Your Daily Bread for May 5-11, 2024, by Dr Apelu Poe

Welcome to Your Daily Bread for April May 5-11, 2024, by Dr Apelu Poe!

Key Torah Code for this Fifth Week of the Fellowship Season:

“Korach” (Korah): Number 16:1-18:32

Basic Principle of Our Judaic-Christian Faith:

Each one of us whom God called to serve in whatever capacity is unique in the eyes of God. Why? Because “everyone who is called by my name for my glory,” says God, “I have created him [or her], I have formed him [or her], and I have made him [or her],” (Isaiah 43:7). So, why are you not happy with your God-given lot?

“It was the same startling discovery Dr Rips had made about the Bible code. It was intended for us, written in a language we could understand, as the code itself said, where “code keys” appeared; it was “in our hands to solve.” I’ll get to the point in a minute.

But, first, let me say Talofa, Welcome, and Shabbat Shalom to you, my friends in the name of “Yeshua HaMashiach” Jesus the Messiah! And through the power of God’s Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit). As they say in Samoan, Malo le soifua manuia! Faafetai fo’i le fai tatalo! Congratulations on your good health! Thanks also for the prayers. May our God always grant us his lovingkindness!

Getting back to the point. If you have followed God’s calendar, which dictates and foretells the events of our lives to which the above quote refers, you will know that from May 5-11, we will enter the fifth week of the Fellowship Season.

What is the Fellowship Season? Following immediately after the Holy Week, the Fellowship Season is the eighth season of God’s calendar for 2023-2024 with Pentecost (May 19) as its festival. Just as the name suggests, the Fellowship Season is a time in which we are called to enjoy a warm fellowship with our fellow brothers and sisters worldwide in Christ’s name. The biblical basis that supports this can be found in Psalms 133:1, “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity,”

Before we take a look at the Torah portion for this fourth week of the Fellowship season, let me also say “thank you” to all of you, my regular readers. You’re a fantastic community of believers made up of Jews, Christians, Islamists, as well as people of other faiths. You are amazing because you take the time to access my Torah-Bible Codes teaching on Facebook and LinkedIn which has now become a top-performing weekly post on social media.

It is, indeed, a great inspiration for me to see that so many of you around the world have been following my teaching on social media from week to week.

I call my Torah gift for you this fourth week of the Fellowship Season “Your Daily Bread for May 5-11, 2024.”

Why am I saying this? Well, for those of you who have been following my teaching, I’m saying this because, as you might have noticed, I have been using this same gift that God has given me for the past 40 years to help guide the destiny of those whose spiritual welfare God has entrusted to me. And now that I have retired from the ordained ministry in July 2021, I want you to have free access to it.

My pastoral desire is simply this: For you to be the person God has created you to be. My prayer, then, is that you would be able to live according to God’s time so that you may discern God’s Divine path for your life and how it is that God wants you to live to best receive his blessing and shine his holy light.

Your Benefits from My Torah Gift I Can Give You This Week

So what exactly can you expect from the Torah gift I’m giving you this fifth week of the Fellowship season? Well, the first and foremost is self-realisation.

Why self-realisation at such a precarious time for all of us, a time fraught with disagreements about what our values mean to us as members of God’s global family? Because without self-realisation, life transformation will never happen.

You see, it all comes down to the flow of information, the dynamic of your brain's plank field, and the feedforward and feedback process that is involved in it.

The physics behind all this is not hard to understand. You’re receiving the information from the universe (God), and you are feeding that information forward into your brain’s plank field through a process called quantum oscillation of all your protons and neutrons.

Remember, each one of us is made up of numerous cells. And each one of those cells at its quantum or sub-atomic level is made up of hundreds of protons and neutrons. So you are receiving the information from the universe (God), and you forward it into your brain’s plank field through the process called quantum oscillation of all your protons and neutrons. Your brain plank field will interpret it and will feed it back to you in such a way that will enable you to say, Aha, I now see it with my naked eyes. Now I know. That’s what self-realisation is.

Here’s the point. Until we are made aware of who we are: men-God, or women-God, and what we need to do to help make this world a better place for all of us, we will never be able to get out of this geo-political, socio-economic turmoil that we now find ourselves in, no matter where we are in the world today.

So the Torah gift I’m giving you this fifth week of the Fellowship season will help you become aware of the fact that ever since that incident that took place in the Garden of Eden involving the serpent that led to the fall of the first human being (Adam) (Genesis 3:15), God has never forgotten what the devil could do to us if we are left unprotected.

Please note very carefully the arena where the Devil operates in our lives. It is at the back of our heads: total darkness which suggests:

• Absence or deficiency of light

• Wickedness or evil or the quality of being morally wrong.

• Obscurity, or concealment

• Lack of knowledge

• Lack of sight

All of this reminds us of what could happen to us when we have lost our self-realisation of who we are and whose we are.

Perhaps it is for this reason that on Friday, April 26, the U.S. government announced that it has postponed its decision on aid to the Israeli army battalion accused of abuses against Palestinians.

U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has determined that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza.

But he said in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he is postponing a decision on blocking aid to the unit to give Israel more time to right the wrongdoing.

The undated letter, obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, defers a decision on whether to withhold U.S. assistance to an Israeli military unit for the first time over its treatment of Palestinians and its compliance with international and human rights law. Israeli leaders, anticipating the U.S. decision this week, have angrily protested any such aid restrictions.

News of the delay comes with Blinken once again headed to Israel. An Israeli foreign ministry official told The Associated Press that Blinken was visiting on Tuesday, the latest of multiple trips he and other top U.S. officials have made since the war in Gaza began.

Blinken stressed in his letter that overall U.S. military support for Israel’s defence against Hamas and other threats would not be affected by the State Department's eventual decision on the one unit. Johnson was instrumental this week in muscling through White House-backed legislation providing $26 billion in additional funds for Israel's defence and for relief of the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The U.S. declaration concerns a single Israeli unit and its actions against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank before Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza began in October.

The unit and some of its members have been linked to abuses of civilians in the Palestinian territory, including the death of a 78-year-old Palestinian American man after his detention by the battalion's forces in 2022.

It’s no wonder, in Acts 26:18, we are instructed “to open our eyes so that we may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that we may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

The second benefit that my Torah gift will give you this fifth week of the Fellowship season is a deeper level of unity and accountability. It’ll help you develop a deeper level of unity and accountability knowing that if we are to explain the success or the failure of God’s work of building God’s kingdom on earth entrusted to us, it’ll all come down to one word: action. Yes, that’s right: the action of the leader in charge.

Why is that important? Because knowing what God expects us to do is one thing. But doing it is a different thing altogether.

We can talk about what needs to be done to help build a more unifying world until we get blue in the face, but if we don’t take the action necessary to do it, nothing will ever happen.

So the Torah gift I’m giving you this fifth week of the Fellowship season will help you understand the fact that our God did not put you or me in positions of leadership and management for no reason.

God put you and me in positions of leadership and management to help make this world a better place. A world in which all of us, despite the difference in our political affiliation, our national origin or even our religious backgrounds, can come together not by force or by coercion, but by the voluntary exchange of gifts and values.

Perhaps it is in this context that one can understand why on Friday, April 26, we all read about the Pro-Palestine university protests spreading from the U.S. to Britain and from Britain to France.

Pro-Palestinian protests spread from universities in the United States to France and Britain on Friday as Russell Group students set up a camp demanding action over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Tents have been erected by a group occupying grounds in the centre of the University of Warwick, while students at University College London (UCL) staged a campus rally, mirroring anger across US college campuses.

Tensions are also mounting in Paris, where students were on Friday occupying Sciences Po, a university seen as the breeding ground for France’s political elite.

Sciences Po students are calling for the university attended by President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to “cut its ties with universities and companies that are complicit in the genocide in Gaza” and “end the repression of pro-Palestinian voices on campus”.

The occupation comes a day after police dislodged around 60 students who had occupied another building and set up tents in a courtyard.

With keffiyehs on their heads, Palestine flags hanging from the railings and slogans in support of the Palestinian struggle, students who had spent the night in the school could be seen on Friday morning in the windows of its historic headquarters in the 7th arrondissement.

In a statement on social media, the group said it will “rise up in unison with fellow students all over the world, from Columbia, NYC, to Paris, to Sydney.” It added: “We say no business as usual as long as Warwick sponsors colonial genocide!”

The protest group is calling on the university to scrap all academic and teaching partnerships with companies it claims are facilitating Israel’s war in Gaza, including any defence contractors.

It has also urged the university to “condemn Israeli war crimes”, “expand scholarships for Palestinian students” and “protect the freedom of speech” of Palestinian students and their allies in “expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for national liberation”.

It is no wonder why the apostle Paul urged us, saying, “I appeal to you brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly unified in mind and thought” (1 Corinthians 1:10).

The third benefit that my Torah gift will give you this fifth week of the Fellowship season is a strong faith or trust in God. It’ll help you strengthen your faith or trust in God knowing that He knows what is best for us, and that He is enough and has enough to fulfil our needs.

Why is that important for us Jews, Christians, Islamists, and people of other faiths at this critically important juncture in history?

Because faith is a belief system or trust in action. Faith is believing that God is who God says He is and that what God can do, only God can do. But trust takes things a step further. It is making the willful choice to trust that God will do what He promises in and through us.

So the Torah gift I’m giving you this fifth week of the Fellowship season will help you understand the fact that ever since that incident that took place in the Garden of Eden that led to the fall of mankind, God has never forgotten what the devil could do to us if we are left unprotected.

The devil knows when we are most vulnerable. He can put doubts in people’s minds and can twist the truths when we have lost a sense of who we are and whose we are.

More specifically, we are the microcosm of God’s universe, which God created for higher accomplishment. We are men-God or women-God whom God fashioned or engineered for success. And we are the people called whom God endowed with the seeds for greatness.

Perhaps it is for this reason that on Saturday, April 27, Bernie Sanders, A U.S. Senator from Virginia unleashed a fiery comeback to Netanyahy’s antisemitism remarks.

Senator Bernie Sanders let loose a scathing statement this week in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s accusation that protests at United States universities against Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza are “antisemitic.”

Listen again to Bernie Sanders’ words, “Mr Netanyahu, antisemitism is a vile form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people,′ Sanders said in a video posted to X on Thursday.

The senator implored the prime minister to “not insult the intelligence of the American people” in an attempt to “distract” them from Israel’s “immoral and illegal war policies.”

Israel’s offensive on Gaza, which began after militant group Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack killed at least 1,200 Israelis and took more than 100 people hostage, has now left an estimated 34,000 Palestinians dead. UN Women, the United Nations organization for gender equality, reported in February that 70% of Palestinians killed at that time were women and children.

The senator said it “is not antisemitic” to note that Israel’s military operation has left more than half the population of Gaza homeless, “obliterated” the Palestinian territory’s water and electric infrastructure and “annihilated” its health care system.

Sanders, who is Jewish, concluded, “It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.”

It is no wonder why David exclaimed, saying, “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him” (Psalm 28:7).

The Historical Proof that Supports our Need for Your Daily Bread that Sustains Us Spiritually

Does it surprise you, then, that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, did not forget to remind us about these things? That is why last week you heard Jesus speaking to us, saying, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses [Torah] and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled…” (Luke 24:44). ).

Jesus, then, did something which I thought was quite remarkable and quite extraordinary. He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. Jesus said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:45-49).

Overview Summary of this Week’s Torah Portion

With this in mind, let us now look at this week’s Torah portion, Numbers 16:1-18:32 to see the answer to our million-dollar question: What’s in it for me (WIIFM)?

Remember our Lord’s Prayer where you hear Jesus asking Father God, “Our Father who art in heaven…Give us this day our daily bread.” That means every week, God gives us our daily bread, our weekly Torah portion that sustains us spiritually.

So, in the Hebrew language (God’s sacred tongue) from which our English Bible translation was taken, the Torah portion for this fifth week of the Fellowship season is called, “Korach” translated as “Korah,” see Numbers 16:1-2.

To understand this, one has to, first of all, identify the double references in the text. On a superficial linguistic level which is intended primarily for the Jewish audience, the reading focuses on the code “Korach” translated as “Korah.” Thus, in the opening part of the reading, we see Korah inciting a concerted revolt that challenges Moses’ leadership and the granting of the priesthood to Aaron.

In the central part of the reading, Korah is accompanied by Moses’ inveterate foes, Dathan and Abiram. Joining them are 250 distinguished members of the community, who offer the sacred incense to prove their worthiness for the priesthood.

As a result of their revolt, the earth opens up and swallows the mutineers, and a fire consumes the sacred incense offerings. Then, a subsequent plague is stopped by Aaron’s offering of incense. Aaron’s staff miraculously blossoms and brings almonds to prove his designation as high priest is divinely ordained.

The reading ends with God commanding that an “uplifting” offering from each crop of grain, wine and oil, as well as all firstborn sheep and cattle and other specified gifts, be given to the priests.

Indeed, on a profound theological level, the Torah portion for this fifth week of the Fellowship season, “Korah” has an important message to us, the Church, the Body of Christ.

This message is evident when the portion is interpreted in the context of this important time of the Fellowship season.

Why is it that so many people today in Government, in businesses, in schools, in their families, and even in churches are so unhappy with their God-given lot? How do we know that?

Listen, again, to Moses’ question to Korah, “Is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do service in the Tabernacle of the Lord? And would you seek the priesthood also?” (Numbers 16: 8-10).

You see Korah is a man who by all accounts very intelligent, affluent, and gifted individual. He is a Levite by birth. That means that he already occupies a position of prominence and prestige within the Israelite community. And yet, he is unhappy because Aaron, and not he is granted the high priesthood position.

The moral here for us should be clear. And that is, that each one of us called by God to serve in whatever the capacity might be is unique in the eyes of God.

Why, because “everyone who is called by my name for my glory,” says God, “I have created him [or her], I have formed him [or her], and I have made him [or her],” (Isaiah 43:7).

What, then, should our reaction as Jews, Christians, Islamists, or people of other faiths be? Yes, that’s right. Be grateful. Instead of being revengeful and wishing to have someone else’ God-given lot, be appreciative and thankful for what God has blessed you with.

It is no wonder why David said these words to us, “O give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known his deeds among the people. Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wonderful works,” (Psalm 106:1-2).

Perhaps, it is for this particular reason that the apostle Paul encouraged us this week, saying, “I, therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to live a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness, and meekness, with patience forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace,” (Ephesians 4:1-3).

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