Pentecost/Shavuot... Tomatoe/ tomahto

Don't call the whole thing off!
Chag Shavuot Sameach! Happy Shavuot/Pentecost Holy-day!
Check this out. Shavuot is celebrated as the day that the Israelites recieved the Torah on Mt. Sinai. The significance is that if you love God, Wish to walk with Him and sometimes wrestle or contend with Him, then you're one of His! Yeah.
Because you are stiff necked and stubborn you must be an Israelite, and that's cause for celebration.
To borrow from the great Joe Peschi the actor, "ok, ok, ok, now check this out"
So we read that we are to set up the lampstand constructed of 7 branches.
the same seven branches, ribs, sticks or bones that make up the body of Christ/Yeshua. Seven is a complete number also alluding to the introspective nature of an Israelite who "chews his cud". Remember an animal that doesn't chew its cud is not Kosher/fit. We as Humans created by Elohim are called to inspect ourselves and look at our own behavior, compare it to the ways of God; the Torah and make adjustments in our lifestyle to reflect our belonging to the God of order.
Others have no compass and therefore they end up in the same hole of despair over and over again. That was never Hashem's plan for His chosen children.
But I digress.
Shavuot; the giving of our marriage covenant by God's Spirit; the Ruach Elohim to Moses the Deliverer to give to the people of Israel.
So lets break it down.
In the "upper room" of Mt. Sinai the Ruach Ha Chodesh meets with Moishe and gives Him the Torah; the Covenant of Promises to give to the Israelites all who had recently been set free from bondage and captivity in Egypt. Hey, wait that's us. Right??
In the book of Acts chapter 2 we read that the Talmudim/disciples were in the "upper room" when a mighty rushing wind was heard and the Holy Spirit descended upon them. There were tongues of fire over their heads. The mighty rushing wind could be like the thunder and lightning seen and heard on the mountain while Moishe was up there with God. Moishe's face was radient when he came down, like tongues of fire which also represent the dove over Yeshua after the Mikveh by Yohannan.
Now check this out! While in the "upper room" a place that wasn't necessarily a room so much as it was on the roof where the waters of rain were collected in a bathing pool would be located. This was the place for doing a mikveh which is a ceremonial washing. Like the baptism in modern Christianity it sybolizes the cleansing of the Holy Spirit and the changing of status from common to holy.
Back to the story. We recieved the Spirit of God on Pentecost which is a feastday or an appointed time. Obviously if we celebrated the appointed times; the Moedim HaElohim we would know that Pentecost was prophecied on Mt. Sinai and the talmudim/disciples were fulfilling their commitment to God by taking part in the Shavuot, in the Upper Room and Praying washing feet perhaps to signify that they had indeed been set apart. As You and I are also set apart, so shall we cleanse our brethren's feet.

So could it be that like the disciples and like the Israelites we too should be prepared for the Shavuot and rejoice in its remembrances. After all though we were once enslaved in our own vices and reasonings, the Lord Yeshua saw us as His bride. Even from afar He sought us before we sought Him.
Has the Spirit of Elohim come to this earth or not?
After Moishe's visitation and the gift of the Ha Torah we fell into murmuring and back biting. But yet the Ruach Ha Elohim had come down and surrounded the Mountain of the Lord. Later in Acts we see that on the holy-day of Shavuot we recieved again the Holy Spirit of God, the same Spirit of God that gave the Torah to Moishe. The same! Not different. God doesn't change. Yeshua said, "I will send the comforter; the Holy Spirit"...
Do we believe that He is holding out? we have to wait for some special time other than the Moedim of Elohim to receive the gifts of the Ruach?
Never! We are in the midst of His Presence and we lack vision.
We are the Lampstand, we are to shed light forward. Forward not back at your past or back at your brother's past. but Forward!
Shed light not darkness. The lampstand doesn't shed darkness such as the end of the world theories and the rapture and the tribulation. Are we not in various tribulations now? Have we not brought these things upon ourselves in many ways?
The word rapture isn't in the Hebrew mindset but rather the word ingathering is. Such as in Deuteronomy 30:1-6 we see the re-gathering of the children of Israel back to the Torah, teaching and instructions of God so that we can and will possess the land given to our forefathers, the land flowing with milk and honey. The same land that was given to our ancestors before us when Hashem/Yeshua brought them out of Egypt with a mighty right hand and an outstretched arm. Hence the Cross at Calvary.
Get it?
in Chapter 8 of the bookNumbers we read that after the Levites had been purified, they were to be presented as a wave offering, they are to come to do the work at the Tent of Meeting. It's talking about you and me to come forward, since you have indeed been made clean and purified by the High Priest and the cleansing waters of the Ruach HaChodesh. We are the Israelites (Romans 11) who are to be given wholly to me. I have taken them as my own in place of the firstborn. You now receive levitical priveledges and you receive the firstborn blessings as one who receives Yeshua/Jesus as Moshiach/Messiah. See no one can take away your blessing. However likened to Essav you can sell you birthright for the satifaction of the flesh which is corrupt and sure to die.
We have repeatedly sold out our birthright for foolishness. It is time to return to "the hearts of our fathers" and receive the blessing of the land. but wait! I am not proposing that you can somehow take what belongs to someone else. It has always been Israel's and will always be Israel's. However we must be adopted into the inheritance through the Moshiach who is Yeshua. Yeshua is the Jewish Messiah. He is not gentile/unfit but rather has come outside the camp to meet with us and offer us the priveledge of coming into the camp and He makes us clean. We cannot presume to replace Israel but rather likened to Ruth... Your people shall be my people and your God shall be my God. If anything less than death should separate us, let God deal harshly with me.
I love My Jewish brothers and sisters and want nothing more than for the Christian Church to realize that you can't recieve the blessing of Hashem while rejecting the lifestyle of the Messiah. Being Jewish is so much more than genetic bloodlilne. It is more a lifestyle than genes. All genes were created by the same Creator. YHWH.
I want to learn the Feasts and the Appointed Times out of my love and adoration for The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who is the God of our Fathers.
Ezekiel 37 alludes to the two sticks becoming one in His hand and having one Prince or King over them both. That is the fulfillment of prophecy that in these last days of the great apostacy we will return to the Truth of Elohim; the Torah of God and the Whole House of Jacob will be reunited as it was in Egypt under Yosef.
You are a priest, you are the lampstand. with out the Shamash/Yeshua we cannot be annointed as priests let alone be light to shed any light. we are a lamp without flame/aish.

Chapter 9 verse 13
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people because he did not present the Lord's offering at the appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
What do we do with that? Could it be that because of the ignorance fo the Body of Christ we fail to keep the feasts and the appointed times? And as a result we suffer consequences such as lack of involvement in the church by men, there are no priests or Rabbis, there are things like rape, incest, molestation, divorce, murder, abuse of all kinds in the people who call themselves Christians and in the nation that was founded on Judeo-Christian values. Either God fell asleep or we are outside the camp...
What do you think?
Are we so righteous that God is allowing Satan to torment us? Or could it be that we lack knowledge? I'll take the latter one. Thank you.
So where can we find this knowledge? It is in the Torah. Yes, that Ol' Torah that we call the Law. The same thing that we think Jesus came all this way to free us from is the key to the Kingdom that sets us free from the pain of sin.
When you feel that you can't go on, stay put. Stay faithful and be steady.
Allow yourself to be one of the two silver trumpets that blows and calls the assembly of the people of God. When the two are together (house of Judah/House of Ephrayim) then we can conquer the enemies of God's people.
Its not a physical war as much as it is a spiritual war on the hearts of man.
You Count!
You have a new position of elevation so that you can elevate your King!
Light the lamp via the only way through the Shamash Melechienu/Servant King who is the Light of the World. his name is Yeshua Ha Moshiach.
If you have a desire to know your God and Savior more, join us at Beit Tikveh U'Nesim; the House of Hope and Miracles Center for Torah Studies. We are in Lockhart, Texas,
Come just like that!

"In those days"

Today we all woke up to the news that an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan causing a tsunami and leaving in its wake much disaster. Later Hawaii was under tsunami warnings and the possibility of mass destruction to all of Hawaii was being contemplated. Then there was speculation over whether California as well as a total of over 45 countries could potentially be affected by the aftermath of such a tremendous earthquake.

What is really going on in the world at this time? Are we seeing an increase in global catastophes?
In the last days we will see the creation of a one world system that will be used as in the days of Pharaoh.
There will be two opposing systems. One will be the Restoration of the House of David and the return to Torah as stated in the prophecies of Malachi, Deuteronomy and the prohets Jeremiah and Isaiah. this new kingdom will be ruled by one king who's name is Jesus the Messiah/Yeshua Ha Moshiach. Teh People of the land will submit under the righteous and sovereign reign of a fair and just King who is merciful and abounding in grace.
The other will be the restoration of the Tower of Babel, a man made system relying on the wisdoms of man to be our saviour. for instance; if we only had better education our children would live better and through some sort of osmosis become better people. The tower of babel causes and facilitates confusion of languages and ways of life. To think that there are many ways to act human necessitates the dilemma that your way will at some point have to be wrong so that someone else can have it their way.
What if Satan the enemy of God's Kingdom wishes to crush your system of economics creating a "famine" in the land? What if the desire of the enemy is to have God's children sign a "peace treaty" or work contract with the One who opposes Elohim in order that we could eat? What happened after Joseph in egypt saved the multitudes is that the fair_oh died and another came "who Knew not Joseph" and that new pharaoh is the current governmental system in America that "knows not Jesus/Yeshua".
After the new pharaoh came into power he forced labor upon the Israelites and tried to first emotionally and spiritually kill them. when that was found to be futile; they multiplied and grew great in number, He then sought to murder the babies (abortion).
Could it be that America is looking more and more like we are leaning toward a Babylonian system. A system of entitlement programs with a multitude of people who think that the Government owes us sustinance?
The Torah of YHWH encourages all who accept it to persevere and to be dilligent. Teh Torah cultivates an attitude of persistence, a spirit of leadership that never gives up until it achieves it's goal, it is a spirit that never gives up. Contrary to modern day philosophy (love of thought) that promotes an attitude that you should wait and get some kind of sweepstakes handout, or being disabled enough entitles you to free social security checks and the like.
Yhwh is counting on you and I to restore order to His Kingdom through the return to instructions given in His Torah.
This current world system rejects the existence and the very importance of G-d in our lives and in our government, and the result is the breaking of covenant with the Lord. How can we expect the blessing from G-d when we reject His instructions, His Feastdays, his Teachings and doubt His provisions.
It sounds like it makes for a fractured relationship. What do you say?
Do you Love Jesus?
Do you want to know Him more?
Do you care what he wants?
Do you need closer fellowship with Him?
Would you like to know how He did things?
I hope that you answered all of the above in a resounding Yes.

Remember that the kingdom will be established by righteous, spirit filled lovers of YHWH/Yeshua who by His spirit will bring order to this chaotic group of people.
Jeremiah 1:5 says, "before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew you, and I set you apart to be a prophet to the Nations."

Will you help restore the Kingdom of God here on earth or will you be like the many who will choose to sit comfortably on their lazy-boy with their remote control in hand waiting for the "rapture"?
If you would, please join us in the restoration of the House of David.David is the type and shadow pointing to the Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Well, have you had enough?
Do the headllines cause you to be concerned?
What will happen? Are the movies regarding the "Last Days" accurate?
Well, get ready for change in paradigm.
Did you know that the endtimes escatalogical understanding that is preached in so many churched today is a theory that came to be only 200 years ago?
First let's establish the character and nature of YHWH/G-d.
How can we do this apart from the Scriptures/Bible/Torah.
If you see terms like Torah you must know that I am talking about our Bible or I may be talking about only the first five books of the Bible.
Never the less, we are not talking about anything other than that which we recieve our Lord Jesus from.
The Nature and characteristics of G-d and of Jesus/Yeshua are articulated in the Torah. Before the incarnation through Miriam/Mary we can see pre-incarnate theophonies of the Risen Savior. But most importantly we can establish these truths about our G-d.
He is not a man that He should lie. I must elaborate and say that He couldn't lie as it would deny His character.
You will never see a shadow from His turning. In other words He doesn't change his mind.
That He keeps the covenants that even we break. He is a covenant kepping G-d.
Slavation comes from G-d alone through the perfect life lived in His Son Jesus/Yeshua who became the Passover Lamb once and for all shedding His blood for all mankind.
So let's look at the end of time thought process that so tortures the believer.
the following are only assumptions and falsehoods.
1. God will finally lose it, and destroy the unbeleivers during the tribulation.
2. God will "rapture" up the holy church into the sky and abandon the wicked on earth to be toyed with and tortured by haSatan.
3. Assumption- we are the holy ones and the Jewish people will stay on earth through the tribulation to find out who there Savior is.
First off let me say that I am not writing this to make anybody mad. So don't let the enemy toy with us.
dividing the house has bee the plan and the M.O. of the perpetrator.
Remember so long as we buy into the division of the House of Israel/Jacob the whole kingdom of God is put off for another time.
The intentions of our messiah was to restor the Whole House of Jacob/Israel so that through Israel the message of the Messiah and the redemptive nature of YHWH would be spread/taught. However due to the nationalistic pride of Judah the good news of redemption was kept from the Nations/Gentiles because of their "unclean" status.
When Jesus/Yeshua came to earth it was not to establish an alternate religion. Nor was it to Judge with an iron fist. Rather He said He came to deliver.
Deliver... Deliver from what?
Brokeness, and despair, Fear and separation from a loving God.
Imagine if you will that the purpose of the saviour coming was to inspire us with the Holy Spirit of G-d to go out and delilver our brethren rather than to chastise and condemn. Conviction comes from the Holy Spirit and Condemnation comes from our brethren.
If YHWH looked upon the creation and said, "It is good," then why would He destroy it? Maybe if we all repented of thinking we would know how to run the world and only would submit to His ways; Torah rather than rejecting it sight unseen, then we might begin to see the Kingdom of G-d manifest.
If every man, woman and child began to walk more in the ways, characteristics and attributes of Jesus, we would not have the moral depravity and absence of ethical conduct that is rampant today.
It is not about religion, remember, it is about relationship with the Creator of the Universe. If we love Him we would want to know what pleases the LORD and make efforts to do those things that please God. Not to appease but to be pleasing.
Question... Why hasn't God raptured the church yet and what on earth is He waiting for?
The so-called church is still in exile for the most part, though we "accepted" Jesus or rather the work that He did, we still reject the majority of His Character and separate ourselves from one another with labels. Christian, Jew, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Protestant, Muslim, buddhist etc, etc, ad infinitum.
What I beleive He is waiting for on earth is the realization of His children that we are the wall of enmity that separates the kingdom from coming.
There is one God, His name is His Characteristics and Attributes. He never changes, he never gives up, He never changes His mind, He never makes mistakes.
He is long suffering and patient for us to move.
The power of the Living God and Risen Savior lives and resides with in each of us. Only together can the Kingdom come, bringing change and restoration to our families and to our country.
It will be the nation of Isarel/ You and I who can power the change to happen. It will be the Ruach Ha Chodesh/ the Holy Spirit of the Living God who provides the power and the words. Without Jesus/ Yeshua there is no use .
I believe in the Power of Yeshua with in you to make a change. even if it is small it is a change none the Less.
Where is Jesus/Yeshua today? He is in You!
If He is in you and I then why look up into the physical clouds for His returning?
Why not look into the Spiritual clouds also known as witnesses/believers?
For He will return in the same manner in which He was taken up; in the clouds.
Remember how he was surrounded by the clouds and taken up?
You are the clouds, I am the clouds, we are the clouds!
If we get out of His way the light of the Son can shine through.
May God richly bless you and give you sight to see that His presence is in your midst...
When we look at the Holy half-Shekel, think of it representing the two houses of Judah and Ephraim.
Judah representing the Jewish people who do know the nature and character of the Savior but may not have seen Him yet.
and
Ephraim also referred to as Israel; representing those who are thought by their Jewish brethren to have been scattered to the ends of the earth due to their rebellion to the Torah and are thought to be "dead" due to their spiritual status of being separated from the Ha Torah. This House of tribe if you will permit, is or could be the church today who is in posession of the Messiah but lacks the deeper understanding of the Scriptures that our brother the Jew possesses.


If you coudl imagine the Jew and the Church being the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Ephraim coming back together as one (Ezekiel 37 prophecy of the two sticks) then we can see that our reunion of sorts could restore order to the world. No longer would we be bamboozled and hoodwinked by the political correct acceptance of readical Islam. As Our country rejects the Bible and any mention of Yeshua/Jesus in schools they make mention of allowing Sharia Law being permitted in our Country.
simply doesn't make much sense.
We have Jesus but we stand to learn much more.
Our brothers the Jews beleive in the same Bible we have. They simply haven't seen Yeshua modeled in me, maybe us.
We are going to make it if we begin to look at the world differently and not as though the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would utterly destroy the earth and create another. He loves us with an everlasting love. Can we reciprocate by drawing near to His ways? I hope so, it seems to be our only hope.
May God encourage you this day and every day.

Pastor Donald J. Maher
Beit Tikveh U'Nesim
House of Hope and Miracles
401 N. Commerce Street
Lockahrt, Texas 78644

Rejection of His Own

Recently with the growth that the Lord has provoked in our lives we have seen certain folks that we would normally think of as dear friends act like we were leppers.
This is troubling to say the least, however it is not fatal... for us anyway.
Rejection comes in many flavors but most painfully from the ones you love.
Since answering the calling of the Lord Jesus: Yeshua Ha Moshiach and listening to the Spirit that Adonai placed with in me, I have seen my "family and friends" reject the move of G-d as though it were a plague.
Ezekiel the Prophet states that the Kol Voice of Hashem came to him and spoke this;
that Hashem would place His Spirit with in us and that He would move us to desire to know His spirit. Yeshua/Jesus said that a man cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven lest he be "born again".
What direction would the Spirit of Adonai move us? Toward or away from the Hebrew roots of our faith. Would the Spirit of G-d desire us to move away from the Jewish People or to move toward them with love and admiration. To move toward our brethren and to unite the family of Elohim throught the Spirit of Christ Jesus/ Yeshua Ha Moshiach.
To be "born again" means to be made new and to allow yourself to be taught. For what child is born with attitude that prevents them from learning. On the contrary, the innocent and pure heart is an easel for us to paint upon. We defile the innocent mind through de-sensitization and blatant assaults on the virtue of our young.
But what about us?
Can we trust again?
can we be born again so that we not only trust but are willing to learn the attributes and the character of Jesus Christ/ Yeshua the Messiah?
The other day my wife and friend were walking down the street in our little town when they were passed by an old friend. This was someone we spend much time around a long time ago. They too are "Christians" but i guess they must think that we are different "Christians" and not the same caliber as they are. Subsequently the driver ignore the two ladies and drove on past as though they never saw. Very well.
Later the same day, the driver and her husband were driving through town and it was made quite plain that they both saw my wife and children in the car we have had for some time and chose to look forward as though they were tremedously busy.
Does the Church of Jesus Christ see others that don't attent their congregation as less than whole, as less saved? WWJD?
Ask yourself what would the early church in Corinth or Galatia do?
Did Peter and Paul only go to the Synagogue or did they go and love on the ones who weren't in the temple?
The answer is they reached out and met the people where they were.
This last weeks Parsha states in the Chumash that Yitro/Jethro has 7 different names.
No he didn't have split personalities but it should be noted that under certain circumstances or in different territories he may have been know by different names.
Likewise Yeshua/Jesus may be referred to by different pronunciations yet the scriptures state that you will know them by their fruit and by their walk.
WWJD?
How did he teach? Was it with arrogance?
Of course not!
So why does the body of so called "Christians" beat each other up so often?
Isn't this the same reason that Yeshua took the blessing of the
Torah and gave it to the Multitudes? Ie: the lost 10 tribes?
The Religious Jews would not share the blessings of the Torah with those whom they saw as dirty ritualisticly unclean. This was the old addage, "don't cast your pearls amongst the swine."
With that attitude they held tightly to the greatest gift that had been given to them freely.
Freely I give it unto you, freely you shall give it away.
So now we see the same false piety in the church of today looking down on others because they don't belong to our congregation or den0mination. how are we different?
If indeed we are saved by the blood of Christ through faith then aren't the Jews who held tighlty to the Torah just as saved as the christians who are now holding firmly and tightly to the deliverence that was given them?
We are to walk out the lifestyle and characteristics of Yeshua so that the love of the Spirit is seen and witnessed in us.
What message are we sending in our daily walk?

If you love me, you would keep my commands and do them.
You don't have to do a thing, however if the HOLY Spirit really dwelled in us would'nt it be leading us toward yearning to do Torah out of our freedoms?
Pray about it and ask the LORD what He would have you to do.
I love you and pray that you see that legalism will do nothing for you. Legalism also comes in many different forms such as the form that tells you, "you can't study the Torah because that's legalism".
Matthew 5:17 on says Jesus told the disciples, "Do not think that I came to do away with the Torah and the prophets, but rather I came to fulfill (make fuller, completely clear and understandable) it. truly i say unto you that not the least letter or stroke of the pen will be abollished from the Torah till all heaven and earth pass away.
Shalom, and Rejoice!
He Came to Deliver not Condemn.

Look what I got the honor of doing.
This Torah scroll was found somewhere along the railroad tracks near Auschwitz.
It is estimated to be 200 years old or maybe more. The family that it belonged to most likely knew their fate but rather than to see the Word of God wind up in the hands of the Germans only to be defiled and destroyed they opted to throw it out of the train.
This scroll went from Germany to France and later came to America. It wound up in San Antonio by way of Oklahoma.


I have been invited to partake in the service again this Friday (erev Shabbat; Shabbat Evening).
Baruch Hashem has a great Cantor and Worship team, not to mention a fantastic Rabbi/Pastor/Teacher Roi Garcia, who is very Good.
We have been attending there for the last Year!
What a tremendous blessing.
As many of you may know already know, that we have begun a Messianic congregation in Lockhart where we live with the hope and vision of restoring the love of God’s Teaching and Instruction. Our Congregation is called Beit Tikveh U'Nesim (House of Hope and Miracles) and is located at 401 N. Commerce in Historic Lockhart, Texas.
We meet on Shabbat at 3pm.
We have been under the tutaledge of Rabbi Ralph Messer of Simchat Torah Beit Midrash (The Joy of Torah, House of Study) for over 4 years. Rabbi Ralph and Mrs. Messer have been a great inspiration for Annette; my wife and I.
The LORD has surrounded us with great teachers of His Word.
Matthew 5:17 tells us that anyone who abolishes the Law; breaking one of the least of the commandments and teaches other to do the same will be called "least in the kingdom", however, great in the kingdom will be the one who practices the commands of and teaches the Word/Torah. I believe that as the prophets prophecy, (paraphrase) “in the last days He would send the Spirit of Ellijah, and return the hearts of the children back to their fathers and the hearts of the Fathers back to their children.” Malachi 4: 4-6
WE are soooo there. Without the return of the love of the Torah/Word we will never see the return of the Messiah.
It is time to seek the face of Adonai Elohim our God; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. There is but One/Echad God.
As John Chapter 1 states that the Word/Torah was with God, and the Word/Torah was God and that the Word/Torah became flesh and dwelt amongst us.
He has indeed planted His eternal life with our midst.

I am so blessed! Whood’a thunk?

Those that believe in the coming of the Messiah are permitted to reach out and touch the Word/ representative of Yeshua/Jesus as a sign of their belief in the Salvation of the Messiah.
The Torah is made up of Lamb skins hence the term “Lamb’s Book of Life”
The Torah is written in Hebrew as it has been since the beginning of history and the Hebrew letters look like Chromosomes.
There are 22 Chromosomes in the human body and 22 letters in the Hebrew alefbet. It is also fitting that the letters and the chromosomes look strikingly similar.




In Psalms 22 the prophet prophecies of the Jesus’ crucifixion.
How great is our God?



So is your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life/ The Etz Chaim? Yes!
Maybe We just don’t know it or we behave like we don’t know it.
Yeshua is the author of life, the author of creation and the author of the Torah.
I love Yeshua/Jesus and I love what He has written.
It guides us all on how to behave as human beings verses the beasts of the field.
Jeremiah and Hebrews but state that the LORD wrote His Law upon our hearts and upon our minds.
That He shall be our God and we shall be His people.
The prophet Ezekiel states that the LORD our God will put His spirit in us and move us to desire to know His ways.

Shalom, and may that Ruach HaChodesh/Holy Spirit move in you today and forever.

Pastor Donald J. Maher
Beit Tikveh U'Nesim
House of Hope and Miracles
401 N. Commerce Street
Lockahrt, Texas 78644

The return of the Messiah

Has the Messiah come?
Will He ever return?
This has got to be the most important thing on the mind of the "Church" at this time.
Have we missed something?
Will there really be a particular day when the Lord Jesus comes in the bodily form?
Could it be that the bodily form that He will come in is the person in the mirror. Could the only thing standing in the way of the return of the King of kings, be me and you?
When the disciples asked Yeshua/Jesus to show them the kingdom, He replied, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
John 14:8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us." 9 Yeshua replied to him, "Have I been with you so long without your knowing me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, `Show us the Father'?
So if Yeshua is living in your heart assuming you have accepted him as your Adonai Elohim, your personal Lord and Savior, then He; the Kingdom of Heaven lives in you.
Therefore if we love the L-rD and walk in His Teaching and Instruction/Torah we are going to begin to see peace/shalom manifest in the present.
Imagine for a moment that everybody loved the word so much that we returned to the cultural identity of the people called by His name; El. Y'israel.
If you can visualize a culture of people rather than a religion when you see Yeshua/Jesus maybe then we can visualize ourselves walking and behaving more like our Savior and Messiah and less like the dry branches of Religion.
The Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, Son of God and Son of Man are all Supreme Messianic Terms for the name of G-d. Our Elohim has written a constitution on how His kingdom is to be operated.
This Constitution is called the Torah/Bible.
Does the Church embrace the whole Constitution or just the parts that it want to?
Any kingdom falls into destruction without a sovereign King. When disorder enters the room Chaos is not far behind. When order returns to the room those that are in disorder will be offended.
The Kingdom of Heaven is near. In Matthew 4: 17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Yeshua/Jesus was telling us that the Kingdom was "at hand", near, right in front of us or if you will permit me to say within our midst.
So instead of waiting for a day in the future, accept that the day of His return is today if you will permit Him.
How can He force Himself upon those who refuse Him?
Will you accept his plans and abandon your own? Will you give Him full reign?
Will you trust that the Hebrew mindset never thought of escaping the kingdom that their G-d created but rather restoring the walk-with relationship that our Forefather Adam enjoyed. Abraham heard the voice and heeded it. Isaac walked in the way of his father and taught that relationship of trusting Elohim to his people. Ya'akov/Jacob tried to teach it to his sons. But we see with each generation that the gradual degradation of integrity created a realm of chaos.
With Moses during his time it was said that the King of Egypt knew not Yosef or his brohers. That time is now.
We no longer know our Savior.
We have been given an ethnically cleansed Yeshua/Jesus who has been seperated from His people the Jews, who rejects the Torah and denies the sabbath days and who does anything he wants like rejecting the instructions of Kashrut, Nidah and the Moedim.
In Genesis we read that Yosef/Joseph says to the TEN brothers if you do not bring your brother BenYamin/benjamin with you, you will not see my face again.
Ezekiel 37:15 prophecies of the two sticks becoming one in His hand and haveing one King/shepherd/prince over them both.
this is the prophecy of the 2 Houses of Judah and Efrayim coming back together to re-establish order in the world through the instructions of the King.
Jew and Gentile; One in Messiah.
Please hear my heart.
The Jewish people seek the Messiah but don't see Him in the Christian Church.
The Christian Church seeks to "save" Jews with a pagan Jesus.
We must get off of our high horses and look at what is becoming of the kingdom that our G-d has created for His people. It is being overrun by a Amalakite Ishmaelite spirit that seeks to kill our children and paint their cities with their blood.
There must be clarity.
What we need is Yeshua/Jesus. Only He can bring down the wall of enmity between the whole house of Ya'akov/Jacob who is Y'israel.
Shalom D'rashim

Torah Portion-December 18, 2010
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And He Lived
Genesis 47.28 – 50.26
1 Kings 2.1-12; Acts 1-4
OVERVIEW
The excitement dies down, the music takes on a somber tone, and we find Joseph promising Jacob that he will bury him in ‘The Land’ with his ancestors…not in Egypt.
With the last of his strength, Jacob tells Joseph that El Shaddai appeared to him to reveal that M’nasheh and Efrayim are to be counted as his sons and receive a sons’ inheritance.
Jacob sees the boys (surprise!), and reaches out to bless them. Jacob prays that he and his forefathers may be perpetuated in them; and that they remember who Jacob is, and what he stand for.
In the blessing, Jacob (intentionally) crosses his hands to bless the younger first. Joseph attempts to bring Jacob into correction, but Jacob says “I know that, my son, I know it. While he (M’nasheh) will be a great people, nevertheless, the younger(Efrayim) will be greater and grow into many nations.” (48.19)
So, Jacob puts Efrayim ahead of M’nasheh.
Jacob then blesses all his own sons individually, … and breathes his last.

It took 40 days to embalm Jacob (in Israel), and the Egyptians and all Pharaohs officials and dignitaries of his court, mourned Jacob 70 days!
Then the whole House of Israel (excepting children, flocks and herds) leave Goshen to return to the Cave of Makhpelah to mourn Jacob and bury him there in the cave Abraham bought

Joseph lived in Egypt and saw the 3rd generations of Efrayim’s children. It is mentioned twice that Joseph lived for 110 years.

This portion ends as it begins: with a promise and a passing. Joe’s bro’s promise to carry his bones back to Israel upon his death. Joe prophesies, of God’s visit to the bro’s… and… breathes his last.
Where are you in this story?