Baruch atah, YHVH Eloheinu, Melech haolam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu laasok b’divrei Torah.
Blessed are You,
YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His
commandments and commanded us to engross ourselves in the words of the Torah.
Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah – Amein
אשׂימה
עלי מלך – I will recruit over me a king
Deu 17:14 “When you come to the land which יהוה
your Elohim is giving you, and shall possess (יָרֵשׁ) it and shall dwell in it, and you shall
say, ‘Let me set a sovereign over me like all the nations that are around
me,’ יָרֵשׁ A primitive root; to occupy (by driving
out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication to seize,
to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish,
to ruin: - cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess.
Note the irony and tragedy of this opening verse – YHVH
blesses His people with an inheritance by driving out a people that don’t
belong there. Then YHVH’s people have the cheek to thank Him by telling Him ‘’we
prefer to be ruled by a king of our own choosing’’.
1Sa
8:5 and
said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now
appoint for us a sovereign to rule us like all the nations.”
1Sa
8:6 But the word was evil in the eyes of Shemu’ěl when they said, “Give
us a sovereign to rule us.” So Shemu’ěl prayed to יהוה.
1Sa
8:7 And יהוה said to Shemu’ěl, “Listen to
the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected
you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them.
1Sa
8:8 “According to all the works which they have done since the day that I
brought them up out of Mitsrayim, even to this day – forsaking Me and serving
other mighty ones – so they are doing to you too.
1Sa
8:9 “And now, listen to their voice, but you shall certainly warn them,
and shall make known to them the ruling of the sovereign who does reign over
them.” (he will tax you and send your sons to war. Force you to work on
his farms and manufacture weapons - 1 Sam 8:10-13)
Deu 17:15 you shall certainly set a sovereign
over you whom יהוה
your Elohim shall choose. Set a sovereign over you from among your
brothers, you are not allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not your
brother.
Jer 33:20 “Thus said יהוה, ‘If you could break My covenant with the day and My covenant
with the night, so that there be not day and night in their season,
Jer 33:21 then My covenant
could also be broken with Dawiḏ My servant – so that he shall not have a son (singular) to reign upon
his throne – and with the Lěwites, the priests, My attendants.
Jer 33:22 As the host of the
heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I increase the descendants
of Dawiḏ My servant and the Lěwites who attend upon Me.’ ”
Yahshua
was the son of David – the King Messiah who lives forever and ever –
Rev
17:14 “They
shall fight with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Master
of masters and Sovereign of
sovereigns. And those with Him are called, and chosen, and trustworthy.”
Php
2:5 For, let this mind be in you which was also in Messiah יהושע,
Php
2:6 who, being in the form of Elohim, did not regard equality with Elohim
a matter to be grasped,
Php
2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, and came to be in
the likeness of men.
Php
2:8 And having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and
became obedient unto death, death even of a stake.
Php
2:9 Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name
which is above every name,
Php
2:10 that at the Name of יהושע
every knee should
bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
Php
2:11 and every tongue should confess Isa_45:23 that יהושע Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim
the Father.
Isa
33:22 for יהוה is our Judge, יהוה is our Inscriber, מחקקנו יהוה is our Sovereign, He saves us –
Isa
49:16 “See, I have inscribed מרחוק you on
the palms of My hands; your walls are always before Me.
The
haftarah portion is added to clearly state that no other mighty one has the
right to ‘’inscribe’’ you in the palm of their hands – we only have ONE legal owner.
‘’The idea of the Messiah's name being inscribed in the
palm of God's hand is represented by the phrase "Behold, I have
engraved you (singular) on the palms of my hands,"
Judgment
on the Nations
Isa
34:1 Come
near, you nations, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all
that is in it, the world and all its offspring.
Isa
34:2 For the displeasure of יהוה is against all the nations,a and His wrath against all their
divisions. He shall put them under the ban, He shall give them over to the
slaughter, Footnote: aSee footnote Jer_30:11.
Isa
34:3 and their slain be thrown out, and their stench rise from their
corpses. And mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Isa
34:4 And all the host of the heavens shall rot away. And the heavens
shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host fade like a leaf fading on
the vine, and like the fading one of a fig tree.
Isa
34:5 “For My sword shall be drenched in the heavens. Look, it comes down
on Eḏom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.
Isa
34:6 “The sword of יהוה shall be filled with blood,
it shall be made overflowing with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and
goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For יהוה has a slaughtering in Botsrah, and a great slaughter in the
land of Eḏom.
Isa
34:7 “And wild oxen shall come down with them, and young bulls with
bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness.”
Isa
34:8 For it is the day of the vengeance of יהוה, the year of recompense for the cause of Tsiyon.
Therefore
no king or ruler must get ‘’too big for his boots’’ look at the tragic
commentary of all the kings and Judges of Israel.
Deu 17:16 “Only, he is not to increase horses for
himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for יהוה
has said to you, ‘Do not return that way again.’
Deu 17:17 “And he is not to increase wives for
himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and
gold for himself.
Deu 17:18 “And it shall be, when he sits on the
throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a
book, from the one before the priests, the Lěwites.
Deu 17:19 “And it shall be with him, and he shall
read it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear יהוה his Elohim and guard
all the Words of this Torah and these laws, to do them,
Deu 17:20 so that his heart is not lifted up above
his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so
that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of
Yisra’ěl.
Provision
for Priests and Levites
When
the only true and legitimate king of kings – Yahshua – son of David returns –
He shall put in order His Master’s Kingdom – YHVH’s Kingdom to whom alone all
things belong.
Deu
10:14 “See, the heavens and the heaven of heavens belong to יהוה your Elohim, also the earth
with all that is in it.
Deu
10:15 “יהוה delighted only in your
fathers, to love them. And He chose their seed after them, you above all
peoples,[a] as it is today. Footnote: aSee also Deu_7:6, Deu_14:2,
Deu_26:18, Psa_135:4 and Amo 1:1-9:15.
Deu
10:16 “And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart,[b] and harden
your neck no more. Footnote: bSee also Deu_30:6-8, Rom_2:26-29
and 1Co_7:19.
Deu
10:17 “For יהוה your Elohim is Elohim of
mighty ones and Master of masters, the great Ěl, mighty and awesome, who shows
no partiality nor takes a bribe.
Deu
10:18 “He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and
loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.
According
to the Torah YHVH has chosen the Levites (‘’Levi “joined to”) to join His
people to Himself and bring restoration to mankind. When Yahshua returns He
will make sure that every word and command in the Torah regarding YHVH’s chosen
Levitical priesthood are carried out with no exception and no opposition. (Is
66:21; 1 Pet 2:9) ממלכת
כהנים וגוי קדוש ועם סגלה
1Pe
2:9 But you are a chosen race,b Deu_10:15 a royal
priesthood,c Isa_61:6 a set-apart nation,d Exo_19:6 a people
for a possession,e Isa_43:2 that you should proclaim the praises of
Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light, Footnotes: bAlso
see Isa_43:20. cAlso see Isa_66:21. dAlso see Deu_7:6.
eAlso see Exo_19:5, Tit_2:14.
Deu
18:1 “The
priests, the Lěwites, all the tribe of Lěwi, have no part nor inheritance with
Yisra’ěl. They are to eat the offerings of יהוה made by fire, and His inheritance.
Deu
18:2 “But among his brothers Lěwi has no inheritance. יהוה is his inheritance, as He has spoken to
him. Lev 25:32
Deu
18:3 “And this is the priest’s (Kohen) right from the people, from those
who slaughter a slaughtering, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to
the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach;
Deu
18:4 the first-fruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and
the first of the fleece of your sheep, you give to him.
Deu
18:5 “For יהוה your Elohim has chosen him
out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of יהוה, him and his sons forever.
Jer
33:20 “Thus said יהוה, ‘If you could break My
covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there be not day
and night in their season,
Jer
33:21 then My covenant could also be broken with Dawiḏ My servant – so that he shall not
have a son to reign upon his throne – and with the Lěwites, the priests, My
attendants.
Jer
33:22 As the host of the heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea
measured, so I increase the descendants of Dawiḏ My servant and the Lěwites who
attend upon Me.’ ”
Deu
18:6 “And when the Lěwite comes from one of your gates, from where he has
sojourned among all Yisra’ěl, and shall come with all the desire of his being
to the place which יהוה chooses,
Deu
18:7 then he shall serve in the Name of יהוה his Elohim, like all his brothers the Lěwites, who are standing
there before יהוה.
Deu
18:8 “They are to have portion for portion to eat, besides what comes
from the sale of his inheritance. (Levites were not like monks who had
taken a vow of poverty)
Abominable
Practices
Deu
18:9 “When you come into the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the
abominations of those nations.a Footnote: aSee footnote at Deu_12:30.
Deu
18:10 “Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter
pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or
one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,
Deu
18:11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who
calls up the dead.
Deu
18:12 “For whoever does these is an abomination to יהוה, and because of these abominations יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before
you.
Deu
18:13 “Be perfect before יהוה your Elohim,
Deu
18:14 for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using
magic and to diviners. But as for you, יהוה your Elohim has not appointed such for you.
A
New Prophet like Mosheh
Deu
18:15 “יהוה your Elohim shall raise up
for you a Prophetb like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him,
Footnote: bSee footnote at Deu_18:18.
Deu
18:16 according to all you asked of יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorěḇ in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me
not hear again the voice of יהוה my Elohim, nor let me see
this great fire any more, lest I die.’
Deu
18:17 “And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have
spoken is good.
Deu
18:18 I shall raise up for them a Prophetc like you out of the midst of
their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to
them all that I command Him. Footnote: cSee also Act_3:22-26, and Act_7:37.
Deu
18:19 And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He
speaks in My Name, I require it of him.
Act
3:23 ‘And it shall be that every being who does not hear that Prophet
shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ Deu_18:15-19.
Act
3:24 “And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Shemu’ěl and
those following, have also announced these days.
Act
3:25 “You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which Elohim made
with our fathers, saying to Aḇraham, ‘And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed.’ Gen_12:3, Gen_22:18, Gen_26:4.
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.