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 – Ameyn
צא מן־התבה – ‘’come out of the ark’’ (the time has
come)
יצא yâtsâ' - to go out, come out, exit, go
forth this word appears in different forms 7 times in this Torah portion (also
9:18)
Last week we looked
at Bob Mumford’s teaching on ‘’transitioning’’ we continue this week on this
theme. A theme which is very foundational in Rabbinic thinking. The rabbis
taught that the soul’s journey was a continual rhythm of “entering” (כניסה) and “leaving” (יציאה) — both in this world and in its spiritual pilgrimage toward Olam
Ha-Ba. Some scholars believe that this pattern will continue until the
beginning of the eighth day.
Psa 121:7 יהוה
guards you from all evil; He guards your being.
Psa 121:8 יהוה
guards your going out (יצא)
and your coming in Now and forever.
So, the word carries both the idea of coming in
and of gathering together — entering a space, a covenant, or a
relationship.
“Each departure from one level is an entry into another. From concealment into
revelation, from lesser light into greater.”
every leaving is a call to higher nearness
Shavuot is about leaving a broken covenant and entering
into a renewed covenant.
Sukkot is about leaving this earthly dwelling, preparing
to dwell in His permanent dwelling.
ואשמע קול אחר
מן־השמים אמר צאו ממנה עמי
So “come out” often
marks a moment of transformation — leaving judgment, captivity, or
impurity and entering a new covenant reality.
The lesson we learn
from (צא) which is used about 12 times in Parashat Noach, is that YHVH
takes the initiative in calling us out of one situation and leading us onto the
next, we in turn need favour and mercy to respond to His calling. Our obedient
response or lack of obedient response could prove most critical in the last
days. (Rev 18:4 …"Come out of her, my people, lest you share in
her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues)
Maybe Yahshua’s words ‘’many are called but few are
chosen’’ has to do with those who are invited to the marriage super 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.” (to be excluded from the marriage super of
the Lamb does not mean you have been excluded from the kingdom)
Gen 8:15 And
Elohim spoke to Noaḥ,
saying, Gen 8:16 “Go (Heb ‘’tze’’) out of the ark, you and your wife and your
sons and your sons’ wives with you. Gen 8:17 “Bring out (Heb ‘’ho tze’’) with
you every life form of all flesh that is with you: of birds,
of cattle and all creeping creatures – the creeping creatures on
the earth. And let them teem on the earth, and bear and increase on the
earth.” (be fruitful used 3 times in this portion)Gen 8:18 So Noaḥ went out,(Heb ‘’va yatze’’) and his sons and
his wife and his sons’ wives with him, Gen 8:19 every beast, every
creeping creature, and every bird, whatever creeps on the earth,
according to their kinds, went out (Heb ‘’va yatzu’’)of the ark.
Note the repeated
use and emphasis of the Hebrew root word ‘’yatze’’ or ‘’come out’’
In vs 17 this word
appears in its hyphil form ie ‘’cause to come forth’’ this word is deliberately
misspelled in the Torah scroll. Why? Our attention has been drawn to
“separation’’ Perhaps drawing our attention to the fact that not all food is
clean. (you may think it is ok to eat all food, however not all food is
‘’clean’’) This would also be the first-time man began to eat meat. YHVH would
never contradict Himself regarding ‘’kashrut’’
ואשמע קול אחר מן־השמים אמר צאו ממנה עמי
Rev 18:4
And I heard another voice from the heaven saying, "Come out of her, my
people… Yahshua uses
the same root word ‘’tza’’ when casting out demons – Mark 1:25, 9:25
We unknowingly use the same word when chasing away an irritating animal
or insect – ‘’tza tza’’
Rashi comments that at this time the earth was
uninhabitable.
2Co
5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we
might become the righteousness of Elohim. (note ‘’becoming’’)
Despite our condition the scripture tell us:
Rom 8:1
There is, then, now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah יהושע, who do not walk according to
the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Rom 8:3 For the Torah being
powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim, having sent His own
Son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the
flesh, Rom 8:4 so that the righteousness of the Torah should be
completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit.
Gen 8:21 And יהוה smelled a soothing
fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I
curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is
evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I
have done,
Gen 8:22 as long as the earth remains, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease.”
Gen 9:2 “And the fear of you and the dread of you is on
every beast of the earth, on every bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on
the ground, and on all the fish of the sea – into your hand they have been
given.
Gen 9:3 “Every creeping creature that lives is
food for you. I have given you all, as I gave the green plants.
Gen 9:4 “But do not eat flesh with its life, its
blood.
Gen 9:5 “But only your blood for your lives I require,
from the hand of every beast I require it, and from the hand of man. From the
hand of every man’s brother, I require the life of man.
Gen 9:6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood is
shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man.
Gen 9:7 “As for you, be fruitful and increase, bring
forth teemingly in the earth and increase in it.”
Gen 9:8 And Elohim spoke to Noaḥ and to his sons with him, saying,
Gen 9:9 “And I, see, I establish My covenant with you and
with your seed after you,
Gen 9:10 and with every living being that is with you: of
the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, of all that
go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
Gen 9:11 “And I shall establish My covenant with you, and
never again is all flesh cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again is
there a flood to destroy the earth.”
Gen 9:12 And Elohim said, “This is the sign of the
covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living being that is with
you, for all generations to come:
Gen 9:13 “I shall set My rainbow in the cloud, and it
shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 “And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud,
Gen 9:15 and I shall remember My covenant which is
between Me and you and every living being of all flesh, and never again let the
waters become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Gen 9:16 “And the rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I
shall see it, to remember the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every
living being of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Gen 9:17 And Elohim said to Noaḥ, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have
established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Adam and Christ:
The Two
Bridegrooms A study in love, obedience, and redemption (based on Ellen G.
White’s writings with Scriptural parallels)
E White’s response: “Christ Himself did not suppress one word of truth, but He spoke it always in love. He exercised the greatest tact, and thoughtful, kind attention in His intercourse with the people. He was never rude, never needlessly spoke a severe word, never gave needless pain to a sensitive soul. He did not censure human weakness. He fearlessly denounced hypocrisy, unbelief, and iniquity, but tears were in His voice as He uttered His scathing rebukes.” – The Desire of Ages, Pg 353, Ellen G. White
(Theologian)My problem with the quote above is that it
leaves out the authority, power, and wrath of God. Don’t get me wrong,
I’m not denying the love of God either. Both are true, as I presented in
an older post which you can find HERE the Holiness, Wrath, and Love of God are
connected to each other. If you pull one out, you lose the others.
Instead of presenting the authority and wrath of Christ accurately
Ellen White has scaled it back for us.
To demonstrate this, I will compare how Ellen White
presents his “scathing rebukes” with the way the Bible does.
“15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he
drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out
the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold
doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of
merchandise.; 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of
thine house hath eaten me up.” John
2:15-17 KJV
Instead of something closer to the Biblical text Ellen
White gives us imagery of a voice cracking in tears. I think it’s fair to
say that Ellen White and I are not thinking about the same person.
‘’If our minds are not renewed, concerning YHVH’s mercy
and love for humanity, according to all YHVH’s Word, we will die in despair in
the coming last days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPG7l50Pzd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479hdnbAtqY