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Blot Out Amalek | Remembering Deuteronomy’s Command (Sept 12) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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4, 3, 2, 1. In Deuteronomy
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25, verse 17, it is written, remember what
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Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,
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how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers
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at your rear, when you were tired and hungry, and he did not
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fear God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord
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your God has given you rest from your enemies all around in the land which
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the Lord your God is giving you to possess, as an inheritance,
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that you will blot out the remembrance
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of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
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Why did God want the children of Israel to blot out
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the remembrance of Amalek? Who are the Amalekites?
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Does the spirit of Amalek exist today?
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Listen in as we unpack this.
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Welcome to the Daily Audio Torah. Today is September
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12th. Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible in
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one year. This week we are reading from the Israel
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Bible for the Old Testament and from the King James for the New Testament.
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Deuteronomy 25:1-19.
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When there is a dispute between men and they go to law and and a
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decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in
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the wrong.
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If the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have
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him lie down and be given lashes in his presence by count as
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his guilt warrants. He may be given up to 40 lashes
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but not more, lest being flogged further to
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excess your brother be degraded before your eyes.
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You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.
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When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no
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son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married to a
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stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother shall
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unite with her. He shall take her as his wife and
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perform the lover's duty. The first son that she
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bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted
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out in Israel.
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But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, his brother's widow
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shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, my husband's brother
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refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother. He will not
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perform the duty of a levir. The elders of his
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town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he
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insists, saying, I do not want to marry her, his brother's
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widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders pull
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the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration:
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Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house.
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And he shall go in Israel by the name of the family of the unsandaled
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one. If 2 men get into a fight with each other,
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and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist,
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and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals, you shall
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cut off her hand. Show no pity. You shall not have in
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your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller.
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You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and
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a smaller. You must have completely honest weights
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and completely honest measures if you are to
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endure long on the soil that Hashem your God is giving you.
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For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly,
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is abhorrent to Hashem your God. Remember what Amalek
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did to you on your journey after you left Egypt, how undeterred
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by fear of Hashem he surprised you on the march when you were
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famished and weary and cut down all the stragglers in
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your rear. Therefore, when Hashem your God grants you
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safety from all your enemies around you in the land that Hashem your
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God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot
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out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.
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Isaiah 10:1-11:16.
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Ha! Those who write out evil writs and compose iniquitous
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documents to subvert the cause of the poor, to rob
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of their rights the needy of my people, that widows may be
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their spoil and fatherless children their booty.
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What will you do on the day of punishment when the calamity comes from
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afar? To whom will you flee for help? And how will you save
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your carcasses from collapsing under fellow prisoners, from falling
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beneath the slain? Yet his anger has not turned
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back, and his arm is outstretched still. Ha!
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Assyria, rod of my anger, in whose hand
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as a staff is my fury! I send him against
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an ungodly nation. I charge him against a people that provokes
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me to take its spoil and to seize its booty and to make it a
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thing trampled like the mire of the streets. But he
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has evil plans. His mind harbors evil designs,
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for he means to destroy, to wipe out nations, not a few.
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For he thinks, after all, I have kings as my captains.
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Was Calneh any different from Carchemish, or Hamath
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from Arpad, or Shomron from Damascus?
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Since I was able to seize the insignificant kingdoms whose
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images exceeded Jerusalem's and Shomron's, shall I not
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do to Jerusalem and her images what I did to Shomron
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and her idols? But when my Lord has carried
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out all his purpose on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
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He will punish the majestic pride and overbearing arrogance of
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the king of Assyria. For he thought, by the might
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of my hand have I wrought it, by my skill, for I
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am clever. I have erased the borders of
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peoples. I have plundered their treasures and exiled their
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vast populations. I was able to seize like
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a nest the wealth of the peoples. As one gathers
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abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the earth. Nothing so much as
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flapped a wing or opened a mouth to peep. Does an axe
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boast over him who hews with it, or a saw magnify itself
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above him who wields it? As though the rod raised him
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who lifts it, as though the staff lifted the man!
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Assuredly the Sovereign Lord of hosts will send a wasting away
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in its fatness, and under its body shall burn a burning like
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that of fire, destroying frame and flesh. It shall be
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like a sick man who pines away. The light
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of Israel will be fire, and its Holy One flame. It will burn
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and consume its thorns and its thistles in a single day,
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and the mass of its scrub and its farmland.
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What trees remain of its scrub shall be so few that a boy may
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record them. And in that day, the remnant of
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Israel and the escaped of the house of Jacob shall lean no more upon
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him that beats it, but shall lean sincerely on Hashem,
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the Holy One of Israel. Only a remnant shall return,
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only a remnant of Jacob to mighty Hashem.
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Even if your people, O Israel, should be as the sands of the sea,
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only a remnant of it shall return. Destruction is decreed,
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retribution comes like a flood, for my Lord God of
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hosts is carrying out a decree of destruction upon all the land.
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Assuredly, thus said my Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwells
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in Zion, have no fear of Assyria who beats
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you with a rod and wields his staff over you as did the
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Egyptians.
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For very soon my wrath will have spent itself and my anger
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that has bent on wasting them.
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The Lord of hosts, Yahweh Sabaoth, will brandish a scourge
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over him as when he beat Midian at the Rock of Oreb,
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and will wield his staff as he did over the Egyptians by
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the sea. And in that day his burden shall drop from your back and
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his yoke from your neck. The yoke shall be destroyed because of
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fatness. He advanced upon Aiath, he proceeded to Migron,
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At Micmas he deposited his baggage. They made the
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crossing. Geba is to be our night quarters.
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Rama was alarmed. Geba of Shaul took to flight.
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Give a shrill cry, O Baal-Gelim! Hearken,
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Lasha! Take up the cry, Anathoth!
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Madmina ran away. The dwellers of Gebim sought refuge.
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This same day at Nob he shall stand and wave his hand,
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O Mount of fair Zion! O hill of Jerusalem!
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Lo, the Sovereign Lord of Hosts will hew off tree crowns with an
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axe. The tall ones shall be felled, the lofty ones cut
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down. The thickets of the forest shall be hacked away with iron,
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and the Lebanon trees shall fall in their majesty.
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But a shoot shall grow out of the stump of Yishai,
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a twig shall sprout from his stock. The Spirit of Hashem
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shall alight upon him, a spirit of wisdom and insight, a spirit
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of counsel and valor, a spirit of devotion and reverence for Hashem.
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He shall sense the truth by his reverence for Hashem. He shall
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not judge by what his eyes behold, nor decide by what his ears
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perceive. Thus he shall judge the poor with equity
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and decide with justice for the lowly of the land.
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He shall strike down a land with the rod of his mouth and slay the
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wicked. With the breath of his lips. Justice shall be
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the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his waist.
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The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard lie down with the
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kid, the calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together,
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with a little boy to herd them. The cow and the bear shall graze,
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their young shall lie down together, and the lion,
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like the ox, shall eat straw. A babe shall play
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over a viper's hole and an infant pass his hand over
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an adder's den. In all of my sacred mount, nothing evil
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or vile shall be done, for the land shall be filled with devotion
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to Hashem as water covers
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the sea. In that day, the stock of Ishshai
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that has remained standing shall become a standard to peoples.
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Nations shall seek his counsel, and his abode shall be honored.
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In that day, my Lord will apply his hand again to redeeming the other
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part of his people from Assyria, as also from Egypt,
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Pathros, Nubia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
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and the coastlands. He will hold up a signal to
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the nations and assemble the banished of Israel and gather
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the dispersed of Judah from the 4 corners
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of the earth.
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Then Ephraim's envy shall cease and Judah's
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harassment shall end. Ephraim shall not envy Judah
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and Judah shall not harass Ephraim. They shall pounce
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on the back of Philistia to the west and together plunder the peoples of
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the east. Edom and Moab shall be subject to them and the children
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of Ammon shall obey them. Hashem will dry up the
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tongue of the Egyptian Sea. He will raise His hand over
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the Euphrates with the might of His wind and break it into 7 rivers
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so that it can be trodden dryshod. Thus there
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shall be a highway for the other part of His people out of
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Assyria, such as there was for Israel
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when it left the land of Egypt.
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2 Corinthians 12:11-21.
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I, Paul, have become a fool in glorifying you have
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compelled me, for I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing am
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I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.
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Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you on all patience,
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in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. For what is
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it wherein you were inferior to other
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churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome
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to you? Forgive me this wrong. Behold, the 3rd
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time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome
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to you, for I seek not yours but you. For the children
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ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the
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children. And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you,
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though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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But be it so, I did not burden you.
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Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
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Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom
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I sent to you? I desired Titus, and with
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him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you?
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Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the
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same steps? Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to
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you? We speak before God in Christ, but we
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do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
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For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you
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such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as you
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would not. Lest there be debates, envyings,
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wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and tumults.
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And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you,
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and that I shall bewail many which have sinned again already and
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have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and
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lasciviousness which they have committed.
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Psalm 56:1-13.
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Be merciful unto me, O God, for the man would swallow me up.
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He fighting daily oppresses me.
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My enemies would daily swallow me up, for they be many
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that fight against me. O Most High, what time I am
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afraid, I will trust in you. In God
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I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust.
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I will not fear what flesh can do to me. Every day they
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wrest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark
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my steps when they wait for my soul. Shall they escape my iniquity?
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In your anger cast down the people, O God. You tell
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my wanderings You put my tears into your bottle.
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Are they not in your book? When I cry unto you,
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then shall my enemies turn back. This I know, for God is
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for me. In God will I praise his word.
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In the Lord I will praise his word. In God I
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have put my trust. I will not be afraid what man can do
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to me. Your vows are upon me, O God. I will
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render praises unto you. For you have delivered my soul
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from death. Will you not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before
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God in the light of the living?
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Proverbs 23:6-8.
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Eat not the bread of him that has an evil eye,
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neither desire his dainty meats. For as he
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thinks in his heart, so is he. Eat and drink says
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he to you, but his heart is not with you, the morsel
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which you have eaten shall vomit up and lose your sweet words.
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I'd like to speak to you today from our reading from Deuteronomy chapter 25,
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and then we're going to look into Isaiah chapter 11.
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And in Deuteronomy chapter 25,
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verse 19, It is written, therefore, when Hashem
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your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you
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in the land that Hashem your God is giving you as a hereditary
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portion, you shall blot out the memory
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of Amalek from under heaven. Do not
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forget. The Israel Bible Commentary to this
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verse reads as follows: One of the 3 commandments
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that the people of Israel are to fulfill after successfully conquering the land
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of Israel is the obliteration of the Amalekites.
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The Amalekites are descendants of Esau and were the first to
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attack the children of Israel after the Exodus from Egypt.
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Amalek is more than just a nation. It represents an ideology
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antithetical to that of Israel— absolute
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denial of godliness in this world and a total lack
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of morality. For this reason, once the land
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is conquered and the people of Israel are settled, Israel was required
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to wage war against Amalek and against their system
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of belief. Now I want to add to that, there is a passage
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in Exodus where Moses is lifting up his arms and Israel,
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the children of Israel, are fighting in a battle against Amalek.
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And as long as his arms are lifted up, Israel prevails.
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But as soon as his arms begin to droop, Israel begins to
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lose the battle. So 2 people come alongside,
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Aaron and Hur, beside him, and they hold up
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his arms. Amalek is absolutely—
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it's a spiritual presence. The descendants of
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Amalek, uh, later on we have— well,
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Amalek came from Esau. Esau hates Jacob, and he
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absolutely detests his brother, wants to murder him and kill him.
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And so Amalek is a descendant of Esau,
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and then Amalek gives rise to King Agag,
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and he is an Amalekite. And Saul is tasked
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to take out all the Amalekites and not leave a single one
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of them alive. Well, Saul fails this mission, and he allows
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King Agag to live. And because of that,
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God takes away the kingship away from Saul.
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But Agag, before he later dies,
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does continue to have children.
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And a couple of generations later, we have Haman,
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Haman the Agagite. He's a descendant of King Agag.
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And Haman has a genocidal hatred
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towards the Jewish people, and he issues the edict
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that all the Jews on a certain day were to be slaughtered,
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massacred, killed, genocided. And so
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the spirit of Amalek is very much alive today.
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How do you recognize it? Any group or entity
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that hates Israel, that hates the Jewish people,
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that wants to wipe the Jewish people off the map,
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they, I would say, are exhibiting the
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characteristics of Amalek. Of the spirit of
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Amalek. So the spirit of Amalek is opposed
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to the children of Israel, and the spirit of Amalek is opposed
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to the God of Israel. I would include Iran,
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the government of Iran, who wants to wipe Israel off the map,
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Hamas, Hezbollah, and the extreme woke
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leftists who are marching in the streets in support
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of Hamas and in support of the murderous October
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7th massacre that they did against the Jewish people. So Amalek,
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sadly, the spirit of Amalek is very much alive and
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well today, and they are opposed to the children of Israel
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and opposed to the God of Israel.
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Please keep Israel in your prayers
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that they would finish the war against Hamas
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in the Gaza Strip, and that they would be able to transition
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to the day after. I would like to see
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them declare sovereignty and annex the land and resettle it because
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it is a part of the land
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grant inheritance that God gave to the Jewish people.
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And now let's turn to Isaiah chapter 11, and I want to
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focus in on verse 12 where it is written,
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He will hold up a signal or an ensign,
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like a flag or a banner, to the nations,
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and assemble the banished of Israel, and gather
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the dispersed of Judah from the 4 corners of
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the earth. The Israel Bible Commentary to this verse reads
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as follows: For thousands of years,
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Jews read these prophecies and believed them,
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yet wondered how and when they would actually take place
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During the past century, Jews have returned to the Land of Israel
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from literally all parts of the earth, from Asia
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and Russia, Europe, North and South America, Australia, and New
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Zealand. This section was chosen as the
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Haftarah portion to be read on Israel's Independence Day,
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expressing the hope and belief that the founding of
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the State of Israel is the beginning of the fulfillment
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of these prophecies. And with that,
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we will close, and I will see you tomorrow. Shalom.
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Yeah, yeah,
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yeah.
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The Aaronic Blessing from Numbers chapter 6,
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24 to 26.
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Adonai bless you and keep you.
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Adonai make his face to shine upon you and
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be gracious to you. Adonai lift up his countenance
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upon you and give you peace.