Psalm 108

John 13:23 " Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it should be of whom He spake. He then lying on Jesus breast saith on to HIm, Lord, who is it."

John 21:20 " Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on His breast at supper... this is the disciple which testifieth of these things."

Out of all the disciples, there was but one which could be called, "The disciple whom Yahoshua loved." Does this mean that all the others were unloved? Hardly. The Messiah loved all His disciples. They were more than just students and followers. As Yahweh in the flesh, they were His chidlren (with the exception of Judas of course). But just as Jacob loved all his sons, Joseph the dreamer was special. Joseph's path would be the hardest, yet he alone would be given the understanding of things to come.

Likewise, only one disciple, John was found leaning upon his Master's chest. Only one disciple was so close to the Messiah, that he could hear His very heartbeat!

Like a Peter or a Paul, to be known by the demons of hell as an enemy is a great testimony. But to be a John, to be so close to Yahweh God should be our greatest desire. Leaning on the Master's chest, here is the place of the greatest comfort. To hear the beating of Yahweh's own heart is the greatest blessing imagineable.

John's personality may have been overshadowed by Peter and Paul, but John was given something utterly without equal: the Revelation of Yahoshua the Messiah.

O Merciful Father Yahweh

I give you thanks and praise for all the blessings you have already put in my life.

I want to be as Your disciples, hold me in Your bossom as You held Your beloved John. Let my faith burn in my heart for Your Truth as it burned in Your disciples and prophets of old.

HalleluYah!

Proverbs 28

James 1:13 " Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God can not be tempted with evil, niether tempteth He any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."

2 Corinthians 10:5 " casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obediance of Christ."

Sin does not "just happen". Sin is the end result of a process which began long before; a process which began in our fantasies and in our daily thought life.

Many have attempted to say that Yahoshua the Messiah did away with the law. When the Messiah said " Ye have heard it was said by them of old time. Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery whith her already in his heart." ; No law was abolished here. In fact, Yahoshua drove at the root of Yahweh's law: the heart.

If we would live lives of true holiness unto our Father, we must begin within, for whatever we dwell on in our private thoughts, whatever fantasies we may enjoy in the private theater of our minds, will eventually dictate our actions.

Yahweh, Most High and Merciful

Lift us up above the temptation of sin. Cleanse our hearts,minds and spirits that we may not bring a reproach upon our beloved Creator. Father You see our minds and know our hearts, please bring them into subjection to Your Holy Will.

HalleluYah!

1776 - Members of the Continental Congress began adding their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.
1782 - George Washington invented the Honorary Badge of Distinction.
1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.
1876 - "Wild Bill" Hickok was killed (shot from behind) while playing poker in Deadwood, SD. Jack McCall was later hanged for the shooting.
1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.
1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died. His successor was Adolf Hitler.
1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program.
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns.
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2.
1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

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Psalm 127

2 Corinthians 10:5 " casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obediance of Christ."

What are the imaginations and high things in your heart and mind? What fantasies try to play out on the screen of your imagination which are contrary to what you know about Yahweh? Be not decieved. Although you set all alone in the darkened theater of your mind, our Heavenly Father Yahweh sees and knows all that goes on here.

What's more, it is not that different for anyone else with discernment to know as well, for inevitably all that is hidden away in the heart and mind will find it's way out into the open, whether by word or deed. We are told in no uncertain terms to cast down these things that are contrary to the Word and the will of Yahweh God.

Cast down. The same words were used when Israel entered into the Promised Land of Canaan. Yahweh commanded the Israelites to leave none alive and to cast down all the pagan groves, all the demonic altars and high places, or they would be snares unto them. But Israel failed. They kept some alive to be slaves, but in the end, the Israelites served them.

Yahweh's command to us is just as graphic today. We must be as ruthless in the battlefields of our minds as the Israelites were to be when besieging the cities of the Canaanites; for if we are not, we will not only fail to obey Yahweh's command, but we will become slaves within the borders of our own minds.

Father Yahweh, Maker of heaven and earth, glory be to the Highest.

Make me ruthless in the cleansing of mine own heart. Yahshua said, it is not what goes into the body that matters as much as what comes out, for what comes out, comes from the heart. Remove the leaven of this world from me and make room for Your Holy Spirit. Praise your Holy Name.

HalleluYah!

1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage would lead him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.
1943 - Gen. George S. Patton verbally abused and slapped a private. Later, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered him to apologize for the incident.
1956 - Bedloe's Island had its name changed to Liberty Island.
1958 - The Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater. The mission was known as "Operation Sunshine."
1989 - Hashemi Rafsanjani was sworn in as the president of Iran.
1990 - Thousands of Iraqi troops pushed within a few miles of the border of Saudi Arabia. This heightened world concerns that the invasion of Kuwait could spread.
1992 - The U.S. Senate voted to restrict and eventually end the testing of nuclear weapons.
1995 - Eyad Ismoil was flown from Jordan to the U.S. to face charges that he had driven the van that blew up in New York's World Trade Center.
2004 - In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2004 - NASA launched the spacecraft Messenger. The 6 1/2 year journey was planned to arrive at the planet Mercury in March 2011.
2009 - Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.

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Psalm 115

2 Corinthians 10:5 "... and bringing into captivity every thought to the obediance of Christ."

Every thought. Not most thoughts, nor as many thoughts as you can. Every thought. As Yahweh commanded the Israelites of old as they invaded Canaan, leave none alive. Here also in the borders of our own minds, we are to conquer thoroughly. Of all the old thoughts and fantasies, leave none alive!

There are thoughts that subdue us, thoughts that enflame and enrage us. Thoughts that seduce us, thoughts that torture and torments us. Be mastered by none of them, but conquer them and make Yahweh the Master of your thoughts and mind.

Here lies the "secret sins" and strongholds which prevent us from fulfilling all that Father Yahweh would do both in us and through us: Arise, Christian warrior, shake off the mental dust and step onto the battlefield of your thoughts and emotions! Be ruthless against all that would lure you away from your Heavenly Father and your Messiah! Behold the thoughts, the imaginations, the fantasies: draw thy sword of the Spirit of Yahweh, and leave none alive!

Yahweh, Master and Creator of the Universe and everything in it

Great Master strengthen us that we may conquer our thoughts and be more open that You may fill us with Your Holy Spirit.

HalleluYah!

1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."
1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
1892 - Andrew and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, MA. Lizzie, Andrew's daughter, was accused of the killings but was later acquitted.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany in World War I. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
1949 - An earthquake in Ecuador destroyed 50 towns and killed more than 6000 people.
1964 - The bodies of Michael H. Schwerner, James E. Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi. The three were civil rights workers. They had disappeared on June 21, 1964.
1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.
1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the measure that established the Department of Energy.
1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.
1989 - Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani offered to assist end the hostage crisis in Lebanon.
1990 - The European Community imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq and Kuwait. This was done to protest the Iraqi invasion of the oil-rich Kuwait.
2009 - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pardoned two American journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned for illegal entry earlier in the year.

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Proverbs19

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Romans 12:2 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

How do we do battle with our own minds? It is all in what we will and will not allow into them. Our minds are very much like computers, you only get out of them what you put into them.

A story was once told that sums it up very well. Two men were speaking of living the christian life. One man confessed, "Sometimes I feel like there's a dogfight going on inside me, one "dog" that would do right, another "dog" that would do wrong."

The other man wisely evaluated the first man and said, "That's because there is a fight. A spiritual dog if you will and a carnal fleshly dog, and they are fighting to the death".

The first thougth for a moment, then asked, "Which one will win"? The other man answered, "The one you feed".

This may be an over simplified story, but it fits. Paul speaks of not being conformed to this world and of being transformed by the renewing of our minds. In essence he is speaking of reprogramming ourselves. Whereas, before we surrendered ourselves to the Messiah, we allowed whatever influences into our minids and lives that we wished, but now we are to be much more discriminating.

If we would see victory over sin in our lives, if we would see holiness rule in our lives, if we would have Yahweh's Holy Spirit to work through us as effortlessly as possible, then we must begin deprogramming ourselves of all the wretched trash that we at one time allowed into our lives, and begin reprogramming ourselves with Yahweh's Word and the beauty of His Holiness.

We must starve the carnal, fleshly dog to it's very death; and strengten the spiritual dog with the meat of Yahweh's Word.

Glory be to Yahweh, the One True Living God Almighty

Thank You for Your mercies and Your blessings in my life.

Help me fight the good fight, Yahweh. I face this battle every day and struggle to feed the spiritual side of righteousness. I can't do it alone Yahweh/Yahshua, I need Your strength, Your Presence in my life. Lead me on Your path of righteousness.

HalleluYah!

1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250.
1963 - The Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. The treaty banned nuclear tests in space, underwater, and in the atmosphere.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon said that he expected to be impeached. Nixon had ordered the investigation into the Watergate break-in to halt.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush angrily denounced the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

Psalm 109

2 Corinthians 10:2 "... and bringing into captivity every thought to the obediance of Christ..." Roman 12:2 "... and be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind... "

Notice that we are never told not to think, but rather to change the pattern of our thoughts.

In our modern time, the trend is to not think, but to let others think for us, or to allow ourselves to become so programmed by our wretched world that our reactions and responses are ready made and predictable. Why do you think that so much interest goes into "programing" the never ending stream of mindless drivel that pours out of television sets hour after hour? Because, by "programming" the television's of the world, they are programming the minds of the world: very successfully I might add.

Oddly enough, the word amuse means literally "No thought." Our world has become slaves of amusement (the state of not thinking). You cannot participate in this wretched condition without being affected.

Day after day, night after night, in countries around the globe, Yahweh's Covenant people, shut down their conscious, rational minds and allow themselves to be lulled into a thoughtless stupor, while the filth and wickedness of Babylon are poured into their precious minds. Then they wonder why they can not defeat the sin in their own lives and why there is so little (if any at all) communion with the Holy Sprit of Yahweh.

If we would bring every thought into captivity and be transformed, we must cease to allow the devil's box, the devils movies and the devils thoughts. into our homes, our families, our lives and our minds.

Praise Yahweh, Holy Father and Lord of all Things

Bring clarity to our minds and hearts. Grant us the discernment to know what is and what isn't of you.

HalleluYah!

1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.
1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated.
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time when Auburn State Prison in New York executed convicted murderer William Kemmler.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany.
1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed.
1962 - Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1965 - The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1994 - Randolph County High School, in Wedowee, AL, was destroyed by fire. The principle's stand against interracial dating had caused much tension in the school.
1996 - NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil.
1997 - Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival.

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Proverbs 2

Philippians 4:4 " Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

What Paul is describing here is a constant state of reprogramming ourselves, by keeping our minds and our thoughts constantly focused on our Father Yahweh. In "rejoicing always " we stay in a state of constant readiness to enter into Yahwheh's courts with praise.

But next is a long list of perfectly wonderful topics to keep our minds focused on all the day long, thereby cheating the devil of any undue attention. It is not enough to "Cast down" all the garbage which once filled our hearts and minds, we now must refill, or replenish our hearts and minds by keeping them fixed on all the goodness and purity that can be found in Yahweh and Yahweh alone.

And this is how the Peace of Yahweh can be maintained.

I rejoice in Your Presence in our lives, O Yahweh/Yahoshua

Fill our hearts and minds with Your light of truth and Your Holy Spirit. Keep us focused on Your righeousness and let us rejoice under Your protective wing. For You are our light and salvation, Yahoshua, hear our fervent prayers and guide our every step.

HalleluYah!

1789 - The U.S. War Department was established by the U.S. Congress.
1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.
1914 - Germany invaded France.
1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.
1964 - The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
1987 - The presidents of five Central American nations, met in Guatemala City, and signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for the office of governor.

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Psalm 101

Philippians 4:7 " and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

Paul talks of having learned to be satisfied in every circumstance. He can be hungry or full, in poverty or wealth. None of these things move him, he is not distracted. His mind is fixed, nailed to Yahweh and all that is in Yahoshua our Messiah.

There is no pining or whining over a life that could have been. To Paul, his life is the Messiah's. As a result, he is filled with the deep peace, that others find stange, almost alien.

For instance Paul was on board a ship, broken by the storm, and stranded in the water for days until finally coming to shore on a little island. Paul gave thanks, not just for his own life and safety, but also for all those that were shipwrecked with him. That night, gathering wood for the fire, he was bitten by a poisonous serpent. At this point the majority of us would be ready to complain, at the very least.

But not Paul. As the natives of the island sadly waited for this poor man to die from his snake bite, Paul went about his buisness, thankful that he served a risen Saviour more powerful that a serpent's poison. Paul had already offered himself up as a living sacrifice unto Yahweh years before, and now had become quite accustomed to keeping his mind and his thoughts fixed upon his Messiah. Paul had reprogrammed himself thoroughly, so none of the onslaughts of life, this world nor his enemies had any power over him. They could not steal his peace, a peace that no one else could understand.

What of us? Have we so let go of this world, it's amusements, it's seductions, that we have filled ourselves with such a peace; or are we still entangled with this world so, that the Peace of Yahweh God still surpasses our own understanding?

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Teach me, O' Father, to let go of this world so that I may know Your Peace.

HalleluYah!

1356 - Edward "the Black Prince" began a raid north from Aquitaine.
1588 - The Spanish Armada was defeated by the English fleet ending an invasion attempt.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena, in the South Atlantic. The remainder of his life was spent there in exile.
1844 - After the killing of Joseph Smith, Bringham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons.
1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing."
1899 - The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.
1911 - The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives was established at 435. There was one member of Congress for every 211,877 residents.
1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain.
1942 - Six Nazi saboteurs were executed in Washington after conviction. Two others were cooperative and received life in prison.
1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by U.S. President Truman.
1945 - During World War II, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.
1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day.
1985 - Near Frankfurt, outside the Rhein-Mein U.S. air base, a bomb exploded killing two Americans. The bomb was blamed on the Red Army Faction.
1989 - The space shuttle Columbia took off from Cape Canaveral, FL. The trip was said to be a secret five-day military mission.
2000 - The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.

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Proverbs 20

Ephesians 4:22 " That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

On the day of Pentecost, after the powerful preaching of Peter, filled with the Power and Anointing of Yahweh's Holy Spirit; the crowds cried out, "What must we do to be saved?" Peter's reply was simple: Repent and believe on Yahoshua the Messiah. Repent has been the message of every prophet, disciple and apostle. The entire ministry of John the Baptist was based on the preaching of repentance.

The entire concept of renewing our minds is simply a part of repentance. Without repentance their can be no newness, no transformation, no peace. To repent means to turn and walk in the opposite direction. It does not mean to simply stop. We must stop and turn: turn away from all of our sinful ways, habits, ideas and beliefs. Turn away; reject, refuse the kind of person we were and were becoming without The Messiah and His Holy Spirit.

Still, that is not enough. We must now walk in the new direction. We have stopped going in the direction all the rest of the world travels. We have turned our faces away from the devil, from the sin, from whathever our lives might have become. Now we must walk. Walk away from all that was, walk toward our Heavenly Father Yahweh, walk toward a new life, a new horizon.

This is the message of the prophets and apostles: Repent!

Precious Father Yahweh

Help me to put off the old me, the things of this world. Let me renew myself in You , Yahweh. Make in me a clean heart and restoreth my soul. I need you Yahweh/Yahoshua. I can do nothing on my own.

HalleluYah!

1678 - American Indians sold the Bronx to Jonas Bronck for 400 beads.
1790 - The Columbia returned to Boston Harbor after a three-year voyage. It was the first ship to carry the American flag around the world.
1831 - The first steam locomotive began its first trip between Schenectady and Albany, NY.
1842 - The U.S. and Canada signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which solved a border dispute.
1848 - Martin Van Buren was nominated for president by the Free-Soil Party in Buffalo, NY.
1902 - After the death of Queen Victoria, Edward VII was crowned king of England.
1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. Japan surrendered August 14.
1969 - Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered at Tate's residence in Los Angeles, CA. Charles Manson and several members of his cult were later convicted of the crime.
1974 - U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
1985 - Arthur J. Walker, a retired Navy officer, was found guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
1996 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as president of Russia for the second time.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and his entire cabinet for the fourth time in 17 months.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced he would support federal funding for limited medical research on embryonic stem cells.
2001 - In Jerusalem, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside a pizzeria. The lunchtime bombing killed 15 and wounded about 90 others

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Psalm 114

Matthew 23:1 " Then spake Jesus to the multitudes, and to His disciples saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: all thererfore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do you not after their works; for they say,and do not."

What exactly constituted a pharisee? They are not found in the old covenent. Under the law of Yahweh, within the rituals and ordinances, only the Levites were given the responsibility of teaching the law and leading the people in worship. But the pharisees were made up of more than just Levites. Paul was a Benjamite, not only was he a pharisee but he was also the son of a pharisee.

But there was another element as well. Decades earlier, John Maccabees, priest-king of Judea, had conquered the land of Idumea or the land of Edom. He gave these edomites the choice of death or to be circumcised and obey the laws of Yahweh. They chose circumcision. They were given full citizenship, and in a short time, an edomite called Antipas became ruler of Judah, and so began the Herodian dynasty. These edomites appointed the priesthood offices to whomever they wished and so a completely non-Israelitish element had not only mingled itself with the Judahites and became the governor-kings of Judah, but were also leading the people in the worship of Yahweh.

Thus the worship of Yahweh was polluted and sin filled the land.

" The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat..." What did He mean? Within the ancient synogogues were raised stone seats from which the law would be read every sabbath, thus they were called "Moses' seat". This is what Yahoshua Messiah referred to, for while they sat there they were reading the actual law. This, Messiah told us, we should observe and do. But once they were off the "Moses' seat", all bets were off! For the foremost mark of a pharisee, is hypocrisy.

One and Only God, Yahweh

Teach us to be obediant to Your Law and not to be a pharisee. Show us how to be more like You and less like this corrupted world.

HalleluYah!

1792 - King Louis XVI was taken into custody by mobs during the French Revolution. He was executed the following January after being put on trial for treason.
1809 - Ecuador began its fight for independence from Spain.
1821 - Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union.
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress. The "Nation's Attic" was made possible by $500,000 given by scientist Joseph Smithson.
1869 - The motion picture projector was patented by O.B. Brown.
1885 - The first electric streetcar, to be used commercially, was operated in Baltimore, MD, by Leo Daft.
1914 - Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
1921 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio.
1945 - The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced they would surrender. The only condition was that the status of Emperor Hirohito would remain unchanged.
1949 - In the U.S., the National Military Establishment had its name changed to the Department of Defense.
1969 - Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered. Members of the Charles Manson cult committed the crimes one day after the killing of Sharon Tate and four other people.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed a measure that provided $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II.
1994 - In Germany, three men were arrested after being caught smuggling plutonium into the country.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton claimed presidential immunity when he asked a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones.
1995 - Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged with 11 counts in the Oklahoma City bombing.
1995 - Michael Fortier pled guilty in a plea-bargain agreement. The agreement required that he testify for the prosecution in the Oklahoma City Federal building bombing trial.
1995 - Norma McCorvey, "Jane Roe" of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, announced that she had joined the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
2006 - In Great Britain, 24 people were arrested for their roles in a plot to blow up airliners traveling between Britain and the United States. In Pakistan, 7 people were arrested for their roles in the same plot.

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Proverbs 25

Matthew 23:4 "for they bind heavy burdens and grievious to be borne. and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers."

:5 "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the boarders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi."

Adding to the word of Yahweh is another mark of the pharisee. In the time of Yahoshua's earthly walk, teachings of men, formally known as the "Traditions of the Elders", had worked their way into the pure law of Yahweh. These "Traditions" which would become known as the blasphemous "Babylonian Talmud" sought to undo the law of Yahweh, not by rewriting it, but by reinterpreting it. This is what Messiah referred to as "the leaven of the Pharisees."

They would read the actual law and prophets from Moses' seat, but then would explain it all away by teaching and preaching the twisted reinterpretation, the traditions.

Today "ministers" will use a verse of scripture, but render it of none effect because instead of teaching line upon line and precept upon precept, they reinterpret scripture through commentaries, denominational traditions, or even modern society's current attitudes. But Yahoshua the Messiah witnesses against them all.

Yahoshua is the Word made flesh. In Him is no commentary, no talmudic traditions, no denominational interpretations. He is the Word. He is pure, He is truth. The word of Yahweh can only lead to Yahoshua the Messiah, and Yahoshua the Mesiah will always lead to the Word.

Praise Yahweh, King of the Universe. Most High over all the Earth

Guide our footsteps and our thoughts. Bring us into Your court with Your mighty hand. Let us not, O'Father, be like this world but be of You. HalleluYah!

1860 - The first successful silver mill in America began operations. The mill was in Virginia City, NV.
1874 - A patent for the sprinkler head was given to Harry S. Parmelee.
1877 - The two moons of Mars were discovered by Asaph Hall, an American astronomer. He named them Phobos and Deimos.
1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb socket with a pull-chain.
1942 - During World War II, Pierre Laval publicly announced "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war."
1954 - Seven years of fighting came to an end in Indochina. A formal peace was in place for the French and the Communist Vietminh.
1965 - Riots and looting took place in the Watts section of Los Angeles, CA. During the week that followed 34 people were killed. In addition, over 1,000 were injured, 3,000 were arrested and over $40 million in damage was done.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
1995 - All U.S. nuclear tests were banned by President Clinton.
1995 - A federal investigation was opened concerning the deadly siege at Ruby Ridge, ID, in 1992. The investigation was to find out whether FBI officials approved a "shoot on sight" order.

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Psalm 110

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Matthew 23:4 "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with one of their fingers."

Pharisees love to be loved. There is no place a pharisee would rather be than living in the limelight. In their own minds they and what they have to say is of the utmost importance. The modern megachurch is a natural by-product of this "rock star" mentality.

They write books, put out C.D.'s , D.V.D.'S, lapel pins, t-shirts, hats and anything else that will sell. They need television, radio and any other media they can access. But it is not about the message (what little message there is), it's about ego, recognition, reputation and fame.

How unlike the Messiah; hiding Himself in lonely places that He might pray the night away. Yahweh God Himself, rather than taking His rightful throne, became instead a servant and a sacrifice.

Pharisees will never be found wrapped in a towel and washing the feet of the lowly, but this is exactly where our King has led.

My God and My King, Praise be to Yahweh

Father help us to bear our burdens and give us Your Holy Spirit. Make us more like The Messiah.

HalleluYah!

1676 - "King Phillip's War" came to an end with the killing of Indian chief King Phillip. The war between the Indians and the Europeans lasted for two years.
1851 - Isaac Singer was issued a patent on the double-headed sewing machine.
1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.
1867 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him when he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording.
1898 - Hawaii was annexed by the U.S. Hawaii was later given territorial status and was given Statehood in 1959.
1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Hawaii was also annexed.
1944 - In France, Pierre Laval released Edouard Herriot.
1944 - Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. was killed with his co-pilot when their Navy plane exploded over England. Joseph Kennedy was the oldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
1953 - The Soviet Union secretly tested its first hydrogen bomb.
1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise passed its first solo flight test.
1981 - IBM unveiled its first PC.
1992 - The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.
1998 - Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion as restitution to World War II Holocaust victims.

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Proverbs 24

Matthew 23:24 " Ye blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! For ye make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also."

:16 " Woe unto you, ye blind guides... "

Pharisees tend to see only what they want to see. Whether it is the sin within their own hearts, a much cherished doctrine or a tradition handed down to them, if it opposes the true holiness of Yahweh, they refuse to see it. The scribes and pharisees knew the law, knew the prophets, yet they could not discern that The Messiah to which the law and prophets pointed was quite literally standing there before them. Why?

First, the true nature of the law and the prophets had become shrouded by the mysticism of the "traditions of the elders". Remember, it is commanded all throughout scripture that we are to reverence, fear and call out on the Name, not of "the Lord" or "God", but of Yahweh. It was these scribes and religious leaders who decided that Yahweh's Name was too sacred to be said and thus replaced it with "Lord" and "God", paving the way for the gross error of "Jehovah". Their mysticism hid Yahweh's Perfect Name for centuries, even through the actual Word of Yahweh commanded the use of His Name.

Second, The pharisees had created a kingdom of Yahweh in their own minds, that looked nothing like what Yahoshua, the actual King, was offering. Nothing uproots many people's ideas and notions concerning Yahweh's Kingdom, more than Yahweh's actual Kingdom crashing through the door.

And it is the same today. People cannot see through their denominational doctrines, their Calvinist theology, the traditions handed down to them. The blindness of the pharisees continues on, a condition found not in the eyes, but in the heart.

Praise Your Holy Name Yahweh/Yahoshua.

Lift the shadows of 'tradition' from round about me. Open my eyes and my heart to Your will and Your light of truth, Yahweh/Yahoshua. Thanks be to Yahweh, Father All Mighty.

HalleluYah!

1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.
1704 - The Battle of Blenheim was fought during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a victory for English and Austrian forces.
1792 - French revolutionaries took the entire French royal family and imprisoned them.
1784 - The United States Legislature met for the final time in Annapolis, MD.
1931 - The first community hospital in the U.S. was dedicated in Elk City, OK.
1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing."
1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.
1994 - It was reported that aspirin not only helps reduce the risk of heart disease, but also helps prevent colon cancer.

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Psalm 114

Luke 18:9 " And He spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: "Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto Heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

By far, the most distinquishing mark of a pharisee is that they are truly " in love with themselves". They cannot see any wrong in themselves, probably because they are too busy looking for the wrong in everyone else.

The pharisee in Yahohsua's story was very proud. In the list of his accomplishments which he reminds Yahweh God of he mentions fasting twice during the week. This fasting had become one of the traditions practiced on specific week days, and was done not in private, but in public for all the people to see. This fasting was no where commanded in Yahweh's law, but was added to Yaweh's law.

The meat and truth of the law had no effect on the pharisee.

The publican, or tax collector, knew enough of the law to realize that he was guilty of transgressing it. He saw his need and prayed only for mercy.

We have all been guilty and it is only through the grace of Yahweh and His mercy that we are able to approach Him at all. If we are truly walking in righteousness, it is only because we have realized how completely we could fail at any moment; we have discovered how vulnerable we truly are. We know that we may be in need of mercy, therefore we show it at every opportunity.

But the blindness of the pharisee prevents him from seeing his own need, thus it might be said, that the blindness of the pharisee is caused by staring too long at the failings of others and not enough at his own.

Glory be to Yahweh, mercful and gracious

Father, have mercy on Your wayward childern, I pray. Bring us back to You and teach us Your ways.

HalleluYah!

1248 - The rebuilding of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, began after being destroyed by fire.
1756 - Daniel Boone married 16-year-old Rebecca Bryan.
1896 - Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
1900 - An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was an end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
1917 - China declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
1947 - Pakistan became independent from British rule.
1969 - British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1980 - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated.
1986 - U.S. officials announced that a U.S. Drug Enforcement agent had been abducted, interrogated and tortured by Mexican police.
1995 - Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, South Carolina's state military college. She quit the school less than a week later.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998 - A U.S. federal appeals court in Richmond, VA, ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had no authority to regulate tobacco. The FDA had established rules to make it harder for minors to buy cigarettes.
2000 - A Russian submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barrent Sea. There were 118 sailors on the nuclear-powered vessel. All of the crew were pronounced dead on August 22.

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Proverbs 31

Matthew 5:19 " Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven."

Yahoshua here connects righteousness with the law. But most would say that the scribes and pharisees were experts on Yahweh's law. Actually, they had become experts at getting around Yahweh's literal commandments. Every sabbath, they would sit upon "the Moses seat" and read from the law. But then they would proceed to teach contrary to the law. They were blinded by their own sense of importance and by the "traditions" that they had adopted.

For instance, the pharisees held the sabbath very sacred, which was good. But they had added many decrees to the keeping of sabbath which were not in the literal commandments. Every sabbath day they would pray for the coming of the Messiah; Yet now the Messiah stood before them, and in their self-righteousness they became utterly unrighteous.The concept of healing the sick and casting out demons on the sabbath horrified them. They could not see the beauty, the majesty, the glory of what was taking place before their very eyes. They could only see their own importance being shunned.

John the Baptist had declared, " He must increase, but I must decrease." The pharisees could never do this.

The pharisees tought a version of Yahweh's law and therefore what they actually taught was a broken law: hence they did not follow it themselves. If they had then they would have found mercy and love and would have recognized the Messiah standing before them.

James 1:22 " but be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiveing your own selves."

If we are to enter into Yahweh's Kingdom, we must be more righteous than a pharisee; and that righteousness is found not just in knowing, but in doing.

We give You thanks and praise Yahweh, Creator of Heaven and earth.

May I always see the beauty and majesty in Your works Yahweh/Yahoshua. Fill my heart with Your glory and Your light of truth. Praise your Holy Name.

HalleluYah!

1057 - Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan.
1877 - Thomas Edison wrote to the president of the Telegraph Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The letter stated that the word, "hello" would be a more appropriate greeting than "ahoy" when answering the telephone.
1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
1918 - Diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Russia were severed.
1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash in near Point Barrow, AK.
1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
1947 - India became independent from Britain and was divided into the countries of India and Pakistan. India had been under British about 200 years.
1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved a package of economic sanctions against South Africa. The ban included the importing of steel, uranium, textiles, coal, and produce from South Africa.
1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.
1998 - A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370.
2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.

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Proverbs 22

Matthew 9:34 " But the Pharisees said, He casteth out the devils through the prince of the devils."

The pharisees prayed every sabbath for the Messiah to come deliver them. Now that He was here thy could not stand Him. They were experts on the law and the prophets, yet they could not recognize the very one to whom all the law and the prophets pointed. How could this be?

Simple. They had never known Yahweh God. They had lead all of Judea in the worship of Yahweh, but they did not know Him. They were supposed to be teachers of Yahweh's perfect law, yet they stood guilty of blasphemy. They had reinterpreted Yahweh's law to their own purpose. Yahweh's true law was meant to bring mercy, brotherly love, forgiveness, order and harmony; but it could only do so if it were, quite literally, taken to heart. A man can observe the sabbath, but if he does so begrudgingly, wishing that it would hurry up and end so that he could get on with his own buisiness, this is not righteousness.

The pharisees had redesigned Yahweh into a god of their own making. When Yahweh showed up in the flesh of Yahoshua, he was utterly alien to that which they had imagined. The kingdom that the pharisees hungered for looked nothing like the kingdom being presented to them. They wanted to be free from Roman domination and to see the earthly glory restored. But what good would such a kingdom be if everyone in it were oppressed by demons?

So it is that Pharisees can not recognize the Hand of Yahweh, because they have never humbled themselves enough to simply reach out and take that Hand, as a child takes it's father's hand, and be simply led.

Yahweh, Our Holy Father and Master, we are Your children and ask You to come, lead us away from this world. Save us O'Father, claim Your children and cleanse them.

HalleluYah!

1777 - During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bennington took place. New England's minutemen routed the British regulars.
1812 - Detroit fell to Indian and British troops in the War of 1812.
1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA. They had come to the Western world to be exhibited. They were 18 years old and joined at the waist.
1858 - A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to U.S. President Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln prohibited the Union states from trading with the states of the Confederacy.
1923 - Carnegie Steel Corporation put into place the eight-hour workday for its employees.
1960 - Cyprus was granted independence by Britain.
1995 - Voters in Bermuda rejected independence from Great Britain.
1999 - In Russia, Vladimir V. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by the lower house of parliament.

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Psalm 113

Matthew 28:11 " Now when they were going, behold some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,saying , say ye His disciples came by night, and stole Him away while we slept. And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and secure you. So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the jews until this day."

Taking the other gospels into consideration, an earthquake had shaken Jerusalem and tore in two the veil that protected the Holy of Holies, revealing the absence of the Ark of the Covenant. Not just the Messiah's grave, But many other graves had burst open, and sightings were pouring in of saints long dead but who were now up and walking into Jerusalem. Now this. What on earth is a pharisee to do?

Apparently lie. Of course, lying was nothing new to the pharisees. When John the Baptist came exposing their hypocrisy, they lied and proclaimed him to be mad and possessed with devils. Yahweh Himself walked in their midst as Yahoshua, exposing them for all to see, so they lied and proclaimed Him to be a sinner, casting out demons by demonic power.

Lies and deceptions were their only weapon. But the sad fact is these "religious leaders" of Jerusalem were their own worst victoms, for they were living in lies, and as such truth was their worst enemy. They could not recieve the truth without exposing themselves as the charlatans that they were.

Truth, honor, integrity, honesty; these are the hallmarks of the saints. It is only the devil who makes war by way of deception.

Praise Your Holy Name Yahweh/Yahoshua.

Let my mouth speak only Your light of truth and keep the devil's deceit and lies far from me. You are the One True

Living God and above You there is no other.

HalleluYah!

1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.
1807 - Robert Fulton's "North River Steam Boat" (known as the "Clermont") began heading up New York's Hudson River on its successful round-trip to Albany.
1815 - Napoleon began serving his exile when he arrived at the island of St. Helena.
1835 - Solyman Merrick patented the wrench.
1859 - A hot air balloon was used to carry mail for the first time. John Wise left Lafayette, IN for New York City with 100 letters. He had to land after only 27 miles.
1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC, harbor during the Civil War.
1877 - F.P. Cahill became the first person to be killed by "Billy the Kid."
1945 - The nationalists of Indonesia declared their independence from the Netherlands.
1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1987 - Rudolph Hess died after apparently committing suicide. Hess was the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle.
1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.
1999 - More than 15,000 people were killed in an earthquake in Turkey.

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Proverbs 23

Luke 22:2 " And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill Him; for they feared the people."

The pharisees were, no doubt, a very unhappy bunch. On the one hand, they hated and despised Yahweh in the flesh, Yahoshua, and hungered to kill Him. But on the other hand, the multitudes loved Yahoshua, if for no other reason than He healed their infirmities and fed them by the thousands.

So the pharisees were paralyzed; caught between Yahoshua's constant exposing their wickedness, and their terror of angering the people. They could not oppose the Messiah, He was more righteous and more powerful than all of them. Even some of the pharisees themselves were beginning to see this with their own eyes. There was no sin whatsoever that they could exploit in Him, and that was the most infuriating thing about this Yahoshua: He was utterly sinless.

But they were terrified of the people. Why do preachers preach messages of soothing words and self help babble, rather than thunder against the sin that saturates the church? They fear the people. They fear losing their authority over the people, So they must keep the people, away from the true Messiah and present them with one of their own creation.

They have created "gentle Jesus, meek and mild." The pharisees of old were unknowingly plotting to kill the very God they claimed to serve. The modern pharisees also struggle to put to death the "God of the old testament, " with all of His anger, vengance and wrath. They are so blinded by their own sin they fail to see the exact same love and mercy exhibited in the old testament that is apparrent in the new. They seek to put to death this "God of law" and do away with all His commandments and turn those things that were an abomination unto Him, into just another lifestyle. They have hidden His Name, abolished His law and replaced His Word. They have sought to kill Him.

But Yahweh will not be so easily disposed of. There is a day soon coming that will prove how easily Yahweh will undo all their schemes. It is so much easier, so much better, to surrender to the Lamb now, fall upon your knees before the Messiah now; then to cry out for the mountains and for the rocks to fall upon you and hide you from the Wrath of the Lamb on that final day just around the corner.

Heavenly Father Yahweh, Praise your Holy Name

Great Lord and Master, let us be not like the Pharisees of old but be as close to Yahoshua - like as we can be.

HalleluYah!

1227 - The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died.
1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished.
1846 - Gen. Stephen W. Kearney and his U.S. forces captured Santa Fe, NM.
1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I.
1919 - The "Anti-Cigarette League of America" was formed in Chicago IL.
1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote.
1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat.
1991 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted in against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet hard-liners were responsible. Gorbechev and his family were effectively imprisoned for three days while vacationing in Crimea.
1997 - Beth Ann Hogan became the first coed in the Virginia Military Institute's 158-year history.
1998 - Sam Bowers', ex-Klansman, fifth trial began. Bowers was being tried again for the 1966 firebombing death of Vernon Dahmer, a civil right activist.

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Psalm 112

Jeremiah 17:9 " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

There are many who believe that if they feel no condemnation in their heart, then they are without sin. It is true, that in the heart of a believer our conscience can serve us in a moment of crisis, but is this to be our guiding light? Many disregard the commandments of our God and have no qualms with fellowshippng with the grossest forms of darkness. Our consciences can be defiled (Titus 1:15) and we can make up our own rules to soothe our wicked hearts.

We must judge all things according to the word of Yahweh. Often we will see where we were about to err, to begin down a wayward path, but the commandment blazes like a sun, bringing light to our path and revealing the shame before us.

The heart and conscience must be trained to walk in righteousness, and the very wise will seek the counsel of the Word of Yahweh over the urgings of their own hearts. In all things, trust the Word of Yahweh above all things, even your own heart.

Praise Your Holy Name Yahweh, I will honor You all the days of my life.

My heart calls out to You Yahweh, Keep the darkness far from me. Let me walk in Your pure light of truth all my days.

HalleluYah!

1692 - Five women and a clergyman were executed after being convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA.
1812 - "Old Ironsides" (the USS Constitution) won a battle against the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia.
1848 - The discovery of gold in California was reported by the New York Herald.
1856 - The process of processing condensed milk was patented by Gail Borden.
1871 - Orville Wright was born. Orville and his brother Wilbur were the first people to have a successful sustained and controlled flight of an aircraft with a motor.
1919 - Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.
1942 - About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France. They suffered about 50 percent casualties.
1981 - Two Libyan SU-22s were shot down by two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters in the Gulf of Sidra.
1991 - Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.

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Proverbs 28

Proverbs 14:12 " There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

Why is there such confusion within churchianity? Why do even the numbers of Christian Isreal swell with chaos? Because there is an epidemic of a highly contagious plague called "following our own hearts."

This does not mean that Yahweh's Holy Spirit does not lead us personally, for it does; and as we mature in our following of Yahoshua the Messiah, His Spirit will lead us more and more. But Yahweh's Holy Spirit will never, can never lead us contrary to Yahweh's Word and law.

Error comes when Yahweh's law is not taken seriously. Churchianity has disregarded Yahweh's law-word altogether, claiming to be a "New Testament Church". But having thrown out Yahweh's Standard for holiness and His guide for holy living, they now have come to the point of disregarding many so-called "new testament" commands as well, regarding them as just relics of ancient traditions.

Within those who would be considered Christian Israel, many have corrupted the commandments by taking them out of context so as to justify some tradition, some pet belief that they refuse to let go of.

The fear of Yahweh would free us from being led by selfish and sinful hearts. It would cause us to cling all the more tightly to our Father's law-word and thus have a better grip on our Father's hand, that we might be led in paths of righteousness and not running down some path that "seemed" right to us.

Hail Yahweh, Praise Your Holy Name

Father Yahweh cleanse our hearts. Clear our minds. Bring us to repentance and make us into Your image.

HalleluYah!

1641 - Scotland and Britain signed the Treaty of Pacification.
1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovered Alaska.
1866 - The National Labor Union in the U.S. advocated an eight-hour workday.
1866 - It was formally declared by U.S. President Andrew Johnson that the American Civil War was over. The fighting had stopped months earlier.
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuted in Moscow.
1940 - France fell to the Germans during World War II.
1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1988 - Eight British soldiers were killed by a landmine while in a military bus in Northern Ireland. The mine belonged to the Irish Republican Army.
1991 - A rally of more that 100,000 people occurred outside the Russian parliament building to protest the coup that removed Gorbachev from power.

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Psalm 111

Jeremiah 23:36 " And the burden (oracle) of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden (oracle); for ye have perverted the words of the Living God, of the Lord of Hosts our God."

As true as this passage was when spoken to Judah at a time in the past, it speaks even more plainly and true to those of us living in Laodecia. You can see it everywhere you go. Every individual has become his own theologian; picking a little bit of this, adding a little of that, rejecting whatever may not be personally satisfying.

Rather than surrendering our own will, our own wants and set beliefs unto Yahweh, we decide what will be believed and what will be ignored. Thus our own sinful desires and unscriptual beliefs become the very stones which pave the "way which seemeth right." More often than not, we take ideas and notions that have been programmed into us from childhood by televisison, movies, magazines, books, music, friends, family, etc., and give them a "christian" veneer. The problem is, most of these things will never stand up to the Word of Yahweh.

The heart that is still recieving a steady diet of worldly and ungodly or godless amusements and ideas cannot be trusted as a guide or a beacon, even if a dose of scripture has been thrown in on the side. It will pick what is convienient to believe for the moment.

In a world filled with self-styled philosophers, we must look to the only gude which never changes: Yahweh's word and law.

Glory be to the Highest, we give You thanks and praise Yahweh/Yahoshua.

We surrender ourselves unto You, O Yahweh. We are Your humble servants to do with as You see fit. Guide our every step and protect us from the coming darkness. May Your will be done in all things.

HalleluYah!

1680 - The Pueblo Indians drove the Spanish out and took possession of Santa Fe, NM.
1831 - Nat Turner, a former slave, led a violent insurrection in Virginia. He was later executed.
1878 - The American Bar Association was formed by a group of lawyers, judges and law professors in Saratoga, NY.
1923 - In Kalamazoo, Michigan, an ordinance was passed forbidding dancers from gazing into the eyes of their partner.
1940 - Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds that had inflicted by an assassin.
1943 - Japan evacuated the Aleutian island of Kiaska. Kiaska had been the last North American foothold held by the Japanese.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issued the order for the 50 star flag.
1992 - U.S. marshals opened fire on the son of Randall Weaver at his home in Idaho. Weaver surrendered 11 days later ending the standoff. During the standoff a deputy marshal, Weaver's wife and his son were killed.
1996 - The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was signed by U.S. President Clinton. The act made it easier to obtain and keep health insurance.

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Ecclesiastes 1

Psalms 119:105 " Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. "

There is a place we might go, more stable than all the ministers of churchianity, more secure than any mountain. The law-word of Yahweh God. All the voices turned loose in the world cannot persevere against it. Let false prophets and teachers be upon every street corner, Yahweh's pure word still stands. Let television, radio and internet enlarge their borders with apostate apostle's and blind guides of the blind, but the word and the law of the Everliving shall stand long after they have become a memory.

:113 " I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love."

Here we shall be able to walk the narrow paths of righteousness which lead to everlasting life. Not tossed to and fro with every new wind of doctrine that comes along, but steady and sure and unwavering. They that renew their minds by dividing the darkness from the light shall be shunned by the "worldly-wise" of this world, but they shall enjoy a fellowship the others cannot have. They shall walk in the Presence of Yahweh Himself and shall have sweet communion through His Holy Spirit.

:127 " Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold, yea above fine gold."

Will you love, truly love the law-word of your Heavenly Father? If you will, there is nothing that will be hdden from thee.

We lift You up Yahweh/Yahoshua, we give You thanks and praise Your Holy Name.

Write Your laws on our hearts, lead us on Your path of righeousness and do not turn Your Face from Your humble servants.

HalleluYah!

1485 - The War of the Roses ended with the death of England's King Richard III. He was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field. His successor was Henry V II.
1567 - The "Council of Blood" was established by the Duke of Alba. This was the beginning of his reign of terror in the Netherlands.
1572 - Earl of Northumberland was executed for treason in York, England.
1582 - King James VI was captured in the Ruthven raid while he was hunting. He was held captive until June of 1583.
1642 - The English Civil War began when Charles I called Parliament and its soldiers traitors.
1770 - Australia was claimed under the British crown when Captain James Cook landed there.
1775 - The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England's King George III.
1846 - The U.S. annexed New Mexico.
1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, NJ began to manufacture the Victrola. The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200.
1910 - Japan formally annexed Korea.
1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.
1959 - Stephen Rockefeller married Anne Marie Rasmussen. Anne had once been a maid for the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family.
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America.
1972 - Due to its racial policies, Rhodesia was asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was named Secretary of State by U.S. President Nixon. Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.
1990 - Angry smokers blocked a street in Moscow to protest the summer-long cigarette shortage.
1992 - In Rostock, Germany, neo-Nazi violence broke out against foreigners.

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Ecclesiastes 2

Psalm 119:126 " It is time for thee, Lord, to work : for they have made void thy law."

What a simple, yet powerful prayer! Yahweh's law is a testimony, first and foremost unto His existence. Think of it, when we "remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy, " we are bearing witness week after week that Yahweh is the Creator of Heaven and earth, and beside Him there is no other god. It is through His law that Yaweh's Israel people are to seperate themselves and be a peculiar treasure unto Him. Through His law we come to know Him better and better.

But if that law is made void, if it is abandoned; if our only True Standard for holiness is done away with or as some say " nailed to the cross," then the testimony is lost. People rush out creating their own pitiful standards of holiness, making up the rules as they go. They are no longer set apart, but became as worldly as they can be, calling anything "christian" that they happen to desire. In time even the grossest of abominations will be "christianized" and accepted.

Through Yaheh's law we begin to discern His true, holy nature. Without His law men create a god in their own image, patterned after their own pathetic ideas of right and wrong, a god which is always changing to suit the times and the attitude of the masses.

Yahweh will not leave this world without a witness unto HImself. He will tear down and build up. He will stretch out His mighty hand as in Egypt and He will disgrace and humiliate the false gods littering the landscape. He will destroy and raise up, and all HIs holy remnant shall cry out. " This is Yahweh, this is our God in whom we have trusted. "

Praise His Holy Name!

Glory be to Yahweh our Heavenly Father.

Write Your true standards on my heart, Your commandments. Keep my path clear Yahweh. Let me continue to discern Your light of truth from the darkness of the devil's deceit. I need You're guidance and Your mercies, for I am nothing without You, Oh Heavenly Father Yahweh.

HalleluYah!

1838 - The first class graduated from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, MA. It was one of the first colleges for women.
1839 - Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China.
1914 - Tsingtao, China, was bombarded as Japan declared war on Germany in World War I.
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1952 - The security pact of the Arab League went into effect.
1982 - The parliament of Lebanon elected Bashir Bemayel president. He was assassinated three weeks later.
1986 - Gennady Zakharov was arrested by the FBI and charged with espionage. Zakharov was a physicist that had been assigned by the United Nations.
1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
1998 - Michael Jones, a 16-year old boy, was shot when he refused to drop a water gun that appeared real to police officers. In New York City it was illegal to carry to possess a toy gun that looks real or is painted black.
1998 - Boris Yeltsin dismissed the Russian government again.
1998 - Kathryn Schoonover was arrested when she was caught stuffing envelopes with cyanide and preparing to send them to people around the U.S.

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Ecclesiastes 3

Psalms 119:1-2 " Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart."

At first reading, these verses sound like the verses of another passage, spoken centuries later: " Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are they that hunger now, for ye shall be filled... " Luke 6 : 20.

The fact is that those who set their minds on Yahweh's law have set their minds on the Messiah, for He is the Word ( the law and the prophets) made flesh. Those who make the commandments of Yahweh God their standard for living will be blessed.

Although poor in the world, we will have stored up treasures in heaven. Although we hunger and thirst for the righteousness of Yahweh God, we will have great abundance in the Kingdom of our Father.

For now, we live in a lawless world, in utter rebellion against it's own Creator. But we are called to be different, to be peculiar, to walk in utter submission before Him. As we reject this world's lawlessness and take hold of the righteousness of Yahweh God and His law, we become beacons of light, piercing the darkness about us. We find ourselves walking in the power of His literal Presence, and while our friends and fellowships may be few, we are never alone, for we walk by the side of the Creator of heaven and earth.

Blessed are we!

Great Lord and Master of all things, Father Yahweh, You who are Blessed and gives Blessings to those who ask.

Make Your light shine through us every day, that we may be a blessing to others.

HalleluYah!

0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
0410 - The Visigoths overran Rome. This event symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.
1572 - The Catholics began their slaughter of the French Protestants in Paris. The killings claimed about 70,000 people.
1680 - Colonel Thomas Blood died. He was the Irish adventurer that had stolen the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.
1814 - Washington, DC, was invaded by British forces that set fire to the White House and Capitol.
1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the U.S. non-stop. The trip from Los Angeles, CA to Newark, NJ, took about 19 hours.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect. The agreement was that an attack against on one of the parties would be considered "an attack against them all."
1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect.
1968 - France became the 5th thermonuclear power when they exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1970 - A bomb went off at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, WI. The bomb that killed Robert Fassnacht was set by anti-war extremists.
1985 - 27 anti-apartheid leaders were arrested in South Africa as racial violence rocked the country.
1987 - Sergeant Clayton Lonetree was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a military jury for giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union.
1995 - Microsoft's "Windows 95" went on sale.

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Ecclesiastes 4

Psalm119: 9 " Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments."

Sin of course, continues generation after generation. But when a nation's youth are nurtured on the commandments of Yahweh God, that nation enjoys the fruits of a generation soaked in righteousness.

Many, many years ago, the bible was the focus of learning and education. Schools taught the lessons contained within scripture and taught children to read primarily that they might continue to study the word of Yahweh. Once home the teaching of the word continued as families would pray together and read the bible together.

But somewhere along the way, education became it's own god. The goal of education began to move away from scripture toward simply " being educated." At some point, people looked less toward their Heavenly Father as the One who could lift us up and more towards education as the means of "rising above." Soon it wasn't the commandments of the Creator that made men virtuous, but their education.

Children attending schools such as this grew up and had children of their own. These children attended schools even less spiritual and then came home to families that rarely prayed and rarely opened a bible. Without the fear of Yahweh God to inspire them and the law of God to guide them, sin took firm root in the land, and generation after generation has seen greater and greater darkness engulf a nation.

"Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways? " If the commandments of Yahweh God are taken away, the young man and young woman as well are left with nothing, but the devil's disciplines and these do not cleanse, but corrupt.

Glory be to the Highest and praise Your Holy Name, Yahweh.

We need Your guidance Yahweh/Yahoshua. Grant us Your wisdom and discernment to choose wisely the things to teach our children, and protect us from the devil's interference. Let Your light shine on Your children, Jacob/Israel, for we are Your humble servants.

HalleluYah!

1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1814 - The U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.
1902 - "Al-Hoda" began publication in New York City making it the first Arabic daily newspaper in the U.S.
1916 - The National Park Service was established as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
1941 - Soviet and British troops invaded Iran. This was in reaction to the Shah's refusal to reduce the number of German residents.
1941 - Allied forces invaded Iran. Within four days the Soviet Union and England controlled Iran.
1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.
1967 - American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by a sniper.
1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
1985 - Samantha Smith was killed with her father in an airplane crash in Maine. Smith was the schoolgirl whose letter to Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her famous peace tour of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Byelorussia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1998 - Seven Cuban-Americans were indicted by federal grand jury in Puerto Rico on charges of conspiracy to murder Cuban President Fidel Castro.

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Ecclesiastes 5

Psalm 119:18 "Open mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law. I am a stanger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me."

Have you seen "wonderous things" in the law of Yahweh, our Heavenly Father? Many are quick to say "mysterious are the ways of the Lord," but through His great Law-Word He is trying to reveal Himself. So much lies there, waiting to be unveiled, and often it is through the obediant "doing" of Yahweh's word that the veil is lifted and suddenly we behold wonderous things. We see deeper into the Heart of our Creator than ever before. We behold some aspect of His personality that we had never considered.

And notice where these "wonderous things" are found: "... out of Thy law." Modern churchianity has cast away the law and declared itself a "New Testament Church". How utterly sad. How crippled they are, how narrow their vision, how little of Yahweh God they can behold. It is truly the final church age of Laodicea at work.

We hear very little, if anything at all, about being pilgrims and strangers here upon the earth anymore. The church has ceased to be repentant and now desires only to be "relevant" to today's world. Everywhere the topic is no longer how to come out, but how to stay in: how to be more accepted by today's world and culture and society.

But our Father's message is still the same, and to be a proper stranger, a perfect stranger in this sin sick world, requires His perfect law.

Father Yahweh, Holy Master of all the Universe

Write your law upon our hearts and minds. Bring us into submission unto You and shine in our hearts.

HalleluYah!

55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.
1883 - A two-day eruption of the volcanic island Krakatoa began. The tidal waves that were associated with the eruption killed 36,000 people when they destroyed the island.
1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.
1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.
1974 - Charles Lindberg died at the age of 72.
1973 - A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August 26th Women's Equality Day.
1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a review of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1998 - Sudan filed a criminal lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton and the United States for the bombing of the El-Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries Company. The Sudanese claimed that the plant was strictly civilian.

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Ecclesiastes 6

Psalms 119:44 "So shall I keep Thy law continually, for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts."

David was certainly not the only man to connect the law of Yahweh with liberty. The apostle James, writing centuries later would say, " so speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty (2:12)". Another translation renders it. " the Law that gives freedom."

On a national level, the law of Yahweh creates a stability that cannot be matched by any of the philosophies of man. When a nation makes Yahweh's law it's own, the individuals as citizens prosper and enjoy a level of freedom unheard of in modern times. There is national unity, integrity, heritage and again - stability. Truly, blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh.

But on an individual basis, we can know great freedom even while under the yoke of a godless government. David speaks in the psalms many times of being reproached and hated by the wicked. Yet always he is thankful because they cannot prevail against him. Why?

David did sin, but he confessed his sin and did not deny it. He took his punishment and never once shook his fist at Yahweh. At the end of his life, David's enemies had nothing which they could use against him. If we will keep the law of Yahweh, in gladness of heart, our enemies also will be powerless against us and we will walk in the Presence of the One True God.

Praise your Glorious Name Yahweh

Hold us in your hands, Father Yahweh, write your laws upon our hearts. Free us from satan's influences and let Your light shine through us.

HalleluYah!

1660 - The books of John Milton were burned in London due to his attacks on King Charles II.
1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.
1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.
1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1979 - Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed in a boat explosion off the coast of Ireland. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.
1990 - The U.S. State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.
1991 - The Soviet republic of Moldavia declared its independence.
1992 - Federal troops were ordered to Florida for emergency relief due to Hurricane Andrew.

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Ecclesiastes 7

Psalms 119:49 " Remember the Word unto Thy servant, upon which Thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction : for Thy word had quickened me."

How many of us truly can say that Yahweh's word comforts us through our trials? Usually we will turn to friends, family or perhaps even a sympathetic stranger to speak a word of encouragement or to offer a message of hope. Yes, Yahweh may often use such in the comforting of His children, but what if there is literaly no one to whom we can turn?

Our Father yearns for us to turn to Him first, and to be able to comfort us and bring us hope Himself, through His word and His Holy Spirit.

In a time in which even the "church" has departed from obediance unto Yahweh's true commandments and all the world seems driven by madness, we can have hope. There is comfort for our souls. The horror of our times is meant to drive us deeper under our Father's protection, like children suddenly scared who cling desperately to daddy's hand.

" Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." This world is not our home, we are strangers and pilgrims here, so we were never meant to get comfortable here, to feel at home here. But in our pilgrimage, we have Yahweh's law-word to grant us glimpses of our actual home, a kingdom filled with light and joy and righteousness forever.

Heavenly Father Yahweh, Blessed be Thy Holy Name

Comfort your children and led us home. Most High and Exalted, speard Your wings over and shelter us from the evil of this world.

HalleluYah!

1609 - Delaware Bay was discovered by Henry Hudson.
1619 - Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. His policy of "One church, one king" was his way of trying to outlaw Protestantism.
1774 - The first American-born saint was born in New York City. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized in 1975.
1833 - Slavery was banned by the British Parliament throughout the British Empire.
1986 - Jerry Whitworth, a retired Navy warrant officer, was convicted for his role in a Soviet spy ring. He was sentenced to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.
1996 - A divorce decree was issued for Britain's Charles and Princess Diana. This was the official end to the 15-year marriage.

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Ecclesiastes 8

Psalms 119:57 "Thou art my portion, O Lord."

How odd to hear such words in our modern times, surrounded by material comforts, entertainments and amusements. Our televisions are never neglected, our video players recieve utmost attention, but our bibles go unread and our prayers are rushed and hurried.

It was easy we say, for the saints of old. Their lives were simple and so uncomplicated. But were they? Their days filled with toil and hard labor, to ensure that there was enough food for their little ones, and clothing and the barest of essentials. Yet it was in these harsh conditions that people found a way, for they saw plainly their constant need of Yahweh's protections and provisions. They saw more easily how quickly a lifetimes's labor could be lost.

If only we could consider, how fleeting is life, how frail and fragile, perhapes what is really important might again be plain to us. If we would put away all our vain distractions and give our attention once more to our Heavenly Father, we would find life, a sweet abundant life in He who has given all to redeem us. In a world where more and more possessions has become the standard of success, the truly blessed man is the one who can say, " Yahweh is my portion."

Heavenly Father Yahweh, You are my portion and I thank you for being my Father, my God, and I thank You for Your tender mercies.

I am in constant need of Your wisdom and guidance every day. Hear my plea O Yahweh, grant Your light of truth to shine upon me and let not the vain distractions of this world pull my attention from You.

HalleluYah!

1533 - Atahualpa, the last Incan King of Peru, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. The Inca Empire died with him.
1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake.
1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.
1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.
1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.
1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. when he spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes.
1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.
2004 - India test-launched a nuclear-capable missle able to carry a one-ton warhead. The weapon had a range of 1,560 miles.

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Ecclesiastes 9

Psalms 119:67 " Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept Thy word."

It is hard for us to recieve instruction, when we have lived all our lives in a world that rejects it's own Creator. We are like little children, so caught up in the make believe and pretend worlds of play. We do not stop to consider our boundaries, our limitations. Soon we have run out of our own yard, not considering our ways and find ourselves in trouble.

Is it the parents' fault that children disobey? If they had no boundraries then there would be no getting into trouble. But we set the boundaries, not because we are cruel, but because we love our children and we know what dangers lie beyond, and we know what they do not. Beyond the boundaries are things that will harm and wound. To keep the little ones safe and healthy we give them boundaries, rules and limits.

More often than not it isn't willful disobediance, but just a mindless getting carried away with fun, in their make believe little worlds that carries them past the boundaries. To save and protect them, we must come crashing through the make believe and bring them back to reality. We are no different as children of Yahweh. We are carried away with a great many things, and we do not see ourselves stepping over our boundaries. Our Heavenly Father must bring us back to reality.

" It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes." Our Father loves us and yearns to protect us, but to do so He must often appear harsh, for it is the only way to get our attention off ourselves and this make believe world, and back to Himself where we are safe.

Great ruler and Lord of all, Yahweh God, Lord of Host

We thank Thee for Your harshness with us. Continue to show us Your love with Your mighty hand, I pray, and let us not be led astray.

HalleluYah!

30 B.C. - Cleopatra, the seventh queen of Egypt, committed suicide.
1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow.
1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.
1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.
1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.
1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
1918 - Fanny Dora Kaplan fired three shots at Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in an assassination attempt.
1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.
1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.

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Ecclesiastes 10

Psalms 119:97 " O how I love thy laws! It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser thine mine enemies: for they are ever with me."

O That we might love the law-word of Yahweh our God, truly love it. Then would we dwell within the Presence of our Redeemer. The things of this world would have no charm unto us, for our hearts would already be claimed. All our attention could be locked upon our Father and we would have no fear of falling from His grasp. Many do not consider that when a child pulls and tugs at the leading of the parent, the parenet's grasp must be tight and firm. But when the child willingly takes hold of the offered hand, and allows itself to be led, the grasp can be gentler, firm yes, but gentle and glad, and the leading hand no longer is a duty but a joy and a sweet moment of loving fellowship.

Our Father's offered Hand is a thrilling priviledge. He offers to lead us and guide us, for the way can be dark and filled with dangers. He sees what we do not, and would often spare us the bumps and bruises we suffer when we run our own way. Take that Hand, and you will fill your Father's heart with gladness and joy at leading His own child, and you will also find the sweet and tender fellowship that truly makes life worth the living.

Precious Father Yahweh

Though our enemies are ever with us, through Your word and Your strength do we have the courage and wisdom to stand up to them for we know, "if the righeous stand firm then the wicked will flee." Let them flee before Your light of truth, let us be beacons for Your People.

HalleluYah!

1823 - Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero.
1886 - 110 people were killed when an earthquake struck Charleston, SC.
1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1991 - Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede.
1992 - Randy Weaver, a white separatist, surrendered to authorities after an 11 day siege at his cabin in Naples, ID.
1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
1997 - Princess Diana of Wales died at age 36 in a car crash in Paris. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur were also killed.
1998 - A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target.