Love & Lawlessness

In the last few days we have seen news of anarchists and lawless people burning businesses, homes, and causing deadly confrontations. One pastor has said that there was a need for “the moral law” to be taught again. We, as many others for years have said, that there was a need for the Torah to be taught as discipleship instructions for all believers. We believe that Messiah not only spoke prophetic words, but He also gave us a warning.

Matthew 24:12
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

We have seen how they beat the elderly and call for the murder of other races and people who work in law and order. They ask for people’s properties as retribution. Some are invoking the social justice that the Che Guevara offered to motivate people to loot and steal in Latin America. These countries like Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba were moved to lawlessness through coveting the neighbor’s possessions. The leftist groups in these countries would arrest people and take their homes, eat their animals. and even murder those who did not surrender. The warning of lawlessness is for today. What can we do? We must preach freedom from lawlessness. We must rebuke lawlessness.

Exodus 20:13,15,17
“You do not murder.

15 “You do not steal.
17 “You do not covet your neighbors house, you do not covet your neighbors wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbor.”

Leviticus 19:18
‘Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people.
And you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am YHWH.

We are seeing lawlessness by an awakening of a spirit of vengeance from things that were done before we were born. Through this emotional spirit of vengeance they can kill and destroy with no fear or remorse. Lawlessness is against love. The product of lawlessness is coldness of love. Lawlessness is Torahlessness.

Did you think that taking the commandments out of public places was something symbolic?

Romans 6:19
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

The Word teaches us that we have a choice. The choice is either impurity or righteousness. L’Chaim Pura Vida is about that purity of life. How can we teach righteousness that leads to sanctification?

John 17:17
Sanctify them in the Truth; Your Word is Truth.

It is through the Torah and Messiah's role as the Lamb of Elohim that we are sanctified. Seeking righteousness through the Word to be pure, to cleanse ourselves and the assembly. The time to be seeking for the latest book or teaching resource is ending. Following the example of Messiah.

Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it, in order to set it apart and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, in order to present it to Himself a splendid assembly, not having spot or wrinkle or any of this sort, but that it might be set-apart and blameless.

Most of these living lawless lives calling to abolish laws or those who enforce laws are gathered in liberal colleges all over the world. Now fueled by financial support and even the lack of enforcing these laws are making the perfect combustion of things that lead to lawlessness. There is no freedom of thought and much less speech around many. Yet it seems like even pastors and elected officials are joining the lawless groups. History shows that many would help the regimes who murdered millions. Why? Because of lawlessness their love for their neighbor grew cold.

Again the Warning by Messiah!

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

We should take a stand first to preach what can sanctify and purify us, THE WORD with which has the foundation in the Torah.

Leviticus 18:21-22
‘And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Moleḵ. And do not profane the Name of your Elohim. I am YHWH. ‘And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination.

How can we bring them back? How can these young people turn back?… 

Proverbs 4:2-4
For I gave you good instruction: Do not forsake my Torah. For I was my father’s son, tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother, then he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; guard my commands, and live. “Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, and do not turn away From the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises the Word brings destruction on himself,
but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, But he who hates reproof is stupid.

Psalms 119:9
How would a young man cleanse his path? To guard it according to Your Word.

We believe that true discipleship comes through the learning of the Torah and the Testimony of Yahshua/Yeshua. The Fear of YHWH Elohim is learned through Torah. Righteousness is learned through the Torah, which means instructions for living. On both sides while pointing a finger, a gun, or a knife, it is through the example of Messiah and the Torah that we find mercy and that lever of compassion that can bring someone back from lawlessness instead of death.

In the midst of such lawlessness prayer and fasting must be part of the spiritual preparation for the real battle for the souls of the young people that have been deceived believing that lawlessness can help them obtain something that would last.

Titus 2:11-14
For the saving Gift of Elohim has appeared to all men, instructing us to renounce wickedness and worldly lusts, and to live sensibly, righteously, and reverently in the present age, looking for the blessed expectation and esteemed appearance of the great Elohim and our Saviour Yahshua Messiah, who gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people, His own possession, ardent for good works.

Shalom! Our brother and sister posted a video that we wanted to share that speaks from their perspective and experiences that we think will be a blessing and expounds on what we wrote here. Please watch and send them a comment. Chag Sameach Teruah! Our Bridegroom is coming!
The Montańez Family
L'Chaim Pura Vida

 

We have Ushpizin(Visitors!)! Part 2 of 2

Shalom brothers and sisters in Messiah! I pray that you are all doing well 

and that you can be used by YHVH for His Glory!

Here we have been VERY blessed especially of late. YHVH has allowed us in the past

 2 weeks to have several families come up to visit us. We have been able to share the Word with them.

 Pray that it makes an impact in their lives and that we can continue to share YHVH with others!

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We have been very blessed to have a large family from down in town come up to visit us. 

We have been sharing the Word with them and they seem to be very receptive to it. This family has 

come out of a lot of bad situations so once again please pray that they can fully come out 

of that and be able to fully embrace the Whole Word of YHVH!

Now, on to the pictures!

 

Isaiah 9:2-3

The people who were walking in darkness have seen a great light; 

upon those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death a light has shone.
3 You shall increase the nation; You shall make its joy great. They shall rejoice before You,

 as in the joy of harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 

Sharing the harvest and giving out the bread, physically AND spiritually too!

 

 

Please pray for this young lady named Dinia. She has a very sweet heart but she has been in 

some very tough situations in her life and has only recently been freed some that, part of which 

you will see in this blogpost. She has 2 young children so please pray that they

 will be able to grow up in a home where YHVH is first and that none of the 

dangers of life can come and try to take them away from HIM.

Psalms 133:1

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 

 

Psalms 98:6-9

With trumpets and the sound of a horn; Raise a shout before YHVH, the Sovereign.
7 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it, The world and those who dwell in it.
8 Let the rivers clap their hands, Let the mountains sing together for joy before YHVH,
9 For He shall come to judge the earth. He judges the world in righteousness, And the people in straightness. 

The shofar has been a great teaching tool to use, especially with larger groups and

 where youth and children are involved. We share how the shofar was used in times of war

 as well as in times of calling the people to repentance. And almost every time

 a group comes up, they all will try to blow the shofar, and it’s great to 

see them laugh and smile when they see how hard it is to blow!

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Now here comes an interesting and what would become exciting story. 

We were talking about some things in the Scriptures when one of the young ladies 

named Angie that came told my dad that she had wanted to be baptized before 

and that she had gone to ask the pastor at the church in El Duruy. Here comes the crazy part though. 

The pastor told the Angie that to be baptized she must stop dressing so immodestly 

as well as stop playing soccer, and if she did that she could be baptized. Well, as you

 could figure out that surprised her a little bit, and once she told us, we told her right 

away that there is no place in Scripture that talks about that. In fact, there is no requirement

 to be baptized other than to believe with all your heart that Yahshua is the Messiah. We shared 

with them the story of Philip and the Kushite(Ethiopian) eunuch and how 

He was baptized almost immediately after He accepted Messiah. We told them what it

 meant to be baptized and then we asked who wanted to be baptized. Angie and 

then Dinia both said they wanted to be baptized! 

Here are some pictures!

Acts 8:27-31

And he arose and went, and saw, a man of Kush, a eunuch of great authority

 under Kandake the sovereigness of the Kushites, who was in charge

 of all her treasury, and had come to Yerushalayim to worship,
28 and was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Yeshayahu.
29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and join him in that chariot.”
30 And running up, Philip heard him reading the prophet Yeshayahu,

 and said, “Do you know what you are reading?”
31 And he said, “How am I able, unless someone guides me?” 

And he called Philip near, to come up and sit with him. 

Acts 8:32-35

32 And the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this,

 “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb silent before 

its shearer, so He opened not His mouth.
33 “In His humiliation He was deprived of right-ruling. 

And who shall declare His generation? Because His life was taken from the earth.”

34 And the eunuch, answering Philip, said, “I ask you, about whom 

does the prophet say this, about himself or about some other?”
35 And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, brought to him the Good News: Yahshua! 

Acts 8:36-39

36 And as they were going on the way, they came to some water.

 And the eunuch said, “Look, water! What hinders me from being immersed?”
37 And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, it is permitted.” 

And he answering, said, “I believe that Yahshua Messiah is the Son of Elohim.”
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip

 and the eunuch went down into the water, and he immersed him.
39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of YHVH caught Philip away, 

and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went his way, rejoicing.

Yahshua's last instruction on earth was to baptize and make disciples in all the nations:

Matthew 28:18-20

And Yahshua came up and spoke to them, saying, 

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 “Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them

 in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit,
20 teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you.

 And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Amĕn. 

 

Please pray for these 2 women, Angie and Dinia. Pray that they continue to learn about 

Yah’s Word and that they can learn how to be a bride of Messiah and stay away 

from the evils of this world. Sister Tammy has been very busy making several skirts

 for them and then trading their very immodest clothes for beautiful coverings. 

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And now it’s time to celebrate! Yahshua said in Luke 15:

Luke 15:10

“I say to you, in the same way there is joy in the presence of

 the messengers of Elohim over one sinner repenting.”

HalleluYAH!

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Once again, please pray for this family. They need to hear more about YHVH’s Word 

so that they do not go astray again. They have come a long way and are continuing 

their walk back to the REAL truth of YHVH’s Word. Pray that we will be able to 

continue to minister to them and that they can truly become followers of Messiah. 

They have physical needs but more importantly they have spiritual needs and we 

desire to be able to show them as much as we know with the knowledge and time that we have.  

And finally, please continue praying for us. Times are getting darker but that is when 

the light shines even brighter. We lack nothing(Praise YHVH!) but we want to be able

 to help with the needs of others, both physically and spiritually. We thank you all for

 all that you are doing and all you are going to do, and may YHVH 

bless you and multiply His blessings on you!

Numbers 6:24-26

“YHVH bless you and guard you;
25 YHVH make His face shine upon you, and show favor to you;
26 YHVH lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.”

Until next time…

Shalom! 

The Montanez Family 

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH 

HalleluYAH!

That’s SOOOOOO Cheesy!!!

Job 10:9-12

Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?
10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh you put on me, and wove me with bones and sinews.
12 Life and kindness You have bestowed on me, and Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

 

YHVH has blessed us so much with the ability to milk our own cows and make our own cheese. 

There is a HUGE difference between the milk you buy in the states at your local store 

and fresh, straight-from-the-cow milk, not so much in taste(even though there is a BIG difference),

 but rather in quality and in nutrition as well. The stuff you buy at the store is 

ULTRA-homogenized and sometimes even worst, ULTRA-pasteurized(NO GOOD for cheese making!!!) 

Anyway, we like making cheese. We would like to make many different cheeses, but since
we don’t have all the necessary tools(like a thermometer), we can’t.

 However, there are cheeses that we can make here, and one of those cheeses are made 

from a dear husband and wife halfway down the mountain. They are a very sweet couple and love

 to read and study YAH’s Word. They also have a bunch of cows and get a LOT of milk, SOOOOO….

THEY MAKE CHEESE!!! This cheese that they make is what some would call here ‘Tico Cheese’. However, just like any cheese, or rather put, ANYTHING anyone does or makes, they will do

 it just a bit different then the next person. We have probably had 7 different types of tico cheese 

just from the couple of families that we know in Costa Rica. In fact, every time you make cheese, 

it will turn out just a little different, even if you do it exactly the same every time!

Anyway, here is how they made cheese!

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The 1st thing you do of course is milk the cow(LOL). We don’t have a picture of them

 doing it but here is Christopher with the cow getting ready to milk.

 

Once you get the milk, you can do 2 things to it. You can either make cheese right away, 

or wait for 8-12 hours until the cream has settled to the top. Now, if you take the cream off the top, 

you can make butter or cream cheese or sour cream or etc.., but if you do it will 

decrease how much cheese you make. So sometimes we take the cream off and sometimes we don’t.

Now, in this cheese, there is no fancy starters or mixers or really any of that stuff. 

All that you need to begin to make it into cheese is rennet.

When we were thinking about writing this post, Christian made an amazing point 

about how our lives are in fact very similar to this cheese:

Our lives are very similar to this cheese. Just like the milk, we appear to look white, 

we appear to be clean. But just like the milk, we are mixed in with this dirty, yucky sin, 

and we may not even know it. But just like the rennet(which is a reddish color), 

the blood of Yahshua allows us to be able to separate from the dirty, yucky sin. 

Next we have to wait about 30 minutes for the cheese to set. Just as the milk takes time to 

become cheese, so we take time to cleanse ourselves from the unrighteousness of this world. It isn’t an overnight thing. It takes time to become that perfect, white, set-apart person that YHVH wants us to be. 

But little by little, day by day, YHVH through the blood of Yahshua changes us and begins to make us holy.

Once the cheese has set, we have to mix the milk around, and then put 

boiling water into the cheese and let it settle to the bottom and come together. 

And just like that cheese having to be mixed and stirred and have boiling water poured on it, 

so we have to go through tests, trials, and tribulations. We have to be shaken so that 

we can be made better, so that we can become more like what YHVH wants to be day by day.

Then, after the cheese has set, we have to cut the cheese into 4th’s, take one of these pieces of cheese,

 and then squeeze as much whey as we can. We will see an amazing thing that happens later.

Then the cheese has to be cut up in your hands to about pin-size pieces. 

After that, we put salt in it. And just like the cheese has to

 have salt in it to have flavor, so we are to have salt in our lives. Yahshua said:

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall it be seasoned? 

For it is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and to be trodden down by men. 

 

Without salt, cheese is bland and not very good. 

And without salt in our lives, we are not useful for YHVH’s purpose.

Amen!

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Before we go on, we want to say that this couple has been very gracious to us. 

They love to speak and study the Word of YHVH. But because they like to

 study so much and like to ask questions, they have gotten in trouble with their church. 

They see how their church isn’t preaching YHVH’s Word and that the church is 

falling well short of where the Scriptures teach that they should be. But just like any people 

here that we have preached to, they do not want to leave the church because they 

feel like they have a duty to go to the church. Pray that the blinders can be completely 

taken away from their eyes and pray that they can be able to take off the holding that their church 

has on them. Pray that they can learn how to follow YHVH fully. They love to study YHVH’s Word, 

so just pray that they can come to embrace and fully see what is in the Scriptures. 

 

 

This is a really interesting press that they made. All it is 4 pieces of wood made into a box, 

another piece of wood for the ‘follower’, which helps squeeze the cheese, and 2 2x4 pieces of wood. 

Then, on the end of the top 2x4, they have a notch that they made into the end of the wood and put 

a sack filled with rocks and press it down! It’s that easy! Most of the presses we see online are

 either very fancy, very expensive, or both. This was an easy press that cost almost NOTHING to build!

Next you put the cheese into the box, press it flat with your hand,

 put the follower on it, and then put the press with the sack of rocks on it. 

Let it sit 12 hours or overnight and TaDa! You have made Tico Cheese!

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Now, if you paid attention, you would have seen how the cheese

 was pressed twice, once with your hands and once with the press. This is really cool.

 Did you know that we are and will be separated from this world twice? 

The 1st time happened when we accept the blood of Yahshua. When we accept the

 blood of Yahshua, we are Spiritually separated from this world, as Yahshua says:

John 15:19

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. 

But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out 

of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

 

The 2nd time we will be separated from this world is when YHVH 

creates a New Heaven and a New Earth. There we will be physically separated

 from this world and the whole Earth will be re-made and perfected. There no man will sin. 

We will become perfect, set-apart, and white(clean), without spot or blemish!!!!!

Revelation 21:1-5

And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, for the former heaven 

and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.
2 And I, Yohanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down 

out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, 

and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, 

and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.
4 “And Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death,

 nor mourning, nor crying. And there shall be no more pain, for the former matters have passed away.”
5 And He who was sitting on the throne said, “See, I make all matters new.” 

And He said to me, “Write, for these words are true and trustworthy.

HALLELUYAH!!

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And here is the finished product!

May YHVH bless you and may we one day be 

able to have ‘Cheesy Fellowship’ together too!

Until next time…

Shalom! 

The Montanez Family 

Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH 

HalleluYAH!

P.S. Someone just asked me where we got the rennet to make this cheese. I know that in Costa Rica you can get it at most supermarkets but I don't believe it will be quite so easy in the states.

 There is an amazing place online called 'New England Cheesemaking Supply Company.

Their website is http://www.cheesemaking.com/

They have EVERYTHING you could possibly find to make just about any cheese you want. 

They also have all the cultures, rennets, and things like that

 to make things like yogurt, sour cream, kefir, etc.
Hope that this helps!

A great study for Shabbat!

Shabbat Shalom family in Messiah! We pray that you will all have a blessed Shabbat and that you can continue to grow in YHVH's Word. We want to share with you a great video by 119 Ministries. This video is almost pure Scripture and it answers a lot of the main questions that one may have by the Word of YAH!

Share it with your friends and family and go to:
 119 Ministries

 *Quote from 119 Ministries about this video*
 In this video, we simply set commentary aside, ask a question, and allow scripture to answer the question for us. This is a great teaching to equip and enable you to answer questions using the Bible, instead of the words of men. You will find nearly one hour of only scripture.

May YHVH fill you with His Shalom/Shalem on this Shabbat!

Until next time...

Shalom!
The Montanez Family
Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH
HalleluYAH!

Costa Rica Sukkot 2012

Shalom Mispocha in Messiah! I pray that you are being blessed
wherever you are and that YHVH is using you for His Glory. 

It is always a big blessing for Sukkot to come around, physically and spiritually.
Before we go into what we did, let us look into the Scriptures and
see the passages where this great Feast of YAH is found:

Leviticus 23:34-36, 39-43

“Speak to the children of Yisra’el, saying, ‘On the fifteenth day of this
 seventh month is the Festival of Booths for seven days to YHVH.
35 ‘On the first day is a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work.
36 ‘For seven days you bring an offering made by fire to YHVH. On the eighth day there 
shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall bring an offering made
 by fire to YHVH. It is a closing festival, you do no servile work.

‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the fruit of the land,
 observe the festival of YHVH for seven days. On the first day is a rest, and on the eighth day a rest.
40 ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of good trees, branches of palm trees, 
twigs of leafy trees, and willows of the stream, and shall rejoice before YHVH your Elohim for seven days.
41 ‘And you shall observe it as a festival to YHVH for seven days in the year – 
a law forever in your generations. Observe it in the seventh month.
42 ‘Dwell in booths for seven days; all who are native Yisra’elites dwell in booths,
43 so that your generations know that I made the children of Yisra’el dwell in booths
 when I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am YHVH your Elohim.’ ” 

Deuteronomy 16:13-16

“Perform the Festival of Booths for seven days after the ingathering 
from your threshing-floor and from your winepress,
14 and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, 
and your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, 
and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.
15 “For seven days you shall observe a festival to YHVH your Elohim 
in the place which YHVH chooses, because YHVH your Elohim does bless you 
in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!
16 “Three times a year all your males appear before YHVH your Elohim in the place which He chooses: 
at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, and at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths.

In the time of the building of the 2nd temple there
was a great rejoicing when they found this command:

Nehemiah 8:14-17

And they found written in the Torah, which YHVH had commanded by Moshe, 
that the children of Yisra’el should dwell in booths in the festival of the seventh month,
15 and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in Yerushalayim, saying, 
“Go out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, and myrtle branches,
 and palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
16 So the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one 
on the roof of his house, and in their courtyards and in the courtyards of the House of Elohim, 
and in the open space of the Water Gate and in the open space of the Gate of Ephrayim.
17 And the entire assembly of those who had come back from the captivity made booths 
and sat under the booths, for since the days of Yeshua(Joshua) son of Nun until 
that day the children of Yisra’el had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing. 

In Zechariah it states that in the end of days that if a gentile(of the nations) does not
 come up to Jerusalem for Sukkot, that person will not have any rain in their land:

Zechariah 14:16-17

And it shall be that all who are left from all the gentiles which came up against Yerushalayim, 
shall go up from year to year to bow themselves to the Sovereign, 
YHVH of hosts, and to observe the Festival of Booths.
17 And it shall be, that if anyone of the clans of the earth does not come up to Yerushalayim 
to bow himself to the Sovereign, YHVH of hosts, on them there is to be no rain. 

Yahshua also came to the earth on the Feast of Sukkot:

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent(Tabernacled, Sukkot!) among us, 
and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an only brought-forth of a father, complete in favor and truth.

And finally, in the end of days, 
YHVH will send down the New Yerushalayim like a Booth:

Revelation 21:2-3

And I, Yohanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down 
out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, 
“See, the Booth(Sukkot) of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them,
 and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.

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This feast is a true blessing from YHVH. This year we were blessed to be able to host it,
 thanks to your gifts, YHVH’s blessing, and the McDaniel’s allowing us to use
their houses here in Costa Rica. May YHVH bless you for all you have done! 

Now, saying that, it does take quite a bit of work to have any type of gathering, especially one
 that lasts 8 days. It can take anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months to get prepared, depending on the size. Since we didn’t know exactly how many people would show up,
we got prepared in advance. One of the things that is important, of course, is food. And lots of it.

 

For the feast we made a Hispanic meal with rice, beans, and tamales.
It takes a lot of work, especially the tamales, but YHVH has blessed us
 with the bodies and the provision to make things possible!

Thank you YHVH for able bodies!

 

Psalms 111:5

He has given food to those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever. 
 

 

Psalms 90:16-17

Reveal Your work to Your servants, And Your splendor to their children.
17 And let the pleasantness Of YHVH our Elohim be upon us, 
And confirm the work of our hands for us; O confirm the work of our hands!

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Another VERY important thing is transportation. In our case it is much more difficult
since the people that wanted to come don’t have any type of transportation.
But thanks to YHVH’s provision through someone’s gift, we were able to rent out a man
who had a pickup truck that was big enough to bring all the people. Without that gift, my dad would have had to go down himself, bring some people, and come back up. Then he would have had to do it again,
and probably again. That is a lot of gas, but more importantly it doesn’t give him
 an opportunity to speak YHVH’s word as much as he could because he would
be going up and down all day bringing people up and down the mountain.
But again, we thank you SO MUCH for your gift, not that we had to have it, but rather:

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that is multiplying to your account.

Praise YAH!

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Micah 4:2

And many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of YHVH, 
to the House of the Elohim of Yaʽaqob, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths.
 For out of Zion comes forth the Torah, and the word of YHVH from Yerushalayim.”

 When we read this verse, the 1st thing that we think of is the physical mountain in Yisra’el. 
But it also has a Spiritual connection as well. And it is really cool to read that verse and think, 
“Wow! These people are from the nations, and they are coming up the mountain to learn YHVH’s Word!”. YHVH has blessed us so much, physically and spiritually!
 

Our Sukkah.

 

Psalms 67

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us, Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah.
2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, Let all the peoples praise You.
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, 
And lead the nations on earth. Selah.
5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; Let all the peoples praise You.
6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us!
7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! 

2nd Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching, 
for reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness,
17 that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work.
 

YHVH’s Word is always good. He tells us that it is the perfect way(Psalms 18:30),
that it is straight(Psalms 33:4), that it is the Good News(Acts 15:35), and that we are
 blessed by doing and obeying it(Just Read Psalms 119 and you’ll see what I mean)!

He also tells us to teach them to our children in Deuteronomy 6:

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

“And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart,
7 and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, 
and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,
8 and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 “And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 

HalleluYAH!

Psalms 127:3

Look, children are an inheritance from YHVH, The fruit of the womb is the reward. 

 

YHVH’s Word is always a blessing, it restores our souls and makes our minds stronger.
It is the sword with which we use for battle against the Adversary and it is our Daily Bread.
Without the Whole Word of YHVH we could not, we cannot be
what YHVH wants us to be, a servant and emissary for Him.
May YHVH be praised for all that He has done!

Pray for each one of these men, women and children. Pray that they learn to love,
serve, trust, and obey YHVH and follow the testimony of Yahshua. Pray that they can
 be the messengers of truth and that the whole world can come to know YHVH’s Glory!

 
This is where Abba has brought us as we surrendered to do His will and not ours.
Now we do our best with what has been provided by YHVH Yirei, Our Provider.
Pray for our servant family. Without His provision multiplying every gift we can’t continue
 the Journey and teach by our testimony and the Word of Elohim.

Until next time….

Shalom! 
The Montanez Family
Servants and Emissaries of Yahshua, Children of YHVH
HalleluYAH!!