Parashat 48 Portion 162 Dev 20:10-21:14 Ps 126:1-128:6 Yesh 66:12-22 Mark 15:6-15

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us Your Torah. Blessed are YHVH our Elohim – Giver of the Torah – Amein.’)

Before the ‘’remnant’’ can enter into the promised land, great battles, both physical and spiritual will first have to take place – Dev 21:10 – ‘’ci tetze lamilchamah’’

Deu 20:10  “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you shall make a call for peace to it. 

Deu 20:11  “And it shall be that if it accepts your call for peace, and shall open to you, then all the people found in it are to be your compulsory labour, and serve you. 

Deu 20:12  “But if it does not make peace with you, and shall fight against you, then you shall besiege it, 

Deu 20:13  and יהוה your Elohim shall give it into your hands, and you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword. 

Deu 20:14  “Only the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you take as plunder for yourself. And you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which יהוה your Elohim gives you. 

Deu 20:15  “Do so to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. 

Deu 20:16  “Only, of the cities of these peoples which יהוה your Elohim gives you as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that breathe, 

Deu 20:17  but you shall certainly put them under the ban: the Ḥittite and the Amorite and the Kena‛anite and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite, as יהוה your Elohim has commanded you, 

Deu 20:18  lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against יהוה your Elohim. 

These are principles of Messianic evangelism. All those who reject YHVH’s Torah and His people will be enslaved or put to death.

Deu 20:19  “When you besiege a city for a long time by fighting against it to take it, you do not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. If you do eat of them, do not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man to be besieged by you? 

Deu 20:20  “Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you do destroy and cut down, to build siege-works against the city that is fighting against you, until it falls. 

This instruction assures that only righteous conquest is allowed by YHVH. YHVH wants to give our enemies the best possible opportunities to repent and change their hearts before they are destroyed.

Deu 21:1  “When anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess, and it is not known who struck him, 

Deu 21:2  then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round about. 

Deu 21:3  “And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke, 

Deu 21:4  and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi. 

Deu 21:5  “And the priests, the sons of Lěwi, shall come near, for יהוה your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of יהוה, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried. 

Deu 21:6  “And let all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi. 

Deu 21:7  “And they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it. 

Deu 21:8  O יהוה, forgive Your people Yisra’ěl, whom You have ransomed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Yisra’ěl.’ And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them. 

Deu 21:9  “Thus you purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה. 

“The conception here is clearly one of corporate responsibility. Every community is responsible for crimes committed within its boundaries, and any unpunished crime must inevitably leave traces of contamination upon the whole body of the people. "When the evil has been dealt with, usually when the crime has been punished, the contamination is removed."^[5] The situation here, however, is one in which it was impossible to mete out the proper punishment for the murderer, since he was unknown.’’

Marrying Female Captives – the parable of the Jewish Messiah and a gentile bride.

Deu 21:10  “When you go out to fight against your enemies, and יהוה your Elohim shall give them into your hand, and you shall take them captive, 

Deu 21:11  and shall see among the captives a woman fair of form, and shall delight in her and take her for your wife, 

Deu 21:12  then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails, 

Deu 21:13  and put aside the mantle of her captivity, and shall dwell in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a month of days. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 

Deu 21:14  “And it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go at her desire, but you do not sell her at all for silver. Do not treat her harshly, since you have humbled her. 

The New Covenant – Yer 31:31-34 was not made with gentiles. Those gentiles who desire to be part of this New Covenant must first become members of His Household– Eph 2:17-22 & Rom 11:11-27

Isa 66:23  “And it shall be that from New moon to New moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath,b all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה. Footnote: b Possible meaning: Every week on the Sabbath. 

Isa 66:24  “And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me.[c] For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!” Footnote: cSee Isa_24:6, Isa_34:2-3, Psa_110:6, Jer_25:33.

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.)

Parashat 48 Portion 161 Dev 18:14-20:9 Ps 123:1-125:5 Michah 5:11-6:8 Mk 15:1-5

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples,and have given us Your Torah. Blessed are YHVH our Elohim – Giver of the Torah – Amein.’)

There is an enlarged ‘’tav’’ in ‘’tamim” in Deu 18:13 ’Tamim tiyehe’’  “Be perfect before יהוה your Elohim, - what is complete or entirely in accord with truth and fact (neuter adjective/substantive)

We are ‘’becoming’’ the righteousness of YHVH through Yahshua - 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. 

Like ‘’fortune tellers’’ the teachings and prophecies of many theologians and spiritual leaders have ‘’cast a spell’’ on believers, teaching them to ‘’spiritually project’’ themselves to a place of spiritual superiority and power. Many assume and claim spiritual wisdom and authority that if closely investigated proves to be a sham and a deception.

Deu 18:14  for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, יהוה your Elohim has not appointed such for you. 

Gal 3:1  O senseless Galatians! Who has put you under a spell, not to obey the truth…. 2Co 11:3  But I am afraid, lest, as the serpent deceived Ḥawwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah. 

2Co 11:4  For, indeed, if he who is coming proclaims another יהושע,a whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not accepted, you put up with it well enough! Footnote: a Mat_24:5 and Mat_24:23-24, Joh_5:43. 

We have no excuse not to walk as our Master walked.

2Pe 1:3  as His Mighty-like power has given to us all we need for life and reverence, through the knowledge of Him who called us to esteem and uprightness. 

2Pe 1:4  Through these there have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that through these you might be partakers of the Mighty-like nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world, caused by lust. 

A New Prophet like Moses –  Moshe knew that the coming Messiah would bring great blessing.

Deu 18:15  “יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet b like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him, Footnote: bSee footnote at Deu_18:18. 

Deu 18:16  according to all you asked of יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorěḇ in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of יהוה my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 

Deu 18:17  “And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good. 

Deu 18:18  I shall raise up for them a Prophetc like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. Footnote: cSee also Act_3:22-26, and Act_7:37. 

Deu 18:19  And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him. 

Deu 18:20  But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.’ 

Deu 18:21  “And when you say in your heart, ‘How do we know the word which יהוה has not spoken?’ – 

Deu 18:22  when the prophet speaks in the Name of יהוה and the word is not, or comes not, that is the word which יהוה has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. 

Isa 29:10  For יהוה has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets. And He has covered your heads, the seers. (concealed or hidden the truth)

Laws Concerning Cities of Refuge – Messiah has become the city of refuge to all those who deserve death because of their disobedience to YHVH, but have been given a second chance.

Rom 3:23  for all have sinned and fall short of the esteem of Elohim, 

Rom 3:24  being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the redemption which is in Messiah יהושע, 

Rom 3:25  whom Elohim set forth as an atonement, through belief in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins that had taken place before, 

Rom 3:26  to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He is righteous and declares righteous the one who has belief in יהושע. 

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death,c but the favourable gift of Elohim is everlasting life in Messiah יהושע our Master.

Deu 19:1  “When יהוה your Elohim cuts off the nations whose land יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 

Deu 19:2  separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess. 

Deu 19:3  “Prepare a way for yourself, and divide into three parts the border of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to inherit, that any man-slayer shall flee there. 

Deu 19:4  “And this matter of the man-slayer who flees there and lives: he who strikes his neighbour unknowingly, not having hated him in time past, 

Deu 19:5  even he who goes to the forest with his neighbour to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies – let him flee to one of these cities and live, 

Deu 19:6  lest the revenger of blood, while his displeasure is hot, pursue the man-slayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and shall strike his being, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated him before. 

Deu 19:7  “Therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘Separate three cities for yourself.’ 

Deu 19:8  “And if יהוה your Elohim enlarges your border, as He swore to your fathers, and has given you the land which He promised to give to your fathers – 

Deu 19:9  when you guard all this command to do it, which I am commanding you today, to love יהוה your Elohim and to walk in His ways all the days – then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three, 

Deu 19:10  so that innocent blood is not shed in the midst of your land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, or blood-guilt shall be upon you. 

Deu 19:11  “But when anyone hates his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him and rise against him and strike his being so that he dies, then he shall flee to one of these cities, 

Deu 19:12  and the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and give him into the hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die. 

Deu 19:13  “Your eye shall not pardon him, but you shall purge the blood of innocent blood from Yisra’ěl, so that it might be well with you. 

Property Boundaries

Deu 19:14  “Do not remove your neighbour’s boundary, which those in the past have set, in your inheritance which you inherit in the land that יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess. 

Laws Concerning Witnesses

Deu 19:15  “One witness does not rise up against a man concerning any crookedness or any sin that he commits. At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses a matter is established. 

Deu 19:16  “When a malicious witness rises up against any man to accuse him of turning aside, 

Deu 19:17  then both men who have the dispute shall stand before יהוה, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. 

Deu 19:18  “And the judges shall diligently search and see if the witness is a false witness, who has falsely accused his brother, 

Deu 19:19  then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from your midst. 

Deu 19:20  “And let the rest hear and fear, and never again do this evil matter in your midst. 

Deu 19:21  “And let your eye not pardon, life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 

Laws Concerning Warfare

Deu 20:1  “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and shall see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them, for יהוה your Elohim, who brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, is with you. 

Deu 20:2  “And it shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall come and speak to the people, 

Deu 20:3  and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Yisra’ěl: You are drawing near today to battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not fear, or tremble, or be afraid before them, 

Deu 20:4  for יהוה your Elohim is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’ 

Deu 20:5  “And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. 

Deu 20:6  And who is the man who has planted a vineyard and has not begun to use it? Let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man should begin to use it. 

Deu 20:7  And who is the man who is engaged to a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’ 

Deu 20:8  “And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Who is the man who is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brothers faint like his heart.’ 

Deu 20:9  “And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint commanders of the divisions to lead the people. 

The real battle is not against flesh and blood. but against the spiritual forces of darkness resisting the people of the Torah. Therefore, we must not be double minded but certain of victory and that YHVH Himself goes out before us to ensure our complete victory over the enemy.

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

Parashat 48 Portion 160 Dev 17:14 – 18:19 Ps 120:1-122:9 Yes 33:22-34:8 Mark 14:66-72

Bar’chu et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed! Baruch ata YHVH Elohim melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples,and have given us Your Torah. Blessed are YHVH our Elohim – Giver of the Torah – Amein.

Deu 17:14  “When you come to the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and you shall say, ‘Let me set a sovereign over me like all the nations that are around me,’ 

Deu 17:15  you shall certainly set a sovereign over you whom יהוה your Elohim shall choose. Set a sovereign over you from among your brothers, you are not allowed to set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 

Deu 17:16  “Only, he is not to increase horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Mitsrayim to increase horses, for יהוה has said to you, ‘Do not return that way again.’ 

Deu 17:17  “And he is not to increase wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor is he to greatly increase silver and gold for himself. 

1Sa 8:4  And all the elders of Yisra’ěl gathered together and came to Shemu’ěl at Ramah, 

1Sa 8:5  and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a sovereign to rule us like all the nations.” 

1Sa 8:6  But the word was evil in the eyes of Shemu’ěl when they said, “Give us a sovereign to rule us.” So Shemu’ěl prayed to יהוה. 

1Sa 8:7  And יהוה said to Shemu’ěl, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them. 

1Sa 8:8  “According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Mitsrayim, even to this day – forsaking Me and serving other mighty ones – so they are doing to you too. 

1Sa 8:9  “And now, listen to their voice, but you shall certainly warn them, and shall make known to them the ruling of the sovereign who does reign over them.”

1Sa 12:17  “Is today not the wheat harvest? Let me call to יהוה, so that He sends thunder and rain – know then and see that your evil is great, which you have done in the eyes of יהוה, in asking for yourselves a sovereign.” 

Deu 17:18  “And it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his reign, that he shall write for himself a copy of this Torah in a book, from the one before the priests, the Lěwites. 

Deu 17:19  “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he learns to fear יהוה his Elohim and guard all the Words of this Torah and these laws, to do them, 

Deu 17:20  so that his heart is not lifted up above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongs his days in his reign, he and his children, in the midst of Yisra’ěl. 

Israel has a very sad history when it comes to her kings. Read the book of kings!

Heb 7:17  for He does witness, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq.” Psa_110:4. Yahshua will be a king (melech) and righteous high priest (tsedek)

See Hebrews chapters 8,9 and 10. Beware of the faulty teaching of the church – Listen to Daniel Lancaster on these chapters  (27-40) http://www.bethimmanuel.org/audio-series/holy-epistle-to-the-hebrews

Deu 18:1  “The priests, the Lěwites, all the tribe of Lěwi, have no part nor inheritance with Yisra’ěl. They are to eat the offerings of יהוה made by fire, and His inheritance. 

Deu 18:2  “But among his brothers Lěwi has no inheritance. יהוה is his inheritance, as He has spoken to him. 

Deu 18:3  “And this is the priest’s right from the people, from those who slaughter a slaughtering, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the stomach; 

Deu 18:4  the first-fruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you give to him. 

Deu 18:5  “For יהוה your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of יהוה, him and his sons forever. 

Deu 18:6  “And when the Lěwite comes from one of your gates, from where he has sojourned among all Yisra’ěl, and shall come with all the desire of his being to the place which יהוה chooses, 

Deu 18:7  then he shall serve in the Name of יהוה his Elohim, like all his brothers the Lěwites, who are standing there before יהוה. 

Deu 18:8  “They are to have portion for portion to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance. 

Abominable Practices

Deu 18:9  “When you come into the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, do not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.a Footnote: aSee footnote at Deu_12:30. 

Deu 18:10  “Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practises divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer, 

Deu 18:11  or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 

Deu 18:12  “For whoever does these is an abomination to יהוה, and because of these abominations יהוה your Elohim drives them out from before you. 

Deu 18:13  “Be perfect before יהוה your Elohim, 

Deu 18:14  for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners. But as for you, יהוה your Elohim has not appointed such for you. 

A New Prophet like Moses

Deu 18:15  “יהוה your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet[b] like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him, Footnote: bSee footnote at Deu_18:18. 

Deu 18:16  according to all you asked of יהוה your Elohim in Ḥorěḇ in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of יהוה my Elohim, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 

Deu 18:17  “And יהוה said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good. 

Deu 18:18  I shall raise up for them a Prophet[c] like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put My Words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. Footnote: cSee also Act_3:22-26, and Act_7:37. 

Deu 18:19  And it shall be, the man who does not listen to My Words which He speaks in My Name, I require it of him. 

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.)

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