Weekly Reading Feb 28th 2026

(from the Zadok calendar)

Tetzaveh תצוה "You are to order"

Torah
From Exodus 27:20 “And you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn continually.
28; 29; 30 up to:
30:10 And Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement; once a year he shall make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

Haftarah
1 Samuel 15 (full chapter)
1 Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the Lord.
2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
4 So Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
6 Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7 And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
8 He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
10 Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying,
11 “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night.
12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.”
13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
14 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet! And I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”
17 So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?
18 Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”
20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
22 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.”
24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”
26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore.
28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”
30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”
31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.
32 Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here to me.” So Agag came to him cautiously. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
33 But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
60:19 “The sun shall no longer be your light by day, Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; But the Lord will be to you an everlasting light, And your God your glory.
20 Your sun shall no longer go down, Nor shall your moon withdraw itself; For the Lord will be your everlasting light, And the days of your mourning shall be ended.

Ezekiel 28:11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “You were the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
16 “By the abundance of your trading You became filled with violence within, And you sinned; Therefore I cast you as a profane thing Out of the mountain of God; And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.
17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you.
18 “You defiled your sanctuaries By the multitude of your iniquities, By the iniquity of your trading; Therefore I brought fire from your midst; It devoured you, And I turned you to ashes upon the earth In the sight of all who saw you.
19 All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; You have become a horror, And shall be no more forever.” ’ ”
44:9 Thus says the Lord God: “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.
10 “And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, as gatekeepers of the house and ministers of the house; they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
12 Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them,” says the Lord God, “that they shall bear their iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near Me to minister to Me as priest, nor come near any of My holy things, nor into the Most Holy Place; but they shall bear their shame and their abominations which they have committed.
14 Nevertheless I will make them keep charge of the temple, for all its work, and for all that has to be done in it.
15 “But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer to Me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord God.
16 “They shall enter My sanctuary, and they shall come near My table to minister to Me, and they shall keep My charge.
17 And it shall be, whenever they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen garments; no wool shall come upon them while they minister within the gates of the inner court or within the house.
18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads and linen trousers on their bodies; they shall not clothe themselves with anything that causes sweat.
43:10 “Son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its ordinances, and perform them.
12 This is the law of the temple: The whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.
13 “These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with a rim all around its edge of one span. This is the height of the altar:
14 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits; the width of the ledge, one cubit; from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits; and the width of the ledge, one cubit.
15 The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth.
16 The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners;
17 the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east.”
18 And He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord God: ‘These are the ordinances for the altar on the day when it is made, for sacrificing burnt offerings on it, and for sprinkling blood on it.
19 You shall give a young bull for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who approach Me to minister to Me,’ says the Lord God.
20 ‘You shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim around it; thus you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.
21 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and burn it in the appointed place of the temple, outside the sanctuary.
22 On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
23 When you have finished cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram from the flock without blemish.
24 When you offer them before the Lord, the priests shall throw salt on them, and they will offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
25 Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.
26 Seven days they shall make atonement for the altar and purify it, and so consecrate it.
27 When these days are over it shall be, on the eighth day and thereafter, that the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings on the altar; and I will accept you,’ says the Lord God.”

B'rit Hadasha
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;
8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;
11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
12 rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
13 distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:
12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
14 Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress.
15 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.
16 For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.
17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.
18 Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
20 Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 21:22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it.
25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).
26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.
27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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Amalek the Story of the Amalekites

'Amalek' the misused name for a political slogan to justify a contemporary genocide.

Who was Amalek?

Genesis 36 "Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz."

What did Amalek (the Amalekites) do to the Israelites after they spent 40 years in the wilderness?

Exodus 17:8 Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
9 And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.”
10 So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11 And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
12 But Moses’ hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
13 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
15 And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner;
16 for he said, “Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

What happened to the Amalekites?

1 Samuel 15:2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
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7 And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt.
8 He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.
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33 But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

Saul and his army destroyed the Amalekites once. But the complete destruction was achieved by King David, before the unification of the two Kingdoms.

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Jesus says "Be prepared for the rapture "

"It is my sincere hope that you will give yourself to God, to Jesus, and receive his salvation.
He will meet you wherever you are, exactly how you are. There is no sin to great that he won't forgive. Ask him for forgiveness, turn away from it, and ask Jesus into your heart. Be re born in the spirit and walk according to his will for you!
You dont need a church, a pastor, or priest to do this. Go to a quiet place and cry out to God, and he will run to you! You need a relationship with Jesus. He will comfort you, redeem you, and love you like no other!
Amen" _ Mike


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Scriptures
Samuel 13: 14
Matthew 24: 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew 22: 37-39
Luke 18: 13-14
Revelation 3: 16
Matthew 24: 44
Matthew 25

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The Book of Enoch: Chapter LXXXVIII

Chapter LXXXVIII

1. Then one of those four went to the white cows, and taught them a mystery. While the cow was trembling, it was born, and became a man, and fabricated for himself a large ship. In this he dwelt, and three cows dwelt with him in that ship, which covered them.
2. Again I lifted up my eyes towards heaven, and saw a lofty roof. Above it were seven cataracts, which poured forth on a certain village much water.
3. Again I looked, and behold there were fountains open on the earth in that large village.
4. The water began to boil up, and rose over the earth ; so that the village was not seen, while its whole soil was covered with water.
5. Much water was over it, darkness, and clouds. Then I surveyed the height of this water; and it was elevated above the village.
6. It flowed over the village, and stood higher than the earth.
7. Then all the cows which were collected there, while I looked on them, were drowned, swallowed up, and destroyed in the water.
8. But the ship floated above it. All the cows, the elephants, the camels, and the asses, were drowned on the earth, and all cattle. Nor could I perceive them. Neither were they able to get out, but perished, and sunk into the deep.
9. Again I looked in the vision until those cataracts from that lofty roof were removed, and the fountains of the earth became equalized, while other depths were opened ;
10. Into which the water began to descend, until the dry ground appeared.
11. The ship remained on the earth; the darkness receded ; and it became light.
12. Then the white cow, which became a man, went out of the ship, and the three cows with him.
13. One of the three cows was white, resembling that cow ; one of them was red as blood ; and one of them was black. And the white cow left them.
14. Then began wild beasts and birds to bring forth.
15. Of all these the different kinds assembled together, lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, wild boars, foxes, rabbits, and the hanzar,
16. The siset, the avest, kites, the phonkas, and ravens.
17. Then a white cow was born in the midst of them.
18. And they began to bite each other ; when the white cow, which was born in the midst of them, brought forth a wild ass and a white cow at the same time, and after that many wild asses. Then the white cow, which was born, brought forth a black wild sow and a white sheep.
19. That wild sow also brought forth many swine;
20. And that sheep brought forth twelve sheep.
21. When those twelve sheep grew up, they delivered one of them to the asses.
22. Again those asses delivered that sheep to the wolves ;
23. And he grew up in the midst of them.
24. Then the Lord brought the eleven other sheep, that they might dwell and feed with him in the midst of the wolves.
25. They multiplied, and there was abundance of pasture for them.
26. But the wolves began to frighten and oppress them, while they destroyed their young ones.
27. And they left their young in torrents of deep water.
28. Now the sheep began to cry out on account of their young, and fled for refuge to their Lord. One however,which was saved, escaped,and went away to the wild asses.
29. I beheld the sheep moaning, crying, and petitioning their Lord,
3O. With all their might, until the Lord of the sheep descended at their voice from his lofty habitation ; went to them ; and inspected them.
31. He called to that sheep which had secretly stolen away from the wolves, and told him to make the wolves understand that they were not to touch the sheep.
32. Then that sheep went to the wolves with the word of the Lord, when another met him, and proceeded with him.
33. Both of them together entered the dwelling of the wolves; and conversing with them made them understand, that from thenceforwards they were not to touch the sheep.
34. Afterwards I perceived the wolves greatly prevailing over the sheep with their whole force. The sheep cried out; and their Lord came to them.
35. He began to strike the wolves, who commenced a grievous lamentation ; but the sheep were silent, nor from that time did they cry out.
36. I then looked at them, until they departed from the wolves. The eyes of the wolves were blind, who went out and followed them with all their might. But the Lord of the sheep proceeded with them, and conducted them.
37. All his sheep followed him. 38. His countenance was terrific and splendid, and glorious was his aspect. Yet the wolves began to follow the sheep, until they overtook them in a certain lake of water.
39. Then that lake became divided ; the water standing up on both sides before their face.
40. And while their Lord was conducting them, he placed himself between them and the wolves.
41. The wolves however perceived not the sheep, but went into the midst of the lake, following them, and running after them into the lake of water.
42. But when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to fly from before his face.
43. Then the water of the lake returned, and that suddenly, according to its nature. It became full, and was raised up, until it covered the wolves. And I saw that all of them which had followed the sheep perished, and were drowned.
44. But the sheep passed over this water, proceedins: to a wilderness, which was without both water and grass. And they began to open their eyes and to see.
45. Then I beheld the Lord of the sheep inspect- ing them, and giving them w^ater and grass. 46. The sheep already mentioned was proceeding with them, and conducting them.
47. And when he had ascended the top of a lofty rock, the Lord of the sheep sent him to them.
48. Afterwards I perceived their Lord standing before them, with an aspect terrific and severe.
49. And when they all beheld him, they were frightened at his countenance.
50. All of them were alarmed, and trembled. They cried out after that sheep ; and to the other sheep who had been with him, and who was in the midst of them, saying, We are not able to stand before our Lord, or to look upon him.
51. Then that sheep who conducted them went away, and ascended the top of the rock;
52. When the rest of the sheep began to grow blind, and to wander from the path which he had shown them ; but he knew it not.
53. Their Lord however was moved with great indignation against them ; and when that sheep had learned what had happened,
54. He descended from the top of the rock, and comings to them, found that there were many,
55. Which had become blind ;
56. And had wandered from his path. As soon as they beheld him, they feared, and trembled at his presence;
57. And became desirous of returning to their fold.
58. Then that sheep, taking with him other sheep, went to those which had wandered.
59. And afterwards began to kill them. They were terrified at his countenance. Then he caused those which had wandered to return ; who went back to their fold.
60. I likewise saw there in the vision, that this sheep became a man, built an house for the Lord of the sheep, and made them all stand in that house.
61. I perceived also that the sheep which proceeded to meet this sheep, their conductor, died. I saw, too, that all the great sheep perished, while smaller ones rose up in their place, entered into a pasture, and approached a river of water.
62. Then that sheep, their conductor, who became a man, was separated from them, and died.
63. All the sheep sought after him, and cried for him with bitter lamentation.
64. I saw likewise that they ceased to cry after that sheep, and passed over the river of water.
65. And that there arose other sheep, all of whom conducted them, instead of those who were dead, and who had previously conducted them.
66. Then I saw that the sheep entered into a goodly place, and a territory delectable and glorious.
67. I saw also that they became satiated; that their house was in the midst of a delectable territory: and that sometimes their eyes were opened, and that sometimes they were blind ; until another sheep arose and conducted them. He brought them all back ; and their eyes were opened.
68. Then dogs, foxes, and wild boars began to devour them, until again another sheep arose, the master of the flock, one of themselves, a ram, to conduct them. This ram began to butt on every side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars, until they all perished.
69. But the former sheep opened his eyes, and saw the ram in the midst of them, who had laid aside his glory.
70. And he began to strike the sheep, treading upon them, and behaving himself without dignity.
71. Then their Lord sent the former sheep again to a still different sheep, and raised him up to be a ram, and to conduct them instead of that sheep who had laid aside his glory.
72. Going therefore to him, and conversing with him alone, he raised up that ram, and made him a prince and leader of the flock. All the time that the dogs troubled the sheep,
73. The first ram paid respect to this latter ram.
74. Then the latter ram arose, and fled away from before his face. And I saw that those dogs caused the first ram to fall.
75. But the latter ram arose, and conducted the smaller sheep.
76. That ram likewise begat many sheep, and died.
77. Then there was a smaller sheep, a ram, instead of him, which became a prince and leader, conducting the flock.
78. And the sheep increased in size, and multiplied.
79. And all the dogs, foxes, and wild boars feared, and fled away from him.
80. That ram also struck and killed all the wild beasts, so that they could not again prevail in the midst of the sheep, nor at any time ever snatch tnem away.
81. And that house was made large and wide ; a lofty tower being built upon it by the sheep, for the Lord of the sheep.
82. The house was low, but the tower was elevated and very high.
83. Then the Lord of the sheep stood upon that tower, and caused a full table to approach before him.
84. Again I saw that those sheep wandered, and went various ways, forsaking that their house 85. And that their Lord called to some among them, whom he sent to them.
86. But these the sheep began to kill. And when one of them was saved from slaughter, he leaped, and cried out against those who were desirous of killing him.
87. But the Lord of the sheep delivered him from their hands, and made him ascend to him, and remain with him.
8S. He sent also many others to them, to testify, and with lamentations to exclaim against them.
89. Again I saw, when some of them forsook the house of their Lord, and his tower ; wandering on all sides, and growing blind,
90. I saw that the Lord of the sheep made a great slaughter among them in their pasture, until they cried out to him in consequence of that slaughter. Then he departed from the place of his habitation, and left them in the power of lions, tigers, wolves, and the zeebt, and in the power of foxes, and of every beast.
91. And the wild beasts began to tear them.
92. I saw, too, that he forsook the house of their fathers, and their tower giving them all into the ; power of lions to tear and devour them ; into the power of every beast.
93. Then I began to cry out with all my might, imploring the Lord of the sheep, and showing him how the sheep were devoured by all the beasts of prey.
94. But he looked on in silence, rejoicing that they were devoured, swallowed up, and carried off; and leaving them in the power of every beast for food. He called also seventy shepherds, and resigned to them the care of the sheep, that they might overlook them;
95. Saying to them and to their associates. Every one of you henceforwards overlook the sheep, and whatsoever I command you, do ; and I will deliver them to you numbered.
96. I will tell you which of them shall be slain these destroy. And he delivered the sheep to them.
97. Then he called to another, and said. Understand, and watch everything which the shepherds shall do to these sheep ; for many more of them shall perish than I have commanded.
98. Of every excess and slaughter, which the shepherds shall commit, there shall he an account; as, how many may have perished by my command, and how many they may have destroyed of their own heads.
99. Of all the destruction brought about by each of the shepherds there shall be an account ; and according to the number! will cause a recital to be made before me, how many they have destroyed of their own heads, and how many they have delivered up to destruction, that I may have this testimony against them ; that I may know all their proceedings ; and that, delivering the sheep to them, I may see what they will do ; whether they will act as I have commanded them, or not.
100. Of this, however, they shall be ignorant ; neither shalt thou make any explanation to them, neither shalt thou reprove them ; but there shall be an account of all the destruction done by them in their respective seasons. Then they began to kill, and destroy more than it was commanded them.
101. And they left the sheep in the power of lions, so that very many of them were devoured and swallowed up by lions and tigers ; and wild boars preyed upon them. That tower they burnt, and overthrew that house.
102. Then I grieved extremely on account of the tower, and because the house of the sheep was overthrown.
103. Neither was I afterwards able to perceive whether they again entered that house.
104. The shepherds likewise, and their associates delivered them to all the wild beasts, that they might devour them. Each of them in his season, according to his number, was delivered up ; each of them, one with another, was described in a book, how many of them, one with another, were destroyed, in a book.
105. More, however, than was ordered, every shepherd killed and destroyed.
106. Then I began to weep, and was greatly indignant, on account of the sheep.
107. In like manner also I saw in the vision him who wrote, how he wrote down one, destroyed by the shepherds, every day. He ascended, remained, and exhibited each of his books to the Lord of the sheep, containing all which they had done, and all which each of them had made away with;
108. And all which they had delivered up to destruction.
109. He took the book up in his hands, read it, sealed it, and deposited it.
110. After this, I saw shepherds overlooking for twelve hours.
111. And behold three of the sheep departed, arrived, went in ; and began building all which was fallen down of that house.
112. But the wildboars hindered them, although they prevailed not.
113. Again they began to build as before, and raised up that tower, which was called a lofty tower.
114. And again they began to place before the tower a table, with every impure and unclean kind of bread upon it.
115. Moreover also all the sheep were blind, and could not see ; as were the shepherds likewise.
116. Thus were they delivered up to the shepherds for a great destruction, who trod them under foot, and devoured them.
117. Yet was their Lord silent, until all the sheep in the field were destroyed. The shepherds and the sheep were all mixed together ; but they did not save them from the power of the beasts.
118. Then he who wrote the book ascended, exhibited it, and read it at the residence of the Lord of the sheep. He petitioned him for them, and prayed, pointing out every act of the shepherds, and testifying before him against them all. Then taking the book, he deposited it with him, and departed.

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'BIG-PHARMA' IS MORE THAN MODERN HUMANS IMAGINE

by Unknown, Fwrd by J.P.

CHRISTIANS WHO READ THEIR BIBLE MAY RECOGNIZE THIS IMMEDIATELY.

Is there is a connection between government, sorcery, and idolatry? 

Yes.

Throughout the Bible, sorcerers serve the heads of state. Sorcerers served as advisors to Pharoah’s Court in Exodus 7:11, and Nebuchadnezzar’s Court in Babylon in Daniel 2:2. Both kingdoms were clearly idolatrous with kings who considered themselves gods to be worshipped.

Even in Israel, Samuel draws a direct line between the two while rebuking King Saul in 1 Samuel 15 stating that “rebellion is the same as divination (sorcery) and pride is the same as idolatry.” After Samuel’s death, King Saul, experiencing great fear against a formidable opponent, consulted a sorcerer to serve as a medium to contact Samuel for knowledge.

We know from Psalms 115 and 135 engaging in pride or trusting in idols dulls your spiritual senses and understanding, rendering you blind to the works of the One True God.

The Egyptian sorcerers (magicians) were eventually able to identify the finger of God at work, but helpless to stop His judgments once they were fully underway. Babylonian sorcerers could see the writing on the wall, but not discern it. Even religious leaders in Jesus’s day were unable to identify the finger of God at work, accusing Him of casting out demons by sorcery.

All three groups were caught by surprise when the Kingdom of God came upon them suddenly.

Malachi 3:5 warns that in the Coming Day of Judgment, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will be a swift witness to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers, those who defraud wages, oppress widows, oppress orphans, and deprive foreigners.

Is there a connection between sorcery and adultery? 

Yes.

Sorcery is often paired with seduction and idolatry, resulting in illicit, immoral union or adultery, both physically and spiritually. Covenant language all throughout the Bible discusses the harlot bride who has strayed from her vows and faith in the one true living God by going after other gods she has not known. Spiritual adultery is the fruit of idolatry. 

In Revelation 2, Jesus warns 2 separate churches to repent from behaviors associated with sorcery, idolatry, and adultery.

Thyatira’s church faces very serious judgment for non-repentance with reflections back to the 10^th Plague of Egypt or Babylon’s Humiliation in Isaiah 47 as children are struck dead. Pergamum’s church was located in the same city as the ancient world’s largest medical complex and school – The Asklepion (note that the writer of the blog linked here is not a Christian–she clearly explains the pagan rites of this “healing center”). Both churches are warned about the idolatry, sorcery, and immoral unions encouraged by Jezebel and Balaam – who instructed others to seduce God’s people to sin. Both churches are warned that they are at enmity with Him if they remain unrepentant.

What is pharmakeia and its associated profession? 

According to Strong’s Greek concordance, Pharmakos is related to the word pharmakon, defined as a composite of remedy, poison, and a scapegoat (human preferably, but also animals.) It is connected to the Greek word for plough, derived from words meaning to cut, pierce or scrape.

We know that the last days will be as in the Days of Noah. Interestingly, the name Noah means comfort and he is credited by rabbinical scholars for inventing the plow.

Pharmaceuticals often provide comfort from fear and symptoms associated with an illness or condition, but may not necessarily heal the root cause of the person’s medical condition no matter how many times symptoms are addressed.

Pharmakeia (Strong’s Greek 5331) appears in Galatians 5:20 regarding the acts of the flesh which include: sorcery, sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, and orgies. Walking by the Holy Spirit prevents us from gratifying works of the flesh.

(Pharmakeia also appears in Revelation 18 where it is revealed that Babylon the Great, the mother of prostitutes and abominations on earth has deceived all of the nations with her sorceries (pharmakeia). All of the kings of the earth were immoral with her – again connecting heads of state with this particular sin.)

Pharmakeia is defined by Strong’s as “the use of medicine, drugs or spells, or the practice of administering drugs, drug-related sorcery, or the practice of magical arts.” In the Septuagint, we find this word used twice in Isaiah 47 again during the humiliation of Babylon as the prophet delivers a message from the Most High God that she would experience the loss of her children and become a widow in one day even if she takes her stand with her spells and sorceries. Isaiah exhorts her to continue in her ways because perhaps she will succeed or inspire terror (Isaiah 47:9, Isaiah 47:12). Babylon is a god in her own eyes.

In that culture, the use of pharmakeia drugs also served as abortifacients, largely so the immoral sexual activity could continue without consequence and temple prostitutes could retain their figures. The use of such products are prohibited in the Didache, an early church document providing newly converting, formerly pagan Gentiles with the basics of faith in Christ.

Pharmakeus (Strong’s Greek 5332) is identified in Revelation 21:8 as an occupation within sorcery (pharmakon) identified as a “druggist or preparer of poisons.” There is religious fervor of strongly held beliefs included with this occupation.

The pharmakeus mixes together potions, drugs, or poisons to work magic to weave pseudo (false) supernatural stunts and illusions (deceptions).

Medicine.net defines poison from a medical perspective as “ Any substance that can cause severe organ damage or death if ingested, breathed in, injected into the body or absorbed through the skin.” They go on to point out that many substances that normally cause no problems, including water and most vitamins, can be poisonous if taken in excessive quantity. Poisoning typically requires treatment to recover and is tailored as an antidote to the poison. First the poison, then the cure.

The individuals preparing, and using, these preparations often believe they have special spiritual powers that do not operate with scripture – such as the ability to end or extend life or heal.

The truth is only the One True God heals, gives life, or takes it away.

Our medical gods can be found in modern medicine, alternative medicine, or even obsession with physical health above our spiritual health. It becomes idolatrous when we choose to give credit to any of those things for healing instead of the God who heals us.

The Prophets of the Old testament

Most prophets of the Old testament, told of the future of the people of Israel prior to 0 BC. , or the Hebrew year 4004.  They foretold and warned of fall of the Great Kingdom of Israel, if the people did not follow God's Laws (The Ten Commandments, and the Seven Holy Feasts).  The people and the Kings of Israel, (and later Judah where Jerusalem was located) did not heed their warnings.
It started with the weakness of the Great King Solomon, who let his wife Naamah worship her god Moloch. It further drove their downfall after Jezebel, wife of King Ahab, erected temples and incited the worship of Baal and Asherah.  Israel the, then mightiest Kingdom, was then obliterated. Further in time, the remaining Kingdom of Judah (a separation of the kingdom of Israel), was also utterly destroyed (including the Temple), and the people either taken captive, hid in the land or fled away from their once God given land.

A few of the prophets of the Old testament did however Prophecy for times long after the Kingdom of Israel:

• Isaiah announced the arrival of Jesus Christ. (7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.); (9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.) and (chapter 53)
• Daniel warns us of the 4 Great Beasts of the Sea, an End Times Prophecy.
• Micah speaks of a time when all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship. (see Micah 4)
• Zechariah after lamenting for Israel, an Angel tells him of future Jerusalem. (see Zechariah 2)

Prophets of Old:

• Enoch (3100 BC.) See: Enoch, the oldest manuscript said to be. and The Life of Enoch (1st Man to learn Writing). Enoch predicted The Flood; The Great Tribulations and End Times. Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
• Abraham (Hebrew, 1900 BC.)
• Moses (Israelite of Levi, 1500 BC.) Christ's Transfiguration.
• Joshua (Israelite of Ephraim, 1450 BC.)
• Eli (Israelite, Levite priest, 1200 BC.)
• Samuel (Israelite of Levi, 1100 BC.)
• Elijah (Northern Kingdom Israelite, of Levi, 850 BC) 2 Kings 2:1 "And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind" John the Baptist. Christ's Transfiguration.
• Elisha (Northern Kingdom Israelite, of Issachar, 825 BC.)

• Isaiah (Kingdom of Judah, tribe of Judah, 800 BC.)
• Hosea (Israelite tribe of Issachar, 800 BC.)
• Micah (Israelite tribe of Benjamin, 800 BC.)
• Jonah (Israelite tribe of Zebulum 750 BC.)
• Amos (Israelite, Kingdom of Judah, 800-750 BC.)
• Nahum (740 BC.)
• Habakkuk (700 BC.)
• Huldah (650 BC.)
• Zephaniah (650 BC.)
• Jeremiah (600 BC.)
• Ezra (600 BC.)
• Joel (Israelite tribe of Judah, 900-400 BC. ?)
• Ezekiel (580 BC.)
• Zechariah (550 BC.)
• Obadiah (550 BC.)
• Daniel (Tribe of Judah, Jewish royalty? 520 BC.) See: Daniel 7 End Times Prophecy
• Haggai (520 BC.)
• Ezra (460 BC.)
• Nehemia (460 BC.)
• Malachi(450 BC.)

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Giants in the Land

Enoch

The fall of angels (3500 BC.)
6:1 In those days, when the children of man had multiplied, it happened that there were born unto them handsome and beautiful daughters.
6:2 And the angels, the children of heaven, saw them and desired them; and they said to one another, “Come, let us choose wives for ourselves from among the daughters of man and beget us children.”
6:3 And Semyaz, being their leader, said unto them, “I fear that perhaps you will not consent that this deed should be done, and I alone will become responsible for this great sin.”
6:4 But they all responded to him, “Let us all swear an oath and bind everyone among us by a curse not to abandon this suggestion but to do the deed.” Then they all swore together and bound one another by the curse.
6:5 And they were altogether two hundred; and they descended into 'Ardos, which is the summit of Hermon.
6:6 And they called the mount Armon, for they swore and bound one another by a curse.
6:7 And their names are as follows: Semyaz, the leader of Arakeb, Rame'el, Tam'el, Ram'el, Dan'el, Ezeqel, Baraqyal, As'el, Armaros, Batar'el, Anan'el, Zaqe'el, Sasomaspwe'el, Kestar'el, Tur’el, Yamayol, and Arazyal.
6:8 These are their chiefs of tens and of all the others with them.

7:1 And they took wives unto themselves, and everyone respectively chose one woman for himself, and they began to go unto them. And they taught them magical medicine, incantations, the cutting of roots, and taught them about plants.
7:2 And the women became pregnant and gave birth to great giants whose heights were three hundred cubits.
7:3 These giants consumed the produce of all the people until the people detested feeding them.
7:4 So the giants turned against the people in order to eat them.

Genesis 6

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
(2348 BC.)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

Noah, is wife, and his three sons were of pure human DNA. What about the wives of his sons?  History will show that except for Shem's descendants, corrupt DNA did reappear on Earth.

In the lineage of Ham and his wife, we have the infamous Nimrod.

The lineage of Japheth, gave us Greek Mythology.

Numbers 15 (1500 BC.)

17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Samuel 17 (1140 BC.)

4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.

6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

The Mound Builders

1756 under Washington, they discovered bones of a man 7' tall, while digging to construct a fort.

Abraham Lincoln 1848, speech at Niagara Falls:

"...then as now, Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now."

"People in Lincoln's day were well aware that giants had roamed the Americas and likely had seen or known someone who had seen the actual skeletal remains of these creatures."

_ Steve Quayle

Native American legends speak of terrifying cruel red hair giants (man eaters).

"Farmer often leveled their lands and discovered not just giants, but strange creatures with six fingers and toes, large skulls, double rows of teeth, some dressed in copper armors, advanced weapons, mysterious hieroglyphs."

_ Tim Alberino

1881, Congress gave $5000 to the Smithsonian Institution to conduct archaeological digs on the mounds, in order to determine their origins once and for all, and to recover the artifacts within them. Cyrus Thomas led the expedition excavated over 2000 mounds in just 9 years. Everything was quickly hidden away from the public.

Some of the most known news articles: 

Early 1800's, large bones in stone graves average stature were over 7' tall. Williamson and White counties Tennessee.

1833 Soldiers digging at Lompock Rancho, California, discovered a 12' tall skeleton. Had double row of upper and lower teeth.

1835 Illinois, huge skeleton over 8', among others of 7'.

1872 Ohio, in mound, discovery of 3 skeletons of at least 8' tall. Double rows of teeth.

1879 Brewersville Indiana, unearthed 9' 8" skeleton.

1898 Londonderry Ohio, almost 8' tall skeleton, reports the Washington Post Dec.4th. Hundreds of people viewed it.

1911 Miners discover a very tall red hair mummy. It went to a fraternal lodge for "initiation purposes". _ Humboldt Star.

1931 Humbolt Lake bed California: skeletons from 8 - 10'.

Ecuador South America, most recent find

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdXhiwtu-w

Human and human hybrids have coexisted for a very long time. Ask the Vatican? Nephilim?

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