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.
נפשׁ כי תחטא – when a being(‘’nefesh’’)
loses their way in life or when they stray from the Torah (by accident שׁגגה)
Lev 4:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Lev 4:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘When a being (Heb ‘’nefesh”)sins by mistake (שׁגגה)against any of the commands of יהוה, which are not to be done, and shall do any of them:
Eze 18:4 “See, all beings(‘’nefesh’’) are Mine, the being(‘’nefesh’’) of the father as well as the being(‘’nefesh’’) of the son is Mine. The being(‘’nefesh’’) that is sinning(החטאת) shall die – Gen 2:7
‘’ החטאת ‘’ is a present tense verb or participle in Hebrew and clearly implies one who continually sins and refuses to acknowledge, confess, and forsake their sins –
This weeks Torah portion is about the sin offering (Heb ‘’korban chatat’’) a compulsory offering.
1Jn 3:4 Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. (again, someone who knowingly or in ignorance continues to disobey YHVH’s Torah – the definition of sin)
Jas 2:10 For whoever shall guard all the Torah, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
This is
how serious YHVH is about obedience to the Torah. Yahshua did not come to
change Torah but to elevate the Torah – set an even higher standard of
obedience to Torah. Yahshua goes on to live a sinless life an then lay down His
own life as a payment of the penalty of failing to live in accordance with the
Torah –
Tit
2:14 who gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all lawlessness[b] and to cleanse for Himself a
people, His own possession, ardent for good works.[c] Footnotes: bSee also 1Jn_3:4,
Mat_1:21, Act_3:19 and Act_3:26, Act_26:18, Rom_6:1-22,
Eph_2:1-10, 1Jn_3:8, Tit_3:5. c Mat_16:27.
Tit 2:15 Speak these matters, urge, and convict[d] with all authority. Let no one despise you. Footnote: dOr confute. – or exposing the real truth, separating truth from error S1651.
One of the reasons YHVH gave us the Torah was to show us the exceeding sinfulness of sin? – Rom 7:13 Therefore, has that which is good (Torah)become death to me? Let it not be! But the sin, that sin might be manifest, was working death in me through what is good, so that sin through the command might become an exceedingly great sinner. (religion prevents this from happening)
No One Is Righteous – Describing the condition of every single human being on earth.
Rom
3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all, for we have
previously accused both Yehuḏim and Greeks that they are all under sin.
Rom 3:10
As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one! (it will not remain this way as
people remove themselves from religion with deep repentance)
Rom
3:11 “There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is
seeking Elohim.
Rom
3:12 “They all have turned aside, they have together become worthless.
There is none who does good, no, not one.” Psa_14:1-3, Psa_53:1-4.
Rom
3:13 “Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have
deceived,” Psa_5:9 “The poison of adders is under their lips,”
Psa_140:3.
Rom
3:14 “Whose mouth is filled with cursing and bitterness.” Psa_10:7.
Rom
3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood, Pro_1:16.
Rom
3:16 ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,
Rom
3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.” Isa_59:7.
Rom
3:18 “There is no fear of Elohim before their eyes.” Psa_36:1.
Rom
3:19 And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are
in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come
under judgment before Elohim.
Rom 3:20 Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, Psa_143:2 for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.b Footnote: b Exo_20:20, Rom_4:15, Rom_7:7.
We have
a problem, He has the solution – Religion is one of the greatest curses to have
come upon mankind. Religion falsely teaches that you can work out your own
salvation WITHOUT fear or trembling –
Php 2:12 So that, my beloved, as you always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much rather in my absence – work out your own deliverance with fear and trembling, Psa_2:11. –
All World religions have promoted the ‘’Satanic agenda’’ to steal kill and destroy – Jn 10:10
1Jn
1:9 If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us
the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.
Even the
Apostolic scriptures teach that deliberately transgressing the Torah witnessed
by two or three witnesses carries the death penalty –
Heb
10:28 Anyone who has disregarded (Gk repudiating – present continuous tense) the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion
on the witness of two or three witnesses.
Heb 10:29 How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour? (ie declaring the sacrificial system null and void)
The world may be on the verge of finding out how serious YHVH is about His Torah – Is 24.
Rom 8:4 so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
We know
that if we confess our sins YHVH is merciful and will forgive us our sins. When
we keep on making the same mistakes, YHVH will chastise us and discipline us to
correct wrong patterns of behavior and actions.
See Deut 28 and Lev 26 – ‘’tochacha’’
Heb 12:4 You have not yet resisted unto blood,
striving against sin.
Heb 12:5 And you have forgotten the appeal which
speaks to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise the discipline of יהוה, nor faint when you are
reproved by Him,
Heb
12:6 for whom יהוה loves, He disciplines, and flogs (G3146 – Gk – ‘’mastegoi’’ Jn
19:1 same Gk root) every son whom He
receives.”1 Footnote: 1Prov. 3:11-12.
Heb
12:7 If you endure discipline, Elohim is
treating you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?
Heb
12:8 But if you are without discipline,
of which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
Heb
12:9 Moreover, we indeed had fathers of
our flesh disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be
subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb
12:10 For they indeed disciplined us for
a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we
might share His apartness.
Heb
12:11 And indeed, no discipline seems
pleasant at the time, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit
of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.1 Footnote: 1Dt.
8:2.
Heb
12:12 So, strengthen the hands which
hang down and the weak knees,
Heb
12:13 and make straight paths for your
feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.
Heb 12:14 Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.
There is
real danger that if we persist in behaviour that is unacceptable to YHVH we may
even lose our salvation –
Mat
12:31 “Because of this I say to you, all sin and blasphemy shall be
forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven
men. Mat 12:32 “And whoever speaks
a word against the Son of Aḏam, it shall be forgiven him, but whoever speaks
against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age
or in the age to come.
Lev 4:3 ‘If the anointed priest - הכהן המשׁיח -or high priest- sins, bringing guilt on the people, then he shall bring to יהוה for his sin which he has sinned a young bull, a perfect one, as a sin offering,
Heb 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin. Heb 4:16 Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of favour, in order to receive compassion, and find favour for timely help.
Lev
4:4 and he shall bring the bull to the
door of the Tent of Meeting before יהוה,
and shall lay his hand on the bull’s head, and slaughter the bull before יהוה.
Lev
4:5 ‘And the anointed priest shall take
some of the bull’s blood and bring it to the Tent of Meeting,
Lev
4:6 and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before יהוה, in front of the veil of the
set-apart place.
Lev
4:7 ‘And the priest shall put some of
the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before יהוה, which is in the Tent of
Meeting, and pour all the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of the
burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev
4:8 ‘Then he takes all the fat of the
bull as the sin offering, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat
which is on the entrails,
Lev
4:9 and the two kidneys and the fat that
is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with
the kidneys,
Lev
4:10 as it was taken from the bull of
the peace offering. And the priest shall burn them on the altar of the burnt
offering.
Lev 4:11 ‘But the skin of the bull, and all its flesh,
with its head and legs, its entrails and dung –
Lev 4:12 all of the bull – he shall bring outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it is burned.
This is alluding to the Messiah who was offered up outside the camp - Heb 13:10 We have a slaughter-place from which those serving the Tent have no authority to eat. Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart Place by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Heb 13:12 And so יהושע also suffered outside the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood. Heb 13:13 Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp,(outside of religion) bearing His reproach. Heb 13:14 For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming.
Lev
4:13 ‘And if the entire congregation
of Yisra’ĕl strays by mistake, and the matter has been hidden from the eyes of
the assembly, and they have done against any of the commands of יהוה, which are not to be done,
and shall be guilty,
Lev 4:14 when the sin which they have sinned becomes known, then the assembly shall bring a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the Tent of Meeting.
1Co
4:4 For I am not conscious of any matter against myself, yet I am
not declared right by this, but He who judges me is יהוה.
1Co
4:5 So do not judge any at all before the time, until the Master comes,
who shall bring to light what is hidden in darkness and reveal the thoughts of
the hearts. And then each one’s praise shall come from Elohim.
Lev
4:15 ‘And the elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before יהוה, and the bull shall be slaughtered before יהוה.
Lev
4:16 ‘And the anointed priest shall
bring some of the bull’s blood to the Tent of Meeting,
Lev
4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger
in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before יהוה,
in front of the veil,
Lev
4:18 and put some of the blood on the
horns of the altar which is before יהוה,
which is in the Tent of Meeting, and pour all the blood at the base of the
altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev
4:19 ‘Then he takes all the fat from it
and shall burn it on the altar.
Lev
4:20 ‘And he shall do with the bull as
he did with the bull as a sin offering – so shall he do it. And the priest
shall make atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.
Lev
4:21 ‘And he shall bring the bull
outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is a sin offering
for the assembly.
Lev
4:22 ‘When a ruler sins, and by
mistake has done against any of the commands of יהוה his Elohim which are not to be done, and shall be guilty,
Lev
4:23 or if his sin which he has sinned
is made known to him, then he shall bring as his offering a buck of the goats,
a male, a perfect one.
Lev
4:24 ‘And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the goat, and slaughter it at the place where they slaughter the burnt
offering before יהוה. It
is a sin offering.
Lev
4:25 ‘And the priest shall take some of
the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of
the altar of burnt offering, and pour its blood at the base of the altar of
burnt offering,
Lev 4:26 and burn all its fat on the altar, like the
fat of the slaughtering of the peace offering. And the priest shall make
atonement for him for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Lev
4:27 ‘And if any being (nefesh) of
the people of the land sins by mistake by doing against any of the
commands of יהוה
which are not to be done, and shall be guilty,
Lev
4:28 or if his sin which he has sinned
shall be made known to him, then he shall bring as his offering a female goat,
a perfect one, for his sin which he has sinned.
Lev
4:29 ‘And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the sin offering, and slaughter the sin offering at the place of the
burnt offering.
Lev
4:30 ‘And the priest shall take some of
its blood with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of burnt
offering, and pour all the blood at the base of the altar,
Lev
4:31 then remove all its fat, as fat is
removed from the slaughtering of the peace offering. And the priest shall burn
it on the altar for a sweet fragrance to יהוה.
And the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Lev
4:32 ‘And if he brings a lamb as his sin
offering, he brings a female, a perfect one.
Lev
4:33 ‘And he shall lay his hand on the
head of the sin offering, and slaughter it as a sin offering at the place where
they slaughter the burnt offering.
Lev
4:34 ‘And the priest shall take some of
the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of
the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the blood at the base of the altar.
Lev
4:35 ‘Then he removes all its fat, as
the fat of the lamb is removed from the slaughtering of the peace offering. And
the priest shall burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire
to יהוה. So
the priest shall make atonement for his sin that he has sinned, and it shall be
forgiven him.
Joh
16:7 “But I say the truth to you. It is better for you that I go away,
for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you at all, but if I go,
I shall send Him to you.
Joh 16:8 “And having come, He shall convict[a] the world concerning sin,[b] and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment – Footnotes: aOr confute or prove wrong. b 2Ch_24:20, Neh_9:30, Eze_36:27, Mic_3:8, Act_28:25-27.
‘’The word convict is a translation of the Greek word elencho, which means “to convince someone of the truth..’’ concerning sin ,righteousness and judgment. Religion has hidden the real truth about the seriousness of sin – The righteousness of the Torah is that we embrace the seriousness of sin with the faithful conviction that one day He will remove all sin from His people.
Joh 16:9 concerning sin because they do not believe in Me, We have created a belief system around Yahshua which is not true reflection of who He is - we have misrepresented Him – 2 Cor 11:3-5
Joh 16:10 concerning righteousness because I go to My Father and you see Me no more -We have no righteousness of our own – Is 64:6 We are ‘’becoming’’ the righteousness of Elohim in Messiah – 2 Cor 5:21
Joh 16:11 concerning judgment because the ruler of this world[c] is judged. Footnote: cSee Luk_4:6.
Satan continues to deceive mankind, however not all of mankind is deceived by him - Rev 13:7 And it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones and to overcome them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation. Rev 13:8 And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him.
Some scholars believe
that by the end of the millennium all sin will be removed completely forever
from His people - Jud
1:24 And to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present
you blameless before the presence of His esteem with exceeding joy…
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.
Sin offering part 1
Sin offering part 2
The guilt offering Lev
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