11/09/2013

Parashat 15 Portion 52 “Bo” Shemot 10:1-12:12 Haftorah: Yesh 19:1-17 Yochanan/John 1:29-34


Blessing for the Torah Reading:
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-O’lam, asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim,
v’natan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim , King of the Universe,
you have selected us from among all the peoples,
and have given us your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)

Ivrim/Heb 12:15  See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,
Heb 12:16  lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like Ěsaw, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
Heb 12:17  For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.

The above scripture addresses the spirit of this age -  The Esav spirit – it is a religious spirit that seeks to control and manipulate through guilt and deception. 

The opposite spirit is the “Yakov spirit” who live as pilgrims tending sheep and studying Torah.
Many people in this world who call themselves believers have no idea of the kind of danger they are in WHEN THEY REFUSE TO OBEY THE TRUTH BECAUSE THOSE WHO ARE CONTROLLED BY THE SPIRIT OF ESAV WILL FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT EVEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A PLACE OF REPENTANCE.

2Ti 4:3  For there shall be a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear,1 Footnote: 1Isa. 30:10, Jer. 5:31, Rom. 16:18.
2Ti 4:4  and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.

In the almost 40 years that I have been involved in the church and with Christians I have noticed a dangerous spiritual decline amongst believers.
Yahshua solemnly warns such a group of people.  (Parable of the soils)

 Mat 13:14  “And in them the prophecy of Yeshayahu is completely filled, which says, ‘Hearing you shall hear and by no means understand, and seeing you shall see and by no means perceive,
Mat 13:15  for the heart of this people has become thickened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their heart, and turn back, and I heal them.’
Mat 13:16  “And blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,
Mat 13:17  for truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

Isa 6:8  And I heard the voice of יהוה, saying, “Whom do I send, and who would go for Us?” And I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
Isa 6:9  And He said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’
Isa 6:10  “Make the heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and shall turn and be healed.”
Isa 6:11  Then I said, “יהוה, until when?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land is laid waste, a ruin,
Isa 6:12  and יהוה has removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

Mic 7:15  “As in the days when you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, I shall let him see wonders.”
Mic 7:16  Let the gentiles see and be ashamed of all their might, let them put their hand over their mouth, let their ears be deaf.
Mic 7:17  Let them lick the dust like a serpent, let them come trembling from their strongholds like snakes of the earth, let them be afraid of יהוה our Elohim and fear because of You.
Mic 7:18  Who is an Ěl like You – taking away crookedness and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He shall not retain His wrath forever, for He Himself delights in kindness.
Mic 7:19  He shall turn back, He shall have compassion on us, He shall trample upon our crookednesses! And You throw all our sins into the depths of the sea!
Mic 7:20  You give truth to Yaʽaqoḇ, kindness to Aḇraham, which You swore to our fathers from the days of old!

Isa 10:20  And in that day it shall be that the remnant of Yisra’ĕl, and those who have escaped of the house of Yaʽaqoḇ, never again lean upon him who defeated them,(Esav) but shall lean upon יהוה, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, in truth.
Isa 10:21  A remnant shall return, the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ, to the Mighty Ěl.
Isa 10:22  For though your people, O Yisra’ĕl, be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return – a decisive end, overflowing with righteousness.
Isa 10:23  For the Master יהוה of hosts is making a complete end, as decided, in the midst of all the earth.
Isa 10:24  Therefore thus said the Master יהוה of hosts, “My people, who dwell in Tsiyon, be not afraid of Ashshur, who beats you with a rod and lifts up his staff against you, in the way of Mitsrayim.
Isa 10:25  “For yet a little while and the displeasure shall be completed, and My displeasure be to their destruction.”
Isa 11:11  And it shall be in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shinʽar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea.
Isa 11:16  And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Ashshur, as it was for Yisra’ĕl in the day when he came up from the land of Mitsrayim.

Our Torah portion begins:

Shemot/Ex 10:1- 2
Exo 10:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I show these signs of Mine before him,

א  וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה, בֹּא אֶל-פַּרְעֹה:

“Bo el Paroh” “Bo” is also the name of this new Parasha – it is the imperative to come or to go.

It seems appropriate that a “remnant” represented by Moshe and Aaron could order the destruction of the most powerful empire of the time.

In the book of Revelation we find a similar scenario in the last days.

Rev 11:3  “And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.”
Rev 11:4  These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that are standing before the Elohim of the earth.
Rev 11:5  And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wishes to harm them, he has to be killed in that way.
Rev 11:6  These possess authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they wish.
Rev 11:7  And when they have ended their witness, the beast coming up out of the pit of the deep shall fight against them, and overcome them, and kill them,
Rev 11:8  and their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Seḏom and Mitsrayim, where also our Master was impaled,
Rev 11:9  and some of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their dead bodies for three and a half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be placed into tombs,
Rev 11:10  and those dwelling on the earth rejoice over them and exult. And they shall send gifts to each other, because these two prophets tortured those dwelling on the earth.
Rev 11:11  And after the three and a half days a spirit of life from Elohim entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.


Who are these two witnesses? There is much speculation as to who they are. However the small messianic remnant who are alive in those days will be in agreement with every word of judgment which comes from their mouths. In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word of judgment will be c0nfirmed and carried out.

Exo 10:2  and that you relate in the hearing of your son and your son’s son what I have done in Mitsrayim, and My signs which I have done among them. And you shall know that I am יהוה.”

    The deliverance from Mitzraim would serve as a seminal event regarding the redemption of Yisrael and ALL those grafted into Yisrael.

     Jer 16:14  “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when it is no longer said, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of Mitsrayim,’
     Jer 16:15  but, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers.

Eighth plague-locusts Shemot/Ex 10:3-20
Exo 10:3  And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of the Heḇrews, ‘Till when shall you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me.
Exo 10:4  ‘Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, see, tomorrow I am bringing locusts within your borders.
Exo 10:5  ‘And they shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one is able to see the land. And they shall eat the rest of what has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.
Exo 10:6  ‘And they shall fill your houses, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Exo 10:7  And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “Till when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve יהוה their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?”
Exo 10:8  And Mosheh and Aharon were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve יהוה your Elohim. Who are the ones that are going?”
Exo 10:9  And Mosheh said, “We are going with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we are going, for we have a festival to יהוה.”
Exo 10:10  And he said to them, “Let יהוה be with you as I let you and your little ones go! Watch, for evil is before your face!
Exo 10:11  “Not so! You men go now, and serve יהוה, for that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Exo 10:12  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Mitsrayim for the locusts to come upon the land of Mitsrayim, and eat every plant of the land – all that the hail has left.”
Exo 10:13  And Mosheh stretched out his rod over the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts.
Exo 10:14  And the locusts went up over all the land of Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them.
Exo 10:15  And they covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and no greenness was left on the trees or on the plants of the field, in all the land of Mitsrayim.
Exo 10:16  Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon in haste, and said, “I have sinned against יהוה your Elohim and against you.
Exo 10:17  “And now, please forgive my sin only this once, and pray to יהוה your Elohim, that He would only turn away this death from me.”
Exo 10:18  And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to יהוה.
Exo 10:19  And יהוה turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left within all the border of Mitsrayim.
Exo 10:20  However, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go.

Ninth Plague – darkness
Shemot/Ex 10:21 - 29

Exo 10:21  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and let there be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even a darkness which is felt.”
Exo 10:22  And Mosheh stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Mitsrayim for three days.
Exo 10:23  They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, while all the children of Yisra’ĕl had light in their dwellings.
Exo 10:24  And Pharaoh called to Mosheh and said, “Go, serve יהוה, only leave your flocks and your herds behind. Let your little ones go with you too.”
Exo 10:25  But Mosheh said, “You yourself are to provide us with slaughterings and burnt offerings, to prepare for יהוה our Elohim.
Exo 10:26  “And our livestock are to go with us too, not a hoof is to be left behind, for we have to take some of them to serve יהוה our Elohim, and we ourselves do not know with what we are to serve יהוה until we come there.”

Rashi comments that one the reasons darkness came over Mitsrayim, is that there were many Hebrews who did not deserve to be freed – because they had so assimilated into Egyptian culture that there was no hope for them to return to the covenant of Yisrael. These were to die so YHVH provided the darkness so that the Mitsrites would not see their death and claim that the plagues affected HEBREWS and Mitsrites alike.

Exo 10:27  However, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he would not let them go.
Exo 10:28  And Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Watch yourself and see my face no more, for in the day you see my face you die!”
Exo 10:29  And Mosheh said, “You have spoken rightly – never again do I see your face!”

Tenth Plague and final arrangements for the first Pesach and exodus
Shemot/Ex 11:1-12:12

Ex 11:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “I am bringing yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. After that he is going to let you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall drive you out from here altogether.
Exo 11:2  “Speak now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbour and every woman from her neighbour, objects of silver and objects of gold.”
Exo 11:3  And יהוה gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites. And the man Mosheh was very great in the land of Mitsrayim, in the eyes of Pharaoh’s servants and in the eyes of the people.
Exo 11:4  And Mosheh said, “Thus said יהוה, ‘About midnight I am going out into the midst of Mitsrayim,
Exo 11:5  and all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the first-born of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the first-born of cattle.
Exo 11:6  ‘And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Mitsrayim, such as has never been or ever be again.
Exo 11:7  ‘But against any of the children of Yisra’ĕl no dog shall move its tongue, against man or against beast, so that you know that יהוה makes distinction between Mitsrayim and Yisra’ĕl.’
Exo 11:8  “And all these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people at your feet!’ And after that I shall go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in great displeasure.
Exo 11:9  But יהוה said to Mosheh, “Pharaoh is not going to listen to you, in order to multiply My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim.”
Exo 11:10  And Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharaoh, however, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go out of his land.

Establishing the beginning of the  New year that will put the Moadim in place
Exo 12:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying,
Exo 12:2  “This month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the year for you.

Note the use of “for you” twice in the above verse. YHVH was appointing our observance of His time in such a way that we would consider His Redemption for us as the most important event to commemorate the counting of our years here on earth. So the most important question someone could ask you is when did you begin to observe with understanding the beginning of YHVH’s scriptural calendar – or in old Christian terms when were you truly born again.

Quote from Stones Chumash.

The Jewish (Hebrew) calendar is based on the moon, and is regulated by the sun (a calendar that is Lunar and Solar). The time span between one new moon and the next is twenty nine days, twelve hours, forty four minutes and three and one third seconds. Since a month must be composed of complete days, the months of the Hebrew calendar alternate between twenty nine and thirty days, so that a twelve month year contains 354 days. Since this is eleven days less than a solar year (the Gregorian calendar is a soalr calendar), the solar date of Rosh Chodesh Aviv (also called Nissan since Babylonian captivity)  would be eleven days earlier each year, so that for example, if it were on March 25 one year, it would be on March 14 the next.

If this calendrical pattern were to continue for many years, Aviv/Nissan would fall in the winter but the Torah requires that Aviv/Nissan be “chodesh ha aviv” the month of springtime in Yisrael generally in late March or April (Dev 16:1) To resolve this difficulty, the Hebrew calendar includes the institution that is familiarly known as the “Jewish leap year” It consists of adding a thirteenth month to the year seven times every nineteen years, with the result the month of Aviv (Nissan) always remains in its proper season. – End quote.

The Jews have used a calendar calculated by Hillel because of the Diaspora which is a fixed calendar and which has proved remarkably accurate throughout the centuries but started being out of sync with one or 2 days for years now. However there are an increasing amount of Torah seeking individuals and groups that prefer to not use the Hillel calendar (the fixed Rabbinical calendar) anymore, but rather following the Ancient way of “sighting the sliver of the new moon” to determine the start of  each new month (Some only sight the new moon in their own countries, but we and thousands of others believe that especially for the Rosh chodesh (new moon) of Aviv  (the First month) and the Seventh month (Ethanim or Tishrei) we take our lead from when the new moon is sighted in Yerushalayim  and choose Rosh Chodesh Aviv (also called Nissan since Babylonian exile) on the presence of ripe barley and some other factors during March or April every year. (In other words, certain factors having to do with the sun, will determine whether a thirteenth month will be added or not – like it were done in Ancient days.) The fixed Hillel or Rabbinical calendar had already determined when a Thirteenth month will be added.) It is a known fact the Rabbinical Jews have it on their agenda to change back to the Ancient way of “sighting each new moon with the naked eye from Yerushalayim” when a new Sanhedrin comes in place.

Exo 12:3  “Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
Exo 12:4  ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s need you make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5  ‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Exo 12:6  ‘And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl shall kill it between the evenings.
Exo 12:7  ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
Exo 12:8  ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9  ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts.
Exo 12:10  ‘And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to burn with fire.
Exo 12:11  ‘And this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of יהוה.
Exo 12:12  ‘And I shall pass through the land of Mitsrayim on that night, and shall smite all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast. And on all the mighty ones of Mitsrayim I shall execute judgment. I am יהוה.

We are reminded once again that our redemption and salvation is not just based on one single act of prayer and repentance as we have been taught for so many years. The scriptural pattern of our redemption is clear. Only by the blood of the Lamb can we leave Mitsrayim. This was however the first step in our redemption. We were to make sure we carefully kept the instructions of the Passover meal and then LEAVE MITSRAYIM to go to the Promised Land.

Act 14:22  strengthening the beings of the taught ones, encouraging them to continue in the belief, and that through many pressures we have to enter the reign of Elohim.

Yochanan/Joh 6:51  “I am the living bread which came down out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And indeed, the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”
Joh 6:52  The Yehuḏim, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, “How is this One able to give us His flesh to eat?”
Joh 6:53  יהושע therefore said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Aḏam and drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves.
Joh 6:54  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood possesses everlasting life, and I shall raise him up in the last day.
Joh 6:55  “For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.
Joh 6:56  “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him.
If we do not accept Yahshua as our Passover Lamb (our Pesach – the offered lamb) and keep the Passover (Pesach) as the Torah has commanded us to keep it – we have no life in the Messiah.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you Yahveh, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you, Yahweh giver of the Torah – Ameyn

Please note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are in no way a final authority on any subject.