Jer 1:4 Now the word of יהוה came to me,
saying,
Jer 1:5 “Before I
formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I did
set you apart – I appointed you a prophet to nations.”
Jer 1:6 And said
I, “Ah, Master יהוה! See, I do not
know how to speak, for I am a youth.”
Jer 1:7 And יהוה said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
but go to all to whom I send you, and speak whatever I command you.
Jer 1:8 “Do not
fear their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares יהוה.
Jer 1:9 Then יהוה put forth His hand and touched my mouth,
and יהוה said to me, “See, I have put My words in
your mouth.
Jer 1:10 “See, I
have this day set you over the nations and over the reigns, to root out and to
pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Yirmeyahu
witnessed the destruction of Yerushalayim and the exile of his people to
Babylon. He urged repentance and warned of the coming judgement and at the same
time, he held out the promise of restoration and return.
Like Moshe,
Yirmeyahu’s message prepares an end time people for the last days before
Messiah returns.
Today there
remains a small remnant who too have heard the call of Yirmeyahu, a call that
resonates deep within their own spirits. “Deep calls unto deep” – Ps 42:7
Our Torah
portion begins where YHVH is angry with Moshe for being a reluctant prophet.
Exo 4:14 And the displeasure of יהוה burned against
Mosheh, and He said, “Is not Aharon the Lĕwite your brother? I know that he
speaks well. And see, he is also coming out to meet you. And when he sees you,
he shall be glad in his heart.
Exo 4:15 “And you
shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I am with your mouth and
with his mouth, and I shall teach you what to do.
Exo 4:16 “And he
shall speak for you to the people. And it shall be that he shall be a mouth for
you, and you shall be an elohim1 for him. Footnote: 1Or mighty
one, which is proof that elohim is but a title, indicating order or
authority – it is not a proper name.
Exo 4:17 “And take
this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
Exo 4:18 Then
Mosheh went and returned to Yithro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please
let me go and return to my brothers who are in Mitsrayim to see whether they
are still alive.” And Yithro said to Mosheh, “Go in peace.”
Exo 4:19 And יהוה said to Mosheh in Miḏyan,
“Go, return to Mitsrayim, for all the men are dead who sought your life.” See Matt 2:20
Exo 4:20 So Mosheh
took his wife and his sons and set them on a(the) donkey, and he returned to
the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod of Elohim in his hand.
“the donkey” (ha chamor) – the sages believe this was
Messiah’s donkey. Some sages believed that Messiah would come on a donkey to
bring deliverance to Yisrael.
Zec 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Tsiyon!
Shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim! See, your Sovereign is coming to you, He is
righteous and endowed with deliverance, humble and riding on a donkey, a colt,
the foal of a donkey1. Footnote: 1Mt. 21:5, John 12:15.
Exo 4:21 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “As you go back to
Mitsrayim, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in
your hand. But I am going to harden his heart, so that he does not let the
people go.
Exo 4:22 “And you
shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Yisra’ĕl is
My son, My first-born,
Exo 4:23 so I say
to you, let My son go to serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, see, I am
killing your son, your first-born.” ’ ”
This is the first time Yisrael is referred to as a
nation, not only a nation amongst nations, but the nation referred to as YHVH’s
first born son.
Exo 4:24 And it
came to be on the way, in the lodging place, that יהוה met him and
sought to kill him.
Exo 4:25 And
Tsipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it
at Mosheh’s feet, and said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!”
Exo 4:26 So He let
him go. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the
circumcision.
It is possible that on this occasion Tsipporah also left
Moshe. We see that Tsipporah is only mentioned again after this event in Shemot
chapter 18.
Exo 18:2 And Yithro, Mosheh’s father-in-law, took
Tsipporah, the wife of Mosheh – after he had sent her back, (or after her
dismissal)
Exo 18:3 and her two sons, of whom the name of one was
Gĕreshom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land,”
Exo 18:4 and the name of the other was Eliʽezer, for he said,
“The Elohim of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of
Pharaoh.”
Exo 18:5
Yithro, Mosheh’s father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to
Mosheh in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of Elohim.
Exo 18:6 And
he had said to Mosheh, “I, your father-in-law Yithro, am coming to you with
your wife and her two sons with her.”
There is much
uncertainty and speculation about these events. It seems however that many of
the pagan tribes followed the custom of circumcision just before marriage or in
the teen years of a young man. This influence could have come from the event of
Ishmael’s circumcision. Some say that the Midianites were descendants of
Ishmael.
Perhaps this is the
reason why YHVH became angry with Moshe. Moshe had not circumcised his son
according the Torah. Yitzchak the chosen first born son was circumcised on the
eighth day (Gen 21:4)– this was the Torah of YHVH. Now YHVH’s first born son
Yisrael could not follow the customs of the descendants of Ishmael but of
Yitzchak – the son of promise.
It is also possible that
YHVH became very angry because Yisrael had so assimilated into Egypt that they
no longer performed circumcisions on their male infants, or if they did they
performed them according to Egyptian customs.
The Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the mid fifth century BCE, stated the Egyptians “practise circumcision for the sake of cleanliness, considering it better to be cleanly than comely.” He also wrote: “They [Egyptians] are the only people in the world—they at least, and such as have learnt the practice from them—who use circumcision.”
Exo 4:27 And יהוה said to Aharon, “Go to meet Mosheh in the
wilderness.” And he went and met him on the mountain of Elohim, and kissed him.
. (Mount
Sinai is where spiritual leaders meet to discuss the liberation of YHVH’s
people)
Exo 4:28 Mosheh
then told Aharon all the words of יהוה who had sent
him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.
Exo 4:29 And
Mosheh went with Aharon and gathered together all the elders of the children of
Yisra’ĕl.
Exo 4:30 And
Aharon spoke all the words which יהוה had spoken to
Mosheh. Then he did the signs before the eyes of the people.
Exo 4:31 And the
people believed. And they heard that יהוה had visited
the children of Yisra’ĕl and that He had looked on their affliction, and they
bowed their heads and did obeisance.
Exo 5:1 And afterwards Mosheh and Aharon went in and
said to Pharaoh, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of
Yisra’ĕl, ‘Let My people go, so that they keep a festival to Me in the
wilderness.’ ”
Exo 5:2 And
Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should
obey His voice to let Yisra’ĕl go? I do not know יהוה, nor am I
going to let Yisra’ĕl go.”
Exo 5:3 And they
said, “The Elohim of the Heḇrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’
journey into the wilderness and slaughter to יהוה our Elohim,
lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
The Yisraelites may not have been exaggerating when they
feared the consequences of not obeying the command of Moshe to go out into the
wilderness for three days. At this time in the history of the nation of Yisrael
they had so assimilated into the Egyptian society that they had forsaken the
ancient paths of their faith. Some sages believe that by the time Yisrael was
to leave Mitsrayim they had fallen to the 49th level of assimilation
into pagan society. They say there were just one step away from complete
assimilation and complete loss of their identity as descendants of Yakov. Today
there remains a great danger of assimilation into the anti Torah, anti Semitic
culture of the modern world.
Exo 5:4 But the
sovereign of Mitsrayim said to them, “Mosheh and Aharon, why do you take the
people from their work? Get back to your burdens.”
Exo 5:5 And
Pharaoh said, “See, the people of the land are many now, and you make them
cease from their burdens!”
Exo 5:6 And the
same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen,
saying,
Exo 5:7 “You are
no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and
gather straw for themselves.
Exo 5:8 “And lay
on them the required amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish
it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and
slaughter to our Elohim.’
Exo 5:9 “Let more
work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and not pay attention to
words of falsehood.”
Exo 5:10 And the
slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people,
saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you straw.
Exo 5:11 ‘Go, take
straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your work shall not be
diminished.’ ”
Exo 5:12 And the
people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for
straw.
Exo 5:13 And the
slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete your work, your daily
amount, as when there was straw.”
Exo 5:14 Also the
foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over
them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your task in
making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?”
Exo 5:15 And the
foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why
do you treat your servants this way?
Exo 5:16 “There is
no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And see,
your servants are beaten, but your own people are at fault.”
Exo 5:17 But he
said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and
slaughter to יהוה.’
Exo 5:18 “So now
go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.”
Exo 5:19 And the
foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in trouble after it was
said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.”
Exo 5:20 And when
they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and Aharon who stood there to meet
them.
Exo 5:21 And they
said to them, “Let יהוה look on you
and judge, because you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the
eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Exo 5:22 And
Mosheh returned to יהוה and said, “יהוה, why have You done evil to this people?
Why did You send me?
Exo 5:23 “For ever
since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done evil to this people.
And You have not delivered Your people at all.”
Exo 6:1 And יהוה said to
Mosheh, “Now see what I do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he is going to
let them go, and with a strong hand he is going to drive them out of his land.”
The exodus from Egypt remains one the most important
themes of the Torah. In fact the foundational saying in the 10 sayings is:
Exo 20:2 “I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of
Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery.
For more information on end time prophecies and how they
relate to the Hebraic roots movement :
Deu 4:30 “In your distress, when all these words shall
come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to יהוה your Elohim
and shall obey His voice.
Deu 4:31 “For יהוה your Elohim is a compassionate Ěl, He does
not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which
He swore to them.
Deu 31:27 for I myself know your rebellion and your
stiff neck. See, while I am still alive with you today, you have been
rebellious against יהוה, then how much
more after my death?
Deu 31:28
“Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so
that I speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to
witness against them.
Deu 31:29 “For I
know that after my death you shall do very corruptly and turn aside from the
way which I have commanded you. And evil shall come to you in the latter days,
because you do what is evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke
Him through the work of your hands.”
Jer 16:14 “Therefore see, the days are coming,”
declares יהוה, “when it is
no longer said, ‘יהוה lives who
brought up the children of Yisra’ĕl from the land of Mitsrayim,’
Jer 16:15 but, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of
Yisra’ĕl from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven
them.’ For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers.
Jer
16:16 “See, I am sending for many
fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for
many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and
out of the holes of the rocks.
Jer 30:7 ‘Oh! For great is that day, there is none
like it. And it is the time of Yaʽaqoḇ’s distress, but he
shall be saved out of it.
Jer 30:8
‘And it shall be in that day,’ declares יהוה of hosts,
‘that I break his yoke from your neck, and tear off your bonds, and foreigners
no more enslave them.
Jer 30:9 ‘And they
shall serve יהוה their Elohim
and Dawiḏ their sovereign, whom I raise up for them.
Jer 30:10 ‘And
you, do not fear, O Yaʽaqoḇ My servant,’ declares יהוה, ‘nor be
discouraged, O Yisra’ĕl. For look, I am saving you from afar, and your seed
from the land of their captivity. And Yaʽaqoḇ shall
return, and have rest and be at ease, with no one to trouble him.
Jer 30:11 ‘For I
am with you,’ declares יהוה, ‘to save you.
Though I make a complete end of all gentiles1 where I have scattered
you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in
judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.’ Footnote: 1See
46:28, Isa. 34:2, Isa. 45:17, Dan. 2:44, Amos 9:8, Hag. 2:22.
Jer 30:12 “For
thus said יהוה, ‘Your breach
is incurable, your wound is grievous.
Jer 30:23 See, the storm of יהוה shall go forth
in a rage, a whirling storm! It bursts upon the head of the wrong.
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 it1. Footnote: 1See 23:20.
We have no idea how bound we are –
church loves too quote - Joh 8:36 “If, then, the Son makes you free, you shall
be free indeed.
Jer 23:16 Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Do
not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, they lead you
astray. They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of יהוה.
Jer
23:17 “They keep on saying to those who
despise Me, ‘יהוה has said you shall have peace.’ And to all who walk according
to the stubbornness of their own heart they say, ‘No evil comes upon
you.’ ”
Jer 23:19 See, a storm of יהוה shall go forth
in a rage, a whirling storm! It whirls on the head of the wrong.
Jer 23:20 The
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 perfectly.1 Footnote: 1See
30:24.