/15/1999
Rep McKinney, Cynthia A.
[GA-4] - 7/30/1999
Rep Meek, Carrie P.
[FL-17] - 1/6/1999
Rep Meeks, Gregory W.
[NY-6] - 4/13/1999
Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita
[CA-37] - 6/20/2000
Rep Moran, James P.
[VA-8] - 2/16/2000
Rep Nadler, Jerrold
[NY-8] - 9/27/2000
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes
[DC] - 3/23/1999
Rep Olver, John W.
[MA-1] - 3/8/1999
Rep Owens, Major R.
[NY-11] - 1/6/1999
Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr.
[NJ-8] - 11/14/2000
Rep Pastor, Ed [AZ-2] -
2/25/1999
Rep Payne, Donald M.
[NJ-10] - 3/23/1999
Rep Rangel, Charles B.
[NY-15] - 3/8/1999
Rep Rivers, Lynn N.
[MI-13] - 2/29/2000
Rep Rush, Bobby L.
[IL-1] - 1/6/1999
Rep Stupak, Bart [MI-1]
- 2/16/2000
Rep Thompson, Bennie G.
[MS-2] - 3/15/1999
Rep Towns, Edolphus
[NY-10] - 1/6/1999
Rep Traficant, James A., Jr.
[OH-17] - 3/9/2000
Rep Underwood, Robert A.
[GU] - 3/15/1999
Rep Waters, Maxine
[CA-35] - 3/15/1999
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell
[MD-4] - 4/12/1999
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Since Israel’s siege of Gaza and <img src=”<?php
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flotilla attack, its reputation has plummeted worldwide, including on American
college campuses. Not content to respond with debate and internet censorship,
Israel’s PR rep, the Anti-Defamation League, has been struggling to do what it
does best: Make such criticism a hate crime.
ADL’s latest “anti-bullying” legislation, HR 6216, which I
have dubbed the Don’t Criticize Jews
and Muslims Act, was submitted last month to the US House of Representatives
by Jewish members of Congress Sen. Arlen Specter and Reps. Brad Sherman and
Elliot Engel. Its purpose is to end increasing criticism of Israel on US
campuses; it would actually make such criticism, which creates “emotional
distress” in Jewish students, illegal.
By adding religion to the protected classes in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, this
bill will criminalize general, repeated criticisms of broad issues around
Jewish religion and ethnicity. Like nothing else, the state of Israel
epitomizes Jewish religious aspirations, ethnicity and culture. Although this
bill is only one page long and seems innocent, don’t be deceived!
HR 6216 violates the Fourteenth Amendment by granting
special rights and privileges to yet another group under the Civil Rights Act. This addition is especially
ominous for Christians because Attorney General Holder admitted federal hate
crimes law does not protect Christians but only Jews and Muslims. (See NPN
Video, ‘Holder Admits: No Equality Under Hate Bill’ at
Truthtellers.org) This is another free speech-ending hate crimes bill ADL is
trying to sneak under the radar of the even more pro-Israel Congress.
ADL
Already Invaded Dept. of Education
Especially irked by the free speech happening in American
universities, Jewish groups have already been pressuring the US Department of Education (USDE) to outlaw
“anti-Semitism” on campus They scored a major victory two weeks ago
in persuading Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, to issue detailed guidelines
“that in effect applies Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 to the protection of Jewish students
from anti-Semitism on campus.”
Just as the federal hate law last year added homosexuality
to special favored protection from hate crimes under the same Civil Rights Act, and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
(ENDA) would have added the same protection to gays and transgenders, the USDE
now considers all members of the Jewish race in US public education to be
protected from “anti-Semitic” criticism. What does that mean? The guidelines
say negative generalizations about Jewish behavior or ethnic characteristics on
campus are now illegal!
What if “anti-Semitic” generalizations are true? Consider
these true statements about most American Jews. They …
1) Are predominantly liberals, favoring abortion,
homosexual rights, evolution, banning Christian symbols in public places, etc.
2) Support Israel’s policies against Palestinians.
3) Oppose virtually all aspects of the
Christian/conservative political agenda, including incorporation of Christian
moral values in government.
4) Tend to gravitate towards positions of power and
influence, avoiding military service.
5) Reject Jesus Christ and the need to repent and
trust in Him in order to find spiritual fulfillment.
USDE directives prohibit “anti-Semitic” harassment in public
education as if the term’s definition is so obvious it doesn’t need to be
spelled out. Webster’s New 20 th
Century Dictionary gives us a clue. It defines
anti-Semitism as “disliking or fearing Jews or Jewish things.” Clearly, USDE
bases its criminalization of free speech on such skewed, PC definitions. This
makes anti-Semites out of anyone who dislikes
or fears the persecutive military might of Israel!
According to USDE , it is now “anti-Semitic” and illegal for
such general statements to be repeated on campus. Any institution of public
education allowing such “hate” can lose federal funding. They can even face
federally sanctioned lawsuits and indictment.
Rep. Brad Sherman said, “The policy is now clear: colleges
and universities will no longer be permitted
to turn a blind eye when Jewish students face severe and persistent
anti-Semitic hostility on their campuses.” The guidelines also state that if
any publicly supported school allows “hostility” against matters Jewish (
Israel’s siege of Gaza or flotilla attack?) it can be forced to create a
reeducation program for the entire school, to “eliminate” such anti-Semitism.
Will
Congress Uphold USDE Decree?
Of course, Duncan’s decree is unconstitutional. However, the
USDE’s Civil Rights Division has power to enforce the Civil Rights Act, making federal hate criminals
out of “anti-Semitic” students and faculty. But for the USDE decree to be most
effectively enforced and to repel Constitutional challenge, it needs to be
enshrined in federal law by act of Congress. That is why lovers of freedom must
make absolutely sure this legislation is vigorously resisted now. It represents
the beginning of organized attempts to outlaw criticism of Talmudic Judaism and
Israel, not just in public education but everywhere. If this bill is passed, it
will be a small step under the Civil
Rights Act to ban “discrimination” or criticism of Jewish issues in
businesses of 20 or more employees, possibly including churches. Such
censorship could progress, as happened in ADL hate law countries, to outlaw
“hateful speech” in all of society! At that time, America will be under the
jackboot of a speech crime gestapo with no regard for First Amendment free
speech guarantees.
What is
Discrimination?
Under ADL hate laws worldwide, you don’t have to deny
housing to a homosexual or fire a black person to be guilty of
“discrimination.” You can face this charge simply for causing “emotional
distress” by criticizing them. When sponsor Rep. Brad Sherman says “severe and
persistent anti-Semitic hostility” will not be tolerated in schools, he is not
talking about physical violence or even bigotry but persistent criticism of
Israel! Since “anti-Semitism” is now defined by the U.S. State Department’s
Office of Global Anti-Semitism as “strong criticism of Israel,” Sherman is
really telling us that the USDE “harassment” guidelines already cast a chill
over all publicly supported US campuses from grade school through grad school,
forcing administrators to end free speech about Israel. (See, The Real Motive Behind the “Department of
Global Anti-Semitism”)
ADL has been strongly promoting “anti-bullying” bills on the
federal and state level. They were withstood last year when the National Prayer
Network led the charge, stimulating Republican House Judiciary rejection of
ADL’s cyber-bullying and AWARE bills as unconstitutional.(See, Media Mocks Cyberbullying Bill)
Since then, ADL has doggedly bypassed the need for legislation and simply
persuaded the USDE to enforce ADL’s program of banning criticism of homosexuality
in US public schools. The League invaded the Dept. of Education with its
“anti-bullying” agenda against “homophobic” Christians in school, and now it
has persuaded USDE to aggressively ban criticism of Jewish issues as well. (The
USDE guidelines, ostensibly issued by Arne Duncan, reek of the writing style,
twisted definitions and arguments of ADL director Abe Foxman.)
No
Protection for Christians
In the 1960s, black Americans received special rights not
afforded to whites. Yet not even they have possessed what HR 6216 promises
Jews: special federal protection from criticism of
Jewish religious, cultural and ethnic issues.
Adding “religion” to the Civil
Rights Act will not protect
white, Christian conservatives. They will find no haven from ongoing “hostile,
intense and consistent” criticism from liberals on campus. Christian students
must endure the defamation of their own characteristics (“xenophobic,”
“fundamentalist,” “sexist,” “anti-sex,” “racist,” “homophobic”). Their values
will remain daily mocked and undermined in the classroom. Any claims in the
bill to give equal protection are false. Like all ADL-inspired hate crime laws,
this bill will protect only a small minority alleged to be historic victims of
white Christian civilization.
Special Protection
for Islam
With Judaism, Islam will merit special protections under
this bill, as it does under the federal hate law. Attorney General Holder
indicated that, while most violent “hate criminals” will face triple penalties
under federal hate crimes law, Muslim criminals will not. They must be indicted
as common criminals on the state level. Under the USDE ruling, Muslims will
also receive the privilege of non-criticism concerning their ethnic
characteristics.
Most Christians will likely be untroubled by this bill
because it criminalizes what they believe God also hates: criticism of His
chosen people. Yet they should be aware that, in allowing HR 6216 to pass, they
will be empowering a “speech crime” agenda designed to end free speech for
Christians. Already, under USDE guidelines, any student is subject to
discipline and possible prosecution if he or she continues to make negative
statements against Islam. This could include the following:
1) Islam was birthed in violence. Its Qu’ran
advocates such violence toward infidels.
2) Islam aspires toward world dominion.
3) Islam wants to enforce Sharia law worldwide.
Already under hate law bills in Canada, France, England,
Holland, etc. local Islamic counsels take full advantage of ADL-inspired hate
laws to bring vengeance on their critics, seeing them harassed, fined, and
threatened with prison (See Video, Hate Law Jihad: How Hate Laws Make Criminals
of Islam’s Critics at Truthtellers.org).
Rep. Louis Gohmert warned that pastors, talk show hosts, and
publishers, whose speech might be construed as inspiring hate crimes, will also
be indicted (under the Civil
Rights Act’s Title 18, Section 2a). Under HR 6216, those critical of
Muslims could face similar federal prosecution, accused of stimulating others
to act violently. Also, this bill, like all hate crimes legislation, strongly
suggests that if a member of Congress votes against it, he, by definition, is
in favor of “hate” (i.e. anti-Semitism) on campus. The message to the
politicians is clear: “Be safe. Vote for a bill that outlaws anti-Semitism – a
scourge most agree is a mounting world problem.”
Members of Congress need to know that Americans, including
their pro-Israel supporters, strongly support their opposition to this
legislation.
The Jewish supremacists quietly promoting HR 6216 are hoping
no one will notice or object that “religion” is being added to the Civil Rights Act. Don’t let them get away with
it! We can destroy this new hate bill just as we destroyed ADL’s
cyber-bullying, AWARE, and ENDA bills last year.
Come to Truthtellers.org Action Page for
the names of Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee. Call them all
with this message:
“Please oppose HR 6216, which would add “religion” to
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It gives Jews
and Muslims special protection from criticism on campus but doesn’t give such
protection to Christians. This is more biased hate crimes legislation from the
Anti-Defamation League to take away free speech and make Christians hate
criminals.”
Call
877-851-6437 toll-free or 202-224-3121 toll.
Because HR
6216 shields Jews and Israel from criticism, it may be regarded by leaders of
the religious right as a “pro-Israel” bill – causing them not to oppose it.
Also, because they fear appearing anti-Semitic, we can’t count of any of them
to warn against this dangerous legislation. It’s up to YOU
to help NPN bombard your members of Congress—especially Republican members of
the House Judiciary—today.
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Israel's 1967 borders indefensible, Netanyahu tells Aipac
Israeli
PM's speech to influential US pro-Israel lobby group restates his opposition to
Barack Obama over border issues
Associated
Press
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 24 May 2011 07.58 BST
Israeli prime minister rebukes Obama's Middle East
peace plan Link to this
video Binyamin
Netanyahu has repeated his assertion that there can be no return to Israel's
"indefensible" 1967 borders.
The
Israeli prime minister made his pledge in an address on Monday to thousands of
pro-Israel American Jews and US lawmakers in Washington, and promised to
present his vision for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in a speech to
Congress on Tuesday.
His
speech, which drew cheers and standing ovations, came amid pressure from the Obama administration for him to do more to renew stalled Middle East
peace efforts.
The
warm reception he enjoyed at the gala dinner of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (Aipac) contrasted with the contentious tone of some
of his recent exchanges with Barack Obama
over border issues.
Netanyahu
planned address on Tuesday to a joint meeting of Congress, where Israel enjoys
strong bipartisan support, could similarly remind Obama, before the 2012
presidential race, of the political price he might have to pay if he tries to
push the Israelis too hard.
In
that speech, Netanyahu said, he would "outline a vision for a secure
Israeli-Palestinian peace", but promised he would also "speak the
unvarnished truth".
"This
conflict has raged for 100 years because the Palestinians refuse to end it.
They refuse to accept a Jewish state," Netanyahu said.
A
peace agreement, he said, must assure Israel's security.
"Israel
cannot return to the indefensible 1967 borders," he continued, rekindling
the dispute with Obama in a possible effort to placate territorial hardliners
in the Israeli government.
The
border issue took prominence last week when Obama, in a major foreign policy
speech, took the position that any negotiations on final borders of the Jewish
and Palestinian states must be based on the boundaries existing before the 1967
war in which Israel captured east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip –
lands the Palestinians claim for their hoped-for state.
In
direct statements and through aides, Netanyahu suggested that Obama did not
understand Israel's security needs or the realities of the region.
Obama
said clearly in his policy speech, and in his own address to Aipac on Sunday,
that the territorial markers could be adjusted through mutually agreed land
swaps – a principle accepted by the Palestinians that would allow Israel to
retain major settlement blocs and assure its security.
But Netanyahu has repeatedly sidelined this part of
the Obama message.
In a sign of the sympathy Netanyahu can hope to
enjoy when he speaks to Congress, a key Obama political ally, the Senate
majority leader, Harry Reid, challenged the president on the border issue at
the Aipac dinner.
"No one should set premature parameters about
borders, about building or about anything else," Reid said.
The reference to building alluded to earlier US
demands that Israel renew an expired moratorium on settlement construction in
lands claimed by the Palestinians for their future state.
Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking talks stalled in
late 2008, shortly before Obama and Netanyahu took office. Obama had hoped to
bring the two sides back to the negotiating table and wrest a deal by September
2011. But those efforts foundered after Israel refused to extend a settlement
construction slowdown and Palestinians abandoned negotiations after three
weeks, saying continued Israeli building on land they want for a future state
did not show good faith.
Now, the Palestinians are refocusing their strategy
on trying to obtain a unilateral declaration of statehood at the UN when the
general assembly meets in September. Israel would like to derail that campaign
which, if successful as expected, could compound its diplomatic isolation.
The US also opposes unilateral action, which would
put Washington in the awkward position of having to vote against Palestinian
statehood at a time when calls for greater democracy are ringing out across the
Arab world.
Further complicating peace efforts is a unity deal
between rival Palestinian factions that would co-opt the anti-Israel Hamas into
the Palestinian government.
Obama has said Israel should not be expected to
negotiate with a government that does not recognise its right to exist.
Anti-Israel
hecklers interrupted Netanyahu's speech several times, but supporters drowned
them out, leaping to their feet, giving him a standing ovation and at one point
chanting his nickname, "Bibi, Bibi", and pumping their arms in the
air.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/24/israel-borders-indefensible-netanyahu-aipac
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In Speech to Congress,
Netanyahu Reiterates: No 1967 Borders
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 :: Staff infoZine
By Pninit Danielle Cohen - Everyone in the packed House chamber stood up to join a long-lasting ovation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he entered the room Tuesday to lay out his plans and conditions for Israel-Palestinian peace.
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - His address came as a rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s Middle East speech last week, in which he urged the nations to resume peace talks using the pre-1967 War borders as a starting point.
Netanyahu reiterated in his speech that Israel would not agree to return to the
1967 borders, citing demographic changes as the reason. Those borders would
leave East Jerusalem and suburbs of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv out of Israeli
control.
Netanyahu insisted, however, that he is still committed to a two-state
solution.
“I’m willing to make painful compromises to achieve this historic peace,” he
said. “As the leader of Israel, it’s my responsibility to lead my people to
peace.”
The crowd of House and Senate members on the chamber floor, plus American Israel Public Affairs Committee supporters and even a single protester in the visitors’ galleries above, gave Netanyahu standing ovations after every sentence in the beginning of his speech.
Netanyahu praised the supportive relationship between “the largest democracy,”
the United States, and the “only democracy in the Middle East,” Israel.
“Only Arabs in Israel are truly free,” he said.
Just as he commended the protesters of Tunisia and Egypt for risking their
lives and demanding liberty, a Jewish-American member of Codepink, a women’s
activist organization, interrupted the speech.
Later identified as Rae Abileah, 28, she yelled, “No more occupation,” and held up organization’s trademark, an arm’s-length pink cloth with a political message on it. A mannear her immediately used the cloth yank her to the floor before police escorted her out. She was taken to the hospital for neck injuries, according to a Codepink spokeswoman, and later arrested by U.S. Capitol Police for unlawful conduct and disruption of Congress, a misdemeanor.
Netanyahu incorporated the disruption into his speech.
“So as we share the hopes of these young people throughout the Middle East and Iran that they’ll be able to do what that young woman just did … we must also remember that those hopes could be snuffed out, as they were in Tehran in 1979,” Netanyahu said.
Addressing growing concerns about Iran’s nuclear program, Netanyahu said that because Israel “rose from the ashes of the Holocaust,” the nation takes threats of destruction very seriously. He urged the U.S. to make a statement that it will never to let Iran develop nuclear weapons.
“Militant Islam threatens the world – it threatens Islam,” he said.
While recognizing Israel as the only democratic nation in the Middle East, Netanyahu stressed the urgency to “find a way to forge lasting peace with the Palestinians.”
He said peace has been “eluded,” not because Israel does not work toward it, but because Palestinian leaders, especially Hamas, are unwilling to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
He called Hamas the Palestinian version of al-Qaida.
He called for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to cut his ties with Hamas to continue peace talks.
“Peace can only be negotiated with partners committed to peace, and Hamas is not a partner for peace,” he said.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/47556/
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(Reuters)
- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered California to release tens of thousands
of inmates or take other steps to ease overcrowding in its prisons to prevent
"needless suffering and death."
By
a 5-4 vote, the high court told the nation's largest state prison system to
sharply cut its inmate population in stages over two years in one of the
biggest prison release orders in U.S. history.
Justice
Anthony Kennedy said for the court majority that the medical and mental health
care provided by California's prisons had fallen below the standard of decency
required by the Constitution.
Kennedy
cited suicidal inmates being held for prolonged periods in telephone
booth-sized cages, backlogs of up to 700 prisoners waiting to see a doctor for
care and as many as 54 inmates sharing a single toilet.
He
said drastic action was needed to prevent "needless suffering and
death."
California's
33 adult prisons were designed to hold about 80,000 inmates and now have about
145,000.
In
2009 the state was ordered to reduce the prison population by 46,000 inmates to
get down to what judges decided would be a reasonable level. It was the largest
prisoner release order ever from a federal court.
Because
of prison population reductions while the case has been on appeal, Kennedy
calculated the state may have to release 37,000 more inmates or take other
measures, such as putting low-risk offenders into community-based programs and
building more prisons.
Improving
conditions in California's prisons has become a major legal, political and
financial issue in view of the worsening budget crisis in the nation's most
populous state.
The
ruling involved two class-action lawsuits filed in 1990 and 2001 by inmates who
challenged the inadequate medical and mental health care conditions in the
state's prison system.
Kennedy,
a moderate conservative who was joined by the court's four liberals, said the
reductions can be carried out without jeopardizing public safety.
DISSENTERS FEAR RISE IN CRIME
One
of the dissenting justices, Samuel Alito, wrote: "I fear that today's
decision, like prior prisoner release orders, will lead to a grim roster of
victims."
California
had argued that forcing it to release inmates would increase murders and crime.
"As
we work to carry out the court's ruling, I will take all steps necessary to
protect public safety," California Governor Jerry Brown said in a
statement.
The
state has been cutting the prison population for years and needs to cut nearly
34,000 more to hit the court-mandated goals. Officials hope they can meet it
chiefly by transferring prisoners to local jails.
"Our
goal is to not release inmates at all," state prisons chief Matthew Cate
told reporters. But he said, "I don't think we can guarantee anything at
this point."
Donald
Specter, an attorney for the inmates, hailed the ruling. "This landmark
decision will not only help prevent prisoners from dying of malpractice and
neglect but it will make the prisons safer for the staff, improve public safety
and save the taxpayers billions of dollars," he said.
The
dramatic rise in California's prison population had been fueled by tough
sentencing laws adopted during the 1990s.
The
United States has more than 2 million people in state and local prisons. It has
long had the highest incarceration rate in the world.
The
Supreme Court case is Brown v. Plata, No. 09-1233.
(Additional
reporting by Peter Henderson in San Francisco; Editing by Bill Trott and Christopher Wilson)
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MY
PERSPECTIVE AND REACTION
TO
THE UN
2011, INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT
February 1, 2011
I ask that you bear with me, and the reason is that many of you do not espouse to my Spirituality. Regardless, my heartfelt desires and concerns are for all people of color, and that we must speak in behalf of ALL Blacks who are persecuted, oppressed, and suffering in this present world system. And because of my Spirituality, it is my conviction and staunch belief that true FREEDOM, RESETTLEMENT elsewhere (for those who want it), and REPARATIONS will be acquired and manifest through the WORKS of the CREATOR GOD – the same GOD that SAVED the Children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage. Just in case you never noticed, our predicaments are very much the same. The difference is that there has not been a mandate stating, “Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river”. Nevertheless, there are covert instructions to judge Black males and Black females even for the smallest crimes and order them to jail for life. And let’s not even go into the racial profiling that can get Blacks shot to death or landed in jail on trumped up charges. Yes, I am fighting for Blacks to be free of this racism and for REPARATIONS for Blacks all over the world for this heinous Slave Trade, which was a crime against Blacks that has us still suffering. So, whether you agree with my Spirituality or not, we can come together for the betterment, self-determination, and empowerment of all Black peoples in order that our children will not have to endure this present world order that keeps us in darkness, in captivity, and under White control.
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Before writing my perspective to the United Nations’ Resolution concerning the 2011 International Year for People of African Descent, I read through many documents and E-mails related to our fight against racism and our battle for Reparations. Although there are diverse ideals about how to attain Reparations, it is good that the great majority of us speak out and believe that we are justified in seeking it. That which is of great import is that we are once again on the road to make this struggle come to fruition. And this time, we cannot be slow to act, and we certainly cannot give up the fight.
My
platform and focus is that we be more aggressive in placing blame, which
clearly falls on Colonial and U.S. governments for this cruel and barbaric
Slave Trade in which 100 million Blacks died enroute to slave castles, while
awaiting slave ships, during the Middle Passage and in the lands of the
Slavers. The United States is to be
blamed also for the lynchings and thousands of injustices that followed unto
this day without bringing the criminals to justice. We must also focus on our FREEDOM and “release” from the grips of
a system that has taken our forebears in chains and yokes out of Africa and
completely ethnically cleansed us of our roots. Next, we are within our human rights to have the government start
RESETTLEMENT proceedings and REPARATIONS to meet the above objectives. Whatever your concerns, keep the audacity to
hope for FREEDOM, RESETTLEMENT, and REPARATIONS alive in these United States
and in all countries and governments that stole Blacks out of Africa.
There is no question that savage racism is the makeup of the American Way and is a serious problem for Blacks and all people of color. However, we have made racism the basis for Reparations without any success. Hence, we have to consider an even greater approach and stratagem to meet our objectives. We have to consider an even greater approach to not only resolve the issue of racism for Blacks who are proud to be Americans. But for those of us who deplore the racism, injustice, corruption, and subjugation that permeate the US systems, and who want better lives elsewhere, we want lifestyles of excellence for our children and progeny. And we must stand strong before the United Nations and insist upon self-determination - elsewhere - because it will never happen in the “Good Ol’ US of A”. Thus, we must have our FREEDOM and RESETTLEMENT in stable and friendly countries of our choice that tolerate people of color.
We are well aware that the United States has become a country unfit for human habitation – not just because of the ill treatment of Blacks and other minorities but because the country’s waters and atmosphere are polluted beyond any means of remedy. Thus, the country is diseased with race hatred and carcinogenic chemicals in the water and in the air that we breathe.
I have long since admired my ambitious and goodhearted Black people who are always encouraging excellence in our undertakings. However, we, as a group, have had little opportunity to accomplish our goals and our dreams, even though some of us are computer programmers, mathematicians, scientists, educators, engineers, doctors, and specialists in all fields. Few Blacks are president and vice president of billion dollar corporations, and those employed in large corporations do not move up the ladder in positions that matter and salaries as do Whites. And do not delude yourselves, no matter what the UN puts in writing, nothing is going to change in this country with a foundation built on a Holocaust, prejudice, segregation, and race hatred.
Nevertheless, if we are in control of our own educational system, our governments, and our own social and economical systems, then we can make the necessary decisions for our own well-fare. Let’s not forget Black Wallstreet. That was an exceptional accomplishment Whites never intended to happen, and it has not occurred since they destroyed Wallstreet’s complete design and foundation. Whites were appalled that Blacks could be so successful without their involvement, and they had to put and end to Wallstreet before it got so big that it was in competition with them. To believe that another Black Wallstreet will happen again in the United States is to believe a lie. The truth of the matter is that if there were no poor Blacks in the States and no Third-world countries existing in gross impoverishment, then there would be no White Supremacy.
We have to rise above our plight and be inspired and encouraged to take our expertise elsewhere and establish the likes of our own Black Walstreet in countries that will be happy to receive it. If Whites won’t invest in Blacks, then let Blacks invest in Blacks, and today we have Ghana, Nigeria, and other countries in South America and Africa with the finances willing to help in this regard, if we can prove our willingness to be successful and excel with the best of them.
We must go before the United Nations and seek our FREEDOM on the basis of the forced migration that brought our forebears to these shores and kept us here in this land of misery. We must go before the United Nations and seek RESETTLEMENT opportunities because of this cruel displacement. We must go before the United Nations for Reparations to finance our settlements/communities, housing, farms, school systems, and funding for our livelihoods and recreational centers, hospitals and clinics – much needed to give our people the required medical attention. All these facilities are what will make our people self-supporting and viable citizens in societies that we will have established, as well as make us truly proud to be Black.
The Slave Trade thrived because of the millions who were forcibly migrated to these shores (and to other countries), because of colonial America and the US government that perpetuated the control of many generations of Blacks in Slavery. On these grounds also, it is our human right for justice to be served, and it is the duty of the United Nations to aid us in this cause and justice for the barbaric and cruel Slave Trade. Human rights and FREEDOM for all is the basis and duty of the United Nations, and we at this point want justice served for all the atrocities committed against Slaves and against us.
We must also be compassionate towards descendants of Slaves in other countries and speak in their favor, as well. In this regard, we must cause the United Nations to understand the need for an International Foundation established for contributions from all countries that grew wealthy off the backs of Slaves in order that all descendants of Slaves might benefit from the untold criminal acts against Black humanity that has gone unresolved for far too long.
It is imperative that any UN conferences involving the 2011 International Year for People of African Descent include “African American” representation equaling the same number of UN members addressing this issue. This is what’s fair and justified on the basis of Colonial Americans insistence on “no taxation without representation” policy.
After reading the 2011, International Year for
People of African Descent, I am not encouraged. The idea and purpose are fine, but I read nothing
written that will address our requests for FREEDOM,
RESETTLEMENT, REPARATIONS, and an end to racism.
Excerpt from the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly:
“Proclaims the
year beginning on 1 January 2011 the International Year For People of African
Descent, with a view to strengthening national actions and Regional and
international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in Relation
to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political
rights, their participation and integration in all political, economic, social
and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a greater knowledge of
and respect for their diverse heritage and culture:”
Who compiled this report? Are they people who are truly serious about 2011 being a productive year to address Black Agendas? Everyone who is anyone in this country knows that the powers-that-be are well aware of the inequality, inequity, prejudice, and discrimination we face being people of color since the Slave Trade. If this General Assembly is not aware, then without hesitation we can spend a two or three years before the United Nations taking turns citing passages in the annals of history involving all the heinous crimes of the Slave Masters and the double standards, isolation, and exclusion from the equal distribution of wealth and the job market, even since the end of Slavery in 1865!
Didn’t the person or Assembly Committee
responsible for this Resolution know about Affirmative Action that did much of
nothing to help our cause but that worked above and beyond for White
Women? Aren’t these people aware of the
lily White Senate and AIPAC, another White but Jewish organization, that runs
the House of Representatives and the Senate with bribes and that has concern only
for White “Jews” and those whom they can exploit? Isn’t this Assembly aware that these White “Jews” can
successfully get their way and everything they want from this government and
even have the chutzpah to object to rights that are due Blacks? And aren’t they
aware of the KKK, the injustice in the judicial system, and the
disproportionate number of Blacks incarcerated than Whites? Didn’t this Assembly hear about President
Bush pulling the US representatives out of the World Conference Against Racism?
Aren’t these people aware that this past December, the UN General Assembly voted and approved a resolution to hold
a summit commemorating the Durban Conference Against Racism,
and the US voted against this resolution?
There is but one way to fight the racism in this country, and that is to
leave it! There has been no American
Dream for descendants of Slaves, no enjoyment or even hope of better lives, and
participation in the economic benefits in this country have been nil. And this “promotion
of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture”
is nothing more than a joke.
The school systems no longer are concerned with Multicultural Education,
and when they were, it was mainly about the Jewish Holocaust ad nauseam, as if
the Black Holocaust overshadowed their White Jewish thirteen years of pogrom.
If the General
Assembly wanted to make descendants of Slaves believe that this Resolution is
truly intended to make changes for the betterment of Blacks, then it should
have implemented buzz words commonly used by Blacks who are fighting for our
FREEDOM and fighting against RACISM and for JUSTICE SERVED for the SLAVE
TRADE!
The UN General Assembly should know by now that there is
not much that will be done when the US government and other agencies are
foremost in committing “racial discriminations”.
If no one can
strengthen the office of the Presidency to be a voice for those who have none,
how will anything positive ever be accomplished for Blacks in this place called
“America the Beautiful”? And I fail to
understand what “Regional and
International cooperation” entails and is in regard to our economic,
cultural, social, civil and political rights, etc., etc.
It appears to me that some folks at the UN attempted to write a Resolution that looked good on paper, but they failed miserably, as this document leaves much to be desired. We must, at all costs, work in conjunction with ALL Committees and Conferences involving this 2011, International Year for People of African Descent, or our objectives will not be met. Remember and take to heart, it is now time for us to have our voices heard loud and clear that descendants of Slaves are determined to have justice served for the Slave Trade and for the ensuing race hatred and savage injustice that has prevailed since forcing Blacks to this country. We can no longer stand by and allow the White world governments to sweep the atrocities of the Slave Trade and racism under the rug, as if they never existed. Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan held demonstrations that we must consider and be as equally as determined to stand strong and be steadfast as have been the peoples of these countries. Let’s not forget that money talks and peaceful demonstrations walk, if we ever want change in our lives and in the lives of our children. What have we got to lose?
White folks and even some Blacks do not think we deserve Reparations. If these are the ones who wrote this Resolution, then the first steps for justice have not been served. Nevertheless, I appeal to the United Nations to give us at least half the wealth the government and the Slavers amassed off the backs of our forefathers, for without their labor, this country would not be the power in the world that it is, dwindling though that power may be.
I cannot close without a warning. Without question, when REPARATIONS are rendered, those who will choose to stay in the US should know that efforts will be made to extend this restitution to everyone but to descendants of Slaves. Even President Obama, a man, husband, and father that I deeply admire, has said that REPARATIONS can be provided in the form of better educational systems. Taxes for educational systems are already in place, but just not for the Black ghettoes wherein have lived poor, impoverished Blacks for lack of the necessary education, employment, and salaries to bring them out of this dilemma.
In the words of Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, “We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century.” And he is absolutely correct!
IN THE
WORDS OF GOD’s SERVANT AND PROPHET MOSES:
“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the
salvation of the LORD.”
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2011, International
Year for People of African Descent

© ONU
On 18 December
2009, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year beginning on 1
January 2011 the International Year for People of African Descent (A/RES/64/169).
The Year aims at strengthening national actions and
regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African
descent in relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social,
civil and political rights, their participation and integration in all
political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion
of a greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture.
The General
Assembly encourages Member States, the specialized agencies of the
United Nations system, within their respective mandates and existing
resources, and civil society to make preparations for and identify
possible initiatives that can contribute to the success of the Year.
Related links
Special
event for the launching of the Year 2011, on December 10, 2010 (video)
Article
from the UN Information Centre (in French)
Working
Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Slave
Routes. A Global Vision: Highlighting the African presence and
contribution
Source:ONU
10-12-2010
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[Typed from the UN pdf file]
UNITED
NATIONS
A/RES/64/169
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY Distr.: General
19
March 2010
Sixty-fourth
Session
Agenda
item 69 (b)
Resolution
adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of
the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part 11)]
64/169.
International Year for People of African Descent
The General
Assembly,
Re affirming the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights,1
which proclaims that All human beings
are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set
forth therein, without distinction of any kind.
Recalling the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rigjts,2 the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights,2
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination,3 the Convention on The elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women,4
the Convention on the Rights of the Child,5
the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families,6
the Convention on the Rights OF Persons with Disabilities7 and other relevant
international human rights instruments,
Recalling also the relevant
provisions of the outcomes of all major United Nations conferences and summits,
in particular the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action8 and the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action,9
Recalling further its resolutions
62/122 of 17 December 2007, 63/5 of 20 October 2008 and 64/15 of 16 November
2009 on the permanent memorial to and remembrance of the victims of slavery and
the transatlantic slave trade.
Proclaims the
year beginning on 1 January 2011 the International Year For People of African
Descent, with a view to strengthening national actions and Regional and
international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in
Relation to their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and
political rights, their participation and integration in all political,
economic, social and cultural aspects of society, and the promotion of a
greater knowledge of and respect for their diverse heritage and culture:
Encourages Member
States, the specialized agencies of the United Nations system, within their
respective mandates and existing resources, and civil society to make
preparations for and identify possible initiatives that can contribute to the
success of the Year;
Requests the
Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session a
report containing a draft programme of activities
for the Year, taking into account the views and recommendations of Member States, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination, the Working Group
of Experts on People of African Descent of the Human Rights Council and
other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, as appropriate.
65th
plenary meeting
18 December 2009
1 Resolution 217 A (III).
2 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3 United Nations, Treaty Series, col. 660, No. 9464.
4 Ibid, vol. 1249, No. 20378.
5 Ibid, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
6 Ibid, vol. 2220, No. 39481.
7 Resolution 61/106, annex I.
8 A/CONF. 157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
9 See A/CONF. 189/12 and Corr. 1, chap. I
09-47197
LINK: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization…
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THE UNITED NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF
AFRICAN DESCENT
By Dr. Conrad W.
Worrill
(Dr. Worrill,
National Chairman Emeritus, National Black United Front / NBUF
located at 1809
East 71st Street, Suite 211, Chicago, Illinois, 60649, 773-493-0900,
Fax#
773-493-9819, E-mail: nbufchic@sbcglobal.net, Web site: nbufront.org)
We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century. The United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa recognized the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery as a Crime Against Humanity for which Reparations are due!
The U. N. has declared 2011, the “Year
for People of African Descent.” There are different activities being planned.
As Malcolm X taught us, we must use the international arena to highlight our
National Human Rights’ Demand for Reparations! Let us review the work of the
December 12th Movement and NBUF leading up to the World Conference
Against Racism.
In 1999, the National Black United Front ( NBUF ) joined forces with the December 12th Movement in organizing a delegation of Africans in America to attend the United Nations World Conference Against Racism. The conference was held in Durban, South Africa from August 31st to September 7 , 2001 . We should never forget the impact and significance of this organizing project..
The December 12th Movement International Secretariat, the International Association Against Torture , North South XXI has official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status with the United Nations. Over the last twenty years, this group has committed much of its organizing efforts to participating in the United Nations Human Rights Commission by presenting numerous issues that impact African people in America. They have been NBUF ’s eyes and ears at the U.N.
As Atty. Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement recently revealed in an article circulated on the internet, “Since 1997, when the U.N. agreed to hold this World Conference, the United States , Canada, and Western Europe (the WEO Group of countries) have done all they can to prevent it from succeeding.”
In the spring of 1998 , at the African Group meeting during the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, a Resolution was drafted identifying the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade as a Crime Against Humanity. The United States used all of its influence and blocked the resolution. However, this did not stop the momentum throughout the African World to pursue this resolution’s becoming an official position of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism.
At the African Regional Preparatory Conference, for the World Conference Against Racism, held in Dakar, Senegal ( January 22-24, 2001 ), the African Ministers developed what has been called the “Dakar Declaration.” In their deliberations, they affirmed, in part, the following:
- Affirm that the slave trade is a
unique tragedy in the history of humanity, particularly against Africans— a
crime against humanity which is unparalleled, not only in its abhorrent
barbaric feature, but also, in terms of its enormous magnitude, its institutionalized
nature, its transnational dimension and especially its negation of the human
nature of the victims.
- Further affirm that the consequences
of this tragedy accentuated by those of colonialism and apartheid, have
resulted in substantial and lasting economic, political, and cultural damage
caused to the descendants of the victims, the perpetuation of the prejudice
against Africans on the continent and people of African descent in the
Diaspora.
-
Strongly reaffirm that States
which pursued racist policies or acts of racial discrimination, such as slavery,
colonialism, and apartheid, should assume their full responsibilities and
provide adequate reparations to those States, communities and
individuals who were victims of such racist policies or acts, regardless of
when or by whom they were committed.
-
International law supports the position that the enslavement of Africans was a crime against humanity. The Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal defined crimes against humanity in this manner: “Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population… whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetuated.”
The African Reparations Movement explains that, “Historians and their experts can show, without difficulty, how the invasion of African territories, the mass capture of Africans, the horrors of the middle passage, the chattelization of Africans in America , and the extermination of the language and culture of the transported Africans, constituted violations of all these international laws.” Thus, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade was a Crime Against Humanity and, it is clear, African people are owed reparations throughout the world.
Again, as Atty. Wareham explains, “Before the U.N. World Conferences are actually held, they are preceded by PrepCom (Preparatory Committee meetings) in the various geographical regions of the world where the actual content of the final document , the program of action was worked out, and the PreComs were completed. All of the regional PreComs are over. In Geneva, Switzerland, a working group meeting held March 6 –9 , 2001 to consider a Draft Declaration (the Durban Declaration) and tried to resolve a dispute about whether compensatory relief (i.e. reparations) should even be considered as a theme of the World Conference. This was only an issue because of U. S. and Western European opposition.” The dispute was not settled and another meeting will be held in May in Geneva.
The New York Times revealed, “A conference on racism this summer could be one of the most explosive meetings this organization (United Nations) has ever held, with moves afoot to cast globalization as a racial issue and to demand reparations for the slave trade and colonialism.”
For more than twenty years, the December 12th Movement International Secretariat has fought in defense of the human rights of African people at the United Nations, in both Switzerland and New York. During this time, they have come to help us understand that while we, as African people, may not recognize the importance of the international agency to the progress of our struggle, but the United States and its allies are crystal clear about it.
NBUF agrees with the December 12th Movement that we must continue to organize at the international level in bringing the issues of African people before the world and especially the issue of Reparations. One way we can continue this work is to organize around the United Nations declared 2011 “Year for People of African Descent.”
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*****
READING FOR THE SOUL TO STRENGTHEN OUR FEAR, LOVE,
HOPE, AND TRUST IN THE MOST HIGH CREATOR GOD TO DO HIS WILL:
IN GOD WE BOAST ALL THE DAY LONG!
We
have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst
in their days, in the times of old.
How
thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou
didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
For
they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own
arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy
countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Thou
art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
Through
thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under
that rise up against us.
For
I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
But
thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
In
God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
But
thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Thou
makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for
themselves.
Thou
hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the
heathen.
Thou
sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Thou
makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are
round about us.
Thou
makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
My
confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
For
the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and
avenger.
All
this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt
falsely in thy covenant.
Our
heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Though
thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the
shadow of death.
If
we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange
god;
Shall
not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Yea,
for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the
slaughter.
Awake,
why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore
hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
For
our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Arise
for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Psalm
Forty-fourth Chapter
I HAVE CHOSEN THE
WAY OF TRUTH
THY JUDGMENTS HAVE I
LAID BEFORE ME
My
soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
I
have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
Make
me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous
works.
My
soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Remove
from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
I
have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
I
have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
I
will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
AND I SHALL KEEP IT UNTO THE END
Teach
me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Give
me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my
whole heart.
Make
me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Incline
my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Turn
away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Stablish
thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
Turn
away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Behold,
I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
LET THY MERCIES COME ALSO UNTO ME, O LORD,
EVEN THY SALVATION, ACCORDING TO THY WORD
Let
thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy
word.
So
shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy
word.
And
take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy
judgments.
So
shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
And
I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
I
will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
And
I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
My
hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will
meditate in thy statutes.
I HAVE REMEMBERED THY NAME, O LORD,
IN THE NIGHT, AND HAVE KEPT THY LAW
Remember
the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
This
is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
The
proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
I
remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
Horror
hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Thy
statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
I
have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
This I had, because I kept thy
precepts.
Psalm 119:26 - 56
*****
KING SOLOMON'S PRAYER
LORD
God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth
beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee
with all their heart: Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that
thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it
with thine hand, as it is this day.
Therefore
now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou
promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit
on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way,
that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. And now, O God of
Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy
servant David my father.
But
will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens
cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
Yet
have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O
LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant
prayeth before thee to day: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night
and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name
shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
shall make toward this place.
And
hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when
they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place:
and when thou hearest, forgive.
If
any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause
him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: Then
hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked,
to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according
to his righteousness.
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Moreover
concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out
of a far country for thy name's sake; (For they shall hear of thy great name,
and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and
pray toward this house; Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do
according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the
earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that
they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
If
thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou
shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast
chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name: Then hear
thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
Yet
if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried
captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that
carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we
have committed wickedness; And so return unto thee with all their heart,
and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away
captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their
fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for
thy name: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause, And forgive thy people that have
sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed
against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive,
that they may have compassion on them:
For
they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth
out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: That thine eyes may be
open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy
people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
For thou didst separate them from among
all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by
the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O
Lord GOD.
*****
HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH, HALLELUYAH,
THE GOD OF
ABRAHAM AND MOSES LIVES
FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER!!!
*****
O Israel, there is hope that we will return, but we must first
Fear the Holy ONE of Israel to live before HIM in Righteousness
and to be obedient to HIS LAW without adding new ways to serve
the ONLY GOD capable of SAVING the House of Israel!
*****
O TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL
IS JUST AND GOOD!
*****
“Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land,
and verily thou shalt be fed.
“Delight thyself also in the LORD; and
HE SHALL GIVE THEE THE DESIRES OF THINE HEART.”
Psalm 37:3
“Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit,
WHICH LEADETH THEE BY THE WAY THAT
THOU SHOULDEST GO.”
Isaiah 48:17
*****
The All-Mighty GOD of Abraham and Moses did not choose another people but fulfilled all that HE said HE would do for our forefathers. HE kept HIS promises to the Biblical Israelites and made a name for them and for HIMSELF in the process, AND HE WILL DO IT AGAIN for this Holy ONE of Israel does not lie!
“We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;
they were not called by thy name.”
Isaiah 63:19
“My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”
Psalm 121:2
“Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
“Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall
tread down our enemies.”
Psalm 108:12,13
“For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.”
Jeremiah 32:42
BLESSED BE THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB FOREVER AND EVER!
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PARENTS’ AND CHILDREN’S CORNER…
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
The works in this section of the JOURNAL are for our children. I am delighted to include them, as these activities will serve to enlighten our youth about the “Old Testament” GOD of Israel and HIS concern for HIS Ways of Righteousness and for HIS Love for HIS People. I encourage parents to read and interact with their children as they make efforts to answer the questions, complete the Word Search, and read the stories in this section. Now, monthly, we really do have appropriate literature and activities for our Hebrew Israelite children. In time, I shall add other things for them to do that will increase their knowledge and make learning fun.
Feel free to copy this section and staple it together in the form of a booklet. Take the time to design a cover page (even using Clip Art) and TYPE your child’s name at the bottom. Make the activities fun and challenging as you get involved with them.
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“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 – 7
“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever,
that we may do all the words of this law.”
Deuteronomy 29:29
“Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
“And that their children, which have not known any thing,
may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 31:12,13
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“OLD TESTAMENT” WORD SEARCH
FIND WORDS in Exodus 24:12; Deuteronomy 10:11,12;
Joshua 1:7,8; and Malachi 4:4 that pertain to GOD’s LAW being the Israelite Way
of Life…
PART I
THE
LORD SAID UNTO
MOSES COME UP
TO
ME INTO THE MOUNT
AND
I WILL
GIVE THEE
TABLES
OF STONE AND
A LAW COMMANDMENTS
WHICH I
HAVE WRITTEN
THAT THOU
MAYEST TEACH THEM
NOW
ISRAEL WHAT
DOTH THE LORD
THY
GOD REQUIRE OF THEE
FEAR
THE LORD WALK
IN ALL HIS WAYS
LOVE
HIM SERVE
THE LORD THY GOD
S E R V E T H E L O R D I D W T X
T H O U M A Y E S T W O R K H W E
N A F L O V E H I M A O X E A I N
E S E A T H Y G O D L G L E T L O
M E A N H E L P U E M O C H D L T
D S R D M Y Y A H P R A Y T O G S
N O T A E E H T M D R O W F T I F
A M H L N O W I S R A E L O H V O
M O E A H M S A W X D O L A W E S
M T L W T R I B W R I T T E N T E
O N O A A D U P O T H Y G O D N L
C U R L H W A L K I N A L L A U B
O N D K T L E S A N D I E O Y O A
Z T O M E H I S W A Y S Z V S M T
O W N I T E A C H T H E M E A E N
D X Z I P R E Q U I R E H C I H W
S E E K Y A H A B E S A V E D T I
PART
II
WITH
ALL THY
HEART AND SOUL
BE
STRONG AND
VERY COURAGEOUS
THAT
THOU OBSERVE TO DO
ACCORDING TO
ALL THE LAW
WHICH
MOSES MY
SERVANT COMMANDED
TURN
NOT FROM
IT THAT THOU
MAYEST PROSPER WHITHER
SO
EVER THOU GOEST
REMEMBER
YE THE
LAW OF MOSES
MY
SERVANT WHICH
I COMMANDED
UNTO
HIM FOR
ALL ISRAEL
C T I M O R F G N I D R O C C A R
O S A L E M U S M B O B S E R V E
U T U R N N O T E A N D V E R Y M
R N L O V E H S W S C L L A O T E
A A W L M W T X D G O E S T X O M
G V I Z A R M E J F M M T G I D B
E R X S O R D C M W M Y H L H O E
O E Z N R N O O A I A S A C C U R
U S G B A A S F Y T N E T O I N Y
S Y L M B E E W E H D R T M H H E
J M M K S O U L S A E V H E W I W
S O E V E R D O T L D A O H O M E
C M R E P S O R P L A N U O Y A H
H O L Y T R A E H Y H T H E L A W
C I T Y W A L E H T L U O S D N A
O N E R E H T I H W U O H T A H T
By
Tziona Yisrael
(May 2011)
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Words are written vertically and horizontally and some are truly challenging to find – maybe because some are written backwards or might have two words that take on two directions.
Only a good “eye” will enable you to find all the words. For neatness and legibility, you might want to use a single line to cross out each word found rather than circling it, and consider giving each player a different colored pencil.
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Parents, you might want to copy the “Word Search” and take turns with your children to complete this puzzle. And to make the fun even more exciting, play with a one-minute timer, as you search for each word. If players cannot find their words within the allotted time, then it’s the next player’s turn and the unfound words can be used by the next player(s).
Reward one point per word found. Let the youngest child start first. Each player selects his/her own word, or the words can be written on small pieces of paper and randomly pulled (with eyes closed) from a bag or hat. To encourage vocabulary development, for certain words give one extra point to the children who can define their words. Parents will determine which words are to be defined.
NOW, see who can rack up the most points!
ENJOY!
(By all means, do copy the puzzle and use the “Font Size” that suits your purpose.)
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In the future, if Brothers and Sisters would like to create a “Word Search” of their own, I would be delighted to include it in the next JOURNAL. And even suggestions for a Word Search are always welcome.
Tziona Yisrael
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HOW MUCH DO OUR CHILDREN KNOW
ABOUT THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL (THE CREATOR GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB),
THE HISTORY OF THE HEBREW ISRAELITES,
AND OUR RIGHTEOUS WAY OF LIFE?
“…God said moreover unto Moses,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever,
and this is my memorial unto all generations.”
Exodus 3:15
"Gather the people together, men, and women, and children,
and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn,
and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
And that their children, which have not known any thing,
may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God,
as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."
Deuteronomy 31:12,13
This added portion to The LawKeepers JOURNAL is to enlighten our children and provide parental/child interaction with regard to important events in the “Old Testament.” It is my hope that these questions will provide the means for parents and children to study Scripture and enjoy quality time together.
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THE QUESTIONS ARENA IS FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS TO
RESEARCH, REFLECT, AND DISCUSS TOGETHER:
QUESTIONS TEN: 731 - 740 June 2011 LAWKEEPERS
JOURNAL JOURNAL – for ages eight (8) and above:
731.
Why does it make no sense for GOD’s Righteous Laws, Statutes, and Judgments to just be observed in the Land of Israel and during the Holy Days?
732.
How can you prove that GOD’s WAYS of Righteousness were established even in the BEGINNING of Time?
733.
Why is it so important NOT to change GOD’s Ways of Righteousness?
734.
What does the CREATOR GOD mean by living and doing HIS LAW?
735.
How is it that Noah found Grace with the CREATOR GOD?
736.
How would you define GOD’s Righteousness?
737.
Explain how we can still enjoy life and also live by GOD’s LAW.
738.
As we all know, the peoples of this world live as they choose. Thus, can you explain how these times are as wicked as the days of Noah?
739.
How would you define a world of peace and tranquility?
740.
What more could the CREATOR GOD have said to the Children to make them realize the great importance of Fearing HIM to live by HIS Book of the Law?
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By all means, Parents and Children should feel free to respond and send answers to me for posting in the next LawKeepers’ JOURNAL. And do include your name, city, and state. By the way, the answers must be in the form of complete sentences. Afraqueen@AOL.COM
SUGGESTION:
On one side of index cards, have children write individual questions, and on the other side write the answers to the questions. Just imagine how knowledgeable our children will be after researching for the answers to all these questions. CHILDREN SHOULD BE SURE TO TAKE THEIR ANSWERS FROM THE SCRIPTURES WITHOUT IMAGINING THEM and include the book, chapter, and verse where the answers were found. From time to time, they can shuffle the cards and go over the questions to see if they are able to recall the correct responses. This activity should not be a chore, but children should have fun with the questions and challenge their friends and siblings to see how much they know about the “Old Testament.” By the way, the numbers of the questions need not always be in order.
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“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me:
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
Hosea 4:6
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CHILDREN’S SHORT STORY…
The following children’s story is for young brothers and sisters, five (5) and older to read with their parents…
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(ON VACATION FOR A WHILE)
Please see previous JOURNALS for Children’s Stories.
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Since starting to write Children’s stories for The LawKeepers JOURNAL, I have grown to love this task for they also Exalt Our Holy ONE of Israel, and they tell rose-colored stories in the process because, with GOD’s Blessings, we will indeed lead better and happier lives upon our return to our heritage. I believe this with all my heart! Then, we will enjoy the Righteous lifestyles that you read about in these stories and live in a tranquility, Peace, and Happiness that only the Holy ONE of Israel can bring to fruition. And accordingly, we will one day guard this utopia that will thrive in the LIGHT of GOD’s LAW, and we will eliminate those who threaten its existence. This won’t just be about FEARING the Holy ONE to follow HIS Ways, it will be about tasting a divine lifestyle and having it no other way.
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All the children’s stories are posted on The LawKeepers Website. Each JOURNAL contains one Children's Story. The JOURNALS are posted at the following WebSite:
http://www.thelawkeepers.org
Click on “JOURNAL”
If you would like to contribute your short stories for our youth, please feel free to submit them for publication. The only requirement is that they are in accord with the teachings of the Most High CREATOR GOD of Abraham and Moses.
Tziona Yisrael,
Editor
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CLOSING SCRIPTURE EXALTING THE CREATOR GOD OF ISRAEL:
“The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between
the cherubims;
let the earth be moved.”
Psalm 99:1
“Make a joyful noise unto
the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with
singing.
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that
hath made us, and not we ourselves;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts
with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his truth endureth to all generations.”
Psalm 100:1 - 5
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H A L L E
L U Y A H !
H A L L E
L U Y A H !!
H A L L E
L U Y A H !!!
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BLESS THE LORD, YIHOVAH,
MERCIFUL GOD OF
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
O MY SOUL
AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME BLESS
HIS HOLY NAME
FOR
HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS TO ALL WHO FEAR HIM
AND KEEP
HIS COMMANDMENTS!
H A L L E
L U Y A H !!
H A L L E
L U Y A H !!!
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BLESS THE LORD, YIHOVAH,
MERCIFUL GOD OF
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
O MY SOUL
AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME BLESS
HIS HOLY NAME
FOR
HIS MERCIFUL KINDNESS TO ALL WHO FEAR HIM
AND KEEP
HIS COMMANDMENTS!
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KNOWING THE BEAUTY AND THE REWARD OF THE FEAR OF
THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AND
SERVING AND WORSHIPPING ONLY HIM,
AND NOT MAN OR IDOL IS A SALVATION IN ITSELF!
Blessed be the Most High GOD of Israel and blessed be HIS Holy Name
forever and ever!
Touch our mouths, Lord GOD of Abraham, and
let us declare your Praise FOREVER!
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*******The LawKeepers, Co.*******
*Canaan is the Land / Jerusalem is the Place*
*Where Our GOD Has Said HIS Heart Would Be*
Yehudah ben Yacob, President
66 Elmwood Avenue
Hempstead, New York 11550
Ham E. Lomotey, Vice President (hel_yisrael@yahoo.co.uk)
Tziona Yisrael, Executive Secretary / Editor of The LawKeepers JOURNAL (Afraqueen@AOL.COM)
The LawKeepers, Co. is grateful to all who
desire to assist in our Mission. May the Blessings of the Holy ONE
of Israel be upon you.
BLESSED BE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL!
If you would like to make a donation towards our cause, please feel free to send your contributions to the President of the LawKeepers at the above address.
Respectfully in the Holy Name of the Most High GOD of Israel,
Tziona Yisrael,
Executive Secretary
The LawKeepers, Co.
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MOTHERS WITH SONS IN PRISON
MWSIP (Mothers with sons in prison) is striving to embrace all mothers of different races, color, creed and nationalities worldwide to bridge the gap that separates them from their sons within the prison systems with unconditional love.
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A Mother's Release Day
Freedom not only comes physically, but it originates from the heart. The anticipation of the release day for your son is also the release day for the mother. When your son goes into prison, you as his mother go in with him without even being aware of it until it's time for him to come out.
There's tons of unexpected emotions that happens when it gets near the release day for your son. You have occupied for the duration of his time that small little corner within the spiritual walls of that prison. A small voice from above speaks to you near that time and tells you "you can come out now".
Severe fear sets in and you find yourself glued to a placed that your hearts been in for the time he has been there. You fear you're leaving him! How can I come out and he's still there? The small voice speaks again..."you can come out now." the fear intensifys and you begin to cryin uncontrollably. Your inside screams... "I CANT' LEAVE HIM, I'M SCARED!" After forcefully shaking until your bones start to hurt, with a light that shines beside you, you step forward into the silhouette, and immediately, your son steps out behind you.
Joy unspeakable! You're at the finish line on your mark waiting for the green light, then waiting for the gun to go off to fly. A mixture of emotions starts from joy to gladness to anticipation to fear to being elated to just plain ole crazy inside.
You've been there for him every minute, everyday, even his day of release, you want to be there not realizing until it hits you that this is your release day too. Words will never be able to explain or capture that moment in your heart what you feel. You give up on trying to describe the feeling. You simply result to "just happy". Every minute is so special to you as well as him. All past events are just that, past events. They don't mean anything anymore.
The pain leaves your eyes; the wisdom sets in along with experience. Now the dove inside you and the eagle inside him is released-----GO FLY!!!!!!
A Mother's Day In Court
The first time I ever experienced screaming from the inside out. You're helpless. You've lost all control, the mercy lies on the court. But what can you do? This is the most helpless time you can experience. The Life of your child lays in someone else's hands, a total stranger. A person who has no knowledge of the heart of your son. It's like someone literally snatches a baby from your arms to do with him what they want to do with him. You can only scream from the inside out. Heart wrenching as it is, again, what can you do but beg for the mercy of the court. "Somebody's mercy, anybody's mercy"!
Everyone in the courtroom are strangers. They only know the crime and the crime knows them. But everyone, this place, this dream, you are unfamiliar with. All of the decisions without my permission come through the court.
What about my decision, my suggestion, my opinion or even my thoughts? This is my son! No body cares, nor do they want to hear them. All I want to do is take my boy home with me, but fate is not on my side this time. The worst day of my life was the day in court, because a part of me was taken away to a cold, unsafe, non-caring place of nowhere. Now my son is gone.
A Mother's Travel
The road to your left is the road of sorrow and grief. The road that veers off to your right is the road of heartbreak and pain. The road that goes toward the north, is the road of fear, the road that goes south is the road of unfamiliar. All these roads curve, twist, and turn.
They eventually end up merging into the one-way street that the mother travels during the entire time her son is in prison, which leads toward his heart. Roadblocks are in the millions all across these roads. Dead end streets are deceitful, because they are without warning. Where is the end of the road and when will I get there?
The end is there but is it near? Is the end of the road bright or is it dim? Who will judge that? Some roads are under construction, they take forever. Some have detours, which brings on confusion. Some are full of red lights. No matter where you travel to, to see your son, believe that there is an end to those long roads. The road will end in this world but never in your heart.
I traveled miles to visit my son and miles to be that voice on the outside for him, as well as support. You don't support the crime committed, you support the love for him. If I had to do it all over again, I would travel those same roads all over again. I would go down those same streets. It was the beginning of our destiny.
www.mothers with sons in prison.com
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It’s a sad state of affairs to have to be one of these mothers. It’s even more of a poignant matter knowing that more often than not, the fathers of these boys are right there with their sons, strung out on drugs, or dead. But there is hope:
“Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.”
Psalm 142:6,7
“I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee,
and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.”
Isaiah 42:6,7
Remember those incarcerated…contact them…encourage them in GOD’s Truth…T.Y. Editor
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DON’T COUNT THE INCARCERATED BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT!
In my last correspondence with Brother Malakim, he informed me that brothers, as young as sixteen years of age, are being incarcerated. He wants his freedom in order to counsel our youth. The following is what he wrote concerning this most poignant issue:
“…I want to do more because there are so many young children coming to prison now. They are locking them up at 16 years old now. They are building two more prisons, and they are not for me, because I’m already here. The young people should wake up and see what’s gong on, and I don’t understand why they will not do that.
I want to render myself to them because they do need someone to look up to.
The LORD GOD of this whole universe is so good to me. I have to do the right thing.”
It has been suggested that we get out to the prisons and befriend those in the jails [across the country] and, of course, give them reason to hope, for we know that Our Holy ONE of Israel can indeed obtain their release if they will turn to HIM and be obedient to HIS WORD.
“Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me?
lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
“Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant,
that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD,
and stay upon his God.
“Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks:
walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled.
This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.”
Isaiah 50:9 – 11
“Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,
that ye may prosper in all that ye do.”
Deuteronomy 29:9
Turning to the CREATOR GOD couldn’t be more what prospering entails. And “obedience to HIM and to HIS LAW” is the pinnacle of success - not the imaginations of our hearts that will in the end only prove to cause us great pain and suffering. What we “think” would be the last thing the incarcerated would need to hear, and they’d probably see through it anyway.
Should you take the time to visit with them, PLEASE, PLEASE show these Brothers GOD’s Way of Life, and share the reasons for our downfall with them and what Our CREATOR requires that we do to rise out of this Hell.
Tziona Yisrael, Editor
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As most of you might know, our Sister Naami bat Lewi posts information about our incarcerated brothers in her Newsletter appealing to everyone to write to them. Without question, they so desperately need mentoring by Brothers and Sisters who Fear the Holy ONE of Israel and who have knowledge of HIS LAW.
If anyone is aware of support groups for those incarcerated, please send this information to anyone of the names listed in this section of the JOURNAL. T.Y., Editor (Afraqueen@AOL.COM)
Please know that periodically new names are listed.
The information Sister Naami provides for us to “Reach Out and Touch” our incarcerated family is as follows:
Keith Walker, #80775, Iowa State Pen, P.O.B. 316, Ft. Madison, IA 52627
Daniel Claybon, #086106, Iowa State Pen, P.O.B. 316, Ft. Madison, IA 52627
Malakim ben Israel (AKA James Taylor, Inmate # 181800, (name was changed legally), Dorm 8, Bed 59, Powhatan Corr. Ctr., State Farm, VA 23160
David C Salley, #502283-6D116, Carlos White,#1045640, Danny L Arrington, #183437 and Derek Holmes #217983 all at Southeast Corr. Ctr., 300 E. Pedro Simmons Dr., Charleston, MO 63834
Quinn Wilkins, #294112, MacDougall Corr Fac., 1153 East Street So., Suffield, CT 06080
Peniel Pope, DIN# 03R0441, Orleans Corr Fac., 3531 Gaines Basin Rd., Albion, NY 1411-9199
Emily Legg #03671-025, Fed. Prison Camp, POB 6000, Greenville, IL 62246
Ray Legg Jr.#03676-025, US Penitentiary, POB 12015, Terre Haute, IN 47808
William C Smith #429459, POB 5500, Chillicothe, OH 45601
Michael D Salley #R41105-1B-65, Shawnee Corr Ctr., 6665 State Rte 146 East, Vienna, IL. 65542-9069
David Clay #163208- 6B225 South Central Corr Ctr., 255 W. Highway, 32, Licking, MO 65542-9069
Robert Enelus 04A1188, MidState Corr. Facility, POB 2500, Marcy, NY 13403
Quincy Curry,#000525611D, SouthWoods State Prison, 215 So. Burlington Rd.Bridgeton , NJ 08302
Emanuel T. Newman, inmate #13418-039, Federal Corretional Institution, P.O. Box1000, Oxford, Wisconsin, 53952-1000
Ronald Robinson at the Southeast Correctional Center, Housing Unit 5-A-204, 300 East Pedro Simmons Drive in Charleston, Missouri
Sister Naami has noted they are all in need of written materials including Bibles and Tanakhs. However, please write to them first to find out if there are any special instructions for sending them packages. And even if you have no packages to send, write to them encouraging messages to ease their burden of confinement.
[I graciously thank Sister Elishebah for suggesting that I include these addresses in The LawKeepers’ JOURNAL. T.Y., Editor]
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Sister Penninah has provided more addresses of our incarcerated Brothers for our loving attention:
MENARD CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Derrick Jordan, Inmate # B-71536, P. O. Box 711, Menard, IL 62259
GREENVILLE FEDERAL PRISON CAMP
Emily Legg, Inmate # 03761-025, Federal Prison Camp, P. O. Box 6000 D-2, Greenville, IL 62246
SOUTHEAST CORRECTIONAL CENTER
David Salley, Inmate # 502283-6D-116, 300 East Pedro Simmons Drive, Charleston, MO 63834
JEFFERSON CITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Oscar Turner-Bey, Inmate # 168840, 8200 No More Victims Rd. 2B-210, Jefferson City, MO 65101
GREEN RIVER CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX
Ovell Hampton , Jr., Inmate # 85370, 1200 River Rd, Central City, KY 42300-9300
Algernon E. Tisdale, Sr., Inmate # ET4465, 1 Kelley Drive, Coal Township, PA 17866-1021
IOWA STATE PENITENTIARY
Keith Walker, Inmate # 807755, P. O. Box 316, Ft. Madison , IA 52627
FEDERAL CORRECTION CENTER PETTERSBURG
Vernon Roper , Inmate # 46383-019, FCC Petersburg –Low, P. O. Box 1000, Petersburg, VA 23804
SOUTHPORT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Moshe Canty, Inmate # 99A6830, P. O. Box 2000, Pine City, NY 14871-2000
FEDERAL PRISON CAMP
Ray Legg, Inmate # 03676-025, P. O. Box 12015, Terre Haute, IN 47801
Submitted by our Brother Yehudah Benjamin ben Yisrael, our WebMaster (yehudahben@yahoo.com ):
Kenneth M. Key - A-70562 aka Ananiyah ben Yisrael, P.O. Box 112, Joliet Illinois 60434
Submitted by our Brother Dawayadyah (dawayadyah@yahoo.com):
Gamba Oba, P.O. Box 56, 446-078, Lebanon Correctional Institution, Lebanon, Ohio 45036
Ade Oba, 449-098, 4104 Germantown St., Dayton, Ohio 45417
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Posted to the LawKeepers’ Forum by
From: "prazyah1@netzero.net" prazyah1@netzero.net
To: dawayadyah@yahoo.com
Cc: fao3@att.net; fao3@worldnet.att.net; sabba_asaheh@yahoo.com; sholevi@aol.com;
bshalombz@sbcglobal.net; RavFunnye@sbcglobal.net; kahtriel@yahoo.com;
info@shmayisrael.com; Moreh_Qanaa@yahoo.com; shmahyisrael@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2007 4:22:03 PM
Subject: Urgent Need for Yisraelite Leaders and Teachers
Shalom,
Thank you for your inquiry. I am responding to you and to all Yisraelite leaders and teachers.
There is indeed an urgent need for teachers and leadership at area prisons. At this time, however, I do not have any inmates that I am corresponding with at an Ohio prison. If you do know of any incarcerated in Ohio, I would be happy to add them to our newsletter mailing list.
To provide some background, my name is Peninnah Baht Zion. I am the Director of Daughters of Zion, Inc. and editor of the Beth OR prison newsletter. We publish a monthly newsletter and provide tanahks and other Yisraelite publications for them.
We have been publishing the newsletter for a little over a year now and the one theme that is always expressed by the inmates is the need for leadership.
The inmates who are reaching out to us are dedicated men, who have by some unfortunate turn of events found themselves in the belly of the beast.
I know from their correspondence that it is a hard life, especially for adherent Yisraelites.
The brothers and sisters are striving against insurmountable odds to keep the laws of Yah in captivity within captivity.
Struggles with dietary issues and the need for instruction are major concerns. They need local advocates to assist them.
They need leadership to stay strong in prison. Christian and Muslim organizations are strong in the prisons. However, the Yisraelite population has no organizational structure to influence and advocate for them. This is primarily because, thank Yah, their numbers are very small.
Listed above is a contact person for each of the facilities that we are in communication with. If your camp is located near one of these prisons, please arrange a visit to teach a group. They would be happy to receive instruction for one day, one week, or one hour a month.
Please respond if you can help.
Todah Rabah
Peninnah
prazyah1@netzero.net
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OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION CIRCULATED BY HEBREW ISRAELITES:
For information about the happenings in Hebrew Israelite Congregations, News, and Health, please contact:
E-mail: naamilewi67@yahoo.com or sislevite@hotmail.com
For issues of the ICN, including archived issues,
please log on to: www.icn.ctinets.net.
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For a totally Black Hebrew Israelite Newspaper, please know that
the Jerusalem Chronicle subscriptions are now online. Visit the following WebSite:
www.jcnonline.ctinets.net
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www.hebrewisraelites.com
Contact: ShoLevi@AOL.COM
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Also, our
Brother Yehudah Benjamin ben Yisrael
has set up a live Internet station YRBN that I’m sure you will find quite enjoyable.
Announcing the YRBN Morning Show
The YRBN Morning Show is a NEW two hour show that airs on channel one
daily accept the 7th day and 1st day of the week from 5AM to 7AM CST.
Music and current events . Replayed throughout the day and is archived
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Take advantage of YRBN’s LIVE CHAT
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Director/Programmer/Webmaster
Yehudah@wrightwebdesigns.com
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If you like food and it likes you and you want to share some really good recipes or learn how to cook from information provided by “TheKoshercookgroup” then you want to get acquainted with the folks who make good use of the following link:
TheKoshercookgroup@yahoogroups.com
The Recipe Newsletter!
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For Safety Alerts:
Zeemee4u@yahoo.com
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A link to the King James Version can be obtained at the following WebSite:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/Bible/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/frames/bibleframe.html
http://www.cforc.com/kjv/index.html
A link to a Hebrew / English Bible with a means to listen in Hebrew:
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0101.htm
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LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT DEFILED FOODS AND PRODUCTS:
For some of the most interesting and informative essays you will ever read, please go to the following WebSite: http://www.zaqen.info/publications.html
1. "Kosher-Schmosher"
2. "What Every Israelite Woman Should Know About Her Cosmetic
Products"
3. "Sweet and Nasty"
4. "Should Israelites Eat Refined Sugar?"
For a complete listing of essays about Hebrew Israelites, please visit the above WebSite.
Contact: the_iconoclastic_moreh@hotmail.com
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The LawKeepers, Co. welcomes your articles, poems, short stories,
and testimonials
for the Exaltation and PRAISE of Our Most High CREATOR GOD,
The GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/ISRAEL!
The LawKeepers, Co. welcomes your donations.
If you would like to make a contribution to The LawKeepers, Co.,
please go to our WebSite that provides a means to do
so,
or E-mail The President of The LawKeepers, Co. at:
MilzAhead@AOL.COM
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“Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,
and thou shalt know no God but me:
for there is no saviour besides me.”
Hosea 13:4
“Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time,
and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me?
yea, there is no God; I know not any.”
Isaiah 44:8
Yehudah ben Yacob, President (MilzAhead@AOL.COM)
Ham E. Lomotey, Vice President (hel_yisrael@yahoo.co.uk)
Tziona Yisrael, Executive Secretary / Editor of The LawKeepers JOURNAL (Afraqueen@AOL.COM)
www.thelawkeepers.org
Click on “JOURNAL” for past Editions.
We Exalt and Sanctify the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
and profess the Laws HE gave to HIS Prophet Moses.
Please
support our desires to establish a TORAH Hebrew Community
(housing,
K-12 School, farm and equipment, and Health Center).
If interested, please contact Yehudah ben Yacob at the above E-mail address.
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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting,
get understanding,
Proverb 4:7
Deuteronomy 28th Chapter
is all about The Slave Trade of Blacks out of “Africa.”
“For thou shalt worship no other god:
for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”
Exodus 34:14
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him
and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”
Deuteronomy 7:9
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The LawKeepers, Co. is not affiliated with any congregations.
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