Move, Don’t Move 25 Dec 18

Working Dates: Tuesday, December 25, 2018 to Saturday, December 29, 2018
[24 pages]
Sophia Valentina Buller: Thank you for the shelter You provide!!! You ARE my safe place!!!
Revelation 3: 5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: “We had horrible encounters with academics who refused to accept that this is what he had found,” Kroenigsberg said. “Zertal dug at the site for eight years and not one of his academic advisers ever acknowledged that the site was the altar from the time of Joshua.”
Sophia Valentina Buller: As an eagle soars You guide it’s way, You guide my way & path ALWAYS!!! Oh how amazing is Your love that saves!!! You ARE so mighty to save!!!
Brat (in “RE: Dangerous Knowledge” 22 Dec 18): Thank you, Sophia, for writing back. I will continue to pray for you as you stay in God’s will. To me, you are already doing it in God’s will. Just an acknowledgement carries the power of life in it. Probably the worst of all the abuses that have caused the abomination of my desolation is the lack of acknowledgement. There’s nowhere to go with the collective conversation. There’s no sanctuary where one is allowed to just BE.
James Goll: How are we supposed to respond to this information? Sometimes our lives may feel like “formless nothingness,” too, but we are not inert. We can make a response to the movements of the Holy Spirit of God.
Brat: Ahhh…the Holy Void.
Genesis 40:23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
James Goll: He is our life-giving source, the one who brings us into the life of the Lord Jesus. He makes true disciples of us, because He is interested in maturing our character more than in bringing us personal comfort. He brings us truth, not false assurance or consolation. He convicts, persuades, shepherds and leads us to the life-source of God. He helps us overcome our fears, and He stretches us beyond ourselves, moving us to testify of the love and power of God and showing us how to bear fruit that lasts.
Brat: “Personal comfort”?
Luke 22: 22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed. But woe to that man who betrays him!”
Brat: The Church doesn’t (and won’t) acknowledge that I even exist. That is the worst form of torture devised by man or the devil. She’ll siphon off the gifts and leave my body to rot in the public square of my blogs. She’ll parrot back to me what I’ve said like children in the marketplace (Matthew 11), but that’s still not acknowledging that I even exist. That’s behaving like coyotes howling in a canyon and the sounds echo off the walls but are empty, hollow words, no matter how beautiful and breathtaking the sights are. Then they’ll preach over my head as if I don’t understand, and then when they realize that I do and that I’m on to them, then they’ll try and shove me out to the next place, using scriptures to justify their actions, because there are scriptures to address everything under the sun. “Stay where you are received in peace,” … “but His own did not receive Him.”
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): But God sees it all. It’s becoming increasingly clear to us that He accomplishes way more under the radar than He does in the public square.
Don Henley: We can do “The Innuendo”
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry! [https://youtu.be/LrkvS8DsEAA]
Nehemiah 1: 11 Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.”
I was cupbearer to the King.
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): We just work here
Brat: There’s no one to hold the Churches accountable for her abuses and no one to hear, because she controls the volume. The Church is so big, the pimping network is so vast, the cover-up is so insidious and thorough, that one tree falling in Sherwood’s forest is indifferent to whether or not it makes a sound. Who’s left to care? It’s evidently ok for Robin Hood to steal from the poor and then blame it on the angel. (Rev 3:17)
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): What if you just completed the most incredible missionary journey of your life, but hardly anybody knew about it… Would it still count?
Sophia Valentina Buller: Your love is fierce in the most amazing way possible!!!
You rescued me from myself!
Caught up in my foolish ways I was; You brought me to life, You brought me to You & Your TRUE light!!!
Mark 12:2 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
Rick Joyner: We are now entering “the harvest” that is the end of the age. The greatest move of God there has ever been is now upon us. The greatest ingathering into the kingdom is just beginning. There has never been anything like it before, and there will not be anything like it again. These are the times that all of the righteous of old and even the angels desired to see, and we are here to live in them.
Elena Kuchik (24 Dec 18): refuah shleima Netanel Ilan ben Shaina Tzipora! even rav Shmuel ELiyahu went to kotel to unite with other people in prayer…please join us at Ascent tonight 8.30PM for the special brocha party to join in prayers.
We need another miracle URGENT!
Me to Elena (24 Dec 18): I’ll pray for you, you pray for me. We (the Church) need an urgent miracle, too.
Isaiah 62:6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted sentinels; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who remind the LORD, take no rest,
62:7 and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it renowned throughout the earth.
Elena Kuchik (24 Dec 18): What happened?
Me (6:30 am): The Church is “dead.” She is shiny on the outside with tinsel, bows, and lights, but hollow on the inside. Her cup on the outside is polished and glistening on the altar, but inside the cup of hypocrisy is a bitter wine. I thank God for your chief rabbi who is willing to go to the mat (or to the Wall, I should say) for the wounded soldier. That speaks of integrity to me.
Elena Kuchik: Kathryn Hauser, yes we are blessed to have chief rabbi with a heart of gold..thank you!
Me (6:47 am): You’re welcome. I am serious, as well. We really do need your prayers, just as the wounded soldier does. In a spiritual sense we are also wounded soldiers. There is no way to break a cup of hypocrisy from the inside. It requires outside intervention, just as Michael had to intervene to break the Babylonian exile.
Psalm 97:10 The LORD loves those who hate evil; he guards the lives of his faithful; he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
Elena Kuchik: amen!
God: MY love is perfect & will cast out ALL fear, shame, bitterness, & doubt!!! Know that MY grace is sufficient & that I give you what you need!!! I give you ALL that you need so come to ME!!!
Daniel 10:21 but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one supports me against them except Michael, your prince.
Israel 365 (25 Dec 18): Merry Christmas to Our Christian Readers ✡ “The Word Of Hashem From Yerushalayim”
Angie Stolba: Receiving a Prophet’s Reward
Matthew 23: 25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
Don Henley: Can we film the operation?
Is the heir dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
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James Goll (24 Dec 18): The Holy Spirit loves messes. How do I know? Because of the second verse of the Bible: “The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water” (Gen. 1:2). At creation, as the Holy Spirit was lingering over the formless nothingness, God spoke into being the world as we know it. The Spirit of God loved the chaos to life and transformed it from a mess to magnificence. To this day, that is how He operates.
Brat: Ahhh…the Holy Void.
Don Henley: Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: The locals, far from being impressed by the intensity of his chassidic style of delivery and the brilliance and mystical bent of his ideas, found his short talks amusing. They would snicker among themselves and make fun of his discourses.
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): The earthly narrative of this year’s adventure sounds almost autobiographical, but the real story here, the heavenly one, wasn’t written by me:
“So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but
only God, who makes things grow.”(1 Corinthians 3:7, emphasis mine)
Brat (in “Law of the Desert” 25 Dec 18): I laid down my rights to follow Jesus. It used to be a law of the desert to provide hospitality to sojourners. The law of the desert was to give sanctuary to strangers.
[Received SILENCE]
Ben Peters (26 Dec 18): “My Church is still half awake and half asleep. Many have been waking up and rising up to speak My thoughts and reveal My heart, but many more are still content to let the wicked rule as long as they are taken care of in some way. Others are afraid to speak out for fear of loss of favor with people they believe they need.
Brat: I HAVE spoken up! For ten years! The Church controls the volume.
[Seewhateyemean?]
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): Favor is better than talent
Breaking Israel News (26 Dec 18): Ten From the Nations Book Tells Torah Awakening Stories Among Non-Jews
Revelation 17: 3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Now Torah Sages are at a higher level than prophets at all times. Ruach HaKodesh [lower level prophetic spirit] sometimes rests on a prophet and sometimes not, whereas Ruach HaKodesh never leaves Torah Sages, even for one moment. They know what is going on in the spiritual worlds and in the physical world but either don’t [wish or see a need to] reveal what they know.
Don Henley: Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: This is as opposed to a prophet who is duty bound to reveal his prophecy.
David Sterne: Unlike the previous two signs, in which the staff and the hand returned to their former states, the blood never returned to being water. It was swallowed up by the earth. And that was what would happen to the Egyptians under the influence of the judgment of Isaac. They wouldn’t be seen again. The appearance of the attribute of judgment caused the Jews to be scrutinized as well. (Shem miShmuel suggests that it was because of this final sign that the Jews had to undergo the fourth decree of difficult bondage.) Still, it was necessary in order to give them the faith to get out of Egypt.
Nehemiah 1: 9 but if you return to Me and obey My commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “Man is a tree of the field,” states the Torah [2]. All humans are compared to trees and bushes. Just like trees and bushes, we humans contain hidden roots, motives and drives buried beneath our conscious self. Just like trees and bushes, we also possess a personality that is visibly displayed, each in a different from and shape [3].
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): I remember shouting at the time at the top of my lungs in a state of hysteria: “BLOOD! BLOOD!” It was too much on top of the tree massacre. I yelled so loud that our deaf and nearly-blind Moose came running. He could feel my distress.
Don Henley: Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re stiff
Kick ’em all around
Rabbi YY Jacobson: All people—all trees and bushes—are aflame. Each person has a fire burning within him or her, yearning for meaning, wholesomeness, and love. Just as the flame of a candle is forever licking the air, reaching upward toward heaven, so too each soul longs to kiss heaven and touch the texture of meaning and eternity [5].
Daniel 12:1 [ The End Times ] “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Rabbi Aba said that if it wasn’t for Torah Sages Torah scholars, mankind wouldn’t be able to appreciate the Torah. They wouldn’t know what are the commandments of He Who rules the world. If mankind didn’t have this knowledge, then there would be no difference between the spirit of man and the spirit of animals.
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): I’m a little calmer now with distance and time. Blood? My heart went to the cross. I looked up at Jesus and was appalled at His blood loss. He bore our guilt and shame upon Himself. I wasn’t minimizing my own blood. Sure, it was just a pin prick. What did I have to complain about? Was this just a hormonal moment? Still, my heart was gushing and pounding in my chest as if it wanted to escape from its cage. I knew enough to know that the sacred is in the ordinary. Dangerous knowledge. I wondered what God was doing. Blood is part of the incarnation experience. Is that because the male species is obsessed with The Kill so God gave us what man wanted? The Church teaches we are covered by the Blood of Jesus. In this state I’m in it feels like it could be a Stephen King “Carrie” moment. A blood bath. I know that’s not what God meant. Was God trying to show me that He was redeeming the times (and half a time)?
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): Missionally, we’re not abandoning any unfinished initiatives. Rather, God is ushering us into a new arena of favor to enhance and multiply our fruitfulness in the homestretch. We didn’t just finish something; God just started something!
Rena Goldzweig (in “Tablets” 29 Nov 18): The Torah isn’t just another book of wisdom – it is G-d’s blueprint for the world and all that exists. The Greeks’ treatment of G-dly wisdom as mundane strengthened the “husk” of Greek power and enabled them (at least at first) be victorious over the Jews.
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): We need to see the finished blueprints. PLEASE PRAY FOR US!
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The idiom for “actively” here is literally, “warmed himself up in order to.” In order to purge this person of his fiery enthusiasm for whatever transgression(s) he did, he must endure the Purgatory of Fire. Holy enthusiasm must burn his enthusiasm for evil out of him.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Souls On Fire
Brat: Haven’t we already been through this?
Revelation 3:15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The idiom for “lacking enthusiasm” is literally, “being cold.” In order to purge this person of his indifference and coldness to G d’s calling, he must endure the Purgatory of Snow, which freezes this coldness off of him.
Brat: What do we do when God has already spit them out of His mouth? (Rev 3:16) What do God’s people do when God’s word has already been fulfilled, but there is no one to hear the Good News, because the news outlets control the volume?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The inaugural vision in which Moses was appointed to become the molder of the Jewish Nation and its eternal teacher, we should assume, contains within it the essence of Judaism.
Journal (16 Dec 18): What if this journey of the remnant that we are in is NOT “Replacement Theology” or “Replacement, Replacement Theology” as Rick Joyner talks about. Is all this not a view that claims that Christians are usurping the Jewish birthright, and which Rick Joyner has been vocal against? What if each faction has been behaving like, and putting on, the mantle of the various biblical characters, so that God can use His people to draw us ALL together? After all, the Jews have the blueprints.
Matthew Laney (25 Dec 18): But when I am asked if I believe in reincarnation my answer is an unequivocal “Yes!” In a certain respect, reincarnation is what Christmas is all about. Above and beyond all that is meaningful and beautiful in our Christmas traditions, today is about the Spirit taking on flesh (in-carne) in Jesus and being born in each of us (re-in-carne).
Brat: Just listening, not judging.
Dean Mitchum: What is your mantle? It means to walk in the anointing of those who we have served under, coupled with the anointing that God has placed on our lives. God is taking the things you no longer need up to the heavens in order to give you the things you do need. Take up your mantle and strike the Jordan; let it part the waters. Cross over into the new mantle. Where is the Lord God of Elijah?
James Goll: Before Jesus returned to the Father, he reassured His disciples that He would provide for them. For three years, they had walked closely with Him, but soon He would be taken away from them. Jesus talked to them about what was next: “Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you” (John 16:7).
Verse of the Day (25 Dec 18): For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ~ Isaiah 9:6 NIV
James Goll: Jesus had a whole lot more to tell them, but he was leaving. He was going to make sure that they could hear Him and follow Him. Somehow, the Spirit of truth—about whom the disciples knew very little—would “come,” and somehow He would “disclose” to them whatever they needed to know.
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): I wondered and held all these things in my heart.
Nehemiah 1: 10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.
Matthew Laney: This, I believe, is the true meaning of “born again.” We are not born again. It is Christ who is born again, and again and again (re-incarnated) in the poor, cold, messy, crowded, unlikely manger of our heart. “What good is it,” a 13th century Christian mystic once asked, “if Jesus was born of a virgin, if God is not born in me?”
Luke 22: 20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
James Goll: It’s not always easy to track with a Spirit who comes and goes like an invisible breeze. But we can depend on His promises to help us follow Him and learn His ways.
Brat (in “Who’s On First?” 20 Dec 18): The trackers already know. The vultures track, too. We must move forward.
Tom Demaree: If you’ve tracked with us awhile, you’ve heard that mantra before. But something unprecedented is afoot…
James Goll: What do I mean by “seek for His presence”? Let me put it more animatedly: Woo Him. Create a magnetic atmosphere through worship that draws Him. Speak to Him words of blessing and wonder and celebration.
Sophia Valentina Buller: Thank you God that you ARE FOR me!!!
Thank you Jesus that you paid for ultimate price out of your AMAZING love!!! Thank You for bringing me back to you & making me Your own!!! Such love is so undeniably beautiful & wonderfully precious!!!
Pastor John Tolle (in “Velvet Glove” 21 Dec 18): God is not interested in being a lone ranger. God wants us. He’s the Trinity. God doesn’t consider aloneness to be the primary thing. He didn’t stay in the Trio. He instructed, so that we could enjoy community with Him.
The Book of Common Prayer: O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, one God,
Have mercy upon us.
Christina Kramer (9 Dec 18): I wish you a most beautiful holiday season filled with love, joy and miracles!!
MorningStar Ministries: Merry Christmas From Rick and Julie Joyner!
James Goll: Honor Him as a guest. Welcome Him into your home, into your own spirit. Greet Him on a first-name basis, but without over-familiarity. Acknowledge Him as the third person of the godhead, with His own distinct personality and ways. As John the beloved wrote, “But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own authority. But He will speak whatever He hears, and He will tell you things that are to come” (John 16:13).
Brat: Revelation 2:20-23 is already fulfilled.
Matthew Laney: In other words, we are all Mary. We are all mothers of God, giving birth to God because God is always needing to be born. The incarnation and re-incarnation of God is what Christmas is all about. It’s about what God did in Jesus. It’s about what God wants to do in you and through you.
Revelation 17: 6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
Christina Kramer (9 Dec 18): Please click on the link below to read profound testimonials of sessions with Mother Mary.
Brat: WHAT? How did you get in here?
Matthew 22:12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.
Christina Kramer (9 Dec 18): Everyone receives a healing and a blessing from Mary.
Revelation 12:11 They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Aries is a lamb, and the Passover sacrifice was a lamb. They slaughtered a lamb in order to weaken the power of the celestial lamb, Aries.
Brat: I must be absolutely clear on this: It is the testimony of Jesus. Mary bears witness. Jesus knows, I love Mary! But do not overlook Jesus just to elevate Mary. She would weep, as that was never her intention or her calling. Her calling has always been to be there to support her Son.
James Goll: Now “guest” may not be the best word to use. When we welcome Him as a guest, we need to recognize Him not only as our guest but also as our landlord. When we open the door for Him, He’s not just making a guest appearance. Don’t forget—He owns the place!
Donald J. Trump: Go down in history as one of the FIRST Official Build The Wall Members.
Mark 12:1 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: They try to co-opt the coldness of the snow of Purgatory, i.e. the attribute of indifference, to repent for having enthusiastically committed transgressions. They hope that by now being cold toward these transgressions and uninterested in them, their former transgressions will be accounted as merits. This is “theft”, since they are appropriating something that is not theirs to use for what they want to do.
Isaiah 51: 21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,
made drunk, but not with wine.
Matthew 22:13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: This greatly upset the rebbe’s son. He complained to his father indignantly: “Why do you bother saying Torah for these heretics, these scorners of G d’s truth?”
Isaiah 51: 22 This is what your Sovereign LORD says,
your God, who defends his people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
the cup that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
you will never drink again.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: “What can do, my son?” his father responded. “I get so aroused when taken by the impulse to say words of Torah that I don’t even know where I am, never mind whom I am talking to.
Isaiah 51: 20 Your children have fainted;
they lie at every street corner,
like antelope caught in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the LORD,
with the rebuke of your God.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: “The real issue was less with the idea that the structure was an altar, and more with the corollary to his claim,” Koenigsberg stated in an article about the site. “Zertal was not merely saying that this was an ancient Israelite altar, but that this was a specific altar, one described in detail twice in the Bible.”
James Goll: Bible scholars call the first time something is mentioned in the Bible “the law of first mention.” The first time you find something stated in Scripture fixes its characteristics from that point forward. In the verse above, which is almost the very first verse of the whole Bible, we see that the Spirit of God moves. All the time, He keeps moving across the face of the earth, and He brings light into darkness wherever He goes. He didn’t stop moving that way after the earth was created, because He is constantly renewing the face of the earth, along with the hearts of the earth’s inhabitants.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: Rabbi Simchah Bunim paused, then turned to his son and remarked: “It is not really correct to label these German Jews as heretics, my son. Why, whenever one of them has as a sharp headache, his first reaction is to cry out, “Shema Yisrael!” The only genuine heretic is Pharaoh, who, even though the Almighty struck him with ten mighty plagues, continued to say dismissively: “Who is the L rd that I should listen to his voice?” (Exodus 5:2)
Journal (23 Dec 18): Pastor John Tolle came up behind me after the service. I had been writing in my chair. Unbeknownst to me he had pulled back the high table (which is the preacher’s platform) into the congregational seating area. Now the table and several chairs blocked in my rearguard.
Luke 22: 21 But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table.
Pastor John Tolle said while touching my arm gently: “Don’t move back!”
Me: Okay.
Matthew 20: 22 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”
“We can,” they answered.
Brat (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): But you didn’t, and neither did the bishop. The divine energy stops there. It’s stuck. It can’t move forward to be a blessing to the community in its full capacity.
Ben Peters: I hear the questions being asked about America and other nations. There have been many positive words released declaring a great and wonderful visitation with many miracles, signs and wonders and many people coming to know our Savior. So why are there still so many battles going on and seemingly so little progress? The swamp seems to be getting deeper and the critters are still hiding in it.
Brat (in “Velvet Glove” 21 Dec 18) …Is there no one who can put in a good word for me with the Anglicans?
Pastor John Tolle (16 Dec 18): Unless you’re a hermit and wear a sign that says, “Do not disturb.”
Brat: Oh, God, make it so! You were supposed to pass me along to the bishop. Is there no one who can put in a good word for me with the Anglicans?
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): Friends Bishop Vaughn McLaughlin & Bishop Derek Calhoun in Jacksonville, FL
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The Exodus from Immaturity
Tom Demaree: My friend, Bishop Joseph Walker and me in Nashville
Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Israel 365 (22 Dec 18): To Be Holy ✡ “You Shall Be Holy, For I Am Holy”
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): We’ve never experienced this level of favor so broadly at this level of influence. Already, new friendships with leaders are bearing far-reaching fruit behind the scenes. Real fear-of-the-Lord-level stuff. Humbling.
David Sterne: The second sign recalls Abraham, who was pure and straightforward in his pursuit of G d in the world. The hand that became leprous and then returned to a state of purity is symbolic of Abraham. He represented the power of purity to confront the spiritual impurity of Egypt.
Genesis 40:21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand—
James Goll: In all that He does, the Holy Spirit never moves contrary to the written Word of God. He complements and does not compete with its instructions and doctrines. We would do well to store up the words of Scripture so we have a functioning plumb line in our own spirits. Then when we think the Spirit is telling us something, we can see if it aligns with the straight Word. We can verify or adjust our understanding of our visions and dreams. We can catch ourselves early on when we start to walk in an unbalanced way. We can activate our spiritual gifts confidently and capably. And we can enjoy the journey!
Revelation 17: 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.
Brat (in “Dangerous Knowledge” 22 Dec 18): I’m now in my eleventh year. This is not a competition. I bless her gift. UCC, don’t use your flock as a human shield to cover up the truth that you knew my story and still fed around it like trail crumbs to the baited trap.
James Goll: So the most basic answer to the question, “How does the Holy Spirit move?” is that He hovers. He stays over something until He chooses to move on, having completed His inspection or implementation. That’s how He moves.
Brat: Hovering like a hummingbird?
On Point Preparedness (13 May 18): The Trump Prophecy: https://youtu.be/Lsbm3w47EvQ
Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.
On Point Preparedness: Interesting parallels between the Trump of 1983 vs. 2018.
Jewish Journal Roundtable: Is Trump Good for Israel?
Sophia Buller (26 Dec 18): Thoughts?
On Point Preparedness: Trump has been planning this for 35 YEARS!
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: He then proceeded to share his thoughts with his fellow Jews.
Brat (27 Dec 18): Trump’s consistency in the longevity speaks to me of a calling and integrity. It is not humanly possible to stay that consistent for that long without the hand of God upon one’s life and His voice calling though His mouthpiece. That doesn’t make him (or anyone) a saint or a devil. To me it speaks of God’s faithfulness in this mess.
Sophia Buller: Good point
Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
DonaldJTrump.com (27 Dec 18): MISSING:
Moshe Yakov Wisnefsky: In fact, the prophets use two images to describe the advent of the Mashiach. In one, he is “poor, riding on a donkey” (Zachariah 9:9); in the other, he comes “with the clouds of heaven” (Daniel 7:13). We may reconcile these images by applying them to the two facets of the divine revelation that will accompany the messianic redemption. Using materiality “for the sake of heaven” will reveal “the clouds of heaven”, the innate spirituality within Creation. Knowing G d “in all your ways” will reveal the divinity that is “riding on the donkey”, the transcendent consciousness of G d’s essence.
Donald J. Trump: Democrats have attacked us repeatedly over the years, but one thing has always kept me motivated to fight back and that’s you, Kathryn.
Allen Pettebone: You have a very merry Christmas I thought so with you
Brat (in “Harriet” 25 Dec 18): Most Holy God, please accept this offering of Harriet the Donkey and her song of praise for the sake of heaven as we see You coming on the Cloud.
Linda MacKenzie Davis: She is ready for her debut!
Facebook: HITTING THE HIGH NOTES: Harriet the tuneful donkey ‘sings’ in an octave normally reserved for opera singers when a regular visitor turns up with treats. https://abcn.ws/2D15FSn
Brat: Jesus, thank You for fulfilling Your word! Happy Birthday, Lord! What a gift!
David Sterne: What does this have to do with the three signs given to Moses?
James Goll: I can think of at least three primary ways we should always respond to the Spirit. You and I should make it a point to:
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “Hello, this is Ralph. Have I received any phone calls?”
Genesis 40:20 Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
Rabbi YY Jacobson: When Moses observed this spiritual truth, he exclaimed: “I must depart from here and go over there and gaze at this great sight—why isn’t the bush burning up from the flames.” This vision inspired a transformation even in Moses himself. This saintly man, the greatest prophet in history, recognized the infinity one encounters only in the void, in the longing, in the hunger, in the fire that never ceases to burn, because the thorns refuse to quench the flames.
Israel 365 (26 Dec 18): Biblical Practices in Modern Israel ✡ “Blessings Are On The Head Of The One Who Dispenses It”
House of Destiny: A Prophet’s Christmas
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The human thorn-bushes, on the other hand, experience a different fate. The thorns within them never allow them to become content with who they are, and they dream for a life of truth that always seems elusive. Thus their yearning flames are never satisfied. Their thirsty palates never quenched. They burn and burn and their fire—their longing, passion, and thirst—never ceases. Since the ultimate peace they are searching for remains beyond them, and the ultimate sense of oneness eludes them, their internal void is never filled, leaving them humbled and thirsty, ablaze with a flame and yearning that is never sated.
Christina Kramer (9 Dec 18): Please share this email with others or your social media
Tom Demaree (26 Dec 18): We thank you in advance for praying with us, and responding accordingly.
James Goll: “If a son asks for bread from any of you who is a father, will you give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will you give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will you offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” (John 11:9-13).
David Sterne: The first sign relates to Jacob. The snake represents the witchcraft and occult powers of Egypt, and it was Jacob, with his sincerity and integrity in the house of Laban, who developed the traits necessary to defeat witchcraft.
James Goll: If a son asks his father for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? Neither will the Holy Spirit give you a counterfeit gift. And He will never give us too little—or too much. We can never get too full of Him, because He increases our capacity along the way, opening new rooms in our hearts, expanding us to receive more. Sometimes in my journey with God, I feel as though He has almost done open heart surgery on me. It’s as if He has broken open my chest wall and exposed my heart so that He can come in more fully.
Brat echo (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): “…Still, my heart was gushing and pounding in my chest as if it wanted to escape from its cage.”
Michelle Passey (25 Dec 18): Be Like Mary – Say “Yes” to His Call
[Me to myself: I HAVE!! This is so mean! They know exactly what they’re saying and what they’re doing. “Kick ‘em when they’re down and kick ‘em when they’re up.”
Elijah List: God, Are You Talking to Me? Yes, He is.
Christina Kramer: Please join me for a beautiful, magical and deeply healing evening with Mother Mary. Receive her miraculous love and wisdom. She will bring the Christ Child and her hierarchy of Celestial Angels to this event. Celebrate this beautiful season of Light with your Divine Mother. Give this extraordinary gift to yourself or to another in this sacred holiday season.
Casting Crowns: “Only Jesus” [https://youtu.be/MVU3wX7Sbog]
Brat: O, but lookey here, we do leave a legacy, even if it is only bread crumbs in my inbox.
Rene Parsons (25 Dec 18): MARY DIDN’T KNOW: DON’T GIVE UP! YOU’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR YES!
Joel 3:4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.
Christina Kramer (9 Dec 18): During the evening Mother Mary will also guide you through a beautiful meditation in which you will experience the Radiant Christ Light throughout your being and the love of the Angelic Realms.
Echo: [Dangerous Knowledge. The sacred is in the ordinary.]
David Sterne: The answer lies in the teaching of the Talmud, which tells us that if it weren’t for the help of G d, we’d never be able to stand up to the yetzer hara, our “evil inclination” as it has power equal to an angel.
Revelation 17: 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery:
BABYLON THE GREAT
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Brat (in “Kamikaze” 21 Dec 18): Grrr…. More ‘Velvet Glove’… You know exactly what I’ve been talking about all these years and what I have been asking for: Sanctuary. To get out of this exile that the Church put me into in the first place by slapping an undeserved scarlet letter on me. I didn’t ask for this! And I shared the journey, just as God commanded of me to do. You were there.
Don Henley: Dirty Laundry
Brat: They arc speak as if I exist, they read what I write, take the time to arc speak an answer, and then treat me as if I don’t exist. They know I have God’s call on my life and my message in “Dangerous Knowledge” was submission to God, just as Mary had done.
Twisted. Evil.
Can you hear the hissssssssssss?
Don Henley: I make my living off the Evening News
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry
Jude 1:9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Gidon Ariel (25 Dec 18): Kathryn, This Is The Day!
Shmuel-Simcha Treister: Sometimes divine wisdom is revealed only to very unique souls.
Revelation 2:9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
David Sterne: What made each sign more persuasive than the previous one? It seems that a staff turning into a snake and back – a feat beyond the laws of nature – was a greater sign than a hand turning sickly, which is within the realm of nature. Why should the Jews listen to the second sign if they didn’t need the first, miraculous sign? And for that matter, why not go straightaway to the sign of blood?
Breaking Israel News (24 Dec 18): Zechariah’s Prophecy: Trump, Cyrus, Blood Moons, and the Third Temple and Today’s Top Stories
Don Henley: We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry
Brat (in “Velvet Glove” 21 Dec 18): All of us suffer from the Fake News of the False Prophet!
Chabad.org (25 Dec 18): We need you now
Brat (in “Vanished” 19 Dec 18): Dear God, make this bullshit stop! These are Satan’s tricks. I MUST be able to do my assignment! And I need to be able to use the tools that You have given me to do it! Help me, dammit!
Wikipedia: The Parable of the Friend at Night (or of the Importunate Neighbour) is a parable of Jesus which appears in Luke 11:5-8. In it, a friend eventually agrees to help his neighbor due to his persistent demands rather than because they are friends, despite the late hour and the inconvenience of it.
Revelation 12:7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
James Goll: Seek for His presence. He is more than a special guest; He is our equipper. As we ask for Him, we must seek to be equipped by Him—continually—so that we can do the work of ministry. He is utterly generous with the gift of Himself, but He wants to be asked. Jesus put it this way:
Luke 11:7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’
Dean Mitchum: Ask for Double – Place a Demand on Your Mantle
Monk: Excuse me for the interruption…
Steve Shultz: Hey, here is a quick message from James Goll for this end-of-the-year GIVING TIME.
Luke 11:8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
Sophia Valentina Buller: You have always been there with me!!! Oh how wondering a love is this!!!
As night is dark, light is brighter!!!! Light casts out ALL darkness!!!
Brat: This kind of magic happens in Hollywood, not in my car. Not in my life! Stop it! In Jesus’ Name! Neither I nor Sophia tolerate this!
Sheri Rose Shepherd: Run To Him When Angry
Rick Joyner: The deep darkness that is now spreading over the people will only make the light appear that much brighter. Just as the greatest prophets arose during the greatest times of Israel’s apostasy, great champions are about to be released throughout the world preaching the good news of the coming kingdom. The result will be that the nations will come to the light (see Isaiah 60:1-5). Don’t ever forget that the light will ultimately win, the truth will ultimately prevail, and we too will prevail if we walk in His light and His truth.
Brat: Does anybody see what I mean about siphoning? It’s not like I can walk away. God sent me to the Pharisees.
Laurie Riggs (25 Dec 18): I SEE MANY COMING INTO GOD-ORDAINED POSITIONING IN THIS HOUR
Hebrews 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.
Rick Joyner: Keeping Him first in our devotion and affection—and seeking first His kingdom in every major decision—is the most important principle in how to build our lives on The Rock. Those who do this have nothing to fear from the times, but rather they will grow in the righteousness, peace, and joy that is the nature of the kingdom.
Brat: Tell this to the millions of refugees fleeing Venezuela! All they want is sanctuary! But instead they get a million percent inflation!
Sophia Valentina Buller: You ARE MY darling!!! Don’t forget your identity & NEVER FORGET your worth!!!
Brat (in “Law of the Desert” 25 Dec 18): If I may expound. It’s not my worth that I’m doubting. What does sanctuary have to do with my identity? The beast stole my birthright from the Church! I said to the Church, “I have a right to sanctuary!” That is a basic human right, whether or not any terrorist cell believes it. Pharaoh and the Harlot (Rev 17) certainly did not believe it. They had their needs met, so who could ask for anything more?
David Sterne: From Jacob we learn that the first avenue of defense is Torah study. Jacob, who studied G d’s laws for many years in the tents of Shem and Eber, taught us that G d’s ways are the ways of peace (shalom), and that when we learn Torah, all obstacles melt away by themselves.
Rick Joyner: 2018 was a remarkable and wonderful year—2019 will be even more so. Every year from now on will be more so, but key elements of a great spiritual critical mass will begin to come together in the coming year. This will begin a spiritual atomic-like explosion in 2020. What are the elements that are coming together for this to happen?
2 Peter 3:12 as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
David Sterne: But if, even then, the yetzer harah still persists, then we must follow the advice of Isaac – known as the man of judgment – by reminding ourselves that we are mortal and will die one day. However, there is a danger that in doing so, we might draw judgment into the world by thinking about our end, and that very judgment may be applicable to our life. Since, many of us might be found lacking under such circumstances; our end could come sooner than we thought. This is why, we should battle the yetzer harah by less stringent means and only use Isaac’s example when nothing else works.
Matthew Laney (25 Dec 18): Occasionally, I’m asked if I believe in reincarnation. I don’t get this question very often because reincarnation is typically viewed as a Hindu or New Age thing. More often, Christian ministers are asked if we work more than one day a week.
Rabbi YY Jacobson (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): [This is also the reason for Joseph mentioning, the second time around, the element of brotherhood. For Joseph was attempting not only to tell them who he was, but to share the reality of their kinship, the fact that he, like them, was deeply connected to his spiritual roots].
James Ford (25 Dec 18): A Zen Priest/UU Minister Goes to Midnight Mass
Brat: Oh, Patheos, a “Good” news outlet, I get it: YY, UU. Very funny.
David Sterne: But, if together these two signs didn’t dispel doubt from the hearts of the suffering Jews, so G d informed Moses that the third sign certainly would. Upon seeing the sign of blood, which corresponds to the judgment of Isaac (the color red is symbolic of gevura, or judgment), the Jews would certainly gain the faith they needed to go out of bondage.
Revelation 12:16 But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
Gidon Ariel (25 Dec 18): The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand. Psalm 37:23-24
James Goll: Give Him liberty. Once you have welcomed Him into your innermost being, let Him take charge of you. When you allow Him to have full control, you will find true freedom and liberty. You will discover that the Spirit enables you to control the deeds of your human nature:
David Sterne: The Midrash tells us that the three signs that G d gave Moses also corresponded to the three forefathers. Indeed, says the Shem miShmuel, the Jews could not have left Egypt but for the merit of the forefathers, and the three signs gave them the necessary faith to go out of bondage. These three signs follow the same order as the advice for dealing with the evil inclination.
Brat (in “Law of the Desert” 25 Dec 18): Who holds the beast accountable? Who preserves the story of the wilderness journey, so that our children and children’s children don’t have to repeat these Armageddon(s)?
Rick Joyner: Following The Lord in all that we do is no longer just an option. It will be increasingly costly to disregard the word of The Lord or His guidance in our life. This is because of His love for us, as was emphasized earlier in Hebrews 12. He must prepare His people for the time when not heeding His voice can be devastating or even fatal. So the discipline and consequences of this will increase in speed and degree. However, the fruit of obeying will likewise increase.
Brat (in “Law of the Desert” 25 Dec 18): Casting Crowns sings that they “don’t want to leave a legacy, only Jesus…” [https://youtu.be/MVU3wX7Sbog]
Hebrews 12:26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”
Brat: Music rises to heaven.
Jo sharing Vox Scholar: “May all that has been reduced to noise in you, become music again.”
Breaking Israel News (26 Dec 18): 2018: Top Natural Phenomena Heralding the Messiah and Today’s Top Stories
David Sterne: Shem miShmuel suggests, however, that we do have the power to withstand the yetzer hara thanks to the spiritual inheritance we received from our forefathers — Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is thanks to them that we know how to respond to an attack of the evil inclination.
Isaiah 51: 23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you,
‘Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
like a street to be walked on.”
Brat: This is also what Jesus’ twelve apostles went through.
Revelation 21:21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl [Jesus]. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
Rabbi YY Jacobson (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): That is why Joseph asked his brothers to come closer to him, so that they can behold from closer up his unique light and appreciate that this was a light that could only emerge from the depth of darkness, from the pit of Egyptian promiscuity.
James Goll: We can get to know Him, because He lives inside us. We can lean into him, walk with Him, live with Him, listen with Him. We can depend on Him to always lead us out of darkness and into the light.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: A boy asks his father to explain the differences between irritation, aggravation, and misery.
Brat: Can you tell I feel like I’m slogging through a muddy rice field?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “But Rebbe… Why?…”
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): Children are supposed to honor their parents. But I cannot honor or condone this barbarism and his provocation. Any more than I can honor the provocation of the kamikaze Funny Bunnies with their velvet paw on the spiritual pussy in the name of God to justify their own sport of spying on me to keep the collective conversation going at my expense. Theirs is a type of religious pornography and they are addicted to it. And I don’t know how to stop it; any more than I can stop Dad from his decimation of this Eden.
Molly Baskette: Honestly, Luke, this is humble-bragging at its worst, and it makes me bitter. Where does it leave our very human and flawed family, halfway through another wonky Christmas vacation that started so promisingly but is devolving into relentless sibling rivalry, spiking cabin fever, and boredom as a blood sport.
Pastor John Tolle: “I will cooperate with the gift of the Light.” It’s one thing to have the light of salvation and another to let Him be the Light of my life in areas where I haven’t yielded. Have you ever jumped to the wrong conclusions and been embarrassed and humbled from pride and arrogance when His word reveals things? I will cooperate with the Word.
Verse of the Day (26 Dec 18): Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.” ~ Luke 2:28-32 NIV
Brat: We are all dead to Christ without the ancient Court standing up to say, “THIS IS WRONG!!” AND stepping in to put a stop to it.
Pastor John Tolle (tongue in cheek): I’ll cooperate in a closet.
Rick Joyner: I was given a series of dreams at the end of 2018 in which I was shown that some lines have been crossed that will have significant consequences, especially for the United States. I will begin to share these at our upcoming New Year’s Vision Conference and in the Word for the Week next year. Some of these things may be shocking at first, but we must see them, be prepared for them, and understand that they are “inevitable, right, and will be successful.”
Brat: [Sigh…] So that means I still won’t get sanctuary until next year (or ever)?
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Rabbi Yitzchak said that when G d brings a final judgement down against a nation, He first judges the spiritual guardian of that nation in the higher worlds as it is written: “The Lord shall punish the spiritual army on high and then the kings of the earth upon the earth.” (Isaiah 24:21) And what is the judgement that this spiritual guardian undergoes in the spiritual world? They take him to that river Dinor that issues and flows from the sefira of malchut and immediately remove his kingdom from him. Then it is immediately announced that the kingdom of that particular Guardian has been removed from him.
Pastor John Tolle: So often we have impediments in letting our light shine. Don’t put it under a basket. Set it on a candlestick so that all in the house can see it.
Brat: Thank you Church of Ephesus! Only Jesus can offer you what you need.
Jesus: “…If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.”
Brat: Yo, Israel, since you are already operating in the Office of the Apostle, why not unify your voice as the ancient court did?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “In the king’s palace,” said the Baal Shem Tov, “there are many gates and doors leading to many halls and chambers. The palace-keepers have great rings holding many keys, each of which opens a different door. The meditations are keys, each unlocking another door in our souls, each accessing another chamber in the supernal worlds.
Jewish Press (27 Dec 18): It’s 9:00 PM. Do you know where your child is surfing? – (from JewishPress.com)
Brat: Malibu?
Breaking Israel News (26 Dec 18): What’s the Most Thoughtful Way to Give a Holiday Gift?
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Kabbalah explains how each person’s personal development is a kind of Exodus.
Rick Joyner: As this is taking place in the Spirit, the fracturing and divisions in the natural will also increase. The verse that I was given for this was Hebrews 12:25-29:
Hebrews 12:25 See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.
Elijah List (26 Dec 18): Get Heavenly Answers for Your Weary Heart
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “But there is one key that fits all the locks, a master key that opens all the doors, that opens up for us the innermost chambers of the Divine palace. That master key is a broken heart [8].”
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: This announcement pierces all the heavens until it reaches those who are ruling that nation. Then a voice goes out and is heard throughout the whole world, until the announcement is picked up by birds, and little children, and those mentally handicapped people who are [mistakenly] thought to not know anything.
Patheos (26 Dec 18): Free “The Saints We Love” coloring book for Adults
James Goll: As we know now, it happened on the day of Pentecost (see Acts 2). Immediately, the newly Spirit-baptized believers began to learn to identify the principles of how the Holy Spirit moves and acts. By paying attention, they could now move with Him anyplace in the world. To this day, those of us who follow Jesus can only do so because of His Holy Spirit with us.
Journal (22 Dec 18): I just know from all that is within me that Pastor John’s words were prophetic! Those were prophetic instructions [when he said, “Don’t move back.”]. I feel the warmth of God in those words, not manipulation. I can’t explain it, but someone will.
Nehemiah 1: 8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
Rick Joyner: The national, cultural, religious, and economic fault lines will all become increasingly unstable, and the tremors will grow throughout the world. Major shaking will break out where it was thought to be stable and secure. The right interpretation of the signs of the times is to disengage from those things that can be shaken and resolutely give ourselves to the kingdom that cannot be shaken. If we have built our lives on The Rock, no worldly storm can bring it down. Those who have built their lives on The Rock will begin to pull many from the shifting quicksand of this world.
Brat (5 Dec 18): Yesterday I had a vision where I was being blown by fierce gale-force winds. I grabbed hold of a tattered flag. It ripped some more. I was trying to hold on to God’s standard. I grabbed the bottom edge of the flag and crawled hand-over-hand up the finishing seam and pulled myself to the flag pole itself. When that started feeling a bit secure then the vision changed to my hold on a ship’s mast in a wind storm at sea. I looked up (as my head had been bowed down to brace against the wind) and Jesus was standing with me at the mast. His eyes were intense. They were calm, but also had that look of lion-fierceness they sometimes get. He wasn’t angry with me. He was … what’s the word? … resolute. Oddly, He did NOT speak to the storm. Neither did He command me to speak to the storm. We just stood there together with the wind tearing at our hair, clothes, eyes, and skin. I wasn’t afraid, because He was with me. I knew He’d direct my steps. With that assurance, I relaxed and was able to fall asleep.
Mark 12:4 Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.
Pastor John Tolle (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): Usually the talking head up front is expected to win people to Jesus, but we do, cuz they push back on me. I push back hard. But that’s the Bible.
Don Henley: Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
James Goll: He will change you—and you will like the results!
Mark 12:5 He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.
David Sterne: If we cannot concentrate on our studies, however, then, in order to purge the yetzer harah from our thoughts, we must follow the example of Abraham. His task it was to spread monotheism by proclaiming the name of the One G d. Thus we should recite the Shema, the biblical verse which proclaims the oneness of G d. When we’re unable to learn Torah with concentration, recalling the unity of the One Above should help to drive away distracting thoughts.
James Goll: Now the Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, seeing the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, as in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3:17-18).
Rick Joyner: The first will be a growing relationship and union with The Lord. Many have begun to experience the greatest times they have ever had in their relationship with The Lord. For those who seek Him, this will continually increase.
James Goll: “And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Molly Baskette: Prayer
God, thank you for the small-h holy family you’ve given me, just as we are, unedited, and as we are becoming. Amen.
God: Beauty surrounds you MY darling!!!
You ARE MY child & ALWAYS have been MINE!!!!
I chose you MY beautiful child!!! I chose you from the start!!!
James Goll: The Spirit reveals Jesus as a living reality, and brings us into a deeper relationship with Him in an ongoing way. Jesus introduces us to the Father, saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). Jesus reveals the Father. And the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus. It’s an interdependent cycle, and we are privileged to participate in it. The Holy Spirit reveals the unified counsel of the Father and the Son. He (the Spirit) doesn’t talk about Himself; He talks about God the Father and Jesus. He listens to their conversations and He speaks about what He hears, on their initiative, not independently.
Genesis 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I am reminded of my shortcomings.
Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;
God: As deep runs deep, MY love for you is deeper!!! I would do ANYTHING to keep you safe in MY arms!!!
Molly Baskette: Families are a puzzle. Finding the way we fit together takes time and patience, and sometimes eludes us all together. I don’t know if Luke was showing us a cleaned-up Holy Family, or if Jesus, Mary and Joseph were really like that, but honestly, how could they be? Maybe two verses is all that was left after the editors got to the script.
Moshe Yakov Wisnefsky: Analogously, these three stages exist in every individual’s personal spiritual development, particularly vis-a-vis one’s ability to elevate and refine materiality. In the early stages of our spiritual development, we need to subdue our inborn material orientation, preventing it from acting as an obstacle to our holier pursuits. As we mature, the divine consciousness generated by the Torah we study and the commandments we perform begins to permeate our materiality. We can begin to use materiality for holy purposes (for example, we can eat, sleep, earn a living, etc., with the intention to thereby have the means to study the Torah and perform the commandments). In this way, we fulfill the sages’ instruction (Avot 2:1) that “all your deeds should be done for the sake of heaven.” Finally, as we refine our materiality, our material experiences themselves are transformed into vehicles for experiencing divinity. In this way, we fulfill the verse, “Know Him in all your ways.” (Proverbs 3:6)
Rick Joyner: There will also be an increasing unity and cooperation between individuals, ministries, and movements. We are told in Proverbs that two are better than one, and a cord of three strands is not easily broken. Therefore, wherever two or three begin to unite in purpose, there will be a multiplication of power and fruitfulness. The demonstration of this will cause a cascading affect that will draw others into the great movements of the future. This will release more definition and focus to the body of Christ than it has had in generations. This is the beginning of what over the next decade will eclipse the experiences of the first-century church.
Hebrews 12:27 This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
David Sterne: When the final redemption comes, G d willing it will be by way of peace (b’derech shalom) in the merit of learning Torah, without need for signs, and yet “He will show us miracles.”
James Goll: Prayer of Expectation: In the great name of Jesus, we declare that we are receiving more of the precious Holy Spirit and we are committed to activating and releasing the gifts you give to us. We choose to create a culture of honor to the Word of God and to the messengers of God. We believe that what we sow, we will reap. So we stir ourselves up in the Holy Spirit, and we expect rivers of living water to flow out of us everywhere we go!
Brat: God, please, would somebody write me back?
Chabad.org: This one email touched our heart.
Brat: But it’s not personal.
Maayan Hoffman: ‘Prayer is all We Have:’ Brother of Wounded Soldier

Dangerous Knowledge 22 Dec 18

Working Dates: Saturday, December 22, 2018 to Sunday, December 23, 2018
[10 pages]
Tony Robinson (in “Kamikaze” 21 Dec 18): Who’s On First?
James Goll (20 Dec 18): You Can Move with the Holy Spirit!
Rick Joyner: We are told “The path of the righteous shines brighter and brighter until the full day” (see Proverbs 4:18). Therefore, your life should be one of increasing light and clarity if you remain on the right path. The goal of this course is to help you become firmly established on that path.
(Brat: Grrr…. More ‘Velvet Glove’… You know exactly what I’ve been talking about all these years and what I have been asking for: Sanctuary. To get out of this exile that the Church put me into in the first place by slapping an undeserved scarlet letter on me. I didn’t ask for this! And I shared the journey, just as God commanded of me to do. You were there.
Mary Luti: Say It Again
Pastor John Tolle (9 Dec 18): When the pupil is ready the teacher will come.
Donald J. Trump: Pending: Kathryn?
Isaiah 11:12 He will raise a banner for the nations
and gather the exiles of Israel;
he will assemble the scattered people of Judah
from the four quarters of the earth.
Donna Schaper (in “Velvet Glove” 21 Dec 18): Have you ever been on a suicide watch? Most people have—either in the short term, where you don’t dare let your friend alone, or in the longer term, where you watch a person slowly die and try to help helplessly. I often show up places as a pastor and say, “Do you mind if I stand around helplessly with you for a while?” I intend while there to speak of God’s forever kind of love, without necessarily using words.
Pastor John Tolle (9 Dec 18): When the teacher is ready the pupil will come.
Angie Stolba: “Allow Me to Do the Mending!”
Charisma: 7 Signs that God has Someone for You [FREE Download]
Brat: Can you hear the hisssss? Oh, it must be nothing…
Isaiah 11:2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD—
Mary Luti: Every Advent, the prophets remind us that God is disgusted by piety divorced from justice. But because we keep divorcing them, God has to sit down (because it’s going to take a lot of time and patience), fire up the furnace, and burn away our dross. And God has to scrub us with harsh soap until we carry out, without separation, right worship in church and right action in the world.
Spirit Fuel: A NEW BEGINNING! THE CLOCK IS TICKING!
Ryan LeStange (21 Dec 18): Do you have a prophetic call on your life?
Brat: I do, but first you ignored it and then you toyed with it. It’s a lot like masturbation. You keep yourself safe and hiding behind your flock and your e-courses to make more money to build your empires in the name of God while pimping the Holy Spirit.
Molly Baskette: Do we long for this touch? Are we curious about Him? Are we willing to accept Him, in all His need and glory, and make room?
Rick Joyner: Finding and fulfilling your purpose is the greatest adventure you can have in this life. Nothing is more exciting than the Christian life, and few things are more boring than mere religion. You are called to have life and to have it in abundance. The Final Quest course is designed to help equip you to know and fulfill your highest purpose in life.
Mary Luti: “For God is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; God will sit and refine them until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.” – Malachi 3:3-4
Luke 1:51 He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
Michael Chighel (in “Velvet Glove” 21 Dec 18): My prayer now is that our common Divine Father is taking you in His infinite paternal bosom, and that, from your heavenly perspective and station, you will move angelic forces to influence Jews contemplating cremation to think things through a notch more carefully. Intercede for us.
Revelation 1:13 and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
Pastor John Tolle: Angels are messengers. Gabriel was a messenger of the Lord. Angels are real. Some people are over-fascinated with them. They do not have the same privileges that you and I have. They don’t all have the relationship like you and I have. They have the capacity to rebel. They fell to earth.
Isaiah 11:5 Righteousness will be his belt
and faithfulness the sash around his waist.
Kris Vallotton: 4 Reasons Men REALLY Delay Marriage (And How To Step It Up Already…)
Molly Baskette: “I followed the hugs,” the massage therapist working on me said. “That’s how I got into this gig. I never got enough touch as a child. I was the sixth of nine children, and there was just never enough to go around. So I followed the hugs. I made my own world of touch.”
Elijah List (22 Dec 18): Jamie Rohrbaugh: 9 Prophetic Strategies for 2019
Brat: If I cared and wanted to stay on top of the enemy’s plans then I would look at their strategies. But God, You’re going to have to step in. If You care then You must do something. You had told me not to pray for them. (Jeremiah 7)
Andrew Towe (22 Dec 18): “Get Ready To Bounce Back”
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (16 Dec 18): The Short But Miraculous Life of Baby Amiad
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): I am sick. Lord, is this another “Good” Friday? A day of senseless butchering of beauty and grace because a man suffering in pain (which he cannot deal with and has rationalized his suffering to justify his own truth at the cost of relationship with his family) has taken it out on the very property God gave him to steward for God?
Charisma: The Unshakable Truth About the Holy Spirit
Mary Luti: So why does the church keep saying it year after year?
Kris Vallotton: Where did all the knights in shining armor go?
Charisma (21 Oct 18): The War is Over!
Brat: That’s bullshit.
Isaiah 11:3 and he will delight in the fear of the LORD.
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,
or decide by what he hears with his ears;
Brat (in “Who’s On First?” 20 Dec 18): The trackers already know. The vultures track, too. We must move forward.
James Goll: “You Can Move with the Holy Spirit!”
Brat: This is subtle and insidious. This is splitting hairs on the move. This is taking license to divert and deflect the holy and good and Truth away from doing the right thing.)
Charisma (22 Dec 18): Prophecy: ‘Holy Spirit Is Calling You Higher Into Prayer, Kingdom Authority’
Revelation 11: 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (17 Dec 18): Is the Pacific Ring of Fire Getting Ready for the End-of-Days?
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
From lightening and tempest;
from earthquake, fire, and flood;
from plague, pestilence, and famine,
Good Lord, deliver us
Brat: From an Institution that is so far removed from her own people that she is impotent, Good Lord, deliver us.
Mary Luti: Year after year, it’s the same message—if you’re indifferent to your neighbor, then you sing, sacrifice, and pray at your peril. We know that. We’ve heard it before. And we’re trying, Lord, we’re trying.
Micah 5:3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has brought forth; then the rest of his kindred shall return to the people of Israel.
Hebrews 10:9 then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
Rabbi YY Jacobson (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): “I Am Joseph”
Journal (16 Dec 18): Ephraim was jealous. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why. According to my Bible Study notes he was the second son of Joseph, but blessed as the firstborn by Jacob. He was the tribe of the numbered, was blessed, was allotted land, but he failed to fully possess it. And it is synonymous with the Northern Kingdom (Isa 7:17; Jdg 1:29).
Isaiah 11:13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and Judah’s enemies will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 8:44 pm Journal: I must stop working for now and eat dinner and go to bed. I had to go back into my draft of “Velvet Glove” and work from scratch. The weirdest thing happened! I had run off draft #4 at Kinko’s and sat in the park for several hours working on the revision. Then on the drive home, I braked and the draft slid off the front seat on to the floorboards. I watched it slide as I came to a stop at the stop sign. It wasn’t violent, it just slid. Then I looked down again and it had literally VANISHED! When I pulled into the driveway at home, I got out and took apart my mobile office in the front seat. It is seriously not there! And it didn’t slide under the seat. It’s as if I had never run off a hard copy and worked for several hours on it. It is completely gone! Poof! In the literal blink of an eye! This is maddening! So, even though I felt discouraged, I swallowed it and got on the computer again and tried to work the revisions from memory. I’ll have to go back to Kinko’s before going to meet Alice at 8:30 am and run off another copy.
Emily C. Heath: “Put on God’s armor so that you can make a stand against the tricks of the devil. We aren’t fighting against human enemies but against rulers, authorities, forces of cosmic darkness, and spiritual powers of evil in the heavens.” – Ephesians 6:11-13
Brat: Dear God, make this bullshit stop! These are Satan’s tricks. I MUST be able to do my assignment! And I need to be able to use the tools that You have given me to do it! Help me, dammit!
This kind of magic happens in Hollywood, not in my car. Not in my life! Stop it! In Jesus’ Name!
Phil Wickham: Children of God [https://youtu.be/eSzD0opaCwE]
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: It was this boy I prayed for; and Hashem has granted me what I asked of Him” ~ I Samuel 1:27 (The Israel Bible™)
Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 5:13 am Journal: Right after I got off the computer Alice texted and said she was cancelling our walk for this morning. Thank You, God. That’ll give me some grace time.
Daniel 7:24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings.
Jo: I am just DONE! SPENT!
Brat: When the oxygen mask drops from the airplane ceiling, the mother puts it on herself first and then takes care of her child. If she passes out, she cannot save either herself or her child.
Isaiah 7:15 He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,
Journal (16 Dec 18): OMG! After church Wendy Conaway came over to me and handed me a gift. It was a delightful small bottle of HONEY slipped into a little red Christmas stocking along with a peppermint candy cane. And I was just talking with Elizabeth and Roman on Friday night at the American Legion about eating cottage cheese. This is too weird!
Luke 1:40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.
Norton (21 Dec 18): Keeping you continuously protected – automatic renewal price enclosed for your Norton subscription
Brat: Protection from the Beast of the Earth? (Revelation 13) God? What are they doing? Where are You leading us?
Isaiah 7:16 for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: A mother’s most horrifying nightmare materialized last Sunday, December 9, when terrorists opened fire at a bus stop in Samaria, targeting a young woman 30 weeks pregnant. Tragically, the mother was badly wounded and the baby died four days after it was brought into the world via an emergency C-Section. But in his short time in the world, Amiad Yisrael galvanized all of Israel and may have even saved his mother’s life.
Molly Baskette: She told me all this as she cracked vertebrae, manipulated tight hip flexors, touched my inmost parts with purpose and tenderness, as a mother touches her child. And because I was curious, she told me more. I found out this lovely woman—capable, skilled, smart, and employed—had lived in her car for a whole year because of the housing crisis in our region. She’d park on a quiet side street, after everyone had gone to bed, and be on her way before anyone was up in the morning.
Brat: I’m now in my eleventh year. This is not a competition. I bless her gift. UCC, don’t use your flock as a human shield to cover up the truth that you knew my story and still fed around it like trail crumbs to the baited trap.
Revelation 11: 10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
Mary Luti: And because if the church doesn’t say it, fewer and fewer people will say it, until there’s only silence. Ask someone struggling for justice about the terror of that silence, the awful things that happen when no one utters a word.
Isaiah 11:7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Kris Vallotton: It seems that a feminized culture has, for the most part, erased chivalry under the guise of political correctness and in the name of gender equality.
Isaiah 11:8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
Bible Gateway (20 Dec 18): Read The Bible In Historical Order in 2019
(Brat: Geee…and I’m supposed to simply go along with the notion of coincidence, when I had just been journaling – privately! – that I was not aware of a scribe tracking the fulfillment of all the prophecies in the Bible. You used me to promote your own gig? Marketing vultures circling round and round… Who would ever believe a waif confronting a big giant like Bible Gateway?)
Mary Luti: For the same reason you tell family stories over and over—so that you’ll memorize what matters most, so that you’ll remember who you are, so that your children will know who they are.
Pastor Michael Hines, ICEJ US Outreach Director (22 Dec 18): God leaves nothing to chance
Brat: Years ago Pastor John Tolle had said that God is circumcising our hearts.
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
From all blindness of heart;
from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy;
from envy, hatred, and malice;
and from all uncharitableness,
Good Lord, deliver us
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: On Wednesday night, Shira’s firstborn was laid to rest on the Mount of Olives, the burial site reserved for the holiest of Jews. Shortly before the burial, the baby underwent a symbolic circumcision to enter him into the covenant of Israel and received his Jewish name: Amiad Yisrael. Amiad means ‘my nation is eternal’. Due to their serious medical condition, the young parents were unable to attend the funeral.
Molly Baskette: Prayer
God, thank you for the roof over my head. Now make room in my heart for Jesus to move in, wherever and however I may encounter him, so that I don’t miss Christmas.
From the Foursquare circus (in “Kamikaze” 21 Dec 18): Merry Christmas from your Foursquare executive team
Fr Dwight Longenecker: The Bethlehem Shepherds Were Not Just Country Bumpkins
Brat: O really? I’m not seeing anything different here. I’m still being used as sport for your games, O Rudolf with your nose so bright. And this conversation is proof.
Revelation 11: 8 Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): Children are supposed to honor their parents. But I cannot honor or condone this barbarism and his provocation. Any more than I can honor the provocation of the kamikaze Funny Bunnies with their velvet paw on the spiritual pussy in the name of God to justify their own sport of spying on me to keep the collective conversation going at my expense. Theirs is a type of religious pornography and they are addicted to it. And I don’t know how to stop it; any more than I can stop Dad from his decimation of this Eden.
Isaiah 7:17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.”
Brat: Who in our collective story is “Ephraim”? The Church identifies with Judah, but has behaved like Babylon in Syria.
Isaiah 7:18 In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
Brat: Lord? Hello? Lord!! You’ve already sent for the flies and even over here we have the killer bees. AND we are already known as the spiritual “Babylon.”
Isaiah 7:19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.
Isaiah 11:16 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people
that is left from Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: Rabbi Tuly Weisz, director of Israel365, visited the family in the hospital on Sunday and met with Shira’s father Chaim Silverstein, director of Keep Jerusalem United.
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): We are all dead to Christ without the ancient Court standing up to say, “THIS IS WRONG!!” AND stepping in to put a stop to it.
Revelation 11: 9 For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: Rabbi Tuly Weisz meets with the father of wounded Shira Ish Ran (video). Israel365 reaches out in order to help a young woman whose unborn baby died three days after she was targeted in a terror attack.
Breaking Israel News (16 Dec 18): Rabbi: Autistic Children Say Messiah is Here, Prepare for Final War
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
Gidon Ariel (19 Dec 18): Unite the 70 Nations Around the Messiah – Here’s How
Luke 1:54 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,
Verse of the Day (19 Dec 18): And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven ~ Luke 1:76-78 NIV
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to forgive our enemies,
persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Revelation 16:12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.
Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will dry up
the gulf of the Egyptian sea;
with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand
over the Euphrates River.
He will break it up into seven streams
so that anyone can cross over in sandals.
Matthew 3:11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Journal (16 Dec 18): I have nothing to gain by sharing what Isaiah 11 means to me and how it’s played itself out in my life. I have no sanctuary, no protection from sharing this. I offer it from a heart of worship on the Altar of Praise for You to redeem, Lord! Use it to bring in Your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Revelation 1:11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
Breaking Israel News (17 Dec 18): In The Days of the Messiah, the Story of Jacob and Esau Will Be Complete and Today’s Top Stories
Emily C. Heath: The good news of Advent is that help is coming. God is daring to break into our world once again, and to stand with us. It doesn’t matter how well-armed the world may be, the peace of Christ will always prevail in the end.
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): I’m a little calmer now with distance and time. Blood? My heart went to the cross. I looked up at Jesus and was appalled at His blood loss. He bore our guilt and shame upon Himself. I wasn’t minimizing my own blood. Sure, it was just a pin prick. What did I have to complain about? Was this just a hormonal moment? Still, my heart was gushing and pounding in my chest as if it wanted to escape from its cage. I knew enough to know that the sacred is in the ordinary. Dangerous knowledge. I wondered what God was doing. Blood is part of the incarnation experience. Is that because the male species is obsessed with The Kill so God gave us what man wanted? The Church teaches we are covered by the Blood of Jesus. In this state I’m in it feels like it could be a Stephen King “Carrie” moment. A blood bath. I know that’s not what God meant. Was God trying to show me that He was redeeming the times (and half a time)?
Mary Luti: And because there’s knowing, and then there’s knowing. One kind fills your head with interesting ideas. The other penetrates, aims for your fault lines, and leaves you so shattered you require divine rearrangement.
Hebrews 10:6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Revelation 11: 7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: “Chaim explained to me that the baby may have saved his mother’s life,” Rabbi Weisz told Breaking Israel News. “The doctors believe that since Shira was pregnant, her body produced extra blood. This may have saved her life since she lost so much blood in the attack.”
Kris Vallotton: And yet, a whole generation of ladies has been left to wait and wait for years and even decades for their Kingdom prince to come along and pursue them for marriage!
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: Weisz related a deeply touching experience. When the young couple was reunited for the first time after the attack, the family began to sing the comforting words of Jeremiah 33:
“Od yishama b’harei yehuda” (“The voice of bride and groom will yet be heard in the cities of Judea”), a Hebrew song that is traditionally sung at Jewish weddings.
Donné Clement Petruska (17 Dec 18): The Sacred Filling Of The Soul
Mary Luti: You could hope for nothing more than to find yourself in shards like that; for Scripture also says that God will not pass by a broken heart.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: “We felt that Shira and Amichai were reborn, God had reunited them and given them a new lease on life and that we were witnessing a second wedding,” Silverstein said. “They have gone through so much, the worst experience a mother and father can have. They are still in so much physical and emotional pain and have a long road to recovery ahead. Yet they are facing it with so much love and joy; love for each other, love of life, and love of Israel.”
Mary Luti: Prayer
Say them over and over to me, wonderful words of life. Let this be the year they break my heart. Amen.
Luke 1:45 “And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.”
Brat: Holy Spirit, comfort this cherished family and all of Israel. And please remember me when You come into Your kingdom.
Kris Vallotton: Why can’t guys rise to the occasion and fight for their bride? I propose that fatherlessness has emasculated many modern men! They often lack confidence in their ability to lead and provide for a family because it’s never been modeled for them. Therefore they delay or completely reject marriage relationships!
Brat (in “Velvet Glove” 21 Dec 18) …Is there no one who can put in a good word for me with the Anglicans?
Pastor John Tolle (16 Dec 18): Unless you’re a hermit and wear a sign that says, “Do not disturb.”
Brat: Oh, God, make it so! You were supposed to pass me along to the bishop. Is there no one who can put in a good word for me with the Anglicans?
Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Israel 365 (22 Dec 18): To Be Holy ✡ “You Shall Be Holy, For I Am Holy”
Brat (in “Memorial to the Fallen” 21 Dec 18): I wondered and held all these things in my heart.
Hebrews 10:10 And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Velvet Glove 21 Dec 18

Working Dates: Monday, December 17, 2018 to Friday, December 21, 2018
[20 pages]
Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
Me to Lana Vawser (16 Dec 18): Holy God, with deep reverence, I bow my head and ask You to restore to us all a PLACE to pray. You said to go into our closet to pray. (Mt 6:6) The Pharisees had a closet to go to, where You did not. You had to go and find deserted places to pray and then pray all night. Then You did Your ministry all day. No wonder You were tired and sleeping in the boat during storms! You were probably exhausted in Your contented relationship with the Father. Your homies were a piece of work, just like we are today. I lay on the Altar of Praise my gratitude that You instructed us in ways beyond what You, Yourself, had. Your compassion was so deep that You could lead us from the place of purity rather than from the place that Your own eyes saw. Jesus, I thank God the Father for the gift of You. No one else compares!
Pastor John Tolle: You are a normal person to be in the place where you’re at. God can use you where you’re at.
Brat: (Grrrrr… Velvet glove.)
John-Paul & Annie Deddens (17 Dec 18): Let’s pray that they may receive the love and support that St. Joseph provided Mary despite there being no room at the inn.
Hebrews 10:7 Then I said, ‘See, God, I have come to do your will, O God’ (in the scroll of the book it is written of me).”
Pastor John Tolle (16 Dec 18): Unless you’re a hermit and wear a sign that says, “Do not disturb.”
Brat: Oh, God, make it so! You were supposed to pass me along to the bishop. Is there no one who can put in a good word for me with the Anglicans?
Sophia Valentina Buller: A lot of us have been hearing trumpets lately. Have you?
Revelation 1:10 On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
David Wilkerson (1985): “Set the Trumpet To Thy Mouth”
Sophia Valentina Buller: I am just burning angry! Satan is spreading lies! The Bible does NOT say that the lion will lay down with the lamb. It’s all there in Isaiah 11!
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
From all false doctrine, heresy, and schism;
from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and commandment,
Good Lord, deliver us
Journal (16 Dec 18): I have nothing to gain by sharing what Isaiah 11 means to me and how it’s played itself out in my life. I have no sanctuary, no protection from sharing this. I offer it from a heart of worship on the Altar of Praise for You to redeem, Lord! Use it to bring in Your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Revelation 1:11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
Hebrews 10:8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law)
Emily C. Heath: I do, however, like the idea of standing up to “rulers, authorities, forces of cosmic darkness, and spiritual powers of evil.” We live in a world where too much power is given to those who should not have it. Walter Wink called these “powers and principalities” and talked about how our true allegiance must never be to them, but to Christ.
Michael Chighel: And so I am compelled to seek some relief from the burn in the composition of a letter to you aimed across the great divide between the World of Mendacity in which I am still residing and the World of Truth in which you are now a blessed new citizen.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth
all such as have erred, and are deceived,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Revelation 12:15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to preserve, and provide for,
all women in childbirth, all infirm persons, and young children;
and all who are bereft of spouse or parent,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Pastor John Tolle (16 Dec 18): I talked to A LOT of people this week.
Brat: Yes, you did in our collective conversation this week, too.
Michael Chighel: I hope I always honored you properly in life. And I hope this open letter does you honor. Let no one imagine for a moment that you meant anything less to me than the earthly manifestation of divine love.
Sophia Valentina Buller (19 Dec 18): I feel joy with this song and I feel like someone in your life needs this encouragement
Casting Crowns: Even When You’re Running [https://youtu.be/Qw51aaGS-cE]
Lubavitcher Rebbe: In the Era of the Redemption, after the Resurrection of the Dead, the prophecy “And I will cause the spirit of impurity to depart from the land” will be fulfilled. Then there will be no more death, and the body will live forever.
Sophia Valentina Buller (16 Dec 18): I remember a dream I had in either 2014 or 2015 maybe almost 2016 where I saw Jesus and He told me to tell His people He’s coming soon. I really that means something and no I’m not going to guess any date, this is just a theory that maybe it has something to do with the date of His return. This thought just came to me that if it is then we’ve been in the tribulation and we are near the end. Obviously it is just a theory. If it’s true then it would make sense why places like Oak Park that were once safe are no longer as they used to be and why everything is magnified. This is only speculation…2019-2023 and if the time really is that short we need to preach the gospel with EVERYTHING we have left!!!
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
In all time of our tribulation;
in all time of our prosperity;
in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment,
Good Lord, deliver us
Pastor John Tolle (18 Nov 18): My desire is to use this story [from 2 Chronicles 20] to superimpose it upon us. We brag that we are the safest city. We have better community make-up. But the human heart is corrupt.
Numbers 24: 15 Then he spoke his message:
“The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,
the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,
Pastor John Tolle: Evil happens when good men do nothing.
Brat (in “Fall of the City of Knowledge” 22 Nov 18): Since the City of David’s Zion is the city of Light, and Balaam boasted that he knows, then God has fulfilled His word in the opposite city from Jerusalem in Southern California, in the city of Thousand Oaks.
Psalm 2:1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
Brat: God save us!
Breaking Israel News (19 Dec 18): A Biblical Diet for the Nations and Today’s Top Stories
Kaji Douša: In the English choral tradition, the movable, the metaphorical Jerusalem of peace carries a promise beyond what the real city has ever known. The actual Jerusalem is fraught with some of the greatest and most intractable tensions in our world today.
The Book of Common Prayer: From all inordinate and sinful affections;
and from all the deceits of the world,
the flesh, and the devil,
Good Lord, deliver us
Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles.”
Michael Chighel: Shiva is the final hammer blow that snaps shut the iron link in the chain of a family history.
Angie Stolba: The Hammer of the Lord
Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.
Lubavitcher Rebbe: This is also the reason why the bodies of the righteous will return to dust an hour before the Resurrection of the Dead. (Shabbat 152b; see also Zohar, Vol.II, p.108b) Before this time, no worm will have had dominion over them, and their bodies will remain intact for hundreds and even thousands of years. Nevertheless, before the Resurrection of the Dead, even the righteous will return to dust. (See the Midrash Tehillim to Psalms 119:9)
Brat: Every Ash Wednesday the priest blesses us and anoints us with ashes on our foreheads saying, “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Revelation 20:3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
Rick Joyner: So we do not lose our confidence when we walk by faith, but we redirect it to the One who is infinitely more trustworthy. When we put our confidence in any natural identity we are obviously still carnal and living far below what we are called to live in. For this reason, even though the Apostle Paul had such a remarkable Jewish lineage, he considered that “rubbish” compared to knowing Christ. So will everyone who has truly grasped who He is and who we are called to be in the new creation. Those who have their hope fixed on the old Jerusalem cannot have seen the New Jerusalem.
Hebrews 10:5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me
Sophia Valentina Buller (16 Dec 18): I had dreams prior to in late 2012 and I added the wrong date
Dutch Sheets: Thankfully, another great awakening has begun in America. And I have great hope that the coming season of revival will produce far different results. There are a growing number of Christians who believe the Church is Christ’s Kingdom government (Ekklesia) on Earth and, as such, has both the assignment AND ability to disciple nations according to His commission in Matthew’s Gospel.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee
to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Come and see. If Israel would only amass good deeds before G d, no people in the world would ever come against them. For it is the Jewish People who cause the nations to raise their head [in arrogance], for had the Jewish People not sinned before G d, the other nations would have been humbled before them.
Sophia Valentina Buller (16 Dec 18): The BRANCH, Isaiah 11:1 – Pastor Chuck Smith

it would match this………..
Jesus Christ IS LORD over ALL and NOTHING the devil does can change that!
Fr Dwight Longenecker: The Power of Podcasting
Brat: (Grrrrr… Velvet glove. You touch my friend and you touch me.)
The Book of Common Prayer: Remember not, Lord Christ, our offenses, nor the offenses
of our forefathers; neither take Thou vengeance of our sins.
Spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast
redeemed with thy most precious blood
And be not angry with us forever.
Spare us, good Lord
Psalm 80:2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir up your might, and come to save us!
Kaji Douša: “As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore. Peace be on Israel.” – Psalm 125:2,5b
Mary Pezzulo (17 Dec 18): He Will Baptize With Fire
Michael Chighel: You never liked phonies and poseurs. I don’t doubt that, now, seeing me as you do from the World of Truth, the artificial nature of this letter is entirely obvious. My complex motives, noble and ignoble, are transparent to you, more so than they are to me. Let’s be honest about at least one motive. I have an agenda. Since your passing, I have corresponded with three fellow Jews asking me for advice. Their parents have informed them of their plans to have their bodies cremated upon death. I advised them to share their anxieties with their parents before it’s too late. My hope is that this letter, an artifice to ease my double grief over your death and cremation, will reach other Jews in the same plight, children and parents.
Rick Joyner: This does not mean that we should not know the prophecies, purpose, and destiny of the old Jerusalem, which are important for accomplishing our purpose in this age. Even so, to put our hope in the old is to miss our own ultimate purpose. It is the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from God that was the city that the patriarchs saw and placed their hope in, as it for every true sojourner since.
Pastor John Tolle: Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. They broke the bond of relationship. That disobedient act broke their relationship with God. No one taught them, but they hid themselves.
Brat: Are you feeling warm?
Rick Joyner: So we have been cast into an impossible situation so that we will come to know and trust The One for which nothing is impossible. The fall of man came because our first parents wanted to be in control, having the same knowledge as God, and being able to trust themselves. We have recovered from the fall when our whole desire again becomes knowing God and obeying Him, and putting no confidence in our own wisdom or strength.
Michael Chighel: And that’s just it. The old and venerable Jewish tradition of a public comforting of mourners, the tradition of sitting shiva, is what gives legitimacy to public mourning. For a Jew, any other way of mourning publically must indeed be a farce. A shiva house alone, for a Jew, constitutes an authentic way to mourn in company, authentic because so very old, so utterly unoriginal.
Revelation 2:7 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
Lubavitcher Rebbe: The reason for this is that the sin of the Tree of Knowledge brought about a blending of evil with every element of worldly existence. Therefore, even the bodies of the righteous will require refinement.
Eliyahu Touger: [This refinement can, however, be brought about by complete self-nullification, as reflected in the prayer (Berachot 17a; included in the daily liturgy): “Let my soul be as dust to all.” When this divine service is completed, there is no need for the tzadik’s body to actually return to dust.]
Rick Joyner: The walk of faith is not meant to be easy. In fact, it is meant to be impossible. We cannot do it in our own strength or wisdom. The faith walk will have us continually living outside of our comfort zone and our control. The old nature, which demands to be in control, will rebel and fight this. Even so, as the Apostle Paul put it, “to be at home with The Lord is to be absent from the body” (see II Corinthians 5:6).
The Book of Common Prayer: Spare us, good Lord
From all evil and mischief; from sin;
from the crafts and assaults of the devil; from thy wrath;
and from everlasting damnation,
Good Lord, deliver us
Dutch Sheets: On the other hand, when Matthew’s Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) is accomplished, discipling nations according to the teachings of Christ—this is reformation which saves, transforms and restores regions and nations.
Lubavitcher Rebbe: All this will actually take place in a revealed matter within the context of our material world, with the coming of the true and ultimate Redemption, led by Mashiach; may this take place in the near future.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee
to send forth laborers into thy harvest
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Eliyahu Touger: The Rebbe Maharash explained this phenomenon of death, i.e., the descent that will take place with regard to the gentiles: as the sparks of holiness contained within them will be refined, they will ascend and the evil within them [the material body which can be termed evil when compared to the sparks of holiness which they contain] will descend. [This is their “death”.]
Israel 365 (13 Dec 18): Spreading God’s Great Name ✡ “She Spoke To Him Of All That She Had On Her Mind”
Vince Amlin (14 Dec 18): Advent is our certification course as Master Gardeners. It teaches us to heed the signs of the Spirit’s presence, the spots where God is oh-so-close. To know when to water, when to prune, and when the moment is right to pluck the fruit and offer it to a neighbor who has never tasted such sweetness.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to give and preserve
to our use the kindly fruits of the earth,
so that in due time we may enjoy them,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Daniel 4: 14 He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
“‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth.
Friday, December 14, 2018 at 7:07 am Journal (in “Settle Again”): I just went into the kitchen. It is now light enough for me to see outside. DAD CUT DOWN THE AVOCADO TREE OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had specifically expressed to him never to do that; to leave that tree alone. It is now completely cut down. My lifeline to life in this house is dead. Our house is Syria. A wasteland. Dead. No life. Dad’s beast kills life and beauty, just as Bob’s beast has no empathy.
Luke 3:9 Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Jo: What does he do with it?
Brat: He uses it as firewood.
Isaiah 7:20 In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard also.
Brat: Eeewww! God! Do You have to be so graphic? I “get” the Nazarite reference, but still, allow me some post-Victorian Age modesty!
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: When the children lead good Jewish lives, full of mitzvah observance and Torah study, this is even more meritorious for the soul of the parents than saying Kaddish. In fact, the earliest extant records of Kaddish seem to indicate that Orphan’s Kaddish was expected to be said by pre-bar mitzvah boys. From adult offspring, more is to be expected. It is even more beneficial, both for the souls above and those still alive in this world, when as a result of the death, offspring, other family members and all those close to the deceased examine their deeds and resolve to improve accordingly. As it is written, “the living should place it upon their hearts.”
Brat: Years ago Pastor John Tolle had said that God is circumcising our hearts.
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
From all blindness of heart;
from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy;
from envy, hatred, and malice;
and from all uncharitableness,
Good Lord, deliver us
Dutch Sheets: The importance of this understanding cannot be exaggerated. It will fully restore America’s purpose and destiny, not only as an international voice of the Gospel (Mark’s commission), but also as a discipling light to the nations (Matthew’s commission).
Quinn G. Caldwell: It’s a good time of year for stargazing, assuming you’re in the northern hemisphere (if you’re in the southern hemisphere: Hi! We love you from up here!).
Lana Vawser: “Miracles and Divine Alignments in Bodies as We Magnify the Lord!”
Joe Joe Dawson: You may be experiencing a season right now that looks like other seasons you’ve walked through before, but you need to expect a different outcome. Expect things to turn out differently than they did before! Expect the outcome to be in your favor because God is turning things around for you. Many times people will start moving forward with what God has promised them and called them to do and then they will encounter a similar situation or circumstance that they’ve been through in the past and they’ll stop and quit! Don’t let a similar situation or circumstance keep you from moving forward. Do not quit, because I’m telling you my friends, this season may be similar but the outcome will be different!
Dad (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): No, the tree roots were NOT getting into the house. The tree outlived its usefulness.
Brat: You’ve cut down almost every single tree on our property since Mom died ten years ago. So this means that I get cut down when I’m not useful?
Dad: [Roll of the eyes for the drama queen.]
Brat: [Anguished soul HOWL!]
Jo: IT’S USEFULNESS??? Oh, honey, my heart cries with yours. There’s no way to understand this.
Brat: “It’s why we Stoics and Romans leave deformed babies in the desert,” she reported to the unicorn.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (18 Dec 18): My 4-Year Career Reporting on Messiah and Why I Know It’s Happening and Today’s Top Stories
Jo: God, be with Kathryn’s heart and soothe her grief.
Brat: [Anguished soul HOWL!]
Rick Joyner: We know from the sure testimony of Scripture that those who endure to the end do win. Not only is the battle going to be over, the reward for those who fought the good fight is beyond our present comprehension. For now our goal is not just to fight to win, but we win by just fighting if we do not stop. The Lord can end this battle and win any time that He chooses. He allows the fight to go on for our sake. His ultimate victory is not just dispatching the enemy, which He could do at any time by just the flick of His little finger. His ultimate purpose and victory for this entire age of human struggle against evil is what it makes these frail human beings into. So it is not just what we do that is important, but what we become.
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
By thine Agony and Bloody Sweat;
by thy Cross and Passion;
by thy precious Death and Burial;
by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension;
and by the Coming of thy Holy Ghost,
Good Lord, deliver us
David Slavin: Now we must know that the Land itself is inherently holy, having been apportioned by G d as special, as opposed to the rest of earth. Being thus, how is possible for the kelipot to enter this G dly portion of land? Therefore the answer to this question is that in truth the kelipot have absolutely no portion in the Land. The best way to understand the phenomena is by parable: A landowner has a servant who has fled his master’s servitude. Instead, he works for another man. One day the original master walks in, finds his servant, and takes him back to where he belongs. So too, the Jewish people have acquired for themselves a master through their transgressions. This “master” is the kelipot, and daily they sacrifice and serve their master. Yet they live in a land not belonging to their “master”; the kelipot have the right to enter the Land of Israel and take what is “rightfully” theirs, forcibly removing them [their “servants”] to their lands. Yet immediately after that, the gate is reopened. One may ask if the holiness returned to its original place, then how could the Land remain in a state of destruction? The answer is, that the Shechina ascended to its heavenly abode, while the Jews were exiled from their land to the land of the gentiles, leaving the land desolate without her children or husband. Therefore it wasn’t significantly re-inhabited until that time when G d gazed down from the heavens. The holiness left in order not to dwell amongst the impurity, for that is its custom, as is known from the secret of tumat met [in Hebrew, impurity from the dead].2 That being the situation, G d has placed a curtain of holiness in that opening in that firmament above the Land of Israel, thus creating a partition between the impurity and the holiness. The Land is likened to an aguna 3 who can not marry another.
Kaji Douša: Blake’s poem celebrates the city of Jerusalem as a metaphor for heaven on earth. A metaphorical Jerusalem could come home to England. And at a time when home felt so hellish, heaven come to English earth inspired much-needed hope.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (18 Dec 18): Indeed, my God does nothing Without having revealed His purpose To His servants the Neviim.” Amos 3:7 (The Israel Bible™)
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation;
by thy holy Nativity and circumcision;
by thy Baptism, Fasting, and Temptation,
Good Lord, deliver us
Israel 365 (19 Dec 18): Serving God ✡ “The Land That You Gave Our Fathers”
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: The distance can be bridged only in one way: by every Jew joining together, hand in hand until this Jewish chain reaches all the way to the Throne of Glory. Then G d surely will not be able to ignore our entreaties.
Psalm 24:8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle.
David Slavin: The intention of this curtain [according to Rav Chaim Vital’s transmission of the Arizal’s teachings] is: It is known that at the time the malchut clothes itself with gevura and din [judgment]. At that time the din functions through the external-most garment, which is the hue of techelet4 which completes [from the root of the word “chole”, which means to finish] everything. Thus at that point even the chitzonim [external forces] fear the malchut, as the wrath of the King. Therefore when the external forces see the malchut thus clothed, they flee from there. That is the essence of the “light covering” as is mentioned in the holy Zohar (part two page 141) which is the secret of the outermost garments, which in the end are the innermost garments; they are also called the ‘holy curtain’ relative to the internal garments. Therefore the external forces can’t enter there. So too, the blessing and bounty are prevented from entering due to the might of the din that is incorporated in that veil. That din prevents the descent of the blessings which is all a result of the lack of merits and abundance of inequities amongst the Jews. That is why the land of Israel remains desolate: not because of the impurity, rather from a lack of fulfilling positive mitzvot.
Psalm 2:4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
The Book of Common Prayer: All holy Patriarchs and Prophets;
Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors and Virgins;
and the blessed Company of Heaven,
Pray for us.
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: We need to learn from the twelve sons of Jacob to consolidate our ears together until they become one enormous ear.
Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”
Brat (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): So, no more bougainvillea, because it destroys the chain-link fence. No more trees for the Beautiful Land. So now we get a full view of our neighbor’s rusty shed? Is Dad “saying” through his actions that he feels useless since Mom died?
Jo: Oh, baby, I don’t know. You would think he would hang on to everything alive. It’s so strange.
Brat: So strange…
The Book of Common Prayer: Good Lord, deliver us
From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion;
from violence, battle, and murder;
and from dying suddenly and unprepared,
Good Lord, deliver us
Psalm 24:10 Who is he, this King of glory?
The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.
Rabbi David Sterne (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): Shem miShmuel explains that by looking at something, we form a bond with it. However, this only takes place when the object we are looking at is capable of bonding, or receiving the higher energy. Otherwise, what happens is disaster. When Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai emerged from a cave after twelve years of hiding from the Romans, he turned everything he looked at “into a pile of bones.” This occurred because his spiritual energy was too high for the mundane world around him. Whenever the receiving object is not on a high enough level, it cannot survive the piercing gaze of the tzadik.
Revelation 1:14 The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.
Quinn G. Caldwell: Prayer
Reveal yourself to me in the stars, O God. Write your purposes across the sky. Let me see you shining there, and make me wise enough to know what to do when I see you.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to illumine
all Bishops, Priests, and Deacons,
with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word;
and that both by their preaching and living,
they may set it forth, and show it accordingly,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Angie Stolba: Lord, I thank you that where the enemy has tried to shout, “Access denied,” You are declaring that You have given us access! I thank you that there has been a significant shift in the spirit, and that Your Zoe breath of life is now blowing over the dry bones. I prophesy life, renewal, and abundance over Your people today. Even now, they are arising from the ashes, going forth with renewed strength. Thank you for refreshing those with weary hearts. We call forth things that are not as though they were; we speak life, hope, and strength today. I prophesy abundance, favor, and tangible expressions of Your love over Your people! In the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: The forces of evil are empowered by the divine abundance that should rightfully come to Israel but is displaced by their misdeeds. If not for our transgressions, all the other nations would be subservient to her.
Rick Joyner: Paul was a Roman citizen and this gave him great advantages in the natural. He used this at times to get out of trouble, which was not wrong. Similarly, it is not wrong for us to use the benefits of our national citizenship or other associations as long as we do not allow our hope or trust in them to eclipse our trust in The Lord and our citizenship in His “holy nation.”
Pastor John Tolle (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): He’s coming to us prisoners. The prisoner has to consent and we have no record.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners
and captives, all who are in want,
and all who are desolate and oppressed,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Kaji Douša: As we watch and wait for a new heaven and a new earth, we yearn for this moveable peace. But watching and waiting are not enough.
Pastor John Tolle (18 Nov 18): King Jehoshaphat was caught off guard.
Numbers 24: 18 Edom will be conquered;
Seir, his enemy, will be conquered,
but Israel will grow strong.
Revelation 17:12 “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast.
Kris Vallotton (15 Dec 18): 7 signs a poverty mindset still has a hold on you…
Brat: (Hmmm…Toxic word. Lord, heal the breach!)
Dana Jarvis: Breaking The Poverty Mindset!
Rick Joyner: Few walk the true walk of faith because it is so hard. It requires us to see what others cannot see, and as it was said of Moses, trust the One we see that others cannot see. Ultimately, it will require what the Apostle Paul grasped so that he did not put any confidence in the flesh, or outward things, but only in The Lord. That is what it means to mature into the new creation we are called to be—we lose all of our confidence in the old creation because we see that it is but a shadow of the real, the spiritual.
Kaji Douša: It is not hard to see why it became an instant hit. The piece is imbued with a sense of majesty, power, and joy that a nation in mourning sorely needed. A year later, crusading British troops would enter the actual Jerusalem after defeating the Ottomans.
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Rabbi Yehuda opened his discourse with the verse: “Please don’t hold our previous iniquities in mind against us; let Your tender mercy come quickly to meet us for we have been greatly impoverished.” (Psalms 79:8)
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God;
and that it may please thee to rule and govern
Thy holy Church Universal in the right way,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: What was the nature of this gathering? Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz, a student as well as a colleague of the Baal Shem Tov, suggested that this gathering can be explained by the Talmudic expression: “Make your ears like a funnel. Strain your ears to hear/listen well to what is being said.” (Tractate Chullin 89a)
Psalm 80:3 Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved.
Pastor John Tolle: The word “Angel” means messenger. I am an angel of the Lord. I am a messenger.
Charisma (16 Dec 18): Do You Want to See in the Spirit?
Rabbi Tuly Weisz (16 Dec 18): Kathryn, Israel is under attack – please help
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: He explained in the name of his friend and fellow student of the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka, that sometimes there is a limit to what can be accomplished by an individual Jew – even through prayer. A Jew’s transgressions simply make it impossible for him to bridge the distance between himself and the Creator. What can be done?
Michael Chighel: I suppose this letter is my ersatz shiva. May it be the catalyst of real shivas that will otherwise have been unrealized.
Charisma (16 Dec 18): An Invitation to the Unseen Realm
Revelation 1:16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
Rick Joyner: Again, it is important to see God’s purposes in Israel and in the earthly Jerusalem, but not when we allow them to eclipse our identity in Christ and the New Jerusalem. When we see The Lord, it is hard to be impressed with any human, regardless of their position. When we have seen where He sits and the majesty He has, it is hard to be impressed with any human palace. Even so, we give honor to whom honor is due. We must continue to take our human citizenship and responsibilities seriously even though they may be very boring compared to our King and His kingdom. However, we can be sure that those who are overly captivated with the natural have not yet seen the heavenly.
Pastor John Tolle: God is not interested in being a lone ranger. God wants us. He’s the Trinity. God doesn’t consider aloneness to be the primary thing. He didn’t stay in the Trio. He instructed, so that we could enjoy community with Him.
The Book of Common Prayer: O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, one God,
Have mercy upon us.
Psalm 80:5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
Rick Joyner: We must be born again by The Spirit to see the kingdom, but unfortunately not many who have been born again actually see it. We can and we must walk in the reality that we are called to, which is to be messengers proclaiming the coming kingdom, not a past one. We must do this from our position of being seated with our King in the heavenly places, the only place of clear vision into both realms.
Yosef Ben-Shlomo HaKohein: Mr. Wiesenthal continued: “I was so angry with this Jew — how could he take a holy siddur and use it to take a person’s last piece of bread away? So I am not going to pray, if this is how Jews behave, if this is what they do with something that is supposed to be a prayer book.”
Kaji Douša: If we want the peace of Jerusalem (and peace for Jerusalem), we have to see ourselves as active agents in God’s story. Peace begins with us. We watch, then, for the opportunities God presents us every day to build peace, starting at home.
Michael Chighel: Yes, that’s just it. Public mourning all too easily becomes a spectacle, a maudlin charade. We who still reside in the World of Mendacity will sometimes take advantage of any occasion to get a little more attention, narcissistically, even a funeral or a memorial service. And yet, at the same time, we are social creatures, who naturally take comfort in the presence of family, friends and community.
Brat (in “Settle Again” 11 Dec 18): Oh, silly me, I’m just a girl. “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids”. I pray I’ve learned something after all these years with the Funny Bunnies.
Yosef Ben-Shlomo HaKohein: As Wiesenthal turned to walk away, Rabbi Silver tapped him on the shoulder and gently said in Yiddish, “Oy na’ar, na’ar (silly boy). Why do you look at the Jew who rented out his siddur to take away people’s last meals? Why do you look at that bad Jew? Why don’t you look at the dozens of Jews who gave up their last piece of bread in order to be able to use a siddur? That’s faith. That’s the true power of the siddur.”
Rabbi Silver then embraced him.
“When he said that,” said Wiesenthal, “I walked together with him to pray.”
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: And Jacob called to his children and said to them, “Gather together and I will reveal to you what will be your lot in the end of days.” So they gathered together and they listened to their father Israel. (Gen. 49:1-2)
Michael Chighel: As you know, dear Tata, I cry when I am alone. I weep like a boy. (You remember the sound?) I think about you. I look through old photos of you. I even talk to you. And I weep. I mourn. Nothing can take away my private mourning. But it is just that—private. Why should I want to mourn publicly as well? Is private mourning not enough? Indeed, isn’t private mourning more genuine than public mourning?
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: Come and see. Because of the great love that the Holy One Blessed be He has for Israel, no other Heavenly Court judges them other than He Himself. When He looks into their actions to judge them, He is filled with tender mercy, because He is like a father who has mercy on his children.
Micah 5:2 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
Emily C. Heath: To be God’s Advent people, to refuse to be won over by the violence of powers and principalities, is more devastating to the established order than any war we could wage. To choose instead to walk the path to Bethlehem, and to welcome Christ’s light into the world once again, is to strike a true death blow against the false powers of the world.
Psalm 80:6 You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves.
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: This is the meaning of “Make your ears like a funnel…”: Jews need to learn from the Tribes, the sons of Jacob who gathered together to hear their revered father’s final words, to consolidate their ears together until they become one enormous ear. Such an ear is surely capable of hearing everything.
Psalm 24:9 Lift up your heads, you gates;
lift them up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: The Talmud and Zohar agree that responding, “Amen. May His great Name be blessed forever and ever,” with vigor can nullify an adverse decree of seventy or even one hundred years.” Because of this, nearly everyone calls out this response with extra intensity. Remember, it must also be said with total concentration for a decree to be annulled.
Psalm 80:7 Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.
Lubavitcher Rebbe: In the Era of the Redemption, after the Resurrection of the Dead, the prophecy “And I will cause the spirit of impurity to depart from the land” will be fulfilled. Then there will be no more death, and the body will live forever.
Kaji Douša: Prayer
O Come, Prince of Peace. May your people be protected by the strength of mountains. May your cities be holy. May peace inhabit the cities. And may we bring your peace. Now and forever.
Dutch Sheets: This current emphasis by Holy Spirit on influencing the 7 mountains of society (Family, Religion, Arts and Entertainment, Government, Business, Education and Media) is an example. This teaching, first taught in the 70s by Bill Bright of Campus Crusade For Christ and Loren Cunningham of Youth With A Mission, did not gain any real momentum at the time. Believers simply did not have the faith or frankly, the theology necessary to embrace such a radical concept. Thankfully, this has changed and many now embrace the teaching.
Emily C. Heath: I don’t like the image of militarized Christians much, and I never want to encourage the idea of Crusades-like armies.
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: This is referred to in the verse: “As a father has mercy on his children, so the Lord has mercy on those who fear Him.” (Psalms 103:13) When He finds that they have acted sinfully, He passes over those misdeeds, one after the other until they are all passed before Him. Now when they have all passed before Him, there are no more sins to review, and as a result the harmful forces of the “Other Side” have no source from which to harm Israel.
Journal (16 Dec 18): What if this journey of the remnant that we are in is NOT “Replacement Theology” or “Replacement, Replacement Theology” as Rick Joyner talks about. Is all this not a view that claims that Christians are usurping the Jewish birthright, and which Rick Joyner has been vocal against? What if each faction has been behaving like, and putting on, the mantle of the various biblical characters, so that God can use His people to draw us ALL together? After all, the Jews have the blueprints.
Psalm 80:4 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
Helen Calder: “Angels Are Waiting at Your Wall”
Rabbi YY Jacobson (20 Dec 18): Does Judaism Believe in the Wall? The Grand Debate Between Judah and Joseph
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein: Are You an Advocate?
Brat: I DID write on Lana Vawser’s Facebook “wall,” nu?
Helen Utegaard: Dutch Sheets Sharing Prophetic Word by Lana Vawser (10/11/2018) – The Roar of the Lion of Judah [https://youtu.be/PnN05TyDacY]
Brat: What could possibly cause Ephraim’s jealousy to vanish and Judah to lose her hostility?
Isaiah 11:13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
and Judah’s enemies will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.
Daniel 7:24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings.
Emily C. Heath: The only trouble for us is that until that happens, we have to survive, not just physically, but spiritually. And this is where the armor of God makes sense. This is not the armor that one puts on in order to go into battle. This is the armor that keeps us safe while we keep doing the everyday work of following Christ. We walk through the work clothed in truth, justice, faith, and peace. We shrug off every arrow that comes our way. We choose a different path.
David Slavin: In the destruction of the first Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the exile started with the portion of land under control of the ten tribes, gradually working its way to the kingdom of Judah and finally to the place of Zion, the temple, which is the center of the world.
Israel 365 (17 Dec 18): A City Rebuilt ✡ “Let Us Rebuild The Wall Of Yerushalayim”
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: And when we do, that helps to “bring forth his redemption and hasten the coming of Mashiach.” Amen!
Revelation 1:12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands,
Eliyahu Touger: Moreover, even the death which this opinion maintains will occur with regard to non-Jews does not mean actual death, but rather falling [from one’s spiritual level], as our Rabbis say “A person who falls from his rung is called ‘dead’.” (See Zohar, Vol. III, p. 135b.)
Pastor John Tolle: In the Book of Revelation there are two chapters (2 and 3) that address the angels of the Seven Churches. To the angel of the Church of…
He’s basically saying, “To the lead leader/ messenger/ to the one charged with oversight …”
Eliyahu Touger: This does not apply with regard to the Jewish people. Their bodies will ascend and derive sustenance from holiness as their souls do. Indeed, in that era, the body will be on a higher rung than the soul, as alluded to in the mystical interpretation of the verse “the female will encompass the male”. (Jeremiah 31:21) [The “female” refers to the body which in the present era is a recipient from the soul. In the Era of the Redemption, this will change, and the body will become a source of positive influence.]
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: However, if Israel’s sins are brought to His attention again, then those sins that were at first passed over are reviewed again. This is why we pray that G d not “hold our previous iniquities in mind against us.”
Rabbi Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz: Since the Talmud says, “All Jews bear ultimate responsibility one for the other” (Shavuot 39a); in this way nothing will be missed, no nuance neglected. The lessons needed to be learned will be grasped, and we will always be able to help each other go on a positive path of serving G d.
Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, you gates;
be lifted up, you ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
The Book of Common Prayer: Saint Mary, Mother of God our Lord Jesus Christ,
Pray for us.
Pope Francis: “In a broken world, to communicate with mercy means to help create closeness between the children of God.”
Kaji Douša: For the Peace of Jerusalem
Michael Chighel: My prayer now is that our common Divine Father is taking you in His infinite paternal bosom, and that, from your heavenly perspective and station, you will move angelic forces to influence Jews contemplating cremation to think things through a notch more carefully. Intercede for us.
Revelation 1:13 and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
Pastor John Tolle: Angels are messengers. Gabriel was a messenger of the Lord. Angels are real. Some people are over-fascinated with them. They do not have the same privileges that you and I have. They don’t all have the relationship like you and I have. They have the capacity to rebel. They fell to earth.
Revelation 2:5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand;
and to comfort and help the weak-hearted;
and to raise up those who fall;
and finally to beat down Satan under our feet,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Charisma (17 Dec 18): Be Conscious of God’s Presence Today
Rick Joyner: We see in Scripture that Satan and his hordes have been cast down to the earth. Not only do we fight our own old nature, but we are also in a constant battle against all of the evil forces in the universe! When the angelic majesties look down at us feeble human beings in this mighty and even impossible struggle—and see us yet fighting on, being thankful to The Lord, and constantly praising Him and seeking to obey Him—they marvel and consider that those who overcome all of this are certainly worthy to be their judges.
Simcha-Shmuel Treister: We pray that “Your tender mercies come quickly” because Israel would not be able to withstand the negative forces against them if this were not the case. This is because there are many possessing harsh judgements against Israel and many accusers on high waiting to ambush her spiritually. If G d didn’t precede them to awaken mercy on behalf of Israel by removing their sins, they would not be able to exist in the physical world. This is the reason we plead “Come quickly to meet us with Your tender mercy because we have been greatly impoverished” – impoverished of good deeds and mitzvot.
The Book of Common Prayer: All holy Angels and Archangels,
and all holy Orders of blessed Spirits,
Pray for us.
Abbot Damien and the monks of Valyermo: Let us make room for Jesus
and for one another,
for all who share our human condition,
celebrating together that wondrous birth,
that Incarnate Divine Love,
which has sanctified every human birth
and made sacred every human life.
Ryan LeStrange (17 Dec 18): My Monday Word for You…Teach Me How To Love!
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to give us a heart
to love and fear thee,
and diligently to live after thy commandments,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Shmuel-Simcha Treister: As Rabbi Elazar said, the Shechina does not dwell on a place of sadness, as it is written [concerning the prophet Elisha when he was angry and saddened by the behavior of Yehoram King of Israel] “Now bring me a [musical] player. And it came to pass, when the player played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him”. (Kings II 3:15). Why is the word “play” repeated three times? It is in order to awaken the spirit that is the completion of all and is a complete spirit [Ruach].
Charisma (18 Dec 18): What music are you listening to?
Revelation 12: 14 The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to give us true repentance;
to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances;
and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit
to amend our lives according to thy Holy Word,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Brat: As true as these words are, they will not restore the abomination of desolation caused by my Dad in his grief. My ears hear your song. My eyes must still confront the daily pain and sorrow of seeing the stump of the old avocado tree outside the kitchen window, the evidence of Dad’s unspoken rage of his inner beast. He had said that the tree had lost its usefulness, but it was still producing fruit and dropping avocados, even after Dad had butchered it with aggressive pruning and had hacked off limbs. Even then, the faithful tree still loved us and kept bearing fruit year after year. There is no rationale for Dad’s behavior. Nothing can justify this, any more than the refugees can justify their flight to get away from their respective despots all over the world. We orphans can say that we are looking for the Land of Opportunity, home of the free and land of the brave, but when the despot cannot see because of his own suffering, then the Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The despot cannot see Beauty because that requires empathy, and he is cut off from that. Voila! He who exiles is, himself, in exile. And the rest of us suffer in the waters of his suffering.
Monk: But God…!
Revelation 1:15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
Brat: All of us suffer from the Fake News of the False Prophet!
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee so to rule the hearts of thy servants,
Donald Trump, the President of the United States,
and all others in authority,
that they may above all things seek thy honor and glory,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Kaji Douša: In the din and danger of the First World War, Sir Hubert Parry was charged with writing a new song. England needed a hymn that would inspire a beleaguered generation. Set to an 1804 poem by William Blake, “And did those feet in ancient time,” the piece would come to be known as “Jerusalem.”
Michael Chighel: Let me begin by sympathizing, as best I can, with your decision.
The Book of Common Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to give to all people
increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word,
and to receive it with pure affection,
and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit,
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord

Settle Again 11 Dec 18

Working Dates: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 to Saturday, December 15, 2018
[23 pages]
Brat to Jo (10 Dec 18): Jo, yesterday you sent me the email “Settle.” Now the vultures sent me this “settled.”
From Spirit Fuel: Taran Schilg: Content but not Settled
Doug Addison (11 Dec 18): God spoke to me that many people are using a “club of love” (meaning they use love wrongly as a weapon). This happens when people are being firm with others while not compromising their own beliefs. Though this is often out of good intentions, many people might not realize that wounding others is not love at all.
Revelation 2: 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father.
Vicki Kemper: “If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?” – Acts 11:17
Pastor John Tolle: Pray for an economy of words.
Re: Content but not Settled
Vicki Kemper: But why miss today’s dose of life abundant?
Jo Matlosz: So what are your thoughts about this? I see someone promoting their product. Building their brand so to speak. Weird huh such close concept….
Me to Jo (10 Dec 18): Honestly, I felt tagged and violated. I felt like the vultures had entered our intimate zone. It was spirit fuel for them. I realize I do have a wounded heart, but that doesn’t mean I have a critical spirit, as they are wont to correct. This seemingly random event felt staged. Jo, as you say, “The beams crossed.”
Jo to me: Yes I think they did.
Vicki Kemper: How often, when standing at the crossroads of hope and fear, have you let your cold feet keep to the safest path? How many times have you gotten the signals crossed, thinking God’s life-changing word was for someone else? How many possibilities have you rejected, thinking this is all there is?
[Brat: Continuing on in my prayer and quiet time…
Dana Jarvis: Hear Us Father And Break Through!
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (12 Dec 18): Standing for Israel
Brat: I have been!
Rabbi David Sterne: When Jacob learned that his son Joseph was still alive, he wished to see him personally, because by doing so he could impart his own wisdom and G dly connection to Joseph. Then, Joseph would be able to carry on in the tradition he had begun to receive when his life was tragically detailed by his sale into slavery. That is why it was so important to Jacob to see his son before he passed away.
Pastor John Tolle (6 Dec 18): I “mine” to reach people with the kingdom of God.
Tony Robinson: There’s a way in which naked and vulnerable can be very good.
Brat (09 Dec 18): God’s #Me Too
Zechariah Goldman: Honoring Parents
Rabbi YY Jacobson: When Joseph cried out “I am Joseph,” says the Midrash, “his face became ablaze like a fiery furnace.” The burning flame concealed for thirty-nine years within the coal, emerged in its full dazzling splendor. For the first time in their entire lives, Joseph’s brothers saw the raw and naked Joseph; they came in contact with the greatest holiness in the world emerging from the face of an Egyptian vizier…
Brat (09 Dec 18): Pastor John Tolle had mentioned this post (see below) in his sermon this morning, so I looked it up to verify that it was true.
Dr Eric Sprankle: “The virgin birth story is about an all-knowing, all powerful deity impregnating a human teen. There is no definition of consent that would include the scenario. Happy Holidays”
Brat: Who speaks up for Him? We do!
This is my anchored rebuttal to this post from Dr Eric Sprankle:
The angel Gabriel (sent by this all-knowing and all-powerful Deity) told Mary she was highly favored — twice. (Luke 1:28, 30)
The angel Gabriel told Mary she would be overshadowed by the Holy Spirit. (Luke 1:35) Gabriel even backed up that news by telling her that her relative, Elizabeth who was unable to conceive, was also pregnant. (Luke 1:36)
Mary DID give her consent! Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her. (Luke 1:38)
Pastor John Tolle: I don’t hear ANY Christian people talking, “WAIT A MINUTE! SHE DID GIVE HER CONSENT!”
Daniel 4: 16 Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times pass by for him.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Heifer Reminder
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: What can you and I learn from this?
Pastor John Tolle (9 Dec 18): When we are believers in Christ, we understand that we are in hostile territory. Let’s be gracious, loving, and insightful and say that the statement is erroneous.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: This dual identity that characterized Joseph’s life played itself out in a most powerful way, when his master’s wife attempted to seduce him into intimate relations. On the outside, she thought, it would not be very difficult to entice a young abandoned slave into sacrificing his moral integrity for the sake of attention, romance and fun. But, when push came to shove, when Joseph was presented with the test of tests, he displayed heroic courage as he resisted and fled her home. As a result of that act, he ended up in prison for 12 years.
Jerame & Miranda Nelson (10 Dec 18): “Taking Your Place in the Kingdom”
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Just as the brothers, many of us, too, live our lives thinking “If only…” If only my circumstances would have been different; if only I was born into a different type of family; if only I would have a better personality… The eternal lesson of Joseph is that the individual journey of your life, in all of its ups and downs, is what will ultimately allow you to discover your unique place in this world as a servant of G-d.
Brat: I praise God that that post came up! This is blatant proof of the beast portraying God as the abuser. We now have fulfillment of God’s word!
Revelation 13: 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
Thank You, God, for Your faithfulness!
Luke 1: 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
Steve Shultz: “Crazy – My Stumblings PROVE God’s Intimate Control of YOUR LIFE!”
Rick Joyner: If we were born into The Lord by such a shallow message, and have existed in a shallow Christian culture, we might want to ask the question Nicodemus did of The Lord when discussing the proposition of being born again: “Can a man enter again into his mother’s womb?” or “Can we be born again, again?” The answer is “yes.” To be convicted again of our sin, or of our shallow devotion and obedience to The Lord, can bring about a repentance and an even more radical transformation to our lives than when we made the previous superficial commitment.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Going out into the “field” means leaving the environment of Torah and Judaism into Esau’s realm, becoming susceptible to spiritual death. The leaders must fortify those venturing out into the “field” with spiritual food (knowledge of the Torah) and proper clothing (observance of the commandments) to protect them from the spiritual dangers awaiting them there.
Daniel 4: 15 But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field.
Linda Klingel: As Christians, and especially as leaders, know that the enemy will target your heart, for out of it flow all the issues of life. That is why Scripture tells us to guard it, keep it, watch over it. We must lead from a place of love and wholeness, otherwise we do more damage than good.
Luke 1:52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly
Linda Klingel: Listen, our feelings are not to lead us but they are to locate us. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak. Find some time to get quiet before the Lord. Get in tune with Him and with yourself. What’s going on inside of you. What are you feeling? What are the words that have been coming out of your mouth? Ask the Lord to reveal if there is anyone you need to forgive. Ask Him is there’s anything inside of you that needs to be repented of, renounced, and released to Him.
Ryan LeStrange (10 Dec 18): My Monday Word for You…You don’t have to be stripped!
Brat: Like being spiritually gang raped? Nadia Murad knows about that. For years she’s been asking the UN leaders and heads of state to intervene to stop ISIS, who slaughtered her village while she witnessed it, and then they took her to be their sex slave along with the other women and children who escaped the massacre. The UN knew and did nothing. This is no different than the Church. She knew and did nothing.
David Suissa (12 Dec 18): A Shameful Jewish Silence at the U.N.
Luke 3:8 Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The longest unbroken narrative in the entire Torah is from Genesis 37 to 50, and there can be no doubt that its hero is Joseph. The story begins and ends with him. We see him as a child, orphaned by his mother and beloved by his father; as an adolescent dreamer, resented by his brothers; as a slave, then a prisoner, in Egypt; then as the second most powerful figure in the greatest empire of the ancient world. At every stage, the narrative revolves around him and his impact on others. He dominates the last third of the book Genesis, casting his shadow on everybody else. Throughout the entire Bible, there is nobody we come to know as intimately as Joseph. The Torah seems to be infatuated with Joseph and his journeys and struggles more than with any other figure, perhaps even more than with the two pillars of the Jewish faith, Abraham and Moses. What is the mystique behind Joseph? Who is Joseph?
Lovesick Scribe: This is a sobering passage to me because I believe that the bride of Christ is content in slumbering while maintaining some evidence of life. It is not enough to have powerful gatherings amongst ourselves while the world does not recognize His Presence when we are physically present before them. As we read Song of Solomon 5, we find that the bride decides to get out of the bed of slumber and to answer the door only to find the bridegroom gone. She then goes looking for him and is beaten and bruised by the watchmen in the city. Following this, the bride proclaims, “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.” (Song of Solomon 5:8)
Israel 365 (12 Dec 18): God’s Message ✡ “I Have A Message For You From Hashem”
Zephaniah 3:14 Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!
John-Paul & Annie Deddens (10 Dec 18): What is God telling me? and What am I going to do about it?
Tony Robinson: Prayer
Come holy thief. Steal from us our easy judgments and our false certainties. Leave us shaken and wanting … wanting You.
Charisma (10 Dec 18): What did Jesus ever do for the Jews?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: There were two beggars sitting side by side on a street in Mexico City. One was dressed like a Christian with a cross in front of him; the other one was a Chassidic Jew with a black coat and a long beard. Many people walked by, looked at both beggars, and then put money into the hat of the one sitting behind the cross. After hours of this pattern, a priest approached the Jewish Chassidic beggar and said: “Don’t you understand? This is a Catholic country. People aren’t going to give you money if you sit there like a real Jew, especially when you’re sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite.”
Israel 365 (10 Dec 18): Now Through Dec. 25: Do you want to receive DAILY DEALS on Judaica?
From Jo to me (11 Dec 18): Not to mention it is shamelessly commercial.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The Chassidic beggar listened to the priest and, turning to the other beggar dressed as a Christian, said: “Moshe… look who’s trying to teach us marketing.”
Chantell Cooley (11 Dec 18): “The Marketplace Anointing Will Take Hold in 2019”
Brat: Oh, silly me, I’m just a girl. “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids”. I pray I’ve learned something after all these years with the Funny Bunnies.
Rick Joyner: Could this be because of the shallow way that people are born again? A study was done decades ago about the way a person was born possibly having a major impact on the trajectory of their life. When the birth procedure “drug them and tug them” was devised (drugging the mother and tugging the baby out so that there was little pain for the mother), the generation subjected to that birth procedure became the drug pursuing generation of the 1960s and 1970s. It was all about doing what made you feel good and avoiding pain.
Micah 5:3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has brought forth; then the rest of his kindred shall return to the people of Israel.
Perets Auerbach: “The problem with the world of Tohu is that it has a few screws loose — its lights are not connected to its vessels.”
Pastor John Tolle: I really don’t care.
Rabbi Yosef-Yeshaya Braun: Our emotional state should always be in sync with the particular prayer that we are reciting.
Pastor John Tolle: He doesn’t do it without your invitation.
Lovesick Scribe (11 Dec 18): Every time God speaks to us, He is extending an invitation to know Him even more and to worship Him in Spirit and truth. That call requires of us more than we want to pay many times. But it is a call to awaken and to not lose that lovesickness for Him. There are people all around us on a daily basis who are spiritually dead yet have a physical pulse and a spiritually arrhythmic heartbeat. It is a beat not in sync with the heart of the Father. What good is it when our heartbeat resonates more with the world than with God’s heartbeat?
Rabbi Avraham Brandwein: When Joseph said to them, “And the one is not there,” he implied, ‘I am unable to reveal and emanate to you, as long as you are not united, and within you there is no unity.
Chantell Cooley: “New strategies will be released for those in marketplace ministry, giving them insight into how to minister effectively and expose the works of the enemy in these environments.”
Charisma (10 Dec 18): Free Download In The House of the Lord
Rabbi Yosef-Yeshaya Braun: Jewish Law Required Meditations for Daily Prayer
Zephaniah 3:16 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands grow weak.
American Friends of Magen David Adom (10 Dec 18): TERROR ATTACK IN ISRAEL LAST NIGHT
Pastor John Tolle: The world is not a hospitable place.
Linda Klingel: A CRITICAL SPIRIT REVEALS A WOUNDED HEART
Rabbi David Sterne (11 Dec 18): From Father to Son
Hebrews 6: 4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Rabbi David Sterne: On the other hand, there are times when a gaze from Above is beneficial. When the Torah uses the word hashkifa mi’maon kodshecha (“Gaze from Your holy place Above”), Rashi explains that such a holy gaze is generally negative for the physical world, which can’t tolerate such holiness. However, when used in the context of a poor person, whose heart is broken, the word has positive connotations. Because the poor are broken-hearted and ego-less, the gaze of G d or of the tzadik upon them has no detrimental effects, and uplifts and elevates the object.
Eliana Rudee: Little did Flores know the extent to which this moment was personally historic.
John-Paul & Annie Deddens: Saint Joseph was an incredible disciple when it came to this, because every time God asked him to do something, he did something about it. Not only did he do something about it, but first he heard, he listened, he paid attention, he received, and then he actually did something about it.
Rabbi David Sterne: The Kabbalists tell us that vision is an “outgoing” activity. It is not “incoming” light rays that enable us to see, but some form of spiritual energy emitted by the eyes that actualized our vision. The Chassidic masters further comment that by looking, we actually influence the object we see.
Rick Joyner: If we are truly disciples of The King of kings, then our life will be dominated above all things by a devotion to learn of Him, to do His will, to become like Him, and to do the works that He did.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: So it is with each of us. When it comes to doing any aspect of Torah study or mitzvah observance, one should not let the world interfere. Do not let the world dictate how you are going to fulfil your Divine commandments. Muster all your resources and do it in the best way you can.
Eliana Rudee: “In the presence of the rabbinic court, Flores was asked several questions about his family and it was determined that he was a Jew,” said Berkowitz. “This came as a surprise to Flores who was unaware that his family connection conferred upon him Jewish status.”
Zephaniah 3:19 I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
Tony Robinson (9 Dec 18): The Thief of the Lord
Doug Addison: Because we have been through such difficult times and there has been calamity all over the earth, the justice system of God is now activated. The Lord said, “Many people have been through great calamity, but now it’s time for Me to bring the blessings that I promised.”
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Joseph’s life embodies the entire drama and paradox of human existence. Joseph on the outside was not the Joseph on the inside; his outer behavior never did justice to his authentic inner grace. Already as a young teen, his brothers could not appreciate the depth and nobility of his character. The Midrash [3] understands The Torah’s description of Joseph at the age of seventeen as a “young boy” to indicate that he devoted much time to fixing his hair, grooming his eyes, and walking at the edge of his legs. Joseph appeared to most people around him as spoiled and pompous.
Dana Jarvis: Standing On The Edge Of Your Promise!
Spirit Fuel: THE GREATEST STEP YOU EVER TOOK!
Charisma (7 Dec 18): Step Up Your Spiritual Game
Sophia Valentina Buller (11 Dec 18): Promotion that NO man can steal. The old is washed away. Behold a new thing I AM doing! What was lost is already being restored! Fear has ZERO place! Unbelievers will get their share. People that have used MY name in vain will be learning to FEAR ME because the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. I AM taking back what was stolen and making it right! Your future and hope is HERE and NOTHING will take it from you! Calamities will befall the wicked. Some will repent, others will persecute BUT those who persecute will find themselves in their own traps for I AM not okay with wickedness and I AM MAKING THINGS RESTORED! My children ARE MINE and I burn for them. The wicked have been wicked long enough!
Rick Joyner: Were the Christians of the first century so radically different from Christians today because they were so radically changed when they were “born again,” having been called to a radical commitment? This radical commitment was demonstrated in the lives of the apostles who preached to them—lives that had been so cast into total dependence on The Holy Spirit that they spiritually begat others who walked in such total obedience. As The Lord established in the beginning, each would reproduce “after their own kind.”
Brat: Sophia and I ARE working together!
Pastor John Tolle (echo): Pray for an economy of words.
Eliana Rudee: Immediately following the ambassador’s address, Breaking Israel News reporter Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz witnessed one of the rabbis from the Sanhedrin approach Flores, congratulating him on his “very powerful” address and asking him about his connection with the Jewish people. Flores responded, “Yes, the Guatemalan people have a very deep connection with the Jewish people.”
Lovesick Scribe: I understand that this is a small passage in the Word, but it speaks volumes. Intimacy with Christ is vital, but it is insufficient without action. Intimacy with Christ will cause problems with the world when we decide to come out the chambers of slumber. I see so many in the church who defend themselves and attack others instead of pursuing Him. Saints, we are not fully awake. We have believed that because our mind, will and emotions are awake that alone is sufficient while being spiritually asleep. Are we willing to soil our feet and put on our garments without hesitation at His call? Are we willing to awaken and pursue Him while suffering at the hands of those not in pursuit of Him? When we are fully awake, we pursue Him no matter the cost. We tell others of our lovesickness for Him, regardless of what may come at the hands of man or the schemes of the devil. We want others to know Him like we know Him.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Then, when Joseph rose to become the vizier of Egypt, he donned the persona of a charismatic statesman, a handsome, charming and powerful young leader, a skilled diplomat and a savvy politician with great ambition. It was not easy to realize that beneath these qualities lay a soul on fire with moral passion, a kindred spirit for whom the monotheistic legacy of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob remained the epicenter of his life; a heart overwhelmed with love toward G-d.
Rick Joyner (11 Dec 18): There has been nothing as revolutionary in history as the Gospel. True Christianity is profoundly different than any other religion or philosophy on earth, and it produces a culture that is different than any other. This is why Christians in the early church stood out so dramatically. Today, it is hard to distinguish a Christian from anyone else in the culture, even in basic behavior and character issues. Something very significant has been lost.
Pastor John Tolle: Usually the talking head up front is expected to win people to Jesus, but we do, cuz they push back on me. I push back hard. But that’s the Bible.
Vicki Kemper: When called to love someone different or expand your understanding of God, have you, like the apostle Peter, said, “Absolutely not! That’s against my religion!”?
Rick Joyner: Why did The Lord send Peter to the Jews and Paul to the Gentiles? Doesn’t it seem that He got this mixed up? Having been a disciple of the great teacher Gamaliel, Paul would have been much more respected and better received by the Jews than Peter, a simple fisherman. On the other hand, Peter would have been much more acceptable to the Gentiles than Paul, a “Pharisee of Pharisees” as the Gentiles despised the Pharisees. Why would The Lord send each of them to those to whom they would be naturally offensive? Perhaps it was because it would be impossible for either to fulfill their purpose without The Holy Spirit.
Linda Klingel: Criticism is often evidence that bitterness has become rooted in the heart. When we have been wounded, hurt, offended… and do not quickly and intentionally release forgiveness toward the offender, we can quickly progress from hurt and anger to resentment and bitterness, and even to hatred… and oftentimes without consciously being aware of what is happening inside of us.
Doug Addison: Don’t Use Love as a Club
Rabbi YY Jacobson: When Joseph declared, “I am Joseph,” says the Zohar [6] , the brothers observed the divine light radiating from his countenance; they witnessed the majestic glow emanating from his heart. Joseph’s words “I am Joseph” were not merely a revelation of who he was, but also of what he was. For the first time in their lives, Joseph allowed his brothers to see what he really was. “I am Joseph!” must also be understood in the sense of “Look at me, and you will discover who Joseph is.”
Doug Addison: The Lord is calling us to love people unconditionally without accepting their beliefs or lifestyles. It is time to lay down our differences and judgments against people we don’t agree with. We need to put on love and humility. This is why John said: “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:8 NIV).
Eliana Rudee: Upon the discovery and to mark the occasion, reported Berkowitz, “the rabbis assisted Flores in donning tefillin (phylacteries) a mitzvah (Torah commandment) of the highest order,” also noting that “non-Jews can perform almost all of the Torah commandments, however, donning tefillin is one of the very few that they are forbidden from performing, so it was a clear sign that the Sanhedrin had entirely accepted his status as a Jew.”
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The Shelah emphasizes that during Chanukah, each Jew gains an infusion of extra power for prayer. This is connected to one of the connotations of the word “Chanukah”: “chinuch” or “dedication”, referring to the rededication of the Temple after it was taken over and made impure by the Greeks. The daily sacrificial offerings were reestablished on Chanukah. Now, after the destruction of the Temple, our daily prayers are in place of these sacrifices. Therefore, during Chanukah and the days following we have a special connection to prayer.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “His brothers were so horrified that they could not respond,” relates the Torah. What perturbed the brothers was not so much a sense of fear or personal guilt. What horrified them more than anything else was the sense of loss they felt for themselves and the entire world as a result of his sale into Egypt.
Linda Klingel: Trust me, He will show you if you really want to know. I’m praying for you today, that God would expose to you every heart issue that would be hindering you from receiving His best in the coming new year.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “What a loss to history our actions brought about!” the brothers tormented themselves. “If Joseph could have spent all these years in the transcended oasis, in the sacred environment, in the spiritual island of the Patriarch Jacob – how the world might have been enriched with such an atomic glow of holiness in its midst!”
Daniel 8: 12 Because of rebellion, the LORD’s people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.
Rick Joyner: Today, evangelism has often been reduced to preaching a message of shallow belief and all of the great things God will do for us, and asking people to just lift their hand to “give their life to Jesus” while everyone else has their head bowed in order to not embarrass them. Then we wonder why only about 5% of these converts are added to the church and go on to actually follow Jesus. In the first century, 100% of those who gave their lives to The Lord were added to the church, and from that moment on their faith was proven by persecution and the threat of execution.
Rabbi David Sterne: At the end of life, when we stand on the brink of passing away from this world, we are on our highest spiritual level. We are, therefore, in the best position to give something of our spiritual self to others. That is why both Jacob and Moses wanted to perform this last act of “seeing” just before their own departure from this world. Each wanted to pass his own spiritual level on to his respective receptacle.
Eliana Rudee: On Monday, the last day of Hanukkah, Guatemalan Ambassador Mario Adolfo Bucaro Flores discovered his Jewish identity at a Temple sacrifice reenactment in Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 3:18 as on a day of festival. I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.
Eliana Rudee: Heeding the Sanhedrin’s call to the 70 Nations to participate in the consecration of the altar for the Third Temple, the ambassador joined the reenactment as the guest of honor. During his speech, the ambassador said, “This is a truly historic moment. My government is pleased to be partners with the Sanhedrin and with Israel in bringing [the] Messiah.”
Quinn G. Caldwell: “I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.” – Ezekiel 36:24
Rick Joyner: As the popular saying goes, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Why not make it another new beginning, with a new resolve to no longer live for ourselves but for Him—to do all things for the sake of His Gospel, and to love not our own lives even to the death, so that we might truly live?
Rabbi David Sterne: Jacob did not mean to just see Joseph – he wanted to have some form of effect upon him. The same is true of Moses – by looking at the land of Israel, even from afar, he was able to have a spiritual effect upon the entire land by imparting to it a higher spiritual energy.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Contrasting Joseph’s present condition to what might have been his potential, left the brothers with an irreplaceable loss by what they sensed was a missed opportunity of historic proportions.
Vicki Kemper: Prayer
Whatever it takes, Lord Jesus, come into this world again with your ever-expansive love. And may I not get in the way.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The awesome glow that emanated from his presence, Joseph suggested, was not there despite his two decades in lowly Egyptian society, far removed from his father’s celestial paradise; it came precisely as a result of his entanglement with a life alien to the innocent and straightforward path of his brothers. The incredible trials, tribulations and adversity he faced in the spiritual jungle are precisely what unleashed the atomic glow the brothers were presently taking in.
Jo (in “It’s baack” 12 Dec 18 at 8:31 am): …Christy said she believes with me that Guatemala was the bad juju and that I picked up something there.
Me to Jo (11 Dec 18 at 11:11 am): There must be a redemption point in here as you and Christy were just talking about Guatemala!
Breaking Israel News (11 Dec 18): A Rabbi and a Pastor Opened a Bible Together
Kenneth L. Samuel: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were no gap between our prayer petitions and the granting of our prayer petitions? We hold within our hearts so many prayerful pleas that have not yet been granted and so many prayerful hopes that have not yet been realized.
Kris Vallotton (15 Dec 18): 7 signs a poverty mindset still has a hold on you…
Brat: (Hmmm…Toxic word. Lord, heal the breach!)
Steve Shultz (11 Dec 18): Have you felt great calamity from the enemy and attacks from him unlike ever before? Believe me…you are not alone and many have shared an up-tick in attacks recently. But please stay encouraged and keep you hopes up and trust God. HE is coming through and bringing His BLESSING to you!
Eliana Rudee (11 Dec 18 at 6:04 am): Guatemalan Ambassador’s Jewish Identity Revealed on Cusp of Messiah’s Revelation and Today’s Top Stories
Doug Addison: I saw the gates in Heaven opening to release strategic plans and financial blessings. This is not for personal gain or prosperity. This is to help with the global issues we’re dealing with over the storms of the enemy. Our governments do not have the financial resources to cover the great calamity hitting the earth. This is why the Lord is going to release financial blessings into churches, businesses, individuals and groups of people.
Chantell Cooley: There will be a new wave of culture and atmosphere infused into businesses where the needs of many will be met. As Believers sit, work and interact, God will use them to heal hearts. Those who listen and understand this anointing will be effective in reaching the lost. Simply reaching out and meeting business men and women, co-workers and clients where they are, without fear or judgment, will be the key. As God’s people move in grace and understand, the power of kindness and care toward colleagues, supervisors and subordinates will open their hearts to them, and God’s people will bring healing to many broken hearts. Just prioritizing and meeting the needs of others will set people free.
Eliana Rudee: Similarly, Rabbi Hillel Weiss, the spokesman for the Sanhedrin, noted that it was highly symbolic that such a revelation should come about at the dedication of the altar. “We are on the cusp of the revelation of the Moshiach (Messiah),” Rabbi Weiss told Breaking Israel News. “One of the functions of the Messiah is the ingathering of the exiles. This is not merely people deciding to come to Israel. It is a miraculous process, which is what we saw here. It is God revealing things that are hidden: hidden Jews, hidden connections to Israel, love for Hashem (God, literally, ‘the name) that has been hidden away and not seen since all 70 nations came together to pray to the One God in Jerusalem.”
Susan Michael, ICEJ US Director (13 Dec 18): Aliyah: Prophecy Fulfilled
Rabbi Avraham Brandwein: Kings Have Come Together
Breaking Israel News (10 Dec 18): Miracle of Ingathering at Dedication of Altar for Third Temple
Zephaniah 3:15 The LORD has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more.
Brian Simmons (10 Dec 18): I Hear His Whisper…”Come to Me with no fear.”
Eliana Rudee: In the near future, the Sanhedrin plans to visit the Guatemalan government on a political mission after Guatemala moved their embassy to Jerusalem on May 16 of this year, two days after the US opened their embassy in Jerusalem.
Charisma (10 Dec 18): Still Thankful for All that God Brings
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Pastor John Tolle: Children love to tear into gifts. Then they love to tear into each other’s gifts.
Linda Klingel: The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. ~Luke 6:45
Lovesick Scribe: There is such an urgency right now that I have sensed in my spirit for quite some time, and this simple truth burdens me for the body of Christ. It is all around us every day, and it became clearer to me as I awoke one morning to the Lord reminding me of Song of Solomon 5. When we think about Song of Solomon, we immediately think about romance and deep passion and intimacy represented between the king and his bride. However, this particular passage of Scripture that awakened me alluded to the time when the bride was asleep, but her heart was awake. I want to exhort you by saying that we must be awake in every area as the body of Christ. The evidence of a pulse or a heartbeat is not enough. I believe that God is calling us to wake up from slumber and to be an active bride.
Kenneth L. Samuel: Prayer
God, despite disappointments and delays, renew our faith this Advent season.
John-Paul & Annie Deddens: This Advent, we want to encourage you to imitate St. Joseph in this way: to listen to God, to pay attention to Him, to receive what He’s giving you and asking of You, and then to actually act on it — to do something about it.
Brat: So, you want me to imitate you like the rest of the flock? When the Church did nothing?
Vicki Kemper: Who are you to hinder God’s advent here?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: After Joseph exposes his identity to his brothers, he asks them to come close to him. Despite the fact that they were alone with him in a private room, Joseph wants them to approach even closer. At this moment we are expecting Joseph to share with his brothers an intimate secret. But that does not seem to come.
Kenneth L. Samuel: Many of us have become despondent in the meantime. We’ve substituted prayer for expediency, and basically conditioned ourselves to live without hope. Living in a reality without imagination is hell, but we make the adjustment … for we often assume that God’s delays are God’s denials.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Had Joseph spent the two decades voyaging with his father down the paved road of psychological and spiritual transparency and lucidity, he would have certainly reached great intellectual and emotional heights. But it was only through his confrontation with a glaring abyss that gave Joseph that singular majesty, passion and power that defied even the rich imagination of his brothers.
Brat (ref in “Days of Awe” 6 Dec 18): …As I shared this story with Jo [of my adventure with Our Lady of Guadalupe], my excitement level rose as I got transported into the depth of the symbols via memory of my experience. Those images from memory superimposed on what I had just written about on Friday [30 Sept 2011] morning in “She-Goat.” I wrote about the Woman and the Dragon and quoted Revelation 12:1
Revelation 12:1A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “Joseph said to his brothers, ‘please come close to me’. When they approached him, he said, ‘I am Joseph your brother – it is me whom you sold into Egypt.
Revelation 12:7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
Pastor John Tolle: If you fight with me you’re fighting against the word of God. He GAVE His Son!
Me to Sophia Valentina Buller (11 Dec 18): I’ve ‘seen’ the guy with the longish black hair before. Just as Satan does, he takes partial truth (enough so it sounds plausible and could be scriptural) and then spins it, so that one is left feeling off. Your dream truly is about deception and separation. But you are a faithful warrior witness to God in our midst.
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing
Vicki Kemper (11 Dec 18): For all we know, God had been trying to get the everyone’s-in message to Peter for some time. Finally, after a disturbing dream, the seemingly random appearance of strangers, a holy green light, and an encounter with a would-be believer, Peter cannot help but connect the dots. He has to acknowledge that God has been made manifest yet again, and he understands he’d best get out of the way.
Kenneth L. Samuel: We believe that God is faithful. And we trust that God is the giver of every good and perfect gift. But the question still remains: What are we to do in the meantime between praying and receiving what we pray for?
Daniel 8:10 It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them.
Pastor John Tolle: Any baby that is not growing, dies.
Journal (in “Geese” 14 Oct 18): Was He showing me that the trumpet of His royal geese were sounding the trumpet that would raise the dead to come alive in Him?
Revelation 11:15 [ The Seventh Trumpet ] The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
Journal: Wasn’t it Paul that also said this would happen?
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel [Michael [!] in “Named” 11 Oct 18] and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
For King and Country: So let my life be the proof,
The proof of your love
Let my love look like You and what You’re made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Israel 365 (10 Dec 18): Crowning the King of Israel ✡ “Set Upon His Head A Crown Of Fine Gold”
Brat (in “Recruit” 28 Nov 18): Admittedly I don’t understand the Luke passage on the coming of the Son of Man. (Luke 21:25-36) I thought I had a fairly good idea of what “coming on the clouds” meant (the Cloud on the Internet?), but with ‘power and great glory’ (Luke 21:27), well, Lord, I still need You to show me what You’re talking about. I used to have a better idea at the beginning of my calling of that beauty and holiness, but that was before the abomination of desolation occurred. Now the purity of that understanding is tainted. However, nothing is too hard for You to redeem and clean up, Lord!
Daniel 8: 9 Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land.
Brat (06 Dec 18): Lord, I pray that the Church herself would return to her loving God and stop hiding behind the fallen flock, when the Church herself refused to listen to the one calling out in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord! You said You would make it a level playing field.
Luke 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth;
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “’Now, be not distressed, nor reproach yourself for having sold me here, for it was to be a provider that G-d sent me ahead of you …G-d has sent me ahead of you to ensure your survival in the land and to sustain you for a momentous deliverance.”
Rabbi David Sterne: Similarly, when Moses knew he was about to die, he requested to see the land, in order to impart to it some of his spiritual unity with the One Above – so that the land, in turn, should be able to impart this to us. Since he didn’t actually enter the land of Israel, Moses was unable to impart the full essence of his spiritual level, but, by gazing upon it from afar, he was able to impart a ray of his high level of spirituality. That ray is enough for those of us who come to Israel today to feel the elevation of the land and strive for greater closeness to the One Above.
Zephaniah 3:20 At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the LORD.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens (6 Dec 18): We want you to pray and ask that God make you a Saint.
Brat: Father, forgive them they know not what they do.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: …I was dumbfounded. He is not blind he simply refuses to see.
Lovesick Scribe: In Song of Solomon 5, the bride hears her beloved knocking, and as she hears him, there is a pause to put on her garment and to dirty her feet in getting out of the bed of slumber to open the door and to answer his invitation to intimacy. While I myself dosed and thought about this, the Holy Spirit said to me, “This is what the church is comfortable doing right now. They hear the Bridegroom calling, but they desire to remain slumbering in comfort.”
Daniel 4: 13 “In the visions I saw while lying in bed, I looked, and there before me was a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “If after spending 22 years in a morally depraved society,” they thought to themselves, “one year as a slave, twelve years as a prisoner, nine years as a politician — Joseph still retained such profound holiness and passion, how much holier might he have been if he spent these 22 years in the bosom of his saintly father Jacob?!”
Pastor John Tolle: His own did not receive Him.
John 1: 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Joseph’s singular condition – embodying the paradox of the human condition — is poignantly expressed in one biblical verse [4] : “Joseph recognized his brothers but they did not recognize him.” Joseph easily identified the holiness within his brothers. After all, they lived most of their lives isolated as spiritual shepherds involved in prayer, meditation and study.
Patheos Catholic (11 Dec 18): Saint Juan Diego | Baby Jesus In a Cage
Quinn G. Caldwell: Almost 500 years ago today, a man named Juan Diego was walking on a hill just outside a young Mexico City, when he was stopped by the apparition of a young woman. She was, she told him, the mother of God, the Virgin Mary. All the stories of this God he’d heard to that point had been on the lips of the Spanish-speaking newcomers, by whom he had been baptized a few years previously, so he was shocked to hear her tell him this in his own native language. He wasn’t shocked, however, when the Spanish bishop didn’t believe him. The bishop asked him to ask for a sign, and she obliged: she told Juan Diego to gather flowers from the top of the hill, where no flowers would normally have grown. When he got there, he found it covered with Spanish roses not native to Mexico. He picked them, she arranged them in his cloak, and when he brought the bundle to the bishop and opened it, the flowers fell out, leaving behind one of the most important religious images the world has ever known: the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Brat: Ahhh…, “Spanish roses not native to Mexico” = Flora? Flores from Guatemala?
Eliana Rudee: After learning that Flores had Jewish relatives on his mother’s side of the family (according to Jewish law, Jewish status is matrilineal), the rabbis of the Sanhedrin, recovering from the immediate shock of the discovery they had just made, gathered around the ambassador.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Yet these very brothers lacked the ability to discern the moral richness etched in the depth of Joseph’s heart. Even when Joseph was living with them in Israel, they saw him as an outsider, as a danger to the integrity of the family of Israel. Certainly, when they encountered him in the form of an Egyptian leader, they failed to observe beyond the mask of a savvy politician the heart of a Tzaddik, the soul of a Rebbe.
Vicki Kemper: This is the good news of Advent: that even when we close the doors of our hearts, Jesus will keep knocking. That when we bar the door and disconnect the bell, Spirit will build a window. That when we’re not paying attention, God sometimes plays the drama queen.
Lovesick Scribe: I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. ~ Song of Solomon 5:2 ESV
Rabbi YY Jacobson: If only…
Eliana Rudee: After the ambassador put on tefillin for the first time, said Berkowitz, “everyone began dancing around and singing joyously – it was a very Geula (redemption) moment.”
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The reunion of Joseph and his brothers is described in this week’s portion. It says that Joseph kissed all of his brothers and cried over them. The Shelah reminds us of the very important message how a person must forgive others for doing wrong. Sometimes it is necessary to overcome one’s natural feelings in order to forgive someone. In this case, it was the brothers that sinned against Joseph, but it was Joseph that kissed and cried over them.
Brat (8 Dec 18): Lord Jesus? I heard You crying today. Why? What’s wrong?
Jesus: “I know about the slander…” (Rev 2:9)
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The Jewish people in Czarist Russia were prohibited from joining most of the trade guilds, so their options for making a living were limited. One area where they excelled was in making hard liquor and selling it to non-Jews. One year the Russian Government also banned this trade for Jews and many had no way to support their families. A group of prominent chassidim were given an audience with Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (the Alter Rebbe, first Rebbe of Lubavitch, 1745-1812). “Please,” they begged, “pray to the Almighty that the economic situation improves.” The Rebbe answered them that when a blessing comes from on high, we here below have to make an appropriate vessel for it to be received. That vessel is brotherly love in the community and pushing away jealousy and tale-bearing.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “Joseph could not hold in his emotions,” the Torah relates in this week’s portion [1] . “He dismissed all of his Egyptian assistants from his chamber, thus, no one else was present with Joseph when he revealed himself to his brothers. He began to weep with such loud sobs that the Egyptians outside could hear him. And Joseph said to his brothers: ‘I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?’ His brothers were so horrified that they could not respond.
Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz: Mashiach ben Joseph will be slain as a martyr on behalf of the people of Israel, and following his death the enduring kingdom of David-Mashiach will arise.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: Each of us should selflessly pray for the G-dly soul within us
Brat (10 Dec 18): Holy Spirit, pray for me!
Pastor John Tolle (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): I’m thankful for the grace of God that He hasn’t struck me dead yet.
Leviticus 16: 13 He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.
Zechariah Goldman: The mystical reason for honoring parents is that the abundant spiritual energy from Above is drawn to the children only through the pathways established by his parents.
Pastor John Tolle: I owe everything I have and everything I own to God.
Lovesick Scribe: We must awaken! We are on the precipice of greater things, and it requires our full attention. Do not think twice about getting out of the bed of slumber to answer His beckoning. Put on your garments, soil your feet and run to Him. Do not fear persecution or trials for pursuing and declaring Jesus Christ. Refuse to lose an ounce of lovesickness for Him. Awake, awake O slumbering bride! Don’t be content half awake or slumbering while He is knocking on your heart, calling you to intimacy with Him and to be present in His Presence. Do not compromise for the sake of comfort. Let us awaken!
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter (Days of Awe 06 Dec 18): This level of the High Priest is found within each person. It is the inner point of our Jewishness that is connected to the fifth and highest part of our soul, Yechida, that is always in the presence of the Divine and never leaves there. On this level there is not even the smallest influence of “the other side” (sitra achra) of the forces of evil. Which is why it is always complete in its connection to G-d. Just that sometimes, because of outside forces, it can be in a state of sleep.
Eliana Rudee: The rabbi responded, “But it seemed to come from a very deep personal place – do you have any personal connection with the Jewish people?”
Jo: Mount up child there is some heavy trail ahead……
Donna Schaper: Watching in the Advent sense is a bit different. It is more an alertness for the good than the watching out for the awful.
Daniel 8: 8 The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.
Brat (5 Dec 18): Yesterday I had a vision where I was being blown by fierce gale-force winds. I grabbed hold of a tattered flag. It ripped some more. I was trying to hold on to God’s standard. I grabbed the bottom edge of the flag and crawled hand-over-hand up the finishing seam and pulled myself to the flag pole itself. When that started feeling a bit secure then the vision changed to my hold on a ship’s mast in a wind storm at sea. I looked up (as my head had been bowed down to brace against the wind) and Jesus was standing with me at the mast. His eyes were intense. They were calm, but also had that look of lion-fierceness they sometimes get. He wasn’t angry with me. He was … what’s the word? … resolute. Oddly, He did NOT speak to the storm. Neither did He command me to speak to the storm. We just stood there together with the wind tearing at our hair, clothes, eyes, and skin. I wasn’t afraid, because He was with me. I knew He’d direct my steps. With that assurance, I relaxed and was able to fall asleep.
Baruch 5:4 For God will give you evermore the name, “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory.”
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
From Jo: I love that you fought back. Enough, enough of this. We who hear must be heard.
Vicki Kemper: Watch: Looking everywhere for God’s love. Listen: For the ever-freshness of the good news. Show up: With all your heart. Follow: Though you know not where this new life will lead you.
Linda Klingel: All deeds are right in the sight of the doer, but the Lord weighs the heart. ~Proverbs 21:2
Rabbi David Sterne: Chassidic masters state that by looking, we actually influence the object we see.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The Shelah says that the teaching from this is to train ourselves to find a heavenly purpose in each action we do, above and beyond the obvious reason we are doing it. The example he gives is when a person plans to build a new home, he should imagine at the outset which room will be devoted to the spiritual pursuits of prayer, Torah study and meditation. Only afterwards should he worry about his own physical needs. Thus, Jacob wanted Judah to first create a spiritual environment even before they moved to Egypt because of the famine.
Brat (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): Is there no place of sanctuary where we can all work on this together?
Vicki Kemper (11 Dec 18): Who Are You?
Daniel 8: 11 It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the LORD; it took away the daily sacrifice from the LORD, and his sanctuary was thrown down.
Me to Jo (13 Dec 18): You had said, “It is good to know the limitations of one’s partner,” and Mary Luti (UCC) said today: “Stand Down.”
I wonder how they’ll apply that.
Christian Harfouche (14 Dec 18): “Oh yeah? You and whose army?”
Israel 365 (13 Dec 18): Spreading God’s Great Name ✡ “She Spoke To Him Of All That She Had On Her Mind”
Vince Amlin (14 Dec 18): Advent is our certification course as Master Gardeners. It teaches us to heed the signs of the Spirit’s presence, the spots where God is oh-so-close. To know when to water, when to prune, and when the moment is right to pluck the fruit and offer it to a neighbor who has never tasted such sweetness.
Daniel 4: 14 He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
“‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth.
Friday, December 14, 2018 at 7:07 am Journal: I just went into the kitchen. It is now light enough for me to see outside. DAD CUT DOWN THE AVOCADO TREE OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had specifically expressed to him never to do that; to leave that tree alone. It is now completely cut down. My lifeline to life in this house is dead. Our house is Syria. A wasteland. Dead. No life. Dad’s beast kills life and beauty, just as Bob’s beast has no empathy.
Luke 3:9 Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
Jo: What does he do with it?
Brat: He uses it as firewood.
Dad: No, the tree roots were NOT getting into the house. The tree outlived its usefulness.
Brat: You’ve cut down almost every single tree on our property since Mom died ten years ago. So this means that I get cut down when I’m not useful?
Dad: [Roll of the eyes for the drama queen.]
Brat: [Anguished soul HOWL!]
Jo: IT’S USEFULNESS??? Oh, honey, my heart cries with yours. There’s no way to understand this.
Brat: “It’s why we Stoics and Romans leave deformed babies in the desert,” she reported to the unicorn.
Jo: God, be with Kathryn’s heart and soothe her grief.
Brat: [Anguished soul HOWL!]
Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”
Brat: So, no more bougainvillea, because it destroys the chain-link fence. No more trees for the Beautiful Land. So now we get a full view of our neighbor’s rusty shed? Is Dad “saying” through his actions that he feels useless since Mom died?
Jo: Oh, baby, I don’t know. You would think he would hang on to everything alive. It’s so strange.
Brat: So strange…
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “The sea was much better,” the traveler complained. “Whenever I got tired it at least had its currents to push me forward on my journey but you,” he looked at the vast desert surrounding him, “you are of no help.”
Rick Joyner: A factor is likely how the Gospel was changed from how He came to save us from our sin to Him coming to save us from our troubles. Almost every message preached today is man-centered rather than God-centered. It is all about what He will do for us and very little about what is required of us. Maybe this is the result of how The Great Commission has been changed from making disciples to making converts. Now it is difficult to even find true disciples according to The Lord’s definition of what His disciples would be like.
Brat: [Anguished soul HOWL!]
Rabbi YY Jacobson: He went down on his knees, dead tired. When his breaths restored back to normalcy, a while later, he heard the desert’s voice.
Tony Robinson: But let’s try it on. Suppose that this Advent God is coming as a thief. What might God take from me, from you?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: “I agree. I am of no help like the sea and thus I often depress people. But do you really think people will remember you for crossing the sea? Never! For the sea doesn’t allow you to leave any mark. I, on the contrary, do. Thus, if you cross me, I swear, you will in turn immortalize yourself with the imprints you leave over me!”
Luke 1:48 for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The traveler got the essence and got up to walk on. “It’s always about the imprints,” his heart echoed [8] .
Vince Amlin: Ripeness requires vigilance. And recognizing the presence of Emmanuel – of God-with-us – is not different. God’s realm is ripening, in some places already good enough to eat, in others barely a bud.
Brat: And in others cut down completely.
Isaiah 53: 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: [This is also the reason for Joseph mentioning, the second time around, the element of brotherhood. For Joseph was attempting not only to tell them who he was, but to share the reality of their kinship, the fact that he, like them, was deeply connected to his spiritual roots].
Luke 3:10 And the crowds asked him, “What then should we do?”
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: Even when a person is in “narrow straits” (mitzarim – from the same root as the word for Egypt – Mizrayim), feeling that the pressures of the world and material reality is hampering his Divine service, just like Yosef was in Egypt, what should he do? Most people give up or at best put their efforts aside for another day that may never come. We learn from Yosef – DO NOT GIVE UP! Do not let the strains of managing your material needs and your spiritual needs hold you back. The opposite. You can do both. Redouble your faith that you will absolutely succeed in all your physical challenges without losing the quality of your Torah study and mitzvah observance.
Rabbi Avraham Brandwein: King with a Purpose
Eliana Rudee: Berkowitz recalled, “Flores replied, ‘no, no, I’m a Christian – but my Grandmother was Jewish.’”
Luke 3:16 John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Tony Robinson: So it’s pretty weird that one of the ways that both the scriptures and Jesus speak of God’s advent is as a thief. Also quite a contrast to the more common and comforting images of the Advent season, the coming of a baby.
Hillsong Worship: “I Am Who You Say I Am” [https://youtu.be/QDijqNKOFuw]
Pastor John Tolle: He’s coming to us prisoners. The prisoner has to consent and we have no record.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The story of Joseph revealing himself to his brothers after decades of bitter separation is, no doubt, one of the most dramatic in the entire Torah. Twenty-two years earlier, when Joseph was seventeen years old, his brothers despising their younger kin, kidnapped him, threw him into a pit, and then sold him as a slave to Egyptian merchants. In Egypt he spent twelve years in prison, from where he rose to become viceroy of the country that was the superpower at the time. Now, more then two decades later, the moment was finally ripe for reconciliation.
Vince Amlin: The Time is Ripe
Rabbi YY Jacobson: That is why Joseph asked his brothers to come closer to him, so that they can behold from closer up his unique light and appreciate that this was a light that could only emerge from the depth of darkness, from the pit of Egyptian promiscuity.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: There is also another lesson here. The Torah describes the many gifts that Yosef gave to his brothers. Much was given by Pharaoh’s direct command. The gifts that Yosef gave to his father Yaacov were Yosef’s initiative. We do not find any verse that says that Yosef asked Pharaoh’s permission. Yosef did not involve Pharaoh at all. When it comes to doing a mitzvah, (like the important mitzvah of honoring his father) Yosef did not even think about Pharaoh. He acted independently to the best of his ability.
Brat (in “Days of Awe” 06 Dec 18): Lord Jesus, hold on a sec…You of all People know it is my deepest desire to work with You to redeem the times, so that our children and grandchildren and so forth don’t have to go through what we’ve been going through, because we fear we didn’t have the cajones to stand up for righteousness. That being said, would You accept these scripts as a redemptive offering?
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: Then, not only will we succeed in our Divine service, we will see that the worldly tasks are also successful!
Kenneth L. Samuel: “While Zechariah was in the sanctuary, an angel of the Lord appeared to him and said: “Don’t be afraid Zechariah! God has heard your prayer.” – Luke 1:6-13
Vicki Kemper: Thank God the Spirit is not so easily put off. When God comes she pulls out all the stops and works every angle to reach our small, scared, or inattentive hearts.
Rabbi David Sterne: Shem miShmuel explains that by looking at something, we form a bond with it. However, this only takes place when the object we are looking at is capable of bonding, or receiving the higher energy. Otherwise, what happens is disaster. When Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai emerged from a cave after twelve years of hiding from the Romans, he turned everything he looked at “into a pile of bones.” This occurred because his spiritual energy was too high for the mundane world around him. Whenever the receiving object is not on a high enough level, it cannot survive the piercing gaze of the tzadik.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: The Midrash [5] compares Joseph to the fresh wellspring of water hidden in the depth of the earth, eclipsed by layers of debris, grit and gravel. In a converse metaphor making the identical point, the Kabbalah sees Joseph as the blaze hidden within the coal. On the outside, the coal seems black, dark and cold; but when you expose yourself to its true texture, you sense the heat, the fire and the passion. You get burnt.
James Goll: The Prophetic Power of Proclamation
Daniel 4: 17 “‘The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of people.’
Pastor John Tolle (echo): Pray for an economy of words.
Kenneth L. Samuel: And then it happened. The angel appeared while Zechariah, though disappointed, still performed his duties in the sanctuary.
Eliana Rudee: “Then Hashem your God will restore your fortunes and take you back in love. He will bring you together again from all the peoples where Hashem your God has scattered you.” Deuteronomy 30:3 (The Israel Bible™)
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The Rebbe continued. “When the priests (Kohanim) bless the Jewish people in synagogue (in Israel on a weekly basis, outside of Israel on the holidays), the blessings they say beforehand is, ‘Blessed are you, G-d, Lord, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to bless the Jewish people with love’. These words, ‘with love’ have two meanings. One is that the priests have to bless the people out of love and further they are blessing the Jewish people that love should permeate them, because love is the vessel for blessings”.
For King and Country: “Proof of Your Love” [https://youtu.be/b-2dKOfbC9c]

Days of Awe 06 Dec 18

Working Dates: Thursday, December 6, 2018 to Sunday, December 9, 2018
[12 pages]
Susanna Kearsley: “Real friends,” she’d told me once when she had rescued me from a posh restaurant where four girls had taken me out for a birthday lunch and left me stuck with the bill, “don’t just take from you all the time. Real friends look after you.”
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Yet when a time of famine arrives, when a serious crisis erupts (heaven forbid) in our lives we suddenly feel the need to reach out beyond ourselves and connect with our loved ones and with G-d.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens (in “Immaculate Perception” 6 Dec 18): So, let’s pray that, especially those close to us, will return to their Church and their loving God!
Brat (06 Dec 18): Lord, I pray that the Church herself would return to her loving God and stop hiding behind the fallen flock, when the Church herself refused to listen to the one calling out in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord! You said You would make it a level playing field.
Luke 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth;
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: How are you to be holy?
James W. Goll: To state the obvious—if we are on top of the walls being watchmen, we are not down on the ground observing and participating in whatever is happening on a horizontal plane. We are to remain up high at our posts, because that is the only way to get an overview. As watchman-intercessors, the height of our revelation will determine our perspective.
Michelle Passey (6 Dec 18): “The Lord Says, ‘It’s Time! Come Out of Hiding'”
Brat to Jo (in “The Heat is On!” 06 Dec 18): I channeled the anger into a dialogue and posted one page to Facebook: “Immaculate Perception.” (I can email that to you, too.) Hiding behind the flock is a form of projection. The energy cannot go where it is supposed to go. It deflects responsibility from the party who is supposed to be responsible. No wonder France is torching her own Paris. It is my prayer that this piece will pierce that projection and deflate that manic balloon. I was a snorting bull with my own heat turned on fueled by righteous indignation. I pray that I channeled it in a productive way to be of use to somebody for God’s glory. May it make some grace space for God to come in. I am so overdone in this rat fuck.
Israel 365 (7 Dec 18): The Pure Language ✡ “Invoke Hashem By Name”
Malachi 4:1 “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
Jo and I in unison: Damn won’t anybody take care of me?
Donna Schaper: We go on guard. We go on watch. We watch out.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens (6 Dec 18): We would like to ask everyone to pray for a very important intention. We want you to pray for yourself.
Brat: We both keep putting ourselves out there and standing in our truth, and we still keep getting pummeled.
Donna Schaper: That is persecution’s worst feature: it goes on forever. Once you are beaten up on the street as a gay teenager, you look at streets a different way. Once raped, you look at sex a different way. Once beaten up, you find that you can’t really stay in good enough shape.
Matthew 17: 10 The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”
God to Jo: “Don’t look for what was, build it again for now”.
Malachi 4:2 But for you who revere My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Joseph understood that the coexistence of the two sets of cows contained the solution to the approaching famine: During the years of plenty Egypt must “live” with the years of famine as well, as though they were already present. Even while enjoying the abundance of the years of plenty, Egypt must experience in its imagination the reality of the upcoming famine, and each and every day store away food for it. The seven lean cows ought to be very much present and alive in people’s minds and in their behavior during the era of the seven fat cows. Conversely, if this system was implemented in Egypt, then even during the years of famine the nation would continue enjoying the abundance of the years of plenty. The seven fat cows would be very much present and alive even during the era of the seven lean cows.
Brat: And I say to God, where is it that You want us to go? Just like with Rob and Christy. Where do You want us to go? There has to be something from which to build from. We need an anchorhold.
Quinn G. Caldwell: Almost 500 years ago today, a man named Juan Diego was walking on a hill just outside a young Mexico City, when he was stopped by the apparition of a young woman. She was, she told him, the mother of God, the Virgin Mary. All the stories of this God he’d heard to that point had been on the lips of the Spanish-speaking newcomers, by whom he had been baptized a few years previously, so he was shocked to hear her tell him this in his own native language. He wasn’t shocked, however, when the Spanish bishop didn’t believe him. The bishop asked him to ask for a sign, and she obliged: she told Juan Diego to gather flowers from the top of the hill, where no flowers would normally have grown. When he got there, he found it covered with Spanish roses not native to Mexico. He picked them, she arranged them in his cloak, and when he brought the bundle to the bishop and opened it, the flowers fell out, leaving behind one of the most important religious images the world has ever known: the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Journal (from seven years ago in “Our Lady of Guadalupe” on Saturday, October 01, 2011): … On the up-side, I got another trust-builder from the Holy Spirit through a conversation Jo and I were having about visiting the Liberty Bell. She asked if I’d go see it if I was back in Philly. I said I might if I was back there, just to say I’d seen it, but then again maybe not. Standing around for three hours picking up the energies of the people around me and being herded like cattle all in the name of “Been There, Done That,” doesn’t do much for me. How does that bless anybody? Recollection of being herded through tourist sites led me back to Mexico City and seeing the tilma (cloak) of Our Lady of Guadalupe. They had it hermetically sealed under glass and mounted high on a wall or something. My memory is not exact, but I remember a moving belt like they have at airports, which keep people moving in front of it. There was a miracle that happened there, though. There was a slow-down in the volume of visitors during the time of my visit. I was somehow able to stand somewhere, be still, and REALLY concentrate on the cape, absorbing all the colors, details, AND DEPTH of the symbols on the cape. It was like I was transported INTO the cape and understood on a level I could not have put to words. And all this happened a good decade before my calling. All I knew was that I loved Her, even though I knew nothing about Her. (Good Protestants seldom talk about Mary, other than to put her into Christmas card pictures at the manger. After all, it’s so un-Victorian to use the word “virgin” in public. We do have Puritan roots after all!)
As I shared this story with Jo, my excitement level rose as I got transported into the depth of the symbols via memory of my experience. Those images from memory superimposed on what I had just written about on Friday morning in “She-Goat.” I wrote about the Woman and the Dragon and quoted Revelation 12:1
Rev 12:1A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
As I spoke with Jo, those same symbols and depth from the cloak of Our Lady of Guadalupe rose within my soul. I hadn’t made the connection until Jo and I were talking. Jo picked up my excitement and later said that I had been glowing—“luminating” was her word. I blushed and made a joke, but now in solitude I am understanding a little more as to why I was glowing. I understood Mary, and Mary herself was instrumental at the beginning of my Calling. When the months of “dead waiting” with St Patrick’s dragged on and on, Linda had prayed a month-long daily prayer vigil for me to Mary because Mary helps with building relationships, and the Church would not even engage in conversation with me let alone have a relationship. Mary pushed us through the stagnation and redirected my focus back to God.
In that same conversation with Jo, something struck me as odd/different/special. Jo referred to me as “God’s Wife” and the Church having a bad reaction to this. But there was power and impact in those spoken words. No one has ever said them out loud before. Put into that context, it was almost overwhelming and sacrilegious toward heresy. But being schooled in the art of sacrilegious heresy, I stepped back from the idolatry and emotion, and realized it made sense. God Christ had a mother. Why couldn’t God Christ have a wife? I’ve softened the concept within myself by calling myself Christ’s Bride and He is my Husband, but as I remembered Our Lady of Guadalupe, I REALLY understood my Mother-in-law. At the beginning of my calling, I referred to her as such in my journals just to get used to the idea, but then I dropped it because I had to focus on my relationship with Christ and really get to know Him. Now, after this conversation with Jo and the recollection of the depth of experience with Our Lady of Guadalupe, the dynamic expanded. The family dynamic expanded—not just in concept but at the spiritual level. This was a great trust builder!! Thank You, God, for answering my prayer! Now I wait for the rest of the family to get on board. …
John-Paul and Annie Deddens (6 Dec 18): We want you to pray and ask that God make you a Saint.
Brat: Father, forgive them they know not what they do.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: …I was dumbfounded. He is not blind he simply refuses to see.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: This is the essence of Joseph’s wisdom: You must never detach the years of plenty from the years of famine. When you experience plenty, do not let it blind your vision and desensitize you from what is truly important in life. The priorities you cultivate during your “good times” should be of the kind that will sustain you during your challenging times as well. [9] If you are investing your time and energy in things that will prove futile when the climate of your life changes and will not hold you up when challenges come, you might want to re-examine your present choices. Why wait for the day you will have to say, “If I would have only realized…”
Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
Rick Joyner: Continuing with our theme of the heavenly and earthly seeds of Abraham, Paul wrote in Romans that there has been a partial hardening of the Jewish people until the “times of the Gentiles are complete.” Then he declared that “all Israel will be saved.” The indications concerning what is required for the times of the Gentiles to be completed are things such as the bride of Christ being made ready and the grafting back in of the “natural branches,” which includes “all Israel being saved.”
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter (06 Dec 18): In the end we were saved! A pitcher of oil stamped with the personal seal of the High Priest was discovered. And with it the Menorah was able to shine once again, as the verse says, (Proverbs Mishlei 20:27) “G-d’s candle is the soul of man”.
Malachi 3:1 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before Me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight–indeed, He is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz (5 Dec 18): There is a Mishna that teaches “the one who is outside of Israel should pray towards Israel. Inside Israel towards Jerusalem. Inside Jerusalem towards the Temple Mount. On the Temple Mount towards the Holy of Holies.” The Mishna should have said “Wherever you are, pray towards the Holy of Holies.” I think it is because if you are outside of Israel, the only thing your imagination can grasp is Israel. We are in an era when Jews and Christians can both imagine God’s Temple. For those who love God, this is exciting. For those who don’t want the responsibility, they are so disturbed that they are willing to attach themselves to absurd theories that have no basis. They are even willing to twist the basis of their religion or ascribe evil intentions for those of a different religion who simply wish to stand on God’s mountain together. This is a time when the deepest corners of a person’s heart are being revealed. Please pray for me to open my heart and to try to do tshuva on my darkness, allowing me to love the strange (who is really my brother who I mistook for an Egyptian king).
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Pharaoh is blown away by Joseph’s vision. “Can there be another person who has G-d’s spirit in him as this man does?” Pharaoh asks his advisors. “There is none as understanding and wise as you,” he says to Joseph. “You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be ruled; only by the throne will I outrank you.” Joseph is thus appointed Prime Minister of Egypt. The rest is history.
Revelation 3:21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: All of us experience cycles of plenty and cycles of famine in our lives. There are times when things are going very well: We are healthy, successful and comfortable. Often during such times we fail to invest time and energy to cultivate genuine emotional intimacy with our spouse, to develop real relationships with friends and to create a sincere bond with G-d. We feel self-sufficient and don’t need anybody in our lives.
Pastor John Tolle (in “Smyrna” 3 Dec 18): We keep going on to prove our power. We usually have to prove something.
Michelle Passey: The Edge Foursquare Church
Revelation 2: 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father.
Donna Schaper: One persecution is a lot like another. Somebody with power hurts somebody without power. They may behead or bully or ridicule or rape. They may tear or torment. They may hate simplistic alliteration especially when it could go on forever.
Journal (from seven years ago on Monday, October 03, 2011): …Holy Sh*t! I just got on the website for Our Lady of Guadalupe!
http://www.sancta.org/versus_red_dragon.html
They show a picture of the Woman and the Dragon and the Woman is Our Lady of Guadalupe! I’m shaking, because this is too real, too personal, too big. I didn’t ask for this with my calling. I just wanted to love and serve God.
Rabbi YY Jacobson: But what thrilled him even more was Joseph’s demonstration of the fact that Pharaoh’s dreams not only contained a prediction of future events, but also offered instructions on how to deal with those events. The dreams did not only portend problems, but also offered solutions.[8]
Brat (in “The Heat is On!” 06 Dec 18): Yesterday I confronted (in a way by just exposing and revealing, not judging) that Theresa Phillips had massively used significant portions of “Smyra” [https://truthinus.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/smyrna-3-dec-18/] BEFORE I had ever posted it! I share the exposé on Facebook in “Footstool”.
Baruch 5:6 For they went out from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, carried in glory, as on a royal throne.
Marchaé Grair: Usually when we’re running, we’re running from a fear and not to a solution.
James W. Goll: Instead of only praying problems, begin to proclaim solutions.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: Not to alleviate your own suffering. We all pray for that all the time 🙂
Malachi 4:6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.”
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: Kathryn – Peace be with you!
Donna Schaper: Persecution scatters us. We stop trusting authority or shibboleths or naive people. We are also scattered internally. We lose parts of our old self and can’t imagine the wholeness we may have once briefly known. Our lost parts scatter all around, like beads off a broken necklace, rolling, stranded on the floor.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: Christ gave us two great commandments. Love God. Love others as you love yourself.
Quinn G. Caldwell: God promises to take us from the nations and bring us into our own land. But that can only happen if God visits us in our nation, in our home, first. This is the miracle we wait for at Advent: God does not wait in a far place for us to come to God. God comes close, to the place where we are. And when God shows up, God comes not speaking the language of the Conquerors, but with our own native language on God’s lips.
Baruch 5:9 For God will lead Israel with joy, in the light of his glory, with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.
Donna Schaper: Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled to Antioch.” – Acts 11:19
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: We’re almost done! We will have one final prayer tomorrow, but first…
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: This is all very nice. But if we look a bit deeper, after such a horrific descent where all the oil — I.e. the wisdom of the intellect of the Divine soul — was contaminated, what could possibly have elevated it from this deep pit?
Baruch 5:7 For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.
Jo (in “Car” 7 Dec 18): … Have been reading your writing. I love [that] you are expressing how you feel and what you know to be true. To really stand up and be in your truth; there is a rhythm of reality that comes into your writing when you are in the zone. More and more I read that in what you write. It is lack of fear and real faith in what you know. Your madness has proven itself over the years to be divine knowledge and a true connection with God. People write books about it. Women who have had this gift have been documented and burned at the stake for it, walled up in bricks for it, and generally given a very bad time. Thank God they just ignore you; the alternative is grim.
Malachi 4:3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the LORD Almighty.
Donna Schaper: Prayer
Help us learn to watch forward, Spirit, and to anticipate goodness, no matter how much our beads long for their lost string.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: This is what the Rabbis said about the pitchers that were ‘sealed with the personal seal of the High Priest’, that the hand of the High Priest was in the center, meaning that behind the scenes, the High Priest was pulling the strings.
Baruch 5:1 Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.
Rick Joyner: Israel’s restoration is a miracle and its implications are so huge that it is understandable that many have allowed this to eclipse their understanding of the coming New Jerusalem, which we are told is the bride, the wife of The Lamb. Many Messianic Jews have an understanding of the church’s place in God’s plans, but it is at least as shallow as the understanding many untaught Christians have about Israel’s place. We cannot truly understand Israel, and the present Jerusalem’s place in God’s plan, without understanding the “Jerusalem above,” or the “New Jerusalem” that is the focus of the conclusion in Revelation.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: Who was this High Priest? Not just the head of all the priests, Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, Rambam, 1135-1204, Talmudist, Halachist, physician and communal leader) writes (Laws of the HolyTemple. Chapter 5, Law 7), “His beauty and his honor was that he sat in the holy Temple all day. His home was in Jerusalem which means “complete awe” (yirah shalem), a hint to the high spiritual level that the High Priest attained. Maimonides continued that “the High Priest would not move from there”, i.e. not from Jerusalem and not from a level of complete awe.
Baruch 5:5 Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height; look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
Donna Schaper: Jesus understands that God finally has all the power. He watches forwards not backwards. He knows the end of the story right from the beginning, as a babe.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: This level of the High Priest is found within each person. It is the inner point of our Jewishness that is connected to the fifth and highest part of our soul, Yechida, that is always in the presence of the Divine and never leaves there. On this level there is not even the smallest influence of “the other side” (sitra achra) of the forces of evil. Which is why it is always complete in its connection to G-d. Just that sometimes, because of outside forces, it can be in a state of sleep.
Jo: Mount up child there is some heavy trail ahead……
Donna Schaper: Watching in the Advent sense is a bit different. It is more an alertness for the good than the watching out for the awful.
Brat (5 Dec 18): Yesterday I had a vision where I was being blown by fierce gale-force winds. I grabbed hold of a tattered flag. It ripped some more. I was trying to hold on to God’s standard. I grabbed the bottom edge of the flag and crawled hand-over-hand up the finishing seam and pulled myself to the flag pole itself. When that started feeling a bit secure then the vision changed to my hold on a ship’s mast in a wind storm at sea. I looked up (as my head had been bowed down to brace against the wind) and Jesus was standing with me at the mast. His eyes were intense. They were calm, but also had that look of lion-fierceness they sometimes get. He wasn’t angry with me. He was … what’s the word? … resolute. Oddly, He did NOT speak to the storm. Neither did He command me to speak to the storm. We just stood there together with the wind tearing at our hair, clothes, eyes, and skin. I wasn’t afraid, because He was with me. I knew He’d direct my steps. With that assurance, I relaxed and was able to fall asleep.
Baruch 5:4 For God will give you evermore the name, “Righteous Peace, Godly Glory.”
From Jo: I love that you fought back. Enough, enough of this. We who hear must be heard.
Quinn G. Caldwell: “I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.” – Ezekiel 36:24
Rabbi YY Jacobson: Elijah’s light continues to shine to this very day. In his world, the times of plenty and times of famine were never disconnected.
Matthew 17: 11 Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.
Baruch 5:8 The woods and every fragrant tree have shaded Israel at God’s command.
Brat: And God did command and send the angels to hold back the four winds for Israel. God has been faithful, just as He was faithful with Elijah.
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
Baruch 5:3 for God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.
Donna Schaper (7 Dec 18): Scattered by Persecution
Brat: How else do you think I got to SEVEN Churches? Seven! I wasn’t just church shopping!
Quinn G. Caldwell: Prayer
O God, come to me here, in this regular old place. Bring to me the scent of flowers from far lands, and impress your image on my heart.
Malachi 4:5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: In this state of sleep, there are only two ways to awaken this sublime soul level, this High Priest of the holy Temple, that is within each of us. One is a crisis of faith. When a person is faced with a crisis of faith, all the gates open, all systems come to the fore, as is taught in Tanya (chapter 19).
Revelation 7:2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The other path is the person’s connection to the universal High Priest, the Jewish leader in each generation, Rosh Alfei Yisrael (Head of Jewish Thousands), who also spiritually and physically sits all day in the holy Temple and never descends from the level of complete awe. He gives each person who is connected to him (either who knew him or who lives by his example or who studies his teachings) his own individual pitcher of oil from where the Menorah of his soul can shine even if initially all the oils were defiled.
Revelation 7:4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
Rick Joyner: To date, there has been a partial restoration of Israel to part of their Promised Land, and only a tiny percentage of the Jewish people have come to know Jesus as their Messiah. Neither would anyone claim that the church has come to her place of readiness, declared to be “without spot or wrinkle.” Obviously, the “times of the Gentiles” are not yet complete. So one of the signs we should be looking for is for both the church and Israel to start moving resolutely toward their fullness. A Messianic leader once said to me, “We wish that the church would get its act together and become what it is called to be so that Israel can become what she is called to be.” This was from a man of understanding. The church should also have the understanding that we cannot come into our full purpose without Israel.
Brat (8 Dec 18): Lord Jesus? I heard You crying today. Why? What’s wrong?
Jesus: “I know about the slander…” (Rev 2:9)
Brat: Lord Jesus, hold on a sec…You of all People know it is my deepest desire to work with You to redeem the times, so that our children and grandchildren and so forth don’t have to go through what we’ve been going through, because we fear we didn’t have the cajones to stand up for righteousness. That being said, would You accept these scripts as a redemptive offering?
Rabbi YY Jacobson: But we don’t know how. Because when we do not nurture our relationships and our spirituality during our years of plenty, when the years of famine confront us, we lack the tools we so desperately need to survive the crisis.
Jo (in “Car” 7 Dec 18): You know they hear you; they know. They just don’t know what to do with it, and they are busy doing their own game. You are not playing for readership, or money, or to sell you prayer cloths. I wish God would give you a glow or a burning outline around you; something miraculous. You have no tools but the truth.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: It’s more important than healing, more important than money, more important than everything because by being holy, you will gain everything in Christ.
Revelation 2:9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Brat: Lord, what are You talking about? You said to do no harm!
Rabbi YY Jacobson (23 Nov 18): One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house.
Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, nosh was all over the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door. He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife.
He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked, “What happened here today?”
She again smiled and answered, “You know everyday when you come home from work and ask me what in the world did I do today?” “Yes,” was his incredulous reply. She answered, “Well, today I didn’t do it.”
Matthew 17: 12 But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: Let’s pray for the willingness to suffer for the sake of coming closer to Jesus. That is, for holiness.
Pastor John Tolle (30 Sept 18): I’ve been pressing hard and some of you have not liked it, but don’t accuse me of doing wrong!
Leviticus 19:16 “‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.
Slander: making false and damaging statements about (someone).
Matthew 17: 13 Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: It’s not easy. Love requires sacrifice. We must be willing to sacrifice. That’s why we need the Blessed Virgin Mary’s prayers and God’s grace!
Rick Joyner: It should not be so surprising that few Messianic Jews seem to grasp the place of the New Jerusalem since very few Christians do either. The vision of both is still mostly earthly. Both Christians and Jews have much to learn about the other, and we need to do this because our ultimate destiny is linked. Neither of us can get to where we’re supposed to go without the other, and our ultimate destiny is to be “one new man,” not two.
Crowd: “…Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?” (Revelation 13:4)
Slander: the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation. Compare with libel.
Libel: a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation.
Revelation 13: 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
Brat: How can these scripts of dialogue be false when each person’s own words were used? For ten years I’ve been trying to pull out the best from these words, prayers, and contributions. Then just when I have hope that we are making collective progress, then the “baby” is ambushed again!
Donna Schaper: What amazes about the God/human incarnate one, who comes stealthy like a welcome if unanticipated pregnancy, lies here. The baby was soon persecuted. He also continued to watch with hopeful anticipation rather than hopeless fear. He watched for instead of watching out.
Rick Joyner: I have a great respect for Messianic movements. Many would be included in a list of the most courageous people I know. Many of their brethren, the Jews, hate them and persecute them, especially those in Israel. Many Christians consider them at best a forgettable anomaly. The New Testament confirms the place of Messianic Jews as being both believers of Jesus as their Messiah, and yet being called to maintain their Jewish culture and identity. We see this distinction being honored often in the New Testament, and it is one Christians need to understand and honor.
Quinn G. Caldwell: If you’re looking for God, look to the stars and to ancient texts, yes, but also look nearby: the hill just outside of town, the barn out back, the other room. God’s plan is to establish you in glory . . . but God will meet you where you are, first.
James W. Goll: Each time you and I proclaim the power of God over our lives and the lives of the people around us, the Holy Spirit’s words to me come to fruition: “It is time to make a worldwide impact by calling forth the watchmen to the prophetic power of proclamation.”
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: This is happening to each of us. Chanukah is not just once a year but all year long. What must we do to keep our inner High Priest awake? The secret is now, during the time of Chanukah when the miracle that happened in Jerusalem and which we are reliving now, each year again, when we light the Chanukah Menorah in our homes, in the way that the sages taught us to celebrate Chanukah. The law is to thank G-d and to praise G-d. Thanking is something passive, the power of our faith that is expressed through thanking G-d. We have to also actively give praise (see Talmud, 21b). Praise means we take our thanks and faith and we turn it into grasping and understanding Divinity, “Know the G-d of your father” ( Divrei Hayamim A, 28:9). This comes from studying Chassidut, the teachings of Chabad. The 19th of Kislev is the new year of Chassidut Chabad (and always precedes Chanukah to remind us that this is the way to wake up our soul). The study of Chassidut reveals the inner light of our holy Torah, when we actively praise G-d, not relying on just thanking him alone. This then lights up the inner part of our soul.
James W. Goll: Let’s make full use of the power of proclamation. Let’s decree things, and see them established. Let’s fill our mouths with vigorous words of praise—and we will see whole cities transformed for the glory of God!
Baruch 5:2 Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting
Brat: I worship You, God!

Smyrna 3 Dec 18

Working Dates: Monday, December 3, 2018 to Tuesday, December 4, 2018
[17 pages]
John 8: 13 The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid.”
Pastor John Tolle: The Pharisees want to make sure we are legalistically pure.
John 8: 17 In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.
Moshe Kravitz: Each law of the Chanuka lights is to subdue a force of foreign darkness
Mordechai Brown: The Chanukah lamp reminds us of the great miracle when the bit of oil burned for eight days. It is also a reminder of the Menorah in the Holy Temple, which we no longer have today.
Susan Michael: The story of Hanukkah begins during the period in between the Old and New Testaments, when Antiochus IV Epiphanes became the ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. While the Hellenization of the region already threatened the survival of the Jewish religion, Antiochus seemed obsessed with ensuring the demise of Judaism and thereby, the future of the Jewish people.
Luke 2: 8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.
Vince Amlin: Prayer
Speak Lord, your servant is watching.
Susan Michael: He not only murdered the High Priest, Onias III, but he slaughtered 40,000 inhabitants of Jerusalem. The observance of the Sabbath and feast days were prohibited as were sacrifices and temple services. In the final assault on Judaism, Antiochus ordered an idol to Zeus be erected in the temple and a pig slaughtered on the altar, thereby desecrating it.
Pastor John Tolle: You can always tell a successful man, but you can’t tell him much.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky (in “Tablets” 29 Nov 18): On his deathbed, Jacob prophesied, “The scepter [of rulership] shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from amongst his descendents, until Shiloh is come, unto whom the nations shall gather.” (Gen. 49:10) Shiloh, in this verse, is an appellation of the Mashiach. Thus, Shelah here is the Jewish people, whose consummate leader and representative is the Mashiach.
Brat: I’m listening, not judging.
John 8: 16 But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.
Rick Joyner: Continuing with our theme of the heavenly and earthly seeds of Abraham, Paul wrote in Romans that there has been a partial hardening of the Jewish people until the “times of the Gentiles are complete.” Then he declared that “all Israel will be saved.” The indications concerning what is required for the times of the Gentiles to be completed are things such as the bride of Christ being made ready and the grafting back in of the “natural branches,” which includes “all Israel being saved.”
Luke 2: 13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
Moshe Kravitz: Thinking about this truth evokes within us an intense desire to actually experience it. How can we accomplish this? Through learning Torah, the embodiment of G d’s wisdom and will in this physical world, and through fulfilling the mitzvahs, G d’s inner will (especially when we do so with joy).
Baruch 5:5 Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height; look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.
Daniel 9:24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
David Sterne: In my sleep, I saw myself in an unknown city. People were hurrying in one direction. I asked them where they hastened so urgently, and they told me that the Baal Shem Tov was soon to deliver a discourse, and they were eager to hear it. I ran with them, until we came to an imposing edifice, inside which stood two chairs.
Rabbi Bachya ben Asher: The windows in the Temple were very narrow on the inside and wide on the outside, suggesting that their purpose was not to let light enter, but, on the contrary, to illuminate the outside world.
Mordechai Brown: The Chanukah lamp is here to console us in the long dismal night of exile. It reminds us of the Menorah in the Holy Temple and of G d saying to us, “Although the actual Menorah is gone, I left you an impression of it.” This impression is the Chanukah lamp, and it will last until He sends the Mashiach to redeem us and build the Holy Temple.
Israel 365 (2 Dec 18): The City of Glory ✡ “The Glory Of This Latter House Shall Be Greater”
Joel Yount (2 Dec 18): The House You’ve Been Praying For!
Luke 2: 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.
Baruch 5:1 Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God.
Brat: Holy Jesus, You addressed the angel of the church in Smyrna. She went through these same struggles that Sophia is talking about. I, too, have also experienced them, as have my Jewish friends, and as You did as well, my Lord.
Narrator: Dispute Over Jesus’ Testimony
Pastor John Tolle: Whose model are you following?
Rick Joyner: Fundamental to our understanding of these coming to their fullness is linked to why Revelation does not mention the restoration of Israel. This Revelation that Jesus was given to give to His bondservants culminated with the New Jerusalem, not the old. Once we grasp the new creation we are called to be, it will eclipse any identity that we have in the natural. Only then will we be able to keep the main thing the main thing—our identity in Christ Jesus as Paul explained in Philippians 3:2-8:
Beware of the false circumcision;
for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,
although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:
circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;
as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ…
Susan Michael: A family from the priestly line of Aaron, the Maccabees, led a revolt against this evil ruler and miraculously experienced victory after victory over the mighty Seleucid forces, until at last the temple could be purified and its services restored. This rededication of the temple to the God of Israel is celebrated during Hanukkah, originally known as the Festival of Dedication. Hanukkah is a Hebrew word derived from the word “to dedicate.”
Rena Goldzweig (in “Tablets” 29 Nov 18): However, Jews note the day the Torah was translated as a day of mourning since the Greeks felt that the Torah is to be studied, but not practiced (as do many Jews nowadays). They outlawed the practice of the laws of the Sabbath, circumcision, and the blessing of the New Moon (and thus, all the festivals).
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The observance of nearly all the holidays, including Shabbat, is centered around festive meals. The only exception is Chanukah, where by rabbinical decree, the lighting of the candles is not only the primary celebration, it is the only celebration unique to the holiday. This serves to focus our attention on the miracle of the oil staying lit for 8 days, and not on the military victory over the Greeks. The reason for this is that the Greeks did not seek to kill us, but to make us forget our Judaism (see the paragraph “al hanisim” [“on the miracles”] that is added in the Amida and in Grace After Meals) and accept their philosophies and approach to life.
Susan Michael: This is a battle against both Judaism and Christianity, and Christians need to stand up on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people because their Bible, history of faith, and moral code is also ours.
Brat: This is what I have been doing. I guess you haven’t been listening.
Revelation 3:1 “To the angel of the church in Sardis write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
David Sterne: The Baal Shem Tov threw his head back. His face, which had been like a fiery flame, suddenly grew pale. His eyes bulged. He looked like one not in this world. At that moment I was overcome by a deep slumber, despite all my efforts to ward it off.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider (2 Dec 18): PARADOX: A CHANUKKA DILEMMA
Susan Michael, ICEJ US Director: Why are some Christians celebrating Hanukkah?
Sophia Valentina Buller: Persecution is part of the Christian life!! Think about that!
David Sterne: “But Rebbe,” one of his chassidim called out to him, “does not the holy Ari of Safed, of sainted memory, explain these meditations otherwise?”
Brat (3 Dec 18): It hit home what you said last night about how it hurts when something is just not true and no one sees it.
Sophia Valentina Buller: Wake up!! Please wake up!!! Church WAKE UP!!! Why are so many of you just like the world when you are called to be set apart!!!
Revelation 3:2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.
Moshe Kravitz: Before we can understand the above, we must first consider the verse “For the mitzvah is a candle and the Torah is light…” (Proverbs 6:23). Just as physical light is generated by a candle, the light of Torah is generated by a mitzvah candle. Without the candle of mitzvahs to dispel the darkness there can be no light of Torah! Through the mitzvah candle we attain the Torah light, which is the inner light of the Essence of G d – the source of light that has to shine below in order to transform the spiritual darkness of this world into light.
David Sterne: At that point I awoke, and saw that I still sat at the table with the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples. The color was returning to his face, and it was becoming fiery once more. Again he began to deliver the discourse on the meditations of the mikvah, and again the same disciple asked him: “Rebbe! Does not the Ari explain otherwise?”
Pastor John Tolle: Jesus became powerless. You don’t see Him doing His miracle magic through His finger. He was subject to everyone having power over Him.
Susan Michael: The Hanukkah story should serve as an encouragement to us all that when we stand up against the mighty powers of our day, we do so not in our own strength, but with God’s help. Standing in solidarity with the Jewish people at Hanukkah is a stance in support of the very root of our own faith.
Pastor John Tolle: Jesus became expendable. He gave His life as a ransom for many. He knew.
Rick Joyner (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): Giving is one thing, but when someone proposes a “partnership,” I still do a very serious “due diligence” before I join with anyone in such a serious relationship. Like any sound organization, I have it spelled out very clearly what the performance in this agreement looks like. Those who do not do business with such clear intent don’t last long, and neither do ministries or churches. This is not my ministry, but I am a steward of The King of kings. So seek to do a better job managing such things for Him than I would do for any organization or government.
Brat: I noticed.
Luke 2: 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.
Brat (01 Dec 18 on Facebook): Dear Mr Apostle John Eckhardt, Can you clarify for me what the unified goal of the apostleship is concerning us as an amoeba-like unit of the masses? As of today (01 Dec 18) one is saying “If you snooze, you lose!” Another is saying rest. Another is saying wait! Another has the agenda tracked out for 21 days, but from my pew seat I don’t see where this ship is going when each leader has a different emphasis. We pew pushers are sheep without a shepherd. Are the leaders listening to each other while they listen to the Holy Spirit? If the Church were a business, the board of directors would have to go back to the mission statement to remember what her goal is. I understand my assignment to be the reconciliation of the Seven Churches. I seldom hear anything about that anymore, and I definitely have not seen any tangible hands-and-feet in that direction. And yet it is popular to say that we are supposed to work together.
Matt Fitzgerald: “Why do you cry loudly? Have you no king?” – Micah 4:9
Pastor Steve Dittmar: This week, try to find your own story in Zacharias’ experience. Let’s face it: Age can either prepare you for receiving more of Jesus, or less. Your heart either grows softer and more humbled, or gets hardened by life’s disappointments and delays. Honestly, Zacharias’ heart was just NOT PREPARED for God’s interruption in his life through the angel Gabriel. But you know what is so encouraging? God doesn’t care whether you are prepared or not, and He doesn’t care where you are to do what He wants to do! Not in a callous way, but just because, once you’ve said “YES” to Jesus at any point in your life, no matter how many reconsiderations or “May I change my answer to ‘no’, please?” conversations will get Jesus to leave you! This is actually crazy good news.
Brat Message to John Eckhardt on Facebook (2 Dec 18): I posted a word to you yesterday about focus and the ministry of reconciliation. Being a fossil and technologically deficient, I don’t know how to continue the dialogue with you. Can someone on your team direct my communication path, assuming you wish the dialogue to continue?
Apostle John Eckhardt autoresponse: Thanks for your message. Due to the number of messages I get here I don’t always get to respond but I do read your messages and PRAY over your request. Thank you for understanding.
Pastor Steve Dittmar: With this, begin to ask yourself, if you haven’t already, “What is the biggest thing I have prayed for in my life that is now beyond my power, resource, age or reach to make happen? What is the biggest miracle I can pray for now?” Next, as we did in our services on Sunday, find someone you can share this with. It’s funny how we can have so much faith for others’ God-given dreams and promises than we have for our own; maybe that’s so we can encourage each other, connect with others of like-faith, and have our babies leap in agreement!
David Sterne: Joseph’s dream of the sheaves implied to the brothers that Joseph would govern like a judge over a limited territory for a limited period of time. This was entirely acceptable to them.
Daniel 12:12 Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
Kenneth L. Samuel: McCain’s speech didn’t offer the Senate body anything it hadn’t heard before, but it struck a chord with the senators, and indeed with Americans. It reminded us of what we already know, but what we are often prone to put aside in the pursuit of our partisan rivalries. It reminded us that mutual respect and a willingness to compromise are central to our processes of democracy.
Susan Michael: Israel, a Jewish nation-state, is antithetical to all three of these modern ideologies. Therefore, its Jewish national identity is accused of being racist by secularists and globalists. The very nation that gave the world the Ten Commandments, on which Western civilization bases its legal code and definition of morality, is hated by those attempting to impose their ideology of moral relativism—the belief that there is no right or wrong, truth or falsehood, good or evil.
Pastor John Tolle: We keep going on to prove our power. We usually have to prove something.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: What is the difference between the Jewish way and the Greek/western civilization one? Man-made philosophies accept only those ideas that make sense to human intelligence. Anything that can not be understood by the intellect is out. Therefore, the Greeks accepted, for instance, the existence of G d, His unity, His first-ness and His eternalness, but they denied G d’s “micro-management” and the Torah commandments, asking what does the Creator care if we eat meat with milk or not?
Rick Joyner: For any who grasp the new creation, and have seen the New Jerusalem, it is no longer possible to put confidence in the flesh, or have our main identity in it. When we have been born again by The Spirit into the family of God, what earthly family or association could ever compare to it? Those who put their confidence in such things as their earthly lineage or tribe could not have grasped the high calling of God in Christ, or even the new creation we are called to be.
Kenneth L. Samuel: “In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all – the most important place on earth. People from many nations will come and say, ‘Come, let us go to the mountain of the Lord… There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.'” – Micah 4:1-2
Susan Michael: Today, many world leaders are attempting to impose ideologies of secularism, globalism, and moral relativism on all of us. Once these ideologies take hold, the masses can then be easily controlled; they will have no loyalty to a religious creed, national identity, or moral code.
Pastor John Tolle: The lights on the tree don’t do Morris Code.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky (in “Tablets” 29 Nov 18): We also see this in the case of Habakkuk, who, according to some opinions, was the spark of the Mashiach in his generation. He said, “I will stand on my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And G d answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he who reads it may run. For the vision is still for an appointed time, and it speaks concerning the end, and does not lie; though it seems slow [in coming], wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not come late.'” (Habakkuk 2:1-3)
Revelation 3:3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
Sophia Valentina Buller: I’ve learned the importance of guard your heart in today’s time! Time is short and I’m led to share this because we don’t know how long we have left!
Kenneth L. Samuel: What a Comeback!
Danny Gokey: “The Comeback!” [https://youtu.be/hfhFWjaOfJs]
Rabbi YY Jacobson (3 Dec 18): The Towering Servant – a video a day for Chanukah #2
Pastor John Tolle: Most don’t ask for prayer unless they have cancer.
Kenneth L. Samuel: After he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, the now late Senator John McCain came to the Capitol to take part in the crucial health care vote. In his speech, McCain said to his senatorial colleagues: “I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other.”
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): The message [that we need each other to fulfill this great purpose…] itself is true, but it does not connect on a personal level. That’s the canyon that separates Lazarus and the rich man. I know they need me, but I have no way of reaching them by these games. If that message was intended as encouragement, well, thank you. It still doesn’t write me back. It still keeps the creeper in merchant mode. It’s still coming from the Control Tower power base. The words are nice, but predators lure with nice words, too. This is not a self-esteem issue. It’s a heart issue, courtesy issue, reality issue. It’s manipulative. It assumes I’m still the damsel in distress.
Sophia Valentina Buller: Wolves in sheep’s clothing exist in the Church and we need to pray for them because we are commanded to pray for those who abuse us and persecute us!
Kenneth L. Samuel: After seasons of futile wrangling and bitter polarization, bi-partisan unity and social civility again captured the imagination of the American populace.
Pastor John Tolle: The American Church: We’ve used Jesus. If I follow Him, He’ll make me a nobody.
Pastor Steve Dittmar: God is coming to our lives, Church. He is breaking forth and speaking. As He visits you, I encourage you not to look at yourself too long. We’ve all done that, like Zacharias did: He looked at his age and circumstances and time spent waiting and he just “couldn’t go there” to believe that he and his wife would have a son. The danger is, when we look at ourselves, our resources, abilities, station or place in life, we will quickly lose faith and disqualify ourselves; more importantly, we will disqualify God to do and be all that He is—in His power, magnificence, and ability. If we are in this place, the greatest miracle this Christmas season is that we can shut up and be silent. Silent enough that we can take a long, adoring look at Jesus. . . And let Him speak.
Rick Joyner: One Messianic leader told me that about 80% of the members of his movement were Gentiles seeking to be Jews. He appreciated their devotion to their movement, but he was concerned that they had so little confidence in their identity in Christ that they would need to try to become something they weren’t. No one who has been born again and grasped who they are called to be in Christ could ever put their confidence in the flesh, or earthly lineages.
Susan Michael: This story also has an important lesson for us today. Antiochus IV Epiphanes was no different from many other tyrannical leaders in his attempt to impose the ruling culture and ideologies of the empire upon the people. Hellenization of the Jews meant their adoption of elements of paganism and the immorality it fostered in society, as well as the ruling philosophies of humanism, reason, and pursuit of knowledge. Forcing conformity to the ruling culture and ideologies of their empire is how kings imposed their rule over the people in their domain.
Rick Joyner: That being said, it is crucial for the church to understand God’s plan for natural Israel in order for her to come into her full purpose. To really see it we must view it from the heavenly perspective of the New Jerusalem. It is likewise crucial for natural Israel to comprehend God’s purpose for the church so that she can come into her purpose. Both obviously have a long way to go in this, but we can expect these revelations to come soon if we are in fact coming to the end of this age.
Luke 21:25 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): But I’m not confused by this roaring. This is what little boys do when they’re shy. But Rapunzel doesn’t let her hair down for just anyone.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: The prisoners were shocked. Not only had Reb Asher lit a prohibited fire, but to compound the crime, it was a “religious” fire. No one could conceive how two obviously Jewish men had lit a menorah for five nights of Chanukah, and now, when they were discovered, nothing happened! This was truly a Chanukah miracle!
John 8: 14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.
Pastor Steve Dittmar: “Lord, we are super glad that when it was time for Christmas, NO ONE COULD STOP YOU. You just came in, with a beautiful unfolding of drama and life. And You’ve won the war! Right now, You are starting to break up hearts as You get ready to break forth. And for some of us, this is scary, and we feel unprepared. Some of us are in unbelief, not because we want to be here, but because it’s just been so long since the promise was first given. And we might not feel ready, but we yield. We yield to Your interruptions, even though they feel like home invasions and for some of us, that’s exactly what You are doing, invading the homes of our hearts. Where we weren’t necessarily ready but we’re glad You came. And it’s scary and messy but that’s OK. Because You are saying that the greatest miracles happen through barren wombs. Thank you, God, that when You interrupt, You don’t stop to have us catch up. Thank you that in this season, we are all coming alive—like your New Covenant Body, EVERY MEMBER IS COMING ALIVE. God, may we fully activate in this season, whether we are just beginning to feel the flutter of new life, new hope awakening again in our bellies; whether we are looking to find others of like-faith who will come alongside and ‘make our baby leap!’; or whether our voices have been unleashed, like Zacharias, who went through the transformation from unbelief and silence to gushing forth prophetic declarations by the Holy Spirit, hearing the voice of God, saying YES, then declaring, ‘THUS SAYS THE LORD!”
Revelation 2:8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.
John 8: 12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Rabbi Bachya ben Asher: Illumination – from Within
Pastor John Tolle (2 Dec 18): Most Protestants don’t celebrate Advent. Catholics do. They celebrate with candles. This first Sunday of Advent we light one candle.
Binyomin Adilman: The School of Shammai maintained that eight candles should be kindled on the first night, decreasing on each successive night until the last night, when only one is kindled.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: Reb Asher never understood what happened that night. Who was that warden? Why had he mentioned the number of candles? Was he a fellow Jew who was drawn to the sight of a menorah? Was he Elijah the prophet? The Chanukah miracle remained a mystery to the end of Reb Asher’s life. May his memory be blessed.
Mordechai Brown: The westernmost light on the Menorah burned miraculously without interruption. Its light did not come from burning fuel but from the Divine light. However, G d wanted Aaron to kindle the Menorah each day so that the finite and the infinite should merge and radiate to create an even more penetrating light, a light which will permeate into the very actions of man, not merely reflecting off him.
Binyomin Adilman: This is why the School of Hillel taught to add a candle each night, signifying that Torah learning and mitzvot add to one’s life.
Moshe Kravitz: The Greeks defiled all the oil in the Temple chambers. Wisdom is compared to oil. The Greeks wanted to contaminate the wisdom of the Torah (Divine wisdom) with their intellectual wisdom. The positive wisdom of the Torah brings about a level of self-nullification that enables the one who learns it to fulfill Torah and mitzvahs and generally be a good person. One the other hand, the negative wisdom of the Greeks brings the one who learns it to feel himself to be a separate existence. He does whatever he wants to do, rather than what G d expects of him. The Greeks wanted to neutralize the positive wisdom, the True Reality, with the negative wisdom, the perceived reality. They wanted to make the Jews forget that the Torah is G d’s Torah, and to deny G d’s existence by not allowing the Jews to do the chukim (statutes), those mitzvahs decreed by the Torah which cannot be understood (and rationally justified) by human intelligence.
Susan Michael: The Battle Is Ours Too
Pastor John Tolle: There’s no freshness. The dynamic is that we’ve lost the value of who Jesus is. I have three thoughts today, so you can have freshness. Jesus was a nobody, powerless, and expendable. Most human beings don’t subscribe to these conditions.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: This is the message of the Chanukah candles. Just as the number of candles increase night by night – more light dispelling the darkness, goodness excelling over evil – so also we are empowered to use our intellect at its maximum potential to be a candle dispelling darkness. Just as we light the candles to shine outwards, to be seen by others, so also each of us in our lives should also be like candles to shine outwards, examples of positive action to others.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: One thing they all share is that wholeness requires them to incorporate both extremes, even if only in the quiet of their mind. One approach is to dance back and forth between them…between Keter and Malchut, first and last, hidden and revealed, mashpia and mushpa (without any “shoulds’ regarding the length of time spent in each.) Finding one’s pace in this regard is the challenge (and art) of womanhood.
Pastor John Tolle: Understand that none of us can get away with life in a secret bubble, but none should use it against each other.
Luke 2: 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
Revelation 2:10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.
Apostle John Eckhardt: If you want to kill a prophet take away their freshness. They’ll die of boredom if they don’t keep moving. They need freshness.
Kenneth L. Samuel: Similarly, the message of Advent is not new. It’s been around for a long time. Love so intense and so determined, that it became flesh. Incarnate love that would sacrifice itself to make its appeal to a humanity in crisis.
Pastor John Tolle (2 Dec 18): You won’t die.
Revelation 2:11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
Mordechai Brown: The Temple is now in ruins and the Jewish People are in exile, yet we believe that soon they will both be completely uplifted and that the final redemption will be accomplished.
Revelation 2:9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Pastor John Tolle: He won’t take you out of your job.
Brat: Are you saying, “Don’t quit your day job?” Thanks for sharing.
Pastor John Tolle (2 Dec 18): Have you ever given a gift that was not appreciated at the level of your giving?
Kenneth L. Samuel: Prayer
Lord prepare us for the appreciation of your Coming.
Brat: Pastor John, you started yelling at us (again) toward the end of your sermon. My nervous system checked out and I couldn’t hear you anymore. I didn’t leave you out of disrespect. I had to go and listen to Jesus inside of me.
Pastor Steve Dittmar: I am so grateful to read in Luke 1 that Zacharias didn’t get disqualified because he didn’t believe what Gabriel said: that he and his wife Elizabeth would conceive and have a son. No, he just got quiet. Yes, it was a “forced quiet” (he became mute for at least 9 months!), but there is something so rich here: Some of the greatest things coming for you in this crazy prophetic Christmas season will make you go quiet. Because the flutter of life is starting to happen; because some of you have waited a long, long time, and now you have conception in your spiritual wombs of something very deep, though also something long forgotten.
Binyomin Adilman: Returning in the Right Direction
Revelation 3: 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Matt Fitzgerald: Prayer
Dear God, thank you for coming to us in Jesus and calling us back to you.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: The roll call seemed to go on interminably. When the warden came to Reb Asher’s name, he paused, and stared at the lights in the menorah. Then he called out, “P’yat?” (Five?)
David Sterne: At that moment, the Baal Shem Tov captured my soul.
Luke 2: 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
Binyomin Adilman: The School of Hillel, on the other hand, held that one should immediately begin to repair one’s ways by learning Torah and performing mitzvot. The positive path of learning and mitzvot automatically disassociates one from harmful actions. The path to repentance requires looking forward, not dwelling on the past. Replacing bad habits with goods ones is the proper divine service.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles: “P’yat!” Reb Asher replied in a loud voice. The warden then continued calling out the rest of the names as if nothing unusual had happened.
Brat (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): And I’ve been “incarcerated” and singing in this birdcage for …hmmm… lemme see…I’m now in my twelfth year.
Mordechai Brown: This should console each one of us in our personal exile. Although at times we lose some particular holiness, we must not despair, because G d is guarding the impression of that holiness in the depths of our hearts and we will some day regain it.
John 8: 20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
Mordechai Brown: The Jews were chosen to proclaim G d’s kingdom in this world. Therefore, they are the creatures whose very nature it is to be humbled before G d and to prepare the place for G d’s rule. Thus, they too must have been in existence from the very beginning of creation. This accords with the Sages’ statement on the verse “In the beginning, G d created heaven and earth” (Gen. 1:1) that “beginning” refers to the Jewish People, who are the very beginning of Creation (Midrash Rabbah, Gen. I).
David Sterne: Between Judge and King
John 8: 15 You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider (2 Dec 18): Hanukkah teaches us how to survive exile and how to accomplish the purpose of it. And that brings us the paradox of “isolation and integration”.
Brat (in “Tablets” 29 Nov 18): We’ve started out this discussion from Daniel 9:24. There is still no ‘Most Holy Place’ in my orbit. There is still no sanctuary. I can (and do) work on myself, but God is still speaking to His Church. And we still do not have the reconciliation of the Churches. Sometimes the message gets to her by the Jews. In order to redeem all of Daniel 9:24 we must relinquish power to them ‘to anoint the Most Holy Place’. I cannot account for anyone else, but I am listening.
John 8: 18 I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”
American Friends of Magen David Adom (3 Dec 18): THEIR HATRED IS DEEP AND INSATIABLE
Brian Simmons (3 Dec 18): I Hear His Whisper…”I will never condemn you.”
Pastor John Tolle: Did you accept Jesus in your life to consume Him?
Kenneth L. Samuel: For all of us who chafe at the commercialization of Christmas and the diminishment of the Gospel: take heart.
Mordechai Brown: The Holy Temple is the “footstool of G d” (Lamentations 2:1). It is the place where we can experience G d’s kingdom in the world. All the world is humbled before His majesty and no creature dares to deny His sovereignty. He not only rules the heavens but the earth. And nowhere on earth can we find G d’s kingdom more clearly manifest than in the Holy Temple. It is a microcosm where G d dwells. Symbolically, the Temple is that aspect of Creation which humbles itself totally before G d, thereby being a place to establish His kingdom. Such a place must exist at the beginning of Creation. Thus the verse: “A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary” (Jeremiah 17:12).
Rick Joyner: Throughout history, possibly every doctrine has been taken to extremes by those who started to major on the minors. We will never become the church we are called to be if we start worshiping the temple of The Lord instead of The Lord of the temple. Israel will likewise not become what it is called to be if they allow their vision for Israel to eclipse their worship of The Lord. We must see the glory of The Lord to be changed into what we are called to be, and we must do this without the veils of prejudices and the overemphasis of truths in place of The Truth Himself.
John 8: 19 Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”
“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
A Word by Lori Suiter (1 Dec 18): What Are We Unleashing into This World?
Revelation 3:14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.
Mordechai Brown: When one kindles the Chanukah lamp, he sees before him the Menorah of the Temple, and it shines into him and realigns his heart with G d. The Menorah whispers to him from within the Temple saying, “You and I are dependent partners. Let us do our job together to proclaim G d’s kingdom.” And his heart, which has now been transformed to the heart of the Jewish nation, answers, “Amen. So be it!”
Sophia Valentina Buller: I know Christ is able to do good works and i love you guys enough to tell you guys the TRUTH!
Kenneth L. Samuel: This is an old message that never gets old. Its relevancy may be obscured, but never erased.
Revelation 3:15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
Kenneth L. Samuel: The message of Advent is making a comeback. In times like these, it has to.
David Sterne: “For whom?” I asked.
Luke 2: 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child,
David Sterne: “For the Baal Shem Tov and the Ari,” I was told.
Sophia Valentina Buller: Seek Christ IN EVERYTHING and don’t move without Him because we live in evil times!
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: A Jew, on the other hand, believes that G d is higher than any level of wisdom and knowledge, that no thought can contain the Almighty at all, even the loftiest. Even more, one challenge of our G d-given ability to think is to understand that we and our intellect are limited, and to believe and have faith in the basic foundations of the Torah. The miracle of Chanukah is an expression of G dly wisdom overpowering human intellect.
Moshe Kravitz: The Hasmoneans (Maccabees) overpowered and defeated the Greeks through their complete devotion to G d, to the extent that they gave up their lives (their existence) to reveal G d’s existence (the idea of the mitzvah candle, see above). Afterwards, they instituted the lighting of the Chanukah candles, which is the same idea as the Torah light.
Luke 2: 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.
Mordechai Brown: Standing by the Chanukah lamp, we too can experience the transformation of seven to eight. We can, in the glow of the lights, see not only the Menorah of the Holy Temple, but also the miraculous one which, G d willing, will be built speedily in our days.
Moshe Kravitz: The Chanukah candle is a revelation of the light of the future redemption, the light of the essence of G d, the light which automatically dispels and transforms the darkness. This is why the Chanukah candle must be placed outside the door facing a public area. The outside, the domain of the public, reflects the idea of plurality, of separate existence. The Chanukah candle contains the capacity to light up even the realm that represents a denial of G d’s existence and a rebellion against Him. This darkness is automatically nullified by the light of Chanukah.
David Sterne: I managed to stand near the chair of the Baal Shem Tov, who soon began to expound the Kabbalistic meditations of the mikvah. When he had completed his discourse, the Ari challenged him with a series of questions, each of which the Baal Shem Tov answered. Finally, it was clear that the Ari accepted the Baal Shem Tov’s position as correct for the times that he lived in.
Me to Sophia (30 Nov 18): Yes, I relate to all of it, as I have experienced all of what you described. The early church did, too. Our job is to redeem the times.
Moshe Kravitz: When we meditate upon the verse “I, G d have not changed” (Malachi 3:6), we understand that the apparent change (during Creation from spiritual into physical through the concealment of the spiritual) is only from our perspective; from G d’s perspective, however, there is no darkness or concealment of His Infinite Light.
Luke 2: 15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
Mordechai Brown: In a similar manner, when we stand by the Chanukah lamp and kindle the lights with open hearts, we are standing in front of the Menorah in the Holy Temple. And as we kindle the tiny wicks, the All Merciful G d shines His pure light into our deed. Suddenly we overcome our limitations and our exile…the light passes over the limited oil and wicks and shines forth infinitely.
Susan Michael: Therefore, I wish all of our Jewish friends—and my fellow Christians— a Happy Hanukkah!
Revelation 3:4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.
Brat (3 Dec 18): Holy Jesus, show us that our efforts to redeem the times will bear fruit this time despite the slander. I lift up Sophia as a crown to her husband, just as You are my Husband.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider (in “Tablets” 29 Nov 18): Whereas before she was their maidservant, now she is their Crown, as it says, “A woman of valor is a crown to her husband.” [Proverbs 12:4] The 8th day of Chanukka corresponds to the 7th Millennium (the Cosmic Shabbat or World-to-Come) because we started our candle-count with Binah which is above the Seven Creation Days.8 [ ]
Pastor Steve Dittmar: As we take that long look at Jesus, seeing and hearing what He is doing in and through us right now, let’s seek out people of like-faith, those who look at us and say, “Your voice made my baby leap!” This is what Mary did in Luke 1 once she learned she was pregnant with Jesus. Yes, she treasured this truth in her heart and praised God, but she also did what it took—traveled the equivalent of about 80-90 miles—to find someone of like-faith, her cousin Elizabeth, who might come alongside her and agree with her miracle. Otherwise, alone, our faith can weaken. But with those alongside us who can see and agree with what God has placed inside of our wombs– those promises of destiny and purpose–we can begin to say with confidence, “This is happening”, and people will start to rejoice around us. I prophesy that this will be the case for each one of us.
Mordechai Brown: Both the Temple and the Jewish Nation establish G d’s kingdom in the world. The Greeks aspired to disrupt the divinely ordained order by oppressing the Jews and defining the Temple. They were finally defeated. Both the Jewish People and the Temple were liberated, securing G d’s place in the world once again. The inner deep truth of the universe streamed forth through the Menorah in the Temple, revealing G d’s sovereignty over the natural world.
Moshe Kravitz: We contemplate further and we intellectually realize that even from our perspective there is no darkness and no concealment – only G d’s Infinite Light.
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: Clothing Forever
Luke 2: 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
Rick Joyner: To date, there has been a partial restoration of Israel to part of their Promised Land, and only a tiny percentage of the Jewish people have come to know Jesus as their Messiah. Neither would anyone claim that the church has come to her place of readiness, declared to be “without spot or wrinkle.” Obviously, the “times of the Gentiles” are not yet complete. So one of the signs we should be looking for is for both the church and Israel to start moving resolutely toward their fullness. A Messianic leader once said to me, “We wish that the church would get its act together and become what it is called to be so that Israel can become what she is called to be.” This was from a man of understanding. The church should also have the understanding that we cannot come into our full purpose without Israel.
Pastor John Tolle: When God gave Jesus, He became a NOBODY. He is God. He lived beyond the confines of this world. He was born into debased conditions. I know no woman here who has given birth in a hay stall.
Brat: Even nobodies need a quiet place of sanctuary to pray and do one’s assignment that God has commissioned her to do. Jesus told us to go to our closet to pray.
Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Brat: Jesus, Himself, didn’t have a closet to pray in and that was a great sacrifice on His part to say this to us.
Rick Joyner: Francis Frangipane used to say that he “used to be Italian until he got born again.” However, we all know that he is still Italian. Jews are still Jews and the Irish are still Irish. It is not wrong to have an identity in our tribes and cultures, but it is when we allow our natural associations to eclipse the new creation identity that we have in Christ. When that happens we are living more by the vision of “the seed of Cain” who was “a tiller of the ground,” or earthly minded.
Revelation 3:5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
Rabbi YY Jacobson (04 Dec 18): Nobody Can Destroy Your Thirst – a video a day for Chanukah
Israel 365 (04 Dec 18): The Comfort of Zion ✡ “He Has Made Her Wilderness Like Eden”
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: Fortunate is the destiny of he whose garments are repaired and complete in his physical lifespan.
Revelation 3:6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Pastor Steve Dittmar: I want a crazy prophetic Christmas this year, don’t you? Let’s take the ceiling off; let’s wipe our tears, let’s be the first people to say “Yes” to our Jesus. Because He wants to break into our lives, He wants to break our futures wide open: full of life, full of promise, and the momentum to move forward. We say, “Yes, Lord. Let it be to us according to Your Word”. . .
Luke 2: 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
David Sterne: The Baal Shem Tov turned to me and said, “Dovid! Stand up and testify to what you have seen!”
Jordan Feliz: “Witness” [https://youtu.be/wgD92xLlNGs]

Tablets 29 Nov 18

Working Dates: Thursday, November 29, 2018 to Sunday, December 2, 2018
[16 pages]
Dan Schnur: When the American Jewish community looks in the mirror, we see David carrying his sling. But to everybody else, we look a lot like Goliath.
Daniel 9:24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Brat (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): Is there no place of sanctuary where we can all work on this together?
Rick Joyner (27 Nov 18): We need each other to fulfill this great purpose…
Brat: [Slow blink.]
Luke 22: 22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed. But woe to that man who betrays him!”
Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach of Avritch: But the Jew says to G-d, ‘Gaze into my identity and you will see that my intimacy is shared only with You, G-d’, to which G-d answers, “The Jew going astray is my fault…because I did not give Tamar to my son Shelah,” referring to the Mashiach.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: The Lubavitcher Rebbe teaches that a basic reorientation of perspective of what the Torah is and what it expects from us about serving G-d can be learned here. Even though a basic tenant of the Torah is, “It is fitting for a person to contemplate the laws of the Holy Torah and to learn them in depth, each person according to his ability.” (Maimonides, end of The Laws of Embezzlement). This means that you must use your brain and intellect to understand G-d’s commandments, and therefore we learn the age of obligation of the commandments from the word eesh (“man”) that indicates a certain maturity of intellect. Nevertheless, the foundation of serving G-d is NOT intellect and understanding, but accepting the yoke of Heaven. Doing it because G-d commanded it, not because you understand it. Even if we do not understand the commandments we still have to fulfill them because G-d commanded it.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Some of the Jewish people who lived before the destruction of the Temple were guilty of very heinous sins. The Sages state that the First Temple was destroyed because of the sins of idolatry, murder, and adultery, while the Second Temple was destroyed because of the sins of baseless hatred and despising Torah study.
Seth Farber: Chief Rabbinate’s List Has Glaring Omissions
Rick Joyner: What is considered the biggest omission?
Dan Schnur: The 12 tribes of Israel have thousands of years of underdog status that should give us the hard-earned credibility to stand with other subjugated peoples. Which makes it especially frustrating when those whose travails are of more recent vintage see us as oppressors rather than the oppressed.
Mark 4:10 When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables.
Narrator: The Dysfunctional Silence was addressed seven-and-a-half years ago.
Daniel 9: 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”
Brat (in “Rick Joyner 2nd Letter” 25 Jul 2011): The audience to whom I write, who is lost, and to whom God has sent me to address, is the archetypal “Seven Churches.” They are part of the ninety-nine whom the Lord has sent me to. Will you help me help Him? If you did not receive my letter of introduction, I can send it again. I come in peace and grace and only desire to do the will of the Father. The Church still remains dysfunctionally silent. I asked God about this sterile, surgical silence, (which I wrote about in the other letter to you.) God said, “The Church knows. That’s why she’s silent. It is the silence of conviction.”
Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach of Avritch: When Judah (the metaphor for G-d) is “informed” that His bride Tamar (the Jewish people) has betrayed Him, substituting him with another partner, Tamar is convicted.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: It can happen that when something is deeply true, it transcends itself and enters the category of archetype. Its lessons then apply to things that have nothing (apparently) to do with its story, yet it provides the template for making sense of those other things because, beneath the surface, they actually do share a common root.
Sophia Valentina Buller (30 Nov 2018): Hey, I’ve been seeing a weird repetitive vision lately with my eyes open of something I believe that God is going to reveal that has to do with deception that creeped into the churches. Always please pray for me to have the boldness that I need to do whatever God asks me to because this vision is something very serious and involves people in leadership from what I understood. (I don’t know who, all I heard the 1st time was mega church, the 2nd time I heard the Vatican) and really sick stuff going on and anyways please pray for me to be bold when God calls me to be.
Me to Sophia: I bless your current and future boldness. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for confirming what God shared with me at the beginning of my calling ten years ago and the Church dove into dysfunctional silence when I spoke up. I saw the Catholic Church as the top half of Thyatira (Rev 2:18-23) and the mega churches as the bottom half (Rev 2:24-29).)
Sophia to me: Thank you. I’m grateful that it was confirmation!
Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson: Who is the traitor?
John-Paul and Annie Deddens (29 Nov 18): Today, we would like to pray for the intentions of the Pray More Novenas community.
Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson: The Pardes Yosef, quoting Rabenu Ya’acov Algazi, writes that Jacob had special intentions in sending real angels to meet his brother Esau.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: These wicked people were eliminated in the destructions. The people remaining were not guilty of these sins, and whatever sins they committed could be atoned for and rectified by the process of exile. Even though G d exiled the Jewish people, His Divine Presence (the Shechina) accompanies us, always available to us.
Brat: The same Holy Spirit descended upon Mary.
Luke 1: 35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: The Prince of Peace and the Lord of Lords chose you for the singular grace and honor of being His beloved mother. He preserved you from all sin. Therefore, by His power and love, I have hope and bold confidence in your prayers for my holiness and salvation.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: Curiously, Binah associates with the higher Shekhina called Ima (literally, Mother) and Malchut associates with the lower Shekhina called Nukba (literally, Woman). Chanukka thus begins and ends on a feminine note. The first candle (of Binah) accompanies all the subsequent lights, and its last candle (of Malchut) gets honored with a name of its own—Zot Chanukka—(in part) because it enacts the last frame of the Shekhina’s moonlike odyssey (as we shall see). Zot is the feminine form of the Hebrew word for, “this.” It associates with the cosmic feminine (called parzuf Nukba, aka the lower Shekhina) because the first place that word appears in the Torah is in the verse where Adam designates Chava as woman.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: “Wait as a widow…” [This image also applies to the Shechina], as it is written, “[Oh, how the populous city now dwells alone, the greatest amongst the nations] has become like a widow.” (Lamentations 1:1) [The Shechina] has to be like a widow during the exile.]
Brat: And I’ve been “incarcerated” and singing in this birdcage for …hmmm… lemme see…I’m now in my twelfth year.
Jeremiah 5: 27 Like cages full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
they have become rich and powerful
Rick Joyner (in “Dickensian” 26 Nov 18): As a Christian leader with a fairly sizable reach, I am often contacted by Messianic groups that want to “partner” with me. I’m always open to any kind of partnership that will further the kingdom, but I am especially open to these because it must happen. When I ask how they see this partnership working, the answer has been focused, with but one exception, 100% on ways we can support them or contribute to their projects. There seemingly is not even a thought about how they can help us or contribute to what we are doing.
Rena Goldzweig: When the 2nd temple was destroyed, the disputes of the Gemara were formulated and written down, contrary to the ordinance that the Oral Torah only be learned by heart and not written down. This was on the one hand, a result of the greater darkness in the world due to the Temple’s destruction and on the other hand, a new wealth of Torah light with which to combat this self-same darkness.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: There are more than 450,000 people praying with us!
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: This esoteric wisdom is an Oral Tradition passed down from mother to daughter. The Zohar, describes its transmission as follows: ואמא אוזיפת לברתא מאנהא וקשיטא לה בקישוטהא: [The cosmic] Ima lends her keylim [vessels/clothing] to her daughter and bedecks her with jewels. [Zohar 2:2a]
Narrator: From three-and-a-half years ago…
Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7:14 pm Journal: …I was talking to God about this. I don’t know the incarnate Church. I know the Church made of flesh and bones that have breath in the bones and they walk around. (Eze 37:10)
Ezekiel 37: 11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off [!].’
Brat: I know the Spirit had been cut off.
Daniel 9: 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be cut off [!] and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
Brat: Jesus was also cut off.
Isaiah 53: 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off [!] from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
Brat: In my experience, I know the walking bones of the Church, but I do not know the incarnate Church. The fleshy Church has breath because she lives. The Incarnate Church has breath because the Holy Spirit lives in her. The Incarnate Church is changed from the inside out and she moves her bones by the Holy Spirit. The fleshy Church moves her bones and breathes, but there is no real change of spirit evidenced in her actions. She’s all talk.
Darrell Goodwin: Distance has a way of broadening our perspective.
Brat: Father, I ask You to breathe Your incarnate living Spirit back into Your Church.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: I pray that your prayers will bring me to imitate your holiness and submission to Jesus and the Divine Will.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: This is the opening of the Book of Lamentations, the prophet Jeremiah’s dirge lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the seat of the Temple, is seen as the Shechina incarnate.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: O most pure Virgin Mary conceived without sin, from the very first instant, you were entirely immaculate. O glorious Mary full of grace, you are the mother of my God – the Queen of Angels and of men. I humbly venerate you as the chosen mother of my Savior, Jesus Christ.
Brat: I know where you live, Pergamum. The City of Angels must also answer to Jesus Christ, her highest Authority.
Israel 365 (29 Nov 18): The Jewish Mother Tongue ✡ “How To Speak Judean”
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): This morning when I was working on the second revision (or third?) I was concentrating on the piece. I’d gotten on Bible Gateway to reference verses but NOT gotten on my emails. I finally did that AFTER I’d posted “Dickensian.” The weird thing was that instead of the ap showing the GMAIL icon with the envelope outlined in red, it showed the icon, but where GMAIL should have been written on the envelope, it said, “We need each other to fulfill this great purpose…” Rick Joyner had sent that on an advertisement yesterday with that tagline (which I wove into our storyline).
Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson: “Identify, I beg you, these objects. Who is the owner of this seal, cord and staff?” the Jew asks G d. “It is to this man that I am pregnant!” Our loyalty and commitment remain eternally to the owner of the “seal” and “cord” of the Chanukah flames; our deepest intimacy is reserved to the owner of the “staff” of Jewish wandering.
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): Seeing that smeared across my GMAIL icon was instantly creepy. I cannot assume Rick put it there. Any of the tech savvy Funny Bunnies could have put that there. I don’t know you [tech vultures]!
Bio: Rena Goldzweig, a long-time resident of Tsfat, is the technical editor of KabbalaOnline.org.
Brat: Well, hello! I don’t know you either, but I’m sooo glad and relieved to meet you! You are not at all like the Funny Bunnies. Welcome to the conversation.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: We also see this in the case of Habakkuk, who, according to some opinions, was the spark of the Mashiach in his generation. He said, “I will stand on my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And G d answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he who reads it may run. For the vision is still for an appointed time, and it speaks concerning the end, and does not lie; though it seems slow [in coming], wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not come late.'” (Habakkuk 2:1-3)
Rena Goldzweig: It is said that olive oil be eaten only in tiny amounts as a seasoning for the main course, as the innermost mystical secrets of Torah that reveal the G-dliness concealed within the Revealed Torah.
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): The message [that we need each other to fulfill this great purpose…] itself is true, but it does not connect on a personal level. That’s the canyon that separates Lazarus and the rich man. I know they need me, but I have no way of reaching them by these games. If that message was intended as encouragement, well, thank you. It still doesn’t write me back. It still keeps the creeper in merchant mode. It’s still coming from the Control Tower power base. The words are nice, but predators lure with nice words, too. This is not a self-esteem issue. It’s a heart issue, courtesy issue, reality issue. It’s manipulative. It assumes I’m still the damsel in distress.
Darrell Goodwin: Prayer
Holy One, you desire that we prosper and be in health even as our soul prospers. Teach us to embrace the “no” as we march toward the “yes.”
Rena Goldzweig: However, Jews note the day the Torah was translated as a day of mourning since the Greeks felt that the Torah is to be studied, but not practiced (as do many Jews nowadays). They outlawed the practice of the laws of the Sabbath, circumcision, and the blessing of the New Moon (and thus, all the festivals).
Luke 21:25 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): But I’m not confused by this roaring. This is what little boys do when they’re shy. But Rapunzel doesn’t let her hair down for just anyone.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Thus, Shelah refers to the Jewish people in exile. The Shechina is destined to mate when Shelah attains his mature form, Shiloh. Shelah and Shiloh are spelled exactly the same, except that Shiloh possesses an additional yud.
Revelation 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.
Derrick Gates: The angel WOW is at the doorstep of America and desires to slay the demonic forces that have been released. Will you partner with WOW and let these angels into your atmosphere to shift the things in your life? You must surrender control and ask yourself if you are partnering with God or are you partnering with the anti-awakening? Surrender any legal rights you have given to the enemy and release God’s hand of judgment upon these evil spirits.
Darrell Goodwin: “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.” – Psalm 84:11
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): For all I know it could be the old Army recruiting slogan: We want YOU!
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: To understand the mystery of Zot Chanukka we need to examine a teaching by the master kabbalist, R. Shlomo Elyashiv (the Leshem). He comments on a verse from Isaiah: ֲאִני ִראשׁוֹן ַו ֲאִני ַא ֲחרוֹן וּ ִמ ַבּ ְל ָע ַדי ֵאין ֱא�קים: I am the first and I am the last. Besides me there is no G-d. [Isaiah 44:6] The Leshem asserts that this is spoken by the Shekhina, the cosmic feminine: “She is the first and She is the last…”4 [ ] This verse captures the existential mystery of the feminine—that two opposite and paradoxical truths jostle at her core, though one is evident, and one more hidden. Her more visible archetype (at least historically) is as Malchut, the moonlike feminine that wanes and waxes and has no light except what she receives from her sun, ie her spouse (the partzuf called man) who incorporates the upper sefirot from Chesed through Yesod. (Remember, we are speaking about archtypes; real people always include a full set of sefirot and something of both genders within them).
Brat: I’m trying to understand, really I am! Jesus said:
Revelation 22: 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Brat: Jesus is my Spouse.
Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson: “Judah immediately recognized the articles, and he said, ‘She is right; it is from me that she conceived. She did it because I did not give her to my son Shelah.'” (Gen. 38:26) When G d observes the burning flames of the Chanukah menorah, He immediately recognizes that indeed, His people have never left Him. True, the Jew does fall prey at times to the dominating external forces of a materialistic and immoral world, yet this enslavement is skin deep. Probe the layers of his or her soul and you will discover an infinite wellspring of spirituality and love.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: But there is another, hidden face of the feminine that is equally true but (even in our modern times) not equally visible. That is her “I am the first…” expression. In this mode she occupies the highest sefira of Keter (or Crown). As Keter, says the Leshem, she births the entire world into existence and nurtures it constantly. Whatever anyone has they have drawn it from her and are beholden to her. She is actually the (hidden) source, wellspring and mashpia to all those that she “serves” in her Malchut/Nukba role. Everything (including her sun) are (secretly) utterly dependent upon her. This is the hidden truth of the cosmic feminine, that: “She is the first…”5 [ ] The Leshem’s teaching applies to the feminine archetype on all scales, whether as Shekhina in relation to HaKadosh Boruch Hu, Israel in relation to HaShem, women in relation to men, or anima (the inner feminine) within every human being.
Revelation 12:1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun [Jesus], with the moon under her feet [reflecting Jesus] and a crown of twelve stars [12 tribes? 12 apostles?] on her head.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: As Malchut she is the lowest point of the system—its footstool—utterly dependent upon the sefirot above that are functioning as her (metaphoric) sun, providing her with light, bounty and provisions. The Shekhina, in her moonlike archetype, is the enabler whose merit comes (not from her own accomplishments) but from enabling others to thrive. As the Talmud bluntly states… “a woman earns her olam haba by taking her children to school and supporting her husband’s spiritual ambitions.”5 [ ] That, says the Leshem, is the Shekhina’s Nukba mode where she embodies the pole of “…I am the last.”
Brat (01 Dec 18 on Facebook): Dear Mr Apostle John Eckhardt,
Can you clarify for me what the unified goal of the apostleship is concerning us as an amoeba-like unit of the masses? As of today (01 Dec 18) one is saying “If you snooze, you lose!” Another is saying rest. Another is saying wait! Another has the agenda tracked out for 21 days, but from my pew seat I don’t see where this ship is going when each leader has a different emphasis. We pew pushers are sheep without a shepherd. Are the leaders listening to each other while they listen to the Holy Spirit? If the Church were a business, the board of directors would have to go back to the mission statement to remember what her goal is. I understand my assignment to be the reconciliation of the Seven Churches. I seldom hear anything about that anymore, and I definitely have not seen any tangible hands-and-feet in that direction. And yet it is popular to say that we are supposed to work together.
Verse of the Day (2 Dec 18): [ God’s Final Word: His Son ] In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. ~Hebrews 1:1-2 NIV
Rena Goldzweig: Jewish holidays are generally celebrated with a festive meal including bread and wine, as they mark a day of physical salvation. Pesach marks our salvation from bondage in Egypt; Purim marks our salvation from Haman’s decree.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is an important day for us to reflect on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s life. Her life is the ideal example of the Christian life lived for God.
Rena Goldzweig: Chanukah is the only Jewish holiday without any obligatory festive meal. We celebrate in a completely spiritual manner by lighting candles (preferably with olive oil) and saying additional special prayers, (i.e. Al Ha-nissim & Hallel.)
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): Yes, you do, but an officer and a gentleman would not treat a veteran the same way he would treat a newbie. And he definitely would treat a lady (even a lady brat) with respect, honor, and decency.
Rena Goldzweig: The mundane act of eating matza made of flour & water in honor of Passover in fact spiritually elevates the flour and water to their G-dly source. Bread & water, the main staples of one’s diet, signify the revealed Torah (the 24 books of the Written Torah and the laws) which one cannot live a Torah life without.
Luke 22: 19 And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
Rena Goldzweig: Wine, obligatory for Kiddush, also provides enjoyment and should be imbibed regularly in small amounts to accompany the main meal of the day, just like the Kabbalistic teachings which should be learned in addition to the revealed Torah.
Brian Simmons (29 Nov 18): I Hear His Whisper…”Come to My feast.”
Luke 22: 20 In the same way, after the supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: Let’s pray not only that God will provide for them, but that we may also provide for them.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Exile is compared to widowhood, since in exile the Shechina (the wife, in this allegory) must exist without her husband (G d). The Shechina, the sefira of malchut of Atzilut, descends into the lower worlds in order to sustain them and is prevented from rejoining with Zeir Anpin of Atzilut to renew her inspiration.
Darrell Goodwin: The “Yes” in “No”!
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: To begin, let’s pray for all of those who suffer material poverty and go unnoticed, and un-cared for.
Revelation 3:17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: “…in your father’s house…” This refers to the Holy One, blessed be He.
Rena Goldzweig: However, as we move further away in time from the revelation of the Torah on Mt Sinai, the darkness of secular knowledge constantly increases in the world. Therefore, additional parts of the Torah are correspondingly revealed to give us more strength to combat the darkness and this “oil” an even more necessary component of our diet.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: So it goes for Chanukka which celebrates our Maccabean victory and the miracle of oil that enshrined our reclamation of the Temple. This eight-day festival of lights is so profound (says the Maharshal), that it (along with Purim) are the only two holidays that will remain significant in post-messianic times when “knowledge of G-d fills the earth like the sea fills the ocean bed.”1,2 [ ] In that future era, we will be so enlightened, that the devekut produced by a festival will be like a candle in broad daylight.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: “…and wait until my son Shelah grows up”, implying that he is still young. This means that [she should wait] until [Shelah] is filled with the letter yud, indicating the supernal light. [This state] is alluded to in the verse, “Behold, I have made you small amongst the nations; you are very despised.” (Obadiah 1:2)
Dan Schnur: Leading politicians denounced the assemblage, stirring the student government to denounce the collusion of “outside powerful forces.” The pro-Israel and Jewish communities turned out in peaceful but virulent protest, and by the time the conference ended nothing had dramatically changed. The haters had hated. The protesters had protested. But the protracted erosion of pro-Israel sentiment among our nation’s next generation of leaders had incrementally advanced, creating an even greater long-term challenge for our community and our future.
Derrick Gates: I noticed that the meetings in California although very good, seemed dulled. The Lord showed me that it was the python spirit squeezing the life out of the Church, and then the spirit of slumber comes upon them to put them to sleep. You see a very significant increase in depression, anxiety, panic, and laziness. People cannot seem to get up and get out to the things they need to do or to do it on time. This has also caused the Body to miss opportunities that God has laid before them because their spiritual senses are dulled. They even miss opportunities to partner with God financially as the enemy whispers into their ears that they should not give or give far less than what God wants. It’s all a demonic witchcraft attack to stop the awakening that’s happening in the United States.
Chabad.org (in “Fall of the City of Knowledge” 22 Nov 18): What better answer can there be to those who want us to disappear? Taking a cue from the Maccabees, we will stand together, our proud presence declaring that with G d’s help, the Jewish nation is here today, tomorrow, and forever.
Rena Goldzweig: When the Jews strengthened their Torah practice as well as study, under Judah the Maccabi’s leadership, they vanquished the Greek forces, although greatly outnumbered and lacking experience.
Luke 21:36 Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): Lord, they’ve already taken place. I stand before You! I worship You, Jesus!
Dan Schnur: It becomes even more aggravating when groups of Palestinian provocateurs set up shop on our children’s college campuses, deliberately baiting us into a series of high-profile confrontations for which there is no clear path to success. If Jews and other pro-Israel voices push back against the lies and hatred directed at our community and our homeland, we provide our antagonists with an even more visible platform. Even more damaging is that a public altercation reinforces that David and Goliath narrative — in precisely the wrong direction — as the presence of well-meaning political and community leaders standing on Israel’s behalf elicits predictable bleating from the conspiracy-minded about the influence of the “Jewish lobby.”
Brat (in “Fall of the City of Knowledge” 22 Nov 18): Directly confronting abuses has proven futile, but that does not mean I am tolerant of it.
Charisma: What Happens When You Shut Hell Up?
Steve Shultz: Act on this!
Me to Sophia (30 Nov 18): I will pray. It is good that he is not tolerating the Jezebel spirit. God has something to work from when we take a stand.
Darrell Goodwin: Maybe the “no” you are hearing right now is rooted in discrimination, flawed theology or a limited view of a BIG God. But consider for a moment that the “no” is God reminding you that since no good thing can be withheld from you; the “no’s” are simply clearing a path for your “yes.”
Steve Shultz: No worries! Just make sure your slate is clean and that you haven’t given, through sin, the devil anything to work with.
Derrick Gates: Now God is releasing a warrior platoon to assault this brazened attack of darkness and it will come with shock and awe. It will not be pretty and it will not be lightly done as God’s angel of WOW takes down the strongholds that darkness has been building. Your freedom is coming, even as you read this—raise your hands and ask the Lord to send His warrior angels to restore your life, to bring light back to your walk, to restore your faith, to release your inheritance, in Jesus’ mighty name.
Brat: Is God not marvelous? He promised to turn the enemy on himself. All we had to do is witness it.
Derrick Gates: “The Angel of WOW and His Platoon of Shock and Awe”
Brat (in “Fall of the City of Knowledge” 22 Nov 18): The Lord sent ambushes and the enemies destroyed each other. (2 Chr 20:22-23) Well, Webmaster, it would seem that we are both witnesses to the ambush, just as God said He would do!
Israel 365 (28 Nov 18): The Knowledge of God ✡ “Swearing Loyalty To The Lord Of Hosts”
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Shelah remains in exile “until Shiloh will come”, filled [with the yud]. This refers to the Mashiach, who [will possess the soul of] Moses.
Revelation 2: 26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: On his deathbed, Jacob prophesied, “The scepter [of rulership] shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from amongst his descendents, until Shiloh is come, unto whom the nations shall gather.” (Gen. 49:10) Shiloh, in this verse, is an appellation of the Mashiach. Thus, Shelah here is the Jewish people, whose consummate leader and representative is the Mashiach.
Brat: I’m listening, not judging.
Breaking Israel News (29 Nov 18): Sanhedrin Invites 70 Nations to Hanukkah Dedication of Altar for the Third Temple and New UN
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The Sages state that Moses is the first and last redeemer. This means that his soul will in some way be present in the Mashiach.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: So we will strive during this novena to imitate Mary, and especially her profound love of God.
House of Destiny (28 Nov 18): “Spirits – Pythos” Series Conclusion
Revelation 15: 2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God 3 and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:
“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The reason why [G d] decreed that [the Shechina] should be like a widow is “because He feared lest he die as did his brothers.” Therefore, she would have to remain a widow, without a husband, until the Mashiach comes, i.e. until Shelah grows up.
Elijah List (29 Nov 18): Am I missing out on what God is speaking to me every night?
Dan Schnur: The result is that brave Jewish and pro-Israel students of UCLA and other universities throughout the state will continue to spend their days on campuses where young progressives develop growing levels of antipathy toward Israel and corresponding levels of empathy for its detractors.
Darrell Goodwin: Last year, I was a finalist for a senior university position. I was told that though I was the strongest candidate, all of “who I was and would bring” were not resonant with their institutional identity. I was disappointed, I had flown across the country, met with multiple constituents, interviewed well, gave my all, and the answer was still “no.”
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Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: If the Shechina would “wed” the Jewish people – and thus not be in exile – and they would be found unworthy of this union, they would have to die as did their brethren when the Temples stood. Therefore, G d prefered that the Shechina remain in exile. When living in the Temple’s presence, the standards of behavior are higher, i.e. sinning is more sinful, more of an affront to the open manifestation of divinity. In exile, the Jews could be rectified gradually and safely.
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Revelation 2:28 I will also give that one the morning star.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: “…because He feared lest he die as did his brothers.” This is because in every generation a spark of the Mashiach comes into the world, in accordance with G d’s will. If the generation is worthy, [he is revealed as the Mashiach]. If not, he dies or is killed as a martyr, as happened to Rabbi Akiva in the time of Ben Koziba, and in many other cases we do not even know about.
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: As my final request, I ask that you pray for me to increase in faith in our risen Lord; I ask that you pray for me to increase in hope in our risen Lord; I ask that you pray for me to increase in love for the risen Jesus!
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Rabbi Akiva was killed as a martyr in the Hadrianic persecutions that came as a reaction to the revolt of Bar Kochba, whom the Sages called pejoratively “Ben Koziba”, “the deceiving one”.
Dan Schnur: It’s hard out there for Goliath, especially in a pro-David crowd. And it’s even more challenging when that crowd believes that we are simply Goliath pretending to be David. Overcoming this credibility gap won’t be easy. But the first step for a Jewish community that still thinks of ourselves as the underdog is to be willing to see ourselves as our potential progressive allies currently see us.
Rena Goldzweig: The Greeks didn’t set out to annihilate the Jews at first. Instead, they sought to enlighten the “backward” Jews with the “modern” Greek culture of arts and sciences, hoping that they would assimilate as their other captive nations did. In contrast to other tormentors of the Jews, they admired the Torah and its wisdom. King Ptolemy even had the Jewish scholars translate the Torah into Greek so that he may study it more easily.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: But come he must in every generation, either to redeem Israel if they are worthy, or to purify the generation, or to teach them the Torah if the generation is ignorant.
Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson: How can I expect that a Jew never commit a sin? How can I expect that a Jew never try to cast his luck with the materialistic world about him that seems so appealing, when I held back for so long the light of Mashiach? “It is I, G d, who is guilty of treason,” G d says. Not the Jew. Tamar is an innocent, beautiful palm-tree, which still has only one heart to its father in heaven.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: This verse follows the account of how Daniel witnessed frightening and incomprehensible allegories.
Rena Goldzweig: The Torah isn’t just another book of wisdom – it is G-d’s blueprint for the world and all that exists. The Greeks’ treatment of G-dly wisdom as mundane strengthened the “husk” of Greek power and enabled them (at least at first) be victorious over the Jews.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: This is why [Jacob] said, “lest he also die,” referring to the one [spark of the Mashiach] that comes in every generation. “Do not marry him,” he said, “until he matures. He will then come to redeem Israel by G d’s will.”
John-Paul and Annie Deddens: Let’s also pray that we may not take anything for granted in our lives.
Rena Goldzweig: “Chanukah from Sinai to the Internet”
Brat (“Recruit” 28 Nov 18): Admittedly I don’t understand the Luke passage on the coming of the Son of Man. (Luke 21:25-36) I thought I had a fairly good idea of what “coming on the clouds” meant (the Cloud on the Internet?), but with the ‘power and great glory’ (Luke 21:27), well, Lord, I still need You to show me what You’re talking about. I used to have a better idea at the beginning of my calling of that beauty and holiness, but that was before the abomination of desolation occurred. Now the purity of that understanding is tainted. However, nothing is too hard for You to redeem and clean up, Lord!
Verse of the Day (30 Nov 18): But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives ~ 2 Peter 3:10-11 NIV
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 4:15 am Journal: God had gotten me up at 3 am and I was working on “Tablets”. I was in the divine flow when the cyber beast ate my work. It started scrolling down “Tablets” and erased everything and replaced it with 1,028 blank pages. I tried to stop the madness. It wouldn’t stop. I finally did a hard shut-down. When I tried to get back into my computer it wouldn’t let me in. I was locked out. I tried Dad’s desktop computer that hasn’t been started for a year. It came up, but its mouse is dead, so there was no way to navigate. I prayed and waited for God to come through with an answer as to how He wanted me to proceed. Then the bar on the lock-out screen opened up and allowed me to enter my PIN. I went into the flashdrive and tried to save the autosaved documents. “Tablets” and the work I’d done is gone. I went into the Cloud and brought down that version that I’d saved. That was the version that I’d saved before I went to bed last night. So, all the work that I’ve done for the last hour is lost.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The remainder of this excerpt describes how in the case of the prophet Habakkuk, we see also that G d said that the time must be ripe for the Redemption to occur.
Brat (30 Nov 18): Lord, this is discouraging. Do You want me to work on my assignment or not?
Revelation 22: 12 “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.
Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson: “If the Jew has, in fact, gone astray here and there, it is my fault,” G d says, not his. “…Because I did not give Tamar to my son Shelah.” Shelah is the Biblical term used to describe Mashiach. (see Gen. 49:12) G d says that for two millennia I have kept the Jewish nation in a dark and horrific exile where they have been subjected to horrendous pain and savage suffering. Blood, tears and death have been their tragic fate for twenty centuries, as they prayed, each day and every moment for world redemption. But redemption has not come.
Rena Goldzweig: The Zohar was originally taught by R. Shimon Bar Yochai only to those already well versed in the Revealed torah. At the time of the Renaissance, the Holy Ari caused Torah secrets to become even more wide-spread. During the “Enlightenment” movement, there was an outpouring of Chassidic knowledge, and in fact, the Ba’al Shem Tov declared it necessary to spread the wellsprings of Kabbala ever further, until in recent years, we have merited the dissemination of the innermost secrets of the Torah on the Internet!
Revelation 15:4 Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: This seems self-contradictory. If G d told him “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that he who reads it may run [through it]”, meaning, so that whoever reads it will understand it immediately, it is obvious that he will write it plainly and clearly. But then, after [G d] tells him what to write, He says that the matter is cryptic, and that “the vision is still for an appointed time, and it speaks concerning the end, and does not lie; though it seems slow, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not come late”, without saying when. This statement adds nothing to what we have been believing for all generations, i.e. that even if [the Mashiach] tarries, we still await him, for “he will surely come”.
Me to Sophia (30 Nov 18): Yes, I relate to all of it, as I have experienced all of what you described. The early church did, too. Our job is to redeem the times.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The explanation, however is as follows. It is written in the book of Daniel: “Now I have come to make you understand what shall befall your people in the latter days; for the vision is for days yet to come.” (Daniel 10:14)
Darrell Goodwin: Hearing “no” at times feels unfair and not right. These are the moments where no matter how hard I worked, prayed, knocked and believed, the answer was still “no.”
Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Apostle John Eckhardt: The prophet’s message is one of repentance.
Darrell Goodwin: In the months afterward, the election happened. I realized that if I had been offered that position I would have been in an environment that was not in alignment with my beliefs or who God created me to be. I would not have had my church family, or those who would affirm me in my call in this world. Taking the job would not have been the good thing that God had for me, though it seemed “so right” at the time.
Apostle John Eckhardt: Sometimes the prophet must stand alone.
Revelation 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.
Dan Schnur: The alternative is even worse, as failing to push back allows the worst of the anti-Zionists and anti-Semites a free pass to peddle slurs and slanders to a young and impressionable audience.
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Sarah Yehudit Schneider: Similarly, on a mini scale, day by day, on Chanukka, the Shekhina’s dance of Keter/Malchut drives the chag’s tikun. Ima/Mother/Keter/Crown births each sefira into the world and then slides down to its lowest edge to become the makom (or receptive space, ie Malchut) that draws out the potential of that sefira by encouraging it to do so. Yet on the eighth day, which is Malchut’s turn to shine Her truth out into the world, something unexpected occurs. When there are no more sefirot needing to be born, and no more dependents seeking her nurture, there is nothing binding the Shekhina to her Nukba role (as footstool, makom and enabler) anymore. Her new mission is to integrate the hidden parts of herself and embody them fully. Yet when she does so, says the Leshem, she instantly flips into her position as First…or Crown to all the previous sefirot (that she conceived, birthed, midwifed and nurtured) from Chesed to Yesod.7 Whereas before she was their maidservant, now she is their Crown, as it says, “A woman of valor is a crown to her husband.” [Proverbs 12:4] The 8th day of Chanukka corresponds to the 7th Millennium (the Cosmic Shabbat or Worldto-Come) because we started our candle-count with Binah which is above the Seven Creation Days.8 Zot Chanukka celebrates the hidden truth and future glory of our Diminished Moon (and, by extension, the destiny of all things Feminine). The day will come, blessed and welcomed by all, when Malchut/Woman/Nukba will spring up to her root (in Binah) and serve as the Keter or mashpia to creation, ushering in the world to come, and using her newfound influence to bring everyone along. The Shekhina’s motto is: No spark left behind. Now…Zot Chanukka!!
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Thus, whenever the term “vision” is used, it refers to an allegory.
Brat: So, I guess we’re just lost in translation.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: Therefore, when G d told Habakkuk “Write the vision”, He was referring to an allegory, which is by nature a riddle.
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: The Zohar employs symbols to convey the paradoxical wisdom that a mother imparts to a daughter: 1) Her keylim (vessels) are her malchut mode, the secret of her receptivity, the wisdom of knowing when (and how) to step back and make space for others to shine and feel their power. 2) Her jewels are her keter mode, the art of how to claim her royalty, wield her power and exert her influence with grace, dignity, humility and resilience.
Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky: The expression “and make it plain on tablets” simply means that [Habakkuk] should write it down [clearly], not that it should be understood, for it is so obscure that the reader will run [through it, not pondering its meaning, since its] meaning [is so obscure].
Mark 4:11 He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables 12 so that,
“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
Sarah Yehudit Schneider: One thing they all share is that wholeness requires them to incorporate both extremes, even if only in the quiet of their mind. One approach is to dance back and forth between them…between Keter and Malchut, first and last, hidden and revealed, mashpia and mushpa (without any “shoulds’ regarding the length of time spent in each.) Finding one’s pace in this regard is the challenge (and art) of womanhood.
Brat: We’ve started out this discussion from Daniel 9:24. There is still no ‘Most Holy Place’ in my orbit. There is still no sanctuary. I can (and do) work on myself, but God is still speaking to His Church. And we still do not have the reconciliation of the Churches. Sometimes the message gets to her by the Jews. In order to redeem all of Daniel 9:24 we must relinquish power to them ‘to anoint the Most Holy Place’. I cannot account for anyone else, but I am listening.
Rabbi Shaul Yosef Leiter: When the Torah tells us the dreams of a righteous person it is to teach us an important lesson. Joseph’s first dream is filled with activity: “We are standing in the fields gathering bundles of sheaves”; a Jew is always busy being G-d’s partner in Creation, making this world a home for Him.