For yah's children by emaanne7

Tell the Children, Teach the Children That Bible and the Scriptures is Our History These Books are about Our Father Yah and His son Our Savior Yahushua Our Ancestors, Our Tribes, Our Sovereigns, Our Judges, Prophets, Priest and Warriors We are

Yisrael!

Psalm 78:2-4

We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the wonderful deeds of the Yah, about his power and his mighty wonders.

This work is written for our children ages 6 - 12 to study with their parents and on their own when able. This work is an introduction to the history of OUR people in the Scriptures, not the other nations. The other nations will only be covered as they interact with Yisrael. Each chapter has questions at the end that you and your children can study together and scripture locations are provided within each chapter to make study easier. As important as our recent history is, our children also need to know how far back our history actually goes.

They need to know that our history goes back to the beginning of time. I pray this Alm will be a blessing for our children and parents . It is FREE to ALL And if you would like a PDF, just email

emaanne7@gmail.com

Welcome Home Yisrael Welcome Home! 2

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The Tent of Meeting 140 The Ark of the Covenant 142 The Tabernacle 146 The Priest of Yah 150 Leviticus 158 Feast Days 164 Leviticus continued 173 The Wilderness Journey Part II 175 Moshe’s last tasks 179 Yehoshua leads Yisrael 187 Yisrael begins to take the Promised Land 198 Sun Stand Still 201 The Children of Yisrael divide the Promised Land 205 Enemies of the Children of Yisrael 207 Famous places in Scripture 215 The Judges 223 The Prophets 234 The Sovereigns 249 Melchizedek 250 Sovereign Sha’ul (Saul) 251 Dawid (David) 266 Dawid becomes Sovereign 272 Dawid goes on the run from Sha’ul 274 Sha’ul and Yonathan are killed and Sovereign Dawid returns to Hebron 275 Dawid becomes Sovereign of all Yisrael 277 Sovereign Dawid brings the Ark to the City of Dawid 281 4

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Sovereign Solomon The Temple and its Components Sovereigns of the Southern Tribes Sovereigns of the Northern Tribes Mountains in the Scriptures After the Exodus Yahushua Ha Mashiach Prophesy of Yohanan and Yahushua births Shepherds and Wise men seek the Sovereign of Yisrael Yahushua begins to fulfill his destiny Yahushua immersed by Yohanan Yahushua begins His Ministry The ways He touched the World He was a Teacher that Shepherded Yisrael He Heals He Performs Miracles Cast Out Demons and Raises the Dead The Pharisee, the Sadducees and the Scribes Things must be fulfilled Yahushua throws Merchants/Moneychangers fromthe Temple This not That! Iit is finished HE LIVES! Appearances Pentecost The Emissaries The Apostle Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul Closing Prayer References

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Author: Ema Anne From: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York Resides: Florida/Georgia/New York Length of study: Started this walk in 1995 I follow no camps (Brothers preaching on street corners), Congregations, Assemblies or doctrines. I neither encourage nor discourage others from participating and interacting with these groups or ideas. However, I do highly encourage you to follow these scriptures and always be lead by them in your life and in your studies.

You will NEVER go wrong or be disappointed when you do.

James 1:5-6 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of YAH that gives to all liberally, and without finding fault; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 For YAH gives to a man that is good in His sight, wisdom and knowledge and joyâ&#x20AC;Ś..

Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

Psalm 118:8-9 It is better to trust in YAH than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in YAH than to put confidence in princes.

Why did we, the Children of Yisrael, end up scattered here in the Americas?

Yah told us that if we broke his laws the following things would happen to us, but we did not listen:

Deuteronomy 28: 68 68 And

Yah shall bring you into Egypt (slavery) again in ships by the way of which I spoke to you, you shalt see it (the land of Yisrael) no more again; and there you shall be sold to your enemies for men slaves and women slaves, and there shall be no one to buy you(redeem you from servitude).

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Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you in the countries…..

Nehemiah 1:8 Remember, I beseech you, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, “If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations……”

Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you:

Luke 21: 20-24 20And

when you shall see Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

22For

these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Yerushalayim shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be

fulfilled. 10

During the period from Pompey to Julius, it has been estimated that over 1,000,000 jews (Yisraelites) fled into Africa, fleeing from Roman persecution and slavery. The slave markets were full of black jewish (Yisraelite) slaves.*

*From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of Ancient Black Races written by Rudolph Windsor. Page 84

70 AD

Those that went into Yemen, Ethiopia ad South Africa are still there. The following page is a partial list who they are. 12

The following is a partial list of the various tribes throughout north, south, east and west Africa who are descendants of the Hebrew Yisraelite nation: 1) Beta Yisrael/Falasha- Ethiopia 2)Abayudaya-Uganda 3)Tutsi- Rwanda

4) Rusape- Zimbabwe 5)Lemba- South Africa 6) Sefwi Wiawso- Ghana 7) Ashanti- Ghana Ga- Ghana 9) Ewe- Ghana

10) Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nai Ephraim(sons of Ephraim)Yoruba, Nigeria 11) Lam-Lam- Timbuktu 12) Katsena- Nigeria 13)Zafin Ibrahim- Malagasy Republic

14)Ibo- Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;Ś.

Sons of Ham or sons of Shem The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World according to written history were NOT NATIVE AFRICANS from Central and Western and Eastern parts of the continent, in fact these people have been historically proven to be descendants of EARLY HEBREWS (sons of Shem) THAT HAD MIGRATED FROM ARABIA AND MITSRAYIM, YISRAEL AND ETHIOPIA into West Africa. These people were attacked and sold by NATIVE AFRICAN TRIBES (sons of Ham) and Muslims to European slave traders who then transported them to North and South and Central America.

Notice that the name of the town on the map of the African coast above is DE JUDA (map on the left) and Whidah (map on the right). Both mean Judah. The people who settled here were from Judah (Yehuda) which was in the Promised Land of ISRAEL (YISRAEL).

In the maps are shown geographical locations of Hebrew cities and kingdoms that were later taken into Slavery. The First medieval African Map was Performed by the Sr. Danville Under the Patronage of the Duke of Orleans.â&#x20AC;? Revised and Improved by Mr. Bolton (1766) And another medieval African Map called Negroland and the adjacent countries also UPPER GUINEA showing the principal European Settlements and Distinguishing by Eman Bowen 1747 West Africa From the perfectman.org 15

Scattering Yisrael to the four corners of the Earth

This is the infamous Ouidah (Juda) slave quarters. It was the last place we saw as we were loaded on to slave ships. "As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim (which was located in Yehuda), so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Mitsrayim (slavery). And you will become a curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and you will see this place (Yehuda/Yerushalayim) no more.â&#x20AC;&#x153; Yer 42:18 16

We were loaded in the bottom of the slave ships and stacked like boxes till there was no room left.

And Yisrael’s slavery, the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, begins

We were traded for good and merchandiseâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ś.

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Yoel 3:3 3

“My name is Kunte Kinte” Why did they change our names? Tehillim (Psalm) 83:3-5 tells us exactly why. 3

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Yisrael may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

The slaves were Hebrews and spoke variations of the Hebrew language, not African dialects. The slaves had names like Malchiel, Nepheg, Abner, Joash, Demas, Hebrew names. They knew who we were and they wanted to make sure that we and the world NEVER found out who we were and are….

“The Apple of Yah’s Eye” 20

Acts 7 1Then 2 And

said the high priest, Are these things so? he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The Mighty

One of Esteem appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3And

said to him, Get you out of your country, and from your

family, and come into the land which I shall show you. 4Then

came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in

Charran: and from there when his father was dead, He removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell. 5And

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set

his foot on: yet He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child. 6And

Yah spoke in this way, That his seed should sojourn in a

strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage,

and entreat them evil FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. 21

Act 7:1-6 could not possibly be talking about the Egyptian (Mitsrite) slavery that Moses (Moshe) rescued the people from, because scripture and math does not bear it out. Jacob and his sons entered Mitsrayim (Egypt) with GREAT CELEBRATION in 1875 BC. after Yoseph revealed himself to his brothers and Pharaoh WELCOMED them into Mitsrayim and gave them the land of Goshen. Gen 45:16-20 For 275yrs, until around 1600 BC, the Yisraelites were treated with respect and lived in harmony with the Mitsrites. That is until a new Pharaoh came to power, a man filled with jealousy and fear of the Yisraelites, but slavery had not yet begun. In the year 1539BC, fear and jealousy drove Pharaoh to order the mid wives to murder all the male Yisraelite children when the women gave birth to them. Oppression was heavy on the Yisraelites but slavery still had not yet begun.

Slavery started when Pharaoh's advisers gave him a solution to stop the Yisraelites from prospering and growing as a nation in the land of Goshen, by removing the men. They would institute a plan of slavery by offering the men wages to work in Pithom and Rasmeses, rebuilding structures. Then they slowly began withholding their pay until finally they stopped paying them all together. 22

Yah’s children had intermingled with the Mitsrites and they brought their idols and gods into Yisrael, so Yah withdrew His protection from them and allowed Pharaoh’s plan of oppression to succeed. That plan was put in place and succeeded sometime between 1539BC and 1525BC. But even if we used the date of 1539BC for the time slavery began, the ten plagues began and succeeded in 1446BC and the Yisraelites were gone out of Mitsrayim and settling in around the base of Mt Sinai that same year, 1446BC. So they were treated miserably from 1600BC-1446BC which is 154yrs. But they were ACTUALLY ENSLAVED from 1539BC-1446BC which is 93yrs not 400. Therefore, Act 7:6 could not possibly be referring to the captivity that took place in Mitsrayim when our Beloved Ancestor Ya’acob and his sons, our Patriarchs were living there. The scriptures, the calendar and math does not bear evidence of that. Quite the contrary. That 400yrs refers to the current captivity of Yisrael today in these United States of America, the Caribbean and South America which started in the year 1619. 23

What the Pque says

This plaque reads in part as follows:

Just to the west lies Yisrael Hill, settled in 1810-1811 by approximately ninety formerly ENSLAVED PERSONS who received freedom and 350 acres from Judith Randolph under the will of her husband, Richard Randolph, cousin of Thomas Jefferson. These “Yisraelites” ………… 24

These two pictures hang side by side in the American Jewish Achieves at Hebrew University.

The people who will return to Yisrael â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Promised Land look like this.

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said Yah: and after that shall they come forth, and serve Me in this place. Acts 7:7 25

What did we Learn? 1. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains, What scripture is this a part of ? 2. Name the areas that the Yisraelites went when they the fled Yisrael? 3. What countries are the Yisraelites tribes in today? 4. Are Yisraelites the children of Ham or Shem? 5. There is other name for Juda, what are they? 6. What continents were the slaves taken to? 7. What did they exchange slaves for? 8. Why did they change our names? 9. What scriptures talk about us being scattered for 400yrs? 10. How long were we actually in slavery in Mitsrayim? Answers

WE SO CALLED… Black Americans Caribbeans Black South Americans are Yisrael Not obeying the Torah is why we are in the condition we are currently in today. Yah said…. "See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides (next to) Me. I put to death and I bring to life, I HAVE WOUNDED and I WILL HEAL, and no one can deliver out of My hand. Deut 32:39

Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr. nor Malcolm X could change what YAH has put in place. Nor can anyone else! Nor can any legislation! Yes, we can have individual successes, yes, but we will never thrive as a people or a nation until we respect our Father Yah’s requirement to observe His laws. 27

WAS THE TORAH ABOLISHED? The murder of Yahushua Ha Mashiach (the Messiah) DID NOT abolish the Law (Torah). See the following scriptures in Yahushua own words which prove this. Yahushua said, Think not that I am come to destroy the law (Torah), or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say to you, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till ALL be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matt 5:17-19

I looked up this morning and heaven was still there. Looked under my feet and the earth was still there. Heaven has not passed away, the earth has not passed away and neither has the Torah. 28

Yahushua also said, “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law (Torah) to fail” Luke 16:17.

Sha’ul wrote: Indeed you are called an Yisarelite, and rest on the Law (Torah), and make your boast in Yah, and know [His] will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the Law (Torah), and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the Law (Torah). Roman 2:17-20 Yohanan wrote: Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Law (Torah): for SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW (Torah). 1Yoh 3:4

We hear of the law being nailed to the cross. But let us examine what that actually refers to…….

What was nailed to the Stake (cross) by Yahushua’s murder. In Col 2:13-14 Sha’ul wrote: "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross (stake)."

It is the “Handwritten Ordinances that were against us” that were nailed to the cross (stake). What are the “Handwriting of Ordinances” that were against us? The commandments and traditions of men. The “ordinances” referred to are the decrees of the Pharisees that restricted and burdened the people of Yah. Yahushua, when speaking to the Pharisees referred to these ordinances as the TRADITIONS OF MEN. He said….. “Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. Howbeit in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of Yah, you hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things you do…Full well you reject the commandment of Yah, that you may keep YOUR OWN TRADITION.” Matt 15:7-9 30

The “handwritten ordinances of the Pharisees, the tradition of men” which were NEVER a part of the Torah, is what was nailed to the stake, not the Torah. Now there is a “Part” of the Torah that was done away with. Hear and understand what Sha’ul was saying to the Yisraelites in the Book of Hebrews: For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Therefore coming into the world He (Yahushua) said: “Slaughtering and Meal offerings, You (Yah) did not desire, but a body You (Yah) have prepared for Me (Yahushua).” 9 Then said He, “See, I come to do Your Desire, O Yah.” He (Yahushua) takes away the first (slaughtering and meal offerings), that He (Yah) may establish (put in place) the second (the body Yah prepared). 10 By that desire (Yah’s desire) we are set apart through the offering of the body of Yahushua, Ha Mashiach (the Messiah) once for all. Hebrews 10:4-10 4

What was done away with is that “Part” of the Torah that deals with blood sacrifices. Nothing else.

Yah’s Law was NOT done away with NOR abolished by Yahushua’s murder. It was and is evil, mischievous men and women (which Scripture refers to as evil prophets or shepherds) who have conspired to lead Yah’s people Yisrael astray for their own lust of power and profit. Or they are blind prophets/shepherds who lead Yah’s people astray not through malice, but ignorance.

What does Yah say through his prophets about their behavior: Isaiah 56:10-11; Jeremiah 12:10-11; 50:6; Micah 3:10-11 Yah knows how we are made, that our weaknesses keep us from obedience, but “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness” and His plan from the beginning of time was to provide Yahushua Ha Mashiach to be “an atoning sacrifice for our sins, not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world.” 1Yoh 1:9 and 2Yoh 2:2

BUT IF YOU DENY HIS LAWS EXIST YOU DO SO AT YOUR PERIL!

Who shall you trust, the evil or blind shepherds or The Word?

Choose wisely! 32

Our Father, The Almighty Creator,

The One who gives us Life has a Name 7 Thou

shalt not take the name of Yah your Mighty One in VAIN; for Yah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. The word “vain” in this context means to make his name empty, useless, futile, fleeting, or nothing. When you refuse to use His NAME you bring His Name to nothing. And He will not hold him guiltless who does this and teaches others it is alright to bring his name to uselessness. “God” is not a name it is a title and it is the same title that is given to what Our Mighty Creator HATES, idols and gods.

“The Lord” is not a name either. The word Lord is from the Hebrew word Ba'al, which literally means “Lord” and is the name of many deities (idols) of the Semitic peoples. Yah tells the Prophet Hosea to say this to the people: 16

And it shall be at that day, says Yah, that you shall call me Ishi (husband) and shall call Me no more Baal (lord). 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her (Yisrael’s) mouth, Hosea 2:16-17 That does not sound like he appreciates being called lord. 33

How would you like it if people stopped calling you by your name and instead called you the name of something you despise and detest! Think about that. How utterly disrespectful! But people will find all kinds of excuses to continue in this disrespect. The worst one being “He knows what I mean.” Please stop…. Sovereign Dawid (David), a man Yah talked with, wrote in the Psalms 68:4 Sing to Yah, sing praises to His Name: extol Him that rides upon the heavens by His Name YAH, and rejoice before Him.

There is a word we use almost daily when something good happens. “Halleluyah!” This is a Hebrew phrase which means PRAISE YE “YAH” When the slaves would sing kum by ya, what they were singing in broken English was “Come by Yah”. The were singing a prayer for Yah to come and save them.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Yah. Psalm 83:16 So throughout this work I will follow Sovereign Dawid and the commandments and only use the Name YAH when referring to The Most High. 34

Yah gave His Son His Name During the time that Ha Mashiach (the Messiah) walked the earth He answered to the Name of Yahushua not Jesus. The Name Yahushua means “Yah Saves or Yah’s Salvation” and isn’t that who He is.

His name was first changed by wicked men from Yahushua to Ioesus and then changed again, MORE THAN 1600yrs AFTER his life and death, to Jesus. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12 The book of Acts was written between 80-90 AD when people were still calling Ha Mashiach (the Messiah) Yahushua. So when that was written they were referring to the name of Yahushua, not Jesus. Proof of that is that there was no “J” sound in the Hebrew or Greek language at the time that scripture was written and there is no “J” sound in those languages to this day.

Additionally, the letter “J” did not exist until at least the year 1690AD. More than a century and a half after that scripture, Acts 4:12 was written. 35

By the way the translation of the name Jesus in Greek is “Hail Zeus” or “Healing Zeus”. Zeus is the “sun god” not the Savior. But what is absolutely appalling is that the mother church that put that name in place and requires all to call on it, knows that in Latin, the dominant language of that mother church, the name Jesus breaks down like this: JE = Earth SUS = Pig Put them together and you have EARTH PIG. That is what the church is teaching and requiring their parishioners to pray “in the name of ” - Earth Pig. And leads all the denominations under her umbrella to do the same. Jesus DOES NOT AND WILL NEVER mean or translate into Yahushua, Yah’s Salvation.

Only the name Yahushua translates to Yah’s Salvation or Yah Saves. NOTHING ELSE. And the name Christ. Christians have adopted the definition as “anointed” but during the time of Yahushua and His Emissaries it was an insult so they did not use it. It meant smeared. In later years the wicked Roman Emperor Constantine and his mother, Helena, worshipped "Christos Helios" which means "Christ-The-True-Sun (not son, but sun). It is a name associated with Pagan sun worship. The name Yahushua will only be used when referring to Ha Mashiach in this work. 36

How does Yah identify his people? The Fifth Commandment: 8

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it set-apart. 9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: 10 But the SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath of Yah your Mighty One: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger that is within your gates: 11 For in six days Yah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the SEVENTH DAY: wherefore Yah blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex 20:9-11 Obeying this commandment is your Covenant with Yah: 12

And YAH spoke to Moshe, saying, 13 Speak you also to the children of Yisrael, saying, Verily My Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a SIGN between Me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yah that does sanctify you. Ex 31:12-13

And Yah also said: 16

Wherefore the children of Yisrael shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a PERPETUAL COVENANT. 17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Yisrael FOREVER: for in six days Yah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed. Ex 31:16-17 37

Be careful that you do not unknowingly teach your children to break their Everlasting Covenant with Yah and Yahushua, by following the practices of the HaShatan (satan) or people he has cleverly placed in positions of power who will do his bidding.

Example: When speaking of the HaShatan the Prophet Daniel was shown the following by Yah: And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Daniel 7:25 What times does he change? One of the times was the time for the Sabbath which was sunset on Friday evening to sunset on Saturday evening. He changed the time for the Sabbath to Sunday. Did he make it a law? Yes he did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrate and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed.â&#x20AC;? Sunday already enjoyed special status in the Roman week. Named after the Pagan Sun God Invictus, Sunday had become the day when wages were traditionally paid to workers, making it a day of celebration. 38

Who is he? Pontifex Maximus Constantine, the pagan “High Priest” of the sun god Zeus/Apollo (Nimrod, and Tammuz) cult.

Constantine named himself Bishop of the Catholic Church and was possibly its first Pope. He enacted the first civil law mandating Sunday observance as the sabbath on March 7, 321 A.D. By the way Constantine lived his life as a follower of all things pagan and was not baptized as a “Christian” until on his death bed. Until then he worshipped “Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun”. When you worship on Sunday instead of the Sabbath of Yah you follow the paganism this man put in place. Paganism is HaShatan’s religion. Guide your children wisely. 39

What did we learn? 1. What did Yahushua say would have to happen for Yah’s laws to be done away with? 2. Which commandment talks about using Yah’s name? 3. Is God a name? 4. Is “the lord” a Name? 5. When you refuse to use Yah’s name what do you do? 6. What psalm tells us what the Mighty One of Yisrael’s name is? 7. What does the word HalleluYah mean? 8. Who wrote that Psalm? 9. What does kum by yah mean? 10. Why were they singing that phrase? 11. What does the title Ha Mashiach mean? 12. Was Ha Mashiach’s name Jesus? 13. What did the people call Yah’s son when he walked the earth? 14. What does that name mean? 15. What two things does the name Jesus translate to? 16. Does Jesus ever translate to Yahushua? 17. What is the fifth commandment? 18. What day is the Sabbath? 19. Is keeping the Sabbath your Covenant with Yah? 20. If it is what scripture tells us that? Answers 40

Our Ancestors Antediluvian Patriarchs

Adams - The first man Lived 930yrs His son Seth was born when he was 130yrs old. After his son Abel was murdered by Cain and Cain was forced by Yah to wander the face of the earth, away from his father and his mother, Eve gave birth to a son, and call his name Seth (which means set in place of). She believed that Yah had given her another son in place of Abel. Adam was 130yrs old when Seth was born. He lived another 800yrs after Sethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth.

Seth Seth lived 912yrs When Seth was 105yrs old a son was born to him and he named him Enosh. Seth named him Enosh because more and more people were born during that time and they began to forget Yah and how to live righteously. They forgot that Yah was their creator and that He alone should be worshipped. Instead of worshipping Yah, they began to make useless Idols and worship them. His son Enosh was born when he was 105yrs old. He lived another 807yrs after the birth of Enosh. Enosh Enosh lived 905yrs A son was born to Enosh when he was 90yrs old and his name was Cainan (Kenan; Cainan). He lived another 815yrs after the birth of Cainan.

Cainan (Kenan; Cainan) Cainan lived 910yrs Cainan was very wise and knowledgeable. He reigned over all the people of the earth and he shared his wisdom and knowledge with the people. He turned many of the people back to giving Yah His esteem. But not all the people turned back to Yah and there was GREAT wickedness in the earth. Cainan could see that in the future Yah would flood the earth and save only Noah and his family. He had a son Mahaleel who was born when he was 70yrs old. He lived another 840yrs after the birth of Mahaleel . Mahaleel Mahaleel lived 895yrs His son Jared was born when he was 65yrs old. He lived another 830yrs after the birth of Jared.

Jared Jared lived 962yrs. His son Enoch was born when he was 162yrs old. Jared lived another 800yrs after the birth of Enoch. Enoch Enoch was on the earth 365yrs. His son Methuselah was born when he was 65yrs old. Enoch was on the earth another 300yrs when he was taken up by YAH.

Enoch was a very, very special man. He hated and rejected the ways of men. And after his son Methuselah was born, he hid himself from them and spent his time with Yah only. Enoch only wanted to study the instruction of Yah day and night, seeking His knowledge and understanding. Praying and learning all his days. After many, many years of hiding himself, an angel of Yah called him from Heaven. Enoch and answered, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here I amâ&#x20AC;?. The angel told him to come out from where he had hidden himself in his house and go and teach the people the right way to live according to the ways of Yah. He did this for many years and then he hid himself again. 44

Methuselah Methuselah lived 969yrs. His son Lamech was born when he was 187yrs old. He lived another 782yrs after the birth of Lamech. Lamech Lamech lived 777yrs.

His son Noah was born when he was 182yrs old. He lived another 595yrs after the birth of Noah. Noah Noah lived 950yrs His son Shem was born when he was 500yrs. old He was 600yrs old when the flood came He lived another 450 after the birth of Shem Noah had 2 other sons Japhet and Ham, however they are not a part of the Yisraelite ancestry which is the focus of this work.

We are the beginning of Mankind

What did you learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Who was the first Patriarch? Who was the sixth Patriarch? Who was Lamech’s father? Who only wanted to study with Yah all his days? Who was Enosh’s son? How long Methuselah live? Who was Noah’s father? How old was Jared when Enoch was born? Who was Cainan’s father? Was Cainan good or bad?

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NOAH AND

THE FLOOD

The Flood When Noah was born his father was frightened of him because he had never seen a child like him before. He was born white as snow and talked with Yah while he was still in the hands of the midwife. Noah was an albino, not a Caucasian.

So Lamech shared his fear with his father Methuselah and Methuselah went to his father Enoch to get an understanding of what was happening and why Noah looked and acted as he did. And Enoch prophesied about the boy:

The Birth Of Noah, The Flood and The Earth Washed Clean From All Corruption From the Book of Enoch-Spoken of in Jude 1:14-15

106 HANOCH - ENOCH 106:3 And when he arose from the hands of the midwife, he opened his mouth and spoke to YAH with righteousness. 106:4 And his father, Lamech, was afraid of him and fled and went to Methuselah his father. 106:5 And he said to him, “I have begotten a strange son: He is not like an ordinary human being, but he looks like the children of the malakim (angels) of heaven to me; his form is different, and he is not like us. His eyes are like the rays of the sun, and his face aglow.” 106:6 “It does not seem to me that he is of me, but of malakim; and I fear that a wondrous phenomenon may take place upon the earth in his days.” 106:7 “So I am beseeching (asking) you now, begging you in order that you may go to his grandfather Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his dwelling place is among the malakim.”

106:8 When Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to us at the ends of the earth; for he had heard that I was there. He cried aloud, and I heard his voice and came to him; and I said to him, “Behold, my son, here I am, why have you come here?” 106:9 Then he answered me and said, “On account of a great distress have I come to you, on account of a grievous vision have I come near here.” 106:10 “Now, my father, hear me: For to my son Lamech a son has been born, one whose image and form are not like to the characteristics of human beings; and his color is whiter than snow and redder than a rose, the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun; and when he opened his eyes the whole house lighted up.”

106:11 “And when he rose up in the hands of the midwife, he opened his mouth and blessed YAH of heaven.” 106:12“Then his father, Lamech, became afraid and fled, and he did not believe that the child was of him but of the image of the malakim of heaven. And behold, I have come to you in order that you may make me know the real truth.” 51

106:13 Then I, Enoch, answered, saying to him, “YAH will surely make new things upon the earth; and I have already seen this matter in a vision and made it known to you. For in the generation of Jared, my father, they (the malikim) transgressed the Word of YAH, that is the Torah of Heaven.” 106:14 “And behold, they commit sin and transgress the commandment; they have united themselves with women and commit sin together with them; and they have married wives from among them, and begotten children by them.” 106:15 “There shall be a great destruction upon the earth; and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year.”

106:16 “And this son who has been born to you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die [he and his sons shall be saved].” 106:17 “And upon the earth they shall give birth to giants, not of the spirit but of the flesh. There shall be a great plague upon the earth, and the earth shall be washed clean from all the corruption.”

106:18 “Now, make known to your son Lamech that the son who has been born is indeed righteous; and call his name Noah, for he shall be the remnant for you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the corruption,

106:19 “After that there shall occur still greater oppression than that which was fulfilled upon the earth the first time; for I do know the mysteries of the Kodesh ones; for He, YAH, has revealed them to me and made me know; and I have read them in the heavenly tablets.” And Yah began to speak to Noah. He told him to tell the people to repent of their evil ways or they were headed for destruction. He also told him to build the ark so that he and all Yah gave him instructions to save and bring onboard would survive what he was about to unleash on the earth. Make you an ark of cedar trees; rooms shalt you make in the ark and shalt reconcile it within and without, covering it over with pitch. And this is the fashion of which you shalt make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 53

16 A

window shall you make to the ark, and in a cubit shall you finish it above; and the door of the ark shall you set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shall you make it. 19 And

of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 Of

fowls after their kind and of beasts after their kind, of every animal of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive. Gen 6:14-20 Noah gathered all the animals as Yah had instructed. Then he, his wife and his 3 sons Yaphet, Ham and Shem, entered the Ark. Once they were in the ark the water began to rise from the flood and ark rose off of the earth.

And all the earth was flooded.

Then Yah shut the openings of the ark and only then did He send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Yah had given man 120yrs to repent but they just laughed at Noah and continued in their sins until it was too late.

The people had been warned for 120yrs that destruction was coming if they did not change what they were doing, but the flood came and it was to late.

When it stopped raining Noah began to send out birds to determine if there were any dry places on the earth. It was a year before the earth was completely dry again. But Finally, Noah released a dove that returned with an olive branch in her beak which let Noah know there was dry land. And the Ark rested on Mt. Ararat.

Noah waited for Yah to give him instructions to leave the ark and Yah brought them out of the ark. They built and altar and sacrificed to Yah and He instructed them to go forth and multiply. Gen 8 and 9

And He gave to Noah and his family a sign that there would never again be a flood to destroy the earth. He gave them the sign of the Rainbow. 56

What did you learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

What was Noah’s father’s name? What was the size of the Ark Noah built? What was the material used to make the Ark? How many stories did the Ark have? How many years did the people have to repent? What did the dove bring back to Noah? Where did the Ark land? How old was Noah when he came out of the Ark? What was the sign of the covenant that Yah would not destroy the earth with water? 10. What was the name of Noah’s sons? Answers

Map of the Table of Nations And here is where they went

Post Flood Patriarchs

Shem Shem lived 600yrs His son Arphaxad was born when he was 100yrs old. Shem lived another 500yrs. Arphaxad Arphaxad lived 438yrs His son Shelah was born when he was 35yrs old. Arphaxad lived another 403yrs. Shelah Shelah lived 433yrs His son Eber was born when he was 30yrs old. Shelah lived another 403yrs.

Eber Eber lived 464yrs His son Peleg was born when he was 34yrs old. Eber lived another 430yrs. Peleg Peleg lived 239yrs His son Reu was born when he was 32yrs old. Peleg lived another 207yrs.

Reu Reu lived 239yrs His son Serug was born when he was 30yrs old. Reu lived another 209yrs. Serug Serug lived 230yrs His son Nahor was born when he was 30yrs old. Serug lived another 200yrs. Nahor Nahor lived 148yrs. He son Terah was born when he was 29yrs old. Nahor lived another 119yrs.

Terah Terah lived 275yrs He son Abraham was born when he was 70yrs old. Terah lived another 205yrs. Abram Abraham lived 175yrs He was 100yrs old when Yitshaq was born. Abraham lived another 75yrs.

What have we learned? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Who was the first Post Flood Patriarch? Who was his father? How long did Shem live? Who was Shemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son? Who was Shelah son? How long did Eber live? Who was Abramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father? Who was Nahor?

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Abram Abram is the first Hebrew Patriarch. He was born in Ur of the Chaldees, a city in Sumeria. After his father Terah died, Yah told him to leave Haran where he had been living with his family. He left with his wife, and all the people that belonged to him, and also took his nephew Lot with him.

When he moved from Haran he lived in Shechem, Bethel, Hebron, and Beer-sheba. They were going to Negev, but there was a famine in the land. So, they went to Mitsrayim instead where there was food. Abram’s wife’s name was Sarai and she was a very beautiful black woman. Abram knew that the Mitsrites were a wicked people who kill him if they knew she was his wife. So, they decided to say Sarai was his sister. When Pharaoh saw how beautiful Sarai was, he brought her into his harem. But Yah struck the palace with plagues for many days until Pharaoh realized Sarai was Abram’s wife and returned her to Him. The plagues then stopped.

When Pharaoh return Sarai to Abram, according to the Book of Yasher, he also gave Hagar, his daughter, to Sarai’s to be her hand maiden.

When the time came for them to leave Mitsrayim, Abram had acquired a great deal of cattle, silver and gold and they traveled to Negev.

After their time there Abram and all those with him left Negev and went back to Bethel, where he had been when he first began his journey. He had built an altar there and called on the name of Yah. Abram and Lot lived together for a while but they both had large herds of cattle and it was not enough room in the land for all that they had and arguments started between their herdsmen.

So Abram and Lot decided to separate. Lot went toward Sodom and Abram moved into Caanan.

While in Caanan Yah spoke to Abram: And Yah said to Abram, after Lot separated himself from him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are towards the Aquilon and to the Negev and to the east and to the west; for all the land which you see, to you will I give it and to your seed forever. He was looking at all the land of Caanan.

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if someone could number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I must give it to you. Gen 13:14-17 However, the land where Lot had gone, Sodom, was a land filled with wicked people. The kings of Shinar, Ellasar, Elam and Tidal King of the Gentiles came against the wicked cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim and Zoar and raided it. When they raided the land they took Lot and all that he had. About Lot He was the son of Abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother Haran. When Yah told Abraham to leave Ur with his family he took Lot with him. He was with Abraham from the time they left Ur until they separated from each other in Canaan because of the size of their live stock. He went to live in Sodom which was a town of cruel, dreadful people who practiced larceny, witchcraft (psychics). idolatry and even worst.

Yah had decided to destroy the town and Abraham pleaded with Yah to allow Lot and His family the opportunity to escape before the destruction. Yah sent two of his Messengers (Malakim) to rescue them before the town was destroyed. Lot is the father of the Ammonites and the Moabites. Bereshith Chapter 18 and 19

Abraham rescues Lot When Abram heard what happened to Lot, he gathered 300 men, armed them, overtook the army of the four kings, defeated them, freed Lot and took back all they had taken from him. Yah was with him. Before returning home, Abram went to the valley of Shaveh which is the Valley of the Kings. And there they met the Sovereign of Salem and Righteousness, Melchizedek. Then Melchizedek, Sovereign of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the Most High Yah. And he blessed him and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blessed be Abram of the Most High Yah, Possessor of the heavens and of the earth; and blessed be the Most High Yah, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.â&#x20AC;? And Abram gave him tithes of all. Gen 14:18-20

The picture above is an example of what tithes are-it was NEVER money. 66

Later, Abram had his first child with Hagar, Sarai’s handmaiden and his name was Yishma’el. But Abram and Sarai had no children. Yah appeared to Abram and told him that if he would promise to obey His laws He would make him a father of a many nations. Yah then gave Abram instructions to circumcise all the men who were with him. He also told him He was changing Sarai’s name to Sarah and she was going to give him a son. Abram laughed. He was 100yrs old and Sarah was 90yrs old. 16 And

I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? Gen 17:16-17 But with Yah nothing is impossible and Sarah was indeed blessed by Yah with a son and they named him Yitshaq. Abram followed Yah’s instructions and circumcised all the men is his house and when Yitshaq turned 8 days old he too was circumcised. As Yitshaq and Yishma’el grew Sarah felt that Yishma’el might harm Yitshaq and Sarah had Abraham send Yishma’el and his mother away. Yah promised Hagar that He would make a great nation of Yishma’el. But the promise stayed with Yitshaq. 67

The Book of Yasher relates how there came a time when Satan challenged Abraham’s love for Yah. Yah proved to Satan that there was no question of Abraham’s love and loyalty to Him. He told Abraham to take Yitshaq to

Moriah and sacrifice him there. A broken hearted Abraham took Yitshaq to Moriah and was willing to take the life of his most beloved son because Yah told him to. Yah stopped Abraham before he could sacrificed his son and substituted a ram in Yitshaq’s place. 12 And

He said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that you do fear Yah, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me. Gen 22:2 And Yah spoke to Abraham again: 16 and

said, By myself I have sworn, said Yah, for because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son;

17 that

in blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gates of his enemies; 18 and

in your seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed because you have hearkened to My voice. Gen. 22:16-18 Sarah died during that time and all who knew her came to Abraham and mourned many days with him. 1 And

Sarah was one hundred and twenty-seven years old; these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. Gen 23:1-2

Yitshaq and Sarah were very close and her death was very hard on him. Abraham decided at that time that Yitshaq should have a wife. He sent his most trusted servant Put, to secure a wife for him from his people and made him promise to never take a wife who was an idol worshipping Canaanite.

When he got to Nahor, he stopped at a well and had the camel’s kneel as he did and he prayed for Yah to show him the woman who could become Yitshaq’s wife. And Yah showed him Rebekah.

He spoke with her and found out she was “the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor. Rebekah took Put to her home where he spoke to her family. Put told them all Abraham had instructed him to do and showed them the dowry. The family asked her if she wanted to accept the marriage proposal and she consented. Put gave her family the dowry and took her to meet Yitshaq. Genesis 24:15 70

And Yitshaq went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming. 64And

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Yitshaq, she lighted off the camel. 65For she had said to the servant, What man is this that walks in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. 67â&#x20AC;Ś.she became his wife; and he loved her: and Yitshaq was comforted after his mother's death. Gen. 24:63-67 Some time after Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death Abraham married a woman named Keturah. She had 6 sons for Abraham named Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian. Ishbak and Shuah. He lavished them with gifts but sent them away from his son Yitshaq into the east country. And the covenant promise remained with Yitshaq. Then Abraham died when he had lived and walked the earth for 175yrs. 71

8Then

Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. 9And his sons Yitshaq and Yishmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;el buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

The field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. Gen 25:8-10

What have you learned? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Where was Abram born? What did Yah promise Abraham? What was the name of Abraham’s wife? What was the name of Abraham’s nephew? What was Abraham’s name before Yah changed it? Why did Abraham take the family to Mitsrayim? Where did they go when they left Mitsrayim? Why did Abraham and Lot separate? Where did Lot go when they separated? Where did Abraham go when they separated? Why did Abraham have to rescue Lot? Where did Abraham go after he rescued Lot? What was the name of his first son? What was the name of that son’s mother? How old was Sarah when she gave birth to Yitshaq? Did Hagar leave Abraham and if so why? Who did Abraham marry after Sarah died? How many sons did he have with her? How old was Abraham when he died? Where is Abraham buried?

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Yitshaq (Isaac) Yitshaq lived about 147yrs Yitshaq was 60yrs old when Ya'acob and his twin Esau were born. Yitshaq lived another 87yrs Yitshaq was the son of Abraham and Sarah. He is the second Hebrew Patriarch and “The Promise went” to him upon Abraham’s death. Yitshaq was about 34yrs old when Yah told Abraham to kill him. When Yitshaq realized Yah had told his father to kill him he climbed onto the altar of sacrifice. Just like Abraham, if it seemed good in Yah’s eyes to take his life then let Yah’s will be done. Yah spared his life and gave Abraham another sacrifice to put on the altar in place of Yitshaq. Before Abraham died he wanted to secure a wife for his son Yitshaq. He sent his faithful servant to Ara-naharaim, to the city of Nahor. He made his servant promise not to take a wife for Yitshaq from the idol worshipping Canaanites.

He gave the servants 10 camels and jewelry to give to the family of the bride as gifts.

Yah lead him to a damsel at a watering trough there. Her name was Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. He followed her to her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home and asked if she could go with him to become Yitshaqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife. The family asked her if she wanted to go with him and she consented and the dowry was given. Put took her to Yitshaq to become his wife and she helped him get over the loss of his mother Sarah. 20 and

Yitshaq was forty years old when he took Rebekah as his wife, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Aramean. 21 And

Yitshaq prayed to Yah for his wife because she was barren; and Yah accepted him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 75

22 And

the sons struggled together within her; and she said, If this is so, why should I live? And she went to enquire of Yah. 23 And

Yah said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two manner of peoples shall be separated from your bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. Gen 25:20-23 When they were born Esau was the first twin to be born, which made him the elder son. After the boys were born there was a famine in the land and at Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instructions Yitshaq took the family to Gerer in the territory of the Caanan. 2 And

then Yah appeared to him and said, Do not go down into Mitsrayim; dwell in the land which I shall tell you; 3 abide

in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will confirm the oath which I swore to Abraham your father; 4 and

I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give to your seed all these lands, and in your seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed. Gen 26:2-4 76

Now Rebekah was very beautiful so Yitshaq told the people of the land that Rebekah was his sister for fear that they might kill him. Then one day King Abimilech saw Yitshaq behaving with Rebekah like a husband and not a brother and he became angry with Yitshaq. He told him that one of the men of the city might have tried to have her for a wife which would have bought plagues upon the city. The King made a law that no one was to bother Rebekah or Yitshaq and Yah also blessed him during this time.

Yitshap prospered there and became very wealthy. The people took notice and became jealous, so Yitshaq knew it was time to leave. And Yah continued with them.

One day (after they had become adults) Ya'acob was cooking some food. Esau came in from the field and he asked his brother for some of what he was cooking. Ya'acob told him he would if Esau would sell him his birthright. (A birthright was an honor given to the firstborn, bestowing “head of household” status and the right to inherit his father’s estate. The son with the birthright would receive a double portion of whatever was passed down. But most importantly he would serve as Yah’s Priest for the family.) Esau agreed without hesitation. When Yitshaq felt it was his time to die he wanted to give his sons their blessings and he wanted to enjoy the red stew his favorite son Esau always made as he blessed them. Rebekah favored Ya’acob and she told Ya'acob to make the red stew, disguise himself as Esau, deceive his father and take Esau’s blessing. So he cooked the red stew, took it to his father disguised as Esau and made Yitshaq think that he was Esau. Ya'acob fed his father the stew, and when Yitshaq asked him if he was Esau Ya’acob lied and said yes. Yitshaq then gave him the blessing meant for Esau. 78

Then, Esau came in from the field told Yitshaq he was back and was going to cook the stew he wanted. At that point Yitshaq realized he had been deceived by Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acob. He had to tell Esau that he had been tricked into giving his blessing to Ya'acob. (A blessing could be given regardless of birthright. However, a greater blessing was given to the one who held the birthright.)

Yitshaq was quite upset at the trickery of his wife and son. But not as upset as Esau who threatened to kill Ya'acob. Yitshaq and Rebekah thought it best to send Ya'acob to Haran to her brother Laban to save him from Esau. Now remember Yah had already said: 23..and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. Gen 25:23 So this trickery was so unnecessary. Ya'acob rightfully and legally owned Esauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthright, but the blessing he got through trickery planned by his mother.

The birthright would have given Esau the superior place in the family and a double portion of the material inheritance. But as the one with the birthright, he would have also acted as the priest for the family. But the spiritual did not interest Esau.

Since Esau placed such little value for his birthright and the gift of being a Priest of Yah, Yah hates Esau and his descendants. 13 As

it is written, Ya'acob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Rom 9:13

Esau was given a blessing but it was an inferior blessing compared to what Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acob received.

The Book of Yasher explains that when Ya'acob fled to the land of Haran, he was a very wealthy man and his brother Esau knew it. So he sent his son Eliphaz to rob and kill Ya'acob when he left on his journey. But when Eliphaz tracked him down, Ya'acob begged Eliphaz to take all he had only spare his life. And Yah caused Eliphaz to have mercy on Ya'acob and Eliphaz let him live.

Ya’acob Ya’acob went to Haran in poverty and with a heavy heart.

One night Yah spoke to Ya'acob in a dream and told him that the promise that he had given to Yitshaq was now passed to him. His Seed would be blessed and his nation will have more descendants than the sands of the earth. When he arrived in Haran Ya'acob met his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel while she was watering her father’s flock. He told her that he was the son of her father’s sister and he wept. His deceptions caused his life to be very hard. He lost everything and had to leave his home or be murdered by his brother. Rachel took him to her father and Laban greeted him lovingly. Ya'acob told him all that Esau had done to him. Laban welcomed him and showed him great compassion.

At first.

Laban only had 2 daughters, Leah and Rachel, no sons. Ya'acob fell in love with Rachel. He told Laban that he would work for him for seven years if he would give Rachel to him to be his wife. Laban having no sons welcomed the idea of Ya'acob coming to work for him.

Ya'acob completed the seven years of work and Laban gave a great wedding feast. But he tricked Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acob on the wedding night by sneaking Leah into the marriage bed instead of Rachel. Ya'acob was very angry when he realized what had been done to him. Laban told him that their custom was for the older daughter to marry first. He would have to work another 7 years for Rachel. He worked the 7yrs as a dowry for Rachel. When Rebekah thought it was safe, she sent for Ya'acob to come home, but Laban offered him wages to stay another 6yrs. Ya'acob agreed to stay, but what he wanted was a certain type of offspring from the live stock as payment for his services. Ya'acob must have known about animal genetics, because as time went by the speckled livestock he requested as payment began to produce a more bountiful and hardy stock than Labanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. 82

Resentment began to grow toward Ya'acob because of this and he realized it might be time to move on. Ya'acob decided to leave Haran, go home and take his chances with Esau. He gathered his wives, handmaidens, his 11 sons (Benjamin being born later near Bethlehem) and the people who worked for him and left Haran before Laban could interfere. But Laban caught up with them on the road and was very angry that Ya'acob had not let him say goodbye to his family. And his daughters had also taken the useless idols he treasured so much and he wanted them back. They all stayed together that night and in the morning, they parted and Ya'acob headed home. Jacob had sent his servants to seek out Esau and tell him he was returning home, but Laban had already sent a message to Esau that his brother was coming home and if he wanted to kill him he would not interfere. 83

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the messengers returned to Ya'acob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him. 7 Then

Ya'acob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep and the cows and the camels, into two bands. 8 and said, If Esau comes to the one company and smites it, then the other company which is left shall escape. Gen 32:6-8

When all were gone and he was left alone he put his hands together and prayed to Yah for protection.

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Ya'acob said, O Mighty One of my father Abraham and Mighty One of my father Yitshaq, Yah who said to me, Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you. 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have showed to Your slave; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands. 11 Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him lest he come and smite me and the mother with the children. 12 And You have said, I will surely do you good and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 13 And he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother: 14 two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred sheep and twenty rams, 15 thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his slaves, every drove by themselves and said to his slaves, Pass before me and put a space between drove and drove. Gen 32:9-16 And he commanded 2 similar groups which followed behind the first 2 to repeat this process. 85

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you shall also say, Behold, your slave Ya'acob is behind us. For he said, I will reconcile his wrath with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face; maybe he will accept me. 21 So

the presents went over before him, and he lodged that night in the company. And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two women servants and his eleven sons and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them and sent them over the brook and sent over all that he had. And Ya'acob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. And when the Man saw that He did not prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with Him. 26 And He said, Let Me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go except You bless me. 27 And He said to him, What is your name? and he said, Ya'acob. 28 And He said, your name shall no longer be called Ya'acob, but Yisrael; for you hast fought with Yah and with men, and hast prevailed. Gen 32:3-36 86

The next day Esau came to Ya’acob. Ya’acob bowed to him and they embraced. Esau welcomed him and his entire band of people home. Although Esau welcomed his brother home and invited him to stay with him in Seir, Ya'acob took his family and the people with him and settled in Shechem. They stayed there until the sons of Ya'acob killed all the males of the city and took all they had of value for assaulting their sister Dinah. They then traveled to Bethel, where Yah told Ya’acob again that his name was now Yisrael and that the land of promise which he swore to give to Abraham’s descendant would now be his and that he would make a great nation from his loins. On the way to a place called Ephrath, Rachel went into labor and gave birth to the last of the twelve Patriachs, Benjamin and she died giving birth to him. Yitshaq died in those days and he was 185yrs old. Esau and Ya’acob came together to bury their father.

What did you learn? 1. What was Yitshaq’s mothers name? 2. Who found Rebekah? 3. Did Abraham want a wife for Yitshaq from the Canaanites women? True or False 4. How many camels were given to Rebekah’s family? 5. What was Rebekah’s father’s name? 6. Which of Rebekah’s sons did she love the most? 7. Why did Esau sell his birthright to Ya'acob? 8. What did Yitshaq want Esau to bring him? 9. Does Yah love Esau? 10. Who robbed Ya'acob? 11. Who told him to rob Ya'acob 12. Who did Ya'acob want to marry? 13. How many years did he have to work for her? 14. What happened when Rebekah wanted Ya'acob to come home? 15. Why did Laban’s workers get mad a Ya'acob? 16. How many groups of gifts did Ya'acob send to Esau? 17. What happened when the man Ya'acob and the Man stopped fighting? 18. How did Esau treat Ya'acob when they met? 19. Where did Ya'acob take his family to live? 20. What brother did Yah say would serve the other? Answers 88

The Twelve Tribes of Yisrael

Their came a time when there was a famine in the land of Canaan and Ya'acob had to send his sons into Mitsrayim to buy foodâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ś

Introduction to the Patriarchs Yoseph, the 11th son of Ya'acob, was his favorite son. His brothers knew this and they hated him because of it. Yoseph had a dream and in the dream, he was in a position of power. He told the dream to his brothers and that made them hate him even more and some of the brothers decided to kill him. Instead Yehuda convinced them to sell him to a passing ban of Yishmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;elites. And the Yishmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;elites sold him in Mitsrayim (Egypt) and after many trials, Yah blessed him and made him indispensable in Mitsrayim and he became a major ruler there. Years later when there was a famine in the land and Ya'acob sent his sons to Mitsrayim to buy food, it was Yoseph who they had to buy from. He recognized them but they did not recognize him. And the dream that the brother hated him for turned out to be a blessing for them all when they were welcomed into the land Mitsrayim.

Now let us meet the Patriarch! Reuben The first son of Ya'acob. His motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Leah. He was a compassionate man who warned his brothers not to let their jealousy lead them to kill their brother Yoseph.

When Ya'acob and his sons were welcomed into Mitsrayim, Reuben took 4 sons with him. When they left Mitsrayim the tribe of Reuben had 151,450 of his descendants. Simeon The second son of Ya'acob. He was the son of Leah also. Simeon and his brother Levi wiped out all the men in Shechem (the Hivites) when one of the men of that city abused their sister Dinah. Simeon was also one of the brothers that wanted to kill Yoseph. When the sons of Ya'acob went down to Mitsrayim to buy food during a famine, Yoseph required Simeon to be kept in Mitsrayim until they brought their younger brother Binyaminn (Benjamin) back to him. When they were welcomed into Mitsrayim, Simeon took 6 sons with him and when they left the tribe of Simeon had 59,300 of his descendants. 91

Levi The third son of Ya'acob. His mother was also Leah. Along with his brother Simeon, he wiped out all the men in Shechem (the Hivites) when their sister Dinah was abused. He was also one of the brothers that plotted to kill Yoseph. These 3 sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; families became the three divisions of the Levites (Gershon, Kohas, Merari). Levi took 3 sons with him when they were welcomed into Mitsrayim and when they left Mitsrayim the tribe of Levi had 22,000 descendants. This is the tribe of Moshe and Aaron. Yehuda (Judah) The fourth son of Ya'acob. He was the son of Leah also. He took part in the plundering of Shechem once Levi and Simeon had killed all the males.

Rather than killing Yoseph, Yehuda was the one that convinced the brothers to sell him. It is important to understand that Yehuda had a change of heart and did not want to kill his brother. Selling him was not for the money. The brothers had to go to Mitsrayim to buy food a second time and this time they had to bring Binyamin or they would be punished by Yoseph who still held Simeon prisoner. Yehuda is the ancestor of both Sovereign Dawid and our Yahushau our Ha Mashiach. Matt. 1:1-16 92

So they brought Binyamin with them as Yoseph had asked and when it was time for them to leave Yoseph threatened to keep Binyamin too. It was Yehudaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passionate plea to Yoseph not keep his brother because it would kill his father, that made Yoseph finally reveal who he was to his brothers. He told Pharaoh they were his brothers and Pharaoh told him to bring his family into Mitsrayim.

The sons of Ya'acob went and got their father and reunited him with his sons Yoseph and Simeon. They were welcomed with great celebration and were given the very best land to live in, the land of Goshen. When they were welcomed into Mitsrayim, Yehuda took 3 sons with him and when they left the tribe of Yehuda had 76,500 of his descendants. Dan The fifth son of Ya'acob. His motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Bilhah, the hand maid of Rachel. When Ya'acob was welcomed into Mitsrayim, Dan had one son and when they left the tribe of Dan had 62,700 descendants.

Naphtali The sixth son of Ya'acob. He also was the son of Bilhah. When Ya'acob was welcomed into Mitsrayim, Naphtali had four sons and when they left the tribe of Naphtali had 53,400 descendants. Gad The seventh son of Ya'acob. His motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Zilpah the handmaid of Leah. When Ya'acob was welcomed into Mitsrayim Gad had seven sons and when they left the tribe of Gad had 45,650 descendants. Asher The eighth son of Ya'acob. He was also the son of Zilpah. When Ya'acob was welcomed into Mitsrayim Asher had four sons and when they left the tribe of Asher had 41,500 descendants. Issachar The ninth son of Ya'acob. His mother was Leah.

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Zebulan The tenth son of Ya'acob. His mother was Leah also. When Ya'acob was welcomed into Mitsrayim, Zebulan had three sons and when they left the tribe of Zebulan had 57,400 descendants. Yoseph The eleventh son of Ya'acob. His motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Rachel. He was the first son of Rachel and Ya'acob loved him very, very much. He had a dream that he shared with his brothers and when they heard the dream, which made him look like he was going to be their ruler, it pushed them to want to be rid of him. The brothers were going to kill him, but Yehuda saved his life by selling him to Yishmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;elites who then sold him into slavery in Mitsrayim.

Despite being in bondage he always acted in an extraordinarily righteous manner and Yah was always with him .

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told to Pharaoh that Yoseph was very gifted at explaining what dreams meant and Pharaoh sent for him. Yah told Yoseph what the dreams were about. Yoseph explained to Pharaoh that one dream was about 7yrs of abundance and the second dream was about 7yrs of famine. Then he explained just how Pharaoh could avoid this becoming a catastrophe for his county and people. He made Pharaoh understand that it was not him that had interpreted the dream and given him the plan but Yah. Pharaoh recognized that Yoseph was a very blessed and special man and made him second only to Pharaoh himself.

So, when Ya'acob sent his sons to Mitsrayim to buy food, he recognized his brothers. He put them through trials and kept one of the brothers and would not allow him to return home with them. Eventually the brothers had to return to Mitsrayim to buy food again and at the end of this trip Yoseph made them know who he was and they all rejoiced at being reunited.

The Pharaoh who was ruling at that time invited them to come and live in the land with Yoseph. They went back and got their father, their sons and daughters, their wives and all their people and livestock and came to live in Mitsrayim where they were treated like Kings and Queens for at least 120 years until a new Pharaoh turned on them and enslaved them.

Binyamin The twelfth son of Ya'acob. His motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Rachel When Ya'acob was welcomed into Mitsrayim it is uncertain how many sons Benjamin had, but when they left Mitsrayim the tribe of Binyamin had 35,000 descendants. Descendants are classified as men older that 20 years of age.

What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

Who was Ya’acob’s first son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s second son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s third son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s fourth son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s fifth son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s six son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s seventh son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s eighth son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s ninth son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s tenth son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s eleventh son and who was his Mother? Who was Ya’acob’s twelfth son and who was his Mother? Which two sons killed all the men of Shechem? Why did they kill the men of Shechem? Why did Ya’acob’s sons go to Mitsrayim? How did Yoseph become so powerful in Mitsrayim? Who saved Yoseph’s life? Which of his brothers did Yoseph keep when they went to Mitsrayim? 19. How did Pharaoh act Yoseph introduced him to his brothers? 20. What area did he give them? Answers

Moshe

The Savior, Prophet and Bringer of the Law About 100yrs had passed since Ya'acob and his sons were welcomed into Mitsrayim (Egypt).

Moshe was born after that time, when the twelve sons of Ya'acob had died and so had the people of Mitsrayim who loved and welcomed Ya'acob and his sons. His fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Amram and his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Jochebed. They were Levites. 99

The Pharaohs who had lived peacefully alongside the sons of Ya'acob had died and the new Pharaoh turned an evil eye toward the Hebrews. As told in the chapter of the twelve tribes, the Yisraelites grew and prospered at an amazing rate because Yah was with them. Their growth and prosperity caused both jealousy and fear among the ruling class of the Mitsrites and they worried that the Hebrews would soon have more people and wealth than they had. The Mitsrites then began to try to find ways to stop our people from growing and prospering. When Pharaoh asked his counselors how to stop the Hebrews alarming success, he was counseled to commit genocide. The midwives were to kill the male babies at birth to slow down the population growth. The midwives for the most part did not cooperate with that plan and we continued to grow.

Moshe was born during this time. When Jochebed gave birth to him she hid him from the Mitsrites for as long as she could.

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When she could no longer conceal him, she made the decision to place him in an ark she made from wicker and let his sister place him on the edge of the riverbank.

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His sister followed her mother’s instructions and then followed the ark to see what would become of her brother Moshe.

The daughter of Pharaoh saw the ark and sent her slave girls to get it and bring it to her. When she opened the ark, she was delighted to find Moshe inside. Moshe began to cry. and Pharaoh’s daughter said, “This is one of the Hebrew babies”. Moshe’s sister, who had been watching to see what would happen to her brother, offered to get one of the Hebrew women to come and nurse him. Moshe’s sister went and got Jochebed and she nursed her son until he was weaned and then gave him to Pharaoh’s daughter to raise. Yah protected his children and the plot of the Pharaoh and his counselors did not succeed. The Hebrews continued to grow and prosper.

When the plot to kill the Hebrew babies did not work, the counselors then came up with another wicked plan.

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They would offer the Hebrews wages to work on building projects in a place called Pithom and another place called Rameses away from their wives and their people.

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Then by slowly withholding their wages and preventing them from going to Goshen they were able to carry out the plan to enslave them. The tribe of Levi never went with the men of the other tribes to work on the building projects. So they, the Levites, were not enslaved by the Mitsrites. Although they were never enslaved like the other sons of Ya'acob, they were still mistreated, but they stayed in the land of Goshen. Moshe had become a great man in the land of Mitsrayim, but he also knew that he was a Hebrew, knew his family and knew they were Levites.

He would visit his family and on one of his visits he saw a Mitsrite beating one of his Hebrew brothers. He killed him and buried his body in the sand. 104

Pharaoh heard about what he had done and threatened to have him killed, so Moshe fled and went to live in the land of Midyan. The Book of Jasher says that Moshe became the King of Cush for 40yrs before going to Midian. (Chapter 76:5)

While in Midian he became a shepherd, married a woman named Zipporah and had children. Now the conditions of the enslaved Yisralites had become horrendous and unbearable. And they began to call on Yah.

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Yah hears the cry of the Yisraelites While in Midian he married the daughter of a man named Yethro. One day while Moshe was walking his father-in-law’s sheep, he saw a bush on fire on Mt Horeb. But the strangest thing is that the bush was not burned by the fire. The bush was in the mist of the fire, yet it did not burn up.

Moshe was astonished and walked closer to see how this could be and Yah called him from inside the burning bush. And Moshe said to Yah “Here I am”. 106

Yah told him that he was sending him to rescue the children of Yisrael from the bondage they were under in Mitsrayim. 6

Moreover He said, I am the Mighty One of your father, the Mighty One of Abraham, the Mighty One of Isaac, and the Mighty One of Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acob. And Moshe hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon Yah. 7 And Yah said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people which are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Mitsrites and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Yisrael is come to Me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Mitsrites oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people the Children of Yisrael out of Mitsrayim Exod. 3:6-10

Moshe did as Yah told him and went back to Mitsrayim and Yah used him to bring on the ten great plagues against Mitsrayim until Pharaoh let the Yisralites go. The Book of Exodus 107

What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

What was Moshe’s Mother’s name? What was his Father’s name? What tribe was he from? Why was Jochebed trying to hide Moshe? Where did Moshe’s sister put him? Who found him? When Moshe started to cry what did his sister offer to do? Who did his sister go to get? Where did the men go to work? What tribe did not go? Could the men go home? Why did Moshe kill the Mitsrite? What did Moshe have to do when Pharaoh found out he killed the Mitsrite? Where did he go to live? What did Moshe see as he was walking Yethro’s flock? What did Moshe do when he saw what he saw? Where can we find this in scripture?

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The Ten Plagues on Mitsrayim and the Exodus

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And it came to pass that in the 102nd year of Yisrael going down into Mitsrayim that Pharaoh, the of King Mitsrayim, died and so had the generations of men that knew Yoseph and had welcomed Ya'acob and his sons into Mitsrayim. Pharaoh Melon who reigned after them was very jealous of the Yisraelites, because Yah was with them and they prospered in all they did. And as was shown in the Chapter about the Twelve Tribes their numbers grew and grew.

Exodus Chapter 1 They tried killing the boy babies at birth. But Yah protected his children and that did not work. Then they devised another wicked plan. There were two huge storage cities that needed to be strengthened and the Pharaoh called for the men of Mitsrayim including the Yisraelites to go to work on the project for wages. .

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At first the Hebrew were paid wages and as long as the Mitsrite men worked along side the Hebrews, all the men got paid. But little by little the Mitsrites stopped working on the project until after about a year and four months there were no Mitsrites working on the project at all. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when Pharaoh stopped paying the Yisraelites for their labor and the slavery began. This slavery went on for about 90 years until Yah sent Moshe to liberate them. Moshe was not a man that was comfortable with speaking in front of large groups of people, so Yah appointed his brother Aaron to speak for him. What ever message Yah gave to Moshe, Moshe gave to Aaron and he would speak to Pharaoh for Moshe who spoke for Yah. He and Aaron went to the Pharaoh and asked him to let the people go so they could go to worship Yah. But Pharaoh would not listen. So Moshe had to show Pharaoh Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Powers:

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He turned Moshe’s Rod into a snake and the Pharaoh’s magicians did the same thing. But Moshe’s Rod ate the magician’s snake which astonished Pharaoh, but he would not let Yah’s people go. Yah’s first Curse Moshe went down to the river to meet Pharaoh the next morning and struck the water with his rod and the water turned to blood and all the fish and everything in the water died and began to stink. And not only did the river turn to blood but all the water in the land. No water to drink, no water to wash, no water to cook with. Then Pharaoh’s magicians did the same. And Pharaoh would not let the people to worship Yah. Yah’s second Curse Yah told Moshe to tell Pharaoh that since he did not let his people come to worship him that he was sending frogs into Mitsrayim. And frogs covered the land. And Pharaoh’s magicians did the same.

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But then Pharaoh asked Moshe to pray to Yah to remove the frogs and he would let the people go. Moshe prayed for him and Merciful Yah allowed the frogs to die. The Mitsrites had quite the mess to clean up because there were thousands and thousands of dead frogs and they caused the land to stink.

But Pharaoh again decided not to let the people go. Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Third Curse Yah then told Moshe to tell Pharaoh that He was going to turn the dust of the earth into gnats and He did and the land was filled with them. In their food, their hair, noses, eyes, mouths. Clouds and clouds of gnats. Now even his magicians warned Pharaoh, but he still would not listen. Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth Curse Next Yah told Moshe to tell Pharaoh that He was sending swarms of flies to cover all his land and all his livestock 113

everywhere in the land. And He did. Everywhere EXCEPT in Goshen where the Hebrews lived. Again Pharaoh promised to let Yah’s children go if Yah would take away the curse.

Moshe prayed to Yah to remove the flies and He did and of course Pharaoh again would not let the people go. Yah’s Fifth Curse

Next Yah sent pestilence on all livestock and all the livestock died except the live stock in the territory of Goshen. Pharaoh still disregarded Yah and His power and would not let the people go. Yah’s Sixth Curse Next Yah sent a plague of boils, but Pharaoh still would not listen to Yah.

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Yah’s Seventh Curse Then Yah sent fiery hail that killed everything that was not sheltered. Animals, crops, people, everything! Still Pharaoh mocked Yah and would not let Yah’s children go. Yah’s Eighth Curse Yah then sent so many locust that the sky was dark with them and what the fiery hail had not destroyed the locust ate.

Then Pharaoh went crying to Moshe again asking him to ask Yah to make it stop. Moshe went to Yah and Yah listened to Moshe and sent a strong west wind to blow the locust away.

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Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ninth Curse And Yah said to Moshe, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Mitsrayim three days. Pharaoh then told all the people that they could go and worship Yah but they had to leave all their cattle and other valuables behind. Moshe would not consent to this. And Pharaoh again would not let the people go. And he told Moshe if he came to him again he was going to kill him. Yah told Moshe to tell the people of Mitsrayim to give the children of Yisrael silver and gold and whatever else they chose to give to them and the Mitsrites gave them what they requested. Yah told Moshe to tell Pharaoh that since he refused to let his people go that â&#x20AC;&#x153;at midnightâ&#x20AC;? (not that particular night) he was going throughout the land of Mitsrayim and he was going to kill the firstborn of everything living. 116

The first born of everything that breathes in Mitsrayim was going to die but not in the land of Goshen, where the Hebrews lived. Nothing would die there.

The Hebrews were told to follow these instructions from Yah: On the tenth day of the first month, they were to take a lamb or goat unblemished and a year old for each of their households.

The Yisraelites were to keep it until the 14th day of the month when the entire assembly of the congregation of Yisrael were to kill their lambs and then take the blood and wipe it on their doors post using hyssop.

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The blood would be a sign for the Destroyer. He would see the blood and spare the Hebrews the horror that was to come. Centuries later Yahushua would become that Lamb and all who are covered in his blood and obey the commandments (instructions) of Yah, shall be saved.

Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tenth Curse At midnight the Destroyer came into Mitsrayim and killed all the firstborn including Pharaohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son.

By the next morning Pharaoh could not wait for them to be gone. He told them to leave that day and all the people of Mitsrayim gave them whatever they could.

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What did we learn? 1. Who did Yah send to get the children of Yisrael? 2. How long were the Yisraelites in slavery when Yah sent them? What did they say to Pharaoh? 3. Who did the talking? 4. What did they do to show Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power? 5. What did the Pharaohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magicians do in response? 6. Then what happened in front of the magicians? 7. Did that make Pharaoh do what was asked? 8. What started next? 9. Name them in order Answers

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The Flight And the children of Yisrael left in a hurry.

When they reached the Sea of Reeds they could see Pharaoh's army coming for them. Yah told Moshe to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Lift up the rod and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it and let the children of Yisrael go on dry land through the midst of the sea.

Moshe did as he was told and the sea divided. Then the people crossed on dry land. 120

Pharaohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s army thought that they could cross on dry land like the Hebrews, but the divided water collapsed and killed them.

After 93yrs of slavery (not 400) Yah brought the children of Yisrael out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand and lots of reparations. But there were people who left Mitsrayim who were not Yisrael and they proved to be a stumbling block for Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children.

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The Wilderness Journey Part I Rebellion against Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chosen deliverer After the first time Moshe told Pharaoh to let Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people go so they could come and worship Him, Pharaoh took away one of the major materials needed to form the bricks the slaves were forced to make, straw. He did it to punish the children of Yisrael for Moshe trying to free them. The people complained to Moshe that he had angered Pharaoh and he was talking it out on them. They argued and quarreled with him when he was trying to secure their freedom. Exodus 5:1-22

After Yah had secured their freedom using Moshe their foolishness continued.

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When they left Mitsrayim and had reached the Sea of Reeds, the children of Yisrael saw Pharaoh’s army coming after them. (Even after losing his son, Pharaoh was persuaded to recapture the slaves and bring them back to Mitsrayim.)

And the people cried to Moshe that he should have left them in Mitsrayim rather than bring them into the desert to die. And they wanted him to “let us alone”. Exodus 14:11-12 This ungrateful attitude and behavior would become a pattern with this people. After Yah had parted the Sea of Reed for them, they came to the Wilderness of Shur where the water was not fit for drinking. They became angry with Moshe and asked him what were they to drink. Moshe prayed to Yah and He showed Moshe a tree that he could put into the water to make it suitable for drinking. Ex 15:22

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Then the people began to grumble against Yah himself: “It would have been better if we had died by the hand of the Yah in the land of Mitsrayim, when we sat by the flesh pots and when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Ex 16:3

Yah heard their grumblings: And Moshe spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the sons of Yisrael, Come near before the Yah, for he has heard your murmurings.” And it came to pass as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Yisrael, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the esteem of the Yah appeared in the cloud. And the Yah spoke to Moshe, saying, “I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Yisrael; speak to them, saying, “Between the two evenings you shall eat flesh, and tomorrow you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am YAH your Mighty One.” And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. Ex16:9-13 And when the dew dried what remained was “manna”, the food of the heavenly ones which Yah gave them for food each day. 124

These people’s lack of trust and respect for what they had already seen Yah do was astonishing! Once again, they ganged up on Moshe to the point of wanting to kill him because there was no water in the country of Rephidim where they were staying. Then Moshe cried to the Yah, saying, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” And the Yah said to Moshe, “Go on before the people and take with you of the elders of Yisrael and your rod, with which you did smite the river take in your hand and go. Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb, and you shalt smite the rock, and water shall come out of it that the people may drink.” And Moshe did so in the sight of the elders of Yisrael. And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the sons of Yisrael and because they tempted Yah, saying, Is the Mighty One among us, or not? Ex 17: 4-7

In the third month after coming out of Mitsrayim, Moshe led the people to the Wilderness of Sinai and they camped before Mt Sinai to meet with Yah. 125

And Esauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children troubled Yisraelâ&#x20AC;Ś.. 8

Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. Ex.17:8 13 And Yehoshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Ex 17:13 14And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Ex.17:14 Moshe went up Mt. Sinai to receive instructions from Yah. When he returns he gives the covenant words to the people and they responded that all that is asked of them they will do. Ex19:8

He later takes the people to meet with Yah, but when they are in the midst of all that power they become afraid and told Moshe to allow Yah to speak to them through him. Ex 20:18-19

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After the people give their promise to Yah to do as he commands he then begins to give them the law. Ex:20-23 But the people did not keep their word with Yah. Moshe went up the mountain to receive the instructions of Yah that the people were to live by. He told them he would be gone for 40 days. But when he had not returned they panicked and went back to their old ways. They took the gold they had collected from the Mitsrites and melted it down and formed a golden calf.

Yah knew it and threatened to wipe them out, but Moshe pleaded with Yah on their behalf. And Yah sent Moshe to stop their calf (idol) worship. 127

When Moshe got back to the camp the people were partying and he got so angry that he broke the tables of the law which Yah had given him for the people. He instructed the Levites to go throughout the camp and kill all who had worshipped the golden calf. When the Levites stopped killing there were 3000 people who had been put to death. Yah later gave Moshe another set of tablets. Ex 32:10-12; 28 This is what was written on them. 3

Thou shalt have no other Mighty One before Me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I Yah your Mighty One am a jealous Mighty One, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments. 7 You shall not take the Name of Yah your Mighty One in vain; for Yah will not hold him guiltless that takes His Name in vain. 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it set-apart. 9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work:

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But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Yah your Mighty One: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger that is within your gates: 11 For in six days YAH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore YAH blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land which Yah your Mighty One gives you. 13 Thou shalt not murder. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 Thou shalt not covet your neighbour's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Num 20:3-17 Now the mixed multitude that came out of Mitsrayim proved themselves to be a great stumbling block to the children of Yisrael. And they once again grumbled about not having food. And the vulgar (mixed multitude) people who were mixed in among them returned to their lust; and even the sons of Yisrael wept and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who shall give us flesh to eat? 129

We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Mitsrayim, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all besides this manna before our eyes. Numbers 11:6-8

And Yah replied: But you shalt say to the people, “Cleanse yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh, for you have wept in the ears of Yah, saying, “Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was better with us in Mitsrayim. Therefore, Yah will give you flesh, and you shall eat. You shall not eat one day nor two days nor five days neither ten days nor twenty days, but even a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and it becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised Yah who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why have we come forth out of Mitsrayim? Numbers 11:1820

And there went forth a wind from Yah and brought quail from the sea and left them upon the camp, a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp and almost two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah because there they buried the people that lusted. Numbers 11: 32-34 Yah buried the whole camp in Quail 130

Then the people stood up all that day and all that night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps, and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of Yah was kindled against the people, and Yah smote the people with a very great plague. Num 11:33 Punishment for their gluttony Moshe asks for help…… Moshe had been leading and judging the children of Yisrael alone and he pleaded with Yah for help. Yah instructed Moshe to bring 70 elders and place them around the Tent of Meeting. And Yah took the same Spirit that was upon Moshe and also placed it on the 70 elders. They then aided Moshe in governing the people. Then even Aaron and Miriam spoke against Moshe. Miriam and Aaron complained about Moshe’ leadership. When they did this what they were actually doing was challenging Yah’s decision. And they said, “Has Yah indeed spoken only by Moshe? Has He not spoken also by us? And Yah heard it. (Now the man Moshe was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) And YAH spoke suddenly to Moshe and to Aharon and to Miriam, “Come out you three to the tabernacle of the testimony.” And the three came out. 131

And He said, Hear now My words: If there be a prophet among you, I Yah will make Myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream. My slave Moshe is not so, who is faithful in all My house. With him I will speak mouth to mouth and by sight not by enigmas; he shall see the form of Yah. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moshe? Number 12:6-7 Yah was not very happy about this and to show his displeasure he cursed Miriam and turned her white with Leprosy. 13

And Moses cried to Yah, saying, Heal her now, O Yah, I beg you. 14â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ślet her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again Num 12:1315

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Time to move into the Promised Land It was time to enter the Promised Land. They were camped in the Wilderness of Paran when Yah told them to send one man from each tribe to spy out the Promised Land and settle in it. Numbers 13 When these men saw the abundance of the land, just waiting for the children of Yisrael they were amazed. They brought back produce. Produce that was more than plentiful throughout the land. But only two of the men, Caleb and Yehoshua came back with a good report.

They were excited about the gift that Yah was providing for the Children of Yisrael. Now although the other ten men agreed that the land was both beautiful and abundant, there were Giants in the land and these men were full of fear. 134

However the land was filled with GIANTS! They were terrified of them And the men said that they could not take the land as long as the giants were there. As you can see these Giants still walk the earth. This is an example of how the giants would have appeared to these Yisraelite men.

Caleb and Yehoshua knew that if they trusted Yah, He would fight for them and they could take the land. He had already fought and won battles for them, but the others still doubted His Might! But Caleb, Yehoshua and Moshe were threatened with death for trying to convince the people of what Yah could do! Num 13

They even talked about putting someone else in charge instead of Moshe and going back to Mitsrayim. For this Yah wanted to kill them all and make a nation of Moshe, but Moshe pleaded with Yah and He relented. However, He did send a plague among them. 135

And for refusing to enter the land they were sentenced to wander in the desert for 40yrs. One year for each day they scouted out the land. Yah would wait until the last of those rebels were dead before he would allow the children of Yisrael to enter the land. Only Caleb and Yehoshua would be left of that rebellious generation to claim what Yah had promised. Num 14 You would think that after seeing what happened to Miriam when she challenged Moshe’s authority that they would have thought twice about questioning Yah’s decisions.

But NOOOOOOO! Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohas, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, of the sons of Reuben, took men; and they rose up against Moses, with two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Yisrael, princes of the congregation, of the council, men of renown; and they gathered themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon and said to them, “We have had enough of you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Yah is among them; why then lift up yourselves above the congregation of Yah? Numbers 16:1-3 136

â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Moses said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;By this you shall know that Yah has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them out of my own heart. If these men die the common death of all men or if they are visited after the visitation of all men, then Yah has not sent me. But if Yah does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol (grave), then you shall know that these men have provoked Yah. And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground broke open under them; the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses and all the men of Korah and all their goods. They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation. But the very next day the people grumbled and accused Moshe of causing the death of Izhar, Dathan and Abiram. The very next day!

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And it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against Moshe and against Aharon that they looked toward the tabernacle of the testimony; and, behold, the cloud of Yah had covered it, and the esteem of Yah appeared. And Moses and Aharon came before the tabernacle of the testimony. And Yah spoke to Moses, saying, “Depart from among this congregation, and I will consume them in a moment.” And they fell upon their faces. And Moshe said to Aharon, “Take the censer and put fire in it from off the altar and put incense upon it and go quickly to the congregation and reconcile them; for the wrath has gone out from before the face of Yah; the plague is begun.” Moshe was telling him to Atone for the people. Then Aharon took his censer as Moshe said and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense and reconciled the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now those that died in that plague were 14,700, besides those that died concerning the matter of Korah. Num 16 These were a stiffed neck people who never learned!

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The Tent of Meeting Prior to the Tabernacle being constructed, the Tent of Meeting served as a temporary sanctuary. Originally, the Children of Yisrael were to camp according to their tribes facing the Tent of Meeting as shown below. Numbers 2:2

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The Tent of Meeting It had been kept in the center of the camp until the people made the golden calf and Yah no longer wanted to be in the midst of such a stiffed neck people. Moshe and the people would go there to inquire of Yah: “Now Moshe used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the ‘tent of meeting.’ Anyone inquiring of Yah would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. . . . As Moshe went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while Yah spoke with Moshe” Ex. 33:1-11

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Yah commanded Moshe to build the Ark while they were camped at Mt Sinai and gave him exact instructions on how it was to be built. Ex. 25:10-22 It was a symbol of the presence of YAH and His Power in the midst of His people. On top of the Ark was the Mercy Seat on which the 2 Cherub were seated and Yah’s presence would appear between them.

The Sacred Chest contained the Tablets on which the Laws of the Torah were written, the budding rod of Aaron and later a golden jar of manna. The Bright Light of the Ark always went before the children of Yisrael in their journey in the wilderness “to seek out a resting place for them” both day and night. The Ark represented the physical presence of Yah on earth. And Yah would clear out and scatter anything that would be harmful to the Yisraelites when they came to the place of rest. When Yah spoke to Moshe in the Tent of Meeting or later to the High Priest in the Tabernacle and finally in the Temple, he spoke from between the two Cherubs. Num 7:89 When the Ark was moved into the Tabernacle, and later to the Temple, the Ark was placed within the Holy of Holies. It was accessible only once a year and then, only by one person, the High Priest, to ask forgiveness for himself and for all the nation of Yisrael. Lev 16:2 143

There was tremendous Power in the Ark.

When the Yisraelites made the walls of Yericho crumbled, the Ark lead the Yisraelites around the city before the great shout. And when Yehoshua took the children of Yisrael across the Yardan River on dry land, The Ark of the Covenant lead the way. 144

But its power only favored the people that Yah chose. When the Philistines, took the Ark, it caused them nothing but trouble. They were struck with a terrible plague until they removed it from their land. And it came to rest at Siryah until Sovreign Dawid had the Levites bring it to Yerushalem.

When Solomon became Sovereign he placed it in the Holy of Holies within the Hekel (Temple) he built for Yah.

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And it came to pass in the first month in the second year on the first day of the month that the tabernacle was raised up. The Tabernacles, replaced the Tent of Meeting and it was the resting place for the Ark, the resting place of Yah, and contained the vessels that were used in the worship of Yah.

Everything in the tabernacle was portable so if the cloud of esteem moved, they moved with it and the ark would lead the way: They departed from the mountain of Yah on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of Yah went before them for the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. And the cloud of Yah was above them by day when they went out from the camp. It was, whenever the ark set out, that 146

Moshe said: "Rise up, O Yah! Let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You." And when it rested, he said: "Return, O Yah, to the many thousands of Yisrael." Num 10:33-36 The smaller part (15 x 15) of the tabernacle building was called "the holy of holies" and contained only the ark of the covenant (the box that contained the two tables of the Law, the Rod and the jar of Manna) and its lid, the mercy seat where the blood was sprinkled once per year by the high priest on the Day of Atonement. The Tabernacle building itself stood at the West end of the court and was a wooden structure overlaid with gold 45 x 15 feet divided into two parts by a heavy curtain called the "Veil." The entrance was a multicolored curtain door hanging on 5 pillars. The bigger part (30 x 15) of the tabernacle building was called "the holy place" and contained three golden articles of furniture.

The golden lampstand that shined on the shewbread on the left, the table of shewbread that represented the people of Yah on the right, and the golden altar of incense that spoke of ever ascending prayers in the back. 147

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Yah chose these men to provide spiritual leadership, for the administration of sacred services in the Hekal: "And you, separate your brother Aharon and his sons from among the Yisraelites, and bring them close to you... so they can serve me.“ Ex. 28:1

The Priest were also to bring the words of Yah’s love and blessings to the people "Say to Aharon and his sons... Thus, shall you bless the people of Yisrael: 'May Yah bless you and protect you. May Yah shine His face upon you, and be gracious to you. May Yah lift His face to you and may He grant you peace’.” Numbers 6:22-26 The high priest was the only one to enter the Most Set-Apart Place in the Hekal once a year on the Day of Atonement to offer sacrifices for all the people, including himself. Hebrews 9:7 The Levitical priests also served as judges and teachers of Yah’s law. And you

shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision. Deuteronomy 17:9

They were to be the Caretakers of the Hekal and all that was in it. There was only one high priest at a time.

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The Men Who Served Melchizedek The very first Priest. His name means the Sovereign of Righteousness. Melchizedek was both a Priest AND a Sovereign. He was a Priest of the Most High Yah and the Sovereign of the Set Apart City, Yerushalayim. He lived and served in the days of Abram (Abraham) Genesis 14: 18-20

Aharon Aaron was the older brother of Moshe. He was the First High Priest of the Aaronic Priesthood for the Yisraelites. Aaron had a way with words so he also became Moshe’s spokesperson. Exod; Lev; Num Eleazar He was Aaron’s son. When Aaron passed away, he became Moshe’s assistant. He was with Moshe when he made Yehoshua his successor. Num 4:16;16:36-40; 20:25-28; 20:26-28 Phinehas The righteous son of Eleazar. He is credited with stopping the plague which killed 24,000 people when they pursued idolatry in the wilderness. Numbers 25:12–13; 25; 31 153

Abishua A Levite and great-grandson of Aaron and ancestor of Ezra 1 Chronicles 6:35; Ezra 7:5

Bukki Son of Abishua. Served during the period of the Judges. 1 Chronicles 6:4; Exra 7:4

Uzzi Priest of the Aaronic line. 1 Chr. 6:5, 51; Ezra 7:4

Eli The Priest/Prophet who was responsible for raising and training the Prophet/Judge Shemu’el. Because of his inability to stop his sons from abusing and stealing from people who came to the temple to sacrifice, Yah told Shemu’el he would take the Priesthood from Eli’s descendants. 1Shemu’el Ahitub ben Phinehas ben Eli When his father and grandfather died on the same day, he took over as priest. 1Sam. 14:3; 22:9, 11, 12, 20 and 1 Chr 9:11 Ahiah ben Ahitub He may be the same person as Ahitub. That would make him the father of Ahimelech. 1 Samuel 14:2-3 154

Ahimelech ben Ahitub He allowed Dawid and his soldiers to eat the showbread when Dawid was on the run from Sha'ul. He did not know that Dawid was on the run from Sovereign Sha'ul. When Sha'ul found out that he had helped Dawid, he had all the priests of Nob and their families murdered. 1Sam. 21:1-9; 1Sam. 22:20-23; 1Chr. 18:16

Zadok ben Ahimelech or ben Ahitub He was a Priest from the line of Aaron during Sovereign Dawidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign.

When Dawidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Absalom tried to take the reign from him and he had to go on the run, Zadok and Abiathar brought the Ark to Dawid. Dawid made them take it back to Yerushalayim. Dawid told him he preferred he act as his faithful spy. 1 Sam. 23:6 Pedaiah The priest who stood with Ezra when he read the Torah to those who returned to Yerushalayim after the Babylonian captivity. Neh 13:13

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Amariah 1. A priest in line of Aaron 1Chronicles 6:52 2. A priest in the high priestly line after Solomon's day. 1Chronicles 6:11. 3. A priestly son of Hebron in Moses' line, 1Chronicles 23:19; 1 Chronicles 24:23

4. The chief priest and highest judge of matters involving religious law under Sovereign Yehoshaphat. 2Chronicles 19:11 5. Priest under Hezekiah responsible for distributing resources from Yerushalayim Temple to priests in priestly cities outside Yerushalayim. 2Chronicles 31:15 6. A priest who returned to Yerushalayim from the Exile in Babylon with Zerubbabel. Neh12:2 7. Head of a course of priests in Yehuda after the Exile. Neh 12:13 Shallum ben Zadok II A chief priest 1Chronicles 6:13; Ezra 7:2

Hilkiah ben Shallum High Priest during the reign of Sovereign Joash of Yehuda. He was the priest who found the book of the Law. 2Kings 22:8 Azariah lV ben Hilkiya High priest, son of Hilkiah 1Chronicles 6:13-14 Seraiah ben Azariah Chief priest taken into Babylonian Exile in 587 B.C. 2Kings 25:18; 1Chronicles 16:14; Jeremiah 52:24

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LEVITICUS The Book of the Law

These are the commandments that YAH gave to Moshe as commands to the sons of Yisrael in Mount Sinai. Lev 27:34

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Leviticus Chapter 1-7:38 Regulations concerning sacrifices

Leviticus Chapter 8:1-36 Installation procedures of the Aaronic Priesthood Leviticus Chapters 9-10:20 Aaronic Priesthood begins functioning

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Leviticus Chapter 11:1-47 Clean and unclean animals/what we can and cannot eat Leviticus Chapter 12:1-8 Purification of women upon child birth

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Leviticus Chapter 13 - 14 Leprosy: symptoms and procedures for testing humans, garments, and other articles and houses; offerings for cleansing lepers and purifying houses. Leviticus Chapter Chapter 15:1-33 Sexual Diseases

Leviticus 16:1-34 Procedures to follow on the Day of Atonement

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Leviticus 17:1-16 Regulations about eating meat; blood; and UNCLEAN foods

Yah told Yeshuyahu (Isiah) to tell the people: 16 For by fire and by His sword will YAH plead with all flesh: and the slain of YAH shall be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith YAH. Yesh 66:16-17 162

Leviticus 18:1-27 Sexual Behavior Leviticus 22:1-33 Priestly conduct

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Feast Days While camped before Mt. Sinai, Moshe went up the mountain to speak with Yah and while there Yah gave him instructions about His Feast Days.

Leviticus 23 Yisrael seasonal feast days

Passover When Pharaoh refuses to allow the children of Yisrael to go and worship Yah, even after the most horrible punishments. Yah now took extreme measures and killed the firstborn of every living in Mitsrayim except in the land of Goshen. INCLUDING PHAROAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SON.

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The Hebrews were told to apply the blood of an unblemished lamb on the door post of their homes so when Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Destroyer came into the land to kill the first born of everything living, it would pass over the homes of the Hebrews and spare their lives.

This event was to be commemorated on the 14th day of the First Month of the year. Exodus 12:1-4 Leviticus 23:4-6

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Exodus 12:15-20 Leviticus 23:6-8 Unleavened Bread The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts for seven days.

The evening after Yah killed the firstborn of everything living in Mitsrayim, Pharaoh could not wait to get rid of the Hebrews and they had to leave Mitsrayim in haste. Yah told them not to gather yeast from the grape leaves to leaven their dough which would make it rise for baking, but to gather all their belonging and get out of Mitsrayim. Yah said â&#x20AC;&#x153;just bake and goâ&#x20AC;?.

This event was to be commemorated starting of the 15th day of the first month and end seven days later.

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Leviticus 23:9-14 First-fruits No grain was to be harvested until the first-fruits were offered to Yah on this day. It was observed the third day after Passover and the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It was the real Thanksgiving to Yah for the harvest he had given them. But what is even more significant is that Yahushua died on Passover and before he was murdered by the haters, he told his disciples that he would rise after 3 days. And on the third day after Passover he rose as the first-fruit. This day is a commemoration of the day that Yahushua was resurrected.

Luke 24:1-7 the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Master. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.

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the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Miriam Magdalene and the other Miriam to see the sepulchre. 2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the malakim of Yah descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. 3His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Yahushua, which was crucified. 6He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the master lay. Matt 28: 1-6

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Leviticus 23: 15-22 Feast of Weeks/Pentecost This feast celebrated the end of the grain harvest. 50 days will pass from the wave offering at Passover until the Feast of weeks. It is another Thanksgiving for the First Fruits of the Latter Harvest, but it also signifies the day that the Set Apart Spirit was poured out on the 120 emissaries that were gathered together in the upper room. The day of Pentecost. Acts Chapter 2

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Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 29:1-6 Feast of Trumpets The Feast of Trumpets is the beginning of the ten days of repentance before Yah. It signifies the command to blow the trumpets. The blowing of the trumpet is a reminder that the Day of Atonement is near and the people are to prepare for that solemn day by observing 10 days of both reflection and repentance. It also signifies the end of the harvest time.

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Leviticus 23: 26-32 Day of Atonement A solemn annual festival for the washing away of the sins of Yisrael.

It is a day of cleansing and it is symbolic for the time when all Yisraelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sins will be wiped away. It is a prophetic foretelling of the Second Coming of Yahushua and his High Priesthood after the Order of Melchizedek and the restoration of Yisrael. It is for the purification of Yisrael and the purification of the nations who turn to Yahushua for cleansing and forgiveness during the Great Day of Yah and the final judgement of the nations.

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Leviticus 23:33-36 Festival of Booths This feast also called Sukkot, ends the fall feast season. This is a weeklong celebration in remembrance of the 40yrs spent in the wilderness before Yisrael was allowed to enter the Promised Land. We are to remember how Yah sustained us in the wilderness. How faithful He was to us and how He protected us and cared for us. How our garments or sandals did not wear out for 40yrs and how He fed us with food from Heaven. Even though we behaved like ungrateful, arrogant fools!

Only Yah could accomplish this and we must remember and thank Him.

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Leviticus continues Leviticus Chapter 24:1-25:55 Regulations regarding lampstand, showbread, abuse of Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, murder, compensation, and retribution justice, sabbath year, Jubilee year, repurchasing (redeeming), conduct toward poor Yisraelites and slavery. Leviticus Chapter 26:1-46 Regulations regarding vow evaluations, firstborn of animals, devoted things and tenths Leviticus 27:1-34 Blessing for obedience: maledictions for disobedience Deuteronomy 28:1-68 The blessing for keeping the law and curses for breaking these laws

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What did we learn? 1. Which scripture describes a) clean and unclean foods? b) day of Atonement? c) Priestly conduct? d) Unleavened Bread? e) Passover? f) First Fruit? g) Pentecost? h) Trumpets? i) Day of Atonement? j) Festival of Booths? k) Blessing for obedience and disobedience? l) Keeping and Breaking the laws? Answers

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The Wilderness Journey Part II Rebellion against Yah and His Chosen Deliverer continues Because of their behavior, Yah said that He would not go in the midst of them when they went into the Promised Land. And this distressed the people but Yah had had enough. To the land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of you; for you art a stiff-necked people lest I consume you in the way. Exodus 33:3

When they were wandering in the desert the issue of water once again arose. Yah told Moshe to take the rod and assemble the people and you shall “speak to the rock” and water will flow for the people and livestock. But instead of obeying Yah:

Moses and Aharon gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?”

Then Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. 175

And Yah spoke to Moshe and Aharon, “Because you believed me not, to set me apart in the eyes of the sons of Yisrael, therefore, you shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. Moshe disobeyed Yah by not following Yah’s EXACT instructions and he was prevented from entering the Promised Land. However, Yah loves Moshe and his place in the kingdom is assured. Despite how horribly they treated Yah and Moshe, Yah kept His promise to bring His children into the Promised Land. He fought for them and conquered their enemies:

And Yah said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people which you have brought up out of the land of Mitsrayim to the land which I swore to Abraham, Yitshaq, and Ya'acob, saying, to your seed will I give it. 176

And after 40 years when all the people that were 20yrs or older had died (with the exception of Yehoshua and Caleb), they prepared to move into the land. Then this wicked people complained against Yah and Moshe once again: And the people spoke against Yah and against Moshe, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread (manna).â&#x20AC;? And Yah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Yisrael died. Numbers 21:5-8

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Then the people came to Moshe and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against Yah and against you; pray to Yah that he take away these serpents from among us. And Moshe prayed for the people.

And Yah said to Moshe, “Make a fiery serpent and lift it up as a banner, and it shall be that anyone that is bitten and looks upon it shall live.” And Moshe made a serpent of brass and put it up as a banner, and it came to pass that when a serpent bit anyone, he beheld the serpent of brass, and lived. Num 21:8-9 This instruction was symbolic of salvation for all who looked to Yahushua’s torture stake (not the cross) for salvation.

In the 120th year of his life, Yah told Moshe that he was going to die and that Yehoshua would lead the people into the Promised Land and would now become the leader of the Tribes.

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And Moses called Yehoshua and said to him in the sight of all Yisrael: Be strong and of a good courage, for you shall enter in with this people to the land which Yah has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

Yah is He that does go before you; He will be with you; He will not fail you neither forsake you; fear not, and do not be afraid. Deut 31:7-8 Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last tasks Yah and Moshe knew that Yisrael was indeed a stiff necked (hard headed) people and that they would continue to break Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laws. Yah told Moshe that even after he brought them into a land of milk and honey they would still rebel and Yah had Moshe write a song and He wanted him to read it in the hearing of Yisrael. And he called the elders together and told them all what Yah had instructed. He also told them that Yah would punish them severely for their continued rebellion. 179

This is the song Moshe spoke to the tribes: 1

Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of Yah: ascribe you greatness to our Mighty One. 4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: A Mighty One of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of His children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus requite Yah, O foolish people and unwise? is not He your Father that has bought you? Has He not made you, and established you? 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your Father, and He will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. 8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Yisrael. 9 For Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. 180

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. 11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings: 12 So Yah alone did lead him, and there was no strange Mighty One with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that He might eat the increase of the fields; and He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape. 15 But Jeshurun (Yisrael) waxed fat, and kicked: you art waxen fat, you art grown thick, you art covered with fatness; then he forsook Yah which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they Him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to devils, not to Yah; to gods they did not know, to new ones that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

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the Rock that begat you, you art unmindful, and have forgotten Yah that formed you. 19 And when Yah saw it, He abhorred them, because of the provoking of His sons, and of His daughters. 20 And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very forward (difficult to deal with) generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not Me; they have provoked Me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in Mine anger, and burns to the bottom of Sheol, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Yah has not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and Yah had shut them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with Me, and sealed up among My treasures? 35 To Me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For Yah shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 183

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he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. 39 See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no gods with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of My hand. 40 For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet My glittering sword, and Mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to Mine enemies, and will reward them that hate Me. 42 I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O you nations, with His people: for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His adversaries, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people. Deut32:1-43 48 And

Yah spoke to Moshe that selfsame day, saying, 49 Get you up into this mountain Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Yericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Yisrael for a possession: Deut 32:48-49 184

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What did we learn? 1. Did the people behave any better? 2. What did Yah say about going into the Promised Land with them? 3. What problem did they have when they were wandering in the desert? 4. What did Yah tell Moshe to do to cure the problem? 5. What did Moshe do instead? 6. What did Yah tell Moshe? 7. How long did Yisrael wander in the desert? 8. Who were the only 2 people who were left who had been more that 20yrs old when they first tried to enter the Promised Land? 9. What did Yah do when the people started saying they wished they had died? 10. When the people apologized what did Yah tell Moshe to do? 11. What was it symbolic of ? 12. How old was Moshe when Yah told him he was going to die? 13. Who did Yah tell Moshe to make the new Leader? 14. Where in scripture can we find what Moshe told the new leader? 15. What did Yah tell Moshe the people would do once they were in the Promised Land? 16. What was the last task that Yah gave Moshe to do? 17. Where can we find that song? 18. Where did Yah send Moshe to die? 19. Did Moshe get to see the Promised Land? Answers

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Yehoshua leads Yisrael into the Promised Land Be strong and of a good courage for you shalt bring the sons of Yisrael into the land which I swore to them, and I will be with you. Deut. 31:23

When Yehoshua was born his name was Hosea. It was Moshe who changed his name to Yehoshua. Yehoshua was Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faithful servant and he went part of the way with him when Moshe went up Mount Sinai to receive the two tables of the Law. Ex. 32:17 He was from the tribe of Ephraim and was a commander of the fighting men of Yisrael when Yah brought them out of Mitsrayim. 187

He held the position of commander of the army of warrior Yisraelites, led by Yah, at their great battle against the Amalekites (Esau’s sons) in Rephidim Ex 17:8-16 Yehoshua was a man of courage. As we showed earlier, he was sent to scout out the Promised Land with 11 other men and only he and Caleb told Yisrael that they could take the land from the “Giants” if they trusted in Yah. Numbers 13:16-17 After Moshe’s death and the 40yrs wondering in the wilderness he lead Yisrael into the promised land.

This s how the tribes organized themselves to move out. (And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.) Exodus 33:1-2 188

The people were encamped at Shittim when he assumed the command and it was decided that the first city they would conquer in the Promised Land would be Jericho. Yehoshua 1:1 Yehoshua had sent 2 men to scout out the land and when they returned they told Yehoshua that the land could easily be taken. They could kill all who were there except a woman named Rahab and her family. And this is why she and her family would be spared. You see, the king of Yericho was told that there were Yisraelite spies in the city and sent soldiers to find and kill them. Rahab humbled herself to the men when she realized that they were Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people. She hid them on her roof under straw and mis-directed the soldiers who came looking for them and later in the night she let them down from her window

By doing this the Yisraelite spies could escape from Yericho unharmed. So, the men promised to spare her life and the life of her entire family when them came to wipe out the city. 189

Yisrael set out on its journey to take the Land which Yah had promised their fathers Abraham, Isaak and Ya'acob. They had to cross the River Jordan to get to the land of promise and Yah used this crossing to assure the people that he was with Yehoshua. And Yehoshua told the people to watch and let Yah show them that he was present with them.

Then Yisrael set out on its journey to take the Land which Yah had promised their fathers Abraham, Isaak and Ya'acob.

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They had to cross the River Jordan to get to the land of promise and Yah used this crossing to assure the people that he was with Yehoshua. And Yehoshua told the people to look to see how Yah certainly was with them. By Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s word Yehoshua had the Priest of Yah carry the Ark of the Covenant and pass before the people and when they came to the Jordan and stepped their feet into the Jordanâ&#x20AC;Ś..

the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far from the city of Adam, that is beside Zaretan; and those (waters) that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed and were cut off; and the people passed over the River Jordan right against Jericho, on dry land. Yehoshua 3:16 Just as Yah had let the people cross the Sea of Reeds on dry land 40yrs ago, they now crossed the Jordan on dry land! 191

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the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of Yah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan until all the people finished passing the Jordan; and all Yisrael passed on dry ground. Yehoshua 3:16-17 18 And

it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of Yah came up out of the midst of the Jordan and the soles of he priestsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; feet were lifted up (levitated) to the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, flowing as before over all its banks. Yehoshua 4:18 Now the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh reminded Yehoshua that they had been given the land before the River Jordan by Moshe. However, they were to cross the River Jordan and fight alongside their brothers until all were settled in their land. So, when the rest of the tribes crossed the Jordan 40,000 of their fighting men of valor went with the tribes but the wives and children and livestock stayed behind in the land.

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Before they could go into battle, Yah ordered Yehoshua to circumcise all the men because there had been no circumcisions while they wandered in the desert for forty years.

The priests performed the circumcisions and remained in the land until all the men were healed and they called this place Gilgal. During this time they celebrated the Passover and ate from the fruit of the land. It was on that day that Yah stopped the Manna from heaven and from then on the people ate what grew in the land in Caanan. 13 And

Yehoshua, being near Yericho, lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a Man over against him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Yehoshua went to Him and said to Him, Art you one of us or one of our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of Yah am I now come. And Yehoshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my master to his servant?

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And the captain of Yah's host said to Yehoshua, Loose your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is setapart. And Yehoshua did so. Yehoshua 5:13-15 Yah used this occasion to introduce the Captain of His army so Yehoshua would know that Yah was with him. Now it was time to take Yericho, however, the city was shut up tight. But Yah told Yehoshua that he would give the city, the king and all their armies to Yisrael. Yah told him to gather the mighty men of war and the Priest. There were to be 7 Priest and they were to carry the Ark of the Covenant. The men of war were to follow the Ark of the Covenant and the Priest who were also blowing the Shofars while marching around the city. And they were to do this one time each day for 6 days.

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What was Yehoshuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name when he was born? Who changed his name? What tribe was Yehoshua from? As commander who did he defeat in Rephidim? Where in scripture can you find how Yehoshua trusted Yah to give them the Promised Land? When they organized to leave the Shittim which three tribes were: a) In the north b) In the east c) In the south d) In the west What was the first river they had to cross? What tribe did not take their families and live stock across that river? How many of those tribes fighting men went across the Jordan? Why did they cross with Yisrael? What was the first city they decided to take? What did Yehoshua do to make sure they could take the city? Who was Rahab? 196

14. What did they promise her? 15. What miraculous thing happened when it was time to cross the River Jordan? 16. What other miracle happened? 17. Before the men could go to fight what did Yehoshua have the Priest do? 18. Which Feast Day did they celebrate? 19. What did they have to do before the could attack Yericho? 20. What did they do on the seventh day? 21. What happened when they did as instructed? Answers

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Yisrael begins to take the Promised Land Yah told them the only people who were to be left alive were Rahab and her family and they were to take NOTHING from the city. But the children of Yisrael committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yehudah, took of the accursed thing (an idol) and brought it into the camp of Yisrael: and the anger of Yah was kindled against the children of Yisrael and he would not go out with their army.

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Yehoshua did not know what the men had done and he went to Yah and asked why He did not give them the victory. Yah told him that some had disobeyed Him and took things from Yericho which He had strictly forbidden.

Yehoshua had to find the culprits using Yah’s instructions and purge them from the camp. Since their disobedience had cost the lives of 36 men, they were put to death. Once the rebels were purged Yah again went out with Yisrael’s army. The king from the neighboring land of Gibeon heard about the fierceness of Yah’s people in battle and tricked Yehoshua into making a peace treaty with them. He had to convince Yehoshua that he came from far away or he would not have made peace with him. He put on worn out clothes and carried stale bread to trick him into believing they had come from a great distance away. Yehoshua agree to a peace treaty and made them pay Yisrael taxes. 199

Adonizedek, King of Yerushalayim, heard that Gibeon had made peace with Yisrael. He then incited the five kings of the Amorites, the King of Hebron, the King of Jarmuth, the King of Lachish and the King of Eglon, to make a pact with each other to go and fight against Gibeon. They gathered together and set up camp in the sight of Gibeon and prepared to make war with them.

When the Gibeonites saw this, they called out to Yehoshua to come and help them. Yah told Yehoshua not to fear those kings because he was going to deliver them into his hands. 10 And

Yah discomfited them before Yisrael and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the wayâ&#x20AC;Ś 11 And

when they were fleeing from before Yisrael in the descent to Bethhoron, Yah cast down great stones (ice balls) from heaven upon them to Azekah, and they died; there were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the sons of Yisrael slew with the sword.

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Yehoshua spoke to Yah in the day when Yah delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Yisrael, and he said in the sight of Yisrael, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sun, stand you still upon Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalo. 13 And

THE SUN STOOD STILL, and THE MOON STAYED until the nation had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of righteousness? (which is the Book of Yasher) So, the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it that Yah hearkened to the voice of a man; for Yah fought for Yisrael. 15 Then Yehoshua returned with all Yisrael to the camp at Gilgal. 16 But the five kings fled and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told to Yehoshua that the five kings had been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah. 201

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Yehoshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them; 19 and do not stop, but pursue after your enemies and smite their rearguard without allowing them to enter into their cities; for Yah your Mighty One has delivered them into your hand. 20 And it came to pass when Yehoshua and the sons of Yisrael had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, that those who remained of them entered into strong cities. 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Yehoshua at Makkedah in peace; there was no one to move his tongue against any of the sons of Yisrael. 22 Then Yehoshua said, Open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave. 23 And they did so and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave: the King of Yerushalayim, the King of Hebron, the King of Jarmuth, the King of Lachish, and the King of Eglon. 24 And when they had brought those kings out to Yehoshua, Yehoshua called for all the men of Yisrael and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near; put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them. 25 And Yehoshua said to them, Do not fear, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage; for thus shall Yah do to all your enemies against whom you fight. Yehoshua Chapter 10

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And there were many enemies that Yehoshua would have to conquer and he did just that. Yehoshua took Makkedah, fought against Libnah and won, then fought against Lachish and won. Then Horam, King of Gezer, came up to help Lachish, and Yehoshua smote him, then Eglon, Hebron and Debir.

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these kings and their lands Yehoshua took at one time because The Mighty One of Yisrael fought for Yisrael. 43 And Yehoshua returned and all Yisrael with him to the camp to Gilgal. 203

But once again kings gathered to try to top Yisrael from taking the Promised Land that Yah had given Yisrael. Jabin, King of Hazor, Jobab, Kings of Madon, the King of Shimron, the King of Achshaph, and the Amorites, the Hittites, Perizites and Jebusites to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh. A great hoard of people with horses and chariots gathered to fight against Yisrael. 6 But

Yah said to Yehoshua, Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this hour I will deliver them up all slain before Yisrael; you shalt hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire. 8 And Yah delivered them into the hand of Yisrael, who smote them and chased them to great Zidon and to the hot springs and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them no one remaining. 9 And Yehoshua did to them as Yah had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burnt their chariots with fire. Yehoshua Chapter 11

And he went on to conquer Hazor and the Hill cities, Mount Halak that goes up to Seir and to Baalgad in the plains of Lebanon at the bottom of Mount Hermon. He then took all their Kings and killed them.

And he also got rid of the Anakim (giants). And the tribes moved into the Promised Land, the land of Caanan. ` 204

The Children of Yisrael divide the Promised Land The tribes divided the land by lots as seen on the map below. The only tribe not to be given specific territory were the Levites. There service to Yah was their inheritance.

Yehoshua took the whole land Canaan as Yah had commanded. But they did not rid the land of all their enemies. The Edomites, Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, the Hittites and the Arameans remained and they were a stumbling block for Yisrael until the time of Sovereign Dawid. Yehoshua Chapter 13 - 16 205

What did we learn? 1. Why did Yah refuse to give Yisrael victory in battle after they conquered Yericho? 2. What did they do when Yah told them why? 3. What happened after they ridded the camp of the rebels? 4. The king of what people tricked Yehoshua into making a peace treaty with him? 5. Who was Adonizedek? 6. Why did he want to do that? 7. What did he do? 8. Who called Yehoshua? 9. What did Yah tell Yehoshua He would do? 10. What did Yah do at Bethhoron? 11. What killed more of the enemy, Yah’s ice balls or Yisrael’s weapons? 12. What did Yehoshua ask Yah to do? 13. How long did the Sun and Moon stand still? 14. Where can you find this story? 15. Where can you find the names of the rest of the kings Yehoshua defeated? 16. Who were the only tribe not to be given land in Canaan? 17. Why were they not given land? 18. Which tribe’s territory the most north? 19. Who were the Anakim? Answers 206

ENEMIES OF THE CHILDREN OF YISRAEL Amalekites Amalekites are the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau, Ya’acob’s twin brother. They were the first people the Yisraelites had to fight when they came out of the Mitsrites captivity. Sovereign Sha’ul was told by Yah to destroy them but he disobeyed Yah and the Amalekites are a problem for Yisrael and the world till this day. Ammonites They are Lots descendants. Because the were family to the Yisraelites, Yah instructed Yisrael not to harm them when they went in to conquer Caanan. They lived pretty peacefully until the time of the Judges when they decided to raid Yisrael.

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Amorites The occupied the promised land and fought with Yisrael a lot. The names of the 2 kings that Yisrael fought when entering the promised land were Og (giants) and Sihon. The tribes of Gad, Reuben and half of the tribe of Manasseh conquered them and then settled in the land they had occupied. They were defeated by Yehoshua’s army and Yah’s “Stones from Heaven.” (Meterorites) Deut 2:30-35 Deut 3:3 Assyrians A nation in Mesopotamia that became a menace to Yisrael. They were a ruthless, barbaric people who were quite proud of the horrors they inflicted on their enemies.

Sovereign Menahem of Yisrael became a vassal of Tiglathpileser, then Shalmaneser V besieged Yisrael for 3yrs before totally conquering them.

His brother Sargon II removed the Northern kingdom from the land and took them into captivity in Persia and placed foreign people in the land. 208

Babylonians The Babylonians defeated the Assyrians. After the Battle of Carchemis in 605 BCE, Nebuchandnezzar, the King of Babylon, besieged Yerushalayim resulting in tribute being paid by Sovereign Yehoiakim, which he refused to pay. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon finally conquered the territory of the Southern kingdom and Yerushalayim and took them into exile in Babylon.

But because he did not give Yah the esteem he deserved and thought that his victory over Yisrael and his prosperity was his own doing Yah drove him insane an made him crawl naked on his hands while eating only grass like an ox for 7yrs. Dan 4:30-37

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Canaanites This name covers a number of tribes in Canaan the occupied the Promised Land. Kenites, Kenizzites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and the Jebusites. Gargashites, and Jebusites. Edomites Descendants of Esau, Ya’acob’s twin. After the Yisraelites left Mitsrayim the Edomites refused to allow them to pass through the land.

Later Herod’s people (Sadducess) conspired to kill Ha Mashiach. Mitsrites Invited the Yisraelites to live in the land and later out of jealousy, turned on them and enslaved them. Sometimes they lived peacefully enough that when Yisrael needed to escape their enemies they could flee there but at other times they were extreme adversaries. Midian Abraham had six sons with his second wife Ketarah. One of them was named Midian. When Moshe fled from Mitsrayim he eventually ended up in Midian. Jethro, who helped Moshe in the wilderness journey was a Midianite and the father of Moshe wife Zaporrah. 210

During the time of the judges, for seven years, they so impoverished the Yisraelites that they cried out to the Yah for help. Moabites Lots descendants. The Ammorites were their relatives and the joined forces with them to fight against the Yisraelites. Syrians They joined forces with Pekah to wage war against Ahaz the Sovereign of Yehuda.

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What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Who were the Amalekites? Who defeated the Ammonites? Who took the Northern kingdom into exile? Where did he take them? Where was the Southern kingdom taken? What happened to King Nebuchadnezzar when he became prideful? What were the names of the Canaanite tribes? Who are the Edomites? Who invited Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acob and his sons and then turned on them? When Moshe fled from Mitsrayim where did he go to live? Who were Lotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s descendants?

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FAMOUS PLACES IN SCRIPTURE Beersheba Well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham. Abraham and Abimelech entered into a compact there. Gen 21:31 On re-opening it, Yitshaq gave it the same name. Gen 26:31-33

Bethel Located in Central Palestine, about 10 miles north of Yerushalayim, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz. It was the place that brought Yisrael into corruption. Yarob’am place a golden calf there and told the Yisraelites to worship it.

Bethany A village on the south-eastern slope of the Mount of Olives, about 2 miles east of Yerushalayim, on the road to Yericho. This place was a very big part of Yahushua’s life. It was the place where Lazarus and his two sister’s lived and the place where Yahushua raised Lazarus from the dead. Mark 11:1

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Bethlehem The name means City of Bread. It is the birthplace of Yahushua Ha Mashiach, the actual Bread of Life. It was originally called Ephrath. Luke 2:12

It was also Dawid's birth-place, and also the place where he was anointed Sovereign by Shemu'el. 1 Shemu'el 16:4-13 Cana A town of Galilee, near Capernaum where Yahushua turned water into wine. Capernaum A Galilean city where Ha Mashiach spent much of his time ministering to Yisrael. It was the place that marks the beginning of the public ministry of Yahushua. Dan The territory of Dan extended from the west of Ephraim and Benjamin to the sea. It was a small territory, but was very fertile. Included in its territory were the cities of Lydda, Ekron, and Yoppa, which formed its northern boundary. This old border city was originally called Laish.

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It was also the place that brought Yisrael into corruption. Yarob’am placed a golden calf there and told the Yisraelites to worship it. Dothan A famous pasture-ground, whose name means Two Wells. It is the place where Yoseph found his brethren watching their flocks. Here, after throwing him into a hole with plans to kill him later, Yehuda convinced them that they should sell him to the Yishma’elite merchants passing by. Gen 37:17 En-Gedi When Sha’ul was chasing Dawid he hid En-Gedi. Gilead It included the possessions of the tribes of Gad and Reuben and the south part of Manasseh. Deut. 3:13; Num. 32:40 This is a place where many people in the bible found refuge. It was bounded on the north by Bashan, and on the south by Moab and Ammon. Gen 31:21; Deut 3:12-17

Hebron A city in the south end of the valley of Eshcol, about midway between Yerushalayim and Beersheba. 217

It was built "seven years before Zoan in Mitsrayimâ&#x20AC;&#x153;.

When the Yisraelites settled in the Promised land it belonged to Caleb. Jordan The Jordan River is the place of a number of miracles. With the Ark of the covenant out in front, the Yisraelites crossed over it on dry land when Yehoshua was leading them into the Promised Land. Yehoshua 3:15-17 Elijah and Elisha crossed over it on dry land as well. 2Kings 2:8, 2:4

The prophet and wonder-worker Elisha performed two miracles at the Jordan: he healed Naamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leprosy by having him bathe in its waters 2Kings 5:14 Elisha made an axe head lost by one of the "children of the prophets" float, by throwing a piece of wood into the water. 2Kings 6:6

Moriah Mount Moriah is the name of the elongated north-south stretch of land lying between Kidron Valley and "Hagai" Valley, between Mount Zion to the west and the Mount of Olives to the east.

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The Jebusite "Zion" was situated on the southern slope of Mount Moriah and when Sovereign Dawid captured the Yebusites territory he renamed it the City of Dawid. Even though Dawid had captured the territory he chose to pay for “Zion” and did not take it a spoil of war. 1Chron 21:25

It was the place where Abraham took Issac to sacrifice him. Gen. 22

The place where Ya’acob had his dream of malakim climbing up and down a ladder to heaven. Gen 28:10-18 Also the site of the Holy of Holies inside Solomon’s Temple where the Ark of the Covenant rested.

Nazareth The city where Yahushua grew up and the town that rejected His teachings. Nebo The place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land just before he went to die. Num 27:13 Samaria The capital of the northern kingdom until it was captured and it residents exiled. Yahushua told the emissaries not to go there to teach or heal. 219

Shechem It stood in the narrow sheltered valley between Ebal on the north and Gerizim on the south, these mountains at their base being only some 500 yards apart. Here Abraham pitched his tent and built his first altar in the Promised Land, and received the first divine promise. Gen 12:6

Also the town that was decimated first by Simeon and Levi and then looted by the rest of the sons of Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acob for abusing their sister Dinah. Gen Chapter 34 Shittim It was from this place that Yehoshua sent the men to go and spy out Yericho. It was also the starting place when the tribes left to go and settle in the Promised Land. On the darker side, it is the place where Yisraelite men began to be intimate with Moabite women and worship their gods Baal Peor. Yah told Moshe to have the elders of those tribes hang those men. Tyre The commerce of the whole world was gathered into the warehouses of Tyre. "Tyrian merchants were the first who ventured to navigate the Mediterranean waters. 220

They founded their colonies on the coasts and neighboring islands of the Aegean Sea, in Greece, on the northern coast of Africa, at Carthage and other places, in Sicily and Corsica, in Spain at Tartessus. In the time of Dawid, a friendly alliance was entered into between the Hebrews and the Tyrians. 2 Sam 5:11; 1Kings 5:1: 2 Chron 2:4

UR of the Chaldeans This is the region where Abraham was living when Yah told him to leave so he could show him the Promised Land and vowed to give it to his seed. Gen 12:1 Yericho This is the city that the Yisraelites took after marching around it for 7 days following the Ark of the Covenant. Then when Yisrael gave a shout the walls came crumbling down.

Yerushalayim The city of Dawid, the capital of Yisrael and located in Yehuda. Yoppa This is the town Yonah fled from when he was running from the assignment that Yah gave him to go to Niniveh and prophesy against it.

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What did we learn? There are two Maps above. Study Map 1 and Map 2 Are the following cities on Map 1, Map 2 or both? • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Beersheba Bethel Bethany Bethlehem Cana Capernaum Dan Gilead Hebron Jordan Nazareth Nebo Samaria Shechem Tyre Yericho Yerusalem

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The Judges 1350 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 950 BC

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Othniyah (Yah is Powerful/Yah is Mighty) First Judge in Yisrael and also called a savior. From the Tribe of Yehuda (Judah) He led Yisrael to victory after they had been oppressed by Syria for 8yrs. Then Yisrael had peace for the next 40yrs.

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Ehud (Unity/Powerful) Second Judge In Yisrael From the Tribe of Binyamin (Benjamin) Chosen by Yah to end Yisraelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18yr oppression by the Moabites. Ehud went to visit the grossly obese Moabite King Eglon and pretended he wanted to honor him and his guards believing him, left him alone with the King.

He killed him when they left. Yisrael was at peace for 80yrs. He too was called a savior. Shamgar (pagan name meaning Shimig has given) The third Judge in Yisrael Uncertain of the Tribe He killed 600 Philistines and rid the highways of robbers and thieves making the road safe again for travel and trade.

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Deborah (Bee) She was the fourth Judge in Yisrael and also a Prophetess, from the Tribe of Ephraim. She also went into battle with one of Yisraelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mightiest military leaders Barak. Yah and they together defeated the Canaanite King Jabinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military chief Sisera. This defeat ended 20yrs of oppression by the Cannanites and Yisrael enjoyed peace for 40yrs. Gideon (one who cuts to pieces) The fifth Judge in Yisrael From the Tribe of Manasseh Yah called Gideon to be a Judge in Yisrael during a very troubling time in Yisrael. Their enemies were putting a heavy burden on the Yisraelites for seven years. It was so bad they had to

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hide their food at harvest time because the army of the Midians would invade the land and take everything they had of value. So Yah called Gideon to fight against Midian and the other nations they brought with them. He defeated them and Yisrael had rest in the land for 40yrs. Abimelech (my father is king) The sixth Judge in Yisrael His father Gideon was from the Tribe of Manasseh Abimelech killed his seventy brothers so that he could rule Yisrael. He ruled in Yisrael for 3yrs. His rulership ended when a woman in a town he was fighting with dropped a stone on his head from a high wall and killed him. Tolar (Crimson or deep Scarlet) The seventh Judge in Yisrael From the Tribe of Issachar He was a Judge in Yisrael for 23yrs.

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Yiphtah â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jephthah (he will open) He was the ninth Judge in Yisrael His father was from the Tribe of Manasseh Yiphtah was driven from his home in Gilead by his brother because he had a different mother. So he went to a town called Tob and became the fearless head of a gang of robbers and everyone heard of his exploits including the people who had run him out of town. The people of Ammon began to fight with the people of Gilead, and some of the Gileadites went to Tob to ask Yiphtah to come back and lead them in war against Ammon. At first he remembered how badly they treated him. But, he made them promise that if Yah gave him the victory they would allow him to rule and they did promised. He was victorious and he ruled for 6yrs. Ibsan - Ibzan(quick/agile) He was the tenth Judge in Yisrael From the Tribe of Zebulan He judged in Yisrael for 7yrs

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Elon (great tree) He was the eleventh Judge in Yisrael From the Tribe of Zebulan He judged in Yisrael for 10yrs Abdon (service/servile) He was the twelfth Judge in Yisrael From the Tribe of Asher He was a Judge for 8yrs Shimson - Samson (of the sun) He was the thirteenth Judge in Yisrael From the Tribe of Dan He was the last of the major Judges. His Birth was announced by a Messenger of Yah. He was to be a Nazarite from birth. The Messenger of Yah gave his mother and father strict instruction on the kind of food he could and could not eat and as a Nazarite he could not cut his hair or drink wine or strong drinks. Although he won battles with the Philistines, he did not win for Yisrael, but for himself. 229

Legend is that his strength was from his hair, but none of us has power that does not come from Yah and that included Shimson. His involvement with foreign woman and his disregard for Yah’s laws caused Yah to remove his power. The Philistines eventually blinded and subdued him but his final act was to pulled down their temple on their heads, killing many of them.

Shemu’el/Shemu'el (name of Yah) From the tribe of Levi He was the fourteenth Judge is Yisrael Shemu’el was a VERY SPECIAL MAN. He was a Judge, Prophet and a Priest. A man who talked to Yah.

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Shemu’el’s mother did not have any children and she prayed to

Yah for a child and she vowed to Yah that if he gave her a male child that she would return him to Yah all the days of his life. Yah heard and answered her prayer giving her a son and when he was old enough she took him to the Temple, kept her vow and left him there with Eli the High Priest to serve Yah. And Shemu’el was with Eli the High Priest in the Temple of Yah for many years when one night while he was sleeping he heard someone call his name. So he got up and went into where Eli was sleeping and said “Here I am”. And Eli told him that he didn’t called him. So Shemu’el went back to his bed and this happened 2 more times and the third time Eli realized it was Yah calling the child.

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So he told Shemu’el that the next time he was called to say “Speak Yah, for your servant hears.” Now although Eli was a righteous man, his two sons were very unrighteous young men who took advantage of Yisrael when they came to the temple. And Eli did nothing to stop this behavior. So when Shemu’el asked Yah to speak, Yah told him that because Eli had not stopped his sons from committing these acts he was going to take away the priesthood from the house of Eli forever. The next day Eli asked Shemu’el what Yah had said to him and Shemu’el reluctantly repeated Yah’s words.

From that day forward the Ruach was on Shemu’el and he became a Prophet of Yah and Yah was with him. And what Yah vowed to do to Eli he did in one day. Eli’s two sons were killed in battle and when Eli heard his sons were dead, he fell backwards from his chair and broke his neck and died.

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What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

Who was the first Judge? What tribe was he from? What was the gift the Yah gave to Deborah? Who did she go to war with? Who did they fight? Which Judge killed the obese Moabite King Eglon? Which Judge made the highways safe for travel and trade? Who put an end to Midianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oppression of Yisrael? How long did he judge? Who killed all his brothers so he could rule? Where was Yiphtah from? Why did his brothers drive him out of the country? Who was the tenth Judge? How long did he rule? What does the name Tolar mean? What tribe was Shimson (Samson) from? Who announced his birth? What was his mother told that he could not drink? Could he cut his hair? Did his strength come from his hair? What did he do that made Yah upset with Him?

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The Prophets Yah’s intimate Spokesmen and Revealers who through words, visions and dreams, were shown Yah’s Messages to Yisrael. The purpose of these people was to:

Reveal the nature and attributes of Yah to men. To make known to men the laws of Yah. To call the people to obedience to Yah’s laws. To encourage the people to worship Yah with sincerity. To warn them of Divine judgement for personal, spiritual and national sin. To heal the nation and individuals To foretell future events which Yah had willed. To foretell the coming of Ha Mashiach, our Savior. To record the history of Yah’s interaction with men. To record the Word of Yah in the Set-Apart Scriptures. To anoint Yah’s choice for leadership To voice Yah’s direction in battle To carry out Yah’s retribution Here is a list of our Prophets Please read the listed scriptures to learn about these

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Abel Yahushua called Abel, the son of Adam a Prophet. Luke 11: 50-51

Abraham Yah told King Abimelech that Abraham was a prophet. Shemoth (Exodus) 20: 6-7

Amos Yah said to Amos, “Go, prophesy to My people Yisrael”. Sovereigns of his time: Uzziyah (Yehuda) and Yerobo’am (Yisrael) Amos 7: 15

Barnabas, Simeon and Sha'ul Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herodes the district ruler and Sha’ul. While they were worshiping Yah and fasting, the Set Apart Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Sha’ul for the work to which I have called them.” Acts Chapter 13

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Dani’el/Daniel The Southern kingdom of Yisrael was taken into captivity by the Babylonians in the year 587/586 BCE by King Nebuchadnezzar. It was a punishment from Yah for their idolatry and sinful behavior. While in captivity the king had a dream which troubled him and no one could tell him the meaning. He sought Daniel to explain the meaning of the dream. Yah first showed Dani’el to be a prophet when He gave Dani’el the understanding of a dream King Nebuchadnezzar had. This dream was a prophesy of

Yahushua’s Everlasting Reign Dani’el 2: 29-35

Daniel proved to be an excellent resource to the king that defeated Nebuchadnezzar, King Darius. Jealousy arose among the kings confidants and they tried to find reason to turn the king against him but could not. But there was a new law that required all to worship the new gods and idol and no other. However, Daniel would not stop praying to Yah.

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And when he would not stop worshipping Yah, the kings men pressured to Darius to throw Daniel into a den of Lions. The kings men thought the lions would kill him, but Yah sent his messenger, and shut the lions' mouths, Yah was always with Daniel. Daniel 6:7-22

Dawid/Dawid The second Sovereign of a United kingdom, Sovereign Dawid said “The Spirit of Yah has spoken through me and his word is on my tongue” 2Shemu’el 23; 2 Deborah She was also a Judge in Yisrael. She and Barak defeated Sisera, captain of Cannanite king Jabin’s the army. "Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappodoth, was judging Yisrael at that time. She would sit under the palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the people of Yisrael came up to her for judgment." Shophetim 4:4-5

Eliyahu/Elijah Lead the people to kill Izebel’s (Jezebel) pagan prophets of Baal (the lord) and returned the people to the true worship of Yah. 238

Prophesied during the reign of: Ahab, Ahaziah (Yisrael), Yarob’am (Yehuda) Eliyahu was taken up by Yah. Eliyahu said “I alone am left a prophet of Yah… 1Kings 18:22

Elisha The miracle worker, raising the dead, extending oil. Yah told Eliyahu to find Elisha and anoint him as prophet in his place. Prophesied during the reign of: Ahab, Ahaziah, (Yisrael), Yehoram, Yehu and Yehoash 1Malakim Chapter 19

Gad The prophet that advised David what to do to stop the plague he caused by ordering the census. 1Samuel 22:5 Habaqquo/Habakkuk The message which the prophet Habaqquo saw. Prophesied during the reign of: Yəhōyāqîm, Yehuda Habaqquo Chapter 1-3

Haggai In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of Yah came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Sheltie. Haggai Chapter 1 239

Hannah/Anna Hannah, a prophetess during the time that Miriam and Yoseph came to the Temple to present Yahushua to Yah. And she gave thanks to Yah for Yahushua. Luke 2:36-38 Hanok/Enoch -Taken by Yah “And Hanok, the seventh from Adam, a Prophet before the flood that hid from the wickedness of man and told Noah’s father what kind of man Noah would be, also prophesied of these saying “See Yah comes with His myriad of set-apart ones….Yehuda Chapter 1:14-15 Hoshea/Hosea When Yah began to speak through Hosea, Yah said to him… Sovereigns during his time: In Yisrael-Uzziah, Yotam, Ahaz and Hizqiyah; in Yehuda, and Yarob’am son of Yehoash in Yisrael. Hoshea Chapter 1:2 Hulda Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophetess Huldah…..2Melakim Chapter 22 Mal’aki/Malachi A prophecy: The word of Yah to Yisrael through Malachi. “I have loved you,” says Yah. Mal’aki Chapter 1

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Mikah/Micah The word of Yah that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Yotam, Ahaz and Hizqiyah, Sovereigns of Yehuda the vision he saw concerning Shomeron (Samaria) and Yerushalayim. Mikah Chapter 1 Moshe/Moses Yah told Moshe: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I will raise up for them a Prophet (Yahushua) like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. Deut Chapter 18

Since then, no prophet has risen in Yisrael like Moshe, whom Yah knew face to face, who did all those signs and wonders Yah sent him to do in Mitsrayim-to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moshe did in the sight of all Yisrael. Deut Chapter 34 Nahum A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elqoshite/Elkoshite. Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Yehuda, and fulfill your vows. No more will the wicked invade you; they will be completely destroyed. Prophesied during the reign of: Ahaz, Hizqiyah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah. Nahum Chapter 1 241

Obadyah/Obadiah The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign Yah Says about Edom—We have heard a message from Yah: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Rise, let us go against her for battle” “See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised. Obadyah Chapter 1 Shemu’el/Shemu'el Then Yah came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Shemu'el! Shemu'el!” Then Shemu'el said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” This is the beginning of his office as prophet. 1Shemu’el Chapter 3

He was the last Judge in Yisrael and he also anointed Sha’ul and Dawid as Soveriegns of Yisrael. 1Shemu’el Tsephanyah (Zephaniah) The word of Yah that came to Tsephanyah son of Kushi/Cushi, the son of Gedalyah (Gedaliah), the son of Amaryah, the son of Hizqiyah, during the reign of Yosiah son of Amon Sovereign of Yehuda: Seek Yah, all you humble of the land, you who do what He commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Yah’s anger. Tsephanyah Chapter 1:1 242

Uriyah And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Yah, Uriyah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Yirmeyahu. Yer 26:20 Yahushua Yahushua is a Prophet, Priest and Sovereign Forever Yah told Moshe: ‘I will raise up for them a Prophet (Yahushua) like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. Deut Chapter 18

And the people who were in Yerushalayim declared: “This is Yahushua, the prophet from Natsareth (Nazareth) in Galil (Galilee). Prophesied during the reign of: King Herod, Pontius Pilate Procurator. Matt Chapter 21 Yehezqel/Ezekiel And the hand of Yah came upon him there. (Meaning Yah made him a prophet at that Time.) Prophesied during the captivity in Babylon during the reign of Josiah through the reign of Yəhōyāqîm down to Zedekiah Sovereign of Yehuda, when the people of Yerushalayim were taken into captivity. Yehezqel Chapter 1:3 243

Yeshayahu The vision of Yeshayahu the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of . Yesh 1:1 Judah.

Yeshayahu had a vision of being in Heaven with Yah and Yah sending a seraphim to wipe clean his sins. And when this had been done, Yah was seeking someone to prophesy to Yisrael what their very unpleasant fate would be and Yeshayahu said he would be the one. ”Then said I, Here am I; send me.” Yesh 6:1-8 Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah The word of Yah came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. He was a child when Yah first sent him to speak to Yisrael. 6Then said I, Ah, Sovereign YAH! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. Yirmeyahu Chapter 1:5-6

Yo’el/Joel The word of Yah that came to Joel son of Pethuel. Prophesied during the reign: Ezra’s Governorship. Yo’el Chapter 1

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Yohanan the Emissary The Revelation from Yahushua, which Yah gave Him to show His servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending His malakim to His servant Yohanan, who testifies to everything he saw (in a vision)—that is, the word of Yah and the testimony of Yahushua. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. Revelation Chapter 1 Yohanan the Immerser He prophesied concerning Yahushua: And this was his message: “After me comes the one more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I immerse you with water, but He (Yahushua) will immerse you with the Set-Apart Spirit.” Mark Chapter 1 “I immerse you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will immerse you with the Set Apart Spirit.” Matt Chapter 3 The next day Yohannan saw Yahushua coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of Yah, who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A Man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’ I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came immersing with water was that He might be revealed to Yisrael.” 245

Then Yohannan gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on Him. And I myself did not know Him, but the One (Yah) who sent me to immerse with water told me, ‘The Man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the One who will immerse with the Set Apart Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is Yah’s Chosen One.” Read John Chapter 1

One who will immerse with the Set Apart Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is Yah’s Chosen One.” Read John Chapter 1

Yonah/Jonah The word of Yah came to Yonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineweh (Nineveh) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

Yonah decided not to go and ended up in the belly of a whale for 3 days and 3 nights. Symbolic of Yahushua’s burial and resurrection. Prophesied during reign of: Yarob’am. Yonah Chapters 1-4 Zekaryah/Zechariah In the eighth month of the second year of Dareyawesh (Darius), the word of Yah came to the prophet Zekaryah son of Berekyah (Berekiah), the son of Iddo: “Yah was very angry with your ancestors. Therefor tell the people: This is what Yah Almighty says: ‘Return to Me,’ declares Yah Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yah Almighty. Zekaryah Chapter 1

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What were some of the jobs of the Prophets? Who was the first prophet? What king did Yah tell that Abraham is a prophet? Which king called for Dani’el to interpret his dream? Where can you find this scripture “The Spirit of Yah has spoken through me and his word is on my tongue” ? Which female prophet also lead the armies of Ysarel? Who killed Izebel’s pagan prophets? Which prophet raised the dead? Who was a prophet before the flood? In 2Melakim Chapter 22, why did Hilkiah the priest go to Hulda the prophetess? What Sovereigns were in power when Micah prophesied? Which prophet told the people that Yah would send Yahushua? Who prophesied about Nineveh? Dawid was anointed by which prophet? Who is a Prophet, Priest and Sovereign forever? Which prophet disobeyed Yah and ended up in the belly of a whale?

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Melchizedek The very first Sovereign. His name means the Sovereign of Righteousness. Melchizedek was both a Priest AND a Sovereign. He was a Priest of the Most High Yah and the Sovereign of the Set Apart City, Yerushalem. He lived and served in the days of Abram (Abraham). Genesis 14:18-20 He is the High Priest who blessed Abraham after he pursued, caught and defeated Chedorlaomer, the king of Elam, Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, and Tidal, king of the Gentiles who had taken Lot and his family captive when they invaded and looted Sodom. ”And Melchizedek Sovereign of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was [is] the priest of the most high Yah. And he blessed him, and said, 'Blessed be Abram to the Most High Yah, possessor of heaven and earth, And blessed be the Most High Yah, which has delivered thine enemies into your hand’.” Abraham presented Melchizedek with a tenth of all he had taken from those Sovereigns when he overcame them in battle. Abraham honored Melchizedek with these gifts because he knew that Melchizedek was the Priest of the Most High Yah. Melchizedek then blessed Abraham in the name of Yah and praised Yah for giving Abraham victory in battle. In Sha'ul’s letter to the Hebrews, Yahushua is considered a Priest in the order of Melchizedek because, like Melchizedek, Yahushua was not a descendant of Aharon, and thus would not qualify for the Levitical priesthood under the Law of Moshe. Hebrews 7:13-17 250

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From the time that Yisrael came out of Mitsrayim Yah raised up men, judges to deliver and guide his people. It started with Moshe (Moses), then Yehoshua and ran through Shemu'el. From 1350BC-1014 BC. Shemu'el was a righteous and virtuous man, but his sons Joel and Abiyah, who Shemu'el had appointed as Judges, were not. They were greedy men who took bribes from the people and did not protect the innocent. They used their office to abuse Yisrael and uphold unrighteousness. Knowing that Shemu'el was toward the end of his life Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people did not want Joel and Abiyah to rule in Yisrael once he died. The elders of the tribes came to Shemu'el and told him the people decided they wanted to have a king like the peoples of the lands around them. These people lacked faith in Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to provide another righteous leader for them. Shemu'el was not happy with their request but he had no choice but to take that request to Yah.

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Shemu'el prayed to Yah and this is what Yah answered… “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me that I should not reign over them”. 1Shem 1-8:7 Yah had performed so many wonderful acts on behalf of the children of Yisrael, but how quickly they forgot. He even stopped the sun for them. And they rejected Him. Although Yah was not happy about their request, He told Shemu'el to make them aware of exactly how a flesh and blood king will act and what he will require from all Yisrael. And he said, “This will be the right of the king that will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and some shall run before his chariot. 12And he will appoint captains over thousands and captains over fifties and will set them to plough his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and the munitions of his chariots. 13And he will take your daughters to be confectioneries and to be cooks and to be bakers. 14And he will take your fields and your vineyards and your good olive yards and give them to his slaves. 15And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards to give to his officers and to his slaves. 11

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Yah told Shemu’el that the man he wanted him to anoint as Sovereign would come to him the next day.

That man was Sha'ul. Sha’ul had been sent to look for his father’s asses and failing to find them he desired to seek the services of a seer and was directed to Shemu’el. 1Shemu’el Chapter 9

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Sha'ul arrived the next day as Yah had said, and when Sha'ul came to Shemu'el he invited him to stay and eat with him.

Sha'ul stayed the night with Shemu'el and when Shemu'el decided it was time for Sha'ul to leave he told Sha'ul to send his companion away because he had a message for him from Yah. And he took out of vial of oil, poured the oil on Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head and anointed Sha'ul Sovereign of Yisrael. Next he told him to go to the garrison of the Philistines and he would meet a group of Prophets who would be playing instruments and prophesizing. He told him The Spirit of Yah will come upon him there and he would prophesized also. Shemu'el called all Yisrael to Yah so he could announced to them who had become their Sovereign and he said to them: 19 But

you have this day rejected your Mighty One, who saves you out of all your afflictions and your troubles, and you have said to Him, No, but set a Sovereign over us. Now, therefore, present yourselves before Yah by your tribes and by your thousands. 1 Shem 10:19 255

When all the tribes were assembled the Tribe of Binyamin was chosen and then the family of Matri and from that family Sha'ul was chosen. But he had hidden himself among the baggage and Yah told the people where to find him. Shemu'el told the people that Yah had chosen Sha'ul to reign over the land and the Children of Yisrael. And all but a few proclaimed “Long Live the Sovereign”! And Sha’ul’s reign begins 1043BC – 1011BC

In those days Nahash, the king of the Ammonites troubled the Yisraelites that lived in Jabesh-Gilead. He brought his army into the land and camped right in front of their city. Now the people of Jabesh-Gilead tried to make peace with them, and this is how Nahash answered them: “On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes and lay it for a reproach upon all Yisrael.” 1 Shem 11:2 They requested that Nahash give them seven days to answer him and they sent messengers throughout the land to tell the people what was going to happen to them.

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he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the borders of Yisrael by the hands of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come forth after Sha'ul and after Shemu'el, so shall it be done to his oxen.” And the fear of Yah fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

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they said to the messengers that came, Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, “Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.” And the messengers came and declared it to the men of Jabesh, and they were glad. 1 Shem 11:7-9 257

Three hundred thousand men answered Sha’ul’s call and came to the aid of Jabesh and together they wiped out the Ammonites. When the battle was over the men of battle wanted to put to death those men who refused to say “Long Live the Sovereign” when they learned that Sha'ul would rule them. But Sha'ul showed them mercy because it was a day that Yah had given them victory over their enemy. He said, There shall not a man be put to death this day, for today Yah has brought salvation in Yisrael. 1Shem 11:13 So they sacrificed to Yah at Gilgal and the people of that city made Sha'ul their Sovereign. The third time he was anointed as Sovereign. However, Sha’ul did not fortify the nation and the Philistines (giants) began to oppress them. They removed all of the blacksmiths from the land which meant the Yisraelites could not make weapons to defend themselves. Now there was no blacksmiths found while “Sha'ul and Jonathan . . . abode in Gibeah,” during which period the Philistine raids went unchecked. 1Shem 13:19

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Sha'ul had a son named Jonathan. He was a brave, courageous and valiant man who trusted in the Power of Yah. Later he would become Sovereign Dawidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closest friend and his protector.

The Philistines had a garrison in Geba and Jonathan with very few men attacked and defeated the Philistine forces there. When the Philistines in the city heard about it they were enraged. They had become used to bullying the Yisraelites. Sha'ul felt this act was going to cause an all out war. Sha'ul was right. The Philistines came against Yisrael with six thousand horsemen, 30 chariots and warriors as far as the eye could see.

Sha'ul sounded the Shofar so all Yisrael would know to gather to him for war. But the warriors of the Philistines were closely related to the Anakim who were giants and the people had heard about the fierceness of the Philistines, but imagine actually seeing them. They were terrified!

The Yisraelites did not trust in Yah like Jonathan did and they hid themselves and some fled back across the River Jordan. The Yisraelites felt they were too weak to engage in battle with any hope of success against these giants.

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Sha'ul waited 7 days for Shemu'el to come and make sacrifices to Yah. Yah, through Shemu’el would strengthen the people and provide them with battle plans which would bring them victory. But when Shemu’el did not arrive at the usual time, Sha’ul did what was unlawful for him to do. Sha'ul decided that he would offer the Burnt Offering to Yah. But Shemu’el had told him to “wait until I arrive and tell you what to do.”

When Shemu'el came into the camp he realized that Sha'ul had broken the laws of the sacrifice and he told him that he had ruined the future of his kingdom. Had he waited his kingdom would have stood forever. He told him that Yah wanted a man that would always put Him and His instructions first. Because of Sha'ul’s disobedience and the people’s lack of faith, Yah would not go out with them in battle and the Philistines oppressed and troubled Yisrael continually.

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Yah gave Sha'ul another opportunity to redeem himself. “Shemu'el said to Sha'ul, I am the one Yah sent to anoint you Sovereign over His people Yisrael; so listen now to the message from Yah. This is what Yah Almighty says: I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Yisrael when they waylaid them as they came up from Mitsrayim. Now go, attack the Amalekites and TOTALLY DESTROY EVERYTHING that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” 1 Shemu'el 15:1-3

But once again, Sha'ul failed.

Instead Sha'ul ordered his men to keep the best of the livestock and to spare the life of the Amalekite King Agag, who Yah wanted dead. When confronted by Shemu'el, he gave the excuse of keeping these things to sacrifice to Yah. And this is what Shemu'el replied. “Does Yah have great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, or in obeying His voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you hast rejected the word of the Yah, He has also rejected you from being Sovereign.” 1 Shemu'el 15:22,23

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But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Yisrael; come back with me, so that I may worship Yah, your Mighty One” 1 Shemu'el 15:30.

As Shemu'el turned to leave, Sha'ul pleaded with him saying, “I have sinned.” But he was just trying to manipulate Shemu'el. He even thought that he could fool Yah into believing he would genuinely follow and obey him.

It was too late. Shemu'el refused to go with him and Sha'ul realized at that moment that his kingdom would not continue. SHA’UL THE FLESH AND BLOOD King Arrogant, Greedy, Manipulative, Impatient, Disobedient

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Sovereign Dawid 1025BC-961BC Since Sovereign Sha’ul failed to meet Yah’s standards for rulership, Yah sent Shemu’el to Bethlehem to look for the next Sovereign from the sons of Yishi (Jesse). Shemu’el reviewed all the sons of Yishi, but Yah told him he was not among the sons Yishi had presented. 1Shemu’el 15:23,1Shemu’el 15:35. 1Shemu’el 16:1

There was one son left, the youngest of Yishi’s sons who tended sheep.

When that son, Dawid comes in from the field Yah tells Shemu’el that he is to anoint him as the next Sovereign of Yisrael and Shemu’el does as Yah instructs him. After the anointing Dawid continued his normal duties before assuming the duties of Sovereign, because Sha’ul still reigned. One day Yishi sent Dawid with provisions for his sons who were at the battle field and Dawid heard a Philistine giant taunting Yisrael’s army. 267

He was a massive, terrifying giant from the clan of the Philistines who would challenge Yisrael to battle morning and night. Saying if Yisrael won they would serve Yisrael, but if they won Yisrael would serve them. 1Shemu’el 17:1

This made Dawid very, very angry and he wanted to kill the giant. “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of Yah?” The men, including one of his brothers thought that Dawid was just showing off. But he wasn’t. Dawid would proved himself to be a fearless warrior when defending the honor of the Most High Yah and His people. 1Shemu’el 17:28

Dawid knew in his heart that Yah would deliver Goliath into his hands. And He did! Sha'ul was told of Dawid’s desire to face the giant and Sha'ul sent for him.

He put him in his armor and gave Dawid his weapons. But Sha’ul was a very large man and his armor and spear were much too large for Dawid to handle.

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Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword. 1Shem 17:45-54

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Dawid becomes Sovereign Dawid’s bravery impressed Sha'ul so much that he did not allow him to return home. Dawid would also sing and play music to calm Sha'ul down when Yah would send an evil spirit to torment Sha'ul. Many of the songs Dawid sang to Sha'ul would later to become Psalms. It was during this time that Dawid and Jonathan, Sha'ul’s son developed the most loyal friendship. They both had an unwavering faith in Yah. Faith that Sha'ul did not possess. Sha’ul bought Dawid into his royal court.

First as armor-bearer, then captain over a thousand men. He married Michal, the Sovereigns second daughter and he moved into the high office of captain of the Sovereign’s body-guard. David became a very victorious leader of Yisrael’s armies and the people came to both respect and adore Dawid. They started to sing this songs about him when he would return from battle. 272

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“Sha'ul killed 1000 but Dawid killed 10,000” And the words to the song inflamed Sha’ul’s jealousy and he began to hate Dawid. And he knew that Yah had removed the Ruach from him and that it now rested on Dawid. So, Sha'ul would send Dawid on dangerous war campaigns that he was sure would end Dawid’s life, but Dawid would always return in triumph and that would make Sha'ul hate Dawid even more. Sha'ul’s jealousy drove him to want to take Dawid’s life and Sha’ul began repeatedly to try to kill him at court. Finally Dawid fled for his life and went from hero to fugitive. When he fled, he had two loyal confidants, Jonathan his trusted friend and Michal his wife, two of Sha'ul’s children.

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Dawid goes on the run He went on the run and lived in a cave in Adullam with his entire family. Men who were distressed, in debt or discontented joined him and he became their leader. His band grew from 400 men to 600. Together they were all on the run for years. While he was on the run Dawid formed an alliance with Abiathar, who would later become the High Priest at Yerushalayim. During this time Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul chases him from place to place. There were two times when Dawid could have easily killed Sha'ul. Once Sha'ul came into a cave that Dawid was hiding in. And instead of killing Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul, Dawid just cut off a piece of Sha'ul garment as he was sleeping. Because Yah had made Sha'ul Sovereign, Dawid would not harm him.. Dawid later showed Sha'ul the piece of garment he had cut off and told him that he could have killed him but spared his life. But even after Sha'ul knew that Dawid could have easily killed him, he behaved like Pharaoh and promised to leave Dawid in peace, but would later hardened his heart and begin to hunt Dawid again. The only time Sha'ul would stop hunting Dawid is when he had to battle the Philistines. 274

It was at the battle of Mount Gilboa with the Philistines that Sha’ul and Jonathan were both killed. Dawid mourned them both because he loved them both. Sha'ul had no reason to seek Dawid’s death.

Sovereign Dawid returns to Hebron When Sha’ul died Dawid could finally stop running. He asked Yah, “Shall I go up to one of the towns of Yehuda?” And Yah said, “Go up.” Dawid asked, “Where shall I go?” “To Hebron,” Yah answered.

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However, another of Sha'ul’s sons, Ishbosheth reigned over the rest of the tribes of Yisrael. There was a long war between the House of Sha'ul and the Reign of Dawid. As Dawid’s reign grew stronger, the House of Sha'ul’s reign got weaker and weaker. Sons were born to Dawid while he ruled in Hebron: 2 And sons were born to Dawid in Hebron; and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess; 3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail who had been the wife of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; 4 and the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital; 5 and the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah, Dawid’s wife. These were born to Dawid in Hebron. 2Shem 3:2-5 These young men were a constant challenge to Sovereign Dawid and pursued treachery against their father more frightful then the enemies around him.

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Dawid becomes Sovereign of all Yisrael So, the people of Yisrael came to Dawid and made him there Sovereign and he ruled over all the twelve tribes. After 2 more years Dawid was anointed a third time, and this time over all of Yisrael. Yisrael celebrated his coronation for 3 days. The Yesubites were living in Yerushalayim at the time. But Dawid ridded the land of them, but not before paying for the land on which he built the City of David. Then he fortified the city with strong walls and made Yerushalayim his home and built his royal residence there. This is when it began to be called the City Of Dawid. 277

And these are the names of the children who were born to Dawid in Yerushalayim. Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada and Eliphelet.

Dawid wants to bring home the Ark of the Covenant Now the Ark of the Covenant had been captured during a battle with the Philistines while Eli was the Priest and was absent from the Tabernacle for more than a generation. The Philistines had taken the Ark with them to their capital city, Ashdod and put it in the temple of their idol Dagon. However, on the next day after putting the Ark in their temple, the statue of Dagon had been thrown down to the ground.

The same thing happened again the following day.

Soon after, the power of the Ark, which was Yah, caused the city of Ashdod to suffer misfortunes as plague after plague struck the city. 278

The Philistines, being terrified of the Ark moved it to the city of Gath and then Ekron, but the plague continued I Shem 5:1-12. After suffering for seven months, the Philistines decided to return the Ark to the Yisraelites together with offerings of expensive gifts upon the advice of their diviners and priests.

The Ark was brought back to Beit Shemesh and then transported to Kiryat Jearim, where it stayed for twenty years ISam. 6:1-18, 21; 7:1-2.

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Dawid got it in his heart to bring the Ark to Yerushalayim. He spoke with each of his officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. He then said to the whole assembly of Yisrael, “If it seems good to you and if it is the will of Yah our Mighty One, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Yisrael, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us.” 3 Let us bring the ark of our Mighty One back to us, for we did not inquire of it during the reign of Sha'ul.” 4 The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people. 280

Now there were two attempts to bring the Ark back to the city of Dawid. The first attempt failed resulting with the death of Uzzah, because he touched the Ark which was not lawful to do. This caused Dawid to be concerned about trying to move it again and it stayed at the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

Sovereign Dawid brings the Ark to the City of Dawid This time Dawid secured the Levites to go and get the Ark: 2 Then

Dawid said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one but the Levites may carry the Ark of Yah, because Yah chose them to carry the Ark of Yah and to minister before Him forever.â&#x20AC;? 3 Dawid assembled all Yisrael in Yerushalayim to bring up the Ark of Yah to the place he had prepared for it. 1Chronicles 15:2 5 So Dawid assembled all Yisrael, from the Shihor River in Mitsrayim to Lebo Hamath, to bring the Ark of Yah from Kiriath Jearim. 6 Dawid and all Yisrael went to Baalah of Yehuda (Kiriath Jearim) to bring up from there the Ark of the Covenant, who is enthroned between the cherubim the Ark that is called by the Name. 1Chronicle 13:1-6

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with him. So Dawid inquired of Yah and Yah gave him the strategy to defeat them once and for all and he turned his attention back to the Ark. So Dawid and the elders of Yisrael and the commanders of units of a thousand went to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of Yah from the house of Obed-Edom, with rejoicing. 26 Because Yah had helped the Levites who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant of Yah, seven bulls and seven rams were sacrificed. 27 Now Dawid was clothed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the Ark, and as were the musicians, and Kenaniah, who was in charge of the singing of the choirs. Dawid also wore a linen ephod. 28 So all Yisrael brought up the Ark of the covenant of Yah with shouts, with the sounding of ramsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps. 1Chronicles 16 24-28

Dawid defeated the Philistines, the Moabites, Hadadezer king of Zobah, the Arameans of Damascus, Edom, the Ammonites and Amalek. Dawidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life as the Sovereign was filled with drama.

Aside from wars with surrounding nations, he also had to deal with treachery from his sons. 282

Amnon, his first son, raped his daughter Tamar. Tamar’s brother Absolom later murdered Amnon and then discredited Dawid to the nation in an effort to seize the kingdom through rebellion. This rebellion caused Dawid to flee Yerushalayim until Absolom’s death.

Adoniyah tried to steal the kingdom from his brother Solomon while Dawid still reigned. Solomon eventually killed him. Dawid wanted to build a temple for the Ark, but Yah told him that his son would build the Temple for Him instead. Then Dawid put together plans for the Building of the Temple, the Division of Labor for the Levites, the Division of the Priests, the Musicians, the Gatekeepers, the Treasurers and brought the Ark of the Covenant to the City of Dawid.

He broke Yah’s laws. Calling for a numbering of the people which only Yah could do, even committed murder. This behavior caused Dawid to face horrific judgements from Yah. But remember, Yah is merciful and compassionate. Dawid’s sincere heart felt repentance and his devotion to and love for Yah made Dawid the apple of Yah’s eye. 283

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What did Dawid ask Yah after Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death? Which town did he go to? What happened when he went there? Did he reign in all of Yisrael? Were they friendly? How many sons did Dawid have in Hebron? How did Dawid become Sovereign of all Yisrael? How many times was Dawid anointed? Who was living in Jerusalem before Dawid conquered it? How many children did Dawid have in Jerusalem? When was the Ark of the Covenant stolen by the Philistines? What happened when the Philistines put the Ark in their temple with their idols? . How long did they keep the Ark? How long did the Ark stay in Kiryat Jearim before Dawid tried to bring it home? The first time Dawid tried to bring the Ark back he was unsuccessful. What did he do differently to bring it home the second time? Who finally ridded the land of the Philistines once and for all? Who else did he defeat? 286

What did we learn? 36. 37. 38. 39.

Which one of his sons caused Dawid to go on the run? Which of Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laws did Dawid break? What did Yah do to Dawid for his crimes? How does Yah feel about Dawid even though he committed these horrible crimes? 40. Who did Yah tell Dawid would build a Temple for Him? Answers

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Sovereign Solomon 990 BC – 931 BC Solomon was the 3nd and final Sovereign of a United Yisrael.

His life is told in the books of 2nd Shemu'el, 1st Sovereigns, and 1st Chronicles. His mother was Bathsheba. He was chosen by Yah to be the builder of the first temple in Yerushalayim. Solomon’s reign was unique because for his entire reign the 12 Tribe kingdom was united when he became Sovereign and he was Sovereign over all 12 united tribes of Yisrael. Yah blessed him with wisdom, discernment and made him great in the eyes of all Yisrael. He was viewed throughout the known world for his wisdom and wealth, greater than all the Sovereigns in the world. Yah was very pleased with Solomon when he was a young man and He asked Solomon what He could give him. And Solomon asked for an understanding heart to judge Yah’s people, wisdom, knowledge, and the ability to discern between good and evil. Yah gave him all he asked for as well as great wealth and power.

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Solomon was an amazing man. He wrote 3000 proverbs, 1005 songs, the books of Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon and like his father Dawid he wrote a number of the books Chapters in the Psalms. He had expert knowledge of the science of trees (Xylology), animals (Ethology), birds (Ornithology), fish (Ichthyology) and more. Men came from all over the world to hear the words of Solomon. One of the most memorable examples of his wisdom, which is repeated among all the nations, even to this day, is the one about the two women who were fighting over one child. Then came there two women, that were harlots, to the Sovereign, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my master, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 16

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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. 22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the Sovereign. 23 Then said the Sovereign, The one says, This is my son that lives, and thy son is the dead: and the other says, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. 24 And the Sovereign said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the Sovereign. 25 And the Sovereign said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. 21

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Then spoke the mother of the living child to the Sovereign, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my master, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. 27 Then the Sovereign answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. 28 And all Yisrael heard of the judgment which the Sovereign had judged; and they feared the Sovereign: for they saw that the wisdom of Elohim was in him, to do judgment. 1Kings 3:21-28 26

Begins to build Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Temple In the fourth year of his reign, Sovereign Solomon began to build the Temple of Yah according to the blueprints that Yah had given to his father Dawid. The Temple was to be built on Mount Moriah. It was to be 90 feet long and 30 feet wide and three stories high.

Before his death Sovereign Dawid provided a wealth of timber, iron, stone, bronze, silver and gold along with a huge contribution of his personal wealth for the building of the Temple. Solomon used his considerable wealth to contribute lumber and stone as well. There were close to 200,000 of his personal servants working to move materials from seaports and other territories to Yerushalayim. 292

The inner temple was decorated with intricate carvings covered with over 20 tons of gold. It took seven years (the number of perfection) to build and when completed there was no other building on earth that could be compared to it. When the Temple was completed Solomon invited everyone in the kingdom to come to the dedication. There was a marvelous procession which brought the Ark of the Covenant to its place in the inner chamber of the Temple, called the Holy of Holies.

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Once the Ark of the Covenant was set in its place at the dedication, the esteem of Yah in the form of a cloud filled the Temple. It was so powerful that the Priests could not stay in the Temple and had to go outside. Solomon had a scaffold built for this occasion. Then he climbed to the top of it and stood before the altar of Yah in front of the whole assembly of Yisrael, spread out his hands toward heaven and he prayed: “Now YAH, the Mighty One of Yisrael, keep for Your servant Dawid my father the promises You made to him when You said, ‘you shall never fail to have a successor to sit before Me on the throne of Yisrael, if only Your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before Me faithfully as you have done.’ 26 And now, Mighty One of Yisrael, let Your word that You promised Your servant Dawid my father come true. 25

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“YAH, the Mighty One of Yisrael, there is no Mighty One like You in heaven above or on earth below—You who keep Your covenant of love with Your servants who continue wholeheartedly in Your way. 24 You have kept Your promise to Your servant Dawid my father; with Your mouth You have promised and with Your hand You have fulfilled it—as it is today. 25 Therefore now, Yah, Mighty One of Yisrael, keep with Your servant David my father that You promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in My sight to sit on the throne of 23

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Yisrael; so that Your children take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me. 26 And now, O Mighty One of Yisrael, let Your word, I pray thee, be verified, which You spoke unto Your servant David my father. 27 “But will Yah really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain You. How much less this temple I have built! 28 yet give attention to Your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, YAH my Mighty One. Hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying in Your presence this day. 31 “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before Your altar in this Temple, 32 then hear from heaven and act. Judge between Your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence. 33 When your people Yisrael have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and give praise to Your name, praying and making supplication to You in this Temple, 34 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Yisrael and bring them back to the land You gave to their ancestors. 35“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to Your name and turn from their sin because You have afflicted them, 296

then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisrael. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land You gave Your people for an inheritance. 37 “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come, 38 and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among Your people Yisrael—being aware of the afflictions of their own hearts, and spreading out their hands toward this temple— 39 then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. Forgive and act; deal with everyone according to all they do, since You know their hearts (for You alone know every human heart), 40 so that they will fear You all the time they live in the land You gave our ancestors. 41 “As for the foreigner who does not belong to Your people Yisrael but has come from a distant land because of YOUR NAME— 42 for they will hear of YOUR GREAT NAME and Your mighty hand and Your Outstretched Arm—when they come and pray toward this Temple 43 then hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of You, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your Name and fear You, as do Your own people Yisrael, and may know that this house I have built bears Your Name. 44 “When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to Yah toward the city You have chosen and the Temple I have built for Your Name, 36

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hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause. 46 “When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and give them over to their enemies, who take them captive to their own lands, far away or near; 47 and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with You in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly’; 48 and if they turn back to You with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to You toward the land You gave their ancestors, toward the City You have chosen and the Temple I have built for Your Name; 49 then from heaven, Your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause. 50 And forgive Your people, who have sinned against You; forgive all the offenses they have committed against You, and cause their captors to show them mercy; 51 for they are Your people and Your inheritance, that You brought out of Mitsrayim, out of that iron-smelting furnace. 52 “May Your eyes be open to Your servant’s plea and to the plea of Your people Yisrael, and may You listen to them whenever they cry out to You. 53 For You singled them out from all the nations of the world to be Your own inheritance, just as You declared through Your servant 298

Moshe when You, Sovereign YAH, brought our ancestors out of Mitsrayim.” 1Kings 8:22-51 When Solomon had finished praying, the Fire of Yah came down from heaven and consumed all the offerings and sacrifices. All the people of Yisrael witnessed Fire come down from the sky and the esteem of Yah was so awesome that they all fell to their knees with their faces toward the ground and they worshipped and praised Yah. The children of Yisrael celebrated the building and dedication of the Temple for 3 weeks. Yah appeared to Solomon once again and let him know that his prayer had been heard. He told Solomon that He would live with and bless Yisrael, with one condition. Solomon as their ruler had to always keep Him first and if he did that He would always be with Solomon. “If you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with Dawid your father, saying, “you shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Yisrael.” 1 Kings 9:5

But Yah also warned him that there would be severe consequences if Solomon and the children of Yisrael ever turned away from Him and worshipped idols that this house which I have sanctified for My Name I will cast out of My sight.” 1Kings 9:7 299

Solomon’s fame was spoken of throughout the world and news of him spread to the Queen of Sheba.

She decided that she needed to see if all that she had heard about Solomon was true. So she came to Yerushalayim with a great number of male and female servants, camels, large quantities of spices, gold and jewels as gifts for the Sovereign. Once she gained access to the Sovereign she tested him with difficult questions and to her amazement there was no question too hard for him to answer and he explained all his answers to her. Everything she had heard about him turned out to be true “Indeed the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. you exceed the fame of which I heard.” 1Kings 10:7 She praised Yah for his goodness and wisdom.

But unfortunately, in his latter years, Solomon pursued a passion for foreign women and broke Yah’s conditions for continued blessing by marrying 700 of these women and keeping 300 as concubines. 300

He allowed them to bring idolatry and paganism into Yisrael. He built places where they would worship idols and he would participate in these abominable practices along with them. This infuriated Yah and lead to the breakup of the United 12 Tribe kingdom. Yah said to Solomon: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because you have done this, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant. Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father Dawid. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant Dawid, and for the sake of Yerushalayim which I have chosen.â&#x20AC;? 1Kings 11:11 And Solomon committed these offenses and broke his covenant with Yah, all the while knowing that everything is useless, just vanity without Yah. And this is the very message of the book of Ecclesiastes which he wrote.

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Altar of Burnt Offering Animal sacrifices were offered on this altar (the blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled on the four horns of its altar) located in the court in front of the tabernacle. Exod 27:18

Altar of Incense They burned incense on it. A perfume of a sweetsmelling aroma.

Table of Showbread Here the offering 12 loaves of bread were placed. The 12 loaves of bread represented the 12 tribes.

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Exod 25:23-30

Gold Lampstand The gold lampstand held seven lamps, flat bowls in which a wick lay with one end in the oil of the bowl and the lighted end standing out.

Bronze Laver One had to be pure before entering the presence of Yah, so it was to the laver of bronze that priests would come for cleansing.

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What was Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name? What was unique about his reign? What was special about Solomon? Yah was pleased with Solomon when he was a young man and asked him what He could give him. What was his answer? What else did Yah give him? How many proverbs did he write? How many psalms? What sciences was he a master of ? What problem did the two women bring to Solomon to solve? How did Solomon solve this problem? What happened then? What did Solomon do? What year of his reign did Solomon begin to build the Temple? Where was the Temple built? What did Sovereign Dawid provide for the building of the Temple How many of his servants worked on the building of the Temple? How much gold was used to decorate the inside of the Temple? 305

What did we learn? 18. Where was the Ark placed? 19. What was the purpose of the: a) Altar of Incense b) Table of Showbread c) Golden Lampstand d) Bronze Laver 20. When the Ark of the Covenant was brought into the Temple, what did the Priest have to do? 21. What did Solomon do when all was set in place? 22. Where in scripture can we find that prayer? 23. What happened when Solomon finished praying? 24. How long did Yisrael celebrate the Dedication of the Temple? 25. After the celebration had ended what did Yah warn Solomon to always do? 26. Did Solomon obey Yah? 27. What Queen came to visit him and what did she bring him? 28. How long did she stay? 29. How did Solomon disappoint Yah? 30. Where in scripture did Yah tell Solomon what he was going to do because of what he had done? Answers

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Rehoboam - (He enlarges the people) From the Tribe of Yehuda (Judah) 1st Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 930-913 BC 17yr reign Prophet: Shemaiah Evil in the Eyes of Yah He was one of Solomon’s sons who became Sovereign of United Yisrael after Solomon’s Reign. When he was being crowned in a ceremony in Shechem, the people asked him to lighten their tax burden and labor requirements. Older wiser men told him to think about what they asked. But his young friends told him to be even harder.

Well he took the advice of his friends, which caused him to lose ten of the Twelve Tribes when ten tribes (Northern kingdom) chose Yarob’am as their Sovereign. He continued the pagan practices of Solomon. 1Kings Chapter 12 308

Sovereign Abiyah-Abiyah (Yahweh is my Father) 2nd Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 914-910BC 4yr reign Prophet: Shemaiah Evil in the Eyes of Yah

The second Sovereign of the Southern kingdom. He continued the pagan practices of his Father, Rehoboam and grandfather, Solomon but he also kept up the proper worship of Yah and when the Sovereign of the Northern tribe waged war against him, Yah gave him the victory. 1Kings 15 Sovereign Asa (Doctor/healing) 3rd Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 910-869BC 41yr reign Prophet: Shemiah, Hanani Did what was right He was the son of Abijah and the grandson of Rehoboam. He did not follow the example of these two men, but instead did what was pleasing to Yah. He remove the idols from the land, stopped the pagan practices and removed his mother from her royal station because she followed pagan ways. 309

He enforced Yah pure worship and in the fifteenth year of Asa’s rulership many of the people from the northern tribes joined with the Yehuda so they could once again obey laws for worshipping Yah. 1Kings 15 Sovereign Yehoshaphat (Yahweh judged) 4th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 872-848BC 25yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Did what was right

He follow the example of his father Sovereign Asa and did what was good in the eyes of Yah. But he made a treaty with Ahab, the Sovereign of Northern kingdom, which was a good deal at first, but the partnership required Yehoshaphat’s son Yehoram to marry Ahab’ daughter with terrible results. 1Kings 15 Sovereign Yehoram - Yoram (Yahweh is exalted) 5th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 853-841BC 8yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Evil in the Eyes of Yah Sovereign Yehoram did not follow the ways of his father and grandfather. He turned the people away from worshipping Yah, he killed 6 of his brothers and some of the princes of Yehudah. 310

As a result, the nations around them no longer feared Yehudah, the Philistines invaded and took away his family and he died a horrible death. 2Kings 8:16-23 Sovereign Ahazyahu - Ahaziah (Yah has grasped) 6th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 841 BC 1yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Evil in the Eyes of Yah Ahaziah was the son of Yehoram. He married Sovereign Ahab’s daughter and “he walked in the ways of the House of Ahab”. He was killed by Yehu when he went to visit Sovereign Yoram, the Sovereign of Northern kingdom. 2Kings 8: 16 – 29 Queen Athaliah 7th Ruler of the Southern kingdom 841-835 BC 7yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Evil in the Eyes of Yah She brought the worship of Baal, a pagan Canaanite god, to Yehuda.

She exercised a great deal of power during her husband’s Yehoram’s reign and may have encouraged him to murder his 6 brothers. Wicked, wicked woman. 311

After her son Sovereign Ahazyahu was killed she had all the male heirs (except one that was hidden away from her) killed as a way to become sole ruler of Yehuda. These heirs were her grandsons. She did rule for 6yrs. until she was killed in a uprising lead by Priest Yehoiada, 5 Chief and 500 trusted men who crowned Yoash Sovereign. She was the only woman to ever rule in Yisrael. 2Kings 11 Sovereign Yoash (Yah gives) 8th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 835-796 BC 40yr reign Prophet: Joel Good mostly When Queen Athaliah, killed all the legitimate heirs to the throne of Yehuda, Yehosheba, Yoashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aunt, hid him away when he was less that one year old, so the Queen could not kill him too. He was hidden away by Yehosheba for six years. After the Queen was killed, Yoash was made the Sovereign of Yisrael. He was just 7yrs when he began to reign. But Priest Yehoiada was his regent (decision maker). With Priest Yehoiada encouragement pure temple worship was reestablished. However, after the death of Priest Yehoiada, Yoash reverted to pagan practices and killed the prophets that Yah sent to warn 312 him.

Yah allowed his enemies to strip him of his treasures and eventually his own people conspired against him and killed him 2Kings 12:1,2

Sovereign Amatsyahu - Amaziah (Yah is Mighty) 9th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 796-767 BC 29yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Good mostly He was the ninth Sovereign of Yehuda and he was 25yrs old when he took the throne. He killed those who were involved in the murder of his father. He developed an army and went into a country called Seir where the Edomites lived and defeated them. But he brought their idols into Yerushalayim and worshipped them there. When the Prophets warned him that Yah would not rest easy with this behavior he did not want to hear it. But he should have listened. He challenged the Northern Tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sovereign to a battle. Yehoash (not Sovereign Yoash of Yehuda, who was sometimes called Yehoash) warned him that he was not strong enough to defeat them, but foolish pride made him go to fight with Yehoash and Amatsyahu was badly beaten. Yehoash raided Yerushalayim and carried off a great amount of its treasures. 313

From the time that he turned his back on Yah, Yah turned His back on him and a group of people in Yerushalayim conspired to take his life and he ran to Lachish where they found him and killed him. 2Kings 14:1-4

Sovereign Azaryah - Azariah (Uzziah- Uzziyahu) (Yah is Might) 10th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 792-740 BC 52yr reign Prophet: Isiah, Micah Good Sovereign Uzziah was overwhelmingly declared the Sovereign of Yehudah when he was 16yrs old. After Yehoash defeated Yehuda, Yehuda put Uzziyahu on the throne rather than let Yisrael. put a Sovereign of their choosing on the throne.

Sovereign Uzziyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign was a time of great security and prosperity. He broke through the wall of 3 of the Philistines major cities Gath, Yabneh and Ashdod and built cities. He also secured the routes that had been held by the Edomites, the Arabs of Gurbaal and the Ammonites and gave his soldiers the most advanced weapons to carry out this mission. He strengthened the wall of Yerushalayim with high towers and built many military outpost in the wilderness surrounding Yerushalayim. This enabled the people to build settlements there in the Arad Negeb. 314

Sovereign Uzziah made Yerushalayim as great as the days of Sovereign Dawid and Sovereign Solomon. But unfortunately he is most remembered for being struck with Leprosy by Yah for offering incense in the Temple which only the Priest were allowed to do. (a sin the Sha'ul also committed.) He reigned 52yr and then his son Yotham reigned instead of Uzziyahu, but he still had input on decisions made for the nation. 2Kings 15:5

Sovereign Yotham 11th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 748-732BC 16yr reign Prophet: Isiah, Micah Good He was 25 years old when he took the throne and ruled Yeudah for 16 years. His mother was named Yerusha and she was queen to Uzziah. Yotham did what was right in the eyes of Yah and consulted him in all things. And because he sought Yah, Yah blessed him abundantly. Yotham understood the importance of following Yah and he also taught his son the ways of Yah as his father Uzziah had taught him. 2Kings 15:33

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Sovereign Ahaz (He has grasped) 12th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 735-715 BC 16yr reign Prophets: Micah, Isaiah Wicked Ahaz was 20yrs old when he reigned after his father Sovereign Yotham. He was an awful, awful, evil man. He embraced the most horrible pagan practices, including human sacrifice, and put his son in the fire. Just like the other Sovereigns that abandoned Yah and follow pagan practices, his reign had nothing but problems.

The prophets Yeshayahu and Micah warned Ahaz but he would not listen. The northern tribes and Syria came together to attack Yehuda and drove them out of a land that had belonged to the Edomites and then took it over. And then instead of repenting of his sins and asking Yah to help and protect Yehuda, he took some of the treasures from the Temple to pay the Sovereign of Assyria to help him and ended up being under Assyriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boot. After 16yrs of his horrible rulership he died. 2Kings 16:2

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Sovereign Hezekiah 13th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 715-686 BC 29yr reign Prophet: Isiah, Micah Best Sovereign Hezekiah was 25yrs old when he became the 13th Sovereign of Yehuda . His father Sovereign Ahaz had allowed the king of Assyria, TilgathPilneser to place his boot on the neck of Yehuda and oppress them. But Hezekiah rebelled against the king. The miserable apostasy of Yehuda had exploded in the land because of king Ahaz. But Sovereign Hezekiah had it in his heart to rid Yehuda of the horrible practices his father had brought back to Yehuda.

The buildings where the people went to worship idols were destroyed. He even destroyed the bronze serpent that Moshe had made when they were in the wilderness. Sovereign Hezekiah reopened the Temple in Yerushalayim and removed all the idols. The vessels that were once fouled were cleansed for use in the temple once again. Sacrifices were once again being performed in the Temple with joyous singing and musical instruments and happiness. 317

He reinstituted the priesthood for pure worship and the Levites were to once again perform the services of pure worship and the observance of the Feasts of Yah. The Northern kingdom was being subjected to Assyrian pagan practices, so Sovereign Hezekiah invited his brothers from the Northern tribes to come to Yehuda to observe the Passover. Around that time another king rose up in Assyria more fierce that the previous king and danger was all around Yehuda.

That man, King Sennacherib destroyed many of the nations around Yerushalayim and sent some of his men to demand that Yerushalayim surrender without a fight and the people were very frightened. But Sovereign Hezekiah strengthened the people by assuring them that Yah would fight for them. So he went into the Temple and asked Yah for help. Not only did Yah answer his prayers. He put an end to Sovereign Sennacherib. 2Kings Chapters 18-20

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Sovereign Manasseh 14th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 696-642 BC 55yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Worst The 14th Sovereign of Yehuda was 12yrs old when he began to reign. He re-instituted the pagan practices of his wicked grandfather including sacrificing his sons by fire. He put pagan altars in the courtyard of Yah and he put despicable pagan poles into the House of Yah.

He encouraged all of Yehudah and Yerushalayim to worship idols, disgusting images and practices. Instead of listening to Yeshayahu the blood thirsty man had him murdered. As punishment Sovereign Manasseh was taken captive to Babylon an Assyrian royal city. And instead of receiving tribute he had to pay tribute while in captivity. How Humiliating! While in captivity he repented and Yah heard his prayer. Yah forgave him and returned him to Yerushalayim and let him reign as Sovereign once again. And he did not disappoint Yah. He repaired the walls of the city of Dawid. He removed all the idols and poles and tore down the pagan altars. He repaired the altar of Yah and encourage all to return to pure worship. 2Kings 21:117

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Sovereign Amon 15th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 642-640 BC 2yr reign Prophets: No named prophet Worst He began to rule when he was 22yrs old. He returned to the evil practices of Manasseh before Manasseh repented of his sins. He had only reigned 2yrs before his servants murdered him and the people murdered the servants. All so sad. 2Kings 22 Sovereign Yoshiyahu - Yosiah (Yah heals) 16th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 640-609 BC 31yrs Prophet: Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Yirmeyahu; Ezekiel Best 8yrs old when he began to reign in Yeudah. In his eighth year as Sovereign he began to seek Yah. And during his twelfth year as Sovereign he began to get rid of all the idolatrous images and places and practices. He got rid of all those thing that his wicked father had put in place and destroyed the altars Amon use to burn his children as sacrifices to pagan gods. 320

Because the people of Yehuda had joined in the terrible practices of Amon, including burning their children in the fire, going in to worship in Canaanite temples, Yah made up his mind to punish the city for their abominations. Hilqiyahu, the High Priest found the Book of the Torah and he gave it to Shaphan the scribe. And Shaphan the scribe read the Book of the Law to Sovereign Yoshiyahu. After he realized how badly they had broken Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laws he sent Hilqiyahu, Shaphan and his son Ahiqam, Akbor and Asayah to the prophetess Huldah to ask her what Yah would do to them because of their behavior. She told him that Yah had promised to destroy Yerushalayim and all the people. But because he had repented, Yah told them he would not allow Sovereign Yoshiyahu to see it. So Sovereign Yoshiyahu gathered all the elders and the Priest and went into the Temple of Yah to repent of their sins and asked Yah for mercy and promised to follow his ways. Then he killed all the idolatrous priest and completely cleansed the city of Yerushalayim of the filthy practices of prior Sovereigns. He turned his heart fully back to Yah. However, Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patience with Yisrael had been worn away

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Sovereign Yeho’ahaz/Yehoahaz (Yah grasp hold) 17th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 609 BC 3 months reign Prophet: Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Yirmeyahu; Ezekiel Evil in the Eyes of Yah Yeho’ahaz was 23yrs old when he began to reign. He returned to the wicked ways of the prior evil Sovereigns. His reign only lasted 3mths. Pharaoh Neko put him in prison at Riblah to stop him from ruling in Yerushalayim and made Yisrael pay him a tax. Pharaoh took Yeho’ahaz to Mitsrayim and put his son Elyaqim on the throne and changed his name to Yehoyaqim. Yeho’ahaz died in Mitsrayim. 2Kings 23:31-25:30

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Sovereign Yehoyaqim/Yehoiakim/Elyaqim (Yah has caused to stand) 18th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 609-598 BC 11yrs reign Prophet: Yirmeyahu, Uriyah; Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Jerimiah; Ezekiel Wicked His name was Elyaqim, but when Pharaoh placed him on the throne he changed his name to Yehoyaqim.

He gave Pharaoh Neko silver and gold, by putting a tax on the land that belonged to the people and gave it to Pharaoh. The prophet Yirmeyahu warned the people of Yehuda that Yah was going to destroy them. And instead of listening to him they threatened to kill. Uriyah was not so fortunate. He warned them as Yirmeyahu had and fled to Mitsrayim, but Yehoyaqim sent and had Him brought back to Yerushalayim and killed him with a sword.

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After 3yrs he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and he attacked the city and Yehoyaqim died during the siege. 2Kings 23:36 Sovereign Yehoiachin (Yahweh establishes) 19th Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 598-507 BC 3 months Prophet: Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Yirmeyahu; Ezekiel Evil in the Eyes of Yah Yehoyakin was 18yrs old when he began to reign in Yehuda, and he did what was wrong in Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes as well. And Yah only allowed him to reign for 3 months when Nebuchadnezza attacked Yehuda.

Yehoyakin came out of the city and Nebuchadnezzar took him, his family and the people that served him. 2Kings 24:8-17 Nevertheless, he was ultimately released from prison by Evil-Merodach of Babylon and accorded some honor in the land of his captivity 2Kings 25:27-30

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Sovereign Tsidqiyahu/Zedekiah (Yah is my righteousness or Yah is my salvation) 20st Sovereign of the Southern kingdom 507-586 11yr reign Prophet: Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Yirmeyahu; Ezekiel Evil in the Eyes of Yah The last Sovereign to rule in Yehedua. Nebuchadnezzar put Tsidqiyahu on the throne in Yehuda. He was 21yrs old when he began to rule Yehuda. He too did wickedness in Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face. And Yah used Nebuchadnezzar to punish him for his arrogant thoughtlessness.

Tsidqiyahu rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and he came to Yehuda with a huge army when Tsidqiyahu had reigned for 9yrs. Nebuchadnezzar surrounded the city and let nothing go in or out until the 11th year of Tsidqiyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reign. And finally there was no food left in the city and the people were starving. Then the army of the Chaldeans broke down the walls of the city and Tsidqiyahu escaped out of the other end of the city. Later all his men fled from him and the Chaldeans caught up and captured him. He and his family were taken to Riblah and Nebuchadnezzar made him watch his sons be slaughtered and then he put out his eyes. 2Kings24

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What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

Who became Sovereign after Solomon? Why did 10 tribes leave the United kingdom? Which two tribes made up the Southern kingdom? Where in scripture can you read about this story? Who were the prophets during Sovereign Asa’s reign? Did Asa do what was right in the eyes of Yah? What was Sovereign Asa’s sons name? How long did he reign? Who killed 6 of his brothers? Who was killed by Yehu? What was the name of the only Queen of Yehuda? What was the name of the Priest that ordered her killed? Which Sovereign’s was also called UzziYah? How old was he when he began to rule? How long did he reign? What was the name of UzziYah’s son? Where can you read about him in scripture? Which Sovereign practice human sacrifice? Who was considered the Best Sovereign of the Southern kingdom? 20. Why is he considered the Best Sovereign? 21. What king did he prayed for Yah to save him from? 22. Who was the 14th Sovereign?

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Did he do what was right in the Eyes of Yah? What did he do? What did he do later? Who only reigned two years? Who was 8yrs old and ruled for 31yrs? What is the name of the scribe that found the Torah? Who only reigned for 3mths? Who was the last Sovereign to rule in Yehuda? What Was the name of the king that took the Southern kingdom into captivity? 32. Who killed the prophet Uriyah? Answers

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Sovereign Yarob’am/Jeroboam (may the people multiply) 1st Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 930-909 BC 22yr reign Prophet: Ahijah Bad He was from the tribe of Ephraim.

The prophet Ahiyah told Yarob’am that Yah was going to make him the Sovereign of ten of the northern tribes. Yarob’am had been in charge of the laborers who worked on Shelomoh’s building projects

When Sovereign Shelomoh’s son Rehab’am listen to the people’s request to be treated more fairly by him then they were by his father, he refused and threatened them. When he arrogantly refused to lessen their burden, the northern tribes rebelled against him and made Yarob’am their Sovereign. 329

Although Yah had given him the throne and the reign, he did not have faith in Yah to establish his reign. He knew that the people were supposed to go to Yerushalayim to worship on Set Apart Feast Days and the time of Pesach (Passover) and Unleavened Bread was about to be observed.

He felt that if the people from the northern tribes went to Yerushalayim to worship that they would want to let Rehabâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;am become their Sovereign. This would remove him from power and possibly end his life. So he did what was Evil and Wicked, and built 2 huge Golden Calves (Idols) and he placed one in the territory of the tribe of Dan and another one in the territory of Beyth El (Beth-el) and told the people that this is where they should worship and even worst, than the Golden Calves is what they should Worship from then on. 1Kings Chapters 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16

Sovereign Nadab (spontaneous) 2nd Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 909-908 BC 2yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Bad Son of Yarobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;am and also from the tribe of Ephraim He continued the idolatry of his father and was assassinated by Baasha who then took over as Sovereign of Yisrael. 1Kings Chapter 14

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Sovereign Baasha 3rd Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 908-886 BC 24yr reign Prophet: Yehu Bad

Baasha was from the tribe of Issachar and was the third Sovereign of Yisrael. Sovereign Baasha became Sovereign of Yisrael by killing the current Sovereign, Sovereign Nadab and all of the rightful heirs to the throne. He too continued the idolatrous practices of the Sovereigns of Yisrael before him. During his time on the throne he continually fought with good Sovereign Asa, Sovereign of Yehuda in the south until the Sovereign Asa hired the king of Syria to stop Yisrael from harassing them. 1Kings Chapter 15

Sovereign Elah (mighty tree) 4th Sovereign of the Norther kingdom 886-885 BC 2yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Bad He was the fourth Sovereign of Yisrael and from the tribe of Issachar. He continued the practice of idol worship. He was murdered by one of his military leader named Zimri while he was getting drunk with one of the men who worked for Him. 1Kings Chapter 16 331

Sovereign Zimri (Yah helped) 5th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 885 BC 7 days Prophet: Bad The 5th Sovereign of Yisrael. His was the shortest reign of all. He was the captain of King Elah chariots. When the people had gone out to fight with the town of Gibbethon within the Philistines territory, Zimri killed the Sovereign and placed himself on the throne of Yisrael. He then killed all of King Elahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family and friends.

When the people who were camped outside of Gibbethon heard what Zimri had done they made Omri their Sovereign and headed back to Tirzah (one of the capitals of Yisrael) where Zimri was living. Once he realized that Omri and the people had taken over the city, Zimri killed himself by burning down the palace while inside. 1Kings Chapter 16

Sovereign Tibni (Intelligent) 6th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom (he was not recognized by all as Sovereign) 885-880 BC Prophets: Micaiah, Eliyahu 5yr reign 332

When Zimri was killed some of the people wanted Tibni as their Sovereign and some of the people wanted Omri. There was a civil war and Omriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side won and Omri became Sovereign. 1Kings 16: 21-22

Sovereign Omri (Pilgrim or life) 6th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 885-874 BC 12yr reign Prophet: Micaiah, Elijah Extra Bad Omri became the 6th Sovereign of Yisrael as a result of war. Omri had been the head of Sovereign Elahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s army and when a man name Zimri killed the rightful heir to the throne of Yisrael and took over the reign, much of the people of Tirzah crowned Omri Sovereign. But before he could reign securely there was a civil war between Omri and a man named Tibna and his supporters who wanted him to be Sovereign. After about 5yrs of fighting Omri forces triumphed and he became the 6th Sovereign of Yisrael. Omri conquered the Moabites and purchased the hill of Samaria and turned it into the capital of Yisrael and continued the idolatrous practices of the previous Sovereigns and did even worst. 1Kings Chapter 16

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Sovereign Ahab 7th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 874-853 BC 22yr reign Prophets: Eliyahu One of the Worst Ahab, the 7th Sovereign of Yisrael was one of the worst Sovereigns Yisrael had. A weak and stupid man. He married a woman named Izebel (Jezebel) from Sidon who was the daughter of their king, Ethbaal. He had been a priest that lead the worship of the goddess/idol Astarte/Easter before he murdered King Pheles and took his throne. His daughter Izebel, Ahab’s wife brought her disgusting priest into the land and murdered all the priest of Yah except 100 that were hidden in caves and fed by a prophet named Obidiyah.

Ahab built a temple to Baal (which is what the word “Lord” means) in Yisrael for Izebel and allowed her to bring 450 prophets of Baal into the city. She provided whatever they needed to live. This angered Yah and he told Eliyahu to tell Ahab that there would not a drop of rain in the land until he said so. After he delivered that message, Yah told him to leave and go hide himself because Ahab would have blamed Eliyahu for the drought and put him to death. 334

He became a fugitive as Yah had instructed. He hid himself in the home of a widow and performed many miracles on her behalf. Extending her supply of oil and food and raising her son from the dead. After 3yrs, the word of Yah came to Eliyahu that it was time for him to return home and he came out of hiding and showed himself to Ahab. Now just as Eliyahu had told Ahab, it had not rained in the land for three years and there was a very bad famine the land. Ahab called him a trouble maker and Eliyahu told him that he Ahab was the real trouble maker. The Yisraelites had been practicing mixed worship. Worshipping both Yah and Baal (the lord). Eliyahu said the people had to make a choice. Yah or Baalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prophets. After some conversation, Eliyahu told Ahab to have all 850 idolatrous prophet come to Mount Karmel and bring 2 bulls. He also called for all the people to assemble to watch and see who was truly the mighty one. Once on Mt Karmel, Eliyahu told the idolatrous prophets to prepare their bull for sacrifice and place it on their altar and told them to ask their gods and or idols to burn up their sacrifice.

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They called and they called and nothing. They cut themselves and nothing happened and then they called some more but nothing.

“Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping, and must be awaked.” Eliyah said to them:

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So he prepared his bull and placed it on the altar and had them pour jars and jars of water in the trench and on the sacrifice 3 times until it filled up the trench that he had dug around the Altar. And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that EliYahu the prophet came near, and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yah, Mighty One of Abraham, Isaac, and of Yisrael, let it be known this day that You are Mighty in Yisrael, and that I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. 37Hear me, O Yah, hear me, that this people may know that You are Yah the Mighty One, and that You have turned their heart back again.â&#x20AC;? 36

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When the people saw this they realized that the Set Apart One of Eliyahu was truly the Mighty One and Eliyahu told the people to kill all the idolatrous priest and they did. After they were dead, Eliyahu told Ahab that the rains would now return and it rained. But none of this made Ahab correct his behavior. You see, Ahab wanted a field that was next to his home to use as a garden. But the owner, a man named Naboth would not give it up because it was his inheritance.

When Izebel saw Her husband so sad at not being able to get the land from its owner, she devised a plot against Naboth. She had witnessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lie that Naboth had committed crimes that required the death penalty. And when the liars were believed, Naboth was convicted. They then took Naboth out and stoned him to death. Ahab knew it was a lie and did nothing. Yah sent the prophet Eliyahu to tell Ahab that He was going to destroy him and his children for what he did to Naboth. And Ahab knew he was in trouble and he sincerely repented for what he did to Naboth. 1Kings 21:1-21

Yah is merciful He decided not to let him see the destruction of his children. Ben-Hadad, king of Syria, had threatened to take Samaria and everything of value in the city. 338

But Yah came to his rescue: 13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab, Sovereign of Yisrael, saying, Thus says YAH, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it in to your hand this day; and you shalt know that I am YAH. After Ahab defeated Syria, Ben-Had once again wanted to make war with Yisrael. Yah once again gave Ahab the victory, but this time Yah instructed Ahab to kill the troublesome king but instead of killing him he made peace with him which is not why Yah allowed him to defeat Ben-Hadad.

So now Yah would require Ahabâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life for Ben-Hadadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Ahab decided that he was going to go and fight with Ben-Hadad again and the prophet Micaiah warned him not to. But he would not listen and at their next battle Ahab was killed. 1Kings Chapters 17-38

Sovereign Ahaziah (Yah has grasped) ` 8th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 853-852 BC 2yr reign Prophet: Elisha Bad The 8th Sovereign of Yisrael. He too forgot Yah.

He had a very bad fall in the palace and he wanted to know if he would recover. So He sent his men to inquire of one of the idols that they worshipped to learn if he would survive or not.

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But Yah sent his prophet Eliyah, the Tishbite to meet his men and ask â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is it because there is no Mighty One in Yisrael that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub the mighty one of Eqron?â&#x20AC;? And Yah told Eliyah to tell the men that Ahazyah will not get up out of his bed and that he was going to die. When Ahaziah heard that, asked who told them that. And they described Eliyah. So, Ahaziah sent a group of 51 soldiers to go and get Eliyah, probably to kill him, but he called for fire to come down from heaven and Yah sent fire from heaven and consumed them. Ahaziah sent another 51 soldiers to get Eliyahu and the same thing happened. So he sent another 51 Soldiers, but when they reached the prophet they bowed their faces to the ground and asked that they not be destroyed like the others. This time the messenger of Yah told him to go with them

and no harm would come to him. So he went and told Ahaziah that since he had inquired of the idols instead of Yah that he was going to die. And he did. 2 Kings Chapter 1 340

Sovereign Yoram 9th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 832-814 BC 12yr reign Prophets: Elisha Mostly bad

Joram was the 9th Sovereign of Yisrael and he became Sovereign when his brother Ahaziah died. When he was Sovereign of Yisrael, Yehuda and Edom went to war together and defeated Moab. 2Kings Chapter 3

Sovereign Yehu (Yah is He) 10th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 841-814 BC 28yr reign Prophets: Elisha Mostly bad Yehu became the 10th Sovereign of Yisrael by the word of Yah. Elisha the prophet sent one of the sons of the prophets to go to Ramath Gil’ad (Ra’moth-gil’e-ad) to find Yehu. He gave him a flask of oil and told him that when he found Yehu to pour oil out of the flask onto Yehu’s head and say “Thus said Yah I have anointed you sovereign over Yisrael”. 341

The prophet found him sitting with a number of Commanders in Ramath and he did as instructed.

And when the other commanders heard what had taken place they perform a ritual which confirmed his reign. One of the task that Yah gave Sovereign Yehu was to wipe out Ahabâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family like Yah said he would. They had to be punished for killing Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prophets, for treacherously killing Naboth, stealing his land and practicing idolatry and witchcraft. Yehu did all that Yah commanded quickly, enthusiastically and decisively. He killed Izebel, got rid of most of the idolatry in Yisrael, but he allowed the worship of the golden calf to continue. 1Kings Chapters 9 and 10

Sovereign Yehoahaz 11th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 814-798 BC 17yr reign Prophet: No named prophet Bad The 11th Sovereign of Yisrael. When he came to power Yisrael was being severely oppressed by the Syrian King Hazael of Damascus. Hazael had seized the territories from his father Yehu. But he repented of his sins and Yah did not let his reign come to complete destruction. 2 Kingss Chapter 10 342

Sovereign Yehoash/Yoash (Yah gave) 12th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 798-782 BC 16yr reign Prophet: Elisha Bad

The 12th Sovereign of Yisrael. He also continued the calf worship that destroyed Yisrael. But when the prophet Elisha was dying he went to him and wept over his body and called him his father. The Prophet had him shoot through the window at Syria, because Syria was oppressing Yisrael at that time. And then he told him to strike the floor with the Arrow. Yoash only struck the floor 3 times and Elisha got very angry and told him that if He had struck the floor 5 or 6 times he would have defeated Syria completely, but Because he only struck the floor 3 times he would only partially defeat them. He also defeated Yehuda and entered Yerushalayim and plundered the temple. 2Kings Chapter 13

Sovereign Yeroboam II 13th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 793-753 BC 41yrs Prophet: Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos Bad .

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The 13th Sovereign of Yisrael and part of the Yehu dynasty. He continued the apostasy of Yisrael. He continued the war his father was fighting with the Syrians and was victorious over Damascus and Hamath and also took back the territory east of the Jordan from Lebanon to the Dead Sea and Moab and Ammon. With these conquest came much wealth which he did not share with the poor and there was a lot of oppression and corruption during his reign. 2Kings Chapter 14; 15

Sovereign Zechariah 14th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 753-753 BC 6 months reign Prophet: Amos, Hosea, Yonah Bad

The 14th Sovereign of Yisrael. The son of Yeroboam 11. Only reigned for 6mths because he was assassinated by Shallum. He was an extremely brutal ruler. When the town Tiphsah would not open their gate to him and when he did finally gain entrance he slaughtered everyone in the town. 2Kings Chapter 2 14; 15

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When he became Sovereign he required the people to give him money which he then gave to the king of Assyria, Tiglath-pileser III to prevent anyone from trying to take the throne from him. He ruled this way in Samaria for 10yrs. 2Kings Chapter 15

Sovereign Shallum (replacer” or “the replaced) 15th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 752-752 BC 1 month reign Prophet: Amos, Hosea, Yonah Bad ` He was the 15th Sovereign of Yisrael. It is said that what goes around comes around and he was killed after only reigning for a month by Menahem. 2Kings Chapter 15

Sovereign Menahem (Consoler) 16th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 752-742 BC 10yr reign Prophet: Amos, Hosea, Yonah Bad, After Yeroboam II’s reign there was a lot of infighting.

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Sovereigns killed Sovereigns for the throne. He killed Sovereign Shallum with the help of Syrian King Rezin. Rezin and Pekah invaded Yehuda, killed more than 120,000 men and took away 200,000 people. However, Obed and a number of the leading men of Ephraim advised against keeping them captive and they were returned to Yehuda. Sovereign Pekahiah (Yah has opened his eyes) 17th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 742-740 BC 2yr reign Prophet: Amos Hosea Yonah Bad He was the 17th Sovereign of Yisrael and he continued in calf worship like all the Sovereigns before Him. His father left him a very confused and hostile kingdom. His reign ended when he was assassinated by an army officer who were supported by Syria. 2Kings Chapter 15 Sovereign Pekah (open-eyed) 18th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 752-732 BC 20yr reign Prophet: Amos, Hosea, Yonah Bad

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Sovereign Hoshea/Hosea (salvation) 19th Sovereign of the Northern kingdom 732-723BC 9yr reign Prophet Bad

This 19th and final Sovereign of Yisrael also came to power by the use of the sword. He murdered Pekah. Tiglath-pileser III the King of Assyria is said to have put Hosea on the throne and made Him pay tribute (a tax). He tried to form an alliance with the Pharaoh so he would come to his aide, but Tiglath-pileser III found out what he was doing and took Sovereign Hoshea to a place of detention and waged a war against Samaria for 3yrs. Eventually, Samaria fell and Tiglath-Pileser took all of the people out of the city. This ended the kingdom of the Northern Tribe.

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Mount Carmel Elijah challenges 450 prophets of Baal to a contest on Mount Carmel to determine whose deity was genuinely in control of the kingdom of Yisrael. 1Kings 18:20-40 Mount Tabor It is the site where the battle of Mount Tabor took place when Judges Deborah and Barak fought and defeated the Caanite King Hazor armies commanded by Sisera. Shophetim (Judges) 4:4-16

Mount Gilboa Sovereign Saul and his sons Jonathan, Avinadav, and Malchishua all fell on Mount Gilboa in a battle between Yisrael and the Philistines. The sons were slain; Saul was critically wounded and begged his armor-bearer to run him through with his sword. Terrified, the soldier refused, so Saul took his own sword and fell on it. 1Shemuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;el Chapter 31 Mount Ebal A mount in the promised land, on which the Yisraelites were to read the curses which should fall upon them if they disobeyed the commandments of Yah. Deut 11:25-30 Mount Gerizim A mount in the promised land, on which the Yisraelites were to read the blessing which would benefit them if they obeyed the commandments of Yah. Deut 11:25-30 351

Mountains of Ephraim Yehoshuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burial place. Yehoshua 11:21 These mountains provided protection, the plateau produced rich and fertile crops, and the lines of communication between north and south passed within its boundaries, thus the tribe of Ephraim came to be a major influence in the shaping of Yisrael's earliest periods. Yehoshua 17:18 Mount Nebo Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Yericho. Yah showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Yehuda, to the hinder sea, and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Yericho. Deut. 34:1-3 Mount Moriah The place where Abraham took Isaac to kill him as a sacrifice. Gen 22:2 Jacobs dream took place here. Gen 28:12-16 "Zion" was situated on the southern slope of Mount Moriah. 2Samuel 24:20-25 The site of the Temple's Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was placed. 1Kings 8:11

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Mount Zion Mount Zion is the high hill on which Dawid built a citadel. It is on the southeast side of the city. The word Zion occurs over 150 times in the Bible. Although he had conquered all the land around it, Dawid insisted on paying Ornan for the land. Dawid later named it the City of David and it is also called the City of Yah. 1Kings 8:11-16 Mount Olivet/Mount of Olives The Mount of Olives is frequently mentioned in the New Testament as part of the route from Jerusalem to Bethany and the place where Yahushua stood when he wept over Yerushalayim. At the foot of the Mount of Olives lies the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke 21:37; Yoh 8:1; Acts 1:9-12; Golgotha Golgotha refers to the place where Yahushua was murdered, designated as the place of a skull. Either because of the shape of the mound or elevation or because it was a place of Ha Mashiacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s execution. Mark 15:22

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What did we learn? 1. What were the names of Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sons that died with him on Mount Gilboa? 2. On what Mount did Deborah and Barak go to battle? 3. Which mount was used to pronounce the blessing sent from Yah? 4. Which mount was used to pronounced the curses sent from Yah? 5. How many profits did the Prophet Eliyahu challenge on Mount Carmel? 6. Which Mount provided protection for the lines of communication? 7. What happened on Golgotha? 8. Where did Yah send Moshe to view the Promised Land? 9. On what Mount is the Holy of Holies that held the Ark of the Covenant located? 10. On what Mount is the City of Dawid and the City of Yah? 11. Who did Dawid buy the Land from? 12. Where is the Garden of Gethsemane located? Answers

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After the Exile Ezra (Yah helps) Ezra was a priest and the scribe who was given reparations from Cyrus and returned to Yerushalayim after the Babylonian captivity. He was given the task of organizing the new government in Yerushalayim and teaching the Law of the Torah to the people. Read The Book of Ezra

Nehemyah Nehemyah was an exceptional man of action. He saw to it that Yerushalayim became a Secure city, with undefiled people. Yehuda became one nation, economically stable with a renewed commitment to the covenant. Read The Book of Nehemyah

Zerubbabel When the exiles returned from Babylon Zerubbabel was appointed governor by Darius. After overcoming interference from people that the Assyrians had brought into the land when they removed the Northern Tribe, Zerubbabel and Yeshua rebuilt the altar and laid the foundation of the temple. Read The Book of Ezra

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After the Exile Ester She became a Queen of Persia and when all of the Yisraelites in the kingdom were faced with extermination she saved their lives. Read The Book Ester

Ruth Ruth was a Moabite woman who had come to Yisrael as the widow of an Yisraelite man. She was the faithful daughter-in-law of a woman named Naomi. She met and married an Yisraelite man and they had a child named Obed. Obed is the grandfather of Sovereign Dawid and ancestor of Yahushua Ha Maschiac. The Book of Ruth; Matt 1: 5-6

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This is my Beloved Son hear Him Yahushua Ha Mashiach Yahushua, Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Salvation. for today in the city of Dawid there has been born for you a Savior, who is Ha Mashiach. Luke 2:11 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to Yah through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrew 7:25

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.â&#x20AC;?

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"For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 15:10

"For Yah did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Yoh 3:17 "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10

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Yahushua And he is our Ha Mashiach, our Redeemer and Salvation “And as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: precepts That whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For Yah so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For Yah sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.” Yohanan 3:14-17 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the Government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty One, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6 And Yah shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for these things are passed away. And He (Yahushua) that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Revelation 21:4-5

He is to be the everlasting Sovereign of Yah’s kingdom without end… He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and Yah shall give to Him the Throne of His father Dawid: And He shall reign over the house of Ya'acob for ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end. Luke 1:32-33 359

Zacharias learns of Yohanan the Immersers birth. Yohanan the immerserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth was announced in the same fashion that the birth of many of the people that Yah uses to fulfill his plans are announced. Yah sent an malakim. 5 There was in the days of Herod, the Sovereign of Yehuda, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before Yah, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of Yah blameless. 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. And one day while serving in the Templeâ&#x20AC;Ś. 11And there appeared to him an malakim of Yah standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. 13But the malakim said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elisabeth shall bear you a son, and thou shalt call his name Yohanan. 14And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. 15For he shall be great in the sight of Yah, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Set-apart Spirit, even from his mother's womb. 360

And many of the children of Yisrael shall he turn to YAH their Elohim. 17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of EliYah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for YAH. 18 And Zacharias said to the malakim, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. 19 And the malakim answering said to him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of YAH; and am sent to speak to you, and to show you these glad tidings. 16

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Gabriel must have known that the sight of him frightened her and he told her: “Do not be afraid, Miriyam, (Mary’s real name) for you have found favor with Yah. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you shall call His name Yahushua.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And Yah will give to Him the Throne of His father Dawid, and He will reign over the house of Ya'acob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.” Luke 1:28-33

She did not understand how this would happen. And the malakim Gabriel explained. And the angel answered and said to her, The Set-apart Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that set-apart thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of Yah. Luke 1:35

Yohanan is born Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. 58 And her neighbors and her cousins heard how YAH had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. 57

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And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. 60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called Yohanan. Luke 1:57-60 59

Later a messenger of Yah also told Yoseph, the man Miriam was to marry what was to take place. Luke Chapter 1 and Matthew Chapter 1

Yahushua’s birth Now when the time came for Miriyam to give birth, they had traveled to a town called Beyth Lehem and she gave birth there. Shepard's told about the birth of the Sovereign of Yisrael There were shepherds in a field with their sheep and a messenger of Yah appeared and lit up the whole pasture and they were terrified. And the messenger said to them: “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For to you is born this day in the city of Dawid a Savior, who is the Ha Mashiach. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a Baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the malakim a multitude of the heavenly host praising Yah and saying, “Esteem to Yah in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased! Luke 2: 10-14 363

And it came to pass, as the malakim were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, which Yah has made known to usâ&#x20AC;?. And they came with haste and found Miriyam and Yoseph, and the Babe lying in the manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad that which had been told them concerning This Child. Luke 2:15-17 Wicked Sovereign Herod hears the prophecy about Yahushua and seeks to kill him. Wise men from the east had seen something in the sky, which they believed was a sign of the birth of the Sovereign of Yisrael, Yahushua. The sign in the sky lead them to Herod the Edomite Sovereign of the Yisrael..

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They told him what they had seen and wanted to know where the child was and called him the Sovereign of Yisrael. Herod, was terrified when he heard this. He called his priest and scribes and asked them what they knew about this birth. And they told him about the prophecy regarding Yahushua. And you, O Beyth Lehem, in the land of Yehudah, are by no means least among the rulers of Yehudah; for from you shall come a Ruler who will shepherd My people Yisraelâ&#x20AC;&#x153;. Micah 5:2 Herod told the wise men that the Sovereign had been born in the town of Bethlehem and told them once they found and had seen Yahushua to come back and let him know where to find Him. Herod wanted to know where he could find Yahushua so he could kill Him.

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Yah knew that Herodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wickedness would drive him to find and kill Yahushua, so he told Yoseph in a dream to take his family into Mitsrayim. When Herod could not find Yahushua, that wicked man killed more that 10,000 male children born around the time Yahushua was born hoping to kill Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Son and our Redeemer. Yoseph took his family to Mitsrayim and stayed there until he heard that Herod had died a horrible death. Acts 12:21-23

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Yahushua begins to fulfill his destiny When Yahushua was 12yrs old, the family had gone to Yerushalayim for the Feast of Passover. When the Feast ended the family was on their way back to Nazareth when they realized that Yahushua was not with them. They had traveled a full day before Yoseph and Miriyam realized that Yahushua was not with them or the other family members traveling with them. They went back to Yerushalayim and searched for him for three days. They finally found him sitting in the Temple talking with the teachers. His mother asked him why he had worried her like that and he responded, “Why were you seeking me? Did you not know that I had to be about My Father’s Matters”. Luke 2: 41-52

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Why did Yahushua come to earth? What is he going to be? What is Yahushua’s parents’s names? What is a Malakim? What was the name of the Malakim that spoke to Zacharias? What was the name of Zacharias’ wife? What did the Malakim tell him? Who else did this same Malakim speak to? Where can we find this in scripture? Where was Yahushua born? Who else was told by messengers that Yahushua had been born? Who saw a sign in the sky? Who was Herod? How did Herod learn about the birth of Yahushua? Who told the wise men where to look for Yahushua? Was Herod happy about this news? Why did Herod want the wise me to tell him where Yahushua could be found? What did Herod do when the wise men did not tell him where Yahushua was? Was it a good thing that the wise men told Herod about Yahushua’s birth? Why? How did Yahushua escape being murdered?

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Yahushua immersed by Yohannan Yohanan the Immerser prophesied concerning Yahushua. Yohanan was immersing people at the River Jordan and he told the people who had come to see him and be immersed by him about Yahushua’s coming ministry. And this is what he told them: “After me comes the One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I immerse you with water, but He (Yahushua) will immerse you with the Set Apart Spirit.” Mark 1:7-8 The next day Yohanan saw Yahushua coming toward him and said, “LOOK, THE LAMB OF YAH, WHO TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD! THIS IS THE ONE I MEANT WHEN I SAID, ‘A MAN WHO COMES AFTER ME HAS SURPASSED ME BECAUSE HE WAS BEFORE ME.’ I MYSELF DID NOT KNOW HIM, BUT THE REASON I CAME IMMERSING WITH WATER WAS THAT HE MIGHT BE REVEALED TO YISRAEL.” Yohanan 1:29-31 370

Then Yohanan gave this testimony:

“I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on Him. And I myself did not know Him, but the One (Yah) who sent me to immerse with water told me, ‘The Man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the One who will immerse with the Set Apart Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is Yah’s Chosen One.” Yohanan 1:32-33`

Yahushua is Immersed Yahushua went to the Jordan to be immersed by Yohanan. However, Yohanan did not think that he was worthy to immerse Yahushua because he knew He was the Ha Mashiach. But Yahushua insisted that he immerse Him. And he did. And when Yahushua was immersed, immediately when…. He came up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of Yah descending like a dove and coming to rest on Him; and behold, a Voice from heaven said, “This is My Beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Matt 3:16-17 40 days and 40 nights and temptation by Satan Yahushua was lead by the Spirit to go into the wilderness where he stayed 40 days and 40 nights to pray.

And when the days were ended He was troubled by Satan who appeared to Him and offered Him all the riches in the world if He would worship him. 371

He taunted Yahushua and told him that if he were truly the son on Yah to turn rocks into bread and Yahushua replied: But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yah. 5 Then the devil took Him up into the set-apart city, and sat Him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6 And said to Him, If you be the Son of Yah, cast Yourself down: for it is written, He shall give His malakim charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. 7 Yahushua said to him, It is written again, Thou shall not tempt Yah your Mighty One. 8 Again, the devil takes Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 And said to Him, All these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me. 10 Then said Yahushua to him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, you shall worship Yah thy Mighty One, and Him only shall you serve. 11 Then the devil left Him, and, behold, malakim came and ministered to Him. 4

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Yahushua begins His Ministry “The Spirit of the Yah is upon Me, because Yah has anointed Me to bring good news to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of Yah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of Mighty One; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yah, that He may be esteemed.” Isaiah 61:1-3 Yahushua choses the first disciple The next day again Yohanan was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Yahushua as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of Yah!” The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Yahushua. When Yahushua turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. 373

One of the two who heard Yohanan speak and followed Yahushua was Andrew, Simon Peter’s (Kepha) brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Ha Mashiach”. He brought him to Yahushua. Yahushua looked at him and said, “you are Simon the son of Yohanan”. Yahushua next calls Philip and Nathanael

The next day Yahushua went to Galilee and He found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. He found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found Him of whom Moses spoke of in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Yahushua of Nazareth, the son of Yoseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Yahushua saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said of him, “Behold, an Yisraelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael said to Him, “How do you know me?” Yahushua answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 374

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of Yah! You are the Sovereign of Yisrael!” And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of Yah ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” John 1:35-51 Yahushua choses the remaining emissaries Next Yahushua calls Kepha, Andri, Ya’aqob and Yohannan to be His disciples. Matthew 4:18-22 Then Yahushua calls Mattithyahu to be one of the twelve Matthew 9:9; Mark 2:13-14; Luke 5:27-28

Yahushua’s first public miracle Yahushua and the taught ones He had chosen went to a wedding in Cana and Yahushua’s mother was there. His mother realized that they were running out of wine and she told her Son. And he responded “What is that to Me and to you? My hour has not yet come”. And she told the servants to do whatever Yahushua told him to do. He told them fill the jars with water and they did and when they took what had been water into the guest it had been turned into wine. John 2:1-12 In the Book of the Infancy of Jesus (Yahushua), it gives insight into His having performed miracles as in infant. 375

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He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Yeshayahu. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written, 18The Spirit of Yah is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of Yah 20And He closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him. 21And He began to say to them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Luke 4:16-21 They said “Isn’t that Yoseph’s son?” not believing he was the Ha Mashiac. Luke 4:22 24 And

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What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

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What did we learn? 18. What did two of Yohanan’s emissaries do when they heard him say “Behold, the Lamb of Yah!”? 19. Which emissary did Yahushua find at Galilee? 20. Who said “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” 21. Which emissaries did HaMashiach choose in Matthew 4:18-22? 22. What happened in Matthew 9:9? 23. Where was HaMashiach when He performed His first public miracle? 24. Who was with Him? 25. What did He do? 26. How did the people in his hometown treat him? 27. What did the HaMashiach do? Answers

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The ways He touched the World Most of Yahushuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ministry took place in Galilee; Capernaum and surrounding areas.

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He was a Teacher who Shepherded Yisrael The Sermon on the Mount Matthew Chapter 5: 1-48 Place: Mt. Eremos The Prayer Chapter Luke Chapter 11: 1- 4 Scripture is silent on the location Parable of the barren fig tree Luke 13:6-9 Galilee Parable of the sower Matthew 13:1-23; Mark 4:1-25; Luke 8:4-18 Sea of Galilee Parable of the tares, and other teachings Matthew 13:24-53; Mark 4:26-34 Galilee Teaches in Yerushalayim at the Feast of Tabernacles John 7:14-53; John 43:8 Yerushalayim Teaches in the house of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus Luke 10:38-42 Bethany 380

Teaches His disciples to pray Luke 11:1-13 Teaches in Yerushalayim John 9:39-41; John 10:1-21 Yerushalayim Teaches in the temple at Yerushalayim, at the Feast of Dedication John 10:22-39 Yerushalayim

Teaches the multitude the conditions of discipleship Luke 14:25-35 Peraea Enunciates the parables of the lost sheep, the lost piece of silver, prodigal son and unjust steward Luke 15:1-32; Luke 16:1-13 Peraea Teaches His disciples concerning offenses, meekness, and humility Luke 17:1-10 Peraea

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Heals Heals a nobleman's son of Capernaum John 4:46-54 Cana of Galilee Heals Peter's mother-in-law Mark 1:29-34 Capernaum Cured a leper Matthew 8: 1-4 Cured a Paralytic9:2-8 Withdraws from Capernaum to the Sea of Galilee, where He heals manyMatthew 12:15-21; Mark 3:7-12 Heals two blind men, and casts out a dumb spirit Matthew 9:27-34 Capernaum 18:35-43

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Heals the daughter of the Syro-Phenician woman Matthew 15:21-28; Mark 7:24-30 Tyre and Sidon

Heals a dumb man Matthew 15:29-31; Mark 7:31-37 Decapolis Heals a blind man Mark 8:22-26 Bethsaida Heals a demoniac Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29; Luke 9:37-43 Caesarea Philippi Heals a blind man, who, because of his faith in Yahushua, was excommunicated Luke 43:9 Heals two blind men Matthew 20:29-34; Mark 10:46-50; Luke Jericho Instructs His disciples, and empowers them to heal diseases and casts out unclean spirits Matthew 40:10; Mark 6:6-13; Luke 9:1-6 383

He Performed Miracles The feeding of the 5000 Matthew Chapter 15:32-39 Crosses the Sea of Galilee, and stills the tempest Matthew Chapter 8:18-27; Mark Chapter 4:35-41; Luke Chapter 8:22-25 Miracle of the swine Matthew Chapter 8:28-33; Mark Chapter 5:1-21; Luke Chapter 8:26-40 Gadara Raises to life the daughter of Jairus Heals the woman who has the issue of blood Matthew 9:18-26; Mark 5:22-43; Luke 8:41-56 Walks on the sea Matthew 14:22-36; Mark 6:45-56; John 6:15-21 Feeds four thousand Matthew 15:32-39; Mark 8:1-9 Galilee

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Cast out Demons Heals a demoniac (Capernaum) Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37 Heals a demonic, and denounces the scribes and Pharisees Matthew 12:22-37; Mark 3:19-30; Luke 11:14-26 Galilee Raises the Dead Raises from the dead the son of the widow of Nain Luke 7:11-17 Returns to Bethany, and raises Lazarus from the dead John 11:1-46 Please read the Books of Mattithyahu, Mark, Luke and Yohanan entirely with your children. Let them learn firsthand about the walk of our Ha Mashiach.

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The Pharisee, the Sadducees and the Scribes 2 Ye

shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yah your Might One which I command you. Deut 4:2 Pharisees The Pharisee put burdensome traditions (Oral Laws) on the people that were never a part of Torah. They were mostly middleclass businessmen who thought a lot of themselves. Although they had smaller numbers than the Sadducees, because they came in contact with the populous more than the Sadducees they were more powerful. They believe in the resurrection. Sadducces The Sadducees rejected the Phariseesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Oral Law and believed that the Torah was the sole source of divine authority. The did not believe in the resurrection.

They were responsible for maintaining Herodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Temple, collecting taxes, equipping and maintaining the army and seeing to other stately affairs. They were considered the aristocrats and did not believe in the resurrection. 386

Scribes Scribes in ancient Yisrael were learned men whose business was to study the Law, transcribe it, and write commentaries on it and the interpretation of a legal points was needed. The scribes took their job of preserving Scripture very seriously; they would copy and recopy the Bible meticulously, even counting letters and spaces to ensure each copy was correct. Ezra, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses,â&#x20AC;? was a scribe Ezra 7:6 Yahushua criticized the Pharisees, Sadducees and the scribes for loading burdens on the backs of the people with their traditions, while not obeying the Torah. He said they boasted to much, loved looking good, loved being called Rabbi, loved making long speeches and prayers but showed no mercy to the poor. They all answered to Rome. Because they all saw and heard the miracles that Yahushua HaMashiach performed, they feared that they would loose their influence over the masses of Yisrael if everyone began to follow Yahushua. That would make Rome questions their usefulness ending their power.

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So they began to try to discredit him at every turn, about how he lived, who he socialized with and pursued clumsy attempts to trip him up with questions regarding Torah. They opposed Him for eating with sinners, for healing on the Sabbath, not washing his hands before eating, throwing out the money changers and merchants from the Temple courtyard and not explaining his actions to them. He boldly called them the sons of Satan and said he would rebuild the Temple in 3 days. But the following exchange was used by them to plot his murder: 61But He held His peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked Him, and said to Him, Art You the HaMashiach, the Son of the Blessed? 62And Yahushua said, I am: and You shall see the Son of man sitting on the Right Hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Mark 14:62

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What did we learn? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

How did the Pharisees break the law? Where in scripture does it say that you cannot do that? Did they believe in the resurrection? Did the Sadducees believe in the Oral law? Who was more powerful? What do the scribes do? Of the Pharisee, the Sadducees or the Scribes recopy the scriptures? Who were responsible for Herodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Temple? Which of these groups plotted to kill HaMashiach? What did Ha Mashiach say they loved? Who did they people report to? Why did they fear Yahushua? Why did they feel that way? Who knows more about the Torah, those men or Ha Mashiach? Why did they oppose him?

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Things must be fulfilled He sends His Emissaries to get Him a donkey and a colt. 1And

when they drew near to Yerushalayim, and had come to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, Yahushua sent two disciples, 2 Saying to them, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go into the village over against you, and straightway you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to Me.

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if any man say to you what you are doing, you shall say, The Master has need of them; and straightway he will send them. 4All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 5â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tell you the daughter of Zion, Behold, your Sovereign comes to you, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19 390

Yisrael acknowledges Yahushua as Sovereign 8And

a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and laid them on the road. 9 And the multitudes that went before Him, and that followed Him, cried, saying,

Hosanna! â&#x20AC;&#x153;HOSANNA (by using this phrase they were calling Him Sovereign and Savior) to the Son of Dawid: Blessed is He that comes in the name of Yah; Hosanna in the highest.â&#x20AC;? Matt 21:8-9

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Yahushua throws the Merchants and Moneychangers out of the Temple

The Passover was near and Yahushua went into the Court Yard of the Set Apart place. The Pharisees were allowing merchants to set up shops there. Even worst they were allowing the money changers to sell Shekels to the people for profit. Shekels were the only coins that could be used for Temple offerings and they were not commonly found in circulation.

Yahushua made a whip out of cords and drove them out of the temple saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;TAKE THESE AWAY! Do not make the House of My Father a house of merchandise. John 2:13-25 392

Yahushua was furious that they would turn such a sacred place into a common market, like todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shopping Malls. The Pharisee were enraged that He had interfered in their money making scheme and asked Him who gave Him the authority to do what He did.

And said to Him, By what authority do You these things? and who gave You this authority to do these things? And Yahushua answered and said to them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. The immersion of Yohanan, was it from heaven, or of men? answer Me. And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; He will say, Why then did you not believe him? 393

But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted Yohonan, that he was a prophet indeed. And they answered and said to Yahushua, We cannot tell. And Yahushua answering said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. Mark 11:28-33

The Pharisee, the Sadducees and the Scribes saw the miracles Yahushua performed and could not deny his power. And when they questioned him on Torah his knowledge was far superior to theirs. They hated all that He did and who He was, because they knew He was the Son of Yah. And Yahushua let them know that he knew who their father was. And he told them â&#x20AC;&#x153;you are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and a liar. Yohanan 8:44-45

When they heard the people calling Him their Sovereign and their Savior they became jealous and feared that the people would stop following them. They were angered and asked him if he was the Ha Mashiach And He said: 25

Yahushua answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works

that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you believe not, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 394

"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. "My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. "I and the Father are One." Yohanan 10: 25-30 The Pharisees, the Sadducees and the scribes (probably the moneychangers too) despised His words and hatred inflamed them. So they conspired to kill Yahushua. Yahushua knew that these wicked men were going to come to kill Him that night. They would bring false charges against Him and get the traitor they had paid to spy on Him for the last 2yrs., Yehuda, to show them where to find him. But this had to be, because His mission on earth was to be an Atonement for the sins of Yahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people.

He would be the Shepard who laid down His life for the sheep of Yisrael and those that believe in Yah and His laws.

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"I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.” Yohanan 10:11

It was His mission to give His life for Yisrael. He knew that as a flesh and blood being what He was about to face would be an extremely painful and brutal way to die. So He went to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray: “Saying, Father, if You be willing, remove this cup from Me: nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be done. Luke 22:42 And there appeared a malakim to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly: and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Luke 22:43

The Pharisee got their soldiers together and sent them to arrest Yahushua.

That wicked group paid Yehuda 20 pieces of silver to take them to Yahushua and betray Him with a Kiss. You see, he told them the One you see me kiss is Yahushua.

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Yehuda took soldiers to where Yahushua was.

They seized Him and brought Him before the Sanhedrin (court), tried Him and found Him guilty of blasphemy (saying He and Yah were One), a crime punishable with death. However, their power was limited and they could not kill Him without the permission of the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate. When they took Him to Pilate, Pilate could find no reason to kill Him. During the Passover season, one prisoner who was condemned to death could be released. And Pilate asked the people would they prefer to spare the life of a man named Barabbas, who was a murderer or Yahushua who had healed the sick, exorcised demons and evil spirits, brought the dead back to life and feed thousands. And they answered:

“Give us Barabbas…” And Pilate said to them that Yahushua had done nothing to deserve death. But their jealousy and hatred for Him made them want Him dead.

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When Pilate could not persuade the people to let Yahushua live, he washed his hands and said that Yahushua’s blood would not be on his hands and the people shouted: “His blood be on us and on our children.” * Matt 27:25 *About 37yrs later Yah sent the Roman soldiers to collect on that statement and killed all the Yisraelites who had not listened to Yahushua’s warning to flee Yerushalayim when they saw Titus and his army approaching to burn the city to the ground. After an unjust trial, He was spat upon, humiliated, beaten, flogged and whipped until His skin was stripped from His body, and finally nailed to a tree trunk (not a cross) which they made Him carry to the place just outside of Yerushalayim called Golgotha.

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The word "cross" in the New Testament is used instead of the original Greek word stauros. The study of word origins shows that stauros simply means "stake" or "pole" Not cross. Constantine inserted the cross bar and used it as a symbol to unify his empire by making the pagans see it as a symbol for the name of the pagan queen ofnheaven they worshiped named` “Tammuz”. This pagan symbol, the cross, was adopted by emperor Constantine as a “Christian” symbol 300YRS AFTER Yahushua was nailed to a tree. The Mighty One of our fathers raised up Yahushua, whom you slew and hanged on a tree. Acts 5:30 399

IT IS Finishedâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;Ś. They nailed His hands to the tree trunk over His head and nailed His feet to the tree trunk as well. Then they dug a hole wide enough for the end of the tree trunk to fit in and hoisted it upright in the hole. And while He hung there: "Darkness came over all the land noon from until 3 pm." Matt. 27:25

Graves opened up and the saints came out and after the resurrection they appeared to many people. Matt. 27:52-53

"The earth shook and the rocks split.". A huge earthquake shook the land right at the very time Yahushua died. Matt. 27:51

At the very moment that Yahushua breathed His last breath, the Temple veil that covered the entrance to the Holy of Holies, the actual dwelling place of Yah among the people, was torn in 2 from top to bottom. Matt. 27:51 400

When these things happened many who had not believed now believed. "When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Yahushua saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, Surely He was the Son of Yah!â&#x20AC;? Matt. 27:54

But before He died He asked Yah to forgive the people because they did not know what they had done.

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What did we learn? 1. Where were they when Ha Mashiach sent emissaries to get the donkey and the foal? 2. What did the people do to show they believed Yahushua is their Sovereign? 3. What did they shout? 4. Where is this event located in scripture? 5. Who did Ha Mashiach throw out of the Temple courtyard? 6. What are shekels? 7. Why did they sell them? 8. What did the Pharisees do when Ha Mashiach took this action? 9. Where can we find the scripture where Ha Mashiach speaks of the people as His sheep? 10. What would he do for his sheep? 11. Who hated his words and decided to kill him? 12. Who was the emissary that spied on him for 2yrs? 13. What was his mission on earth? 14. Where did Yahushua go to pray before they came to arrest him? 15. How much did they pay â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yehuda the spyâ&#x20AC;? to take them to Yahushua? 16. What did the court find him guilty of ? 17. Who did they have to get permission from before could kill him?

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What did we learn? 18. What happened when they took Ha Mashiach to him? 19. When Pilate offered to spare the life of Yahushua or Barabbas what was the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response? 20. Who did they have to get permission from before could kill him? 21. What happened when they took Ha Mashiach to him? 22. When Pilate offered to spare the life of Yahushua or Barabbas what was the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response? 23. When he could not get them spare the life of their Sovereign what did Pilate do? 24. Where did they make him carry the tree trunk? 25. What does the word stauros mean? 26. Who changed the word stauros to cross? 27. How long after Ha Mashiach was murdered did add a cross bar? 28. Why did they add the cross bar? 29. What happened when Yahushua breathed this last? 30. What did Yahushua Ha Mashiach ask Yah to do just before He died? Answers

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HE LIVES The murder did not end Yahushua’s life. After being buried for 3 days he arose to life and showed Himself for 40 days. And He was saying to them, "The Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him; and having been killed, on the third day He will arise." Mark 9:31

In the end of the Sabbath, toward the first day of the week, came Miriam Magdalene and the other Miriam to see the sepulchre. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the malakim of Yah descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. Matt 28:1-2 1

And when the women saw him he told them:

“Do not be fearful, for I know you are looking for Yahushua who was crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said He would. Come, see the place where He was.” Matt 28:5-6

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After His resurrection He walked and earth and was seen by many for 40 days.

To Miriyim of Madgala, when she went to His tomb and mourned because she could not find Him and he appeared before her. John 20:15 He walked and talked with 2 of the disciples who were on their way to Emmaus, but they did not know it was Yahushua until He chose to reveal Himself as He broke bread with them and the other disciples who were there. Luke 24:13-35 He appeared again to the disciples as these same two men where telling the other taught ones that they had seen Him. He just appeared in their midst. Luke 24:36 Then He showed them His hands and where the nails had been and said these words: And He said to them, Why are you troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see Me have.

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And when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said to them, Have you here any meat? And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. And He took it, and did eat before them. And He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moshe, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me. Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Ha Mashiach to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. Luke 24:38-46

And he gave them these instructions: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Yerushalayim. And you are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry you in the city of Yerushalayim, until you be endued with power from on high. And He led them out as far as to Bethany, and He lifted up His hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Luke 24:47-51

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Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Set-apart Spirit: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age. Matt 28:19-20

Appearances Appearance to Mary Magdalene when she returned after a preliminary visit of the women to the tomb. Mark 16:9-11; Yohanan 20:11-18 Appearance to Kepha on the afternoon of the resurrection day. Luke 24:34; 1 Co 15:5

Appearance to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Mark 16:12; Luke 24:13-32

Appearance to the ten disciples on the evening of the resurrection day, Thomas being absent. Luke 24:36-43; Yoh 20:19-25

Appearance a week later to the eleven, Thomas being present. Yohanan 20:26-31; 1 Co 15:5

Appearance to seven of the disciples beside the Sea of Galilee. Yoh 21:1-14

Appearance to about five hundred brethren as well as the apostles. Matt 28:16-20; Mark 16:15-18; 1 Co 15:6 Appearance to Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;aqob, the half brother of Yahushua. 1 Co 15:7 Appearance on the day of ascension from the Mount of Olives. Mark 16:19-20; Luke 24:44-53; Act 1:3-12

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He walked and talked with them over a period of 40 days. And He told them: â&#x20AC;&#x153;you shall receive power, after that the Set Apart Spirit will come upon you: and you shall be witnesses of Me both in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehuda, and in Samaria, and in the uttermost part of the earth.. And when He had spoken these things, while they looked, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight. Acts 1:8-9 408

And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight. Act 1:9

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Pentecost And after some days what Yahushua had spoken to them came to be. On the day of the Festival of Weeks the emissaries and about 120 other men of Yah were in the upper room together when the Set Apart Spirit came upon them. Acts Chapter 2

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What did we learn? 1. How long was Yahushua bury before he rose? 2. How long did he walk the earth after he rose? 3. What scripture describes Miriam of Magdalaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conversation with Yahushua? 4. How many emissaries did HaMashiach walk with on the road to Emmaus? 5. Did they know who he was? 6. What happened when these two men were telling the other emissaries they had seen Yahushua? 7. What did He do to prove He was really HaMashiach? 8. Where can we find the instructions that Ha Mashiach gave his emissary? 9. When did he appear to Kepha? 10. Who was absent when Yahushua appeared to the ten emissaries? 11. Where did he appear to the seven emissaries? 12. He told the emissaries to stay in Jerusalem until what happened? 13. What mountain was Yahushua taken up from? 14. What Feast Day was the Set Apart Spirit given to the people in the upper room? 15. How many people were there besides the emissaries? Answers 411

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Kepha/Peter Peter was a disciple from the town of Bethsaida near the Sea of Galilee and he also lived in Capernaum. He was introduced to Yahushua by his brother Andri (Andrew).

Kepha, Andri, Yohanan and Ya’aqob had a fishing business together. He was a very forceful man and this may be a reason why Yahushua changed his name from Simon Peter to Kepha, which means the rock. When Yahushua asked the disciple who they thought he was, Kepha appears to be the first to have told Yahushua “you are the Ha Mashiach, the Son of the living Elohim”.

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And Yahushua replied “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Yonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father in Heaven”. “And I also say to you that you are Kepha and on this rock I shall build My assembly and the gates of the grave shall not overcome it.” Kepha was one of the three disciples that were with Yahushua during these important events. The transfiguration; the raising of Jairus’ daughter from the dead; in the Garden of Gethsemane while He prayed on His last earthly night.

He also performed miracles: And it came to pass, as Kepha passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. And Kepha said unto him, Aeneas, Yahushua the Ha Mashiach makes you whole: arise, and make your bed. And he arose immediately. And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to YAH.

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Now there was at Yoppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms deeds which she did. And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber. And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Yoppa, and the disciples had heard that Kepha was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. Then Kepha arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. But Kepha put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Kepha, she sat up. And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive. And it was known throughout all Yoppa; and many believed in Yahushua. Acts 9: 32-43

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Andri/Andrew Andri was the brother of Kepha and as an adult he lived with Kepha at Capernaum. Andri had first been a disciple of Yohanan the Immerser until the day while he was immersing with Yohanan he saw and heard Yohanan say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Behold the Lamb of Yahâ&#x20AC;? referring to Yahushua. At that point he became the first disciple of Yahushua, and went to find his brother who was still called Simon Peter and told him that he had found the Ha Mashiach.

He was there with Yahushua during the feeding of the 5000. Three times he brought people to Yahushua, first his brother Kepha, second the young boy who had the fish that Yahushua later used to feed the 5000 and some Greeks who wanted to meet Him. Matthew Chapters 4, 10, Mark chapters 1, 13 John Chapters 1, 6, 12

He was miraculously delivered out of prison by Yah. Read Matthew Chapter 4:18 Mark, Luke, Yohanan and Acts 12, 1st and 2nd Peter

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Yohanan - John His parents names were Zebedee and Salome. His mother was the sister of Yahushua’s mother Miriyam which made him the cousin of Yahushua. He was the brother of Ya’aqob and the disciple whom scripture speaks of as the one Yahushua loved.

He was with Andri when Yohanan the Immerser announced that Yahushua was the Lamb of Yah. He was with Yahushua at the transfiguration (when Yahushua talked to what looked like the spirits of Moshe and Eliyahu); the raising of Jairus’ daughter from the dead; and with Yahushua in the Garden of Gethsemane while He prayed on His last earthly night. Yohanan was with Yahushua and Miriyam when Yahushua performed His first miracle in Cana, turning water into wine.

He was also the one who was seated next to Ha Mashiach at the last supper and who asked him which of the disciples would betray him.

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And when Yahushua was on the stake and was about to take his last breath, it was Yohanan who was given the responsibility to take care of Yahushuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother. In his later life he was put in prison on the island of Patmos. While there he received a awesome vision which Yah gave to Yahushua who told it to Yohanan. That vision is the last book in scripture Revelation.

It is the announcement of the Judgement of Yah and what will happen in the end times. Mark Chapters 3, 5,13,17; John Chapters 18 - 28; Acts 3,4,8,15

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Phillip Philip was from the same town as Kepha and Andri, Bethsaida near the Sea of Galilee. When Philip found the Ha Mashiach he went and found Nathaniel (Barthalomew) and told him “We have found the One of whom Moses, in the Law and the Prophets wrote, Yahushua the son of Yoseph of Nazareth...come and see.” It was Phillip who was given instructions by a Messenger of Yah to teach the Eunich the meaning of a scripture he was reading. The Eunich asked Phillip to immerse him and he did, but once he had completed the task the Spirit of Yah took him away and he disappeared before the Eunich’s eyes. Mattityahu 10: 3; Mark 3:18, Yohannan Chapters 6, 12, 14 and Acts Chapter 1

Bartholomew/Nathaniel He was from Cana in Gallilee. At first he was a little bit doubtful about Yahushua but when he came into Yahushua’s presence He said of Nathaniel “ See an Yisraelite for a certainty in whom there is no deceit.” Then Yahushua told him that He had seen him under a fig tree before he came to Him. Then Nathaniel believed.

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He was with the disciples while they were fishing on Lake Tiberias when Ha Mashiach had appeared to them after the resurrection on the beach. Yoh 1:41-53; Yoh 21:1-14 Mattitiyahu His fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Alphaeus. He had also been called Levi. When his name was changed is not revealed in scripture. He had been a tax collector before Yahushua called him to be one of the twelve. When Yahushua called him into service he got up immediately and left everything behind. He later held a big feast for Yahushua and the disciples and many of the tax collectors in Capernaum. This dinner caused the Pharisee to talk about who the Ha Mashiach choose to spend his time with. Yahushua told them he had come for the sinners not the saints

Mattithyahu saw Yahushua after He was resurrected and received instructions from Him and saw Him ascend into heaven. He was also probably in the upper room at Pentecost. Matthew Chapter 9, Mark Chapter 2, Luke Chapters 5, 6 and Acts Chapter 1

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Ya’aqob - James Called Ya’aqob the lesser (probably because of his size not his position). Mark 15:40 Thaddaeus Referred to as Yehudah the son of Ya’aqob Luke Chapter 6, Yon Chapter 14 and Acts Chapter 1

Simon Referred to as the zealot.

Tomas/Thomas He was not with the disciples when Yahushua first presented Himself. And he did not believe until Yahushua presented Himself and told Him to touch where the spikes had been driven into His Hands and Feet. He was present when Yahushua appeared to them again at the Sea of Galilee and he was in the upper room after Ha Mashiach ascended into heaven.

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Yehuda-Judas The disciple who was a SPY, a thief, and a betrayer of our Ha Mashiach. The following is from the book “I, Joseph of Arimathea”. And they (the Pharisees) summoned Yehuda Iscariot, and spoke to him,

for he was the son of the brother of Caiaphas the High Priest. He was not a disciple before the face of Yahushua; but all the multitude of the Pharisees craftily supported him, that he might follow Yahushua, not that he might be obedient to the miracles done by Him, nor that he might confess Him, but that he might betray Him to them, wishing to catch up some lying word of Him….

They would give him half shekel of gold each day to bring them reports on Yahushua’s activities. And he did this for two years with Yahushua, as says one of His disciples called Yohanan.

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Yehuda was a paid spy all the days that he was with Yahushua and because he acted as the discipleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bookkeeper he had access to money the disciples raised and he often stole from the collection. Once he had delivered Yahushua to the Sanhedrin (jewish court) he changed his mind, and tried to give the money back. But it was too late, the enemy had already taken Him, nailed Him to a stake and killed Him. Yehuda later killed himself.

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17. What happened when Philip finished teaching the Eunich? 18. Whose name was also Bartholomew? 19. Where did Yahushua tell him he had seen him before he came to him? 20. What town was he from? 21. What did Mattiyahu to earn a living? 22. What was his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name? 23. What was his name before it was changed to Mattitiyahu? 24. When Yahushua called Mattitiyahu to follow him what did he do? 25. How did the Pharisee feel about Yahushua hanging out with Mattitiyahu? 26. What did Yahushua tell them? 27. Who was probably Mattitiyahuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother? 28. Who was referred to as the zealot? 29. Who was called doubting? 30. Why? 31. Who had been spying on Yahushua for a least 2yrs? 32. Who was his uncle? 33. How did Yehuda die? Answers

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Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul I say then, Hath God cast away his people? Yah forbid. For I also am an Yisraelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Binyamin. Romans 11:1

Âś And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, that their widows were neglected in the daily ministry. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not right that we should leave the word of Yah and serve tables; 3 therefore, brethren, seek out among you seven men of whom you bear witness, full of the Set Apart Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 And we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Set Apart Spirit. Acts 6:1-5 426

Although he was what we would call a General Manager of the local food and distribution center, he was also a miracle worker in the name of Yahushua Ha Mashiach. 8 And

Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles in the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of those of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. Acts 6:8-9 Just as with Yahushua he recounted their hypocritical behavior throughout history that continued to that day and they could not win any dispute with him. Just like the Pharisees, jealously burned in them and just as the Pharisees had done to Yahushua they accused him of blasphemy and condemned him to death by stoning (burying someone in the ground all the way up to the neck, leaving the head exposed and throwing rocks at their head until the person died). While they were plotting his execution, he was shouting about what he was seeing with his own eyes as he looked up to heaven. Stephen, full of the Set Apart Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the Esteem of Yah, and Yahushua standing at His right hand.

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he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of Yah.” When he said that the people drug him outside of the city, buried him up to his shoulders, began throwing huge stones at his head, screaming at him, trying to drown out his voice. They did not want to hear what he was saying about what he saw in heaven. And as they murdered him He was asking Yah to forgive them. Acts 7:55-60

As the crowd was yelling at Stephen and forcefully throwing rocks at his head, they were also laying their garments at the feet of a man named Sha'ul. Submitting themselves to him. Sha'ul was a Pharisee, a man filled with religious zeal and brutal violence, who felt it was his duty to destroy everybody that followed and called on the name of Yahushua. Sha'ul wanted to destroy the name and remembrance of Yahushua and all his followers. This is the day that the great persecution of the follower of Yahushua began.

He would go from house to house, dragging off both men and women who believed in the name of Yahushua and put them in prison.

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There were people who followed Yahushua that had escaped from Sha'ul. He went to the high priest of the Pharisees to get the legal authority to go to Damascus, arrest them, bring them back to Yerushalayim and put them in prison. And based on what they did to Stephen probably execute them as well. He was a Hebrew Yisraelite who had studied with Gamiel(a very respected teacher of the Torah) from the age of 12 and became a Pharisee.

On his way to Damascus a blinding light came down from heaven. He fell to the ground and while he was on the ground Yahushua spoke to him saying: “Sha'ul, why do you persecute Me?” While on the ground Sha'ul asked, “Who are you, lord?” Act 9:3

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am Yahushua, whom you are persecuting,” He replied. 6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” Acts 9:5-6

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men traveling with Sha'ul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. 8 Sha'ul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing (he was blind). So they led him by the hand into Damascus. 9 For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything. 10And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; to whom Yahushua said in a vision, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Master. 11 And the Yahushua said to him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and enquire in the house of Yehudah for one called Sha'ul, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays 12 and has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.â&#x20AC;? 13 Then Ananias answered, Ha Maschiac, I have heard by many of this man, of how much evil he has done to Your saints in Yerushalayim, 14 and even here he has authority from the princes of the priests to bind all that call on Your Name. 15 But Yahushua said to him, Go; for he is a chosen vessel of Mine, to bear My Name before the gentiles and kings and the sons of Yisrael;

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I will show him how much it behooves him to suffer for My Name. 17 Then Ananias went and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Sha'ul, Yahushua who appeared to you in the way as you came, has sent me, that you might receive your sight and be filled with the Set Apart Spirit. Acts 9:5-17 Sha'ul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. 20 At

once he began to preach in the synagogues that Yahushua is the Son of Yah. 21 All those who heard him were astonished and asked, “Isn’t he the man who raised havoc in Yerushalayim among those who call on this Name? And hasn’t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?” 22 But Sha'ul grew more and more powerful and baffled the rulers living in Damascus by proving that Yahushua is the Ha Mashiac. The rulers of Damascus plotted to kill Sha'ul for preaching Yahushua but Sha'ul understood what they wanted to do to him so he never went through the gates of Damascus and avoided their ambush plans. Acts 9:20-22 Sha'ul’s story was shaped by Yahushua to show Sha’ul and mankind that anyone can be humbled by his hand and anyone can be saved by his hand. 431

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the disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in a basket. Acts 9:20-25

Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul goes to the Nations There was a man named Barnabus, a Levite who lived in Cyprus. He was not a taught one, but he was devoted to Yahushua. He built up the assemblies of Yahushua, selling his possessions and giving the money for that purpose.

This Barnabus, sincerely believing that Sha'ul fiercely accepted and desired to spread the teachings of Yahushua, introduced Sha'ul to Kepha and Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;aqob, the Emissaries who walked with Yahushua. But the Emissaries in Yerushalayim did not trust Sha'ul: 26 And when Sha'ul was come to Yerushalayim, he tried to join himself to the emissaries; but they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple. 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how he had seen Yah in the way and that He had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Yahushua. Acts 9:26-27

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So Barnabus, who had been sent to Antioch in Syria to encourage and build up the body of Yahushua in the people there, recruited Sha'ul to come to him in Antioch and help accomplish that task. And this is the beginning of Sha'ul taking the words of Yahushua, which are the words of Yah to the Yisraelites dispersed throughout the nations and the gentiles who wish salvation. First missionary journey with Barnabas, was to Cyprus and Galatia.

At the Council of Yerushalayim, Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul argues that gentiles need not follow all of the Torah; returns to Antioch. He later confronts Kepha about his not continuing to eat meals with gentiles as he had been doing. Second missionary journey with Silas, through Asia Minor and Greece; settles in Corinth; writes letters to Thessalonians. He visits Yerushalayim and Antioch briefly and he begins his third missionary journey.

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Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arrest & Death Returns to Yerushalayim and is arrested; Mistaken for an Mitsrites; imprisoned at Caesarea. Appears before Festus and appeals to Caesar; voyage to Rome; under house arrest at Rome; writes letters to Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon. Released; journeys to Spain; writes letters to Timothy and Titus. Returns to Rome; martyred during perse.

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What did we learn? 1. When there arose a problem between the Greeks and the Yisraelites what was the solution? 2. What else did Stephen do? 3. Which synagogues did not like Stephen performing miracles? 4. Could they win disputes with Stephen? 5. How did they behave when they could not win? 6. How did they decide to kill him? 7. What is stoning? 8. When they were killing Stephen what was he doing? 9. What did he ask Yah as he was dying? 10. There was a Pharisee named Shaul watching. What did the people do to show their support for Shaul? 11. Whose name did Shaul want to destroy? 12. How did Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul terrify the follower of Yahushua? 13. What did he want to do to those that had escaped from him? 14. What happened to him when he was going to Damascus to track down Yahushuaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s followers?

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What did we learn? 15. Then what happened? 16. Could any of the men see or hear what happened? 17. His men lead him to a house where he stayed for 3 days until Yahushua sent a man for him. 18. What happened when Ananias came to him? 19. Why did Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ul have to be let down in a basket from a window? 20. Who was the Levite that introduced Shaul to Kepha and James? 21. How did the emassaries feel about Shaul? 22. What did Shaul do when the emissaries did not readily accept him? Answers

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Closing Prayer 1

Keep not Your silence, O Yah: hold not Your peace, and be not still, O Mighty One. 2 For, lo, Your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate You have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted against Your hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Yisrael may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against You: 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah. 9 Do unto them as You did to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of Yah in possession. 13 O my Yah, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with Your tempest, and make them afraid with Your storm.

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Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Your name, O Yah. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That men may know that :You, whose Name alone is Yah, art the most high over all the earth.

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The Scriptures The Cepher Bible The Halleluyah Bible King James (published prior to 1970)* King James Year 1611 Versions King James African Heritage Edition The Blue Letter Bible The Book of Jasher The Book of Jubilees The Book of Enoch The Books of Enoch, Jubilees and Jasher - Derek A Shaver The Two Babylons - Alexander Hislop The Apocrypha The Council of Nicea - Dean Dudley Come Out of Her My People - CJ Koster Precept upon Precept for Dummies - Mr Judah Yisrael From Babylon to Timbuktu - Rudolph R Windsor The Ancient Black Hebrews Vol 2 - Gert Muller The Negro Questions - The African Slave Ships that Came from Judah Part 1, 2, 3 by Lee Cuminngs Ibos, Hebrew Exiles from Yisrael Amazing Facts and Revelations - O. Alaezi Hebrewisms of West Africa - Joseph J Williams Into Egypt Again With Ships: A Message To The Forgotten Yisraelites Elisha Yisrael The Works of Flavius Josephus I, Joseph of Amirtha The Infancy of Jesus Strong’s Concordance (published prior to 1980)*

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*Editors have meddled with language and references in the manuscripts published after these dates. And please avoid biblical works and studies with the word “NEW” in the title. Websites links: www.the www.theperfectman.org Assembly of the Way www.aotw.live The Bible Timeline: http://biblehub.com/timeline/ Abraham Chronology http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/chronology/abraham_chron.html Etymology of the name Je-sus http://www.sabbathcovenant.com/doctrine/sus_is_latin_for_pig.htm Video: Whited Out Series by Yah’s Watchman, Black Education TV on YouTube

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Preface One 1. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains. Where in scripture can we find when we should flee? Luke 20:24 2. Name the areas that the Yiisraelites went when they the fled Ysrael? Egypt, Yemen, Ethiopia, South Africa, and West Africa 3. What countries are the Yisraelites tribes in today? Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Timbuktu, Rwanda, Malagasy Republic, Ethiopia 4. Are Yisraelites the children of Ham or Shem? Shem 5. There are two other names for Judah, what are they? Quidah and Whidah 6. What continents were the slaves taken to? North America, South America. and Europe 7. What did they exchange slaves for? Rum, cotton, Sugar, Tobacco and Coffee 8. Why did they change our names? To hide our identity 9. What scriptures talk about us being scattered for 400yrs? Acts 7:1-6 10. How long were we actually in slavery in Misrayim? About 93yrs Preface Two 1. What did Yahushua say would have to happen for Yah’s laws to be done away with? Heaven and Earth will have to pass away 2. Which commandment talks about using Yah’s name? The third commandment 3. Is God a name? No 4. Is “the lord” a Name? No 5. When you refuse to use Yah’s name what do you do? You bring his name to Nothing 6. What psalm tells us what the Mighty One of Ysrael’s name is? Psalm 68:4 7. What does the word HalleluYah mean? Praise Ye Yah 8. Who wrote that Psalm? King Dawid 9. What does Cum by Yah mean? Come by Yah 10. Why were they singing that phrase? They were praying for Yah to come and rescue them. 11. What does the title Ha Mashiach mean? The Anointed One 12. Was Ha Mashiach’s name Jesus? No 13. What did the people call Yah’s son when he walked the earth? Yahushua 14. What does that name mean? Yah’s salvation or Yah saves 15. What two things does the name Jesus translate to? Hail Zeus and Earth Pig 16. Does Jesus ever translate to Yahushua? No 17. What is the fifth commandment? Remember the Sabbath 18. What day is the Sabbath? The seventh day of the week 19. Is keeping the Sabbath your Covenant with Yah? Yes 20. If it is what scripture tells us that? Ex 31:16-17

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Pre Flood Patriachs 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Who was the first Patriarch? Adam Who was the sixth Patriarch? Jared Who was Lamech’s father? Methuselah Who only wanted to study with Yah all his days? Enoch Who was Enosh’s son? Cainan How long Methuselah live? 969yrs Who was Noah’s father? Lamech How old was Jared when Enoch was born? 162yrs old Who was Cainan’s father? Enosh Was Cainan good or bad? He was a very good man

Noah and the Flood 1. What was Noah’s father’s name? Lamech 2. What was the size of the Ark Noah built? Three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 3. What was the material used to make the Ark? Cedar Trees 4. How many stories did the Ark have? 3 stories 5. How many years did the people have to repent? 120yrs 6. Was the earth flooded already when it started to rain? Yes 7. How long did it rain? 40 days and 40 nights 8. How long were they in the Ark? One year 9. What did the dove bring back to Noah? Olive branch 10. Where did the Ark land? Mt Ararat 11. What was the sign of the covenant that Yah would not destroy the earth with water? A Rainbow 12. What was the name of Noah’s sons? Ham, Japhet and Shem Post Flood Patriachs 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Who was the first Post Flood Patriarch? Shem Who was his father? Noah How long did Shem live? 600yrs Who was Shem’s son? Arphaxad Who was Shelah son? Eber How long did Eber live? 430yrs Who was Abram’s father? Terah Who was Nahor? Terah’s father 443

Abraham 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

Where was Abram born? Ur of Chaldee What did Yah promise Abraham? The Land of Canaan What was the name of Abraham’s wife? Sarah or Sarai What was the name of Abraham’s nephew? Lot What was Abraham’s name before Yah changed it? Abram Why did Abraham take the family to Mitsrayim? Because there was a famine in Negev Where did they go when they left Mitsrayim? Negev Why did Abraham and Lot separate? The land could not support both of their herds Where did Lot go when they separated? Sodom Where did Abraham go when they separated? The land of Canaan Why did Abraham have to rescue Lot? Because he had been captured by the kings that invaded Sodom Where did Abraham go after he rescued Lot? To Melchizedek What was the name of Abraham’s first son? Yishma’el What was the name of his son’s mother? Hagar How old was Sarah when she gave birth to Yitshaq? 99yrs old Did Hagar leave Abraham and if so why? Yes, Abraham sent her and Yishma’el away to protect Isaac Who did Abraham marry after Sarah died? Keturah How many sons did he have with her? 6 sons How old was Abraham when he died? 175yrs Where is Abraham buried? The cave of Machpelah

Yitsak and Ya’acob 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

What was Yitshaq’s mothers name? Rebekah Who found Rebekah? Abraham’s oldest servant Put Did Abraham want a wife for Yitshaq from the Canaanite women? No How many camels did were given to Rebekah’s family? 10 What was Rebekah’s father’s name? Bethuel Which of Rebekah’s sons did she love the most? Ya’acob Why did Esau sell his birthright to Ya'acob? He did not value it What did Yitshaq want Esau to bring him? The red stew that Esau would cooked Does Yah love Esau? NO Who robbed Ya'acob? Esau’s son Eliphaz Who told him to rob Ya'acob? Esau Who did Ya'acob want to marry? Rachel How many years did he have to work for her? 7yrs What happened when Rebekah wanted Ya'acob to come home? He stayed with Laban another 6 yrs 444

14. Why did Laban’s workers get mad a Ya'acob? Because he was becoming wealthy 15. How many groups of gifts did Ya'acob send to Esau? 3 16. What happened when the man Ya'acob and the Messenger stopped fighting? Ya’acob made the Messenger bless him 17. How did Esau treat Ya'acob when they met? Lovingly 18. Where did Ya'acob take his family to live? Shechem 19. What brother did Yah say would serve the other? The Older would serve the younger

The Twelve Tribes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Who was Ya’acob’s first son and who was his Mother? Rueben/Leah Who was Ya’acob’s second son and who was his Mother? Simeon/Leah Who was Ya’acob’s third son and who was his Mother? Levi/Leah Who was Ya’acob’s fourth son and who was his Mother? Yehuda/Leah Who was Ya’acob’s fifth son and who was his Mother? Dan/Bilhah Who was Ya’acob’s six son and who was his Mother? Naphtali/Bilhah Who was Ya’acob’s seventh son and who was his Mother? Gad/Zilpha Who was Ya’acob’s eighth son and who was his Mother? Asher/Zilpha Who was Ya’acob’s ninth son and who was his Mother? Isaachar/Leah Who was Ya’acob’s tenth son and who was his Mother? Zebulon/Leah Who was Ya’acob’s eleventh son and who was his Mother? Yoseph/Rachel Who was Ya’acob’s twelfth son and who was his Mother? Benjamin/Rachel Which two sons killed all the men of Shechem? Simeon and Levi Why did they kill the men of Shechem? Because the abused their sister Dinah Why did Ya’acob’s sons go to Mitrayim? Because there was a famine in their land How did Yoseph become so powerful in Mitrayim of his dreams? By telling Pharaoh Yah’s interpretation Who saved Yoseph’s life? Yehuda Which of his brothers did Yoseph keep when they went to Mitrayim? Simeon How did Pharaoh act Yoseph introduced him to his brothers? He welcomed them What area did he give them? The Land of Goshen

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

What was Moshe’s Mother’s name? Jochebed What was his Father’s name? Amram What tribe was he from? Levi Why was Jochebed trying to hide Moshe? So that Pharaoh would not kill him Where did Moshe’s sister put him? On the Riverbank Who found him? Pharaoh daughter When Moshe started to cry what did his sister offer to do? Go get a woman to nurse him Who did his sister go to get? Jochebed Where did the men go to work? Rameses and Pithom What tribe did not go? Levi Could the men go home? No Why did Moshe kill the Mitsrite? Because he was beating a Ysraelite What did Moshe have to do when Pharaoh found out he killed the Mitsrite? He had to flee Where did he go to live? Mydian What did Moshe see as he was walking Yethro’s flock? A burning bush What did Moshe do when he saw what he saw? He went closer to see what was going on Where can we find this in scripture? Exod. 3:6-10

The Ten Plagues 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Who did Yah send to get the children of Ysrael? Moshe and Aaron How long were the Ysraelites in slavery when Yah sent them? 90yrs What did they say to Pharaoh? Let Yah’s people go Who did the talking? Aaron What did they do to show Yah’s power? Turned Aharon’s rod into a snake What did the Pharaoh’s magicians do in response? They threw their rods to the ground and turned it into a snake also 7. Then what happened in front of the magicians? Aharon’s snake ate the magician’s snake 8. Did that make Pharaoh do what was asked? No 9. What started next? The ten Plagues

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10. What started next? The ten Plagues 11. Name them in order a. Water turns to blood b. Frogs throughout the land c. Gnats sent d. Flies sent e. Pestilence f. Plague of boils g. Fiery hail h. Locust i. Darkness j. Death of the First born of all living 12. Did the Yisraelites suffer these plagues? No 13. What did they have to do to stop the Destroyer? a. Get and keep an unblemished lamb b. Keep it until the 14 day of the first month c. Slay it and used its blood to be painted on the doorpost of the Yisraelite homes using hyssop Into the Wilderness

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

How did the people treat Moshe when he was trying to save them? Badly What did they complain about when he was trying to free them? No straw Did they appreciate what he was doing? No What kind of things did they say? Let them alone, We should have stayed in Mitsrayim What happened at the Wilderness of Shur? The water was bad and the people complained How did Yah solve the problem? Showed Moshe a tree that he could put in the water to make it drinkable Where can we find that in scripture? Ex 15:22 Did the people appreciate what Moshe did? No, they started grumbling about something else What does Ex16:9-13 talk about? Read and discuss What did Yah send them from heaven? Manner What happened when the people got to Rephidim? They wanted to kill Moshe because the water was bad again How did Yah solve the problem? Told Moshe to use the Rod to make the water drinkable. Where is that in scripture? Ex 17: 4-7 What month did Moshe lead the people to the Wilderness of Sinai? The third month

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15. What did the people say when they were asked to obey the covenant? All you say we will do 16. What happened in Ex 20:18-19? The people became too afraid to go to meet with Yah and ask that Yah let Moshe speak to them for Him. 17. Did they keep their covenant with Yah? No 18. What did the people do in Ex 32:1-6? The made and worshipped a golden calf 19. What does Num 20:3-17 talk about? The Ten Commandments 20. What happened when the people complaint about food again? He sent so much quail that they got sick of it and Yah sent a plague for their gluttony. 21. What happened when Aharon and Miriam turned on Moshe? Yah gave Miriam leprosy Time to Move Out 1. Where were the people when Moshe sent men to scout out the Promised Land? Wilderness of Paran 2. How many men did he send? 12 3. How were the men chosen? One from each Tribe 4. What did all the men like about the Promised Land? Beautiful abundant produce, rich soil 5. What did they dislike about the Promised Land? There were Giants in the land 6. Who were the only two that believed that they could conquer the land? Caleb and Yehoshua 7. What happened when Caleb, Yehoshua and Moshe tried to convince the people to go and conquer the land? The people threatened to kill them; put someone in charge besides Moshe; and talked about going back to Mitrayim 8. How did this make Yah feel? Angry 9. What did He say he would do? Destroy them and make a nation of Mosheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s descendants 10. What did Yah actually do? Sent a plague among them 11. How many years were they to wander in the desert? 40yrs 12. How did Yah determine that time frame? 1yr for each day they scouted out the land 13. What happened in Num 16? Men rose up against Moshe and Aharon, Moshe told them that If his power came from Yah that the earth would open up and swallow them and it did. 14. What should we learn from this? Not provoke Yah The Tent of Meeting, The Ark of the Covenant and The Tabernacle 1. What was the Tent of Meeting? The first temporary sanctuary 2. Why was the Tent of Meeting erected outside the camp? Because the people had polluted themselves with calf worship. 3. What does Ex 33:9 talk about? The purpose of the Tent of Meeting. 4. Where was Moshe when Yah told him to build the Ark of the Covenant? Mount Sinai

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5. What was the Ark of the Covenant? A symbol of the presence of YAH and His Power in the midst of His people. This place on the lid was also referred to as the “Mercy Seat”. 6. What was kept in the Ark of the Covenant? The tablets of the law; The Rod; and later a Jar of Manna 7. When the Ark lead the children of Ysrael what did it do? Looked for a resting place and cleared out all danger 8. Where did Yah speak from? Between the two Cherubim 9. How often could the approached? Once a year 10. Who could approach it? The High Priest 11. What did he do when he approached it? Asked for forgiveness for himself and all Ysrael 12. Where in scripture can we find this information? Lev 16:2 13. What is in front to the Holy of Holies"? The Golden Altar of Incense 14. What happened to the Philistines when they did not return the Ark? Plagues and misfortunes 15. Who placed the Ark of the Covenant in the Hekel (Temple)? Solomon 16. What did the Tabernacle replace? The Tent of Meeting 17. What is the date it was first used? First day of the first month in the second year of coming out of Mitrayim. 18. Where in scripture can we find what Moshe would say when went out and when it rested? Num 10:33-36 19. How many pillars held up the multicolored curtain? 5 pillars 20. What do the candle holders on the lampstand represent? The Feast Days The Priest 1. What was the job of the Priest? to provide spiritual leadership, for the administration of sacred services in the Hekal 2. In what scripture can we find the Prayer Yah gave the Priest for the people? Numbers 6:22-26 3. What else were the Priest responsible for? Judging and teaching 4. How many High Priest served at at time? One 5. Where in scripture can we learn about the Priest vestments (clothing)? Ex 24:2-4 6. Who was the first Priest? Melchizedek 7. Where else did we learn about Sovereign Melchizedek? When we studied Abraham 8. Who was the next Priest? Aharon 9. Whose brother was he? Moshe and Miriam 10. Which Priest was the great grandson of Aharon? Abishua 11. Who was a Priest and a Prophet? Eli 12. Which Priest did Sovereign Sha’ul kill? Ahimelech ben Ahitub 13. How many Priest were named Amariah? Seven 14. Which Amariah returned to Yerushalayim from the Exile in Babylon with Zerubbabel? The Sixth 15. High Priest during the reign of King Joash of Yehuda? Hilkiah ben Shallum 449

Leviticus Which scripture describes clean and unclean foods? Chapter 17 day of Atonement? Chapter 16 Priestly conduct? Chapter 22 Unleavened Bread? Chapter 23:4-5 Passover? Chapter 23:6 First Fruit? Chapter 23:9-14 Pentecost? Chapter 23:15-22 Trumpets? Chapter 23:24 Day of Atonement? Chapter 23: 26-32 Festival of Booths? Chapter 23:33-36 Blessing for obedience and disobedience? Chapter 26:1-46 Keeping and Breaking the laws? Chapter 28:1-68 The Wilderness Journey Part 2

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Did the people behave any better? No What did Yah say about going into the Promised Land with them? He said he would not go with them. What problem did they have when they were wandering in the desert? No water What did Yah tell Moshe to do to cure the problem? Speak to the rock to get the water to flow What did Moshe do instead? Struck the rock What did Yah tell Moshe? That because of his disobedience he would not allow him to go into the Promised Land How long did Ysrael wander in the desert? 40yrs Who were the only 2 people who were left who had been more that 20yrs old when they first tried to enter the Promised Land? Caleb and Yehoshua What did Yah do when the people started saying they wished they had died? He sent poisonous snakes into their camp When the people apologized what did Yah tell Moshe to do? Make a serpent of brass and put it up as a banner. What was it symbolic of? All who look to Yahushua for salvation will be saved How old was Moshe when Yah told him he was going to die? 120yrs old Who did Yah tell Moshe to make the new Leader? Yehoshua Where in scripture can we find what Moshe told the new leader? Deut 31:7-8 What did Yah tell Moshe the people would do once they were in the Promised Land? That they would still rebel What was the last task that yah gave Moshe to do? Write a song Where can we find that song? Deut32:1-43 Where did Yah sent Moshe to die? Mt Nebo Did Moshe get to see the Promised Land? Yes 450

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Did the people behave any better? No What did Yah say about going into the Promised Land with them? He said he would not go with them. What problem did they have when they were wandering in the desert? No water What did Yah tell Moshe to do to cure the problem? Speak to the rock to get the water to flow What did Moshe do instead? Struck the rock What did Yah tell Moshe? That because of his disobedience he would not allow him to go into the Promised Land How long did Ysrael wander in the desert? 40yrs Who were the only 2 people who were left who had been more that 20yrs old when they first tried to enter the Promised Land? Caleb and Yehoshua What did Yah do when the people started saying they wished they had died? He sent poisonous snakes into their camp When the people apologized what did Yah tell Moshe to do? Make a serpent of brass and put it up as a banner. What was it symbolic of ? All who look to Yahushua for salvation will be saved How old was Moshe when Yah told him he was going to die? 120yrs old Who did Yah tell Moshe to make the new Leader? Yehoshua Where in scripture can we find what Moshe told the new leader? Deut 31:7-8 What did Yah tell Moshe the people would do once they were in the Promised Land? That they would still rebel What was the last task that yah gave Moshe to do? Write a song Where can we find that song? Deut32:1-43 Where did Yah sent Moshe to die? Mt Nebo Did Moshe get to see the Promised Land? Yes

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What was Yehoshua’s name when he was born? Hosea Who changed his name? Moshe What tribe was Yehoshua from? Ephraim As commander who did he defeat in Rephidim? Abemelek, Esau’s son Where in scripture can you find how Yehoshua trusted Yah to give them the Promised Land? Numbers 13:16-17 When they organized to leave the Shittim which three tribes were: a) In the north – Dan Asher and Naphtali b) In the east – Benjamin Manaseh and Ephraim c) In the south – Gad Simeon Reuben d) In the west – Yehuda Isaachar Zebulon What was the first river they had to cross? The River Jordan What tribe did not take their families and live stock across that river? Reuben, Gad and half the tribe of Manaseh How many of those tribes fighting men went across the Jordan? 40K Why did they cross with Ysrael? To help all the tribes secure their place in the Promised Land What was the first city the decided to take? Yericho What did Yehoshua do to make sure they could take the city? He sent spies Who was Rahab? She was a woman that hid the Ysraelite spys and sent the soldiers in the wrong direction What did they promise her? That they would spare the life of her and her family What miraculous thing happened when it was time to cross the River Jordan? Yah parted the River Jordan and all Ysrael crossed on dry land What other miracle happened? Yah levitated them out of the dry sea bed Before the men could go to fight what did Yehoshua have the Priest do? Circumcise the men over 20yrs old Which Feast Day did they celebrate? Passover What did they have to do before the could attach Yericho? March around it one time for 6 days carrying the Ark and blasting the Shofar What did they do on the seventh day? They had to march around the city 7 times carrying the Ark of the Covenant and blowing the Shofar, but on the 7th time they were to all shout. What happened when they did as instructed? The walls came tumbling and crumbly down

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Moving into the Promised Land 1. Why did Yah refuse to give Ysrael in battle after they conquered Yericho? Because they brought idols back with them 2. What did they do when they Yah told them what had been done? They found out who brought idols into the camp and killed them 3. What happened after they ridded the camp of the rebels? They were once again victorious in battle 4. The king of what people tricked Yehoshua into making a peace treaty with him? The king of Gibeon 5. Who was Adonizedek? The king that came to make war with Gibeon 6. Why did he want to do that? Because Gibeon had made peace with Ysrael 7. What did he do? Incited 5 kings to join him in a war against Gibeon 8. Who called Yehoshua? The king of Gibeon 9. What did Yah tell Yehoshua he would do? Give them into his hands 10. What did Yah do at Bethhoron? Reigned down huge ice balls from heaven killing most of the enemy. 11. What killed more of the enemy, Yah’s ice balls or Ysrael’s weapons? Yah’s ice balls 12. What did Yehoshua ask Yah to do? Make the Sun and the Moon stands still. 13. How long did the Sun and Moon stand still? A whole day, long enough for them to defeat the enemy 14. Where can you find this story? Yehoshua Chapter 10 15. Where can you find the names of the rest of the kings Yehoshua defeated? Yehoshua Chapter 11 16. Who were the only tribe not to be given land in Canaan? The Levites 17. Why were they not given land? Yah and the temple were their inheritance. 18. Which tribe’s territory the most north? Asher and Naphtali 19. Who were the Anakim? The “giants” that the spies Moshe sent into the Promised Land did not believe the Ysraelites could defeat.

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Who were the Amalekites? They are the descendance of Esau’s grandson Amalek Who defeated the Ammonites? Jephthaah Who took the Northern Kingdom into exile? SargonII Where did he take them? Persia Where was the Southern Kingdom taken? Babylon What happened to King Nebuchadnezzar when he became prideful? Yah made him crawl around on his hands and knees What were the names of the Canaanite tribes? Kenites, Kenizzites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and the Jebusites. Gargashites, and Jebusites. Who are the Edomites? Esau’s descendants Who invited Ya’acob and his sons and then turned on them? Mitsrites When Moshe fled from Mitsrayim where did he go to live? Cush and Midian Who were Lot’s descendants? The Moabites and the Ammonites

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Who was the first Judge? Othniel What tribe was he from? Yehuda What was the gift the Yah gave to Deborah? The Gift of Prophesy Who did she go to war with? Barak Who did they fight? The Canaanite King Jabir Which Judge killed the obese Moabite King Eglon? Ehud Which Judge made the highways safe for travel and trade? Shamgar Who put an end to Midian’s oppression of Ysrael? Gideon How long did he judge? 40 yrs How killed all his brothers so he could rule? Abimelech Where was Yiphtah from? Gilead Why did his brothers drive him out of the country? Because he had a different mother Who was the tenth Judge? Ibsan How long did he rule? 7yrs What does the name Tolar mean? Crimson What tribe was Shimson (Samson) from? Dan Who announced his birth? A Messenger of Yah What was his mother told that he could not drink? Wine and strong drinks Could he cut his hair? No Did his strength come from his hair? No What did he do that made Yah upset with Him? Ignored his Laws and chased foreign women

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What were some of the jobs of the Prophets? Link to page Who was the first prophet? Adam What king did Yah tell that Abraham is a prophet? King Abimelech Which king called for Dani’el to interpet his dream? King Nebuchadnezzar Where can you find this scripture “The Spirit of Yah has spoken through me and his word is on my tongue”? 2Shemu’el 23; 2 Which female prophet was also lead the armies of Yisarel? Deborah Who killed Izebel’s pagan prophets? Eliyahu Which prophet raised the dead? Elisha Who was a prophet before the flood? Hanok/Enoch In 2Melakim Chapter 22, why Hilkiah the priest go to Hulda the prophetess? To find out what Yah was going to do because they had disobeyed his laws What kings were in power when Micah prophesied? Yotam, Ahaz and Hizqiyah Which prophet told the people that Yah would send Yahushua? Moshe Who prophesied about Nineveh? Nahum 455

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Dawid was anointed by which prophet? Shem’uel Who is a Prophet, Priest and Soveriegn forever? Yahushua Which prophet disobeyed Yah and ended up in the belly of a whale? Yonah Who was a prophet from the reigns of Josiah through the reign of Yəhōyāqîm down to Zedekiah? Yehezqel/Ezekiel Which prophet did Yah tell He knew him in the womb before he was born? Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah Who was a child when Yah made him a prophet? Yirmeyahu/Jeremiah Which prophet wrote the Book of Revelation? Yohanan the Emissary Who spoke of Yahushua when he was immersing? Yohanan the Immerser

Sovereign Sha’ul 1. From what year to what year did Yah send leaders and Judges to rule in Ysrael? 13501014BC 2. What were the names of Shemu’el’s two sons? Joel and Abiyah 3. What did Yah tell Shemu’el about who the children of Ysrael were rejecting? That they were rejecting Him 4. What was the name of the man that Yah had chosen? Sha’ul 5. What did Shemu’el do to him when he came? Anointed him Sovereign 6. Where did he tell him to go when he left? To the garrison of the Philistines 7. What did Shemu’el tell him would happen when he got there? He would prophesy with young men he would meet there. 8. What was the tribe that the new Sovereign chosen from? Benjamin 9. When they looked for the new Sovereign where did they find him? Hiding in the luggage. 10. Who was Nahash? The king of the Ammonites. 11. What did they threaten to do to the people of Jabesh-Gilead? Pluck out the right eyes of all the people. 12. What did Sha’ul do when the people told him what Nahash wanted to do the them? He took oxen and cut them up and sent the pieces throughout Yisrael with the message that anyone that did not come to help he and Shemu’el and the people of Jabesh-Gilead to fight the Ammonites would have their oxen cut up. 13. How many of Ysrael’s warriors came to them? 300,000 14. What did they do when the defeated the Ammonites? They sacrificed to Yah. 15. What was Sha’ul’s sons name? Jonathan 16. Why did the Philistines come to fight against Ysrael? Because Jonathan had defeated the men at Geba garrison. 17. Who were the Philistines related to? The Anakim (giants) 18. Who did the people remind you of when the realized they had to fight the Philistines? The men Moshe sent to scout out the land. 19. What did Sha’ul do when Shemu’el was late arriving with Yah’s war plans? He offered Burnt Offering to Yah. 456

20. When he did this what did Shemu’el tell him was going to happen to his kingdom? It would be taken away from him. 21. What else happened? Yah would not go out with them in battle. 22. Yah gave Sha’ul a second chance to prove he could be obedient to what Yah. Shemu’el told him to attack the Amalekites (Esau’s children) for what they did to Ysrael when they waylaid them as they came out of Mitsrayim. He was told to leave NOTHING alive. Did Sha’ul obey Yah? No 23. What did he do? Kept what he thought was valuable and did not kill king Agag the king of the Amalekites, that Yah wanted dead. 24. When Sha’ul was angry with him for what he did, what excuse did he give for his disobedience? He kept the valuables to offer to Yah as a sacrifice. 25. What did Sha’ul tell him? That Yah valued obedience more that sacrifice. Dawid

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Where did Yah send Shemu’el to look for the next sovreign? Bethlehem Whose son’s did Yah tell Shemu’el to look at to find the next sovereign? Yishi (Jesse) Which of Yishi’s sons did Yah tell Shemu’el to anoint? Dawid Did he start to be the Sovereign at that time? No, Sha’ul was still sovereign When Yishi sent Dawid to take food for his sons on the battlefield, what happened? Dawid heard the Philistines insulting challenging Ysrael’s army. What happened when he heard this? It made him angry. Who was Dawid talking about when he said this, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of Yah?”? Goliath What animals had Dawid killed protecting his sheep? A lion and a bear What weapon would he use to fight the giant? A slingshot and 5 smooth stones What did the giant threathen to do to Dawid? Give his body to the birds and the wild animals What did Dawid tell the giant he was going to do to him? Cut off his head Which one succeeded? Dawid

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8. What were the words of the song the people sang about Dawid? “Sha'ul killed 1000 but Dawid killed 10,000” 9. How did Sha’ul feel about the song? It made him jealous and he began to hate Dawid. 10. What did he try to do Dawid? He would send him into battles where he was sure he would be killed. 11. What did Sha’ul start to do to Dawid when Dawid did not die in battle? He started trying to kill Dawid himself. 12. What did Dawid finally have to do? Flee from Sha’ul. 13. Where did he go? To live in the cave at Adullam 14. How many men were with him? 400 15. When Dawid had an opportunity to kill Sha’ul why didn’t he? Because Yah had anointed him Sovereign 16. Did sparing Sha’ul’s life stop him from hunting Dawid? No 17. What happened at Mount Gilboa? Jonathan and Sha’ul were both killed. 18. How did Dawid feel about Sha’ul death? He was sad because he loved him. 19. What did Dawid ask Yah after Sha’ul’s death? Should he go up to Yehudah? 20. Which town did he go to? Hebron 21. What happened when he went there? He was anointed the second time. 22. Did he reign in all of Yisrael? No, Sha’ul’s son Ishbosheth, reigned in the rest of Yisrael. 23. Were they friendly? No, there was a long war between them. 24. How many sons did Dawid have in Hebron? Six 25. How did Dawid become King of all Ysrael? Ishbosheth was murdered and the tribes he once ruled asked Dawid to be their sovereign and anointed him. 26. How many time was Dawid anointed? 3 27. Who was living in Jerusalem before Dawid conquered it? The Yesubites 28. How many children did Dawid in Jerusalem? 11 including Solomon. 29. When was the Ark of the Covenant stolen by the Philistines? When Eli was the Priest. 30. What happened when the Philistines put the Ark in their temple with their idols? Their idol Dagon was thrown down to the ground and later they were hit with plagues. 31. How long did they keep the Ark? 7 months 32. How long did the Ark stay in Kiryat Jearim before Dawid tried to bring it home? 20yrs 33. The first time Dawid tried to bring the Ark back he was unsuccessful. What did he do differently to bring it home the second time? He sent the Levites to get the Ark according to the Torah. 34. Who finally ridded the land of the Philistines once and for all? Yah gave Dawid the victory. 35. Who else did he defeat? The Moabites, Hadadezer king of Zobah, the Arameans of Damascus, the Edomites, the Ammonites and Amalek. 36. Which one of his sons caused Dawid to go on the run? Absolom

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What was Solomon’s mother’s name? Bathsheba What was unique about his reign? He ruled all of Ysrael his entire reign What was special about Solomon? His wisdom Yah was pleased with Solomon when he was a young man and asked him what He could give him. What was his answer? An understanding heart to judge Yah’s people, wisdom, knowledge, and the ability to discern between good and evil. What else did Yah give him? Great wealth How many proverbs did he write? 3000 How many psalms? More than 1000 What sciences was he a master of? Trees, animals, birds and fish. What problem did the two women bring to Solomon to solve? The women each had a child and one of their children died in the night. The mother of the dead child lied and tried to take the live baby from its mother. How did Solomon solve this problem? He said to cut the child in half and give them both one half of the child. What happened then? The real mother of the child would not allow it to be killed and said to give it to the mother of the dead child. What did Solomon do? He gave the child to the woman who would not allow the child to be killed because her care for the child proved that she was the mother. What year of his reign did Solomon begin to build the Temple? The fourth year of his reign. Where was the Temple built? On Mount Moriah. What did Sovereign Dawid provide for the building of the Temple? Timber, iron, stone, bronze, silver and gold along with a huge contribution of his personal wealth. How many of his servants worked on the building of the Temple? 200,000 How much gold was used to decorate the inside of the Temple? 20 tons Where was the Ark placed? In the Holy of Holies What was the purpose of the: a) Altar of Incense b) Table of Showbread c) Golden Lampstand d) Bronze Laver 459

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Why is he considered the Best King? Cleansed and reopened the Temple; removed all the idols; allowed the people to bring sacrifices to the Temple; allowed the Levites to once again serve in the Temple; observed Yah’s feast days What king he pray for Yah to save him from? King Sennacherib of Assyria Who was the 14th King? King Manasseh Did he do what was right in the Eyes of Yah? No What did he do? Sacrificed is own son in the fire. What did he do later? Repented and removed all idols and repaired the altars of Yah. Who only reigned two years? King Amon Who was 8yrs old and ruled for 31yrs? King Yoshiyahu What is the name of the scribe that found the Torah? Shaphan How did Elyaqim become king? Pharaoh took Yeho’ahaz to Mitsrayim and put his son Elyaqim on the throne. Who only reigned for 3months? King Jehoiachin Who was the last King to rule in Yehuda? Tsidqiyahu/Zedekiah What Was the name of the king that took the Southern Kingdom into captivity? Nebuchadnezzar Who killed the prophet Uriyah? King Yehoyaqim/Jehoiakim/Elyaqim

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Who was the first King of the Southern Kingdom? Jeroboram What tribe was he from? Ephraim How did he lead Yisrael astray? He built 2 golden calfs and told the people to worship them. Where did he place them? One in Dan and one in Bethel Who was assassinated by Baasha? King Nadab What King of Judah did Baasha fight with? Asa Who was murdered by Zimri? King Elah How did Zimri die? He burned a building down on himself. Which two men fought to be Ysrael’s king after Zimri died? Tibni and Omri How won? Omri What was Ahab’s wife’s name? Jezebel/Izebel. What did she do to Yah’s Priest? She had all but 100 of them murdered. What did Yah tell Eliyahu to tell Ahab? That there would be no rain in the land until he said so. After he delivered that message what did he do? He fled from the land. Who did he stay with? A widow and her son. What miracle did he perform while there? Extended her supply of food and oil and rose her son from the dead. 17. How long did he stay there? 3yrs

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18. What did he do when returned? Told the people they had to chose Yah or the lord (Baal). 19. What did he propose to make them decide? He challenged the Priest of Baal to prove the power of their gods. 20. When the Priest of Baal (the lord) lost what did Eliyahu order the people to do? Kill the pagan priest 21. What did izebel d o to Naboth? Got people to lie on him so the court would convict him and kill him. 22. Why did she do this? So Ahab could have is field 23. What did Yah require Ahab’s life? Because he did not kill Ben-Hadad 24. What happened to the 51 soldiers Ahazyah sent to get Eliyahu? Fire came down from heaven and killed them 25. What did Eliyahu tell Ahazyah when he finally went to see him? That because he was going to ask a dumb idol about his fate after his fall, he was going to die in his bed. 26. Which king joined with Ysrael and Edom to defeat Moab? King Joram 27. Which king did Yah send to kill Ahab’s family like He said He would? Jehu 28. When Elisha was dying which king came and wept over him? King Jehoash/Joash 29. Why did Elisha get upset with this king? When Elisha told him to strike the floor Yoash only struck the floor 3 times and Elisha got very angry and told him that if He had struck the floor 5 or 6 times he would have defeated Syria completely. 30. Who was assassinated by Shallum? King Zechariah 31. Who killed Shallum? King Menahem 32. Who was the final king of Yisrael? King Hoshea/Hosea 33. Who exiled all the people of the Northern Kingdom? Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria Mountains in Scripture 1. What were the names of Sha’ul’s sons that died with him on Mount Gilboa? Dawid’s friend Jonathan, Avinadav, and Malchishua 2. On what Mount did Deborah and Barak go to battle? Mount Tabor 3. Which mount was used to pronounce the blessing sent from Yah? Mount Gerizim 4. Which mount was used to pronounced the curses sent from Yah? Mount Ebal 5. How many profits did the Prophet Eliyahu challenge on Mount Carmel? 450 Prophet 6. Which Mount provided protection for the lines of communication? Mountains of Ephraim 7. What happened on Golgotha? Ha Mashiac was murdered 8. Where did Yah send Moshe to view the Promised Land. Mount Nebo 9. On what Mount is the Holy of Holies that held the Ark of the Covenant located? Mount Moriah 10. On what Mount is the City of David and the City of Yah? Mount Zion 11. Who did David buy the Land from? Ornan 12. Where is the Garden of Gethsemane located? Mount Zion

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Yahushua 1. Why did Yahushua come to earth? To be The Savior 2. What is he going to be? The everlasting Sovereign of Yah’s Kingdom 3. What is Yahushua’s parents’s names? Miriam and Yoseph 4. What is a Malakim? An angel 5. What was the name of the Malakim that spoke to Zacharias? Gabriel 6. What was the name of Zacharias’ wife? Elizabeth 7. What did the Malakim tell him? That he was going to have a child 8. Who else did this same Malakim speak to? Miriam 9. Where can we find this in scripture? Luke 1:28-33 10. Where was Yahushua born? Bethlehem 11. Who else was told by messengers that Yahushua had been born? The Shepherds 12. Who saw a sign in the sky? The wise men 13. Who was Herod? The Edomite King 14. How did Herod learn about the birth of Yahushua? The wise men told him 15. Who told the wise men where to look for Yahushua? Herod’s advisors 16. Was Herod happy about this news? No 17. Why did Herod want the wise me to tell him where Yahushua could be found? So he could find him and kill him 18. What did Herod do when the wise men did not tell him where Yahushua was? He killed about 10,000 male Yisraelite children hoping that one of the slain children would be Yahushua. 19. Was it a good thing that the wise men told Herod about Yahushua’s birth? No 20. Why? If he had not been told he would not have killed 10,000 male children. 21. How did Yahushua escape being murdered? Yah told his Yoseph to take him to Egypt. Yahushua and Yohanan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Who did Yohanan prophesy of? Yahushua Where did Yohanan immerse? River Jordan Did Yohanan have disciples? Yes Where can you find this scripture? I immerse you with water, but He (Yahushua) will immerse you with the Set Apart Spirit.” How soon after saying that did he see Yahushua? The next day What did Yohanan call Yahushua? The Lamb of Yah What did he say Yahushua would do? Take away the sins of the world. I have seen and I testify that this is Yah’s Chosen One.” Where can we find this scripture? Yohanan 1:32-33 How did Yohanan act when Yahushua came to him to be immersed? He did not want to. He felt he was unworthy. What did Yohanan see after had immersed Yahushua? The Spirit of Yah descending like a dove and coming to rest on Him 463

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How long did Yahushua spend in the wilderness? 40 day and 40 nights Who tried to tempt Yahushua when he came out of the wilderness? Satan What did he tell Yahushua to do with the rocks? Turn them into bread. When they were sitting on top of the Temple what did Satan tell Yahushua to do? Throw himself down. How did Yahushua answer him? Thou shall not tempt Yah your Mighty One. What did Satan offer Yahushua if he would fall down and worship him? All the Kingdoms of the world. How did Yahushua answer him? you shall worship Yah thy Mighty One, and Him only shall you serve. What did two of Yohanan’s emissaries do when they heard him say “Behold, the Lamb of Yah!”? They followed Yahushua Which emissary did Yahushua find at Galilee? Philip Who said “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Natheniel Which emissaries did HaMashiach choose in Matthew 4:18-22? Kepha, Andri, Ya'acob and Yohannan What happened in Matthew 9:9? He called Mattityahu Where was HaMashiach when He performed His first public miracle? A wedding in

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Who was with Him? His Mother What did He do? Turned water into wine How did the people in his hometown treat him? They did not believe he was the HaMashiach What did the Ha Mashiach do? He leaves and goes to dwells at Capernaum

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How did the Pharisees break the law? By adding to the Torah Where in scripture does it say that you cannot do that ? Deut 4:2 Did they believe in the resurrection? Yes Did the Sadducees believe in the Oral law? No Who was more powerful? The Pharisees What do the scribes do? Study the Law, transcribe it, and write commentaries Of the Pharisee, the Sadducees or the Scribes recopy the scriptures? The Scribes Which group was the largest? Sadducees Who were responsible for Herod’s Temple? The Sadducees Which of these groups plotted to kill HaMashiach? All of them What did Ha Mashiach say they loved? Loved looking good, loved being called Rabbi, loved making long speeches 12. Who did they people report to? Rome/Edom 13. Why did they fear Yahushua? They thought that he would take away their power

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perform 15. Who knows more about the Torah, those men or Ha Mashiach? Ha Mashiach 16. Why did they oppose him? 1. eating with sinners, for 2. healing on the Sabbath, 3. not washing his hands, 4. throwing out the money changers and merchants from the Temple 5. calling them sons of Satan 6. saying he could rebuild the Temple in 3 days Things must be fulfilled 1. Where were they when Ha Mashiach sent emissaries to get the donkey and the foal? Bethpage near the Mt of Olives 2. What did the people do to show they believed Yahushua is their Sovereign? Laid their garments and palms branches in the road for Him to walk on. 3. What did they shout? “HOSANNA (by using this phrase they were calling Him Sovereign and Savior) 4. Where is this event located in scripture? Matt 21:8-9 5. Who did Ha Mashiach throw out of the Temple courtyard? Merchants and Moneychanger 6. What are shekels? The only coins that could be used for Temple activities. 7. Why did they sell them? Because there were not a lot of these coins in circulation. 8. What did the Pharisees do when Ha Mashiach took this action? They asked him who told him he could do that. 9. Yahushua told the Pharisees that their father was Satan in what scripture? Yohanan 8:44-45 10. Where can we find the scripture where Ha Mashiach speaks of the people as His sheep? Yohanan 10: 25-30 11. What would he do for his sheep? Lay down his life. 12. Who hated his words and decided to kill him? The Pharisees, the Sadducees and the scribes (probably the moneychangers too) 13. Who was the emissary that spied on him for 2yrs? Yehuda 14. What was his mission on earth? To be an atonement for the sins of Yah’s people. 15. Where did Yahushua go to pray before they came to arrest him? Garden of Gethsemane 16. How much did they pay “Yehuda the spy” to take them to Yahushua? 20 pieces of silver 17. What did the court find him guilty of? Blasphemy, saying He and the Father are One 18. Who did they have to get permission from before could kill him? Pontius Pilate 19. What happened when they took Ha Mashiach to him? He did not think that Yahushua was guilty of any crime. 20. When Pilate offered to spare the life of Yahushua or Barabbas what was the people’s response? Give us Barabbas 465

21. When he could not get them spare the life of their Sovereign what did Pilate do? He washed his hands 22. Where did they make him carry the tree trunk? To Golgotha 23. What does the word stauros mean? Stake 24. Who changed the word stauros to cross? Constantine 25. How long after Ha Mashiach was murdered did add a cross bar? 300yrs 26. Why did they add the cross bar? To make it look like the symbol of Tammuz 27. What happened when Yahushua breathed this last? 1. Darkness came over all the land noon from until 3 pm." 2. Graves opened up and the saints came out 3. A huge earthquake shook the land right at the very time Yahushua died 4. the Temple veil that covered the entrance to the Holy of Holies, the actual dwelling place of Yah among the people, was torn in 2 from top to bottom. 5. When these things happened many who had not believed now believed. 28. What did Yahushua Ha Mashiach ask Yah to do just before he died? Forgive them for they know not what they do HE LIVES

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How long was Yahushua bury before he rose? 3 days How long did he walk the earth after he rose? 40 days What scripture describes Miriam of Magdalaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conversation with Yahushua? John 20:15 How many emissaries did HaMashiach walk with on the road to Emmaus? 2 Did they know who he was? No What happened when these two men were telling the other emissaries they had seen Yahushua? He appeared in their midst What did He do to prove He was really HaMashiach? He showed and let them touch his wounds Where can we find the instructions that Ha Mashiach gave his emissary? Luke 24:38-46 When did he appear to Kepha? The afternoon of the resurrection Who was absent when Yahushua appeared to the ten emissaries? Thomas Where did he appear to the seven emissaries? By the Sea of Galilee He told the emissaries to stay in Jerusalem until what happened? They received the Set Apart spirit What mountain was Yahushua taken up from? The Mount of Olives What Feast Day was the Set Apart Spirit given to the people in the upper room? Feast of Weeks How many people were there besides the emissaries? 120

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What does the name Kepha mean? Rock Who was the first one to tell Yahushua that he believe he was Ha Mashiach? Kepha Why did Kepha sink when he was walking on water with Yahushua? He lacked faith What miracles did he perform? Healed a paralyzed man; raised Tabitha from the dead Who followed Yahushua when he heard Yohanan say “Behold the Lamb of Yah”? Andri Who did he hear say that? Yohanan the Immerser What miraculous thing happened to Andri? A malakim released him from prison Whose parent’s name was Zebedee and Salome? Yohanan the Immerser Whose sister was Salome? Miriam, the mother of Yahushua What are some of the events that Yohanan experienced with Yahushua? When the water was turned to wine; the raising of Jairus’s daughter. Who did Yahushua tell Yohannan was a betrayer? Yehuda Which book of Scripture did Yohanan write? Revelation Where was he when he wrote it? In prison on Patmos What town was Kepha, Andri and from? Bethsaida Who did Philip tell? “We have found the One of whom Moses, in the Law and the Prophets wrote, Yahushua the son of Yoseph of Nazareth...come and see.”? Nathaniel Who did the Messenger of Yah tell to teach? The Eunich What happened when Philip finished teaching the Eunich? Yah’s Spirit teleported him away. Whose name was also Bartholomew? Nathaniel Where did Yahushua tell him he had seen him before he came to him? Under a fig tree What town was he from? Cana What did Mattiyahu to earn a living? He was a tax collector What was his father’s name? Alphaeus What was his name before it was changed to Mattitiyahu? Levi When Yahushua called Mattitiyahu to follow him what did he do? He immediately followed him. How did the Pharisee feel about Yahushua hanging out with Mattitiyahu? They did not like it. What did Yahushua tell them? I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Who was probably Mattitiyahu’s brother? James Who was referred to as the zealot? Simon Who was called doubting? Thomas Why? Because he did not believe Yahushua had risen from the dead until he saw for himself Who had been spying on Yahushua for a least 2yrs? Yehuda-Judas Who was his uncle? Caiaphas the High Priest that plotted the murder of Yahushua Ha Maschiac How did Yehuda die? He killed himself

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Sha’ul the Apostle 1. When there became a problem between the Greeks and the Yisraelites what was the solution? They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Set Apart Spirit to act as General Manager. 2. What else did Stephen do? He also performed miracles in the name of Yahushua. 3. Which synagogues did not like Stephen performing miracles? Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians and of those of Cilicia. 4. Could they win disputes with Stephen? No 5. How did they behave when they could not win? Exactly like the Pharisees. They charged him with blasphemy and sentenced him to death. 6. How did they decide to kill him? By stoning 7. What is stoning? Bury a person up to their necks and then throw stone (large stones not pebbles) at the head of the person convicted of the crime. 8. When they were killing Stephen what was he doing? Telling them of the vision he was seeing of Yahushua at the right hand of Yah. 9. What did he ask Yah as he was dying? To forgive those who were stoning him. 10. There was a Pharisee named Shaul watching. What did the people do to show their support for Shaul? The laid they coats at his feet. 11. Whose name did Sha’ul want to destroy? Yahushua Ha Machiach 12. How did Sha’ul terrify the follower of Yahushua? He went from house to house dragging out people and putting them in prison if they were followers of Yahushua. 13. What did he want to do to those that had escaped from him? He wanted to track them down and bring them back and put them in prison. 14. What happened to him when he was going to Damascus to track down Yahushua’s followers? Yahushua sent a blinding light that threw him from his horse and blinded him. 15. Then what happened? Yahushua said from heaven “Sha'ul, why do you persecute Me?” and Yahushua told him who he was. 16. Could any of the men see or hear what happened? They saw everything and they could hear but they could not understand what was being said. 17. His men lead him to a house where he stayed for 3 days until Yahushua sent a man for him. What was the name of that man? Ananias 18. What happened when Ananias came to him? He regained his sight, became filled with the Set Apart Spirit and began to go into the synagogues to teach. 19. Why did Sha’ul have to be let down in a basket from a window? Because the leadership resented him teaching and preaching Yahushua and wanted to kill him. 20. Who was the Levite that introduced Shaul to Kepha and James? Barnabus. 21. How did the emissaries feel about Sha’ul? The were afraid of him and did not trust him. 22. What did Sha’ul do when the emissaries did not readily accept him? He was recruited by Barnabus to go with him to Antioch. Which is the beginning of his ministry to the Yisraelites in scattered in the nations and the gentiles that wanted instructions.

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