Feast of Lots (Purim) Sunset 16th to Sunset on 18th March 2022 Adar Bet 14 and 15th

Last Week was Shabbat ZACHOR So the Shabbat prior to Purim.
We remembered last week, that Amalec attacked the rear of the Children of Israel Exodus 17:8to16 JPS but before this attach YHVH Had Blessed them with Water at Rephidim.

Now we understand the ROCK that follow them was Messiah Yeshua, and we will later discuss the second time Water was got from the Rock Messiah, at Numbers 20:8, The Waters of Meribah.

Water from the Rock at Rephidim: Exodus 17:1to7 JPS
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink.

Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink.' And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?'

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?'

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.'

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'

Amalek attacks Israel at Rephidim and is Defeated by doing Faithful Trust!
Exodus 17:8 to 16 JPS  Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
And Moses said unto Joshua: 'Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.'

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.'
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Adonai-nissi.
And he said: 'The hand upon the throne of the LORD: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'

So Last week we REMEMBERED and Obeyed YHVH!
Now in Disobedience to YHVH
One of the worst future enemies was given life, Haman and tomorrow we read All The Book of Esther to remember, that became a reality on the Holocaust recorded in the Torah account the Names of Hamans sons are capitalised and it give a date, the New York times reported the DATE in the Nuremberg Germany of the Hanging of a Nazi Teacher!
 
The Lord Rejects Saul because he left alive KING AGAG and the good things Alive!
1Samaul 1 to 9 JPS
And Samuel said unto Saul: 'The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over His people, over Israel; now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'
And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley.
And Saul said unto the Kenites: 'Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.' So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of Egypt.
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
 
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, even the young of the second birth, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but every thing that was of no account and feeble, that they destroyed utterly.
 
The Account is in the book of ESTHER in The Five Megillos
Esther, the beautiful Jewish wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), and her cousin Mordecai persuade the king to retract an order for the general annihilation of Jews throughout the empire. The massacre had been plotted by the king's chief minister, Haman, and the date decided by casting lots (purim).

The Five Megillos will play for about <2 hours, as a set starting 19:05 tonight 16th and at midnight in King James Version Read by Alexander Scourby.
 
Tomorrow, we read the whole account in the book Esther which is playing this evening 16th after sunset at 20:13hrs & 00:00hrs KJV Read by Alex Scourby and tomorrow 17th at KJV WOP 13:40hrs and 16:44hrs.

Happy Purim and Enjoy the fancy dress, but don’t drink to much as a tradition is to have enough so you cannot say Haman perfectly – so drink water Haaaamin…or Hisssmin!