Sh’ma
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8 Feb 2014 ~ 8 Adar I 5774
8th B’re’shiyt teaching...
Torah parashah ~ Tetzaveh Sh’mot /Exodus 27:20-30:10 cbj p 91
Haftarah ~ Yechezk’el /Ezekiel 43:10-27 cjb 699
B’rit Chadashah ~ Mark 4:35-5:43 cjb 1267; Philippians 4:10-20 cjb p 1468; Mark 12:28-31 cjb p 1279
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We are going to talk about the Torah, and then i want to share some current events issues, and then we will go to the B’re’shiyt teaching.
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Torah : Tetzaveh - “you shall command” or “you are to order”
Last week’s Torah portion was about the details of making the Tabernacle and it’s furniture and tools...
This week we are reading about the details of Aharon’s garments and his sons.
Again we have more detail. YHWH pays such attention to detail!
Aharon was the Cohen haGadol - the High Priest....
The things that Aharon and his sons did in the Tabernacle... daily, weekly and yearly...
This service - what they did - was to be a representation of what the children of Isra’el were doing as they walked out their lives... daily, weekly and yearly.
The children of Isra’el were called to walk each day in repentance, with thanksgiving, praise and worship unto YHWH.
The Tabernacle services of Aharon were really a tangible manifestation of what was supposed to be lived out in the camp every day.
... smoke rising from the altar and the aroma of the sacrifices and the incense were to be reminders to the camp of the responsibilities each person had on a daily bases to be his own priest unto YHWH.
When Aharon put on his cohen garments... the last thing he put on was the breastplate.
What was on the breastplate?
12 stones representing each of the 12 tribes of Isra’el...
The stones on the breastplate - meant that Aharon wore the stones that represented all of Isra’el - over his heart.
... over his heart ... or on his heart.
The breastplate, worn over his heart, was a reminder to himself and all who saw him, that this calling was not about pomp and circumstance, it was not about religious practices etc... it was not about programs and structure....
... The calling was about a people whom YHWH always holds close to HIS heart... a mispochat/family made up of persons whom YHWH loves very deeply.
Now think about something else... when you have a problem... what is helpful... ultimately....?
ultimately - it is about getting to the core or the “heart of the issue”.
From the very first sentence of B’re’shiyt ...
“B’re’shiyt bara Elohiym ET hashamyim v’ed haeretz.”... to the last words of Hitgalut / Revelation... man has had a struggle with focus.... and this causes us to lose the details...
So we look at the robe of YHWH’s High Priest.
man desires to make that position into an end all its own.
man desires to forget that YHWH’s plan is not about religious liturgies and practices, but about a people whom HW holds close to His heart.
The pharisees of the Y’shua’s day are a prime example of forgetting YHWH’s heart... they came over and over to try to trap Y’shua.
They put on the robes ... but they really did not care about the people, or the Elohiym that they served.
They had taken the robes of the Priesthood, but had forgotten that those were robes of servanthood to YHWH and to His people.
They did not see that the instructions of Torah were about the Heart of the Father and not about how to control and enslave people into their own control.
This is why Y’shua sums up the Torah by taking them to the HEART of the Torah - the Sh’ma...
Mark 12:28-31 cjb p 1279
“One of the Torah-teachers came up and heard them engaged in this discussion. Seeing that Y’shua answered them well, he asked him, “which is the most important mitzvah of them all? 29 Y’shua answered, “the most important is,
Sh’ma Yisra’el, YHWH Elohiynu, YHWH echad. [Hear O Isra’el, YHWH is our God, YHWH is one], 30 and you are to love YHWH your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might.’
The second is this: You are to love your neighbor as yourself.”
Y’shua was not telling the Pharisees - or us for that matter - that the Torah was done away with. Instead he was making them come face to face with their attitudes toward the Torah and also the family of YHWH. He was telling them to look back to where Aharon held the breastplate containing the stones of the tribes. He was showing them that their heart was not about serving people, but controlling people.
So if we are a kingdom of priests.. where do you/we carry YHWH’s mispochat ??
Are they simply in our minds - we “know” this...
or do we sh’ma - live it...
Do we carry Isra’el on our hearts??
Sh’mot 28:36-38 cjb p 92
“You are to make an ornament of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal, “set apart for YHWH” 37 Fasten it to the turban with a blue cord, on the front of the turban 38 over Aharon’s forehead...”
Set apart for YHWH...
The Interlinear says.. “kadosh unto YHWH” == holy unto YHWH
“kodosh” is a qof - dalet - shin =
= qof = “a rising sun” =
= dalet = a “door”
= shin = “teeth”
In the Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew by Matityahu Clark it says that qof-dalet-shin ===
= “To prepare for task; dedicate all resources.”
So i ask us all today... are you preparing for the task of following HIM and have you dedicated all resources?
Do you live differently? If we follow YHWH - THEE Elohiym which the world does not follow.... do we live like the world or not?
What holidays do you celebrate?
What foods do you eat / not eat?
What instructions do you keep?
Do you DO your faith... live it?
Sh’ma Yisra’el... amein
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Now i want to share with you some of Greg Reed’s news letter from this past week....
We have said from the beginning of this ministry ... that we have got to know the truth.... and we have got to know what is going on in this world....
so i want to read you some of what Greg wrote...
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(Last) “Sunday night, the Grammys had their night in glory, with all of Hollywood and the music industry on full display for who and what they really are. It was an unreal spectacle. One of the most brazenly evil acts was megastar Katy Perry doing her song, ‘Dark Horse’.
It was the most blatantly satanic thing i have ever seen. It was more than a song, replete with all black and red backdrops, dress and props, a horned god statue, witches’ brooms everywhere and Illuminati symbols around and over everything. I realized what it was. It was coming from, and out of a young lady, Kate Hudson, once a ‘Christian’ girl raised by Pentecostal evangelist parents, who once did a Christian album. It was not a huge seller, so the world offered her a deal and she took it, and went from being a cute church girl to a world youth shaker.
... From sweet Jesus lyrics to songs about the joys of lesbianism almost overnight, shattering every mooring she had, she has become... this.
Along the way, she did a vide called “ET”, a vile bit of sexual- spiritual melding, that, for anyone with the eyes to see it, was about her becoming one with a fallen angel. And the mockery of Jesus was complete in her. And now, this. And as i watched the spectacle, i realized she has become an empty vessel, but only a vessel, and she is literally doing rituals and spell work through her music, through her act. The music industry has become the satanic version of the christian worship service, but instead of touching the power of God, they are invoking the power of satan.
And following this satanic church service in order to completely finish mocking Jesus(Messiah), God (YHWH) , christians (believers) and the Bible (Word), they had a black mass gay wedding service, and the ‘hymn’ they sang said this....
‘The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision... and you can be cured with some treatment and religion/Man- made rewiring of a predisposition / Playing God, aw nah here we go / America the brave still fears what we don’t know / And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten / But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago / I don’t know / Whatever God you believe in / We come from the same one /Strip away the fear / Underneath it’s all the same love/ About time that we raised up.... sex.”
Ah, yes, Now we get to the crux of it. It’s about sex. It’s about religion. It’s about christians being the problem, and in the way. It’s about silencing the voice of disagreement. It is about the resurrection of the old gods of Babel and Sodom and Baal and Ashtoreth and worshipping the phallus Ashtoreth pole and casting off al restraint in the church of Lucifer, sacrificing our children and making them pass through the fire of abortion and pornography and butchered sexually.
What is new is really old, but it is in the beginning of the conclusion of the enemy’s attempt to snuff God from this planet and proclaim himself God. just like every ritual in intended to invoke demons to do their bidding, ..... These performances at the Grammy’s have unleashed things we cannot yet grasp. It is time to gird up our loins and prepare to fight for our children and youth, and take back this generation out of the grip of the evil.”
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Greg continues...
“This last Saturday, Jan 26th, Pope Francis brought two children onto the balcony of the Vatican to participate in the traditional release of the ‘doves of peace,’ Suddenly a seagull and a blackbird swooped down and attacked the doves out of nowhere.
I am not superstitious, nor am i an omen reader. But i promise you, the Vatican is worried about this.
For anyone who has read “Windswept House” by Malachi Martin or read interviews with him, you know that in 1963, a cabal of renegade Luciferian Bishops conducted a secret ritual in St Paul’s Cathedral to “enthrone” Lucifer in the Vatican. Since then, they have worked diligently to undermine the core tenets of the church so that they could install, in time, a ‘secular pope’ who would be instrumental in bringing the world’s largest christian denomination into the One Word Order.”
Greg also writes:
“We are beginning to see a round of attacks by radical Muslims against christian churches here in the US. Incidents where banners proclaiming the “truth of islam” are being thrown over church signs, and christian statues are being defaced.”
He adds...
“I am seeing an increase of using pagan or occult symbols on christian books, albums, etc. One wildly popular christian group is using the ‘double tree’ as symbol on their new album which has powerful occult symbolism: ‘As above, so below. God and man are equal.”
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We must understand the times we live in... and discern what things are... and not go blind into the enemy’s camp!! amein!
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Okay... let’s talk about the 5th word of B’re’shiyt 1:1
HaShamayim
Page 8 in your study guide.
haShamayim means = the source, that which identifies.
this word has 3 sections
middle, a prefix and a suffix.
Prefix “HA” = “the” a definite article
suffix - “yim” -
we talked about this in last week’s teaching... it can mean plurality.... or “really big”
The root of hashamayim = S’hma! - shin - mem- hey
Etmolicically , hashamayim means = the source of that which identifies something.
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“the/thee heavens have an understood context
the heaven = actually 3 heavens
the natural expanses where the bird fly and the space shuttle flew, and the stars = physical.
the spiritual - the place where YHWH is
-The terms for “God” and “the kingdom of God” and “kingdom of heaven” are synonymous terms and not different as christianity has made them.
first mention of this word heaven puts it in an order but can come forth simultaneously..
god works through man by working through the physical to teach spiritual.
heaven and earth are to be one in YHWH’s eyes...
when we are born again, Yah’s spirit is joined with ours...
(I corn 6:16 cjb p 1428 - )... Yah desires no separation from physical and spiritual...
The whole idea is - “On earth as it is in heaven.”
shamayim = heaven or heavens... it is an identifier.. but it is also a parent word for water - mayim.
water cleanses and makes whole.
YHWH cleanses the entire earth... right there in B’re’shiyt...
He did creation... and then in verse 2 it is ‘void”...
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va’et
vav prefix indicates the conjuction === “and”
the vav prfix = ties something with something else...
generally the prefix ties something with something else although not necessarily a continuation of something with something else...
va’et is correctly translated as “and” and brings the two together
= ties “heaven” and “earth” together.
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Ha’aretz
“The EARTH”
aleph - resh - tsaide
= stable earth producing many elements.
The first appearance of tsaide
= to be firm, refers to mass; something tangible
In etymology, ha’aretz isn’t just to the earth we live on, but a mass that is firm....
This is the mass that existed before the earth and the seas.. ...
1:10 “YHWH called the dry land Earth.”
Brad thinks - aretz = earth is used generally - and speaking of the sphere that we live on... although we don’t know how it was shaped in the beginning.
Dr Ball thinks that before the flood - the earth had a 10% less diameter ... so that meant there would be a greater magnetic field and more oxygen and (before the fall of hasatan)..
-If more oxygen - then things would live longer....
Combine that with the “canopy”/ waters... etc... not surprised that reptiles could be huge (ie dinosaurs)...
Later we will see that the earth comes up out of the waters and the waters will be called seas..
In Hitgalut/ Revelation - Yochanan writes about a “new heaven and earth”..... but no more “yom” or sea
....- which is a direct reference to the west - a mass of people...
Isn’t this amazing??!! If there is no west - there is no separate Northern Kingdom!!
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We know what YHWH created....first...the ha’aretz - the earth.
He did’t create the sun and stars... and plants etc. first... he created the earth - ha’aretz.
-He formed and made them out of “the earth”.
This is why the Hebrew word Bara is not used again until we get to the souls of animals and humans in 1:25 and further.
B’re’shiyt 1:25
“YHWH made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and YHWH sat that it was good.”
“animal” = nephesh ch’yah = soul life.
- So the earth is the source of all that is seen .. and Yah took that and formed the sun and moon and plants etc...
Brad Scott said.... In some point in the “timeless time”... not in time but before time started - so - in the past.... can’t really say a “point”... but YHWH created from the unseen things - from His Word itself , This was not technically - “from nothing” - but from his Word.!!.. ..............
..........And all properties except the soul and the spirit... which are the other things He is going to BARA in a few verses..in...chapters 2 and 3 of B’re’shiyt!
All things will come forth from what was created in the beginning...
in vs 1 .... because verse 1 is an absolute statement
D’varim /Deut 32:4 cjb p 234
“The Rock! His work is perfect, for all his ways are just.”
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Now i want to introduce something that is very very important:....
So...
hasatan knows he can’t pervert the unseen - the heavenly.. so he perverts the natural things...
He sets the pattern of what he is goign to do for the rest of man’s time on earth...
YHWH sets the pattern in the first 2 verses of the Word.
Soo.... we know that it is not YHWH but hasatan the perverts the tov/good.. the functional... and hasatan is doing that by attacking the natural things...
....knowing that YHWH is going to use things and terms to explain the spiritual....
IE - “father, house, water”... as things that describe His nature.......”fountains of living waters”...
For example....if you and i lived only with stagnant pools of polluted waters... we wouldn’t understand fresh clean waters...
The world is a mess.... and we think we can blame hasatan... but more correctly we should blame ourselves....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....
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Are you starting to see why the enemy would attack creation....? !
Because that is what YHWH uses to teach us how things work!!
So of course hasatan would go after !!!
So we have on page 9 a summary of
B’re’shiyt 1:1
“In the timeless past, YHWH created from nothing all physical and non-physical properties except for the spirit / soul. All things wil come from what was created in the beginning.”
B’re’shiyt bara Elohiym ET hashamayim v’et ha’aretz.
In the beginning Elohiym created the heaven and the earth.
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AMEIN.
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