Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah – Amein
כִּי-יַרְחִיב ‘’when He will enlarge…’’
“..from the river of Egypt to the great river,
the River Euphrates…”Gen 15:18’’ - God's Promise - gave Israel More than 2
Million square Kilometers! Israel would be more than 100 times larger than its
current size of about 20,770 square km!’’
Our understanding of our redemption will also be enlarged.
Deu
12:20 “When יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border as He has
promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you
eat as much meat as your being desires.
Deu
12:21 “When the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too
far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock which
יהוה has given you, as I have
commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being
desires.
Deu
12:22 “Only, as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you are to eat of
it. The unclean and the clean alike eat of it.
Deu
12:23 “Only, be strong not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life,
do not eat the life with the meat.
Deu
12:24 “Do not eat it, you pour it on the earth like water.
Deu
12:25 “Do not eat it, that it might be well with you and your children
after you, when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
Deu
12:26 “Only, the set-apart gifts which you have, and your vowed
offerings, you are to take up and go to the place which יהוה chooses.
Deu
12:27 “And you shall make your ascending offerings, the meat and the
blood, on the slaughter-place of יהוה your Elohim. And the blood of your
slaughterings is poured out on the slaughter-place of יהוה your Elohim, and you eat the
meat.
Deu 12:28 “Guard, and obey all these words which I command you, that it might be well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim.
Why all the talk about slaughterings and blood? Because NO ONE WILL EVER ENTER INTO THE PRESENCE OF YHVH WHO THINKS THEY DESREVE TO BE THERE.
Warning Against Idolatry – which has imprisoned ALL of mankind.
The word ‘’Elohim’’ is repeated 17 x in the next few verse.
The Name Elohim has something to do with
powers: The Powers That Be;
Maimonides wrote: "I must premise that every Hebrew [now] knows that the term Elohim is a homonym, and denotes God, angels, judges, and the rulers of countries ..."
Homonym noun - each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins
Deu
12:29 “When יהוה your Elohim does
cut off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you
dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deu 12:30 guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones? And let me do so too.’[c] Footnote: cSee also Deu_18:9, Lev_18:3, Jer_10:2, Ezk_11:12 and Ezk_20:32, Eph_4:17, and 1Pe_4:3.
Eph 4:17 So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the nations walk,[c] in the futility of their mind,
Deu 12:31 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones.
‘’The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are around 73 million induced abortions each year worldwide. This is equivalent to about 200,000 abortions per day.’’
Deu 12:32 “All the words I am commanding you, guard to do it – do not add to it nor take away from it.[d] Footnote: dSee also Deu_4:2, Pro_30:6, Rev_22:18-19.
Deu 13:1
“When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall
give you a sign or a wonder,
Deu
13:2 and the sign or the wonder shall come true, of which he has spoken
to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other mighty ones –
which you have not known – and serve them,’
Deu
13:3 do not listen to the words of that prophet or
that dreamer of dreams, for יהוה your Elohim is
trying you to know whether you love יהוה your Elohim with
all your heart and with all your being.
Deu
13:4 “Walk after יהוה your Elohim and
fear Him, and guard His commands and obey His voice, and serve Him and cling to
Him.
Deu 13:5 “And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is put to death, because he has spoken apostasy against יהוה your Elohim – who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim and ransomed you from the house of bondage – to make you stray from the way in which יהוה your Elohim commanded you to walk. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst.
This is one of the major signs of apostacy and false leaders – they will subtly, sometimes even in the name of religion, persuade the masses that they are ‘’God’s’’ gifted and called out servants that will guide you and bring you into a life of blessing and abundance – but never do – its all just an illusion of the real truth.
Deu
13:6 “When your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your
daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own being,
entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other mighty
ones’– which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,
Deu
13:7 of the mighty ones of
the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one
end of the earth to the other end of the earth –
Deu
13:8 do not agree with him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pardon
him, nor spare him or conceal him,
Deu
13:9 but you shall certainly kill him. Your hand is first against him to
put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people,
Deu
13:10 and you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he
sought to entice you away from יהוה your Elohim, who
brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage.
Deu
13:11 “And let all Yisra’ěl hear and fear, and not again do any such evil
matter as this in your midst.
Deu
13:12 “When you hear someone in one of your cities, which יהוה your Elohim gives
you to dwell in, saying,
Deu
13:13 Some men, sons of Beliya‛al, have gone out of your midst and led
the inhabitants of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other mighty ones” ’ – mighty ones whom
you have not known –
When it
comes to understanding and obeying YHVH the scriptures says - Isa 42:18 “Hear, you deaf!
And look, you blind, and see. Isa 42:19 “Who is blind but My
servant, or deaf as My messenger (‘’mIshulam’’ one who is in a covenant
with YHVH) whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as
servant of יהוה? Isa
42:20 “You see much, but do not guard; ears are open, but do not
hear.” 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!” (or return ‘’shuv’’) Jn
8:31-59
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!
Many Christians and Jews will be shocked to discover how
bound they truly are. They are in bondage because of their disobedience, and
they are powerless to escape from their prisons.
Rom
11:32 For Elohim has shut them all up to disobedience, (Jew and Gentile)
in order to have compassion on all. Rom 11:33 Oh, the depth of
riches, and wisdom and knowledge of Elohim! How unsearchable His judgments and
untraceable His ways! Hosea 3:5
Rom
8:19 For the intense longing[a] of the creation eagerly waits for the
revealing of the sons of Elohim. Footnote: aLit. anxiously looking with
outstretched head.
Rom
8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because
of Him who subjected it, in anticipation,
Rom
8:21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage to
corruption into the esteemed freedom of the children of Elohim.
Rom
8:22 For we know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the
pains of childbirth together until now.
Rom
8:23 And not only so, but even we ourselves who have the first-fruits of
the Spirit, we ourselves also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the
adoption, the redemption of our body.
Rom
8:24 For in this expectation we were saved, but expectation that is seen
is not expectation, for when anyone sees, does he expect it?
Rom 8:25 And if we expect what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance. Heb 11:1
In Ancient Greek, the aorist verb is used in the aorist indicative tense in unrealized past conditional sentences – (aorist means undefined not yet a reality but in is the process of becoming reality) eg ‘’ the faith cannot become a reality without obedience. For 1000 years (in the millennium reign) Yashua is going to teach the remnant bride and the nations the reality of perfect obedience to the Torah. For centuries the church has been teaching that this is a ‘’done deal’’ yet in reality it is in the process of becoming a done deal in our lives.
Gal
3:22 But the Scripture has shut up (Gk word is aorist) all mankind
under sin, that the promise by belief in (Gk ‘’of’’) יהושע Messiah might be given to those who believe.
Gal
3:23 But before (the) belief came,(Gk aorist – before the coming of the
faith accompanied by obedience) we were being guarded under Torah, having been
shut up for the belief being about (impending) to be revealed. (the
faith that brings us into the presence of the Almighty)
Gal
3:24 Therefore the Torah became our trainer (Gk ‘’pedagogos’’ or boy
leader) unto Messiah, in order to be declared right by belief.
Gal
3:25 And after (the) belief has come, (aorist – now at the coming of the
faith) we are no longer under a trainer. (‘’the faith’’ that will bring
you into the presence of the Father)
Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of Elohim through (the) belief in Messiah יהושע
Churchmen
are quick to state that now in Messiah we no longer need a ‘’boy
leader’’ or the Torah. If this was true why are churchmen unable or willing to
obey the Torah?
Because like us, we still need the Torah (boy leader) to bring us to Messiah. (also still for the next 1000 years)
This
Torah portion is teaching us what Paul said in 2Ti 4:3 For there shall be
a time when they shall not bear sound teaching, but according to their own
desires, they shall heap up for themselves teachers tickling the ear,[b]
Footnote: b Isa_30:10, Jer_5:31, Rom_16:18.
2Ti
4:4 and they shall indeed turn their ears away from the truth, and be
turned aside to myths.
2Ti 4:5 But you be sober in all matters, suffer hardships, do the work of an evangelist, accomplish your service completely.
2Ti 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Co 1:22 who also sealed us, and gave the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
you
were sealed with the Set-apart Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14 who is the pledge of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His esteem.
כִּי-יַרְחִיב ‘’when He will enlarge…’’ our understanding of our redemption will also be enlarged.
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.