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.
We start off with the prophecy of Ezekiel describing the sad pattern of rebellion throughout history of those who are called to serve and worship YHVH.
Eze 20:1
And it came to be in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth
of the new moon, that certain of the elders of Yisra’ěl came to inquire
of יהוה, and sat
before me.
Eze 20:2 And the
word of יהוה came to me,
saying,
Eze 20:3 “Son of
man, speak to the elders of Yisra’ěl, and say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Have you
come to inquire of Me? As I live, I am not being inquired of by you,” declares
the Master יהוה.’
Eze 20:4 “Judge them,
son of man, judge them! Make known to them the abominations of their fathers.
Eze 20:5
“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “On the day
when I chose Yisra’ĕl and lifted My hand in an oath to the seed of the house of
Yaʽaqoḇ, and
made Myself known to them in the land of Mitsrayim, I lifted My hand in an oath
to them, saying, ‘I am יהוה your Elohim.’
Eze 20:8 “But
they rebelled against Me, and would not obey Me. All of them did not throw
away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the
idols of Mitsrayim. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them to complete My
displeasure against them in the midst of the land of Mitsrayim. (not the
wilderness – only a very small remnant left Mitsrayim - Ex 13:18 see Hebrew translation ‘’chamusim’’
is one fifth)
Eze 20:9 “But I acted for My Name’s sake, that it
should not be profaned before the eyes of the gentiles among whom they were –
before whose eyes I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the
land of Mitsrayim.
Eze 20:10 “So I took them out of the land of Mitsrayim,
and I brought them into the wilderness.
Eze 20:11 “And I gave them My laws and showed them My
right-rulings, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them.’
Eze 20:12 “And I
also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign1 between them and Me, to
know that I am יהוה who sets them
apart. Footnote: 1See Ex. 31:13-17.
Eze 20:13 “But the house of Yisra’ĕl rebelled
against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My laws, and they
rejected My right-rulings, which, if a man does, he shall live by them. And they greatly profaned My Sabbaths.
Then I said I would pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume
them.
Eze 20:14 “But I acted for My Name’s sake, not to
profane it before the gentiles, before whose eyes I had brought them out.
Eze 20:15 “And I
Myself also lifted My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, not to bring
them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, the
splendour of all lands,
Eze 20:16
because they rejected My right-rulings and did not walk in My laws, and
they profaned My Sabbaths. For their heart went after their idols.
Eze 20:17
“And My eye pardoned them, from destroying them. And I did not make an
end of them in the wilderness.
Eze 20:18
“And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the
laws of your fathers, nor observe their rulings, nor defile yourselves with
their idols.
Eze 20:19
‘I am יהוה your Elohim. Walk in My laws, and guard My
right-rulings, and do them.
Eze 20:20 ‘And set
apart My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, to know that I
am יהוה your Elohim.’
Eze
20:21 “But the children rebelled against
Me. They did not walk in My
laws, and My right-rulings they did not guard to do them, which, if a man does,
he shall live by them. They profaned My Sabbaths, so I resolved to pour out My
wrath on them to complete My displeasure against them in the wilderness.
Eze 20:22 “But I held back My hand and acted for My
Name’s sake, not to profane it before the eyes of the gentiles, before whose
eyes I had brought them out.
Eze 20:23 “Also, I Myself lifted My hand in an oath to
those in the wilderness, to scatter them among the gentiles and disperse them
throughout the lands,
Eze 20:24 because they had not done My right-rulings,
and they rejected My laws, and they profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were
on their fathers’ idols.
Eze
20:25 “And I also gave them up to laws
that were not good, and right-rulings by which they would not live1.
Eze 20:37
“And I shall make you pass under the rod,(of chastisement) and shall
bring you into the bond of the covenant,
Eze 20:38
and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against
Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall know
that I am יהוה.
One of
the most severe statements in our Torah portion comes in verse 34…
14:34 ….. you
shall know My breaking off.
וִידַעְתֶּם, אֶת-תְּנוּאָתִי
The Hebrew word “tenuah” 8569 can mean “opposition,
alienation, enmity” which can lead to becoming completely broken off from YHVH.
Tragically the possibility that YHVH would even consider such a thing
hardly exists in the mindset of modern religion.
Paul sternly warns the Messianic believers of his day:
Rom 11:19 You shall
say then, “The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.”
Rom 11:20 Good! By
unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by belief. Do not be arrogant, but
fear.
Rom 11:21 For if
Elohim did not spare the natural branches, He might not spare you either.
Rom 11:22 See then
the kindness and sharpness of Elohim: on those who fell sharpness, but toward
you kindness, if you continue in His kindness, otherwise you also shall
be ‘’cut off’’ – Hebrew ‘’carat’’ to be amputated to be lost, to be wiped out, to be destroyed.
Num 14:1 Then all the congregation lifted
up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.
Num 14:2
And all the children of Yisra’ĕl grumbled against Mosheh and against
Aharon, and all the congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land
of Mitsrayim! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Num 14:3
“And why is יהוה bringing us to
this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become a
prey? Would it not be better for us to turn back to Mitsrayim?”
Num 14:4 And they said to each other, “Let us appoint
a leader, and let us turn back to Mitsrayim.”
This is the common behaviour of self- appointed and man
appointed spiritual leaders – they will all lead you back to spiritual Egypt –
a place of bondage – as far away as possible from obeying the Torah of YHVH as
it should be obeyed – as far away as possible from obeying and following the
true Messiah.
Num 14:5 Then Mosheh and Aharon fell on their faces
before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 14:6 And Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕv son of
Yephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their
garments,
Num 14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the
children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “The land we passed through to spy out is an
exceedingly good land.
Aliyah Shlishi 14:8 – 25
Num 14:8 “If
יהוה has delighted(im
chafetz) in us, then He shall bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a
land which is flowing with milk and honey.’
Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear His voice,
Heb 3:8 do not harden your hearts as in the
rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Heb 3:9 where your fathers tried Me, proved Me, and
saw My works forty years.
Heb 3:10 “Therefore I was grieved with that
generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not
known My ways.’
Heb 3:11 “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest...’ ” Psa_95:7-11
Heb 4:1 Therefore, since a promise remains of
entering into His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of
it.
Heb 4:2 For
indeed the Good News was brought to us as well as to them, but the word which
they heard did not profit them, not having been mixed with belief in those who
heard it.
Heb 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest...” Psa_95:11 And yet His works have come into being from the foundation of the world.
‘’If’’ someone ‘’enters into His rest’’ it will be those that will dwell there forever. YHVH knows the past present and future perfectly. He knows who will obey and who will be rebellious.
Num 14:9 “Only, do not rebel against יהוה, nor fear the people of the land, for they
are our bread. Their defense has turned away from them, and יהוה is with us. Do not fear them.”
Num 14:10 But all the congregation said to stone them
with stones. Then the esteem of יהוה appeared in
the Tent of Meeting before all the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Num 14:11 And יהוה said to
Mosheh, “How long shall I be scorned by these people? And how long shall I not
be trusted by them, with all the signs which I have done in their midst?
Num 14:12 “Let Me smite them with the pestilence and
disinherit them, and make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
Num 14:13 And Mosheh said to יהוה, “Then the
Mitsrites shall hear it, for by Your power You brought these people up from
their midst,
Num 14:14 and they shall say to the inhabitants of this
land they have heard that You, יהוה, are in the midst of these people, that You, יהוה, are seen eye
to eye and that Your cloud stands above them, and You go before them in a
column of cloud by day and in a column of fire by night.
Num 14:15 “Now if You shall kill these people as one
man, then the nations which have heard of Your report shall speak, saying,
Num 14:16 ‘Because יהוה was not able
to bring this people to the land which He swore to give them, therefore He
killed them in the wilderness.’
Num 14:17 “And
now, I pray, let the power of יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,
Num 14:18 ‘יהוה is patient and
of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means
leaving unpunished1; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the
children to the third and fourth generation.’ Footnote: 1This is
confirmed in Ex. 34:7 and in Jer. 30:11 – Hebrew ‘’pakad’’ can mean visit with
judgment but it can also mean to visit with concern and persuade a people not
to walk as their ancestors walked.
Eze
18:20 “The being who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the crookedness
of the father, nor the father bear the crookedness of the son. The
righteousness of the righteous is upon himself, and the wrongness of the wrong
is upon himself.
Num 14:19 “Please
forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the greatness of Your
kindness, as You have forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now.”
Num14:20 And יהוה said, “I shall
forgive, according to your word,
Num 14:21 but truly, as I live and all the earth is
filled with the esteem of יהוה,
Num 14:22 for none
of these men who have seen My esteem and the signs which I did in Mitsrayim and
in the wilderness, and have tried Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed My
voice,
Num 14:23 shall
see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor any of those who scorned Me
see it.
Num 14:24 “But My servant Kalev, because he has a
different spirit in him and has followed Me completely, I shall bring into the
land where he went, and his seed shall inherit it.
Num 14:25 “Since
the Amalĕqites and the Kenaʽanites are dwelling in the valley, turn back
tomorrow and set out into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.”
It’s almost like YHVH was
saying: “let us go back where we started our wilderness journey and do it
again.”
This
reminds us of the last days where this pattern will be repeated.
YHVH's Mercy on Yisrael
Hos 2:14 “Therefore,
see, I am alluring her, and shall lead her into the wilderness, and shall speak
to her heart,
Hos 2:15 and give to her
vineyards from there, and the Valley of Aḵor (Heb – disturbance and affliction- ‘’Achan’’ or
‘’troubler’’ – Josh 7 and 1Chron 2:6 – Achan – great great grandfather of
Zimri- Num 25:14)) as a door of expectation. And
there she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she
came up from the land of Mitsrayim.
Hos 2:16 “And it shall
be, in that day,” declares יהוה, “that you call Me ‘My Husband,’ and no
longer call Me ‘My Ba‛al.’
Hos 2:17 “And I shall
remove the names of the Ba‛als from her mouth, and they shall no more be
remembered by their name.
Hos 2:18 “And in that
day I shall make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the
birds of the heavens, and with the creeping creatures of the ground, when bow,
and sword, and battle I break from the earth. And I shall make them lie down in
safety.
Hos 2:19 “And I shall
take you as a bride unto Me forever, and take you as a bride unto Me in
righteousness, and in right-ruling, and loving-commitment and compassion.
Hos 2:20 “And I shall
take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know יהוה.
Hos 2:21 “And it shall
be in that day that I answer,” declares יהוה, “that I
answer the heavens, and they answer the earth,
Hos 2:22 and the earth
answer the grain and the new wine and the oil, and they answer Yizre‛ěl.
Hos 2:23 “And I shall
sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not
obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, ‘You are
My people,’ while they say, ‘My Elohim!’
Aliyah Reviee 14:26- 15:7
Num 14:26
And יהוה spoke to
Mosheh, and to Aharon, saying,
Num 14:27 “How long shall this evil congregation have
this grumbling against Me? I have heard the grumblings which the children of
Yisra’ĕl are grumbling against Me.
Num 14:28 “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares יהוה, ‘as you have
spoken in My hearing, so I do to you:
Num 14:29 ‘The carcasses of you who have grumbled
against Me are going to fall in this wilderness, all of you who were
registered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.
Num 14:30 ‘None of
you except Kalĕv son of Yephunneh, and Yehoshua son of Nun, shall enter the
land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
Num 14:31 ‘But your little ones, whom you said would
become a prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have
rejected.
Num 14:32 ‘But as for you, your carcasses are going to
fall in this wilderness.
Num 14:33 ‘And your sons shall be wanderers in the
wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whorings, until your carcasses are
consumed in the wilderness.
Num 14:34 ‘According to the number of the days in which
you spied out the land, forty days – a day for a year, a day for a year – you
are to bear your crookednesses forty years, and you shall know My breaking off.
Num 14:35 ‘I am יהוה, I have
spoken, I shall do this to all this evil congregation who are meeting against
Me: In this wilderness they are consumed, and there they die.’ ”
Num 14:36 And the men whom Mosheh sent to spy out the
land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by
bringing an evil report of the land,
Num 14:37 even those men who brought the evil report
about the land, died by the plague before יהוה.
Num 14:38 Of those men who went to spy out the land,
only Yehoshua son of Nun, and Kalĕv son of Yephunneh remained alive.
Num 14:39 And when Mosheh spoke these words to all the
children of Yisra’ĕl, the people mourned greatly.
Num 14:40 And they rose up early in the morning and
went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “See, we have indeed sinned, but we
shall go up to the place which יהוה had spoken of!”
Num 14:41 But Mosheh said, “Why do you now transgress
the command of יהוה, since it does
not prosper?
Num 14:42 “Do not go up, lest you be smitten by your
enemies, for יהוה is not in your
midst.
Num 14:43 “Because the Amalĕqites and the Kenaʽanites
are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned
away from יהוה, יהוה is not with
you.”
Num 14:44 But they
presumed to go up to the mountaintop, but neither the ark of the covenant of יהוה nor Mosheh
left the camp.
Num 14:45 So the
Amalĕqites and the Kenaʽanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and smote
them, and beat them down, even to Ḥormah.
Hormah means and speaks of a total destruction.
The
issue was and remains to this day that there are irreconcilable differences
between YHVH and most of those whom He has called to Himself. For most people
YHVH’s most hated attribute is His Sovereignty – YHVH does not negotiate His
plan His purposes and His truth with anyone. It would take a Mediator greater
than Moshe to bring about a reconciliation between YHVH and His people Yisrael-
the son of man the Messiah – Yahshua.
Mat
22:14 For many are called, but few chosen.
Midrash on a remnant:
Amo 5:15
Hate evil and love good, and set up right-ruling in the gate. It might
be that יהוה Elohim of
hosts shows favour to the remnant of Yosĕph.
Jer 23:3
“Therefore I shall gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands
where I have driven them, and shall bring them back to their fold. And they
shall bear and increase.
Mat 24:21
“For then there shall be great distress,1 such as has not
been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Footnote:1Or 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.
Zec 14:1 See, a day shall come for יהוה, and your
spoil shall be divided in your midst.
Zec 14:2 And I shall gather all the gentiles to battle
against Yerushalayim1. And the city shall be taken, the houses
plundered, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into exile, but
the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Footnote: 1Joel
3:2, Zeph. 3:8, Rev. 16:14.
Heb 12:25
Take heed not to refuse the One speaking. For if those did not escape
who refused the warning on earth,(Mosheh) much less we who turn away from
Him(Yahshua, the mediator of the renewed covenant- vs 24) from heaven,
Heb 12:29
for indeed, our Elohim is a consuming fire.
See also Hebrews chapters 3 and 4
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu,
Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you Yahweh, 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 – Ameyn
