Bibles -How Many Versions & Which Religions Use Different Ones

Since “reading scriptures” has come up in the media and news, I thought I would share how many types I have read. Yes, cover to cover. Some of the books inside it multiple times. Plus others that I know are out there, but I have not read them.

Catholics have the Catholic Bibles. They have the same as Christian Bibles but they also contain “The account of the chanukah rebellion”, called the book of Maccabees 1 and 2. The kohen’s (Levitical Tribe) were mainly who helped get the Holy Temple back and cleanse the temple from feces, and all sorts of horrible things. Like pig slaughtered on the alter. Statue of Zeus in the Holy of Holies was removed. Plus they also have Neamiah in their Bible. I have read only Neamiah, Maccabee 1 & 2 from this Bible.

Morman bible, I have never read, but I did see it. It starts with the Book of Mormon, Mormon laws and then includes Old Testament and New Testament.

Messianic Jewish have a “Complete book of Messianic Judiasm”. So it is basically a Christian Bible, but Yehoshua is used instead of the name Jesus. Messianic Christianity is not Jewish at all. It just takes the Jewishness of Jesus. They call him Yehoshua. The word Yehoshua, does mean salvation. In Hebrew, the name Yehoshua means Joshua. They totally negate the fact that Joshua (Son of Nun) entered the promised land after 40 years in the desert. That was “salvation”.

TaNaK is Jewish. It stands for Torah, Navium, Keturum. Torah is the 5 books of Moses. Navium is the navi (ium is plural). That is all the prophets. However, Kings one and two, chronicles one and two are considered in the book of prophets. Daniel is in the Keturum. The Keturum is the writings. So Ruth, Esther, Lamatations, Psalms and Proverbs are in that section. Plus some others I did not name.

Christian Bible is the “their version” of the Jewish TaNaK. They call it the old testament. Then they have the New Testament. They do not have Niamiah nor Maccabees 1 & 2.

THEN, the Christian Bible has many versions. KJV NASB, NIV, HNV, NKJV. See below, I copied that from a Christian Bible website.

So saying “read a Bible or scriptures” means much more then you think it does.

Did you know that some households have multiple versions of the bible in their homes.

Destiny

(Yevomos 15:2)

The psalmist (140 vs 8) praises G0d,

“You covered my head in the days

(Literally)

the “Kissing”.

This alludes to the day when two worlds kiss, This World and the World to Come; Olom haZe exists and Olom haBoh beings.

“Kissing” implies a gentle meeting of the two, without a sharp break.

Ramban discusses at length (Toras ha”Odom, Shaar haG’mul).

Though the Mishna assures us of the existence of the Olom haBoh as the final reward for mitzvos, the Mishna does not make its nature clear.  Is it a spiritual world, the abode of people’s souls directly after their death, or another world which is yet to come into being?

The Mishna in Sanhedrin 90A- Declares that a person who denies the resurrection of the dead will have no share in the World to Come.  The G’morrah explains that as poetic justice; if one denies the resurrection, he will have no part in it.  This proves that Olom haBoh is the blissful state of those that God resurrects at t’chias hamaysin, not the abode of the souls after death, which is Gan Ayden. The G’morrah also tells of Rabbi Elozor ben Rabbi Yosi, who recalled, “I refuted the Cussim who deny that the Torah promises a resurrection. I said to them, “You have falsified the Torah, the Torah (Shelach, baMidboar 15:31) threatens evildoers thus:  “That life will be cut off; cut off; its sin is on it.”  Why “cut off’ twice?” Because the sinner’s life will be cut off in This World and in the Next World”.  Since Rabbi Elozor provided t’chias hamaysim by showing the existence of the World to Come, evidently they are identical.

The G’morrah (Sanhedrin 90B) also writes, “How do we know that God will resurrect the dead? The Torah (voEschanan, D’vorim 4:4) states, “You who cleaved to God are all alive today.’ That means, “Just as today you are alive, so in Olom haBoh you will all live.‘ “Again we see the identity of the two.

Chazal (Sanhedrin 110B) also tells us that the generation that wandered 40 years in the desert will participate in the World to Come, for the possuk (Yeshaya 35:10) states, “God’s redeemed (i.E. the anciently redeemed) will return and come to Tzion with song. “Again Chazal says (Sanhedrin 110B) the 10 tribes will participate in the World to Come, for the Scriptures (Yeshaya 27:13) declares,

“In that day, a great shofar will be blown,

and the lost in the land of Ashur will come,

and

the dispersed in the land of Mitzarim. 

They will bow to God at the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

“Now “Returning” and “coming to Jerusalem” cannot refer to an exclusively spiritual world but only to a world where, as today, both body and soul exist.

The Chachomin (Sanhedrin 92A) also promises that any leader of Israel who leads the people gently will retain his leadership in the World to Come. Evidently, the World to Come is much like our world and leaders will still be required.

Additionally Chazal (Z’vochim 118B) declares, too that God is immanent in the Holy Temple in This  World, in the Holy Temple in the era of Moshiach, and in the completely rebuilt Holy Temple in the World to Come.  They tell us further (Sifray, Zos ahBrocha 33:19) that all treasure-bearing ships that sink in the sea over the ages will be expelled from the sea at the beach at Yaffo as the possession of the tzaddikim in Olom haBoh.  All this is decidedly physical.

In the Shmos Rabba (15:21) the Chachomin tell us, “God will make 10 innovations in the World to Come:

1. The sun’s light will be 49 times the intensity of the present sunlight
2. Water will flow out of Jerusalem and cure all illnesses
3. Trees will bear fruit each month
4. All ruins will be rebuilt, including Sodom and Gomorrah
5. Jerusalem will be reconstructed of sapphire
6. Bears and cows will graze together
7. All animals will be bound by a covenant with Israel
8. There will be no more weeping and moaning in the world
9. There will be no more death
10. There will be no more agony and misery in the world, but happiness exclusively

This clearly proves that the World to come is NOT purely spiritual world composed only of souls, the place to which the soul of a person repairs after his death, but a new world which God will inaugurate after the days of Moshiach and t’chias hamaysim.  In it people will have bodies and there will be a Holy Temple.

To recap:

After the death of a tzaddik their soul is assigned to Gan Ayden, which is an interim state of reward. At the time God chooses, the era of Moshiach will arrive, which is an epoch of This World.  At the end of that era there will be a judgement and the resurrection of the dead, which is the final reward for the body and soul.  In it the body will be refined and become more spiritual then today but both body and soul will live forever.

NOTES: Copied from Mysteries of the Creation- A cosmology Derived from Tanach and Chazal. By Rabbi David Brown. *Pages 189-192.

Terminology

Chazal- Great Sages

Gan Ayden: The Garden of Eden; paradise

Gehimon: Hell

Mitzarim- Egypt (Constraints)

Olom haBoh- The world to come, the setting destined for payment of the rewards for performance of the commandments in This World.

Olom haZe-  The world, as distinguished from Olom haBoh, & the future world

Shofar- Rams Horn

T’chias hamaysin- Resurrection of the Dead

Tzion -Zion

Tzaddikim- Righteous

Spiritual Destruction vs Physical Destruction

I found this article very good for Tisha B’Av .

(Quoting Section of article)

If only we felt the simple pain of not saying hello to each other and internalized the meaning of this mournful act, perhaps we would then be more careful to warmly and lovingly greet each other and not hurt each other.

With no Temple, we have lost touch with the presence of G-d within the world and within each other. This is the real tragedy for which we mourn. The more we understand this spiritual loss the more we appreciate the enormous significance of the Temple to the Jewish people and the intense pain of living without it.

We did not simply lose a great work of architecture. The Temple reminded us that we are the living sanctuary for the presence of G-d on earth— G-d is manifest within us and within the world. When we lost touch with this fundamental truth about ourselves, each other and G-d, we lost the Temple.

Therefore, on Tisha B’Av, we do not cry over real estate but over the real and sad state of the world.

The Oral tradition teaches that when the enemies destroyed the Temple, G-d told them that they only destroyed a building already in ruins. The Temple was really the externalization of our inner awareness; our spiritual orientation to our selves, each other and G- d. When we spiritually destroyed our selves and denied the presence of G-d within our selves and within each other, the external manifestation—the building— had no meaning. Therefore, since what the Temple represented was no longer a true reflection of the spiritual level of the people, it had to be destroyed. The Temple could not remain standing once it lost the meaning for what it stood.

On Tisha B’Av we celebrate our pain by transforming it into spiritual cravings and yearnings for the restoration of the Temple and everything it stands for.

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For full article please see this hyperlink:

Sparks for Tisha b’Av – by Rabbi David Aaron

 

My Note:

Tisha B’Av one day will be filled with joy, and celebration and food.  It will be the time when the Messianic era has broken forth. It will be a time when there will be true peace (Shalom) in the world, there will be no more violence, no more war. No more sin… With no more sin,which will mean that all diseases will stop, things will come to the the fulfillment of what the Prophets of the TaNak have spoken of.

Read Isiah Chapters 40 to the end of the book of Isaiah. This is the “Comfort my people” . Many of these prophecies have not been filled or fulfilled yet.  The book of Ezekiel with chapter 40 has the building of the 3rd temple.

The number 40 is a “Completion” number.
So much to be said for this date, but not enough time to fit it all in one post.

 

 

 

This is NOT the Time to Sit on Your Laurels…

To all my Christ believing friends….. please I beseech you to read the OT, because there are things in there that you are missing by only reading the NT…. this is not the time to just Assume your priests, pastors are properly teaching you… your own soul will let you know what is proper and correct.. Hashem sometimes uses the point of the sword to push people toward G-d. I am so sorry to say that in my very humble opinion this is no different.
Hashem has done this with the Jewish for centuries… (Nebuchenezzar, Rome, you name it)….
The church wants to replace Israel… So now your seeing what happens when you want to replace that which Hashem has put in motion. Do not take this lightly. Don’t be mad at me for posting this. I’m trying to save your life.
Now is the time to Teshuvah, to repent, to besearch the creator, NOT THE CREATED.
I love all my fellow beings…. Please, please, please…. Read from the beginning of your bibles! I don’t care what version you want to read…. If you think “I’ve read it already, then re-read it”… If you want to venture out and try a new version then do so…. You have no excuses.. Its online!
http://www.blueletterbible.org/  (Christian Bibles, all versions)
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htmhttp://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/63255/jewish/The-Bible-with-Rashi.htm  (Hebrew and English)

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/109864/jewish/Classic-Texts.htm (The Tanak is the Bible) there are other writings as well on this.

http://catholic.org/bible/old_testament.php  Catholic bible

 

NOTES:

Laurels:

Idioms

9.

look to one’s laurels, to be alert to the possibility of being excelled or surpassed:

New developments in the industry are forcing long-established firms to look to their laurels.

10.

rest on one’s laurels, to be content with one’s past or present honors, achievements, etc.:

He retired at the peak of his career and is resting on his laurels.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Laurels?s=t

Listen to Jeremiah

Torah is full of commandments and faithful Jews are expected to observe all of them that are possible. We live a religious life and therefore we call ourselves religious. Yet, as religious as we are, very few ever ask the most important question of all religion; what is it really that G-d wants from us? What are we supposed to do to find Divine favor? Bad things do happen to good people all the time, whether or not they are religious. It seems that being religious is no guaranteed spiritual protection against adversity. What then does G-d want from us?

Although we may be Torah observant individuals, we still find ourselves having daily problems. Our Torah does not seem to defend us from these. The reason for this is because the problems we face in life are common to all human beings and even when we observe Torah we still remain human. G-d knows this and has to constantly remind us that even if we observe all the rituals of Torah they alone do not make us better human beings.

In order to remind us of what the Torah is all about, G-d continued to send us prophets. They alone were the true interpreters of the Torah message. Through the messages of numerous prophets, spoken over centuries, G-d spoke to the people advising and warning that unless we address our human problems and become better human beings, then all the Torah ritual observance in the world will not save us from impending disaster.

What does G-d want from us? The answer to this is simple. G-d wants us to become the best human beings that we can possibly be. Ritual Torah observance is a means to an end. All our Sages throughout the centuries point to each individual law and show us the moral lessons to be learned from them. It is not enough that we simply perform mere rituals. The rituals of Torah (Halakhot) are meant to teach us something about ourselves and our world. If we miss the message then we are no better than our ancestors who also missed the message and faced a holocaust of destruction because of their lack of insight.

The prophet Jeremiah stated this concept in no uncertain terms. Here are his words recorded in Jer. 7:21-23. These are the opening words of the Haftara (prophetic reading) for Parshat Tzav.

“Thus says HaShem of armies, the G-d of Israel; add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I did not speak to your fathers nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; but this command I gave them; obey Me and I will be your G-d and you shall be my people, walk in the way I command you that it may be well with you.”

What does G-d want from us? The answer is simple; He wants us to listen to Him. Yet before we can listen to Him we have to first know how to hear what He says. For this most turn to Torah observance and proclaim that as long as they are performing the rituals then that’s all that is necessary. Ultimately, this is a true conclusion on their parts. However, Torah observance includes a tremendous amount more than mere empty observance of religious rituals.

For centuries there has been discussion in Torah law codes whether or not the performance of commandments requires that they be performed with full devotion and sincerity. Most acknowledge that they should indeed be performed properly with sincere devotion, implying that devotion (kavanah) is an obligatory part of the commandment’s requirements. However, others conclude that one’s mere performance, with or without devotion, is all we can hope for from the majority of peoples.

Our Sages were wise. They recognized that if they required that the commandments be performed with devotion and that one did not fulfill one’s obligations without it, then almost everyone would not perform the commandments in the first place. In their prophetic wisdom, they perceived the low spiritual state of the majority and ordained Torah law to best accommodate the masses. Granted the few can rise to the highest levels of observance, but alas, the vast majority of laymen cannot.

We are all one nation, uniting both great and small. Obligations that apply to everyone must be able to be fulfilled by everyone. Obligations that only the few can fulfill cannot be made obligatory on the masses who cannot keep up. Therefore, in the end, Torah law allows one to fulfill the ritual observances even without sincere devotion. If not for this allowance, over the centuries, countless numbers would have fallen away from the Torah.

Because the masses are on such a low level they cannot generate the necessary spiritual strength and resolve to change the present status quo of exile. Without the proper focus of heart one’s observance of Torah is lacking an essential ingredient. Without proper focus of heart, one’s observance does not have the spiritual power to enable one to connect with Heaven. This is why so many individuals find the Torah path to be tedious, dry and boring. Because their hearts are not into it, their bodies and minds drag them away. Large numbers fall away from the Torah path and many others find it unfulfilling simply because their observance is merely external without any true essence.

Without essence there is no meaning. Without meaning there is no commitment. Without commitment there can be no true observance. Without true observance, there is essentially no observance at all. This is why Mashiah has not come. It is simply due to the fact that the majority of the nation does not keep faith with Torah.

Without Torah there will be no redemption. Our Sages have for centuries warned that if we do not turn to Torah with sincerity with all our hearts, then Heaven would direct human events to make life so miserable for us that in the end we would have no choice but to sincerely call upon Heaven for help. Therefore, in the end we all will embrace Torah, fully and sincerely. The only question remains is whether we will embrace Torah sincerely by choice or by force.

Now that we know how important it is to have a sincere, devotional relationship with Torah and Heaven, what is it that I can teach you next that will bring you to this lofty sublime level of spiritual observance? Alas, now, I have reached the limit of my wisdom. If I had the answer how I could successfully turn the hearts of the masses to sincere devotional observance of Torah, I would have accomplished a task that no other prophet, sage or Rabbi has ever be able to do. I must conclude therefore that there is no magical solution how to find or create sincere devotion in Torah.

Ultimately, no one, no prophet, no Sage, no Rabbi can teach one how to be sincere and devote. This is a decision and a commitment that each must make on an individual basis. The continuation of the Haftara of Parshat Tzav is very threatening. It warns of the Divine wrath facing those who refuse to embrace Torah with sincerity and devotion. It is not a pretty picture. The Sages have also given warnings about modern times and future tribulations to come. They warn us saying that we too had better get right with G-d while we still have the time and the chance. Things will become too late very soon.

If I were you, I would worry. I would not be so flippant to dismiss Divine warnings and so arrogantly say that G-d will take care of everything or that whatever happens is Heaven’s will and that if I am destined to suffer and die, then I will. While G-d is in control of all, including our individual destinies, this does not mean that we lack input and influence. Certainly we can influence a lot.

Yet, do not try to influence Heaven with all your empty offerings. Do not think for a moment that you can gain favor in G-d’s eyes all the while that you are not sincere. G-d never looks at just what you are doing. G-d judges why you are doing what you are doing. If your heart is found lacking, then Heaven will create circumstances of stress to force your heart to turn in the proper direction. Tell me this; do you need more stress in your life, more troubles?

We were originally exiled from our land and from our connection to Heaven because we did not listen to the words of the prophets. Maybe, after all these centuries the time has come to pay attention. Start reading your Haftarot (prophetic portions) every week. Read the words of the prophets, without commentaries and without philosophical discourse. Simply read what they said and allow their words to speak to your hearts.

I cannot succeed in changing you, but maybe the Prophets can. They still live through their words. After all, the prophets are speaking G-d’s words. If you ever want to hear what G-d has to personally tell you, then read the prophets. Somehow, in some way, the words G-d spoke thousands of years ago to the prophets will jump off the page and speak personally and directly to you, to your hearts. This will happen. All you have to do, is let it.

My Notes:

1) Copied from http://www.koshertorah.com/essays/tzav.html

I personally came out of the church settings by reading the Prophets. Their words are truly ever lasting, even if much of it has already taken place.

We Really Need Elijah (Kohen) To Help Teach Us!

There is an understanding that Elijah the Prophet is to come and help teach us about the ways of G-d.

Judaism teaches that “The Spirit of Elijah” shows up at every circumcision.  As the story goes – Elijah shows up at every bris (Circumcision).

Judaism also teaches that Elijah comes to every Passover close of the Seder.

The reason (I feel) that Elijah comes back in what everyone calls the “End of Days“, weather it is bodily as in a Resurrection of the Dead or as a Spiritual Awakening, has to do with having someone who is a Kohen (Priest) who would know the Torah (AKA the Pentateuch), Scriptures & Writing and know what Hashem is requiring of all humanity.

With that said,

we really need Elijah NOW!

Look at the mess we are in, so many different versions of just a few lines of scriptures. Each one takes a person on a different thought pattern, with wondering “What does this really mean?”.

This my friends is the reason that none of our religions agree on what’s in the scriptures! Here’s 3 religions and 3 views on how many chapters the Book of Daniel has… this is only one example!
1) http://www.usccb.org/bible/daniel/14
2) http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Dan&c=12&q=daniel&t=NASB
3) http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16495

Now… (“Lets me explain Lucy!” as Ricky Ricardo would have said) #1 above is the Catholic new bible… has 14 Chapters (It includes additional stories of Daniel. #2 is Christian I chose the NASB to post, but you can choose your own version once you are on the page. and #3 is from Chabad’s page which is the JP version.

Scriptures:

Chapter’s 12 of all three noted above

Jewish
Verse 9 And he said, “Go, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

Verse 13. And you, go to the end, and you will rest and rise to your lot at the end of the days.”

Christian:
Verse 9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.

Verse 13 But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.”

Catholic:
Verse 9 “Go, Daniel,” he said, “because the words are to be kept secret and sealed until the end time.

Verse 13 Go, take your rest, you shall rise for your reward at the end of days.”

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How can we expect anyone to fully realize that the book of Daniel as it was was closed, done then…. (See what i mean)!

For more on Elijah see  http://www.chabad.org/search/results.asp?searchWord=elijah

15 Steps – To Ascend “A Song of Ascent” #120

Remove yourself from those who speak falsehood

Raise your eyes and seek Hashem

(Elohim – Creator of heaven and earth)

Leave the spiritual house you were in and come to the gates of Hashem’s spiritual house

Keep your eyes on Hashem and set your should to be a servant to Hashem

Keep your soul clean and filled with Torah, as the evil inclination and others will try to steal your soul

 By surviving the attacks of others, you will be gathered in and protected by Hashem; and nothing can reach you to steal you away

 When Hashem returns he will do wonders for those who held on to his precepts and commandments

 Only through Hashem can we attain (House and city) Without Hashem it is all vanity of vanities

 When you fear Hashem and walk in his ways – you will be praise worthy and receive blessings from Hashem

 Keep your sights on Hashem all your life, even if the world tries to encroach you – Hashem will cut them off and protect you

 Perseverance and survival of the soul as it cries out for forgiveness (always) and the soul will be redeemed

Humble, humility, silencing the soul

(Comforting the soul like a suckling child to its mother’s bosom)

You have suffered much for the Name of Hashem. 

Righteousness, Joyous Song of Praise to Hashem

Rest in Hashem (Sabbath)

 Anointing oils and supplication to Hashem, salvation, sing joyously, clothed in Torah (Dew like coverings), Lamp (Light).  While all others are clothed in shame

 Unity in Hashem, like oils running over the peoples who will live forever

 All Hashem’s servants are to “Bless Hashem”,

lift your hands in the sanctuary and Bless Hashem

Then may you be blessed by Hashem – Creator of Heaven and earth

(Hashem/Elohim)

 Then you will praise Hashem,

 Hallelujah

My Notes:

I found these notes written in my hand writing inside my Tanak.

They are an understanding of what Psalms 120 through 136 mean.

http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16341 

Click next on the bottom right on the page and keep reading through Psalms 136)

There were 15 stairs to the Entry of the Holy Temple in Israel, the Levites would stand and sing, playing instruments on these stairs… This is the “Stairs of Accent”.

May you enjoy the above and be Blessed by Hashem, the Blessed one!

 

 

 

 

 

Why God Sends Fisher & Hunters of Men

For so said the Lord of Hosts,the God of Israel; Behold, I will cut off from this place in your presence and in your days a voice of mirth and a voice of gladness, a voice of a bridegroom, and a voice of a bride.

And it shall be, that you shall tell this people all these things, and they shall say to you, “For what did the Lord speak about us all this great evil, and what is our iniquity and what is our sin that we have sinned to the Lord our God?”

And you shall say to them, “Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says the Lord, and they followed other gods and worshipped them and prostrated themselves before them, but they forsook Me, and did not keep My Torah.

And you have done worse than your fathers, and behold, you are going, each one after the view of his evil heart, not to hearken to Me.

And I will cast you off this land to a land that you and your fathers did not know, and you shall serve there other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.

Therefore, behold days are coming, says the Lord, and it shall no longer be said, “As the Lord lives, Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,”

But, “As the Lord lives, Who brought up the children of Israel from the northland and from all the lands where He had driven them, ” and I will restore them to their land that I gave to their forefathers

Behold I will send for many fishers,

says the Lord,

and they will fish them,

and

afterwards I will send to many hunters

and

they will hunt them from upon every mountain

and

upon every hill,

and

from the clefts of the rocks.

For My eyes are on all their ways, they were not hidden from before Me, neither was their iniquity hidden from before My eyes.

And I will pay first the doubling of their iniquity and their sin, for their profaning My land; with the carcass of their detestable things and their abominations they filled My heritage.

All Israel had to do was follow Hashem and the commandments and they would have rectified all things and corrected their ways, and all curses would have been removed.

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See Judges:

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.”

And the Lord said to the children of Israel, “Did (I) not (save you) from the Egyptains, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

The Zidonians, and Amalek, and Maon oppressed you; and you cried to Me, and I saved you from their hand.

And you have forsaken Me, and have served other gods; therefore I will not continue to save you.

Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”

And the children of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned, do You to us whatsoever pleases you, only deliver us now, this day.”

And they removed the strange gods from among them, and they served the Lord: and His soul was grieved by the toil of Israel.

How many times did God have to tell them (and you/me) what to do.  One time?  Two times?  Obviously, it was two (2) times.

See:

Exodus – You shall not have the gods of others in My presence.

Deuteronomy – You shall not have the gods of others in My presence

I have to then ask, when will humanity finally learn?

In the book of Jonah, the Gentiles listened to Jonah and they repented and thousands were saved from death.  In the book of Kings and 2 Chronicles shows how when the Jewish repented they were saved.

Even the book of Job speaks of how repentance fixes all things.

 Copied from:

Exodus 20 vs 3  http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9881

Deut. 5 vs 7  http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9969

Judges 10 vs 16  http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/15818

Jeremiah 16 vs 9- 18  http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16013

For further reading:

Job: http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16403

Jonah: http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16183

Kings 1: http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/15885

Chronicals 2:  http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16550

The word TaNaC means T=Torah, N = Navi or Navim (Prophet-s) and C=Writings (Scriptures)

All Bolding, Underscore, Italic done by me for emphasis purposes.

God is My Rock, Fortress, Savior & Shield – I Will Have No Other Gods Before Me

And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song,

on the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,

and from the hand of Saul;

And he said,

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress,

and

a rescuer to me.

God is my rock,

under whom I take cover;

My shield,

and the horn of my salvation,

my support,

and my refuge;

[He is] my savior Who saves me from violence.

With praise,

I call to the Lord,

for from my enemies I shall be saved.

 

For the pains of death have encompassed me;

streams of scoundrels would affright me.

Bands of [those that shall inherit] the nether world have surrounded me;

the snares of death confronted me.

When I am in distress,

I call upon the Lord,

yes I call upon my God:

and out of His abode He hears my voice,

and my cry enters His ears.

Then the earth shook and quaked,

the [very] foundations of heaven did tremble;

and they were shaken when he was angered.

Smoke went up in His nostrils,

and fire out of His mouth did devour;

coals flamed forth from Him.

And He bent the heavens and He came down;

and thick darkness was under His feet.

And He rode upon a cherub and did fly;

He was seen upon the wings of the wind.

And He fixed darkness about Him as booths;

gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies

From the brightness before Him flamed forth coals of fire.

The Lord thundered from heaven;

and the Most High gave forth His voice.

And He sent out arrows and He scattered them,

lightning and He discomfited them.

And the depths of the sea appeared;

the foundations of the world were laid bare,

by the rebuke of the Lord and the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

He sent from on high [and] He took me;

He drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my mighty enemy;

from them that hated me;

for they were too powerful for me.

They confronted me on the day of my calamity;

but the Lord was a support to me.

And He brought me forth into a wide place;

He delivered me because He took delight in me.

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;

According to the cleanness of my hands He recompensed me.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord

and

have not wickedly departed from [the commandments of] my God.

For all His ordinances were before me;

and [as for] His statutes,

I did not depart from it.

And I was single-hearted toward Him,

and I kept myself from my iniquity.

And the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness;

according to my cleanness before His eyes..

 

Copied from:

2 Samuel Chapter 22 verses 1-25

http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/15882

NOTE:

1)      God does not have a body, nor does God have anything that is corporal. We are given these uses of terms so that our mind can understand our creator.

2)      Righteousness is based on the following of the 10 commandments (For the Jewish this is the 613 mitzvah’s).

3)      God is our King, Power, Savior and Shield. There is no other god who can compete with Hashem. (There are many names for G-d and each has to do with attributes).

 

The word TaNaC means T=Torah, N = Navi or Navim (Prophet-s) and C=Writings (Scriptures)

All Bolding, Underscore, Italic done by me for emphasis purposes.

B’Shabbat – The Seventh Day – He Abstained

בוֹ שָׁבַת

 B’ Shabbat

He abstained

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Now the heavens

And

 the earth were completed

and

all their host.

*

And God completed on the seventh day His work that He did,

and

He abstained on the seventh day from all His work that He did.

*

And

God blessed the seventh day and He hallowed it,

for thereon He abstained from all His work that God created to do.

*

These are the generations of the heavens

and

the earth when they were created,

on the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

Copied From:  http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8166/jewish/Chapter-2.htm

Genesis Chapter 2 (Verses 1 to 4)

NOTES

“Shabbat” to rest or to abstain from doing what you would do on a normal day. This is why we rest on the 7^th day, and say Good Shabbos (Good Shabbat) to each other.

The word TaNaC means T=Torah, N = Navi or Navim (Prophet-s) and C=Writings (Scriptures)

All Bolding, Underscore, Italic done by me for emphasis purposes.