Daily Bible Portion (Tuesday)
Daily Bible Portion – 3 of 7
"JETHRO"
(Weekly Reading>>Exodus 18:1-20:26, Isaiah 6:1-13, Matthew 5:1-48, Acts 6:1-7, Hebrews 12:18-29, 1 Peter 2:9-10)
Speak These Words to the Israelites
(1 Peter 2:9)
After the death and resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, Peter addresses the twelve tribes of Israel in Acts 3:11-26 and later in two letters 1 and 2 Peter. He very carefully obeyed the commandment Yahweh gave in Exodus 19:5-6 to “speak these words [given at Mount Sinai]to the Israelites.” A remnant from the twelve tribes who had come to Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost/Shavuot heard Peter make known to them their heritage and that they were the descendants of the Israelites who stood with Moses at Mount Sinai. Peter showed them their identity as the people of Israel and because of their forefathers’ disobedience to the Message given at Mount Sinai; the twelve tribes had become a scattered people living among the nations. Upon hearing Peter, the Israelites experienced a heart change and returned to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were ready to obey the original message, their Marriage Covenant given them at Mount Sinai. With Peter’s exhortation, the returning lost sheep of the House of Israel were ready to embrace their Creator and giver of the Covenant, Yeshua, with all their heart. Yeshua is the message and the fulfillment of Torah. Torah pointed to Yeshua; He is the goal, not the end of Torah (Romans 10:4). Peter informed, “God’s elect, strangers scattered throughout [the world]” (1 Peter 1:1), that they were the people being restored to walk in a redeemed lifestyle, when he later wrote,
This would have been a remarkable event for Peter. Not only did the Israelite people with him observe the same Feast (Pentecost/Shavuot) that Moses and the Israelites did at Mount Sinai, but they kept it on the exact date; fifty days after the Passover season. The Israelites continued to honor His Feast thousands of years later – even after Yeshua’s death and resurrection. These historical events reveal to us that Yahweh’s appointed Feasts are not only eternal Covenants but prophetic and time responsive. When Yahweh calls us to meet with Him at His appointed Feast Days, these Sabbaths are times and dates that match His Heavenly court settings. That is why, when we obey Yahweh’s instructions, we see the blessings and experience dramatic signs and wonders as Moses and Peter did. Prophetic events yet to happen on earth are revealed at Yahweh’s appointed Heavenly Kingdom times. What happened with Moses at Passover and Peter at Pentecost/Shavuot in their day will be re-occurring events in the future. The bigger event, the Wedding, is concealed until its appointed time. This will happen during the Fall Feasts. Our part during the unfolding of Yahweh’s plan is to observe His Feast Days at their appointed times as rehearsals, as they are part of our Marriage Covenant.
Exodus 19:4-8 “When Moses went back to see the people, he summoned the elders and set before them all the words Yahweh gave him to speak. The people all responded together, ‘We will do everything Yahweh has said,’ [we will fully obey and keep His Covenant].”
The very words spoken were clearly a betrothal response in a Covenant set between the people of God and their Maker. As believers, we have been given a legal marriage document called in Hebrew a ketubah. This acts as a legal, binding, covenantal agreement given by Yahweh to His Bride.
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"JETHRO"
(Weekly Reading>>Exodus 18:1-20:26, Isaiah 6:1-13, Matthew 5:1-48, Acts 6:1-7, Hebrews 12:18-29, 1 Peter 2:9-10)
Speak These Words to the Israelites
(1 Peter 2:9)
After the death and resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, Peter addresses the twelve tribes of Israel in Acts 3:11-26 and later in two letters 1 and 2 Peter. He very carefully obeyed the commandment Yahweh gave in Exodus 19:5-6 to “speak these words [given at Mount Sinai]to the Israelites.” A remnant from the twelve tribes who had come to Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost/Shavuot heard Peter make known to them their heritage and that they were the descendants of the Israelites who stood with Moses at Mount Sinai. Peter showed them their identity as the people of Israel and because of their forefathers’ disobedience to the Message given at Mount Sinai; the twelve tribes had become a scattered people living among the nations. Upon hearing Peter, the Israelites experienced a heart change and returned to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were ready to obey the original message, their Marriage Covenant given them at Mount Sinai. With Peter’s exhortation, the returning lost sheep of the House of Israel were ready to embrace their Creator and giver of the Covenant, Yeshua, with all their heart. Yeshua is the message and the fulfillment of Torah. Torah pointed to Yeshua; He is the goal, not the end of Torah (Romans 10:4). Peter informed, “God’s elect, strangers scattered throughout [the world]” (1 Peter 1:1), that they were the people being restored to walk in a redeemed lifestyle, when he later wrote,
“You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to Yahweh, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light” (Acts 3:11-26; 1 Peter 2:9; Exodus 23:14-17; Deuteronomy 16:16; 29:14-15; Jeremiah 50:6; Matthew 10:6-7; 15:24).
This would have been a remarkable event for Peter. Not only did the Israelite people with him observe the same Feast (Pentecost/Shavuot) that Moses and the Israelites did at Mount Sinai, but they kept it on the exact date; fifty days after the Passover season. The Israelites continued to honor His Feast thousands of years later – even after Yeshua’s death and resurrection. These historical events reveal to us that Yahweh’s appointed Feasts are not only eternal Covenants but prophetic and time responsive. When Yahweh calls us to meet with Him at His appointed Feast Days, these Sabbaths are times and dates that match His Heavenly court settings. That is why, when we obey Yahweh’s instructions, we see the blessings and experience dramatic signs and wonders as Moses and Peter did. Prophetic events yet to happen on earth are revealed at Yahweh’s appointed Heavenly Kingdom times. What happened with Moses at Passover and Peter at Pentecost/Shavuot in their day will be re-occurring events in the future. The bigger event, the Wedding, is concealed until its appointed time. This will happen during the Fall Feasts. Our part during the unfolding of Yahweh’s plan is to observe His Feast Days at their appointed times as rehearsals, as they are part of our Marriage Covenant.
Exodus 19:4-8 “When Moses went back to see the people, he summoned the elders and set before them all the words Yahweh gave him to speak. The people all responded together, ‘We will do everything Yahweh has said,’ [we will fully obey and keep His Covenant].”
The very words spoken were clearly a betrothal response in a Covenant set between the people of God and their Maker. As believers, we have been given a legal marriage document called in Hebrew a ketubah. This acts as a legal, binding, covenantal agreement given by Yahweh to His Bride.
continues tomorrow...
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