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Pursue Justice
Deut 16:20 “Follow righteousness, righteousness alone, so that you live.
Other translations say something like “Strive for nothing but justice”, or “That which is altogether just you shall follow”
The Hebrew word use actually for Follow or strive RADAP H7291 – rāḏap̄, which is Pursue or chase. Not just follow, but seek it, run for it.
The Hebrew word for righteousness or justice is SEDEQ H6664 – ṣeḏeq.
When you read the Hebrew it says: “SEDEQ SEDEQ RADAP“, which reads JUSTICE JUSTICE PURSUE!
Sun, Moon and Stars Worship
Deut 17:3 “and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,”
Deut 18:
9“When you come into the land which YHWH your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those gentiles.
10“Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,
11or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12“For whoever does these are an abomination to YHWH, and because of these abominations YHWH your Elohim drives them out from before you.
13“Be perfect before YHWH your Elohim,
14for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, YHWH your Elohim has not appointed such for you.
abomination TOEBA H8441 – tôʿēḇâ, TAAB H8581 – tāʿaḇ, which means to abhor, detest, loathe, utterly hate
Deu 7:26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly H8581 abhor H8581 it; for it is a cursed thing.
The Hebrew word is even repeated twice here.. TOEBA TOEBA.
We might not even realize how much we are surrounded by sun, moon, star and planet worship today. It is NOT just a thing of thousands of years ago, but we teach our children these things for entertainment, we enjoy the movies, we partake in celebration and festivals that have these worship entities at their core – they won’t tell you that – they just entice you to join in.
IMPORTANT SCRIPTURES / PROPHECIES:
| Deut 16:1-3,5-7 – Mo’edim: Pesach/Passover – Guard the month of Abib, perform Passover sacrifice, slaughter lamb from the flock in the place YHWH chooses. Eat no leaven bread with it. Do not slaughter in your gates, but at the place YHWH chooses, roasted lamb, at the going down of the sun. Do not leave meat leftover until the morning. |
| Deut 16:4,8 – Mo’edim: Unleavened Bread – 7 days of unleavened bread (bread of affliction). No leaven in your border (home) for 7 days. 7th day is closing festival, no work allowed. |
| Deut 16:9-11 – Mo’edim: Shavuot / Pentecost – Count 7 weeks for yourself, from the time you begin to sickle the grain. Voluntary offering. |
| Deut 16:13-15 – Mo’edim: Day of Booths/Tabernacle (Sukkot) – For 7 days after the ingathering from the threshing-floor and winepress, rejoice in festival for 7 days in the place YHWH chooses. |
| Deut 16:16 – Mo’edim Festivals – 3 times a year for festivals all the males to appear before YHWH in the place He chooses: Festival of unleavened bread, Festival of Weeks (Shavuot), Festival of Booths. Do not appear empty handed before YHWH. |
| Deut 16:18-20 – Judges – Appoint judged in your gates, which YHWH gives you according to your tribe. Right-ruling, no partiality, no bribes – only righteousness. |
| Deut 16:21 – Other religion practices – Do not plant any tree near the altar |
| Deut 16:22 – Other religion practices – Do not set up pillars |
| Deut 17:1 – Offerings – Do not slaughter to YHWH any animal with a blemish. |
| Deut 17:2-7 – Death penalties – In the case of death penalty, make sure to search for truth diligently first. No death allowed with only one witness, must have two or three witnesses. |
| Deut 17:8-13 – Levitical Priests duties – When matter arises too hard to judge, they must go to the priest (Levites) to inquire from breastplate of righteousness. Then do exactly what they instruct. Do not be arrogant. |
| Deut 17:14 – Choosing a King – Choose someone among your brothers, no foreigners. The King is not allowed to increase his horses, wifes, riches, etc. He must write a copy of the Torah, and he must keep it and read it all the days of his life. His heart must not be lifted above his brothers. |
| Deut 18:1-8 – Levitical Priests duties – The Levites have no inheritance, they enjoy the offerings to YHWH as YHWH is their inheritance. They serve in the place YHWH chooses. |
| Deut 18:9-14 – Other religion practices – When coming into the land (new land / promised land), do not learn the practices of others before you. Do not pass through fire, practice divination, magic, omens, sorcery, spells, mediums, spirits, calling dead. |
| Deut 18:15-19 – Prophets – YHWH will raise Prophets from the Hebrews/Israelites. They are there in the place where it was too hard for people to hear directly from YHWH. Listen to them. |
| Deut 18:20-22 – False Prophets – Do not be afraid of false prophets – they are YHWHs to deal with. |
