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. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Amein.
Hos 14:8 “What more has Ephrayim
to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green
cypress tree, your fruit comes from Me.”
Hos 14:9 Who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of יהוה are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them.
ויתן לך…..’’the blessings are given by Elohim, not demanded, or
deceitfully gained…’’
Joh
3:27 Yoḥanan answered and said, “No man is able to receive any matter
unless it is given to him from the heaven.
1Co 4:7 For who makes you to differ? And what do you have that you did not receive?1Co 2:12 And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from Elohim, in order to know what Elohim has favourably given us, 1Co 2:13 which we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Set-apart Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual matters with spiritual matters. 1Co 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
If we ‘’scheme, control or try to manipulate YHVH and others’’ to get what we think we deserve we will not walk in the fulness of our inheritance – we could possibly even lose our intended inheritance and blessing. It appears in these last days that YHVH will strip us of everything to bring us to the realization that ‘’every good and perfect gift comes from His Hand’’ – James (Yakov) 1:17
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.
Pro 20:21 An inheritance obtained with greed at the beginning Is not blessed at the end.
This whole narrative of Yaqov and Esav is so deeply embedded in their descendants that it will not end well for both sides. Despite this tragedy YHVH chooses to love Yaqov and hate Esav.
Gen 27:28 And Elohim give you (Yaqov) of the dew(S2919) of the heavens, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
וְיִתֶּן-לְךָ, הָאֱלֹהִים, מִטַּל הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּמִשְׁמַנֵּי הָאָרֶץ--וְרֹב דָּגָן, וְתִירֹשׁ.
Gen 27:29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you!”
כט יַעַבְדוּךָ עַמִּים, וישתחו (וְיִשְׁתַּחֲווּ)
לְךָ לְאֻמִּים--הֱוֵה גְבִיר לְאַחֶיךָ,
וְיִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לְךָ בְּנֵי אִמֶּךָ; אֹרְרֶיךָ אָרוּר, וּמְבָרְכֶיךָ בָּרוּךְ.
Gen 27:30
And it came to be, as soon as Yitsḥaq had finished blessing Yaʽaqoḇ,
and Yaʽaqoḇ had hardly left the presence of Yitsḥaq his father, that Ěsaw his
brother came in from his hunting.
Gen 27:31 And he too had made a tasty dish and brought
it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father rise and eat of his
son’s wild game, so that your being might bless me.”
Gen 27:32 And his father Yitsḥaq said to him, “Who are
you?” And he said, “I am your son, your first-born, Ěsaw.”
Gen 27:33 Then Yitsḥaq trembled exceedingly, and said,
“Who was it then who hunted wild game and brought it to me? And I ate all of it
before you came, and I have blessed him.
Yea, he is blessed.”
Gen 27:34 When Ěsaw heard the words of his father, he
cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless
me, me too, O my father!”
Gen 27:35 And he said, “Your brother came with deceit
(treachery) and took your blessing.”
Gen 27:36 And Ěsaw said, “Was his name, then, called
Yaʽaqoḇ? For he has caught me by the heel these two times. He took my
birthright, and see, now he has taken my blessing!” And he said, “Have you not
reserved a blessing for me?”
Gen 27:37 Then Yitsḥaq answered and said to Ěsaw,
“See, I have made him your master, and all
his brothers I have given to him as servants. And I have sustained him with
grain and wine. And what, then, shall I do for you, my son?”
Gen 27:38 And Ěsaw said to his father, “Have you only
one blessing, my father? Bless me, me too, O my father!” And Ěsaw lifted up his
voice and wept.
Heb
12:16 …… like Ěsaw, who for a single meal sold his
birthright.[b] Footnote: b Gen_25:32-33.
Heb
12:17 For
you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was
rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.
Gen 27:39 And Yitsḥaq his father answered and said to
him, “See, your dwelling is of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the
heavens from above.
Gen 27:40 And by your sword you are to live, and serve
your brother. And it shall be, when you grow restless, that you shall break his
yoke from your neck.”
Gen 27:41 And Ěsaw hated Yaʽaqoḇ because of the
blessing with which his father blessed him, and Ěsaw said in his heart, “The
days of mourning for my father draw near, then I am going to kill my brother
Yaʽaqoḇ.”
Gen 27:42 And the words of Ěsaw her older son were
reported to Riḇqah, and she sent and called Yaʽaqoḇ her younger son, and said
to him, “See, your brother Ěsaw comforts himself concerning you, to kill you.
Gen 27:43 “And now, my son, listen to my voice, and
rise, flee to my brother Laḇan in Ḥaran.
Gen 27:44 “And stay with him a few days, until your
brother’s wrath turns away,
Gen 27:45 until your brother’s displeasure turns away
from you, and he forgets what you have done
to him. And I shall send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereaved
of you both in one day?”
Gen 27:46 And Riḇqah said to Yitsḥaq, “I am disgusted
with my life because of the daughters of Ḥĕth. If Yaʽaqoḇ takes a wife from
the daughters of Ḥĕth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what is
my life to me?”
Gen 28:1 And
Yitsḥaq called Yaʽaqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him,
“Do not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaʽan.
Gen 28:2 “Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of
Bethu’ĕl your mother’s father. And take a wife for yourself from there, from
the daughters of Laḇan your mother’s brother.
Gen 28:3 “And Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear
fruit and increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples,
Gen 28:4 and give you the blessing of Aḇraham, to
you and your seed with you, so that you inherit the land of your sojournings,
which Elohim gave to Aḇraham.”
Gen 28:5 So Yitsḥaq sent Yaʽaqoḇ away, and he went
to Paddan Aram, to Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Riḇqah,
the mother of Yaʽaqoḇ and Ěsaw. (Deut 26:5)
Gen 28:6 And Ěsaw saw that Yitsḥaq had blessed
Yaʽaqoḇ and sent him away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there,
and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife
from the daughters of Kenaʽan,”
Gen 28:7 and that Yaʽaqoḇ had obeyed his father and
his mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
Gen 28:8 So Ěsaw saw that the daughters of Kenaʽan did
not please his father Yitsḥaq,
Gen 28:9 and Ěsaw went to Yishmaʽĕl and took Maḥalath the daughter of Yishmaʽĕl, Aḇraham’s son, the sister of Neḇayoth, to be his wife, besides the wives he had.
The tragic history
of Esav and Yaqov bears fact that they are a people who have brought much
violence and mixture into the earth:
The blessing of Yaqov
is perhaps in essence an end time blessing by a remnant.
“The rainy cycle of
Israel is a prophetic type of the outpouring of the Ruach of YHVH and the
harvest of souls associated with true revivals. In late October, the early rain
comes. It is called "yoreh," or "the
pourer." It gives the young seedlings their first spurt of growth to
really start them on the way to maturity. The rainy season follows, a time of
relatively steady, but not heavy rains. Finally, in late March or April, the
latter rain comes. The Hebrews called it "malqoesh" or
the "harvest rain." It was much heavier than the early rain, and
compared to the rainy season, it was a veritable deluge. The crops grew by
leaps and bounds during this time, and the harvest immediately followed.”
(Shavuot/Pentecost)”
Joel
2:23 And you children of Tsiyon, be glad and
rejoice in יהוה your
Elohim, for He shall give you the (rain or in Hebrew “Ha Moreh”) Teacher of
Righteousness, and cause the rain(Heb – geshem) to come down for you, the
former rain and the latter rain, as before.
Between
these two rains – yoreh and malkosh – there was a need for the “tal” kind of
rain. To gently soak the young seedlings until they grew bigger and stronger and
before the latter rain fell. The end time remnant will survive the final
outpouring because they have been soaked – “tal”– with gentle drizzle of the
Torah and are ready for the final last outpouring – see Yoel/Joel 2.
The blessing of Yaqov
is perhaps in essence also end time blessing. We see the same kind of language
used in the Song of Moshe – that will be sung by an end time remnant (Rev 15:3).
Deu 32:1 “Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; And hear, O earth, The words of my mouth. Deu 32:2 “Let my instruction fall as rain, My speech drop down as dew,(Heb ‘’ctal) As fine rain on the tender plants, And as showers on the grass.
תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי, My sayings drizzle, (let them soak
you in the knowledge and life of the Torah.)
How do we obtain the
blessings of YHVH, YHVH’s way?
Isa 40:28 Did you not know? Have you not heard? The everlasting Elohim, יהוה, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. Isa 40:29 He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Isa 40:30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall, Isa 40:31 but those who wait on יהוה renew their strength, they raise up the wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint.
Psa 37:4 And delight (take exquisite delight) yourself in יהוה, And let Him (He will) give you the desires of your heart
How will it end for most people in the end times?
Jer 15:1 And יהוה said to me, “Even if Mosheh and Shemu’ěl were to stand before Me, My being is not toward this people. Send them away from My presence, let them go. Jer 15:2 “And it shall be, when they say to you, ‘Where do we go?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Those for death, to death. And those for the sword, to the sword. And those for scarcity of food, to scarcity of food. And those for captivity, to captivity.” ’ Jer 15:3 “And I shall appoint over them four kinds,” declares יהוה, “the sword to kill, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. Jer 15:4 “And I shall make them for a horror to all the reigns of the earth,
Mal 2:1 “And now, O priests, this command is for you. Mal 2:2 “If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said יהוה of hosts, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart. Mal 2:8 “But you, you have turned from the way, you have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant of Lěwi,” said יהוה of hosts. Mal 2:9 “And I also, I shall make you despised and low before all the people, because you are not guarding My ways, and are showing partiality in the Torah. (You choose what you will obey)
Isa 1:9 Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.
Jer 30:24 The burning displeasure of יהוה shall not turn back until He has done and established the purposes of His heart. In the latter days you shall understand it.[b] Footnote: bSee Jer_23:20.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheinu, Melech
ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chai-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu. Baruch
atah YHVH, notein ha-Torah. Amein.
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 – Amein.