22 B’re’shiyt -lay’lah - Torah Balak July 5
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Sh’ma
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I want to invite you to keep track of things that are important to you in this teaching… we will share at the end…
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5 July 2014 ~ 7 Tammuz 5774
B’re’shiyt 1:5 - starting with lay’lah - night.
Torah Parashah Balak - B’midbar /Numbers 22:2-25:9 cjb p 175
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B’re’shiyt teaching - Brad Scott’s B’re’shiyt.
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We are in....
B’re’shiyt 1:5
“Vay-yiq’ra’ Elohiym la’or yom, val’choshek qara’ lay’lah. Vay’hiy-‘erev vay’hiy-boqer yom ‘echad.”
“And called God the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the day one.”
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Review:
Vay-yiq’ra - the name of the 3rd book in Torah.
= to call, giving instructions how to live and when YHWH calls we are changed forever.
Elohiym = God; the strong leader
la’or = the light
yom = day - “It starts at night and ends in the light.”
- This is prophecy about The Day of YHWH (the LORD)... starts at night in tribulation and ends in light - tribulation, Yom Kippur judgment, and then the light of the Mashiach’s Millennial Reign.
va’lchoshek = darkness, confusion, obscurity, blackness
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Today we are on the word...
LAY’LAH
- lamed - yod - lamed
= night (masculine)
LAY’LAH = darkness, night
masculine term although it appears feminine b/c it has an “ah” on the end of it.
with one exception - it is always translated as NIGHT
it is THEE Hebrew word for night…
root is: lamed - yod - lamed = “layiel”
Layiel is an obscure word in Hebrew
lamed = shepherd staff to lead
and yod = hand
so we have the idea of “leading by the hand” … and yet this is in DARKNESS….
There are some…kabalists who believe the two lameds cancel themselves out…. and that is why we have night - someone who is incapable of being led… BUT -that is just their speculation.
The only other clue we have in Scripture - the one exception is “The darkness, he called night.”
and so we know from earlier - the darkness is over the face of the deep….
YeshaYahu /Isaiah 34:14 this verse carries a cognant = Lilith = lamed yod lamed with a feminine ending on the word…
Lilith = the female goddess of darkness or night - a demon goddess of night.
Yesha’Yahu /Isaiah 34:14 cjb p 488
“Wildcats and hyenas will meet there; and billy-goats called to each other; Lilit [the night monster] will lurk there and find herself a place to rest.”
this section of Yesha’Yahu is about judgment of the enemies of Isra’el… and sometimes words appear with each other…
Yesha’Yahu /Is 34:11 speaking of all unclean animals - enemies of Isra’el….
“screech owl” (lilith)
“ line of confusion” = tohu
no going back to basic meaning of night
liel = without light = night
I Thess 5: 4-6 cjb p 1476
= distinction between the sons of light and the sons of darkness / the sons of night.
and the darkness is called night - so those who are the “sons of the night” are those without light.
So YHWH is trying to show us symbolically that those who are without light are those who are without Torah.
There is something really important we need to understand in this….
The ones who the Day of the Lord comes upon as the thief in the night… are the ones who are not living in the light - in the Torah.
So therefore YHWH has to come to them in the night b/c they are in the night… they are up at night.
But scripturally - those who are in the night are those who are without Torah.
Iyov (eove) Job 24:13-16 cjb p 1022
Yochanan 3
men loved the darkness and hated the light….
b/c light exposes sin
- that’s the very nature of why Yah gave us his Word - not b/c of the law - b/c the law exposes the sin…
Shaul says in Romans 3 - by the exposure to light we see sin.. by the light of God’s word… “thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” - that exposes sin… and sin in God’s eyes …. is danger to man…
ie - camping in DARK…. no flashlight - dangerous.. could walk off a cliff….
without the light you stumble and fall - you might run into a tree…. or walk off a cliff
and that is what sin is - danger to man and YHWH gives man light in order to expose it and show him the direction…
we have this established in B’re’shiyt….
YHWH comes to man at Pesach /Passover time…. redemption and judgment… Yah came at night….
In parable of talents in Mattityahu 25 cjb p 1256 - Yah comes at night
Nichodemous - came to Yahshua by night
that whole conversation about being born again - And it begins in darkness…
.. so many times…
… praise YHWH that He dwells in the darkness and that He does come to man in the night time…
….meaning that he comes to us in the midst of our sins… while we were yet sinners.
He did not come to rescue us FROM the law/the light which exposes the sin…but rather, he came to rescue us FROM THE SIN…
….b/c if he had to wait till we got in the light to rescue us… we would have done it on our own…which we can’t do. So YHWH has to meet us in the darkness and bring us into the light/ Torah! :)
YHWH comes in the middle of the night:
Sh’mot 12:8, 12; B’midbar 22:20; Miz’mor 17:3; Yochanan 3:1
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Torah Parashah Balak - B’midbar /Numbers 22:2-25:9 cjb p 175
{summary of B’midbar 22….}
B’midbar 22:1-12 cjb p 175
After this… Bil’am gets up in the morning and he sends the princes /messengers back to Balak…
So Balak sends more important princes… with more rewards….
and YHWH tells Bil’am - “you can go - but only say what i tell you to say.”
So they go… and his donkey won’t cooperate …. and the donkey talks to Boil’am…
and this is usually the focus of this Torah parashah - because the animal talks…..
B’midbar 23:1-11 cjb p 177
and This is where it starts to be really amazing….
B’midbar 24:1-9 cjb p 178
How amazing… the things YHWH says about Isra’el -
It’s almost as though we can see Yah looking down with a smile on his face…. saying … “yep, that’s my Isra’el… my people….”
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Bil’am … who is he??
… A non Jewish prophet who is hired by Balak to destroy Isra’el.
Balak doesn’t want Bil’am to bring in bombs and tanks…
Balak is looking for spiritual protection… so he gets Bil’am…
… Bil’am is a spiritual mercenary of sorts …. a prophet for hire…
In traditional Hebrew thinking… Bil’am is the greatest magician in the land…
B’midbar 22:6 cjb p 175
“…for i know that whomever you bless is in fact blessed, and whomever you curse is in fact cursed.”
like
B’re’shiyt 12:3 cjb p 11
“”I will bless those who bless you, but i will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” (“blessed” = nivrecu = grafted in or intermingled.)
sounds similar - but are opposites - inverses of each other…
Avraham and Bil’am represent two opposite people…
This is like in
B’re’shiyt 22 - Avraham going on Acheda …
In the Acheda - Avraham’s greatest gift is to see YHWH and His Truth….
Here in B’midbar 22 the greatest evil is that Bil’am is lying to himself…..
and he is double minded… he really wants to make some money here….
But as it turns out - all that YHWH is saying is a blessing to Isra’el….
So let’s look at the big part….
Why can’t the greatest magician in the land, work some magic and curse Isra’el?
This is the big deal… he couldn’t curse Isra’el…
He couldn’t curse Isra’el because they were blessed….
So many times we talk about how Isra’el is messing up…how they have let paganism in and are mixing what YHWH said with the ways of man….
We need to understand this - that if we are walking in Torah - if we are being obedient and living as holy as we know how to live….
then we are blessed!! And we can’t be cursed!!!
Hitgalut /Revelation 3:14-18 cjb p 1536…
the congregation of Laodicea - and they are lukewarm!
Now look in Hitgalut 2:13-17 cjb p 1534
you can’t “remain faithful” in extremely difficult times unless you have intense passion…
passion to rise and a fire to burn bright inside of you!!
I don’t know about you…. but i really want to live like Isra’el did here in B’midbar….. keeping Torah -
so YHWH can bless me and so i can not be cursed.
AMEIN.
So what things really stood out for you?
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