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.”
These sin offerings can only be truly understood
within the context of a messianic redemptive community. One person’s sin not
only impacts individuals but also communities. Because the Torah has been
misrepresented and undermined for so long as well as being disconnected from
the redemptive work of Messiah – there is an insensitivity of sin and its
impact.
The Spirit guided Torah shows us the exceeding sinfulness of sin – Rom 7:13.
The Spirit of real Messiah shows us how his complete
redemptive work has delivered us from Torahlessness (not from the Torah) - Tit
2:14 who gave Himself for us, to redeem us from all
lawlessness [b] and to
cleanse for Himself a people, His own possession, ardent for good works.[c] Footnotes:
bSee also 1Jn_3:4, Mat_1:21, Act_3:19 and Act_3:26,
Act_26:18, Rom_6:1-22, Eph_2:1-10, 1Jn_3:8, Tit_3:5.
c Mat_16:27.
The real
evidence of walking the Spirit - filled life is that we desire to walk in the
righteousness of ALL the Torah - Rom 8:4
so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not
walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Zec 5:3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that goes forth
over the face of all the earth: ‘everyone who is stealing shall go unpunished,’
on the one side, according to it, and, ‘everyone who has sworn falsely shall go
unpunished,’ on the other side, according to it.”
Zec 5:4 “I shall send it out,” declares יהוה of hosts, “and it shall come into the house of the thief and
the house of the one who shall swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in
the midst of his house and shall consume it, both its timber and stones.”
The patriarchal blessing -
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ג וַאֲבָרְכָה, מְבָרְכֶיךָ, וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ, אָאֹר; וְנִבְרְכוּ בְךָ, כֹּל מִשְׁפְּחֹת הָאֲדָמָה. |
3 And I will bless them
that bless thee, and him that curseth(kalal – treats with contempt or
dishonour) thee will I curse;(‘’arar’’ - and in thee shall all the families of the
earth be blessed.' |
Gen 22:15-18 YHVH makes an oath(‘’shava’’ take an oath, or curse – but it will happen) to Avraham that because of his willingness to offer up his only son, that through Avraham’s seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This is in fact the essence of the Good News.
Heb 3:10 “Therefore I was grieved with that
generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not
known My ways.’
Heb 3:11
“As I swore (shava or ‘’nishbati’’ same Heb word used in Ps 95:11) in My
wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest...’ ”1 Footnote: 1Ps.
95:7-11.
1Co 10:11 And all these came upon them as examples, and
they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come,
1Co 10:12 so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.
Literary in Lev 5:1 the Hebrew says if you are a
witness to someone declaring an oath or a curse and someone testifies falsely
or he remains silent ( Heb im lo yagid)– knowing the truth - his iniquity will be upon him.
If we or anyone remains silent to these oaths of YHVH,
they will bear their iniquity.
Isa 59:15 And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling.
Isa 59:16 And He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no intercessor. So His own arm saved for Him, and His righteousness upheld him.
Ecc 3:1 For every matter there is an appointed
time, even a time for every pursuit under the heavens:
Ecc 3:7
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to
speak;
Amo 5:13 Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
If we do not “reveal it” (im lo yagid) he will bear the iniquity or consequence of this sin.
What is one of the consequences of this sin?
Eze 3:18 “When I say to the wrong1, ‘You
shall certainly die,’ and you have not warned him, nor spoken to warn the wrong
from his wrong way, to save his life, that same wrong man shall die in his
crookedness, and his blood I require at your hand. Footnote: 1This
passage is almost the same as in 18:20-32 and 33:8-20.
Eze 3:19
“But if you have warned the wrong and he does not turn from his wrong,
nor from his wrong way, he shall die in his crookedness, and you have delivered
your being.
Act 20:26
“Therefore I witness to you this day that I am clear from the blood of
all.
Act 20:27
“For I kept not back from declaring to you all the counsel of Elohim.
Act 20:28
“Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the
Set-apart Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of Elohim
which He has purchased with His own blood.
Act 20:29
“For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves1
shall come in among you, not sparing the flock. Footnote: 1See Mt.
7:15-23, Mt. 10:16, Lk. 10:3, John 10:12.
Act 20:30
“Also from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted teachings,
to draw away the taught ones after themselves.
Lev 5:2
‘Or when a being touches any unclean matter, or the carcass of an
unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean
creeping creatures, and it has been hidden from him, he is unclean and guilty.
Lev 5:3
‘Or when he touches uncleanness of man, any of his uncleanness by which
he is unclean, and it has been hidden from him, when he shall know it, then he
shall be guilty.
“Contamination
of set apart people”
Mat 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like
whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with
dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28
“So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are
filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.1 Footnote:1See
5:20.
Not only unclean and forbidden food can
contaminate us, also the uncleanness of men – their teaching and doctrine.
Jud 1:11
Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave
themselves to the delusion of Bilʽam
for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.
Jud
1:12 These are rocky reefs in your love
feasts, feasting with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds
borne about by the winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots, (we are defiled when we come
into the presence of dead things)
Jud
1:13 wild waves of the sea foaming up
their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.
2Jn 1:6
And this is the love, that we walk according to His commands.1
This is the command, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk
in it. Footnote: 1See 1 John 5:3, and John 14:15.
1Jn 2:3 And
by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.[a] Footnote: aSee 1Jn_3:6.
1Jn 2:4 The
one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the
truth is not in him.
1Jn 2:5 But
whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected[b] in him. By this we know that we are in Him.[c] Footnotes b Gen_17:1, Psa_119:1,
Mat_5:48. cSee 1Jn_3:24.
1Jn 2:6 The
one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He
walked.
2Jn 1:9
Everyone who is transgressing and not staying in the teaching of Messiah
does not possess Elohim.1 The one who stays in the teaching of
Messiah possesses both the Father and the Son.2 Footnotes: 11
Tim. 6:3. 2See 1 John 1:3, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 5:20.
2Jn 1:10
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive
him into your house nor greet him,
2Jn 1:11
for he who greets him shares in his wicked works.
Lev 5:4
‘Or when a being swears, speaking rashly with his lips to do evil or to
do good, whatever it is that a man swears rashly with an oath, and it has been
hidden from him, when he shall know it, then he shall be guilty of one of
these.
Lev 5:5
‘And it shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, that he shall
confess that in which he has sinned,
Lev 5:6
and shall bring his guilt offering (asham)to יהוה for his sin
which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat as a sin
offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin.
1Jn
1:5 And this is the message which we have heard from Him and announce to
you, that Elohim is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
1Jn
1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we
lie and are not doing the truth.
1Jn
1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship
with one another, and the blood of יהושע Messiah His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1Jn
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the
truth is not in us.
1Jn
1:9 If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us
the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word
is not in us.
Let us pause and consider for
a moment all the marriage vows and promises that many have been broken in our
generation.
The sad reality is that there
will always be consequences to our actions.
Lev 5:7 ‘And if he is unable to bring a lamb, then he
shall bring to יהוה, he who has
sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the
other for a burnt offering.
Lev 5:8 ‘And he shall bring them to the priest, who
shall bring near that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off its
head from its neck, but not sever it.
Lev 5:9 ‘And he shall sprinkle some of the blood of
the sin offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be
drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
Lev 5:10 ‘And he shall prepare the second as a burnt
offering according to the right-ruling, and the priest shall make atonement for
him, for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
Lev 5:11 ‘But if he is unable to bring two turtledoves
or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth
of an ĕphah of fine flour as a sin offering. He puts no oil on it, nor does he
put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. Lev 5:12 ‘And he shall bring it to the priest, and the
priest shall take his hand filled with it as a remembrance portion, and burn it
on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to יהוה. It is a sin offering. Lev 5:13 ‘And the priest shall make atonement for him,
for his sin that he has sinned in any of these, and it shall be forgiven him.
And it shall be the priest’s, like a grain offering.’ ” Lev 5:14 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying,
Asham
or guilt offering – this requires some form of compensation.
Lev 5:15 “When a being commits a trespass, and has
sinned by mistake against the set-apart matters of יהוה, then he shall bring to יהוה as his guilt(asham) offering a ram, a
perfect one, from the flock, with your valuation in sheqels of silver according
to the sheqel of the set-apart place, as a guilt offering. (Heb – ‘’asham’’)Lev
5:16 “And he shall make good for the sin
that he has done against that which is set-apart, and shall add one-fifth to it
and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the
ram of the guilt offering, and it shall be forgiven him. Lev 5:17 “And when any being sins, and has done what
is not to be done, against any of the commands of יהוה, though he knew it not, yet he shall be
guilty and shall bear his crookedness. (ignorance no excuse) Lev 5:18 “Then he shall bring to the priest a ram, a
perfect one, from the flock, with your valuation, as a guilt offering. And the
priest shall make atonement for his mistake he committed unintentionally,
though he did not know it, and it shall be forgiven him – Lev 5:19 it is a guilt offering, he was truly guilty
before יהוה.”
Lev 6:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, saying, Lev 6:2 “When any being
sins, and committed a trespass (Heb – ma al to act treacherously or
unfaithfully) against יהוה, and has lied
(kachash – to deceive) to his neighbour about a deposit,(
pledge, security, deposit) or
about a robbery, or shall extort(violate or defraud) from his neighbour, Lev
6:3 or has found what was lost and has
lied concerning it, or did swear falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one
of all these that a man does, Lev 6:4
then it shall be, when he sins, and shall be guilty, that he shall
return what he took by robbery, or what he has extorted, or the deposit which
was deposited with him, or the lost item which he found, Lev 6:5 or all that about which he swore falsely. He
shall repay its total value, add one-fifth more to it, and give it to whom it
belongs, on the day of his guilt offering. Lev 6:6 “Then he brings his guilt offering to יהוה, a ram, a perfect one, from the flock,
with your valuation, as a guilt offering, to the priest. Lev 6:7 “And the priest shall make atonement for him
before יהוה, and he shall be forgiven for whatever he
did that made him guilty.”
Mat
18:15 “And if your brother
sins against you, go and convict him, between you and him alone. If he hears
you, you have gained your brother. Mat 18:16 “But if he does not
hear, take with you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word might be established.’[a] Deu_19:15. Footnote: a Joh_8:17, 2Co_13:1, 1Ti_5:19, Heb_10:28.
Mat 18:17 “And if he
refuses to hear them, say it to the assembly. And if he refuses even to hear
the assembly, let him be to you like the nations and a tax collector. Mat
18:18 “Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be having
been bound in heaven, and whatever you loosen on earth shall be having been
loosened in heaven.[b] Footnote: bSee footnote Mat_16:19.
Mat 18:19 “Again I say
to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning any matter that they ask,
it shall be done for them by My Father in the heavens. Mat 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their
midst.”
Col 2:3 in whom(Yahshua)
are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.1 Footnote: 1Isa.
11:2, Col. 2:9.
Col 2:4 And this I say, so that no one
deceives you with enticing words.
Let us
remind ourselves that this Torah portion is speaking about the iniquity of a Torah
community.
Failure
to correct and be corrected in these issues will lead to severe chastisement
and maybe even “karet” being cut off from the people of YHVH.
Yahshua came to elevate the Torah and secure
our inheritance.
Eph
1:3 Blessed be the Elohim
and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Messiah, Eph 1:4 even as He
chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be set-apart
and blameless before Him, in love,[a]
Footnote: aSee also 2Th_2:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kASWDJGZ94k
(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