LENT, TO BETHANY

Acts 1:1-12
I wrote the first volume, Theophilus, about all that Yeshua began to do and teach—up to the day He was taken up, after He had given orders by the Ruach ha-Kodesh to the emissaries He had chosen. To them He showed Himself to be alive after His suffering through many convincing proofs, appearing to them for forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

Now while staying with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father promised—which, He said, “you heard from Me. For John immersed with water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach ha-Kodesh not many days from now.”

So when they gathered together, they asked Him, “Lord, are You restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”

He said to them, “It is not your place to know the times or seasons which the Father has placed under His own control. But you will receive power when the Ruach ha-Kodesh has come upon you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and through all Judah, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

After saying all this—while they were watching—He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. While they were staring into heaven as He went up, suddenly two men stood with them in white clothing. They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you keep standing here staring into heaven? This Yeshua, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into heaven.”

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives (which is near Jerusalem, a Shabbat day’s journey).

Luke 10:38
Now while they were traveling, Yeshua entered a certain village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 

John 11:1-35
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Miriam and her sister Martha. This was the same Miriam who anointed the Master with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick. So the sisters sent a word to Yeshua, saying, “Master, the one you love is sick!”

When Yeshua heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. It is for God’s glory, so that Ben-Elohim may be glorified through it.” Now Yeshua loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. However, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was for two more days.

Then after this, He said to His disciples, “Let’s go up to Judea again.”

“Rabbi,” the disciples say to Him, “just now the Judean leaders were trying to stone You! And You’re going back there again?”

Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of the world. But if a man should walk around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

After He said this, He tells them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m going there to wake him up.”

So the disciples said to Him, “Master, if he has fallen asleep, he will get better.” Now Yeshua had spoken about his death, but they thought He was talking about ordinary sleep.

Then Yeshua told them clearly, “Lazarus is dead! I’m glad for your sake I wasn’t there, so that you may believe. Anyway, let’s go to him!”

Then Thomas called the Twin said to the other disciples, “Let’s go too, so that we may die with Him!”

So when Yeshua arrived, He discovered that Lazarus had been in the tomb already for four days. Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many of the Judeans had come to Martha and Miriam to console them about their brother.

When Martha heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Miriam sat in the house. Martha said to Yeshua, “Master, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died! But I know, even now, that whatever You may ask of God, He will give You.”

Yeshua said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Martha said to Him, “I know, he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life! Whoever believes in Me, even if he dies, shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, Ben-Elohim who has come into the world.” After she said this, she left and secretly told her sister Miriam, “The Teacher is here, and He’s calling for you.” As soon as Miriam heard, she quickly got up and was coming to Him. Now Yeshua had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met Him. The Judeans, who were with Miriam in the house and comforting her, seeing how quickly she got up and went out, followed her. They thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

So when Miriam came to where Yeshua was, she saw Him and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”

When Yeshua saw her weeping, and the Judeans who came with her weeping, He was deeply troubled in spirit and Himself agitated. “Where have you laid him?” He asked.

“Come and see, Master,” they tell Him.

Yeshua wept.

Zechariah 14:4
In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives which lies to the east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a huge valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

​1 Thessalonians 4:17 ​Then we who are alive,who are left, will becaught up together ​

with them in the cloudsto meet the ​

ADONAI in the air,and so we will always ​

be with the ADONAI.