Revelation of Yeshua to Yochanan (Rev) 21

1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had passed away, and the sea was no longer there.

2 Also I saw the holy city, New Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

3 I heard a loud voice from the throne say, “See! God’sSh’khinahis with mankind, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and he himself, God-with-them, will be their God.

4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away.”

5 Then the One sitting on the throne said, “Look! I am making everything new!” Also he said, “Write, ‘These words are true and trustworthy!’”

6 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the ‘A’ and the ‘Z,’ the Beginning and the End. To anyone who is thirsty I myself will give water free of charge from the Fountain of Life.

7 He who wins the victory will receive these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.

8 But as for the cowardly, the untrustworthy, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those involved with the occult and with drugs, idol-worshippers, and all liars — their destiny is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, the second death.”

9 One of the seven angels having the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues approached me and said, “Come! I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.”

10 He carried me off in the Spirit to the top of a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Yerushalayim, coming down out of heaven from God.

11 It had theSh’khinahof God, so that its brilliance was like that of a priceless jewel, like a crystal-clear diamond.

12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates; at the gates were twelve angels; and inscribed on the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of Isra’el.

13 There were three gates to the east, three gates to the north, three gates to the south and three gates to the west.

14 The wall of the city was built on twelve foundation-stones, and on these were the twelve names of the twelve emissaries of the Lamb.

15 The angel speaking with me had a gold measuring-rod with which to measure the city, its gates and its wall.

16 The city is laid out in a square, its length equal to its width. With his rod he measured the city at 1,500 miles, with length, width and height the same.

17 He measured its wall at 216 feet by human standards of measurement, which the angel was using.

18 The wall was made of diamond and the city of pure gold resembling pure glass.

19 The foundations of the city wall were decorated with all kinds of precious stones — the first foundation stone was diamond, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh turquoise and the twelfth amethyst.

21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate made of a single pearl. The city’s main street was pure gold, transparent as glass.

22 I saw no Temple in the city, forAdonai, God of heaven’s armies, is its Temple, as is the Lamb.

23 The city has no need for the sun or the moon to shine on it, because God’sSh’khinahgives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.

25 Its gates will never close, they stay open all day because night will not exist there,

26 and the honor and splendor of the nations will be brought into it.

27 Nothing impure may enter it, nor anyone who does shameful things or lies; the only ones who may enter are those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Revelation of Yeshua to Yochanan (Rev) 22

1 Next the angel showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

2 Between the main street and the river was the Tree of Life producing twelve kinds of fruit, a different kind every month; and the leaves of the tree were for healing the nations —

3 no longer will there be any curses. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him;

4 they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

5 Night will no longer exist, so they will need neither the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, becauseAdonai, God, will shine upon them. And they will reign as kings forever and ever.

6 Then he said to me, “These words are true and trustworthy:Adonai, God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must happen soon.”

7 “Look! I am coming very soon. Blessed is the person who obeys the words of the prophecy written in this book!”

8 Then I, Yochanan, the one hearing and seeing these things, when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel showing them to me.

9 But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am only a fellow-servant with you and your brothers, the prophets and the people who obey the words in this book. Worship God!”

10 Then he said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy in this book, because the time of their fulfillment is near.

11 “Whoever keeps acting wickedly, let him go on acting wickedly;

whoever is filthy, let him go on being made filthy.

“Also, whoever is righteous, let him go on doing what is righteous;

and whoever is holy, let him go on being made holy.”

12 “Pay attention!” [says Yeshua,] “I am coming soon, and my rewards are with me to give to each person according to what he has done.

13 I am the ‘A’ and the ‘Z,’ the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

14 How blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they have the right to eat from the Tree of Life and go through the gates into the city!

15 Outside are the homosexuals, those involved with the occult and with drugs, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

16 “I, Yeshua, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the Messianic communities. I am the Root and Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.

17 The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let anyone who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let anyone who is thirsty come — let anyone who wishes, take the water of life free of charge.”

18 I warn everyone hearing the words of the prophecy in this book that if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues written in this book.

19 And if anyone takes anything away from the words in the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the Tree of Life and the holy city, as described in this book.

20 “The one who is testifying to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming soon!’”

Amen! Come, Lord Yeshua!

21 May the grace of the Lord Yeshua be with all!

Y’hudah (Jud) 1

1 From: Y’hudah, a slave of Yeshua the Messiah and a brother of Ya‘akov

To: Those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept for Yeshua the Messiah:

2 May mercy, love andshalombe yours in full measure.

3 Dear friends, I was busily at work writing to you about the salvation we share, when I found it necessary to write, urging you to keep contending earnestly for the faith which was once and for all passed on to God’s people.

4 For certain individuals, the ones written about long ago as being meant for this condemnation, have wormed their way in — ungodly people who pervert God’s grace into a license for debauchery and disown our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

5 Since you already know all this, my purpose is only to remind you thatAdonai, who once delivered the people from Egypt, later destroyed those who did not trust.

6 And the angels that did not keep within their original authority, but abandoned their proper sphere, he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for the Judgment of the Great Day.

7 And S’dom, ‘Amora and the surrounding cities, following a pattern like theirs, committing sexual sins and perversions, lie exposed as a warning of the everlasting fire awaiting those who must undergo punishment.

8 Likewise, these people, with their visions, defile their own flesh, despise godly authority and insult angelic beings.

9 When Mikha’el, one of the ruling angels, took issue with the Adversary, arguing over the body of Moshe, he did not dare bring against him an insulting charge, but said, “MayAdonairebuke you.”

10 However, these people insult anything they don’t understand; and what they do understand naturally, without thinking, like animals — by these things they are destroyed!

11 Woe to them, in that they have walked the road of Kayin, they have given themselves over for money to the error of Bil‘am, they have been destroyed in the rebellion of Korach.

12 These men are filthy spots at your festive gatherings meant to foster love; they share your meals without a qualm, while caring only for themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; trees without fruit even in autumn, and doubly dead because they have been uprooted;

13 savage sea-waves heaving forth their shameful deeds like foam; wandering stars for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

14 Moreover, Hanokh, in the seventh generation starting with Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, “Look!Adonaicame with his myriads of holy ones

15 to execute judgment against everyone, that is, to convict all the godless for their godless deeds which they have done in such a godless way, and for all the harsh words these godless sinners have spoken against him.”

16 These people are grumblers and complainers, they follow their evil passions, their mouths speak grandiosities, and they flatter others to gain advantage.

17 But you, dear friends, keep in mind the words spoken in advance by the emissaries of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

18 They told you, “During theacharit-hayamimthere will be scoffers following their own godless passions.”

19 These are the people who cause divisions. They are controlled by their impulses, because they don’t have the Spirit.

20 But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith, and pray in union with theRuach HaKodesh.

21 Thus keep yourselves in God’s love, as you wait for our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to give you the mercy that leads to eternal life.

22 Rebuke some who are disputing;

23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and to yet others, show mercy, but with fear, hating even the clothes stained by their vices.

24 Now,

to the one who can keep you from falling

and set you without defect and full of joy

in the presence of hisSh’khinah—

25 to God alone, our Deliverer,

through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord —

be glory, majesty, power and authority

before all time, now and forever.

Amen.

3 Yochanan (3 Jo) 1

1 From: The Elder

To: Dear Gaius, whom I love in truth:

2 Dear friend, I am praying that everything prosper with you and that you be in good health, as I know you are prospering spiritually.

3 For I was so happy when some brothers came and testified how faithful you are to the truth, as you continue living in the truth.

4 Nothing gives me greater joy than hearing that my children are living in the truth.

5 Dear friend, you are faithful in all the work you are doing for the brothers, even when they are strangers to you.

6 They have testified to your love in front of the congregation. You will be doing well if you send them on their way in a manner worthy of God,

7 since it was for the sake ofHaShemthat they went out without accepting anything from theGoyim.

8 It is we, therefore, who should support such people; so that we may share in their work for the truth.

9 I wrote something to the congregation; but Diotrephes, who likes to be themacheramong them, doesn’t recognize our authority.

10 So if I come, I will bring up everything he is doing, including his spiteful and groundless gossip about us. And as if that weren’t enough for him, he refuses to recognize the brothers’ authority either; moreover, he stops those who want to do so and tries to drive them out of the congregation!

11 Dear friend, don’t imitate the bad, but the good. Those who do what is good are from God; those who do what is bad are not from God.

12 Everyone speaks well of Demetrius, and so does the truth itself. We vouch for him, and you know that our testimony is true.

13 I have much to write you, but I don’t want to write with pen and ink;

14 however, I am hoping to see you very soon, and we will speak face to face.

Shalomto you. Your friends send you their greetings. Greet each of our friends by name.

2 Yochanan (2 Jo) 1

1 From: The Elder

To: The chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth — and not only I but also all who have come to know the truth —

2 because of the Truth which remains united with us and will be with us forever:

3 Grace, mercy andshalomwill be with us from God the Father and from Yeshua the Messiah, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

4 I was very happy when I found some of your children living in truth, just as the Father commanded us.

5 And now, dear lady, I am requesting that we love one another — not as if this were a new command I am writing you, for it is the one which we have had from the beginning.

6 Moreover, love is this: that we should live according to his commands. This is the command, as you people have heard from the beginning; live by it!

7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not acknowledge Yeshua the Messiah’s coming as a human being. Such a person is a deceiver and an anti-Messiah.

8 Watch yourselves, so that you won’t lose what you have worked for, but will receive your full reward.

9 Everyone who goes ahead and does not remain true to what the Messiah has taught does not have God. Those who remain true to his teaching have both the Father and the Son.

10 If someone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, don’t welcome him into your home. Don’t even say, “Shalom!” to him;

11 for the person who says, “Shalom!” to him shares in his evil deeds.

12 Although I have much to write you people, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come and see you and to talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

13 The children of your chosen sister send you their greetings.

1 Yochanan (1 Jo) 1

1 The Word, which gives life!

He existed from the beginning.

We have heard him,

we have seen him with our eyes,

we have contemplated him,

we have touched him with our hands!

2 The life appeared,

and we have seen it.

We are testifying to it

and announcing it to you —

eternal life!

He was with the Father,

and he appeared to us.

3 What we have seen and heard,

we are proclaiming to you;

so that you too

may have fellowship with us.

Our fellowship is with the Father

and with his Son, Yeshua the Messiah.

4 We are writing these things

so that our joy may be complete.

5 And this is the message which we have heard from him and proclaim to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him — none!

6 If we claim to have fellowship with him while we are walking in the darkness, we are lying and not living out the truth.

7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of his Son Yeshua purifies us from all sin.

8 If we claim not to have sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.

10 If we claim we have not been sinning, we are making him out to be a liar, and his Word is not in us.

1 Yochanan (1 Jo) 2

1 My children, I am writing you these things so that you won’t sin. But if anyone does sin, we have Yeshua the Messiah, theTzaddik, who pleads our cause with the Father.

2 Also, he is thekapparahfor our sins — and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

3 The way we can be sure we know him is if we are obeying his commands.

4 Anyone who says, “I know him,” but isn’t obeying his commands is a liar — the truth is not in him.

5 But if someone keeps doing what he says, then truly love for God has been brought to its goal in him. This is how we are sure that we are united with him.

6 A person who claims to be continuing in union with him ought to conduct his life the way he did.

7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command. On the contrary, it is an old command, which you have had from the beginning; the old command is the message which you have heard before.

8 Yet I am writing you a new command, and its reality is seen both in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

9 Anyone who claims to be in this light while hating his brother is still in the dark.

10 The person who keeps loving his brother remains in the light, and there is nothing in him that could make him trip.

11 But the person who hates his brother is in the dark — yes, he is walking in the dark, and he doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

12 You children, I am writing you

because your sins have been forgiven for his sake.

13 You fathers, I am writing you

because you have known him who has existed from the beginning.

You young people, I am writing you

because you have overcome the Evil One.

14 You children, I have written you

because you have known the Father.

You fathers, I have written you

because you have known him who has existed from the beginning.

You young people, I have written you

because you are strong —

the Word of God remains in you,

and you have overcome the Evil One.

15 Do not love the world or the things of the world. If someone loves the world, then love for the Father is not in him;

16 because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.

17 And the world is passing away, along with its desires. But whoever does God’s will remains forever.

18 Children, this is the Last Hour. You have heard that an Anti-Messiah is coming; and in fact, many anti-Messiahs have arisen now — which is how we know that this is the Last Hour.

19 They went out from us, but they weren’t part of us; for had they been part of us, they would have remained with us.

20 But you have received the Messiah’s anointing fromHaKadosh, and you know all this.

21 It is not because you don’t know the truth that I have written to you, but because you do know it, and because no lie has its origin in the truth.

22 Who is a liar at all, if not the person who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? Such a person is an anti-Messiah — he is denying the Father and the Son.

23 Everyone who denies the Son is also without the Father, but the person who acknowledges the Son has the Father as well.

24 Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you will also remain in union with both the Son and the Father.

25 And this is what he has promised us: eternal life.

26 I have written you these things about the people who are trying to deceive you.

27 As for you, the Messianic anointing you received from the Father remains in you, so that you have no need for anyone to teach you. On the contrary, as his Messianic anointing continues to teach you about all things, and is true, not a counterfeit, so, just as he taught you, remain united with him.

28 And now, children, remain united with him; so that when he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink back from him in shame at his coming.

29 If you know that he is righteous, you should also know that he is the Father of everyone who does what is right.

1 Yochanan (1 Jo) 3

1 See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called God’s children! For that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it has not known him.

2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what we will become. We do know that when he appears, we will be like him; because we will see him as he really is.

3 And everyone who has this hope in him continues purifying himself, since God is pure.

4 Everyone who keeps sinning is violatingTorah— indeed, sin is violation ofTorah.

5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him.

6 So no one who remains united with him continues sinning; everyone who does continue sinning has neither seen him nor known him.

7 Children, don’t let anyone deceive you — it is the person that keeps on doing what is right who is righteous, just as God is righteous.

8 The person who keeps on sinning is from the Adversary, because from the very beginning the Adversary has kept on sinning. It was for this very reason that the Son of God appeared, to destroy these doings of the Adversary.

9 No one who has God as his Father keeps on sinning, because the seed planted by God remains in him. That is, he cannot continue sinning, because he has God as his Father.

10 Here is how one can distinguish clearly between God’s children and those of the Adversary: everyone who does not continue doing what is right is not from God.

Likewise, anyone who fails to keep loving his brother is not from God.

11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning: that we should love each other

12 and not be like Kayin, who was from the Evil One and murdered his own brother. Why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13 Don’t be amazed, brothers, if the world hates you.

14 We, for our part, know that we have passed from death to life because we keep loving the brothers. The person who fails to keep on loving is still under the power of death.

15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

16 The way that we have come to know love is through his having laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers!

17 If someone has worldly possessions and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how can he be loving God?

18 Children, let us love not with words and talk, but with actions and in reality!

19 Here is how we will know that we are from the truth and will set our hearts at rest in his presence:

20 if our hearts know something against us, God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

21 Dear friends, if our hearts know nothing against us, we have confidence in approaching God;

22 then, whatever we ask for, we receive from him; because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.

23 This is his command: that we are to trust in the person and power of his Son Yeshua the Messiah and to keep loving one another, just as he commanded us.

24 Those who obey his commands remain united with him and he with them.

Here is how we know that he remains united with us: by the Spirit whom he gave us.

1 Yochanan (1 Jo) 4

1 Dear friends, don’t trust every spirit. On the contrary, test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Here is how you recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges that Yeshua the Messiah came as a human being is from God,

3 and every spirit which does not acknowledge Yeshua is not from God — in fact, this is the spirit of the Anti-Messiah. You have heard that he is coming. Well, he’s here now, in the world already!

4 You, children, are from God and have overcome the false prophets, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

5 They are from the world; therefore, they speak from the world’s viewpoint; and the world listens to them.

6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God doesn’t listen to us. This is how we distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

7 Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from God; and everyone who loves has God as his Father and knows God.

8 Those who do not love, do not know God; because God is love.

9 Here is how God showed his love among us: God sent his only Son into the world, so that through him we might have life.

10 Here is what love is: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be thekapparahfor our sins.

11 Beloved friends, if this is how God loved us, we likewise ought to love one another.

12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God remains united with us, and our love for him has been brought to its goal in us.

13 Here is how we know that we remain united with him and he with us: he has given to us from his own Spirit.

14 Moreover, we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as Deliverer of the world.

15 If someone acknowledges that Yeshua is the Son of God, God remains united with him, and he with God.

16 Also we have come to know and trust the love that God has for us. God is love; and those who remain in this love remain united with God, and God remains united with them.

17 Here is how love has been brought to maturity with us: as the Messiah is, so are we in the world. This gives us confidence for the Day of Judgment.

18 There is no fear in love. On the contrary, love that has achieved its goal gets rid of fear, because fear has to do with punishment; the person who keeps fearing has not been brought to maturity in regard to love.

19 We ourselves love now because he loved us first.

20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if a person does not love his brother, whom he has seen, then he cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

21 Yes, this is the command we have from him: whoever loves God must love his brother too.

1 Yochanan (1 Jo) 5

1 Everyone who believes that Yeshua is the Messiah has God as his father, and everyone who loves a father loves his offspring too.

2 Here is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God, we also do what he commands.

3 For loving God means obeying his commands. Moreover, his commands are not burdensome,

4 because everything which has God as its Father overcomes the world. And this is what victoriously overcomes the world: our trust.

5 Who does overcome the world if not the person who believes that Yeshua is the Son of God?

6 He is the one who came by means of water and blood, Yeshua the Messiah — not with water only, but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

7 There are three witnesses —

8 the Spirit, the water and the blood — and these three are in agreement.

9 If we accept human witness, God’s witness is stronger, because it is the witness which God has given about his Son.

10 Those who keep trusting in the Son of God have this witness in them. Those who do not keep trusting God have made him out to be a liar, because they have not trusted in the witness which God has given about his Son.

11 And this is the witness: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

12 Those who have the Son have the life; those who do not have the Son of God do not have the life.

13 I have written you these things so that you may know that you have eternal life — you who keep trusting in the person and power of the Son of God.

14 This is the confidence we have in his presence: if we ask anything that accords with his will, he hears us.

15 And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — then we know that we have what we have asked from him.

16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he will ask; and God will give him life for those whose sinning does not lead to death. There is sin that does lead to death; I am not saying he should pray about that.

17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

18 We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects him, and the Evil One does not touch him.

19 We know that we are from God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One.

20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment, so that we may know who is genuine; moreover, we are united with the One who is genuine, united with his Son Yeshua the Messiah. He is the genuine God and eternal life.

21 Children, guard yourselves against false gods!