How much can you get done before sunset on the sixth day each week?
Is it possible to clear the desk by then?
How would it feel to put off the rest of the cleaning for 24 hours – and have a valid excuse for doing so?
Can we finish the cooking by sunset, and then relax and just eat leftovers for a day?
Seems pretty easy, actually. Why fight it?
Matthew Chapter 1
1. The book of the genealogy of Y’shua the Mashiyach,the son of Dawid, the son of Awraham.
2. Awraham fathered Yitz’chak, Yitz’chak fathered Ya’akov. Ya’akov fathered Yehuda and his brothers. 3. Yehuda fathered Peretz and Zarakh by Thamar. Peretz fathered Khetzron. 4. Khetzron fathered Aram. Aram fathered Amminadav, Amminadav fathered, Nekhshon. Nekhshon fathered Salmon. 5. Salmon fathered Bo’az by Rachav, Bo’az fathered Awbed by Rawth, Awbed fathered Ishai. 6. Ishai fathered Dawid the king. Dawid fathered Shlemon by the wife of Awrea. 7. Shlemon fathered Rechav’am, Rechav’am fathered Aviyah, Aviyah fathered Asa. 8. Asa fathered Yahoshapat, Yahoshapat fathered Yoram, Yoram fathered Uziyahu. 9. Uziyahu fathered Yotham, Yotham fathered Akhaz, Akhaz fathered Hizkiyahu. 10. Hizkiyahu fathered M’nasheh, M’nasheh fathered Amon, Amon fathered Yoshiyahu. 11. Yoshiyahu fathered Yochanyahu and his brothers in the captivity of Bavel. 12. And after the captivity now of Bavel, Yochanyahu fathered Sh’altiel, Sh’altiel fathered Zerubavel. 13. Zerubavel fathered Awiud, Awiud fathered Elyakim, Elyakim fathered Azor. 14. Azor fathered Tzadoq. Tzadoq fathered Achin, Achin fathered El’ichud. 15. El’ichud fathered El’azar, El’azar fathered Matan, Matan fathered Ya’akov. 16. Ya’akov fathered Yosip, the guardian* of Maryam, from whom was born Y’shua, who is called the Mashiyach. 17. Therefore, all the generations from Awraham until Dawid were fourteen generations, from Dawid to the captivity were fourteen generations and from the captivity of Bavel until the Mashiyach were fourteen generations. 18. Now the birth of Y’shua, the Mashiyach, was like this: While Maryam his mother was betrothed to Yosip, without them being united, she was found pregnant by the Ruach haKodesh. 19. But Yosip, her husband was just and did not desire to expose her, yet he was thinking in secret that he would dismiss her. (Matt. 1:1-19 AENT).
Greek NT comes under accusation with blatant mistakes as found in Matthew 1. Verse 17 asserts that the generation count must be 14, 14, & 14, and yet in Greek verses 12-16, one can only find 13 generations, including Y’shua. In the Aramaic Peshitta NT, the v.16 Yosip is Maryam’s father, not husband: Problem resolved. Secondly, if she is attached to the Davidic line only by marriage as written in Greek, then her offspring cannot be the Messiah. The Peshitta (Eastern Aramaic) text of the New Testament fixes all this.
Third, the Peshitta distinguishes the first Yosip (v.16) from the second (v.19), so the contradiction with Luke 3:23 disappears. Fourth, see Matt. 8:9 for another usage of “gowra” as “father” rather than “husband.” Lastly, note that it is inappropriate to double any name in an attempt to balance the Greek lists.
* The word gowra designates a protector-male or guardian; the context of this verse determines its specific meaning. Y’shua elsewhere says “which one of gowra, if he has a son…(Mt.7:9),” obviously “father” is intended.
Complete text, with over 1700 footnotes and extensive commentary available in the Aramaic English New Testament:
And everyone that practices sin, perpetrates iniquity; for all sin is iniquity. (1 John 3:4 AENT pg. 654).
“…all sin is iniquity.” Sin and iniquity are equivalent according to the “New Testament,” more aptly called the Renewed Covenant. But what is iniquity?
The dictionary defines iniquity as “lack of justice or righteousness; wickedness; injustice.” The page at Dictionary.com includes a usage example from the Torah (Exodus 34:6-7). Iniquity (lack of righteousness) can therefore be described as “Lawlessness,” which is “Torah-lessness” for those who consider the Bible to be Divinely inspired by the Creator.
You therefore, my beloved, as you know (these things) beforehand, guard yourselves or else, by going after the error of the Torahless, you fall from your steadfastness. (2 Peter 3:17 AENT pg.458).
While sin is sin, meaning that sin is Torahlessness, without compromise, keep in mind that there is a difference between the occasional lapse vs. a lifestyle of practicing sin:
Everyone that is born of Elohim does not practice sin because his seed is in him and he cannot sin because he is born of Elohim. (1 John 3:9 AENT pg.654)
Secondly, our Father in Heaven has always been merciful towards those who repent:
YHWH, YHWH El, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (Exodus 34:6-7).
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“Therefore let us also, who have all these witnesses surrounding us like clouds, cast from us all encumbrances and sin which is always prepared for us; and let us run with patience the race that is appointed for us.” (Hebrews 12:1 AENT pg.424).
Notice here how we are encouraged to remove ourselves not only from sin, but ALSO from “encumbrances.”
Encumbrances must be somehow different from “sin:” Why else would the writer distinguish the two using the separator “and?” Therefore, we can improve our Race by removing (1) sin and (2) encumbrances from our lives. Here we will focus on #2. However, the NT definition of sin may surprise you: Check here and here.
Back to “encumbrances:” Are there things in your life which slow down your race, even if they’re not firmly in the “sin” category? Take a moment and prayerfully consider this.
Chocolate may not qualify as sin, but it could be an encumbrance; caffeine and alcohol are arguably in this same category. With what reading material do we fill our minds? Which TV shows, movies, music do we allow past the gates of our eyes & ears? Which relationships hinder our walk, and which friends exhort us higher? Our expenditures of time, money, and resources: Are these an encumbrance to our race? It is up to the individual to decide for themselves.
Consider the witnesses who surround us who are mentioned in the previous chapter: Hebrews 11. Consider the shortness of this present life compared with eternity. Are we really running our race with patience, efficiency, with a goal to actually win?
Don’t you know that they who run in the stadium, run all of them; yet it is one who gains the victory. You run so as to attain. 25. For everyone who engages in the contest restrains his desires in everything. And they run to obtain a crown that perishes; but we, one that does not perish. 26. I therefore so run, not as for something unknown; and I so struggle, not as struggling against air; 27. But I subdue my body, and reduce it to servitude; lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should despise myself. (1 Corinthians 9:24-27 AENT pg.514.)
May the Messiah Y’shua bless your race.
Teddy,
Yerubilee
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Um, actually, this ship ran aground here, off the coast of Cyprus. In 1972. And it’s still sitting there. But you wouldn’t know all that just from looking at the picture.
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As for Christmas, I gradually arrived at the point a couple years ago where I no longer celebrate it. In short, it is futile to try to sanctify a pagan feast. Sanctify = “Holy-ize” = “Kadosh-ize” = “make Set Apart” and we already have the Set Apart Feasts as determined by YHWH in Leviticus 23. Who else but YHWH has the authority to declare Set Apart Feasts?
INSERT: This isn’t as upsetting to life as it seems at first. Biblically, we can still attend feasts if we feel it is beneficial. See “What about Feasts” for comments on 1 Cor. 10:27.
But our concern is with heaven and from thence we expect our Life Giver, our Master, Y’shua the Mashiyach who will change the body of our abasement, that it may have the likeness of the body of his glory according to his great power, whereby all things are made subject to him. (Phil. 3:20-21 AENT)
Be like me, my Brothers; and contemplate them who walk after the pattern you have seen in us. For there are many who walk otherwise; of whom I have often told you, and I now tell you with weeping that they are adversaries of the stake of the Mashiyach; whose end is destruction; whose Elohim is their belly and their glory their shame; whose thoughts are on things of the earth. (Phil. 3:17-19 AENT)
Is your Elohim your belly? Or rather, is your Elohim the King of kings and the Master of masters?
Your Elohim, personally speaking, is whom you serve; it is whom you strive to please.
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