Noah was the only righteous person in his generation. Yahweh made a covenant with him and his family when He destroyed every living creature on earth with the flood. Genesis 6: 8 says, “Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.” The Hebrew word translated as “favor” in this verse is “chen”. It means “grace,” or the “unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one.” Genesis 6: 8 is the first verse in the Bible that mentions grace. Understanding grace is essential in helping us grasp what Yahweh did for us through the Messiah. In a nutshell, grace means that our redemption and salvation are not dependent on anything we have done, will do, or even can do. They are gifts from Yahweh that are based on His righteousness, not ours.

“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 James 5:

James 5

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of Yahweh Sabaoth.
You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.
Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of Yahweh. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.
As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of Yahweh.
We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of Yahweh’s dealings, that Yahweh is full of compassion and is merciful.
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.
Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.
Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

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Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

Noah was the only righteous person in his generation. Yahweh made a covenant with him and his family when He destroyed every living creature on earth with the flood. Genesis 6: 8 says, “Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.” The Hebrew word translated as “favor” in this verse is “chen”. It means “grace,” or the “unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one.”

Genesis 6: 8 is the first verse in the Bible that mentions grace. Understanding grace is essential in helping us grasp what Yahweh did for us through the Messiah. In a nutshell, grace means that our redemption and salvation are not dependent on anything we have done, will do, or even can do. They are gifts from Yahweh that are based on His righteousness, not ours.

Yahweh told Noah to build an ark, which took more than 100 years to complete, and he obeyed Yahweh. This may not sound like a big deal, but it was. During Noah’s day, there was no rain. A mist rose from the ground every day and watered the earth (Genesis 2: 6), so flooding was unheard of.

Building a huge boat on dry land made no sense to Noah’s neighbors. For many decades, he endured their ridicule as he worked diligently to obey Yahweh’s command. When the rain came, Noah, his family, and the animals Yahweh sent to him entered the ark, and Yahweh shut the door behind them. Literally, He sealed them in the ark and saved them. Their salvation was entirely dependent on Yahweh’s grace since there was no way Noah could have known what would happen more than 100 years after Yahweh told him to build the ark.

After the flood, Yahweh made this promise:

“I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.” (Genesis 8: 21)

Then Yahweh established a covenant between Himself and everything He created:

“‘Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.’ God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations. I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.’” (Genesis 9: 9-13)

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: From the article above—“The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.” HalleluYah! Yahweh works in mysterious ways.

Indiana “moderately” interesting

Commonsense: From the article above—“The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll put disapproval of Congress at 71 percent. That is not a whole lot of love for anyone in this town, regardless of political persuasion. Bayh’s consistent message has been that moderates should have room at the table but don’t, and plenty of House members whisper the same thing along Capitol halls.” Be skeptical. At this point, members of Congress will do and say just about anything they can think of to curry your favor. Don’t be deceived. Desperate people do and say desperate things. Despite their attempts at persona makeovers, they are the same people who created this mess. It’s time for an overhaul.

Why the left despises personal responsibility

Commonsense: Don’t be deceived. This is not a “left or right”, “liberal or conservative”, problem. The left and right, Republicans and Democrats, in Congress have acted irresponsibly. You need to look through the fog and stage props and zero in on the facts. As they say, facts are stubborn things. Don’t let your political leanings cause you to make the same mistakes voters in this country have been making for years. Fancy words are not substitutes for voting records.

Commonsense: From the article above—“On November 1, 1995, just three days before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, Avner asked him why he made the Oslo agreement deal with Yasir Arafat. Rabin’s answer is extremely close to my own analysis fifteen years later: that the great issue of this era in the Middle East is the battle of nationalists versus Islamists; that this factor offered a chance to reduce or eliminate the Arab-Israeli conflict; but that if the Islamists won things would be much worse.”

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