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. Amein.
וירא אליו
Gen 18:1 And יהוה appeared to him by the
terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, while he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of
the day.
“Va Yerah” is a Niphal
verb ie a passive verb, meaning that YHVH allowed Himself to be seen by
Avraham.
The same is true of
these days – speaking of Messiah Peter states - 1Pe 1:20 foreknown, indeed, before the
foundation of the world, but manifested in these last times for your
sakes,
Heb 1:2 has in these last days spoken to us by
the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the ages,[a]
Footnote: aSee Joh_1:3. Heb 1:3 who being the brightness of the esteem and the exact
representation of His substance, and sustaining all by the word of His power,
having made a cleansing of our sins through Himself, sat down at the right
hand Psa_110:1 of the Greatness on high, Heb 1:4 having
become so much better than the messengers, as He has inherited a more excellent
Name than them.
Gen
18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked,
and saw three men standing opposite him. And when he saw them, he ran from the
tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,
Gen
18:3 and said, “יהוה, if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do not pass
Your servant by.
Gen
18:4 “Please let a little water be
brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Gen
18:5 “And let me bring a piece of bread
and refresh your hearts, and then go on, for this is why you have come to your
servant.” And they said, “Do as you have said.”
Gen
18:6 So Aḇraham ran into the tent to
Sarah and said, “Hurry, make ready three measures of fine flour, knead it and
make cakes.”
Gen
18:7 And Aḇraham ran to the herd, took
a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hurried to prepare it.
Gen 18:8 And he took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree as they ate. (Ex 23:19)
Heb 13:2 Do not forget to receive strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained messengers.
Gen 18:9 And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “See, in the tent.”
ט וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו,
אַיֵּה שָׂרָה אִשְׁתֶּךָ; וַיֹּאמֶר, הִנֵּה בָאֹהֶל.
Over the word “elaiv”
are three “yuts” over the letter “aleph”; “yud” and “vav”.
This Hebrew word
‘’aleph, lamed’’ is a preposition and has a masculine third person ending.
We may presume that
this anomaly found the word ‘’to him’’ is also referring to Avraham’s seed.
This is a great
mystery – YHVH chooses human vessels to bring forth the revelation of His
promised Son. We are now possibly living in the days of the birth pains of
Messiah.
Mat 24:3 And as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the taught ones came to Him separately, saying, “Say to us, when shall this be, and what is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” Mat 24:4 And יהושע answering, said to them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray. Mat 24:5 “For many shall come in My Name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they shall lead many astray. Mat 24:6 “And you shall begin to hear of fightings and reports of fightings. See that you are not troubled, for these have to take place, but the end is not yet. Mat 24:7 “For nation shall rise against nation, and reign against reign. And there shall be scarcities of food, and deadly diseases, and earthquakes in places. Mat 24:8 “And all these are the beginning of birth pains.
Where is the bride of Messiah?
In His Tent …waiting for the promised Son.
The
Woman and the Dragon
Rev 12:1 And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clad with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Rev 12:2 And being pregnant, she cried out in labour and in pain to give birth.[a] Rev 12:3 And another sign was seen in the heaven: and see, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. Rev 12:4 And his tail draws a third of the stars of the heaven and throws them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. Rev 12:5 And she bore a male child[a] who was to shepherd all nations with a rod of iron. Psa_2:9 And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His throne. Footnote: aSee also Isa_26:17, Isa_66:7, Mic_4:9-10. Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
It will be in this wilderness where a remnant will prepare, usher in ‘’give birth to’’ the returning Messiah.
Rev 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. Rev 12:14 And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, to fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, Dan_7:25, Dan_12:7 from the presence of the serpent. Rev 12:15 And out of his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to cause her to be swept away by the river. Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah.
Gen
18:10 And He said, “I shall certainly
return to you according to the time of life, and see, Sarah your wife is to
have a son!” And Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.
Gen
18:11 Now Aḇraham and Sarah were old,
well advanced in age, and Sarah was past the way of women.
Gen
18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my master being old
too?”
Gen
18:13 And יהוה
said to Aḇraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I truly have a child, since
I am old?’
Gen
18:14 “Is any matter too hard for יהוה? At the appointed time I am
going to return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah is to have a
son.”
Gen
18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I
did not laugh,” for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
Gen
18:16 And the men rose up from there and
looked toward Seḏom, and Aḇraham went with them to send them away.
Gen
18:17 And יהוה
said, “Shall I hide from Aḇraham what I am doing,
Gen
18:18 since Aḇraham is certainly going
to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed in him?
Gen
18:19 “For I have known him, so that he
commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling,
so that יהוה
brings to Aḇraham what He has spoken to him.”
Gen
18:20 And יהוה
said, “Because the outcry against Seḏom and Amorah is great, and because their
sin is very heavy,
Gen
18:21 “I am going down now to see
whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has
come to Me, and if not, I know.”
Gen
18:22 So the men turned away from there
and went toward Seḏom, but יהוה
still stood before Aḇraham.
Gen
18:23 And Aḇraham drew near and said,
“Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?
Gen
18:24 “Suppose there are fifty righteous
within the city, would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the
fifty righteous that were in it?
Gen
18:25 “Far be it from You to act in this
way, to slay the righteous with the wrong, so that the righteous should be as
the wrong. Far be it from You! Does the Judge of all the earth not do right?”
Gen
18:26 And יהוה
said, “If I find in Seḏom fifty righteous within the city, then I shall spare
all the place for their sakes.”
Gen
18:27 And Aḇraham answered and said,
“Look, please, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak
to יהוה,
Gen 18:28 “Suppose there are five less than the fifty
righteous, would You destroy all of the city for lack of five?” And He said,
“If I find there forty-five, I do not destroy it.”
Gen
18:29 And he spoke to Him yet again and
said, “Suppose there are found forty?” And He said, “I would not do it for the
sake of forty.”
Gen
18:30 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me speak: Suppose there
are found thirty?” And He said, “I would not do it if I find thirty there.”
Gen
18:31 And he said, “Look, please, I have
taken it upon myself to speak to יהוה:
Suppose there are found twenty?” And He said, “I would not destroy it for the
sake of twenty.”
Gen
18:32 And he said, “Let not יהוה be displeased, and let me
speak only this time: Suppose there are found ten?” And He said, “I would not
destroy it for the sake of ten.”
Gen
18:33 Then יהוה
went away as soon as He had ended speaking to Aḇraham. And Aḇraham returned
to his place.
Luk 17:26 “And as it came to be in the days of Noaḥ, so also shall it be in the days of the Son of Aḏam: Luk 17:28 “And likewise, as it came to be in the days of Lot: They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building, Luk 17:29 but on the day Lot went out of Seḏom it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all.
Eze 16:45 “You are your mother’s daughter, who despises her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Ḥittite and your father an Amorite. (Deut 26:5) Eze 16:46 “And your elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters, who is dwelling to the north of you. And your younger sister, who is dwelling to the south of you, is Seḏom and her daughters. Eze 16:47 “And have you not walked in their ways and did according to their abominations? But in all your ways you soon became more corrupt than they. Eze 16:48 “As I live,” declares the Master יהוה, “neither your sister Seḏom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. Eze 16:49 “See, this was the crookedness of your sister Seḏom: She and her daughter had pride, sufficiency of bread, and unconcerned ease. And she did not help the poor and needy.
Rev 11:8 and their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city (Jerusalem) which spiritually is called Seḏom and Mitsrayim, where also our Master was impaled,
Isa 34:1 Come near, you nations, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all its offspring.Isa 34:2 For the displeasure of יהוה is against all the nations,[a] and His wrath against all their divisions. He shall put them under the ban, He shall give them over to the slaughter, Footnote: aSee footnote Jer_30:11.
Jer 30:24 The burning displeasure of יהוה shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it.b Footnote: bSee Jer_23:20.
Joh 14:9 ….He who has seen Me has seen the Father, and how do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
YHVH and Yahshua can still be seen and heard today!
וירא אליו
Mat
25:44 “Then they also shall answer Him, saying, ‘Master, when did we see
You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not
serve You?’
Mat
25:45 “Then He shall answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, in so far
as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to
Me.’
Mat 25:46 “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.”
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Master יהוה is upon Me, because יהוה has anointed Me to bring good news to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, Isa 61:2 to proclaim the acceptable year of יהוה, and the day of vengeance of our Elohim, to comfort all who mourn, Isa 61:3 to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.
Baruch atah YHVH,
Eloheinu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chai-yeh o’lam
nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, notein ha-Torah. Amein.
Blessed are you YHVH,
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 – Amein.