Written by: Peretz Green

MESSAGE OF THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

Part 2: You are blessed in prayer

in memory of my beloved mother Ann Green

from Houston 1990

November 22, 1994

You are blessed in Joseph's prayer: "It is not in me; God will give an answer for the peace of Pharoah" (Genesis, 41: 16). You are blessed in Joseph's prayer of grace: "And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benyamin, his mother's son, and said: Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spoke unto me? And he said: God be gracious unto thee, my son" (Ibid: 43: 29). You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said: Lord, wherefore hast Thou let so much evil come upon this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me? For, since I came unto Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done more evil to this people, but Thou hast in nowise delivered thy people" (Exodus, 5: 22-23). So are you blessed in Moses' prayer: "Why, o Lord, shall Thy wrath wax hot against Thy people, that Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians say thus, For evil did He bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to destroy them from the face of the earth? Turn from Thy fierce wrath and bethink Thyself of the evil decreed against Thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou didst swear by Thy own self, and speak unto them: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they will inherit it for ever" (Ibid: 32: 11-13). You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said: Oh, this people hath sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves gods of gold. Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin-; but if not, blot me out, I pray Thee, from Thy book which Thou hast written" (Ibid: 31-33). "And the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and then he returned into the camp; but his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tent" (Ibid: 33: 11).

You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "And Moses said unto the Lord: See Thou sayest unto me: Bring up this people; but Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me: and thou hast also found grace in My eyes. Now, therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in Thy eyes, do make me know Thy way, that I may know Thee, in order that I may find grace in Thy eyes; and consider that this nation is Thy people. And He said: My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto Him: If Thy presence go not, carry us not up from here. For wherein shall it be known that I have found grace in Thy eyes, I and Thy people? Is it not in that Thou goest with us? So shall we be distinguished, I and Thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. And the Lord said unto Moses: Also this thing that thou hast spoken will I do; for thou hast found grace in My eyes, and I know thee by name. And he said: Let me see, I beseech Thee, Thy glory" (Ibid: 12-18)

You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed: The Lord, merciful and gracious God, long-suffering and abundant in mercy and truth; Keeping mercy unto the thousandth (generation), forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but Who will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation" (Ibid: 34: 6-7). "And he said: If now I have found grace in Thy eyes, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray Thee, go among us; even because it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon Thou our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thy heritage" (Ibid: 9). You are blessed in the prayer of Moses: "And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: Rise up, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered; and let those that hate Thee flee before thy face. And when it rested, he said: Return, O Lord, among thy myriads of the thousands of Israel" (Numbers, 10: 35-36). You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "And Moses said unto the Lord: Wherefore hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy eyes, that Thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? or have I begotten them? that Thou shouldst say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as nursing-father bearest the sucking child, unto the land which Thou hast sworn unto their fathers? Whence have I flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat. I am not able by myself alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me. And if Thou wilt thus deal with me, then slay me, I pray Thee, at once, if I have found favor in Thy eyes; that I may not see my wretchedness" (Ibid: 11: 11-15). You are blessed in Moses' prayer on behalf of his sister Miriam: "And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying. O God! do Thou heal her, I beseech Thee" (Ibid: 12: 13). You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "But when the Egyptians hear, from the midst of whom Thou hast brought up this people in Thy might; And they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou, the Lord, art in the midst of this people, that face to face Thou, Lord, art seen, and that Thy cloud standeth over them, and that in a pillar of cloud Thou goest before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; Now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man: then the nations that have heard Thy fame, will say in this manner. That because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which He had sworn unto them, hath He slain them in the wilderness. And now, I beseech Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying: The Lord is long-suffering, and abundant in loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. Pardon, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Thy loving-kindness, and as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until hitherto" (Ibid: 14: 13-19). You are blessed in the prayer of Moses: "And Moses was very wroth, and he said unto the Lord: Have no respect unto their offspring. I have not taken away an ass of any one of them, nor have I done wrong to any one of them" (Ibid: 16: 15). "And they fell upon their faces, and said: O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, if one man doth sin, wouldst Thou be wroth with all the congregation" (Ibid: 22). "And Moses said: Hereby shall ye know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these deeds; that I have not done them out of my own heart. If these men die as all men die, and if the visitation of all men be visited on them: then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord do create a new thing and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appartaineth unto them, and they go down alive into the pit: then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord" (Ibid: 28-30). You are blessed in the prayer of Moses: "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as a flock which have no shepherd" (Ibid: 27: 16-17). You are blessed in Moses' prayer: "O Lord God, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth, that can do according to Thy works, and according to Thy mighty deeds? Let me go over, I pray Thee, that I may see the good land which is on the other side of the Jordan, this goodly hill country, and the Lebanon" (Deuteronomy: 3: 24-25). You are blessed in Moses' prayer): "And I threw myself down before the Lord those forty days and forty nights, which I threw myself down; because the Lord had said that He would destroy you. And I prayed unto the Lord, and said: O Lord God, destroy not Thy people and thy inheritance, which Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, which Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Think of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob; turn not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to its wickedness, nor to its sin: Lest the inhabitants of the land whence Thou hast brought us out say: Out of want of ability in the Lord to bring them into the land which He had promised them, and out of His hatred to them, hath He brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. Yet they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy mighty power and by Thy outstretched arm" (Ibid: 9: 25-29). You are blessed in the prayer of the elders: "And they shall exclaim, and say: Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it. Forgive, O Lord unto Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven unto them" (Ibid: 21: 7-8). You are blessed in the prayer: A wandering Syrian was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a family few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty and numerous. And the Egyptians treated us ill, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard labor; And then we cried unto the Lord, the God of our fathers; and the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction and our toil and our oppression; And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs and with wonders; And He brought us unto this place, and gave unto us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruits of the soil, which Thou, O Lord, hast given me; Then shalt thou say before the Lord thy God: I have removed away the hallowed things out of the house, and I have also given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Thy commandment which Thou hast commanded me; I have not deviated from Thy commandments, and I have not forgotten; I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I removed away aught thereof in an unclean state, nor have I given aught thereof for the dead; I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me. Look down from Thy holy habitation, from the heavens, and bless Thy people Israel, and the soil which Thou hast given unto us, as Thou hast sworn unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey" (Ibid: 26: 5-16).

You are blessed in the prayer of Joshua: "And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast Thou caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Emorites, to destroy us? would that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! I pray Thee, O Lord, what shall I say, since Israel have turned their back before their enemies? And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?" (Joshua 7: 7-9). You are blessed in the words of Joshua: "Then spoke Joshua to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered up the Emorites before the children of Israel, and he said before the eyes of Israel: Sun, stand thou upon Gib'on; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ayalon" (Ibid: 10: 12). You are blessed in the demands of Gid'on: "Pardon, my lord, if the Lord be indeed with us, why then hath all this befallen us? and where are all his wonders of which our fathers have told us, saying: Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Midian. And he said unto him: Pardon my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the weakest in Menasseh, and I am the youngest of my father's house. And he said unto him: If now I have found grace in thy eyes, then give me a sign that Thou hast been speaking with me (Judges 6: 13-17). And Gid'on said unto God: If Thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken, Behold, I set up this fleece of wool in the threshing floor; if now there be dew on the fleece alone, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that Thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken. And Gid'on said unto God: Let not Thy anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once; let me have a proof, I pray Thee, but this once with the fleece; let it, I pray , be dry upon the fleece alone, and upon all the ground let there be dew" (Ibid: 36-40).