Israel's Transformation: Red Sea of Flowers

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5. In a few weeks, Israel's south will be transformed into a beautiful red sea of ​​flowers of countless anemones. The north-western Negev area surrounding Gaza is especially known for this phenomenon. Far too much of the nature in this area has fallen victim to the fire-kite terrorism that originated from Gaza in the last year. But nature and life are stronger than the will of our enemies. "No fire-kite can completely destroy what God has created," said Ilan of Sederot. "Flowers are beginning to grow again and people have helped us through this."

7. Life finds a way.

9. מַתִּתְיָהוּ Mattityahu • (Matthew) 26:26-29

10. Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:26 • כַּאֲשֶׁר אָכְלוּ לָקַח יֵשׁוּעַ לֶחֶם, בֵּרֵךְ וּבָצַע וְנָתַן לַתַּלְמִידִים בְּאָמְרוֹ: ”קְחוּ וְאִכְלוּ, זֶה גּוּפִי.“ • While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, “Take! Eat! This is my body!”

11. Shmot/Ex 24.8-9Then Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which Adoni has cut with you, in agreement with all these words. Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu and seventy of the leaders went up; and they saw the God of Isra’el.

12. Shmot /Ex 24.10-11 Under his feet was something like a sapphire stone pavement as clear as the sky itself. He did not reach out his hand against these notables of Isra’el; on the contrary, they saw God, even as they were eating and drinking.

13. Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:21 • וְכַאֲשֶׁר אָכְלוּ אָמַר: ”אָמֵן אוֹמֵר אֲנִי לָכֶם, אֶחָד מִכֶּם יַסְגִּירֵנִי.“ • And as they were eating, he said, “Yes, I tell you that one of you is going to betray me.”

14. Order of the modern Passover Seder Haggadah [booklet], parts of it possibly as old as 200 C.E. Something like this in Yeshua’s day and Passover Seder.

15. First wine cup Kiddush Handwashing [Footwashing?] Dip in salt water Break middle matzah Tell the story with 4 Questions Second cup and Diyaynu song Second handwashing

16. Eat matzah Eating  maror Eating matzo and maror Holiday meal

17. Mt.26.20-21When evening came, Yeshua reclined with the twelve talmidim;  [no ten Haggadah activities] and as they were eating, he said, “Yes, I tell you that one of you is going to betray me.”

18. Visualize: evening moved quickly, not like typical modern Seder

19. Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:26 • כַּאֲשֶׁר אָכְלוּ לָקַח יֵשׁוּעַ לֶחֶם, בֵּרֵךְ וּבָצַע וְנָתַן לַתַּלְמִידִים בְּאָמְרוֹ: ”קְחוּ וְאִכְלוּ, זֶה גּוּפִי.“ • While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, “Take! Eat! This is my body!”

20. Statement would be horrifying. Vayikra/lev 3.17It is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations wherever you live that you will eat neither fat nor blood.’”

21. Kosher meat is thoroughly bled. Slaughter must be done by means of a swift, smooth cut of a sharp knife whose blade is free of any dent or imperfection. Then meat is soaked in salt [or Kefir] to extract remaining blood.

22. Yokhanan 6.52-59 The Judeans disputed with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Then Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 

23. Yokhanan 6.52-59Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life — that is, I will raise him up on the Last Day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I live in him.

24. Yokhanan 6.52-59Just as the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father, so also whoever eats me will live through me. So this is the bread that has come down from heaven — it is not like the bread the fathers ate; they’re dead,

25. Yokhanan 6.52-59but whoever eats this bread will live forever!” He said these things as he was teaching in a synagogue in K’far-Nachum.

26. Synagogue in K’far-Nachum

28. Yn 6.66-71 From this time, many of His disciples left and quit walking with Him. Yeshua said to the Twelve, “Don’t you want to leave too?” Shim‘onKefa answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the word of eternal life. We have trusted, and we know that you are the Holy One of God.” 

30. Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:26 • כַּאֲשֶׁר אָכְלוּ לָקַח יֵשׁוּעַ לֶחֶם, בֵּרֵךְ וּבָצַע וְנָתַן לַתַּלְמִידִים בְּאָמְרוֹ: ”קְחוּ וְאִכְלוּ, זֶה גּוּפִי.“ • While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, “Take! Eat! This is my body!”

31. Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:27 • לָקַח אֶת הַכּוֹס, בֵּרֵךְ וְנָתַן לָהֶם בְּאָמְרוֹ: ”שְׁתוּ מִמֶּנָּה כֻּלְּכֶם, • Also he took a cup of wine, made the b’rakhah, and gave it to them, saying, “All of you, drink from it!

32. Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:28 • כִּי זֶה דָּמִי, דַּם הַבְּרִית [הַחֲדָשָּׁה] הַנִּשְׁפָּךְבְּעַד רַבִּים לִסְלִיחַת חֲטָאִים • For this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the removal of sins. • [Some mss. say: new covenant.]

33. Lk 24.20 He took the cup after the meal [cup of redemption], saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

34. Similarly: Shmot/Ex 24.8Then Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which Adoni has cut with you, in agreement with all these words.

35. What did Messiah mean by Covenant? Hugely significant word. Nine points, in Messiah’s mind!

36. 1. Start: How is “covenant” or “New Covenant” understood in the faith world today? Typical example of an Israel friendly, Messianic friendly evangelical congregation with Covenant in their name identity...

39. For Covenant people, our essential beliefs are summed up in what we call Covenant Affirmations: We affirm the centrality of the word of God. We affirm the necessity of the new birth. We affirm a commitment to the whole mission of believers.

40. We affirm the congregation as a fellowship of believers. We affirm a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. We affirm the reality of freedom in Messiah. There is no reference here to covenant. There are EIGHT covenants in scripture!

41. 2. Word study בְּרִיתשֵם נ’ brit noun fem (international law) treaty; alliance, covenant, (Jewish ritual)  circumcision The United States, in modern Hebrew, is “ArtsotHaBrit” Lands of the covenant. אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית

42. 3. A covenant is not a contract A contract is a mutual obligation, can be broken if one party fails. A covenant is a promise, binding, independent of the other party, usually with a shared meal.

43. 4. A covenant is not a book. Dan Gruber: The Hebrew word Brit appears about 300x in the Tanakh. It always refers to a relational covenant, never to a set of books or writings.

44. Therefore: [Not Old Testament, Old Covenant] Hebrew scriptures, or Tanakh: acronym for Torah, Neviim, K’tuvim: Torah, Prophets, Writings

45. Therefore: [Not New Testament, New Covenant] Messianic Scriptures, or [Dan Gruber]במשיחBaMashiakh: Bsorot, MaaseiHaShalikhim, Yediot, Khazon, or

46. [Blaine Robison]בּסח Beh-sekh: Besorotבּשׂוֹרה, lit. "good news" for Matthew—Acts; Sepharimספרים, "letters"), for Romans—Judah; Khezyōnōtחזינוֹת Revelation

47. Summary: [Not New Testament, New Covenant] Messianic Scriptures, or BaMashiakh, or Beh-sekh

48. 5. What are the covenants in scripture?