On reading the chapter and considering the contents, I decided to share it with you. I consider these to be the keys to the kingdom because they give us a good sound base to build our lives. Keeping them would bring peace and harmony.
This is from the Complete Jewish Bible-OE
1 Then Moshe called to all Isra'el and said to them, "Listen, Isra'el, to the laws and rulings which I am announcing in your hearing today, so that you will learn them and take care to obey them. 2 ADONAI our God made a covenant with us at Horev. 3 ADONAI did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us -with us, who are all of us here alive today. 4 ADONAI spoke with you face to face from the fire on the mountain. 5 At that time I stood between ADONAI and you in order to tell you what ADONAI was saying; because, on account of the fire, you were afraid and wouldn't go up onto the mountain.
He said,
1. (6) "'I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves. * 1.
1. * Slaves to drink, abusive behaviour patterns, smoking, drugs, fashion, one up man-ship. Even emotional and mental torment you are a slave to depression - I could go on but when you consider them in the light of God saying that He has brought the captive out of Egypt we too have had our own form of Egypt in our own lives in one way or another.
So to give thanks to God and recognise that only He can truly bring us out of our slavery - what ever it may be - He is the only power in the universe that can do it. Going to Psychiatrists can only give you partial relief, coming to God for His releasing balm is far more effective - I know from experience that this is the case.
2. (7)"'You are to have no other gods before me. 8 You are not to make for yourselves a carved image or any kind of representation of anything in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the water below the shoreline - 9 you are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, ADONAI your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents, also the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but displaying grace to the thousandth generation of those who love me and obey my mitzvot. *2
2. * Consider what you give your valuable time to, whether it be shopping, eating, popstar worship, idolising a fellow human being - hero worship -
You can see evidence of this kind of carved imagery in and around "churches", statues in parks, totem poles, even the mascots of games are a form of idolatry, even the humble "christmas tree" which is a pagan symbol and is spoken about in Jeremiah 10 very clearly describes a "christmas tree" decked out in gold and silver - has its roots in buckets and not in the ground - needs to be carried about. Each time you put a present under the tree you are bowing down to it. Each time you get excited about dressing the tree you are showing it reverence as is it were something special - a few years ago I finally came to realise after reading Jeremiah and really considering what it said and what Gods commandments said it was very clear that I did not wish to be partaker of its ritual any more. I used to love doing up my tree and enjoyed all the celebrations with it, however when I really started to study the scriptures and realised that it has no - and I mean no bearing on what happened to Gods Word - except God making it clear that it is a pagan worship - how can we seriously believe that we are being obedient to God if we insist on continuing this "tradition" believing that it is ok, Including the so called celebration of christs Birth - there is nothing in the scriptures to say he was born in December - in fact the "church" fathers decided to start the tradition in the hope of winning the souls of pagans who celebrate solstice and the rebirth of year by celebrating the green man - who is supposed to be the god of the earth - to bring forth fertility, and prosperity, and good harvests.
For some strange reason the so called church fathers thought that they were winning souls, in fact they have made the whole experience of Christ's birth a mockery - to cap it all not only does it make a mockery of the coming of the messiah it also has lost all the so called meaning at all because the whole season is dedicated to making money - Mammon is in control at this time of the year along with Bacchus the gods of the earth who bring about revelry and violence. Each year the police are called out on numerous occasions to violent eruptions in homes during the so called festive season - . Usually ending up with families destroyed through the so called festivities - Debt is mounted upon the people because they are pursuing the best gift and trying to out do one another on their festive scenes and lights. To me it is madness and a complete lack of understanding - this is total brainwashing - and to encourage children to believe in a Santa Claus - well lets see - Santa = Satan
Claus - Hands - Claws - grabbing - can you see what I am getting at, the world is completey brainwashed and each time you consider the "season to be jolly" you only need to see some of the hospital wards filled with people who are "enjoying the season to be jolly" with their abusive use of alchol.
I am not a kill joy, I praise God for the Birth of His precious son, I praise God for the victory that we have won when Christ came and took the keys of the Kingdom and gave them to Peter and told them to go out into the world and preach the Gospel of Good News - the new is that we can be free from slavery and bondage, we are free to worship the God of the Universe our creator - why would you want anything less.
For me, the time for Christ's birth makes more sense in terms of Gods calender - around the day of atonement when the High Priest goes before God for the deliverance of the People from sin and to have their sins forgiven. This to me makes much more sense - as He came for exactly that purpose.
3. (11) "'You are not to misuse the name of ADONAI your God, because ADONAI will not leave unpunished someone who misuses his name. 3*
3* Each time you use the Lords name in a swear - exclamation of frustration you are taking Gods name in vain. Are you truly aware that there is POWER in the Name of Yeshua - remember it is by His name the dead are raised, the sick are healed and the broken hearted are healed. It is at His name that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that He is Lord. So it makes sense to be careful when you use the Name of the Lord because He does have the Power to destroy and heal.
4. (12) "'Observe the day of Shabbat, to set it apart as holy, as ADONAI your God ordered you to do. 13 You have six days to labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a Shabbat for ADONAI your God. On it you are not to do any kind of work - not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your ox, your donkey or any of your other livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property - so that your male and female servants can rest just as you do. 15 You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and ADONAI your God brought you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore ADONAI your God has ordered you to keep the day of Shabbat. 4*
4* Let us for one moment consider this, when we look at our daily lives there are many times I have heard "there are just not enough hours in the day for me to do all that I have to do" God gave us the hours in the day, when we plan our days with God then there is enough time to do all things, by putting Him first, Giving God time at the beginning of each day you will be amazed at just how much you can accomplish because He leads you to what is important. Each day when you sit down and eat and give thanks for the food that God has provided - even though you may have made it, bought the food - He has given it to you - because in fhe first place He put the seeds in the ground initially, and with the farmers working the land and keeping the animals each has its part to play in Gods plan. He planned the seasons, the time for rains and dryness - during the long summer days when there is little rain the plants are busy doing their thing - yet if there is no rain then the food does not grow and there is shortage, so God gives everything a season and time for planting, a time for reaping and a time to enjoy the fruits of your labour - God gave us all the time that is required to live the life in Gods way. Mankind has become so abusive to themselves - families suffer because people "do not have time" to be with them - families are suffering all around the world because people are not giving God time - He took time out on the 7th day for a rest and he has given it to us as a day of rest and enjoyment of our families and to enjoy the works of God as we take time to go for a walk with our families - play a game of ball in the garden with your children, listen to your families chatting about their days, and weeks. Yet more and more families are breaking up because people just do not take the "time to listen, to rest, to enjoy what they have" they are so busy trying to build empires for themselves and neglect what is most important - family. God is the Head of the Family - firstly because man is the head of the wife - yet with both together they lift God up and Give him the Glory and Honour which is His and He gives them all their needs. (Yet we are so blinded by this worlds ways - no wonder no body want to give God time)
For me it is a great pleasure to read the scriptures, to speak with the Father, to go for a walk on the mountain to look east to the great city of Jerusalem and thank God for the privilege of being alive to enjoy the fruits of His handiwork. For me the shabbat is a time of celebrating for relaxing in His presence, even to sit and write this is a blessing as I am able to share my thoughts with you.
5. (16) "'Honor your father and mother, as ADONAI your God ordered you to do, so that you will live long and have things go well with you in the land ADONAI your God is giving you. 5*
5* Well, let us look at this, how many of us can honestly say we have obeyed this to the letter. Look at the amount of sick and lonely elderly parents suffer because of the children's lack of understanding - how many are shoved into residential care homes, - ok there are some who are sick and do need medical attention - but how many of these poor people have not had a visit from their dear families due to distance or their lives are so busy that they have not time to give to their parents. These same parents who nurtured them and gave them homes and help during their growing up - are then just discarded as if they were a nuisance and not even in some cases given a welcome into their homes.
There is an advert on the UK tv at present for furniture - set at the festive time where the mother/grandmother is relegated to sitting on a stool too low for the table or even in another room separated from the family - this to me is a sign of what is happening in most homes - people relegate their parents away from the rest of the family - children move away from their parents - distances that in some cases can be too great for their parents - yet once these same children get to be the age of their parents - will they too feel the same loneliness and separation that their own parents feel because of lack of communication or distance.
Each of us as parents understand that children grow up and must leave the nests that we have provided for them to grow up in - but we in our hearts hope that we will also be part of their lives in some small way, even a phone call or letter - email, skype - is better than total disregard.
How often has the same children who have cut their parents off then on the death of the same parents then end up arguing on how much each has done for the parents and therefore should be entitled to more of the inheritance (if the parents were able to leave anything) - this happens a lot. Who is going to get the house, the car, the jewellery etc. Yet when the parents were alive they were not so generous with their time.
Better to give your parents time and honour now and enjoy their company as much as possible and their wisdom as when they are gone they are gone. ( My own mother died in 2004) and I do miss her and even though we did not have a brilliant relationship - we still enjoyed our time together in the end. We got closer because we were able to give time to each other and we reaped the benefits from that. So it is worth considering just how much time are you giving to your family.
6. (17) "'Do not murder. 6*
6* You may not think you are doing this, well each time you are callous, each harsh word, each yell at another person - you are able to murder that persons spirit, confidence. You may not physically kill someone but your words can do as much damage to another person. Constant bitching, nagging, undermining of a person is "killing" someone.
Why do you think that Jesus/Yeshua said - Do unto others as you would have them do to you" - do you not think that this is something to consider before you open your mouth in anger, cross words hurt like knives in a heart. Belittling someone hurts - drives a person inside themselves and makes it all the more difficult to relate to others.
7. (18) "'Do not commit adultery. 7*
7* What is adultery really - it is faithless behaviour, breaking vows, covenants, It leads to the destruction of homes, lives. Not only in our relationships with man and woman but also with God. When we go chasing after other gods of this earth we are being unfaithful to God, when we seek our own ends - we are being unfaithful.
In today's society is is not seen as so much, yet each marriage that is broken by faithless partners who break their vows, whom seek after others is in actual fact being adulterous - we all know this yet we do not seem to appreciate it from Gods way of thinking - When we join together with another human being for better or worse, richer or poorer, through sickness and health - today people consider it ok to break apart because they are bored with their lives with the partner they had chosen to spend the rest of their days with.
Today, people do not take it seriously when they enter into a marriage agreement - because the laws of the land have made is so easy just to part company - no body suffers so much today with the stigma of being divorced - yet in God's sight He does see it as tragic - here are two of his children who are joined together as one - bearing in mind that is what is meant by being married is that you are to become one - that is a unit - when you look at a leaf on a tree when it falls the ground and try to disect it into two parts - it is impossible as there is nothing left - when two people join together and become one - how can they separate without causing pain to each other - even if it is mutual it is devastating - the emotional ties we have with the other person is raw and painful - no matter how much time goes by there is still the pain and shock of separation from your partner whom you had dedicated your life to - whether rightly or wrongly - (I still think of my first husband and with sadness at how it did not work out because of the abusive behaviour to himself - even though we both knew even before we married that we should not have go through with it, we did and we reaped the heartache of it - even on the eve of the wedding he called to say that he could not go through with it - but was persuaded by his mother that he should do so - yet I knew too that it was not the way forward for us - yet we did) That is even sadder because the two of use knew we were not in the right place for each other or ourselves - we stayed together for nine years - but most of the time we were separated - he was living his life the way he wanted away from me - so in the end it was sad - yet we both cared for each other but it was very clear to both of us we should never have done it - he still is living the life he had choosen for himself - he is still alone and living with his drink and his drugs. He did not want to change - nor could I help him change because he did not want to .
I believe that when you come together with another person and you feel that oneness - the unity, harmony, joined together feeling you can never really be parted from that. That is when I truly believe that God has joined you together. I have yet to really experience that in my life. I feel that with my relationship with God.
8. (19) "'Do not steal. 8*
8* Stealing is very wrong and it can cover a multitude of things, including partners, children, minds, hopes, dreams.
9. (20) "'Do not give false evidence against your neighbour. *9
9* Telling lies to another person about another person is horrific, to be treated to such abusive actions is horrible. This is really a nasty thing to do. It breaks homes, relationships, businesses.
10. (21 )"'Do not covet your neighbour's wife; do not covet your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbour.' 10*
10* I think when you consider this commandment, you can see clearly what God is saying here, when we go after something that belongs to another only misery ensues. Break down of relationships, anger, frustration, jealousy, greed. Each person has been given the same opportunities in life, we all were born and we shall all die. How we live our lives is how we shall be judged.
How often in your life have you desired something that was not yours to have?
Maybe your friend has a boyfriend you fancy - so you do you upmost to spoil that relationship - that is what happens when someone breaks a home. Someone wants the other persons spouse, yet the sad part about it really is if it has happened once it can happen again and again - and you know what I am saying is right - because you only need to look at the statistics of multiple divorces and marriages of people today.
Because we do not take seriously the vows we make whether it be before God or before a judge - it is so simple - I have even heard it said "there is always plenty more fish in the sea" so you do not have to worry if it does not work out. It does not work because you have not considered the consequences of separation really.
22 "These words ADONAI spoke to your entire gathering at the mountain from fire, cloud and thick mist, in a loud voice; then it ceased. But he wrote them on two stone tablets, which he gave to me. 23 When you heard the voice coming out of the darkness, as the mountain blazed with fire, you came to me, all the heads of your tribes and your leaders, 24 and said, 'Here, ADONAI our God has shown us his glory and his greatness! We have heard his voice coming from the fire, and we have seen today that God does speak with human beings, and they stay alive. 25 But why should we keep risking death? This great fire will consume us! If we hear the voice of ADONAI our God any more, we will die! 26 For who is there of all humanity that has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the fire, as we have, and stayed alive? 27 You, go near; and hear everything ADONAI our God says. Then you will tell us everything ADONAI our God says to you; and we will listen to it and do it.' 28 "ADONAI heard what you were saying when you spoke to me, and ADONAI said to me, 'I have heard what this people has said when speaking to you, and everything they have said is good. 29 Oh, how I wish their hearts would stay like this always, that they would fear me and obey all my mitzvot; so that it would go well with them and their children forever. 30 Go, tell them to return to their tents. 31 But you, stand here by me; and I will tell you all the mitzvot, laws and rulings which you are to teach them, so that they can obey them in the land I am giving them as their possession.'
32 "Therefore you are to be careful to do as ADONAI your God has ordered you; you are not to deviate either to the right or the left. 33 You are to follow the entire way which ADONAI your God has ordered you; so that you will live, things will go well with you, and you will live long in the land you are about to possess.
When you break down each of the commandments for yourself and actually consider the impact on your life and those around you, you will soon discover like I have that it makes sense to follow them.
Remember when Jesus came - his mission was to reunite us back to God and to establish an understanding of what Gods word meant.
We read that Jesus came to set the captives free, set men and women free from slavery, to heal the sick and open the blind eyes. WE can be spiritually blind.
Each time I feel compelled to write, I ask God to give me the words so that I may be able to encourage others.
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