Good Morning everyone, Welcome to The Church Ministries 111th Sunday Church Service Assembly, It is funny I am listed all over the local internet churches but I have a bigger audience in India then in Hilo, Hawaii. People in Hilo are finally figuring out that the church service is on the internet and we meet every Sunday morning at 10am. It only took 2 years, to get the people to understand we can have a service every Sunday an you don’t have to worry about being late. Everything is done from a little office in Papaikou 4 miles north of Hilo. I thank God I am still alive and healthy enough to sit up and to help you all with this weeks teaching, I don’t know if or when I am ever going to get to that special hospital or wait till May till I get Medicare or if I even can keep both I don’t know how it all works. Right now the mainland will not accept Medicaid. I go in for another blood test when I am done with the antibiotics, and see if my white cells are going to go down, I know I am running a fever, and when they keep taking my temperature in my ear it is always normal, but I know I an running a temperature, next month I am going to bring in both of my regular thermometers, I’m running about a 99.9- 100 even right now, those ear thermometers are always a few degrees to low they never get a chance to register and that goes in the hospital or anywhere some people take your temp in the mouth and some take it in the ear, every time I take it in the mouth I always have a temp. Even when I was with that other doctor I always was running a temperature, in fact the nurse would not even leave it in until the time was right or until the buzzer went off. It was like she knew I had a temp but what was she or the doctor going to do they have no where to send me, I seems like I’m caught on a deserted island more or less with an infection and there isn’t anyone that can do anything, I am back on antibiotics again but remember I was getting antibiotics in my vein everyday for 6 weeks and that didn’t take down the fever or the infection, and of course that doctor does not have any interest because he was working on guess work and it turned out I went through all of that for nothing. Bag after bag of all those antibiotics going directly into my vein and a pastor was sitting with me every morning telling me it will be o.k. 3 times a day cleaning out the tube and saline, then sit there for a half an hour and let a whole bag drip into my body, then flush the line an then put a non clogging agent in, that was a horrible experience but that was over a year and a half ago, so I don’t know what is going to happen now, God will use me or is using me just the way He wants right now, or maybe some other thing in the future, we don’t know what will happen how long can a body live with a sickness or an infection. I feel I caught it in that hospital room the day before in Queens, Queens hospital is the central location for all of the surrounding countries in the Pacific Ocean it is the same with the church this Church reaches all of the same places. But I need to be sitting in one of those rooms, like on those TV shows with all these doctors trying to figure out what is wrong, go through all the tests and figure out if is a disease somewhere from the orient or China or India or anyone that had that room the day before me, and what they were treated for, and we would have our answer, I was the one that put my dentures in that glass and the next day I had been having an infection ever since. It is very simple now, the thing with my feet that throws everything off then it turns toward CRPS/RSD. But the thing is with that is I don’t have an constant infection, either that or I have two things wrong, I have an infection that know one can figure out, plus I need to be checked for RSD. Who knows I have something hidden and we know everything is demonic so God is permitting this to happen just like the book of Job. But now the prayer ministry is suffering intensely, I have not done anything on Friday; it was the first day that I didn’t even turn on the computer in years, and I mean it. I had to go into town and take some pictures and the day before I had to hitch-hike into town to go to the doctors, so Thursday and Friday I had to get to downtown and then take some pictures and then get them put on CD and so I can put them on this weeks sermon, last week I had to use doubles and felt so bad I had to do that, I had to do that a few other times, using doubles but that is all I could do, but this week I put it in God’s hands I had to walk and to stop, walk and stop, even sit on the curb, and lean on the bridge and that long stretch I had to walk I thought I was going to die, I was in severe pain but kept going, I even went across the street and started to hitch-hike home, and then I said what am I giving up for and then walked back across the street and started back to Wal-Mart hitch-hiking, and some woman picked me up with some special education kids and the Jesus tape was playing loud and the kids were singing and they gave me a ride all the way to Wal-Mart, if they only knew they are going to be written about this Sunday. You see there are a lot of good people in this world, but that long stretch was hurtful. Plus I am walking with a cane and an umbrella, I tell you thousands of cars passed me by and they all had plenty of room to stop along that whole strip, I don’t get it, what do people think, I am a disabled person out for a walk in the rain? I am just trying to get to Wal-Mart to have pictures so I can have them on the Sunday sermon, a crippled pastor, with the rain coming down both days the first day I had to hobble up into a truck bed in the rain but thank God it wasn’t raining right then, and then duck down so I would freeze to death, and that day broke my heart an old Gibson bass sitting in a pawn shop I saw in the window, I walked in and I wanted it, but someone already clamed it just a few minutes before I got there, anyway I got dropped off a few blocks away from the doctor and that alone was a blessing truck or no truck bed it was a ride. When I left the doctor’s office as I walked by the place and I watched that old Gibson bass walking out the door, I wanted to just cry but it wasn’t meant to be, there is a long story about my other Gibson bass, someday I will tell you all, I might have mentioned it before when I was playing with the orchestra, anyway I’m trying to get home but getting back was easy a Christian couple picked me up. Bless them, they don’t know who I was, they knew I used to go to a church down the street and they dropped me off at the hi-way right at my back door and they went out of their way to take me home, so what a blessing. You see God is there for me always. The second day was a mess, but I am ok now. Sometimes I just don’t know what God wants me to do. Sometimes I just needed to get out of the house, and you ask yourself was it worth it, I mean I could have used old pictures again, but I wanted to get another Christian book I had a 25% off sticker so when I get home there is a sticker on there saying it was 5.00 off already so maybe God was teaching me something, because neither one of us saw it, but I’ll just take it back. Anyway today we need to worship God and thank Him for helping us with all our lives. I wanted to talk about the book of Esther and it is a heavy book and God is not mentioned the whole time in the book but you can tell as one man said his fingers were in on it. Then the more I read there is so many different breakdowns of the story. Anyway I don’t know how long I will be around, I mean it would be good to be with Christ, but I can help so many people and I don’t feel that God wants to take me just yet, but for reason when I wake up I am surprised for some reason, I don’t why I have those feelings, maybe I just am not the man God wanted me to be, I should be up everyday not in a panic and go downtown with my bible and just sit and maybe set up a chess board. To gather up some intelligent people this way I can witness while I am playing and get some type of a thing going like some of the beaches I used to live on. I feel sorry for the people that don’t believe in God , most people think this life is all there is and it is so easy for them to be in a hurry like Friday the world, everyone passing me by there interested in money , power, pleasure, popularity, and their reputation, you see we have to develop eternal values and tell others about Christ, that is why I needed to get out of the house but I didn’t even talk about Jesus to anyone except the woman at the bookstore and now the guy that works there, and he will be reading about himself, we have to help people develop eternal values and look at life from a different perspective, me I have to speak more boldly about Christ and this way I will become more like Him, but if I am not around who can I speak to on this planet, I have been bottled up in this house for 2 years and I just don’t pray enough I should, I study a lot and read a lot and my head is in that bible, but I to sometimes I have to get out there and talk to people and just maybe put a box somewhere like a minister in a box and just hang out there and even if I can’t rent a building I can just set up a table but I can’t talk long to much pain, but I can’t write anymore either or maybe the evil one is making me think that. Maybe it would be best if I did die, because Paul had the same meaning in the bible, there would not be anymore troubles from the world, but I have so much to say I have been everywhere and I have a lot to talk about I don’t know why it is so hard to write the sermons I should just get one of those talking software so I could just talk into the machine and it types itself. If I did die I would be right with Christ, but I got so much to give and I can’t it is so hard on me, I wish God would take this thorn out of my flesh, and I want to help people and I just can’t or maybe I am ready right now, I am the Lord’s slave and servant and friend, my devotion is to Him but still I am human and like getting being greedy to get another book, because I have a 25% off sticker. The thing is I will read it and have more education to be able to witness, I am only going to use it to help others, it isn’t the greed or is it , I asked myself that all day Friday, I needed the pictures but I am taking my life into my hands, I can’t walk that far but yet I did, I just wanted to tell people face to face for believers to be unified as they stand firm in one spirit contending as one man or woman for the faith. You see in church how much time is lost and effort when one another argues against one another instead of uniting against the real opposition. You see this church we don’t have any resistance we have that common purpose of serving Christ at least most of the members I know. You see I consider after a while it becomes a privilege to suffer for Christ. You see by our own nature in any situation we don’t want to suffer at all, you see by us suffering we actually represent Christ Himself so when people see us suffering they can understand it is for a reason because we are adapting a relationship with Christ to learn what He went through. First it takes our eyes off of earthly comforts, it weeds out superficial believers, there are many Christians I meet today that really are not Christians at all, and when they go though a bit of suffering they just freak out they can’t take it, they backslide, they go back to the way they used to be like go sit in a bar and try to pick up women and that is not good at all. Or they go back into their old routine go buy a six pack and watch TV, that is no good for any man, and if I could find the stats on how many Americans get off work and by there beer and sit and party have the gang from work come over and talk about what happened the day before or today or next week. We need to be gathering together every night and talk about the bible and God and ways to make this world a better place to be living in. People just are not like that they just don’t realize that everyone person could make a change if we only gathered our thought together and built a unity of our faith and talk about our problems to each other and find solutions to be able to help each other. We all go through suffering and we just have to do the best with what we have I am getting better myself, my doctor changed a bit of my medications so for the past three days I have not been waking up in a panic, I feel like doing things before I was shaking so bad I could not do anything, now this week I want to get some type of bible study going. I would love to even get a band together. Anyway let us all praise God and love God and have us all tell Him we love Him and thank Him for all the blessings he has given us. God is a good God.
Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you this day in the Name of Jesus. We all need your presence. We need your purity; we need to stand on the authority of Your word. We are all here to surrender ourselves to You and all our desires, and all that we are, and all that we are not. We need the anointing and truth of the Holy Spirit to come upon us all and produce in us all the choice spiritual fruit deep within our souls. We ask for your forgiveness, and we ask to be new creations through Your Son Jesus Christ. We all need Your purification to turn us around, and bring us all to repentance, and face us to the great light of love and peace. We all need to be cleansed and sanctified so we can humbly worship You in honor, spirit and in truth. Thank you for sending the comforter, and the anointing upon us all. Please anoint this teaching and our worship as we send glory and joy to Your name. We love You Father and we praise Your mighty Name! We need Your power to grant us a firm foundation so we are able to stand firm in holiness and love. We are all here to give tribute to You, to gather together and to learn Your word and share the love and life of Your Son Jesus Christ. Through the shedding of His blood He has given us a new open life of wholesomeness and integrity. Cast away our fleshly nature and all our selfish thoughts and any non-forgiveness we may be still carrying. We need to be made whole, unblemished, and full of Your righteousness, and we can only gain that by the belief and faith in Your beloved Son. We glorify the Name, the Name over the heavens and the earth. We come before You with our heads bowed and our minds open to all your guidance, direction and love. Please come upon us Lord please enter into our hearts and show us Your inner peace, and bring us your great light so we can reflect our inner selves back to You for Your glory. In Jesus Name, Amen
Please turn your bibles to the book of Esther. I want to go over some of the main facts before we begin, I take the Holy Spirits word over anything else but I will list the directions of the free Wikipedia Dictionary they have a a copyright that is something like let the people know where your getting the information from. So they call it like a free copyright.
Esther:
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Haddassah more commonly known as Esther (אֶסְתֵּר, Standard Hebrew Ester, Tiberian Hebrew ʾEstēr) was a woman in the Hebrew Bible, the queen of Ahasuerus (commonly identified with Xerxes I or Artaxerxes I), and heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther which is named after her.
The name:
According to the Book of Esther she was a Jewish woman originally named Hadassah. When she entered the royal harem she received the name Esther by which she was hence forth known. Hadassah means "myrtle" in Hebrew and the name Esther is most likely related to the Median word for myrtle, astra , the Kurdish words Estêre and Istêr,the Persian word setareh meaning star — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
Esther can be also be understood to mean "hidden" in Hebrew, and her name is interpreted thus in Midrash, where it is told that Esther hid her nationality and lineage as Mordecai had advised. In addition God's workings are hidden in the events of the Book of Esther even though he is never mentioned explicitly.
The Targum provides another Midrashic explanation claiming that she was as beautiful as the Evening Star, which is astara in Greek. Critics of the historicity of the Book of Esther attempt to derive the name from Ishtar, the pagan goddess associated with the Evening Star, although the usual Hebrew rendition of the latter name is the phonetically unrelated Ashtoreth. The names may nevertheless be coincidentally related, as the Semitic name Ishtar may share a common origin with Indo-European words for star.
The story:
Esther was the daughter of Abihail, a Benjamite. She resided with her cousin Mordecai, who held some office in the household of the Persian king at "Shushan in the palace."
Ahasuerus, having rid himself of Vashti, chose Esther to be his wife and queen. Soon after this he gave Haman the Agagite, his prime minister, power and authority to kill and extirpate all the Jews throughout the Persian empire. By the intervention of Esther this attempted genocide was averted. Haman was hanged on the gallows he had intended for Mordecai; and the Jews established an annual feast, the feast of Purim, in memory of their wonderful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after the Return.
Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, docile and obedient to his counsels, and anxious to share the king's favour with him for the good of the Jewish people. That she was raised up as an instrument in the hand of God to avert the destruction of the Jewish people, and to afford them protection and forward their wealth and peace in their captivity, is manifest from the Scripture account.
For a discussion of the historicity of Esther, see Book of Esther.
How the providence of God watched over the Jews that had returned out of captivity to their own land, and what great and kind things were done for them, we read in the two foregoing books; but there were many who staid behind, having not zeal enough for God's house, and the holy land and city, to carry them through the difficulties of a removal thither. These, one would think, should have been excluded the special protection of Providence, as unworthy the name of Israelites; but our God deals not with us according to our folly and weakness. We find in this book that even those Jews who were scattered in the provinces of the heathen were taken care of, as well as those who were gathered in the land of Judea, and were wonderfully preserved, when doomed to destruction and appointed as sheep for the slaughter. Who drew up this story is uncertain. Mordecai was as able as any man to relate, on his own knowledge, the several passages of it; quorum pars magna fuit—for he bore a conspicuous part in it; and that he wrote such an account of them as was necessary to inform his people of the grounds of their observing the feast of Purim we are told (ch. ix. 20, Mordecai wrote these things, and sent them enclosed in letters to all the Jews), and therefore we have reason to think he was the penman of the whole book. It is the narrative of a plot laid against the Jews to cut them all off, and which was wonderfully disappointed by a concurrence of providences. The most compendious exposition of it will be to read it deliberately all together at one time, for the latter events expound the former and show what providence intended in them. The name of God is not found in this book; but the apocryphal addition to it (which is not in the Hebrew, nor was ever received by the Jews into the can on), containing six chapters, begins thus, Then Mordecai said, God has done these things. But, though the name of God be not in it, the finger of God is, directing many minute events for the bringing about of his people's deliverance. The particulars are not only surprising and very entertaining, but edifying and very encouraging to the faith and hope of God's people in the most difficult and dangerous times. We cannot now expect such miracles to be wrought for us as were for Israel when they were brought out of Egypt, but we may expect that in such ways as God here took to defeat Haman's plot he will still protect his people. We are told, I. How Esther came to be queen and Mordecai to be great at court, who were to be the instruments of the intended deliverance, ch. i., ii. II. Upon what provocation, and by what arts, Haman the Amalekite obtained an order for the destruction of all the Jews, ch. iii. III. The great distress the Jews, and their patriots especially, were in thereupon, ch. iv. IV. The defeating of Haman's particular plot against Mordecai's life, ch. v.-vii. V. The defeating of his general plot against the Jews, ch. viii. VI. The care that was taken to perpetuate the remembrance of this, ch. ix., x. The whole story confirms the Psalmist's observation (Ps. xxxvii. 12, 13), The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him; he sees that his day is coming.
Like I was telling you before this stretch of road was the worst I could not get a ride, plus I wanted to throw in a commentary from Matthew Henry to give you an added introduction because I don't know how many weeks I will be on this book and I don't know how healthy I will be.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
by
Matthew Henry
This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College,
generated on demand from ThML source at 01/27/2006 04:36:54
This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present. For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty. When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king's palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest, who were in the citadel of Susa. The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones. Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king's liberality. By the king's command each guest was allowed to drink in his own way, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished. Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes. (Esther 1:1-9 NIV)
The story of Esther begins at 483 B.C. about 103 years after Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews into more or less an imprisonment (2 Kings 25) 54 years after Zerubbabel led the first group of people back to Jerusalem (Ezra1-2) and 25 years before Ezra led the second group to Jerusalem (Ezra7) Esther lived in the kingdom of Persia the dominant kingdom in the Middle East after the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Ester’s parents were the group that did not want to return in the first wave of people that returned to Jerusalem, plus we even had Cyrus the Persian king had made a decree for them to be able to leave. Basically the Jews were free no matter where they lived they still had to follow Persian law if they chose to stay, and they liked where they were and they did not want to take that long journey that was very dangerous and they were just afraid to travel that road, and they had their freedom and set up house already and they had ancestors buried in that area, and they chose to stay. Jerusalem was still their homeland.
Now we have a king, Xerxes he was the fifth king of the Great land of Persia, (486-465 B.C.) He would hang out in two different places the winter place was Susa and at the time they were having a banquet 1:3-7, you see the Persian kings often held great banquets before going into war, so there next war was against the land of Greece. So he won at Thermopylae, but he was defeated at Salamis in 480 so he decided to come back to Persia, and Esther became queen in 479 not much time in between.
Well they still had to plan their battle strategy to attack Greece and to display that the King had enough money or riches to carry out the whole situation. Anyway the celebration lasted about 280 days (about 6 months) Going to battle and war was not just for survival back then it was gain more money, riches, wealth, territory, and power.
Persia was a heavy hitter they were full of wealth and the King was the center of the great power the thing is the ranks of officers were also counted by how much wealth they wore even into battle, in other words the more you had in jewels and beads and gems the higher your rank was or your strategic importance. And they were big show offs with there jewelry and how much gold they all wore.
I guess that is a lot around here with the street gangs your jewelry is supposed to give you an element of respect, tell you the truth when I was in the world and on film being a great Chef, I wore a lot of gold and diamonds and colored emeralds and rubies, it showed how well you were doing in the race of the best Chef’s working in the best restaurants, I don’t know if many were that way because when I did a few films you could see all the glitter when I was putting together a baby lobster tail appetizer with strands of color I would always julienne all different color vegetables for a better presentation, but people thought my rings were un sanitary, we still wash our hands the same way. One day I lost a 18 gram gold ring with the letter P on it and there were two women at a banquet laughing when they got their salads and of course I forgot to take my stuff off, and do you believe it these women didn’t even turn it in what were they going to do with a ring of gold with the letter P, do you see about the world and these were some city council woman’s committee, where is the honesty? I can see if you broke your tooth on it, it just was to big to even get it in you mouth and you would know if you even picked it up with the fork. That is the way the world is, if God didn’t take me out of there I would still be doing all that horror, everyone thinks chefs just walk around with clip boards no, you have to watch your work cooking is an art and plate presentation is an art, we even painted plates, and we had squirt bottles full of rainbow colors filled with all kinds of sauces and dressings and colored oils, plus colored pastry bags filled with different colored mosses. Which was my idea, So when I did a desert it was a piece of art and I made only one per-table but it had all different types of sponge cake rolls colored and cut on angles and about 4-5 different cakes and brownies. I had mango sauce, blackberry, cherry, and chocolate moose and yellow moose for vanilla. It was intense people were taking pictures of them before they would eat them. Here I couldn’t get a job in some strip mall restaurant, I got a job right away when I got here in the best restaurant in town but when the chef they hired from Honolulu found out I carved ice and cheese and baked bread into animals, they didn’t want to hire me the next day, I guess this big chef was a bit blown away, he didn’t want me around I would have taken his job in about a month. Sorry I am talking about Esther here I got a bit carried away, but it is bad when you are too good. And then you come out of nowhere and walk into a job interview with tapes of you on TV they get a bit freaked out. Back to our story.
In verse 8 the drinking everyone was allowed to drink a much as they wanted and for as long as they wished so you would get a bunch of drunk people at these banquets but usually the King would control the amount of how his guests would drink but if the King was drunk how is he going to regulate the amount of drink being served.
During the same time the King was having his party his wife Amestris but used was the Greek form Vashti, the queen was having her own party she would have people come from all different lands and had plays and each would where masks and would do different plays they didn’t have TV so they did performances for different types of entertainment they had people that would do acrobatics and all kinds of things you would see in a three ring circus but the thing with the masks, was very popular and they were just hand held and they would change them to suit the character. Some had clothing but most of the time it was just the masks. We have to remember that when the wife refused to come to the kings guests to a bunch of drunks she more or less had a reason, but she has to do what the king requested and she didn’t so she was cast away from Persia and she ad the king had a son and the ancient writings of Greek documents the wife somehow got back her certain rank through her son Artaxerxes who cam after king Xerxes, we don’t know what actually happened maybe Esther died or something happened but she was permitted to return after getting thrown out of her homeland in 484/483 B.C
On the seventh day of the feast, when King Xerxes was half drunk with wine, he told Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him, to bring Queen Vashti to him with the royal crown on her head. He wanted all the men to gaze on her beauty, for she was a very beautiful woman. But when they conveyed the king's order to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. This made the king furious, and he burned with anger. He immediately consulted with his advisers, who knew all the Persian laws and customs, for he always asked their advice. The names of these men were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan--seven high officials of Persia and Media. They were his closest associates and held the highest positions in the empire. "What must be done to Queen Vashti?" the king demanded. "What penalty does the law provide for a queen who refuses to obey the king's orders, properly sent through his eunuchs?" Memucan answered the king and his princes, "Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king but also every official and citizen throughout your empire. Women everywhere will begin to despise their husbands when they learn that Queen Vashti has refused to appear before the king. Before this day is out, the wife of every one of us, your officials throughout the empire, will hear what the queen did and will start talking to their husbands the same way. There will be no end to the contempt and anger throughout your realm. So if it please the king, we suggest that you issue a written decree, a law of the Persians and Medes that cannot be revoked. It should order that Queen Vashti be forever banished from your presence and that you choose another queen more worthy than she. When this decree is published throughout your vast empire, husbands everywhere, whatever their rank, will receive proper respect from their wives!" The king and his princes thought this made good sense, so he followed Memucan's counsel. He sent letters to all parts of the empire, to each province in its own script and language, proclaiming that every man should be the ruler of his home. (Esther 1:10-22 NLT)
Remember in Matt.19:12===[“For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it."] But in this situation many of the guards or the members of the cabinet or let us say government officials were castrated in order to prevent them from having children and then being a radical and trying to establish a kingdom of there own, but the true reason and the most logical would be the men could never mess with the women no matter how beautiful they were it must have been hard for any a man to make that decision to be a governing official or the kings porch, what ever maybe some were just born that way or there was an accident or something went wrong, with the man I would doubt that many would choose to be on the porch to be a eunuch, unless the pay was very much worth it, and the treatment and housing and being apart of the household. No matter how you look at the situation the women were always protected by a harmless man to them.
A Hebrew month began in the middle of a month on our calendar today. Crops are planted in November and December and harvested in March and April.
Month
Today’s Calendar
Bible Reference
Israel’s Holidays
1 Nisan (Abib)
March-
April
Exo. 13:4;
Exo. 23:15;
Exo. 34:18;
Deut. 16:1
Passover
(Lev. 23:5)
Unleavened Bread
(Lev. 23:6)
Firstfruits
(Lev. 23:10)
2 Iyyar (Ziv)
April-
May
1 Kings 6:1, 37
Second Passover
(Num. 9:10-11)
3 Sivan
May-
June
Esther 8:9
Pentecost (Weeks)
(Lev. 23:16)
4 Tammuz
June-
July
5 Ab
July-
Aug.
6 Elul
Aug.-
Sept.
Neh. 6:15
7 Tishri (Ethanim)
Sept.-
Oct.
1 Kings 8:2
Trumpets
(Num. 29:1;
Lev. 23:24)
Day of Atonement
(Lev. 23:27)
Tabernacles (Booths)
(Lev. 23:34)
8 Marcheshvan (Bul)
Oct.-
Nov.
1 Kings 6:38
9 Kislev
Nov.-
Dec.
Neh. 1:1
Dedication
(John 10:22)
10 Tebeth
Dec.-
Jan.
Esther 2:16
11 Shebat
Jan.-
Feb.
Zech. 1:7
12 Adar
Feb.-
March
Esther 3:7
Purim
(Esther 9:24-32)
The Hebrew calendar was furnished by the Life Application Study Bible notes CD from Tyndale House- Word Search
Dear Heavenly Father Thank-You for this wonderful day, Thank-You for giving us Your Word and love, and giving us the bread of life we all needed. Thank-you O’Lord, so much for keeping us at "one" with your Son, We all love You, and we will continue to worship and praise Your name this whole week, please help us to be better Christians, please keep the Holy Spirit with us to guide us, and Lord please keep directing our paths, Father please help my doctor she needs Your help with a family member, please help Susan, Joanna, and all the Directors, and Randy. And my friend Craig and Linda. I just received the paperwork and I don’t know where to start, tomorrow I will knock it out, and then I will send it in. We hold the church up to you Father, In Jesus Name, Amen and Amen.
THE HEBREW CALENDAR
