Showing posts with label Leviticus. Show all posts
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Kadosh - Torah Portion Kidushim - May 14

14 May 2016 ~ 29 Abib (Nisan) 5776
Torah Parashah - Kidushim - (Holy People)
Uyiqara (Leviticus) 19:1-20:27 RSTNE p 95

KJV is a Catholic translation. Lew White - Harbour Light Ministries

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I want to pick out of few verses and talk about them.  I hope you read the entire parashah.

Uyiqara 19:2  p 95
“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el, and say to them, You shall be kidushim: for I YHUH your Alohim am kadosh.”

Kadosh = holy Strong’s H6918 - sacred, holy, saint, set apart

(Kidushim = holy people)

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Defilement - people can be defiled, and things and homes and land...

Cleaning up defilement

Soul ties

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Uyiara 19:12
“And you shall not swear byMy Name falsely, neither shall you defile the Name of your Alohiym:  I am YHUH.

Uyiqara 19:19 p 96
“You shall guard My chukim (statutes, ordinances).  You shall not let your cattle mate with a diverse kind:  you shall not sow your field with mixed zera:  neither shall a garment mixed of linen and wool come upon you.”

Uyiqara 19:26
“You shall not eat anything with the dahm: neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.”

Uyiqara 19:28 p 96
-    cutting your flesh and tattoos

Uyiqara 19:30 p 96
“You shall guard My Shabbats and reverence My Kadosh-Place: I am YHUH.” 

Uyiqara 20

          talks about sexual sins...
Uyiqara 20:13
“If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination...”

Uyiqara 20: 22-23
“You shall therefore guard all My chukim, and all My mishpatim, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell, will not spit you out.
23 And you shall not have your halacha in the customs of the nations, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them..”

Uyiqara 20:25
“You shall therefore make a difference between clean living creatures and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and you shall not make your beings abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.”

Uyiqara 20:26
“And you shall be kidushim to Me: for I YHUH am kadosh, and have separated you from other  peoples, that you should be Mine.” 

Uyiqara 19:31
“Regard not those who are mediums, neither seek after spiritists, to be defiled by them.”  (CJB says spirit mediums or sorcerers, KJ says familiar spirits or wizards)

Uyiqara 20: 27
“A man, or woman who is a spiritist, or that is a medium, shall surely be put to death....”  (CJB says spirit mediums or sorcerers, KJ says familiar spirits or wizards)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.[1][2]
Attempts to contact the dead date back to early human history, with mediumship gaining in popularity during the 19th century. Investigations during this period revealed widespread fraud—with some practitioners employing techniques used by stage magicians—and the practice started to lose credibility.[3][4] The practice still continues into the 21st century, with high-profile fraud uncovered as recently as the 2000s.[5]
Scientific researchers have attempted to ascertain the validity of claims of mediumship. An experiment undertaken by the British Psychological Society led to the conclusion that the test subjects demonstrated no mediumistic ability.[6]
Several different variants of mediumship exist; arguably the best-known forms involve a spirit allegedly taking control of a medium's voice and using it to relay a message, or where the medium simply "hears" the message and passes it on. Other forms involve materializations of the spirit or the presence of a voice, and telekinetic activity.
The practice is associated with several religious-belief systems such as Vodoun, Spiritualism, Spiritism, Candomblé, Voodoo, Umbanda and some New Age groups.

In Spiritism and Spiritualism the medium has the role of an intermediary between the world of the living and the world of spirit. Mediums claim that they can listen to and relay messages from spirits, or that they can allow a spirit to control their body and speak through it directly or by using automatic writing or drawing.
Spiritualists classify types of mediumship into two main categories: "mental" and "physical":
            Mental mediums allegedly "tune in" to the spirit world by listening, sensing, or seeing spirits or symbols.
            Physical mediums are believed to produce materialization of spirits, apports of objects, and other effects such as knocking, rapping, bell-ringing, etc. by using "ectoplasm" created from the cells of their bodies and those of seance attendees.
During seances, mediums are said to go into trances, varying from light to deep, that permit spirits to control their minds.[7]
Channeling can be seen as the modern form of the old mediumship, where the "channel" (or channeller) allegedly receives messages from "teaching-spirit", an "Ascended Master", from God, or from an angelic entity, but essentially through the filter of his own waking consciousness (or "Higher Self").[8][9]

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I met a lady this week... 
and something just seemed very wrong to me.... 

She had a pair of “angel wings” on a chain around her neck....and eventually started telling me how her life has been changed because she found a store that has nice “angel things”  - but in the back, they have classes - about meditation and contacting our loved ones that have died (HELLO - this is a medium!)  and other similar things -and she talked about how much better she is doing.  Her dead mother speaks to her and sends her messages “all the time”... “she’s always here”. 

I didn’t need to hang out much longer. 

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This woman is not any different than most people!

The world can not tell you that YHUH says don’t get tattoos and don’t cut yourself in Uyiqara 19:28... or where the Torah speaks of homosexuality in Uyiqara 20:13.

The world thinks it is just fine to go to a medium and have them talk to the dead for you.

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Oh how our Abba Yah’s heart must hurt.

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This Torah parashah is a perfect example of why we need to know the Word.

This whole parashah - is talking about what makes us kadosh or not....

Notice Yah speaks of:

- not defiling His Name
-    not giving your children to molech (abortion could be seen as this)
-    not stealing
-    not hating
-    not taking vengeance
-    not mixing seed - of animals or of seed in field (GMO is mixing seed/DNA)
-    not wearing linen and wool (remember the two high frequency items stop each other’s signal... and so it will be negative number)
-    not committing sexual sins, including adultery, homosexuality, and beastiality
-    no mediums
-    no cutting
-    no tattoos
-    not eating unclean things

-    Having your halacha in His instructions.
-    and Keeping Shabbats.

Now think back over what I said that Yah speaks against in this Torah Parashah.... and what He says to do....

How does this fit in our world today??!!

And look at what He calls us to do?....
Keep His instructions, and his Shabbats...  How much do you know of this happening in the World today. :(

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This week I have read Lew White’s book: Reapers.  Wow.

I’d like to share a bit.... 

2 Kefa (Peter) 3:1-18 p 829


Lew writes in Reapers:



AN ANCIENT ASTROLOGICAL SYMBOL ADOPTED
At Acts 7, Stephen made bold statements against the "host of
heaven" they put everywhere, as we see in the ruins of ancient
synagogues: mosaics of the zodiac! The 'star' some have
assumed to be the star if Daud (David) mentioned at Acts 7:42 is
really another familiar symbol. Stephen said they "bowed down"
to the star. No one, ever, has bowed down to the seal of Daud's
name. It isn't even a "religious" symbol at all. It's a king's name
spelled with two Hebrew letters that later became the Greek
letter Delta.
The crux is the symbol of Sun worship known all around the
world, and many today continue to bow down to it, or wear it as a
talisman. It was a symbol of Constantine's Apollo, aka Mithras.
Hindu's know the symbol as a swastika, the Norse as the Celtic
Crux, and in the temple of Osiris it was identical to the Latin
cross. That is the symbol Stephen was referring to. The Greek
word STAUROS should have gone into the Latin word, STAURO -
but Jerome adopted the word CRUX for the Latin Vulgate, and
we've inherited the word from the Latin Vulgate into the King
James Version as cross. The cross is the ancient astrological
symbol for the Sun, Constantine's Sol Invictus.
His edict in 321 forced the whole Roman empire to pay homage
to the Sun by resting from all labors on the first day of the week.
We were warned there would be a ruler who would think to
change Torah at Danial 7:25. Constantine did it, and he picked
the one Commandment that happens to be the sign of the
everlasting Covenant. How suspicious is that?



WAS KING JAMES A CATHOLIC?
King James was born into Anglican Catholicism. He was born June 19, 1566 at Edinburgh Castle, and baptized that same year on December 17, 1566 in a Catholic ceremony at Stirling Castle. He was six months old; an age we must acknowledge is too young to walk or have meaningful speech skills. Those who adhere to the Authorized Version exclusively as being inerrant and superior to all other English versions have to admit it is a Catholic translation, and it inherited all the errors from the Latin Vulgate, including the word CRUX. The Greek word STAUROS matches the Hebrew word NAS, and is a single upright pole. When Jerome (Sophronius) translated the Latin Vulgate in the late 4th century, he avoided the Latin word STAURO (matching the Greek word STAUROS), and inserted CRUX. So the KJV today reflects the word cross, the ancient symbol of Sun worship, first brought into the new faith called Catholicism during the reign of Constantine. Another huge error is the elimination of the Name Yahuah, and the use of the Latin Dominus. Dominus was the title for the Sun deity Apollo (Sol Invictus Mithras) worshipped by Constantine. LORD is the definition of the Hebrew word BAAL. The destruction of the Name Yahuah is forbidden by the third Commandment; but to insert the translation of a proper noun (the name BAAL) in its place (LORD) is nothing short of blasphemous. The reapers will unleash Yahuah’s wrath upon this whole Earth for good reason.
The dragon has blinded us, comforting us with lies and maxims. We have inherited ONLY lies and futility (YirmeYahu 16:19).
The KJV also inherited the theonym IESV from the Latin Vulgate. This IESV is seen in the KJV underlined, IESV – a titlos, indicating it stands in place of a name. The later editions of the KJV introduced the name JESUS for the very first time on this planet. Before the 17th century, no one had ever seen or heard this name, yet all Christendom is united under it today. JESUS has no Hebrew meaning whatsoever, but the true Name does.
YOD-HAY-UAU-SHIN-AYIN: Yahusha. It means “I am your Deliverer.”
It is by our immersion into the Name of Yahusha that we are protected from the REAPERS that are coming. His Name seals us for protection on the day of wrath. Releasing the Truth will free us from the inherited errors, and is not intended to judge those who never knew. Those ignorant will receive few blows. Abiding in (practicing) the Ten Commandments will set us apart from those on the broad path to destruction.
“So Yahusha said to those Yahudim who believed Him,
‘If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones, and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.’” - Yn. 8:31-32
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MARK OF THE BEAST: A RIDDLE REQUIRING WISDOM
There’s a mark identified by a behavior: buying and selling.
Those not having the behavior of buying and selling don’t have
the mark. Because it’s a riddle we have to solve, we need
wisdom to deduce who’s who, and what’s what.
DEDUCTION – Remove Elements To Reach A Conclusion
A riddle conceals something only obvious to the riddler.
If the one solving the riddle does not have the specific
information needed, they lack the wisdom to solve it.
Samson posed a riddle at Judges 14 which could never be
solved because he alone knew the allegorical components.
The world is deceived by the beast, the teaching authority of
Babel, guiding all, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave,
in what they are thinking (forehead) and behaving (right hand,
Rev. 13:1, 17). A specific behavior is described in the riddle:
that “no one should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” The verse is not saying the beastly mark, name, or number is what is keeping anyone from buying and selling. It simply says the one not having the mark, name, or number of the beast “should not be able to buy and sell.” This calls for wisdom.

What is wisdom? It’s explained in so many places, here’s one:
“See, I have taught you laws and right-rulings, as Yahuah My Alahim commanded me, to do in the land which you go to possess. And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say,
‘Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’ For what great nation is there which has Alahim so near to it, as Yahuah our Alahim is to us, whenever we call on Him? And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day? Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.” – Dt. 4:5-9 BYNV
This was after spending 40 years in the wilderness being trained by the manna as to how to determine which day is Shabath.
YAHUAH’S MARK KEEPS US FROM BUYING AND SELLING
A strong lesson comes from the reason for the captivity in Babel for 70 years. They failed to allow the land to rest.
Then, after a remnant returned, they started to ignore resting on the seventh day, buying and selling with traders who came into the walls on the Shabath.
“And men of Tsor dwelt there, bringing in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Shabath to the children of Yahudah, and in Yerushalayim.” Neh 13:16
The sign (mark) of the everlasting Covenant is the Shabath. Only those obeying Yahuah’s Ten Commandments have the wisdom to know how to recognize which day not to buy and sell. There is also a “Shabath of Shabaths,” a fast, which we who have wisdom know is coming, so we practice for it each year.
Some say the Romans messed-up the weekdays. Yahusha recognized all the weekly Shabaths and annual appointments of those around Him, and never mentioned one word about them being incorrect in their calculations. There has been no change attempted by anyone since He was here. The Romans simply use a pagan term for the 7th day (Saturday, Saturn’s Day), but it’s still the Shabath. It’s still blessed since Creation, and we stop buying and selling on it every week, and rest as Yahuah rested. On the tenth day of the 7th moon is a “Shabath of Shabaths” – a FAST.
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The majority of Christians have been listening to poisonous teachings, making them unprepared to stand in the day of wrath. Some may be the “survivors” whom Yahuah will call, assisted by the Natsarim who will be on Earth during the distress. The Natsarim are the elect (chosen ones) for whom the duration of the distress will be lessened. Our purpose during the distress will be to help people be restored to the Covenant. They must be helped to overcome many false teachings learned from misguided preachers. They will learn that Sun-day is not the day Yahuah blessed, and because of their distress, they will listen to us more closely. They will not argue about the true Name, and many will submit to immersion for the remission of sins, and be sealed for protection.
Those teachers who hold to the “pre-Tribulation rapture” in spite of the above texts claim that those being gathered in the end of days are those who turned to Yahuah during the distress. These things will happen rapidly, shortened for the sake of the elect. They tell their Christian assemblies that those who listen to them will be in a special group who really understand, and they will see nothing of the terrors and birth-pangs, and the fiery cataclysm at the very end of days. They believe they are “in heaven” during the distress, and will come with Yahusha when He returns. The text says we will all see Him coming, be gathered by malakim into the air to meet Him, and continue down with Him as the New Yerushalayim. We never “go to heaven” as most understand “heaven.” We will reign with Yahusha in His Kingdom of heaven located here on a renewed Earth. His Throne will be on Earth, and we will be with Him always.
Amos 5 and Yual 2 explain to us that the Day of Yahuah is a day of great darkness, and Yahusha’s words at Mt. 24 are given to us so we will be comforted when we see the sun literally turn off like a lamp. It will still be glowing RED-HOT, but it will be so dark that we would be struck with terror if we didn’t realize what was going on.
“For the Master Yahuah does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Master Yahuah has spoken! Who would not prophesy? - Amus 3:7,8
“And there shall be signs in the Sun, and Moon, and stars, and on the Earth anxiety of nations, in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea, and agitation, men fainting from fear and the expectation of what is coming on the Earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then they shall see the Son of Adam coming in a cloud with power and much esteem. And when these matters begin to take place, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” - Luk 21:25-28
Amein

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Joy and Hope - May 7

7 May 2016 ~~ 29 Abib (Nisan) 5776
Torah Parashah Acharei Mot 
Uyiqara (Leviticus) 16:1- 18:30
Joy ~ Hope
Revelation 18:23 - By your pharmokeia were the nations deceived, the same word used for modern pharmacy - Harbour Light Ministries

SSRI increases
          from 2005-2009 the amount of prescriptions written for antidepressants increased from the previous 5 years by 400%.

1 in 4 women in ages 40s and 50s take an antidepressant med.

more and more children are given SSRIs... even though research SHOWS that this leads to suicidal ideation... and worse....

about half of all scripts given (about 40%?) by PCP - are given after the patient says... “I saw on TV”......  (adds for pharmakia)


Galatians 5:19-21  p 881 Strong’s G5331  -pharmakeia  - sorcery /witchcraft

Rev 18:23 p 924 -   pharmakeia  Sorceries

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“the ultimate goal of all pharmakeia, whether "legal" or "illegal," is one solitary end, which is to facilitate the union of the sons of god with the daughters of men!”

1) And they took wives for themselves and everyone chose for himself one each. And they began to go into them and were promiscuous with them. And they taught them charms and spells, and they showed them the cutting of roots and trees. 2) And they became pregnant and bore large giants. And their height was three thousand cubits. 3) These devoured all the toil of men; until men were unable to sustain them. 4) And the giants turned against them in order to devour men. 5) And they began to sin against birds, and against animals, and against reptiles, and against fish, and they devoured one another's flesh, and drank the blood from it. 6) Then the Earth complained about the lawless ones.
Enoch Chapter 7

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Mercola  “U.S. Soda Consumption Falls to 30-Year Low”  April 13, 2016

What happens when you drink a soda:

20 oz bottle of soda contains the equivalent of 16 teaspoons of sugar, typically in the form of HFCS.
The rise in blood sugar is quite rapid…. Here’s a play by play… of what happens in your body upon drinking a can of soda:
-Within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by turning massive amounts of sugar into fat.
-Within 40 minutes, caffeine absorption is complete, your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, and your liver dumps more sugar into  your bloodstream.
-Around 45 minutes , your body increases dopamine production, which stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain – a physically identical response to that of heroin, by the way.
-After 60 minutes, you’ll start to have a blood sugar crash, and you may be tempted to reach for another sweet snack or beverage
The health effects don’t stop after one hour, either.  A study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming beverages with low, medium or high amounts of HFCS increased risk factors for heart disease within two weeks.

Research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2013 Scientific Sessions suggested sugary beverages are to blame for about 183,000 deaths worldwide each year, including 133,000 diabetes deaths, 44,000 heart disease deaths and 6,000 cancer deaths.

Among the 35 largest countries in the world, Mexico had the highest death rates associated with sugary beverage consumption.  There, the average consumption of sugary beverages was 24 ounces per day.  The U.S. ranked 3rd with an estimated 25,000 annual deaths from sweetened drinks. 

Fruit juice can easily contain as much sugar as soda, with similar impacts on your health.

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In the U.S there are approximately 43,000 suicides each year... 120 per day.

Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among adolescents ages 15-19 

Each year there are 1.2 million suicide attempts (estimated) in the U.S.

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What has happened to our society?
-   run by the Dragon....

reading about Nimrod....   seeing the big picture....

How does that effect each of us every day??

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What you hear - ...

Faith comes by hearing.....

          plants or programs what is in your mind....

(talk about Dr. Leaf’s fast food example)

why can’t people eat healthy??..... (Dr. Leaf)

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James 1:2-3 p 810

Psalm 27:5-7 p 505

Psalm 21:5-7 p 502

Psalm 119:110-112 p 541
Proverbs 10:28-30  p 554

Romans 15:13 p 850
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Hebrews 12:1-3 p 822

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Galutyah (Galatians) 5:22-25 p 881

Ephsiyah (Ephesians) 6:10-19 p 887

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How do you think??

The world / the dragon is telling you one thing....

What will YOU do?


Hope  - Joy -
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Guardian Angel - What the Word Really Says About Women Part 2 - April 25

“Guardian Angel” - Part 2

25 April 2015  ~  6 L=Iyyar 5775

Torah Parashah - Tazria/Metzora Vayiqra (Leviticus) 12:1-15:33

More on “woman” from Skip Moen’s “Guardian Angel”

What The Word Really Says About Women - Harbour Light Ministries
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Review from last time - on handout...
B’re’shiyt 1:26-27
        “And Elohiym said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So the Word of Elohiym created ma in His own image, in the image of Elohiym He created him; male and female He created them.”


Tselem - “image” - is a masculine noun
transferred authority and order over what destroys. 
To be created in YHWH’s image is to reflect divine action.

Demut - “likeness” - is a feminine noun.
“Being human is ACTING according to YHWH’s path to life.
 It means standing against chaos. 
.. It also means knowing what is permitted and what is not and acting accordingly.

To be human is to ACT LIKE YHWH ACTS... to reflect His choices... It is not to BE YHWH... but to reflect Him.

“Male” in Hebrew = zakar. 
“to be sharp pointed”
“To remember who YHWH is and what He said and to act accordingly”
Man =“Ish” = to show oneself to be strong and to fix in mind (remember)

Female in Hebrew = neqevah.
“to pierce”
“To single out” and “appoint as a leader”
“A prepared setting for precious stones” = “boundary setter”
Ishshah = woman

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Today - we are going to start with...

Moen writes:

The Bible wasn’t written with verses and chapters and numbers! 

Seriously - this is news to people!

They were actually added thousands of years later!

So what happens is ... “Their addition often breaks our thinking about the text so we don’t see the continuation  of one thought into another. 

Once these artificial stops are removed, the context of our interpretation often changes. 

Such is the case with the introduction of the creation of Woman. 

We think that the story of Adam and Chava begins with YHWH’s announcement that Adam needs a helper!”

“In the Hebrew text we find deliberate interconnections from one passage to another, reminding us that all the parts of the story are TIED TOGETHER.” 

“So if we want to understand why YHWH created woman....
we have to start with the prologue of the story.”

Think about how you thought this story began.....
I am pretty sure - what I am going to teach is not what you’ve understood before... because it isn’t what I thought either...

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B’re’shiyt 2:5
          “And every plant of the field before it  grew: for YHWH Elohiym had  not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”

“This story doesn’t start with Adam being alone.

It doesn’t even start with Adam being in the Garden... or with the creation of Adam.

It begins before YHWH sent the rain.”

Moen goes on to say....

“In the prologue, the Tanakh connects Adam and Ha’adamah with a verb that sets the stage for all that follows.”

That verb is avad. 

In our Bibles it is translated as “till” the ground.

But AVAD does NOT mean “to cultivate”!!

“to cultivate” is suggested by the context... but AVAD doesn’t mean “to cultivate”

AVAD means = “to work” or “to serve”

Moen says.. “Of course we think of working the earth as cultivating, but this translation leaves out the important Hebrew connection to --          SERVING the earth.”  !!

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There are 2 reasons why the earth is not fruitful yet:

1.     YHWH has not sent rain yet
2.      There is no adam to serve it

“The first obligation of Man is to minister to YHWH’s creation on YHWH’s behalf”

“In other words - the fulfillment of the purpose of the earth depends on the fulfillment of the divine call to Man.”

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Moen says - “There is another connection here that is obscured in the translation.”

“In the Hebrew text, there are two distinct words for “earth”... and
Making these distinctions clear - alters the meaning of the text.”  !!

-    “For YHWH has not sent rain upon the earth (‘erets) and there was not an adam to serve (avad) the ground (adamah).”

“Now we see that that the Man (adam) serves his own source of being, the dust from which he came (adamah). 

In other words in some sense serving the earth nourishes us.”

Moen says - and I paraphrase...

When we serve the earth... take care of it...  we actually “replenish ourselves.”

Using the Hebrew word AVAD here shows us that ‘the work and service is an act of worship.”

“From the very beginning, YHWH fused work, service and worship as an act of self-nourishment.”

“When we are doing what YHWH designed us to do, we minister to our own source of being and at the same time act as His agents to bring about His fruitful purpose.”

(Think about that - not just based on gardening!)

“Before the fall, YHWH had designed an interconnection between our spiritual self and physical nourishment.”

Moen says:
“The assignment to bless the earth in work, service and worship is a critical element in understanding the role of Chava.”

This reminds me of Chariots of Fire....
Eric Liddell’s sister asks him... “Eric, why do you run?”
and Eric responds with... 
“God made me fast and when I run fast, I feel His pleasure!”

We know this place when we get in the “flow”.... we call it in athletics...
but maybe you know it... when you come up to something and you realize as you do it... “I was born for this!”

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Oh but wait... there is more to the prologue of Adam and Chavah...

EDEN = a very unusual word...

Most nouns in Hebrew have gender...

But EDEN is both masculine and feminine.

EDEN actually connects - “delight and fecundity.”

Fecundity = abundant production / fruitful

Moen says....

“Eden is about to give birth to wonder and awe...”

“It was designed that way - this same “hidden” potential is found in man.   We were designed to give birth to His glory.”

We also need to notice here....  that we don’t determine what will be pleasure in life.... 

“YHWH tells man what pleasure is and what it is not.”

Moen asks:
“What happens when we decide to define pleasure in our own terms? 

=We usurp the prerogative of YHWH’s role. 

We act as though we are the source of life. 

We determine what is GOOD!!!”

(And clearly then, we are in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and not the tree of chayim!)

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Moen says about Eden:

“What YHWH had provided inside his walled preserve is life - delightful, abundant, pregnant life. 

He has invited us to consume; to use the strength to control what is allowed under his Seal and sign.  

What is pleasant from a biblical perspective?

== “Opening the door that leads to life. “

“It is to be in Abba YHWH’s will!!”

“It is to know His blessings and His goodness!”

No wonder the world is starving...  they don’t even know He gave us instructions that are still to be followed!!

So from this we should see that YHWH “establishes the meaning of pleasure and ties it to work and to worship.”

“Man’s responsibility is not only to serve the ground from which He came, He is also to worship the Elohiym of creation.”

“To do that he must be obedient.”

“This element derived from the image and likeness of YHWH is summarized in a single command, a command that is given just before the rest of the story about Chavah.”

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Then right before YHWH’s statement about the need for a “helper” in B’re’shiyt 2:18 ...

in B’re’shiyt 2: 16-17
          “And YHWH Elohiym commanded the man, saying ‘Of every eytz of Gan Eden you may feely eat:  17 But of the eytz of the da’at of tov and ra, you shall not eat of it: for in the yom that you eat from it you shall surely die.”

Was this command only about eating??....

The text reads...
“achol tochel”

but it is REALLY  - “achol achol”...

“It’s as if YHWH repeated Himself in order to underline the idea...”

--And we know that is how it works... when a word is repeated - it says it double strength.!

ACHAL = Aleph-Kaf-Lamed
= “the strength to control what is allowed”....

“In other words, this verb  for consumption already incorporates the concept of control.”

“The act of consuming acknowledges our responsibility to control what YHWH allows.”

Moen says...
“We can feast because He gives us permission, but we are still responsible for HOW we consume.”

This picture changes a few things...

== ACHAL is no longer just about food!

“This is about EVERYTHING YHWH gives in His place of delight!”

So Moen says...

It turns out...

“Eden is YHWH’s pleasure palace”

Moen says...

“here’s the best part.  Eden is located where YHWH delights to provide pleasure.  Eden marks the spot wherever YHWH puts the earth- creature in circumstances that encourage delighting in HIs gifts. 

ACHAL is about consumption,  ---not just about eating food.”

Achal is the picture of “strength to control what is allowed.”

Moen goes on to say...

“What sets Adam apart from the rest of a creation is Adam’s willingness to allow YHWH to determine what he will eat and what he won’t eat. 

Adam is not to be driven by his desires. He is to be guided by YHWH’s word. 

He is to remember what YHWH said and to act accordingly.”