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STEVE FLETCHER 222 - 02-03-2023 - this TU B SHVAT ALMOND TREE BLOSSOMS
THE FIG TREE GENERATION BEGAN TU B´SHVAT 1949 + 70 YEARS + 4 YEAR DELAY - Tu BiShvat
The real lesson of Tu BiShvat - https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/02/03/the-real-lesson-of-tu-bshvat/
As a prophet of truth, Ezekiel felt responsibility for his people, not just to admonish them when necessary, but also to encourage them when they needed encouragement, to strengthen feeble arms and weak knees, to heal their fallen spirit, and to raise their vision beyond the depressing here and now. He expounds his vision to the people as he experienced it in the mirror of prophecy: A valley of dry human bones of the dead, long forgotten of this earth. And the bones connected to human figures and grew tendons, flesh, and skin, but did not yet have a soul. He makes another prophecy and sees how the spirit comes from all four corners of the earth and breathes life into the bodies. "…and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet – a vast army."
And then Ezekiel hears the explanation for his incredible vision: "...these bones are the whole House of Israel. They say, `Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off... I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the Land of Israel... I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land" (Ezekiel, 37).
There is hope for our descendants, says the prophet. The historic formula since then has been "the covenant of the pieces" (Genesis, 15), the first covenant made between the first Hebrew and his God to inherit the Land of Israel. We shall be exiled ("know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs"), we will experience great suffering at the hands of the nations of the world where we will sojourn in our exile ("they will be enslaved and beaten down") and then we shall leave the house of slavery and return home: "in the fourth generation they will return here," and if not in the fourth generation then in the tenth or the 101st, but in the end, it has been promised to us that we will return. That is how things passed in the exodus from Egypt which we read about this Shabbat, and that is how things passed in the return to Zion in the period of Ezra and Nehemiah, and that is how things passed in our time.
Later in the prophecy of the mountains shooting forth branches, Ezekiel describes what many generations dreamed about and what we have had the fortune to witness with our own eyes: "…and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt... I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you (i.e. the land) inhabited as in former times... My people Israel, they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance..." (Ezekiel ibid). Happy Tu Bishvat.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/02/03/the-real-lesson-of-tu-bshvat/
The Sabbath Afterwards - Tu B´Shvat (Full Moon) - Watching February 3-7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdd5O...
2 MOON RAPTURE? THE NEXT FEW DAYS COULD BE INTERESTING!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2R4e...
