Shalom,
Just to keep everyone up to date with upcoming activities...
This Sabbath the 14th of November at 10am we are meeting at the same home, 99 Rolling Hills Rd, for Sabbath praise study and worship and potluck lunch, so bring some food, we will be fellowshipping in the afternoon, saying a special goodbye to Nick and Dina, and Nick will be taking our study. Please bring along photos of yourselves to put in a photo collage we will give as a goodbye gift.
Thought: We read in Malachi 4 that Elijah turns the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. As Yahshua was a Jew and he said to the samaritan woman, salvation is of the Jews, we learn from Judaism, his religion, in the law and the prophets that the fathers and mothers taught their children implicitly in the law of God. The fathers even today, arrive home at 6 and teach their children instruction in the law of God. The young men from the age of 12 were specially instructed by the men (mentored) in the law of God, and they were to teach from the age of maturity, being the age of 30. This was mirrored in the life of the Messiah, at his 12th year, engaging with the rabbis in the temple and his baptism of water and spirit at the age of 30 beginning his teaching ministry. What a different society it would be if these principles were upheld in families and in YHWH's assemblies? The teaching role of the fathers, and the support of the men to teach.
Does that mean women have no voice? I was surprised when challenged on Paul's statement that women are to keep quiet in churches 'as also saith the law', when I searched into it that there is no torah law of Moses or in the prophets of women being quiet in church! Miriam and Huldah the prophetess, and Deborah all spoke in the assembly, Deborah judging Israel, and Huldah speaking under inspiration as a prophetess at the College in Jerusalem. But there are many laws in the Jewish oral law, the talmud, which Yahshua condemned as traditions of men making void the commandments of God, commanding women to be silent. This law was not a law of Moses but a law of the Jewish talmud, forbidden by yahshua...it is widely considered to be a quote or an interpolation but not one of Paul's teachings as he said, ye are all one in Yahshua Mashiyach. As a result in Judaism today the women are confined upstairs where they are not allowed to speak. God has promised in Joel to pour out his spirit on women and children and on all flesh. May we live to see and bring about this day.
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