Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach
l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVHEloheinu 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.)
Psa 119:29 Remove from me the way of falsehood, And
favour me with Your Torah.
Psa 119:34 Make(cause) me understand, that I might
observe(preserve) Your Torah, And guard it with all my heart.
What does Miketz
mean? It is usually translated ''at the end'' or even ''in the last days''.
In Hebrew thought, however, miketz
can mean either "at the end" or "at the beginning" -- or
both - in Hebrew thought, every ending is a
new beginning, and every beginning is an
ending to that which went before.
The story of Yosef
is the longest continuous narrative in the Torah – Is it about Yahshua’s first
and second coming? In His first coming He proclaims the ‘’acceptable year of
YHVH’’ (Yesh 61) in His second coming He brings judgment and an end to this age
and gives the bread of life to all whom he has chosen - Rev
12:5 And she bore a male child [a] who was to shepherd all nations with a rod
of iron. Psa_2:9 And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His
throne. Footnote: aSee also Isa_26:17, Isa_66:7, Mic_4:9-10.
The Tabernacle and
its accompanying sacrifices are the most taught about subject in the Torah.
Gen 41:38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Could we
find another like him, a man in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?”
Vs 38,39 - Isa
11:2 The Spirit of יהוה
shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of
counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of יהוה,
Isa 11:3 and
shall make(cause) Him breathe in the fear of יהוה.
And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of
His ears.
Lit
– his scent (harihacho - 7306) is the
fear of YHVH. The word “breathe” is not used in the text. However the prophet
seems to suggest that the evidence we have been in the presence of the Messiah
is that we “breathe” in the scent or fragrance of the fear of YHVH. How many
today can witness to this?
2Co
2:15 Because we are to Elohim the
fragrance of Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are
perishing. 2Co 2:16 To the one we are
the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life.
And who is competent for these?
Hebrew
word for “fear” can mean both ''terror'' or ''reverence''.
Gen 41:39 Then Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “Since Elohim
has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning and wise as you. Gen
41:40 “Be over my house, you yourself,
and at your mouth all my people shall kiss – only in the throne I am greater
than you.”
“upon your mouth he
will kiss all my people”
Psa 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest He be enraged, And you
perish in the way, For soon His wrath is to be kindled. Blessed are all those
taking refuge in Him. (kissing speaks of intimacy and covenant -Num 12:8 “I speak with him mouth to
mouth, and plainly, and not in riddles. And he sees the form of יהוה. So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant
Mosheh?”)
Gen 41:41 And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “See, I have set
you over all the land of Mitsrayim.” Gen 41:42
And Pharaoh took his seal-ring off his hand and put it on Yosĕph’s hand.
And he dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his
neck.
Gen 41:43 And he had him ride in the second chariot
which he had. And they cried out before him, “Bow the knee!” And he set him
over all the land of Mitsrayim. Gen 41:44
And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “I am Pharaoh, and without a word
from you let no man lift his hand or foot in all the land of Mitsrayim.”
Vs 44 adds
“word” in the translation. The Hebrew word “uvileadeicha” means “apart from
you” – Pharoah is stating that because Yosef exists people can exist also.1Co
8:6 for us there is one Elohim,1
the Father, from whom all came and for whom we live, and one Master יהושע Messiah, through whom all came and through whom we live.
(Apart from Yahshua we cannot exist)
Gen 41:45 And Pharaoh called Yosĕph’s name Zaphnath-Paʽnĕaḥ. And he gave him as a
wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And Yosĕph went
out over all the land of Mitsrayim.
Joh
6:48 “I am the bread of life. Joh 6:51 “I am the living bread which came down
out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever.
Another
“Bread man of Life” – came from Beit – Lechem
ie ‘’house of Bread’’- Yahshua.
One
of the biggest miracles He did was feeding the masses – Mt 14 and 15 first He
feeds 5000 men besides woman and children – then 4000 men besides woman and
children = approx 40 000 people or even more.
Vs 45 – Strongs 6847 BDB - Zaphnath-paaneah = “treasury of the esteemed rest” According to Rashi the name means “revealer of hidden things”. Asenath – “Modern scholarship says her name derives from the Egyptian "she who belongs to (the goddess) Neith", and that her name may be phonetically transliterated from Egyptian hieroglyphs”
Neith - Neith was a goddess of war and of hunting and had as her symbol, two arrows crossed over a shield. As a deity, Neith is normally shown carrying the was scepter (symbol of rule and power) and the ankh (symbol of life).
An “ankh” is a cross with a loop – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neith
Gen 41:46
Now Yosĕph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh
sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosĕph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and
went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.
Luk 3:23 And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as reckoned by law, son of Yosěph, of Ěli,
Mat
2:15 and (Yahshua)remained there until the death of Herodes, to fill what was
spoken by יהוה through
the prophet, saying, “Out of Mitsrayim I have called My Son.”1
Footnote:1Ex. 4:22-23, Hos. 11:1, Rev. 21:7
Gen 41:47
And in the seven years of plenty the ground brought forth generously. Gen
41:48 And he gathered all the food of
the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in
the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded
them. Gen 41:49 Thus Yosĕph gathered
very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he ceased counting, for it was
without number.
Maybe this
is a prophetic sign that in the last days Africa (Mitzrayim) will become the
bread basket of the world again.
Gen 41:50
And to Yosĕph were born two sons before the years of scarcity of food
came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. Gen
41:51 And Yosĕph called the name of the
first-born Menashsheh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and
all my father’s house.” Gen 41:52 And
the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has caused me to bear
fruit in the land of my affliction.” Gen 41:53
And the seven years of plenty which were in the land of Mitsrayim came
to an end, Gen 41:54 and the seven years
of scarcity of food began to come, as Yosĕph had said. And the scarcity of food
was in all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread. Gen
41:55 But when all the land of Mitsrayim
hungered, and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh said to all the
Mitsrites, “Go to Yosĕph, do whatever he says to you.” Gen 41:56 And the scarcity of food was over all the
face of the earth, and Yosĕph opened all the storehouses and sold to the
Mitsrites. And the scarcity of food was severe in the land of Mitsrayim. Gen
41:57 And all the earth came to Yosĕph
in Mitsrayim to buy grain, because the scarcity of food was severe in all the
earth. Gen 42:1 And
when Yaʽaqoḇ saw that there was
grain in Mitsrayim, Yaʽaqoḇ said to his sons,
“Why do you look at each other?” Gen 42:2
And he said, “See, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go
down to that place and buy for us there, and let us live and not die.” Gen
42:3 And Yosĕph’s ten brothers went down
to buy grain in Mitsrayim. Gen 42:4 But
Yaʽaqoḇ did not send Yosĕph’s
brother Binyamin with his brothers, for he said, “Lest some harm come to him.”
Note there was no seed in Yisrael, they had to go
to Egypt for the seed. The prophet Amos speaks of an end time famine in the
land of Yisrael – read the whole chapter 8 to get the correct context.
Hegg
What are we to understand by this strange turn of
events? How can Joseph possibly stand as a foreshadowing of the suffering
Messiah, having taken a foreign wife? If we are looking at Joseph as a
foreshadowing of Yahshua, then the picture is stunning! Like Joseph, Yahshua is
forsaken by his own brothers. And during the period in which his brothers have
turned away from him, Joseph takes a Gentile as his bride. We cannot help but
parallel this to the ingathering of the Gentiles into the body of Messiah:
Joh 1:11 He came to His own, and His own did not
receive Him. Joh 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave
the authority to become children of Elohim, to those believing in His
Name, Joh 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the desire of
flesh nor of the desire of man, but of Elohim.
I believe this is the
moral of the story of our parasha – the way Yosef was treated was a reflection
on how his father Yacov was treated and how his descendants will be treated as
well.
Joh 5:19 Therefore יהושע responded and said to them,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son is able to do none at all by Himself, but
only that which He sees the Father doing, because whatever He does, the Son
also likewise does. Joh 5:20 “For the Father loves the Son, and
shows Him all that He Himself does. And greater works than these He is going to
show Him, in order that you marvel. Joh 5:21 “For as the Father
raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son makes alive whom He
wishes. Joh 5:22 “For the Father judges no one, but has given all
the judgment to the Son, Joh 5:23 that all should value the Son even
as they value the Father. He who does not value the Son does not value the
Father who sent Him.
This Messianic movement will be more than
"church with a kippa on," or Christianity with Jewish traditions. A
much more radical Messianic movement is about to arise like unto the one in the
first century. It will be characterized by faith in Yahshua, including careful
obedience to everything commanded by Moshe. Rather than just reading Moshe
from a Torah scroll on Shabbat as a Jewish custom (which certainly is proper),
these Messianic Believers will zealously study the Torah, including the
Apostolic scriptures, in order to carefully obey everything that is
written. Elohim will raise up new Ezras to lead the way just like He did at the
exodus from Babel. This Messianic movement will be mightily blessed by Yahweh
with anointing and power, and rather than seeking the approval of the
church, it will carry the authority from heaven to profoundly change the
church and the world –
TIME magazine’s March 24 cover story “10 Ideas That Are Changing the World” includes some interesting articles - Quote:
“Re-Judaizing Jesus” makes it in Time Magazine’s top “10 Ideas That Are Changing The World”! “More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on.” According to Time, this is one you should know about: Re-Judaizing Jesus. In the article series “ What’s Next in 2008,” the resurrection of the Jewish Jesus is along with topics like (surprise) a global economy—the number one idea! Anyway, that’s besides the point.
“if you get the [Jewish] context wrong, you will certainly get Jesus wrong.”
“This is seismic.”
“Ideally, the reassessment should increase both Jewish-Christian amity and gospel clarity, things that won’t happen if regular Christians feel that in rediscovering Jesus the Jew, they have lost Christ.”1
If the Ecumenical Movement’s reaction against
Hebrew-Roots is any sign, many regular Christians and leaders do indeed feel
that Christ is lost in rediscovering the Messiah. But if it is Biblical truth,
what can you do? One pastor describes the reassessment as “so logically
powerful” that there is no way back.
“Once in, [the pastor] says, ‘you’re in deep.
You’re hooked. ‘Cause you can’t ever read it the same way again.’” End of quite
Well, Time picked up on the real thing this
time. The (ancient) idea of a globalized economy will change the world,
and a thoroughly Jewish Messiah is coming back with his own ideas for this
planet. End quote.
Additonal
reading - https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:400169/FULLTEXT01.pdf
This great
famine occurred around 2000 BCE – This period also known as the ‘’holocene’’
period brought about a massive ‘’desertification’’ of large parts of the earth's
surface. The now great desert of the earth were once fertile agricultural
areas.
Is it possible
that 2000 CE we may find a repeat of this earlier desertification period? Deserts
are growing, sea levels are rising and the risk of world -wide chaos and famine
once again faces us.
Will a small
remnant - Yosef/Joseph generation have the answers?
Isa 6:11 Then I said, “יהוה,
until when?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste and without
inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land is laid waste, a
ruin, Isa 6:12 and יהוה
has removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the
land. Isa 6:13 “But still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall
again be for a burning, like a terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump
remains when it is cut down. The set-apart seed is its stump!”
‘’Ein lechem,
ein Torah, ein Torah ein lechem’’ where there is no bread there is no Torah,
where there is no Torah there is no bread.
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.)