Our Daily Bread: The Book of Isaiah Study continued: Seek the Kingdom of YHWH first and rejoice:
Shabbat Shalom,
Good Friday morning it’s September 24, 2021, I pray all is well.
Today’s Readings and Scripture work will cover Isaiah 17, Isaiah 18, Isaiah 19, Matthew 6:33, and end with Psalm 13:5.
“Trust in the mercy of the Lord by seeking His kingdom first, and then our hearts can rejoice in His salvation!”
-JPCE Spiritual Talk
In the name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit. Amen!
Prayer of Enlightenment
Having received this new day as a gift, I thank you, Holy Trinity, for through Your
goodness and patience You were not wrathful with me, an idler and a sinner, neither have You cast me down in my sins. But You have shown Your love towards me and have guided me to keep my daily watch and to glorify Your power. Enlighten my mind to study Your word and open my heart to understand Your teachings in Scripture. Help me to apply what I learn and to praise You with all of my heart and to glorify Your holy name, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!
Isaiah 17: http://bib.ly/Isa17.NKJV :
17:1-7: Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria conquered Damascus in 732 BC…...Reference (4Kg 16 or 2 Kings 16 depending on your version of the Bible)
17:8: Their trees are making a reference to the Cult of Asherim/ Asherah, and in which they worshipped wooden poles.
17:9: The Amorites and the Evites were the indigenous peoples of Palestine who lost their land when the Hebrews came out of Egypt.
17:10-14: Woes and Judgements are considered not good for they decide to turn from YHWH they will be judged accordingly and will suffer many afflictions for their sins.
Isaiah 18: http://bib.ly/Isa18.NKJV :
18:1-3: The King of Damascus sent ships with messengers to Egypt and Ethiopia to appeal for help against the Assyrians. The orthodox study Bibles uses a Christological interpretation that can applied: The first messengers to bring Christ to this region were the Holy Family, reference (Matthew 2:13-15, http://bib.ly/Mt2.13-15.NKJV ): Tradition holds that the Evangelist Mark established Churches there.
18:5-7: Before the…...harvest, YHWH will use the Assyrians as sickles to force the vine to produce grapes. The branches that are cut off will be discarded, reference (John 15:1-8; http://bib.ly/Jn15.1-8.NKJV)
Isaiah 19: http://bib.ly/Isa19.NKJV :
19:1-16: This prophecy was fulfilled a few years later in 714 BC, when Piankhi’s 25th Dynasty rose to power, causing widespread domestic strife in Egypt.
19:1-5,12,16,19-21: This passage is read on February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple.
Matthew 6:33: http://bib.ly/Mt6.33.NKJV : But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
6:33: The Kingdom of YHWH: Is the central theme of the teachings of Yeshua, and His Righteousness and was the subject of His sermon at the Mount. He called us to be free from anxiety about silly earthly things. Instead Yeshua directs us to look and seek heaven, and then secure our faith that YHWH will provide needed earthly things and blessings.
“I no longer live for my needs but instead ask the Lord for my guided path. I ask Him to help to assist me in my decision making and for Him to help with staying calm in stressful situations. This is the first step in creating a relationship with our Creator. We must submit and discard the old person, and live the rest of our days living in the new. Seek Him now and He will do the rest, The Lord only wants your heart, give Him that; He will do the rest!”
-JPCE Spiritual Talk
Psalm 13:5: http://bib.ly/Ps13.5.NKJV : But I have trusted in Your mercy;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
“Today’s ending message is this: get your houses in order spiritually and have some things stocked up. Time is just time but one day what we have now may not be around forever. We are living in times of adaptation meaning we must use extreme wisdom moving forward. What happened to me last night can't be explained but my message can be. There is truly life after death, and now we have two options, good or evil. Continue to trust in Him, and rejoice at your salvation because you chose redemption; that’s real freedom, our eternal life with Yeshua!”
-JPCE Spiritual Talk
Prayer:
Lord, Lord, both day and night belongs to You, You formed the light and the sun and marked the bounds of the earth. And so we pray: let Your great mercy shine on our wretchedness like the dawning light; free us from darkness and from the shadow of death, and from all the attacks and snares of the evil one. For we proclaim the glory and holiness of Your name, worthy of all honor and majesty, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and forever, to the ages of ages, Amen!
Through the prayers of our holy Fathers, Lord Yeshua, Christ our God, have mercy upon us and save us. Amen!
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the Kingdom, the power and the glory of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen!
May YAHWEH Bless you all,
Jared W. Campbell
US Army Retired
