210925 - Introduction to the Bible of the Early Church

when is the dawn, the one that I thought the whole thing was going to be on, it's called introduction to the Bible of the early church, and I call it that because

What I started studying Torah, I thought I was studying Torah like they study tour in the times of Jesus. And I thought that the prophetic tie-ins to the Torah that we read every week were from around the time of Christ that I was completely wrong because they were developed about 500 to 700 AD in Babylon, they weren't the connections that they made in the land, but I study that for 25 years thinking I knew what I was doing. Ended.

Too many long stories. Never mind. Lord. We ask your blessing on this time. Please wear Desiring to honor you. And to study in this, informational presentation. Please help this to be a blessing to each of us present and to your body. The church in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Introduction to the Bible of the early church. So I've already shown you this this script, which may have been from written by John. It's, it's the Book of John. This is called the ride, the Pirates, number 52, front, and back.

Papyrus's how they made their Bibles. Early on and you would take reeds. And you found them and weave them, and you found them. And then you'd write on one side and then he's right on the other side and you could tell which side was, which, because one side was kind of more better design to write on. And the other side was not more better designed didn't have anything like this to write on there. It's the miracle. Anyone was able to write on this stuff at all. And does anyone know why our bibles are called Bibles?

Weather report,. There was a port called byblos. What were they known for?

Reed's, Papyrus and Papyrus pounding and making paper out of them. So biblos was where you bought really good biblos back in the day.

And it's up the ways from where we're talkin about an Israel. It's a Phoenician Seaport area up north of sidon, I think and you can imagine. Someone saying, give me the Tanakh will, they didn't have a Tanakh, then they had the scroll of Isaiah. They had the scroll of etc. Etc. Etc. When they began to bind things together, they didn't have them. Justin Scrolls. Like the scroll of Isaiah are the scroll is a minor 12 prophets or that kind of stuff. They had books codexes and they didn't call him codexes yet. So I imagine. Someone said, would you would you hand me that big loss?

Give me a Bible. That's where the word comes from. Pretty simple. Just interesting. And here, I am looking at the Pirates and I thought I better tell you that.

Semi septennial cycle. So what did they study at the time of Christ? We don't know. We have no clue. We kind of have a clue. What kind of a clue. Well, we have a lot of fragments that were gathered by Solomon. Schechter not well, Solomon Schechter categorize them, but they were found in this Cairo geniza and other places and they're around. 900 fragments, that connect, the Torah to the have to rough. And I was in one of these kind of seminars, and we were hosting

Rector of Christ Church, David Pileggi, so David, he was at my house and David Pileggi.

Understood that I was very interested in this study of Jesus in the early church and trying to connect the Torah reading to the hafter reading and try to understand what the other early church study and he said, Rob you might want to take a look at the Bible is red and preached in the old synagogue and I said, okay cool. What's that? And he wasn't real explanatory about it, but Couple years later. I bought a copy and I got the copy and I go, there's no way I'm going to get through this, this is too hard. And so I didn't didn't even try and a couple years later. I'm looking at it and I do it probably can't be that hard. You know, I might give it a shot and a couple years later Church, the Maasai elders, and the Torah study group were discussing what to do next to me. So what would you like to do Rob? And I said, actually I'd like to try learning about the semi September. I didn't say that cycle. I'd like to learn about the Triangle Cycle and they said do you have any information on it? I said, yeah, I have this book.

We might not get very far.

And they said yeah, do that. So the Torah study group and the elders said, yeah, that would be a good thing to do. So I said, okay. Okay, praise the Lord. So I had the, the go forward with this. So voice from God. I took it from God, and we began doing this. And we're about a third of the way through the second time. We've been doing this and it's very, very, very exciting. It's not what I thought it was. It's a lot more powerful. And years later, I think David, palagi for introducing me to this wonderful book and he said, what book?

and I said, the Bible is as red and priest in the old synagogue by Jacob man, and he said Oh. Didn't remember. So, I think God led me to hear that word. And if you're looking today on the internet, trying to find out who's studying the semi septennial cycle, you'll find one.

That's us, are everything you see about. This will be tied back to us in one way or another. And I think it's going to grow because the momentum of this is developing I think is significant for the body of Christ and

I believe it is. So here we are. That's a book.

Yeah, they went through. They went through the the same cycle. They went through, they didn't go through this cycle. They went through Micah's cycle. So there are three different lists of Cycles audit that are used. They did not show that the principal in here is that he takes a word from the Torah reading any finds it. in the early writings early readings and then he links the words and usually when we're talkin about linking a verse to another verse we're talkin about a thematic linkage, you know, I'm talking about love. Right. Oh, I know verse that talks about love and then you bring in that verse and that's good. But the principle here is they weren't necessarily tied to themes. They were tied to words. So, get it less than a theme. And you got, you got substance.

I'll give you a principal at the end of this lecture that I hope explains that more fully. Yeah, that's better way to spit. So before this book was written. The debate over the. What match with what was about length and other things. And this book started looking at the underlying principle between the Torah and have to run? And this is taken from Ben. Zion walk back holders preface to this book. The book was written in 1940, this this Edition was written in 1972 with a new introduction by Ben, Zion Rock holder, who the heck is benzine bachscholar? Zion's back holder is something we owe a deep deep. Deep debt of gratitude to

He? He was a brilliant scholar. Going blind who was very knowledgeable about the Dead Sea Scrolls partly because his graduate student read to him. So he's going blind but he's being read to buy. Marty a big and if you're looking today about Dead Sea Scrolls, you're going to see Marty a big and Ben's. I invoke holder come up again and again and again and again and how did it? Why was that what people were writing about? The Dead Sea Scrolls and they would say blah blah blah blah blah quote blah blah, blah blah, blah unquote and so they would reference their what they found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. And so this was all referenced. And so what rock holder and a bag did is they took all of the references and they put them in one place and they glued them together. And they came up with an electronic version of the Dead Sea Scrolls, without the Dead Sea Scrolls, from the notes that have been made, and they published it. So people could read the Dead Sea Scrolls. They couldn't read them before only Scholars had them. But now these two guys published an electronic version and the guys said no, it's going to be garbage. Not more than 40% could match them with a 60% could match years later when they actually had the Dead Sea Scrolls and they could look at what the Zion ben-zion, wachholder at 98% correlation.

And the people who wanted to own the Dead Sea, Scrolls, and control them and not. Let anyone else have access to them sued. These two guys and lost. Back holder and, and a big one. And so now the Dead Sea Scrolls are available to you and me and they're published online and a lot of scholarship has gone into them. That wouldn't have gone into them if lock holder and a bag hadn't done what they did. Background information. Sorry too much information anyway. Rock holder, really liked what man did. He knew there were problems with it and in his in his preface kind of, he says, even even the worst detractors of what man did criticizing what he did, how I failed have to give a hug to what a great idea he had and how much came from it. So even the people who criticized it had to praise it.

Wow, anyway, so with this book, the 1972 Edition. We have a correlation between Torah readings and 1/2 to a readings that we didn't have before this. Man was doing it one piece at a time. Lock holder, put the schedule together and two. More schedules of come out since then. Anyway, that's this book. I don't recommend buying it. But if you read things, we come out from this church later on you'll maybe see references to it. Why use a semi septennial cycle? Semi said we'll get into that later. We want to be close to Jesus to hear him, teach to do what he did before. I met with the scriptures, Jesus's disciples of the New Testament, authors in the early church, used something like this. They may not have learnt use this exact cycle, but they definitely use something like it. Jesus stood up to read in Nazareth and the guy handed him the scroll of Isaiah. He read the Torah. Straight down the road from where you were reading and he handed him Isaiah, which may have been a completely different thing. So they had some traditional about what red with what. Even at the time of Jesus. We know that to be a fact. And some evidence and traditions of all this stuff still remain. Piece by piece for finding them. We have access to close descendants of such Traditions, from the land. Will try to get as close as we can. The hafter recitation. We don't know when they started reading, the prophets in association with the with the, with the Torah. Now, how many of you ever been in a church where someone stands up to read? And someone says a reading from the Books of Moses? And then someone else stands up a reading from the prophets, a reading from the gospels. You ever been in a church like that? Most of us have. So this tradition of reading from a cycle from election election. Airy is both honored in the west, and in the east Both of the Roman Church and all the descendants thereof, including all the Protestant churches and all the Eastern churches. The Byzantine, the Greek Orthodox, the Russian Orthodox. They have the same kind of election. Aries is still read them today. But we don't know where the, where the idea of a reading these two together came from and there's a of some people call it. A fable. Some people call it a story, some call a probable event.

Around the time of Antiochus epiphanes will actually was Antiochus epiphanes. He made Torah study illegal punishable by death Sabbath observance. Illegal punishable by death circumcision, illegal punishable by death. So he was pretty serious about not wanting them to be Jewish and not to practice their Jewish traditions. And so, he made the most most serious ones punishable by death, and they had to eat pork and sacrifice to Zeus and a bunch of other things. And, and he burned all the Torah Scrolls. He could find in Israel and he made a hard search and they found a lot of Torah Scrolls and they burn them all. So they couldn't read from the Torah and you can imagine the stage of sitting around one day and going. Well, today is the day we should have been reading, bereshit in the beginning. God created the Heaven and the Earth. Right. Today is the day on a schedule where we should be doing that, but we don't have any Scrolls where we going to do. And one of the guys might have said. Isaiah writes about that. Let's read Isaiah today. From the same portion that we would have done. So that's where they think this came from. It was a Prohibition against reading Torah and they circumvented by reading it from the prophets. And after the prohibition went away. They continue reading from the prophets. So Jesus is reading from the prophets because of a tradition that they have been established a hundred and sixty years earlier have been established earlier than that, but this is a good argument. Another possible source is they begin doing this around the time of Ezra and Nehemiah when they move back into the land? But we do know that God had ordered them to read the Torah every 7 years at the Feast of Tabernacles. And we do know that Nehemiah Ezra. Rihanna Stupid this to read the Torah every 7 years.

So, this idea of a 7 years cycle? Maybe dates to God. The idea of connecting the prophets to it. maybe dates to Ezra Nehemiah, maybe dates to Antiochus, epiphanes with the with the Greek, seleucid taking over is real, not wanting them to be Jewish and making everything illegal.

In the early church, something new happened. Kohl's letters began to be considered a scripture and John's letters began to be considered as scripture. Etc. And here is a proof text 2nd. Peter 3. Therefore beloved count, the patience of Our Lord of Salvation just as our beloved brother. Paul. Also wrote to you according to the wisdom, given to him, as he does in all his letters, when he's fixing them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand. And I agree with that.

Which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, and I have heard Paul twisted.

To a particular theological bias.

I'm not saying the wrong. I'm just saying. Paul gets manipulated around with. That's why I told wife don't even think about doing Romans. It's too hard. Romans are Galatians.

it's important, but get twisted. I can get messed up. You can get the wrong idea. It's easy to do. Which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction. And here's the tie-in as they do the other scriptures.

The other scriptures.

Paul's writings are just been referred to as scripture.

In the early church. What's that word? It's graph graph. A graph us. Maybe. Doesn't mean what we think it means, but there's a good argument. It does.

I think someone in the early church began to believe, Paul's letters were scripture. An example, we have a famous slave onesimus and he ran away from his owner. Philemon and Paul writes a letter to Philemon begging him to bring an SMS back in and forgive him of his sin and and do good by him. I'm paraphrasing grossly. Great. So he goes back is Forgiven and something good happens. And that's why that letter is in the Bible. One thing that we don't realize is there was this guy named Vanessa Macias around the same time who was the bishop of Ephesus?

So it's entirely possible that onesimus. The forgiven slave became the bishop of Ephesus. He would consider Paul's writings pretty significant. You think?

Don't know.

Good argument. So we are studying Torah and this is the tour of Jesus and was trying to get there. This is the Aleppo codex which was written in probably 6. 700. Cee, that was written in the land, in, in the land, where the Jews were writing in the land, not and babbling. And it was later Taken to Aleppo, Syria to protect it. Because it was a very treasured script that one time, this was the oldest complete. Roughly complete codex that we had and a codex is one of those big losses that are bound together using biblos paper. Anyway, Aleppo codex. This happens to be the Zodiac abraka, which at the Feast of Tabernacles. This is the scripture. We would read, according to the Babylonian traditions.

And it's kind of married and tied to the other one, but the stay with me. So this is the margin. If you look, if you look over here right there. I'm going to zoom in on that.

I've zoomed in on that and it's right there. You see that? That weird margin mark. Yep. And there it is, even closer. Anyone make out the letters.

Hey, Rasheen, this is pay Rasheen. And this is a Stomach right.

Parsha.

This is the beginning of the Torah reading, according to the Babylonians cycle.

Sonic. This is the beginning of the Torah reading, according to the cycle used in the land. The semi septennial cycle. Also called The Triangle Cycle also called the Palestinian cycle.

These are in all the Old Co taxes. This isn't the only one that has this. Hey, look at this, but it's there.

We know that Moses was red weekly. All throughout the land, and that's why they decided, they didn't have to make too many rules for these new Gentiles coming to Faith.

Tree names for readings. Parsha bar show does floral Cedar City? Dream is the one in the land. Those are the two names. We've covered that needs of the two main Setters. So in the west you never thought the West would be were Israel. Was But in Ravenna clitoris, sure, Israel is the West. In in, in, in, in Jewish tradition, Israel is the West. So when the talmud says in the west, they're talkin about the land Israel. So here's the west. And after they left Jerusalem, they settled to Big schools in tiberias and caesarea. These are where the Jewish sages began recording. what they recorded the early mishna and the A little bit of commentary and these are the two main areas in the east in the Babylonian area where they had schools.

Which cycle should we use? We're not sure which cycle Jesus use, but we do know, he read to versus minimum from the scroll. He was given and we know his section was assigned a through this and there were two cycles and place, the Babylonian annual cycle in the semi septennial cycle, read in the West.

Question.

I agree with you.

She said I paid her 10 bucks.

She said, I think he would have been reading the semi septennial cycle because he was in the West. And I said, I agree with you.

Okay, here we are in capernum semi septennial cycle, right? There is Jesus sitting. No? Jesus stood up to read and then he set. So this is actually a time-lapse photo showing two different colors of robes, but nevermind. If you're with me.

look like,

Yeah, he sat down in the teacher's seat.

11 Thurman Street.

Oh, yeah, I showed you one.

Was Moses. See the Moses? This is where you teach Torah from.

Yes, stand up to read scripture. You don't sit to read scripture. When you explicate scripture, you sit.

He's very clear, but

That's less a western western tradition.

In the west Jerusalem in the Land Jerusalem, the Palestinian talmud. It's called the Jerusalem. Talmud of the Palestinian talmud. It Was Written earlier than the Babylonian talmud which Jews used today much earlier. So, the mission of the earliest sayings of the fathers were recorded first. They had a tradition. They had the same tradition, that the disciples had, you don't write down the words of your teacher. You memorize them. And you teach them I almost I almost brought a slide on what it meant to be at first century disciple and it was a different things. One of them is you don't right there for teachers words down. They can that can be misused. You memorize them and you teach them and you teach them in such a way that when your teacher passes on into the world to come, you're able to render the same rulings. He would have ruled if he were still alive. So it's not a written word. it's um,

The significance of the word. And that's important. So this is why did they start writing them down? It was kind of like against the law to write them down. Why did the early church? Start writing them down? They brought them down a whole lot later. Why? Why did they wait so long, you know why? Cuz their culture was going away. They said if we don't write these things down someone's going to forget, we got to write this stuff down. I know it violates this principle to only memorize the words of your teacher butt. It's important. So we're going to ride him down. So the early church authors wrote down. The words.

And the early Jewish authors wrote down the words. They began to write down the words right down the things right down the teachings. And that's why they wrote them down. And the first ones I wrote down where the important teachings, the mishnah, the

Instructions. And a good Mora was was next at the commentary on the teachings and those are both begun in the land in the West. And the mm.

the masoretes started in the land and the continued in in the Babbling, but they they started in the land. Bail Bonds outside the land. You got all that around 5:50. Torah in the West and East and Torah in the west. So this is my own take and I may or may not be the views of church, the Maasai or Jennifer J. Christian. Studies.

And this statement goes backwards and forwards to this whole lecture series. so, in the east, They tried to replicate the Torah and the readings from the prophets. So they tried to duplicate kind of the story as close as they could to remember what God has told them in the past when things were not good, when man was very, very sinful etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And in the west, the land, they tended to look forward to the prophetic fulfillment of what God is going to do with all this stuff when it finally happens. I'll give you a few examples. So you understand. I summarize this by saying Torres history that's important, but it's also the future where you going to lean on more history of the future. Well, they're kind of together. You kind of need them. Both the masoretes, the tradition recorders. Misora, they were the scribes scholars in tiberias and Jerusalem. Most of them are carrots, which means the ones to read the ones, who knew how to read the ones who, who study the words and, and, and, and presented them to the people. And they wanted to make it clear that your Edition clear. So they broke the, the letters, apart into words and they added spaces and the added Hebrew letters valves, and they had a cancellation marks. How to sing it? Like, seeing you like this or like this. No, they really did. They put in cantillation marks. And if you're, if you're able to read the cantillation marks, you can actually read your Torah and sing it and get it right? Because, you know exactly what the notes were supposed to be. And they also wrote down in the margin. Remember, we're we're showing you the margin there. They wrote down the TV and the carries so that The Katinas. What's written this right here is written and over in the margin. It says, but read it this way. You know, don't don't read the word that's printed read it this way. Read this other word here and there's a lot of that going on. In the end when you get to your Bible, your Bible is taking a a slant on which is more important. And sometimes it tries to merge the two to say. We're going to include a word here that captures, the meaning of the word written texts, and also captures the meaning of the text, that they would have spoken. And there are other marginal notes. It's very complicated for us. A dream evidence. So a man looked at these different.

Evidentiary points, for how many satyrs there were one of them says they're a hundred and seventy-five satyrs. One. Says, 154. One says 167, one says they're either 154 141 which, which two different actually sources for that one or man's volume, 1 and 206 plus. And then this a dream mansion by Yanni. And I'll tell you about Yanni later and Denisa fragments like, like, what man came up with etcetera. So those that see, save the event that Torah evidence. That's how we know what the Torah reading for the week is according to the semi septennial cycle and the haftorah evidence. We have 928 fragments. The connect the Torah to the haftorah In This Very Messianic, take on the connections of Torah and have to run. It seems logical that Jesus would have taught into a culture. That expected a messiah. That was looking forward to a messiah because he thought about the Messianic expectation every week. Attitude seems logical. Yanni's, Pooh team. So this is a few team, pute, pute, pute. James don't just be.

Do what? Hears of the word be. Doers of the word. So cute. That's the word there and James Yanni wrote team. So this this is the commute appeared was a in in the in the in the Greek World an actor. He would go on the stage and act out a part and you would believe his presentation of what he was acting out. He would present truth on the stage and you would believe it up to you. So it says be a doer of the word, you kind of have to go. Okay, you're do or yes, but it's like you're on a stage in front of the entire world. You're acting out the word in a way. That's holy, right? And true. So, that's a beaut. And Yanni was the first Pew team PPU to the first Pew. He's the first in the English word poet. But in the Greek, meaning an actor presenting a truce. So I have to make the joke. if your doors of the word your poets and you don't know it's

It's there. Just is then that Carol Wright have to wrote an Ashkenazi and Sephardic after wrote and other Scholars. He got all these connections. The Cairo geniza roughly a thousand years of culture.

It's in. It's in the largest single selection is 193000 fragments of the 400,000 that were there. This is how it got into the carriage and Eiza. I imagine they forgot the room was there. I actually broke into a room that no one knew was there. I was renovating a building and the, the owner of this above the basement space had decided he needed the floor space. So he poured concrete across the what would have been the stairwell? And they didn't use the stairwell for years and years and years and years and years. And so, there was this room underneath this room that no one had been in, for 30 years and I broke into it. And we were really kind of worried about finding Jimmy Hoffa's grave there.

We didn't find it. Thank you, Lord.

I apologize. I apologize. I apologize James. There's Solomon Schechter with his four hundred thousand fragments. This is what Schecter wrote? Did you neither? Cuz a lot of people get confused on this word. Did you need this sector's clarification on? What does genesa is, the Geneva is an old Jewish and state institutions. The word is derived from the old Hebrew word ganache, and signifies a treasure house or hiding place. When someone it supplied the books that means much the same thing as burial. A means to the case of men, when the spirit is gone. We put the corpse out of sight too protected from abuse in like manner when the writing is worn out. We hide the book to preserve it from profanation, the contents of the book, go up to heaven like a soul. In the resurrection.

This is a tradition celebrated in every Jewish congregation in the world. They don't throw away a book with God's name in it. They save it, they cherish it. And once a year, they bury them.

It's holy.

I've attended one of those services.

There's an expectation. These words of life. Will come to life again. Amen. There are a lot of genizah fragments that haven't even been categorized yet. They're not even categorize. There's a stacks of them.

Johnny's Pizzeria, these are beautiful. You want to talk to about Ian. He's fit to EMC, Mariah back there. She's really into Yanni right now. Is the first Hebrew poet to sign his name acrostic Lee? He's not the new age guy.

He influenced Hebrew poetry for centuries. He's the first ever to use Hebrew with a rhyme scheme.

And he wrote everything of everything that he wrote. He wrote for every single say dream. He was a praise and worship leader, kind of like a John Shuffle but author and composer also and he wrote beautiful. Praise music, which was sung the connect to the Torah to the house after every week. Wow, what I like to meet him. I will I think I hope His poems are dazzling as they are complex rich with sounds and play, illusion and linguistic Beauty. And they connect the Torah to the haftorah. And that's a really cool thing. Here is a tradition that not many people heard of the tradition of Romania and probably Associated countries. The rum annoyed. Jews were Byzantine, Greek Jews. They lived in Greece from the temple destruction. Historically distinct from other groups and Hitler made a big deal out of trying to kill these Jews completely in the Holocaust. He took major large centers of them and sent them away to die house. What's mainly? And their Traditions are based on the Jerusalem talmud, which is older than the Babylonian talmud and their writings their connections are much like this cycle. There's some of that this is one of the sources that we get to cycle from.

This is a picture of them around World War 1, the leaders. This is a picture of the community today. This was this last year. They celebrated. I think 70 years from the Holocaust. If I forget how many hundred children were killed. And the communities in danger of surviving cuz the Traditions are kind of considered not as important as before, but this is a living group of people. Who have a similar tradition to what we're studying here? They're not Sephardic Eskenazi or Roman Knights. Carol Wright's readers are about 4,000 in the US, maybe fifty thousand and Israel. They reject the talmud is inspired and observe prefare Sikh religion, the Tanakh. They were responsible for interpreting. And they're very scrutinous. They're very careful about how they come to a conclusion. They believe in one Eternal, omnipresent incorporeal almighty, God creator of the universe who gave to knock through Moses and the prophets, they buy that stuff. They just don't buy the Jewish commentary to not of the talmud. They can't claim to trust in Divine Providence and they look forward to the coming of the Messiah. The Carol Wright's, I've met a few.

Here's an example of what the differences between the East understanding in the west. So in the East Tour, God created the East. That's about what says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretch them out, who spread out the Earth? Kind of replicates what the Torah says, right? You see? It's like a repetition. So this is how it's that the connection between the Torah and the prophet that the Torah and the prophets in the east, in the Babylonian tradition. This is the West in the land way more, Messianic Torah. God created West behold. I create new heavens and a new Earth. Way more, Messianic. Way more expectation. Jesus could teach into this culture? They're looking for a savior.

In God, in a sense.

Be glad and rejoice forever and that, which I create.

Yanni.

Beautiful on this.

Never mind. Back to the Future II reading. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth. When they were created in the day, the Lord God made the Earth and Heavens Genesis Isaiah. Look to the heavens and look the Earth beneath for the heavens vanish, like smoke. The Earth will wear out like a garment. This is these are the generations. It's a vapor something grates coming. The. Semi sub to meals way more Messianic numerous Jewish authors, say this. Why called Palestinian some people call it, the Palestinian tradition. And there's a lot of confusion over this one. When I say, well it's so you know, it's the Palestinian tradition. And someone will say, well that's not good. We don't want to have nothing to do with those Palestinians. I'm going. No, you don't understand, you don't understand. We stay with me a minute here. You're jumping to fast. It's called Palestine because of this. This is Hadrian. After Israel was conquered, he renamed it. Why did he renamed it? He didn't want any memories, that Israel had ever even been there. So, I called philistia where the Philistines live. The one is real. It's Felicity its Palestinian.

He didn't get the have his day of all eventually, but for a long time, we did. That's why it's called Palestinian. Sometimes. It's called the Palestinian cycle. Because most of the time that it's been used, it was in Palestine because it wasn't named Israel again.

Why called triennial? I think it's because of a misunderstanding. The Babylonian talmud in talking about the differences between these Cycles says we read it in one year in the east. But in the west they read it in 3 years. Now if you've ever studied with Jews, you know that three doesn't always mean three. It might mean three and a half.

Interesting Lee enough. The early church kept both Traditions. So if you're in the west, you've got a three-year cycle. If you're in the East, you've got a one-year cycle. Anyone here from the East saveka savickas, where's the vet that came comes from? It was a one year cycle. Her church Heritage was on your cycle. I suspect that The Rock has church history would be from a one-year cycle. I'm from Lutheran, Methodist. Sarah. And I, I came from the Traditions, were it was a three-year cycle. The early church. Probably kept both Traditions. They seem to dance with each other a lot. But In the west, they tended toward the three and a half years cycle. That's why. So, Do you remember that the new year begins on Rosh Hashanah? Do you know what Rosh Hashanah celebrates?

Yom teruah the day of blasting the day of yeah, it celebrates the creation of somebody. It celebrates the creation of Adam, which was on the first day. What's on the sixth day of the week? So what's your son that celebrates the sixth day of creation? Because on that day, Adam could call god king before the sixth day. God was God, but he wasn't king So Rosh, Hashanah celebrates the creation of Adam and Eve on the sixth day of creation, and it's in the spring or in the fall. It's in the fall. We just had it. What's celebrated in the spring?

Passover, or pesach Easter.

Nope, Shop boats. Shoveling snow in the fall. two coats now in the fall Shabbos, in the midsummer

pesach, which is Passover. Yeah, now why? Why did God say this will now be the first month for you? In the spring.

Yeah, why did he change the calendar? Exactly. Six months?

At that time. I haven't heard that one. So it's the 15th of tishri 15th Edition. Therese Tabernacles 15th of Nisan is pesach. 1515. Exactly, six months that a cycle from each other. Now, if you're reading is 7 1/2 year cycle. When's it going to renew?

Three and a half years.

And there's an argument among the sages among Scholars on when the cycle began it either begins in the fall or begins in the spring. And if you're, if you're using a semi septennial cycle, you go. It really doesn't matter cuz the second time it's going to be the other one. It starts in the fall and the next one is in the spring and it's in the fall and then it's in the spring, every three and a half years and a seven-year cycle corresponds with Jesus who sang repeat this every 7 years, not Jesus, but God the Father saying every seven years and Ezra Nehemiah sing, every 7 years, Etc. So, it's 7 years and it's starting to make sense that they decide to do it twice in every 7 years. Semi subliminal cycle. I think this is the cycle of Jesus in the early church used. And that's my argument on that. Two takeaways. Okay, so you don't have this cycle. We haven't published it or we will someday. If you want copied on it from week-to-week, or if you want to hear a teachings from week-to-week. You can there downloadable online but there's two takeaways that I want to give you even if even though you don't have this cycle. These are these are things. You can actually carry with you and do without being Scholars and all the rest of that stuff. When studying Moses. Don't just look back. Look forward to the expectation of what God is going to do. What God is doing and what God will do, look forward to the Messianic future to the promised Messianic future to the wedding Feast of the lamb and so on and so forth. And the second one is up. We'll call it get together ostrava. Cuz that's what it is. It's you take one word from the old and you connected with the prophetic and then you try connecting it to the English. If it's it's good to do this in Hebrew to Greek to English, but if you're not interested in the original language, is just go with the English. Start with the word, you be reading your book. You're at the beginning of a reading and you go.

Tree.

Is that connect with anything? and then lecture, Let your head go. What does tree connect with it? Connects with a tree of life. It connects with the cross. It connects with the Olive Tree. It connects with the whole lot things. Let it connect, let it connect. Let those ripples happen. Let those hyperlinks connect in your head. It's kind of like looking at the Bible. I'm going for that just turned into a hyperlink. Wow. I just went through another chapter. Wow, it just flipped it in. Just like, I don't have a pop-up, blocker.

It's a lot.

Mediconnect, give us some time, take notes, allow the Lord to lead you in study and worship and that's my whole lecture on that one. Those are great, takeaways in.