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December 2015 ~ 7 Tevet 5776
Torah
Parashah Vayigash - “He Approached”
B’re’shiyt
44:18- 47:27 RSTNE p 42
Torah
Parashah Vayigash - “He Approached”
B’re’shiyt
44:18- 47:27 RSTNE p 42
-Background - Yoseph’s silver cup
has just been “found” in Benyamin’s grain sack....
1.
Yahudah begs Yoseph not to take
Benyamin.... because -
B’re’shiyt 44:30-31 p 42
2.
Yahudah offers himself instead of Benyamin.
B’re’shiyt 44:32- 34
3.
B’re’shiyt
45:1-8
“I am Yoseph, does my abba still
live?”
Interesting that Yahudah is the one
offering himself .... and Yoseph asks about his Abba.
Look at this from a tribe
perspective - today - with Ephraim (Yoseph - lost in the nations) - “away” from
Abba - but still seeing Him!!
4.
B’re’shiyt 44:9 Yoseph instructs them to
“hurry and go up to my abba, and say to him....
come down to me, do not delay”
5.
Then he gives more instructions... and
6.
B’re’shiyt 44:24 “So he sent his brothers
away, and they departed: and he said to
them, See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
Interesting that Ephraim is not to
quarrel on the return to get father to be “all”reunited!!
How does that relate to today??!!
I listen to what is being taught out
there - and I can’t believe the differences....
Without even talking about the MESS
that most of the world embraces...
Christianity - is a mess!
Judaism is a mess!
BUT lets not forget Messianics!
Have you looked at what all is being taught ! It is very different!
There doesn’t seem to be many at all
teaching like HLM!
I had to laugh the other day when
Matthew Nolan, last Shabbat was talking about how pastors are NOT teaching
truth as it relates to our day - because it is scary and because they couldn’t
keep their tax deferment... and because it just isn’t pretty...
YHWH has called me to teach about
end of days and to teach the TRUTH of
the Word.... and the more I look around I’m just not finding it out there!!
7.
Interesting that Yaakov/ Yisrael stops off at
Beer-Sheva...
8.
B’re’shiyt 46:26-34 - Yoseph is reunited with
Yisra’el his Abba, and he tells his family to declare to Pharaoh that they are
shepherds because shepherds are an abomination to Mitzriem.
Think about this one....
A shepherd puts his sheep first - he
is willing to die for his sheep...
But the culture of Mitzriem - was a
selfish “I” centered culture....
Look at how this describes the land
we live in today!!
We are called to be shepherds....
Yochanan
21:11-17
p 776
15 Agapae - phileo
16 agapae - phileo
17 phileo - phileo
agapae
= more parental, mature, sacrificial love, “to take pleasure in a thing; prize it
above all things, be unwilling to abandon it or do without it. Costs the bearer - puts the beloved first.
sacrifices pride. A love of supreme
greatness.
Phileo
= love of soul, bent toward our natural tastes, embodies culture and beliefs,
friendships towards people like yourself.
Can be deep and also can be shallow - conditional soul love
15
feed = bosko
16
feed -= poimaino
17
feed = bosko
Bosko
= “boskoing” is what the prodigal son found himself doing when he came to his
senses - slopping hogs. The only other
usage is in context of slopping hogs - Matt8:30,33; Mark 5:11,14; Luke 8:32,34;
Luke 15:15.
Poimaino
= not just “pushing feed off the truck but slopping the hogs” But it involves tending to them and to theirr
needs with personalized care as a servant tends to the needs of his
master/queen. It is life giving not
taking; without concern for your own
needs.
Tender
care is a rare thing by a shepherd in OUR culture. -
Acts 20:28 p 799
I Peter 5:2 p826
Rev 7:17 p 915
~
15
lambs
16 sheep
17
ewes
Maybe
this is about developmental stages of understanding YHWH??
9.
Yoseph went to Pharaoh - and told him his Abba
and his brothers had come and they were in Goshen. Pharaoh asked about their occupation... and
offered them the best land.
10.
Yoseph brought in his Abba Yaakov/ Yisra’el before Pharaoh.
11.
Yaakov/ Yisra’el blessed Pharaoh.
12.
Yoseph ends up buying land for food
13.
B’re’shiyt 47: 27p 45
***
Y’shua
called Kepha to be a shepherd....
Yechezkel
(Ezekiel) 34
p 419
foot
note #3 Yisra’el’s shepherds must be able to teach Torah and Messiah from both
covenants.
Yirmeyahu
(Jeremiah) 23: 1-6 p 366
I
Peter 2:9 p 825
Do
you see how this Torah Parashah is about prophecy of today?? !!
What
are the shepherds doing/teaching??!!
If
we are a kingdom of priests - we are each called to be shepherds to those
around us.... what are you doing..
Y’shua
asked Kefa if he loved him enough to die for him and he replied
“sure
Y’shua you know that i’m your friend and disciple”
and
Y’shua said - then feed - as in slop the hogs - the sheep... the young immature
ones....
and
Y’shua asked Kefa again - do you love me enough to die for me?
and
Kefa answered the same
and
Y’shua said... essentially - No Kefa - you have to take special care of
them.... put them before yourself - that
is what I do.... and notice that these
are the sheep - the middle ground... not the lambs like the first
statement...but the “adults” who are in between the fruit bearing and the young
stage.....
and
Kefa still didn’t get it - he said Sure Y’shua you know we are buddies.... of
course I have your back.....
So
Y’shua asks a third time - something that smacks of a memory of three denials
that Peter is ashamed of....
“Kefa”
- but this time Y’shua doesn’t say - do you love me enough to die for me... he
asks...”Kefa, are you really my friend?”
and
Kefa says yes sure you I am....
and
Y’shua says... well you will be led where you don’t want to go and you will die
for me... so make sure you are “bosking” the ewes.... giving feed /slopping the hogs - to the ones
who are producing fruit....
Y’shua
is calling Kefa - and us - to an awareness that truly feeding others is putting
them before us.... how do we lead??
and
Y’shua is calling Kefa and us - to a greater love... calling us to love like
Him.... enough to die.....
This
is happening in the world.
We
just bought the bracelets from Voice of the Martyrs - “I am-N” - that represent
the Arabic letter that Islam writes on the homes of Christians as a warning....
to pay a huge tax, convert or get out because you will be killed.... and the money
goes to help those who have been in those situations....
Look
at the world....
There
are long skirts in stores... like never before
for the last two years. and you
can think - “well, Janet, that is the style...”..... but wake up!
I
like to wear scarves - around my neck and shoulders.... but look how much bigger they have become -
and look they are everywhere....
Now
schools are “suggesting” to their female students that they wear the bigger
scarves and cover their heads so their Muslim friends don’t feel left out.
Really?!!
In
a school where you can’t Pray to YHWH - you can have halal food, you can have
prayer breaks for Islam ... and now if you are not of Islam - you can dress
like them so they don’t feel left out.
Sh’ma
Yisrael!!!!!
LOOK
what is going on!!!
We
are shepherds !!! We are NOT called to be the blind sheep!!
How
will you shepherd, you priest of YHWH??
Because
as I see it, you are a leader or a follower - there is no other option....
What
is our call and how will we live it?
Sh’ma
Yisra’el.
AMEIN.
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