Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, You have set us apart by Your commandments and have commanded us to actively study Your Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May You open our eyes to see marvellous truths from Your Torah. Thank You for calling us who were once gentiles excluded from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no expectation and without Elohim- but now through the blood of Messiah we have gained access into the covenant and have obtained citizenship into the commonwealth of Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Amein
אלה
הדברים – ‘’these are the words’’ I spoke to you then, now these are
the words I am speaking to an end time generation again, now.
Isa 42:21 It has delighted יהוה, for
the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and esteemed.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people robbed and
plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison
houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no
one to say, “Restore!” שׁוּב – restore and return to the
ancient paths – Jer 6:16
Isa 42:23 Who among you gives ear to this, pays
attention and hears for the time to come?
Isa 42:24 Who gave Ya‛aqoḇ for plunder, and Yisra’ěl to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, He
against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not
obey His Torah!
Isa 42:25 So He has poured on him His burning
displeasure and the strength of battle, and it set him on fire all around, yet
he did not understand. And it burned against him, yet he did not take it to
heart!
Isa 43:1 But now, thus said יהוה, your
Creator, O Ya‛aqoḇ, and He who formed you,
O Yisra’ěl, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your
name, you are Mine.
Isa 43:2 “When you pass through the waters, I am
with you; and through rivers, they do not overflow you. When you walk through
fire, you are not scorched, and a flame does not burn you.
Isa 43:3 “For I am יהוה your Elohim, the Set-apart One
of Yisra’ěl, your Saviour; I gave Mitsrayim for your ransom, Kush and Seḇa in your place.
Isa 43:4 “Since you were precious in My eyes, you
have been esteemed, and I have loved you. And I give men in your place, and
peoples for your life.
Isa 43:5 “Do not fear, for I am with you. I shall
bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.
Isa 43:6 “I shall say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My
daughters from the ends of the earth –
Isa 43:7 all those who are called by My Name, whom
I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.”
Isa 43:8 He shall bring out a blind people who have
eyes, and deaf ones who have ears.
Isa 43:9 All the nations shall be assembled, and
the peoples be gathered. Who among them declares this, and show us former events?
Let them give their witnesses, to be declared right; or let them hear and say,
“It is truth.”
Isa 43:10 “You are My witnesses,”( עד) declares יהוה, “And
My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand
that I am He. Before Me there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is
none.
Isa 43:11 “I, I am יהוה, and besides Me there is no
saviour. Num 20:12
Isa 43:12 “I, I have declared and saved, and made
known, and there was no foreign mighty one among you. And you are My
witnesses,” declares יהוה, “that I am Ěl.
Isa 43:13 “Even from the day (ever since day
was) I am He, and no one delivers out of My hand. I work, and who turns it
back?”
Isa 43:18 “Do not remember ((Hithpolel) to show yourself
as discerning) the former events, nor consider the events of
old. Note – last days journey will be 1000 x more intense)
Isa 43:19 “See, I am doing what is new,(renew what
needs to be repaired) let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even
making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. (Basically
YHVH is going to make an impossible journey possible)
Deu 1:1 These are the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra’ĕl beyond the Yardĕn in the wilderness, in the desert plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laḇan, and Ḥatsĕroth, and Di Zahab.
Before the remnant of Israel can return to the land they too must hear and receive all the words of Torah.
Deu 27:26 Cursed is he who does not establish the Words of this Torah.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Aměn!’ Acts 17:30
I charge you:
1Ti 6:14 that you guard the command[b] spotlessly, blamelessly, until the appearing of our Master יהושע Messiah, Footnote: bCommand (singular) often means commands, e.g. Deu_17:20, Psa_19:8.
1Co 10:11 And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
Rashi and others teach that the place names in vs 1 and 2 are code words for sins. Num 12:3
“Wilderness” – The Yisraelites continually complained about the wilderness because this was an uncomfortable place to be.
The desert plain – Commentators say this is where the Yisraelite men were seduced by the Midianite woman.
“Opposite the sea of reeds” when the Yisraelites were hemmed in between the Egyptians and the sea, they complained “were there no graves in Egypt” (Ex 14:11). Maybe this reminds us that it’s better to die in the desert embracing Torah that to die in Egypt embracing pagan mixture
“Paran” – this was where the 10 spies were sent from. According to the sages this was in the ninth of Av – a day in Yisraels history where both temples were destroyed, and many other tragedies occurred in Jewish history
“Tophel and Laban” Rashi quotes R Yochanan – “We have reviewed all of scripture but have not found any place named “Tophel or Laban” both words refer to complaints about the manna (Num 10:12;11:6) Tophel can be rendered “calumny” and “Laban” white, these refer to the nature and colour of the manna. (speculation)
“Chatzeroth” The sages quote Num 12:1-16 as the place where Miriam and Korach rebelled against Moshe.
“Di Zahav” means an abundance of gold. Wealth can either cause Torah to be established or Torah to be rejected – golden calf or the Tabernacle. (1Cor 10 gives a list of wilderness sins)
Deu 1:2 eleven days’ journey
from Ḥorĕḇ by way of Mount Sĕʽir to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa.
Deu 1:3 And it came to be in the
fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that
Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl according to all that יהוה had commanded him concerning them,
Deu 1:4 after he
had smitten Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, and Oḡ
sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Eḏreʽi.
Deu 1:5 Beyond the Yardĕn, in the land of Mo’aḇ, Mosheh undertook to declare this Torah, saying,
The sages believe that five weeks later on the 7th Adar Moshe died. This means that the whole book of Devarim took about five weeks to complete.
Deu 1:6 “יהוה our Elohim spoke to us in Ḥorĕḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.
Deu 1:7 ‘Turn and
set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the
neighbouring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low
country, and in the Negeḇ and on the seacoast, to
the land of the Kenaʽanites and to Leḇanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
Deu 1:8 ‘See, I
have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give to them and their seed after them.’
Deu 1:9 “And I
spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am unable to bear you by myself.
Deu 1:10 ‘יהוה your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as
numerous as the stars of the heavens.
Deu 1:11 ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers is going to add to you a thousand times
more than you are, and bless you as He has spoken to you!
Deu 1:12 ‘How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself?
Deu 1:13 ‘Choose
men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them
as your heads.’
Deu 1:14 “And you
answered me and said, ‘The word which you have spoken to us to do is good.’
Deu 1:15 “And I
took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over
you, leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and
leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.
Deu 1:16 “And I
commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘When hearing between your
brothers, judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who
is with him.
Deu 1:17 ‘Do not show partiality in right-ruling, hear the small as well as the great. Do not be afraid of anyone’s face, for the right-ruling belongs to Elohim. And the case which is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I shall hear it.’
Deu 1:18 “And I
commanded you at that time all the words which you should do.
Deu 1:19 “Then we
set out from Ḥorĕḇ, and went through all
that great and awesome wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of
the Amorites, as יהוה our Elohim had commanded us. And we came to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa.
Deu 1:20 “And I
said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which יהוה our Elohim is giving us.
Deu 1:21 ‘See, יהוה your Elohim has set the land before you. Go up and possess it,
as יהוה Elohim of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not fear, nor be
discouraged.’
Deu 1:22 “And all of you came near to me and said,
‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring
back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into
which we would come.’
Deu 1:23 “And the
matter was good in my eyes, so I took twelve of your men, one man from each
tribe.
Deu 1:24 “And they
turned and went up into the mountains, and came to the wadi Eshkol, and spied
it out.
Deu 1:25 “And they
took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us.
And they brought back word to us, saying, ‘The land which יהוה our
Elohim is giving us is good.’
Deu 1:26 “But you would not go up and rebelled against
the mouth Elohim, of יהוה your
Deu 1:27 and
grumbled in your tents, and said, ‘Because יהוה was hating us, He has brought us
out of the land of Mitsrayim to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to
destroy us.
Deu 1:28 ‘Where
are we going to? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people
are greater and taller than we, the cities are great and walled up to the
heavens, and we saw the sons of the Anaqim there too.” ’
Deu 1:29 “Then I
said to you, ‘Have no dread or fear of them.
Deu 1:30 ‘יהוה your Elohim, who is going before you, He does fight for you,
according to all He did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes,
Deu 1:31 and in
the wilderness, where you saw how יהוה your Elohim has borne you, as a
man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’
Deu 1:32 “Yet in
this matter you are putting no trust (not standing firm) in יהוה your Elohim,
Deu 1:33 who is
going before you in the way to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents, to
show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in a cloud by day.
Deu 1:34 “And יהוה heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and took an oath,
saying,
Deu 1:35 ‘Not one
of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore
to give to your fathers,
Deu 1:36 except
Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and
his children I give the land on which he walked, because he followed יהוה completely.’
Deu 1:37 “And יהוה was enraged with me for your sakes, saying, ‘You do not go in
there, either.
Deu 1:38 ‘Yehoshua
the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Strengthen him,
for he shall cause Yisra’ĕl to inherit.
Deu 1:39 ‘And your
little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no
knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and
they are to possess it.
Deu 1:40 ‘But you,
turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.’
Deu 1:41 “Then you
answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against יהוה. We ourselves are going up, and
we shall fight, as יהוה our Elohim commanded us.’ And when each one of you had girded
on his battle gear, you were ready to go up into the mountain.
Deu 1:42 “And יהוה said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not
in your midst, lest you be smitten before your enemies.” ’
Deu 1:43 “So I
spoke to you, but you would not listen and rebelled against the mouth of יהוה, and acted proudly, and went up into the mountain.
Deu 1:44 “Then the
Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees
do, and drove you back from Sĕʽir to Ḥormah. (devoted to
destruction)
Deu 1:45 “And you
returned and wept before יהוה, but יהוה would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
Deu 1:46 “So you dwelt in Qaḏěsh many days, according to the days that you
dwelt.
Deu 2:1 “Then we turned and set out into the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds, as יהוה spoke to me, and we went round Mount Sě‛ir, many days.
Rom 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the
mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the mind of the flesh is enmity
(hatred) towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Elohim,
neither indeed is it able,
Rom 8:8 and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Elohim.
1Jn 3:1 See what love the Father has given us, that
we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know
us, because it did not know Him.
1Jn 3:2 Beloved ones, now we are children of
Elohim. And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that
when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He
is. 1Jn 3:3 And everyone having this expectation in Him cleanses
himself, as He is clean.
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 – Amein