Month of Elul, Messiah King David, and Psalm 27!
September 10, 2006
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Israel is drifting toward the beginning of a new year on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, and the events, which began August 25, are very significant in Israeli history right on through the Feast of Sukkot or Booths or Tabernacles. It was on Yom Kippur that the Syrians took Israel by surprise when they launched an attack against Israel in 1973.
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Jewish Nation Welcomes Month of Elul
Arutz Sheva, Israel National News
August 27, 2006 / 3 Elul 5766
By Ezra HaLevi
August 25 marked the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul – the last month of the year 5766.
Elul is considered a month of preparation for the new year and is traditionally a time of soul-searching
and personal accounting.
Between the first day of Elul until Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a period of 40 days. These are the 40 days which Moses spent on Mount Sinai before he descended with the second set of Ten Commandments.
It was on the 17th of Elul that the spies – sent by Moses to scout out the Land of Israel and delivered the negative report about the land – died (Numbers 14:37). According to Jewish tradition, G-d created the world on the 25th day of Elul. Sunday, August 27, the 3rd of Elul, was
the 71st anniversary of the death of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of the Holy Land in modern times and the spiritual father of the religious-Zionist public.
Jews from North African countries began reciting selichot, special prayers of repentance, Saturday night, August 26. Ashkenazi Jews will begin reciting them the Saturday night before Rosh HaShana. The fundamental part of the selichot service is the repeated recitation of the “Thirteen Attributes,” a list of G-d’s attributes of mercy that were revealed to Moses after the sin of the golden calf (Exodus 34:6-7).
It is customary to blow the shofar, ram’s horn, every morning (except on the Sabbath) of the month of Elul,
with the intent of awakening the Jewish people to repentance and action. Psalm 27 is also added to the daily prayers each day until the end of the Festival of Sukkot.
More than 2,500 Jews took part in the monthly encirclement of the Temple Mount Wednesday night (August 23) in honor of the month of Elul.
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Numbers 14:37 – Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.
Psalm 27 is a Psalm of David, and one day Messiah will sit on the throne of David and rule the world, with a Kingdom that stretches from the River of Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea to the shores of Syria all the way eastward to the Euphrates River. It will extend northward to the latitude of Hamath in Syria and south to Kadesh in Sinai.
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
Ezekiel 47:19 – And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea.
And this is the south side southward.
Ezekiel 34:23,24 – And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. [24] And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.
Psalm 27:1-14 – A Psalm of David.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fea
r? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? [2] When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. [3] Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. [4] One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and
to enquire in his temple. [5] For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
[6] And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
[7] Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. [8] When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. [9] Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. [10] When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take
me up. [11] Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. [12] Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. [13] I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
[14] Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:24-26 – And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
[25] And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. [26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel 43:1-9 – Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: [2] And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. [3] And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
[4] And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. [5] So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. [6] And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. [7] And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of
Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Luke 1:30-33 – And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. [31] And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. [32] He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
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