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.
A 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.
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.