Martha and Mary: A Story in 3 Parts

When hearing the story of Lazarus [El’azar in Hebrew] and his two sisters, Mary [Miryam in Hebrew] and Martha, I believe the top things that usually come to our minds are about his dying and being raised from the dead by JESUS/YESHUA’YAH and about how JESUS/YESHUA’YAH chided Martha concerning how she was spending her time vs her sister – by serving instead of being at HIS Feet.

1. The first part of the story is in Luke 10:38-42, where Martha welcomed JESUS/YESHUA’YAH into her home. This is where the verses go into the detail about Martha being busy serving while her sister sat at JESUS’S/YESHUA’YAH’S Feet. It is pretty straight forward but do not be quick to judge Martha, as the second and third parts of their story hold the keys to a deeper understanding of their situation in Luke 10.

2. The second part of the story is found in Yochanan/John 11:1-46. These are the verses that describe the time of Lazarus being ill and dying and JESUS/YESHUA’YAH coming to see Lazarus and raising him from the dead. Please see the link below to the study on this passage which contains something surprising. Martha was the one who had belief in HIM, Mary did not. In fact, Mary and the Yehudim/Jews around her who did not believe in JESUS/YESHUA’YAH actually caused HIM to feel troubled and angry due to their disbelief!

Is your belief in the MESSIAH [CHRIST] allowing HIS miracles or causing HIM to groan?

3. The third part of the story is found in Yochanan/John 12:1-11, Mark 14:1-9, Mattityahu/Matthew 26:6-13, and Luke 7:36-50. They all are the story of the woman who poured costly ointment of spike[nard] on JESUS/YESHUA’YAH which HE said was in preparation for HIS burial. This woman is Mary/Miryam, Martha and Lazarus’s/El’azar’s sister. We know this because of Yochanan/John 11:2.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
John 11:2 – This Maryam was the one who had anointed the feet of Yeshua and wiped them with her hair, whose brother Lazar was sick. [The names here are Aramaic spellings, a sister language to Hebrew and the language JESUS/YESHUA’YAH spoke during HIS life in a body of flesh.] Continue reading

OCA: Dr. Jonathan Lundgren and the USDA

More information about another government agency suppressing the truth and a scientist they hired telling the truth and losing his job for it! What has happened to righteousness and GOD’S Way in this country!

Our BELOVED FATHER in Heaven, Praise YOU and JESUS/YESHUA and the HOLY SPIRIT with all YOU would love continually eternally! Please reveal all hidden that is in your Will and Desire because in Scripture it says all that is secret will be revealed. Thank you for protecting the innocent and having the guilty be accountable for their actions. Please raise up who and what you want raised up and bring down who and what you want brought down.  In JESUS CHRIST the LORD’S/YESHUA HA’MASHIACH YHWH’S BELOVED PRECIOUS NAME, AMEN!  Matthew/Mattityahu 10:26, Mark 4:22, Luke 8:17 and 12:12.

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Skewering the Scientists

You might think the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) hires the best scientists, to do the most reliable and unbiased research, in order to protect the public.

But Dr. Jonathan Lundgren tells a different story. The story of a respected government scientist who is harassed, blocked from speaking to the media and publishing his work, and ultimately suspended—for speaking the truth. Continue reading

The Du Tillet Matthew: is it the correct one?

The previous study, where I first brought up about the du Tillet Hebrew Matthew/Mattityahu, included information that looked at the possibility of our present Gospel of Matthew being from a scroll written with errors in it. See link to previous study below:

Matthew 1: The answer to the question is 42 not 41!

I did a search on the du Tillet and found sites that had researched and presented their information on that manuscript, links will be included below. One site also had available an old book written and published about the du Tillet including translation in English called, “An Old Hebrew Text of St. Matthew’s Gospel” by Hugh Schonfield 1927. Below is from that book:

“In the spring of 1925 the writer purchased from a London antiquarian bookseller a small volume, dated A.D. 1555, containing the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew, followed by a series of Jewish objections to the Gospel to the number of twenty-three, also in Hebrew. The text of the Gospel was accompanied at the end of the volume by a Latin translation. A dedicatory epistle to Charles de Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, relates how Jean du Tillet, Bishop of Brieu, while travelling in Italy in the year 1553, found the Hebrew manuscript among the Jews, and brought it back with him to Paris, where he commissioned a Hebrew scholar, Jean Mercier, to translate it into Latin. Mercier, however, has a slightly different tale to tell. In his own preface he states that the Bishop of Brieu had extorted the MS. from the Jews of Rome for the purpose of examination. Confirmatory evidence of this statement appears in the fact that, on 12th August 1553, Pope Julius III. signed a decree for the suppression of the Talmud on the representation of the anti-Semitic Pietro, Cardinal Caraffa, the Inquisitor-General, afterwards Pope Paul IV. This decree was carried into effect in Rome with great ruthlessness on Rosh Hashanna (Jewish New Year’s Day), 9th September 1553, for not only were copies of the Talmud seized, on the plea that it was inimical to Christianity, but every Hebrew book on which the minions of the Inquisition could lay their hands. It is highly probable that the Bishop of Brieu found the Hebrew MS. of Matthew’s Gospel among the confiscated books.”

“When we turn to the New Testament we find that there are reasons for suspecting a Hebrew or Aramaic original for the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John, and for the Apocalypse.”, from Preface page vii. On the next page, Schonfield goes into information that states he believes the canonical Gospel to be an abridged edition of a larger original work with even more information then we have today of CHRIST and HIS sayings and of which only fragments have survived. He further states that he believes the Judaean Christians were going to use it as the last book of the Old Testament canon. It has been referred to by the names “The Gospel”, “The Gospel of the Lord”, “The Gospel of the Twelve, or, of the Apostles”, “The Gospel of the Hebrews”, and “The Hebrew Matthew”. He believed the original to be in Hebrew and possibly Aramaic and that the Greek renderings were from it and could be proven as such.

This is Gail: When I was in Israel I met a scholar who stated that he believed the Greek to be secondary to the Aramaic and that it could be proven through examining the translations if one knew the languages. I found out there is an Aramaic vs Greek primacy dispute between Eastern and Western scholars in regards to the original New Testament manuscripts.

Other studies on Aramaic vs Greek primacy and the du Tillet and other Matthews:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_original_New_Testament_theory

https://biblearchaeology.org/current-events-list/5043-third-century-syriac-translation-of-the-gospel-of-matthew-found

Technology Reveals 1750-yr-old Hidden Syriac Scripture

https://www.torahapologetics.com/language–word-studies/aramaic-primacy-of-the-new-testament

http://textus-receptus.com/wiki/Aramaic_primacy

https://jesusspokearamaic.com/shop/Books/Peshitta-Comparison  [Includes a download of a book comparing the Peshitta, the old Syriac, and the Greek NT/Gospels – but it is not in english. https://jesusspokearamaic.com/Libraries/Peshitta-Comparison/Peshitta-Old-Syriac-Comparison.pdf ]

Matthew.” in George A Kiraz (ed.), Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels: Aligning the Sinaiticus, Curetonianus, Peshîṭtâ and Ḥarklean Versions.  https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=matthew%20george%20kiraz&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results&ds=20

https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/4145/what-portions-of-the-new-testament-are-purported-to-have-originally-been-written

https://ancient-hebrew.org/studies-nt/greek-and-aramaic-manuscripts-of-the-new-testament.htm

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58158/page/n17/mode/2up
“The Four Gospels: A New Translation” (1933), Charles Torrey. Our Translated Gospels (1936), Torrey held that the four Gospels were Greek translations from Aramaic originals. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=charles%20torrey%20%22the%20new%20gospels&sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-topnav-_-Results

In “Caesar and Christ” by Will Durant, on page 616 is this paragraph which backs up what Schonfield said above: “The literature of Christianity in the second century abounded in gospels epistles, apocalypses, and “acts.” Christians differed widely in accepting or rejecting these as authoritative expressions of the Christian creed. The Western churches accepted the Book of Revelation, the Eastern churches generally rejected it; these accepted the Gospel according to the Hebrews and the Epistles of James, the Western churches discarded them. Clement of Alexandria quotes as sacred scripture a late first-century treatise, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. Marcion’s publication of a New Testament forced the hand of the Church. We do not know when the books of our present New Testament were determined as canonical-i.e., as authentic and inspired;; we can only say that a Latin fragment discovered by Muratori in 1740, named after him, and generally assigned to ca.180, assumes that the canon had by that time been fixed.”

On page 556 Durant says, “Orthodox tradition placed Matthew’s Gospel first. Irenaeus describes it as originally composed in “Hebrew”-i.e., Aramaic; but it has come down to us only in Greek.” This agrees with what is stated in the preface of the “Holy Bible: Ancient Eastern Text” by George Lamsa:

With reference to….the originality of the Peshitta text, as the Patriarch and Head of the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of the East, we wish to state, that the Church of the East received the scriptures from the hands of the blessed Apostles themselves in the Aramaic original, the language spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and that the Peshitta is the text of the Church of the East which has come down from the Biblical times without any change or revision.”

Mar Eshai Shimun

by Grace, Catholicos Patriarch of the East

April 5, 1957

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Tongues: what is the Truth?

There are big divisions in churches/congregations and with believers which are separating people. I look forward to the Truth being fully known when YESHUA’YAH/JESUS returns so believers can be united again and turn from what is not the Truth, AMEN! Tongues is one area of division but remember, it is not salvational. From what I have experienced/read about, some believe the Biblical gifts are not being manifested anymore, others say they are but not much and wonder why, many others are way too loose and not using the Bible how they need to discern correctly.

GOD/ELOHIM has impressed upon me that during these days of great deception, we need to lift up in prayer ANYTHING involving supernatural occurrences, dreams, visions, prophesying, healing – there can be false healing too, prayers we or others pray – especially praying for something but not asking for GOD’S/ELOHIM’S Will, etc. This is to protect us from deception, the will of our flesh, pride, other people’s wills, and error in beliefs, etc. GOD/ELOHIM is not going to take something from us HE has given but HE will take away what is not of HIM if we ask for discernment and help, AMEN!

YESHUA’YAH/JESUS did talk about night coming when no one could work which is from John/Yochanan 9:4 and I wonder if this is why the Gifts are not being manifested as much. I believe there is much deception replacing the Truth. This is an anti-christ spirit – something replacing the Truth. The belief that tongues are languages and are only valid when someone can interpret is Scriptural and what I believe. There are many who believe that what they speak, which does not sound like a language and that no one interprets, is tongues. So what is the Truth? Continue reading

Unclean spirits are real today, too…

JF, was obese and had numerous cats to the point of horrible uncleanness. Both are signs of a hold of spiritual wickedness. GOD/ELOHIM [Hebrew word for GOD] allowed me to be at the hospital when she was getting an x-ray and I got to see it on the machine and get a copy of it later. I saw three demons in her chest x-ray: a pointed eared elf like face with a large fancy necklace with gems was over her heart/left breast [She recognized the description and said her mother battled it. Her mother taught her how to contact spirits.], a tiny face biting on her where her pain was, and a boar with a long snout in her stomach. I believe from Biblical research that unclean spirits are a type of water vapor that inhabits the voids of our bodies because of sin. More on this in another study. Continue reading

The Jerusalem Channel – Get Serious with GOD in Prayer!

http://jerusalemchannel.tv/video/latest-video-get-serious-god-prayer/

The above link is to a good teaching concerning responding to ELOHIM [Hebrew word for GOD] and getting HIS attention through understanding HIS ways of communicating to HIM through prayer. Christine Darg and her husband Peter are behind “The Jerusalem Channel” which goes out from Jerusalem to the world. They speak on issues concerning our FATHER in Heaven, MESSIAH YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST, the HOLY SPIRIT, and what is happening in Israel and the world and how it relates to Scripture. Continue reading

CHRIST’S model of prayer, are your prayers answered?

CHRIST/The MESSIAH is clear that for prayer to be answered we must:

1. ask “our FATHER/ABBA in Heaven” in “JESUS CHRIST the LORD’S NAME or JOSHUA MESSIAH YAH’S NAME or YESHUA/YAHSHUA HA’MASHIACH YHWH’S NAME or ________, AMEN” [One of HIS NAMES is AMEN! HE covers all of HIS people even if they use an inaccurate name because of transliteration errors or spellings!]

[l Tim. 2:5; Heb. 7:25; I John/Yochanan 2:1; John/Yochanan 5:43 and 15:16; Revelation 3:14 see #6 below]

2. ask according to the HIS Will/Desire

[I John/Yochanan 5:13-14, see #5]

3. make sure we are obeying JESUS’S/YESHUA’S commands and that HIS Words are staying in us

[John/Yochanan 5:2-3, 13:34, chapter 15; James/Ya’akov chapter 4; I John/Yochanan 3:21-24; see #4] Continue reading

Happy Birthday YAHSHUA/JESUS!!!

Readers: Please check back as this is a study in progress.

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/newsletter/september-2000/feastoftrumpets [Scripture study on the meaning of Feast of Trumpets]

https://glclifestyling.com/2013/12/23/the-return-of-the-true-king-and-his-priceless-gift-of-270-days/

Please see the above link for the background information on YAHSHUA’S/JESUS’S birthday. YAHSHUA, my KING/SAVIOR, I know I failed in getting this out for YOU on 9/21 and I ask for YOUR forgiveness!!! THANK YOU!!! I will continue to work on improving our relationship!!!

May the whole world thank, praise, and bless YOU, YAHSHUA/JESUS, and YOUR NAME!!! [Matthew/Mattityahu 21:9; Psalm/Tehillim 118:26] Continue reading

Do many translations of YHWH’S [the LORD’S] Prayer from Matthew 6 mock GOD [ELOHIM]?

Below is YHWH’S [the LORD’S] Prayer from a translation of the Bible from the Aramaic Peshitta text. Aramaic is a sister language to the Hebrew and it is the language YAHSHUA [JESUS/JOSHUA/IMMANUEL] spoke while HE lived here on Earth in the Flesh. Reading this translation has been an interesting study because when comparing it to other translations of the Bible, patterns are revealed of hiding pagan ways, hiding demonic possession, and mocking ELOHIM which other translations, because of their word choices, hide. Continue reading

Song – Our BELOVED KING!!!

From: Psalms [Tehillim] 49:14, 50:23, 69:13, 116:17 [some translations say praise and some say thanks/thanksgiving], 145:3; [look at this link for all the verses that go into blessing HIS NAME] https://glclifestyling.com/2014/06/12/yhwhs-the-lords-servants-bless-his-name/  ; Proverbs [Mishlei] 3:6; Isaiah [Yesha’Yahu] 40:3; Matthew [Mattityahu] 3:3, 5:15-16; Mark 1:3; Luke 11:33; John [Yochanan] 1:3/4/9, 8:32, 14:6, 12:46; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11.

Thanking YOU for all!

The sacrifice of praise!

Blessing YOUR NAME!  [bow to HIM]

Praying for the Truth!

YOU our BELOVED KING are worthy of all

Worship pleasing to YOU! Continue reading