Sh’ma
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15 Feb 2014 ~ 15 Adar 1 5774
Torah Portion Ki Tissa - “When you take”
Sh’mot /Exodus 30:11- 34:35 cjb p 95
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We are going to look at the Torah portion for this week,
then we will go to B’re’shiyt and then conclude.
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Torah Portion Ki Tissa - “When you take”
Sh’mot /Exodus 30:11- 34:35 cjb p 95
This portion begins with instructions for when you take a census.
Then instructions for making the basin of bronze - the laver...30:17
Sh’mot 30: 22.. instructions for making the holy anointing oil... which would be essential oil... many of us are learning to use essential oils... but go figure...
in vs 26 “Use it to anoint the tent of meeting, the ark for the testimony, 27 the table and all its utensils, the menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar, 28 the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils, and the basin with its base...”
This may appear is as insignificant facts....
but one of things you need to catch here... is that ...
here is a place were there is a lot of animal sacrifice... so there is blood on most of these things....
and as it just happens to turn out that these essential oils are antibacterial and antiviral!!
Let’s go to ...
Sh’mot 31:12-17
“observe” = shamar = to guard, protect, and to keep to ensure accuracy.
Sh’mot 34:5-7
This is FULL of a great amount of information!!
His Name - Yud - Heh - Vav - Heh!!
and then describes Himself...
now notice that this does NOT say he is cruel and mean etc,.....
as so many are taught “the god of the old testament is”!!!!!
and then there is more... he talks about generational curses.....
curses - to the third and fourth generation....
Then HE goes on in Sh’mot 34:15...
“Do not make covenant with the people living in the land. It will cause you to go astray after their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Then they will invite you to join them in eating their sacrifices, 16 and you will take their daughters as wives for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves to their own gods and make your sons do the same!”
Yirmeyahu /Jeremiah 23:27 cjb p 588
“With their dreams that they keep telling each other, they hope to cause my people to forget my NAME; just as their ancestors forgot my name when they worshipped ba’al.”
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So He tells them...
what to build to worship Him
how to keep it sanitary/clean
His NAME and WHO HE is...
and not to make covenant with those who do not serve Him
and that curses carry on 3-4 generations.
This is a LOT of clear instruction... and it goes back to what we talked about last week - about what we focus on. He is telling us right here WHO to focus on!!
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Let’s go to our B’re’shiyt study by Brad Scott....
Page 3 of the study guide
B’re’shiyt 1:1
“B’re’shiyt bara Elohiym ET hashamayim b’et ha’aretz.”
“In the beginning created Elohiym the heaven and the earth.”
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Now let’s go to page 10 of the study guide...
B’re’shiyt 1:2
“V’ha’arets hayetah tohu vavohu vechoshek ‘alpeney tehom.”
“And the earth was (became) without form and void. and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
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The first word of 1:2 =
V’ha’aretz
= “and the earth”
the Vav is a conjunction
the ha = definite article
and then we have a repetition of the aretz - the EARTH.
We need to get that ...
it was the earth that was without form and void...because ... something happened to the land mass (which would include the waters)!
It is not the heaven that was without form and void but rather the earth....
... and what’sthe earth going to be?.....the abode of man...
This aretz - earth - abode of man - was some how rendered “tohu vavohu” = “without form and void”!!!!
Brad believes it was the plan of the enemy after his fall, to pervert the physical which is the picture of the heavenly...
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The things we see here are a picture of the heavenly things.”
Remember, i said last week - he gave us the SEED... the natural things so we could understand the Spiritual things?...
But now i am also telling you... the natural is a picture of “heavenly/spiritual things.”
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What we MUST understand is that when we pervert the natural -
It gives us a perverted picture of the greater, spiritual reality which is the the “unseen” or “heavenly things”...
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Why does it matter if what i see is perverted or messed up??
.... b/c what i see / know around me is what i base my understanding on.
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you see...
hasatan knows he can’t pervert the unseen - the heavenly...
....so he perverts the aretz - the earth realm, the natural things.
hasatan sets that pattern of what he is going to do for the rest of man’s time on the earth... right here in B’re’shiyt 1:2.
But - YAH sets that pattern in first verse of Torah.
So we know it is not YHWH, but hasatan who perverts the tov/ the good....the functional...
hasatan is going to do that by attacking the natural things, knowing that is going to pervert the greater spiritual reality.
Because he knew/knows that Yah is going to use things ... like father, house, and water, ... as things that describe HIS nature...
For example: - the fountain of living waters...
If you and i lived only with stagnant pools of polluted waters... we wouldn’t understand fresh clean waters...
That is why Yah said we are to take care of his planet..... we have a responsibility to take care of this planet and use it for what Yah intended it to be used for.
He gave us a great responsibility...
so when we get convinced by the adversary to pervert those things ... he knows he can pervert the things of Yah...
ie = a “fatherly image”... If the “fatherly image” is perverted then we can’t see how the heavenly father is....
So as a result.... people then blame YHWH....
.... Now that means we can blame hasatan...
...But more correctly, we should blame us - b/c we allow this perversion by not keeping Torah...
.... and then there is no basis that is TRUE, to SEE...
....and hasatan wins the battle.
So.... consequently.....
the heavenly things can’t be seen correctly -- b/c they are perverted.
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So the plan of hasatan is to mess up the “aretz” the earth.... Because if we are looking at things that are messed up - we can’t understand what the truth is....”how it is in heaven/ or the spirit realm.
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why do you think that YHWH not only told Yisra’el not to make covenant with those who worship ba’al.....
He told them to kill those people...
--- My, but doesn’t that sound cruel??...
... I think this is where most people get the idea that the Elohiym / ”god of the Old Testament” is mean and cruel.
Why did he say to wipe out those people “before them” in the land of Yisra’el??
B/c they were Nephelim ... children of human women and fallen angels or demons.
p 10 of the study guide....
It is the “plan of the adversary to pervert the physical which is the picture of the heavenly”... that we have to understand the heavenly or the spiritual. !!
So... no wonder ... there is homosexuality... b/c Yah’s plan is one man one woman.
No wonder after YHWH “bara”-ed creation in B’re’shiyt 1:1 - a COMPLETED work... that in vs 2 it is suddenly “without form and void”!!!!
No wonder there is a mixing of seed... b/c YHWH said - do not mix seed.... so now we have GMO seed and we have labs where they are making embryos - mixing the seed of man with the seed of animals...
and no wonder we have vaccinations in the first place - let alone flu shots with DNA of insects in....!!!
B/c if hasatan can mess up the physical - then we can’t understand the spiritual!
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Now i want to change gears a bit...
I have said several times in my life... “something changed”...
and by that i mean.... it feels like things “got harder”.... like time has sped up and the breaking down of things - the entropy has increased.
Webster says that entropy is...
a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder, that is a property of the system’s state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system; broadly: the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system.
the degradation of the matter and the energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
The process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder.
I think this moved forward or increased lately.
Why might i say that?...
Is there anyone here who doesn’t have at least several really hard things in their life right now??
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Turn to...
Mattityahu 22:14 cjb p 1251
“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
Y’shua is talking about a wedding feast....
“many are invited but few are chose” - is better interpreted as...
“Many are called but few choose.”
You see - the difference is - who does the choosing!...
again - we are back to... “What do you focus on??
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Romans 12:1-2 cjb p 1416
“....offer yourselves as a sacrifice, living and set apart (kadosh) for YHWH....... 2 In other words, do not let yourselves be conformed to the standards of the olam hazeh (this world). Instead keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing of your minds... so that you will know what YHWH wants...”
Why should i work on renewing my mind...???
Yochanan /John 10:10 cjb p 1343
“The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.”
Why should i get my mind renewed??....
b/c in this world hasatan is rampant with things like depression and hopelessness and fear and anxiety ....
and if my mind is going to be renewed... i need to start by understanding that we base our opinion of YHWH, other people and ourselves... on the bad stuff that has happened in our lives... not the good.
We learn to believe lies based on our circumstances....
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being afraid/ fearful....
like... “I am not enough...
like I can’t trust YHWH....
and nobody tells us these need to be washed out of our lives!
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Yochanan 10:10... that word “measure”...
“Measure” = zoe ... spiritually maturity.
What is spiritual maturity??
= Having a mind that is transformed by Y’shua ... instead of believing lies and messed up things!!!
If i am spiritually mature... I live differently... not like those around me...
i am an overcomer....
I stand of the ROCK ... when all else fails...
i am not out there floating around in the sea.... I have to be on the firm rock.....
But this means i have to choose - on purpose choose... and then walk in my choice!!!
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