2012 Watchman's Teaching Letters

Watchman's Teaching Letter #176 December 2012

This is my one hundred and seventy-sixth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication. Since WTL #137, I have been tutoring a series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, and have been expanding on its seven stages ever since: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 35:

THE ESTRANGEMENT continued:

In lesson #175, we Israelites were severely rebuked at Jeremiah 2:13 thusly: “13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”

We learned that a “broken cistern” was a product of race-mixing, and the action which causes such a mixture is described at Hosea 2:2 thusly: “2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.”

Watchman's Teaching Letter #175 November 2012

This is my one hundred and seventy-fifth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, and have been expanding on its seven stages ever since: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 34:

THE ESTRANGEMENT continued:

In the last lesson, #174, we left off by discussing Jeremiah 2:11-12. We will now continue with Jeremiah 2:13-17:

“13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Yahweh thy Elohim, when he led thee by the way?”

Watchman's Teaching Letter #174 October 2012

This is my one hundred and seventy-fourth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, and have been expanding on its seven stages ever since: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 33:

THE ESTRANGEMENT continued:

In the last lesson, #173, it was established that when Moses declared to Pharaoh, Exod. 4:22, “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Yahweh, Israel is my son, even my firstborn”, it might appear to be in the singular sense, but in reality Moses was speaking collectively of all the twelve tribes of Israel. Also with the last lesson, my objective was to carefully analyze all of Jeremiah chapter 2, with the subject of Israel’s “estrangement” from Yahweh in mind, but I was only able to cover verses 1 through 5. So, we shall begin where we left off with the last lesson, with Jer. 2:6-10:

6 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not, Where is Yahweh? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith Yahweh, and with your children’s children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.”

Watchman's Teaching Letter #173 September 2012

This is my one hundred and seventy-third monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, and have been expanding on its seven stages as follows: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 32:

THE ESTRANGEMENT continued:

This matter of the “estrangement” on the part of the twelve tribes of Israel from their Husband, Yahweh, is a very serious subject to discuss. Not only is it grievous to recollect, but it is one of the more lamentable recorded narratives found in Holy Writ. It is only regrettable for those who were/are under the Old and New Covenants (i.e., the house of Israel and the house of Judah), and no one else (see Jer. 31:31-33 & Heb. 8:8-12, which read pretty much alike). The former passage at Jeremiah is recorded thusly:

“31 Behold, the days come, saith Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Yahweh: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the [united as ‘one-stick’] house of Israel; After those days, saith Yahweh, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Watchman's Teaching Letter #172 August 2012

This is my one hundred and seventy-second monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, and have been expanding on its seven stages as follows: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

Watchman's Teaching Letter #171 July 2012

This is my one hundred and seventy-first monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, and have been expanding on the seven stages of the story as follows: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

Watchman's Teaching Letter #170 June 2012

 This is my one hundred and seventieth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifteenth year of publication.

Watchman's Teaching Letter #169 May 2012

 This is my one hundred and sixty-ninth monthly teaching letter and begins my fifteenth year of publication.

Watchman's Teaching Letter #168 April 2012

This is my one hundred and sixty-eighth monthly teaching letter and continues my fourteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, giving a general overview, which I am expanding on with a more detailed seven stages of the story, as follows: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 27:

“THE ESTRANGEMENT”:

In the last lesson we discussed how Yahweh preserves the family lines of the twelve tribes of Israel by His levirate law. This is something which we don’t hear much about today. Had we known we were of the lost tribes of Israel, surely some could have taken advantage of it after World Wars I & II. I do know of one family, whom I will not identify, who did take advantage of it. With this family, the older brother was already dead (and I don’t know the circumstance), so I never met him. I only got acquainted with the younger brother and the older brother’s wife, and their children by the levirate law. And, back in the 1930’s and 40s, I know of no one who spoke objectionably of this marriage.

With this lesson we shall take up the subject of “The Estrangement Of The Wife”. Of course, we are speaking of the estrangement of the twelve tribes of Israel (the Cinderella wife) from her Husband, the Almighty Yahweh. Jeremiah 2:4-23 presents a very graphic illustration of what is about to take place to the married wife following her honeymoon and marriage:

Watchman's Teaching Letter #167 March 2012

This is my one hundred and sixty-seventh monthly teaching letter and continues my fourteenth year of publication. I started this series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told with WTL #137, giving a general overview, which I am expanding on with a more detailed seven stages of the story, as follows: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 26:

HOW YAHWEH PRESERVES THE FAMILY LINE:

There are many idiosyncrasies peculiar to wedlock. The ideal marriage, according to Yahweh’s sovereign will, is one virgin woman to one virgin man. But the ideal is not always possible, and this is where Yahweh’s permissive will comes into play, as long as the progeny of that union is of pure Adamic genetic seed. I covered this subject at length in my Watchman’s Teaching Letter #161. What I didn’t address in that lesson was that Yahweh commanded “levirate law”. I will now cite several commentaries on this subject, although I do not fully agree with everything they promote! Rousas John Rushdoony, in his book The Institute Of Biblical Law, has this to say (in part) about the Hebrew Levirate law, pages 375-378:

“The Levirate: Mace observed, concerning ‘the true cause of Hebrew polygamy’, that ‘There can be no doubt that this was the desire for an heir.’ This is true if we realize that the desire for an heir was more than simply a love of a son. The family was basic to Biblical society and culture; the godly family had to be perpetuated, and the ungodly family cut off. The bastard was cut off from church, and state, insofar as any legal status was concerned, to the tenth generation [or for ever] (Deut. 23:2). He might be a godly man, but he was not a citizen. In canon law, ‘the church’ [sic] barred bastards [by their own definition] from church orders, although exceptions were made by papal dispensations. The purpose of Hebrew polygamy, which was usually bigamy, to be accurate, was thus the perpetuation of the family. Moreover, in terms of the facts, as Mace pointed out, ‘we are bound to envisage the community as being in general almost entirely monogamous.’

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