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.)
The Torah portion before us today contains the face to
face encounter of Moshe with the Esteem of YHVH in the form of a burning bush.
Here YHVH gives Moshe the most profound explanation of the meaning of His name
– אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה ‘’ehyiye asher ehyiye’’ literary translated ‘’I will be who I
shall be’’ the implication is that -nothing in heaven or on earth happens without
YHVH allowing it or willing it to happen. YHVH controls the ‘’agenda’’ for ALL
matters pertaining to life or death.
Isa
45:6 so that they know from the rising of the sun to its setting that
there is none but Me. I am יהוה, and there is none else, Isa
45:7 forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil.
I, יהוה, do all these.’
He – YHVH will become whatever He needs to become to deliver us from
bondage and restore us to Himself. This profound revelation of YHVH would not
only impact Moshe, but the entire nation of Yisrael from this point on
throughout all her existence. In fact, the Set Apartness of His Name would
remain the central focus of all truth and worship for all eternity.
Exo 3:1 And Mosheh
was shepherding the flock of Yithro (Excellent, His Excellence, His Remnant)
his father-in-law, the priest of Miḏyan. And he led the
flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to Ḥorĕḇ, the mountain of
Elohim.
Whenever YHVH wants to bring deliverance to his people He
raises a shepherd – our fathers Avraham, Yitchak and Yakov were all shepherds.
The Messiah is and will always be the chief shepherd.
Joh 10:14 “I am the good shepherd.1 And I
know Mine, and Mine know Me, Footnote: 1Ezek. 34:11-12, Heb. 13:20,
1 Peter 2:25, 1 Peter 5:4. Joh 10:15
even as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My
life for the sheep.
Joh 10:16 “And other sheep I have which are not of this
fold – I have to bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there
shall be one flock, one shepherd.1 Footnote: 1Ezek.
34:23, Ezek. 37:24.
Exo 3:2 And
the Messenger of יהוה appeared to
him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. And he looked and saw the bush
burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Exo 3:3 And Mosheh said, “Let me turn aside now, and
see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” Exo 3:4 And יהוה saw that he
turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and
said, “Mosheh! Mosheh!” And he said, “Here I am.”
This burning bush represents the first miracle of the
Exodus journey. According to the law of first appearances it lays a foundation
for all miracles. Miracles were not meant to entertain but to bring us out of
bondage. The fire and light of this first miracle will not cease until the
mission of our return to the land has been accomplished.
Miracles were always meant to release us from oppression
and show us the way back home. That is why genuine miracles are so set apart.
Exo 3:5 And He
said, “Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on
which you are standing is set-apart ground.”
‘’Sandals’’ is a symbol of our ‘’walk’’ in Hebrew
‘’halacha’’ Moshe’s ‘’halachah’’ was not perfect as is the case with all
mankind. There is only One whose ‘’halacha’’ was perfect- Yahshua.
Exo 3:6 And He
said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Aḇraham,
the Elohim of Yitsḥaq, and the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ.” And
Mosheh hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim. Exo 3:7 And יהוה said, “I have
indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard
their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows.