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.)
“According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the triennial
cycle "was the practice in Israel, whereas in Babylonia the entire Torah
was read in the synagogue in the course of a single year. During Temple times,
however, most Orthodox Jews read through the Torah twice in seven years. The
portion read on Shabbat, for this seven year cycle, is about a chapter in
length. This seven year Torah cycle was
referred to as the Septennial] cycle…. all of the Torah reference in the
Nazarean Codicil (apostolic scriptures) have reference only to the Septennial
cycle….An interesting feature of the Septennial cycle is that it tends to put
the Torah in chronological order. We will explore some of these chronological
connections later in this paper.”
http://www.betemunah.org/shmita.html
Num 4:17 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 4:18 “Do not
cut off the tribe of the clans of the Qehathites from among the Lĕwites,
Num 4:19 but do
this to them, and they shall live and not die when they approach the most
set-apart objects: Aharon and his sons shall go in and appoint each of
them to his service and his burden.
Num 4:20 “They are
not, however, to go in to watch while the set-apart objects are being
covered, lest they die.”
Clearly the “Qehathites” or “kohanim” have been “cut off”. When Yirmeyahu
prophecies about the restoration of the covenant the Levitical priesthood will
also be restored.
Jer 33:18 ‘And for the priests, the Lĕwites, there is
not to cease a man to offer burnt offerings before Me, to kindle grain
offerings, and to slaughter continually.’ ”
We also clearly in Ezekiel’s prophecy from Chapters 40
-48 a restoration of the temple service and Levitical priesthood.
Amongst believers of Yahshua
much misunderstanding has come about because of a lack of knowledge of the
scriptures - Mat 22:29
And יהושע answering, said to them, “You go astray,
not knowing the Scriptures1 nor the power of Elohim. Footnote: 1Mk.
12:24.
Heb 9:24 For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart
Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,
Heb 9:25 not that He should offer Himself often, as
the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his
own.
Heb 9:26 For if so, He would have had to suffer often,
since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the
end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself.
Heb 9:27 And as it awaits men to die once, and after
this the judgment,
Heb 9:28 so also the Messiah, having been offered once
to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those
waiting for Him, unto deliverance.
The above scripture
has been greatly misunderstood. Let us consider the meaning of this scripture
in its context.
These scriptures are telling us how set apart YHVH really is. This is
the duty of the Priesthood. This lack of fear for the set apartness of YHVH is
the greatest danger mankind faces today.
Heb 8:1 Now the summary of what we are saying is: We
have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the
Greatness in the heavens,
Heb 8:2 and who serves in the set-apart place and of
the true Tent, which יהוה set up, and
not man.
Heb 8:3 For every
high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and slaughters. So it was also
necessary for this One to have somewhat to offer.
Heb 8:4 For if
indeed He were on earth, He would not be
a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah,
Heb 8:5 who serve
a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to
make the Tent. For He said, “See that you make all according to the pattern
shown you on the mountain.”
Heb 8:6 But now He
has obtained a more excellent service, inasmuch as He is also Mediatorof a
better covenant, which was constituted on better promises. (one has visitation
rights the other permanent residence rights)
Heb 8:7 For if
that first covenant (the word covenant has been added) had been
faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second – (see verses
chapter 9 , first and second refer to the different sections in the temple –
the set apart place and the most set apart place)
Heb 8:8 For finding
fault with them, He says, “See, the days are coming,” says יהוה, “when I shall conclude with the house of
Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah a
renewed covenant,
Heb 8:9 not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took
them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim, because they did
not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them,” says יהוה.
Heb 8:10 “Because
this is the covenant that I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those
days, says יהוה, giving My
laws in their mind, and I shall write them on their hearts, and I shall be
their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
Heb 8:11 “And they
shall by no means teach each one his neighbour, and each one his brother,
saying, ‘Know יהוה,’ because they
all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
Heb 8:12 “Because
I shall forgive their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I
shall no longer remember.”1 Footnote: 1Jer. 31:31-34,
Heb. 10:16-17.
Heb 8:13 By
saying, ‘renewed,’ He has made the first old. Now what becomes old and growing
aged is near disappearing.
Heb 9:1 Now the first covenant (added)indeed
had regulations of worship and the earthly set-apart place.
Heb 9:2 For a Tent was prepared: the first part, in
which was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread, which is called the
Set-apart Place.
Heb 9:3 And after the second veil, the part of the
Tent which is called Most Set-apart,
Heb 9:4 to which belonged the golden censer, and the
ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden
pot that held the manna, and the rod of Aharon that budded, and the tablets of
the covenant,
Heb 9:5 and above it the keruḇim of esteem were
overshadowing the place of atonement – about which we do not now speak in
detail.
Heb 9:6 And
these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first
part of the Tent, accomplishing the services.
Heb 9:7 But
into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood,
which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,1
Footnote: 1Num. 15:15-28.
Heb 9:8 the
Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place
was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing,
Heb 9:9
which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and
slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his
conscience,
Heb 9:10 only as to foods and drinks, and different
washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters
straight.
Heb 9:11 But Messiah, having become a High Priest of
the coming good matters, through the greater and more perfect Tent not
made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
Heb 9:12 entered into the Most Set-apart Place once
for all, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, having
obtained everlasting redemption.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the
ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the
flesh,
Heb 9:14 how much more shall the blood of the Messiah,
who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim,
cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?
Heb 9:15 And because of this He is the Mediator of a
renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the
transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the
promise of the everlasting inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a covenant is, it is necessary for
the death of the covenanted one to be established.
Heb 9:17 For a covenant over those dead is firm, since
it is never valid while the covenanted one is living.
Heb 9:18 Therefore not even the first covenant
was instituted without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when, according to Torah, every command
had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people, he took the blood of calves and
goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book
itself and all the people,
Heb 9:20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant
which Elohim commanded you.”
Heb 9:21 And in the same way he sprinkled with blood
both the Tent and all the vessels of the service.
Heb 9:22 And, according to the Torah, almost all is
cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Heb 9:23 It was necessary, then, that the copies of
the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones
themselves with better slaughter offerings than these.
Heb 9:24 For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart
Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,
Heb 9:25 not that He should offer Himself often, as
the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his
own.
Heb 9:26 For if so, He would have had to suffer often,
since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the
end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself.
Heb 9:27 And as it awaits men to die once, and after
this the judgment,
Heb 9:28 so also the Messiah, having been offered once
to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those
waiting for Him, unto deliverance.
Heb 10:1 For the Torah, having a shadow of the good matters
to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make
perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter offerings which they
offer continually year by year.
Heb 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be
offered? Because those who served, once cleansed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those offerings is a reminder
of sins year by year.
Heb 10:4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and
goats to take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Therefore, coming into the world, He says,
“Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire, but a body You have
prepared for Me.
Heb 10:6 “In burnt offerings and offerings for
sin You did not delight.1 Footnote: 1Ps. 40:6, 7.
Heb 10:7 “Then I said, ‘See, I come – in the roll of
the book it has been written concerning Me – to do Your desire, O Elohim.’ ”
Heb 10:8 Saying above, “Slaughter and meal offering,
and burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor
delighted in,” which are offered according to the Torah,
Heb 10:9 then He said, “See, I come to do Your desire,
O Elohim.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By that desire we have been set apart through
the offering of the body of יהושע Messiah once
for all.
Heb 10:11 And
indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering
the same slaughter offerings which are never able to take away sins.
Heb 10:12 But He,
having offered one slaughter offering for sins for all time, sat down at
the right hand of Elohim,
Heb 10:13 waiting
from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.
Heb 10:14 For by
one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being set apart.
Heb 10:15 And the
Set-apart Spirit also witnesses to us, for after having said before,
Heb 10:16 “This is
the covenant that I shall make with them after those days, says יהוה, giving My laws into their hearts, and in
their minds I shall write them,”1 Footnote: 1Jer. 31:33,
Heb. 8:8-12.
Heb 10:17 and,
“Their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall remember no more.”
Heb 10:18 Now
where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer a slaughter offering
for sin.
Heb 10:19 So,
brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע,
Heb 10:20 by a new
and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His
flesh,
Heb 10:21 and having
a High Priest over the House of Elohim,
Heb 10:22 let us
draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts
sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.
Heb 10:23 Let us
hold fast the confession of our expectation without yielding, for He who
promised is trustworthy.
Heb 10:24 And let
us be concerned for one another in order to stir up love and good works,1
Footnote: 1Mt. 16:27.
Heb 10:25 not
forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the habit of some, but
encouraging, and so much more as you see the Day coming near.
Heb 10:26 For if
we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,1 Footnote: 1See
also 6:6, Heb. 9:7, Num. 15:15-28.
Heb 10:27 but some
fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume
the opponents.
Heb 10:28 Anyone
who has disregarded 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?
Heb 10:30 For we
know Him who has said, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay, says יהוה.” And again, “יהוה shall judge His people.”
Heb 10:31 It is
fearsome to fall into the hands of the living Elohim.
Heb 10:32 But
remember the former days, when, after you were enlightened, you endured a great
struggle with sufferings.
Heb 10:33 On the
one hand you were exposed to reproaches and pressures, and on the other hand
you became sharers with those who were so treated,
Heb 10:34 for you
sympathised with me in my chains, and you accepted with joy the seizure of your
possessions, knowing that you have a better and a lasting possession for
yourselves in the heavens.
Heb 10:35 Do not,
then, lose your boldness, which has great reward.
Heb 10:36 For you
have need of endurance, so that when you have done the desire of Elohim, you
receive the promise:
Heb 10:37 “For yet
a little while – He who is coming shall come and shall not delay.”
Heb 10:38 “But the
righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no
pleasure in him.”
Heb 10:39 But we
are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of belief to the
preservation of life.
It is impossible that the Apostolic Scriptures (what we
called NewTestament) would negate or replace the teachings of the Torah.
Baruch atah
YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam
nata-b’tochenu. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(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 – Ameyn).