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Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch
YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch ata YHVH Eloheinu 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.)
’Va et chanan’’ ‘Dev 3:23 - Deu 3:23 “And I
pleaded (Heb – ve et chanan) with יהוה at that
time, saying,
‘’At that time’’ after a great military victory –
Moshe thought maybe YHVH would change His mind – vs 21,22.
‘’va et chanan’’ is a ‘’hitpael’’ or reflexive verb –
the root of this verb ‘’chanan’’ means favour or grace. To plead is to appeal
that favour or grace may return to you. It is liking pleading for another
chance.
There lies in this verse a most perplexing condition:
YHVH sometimes denies our pleadings. Moshe pleaded with YHVH to be allowed to
enter the land. YHVH refused Moshe’s request. However, we believe Moshe will
rise again and will finally enter Yisrael to rule and reign with Messiah for
1000 years.
Isa 33:17 Your eyes shall see the Sovereign in
His comeliness, see a land that is far off.
Messiah and our relationship with Messiah remain the
central issue of our lives. Moshe’s sin in striking the rock twice instead of
speaking to the ‘’Rock’’ was a betrayal of Messiah. Yahshua was impaled once
and not ‘’stuck’’ twice for our sin – I Pet 3:18- for our lawlessness, our
Torahlessness and so we cannot continue in lawlessness. If we do, we also show
contempt for our Master and we may never enter the land.
We all have been or remain guilty of the sin of
Moshe. We still have time to repent of all lawlessness.
Tit 2:14 who gave Himself for us, to redeem us
from all lawlessness[b] and to cleanse for Himself a people, His own
possession, ardent for good works.[c] Footnotes: bSee also 1Jn_3:4,.
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were
once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers
of the Set-apart Spirit,
Heb 6:5 and have tasted the good Word of Elohim
and the powers of the age to come,
Heb 6:6 and fall away, to renew them again to
repentance – having impaled for themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him
to open shame.[b] Footnote: bSee Heb_10:26-31.
Portion 148:
Deu 4:25 “When you bring
forth children and grandchildren, and shall grow old in the land, and shall do
corruptly (Heb – become corrupt) and make a
carved image in the form of whatever, and shall do what is evil in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim to
provoke Him,
‘’Become corrupt’’ is in the plural. Generally speaking the larger the group,
the more vulnerable it becomes to deception.
‘’and make a carved image in the
form of whatever’’ ‘’temûnâh- BDB Definition: form, image, likeness,
representation, semblance’’ – Corruption inevitably comes about when people,
especially leaders create another version of what is true, right and
acceptable to YHVH. Tragically these leaders receive much support and followers
with another version of YHVH’s truth.
Jer 5:30 “An astounding and
horrible matter has come to be in the land:
Jer 5:31 The prophets have
prophesied falsely,[b] and the priests rule by their own hand, and My people have
loved it so.c And what are you going to do at the end of it? Footnotes: bSee Jer_27:14-15.
c Isa_30:10, 2Ti_4:3.
2Co 11:3 But I am afraid,
lest, as the serpent deceived Chawwah (translated
as Eve in most Bible Versions) by his trickery,
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.
2Co 11:4 For, indeed, if he
who is coming proclaims another יהושע,[a] whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different
spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not
accepted, you put up with it well enough! Footnote: a Mat_24:5 and Mat_24:23-24,
Joh_5:43.
Those who
have allowed themselves to become corrupt will often make accusations against
the truth (Torah) and those who proclaim the truth – see Ps 109:1-31 – the
consequences can be very serious and bring curse upon curse on those who choose
to wilfully violate YHVH’s Ways.
Psa 109:1 Do not be silent,
O Elohim of my praise!
Psa 109:2 For the mouth of
the wrong And the mouth of the deceiver Have opened against me; They have
spoken against me with a false tongue.
Psa 109:3 They have
surrounded me with words of hatred, And they attack me without a cause.
Psa 109:8 Let his days be
few, Let another take his office.
Psa 109:9 Let his children
be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Psa 109:10 And let his
children always wander and beg, And seek food out of their ruins.
Psa 109:11 Let the creditor
lay a snare for all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labour.
Psa 109:12 Let him have no
one to extend loving-commitment, Nor any to show favour to his fatherless
children.
Psa 109:13 Let his
descendants be cut off, Their name be blotted out in the next generation.
Once again there is a severe warning to those who want to lie against
the truth and attack the messengers of the truth.
Eph 4:4 one body and one
Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of your calling,
Eph 4:5 one Master, one
belief, one immersion,
Eph 4:6 one Elohim and
Father of all, who is above all,[a] and through all,
and in you all. Footnote: aSee Mar_12:32, Mar_12:34, 1Co_8:6,
1Ti_2:5, Mar_12:29-34.
Deu 4:26 “I shall call the
heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely
perish from the land which you pass over the Yarděn to possess – you do not
prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed.
Deu 4:27 “And יהוה shall scatter
you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations
where יהוה drives you.
Deu 4:28 “And there you
shall serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither
see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
Deu 4:29 “But from there you
shall seek יהוה your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all
your heart[b] and with all your being. Footnote: b Jer_29:13.