kenesiyahmessenger 1 Introduction 2. Jewish Calendar / Bible Calendar Faith and Doctrine 4. FEASTS AND HOLIDAYS OF ISRAEL History and Plain Facts 6. The 1973 Yom Kippur War The Destruction of the First Holy Temple Questions And Answer (FAQ) 11. Commentary and Opinion 14. News &Views 15. LOVE IS Slow to suspect - quick to trust. Slow to condemn - quick to justify Slow to offend - quick to defend Slow to expose - quick to shield. Slow to reprimand - quick to forbear Slow to belittle - quick to appreciate. Slow to demand - quick to give. Slow to provoke - quick to conciliate. Slow to hinder - quick help Slow to resent - quick to forgive . OUR BANNER Genuine Inspiration We have girded on the armor, And our banner is unfurled— It's the standard of Mt. Zion, And we'll face a frowning world. We have on the only breastplate, It's the shield of truth and right; And the sword which we are using Is mighty in the fight! We are told to hold out faithful,- By the grace of Elohim we stand, And we'll work beneath this banner Till we reach the promised land. Our Captain — Judea's Lion; Our weary hearts doth cheer, He's the Holy One of Zion, And tells us not to fear. Yea! Every thing we can do through Him Who strength us. A faithful messenger Is Like the cold of snow in time of harvest to those who send him, For he refreshes the soul of his Masters. Prov 25:13
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Introduction 2. Jewish Calendar / Bible Calendar
Faith and Doctrine 4. FEASTS AND HOLIDAYS OF ISRAEL
History and Plain Facts 6. The 1973 Yom Kippur War
The Destruction of the First Holy Temple Questions And Answer (FAQ) 11.
Commentary and Opinion 14.
News &Views 15.
LOVE IS Slow to suspect - quick to trust.
Slow to condemn - quick to justify
Slow to offend - quick to defend
Slow to expose - quick to shield.
Slow to reprimand - quick to forbear
Slow to belit tle - quick to appreciate.
Slow to demand - quick to give.
Slow to provoke - quick to concil iate.
Slow to hinder - quick help
Slow to resent - quick to forgive .
OUR BANNER
Genuine Inspiration
We have girded on the armor,
And our banner is unfurled—
It's the standard of Mt. Zion,
And we'll face a frowning world.
We have on the only breastplate,
It's the shield of truth and right;
And the sword which we are using
Is mighty in the fight!
We are told to hold out faithful,-
By the grace of Elohim we stand,
And we'll work beneath this banner
Till we reach the promised land.
Our Captain — Judea's Lion;
Our weary hearts doth cheer,
He's the Holy One of Zion, And tells
us not to fear.
Yea!
Every thing we can do through Him
Who strength us.
A faithful messenger Is Like the cold of snow in time of harvest to those who send him,
For he refreshes the soul of his Masters. Prov 25:13
Questions And Answers (FAQ) QUESTIONS;- Does the Creator Have many dif-
ferent names?
Has He one for every language,
or has He just one name?
ANSWERS It is certain that the Mighty Creator does not
have these hundred different names? As are as-cribed to Him among all of the various languages of the world. The word "God" is only a title like the word "Father", The scriptures tell us that there are "Lord's many, and „Gods‟ many.
We all know that the word "father" is not the name of our earthly father, but He has a name. Just so has our heavenly Father Has a name, which is known in Israel, but considered too sacred to speak or write or print, only on special occasions. The children from the early grades all know His "name”. "For Elohim will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah that they dwell there and have it in possession. The seed also of His servants shall inherit it, and they that love His name shall dwell therein Psalms 69: 35, 36.
"His name is great in Israel. Psalms. 76: I. "Holy and reverend is His name." —
Psalms111: 9 What is His name, and what is His Son's
name? If you can tell? —Proverb‟s 30: 4. If the Creator did not have a name surely this
would be a strange scripture to be found in His inspired Word. In the prayer of Da-vid he said, blessed be His name forever". — Psalms 72:9, 20.
The prophet Isaiah in speaking of this very time when the Cre-ator is bring-ing again Zi-on and re-storing the waste places about Yerusa-lem, He says, “There fore
The victory came at a very high
cost. In storming the Golan Heights,
Israel suffered 115 dead-roughly the
number of Americans killed during
Operation Desert Storm. Altogether,
Israel lost twice as many men — 777
dead and 2,586 wounded-in propor-
tion to her total population as the U.S.
lost in eight years of fighting in Vi-
etnam.(23) Also, despite the incredible
success of the air campaign, the Israe-
li Air Force lost 46 of its 200 fighters.(24) The death toll on the Arab side
was 15,000 Egyptians, 2,500 Syrians,
and 800 Jordanians.
By the end of the
war, Israel had conquered
enough territory to more
than triple the size of the
area it controlled, from
8,000 to 26,000 square
miles. The victory enabled
Israel to unify Yerusalem.
Israeli forces had also cap-
tured the Sinai, Golan
Heights, Gaza Strip and
West Bank.Israel now ruled
more than three-quarters of
a million Palestinians —
most of whom were hostile
to the government. Never-
theless, more than 9,000
Palestinian families were
reunited in 1967. Ultimate-
ly, more than 60,000 Pal-
estinians were allowed to
return.(25)
The 1967 Six-Day War
THE MASTER'S METHOD OF INCREASE. What we give to the Lord becomes doubly ours for i t i s ours to g ive to Him, and then He gives i t back to us mul t ipl ied and f i l led with ble ss ing . There i s a lways an over f low in the things of Elohim.
When we s top g i v i n g — we cease to mult i ply ! I t i s not only the way we give but the wi l l ing-ness , the cont inuousness . the in tensi ty wi th which we g ive — our l i fe , our t ime, our ta lents , our a l l — to our ble ssed Lord and Master , and soon coming king of k ings 11 : 15 -18 –By Edi tor
QUESTIONS;- Is it really true that the Savior was born on December the 25th, and is this really His Birthday? Would the Shepherds have been out with their sheep at this season of the year?
ANSWER. — The 25th of December
was celebrated by - the hea-thens over 600 years before the time of Our Savior. It was the birthday of a son to the queen of Babylon, the heir to the throne which brought great rejoicing, be-coming a general world holiday. Then later when Con-stantine, the Emperor of Rome desiring to establish a uniform world religion in 321 A.D., christened this heathen festival as the birthday of the Savior to further "weld Rome with Babylon together in a common faith.
The practice of decorat-ing the Christmas tree, etc., was condemned by Jeremi-ah in 607 B.C. (Jeremiah 10:1-4); where we are told to "learn not the way of the heathen."
The weather here is of-ten very cold and stormy, during December with cold rains, but very seldom snow. The shepherds would hardly be out with their sheep at night in this sea-son.
Joseph and Mary came from Nazareth, about 100 miles, by donkey or camel to pay their taxes (Luke 3:1-4). The paying of taxes was in the early fall, about Oc-tober, when the people were harvesting their crops, and had money and never as late as December.
Furthermore it would have been practically im-possible for Joseph to have brought Mary, his wife, over the muddy roads and the donkey paths, soaked with rain, and deep with very sticky mud at this sea-son. Furthermore no man would have undertaken such a risk with his wife so far advanced in pregnancy. It would have required around five to six days to make this trip, being on the road day and night, exposed to the seasons cold rainy weather for this long a pe-riod. Joseph would not have run such a hazardous risk as this in December, but in September and Octo-ber the weather is always warm and dry, with good roads. The birth of our Messiah evidently took place on or near Atonement Day, the 10th of Ethanim, which are a few days before the Feast of Tabernacles.
Extract from Mt. Zion reporter 1975
Questions And Answers (FAQ) QUESTION -
WHERE ARE THE TRUE PEOPLE?
There are more than thir ty d if fe rent church organizat ions now known by the name "Church of God ' in the Engl i sh . About ha lf of thi s number accept the scr iptura l c reed (Rev. 1 2 : 1 1 ) and keep the Sabba th day according to these com-mandments . Then the ques t ion ar i se s , which of these groups i s the r ight one . Again the - searcher for tru th , a f te r hav-ing found the people wi th the sc r iptura l name and creed i s bewi ldered - He cannot d iscover enough d if fe rence be tween them for separa t ion , the lack of -brother ly love shown by one for the other i s d i shear tening and d i scourag ing . Satan uses th is in some cases to turn the man back into the wor ld .
Where is the man or woman capable of judg ing whether or not a per son hold ing to another group bes ides h is own isn ' t the ir brother or si s te r in the fa i th? Jus t because of some l i t t le doc tr ina l d i f fer -ence , which to be l ieve one way or the other i s no s in , then why be a t var iance? Var iance i s one of the s ins tha t separa te s us f rom the k ingdom (Gal . 5 : 20 , 2 1 ) and c la ssed with murder . Beware Brother or S i ste r , of f a i l ing to fol low the Master who forbids judg ing and condemning one another .
Al l of the var ious groups, whom the Spir i t has le t in to the truth of th is Bib le creed (Rev . 12: 17, and Eph. 3 : 14 , 1 5 ) , should fe l lowship one another and con-s ider members of a l l of these groups the ir own brother s and s i s ters . 1 h is i s scr iptura l and i t must come about to eve-ryone who wi l l without d isappointment en ter the k ingdom so near a t hand .
Our adv ice to the seeker af ter the true church is to connect h imse lf up with the group near e st to him, and labor with them in love . Be a peace maker , and try to add other s to the fold , and suppor t your min is ter ing bre thren, with a fa i thfu l t i the . — Ed itor .
Extract from Mt. Zion reporter 1975 Ezek 3:27
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth and you
shall say to the people,
Thus says the Lord Elohim; he who hears, let
him hear, and he who refuses to hear, let
him refuse;
for they are a rebellious house.
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There were different groups of
the Father’s children
(Church of Elohim) two
thousand years ago, accord-
ing to the records of the
Gospel, just as there are
today.
The apostle John came
across one of these group,
according to the following
text;-
John answered to him
(YAHSHUA) saying ,
―Master, we saw someone
casting out devil in your
name, and HE DOES NOT
FOLLOW US.‖ And we
forbade him because ―HE
DOES NOT FOLLOW
US.‖
How similar is this
to today’s conditions where
one condemned and forbid
another because he
―FOLLOW NOT US‖ /
FOLLOW NOT THEM.
Dear reader, what
the MASTER said is exact-
ly what He would say today
- and certainly this is what
He is saying : ― Do not
forbade them, for there no
man can do a miracle in my
Name that can speak evil of
Me. For he that is not
against us is on our part.
For who will give you a
cup of water to drink in my
name, be-
cause ―YOU
BELONG TO THE
MESSIAH, surely I said to you , HE
SHALL NOT LOSE HIS REWARD.‖
Mark 9: 38—41
When Speaking of this carnal
conditions where Apostle Paul
mentioned The Apollo's Cepha’s
and other groups, just as it is to-
day. He said in verse 8;- ― For we
are laborers together with Elohim .
You are Elohim’s husbandry , you
are Elohim Building ―For other foundation no
man can lay than that which is laid,
which is MESSIAH YAHSHUA.‖ 1
Cor.3:9
Commentary and Opinion The history of Yerusalem from the time of
Joshua to its destruction by Titus-a period of fifteen
centuries-is a succession of changes, revolutions, sieg-
es, surrenders, and famines. Each is followed by resto-
ration and rebuilding. The city's greatest glory was
reached under the reign of King Solomon, who built the
Temple and a royal palace besides greatly enlarging
and strengthening the walls of the city. Yerusalem's
possibly greatest humiliation was reached under the
reign of Antiochus Ephiphanes, 175 BC - 165 BC,
when the most violent and cruel efforts were made to
destroy the Jews and their religion.
Ps 137:5-6 If I forget you, O Yerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill! If I do not re-member you, Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—If I do not exalt Yerusalem Above my chief joy.
NKJV
If any man think him-
self to be …
spiritual,
let him acknowledge that the things that I write … are of
Israel & Middle East 'Iran building militias in Syr-
ia in case Assad falls' 02/11/2013 00:40
'Washington Post' quotes US,
Arab officials as saying 50,000
militiamen backed by Iran and
Hezbollah fighting for Assad. Iran is preparing to preserve its influ-
ence in Syria in the event that its ally
President Bashar Assad should be
removed from power by building a network of militias in
the country along with Hezbollah, The Washington Post
reported on Sunday, citing US and Middle East officials.
According to the officials, the militias are currently
fighting alongside Assad's forces
to keep the embattled leader in
power. They believe, howev-
er, that the militias are actu-
ally in place to serve Teh-
ran's long-term goal of main-
taining operatives in the
country to act in Iran's inter-
est in Syria if the opposition
forces should succeed in
unseating Assad. Related:
The Post quoted a senior
Obama administration offi-
cial as saying that Iran was
backing as many as 50,000
militiamen. ―The immediate
intention seems to be to sup-
port the Syrian regime. But
it’s important for Iran to
have a force in Syria that is
reliable and can be counted
on,‖ the official stated.
The Post quoted a senior
Arab official as saying that
Iran was putting the militia-
men in place in order to
"support Assad to the hilt,"
and "to
set the
stage for
major
mischief
if he col-
lapses.‖
Syria's uprising, which started as peaceful protests
against four decades of autocratic rule by Assad and his
late father, has turned into a violent sectarian conflict.
The war is pitting Assad's minority Alawite sect, an off-
shoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated Syria since
1960s, against the Sunni majority that had led the protest
movement.
The Local Coordination Committees, a network of grass-
roots activists, said clashes broke out on Sunday in the al
-Afif neighbourhood of Damascus, which is adjacent to a
presidential complex.
The organization said 77 people were killed in Syria on
Sunday, including 16 people who it said had been exe-
cuted by Assad's forces in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor.
Such reports are impossible to verify as Syria severely
restricts access for independent media.
Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib said on
Sunday he was willing to hold talks with Assad's repre-
sentatives in rebel-held areas in northern Syria.
The talks' objective would be to find a way for Assad to
leave power with the "minimum of bloodshed and de-
struction", Alkhatib said in a statement published on his
Facebook page.
Thanks be unto Elohim for this gift of Him, that is tremendous and unspeakable. 2 Cor 9:15 PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME !!
… a faithful messenger is health. Prov
13:17
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"Iran is continuing its nuclear program uninterrupted. It is enriching uranium to levels higher than 20 percent, in bla-tant disregard to the demands of the international communi-ty," Israeli Prime Minister Net-anyahu’s statement said.
A Dying Church
"A church that is doing noth-ing for the public is on its way to the cemetery.
All its members who are doing nothing are acting as pall-bearers.
All who are so busy with their own affairs that they have not time to devote to the Lord's cause are making the mourn-ing wreath.
The brother who says nothing at all is driving the hearse.
The ones who are constantly drawing back when advance moves are to be made are throwing flowers on the grave.
The brother who is continual-ly talking of the hard times in the church is preaching the funeral sermon, and singing the burial hymns.
And thus lies the church bur-ied, free from all cares,