Wednesday, December 29, 2010


I often meditate on things of God I don’t quite understand. There’s so much to Him. The more I know the more awed I am, and the more I realized I don’t know. You don’t know what you don’t know! I can’t dare speak on things I haven’t learnt of Him yet, but I do want to know more. The reality of the Spirit, the standard of His holiness, and His nature I cannot fully comprehend. The ridiculousity of man trying to understand… God! How can I claim to truly know Him? How can I claim to have perfect theology, from my own understanding, from my own reading, from my own opinion. In the presence of God all my thoughts, my ideals, and my presuppositions all fade away when they encounter God and when they encounter truth.
Knowing God is knowing the reality of His holiness and presence every day, and living my life ever so carefully, living on my knees, if it must be, so that I can live a set-apart life, pleasing to God, and free from defilement. There is just so much out there that defiles. Even in shopping malls, the advertistment pictures, or the clothes people wear are just plain disgusting and defiling. “Unclean! Unclean!
What was I speaking of? God. When reading the book of Isaiah, I was stuck by the very poignant description of the Holocaust  (the Holocaust?). I dare not speak definitively or authoritively on anything about God, besides what the Bible clearly states, and I dare not speculate, but I do know a little bit about holocaust History.
 Isaiah 3:24-26
And so it shall be:

      Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench;
      Instead of a sash, a rope;
      Instead of well-set hair, baldness;
      Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth;
      And branding instead of beauty.
       Your men shall fall by the sword,
      And your mighty in the war.
       Her gates shall lament and mourn,
      And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.
Stench. Baldness. Sackcloth. Branding – Auschwitz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcV66yihkaA&feature=related

(See at your own risk - nothing sinful, just very depressing. And these are just the tip of the iceburg where holocaust suffering are concerned. These are Hollywood's mild take from the Anne Frank: Whole Story movie. )
Yet in the midst of hell on earth, in the midst of the unspeakable horrors (horror itself is too light a word), many stood strong. Perhaps you ask me who are my heroes. Especially those of the holocaust, because such times were perilous. I cannot imagine living such a life, in such surroundings. Where would faith be? Where would love be? Where would God be in the midst of suffering.
The answer came clearly and spoke to me through the lives of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Ten Boom family, and the suffering and downtrodden in Europe during World war 2.

I am talking incoherently, perhaps rambling about. But these are my thoughts of the day. Now a book I really recommend is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. The movie is almost accurate, too. I wholly recommend it above Anne Frank: Whole Movie. 


Monday, December 27, 2010

God is Anti-Immodesty

I just picked up this book this morning, written by Ps. Susan Tang of http://www.station-of-life.org/, Ps Jean Lim of http://jesushealsmi.com/, and Ps Wong Chin Meng of http://www.purestream.info/. Again, I was amazed by the depth of Scriptural revelation, and the truth packed into this slim little book. It is so thorough and packed. Worth more than RM 10, I would recommend it to anybody, as it covers more than dress alone, but the importance of living the Christian life the way God intends (and much more than that!)



After searching on google, i only found it here:

But you can contact the Station of Life it you are interested:

Jacob's Trouble



"Ministering to God in View of Jacob's Trouble "Written by Ps Susan Tang, from http://www.station-of-life.org/ 

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Transformed To Be Like Yeshua

Dear readers, I have just arrived back from youth camp. When you think about youth camp, do you think of fun games and crazy activities, lots of joking, vibrant and entertaining speakers, emotionally touching climaxes, and an exhilirating time? I don't know. That's not my experience with youth camp :). There's nothing wrong with those things, and I did enjoy a lot of funny moments, jokes, and a jolly time of fellowship.

The verse that kept coming up as the theme verse if the camp was,

"I beseech you therefore bretheren, by the mercies of God,
That you present your bodies, a living sacrifice.
Holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

And do not be conformed to this world
But be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
That you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." (Romans 12:1-2)

It was a verse I had memorized years back, later sung, and now became even more of reality for me over the years, the reality having been intensified more and more and continues to remain real and alive.

¹) When I think back, the most outstanding, dominant, and wonderful part of this camp was the reality of God. I know God's presence was there, because I felt a lot of conviction. I didn't feel condemned, but just convicted of God's holiness by what was preached. And that is how I knew that God was speaking to me. Even in times of fellowship and fun (during break times), there was such a reverence for His presence that filled my heart. The whole land was so sweet and soaked in the presence of God and there was such a grace for fasting and prayer. I don't take such a thing lightly, And I pray God forgive me if I misrepresent Him in the way I write of Him and speak of Him.

2) The theme of the camp was "Transformed to be like Yeshua". It's not just a theme of a camp, or a logo on a t-shirt to me. It's really should be the goal and purpose of our life, to be transformed in Yeshua's image and likeness, to be really in Him and He is us, and to be one with Him. What really struck me was the hearts of the other youths. I feel at times like this that I am not alone, that there are others that really love God even more than I do, that serve Him more than I do, and really whoeheartedly love God's Word a lot more than I do. In worship and prayer, I never saw such youth - they exuberated such LOVE for God, such humility, such longing and desire for God, and such spiritual stature. I feel humbled, especially learning about the sin of youthful pride and arrogance (YHWH preserve me from that, and change my heart), and about being a servant. (Make me a servant, YHWH, not just at youth camp, not just in front of others, but give me a spirit of servanthood.)

3) The Word that was preached was constantly a hard-hitting, convicting, challenging Word. Long hours of sitting at the feet of God's faithful servants and ministers, going through the Word of God thoroughly, from Scripture to Scripture, praying for hours on end, it was not easy. I feel I really have to live by the Spirit and not by the flesh. I suppose you could say it was a "youth camp" so much as a "youth training" experience. Being raised as soldiers in the armies of God, we have to be disciplined. Constant emphasis on HOLINESS and being SET-APART from the World was always there. I know I'm not there yet. We were constantly rebuked, constantly instructed, and constantly convicted. Such a distinction between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of Satan and this world was made, that one's personal compromises, no matter how trivial, are shown for what they really are in God's sight. Such a standard was shown (God's Holiness) that cannot justify spiritual complacency. The love and praise of this world and self was shown for what it really was. Again, HOLINESS. Without holiness one cannot see God. We are to be holy, just as Yeshua was holy. Such a reverance for God was instilled in us, and such a reality of the Judgment and wrath of God, as well as His love. We were constantly shown the plumb line, the ruler, to show us and impress in us the reality of hell, sin, demonic oppression, lies and deception. Yet such a gravity of Spirit, such a whole, perfect shalom lay over us. Repentence is a lost art in many of our lives today. As a child of God, one thorughout one's life must be found on one's knees in complete hopelessness in our self yet having such faith in God.

The importance of Prayer was stressed again and again. The peaceful, refreshing times waiting on YHWH that put an end to every desire and pleasure of self were eternally benefitial. The world's systems, goals, and ways were exposed for what they truly are - the deception of Satan, who is all out to drag us into eternal abyss and suffering, because he hates us, because we were created in the image of God.

As soldiers, one must know who one's enemy is. One must know his goals and his tactics. And out enemy is Satan, for he is all out to steal, kill, and destroy. Only when we are totally transformed into Yeshua and we are found on our knees, seeking fot the Kingdom of God, only when we live such a life of obedience and submission to God and love of delight in His Word, only then have we been completely brought into the liberty and power and dominion to which Yeshua has completed in us. And yet the life, the love, the obedience, is all a gift to us from Yeshua.

We were always reminded of sanctity, that is, the importance of keeping our bodies set-apart and holy, because we are the temple of the Living God.

3) Even the songs we sang really were along these lines, these spiritual boundaries along the narrow way. Tthe kinds of songs we sang we of love towards God, of total laying down of our lives in surrender to Him, of His Kingdom, of His power, of His glory, of His magnificence, and especially of His holiness and our desire to be like Him. And sometimes I opened my eyes to look around when worshipping, to see youths on their faces, on their knees, just worshipping God. It really didn't matter who was looking at them, because it was just between each individual and God. And it really wasn't a song anymore, because to me it became a prayer.

I can say that I learnt a lot and spent a lot of time in God's presence, but time will really tell whether I will keep steadfastly to the Word which God Himself has made a revelation to me and to all of us, whether I will keep myself in the Love of God, whether I will hold fast, and whether I will run that race with such fixing of my eyes upon the goal, whether I will submit to God, and whether I will build my life of the solid rock of God and all His eternal will, purpose, and treasure.

My bottom line is this. Contrary to the usual youthful nature and aptitude, we were taught holiness, maturity, reverence, respect, and fear of God. We were taught to not just think about the sinful goals, pleasures, and purposes of this life (which may not be outright sin), but to look at Yeshua, to love Him, seek Him, and most of all, just be IN HIM:

"We can do nothing else but watch and wait,
enthusiastically,
Totally taken up,
Deaf towards anyone who would confuse us with doubts,
Blind towards anything that comes between us and that future of God.

Only one thing is of importance to us.

We want to see Yeshua
We want to hear Yeshua,
We want to know Yeshua,
We want to receive Yeshua,
We want to serve Yeshua.

We want inconceivably nothing else.

In any case, nothing like WE WANT YESHUA!"








(Adapted from the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Somehow this paraphrase of sorts sums up the whole camp very pertinently.)
Do Read Also:
What is the difference between holiness and legalism? (Askdrbrown.org)





Thursday, December 2, 2010

The New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34 Scripture Song)



Written and Performed by Esther Mui: m-csn.com/esthermui.htm
Video and Description by Rebekah Mui: littledisciples.blogspot.com/ becomingbatmitzvah.blogspot.com
Full Video Description: http://littledisciples.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-covenant-jeremiah-3131-34-scripture.html

The New Covenant, one not unlike the old covenant, made in the days of Moses, but exceeding it greatly. It is superior to the old covenant. The old covenant was, mainly, a foreshadow of this great covenant which was to come.

What is a Covenant? - an eternal promise made by the supreme YHWH, who never breaks His promises, ever.

The Old covenant was the covenant of constant sacrifice and the blood of sheep and goats. The new covenant was sealed in one great atonement of the great lamb, slain before the foundation of the world, the one who alone is worthy. The New Covenant that washes away the sins of the House of Israel once and for all, when the great YHWH Himself forgives their iniquities and remembers their sins no more.

Th Old Covenant had a human high priest, one that was fallible and indeed sinned. Yet in the New Covenant, we have a divine prophet, priest, and king, in the likeness and lineage of David and yet greater than David, who has been counted worth of more  glory than Moses.

(Heb 2:7-18 The Scriptures 1998+)
You have made him a little lower than the messengers.1 You have crowned him with esteem and respect, and set him over the works of Your hands. You have put all in subjection under his feet.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left none that is not subjected to him. But now we do not yet see all subjected to him. But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, יהושע, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, because of whom all are and through whom all are, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the Princely Leader of their deliverance perfect through sufferings. For both He who sets apart and those who are being set apart are all of One, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, “I shall announce Your Name to My brothers,1 in the midst of the congregation I shall sing praise to You.”  And again, “I shall put My trust in Him.” And again, “See, I and the children whom Elohim gave Me.” Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself similarly shared in the same, so that by means of His death He might destroy him having the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver those who throughout life were held in slavery by fear of death. For, doubtless, He does not take hold of messengers, but He does take hold of the seed of Aḇraham. So in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of the people. For in what He had suffered, Himself being tried, He is able to help those who are tried.
(Heb 2:7-18 The Scriptures 1998+)

(Heb 8:1-13 The Scriptures 1998+)
Now the summary of what we are saying is: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Greatness in the heavens, and who serves in the set-apart place and of the true Tent, which יהוה set up, and not man.

 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and slaughters. So it was also necessary for this One to have somewhat to offer. For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah, who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to make the Tent. For He said, “See that you make all according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” But now He has obtained a more excellent service, inasmuch as He is also Mediatorof a better covenant, which was constituted on better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says, “See, the days are coming,” says יהוה, “when I shall conclude with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah a renewed covenant, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,” says יהוה. “Because this is the covenant that I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, says יהוה, giving My laws in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. “And they shall by no means teach each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know יהוה,’ because they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. “Because I shall forgive their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall no longer remember.”By saying, ‘renewed,’ He has made the first old. Now what becomes old and growing aged is near disappearing.
(Heb 8:1-13 The Scriptures 1998+)


(Heb 8:1-13 HNT)  וזה ראש הנאמרים שיש־לנו כהן גדול אשר ישב לימין כסא הגדלה בשמים׃  (2)  והוא משרת הקדש והמשכן האמתי אשר־כוננו אדני ולא אדם׃  (3)  כי כל־כהן גדול הוא מפקד להקריב מנחות וזבחים ועל־כן צריך שגם זה יהיה לו מה־שיקריב׃  (4)  והנה אלו היה בארץ לא היה כהן כי יש־פה הכהנים המקריבים הקרבנות על־פי התורה׃  (5)  ומכהנים לדמות וצל הדברים שבשמים כאשר צוה משה בבאו להקים את־המשכן כי־אמר אליו ראה ועשה הכל בתבניתו אשר־אתה מראה בהר׃  (6)  ועתה הוא קבל שרות מעלה כפי מעלת הברית שהוא סרסור לה אשר הוקמה על־הבטחות טבות ויתרות׃  (7)  כי אלו היתה הראשונה ההיא גמורה לא־יבקש מקום לשניה׃  (8)  כי־כה אמר בהוכיח אתם הנה ימים באים נאם־יהוה וכרתי את־בית ישראל ואת־בית יהודה ברית חדשה׃  (9)  לא כברית אשר כרתי את־אבותם ביום החזיקי בידם להוציאם מארץ מצרים אשר־המה הפרו את־בריתי ואנכי בחלתי בם נאם־יהוה׃  (10)  כי זאת הברית אשר אכרת את־בית ישראל אחרי הימים ההם נאם־יהוה נתתי את־תורתי בקרבם ועל־לבם אכתבנה והייתי להם לאלהים והמה יהיו־לי לעם׃  (11)  ולא ילמדו עוד איש את־רעהו ואיש את־אחיו לאמר דעו את־יהוה כי כולם ידעו אותי למקטנם ועד־גדולם׃  (12)  כי אסלח לעונם ולחטאתם (ולפשעיהם) לא אזכר־עוד׃  (13)  הנה כשאמר ברית חדשה ישן את־הראשונה ומה־שהוא נושן ומזקין קרב קצו׃
(Heb 8:1-13 HNT)

(Heb 10:1-39 The Scriptures 1998+)
For the Torah, having a shadow of the good matters to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter offerings which they offer continually year by year. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those who served, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, coming into the world, He says,

 “Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire,
but a body You have prepared for Me.
In burnt offerings and offerings for sin You did not delight. (Ps. 40:6, 7).
Then I said, ‘See, I come – in the roll of the book it has been written concerning Me – to do Your desire, O Elohim.’

 Saying above, “Slaughter and meal offering, and burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor delighted in,” which are offered according to the Torah, then He said, “See, I come to do Your desire, O Elohim.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of יהושע Messiah once for all.

And indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering the same slaughter offerings which are never able to take away sins. But He, having offered one slaughter offering for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of Elohim, waiting from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being set apart.

And the Set-apart Spirit also witnesses to us, for after having said before,

“This is the covenant that I shall make with them after those days, says יהוה, giving My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I shall write them,” ( Jer. 31:33, ) and, “Their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall remember no more.” Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer a slaughter offering for sin.

So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע, by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim, let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water. Let us hold fast the confession of our expectation without yielding, for He who promised is trustworthy. And let us be concerned for one another in order to stir up love and good works,1 Footnote: 1Mt. 16:27. not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging, and so much more as you see the Day coming near.

For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,1 Footnote: 1See also 6:6, Heb. 9:7, Num. 15:15-28. but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents. Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour? For we know Him who has said, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay, says יהוה.” And again, “יהוה shall judge His people.” It is fearsome to fall into the hands of the living Elohim.

But remember the former days, when, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings. On the one hand you were exposed to reproaches and pressures, and on the other hand you became sharers with those who were so treated, for you sympathised with me in my chains, and you accepted with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have a better and a lasting possession for yourselves in the heavens. Do not, then, lose your boldness, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of Elohim, you receive the promise:

“For yet a little while – He who is coming shall come and shall not delay.”
“But the righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no pleasure in him.”

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of belief to the preservation of life.
(Heb 10:1-39 The Scriptures 1998+)


(Heb 10:1-39 HNT)  כי התורה בהיות בה צל הטבות העתידות ולא מראה עצם הדברים אין ביכלתה לעולם להשלים את־הקרבים בקרבנות ההם אשר יקריבו תמיד מדי שנה בשנה׃  (2)  כי אם־כן הלא חדלו להביאם כי לא־היתה עוד ידיעת חטאים במקריבים בהטהרם פעם אחת׃  (3)  אבל יש־שם הזכרת החטאים שנה בשנה׃  (4)  כי דם־הפרים והשעירים לא יוכל להסיר חטאים׃  (5)  ועל־כן אמר בבואו לעולם זבח ומנחה לא חפצת גויה כוננת לי׃  (6)  עולה וחטאה לא שאלת׃  (7)  אז אמרתי הנה־באתי במגלת־ספר כתוב עלי לעשות רצונך אלהי׃  (8)  אחרי אמרו למעלה זבח ומנחה עולה וחטאה לא חפצת ולא שאלת אשר יקריבו אתם על־פי התורה׃  (9)  אז אמר הנה־באתי לעשות רצונך אלהי מעביר בזה את־הראשון למען הקים את־השני׃  (10)  וברצון הזה מקדשים אנחנו על־ידי הקרבת קרבן גופו של־ישוע המשיח בפעם אחת׃  (11)  וכל־כהן עמד יום יום לשרת ומוסיף פעמים רבות להקריב הקרבנות ההמה אשר לא־יוכלו לעולם להעביר חטאים׃  (12)  והוא אחרי הקריבו זבח אחד על־החטאים ישב לימין האלהים לנצח׃  (13)  ומאז יחכה עד כי־יושתו איביו הדם לרגליו׃  (14)  כי הוא בקרבן אחד השלים לנצח את־המקדשים׃  (15)  ואף־רוח הקדש מעיד לנו על־זאת כי אחרי אמרו׃  (16)  זאת הברית אשר אכרת אתם אחרי הימים ההם אמר יהוה נתתי את־תורתי בקרבם ועל־לבם אכתבנה׃  (17)  ולעונם ולחטאתם לא אזכר־עוד׃  (18)  והנה במקום שיש סליחת החטאים אין עוד קרבן עליהם׃  (19)  ועתה אחי בהיות לנו בטחון דרך הקדש בדם ישוע׃  (20)  דרך חדש וחי אשר חדש לנו בפרכת היא בשרו׃  (21)  ובהיות לנו כהן גדול על־בית אלהים׃  (22)  נקרבה־נא בלבב שלם ובאמונה תמימה מטהרים בהזית לבבנו מרוח רעה ורחוצי הבשר במים טהורים׃  (23)  נחזיקה בהודאת התקוה בל־נמוט כי־נאמן המבטיח׃  (24)  ונתבוננה איש על־אחיו לעורר אתנו לאהבה ולמעשים טובים׃  (25)  ואל־נעזב את־כנסיתנו כדרך קצת אנשים כי אם־נזהיר איש את־רעהו וביותר בראתכם כי־קרב היום׃  (26)  כי אם־נחטא בזדון אחרי אשר היתה לנו ידיעת האמת לא־ישאר עוד זבח על־החטאים׃  (27)  כי אם־בעותי הדין העתיד ואש קנאה אשר תאכל את־הצררים׃  (28)  הן איש כי־יפר תורת משה מות ימות בלי חמלה על־פי שנים עדים או־שלשה׃  (29)  ומה־דעתכם כמה יגדל הענש הנכון למי שרמס ברגלו את־בן־האלהים ועשה את־דם הברית אשר־הוא מקדש בו כחל ומחרף את־רוח החסד׃  (30)  כי־ידענו מי הוא האמר לי נקם ושלם ועוד כי־ידין יהוה עמו׃  (31)  מה־נורא לנפל ביד אלהים חיים׃  (32)  אבל זכרו־נא את־הימים הראשונים כי אז אחרי ארו עיניכם נשאתם צבא ענוים רבים׃  (33)  פעם בהיותכם לראוה בחרפה ותוגה פעם בהשתתף עם הבאים בצרות כמוכם׃  (34)  כי הצטערתם על־האסירים וגזלת רכושכם סבלתם בשמחה מדעתכם בנפשכם שיש־לכם בשמים קנין טוב ממנו וקים לעד׃  (35)  לכן אל־תשליכו את־בטחונכם כי יש־לו שכר רב׃  (36)  כי צריכים אתם לסבלנות למען תעשו רצון אלהים ונשאתם את־ההבטחה׃  (37)  כי עוד מעט־רגע והבא יבא לא יאחר׃  (38)  הצדיק באמונתו יחיה ואם־יסג אחור לא־רצתה נפשי בו׃   (Heb 10:1-39 HNT) (39)  אבל אין אנחנו מן־הנסגים אחור לאבד כי אם־מן־המאמינים להציל נפשנו׃


(Psalm 95:6-11)

Come, let us bow down and bend low,
Let us kneel before יהוה our Maker.
For He is our Elohim,
And we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep of His hand.
 Today, if you would hear His voice:
“Do not harden your hearts as in Meriḇah,
And as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
“When your fathers tried Me,
Have proved Me,
 though they saw My work.
 “For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their hearts,
 And they do not know My ways.’
 “As I swore in My wrath,
‘If they enter into My rest...’ ”


لأَنَّهُ هُوَ إِلَهُنَا وَنَحْنُ شَعْبُ مَرْعَاهُ وَغَنَمُ يَدِهِ. الْيَوْمَ إِنْ سَمِعْتُمْ صَوْتَهُ
  فَلاَ تُقَسُّوا قُلُوبَكُمْ كَمَا فِي مَرِيبَةَ مِثْلَ يَوْمِ مَسَّةَ فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ
  حَيْثُ جَرَّبَنِي آبَاؤُكُمُ. اخْتَبَرُونِي. أَبْصَرُوا أَيْضاً فِعْلِي
  أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً مَقَتُّ ذَلِكَ الْجِيلَ وَقُلْتُ: [هُمْ شَعْبٌ ضَالٌّ قَلْبُهُمْ وَهُمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا سُبُلِي].
  فَأَقْسَمْتُ فِي غَضَبِي لاَ يَدْخُلُونَ رَاحَتِي!

  כי הוא אלהינו ואנחנו עם מרעיתו וצאן ידו היום אם־בקלו תשׁמעו׃
  אל־תקשׁו לבבכם כמריבה כיום מסה במדבר׃
  אשׁר נסוני אבותיכם בחנוני גם־ראו פעלי׃
  ארבעים שׁנה אקוט בדור ואמר עם תעי לבב הם והם לא־ידעו דרכי׃
  אשׁר־נשׁבעתי באפי אם־יבאון אל־מנוחתי׃
(Psalm 95:6-11)