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Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Vayigash / Then He Drew Near - this week’s Prophetic reading

Prophecy 37, 60, 70;
Genesis 44:18-47:27;
Ezekiel 37:15-28;
Luke 24:30-48;

Ezekiel 37:15-28

15 And the Word of YAHUVEH was to me,
16 saying, And you, son of man, take one stick to yourself and write on it, For Judah, and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.
17 And draw them one to one for yourself, into one (echad) stick. And they shall become one (echad) in your hand.
18 And when the sons of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not declare to us what these mean to you?
19 Say to them, So says Adonai YAHUVEH: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions. And I will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and I will make them one stick, and they shall be one (echad) in My hand.
20 And the sticks shall be in your hand, the ones on which you write before their eyes.
21 And say to them, So says Adonai YAHUVEH: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations, there where they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and will bring them into their own land.
22 And I will make them one (echad) nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be for a king to all of them. And they shall not be two nations anymore. And they will not be split into two kingdoms any more.
23 And they will not still be defiled with their idols, even with their filthy idols, nor with all of their transgressions. But I will save them out of all their dwelling places where they have sinned in them, and I will cleanse them. So they shall be for a people to Me and I will be for ELOHIM to them.
24 And My servant, David, shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell on the land that I have given to My servant, to Jacob, there where your fathers dwelt in it. And they shall dwell on it, they and their sons, and the sons of their sons, forever. And My servant David shall be a ruler to them forever.
26 And I will cut a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant it shall be with them, And I will place them and multiply them, and I will put (Aleph/Tav) My sanctuary in their midst forever.
27 And My tabernacle shall be with them, and I will be their ELOHIM, and they shall be My people.
28 And when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever, the nations shall know that I, YAHUVEH, sanctify Israel.

Luke 24:30-48

30 And it happened as He reclined with them, having taken bread, He blessed, and having broken He gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him. And He became invisible from them.
32 And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as He spoke to us in the highway, and as He opened up to us the Scriptures?
33 And rising up in the same hour, they went back to Jerusalem, and they found the Eleven, and those with them, having been gathered,
34 saying, The Master really was raised and appeared to Simon.
35 And they related the things in the highway, and how He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
36 And as they were telling these things, YAHUSHUA Himself stood in their midst, and said to them, Peace to you!
37 But being terrified, and being filled with fear, they thought they saw a ghost.
38 And He said to them, Why are you troubled? And why do doubts come up in your hearts.
39 See My hands and My feet, that I am He? Feel Me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see Me having.
40 And saying this, He showed them His hands and feet.
41 But yet they not believing from the joy, and marveling, He said to them, Have you any food here?
42 And they handed a broiled part of a fish to Him, and from a honeycomb.
43 And taking these before them, He ate.
44 And He said to them, These are the Words which I spoke to you yet being with you, that all the things must be fulfilled having been written in the Torah of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning Me.
45 Then He opened up their mind to understand the Scriptures,
46 and said to them, So it is written, and so the Messiah must suffer, and to rise from the dead on the third day.
47 And repentance and remission of sins must be preached on His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48 And you are witnesses of these things.