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.
The Song of Mosheh/Moses
is a perfect example of YHVH ‘’declaring the end from the beginning’’ - Isa
46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not
yet been done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,’
This, YHVH does in His mercy to warn us and prepare
us for what lies ahead at the end of this age.
The
Coming Judgment on Judah
Zep 1:2 “I shall snatch away all from the face of
the earth,” declares יהוה
–
אָסֹף
אָסֵף כֹּל, מֵעַל פְּנֵי
הָאֲדָמָה--נְאֻם-יְהוָה – To terminate yes, I will terminate
everything off the face of the earth. Why? Every form of life on this planet
has been poisoned by the venom of idolatry.
Zep 1:3 “I snatch away man and beast, I snatch away
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks,
with the wrong, when I shall cutoff man from the face of the earth,” declares יהוה.
Zep 1:4 “And I shall stretch out My hand against
Yehuḏah, and against all
the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and cut off every trace of Ba‛al from this
place, the names of the idolatrous priests, with the priests,
Zep 1:5 and those bowing down to the host of the
heavens on the house-tops, and those bowing themselves, swearing by יהוה and swearing by
Malkam;
Zep 1:6 and those who turn away from following יהוה, and who have not
sought יהוה
or inquired of Him.”
Why?
Zep 1:7 Hush! in the presence of the Master יהוה. For the day of יהוה is near, for יהוה has prepared a slaughter, He has set apart His invited ones. (a slaughter to sanctify - הקדישׁ His invited ones)
‘’While it's a strong statement to say "without exception," the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 is indeed widely recognized as having had a profound and foundational influence on the prophetic tradition in Israel.’’
‘’Ha
azinu’’ or ‘’lend your ear’’ – more people these days are paying closer
attention and are becoming more concerned about what is happening in the world
around us, especially what will happen in the future.
45. And יהוה has not done all this.” Vs 27
וְלֹא
יְהוָה פָּעַל כָּל-זֹאת
Ultimately, the idea of YHVH directly creating chaos is
not a universally accepted one.
Isa
45:7 forming light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil.
I, יהוה, do all these.’
45(b) Dev 32:28 “For they הֵמָּה are a nation lost אֹבַד to
counsel, עֵצוֹת,
כִּי-גוֹי אֹבַד עֵצוֹת, הֵמָּה;
46. And there is no understanding
(f) in them.
וְאֵין
בָּהֶם, תְּבוּנָה
46(b) Dev 32:29 “If they were wise, they
would understand this,
לוּ
חָכְמוּ, יַשְׂכִּילוּ זֹאת;
If only לוּ
47. They would consider their latter
end!
יָבִינוּ,
לְאַחֲרִיתָם.
47(b) Dev 32:30 “How would one chase
a thousand,
אֵיכָה
יִרְדֹּף אֶחָד, אֶלֶף
48. And two put ten thousand
to flight,
וּשְׁנַיִם,
יָנִיסוּ רְבָבָה:
Mosheh/Moses is now referring to Israels humiliating defeat
by her enemies. The Chumash – Page1107 comments that Israel’s non -Jewish
conquerors are now convinced of their own invincibility because they are too
foolish to realize what was happening to Israel by the hand of their enemies -
vs 29 continues -
48(b) Unless their Rock had sold
them,
כִּי-צוּרָם מְכָרָם,
If the enemy had considered the magnitude of Israels defeat,
they would realize it was because YHVH had handed His people over to His
enemies. ‘’your God has sold you out’’ they will say.
Rev 13:7
And it was given to him to fight with the set-apart ones and to overcome them.
And authority was given to him over every tribe and tongue and nation. Rev
13:8 And all those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been
written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world
shall worship him.
Mat 24:15 “So when you see the ’abomination that
lays waste,’[b] Dan_11:31 spoken of by Dani’ěl the prophet, set up
in the set-apart place” – he who reads, let him understand – Footnote: bSee
also Dan_9:27 and Abomination that lays waste in Explanatory
Notes.
Mat 24:16 “then let those who are in Yehuḏah flee to the
mountains.
Mat 24:17 “Let him who is on the house-top not come
down to take whatever out of his house.
Mat 24:18 “And let him who is in the field not turn
back to get his garments.
Mat
24:21 “For then there shall be great distress,c such as has not been
since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Footnote: cOr great pressure, or great affliction.
Mat 24:22 “And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the sake of the chosen ones those days shall be shortened.
Destiny
of end time believers - Jer 15:2 “And it shall be, when they say to you, ‘Where do we
go?’ then you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Those for death, to death. And those for
the sword, to the sword. And those for scarcity of food, to scarcity of food.
And those for captivity, to captivity.” ’
Eze 6:8 “But I shall leave a remnant, in that some of you shall escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered throughout the lands.
49. And יהוה had given them up?
וַיהוָה
הִסְגִּירָם.
Israels enemies will now believe that YHVH had given up
on His people – Imagine if there was another holocaust much worse than the last
one.
49(b) Dev 32:31 “For their rock is
not like our Rock –
כִּי לֹא כְצוּרֵנוּ, צוּרָם;
This is perhaps the taunting of Israels enemies – the goyim – declaring that their gods would not treat them the way that the God of Israel was treating His people.
50. Even our enemies ôyêb – אויב are judges פְּלִילִים vs 32
וְאֹיְבֵינוּ,
פְּלִילִים
The
Father allows even our enemies to judge us (and hopefully bring us to our
senses.)
50(b) Deu 32:32 “Their vine גּפן is of the vine of Seḏom – vine of them גַּפְנָם
כִּי-מִגֶּפֶן סְדֹם גַּפְנָם
The Chumash says
that Israel suffered because they behaved like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah
‘as if the Jews were transplants of those two evil cities that became the
prototype of wickedness. As a result, Israel had suffered what it had brought
upon themselves – their vine turned into poison ‘’ Rashi.
Rev 11:6 These possess authority to shut the
heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. And they possess
authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all
plagues, as often as they wish.
Rev 11:7 And when they have ended their witness,
the beast coming up out of the pit of the deep shall fight against them, and
overcome them, and kill them,
Rev 11:8 and their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city (Jerusalem) which spiritually is called Seḏom and Mitsrayim, where also our Master was impaled,
The term “vine” is a reference to the pagan deities which, the passage says, find their ultimate source in Sodom and Gomorrah, that is, in the soil of perversion exemplified by these places.
51. And of the fields of Amorah;
וּמִשַּׁדְמֹת
עֲמֹרָה
"the enemies who would execute YHVH’s judgment
on Israel were as evil as Sodom and Gomorrah,
further underscored the depth of evil and shame into which Israel had fallen
(vv. 32–33).
51(b) Their grapes are grapes of
gall, רוֹשׁ or poison
עֲנָבֵמוֹ,
עִנְּבֵי-רוֹשׁ—
Eating the idolatrous fruit of the pagan nations would
lead only to death, physical and spiritual.
52. Their clusters are bitter.
אַשְׁכְּלֹת
מְרֹרֹת, לָמוֹ
Bitter (04846. מְרֹרָה merōrāh:
A feminine noun referring to gall, liver, a bitter thing. In Job 20:14 the
word pictorially describes the viper’s venom. (of idol worship)
52(b) Dev 32:33 “Their wine is the
poison of serpents,
חֲמַת
תַּנִּינִם, יֵינָם;
Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly
poison of cobras - The message of this passage is double death is the
fate of been infected with idolatrous poison of the pagan nations.
53.
And the fierce venom of cobras.
וְרֹאשׁ
פְּתָנִים, אַכְזָר.
53(b) Dev 32:34 ‘Is it not stored
(revealed) up with Me, (stored up in His memory)
הֲלֹא-הוּא, כָּמֻס עִמָּדִי
54. Sealed כָּמֻס (stored) up among My treasures?
חָתוּם,
בְּאוֹצְרֹתָי
as though YHVH laid up the memory of man’s sin, sealed it
up, and kept it in a secret place against the day when he shall call sinners to
account, and visit them for their iniquities!
54(b) Dev 32:35 ‘Vengeance is Mine,
and repayment,
לִי נָקָם וְשִׁלֵּם
The Hebrew verb (shillem)
speaks of a deserved punishment, in the sense of a repayment for whatever wrong
was done by a person. The point is that the punishment is deserved, and it is
ultimately only YHVH Who has the right to avenge the wrongdoers, giving them
what they deserve.
According to Rashi
– conversation of the nation’s ends and now reverts back to Israel
55. At the time their foot slips;
לְעֵת
תָּמוּט רַגְלָם – (when you begin to feel all hope is gone)
The slipping of the foot is a frequent image of a
reverse of fortune Ps 94:18- If I say my foot slips תָּמוּט Your kindness (chesed) – Oh YHVH is already
embracing me.
55(b) For near is the day of their
calamity,
כִּי
קָרוֹב יוֹם אֵידָם,
Calamity (0343) ed means
distress. This Hebrew word (ed) often refers to final, life-ending
calamity (Pr
6:15). The Lxx translates ed with the noun apoleia which
means utter and hopeless loss of all that gives worth to existence.
Pro 6:15 Therefore his calamity comes suddenly;
Instantly he is broken, And there is no healing.
56. And
the matters prepared are hastening to them.
וְחָשׁ
עֲתִדֹת לָמוֹ
And hastens
impending doom to them
56(b) Dev 32:36 “For יהוה rightly
rules (vindicates) His people
כִּי-יָדִין יְהוָה עַמּוֹ
Vs 36-43 Israel is
now comforted – Neither Israels sins nor the exiles they are suffering will bring
about a severing of the bond between YHVH and Israel. Eventually their will be
a reconciliation and the final redemption will come.
57. And has compassion on His servants,
וְעַל-עֲבָדָיו יִתְנֶחָם
57(b) When He sees that their power is
gone,
כִּי-אָזְלַת יָד
58 . And there is no one remaining, Shut
up or at large.
וְאֶפֶס
עָצוּר וְעָזוּב
There was no one who could help YHVH’s people – bond or
free who was able to assist
58(b) Dev 32:37 “And He shall say,
‘Where are their mighty ones,
וְאָמַר, אֵי אֱלֹהֵימוֹ
‘’YHVH calls out to Israel to recognize that
their reliance on a multitude of gods was misplaced that none of them was able
to repulse these gods or provide them with an antidote to the venom of sin’’
Chumash
59. The rock in whom they sought
refuge? See Stones chumash page 1109 vs
37-38
צוּר,
חָסָיוּ בוֹ
‘’As the end of days approaches, YHVH, in the forum of
inexorable events, (impossible to stop or prevent) will cry out ‘’Where is
their god, the rock in whom they sought refuge… and Israel will hear and return
to their Maker’’ Chumash
59(b) Dev 32:38 ‘Who ate the fat of
their slaughterings,
אֲשֶׁר
חֵלֶב זְבָחֵימוֹ יֹאכֵלוּ
YHVH mockingly inquires about the whereabouts of the gods
that drank the drink offerings of wine offered by their pagan worshipers. Jdg 10:14 “Go and cry out to the mighty ones which you have
chosen, let them save you in your time of distress.”
60. And drank the wine of their drink
offering?
יִשְׁתּוּ
יֵין נְסִיכָם;
60(b) Let them arise and help you,
יָקוּמוּ, וְיַעְזְרֻכֶם
61. Let it be a hiding-place for you!
יְהִי
עֲלֵיכֶם, סִתְרָה.
61(b) Dev 32:39 ‘See now that I, I
am He,
רְאוּ עַתָּה, כִּי אֲנִי אֲנִי הוּא
62. And there is no Elohim besides Me.
וְאֵין
אֱלֹהִים, עִמָּדִי:
62(b) I put to death and I make alive.
וְאֵין
אֱלֹהִים, עִמָּדִי:
I kill and I make alive.
63. I have wounded, and I heal. מחץ or severely wounded
מָחַצְתִּי
וַאֲנִי אֶרְפָּא,
63(b) And from My hand no one
delivers!
וְאֵין
מִיָּדִי, מַצִּיל
נצל – snatches from my Hand.
64. Dev 32:40 ‘For I lift My hand
to the heavens,
כִּי-אֶשָּׂא אֶל-שָׁמַיִם,
יָדִי;
YHVH lifts His Hand in an oath to the heavens to declare
His anger against the persecutors Israel
64(b) And shall say: As I live
forever,
וְאָמַרְתִּי, חַי אָנֹכִי לְעֹלָם
65. Dev 32:41 If (when) I have
sharpened My flashing sword,
אִם-שַׁנּוֹתִי בְּרַק חַרְבִּי
65(b) And My hand takes hold on
judgment,
וְתֹאחֵז בְּמִשְׁפָּט יָדִי
66. I shall return
vengeance to My enemies,
אָשִׁיב
נָקָם לְצָרָי
66(b) And repay those who hate Me.
וְלִמְשַׂנְאַי אֲשַׁלֵּם
67. Dev 32:42 I make My
arrows drunk with blood,
אַשְׁכִּיר
חִצַּי מִדָּם
67(b) And My sword devours flesh,
וְחַרְבִּי תֹּאכַל בָּשָׂר
68. With the blood of the slain
and the captives,
מִדַּם
חָלָל וְשִׁבְיָה
חָלָל mortally wounded
68(b) From the long-haired enemy
chiefs.
מֵרֹאשׁ
פַּרְעוֹת
אוֹיֵב From the long haired heads of the enemy – (mechon
mamre)
Heb - From
the head of the enemy אוֹיֵב commander פַּרְעוֹת – this could be a reference to the anti messiah along with a host of
demonic powers that will be unleashed upon the earth in the last days.
69. Deu 32:43 “O nations,
acclaim His people *****
הַרְנִינוּ
גוֹיִם עַמּוֹ
Shout out for joy הַרְנִינוּ
the nations of Him
Should
read “Let all the messengers of Elohim do reverence to Him.”
“Let all
the messengers of Elohim do reverence to Him.” is not found in the Masoretic
text (500CE).
Explanation:
4 Q is a
reference to the Dead Sea Scroll which shows that the Masoretic text which we
now use, was tampered with to hide direct references to the Messiah. The
Septuagint also bears witness to the tampering. (The Septuagint was a
translation by 70 rabbis of the Tenach into Greek 200 years before Messiah
appeared) The Masoretic text dates from around 500 C E.
In
Heb 1:6 And when He again brings the first-born into the world, He says,
“Let all the messengers of Elohim do reverence to Him.”
הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ-לוֹ, כָּל-אֱלֹהִים. Heb 1:6
bow down (worship) to Him (Yahshua) all you Elohim.
Strong's G4352 - Proskuneo primarily means to kiss,
but in the context of worship, it refers to the act of bowing down or
prostrating oneself in reverence or adoration.
In Psalm 2:12, the phrase "kiss the Son" is
translated from the Greek word "proskuneo" (G4352), which generally
means to show reverence, homage, or adoration
69(b) For He avenges נקם the
blood of His servants
כִּי דַם-עֲבָדָיו יִקּוֹם
70. And returns vengeance to His
adversaries, צר his oppressors vs 43
וְנָקָם
יָשִׁיב לְצָרָיו
Could
also read “will retaliate against those who reject him”
Yahshua
is returning to destroy the enemies of YHVH – both demonic and human.
70(b) And shall pardon His (YHVH)land, His
people.”
וְכִפֶּר
אַדְמָתוֹ עַמּוֹ
Should
read “ and will cleanse their land”
Heb – and a
propitiary shelter (כִפֶּר kipper) will be found in the land
of His people.
Perhaps
referring to the day of Yom Kippur.
This is
where the 70 th line of the two colums stop. (Pehaps a reference to a future
Yom ha kippurim and physical return of Messiah)
Deu 32:44 Then Mosheh came, with Hoshěa son of Nun,
and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people. Deu
32:45 And when Mosheh ended speaking all these words to all
Yisra’ěl, Deu 32:46 he said to them, “Set your heart on all the
words with which I warn you today, so that you command your children to guard
to do all the Words of this Torah. Deu 32:47 “For it is not a
worthless Word for you, because it is your life, and by this Word you prolong
your days on the soil which you pass over the Yarděn to possess.”
Mosheh’s Death Foretold
Deu 32:48 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh that
same day, saying, Deu 32:49 “Go up this mountain of the Aḇarim, Mount Neḇo, which is in the land of
Mo’aḇ, which is opposite
Yeriḥo, and look at the
land of Kena‛an, which I give to the children of Yisra’ěl as a
possession, Deu 32:50 and die on the mountain which you ascend, and
be gathered to your people, as Aharon your brother died on Mount Hor and was
gathered to his people, Deu 32:51 because you trespassed against Me
in the midst of the children of Yisra’ěl at the waters of Meriḇah Qaḏěsh, in the Wilderness of Tsin, because you did
not set Me apart in the midst of the children of Yisra’ěl. Deu 32:52
“For you are to look at the land before you, but not enter there, into the land
which I am giving to the children of Yisra’ěl.”
To the Assembly in Sardis
Rev 3:1 “And to the messenger of the
assembly in Sardis write, ‘He who has the seven Spirits of Elohim and the seven
stars, says this, “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive,
but you are dead.
Rev 3:2 “Wake up, and strengthen what remains and
is about to die, for I have not found your works complete before Elohim.
Rev 3:3 “Remember, then, how you have received, and
heard. And watch and repent. If, then, you do not wake up, I shall come upon
you as a thief, and you shall not know at all what hour I come upon you.
Rev 3:4 “Nevertheless, you have a few names in
Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they shall walk with Me in
white, because they are worthy.
Rev 3:5 “He who overcomes shall be dressed in white
robes, and I shall by no means blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I
shall confess his name before My Father and before His messengers.
Rev 3:6 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”’
This letter written to the believers in Sardis reveals an attitude among believes that it doesn’t matter what anyone says to them, including Yahshua, the message will be rejected. These believers believe that they have great knowledge and understanding, when in reality their names are about to be blotted out of the Book of Life.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.[a] Footnote: a Pro_16:25.
To the
Assembly in Philadelphia
Rev
3:7 “And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write, ‘He who
is set-apart, He who is true, He who has the key of Dawiḏ, He who opens and no one shuts,
and shuts and no one opens, Isa_22:22 says this:
In summary, Isaiah 22:22 speaks of a divinely appointed
authority symbolized by "the key of the house of David." While
initially fulfilled in Eliakim's role as steward in King Hezekiah's court, its
deeper and ultimate meaning finds its perfect embodiment in Yahshua, who
possesses ultimate authority over the kingdom of YHVH, able to open and shut
doors according to YHVH’s sovereign will. Yahshua under YHVH’s guidance and
authority uses these keys to release and bind the blessings of YHVH’s endless
treasuries in heavenly and earthly places.
Now Yahshua passes on these keys to Peter and other
disciples who were worthy of possessing these keys of the kingdom.
This is huge. Who is worthy to posses such keys? Christians
believe these keys have been entrusted to them, and to the church, but is this
true?
Mat
16:19 “And I shall give you the keys of the reign of the heavens, and
whatever you bind on earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and
whatever you loosen on earth shall be having been loosened in the heavens.”[c]
Footnote: cBinding and loosening is a Hebrew idiom for exercising
authority (to prohibit and permit).
Rev 3:8 “I know your works – see, I have set
before you an open door, and no one is able to shut it – that you have little
power, yet have guarded My Word, and have not denied My Name.
Rev 3:9 “See, I am giving up those of the
congregation of Satan, who say they are Yehuḏim
and are not, but lie. See, I am making them come and worship before your feet,
and to know that I have loved you.
Rev 3:10 “Because you have guarded My Word of endurance, I also shall guard you from the hour of trial which shall come upon all the world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
This is the promise of protection. The "hour of testing" is understood as a future period of tribulation that will affect the entire world. The promise is that those who have persevered in the faith will be shielded from the full force of this trial.
1Co
3:11 For no
one is able to lay any other foundation except that which is laid, which is יהושע Messiah. 1Co 3:12 And if anyone
builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
straw, 1Co 3:13 each one’s work shall be revealed, for the day shall
show it up, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work
of each one, what sort it is.
1Co
3:14 If anyone’s work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a
reward.
1Co 3:15 If anyone’s work is burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
How do
we know we are building on the right foundation? See 1 Cor 3:13-15
Joh 3:36 “He who believes in the Son possesses everlasting life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of Elohim remains on him.”
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, 1Co 10:12 so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.
Rev
3:11 “See, I am coming speedily! Hold what you have that no one take your
crown.
Rev 3:12 “He who overcomes, I shall make him a
supporting post in the Dwelling Place of My Elohim, and he shall by no means go
out. And I shall write on him the Name of My Elohim and the name of the city of
My Elohim, the renewed Yerushalayim, which comes down out of the heaven from My
Elohim, and My renewed Name.
Rev 3:13 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.” ’
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.