REFLECTIONS ON ISRAEL AND MOTHER'S DAY

                                                                             REFLECTIONS ON 

ISRAEL AND MOTHER'S DAY 

Isaiah 66.13

AS ONE WHOM HIS 

MOTHER COMFORTETH, 

SO WILL I COMFORT YOU; 

AND YE SHALL BE

COMFORTED IN

JERUSALEM.

LILACLADY JUNEBUG2 

Thinking today on what the Bible 
says about Israel, on her day May 9, 
and as to God's view of her, 
and of our Mothers.
When Isaiah penned this Word given from God, 
the warning of coming destruction and judgment 
upon Jerusalem had been already given.
Yet, in all the doom and gloom of the
warnings, here God
gives HIS VIEW.

AS ONE WHOM HIS MOTHER COMFORTETH 

ISAIAH 66.13  

This is a  PROMISE the LORD God gave

to Judah in her time of need.

The warnings of the Prophet Isaiah

to the southern Kingdom of Judah 

was that she needed to 

repent, and return

to the LORD God.

Judgment was coming on the land.

Warnings were everywhere.

No one wanted to listen.

No one wanted to hear.

Focus on what we are doing, 

they thought.

Focus on what was past.

and so they

were listening to 

the prophets who told them

good things were coming 

and not bad.

These however were false.

Their prophecies were not 

from the LORD God.

My Mother and Father with me 

as a little baby in June of 1933

Three days old, Daddy graduated

from High School the night I was born.

They were both 17 years old.   

When I read the words from this passage

"as one whom his mother comforteth, 

so will I comfort you"  I find a 

quality in the LORD God that usually

does not seem to be 

recognized by most.

My Mother was to me my dearest 

friend.   She nurtured me, from the time

I was conceived until I grew old 

enough to do for myself.

Her father wanted her to have

an abortion.

It was not "right" to have this child

he said.

Her husband wanted her to

have an abortion.

He was afraid.

He was young.

He was not ready.

but my Mother had faith 

that somehow

God would give ME  life.

She said, 

I took the abortives 

like I was told,

but I prayer 

very hard, 

God, please let this Baby come.

AND SO I CAME.

A bright brown eyed red head

of a little child.

My father grew to love me.

He listened to me when I told him 

things.

My grandfather accepted me 

and learned to be fond of me.

Although I never understood

that at this time

there was a sad

thing happening

in the world 

to the Jewish people,

I knew SOME THING

was not right.

Most people would say

"I imagine it"  but I know what

I heard when I was in 

my mother's womb.

It was 1933. Before I was born.

Hitler was speaking on the radio,

and Grandmother, Mother,

and me in Mother's womb were

there, listening to

the harsh 

shrill

loud

hateful

voice 

of 

this man Adolf Hitler.

When I was a little girl of three,

and wandered in my grandmother's

living room, I would see

the radio there and

I remembered 

THAT VOICE SO FEARFUL

No one talked about who he was.

I never heard anyone tell

me of what was 

happening.

But somehow,

I KNEW WHAT WAS

GOING ON.  

In my first day at school

as a Kindergarten student I 

attended in Boston MA 

to a class there.

A large class of about

sixty of us.

One lady took six of us 

into a circle of chairs 

to teach us 

how to read 

with flash cards 

and 

phonetic sounds.

I noticed on the board 

there was a 

picture of children

somewhere  where they

were also in 

class.

They looked sad.

They looked forlorn.

Wistful, solemn, not smiling.

Thin faces.

They must be hungry I thought.

Later I learned that 

was a picture from Germany.

It was placed on front page 

newspapers everywhere

proclaiming the 

goodness of German 

Education.

As a t small child I was very 

much aware of people and 

their feelings.

Here I felt I WAS SUCH A BIG GIRL

FOR GRANDMA TOLD ME I WAS 

HELPING HER WEED.

Here I am at 5 years of age.

It is now 1938 and the 

memories I still

have of the 

things I saw in my mind

and my spirit

of the hate 

the hurt 

the way people 

were treating other 

people 

made me 

a little 

cautious 

about 

making friends.

We moved a lot.

I mean, we moved a lot.

Daddy was out of work, looking

for work, and we went with 

him.   From Adams, MA to

Boston MA and back again

and then returning

to try again.

I found my MOTHER was 

indeed MY BEST FRIEND

THE ONE I COULD TALK TO

AND

SHE COMFORTED ME.

As I look back, and

see how God gave

me "impressions" of 

the Holocaust, yet 

gave me courage to live,

I think now of this passage

in Isaiah which 

God told His People

bad things were coming

and it was because 

they did not turn to Him.

As I looked at 

what happened in the Holocaust

and as I discovered later on,

that the Evil that men do 

to others is going to 

be judged by the 

JUDGE OF ALL 

THE LIVING GOD

THE ONLY TRUE GOD

will judge all 

the wicked.

As a child, of three,  I went 

to church on EASTER SUNDAY 

only to be placed 

in a Nursery

where there were blocks

and toys.

I looked - disappointed -

around - and then I SAW ON THE

WALL BY THE WINDOWS 

some pictures 

What were these? 

I stepped to look closer

and found

EACH ONE BECKONING ME

TO LOOK 

so I DID.  

IT WAS LIKE I WAS 

SURROUNDED BY A GLOW

I WAS UNAWARE OF ANY

THING EXCEPT THE 

PICTURES.

As I looked at these pictures

I saw an Angel with a 

woman....I thought about that ...

the next picture showed Mary traveling

on a donkey with Joseph by her side.

I did not know their names, but I knew from

Christmas songs who it was...Joseph and Mary.

Then I looked at a picture with Angels 

in the night air over the Shepherds. 

Then the Shepherds at the Manger.

The next picture showed 

the wise men worshipping the Baby.

Jesus as a little boy 

helping Joseph in carpentry.

Another picture showed

Jesus teaching the people from

a boat.  

Jesus blessing the children.

Jesus 

Jesus riding on a donkey

into Jerusalem 

people praising God 

as he approached

Jesus dying on the cross 

between two thieves,

and 

Jesus ascending into heaven

from the Disciples looking as he went up.

Brrrinng.......the Bell rang 

for the end of the Sunday School time.

NOISES LOUD  blocks crashed down,

children crying and talking, 

the glow went away

and I was in the 

NURSERY ROOM AGAIN.

It was like I had God's Spirit

telling me 

THIS IS THE STORY.

LISTEN TO IT.

When I got home, Mother asked 

"What did you learn about Jesus? 

I said,   Mother,  I saw some pictures

and I think God was telling me that He came as 

a little baby to show us Who God Is and He died 

on the Cross but He rose again, so when I grow up I will

find out more about  Him.    

WHY ? was this important to Mother?

She had already told me, 

that "because you are part Jewish, maybe

when you grow up, and find out 

Who God Is, you can tell me, and I will

believe.

Here my Mother and I stood in 

1955 at Grandmother's house.

I was grown now, in college, 

working, and looking toward

serving Christ.  

My Mother was my 

best friend.  

I was able to lead her

to a certainty of faith

in Christ Jesus our Lord,

but I believe her

simple 

childlike 

faith 

was begun 

when she had faith

to believe 

I would be born.

ISRAEL WILL BE COMFORTED

SO TOO WILL YOU  

NO MATTER WHAT THE PAIN

NO MATTER WHAT THE HEARTACHE

NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES

GOD 

WILL 

COMFORT 

US.

JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR

HAS PROMISED

US

ETERNAL LIFE 

if we believe on His Finished Work on the Cross

JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR

HAS PROMISED

US 

A COMFORTER 

TO BE WITH US

TO BE DWELLING IN US 

AND

THIS IS WHAT HE SAYS

BUT THE COMFORTER

WHICH IS THE HOLY GHOST,

WHOM THE FATHER 

WILL SEND IN MY NAME;

HE SHALL TEACH

YOU ALL THINGS, 

AND BRING ALL

THINGS TO YOUR

REMEMBRANCE

WHATSOEVER

I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU.

John 14.26   

TO THE JEW, 

WAS GIVEN THE PROMISE

OF A NEW COVENANT 

IN

THE PROPHETS.

JOHN 14.6 

I AM THE WAY

THE TRUTH

AND THE LIFE,

NO MAN COMETH

UNTO THE FATHER

BUT 

BY ME.

JESUS IS COMING AS HE PROMISED

                     JOHN CHAPTER 14.1 - 3

LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED;

YE BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME,

IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE 

MANY MANSIONS, IF IT WERE NOT SO, I 

WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU.   I GO TO 

PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 

AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE

FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN, 

THAT WEHRE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE

ALSO.            

                  

           

Here I give you a promise too for 

the coming generations    

Isaiah 54.13

AND ALL THEY CHILDREN 

SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD; 

AND GREAT SHALL BE 

THE PEACE OF THY CHILDREN.

Someday  Isreal will see the    MILLENIAL REIGN OF CHRIST.

DURING THIS TIME OF 1000 YEARS THERE WILL

BE PEACE IN JERUSALEM

THERE WILL BE LAUGHTER AND JOY 

THERE WILL BE THE SOUND OF THE BRIDEGROOM WITH HIS BRIDE,

THE PLANTING OF TREES AND 

THE HARVESTING OF CROPS.

THE PROMISE OF GOD TO ISRAEL 

IS A PROMISE OF ASSURANCE

TO THE CHRISTIAN 

FOR 

WE ARE GRAFTED INTO THE ROOT

THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

HE IS THE VINE 

WE ARE THE BRANCHES.

WE CAN TRUST GOD 

TO KEEP HIS PROMISES TO ISRAEL

WE CAN TRUST GOD 

TO KEEP HIS PROMISE 

TO US AS BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS

HIS SON

GOD;S BOOK THE K J V BIBLE 

IS TO BE TRUSTED

MATTHEW 4.4 MAN SHALL NOT LIVE

BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD

THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.  

PSALM 119..105 THY WORD IS A LAMP

UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.

PSALM 12.6,6,7

THE WORDS OF THE LORD ARE PURE WORDS;

AS SILVER TRIED IN A FURNACE OF EARTH,

PURIFIED SEVEN TIMES. THOU SHALT KEEP 

THEM, O LORD, THOU SHALT PRESERVE 

THEM FROM THIS GENERATION FOR EVER. 

JOHN 3.16

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,

THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD

NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

THREE YEARS OLD 

ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS

1936   

HOW GLAD I AM ON MOTHER'S DAY TO SAY

GOD LOVES ME, 

AND GOD LOVES YOU.

WHY NOT START TODAY 

TO 

READING GOD'S WORD

TO FIND HIM 

AND TO KNOW HIM

AND TO LOVE HIM

HE WILL COMFORT YOU 

AS ONE WHOSE MOTHER COMFORTS HIM.

                                

 

COME JOURNEY WITH ME - LILACLADY JUNEBUG2

 

 

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WALKING BY FAITH – I KEEP CLIMBING

 

LOOKING FOR MESSIAH’S RETURN

 

                        

 

 TODAY  - REJOICE  

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                       JOHN 12. 48   What Jesus Said:  

                       He that rejecteth me. and receiveth not my words.   

                       hath one that judgeth him:  the words that I hav

                       spoken, the same shall judge him: in the last day."

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER, ARE YOU THIRSTING?

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER 

                                                           
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Rivers 

The source of refreshment

The thirst quenching water we need

AS THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES 

 APPROACHES

I  CONSIDER THE 

SOURCE 

OF 

WATER 

[Water is always essential for

living]

AND 

OF 

LIGHT

  MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT 

AWARE OF ANY LIGHTS

EXCEPT THE 

LIGHTS

ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE

The Chanukkah Candles 

are lit every year at

the Festival of Lights.

IN THE TIME WHEN JESUS WAS

HERE AMONG US,

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

CELEBRATED 

THE 

CHERISHED HERITAGE

OF ISRAEL'S

PROVISION

IN THE WILDERNESS

BY GOD

WATER 

FROM

THE 

ROCK

AND

LIGHT 

TO 

SHOW

THE 

WAY 

AS A LIGHTHOUSE GIVES LIGHT

TO SEA GOING SHIPS

SO GOD GAVE A PILLAR

OF LIGHT

BY DAY AND A PILLAR OF FIRE

BY NIGHT

TO LEAD THEM

GUIDE THEM

TO DIRECT THEM 

THE ROCK IN THE WILDERNESS

WERE THE SOURCE

OF ENOUGH WATER

 TO QUENCH THE THIRST

OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 

JESUS IS PICTURED 

IN THE 

The Feast of Tabernacles 

           This feast had a threefold practice -  

                              (1)   It was considered as "the ingathering" 

                                  The Time of Harvest

                                        (2)  As the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) it
                                    had relation to Living in the Wilderness.
                                            Living in Tents, booths, to
                                                      symbolize their
                                                          memory of it.
                             (3) Feast of Jehovah - "Yhwh"   which
                                     had relation to the ultimate harvest 
                                      of the Messiah.   
                                              Looking to Messiah's coming.
                    

                    SO LET US TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THIS
                          WAS ALL ABOUT .....

                     With 2.5 million people that came out of Egypt
                     with Moses,   how much water  ? was involved? 

                      *  THE JEWS CELEBRATED GOD'S 
                           PROVISION OF WATER IN THE 
                           WILDERNESS.....
                                      a. This required 12 million gallons of
                                             water daily.
                   * THE JEWS CELEBRATED GOD'S 
                               PROVISION OF LIGHT ALONG THE
                               PATHWAY - A PILLAR OF CLOUD BY
                              DAY, AND A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT.
                        
                                      a. When the Pillar of Light stopped -
                                           the people stopped, and stayed. 
                                           When the Night came - there was
                                          Light to protect and keep safe.
                           
                        Each day for a week 
                          * FOUR GIANT GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS
                              75 FEET TALL    in the Court of the Women
                              and towered over the Temple grounds on
                               the Temple mount.
                                      Each evening, they were lit.
                                     Once lit,  these lit the entire Temple area
                                       with their light. 
                                   They had special "windows" that allowed
                                   maximum light to flow from them, and 
                                   could be seen from any point in Jerusalem.
                          They were a fiery presentation of the 
                              Shekinah Glory of God in the Tabernacle
        
                        Each day -   after the morning sacrifice and
                       ceremonies, the festive meal,  the entire afternoon
                      spent in meditation on the Law, and the evening 

                     sacrifice, JUST AS DARKNESS FELL, the SPECIAL CEREMONY OF THE LIGHTING 

OF THE 

CANDLEABRA WAS HELD.                          John  7. 10 - 11 

Each day as the lights were lit,  thousands of worshippers were 

watching as priests ascended ladders to the four golden bowls, filled them with 10 gallons of oil each, and lit the oil soaked wicks, comprised of used priestly garments. 

             As the sky began to glow - a group of torch bearing

            "chasadim"  would dance before the people, and the 

             Levites would start playing with harps, flutes, cymbals,

             trumpets, and "instruments without number" .  

                             The Levitical Choir would begin to sing

                            the 15 DEGREE - or ASCENT PSALMS

                          (Psalm 120  - 134)   as they stood on the 

                          15 steps which led up from the Court of 

                            the Women to the Court of the Men. 

                  All of this not only looked BACK 

                           to the Shekinah Glory in the past,

                              but LOOKED FORWARD 

                                   to the future Shekinah Glory 

                                    of God when Messiah would come

                                       in His Kingdom.   

      

         

On the very last day of

the FEAST OF TABERNACLES

AT DAYBREAK  -   Hundreds of worshippers in festive array

left that palm and willow leaf booths and proceeded to the Temple.    Each worshipper carried the LUBLAH - the myrtle, willow and palm branches bound together -  in his right hand, and in the other hand - the ethrog - or the "boughs of fruit" 

Leviticus 23.40.     At the first glimmer of sunlight, the priest on the pinnacle of the Temple signaled for THREE LONG TRUMPET BLASTS and the OPENING OF THE GATES.

               

  At the opening of the gates,

(1) One group remained in the temple,

for preperations for the morning 

sacrifice, 

(2) One procession went to Motza in 

the Kedron Valley, and gathered 

branches which would be 

used in the morning services.

(3) The most important group proceeded 

to the Pool of Siloam which was 

fed by the "living waters" of an 

artesian spring.

To the sound of trumpets,

flutes,

and other instruments, 

the procession to the Pool of Siloam

is followed by a pries bearing a golden pitcher.

As the priest dipped the pitcher into 

the Pool of Siloam

they would chant the words 

"Ho, everyone that thirsteth,

come ye to the waters,

and he that hath no money,

come ye."  

ISAIAH chapter 55.1

"Therefore with joy shall ye
draw water out of
the wells of
salvation."

ISAIAH CHAPTER 12. VERSE 3

They then return to
the Temple through the Water Gate.

These two processions reentered the temple
to THREE LONG BLASTS OF THE TRUMPETS
AT THE EXACT MOMENT
ANOTHER PRIEST
WAS READY
WITH THE MORNING
SACRIFICE.
(a)
To the sound of trumpet blasts
the group with the willow branches
drove them into the ground
so as to form a leafy canopy
over the BRAZEN ALTAR.
(b)
The priest with a pitcher of water
was joined in the Court of the Priests
by another priest with a pitcher of
wine (fruit of the vine- unfermented grapes)
for the Drink Offering.
They ascended the altar together,
joining the priest ready to
make the BURNT OFFERING.
(c)
As the people shouted "Raise thy hand"
the priests with the water and wine
pour both into long silver funnels which
lead into the Altar.  This outpouring
of water, universally understood
by the Jews as symbolic of the prophesied
outpouring of the Holy Spir8t, was
the central object of
the entire day's ceremonies.
(d)
IMMEDIATELY the priests begin
to lead in the great
HALLEL - which consisted
of Psalms 113 - 118.

KJV - HOLY BIBLE - PSALMS 113 - 118 

TO THE SOUND OF AN 
ORCHESTRA OF FLUTES,
THE 400 PRIESTS WOULD
CHANT EACH VERSE
OF THE HALLEL -
Psalm 113 - 118 

The people repeated the first line 
of each Psalm, and shout 
HALLELU  JAH  to every other
verse.

IN PSALM 118, the people would
the first verse,
 "Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD,
then verse 25a
"Oh, give thanks unto the LORD, 
for He is good,
His mercy endureth forever." 

All of this would take place 
in a building crescendo of Praise
as the people shook their "lulabh"  
branches to the Lord as they
chanted these words. 

AS THE PRIESTS MAKE THE CIRCUIT
OF THE ALTAR 7 TIMES
SINGING AGAIN
THE WORDS OF 
PSALM 118.25 
(having done one circuit around
the altar each of the 
six days before) 

THIS PICTURED THE END 
OF THEIR WANDERINGS
IN THE WILDERNESS

WITH THE VICTORY 
IN JERICHO
Symbolizing that Messiah 
would be Victorious One Day
with all the Gentile nations
in the Millenial Kingdom.

FINALLY 
BIBLE - KJV - PSALM 82
PSALM 82 was chanted 
to trumpet blasts  ending with
Psalm 82.8"Arise, O God, 
judge the earth, for Thou 
shalt inherit all nations." 

While all this has been
going on,
Jesus is now in Jerusalem.

  K J V   The Bible - John Chapter 

                         HOLY BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7

  

[But when his brethren were gone up, then went he
 also up unto the Feast, not openly,
  but as it were in secret.
                   Jesus arrived secretly at this Feast, while the 
                 leaders are looking for Him.   Meanwhile, the 
                people are ALL IN DISCUSSION ….  just who
                is this  Jesus ?   

                              * Some thought Jesus was a good man.

                               *Some thought he was a deceiver.

                               * Some thought he was a master-teacher.

                                * Some thought he was a prophet.

                                 *Some accepted Him as their Messiah.]

                SUDDENLY - THE LONE FIGURE OF CHRIST
                   STANDS UP AND CRIES OUT ….
                 "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and 
                   drink.   He that believeth on me, as the scripture
                   hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of 
                       living water."  
                                  (This spake he of the Spirit, which 
                                    they that believe on Him should 
                                                       receive  John 7. 37 - 39) 

BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7.VERSE 37 

BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7 VERSE 38

                      THE EFFECT ON EVERYONE IS 
                             INSTANTANEOUS.

                         Many of the people when they heard
                             this saying, said "Of a truth, this is 
                                 a Prophet."     John 7. verse 40
                                      
                          Others said, "This is the Christ (Messiah)
                          But some said, "Shall Christ come out 
                              of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said,
                         "That Christ cometh of the seed of David,
                             and out of the town of Bethlehem, where
                            David was?"      John 7. verse 41 

                              So there was a division among the 
                           people because of him.   John 7. verse 43.

                               And some of them would have taken
                             him; but no man laid hands on him.
                                                                    John 7.verse 44.

                             

      

                    so as we are about to celebrate CHRISTMAS
                      let us remember the very One who has 
                     been born of the Seed of David, and has 
                      indeed been born in Bethlehem.

           BIBLE - KJV - MATTHEW 2.1 - 12 BIRTH OF JESUS 

                    JESUS IS THE FOUNTAIN - hymnal.net                         
                            In my next post I will continue
                            in a discussion of Scripture 

                            WITH CHANUKKAH - AND 
                    JESUS AS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.