הכבדתי From the Hebrew word ‘’kavod’’ Strongs 3513 – to
make heavy (or hardened) – to cause to be honoured
Exo 10:1 And יהוה said
to Mosheh, “Go (‘’Bo’’) in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened- הכבדתי
his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I show these signs of Mine before him,
All those
who cling to any religious idea that contradicts YHVH’s Word or Purpose will
have their hearts hardened so that YHVH’s Name His Truth and His Chosen Ones may
be Esteemed.
After the
bowls of wrath are poured out in the last days, every religious idea that
contradicts YHVH’s Word will be destroyed – Rev 17 and 18 - Rev 18:4 And I heard another
voice from the heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share
in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.[a] Footnote: a Jer_51:6, Jer_51:9, Jer_51:45. Also
see Jer_50:8, Jer_50:13, Jer_50:28.
Exo 10:2 and that you relate in the hearing of your son and your son’s son what I have done in Mitsrayim, and My signs which I have done among them. And you shall know that I am יהוה.”
Note the use of the words ‘’son and sons’’’ these words appear in the singular. Why? Because the responsibility to teach future generations of these events is the individual responsibility of the priest of every household. The Pesach/Passover was not held in a large banquet hall but in the individual homes of devout families who can invite another family if they are small.
Exo 10:3 And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of the Heḇrews, ‘Till when shall you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me.
YHVH’s people were in bondage because they had willingly assimilated into the religious ideas of Egypt. Sadly all Israelites were powerless to come out of that bondage and most Israelites were determined to remain in that bondage.
Exo 10:4 ‘Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, see, tomorrow I am bringing locusts within your borders.
Eventually a small remnant left Egypt and of that small remnant only two men who were older than 20 years finally entered into the Promised Land – Yehoshua and Calev.
Mat
19:25 And when His taught ones heard it, they were very astonished,
saying, “Who then is able to be saved?”
Mat 19:26 And looking intently יהושע said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with Elohim all is possible.”
Exo
10:5 ‘And they shall cover the surface
of the land, so that no one is able to see the land. And they shall eat the
rest of what has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall
eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.
Exo
10:6 ‘And they shall fill your houses,
and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Mitsrites, which
neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that
they were on the earth to this day.’ ” Then he turned and went out from
Pharaoh.
Exo
10:7 And Pharaoh’s servants said to him,
“Till when would this one be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they serve יהוה
their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?”
Exo
10:8 And Mosheh and Aharon were brought
back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve יהוה your Elohim. Who are the ones that are going?”
Exo
10:9 And Mosheh said, “We are going with
our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our
herds we are going, for we have a festival to יהוה.”
Exo
10:10 And he said to them, “Let יהוה be
with you as I let you and your little ones go! Watch, for evil is before your
face! ‘(this is possibly a veiled threat from Pharoah)
Exo
10:11 “Not so! You men go now, and serve
יהוה, for
that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from the presence of
Pharaoh.
Exo
10:12 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand over the land of
Mitsrayim for the locusts to come upon the land of Mitsrayim, and eat every plant
of the land – all that the hail has left.”
Exo
10:13 And Mosheh stretched out his rod
over the land of Mitsrayim, and יהוה brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that
night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts.
Exo 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of
Mitsrayim and settled within all the borders of Mitsrayim, very grievous. There
had never been locusts like them before, nor would there again be like them.
Exo
10:15 And they covered the surface of
all the land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the
land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and no greenness
was left on the trees or on the plants of the field, in all the land of
Mitsrayim.
Exo
10:16 Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and
Aharon in haste, and said, “I have sinned against יהוה your Elohim and against you.
Exo
10:17 “And now, please forgive my sin
only this once, and pray to יהוה your Elohim, that He would only turn away this death from me.”
Exo
10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh and
prayed to יהוה.
Exo
10:19 And יהוה turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and
blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left within all the border
of Mitsrayim.
Exo
10:20 However, יהוה hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go.
Exo
10:21 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, and
let there be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even a darkness which is
felt.”
Exo
10:22 And Mosheh stretched out his hand
toward the heavens, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Mitsrayim
for three days.
Exo 10:23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, while all the children of Yisra’ĕl had light in their dwellings.
Rashi comments that one of the reasons darkness came over Mitzrayim, is that there were many Hebrews who did not deserve to be freed – because they had so assimilated into Egyptian culture that there was no hope for them to return to the covenant of Yisrael. These were to die so YHVH provided the darkness so that the Mitsrites would not see their death and claim that the plagues affected Hebrews and Mitsrites alike.
Exo
10:24 And Pharaoh called to Mosheh and
said, “Go, serve יהוה,
only leave your flocks and your herds behind. Let your little ones go with you
too.”
Exo
10:25 But Mosheh said, “You yourself are
to provide us with slaughterings and burnt offerings, to prepare for יהוה our
Elohim.
Exo
10:26 “And our livestock are to go with
us too, not a hoof is to be left behind, for we have to take some of them to
serve יהוה
our Elohim, and we ourselves do not know with what we are to serve יהוה
until we come there.”
Exo
10:27 However, יהוה hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, and he would not let them go.
Exo
10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, “Get away
from me! Watch yourself and see my face no more, for in the day you see my face
you die!”
Exo
10:29 And Mosheh said, “You have spoken
rightly – never again do I see your face!”
Exo 11:1 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “I am bringing yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. After that he is going to let you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall drive you out from here altogether.
Note the
prophetic (haftarah)portion is written in the future tense – these events
although they have happened in history will happen again.
Isa 19:1 The
message concerning Mitsrayim. See, יהוה is riding on a swift cloud, and He shall come into Mitsrayim.
And the idols of Mitsrayim shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of
Mitsrayim melt in its midst. (Mitzrayim represents all those that have prevented
YHVH’s people from being a light to all the nations Is 49:6 + Is 60:1-3) -In the last days Yerushalayim is called Sodom
and Mitsrayim Rev 11:8 – many in Jerusalem will also try to oppose YHVH’s
calling of a remnant )
Isa 19:2 “And
I shall stir up Mitsrites against Mitsrites, and they shall fight, each one
against his brother, and each one against his neighbour, city against city,
reign against reign.
Isa 19:3
“And the spirit of Mitsrayim shall vanish within them, and I destroy their counsel. And they shall
seek the idols and the mutterers, the mediums and the sorcerers.
Isa 19:4 “And
I shall deliver the Mitsrites into the hand of a cruel master,(anti Messiah)
and a fierce sovereign to rule over them,” declares the Master, יהוה of
hosts. (Beast and false prophet Rev 19:20)
Isa 19:5 And
waters shall fail from the sea, and the river wasted and dried up.
Isa 19:6 And
the rivers shall stink, and the streams shall be weak and dried up. Reeds and
rushes shall wither.
Isa 19:7 Bare places by the River, by the mouth of the River, and every sown field by the River shall wither. It shall be driven away and be no more.
Psa 78:1
My people, give ear to my Torah, Incline your ears to the words of my
mouth.
Psa 78:2 I open my mouth in a
parable; I utter riddles of old,
Psa 78:3 Which we have heard and
known, For our fathers have related them to us.
Psa 78:4 We do not hide them
from their children, Relating to the generation to come the praises of יהוה, And His strength and His wonders which He
has done.
Psa 78:5 For He raised a witness
in Ya‛aqoḇ, And set a Torah in Yisra’ěl, Which He commanded our fathers, To
teach them to their children;
Psa 78:6 That it might be known to
a generation to come, To children who would be born, To rise up and relate them
to their children,
Psa 78:7 And place their trust in
Elohim, And not forget the works of Ěl, But watch over His commands,
Psa 78:8 And not be like their
fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation which did not
prepare its heart, Whose spirit was not steadfast to Ěl.
Psa 78:9 The children of Ephrayim,
armed bowmen, Turned back in the day of battle.
Psa 78:10 They did not guard the
covenant of Elohim, And they refused to walk in His Torah,
Psa 78:11 And they forgot His deeds And His wonders which He had shown them.
Psalm 78 goes on to remind us of what happened in Egypt – see also 1Cor 10
Mat 13:34 יהושע said all this to the crowds in parables, and He did not speak
to them without a parable,
Mat 13:35 so that what was spoken by the prophet might be filled, saying, “I shall open My mouth in parables, I shall pour forth what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.” Psa_78:2.
Why does He
speak in parables?
Mat 13:10 And the taught ones came
and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
Mat 13:11 And He answering, said
to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the reign of
the heavens, but to them it has not been given.
A small remnant
is been prepared to be the light for a very dark world by forsaking the death
found by trying to find life from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
and are returning to the tree of life – The Torah.
Deu 30:14 “For the Word (Torah) is
very near you, in your mouth and in your heart – to do it.
Deu 30:15 “See, I have set before
you today life and good, and death and evil,
Deu 30:16 in that I am commanding
you today to love יהוה your Elohim, to walk in
His ways, and to guard His commands, and His laws, and His right-rulings. And
you shall live and increase, and יהוה your
Elohim shall bless you in the land which you go to possess.
Deu 30:17 “But if your heart turns
away, and you do not obey, and shall be drawn away, and shall bow down to other
mighty ones and serve them,
Deu 30:18 “I have declared to you
today that you shall certainly perish, you shall not prolong your days in the
land which you are passing over the Yarděn to enter and possess.
Deu 30:19 “I have called the
heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you
life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, you shall choose life,
so that you live, both you and your seed,
Deu 30:20 to love יהוה your Elohim, to obey His voice, and to
cling to Him – for He is your life and the length of your days – to dwell in
the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to
Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, to give them.”
Toda
y many of
us are still trapped in the ‘’religious ideas of Egypt’’ and all its gods and
idols, found in the ancient religions such as Mithraic worship. This happened
because Christianity soon abandoned its Hebraic roots and assimilated into
various pagan influences. One of the most significant pagan influences came
from an ancient religion called ‘’Mithraism’’.
‘’Mithraic worship was conducted secretly
in caves by torchlight, so little is known of its precise rituals. (Sounds like
Free Masonism) However, this ancient pagan religion arose again in the Roman
Empire at the same time Christianity did, and church fathers such as Jerome and
Origen commented on its parallels with Christianity.
Mithraism,
the worship of Mithra, the Iranian god of the sun, justice, contract, and
war in pre-Zoroastrian Iran. Known as Mithras in the Roman Empire during the
2nd and 3rd centuries CE, this deity was honoured as the patron of loyalty to
the emperor’’.
https://www.mithraeum.eu/notitia/from-mithraism-to-freemasonry-20210730
https://medium.com/@sundruid/the-mithraism-freemasonry-connection-2a219f914920
It was believed by some that Mithras was born of a virgin called “the Mother of
God.” He was conceived from the seed of Zoroaster (later called Zarathustra by
the Greeks), which had been preserved in a lake. (water spirits) Mithras was
considered to be the mediator between heaven and earth and was called “the
light of the world.” Following a bloody, ritualistic baptism, celebrants would
eat bread and drink wine that was said to have turned into blood. They also
worshiped on Sunday and believed Mithras’ birthday to be December 25. Adherents
taught that, after Mithras finished the work, he was sent to do, he ate a last
supper with his followers and ascended into heaven, until such time as he was
called upon to separate good from evil on the Day of Judgment.’’
This pagan religion emphasized the need of
celibacy, a practice embraced by the early church was an attack on the Hebrew
patriarchal family formation – ‘’Mithras was a chaste god, and his worshippers
were taught reverence for celibacy (a convenient trait for soldiers to
maintain). The spirit of camaraderie (and celibacy) was to be continued in the
Roman Empire by the Christian belief’’
History teaches us that the Emperor of Rome
combined these pagans and Christians to preserve and empower his empire. Today
the assimilation is ‘’almost complete’’, except for a very small remnant.
Perhaps history will prove one day that the
greatest and most brutal attacks on a ‘’very small faithful remnant’’ will come
from ‘’religious people’’ from the so-called ‘’global household of faith’’ who
will violently oppose those who expose the false religious ideas of men’s
religions.
Mat 10:34 “Do not think that I
have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword,[c]Footnote:
cIn Luk_12:51 the word “division” is used, while “sword” has the same
meaning here.
Mat 10:35 for I have come to bring
division, a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law –
Mat 10:36 and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.[d] Mic_7:6. Footnote: dLuk_12:53, Mic_7:6.
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.