Parashat 13 (Shemot) Portion 51 4:18-6:1 2 Sam 15:7-15 + 37 Acts 7:35-37

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.

וילך משׁה  and Moshe went …

All those whom He called will all be faced with this decision – there is a time to leave – the timing is critical.

Luk 14:26  “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate[a] his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and his own life too, he is unable to be My taught one. Footnote: aTo love less. Luk 14:27  “And whoever does not bear his stake and come after Me is unable to be My taught one. 

Exo 4:18  Then Mosheh went and returned to Yithro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Mitsrayim to see whether they are still alive.” And Yithro said to Mosheh, “Go in peace.”

Exo 4:19  And יהוה said to Mosheh in Miḏyan, “Go, return to Mitsrayim, for all the men are dead who sought your life.” 

Mat 2:14  And rising up, he took the Child and His mother by night and departed for Mitsrayim, 

Mat 2:15  and remained there until the death of Herodes, to fill what was spoken by יהוה through the prophet, saying, “Out of Mitsrayim I have called My Son.” Exo_4:22-23, Hos_11:1, Rev_21:7. 

 

Exo 4:20  So Mosheh took his wife and his sons and set them on a(the) donkey, and he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. And Mosheh took the rod of Elohim in his hand.  (See also Ex 18:1-7)

“the donkey” (ha chamor) – the sages believe this was Messiah’s  donkey. Some sages believed that Messiah would come on a donkey to bring deliverance to Yisrael. Messengers of deliverance travel with great humility – on the donkey - Zec 9:9 

Exo 4:21  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “As you go back to Mitsrayim, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I am going to harden his heart, so that he does not let the people go.

Exo 4:22  “And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Yisra’ĕl is My son, My first-born,

Exo 4:23  so I say to you, let My son go to serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, see, I am killing your son, your first-born.”

This is the first time Yisrael is referred to as a nation, not only a nation amongst nations, but the nation referred to as YHVH’s first born son. A nation who had assimilated; a nation who most probably up to that point never established their covenant with YHVH by circumcising their sons.

Exo 4:24  And it came to be on the way, in the lodging place, that יהוה met him and sought to kill him.

Exo 4:25  And Tsipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it at Mosheh’s feet, and said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Exo 4:26  So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

It is possible that on this occasion Moshe sent Tsipporah away. We see that Tsipporah is only mentioned again after this event in Shemot- Exo 18:2  And Yithro, Mosheh’s father-in-law, took Tsipporah, the wife of Mosheh – after he had sent her back, (or after her dismissal – Heb ‘’shiluach’’) See also Yasher chap 79

Tsipporah may have had great difficulty in accepting her husband’s call by YHVH to deliver the Israelites form Egypt. This may have proved to be a great disruption to their family life and future plans. ‘’She hadn’t signed up for this’’

Mar 10:29  יהושע said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the Good News, Mar 10:30  who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, everlasting life. 

Mat 10:36  and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.[d] Mic_7:6.

Exo 4:27  And יהוה said to Aharon, “Go to meet Mosheh in the wilderness.” And he went and met him on the mountain of Elohim, and kissed him. (Mount Sinai is where spiritual leaders meet to discuss the liberation of YHVH’s people- Ex 19:1 – three- month journey) see also Gal 1:17 Paul spent some time after his call at mount Sinai.

Exo 4:28  Mosheh then told Aharon all the words of יהוה who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.

Exo 4:29  And Mosheh went with Aharon and gathered together all the elders of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Exo 4:30  And Aharon spoke all the words which יהוה had spoken to Mosheh. Then he did the signs before the eyes of the people.

Exo 4:31  And the people believed. And they heard that יהוה had visited the children of Yisra’ĕl and that He had looked on their affliction, and they bowed their heads and did obeisance.

Exo 5:1  And afterwards Mosheh and Aharon went in and said to Pharaoh, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Let My people go, so that they keep a festival to Me in the wilderness.’ ”

Exo 5:2  And Pharaoh said, “Who is יהוה, that I should obey His voice to let Yisra’ĕl go? I do not know יהוה, nor am I going to let Yisra’ĕl go.”

Exo 5:3  And they said, “The Elohim of the Heḇrews has met with us. Please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness and slaughter to יהוה our Elohim, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

 

The Yisraelites may not have been exaggerating when they feared the consequences of not obeying the command of Moshe to go out into the wilderness for three days. At this time in the history of the nation of Yisrael they had so assimilated into the Egyptian society that they had forsaken the ancient paths of their faith. Some sages believe that by the time Yisrael was to leave Mitsrayim they had fallen to the 49^th level of assimilation into pagan society. They say there were just one step away from complete assimilation and complete loss of their identity as descendants of Yakov. Today there remains a great danger of assimilation into the anti Torah, ‘’anti- Semitic’’ ‘’woke’’ culture of the modern world.

Exo 5:4  But the sovereign of Mitsrayim said to them, “Mosheh and Aharon, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens.”

Exo 5:5  And Pharaoh said, “See, the people of the land are many now, and you make them cease from their burdens!”

Exo 5:6  And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen, saying,

Exo 5:7  “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exo 5:8  “And lay on them the required amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are idle, that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.’

Exo 5:9  “Let more work be laid on the men, so that they labour in it, and not pay attention to words of falsehood.”

Exo 5:10  And the slave-drivers of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus said Pharaoh, ‘I do not give you straw.

Exo 5:11  ‘Go, take straw for yourselves, wherever you find it, for your work shall not be diminished.’

Exo 5:12  And the people were scattered in all the land of Mitsrayim – to gather stubble for straw.

Exo 5:13  And the slave-drivers were hurrying them on, saying, “Complete your work, your daily amount, as when there was straw.”

Exo 5:14  Also the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl, whom Pharaoh’s slave-drivers had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your task in making bricks both yesterday and today, as before?”

Exo 5:15  And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?

Exo 5:16  “There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And see, your servants are beaten, but your own people are at fault.”

Exo 5:17  But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, ‘Let us go and slaughter to יהוה.’

Exo 5:18  “So now go, work. And straw is not given to you, but deliver the amount of bricks.”

Exo 5:19  And the foremen of the children of Yisra’ĕl saw that they were in trouble after it was said, “You are not to diminish your daily amount of bricks.”

Exo 5:20  And when they came out from Pharaoh, they met Mosheh and Aharon who stood there to meet them.

Exo 5:21  And they said to them, “Let יהוה look on you and judge, because you have made us loathsome in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.”

Exo 5:22  And Mosheh returned to יהוה and said, “יהוה, why have You done evil to this people? Why did You send me?

Exo 5:23  “For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has done evil to this people. And You have not delivered Your people at all.”

Exo 6:1  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Now see what I do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he is going to let them go, and with a strong hand he is going to drive them out of his land.”

 

According to Jasher chapter 80 it would take another two years before the plagues began. Two years of unbearable pain and suffering. What is the message to us today?

Amo 5:18  Woe to you who are longing for the day of יהוה! What does the day of יהוה mean to you? It is darkness, and not light, Amo 5:19  as when a man flees from a lion, and a bear shall meet him; or entered his house, rested his hand on the wall, and a serpent shall bite him. Amo 5:20  Is not the day of יהוה darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it? Amo 5:21  “I have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies. 

The United Nations has a program called ‘’Agenda 21’’ – it is the so called ‘’Sustainable Global Development Agenda’’ The following two You Tube videos explain what’s happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PrY7nFbwAY

DEMOCRATS AGAINST U.N. AGENDA 21 - VIDEOS (democratsagainstunagenda21.com)

This present world with all its citizens is about to face the greatest challenges that any group of people have had to face any time in history.

Jer 30:7  Oh! For great is that day, there is none like it. And it is the time of Ya‛aqoḇ’s distress, but he shall be saved out of it. Jer 30:11  For I am with you,’ declares יהוה, ‘to save you. Though I make a complete end of all nations[a] where I have scattered you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.’ Footnote: aSee Jer_46:28, Isa_34:2, Isa_45:17, Dan_2:44, Amo_9:8, Hag_2:22. 

Jer 30:12  “For thus said יהוה, ‘Your breach is incurable, your wound is grievous. 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. 

Very few leaders are willing or prepared to warn or prepare the people of how truly terrible and horrific the coming days are going to be. It paralyzes the mind, it is unthinkable and seems impossible that such severe conditions will prevail in our time and they will go from bad to worse until YHVH delivers us.

How does one prepare themselves for such events?

There is no way we can prepare ourselves for what is about to happen. We are all going to be taken captive and will have very little control over our lives or circumstances, perhaps no control whatsoever.

How do you prepare for such a time? You cannot!

1Co 10:13  No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it. 

Many of us will not make it. Death may even be a way of escape for some, but not for all.

To resist this future globalist agenda will prove fruitless that will become more and more brutal until Messiah comes to deliver us. When you think things can’t get worse – they will.

This is not a popular message and will be rejected by most people living on the earth today.

Mat 24:37  “And as the days of Noaḥ, so also shall the coming of the Son of Aḏam be. Mat 24:38  “For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ entered into the ark, Gen_7:7. Mat 24:39  and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall the coming of the Son of Aḏam be. 

Very, very few people were prepared for what came. So, it shall be once again in the last days.

‘’Is 6:13 … The set-apart seed is its stump!” 

In the end only the stump of the tree will be left – total and complete devastation- beyond recognition.

Luk 21:28  “And when these matters begin to take place, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” 

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.