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.
This Torah portion is about how rebellion against Mosheh and the Torah of YHVH brings destruction and death -
How much more destruction
shall come upon those who rebel against the Messiah and the Torah he taught?
Listen to how
King David describes the prevailing spiritual condition when the spiritual
pillars of YHVH are pulled down and destroyed:
Psa 11:3 When the foundations are destroyed, What
shall the righteous do?
Literally - When the settled things are
being pulled down, what effect do the righteous still have?
When the ancient truths are being pulled
down we are all in trouble –
Isa 59:14
And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth
has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.[a] Footnote: a Amo_5:7.
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.
Amo 5:12 For
I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, afflicting the
righteous and accepting bribes, and turning aside the poor at the gate.
Amo 5:13
Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.
Multitudes of people in the world unknowingly
embrace the spirit of Korach.
The spirit of Korach and his followers is
still alive and well in our world. You can kill Korach and his followers but
you cannot kill the spirit of rebellion that inspired him. This spirit has
always had many willing followers, sadly also amongst those who call themselves
believers.
If we are the people of the “second exodus”
– those who could return to the land of Israel in this generation, then maybe
we can assume that spiritual conditions prior to the first exodus will be
similar to spiritual condition of Yisrael during their exodus:
Eze 20:36
“As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim,
so I shall enter into judgment with you,” declares the Master יהוה.
Eze 20:37
“And I shall make you pass under the rod, (correction and discipline) and shall bring you into the bond of the
covenant,
Eze 20:38 and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ěl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.