Parasahat 24 Portion 78 Vayikra 5:1-6:7 Zech 5:3-6:15 James 5:16-20 Matt 18:15-17

Lev 5:1  ‘And when a being sins in that he has heard the voice of swearing, and is a witness, or has seen, or has known, but does not reveal it, he shall bear his crookedness.

Hebrew word for swearing is H423 'âlâh BDB Definition: 1) oath 2) oath of covenant 3) curse 3a) from God 3b) from men 4) execration.

Here are some scriptural examples of where YHVH makes oaths.

Gen 22:15-18 YHVH makes an oath to Avraham that because of his willingness to offer up his only son, that through Avraham’s seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This is in fact the essence of the Good News.

Gal 3:8  And the Scripture, having foreseen that Elohim would declare right the nations by (Gk – “ek” meaning “out”) belief,(Gk – “pisteous” noun not a verb) announced the Good News to Aḇraham beforehand, saying, “All the nations shall be blessed in you,”

Another example of where YHVH makes an oath:

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...’ ”¹ Footnote: ¹Ps. 95:7-11.

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.

Literary in Lev 5:1 the Hebrew says if you are a witness to someone declaring an oath or a curse and someone testifies falsely or he remains silent ( Heb im lo yagid)– knowing the truth -  his iniquity will be upon him.

Heb 7:21  For they indeed became priests without an oath, but He became Priest with an oath by Him who said to Him, “יהוה has sworn and shall not regret, ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq.’ ”Ps 110:4

If we or anyone bears false witness to these oaths of YHVH, they will bear their iniquity.

Let us look to Yahshua who alone gives the Torah (YHVH’s covenant) its deepest possible meaning. It was Yahshua that embodies both the fullness of YHVH’s Covenant and Curse. When we witness Yahshua being misrepresented and we remain silent we are guilty before YHVH.

The Hebrew word for crookedness is “avon” it can also mean “iniquity” which implies ongoing continual disobedience to YHVH’s Torah.

Once again we need to come to YHVH with an offering and implore Him to show us where there is evidence of this guilt (asham) in our lives for having made this mistake (shagag) Where have we kept silence on this issue when we should have spoken out concerning this issue.

There are times when we are to remain silent. Our silence can also be a witness against our own iniquity – lawlessness.

Mat 7:6  “Do not give what is set-apart to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

Isa 59:14  And right-ruling¹ is driven back, and righteousness¹ stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter. Footnote: ¹Amos 5:7.

Isa 59:15  And the truth is lacking, and whoever turns away from evil makes himself a prey. And יהוה saw, and it displeased Him that there was no right-ruling.

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.

Ecc 3:1  For every matter there is an appointed time, even a time for every pursuit under the heavens:

Ecc 3:7  a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;

Amo 5:13  Therefore the wise keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time.

If we do not “reveal it” (im lo yagid) he will bear the iniquity or consequence of this sin.

What is one of the consequences of this sin?

Parashat 24 Portion 77 Vayikra 4:1-35 Ezek 18:1-18 Rev 5:1-14

This Torah portion is about the guilt or “asham” offering.

This is offered for a sin committed by mistake – (Heb shagag)

The dictionary defines guilt in the following way:

“The fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation or wrong, especially against a moral or penal law – a feeling of responsibility whether real or imagined.”

       Lev 4:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

       Lev 4:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘When a being sins by mistake against any of the commands of יהוה, which are not to be done, and shall do any of them:

      Lev 4:3  ‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then he shall bring to יהוה for his sin which he has sinned a young bull, a perfect one, as a sin offering,

Why is he anointed? Because he is engaged in active duty.

The mistakes of priests or Kohanim are first mentioned because the consequences of their mistakes can have very serious consequences for the people.

We can all have mistakes but there are often consequences for our mistakes.

We know that if we confess our sins YHVH is merciful and will forgive us our sins. When we keep on making the same mistakes, YHVH may have to discipline us to correct wrong patterns of behavior and actions.

Heb 12:4  You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Heb 12:5  And you have forgotten the appeal which speaks to you as to sons, “My son, do not despise the discipline of יהוה, nor faint when you are reproved by Him,

Heb 12:6  for whom יהוה loves, He disciplines, and flogs every son whom He receives.”¹ Footnote: ¹Prov. 3:11-12.

Heb 12:7  If you endure discipline, Elohim is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?

Heb 12:8  But if you are without discipline, of which all have become sharers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

Heb 12:9  Moreover, we indeed had fathers of our flesh disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

Heb 12:10  For they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but He does it for our profit, so that we might share His apartness.

Heb 12:11  And indeed, no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.¹ Footnote: ¹Dt. 8:2.

Heb 12:12  So, strengthen the hands which hang down and the weak knees,

Heb 12:13  and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.

Heb 12:14  Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1Jn 1:9  If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1Jn 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

Any person who continues to intentionally sin may sin away their time of favour.

1Ti 4:1  But the Spirit distinctly says that in latter times some shall fall away from the belief, paying attention to misleading spirits, and teachings of demons,

1Ti 4:2  speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been branded on their own conscience,

1Ti 4:3  forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which Elohim created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Gal 5:1  In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not again be held with a yoke of slavery.

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 8:2  For the Torah of the Spirit of the life in Messiah יהושע has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

Rom 8:3  For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim, having 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.

Rom 8:5  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the matters of the Spirit.

Rom 8:6  For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

Rom 8:7  Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself¹ to the Torah of Elohim², neither indeed is it able, Footnotes: ¹Or does not obey. ²John 15:5, 1 John 4:4, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 5:18.

Parashat 24 Portion 76 Vayikra/Lev 3:1-17 Yesh/Is 43:21-28 Yak/James 1:13-15

Lev 3:1  ‘And if that which he presents is a peace offering, if he is bringing it of the herd, (Heb – bakar or cattle implication that which breaks open or to seek) whether male or female, he brings a perfect one before יהוה.

      Lev 3:2  ‘And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slaughter it at the door of the Tent of Meeting. And the sons of Aharon, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around.

Lev 3:3  ‘And from the peace offering he shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

Peace offering or ha shelamim - BDB Definition: 1) peace offering, requital, sacrifice for alliance or friendship 1a) voluntary sacrifice of thanks. Masculine noun – “the verb shalam”

Can mean the following - 2) to be complete, be sound

2a) (Qal)

2a1) to be complete, be finished, be ended

2a2) to be sound, be uninjured

2b) (Piel)

2b1) to complete, finish

2b2) to make safe

2b3) to make whole or good, restore, make compensation

2b4) to make good, pay

2b5) to requite, recompense, reward

2c) (Pual)

2c1) to be performed

2c2) to be repaid, be requited

2d) (Hiphil)

2d1) to complete, perform

2d2) to make an end of

Lev 3:4  and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver which he removes with the kidneys.

Fat – Heb “chelev” represented abundance and well being eg the fat cows in Pharoah’s dream.

“In the Semetic mindset, the internal organs are the seat of one’s emotions. This is why Shlomo could speak of “kidneys rejoicing” Prov 23:16 or why Yochanan could speak of closing up one’s “inward parts” (Gk intestines) as an expression of being stingy – 1John 3:17. The liver (Heb – kaved or heavy) being the heaviest internal organ can be symbolic of one’s entire emotions: My spirit is troubled my liver is poured out to the earth – Lam 2:11.

With this background, it is easier to understand why the inner organs of the animal along with the fat that covered them are offered on the altar. These represent the inner life of the offeror. Having symbolically designated the animal as his representative by placing his hands upon its head, the inner organs of the offering represent the offeror’s own inner self – his true intentions and gratitude. The fat represents the abundance of life that he has enjoyed because of YHVH’s provision. The blood that is dashed upon the sides of the altar represent the giving of life, reminding us that the well- being of the offeror is the result of deliverance (salvation) gained at the cost of life.” End quote Tim Hegg.

Lev 3:5  ‘And the sons of Aharon shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is on the wood, which is on the fire, as an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה.

Lev 3:6  ‘And if that which he presents is from the flock, for a peace offering to יהוה, male or female, he brings a perfect one.

Lev 3:7  ‘If he is bringing a lamb as his offering, then he shall bring it before יהוה,

Lev 3:8  and shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting, and the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood on the altar round about.

Lev 3:9  ‘And from the peace offering he shall bring near – as an offering made by fire to יהוה – its fat, all the fat tail which he removes close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

Lev 3:10  and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys.

Lev 3:11  ‘And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to יהוה.

Lev 3:12  ‘And if his offering is a goat, then he shall bring it before יהוה,

Lev 3:13  and shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the Tent of Meeting. And the sons of Aharon shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around.

Lev 3:14  ‘And from it he shall bring his offering, as an offering made by fire to יהוה, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,

Lev 3:15  and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the appendage on the liver, which he removes with the kidneys.

Lev 3:16  ‘And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance. All the fat belongs to יהוה.

Lev 3:17  ‘An everlasting law throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you do not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

One the greatest dangers in this life is to say you have peace but then you walk in the stubbornness of your heart.

Deu 29:19  “And it shall be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he should bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,’ in order to add drunkenness to thirst.

Deu 29:20  “יהוה would not forgive him, but rather, the displeasure of יהוה and His jealousy shall burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall settle on him, and יהוה shall blot out his name from under the heavens.

Deu 29:21  “And יהוה shall separate him for evil, out of all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Torah.

Php 4:4  Rejoice in יהוה always, again I say, rejoice!

Php 4:5  Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Master is near.

Php 4:6  Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.

Php 4:7  And the peace of Elohim, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and minds through Messiah יהושע.

Col 3:15  And let the peace of Elohim rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one Body, and be filled with thanks.

Psa 119:165  Great peace have those loving Your Torah, And for them there is no stumbling-block.

קסה  שָׁלוֹם רָב, לְאֹהֲבֵי תוֹרָתֶךָ;    וְאֵין-לָמוֹ מִכְשׁוֹל.

165 Great peace have they that love Thy Torah; and there is no stumbling for them.

Joh 14:27  “Peace I leave with you – My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Only this peace which Messiah gives to us can bring peace and restoration to the world.