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Is Hebrew The Mother of All Languages?

There was once one language spoken by people, the language spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  This one language continued to be the only language until God judged humanity at the Tower of Babel, and confused the languages.  Is there a common root to them all, back to Eden?  Biblical Hebrew is the language which YHVH God used to make Himself known through the Old Testament. 

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/138823/biblical-hebrew-mother-languages-before-after-tower-babel/

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Abraham’s Well

A recent tour by Japanese Christians generated an article in the Jerusalem Post about the Beer Sheva Abraham’s Well International Visitor Center, just a 5-minute walk from Nachalat Yeshua (Yeshua’s Inheritance) Congregation, which is located on The Fathers Street (HaAvot St) in the Old City.

The well located at Tel Beer Sheva is deeper, and perhaps older than the well at the center. 

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Searching-for-God-and-water-605556

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Beer Sheva Wells Become a Lake

Very surprising news about the desert city of Beer Sheva: a new lake, 2nd largest in Israel (after the Kinneret/Sea of Galilee) and the largest artificial lake in Israel, was inaugurated a few days ago during the holiday period of Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles.  The ancient wells which our fathers Abraham and Isaac dug and re-dug to give water to drink in Beer Sheva — even down to WW1 — have been transformed into recreational lakes and pools.  Israel is a world leader in reclaiming waste water for agriculture and commercial uses. The lake is a major part of the development of the Beer Sheva River Park. 
 
 
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Racism in Most of Us – 7 Aug 2019

As I wrote in my July 1 prayer/newsletter, prophecies and current events are coming together in view on the not-so-distant horizon — something like the little cloud that Elijah the Prophet saw as the Lord promised long-awaited rain.  I fear, though, that the pride of America — and of Israel — will cause them to be caught off-guard when real trouble comes.  It will be a sudden and unexpected reality check.  I wrote that, for me, it is both exciting and frightening:  in the Spirit, exciting; in the flesh, frightening.  Thank God for His love and grace through our faith and hope in who Jesus Christ/Yeshua the Messiah is, and for what He has accomplished by His death on the cross and resurrection!

That same day, July 1, an 18 yr-old Ethiopian boy was killed by an off-duty policeman in the Haifa area during a street fight.  Continue reading “Racism in Most of Us – 7 Aug 2019”

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Once Upon A Time in Beer Sheva

Call it what you will – Be’er Sheva, Beersheva, Beersheba, Birüsseb, or Bir Seb’a – it is the “Capital of the Negev.”

Beersheva is the largest city in the Negev desert, the center of the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Israel and the eighth most populous Israeli city, boasting a world-class university, hospital and cyber research center of international repute.

You can read the full and interesting article here about the early years of the city during the formation of the modern State of Israel:
https://www.israel21c.org/once-upon-a-time-in-beersheva/

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Chewing the Cud – 24 Mar 2019

Rain is expected again today and tomorrow, which may finish off the season.  Other countries are having massive flooding or else drought.  “Normal” becomes a convenient snare, yet we all, I presume, like it when things are “normal”.  Unfortunately, “normal” is not what it used to be — not only in nature, but also in morals.  When God’s Word is marginalized, or otherwise ignored or disbelieved, then ‘abnormal’ will rush in and push ‘normal’ out!

We have begun a series in Yeshua’s Inheritance Cong (Nachalat Yeshua) on the first 12 chapters of Genesis, which are the seed-bed and roots of our faith, and for all the rest of this world’s history.  When these chapters, beginning from the Beginning, are made irrelevant as regards the faith once-for-all delivered to the saints, then at worst we become part of the falling away leading up to the revelation of the antichrist, or else we are becoming and encouraging others to become ‘doubting Thomases’, who needed proof, evidence, that he would be satisfied with, before he would believe not only what he had heard from being with Yeshua for 3 1/2 years, but what he also heard from the other believers who actually saw the Lord after His resurrection.  “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  Faith always believes God; He will always be proven right; and not merely right, but wise in His rightness. By acquiescing to the wisdom of this world, we become enablers of the increasingly rapid slide into darkness and chaos.  Jesus told us that “the night is coming, when no one can work”.  God will raise up a bulwark against the rising flood, but the damage will be great.

This year, Purim — with its Full Moon — began on the same evening as the beginning of Spring; it was the first time since 2000, and it will not happen again until 2030.  This Purim much attention was drawn to the continuing hostility of Iran (Persia) towards the Jews, especially Israel.  The law of the Persians can not be changed, it is written for us in the Book of Esther.  So neither can the law that was passed to give the Jews the liberty to defend themselves from those of the Persian Empire who sought their destruction.  And, praise God, HIS Law can not be changed which promises His direct intervention at the time of the end to once-and-for-all deliver and save His covenanted people from their sins!  For it is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of YHVH!  When you consider it, this reliance on one’s own — or one’s nation’s own — power and might to overcome victoriously is no different than the evolutionary world-view and explanation of the survival of the fittest, and might makes right.  No, the meek shall inherit the Earth, and the righteous, says the Lord.

We had a very nice Purim party for the children of our congregation, along with children from Arad, and also from other congregations nearer to us.  The lessons of Purim should not be lost on this generation, but we want them to know that it was God, working providentially ‘behind the scenes’, who saw to it that those who acted on behalf of His people overcame the age-old antisemitism, and that those who acted actively and unrepentantly to stir up the irrational hatred were found out and defeated.  The devil is still doing the same things today to deceive and lie about Jesus, about Israel, about New Covenant faith in Jesus, but the day of YHVH will come, and the righteousness of GOD will be vindicated!  Even so, come, Lord Jesus!