Understanding More About Seed - The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

Understanding more about seed and other things…

We have been studying some of the teachings from Steve Quayle’s True Legends conference. Which is about the reality of the demonic /UFO/giant/Nephilim phenomenon that is going on in our world today.

As you know – YHUH has led me to understand that  we have to talk about this and understand it to a significant degree – so that we are not dismayed. 

I’ve also started reading – Omega Dynamics by Jamie Walden (Dr. Michael Lake’s son in law). This might be one of my favorite books EVER!  I think we are going to teach this before we start “Journey 2 Freedom” by Amanda Buys. 

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In Omega Dynamics Jamie writes:

            “Therefore, our Task and Purpose is to firmly strengthen and equip those “with ears to hear” to be ever-increasing in their ‘knowing’ of the Lord; to call them up into the Warrior Class of the Most High!  This does not flow from emotional sensationalism or elitist dogmatism, but rather a constant exaltation of the Standard [flag] of Christ Jesus that has been unfurled against His Enemies and unto Whose Victory we are commanded to fight!  That is sensational enough!

            Amidst the clamor of assembling battle formations, the invigorating charge of the Lord can be heard:

            ‘Make ready My people!  Solidify yourselves in Me!  Be strong and courageous and gird up your loins!  As I overcame, you too shall overcome!  You are victorious because I am victorious!  Stand firm; endure till the end.  Move with a violence of action in this generation!  Purify your camps and prepare your minds for exploits.  I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me and I will repay all of you according to your deeds!’

            Our True and Better Commander has issued the Warning Order to His troops.  By His Word and His faithful Watchmen, it has gone throughout the whole of the earth.  It is now the commission of the ‘Door-Kickers’ of Messiah ben David, Jesus the Conquering King, to prepare for the Line of Departure; that imminent, offensive ‘movement to contact’ with those Rebel Insurgents of Old with courage from on High and in exceedingly great joy.  In order to lay hold of the powerful Kingdom Realities we need in the days ahead, we must first know the Enemy (without and within) and solidify our identity in our Warrior King.”

He is saying what we have talked about … We have to know the enemy!  And we have to KNOW that we KNOW the Alohim YHUH that we serve. 

We have to know His Word… and walk and run in it!

So that said….

I met two Christian women this week – that in conversation about how nice it was to have blue sky, I said something about there not being any trails and how amazing that is. 

The short story is – they didn’t know what I was talking about!!  You know – the CHEM trails that make grids in our skies…  that go from horizon to horizon… and then the haze covers over the blue sky – until our sky is solid white/gray with poison.

No they didn’t know.

One even said, “Wow… I think I should come and talk with you and you can teach me things.  But I don’t think I want to know!”

So I see the sheeple ignorance…  and with that in mind…  let me share this…

On Tuesday (Feb 18)  TV 13 Toledo – came out with a report about the “sonic boom” and the “fireball” and the “colored pillars of light”  seen around Toledo.  They reported that NASA said they were just “cosmic coincidence”. 

           

(I think we might laugh about that new NASA term – “cosmic coincidence” for a long time! ) J

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I share all this to say :

Sh’ma Yisra’el…  there can be no sleeping sheeple here!!

For a moment I wish I thought the world was what Uncle Gary thought it was when he went to Vietnam and I wish that faith was what I thought it was when I sat in church pews and my feet didn’t reach the floor…  

For only a moment. – Because we are called to so much more!

We are not called to be blind and dumb and deaf sheeple!

But…

What will it take until we are awake and intensely and intentionally fighting? –

Learning our enemy and knowing the Word so deeply that we are wielding the sword of the Spirit – with all we are worth… focused on the ONE Who comes on the white horse – What will it take?!

That said – I want to take us back to looking at SEED.  

I will be referencing the “must-read” book by Dr. Michael Lake – “The Sheeriyth Imperative – Empowering The Remnant to Overcome The Gates Of Hell.”

In the chapter Dr. Lake calls “Enter the Dragon”

He starts taking about the story of Genesis 3 –  What we know as the fall.

And then - the Hebrew word for  “serpent” = “NACHASH”.

We have talked about this before – but let’s review…

Nachash – Strong’s defines it as = “snake, serpent, fleeing serpent, or image of a serpent.” 

But in other places (like Companion Bible, E.W. Bullinger, and others)  “it also means ‘a shining one’.

This was “a supernatural entity – not a mere member of the animal kingdom.”

We also have talked about (like Mark Flynn wrote) about “a shining one” …

“This immortal was a seraph.”

Seraph = from the Hebrew seraphim (only in Isaiah 6) – “probably literally – ‘the burning one,’ traditionally regarded as burning or flaming angels or ‘fiery flying serpent’.

Dr. Lake writes “In the Hebrew, ‘fiery serpent’ is derived from the Hebrew words seraph Nachash.”

So think about this…

Bamidbar / Numbers 21:6

“And YHUH sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.”

Dr. Lake goes on…

“It is almost mind-boggling when one speculates that these seraphim may have stopped their cries of ‘holy, holy, holy (perhaps for the only moment in history) when they left the Third Heaven and began to inflict God’s judgment upon the murmuring Israelites.”

He goes on:

“I have always wondered if the murmuring of the Israelites was in some way an affront to the holiness of God.  Since it was their duty to proclaim the holiness of God, perhaps they were chosen to correct the bad attitudes of these ancient Israelites.  I know that this story from the Word of God has served to check my own attitude in times of testing and trail.” 

Wow!!  Is that a wake up for all of us!!!  What is our attitude in struggles!

Dr. Lake explains that seraph or nachach  is also referenced  in Timothy Alberino’s video doc series – “Land of the Plumed Serpent”.  In it Alberino teaches that this same thing was know as the “serpent with feathers”

Quetzalcoatl – Aztecs

Kukulcan – Mayan

Amarucu – Inca

Mark Flynn (who was a Biblical researcher) wrote about the connection between the serpent and “the image of the tree with the angel (serpent) overwhelming its branches”…  on fire – but not burning the tree up…  rising up …  

Just like the phoenix rising up…

Remember – what we have learned before – that Chava was deceived, trying to do her job to be a better support and leader, teacher  etc. for Adam…  

How amazing the Nachash must have appeared!

Dr. Lake goes on to say…

“I consider it poetic justice that Almighty God appeared to Moses using the imagery similar to that of the Genesis 3 account.  Although in Moses’ narrative, God did not have to be as flamboyant as the Nachash; a burning bush would suffice.  At the burning bush, God commissioned Moses to return to the most powerful nation that existed at that time on planet earth and deliver his people.  Egypt was built upon the illumination provided by the Nachash (and other possible agents of darkness).  The fire that God established in the heart of Moses at the burning bush would be carried by Moses into Egypt and would result in metaphorically burning down the house that the Nachash had built; after the judgment of God, Egypt never fully recovered to its former glory.”

Dr. Lake adds –

Maybe this is “why the esoteric societies transformed the image of the Nachash into the phoenix.  The Nachash was proclaiming that each time God burned his house down in judgement, in defiance, he would rise and build again from the ashes.”

{Hmm… sounds like the speech one of our former presidents made after 9-11.}

Interesting picture – the fiery serpent in the tree….

May I remind you that Yahusha was sacrificed in a tree…

In Numbers 21 – the answer to stop the seraph/serpent biting the people… was to put a seraph / serpent on a pole/ tree…

            This was a type and shadow of the Messiah and His saving mercy.

           

            And when Yahusha was nailed to the tree – taking on all our sins…  He was destroying the work of the Nachash in our lives! 

So imagine – the Nachash, having lifted his flaming self into the tree… when Chava and Adam come by and sin…

            And we know the sin they did wasn’t eating an apple….  But it was how the Seed of Satan got into the world in the first place…

But – back to the scene – Chava and Adam are at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and there is the shining one – his beautiful self – flaming – lifted up into a tree and his mission is deception…  to steal, kill and destroy…

So when Messiah Yahusha says in

John 12:31-32

            “Now is the judgment of this world:  now shall the prince of this world be cast out.  And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”

-      How cool is that?!

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So we talked about the sin in the garden briefly… and we know that is about SEED.

So let’s consider SEED a bit more.

Let me start by saying – SEED can be both natural and spiritual.

For example –

We know that sperm is SEED… and Seed in Scripture often represents children.

Or

We can say …  We can’t change people – but we can “plant seeds”… meaning we can speak some words  that may someday effect change.

The war of the seeds …

Genesis 3:15 p 10

            “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your zera/ seed and her Zera/Seed;  He shall crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

Let’s consider the seed placed within Abraham:

Galatians 3:16 p 876

“Now to Abraham and his zera/ seed were the promises made.  He said not, And to your seeds, as in many; but as of One, And to your Zera, which is Moshiach.”

Dr. Lake explains:
“Perhaps I can explain it this way:

            Through God coming into covenant with Abraham and teaching Abraham His ways, a seed was planted  into Abraham’s being.  This seed affected Abraham’s natural seed:  his children.  This seed continued to grow and flourish until it arrived in the heart of a young virgin named Mary.  Within Mary, this seed produced THE SEED – Messiah.”

So let me read what else Dr. Lake has to say about this…

“You see, it’s all about promise.  The seed that flowed into Abraham, and that finally manifested in Mary, was actually the seed of Chava/Eve (i.e., of woman).  I had always been both amazed and confused somewhat at the language used in Genesis 3:15.  Technically, women do not have seed; they have eggs, that serves as a medium for the seed of man (i.e., sperm).  Once you realize that THE SEED WAS THE PROMISE, it all makes sense.  The Nachash promised godhood (a seed), and God promised redemption through the submission of a woman to His will (a seed).  Both the promise of the Nachash and the promise of God were seeds, and they are in conflict with one another.  Therefore, God used the proper term of “the seed of the woman,” because the promise was given to the original woman who had been deceived by the Nachash.”

“This seed/promise is a spiritual dynamic that is universal in the Word of God and the conflict between the two kingdoms.”

So listen to this verse considering what we have just talked about…

I Peter 1:23 p824

“Having been born again, not of corruptible zera/ seed but incorruptible, through the word of YHUH which lives and abides le-olam-va-ed / forever.”

1.     We were born again by the seed (promise of YHUH) by the Word of YHUH.

2.     We were given the names for both types of seed:

a.      Nachash’s seed – corruptible

b.     YHUH’s seed – incorruptible – that produces the promise of salvation to all who grow this one in their lives!

We know the Word/ Torah is full of YHUH’s promises. J

Let’s look at:

Mark 4:14-20 p 710  - The Parable of the Sower

If seeds have the right conditions – they always grow. 

Wow!

Dr. Lake writes:

“The type of seed sown is important, but the ground is also important.”

We know that seed in this parable – is the Word of YHUH.

– which we just said  - is full of promises.

“Satan comes to steal the Word, but most of this conflict is produced by what is already in the ground (which is represented by the world’s system and the state of the heart). 

The offenses, thorns, and stones are a byproduct of the working of the Nachash in the hearts of men.

Carnal man will embrace corruptible seed, but the incorruptible seed only thrives in the ground that has been RE-conditioned by the Holy Spirit. 

This RE-conditioning of the heart is facilitated through both the new birth and the ongoing process of sanctification in the life of the believer, through the work of the Holy Spirit (breaking up the fallow ground – Jeremiah 4:3 and Hosea 10:12).”

Let’s look at another parable:

Matthew 13:24-30 p688

Do you see how YHUH talks about SEED in Genesis 1 when He creates and says “like produces like”… and then in Genesis 3 – there is a SEED problem!... and then Yahusha talks about seed!!   

Connect the dots!

So the disciples come to Yahusha and ask questions…

Matthew 13:36-43 p688

Yahusha created the field – the world, and then “created mankind and spoke seeds of blessing and empowerment to them.

The Nachash entered that world and sowed a different kind of seed – TARES.

Once that seed germinates inside a person – they become one with the seed as the information/transformation of that seed takes hold in his life.  Now the individual is known by the seed he embraced!”

Dr. Lake goes on with an interesting thought:

“Perhaps this parable is another way of explaining the imagery in the book of Revelation regarding those who have the mark of God on their foreheads and those who have the mark of the Beast;  it will all be about the seed they hunger for and embrace.”

Lake goes on to explain:

“Jesus’ use of the tares and wheat was one of the most effective illustrations regarding mankind.  Wheat and tares look exactly alike when growing in a field side by side. It is not until they mature that the difference is revealed. Although the tares appear to be wheat in every sense, the heads of the tares are empty (perhaps, a divine pun intended), and the tares stand straight up. The wheat on the other hand, have heads of multiplied seed (a real harvest) and will bow their heads before the Creator.”

Isn’t that amazing!  - Again, what Brad Scott taught us in the B’re’shiyt teaching…  YHUH gives us the natural to understand the supernatural! 

Dr. Lake also says…

“What many miss in this powerful parable of Jesus is its connection to the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) and the Valley of Armageddon. The Day of Atonement is an appointed time established by Almighty God.”

Leviticus 23:27-29  p

…. 29 “For any being that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.”

Do you see the humbling in this verse that each  person is called to – or they will be “cut off”? !

Now

Matthew 13:40-43  (tares thrown into a fiery furnace)

So – in this one little story… Dr. Lake writes…

“Jesus illustrated the conflict with the seed of the Nachash, the Watchers, the son of Perdition, the mark of the Beast, the mark of God, the damning of mankind, the Remnant, and His triumphal return as Messiah ben David.”!!!

Chapter five:

The Watcher Conspiracy Continues

Dr. Lake references the Apocryphal books of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees…

“The Watchers were involved in corrupting mankind on 2 levels:

1.      Genetically – They were actively altering the genetic makeup of humanity through

A.    their breeding program to create immortal/human hybrids and

B.    by their instruction to men on how to blend various species with humanity to create chimeras.

2.     Technologically – They also began to teach humanity a large body of forbidden knowledge that seemed to be a continuation of the promise of the Nachash in the Garden.

This knowledge ranged from the art of seduction to the creation of poisons, to witchcraft, and even to building and equipping armies.”

He goes on to talk about mythology – and explains what we know – that it isn’t a MYTH.  It is true and it was the fallen ones that are the gods of mythology.”

Dr. Lake says… what we have learned:

“We need to understand that many of the concepts and practices of Western society are modern expression of pagan myths and occult knowledge harbored by the Mystery Religions.”

And then adds:

“The spiritual power in any symbolism, practices, and philosophies are not in what the mean to those outside these occult societies, but the original meanings they seek to obscure from the profane (i.e., the general public). 

Back to SEED…

“The war of the seeds (or the spiritual war that we are engaged in)  uses multidimensional seed.”

1.     The physical seed of the Watchers = the Nephilim, the giants.

2.     The other seed – is the forbidden knowledge!

Genesis 6:5 p12

“And Alohim saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

“Imagination = the Hebrew word yetser = the framework or purpose.

Something had so corrupted the minds of men that the purpose and framework of their every thought was evil.”

Dr. Lake explains that you can say – “well of course – that is what they get from the Watchers”…

But it is more than that…

The Word makes it clear that “God specifically identifies these thoughts with men rather than giants.” 

“The watchers not only came to spread their physical seed into the genetic pool of humanity, but they were also the 2^nd wave in the invasion of the planet earth that had been started by the Nachash.  They came to assist in the fulfillment of the covenant of knowledge created between the first couple and the kingdom of darkness.”

Enoch 9:5

“Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn:”

“men striving to learn” – Dr. Lake explains – “summarizes the very foundation of all esoteric societies:  Their main focus is discovering an implementing knowledge that was brought down to humanity by the old gods (Watchers).”

Lake says

“Over the past few centuries, our naivete regarding prehistory has given those involved in the Mystery Religions carte blanche to operate within the church and society with little or no resistance.  In fact, over time, the church has adopted and even defended ideas and philosophies  that originated within the Mystery Religions. 

Nothing is more frustrating to Remnant scholars in our day than to have a war raged against them by sleeping saints with the battle cry,

“But that’s not what it means to me!”

No wonder the clarion call of heaven in the last days is for His people to ‘come out of her, My –ami (People).

“Here is what God had to wipe out in the flood waters:

1.     Genetically modified humanity

2.     Genetically modified animals

3.     Esoteric knowledge that breached into hyperspace and into the power of the Immortals

4.     Technology that could have destroyed mankind before Messiah could appear to redeem them

5.     Altered humanity that had been driven mad with satanic knowledge, power, and lust.”

“When we examine the writings of many ancient cultures from around the world, we discover their beliefs that gods came down from the heavens that possessed technology that we cannot even rival today.  These legends are filled with stories of stargates, multidimensional portals, genetic modification, aircraft and missiles in remarkable detail, and even nuclear weapons.”

I hope today things are starting to make a lot more sense.

I hope the dots are connecting in Torah (the whole Bible)!

Seed –

There is agenda here…

What seeds have been planted in you?

What seeds do you plant in others?

What seed do you embrace? 

We become one with the seed we embrace.

The field – the world – is full of wheat and tares…

The wheat and the tares look identical – until one bows with fruit and the other stands tall and empty.

Sh’ma Yisra’el

Torah Portion Vayera - Guardian Angel Teaching #14 - Where - October 31

31 October 2015  ~  18 Cheshvan 5776

Torah Parashah - Vayera ~ (He appeared)

B’re’shiyt 18:1- 22:24  RSTNE p 19

Guardian Angel by Skip Moen 

Torah - Vayera (He appeared)

-prophecy of Yitzchak  and his birth

-  destruction of Sedom and Amorah

-  Avraham’s mediation to save righteous in the cities

-  Lot’s families escape

-the Akediah  of Avraham

-  Hagar and Ishmael sent away

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Avraham’s Akedah =

B’re’shiyt 22:16

“And said, ‘By Myself have I sworn, says YHWH, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son.”

This is the verse the KEY verse.

Here we have to go back to Hebrew... (of course! :) )

= The English “you have done”

In ... “because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son.”

In Hebrew “you have done” is  “ASAH”

ASAH is an ayin, a shin, and a hey.

This word means  =

to make or create...

 it is A DEED FULLY DONE  and is in past tense.  !!!

With that understanding...

What B’re’shiyt 22:16 - better translated would say something close to....

“because you did this completely - giving your only son”.

What’s the big deal about this anyway?? - “If this were true....”

Why wouldn’t the Masoretic text say this?...

Because this is LIKE Y’shua!!

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Let’s go to our word study from Skip Moen’s Guardian Angel -

Today we are going to start by looking at the word - “where”.

Let’s start this by reading

B’re’shiyt 3: 1-13 RSTNE p 10

Let’s look at YHWH’s opening question to Ahdahm after the sin...

B’re’shiyt 3:9 RSTNE p 10

“And YHWH Elohiym called to Ahdahm, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’”

Rabbi David Fohrman points out that there are 2 words in Hebrew for “where”.

“eypoh”  and “ayyeh”  (it’s ai’ke in Interlinear)

“Hebrew is a language with “a rather sparse vocabulary, so when it includes more than one word for the same idea, there is usually a very good reason. The reason is usually because there is some important difference between the 2 words.  -- Something so important that the separate ideas cannot be covered by a single word.”

Love is like this.

In Hebrew it is  -- ahava, dodh, and rayah.

And if we just read B’re’shiyt 3:9 in English and it says “where”... we miss a ton of stuff!

What stuff?

Let’s go to ...

EYPOH =

         B’re’shiyt 37:16

         = covers the general idea of “where” when it comes to geography.  This the “where” of location.

AYYEH =

         B’re’shiyt 22:7 - Yitzchak is not asking about the LOCATION of the sheep for the sacrifice. 

         -He is asking , in surprise, why the sheep is not WITH THEM. His use of AYYEH indicates that he expects the offering to be with them, but for some reason it is not.

Once you see the difference between these 2 words, the verse comes to life. 

YHWH is NOT asking about the location of Ahdahm - His question is a surprised concern about the unusual circumstances ...

This question in B’re’shiyt 3:9 is the first question in Torah.

 (Because the serpent did not ask a question - he had only made statements!  - despite English translation!)

-  The serpent states a fact with an implied suggestion.  The serpent actually says “YHWH said” and then implies “so what”. 

YHWH asks the first question  in B’re’shiyt 3:9 - “Where are you?” 

He’s not asking for Ahdahm’s location!

He’s asking - why Ahdahm is not where he is supposed to be - and Ahdahm is to be WITH HIM (YHWH)!!

The difference in the meaning of “where” makes an enormous difference in our understanding of the real situation.

Ahdahm is supposed to be in the presence of YHWH.

As a reflector of YHWH’s glory.

Ahdahm should desire to be with YHWH.

NOTICE IN

B’re’shiyt 3:8 “Ahdahm and his wife hid themselves from the presence of YHWH Elohiym...”

- Ahdahm's allegiance has shifted, and Ahdahm is very aware of this shift.

His idolatry has forced him to flee YHWH’s glory.

Remember last week we talked about the Hebrew word for loin covering - hagore with the root hagar - means  “to make private by fencing the pride of a person” - (idolatry). 

So Ahdahm was putting on a covering that covered up his idolatry!

As we have looked at this whole story -

-  traditionally the woman - Chava is blamed -

-  and of course the serpent...

-  but not Ahdahm....

But what we don’t see clearly in English is that Ahdahm is involved in two sins.

These two sins are the backdrop for the tragic collapse of male-female relationships.

“His sins propel us into the world where role fulfillment and transparent relationships are a daily struggle.” - Moen says.

G.  K Beale, in “We become what we Worship” -  makes a remark that moves us toward the examination of Ahdahm’s reaction to YHWH’s punishment. 

He says.. “Ahdahm’s shift from trusting YHWH to trusting the serpent meant that he (Ahdahm) no longer reflected YHWH’s image but must have begun to mirror the serpent’s image.”

B’re’shiyt 3:10

“And he said I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

better translated - this reads:

“And he said, I sh’ma Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked; and I hid myself.”

Sh’ma means both the :

         1.  Sh’ma prayer - Hear O Yisra’el ... which Sh’ma means....listen and obey!

         2. But here in B’re’shiyt 3:10 - the first time Sh’ma is used in Torah is about FEAR.

When Ahdahm says “I heard your voice” he isn’t declaring the sovereignty of YHWH nor is he declaring his loyalty to YHWH’s instructions... He is running scared.

Scripture describes the dual nature of our reality....we can turn nearly any action into a declaration of YHWH’s goodness or a statement of our depravity. 

Sin always results in a shift away from YHWH’s order toward DISORDER.

Ahdahm heard YHWH’s command  --

         = He listened but he did not obey.

As Zachar - he was created to remember. 

His single obligation was to remember what YHWH said and live accordingly!!! 

Zachar /Zakar - “To hear/ remember what YHWH says and do it.”

YHWH told Ahdahm every thing he needed to know in order to maintain a perfect relationship with YHWH.

   -  But Ahdahm listened to the naked snake.

Ahdahm became the first idolater.

         He knew what he was supposed to do - but he picked his idea over YHWH’s instruction... this he placed himself higher than YHWH.

The text makes it very clear that Ahdahm was right there while the conversation between the serpent and Chava occurred. 

B’re’shiyt 3:6 “her husband with her”

The Hebrew word translated “with her” is “immah”

It doesn’t mean he was just standing there.

 It means he was agreeing with everything as it happened.

The preposition “‘im” carries the meaning of something done together or in common. 

This is NOT the exclusive sin of the ezer. 

This is mutual culpability.

It is not surprising that Ahdahm and Chava were together...

What is surprising is that Ahdahm DOESN’T SAY A WORD!!

Isn’t he the Zachar - the one whose job it is - to remember what YHWH says and do it??!!!

Yes, of course he is the one called to remember....

but wait - there’s more...

YHWH asks him in B’re’shiyt 3:11 and then in 3:12 the man says.....

“And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the eytz, and I did eat.”

or basically - and probably sarcastically......

“I just did what the woman you gave me, told me...  she is the one who is supposed to guide me - You said ....”

Which first places blame on the woman Chava - but ultimately places the blame on YHWH!!

But Ahdahm is right... in that she is supposed to guard him. Ahdahm did what Chava said because he trusted Chava.

Chavah failed to maintain the boundaries. 

She failed as neqevah - as the boundary setter, the counselor and the priest - the EZER. 

She failed to recognize the difference between how she is made and how she might be made.

As the boundary keeper, she fails to recognize her own boundaries.

She steps over the line because she does not see the difference between being equipped by YHWH and being self-sufficient.

And Ahdahm follows.

He forgets that YHWH told him something else.

Both the man and the woman violate their essential YHWH - created character.

But that is what sin does - it violates who we really are.  That is why sin is a form of insanity.

So we should ask -

Did Ahdahm make a mistake to trust Chavah?

NO.

Mishle (Proverbs)  31:11 p 565

         “The lev of her husband does safely  trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”

         “trust” = batach.

This is the only place this is used between humans.

In every other case of the use of the word “batach” - it is a positive declaration of trust between a man/person and YHWH. 

Ahdahm was not wrong to trust her.  Spouses are supposed to trust each other like they trust YHWH.

Ahdahm’s problem is not trust - His problem is not remembering!

When Ahdahm failed to be who he was - the one who remembers - then there are no standards for trust.

Remembering implies upholding YHWH’s instructions.

“Remembering means measuring TRUST against TRUTH.”

Trust without truth lead to sin.

Sha’ul was dead-on when he said... “As by one man, sin entered the world.”

Ahdahm was right there, forgetting how YHWH made him and what he was supposed to be. 

The woman was deceived but Ahdahm wasn’t. 

He made a deliberate choice.

We trust YHWH because HE is unwavering, true and reliable.

That is the divine standard of the ezer - reliability based on unwavering truthfulness.

But it is not reliability based on MY unwavering faithfulness. 

-The ezer must demonstrate reliability based on YHWH’s unwavering faithfulness.

In other words - she is the guardian of the borders.  She is responsible to hold the boundaries in place AS YHWH HAS PRESCRIBED THEM. 

We can see here - it is not about what WE think.  We need YHWH to guide us!!

As Moen says “We need a compass that is not influenced by OUR idea of True North.”

Ahdahm forgot the truth - and his disregard killed him.

Chavah ignored the boundaries - and overstepping them killed her.

Standing next to his ezer, Ahdahm participated in the rebellion.

His silence brought about the Fall just as much as Chavah’s conversation did. 

Ahdahm is the first example of the principle that ‘the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’

This is not the only time that Ahdahm’s silence causes generational disaster. 

Silence is not “golden”.  “Sometimes it is godless.”

“When we are faced with the temptation to not remember who YHWH is, who we are and the difference between the two, we must speak up!”

We must listen and obey  = hear and do = Sh’ma!

“We must object to any serpents that suggest our own feelings are the final arbiter of moral behavior -- we must respond as the Second Ahdahm responded... “It is written....””

Afraid

B’re’shiyt 3:10

         “And he said, I heard (Sh’ma) Your voice in the garden, and i was afraid, because I am naked; and i hid myself.”

“yare” = “to fear, to respect, to reverence and to be afraid.”

At the time of the b’re’shiyt (the beginning) yare was ONLY about fearing YHWH.  But after sin - everything is twisted...

and Yare is about fearing other things....

When we read this - I think we think - well Ahdahm just messed up and he is afraid... perhaps like we were when we were in trouble as a little kid - not wanting to be found because we knew we’d be in trouble. 

BUT Ahdahm doesn’t say he is afraid of YHWH ....

Ahdahm says he was afraid  - “because I am naked” !!

Why would he be afraid because he is naked?

He was naked before... He’s never had clothes!

in fact - naked was normal for him!

Why is he now afraid of what was normal just minutes before??!!??

It doesn’t make any sense - unless we read it in Hebrew. :)

“ki eirom anochi”= literally means “because naked I.”

In Hebrew, present tense equivalents are implied.

So the Hebrew text tells us that Ahdahm said, “I am naked” - not “I was naked”

{“Hebrew does not see a difference between the subject and the conditions that describe that subject.  The conditions are the subject.  In this instance, Ahdahm is not simply described as naked.  Ahdahm’s very essence is nakedness.  It is not possible to conceive of Ahdahm apart from this state of being.  Ahdahm has become what he manifests - nakedness - the manifestation of chaos.  In other words, he is becoming like the serpent, the projection of an image opposed to the truth.”}

Ahdahm is not describing a past condition that has not been corrected.  Yes, he attempted to cover himself with fig leaves, but his effort made no difference to his real concern. 

He is still naked in spite of the fact that he wears a man-made covering!!

His nakedness is not an external condition!

Ahdahm is naked on the inside.

Naked on the inside?  - What does that mean?

It means - Ahdahm realizes he is now like the naked snake.

In B’re’shiyt 2:25 (“They were both naked, the ish and his ishsha and were not ashamed.”)

“Naked” = arumim. 

There is a direct link between the nakedness before disobedience and being unashamed. 

In order to see why Ahdahm is suddenly afraid of being naked, we need to know what this connection really means.

The verb is “bosh” with an attached particle “hoo”  The particle adds emphasis and clarity tot he meaning.  It suggests specificity.  It’s like underscoring the subject.  Specifically, these two were naked and NOT ashamed.  What the text says is shocking.  We don’t expect this.  We expect nakedness to bring shame.  That is the overwhelming association in the rest of the biblical writings... but not here - WHY?

let’s look at “bosh”

Bosh is not something to do with sex. 

This statement doesn’t imply that they were sexually naked but not embarrassed. 

Any translation that suggests embarrassment in this phrases misses the point.  The word bosh is used in the prophets and Psalms to describe DISGRACE  that comes from undertaking something that fails.  It is used to describe humiliation, loss of status and exposure as fools.

In many occurrences, “bosh” is tied to the catastrophe that befalls Yisra’el when they forget YHWH.

Tzephanyah (Zephaniah) 3:11 p 351

         “In that yom (day) you shall not be ashamed of all your doings, in what you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you those that gilah (rejoice) in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of My kadosh (holy)  har.(mountain)”

the parallels of this word shame/ashamed - are “proud” and “haughty”.

Yisra’el’s false pride brings shame upon them.

What is shame?

Shame is being discovered without a relationship with YHWH.

Why is that shameful?

-  From YHWH’s perspective, shame leads directly to a false view of life, to alienation and to destruction.  It is ultimate foolishness.

-  It is public humiliation - being found lacking.

-  Shame is really life without YHWH.

So why were Ahdahm and Chavah originally naked and NOT ashamed?

Because the only “covering” they needed was their intimacy with YHWH who walked with them int he cool of the evening.

They were utterly transparent  - no false pride....

Then they met the snake - who was not transparent - they were invited to become aware of the possibility of “hidden agenda”

The serpent suggest that even YHWH may have hidden agenda.

The serpent invited them to wear a covering, not of clothes, but of concealed desire.

In other words - they were invited to become like the snake who appears as one thing on the outside but is really something else on the inside. 

The snake uses his appearance of nakedness to seduce Chavah. (she thought she could trust him.)

The snake is twisted nakedness.

In this sin - Ahdahm and Chavah discover - that one can appear one way - but really the true identity / agenda can be totally hidden.

Nakedness is turned upside down - and becomes the vehicle for concealment rather than transparency.

What is shame?  - It is to be found out!  Shame is being exposed as two-faced, being reveals so others see my hidden persona.

Why is Ahdahm afraid of being naked?

Because now Ahdahm knows the difference between transparency and hypocrisy and, for the first time, he sees himself as two different people - one who is expected to be with YHWH walking in the Garden and the other who knows that he has failed and cannot openly walk with YHWH. 

Ahdahm is not afraid of YHWH’s punishment.

He is afraid of himself for now he knows that he is alienated from himself, a dual personality. He knows that he is capable of rejecting YHWH. 

Just as he intuitively understood the truth of perfect culpability of the ezer, now he knows in his bones that he is broken.

There is no going back.

He has discovered the yetzer ha’ra (evil impulse) within and allowed it to shape his being in the world. 

Now he knows that something in the world is terribly wrong - and he made it that way.

Now he is in a twisted world he can no longer trust because he has discovered that he cannot trust himself.

That is real shame.

The experience spills over into his relationships. He no longer trusts his wife and he no longer trusts YHWH.  That is why he can blame YHWH for this fiasco.

AMEIN