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April 2016 ~ 23 Adar II 5776
Torah
Parashah - Sh’mini - Eighth
Uyiqara
9:1 - 11:47 p 86 RSTNE
The
NAME of YHUH
Torah
Parashah - Sh’mini - “Eighth”
Uyiqara
9:1 - 11:47 p 86 RSTNE
In
this parashah - the priestly service of the Beit haMikdash begins.
The
sacrifices start...
and
then they learn a hard lesson - as 2 of Aharon’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, are
killed by fire from YHUH, because they brought “strange fire” - something not
instructed by YHUH...
This is a HUGE sermon on doing it “My
or man’s way” - “meaning well” and how that is clearly not okay with Yah!
Chapter
11
- the food guidelines - what living creatures are edible and what is not.
1. Animals - split hoof and is cloven footed and
chews the cud. 11:3
2. Water - fins AND scales 11:9
3. Birds -
birds that eat carrion. 11:13-19
4. Flying insects, creeping.... 11:20-23
While
we are talking about what to eat... let’s make a note...
Dabarim
(Deut) 12:23-25
p 148
“Only be sure that you eat NOT the dahm
(blood): for the dahm is the chayim; and you may not eat the chayim with the
meat. 24 You shall not eat it: you shall
pour it upon the earth as mayim (water). 25 You shall not eat it; that it may
go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that
which is right in the sight of YHUH.”
Uyiqara
(Lev) 17:14
p 94
“For it is the chayim of all flesh:
the dahm of it is for the chayim of it:
therefore I said the the children of Yisrael, You shall eat the dahm of
no manner of flesh: for the chayim of all flesh is the dahm of it; whoever eats it shall be cut off.”
Acts
15:20-21, 29 p
794
“But that we write to them, that they
abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things
strangled, and from dahm. 21 For Moshe from old times has in every city
those that proclaim his teachings, with his Torah being read in the synagogues
every Shabbat.”
29 “That you abstain from meats
offered to idols, and from dahm, and from things strangled, and from
fornication: if you guard yourselves regarding these, you shall do well. Be strong!”
So
as far as being CLEAN with our eating... from our parashah we get:
1.
Animals - split hoof and is cloven footed and chews the cud. 11:3
2.
Water - fins AND scales 11:9
3.
Birds -
birds that eat carrion. 11:13-19
4. Flying insects, creeping.... 11:20-23
So
from the other scriptures we get -
Eat
blood, things strangled and things offered to idols.
Remember
that if it was offered to idols - that means you were coming into agreement
/covenant with those idols.
Remember
Tyson chicken, last we knew was dedicating it’s meat to allah. - So we don’t eat that.
Notice
on products that are frozen and meats they now say halal.... those are also
killed dedicated to allah.
*
No
talk about the food instructions would be complete without :
Acts
10
and
Mark
7:14-23
-
This scripture isn’t about food - it’s talking about what defiles a person - or
makes them ceremonially unclean.
Yahusha’s
point here - is when talking about ritual purity it made it a great place to
come in and talk about the purity one’s
nephesh (soul or whole being) ... Yahusha is saying you can pay attention to
ritual purity, but to neglect the purity of one’s nephesh was to miss the heart
of the Torah itself!
Mark 7:19 “(Thus he declared all foods
ritually clean.)”
It
is important to state again... that “(Thus he declared all foods ritually
clean.)” Is not in any Aramaic or Greek
manuscripts! - So that means it was
added in the last 600 ish years!!!!
Why
would it be added?.... to keep people
away from Torah.
*****
Let’s
shift gears.... and talk about THE NAME of YHUH.
I
am going to base this largely from Lew White’s work “I am Yahuah that is My
Name”
Some
of what Mr White starts his book with is....
“Languages
have altered how people are trained to pronounce words.
The name everyone is taught to be ‘Moses’ is originally spelled with 3
Hebrew letters : mem - shin hey =
MoSHeH.
The
Greek language has no way of sounding SH, and added an ending letter S to
render the name masculine.
It
passed into Latin and English in its altered condition.
The
name of the Creator was obliterated by translators entirely, and in recent
decades a restoration has begun which is restoring it tot he people who are
diligently seeking Him and turning back to the old paths.”
“People
say we can call Him whatever we want.”
~
or
- I’m thinking - just what we are comfortable with....
~
Lew
goes on:
“Pastors
have said He has many names.”
(Like nissi and rafa etc... these are character traits not names!)
“These
are the words of men, but the Word of Truth NEVER makes such statements.”
“Pour
out Your wrath on the nations who have not known you, and on reigns that have
not called on Your Name.” Tehillim
79:6
“I
am Yahuah that is My Name, and My esteem I do not give to another, nor my
praise to idols.” YashaYahu 42:8
“I,
I am Yahuah, and beside Me there is no deliverer.” YashaYahu 43:11
~
White
goes on...
“We
use our name as the primary way to identify ourselves. In His Word, our Creator revealed His Name to
us from all generations. His Name
reveals exactly who He is.”
“If
Your name is Mark, you probably wouldn’t like it if everyone called you
Sparkles or Twitchy.” :)
“Parents
have authority over their children (5th commandment). They give their children names: the children don’t name their parents.”
“We
don’t have authority over our Creator to call Him whatever we like.”
“We
have to go to Scripture to test all things, and it must be the inspired Hebrew,
not errant translations of men!”
“Our
creator is known by only one Name, and it is found in Scripture - in inspired
Hebrew Scripture - more than any other single word by far: at least 6,823 times
in the TaNaK (old testament).”
*
We’ve
learned previously about the 3rd commandment:
Shemoth
(Exodus) 20: 7 p 63
“You shall not bring the Name of YHUH
to vain emptiness; for YHUH will not hold him guiltless that brings His Name to
vain emptiness.”
We learned, that “ to bring His Name
to vain emptiness” is not what we grew
up thinking it meant.... “Not take His
Name in vain”....
We
were taught that meant - don’t swear ...
but
we now understand that the Hebrew word there for vain is “SHUA” in the Hebrew Interlinear Scriptures.
But
Lew White makes it clear that it is not really SHUA but actually SHOAH which is a homonyms to SHUA...
SHOAH
(Strongs # 7724) means = devastation, ruin, lay waste, and DESTROY
And
this means - to not use, not say, not speak the true Name of YHUH !!!
One
of the things I learned from Lew White is that believers stopped using the Name
because the pagans around them practiced a thing called -
“mystagogues”.... these were people who
didn’t tell the persons coming into their faith - the name of their god - until
they reached a certain level of teaching.
- (Free Masonry does this today.)
And
if the pagans knew the name of YHUH - they were forever insulting and misusing
the Name.
So
they stopped saying it...
to
the point where they stopped writing it....
and
used words like HaShem (“The Name”) and Adonai (my sovereign)
*
What’s
the big deal?
I
was thrilled when i came upon Lew’s comment....
“How did the Name of the Creator become so difficult to
find?
WE have to dig deep for it because YAHUAH took it away.”
Did
you know this? I did NOT.
Mixed
worship was the problem.
Are
we getting it that YHUH does not like anything MIXED??!!
Lew
wrote
“In
the days of YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) there was a strong tendency to exchange the
true Name Yahuah with a substitution in order to mix worship by calling on the
Kananite storm deity Baal (Hebrew= LORD).
We are not one (united) because we failed to hold to the one Name given
under heaven by which we must be delivered (Acts 4:12)”
“Yahuah
had to act. He removed His Name from
their lips, and tore it from their hearts by the roots. He could not bear the mixed worship any
longer.”
YirmeYahu
44:25-28
p 385
Lew
says “During the Babylonian captivity the shunning of the Name became even more
intense: they made it a stoning offense
if anyone used it.”
Lew
goes to write:
“The
only way back for anyone seeking Yahuah and His true and only Name is to hear
and obey. This restoration was begun by
Yahukanon the Immerser. Because he was
of the Luitical priesthood, he was not stoned for pronouncing the Name, but he
attracted the attention of the self-appointed teaching authority of his
day: the scribes and Pharisees, who
controlled teachings very tightly.”
{I
think Lew uses Luitical priesthood the way we do Melchizadak and uses the “self - appointed teaching
authority” - the way we do Levitical.}
“When
Yahusha began His besorah (message), it included the Name.
-
saying
“Repent, for the reign of Yahuah draws near.”
In
our Scriptures it says “Teshuvah: for the malchut ha shamayim is offered.”
Mattityahu 4:17
White
says that “shamayim” (heaven) was a common substitute for the Name of Yahuah
...
But
Yahusha spoke the Name - which is why they wanted to kill him.
We
know that Yahusha used the Name of Yahuah because :
Yochanan
5:43
p 759
“I am come in My Abbba’s Name,and you
receive Me not: ....”
Yochanan
17:12
p 772
“While I was with them in the olam
hazeh, I guarded them in Your Name...”
Yochanan
17: 26
p 773
“And I have declared to them Your
Name, and will yet declare it: so that the ahava with which You have loved Me
may be in them, and I in them.”
We
also know that when Yahusha rode in on the donkey...and his followers cried out
:
Tehillim
118:26
p 539
“Baruch haba bashem Yahuah; we have
blessed You by Your Name from the Bayit (house)of Yahuah”
(Blessed is he who comes in the Name
of Yahuah”)
*
Later,
these same “self appointed authorities” - running the 2nd Temple stoned Stephen
for using the Name.
Maaseh
Shlichim (Acts) 7: 56-58 p 786
“And said, See, I see the shamayim
opened, and the Ben-Ahdahm standing on the right hand of Yahuah. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and
covered their ears, and ran upon him with one accord. 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned
him: and the witnesses laid down their
clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Shaul.”
*
You
see it was so that the Name - the most powerful name - the name by whom we are
saved... would be kept hidden. It was
hasatan’s agenda.... because if people
don’t understand the importance of and know the Name - then they will fall for
any name... and it is by ONE NAME we are saved.
Maaseh
Shlichim (Acts) 4:12
p 782
“Neither is there salvation in any
other: for there is no other Name under
the shamayim given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Do
you see the plan now?
*
So
then what happened....?....
These
same “self appointed authorities” of the 2nd Temple... commissioned Shaul - a
man very dedicated to “the teachings of the fathers” (As Lew White points
out).
And
what did they have Shaul do?....
Lew
said...
“They
sent him out to arrest all the Natsarim who were pronouncing the Name.” !!!!
Shaul
meets Yahusha on the road and is blinded.... and then starts using the Name -
and then he is marked for death.
How
do we know this?
Maaseh
Shlichim (Acts) 9: 10-16 p 878
When
Sosthenes was president of the Sanhedrin, he arranged for Shaul to be arrested
over the Name.
You
can read how crazy this was to Gallion
the proconsul of Achaia in Acts 18:12-17 ...
*
Lew
White says...
“Abram
was called by Yahuah and Yahuah promised to bless him and his seed. Abram called on the Name Yahuah, and
throughout Scriptures we see 6,823 uses of the spelling of that Name in four
vowels - Yod- Hay - Uau - Hay.”
Did
you catch that...?
4 vowels = Yod Hay Uau Hay.
*
We will get to why it is Yahuah and not Yahweh or something
else...!!
*
“This
Name dwelled in a burning bush, and a pillar of fire, often called the Shekinah
Kabod. It was one of several physical
manifestations of the Name. His Name
dwelled between the kerubim above the ark of the Covenant kept in the
Mishkan. It eventually moved into a more
permanent Mishkan called Hekal (Temple) built by Shalomoh. In due time, the Name came to dwell in human
form, and lived among us.”
“The
‘Messenger of Yahuah’ is mentioned often in Scripture, and it was the physical
manifestation of our Creator. Hebrews 1 describes how He manifested Himself
in may ways to speak to the fathers from ancient times. Finally He spoke to us directly in the body
which He made for Himself. Yahuah is the
Dwelling Place of the Name, and all those who are immersed in that Name are
also the Dwelling Place of the Name:”
Ivrim
(Hebrews) 1:1-10
p 814
“The
time came for His Name to dwell in His called -ones (qahal) and appeared on
them as tongues of fire on their heads.”
“His
people know and call on His Name.”
~
Let’s
look at this again:
“After
the captivity of the house of Yahudah at Babel for 70 years, the Name became
hidden.”
There
were 2 reasons:
1. the pagan custom of hiding the name of a deity
had rubbed-off on them because they were inclined toward mixing the pagan
practices into their worship of Yahuah.
2. The people of
Yahuah were literally called by His Name: Yahudim. Daniel 9:19 p 444 “...Your people are
called by Your Name.”
White
goes on to explain:
“The
pagan population of Babel ridiculed them because they believed knowing the name
of a person’s deity gave them power over them.
Pagans hid the names of their deities.
Hearing the pagans using the Name of Yahuah in jest was outrageous to
the Yahudim, so they stopped using the Name entirely. They even made uttering it carry the death
penalty. When reading Scripture aloud
they taught to substitute the Name Yahuah with Adonai (my sovereign).
Then....
“Over
7 centuries after Yahusha, a sect was founded by a man named Anan called
Karaites.”
“A
group of them took the name Masoretes... meaning traditionalists from the
Hebrew word for tradition = Masorah.”
“The
Masoretes wanted to make certain the Name was never uttered aloud so they invented
diacritical marks to represent different ways of sounding vowels. This alteration of the Hebrew language has
effected how Hebrew is taught to this day.”
In
fact “real Hebrew letters are rarely used.
The aramaic script used in Babylon is mistakenly called modern Hebrew.”
“The
Masoretes invented vowel points to tell people how to pronounce words.
So the reader pronounces an E and an O
rather than an A or a U because the vowel points prevent the proper sound of
YAHU in the Name.”
So
based on this... if they rearranged other words beside the sound of Yahuah...
“halleluYah”
would logically be “halleluYEEHO”
and
“Yahudah” would be “YEEHODAH”
WHITE
makes it clear that it is easier to read Hebrew without the vowel points! And I agree!!
*
So let’s talk about the Hebrew language and the Name YHUH -
Yahuah....
There
is not W in Hebrew or in Greek.... they operate as our U.
The
6th Hebrew letter - Uau = is the upsilon
in Greek.
People
argue about the use of the W in the tetragrammaton ... and write YHWH
but
it should be written YHUH - because the
Uau is a U sound
“The
Latin form of Uau -which looks like a
capitol Y in English - dropped the stem, changing the shape to a V, but keepign
the sound “OO” as in our modern U.
Within
the last 700 years, this letter shaped V with the sound “oo” as in the word
“school”... the Hebrew Uau developed
into our modern letter U, and later the double-U written as a W.
Our
double-U is a new letter, and not a letter known to the Hebrew language. Note that in the words YAHUDAH and HALLELUYAH
we find the letter Uau also.”
“The
tetragrammaton is therefore more accurately rendered as YHUH, standing for the
4 letters - Yod - Hay - Uau- Hay. and
the Uau is a modern U sound.”
White
goes on to say “The vowels Alef, Ayin, Hay, Yod, Uau of Hebrew are written down to be sounded
letters.
These
have become the Greek and Latin vowels we use in English A E I O U
***
(summarize)
Amein
