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This verse sets the tone for the remainder of the book of Isaiah The first half of Isaiah was judgment The remainder is one of restoration Comfort X2 emphasizes God’s intensions Adonai will be revealed as the savior of Hispeople The world would be amazed to see: The return of God’s people to Israel The salvation of the coming Messiah The glory surrounding the Messiah’s Millennial reign All this will happen because it was proclaimed by God Himself

If it was bad for the Nation of Israel it may have happened on this date. The Friday the 13th for Israel . Take a monent and learn what happeded

There is nothing Satan and all his minions in today’s woke society can throw at us that can harm us. Yeshua has already defeated Satan. All this is junk we see today is aggravation. We don’t need to fear any of it. We cannot be defeated.

Unless we follow Yeshua in all His precepts and make diligent efforts to keep our WHOLE life clean we will not only become spiritual failures but we will also drag down most of the weaker ones we associate with and influence and we will give an account before God! So take over the whole of your life and consecrate it daily to God! When it comes to spiritual warfare either in keeping ourselves clean or opposing the evil that is being thrust on us at every juncture, Give No Quarter. Take No Prisoners. Give no place to evil. We must be people of action.

Assyria had not heard the truth •It was the God of Israel who had allowed all their conquests •It was all in God’s providence that they were and empire • God was the sovereign, not the strong nations

Today’s Parsha is for everyone here. It may bring closure and healing to some and will be a preemptive strike for others. What am I talking about? I’m talking about dealing with the loss of a loved one.

In the translation of Exodus 21-22, shalam is translated as “make it good”, “shall surely pay”, “make full restitution” or to “restore”. The ancient Hebrew meaning of shalam was “to make something whole”. Not just regarding practical restoration of things that were lost or stolen. But with an overall sense of fulness and completeness in mind, body and estate. This meaning of wholeness carries over into the wordShalom.

Rabshakeh did not use diplomacy but directly addressed Hezekiah He didn’t call him king He said he was representing the “great king” He questioned Hezekiah’s confidence that would allow him to rebel against Assyria The message was to not trust Hezekiah He is not capable of deliverance Also don’t trust in your God because He cannot help you If Jerusalem would surrender they would go into exile but it would be the alternative of defeat

No matter who you are, how old you are, where you live, or anything else you can think of, someday you will hear that fingernail on the chalkboard or get the splinter for going against the grain. How you deal with it will make all the difference in your life.

Isaiah 31:2 • Yet He is also wise. He brings disaster, and does not take back His words. He rises against the house of evildoers, against help for workers of iniquity. • The Judahites relied on their own political and military advisors God is wise too, much more than mortal men • God can bring disaster with His words Now Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh, not spirit. When Adonai stretches out His hand, both he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall, and both will perish together.

The Parsha begins with instruction regarding the lighting of the menorah that was of course located in the Holy Place of the Beit ha Mikdash, or what we call the Tabernacle. Aaron was to arrange the seven lamps of the menorah so that the light was projected forward. We can assume that meant that the light was to be directed into the general space of the Holy Place rather than against the wall. A literal reading of the Hebrew is not as clearly defined. It says to cast the light against the menorah. It also uses the word panim, meaning face. The idea of projecting the light of the menorah in a certain direction, namely forward, aroused a bit of curiosity in me. There is a Hebrew word קְדִימָה pronounced kadiymah, that means forward. The root word קָדִים, kadiym is also used for face or facing east. The entrance to the mikdash always faced east toward the rising sun. The tribes were arranged around the tabernacle such that Judah was always the most eastward tribe and led the way whenever the cloud or fire of God’s presence lift and pointed Bnei Israel toward their next destination.

14) Same in Christianity—people come to service, get fed, and go home 15) Many love Israel and the Jewish people—but pray for them to become Christians… 16) That’s opposite what Scripture says!

We get a very interesting picture of mercy in this text. God says, “I will lead her into the wilderness.” That doesn’t sound much like mercy. The wilderness, humanly speaking, is a bad place. People can get lost in the wilderness. People can get killed in the wilderness. But note that the mercy of God is not found in where she is, but what God does while she’s there.

To better understand what God meant by keeping His commandments, we need to look at covenants also. The Bible speaks of seven different covenants, four of which (Abrahamic, Land, Mosaic, Davidic) God made with the nation of Israel. Of those four, three are unconditional in nature; that is, regardless of Israel’s obedience or disobedience, God still will fulfill these covenants with Israel.

• Isaiah answers his own question, Adonai planned the destruction of Tyre • Tyre established colonies and installed rulers who were crowned • God does no like proud people and this was the destruction of a proud city • God, not Tyre, is the ruler of the sea • It is God who directs the affairs of men, not the men themselves • The destruction was three hundred years in the future

• Although God is judging mankind, the earth will also suffer • All of mankind is guilty of breaking God’s laws • All people from the highest to the lowest will be affected • This is a call to trust in God and not in this world • Trusting in the world leads from the pit to a trap • There is no escape • The general dependability of the earth will fail