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As you read today’s Commentary, keep in mind that this is the land about which people are talking right now. World leaders are doing their best to force Israel to surrender land that Yahweh promised to give the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob and everyone who calls on the Name of Yahweh. Yahweh will never go back on His Word, and His promises are certain. Candidly, I would not want to stand in Yahweh’s way as He fulfills His promises. I want to be on His side. I hope you do too. One more point—I have created a Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”. You should examine Yahweh’s promises carefully and recommend this section to your friends because this is a serious issue.

March 10th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Websites you need to see:

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Peter 3:

1 Peter 3

In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives,
as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.
Your adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;
but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.
For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;
not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.
For, “THE ONE WHO DESIRES LIFE, TO LOVE AND SEE GOOD DAYS, MUST KEEP HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL AND HIS LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEIT.
“HE MUST TURN AWAY FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD; HE MUST SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT.
“FOR THE EYES OF YAHWEH ARE TOWARD THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER, BUT THE FACE OF YAHWEH IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO EVIL.”
Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?
But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,
but sanctify Christ as Yahweh in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you—not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

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I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Introductory Comment

As you read today’s Commentary, keep in mind that this is the land about which people are talking right now. World leaders are doing their best to force Israel to surrender land that Yahweh promised to give the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob and everyone who calls on the Name of Yahweh. Yahweh will never go back on His Word, and His promises are certain. Candidly, I would not want to stand in Yahweh’s way as He fulfills His promises. I want to be on His side. I hope you do too. One more point—I have created a Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”. You should examine Yahweh’s promises carefully and recommend this section to your friends because this is a serious issue.

The Promised Land

When Abraham entered the Promised Land he was traveling with his nephew, Lot. They were men of great wealth, and they had very large herds of animals. Since the land could not support the herds of both men, Abraham suggested that they separate, and he told Lot to take the land he wanted. Lot looked at the valley below the hills on which Jerusalem rests, and he saw that it was well watered and very fertile. Thus, he took the valley for his possession, and Abraham willingly accepted the hilly region that includes Mount Moriah—the hill beside which Jerusalem was built.

After Abraham and Lot parted company, Yahweh made this promise to Abraham:

“Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever. I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered. Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.” (Genesis 13: 14-17)

In Genesis 15: 18-21, Yahweh gave Abraham a more precise description of the Promised Land’s boundaries:

“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt (the Nile River) as far as the great river Euphrates; the land of the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”

Later, Yahweh told Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, and He confirmed that the Promised Land would belong to his descendants forever:

“For My part, this is My covenant with you: you will become the father of many nations. And you are no longer to be called Abram; your name is to be Abraham, for I am making you father of many nations, and your issue will be kings. And I shall maintain my covenant between Myself and you, and your descendants after you, generation after generation, as a covenant in perpetuity, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. And to you and to your descendants after you, I shall give the country where you are now immigrants, the entire land of Canaan, to own in perpetuity. And I will be their God.” (Genesis 17: 4-8)

Then Yahweh explained that even though Abraham would become the father of many nations, His covenant would pass through Isaac’s descendants:

“As regards your wife…Sarah….I shall bless her and moreover give you a son by her. I shall bless her and she will become nations: kings of peoples will issue from her….Yes, your wife Sarah will bear you a son whom you must name Isaac. And I shall maintain My covenant with him, a covenant in perpetuity, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him. For Ishmael too I grant you your request. I hereby bless him and will make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I shall make him into a great nation. But my covenant I shall maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear you….” (Genesis 17: 15-16 and 19-21)

A “covenant in perpetuity” is binding for all eternity. That means the Promised Land belongs to Abraham’s descendants through Isaac forever. In Genesis 26: 2-5, Yahweh confirmed His promise to Isaac:

“Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My Laws.”

In Genesis 28: 13-15, Yahweh said that the Promised Land belongs to Abraham’s descendants through Jacob:

“I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give to you and your descendants. Your descendants shall also be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised.”

Yahweh repeated this promise in Genesis 35: 10-12:

“You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name….I am God Almighty (El Shaddai); be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come forth from you. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you.”

Later, Yahweh told Moses that He would rescue the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt and bring them to the Promised Land, and He tied the promise to His Name:

“I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a permanent possession; I am Yahweh.” (Exodus 6: 6-8)

As the Children of Israel were preparing to leave Mount Sinai and go to the Promised Land, Yahweh told them He would send His Angel before them. This Angel is the Angel of Yahweh who appeared to Moses in the burning bush, and He established Israel as a nation:

“Behold, I am going to send an Angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Be on your guard before Him and obey His Voice; do not be rebellious toward Him, for He will not pardon your transgression, since My Name is in Him. But if you will truly obey His Voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces. But you shall serve Yahweh your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.” (Exodus 23: 20-25)

In Exodus 23: 27-31, Yahweh explained how His Angel would drive out the early inhabitants of the Promised Land, and He gave another description of its boundaries:

“I will send My terror ahead of you, and throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. I will send hornets ahead of you that they may drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines (i.e., the Mediterranean Sea), and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.”

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land. (Joel 3: 2)

I have posted the “EU Draft on Dividing Jerusalem” as a Page in the column on the right. You need to read it and understand what it means. As you can see from Yahweh’s statement to Joel, He is not pleased with the world’s efforts to divide the inheritance of His people—Israel. Next, you need to examine the Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”. Since we know Yahweh will never break a promise, this is probably the most important issue we face as a world today.

Some people doubt Yahweh’s existence. Others ignore Him and His word or simply pay lip service to what He says. There are consequences for these misguided behaviors. You can count on it. By the way, doubting Yahweh’s existence is a conscious decision that guides our actions.

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Repeatedly in history, we see that the willingness of individual men and women to ignore the odds against them and do what Yahweh told them to do has resulted in tremendous blessings for all of us. The next time you catch yourself thinking that nothing you do really matters, remember Noah and Abraham. They may have had similar thoughts, but they did not let their fear and insecurity prevent them from obeying Yahweh. They were ordinary people Yahweh used to do extraordinary things. Their lives made an enormous difference and yours can too.

March 9th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Email Distribution List:

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Peter 2:

1 Peter 2

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
if you have tasted the kindness of Yahweh.
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,
you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
For this is contained in Scripture: “BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”
This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, “THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,”
and, “A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.
Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,
or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.
For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable.
For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.
For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.
For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,
WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;
and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;
and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Abraham’s Call and Yahweh’s Promise to Bless all the Families of the Earth

Yahweh told Abraham to leave his home and his country and go to a place He would show him (Genesis 12: 1), and Abraham obeyed God. Then Yahweh said,

“I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12: 2-3)

Abraham’s belief in Yahweh and his willingness to obey Him set the stage for our redemption and salvation. Yahweh’s promise to bless all the families of the earth through Abraham refers to the Messiah and His redemptive work.

Repeatedly in history, we see that the willingness of individual men and women to ignore the odds against them and do what Yahweh told them to do has resulted in tremendous blessings for all of us. The next time you catch yourself thinking that nothing you do really matters, remember Noah and Abraham. They may have had similar thoughts, but they did not let their fear and insecurity prevent them from obeying Yahweh. They were ordinary people Yahweh used to do extraordinary things. Their lives made an enormous difference and yours can too.

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News Items of Interest:

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His Name is Yahweh:

Available on Amazon Kindle and it can be downloaded at www.hisnameisyahweh.org

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Noah was the only righteous person in his generation. Yahweh made a covenant with him and his family when He destroyed every living creature on earth with the flood. Genesis 6: 8 says, “Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.” The Hebrew word translated as “favor” in this verse is “chen”. It means “grace,” or the “unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one.” Genesis 6: 8 is the first verse in the Bible that mentions grace. Understanding grace is essential in helping us grasp what Yahweh did for us through the Messiah. In a nutshell, grace means that our redemption and salvation are not dependent on anything we have done, will do, or even can do. They are gifts from Yahweh that are based on His righteousness, not ours.

March 8th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Facebook Group His Name is Yahweh:

I use the Facebook group His Name is Yahweh to notify people when I post a new SnyderTalk. If you are not already a fan, you should consider signing up. Click here to visit the site.

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Email Distribution List:

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in James 5:

James 5

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.
Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.
Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!
Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of Yahweh Sabaoth.
You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you.
Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of Yahweh. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains.
You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.
As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of Yahweh.
We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of Yahweh’s dealings, that Yahweh is full of compassion and is merciful.
But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.
Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises.
Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah

Noah was the only righteous person in his generation. Yahweh made a covenant with him and his family when He destroyed every living creature on earth with the flood. Genesis 6: 8 says, “Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.” The Hebrew word translated as “favor” in this verse is “chen”. It means “grace,” or the “unmerited favor of a superior person to an inferior one.”

Genesis 6: 8 is the first verse in the Bible that mentions grace. Understanding grace is essential in helping us grasp what Yahweh did for us through the Messiah. In a nutshell, grace means that our redemption and salvation are not dependent on anything we have done, will do, or even can do. They are gifts from Yahweh that are based on His righteousness, not ours.

Yahweh told Noah to build an ark, which took more than 100 years to complete, and he obeyed Yahweh. This may not sound like a big deal, but it was. During Noah’s day, there was no rain. A mist rose from the ground every day and watered the earth (Genesis 2: 6), so flooding was unheard of.

Building a huge boat on dry land made no sense to Noah’s neighbors. For many decades, he endured their ridicule as he worked diligently to obey Yahweh’s command. When the rain came, Noah, his family, and the animals Yahweh sent to him entered the ark, and Yahweh shut the door behind them. Literally, He sealed them in the ark and saved them. Their salvation was entirely dependent on Yahweh’s grace since there was no way Noah could have known what would happen more than 100 years after Yahweh told him to build the ark.

After the flood, Yahweh made this promise:

“I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.” (Genesis 8: 21)

Then Yahweh established a covenant between Himself and everything He created:

“‘Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.’ God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations. I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.’” (Genesis 9: 9-13)

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: From the article above—“The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.” HalleluYah! Yahweh works in mysterious ways.

Indiana “moderately” interesting

Commonsense: From the article above—“The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll put disapproval of Congress at 71 percent. That is not a whole lot of love for anyone in this town, regardless of political persuasion. Bayh’s consistent message has been that moderates should have room at the table but don’t, and plenty of House members whisper the same thing along Capitol halls.” Be skeptical. At this point, members of Congress will do and say just about anything they can think of to curry your favor. Don’t be deceived. Desperate people do and say desperate things. Despite their attempts at persona makeovers, they are the same people who created this mess. It’s time for an overhaul.

Why the left despises personal responsibility

Commonsense: Don’t be deceived. This is not a “left or right”, “liberal or conservative”, problem. The left and right, Republicans and Democrats, in Congress have acted irresponsibly. You need to look through the fog and stage props and zero in on the facts. As they say, facts are stubborn things. Don’t let your political leanings cause you to make the same mistakes voters in this country have been making for years. Fancy words are not substitutes for voting records.

Commonsense: From the article above—“On November 1, 1995, just three days before Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, Avner asked him why he made the Oslo agreement deal with Yasir Arafat. Rabin’s answer is extremely close to my own analysis fifteen years later: that the great issue of this era in the Middle East is the battle of nationalists versus Islamists; that this factor offered a chance to reduce or eliminate the Arab-Israeli conflict; but that if the Islamists won things would be much worse.”

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The most significant consequence of Adam’s and Eve’s sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh. To restore what was lost, Yahweh became our Redeemer and Savior. Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between Yahweh and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap. Yahweh had to do that Himself.

March 7th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in James 4:

James 4

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves in the presence of Yahweh, and He will exalt you.
Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Instead, you ought to say, “If Yahweh wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh’s Covenants and Promises

Yahweh tied His covenants and promises to His Name, and He will never do anything that contradicts His Word because it would defile His Name. The New Covenant is Yahweh’s most important promise. It points to the Messiah and the completion of Yahweh’s plan for His creation. It also demonstrates His deep and abiding love for us.

Yahweh Promises to Deal with Adam’s Sin

Yahweh’s first promise is found in Genesis 3: 14-15:

“Because you (the serpent) have done this, cursed are you more than all the cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life; and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise Him on the heel.”

This promise is a foretelling of the battle Yahweh will wage with Satan to deal with the consequences of our sin. The battle between Yahweh and Satan over the redemption and salvation of His people is illustrated in every book in the Bible. Although Yahweh promised to redeem and save His people, men and women are destined to suffer the physical consequences of sin. Yahweh told Eve,

“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3: 16)

And to Adam God said,

“Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3: 17-19)

Sin upset the natural order Yahweh established in the beginning for men and women. He had intended for men and women to be associates and equals. But since Adam and Eve sinned, women have possessed a vain longing to rule their husbands, and men have struggled against a hostile environment to provide food for their families. Additionally, since that time both men and women have experienced sickness and physical death—something Yahweh mercifully permitted so we would not have to live eternally in a fallen state.

The most significant consequence of Adam’s and Eve’s sin was the immediate loss of intimacy with Yahweh. To restore what was lost, Yahweh became our Redeemer and Savior. Although Adam and Eve created a wide separation between Yahweh and the human race, man is incapable of bridging the gap. Yahweh had to do that Himself.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: For his stunning idiocy and his persistent lies about the Holocaust and now 9/11, I am awarding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Dunce Award. He has proven over time that he is a deserving recipient.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Commonsense: The Massachusetts health plan is the Obama prototype plan that no one and I mean no one—Republican or Democrat—wants to talk about. Well, I’ll talk about it in SnyderTalk. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a nickname that it’s earned over the years: Taxachusetts. If that’s what you want the US to become, then go ahead and write your representative and Senators and tell them that you support the healthcare plan that’s being considered right now. If you care about your health and your wallet, tell them you don’t support it.

We do need healthcare reform, but we need real reform—not a plan that has been designed to make us slaves to the US government. This nation did not become great because of the government. Our accomplishments as a nation were achieved by hardworking men and women who made sacrifices so they and their children could live better lives. The US government has been the beneficiary of our efforts. Unfortunately, that fact is lost on many of our elected officials. We’ve allowed them to put us in a precarious position from which we will have to fight to extricate ourselves. Take your duty seriously. November 2010 is right around the corner.

I’ll repeat something I have said many times. This is not a partisan political appeal. Republicans and Democrats alike are responsible for the mess we’re in. That includes George Bush, the son, and the Republican Congress whose spending habits he made no effort to control for 6 of his 8 years as president. Candidly, I would not mind seeing every single person in both legislative bodies replaced. I know that won’t happen, and there are some good elected officials, but people have a tendency to think everybody except their Congressman or Senator is a bum. Let me be as clear as I can be. Some of you have been supporting the wrong people for years. It’s time for real change, and hope for a better tomorrow. We won’t have either with the current crop of elected officials. It’s time for us to take our nation back.

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Climate Change Update:

I want to thank my friends at Science & Environmental Policy Project for providing me with weekly updates on climate change data. If you want to receive their weekly updates, click on the hyperlink in the previous sentence and follow the instructions.

There is a Page in the column on the right of each SnyderTalk titled “Climate Change”. Click on it and you will see that there is concrete evidence proving that man-made CO2 emissions did not cause global warming, that earth’s climate hasn’t warmed one iota since 1998, and that it is probable that earth’s climate is actually cooling.

Why is this information important? It’s because forces are at work in our world to impose a hefty tax on carbon emissions that will take money out of YOUR pocket and funnel it to pet projects of political power brokers and their friends. I’m not guessing. These things are happening right now, and you need to know it.

Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics Commonsense: This is a must read.
Treason is a matter of dates
Scientists plot to hit back at critics
Junk science begets junk lawsuits
Geologic carbon storage can NEVER work, says new US study
Obama’s nuclear power breakthrough
Lysenkoism and James Hansen

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In about 740 B.C., Yahweh appeared to Isaiah and commissioned him to deliver His message to the Children of Israel. Isaiah’s description of Yahweh is very interesting. You can find it in Isaiah 6: 1-4. When he saw Yahweh, all Isaiah could say was this: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh Sabaoth.” (Isaiah 6: 5) The magnificence of Yahweh’s appearance and His absolute purity were so striking that Isaiah was forced to see himself correctly. He was compelled to admit that he was a sinner and that he lived among sinners. That is exactly what each one of us must understand. Only then can we begin to appreciate who Yahweh is. He is the Holy One of Israel, the One and only God, and He will accept no blemishes.

March 6th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in James 3:

James 3

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.
For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.
Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.
Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, are still directed by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot desires.
So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.
For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race.
But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison.
With it we bless Yahweh our Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;
from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.
Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Appears to Isaiah

In about 740 B.C., Yahweh appeared to Isaiah and commissioned him to deliver His message to the Children of Israel. Isaiah’s description of Yahweh is very interesting. You can find it in Isaiah 6: 1-4. When he saw Yahweh, all Isaiah could say was this: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh Sabaoth.” (Isaiah 6: 5)

The magnificence of Yahweh’s appearance and His absolute purity were so striking that Isaiah was forced to see himself correctly. He was compelled to admit that he was a sinner and that he lived among sinners. That is exactly what each one of us must understand. Only then can we begin to appreciate who Yahweh is. He is the Holy One of Israel, the One and only God, and He will accept no blemishes.

Consider the Evidence

I said that Yahweh has a human form and that He has appeared to people throughout history. The Bible provides abundant evidence to support that assertion. I also said that Yahweh intervenes in history to perform His Word and to fulfill His promises. Here again, there are many examples in the Bible of Yahweh doing these things in Person. I have discussed a few of them.

If you believe Yahweh’s Word, by now you’re convinced. Go to the Bible and see for yourself if I have misled you in any way. If you don’t believe the Word of Yahweh or if you aren’t sure it’s true, then you may not be convinced, but at least I hope I have roused your curiosity.

I also said the human form of Yahweh is the Messiah. The Bible provides compelling proofs to substantiate it. I’ll discuss them later.

There is some overlap between the material I’ve just presented and the material I’m about to present because Yahweh appeared in human form to make most of His covenants and promises. Redundancy is a common practice used by engineers for our protection. For instance, airplanes are equipped with redundant systems so that if one fails the pilot can still land the plane safely. Yahweh used this practice in the Scriptures for our protection, so I am following a precedent established by Yahweh Himself. Because of its unparalleled importance, Yahweh’s role in the redemption and salvation of His people is the most redundant message in the Scriptures.

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News Items of Interest:

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My Picture of the Same Spot

Commonsense: Get ready because you’re going to see some angry people in the US when we finally have to bite the budget bullet. Welfare dependence and living off the largess of others are virtually identical. Both of them are like heroin addictions, and you can’t break a heroin habit painlessly. When the day comes that the United States has to face its fiscal crisis, and that day WILL come, people will be marching in the streets, throwing rocks, and some will commit terrorist acts because the federal government on which they have been taught to depend for their sustenance can’t continue to lavish them with a living standard they don’t deserve.

Take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “The Importance of Saving”. In it, I lay out sound fiscal management principles for creating financial independence. If your financial house is not in order, you need to straighten it up soon—before you have to—because you’re between a rock and a hard place when others dictate terms.

As a nation, we have some difficult decisions to make. In due course, these facts will become apparent to everyone, including our politicians who seem to be willing to fork over our hard-earned money for just about everything:

The government can’t and shouldn’t pay for things that people should pay for themselves.
No able bodied man or woman has an inalienable right to live off others.
If able bodied men and women aren’t willing to work for the things they want, they don’t deserve them.
If we eliminate the payments we make to people who should be paying their own way, we will have plenty of money to take care of the truly needy.
People who are addicted to living beyond their means have difficulty adjusting to reality, but they can and will adjust if they KNOW they must.
The United States can’t continue to be “the world’s police force”. We should be willing to pay for our own defense, but other nations have to pay for their defense too. I’m not naïve. There are times when defending other nations is the right thing to do, but we’ve gone too far down that path—way too far.
Any nation, including the United States, that can’t or won’t pay its own bills has no business borrowing money and giving it to other countries that live beyond their means. That may sound tightfisted, but it’s right.

November 2010 is just around the corner. Like Howard Beale in the movie Network, it’s time for us to send a clear message to political office seekers—“We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore”. If they fail to heed our warning, they shouldn’t be elected, and that includes incumbents who are guilty of putting us in this precarious situation.

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Yahweh appeared to Solomon again when he dedicated the Temple (1 Kings 9: 2) and said, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.” (1 Kings 9: 3) Yahweh is talking about Mount Moriah (i.e., the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.

March 5th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Websites you need to see:

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces
Israel: About Israel, The Israel Project, Tourist Information, the Holocaust, Israel map, Israel’s War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, Arab-Israel conflict, and anti-Semitism
The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in James 1:

James 1

James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from Yahweh,
being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;
for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Appears to Solomon Twice

Solomon became king in Israel after David, and Yahweh blessed him mightily. Solomon’s kingdom was unmatched in the world during his time. His wealth and power were immense, and people traveled from distant lands simply to hear him speak because of his wisdom.

Shortly after Solomon became king, Yahweh appeared to him in a dream and said, “Ask what you wish Me to give you.” (1 Kings 3: 5) Since he was young and inexperienced, Solomon asked Yahweh to give him “an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil.” (1 Kings 3: 9) Obviously, God was pleased with Solomon’s request because He gave him what he asked for, but He also gave him great wealth and power that he could have asked for but did not.

Yahweh appeared to Solomon again when he dedicated the Temple (1 Kings 9: 2) and said, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.” (1 Kings 9: 3)

This verse should cause alarm bells to ring out in the minds of people who believe Yahweh’s Word. Anyone who thinks he can bargain with the Temple Mount is asking for trouble. Mount Moriah is not a bargaining chip. For reasons known only to Him, Yahweh chose Mount Moriah, and He made it perfectly clear that His Name will reside there forever.

God told Solomon He would bless him continually if he would simply obey His Word and follow after Him the way David had done. Wealth, power, and wisdom should have been enough for Solomon, but they were not. He turned his heart and his mind to other things, and it cost him dearly.

Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes, and it describes his journey through life. He sought to discover anything that could be discovered, and Ecclesiastes is a litany of the things Solomon did and the things he learned. There was a great debate about whether to include Ecclesiastes in the Bible, but eventually it was included for only one reason, its conclusion. The last two verses in Ecclesiastes sum up what Solomon learned in his quest to know everything:

“The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14)

This conclusion is absolutely correct. It is a shame Solomon had to do the things he did to learn it. In 1 Kings 11: 9-11, Yahweh makes clear just how disappointed in Solomon He became:

“Now Yahweh was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice, and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not observe what Yahweh had commanded. So Yahweh said to Solomon, ‘Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear your kingdom from you….’” (1 Kings 11: 9-11)

You may be wondering what Solomon did that made Yahweh so angry. The details are in the Bible:

“Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonite, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which Yahweh had said to the sons of Israel, ‘You shall not associate with them, neither shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.’ Solomon held fast to these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.” (1 Kings 11: 1-3)

Before he died, Solomon built places of worship for Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Milcom the god of the Ammonites, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Molech the god of the Ammonites. (1 Kings 11: 5-7) He did these things to make his wives happy and to keep peace in his household, but there is no good excuse for what Solomon did. Idolatry was commonplace in Israel, and King Solomon set the example that many people followed to their own detriment.

Yahweh was true to His Word. When Solomon died, God tore Israel into two kingdoms: Israel in the north and Judah in the south. Eventually, the Assyrians took Israel into captivity and scattered the people throughout the world. Today, the Northern Kingdom is known as “the ten lost tribes of Israel.” Most of the descendants of people from the Northern Kingdom are still scattered throughout the world. Later, the Babylonians took the Southern Kingdom into captivity. Most of them were allowed to return to Israel when Cyrus the Great conquered the Babylonian Empire.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: Dr. Gavriel Avital has either taken a lethal dose of Kool-Aid, or he is just another wannabe. Your guess is as good as mine. Dr. Avital, you should take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “Climate Change”. It would also do you some good to examine the Page titled “Yahweh Has a Human Form”. I hope my Israeli readers will pass this message on to him.

I thought this website might interest my readers: Pharyngula. It’s from an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris named P.Z. Myers. He proudly boasts that he’s a “godless liberal”. In this post, Myers refers to Gavriel Avital as an “incompetent putz” for believing in creation. Let’s get our facts straight Associate Professor Myers. Dr. Avital said he believes in teaching creation as a possibility. I hope that distinction doesn’t confuse you.

In a May 22, 2009 Blowback piece (i.e., letter to the editor) in the Los Angeles Times, Myers said,

“Charlotte Allen is very, very angry with us atheists—that’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from her furious broadside in The Times on May 17. She can’t stand us; we’re unpopular; we’re a problem. What, exactly, is the greatest crime of modern atheists? We’re boring.”

Associate Professor Myers, I’m not as gentle as Ms. Allen, so I’ll get right to the point. I don’t think you’re boring, but your economy of thought is stunning. Why are you so afraid? Do you think people will conclude that God exists if they are allowed to consider that possibility? You claim you are a liberal, but obviously you believe your only hope for winning converts is to restrict people’s thinking. Is that what you call “liberal”?

No, Associate Professor Myers, I don’t think you’re boring. I think you’re a numbskull. Like most people, I do believe in microevolution, but macroevolution is another story. I won’t go into detail in this post, but you can find out more about my thinking by referring to previous SnyderTalk posts.

I hope Dr. Avital will rethink his position. It’s better to do what you think is right and suffer the consequences than to do what you know is wrong just to get ahead.

Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid

Malacca Strait

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David lifted up his eyes, and he saw Yahweh “standing between earth and heaven, with His drawn sword in His hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell on their faces,” (1 Chronicles 21: 16) and David said, “Is it not I who commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, but these sheep, what have they done?” (1 Chronicles 21: 17)

March 4th, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Each day, I include a section in SnyderTalk showing a chapter in the New Testament that should contain the Name Yahweh. Under Pages in the column on the right, you will see a Page titled “Yahweh’s Name in the New Testament”. In it, you’ll find a hyperlink to an Internet site listing every verse in the New Testament containing Yahweh’s Name. Thankfully, there’s a version of the New Testament that uses Yahweh’s Name correctly—Aramaic English New Testament. It’s based on original Aramaic New Testament manuscripts so it eliminates many problems that have arisen due to difficulties translating from Aramaic to Greek to English. By eliminating the Greek filter, the true meanings of many important Bible passages become apparent.

I’ll give you an example. Have you ever wondered about this verse? “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19: 24, Mark 10: 25, and Luke 18: 25)

I’ve heard preachers deliver sermons on Matthew 19: 24 that stretch the limits of credulity. They try desperately to make sense of it. Problem is it doesn’t make any sense. I once heard a preacher explain that there used to be a gate in Jerusalem called The Eye of the Needle. He said camels had to get down on their knees and crawl through the gate to enter the city. His point was that we must get down our knees and beg “the LORD” for forgiveness. It made a nice sermonette with a dramatic finale, but it’s not true.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Jerusalem. There is no gate by that name, and there never has been. The problem with that translation of Matthew 19: 24 stems from the fact that the Aramaic word for “camel” can also mean “rope”. It depends on the context, so let’s consider the context. Does it make more sense to believe that a camel is trying to crawl through the eye of a literal needle or that a tailor is attempting to use a thread that’s as thick as a rope? It’s obvious that the proper translation in this instance is “rope”, not “camel”.

The Messiah’s point is unmistakably clear. People who place their faith in worldly goods are going to discover when their life is through that they have missed out on Yahweh’s kingdom completely. After all, you can’t push a rope through the eye of a needle no matter how hard you try, and kneeling and begging when that day comes won’t solve the problem. There is a chapter in His Name is Yahweh titled “Without Faith We are Dead”. You should read it.

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Hebrews 13:

Hebrews 13

Let love of the brethren continue.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves also are in the body.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for Yahweh has said, “I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU,”
so that we confidently say, “YAHWEH IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?”
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.
Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
So, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.
Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.
And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.
Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things.
And I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord,
equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
But I urge you, brethren, bear with this word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
Take notice that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.
Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.
Grace be with you all.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Appears to King David

David became a very successful king in Israel. He was Yahweh’s anointed one, and Yahweh blessed him mightily. The greatest blessing He bestowed on David was the promise that the Messiah would be One of his descendants. In fact, one of the Messiah’s Names is Messiah Son of David. However, David behaved in sinful ways when Israel became prosperous.

One day Satan inspired David (1 Chronicles 21: 1) to think about all the wealth and power he had accumulated, and he asked Joab, his military leader, to conduct a census of the people in his kingdom. According to Jewish tradition, David wanted to know how many troops he had, as if it really mattered. Yahweh had put him on the throne, and everything he possessed was a result of Yahweh’s blessings. It was sinful for David to think about those blessings as if they were the fruit of his own labor and to believe they could protect him in times of adversity. Joab knew David was asking for trouble and advised against it, but David insisted on the census anyway so Joab performed the count.

Yahweh instructed His prophet Gad to tell David that he was about to be punished and that he could choose what the punishment would be. He gave David three options: three years of famine, three months of being swept away before his enemies, or three days of the sword of Yahweh. (1 Chronicles 21: 9-12)

The fact that Yahweh allowed David to choose the penalty was an indication of His love for him. David picked the third option and said,

“I am in distress; please let me fall into the hand of Yahweh, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.” (1 Chronicles 21: 13)

And so it was. For three days, Yahweh inflicted punishment on Israel because of David’s sin. All told, 70,000 men in Israel died because of what David had done. After three days, Yahweh came to Jerusalem to destroy the city, and He changed His mind when He reached “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” (1 Chronicles 21: 15) This is the site where Solomon built the Temple of Yahweh several years later. Today, this site is known as Mount Moriah, or the Temple Mount, and it is the epicenter of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.

David lifted up his eyes, and he saw Yahweh “standing between earth and heaven, with His drawn sword in His hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell on their faces,” (1 Chronicles 21: 16) and David said, “Is it not I who commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, but these sheep, what have they done?” (1 Chronicles 21: 17)

Yahweh instructed Gad to tell David to build an altar on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chronicles 21: 18) David built the altar exactly where Yahweh told him to build it, and when he offered sacrifices to Yahweh the punishment ceased. This is an important fact. Before he built the altar, David bought Mount Moriah from Ornan the Jebusite. He paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold for the land (1 Chronicles 21: 25), or about 240 ounces of gold, and then he made a sacrifice for his sins.

In other words, David did not “take the land,” or using today’s vernacular he did not “occupy the land.” He purchased it for a sum certain from Ornan the Jebusite, and he had, and has, legal title to the land. Make no mistake. The Temple Mount is a very special place to Yahweh, and anyone who believes Yahweh’s Word would be foolish to ignore this fact.

Can we be certain that David saw Yahweh with a sword in His hand ready to destroy Jerusalem? Of course we can. 2 Chronicles 3: 1 talks about David’s son Solomon preparing to build the Temple of Yahweh on Mount Moriah:

“Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” (2 Chronicles 3: 1)

2 Samuel chapter 24 provides another account of David’s sin in this matter, but in the 2 Samuel version of the incident Yahweh instructs David to purchase the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24: 18) for 50 shekels of silver. (2 Samuel 24: 24) Many Bible scholars believe that 1 Chronicles chapter 21 and 2 Samuel chapter 24 talk about the same purchase of land, but this interpretation is less than satisfactory. It is possible for a person to have more than one name. For example, Solomon is referred to by several names in the Scriptures. Thus, Ornan and Araunah could be the same person. However, it is not logical to conclude that 50 shekels of silver and 600 shekels of gold are the same. Clearly they are not equal, and gold is far more valuable than silver.

Therefore, we must conclude that David acquired two pieces of property and that he paid different amounts of money for them. From Ornan he purchased a threshing floor on Mount Moriah for 600 shekels of gold, and from Araunah he bought another threshing floor for 50 shekels of silver. On both sites, David built altars for making sacrifices to Yahweh.

In The Rod of an Almond Tree in God’s Master Plan, Peter Michas argues that Araunah’s threshing floor was on the Mount of Olives directly across the Kidron Valley from Ornan’s threshing floor on Mount Moriah. Michas says that Ornan’s threshing floor is the site where Solomon eventually built the Temple of Yahweh, a fact about which Yahweh’s Word is very clear, and that Araunah’s threshing floor became the site where the Israelites sacrificed the Red Heifer to produce ashes for purification. I bring this up to emphasize that Yahweh’s Word is accurate. We do not need to explain away or rationalize about what might appear to be discrepancies or inconsistencies in the Bible. Our understanding is flawed—not Yahweh’s Word.

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Why did the Yemenite Jews who moved to Shiloach leave Yemen? They were persecuted because they were regarded as “infidels” by Arab Muslims in Yemen. Who are “infidels”? Today, radical Muslims consider anyone who is not a radical Muslim to be an “infidel”. That includes other Muslims who don’t adhere to their brand of Islam. In other words, Islamists see Jews and Christians and Muslims who don’t toe the radical line as “infidels”. That’s more than 99.99% of the world’s population. Imagine that. 99.99% of the people alive today are being bullied by the other .01%. Do you remember this verse? “How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had given them up?” (Deuteronomy 32: 30)

March 3rd, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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The Temple Institute
Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Hebrews 12:

Hebrews 12

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF YAHWEH, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM;
FOR THOSE WHOM YAHWEH LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.”
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.
See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;
that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.
For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,
and to the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which sound was such that those who heard begged that no further word be spoken to them.
For they could not bear the command, “IF EVEN A BEAST TOUCHES THE MOUNTAIN, IT WILL BE STONED.”
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, “I AM FULL OF FEAR and trembling.”
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.
See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.
And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.”
This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;
for our God is a consuming fire.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Appears to Samuel

Samuel was the last judge in Israel before Yahweh allowed the Jews to have a human king, and his birth was a miracle. His father, Elkanah, had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Hannah had no children, but Peninnah had many sons and daughters.

Each year Elkanah took his family to Yahweh’s Tabernacle at Shiloh to worship and make sacrifices. The family’s yearly pilgrimage to Shiloh, which should have been a festive occasion, was for Hannah a miserable experience. Year after year, Peninnah taunted and ridiculed (1 Samuel 1: 6) Hannah because she had so many children and Hannah had none. Finally, one year Hannah went into the Tabernacle and poured out her heart to Yahweh. With tears in her eyes (1 Samuel 1: 10), she pleaded with Him to give her a son:

“O Yahweh Sabaoth, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a son, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never come on his head.” (1 Samuel 1: 11)

Yahweh honored her prayer and gave her a son. Hannah called him Samuel which means “the Name of God.” When the boy was weaned, she took him to the Tabernacle at Shiloh, dedicated him to Yahweh, and turned him over to Eli the priest to live out his years as Yahweh’s servant.

Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were also priests who served at Shiloh. They were “worthless men” who “did not know Yahweh.” (1 Samuel 2: 11) Routinely, they stole sacrifices people made to Yahweh (1 Samuel 2: 14), threatened to use force against them if they refused to surrender their sacrifices (1 Samuel 2: 16), and had sex with the women who served at the doorway of the Tabernacle. (1 Samuel 2: 22) Eli knew about all of these things and instructed his sons to change their ways, but he did not take appropriate steps to make sure they abandoned these repulsive practices.

Hophni and Phinehas ignored their father’s warning, and one day Yahweh appeared to Samuel while he was in the Tabernacle and gave him this message for Eli:

“I am going to do something in Israel which will make the ears of all who hear of it ring. I shall carry out that day against Eli everything that I have said about his family, from beginning to end. You are to tell him that I condemn his family for ever, since he is aware that his sons have been cursing God and yet has not corrected them. Therefore—I swear it to the family of Eli—no sacrifice or offering shall ever expiate the guilt of Eli’s family.” (1 Samuel 3: 11-14)

Yahweh was true to His Word, as He always is. Eli’s sons were killed in a battle with the Philistines, and the Philistines took the Ark of the Covenant from Israel. When Eli learned that his sons had died and that the Ark of the Covenant had been taken, he died immediately, and his lineage was cut off.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: Hamas has come up with three possibilities so far. They say Fatah, Jordan, or Egypt ordered the hit on their operative in Dubai. Someone please tell the Europeans and the Australians. Evidently, they didn’t get the memo.

Commonsense: From the article above: “According to the Dubai police, only a few of the agents were caught on security cameras without their disguises. However, it had been assumed until now that publication of the photos of the 26 agents had blown their cover. Now it appears that the Dubai police still do not have viable information about their real appearance.”

Commonsense: From the article above—“In the nineteenth century this was a Jewish Yemenite Village. During the 1930’s Arabs began to settle the area. Before a single Arab family lived in Silwan (Shiloach) it was a thriving Yemenite village with 200 families and 5 Synagogues. Population at its peak prior to Arab riots and pogroms, which decimated the Jewish neighbourhood was 900 Jewish residents.” You won’t hear that in the lame street media.

Why did the Yemenite Jews who moved to Shiloach leave Yemen? They were persecuted because they were regarded as “infidels” by Arab Muslims in Yemen. Who are “infidels”? Today, radical Muslims consider anyone who is not a radical Muslim to be an “infidel”. That includes other Muslims who don’t adhere to their brand of Islam. In other words, Islamists see Jews and Christians and Muslims who don’t toe the radical line as “infidels”. That’s more than 99.99% of the world’s population. Imagine that. 99.99% of the people alive today are being bullied by the other .01%. Do you remember this verse? “How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had given them up?” (Deuteronomy 32: 30)

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SnyderTalk is up: http://www.snydertalk.com. Take a moment and share it with your friends and family. [1] “For we know Him who said, ‘VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.’ And again, ‘YAHWEH WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.’” (Hebrews 10: 30) [2] “Why do you ask My Name, seeing it is wonderful?” (Judges 13: 18) Some Bible translations of this verse use the word “hidden” or “secret” instead of “wonderful,” and they read this way: “Why do you ask My Name, seeing it is ‘hidden’?” or “Why do you ask My Name, seeing it is ‘secret’?” But the correct translation is “wonderful.” [3] Israel shows China evidence of Iran bomb program. [4] I have given Al Gore my first Dunce Award.

March 2nd, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
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Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Hebrews 10:

Hebrews 10

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;
IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.
“THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”
After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
then He said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
“THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS YAHWEH: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM,” He then says,
“AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.”
Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.
Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “YAHWEH WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.”
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,
partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.
For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.
Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.
BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

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Yahweh Appears to Manoah and His Wife (Samson’s Parents)

The Children of Israel reverted to evil ways again and again. During Manoah’s time, Yahweh gave them over to the Philistines for 40 years, and they were so oppressed that they turned back to Him. Yahweh heard their pleas, and He came to Manoah’s wife and told her that she would have a son who would “deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.” (Judges 13: 5) Excitedly, she ran to tell her husband, and he prayed for God to return the Man who had spoken to her. Yahweh complied with his request and appeared again to Manoah’s wife. Once more, she ran to get her husband.

When Manoah met the Man, he asked Him if He was the same Person who had spoken with his wife earlier, and He said, “I am.” (Judges 13: 11) Then Yahweh repeated the message He had given her the first time He appeared, and Manoah asked Him His Name. (Judges 13: 17) Interestingly, Yahweh had alluded to His Name already because Yahweh means “I am,” but Manoah did not catch the subtle hint. Thus, Yahweh said, “Why do you ask My Name, seeing it is wonderful?” (Judges 13: 18) Some Bible translations of this verse use the word “hidden” or “secret” instead of “wonderful,” and they read this way: “Why do you ask My Name, seeing it is ‘hidden’?” or “Why do you ask My Name, seeing it is ‘secret’?” But the correct translation is “wonderful.”

The Hebrew word for “wonderful” used in this verse is “piliy,” and it comes from the prime root word “pala”—a Hebrew word that means wonderful beyond description. “Pele,” another derivative of “pala,” appears in Isaiah 9: 6 as a Name for the Messiah:

“For a Child will be born to us, a Son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders; and His Name will be called Wonderful (Pele), Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over His kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of Yahweh will accomplish this.” (Isaiah 9: 6-7)

Can we be certain that Yahweh was the Man talking with Manoah? Yes.

Manoah invited the Man to share a meal with them, and Yahweh said, “Though you detain Me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to Yahweh.” (Judges 13: 16)

For some reason, Yahweh would not eat their food, but He would accept it as a sacrifice. Manoah prepared a goat and grain for a burnt offering to Yahweh, but neither he nor his wife knew that Yahweh was with them in Person at that moment. As he prepared the sacrifice, the Man “performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.” (Judges 13: 19) When he placed the offering on the altar, fire burst forth from the rocks, and the Man “ascended in the flame of the altar.” (Judges 13: 20) Instantly Manoah said, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.” (Judges 13: 22) But his wife said,

“If Yahweh had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear things like this at this time.” (Judges 13: 23)

Although we do not know what Yahweh told them, since He used the Name “Wonderful” it is reasonable to assume that He told them about the Messiah and about their own son—Samson. In a short while, Samson was born, and Yahweh delivered Israel from the Philistines through him. Even though Samson was a flawed human being, as we all are, Yahweh used him in a mighty way to bless His children.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: Mahmoud Abbas should take a look at the Page in the column on the right titled “Yahweh’s Promises Concerning the Promised Land”. One day Yahweh will make sure he gets the message—one way or the other. Abbas should also take a look at the book of Exodus.

I’m reminded of a song by Bob Dylan titled Highway 61 Revisited. It begins this way:

“Oh God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son.’ Abe say, ‘Man you must be puttin’ me on.’ God say, ‘No.’ Abe say, ‘What?’ God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but the next time you see Me comin’ you better run.’ Well Abe say, ‘Where you want this killin’ done?’ God say, ‘Out on Highway 61.’”

Bob Dylan is a believer, and he’s Jewish. I like that song, and this is the point people like Mahmoud Abbas need to take hold of. You can do what you want, but you had better get ready to run because Yahweh is coming. You can count on it.

Listen to Highway 61 Revisited—click here.

There’s another Bob Dylan song that I like a lot. It’s titled Gonna Have to Serve Somebody. I think you’ll like it too—click here.

I have given Al Gore my first Dunce Award. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Al Gore continues to insist that man-made CO2 emissions are destroying life as we know it. He’s wrong, and that’s not just my opinion. 31,000 climate scientists have challenged the UN report on global warming, but they have been ignored by the lame street media.

This fact should be obvious. Our climate has been changing continually since the creation. Man didn’t make it happen, and man can’t stop it from happening. This, too, is a fact. The data shows that earth’s atmosphere hasn’t warmed one iota since 1998, but CO2 emissions have increased dramatically since then primarily due to rapid economic development in countries like India, China, and Russia, for example.

Al Gore is little more than a profiteer. He’s about to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire” by hawking a global scam with the help of his liberal, progressive friends. The money he’s pocketing is coming from people like you and me in the form of higher prices for goods and services and higher taxes. While the scientific community is calling for investigations into fraudulent practices and questioning the shoddy “science” that Gore relies on, he continues to trumpet his message with religious zeal. I think that qualifies him for the Dunce Award.

For supporting documentation, see “Climate Change” under Pages in the column on the right.

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[1] Yahweh appeared to Gideon in Ophrah. He sat down under an oak tree and said, “Yahweh is with you, O valiant warrior.” (Judges 6: 12) He meant it literally because He was with Gideon in Person at that moment, but it took Gideon by surprise since he was not a warrior. However, Yahweh saw what Gideon would become and declared that he was, in fact, a warrior. [2] In today’s SnyderTalk post, there’s a special section titled “The Dream of Jerusalem” by Benyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister. It’s a speech he delivered at The Seventh Annual Jerusalem Conference held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem a few days ago. You need to read it. For your convenience, the speech is also available in the column on the right under Pages. It’s titled “The Dream of Jerusalem by Benyamin Netanyahu”. [3] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks Israel has no reason to exist. That was Hitler’s view. He also believes Israel is “a microbe of corruption”. It sounds like Ahmadinejad has been reading too much Hitler propaganda. Maybe he should take a few minutes and read the book of Exodus instead. It’s no coincidence that Ahmadinejad made his belligerent boasts during Purim season. Tiny Israel has thrived for more than 60 years with threats on every side. Hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish people. He’s been dead for longer than Israel has been a state, and his “Thousand Year Reich” didn’t survive to the end of World War II. He missed his target by more than 990 years. This is my hypothesis. In due course, the people of Iran will take care of Ahmadinejad and his cronies. I think they’ll put his neck in a noose, the way he has so many of theirs, and dispatch him to the rubbish heap of history. If Ahmadinejad doesn’t change his ways, he’ll have an eternity to compare notes with Hitler.

March 1st, 2010

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in Hebrews 8:

Hebrews 8

Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “SEE,” He says, “THAT YOU MAKE all things ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.”
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
For finding fault with them, He says, “BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS YAHWEH, WHEN I WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;
NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; FOR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I DID NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS YAHWEH.
“FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS YAHWEH: I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS. AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
“AND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN, AND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, ‘KNOW YAHWEH,’ FOR ALL WILL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.
“FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.”
When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

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SnyderTalk® Commentary:

I have left out several footnotes. Please go to the website His Name is Yahweh and download the manuscript. It has all the footnotes, and it’s free.

Yahweh Appears to Gideon

Just as Yahweh told them He would do, He removed His protective hedge from around the Children of Israel because of their sins. They had not obeyed Him so they had to defend themselves. During Gideon’s day, Yahweh allowed Midian to invade Israel and steal their crops and flocks. Things were so bad in Israel that Gideon was forced to hide his wheat to keep the Midianites from taking it.

Yahweh appeared to Gideon in Ophrah. He sat down under an oak tree and said, “Yahweh is with you, O valiant warrior.” (Judges 6: 12) He meant it literally because He was with Gideon in Person at that moment, but it took Gideon by surprise since he was not a warrior. However, Yahweh saw what Gideon would become and declared that he was, in fact, a warrior.

Gideon did not realize he was talking to Yahweh in Person, and with a skeptical tone in his voice he asked,

“O my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about…?” (Judges 6: 13)

Yahweh simply looked at him and told him to go and deliver Israel. Then He said, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.” (Judges 6: 16)

Gideon remained skeptical, but he did not want to offend the Man so he invited Him to stay and share a meal. Yahweh accepted his invitation, and He waited patiently while Gideon prepared meat and bread. When Gideon brought the meal to Yahweh, He told him to place it on a nearby rock. Then Yahweh touched the food with the end of His staff, and fire came up out of the rock and consumed it. Immediately Yahweh vanished.

At that moment, Gideon knew he had been talking with Yahweh Himself, and he said, “Alas, O Adonai Yahweh! For now I have seen Yahweh face to face.” (Judges 6: 22) Then Gideon heard Yahweh say these words: “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.” (Judges 6: 23)

It took Gideon a little time to understand what Yahweh wanted him to do, and he needed constant reassurance. However, eventually Gideon delivered Israel from Midian under the miraculous guidance of Yahweh, and he turned the hearts and minds of the Children of Israel back to their God.

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News Items of Interest:

Commonsense: “Rather than using a passport with an assumed identity, al Mabhouh booked his ticket under his real name. ‘He has five passports, one of them with his real name the other with different names, and this time he travelled under his actual identity,’ said Talal Nasser, a senior spokesman for Hamas in Damascus. ‘He has travelled to Dubai many times before in this way without any problems.’” As you can see, there is more to the assassination of Hamas operative Mahmoud al Mabhouh than we’re being told by the lame street media. I wonder why.

Iran: US behind IAEA charge that Iran making bomb
Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt
Iranian insurgent group chooses new leader
Ahmadinejad: Israel has lost its “raison d’être” (i.e., a French word meaning its “reason for being” or its “reason for existing”)

Commonsense: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks Israel has no reason to exist. That was Hitler’s view. He also believes Israel is “a microbe of corruption”. It sounds like Ahmadinejad has been reading too much Hitler propaganda. Maybe he should take a few minutes and read the book of Exodus instead. It’s no coincidence that Ahmadinejad made his belligerent boasts during Purim season.

Tiny Israel has thrived for more than 60 years with threats on every side. Hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish people. He’s been dead for longer than Israel has been a state, and his “Thousand Year Reich” didn’t survive to the end of World War II. He missed his target by more than 990 years.

This is my hypothesis. In due course, the people of Iran will take care of Ahmadinejad and his cronies. I think they’ll put his neck in a noose, the way he has so many of theirs, and dispatch him to the rubbish heap of history. If Ahmadinejad doesn’t change his ways, he’ll have an eternity to compare notes with Hitler.

Is Ahmadinejad crazy like Hitler or crazy like Nixon?

Commonsense: The question assumes Ahmadinejad is crazy. Richard Cohen is just searching for a good analogy.

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Special Section: “The Dream of Jerusalem” by Benyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister

A speech he delivered at The Seventh Annual Jerusalem Conference held at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem a few days ago.

For videos of several speeches given at the conference, including Netanyahu’s speech, click here.

Before I begin, I would like to say something about this place where we are gathered. Several stories above us, the floor was drenched with the blood of a Minister of the Israeli government, a war hero, a general and a man who loved the Land of Israel.

More than eight years ago, on October 17, 2001, here in this place, Minister Rehavam “Gandhi” Ze’evi was murdered. His killer is in prison in Israel. As long as I am Prime Minister of the Israeli government, he will stay there.

One of our responses to this despicable murder is that soon we will establish a site commemorating Gandhi’s legacy, a legacy of his love for the people of Israel and the Land of Israel. Together with the Ze’evi family, we located an appropriate site and we are working on this matter. Remember that Gandhi was a man for whom Jewish heritage, the heritage of our people in our land, was important. They served as the map and the compass that guided him. On Sunday, we will conduct a special Cabinet meeting in Tel Hai, the place where Trumpledor was shot, and we will ask the Cabinet to approve a comprehensive plan, the largest ever in the State of Israel, to strengthen our national heritage and nurture our roots. This plan is called the “Tamar” Plan – the Heritage Infrastructure Plan.

We will renovate and rehabilitate hundreds of archaeological sites and sites dating to the Zionist period. We will rescue hundreds of thousands of items located in archives that are slowly disintegrating: documents, films, poems, liturgical songs, testimonies and photographs. We will establish two national trails – the historic Land of Israel Trail, which will connect the archaeological sites; and the Israel and Zionism Experience Trail, which will connect various sites such as the hall in Tel Aviv in which David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel.

For 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people, and it was never the capital of some other people, only ours.

This important conference, which is ending tonight, dealt with a range of topics – Aliyah, the economy, the Iranian threat, the political horizon, our relations with the United States, security – in fact all the core topics which touch on the present and the future of the State of Israel. However, the core of the core is Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people; Jerusalem is unified, it is indivisible and it will stay that way.

The vision and foundation on which the State of Israel was established and stands today is the idea of Zionism.

This name is derived from the word ‘Zion’, and Zion is, after all, Jerusalem. In other words, the Zionist vision is the vision of Jerusalem. It could be called “the dream of Jerusalem”.

The dream of Jerusalem built Tel Aviv. It built the entire country and revived our land. The longing for Jerusalem brought waves of immigrants here: from Russia, from Yemen, from Poland, from Morocco and from Ethiopia.

One of the most moving experiences is hearing the stories of the Ethiopian immigrants who walked here, whose families died along the way with the word ‘Jerusalem’ on their lips. Being here at their annual meeting, hearing them, knowing that their long-held connection to this place was never erased – not anywhere: not in Europe faced with horrible attacks and not in Africa, not in the darkest reaches of the Earth – is to understand the strength of our people.

The dream of Jerusalem is the source of energy that drove the pioneers and fighters and the founding fathers of the army, the Israeli economy, Israeli culture and Israeli society.

For 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people, and it was never the capital of some other people, only ours.

If you walk out of this hall and turn left, towards French Hill, you will find yourselves on a street where Jews and Arabs live side by side. Two streets over in the other direction, Sheikh Jarrah and Mea Shearim connect. There is co-existence here.

Not everything in Jerusalem is rosy. We must admit that not all the streets in the eastern part of the city are as beautiful as this street. More must be done to equalize the conditions and level of services offered in all parts of the city. I certainly side with the trend that I see the Mayor enacting to pay more attention to cultivating infrastructure and the living conditions of the residents of the eastern part of the city, because it is part of our responsibility in governing this city.

However, everyone in Jerusalem has freedom of access, freedom of movement and freedom of worship. This was something that we had to guarantee and that was not possible for hundreds of years. It was only assured after Jerusalem was again united under Israeli sovereignty. It was only then that freedom of religion was secured for all religions.

The Arab residents of Jerusalem spend time in and shop at the Malha Mall, and the Jewish residents of Jerusalem shop at the market in the Old City. But we want to enhance co-existence and the peace in Jerusalem, and that too is part of the dream.

Today it seems like some far-off vision, but it is possible under the condition that Jerusalem is not divided again and that it does not descend into a struggle between factions and sects or be used as a location for violent struggle and terror of one side against the other.

Strengthening co-existence and peace even more may seem like a far-off vision, but it is possible. A great many things that exist in the reality of life here in Israel and Jerusalem were, not long ago, a far-off vision and many did not believe we could realize it.

However, this vision is threatened by heavy clouds. We are threatened by an extremist form of Islam, headed by Tehran, which sends out its tentacles in the form of Hamas and Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations, which undermine the very existence of the State of Israel and speak openly about their desire to destroy it.

The nuclearization of Iran is a threat to the peace of the entire world.

This is not just a threat against Israel, but against the entire world. This is a threat against world peace. It certainly is a threat to us, but Iran’s armament threatens the entire Middle East and world peace for a great many reasons. Here is one: some leaders of important nations have been saying publicly over the past several weeks and months that if Iran develops a nuclear weapon, they will also develop nuclear weapons. If a nuclear arms race begins in the Middle East, who knows how it will end? The nuclearization of Iran is a threat to the peace of the entire world.

I said these things this month to President Sarkozy, who is also the President of the Security Council. I said the same things to President Obama when I met him in Washington and more recently when I spoke to Secretary of State Clinton several days ago. I said the same things to Angela Merkel whom I saw during my visit to Germany. I said the same things to Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime Minister of Italy. I said the same things to President Medvedev in Moscow and yesterday to Prime Minister Putin.

I will say the same things to you today – Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon is a threat to the entire world.

From the outset, my government has worked so that this idea would become entrenched in the world’s consciousness. I found all the countries I mentioned and their leaders willing to hear us out on this matter.

Now that there is an understanding that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, this argument has ended. If one year ago we were in a situation in which Iran’s true intentions to acquire nuclear weapons were unclear, that the ultimate goal of the Iranian nuclear program was a weapon, today there is no argument that this is the case. As long as Iran advances this program, the argument as to how much longer it will take them to achieve their goal will also fade away. It won’t take them long. There is also understanding about the character of the regime, which was exposed during the recent elections. That too had not been clear; people thought it was a popular populist regime. It is not populist and it is not popular. It is a regime that is hated by the people. They may be able to artificially fill up a square, but there are tens of millions of people in Iran, the vast majority, aspiring to one thing – freedom from this brutal tyranny.

The character of this regime was exposed and their secret nuclear program was exposed. The danger threatening the entire Middle East was exposed – Arab and Jewish alike, but not just Arabs and Jews. Everything has been exposed. Everything is clear. Now the question is what the international community will do in the face of this challenge.

First there must be understanding. However, after understanding there must be a conclusion. And after the conclusion, action must be taken by the international community. They are currently discussing sanctions. I spoke about sanctions with all the leaders with whom I met. I quoted to each of them the words of Hillel the Elder from 2,000 years ago: “If not now, when?” If crippling sanctions are not imposed on Iran now, when will they be? In a year? Two? When? If not now, when? I say now.

Superficial sanctions, toothless ones – what good will they do? What is the purpose of sanctions? The purpose is to make a difference, to make this regime stop its nuclear program. If the sanctions don’t have teeth, what influence will they have? Just to be able to check off that sanctions were imposed?

Time is growing short. There must be forceful sanctions now.

Time is growing short. There must be forceful sanctions now. I will tell you what sanctions with teeth are. They are a range of things, but they must include sanctions in the energy field. Iran’s economy is mainly based on the energy market, in export and import of energy products. If sanctions include preventing the export of gasoline and, equally important, the importation of petroleum products, Iran’s economy will be stopped.

Forceful sanctions must include steps to stop the importation of petroleum products to Iran and the export of energy. I promise you, this will make a difference. I cannot say with certainty that it will work, but I can say with certainty that superficial, weak, toothless sanctions, even if they are imposed, will not do the job. A combination of what I just said, sanctions in the energy field, is something else entirely.

If not now, when? Now. There must be forceful sanctions stopping the importation of refined petroleum products and the export of gasoline. I hope the international community will rise to the occasion. I hope they understand the magnitude of this moment, this historic moment in time when the responsible countries of the world, which already understand the magnitude of the threat and the short period of time we have left, will do what is necessary.

Leaders must make difficult decisions at decisive moments, because otherwise they should not be leaders. Three weeks after I was elected Prime Minister of Israel the first time, I was asked to speak before both houses of Congress in Washington. I spoke then, 14 years ago, about the nuclear threat. I said at the time that the greatest threat to humanity and to my country was Iran’s attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. I remember that 14 years ago, many people expressed doubt.

Today, there is no more doubt. Today everyone knows. Now let us see what they do. This is the most important question I can raise here today at the Jerusalem Conference, in the eternal capital of the people of Israel.

Thank you.

For your convenience, this speech is also available in the column on the right under Pages. It’s titled “The Dream of Jerusalem by Benyamin Netanyahu”. Please share it with your friends and family.

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