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
אתה
עבר ''you are crossing over’’
Deu 9:1 “Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: You are passing over the Yardĕn today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourself, cities great and walled (Heb – “”batsar- mysteriously inaccessible controlled by demonic entities) up to the heavens, -
“Shemah Yisrael…” – whenever these two words are used, they are
immediately intended to call us to listen carefully and pay careful attention
as to what is about to be said.
Moshe then goes on
to say that Yisrael is crossing the Yarden River on that day. Why is this
important?
Firstly Moshe was
not crossing over the Yarden. Secondly those crossing the Yarden must not
assume that their crossing had something to do with their own obedience and
righteousness. This is a lesson to us who call ourselves believers and believe
we are entitled to all the blessings and promises of YHVH.
For many Yisraelites this must have been a wonderful day, yet it must also have been a sad day because there were many others that could have crossed over but never did - and so it shall be again at the end of this age.
This Torah portion
draws our attention to the fact that not everyone who calls themselves
believers in YHVH and His Messiah automatically qualify to cross over into
Yisrael. And not everyone who crosses over the Yarden to Yisrael will
automatically stay in Yisrael
“Walled up to the heavens” could imply that these cities were protected by occultic demonic forces. Eph 6:12
We should consider the implications of this matter in a very sober manner. False doctrines and idolatry have “walled up the truth to the heavens” for many dear precious “called out ones.” Only the mighty power of YHVH working in us will save us from such deception and defeat in the last days.
Deu
9:2 a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anaqim, whom you
know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who does stand before the descendants of
Anaq?’
Deu 9:3 “And you shall know today that יהוה your Elohim is He who is passing over before you as a consuming fire – He does destroy them and subdue them before you. So, you shall dispossess (evict) them and destroy them quickly, as יהוה has said to you.
YHVH
is about to destroy everyone who in any way stands in the way of His people
entering His promised land (millennium) His people include the restored 12 of Yisrael
tribes and all those grafted into them.
Yisrael today, more than any other time in recent history realize that they are going to have to evict all hostile Jew hating forces off the land of Yisrael.
Deu
9:4 “Do not think in your heart, after יהוה
your Elohim has driven them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness
יהוה has brought me in to possess this land.’ But it is because of
the wrong of these nations that יהוה is driving them out from before you.
Deu
9:5 “It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of
your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wrong of
these nations that יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before
you, in order to establish the word which יהוה
swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ.
Deu 9:6 “And you shall know that יהוה your Elohim is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Vss 4-6 repeat the word ‘’righteousness’’ three times.
Deu
9:7 “Remember, do not forget how you provoked to wrath יהוה your Elohim in the wilderness. From the day that you came out
of the land of Mitsrayim until you came to this place, you have been rebellious
against יהוה.
Deu 9:8 “Even in Ḥorěḇ you made יהוה wroth, so that יהוה was enraged with you, to destroy you.
Note the accusations YHVH
makes against His people in vs 6-9.
Does YHVH not remain enraged with those who continually break His covenant and do violence to His Torah?
Deu
9:9 “When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone,
the tablets of the covenant which יהוה
made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I did
not eat bread nor did I drink water.
Deu
9:10 “Then יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone written
with the finger of Elohim, and on them were all the Words which יהוה had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in
the day of the assembly.
Deu
9:11 “And it came to be, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that יהוה gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the
covenant.
Deu 9:12 “Then יהוה said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Mitsrayim have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them, they have made themselves a moulded image.’
Proverbially
speaking, they couldn’t wait for the ink to dry on the ‘’ketubah’’ or marriage
contract – It was like a bride on her marriage night been unfaithful to her
husband. This unfaithful bride had to first go and engage in sexual intercourse
with her old pagan lover before she would consummate her covenant with her
loving lawful husband.
It is unheard of; not even pagan unbelievers act this way yet all of His children have acted this way and many continue to do so until today.
Jer 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had done abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, nor did they know how to blush.
Even though man has been unfaithful from the beginning, YHVH always remains faithful.
2Ti 2:13 If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful—He cannot deny Himself.
And so YHVH sends forth His only brought forth Son to bring a faithless people back into faithfulness to Him.
YHVH sends His son Yahshua to restore the lost sheep
of the house of Yisrael – Mat 15:24 – whom His Father divorced because of their
unfaithfulness – Jer 3:8 – We respond by killing the Messiah – Yahshua responds
by asking the Father to forgive us and reassures us before returning to His
Father that he must return to his Father so that He can send us the Set Apart
Spirit to comfort us and guide us –
Joh 15:26 “And when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to
you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth, who comes from the Father, He
shall bear witness of Me
Joh 16:7 “But I say the truth to you. It is better for you that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you at all, but if I go, I shall send Him to you.
This same set apart Spirit that was sent to us is a ‘’downpayment’’ (Gk ‘’arrabon’’) or engagement ring – assuring His bride to be that He would come and ‘’collect’’ her and will present to Himself in faithfulness and purity – Hosea 2:14-20
2Co 1:22 who also sealed us, and gave the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.(arrabon)
May He find us worthy to be invited to the great marriage supper of the Lamb - Rev 19:9 And he said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the true words of Elohim.”
The Golden Calf
Deu
9:13 “And יהוה spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this
people, and look, they are a stiff-necked people.
Deu
9:14 Leave Me alone, so that I destroy them and blot out their name from
under the heavens, and make of you a nation stronger and greater than
they.’
Deu
9:15 “So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain
burned with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two
hands.
Deu
9:16 “And I looked and saw that you had sinned against יהוה your Elohim, and had made for yourselves a moulded calf! You
had quickly turned aside from the way which יהוה
had commanded you.
Deu
9:17 “And I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and
broke them before your eyes,
Deu
9:18 “and I fell down before יהוה,
as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I did not eat bread and I did not
drink water, because of all your sins which you committed in doing evil in the
eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.
Deu
9:19 “For I was afraid of the displeasure and rage with which יהוה was wroth with you, to destroy you. But יהוה listened to me that time once more.
Deu
9:20 “And יהוה was very enraged with Aharon, to destroy
him, so I prayed for Aharon at that time also.
Deu
9:21 “And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it
with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as
dust. And I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Law of ‘’Sotah’’ Required of women who are suspected of committing adultery, ‘’sotah’’ is a ritual involving a priest to confirm whether the act occurred or not; a woman who has been unfaithful is made infertile – Num 5:11-31 –
YHVH’s children remain ‘’barren’’ until today. Why? Because of all the golden calves – all the idolatry.
Definition of idolatry – when we fail to or refuse to obey EVERY word that comes out of the Mouth of YHVH.
Deu
9:22 “And at Taḇ‛ěrah and at Massah and at Qiḇroth Hatta’awah you made יהוה wroth.
Deu
9:23 “And when יהוה sent you from Qaḏěsh Barněa, saying, ‘Go
up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the
mouth of יהוה your Elohim, and you neither trusted Him
nor listened to His voice.
Deu
9:24 “You have been rebellious against יהוה from the day that I knew you.
Deu
9:25 “So I fell down before יהוה
the forty days and forty nights, for I fell down because יהוה had said He would destroy you.
Deu
9:26 “And I prayed to יהוה, and said, ‘O Master יהוה, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have
ransomed in Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Mitsrayim with a
strong hand.
Deu
9:27 Remember Your servants, Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Ya‛aqoḇ. Do not look
on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wrong or on their sin,
Deu
9:28 lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because יהוה was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them,
and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness.”
Deu
9:29 And they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out
by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.’
Jer 2:1 And the word
of יהוה came to me, saying,
Jer 2:2 “Go,
and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I
remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you
went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Jer 2:3
“Yisra’ĕl was set-apart to יהוה, the
first-fruits of His increase. All who ate of it became guilty – evil came upon
them,” declares יהוה.’ ”
Jer 2:4 Hear
the word of יהוה, O house of Yaʽaqoḇ and all the clans of
the house of Yisra’ĕl.
Jer 2:5 Thus
said יהוה, “What unrighteousness have your fathers
found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and
became worthless?
Jer 2:6 “And
did not they say, ‘Where is יהוה, who
brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of
death, a land that no one passed through and where no one dwelt?’
Jer 2:7 “Then I
brought you into a garden land, to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you
entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.
Jer 2:8 “The
priests did not say, ‘Where is יהוה?’ And those
who handle the Torah did not know Me, and the shepherds1
transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baʽal, and walked after
matters that did not profit. Footnote: 1See 10:21, 12:10-11,
50:6-7.
Jer 2:11 “Has a nation changed
its mighty ones, which are not mighty ones? But My people have changed My
esteem1 for that which does not profit. Footnote: 1Symbolic
name for His Ark.
Jer 2:12 “Be amazed, O heavens,
at this, and be frightened, be utterly dried up,” declares יהוה.
Jer 2:13 “For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters1, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns, which do not hold water. Footnote: 1See 5:30-31; 2Tim 4:3
The conclusion of this Torah portion is that YHVH has always loved us and desires to be in a covenant with us. This is our only hope in this world and in the world to come. The question remains ‘’how do we respond to this covenant of such a gracious and kind Being?’’
Let us go back to the garden when YHVH first enters into a covenant with Adam.
YHVH gives Adam the most amazing ‘’wedding gift’’ – a beautiful garden in the midst of a beautiful world filled with beautiful things – He even gives Adam the most beautiful of all gifts – Eve. YHVH has only one condition – man must be totally reliant on Him to know what is right and wrong in this beautiful place which He created.
We know how man responded.
In spite of all this YHVH still offers man a way back to Himself – however the conditions have not changed – He still requires man to be totally dependent on Him to show man what is right and what is wrong. YHVH then requires that man live in complete obedience to everything that He has said.
Mic 6:8 He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה require of you but to do right,(in His Eyes) and to love loving-commitment, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?
This reality was meant to reflect itself in human marriage but very seldom does.
Hosea Redeems His Wife
Hos 3:1 Then יהוה said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved
by a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of יהוה for the children of Yisra’ěl, though they
are turning to other mighty ones and love their raisin cakes.”
Hos 3:2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen
pieces of silver, and one and one-half ḥomers of barley.
Hos 3:3 And I said to her, “You are to remain
with me many days, you are not to whore, nor become any man’s, and so I shall
also be towards you.”
Hos 3:4 For many days the children of Yisra’ěl
are to remain without sovereign and without prince, and without slaughtering, and without pillar, and without
shoulder garment or house idols.
Hos 3:5 Afterward the children of Yisra’ěl shall return, and seek יהוה their Elohim, and Dawiḏ their sovereign, and fear יהוה and His goodness, in the latter days.
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
The only cure for idolatry -
Joh 4:23 “But the
hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him. ישתחוו
Joh 4:24 “Elohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.” במשתחוים
רֹאשׁ-דְּבָרְךָ אֱמֶת; וּלְעוֹלָם, כָּל-מִשְׁפַּט צִדְקֶךָ Ps 119:160 – ‘’rosh’’ is a ruler.
Psa 119:160 The sum of Your word is truth, And all Your righteous right-rulings are forever.
Only one verb in the ‘’Hishtaphel root’’ of ‘’chavah’’ or Worship or ‘’eshtachaveh’’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cOffswSXI
You cannot worship YHVH in Spirit and truth and have idols in your life at the same time.