The
Hebrew month of Abib (Nisan)
22
April 2017
Torah
Parashah Sh’mini - Uayiqra (Lev) 9:1 - 11:47 p86
Sh’mini
= eighth.
B’re’shiyt
1:7 from Brad Scott’s B’re’shiyt Study
Healing...
Put a difference between...
Torah
Parashah Sh’mini - Uayiqra (Lev) 9:1 - 11:47 p86
- The priestly service of the Book of
the Law begins.
Uayiqra
10:10 in the instructions given to the priests...
“And that you may put a difference
between that which is kadosh and defiled, and between unclean and clean.”
We
see in later in Yechezkel when YHUH is talking through the prophet - why He has
scattered Yisra’el / Efrayim among the “gentiles”...
Yechezkel
(Ezekiel) 22:26 p 410
“Her
Kohanim have violated My Torah, and have profaned My kadosh things: they have put no difference between the
kadosh and the profane, neither have they shown any difference between the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My Shabbats, and I am
profaned among them.”
Remember
Yahusha did not speak against Torah, he spoke against the “mixed” mess it had
become with man’s traditions...
And
we can extrapolate that out to today... and see all that is going on in NOT
putting a difference between the kadosh and the profane and the clean and
unclean.
Back
to the Torah Parashah...
Uayiqra
11
p 87 Where YHUH is making clear what is
FOOD and what is not.
Most
of us can remember when we woke up and realized that just because people in our
society actually eat something - it does not make it food.
Most
of us have come to - there are many health reasons why one should not consume
pork and shellfish and the bugs that Yah says not to... but the bottom line is
- we don’t do it because He said not to.
Let’s
look at a couple things just to remind ourselves and clarify somethings for
those who might not have had this teaching:
Mark
7:19 p 7:13
(“Thus Jesus declared all foods clean”) - was
ADDED to Scripture with in the last 200 years!
-
and this story isn’t even about food!
Acts
10:9-28
p 788 This is Peter’s vision... of the
sheet coming down... and many animals in the sheet... “kill and eat” - and there were clean and
unclean animals in the sheet....
10:28...
And he said to them, You know how that it is rabbinically forbidden for a man
that is a Yahudi to keep company, or come to one of another nation, but YHUH
has shown me that I should not call any man common, unkosher, or unclean.”
I
encourage you to study the parashah on your own sometime during Shabbat if you
have not already done so. :)
~
Let’s
go to B’re’shiyt 1:7
Page
29 in your Study Guide
B’re’shiyt
1:7
“Vay-ya’as Alohiym
‘ET - haraqiya’ vay-yav’del beyn ham-mayim ‘sher mit-tachat laraqiya’
eveyn ham-mayim ‘asher me’al
laraqiya’ vay’hiy ken.”
“And
Alohiym - (ET) made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.”
The
first word :
VAY-YA’AS
-
an action word .... “and made / rearranged”...
Let’s
look at the similar words that preceded vay-ya’as
1:3 .... Vay-yo’mer = “and said”
1:4 .... Vay-yar’ = “and saw”
1:5 ... Vay-yiq’ra’ = “and called”
-
Are you seeing the similarities in these words!??!!
ASAH
= the root of VAY-YA’AS
Asah
= to make, to do, prepare, perform, fulfill, appoint, rearrange
YHUH
begins with the creation.
-there is no - “baras” (something out of nothing) - being done to anything for 20 verses ...
until the beast of field... and then man - the things with nephesh / “soul”.
In
the Tanakh - ASAH appears over 2600 times and it is mostly about man’s “doing”
something
YHUH
is the only one that baras... but man and YHUH - Vay -ya’as.
Here
we have - this whole idea about...
....the
word matching the deed
-
Yah speaks and his word comes forth -
and the action happens.... and
something comes forth...
What
we have occurring here from 1:6 to 1:7-8.... is what is called a :
davar
hilmad me’aniono = = the second part expands more than the first. - This provides the detail from 1:6 and
expands into 1:7.
davar
hilmad me’aniono is an
interpretive method - like PARDES.... (Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod)
P - simple meaning
R - alluded meaning - “between the
lines”
D - comparing Scriptures - bigger
picture
S - secret / prophetic
Yahusha
and the Tehillim (Psalms) use this method when the 2nd part gives more detail.
Example
Yahusha in His prayer says....
“lead
us not into temptation” ...
but deliver us from evil
the meaning of “lead us not into temptation “
is expanded in - “deliver us from evil.”
The
whole idea is that YHUH is going to set the pattern with His Word and deeds for
man to see and understand!
Brad
says....
“When
the Word and deed become one - then we have a biblical truth.”
Now
here is a big bomb to drop...
Remember
: a biblical truth is not the same as a “fact”!
Sometimes
people confuse facts with Biblical truth.
Just
because something is true, does not make it biblically true.
Brad’s
example of this is....
- “some people in the world eat their
babies”...
---
it is true they do that - but that does not mean it is Biblical truth.
Another
example is ... the lies that we believe...
You
know, the things that sound like...
“I
am not enough”.... or
“This
is how it always is.” --ETC....
Biblical
truth is what YHUH declares to be true.
Biblical
truth is eternal truth.
It
was true when He said it.
-It’s
true the day after He said it
-and
it is true today
-and
it will continue to be true even when we dwell with Him in eternity.
His
Truth stands forever!
But
that doesn’t mean that facts are truth - do not confuse the two!
*
Alohiym = God - the strong mighty ONE
*
ET = aleph
Tov - Yahshua the Messiah
*
haraqiya -
Ha = “the”
… = the raqiya….
raqiya = being
the expanse that is divided : the middle…
Remember this statement here is an expansion of the
statement that Yah already made in verse 6 = a davar
hilmad me’anino.
He already said let there be a division/
expanse between the waters and now He is going to say - “and Yah made the
firmament and Yah divided between the waters…which were under the firmament”
This is
that middle ground... the place that is the same distance from Truth as it is
from lies.
The place
that is easily convinced of error/ sin.
~
vay-yav’del = and
divided (first in 1:4)
~
Then is
the word -
beyn = between
~
At the top of page 30 in study guide...
Mit-tachat
=
translated here as the word “under”
root =
tachat - tet chet tet
generally
translated as = under, instead of, in place of.
= (the
mashiach tachat = the anti messiah)
The literal meaning = “something that is in
place of something - ....
something - instead of
something.”
It is where we get the word - “understudy”
B’re’shiyt 4:25 = is “a famous ‘instead of’”
- Abel was
already killed by Cain, and Seth is born….
and Chava says.. “For Alohiym has appointed me another zera (seed) INSTEAD of
Hevel (Abel) whom Qayin killed.” =
“in place of” = tachat
The whole
idea here in B’re’shiyt 1:7 ...
is that we
have the waters above which is going to represent things heavenly…
...and
then we have waters and things under or below…
this is
why tachat is used because the “understudy” is positionally below the lead actor,
if you will…. it is positional…
By nature
the one that is under wants to take the place of that which is above …
...We are
going to see that picture throughout the rest of scripture with jealousy and
power struggle and heavenly battles taking place where hasatan desires to be like
YHUH…
The real
lead is Yahusha…and there is
also a mashiach tachat (anti Messiah)
The whole
idea of anti messiah is not so much that he is against him or even that he is
the opposite of him...
.... but that he wants to be “instead of” the Messiah!!
B’re’shiyt 22:13 p 23… Avraham’s Akeida
Avraham takes Yitz’chak to the mountain… 22:8 - Yah will provide himself a Lamb for a burnt offering…
vs 13 -
ram stuck in thicket - became the burnt offering
1 Yochanan 4:3 p 833
“And every
ruach that does not confess that Yahusha haMoshiach has come in the flesh is
not from YHUH. And this is the ruach of
the anti-Moshiach, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the
olam hazeh.”
What he is saying is that in order for people
to follow the mashiach tachat - he has
prepared the world spiritually ...
- In other words - he has prepared people to receive a
mashiach unlike the Mashiach presented in the Torah…
Let me say that again....he has
prepared people to receive a mashiach unlike the Mashiach presented in the
Torah…
You might say... “Janet, are you
kidding me?? That is crazy!!!...”
Yep, not kidding.
This is exactly why we teach the
Word and keep the Torah of Melchizedek the Book or Covenant of Promise!
There are pagan traditions of man
all around us! We used to be a part of
that!!
We see people embracing pagan things
and calling them things of Yah and we see people just embracing pagan
things. :(
Persons not keeping the 7th day and
not embracing His moedim.
.....REPLACING - the nature of what Yahshua HaMashiach did on the tree ....
..... with the nature of a mashiach who did
something else !!!
- Now I am going to say something that will be
very challenging for some people.... but truth is truth....
The Messiah who hung on the stake in the
Torah is the one who died for our sins…
....BUT the “christ” who hung on the “cross” - according to modern
christian theology - is the one who
ended the instructions of the Torah of YHUH on the cross!
(They do not understand that when the
English is saying in Galutyah - that the LAW was hung on the tree... it was the
book of the law -the one on the outside
of the ark as a witness against the people.... and not the Book of the
Melchizedek covenant.)
and THAT -
the mess of doing pagan things and calling it of YHUH.... and not doing the
things YHUH says to do - is the spirit of the mashiach tachat already
in the world, deceiving the world and changing the nature of “messiah” - so that people do not understand or know of
the true Mashiach.
(Brad Scott says...“I will continue to
pound that -- until someone shoots me
dead.”)
This is
why Jewish people can’t follow the christian jesus....
..... because the christian jesus - according to christian teachings and even some christian
bibles... came to END THE TORAH!!!
......This is Mashiach tachat!!!!
2
Thessalonians 2:8 p 899 (really this whole chapter!)
“And then
shall the Torah-less one be revealed, whom Yahusha shall consume with the Ruach
of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.
Galatians
3:25
cjb p 1455 “under” = “tachat”
Now this
is different!!...
The word “tachat” is used to show that the Messiah is instead of Torah.
BUT -
pay close attention here...
What we
mean by “instead of Torah” is .....rather
than Torah being etched in stone tablets - we have the Word of YHWH written in our hearts of flesh!!
Yechezk’el /Ezekiel
36:26 p 422
“A new leb
also will I give you, and a new Ruach will put inside you: and I will take away
the stony leb out of your flesh, and I will give you a leb of flesh.”
- a new
heart - a new spirit….
This is a picture that the law/instructions will not be just on stone but in us!
*
laraqiya’= the
firmament - or what is in the middle
*
ubeyn = between
- literally means understanding or discernment between the waters under the
firmament, and the waters above the firmament
*
ham-mayim = the
waters
*
‘asher = which
were
*
me’al =
translated here as “above”
root = ‘al - pronounced “hal”
It is a tzadi and a lamed
It means/is translated as...
(preposition) = upon, above, over,
beyond, and in a couple of
places = on high ( or Most High)
Hoshea 7:16; 11:7 = “Most High”
‘al = means “up”
~
Brad says
“There are things above and things below... and YHUH’s desire is not that we
live one place or the other to the exclusion of the other... but rather....to
live in below and see above, in order to change the things below/ here.
This is
why when you reach out to YHUH and do teshuva (repent) -
- and say ‘I want You to be - not just my savior
but my Lord and my King’... when you do that, YHUH does something to your
spirit -
- He makes it holy
- He abides in you and He makes the very inmost
being of you - comparable to the most holy place in the Tabernacle...
- and He expects that holiness to begin to
transform your mind.
- What ever you do physically - it has to happen
in your soul -
- Even what you understand, and say - it will
effect all of you - spirit, soul and body.
The soul area - This is where the battle is all the time -
and what happens in that battle is what we believe is that we believe lies.
.... It is there from those lies
that we get wrong practice, wrong teaching, wrong thinking, about ourselves,
other people and YHUH!
Back to B’re’shiyt 1:7 - YHUH ends this verse by saying he is going
to separate the waters - those which are under, from those which are
above...and ... “KEN” = the next word
ken = And it
was pronounced “cain”
It
is from the Hebrew word ‘kin’ = kaph-vav-nun
Is
translated as - ‘so, yes, thus, to be ready, therefore, established, set in order, to prepare.’
this word in Hebrew today, is “YES”
( while - ‘lo’ = “low” = no or not)
- As in the firmament was or is being placed
equal distance between the waters.
*
vay’hiy = we’ve already had in B’re’shiyt
1:2.
It
means = so, became
**
So 1:7 we have
YHUH making/ rearranging that which
was created (bara-ed)
the waters are divided between and
there is a middle
under / instead of - the concept of the Moshiach -tachat -
“instead of”
we have the idea of Truth and
fact...
So we have a picture of this
dividing of the waters and this “instead of” plan... where truth and fact are messed up into
one... in that middle place -
remember from B’re’shiyt 1:6 - Yah
hates the middle ...
so this firmament - the place that divides... that middle place
- “puts a difference between” what is
above and what is below.
**
Now I want to remind you of some things I started
to teach last time...
Mishle
(Proverbs) 23:7 p 561
“For
as he thinks in his lev, so is he...”
Mishle
23:12 “Apply your lev to discipline, and your ears
to the words of da’at.”
Mishle
4:23
p 552
“Guard
your lev with all diligence for out of it are the issues of chayim.”
Romiyah
(romans) 12:1-2 p 848
“I
beg you therefore, Yisra’elite brothers, by the rachamim of YHUH, that you
present your bodies a living sacrifice, kadosh, acceptable to YHUH, which is
your act of reasonable worship.
2
And be not conformed to this olam hazeh: but be transformed by the
ongoing renewing of your mind, that you may discern what is that tov,
acceptable, and even the perfect will of YHUH.”
~
We
talked about
Resilience
- the ability to look at today’s miserableness - and know that it will get
better....
Isn’t
this - putting a difference between?
We
talked about faith and fear and hope and hopelessness, and justice and
injustice....
We
talked about how the prince of the air controls or limits Yah’s people with
pain and fear of pain.
We
also talked about soul injury ... a wound that causes us to “hide” who we
are... it is a brokenness ... that if healed enough - the light will come through the broken
places.
We
talked about with soul injury - a big part of healing is having a witness who
will listen and validate the loss / injury.
and
how if we are controlled by pain - we are very limited in what we can do....
BUT
we are called to walk with our broken pieces glued together enough that we can
function ... and the light will come through the broken places and in doing
that - we will be a witness to the TRUTH here in this dark place...
Truth
needs a witness both in me and in the world!
It
is essential that there is a witness ... of YHUH’s presence ... People have to be able to see the light OF
the world...IN the world...
they
must see it because the Light is what gives us hope.
That’s
the witness!
The
LIGHT is what puts a difference between what is kadosh and what is
profane.
What
if we don’t have to hurt... ?
what
if we could have another thought?
Someone
told me recently that a thought - not fed will last in your head only 23
seconds... and if it is not fed - it will just fall away.
Grandfather
to his grandson - “I have two wolves within me and they are always
fighting. One is joy and delight and
HOPE and forgiveness, and the other is pain and miserableness and unforgiveness
and hopelessness.
Boy
said to Grandfather... but which one wins...
Grandfather
- the one I feed.
You
know - we have returned to a nation of priests...
and
it is the job of priests - to put a difference between....
see
Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 22: 26 p 410
“Her
Kohanim have violated My Torah, and have profaned My kadosh things: they have put no difference between the
kadosh and the profane, neither have they shown any difference between the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My Shabbats, and I am
profaned among them.”
What
if we don’t have to be in the middle of the road any more...?
What
if we actually decide which wolf we feed??
What
if we choose to let the ugly - hopeless thoughts run their course for 23
seconds and NOT feed them...
precisely
because we have put a difference between Truth and lies,
between
hope and hopelessness....
What
if we decide to recognize the moshiach
tachat?... and put a difference between
that and Yahusha haMoshiach??!!!
What
if we decide today - right here and right now - to put a difference between the
life giving things and the things that bring death... and I am not just talking
about abomination that people all around us eat....
I am talking about life and death...
the
word says they are both before us...
but
choose life that you may live.
Choose
life....
What
if THIS is resilience?
seeing
the things that are not of chayim, and choosing to look at YHUH despite how we
feel, or how it looks in our lives at that very moment....and recognizing that
i don’t have to be ruled by pain... and hopelessness... and running to defiant
faith that says...
I am okay because YHUH is on the thrown and
tho he slay me, yet will I serve Him - no matter what...
That
is putting a difference between...
I
don’t have to be ruled by pain ...
and
when I put this difference between..
and
joy and freedom come -
then
when i have put the difference between those two wolves...
then
i can feed the one of YHUH and hope and life...
and
THAT is my witness.
Sh’ma
Yisra’el
AMEIN
