Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Eikev / Because - this week’s Prophetic reading
Prophecy 58, 90, 152;
Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25;
Isaiah 49:14-51:3;
John 14:1-31;
Isaiah 49:14-5:13
14 But Zion said, YAHUVEH has forsaken me, and, My Adonai has forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her suckling child, from pitying the son of her womb? Yes,
these may forget, yet I will surely not forget you. 16 Behold, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are always
before Me. 17 Your sons hurry; those destroying you and ruining you shall go out from you. 18 Lift up your eyes all around and see! They all gather and come to you. As I
live, says YAHUVEH, you shall surely wear all of them as an ornament, and bind
them on as a bride. 19 For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins shall even
now be too narrow to live there; and they who swallow you shall be far away. 20 The sons of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too
narrow for me; come near for me so that I may have place to live. 21 Then you shall say in your heart, Who has borne these to me, for I am
bereaved and desolate, turned aside and an exile; who then has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone. From where do these come? 22 So says Adonai YAHUVEH, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and
will set up My banner to peoples. And they shall bring your sons in the bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried on the shoulder. 23 And kings shall be supporting you, and their princesses your nurses. They
shall bow to you, faces down to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet.
And you shall know that I am YAHUVEH, by whom they who wait for Me shall not be
ashamed. 24 Shall the plunder be taken from the warrior, or the righteous captive escape? 25 But so says YAHUVEH, Even the captives of the warrior shall be taken, and the
plunder of the terrifying ones shall be delivered. For I will strive with him
who contends with you; and I will save your sons. 26 And those who oppress you, I will feed with their own flesh: and they shall
be drunk by their own blood, as with fresh wine. And all flesh shall know that I
am YAHUVEH, and your Savior (Y’shua*), the Kinsman Redeemer, the Mighty One of
Jacob.
*~Isaiah Chapter 50 ~*
1 So says YAHUVEH, Where is the writing of the severing of your mother’s
matrimonial bond, whom I have put away? Or who of My creditors that I have sold
you to him? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put
away for your trespasses. 2 Who knows why I have come, and no one is here? I called, and not one answered.
Is My hand truly cut short from ransom? Or is there not power in Me to deliver?
Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea; I make rivers a wilderness; their fish
stink because of no water, and die in thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and sackcloth makes their covering. 4 Adonai YAHUVEH has given to Me the tongue of learned ones, to know to help the
weary with a word. He awakens me in the morning; He wakens the ear to Me, to
hear as the learned. 5 Adonai YAHUVEH has opened My ear and I did not rebel; I did not turn away
backwards. 6 I gave My back to strikers, and My cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I
did not hide My face from shame and spitting. 7 And Adonai YAHUVEH will help Me. On account of this I was not ashamed. On
account of this I set My face like flint, and I know that I shall not be
ashamed. 8 My Justifier is near. Who will contend with Me? Let us stand up together. Who
is master of My judgment? Let him come near to Me. 9 Behold, Adonai YAHUVEH will help Me; who is He who will condemn Me? Behold,
like a garment they shall wear out; the moth shall eat them. 10 Who among you fears YAHUVEH, obeying the voice of His Servant; who walks in
darkness, and no light is in him? Let him trust in the name of YAHUVEH, and lean
on his ELOHIM. 11 Behold, all of you who kindle fire, who are surrounded by sparks; walk in the
light of your fire and in the sparks you are burning. This shall be to you from
My hand; you shall lie down in pain.
*~ Isaiah Chapter 51 ~*
1 Hear Me, pursuers of righteousness, seekers of YAHUVEH: Look to the rock from
which you were cut, and to the hollow of the pit from which you were dug. 2 Look to your father Abraham, and to Sarah who bore you. For he being but one,
I called him and blessed him and increased him. 3 For YAHUVEH comforts Zion. He comforts all her desolations, and He makes her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of YAHUVEH; joy and
gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of singing praise.
John 14:1-31
1 Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in YAHUVEH, and believe in Me. 2 There are many rooms in my Father’s house, and if not I would have told you
so. For I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will receive
you to Myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know. 5 Thomas said to Him, Our Master, we do not know where You go, and how can we
know the way? 6 YAHUSHUA said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes
to the Father except through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you
do know Him, and have seen Him. 8 And Philip said to Him, Master, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. 9 YAHUSHUA said to him, Am I so long a time with you, and you have not known Me,
Philip? The one seeing Me has seen the Father! And how do you say, Show us the
Father? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The Words
which I speak to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who dwells in
Me, He does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me; but if not,
believe Me because of the works themselves. 12 Indeed, I tell you truly, the one believing into Me, the works which I do,
that one shall do also, and greater than these he will do, because I go to My
Father. 13 And whatever you may ask in My name, this I will do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will petition the Father, and He will give you another one which will
end the curse1, that He may remain with you forever, 17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see
Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for it dwells with you and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world no longer sees Me, but you see Me. Because I
live, you also shall live. 20 In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I
am in you. 21 He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is that one who loves Me; and
the one that loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and will
reveal Myself to him. 22 Judas said to Him (not the Iscariot) Master, what has happened that You are
about to reveal Yourself to us and not at all to the world? 23 YAHUSHUA answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word,
and My Father shall love him. And We will come to him and will make a dwelling
place with him. 24 The one who does not love Me does not keep My Words. And the Word which you
hear is not Mine but of the Father who sent Me. 25 I have spoken these things to you, abiding with you; 26 But the Redeemer, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in My name will
teach you everything. And it will remind you of everything that I said to you. 27 I leave peace to you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives I give
to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be timid. 28 You heard that I said to you, I am going away, and I am coming again to you.
If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I said, I am going to the Father;
for My Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it occurs, that when it shall occur you may
believe. 30 I shall no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of this world is
coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, even as the Father
commanded Me, so I do. Rise up, let us go from here.