a migrant labourer (internet posting of 2015) …three briefs herein may help you see… brief… … covering … Personal .1. Mindfulness; Shabbat Rests; Speaking, Vows and Nazir; Grooming, Marks and Mutiliations; Relations with Parents, Wives and Children; Calendars and Festivals, Tithes and Offerings; Money, Usury and Remission of Debts; Servants and Slaves National .2. Borders and Land Allotments; HOLY War; Kings; Census; Righteousness, Judges and Courts; Agricultural Calendar; Standard Weights and Measures; Building Codes and Safety Precautions Intercessors .3. the HOLY Name; Divine Judgment and Intercessors; Altars and Offerings; HIS Sanctuary and the Ark of Covenant; Incense, Oils and Lamps; Priests, Vestments and Service Cycles …with numerous references to the book Delta… three briefs herein may help you see more clearly One Reality do you know the One Reality? embrace a servant’s obscurity the One that only HE can see? shape your eternal maturity HE made and Owns the universe1 this greatest effort you ever tried but cares enough for you and me… the greatest care that you can provide to send HIS Son, the Righteous Light commandments, statutes from of old to call us out from darkest night deliberate caution? deliberately bold! setting soon upon the face while others exult in their noisiness of Earth, HIS Footstool, HIS by Right2 keep quietly to your reverence here is found no place for pride so small, those rebels, trying to take let these in you be exemplified all that we own, and make us quake as if they were above it all my fellow students, here i pause pride it is their grave mistake! sharing what i can with you and we are not to heed their call now, like a tumbleweed ‘cross these plains but recognize their coming fall i head far West there to renew HE’ll leave their names but for a curse! a path, a calling in my veins their endings painful? far, far worse! but where you go in liberty heed you well our TEACHER’s call! evil sprouted up like grass and do not linger long with me… now struts on every side only that they’ll be cut off! Limited views; opinions abound! the Psalmist does well chide3 expect them to agree? their orders barked, such words they roar there is but One common ground but HE shall clear HIS threshing floor4 call it One Reality they be but chaff before the flame and run toward everlasting shame three briefs herein may help you see more clearly One Reality but Who, to you, is our YESU? do you know the One Reality? why, Judge and King and Priest! none but HE can clearly see? HE does not shrink to discipline HE made and Owns the universe from mighty to the least but cares enough for you and me so set your heart at Perfect ease to help us know the way to go to guide your mind toward needful rest not left nor right, but straight and steady know HE called you to be blessed YESU clears THEIR threshing floor the path HE gave you always best ● ● ● ● just asking … are you ready? a migrant labourer where the buffalo roam, Caprock Canyon, Texas Memorial Day, 2015 This work is © non-commercial, share alike. For my fellow students, this is not to deter you. I request you to freely use and improve upon these writings as you pass along your own to others, without need to mention me. Find a means to leave me a message if you wish at www.primeconcord.info. 1 see Isaiah 66:2 2 titles in all capital letters are reserved for DIVINE PERSONS and not meant to be “loud” 3 see Psalm 92:7 4 see Matthew 3:12, spoken of YESU by Yohanan the Immerser (spoken of JESUS, by John the Baptist) Personal (Brief One) The book Delta contains much of what I had to say about the commandments for personal behavior. The essay gardeners by Design already covers interior thought which is guided by loving YHVH with all your heart, and walking humbly with HIM. The essay covers also food, clothing and keeping a garden the way YHVH intended. A Legal primer covered, for Gentile believers, the forbiddances of blood and deviances in personal behavior, be it sexual, idolatrous or spiritism. These and other weighty topics in Delta are assumed to be already familiar to the reader. YESU (JESUS) is JUDGE of Heaven and Earth, and is the One WHO will weigh us in the Judgment that is coming. As a Gentile believer, you may hold to the few commandments for Gentiles, but deeper knowledge of the Torah will enable you to avoid putting stumbling blocks before men of Israel who are to keep the more comprehensive commandments. This brief expands upon other commandments for Israel that are most personal, or extend to immediate household and village. In all this, we must not forget that YESU is JUDGE of each of us on a personal level, and the supreme Role Model for us to ponder as we grow. While HE may Judge us according to the few commandments for Gentile believers, HE will also expect us to know what HE taught. YESU Said … worship YHVH, serve HIM only.1 … when asked “what of that other man?” 2 YESU Replied … “what is it to you? you follow ME!” YESU Said … It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to stumble.3 Shabbat Rest - YHVH rested on the seventh day after Creation of the Universe, but HE did not require observance until about 2,000 years later. In the days of Moses, the commandment went forth, and discipline was needed. One man went out to gather provisions of firewood on Shabbat and lost his life as such an example to others. We are to make provisions for ourselves ahead of time so that we may be satisfied with complete rest on Shabbat. When in a position to do so, I have always allowed co-workers to choose a day of rest themselves and have myself chosen Saturday when I could do so. When my own work assignments have included Saturdays, as on one assignment in India it was mandatory, all funds earned went to charitable causes such that there was no increase of mine for the day. I have, on the other hand, skipped dinners on numerous occasions with visiting senior managers when they chose Shabbat for their visits and special functions. It seemed to them I did not know the value of “face time”, and was passed by for some choice position assignments. Instead, I had refused to reduce my quiet time when I am earnestly seeking to know the Face of GOD. Shabbat should not be taken lightly, but remember… YESU Said … “Shabbat was made for man, not man for Shabbat”4 and YESU Said … “ MY FATHER is at work to this very day (Shabbat) and I also work” (about healing on Shabbat, and telling the lame man to carry his mat away)5 Keep Holy the Shabbat, in memory of YHVH making the universe in six days and Exodus 20:8-11 resting on the seventh. You shall not do any work on Shabbat, not you or your son Exodus 23:12 or your daughter or servants or cattle or visitors Exodus 31:16-17 1 see primary source in Torah Deut 6:13-15 for Matt 4:10; Luke 4:8 2 see John 21:20-23 3 See Matt 18:6, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2 4 See Mark 2:27 5 See John 5:17 Personal (Brief One) p.2 of 12 Remain every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the Shabbat Exodus 16:27-30 On Shabbat you shall rest, even during times of plowing and harvesting Exodus 34:21 The army of Israel marched around Jericho for seven days without a break, Joshua Ch 5 & 6 meaning there is no prohibition of warfare activities on such a Holy Day. Special Shabbats – numerous - see Calendars and Feasts in these Briefs, and also “on choosing festivals wisely” in Delta Speaking and Making Vows YESU Said … "Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall fulfill your vows to YHVH.' But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the Throne of GOD, or by the earth, for it is the Footstool of HIS Feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great KING. Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your 6 statement be, 'Yes, yes', 'No, no'. Anything beyond these brings harm." We must be careful in our speech. We are to fulfill those things we say we shall do. As people of GOD, we are not to speak vainly. YESU Said … I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the Day of Judgment for every empty word they have spoken - by your words you will be acquitted and by 7 your words you will be condemned. Perform what goes out from your lips as voluntarily vowed to YHVH. Num 30:1-2; Deut 23:21-23 Man not to infringe on any vow to YHVH, nor to delay in performing it. Man not to infringe on any oath by which he takes a binding obligation upon himself. Be careful what you say! Swear your oaths, if you do swear any, by YHVHs Name Deut 10:20 Do not make false oaths – YHVH will not pardon anyone taking an oath in HIS Exodus 20:7 Name falsely Women not to infringe on any vow to YHVH nor any oath by which she takes a Num 30:3-15 binding obligation upon herself unless (a) she is young, living with her father, and he annuls the vow on the first day he hears of it -or- (b) her husband annuls the vow on the first day he hears of it.