Yom Teruah, Yom HaKippurim, Torah -
Nitzavim D’varim 29:9
12 Sept 2015 ~ 28
Elul 5775
Torah Parashah Nitzavim - “Standing” or
“Taking a Stand”
D’varim (Deuteronomy) 29:9-30:20 RSTNE p
160
Yom Teruah and Yom HaKippurim
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This Shabbat’s Torah Parashah - Nitzavim
- “Standing” or “Taking a Stand” is very precious to me.
At some point - years ago - this
Scripture really hit me.... and it was as though YHWH planted seeds and i began
to question.
Because i was taught something that
didn’t line up with this Scripture.
I was taught that we didn’t keep the
Torah because it was too hard for any person to do... so that is why YHWH had
to send Messiah - b/c man couldn’t follow His instructions!
But that is NOT what this portion says!....
and i began to wonder.
- similarly to reading that Y’shua was
in the grave three days and Three nights... and friday - Sunday didn’t fit
that.
And then, this process of learning
Torah- this Parashah really hit me about 10 years ago....and every year it
comes up it is a delight to me..
This parashah starts out with
instructions to keep “this brit (covenant) - and you will prosper.
D’varim 29:9-10
RSTNE p 160
9“Keep
therefore the words of this brit, and do them, that you may prosper in all that
you do.
10
You stand this yom (day) all of you before YHWH your Elohiym; your captains of
your tribes, your zechanim (elders), and your officers, with all the men of
Yisrael...
and it goes on to talk about the women
and children and the different workers in their society -
-
point being - that this covenant
is for everyone. :)
Even including...
29:15 “...also
with him that is not here with us this yom (day).”
-That’d be all the generations to
follow === you and I.
And then it starts talking about paganness
in the world....
D’varim 29:19
“And
it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses
himself in his lev (heart), saying, I shall have shalom, though I have my
halacha (walk) in the imagination of my lev (heart)....”
What’s going on here??...
This is declaring that it is a very big
problem to decide to live / have my walk in - the things that I decide.
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Remember the 2 trees...
The etz of da’at of tov and ra = the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil....
where I decide what I think is right ...
vs -
The etz chayim - the tree of life... where YHWH decides what is true!!
Here in verse 19 it make it clear that
me - “doing it my way” - is not acceptable to YHWH!!
What was the problem??...
D’varim 29:26
“For
they went and served other elohiym (gods), and worshiped them, elohiym whom
they knew not, and whom He had not give to them.”
-
again - they were doing what they
wanted - what they decided....
D’varim 30:1-20
So what do we do with that idea that
many of us were taught - that “Man just couldn’t keep the Torah because it was
too hard... and so God had to send Messiah.”.....
because right here....
D’varim 30:11-14
CJB p 232
11“For
this mitzvah which I am giving you today is not too hard for you, it is not beyond
your reach.”
14
“... in your mouth, even in your heart; therefore, you can do it!”
“YOU CAN DO IT!”
Nothing in this Torah parashah says - it
is too hard to follow YHWH’s instructions.
AMEIN.
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Yom Teruah - The Feast of Trumpets and
Yom HaKippurim
Yom Teruah...
The secular world calls this Rosh
Hashanah. We do not use that term because that is not Biblical.
Wayiqra (Leviticus) 23:23:32 RSTNE p 99
We know that some ministries teach that
because we are now in the renewed Melchizedek Priesthood, we no longer need to
fast on Yom HaKippurim.
but....
31 “You
shall do no manner of work; it shall be a chuk le- olam-vay-ed throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
B’midbar (Numbers) 29:1-11 also talks
about the fall Moedim (Feasts).
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The 10 days between Yom Teruah and Yom
HaKippurim ....are traditionally called the days of awe....
and this is the time we focus on
Teshuvah - repentance and returning to YHWH.
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We are learning that the moeds... the
feasts are prophecies about Y’shua HaMashaich .
The Spring feasts:
Pesach - Passover
Mashiach
(Messiah) the Lamb’s blood shed for sins.
Rode
in to Jerusalem - same day lamb was chosen
Died
same time sacrifice was made on door steps
Chag HaMatzoth - Feast of Unleavened
Bread
Points to the sinless life of Y’shua
HaMashiach
He
was in the ground as a seed ready to burst forth as the chayim lechem (bread of life)
Yom HaBikkirum - The Feast of First
Fruits.
I
Corinthians 15:20 p 863 Shaul refers to Y’shua as the first fruits.
Y’shua
rose and took His blood to thee Holy of Holies in the heavenlies -
to atone for the sins of Yisra’el - all His people.
Shavuot
- The giving of Torah and then the giving of Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)
The Fall Feasts:
Yom Teruah - Feast of Trumpets
Is
the prophecy of the return of Y’shua HaMashiach!
-Mark
13:32 and Mattityahu 24:36 - “No man knows the day or the hour”..... Yom Teruah
only Feast day that we don’t know for sure
what day it is - b/c it’s on a new
moon....
-
The shofar calls AMI Yisra’el
together!
-
The shofar announces the
coronation of a new Melech (king).
-
It is a “dark day” - new
moon. - the prophets repeatedly warned
about the “dark day” - “The coming day of YHWH.”
Ahmos
5:18-20 RSTNE p 464
Yoel
(Joel) 2: 31 RSTNE p 460
“The
shemesh (sun) shall be turned into darkness, and the yarayach (moon) into dahm
(blood), before the great and the terrible yom (day) YHWH comes.”
Yeshayahu
(Isaiah) 13:9-10 RSTNE p 305
and
34:4,8
Yoel
3:15 RSTNE p 461
Tzephanyah
(Zephaniah) 1:14-16 RSTNE p 477
Maaseh Shlichim (Acts) 2:16-21
RSTNE p 780
There are many times in the Word that
speaks of the blowing of the trumpet or the shofar....
~
But there is only TWO times when the
Word speaks of YHWH blowing the shofar...
It
is
Sh’mot
19:18-20 RSTNE p 63
Zecharyah
(Zechariah) 9:14 RSTNE p 490
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Yom HaKippurim - The Day of Atonement
The
fasting day = judgement day by YHWH.
Yisra’el’s
most awesome holy day! It is also the
most solemn holy day!
This
is the only time - when Yah doesn’t just say - if you don’t keep it - you’ll be
cut off from My people... but on this day - you die if you don’t keep it.
When
there was a temple - this was the only day that the Cohen haGadol (High Priest)
was permitted to go into the Kadosh kadoshim (Holy of Holies).
The word atonement does NOT mean
“at-one-ment” ....
Rather it is about the idea of sins
being covered.
To YHWH, sin is not a minor infraction
and violations of his Torah resulted in a penalty. Atonement involves covering for the
consequences and for the penalty of the sin.
The first
example is in Gan Eden when Adam and Chava sinned... YHWH made them animal
skins to COVER themselves... by the
sacrifice of blood.
Among the many
sacrifices commanded for Yom Kippur in the day of the Temple, there was
particular attention given in selecting two male goats to be considered as one
sin offering.
A special
ceremony occurred in which the High priest cast lots for the goats.
One was selected
as the goat of sacrifice to YHWH
and the other
goat would be the Azazel goat - the goat of removal.
Both goats
were considered sin bearers.
The sacrificed
goat’s blood was sprinkled on the Mercy Seat
and the goat
that was not killed became the Scapegoat - Azazel.
The sacrificed goat signified punishment for
sin,
while the High
Priest spoke all the sins of Isra’el over the live goat and then it taken out
into the wilderness and probably thrown over a cliff.
This
represented the removal of sin. (Azazel
means “removal.”)
Both goats
together portrayed a complete picture of what atonement is all about:
Atonement required a substitute to
bear sin, and to pay the price for sin;
the substitute
sacrifice covered the penalty of sin by its death, the innocent for the
guilty.
The live goat
that is led into the wilderness signified the removal of sin far away.
Thus the Day of Atonement was considered a
sobering and awesome day as each year the nation relied on the work of the high
priest to provide the necessary offerings in hopes that he would secure
forgiveness from the Elohiym for their crimes.
(And isn’t it
amazing... that because of THEE HIGH PRIEST - Y’shua HaMashiach - our sins have
been forgiven!!!)
...The story
goes that they would tie a scarlet thread around the Azezel goat. They’d also hang a white one on the Temple door and when it turned red
- they would know the Azezel was dead.
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The evening
service that begins Yom Kippur in the Jewish world is commonly known as Kol
Nidre.
Kol Nidre is
named for the prayer that begins the service.
Kol Nidre
means “all vows” and in this prayer, they ask YHWH to annul all personal
vows made last year and which we may
make in the next year. (My
understanding is that this is about vows that aren’t good to make - not
marriage vows. :) )
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Yesha’Yahu /Isaiah 58
cjb p 528
This is about fasting....
and you know... fasting is hard....
but what a JOYFUL day!
To think that this day represents the
forgiveness of sin and the day Y’shua will return and judge!
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and then upcoming will be...
Sukkot - Feast of Tabernacles
=
The millennial reign
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So...
you need to prepare....doing TESHUVAH!!!
Also
Keep in mind...
That Pesach 2014 started the blood moons
- all on Hebrew holidays.
And they appeared again on /sukkot 2014
and then again on Pesach 2015
and now - upcoming - Sukkot 2015...
We can get all worried... or we can
decide to choose chayim (LIFE) this day!!
AMEIN
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