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.)
Note the prophetic portion is written in the future
tense – these events although they have happened in history will happen again.
Isa 19:1 The message
concerning Mitsrayim. See, יהוה is riding on a swift cloud, and He shall come into Mitsrayim.
And the idols of Mitsrayim shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of
Mitsrayim melt in its midst. (In the last days Yerushalayim is called
Sodom and Mitsrayim Rev 11:8)
Isa 19:2 “And I
shall stir up Mitsrites against Mitsrites, and they shall fight, each one against
his brother, and each one against his neighbour, city against city, reign
against reign.
Isa 19:3 “And the
spirit of Mitsrayim shall vanish within them, and I destroy their counsel. And
they shall seek the idols and the mutterers, the mediums and the
sorcerers.
Isa 19:4 “And I
shall deliver the Mitsrites into the hand of a cruel master,(anti Christ) and a
fierce sovereign to rule over them,” declares the Master, יהוה of
hosts. (beast and false prophet Rev 19:20)
Isa 19:5 And waters
shall fail from the sea, and the river wasted and dried up.
Isa 19:6 And the
rivers shall stink, and the streams shall be weak and dried up. Reeds and
rushes shall wither.
Isa 19:7 Bare places
by the River, by the mouth of the River, and every sown field by the River
shall wither. It shall be driven away, and be no more.
Psa 78:1 My people, give ear to my Torah, Incline your
ears to the words of my mouth.
Psa 78:2 I open my mouth in a parable; I utter riddles of
old,
Psa 78:3 Which we have heard and known, For our fathers have
related them to us.
Psa 78:4 We do not hide them from their children, Relating
to the generation to come the praises of יהוה, And His
strength and His wonders which He has done.
Psa 78:5 For He raised a witness in Ya‛aqoḇ, And set a Torah in
Yisra’ěl, Which He commanded our fathers, To teach them to their
children;
Psa 78:6 That it might be known to a generation to come, To
children who would be born, To rise up and relate them to their
children,
Psa 78:7 And place their trust in Elohim, And not forget the
works of Ěl, But watch over His commands,
Psa 78:8 And not be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious
generation, A generation which did not prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not
steadfast to Ěl.
Psa 78:9 The children of Ephrayim, armed bowmen, Turned back in
the day of battle.
Psa 78:10 They did not guard the covenant of Elohim, And they
refused to walk in His Torah,
Psa 78:11 And they forgot His deeds And His wonders which He had
shown them.
Psalm 78 goes on to remind
us of what happened in Egypt – see also
1Cor 10-
Mat 13:34 יהושע said all this to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak
to them without a parable,
Mat 13:35 so that what was spoken by the prophet might be filled,
saying, “I shall open My mouth in parables, I shall pour forth what has been
hidden from the foundation of the world.” Psa_78:2.
Exo 10:1 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I
have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I show these
signs of Mine before him, (Heb 12:17)
Exo 10:2 and that you relate in the hearing of your
son and your son’s son what I have done in Mitsrayim, and My signs which I have
done among them. And you shall know that I am יהוה.”
Exo 10:3 And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and
said to him, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of the Heḇrews, ‘Till when shall you refuse to humble
yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me.
Exo 10:4 ‘Or else, if you refuse to let My people go,
see, tomorrow I am bringing locusts within your borders.
Exo 10:5 ‘And they shall cover the surface of the
land, so that no one is able to see the land. And they shall eat the rest of
what has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every
tree which grows up for you out of the field.
Exo 10:6 ‘And they shall fill your houses, and the
houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which neither
your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were
on the earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Exo 10:7 And Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “Till
when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve יהוה their Elohim.
Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?”
Exo 10:8 And Mosheh and Aharon were brought back to
Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve יהוה your Elohim. Who are the ones that are
going?”
Exo 10:9 And Mosheh said, “We are going with our young
and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we
are going, for we have a festival to יהוה.”
Exo 10:10 And he said to them, “Let יהוה be with you as
I let you and your little ones go! Watch, for evil is before your face!
Exo 10:11 “Not so! You men go now, and serve יהוה, for that is
what you desired.” And they were driven out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Exo 10:12 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand
over the land of Mitsrayim for the locusts to come upon the land of Mitsrayim,
and eat every plant of the land – all that the hail has left.”
Exo 10:13 And Mosheh stretched out his rod over the
land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה brought an
east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the
east wind brought the locusts.
Exo 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of
Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There
had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them.
Exo 10:15 And they covered the surface of all the land,
so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the land and all the
fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and no greenness was left on the
trees or on the plants of the field, in all the land of Mitsrayim.
Exo 10:16 Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon in
haste, and said, “I have sinned against יהוה your Elohim
and against you.
Exo 10:17 “And now, please forgive my sin only this
once, and pray to יהוה your Elohim, that He would only turn away
this death from me.”
Exo 10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed to יהוה.
Exo 10:19 And יהוה turned a very strong west wind, which took
the locusts away and blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left
within all the border of Mitsrayim.
Exo 10:20 However, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did
not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go.
Exo 10:21 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand
toward the heavens, and let there be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even
a darkness which is felt.”
Exo 10:22 And Mosheh stretched out his hand toward the
heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Mitsrayim for three
days.
Exo 10:23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone
rise from his place for three days, while all the children of Yisra’ĕl had
light in their dwellings.
Rashi comments that one the
reasons darkness came over Mitzrayim, is that there were many Jews who did not
deserve to be freed – because they had so assimilated into Egyptian culture
that there was no hope for them to return to the covenant of Yisrael. These
were to die so YHVH provided the darkness so that the Mitsrites would not see
their death and claim that the plagues affected Jews and Mitsrites alike.
Exo 10:24 And
Pharaoh called to Mosheh and said, “Go, serve יהוה, only leave
your flocks and your herds behind. Let your little ones go with you too.”
Exo 10:25 But
Mosheh said, “You yourself are to provide us with slaughterings and burnt
offerings, to prepare for יהוה our Elohim.
Exo 10:26 “And our
livestock are to go with us too, not a hoof is to be left behind, for we have
to take some of them to serve יהוה our Elohim,
and we ourselves do not know with what we are to serve יהוה until we come there.”
Exo 10:27 However,
יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he
would not let them go.
Exo 10:28 And
Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Watch yourself and see my face no more,
for in the day you see my face you die!”
Exo 10:29 And
Mosheh said, “You have spoken rightly – never again do I see your face!”
Exo 11:1 And יהוה said to
Mosheh, “I am bringing yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. After
that he is going to let you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall drive
you out from here altogether.
Exo 11:2 “Speak
now in the hearing of the people, and let every man ask from his neighbour and
every woman from her neighbour, objects of silver and objects of gold.”
Exo 11:3 And יהוה gave the people favour in the eyes of the
Mitsrites. And the man Mosheh was very great in the land of Mitsrayim, in the
eyes of Pharaoh’s servants and in the eyes of the people.
Exo 11:4 And
Mosheh said, “Thus said יהוה, ‘About
midnight I am going out into the midst of Mitsrayim,
Exo 11:5 and all
the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh
who sits on his throne, even to the first-born of the female servant who is
behind the handmill, and all the first-born of cattle.
Exo 11:6 ‘And
there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Mitsrayim, such as has
never been or ever be again.
Exo 11:7 ‘But
against any of the children of Yisra’ĕl no dog shall move its tongue, against
man or against beast, so that you know that יהוה makes
distinction between Mitsrayim and Yisra’ĕl.’
Exo 11:8 “And all
these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get
out, you and all the people at your feet!’ And after that I shall go out.” And
he went out from Pharaoh in great displeasure.
Exo 11:9 But יהוה said to Mosheh, “Pharaoh is not going to
listen to you, in order to multiply My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim.”
Exo 11:10 And
Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharaoh, however, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did
not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go out of his land.
Exo 12:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of Mitsrayim, saying,
Exo 12:2 “This
month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first month of the year for
you.
Exo 12:3 “Speak to
all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each
one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his
father, a lamb for a household.
Exo 12:4 ‘And if
the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his
house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s
need you make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 ‘Let the
lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the
goats.
Exo 12:6 ‘And you
shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then all the assembly
of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl shall kill it between the evenings.
Exo 12:7 ‘And they
shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel
of the houses where they eat it.
Exo 12:8 ‘And they
shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with unleavened bread and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9 ‘Do not
eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire, its head with
its legs and its inward parts.
Exo 12:10 ‘And do
not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you are to
burn with fire.
Exo 12:11 ‘And
this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your
staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover of יהוה.
Exo 12:12 ‘And I
shall pass through the land of Mitsrayim on that night, and shall smite all the
first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast. And on all the mighty ones
of Mitsrayim I shall execute judgment. I am יהוה.
There is a place of refuge from the wrath of YHVH. It is
however not to be found in religion, nor in oneself, nor even one’s attempts at
being righteous, but in the Lamb. The most obvious and spectacular message of
this parashah is that it was a lamb that made the difference between
deliverance and destruction.
1Pe 1:18 knowing that you were redeemed from your
futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver
or gold,
1Pe 1:19 but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of
a lamb unblemished and spotless,
1Pe 1:20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation(Gk
disruption or downcasting) of the world, but manifested in these last times for
your sakes,
1Pe 1:21 who through Him believe in Elohim who raised
Him from the dead and gave Him esteem, so that your belief and expectation are
in Elohim.
1Pe 1:22 Now that you have cleansed your lives in
obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, love one
another fervently with a clean heart,
1Pe 1:23 having been born again – not of corruptible
seed, but incorruptible – through the living Word of Elohim, which remains
forever,
1Pe 1:24 because “All flesh is as grass, and all the
esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower
falls away,
1Pe 1:25 but the Word of Elohim remains forever.”1
And this is the Word, announced as Good News to you. Footnote: 1Isa.
40:6-8.
“The pharaoh was depicted as her child, who sat on the throne she provided.
She married her brother, Osiris, and she conceived Horus with him. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was murdered by Set. Using her magical skills, she restored his body to life after having gathered the body parts that had been strewn about the earth by Set.[4]
This myth became very important during the Greco-Roman period. For example, it was believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of the tears of sorrow which Isis wept for Osiris. Osiris's death and rebirth were relived each year through rituals. The worship of Isis eventually spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, continuing until the suppression of paganism in the Christian era.[5] The popular motif of Isis suckling her son Horus, however, lived on in a Christianized context as the popular image of Mary suckling her infant son Jesus from the fifth century onward.[6]
Mother and child worship were the basis of the ancient religions. In the various religions of the world, the same system of worship was perpetuated under different names. In Egypt , the mother and child were worshiped as Isis and Osiris or Horus, in India as Isi and Iswara, in China and Japan as the mother goddess Shing-moo with child, in Greece as Ceres or Irene and Plutus, in Rome as Fortuna and Jupitor-puer, or Venus and Adurnis, and in Scandinavia as Frigga and Balder. The mother and child were worshiped in Babylon as Ishtar and Tammuz, and in Phoenicia, as Ashtoreth and Baal. Moreover, the child was worshiped as both husband and son of the mother goddess.”
See also Rev 17 and the statue of
liberty in New York -
Perhaps this
last plague is going to be the complete cleansing of believers from every pagan
influence in Christianity. Many Christians may refuse to come out of the pagan
corruption of Christianity. These will die and be judged.
Rev 1:7 See, He is coming with the clouds, Dan_7:13
and every eye shall see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of
the earth shall mourn because of Him. Zec_12:10 Yes, Aměn.
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.)