Ecclesiastes 11

Psalms 119:173 " Let Thine hand help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts. I have longed for Thy Salvatoin, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. Let my soul live, and it shall praise Thee; let Thy judgements help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Thy servant; for I do not forget Thy commandments."

What an odd passage, we may think. David establishes that he has chosen Yahweh's precepts, Yahweh's law is his delight, that he does not forget Yahweh's commandments. David is obviously not just an occassional church goer, but is devout, hungry for the good things of Yahweh God. But then he states," I have gone astray like a lost sheep..."

How could someone who seems so dilligent in walking in Yahweh's law be "gone astray like a lost sheep"? It is far too easy. David was in the habit of looking at Yahweh's commandments, statutes and judgements and then actually applying them to his own heart. He did not try to judge himself alongside the character of others, but instead he judged himself by Yahweh's law-word. So while David may have appeared to be in pretty good shape spiritually to everyone else, in his heart he had found something which he knew was wrong. This is the meaning of the Messiah's words, " You have heard it said... but I say... " Hence you may never sleep with another man's wife, but if you have lusted for her in your fantasies, you have already commited adultery. You may never have killed anyone, but if you have allowed your hatred to rule your dealings with some brother or sister, you have entertained murder in your heart.

Suddenly, going astray doesn't sound so odd, does it? But notice what David says, "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant ." David doesn't boast that he will return. No he cries out, " I don't know were I am! I have allowed myself to wonder too far and I don't know how to get back! Seek for me, Father!"

All too often we give ourselves entirely too much credit for how much control we think that we may have over our own lives. We must be reminded, that we are utterly dependant upon our Heavenly Father for all things, for in the end we are utterly lost without Him.

Thanks be to Yahweh, Creator of Heaven and Earth, Praise Your Holy Name

I come to You Yahweh, with a humble heart, I know You chose me... I don't know why for I am not worthy of Your love, but I am very glad that You do love me and I thank You for that love. Cleanse my heart that I may sing joyful praise unto You, fill my life with Your light of truth and all the laws of the prophets, that I may fully rejoice in Your Presence,.

HalleluYah!

1799 - The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.
1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1810 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by John J. Wood.
1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service.
1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
1884 - The Thomas A. Edison Construction Department and the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting merged.
1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
1923 - About 100,000 people were killed when an earthquake hit Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan.
1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1951 - The ANZUS Treaty, a mutual defense pact, was signed by the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.
1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.
1979 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn.
1983 - A Soviet jet fighter shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 when it entered Soviet airspace. 269 people were killed.
1985 - The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.
1986 - The Soviet Union announced the accident involving the Admiral Nakhimov the night before. 448 people died in the ship collision.
1997 - In France, the prosecutor's office announced that the driver of the car, in which Britain's Princess Diana was killed, was over the legal alcohol limit.

Ecclesiastes 12

Jeremiah 50:6 " My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace."

We are told that there is " no new thing under the sun," and if there was ever any evidence to prove that fact, the children of Jacob-Israel are certainly that evidence. Our entire existance has been to go from righteousness to sin, over and over. And nothing better symbolizes Israel than sheep.

Sheep are not particularly bright. Sheep will graze a field until it is utterly barren. Sheep must be herded. They must have a shepherd to move them onward to new and better fields. They need a shepherd to protect them from their enemies, for they fall quickly and easily to predators.

At the foot of the holy mountain, as the lightening flashed and the thunder crashed, the children of Israel told Moses to speak to Yahweh for them, they feared the responsibility of hearing Yahweh God for themselves, they wanted a go between. Little has changed. Most want pastors and televangelists to tell them what to believe, rather than seek it out for themselves.

Rather than bearing the responsibility of hearing the Father's Voice for themselves, they prefer for someone else to go face the Ever Living.

Thus Israel has always been at the mercy of those that claimed to be sent to lead them, to speak on behalf of the One True God. There have been the occassional good shepherds who try to lead the flock of Israel in the paths of righteousness. But more often than not, the "shepherds" of Israel did a very poor job. Usually leading Yah's people away from His Presence and into sin and idolatry.

If we want to truly serve our Heanvenly Father, we must take responsibility for our own spiritual walk and seek Yahweh for ourselves, then and only then will we find that it is the Presence of Yahweh Himself that is our restingplace.

O'Yahweh, Hallowed be Thy Name

Father look down on Your children, Your flock, and bring us to our resting place beneath Your Wings.

HalleluYah!

31 B.C. - The Roman leader Octavian defeated the alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian, as Augustus Caesar, became the first Roman emperor.
0490 - Phidippides of Athens was sent to seek help against the invading Persian Army. The runner was the inspiration for the 26-mile marathon of the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.
1666 - The Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed.
1775 - Hannah, the first American war vessel was commissioned by General George Washington.
1789 - The U.S. Treasury Department was established.
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War Union forces led by Gen. William T. Sherman occupied Atlanta following the retreat of the Confederates.
1901 - Theodore Roosevelt, then Vice President, said "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1945 - Japan surrendered to the U.S. aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II. The war ended six years and one day after it began.
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declared the independence the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1961 - The U.S.S.R. resumed nuclear weapons testing. Test ban treaty negotiations had failed with the U.S. and Britain when the three nations could not agree upon the nature and frequency of on-site inspections.
1963 - The integration of Tuskegee High School was prevented by state troopers assigned by Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Wallace had the building surrounded by state troopers.
1991 - The U.S. formally recognized the independence of Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia.
1992 - The U.S. and Russia agreed to a joint venture to build a space station.
1996 - Muslim rebels and the Philippine government signed a pact formally ending 26-years of insurgency that had killed more than 120,000 people.

Lamentations 1

Jeremiah 50:17 " Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away..."

Jeremiah speaks of the king of Assyia which had carried away the northern kingdom of Israel a hundred years earlier, and the king of Babylon now breaking the land of Judah. These two kings were instruments of punishment in the Hands of the Ever Living God.

What lions do we see scattering the sheep of Yahweh's Israel people in our day and time? The symbology is appropriate, for Peter tells us, " be solemn, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. " 1Peter 5:8. It is the devil's desire to scatter the sheep, to turn them away from the safety of The Shepherd.

Blessed is the man whose sins have been washed in the Blood of the Lamb!

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

We are lost sheep. Bless us with Your Holy Spirit and cleanse our very souls. Lead us into righteousness for Your Name's sake.

HalleluYah!

1189 - England's King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.
1658 - Oliver Cromwell died.
1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
1838 - Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
1967 - In Sweden motorist stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side.
1989 - The U.S. began shipping military aircraft and weapons, worth $65 million, to Columbia in its fight against drug lords.
1994 - Russia and China announced that they would no longer be targeting nuclear missiles or using force against each other.
1994 - In Alaska, two teenagers were exiled by an American Indian Tribal panel. The teenagers were sent to an uninhabited island for one year for beating and robbing a pizza deliveryman.

Lamentations 2

Isaiah 53:6 " All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way... "

Notice that the prophet does not say " they" but rather " we". He has included himself in this horrible verdict. Yahweh's chosen; scattered and lost, going each one in their own ways. Isaiah saw and recognized something more than just the sinfulness of a few. He exposes the condition of us all. The prophet Isaiah walked in obediance before Yahweh God, but even he was born in the universal state of having an "emnity" between the flesh and spirit. At the beginning of his ministry, Isaiah cried out, " I am a man of unclean lips..." Isaiah's sinful condition was purged and his ministry begun, But he sees that the condition of sinfullness is universal. His words foreshadow Paul's announcement to the Romans, " For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."

What are people in such a wretched state to do? We need a Savior. Even the very best of us can never approach The Creator God, Yahweh, on his own. Through Adam's sin, Adam's race is undone, each of us born into a state which wars against the goodness of our Heavenly Father. Adam's rebellion has bred rebellion into us all.

We need a Savior. But who could possibly fill the void? Who alone could be the sinless lamb of atoning sacrifice? Who alone could have the power to free us from the power of the flesh, to free us from the curse of sin, to free us from satan's hellish grasp.

Only one. Yahweh. The Creator must save His created. Only One so pure could atone for so much.

Glory to Yahweh in the Highest

Most Gracious Master, thank You for Your Sacrifice, for we truly are in need of Your loving hand and your mighty words.

HalleluYah!

0476 - Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaimed himself King of Italy.
1530 - Russian Czar Ivan "The Terrible" was born.
1609 - English navigator Henry Hudson began exploring the island of Manhattan.
1781 - Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula," which translates as "The Town of the Queen of Angels."
1833 - Barney Flaherty answered an ad in "The New York Sun" and became the first newsboy/paperboy at the age of 10.
1951 - The first live, coast-to-coast TV broadcast took place in the U.S. The event took place in San Francisco, CA, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. It was seen all the way to New York City, NY.
1957 - The Arkansas National Guard was ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to keep nine black students from going into Little Rock's Central High School.
1967 - Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone "brainwashing" by U.S. officials while visiting Vietnam in 1965.
1973 - John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy were indicted with two others in connection with the burglary of a psychiatrist's office two years earlier.
1983 - U.S. officials announced that there had been an American plane, used for reconnaissance, in the vicinity of the Korean Air Lines flight that was shot down.
1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women was opened in Beijing. There were over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1997 - A triple suicide bombing in the heart of Jerusalem killed seven people, including the three assailants.
1997 - Three Buddhist nuns acknowledged in testimony to the U.S. Senate that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records.
1998 - In Mexico, bankers stopped approving personal loans and mortgages.
1998 - The International Monetary Fund approved a $257 million loan for the Ukraine.
1998 - While in Ireland, U.S. President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and described his behavior as indefensible.

Lamentations 3

Isaiah 53:5 " But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastismenet of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed."

Yahweh had not only created heaven and earth and all that lived therein, He created a people, just for Himself, to be a witness and an example unto Him, the One True God.

But His chosen were corrupted. Because of the sin of their forefather Adam, they would be born with an "emnity", an animosity towards obediance unto Yahweh. They would be weak spiritually, and prone to constant falling and stumbling. They would be a rebellious and stiffnecked people, all because of that innate seed of rebellion.

At this pont, many people wound have considered doing away with the whole lot and starting over. But not Yahweh. Our Heavenly Father had a grander design. Through His chosen's weakness, He would prove Himself strong. His plan was not to destroy them, nor replace them; but to redeem them. But in order to redeem this wayward people, an atonement would have to be made. But what could possibly atone for sin so great, corruption so massive? There was not a man on the face of the earth pure enough to serve such a cause.

The only possible answer, was that Yahwerh Himself would have to be the Atonement. The Creator would have to pay the price for His creations' sin disease. Only the Father could make atonement for His children. Yahweh would wrap a piece of Himself in the cruel frailty of human flesh and unleash Himself upon the earth. In so doing, all the pure righteousness of heaven and earth would be displayed.

Upon Himself, He would take all the curses pronounced upon us wayward sinners by His Perfect Law, He would suffer so that we might not have to. He would become the Awesome Sacrifice, the once and for all Sacrifice for sin, that we might be brought back into fellowship with Him.

His suffering, was His crowning achievment.

Dear Heavenly Father, You are the One True Living God, above You there is no other

Clear the cobwebs from my mind and my heart, let me be a witness to Your glory and Holiness O Yahweh/Yahoshua. I know I stumble and fall, alot. But please don't let me fall beyond your reach. Bring me back into Your sight Yahweh and keep me on Your path of righteousness.

HalleluYah!

1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.
1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was killed by the bayonet of a U.S. soldier. The chief allegedly resisted confinement to a jail cell.
1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
1882 - The first U.S. Labor Day parade was held in New York City.
1900 - France proclaimed a protectorate over Chad.
1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed by Russia and Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War. The settlement was mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New Hampshire.
1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.
1917 - Federal raids were carried out in 24 cities on International Workers of the World (IWW) headquarters. The raids were prompted by suspected anti-war activities within the labor organization.
1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
1953 - The first privately operated atomic reactor opened in Raleigh, NC.
1972 - Arab guerrillas attacked the Israeli delegation at the Munich Olympic games. 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, five guerrillas and a police officer were killed in the siege.
1975 - A Secret Service agent foiled an assassination attempt against U.S. U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. Lynette A. "Squeaky" Fromme was a follower of Charles Manson, who was incarcerated at the time. 17 days later, Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate Ford.
1977 - The U.S. launched Voyager .
1983 - U.S. President Reagan denounced the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean Air Lines. Reagan demanded that the Soviet Union pay reparations for the act that killed 269 people.
1985 - Rioting in South Africa spilled into white neighborhoods for the first time.
1986 - NASA launched DOD-1.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged for a Holy War against the West and former allies.
1991 - Soviet lawmakers created an interim government to usher in the confederation after dissolving the U.S.S.R. The new name the Union of Sovereign States was taken.
1995 - France set off an underground nuclear blast in the South Pacific.
1997 - Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at the age of 87.

Lamentations 4

John 10:2 " But he that entereth by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice."

Yahoshua found his disciples and one by one called out, "follow me." Each one abandened all to wonder homeless throughout Judea. Why? Were these men really so reckless as to just chase after the first teacher to come along? Of course not. The answer is two fold. First, the disciples were "His sheep". They of course didn't know this throughout their lives. Oh, they knew they were Benjamites, Israelites; and as such were Yahweh's chosen people. But had they ever really considered that they were "His Sheep? No, not until they heard "His Voice:"

That is the second part of the answer as to why these men would abandon their very livelihoods. "His Voice". The Judean soldiers had tesified to the pharisees, "Never a man spoke like Him." He spoke, and Peter and Andrew, James and John and all the rest not only heard His Voice, but felt His voice in thier inner most beings. No other spoke like He did, with power and authority.

So it is with each of us. We come to the Messiah not because we have considered the evidence and make a "decision for Christ". We come because we are His sheep and we have heard His Voice. And that beautiful, pure voice went into our souls and drew us, though we may not have realized to where.

Rejoice, for the Shepherd has come to gather His Lost and scattered flock, and with joy unspeakable, our hearts hear His Voice.

O Great and Merciful Father

Call forth your sheep and lead us home. Away from the wolves amd the hungry lions. Lead us away to Your restful place and keep us safe. HalleluYah!

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1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.
1766 - John Dalton was born. The teacher/physicist formulated the atomic theory.
1819 - Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe.
1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was born. He owned the Chicago Merchandise Mart and made his fortune in real estate, liquor and movies.
1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.
1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
1939 - South Africa declared war on Germany.
1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
1959 - The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation.
1966 - In Cape Town, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary session.
1990 - Iraq warned that anyone trying to flee the country without permission would be put in prison for life.
1991 - The State Council of the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states.
1991 - The name St. Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city. The city was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great. The name has been changed to Petrograd (1914) and to Leningrad (1924).
1997 - More than 2 million people watched the funeral service of Princess Diana that was held at Westminster Abbey.
2000 - The U.N. Millennium Summit began in New York. It was the largest gathering of world leaders in history with more than 150 present.
2002 - In New York, the U.S. Congress convened at Federal Hall for a rare special session. The session was held in New York to express the nation's mourning for the loss on September 11, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism.

Lamentations 5

John 10:5 " And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."

If we are to be of the Master's flock, we must learn the difference between His Voice and all the many voices in our world which would lead us astray.

Those original disciples had lived in turbulent times. Everywhere there were conflicting voices. There were the voices trying to lure them into the apostasy of " the traditions of the elders". There were voices calling for the overthrow of Herod and revolution against the dominion of Rome. All these voices tugged at the loyalties and emotions of Peter, James, John and the rest.

But it wasn't until they heard the simplest of commands, " follow me", that they forsook their livelihoods to begin the quest that would fill the rest of their lives. His Voice exposed the traditions of the elders for the abominations they truly were and led back to the pure law of Yahweh and its original intent. His Voice called for over throwing satan and revolution against sins hidden within our hearts.

This was the True Shepherd, Yahoshua the Messiah. He was Yahweh God Himself, tabernacling here on earth with His creation in the tabernacle of flesh. He was the very word itself, the law and the prophets, thus His voice could only lead back to Himself.

To know His Voice, we must dwell in His Presence.

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Gracious Heavenly Father, Glory be toThy Name.

I hear Your precious Voice, Yahoshua... "Follow me"... I will follow You... guide my every step and keep me on the path righteousness. Thank's be to Yahweh.

HalleluYah!

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1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, of England, was born in Greenwich.
1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino.
1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.
1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000.
1986 - Desmond Tutu was the first black to be installed to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.
1992 - 28 people African National Congress supporters were killed and 200 were wounded when fired upon by troops in South Africa.

Job 1

John 10:7 " Then said Jesus (Yahohsua) unto them again, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by Me if any man enter it, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

There were many "paths" being promoted as leading to God in those days. Our land has been over run with false gods, idols, apostasy, philosophies and ideas that either exhalt themselves against the One True God, or attempt to make themselves His equals. Even the so called "church" has joined hands with idolators. But this is satan at his best. This was the deception he used in Israel and Judah of old. The end result was the Wrath of Yahweh.

Satan is a thief, and he does not come to bring enlightenment but darkness and dismal gloom. He comes not to bring peace, but rather to steal it. He cannot bring life eternal, but only death. His counterfeits are clever, but will not withstand the coming Kingdom of Yahweh.

Yahoshua on the other hand brings life, for He is life. He brings not only eternal life, but adds unto it joy and peace such as this world cannot understand. He pours out His Holy Spirit upon those who surrender to Him and fills them with His Holy Presence. And added unto all of this, at the climax of the ages. He will usher in a Kingdom that cannot be voted in or out, that cannot be overthrown, but can only stand invincible, shining as the sun, and Yahweh/Yahoshua shall literally dwell in the midst of His flock, for all eternity.

This is the True Kingdom, and there is only one path (which) leads to it; the path of righteousness; and there is only one Door that will let us into it: the Messiah.

Great King and Kind Shepherd, Yahweh/Yahoshua

Come and bring your sheep comfort, peace and most of all protection from the evil all around us.

HalleluYah!

1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.
1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York.
1866 - The first recorded birth of sextuplets took place in Chicago, IL. The parents were James and Jennie Bushnell.
1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in "The Youth's Companion."
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1900 - Galveston, TX, was hit by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.
1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later.
1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.
1975 - In Boston, MA, public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1997 - America Online acquired CompuServe.
1997 - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, OK.
1999 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno named former U.S. Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation into the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX.

Job 2

John 10:11 " I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep."

Now do we see the true aim of the law of Yahweh. All the sacrifices ever offered pointed the way to the final sacrifice of Yahoshua the Messiah. All the blood poured out upon the altars, foreshadowing the pouring out of the Pure, sinless Blood of The Messiah. Only the Blood of Yahweh wrapped in mortal flesh could ever be adequate for an atonement for the sheep of His pasture, scattered and gone astray. Such love as we see in our Good Shepherd, we cannot fully understand.

The curse of sin through Adam, kept on display for all generations through curses and judgements of the law, were all about to be heaped upon the Messiah. Can you grasp this reality, fellow pilgrim? The creation rebelled against it's Creator. The Creator pronounced curse and judgement for this rebellion, gave commandments and statutes that expose the rebellion, but then stepped into our place, and took the full brunt of our rebellion upon Himself. There are no words in any language that give the worship and praise and gratitude that Yahweh / Yahoshua alone deserves. Only by offering up ourselfves as "living sacrifices" do we even come close.

1 John 3:16 " Hereby we percieve the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." People falsely act as if love were a "new testament" thing but they are decieved. " If ye fulfill the royal law according to scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well... " James 2:8 Love, mercy and justice were always the goal of Yahweh's law; to get us to love and honor one another more than ourselves. Yahweh Himself stepped forth and gave us the ultimate example through Yahoshua the Messiah.

Thank You Dear Heavenly Father, Yahweh for Your tender love and mercies.

We thank you for sending your beloved Son who was sacrifriced to redeem our souls and save us from eternal damnation. Keep us on Your path of righteousness... deliver us from the Evil One.

HalleluYah!

490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.
1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."
1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
1850 - California became the 31st state to join the union.
1904 - Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.
1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.
1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.
1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.
1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization.
1983 - The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.
1986 - Gennadiy Zakharov was indicted by a New York jury on espionage charges. Zakharov was a Soviet United Nations employee.
1993 - Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other.
1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
1997 - Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.
1999 - At least 93 people were killed when a bomb exploded in an apartment building in Moscow, Russia.

Job 3

John 10:14 " I am the good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so Know I the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. "

What does the Messiah mean when He speaks of sheep which are not "of this fold"? Churchianity has struggled with this phrase, because by and large it has rejected " the key of David", the Israel truth.

Yahoshua was standing in Judea, ministering to the sheep of Judah and Benjamin and Levi. But there were other tribes: Napthali, Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Asher, Mannassah, Gad, Ephraim, and Issachar. These tribes had belonged to the kingdom or House of Israel. Carried away by Assyria centuries before, they had become pagans, gentiles, or as Hosea expressed it "Not my people." But the time was almost here that those lost sheep would again be called " the children of the Living God."

The Word of Truth would spread and all across Europe and the Isles of the sea, Britain, these lost sheep would turn back to Yahweh God through Yahoshua the Messiah. They would hear The One Shepherd's Voice, and they woud turn and become a part of the One fold. Not even knowing the fullness of their identity, they would fullfill all the prophecies concerning them as the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Always remember, that everywhere, at every moment, Yahweh is constantly fullfilling His Word.

Master of all Creation, Father Yahweh

Come and reclaim your sons and daughters forever more.

HalleluYah!

1608 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown, VA colony council.
1794 - America's first non-denominational college was charted. Blount College later became the University of Tennessee.
1813 - The first defeat of British naval squadron occurred in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The leader of the U.S. fleet sent the famous message "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" to U.S. General William Henry Harrison.
1845 - King Willem II opened Amsterdam Stock exchange.
1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.
1862 - Rabbi Jacob Frankel became the first Jewish Army chaplain.
1897 - British police arrest George Smith for drunken driving. It was the first DWI.
1923 - The Irish Free state joined the League of Nations.
1926 - Germany joined the League of Nations.
1939 - Canada declared war on Germany.
1940 - In Britain, Buckingham Palace was hit by German bomb.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing as part of the U.S. wartime effort.
1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
1945 - Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for his collaboration with Nazi Germany after the 1940 invasion. He was the founder of Norway's National Party in 1934, which was an imitation of Hitler's National Socialist Party.
1948 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars was indicted for treason in Washington, DC. Gillars was a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II. She was convicted and spent 12 years in prison.
1963 - Twenty black students entered public schools in Alabama at the end of a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama governor George C. Wallace.
1979 - U.S. President Carter granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of U.S. President Truman in 1950.
1990 - Iran agreed to resume full diplomatic ties with past enemy Iraq.
1990 - Iraq's Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in an attempt to win their support during the Gulf War Crisis.
2002 - Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.
2003 - Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed while shopping in a department store. She died the next day from her wounds.

Job 4

John 10:17 " Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I recieved of my Father."

Can any man kill God? How foolish is that! Only by taking on the human flesh of mortality could Yahweh become our atoning sacrifice, and only by laying down His Eternal life could He redeem His Israel flock. Only by tasting the bitterness of death could He rise again, victorious, providing a glorious ressurrection for you and I.

But the disciples failed to see this. You can see it in their depression, agony and despair after His crucifixion. The jews also failed to see the awesome truth walking in their very midst, for they sought to slay the Creator of Heaven and earth. But they could not. Not one hand could they lay on that Precious Head, without His whole hearted consent.

"He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,..." Isaiah 53:7. In all the pagan and heathen mythologies of man, many so called "gods" have been slain in battle or combat, but only Yahweh, the One True God, GAVE His life, through Yahoshua the Messiah, so that His created might live. Only Yahweh/Yahoshua willingly and intentionally became a sacrifice for the sin and rebelliion of His own children.

The disciples did not see the Divinity, the Godness of Yahoshua until after He stormed from the tomb. The jews do not see it to this day. And even now, many fail to see the awesome truth of the Messiah. Look at your own failings, your own inability, your own sin. Now look to your Creator, daring to humble Himself and become a Sacrifice for you.

How can we not worship Him?

I give You thanks and praise Yahweh/Yahoshua, for You are the One True Living God

You laid down Your life for me, Yahweh/Yahoshua, how could I do any less. I need You Yahweh, Your strength, Your wisdom, send Your Holy Spirit to enlighten me and make me Your servant.

HalleluYah!

1297 - Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1499 - French forces took over Milan, Italy.
1609 - Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.
1695 - Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.
1777 - American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed by U.S. President George Washington to be the first secretary of the treasury.
1814 - The U.S. fleet defeated a squadron of British ships in the Battle of Lake Champlain, VT.
1842 - 1,400 Mexican troops captured San Antonio, TX. The Mexicans retreated with prisoners.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave orders to attack any German or Italian vessels found in U.S. defensive waters. The U.S. had not officially entered World War II at this time.
1941 - Charles A. Lindbergh brought on charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
1941 - In Arlington, VA, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon took place.
1959 - The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps.
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrived in South Vietnam and was stationed at An Khe.
1990 - U.S. President Bush vowed "Saddam Hussein will fail" while addressing Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis. In the speech Bush spoke of an objective of a new world order - "freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace".
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that thousands of troops would be drawn out of Cuba.
1997 - Scotland voted to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
2001 - In the U.S., four airliners were hijacked and were intentionally crashed. Two airliners hit the World Trade Center, which collapsed shortly after, in New York City, NY. One airliner hit the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Another airliner crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed.

Job 5

John 10:33 " The jews answered him, saying, for a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makes thyself God."

Actually, It was because Yahoshua the Messiah was exposing these false shepherds for what they truly were that they sought to stone Him. His righteousness was laying bare their unrightousness.

This has been a scripture much misunderstood. In the Hebrew language the word used for gods/God is "Elohim". It means literally "mighty ones", but is used for judges, mighty ones, rulers and gods/God. The Messiah quoted from Psalm 82, a look at which can clear up much misunderstanding.

"God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods (elohim). How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. " Already we can tell that this psalm is not about "godhood", but about righteous judgement. " Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: (rid) them out of the hand of the wicked." Still, more and more about being a righteous judge, nothing however about supposed "godhood".

" They know not, neither will they understand, they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course." Does this honestly sound "God-like"? Does it even sound remotely godly? No. This is a state of wickedness, not godliness." I have said, Ye are gods (Elohim, mighty ones, judges, rulers, gods/God); and all of you are children of the Most High." Contemplate this, O christian. Does Yahweh God violate His own word here, by pronouncing that there are other literal "Gods" besides Himself? Or does He instead remind His Israel people of their calling and duty as judges, stewards and rulers upon the earth?

"But ye shall die like men..." Yahweh gives us no hope for supposed "godhood", but rather reproves and rebukes us for not exercising the righteous judgement of His law and word. In rebuking the pharisees in John 10, The Messiah is exposing thier inability to judge righteous judgemenet. For if they were indeed motivated by the law-word of Yahweh, they would have recognized Yahweh in the flesh before them.

Scripture points to only One Creator God, Yahweh; who alone is righteous enough to atone for our very "ungodly" sins.

Prayer of the Day

We you Praise you Yahweh, Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

May You guide our every footstep. Help us to be worthy of your great love.

HalleluYah!

1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.
1918 - During World War I, At the Battle of St. Mihiel, U.S. Army personnel operate tanks for the first time. The tanks were French-built.
1922 - The Episcopal Church removed the word "Obey" from the bride's section of wedding vows.
1938 - In a speech, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1940 - The Lascaux paintings were discovered in France. The cave paintings were 17,000 years old and were some of the best examples of art from the Paleolithic period.
1974 - Violence occurred on the opening day of classes in Boston, MA, due opposition to court-ordered school "busing."
1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini listed four conditions for the release of American hostages taken on November 4, 1979. The conditions were the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the return of the shah�fs wealth to Iran, the cancellation of U.S. claims against Iran, and a U.S. pledge of noninterference in Iran�fs internal affairs.
1981 - In London, Scotland Yard announced that nine Italian terrorists had been arrested as prime suspects in the 1980 bombing of a Bologna train station in which more than 80 people were killed.
1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier.
1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space. She was the payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. Also onboard were Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee. They were the first married couple to fly together in space. And, Mamoru Mohri became the first Japanese person to fly into space.
1994 - Frank Corder was killed when he crashed a stolen, single-engine Cessna on the South Lawn of the White House.

Job 6

Isaiah 14:12 "How art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will asend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High."

The original sin, that which came before all others, was the desire to be like Yahweh God. Not in the sense of having a righteous and holy nature, but of ruling and having dominion over all things, the lust to be a "god". This was the sin, the rebellion which set in motion all others. See how this wretched state began: "For thou hast said in thine heart..."

Lucifer mused on his own grand state, his own ambitions, his own power and authority, not taking into consideration that these attributes were bestowed upon him. He created none of these for himself, but was instead created. He was the workmanship of Yahweh, and as such, all that he had and all that he was, he was indebted to Yahweh for.

Rather than humbling himself in gratitude, he began to hunger for more, he began to convince himself that he was deserving of more. He took his eyes off of the Creator and looked upon himself. Here is the root of sin, self. Self becomes exalted above The Master, we lust for that which has not been alloted to us. There is jealousy, envy, and before long, like Lucifer whose name was changed to satan and devil, we become adversaries of our Precious father.

Beware what lies in thine heart.

Thank You Yahweh for Your love and tender mercies and thank You for Yahoshua and Your sacrifice made for us, your children.

Keep satan and his minions far from us, O Yahweh, for You are The One True Living God and above you there is no other; Yahoshua is the One and only True light of this world, let His light shine on us and dispell the darkness from around us.

HalleluYah!

1759 - The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War.
1788 - The Constitutional Convention decided that the first federal election was to be held on Wednesday the following February. On that day George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. In addition, New York City was named the temporary national capital.
1789 - The United States Government took out its first loan.
1847 - U.S. forces took the hill Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.
1862 - During the American Civil War General Lee's Order No. 191 was found by federal soldiers in Maryland.
1898 - Hannibal Williston Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film, which is used to make movies.
1922 - In El Azizia, Libya, the highest shade temperature was recorded at 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
1977 - The first diesel automobiles were introduced by General Motors.
1981 - U.S. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig said the U.S. had physical evidence that Russia and its allies used poisonous biological weapons in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
1993 - Israel and Palestine signed their first major agreement. Palestine was granted limited self-government in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho.
1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a $30 billion crime bill into law.
1999 - At least 118 people were killed when a bomb exploded in Moscow, Russia.
2000 - In Albuquerque, NM, former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pled guilty to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets.
2001 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Limited commercial flights resumed in the U.S. for the first time in two days.

Job 7

Genesis 3:4 "And the serpent said onto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

The corruption and malice of satan would become like a plague, spreading rebellion and misery throughout Yahweh's creation. To be as a god, to be god-like, is a deception that has crept throughout the history of all mankind. It has seduced kings and emperors, paupers and peasants, and it all had it's birth in the festering heart of satan.

And the lure doesn't simply end with being worshipped or exercising dominion over all that you can see. The lure comes to most in the simple form of wanting to be "your own god". When people prefer to make up their own philosophies and theologies, not looking to Yahweh in faith but to themselves, rejecting the sacrifice of Yahoshua the Messiah and choosing to be their own deliverers and rebelling against Yahweh's law-word to make up their own rules for life; without really understanding what they have done, they have enthroned themselves as "gods", if only over their own pitiful existences.

It is not only the self styled "messiah's and gurus" which fill the land these days that are guilty of trying to be like God. It is the farmer down the lane, the shopkeeper and bartender, the construction worker and the floor sweeper. Anywhere a person rejects Yahweh/Yahoshua and His standard. In order that a person may live as they wish, that person has chosen to be "god" of his or her own world. This is truly a terrible burden for a flimsy human to attempt to bear, especially since The One True God has offered to take our burdens, and set us free from ourselves.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

Please take the burdens from my shoulders and help me to understand you more clearly and cleanse me from this sinful world.

HalleluYah!

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1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. Two weeks earlier Burr had been found innocent of treason.
1812 - Moscow was set on fire by Russians after Napoleon Bonaparte's troops invaded.
1814 - Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner," a poem originally known as "Defense of Fort McHenry," after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, MD, during the War of 1812. The song became the official U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.
1847 - U.S. forces took control of Mexico City under the leadership of General Winfield Scott.
1899 - In New York City, Henry Bliss became the first automobile fatality.
1901 - U.S. President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded him.
1940 - The Selective Service Act was passed by the U.S. Congress providing the first peacetime draft in the United States.
1960 - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
1975 - Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco died at the age of 52 because of injuries she suffered the day before in a car crash. She was formerly actress Grace Kelly.
1982 - Bashir Gemayel, Lebanon's president-elect, was killed by a bomb at his party's headquarters in east Beirut.
1998 - Israel announced that they had successfully tested its Arrow-2 missile defense system. The system successfully destroyed a simulated target.
2001 - The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S.

Job 8

Genesis 3:5 " ... and ye shall be as gods... "

There are a terrible number of people these days who scoff at being merely the children of the Most High and lust for more. But what a pitiful bunch they are. Everywhere one goes these days there are self styled gurus and messed up messiah's claiming to be able to help others find "their own "godhood" or "the god within". I wonder that none of them has ever stopped to consider what pitifully flimsy gods we humans make.

Not only that, but when anyone has stood up to proclaim , "ye shall be as gods", they have just taken up the exact same office as satan, almost one might say, becoming the mouth of satan, for it is his words that fill their mouths, echoing down from time without knowing.

Those that claim that being "children of Yahweh God" is preperation for " being gods " themselves some day far distant, are equally decieved and blinded. With each passing year, the wretched state of this world grows worse and worse. Our oceans and our air grow more and more polluted, our wars grow more brutal and catastrophic, our crimes grow more hideous and our criminals grow more numerous. We ravage the earth and leave a wasteland of death and suffering behind us. All this is hardly the result of people in training to be gods. All this destruction, waste and suffering is the result of people who have cast off the fear of the One True God, Yahweh and that have utterly rejected His laws which could have brought health and healing to our world and it's people.

We tend to stumble and fall simply being the children of the Living God, Yahweh. As gods, we are utterly usless. Do not be decieved, but humble yourself before the One and Only God, offer yourself to Him as a living sacrifice, and you will find more peace and love as a servant ; and more freedom in obediance.

O Father Yahweh we give You thanks and praise for Your loving forgiveness and mercies.

Let not your humble servants be caught in the snares of "power" and "godship". For these are of the devil, satan. We are your humble servants and dedicate our lives to you. Use us Yahweh/Yahoshua... let us be a becon of light in this our darkest hour.

HalleluYah!

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1775 - An early and unofficial American flag was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Mott after the seizing of Fort Johnson from the British. The flag was dark blue with the white word "Liberty" spelled on it.
1776 - British forces occupied New York City during the American Revolution.
1789 - The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.
1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador proclaimed independence.
1853 - Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained becoming first female minister in the United States.
1916 - During the Battle of the Somme, in France, tanks were first used in warfare when the British rolled them onto the battlefields.
1917 - Alexander Kerensky proclaimed Russia to be a republic.
1923 - Oklahoma was placed under martial law by Gov. John Calloway Walton due to terrorist activity by the Ku Klux Klan. After this declaration national newspapers began to expose the Klan and its criminal activities.
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum.
1935 - The Nuremberg Laws were enacted by Nazi Germany. The act stripped all German Jews of their civil rights and the swastika was made the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1940 - The German Luftwaffe suffered the loss of 185 planes in the Battle of Britain. The change in tide forced Hitler to abandon his plans for invading Britain.
1955 - Betty Robbins became the first woman cantor.
1959 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit.
1961 - The U.S. resumed underground testing of nuclear weapons.
1971 - Greenpeace was founded.
1982 - The first issue of "USA Today" was published.
1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, was executed. He had been convicted of plotting against the government.
1990 - France announced that it would send an additional 4,000 soldiers to the Persian Gulf. They also expelled Iraqi military attaches in Paris.
1993 - The FBI announced a new national campaign concerning the crime of carjacking.
1993 - Katherine Ann Power surrendered to authorities to face charges in a 1970 bank robbery in which Walter Schroeder Sr. of the Boston Police was killed. She had been in hiding for 23 years.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power."
1995 - The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing.
1998 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian military to be on full alert and massed troops on its border with Afghanistan.
1998 - David Andrew Douglas was convicted of strangling his 3-year-old granddaughter Shelby Lynne Barrackman because she licked icing off cupcakes.

Job 9

Matthew 20:27 " And whosoever shall be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

Of course, a part of the appeal of being a "god" are the perks. The New Age Gurus and Messiahs promise much but deliver nothing. Like satan in the garden they tell the decieved that they can become all knowing ("then your eyes shall be open..."), immortal, (Ye shalt not surely die... ), and have power over their own lives and experiences ("knowing good and evil...). What this eventually means is being master over your own universe, and others.

But the high calling of Yahoshua the Messiah is not to be master, not to be served, but to serve. Think of it. Yahweh our God, whom we must fear, love and obey, robed Himself in this pitiful flesh, that He might minister unto we pathetic mortals. The Creator, humbling Himself, pouring out Himself on behalf of His wayward creation. This goes against the basic ideas of all those who would seek to become "gods". Their path to "godhood" revolves around self: centering on self, becoming aware of self; all their energy is fixed on self.

The path of the True God, Yahweh/Yahoshua denies self, turns ever constantly away from self, humbling our selves and serving one another. The outcome of this path is not "godhood", but godliness and a kingdom which belongs not to us, but to our Father, but here is all the peace we will ever need.

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Heavenly Father Yahweh

We thank You for Your Sacrifice on our behalf. Please help us to become worthy of Your love.

HalleluYah!

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1400 - Owain Glyndwr was proclaimed Prince of Wales after rebelling against English rule. He was the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales.
1620 - The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England. The ship arrived at Provincetown, MA, on November 21st and then at Plymouth, MA, on December 26th. There were 102 passengers onboard.
1630 - The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was impressed on document to negotiate a prisoner of war agreement with the British. It was the first official use of the impression.
1810 - The Mexicans began a revolt against Spanish rule. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest of Spanish descent, declared Mexico's independence from Spain in the small town of Dolores.
1893 - The "Cherokee Strip" in Oklahoma was swarmed by hundreds of thousands of settlers.
1908 - General Motors was founded by William Crapo "Billy" Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies.
1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.
1974 - U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.
1976 - The Episcopal Church formally approved women to be ordained as priests and bishops.
1982 - In west Beirut, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children began in refugee camps of the Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1985 - The Communist Party in China announced changes in leadership that were designed to bring younger officials into power.
1987 - The Montreal Protocol was signed by 24 countries in an effort to save the Earth's ozone layer by reducing emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.
1990 - An eight-minute videotape of an address by U.S. President H.W. Bush was shown on Iraqi television. The message warned that action of Saddam Hussein could plunge them into a war "against the world."
1991 - A federal judge in Washington dismissed the Iran-Contra charges against Oliver North.
1994 - Exxon Corporation was ordered by federal jury to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to the people harmed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
1999 - In Volgodnosk, Russia, a bomb in an apartment killed at least 17 people. Chechen militants seeking independence from Russia were suspected as the planners.

Job 10

Isaiah 14:12 " How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer!... :15 yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit... "

There is one thing that all those who seek to be little gods share in common: the judgement, the wrath and the punishment of Yahweh God. Satan set this standard as well, as he who was the fairest and the grandest of all Yahweh's creation, was hurled from the Divine Realm, an outcast and a rebel. His pomp and his grandeur stripped from him, ever after to be known as adversary, enemy, liar, thief and murderer.

What of Adam and especially Eve, who sought to be like God and have her eyes opened. The immortal life was lost and their days were numbered. Their place of authority stripped from them, driven from the paradise of Eden to scratch and claw for their food and living, dooming all their posterity to a life and death struggle between Yahweh and satan. All the suffering, death, disease, poverty, war and destruction the earth has known stemmed from those five little words, you will be as gods.

Obediance, humility, holiness and righteousness; these things triumph over the arrogance, pride and deception of all who fancey that they might be as God. To the obediant will be given everlasting life. To the humble shall be given authority. But to the deceived only cursing and sorrow.

" And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever" Revelations 20:10

One God, and One God only, but Yahweh is enough, for He fills all of eternity.

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On bended knee we bow to your Holy Word and praise Your Holy Name Yahweh.

We humbley ask for Your guidance Yahweh, grant us the discernment to follow Your standard, Your laws. Bless us with Thy Holy Spirit, Praise be to Yahweh.

HalleluYah!

1778 - The United States signed its first treaty with a Native American tribe, the Delaware Nation.
1787 - The Constitution of the United States of America was signed by delegates at the Constitutional Convention.
1796 - U.S. President George Washington's Farewell Address was read before the U.S. Congress.
1862 - The Battle of Antietam took place during the American Civil War. More than 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing. The Rebel advance was ended with heavy losses to both armies.
1872 - Phillip W. Pratt patented a version of the sprinkler system.
1908 - An airplane crashed during a demonstration in Arlington Heights, VA. Thomas Selfridge was killed, becoming the first person to be killed in an airplane accident. Orville Wright, the pilot, survived with multiple hip and leg fractures.
1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
1944 - Operation "Market Garden" was launched by Allied paratroopers during World War II. The landing point was behind German lines in the Netherlands.
1947 - The first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was sworn in to office.
1948 - Count Folk Bernadette, the United Nations mediator for Palestine, was assissinated in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists.
1976 - NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, CA.
1984 - 9,706 immigrants became naturalized citizens when they were sworn in by U.S. Vice-President George Bush in Miami, FL. It was the largest group to become U.S. citizens.
1995 - Hong Kong held its last legislative election before being taken over by China in 1997.
1997 - Northern Ireland's main Protestant party joined in peace talks. It was the first time that all of the major players had come together.

Job 11

Revelation 21:3 " And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God."

The reality of being a child of Yahweh God is so much more fullfilling than the fantasy of being a god yourself. For all of their high speeches and grand schemes, the gurus and wannabe messiahs are still lonely, tormented by the demonic spirits whom they actually serve. The lies upon which they have built their lives are still unfullfilling.The praise of the deceived may lift them up for a night or a day, but then fade into silence and they are left again whith loneliness and emptiness. Like all other sinners, their bright moments are fleeting.

But to be a child of Yahweh God, humbling yourself before the One and Only Creator of all, worshipping He who alone truly deserves all worship and praise, brings more joy, peace and hope than they have ever dreamed. They know only the polluted presence of their demon guides; we have the Presence of He who fills all of eternity.

Satan deceives the masses into rebellion against the very things they desire the most. But for the simple child of the Ever Living God, this is our future, our very eternity. All that is required, is obediance by faith.

Holy Majstiy, Lord Yahweh, God of all things.

We ask for Your Presence in our lives and for your light to show the way.

HalleluYah!

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1709 - The creator of the first dictionary of the English language, Samuel Johnson, was born in England.
1759 - The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.
1763 - It was reported, by the Boston Gazette, that the first piano had been built in the United States. The instrument was named the spinet and was made by John Harris.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $191,608.81.
1793 - U.S. President George Washington laid the actual cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1810 - Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1830 - The "Tom Thumb", the first locomotive built in America, raced a horse on a nine-mile course. The horse won when the locomotive had some mechanical difficulties.
1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to ever be named chief of an Indian tribe. The tribe was the Six Nations Tribe at Towanda Reservation in New York.
1895 - Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment.
1947 - The U.S. Air Force was established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act.
1961 - United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
1984 - The 39th session of the U.N. General Assembly was opened with an appeal to the U.S. and Soviet Union to resume arms negotiations.
1997 - Ted Turner, U.S. Media magnate, announced that over the next ten years he would give $1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 - 18 people, including adults and children, were massacred by gunmen in el Sauzal, Mexico. The victims were lined up in firing squad style after being dragged from their beds.
1998 - The FDA approved a once-a-day easier-to-swallow medication for AIDS patients.

Job 11

Leviticus 23:23 " And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel,saying, In the seventh month on the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord."

Just as the feasts or holy days celebrated by Israel in the spring of the year pointed to the first advent of the Messiah, those of the fall of the year point to the second coming of Yahoshua the Messiah, when He will take His rightful place upon the throne of David and establish His Kingdom, taking His bride unto HImself, seating us with Himself at the end of the age.

The first of these, the Feast of Trumpets, foreshadows His return as King of Kings. In the old world, the blowing of a trumpet, or of the ram's horn or shofar, was used to hail the coming of a king, or to call the troops to battle. The Feast of Trumpets brings both of these elements together, as Yahoshua the Messiah returns to gather His sheep and cleanse the earth of all evil and to sit upon His Throne.

By keeping these Feasts of Yahweh, we maintain a vigilant witness of all our hopes, and keep alive a memorial unto Yahweh our God from generation to generation. If we had kept the Feasts of Yahweh, much would not have been lost which we now struggle to regain. But as we return to Yahweh's word, let us rejoice in the return of our Messiah, our King and the glory of that everlasting life which surrounds Him.

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Teach us to be a witness to Your glory, O Yahweh,Creator of heaven and earth.

Let us honor all Your Feast Days and keep all Your commandments. Teach us again God of heaven and earth... what we need to know for so much has been lost through the centuries. Return us to 'The way' of Your laws and Your statutes.

HalleluYah!

1356 - The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France. Edward "the Black Prince" captured France's King John.
1777 - The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 - Bruno Hauptman was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh.
1945 - William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was sentenced to death by a British court for his role as a Nazi propagandist.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use :-) in an online message.
1984 - China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1985 - An earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Mexico City area. About 6,000 people were killed.
1988 - Israel successfully launched the Horizon-I test satellite.
1989 - A DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA disappeared while carrying 171 people to Paris. The wreckage of the plane was found the next day in Niger. It was believed a bomb was responsible.
1995 - The Unabomber's manifesto was published by The Washington Post and the New York Times.
2002 - In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners, including Americans, to safer areas.

Job 12

1 Thessalonians 4:16 " For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the Trump of God:..."

In the original hebrew, the Feast of Trumpets is also known as the Day of Sounding. This also brings to mind the words of Peter," But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise... "

A great error has crept into the church, alleging that "thief in the night" refers to a secret, silent coming to supposedly "sneak" His bride off the earth, but this is not in scripture. Yahweh/Yahoshua will be the center of everyone's attention on the Day of His coming. The Trumpet of God will sound, and what an awesome sound it will make, shaking heaven and earth. The shout of the angels as they watch the closing of this age and the dawning of the new.

Thee will be nothing silent about our King's Coming.

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O'Most Magnificent Father Yahweh

Come quickly, for your Bride is waiting. Come quickly Lord and save your remnant from the evil of this world.

HalleluYah!

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1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
1870 - The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1884 - The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by an apparently deranged black woman.
1962 - James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1977 - The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1989 - F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.

Job 13

Matthew 24:30 " And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other"

There is nothing secretive, nothing quiet about the Coming of the King, Yahoshua the Messiah. The Day of His Coming uproots the very fabric of reality. All the false teachings, false gods, false religions, false teachers and false believers will be exposed by the pure glory of His appearing. The sound of the Trumpet of Yahweh will rattle the earth to it's very core.

The multtitudes of earth shall look up and see the absolute Glory of The Lamb of Yahweh, and will be undone. All their wickedness, all their lawlessness, all the mindless things that they have hidden themselves in all their lives, will come crashing in upon them. They will scream for the mountains to collapse and bury them, that they might be hidden from the Face and the Wrath of the Lamb.

But those who were rejected, persecuted for fighteousness sake, who were despised by men because of their love for Yahweh/Yahoshua, will see their King. They have already surrendered their lives here on this earth, they have already bowed before Him and offered themseves up as living sacrifices. They have already set themselves to obey Him as their King, even while surrounded by the wickedness, the seductions, the allurements of this world and all that it had to offer.They have already rejected this world, setting their eyes instead upon a kingdom not made with hands.Their hearts leap within them as they hear theTrumpet and the Shouting and see not just the Master, not just the Coming king, but their very lives, for He already possesses their hearts.

Dear Heavenly Father Yahweh, we give You Thanks and Praise.

Hear us now O Yahweh, grant us the strength and the wisdom to throw down the wicked and evil in this land and protect the innocent, the widow and the orphans. When the righteous stand firm, the wicked will flee. Let satan and all who follow him flee right into the fiery pit which awaits them all!

HalleluYah!

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1792 - The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1784 - "The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" was published for the first time in Philadelphia. It was the first daily paper in America.
1893 - Frank Duryea took what is believed to be the first gasoline- powered automobile for a test drive. The "horseless carriage" was designed by Frank and Charles Duryea.
1897 - The New York Sun ran the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
1931 - Britain went off the gold standard.
1931 - Japanese forces began occupying China's northeast territory of Manchuria.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was first published.
1938 - A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England killing more than 600 people.
1949 - Communist leaders proclaimed The People's Republic of China.
1964 - Malta gained independence from Britain.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become 56th Secretary of State. He was the first naturalized citizen to hold the office of Secretary of State.
1976 - Orlando Letelier, former foreign minister for President Salvador Allende of Chili, was killed by a car bomb in Washington, DC.
1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1981 - Belize gained full independence from Great Britain.
1982 - Amin Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was the brother of Bashir Gemayel who was the president-elect when he was assassinated.
1985 - North and South Korea opened their borders for their family reunion program.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, SC, causing $8 billion in damage.
1993 - Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin announced that he was ousting the Communist-dominated Congress. The action was effectively seizing all state power.
1996 - The board of all-male Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1996 - John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, GA.

Job 14

Thessalonians 4:16 " ... and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

The repentant thief nailed to the cross beside The Messiah's was comforted with the words " this day you shall be with me in paradise." The beggar Lazarus at his death was escorted to paradise by the angels while the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell. Paul made it clear that to be absent from the body was to be present with Yahweh, and Yahoshua the Messiah declared that He was not the God of the dead, but of the living. The Messiah Himself "gave up the ghost" and His battered body placed in the tomb. There it lay for three days while He Himself went into the regions of those held captive by satan and set them free to join the Father at last. He reentered His flesh and it was transformed into a body immortal. So shall we also be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:52 " In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

The Trumpet sounds to announce the Coming of the King and to summon His armies together, "Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgement upon all..." Jude :14.

The Coming of Yahweh/Yahohsua is too glorious for our frail imaginations to grasp, too powerful for the limitations of our earthly words to express. To those that refuse to bow to Him now as King, this day is a day of unrivaled agony and calamity. But to those that will seve Him now, that will obey Him now, that day is our blessed hope and all that we look forward to.

Let us keep the Feast and sound the Tumpet, and give witness unto all our hope, the Coming of the King.

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Hail Yahweh, Great Lord and Master. Praise your Holy Name.

Come Father and claim your children for your glory.

HalleluYah!

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1656 - An all-female jury heard the case of a woman murdering her child. The jury in Patuxent, MD, voted for acquittal.
1776 - During the Revolutionary War, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British.
1789 - The U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General.
1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.
1828 - Shaka, the African ruler and founder of the Zulu kingdom, was murdered by his half-brother Dingane. Shaka's mental illness had begun to compromise his leadership.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.
1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.
1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 17 days earlier Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme made an assassination attempt against Ford.
1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
1988 - Canada's government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadian's during World War II. They also promised compensation.
1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific.
1992 - The U.N. General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993 - 47 people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Mobile, AL.
1994 - The U.S. upgraded its military control in Haiti.
1996 - Robert Dent, in Australia, became the first person to commit legally assisted suicide under a voluntary euthanasia law. Dent was suffering from terminal cancer.
1998 - The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russia's nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton addressed the United Nations and told world leaders to "end all nuclear tests for all time". He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate.

Job 15

Leviticus 23: 27 " And the Lord spake unto Moses, sayng, Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an atonement for you before the Lord (Yahweh) your God."

Yahoshua the Messiah was afflicted on our behalf and through His Sacrifice on the cross took all of our sins, all of our lawlessness, all of our sickness and disease upon Himself. Yahweh offered the only sacrifice pure enough, good enough to atone for all the sins of this wayward world: Himself.

But are we free to do as we will? No. The standard still stands.

" For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. Teaching us that, denyng ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly, in this present world: looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. " Titus 2:11

We are not our own, but are bought with a price beyond our understanding, even the Blood of Yahoshua. We offer ourselves up as living sactifices, our lives hidden now with The Master. " Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves. " 2 Corinthians 13:5

For it is not a harlot that will be presented unto Yahweh/Yahoshua at the Day of His Coming, but a chaste bride, prepared for He and He alone.

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Thank you, Yahweh, our Heavenly Father, for Your mercies and atonement for Your people. You are the One True Living God... and deserving of thanks and praise.

You sent your only son, Yahoshua who willingly sacrificed His blood to redeem Your pepole. We offer our lives in answer to Your call, Yahweh. Hear us O Yahweh, send your Holy Spirit to guide and teach us again that which was lost.

HalleluYah!

63 B.C. - Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
1642 - The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, MA, was held.
1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"
1780 - John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
1806 - The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest.
1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull was born. She became the first female candidate for the U.S. Presidency.
1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
1957 - Nine black students withdrew from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas due to the white mob outside.
1973 - Overthrown Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power. He had been overthrown in 1955. His wife, Eva Duarte, was the subject of the musical "Evita."
1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.
1990 - Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to attack Israel if any nation tried to force it from Kuwait.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.
1993 - The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord.
1993 - Blacks were allowed a role in the South African government after a parliamentary vote.

Job 16

2 Corinthians 11:2 " ...for I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a Chaste virgin to Christ."

There are many, unfortunately, that believe that making a "decision for Christ", saying a prayer, and going to church has made them ready for the Kingdom of Yahweh. But being a part of the "Bride of Messiah " means so much more.

On the Day of Atonement, Israelites were to fast and "afflict their souls." This was not some form of self abuse, but rather an examining of oneself, in light of Yahweh's law as they fasted and prayed. Then there was the offering or sacrifice for sin. It was to be a day of repentance and renewed seeking after righteousness.

Now our atonement, our sacrifice for sin has been made through Yahoshua the Messiah. But our need to examine ourselves is always there. Has any sin crept it's way into our lives, is there any attitude in our hearts that shouldn't be? Are we being all that we could be, or are we holding something back? Let Yahweh's Holy Spirit shine the light of truth on you, revealing whatever it may, and confess and repent through the Blood of the Lamb, Yahoshua the Messiah.

" Gather my saints together unto me: those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." Yahoshua the Messiah is the Sacrifice through which we come into the New Covenant, and it is by His Pure blood that our sins are washed away and our robes made whiter than snow.

The final work of atonement, being presented onto the Lamb at the Day of His Coming. Truly there is nothing in all the earth, no belief, no relationship, no sin that is worth clinging to, if it were to separate you from being caught up and gathered and presented to the Mighty Bridegroom on that great day. There is nothing in all this life that can compare to that glorious moment when we take our place in the Kingdom of Yahweh.

HalleluYah!

Great King and Master of the Universe, Yahweh/Yahoshua

Wash us clean O' Father that we may be ready for Your Coming.

HalleluYah!

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1755 - John Marshall was born. He was the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His court was credited with defining the principles of government and the role of the Supreme Court.
1789 - The U.S. Congress passed the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
1869 - Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
1880 - Sarah Knauss was born. She was the world's oldest person when she died at 119 years old on December 31, 1999.
1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
1960 - The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
1963 - The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty that limited nuclear testing. The treaty was between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1969 - The trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children's author is better known as Dr. Seuss.
1994 - Ten Haitians were killed when a firefight erupted between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians in Cap-Haitian.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 - The U.S. Federal Reserve released into circulation $2 billion in new harder-to-counterfeit $20 bills.

Job 17

Revelation 19:9 " And he saith unto me, write, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb..."

Churchianity has created quite an odd picture of the "Marriage supper of the Lamb", a picture which has no basis in scripture or tradition. In an ancient Hebrew wedding feast, the groom was there, the friends or those invited are there, but the bride does not take part in the feasting. Let's look closer at this marriage supper of Yahoshua.

" And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse: and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war... and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God, and the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." (Remember the bride was just clothed in linen, white and clean. ) " ... and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God... And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men..."

This is the marriage supper of the Lamb. It is a day of vengance and wrath. A day when all that exhalts itself against Yahweh/Yahoshua will be utterly cast into ruin. At His return, Messiah will overthrow all the kingdoms of this world, and His Kingdom shall stand unopposed.

Let us look forward to the Day of His coming.

Yahweh/Yahoshua, You are the One True Living God of heaven and earth, glory be to Thy Name.

Father Yahweh, keep the lies and darkness far from me. Lead me on the path of righteousness which leads to Your glory. Let me look to the skies and rejoice at Your return, keep me far from the evil one and grant me the discernment to choose wisely in every step I take and every word that I utter so they glorify You all the days of my life.

HalleluYah!

1492 - The crew of the Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus' ships, mistakenly thought that they had spotted land.
1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born. He was the inventor and builder of two steam-propelled tractors. They are considered to be the world's first automobiles.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the attack on Montreal.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1847 - During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces led by General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey Mexico.
1890 - Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced.
1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - 38 Irish nationalist guerillas shot their way out of prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.
1992 - The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million. The probe has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August of 1993.
1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.
2002 - In Karachi, Pakistan, seven people were killed and another were wounded by gunmen in the offices of a Christian welfare organization.
2002 - U.S. forces landed in Ivory Coast to aid in the rescue foreigners trapped in a school by fighting between government troops and rebel troops. Rebels had attempted to take over the government on September 19.

Job 18

Revelation 20:10 " And the devil that decieved them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever."

Do any of us truly understand "forever"? We live all our lives, conditioned to limits of time. But eternity has no limits. Perhaps nothing describes eternity better than the words of the old hymn:

"When we've been there 10,000 years; bright shining as the sun:

We've no less days, to sing God's praise, than when we've first begun."

Think about it, as the eons roll by, we still have the same amount of time ahead of us, our future never diminishes. For the redeemed, the bride of the Messiah, this is a staggering thought, and yet it is there, ours to have and to hold.

But time shall pass no different in the fires of brimstone, where even satan, with all his lying wonders and power, shall be in torment century after century, eon after eon.

Whether we fully comprehend the idea of eternity or not, eternity never the less stands before us, whether it be in a new heaven and a new earth, dwelling in the literal, physical Presence of Yahweh, or being tormented with the damned.

Faith and obediance are the best of choices.

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Clean our sinnful hearts and minds. Try us Father and make us new creations.

HalleluYah!

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1774 - John Chapman was born. He was better known as Johnny Appleseed. He planted orchardsand befriended wild animals.
1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.
1914 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.
1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.
1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.
1984 - Britain and China initialed a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The act states that an infant would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the mother and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia's presidential election and declared a runoff. The declared runoff prompted mass protests.
2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11.
2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalize a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.
2001 - In New York City, hundreds of people began the process of filing for death certificates for family members still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center. At the time more than 6,300 people were still missing.

Job 19

Leviticus 23:33 " And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord."

The seventh month of the Hebrew calendar came to be considered the holiest month of the year. One after another the holy days came, the day of Trumpets, the day of Atonement, and finally the Feast of Tabernacles. In this seventh month is witnessed the final scenes of our age: the return of Yahoshua the King, the taking of His redeemed unto Himself and the distruction of all who oppose Him and finally, the climax of the ages.

What a living witness unto Yahweh our God and the steadfastness of His Word. But the Feasts of Holy Days of Yahweh are witnesses which were meant to be "lived out" from year to year, generation to generation. Through the Feasts and Holy days of Yahweh children recieved a living legacy and a heritage which they could share with all their neighbors. A legacy and a heritage that was national, stretching from border to border: and yet it was more than just nationalistic.This legacy and heritage rushed forward to a day and time when all the earth would worship The One True God.

The Feast of Tabernacles is the final Holy Gathering commanded by Yahweh, and as such is the richest in meaning, a fitting end to the busy seventh month of the Hebrew year. Let us keep the Feast, with fullness of understanding, drinking in the depth and the breadth of all it means, and all that it gives witness to, and thus come away more enriched than ever before.

Praise be Your Holy Name,Yahweh.

Let me be a living witness to Your glory Yahweh. Keep me steadfast and true to Your laws and statutes all my life. Let me honor Your Feast Days with rejoicing and thanksgiving.

HalleluYah.

1779 - John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.
1840 - Thomas Nast was born. He was a political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey.
1928 - The U.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.
1938 - The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1959 - The Japanese island of Honshu was hit by Typhoon Vera. Nearly 5,000 people were killed.
1962 - The U.S. sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel.
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pled "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1982 - Italian and French soldiers entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut. The move was made by the members of a multinational force due to hundreds of Palestinians being massacred by Christian militiamen.
1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1996 - The Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
1998 - In Germany, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. The election ended 16 years of conservative rule.
2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea.

Job 20

Leviticus 23:42 " Ye shall dwell in booths seven days: all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord (Yahweh) your God"

The Feasts of Yahweh were always intended to make Israel look back, back to their beginnings. As the tribes and clans of Israel would assemble, they were given a renewed sense of racial and national pride. Not in the sense that they were to be the overlords of the earth, mind you, but rather a sense of who they were as the chosen of Yahweh God. This was not the mindless patriotism we see in our own day, but a patriotism based upon Yahweh God, for it was He that chose them, He that delivered them, He that brought them forth, He that sustained them and provided for them.

Israel was Yahweh's precious possession, and that is what set them apart. This would have taught Israel a patriotism centered on Yahweh and His Power, and taught them that if Israel would continue as a nation, they must rely on their Creator and serve Him in obediant faith.

It taught Israel trust. How do we know that Yahweh will provide? Because He provided for our forefathers for forty years as they dwelt in tents in the wilderness, feeding them the bread of angels. Year after year, generation after generation, the nation would celebrate the feasts, worshipping together, hearing the stories, hearing the law, learning faith, righteousness and faithfullness as a nation; and as such bearing witness to all the world of the Power, the Glory and the Faithfullness of Yahweh God.

Heavenly Father Yahweh

We ask that you continue to show us Your ways and be patient with us. Thank you for you love and mercy.

HalleluYah!

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48 B.C. - Pompey the Great was murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.
551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher Confucius was born. He dedicated most of his life to teaching, starting at the age of 22 when he opened his first school.
1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
1542 - San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.
1687 - The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1850 - U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.
1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.
1920 - Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted in what was called the "Black Sox" scandal. They were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1967 - The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
1985 - Rioting erupted in London's Brixton district that lasted for two days. The incident occurred after a black woman was shot by a police officer during a raid on her home.
1991 - Marion Barry, former mayor of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of crack cocaine.
1994 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu was assassinated. He was the No. 2 man in the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.

Job 21

Leviticus 23:41 " Ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month."

How often do we celebrate our faith? We are told throughout scripture to rejoice before Yahweh our God, to rejoice in Yahweh always. We are told to enter His Gates with thanksgiving, to enter His courts with praise. We are told that there is rejoicing even among the angels in heaven over a single sinner brought to repentance.

The Feast of Tabernacles also was a time of thanksgiving for the last of the harvest being brought from the fields. The Puritan colonists based their concept of Thanksgiving on the promise of the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast was not only meant to be observed, but celebrated, a time of rejoicing and praise and worship.

The joy of Yahweh is our strength. This is not some sensual or fleshly ecstacy, but an overwhelming gladness that can only come from being in the Presence of Yahweh God. We the redeemed have more reason for rejoicing than anyone else. People will crowd into a stadium and leap and yell over a sports event. They will excuse themselves , saying that they are simply "fans". The word "fan" is simply the shortened form of the word "fanatic".

Our culture approves and even supports "fanatacism" over the most ridiculous, the most trivial, the most meaningless pursuits that can be imagined; yet to show the same enthusiasim and fervor over eternity, over our Creator is looked down upon. While it seems that in our culture it is quite alright to be a sports "fanatic", or the "fanatic" of some entertainer, actor or other trivial pursuit, yet the term "religious fanatic" has only the most negative ideas associated with it. How odd. Isn't it ironic that our Father Yahweh considers Himself the only thing worthy of being fanatical about.

Let us reject the foolishness of this world and rejoice in so great a salvation as has been offered to us and be glad in He who brings us eternity.

Let us celebrate!

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Glory be to Yahweh our Heavenly Father.

We need Your help Yahweh, we are a stiffnecked people and fallen away from properly celebrating Your Feast Days. Please have mercy on us and again help us to relearn the proper way to honor Your special Feast Days so we can continue to pass Your laws along to the next generation.

HalleluYah!

1758 - England's Admiral Horatio Nelson was born.
1789 - A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.
1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead after only one month of serving as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.
1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.

Job 22

Psalms 119:54 " Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage."

What was David's "house of pilgramage"? None other than his physical body, which served him much as the booths or tabernacles of the Israelites as they wondered for forty years in the wilderness. We don't hear much about being "strangers and pilgrims" in this world anymore; not unless we look to scripture. There, uncorrupted by the philosophies and doctines of men, we find that this life is merely a pilgrimage through an often harsh and alien land.

The Feast of Tabernacles serves to remind us of the fleetingness of life, as we wonder through this world in the days of our own pilgrimages. This life is but a vapor compared to all of eternity, yet it is here and now that eternity is decided. Let us be mindful of this, that we might not become entangled with the affairs of this life, but set our hearts upon that life which is to come; and as we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. Let us celebrate being strangers and pilgrims on the earth and rejoice that we are "not of this world".

Praise Yahweh Most High, Father of all living things.

As we celebrate your feast, Father, help us to understand our place as pilgrims in this world.

HalleluYah!

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1399 - Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.
1630 - John Billington was hanged for murder. He was the first criminal to be executed in the American colonies.
1777 - The Congress of the United States moved to York, PA, due to advancing British forces.
1882 - In Appleton, WI, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operating.
1924 - Truman Streckfus Persons was born in New Orleans, LA. He later changed his name to Truman Capote.
1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1962 - James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register.
1963 - The Soviet Union publicly declared itself on the side of India in their dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
1966 - Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released at midnight from Spandau prison after completing their 20-year sentences. Speer was the Nazi minister of armaments and von Schirach was the founder of Hitler Youth.
1976 - California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.
1980 - Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
1987 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.
1989 - Thousands of East Germans began emigrating under an accord between the NATO nations and the Soviet Union.
1991 - Haiti's first freely elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras. Aristide was later returned to power.
1992 - Moscow banks distributed privatization vouchers aimed at turning millions of Russians into capitalists.
1994 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
1997 - France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1999 - In Tokaimura, Japan, radiation escaped a nuclear facility after workers accidentally set off an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.
2003 - The FBI began a criminal investigation concerning the possibility that White House officials had illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer.