Bar’chu et
YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim
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.
Blessed are YHVH our Elohim – Giver of the Torah – Amein.’)
Before the ‘’remnant’’ can enter into the promised land,
great battles, both physical and spiritual will first have to take place – Dev
21:10 – ‘’ci tetze lamilchamah’’
Deu 20:10 “When you draw near to a city to fight
against it, then you shall make a call for peace to it.
Deu 20:11 “And it shall be that if it accepts your
call for peace, and shall open to you, then all the people found in it are to
be your compulsory labour, and serve you.
Deu 20:12 “But if it does not make peace with you,
and shall fight against you, then you shall besiege it,
Deu 20:13 and יהוה your Elohim shall give it into your hands,
and you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.
Deu 20:14 “Only the women, and the little ones, and
the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you take as plunder
for yourself. And you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which יהוה your Elohim gives
you.
Deu 20:15 “Do so to all the cities which are very
far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deu 20:16 “Only, of the cities of these peoples
which יהוה
your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that
breathe,
Deu 20:17 but you shall certainly put them under
the ban: the Ḥittite and the Amorite and the Kena‛anite and the Perizzite and
the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite, as יהוה your Elohim has commanded you,
Deu 20:18 lest they teach you to do according to
all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin
against יהוה
your Elohim.
These are principles of Messianic evangelism. All those
who reject YHVH’s Torah and His people will be enslaved or put to death.
Deu 20:19 “When you besiege a city for a long time
by fighting against it to take it, you do not destroy its trees by wielding an
axe against them. If you do eat of them, do not cut them down. For is the tree
of the field a man to be besieged by you?
Deu 20:20 “Only the trees which you know are not
trees for food you do destroy and cut down, to build siege-works against the
city that is fighting against you, until it falls.
This instruction assures that only righteous conquest is
allowed by YHVH. YHVH wants to give our enemies the best possible opportunities
to repent and change their hearts before they are destroyed.
Deu 21:1 “When anyone is found slain, lying
in the field in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess, and it is not known who
struck him,
Deu 21:2 then your elders and your judges shall go
out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round
about.
Deu 21:3 “And it shall be that the elders of the
city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and
which has not pulled with a yoke,
Deu 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring
the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor
sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.
Deu 21:5 “And the priests, the sons of Lěwi, shall
come near, for יהוה your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the
Name of יהוה,
and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried.
Deu 21:6 “And let all the elders of that city nearest
to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the
wadi.
Deu 21:7 “And they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands
have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
Deu 21:8 O יהוה, forgive Your people Yisra’ěl, whom You have
ransomed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people
Yisra’ěl.’ And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them.
Deu 21:9 “Thus you purge the guilt of innocent
blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
“The conception here is clearly one of corporate
responsibility. Every community is responsible for crimes committed within its
boundaries, and any unpunished crime must inevitably leave traces of
contamination upon the whole body of the people. "When the evil has been
dealt with, usually when the crime has been punished, the contamination is
removed."[5] The situation here, however, is one in
which it was impossible to mete out the proper punishment for the murderer, since
he was unknown.’’
Marrying Female Captives – the parable of the Jewish
Messiah and a gentile bride.
Deu 21:10 “When you go out to fight against your
enemies, and יהוה your Elohim shall give them into your hand, and you shall take
them captive,
Deu 21:11 and shall see among the captives a woman
fair of form, and shall delight in her and take her for your wife,
Deu 21:12 then you shall bring her home to your
house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails,
Deu 21:13 and put aside the mantle of her
captivity, and shall dwell in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a
month of days. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and
she shall be your wife.
Deu 21:14 “And it shall be, if you are not pleased
with her, then you shall let her go at her desire, but you do not sell her at
all for silver. Do not treat her harshly, since you have humbled her.
The New Covenant – Yer 31:31-34 was not made with
gentiles. Those gentiles who desire to be part of this New Covenant must first
become members of His Household– Eph 2:17-22 & Rom 11:11-27
Isa
66:23 “And it shall be that from New moon to New moon, and
from Sabbath to Sabbath,b all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה. Footnote: b Possible
meaning: Every week on the Sabbath.
Isa
66:24 “And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who
have transgressed against Me.[c] For their
worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive
to all flesh!” Footnote: cSee Isa_24:6, Isa_34:2-3, Psa_110:6,
Jer_25:33.
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 Yahweh, 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.)