Gen 8:1 And Elohim remembered Noaḥ, and all the beasts
and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And Elohim made a wind to
pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
א וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-נֹחַ, וְאֵת כָּל-הַחַיָּה וְאֶת-כָּל-הַבְּהֵמָה, אֲשֶׁר אִתּוֹ בַּתֵּבָה; וַיַּעֲבֵר אֱלֹהִים רוּחַ עַל-הָאָרֶץ, וַיָּשֹׁכּוּ הַמָּיִם.
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To
the casual observer the above verse may seem insensitive and uncaring in the
face of the most terrible and horrific destruction that had just taken place.
YHVH seems to be only concerned about one man and his animals. What about the
millions of people and other animals that had just lost their lives? Shouldn’t
YHVH also have remembered them?
This
reminds us of how Lot’s righteous soul was tormented by the unrighteousness of
his day.
Pe 2:7 and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed
with the indecent behaviour of the lawless1 – Torahlessness - Footnote: 1The Greek word here,
and in 3:17, is athesmos (not the usual one, anomos) but it also
means “lawless – implies continually overturning the truth.”
2Pe 2:8 (for day after day that righteous man,
dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their
lawless works),
So
YHVH remembers (va yizkor) a small end
time remnant who are slandered by fellow believers the same slanderer’s who
love to gorge themselves with flesh of swine and indulge themselves in the
pagan festivals of Christmas and Easter, who mock and make fun of those who
honour the Sabbath and keep YHVH’s commandments.
Isa 59:14
And right-ruling1 is driven back, and righteousness1
stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to
enter. Footnote: 1Amos 5:7. Isa 59:15 And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns
away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it
displeased Him that there was no right-ruling – mishpatim.
Amo 5:13 Therefore the wise keep silent at that time,
for it is an evil time.
Amo 5:14 Seek good and not evil, so that you live. And
let יהוה Elohim of
hosts be with you, as you have spoken.
2Ti 3:1 But know this, that in the last days hard
times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, thankless,
wrong-doers,
2Ti 3:3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, haters of good,
2Ti 3:4 betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim,
2Ti 3:5 having a form of reverence1 but
denying its power. And turn away from these! Footnote: 1See v. 13,
Isa. 24:5-6, Mt. 24:12, Rom. 1:30-31, 2 Thess. 2:3-11.
2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way, because
the falling away is to come first, and the man of lawlessness1 is to be revealed, the son of destruction,
Footnote: 1Some texts read sin instead of lawlessness(Torahlessness).
This man might be the same one we read of in the prophecy in Isa. 14:12 – Hĕlĕl
(“Heileil”), meaning “the shining one,” the sovereign of Baḇel.
2Th 2:4 who
opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim or that is
worshipped, so that he sits as Elohim in the Dwelling Place of Elohim, showing
himself that he is Elohim.
2Th 2:5 Do
you not remember that I told you this while I was still with you?
2Th 2:6 And
now you know what restrains, for him to be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For
the secret of lawlessness(Torahlessness) is already at work – only until he who
now restrains comes out of the midst.
2Th 2:8 And
then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Master shall consume with the
Spirit of His mouth and bring to naught with the manifestation of His coming.
2Th 2:9 The
coming of the lawless one(Torahlessness one) is according to the working
of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
2Th 2:10 and
with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not
receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved.
2Th 2:11 And
for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe
the falsehood,1 Footnote: 1Eze. 20:25, John 9:39, John
12:40, Acts 7:42, Rom. 1:24-28.
2Th 2:12 in
order that all should be judged who did not believe the truth, but have
delighted in the unrighteousness.
Joh 16:1 “These words I have spoken to you, so
that you do not stumble.
Joh 16:2 “They shall put you out of the congregations,
but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you shall think he is rendering
service to Elohim.
Joh 16:32 “See, an hour is coming, and has now come,
that you are scattered, each to his own, and leave Me alone. Yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with Me.
Joh 16:33 “These words I have spoken to you,
that in Me you might have peace. In the world you have pressure, but take
courage, I have overcome the world.”
YHVH’s
Anger and Wrath do not subside until the issue at hand has been fully dealt
with – see context of this Hebrew word – shakak – in Ber/Gen 8:1 Num 17:5; Est
2:1 and Est 7:10; Jer 5:26. If YHVH does not cease to withdraw his anger and
judgment against unrighteousness how much more will He not utilize all means to
bring His Kehelah/Assembly to her appointed destiny - a bride without spot or wrinkle. We should
fear when we realize that YHVH will do whatever it takes to bring us to the
place of wholeness and maturity.
Allowing His only brought
forth son to be murdered by sinners is the clearest example to us to what
extent His righteous anger against sin and rebellion is willing to go.
The deception of modern religion is to believe that
His grace will never allow Him to bring utter destruction and devastation upon
disobedient believers and non believers. The religion of men has deceived us
into believing that YHVH’s anger will not again manifest itself on earth
against all unbelief and rebellion.
Isa 13:9 See, the day of יהוה is coming,
fierce, with wrath and heat of displeasure, to lay the earth waste, and destroy
its sinners from it – see 1 Jn 3:4 sin is transgression of Torah.
Isa 13:10 For the
stars of the heavens and their constellations do not give off their light. The
sun shall be dark at its rising, and the moon not send out its light.
Isa 13:11 “And I
shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and
shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the
ruthless.
Isa 13:12 “I shall
make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than the
gold of Ophir.
Isa 13:13 “So I
shall make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall shake from her place, in
the wrath of יהוה of hosts and
in the day of the heat of His displeasure.
Isa 13:14 “And it
shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up – every man
turns to his own people, and everyone flees to his own land.
Isa 13:15 “Whoever
is found is thrust through, and everyone taken falls by the sword.
Isa 13:16 “And
their children are dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses plundered and
their wives ravished.
Isa 24:1 See, יהוה is making the
earth empty and making it waste, and shall overturn its surface, and shall
scatter abroad its inhabitants.
Isa 24:2 And it
shall be – as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with
his master, as with the female servant so with her mistress, as with the buyer
so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the
creditor so with the debtor;
Isa 24:3 the earth
is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for יהוה has spoken
this word.
Isa 24:4 The earth
shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people
of the earth shall languish.
Isa 24:5 For the
earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed
the Torot1, changed2 the law, broken the everlasting
covenant3. Footnotes: 1Torot - plural of Torah, teaching.
2Jer. 23:36. 3This is the only reason, according to all
Scriptures, why the earth shall be burned in the day of judgment – see also
13:9, 13:11, 26:21, 66:24, Mic. 5:15, Zeph. 1:2-18.
Isa 24:6 Therefore
a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be
left.
If the anger of YHVH is about to be unleashed on earth –
it will not stop until it has removed from the earth ALL DISOBEDIENCE TO TORAH.
YAHSHUA CAME TO EARTH TO TEACH US OBEDIENCE TO TORAH. YAHSHUA PAID WITH HIS
LIFE THE PENALTY DUE TO US FOR OUR DISOBEDIENCE TO TORAH. WE WILL NOT GET AWAY
WITH CONTINUAL UNRPENTANT DISOBEDIENCE TO TORAH.
Gen 8:2 And
the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the
rain from the heavens was withheld.
Gen 8:3 And
the waters receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of the hundred and
fifty days the waters diminished.
We see from these above verses that YHVH made sure that all life except for the life on the Ark was destroyed – no other life could have survived – except fish and creatures that can live under the water.
Gen 8:4 And
in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on the
mountains of Ararat.
Gen 8:5 And
the waters decreased steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
We
note in vs 4 an interesting phenomenon in the Hebrew calendar – (how sad that
we measure the gift of life by the Gregorian calendar).
This
Hebrew calendar phenomenon wants to bring to our attention the physical and the spiritual birth of man.
Historically the Hebrew calendar began
on the first of the Seventh Month called
Ethanim in Hebrew. After exile to Babylon it was called Tishrei by the Jews.
This was the beginning of the Civil year.
The civil year determined the shmittah
or the sabbatical year. It was also the day believed to be the birth day of
the first Adam. The years are counted on this day (the count gets taken from
the time of the creation).
In the light of YHVH’s
redemption of man during Pesach/ Passover in Shemot/ex 12:– YHVH instructs Moshe to
count the beginning of the year for the beginning of months now in the month of Aviv (also called Nisan since
Babylonian exile). Shemot/Exo 12:2 “This
month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the year for
you”. The first month was to be moved from the seventh month to the Fiirst
month, the Month of the Aviv (the time when the state of the barley has reached
a certain ripeness).
It
can be no co incidence that the date mentioned in vs 4 was later to become the
date associated with the resurrection of Yahshua – 17 Aviv. (For many the 17th
is the day after the resurrection – many scholars believe that Omer Risheet
which falls on the 16th of Aviv was the actual day of Yahshua’s resurrection).
So
when we read in Shemot/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”:
“That is, Aviv would become the first
month. Up to the point as in Genesis 8:4, Aviv was the seventh month but
from Shemot 12 forward, Aviv has been
the first month of the religious or Spiritual
New Year, while the Seventh Month (Tishrei) was the first month of the Civil year. So today, the first day of
the Jewish New Year, on the Hebrew Civil
calendar, is Tishrei 1. The first day for the first Month of the Hebrew Spiritual/Religious calendar is
Aviv (Nisan) 1.
The Hebrew/Jewish calendar (These
are the names used by the Jews since the Babylonian exile):
Month 1 -Nisan
Month 2 - Iyar
Month 3- Sivan
Month 4 -Tammuz
Month 5 -Av
Month 6 -Elul
Month 7 -Tishrei
Month 8 -Marcheshvan
(or Cheshvan)
Month 9 -Kislev
Month 10 -Tevet
Month 11 -Shevat
Month 12 -Adar
(Note: Many of us prefer using the original
way of calling the Hebrew months like the First Month was called “the First
month” or “the Month of the Aviv”, the second Month was called “Ziv”, then the “Third
Month”, “Fourth Month” etc. Only Month
1,2,7 and 8 had specific Hebrew names whereas the rest were just called in
Hebrew according to the numerical number of the Month)
Aviv
17—date of deliverance
“Numerous types of deliverance have occurred on Aviv
17.
The children of Israel emerged unharmed from the Red
Sea, saved from the Egyptian army on Aviv 17 (possibly the 17th).
When Noah, his family, and the animals were in the
ark, it rained for forty days and nights (Gen. 7:12); and the flood of water
remained for one hundred fifty days (7:24).
Then YHVH caused the waters to recede (8:1b); and on the seventeenth day
of the seventh month, the ark came to rest upon Mount Ararat (8:4)
Another fascinating story involves the lovely Queen
Esther (Esth. 7:2……. The following day (Aviv 17), during the second banquet,
Queen Esther revealed to the king (in Haman’s presence) the plan for the
destruction, slaughter, and annihilation of her people, the Jews; and she
exposed Haman as the instigator of the plan (Esth. 7:1-6). That very day, Haman was hanged on the same
gallows he had had built to hang Mordecai (7:10a). The Jews were delivered victoriously from
their primary enemy on Aviv 17.” End quote.
Gen 8:6 And
it came to be, at the end of forty days, that Noaḥ opened the window of
the ark which he had made,
Gen 8:7 and
he sent out a raven, which kept going out and turning back until the waters had
dried up from the earth.
Gen 8:8 Then
he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters had receded from the face of
the ground.
Gen 8:9 But
the dove found no resting place for its feet and returned into the ark to him,
for the waters were on the face of all the earth. So he put out his hand and
took it, and pulled it into the ark to himself.
Gen 8:10 And
he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
Gen 8:11 And
the dove came to him in the evening, and see, a freshly plucked olive leaf was
in its mouth. And Noaḥ knew that the waters
had receded from the earth.
Gen 8:12 And
he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return to
him again.
Gen 8:13 And
it came to be in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first
day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noaḥ removed the covering
of the ark and looked, and saw the surface of the ground was dry.
Gen 8:14 And
in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
The raven is a predator that feeds on dead flesh and makes irritating sounds, these are like the wicked that seek no comfort in the protection of an Ark, or the hopeful faith of Noah. The dove is a likable sweet and peaceful bird representing the pure and faithful spirit.”
Raven in Hebrew is spelled “ayin, reish, beit or erev, pronounced orev” which means “mixture.” The time is coming when all mixed worship and service to YHVH will disappear – Praise YHVH!
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 Yahweh, 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, YHVH 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