Father
As the “one fold” (Is 56:6-8; Jn 10:16), we unify on this Shabbat, the amalgam of the Hebrew “one new man” (Mk 2:27,28; Gal 3:29; Eph 2:11,12,15), to pray for the salvation of Your nation:
“Hear the voice of our supplications as we cry unto Thee, as we lift up our hands towards Thy Holy Oracle” (Ps 28:2)
“Save Thy people Jacob, the remnant of Israel, the Israel of YHWH, the chief of nations who shall never cease to be a nation before You in their Blood covenanted homeland; bless Thine inheritance; feed them also (bread and water never failing them), as You nourish them up on the Word of faith and the doctrine of salvation by grace (Ps 28:9; 105:8-11; Is 33:16,17; Jer 31:7,10,17,31-36; Rom 10:1-3; 15:8; Gal 6:16; 1 Tim 4:6).
“Hitherto hath YHWH helped us” (1 Sam 7:12)
The stone of Ebenezer should signify to us that trusting in anything or anyone short of Christ, is a precursor to failure.
Therefore prophetically, we lift up our Stone of Ebenezer (as Y’shua, “the Shepherd and STONE of Israel” – Gen 49:10,24; Is 28:16; 1 Peter 2;9), to thank You for keeping us in Your love, to return us to Shabbat, Your and our delight (Is 58:13), in and of itself a COMPRESSED SEASON of intense sanctity for us to learn righteousness, to ensure we’re wholly sanctified en route to Shavuo’t, on the upward path of righteousness marked out by the seven Shabbatot ‘omer count’ (Lev 23:15,16).
How fitting that David, the foreshadow of the Lion of Judah, should have prophesied that before Creation, You “REFUSED the tabernacle of Joseph and CHOSE NOT the tribe of Ephraim,” but “chose the tribe of JUDAH, (synonomous with) the Mnt Zion that You loved” (Ps 79:68-72), for the Messiah to “deliver not the soul of Thy turtledove into the multitude of the wicked” (Ps 74:19), but to “redeem Thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph” (Ps 77:15) through the “plenteous redemption” obtained by the “blotting out of all transgression and its memory,” by the Passion and Resurrection of the Son of David, “the sure mercies of David” (Ps 130:7; Is 43:25; 44:22; Acts 13:32-39; Lk 1:32-79; Heb 7:25).
In so doing, BY HIM, the One Whose “express image” You are (Is 45:21-23; Titus 2:13; Heb 1:1-3), “justifying all who believe “from ALL things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses,” for You to fulfil the succession (Acts 13:38,39; Jer 33:15-26) by ascending king David’s throne as Royal High Priest in the order of Malki Tzedek, as Immanu-El (Ps 132:17,18; Mk 11:10; Lk 1:32) “so that all will be confounded and turned back (by Him), who hate Zion” (Ps 129:5-8; Lk 1:69-75; Rev 19), in order to make David’s dynasty flourish (Ps 89:1-5,27-37; 132:18).
So shall You be greatly Feared (reverenced in Godly Fear – Ps 119:37,38; Is 33:6; Heb 12:28) in “the Church and General Assembly of the firstborn,” Jacob the prince (Gen 25:20-23; 32:28; Ex 4:22,23; Ps 89:7; Is 29:22-24; Lk 1:32,33; Heb 12:23).
HalleluYaH
May those who stand with YOU, the LORD Who made heaven and earth, for THIS glorious outcome, Israel’s exaltation (Deut 26:16-19; Is 46:13; Haggai 2:7-9; Lk 2:32), to be accomplished in Your mercy, be blessed out of Zion from which Your salvation and all blessings flow. All our springs are in her, the City of our Redeemer and of our solemnities (YOUR Set Times) (Ps 87; 134:3; Is 33:20)
In Y’shua’s Name we pray
Amein
