Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Balak - One Who Lays Waste - this week’s Prophetic reading
Prophecy 5, 131, 132;
Numbers 22:2-25:9
Micah 5:6-6:8
Matthew 21:1-11
Micah 5:6-6:8
6 And they shall depasture the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land
of Nimrod at her entrances. And He shall deliver us from Assyria, when he comes
into our land, and when he treads within our border.
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from
YAHUVEH, as showers on a blade of grass, which does not wait for man, nor delay
for the sons of men.
8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many
peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the
flocks of sheep (who both tramples and tears in pieces if he passes through) and
there is no one to deliver.
9 Your hands shall be high above your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut
off.
10 And it shall be in that day, I will cut off your horses out of your midst,
and I will destroy your chariots, declares YAHUVEH.
11 And I will cut off the cities of your land and pull down all your fortresses.
12 And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and there shall not be
sorcerers among you.
13 And I also will cut off your graven images and your pillars from your midst.
And you shall not any more worship the work of your hands.
14 And I will pluck your shrines from your midst, and I will destroy your
cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and in fury on the nations, such as
they have not heard.
*~Micah Chapter 6 ~*
1 Hear now what YAHUVEH says: Rise up, contend with the mountains, and let the
hills hear your voice.
2 Mountains, and you enduring foundations of the earth, hear the contention of
YAHUVEH, for YAHUVEH has a quarrel with His people, and He will dispute with
Israel.
3 My people, what have I done to you? And how have I made you weary? Answer
against Me.
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the
house of slaves; and I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.
5 My people, remember now what Balak, king of Moab, planned; and what Balaam,
the son of Beor, answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the
righteousness of YAHUVEH.
6 With what shall I come before YAHUVEH, to bow myself before the loftiness of
ELOHIM? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves, sons of a
year?
7 Will YAHUVEH be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of torrents
of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body
for the sin of my soul?
8 O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does YAHUVEH require of
you, but to do justice, and to love grace, and to walk humbly with your ELOHIM?
Matthew 21:1-11
1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came into Bethphage2, toward the
Mount of Olives, then YAHUSHUA sent two disciples,
2 saying to them, Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will
find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loosening, lead them to Me.
3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, our Master has need of
them. And he will send them at once.
4 But all this happened that might be fulfilled that spoken by the prophet,
saying
5 "Say to the daughter of Tsion, behold your king comes to you meek and mounted
upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey." (Isa. 62:11; Zech. 9:9)
6 And the disciples, having gone and having done as YAHUSHUA ordered them,
7 they led the donkey and the colt. And they put on them their garments, and set
Him on them.
8 And the very great crowd strewed their garments in the road. And others were
cutting branches from the trees and were spreading them in the way.
9 And the crowd, the ones going before and the ones following, were crying out,
saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! "Blessed is He coming in the name of
YAHUVEH!" Hosanna in the highest! (Psa. 118:26)
10 And as He entered into Jerusalem, all the city was shaken, saying, Who is
this?
11 And the crowds said, This is YAHUSHUA, the Prophet, the One from Nazareth of
Galilee.