Happy New Year!

I’ve been most excited about this idea. The first day of the first month of the first year after being led out of the “bondage” we know as Egypt.  The Torah Portion, pekudei, concludes with what will be the day of consecration. The tablets with the 10 Words will be placed into the Ark of The Covenant and it will be set into its place, at the heart of the Tabernacle.  The Ark will be covered with the Mercy Seat, the bread of presence will be placed upon the table and the menorah will be prepared for lighting. There will be a burning of the incense and a grain offering.  The bronze laver is filled with Holy Water. Moses sets up and seals off the courtyard, the curtain is put in place.

This is the one year anniversary of the Betrothal! One year prior to this moment all the people said, “All that Adonai has spoken, we will do and obey.”  They accepted the engagement ring! They said Yes!  So now for the Covenant!  The marriage contract, the instructions for the bride. This is you and me 💖    Then Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which The Holy One has cut with you, in agreement with all these words.”
(Exodus 24:7-8)

The Mishkan is being raised, set up, & their purpose is clear! Our purpose is clear! ✔ This is the reason we are here. To build a Dwelling Place for the Shekinah! The Presence of The Holy One!  Exodus tells us how to do that. As you read your Bible take note when you come across the words Tabernacle, Sanctuary, Dwelling Place, dwell, build, house, oil, light, covenant, incense, bread. These are Mishkan references! This is our work! To make a home for The Holy One!

Look again at the opening line on this week’s portion, pekudei, These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
(Exodus 38:21).   Notice the word tabernacle? Twice in a row, means pay attention!  According to the chumash, the double mention alludes to the two Tabernacles. The Tabernacle on earth was parallel with the one in Heaven. Remember Yeshua’s words in Matthew 6,  “Your kingdom come,  your will be done,  on earth as it is in heaven“…..

Heaven and earth connected on this very day. Everything was done just as The Holy One said! No adding or taking away, no detail was ignored, no twisting the instructions to fit their way, and nothing was done to show off or attract a crowd.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of The Holy One filled the Tabernacle. Moses was unable to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud resided there and the glory of The Holy One filled the Tabernacle.
~Exodus 40:34-35  (Hear Exodus 40:34-35 in Hebrew & English)

The Holy One was everywhere! The radiant cloud of the Bridegroom-King filled The Mishkan  (Tabernacle)!  Moses couldn’t even enter. The Holy One was above, below, beside, around, and in this Sanctuary! Despite their blunders, He came down! Despite our own blunders, He will come down! ~ And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We looked upon His glory, the glory of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.
~John 1:14

The Creator of the Universe, Our Father in Heaven wants us to see we will never walk alone. The very last verse of the book of Exodus, For the cloud of The Holy One was on the Tabernacle by day and a fire was there by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.
~Exodus 40:38.

We will do and obey! Na’aseh v’nish’ma’,  We will build/do/make (Your Words into our lives), and we will pay attention/listen/hear/understand  (let Your Words change us from the inside out)! Join the Redeemed! May everything we do be according to what The Holy One has commanded, then we will understand!

From this week’s Gospel accompanying pekudei, Yeshua tells how He came down, to do the Father’s Will! To fulfill that beautiful covenant! “For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me. “Now this is the will of the One who sent Me, that I lose not one of all He has given Me, but raise each one on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son and trusts in Him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day.”
~John 6:38-40

Be Strong, Be Strong, and May you be Strengthened!

💗 Hallelujah Girl
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Olive You

You may notice that all liquids, when mixed together, will blend into a single “concoction”.   Except for oil, it does not intermix, it will always separate. It floats to the top, rises above.

From this week’s Torah Portion (Tetzaveh), Exodus 27:20  “Also you are to command Bnei-Yisrael , that they are to bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

Immediately after the various instructions about the building of the tabernacle and creating it’s furnishings, and vessels, and tools another mitzvah (commandment). A donation if you will, that the Children of Israel will have to keep themselves busy doing.  Only oil from the first pressing from the olive was accepted as fuel for the menorah.  It was only the first few drops that were “clear” (without sediment). Why select olive oil? Look how Israel is likened to the olive tree.

HaShem called your name— a leafy olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit.. Jeremiah 11:16

Let’s visit again the word pure in the Hebrew. It is always good to have a better understanding, after all, it is The Word of The Holy One!  The primitive root is zakah, זכה, meaning blameless, to be clear, clean, pure, cleansed. Pretty much, the true nature of Holiness.  The word olive originates from the word kathath ,כתב , pronounced ‘kaw-thath’, meaning crushed, to beat, crush by beating, defeated. The oil, שמן, shemen , meaning fat, oil, choice, fatness, fertile, and ointment. Then you have the word beaten, zayith, זית, meaning olive tree.

Consider the blameless, Genesis 17:1 says  When Abraham was 99 years old, HaShem told him to “continually walk before Me and you will be blameless”.  Noah was a righteous man, according to Genesis 6:9, He was blameless among his generation, he walked continually with HaShem.  Job was a man that was blameless and upright, he feared HaShem and shunned evil (Job 1:1). Satan tried his best, with permission from HaShem, to destroy Job’s righteousness,  but like pure oil, he rose to the top.

Yeshua spoke, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see G-d” (Matthew 5:8). Titus 1:15 says, “ To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving,  nothing is pure. Both their mind and conscience are defiled.” How is The Holy One to be in a relationship with someone who isn’t pure? It’s simple,  He can’t.  

The innermost essence of who you are is pure. It is only the Evil Inclination, the yaitzer hara, which prevents one from serving HaShem. Submitting to Our Maker, Our Husband, the Bridegroom-King, means in this relationship we must purify ourselves. We must let Him make ourselves clean by immersion in the Word, the Torah! Messiah gave His life (“not having stain or wrinkle or any such thing”) So That His Bride might be Holy! So that His People be set apart, like the oil! Always rising to the top.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What harmony does Messiah have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement does G-d’s Temple have with idols? For we are the temple of the living G-d —just as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from among them, and be separate, says Adonai . Touch no unclean thing. Then I will take you in. I will be a father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says Adonai -Tzva’ot .” Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of G-d.  2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1

💜Hallelujah Girl
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The Rock of Salvation

The Rock of Salvation
by Samuel Colman 1837

This is the program planned for all the earth, this is the hand stretched out over all the nations. Adonai-Tzva’ot has made his decision.  Who is there that can stop him?  He has stretched out his hand.
Who can turn it back?     Isaiah 14: 26-27

Prophesy, end times, and true prophets were some of the topics of conversation this week. The former blog “The Best In Home Security”, caused me to meditate about my own gates and placing Torah at/on/upon all my openings. The High Holy Days are fast approaching! This weeks Torah Portion, “Ki Tetze”, Hebrew for “When you go out” comes along and sparks a whole new light on what God expects of his bride. Comments were made to stretch my faith this week! Thursday, I saw God work through me, moving hearts and minds. I even rejoiced as one of my clients told me that she, after her appointment, went home and read Ezekiel 8 & Jeremiah 10! She went home and sought after Yeshua—after Truth! …in The Word! Let me just say, Hallelujah! I prayed with my “Mom’s In Prayer” partner this morning at 7a.m… Immediately afterwards, I get a message from my youngest daughter…who is on the verge of a meltdown….she is in college….she tells me its “stressful”…that it is a “struggle”…I know…she’s 19 🙂 I was headed her direction with the “supplies” and “$” that she ask for… and a gift! A rock! Yes, a rock! An actual piece of pottery that once was piece of a pot that held a sacrifice brought to Adonai!  Carried from somewhere to the Temple that once stood i in Kedomim, Israel… More about the rock in a moment.

Kedomim, Israel. The flags indicate the place where the Temple once was.

As I spend my week “going out”—you know, to work and such (hinting toward the Torah Portion, Ki Tetze (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19)), doing His Work! Trying my best to keep in mind we are in the sixth month, Elul, a time for Repentance. Rushing here, rushing there— Torah leading the way, pressing on getting ready for My Beloved, The Bridegroom! Believe this, Yeshua is preparing a place right now! This place is more magnificent than any other place you could ever imagine! Think of what you might describe as “Heavenly” or “Heaven on earth”— Pause— Get this—Whatever you just thought of—Truly, its like a gazillion times better! Shabbat, the Sabbath, Is the true picture, the glimpse, it is a taste of what your vision of “heaven on earth” just was. Shabbat is more than just a day, it is the 7th day! It is the only day of the week Adonai, Creator of All Things, gave a name to. All the other days were named by man. Named after gods, I suppose. Seeking The Father, following the way of the Messiah Yeshua, has led me to know that the Sabbath was made for man. It is rest. It is truth. Not Sunday, the seventh Day! Shabbat! He commanded we honor the 7th day:

“Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God. You have six days to labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Shabbat for Adonai your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work — not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property. For in six days, Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why Adonai blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself. Exodus 20:8

Twist it anyway you like these are the words of Adonai! It is the day He rested and He shares it with us! Shabbat has become—my favorite day of the week—even preparing for His day of rest has blessed me! The Lion of the Tribe of Judah is the focus of the book of Matthew. Look how Yeshua takes the lead on Shabbat:

One Shabbat during that time, Yeshua was walking through some wheat fields. His talmidim (apostles) were hungry, so they began picking heads of grain and eating them. On seeing this, the P’rushim (Pharisees) said to him, “Look! Your talmidim are violating Shabbat!” But he said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and those with him were hungry? He entered the House of God and ate the Bread of the Presence!” — which was prohibited, both to him and to his companions; it is permitted only to the cohanim (priests). “Or haven’t you read in the Torah that on Shabbat the cohanim profane Shabbat and yet are blameless? I tell you, there is in this place something greater than the Temple! If you knew what ‘I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifice’ meant, you would not condemn the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of Shabbat!” Matthew 12:1-8

In the time of Hosea the people were enjoying an abundance of material prosperity. From God’s point of view they had exchanged loyalty for pagan worship. Widespread idolatry had caused adultery, injustice, selfish arrogance, and spiritual ingratitude. Hosea had to tell them that although a loving God had provided their abundance and prosperity, their sin, disloyalty, and abandonment of Him would force Him to use their enemies as His instrument of judgement. See the parallel with today? Our country is prosperous; our people have two or more cars at every home, a computer, cell phones, and clean water. “The best of times”…However, homosexuality (the alternative lifestyle), murder of babies (when it is socially inconvenient), and people change spouses like changing their clothes. Matthew and Hosea khow that prophecy is pattern, not just prediction:

For what I desire is mercy, not sacrifices,
knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hosea 6:6

Jeremiah, brave and gentle, a patriot as well as a prophet spoke of two paths. One path leads to peace and rest while the other leads to disaster.

 Here is what Adonai says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask about the ancient paths,
‘Which one is the good way?’
Take it, and you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not take it.’
 I appointed sentinels to direct them:
‘Listen for the sound of the shofar.’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’
So hear, you nations; know, you assembly,
what there is against them.
Hear, oh earth! I am going
to bring disaster on this people;
it is the consequence
of their own way of thinking;
for they pay no attention to my words;
and as for my Torah, they reject it.

What do I care about incense from Sh’va
or sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are unacceptable,
your sacrifices don’t please me.” Jeremiah 6:16-20

Jeremiah is an extensive catalog of prophecies with the key theme being divine judgement in national life. God is Not dead! He is very much active and concerned! Jeremiah’s message from God to Jerusalem: “I will punish and I will restore”.

In this Torah portion, Ki Tetze, Moses delivers specific rules about proper family relationships. He continues with laws involving many aspects of daily living, justice, family responsibility, work, and sexuality. This portion contains 74 of the 613 commandments from Torah. Here is the one that stood out to me the most:

“If someone has committed a capital crime and is put to death, then hung on a tree, his body is not to remain all night on the tree, but you must bury him the same day, because a person who has been hanged has been cursed by God — so that you will not defile your land, which Adonai your God is giving you to inherit. Deuteronomy 21:22-23.

When I first read this, light bulb moment here, this is why Yeshua had to go to Hell. He had been cursed with the sin of man. My sin. Your sin. He took it—all the way to Sh’ol and left it there! He conquered the “Oppressor” that is talked about in Isaiah 14. The very same Adversary, Satan, that is slowly trying to conquer this world.. just the way Isaiah says! Read it for yourself. Hell is rumbling! Seeking to steal, kill, and, destroy.

At the beginning of this story, I shared with you how my daughter, Courtney, called me in some sort of crisis. And when I met with her I presented her with that piece of pottery (the rock). I told her how I read about the mitzvot (Deuteronomy 21;22-23), how Yeshua took our sin, our tribulations, anything we might face, and overcame! He took our curse to the grave and left it there! The sacrifice of His Body and His Blood is Redemption! God pulled us out of the miry clay and set our feet upon a Rock! The Rock! Our Salvation! We, the Redeemed, “when we go out” or any time for that matter, should never walk around like we are suffering, with our heads hanging down. Panic, sadness, pouting, stressing, and overreacting to problems/fear in anything but God are of the enemy. The Oppressor, the Adversary, Satan is waiting to steal any “Joy” you have! He wants to reign—Do Not Let Him! So as a reminder, this piece of pottery, which came from an Olive Grove in Kedomim, Israel, once held a sacrifice given who knows how many thousand years ago. (It was everywhere—once a sacrifice was given the pot it was in had to be destroyed) The Lord desires His Bride to be a living sacrifice. To say, “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine!” Seek Justice, Love Mercy!

Need a little more prophesy? Here is how Isaiah starts out chapter 14:

For Adonai will have compassion on Ya’akov (The House of Jacob) — he will once again choose Isra’el and resettle them in their own land, where foreigners will join them, attaching themselves to the house of Ya‘akov. Peoples will take and escort them to their homeland, and the house of Isra’el will possess them in the land of Adonai as male and female slaves. They will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors. Then, when Adonai gives you rest from your suffering and trouble and from the hard service imposed on you, you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Bavel: Isaiah 14: 1-4

Rabbi Jeramy Storch, at The Tabernacle in Branson gave a message on pride this Shabbat. I had most of this typed by the time I left to go to Erev Shabbat, just wasn’t ready to publish. Much to my amazement, these very scriptures in Isaiah 14 were in the Rabbi’s message. Look How The Lord continues to rain Wisdom and Knowledge! — Satan once seated High Above, as a covering over the very throne of The Almighty, fell.  Once the “son of the dawn”, now has built himself a place! Pride seems to be Satan’s foundation. Note the number of times the word “I” is used:

“How did you come to fall from the heavens,
morning star, son of the dawn?
How did you come to be cut to the ground,
conqueror of nations?

You thought to yourself, ‘I will scale the heavens,
I will raise my throne above God’s stars.
I will sit on the Mount of Assembly
far away in the north.
I will rise past the tops of the clouds,
I will make myself like the Most High.’ Isaiah 14:12-14

Satan’s desire was to be like The Father, to be greater than his own Creator! Notice how in Isaiah 14:4 says, “you will take up this song against the king of Bavel”.—This is Hebrew for Babel. Here we go with another reference to Nimrod, my friends. I am starting to see a trend here. Nimrod and his wife/mother, also known as “Ishtar”, have this son—Tammuz—(read Ezekiel 8 &  https://happydaymessage.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/the-path-to-peace/) who is said to be born December 25 AND he was “immaculately conceived”. Ishtar came to be known as a “sun god” and Nimrod, the “moon-god”. I am starting to see how the ways Roman Catholic Church was born. How idol worship is still happening…even unknowingly, the “Religious Holidays” the Christians celebrate in their churches, God says, in Ezekiel are abominations! Detestable!

So the question becomes, Do you hear the sound of the Shofar? Do you have your own way of thinking? Are you paying attention to Torah? Or do you reject it? The prophecy has been made! Adonai will give you rest from your suffering and trouble and from the hard service imposed on you! Yeshua will reign in Jerusalem and the Government will soon be upon His shoulders. This will come to pass. If you long to be a part, you must heed the words of Adonai! Follow Your Messiah! I’m looking forward to this permanent rest in The Kingdom! Shabbat every day, with Yeshua at the head of the banquet table! Stand upon the Rock that is Salvation! Stand upon Torah!

Happy day,

Hallelujah Girl

What Does Your Furniture Point To?

Friends episode, 9.23, “The One in Barbados Part 1”, first aired May 15, 2003. Rachel is about to tell Joey how she feels about him, but they are interrupted….

Joey: I play Dr. Drake Ramoray.

Sarah: I’m sorry, I don’t own a TV.

Joey:  You don’t own a TV? What’s all your furniture pointed at?

I haven’t had cable/satellite TV for several years now. I do use Netflix to watch television, if I am inspired to do so. So I was watching this particular episode of Friends (I never got to watch it while it was in syndication–I am a hairdresser). When Joey and Sarah had this conversation it made me laugh out loud! Then I slowly looked around the room…all my furniture was pointing to the television! It didn’t take long to remedy that situation!  I only have a futon sofa and a chair, so Presto! Change-o!  I long for everything in my life to be centered around the only thing that really matters!

The next day at work I had one of my weekly clients in.  She is 87 years old and blesses me every week with her visit. While I was drying her hair I told her about the episode I had watched. She laughed as well, paused, then spoke, “You know, you can sit anywhere in my living room and see the TV.” So my next question was inquiring what she and her husband would do with their evenings before there was television. The answer to this question was kind of beautiful, sincere, almost reminiscent about her evenings with her beloved, “Before we had a television we’d read a book, or a magazine. My husband always read the newspaper… Sometimes we’d listen to the radio… Mostly, we just talked.”  Makes me think of Little House On The Prairie. The Ingall’s family scenes at home in their little house showed them around the table, all busy doing something, eating meals together, singing, sewing, talking, reading, or homework. All portraying one-ness, Unity!

The message this past Shabbat, centered around this passage from the Torah, Deuteronomy 10:12:

“So now, Isra’el, all that Adonai your God asks from you is to fear Adonai your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being; ¹³ to obey, for your own good, the mitzvot and regulations of Adonai which I am giving you today.

If you notice in this verse (it should sound familiar), The Lord says this is for your own good! There is pleasure in sin, my friends, why else would so many people do it, be drawn to it? Beloved, the television today, is full of sin. Broadcast into our homes, feeds and babysits many children, and consumes valuable “family” time, allowing toxic nonsense to fill your mind and sometimes your heart. So what does your furniture point to?  Maybe it is time to return to more simplicity in our lives. Yeshua says, “Abide in Him, His yoke is easy and His burden is light”.  Look again at the verse above,  all God asks us is to fear Him, follow, love, serve, obey…. for our own good!  We do it for the blessings from the Throne! Yeshua (Jesus) states,

“The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one — I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.” John 17:22-23

The underlying theme in the book of Deuteronomy is Repentance. Yeshua states more than once, “Go! And sin no more”!  This Glory from the Father was given to us so that we (His Bride) would be united with Him! This is how true “relationships” work. So that they (That’s You!!!) may be completely one! The Father is waiting for your “About-face”!

Notice in the illustration above, this is how the children of Israel camped and moved throughout the desert. Adonai camped with His people, in the center. His plan was always that He would dwell in us and be our God. Lead us, care for us, and speak to us with the voice of a husband desperately in love with His bride!

Also, this I remembered from Torah Study:  According to the commentaries of the Chumash, in Numbers 24:5, when Bilam was praising the arrangement of the Children of Israel’s camp. He Says,

“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob; your dwelling places, O Israel!”

The commentary goes on to say:  Each family’s tent was placed with it’s door facing away from the public path, thus preserving modesty and dignity. Further Bilam even alluded to the great power of Jewish speech for purposes of Torah study and prayer. “Tents” refers to the study halls and “dwelling places” refers to houses of prayer.

Once again we see families united and blessed! Bilam couldn’t even curse them and that’s what we was brought there to do. Adonai was protecting His people, perfectly!

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 says:

“Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one]; and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources. These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them on your hand as a sign, put them at the front of a headband around your forehead, and write them on the door-frames of your house and on your gates.

So beloved, what should your furniture be pointing to? Is it time for an “About-face”? Time for repentance? There is no room in the Bridal Chamber for those not in true unity with The Bridegroom. If Adonai is your Father, Your Husband, and Your Friend, it is in your best interest to know Him! Center your life around His Perfect Love! Know Your Bridegroom Yeshua, Messiah! Learn His Ways! Walk with Him! Teach your Children! All the time!

Happy Day!