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. Blessed
are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)
Gen 26:1 And there was a scarcity of food in the
land, besides the first scarcity of food which was in the days of Aḇraham. And
Yitsḥaq went to Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of the Philistines, in Gerar.
Gen 26:2 And יהוה
appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Mitsrayim, live in the land which
I command you. (don’t trust in the arm of flesh – Jer
17:5)
Gen 26:3 “Sojourn in this land. And I shall
be with you and bless you, for I give all these lands to you and your seed. And
I shall establish the oath which I swore to Aḇraham your father.
Gen 26:4 “And I shall increase your seed like
the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in
your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Gen 26:5 because Aḇraham obeyed My voice and
guarded My Charge: My commands, My laws, and My Torot.”a Footnote: aTorot -
plural of Torah, teaching
Gen 26:12 And Yitsḥaq
sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, and יהוה blessed him.
Gen 26:13 And the
man grew great and went forward until he became very great.
Gen 26:14 And he
came to have possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of
servants, and the Philistines envied him.
Shaul clearly teaches
that the very essence of the Good News that through Avraham all the nations of
the world would be blessed, even during famine. Perhaps the most blessed and
fruitful times for the true believers of the true Messiah will come during a
future time of great challenges.
Mar 10:29 יהושע said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house
or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for
the sake of Me and the Good News,
Mar 10:30 who
shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and
sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age
to come, everlasting life.
Mar 10:31 “But
many who are first shall be last, and the last first.”
Jer 16:19 O יהוה, my strength
and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles shall come
to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only
falsehood, futility, and there is no value in them.”1 Footnote: 1See
Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom. 3:2, Rom. 9:4.
The
spirit of the modern church is becoming more and more hostile towards the
patriarchal spirit spoken of in the Torah and throughout all scripture. It was
Yahshua that came to reopen the wells of salvation that the ancient patriachs
dug.
Psa 40:7 Then I said, “See, I have come; In the scroll
of the Book it is prescribed for me.
Psa 40:8 I have delighted to do Your pleasure, O my
Elohim, And Your Torah is within my heart1.” Footnote: 1Ps.
37:31, Ps. 119:11, Isa. 51:7, Heb. 10:7-9.
1Ki 21:25 Indeed, there never was anyone like Aḥaḇ who sold himself to
do evil in the eyes of יהוה, because Izeḇel his
wife stirred him up.
Note when King Ahab and his
wicked queen ruled in Israel there was a severe famine in the land.
Jas 5:17 Ěliyahu was a man with feelings like us, and
he prayed earnestly that it would not rain. And it did not rain on the land for
three years and six months.
Isa 3:12 “My people! Youths exert pressure on them,
and women rule over them. O My people! Your leaders lead you astray1,
and swallow the way of your paths.” Footnote: 1See also 9:16.
In the last days YHVH will once again bring a famine in
the world during the great tribulation.
Rev 11:3 “And I shall give unto my two witnesses, and
they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clad in
sackcloth.”
Rev 11:5 And if anyone wishes to harm them, fire comes
out from their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wishes to harm
them, he has to be killed in that way.
Rev 11:6 These possess authority to shut the heaven,
so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess authority
over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as
often as they wish.
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Gen 26:15 And the
Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in
the days of Aḇraham his father, and filled them with dirt.
Gen 26:16 And Aḇimeleḵ said
to Yitsḥaq, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Gen 26:17 So Yitsḥaq
went from there and pitched his tent in the wadi Gerar, and dwelt there.
Gen 26:18 And
Yitsḥaq dug again the
wells of water which they had dug in the days of Aḇraham
his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Aḇraham.
And he called them by the names which his father had called them.
Note they did not dig new wells but unstopped the old
wells. We don’t have to look for new sources of water or spiritual life, we
simply need to remove all the pagan mixture that has come into the wells of our
salvation and deliverance.
Gen 26:19 But when
Yitsḥaq’s servants dug in the wadi and found a well of
running water there,
Gen 26:20 the
herdsmen of Gerar strove with Yitsḥaq’s
herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” And he called the name of the well Ěseq, because they strove with
him.
Gen 26:21 And they
dug another well, and they strove over that one too, and he called its name Sitnah.
Gen 26:22 And he
moved from there and dug another well, and they did not strive over it. And he
called its name Reḥoḇoth, and said, “For now יהוה has made room
for us, and we shall bear fruit in the land.”
Gen 26:23 And from
there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa.
When we
begin to rediscover the ancient wells of the truth of Torah, which have been
blocked by the “Philistines” we experience strife from those outside Esek( or
contention) then from those inside (
Sitnah or quarrelling) but if we persevere we will come to Rehoboth or ‘’wide
places’’.
Gen 26:24 And יהוה appeared to him the same night and said,
“I am the Elohim of your father Aḇraham.
Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall bless you and increase your seed for
My servant Aḇraham’s sake.”
Gen 26:25 And he
built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he
pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug
a well there.
Gen 26:26 And Aḇimeleḵ came
to him from Gerar, with Aḥuzzath, one of his friends, and Piḵol the
commander of his army.
Gen 26:27 And
Yitsḥaq said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing you
have hated me and have sent me away from you?”
Gen 26:28 But they
said, “We have clearly seen that יהוה is with you.
And we said, ‘Please, let there be an oath between us, between you and us. And
let us make a covenant with you,
Gen 26:29 that you
do no evil to us, as we have not touched you, and as we have done only good
toward you, and have sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by יהוה.’ ”
Gen 26:30 And he
made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
The Targum Yonatan explains Abimelek’s sudden change of
heart: “When Yitzchak left Gerar the wells dried up and the trees bore no
fruit. They felt this befell them because they had driven him away, so Abimilek
went to Yitzchak from Gerar”
Gen 26:31 And they
rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitsḥaq let
them go, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen 26:32 And on
the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsḥaq
came and informed him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We
have found water.”
Gen 26:33 So he
called it Shiḇah. Therefore the name of the city is Be’ĕrsheḇa to
this day.
Gen 26:34 And when
Ěsaw was forty years old, he took as wives Yehuḏith
the daughter of Be’ĕri the Ḥittite, and Basemath the daughter of Ělon the Ḥittite.
Gen 26:35 And they
were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsḥaq and
Riḇqah.
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.