ANOINTED FOR CHRIST

  Leviticus 21:18 " For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long." As I sit in church today, I accidentally sat near the group who is hard of hearing. They praise Ya with their hands and listen by watching their fearless leader: the sign language interpreter. She does a wonderful job. Standing on stage next to the speaking pastor, she echoes his words for the benefit of the deaf. As she beautifully signs, I remembered Leviticus 21:18. Here Yahweh says that no priest who conducts his services in front of the crowd should have a debilitating handicap that impedes on their ability to do their duties. What if the sign language interpreter was missing a few fingers?  What if one hand was deformed at birth?  Would she still be great at interpreting?  Yes.  But would she still be the lead interpreter for the entire church?  Probably not. It would be so distracting that others would have a har...

 We are transitioning our independent Bible study called anointed for Christ Bible study. The transition means we are merging with a local church. The local church will help promote the Bible study and we will get members from the church who will come and attend our Bible study. This comes as a result of having lack of attendance of in person attenders. More updates to come. 

 [ ] V3  God is humble.  "A reed he will not break a smoldering Wick he will not snuff out." Isaiah 42:3.  "This is the one that I esteem the one who is humble and contrite in heart and who trembles at my word."  Isaiah 66v2.  [ ] V4 Commentary: "not that he rode upon them both, but on the foal only; for so it should be rendered, "upon an ass, that is, upon a colt, the foal of an ass". The Jews have a fable, that the ass Abraham saddled, when he went to sacrifice his son Isaac, was the foal of the ass that was created on the evening of the sabbath, that is, at the creation; and that the same Moses set his wife and sons upon, when he came out of Midian; and the same ass, they say, Messiah the son of David was to ride upon at his coming." (Gill's exposition of the entire bible)  OT xref=  "Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountai...

 A few years ago I was praying for prophetic dreams. One night I did have a prophetic dream, I believe. I was watching two frogs in a river they were large fat frogs they had a smile on their face and their heads were pointed to the sky as they floated down a river. Both of them picked up their feet and just enjoyed the ride. I woke up the next morning and the Lord reminded me that I needed to go with the flow. I have a hard time with things that I cannot change in life. Yet God wants me to pick up my feet and go with his flow. And biblical terms God wants me to dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture stop worrying about everything or trying to change things that I cannot just enjoy the ride his ride. A couple of days later I had another dream that year. I was watching a termite. The termite would work as long as he could and then when he got tired he would just stop moving and go to sleep. As soon as he woke up he would start working again. God use this analogy to remind me that ...

 Malachi 2 notes V1 Not taking things to heart or taking things seriously was their main problem. V3 Losing Phineas blessing. Numbers 25. Aaron begat Eleazar. Eleazar baguette Phineas. V4 DID NOT revere Gods reputation V8 Using Gods word for personal gain V10 Spiritual pride of priests V11 Worshipped other god V15 Committing adultery V16 Divorcing for pleasure Ch3v1 Behold my messenger is coming to clean you out Ch3v2 He comes with fire to purify, like soap to clean the filthy people out of Yahweh's house. See Jesus clears temple.  ______________________________ World events around 400bc [  ] Persians versus Greeks Jews probably in transition of siding with the Greeks I'm getting away from the persians. No matter who is rolling over them they don't want them to they are very small nation that just returned to being a nation. They want to become a great nation like in the time of King David but they need to turn their heart to the Lord so that they can get a good leader wi...

 Malachi 1v2 Xref romans 9v13.  In the Book of Malachi we read about priests who have been corrupt. In the same way in the Book of Romans the priests were still corrupt as Malachi was written only 400 years prior to the time of Jesus christ. Concerning this corruption the Apostle Paul makes an argument saying that those born of Abraham do not always inherit Abraham's promises. But just as God loved Jacob and hated Esau or more so eat them the nation God chose Jacob or Israel because they had done God's Will and obeyed the lord. He rejected Esau and the nation of Edom because they wanted to destroy Jacob and the nation of Israel just like Cain destroyed abel. But this time God saved Israel and Jacob. Here are the argument continues to say that even though the Jews are born of Abraham they do not necessarily automatically inherited the promises of abraham. Nor the promise of God's blessing but instead it is based on obedience and belief in the Lord. For this reason God has re...