REDISCOVERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD

The Two Future Eras:

The Messianic Era (Kingdom) = Utopian era in this world. Revelation 20

They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the FIRST RESURRECTION. Rev 20.4-5

A thousand year Kingdom of world peace and prosperity and heightened spirituality when Israel is reunited with Judah and the Ezekiel 37.15-28 is fulfilled.

World to Come King of Israel, the Son of David, rules the restored nation.

The World to Come (The Olam Haba; Eternity) = The new heavens and new earth. Revelation 21

It is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, what Elohim has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2.9

Two views of the above currently competing:

Premillennial – The belief that Yeshua returns to reign on earth for 1,000 years before the final judgment and the World to Come.

Amillennial – Belief that there is no millennium or literal reign of Messiah in this world.

How We Lost the Kingdom as Christianity’s Church Fathers moved away from Hebraic Roots

Origen 184 – 253 CE – Such are the views of those who, while believing in Christ, understand the divine Scriptures in a sort of Jewish sense, drawing from them nothing worthy of the divine promises. Origen, De Principiis 2.11.1-2

Both Judea and Jerusalem were the shadow and figure of that pure land, goodly and large, in the pure region of heaven, in which is the heavenly Jerusalem. And it is in reference to this Jerusalem that the Apostle spoke… [for he] had found a truth which formed no part of the Jewish mythology. Origen, Against Celsus 7.23-29

Moreover there are so many prophecies spoken of [the people of} Israel and Judah, which relate what is going to happen to them. And when we think of the extraordinary promises recorded about these people…is it not clear that they demand an allegorical interpretation? Origen, De Principiis. 4.3.6

Gaius – Early Third Century – The author of the Book of Revelation by means of revelations which he pretended were written by a great apostle, also falsely invented wondrous things, as if they had been shown to him by angels, asserting that after the resurrection there would be an earthly and physical kingdom of Christ in which men, again inhabiting Jerusalem, will experience physical desires and pleasures…Being also an enemy to the divine Scriptures, intending to deceive men, he said that there would be a space of a thousand years for celebrating wedding banquets. Gaius the Presbyter, Ecclesiastical History 3.28

Dionysius 230-265 CE – The author of the Book of Revelation intentionally affixed the name of John to his own forgery. For one of the doctrines that he taught was that Christ would have an earthy kingdom. And he was a hedonist, and altogether sensual, for he conjectured that the kingdom would consist in those things that he craved for gratifying his own appetite and lust…namely that there would be eating drinking, and marrying, and he spoke of such things as he supposed these sensual pleasures might be presented in more decent terms: festivals, sacrifices, and slaying of animals. Dionysius of Alexandria, Ecclesiastical History 3.28

Jerome 347-420 CE – If one of the Christians…reckons that the prophecy of Jerusalem’s restoration is not yet completed, let him know that he falsely bears the name of Christ and that he has a Jewish soul, lacking only circumcision of the body. Commentary to Zephaniah 3.14-18

Belief in a literal kingdom on earth is Jewish madness, since they seek to satisfy their gluttony, lust for marriage, and longing for circumcision, sacrifices, and the Sabbath. Jerome, Commentary to Isaiah 54.1-14

Those who claim that the stock of faithful Israel in the Church of Christ (Jewish Christians) should observe the ceremonies of the old law (Torah) also anticipate a golden Jerusalem which will stand for a thousand years, where they will offer sacrifices and be circumcised, that they may sit on the Sabbath, sleep, become sated, drunk, and rise to frolic. Their (Sabbath) amusement is offensive to God. Jerome, Commentary to Isaiah 53.12

Augustine 354-430 CE – I myself, too, once held this opinion. But, as they assert that those who then rise again shall enjoy the leisure of immoderate carnal banquets, furnished with an amount of meat and drink such as not only to shock the feeling of the temperate, but even to surpass the measure of credulity itself, such assertions can be believed only by the carnal…They who do believe them are called by the spiritual “Thousanders”, which we may literally reproduce by the name Millenarians. It were a tedious process to refute these opinions point by point: we prefer proceeding to show how that passage of Scripture should be understood. Augustine, City of God Book 2.20.7

As we see in the above writings these early Church Fathers not only exhibit anti-Semitism and misunderstanding of the written word, but they have no desire to understand any Scripture from a Hebraic understanding.

How the Church Lost the Kingdom Message:

Replacement theology teaches that the church replaces Israel, therefore, the prophecies cannot be literally about Israel, they must be about the church.

The problem with replacement theology is that it completely ignores the FACT that Gentile believers are grafted into Israel! Ref: Romans 9-11, Ephesians 2.11-3.7, Ezekiel 47.22-23

The ancient Kingdom of Israel split after Solomon’s death (1 Kings 11 and 12). The ten northern tribes formed Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah became the Jews. The northern Kingdom of Israel was removed, replaced, and taken captive by the Assyrians never to return losing their identity among the Gentile nations to this day (Hosea, 2 Kings 17.22-41).

The southern Kingdom of Judah were later taken into captivity by Babylon but were allowed to return to the land and rebuild the Temple by the Persian kings (Daniel 9, Ezra and Nehemiah).

The Christian Church at large has no knowledge or understanding of the Old Testament and these prophetic truths. The same goes for the early fathers quoted above.

The Mystery of the Kingdom was explained by Yeshua in parables: The kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring forth and grow up, he knows not how. For the earth brings forth fruit of herself: first the blade, then the ear, after that the full grain in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle because the harvest is come. Mark 4.26-29

And when he was asked of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God does not come with observation; neither shall they say, Behold it here! Or, Behold it there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17.20-21

Ezekiel 36.8 – But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home!

Reunion is near!

The reunification of ALL Israel (Jew and Gentile) will soon become a physical reality when the Messiah Yeshua returns to establish His Kingdom on the earth: Then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have mercy upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the peoples where the LORD thy God has scattered thee. If thou hast been driven out unto the outmost parts of the heavens, from there will the LORD thy God gather thee and from there will he take thee, and the LORD thy God will return thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt inherit it; and he will do thee good and multiply thee more than thy fathers. Deuteronomy 30.3-5

And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that thou may live. And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on those that hate thee, who persecuted thee.

 And thou shalt return and thou shalt hear the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee abound in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy beasts and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the LORD will turn to rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers…Deuteronomy 30.9

And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Ezekiel 36.28

These promise are for the reunited Kingdom of Israel which is made up of both Jew and Gentiles who have been grafted into Israel. We will become “one new man” in Yeshua our Messiah. Read Ezekiel 37.15-28

The Future Kingdom of God and Features of the Messianic Era

The Jewish people, lost Tribes, and Grafted in Gentiles once again become ISRAEL

ISRAEL becomes prosperous and the cities are populated

The hearts of all ISRAEL are transformed

ISRAEL’S enemies are punished

Obedience to God’s Laws (Torah) become worldwide for all nations

Prosperity is abundant and there is righteous justice for all

Jews are confirmed as God’s people

Temple stands, inhabited by the Divine Presence of Yeshua

World Peace

And it shall come to pass in the last of the days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be confirmed as the head of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all the Gentiles shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

And he shall judge among the Gentiles and shall rebuke many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2.2-4

To watch a 3 part video on this topic visit:  https://torahclub.ffoz.org/malchut/

 

 

BOOKS, RESURRECTION, AND BECOMING A LEGAL EXPERT

A guide to allowing the written word to interpret itself.

O.T. Strong’s #5612 book = as a scroll or tablet; evidence, deed

                        #5609 Ezra 4.15, record, archive

N.T. Strong’s #975 book, certificate

N.T. Strong’s #2041 Works = works, deed, activity, doing, labor

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. Thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. Dan 7.10

In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, came to understand by books the number of the years, according to the word of the Lord as it came to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would spend seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan 9.2

Then Moses returned unto the LORD and said, I pray thee, for, this people who have sinned a great sin and have made themselves gods of gold, that thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me now out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD answered unto Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, this one will I blot out of my book. Exodus 32.31-33

Peradventure there shall be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those Gentiles; peradventure there shall be among you a root that bears poison and wormwood; and it shall be, when that one hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. The LORD will not forgive him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. Deuteronomy 29.18-21

That search may be made in the book of the records of our fathers; so shalt thou find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city and hurtful unto kings and provinces and that from old time they form rebellions in the midst of her, for which cause this city was destroyed. Ezra 4.15

 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies. Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous. But I am poor and sorrowful; let thy saving health, O God, set me up on high. Ps 69.26-29

Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which were then formed, without lacking one of them. Ps 139.16

Seek ye out that which is written in the book of the LORD and read; Isaiah 34.16a

Then those that feared the LORD spoke one to another, and the LORD hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for those that feared the LORD and for those that think in his name. Malachi 3.16

¶ And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who is for the sons of thy people, and it shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there were people until now, but in that time thy people shall escape, all those that are found written in the book. And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall be awakened, some for eternal life, and some for shame and everlasting confusion.

And those that understand shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those that teach righteousness to the multitude as the stars in perpetual eternity. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end: many shall pass by, and knowledge shall be multiplied. Dan 12.1-4

And I saw the dead, great and small, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened; which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades delivered up the dead which were in them; and the judgment of each one was according to their works. And Hades and death were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20.12-15

RESURRECTION IN REGARD TO THE BOOKS

¶ And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who is for the sons of thy people, and it shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there were people until now, but in that time thy people shall escape, all those that are found written in the book.  And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall be awakened, some for eternal life, and some for shame and everlasting confusion.

And those that understand shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those that teach righteousness to the multitude as the stars in perpetual eternity.  But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end: many shall pass by, and knowledge shall be multiplied. Daniel 12.1-4

And thou shall go to the end and shalt rest, and thou shalt raise up in thy lot {or in thine inheritance} at the end of the days. Daniel 12.13

For we know that if our earthly house, this tabernacle, were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed about with our house which is from Heaven, that, being so clothed, we shall not be found naked.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not because we would be unclothed, but clothed about, that mortality might be swallowed up by life. Now He that hath wrought us for this selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the pledge of the Spirit.

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted by Him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5.1-10

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Philippians 3.10-11

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall transform our vile body; that it may be fashioned like unto the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is also able to subdue all things unto himself. Philippians 3.20-21

Our citizenship is recorded in heaven---where we are looking for the return of our King—we receive immortal bodies upon our resurrection. There is no pre-tribulation rapture…there is only one second coming when He returns and resurrects us from the dead after those days of tribulation. Ref: Matthew 24.29

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to everyone according to his deeds: to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life; but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek; Romans 2.5-11

Women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. Hebrews 11.35

BECOME A LEGAL EXPERT

When searching the Scriptures proceed as if you were a lawyer reading the law (in this case the Torah) to find how to prosecute your case. Look in all places for evidence which supports other areas of the law. This is exactly what King David had to do when he attempted to move the ark and Uzza was killed in an accident:

…let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for from the time of Saul we have not paid attention to it. And all the congregation said to do so, for the thing seemed right in the eyes of all the people.

So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim… And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and his brother drove the cart. And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, with songs and with harps and with psalteries and with timbrels and with cymbals and with trumpets.

¶And when they came unto the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him because he had put his hand to the ark, and there he died before God.

And David was displeased because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza; therefore, that place is called Perezuzza to this day. And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

So David did not bring the ark home to himself to the city of David but carried it to the house of Obededom, the Gittite. And the ark of God remained with the household of Obededom in his house three months.1 Chronicles 13.1-5; 7-14

David was angry at God that Uzza was killed while trying to keep the ark from falling to the ground. He decided to leave the Ark where it was until he could figure out how to move it to Jerusalem. He went back and searched the Torah for the answer on how to move the Ark of Elohim. What did King David learn?

And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark that the ark may be borne with them. The staves shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it…the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it, but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die… because the ministry of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders. Exodus 25.14-15; Numbers 4.15; Numbers 7.8

King David learned from searching the word that he was wrong in the method he was using to move the Ark. The Ark is not to be moved on a cart with Oxen but to have staves put through the rings and be borne on the shoulders of the Kohathites.

David then moved the Ark according to what was written in the WORD: And David made houses for himself in the city of David and prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said, “The ark of God should not be brought except by the Levites, for the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minister unto him perpetually.” And David also called for Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, and said unto them,

“Ye are the chief of the fathers among the Levites; sanctify yourselves and your brethren and bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it, for because ye did not do it thus at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us because we did not seek him according to his ordinance.”

 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. And the sons of the Levites bore the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD. 1 Chronicles 15.1-2; 1 Chronicles 15.11-15

We need to become legal experts in interpreting and understanding the WRITTEN WORD. Allow the WORD to interpret itself. Read verses in proper context. If the word does not make anything clear we must understand it in its ambiguity and not make up something we want it to say or believe it should say.

There are some areas of the word that are not clear…keep seeking an answer.

Bust of Caesar Augustus Discovered 

Archaeologists working in the Italian town of Isernia announced on Thursday the discovery of a finely sculpted marble head belonging to Rome’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus. The chance discovery was made amid ongoing repairs to the ancient walls of the Via Occidentale, which had reportedly collapsed during a violent storm “on the very night Pope Francis was elected.”

The head is immediately recognizable as that of Augustus, who effectively began the Roman Empire with his coronation on Jan. 16, 27 b.c.e., reigning until his death on Aug. 19, c.e. 14—preempted by his famous last words, befitting this discovery: Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset (“I found Rome of clay, and leave her to you of marble”). Augustus is often considered Rome’s greatest emperor.

The archaeologists, led by Francesca Giancola, believe the discovery may be a harbinger for even more important discoveries—perhaps even a temple nearby.

Caesar Augustus is mentioned by name once in the Bible, in the context of a census being taken in the Holy Land (New Testament, at the turn of the century): “And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed [or, counted/registered]. … And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city” (Luke 2:1, 3; King James Version). The account describes Jews traveling from afar to the registration center in Bethlehem.

Although not mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible, Augustus’s establishment of the Roman Empire was prophesied centuries earlier by the Prophet Daniel. The sixth-century b.c.e. prophet had forecast the rise and fall of four successive Gentile world empires—beginning with the Babylonian Empire, to be succeeded by the Persian Empire, followed by the Greco-Macedonian Empire, and finally the Roman Empire (Daniel 2, 7 and 11).

There is great debate about when the Book of Daniel was written, based on the impossibility of predicting the detailed events contained in the book (even down to certain leaders, their characteristics and battles). Such would affirm divine inspiration. Thus, a favored skeptical theory is that the book of Daniel was a fraudulent work compiled during the later third or second centuries B.C.E. (though this strains the wide amount of internal and archaeological evidence for a date centuries earlier—see https://watchjerusalem.co.il/797-can-we-trust-the-book-of-daniel  for more detail). Ideally, the book’s dating would be placed even later by skeptics, but there is a “problem”: Dead Sea Scroll copies of the book of Daniel have been found dating to as early as the second century B.C.E. Thus, this is the latest date for the work that scholars are compelled to accept, nearly 200 years before Caesar Augustus and his prophesied Roman Empire.

Source: https://watchjerusalem.co.il/1228-discovered-marble-head-of-romes-first-emperor

Shavuot in the Torah

The following is a simple description of Shavuot (Pentecost) from Michael Rood Ministries

Shavuot occurs on the 50th day of the counting of the Omer. Because you always start counting the Omer on the day after the weekly Shabbat (Sabbath) of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Shavuot always occurs on a Sunday, the day after the seventh Sabbath. Shavuot is a high Sabbath.

This feast is also called Pentecost (a Greek word that means ‘counting 50’) because we count 50 days and is also called the Feast of Sevens or Weeks because we count seven weeks.

“Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to YHVH. On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.” – Leviticus 23:16, 21

Once the Israelites were free from Egypt, they trekked through the desert until they came to Mount Sinai. While they camped at the base of the mountain, Moses went up to talk to the Almighty. YHVH told him to tell the people, “If you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people. For all the earth is mine, and you shall be a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.” And he told Moses, “Lo, I will come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you and believe you forever.”

The people prepared themselves for two days, and on the third day, they gathered around the base of Mount Sinai. That third day, the Almighty spoke in an audible voice that shook the mountain and the people to their cores. It would surely be a day none of the people there ever forgot. And it is a day the Almighty never wants us to forget.

As the people watched, a thick cloud covered the mountain, lightning bolts ripped through the sky, and the mountaintop began to smoke like a furnace. The deafening sound of a trumpet blasted, thunder rumbled, the earth trembled, and everyone shook with fear. As the trumpet got unbearably louder and louder, Moses spoke to the Almighty, and the Almighty answered. All the people witnessed this and believed that Moses was sent by YHVH.

Then YHVH began speaking, and what he shouted from the mountaintop was what we now know as the 10 Commandments.

Shavuot during the Messiah’s Ministry - The Messiah often performed miracles on and around the feasts, and Shavuot is no exception. Early in his ministry, Yeshua healed a man on the seventh Sabbath, the day before Shavuot.

“And there was a certain man, which had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Yeshua saw him lying there, and knew that he had been infirm a long time, he said to him...” Rise! Roll up your bed and walk.’ Immediately the man was made whole, and he rolled up his bed and walked, and it was on the Sabbath day. The Pharisee leaders chastised the man that was cured, ‘It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry your bed.’ He answered them, ‘He that made me whole said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” – John 5:5-11 [CKJV]

As he often did, Yeshua used this Sabbath as an opportunity to teach the most repeated message of his ministry. The religious leaders (the Pharisees) had created thousands of extra rules and laws for the people to follow, calling them the “oral Torah.” One law was that a person couldn’t carry items a certain distance on Shabbat. Yeshua wanted all the people to understand that the Pharisee’s rules were NOT the Torah.

He wanted to set them free from the impossible-to-keep laws of the religious leaders. When he healed the man, he made sure to tell him to break the Pharisee rule about carrying items on Shabbat. Yeshua taught by demonstration what YHVH commanded us in Deuteronomy 4:2 – “You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of YHVH your God which I command you.”

On the day of Shavuot, Yeshua taught in the Temple. He said, “TRUTH, I say to you, he that hears my word and believes in him that sent me has everlasting life” (John 5:24 CKJV). He also said, “The works that I do bear witness that the Father has sent me” (John 5:36 CKJV). Yeshua came to teach and show us the gift of the true Word of YHVH. On Shavuot at the end of the Messiah’s ministry, after he was crucified and raised from the dead, a final gift was given…

The Final Gift - “When the high day of Shavuot (Pentecost) had finally come, they were all together in one area of the Temple Mount. Suddenly there came a sound like a rushing mighty wind from heaven, and it completely filled the House of Prayer, where they were sitting. There appeared to them a pillar of fire, splitting apart and resting upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Ruach Kodesh (Holy Spirit) and began to speak in other languages as the Ruach gave them the articulation.

At that time, there were devout Yehudim from every nation under heaven dwelling in Yerushalayim for the Feast of Shavuot. When this incident was heralded abroad, the multitude came together, but they were confounded because every man heard them speak in his own language. They were all amazed and marveled, saying to each other, ‘Look! Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how do we hear each of them speak in the dialects of the nations in which we were born? We hear them speak the wonderful works of YHVH in our own languages!’” (The Acts 2:1-8, 11 CKJV).

This gift of the Holy Spirit demonstrates the renewed covenant with YHVH. He puts his Torah in our hearts, and we live with the power of the Holy Spirit within us.