SHALOM!

 

Happy Birthday World!

Happy New Year!

 

The following are the TORAH Parashot for this festive day:

Note that the TORAH Portion for the first day is about the Birth of Yitzchak/Isaac and the portion for the second day is on the Akedah, that is to say, the Binding of Yitzchak/Isaac.

The Musaf, that is to say, Additional Service includes extra benedictions added to the Amidah emphasising:

• YAHUVEH GOD’S Kingship
• the remembrance of our days

and

• the call of the shofar to usher in the Messianic Kingdom at the end of days.

 

 

The following would fall under the HAFTARAH/HAFTORAH as it is considered a WRITING:

It speaks of ABBA YAHUVEH!

Psalm 24 Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 24

A psalm by David.

¹ The earth and everything it contains are Yahweh’s.
    The world and all who live in it are his.
² He laid its foundation on the seas
    and set it firmly on the rivers.

³ Who may go up Yahweh’s mountain?
    Who may stand in his holy place?
⁴ The one who has clean hands and a pure heart
    and does not long for what is false^[a]
        or lie when he is under oath.
⁵ This person will receive a blessing from Yahweh
    and righteousness from Elohim, his savior.
⁶ This is the person who seeks him,
    who searches for the face of the El of Jacob.^[b] Selah

⁷ Lift your heads, you gates.
    Be lifted, you ancient doors,
    so that the Melek of glory may come in.

⁸ Who is this Melek of glory?
    Yahweh, strong and mighty!
    Yahweh, heroic in battle!

⁹ Lift your heads, you gates.
    Be lifted, you ancient doors,
    so that the Melek of glory may come in.

 

 

Psalm 47 Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 47

For the choir director; a psalm by Korah’s descendants.

¹ Clap your hands, all you people.
    Shout to Elohim with a loud, joyful song.
² We must fear Yahweh, Elyon.
    He is the great Melek of the whole earth.
³ He brings people under our authority
    and puts nations under our feet.
⁴ He chooses our inheritance for us,
    the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah

⁵ Elohim has gone up with a joyful shout.
    Yahweh has gone up with the sound of a ram’s horn.
⁶ Make music to praise Elohim.
    Play music for him!
    Make music to praise our Melek.
        Play music for him!
⁷ Elohim is the Melek of the whole earth.
    Make your best music for him!
⁸ Elohim rules the nations.
    Elohim sits upon his holy throne.

 

Psalm 98 Names of God Bible (NOG)

Psalm 98

A psalm.

¹ Sing a new song to Yahweh
    because he has done miraculous things.
        His right hand and his holy arm have gained victory for him.
² Yahweh has made his salvation known.
    He has uncovered his righteousness for the nations to see.
³ He has not forgotten to be merciful and faithful
    to Israel’s descendants.
        All the ends of the earth have seen how our Elohim saves them.

⁴ Shout happily to Yahweh, all the earth.
    Break out into joyful singing, and make music.
⁵ Make music to Yahweh with a lyre,
    with a lyre and the melody of a psalm,
⁶ with trumpets and the playing of a ram’s horn.
    Shout happily in the presence of the Melek, Yahweh.

⁷ Let the sea, everything in it,
    the world, and those who live in it roar like thunder.
⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands
    and the mountains sing joyfully
⁹         in Yahweh’s presence
            because he is coming to judge the earth.
                He will judge the world with justice
                    and its people with fairness.

 

Video: Sing Hallelujah, Paul Wilbur, Shalom Jerusalem

 

 

The following speaks of YAHUSHUA HA MASHIACH:

Revelation 19:11-16 Names of God Bible (NOG)

The Great Banquet of GOD

¹¹ I saw heaven standing open. There was a white horse, and its rider is named FAITHFUL and TRUE. With integrity HE judges and wages war. ¹² HIS eyes are flames of fire. On HIS head are many crowns. HE has a name written on HIM, but only HE knows what it is. ¹³ HE wears clothes dipped in blood, and HIS name is the WORD of GOD.

¹⁴ The armies of heaven, wearing pure, white linen, follow him on white horses. ¹⁵ A sharp sword comes out of HIS mouth to defeat the nations. HE will rule them with an iron scepter and tread the winepress of the fierce anger of GOD Almighty. ¹⁶ On HIS clothes and HIS thigh he has a name written: KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS.

 

 

 

 

• TORAH

 

Genesis 21:1-34 Names of God Bible (NOG)

God Provides for Hagar and Ishmael

21 Yahweh came to help Sarah and did for her what he had promised. ² So she became pregnant, and at the exact time Elohim had promised, she gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. ³ Abraham named his newborn son Isaac. ⁴ When Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as Elohim had commanded. ⁵ Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born.

⁶ Sarah said, “Elohim has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. ⁷ Who would have predicted to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet, I have given him a son in his old age.”

⁸ The child grew and was weaned. On the day Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a big feast. ⁹ Sarah saw that Abraham’s son by Hagar the Egyptian was laughing at Isaac. ¹⁰ She said to Abraham, “Get rid of this slave and her son, because this slave’s son must never share the inheritance with my son Isaac.” ¹¹ Abraham was upset by this because of his son Ishmael. ¹² But Elohim said to Abraham, “Don’t be upset about the boy and your slave. Listen to what Sarah says because through Isaac your descendants will carry on your name. ¹³ Besides, I will make the slave’s son into a nation also, because he is your child.”

¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beersheba. ¹⁵ When the water in the container was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. ¹⁶ Then she went about as far away as an arrow can be shot and sat down. She said to herself, “I don’t want to watch the boy die.” So she sat down and sobbed loudly.

¹⁷ Elohim heard the boy crying, and the Messenger of Elohim called to Hagar from heaven. “What’s the matter, Hagar?” he asked her. “Don’t be afraid! Elohim has heard the boy crying from the bushes. ¹⁸ Come on, help the boy up! Take him by the hand, because I’m going to make him into a great nation.”

¹⁹ Elohim opened her eyes. Then she saw a well. She filled the container with water and gave the boy a drink.

²⁰ Elohim was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became a skilled archer. ²¹ He lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother got him a wife from Egypt.

Abraham’s Agreement with Abimelech

²² At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “Elohim is with you in everything you do. ²³ Now, swear an oath to me here in front of Elohim that you will never cheat me, my children, or my descendants. Show me and the land where you’ve been living the same kindness that I have shown you.”

²⁴ Abraham said, “I so swear.”

²⁵ Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well which Abimelech’s servants had seized. ²⁶ Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear about it until today.”

²⁷ Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement. ²⁸ Then Abraham set apart seven female lambs from the flock. ²⁹ Abimelech asked him, “What is the meaning of these seven female lambs you have set apart?”

³⁰ Abraham answered, “Accept these lambs from me so that they may be proof^[a] that I dug this well.” ³¹ This is why that place is called Beersheba,^[b] because both of them swore an oath there.

³² After they made the treaty at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and went back to the land of the Philistines. ³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and worshiped Yahweh, El Olam, there. ³⁴ Abraham lived a long time in the land of the Philistines.

 

 

Numbers 29:1-6 Names of God Bible (NOG)

29 The Lord continued, “On the first day of the seventh month you must have a holy assembly. You must not do any regular work. It is a day for the trumpets to sound a fanfare. ² As a burnt offering, a soothing aroma to Yahweh, bring one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old lambs that have no defects. ³ Along with them bring grain offerings of flour mixed with olive oil. Bring 24 cups for each bull, 16 cups for each ram, ⁴ and 8 cups for each of the seven lambs. ⁵ Also bring one male goat as an offering for sin to make peace with the Lord. ⁶ Offer these in addition to the monthly burnt offering with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offerings with their proper grain offerings and wine offerings. They are a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Yahweh.

 

 

 

 

• HAFTARAH/HAFTORAH (includes PROPHETS or WRITINGS) – PROPHETS:

 

1 Samuel 1:1-2:10 Names of God Bible (NOG)

Samuel’s Birth

1 There was a man named Elkanah from Ramathaim Zophim in the mountains of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, grandson of Elihu, great-grandson of Tohu, whose father was Zuph from the tribe of Ephraim. ² Elkanah had two wives, one named Hannah, the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. ³ Every year this man would go from his own city to worship and sacrifice to Yahweh Tsebaoth at Shiloh. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served there as priests of Yahweh.

⁴ Whenever Elkanah offered a sacrifice, he would give portions of it to his wife Peninnah and all her sons and daughters. ⁵ He would also give one portion to Hannah because he loved her, even though Yahweh had kept her from having children. ⁶ Because Yahweh had made her unable to have children, her rival Peninnah tormented her endlessly in order to make her miserable. ⁷ This happened year after year. Whenever Hannah went to Yahweh’s house, Peninnah would make her miserable, and Hannah would cry and not eat. ⁸ Her husband Elkanah would ask her, “Hannah, why are you crying? Why haven’t you eaten? Why are you so downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?”

⁹ One day, after Hannah had something to eat and drink in Shiloh, she got up. (The priest Eli was sitting on a chair by the door of Yahweh’stemple.) ¹⁰ Though she was resentful, she prayed to Yahweh while she cried. ¹¹ She made this vow, “Yahweh Tsebaoth, if you will look at my misery, remember me, and give me a boy, then I will give him to you for as long as he lives. A razor will never be used on his head.” ¹² While Hannah was praying a long time in front of Yahweh, Eli was watching her mouth. ¹³ She was praying silently. Her voice couldn’t be heard; only her lips were moving. Eli thought she was drunk.

¹⁴ “How long are you going to stay drunk?” Eli asked her. “Get rid of your wine.”

¹⁵ Hannah responded, “No sir. I’m not drunk. I’m depressed. I’m pouring out my heart to Yahweh. ¹⁶ Don’t take me to be a good-for-nothing woman. I was praying like this because I’ve been troubled and tormented.”

¹⁷ Eli replied, “Go in peace, and may the Elohim of Israel grant your request.”

¹⁸ “May you continue to be kind to me,” she said. Then the woman went her way and ate. She was no longer sad.^[a]

¹⁹ Early in the morning Elkanah and his family got up and worshiped in front of Yahweh. Then they returned home to Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and Yahweh remembered her. ²⁰ Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel [God Hears], because she said, “I asked Yahweh for him.”

Samuel’s Childhood

²¹ To keep his vow, Elkanah and his entire household again went to offer the annual sacrifice to Yahweh. ²² But Hannah didn’t go. She told her husband, “I’ll wait until the boy is weaned. Then I’ll bring him and present him to Yahweh, and he’ll stay there permanently.”

²³ “Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Wait until you’ve weaned him. May Yahweh keep his word.” The woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

²⁴ As soon as she had weaned Samuel, she took him with her. She also brought a three-year-old bull,^[b] half a bushel of flour, and a full wineskin. She brought him to Yahweh’s house at Shiloh while the boy was still a child.

²⁵ Then the parents butchered the bull and brought the child to Eli. ²⁶ “Sir,” Hannah said, “as sure as you live, I’m the woman who stood here next to you and prayed to Yahweh. ²⁷ I prayed for this child, and Yahweh granted my request. ²⁸ In return, I am giving him to Yahweh. He will be dedicated to Yahweh for his whole life.”

And they worshiped Yahweh there.

Hannah’s Prayer

2 Hannah prayed out loud,

“My heart finds joy in Yahweh.
My head is lifted to Yahweh.
My mouth mocks my enemies.
    I rejoice because you saved me.
² There is no one holy like Yahweh.
There is no one but you, O Lord.
There is no Tsur like our Elohim.

³ “Do not boast
    or let arrogance come out of your mouth
        because Yahweh is an El of knowledge,
            and he weighs our actions.

⁴ “The bows of the warriors are broken,
    but those who stumble are armed with strength.
⁵ Those who were well-fed hire themselves out for a piece of bread,
    but those who were hungry hunger no more.
    Even the woman who was childless gives birth to seven children,
        but the mother of many children grieves all alone.

⁶ “Yahweh kills, and he gives life.
He makes people go down to the grave, and he raises them up again.
⁷ Yahweh causes poverty and grants wealth.
    He humbles people; he also promotes them.
⁸ He raises the poor from the dust.
    He lifts the needy from the trash heap
        in order to make them sit with nobles
            and even to make them inherit a glorious throne.

“The pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s.
    He has set the world on them.
⁹ He safeguards the steps of his faithful ones,
    but wicked people are silenced in darkness
        because humans cannot succeed by their own strength.

 

 

 

• BRIT CHADASHAH (a.k.a NEW COVENANT/TESTAMENT):

 

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Names of God Bible (NOG)

Comfort about Christians Who Have Died

¹³ Brothers and sisters, we don’t want you to be ignorant about those who have died. We don’t want you to grieve like other people who have no hope. ¹⁴ We believe that Yeshua died and came back to life. We also believe that, through Yeshua, God will bring back those who have died. They will come back with Yeshua. ¹⁵ We are telling you what the Lord taught. We who are still alive when the Lord comes will not go into his kingdom ahead of those who have already died. ¹⁶ The Lord will come from heaven with a command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the dead who believed in Christ will come back to life. ¹⁷ Then, together with them, we who are still alive will be taken in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In this way we will always be with the Lord. ¹⁸ So then, comfort each other with these words!

 

 

1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Names of God Bible (NOG)

⁵¹ I’m telling you a mystery. Not all of us will die, but we will all be changed. ⁵² It will happen in an instant, in a split second at the sound of the last trumpet. Indeed, that trumpet will sound, and then the dead will come back to life. They will be changed so that they can live forever. ⁵³ This body that decays must be changed into a body that cannot decay. This mortal body must be changed into a body that will live forever. ⁵⁴ When this body that decays is changed into a body that cannot decay, and this mortal body is changed into a body that will live forever, then the teaching of Scripture will come true: