{"id":2722,"date":"2024-06-30T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:10:04","slug":"parsha-shelach-lekha-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cShelach Lekha\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Shelach Lekha&#8221; (Numbers chapters 13 through 15) begins with a story that is often just called &#8220;The Spies,&#8221; because that might be sufficient to remind us what happened. But because the story is also truly tragic, there&#8217;s &#8220;more to the story.&#8221; As us so often also the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when most Americans knew what form of government we were supposed to have. Classes called &#8220;Civics&#8221; were taught, even in public schools, before they became open &#8216;indoctrination centers.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you noticed the that more &#8216;certain people&#8217; prattle about &#8216;our great democracy&#8217; and the need to &#8216;count every vote&#8217; (often more than once) &#8211; the more likely they are to hate* the Bill of Rights, Constitution for these united States, and &#8211; especially &#8211; the Word of YHVH?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they virtually NEVER seem to know that the word &#8216;democracy&#8217; never &#8211; not once &#8211; appears in any of the founding documents? &nbsp;Not the Declaration, nor the Bill of Rights, nor the Constitution. &nbsp;And it doesn&#8217;t appear in the Bible, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is plenty of condemnation of &#8220;demonocracy&#8221; in all of them, in one form or another. &nbsp;While those same Founders were overt in their hatred of &#8220;the devil&#8217;s own government&#8221; in their letters and papers, including the &#8216;Federalist Papers&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also now at least arguable that more people are starting to see that those who worship at the altar of the great fake god &#8216;Democracy&#8217; [ok, Demonocracy] don&#8217;t care much at all for the Real One that Wrote the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a &#8220;choice&#8221; to be made, but it isn&#8217;t among the &#8220;lesser of evils.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading connects what Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, suggests are the VERY clear reasons WHY every single man &#8216;Numbered&#8217; among that mixed multitude DIED &#8211; their &#8220;carcasses fell in the wilderness&#8217; &#8211; before entering the Promised Land:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/SSM-6-28-24-Shelach-Lekha-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day midrash will probably upset a lot of people. But, of course, so will what&#8217;s coming. And regular listeners know Mark is not inclined to &#8220;pull punches&#8221; &#8211; especially concerning Scripture-as-Written, but it&#8217;s time to make clear what He did to those who &#8220;<em>despised His Word.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They still do. And participation with them (or &#8220;following after a crowd to do evil&#8221;) can prove deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Shelach Lekha: Anointed? Or &#8216;Elected&#8217;? And by Who?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WT-CooH-6-29-24-Shelach-Lekha-Anointed-or-Elected-and-by-Who-podcast-xxxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/Parsha &quot;Shelach Lekha&quot; (Numbers chapters 13 through 15) begins with a story that is often just called &quot;The Spies,&quot; because that might be sufficient to remind us what happened.  But because the story is also truly tragic, there&#039;s &quot;more to the story.&quot;  As us so often also the case.  There was a time when most Americans knew what form of government we were supposed to have.  Classes called &quot;Civics&quot; were taught, even in public schools, before they became open &#039;indoctrination centers.&#039;  It&#039;s also now at least arguable that more people are starting to see that those who worship at the altar of the great fake god &#039;Democracy&#039; don&#039;t care much at all for the Real One that Wrote the Bible.   There is a &quot;choice&quot; to be made, but it isn&#039;t among the &quot;lesser of evils.&quot;  The Erev Shabbat reading connects what Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, suggests are the VERY clear reasons WHY every single man &#039;Numbered&#039; among that mixed multitude DIED - their &quot;carcasses fell in the wilderness&#039; - before entering the Promised Land:    The Sabbath Day midrash will probably upset a lot of people.  But, of course, so will what&#039;s coming.  And regular listeners know Mark is not inclined to &quot;pull punches&quot; - especially concerning Scripture-as-Written, but it&#039;s time to make clear what He did to those who &quot;&lt;em&gt;despised His Word.&lt;\/em&gt;&quot;   They still do.  And participation with them (or &quot;following after a crowd to do evil&quot;) can prove deadly.  &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &quot;Shelach Lekha:  Anointed?  Or &#039;Elected&#039;?  And by Who?&quot;&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt;      The combined two-part teaching is here:\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2024 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Shelack Lekha,&#8221;  (the story of the &#8216;speis&#8217;, and the First Recorded Vote in human history.) <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,185,69,151,31,11,29,12],"tags":[46,26,28,87,16,1706,407,104,625,405,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}