10/05/2018

Parashat 47 Portion 154 Dev 11:10 – 12:19 1 Kings 21:2-4; 7-8; 11-13; 17-18 Mark 14:22-25 Ps 119:24-48









Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. 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)

Psa 119:34  Make me understand, that I might observe Your Torah, And guard it with all my heart. 

Mar 14:22  And as they were eating, יהושע took bread, having blessed, broke it, gave it to them and said, “Take, eat, this is My body.” 
Mar 14:23  And taking the cup, giving thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 
Mar 14:24  And He said to them, “This is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many. 
Mar 14:25  “Truly, I say to you, I shall certainly no more drink of the fruit of the vine till that day when I drink it anew in the reign of Elohim.” 

Deu 11:10  “For the land which you are going in to possess is not like the land of Mitsrayim from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden, 
Deu 11:11  but the land which you are passing over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of the heavens, 
Deu 11:12  a land which יהוה your Elohim looks after. The eyes of יהוה your Elohim are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the latter end of the year. 
Deu 11:13  And it shall be that if you diligently obey My commands which I command you today, to love יהוה your Elohim and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your being, 
Deu 11:14  then I shall give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, and you shall gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil. 
Deu 11:15  And I shall give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be satisfied. 
Deu 11:16  Guard yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other mighty ones and bow down to them. 
Deu 11:17  Then the displeasure of יהוה shall burn against you, and He shall shut up the heavens, and there be no rain, and the land not give its increase. And you shall perish quickly from the good land which יהוה is giving you. 
Deu 11:18  And you shall lay up these Wordsb of Mine in your heart and in your being, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Footnote: bSee footnote at Deu_5:22. 
Deu 11:19  And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, 
Deu 11:20  and shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 
Deu 11:21  so that your days and the days of your children are increased on the soil of which יהוה swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens on the earth. 
Deu 11:22  For if you diligently guard all these commands which I command you, to do it, to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him, 
Deu 11:23  then יהוה shall drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess greater and stronger nations than you. 
Deu 11:24  Every place on which the sole of your foot treads is yours: from the wilderness, and Leḇanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea is your border. 
Deu 11:25  No man shall stand against you. יהוה your Elohim shall put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, as He has spoken to you. 

Utopia
In 1516 Sir Thomas More wrote the first 'Utopia'. He coined the word 'utopia' from the Greek ou-topos meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'. But this was a pun - the almost identical Greek word eu-topos means a good place.

utopia  is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia.
According to Lyman Tower Sargent "there are socialist, capitalist, monarchical, democratic, anarchist, ecological, feminist, patriarchal, egalitarian, hierarchical, racist, left-wing, right-wing, reformist, Naturists/Nude Christians, free love, nuclear family, extended family, gay, lesbian, and many more utopias. (groups within Christianity, Islam and Judaism believe their group will usher in a utopia or new world order)

A ‘’New World Order’’ contrary to Torah is being established in our time – see book by Thomas More. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)

According to YHVH there is only one ‘’utopia’’ - Rom 14:17  For the reign of Elohim is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Set-apart Spirit. 

This kind of perfect society can only be created by Yahshua and all those who are joined to him – See Mark 14:22-25

Mat 7:24  “Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does them, shall be like a wise man who built his house on the rock, 
Mat 7:25  and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 
Mat 7:26  “And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not do them,d shall be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, Footnote: dSee Mat_7:15, and also Mat_13:41-42
Mat 7:27  and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.” 

Deu 11:26  See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 
Deu 11:27  the blessing, when you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I command you today; 
Deu 11:28  and the curse, if you do not obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other mighty ones which you have not known. 
Deu 11:29  And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ěyḇal. 
Deu 11:30  Are they not beyond the Yarděn, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Kena‛anites who dwell in the desert plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? 

Note – The blessings and curses are addressed to His people. Salvation comes by faith in the only mediator  (Yahshua) between man and YHVH. However blessings and increase depends on our obedience to YHVH.

Deu 11:31  For you are passing over the Yarděn to go in to possess the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it, 
Deu 11:32  and shall guard to do all the laws and right-rulings which I am setting before you today.’ 
Deu 12:1  “These are the laws and right-rulings which you guard to do in the land which יהוה Elohim of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the soil. 
Deu 12:2  "Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 
Deu 12:3  “And you shall break down their slaughter-places, and smash their pillars, and burn their Ashěrim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their namea out of that place. Footnote: aThe names of the gentile deities (mighty ones). 
Deu 12:4  “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, 
Deu 12:5  but seek the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall enter. 
Deu 12:6  “And there you shall take your ascending offerings, and your slaughters, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and your vowed offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock. 
Deu 12:7  “And there you shall eat before יהוה your Elohim, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which יהוה your Elohim has blessed you. 
Deu 12:8  “Do not do as we are doing here today – each one doing whatever is right in his own eyes.b Footnote: bSee Jdg_17:6 and Jdg_21:25. 
Deu 12:9  “Because you have not yet entered the rest and the inheritance which יהוה your Elohim is giving you. 
Deu 12:10  “But you shall pass over the Yarděn, and shall dwell in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to inherit, and He shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and you shall dwell in safety. 
Deu 12:11  “And it shall be, that unto the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there, there you are to bring all that I command you: your ascending offerings, and your slaughters, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to יהוה
Deu 12:12  “And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your sons and your daughters, and your male servants and your female servants, and the Lěwite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 
Deu 12:13  “Guard yourself that you do not offer your ascending offerings in every place that you see, 
Deu 12:14  except in the place which יהוה chooses, in one of your tribes, there you are to offer your ascending offerings, and there you are to do all that I command you. 
Deu 12:15  “Only, whatever your being desires you shall slaughter and eat, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you, within all your gates. The unclean and the clean do eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. 
Deu 12:16  “Only, the blood you do not eat, pour it on the earth like water. 
Deu 12:17  “You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or of the firstlings of your herd or your flock, or of any of your offerings which you vow, or of your voluntary offerings, or of the contribution of your hand. 
Deu 12:18  “But eat them before יהוה your Elohim, in the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lěwite who is within your gates. And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim in all that you put your hands to. 
Deu 12:19  “Guard yourself that you do not forsake the Lěwite as long as you live in your land. 

These things have not yet happened, but they will to a future generation who will enter the Land to rule and reign with Messiah for 1000 years.

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. 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)