24 Oct 2015
~ 11 Cheshvan 5776
Torah Parashah Lech-Lecha B’re’shiyt 12:1- 17:27
RSTNE p 16
Guardian Angel - Skip Moen - “naked”
Guardian Angel
- “Naked”
B’re’shiyt 3:1
“Now the serpent was craftier than any beast of
the field that YHWH Elohiym had made.
And he said to the woman, Is it emet?
Has Elohiym really said, You shall not eat of eery eytz of the garden?”
(this
is NOT a question in original - He says.. “YHWH said, and implies - so what?”)
King James syas “Now the serpent was more subtle”
subtle = Strongs H6175 = aruwm = tsade resh vav mem
root
= tsade resh mem = subtle, shrewd, crafty, sly, sensible, prudent
aruwm or arum = has positive and negative uses.
aruwm or arum = has positive and negative uses.
In
Mishle (proverbs) 14:8 = prudent
Mishle 12:23 = humble
B’re’shiyt 3:1 = shrewd, duplicitous or seductive.
We can’t see in the English translation that this
is a world play with the Hebrew “arom, the word used to describe nakedness
(B’re’shiyt 2:25)
“In fact, there are a host of consonants (ARYM)
that carry nuances about this event:
erwah
= nakedness
arwah
= dishonor
arom
= naked
arum
= crafty
do you notice something about the connection
between them?
The Hebrew pictograph helps:
pictograph
= “To see a person connected to chaos.”
In other words, nakedness is now a symbol of
disordered existence.
There was a time when being naked reflected
ordered, honorable relationships.
The serpent turned nakedness against itself, using
its vulnerability to bring about the destruction of the divine
relationship.
Nakedness became the symbol of chaos.
We are the ones who behold our own chaos.
We are afraid of who we are.
What we lost was NOT INNOCENCE.
We lost ORDER.
Here we see what we know in our own lives...
We are tempted to establish our order in place
of YHWH’s order.
We should learn that displacing YHWH’s order
destroys all order - it leaves us naked and ashamed, exactly the opposite of
what we hoped to achieve.
We see that one time our vulnerability was the
crown of humanity.
We thrived in dependence on our Creator
But sin’s disorder destroys our vulnerability, not
by stripping way our fragile innocence but by removing the trust that makes
vulnerability possible.
Vulnerability without trust is chaos.
That’s what the serpent left us.
Scripture shows our predicament even in the word
picture of “serpent”
serpent = hahash = a fence separating life and
destruction
This is exactly the role that the serpent
plays. He provides choice between life and
death. He is himself the fence
separating the two.
What the serpent left behind is chaos incarnated,
existence withtou belonging or connection.
YHWH’s restoration appeals to our deepest loss - the loss of trust - trust between YHWH and
man and between each other.
We can cover up but we cannot hide.
It takes YHWH’s provision and covering to restore
our humanity.
Fig leaves don’t cut it.
They were trying to conceal something - but not
“private areas”... they were trying to conceal disobedient pride .
Hebrew word for loin covering is hagore from the
root hagar = The verb means = to gird, to put on a belt
But the pictograph really tells the story = to
make private by fencing the pride of a person.
One of the cognates of this word in Babylon is a military
belt that served no useful purpose except to show off the status of the
person. It was a belt of pride in
prominent display.
It isn’t being naked that needs to be covered up -
It is far more humiliating.
It’s the evidence that Adam is an idolater.
The Hebrew word for pride = ga’ah = to rise up to
be lifted up or exalted.
Precisely what Adam wished to conceal from the
eyes of YHWH.
He wanted to put a fence around his
self-exaltation. to cover up his rising up against YHWH’s command. The verb ga’ah
paints the picture - “what comes from the lifting up of strength”
The things which man did lose were the glory of
YHWH and the dominion over nature which were associated with the image; he lost them when he forgot that he himself
was the eikon theou (image of YHWH) and sought to find that eikon (image)
elsewhere. In doing so, he took on the
image of corruption and became subject to death thus obscuring the fact that he
was originally created in the image of an incorruptible Elohiym.
Once Adam disobeyed YHWH’s word and denied his
image-bearing existence, he discovered the terror of his idolatry in
confrontation with the one true and holy Elohiym. He had to cover it up.
What needed to be covered up was the unleashed
aggression of the yetzer ha’ra (evil impulse).
**
Torah Parashah Lech-Lecha
B’re’shiyt 12:1- 17: 27 RSTNE
p 16
**
B’re’shiyt 12:1-3
p 16
= The oath of promise- From YHWH to
Avram
This oath is eternal, unbreakable and NOT
dependent on humans. Salvation through
Covenant.
~
B’re’shiyt 15:1-21
p 18
= The Promise Covenant.
Made with Avram and his descendants, at Avram’s
request.
YHWH
promised his own death if the covenant was ever broken.
This Covenant had a death position and was
breakable (hence Y’shua’s death as YHWH’s lamb.)
The smoking furnace and the burning lamp walked
between.
The entrance into this Covenant was marked by the
“token” of physical circumcision in B’re’shiyt
17.
**
B’re’shiyt 12:1
p 16
“Now
YHWH said to Avram, Get out of your country, and from your mishpacha, and from
your abba’s bayit, to a land that I will show you.”
B’re’shiyt 12:6
“And
Avram passed through the land to the place of Shechem..”
B’re’shiyt 12:8-9
“he
moved from there to a mountain,”
“....
Avram went down to Mitzrayim”
B’re’shiyt 13:1
“Aram
went up out of Mitzrayim
B’re’shiyt 14:13
“Avram
the Ivri”
Ivri
= “One from beyond”
Etymological
Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew says:
tzad
- bet - resh
=
“cross over to other side; move to different condition.”
1. passing over
**
Ivri - one who crossed over.
Overcomer -
Gilyahna (Revelation) 2:11; 2:26;
3:5;3:12
Strong’s G3528 nikao
to conquer
=to
carry off the victory, come off victorious
those
that hold fast their faith even unto death against the power of their foes, and
temptations and persecutions
when one is arraigned or goes to law, to win the
case, maintain one's cause
~~
Yaakov (James) 2:14-26 p
811
2:26“emunah without mitzvoth is dead also.”
There is one thing to KNOW it..... but if you
really have Emunah / Faith - you do it.
Hebrew is not about just knowing it... as Greek is
- it is DOING it.
“Sh’ma Yisra’el....”
You see- I can say I know /understand all kinds of
things - but if I don’t LIVE it ... then I really don’t believe it.
It’s like - how we think....
I can know it in my head... that I should be
positive...
but is my head really positive?
My brain is formulating positive attitude thoughts
IF I have the brain chemistry that does it.
Romiyah (Romans) 12:1-2 p
848
“And be not conformed to this olam hazeh; but be
transformed by the ongoing renewing of your mind....”
Your brain can not think positively unless it has
the positive hormone / chemical release that causes it to do so....
So that means i have to DO something to make it
positive.
“we should just be positive.” = “Isn’t that easier
said than done?!!”
- ABSOLUTELY...
but I’m not asking that you just suddenly wake up and decide to think happy
thoughts....
- have
to do something that changes the chemistry
- so
then you CAN think positively.
What it is NOT is - just deciding to have a
certain kind of thoughts...
It’s about we have to DO something to change our
brain chemistry so we can then think positively!!
I want you to think of three specific things that
you are thankful for...
(every day for a month)....
= fastest way we have to teach optimism.
What else can we do -???
- worship
- reading
Torah
- Pray
Think of a good memory....
This is whyYHWH does all the repetition - so as we review the joyous things He has
done for us - this builds the “trees” stronger!!!!
So important to go over and over the things you
have experienced with YHWH.... !!
Amein
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