Mat 22:29
And יהושע answering, said to them, “You go astray,
not knowing the Scriptures (Ketuvim))or the power of Elohim.
Footnote: 1Mk. 12:24.
If you know the writings (Ketuvim) will you know the
Torah and the prophets?
Mattithayu records 5 sermons or discourses
made by our Master. On closer examination of these five discourses we find
significant parallels to the five books of the Torah.
These
similarities prove that believers in Yahshua were never meant to distance
themselves and the Second Writings(New Testament) from the Torah.
Hebrew name - Mattithyahu: "gift of
Yah"
Mattityahu
did not write the “first gospel” to introduce the church age – he wrote an
account of how Yahshua came to reveal the relevance of the Torah and to show us
how the Torah guides and keeps us in the Kingdom of YHVH.
“Mattityahu Levi was a tax collector in
Capernaum on Lake Kinneret [Sea of Galilee]. He worked in a Roman
customs house which was located in the area because of the bustling trade in
the area around the lake. Being a tax collector meant that Mattityahu held a
special Roman status; which afforded him societal position, and wealth
commensurate with it. His good status with the Romans was offset by the disdain
that many of his fellow countrymen held for him.”
1Co 1:26 For look at your calling, brothers, that
there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many
noble.
1Co 1:27 But Elohim has chosen the foolish matters
of the world to put to shame the wise, and Elohim has chosen the weak of the
world to put to shame the strong.
1Co 1:28 And Elohim has chosen the low-born of the
world and the despised, and the ones that are not, that He might bring to
naught the ones that are,
1Co 1:29 so that no flesh should boast in His
presence.
Mattityahu was a Levite.
Luk 5:27 And after this He went
out and saw a tax collector named Lĕwi, sitting at the tax office, and said to
him, “Follow Me.” (Mark 2:14)
A true Levite is one who
is called to represent the True Messiah as revealed in the Torah.
Levi or Mattityahu was
one of Yahshua’s 12 talmadim.
Major
theme of Mattityahu: - “living in the kingdom now” – in the midst of a
spiritual tension of the” already but not yet fully” Kingdom realization. (Paul
addresses this issue in his letters)
It
becomes obvious as you read the second writings that many of the Jewish people
felt a sense of entitlement towards the kingdom to come. Today many Jews and
Christians believe they will be granted automatic access into the “olam ha ba”(
the world to come) simply because they are Jewish or born again Christians.
Mattityahu makes it very clear
from Yahshua’s five sermons how the believer enters and becomes part of the Kingdom
of YHVH forever – see Yoh 3:3-9 – note the difference on “seeing” and “entering”
into the Kingdom of YHVH.
Eternal punishment and loss of
reward.
It is fearful
to consider that in the accounts of Yahshua’s life – he speaks about eternal
punishment more than eternal rewards. His warning was directed to those who
considered themselves believers of the truth.
Mat 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! Because you go about the land and the sea to win one convert, and
when he is won, you make him a son of Gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
Mat 23:31 “Thus you bear witness against yourselves
that you are sons of those who did murder the prophets
Mat 23:32 and you fill up the measure of your fathers!
Mat 23:33 “Serpents, brood of adders! How would you
escape the judgment of Gehenna?
14
times Yahshua uses the word “woe” which means cursed.
Mat 5:22 “But I say to you that whoever is wroth with
his brother without a cause shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to
his brother, ‘Raka!’ shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You
fool!’ shall be liable to fire of Gehenna.
Mat 5:29 “And if your right eye causes you to stumble,
pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that one of
your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into Gehenna.
Mat 5:30 “And if your right hand causes you to
stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. For it is better for you that
one of your members perish, than for your entire body to be thrown into
Gehenna.
Mat 10:28 “And do not fear those who kill the body but
are unable to kill the being. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both
being and body in Gehenna.
Mat 11:23 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to the
heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which have been
done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Mat 7:21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Master,
Master,’ shall enter into the reign of the heavens, but he who is doing the
desire of My Father in the heavens.
Mat 7:22 “Many shall say to Me in that day, ‘Master,
Master, have we not prophesied in Your Name, and cast out demons in Your Name,
and done many mighty works in Your Name?’
Mat 7:23 “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never
knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’1 Footnote: 1
See v. 15.
Mat 7:12 “Therefore, whatever you wish men to do to
you, do also to them, for this is the Torah and the Prophets.
Mat 7:13 “Enter in through the narrow gate! Because
the gate is wide – and the way is broad – that leads to destruction, and there
are many who enter in through it.
Mat 7:14 “Because the gate is narrow and the way is
hard pressed1 which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Footnote: 1Or the way is afflicted.
Mat 7:15 “But beware of the false prophets,1
who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves.
Footnote: 1See v. 23
Book of Mattityahu begins with the
genealogy of Messiah.
Mat 1:17 So all the generations from Aḇraham to Dawiḏ were fourteen
generations, and from Dawiḏ until the exile to
Baḇel were fourteen
generations, and from the exile to Baḇel
until the Messiah were fourteen generations.
Mat 2:4 And having gathered all the chief priests and
scribes of the people together, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born.
Mat 2:5 And they said to him, “In Bĕyth Leḥem of Yehuḏah, for thus it has
been written by the prophet,
Mat
2:6 ‘But you, Bĕyth Leḥem, in the land of
Yehuḏah, you are by no
means least among the rulers of Yehuḏah,
for out of you shall come a Ruler who shall shepherd My people Yisra’ĕl.’ ”1
Footnote: 1Mic. 5:2.
Mission and Calling of
Messiah.
Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the
Torah or the Prophets.1 I did not come to destroy but to complete.
Footnote: 1The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the
pre-Messianic Scriptures.
Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and
the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the
Torah till all be done.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 16:17.
Mat 5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of
these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the
heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the
reign of the heavens.
Mat 3:1 And in those days Yoḥanan the Immerser came
proclaiming in the wilderness of Yehuḏah,
Mat 3:2 and
saying, “Repent, for the reign of the heavens has come near!”
Mat 3:3 For
this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Yeshayahu, saying, “A voice of one
crying in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of יהוה, make His
paths straight.’ ”1 Footnote:1Isa. 40:3.
Mat 3:4 And Yoḥanan
had a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist. And his
food was locusts and wild honey.
Mat 3:5 Then
Yerushalayim, and all Yehuḏah, and all the country around the Yardĕn went out to
him,
Mat 3:6 and they
were immersed by him in the Yardĕn, confessing their sins.
Mat 3:7 And seeing
many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them,
“Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Mat 3:8 “Bear,
therefore, fruits worthy of repentance,
Mat 3:9 and do not
think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Aḇraham
as father.’1 For I say to you that Elohim is able to raise up
children to Aḇraham from these stones. Footnote: 1John
8:33-34, Rom. 9:8.
Mat 3:10 “And the
axe is already laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which does not
bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (Yahshua introduces an
era where no mixture will be tolerated)
Mat
3:11 “I indeed immerse you in water unto
repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I
am not worthy to bear. He shall immerse you in the Set-apart Spirit and fire.
Mat 3:13 Then יהושע came from
Galil to Yoḥanan at the Yardĕn to be immersed by him.
Mat 3:14 But Yoḥanan
was hindering Him, saying, “I need to be immersed by You, and You come to me?”
Mat
3:15 But יהושע answering,
said to him, “Permit it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fill all
righteousness.” Then he permitted Him.
Like Moshe Yahshua goes into the wilderness and fasts for
40 days and 40 nights.
Mat 4:1 Then יהושע was led up by
the Spirit into the wilderness to be tried by the devil.
Mat 4:2 And after
having fasted forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Mat 4:3 And the
trier came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of Elohim, command that these
stones become bread.”
Mat
4:4 But He answering, said, “It has been
written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
the mouth of יהוה.’ ”1
Footnote: 1Dt. 8:3. – (Torah)
Mat 4:17 From that time יהושע began to
proclaim and to say, “Repent, for the reign of the heavens has drawn near.”
Note Yahshua did not say the
Kingdom will come one day – he said the Kingdom had come.
Our disobedience to Yahshua and
His teachings have delayed us from entering into the fullness of His kingdom.
Mixed Multude.
Mat 4:24 And news about Him went out into all Syria.
And they brought to Him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and
pains, and those who were demon-possessed, and epileptics, and paralytics. And
He healed them.
Mat 4:25
And large crowds – from Galil, and Dekapolis, and Yerushalayim, and
Yehuḏah, and beyond the
Yardĕn – followed Him. (Mixed multitude)
Five Major Discourses or Sermons in Matthew
1. The Sermon on the Mount (5:1‑7:28)
2. The Missionary Discourse (10:1‑42)
3. The Parable Discourse (13:1‑53)
4. The Community Discourse (17:22‑18:35)
5. The Apocalyptic Discourse (24:1‑25:46)
1 Sermon on the mount 5:1-7:28 – “Ha
drasha al ha ar” - Beresheet/Genesis
Gen1:1-2
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת
הָאָרֶץ.
ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי
תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens
and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth came to be1 formless
and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim
was moving on the face of the waters. Footnote: 1Or the earth
became.
“Formless and empty”
in Hebrew is “tohu ve bahu” Strongs 8414 & 922 which can mean “chaotic and empty”
The CLV translation goes on to say “and
darkness was on the surface of the submerged chaos. Yet the Spirit of Elohim is
vibrating over the surface of the waters” - this describes our lives before we are born
again and enter into YHVH’s Kingdom. And so the first discourse of Yahshua
starts off by saying:
Mat 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the reign of the
heavens.
Blessed are those who have come face to
face with their “tohu ve bahu”….
According to a commentary the word “poor”
can mean “to crouch like a helpless beggar” This word suggests an image of
someone in abject poverty, totally dependent on others for help.
Yahshua’s sermon on the mount reveals the
heart of one who can and has truly embraced the Torah of Yahveh and has
submitted themselves in complete humility to becoming a totally new creation.
This reality reveals once again the essence of true
intercession. If we reject the Torah we reject the very foundations upon which intercession
is to be made for us.
Pro 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an
abomination1. Footnote: 1See also 15:29, Isa. 59:1-2,
John 9:31, 1 John 3:22.
Note Yashua’s first sermon – drasha