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Welcome to Bereisheet / In the Beginning - this week’s Prophetic reading


Prophecy 50, 89, 139;
Genesis 1:1–6:8;
Isaiah 42:5–43:10;
Revelation 22:6–21;



Isaiah 42:5–43:10


1 Behold My Servant; I will support Him; My Elect in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit on Him; He shall bring forth justice to the nations.
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring forth justice to truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be crushed until He has set justice in the earth; and the coasts shall wait for His Torah.
5 So says YAHUVEH The El, creating the heavens and stretching them out; spreading out the earth and its offspring, giving breath to the people on it, and spirit to those walking in it.
6 I, YAHUVEH, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
7 to open blind eyes, to lead out the prisoner from the prison; those who sit in darkness from the prison.
8 I am YAHUVEH; that is My name; and I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to engraved images.
9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and I declare new things before they happen, I cause you to hear.
10 Sing a new song to YAHUVEH; His praise from the end of the earth, you who go to sea, and all that is in it; the coasts and their people.
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up, the villages where Kedar lives. Let those dwelling in the rock sing; let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 They give glory to YAHUVEH and declare His praise in the coastlands.
13 YAHUVEH shall go out as a mighty warrior; and He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war; He shall shout, yea, roar; He shall act mightily on His enemies.
14 I have forever kept silence; I have been quiet and refrained Myself; I will groan like a woman in travail; I will pant and gasp at once.
15 I will make mountains and hills become a waste, and dry up all their plants. And I will make the rivers coastlands, and I will dry up pools.
16 And I will make the blind go by a way that they did not know. I will make them go in paths they never knew. I will make darkness go into light before them, and crooked places a level place. I do these things to them and do not forsake them;
17 they are turned back; they are ashamed with shame, those trusting in the carved image, who say to cast images, You are our gods.
18 O deaf ones, hear! And O blind ones, look to see!
19 Who is blind but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as the servant of YAHUVEH?
20 You see many things, but do not observe; your ears are open, but not any hears.
21 YAHUVEH is delighted for His righteousness' sake; He will magnify the Torah and make it honorable.
22 But it is a people robbed and spoiled; they shall all be snared in holes; they were hidden in prison houses. They were for spoil, and no one delivers; a prey, and no one says, Return!
23 Who among you will give ear to this, will listen and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to the robbers? Did not YAHUVEH, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah.
25 And He poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it on his heart.

*~Isaiah Chapter 43 ~*


1 But now so says YAHUVEH who formed you, O Jacob; and He who made you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I called you by your name; you are Mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk in the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle on you.
3 For I am YAHUVEH your Elohim, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt for your atonement; Ethiopia and Seba instead of you.
4 Since you were precious in My eyes, you are honored, and I love you; and I give men instead of you; and peoples instead of your soul.
5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east, and I will gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the north, Give up! And to the south, Do not hold back! Bring My sons from afar, and bring My daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 everyone who is called by My name, and I have created him for My glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring out the blind people, yet there are eyes; and the deaf, yet there are ears to him.
9 Let all the nations be assembled, and let the peoples be gathered. Who among them can declare this and cause us to hear former things? Let them give their witnesses, that they may be justified. Or let them hear and say, It is true.
10 You are My witnesses, says YAHUVEH; and My servant whom I have elected; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no El formed; nor shall any be after Me.

Revelation 22:6–21


6 Then he said to me, “These words are true and trustworthy: Adonai, ELOHIM of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must happen soon.”
7 “Look! I am coming very soon. Blessed is the person who obeys the words of the prophecy written in this book!”
8 Then I, Yochanan, the one hearing and seeing these things, when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel showing them to me. 9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am only a fellow-servant with you and your brothers, the prophets and the people who obey the words in this book. Worship ELOHIM!”
10 Then he said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy in this book,[a] because the time of their fulfillment is near.
11 “Whoever keeps acting wickedly, let him go on acting wickedly;whoever is filthy, let him go on being made filthy.“Also, whoever is righteous, let him go on doing what is righteous;and whoever is holy, let him go on being made holy.”
12 “Pay attention!” [says YAHUSHUA,] “I am coming soon, and my rewards are with me to give to each person according to what he has done. 13 I am the ‘A’ and the ‘Z,’ the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
14 How blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they have the right to eat from the Tree of Life and go through the gates into the city! 15 Outside are the homosexuals, those involved with the occult and with drugs, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. 16 “I, YAHUSHUA, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the Messianic communities. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star. 17 The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let anyone who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let anyone who is thirsty come — let anyone who wishes, take the water of life free of charge.”
18 I warn everyone hearing the words of the prophecy in this book that if anyone adds to them, ELOHIM will add to him the plagues written in this book. 19 And if anyone takes anything away from the words in the book of this prophecy, ELOHIM will take away his share in the Tree of Life and the holy city, as described in this book.
20 “The one who is testifying to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming soon!’”Amen! Come, Lord YAHUSHUA!
21 May the grace of the Lord YAHUSHUA be with all!