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 Yisrael. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Yisrael, 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 Yisrael. 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.
This week’s Torah portion reminds us that there is only One who is able
and worthy to lead us into the promised land forever – Yehoshua our Messiah.
We are called and enabled to walk as he walked so that others may receive
and enter His Kingdom of righteousness peace and joy in the Set Apart Spirit –
Rom 14:17
Joh
5:30 I can do nothing of My own
self…..because I do not seek My own will, but the will of the Father who
has sent Me.
Joh 5:31 “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is
not true.
Joh 5:32 “There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true.
We will see in this Torah
portion how Moshe laid down his life for the children of Yisrael – Deu 3:26
“But יהוה was enraged with me, for your sake..
Psa 106:32 And they provoked wrath at the waters of Meriḇah, And
Mosheh suffered on account of them;
Psa 106:33 Because they embittered his spirit, And he spoke rashly with his lips.
Moshe took upon himself the rebellion and wickedness of the people, however, he was unable to bear their crookedness.
Act 3:22 “For Mosheh truly said to the fathers, ‘יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your
brothers. Him you shall hear according to all matters, whatever He says to you.
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
Even this great law giver who spoke mouth to mouth with YHVH – Num 12:8 - was not able or worthy to enter the land and establish YHVH’s Kingdom on earth.
Deu 3:23 “And I pleaded (Heb –
ve et chanan) with יהוה at that time,
saying,……
Who else pleaded with YHVH?
Luk 22:41 And He withdrew from them about a stone’s
throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
Luk 22:42 saying, “Father, if it be Your counsel,
remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done.”
Luk 22:43 And there appeared a messenger from
heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
Luk 22:44 And being in agony, He was praying more
earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the
ground.
Vs 23
– Ve et chanan – chanan – verb to deal kindly – to give amnesty or pardon –
hitpael to deal kindly with one’s self – this hitpael verbs seems to indicate
that a person is aware of his or her guilt yet they are pleading for amnesty.
Note only people who understand their precarious position will plead for
amnesty. Many believers today believe they have already been granted amnesty
and don’t have to plead at all for anything. If Moshe pleaded for amnesty maybe,
we need to do so as well.
So
what was Moshe’s guilt? Moshe misrepresented Messiah to the people of Yisrael.
Num
20:8 “Take the rod and assemble the
congregation, you and your brother Aharon. And you shall speak to the rock
before their eyes, and it shall give its water. And you shall bring water for
them out of the rock and give drink to the congregation and their livestock.”
The
first time Moshe struck the rock – Shemot/Ex 17:6
Num
20:11 Then Mosheh lifted his hand and struck the
rock twice with his rod. And much water came out, and the congregation and
their livestock drank.
Num
20:12 But יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, “Because you did not believe Me,
to set Me apart in the eyes of the children of Yisra’ĕl, therefore you do not
bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
Midrash
– Messiah was struck once, that is impaled on a stake. His death was sufficient
to get us out of Egypt into the Promised land. Today many Christians are born
again and saved by the blood of Yahshua.
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.”
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were
once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers
of the Set-apart Spirit,
Heb 6:5 and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and
the powers of the age to come,
Heb 6:6 and fall away, to renew them again to
repentance – having impaled for themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him
to open shame.b Footnote: bSee Heb_10:26-31.
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.
Deu 3:24 ‘O Master
יהוה, You have begun to show Your servant Your
greatness and Your strong hand, for who is a mighty one in the heavens or on
earth who does according to Your works and according to Your might?
If you investigate the Hebrew used in this verse, there
is a subtle play on the words intended to reveal the surpassing greatness of
YHVH.
The Hebrew word
for ‘’begun’’ ‘’ha chilot’’ S2490 - can have two meanings: a) To begin
and b) to let profane.
This addresses the heart of our redemption. Our
redemption can only ‘’begin’’ or be secured as a result of Yehoshua taking upon
himself (profaning himself) for our sin, to secure our redemption.
Moshe too was profaned by a rebellious people.
Deu 3:25 ‘I pray,
let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yardĕn, this good hill
country, and Leḇanon.’
Deu 3:26 “But יהוה was enraged(Heb – “hitavar” – to pass over
and ignore) with me, for your sake, and would not listen to me, and יהוה said to me, ‘Enough of that! Speak no more
to Me about this matter.
YHVH was ‘’enraged’’ by our sin and also ignored Yahshua’s
plea. YHVH’s wrath fell upon His only brought forth Son –
Mat 27:46 And about the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli,
Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?” that is, “My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken
Me?” Psa_22:1.
If the demonic realm understood what they were doing they
would never have killed him.
1Co 2:6 Yet we speak wisdom among those who are
perfect,(mature) and not the wisdom of this age,
nor of the rulers of this age that are being brought to naught.
1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of Elohim, which
was hidden in a secret, and which Elohim ordained before the ages for our
esteem,
1Co 2:8 which no one of the rulers of this age
knew, for if they had known, they would not have impaled the Master of
esteem.
And
so Moshe pleads with YHVH to allow him to cross over into the Promised land
with the nation of Yisrael and YHVH says “enough of that! Speak not more to Me
about this matter”
רַב-לָךְ--אַל-תּוֹסֶף דַּבֵּר אֵלַי עוֹד, בַּדָּבָר הַזֶּה.
Same
words Korach spoke to Moshe – and Moshe spoke to Korach – “rav lechem” – Num
16:3&7
Why the use of a singular feminine pronoun when
addressing Moshe ‘’lach’’ or ‘’of you’’ (fem)?
Maybe YHVH is addressing the ‘’kehelah’’ or congregation
(fem. collective noun) and not Moshe only.
However, YHVH’s anger is poured on Moshe on behalf of the
nation - Deu 3:26 “But יהוה was enraged with me, for your sake,
Deu 3:27 ‘Go up to
the top of Pisgah,(a place of contemplation of your ways and My ways) and lift
up your eyes westward, and northward,(Ps 75:6) and southward, and eastward, and
look with your eyes, for you do not pass over this Yardĕn.
Deu 3:28 ‘But
charge Yehoshua, and strengthen him and make him brave, for he shall pass over
before this people and causes them to inherit the land which you see.’
Deu 3:29 “And we
dwelt in the valley opposite Bĕyth Peʽor.
Beth Peor was a place connected to shame, humiliation, defeat and even death – see Num 25:3
“The occurrences of the verb ‘’pa'ar’’ – (noun ‘’Peor’’) indicate adjunction with strong passion or feeling, usually not very positive (Job 16:10, Isaiah 5:14, Job 29:23), and describe the wide opening of the mouth, to defiantly declare our disobedience to YHVH’s Torah. Also alluding to other body cavities.” – passionate about doing what was wrong - (Abarim-publication)
The word for feminine
in Hebrew is “nekevah” which amongst other meanings can also mean a
“hollow”.
This of course can signify the hollow or womb of the female anatomy where life
is conceived and nurtured. ‘’Zachar’’ is the word used in Hebrew for
‘’masculine’’ it also means ‘’to remember’’ this implies that the seed of man
was to serve as a reminder of who YHVH is. In English the word ‘’testicle’’
comes from the word ‘’testimony’’.
Sadly, the conversation and sexual conduct has
departed from the instruction of YHVH’s Word and the tragic consequences of dysfunctional
offspring has been the result.
We must also
consider two other cavities on either side of our heads – called ears. These
too often have sadly not heard YHVH’s Torah and walked in its precepts. Shemah
Yisrael …….
So, we see
that the phenomenon of “Baal Peor” – “husband of the gap” where the enemy
influences and controls the way we think, hear and conduct ourselves has had a
major contribution to man’s increasing descent into abject decadence.
Jer
32:21 ‘And You have brought Your people
Yisra’ĕl out of the land of Mitsrayim with signs and wonders, with a strong
hand and an outstretched arm, and with great fearsome deeds.
Jer
32:22 ‘And You gave them this land, of
which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jer
32:23 ‘And they came in and possessed
it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah. They did
not do all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this evil upon
them. (See also context of Yer 29:11-14)
Deu 4:30 “In your distress,(Heb
‘’ba tzar’’ restricted) when all these words shall come
upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to יהוה your Elohim and shall obey His voice.
Eze 36:21 “But I had compassion on My set-apart
Name, which the house of Yisra’ěl had profaned among the nations wherever they
went.
I Will Put My Spirit Within You
Eze 36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Yisra’ěl,
‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “I do not do
this for your sake, O house of Yisra’ěl, but for My set-apart Name’s sake,
which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.
Eze 36:23 “And I shall set apart My great Name,
which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their
midst. And the nations shall know that I am יהוה,” declares the Master יהוה, “when I am set-apart in you before their eyes.
Eze 36:24 “And I shall take you from among the
nations, and I shall gather you out of all lands, and I shall bring you into
your own land.
Eze 36:25 “And I shall sprinkle clean water on you,
and you shall be clean – from all your filthiness and from all your idols I
cleanse you.
Eze 36:26 “And I shall give you a new heart and put
a new spirit within you. And I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh,
and I shall give you a heart of flesh,
Eze 36:27 and put My Spirit within you.a And I
shall cause you to walk in My laws and guard My right-rulings and shall do
them. Footnote: aSee Eze_11:19-20, Eze_37:6-14, Eze_39:29.
Eze 36:28 “And you shall dwell in the land that I
gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I shall be your
Elohim.
Eze 36:29 “And I shall save you from all your
uncleannesses. And I shall call for the grain and increase it, and I shall
bring no scarcity of food upon you.
Eze 36:30 “And I shall increase the fruit of your
trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the
reproach of scarcity of food among the nations.
Eze 36:31 “And you shall remember your evil ways
and your deeds that were not good. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own
eyes, for your crookednesses and your abominations.
Eze 36:32 “Not for your sake am I acting,” declares
the Master יהוה, “let it be
known to you. Be ashamed and blush for your ways, O house of Yisra’ěl!”
Eze 36:33 Thus said the Master יהוה, “On the day that I cleanse you from all
your crookednesses, I shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruined
places shall be rebuilt,
Eze 36:34 and the land that was laid waste tilled
instead of being a ruin before the eyes of all who pass by.
Eze 36:35 “And they shall say, ‘This land that was
laid waste has become like the garden of Ěḏen. And the wasted, the deserted,
and the destroyed cities are now walled and inhabited.’
Eze 36:36 “Then the nations which are left all
around you shall know that I, יהוה, have rebuilt
the destroyed places and planted what was laid waste. I, יהוה, have spoken it, and I shall do it.”
Eze 36:37 Thus said the Master יהוה, “Once again I shall let the house of
Yisra’ěl inquire of Me to do for them: I shall increase their men like a flock.
Eze 36:38 “As a set-apart flock, as the flock at
Yerushalayim at her appointed times, so shall the wasted cities be filled with
flocks of men. And they shall know that I am יהוה.” ’ ”
Parable of the wedding feast - Mat 22:14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”a Footnote: aSee Mat_20:16.
Chosen to be bridal intercessors. For His Bride represents Messiah in this age and the age to come.
Isa 59:16 And He saw that there was no man, and was
astonished that there was no intercessor. So His own arm saved for Him, and His
righteousness upheld him. 1Tim 2:5; 2 Cor 4:12
(Blessed are you Yahveh, 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
