“The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath… a perpetual covenant.” -- Exodus 31:16

What Does “Blessing” Really Mean? — בְּרָכָה (Brachah)

We often think of a blessing as kind words or a prayer for someone’s well-being. But the Hebrew word brachah reveals something much deeper. What did “blessing” mean in the biblical world, and what can it teach us about our relationship with Yehovah today?

Discover the deeper meaning behind this familiar biblical word.

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What Does “Blessing” Really Mean?

Before we start our busy schedules prepping for Shabbat, remember to start with thanksgiving, gratefulness, and gratitude to the One our soul does love. HPD & Shabbat Shalom from the Ambassador Club Family. Love, Angie

HPD = Happy Prep Day! Time to make the challah - and the muffins 😀

One of our Ambassadors, Ken Lockhart from Canada, is quite the poet. His love for the Messiah shows in his ability to put pen to paper and make it dance... enjoy!

The full life, the Zoe life… the life as HE would have it… for you, you, and you.

Throw your heart across the table and let the Lamb slain before creation bleed from His wrist on your broken heart.

Give him the fears and loneliness... let the King of kings in! Imagine, and HE makes it real...imagineer to get near HIM! HE is that close! 

Get an angel of peace from heaven into the mix... an angel carrying hope, an angel carrying more and greater faith.

Grab a heavenly peace pipe from thick air and fill it with 2 Corinthians 3:18; 4:18... light up and breathe that smoke in!  It’s NO joke, its a choice, maybe you become a first class ASS, a Balaams donkey..saving 1 or alot -  or more? Are you or we done beating the self up, or others?

Let the Savior save; that’s HIS Name..that’s HIS nature -  integrity, character, essence... ain’t that NICE... the world of man is being pulled apart.  Decide a 1 or 0, a hero or hater. "All you need is love", insert HIS, and the statement is complete and replete with wisdom.

Think on it.

Ken

Look up! Be watchful... coming to a sky near you!

HEADS UP! This week a LUNAR ECLIPSE will be visible across the United States Thursday evening into early Friday morning (Aug 27/28)! 96% of the Moon’s visible disk will slip into Earth’s shadow. So close to totality that most of it will have a red tint while only a thin bright sliver remains.

Peak Viewing Times

Eastern: 12:13 AM (Friday)

Central: 11:13 PM (Thursday)

Mountain: 10:13 PM (Thursday)

Pacific: 9:13 PM (Thursday)

Only wild card of course will be your local weather, hope for the best! This should be one of the best lunar eclipses visible from the Unites States until the next total lunar eclipse in December 2028. Enjoy and get those cameras ready and share your pix in Rood Community!

Shalom Torah Fans!!!!  We would love to hear how you found A Rood Awakening! International and how it has helped you in your walk with YHVH! Feel free to reply to this or share straight into the Rood Community! Your testimony may be the very thing that brings a lost one into the family. 📜❤️‍🔥

Encouraging Word of the Week ✨
Praise YAH for his Commandments!

Hebrew: "tora"

Psalm 119:65-72

 Tet You have done good to Your servant, O Yahovah, According to Your word.

Teach me good sense and knowledge, For I have trusted in Your commands.

Before I was afflicted I myself was going astray, But now I have guarded Your word.

You are good, and do good; Teach me Your laws.

The proud have forged a lie against me, With all my heart I observe Your orders.

Their heart has become like fat, Without feeling; I have delighted in Your Torah.

It was good for me that I was afflicted, That I might learn Your laws.

The Torah of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

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Verse of the Week: 1 Peter 2:24

“Yeshua bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. By His wounds we are healed.”

This statement by Peter is not merely a statement about forgiveness. It is a declaration concerning what Yehovah has accomplished through His Messiah and what that accomplishment is meant to produce in His people.

Yeshua did not bear our sins so that we could make peace with sin. He bore our sins so that we could be delivered from its dominion. The goal of redemption has always been to be a people who belong to Yehovah and walk in His ways. This is the pattern established in the Exodus. Yehovah first redeemed Israel from Egypt, then brought them to Sinai and taught them how a redeemed people were to live. Grace came first, but grace was never opposed to obedience.

This is why Peter says that we are to "live unto righteousness." In the biblical worldview, righteousness is not an abstract theological idea. It is a life ordered according to the ways of Yehovah. The Torah reveals His standards of righteousness, justice, holiness, mercy, faithfulness, and love. Yeshua did not suffer in order to abolish His Father's righteous ways. He suffered to cleanse and restore a people who would walk in them from the heart.

The imagery of Yeshua bearing our sins upon the tree also reaches deeply into the Torah and the Prophets. The Torah speaks of the curse associated with one who hangs upon a tree, while Isaiah describes the Servant of Yehovah bearing the sins and wounds of His people. At Golgotha, these strands of Scripture converge. Yeshua willingly carried the judgment that our rebellion deserved. The Shepherd was wounded so that wandering sheep could be brought back to Yehovah.

And this is an important part of the verse that we should not overlook. Peter is not describing a salvation that leaves us exactly where we were. The wounds of Yeshua bring healing. That healing includes restoration from the rebellion, corruption, and alienation caused by sin. We were wandering, but through Messiah we are being brought back under the care of the Shepherd and Guardian of our souls.

The gospel, then, is not the Torah versus grace. It is the story of Yehovah remaining faithful to His covenant purposes despite human rebellion. It is the story that begins in the Torah, unfolds through the Prophets, reaches its decisive moment in the suffering and resurrection of Yeshua, and will ultimately culminate when the Messiah returns, establishes righteousness, and reigns from Zion.

So, this week, let us remember that Yeshua did not bear our sins merely so that we could be forgiven while continuing to live according to our own ways. He bore our sins so that we might die to sin and live unto righteousness. Let us examine our lives, turn away from what Yehovah calls sin, and seek to walk faithfully in His commandments. May the wounds of Yeshua remind us of the terrible cost of rebellion, the extraordinary mercy of Yehovah, and the kind of people redemption is intended to produce: a set-apart, obedient, covenant-faithful people eagerly awaiting the return of our King.