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Lesson 44 – Enoch, a Man Who Walked with God

The biography of Enoch is brief, only nine verses in all: five verses in Genesis, two in Hebrews, and two in Jude. Yet this remarkable biography points the Bible student to a man who was unique among all men of all generations.

For three hundred years Enoch put God first in his life. The Lord was preeminent in everything: in his thinking, in his ways, and in his walk. He was the first in his love, in his service, and the only One whom he worshiped. Following are some of the ways in which Enoch was unique:


1) He was one of two men of whom the Scripture says that he “walked with God.” The other was Noah (Genesis 6:9). We are not told how long Noah walked with God; however, we are told that Enoch “walked with God three hundred years” (Genesis 5:22).


2) He was the first of two men who were taken to heaven without experiencing physical death. Elijah was the other (2 Kings 2:11).


3) Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam. Of all the generations before Enoch we read, “And he died;” but with Enoch it was changed, for we read, “And he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:24).


4) He became the father of the oldest man who ever lived, Methuselah, who lived 969 years (Genesis 5:21).


5) He walked with God three hundred years. During those years he was a family man; he was the father of sons and daughters.


6) Enoch was justified by faith; therefore he lived by faith (Hebrews 10:38).


7) Enoch prophesied that the Lord would come and execute judgment on the ungodly (Jude 14).


The remainder of the biography of Enoch will not be known until we, too, put on immortality and continue our walk with God in eternity.


44-1 Enoch Walked with God

Genesis 5:21-23)

“Enoch walked with God three hundred years” (v. 22). One day, as they walked together, it was as though the Lord said, “Enoch, come home and let us continue our walk in heaven.” This is the way it might have happened, for the Scripture says, “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (v. 24). Enoch continued hi “walk with God” in glory, a walk that will never end. And all this began, one day during his life on earth, Enoch got in step with God, walking with Him for three hundred years thereafter, without interruption.

1)
To walk with God requires five things:

a) Righteousness. This is not self-righteousness, which Isaiah calls “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6), but the imputer righteousness of God (Romans 10:1-4). Enoch was a righteous man, “strong in the Lord and in the power of His might” (Ephesians 6:10). He was “like a tree planted by the rivers of water” (Psalm 1:3), rooted and grounded in the truth (John 8:32). “The Lord knows the way of the righteous” (Psalm 1:6), because they walk with Him in righteousness. But it is not so with the ungodly.

They cannot walk with God; they are unstable in all their ways; they are like chaff in a windstorm, driven about by the doctrines of this world system, which are promulgated by the servants of Satan (John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 4:4).



b) Faith. Faith is required in the fact that God does exist and that He is the Sovereign, almighty, eternal God. “For he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). Enoch sought the Lord by faith, found Him, and walked with Him by faith (Romans 1:17).



c) Uprightness. Enoch was governed by high moral principles and adhered to all the virtues of a true believer. “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11). Enoch walked with God uprightly and lived abundantly (John 10:10).



d) Humility. A truly humble person will not be afflicted with that common disease known as “inflated ego.” John the Baptist said of Jesus, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:30). When you walk with God, the “I” (ego) will diminish to its proper limits and then the words of Paul will be understood: “If anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself’ (Galatians 6:3).



e) Commitment. Total commitment is called for. This means that the whole person—spirit, soul, and body—is placed figuratively on the altar of God as a burnt sacrifice (a burnt sacrifice was completely consumed by fire). You are to be a “living sacrifice… that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and



2)
When you walk with God:

a) You will “fear no evil,” even when He leads you through “the valley of the shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4). You will not be afraid, because you know that He is with you, and that His grace is sufficient for all of life’s events (2 Corinthians 12:9).


b) You will never walk in darkness, because “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all… if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another” (1 John 1:5-7). When we walk with God, as Enoch did, we have fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and all the saints of God who are walking with Him. This is heavenly fellowship, and it is forever and ever.


c) “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:13). The Truth sets you free is the Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6). To walk with God is to walk with the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Living Word. John said, “The Word was with God, and Word was God” (John 1:1). Enoch walked with the Living Word.


44-2 Enoch Walked by Faith with God
(Hebrews 11:5, 6)


God’s Word reveals seven things that Enoch did by faith:
1) By faith Enoch walked with God three hundred years. His faith must have been tested and tried many times. But there is no evidence that he ever lowered the “shield of faith,” with which he was able to quench all of Satan’s fiery darts (Ephesians 6:16).


2) By faith Enoch was “taken away,” that is, taken up to heaven – body, soul, and spirit. And his body of flesh was glorified because “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (I Corinthians 15:50-55).


3) By faith Enoch “did not see death” (v. 5). Enoch is a type of all born-again believers who will be alive when Jesus comes back to this world. The dead in Christ will be resurrected, and the living will be caught up with the resurrected saints to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).


4) By faith Enoch pleased God. Because Enoch walked with God by faith, all who knew him knew that he pleased God. “He had this testimony, that he pleased God” (v. 5). Enoch had faith that could be seen by all who knew him – by the way he talked, lived, and worked. Faith can be seen in our manner of life.

Jesus was teaching in a house in Capernaum, and four men brought a paralytic to Him.

When they could not enter (because the house was filled with people), they went up on top of the house, removed a section of the roof, and let the man down on his bed before Jesus. And the Scripture says, “When Jesus saw their faith” He forgave the sins of the paralytic and healed him (Mark 2:1-5). Can your loved ones, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances see the proof of your faith?


5) By faith Enoch believed that Almighty God did exist. “For he who comes to God must believe that He is” (v. 6). Where did Enoch get such great faith? He did not have the Bible or any books of the Bible. God must have manifested himself to Enoch, as He did to others, before the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, became a man. Enoch had an ever-present witness of God.


He also had God’s creation: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge” (Psalm 19:1, 2). Creation reveals the glory of the Creator, day and night. When Enoch looked a God’s creation, he saw more than the sun, moon, and stars. He saw more than mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, streams, and seas.

He saw more than trees, flowers, the birds of the air, the beast of the fields, the fish of the sea, or man who was created in the image of God. Enoch, by faith, saw the reflection of the Creator in His creation. He sought the Creator God, and found Him, because he sought Him with his whole heart (Psalm 119:2).


6) By faith Enoch was rewarded. He was not rewarded with eternal life, because eternal life is God’s gift; it cannot be earned (Ephesians 2:8, 9). God rewarded Enoch by allowing him to walk with Himself.


7) By faith Enoch diligently sought God. We do not know how long he sought Him before God invited Enoch to walk with Him; it could have been sixty-five years. The years of seeking were years of growing. As he sought God one day, his growth, in grace and knowledge, was sufficient, and he walked by faith into the very heavenly presence of God.


44-3 Enoch Walked Humbly with God

(Micah 6:8)

All who walk with God are required to “walk humbly” (v. 8) with Him. We know that Enoch was a humble man, because he “walked with God three hundred years” (Genesis 5:22). To understand true humility we must know some of the characteristics of a humble person.

1) He is gentle, but never weak. Jesus said of Himself, “I am gentle and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29). He was the most meek person this world will ever know – yet He once took a whip and drove the moneychangers from the temple (John 2:13-16). This was not the act of a weak man.


2) He is bold for the Lord, but never brazen. “Now when they [the Sanhedrin] saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:1-22). Peter and John were bold because they had accompanied Jesus for three years, and had witnessed His death, burial, and resurrection.


3) He is aggressive for the Lord, but never contentious or hostile. The apostles never held back with the gospel of Jesus Christ, even though the Sanhedrin warned them, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!” (Acts 5:22-32).


4) He is poor in spirit, but never spiritually poor (Matthew 5:3). The poor in spirit never think more highly of themselves than they ought (Romans 12:3). They believe themselves to be a new creation in Christ, knowing that ‘old things have passed away; behold, all thing s have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The poor in spirit know that before honor can come their way, they must walk humbly with God (v. 8), who gives to the humble preference and honor among those in Christ. There is no room for arrogance, pride, or jealousy in the heart or mind of the person who walks humbly with God (Proverbs 15:33).


44-4 Enoch Walked in Agreement with God
(Amos 3:3)

“Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (v. 3). Enoch walked in agreement with God for three hundred years, continuously conforming hi life to the counsel of God. He must have learned that “the Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing… [but] the counsel of the Lord stands forever” (Psalm 33:10, 11).

Enoch chose to walk into eternity with the infinite God; and as he traveled, he was guided by God’s counsel day after day until he was translated into His heavenly presence (Psalm 73:24). Enoch had a choice, to walk in agreement with God, or to walk in the counsel of the ungodly (Psalm 1:1).


God gave Judah a choice before He sent them into seventy years of captivity: “ ‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the Lord, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool’ “ (Isaiah 1:18). Judah was out of step with God, its people walking in the counsel of the ungodly. When they refused to walk with Him, He sent them into captivity.

Every nation and individual has this choice: they can walk in agreement with God, as Enoch did , or walk in the way that seems right to man, though the end of the walk that seems right to a man is eternal separation from God (Proverbs 14:12).


Enoch began his walk with God in the year that Methuselah was born (Genesis 5:21, 22). For three hundred years Enoch walked in faith, and in agreement with God.
44-5 Enoch Walked All the Way to Heaven with God
(Genesis 5:24)

“Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (v. 24). This verse says three things about Enoch that deserve our attention. Each statement is brief, direct, simple, and yet profound. To discover the depth of this verse and the riches of its simplicity, we go to the New Testament.

1) “Enoch walked with God.” As he walked by faith, “he had this testimony, that he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch’s walk with God was no secret; all who knew him must have said, “There goes a man who pleases God.” He prophesied the second coming of Christ, and the judgments of God upon the ungodly in the last days (Jude 14, 15). First, he lived his testimony; and second, he preached the good news of the coming of the Lord. What is meant when it is said that Enoch walked with God by faith?


a) It means that he got in step with God, and made spiritual progress one step at a time; he grew in the grace and knowledge of God (2 Peter 3:17, 18). He was steadfast in his walk with God, all the way to heaven.


b) It means that he could no longer go his own way (Isaiah 53:6), or walk according to the course of this world system, which is satanic (Ephesians 2:1, 2). If he would walk with God, he must seek God’s way and walk in it (Matthew 6:33).


c) It implies total commitment to the revealed will of God (Romans 12:1, 2). Enoch’s life demonstrates the good and perfect will of God. He could say with David, “I delight to do Your will, Oh my God” (Psalm 40:8).


2) “Enoch walked with God: and he was not.” One day Enoch vanished, disappeared, and was taken up into heaven in the presence of witnesses. When Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind, Elisha witnessed his translation (2 Kings 2:1-13). When Jesus was taken up, the disciples were witness (Acts 1:9-11). Enoch had his ungodly critics, as does anyone who walks with God. Because of them, had there been no witnesses when he was translated, there would probably have been no record of his translation.

Further proof of witnesses is found in the New Testament. “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, ‘and was not found’ ” (Hebrews 11:5). Unbelievers may have searched for him to prove that his translation was a religious hoax. When Elisha brought word to the school of the prophets that Elijah had been translated, they doubted Elisha and formed search parties and looked in vain for him. People searched for Enoch, but he “was not found, because God had taken him.”



3) “Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” Again we go the New Testament for a better understanding of this brief and beautiful statement, “for God took him.” And we read, ‘By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death” (Hebrews 11:5). His spirit and soul were not separated from his body of flesh. Had he died physically, his spirit and soul would have left his body, and search parties could have found it and buried it. Enoch was taken up (translated) because he pleased God by faith. Now all who please God by faith will be resurrected and caught up like Enoch at the Rapture, and will be given glorified bodies (I Thessalonians 4:16, 17). “Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:20).



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NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR?

At the Time of the End, the wise shall understand. Dan 12:10
Understanding the expression "No man knows the day or hour" is not possible
by simply taking the English translation literally, because in the book of

Daniel and the Book of Revelation, we are given EXACT descriptions of
timing, relative to KEY events - such as the shutting down of the altar
sacrifices in Jerusalem at the MID-POINT of the 70th week. Dan 9:27

Jesus was asked, "When shall these things be?" Matt 24:3

His answer ties us in to a very specific event (The Abomination of
Desolation) which can be measured on our calendars: "When you therefore
shall see the Abomination Of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place, (whoever reads, let him understand ..." Matt 24:15.


It is now clear that "no man knows the day or hour" does NOT mean "no man
knows the day or hour" as we read it from a modern-day English perspective.


From his book "Signs In the Heavens" by Avi Ben Mordechai, he devotes a
chapter to explaining what "no man knows the day or hour" truly means from
a rabbinical Hebraic perspective. It is a figure of speech.

The following chapter contains edited excerpts from Avi Ben Mordechai's
commentaries and builds on them aiming to explain that the Holy Bible does
in fact reveal the "day and hour" or "exact timing" of our Lord's Return.


No One Knows the Day or the Hour?


Christians over the centuries have separated themselves from their Hebraic
roots causing the misunderstanding of key Jewish biblical idioms. An idiom
is also a figure of speech.


When Y'shua (Jesus) uttered His famous words
concerning the Messianic Era in Mattityahu (Matthew) 24:26, "No one knows
about that day or hour, not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but
only the Father",

He used a common Jewish figure of speech referring to a
specific Jewish Festival. In essence He was saying, "I am coming for My
Bride on such and such a day! Be watching!" What day could the Jewish idiom
be referring to? Keep reading!

HEBRAIC ROOTS


Y'shua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) was Jewish and lived a
Torah-observant Jewish life. Evidence suggests that He communicated to His
audience in the Hebrew language, in Hebraic ways. What does it mean to
communicate in Hebraic ways?

It means to think and talk like a Jew. In
Y'shua's day it meant to speak in the language and idioms of the day. Those
who heard the Lord speak knew what He was saying and usually what He was
alluding to unless He was speaking in parables, which had their own
analogies.

Of course, today's generation of believers struggles to
understand His words and concepts. Speaking, thinking and acting like the
Jewish Rabbi He was helped His mission in bringing the gospel message to
"the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt 15:24).


Y'shua was quoted in Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:11 as saying: "I say to you
that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places
at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven".

Since we are talking about Jewish idioms, have you ever considered the meaning of
these words? Specifically, our Lord used and confirmed common Jewish ideas
about the Day of the Lord - the millennium - and its relation to the Feast
of Sukkot (Tabernacles) in Z'kharyah 14. In speaking,

Y'shua referred to the Festival and its traditional guests of honour, Avraham, Yitzchak and
Ya'acov, called the ushpizin (uoosh-piz-zin) or seven shepherds (exalted
guests), invited into every succah (tabernacle) at the Feast of Sukkot in
the fall of the year. The seven shepherds in descending order are


1. Avraham (Abraham), 2. Yitzchak (Isaac), 3. Ya'acov (Jacob), 4. Mosheh
(Moses), 5. Aaron, 6. Yosef (Joseph) and 7. HaMelech David (King David).
By mentioning the feast and three of the seven shepherds, His audience
immediately understood the allusion to the Messianic age - "Millennium" or
"Day" of the Lord.

"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Again, in this simplistic phrase Y'shua, the Son of Miriyam and Yosef,
spoke of two things:


His Deity (by calling Himself the subject of the
prophet Dani'el's vision) and His mission (by calling Himself the One God
Who spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai) as it is written in Dani'el and
Yechezk'el (Ezekiel):

In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was One like a Son of
Man, coming with the clouds of Heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days
and was led into His presence (Dani'el 7:13-14).

For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I Myself will search for My sheep
and look after them (Yechezk'el-Ezekiel 34:11ff).

In the Gospel narrative of Luke 23:31, Y'shua said: "For if men do these
things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" In this
verse Y'shua points His audience, who had portions of the writings of the
Prophets memorized, to the verses in Yechezk'el (Ezekiel) 20:45 to 21:7.
Without question,


Y'shua's hearers knew He referred to Chevlei HaMashiach
or Ya'acov's Trouble in the Great Tribulation and warned His audience that
what they do to Him in hardness of heart now, God will do to the nation in
judgement later.

Y'shua's encounter with Natan'el (Nathanael) is recorded in Yochanan (John)
1:47-48: When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, "Here is a
true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false". "How do You know me?"
Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the
fig tree before Philip called you".

Again, our Lord used a strong figure of speech pointing to a widely taught
Jewish expectation concerning the resurrection and the millennium. In
brief, He told Natan'el that he will be alive on the Last Day to inherit
the land promised to Avraham (Bereshith-Genesis 17:8).

From Y'shua's words,
Natan'el understood he would participate in the resurrection since "that
Day" was yet future.



This is understood in the first century Jewish figure
of speech, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree", which
refers to life and study of Torah in the millennium
(Midrash Rabbah
Genesis, Rabbah Song of Songs).


Y'shua also told Natan'el that he is like
righteous Avraham who received his reward for trusting God. This is
understood because of the phrase, "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there
is nothing false". The millennial concept of the fig tree is found
throughout the Tanach including Z'kharyah 3:10:


"In that day each of you
will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree", declares the
LORD Almighty. For this reason Natan'el responded emphatically to Y'shua
and His words, saying: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; You are the King of
Israel!"


God through HaMashiach Y'shua spoke to the Jews in many portions and in
many ways (Hebrews 1:1-2) relying upon known figures of speech, common
expectations and direct thoughts from Talmudic and Pharisaic teachings. The
concepts I addressed only scratch the surface, so-to-speak.


Every phrase
and word from the mouth of the Lord meant something to His audience. He
spoke with precision.


With that as a basis, let us go on to one of the most
interesting Jewish figures of speech misunderstood by the Church over the
years.

It concerns Y'shua's phrase, "No one knows about that day or hour,
not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father".

In context, He refers to the home-taking of His bride, the beginning of the
Messianic era and His millennial reign as King of kings over all the earth.
To understand this concept, we begin by examining its foundation.

ROSH HASHANAH

Chapter Five described the annual Jewish Festival of Trumpets or Rosh
HaShanah - the first day of the seventh month. A few themes linked to this
Jewish festival are resurrection, repentance, kingship, corronation and a
marriage feast.

This chapter shows another theme and convincing proof that
Rosh HaShanah is not only the start of "The Day of the Lord" (Millennium),
but is also the day of the resurrection! It has to do with the moon and its
29-day cycle of renewal.

In this period of slightly less than 30 days, the moon goes from darkness
to light and back to darkness again. This is not a haphazard occurrence
attributed to evolution or science. God planned it for many reasons, one
being as a picture of resurrection and renewal.

With each cycle of nearly
30 days the ancient rabbis understood that the moon was being reborn or
"born again" (Sefard siddur, Mussaf for Shabbat and Shabbat Rosh Chodesh,
p. 509 and 646-648).

NEW MOON

In Y'shua's day, the moon was so important that a Jewish festival was
proclaimed at the beginning of every month (Talmud Tractate Chaggigah 17b;
Shavuot 10a; Arachin 10b).

This was called the New Moon Festival and in the
B'rit Chadashah, Rabbi Sha'ul (Paul) makes note of it (Colossians 2:16).
Even in the Tanach, King David provoked King Sha'ul (Saul) over it (1
Shmu'el-Samuel 20:5).

In the coming millennium the gate of the inner court
of the Temple facing east shall be opened on the new moon
(Yechezk'el-Ezekiel 46:1).

And finally in the millennium all nations will
celebrate the New Moon festival every month (Yeshayahu-Isaiah 66:23). It is
obvious from the Hebrew Scriptures that in the millennium God has no plans
to do away with His system.

Since it is so important, exactly what is a new moon? It is the opposite of
a full moon. Every month the moon goes through a complete cycle of renewal
called Rosh Chodesh, the head or beginning of the renewed month.

Twelve
times a year on Rosh Chodesh, the moon always starts off with its disk
being very dark to the naked eye.

Over the course of 15 days it gets
brighter and brighter until it finally reaches a full white-faced disk or
full moon. Over the next 15 days it becomes darker and darker and finally
becomes invisible to the naked eye again.

As the moon goes through a
near 30-day cycle of dark to light to dark, so we need constant spiritual
renewal and repentance.


Like the moon, we too must be reborn or "born
again" into HaMashiach and constantly renewed through repentance. This is
why God called it a faithful witness in the sky (Mizmor-Psalm 89:37).


If the moon is so important to God, why do we pay so little attention to
it? We have lost touch with God's faithful witness in the sky. But Y'shua
and the people of His day never lost touch with it.


And as I previously
noted, not only was the new moon necessary for the Jewish calendar, it was
also a monthly festival celebrated with a feast fit for a king!


So, when
Y'shua said His famous words in Mattityahu-Matthew 24:36, it had
far-reaching implications. Here are the words of Y'shua in a few different
translations:


But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but
my Father only. (KJV)


No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the
Son, but only the Father. (NIV) But of that day and hour knoweth no one,
not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. (ASV)

About the exact time, however, and the hour, none knows - not even the
messengers of Heaven; but My Father alone. (Fenton Modern English
Translation)

Failing to think like Y'shua and taking phrases out of Jewish context can
lead one to misunderstand His words. For example, in many places of the
B'rit Chadashah Y'shua knew the future and talked about it openly. In one
instance He warned His talmidim (disciples) about their future saying,




"See, I have told you ahead of time" (Mattityahu-Matthew 24:25). His
context concerned the tribulation, the destruction of the Temple, the rise
and fall of false messiahs (antichrists), etc.


If He knew the future in
Mattityahu 24:25, and the context concerns the Day of Trouble, why would
He suddenly speak as though He did not know the future in the same context
just 11 verses later in Mattityahu 24:36? Was He confused? Or was He making
perfect sense in light of the customs of the Jews?


Since the subject of our discussion is the new moon and figures of speech,
realize the phrase, "Of that day and hour no man knows" refers to the
sanctification or setting apart of the new moon. Without this
sanctification, the Jews had no way of determining God's "appointed times"
or moedim.


Twelve times a year a new Jewish month (Rosh Chodesh) was announced to the
people. We have no system like it today. We look at a calendar to determine
the first of the month; the Jews, however, looked at the moon.


This system
of chronology was given to the Jews to know precisely when the Holy
festivals (moedim) would fall (there are still eight of them; seven
appointed times and Shabbat).


The moon was the faithful Jewish calendar or
witness in the sky and 12 times a year was sanctified as the basis of the
Jewish stellar calendar.


GOD'S APPOINTED TIMES

Because the moon was so important for Jewish date - setting, the authorities
in charge of announcing the new moon in Y'rushalayim took great care to
ensure the first day of the month was announced on time.


To correctly
announce the first day of the month, established by the new moon, was one
of the Sanhedrin's greatest responsibilities.


They had to ensure the people
knew when the first of the month began 12 times a year! Therefore God said
to the leaders of Israel:


These are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you
shall proclaim at the times appointed for them (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:4).

In other words, God gave the Sanhedrin authority to announce and sanctify
the new moon to the people. Its proclamation on earth was supported by God
in Heaven (c.f. Mattityahu 18:18-20 where the Jewish context supports a
believers' Sanhedrin as seen in Acts 15).

As soon as the new moon was
announced, the first day of the month began. Once the beginning of the new
month was established, the festivals and weekly Shabbats for the upcoming
month were sanctified for observance. In Hebrew, those observances have
always been called "appointed times" or moedim, literally "a sacred and
set time".

From God's perspective, the appointed times belong to Him
(Midrash Rabbah Numbers, Vol 2.21.25, p. 852) and no one has the authority
to change the celebration of an appointed time. To do so was a serious
matter and great sin. Appointed times had to be kept because of their
Messianic implications.

Further in Vayikrah (Leviticus) 23:4, notice the phrase, "holy
convocation". The phrase in Hebrew is mikraw kodesh, better translated,
"holy convocation and rehearsal". In other words, God's appointed times are
actually "holy rehearsals" set apart to reflect events in the Messianic
era. God said to the people,

"Pay attention! On this day I am going to do
something! Wake-up! The Jews were to know and practice all of God's mikraot
or holy convocations.


This is the essence of Rav Sha'ul's words that the
Shabbat, new moons and festivals, "are a shadow of things to come; the body
of Mashiach" (Colossians 2:17).

Twice a year, in the spring and fall, there were several appointed times
and specific days of holy convocation dedicated to the Lord. The new moon
was the key in being able to fulfill those set times, holy convocations and
rehearsals.

For example, when the new moon was announced on the first day
of Nisan, also called Aviv, the people knew when to observe the holy
convocations and set times of the 10th (Shemot-Exodus 12:3), 14th and 15th
(Shemot-Exodus 12:6; Bamidbar-Numbers 33:3), 16th (Vayikrah-Leviticus
23:15), and finally the 21st.

In the same way, when the new moon was
announced on the first day of Tishri also called Ethanim, the people knew
when to observe the Holy convocations of the 1st (Vayikrah-Leviticus
23:23), 10th (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:26), 15th (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:39),
and 22nd (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:36). Thus from the announcement of the new
moon to the festival dates which followed, it was only a matter of counting
the right number of days. In a moment you will understand how this applies
to the phrase that Y'shua spoke concerning His coming again.


THE SANHEDRIN AND THE TWO WITNESSES


The Mishnah, also referred to as the Oral Law, dealt with the legal
elements of daily Jewish religious life, in Hebrew called halachah. In the
treasure of the first and second century halachah we find many explanations
to help us understand the Torah particularly in Y'shua's day since it was
still oral then.


In volume two called "moed" or festival, tractate Rosh
HaShanah teaches us about the Sanhedrin and its selection process of two
witnesses who would tell us when the new moon arrived.


Once a month the
Sanhedrin discussed when to proclaim the new moon. They did this through
the agency of two witnesses, the element of all legal transactions in
Judaism.


One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any
sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the
mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Deut 19:15


The men were important because by their witness, Israel celebrated God's
appointed times. They had to be of good character and were always treated
with great honour.


They had special privileges such as authorization to
ride into Y'rushalayim on horseback on the Shabbat to bring the good news
of the new moon festivities!


The men had special status because they were
the confirmation that Y'hudah (Judaea) depended on for the correct timing
of the new month and the festivals.


Rosh HaShanah Chapter 2, Mishnah 5 reads: There was a large court in
Jerusalem called Beth Ya'azek. There all the witnesses used to assemble and
the Beth Din used to examine them. They used to entertain them lavishly
there so that they should have an inducement to come. (The witnesses were
allowed to break the Shabbat travel restrictions for this one purpose lest
they might be reluctant to come and give the essential evidence of the
sighting of the new moon).


Continuing in Chapter 2, Mishnah 6: How do they test the witnesses? The
pair who arrive first are tested first. The senior of them is brought in
and they say to him, tell us how you saw the moon - in front of the sun or
behind the sun?

To the north of it or the south? How big was it, and in
which direction was it inclined? And how broad was it? If he says (he saw
it) in front of the sun, his evidence is rejected.

After that they would
bring in the second and test him. If their accounts tallied, their evidence
was accepted, and the other pairs were only questioned briefly, not because
they were required at all, but so that they should not be disappointed,
(and) so that they should not be dissuaded from coming.

In qualifying the witnesses, the Sanhedrin used the following criteria:
They never arrived at the same time.
They were never questioned at the same time.
There were always two new witnesses each month.

In short, the two qualified witnesses usually stood before the Nassi or
President of the Sanhedrin (Jewish High Court) to give account of the
moon's appearance prior to its becoming total dark (Moed Rosh HaShanah,
Chapter 3, Mishnah 1).

Just before the moon's disk enters total darkness,
there are tiny slivers of white on the edges of the waning disk. These were
called the "horns" of the moon.

Correctly sighting the "horns" (on the
waning crescent) determined the beginning of the new month. Once the two
witnesses were qualified and questioned, if the President (who had
knowledge of astronomy) was convinced their observation was accurate, he
publicly sanctified the start of the new month.

After careful scrutiny to determine the official arrival of the new moon,
the Nassi or President of the Sanhedrin proclaimed Rosh Chodesh with the
words:

"Sanctified", and all the people repeat after him, "Sanctified,
sanctified". After the proclamation, the Sanhedrin ordered watchmen on the
nearby hillsides to light fires and thus inform the Jews in all of Y'hudah
(Judaea), Shomron (Samaria), Egypt, Babylon and the galut (diaspora) that
the new month had begun.

That started the festival of the New Moon and
counting of the next 29- days to the next new month proclamation.

Again, once the Sanhedrin set Rosh Chodesh, or the beginning of the new
month by sighting the new moon, the rest of the festivals were calculated.
However, the seventh month, Tishri, was particularly important because it
was the only month that had a holy convocation or appointed time on the
first day of the month. This posed a unique problem.

The first day of
Tishri was the appointed time called Rosh HaShanah, the Feast of Trumpets
(Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:24). Yet no one could begin observing the festival
until they heard those famous words from the President of the Sanhedrin,
"Sanctified!"

No one in Israel could plan for the first day of the seventh month Tishri,
called Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets (also called Rosh HaShanah).
When they knew how many days to count to a festival, that would be easy.
But:

HOW COULD THEY PLAN FOR A FESTIVAL THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW AT WHAT DAY OR
HOUR IT WOULD PUBLICALLY BE ANNOUNCED AND THUS BEGIN?

This was unique to Rosh HaShanah and dependent upon the testimony of the
two witnesses. Prophetically, we are informed of two important witnesses
during the Great Tribulation:

And I will give power unto My Two Witnesses, and they will prophesy 1260
days, clothed in sackcloth.
Rev 11:3

Of course, anyone could look up into the twilight or early morning sky and,
if they looked hard enough, see the new moon or at least its "horns". And
certainly an astute observer knew when about 29- days were completed since
the previous Rosh Chodesh.

But recall, ONLY THE SANHEDRIN NASSI had the
authority to proclaim the first of Tishri, which was already established as
a technical procedure. Once proclaimed, the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh
HaShanah) commenced. Until that public announcement by the Nassi, everyone had to wait before they could begin the observance of the festival.

No one could begin the festival beforehand! Thus, we can more clearly see the
analogy Jesus made with His words: "But of that day and hour knoweth no
man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" was in regards to
this important festival of Rosh HaShanah.

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Non-Jew in the Rich Hebraic Heritage of our Faith.

Please visit the Hebraic Roots Global Network
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XENO LIES: Cycles of Deception...


EXPOSED OCCULT TEACHINGS
Links:The World is Made of Language [Jason Silva] - https://youtu.be/3V7DC5ywsU4
Diana Slattery on Xenolinguistics: Psychadelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness - https://youtu.be/f0ce4BUSSdY
Neil Turok on the Cyclical Universe Theory - https://youtu.be/cEijLstRLg8
Terrance McKenna: Timewave Zero - https://youtu.be/nf4QTtnPEWg
Arrival - Illuminati Predictive Programming For The Imminent "Arrival" Of The Antichrist - https://youtu.be/twE7x2Jj82s


 

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What you need to know about HUMAN ENERGY and MAGNETISM

20 minutes How do magnetic fields effect us and the matter around us? What can we do to keep ourselves in tune with the Earth and how can we use magnetism to improve our overall health?
 

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A song from the video above - Everybody listen to this good song and the words. The song is in the great video above this post -

Dissident Prophet - HUMAN 2.0
4 minutes
Lyrics : Human 2.0 by Dissident ProphetFrom the Album Red Moon Rising

LYRICS
Who told you that you'd be divine
A human 2.0
A smash and grab for the Uberman
A fallen superhero
Who tempted you to cross the line
Smiled as you took a bite
Knowing that you'd truly die
Who told you who told you?

Someone told a lie to you
Made it sound like the truth
Told you that you wouldn't die
Smiling as you took a bite

Who told you that you'd be ok
Stepping through forbidden gates
The promise of a higher state
Homo Evolutis
Come on out with your hands up
Cause' God opposes the proud man
He gives grace to the humble
Chains of sin are unbound

Someone told a lie to you
Made it sound like the truth
Told you that you wouldn't die
Smiling as you took a bite
Who told you that you couldn't come
You couldn't be washed by the blood
Who told you that it's all a lie
He didn't die, He didn't rise

Transhuman, transhuman
Make way for the Homo Superior
Transhuman, transhuman
Better make way for the Homo Superior

Someone told a lie to you
Made it sound like the truth
Told you that you wouldn't die
Smiling as you took a bite
(x2)

LINKS
DISSIDENT PROPHET Website
http://dissidentprophet.com

Dissident Prophet Facebook
http://facebook.com/dissidentprophet

Dissident Prophet SoundCloud
http://soundcloud.com/dissidentprophet
Interesting lyrics.

I wont be watching the video.

What genre of music is it please?



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What you need to know about the NEXT GENERATION of TECHNOLOGY and its effect on MANKIND


5G technology. What is it and how will this effect everyone connected? Is this another great leap for mankind, or another small step for domination over all of us?

15 minutes
 

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I posted on this already and now that I finished watching I feel it's worthy of a thread. I'm going to watch it again it was so good (I never go to the movies). The documentary is done by a Christian but his preaching is minimal. Be careful to not think he is promoting satan as he is actually exposing him.

You can skip to certain chapters if you want and the last 8 minutes - The Choice - is good if you have any doubt this not Christian. To really learn some things you should watch from the beginning when you have time.

Joshua 24:14-15 KJV - Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.


AETHEREAL - The Battle for Heaven and Earth (Cosmology Documentary)Chapters:
1. The Ancient Conflict
4:36
2. A New Nation 11:00
3. The Cosmic Rewrite 17:30
4. The Quantum Deception 25:49
5. Sorcery Reborn 35:09
6. The Power of the Air 51:27
7. New Age "Zience" 1:12:33
8. Oracles of the Technium 1:28:27
9. The Templum Defiled 1:42:10
10. The Choice 1:47:53
The original video was removed by youtube for a problem with PBS after 1,000,000 views. This is the video released again after fixing it - This and the documentary "The Principle" are must watch for anyone even slightly interested in a different view of history, the earth and creation.
Watch it this weekend? :idunno:
 
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Moses tells us exactly how the Nephilim returned after the Flood

From Video Description : From Rob Skiba - This is a segment from my teaching session during the 2015 Nephilim, Monsters and Giants Conference in Lubbock, Texas. In this clip I show you what Moses has to say regarding the return of the Nephilim both BEFORE and AFTER the Flood. In short, Moses totally debunks any notion of "multiple incursions" of angels repeatedly mating with women again and again.

That theory is nothing but a textually unsupported fantasy made up by people who would rather believe other people who apparently refuse to just let the Bible speak for itself. Some may prefer to stand on the shoulders of Dr. I.D.E. Thomas, G.H. Pember and others like them, but I'm going to just stick with the Scriptures. Neither Genesis 6, nor chapters 9 - 10 support the multiple incursion thesis in any way.



 

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The Genesis Revelation: Part 3 - The SEED War Begins
This is part three of a five part presentation. They can all be found online, they are a very interesting study.

This is the third presentation I gave at The Genesis Revelation conference I did in Pocola, Oklahoma on Jan. 16 &17, 2016. This one picks up where Part 2 left off, with the Serpent tempting Eve and then the Genesis Six Experiment, which led to the creation of hybrids. I cover the rise of the first generation Nephilim as well as their fall and return, both before and after the Flood.

 

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Melvyn Bragg In Conversation With Peter Forshaw, Valery Rees & Jonathan Sawday discussing Renaissance obsession with Magic.
First broadcast: Thursday 17 June 2004


 

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Physics of Babylon: The Quantum Mystery School for the Coming One-World Religion...
From Video : "What is Reality?" [Quantum Gravity Research] https://youtu.be/w0ztlIAYTCUThe video above plays like a straight-up tutorial on the Babylonian Mystery Religion as explained through the mechanisms of Scientism. It's honestly so blatant that I don't see how anyone can deny the Luciferian agenda behind virtually every aspect of "modern" quantum physics at this point....
 
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