Achor: Valley of Hope

Abhor that which is evil…

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. [Romans 12:9]

Mahx Note:

Abhor = be repelled by. Cleave to = be drawn by.

Commanded Instruction (CI) = Don’t let yourself be attracted to evil. Let yourself be attracted to that which is good.

It is to be understood that if you are desiring to be within the spirit of Mashiach then this instruction will be helpful to you. It is also assumed that if this is true of you then you have let this be known. If you have let this be known then this instruction will carry the weight of a commandment. For your choices and actions do not affect you alone but also others, especially all those with whom you are in communion.

References in the Tanach:

Deu 13:17, Psa 34:14, Psa 36:4, Psa 45:7, Psa 97:10, Psa 101:3, Psa 119:104, Psa 119:163; Pro 8:13; Amo 5:15, Psa 37:27; Job 28:28; Pro 3:7, Pro 8:13, Pro 13:14, Pro 16:16-17; Isa 1:16-17, Psa 91:14, Pro 3:7

Psa 33:4-5,

4 For the word of the LORD is right (and good); and all his works are accomplished in truth.

5 He loves righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the (goodness of) the mercy of the LORD.

Psa 97:9-10

9 For You, LORD, are high above all the earth: You are exalted far above all rulers of heavenly principalities.

10 If you love the LORD, hate evil: He preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the evil doers.

Pro 8:13

13 With the fear of the LORD is hatred of evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the aggresive mouth, these are things I hate.

Psa 119:163

163 I hate and abhor lying: for it is Your law that I love.

Psa 91:1 and 14

1 Whoever dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

14 Because they have set their love upon me, therefore will I deliver them: I will set on high, the one who knowns my name.

Deu 7:25-26

25 The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold you find on them, nor take any of it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it: for all of it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

26 Neither shall you bring any abomination into your house, lest you cause yourself to be a cursed thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

Jos 6:18

18 And you, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

Jos 7:1

1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

Deu 13:17

17 And there shall cleave nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn unto thy fathers;

18 When you shall listen and pay attention to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Jos 7:24-26

24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

25 And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

The Lord Will Have Mercy on Israel

Hos 2:15

(Hos 2:14-23)

14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

15 And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD: you shall call me Ishi; and shall not call me Baali anymore.

17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall not be thought of or spoken of by their name anymore.

18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them [Israel] with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

19 And I will wed you unto me for ever; yes, I will wed you unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

20 I will even wed you unto me in faithfulness: and you shalt know the LORD.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

22 And the earth shall hear the grain in the field, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them I called, Not My People, You are My People; and they shall say, My God!

Psa 101:3

3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the works of those who turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Rev 18:2-5

2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are successful and rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you do not receive her plagues together with her.

5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Amo 5:14-15

14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.

15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.