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)
To gain more insight into this Torah portion we need to
look to the events and conditions that will prevail during the millennium – the
one-thousand-year reign of Messiah from Mount Tzion in Yerushalayim over all
the surviving nations that remain on the earth.
It is evident from the declarations and descriptions
given to us by the prophets that true and everlasting righteousness and set
apartness will have the ascendancy over everything else. ‘’The remains of the
corrupt nature will be so overpowered by the resplendent light of the One true
faith, that every improper desire or action will be suppressed and kept in
subordination, by the power and authority of our Messiah – Yahshua.’’ (W C
Davis – A Treatise on The Millennium)
The Torah ultimately shows and prepares us for life
during the millennium.
Rom
10:4 For Messiah is the goal [b] of the ‘Torah unto righteousness’ to everyone
who believes. Footnote: b Or end purpose; not
termination.
Only Messiah has been given the authority to bring all
matters into subjection to YHVH and to present a ‘’Bride’’ without spot or
wrinkle before his and our Heavenly Father – Eph 5:27; Jude 1:24
1Co
15:27 For “He has put all under His feet.” Psa_8:6 But when
He says “all are put under Him,” it is clear that He who put all under Him is
excepted. (YHVH is excluded)
1Co
15:28 And when all are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself shall
also be subject to Him who put all under Him, in order that Elohim be all in
all.
Deu 12:20 “When יהוה your Elohim enlarges
your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you
long to eat meat, you eat as much meat as your being desires.
Deu 12:21 “When the place where יהוה
your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you shall
slaughter from your herd and from your flock which יהוה has given you, as I
have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being
desires.
Deu 12:22 “Only, as the gazelle and the deer are
eaten, so you are to eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of
it.
Deu 12:23 “Only, be strong not to eat the blood,
for the blood is the life, do not eat the life with the meat.
Deu 12:24 “Do not eat it, you pour it on the earth
like water.
Deu 12:25 “Do not eat it, that it might be well
with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
Deu 12:26 “Only, the set-apart gifts which
you have, and your vowed offerings, you are to take up and go to the place
which יהוה chooses.
Deu 12:27 “And you shall make your ascending
offerings, the meat and the blood, on the slaughter-place of יהוה
your Elohim. And the blood of your slaughterings is poured out on the
slaughter-place of יהוה your Elohim, and you eat the meat.
Deu 12:28 “Guard, and obey all these words which
I command you, that it might be well with you and your children after you
forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim.
Warning Against Idolatry
Deu 12:29 “When יהוה your Elohim does cut
off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess
them and dwell in their land,
Deu 12:30 guard yourself that you are not ensnared
to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not
inquire about their mighty ones, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their
mighty ones? And let me do so too.’c Footnote: cSee also Deu_18:9, Lev_18:3,
Jer_10:2, Eze_11:12 and Eze_20:32, Eph_4:17, and 1Pe_4:3.
Deu 12:31 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for
every abomination which יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones,
for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty
ones.
Deu 12:32 “All the words I am commanding you,
guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.d Footnote: dSee also Deu_4:2,
Pro_30:6, Rev_22:18-19.
Do not seek to change or alter the meaning of any word
spoken by YHVH. The penalty is death.
Deu 13:1 “When there arises among you a prophet or
a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder, (2Thes 2:9;
Deut 18:21-22)
Deu 13:2 and the sign or the wonder shall come
true, of which he has spoken to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones
– which you have not known – and serve them,’
Deu 13:3 do not listen to the words of that prophet
or that dreamer of dreams, for יהוה your Elohim is trying you to know whether
you love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with
all your being.
Deu 13:4 “Walk after יהוה your Elohim and fear
Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to
Him.
Deu 13:5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of
dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה
your Elohim – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and ransomed you
from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the
evil from your midst.
Joh
10:26 But you did not believe because you are not of My sheep. As I said
to you,
Joh
10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
Joh
10:28 And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never ever perish,
and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.
Deu 13:6 “When your brother, the son of your
mother, or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend
who is as your own being, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve
other mighty ones’– which you have not known, neither you nor your
fathers,
Deu 13:7 of the mighty ones of the people which are
all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to
the other end of the earth –
Deu 13:8 do not agree with him or listen to him,
nor shall your eye pardon him, nor spare him or conceal him,
Deu 13:9 but you shall certainly kill him. Your
hand is first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all
the people,
Deu 13:10 and you shall stone him with stones until
he dies, because he sought to entice you away from יהוה your Elohim, who
brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage.
Deu 13:11 “And let all Yisra’ěl hear and fear, and
not again do any such evil matter as this in your midst.
Deu 13:12 “When you hear someone in one of your
cities, which יהוה your Elohim gives you to dwell in,
saying,
When idolatry prevails – evil prevails. When idolatry is
swiftly punished and eliminated, blessing and abundance prevails. (Millennium)
Midrash
– Gal 1:11-12 and Eph 1:12-13
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)