7/15/2016

Parashat 10 Portion 40 Ber 42:18 – 43:23 Yesh 50:10- 52:11 Rev 21:9-27


Eph 3:13-21  I pray therefore, that you do not lose heart at my pressures on your behalf, which is your esteem. For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, from whom all fatherhood1 in the heavens and earth is named, Footnote: 1Or lineage, or paternal descent. in order that He might give you, according to the riches of His esteem by power, to be strengthened in the inner man, through His Spirit, that the Messiah might dwell in your hearts1 through belief – having become rooted and grounded in love, Footnote: 1Gal. 2:20. in order that you might be strengthened to firmly grasp, with all the set-apart ones, what is the width and length and depth and height, to know the love of Messiah which surpasses knowledge, in order that you might be filled to all the completeness of Elohim. And to Him who is able to do exceedingly above what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, to Him be esteem in the assembly by Messiah יהושע unto all generations, for ever and ever. Amĕn.

 
      Eph 4:3-6  being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace – one body and one Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of your calling, one Master, one belief, one immersion, one Elohim and Father of all,1 who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Footnote: 1Mk. 12:32,34, 1 Cor. 8:6, 1 Tim. 2:5, Mk. 12:29-34.





Our Torah Portion:

     Gen 42:18 -32  Now Yosĕph said to them the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear Elohim: “If you are trustworthy, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house, and you, go, bring grain for the scarcity of food of your houses.
 “And bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be confirmed, and you do not die.” And so they did. And they said to each other, “Truly, we are guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the distress of his life when he pleaded with us, yet we did not listen, that is why this distress has come upon us.” And Re’uḇĕn answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy,’ and you would not listen? And see, his blood is now required of us.” And they did not know that Yosĕph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter. And he turned himself away from them and wept, but came back to them and spoke to them. And he took Shimʽon from them and bound him before their eyes. And Yosĕph commanded and they filled their sacks with grain, also to put back every man’s silver to his sack, and to give them food for the journey. And thus it was done for them. So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and went from there. And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his silver, for there it was in the mouth of his sack! And he said to his brothers, “My silver has been returned, and there it is, in my sack!” And their hearts sank and they were afraid, saying to each other, “What is this that Elohim has done to us?” So they came to Yaʽaqoḇ their father in the land of Kenaʽan and reported to him all that befell them, saying,  “The man, the master of the land, spoke to us harshly, and took us for spies of the land.  “But we said to him, ‘We are trustworthy, we are not spies. ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Kenaʽan.’  “And the man, the master of the land, said to us, ‘By this I know that you are trustworthy: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for the scarcity of food of your households, and go. ‘And bring your youngest brother to me, then I know that you are not spies, but that you are trustworthy – I give your brother to you, and you move about in the land.’ ” And it came to be as they emptied their sacks, that look, the bundle of each man’s silver was in his sack! And when they and their father saw the bundles of silver, they were afraid. And Yaʽaqoḇ their father said to them, “You have bereaved me – Yosĕph is no more, and Shimʽon is no more, and you would take Binyamin! All this is against me.” So Re’uḇĕn spoke to his father, saying, “Take the lives of my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I myself bring him back to you.” But he said, “My son is not going down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any harm should come to him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my grey hair with sorrow to the grave.”

Gen 43:1-23  But the scarcity of food was severe in the land. And it came to be, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Mitsrayim, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.” But Yehuḏah spoke to him,saying, “The man vehemently warned us, saying, ‘You do not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ”  “If you let our brother go with us, we go down and buy you food. “But if you do not let him go, we do not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You do not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ” And Yisra’ĕl said, “Why did you do evil to me to inform the man that you still had another brother?” And they said, “The man kept asking about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ And we informed him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?” And Yehuḏah said to Yisra’ĕl his father, “Send the boy with me, and let us arise and go, and live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.  “I myself shall stand guaranty for him –
from my hand you are to require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.  “For if we had not delayed, truly by now we could have returned this second time.” And their father Yisra’ĕl said to them, “If so, then do this: Take some of the best fruit of the land in your vessels and bring a present down for the man, a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds. “And take double silver in your hand, and take back in your hand the silver that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. It could have been a mistake. “And take your brother, and arise, go back to the man. “And Ěl Shaddai give to you compassion before the man, so that he shall release your other brother and Binyamin. And I, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved!”
And the men took that present and Binyamin, and they took double the amount of silver in their hand, and arose and went down to Mitsrayim, and stood before Yosĕph. And Yosĕph saw Binyamin with them, and said to the one over his house, “Bring the men home, and make a great slaughter, and prepare, for these men are to eat with me at noon.” And the man did as Yosĕph said, and the man brought the men into Yosĕph’s house.
And the men were afraid because they were brought into Yosĕph’s house. And they said, “It is because of the silver, which was put back into our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, to throw himself upon us and fall upon us, to take us as slaves, our donkeys too.” So they came near to the man over the house of Yosĕph, and spoke to him at the door of the house, and said, “O my master, we indeed came down the first time to buy food, but it came to be, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks and saw each man’s silver in the mouth of his sack, our silver in its weight. And we have brought it back in our hand.  “And we have brought down other silver in our hands to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our sacks.” But he said, “Peace be with you, do not be afraid. Your Elohim and the Elohim of your father has given you treasure in your sacks – your silver had come to me!” And he brought Shimʽon out to them.

Midrash:

42:18 “the third day” may be a reference to the last days.

Hos 6:2  ‘After two days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live before Him.

Yosef feared the Elohim of Yisrael.

42:19 “your prison” or “your place where you are being guarded” The plural is used for “your” signifying that as long as they could not recognize Yosef they were in prison. As long as the house of Yisrael does not recognize the real Yahshua they too remain in prison. For the most part Christians have been deeply influenced by pagan ideas concerning Yahshua and even though many claim to know him, they don’t know him as he was meant to be known – they too remain in a “prison.”
42:20 bring the most precious son of your father to me – sound familiar? Beyamin or son of my right hand. If they don’t they will die – sound familiar?

Vss 21-24 – sound familiar?

Zec 12:10,11  “And I shall pour on the house of Dawiḏ and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim a spirit of favour and prayers.
And they shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. And they shall be in bitterness over Him as a bitterness over the first-born. “In that day the mourning in Yerushalayim is going to be great, like the mourning at Haḏaḏ Rimmon in the valley of Meḡiddo.

Clearly this mourning was apocalyptic and referred to the national mourning of Yakov’s future resttored family during the end time Messianic days. Even ancient references in the Talmud interpret Zechariah 12:10,12 as applied to the Messiah. The 'mourning' would be like a great national mourning that gripped everyone, like experienced by the death of king Josiah,(2 Kings 23:29 and 1 Esdras) who was slain at Hadadrimmon (a city) in the valley of Megiddon. This makes sense as Josiah was the last hope of the declining kingdom. Regarding names, various sources suggest the name Hadadrimmon comes from the joining of two Syrian idols: Rimmon and Hadad who was the idol of the sun (Rimmon also the ancient name of Galilee).

Zec 12:7  “And יהוה shall save the tents of Yehuḏah first, so that the comeliness of the house of Dawiḏ and the comeliness of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim would not become greater than that of Yehuḏah.

Vss 25-38 – Midrash
Chp 43:1-23 – Midrash:

The hidden meaning of this parashah.

YHVH is committed to restoring one family and one nation on this earth. It is evident that He will take whatever measures are necessary to bring about the restoration of Israel – the family of Yakov – see also Ezekiel 47:21-23

YHVH’s plans are being resisted by the nations including modern Israel – the Jewish people. Many people try to create or replace this one family YHVH has chosen – see Ps 2

Upon closer examination of Yakov’s family, we note somewhat dysfunctionality, yet this is the family YHVH chose to be His model end time family. Even after the Messianic rule when the New Yerushalayim descends from earth, entrance can only be gained by passing one of the twelve gates named after the 12 sons of Yakov – see Rev 21:10-14