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For Such a Time as This

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For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14

Allow me to share with you a BiteByte of truth the Holy Spirit share with me. Divinely appointed times and seasons exist that determine the course of destinies.

The important 1st clause is to say specifically this truth that based on God’s prophetic plan for the Jewish people, it would not be possible that they would be exterminated. Somehow, deliverance would come, from somewhere.  Divinely appointed times. The destiny would flow one way or the other but God’s plan for Israel would still be fulfilled in the end.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

Esther 4:14,15

The Creator tells us in Holy Scripture here at the same time that Queen Esther and her family’s destiny trajectory would depend on her willingness to trust and obey God’s leading. If Esther would choose God’s way, not only would the Jews be delivered but she and her family would also stay in the center of God’s divinely appointed will. Thank God Queen Esther choose the better path. She chose the path of Faith and Courage for the just shall live by faith!

The faith and courage of Hadassah also known as Esther then Queen Esther and the faith and wisdom of her cousin 7 Mordecai gave birth to their obedience and a great victory celebrated by the Jewish people annually in the days called PURIM.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14

And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jews—nor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.

29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. 

Purim 2023 Purim for the year 2023 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of March 6 ending at sundown on Tuesday, March 7. Purim is celebrated on the 14th day in the month Adar using the Jewish calendar. For the Gregorian calendar the day falls in the months of February and March.

Esther 9:28,29

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Grace & Peace
Morris Hunter
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Righteous Meddling with the Rebellious …

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Meddle not with the rebellious… 
Shabbat thought 

In this time of pandemic and plague we are reminded what is set before us by God … 

“Are the gods not just?” 
“‘Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'” 
– Orual & the Fox “Till We Have Faces” (1956) C.S. Lewis –

There is a book “Lawyers without Rights” by Simone Ladwig-Winters originally written some two decades ago that details the expulsion of Jewish judges and lawyers after Hitler’s ascension as Chancellor in 1933.  If Jews wanted to continue to practice law, they had to re-apply and give allegiance to Hitler’s government, which meant that they accepted the legal situation of anti-Semitism, with no way to combat it legally. 

It shows how the rule of law and how we corporately or individually define justice can be a catch-22. We’ve asked for men as kings, having rejected His Torah, and are reaping the consequences as predicted.  If you name the name of Yeshua as your Master and Savior, then read on, but if not, don’t bother… 

The King of Kings, Master of the Universe, our Judge, spoke to His people and told us all: â€œDo not judge in order that you will not be judged!

In whatever judgment that you judge, you will be judged And with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured again to you!” Mat’ 7:1,2

This week’s Haftarah in Shoftim (Judges) 13 deserves an in-depth read considering our situation. And how people bandy about terms like legal, law, justice, etc. without being really concerned with His righteousness and justice being applied in and to our own lives… i.e. self-righteousness abounds!

Judge or Krino [κρίνω] goes back to our word Shafat in the Sept. for ׊ָׁפ֡ט, and also for דּוּן and רִיב; In Hebrew it has the sense of judging, governing, deciding controversy and even punishing. The rabbis decided for some reason to leave out the first verse of Shoftim 13 in the Haftarah; however, we should consider it rather important contextually both to Yisrael and to us:

א  ×•Öˇ×™ÖšÖź×ĄÖ´×™×¤×•Öź בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, לַעֲשׂוֹת הָרַע בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה; וַיִּתְּנֵם יְהוָה בְּיַד-פְּלִשְׁתִּים, אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה.  {פ}      1 
And the sons of Yisrael increased to do the evil in the eyes of YHVH; and YHVH gave them into the hand of the Wanderers, forty years. 

In other words, YHVH is judging His people, and Keyfa (Peter) affirms this to those of us, who name His name and abide in His commands that we can expect this to happen… Beloved, do not be bewildered at the pyro-purge of proving (see Prov 27:21) as if something strange was happening among you,

But as you have shared in the sufferings of Messiah, rejoice! 
So that also in the unveiling of His glory, you all might rejoice exulting. 
If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, [you are] blessed, because the glory and Spirit of YHVH remains on you.  Indeed on their part He is reviled, however on you all He is glorified.

None of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or as a meddler, (the writer seems to refer to those who, with holy but intemperate zeal, meddle with the affairs of the Gentiles â€” whether public or private, civil or sacred â€” in order to make them conform to the Christian standard – Thayer’s Greek Lexicon) 

If you [suffer] as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify YHVH that you bear that name. 

For it is time for judgment to have begun with the house of YHVH; and if it is first with us, what’s the end of those disobeying YHVH’s good news? 

And, “If it is difficult for the righteous to be saved, what will be of the ungodly and the sinner?”

1 Peter 4:12-18 and in :18 Keyfa is quoting Proverbs 11:31, which follows:

לא  ×”Öľ×Ÿ צַדִּיק, בָּאָרֶץ יְשֻׁלָּם;    ×Öˇ×Ł, כִּי-רָ׊ָׁע וְחוֹטֵא.  
“Look, the righteous will be repaid in the earth; how much more the wicked and the sinner!”

It’s interesting how Keyfa quotes a verse in which we should consider the preceding verse also: â€œThe fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and a wise one wins souls.” Verse :30

In regards to our responsibility of fruit from verse 30, and what the consequences of 31 are, it’s a travesty that people who name the name of Jesus are meddling with false expectations, judging others according to a bankrupt legal system under judgment for corruption, hence being compromised with accusations and disobedient to the One who they claim to follow.

There was a way out for the Jews in Western Europe during the ‘30’s – Elie Wiesel among others documented this, when YHVH sent prophets to tell the Jews to get out and go back to Yisrael…most didn’t listen and perished – it doesn’t make the horror of Shoah right, but in order to fight evil and man’s depravity, we can’t do it on our own strength, wisdom, and self-righteousness…

There is a way out for the ‘followers’ of Messiah today in the West or wherever – pick up our crosses and follow Him daily, abide in His commands, don’t meddle in the world, or expect those who do evil to conform to some euphemistic standard or expectation we would establish…

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Blessings and Shabbat Shalom,
John Mark 
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Romans 8:1 The no condemnation condition

Reading all of Romans 8:1 There is an implied condition for no condemnation and its stated in the passage:

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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Consequences that fit the crime

Every civilized society creates laws and also creates punishments for those that break the laws.

One of the most basic responsibilities of a civil society to design laws where the punishments are appropriate to the crimes that are committed.

Justice and Just Deserts - Leviticus 24:17-22

Lev 24:17 “‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.
Lev 24:18 Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution–life for life.
Lev 24:19 Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner:
Lev 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.
Lev 24:21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death.
Lev 24:22 You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.'”

Blashphemy a BIG sin

Blasphemy is currently in the top 30% of lookups on Merriam-Webster.com.

: great disrespect shown to God or to something holy

: something said or done that is disrespectful to God or to something holy

Blasphemy and distinguishing sins - Leviticus 24:10-23

11 The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse; so they brought him to Moses.

1. The name of Lord is Holy.  “Our Father, which art in heaven, HALLOWED be thy name”.   “Thou shalt no take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Lev 24:12 They put him in custody until the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.

1. The young man was locked up, in jail, in waiting for blasphemy.

2. They weren’t sure what the punishment or consequences should be but they knew they should ask God for direction.

3. Moses was a prophet and this was a nation that was created and led by God.

4. Moses got a clear answer from the Lord.

Lev 24:14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp. All those who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly is to stone him.
Lev 24:15 Say to the Israelites: ‘Anyone who curses their God will be held responsible;
Lev 24:16 anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

 

The Divine Audit Part 1 – Luke 13:1-5

When we see tragedies and bad things happen to people many people ask the question “If there really is a God then why did this happen to these people but not to that person?”  “Why these people but not those people?”

“Why did this person have a bad thing happen but not that one?”
This is a variation of the timeless question
Why do bad things happen to good people?”

There are many answers to consider and but one BiteByte of truth can be taken directly from mouth of Jesus himself as he taught about an incident “in the news” that occurred during his the time of his ministry on earth.

Why bad things happen to people? Jesus comments! (Luke 13:1-5 NIV)

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1 About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple.

2 “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered?
3 Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.

4 And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem?
5 No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”