Tammuz 5770 (Posted June 2010)

Posted: August 2, 2010 in Hebrew Months
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Shabbat Shalom,
(Note: this message was recorded in entirety last night at Rosh Chodesh Tammuz at our home. If you would like a copy of the CD and complete notes please let me know. The cost of the 73 minute CD + shipping is $7)
Every Hebrew month has a Tribe, Constellation and Hebrew letter associated with it. These hold keys to our promises for that month and help us to pray in line with God’s timing and to get our lives into time with His specific appointed times.

These next three months of Tammuz, Av & Elul are the most challenging months for Israel. History repeatedly has shown that if anything tragic is going to happen to Israel it will happen in the months of Tammuz & Av. These three summer months heat up both naturally and spiritually. The kingdom of this world is fighting against God’s plans and promises for Israel.

Tammuz is known as the ‘fourth month’ in the Bible according to the Biblical Calendar and is the tenth month on the civil calendar. The number 4 carries the meaning of learning, teaching, testing and trials. It also is the number of material completeness, a world number since on the 4th day material creation finished. It is the number of the great elements (earth, air, fire, water) regions of the earth (north, south, east, west) divisions of day (morning, noon, evening and midnight) seasons (summer, fall, winter, spring). The number 10 signifies the perfection of Divine order, beginning a new series of numbers. It also stands for completeness of order, marking the entire round of anything, whole cycle is complete. Putting those 2 numbers together we see that there will be a completeness of things that have been sown these past months and many people will be reaping things they do not want to reap. It is a good time to pray for a crop failure on all the negative words and deeds sown and to stand in the gap for our nation like never before.

Tammuz is the name of a Syrian god, but was also worshipped also by the Hebrews women with lamentations, in the fourth month of every year. Their idol worship was an abomination to God! It is a proper noun and means ‘sprout of life’, a Sumerian deity of food and vegetation. The only time the Bible records that name is found in Ezekiel 8:14 when God was showing Ezekiel all the abominations that were going on in the Temple, “So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.” Vs 17 tells of how they were smelling the branch. The cedar branch is used in the worship of this Syrian god and instead of the Hebrew women trusting God for life, they had turned to trusting a cedar to give them fertility and life, IN THE HOUSE OF GOD!

Here are some historical events connected with this month (specifically watch the 17th day of Tammuz)Tammuz 17, 586 BC, The walls of Jer

  • Tammuz 1, historically it is the date Joseph was born and died. Rabbinical teaching says that if someone fulfills their earthly assignment well they will die on the same date of their birth. This is also said to be the day that Joseph was given the coat of many colors and created major jealousy with his brothers
  • Tammuz 17, 1312 BC, Moses descended from Mount Sinai and found the people worshiping the Golden Calf, breaking the 2 tablets containing the Ten Commandments- 3,000 Israelites were killed by Levites that day
  • Tammuz 3, 1271 BC, Joshua commanded the sun to ‘stand still at Gibeon’, Joshua 10:12.
  • Tammuz 17, 2 Kings 21:7, evil King Manasseh of Judah set up an idol in the Holy Sanctuary of the Temple
  • Tammuz 9, 587 BC, 2 Kings 25:3, I Chronicles 27:7, Jeremiah 39:2, 52:6- famine in the land of Israel which resulted in Jerusalem being destroyed a year later and the cease of the daily sacrifices in the Temple
  • Tammuz 17, 586 BC, Jerusalem were breached after many months of seige by Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces (First Temple was destroyed 3 weeks later on Av 9)
  • Tammuz 5, Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel began to have prophetic visions of end time events
  • Tammuz 17, 70 AD, Titus & Rome breached the walls of Jerusalem. Beginning of the end of the Second Temple, which was destroyed three weeks later on Av 9)
  • Tammuz 17, 135 AD, Second Jewish-Roman War. Roman military leader Apostomus burned a Torah scroll prior to Bar Kokba’s revolt
  • 325 AD, Constantine started Roman Christianity. The cross Constantine had was for the god of Rome called Tammuz, for which he had a dream of conquest.
  • Tammuz 27, 1205 AD, Pope Innocent III published official Church doctrine that saw Jews doomed to eternal damnation for the curcifixion of Jesus. This charge of deicide was the basis for much anti-Semitism
  • Tammuz 17, 1239, Pope Gregory IX ordered the confiscation of all manuscripts of the Talmud
  • Tammuz 17, 1391, More than 4,000 Spanish Jews were killed in Toledo and Jaen, Spain
  • Tammuz 17, 1559, The Jewish Quarter of Prague was burned and looted
  • Tammuz 2, 1927, The town of Nablus (biblical Shechem) was convulsed by an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale. Nearly 300 people were killed and 1000 injured, many of Shechem’s historical buildings were destroyed.
  • Tammuz 17, 1944, The entire population of Kovno ghetto was sent to the death camps
  • Tammuz 5, 1946 (15 months after WWII & Holocause ended), Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, with no other place to go, returned to their hometown of Kielce, Poland and were attacked by the townspeople in a blood pogrom that left 42 Jews dead and 80 wounded. The pogrom began with rumors spread that Jews had kidnapped a Polish child.
  • Tammuz 17, 1970, Libya ordered the confiscation of all Jewish property
  • Tammuz 17, 1981, Israel attacked the Tammuz-1 nuclear reactor at Osiraq in an attempt to scuttle Iraq’s nuclear program
  • Tammuz 17, 1994, Shoemaker Levi Comet began to break up, ending with bombarding Jupiter with 16 fragments on Av 9, each with an impact of a nuclear bomb (more on this next month)
  •  Tammuz 24, 2002, one week following the 17th of Tammuz fast, water started to come out of the Western Wall. One of the stones, 15 meters up the wall, has suddenly become dripping wet with no earthly explanation
  • Tammuz 17, 2006, Lebanon and Israel went to war after Hezbollah kidnaped 2 Israeli soldiers. (Chuck Pierce prophesied January 29, 2006, “watch Lebanon. I will bring conflict into Lebanon, because it is the boundary that I will deal with this year concerning My promised land of Israel. The warlike tribes of Lebanon will once again arise. But in the end, I will win this war, and the riches that have been withheld from My Kingdom plan will be released.”)
  • Tammuz 1, 2009, Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on the eve of Tammuz. Rabbis called for fasting and prayer, that the abominations could cause God to ‘vomit out’ the Jewish inhabitants of the Promised Land.

The 3 week period between Tammuz 17 and Av 9 (Tisha B’Av) are called ‘bein haMetzarim’, aka Between the Straits, Dire Straits. Lamentations 1:3, Judah has gone into captivity, Under affliction and hard servitude; She dwells among the nations, She finds no rest; All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits. Fear is strong during these 21 days because of the historical events connected with these two dates.

Both Tammuz 17 and Av 9 are fasting days listed in Zechariah 8:19. Feast Days were appointed by God, but these Fast Days are appointed by man. These fasts centered on themselves, not sorrow for sin, but sorrow for thier loss.  (more next month)

TRIBE- Reuben, the first son of Jacob and Leah. As the first born, he should have received a double portion of inheritance, leadership and priesthood of the family after Jacob’s passing. Because of his sin of sleeping with Rachel’s handmaiden, he lost all 3 firstborn privileges. The rulership went to Judah, the priesthood went to Levi and the double portion went to Joseph. He was a lover, unpredictable, many bi-polar tendencies, will not fight even to defend his family, stubborn, headstrong.

The prophetic word given to Reuben at Jacob’s passing is found in Genesis 49:3, “Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. (4) Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father’s bed; Then you defiled it– He went up to my couch.”

This shows us the instability facing this coming month, but the redemptive gift to Rueben is “the excellency of”. To those who overcome the weak areas of Reuben, their work will be rewarded for excellency. Remember, Genesis 49:1 said those prophetic words were for the LAST DAYS. We can learn about how to overcome now by those prophetic words and aligning ourselves correctly.

CONSTELLATION/MAZAL- CANCER, “The Crab”- In the summer months,  when the weather is hot, the crabs multiply in the water. Crabs pinch and hurt and this month was basically a time in which the Jewish people were hurt.

The Hebrew name is Sartan. This is composed of two words, sar & tan, which literally reads, “remove the body’ (in order to reveal the soul). This month the pressures of life cause us to reveal what is really inside of us. Interesting how this name is so close to the name of satan.

LETTER- CHET– (ryhymes with ‘mate’ and has a sound of ‘ch’ as in Bach) is the 8th letter in the Hebrew Aleph Bet and has the numerical value of 8. Chet is the pictograph of a wall, a fence or inner chamber and means to separate, to cut off from, to protect.  number of ‘spiritual perfection’.

Grace/favor is a Chet word in Hebrew spelled Chet Nun (action, life). The word picture created is to fence or protect life, like a fence surrounds a garden. (Genesis 6:8)

Refuge is also a Chet word, spelled Chet (fence), Samech (support), Hey (feminine ending, what comes from). The word picture says that refuge is a fence of support. (Psalm 7:1-2)

Life (chayim) and Living (chayah) are both Chet words.

Let’s speak life, grace, favor and life to this coming Hebrew month.

Isaiah 62:1, “For Israel’s Sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not hold my peace”

 


Nuggets From the Book of Ruth (posted 5/19/10)

Posted: August 2, 2010 in Book of Ruth
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The scroll of Ruth is read in Jewish synagogues on Pentecost, which is celebrated Sivan 6. 

Below are some yummy nuggets I gleaned from my study this week. (It will be just a few nuggets because my entire study is so vast it could be made into a book. When I taught it years ago, the first 60 minute cassette was on the first verse)

The book has FOUR chapters. Four is the number of teaching, testing, trials. The fourth day God divided light from darkness. When you are facing trials you always have darkness before the light. Light is revealed knowledge, revelation. There are always seasons of testing, exposing the wrong to root it out. Four Hebrew children were tested for 10 days and found 10 times more wisdom and understanding at the end (Daniel 1). When you multiply 10 by 4 you have increased teaching, testing. Hebrew children in wilderness for 40 years (trials, testing), Moses on Mt Sinai 2 times for 40 days (learning), Jesus in Wilderness 40 days (trials ending with increased anointing). Ruth’s name is first mentioned in the 4th verse of Chapter 1.

Four things we get by studying the Old Testament (1) Instruction (2) Patience (3) Encouragement (4) Hope. This book is a study on how to stand in faith & see God’s faithful redeeming Hand at work.

Ruth is read in synagogues on Pentecost/Shavu’ot- the Fourth Feast of the LORD.

Only 2 books of 66 in our Bible are named after women, Esther & Ruth (both Gentile names)

Esther was a Jew that married a Gentile; Ruth was a Gentile that married a Jew.

Both books were times of lost hope and hard times. Both books show us how Gentiles come into the promise of God to Abraham through our covenant with Jesus, our Kinsman Redeemer. (Gen 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; Ps 72:17; Acts 3:25) 

Time line of the Book, between 1150-1100 BC, a period when judges ruled and there was marked oppression, lawlessness, violence, a time of spiritual confusion, compromise and apostasy. (Most likely the time was between Judges 3:9-20)Judges 17:6 & 21:25 state that everyone was doing “what was right in their own sight”. Judges 17:6, no true ‘house of God’ religiously, led to ‘no king’ nationally (18:1) and ended with national apostasy (21:25). It all goes back to the Church being the Church! 

The story begins with, “Now it came to pass in the days…”. That phrase only occurs 5 times in the Bible and always denotes some impending trouble, followed by happy deliverance. 

  • Genesis 14:1 days of Amraphel (name means sayer of darkness)
  • Ruth 1:1, when everyone did what was right in their own sight 
  • Esther 1:1, days of Ahasuerus (name means ‘I will be silent and poor’)
  • Isaiah 7:1, days of Ahaz (name means ‘he has grasped, possessing, possessor’– a weak man devoted to idolatry)
  • Jeremiah 1:3, days of Jehoiakim (name means Jehovah raises up)

From these , time frames and name meanings I see the progression (1) speaking words of darkness, unbelief, murmuring (2) lead to doing what you think is right instead of trusting God and being directed by the Word of God (3) leads to being silent and poor because faith always speaks faith (4) leads to oppression, being captured by the enemy (5) leads turning back to God and doing things His way, having our faith totally on Him and the finished work of Jesus who has redeemed us. 

First big mistake- leaving Bethlehem (house of bread) to go to fields Moab!!

First of all, a house denotes a warm enviorment; a field lies open and is unprotected. In Biblical writings, the empty field is an image that often precedes tradgedy.

Bethlehem is where Rachel was buried and was first associated with death and separation. But Bethlehem was also where all the sheep were raised for the Temple sacrifices (Passover lambs) and also where the wheat and barley fields were located for the Temple showbread. Bethlehem was a place where sacrifice begins.

Moab was a son of Lot by incest with his daughter. The daughter saw no hope of ever having children, thought her life was over, no more men left after seeing what happened to Sodom and got her father drunk enough to have intercourse with her.

Elimelech– sages say that he was a man of means, a man of stature. For Lot, His son Moab was a daily example of failure (I should have, I could have, I didn’t, I wish I would’ve) and much regrets. Moab became known for past mistakes, living in the past failures that haunt you and keep you captive, no longer going forth. It will take faith and courage to get out of Moab because the enemy of our faith wants us to lose hope and think you will never win, that your mistakes have taken you so far out of God’s plan that you have no hope, only sick at heart- lose heart.

Moabites were placed under a curse by the law of Moses because they refused to offer bread and water to the Israelites coming up to Sinai. (Deut 23:3-6)

To me, the Land of Moab represents the kingdom of this world and Bethlehem represents the Kingdom of God. We get to chose which kingdom we chose, but we cannot serve two masters or two kingdoms. (Matthew 6:35)

Elimelech brought his family into a place of bondage instead of trusting God during a time of famine. Elimelech was from the Tribe of Judah, the kingly tribe, warriors and his name meant ‘may kingship come my way’ or ‘God is my king’.

Naomi, his wife, name means ‘pleasant’ or  ‘my delight’

Machlon, son, name means ‘sickness, weak‘

Chilyon, son, name means ‘failing, pining’

Were the names changed in Ruth for emphasis? I Chronicles 4:22 speaks of Jokim, Joash and Saraph (only time these names were used) who had the dominion in Moab. It ends with ‘these are ancient things’ (things that are left best in the past). 

Within 10 years in Moab, Naomi’s husband died, 2 sons died and she was left with 2 Gentile (Moabite) daughter-in-laws. No more support and because they moved to a foreign land they gave up rights to their inherited land in Bethlehem. Much like the prodigal son, her only hope was going back to her father’s house. She heard (Targum says an angel told her) that there was bread in Bethlehem. She went back a bitter, broke and discourged woman. Ruth followed Naomi, only thinking of serving and taken care of this broken woman. Orpah chose to go back and live a life of memories of failure and memories of the three funerals.

When Ruth and Naomi (now called ‘bitter’) came to Bethlehem it was Passover time, barley harvest. Ruth humbled herself and went looking for food for Naomi went to the corner of the field. (Ruth was the best thing that ever happened to Naomi and the best thing that ever happened to Bethlehem) She was led by Almighty God to glean in the fields of a near relative, Boaz. (30 fold) 

Ruth now found favor because of her faithfulness in her assignment to take care of Naomi. Boaz now instructed his workers to leave her ‘handfuls of purpose’ in the field. Boaz was breaking a standard tradition in his day. Strangers were only allowed to glean from a small corner ‘after’ the harvest was already done. Boaz enlarged her territory and instructed her workers not to rebuke her, but to leave her handfuls!!! They were not allowed to remind her she was a cursed Moabite, not allowed to remind her she was poor, not allowed to remind her that she was a woman. (Satan is the accuser of the brethren and Jesus will not allow him to remind us of anything that is under the Blood!!) Ruth was not being blessed on purpose (60 fold). 

Now Naomi’s hope is returning and she is getting creative strategies that had to have come from only God! She instructs Ruth to go to Boaz at night, as a woman, not a worker. Ruth was to ask that Boaz ‘take your maidservant under your wing, for you are a close relative’. She was asking him to marry her and get her promised inheritance back. The land was lost and only a close relative could get the land back, a Kinsman Redeemer. At the gates of the city business tranactions took place. Boaz received a surrendered sandle for another relative, giving him the land, Ruth and all inherited rights of family of Elimelech redeemed. (so much to this, too much for this message today) (Ruth had now come into 100 fold, her cup was overflowing)

Ruth and Boaz were married on Pentecost and became great-grandparents of King David. Ruth’s name became to mean ‘friendship‘. 

This Book should restore your hope 

  • Our past mistakes should be put under the Blood where it cannot stop us from going forth into our destiny
  • God can redeem everything last, back generations
  • Nothing is impossible for God.
  • In tough and dark times come the best testimonies of God’s faithfulness
  • Any lost dreams or hopes came be restored
  • Jesus Christ became like us, in the flesh, to buy us back off the slave block (I Cor 6:20, Gal 3:13, I Peter 1:18, 19)
  • God’s plans for us is for a future and a hope
  • Stay focused on your assignment and seek to meet other’s needs- not just be served, but to serve; God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him
  • There is no past, not situation, no circumstance that God cannot change
  • If you stay in the fields of Jesus He will not allow the enemy to keep bringing up your past to keep you bound in failure. “Oh, how He loves us so, Oh how He loves us, How He loves us so”
  • The times of the Book of Ruth are much like the days we are living in now. Much apostasy, many people falling into failure at thier own making. Those who trust in God shall be strong and do great exploits.

Last thought. David wrote of his memories of his great-grandparents, grand parents and parents in Psalm 37. The entire chapter speaks of the deeds of doing ‘righteous’ deeds, continually and without compromise. Psalm 37:25, ‘I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.’ (Amplified Bible reads ‘uncompromisingly righteous). David’s ancestors that he knew, never went to the enemy to get bread- always were fed by doing God’s ways. 

Everyone of us know ‘good’ Christian people who have failed but I can honestly say that everyone that I know that continues to stand on the Word and recieve correction are successful in everything they have been assigned to do. It may seem at times dark, but keep on holding onto the feet of Jesus. 

Naomi tried to turn Ruth back FOUR TIMES, but she said “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go…..” Lay out before the feet of your Kinsman Redeemer all night if necessary but continually say “you are my only hope“.

Calendar of Events

Posted: August 2, 2010 in Signs In The Heavens
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Here is what is coming up…MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

September 7, Tuesday 1-3 & 7-9, Bible Boot Camp begins (limited classes) please emails Mary at mbostrom2@comcast.net for more information

Sign in the heavens
September 25th 10am-3pm
Trinity Church in Beaumont, Texas
Email me for more details
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Intercession

Posted: August 2, 2010 in Last Day Helps
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Tonight I finished the biography of Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb. The entire book is good, but when I got to the end I knew why I was reading that book at “such a time as this”.
In his Bible School in England, they would pray for the war. As they got a burden they would follow the Lord’s leading and spend much time in prayer, all day, all night. As they would pray, they would hear in the news the answered prayer.
A published article by military commentator General J.R.C. Fuller gave four reasons for the impending doom of the Nazis,
Hitlers Four Blunders
Blunder No. 1 was missing the chance to invade Britain
Blunder No 2- his failure to attach Egypt and gain Alexandria
Blunder No 3- Everything in the Russian campaign depended on the fall of Moscow
Blunder No 4- Hitler’s final mistake- the great attack on Stalingrad
In Ree Howell’s diary, each of the things were prayed through with earnest prayer, and each had a turn at the end no one could figure out! It was God!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s see this be the Church’s finest hour, Nothing is too hard for our God!!!!!
Mary

“The Days of Awe” (posted 9/2009)

Posted: August 2, 2010 in Feast of Trumpets, Feasts of the LORD
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The season we are in right now is called “The Days of Awe”. It is a 10 day period that began Friday night at sundown on the Hebrew calendar of Tishri 1, a Holy Day which is known as Rosh Hashanah or Feast of Trumpets. This is the head of the civil year and the number of years on the Jewish calendar has now changed to 5770. The Days of Awe will end on Yom Kippur, our Sunday night at sundown. The Jewish belief is when the trumpets sound on Rosh Hashanah, 3 books open in heaven:
1.    Book of the Righteous are sealed with the seal of God who will immediately be written for a good life the next year (Rev 17:3)
2.    Book of the Unrighteous who would be judged during the year (Rev 17:8)
3.    Book of the Intermediate, those who are not completely righteous or wicked. They would have until the Day of Atonement to make restitution and get right with God.
In the Hebrew language, numbers  have numerical value and the numerical value of 70 is the letter Ayin. The ancient Hebrew letters were often drawn in pictures and the picture of Ayin is an “eye”. (I suggest you go to Glory of Zion website and watch Robert Heidler’s teaching September on the numerical year.) This is a year to “see” as God sees, and to realize that He is watching over us. An eye is often a symbol of “evil eye” in the occult realm, so realize that all the eyes watching you may not be in your best interest. Ayin is also a picture of a “spring of water”. When I saw the picture of the eye with a spring of water, I saw tears gushing out of the eye. The Lord spoke to me and said that this would be a year of many tears. If the intercessors shed tears in prayer, there would not be tears of grief and anguish.
Last year on Rosh Hashanah and the Days of Awe began, the NY Stock Market took its largest dip since the Great Depression and fell 777. The number 7 is God’s number and to me it said, “Holy, Holy, Holy”. Ten days later at the end of the Days of Awe on Yom Kippur the stock market sharply fell 678.91 which to me represents the 5 commandments that deal with how we treat our fellow man. The financial system has not treated the fellow man fairly and that began a judgment on the Babylonian System which represents the financial market.
There is a time and season for every seed that has been planted. I want to state upfront that God is not judging man because Jesus has bore our sins once and for all. When a person receives His free gift they come under His blood covering.
Bill Koenig of Watch.org wrote about this coming week
Tuesday, Sept. 22: Obama will deliver an opening speech for a climate-change summit to be convened at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 22.

Fall Feast Calendar [all begin at sundown]
Elul 1     (August 21)    Begins 40 days of Teshuvah
Tishri 1   (Sept 18)       Rosh Hashana, year turns to 5770
Tishri 1   (Sept 18)       Days of Awe begin
Tishri 10  (Sept 27)      End Days of Awe
Tishri 10  (Sept 27)      Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
Tishri 15-21  (Oct 2-8)   Feast of Tabernacles
PRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Wednesday, Sept. 23: Obama to hold meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Middle East leaders.

Thursday, Sept. 24: Obama will attempt to show a cooperative relationship between the U.S. and the U.N. when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.

Friday, Sept. 24-25: G-20 communiqué says: Obama will chair this meeting of leaders from countries around the world that represent 85 percent of the world’s economy. At the Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, leaders will review the progress made since the Washington and London Summits and discuss further actions to assure a sound and sustainable recovery from the global financial and economic crisis.

Friday, Sept. 25: At 4 a.m., Muslims will be holding the first-ever prayer event at the same location of Obama’s inauguration. Up to 50,000 are expected to attend. We can thank Obama’s open door to Islam for the main catalyst behind this bold event.

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