Yahweh spoke the universe into existence. (Genesis 1: 3-28) He could have destroyed Egypt by simply saying the word, but He didn’t. Yahweh wanted to teach this lesson, and He told Moses to write it down as a permanent record. Today most Christians call that record the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, and Jewish people refer to it as the Torah. The central message of the Torah is this: we have One God, One Savior, and One Redeemer. His Name is Yahweh.

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 8:

1 Corinthians 8

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.
For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Yahweh, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.
But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

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The Ten Plagues

The ten plagues were a ten-part lesson designed to teach Pharaoh, everyone in Egypt including the Israelites, and the rest of the world that Yahweh is the One and only God. Additionally, they demonstrated Yahweh’s power and the utter uselessness of these Egyptian gods:

Plague 1—Hapi (thought to be the spirit of the Nile) and Khnum (thought to be the guardian of the Nile).

Plague 2—Heqt (thought to have the form of a frog) and Hapi.

Plague 3—It’s not clear in this plague which Egyptian god Yahweh is mocking.

Plague 4—Uatchit (a god thought to appear as a fly).

Plague 5—Ptah (thought to be the creator), the Apis bull (thought to be the incarnation of Ptah), and sacred cows in general.

Plague 6—Sekhmet (a goddess thought to have healing powers) and Serapis (another god thought to have healing powers).

Plague 7—Seth (thought to be the protector of crops) and Nut (thought to be the goddess of the sky).

Plague 8—Isis (thought to be the goddess of life) and Seth.

Plague 9—Ra (thought to be the sun god).

Plague 10—Osiris (thought to be the giver of life) and Pharaoh (thought to be god on earth).

(The source for the information above is Ryrie, Charles. Ryrie Study Bible, 1995, p. 101.)

Yahweh spoke the universe into existence. (Genesis 1: 3-28) He could have destroyed Egypt by simply saying the word, but He didn’t. Yahweh wanted to teach this lesson, and He told Moses to write it down as a permanent record. Today most Christians call that record the Books of Moses or the Pentateuch, and Jewish people refer to it as the Torah. The central message of the Torah is this: we have One God, One Savior, and One Redeemer. His Name is Yahweh.

Pharaoh was arrogant and stubborn. He didn’t get it, and the cost of his disobedience was costly. At the end of the lessons, Pharaoh would die. That’s exactly what will happen to anyone who fails to grasp Yahweh’s message, only the death associated with rejecting Yahweh is much worse than physical death.

Yeshua said that after physical death people who reject Him and His message will find themselves in a place where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. Take a look at these verses and see for yourself:

Matthew 8: 12—“but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13: 42—“and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13: 50—“and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 22: 13—“Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”
Matthew 24: 51—“and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 25: 30—“Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Luke 13: 28—“In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out.”

Obviously, this is an important message. In fact, it’s the most important message you will ever hear.

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News Items of Interest:

The oracle concerning Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city and will become a fallen ruin. The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be for flocks to lie down in, and there will be no one to frighten them. The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and sovereignty from Damascus and the remnant of Aram; they will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,” declares Yahweh Sabaoth. Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. It will be even like the reaper gathering the standing grain, as his arm harvests the ears, or it will be like one gleaning ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim. Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives on the topmost bough, four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree, declares Yahweh, the God of Israel. In that day man will have regard for his Maker and his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands, nor will he look to that which his fingers have made, even the Asherim and incense stands. In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest, or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; and the land will be a desolation. For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants and set them with vine slips of a strange god. In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in, and in the morning you bring your seed to blossom; but the harvest will be a heap in a day of sickliness and incurable pain. Alas, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas, and the rumbling of nations who rush on like the rumbling of mighty waters! The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, and be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, or like whirling dust before a gale. At evening time, behold, there is terror! Before morning they are no more. Such will be the portion of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us. (Isaiah 17: 1-14)

“The burden of the word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward Yahweh), and Hamath also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. For Tyre built herself a fortress and piled up silver like dust, and gold like the mire of the streets. Behold, the Lord will dispossess her and cast her wealth into the sea; and she will be consumed with fire. Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza too will writhe in great pain; also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded. Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. And I will remove their blood from their mouth and their detestable things from between their teeth. Then they also will be a remnant for our God, and be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite. But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of him who passes by and returns; and no oppressor will pass over them anymore, for now I have seen with My eyes. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; and the bow of war will be cut off. And He will speak peace to the nations; and His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.” (Zechariah 9: 1-10)

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Climate Change Update:

Science Editorial #6-2010 (Feb 6, 2010)

By S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project

[Note: This is another of a series of mini-editorials on the “junk science” influencing the global warming issue. Other topics will include the UN Environmental Program, and some individuals heavily involved in these matters.]

Junkscience #8: The “warmest year, decade, century” game

A NASA press release claims that “January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record,” citing James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt (of NASA-GISS). They are practicing what magicians call “misdirection,” designed to mislead the unsuspecting reader. Let me explain:

Let us grant that the past decade was the “warmest on record.” What exactly does this prove? Since the warming trend started well before the release of substantial amounts of greenhouse gases, the most likely cause is simply a natural recovery of the global climate from the Little Ice Age, which historical records place between around 1400 and 1800 AD. And since we are still well below the temperatures seen during the Medieval Climate Optimum (when Norsemen were able to grow crops and raise cattle in Greenland), we will likely experience even warmer decades during the 21^st century. But this is a pure guess; we still don’t understand what controls millennial climate cycles of warming – and cooling.

However, the data do not support a human influence on climate. Temperatures have not warmed (i.e., shown an upward trend) during the past decade—in spite of sharply rising levels of atmospheric CO2. The confusion comes about when people mix up temperature level (measured in deg C) with temperature trend (measured in deg C per decade). They are entirely different concepts. We currently have a record temperature level but no upward trend—and possibly even a slight cooling.

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