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Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Vayetzei / And He Left - this week’s Prophetic reading

Prophecy 2, 83, 118;
Genesis 28:10-32:2;
Hosea 12:12-14:10;
John 1:41-51;

Hosea 12:12-14:10

12 And Jacob fled into the field of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he shepherded for a wife.
13 And by a prophet YAHUVEH brought up Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.
14 Ephraim has provoked ME to anger most bitterly. And He shall leave his blood to him, and his Adonai shall turn his reproach to him.

*~Hosea Chapter 13 ~*

1 When Ephraim spoke trembling, he was lifted up in Israel. But he offended in Baal, and he died.
2 And now they sin more and more, and they have made themselves a molten image of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say to them, Let men, those who sacrifice, kiss calves.
3 So they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff storm driven from the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the window.
4 Yet I am YAHUVEH, your ELOHIM from the land of Egypt; and you shall know no other ELOHIM than ME. For there is no Savior without ME. (Is 43:11) The chastisement in these chapters to Ephraim is a stark parallel to the USA today in where probably more than 100 million Israelites are living. They are making the same mistakes of idolatry, pride and arrogance that Ephraim did, due to their wealth, through being a trading nation.
5 I have known you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
6 According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was lifted up. On account of this they have forgotten ME.
7 Now I am as a lion to them; I will watch by the way like a leopard.
8 I will meet them like a bereaved bear, and I will tear the lining of their heart; and as a lion, I will devour them there; the beast of the field shall tear them.
9 O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in ME.
10 Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And where are your judges of whom you said, Give to me a king and rulers?
11 I gave to you a king in My anger, and took him away in My fury.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hidden.
13 The pangs of a woman giving birth shall come to him; he is not a wise son, for he cannot stand still in the time of the breaking forth of sons.
14 I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your ruin? Repentance is hidden from My eyes.
15 Though he is fruitful among brothers, an east wind shall come. The wind of YAHUVEH shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall be dried, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all desirable vessels. (Gen 41:6)
16 Samaria shall be desolate, for she has rebelled against her ELOHIM. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up. Ephraim’s hope would be in the resurrection,

*~Hosea Chapter 14 ~*

1 O Israel, return to YAHUVEH your ELOHIM, for you have fallen by your sin.
2 Take words with you and return to YAHUVEH. Say to Him, Lift up all iniquity and receive us well, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.
3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy. (Hos 1:6, 10)
4 I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him. (Jer 31:31-34)
5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon.
6 His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to him.
7 They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain, and blossom like the vine; their memorial shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What is it to me any more with idols? I answered him, and I surveyed him. I am as a green cypress tree; your fruit is found from ME. (Jer 16:19, Eze 17:23)
9 Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of YAHUVEH are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.

John 1:41-51

41 This one first found his own brother Simon and tells him, We have found the Messiah.
42 And he led him to YAHUSHUA. And looking at him, YAHUSHUA said, You are Simon the son of Jonah; you shall be called Kepha (which translated is rock).
43 And on the morrow, YAHUSHUA desired to go out into Galilee. And He found Philip, and says to him, Follow ME!
44 And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip finds Nathaniel and said to him, We have found the One of whom Moses wrote in the Torah and the Prophets, YAHUSHUA the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.
46 And Nathaniel said to him, Can any good thing be out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.
47 YAHUSHUA saw Nathaniel coming toward Him and said concerning him, Behold, truly an Israelite in whom is no guile!
48 Nathaniel said to Him, from where do You know me? YAHUSHUA answered and said to him, Before Philip called, you being under the fig tree, I saw you.
49 Nathaniel answered and said to The Greek manuscript then has the words, “which is being interpreted the Christ”. This clearly shows that the Aramaic was written first and the Greek translated from it. In Hebrew Bethsaida means House of the fishermen. Him, Rabbi, You are the Son of YAHUVEH; You are the King of Israel.
50 YAHUSHUA answered and said to him, Because I said to you I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.
51 And He says to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, From now on you will see Heaven opened, and “The cherubs of ELOHIM ascending and descending” on the Son of YAHUVEH. (Gen. 28:12)