ו נִדְמוּ עַמִּי, מִבְּלִי הַדָּעַת:
כִּי-אַתָּה הַדַּעַת מָאַסְתָּ, ואמאסאך (וְאֶמְאָסְךָ) מִכַּהֵן לִי,
וַתִּשְׁכַּח תּוֹרַת אֱלֹהֶיךָ, אֶשְׁכַּח בָּנֶיךָ גַּם-אָנִי.
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6 My people are destroyed(Heb
-damah) for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will
also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me; seeing thou hast
forgotten(ignored) the law (Torah) of Elohim, I also will forget(cease to
care for) thy children.
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BDB
Definition: dâmâh
1)
to cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy, perish
1a)
(Qal)
1a1)
to cease
1a2) to cause to cease, destroy
1a2) to cause to cease, destroy
1b)
(Niphal)
1b1)
to be cut off
1b2) to be undone, be
cut off at sight of the theophany
Same Hebrew word used in Yesh 6:5 – Woe is me I am
“nidmati” – undone….
Isa 6:5 And I said, “Woe to me, for I am undone!
Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips – for my eyes have seen the Sovereign, יהוה of hosts.”
Isa 6:6 And one of
the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with
the tongs from the altar.
Isa 6:7 And he
touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your
crookedness is taken away, and your sin is covered.”
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.
Isa 6:13 “But
still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a
terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The
set-apart seed is its stump!”
The price tag of ignorance is way, way too high to
even consider let alone have to pay.
Gen 15:1 After these
events the word of יהוה came to Aḇram in a vision, saying, “Do
not be afraid, Aḇram. I am your shield, your
reward is exceedingly great.”
Gen 15:2 And Aḇram
said, “Master יהוה, what would
You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliʽezer
of Damascus?”
Gen 15:3 And Aḇram
said, “See, You have given me no seed, and see, one born in my house is my
heir!”
Gen 15:4 And see,
the word of יהוה came to him,
saying, “This one is not your heir, but he who comes from your own body is your
heir.”
Gen 15:5 And He
brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars
if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
Gen 15:6 And he
believed in יהוה, and He
reckoned it to him for righteousness.
This is the cornerstone of Pauls teaching.
Rom 4:4 And to him who is working, the reward is not
reckoned as a favour but as a debt.
Rom 4:5 And to him who is not working but believes on
Him who is declaring right the wicked, his belief is reckoned for righteousness,
Rom 9:16 So, then, it is not of him who is wishing,
nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour.
Gen 15:7 And He
said to him, “I am יהוה, who brought
you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Gen 15:8 And he
said, “Master יהוה, whereby do I
know that I possess it?”
Gen 15:9 And He
said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female
goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Gen 15:10 And he
took all these to Him and cut them in the middle, and placed each half opposite
the other, but he did not cut the birds.
Gen 15:11 And the
birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Aḇram
drove them away.
Gen 15:12 And it
came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Aḇram,
that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him.
This same word for deep sleep in Hebrew – “tardeimah” is
same word used in Ber 2:21 – where YHVH put Adam into a deep sleep to create
Chava from one of his bones.
It is as if YHVH was about to create a saving faith that
would bring eternal life to multitudes of people.
Maybe this deep darkness was the frightening realization
that there was nothing Avram could do to save himself and bring YHVH’s promises
to pass.
We all like to speak of Avram’s faith and his confidence
in YHVH as if it was something Avram did and we have to do as well to get the
right faith outcomes in life.
But Avram understood true saving faith as the admission
of ones inability to acquire righteousness and favour with YHVH in one’s own
strength.
Some churchmen say the following:
“There are three kinds of people in the world. Those that
watch and wait for things to happen; those who make things happen and those who
wonder about what has happened.”
These churchmen like to think of themselves and true
believers as those who make things happen. In fact all manmade religion is
based on this kind of spiritual work ethic.
The covenant that YHVH makes with Avram and with mankind
is essentially a one sided covenant. Its success would be YHVH’s doing and His
doing alone.
This is very hard for religious people to accept who are
forever striving to do things that they hope will make them more acceptable to
YHVH and better deserving than others of His blessing and favour. This reality
is so deeply imbedded in most of us we fail to recognize it. It usually
requires some kind of overwhelming situation to confront us before we realize
our helplessness and our total dependence upon YHVH and His plan to redeem us.
We see in the following verse that part of YHVH’s great
redemption plan was to allow His people to go into captivity, where they face
the danger of becoming completely assimilated into the surrounding pagan
culture.
It’s often only in these desperate situations that we
realize how much we need redemption. We remember this truth when we celebrate
Pesach –
How bad will it be in the last days?
Isa 27:12 And in that day it shall be that יהוה threshes, from
the channel of the River to the wadi of Mitsrayim. And you shall be gathered
one by one1, O children of Yisra’ĕl. Footnote: 1Jer. 3:14
– Gen 15:18
Gen 15:13 And He
said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners
in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them
four hundred years.
Gen 15:14 “But the
nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out
with great possessions.
Gen 15:15 “Now as
for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be buried at a good
old age.
Gen 15:16 “Then,
in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the
Amorites is not yet complete.”
Gen 15:17 And it
came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a smoking oven
and a burning torch passing between those pieces.
This flaming torch (furnace or stove) refers to the altar
– the place where the offering would be offered. The place where Yahshua
offered himself as a Pesach lamb.
Gen 15:18 On the
same day יהוה made a covenant with Aḇram,
saying, “I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to
the great river, the River Euphrates,
Gen 15:19 with the
Qĕynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qaḏmonite,
Gen 15:20 and the
Ḥittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Repha’im,
Gen
15:21 and the Amorite, and the Kenaʽanite, and the Girgashite, and
the Yeḇusite.”
Genocidal Commandment.
Deu 7:1 “When יהוה your Elohim
brings you into the land which you go to possess, He shall also clear away many
nations before you: the Ḥittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Kenaʽanites
and the Perizzites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than you.
Deu 7:2 “And when יהוה your Elohim gives them over to you, you
shall smite them and put them under the ban, completely. Make no covenant with
them, and show them no favour.
Deu 7:3 “And do
not intermarry with them – you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do
not take his daughter for your son,
Deu 7:4 for he
turns your sons away from following Me, to serve other mighty ones. Then the
displeasure of יהוה shall burn
against you and promptly destroy you.
Deu 7:5 “But this
is what you do to them: Break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and
cut down their Ashĕrim, and burn their carved images with fire.
Deu
7:6 “For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Elohim. יהוה your Elohim has chosen you to be
a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples on the face
of the earth.
The land of Yisrael is promised as a ratification of the covenant.
Will we have to fight for it one day?
Only a remnant will survive.
Zep 3:12 “But I shall leave in your midst an oppressed
and poor people, and they shall trust in the Name of יהוה.
Zep 3:13 “The
remnant of Yisra’ĕl shall do no unrighteousness and speak no falsehood1,
nor is a tongue of deceit found in their mouth. For they shall feed their
flocks and lie down, with none to frighten them.” Footnote: 1Rev.
14:5.
Salvation is
found only in the fulfilment of the covenant made with Avraham. All who are
truly born from above become members of the covenant with Avraham and thus
participate in the blessings YHVH made with him and his descendants.
This is why Paul defines the good news
as:
Gal 3:7 Know, then, that those who are of belief are
sons of Aḇraham.
Gal 3:8 And
the Scripture, having foreseen that Elohim would declare right the nations by
belief, announced the Good News to Aḇraham
beforehand, saying, “All the nations shall be blessed in you,”
Gal 3:9 so
that those who are of belief are blessed with Aḇraham, the believer.
We cannot afford to be
ignorant or ignore any part or teaching of the Torah. We cannot afford to
misrepresent Messiah in any way and we must align ourselves with those who
proclaim this truth and who can assist us in completely accepting all of Torah
and the fullness of Messiah.
This is why Paul could
say:
Rom 15:29 And I know that when I come to you, I shall
come in the completeness of the blessing of the Good News of Messiah.