Sunday, October 11, 2015

Sukkot - Torah Portion Ha'azinu - September 26

Sukkot 
26 Sept 2015  ~  13 Tishrei 5776
Torah Parashah ~ Ha’azinu -
D’varim (Deuteronomy) ..32 RSTNE p 163


The words you listen to and speak can destroy your faith and ability to keep YHWH's cycles. - Harbour Light Ministries


Torah - D’varim 32 = 2nd Song of Moshe - before Yisra’el entering The Promised Land.
          (First Song of Moshe Sh’mot 15 - after crossing the Red Sea)

D’varim 32:1-3 RSTNE p 163
         
notice verse 3... “Because I will publish the Name of YHWH”  !!

The more we learn about His name the more we are understanding how important it is to use His name and not just say “god”.  !!!

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D’varim 32:26-29 RSTNE p 164

-Look at the foot note for verse 26 in RSTNE - it says...
          “Efrayim-Yisra’el all but forgotten by mankind, until the last days, and the coming of Messiah Yahushua.”

-Let’s look back at something we read last week:

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31: 1-10 RSTNE p 372

-    Now lets look at the foot note for verse 6 where it says... “that the called out Netsarim- Notzrim - the ones who watch on the Mount Efrayim shall cry...”

-    The foot note for this verse... “The word Notzrim speaks of watchmen (guards) appointed by YHWH and assigned to the task of watching over the restoration of all Yisra’el.” 
-    .... “The word is notzrim, and the root is natzar.  The real explanation of the word in Hebrew is to safe keep, to keep until a later time, to hide it in a way that will be revealed later.”

          - Notzrim is also defined as one who observes and preserves.

-    In the Hebrew Interlinear - Notzrim is translated “ones preserving”.


-    “The word netzer is used only three times int eh bible, and everywhere it is mentioned it has to do only with Efrayim.  It is amazing.”

-- Also I see - if we go back to what we know about “mountains” in the Word - that they can also refer to kingdoms/ a people... 

Then who are those who guard - keep from the mount of Efrayim?...

-    -- Perhaps we are a part of this??

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Let’s look at another verse we have talked about recently:

Yochanan 14:15 RSTNE p 770
          “If you love Me, keep My mitzvoth.”

keep = tereo in greek = Strong’s G5083 = keep, reserve, observe, watch, preserve, keeper, hold fast.

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Now let’s go to something we talked about a long time ago...

Ya’Akov 3:6 RSTNE p 812

CJB p 1512
“Yes the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness.  The tongue is so placed in our body that it defiles every part of it, setting ablaze the whole of our life; and it is set on fire by Gei-Hinnom itself.”

RSTNE p 812
          “And the tongue is a fire, and the sinful world a forest:  so is the tongue among our members, it can defile the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our Yisra’elite race that rolls on like a wheel; and it burns on with the fire of Gei-Hinnom.”

“The whole of life” in CJB - should have been translated correctly as
“The wheel of B’re’shiyt”
“Wheel” = “ophan” = the strength and power to keep the cycles of YHWH.

So that verse is saying ... “words and teachings are out to destroy the cycles of YHWH.”

wheel - ophan - cycle -
similar to -  agol = paths... 

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So again... as we talked about last week - we are talking about the cycles of YHWH.

Cycles of YHWH” can mean several things:

1.  The pattern of Yisra’el  the whole nation - who repented and then would get themselves off in sin again - and what happens.. YHWH allows Edom and Mitzrayim - sin -  to come in Yisra’el goes into captivity... and then would do Teshuvah - and then get back to sin....   to the point where Yisra’el is lost in the nations... when will she come out of captivity and do Teshuvah so the Bride can be restored?

2.      Another way to look at “the cycles of YHWH” - is the Moedim - the set apart times... the Feasts.

of which we are about to enter into Sukkot!!  

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So let’s talk about Sukkot!!

Where are the Moedims talked about in Torah?
          Wayiqra (Lev) 23 
          B’midbar (Num) 29

Wayiqra 23:34-44 RSTNE p 99


So how do we celebrate Sukkot?

Let’s talk about what Sukkot is...

and to do that - i want to talk about Christmas.
I learned from First Fruits of Zion that -  December 25 as Messiah’s birthday - came from a decree by Pope Julius I in the fourth century!!

But we believe that Y’shua haMashiach (the Messiah) was born on Sukkot, based on the Torah, historical events and also Hebrew culture.

And if those things are not enough... let me remind you that YHWH does His important things ALWAYS on a moedim.  - because they prophecy what will happen and then he fulfills them on those dates!

How do we know when Y’shua was born?

Well we start with Yochanan ha Mtbeal - the Immerser’s birth.

We know that Yochanan  hamtbeal - the Immerser’s dad, Zacharias was ministering in the Temple - in the kadosh hakadoshim (holy of holies) - when he was told he would have a son... remember he couldn’t talk after!  We know the timing of his ministering because he was a  priest of the division of Abiyah - ministering in the Temple during Sivan 12-18. 

and if you assume a normal pregnancy takes 40 weeks - he was born at Pesach.

Lukah 1:24,26  RSTNE p 725
         
If you read on, you will find that Miryam (Mary) visited Elisheva (Elizabeth) when Elisheva was 6 months pregnant, putting Messiah’s conception at the time of Hanukkah (December).

Assuming a normal pregnancy of 40 weeks, puts Y’shua’s birth during Sukkot in Sept/Oct time!

We know the story as it reads in Luka 2 RSTNE p 726
That Miryam and Yoseph were required to go to Bethlehem because Yoseph was from the House of David - to register with the government in the census, and there were not many places to stay.

That is a beautiful story - BUT it is not the whole story.

I am learning that when a decree was issued, citizens were given a full year during which to register.

There was no reason that thousands and thousands of people whose family was from Bethlehem - would just show up at once to register....

BUT...why would Yoseph bring Miryam when she was so pregnant?

Now it is JUST my guess - but i am thinking that probably it was important for Yoseph to be with Miryam at the time of Y’shua’s birth because they were not officially married yet - and so my guess is that it was dangerous for her life.

But we know there is a Torah revelation about this...

There are three feasts that YHWH said that all the Hebrew people were expected to make every effort they could, to go to Jerusalem...

1.  Pesach or Unleavened Bread
2. Shavuot
3. Sukkot

Sh’mot (Exodus) 23:14- 17 RSTNE p 65
          “Three regalim you shall shomer as chagim to Me in the year.
15  You shall shomer Chag Matzah - you shall eat matzah seven days, as I commanded you, in the time appointed in the month Aviv; for in it you came out from Mitzrayim; and none shall appear before Me empty -handed.
16And Chag Shavuot - the harvest - the bikkurim of your labors, which you have sown in the field; and the chag of Ingathering - Sukkot - that is toward the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before YHWH Elohiym.”

According to Rav Sekulow - “Jerusalem would “swell from about 120,000 to something over 2 million people.”

During Sukkot, every family was to live at least part of their day in their Sukkah - a temporary dwelling, usually made out of palm/or other branches. 

Some of them were available for overnight.  The home owners would stock them with food.  The food was on a tray attached to the inside wall of the sukkah, to keep it off the ground. 
The sukkah was NOT a shelter for animals.

Rav Sekulow says, “Miryam and Yoseph apparently decided to register with the census-takers when they came up to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles.”  They apparently intended to spent the night in Bethlehem, register in the morning and then proceed to Jerusalem for the Feast.     Since there were no vacancies, the innkeeper offered them shelter in his Sukkah. 

When baby Y’shua was born, they laid Him on the food shelf to keep Him off the damp ground.”

It is important to note that the origins of the English word “manger” - really should have been translated - sukkah.

Also another important thing to note is that December is the wrong timing for the birth - in Luka 2:8 it says “They were in the shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.”

When we know that December in Isra’el is quite cold, and the sheep would have been brought into the fold for the winter.

We know that Y’shua was 6 months younger than Yochanan the Immerser, - that makes his birth time about Sept/Oct - during Sukkot - exactly why Bethlehem would have been crowded at this time!

Yochanan 1:14  RSTNE p 754
          “And the living Torah was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His tifereth, the tifereth as of the only brought forth of the Abba, full of unmerited favor and emet.”

“dwelt” = Strong’s G 4637 - skenoo
          = “to fix one’s tabernacle, have one’s tabernacle, abide (or live) in a tabernacle (or tent), tabernacle, and to dwell.

So When Y’shua was born  - he came and dwelt - tabernacled among us....

So what is Sukkot the prophecy of ??

What will YHWH do at this time some time??....

Y’shua HaMashiach (Y’shua the Messiah) will come and dwell among us -
He will tabernacle with us AGAIN.  -

This is the millennial reign when Y’shua lives with us starting for forever!

Gilyahna (Revelation) 21:3 RSTNE p 926
          And I heard a great voice out of the shamayim saying, See, the Mishkan of YHWH is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people and YHWH Himself shall be with them, and be their Eloah.”

That word “dwell” is the same word as in Yochanan 1:14 - tabernacled among us!!

Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 43:7 RSTNE p 429
          “And He said to me, Ben-adam, the place of My kesay (throne), and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’el le-olam-va-ed, (forever or a time not yet seen/known), and My kadosh (holy) Name, shall Beit Yisra’el (the house of Yisra’el) no more defile, neither they, or their melechim, by their whoring, nor by the corpses of their melechim on their high places.”

That word “dwell” = shakan = settle down, live, abide.

Yechezkel 48:35 RSTNE p 434
“It was all around eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that yom forward even le-olam-va-ed shall be, YHWH - Shamma.  YHWH -Is There. 

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There are many things that happen traditionally during Sukkot.

People invite guests for a festive meal each night of Sukkot. 

Sometimes they invite Avraham, Yitz’chak, Ya’Akov, Yoseph, Moshe, Aharon, Dawid etc.... Knowing they are dead and aren’t coming.  This symbolizes that this Feast anticipates the Messianic Age when the dead will be raised to life again and we will sit at the table  in the Kingdom of Heaven!

When Y’shay HaMashaich comes again - He will bring the final harvest of YHWH’s kingdom and institute the age of peace and prosperity upon the earth. 

The navi (prophets) relate that day to the festival of Sukkot....   a day when every man will sit beneath his own vine and fig tree. 

Yeshayahu 4:6 RSTNE p 296
“And there shall be a sukkah for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a cover fro storm and from rain.”

-     YHWH will spread His tabernacle of glory over every one.

According to the prophets, the Feast of Sukkot celebrates a time when all nations will ascend to Jerusalem bearing tribute to King Messiah and celebrating the festival. All nations will ascend to His throne in Jerusalem in order to celebrate the Feast of Sukkot.

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Sukkot is the great festival, the culmination of all the appointed times. 

Sukkot is to the other festivals what the Sabbath is to the other 6 days of the week.

Sukkot is a fitting foreshadowing of that great celebration of creation when the entire world will live in peace and brotherhood under the reign and rule of the righteous Messiah King.

Just as the weekly Sabbath foreshadows the millennium, Sukkot aslo looks forward to that great age.

So... the moedim of Sukkot - is about looking forward to that great age, and that all the festival, foreshadows Messiah!!

So my question to you is - Who will watch on the wall??

Who will be disciplined to rise up and be who YHWH has called you to be!!

Have you been working on cleaning up the “cycles” in your life.... ??

And
How will you celebrate Sukkot???


And what will that do for you - How will doing this make you more on his agol / pathways????

AMEIN

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