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dants who returned to conquer the land the figure of melchizedek exceeds the facts he became a mythic figure he was a king and priest we meet him several centuries before the law on mount sinai back when it was common for the senior head of household to also be the priest for his people the two roles became divided at the time of moses because he balked at keeping them both thus his brother aaron became priest while moses was made the elder of the tribe god kept this arrangement two witnesses for the balance of human time in this world though his son reunited the roles in heaven after his resurrection already but not yet posted in bible tagged abraham bible history canaan conquest dale moreau geography jebusites jerusalem joshua king david melchizedek michael s heiser mount zion nephilim ot history pagan religions leave a comment the damage is done posted on july 24 2026 by ehurst we were discussing offline the magnitude of the action in the bab el mandeb straight the houthis struck the saudi oil tanker encelia in the southern red sea there s no confirmation of a second ship so far as i can determine that ship is an aframax running just over 100k tons what seems to be about middling size the point of discussion was the impact this has on oil trade there are anywhere from 8k 10k oil vessels of those only about half are currently active something just over 4k about 160 of them are stuck in the persian gulf right now of those not trapped the breakdown of how many of each size class varies but the active traffic stats indicate that the aframax size is about one fifth over 1k as a side note there is a very substantial shadow fleet actively working mostly smaller vessels ships sold for scrap are sometimes diverted to the shadows and used by nations like russia trying to avoid oil sanctions it is a growing portion of all the oil that russia ships from what i can gather the primary means of keeping track of the traffic is insurance records and russia s shadow fleet simply does not participate in the standard global insurance market the point here is that an expensive ship was lost but from the photos is appears that the vessel was not fully loaded a video i found shows most of the deck aflame if it burned very long the metal exposed to flame would weaken and the ship would require awfully expensive renovation to remain in service the price of a replacement is around 50 million this single vessel and cargo is big enough to notice but it represents something much bigger the saudis will have trouble selling their oil they currently don t have any way to ship out oil except their port on the persian gulf blocked by iran and the terminal in the red sea now blocked by the houthis the ruling family cannot afford for this to continue more than a week or so however iran and their clients the houthis have gotten pretty good at this all the bombs and missiles the us could drop on them won t change much that s in part because the us doesn t have that many bombs and missiles right now we didn t build up a good inventory for anything more than a brief action trump s previous and current efforts with iran have brought that small inventory down dangerously and the pentagon is broke congress has already demanded that the warfare in iran stop twice trump has ignored them most americans don t notice they are largely oblivious to the action along with the implications we cannot afford to serve israel like this no human can see the breaking point but it s for sure we are getting to it most of my readers are the kind of people who have been prepared for a while there s nothing i can add to that you cannot count on having any more time indeed the breaking point may not be that easy to identify when it passes it s not just the political and economic instability that hits everyone but those of us who aren t zionists will face the added risk of censorship and persecution it s here folks the pain may not manifest immediately but the damage is done posted in tribulation tagged economic troubles iran petroleum market saudi arabia transportation us war yemen 1 comment they don t belong anymore posted on july 20 2026 by ehurst the fundamental hebrew thinking about sin is all about communion if you scroll through leviticus you notice that blood sacrifice does not cleanse the sinner rather a ritual sacrifice is necessary to decontaminate the sacred space where god comes to meet with his people it reminds humans that they are mortal and imperfect against god s holiness we are dragging around a fleshly nature that is no friend of god how many times in the old testament did people commit sins that should have been a capital offense but they managed to come into god s presence afterward it s because they remained fundamentally loyal to god despite their failures to control their fleshly natures retributive justice is not god s nature the key to living in this world is personal feudal loyalty to the lord we keep saying it everything is personal the rules are merely an expression of his desire to hold your heart stop thinking in terms of trespass and debt the fundamental problem of human existence is finding peace and fellowship with god and with his creation it s not about individuals at all but a necessity for the community of faith there are no lone rangers in faith sin is a threat to the stability of community and communal faith you have a duty to others your personal private sin can threaten their communion through defilement let s look at some implications of this numbers 15 22 36 god commands that those who commit unintentional sins or sins of weakness can confess and restore fellowship with him notice that the first point made is for the covenant community as a whole the community offering that s the focus in the first place the community as a whole can be pardoned god will look past the mistakes even private individual mistakes must be addressed through the community priesthood because the issue is a threat to the community as a whole the assumption is that you care about the communion of the community with god the deliberate sin of defiance and rebellion is a threat to the stability of the community it can poison that stability you no longer care about them the biggest threat is to drive a wedge between the people and god to alienate them by generating a false perception about god s character someone defies god because they feel like he owes them something he s not giving so they seize that thing for themselves thus the man caught gathering firewood on the sabbath was trying to take care of his own needs without regard to how it would defile the community the incident is placed in the context of discussing defiant sin so we must assume the man was defiant about asserting his personal needs against the communion of the covenant provisions couldn t he just ask for some spare firewood from his neighbors he didn t simply forget that it was the sabbath he didn t care now expand this to the entire list of death penalties in the old testament think about how each of them was a threat to the stability of the community in terms of alienating them from god encouraging others to seize for themselves something they felt god failed to provide some of those deaths came at the hand of god himself because they were a direct insult but most of these sins demanded that the community act to remove the threat numbers 11 this is the manna versus quail episode who led the outcry for meat it was the mixed multitude of people who traveled with israel but were not part of the covenant they infected the nation with their attitude that god wasn t providing what they needed notice how they didn t reverently plead with god for favor they demanded it by insulting god most english translations paint the wrong picture here this was part of an annual quail migration in the area god diverted it toward the camp the birds normally flew close to the ground 6 2m and were easily captured and then roosted everywhere in masses overnight the rabble of outsiders were the ones who lusted for the meat and stayed up all night catching them they were the ones who laid them on the ground to fester in the heat of the day and probably failed to cook them properly to kill parasites and bacteria the passage notes that they buried those who had an insatiable craving for the meat acts 4 32 5 11 ananias and sapphira were craving the attention that church members gained by contributing to the common household welfare context a very large number of diaspora jews had come for the passover when jesus was crucified those who were wealthy enough stayed around until pentecost this made the city and surrounding areas quite crowded with visitors renting every available space plus tents everywhere the ones who responded to the gospel message followed typical hebrew instinct they created a bond with their new spiritual family and tried to stay as long as possible this was some time after pentecost and they were ready to cut ties from their past lives many of them began selling their business properties in the lands abroad where they had lived up to that point some local jew would buy the property and travel or send agents to claim the property the sellers would take the proceeds and hand it over to the elders of their new family what luke describes is not communism but household feudalism no one was required to do this it seemed like the only sensible choice to help the church handle the sudden influx of folks who had grown up abroad and had no other local connections ananias and sapphira suffered from social envy they wanted the accolades given to those who sacrificed but didn t want to sacrifice so much it wasn t that they retained any money but that they lied about it they lied to the holy spirit residing in the community they had something to hide that alienated them from the communion of christ and his people 1 john john had been there to see that event with ananias and sapphira his letter addresses the major issue of fellowship and communion that s what we get from 1 3 of this letter he goes on to say we are to be a community of divine glory light escapees from the kingdom of darkness he sticks with the ancient hebrew focus on community all the more so given the command of his lord at the last seder this whole letter is about fellowship and what it requires we are all humble before him we must recognize the necessity of dragging around a fleshly nature that resists the spirit if we are genuinely committed to christ he will not separate from us the door of repentance is always open 1 9 the second chapter is all about spiritual family having the power to resist returning to spiritual slavery the primary failure he focuses on is denying christ in the sense of defiance about what he has commanded and what he promised under the new covenant it s not about us as individuals but it s all about his family in chapter 3 it s the contrast between slipping back into slavery versus learning to love the family of faith obviously the business with sin is focused on how it threatens fellowship and communion it s not about you or what your flesh wants or claims to need chapter 4 follows the same pattern ending with god is love the one who claims to love god must prove it by loving god s family then in chapter 5 we should stay out of satan s clutches indeed we pray for each other to that end nearing the end of his letter john warns that it s possible for some sins to lead to death he uses the word death grk thanatos broadly indicating both literal and figurative death given what he s said up to this point it s clear that someone who cannot put the christ and his family first is dead in his sins it echoes hebrews 6 and the warning about forsaking christ after having experienced the power of the holy spirit the primary root of such an awful thing is deciding that something the flesh demands is more important than the loving communion of christ s family john didn t need to define what a sin leading to death was at that point he had already painted a very clear picture of it throughout the letter it s not that we cannot pray for people who turn against the lord and his communion but that john recommended against it someone who defies the command of christ is no longer family there s nothing you can do for them under the covenant of christ we no longer execute such people rather we kill them by ostracism or excommunication they don t belong to the covenant any more posted in teaching tagged bible history communion covenant community of faith fellowship feudalism personal loyalty sacrificial love sin spiritual family leave a comment the ascent of abraham posted on july 18 2026 by ehurst re naked bible 164 paul s ascent and angelic torment with david burnett in 2 corinthians 11 12 paul mocks the boasting of those who call themselves apostles among other things he said that he was a hebrew ethnic identity an israelite covenant identity and a seed of abraham something entirely different he mentions in galatians what a true child of abraham is someone who carries the faith of abraham and believes in the promises he received thus paul taps into something very special that most modern believers don t grasp within the second temple literature is a book called apocalypse of abraham it references genesis 15 where god takes abraham outside to look at the stars the odd thing about the hebrew language is the grammatical ambiguity of outside it could mean outside of the body outside of the world as in a vision of celestial things further when abraham is directed to look toward the heavens it could easily be translated look down as if abraham is above outside the created universe granted this is likely somewhat an embellished tale but the tradition was that abraham was in the eighth heaven we already know that other new testament writers would sometimes refer to rabbinical mythology in a literary sense using the terminology of something to call to mind a much bigger concept than what the words alone mean so it is not necessary to insist that paul actually took literally those traditions so much as he was using it like poetry to reference things his hebrew audience would recognize the scripture text refers to abraham as a prophet given the wider context of what he saw from that situation it is likely he caught a glimpse of the future events that would climax in the victory of his seed naturally that includes the messiah that s our victory as the elect of christ s kingdom elsewhere in second temple literature abraham was encouraged to think of the stars symbolizing the elohim powers in god s court as beneath his feet it was rather like having a good pair of sandals and able to tread down thorns thorns are an ancient symbol of the troubles of this world caused by the interference of those higher powers thorns and thistles the ground will produce for you thus abraham is being told that his seed will someday walk on those powers as paul notes in ro...