What’s In Our Heavenly Fathers’ Treasuries and Storehouses??

A Storehouse in the Bible?

The meaning depends on the context of Scripture.

In the New Testament/Brit Chadashah

we read in Matthew 13:52

Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

but what of our Fathers heavenly storehouses?

Does His storehouse have widows?

As His storehouses are in heaven then are these the same windows of heaven mentioned in Genesis 7:11?

The Hebrew word for

storehouse is

owstar or o-tsawr.

It means a depository, a treasure from

Strong’s #214. אוֹצָר (otsar)

It is also from Strong’s #686, which is

osar, a root that implies:

to store up, to lay up in store.

Phonetic Spelling: o-tsaw’

otsar: treasure, store, a treasury, storehouse. 

Original Word: אוֹצָר.

The feminine noun מגורה  megura,

meaning: storehouse 

is only used in Haggai 2:19

The feminine plural noun

ממגרות  mammegurot,

also meaning storehouse 

is only used in Joshua 1:17.

The same Hebrew word for storehouse

is used for the Treasury in Joshua 6:24

Storehouse in another passage seems to refer to a special treasury-chamber of the Temple in Jeremiah’s time. 

Strong’s Hebrew: 618. אָסָם (asam)

store, storehouse, treasure –

According to Strongs: H4543  מִסְכְּנוֹת

Here, Mahchesan is the Hebrew word for storehouse.

מחסן

warehouse, storeroom, store, depot, shed.

In Malachi 3:10 is the most familiar reference to the windows of heaven

“Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.”

He doesn’t say you have to do it to go to heaven, to be loved by God, or in order to know the kindness of His mercies along the way of your life. He says that if you would like to see a harvest of overflow, of spiritual blessing, and provision from heaven’s sources into your earthly setting, then He’s calling you to sow by faith into the realm of His Spirit. Then we are to make up our mind whether we’ll do it. 2 Cor 9:7

 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of [a]necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. Obedience is the key and to obey what He tells the individual to do with a willing heart.

In the three places in the Tenakh/Old Testament the Scripture speaks of the windows of heaven,

The flood in Noah’s time Genesis 7:11 – The surging torrent here represents judgment.

In the midst of a famine 2 Kings 7:19 – In the pouring out of blessing from heaven, God increases the natural resources around us.

Spiritual resources Malachi 3:10 – God says He wants His people to sow in the physical realm in a way that indicates they’re sowing to the spiritual.

The Hebrew word refers to

sluice or sluice gates.

So we could understand that the windows of heaven are like sluice gates. Similar to those we see on enormous dams and when the sluice gates are opened, and out of the front of the dam there are gushing torrents of water being released.

The term sluice gate means a channel which regulates flow by a valve or a gate. Those resources are held in reserve until, by the action of the person who opens the sluice gates, they are released. The term also refers to the enormity of the resources that are behind it.

A slue or slew is something there is a whole lot of. The sluice is that:
great reserve that is behind the gate.

So this picture of

the sluice gates or the windows of heaven,

is

a reserve that is held and waiting to be distributed,

which is measured out by the person who controls the gates.

This simple picture has profound implications because our Heavenly Father is saying, that there is more than we can imagine, and it’s held in reserve in heaven.

The windows of heaven are the source and outflow of God’s blessing flowing into every part of our lives and every circumstance of our experience; and not just a reference to financial blessing. It refers to God releasing spiritual growth and increase in our lives.

Scriptures that speak of the windows of heaven:

The first line of the Bible states that heaven is created along with the creation of the earth Genesis 1. It is primarily God’s dwelling place in the biblical tradition: a parallel realm where everything operates according to God’s will, plan and purposes.

Isaiah 24:18

Then it will be that he who flees the report of disaster will fall into the pit,

And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare;

For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

Genesis 8:2

Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

2 Kings 7:2

The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.”

2 Kings 7:19

Then the royal officer answered the man of God and said, “Now behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.”

The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from them.  Deut. 28:8-12

There are storehouses in Heaven holding what we need, Our prayers unlock the storehouses of heaven. 

And the storehouses of Heaven are full.

1Corinthians 2:9 says: ‘But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Yeshua/Jesus Given Authority by God

Matthew 28:18; John 17:20-23 

The Only Authority to Open the Storehouses of God’s Grace  John 14:1-6; Matthew 11:27-30; Mark 16:16 

Consider these points in light of Jesus opening the storehouses of God’s grace to salvation. Yeshua/Jesus Given Authority by God. Matthew 28:1

Yeshua/Jesus’ authority was given, as was Joseph’s, and was not limited. (ALL, IN HEAVEN AND EARTH) All should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him John 5:23. John 17:20-23

Yeshua/Jesus in His prayer for all believers: He and God are one – in authority, purpose, etc. We are to be one, as they, and one with them – in things authorized by them, word, deed, purpose, etc. The same was with Joseph and Pharaoh – what Joseph said was Pharaoh’s command, and all were expected to obey him. There are implications following this principle in salvation.

The Only Authority to Open the Storehouses of God’s Grace. John 14:1-6  There are things prepared for us in heaven, just as grain was prepared and preserved for the famine in Egypt. Only those who went through Joseph and his authority could enjoy the benefits of Pharaoh’s store of grain. Only those who go through Yeshua/Jesus can get to the Father, to heaven, where mansions are prepared for us. Matthew 11:27-30

Yeshua/Jesus will take the burden of sin away from our lives, but we must willingly take His yoke. v. 27 – The only knowledge of the Father and of salvation comes through knowing Yeshua/Jesus. He offers an easy yoke of rest from the burden of sin. Yoke is a symbol of subjection and service.

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Yeshua/Jesus is saying we MUST DO AS HE SAYS! Mark 16:16 Yeshua/Jesus clearly laid down the conditions of salvation. Joseph Opened the Storehouses to All Who Would Come.

Jeremiah 10:13

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,

And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;

He makes lightning for the rain,

And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

Psalm 135:7

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;

Who makes lightnings for the rain,

Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Psalm 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Job 38:22

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,

Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

treasures of snow 

otseroth shalag

אצרות. שׁלג

Job 38:22: 

People who live where it snows a lot may not consider snow as a treasure, yet the Bible says that there are treasures in the snow.

The word snow appears in the King James Bible 24x, describing various situations. Some of God’s richest treasures can be found in the snow.

The word treasure in Job 38:22

is the Hebrew word “o-tsaw”

which means: an armory, or storehouse.

Although snow flakes are very small, when enough of them band together they have the power to shut down an entire city. God can use something as small as a snowflake as a source of great power. Sometimes God will sends “storms” in our lives to bring us to a stop long enough to acknowledge Him.

“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

The English word “treasure” has in the Old Testament at least five somewhat distinct meanings as expressed in the words:

“treasure,” genaz (Aramaic) or genez (Hebrew), usually meaning “the thing stored”; translated “treasures”

in Ezra 6:1, but in 5:17 and 7:20 translated “treasure-house”: “search made in the king’s treasure-house.”

In Esther 3:9Esther 4:7 the Hebrew form is translated “treasury,”

as is ganzakh in 1 Chronicles 28:11.
Storehouse, not the thing stored but the place of storage; ‘otsar means depository, cellar, garner, armory, store or treasure-house. In several places it ought to be translated by some of these words.

It is the most frequent word for treasure, the English Revised Version and the American Standard RV both translated in some instances by other words,

e.g. 1 Kings 7:51, “treasuries of the house of Yahweh,”

so also 2 Chronicles 5:1;

“treasury”

in Nehemiah 7:70, 71,

“gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold”;

in Job 38:22, “treasuries of the snow”

(compare Proverbs 8:21 Jeremiah 10:13Jeremiah 51:16 Ezra 2:69).

Treasure or something concealed.

There are 3 Hebrew words with this meaning and all in the King James Version translated “treasure.”

(1) Matmon, which literally means “a secret storehouse” and so a secreted valuable, usually money buried, and so hidden riches of any kind, hid treasures:

“treasure in your sacks” Genesis 43:23;

“dig for it more than for hid treasures” Job 3:21;

“search for her as for hid treasures” Proverbs 2:4;

“We have stores hidden in the field, of wheat,” etc. Jeremiah 41:8.

(2) Mikhman, treasure as hidden, used only in Daniel 11:43: “have power over the treasures of gold and silver.”

(3) Saphan, meaning hidden treasure or valuables concealed: “hidden treasures of the sand” (Deuteronomy 33:19).

Snow (probably from its whiteness),

Hebrew: שֶׁלֶג, šeleg (H7950)

Transliteration: šeleg

Biblical Pronunciation: sheh-LEɡ

Hail,

 Hebrew: בָּרָד, bārād (H1259)

In reading these verses there are many natural elements mentioned: rain, lightning, winds, hail and snow. Lightning/thunder initiate heavier downpours and in recent years we hear of thunder snow! Hail and snow are frozen rain.

The winds are referenced in Ezekiel 37:9

Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they come to life.”’

and in

Zechariah 2:6

“Ho there! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens,” declares the Lord.

Zech.6:5 The angel replied to me, These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth,

Jer. 49:36

Matthew 24:31

And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Revelation 7:1. 1 “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, 

Daniel 7:2-3, “ Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.

And I have brought four winds to Elam, From the four ends of the heavens, And have scattered them to all these winds, And there is no nation to where outcasts of Elam do not come in. Jer 49:36

Daniel 8:8

Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly. But as soon as he was mighty, the large horn was broken; and in its place there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.

It is interesting that this book, the oldest in the Bible, contains more references to snow, ice, and frost than any other book of the Bible.

Job 6:16
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

The references to snow in Scripture are few, as might be expected in a land where snow seldom or never fell; but even though the writers may never have felt the cold touch of the snowflake on their cheek, they had in sight two mountains the tops of which were suggestive.

Other mountains sometimes lose their crowning glory, but Lebanon and Mount Hermon have snow all the year round and through the ages never lost that glory. The first time we read of a deep fall of snow in the Bible is when Samuel describes a fight between Benaiah and a lion in a pit.

“And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.” 2 Samuel 23:20.

To do great deeds in a time of snow, makes things a little more heroic as this is a time when it is more treacherous to move about and see clearly.

The snow is not fully recognized in scripture until Job is questioned by God concerning its wonders, saying:

“Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow?”

In the Authorized Version the translation is 

the treasures of the snow.

The Hebrew word means: treasuries or magazines

The treasures of the snow are in its treasuries.

Snow and hail, seem to be represented as having been created and laid up in great storehouses in the heavens or above them, from which God draws them out for the moral disciplines of His sovereign government of the nations which comes in the form of judgement for sin.

Vast accumulations of snow actually exist in various portions of the earth’s surface, but the fresh snow that falls is not taken from these treasuries, but newly generated by the crystallization of floating vapors in the atmosphere.

In Job, the snow is given a place among the wonders of the world, and ranked with the morning stars and the sea and the lightnings and leviathan and death. It is one of the things over which Job is told to meditate in his heart, in order to restore his shaken faith in God’s greatness, goodness and mercy. It is taken as one of the countless marvels that are available to all men, revealing the Divine Power that lives and moves throughout the universe He created, finding nothing too great for His guidance, nothing too small for His constant focus and care.

In Psalms there is an beautiful hint of a snowfall through the perfect stillness, and a marvelous storm-piece into which the snow comes with other elements.

In the Proverbs there is a passage, where the writer says, “As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so a faithful servant refreshes the soul of his master.”

Isaiah has a magnificent image of the truth falling softly on the heart, as the snow falls softly on the earth. Interestingly, there is not a word about snow recorded as spoken by Yeshua/Jesus; and it is only referenced in the Brit Chadashah/New Testament as a comparison, never as an experience.

The snow is a treasure in other ways as well. The winter’s snowpack in the mountains is often called “white gold” because of its indispensable water storage capacity, released in the melting season each spring to provide life to cities and irrigation in the desert.

Snow is no more than a form of water. It is simply the vapour of water in a crystallized form. Indeed, the term “crystal” found in most of the European languages is derived from the Greek word crystallos, meaning ice or frozen water, and was subsequently transferred to pure transparent stones cut into seals, which, as was thought, were produced only in the extreme cold of lofty passes of the Alps. The atmosphere is charged with watery vapour to an immense extent, and when the temperature is sufficiently low to freeze this moisture, snow is formed. When produced in calm air, the icy particles build themselves into beautiful shapes, each star possessing six rays.


The perfection of the snow crystals assures us that God cares for little things.

Snow has a special place in scripture because of its qualities and descriptive usage as a simile.

The first thing that strikes us about snow is its purity.

The snow is white because the tiny crystals of which it is made reflect so much light.

So much light is reflected by the snow that it often makes people snow-blind from excess of light.

What is the whitest thing in the world?

The whitest thing in the world is the driven snow, for this is not superficial, but whiteness through and through. It has been said that in all the moral universe there is nothing so glorious as the whiteness of holiness; the fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of saints.

Its whiteness in the removing of our sins.

Although snow looks very clean and white, in reality it acts as a filter to remove germs and impurities from the air. It has a powerful cleansing effect on the atmosphere. Snow is actually formed around some matter already existing in the atmosphere like a piece of dirt, thus when it falls it brings this dirt to the ground out of the atmosphere. It still looks pure and white though. The dirt is hidden by the whiteness, and the air is very clean after a snow storm.  As the dirt has been hidden by the whiteness of the snow, so also our sins are filtered out by the blood of Yeshua/Jesus and hidden, being cast into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19).

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Nothing can wash away our sins except the blood of Jesus/Yeshua.

In the Scriptures, its pure white color is often used to symbolize the cleansing of a sinful heart that trusts the Lord.

“Wash me,” said David, “and I shall be whiter than snow” (Psalm 51:7).

“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow”

the Lord promises those who come to Him for salvation (Isaiah 1:18).

Snow too has a wonderful power. Just one flake is weak, but what can the avalanche and glacier not do? Here In this apparent weakness is the hiding of His strength.

Another thing about snow is how silently it falls, and so many in number as to cover miles of countryside with them to over a foot deep with in just a few hours?

He giveth his snow like wool,

and like a covering of wool; God cares for all nature; from the seeds to the roots; all the burrowing and hibernating animals; He covers them all; giving His snow like woolen blanket. Won’t He so much more care for us?

Snowflakes are like feathers from the protecting wings of the Creator.

“His raiment was white as snow.”

Here are 3 visions:

Daniel saw him, when all the earth powers had vanished, approaching in a chariot of flame to take the seat of ultimate power and authority, while ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him, and His garment was white as snow.

The 3 disciples went with Yeshua/Jesus onto the Mount of Transfiguration, and while the cloud of “the most excellent glory” folded them in, they saw Him changed; His face shining like the sun and His garments “white as no fuller on earth could whiten them.”

John on Patmos saw Him in the midst of the golden candlesticks clothed in a priestly garment down to His feet; in His right hand seven stars; His voice as the sound of many waters; His countenance as the sun shineth in His strength; and His head and His hairs were

“white as snow.”

All this is to present His holiness.

The great multitude around His throne are ever praising Him and saying, “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!”

This assurance of the glorious outcome is worthy of our praise and thanksgiving because His Word is doing its work :

“His word shall not return unto him void, but shall be like the snow which cometh down from heaven; it shall accomplish that which he doth please and prosper in the thing whereto he sends it.”

In God’s plans and purposes everything has its use; and just as every snowflake is under commission, so are each of us.

Even the forces of nature are called to obedience of them it is written: “Praise ye the Lord. Praise him from the heavens. Praise him from the earth. Ye monsters and all deeps; ye fire and hail; snow and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word!”

There are treasures in the snow that God would have us to see.

Snow is a treasure because of it’s provider. In warm weather these high and low storehouses melt and seep into the soil or release a flow of clear water into rivers, lakes and reservoirs - a vital supply for the needs of every living thing. Coming fresh and pure from melted snow, this water is more valuable than can be told. melted snow seep into underground reservoirs called aquifers, some of which are very deep and hundreds of miles long.

Psalm 148:8

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapor; stormy wind fulfilling his word: The word “treasure” can also be translated as “storehouse”.

It carries with it the idea of God

storing up snow, and

releasing it at His time and place of choice

and if God can release the snow upon the earth….cannot He release the supply of all the things that we need for a godly lifestyle?

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Snow is a treasure because of it’s unusual qualities. We know that there are many different shapes of snowflakes and there are some 35 general categories that snowflakes fall into. Under a microscope you could see some that are like needles….some like stars…..some like trees……some look like fishbones……some look like bullets……and the amazing thing about them is that no 2 snowflakes are exactly the same.. each one unique; just like His children!

We have similarities……but we each have distinct characteristics that separate us from everyone else. Our fingerprints are unique so too are our footprints. The pattern of our eyes are also unique from anyone elses. What does this say about God and how He has formed us?

Just like snow, we too have a designer. We are of great value. We are special because we have a creator that knew us before we were formed in the womb, and who knit us together distinctly from all others before us!

Like snow we are distinct, unique.

We are not only unique in the way that we look, but the purpose He has for each one of our lives is also. Like snow we have a destiny a very important place in His plan.

Snow has more of a purpose than just to make our countryside look beautiful.

If we can see God’s purpose even in the smallest of things like a snowflake……..without doubt God has a purpose for each of our lives!

Snow is a treasure because of it’s purity.

Psa 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Snow has a powerful cleansing effect on the atmosphere….sometimes called

“wash-out or snow-out”

In His storehouses there is also hail.

Revelation 16:21
And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.

 Exodus 9:18
Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

Joshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

Job 37:6
For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

Job 38:23
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Isaiah 30:30
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

Ezekiel 13:11
tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth

In Job 37:56 we read: “Great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend. For He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain.”

God’s bounty never stops at our mere needs, but He provides beyond our power to ask or think. There is not only the majesty of snowcapped mountain peaks showing His creative handiwork, but in more ways than we have considered, His hidden treasures of the snow provide so many benefits to us. We can truthfully say, “How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!”

Final thoughts are some of the lessons that God would have us to learn from the snow…..and to remember next time we see those flakes falling…

God told Job to consider the snow, for He ranks it with the stars and the seas among nature’s wonders.

The study of snow forces us to think of the infinite. It leaves us speechless when we consider the works of His hands.

Let every time it snows remind us of the Storehouses and treasuries in Heaven and the treasuries of the snow, and let every flake remind us of God’s love for every individual.

What is it that YHVH/Our Heavenly Father values most or what is His treasure? Us His children and like the robe of Messiah’s Righteousness, which covers our dirty, sinful nature with a pure white covering, giving a soft beauty to our natures; creating a nature that will be accepted by the Father who cannot look on sin.

When we repent, Yeshua/Jesus’ robe of righteousness covers all, even the stains of sin, no matter how dark they are. He promised that we can be made as white as snow. We cannot actually see the robe of Messiah’s righteousness because only the unseen world can see the whiteness of it, however we can see the fruits, a loving and honest heart, and an exalting of Yeshua/Jesus and His Righteousness in and through us.

“God thundereth marvellously with His voice; great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend.  For He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of His strength.  He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know His work.” Job 37:5–7.

It is God who brings the snow and decides just how much should fall.  He is in control. We need to learn to trust Him completely. The unsaved and the wicked may become frightened with the various troubles on this earth, whether in the elements of nature, or whether from mankind; however it is all in God’s permissive will as part of His plan.. Nothing will touch His children except what He allows. We are as the “apple of His eye.” Zechariah 2:8

As the snow comes down from heaven, so comes the Word of God to ask the soul… have you entered the treasures of the snow…. have you asked Our Heavenly father to save us through the sacrifice of His Son Yeshua/Jesus?

Rain and snow are a gift from God to us, given to accomplish a purpose.

There are many treasures to be seen in the snow. God wants to wash us and clean us to the point that we are whiter than snow. He wants to cover us with His robe of righteousness. All we have to do is surrender to Him.

Do not delay—start today.

Right now.

We are the storehouse

of the Bread of Life

in a world that is spiritually starving.

We must open the doors of our storehouse

and provide food to this spiritually famished world.

Shalom shalom

‘Mishpachah’

‘Family/Tribe’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa,

friends, visitors and every reader…

Please don’t leave this page before making certain you are His

and are truly born from above.

Know of a certainty that Jesus/Yeshua is

your Redeemer, Savior, Lord

and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry.

I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus.  Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

What Is The Connection Between Blood, Gold & The Mystery of Beth Shemesh?

There are three parts to this mystery and we begin with

Blood.

Charles Spurgeon once said

“The Bloody Sacrifice on Calvary

is the only hope for sinners…….”

and its because

a bloodless gospel

is a lifeless gospel.

This IS the Gospel

the Blood of Messiah has been shed for us.

It is not preached or taught enough.

It is The Blood of Sanctification

Don’t let the word Sanctification cause us to stumble or retreat,

because the verb sanctify means

to set apart and

to make clean.

Sanctification is the process of

being separated and made clean unto God.

Heb. 13:12.

It’s not a quick fix, nor is it a pass to live as we please;

it is directly related to everyday life.

The Blood

and the process of

sanctification cannot be separated.

We are sanctified, set apart,

the ecclesia, the called out, set apart ones.

If we are still vitally connected to the world, we are vulnerable to compromise and stumbling.

Sometimes we have heard a message on a subject so many times we don’t pay attention to it in as much detail as we should.

We think we know what it’s about and yet we still do not have full or enduring victory in areas of our lives. We know of the armor but do we live with it always in place 24/7?

He is the Sanctifier –

The people are the object of His Sanctifying Grace

and the BLOOD, HIS BLOOD,

is the means of cleansing, or is the sanctifying agent.

This was His primary purpose.

Without Blood there could be

NO ACCESS

by sinful man to a Holy God.

This is critical to every believers life in Christ/Messiah/Mashiach. It is essential that we understand the meaning in its’ fullest sense and we must take the time to chew on this word and understand it, digesting it, and allowing it to be absorbed into our deepest innermost being. Only then can it impart to us His LIFE/chaim.

What was shadowed at the gate of Eden, on Mt Ararat, Mt Moriah and in Egypt was now confirmed at the foot of Sinai in a most solemn manner by Blood covenant.

Although the manner of application differed in the previous occasions:

on Moriah the life was redeemed by the shedding of the blood;

in Egypt it was sprinkled on the doorposts of the houses;

but at Sinai it was sprinkled on the people themselves.; not something they would quickly forget!

Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Ex.24:8

The contact with the blood was more personal/intimate and the application that much more powerful.

1 Peter 1:18,19

The word

atonement means

a covering

it is the blood that makes a covering for the inner man.

 

 it is the blood which makes atonement for the soul.

Lev. 17:11

The Hebrew word is

כפר

kaphar

Kaf: Palm of hand, to open

Pey: Mouth, word, speak

Resh: Head, person, first

Strong’s Hebrew: 3722. כָּפַר (kaphar) — appease

HEBREW WORD STUDIES כָּפַר ‘kaphar’ meaning ‘to atone’ 3722

to cover over and to make reconciliation.

 

Definition. to cover, purge, make an atonement,

make reconciliation, cover over with pitch.

Think ark of Noah!

The pitch protected the people inside, making a water-tight seal,

and Messiahs’ blood covers our sins and protects us

from the wrath of God.  For more click link below

https://www.minimannamoments.com/what-is-the-connection-between-two-mountains-the-ark-of-the-covenant-and-messiah-being-thirsty-part-3/

The original meaning of this word is to cover, to cover over, or to overspread. The example given in Genesis 6:14 closely expresses the original meaning. Both the verb and the noun are used:

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch [kaphar] it within and without with pitch [kopher].”

As a noun kaphar is used to signify a place of shelter. 

(Qal) to coat or cover with pitch. (Piel) to cover over, pacify, propitiate. to cover over, atone for sin, make atonement for. To cover over, atone for sin and persons by legal rites. (Pual) to be covered over.

Hebrews 9:22.

Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-far’)

Definition: to cover over, pacify, appease, make propitiation

The word atonement is an abstract word and in order to understand the true Hebrew meaning of a word we must look to the concrete meaning. If an offense has been made, the one that has been offended can act as though the offense is covered over and unseen. We express this idea through the word of forgiveness.

Atonement is an outward action that covers over the error. 

Only the blood makes a covering which He accepts.

Bloodless coverings are unacceptable to God.

 

God did a miracle through Mary enabling His Blood to become a reality in His Son that could be poured out for us and redeem us from eternal death/separation from Him. This Blood is like no other before it or since; and has the power to remove the sin contained in ours from Adams curse. His life/chaim is in the Blood and it’s why it’s so powerful because unlike human blood it cannot die or dry up.

Why?

Because the chaim/life of God cannot die.

It’s an eternal source of sacrificial substitution and speaks continually, crying mercy – forgiveness; and this is why it will never lose it’s power.

As we are quickly approaching the Fall Feasts/Appointed Seasons of The Lord it is a timely opportunity to speak of the Atoning Sacrifice of Messiah.

Made for ‘whosoever will’ and whosoever chooses to, accept and receive His priceless gift of redemption.

Many books have been written and even more sermons and teachings given and most readers will be familiar with the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua and all that it means.

The Power of the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua is

that His blood redeems us.

There was a price against us that we could not pay, but the blood of Messiah redeemed us.

1 Peter 1:18-19 says, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things…. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

 The power is in the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus, because Yeshua/Jesus, was the spotless Lamb of God, and because He shed His blood for us, we can be forgiven of our sins.

We can see the extent of this forgiveness and the effectiveness of His blood in the Scriptures. God, our Heavenly Father separates us from our sins by an immeasurable distance.

The blood of Yeshua/Jesus had to be applied

to the heavenly mercy seat

to redeem mankind.

If all of Yeshua/Jesus’ blood had soaked into the ground at Calvary, then the sins of humanity could not have been taken away.

Hebrews 9:12, “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”.

God was represented and was envisioned by Israel as sitting enthroned upon the Mercy Seat.

The term “Mercy Seat” comes from Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible into German, where he added to the meaning of kapporet by translating it as a location or “seat” of mercy.

The English term Mercy Seat is not a literal translation for the name that describes the place on which the golden angels’ wings touched and from where God would speak. 

The Hebrew word is Kapporet 

כפורת

and the Complete Jewish Bible simply translates it as

ark cover. 

The High Priest in the Tabernacle or Temple Sanctuary appeared before God and offered the blood of animals for expiation/atonement on the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur.

As our High Priest, Messiah Yeshua/Jesus entered into the reality that was foreshadowed by the Tabernacle and Temple.

Teachings and sermons on these foundational subjects such as the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus are few and far between today.

Many don’t like the teachings on the Blood, reacting squeamishly and look for something nicer and more pleasant to preach or listen to.

We MUST remember that

without the shedding of blood

there is no forgiveness,

salvation,

redemption or atonement

and we all remain dead in our sins.

It all begins when the blood speaks. Gen. 4:6-11

It was a witness against Cain, later, God instituted a covenant with Moses which we call the old covenant. Hebrews 8:6 tells us it has been replaced with a better covenant, through the prophesied Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.

Why do we plead the blood of Yeshua/Jesus?

It is to plead the Living Word of God. Jesus/Yeshua was and is the Living Word, The Word made flesh.

The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

Many of us have been pleading the blood without knowing what we were doing.

When we plead the blood of Yeshua/Jesus we plead the whole TRUTH of God. Messiah said I Am The Truth.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:16

The blood is central to the whole Torah, Tenach and Brit Chadashah. It began in the garden with the first Adam and ended with the last Adam in Jerusalem. Blood was integral to Adams fall, as God declared only blood could cover and redeem from sin.

Why? because the life is in the blood.

When there is no blood there is no life

and when life exits the blood, it dies and dries up….

all except the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus

because He came from the Father. His Father is The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel. His Father was not of this earth BUT His blood type came from the Heavenly Father, Creator and King of the Universe.

Because God is an eternal being, He imparted His eternal essence into the blood of His Only Son, by the overshadowing of Marys’ womb the Ruach/spirit/breath/nephesh: a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion of God.

נֶפֶשׁ nephesh

And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. Luke 1:35

The Ruach HaKodesh (the Wind of the Set-apart One) shall come upon you, and the Power of the Most High shall overshadow you. And for that reason HaKodesh (the Set-apart One) born of you shall be called: Son of Elohim. (Luk 1:35) The creative Power, Ruach HaKodesh (the Holy Spirit), of YHVH shaped this miracle of the Word that became flesh (Joh 1:1-3)

ἐπισκιάζω (to overshadow; envelope; [h/c]over over by presence)

 

The scripture says the blood speaks, it is alive and has a voice. Ables’ blood cried from the ground.

“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice]. Gen.4:10

The saints blood cries in heaven

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Rev.6:9,10

The blood of Messiah cries mercy for us.

Abel’s blood crying out for vengeance is listed all the way in Hebrews 12:24, pointing out that the blood of Messiah gives us mercy from the kapporet in Heaven where the ark is.

Revelation 11:19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

They overcame him with the word of their testimony of what God has done for us, literally the gospel of His kingdom; and the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 12:11

John declared the prophetic had manifested…

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

John 1:29

God came to save and redeem us in Messiah, and shed His blood to not only cover our sin but wipe them away forever. The blood does more than cover as it did in the old testament and it’s why we must not deny its’ amazing power.

We have sung the songs but do we truly understand the power in His Blood?

It is so important to understand that we must apply the knowledge of the blood of the sinless Lamb of God.

By pleading the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua we can enforce satan’s defeat in our lives and begin to live a victorious life in Him.

Isaiah 43:25-26 in the New American Standard Bible says, “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. “Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together; state your cause, that you may be proved right.”

When we plead the Blood of Yeshua/Jesus,  we’re making a confession of the

redemptive power

and mercy

God provided to us through Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach.

It is a faith declaration of His righteousness,

which is what makes us righteous.

 When the enemy attacks us or makes accusations against us, we must answer him in faith using the sword of the Spirit/the Word of God; declaring what the Blood of Messiah has done and is doing for us.

Pleading the Blood of Jesus/Yeshua means we know and understand and have faith in the Blood of Jesus.  Then we can rest our case and be assured that things will be settled because of our faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Our faith in the power of His Blood is what we need to enable us to walk in total victory in our lives!

It is good to reaffirm that when we plead our case before our Heavenly Father, we can be assured that our case rests on what Yeshua/Jesus did for each of us when He died, was buried, and was resurrected from the dead. 

He’s alive and has already won every victory in every area of our lives.

Our responsibility is by faith to receive that victory.

As the world grows darker, we are to be the bright light shining brighter. We are that lighthouse, the beacon in the storms of peoples’ lives. They see our lamp/light shining brightly and run to it and we point them to Yeshua/Jesus; Who in turn points them to His Father by His Ruach HaKodesh.

We need to be saved from ourselves because if we do not obey the light in us and walk while we have that light, darkness is creeping up trying to overtake us. We must take a serious sober look at the atonement; and focus more on the work of Messiah’s cross.

We glibly speak of our salvation but neglect to speak of the price.

It is free …

yet…

the cost is without measure.

Instead of easing off, we are to press in….

the day is coming when no man can work.

Think for a moment of our Heavenly father.

The scriptures say He is

Spirit

and Light

and Life.

He is not human with a corruptible flesh body like ours. We should try to refrain from aligning our physical attributes to our Heavenly Father because we will get a false image of Who and What He is. Because we know Yeshua/Jesus had a human form like us, we tend to place a similar image upon the Father. Yeshua/Jesus has now a resurrected body, a whole new thing never seen before! He says He has flesh and bone but does not mention blood.

“See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” Luke 24:39.

There was no blood on Thomas’ hand because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God and Jesus/Yeshuas’ resurrected body had no blood left in it. John 20:27

We have seen from scripture that He poured out His blood at Calvary and upon the kapporet/mercy seat in Heavens throne room, where the Ark of the Covenant is. If He and the Father are one, then this blood was indeed The Fathers blood!

Angels have no blood because they have no flesh. Ps. 139:14

They are spirit and have only spiritual life; and why they were amazed at our creation…

What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. Ps.8:4-6

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.  Job 32:8.

This is possibly because life itself is spiritual

but

must have a physical carrier and this carrier is the blood.

The contact between the divine and the human rests in the blood stream and its capacity to carry the life of God.

When we leave this realm we will be similar to angels:

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. Mark 12:25

I am the Life..

God imparted His own chaim/ life into the bloodstream of Yeshua/Jesus. The blood that flowed in His veins was perfect.

It was not contaminated by Adams sin which brought sickness and sin into human blood. If Adam had not sinned he would not have died. Jesus/Yeshuas’ perfect blood gave Him the title of the last Adam.

We are pleading the reality of the light of God which we received at the new birth when we were overshadowed by His Ruach. And His blood cleanses us so that the light of that life in us is part of Himself.

Christ in us the hope of glory. Col. 1:27

We are covered with the righteousness of Messiah – a robe of righteousness. That robe is really the blood which He shed for us and we are covered – this is our covering. No man or church denomination can cover us as Yeshua/Jesus blood does. God’s life/chaim is light. Jesus/Yeshua said John 8:12 I am the light of the world.

We read in Leviticus 17:11 that the life of all human flesh is in the blood. That is where Adam’s life was in Genesis 2:7, where he was formed out of the dust of the ground. Man had a body but it was not living, not alive, there was no life in it. Out of His divine being where all life originated,

God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

So follow it through, if God breathed into man the breath of life and if the life is in the blood, then there must be some relationship between what God breathed into man and into our blood?

Blood is charged with air/ oxygen so as we breathe there is a close relationship between our nostrils and our blood stream.

The air we breathe in is oxygen which goes directly into our blood. With every breath our blood is charged with oxygen. Adam’s first breath came directly from God, it went straight into his nostrils inflated his lungs and charged his blood with the chaim/life and nature of God. Adam became a living soul when God’s life began pumping through his veins. Was that life, eternal life, the same that flows from The throne of God?

Red corpuscles are alive because of the life/chaim of God in the blood. With sin came, death and was passed down to every man in his blood. So we are all born in sin. After the likeness of Adam’s transgression/sin.

John 1:1 – 5,9

Gods’ life was light James 1:17 that life went into Adam’s blood and brought light. Matthew 6:22 the eyes are the light of the soul he had the spark of life in him. We are redeemed from the curse which was in our blood. Do we have His light in our blood?

Gabriel told Mary the Holy thing within you was conceived by God’s Spirit of Holiness. We see visible light around us every day but there is also invisible light. It’s known as infrared light and ultraviolet light which are not visible to the human eye. We have to understand that for the most part the Kingdom of God is invisible to us because it is beyond the spectrum of human vision. But it is there and that light is known in the spirit world. John 8:12

When Jesus/Yeshua said I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.

Is it possible He was not just talking about light but was also talking about the blood because He said that anyone who followed Him would have the

light of life.

Then He said ye are the light of the world,

so we became the light of life carriers.

He had the light of life and that

life was in His veins because

the Life of all flesh is in the blood.

Yeshua/Jesus’s life was in His blood and

His light was in His blood

also blood and light go to together

just as blood and life go together?!

God breathed of Himself into Adam

He had to breathe life into him.

1John 1: 5-7

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 

 

Here light and blood are in the same portion of scripture.

Light is divine energy – the light of life.

His life was the light of men – these are not just nice statements they are deeply revelatory in their content.

Was it

Truth, Word, Life and Light

that was pumping through Yeshua/Jesus veins?

Is that why we plead the blood of Yeshua/Jesus…

because it covers everything?

Col 1: 12 – 14 the word redemption could also be translated deliverance. In the translation from the Latin Vulgate in the light of the Hebrew and Greek originals by Ronald Knox reads in the son of God in his blood we find the redemption that sets us free from our sins. Col 1 :13 we were translated out of darkness into light by the blood because the light was in the blood. By the blood of Jesus we have redemption col 1:15 16

When He breathed on the disciples,

He was breathing life/chaim and light/or into them.

The word translated “He breathed” is emphusaō, which is related to the Hebrew word for breath or spirit (nephesh).

John 20:21 Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.” 22 When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.

If we are sanctified and set apart, then our blood is cleansed from sin both original sin through Adam, and our own sins. We are also the LIGHT of His LIFE that the world will see, carriers of His mercy and  forgiveness!

The work was completed by Messiah as He shed His sinless blood at Calvary as the spotless, sacrificial Lamb of God.

1Peter 1:18, 19

and then He ascended to the Father to place

His blood on the Mercy seat/kapporet in the heavenlies.

Conclusion in part 2 and as we come towards Yom Kippur this season, let’s remember what the

blood of Yeshua haMashiach/Jesus Christ

continually cries out for us…

mercy,

forgiveness,

cleansing

and

redemption

not just on one day of the year

but

always and forever.

In Israel in the autumn (fall) of the year, we enter into an extremely important season of repentance/teshuvah in the Jewish/Hebrew calendar known as the Fall Feasts.

Feast of Trumpets: September 8-9, 2021

Day of Atonement: September 17-18.

Feast of Tabernacles: September 22-28.

Shmini Atzeret Wednesday Wed Sep 29,

Simchat Torah Monday Mon Nov 29

Last Great Day: September 29.

Another site gives the dates as:

Yom Kippur 2021 begins Wednesday, September 15

at sunset ends Thursday, September 16 at nightfall

Sukkot/ Tabernacles :

(sundown to sundown) 20th September – 27thSeptember, 2021. 

The Great Day is the 8th

Day of Tabernacles: (sundown) 27th – 28th September, 2021.  

Yom Kippur takes place on the final day of the 10 Days of Awe, which begins with

Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year for Hebrew Year 5782

רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה 

Yom Kippur, Known as the Day of Atonement, this holyday is spent in prayer and fasting among many people of the Jewish faith.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/yamim-noraim-days-of-awe-or-high-holy-days/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/are-we-boxed-in/

further links for the Fall Appointed Times are to be found on home page under heading

7 FESTIVALS/APPOINTED TIMES/FEASTS

 

 

May His true Shalom rest upon each one in Yeshuas’ Name.

You are greatly loved Mishpachah, Family

משפחה

and prayed for daily..

 make sure you are secure in the knowledge you are saved

NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.

Look Up – Bethlehem Star? Or An Angel? or A Sign?

In Biblical imagery, stars are symbols of angels. 

In Revelation 1:20, 12:4 angels were symbolically called stars and also in several other places in the Bible;

for example Job 38:7

Stars –

The angels, who may well be called morning – stars, because of their excellent lustre and glory.

Sons of God –

The angels called the sons of God, maybe because they had their whole being from him, and because they were made partakers of his Divine and glorious image.

The stars seen in our heaven symbolically represent these created spiritual beings called angels who according to these verses are named.

They are Messengers sent by God:

The ones we are familiar with are:

(Luke 1:19, Rev 9:11)

Names mean something:

Gabriel means “Man of God”

From the Hebrew name גַבְרִיאֵל (Gavri’el) meaning “God is my strong man”, derived from גֶּבֶר ( gever) meaning “strong man, hero” and אֵל ( ‘el) meaning “God”.

Gabriel is an archangel in Hebrew tradition, often appearing as a messenger of God.

In the Old Testament he is sent to interpret the visions of the prophet Daniel, while

in the New Testament he serves as the announcer of the births of John to Zechariah and Jesus/Yeshua to Mary.

Michael means “Who is Like God”

Michael is an archangel .

An archangel (from Greek) is an angel of high rank.

The meaning of Mi•cha•el in Hebrew is

commonly translated

“who is like God?” 

but, more accurately,

the name denotes an inquiry after the identity of God:

Who’s God? or What’s God Like?

They are called Princes those who rule under the King. Daniel 10:13

They Stand in the Presence of God. Luke 1:19

Can make people dumb. Luke 1:20

Strong’s Hebrew: 4397. מַלְאָך (malak) — a messenger

Malak

מֲלְאָךְ

Angel/Messenger/Sent One: malak

Sounds like: mal-awk

Luke 2:8-14 And there were shepherds residing in

מֲלְאָךְ

So the question is what did the Magi/Wise Men really see and follow?

What manner of Messenger was this?

They saw His Star in the eastern Sky.

What was it, an angel, a comet or a star/planet alignment?

Its not that this knowledge is critical to our salvation or our continuing walk with Messiah. It was simply a question in connection with the fact that there is much discussion concerning the upcoming planetary alignment on 21st Dec. 2020.

The scientific community and amateur astronomers are buzzing with excitement and being of a curious nature it seemed worth a closer look.

Notwithstanding there have been numerous signs and occurrences in the heavens this year. The cycle of life is continuing as promised by our creator that while the earth remain there will be seedtime and harvest.

As we are told in scripture that

Following are some facts and some information and some things to think and ponder on as we are coming up to the winter equinox date.

This terminology is not new, just a designation, a name; saying it is a divider of the months into 4 sections which make up the 4 seasons.

Dec. 21st is the darkest day because it has the shortest number of daylight hours; and we are making the turn towards the daytime/ daylight hours increasing which is always good!

The winter solstice is in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest night of the year; and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

Having read some of the material and watching some of the short videos on this celestial event with Jupiter and Saturn it is worth a short focus of our attention primarily because it is being called the Christmas or Bethlehem star.

This rare event will occur in the night sky… And it has not been seen in over eight centuries

For star gazers and astronomers and those who just simply like to look at the night sky it is quite an event because.

On this date, Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in our solar system will conjunct to form what’s sometimes referred to as the Christmas Star or

the Star of Bethlehem. 

So on the day of the start of the winter solstice, the two planets will appear to form a double planet in an extremely rare event that was last seen 800 years ago.

It will be the closest Jupiter-Saturn pairing since July 1623, when the two planets appeared a little nearer. This conjunction was almost impossible to see, however, because of its closeness to the sun.

Considerably closer and in plain view was the March 1226 conjunction of the two planets—when Genghis Khan was surging through the nations and conquering Asia and Europe was pre Renaissance.

Monday 21st December 2020’s conjunction will be the closest pairing that is visible since then.

Many believe this same conjunction may have appeared like one huge star when in fact it is 2 planets appearing very close together from our view point here on earth.

However, the one coming up is especially close: Jupiter and Saturn will be just one-tenth of a degree apart from our perspective or about one-fifth the width of a full moon.

They should be easily visible around the world a little after sunset, weather permitting. Look to the sky shortly after sunset, looking to the southwest fairly low on the horizon. Saturn will be the smaller, fainter light at Jupiter’s upper right.

Binoculars will be needed to separate the two planets.

Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 photo made available by NASA, Saturn, top, and Jupiter, below, are seen after sunset from Shenandoah National Park in Luray, Va.

The two planets are drawing closer to each other in the sky as they head towards a great conjunction on Monday, Dec. 21, where the two giant planets will appear a tenth of a degree apart. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP) (Picture below).

So, amazingly everyone, wherever you are on earth, will see it and it was a reminder of the scripture in Matt. 24:39. 

Then will appear the Sign of the Son of Man in the sky; and then will all the nations of the earth lament, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with great power and glory.

It makes one wonder, is the Bethlehem star, or whatever that was, alignment or comet; is the same phenomena that heralded His first coming to the wise men, returning prior to Messiahs return?

Whatever they saw, it made them take notice and seek out who this King was; and they journeyed until they found Him. This is true today that those who diligently seek Him will find Him.

Rare ‘Star of Bethlehem’ appears on Dec. 21. Here’s what astronomy says about the biblical star at Christ’s Birth. 

There are many theories about the identity of the biblical star of Bethlehem that appeared at Christ’s birth.

The most accepted theory finds the planet Jupiter to be part of that star.

In the ancient world,

all heavenly bodies

were considered stars. 

The Magi or the wise men were, most likely, court advisers to Babylon who used the stars to give guidance to the ruler.

Included at the end are some short 6-9 min videos with some pertinent information.

As always, whatever man’s opinions may be; we must always test them by the Word of God.

The Bible does not say how many wise men but lists 3 gifts

of gold, frankincense and myrrh.. so 3 became the number!

One ancient Jewish writer Philo speaks of them and describes a particular school of Magi, calling it the Eastern school, and says they understood the natural order of things and were able to explain that natural order to others and according to Philo, probably what we might call proto-scientists. 

Here is one very feasible explanation:

As Early church historians had been giving a date of around

3 BC for Messiah/Christ’s birth,

though other scholars had been saying 7 BC

because of what appears to be a misunderstanding of King Herod’s death in between those two dates.

What the Magi likely saw were

five astronomical conjunctions

that took place over a span of time from

August of 3 BC to June of 2 BC.

When one planet passes another and, as seen from earth,

they line up –

that would have been of great significance to these astrologer-advisers.

We now know what these conjunctions meant to these Magi as they would have observed from their far-off land. The conjunctions involved the constellation Leo the Lion, the planet Venus, the planet Jupiter and the star Regulus. 

To the Babylonians,

the lion/leo constellation represented Israel.

Venus was motherhood.

Jupiter stood for fatherhood or kingship.

Regulus symbolized royalty.  

The Magi put these together and in their Babylonian mindset got a clear and repeated message that a grand king had been born in Israel. 

Now we are able to use computerized astronomical tools to track the convergence of these heavenly signs involving Jupiter, Venus, Leo, and Regulus, back to when they would have occurred. 

Following this it seems that 9 months after that first conjunction –

9 months – the gestation period of a human.

It shows Jupiter and Venus come together to form the brightest star anyone had ever seen!

Not forgetting there would have been very little if any light pollution so the skies and stars would have appeared much brighter than today with all our artificial light.

That would have been in mid-June of 2 BC – again near Regulus in Leo. Eventually it all traces to a conclusion on Dec. 25, in 2 BC. Remembering that of course they did not use our calendar so Dec 25th had no significance.

The Psalmist proclaimed 

the heavens declare the glory of God….

and remembering that the Bible is extremely severe on the subject of astrology; because that is reverence for the stars, the idea that stars order your life or guide you. In the Old Testament it was an offense punishable by death.

This is not the same as astronomy where God set the constellations in His Heavens as signs for us on the earth. The Eternal One Who created the heavens and the signs of His own coming – who said that one day He would also return. 

Of course, the Romans who ruled most of the known world at the time thought the star was about them; and they even put the star on one of their coins with an image of Caesar Augustus, which represents how impressive the star was. A sort of Star of Rome rather than the Star of Bethlehem.

So the Magi went looking for this infant king to the capital city of the Jews, Jerusalem,

and the Jews sent them into Bethlehem,

a place from which the Jewish scriptures prophesied a king would come.

What the Romans thought was about them, was actually announcing the King of Kings and the rest is HIStory.

Below are links to interesting short 6 & 9 minute videos on the alignment and the wise mens gifts.

This is an opportune time of the year to share the offer of eternal life to those who may not have heard, or haven’t made the decision to accept His precious gift of forgiveness and eternal life with the assurance of being forever in His presence.

Talking of this once in a lifetime star in the heavens may be a great reference to point people to its creator and His Son!!

If this is a heavenly sign of His second coming, a comet a star and alignment of planets or an angel/messenger are we ready?

Let us be like the magi and the shepherds

and always follow the star

that leads to the Messiah

and don’t delay in sharing with others

what we have experienced.

 

He is coming soon family and every eye will see Him.

When we Look up remember our redemption draws nigh.

More Insights at related posts – links below: http://www.minimannamoments.com/because-he-came/ 

https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-missing-piece/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/because-he-came/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/a-lambs-tale-and-a-mysterious-tower/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/is-el-eem-anu/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/who-lights-up-your-life/

https://www.minimannamoments.com/may-this-be-a-shannah-of-shalom-a-year-of-peace/ .

Shalom shalom mishpachah/family and cheverim/friends!

You are loved and appreciated and prayed for daily.

 

It’s all about Life and Relationship,

NOT Religion.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

NOT SURE if you know the One

whom the wise men looked for and found?

YOU CAN BE CERTAIN..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.

 

The Stones Cry Out As Jerusalem Shakes The Dust Off Her Feet

The City of David

( Hebrew: עיר דוד, Ir David ),

it’s the home to the ancient Biblical Jerusalem!?

Something a little different this post!

Many folks are not able to visit Israel or experience actually walking in the places we read of in the Scriptures.

It is one reason why so many pictures are added into the posts because we are very visual creatures and love to see what we are talking about.

Having not too long ago remembered Shavout/Pentecost and previous to that, Passover/Pesach. It is timely that in the following videos, both Appointed Times were mentioned because they were recorded only a few weeks ago and contain some archeological dig sites and discoveries as yet unseen by the general public!

The claims of those excavating are certainly food for thought!

Please note, this post is simply reporting some recent archeological news and is not making claims or statements to cause confusion or argument… everyone is encouraged to do their own research concerning any information included here.

Jerusalem is built with Jerusalem stone, a pale limestone common 3000 years ago and today, and up until 150 years ago, everybody thought that the ancient Biblical Jerusalem lies within the confines of the Old City within the walls there.

Apparently, while the history of the City of David goes back 3000 years to King David, only in the past 150 years was it clear that the original biblical Jerusalem lay just south of and outside what’s today known as the Old City.

Here is a portion of the interview:

The City of David,” Heymann told CBN News. “It’s the home to the ancient biblical Jerusalem and up until 150 years ago, everybody thought that the ancient biblical Jerusalem lies within the confines of the Old City right behind you in the wall – within the walls there. So the question is what happened 150 years ago and where is the ancient biblical Jerusalem?”

The area in red shows probable borders of Davids Jerusalem and Parking Lot (Givati) excavation site above left.

Starting at the ancient site of the City of David, they show the roads that would have been walked on by the thousands of people who made their annual pilgrimages to the temple in Jerusalem, bringing their sacrifices with them;

obeying the biblical commandment to travel to Jerusalem three times a year for a Temple sacrifice – at Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost), and Succoth (Feast of Tabernacles).

The Jerusalem pilgrim road is an ancient road used by ritual processions ascending from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, via the Hulda Gates in the Southern Wall.

These places have been mentioned in so many previous posts and in stumbling upon them, it seemed right to share them.

The city of David in relationship and proximity to Jerusalem is shown below.

What we read in the scripture comes alive as we see with our own eyes the original stone steps and roads just now uncovered after almost 2000 years.

These are the same stones that they would have walked on as they ascended up the Temple with their families and singing the Psalms of Ascent.

The ancient drainage channel/tunnel is underneath the road.

The Songs of Ascent are a special group of psalms comprising Psalms 120—134.

They are also called Pilgrim Songs, Gradual Psalms, Songs of Degrees, Songs of Steps or Songs for going up to Worship.

Shir Hama’aloth

Song of the Ascents

Hebrew: שִׁיר המַעֲלוֹת 

The Strong’s number for the word “ascent,” as used in the collection of psalms, is H4609. In Hebrew, the word is מעלה (ma’alah) which is used to describe upward movement, such as going up a hill or climbing stairs.

The Bible is true,

these places are real,

and events described within its pages actually happened.

A bell found in the excavations, thought to have come from the High Priests Garments.

An Exceptional woman’s 500 year-old seal unearthed

and the ear ring mentioned in the videos.

A few notes follow that may help in clarifying the locations mentioned in the videos.

The second video is the one that was spoken of at the end of the first so there is a continuation.

City of David The Struggle over Mount Zion City of the Great King.

“Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me.  We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.”  (Isaiah 8:18)

Mount Zion is a hill just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.  It is actually older than the Old City: it is the original city.

A view of the Old City of Jerusalem extending from Mount Zion at the left edge of the frame to the corner of the Temple Mount near the right edge.

The first time Zion is mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures is in 2 Samuel 5:7, when David captured Jerusalem from the Jebusites.

“David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David [Ir David].”  (2 Samuel 5:7)

Zion originally referred only to that ancient fortress and was called the City of David (2 Chronicles 5:2).

An 1845 map of Ancient Jerusalem identifying Mount Zion with the Pool of Siloam beside it.  To the right of Mount Zion is the Hill of Offense, so named because Solomon built high places to false gods there.

 Silwan is built on its steep western face and now extends down into the Kidron Valley (Valley of Jehoshaphat) and up to Mount Zion.   The Mount of Olives is the elevation just north of Silwan.

After Solomon built the First Temple in 967 BC on Mount Moriah, however, Zion came to refer to the Temple and its surrounding area and, later, the entire City of Jerusalem, which had expanded uphill and northward, beyond the original Mount Zion site.

From the time of King Solomon’s reign through the reign of Hezekiah,

water from the Gihon spring (above) was brought up to the Temple on Mount Moriah for use in the sacrifices during God’s commanded feasts.

Psalm 48:2 calls Mount Zion the city of the great King.  It sounds majestic and it truly was in Solomon’s day when the First Temple stood in all its glory!

“Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.”  (Psalm 48:2)

Although ancient rabbinic commentaries describe the area of Mount Zion/ City of David as the center of the Land of Israel (Zamib i 5), today, the mostly Arab village of Silwan extends into Mount Zion, making the area the subject of hot dispute.

The Spring That Runs Through It: Silwan, Siloam, and Shiloach

The Arabic name Silwan comes from the Greek term Siloam, which is derived from the Hebrew name Shiloach. Where we also get the name Shiloh.

Both the Arabic and Hebrew mean Gihon spring, which flows through the Kidron Valley that runs north-south between the Mount of Olives and the City of David on the southern edge of the Temple Mount.

 

FULFILLED IN ISRAEL: THE ROCKS ARE CRYING OUT IN THE CITY OF DAVID

“You can see exactly how she (Jerusalem) slowly disappeared from civilization because one city was built upon the other, and you could see how probably the city could have lost hope, thinking ‘who’s ever going to discover me again? Until God says, but in a time of favor, nothing can stop it and that’s what we see …  Jerusalem is slowly being revealed.” -Anarina Heymann

City of David and the Mount of Olives

Silwan is located on a steep ridge

southeast of the Temple Mount called the Ophel in Hebrew, which means climb, extending to the ridge of the southern peak of the Mount of Olives.

The houses of Silwan

The original City of David was built on the Ophel ridge.  David’s palace was located on the crest and the people’s houses cascaded down the hill.  That slope, in fact, enabled King David to see Bathsheba bathing on her roof (2 Samuel 11:2).  

Today, houses still stretch down the hill, likely appearing much as they did in King David’s time.

The City of David lay hidden for nearly 2,000 years until a British archaeologist began a discovery that continues to this day.

In 1867, British officer and engineer Charles Warren set out to discover Jerusalem.  He was the first to begin to unearth 2000 years of civilizations that had been buried as foreign occupiers destroyed and then built new atop the old. 

For thousands of years, while the world looked inside the relatively modern walls of the Old City, the original Jerusalem lay buried.

Warren’s Shaft, which was discovered in 1867 by Charles Warren, is thought to be the shaft through which King David conquered Mount Zion from the Jebusites.  (2 Samuel 5:6–10)

Another remarkable discovery during construction of the visitor center in 1997, unexpectedly uncovered two monumental towers that date back to the age of the kings of Judea: one protecting the base of Warren’s Shaft (a tunnel that allows access to the Gihon Spring from inside the city walls), and the other protecting the spring itself.

More than 10 years ago, archaeologists uncovered another Biblical site, the Pool of Siloam,

The Pool of Siloam

Hebrew: בריכת השילוח ‎,

Breikhat Hashiloah

was a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the City of David, the original site of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast.

The pool was fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts.

It’s the place where Jesus healed the blind man and also where the Jewish people would gather for the Feasts of the Lord.

Below is the place when Charles Warren came through the fascia that he found. He saw something.  And when Charles Warren saw this, he knew that he rediscovered the ancient biblical Jerusalem.”

Asked if this Warren’s work was the beginning of the unveiling of the City of David in modern times, she responded, “Exactly because we’re speaking of a 2,000 year period where nobody knew where the ancient city was. Most people thought when they – when they came – that what they saw in the Old City, that was ancient biblical Jerusalem. It’s only when he found this that they discovered…the ancient Jerusalem lies outside of what we call today the Old City.”

The discovery of the tunnel system known as Warren’s Shaft visually tells how King David captured the city and brings the Bible to life.

Is this final ascent a merger between archaeology and prophecy?

Something amazing is happening because as they are now excavating this road, prophecy is being fulfilled because it says in Isaiah: ‘build up, build up the road,’ the highway remove the stones for My people’s return,”

The entire history of Jerusalem is being revealed as if

the rocks are crying out.

It’s said [In Hebrew] ‘shake off your dust, arise, take your rightful place, Jerusalem.’ If you see the excavations here on a daily basis, you can see the buckets flying. You can see the dust literally flying about, how she’s shaking off her dust.”  

It certainly seems that The Stones of Jerusalem Cry Out as She Shakes The Dust of Her Feet!

If you love archeology and Israel, the country and the people where our Heavenly Father chose to send His Son, Yeshua/Jesus you will enjoy these videos.

The Journey along the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, the Heart of Ancient Jerusalem..mp4

Underground Journey from the City of David to the Temple Mount Foundation Stones.mp4

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THESE IMAGES AND VIDEOS,THE USAGE OF THE IMAGES AND THESE VIDEOS IS PURELY FOR SPIRITUAL ENCOURAGEMENT PURPOSES ONLY

Shalom shalom mishpachah/family and cheverim/friends! You are loved and appreciated and prayed for daily.

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it’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.

NOT SURE?

YOU CAN BE..

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.