Beit El Messianic Congregation: 2021

11/26/2021

Parashat 48 Portion 161 Deut 18:14-20:9

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

It is helpful to understand this parasha in the light of a greatly expanded Kingdom of believers.

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.

Hos 1:10 “Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ěl shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted.

The Mustard Seed and the Leaven

Mat 13:31 Another parable He put before them, saying, “The reign of the heavens is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,

Mat 13:32 which indeed is less than all the seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than the plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and dwell in its branches.”

Mat 13:33 Another parable He spoke to them, “The reign of the heavens is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal until all was leavened.”

Righteous government and order will be required In the light of extremely large numbers of people in the coming age.

Laws Concerning Cities of Refuge

Deu 19:1 “When יהוה your Elohim cuts off the nations whose land יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

Deu 19:2 separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess.

Deu 19:3 “Prepare a way for yourself, and divide into three parts the border of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to inherit, that any man-slayer shall flee there.

Deu 19:4 “And this matter of the man-slayer who flees there and lives: he who strikes his neighbour unknowingly, not having hated him in time past,

Deu 19:5 even he who goes to the forest with his neighbour to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies – let him flee to one of these cities and live,

Deu 19:6 lest the revenger of blood, while his displeasure is hot, pursue the man-slayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and shall strike his being, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated him before.

Deu 19:7 “Therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘Separate three cities for yourself.’

Deu 19:8 “And if יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border, as He swore to your fathers, and has given you the land which He promised to give to your fathers –

Deu 19:9 when you guard all this command to do it, which I am commanding you today, to love יהוה your Elohim and to walk in His ways all the days – then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,

Deu 19:10 so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, or blood-guilt shall be upon you.

Deu 19:11 “But when anyone hates his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him and rise against him and strike his being so that he dies, then he shall flee to one of these cities,

Deu 19:12 and the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and give him into the hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die.

Deu 19:13 “Your eye shall not pardon him, but you shall purge the blood of innocent blood from Yisra’ěl, so that it might be well with you.

Property Boundaries

Deu 19:14 “Do not remove your neighbour’s boundary, which those in the past have set, in your inheritance which you inherit in the land that יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess.

Laws Concerning Witnesses

Deu 19:15 “One witness does not rise up against a man concerning any crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established.

Deu 19:16 “When a malicious witness rises up against any man to accuse him of turning aside,

Deu 19:17 then both men who have the dispute shall stand before יהוה, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.

Deu 19:18 “And the judges shall diligently search and see if the witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother,

Deu 19:19 then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deu 19:20 “And let the rest hear and fear, and never again do this evil matter in your midst.

Deu 19:21 “And let your eye not pardon, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deu 20:1 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and shall see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them, for יהוה your Elohim, who brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, is with you.

Deu 20:2 “And it shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall come and speak to the people,

Deu 20:3 and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Yisra’ěl: You are drawing near today to battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not fear, or tremble, or be afraid before them,

Deu 20:4 for יהוה your Elohim is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Deu 20:5 “And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

Deu 20:6 And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man should begin to use it.

Deu 20:7 And who is the man who is engaged to a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’

Deu 20:8 “And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Who is the man who is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brothers faint like his heart.’

Deu 20:9 “And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint commanders of the divisions to lead the people.

One of the greatest victories in Yisrael’s wars against her enemies is recorded in parashat 42 – Matot – Num 31.

Num 31:3 And Mosheh spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves for the campaign, and let them go against the Miḏyanites to take vengeance for יהוה on Miḏyan.

Num 31:4 “Send a thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Yisra’ěl for the campaign.”

Num 31:5 So there were supplied from the tribes of Yisra’ěl one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed ones for the campaign.

Num 31:32 And the booty remaining from the plunder, which the people of the campaign had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

Num 31:33 and seventy-two thousand cattle,

Num 31:34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

Num 31:35 and thirty-two thousand human beings in all, of women who had not known a man by lying with a man.

Num 31:49 and they said to Mosheh, “Your servants have taken a count of the fighting men under our command, and not a man of us is missing.

Rev 7:2 And I saw another messenger coming up from the rising of the sun, holding the seal of the living Elohim. And he cried with a loud voice to the four messengers to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,

Rev 7:3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees until we have sealed the servants of our Elohim upon their foreheads.”a Footnote: aSee Rev_9:4, Rev_14:1, Rev_22:4.

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of all the tribes of the children of Yisra’ěl:

Eze 9:4 and יהוה said to him, “Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Yerushalayim, and you shall put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.” Eze 9:6 “Kill to destruction old, young men, maidens and children and women, but do not come near anyone upon whom is the mark, and begin at My set-apart place.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the House.

Rev 14:1 And I looked and saw a Lamb standing on Mount Tsiyon, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s Namea written upon their foreheads. Footnote: aSome texts read: having His Name and His Father’s Name.

Rev 14:4 They are those who were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the Lamb wherever He leads them on. They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to Elohim and to the Lamb.

Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no falsehood, for they are blameless before the throne of Elohim.

Who are the 144 000?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByIL2M4v8o

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

Parashat 48 Portion 160 Dev 17:14-18:19- Is 33:22 + 57:19, Acts 3;22-26, Heb 12:25-29

We continue with parashat ‘’shoftim’’

Laws Concerning Yisrael's Kings

Deu 17:14 “When you come to the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and you shall say, ‘Let me set a sovereign over me like all the nations that are around me,’

Deu 17:15 you shall certainly set a sovereign over you whom יהוה your Elohim shall choose. Set a sovereign over you from among your brothers, you are not allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

Deu 17:16 “Only, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for יהוה has said to you, ‘Do not return that way again.’ (1Kings 10)

Deu 17:17 “And he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

Deu 17:18 “And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, from the one before the priests, the Lěwites.

Deu 17:19 “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear יהוה his Elohim and guard all the Words of this Torah and these laws, to do them,

Deu 17:20 so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of Yisra’ěl.

Midrash:

It is believed that Solomon died at an early age – 60 years old.

He was the last sovereign (king) to rule over a unified Yisrael.

One of the wisest men who ever lived – disobeyed the Torah and was seduced by his wives into a life of idolatry.

His disobedience may have spawned the Luciferian doctrines that have been ruling the world for centuries and will most probably usher in the New world order and the short reign of the anti-messiah.

When the true Messiah returns – He will be the Sovereign (King) above all Sovereigns (kings) and YHVH has given Him a Name above all names –

Php 2:9 Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name,

Php 2:10 that at the Name of יהושע every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,

Php 2:11 and every tongue should confess Isa_45:23 that יהושע Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.

Act 4:12 “And there is no deliverance in anyone else, for there is no other Name under the heaven given among men by which we need to be saved.”

Joh 3:36 “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”

King Yahshua will teach all the nations the Torah from Yerushalayim when He returns to rule the word for a thousand years

Isa 2:2 And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of יהוה is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.

Isa 2:3 And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of יהוה, to the House of the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ, and let Him teach us His ways, and let us walk in His paths, for out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah, and the Word of יהוה from Yerushalayim.”

Isa 2:4 And He shall judge between the nations, and shall reprove many peoples. And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither teach battle any more.

For the most part wicked men and woman rule the earth.

Pro 28:28 When the wrong rise up, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.

Pro 28:12 When the righteous exult, there is great comeliness; But when the wrong arise, a man is searched for.

Pro 29:2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; But when a wrong one rules, the people sigh. (there appears to be much groaning in the world today)

Provision for Priests and Levites

The downfall of societies all over the earth is caused when the ‘’secular and the sacred’’ are separated. YHVH’’s intention is that there should be no such separation.

Eze 38:23 “And I shall exalt Myself and set Myself apart, and I shall be known in the eyes of many nations. And they shall know that I am יהוה.” ’

1Pe 1:15 instead, as the One who called you is set-apart, so you also should become set-apart in all behaviour,

1Pe 1:16 because it has been written, “Be set-apart, for I am set-apart.” Lev_11:44, Lev_19:2.

Heb 12:14 Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.

Psa 119:9 Bět How would a young man cleanse his path? To guard it according to Your word.

2Ti 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a set-apart calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and favour which was given to us in Messiah יהושע before times of old,

Php 2:13 for it is Elohim who is working in you both to desire and to work for His good pleasure.

Php 2:14 Do all matters without grumblings and disputings,

Deu 16:18 “Appoint judges and officers within all your gates, which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes. And they shall judge the people with righteous right-ruling.

Deu 16:19 “Do not distort right-ruling. Do not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Deu 16:20 “Follow righteousness, righteousness alone, so that you live and inherit the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.

The pursuit of righteousness must always follow the path He has prescribed, and none other.

In modern Hebrew a magistrate is called a “shofet shalom” and a policeman is called a “shoter.” We can therefore understand the first phrase of this Torah portion as “appoint magistrates and policemen”

“Even in the kingdom of YHVH people will need guidance and correction and not always do what you expect but what you inspect.” (we need to be cautious of modern day self-appointed “Torah sheriffs some call Torah terrorists, kosher patrol and sabbath police’’)

Forbidden Forms of Worship

Deu 16:21 “Do not plant for yourself any tree as an Ashěrah near the slaughter-place of יהוה your Elohim that you make for yourself.

Deu 16:22 “And do not set up a pillar, which יהוה your Elohim hates.

The rabbis believe corrupt judges and police can be compared to ‘’Asherah or phallic symbols.

‘’An Asherah pole was a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the pagan goddess Asherah, also known as Astarte (easter). While the exact appearance of an Asherah pole is somewhat obscure, it is clear that the ancient Israelites, after entering the land of Canaan, were influenced by the pagan religion it represented.’’

Deu 17:1 “Do not slaughter to יהוה your Elohim a bull or sheep which has any blemish, any evil matter, for that is an abomination to יהוה your Elohim.

Deu 17:2 “When there is found in your midst, in any of your cities which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim, in transgressing His covenant,

Deu 17:3 and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,

Deu 17:4 and it has been made known to you and you have heard, and have searched diligently. Then see, if true: the matter is confirmed that such an abomination has been done in Yisra’ěl,

Deu 17:5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil matter, and you shall stone to death that man or woman with stones.

Deu 17:6 “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is to die be put to death. He is not put to death by the mouth of one witness.

Deu 17:7 “The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges

Deu 17:8 “When any matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, or between stroke and stroke – matters of strife within your gates – then you shall rise and go up to the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses,

Deu 17:9 and shall come to the priests, the Lěwites, and to the judge who is in those days, and shall inquire. And they shall declare to you the word of right-ruling,

Deu 17:10 and you shall do according to the word which they declare to you from that place which יהוה chooses. And you shall guard to do according to all that they instruct you.

Deu 17:11 “Do according to the Torah in which they teach you, according to the right-ruling which they say to you. You do not turn to the right or to the left from the word which they declare to you.

Deu 17:12 “And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the priest who stands to serve there before יהוה your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ěl.

Deu 17:13 “And let all the people hear and fear, and no longer do arrogantly.

Laws Concerning Israel's Kings

Deu 17:16 “Only, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for יהוה has said to you, ‘Do not return that way again.’

Deu 17:17 “And he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself.

Deu 4:1 “And now, O Yisra’ěl, listen to the laws and the right-rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and shall go in and possess the land which יהוה Elohim of your fathers is giving you.

Deu 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it,[a] so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you. Footnote: a See also Deu_12:32, Pro_30:6, Rev_22:18-19.

Deu 4:3 “Your eyes have seen what יהוה did at Ba‛al Pe‛or, for יהוה your Elohim has destroyed from your midst all the men who followed Ba‛al Pe‛or.

Deu 4:4 “But you who are clinging to יהוה your Elohim are alive today, every one of you.

Deu 4:5 “See, I have taught you laws and right-rulings, as יהוה my Elohim commanded me, to do thus in the land which you go to possess.

Moshe Commands Obedience

Deu 4:6 “And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say, ‘Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’

Deu 4:7 “For what great nation is there which has Elohim so near to it, as יהוה our Elohim is to us, whenever we call on Him?

Deu 4:8 “And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day?

Deu 4:9 “Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.

Deu 4:27 “And יהוה shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where יהוה drives you.

Deu 4:30 “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to יהוה your Elohim and shall obey His voice.

Second saying of Yahshua - the good news according to Thomas – Yahshua said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. ²When they find, they will be disturbed. ³When they are disturbed, they will marvel, ⁴and will rule over all."

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 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.)

Parashat 47 Portion 158 - Deut. 15:7 – 16:17 - Amos 8:4-10 + 9:13-16

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 Yisrael. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Yisrael, 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 Yisrael. 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

Deu 15:7 “When there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, within any of the gates in your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, do not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother, (Heb - make your heart rigid)

The sages teach us that when a community guards the Torah, there should be prosperity for all its members. Any breach of Torah could manifest itself in poverty or in sickness. For this reason, it was incumbent on each member of the Torah community to constantly examine themselves as to whether or not they are in one accord with each other and with YHVH’s Torah –

We see the implications of this principle illustrated in the Apostolic writings – Elevating the instruction of this Torah Portion.

Mat 18:15 “And if your brother sins against you, go and reprove 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.’

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 a gentile and a tax collector.

Mat 18:18 “Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind¹ on earth shall be having been bound¹ in heaven, and whatever you loosen¹ on earth shall be having been loosened¹ in heaven. Footnote: ¹Binding and loosening is Heḇrew idiom for exercising authority (to prohibit and permit).

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.”

Mat 18:21 Then Kĕpha came to Him and said, “Master, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

Mat 18:22 יהושע said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Poverty sickness and disease are a curse and will one day have no place in the Community of those who are of “The Faith”

Psa 133:1 See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity –

Psa 133:2 Like the precious oil on the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aharon, Running down on the collar of his robes –

Psa 133:3 Like the dew of Ḥermon, That comes down on the mountains of Tsiyon. For there יהוה commanded the blessing, Life forever!

The spiritual, emotional and prospering well being of the individual must become the spiritual, emotional and prospering well being of the community. If not, the well being of the community is at risk.

Deu 15:8 for you shall certainly open your hand to him and certainly lend him enough for his need, whatever he needs.

CLV - 7 In case there should be among you a needy person, one of your brothers within one of your gates in your land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, you shall neither make `your heart rigid nor shut `your hand from your needy brother. 8 Rather you shall open, yea open− `your hand to him and give him give security, yea security− sufficient for his lack what is lacking to him

Why do we even speak of such faith communities that are very rare and hard to find?

Because they will exist one day.

1Jn 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself….

Deu 15:9 “Be on guard lest there be a thought of Beliyaʽal (Heb – without usefulness)in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is near,’ and your eye is evil against your poor brother and you give him naught. And he shall cry out to יהוה against you, and it shall be a sin in you.

Some Yisraelites may have been hesitant to give loans in the seventh year because this was a year that all debts were to be cancelled. To have this spirit was compared to having Beliyaal in your heart. Beliyaal also means to “seek profit through wickedness”

Luk 6:38 “Give, and it shall be given to you. A good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over shall be put into your lap. For with the same measure with which you measure, it shall be measured back to you.”

Deu 15:10 “You shall certainly give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this reason יהוה your Elohim does bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.

Deu 15:11 “Because the poor one does not cease from the land. Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall certainly open your hand to your brother, to your poor and to your needy one, in your land.'

Joh 12:8 “For the poor you have with you always..

This is may not just be a statement of fact, but rather a accusation against us for having poor amongst us – in YHVH’s covenant community this should not be so.

Jer 10:23 O יהוה, I know the way of man is not in himself, it is not for man who walks to direct his own steps.

Jer 10:24 O יהוה, chastise me, but with right-ruling – not in Your displeasure, lest You bring me to naught.

Quotes form Watchman Nee but the Name restoring is done by author of thee notes:

“The Law requires much, but offers no help in the carrying out of its requirements. The requires Master Yahshua requires as much, yea more (Matt. 5:21–48). But what He requires from us, He Himself carries out in us. The Law makes demands and leaves us helpless to fulfill them; Messiah demands, but He Himself fulfills in us the very demands He makes.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“Elohim must bring us to a point--I cannot tell you how it will be, but He will do it--where, through a deep and dark experience, our natural power is touched and fundamentally weakened, so that we no longer dare trust ourselves.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Master.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“The vessel through which Yahshua haMashach Himself in this generation is not the individual, but the body of Messiah. True, “Elohim hath dealt to each man a measure of faith” (12:3), but alone in isolation man can never fulfill YHVH our Elohim’s purpose. It requires a complete body of Messiah to attain to the stature of Messiah and to display His glory.”

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“In the same way we can have our soul, with the full use of its faculties; and yet the soul is not now our life-spring. We are no longer living in it, we are no longer drawing from it and living by it; we use it. When the body becomes our life, we live like beasts. When the soul becomes our life, we live as rebels and fugitives from Elohim - gifted, cultured, [and] educated, no doubt, but alienated from the life of . But when we come to live our life in the Spirit, and by the Spirit, though we still use our soul faculties just as we do our physical faculties, they are now the servants of the Spirit; and when we have reached that point Elohim can really use us.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

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.

Deu 15:12 “When your brother is sold to you, a Heḇrew man or a Heḇrew woman, and shall serve you six years, then let him go free from you in the seventh year.

Deu 15:13 “And when you send him away free from you, let him not go away empty-handed.

Deu 15:14 “You shall richly supply him from your flock, and from your threshing-floor, and from your winepress. With that which יהוה has blessed you with, give to him.

Deu 15:15 “And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה your Elohim redeemed you. Therefore I am commanding you this word today.

Deu 15:16 “And it shall be, when he says to you, ‘I do not go away from you,’ because he loves you and your house, because it is good for him with you,

Deu 15:17 then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever(chadal). Do the same to your female servant.

The Hebrew word “chadal” is used in this verse and means “will not cease or come to an end.”

It appears that some people are better off been under some form of supervision over their lives forever – see vs 17 – There seem to different aspects to this instruction found in Shemot 21 and Vayikra 25. Hebrew slaves were encouraged to return to their family inheritance in the year of Jubilee. Hebrew slaves were not meant to be slaves forever. Woman slaves were to be treated differently- see Shemot 21.

Even Messiah submitted Himself to His Master for ever and ever.

Isa 50:4 The Master יהוה has given Me the tongue of taught ones, that I should know to help the weary with a word. He wakes Me morning by morning, he wakes My ear to hear as taught ones.

Isa 50:5 The Master יהוה has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.

Isa 50:6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard, I did not hide My face from humiliation and spitting.

Deu 15:18 “Let it not be hard in your eyes when you send him away free from you, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And יהוה your Elohim shall bless you in all that you do.

Deu 15:19 “Set apart to יהוה your Elohim all the first-born males that come from your herd and your flock. Do no work with the first-born of your herd, nor shear the first-born of your flock.

Deu 15:20 “You and your household are to eat it before יהוה your Elohim year by year in the place which יהוה chooses.

Deu 15:21 “But when there is any defect in it, lame or blind, or has any evil defect, do not slaughter it to יהוה your Elohim.

Deu 15:22 “Eat it within your gates – the unclean and the clean alike – as the gazelle, and as the deer.

Deu 15:23 “Only, do not eat its blood, pour it on the ground like water.

Deu 16:1 “Guard the month of Aḇiḇ, and perform the Passover to יהוה your Elohim, for in the month of Aḇiḇ יהוה your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night.

Deu 16:2 “And you shall slaughter the Passover to יהוה your Elohim, from the flock and the herd, in the place where יהוה chooses to put His Name.

Deu 16:3 “Eat no leavened bread with it. For seven days you eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because you came out of the land of Mitsrayim in haste – so that you remember the day in which you came out of the land of Mitsrayim, all the days of your life.

Deu 16:4 “And no leaven should be seen with you in all your border for seven days, neither should any of the meat which you slaughter in the evening on the first day stay all night until morning.

Deu 16:5 “You are not allowed to slaughter the Passover within any of your gates which יהוה your Elohim gives you,

Deu 16:6 but at the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell, there you slaughter the Passover in the evening, at the going down of the sun, at the appointed time you came out of Mitsrayim.

Deu 16:7 “And you shall roast and eat it in the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

Deu 16:8 “Six days you eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is a closing festival to יהוה your Elohim – you do no work.

Deu 16:9 “Count seven weeks for yourself. Begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Deu 16:10 “And you shall perform the Festival of Weeks to יהוה your Elohim, according to the voluntary offering from your hand, which you give as יהוה your Elohim blesses you.

Deu 16:11 “And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell.

Deu 16:12 “And you shall remember that you were a slave in Mitsrayim, and you shall guard and do these laws.

Deu 16:13 “Perform the Festival of Sukkot for seven days after the ingathering from your threshing-floor and from your winepress, Footnote: dBooths.

Deu 16:14 and you shall rejoice in your festival, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lěwite, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

Deu 16:15 “For seven days you shall celebrate to יהוה your Elohim in the place which יהוה chooses, because יהוה your Elohim does bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be only rejoicing!

Deu 16:16 “Three times a year all your males appear before יהוה your Elohim in the place which He chooses: at the Festival of Matzot,[e]and at the Festival of Shaḇuʽoth,[c] and at the Festival of Sukkotd. And none should appear before יהוה empty-handed, Footnotes: cWeeks. dBooths. eUnleavened Bread.

Deu 16:17 but each one with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of יהוה your Elohim which He has given you.

Col 1:24 who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in Messiah’s afflictions, for the sake of His Body, which is the assembly,

Col 1:25 of which I became a servant according to the administration of Elohim which was given to me for you, to fill the word of Elohim,

Col 1:26 the secret which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His set-apart ones,

Col 1:27 to whom Elohim desired to make known what are the riches of the esteem of this secret among the nations: which is Messiah in you, the expectancy of esteem,

Eph 3:4 In reading this, then, you are able to understand my insight into the secret of Messiah,

Eph 3:5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His set-apart emissaries and prophets:

Eph 3:6 The nations to be co-heirs, united in the same body, and partakers together[a] in the promise in Messiah through the Good News, Footnote: aSee Rom_11:17-24, Isa_14:1.

Eph 3:8 To me, the very least of all the set-apart ones, this favour was given, to bring the Good News of the unsearchable riches of Messiah among the nations,

Eph 3:9 and to make all see how this secret is administered, which for ages past has been hidden in Elohim who created all through יהושע Messiah,[b Footnote: bSee Joh_1:3.

Eph 3:10 so that now, through the assembly, the many-sided wisdom of Elohim might be known to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies,

Eph 3:11 according to the everlasting purpose which He made in Messiah יהושע our Master,

Rom 16:25 And to Him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of יהושע Messiah, according to the revelation of the secret which was kept silent since times of old,

Rom 16:26 but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the everlasting Elohim, for belief-obedience.

Rom 16:27 To Elohim, wise alone, be the esteem, through יהושע Messiah forever. Aměn.

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 Yahveh, 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

Please note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are in no way a final authority on any subject