Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.
Yisrael
and Yahudah
Are Unrepentant
Hos
6:1 ‘Come, and let us turn back to יהוה. For He has
torn but He does heal us, He has stricken but He binds us up.
Hos 6:2 After two
days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live
before Him.
Hos 6:3 So let us
know, let us pursue to know יהוה. His going
forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the
latter rain watering the earth.’
Hos 6:4 “Ephrayim,
what would I do with you? Yehuḏah, what would I do with you? For your(plural –
speaking to both houses) loving-commitment is like a morning cloud, and like
the early dew it goes away.
Hos 6:5 “Therefore I
have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of My
mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light.
Hos 6:6 “For I
delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of
Elohim more than ascending offerings.
Hos 6:7 “But like Aḏam they transgressed the covenant. There they acted treacherously against Me.
We are reminded again this week that both death and life is found in each one of us. This is also true of Yisrael and the bride of Messiah
The Ruach of YHVH
has given us this week’s Torah instruction in the form of a chiastic structure.
- Introduction (vs 1,2)
B. Abnormal male discharge (vs
2b-15)
C.
Normal male discharge (vs 15,17)
X. Marital relations (vs18)
C. Normal female
discharge (vs 19-24)
B. Abnormal female discharge (vs
25-30)
A. Summary (vs 31-33)
We see the focus of the
Torah portion is on marital purity. We can safely assume this can also refers
to a “bride without spot or wrinkle” waiting and preparing for her soon coming
Bridegroom.
Sadly the reality today is that believers who desire to be part of the Bride of Messiah have been profoundly defiled by false doctrines and disobedience to the Torah – the marriage covenant between YHVH and Yisrael.
1Pe 1:23
having been born again – not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible –
through the living Word of Elohim, which remains forever,
The end of this parashah contains a serious warning - Lev 15:31 ‘Thus
you shall separate the children of Yisra’ĕl from their uncleanness, lest they
die in their uncleanness when they defile My Dwelling Place which is in their
midst.
Death could have several
implications for both the believer and non-believer.
Lev 15:1 And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh and to Aharon, saying,
Lev 15:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say
to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his flesh, his discharge is
unclean.
Some have also questioned whether or not the word "flesh"
(Leviticus
15:2)
actually refers to the sex organ, but, of course, it does. As Keil puts it,
"The fact that the same term `flesh' (Leviticus
15:19)
certainly refers to a sexual discharge points unmistakably to a secretion from
sexual organs."
Lev 15:3 ‘And this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge; whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up by his discharge,(lit – man’s emission of seed is caused to cease flowing) it is his uncleanness.
“Stopped” Heb – “chatam” –
verb hiphyl – to cause to be stopped.
Lev 15:4 ‘Any bed becomes unclean on which he who has
the discharge lies, and any object on which he sits becomes unclean.
Lev 15:5 ‘And anyone who touches his bed has to wash
his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:6 ‘And he who sits on any object on which he
who has the discharge sat, has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water,
and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:7 ‘And he who touches the flesh of him who has
the discharge has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and shall be
unclean until evening.
Lev 15:8 ‘And when he who has the discharge spits on
him who is clean, then he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water,
and be unclean until evening.
1Co 15:33 Do not be led astray, “Evil(Gk – ‘’kakos’’ worthless) company corrupts good habits.”
Lit
Greek – do not be deceived by worthless customs and habits.
Human sexuality was the fulfilment of YHVH’s first commandment – ‘’be fruitful and mulitply’’ Yet history has shown us again and again how men and women have corrupted and defiled this act of increasing.
Lev 15:9 ‘Any saddle on which he who has the discharge
rides becomes unclean.
Lev 15:10 ‘And whoever touches any of that which was
under him is unclean until evening. And he who is carrying them up has to wash
his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:11 ‘And anyone whom he who has the discharge
touches without rinsing his hands in water, shall wash his garments and bathe
in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:12 ‘And the earthen vessel which he who has the
discharge touches has to be broken, and every wooden vessel has to be rinsed in
water.
Lev 15:13 ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of
his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing,
and shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in running water, and be
clean.
Lev 15:14 ‘And on the eighth day he takes for himself
two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and shall come before יהוה, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and
shall give them to the priest.
Anything or anyone that comes
into close contact with one whose seed is defiled or one whose seed is not
producing life will be defiled. And only an offering that reflects the complete
offering made by Messiah is able to cleanse us. This should cause us to be very
careful with whom we allow to come close to us.
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 15:15 ‘And the priest shall prepare them, the one
as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. And the priest shall make
atonement for him before יהוה because of his
discharge.
The following two verses speak
of a normal emission of seed. Even this normal emission requires a cleansing in
water. Why? Since the fall of man, man’s seed produces sin and death. This will
change when Messiah presents us perfect to the Father one day.
Rom 7:18
For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good.
Rom 3:10
As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one!
Rom 3:11
“There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking
Elohim.
Rom 3:12
“They all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There
is none who does good, no, not one.”
In this regard much Christian
doctrine and understanding about sin and grace needs to be radically changed.
Grace or favour is only effective to the extent that we have received
revelation of our desperate need of it.
Revelation of the Torah of
YHVH through the Ruach of YHVH is the only way we can come face to face with
our true condition. Then only can we appropriate and appreciate the deep work
of redemption accomplished for us in Messiah. Many pastors and teachers think
that they can put people on a serious enough guilt trip to cause them to repeat
a sinner’s prayer and this somehow is sufficient for our salvation. Many dear
Christians have been deceived because the only way we can come to a true
knowledge of our state and our need for redemption is through the obedient
application of ALL of the Torah.
Gal 3:19
Why, then, the Torah? It was added because of transgressions, until the
Seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained through
messengers in the hand of a mediator.
Gal 3:20
The Mediator, however, is not of one, but Elohim is one.
Gal 3:21
Is the Torah then against(Gk missing the promises) the promises of
Elohim? Let it not be! For if a law had been given that was able to make alive,
truly righteousness would have been by Torah.
Gal 3:22
But the Scripture has shut up all mankind under sin, that the
promise by belief in יהושע Messiah might
be given to those who believe.
Gal 3:23 But before belief came, we were being guarded
under Torah, having been shut up for the belief being about to be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Therefore the Torah became our trainer unto
Messiah, in order to be declared right by belief.
Gal 3:25 And after belief has come, we are no longer
under a trainer.
See also Matt 5:17-19 – while
heaven and earth are here all of the Torah will be here. Many Christians
believe that they no longer need a “trainer” because the Torah has been done
away with.
Rom 7:12
So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and
righteous, and good.
Rom 7:14
For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under
sin.
Lev 15:16 ‘And when a man has an emission of semen,
then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:17 ‘And any garment and any leather on which there
is semen, shall also be washed with water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:18 ‘And
when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they both
shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Even our relationship with Yahshua will not be perfect
until the end of the millennium.
Lev 15:19 ‘And when a woman has a discharge, and the
discharge from her flesh is blood, she has to be in her separation for seven
days. And whoever touches her is unclean until evening.
Lev 15:20 ‘And whatever she lies on during her
separation is unclean. And whatever she sits on is unclean.
Lev 15:21 ‘And anyone who touches her bed has to wash
his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
Lev 15:22 ‘And whoever touches any object that she sat
on has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until
evening.
Lev 15:23 ‘And if it is on the bed or on any object on
which she sits, when he touches it, he is unclean until evening.
Lev 15:24 ‘And if any man lies with her at all, and her
monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days. And any bed he lies on
is unclean.
Lev 15:19
‘And when a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her flesh is
blood, she has to be in her separation for seven days. And whoever touches her
is unclean until evening.
Isa 64:6
And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses
are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like
the wind, have taken us away.
Isa 64:7
And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to take
hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us
because of our crookednesses.
Rom 3:10
As it has been written, “There is none righteous, no, not one!
Rom 3:11
“There is no one who is understanding, there is none who is seeking
Elohim.
Rom 3:12
“They all have turned aside, they have together become worthless. There
is none who does good, no, not one.”
Yet much of the church has this insane
obsession to prove their own righteousness.
Rom 10:2
For I bear them witness that they have an ardour for Elohim, but not
according to knowledge.
Rom 10:3
For not knowing the righteousness of Elohim, and seeking to establish
their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to1 the
righteousness of Elohim. Footnote: 1Or did not obey.
Rom 10:4
For Messiah is the goal1 of the ‘Torah unto righteousness’to
everyone who believes. Footnote: 1Or end purpose; not termination.
Lev 15:25 ‘And when a woman has a discharge of blood
for many days, other than at the time of her monthly separation, or when she
discharges beyond her usual time of monthly separation, all the days of her
unclean discharge shall be as the days of her monthly separation. She is
unclean.
Lev 15:26 ‘Any bed on which she lies all the days of
her discharge is to her as the bed of her monthly separation. And whatever she
sits on is unclean, as the uncleanness of her monthly separation.
Lev 15:27 ‘And anyone who touches them is unclean, and
shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until
evening.
Lev 15:28 ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge,
then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she is clean.
Lev 15:29 ‘And on the eighth day she takes for herself
two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and shall bring them to the priest, to
the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Lev 15:30 ‘And the priest shall prepare the one as a
sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make
atonement for her before יהוה for the
discharge of her uncleanness.
Luk 8:43
And a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who, having spent
all her livelihood on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,
Luk 8:44
came from behind and touched the tzitzit of His garment. And immediately
her flow of blood stopped.
Lev 20:18
‘And a man who lies with a woman during her sickness and uncovers her
nakedness: he has laid bare her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her
blood, both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people.
Is there not a deeper spiritual lesson
here?
Lev 15:31 ‘Thus you shall separate the children of
Yisra’ĕl from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they
defile My Dwelling Place which is in their midst.
Lev 15:32 ‘This is the Torah for one who has a
discharge, and for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby,
Lev 15:33 and for her who is sick in her monthly separation, and for one who has a discharge, either man or woman, and for him who lies with an unclean woman.’ ”
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)