10/10/2025

Parashat 2 Portion 6 ‘’Beresheet’’ Gen 8:15-9:17 Is 42:7-15, 21

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. 

 בֵּית הַכְּנֶסֶ  (Beit Knesset) – literally “house of gathering” or “house of entering together.”

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.”

 Life in Torah is not static but a sacred journey — every exile is preparation for an entry,

every leaving is a call to higher nearness

 Passover is about leaving Egypt, preparing to enter the Promised land.

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.

 This pattern—Yetzi’ah → K’nisah → Yeshev (going out, entering in and settling and resting)—mirrors the entire movement of spiritual life, from leaving the lower world, entering into covenant, and resting in divine intimacy. (bridal chamber – depending how far we are willing to be transformed –(being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to esteem – 2 Cor3:18 )

 Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from the heaven saying, "Come out (צאו) of her, my people..

  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 Noa, 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 Noa 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.

 God's Covenant with Noah

 Gen 8:20 And Noa built a slaughter-place (Heb – ‘’mizbeach’’ first appearance of this word) to יהוה and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered ascending offerings on the slaughter-place. 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 (yetzer) of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again strike all living creatures, as I have done, 

 What then is the remedy?

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 8:20 And Noa built a slaughter-place to יהוה and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered ascending offerings on the slaughter-place. 

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 9:1 And Elohim blessed Noa and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase, and fill the earth. 

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 Noa 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 Noa, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.” 

 YHVH desires covenant, He desires to heal and bring people together. Religion tends to separate people from each other and from His covenant.

 Additional Midrash from Ellen G White: (Seven Day Adventist)

Adam and Christ:

 The Two Bridegrooms A study in love, obedience, and redemption (based on Ellen G. White’s writings with Scriptural parallels)

 1. The Pattern of Love and Loss – Adam, the First Bridegroom

 Key Texts: Genesis 3:6 — “She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” 1 Timothy 2:14 — “Adam was not deceived…”

 Ellen G. White: “Love, gratitude, and loyalty to the Creator—all were overcome by a deep love and emotional connection to Eve. He resolved to share her fate; if she must die, he would die with her.” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 56–57) Adam’s love was human but misplaced. He could not bear separation from his bride—even if it meant separation from God. His love led to death because it was love without obedience.

 2. The Redeeming Counterpart – Christ, the Second Adam Key Texts: Romans 5:18–19 — “By the disobedience of one man many were made sinners… by the obedience of One shall many be made righteous.” Ephesians 5:25–27 — “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it.” Ellen G. White: “Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves.” (Desire of Ages, p. 25) “The plan of redemption reveals a love so vast that it can never be fully comprehended.” (Education, p. 263) Christ reverses Adam’s act. He enters death not from fear of losing His bride, but to redeem her back to holiness. Love that once disobeyed is now love that obeys unto death.

 3. The Restoration of the Bride Key Texts: Revelation 19:7–9 — “The marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.” John 3:29 — “He that hath the bride is the bridegroom.”

 Hosea 2:19–20 — “I will betroth thee unto Me forever.” Ellen G. White: “The marriage represents the union of humanity with divinity… The marriage supper of the Lamb is the reception by Christ of His kingdom and the redeemed.” (The Great Controversy, p. 426) The marriage supper of the Lamb is the culmination of divine romance—humanity restored and united again with its Creator.

  4. The Great Exchange: From Adam’s Tree to Christ’s Cross Comparison Table: Adam in Eden — Ate from the forbidden tree; brought death to all; joined his bride in disobedience; feared separation; lost paradise. Christ at Calvary — Hung upon the cursed tree; brought life to all; joined His bride in redemption; restored union; opened paradise again. “Through the yielding of Adam to temptation, the human race was separated from God. Through the sacrifice of Christ, we are reconciled to Him.” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 63)

 5. The Final Invitation – The Bride’s Call Key Texts: Revelation 22:17 — “The Spirit and the bride say, Come.” Isaiah 62:5 — “As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.”

  “The last call of mercy to a perishing world is a revelation of His character of love.” (Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 415) The story that began with Adam’s choice of love over obedience ends with Christ’s obedience born of love. The redeemed become the Bride who mirrors the Bridegroom—perfected love, united again with God. “Adam gave his life for his wife in transgression; Christ gave His life for His bride in righteousness. One act closed the gates of Eden; the other opened the gates of eternity.”

 ‘’Was Ellen White a heretic?’’ Written by a concerned theologian. (for the record the author of this blog disagrees with this concerned theologian)

 https://actheologian.com/2017/01/09/the-false-christ-of-ellen-white/

 ‘’What about Ellen White?  Does she teach a false Christ?  To be fair, I’ll present a few quotes from her writings on each topic.’’ 

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.

 (E White) “Untold evil has come from the heresy of eternal torment. It takes the religion of the Bible, so full of love and goodness, darkens it by superstition and clothes it with terror. Satan has painted the character of God in false colours, making people fear, dread, and even hate our merciful Creator. The repulsive views of God that have spread over the world from the teachings of the pulpit have made millions of people skeptics and unbelievers.” –The Great Hope, Pg 28, Ellen G. White

 (View of the author of this blog)

‘’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.

 Am I renouncing my Christian faith? No – Im saying for too long we have not been telling the whole truth. ‘’Half a truth is a whole lie’’

 Don’t accuse me of being too rabbinic or too liberal in my theology. I left the church because I lost Jesus in the church. When eventually I left the church Jesus found me again and led me to embrace His and my Father in a manner that I had never known before. Then just for a bonus Jesus ‘’threw in’’ the Torah and said study this carefully it will show you the way back into my Fathers presence - the garden of the New Jerusalem.’’

 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.

 Middle East Deal time to mourn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPG7l50Pzd0

 How Many Lived Before the Flood? The Math Will Shock You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479hdnbAtqY

 

 

 

 

10/07/2025

Sukkot 2025

Chag Sameach Sukkot

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה. 

Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has given us life, sustained us, and allowed us to reach this season. 

Sukkot 2025 : The Feast of Tabernacles - The Coming Kingdom – 34min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6pRZdynsWI

This Jewish Messianic rabbi gives an insightful teaching on Succoth. I share some of his insights with some additional comments:

Lev 23:39  ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh new moon, when you gather in the fruit of the land, celebrate the festival of יהוה for seven days. On the first day is a rest, and on the eighth day a rest. (‘’the festival’’ is the only time in the Torah where the definite article ‘’the’’ is used)

Lev 23:40  ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of good trees, branches of palm trees, twigs of leafy trees, and willows of the stream, and shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim for seven days. (‘’rejoice’’ is also the only time this word is used to describe a feast)

The sages tell us “He who sits in the sukkah sits in the shadow of the Faithful One,
and the wings of the Shekhinah spread over him from above.”

Jer 33:10  “Thus said יהוה, ‘In this place of which you say, “It is dried up, without man and without beast,” in the cities of Yehuah, in the streets of Yerushalayim that are deserted, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, there shall once again be heard (this verse describes events in the world just before the millennial reign of Messiah)

Jer 33:11  the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who are saying, “Praise יהוה of hosts, for יהוה is good, for His loving-commitment is forever,” of those who are bringing the offering of praise into the House of יהוה. For I shall turn back the captivity of the land, as at the first,’ declares יהוה. (this verse describes events at the beginning of the millennium)

A Great Multitude from Every Nation

Rev 7:9  After this I looked and saw a great crowd which no one was able to count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands, 

Rev 7:10  and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Deliverance belongs to our Elohim who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 

This is possibly not a reference to the millennium but to the beginning of the great tribulation. Where according to John a remnant of believers will be ‘’transported’’ to a place of safe refuge –

The Woman and the Dragon

Rev 12:1  And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman clad with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 

Rev 12:2  And being pregnant, she cried out in labour and in pain to give birth. (chosen messianic remnant)

Rev 12:3  And another sign was seen in the heaven: and see, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, (World Edomite government) and seven crowns on his heads. (demonic trinity empowering false antichrist system) 

Rev 12:4  And his tail draws a third of the stars of the heaven and throws them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, to devour her child as soon as it was born. 

Rev 12:5  And she bore a male childa who was (Gk – action is impending) to shepherd all nations with a rod of iron. Psa_2:9 And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His throne. Footnote: aSee also Isa_26:17, Isa_66:7, Mic_4:9-10

Rev 12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days. 

 

Rev 12:17  And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah. 

This Messianic rabbi then shared some interesting insights from a miracle Yahshua performed during Succoth.

Joh 8:12  Therefore יהושע spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but possess the light of life.”

Joh 9:4  “It is necessary for Me to work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day – night is coming, when no one is able to work. 

Joh 9:5  “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 

Joh 9:6  Having said this, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and applied the clay to the eyes of the blind man. 

Joh 9:7  And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Shiloa" (which means Sent). So he went and washed, and came seeing.

 

One of my conclusions after listening to this Jewish rabbi was that it feels like there are so many amazing revelations from YHVH’s Word that we are yet to see.

 

The single greatest tragedy of our age is that religion has blinded the eyes of humanity – this too shall come to an end.

 

May YHVH open a window from heaven to give us life changing revelation concerning this appointment.

 

Mishnah Sanhedrin 10:1

“All Israel have a share in the World to Come ..but these are the exceptions, the people who have no share in the World-to-Come, even when they fulfilled many mitzvot: One who says: There is no resurrection of the dead derived from the Torah, and one who says: The Torah did not originate from Heaven, and an epikoros, (heretic) who treats Torah scholars and the Torah that they teach with contempt.

 

Olam Ha-Ba is the perfected creation in which God’s presence is fully revealed and the righteous share in His light — the Sabbath of all history.