8/23/2019

Parashat 6 Portion 24 Ber/Gen 26:12-35 Yesh 65:23- 66:8 Rom 9:6-18



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.)

Gen 26:1  And there was a scarcity of food in the land, besides the first scarcity of food which was in the days of Aḇraham. And Yitsḥaq went to Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of the Philistines, in Gerar. 
Gen 26:2  And יהוה appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Mitsrayim, live in the land which I command you. (don’t trust in the arm of flesh – Jer 17:5)
Gen 26:3  “Sojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you, for I give all these lands to you and your seed. And I shall establish the oath which I swore to Aḇraham your father. 
Gen 26:4  “And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 
Gen 26:5  because Aḇraham obeyed My voice and guarded My Charge: My commands, My laws, and My Torot.”a Footnote: aTorot - plural of Torah, teaching

Gen 26:12  And Yitsḥaq sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, and יהוה blessed him.
Gen 26:13  And the man grew great and went forward until he became very great.
Gen 26:14  And he came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and the Philistines envied him.

Shaul clearly teaches that the very essence of the Good News that through Avraham all the nations of the world would be blessed, even during famine. Perhaps the most blessed and fruitful times for the true believers of the true Messiah will come during a future time of great challenges.

Mar 10:29  יהושע said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the Good News, 
Mar 10:30  who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, everlasting life. 
Mar 10:31  “But many who are first shall be last, and the last first.” 

Jer 16:19  O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.”1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4.

The spirit of the modern church is becoming more and more hostile towards the patriarchal spirit spoken of in the Torah and throughout all scripture. It was Yahshua that came to reopen the wells of salvation that the ancient patriachs dug.

Psa 40:7  Then I said, “See, I have come; In the scroll of the Book it is prescribed for me.
Psa 40:8  I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart1.” Footnote: 1Ps. 37:31, Ps. 119:11, Isa. 51:7, Heb. 10:7-9.

1Ki 21:25  Indeed, there never was anyone like Aḥaḇ who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of יהוה, because Izeḇel his wife stirred him up.

Note when King Ahab and his wicked queen ruled in Israel there was a severe famine in the land.

Jas 5:17  Ěliyahu was a man with feelings like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain. And it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

Isa 3:12  “My people! Youths exert pressure on them, and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead you astray1, and swallow the way of your paths.” Footnote: 1See also 9:16.

In the last days YHVH will once again bring a famine in the world during the great tribulation.

Rev 11:3  “And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth.”
Rev 11:5  And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes out from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wishes to harm them, he has to be killed in that way.
Rev 11:6  These possess authority to shut the heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they wish.
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Gen 26:15  And the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, and filled them with dirt.
Gen 26:16  And Aḇimeleḵ said to Yitsḥaq, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Gen 26:17  So Yitsḥaq went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18  And Yitsḥaq dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Aḇraham. And he called them by the names which his father had called them.

Note they did not dig new wells but unstopped the old wells. We don’t have to look for new sources of water or spiritual life, we simply need to remove all the pagan mixture that has come into the wells of our salvation and deliverance.

Gen 26:19  But when Yitsḥaq’s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of running water there,
Gen 26:20  the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥaq’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ěseq, because they strove with him.
Gen 26:21  And they dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah.
Gen 26:22  And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not strive over it. And he called its name Reḥoḇoth, and said, “For now יהוה has made room for us, and we shall bear fruit in the land.”
Gen 26:23  And from there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa.

When we begin to rediscover the ancient wells of the truth of Torah, which have been blocked by the “Philistines” we experience strife from those outside Esek( or contention)  then from those inside ( Sitnah or quarrelling) but if we persevere we will come to Rehoboth or ‘’wide places’’.

Gen 26:24  And יהוה appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the Elohim of your father Aḇraham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall bless you and increase your seed for My servant Aḇraham’s sake.”
Gen 26:25  And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there.
Gen 26:26  And Aḇimeleḵ came to him from Gerar, with Aḥuzzath, one of his friends, and Piḵol the commander of his army.
Gen 26:27  And Yitsḥaq said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing you have hated me and have sent me away from you?”
Gen 26:28  But they said, “We have clearly seen that יהוה is with you. And we said, ‘Please, let there be an oath between us, between you and us. And let us make a covenant with you,
Gen 26:29  that you do no evil to us, as we have not touched you, and as we have done only good toward you, and have sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by יהוה.’ ”
Gen 26:30  And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

The Targum Yonatan explains Abimelek’s sudden change of heart: “When Yitzchak left Gerar the wells dried up and the trees bore no fruit. They felt this befell them because they had driven him away, so Abimilek went to Yitzchak from Gerar”

Gen 26:31  And they rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitsḥaq let them go, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen 26:32  And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsḥaq came and informed him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
Gen 26:33  So he called it Shiḇah. Therefore the name of the city is Be’ĕrsheḇa to this day.
Gen 26:34  And when Ěsaw was forty years old, he took as wives Yehuḏith the daughter of Be’ĕri the Ḥittite, and Basemath the daughter of Ělon the Ḥittite.
Gen 26:35  And they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah.

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.