43 B’re’shiyt 1:17 - June 6, 2015
6 June 2015 ~ 19
Sivan 5775
43 B’re’shiyt 1:17
Torah Parashah Beha’alotcha -
B’midbar (Numbers) 8:1-12:16
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43rd B’re’shiyt teaching by Bradley
Scott
p 50 in the study guide.
B’re’shiyt 1:17
“Vay-yit-ten ‘otam
Elohiym bir’qiya’
hash-shamayim le’ha’iyr ‘al-ha’aretz.”
“And set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light on the earth.”
“And God set them in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.”
-- No new words.
B’re’shiyt 1:18
“V’eim’shol bay-yom
uval-layelah ula’have’dyl beyn
ha’or uveyn hachoshek vay-yare’ Elohiym kiytov.”
“And to rule over the
day and the night and to separate between the light and the darkness and saw
Elohiym it was good.”
-- He put them to rule over the day and over
the night and divide the light from the darkness and YHWH saw that it was good.
-- No new words.
B’re’shiyt 1:19
“Vaye’hiy - ‘erev vaye’hiy-voqer yom re’viy’iy.”
“And it was evening
and it was morning, day fourth.”
“And the evening and
the morning were the fourth day.”
New word:
RE’VIY’IY - resh
-bet-ayin
root = rabah = fourth, four - rav - to
spread out
This day was to
govern the signs and the seasons on earth which generally come in fours:
1. 4 elements -
earth, wind, fire water
2. regions of earth - north, south, east, west
3.
seasons - spring, summer, fall, winter
4.
lunar phases -
new moon 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, full moon.
** Remember that the
creation is the pattern for man.
On the third day we
had the fruits and we have the Messiah’s ressurrection = Him rising on the 3rd
day.
When the 4th day
started - the Messiah appeared to many people on that day....
Yochanan 20:20 p 776
When Messiah comes out to his own/
Talmadim - to witness that he had risen.
And here on the 4th
day we have the sun and the moon and stars being a witness.
SUN = shin-mem-shin
root = shemesh - to serve
= greater light
= sh’mesh - the center candle of the
Menorah - the higher light - the ministering or the serving light. There would
be no light if the Sh’mesh did not give the light.
In Mattityahu and in Joel 2:10, and
Acts 2 - we read that in the last days - It will also be darkened and turned to
blood.
** This is a picture
that the world has rejected these signs.... !!
YHWH communicates through these things
and man has rejected these things.
The whole picture of the sun and the
moon be turned to sack cloth and darkness and blackness and blood - is a picture of the world
rejecting these things.
AND of course He who rejects the Word
of YHWH is rejecting Y’shua the Deliverer.
The picture of that - is the wiping out of the sun and the moon.
References...
Miz’more 19:17
Mal’akiy 4:2
Jo’el 2;10
Ma’sey
hashSh’liyechiym 2:18-20
a picture of rejection
Mattityahu 13:37 - 43
Mattityahu 17:2
Hitgalut (revelation) 1:16 and 10:1
MOON -
yod-resh-chet
= the lesser light
-yarecha - month, moon
= month, chodesh= to rewew, restore
and repair
The whole idea of the moon going
through its phases is the idea of the moon renewing each month.
This is also a picture of us - after
t’shuvah - we are restored ... we returned and are renewed b/c we are forgiven
and we start walking out the Truth.
This is a picture of the “renewed”
covenant... The New covenant - restoring the Melchizedek Priesthood.
- And of course most
of the world and the church today still reject that covenant and TRUTH
References:
B’re’shiyt 8:4
Sh’mot 2:2
D’variym 21:13, 33:14
Divre-haYamim Bet
8:13
Miz’mor 104:19,
51:10, 61:4, 103:5, 105:30
Ychez’q’el 46:1,3,6
Y’sha’yahu 61:4 Amost
8:5
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So B’re’shiyt 1:19
Concludes the fourth
day.
Next time we talk
about animal life and souls...in 1:20.
This is the first
time - Chayim / Life and Nephesh / Soul - is seen in Word.
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Torah Parashah = Beha’alotcha -
B’midbar
(Numbers) 8:1-12:16 RSTNE p
113 -
-The cleansing of Lewiym and
offerings,
-Pesach the 14th of the 1st month
and a second Pesach the 14th of the
2nd month,
-Cloud by day and fire by night
leading the children of Yisra’el,
-manna and Yisra’el wanted
meat.
YHWH poured out his Ruach on 70 to
help Moshe, and
-the quail came... and
-a plague..
-Miryam got leperacy - out of camp
7 days and then returned.
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The 3rd session in talking about
men and women - based on Skip Moen’s book - Guardian Angel. - A study of women based on the Hebrew
Scriptures.
Let’s review:
In the first teaching we talked
about how there is so much divorce....
and... as Moen says....
“The real problem is ignorance about the
Scriptural view of marriage and, perhaps even more fundamental, a non-biblical
view of the relationship between men and women and the roles and responsibilities
of both.”
and that Moen went on to say:
“A defective understanding of God’s design for
women” (and men!!) “leads directly to broken relationships.”
and we talked about:
B’re’shiyt 1: 26-27
p 9
“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.
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So the Word of Elohiym created man in His own image, in the image of Elohiym He
created him, male and female He created them.”
Many teachers have noted that this establishes
equality between male and female, assigning dominion to both without
distinction.
The word
“image” = tselem
The word
“likeness” = demut
Tselem - “image”
- is a masculine noun and
Demut - “likeness” -
is a feminine noun.
And then we said....
“What it means to be created in YHWH’s
image might be much more like what it means to be flowing water than what it
means to be a chemical compound of hydrogen and oxygen...
In other words -
“the idea of being human just might be about what we DO rather than how we are
constituted.”
Moen says...
“Any behavior that denies, negates or
rejects these goals is not human behavior - and the creatures that exhibit non-human
behavior are not creatures that exhibit YHWH’s image.”
and then....
TSELEM - is about transferred
authority and order over what destroys.
Understanding tselem and demut - teaches us that the image of YHWH
is not a static element.
“I reflect YHWH’s image as the order maker,
when I act as the order-taker. It is action
without the relationship that constitutes the image.”
Wow is this a big deal!! We’ve heard forever it is about the
relationship I have with a guy whose names starts with a J.
But what i am saying today - what Moen is
saying the WORD says - BASED ON THE HEBREW WORDS.... based on what it really
says is...
-- If i want to be in HIS image, then i have to
DO something.
I am tired of people complaining that they feel
“far away” from YHWH.... well... If i feel far away - then i better get my
life lined up with Torah - because that is how i am blessed!!!
“We are manifested as human beings when we
act humanly, when we act in ways that manifest the image and likeness of YHWH.”
In the same way
-
The
divine name of YHWH is a verb
-
The image of YHWH is a verb.”
so....
“To be created in YHWH’s image is to
reflect divine action.”
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Then we got to “male” and “female”
“Male” in Hebrew = zakar.
“Female” in Hebrew = neqevah
Remember
A homophone
is a word that is spelled exactly the same way in Hebrew - --but it has a different meaning.
“Zakar” (male) homophone - “to remember”
It is thinking that becomes doing.
= “To
bring something to mind in order to act upon it.”
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Neqevah ...
= female....
-
The Arabic cognate not only means “to
pierce, to make a hole”,
The homophone =
-
but also to “single
out” and “to appoint as a leader”
It also means
- “a boundary setter.”
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We also talked about what Moen calls
YHWH’s Prime Directive....
B’re’shiyt 1:28
“Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moves upon the earth.”
“The Prime Directive is a description of
the acts that manifest what it means to be human:
to
be fruitful and to increase,
to
act as YHWH’s regents to steward the earth,
to
act with designated authority.
“Being human means acting in harmony with
YHWH”s creation.
“Where my life exhibits or endorses chaos,
disharmony or life threatening behavior, I am not actings as a human
being.”
Biology is not enough to make me human.”
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This was a really crazy new concept for us.
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Then in the second teaching about this:
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.....
And we were surprised to learn it begins
with...
*
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”
and we learned that our work/ our service is to
be worship unto YHWH.
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We learned that based on the 2 words for earth
in this story - If we serve/ care for the earth - doing that - replenishes us.
So we find that YHWH fused work, service and
worship as an act of self-nourishment.
=
when we do what YHWH designed us to do we minister to our own source of being
and fulfill his purposes.
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As we learned about Eden... we learned that
we don’t determine what will be pleasure
in life....
“YHWH tells man what pleasure is and what
it is not.”
We learned that
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 =“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.”
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So starting a new part of this ... (just
briefly)...
In order to finish the prologue before woman is
created....
....we have to look at the consequences of
disobedience.
B’re’shiyt 2: 16-17
“And
YHWH Elohiym commanded the man, saying ‘Of every eytz of Gan Eden you may
freely 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.”
- This command reveals
more than the translation allows.
What we have to know here about the Hebrew
language is that Hebrew handles emphasis by manipulating the structure of the
language.
So it is about how the words are arranged... in
order to draw attention to particular ideas.
As we know - doubling a word puts emphasis on the
idea.
Putting a word in first or last position in a
sentence does the same thing.
In
B’re’shiyt 2: 16-17
“And
YHWH Elohiym commanded the man, saying ‘Of every eytz of Gan Eden you may
freely 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.”
Another word is doubled - and you can’t see it in
English.
It is mot.
This verse in Hebrew doesn’t say - “you shall surely die”.
It says “you shall die die” = “mot tamut”
Just like it says “eat eat” - “feely eat”.
In Hebrew this is “achol tochel”.
But these words mean so much more than “eat eat”
or “freely eat”...
It means YHWH delightful provision.
Everything i need is present and available to me”
- (Moen teaches)
The garden is a place where true satisfaction is
found under every tree except one.
At the same time - these words about dying - “mot
tamut” are descriptive....
Under
the one tree - life as defined by YHWH comes to an end.
Moen says...
This is a description of the facts, not a
prescription of ethical behavior.
YHWH isn’t giving Adam a RULE .
He’s telling Adam the way it is....
If you eat of this tree - then this will happen.
YHWH doesn’t demand Adam eats from every tree
- But He does offer every tree.
It is important to notice the parallelism in these
verses with 2 double words, so that we can understand the punishment for
disobedience.
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YHWH says clearly -
“Adam, if you eat of this tree you will “mot
tamut” - “die die” or in English -
“surely die”.”
But then Adam doesn’t fall over dead when he eats
it... in fact he lives a VERY LONG TIME!
What is this about??
Christian teaching has always said - “well, Adam
died spiritually.”
BUT that doesn’t maintain the parallelism of these
verses in Hebrew.
What this is really pointing out is...
The opposition is between - fully satisfied -
achol tochel - that only got translated as “freely eat”.... and EMPTY = mot tomut.
YHWH is saying “It is “feast or famine”... and it
is your choice Adam.”
Adam’s choice is between YHWH’s design for DELIGHT
and Adam’s own decision to make his own garden.
Moen says...
“What Adam loses with his choice - is a place in
YHWH’s delightful life.”
Adam is trust out of the garden into a world of
his own making without the delightful provisions of YHWH.
“As a result of disobedience, Adam suffers
insufficiency. He has to labor to find
delight.”
This verse is about the idea of “FULL SUFFICIENCY
under YHWH’s conditions - vs- insufficiency under self-determination.”
Remember Adam is supposed to be remembering YHWH’s
plan... and knowing YHWH’s plan - he
picks the “empty”.
wow.
Isn’t that just like us.
As though we can do it better than YHWH!
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We tend to think that Adam’s sin resulted in
spiritual separation and spiritual separation results in death... and from this
we proceed to the need for repentance and redemption.
In other words... we connect Adam’s sin with
Y’shua’s death, placing them both in the spiritual arena.
Of course there is a connection Moen says...
but...
But this isn’t the only consequence. ...
“Mot tamut” describes what it means to be outside
YHWH’s delight.
It isn’t just spiritual death -
-
It’s alienation from the provision of YHWH!!!!
Adam’s sin turns delight into destitution.
And from a Hebrew perspective, the EVENTUAL
spiritual condition isn’t nearly as important as the present reality.
“Unlike christianity, Hebrew thought is primarily
focused on this world.
What matters most is being in YHWH’s will TODAY!
SO THIS HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE 2 DOUBLES =
The 2
doubles are EMPHASIZING THE IMMEDIATE,
TEMPORAL CONSEQUENCES OF INSUFFICIENCY;
something we would expect if we read with Hebrew eyes. :)
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wow!!
AMEIN!!
