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12 November 2016 - 11 Cheshvan 5777
Torah Parashah - Lech Lecha  B’re’shiyt 12:1-17:27
Brad Scott’s B’re’shiyt teaching 1:1
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Brad Scott’s B’re’shiyt teaching B’re’shiyt 1:1

Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 46:10 p 329 RSTNE
“Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.”

-Usually it is taught that Yah knows the end in the beginning.

-In Hebrew it says that YHUH declares the end IN the beginning.

Our Scriptures should say
Declaring the end IN the beginning - not FROM.

1. first we will read about creation ... completed
          and then the fall
          and then the restoration
    and eventually we will see new heaven and new earth

2.     Second we will read about man -complete
          and then the fall
          and then the restoration restore
   and man kind waiting for a new body

3 and collectively Isra’el...  created
          and then the fall
          and then restoration by Messiah as revealed in prophets in         
          and in the Tanakh
          and then the Bride is made complete and whole in the end...

PARDES
Pashat - actual story on page - simple meaning
Remez -  reading between the lines
Derash- how it compares with other Scriptures, not explicit           in text
Sod - prophetic / deeper/ mystical

We need to remember -
Hebrew begins in / based in -  agriculture!
YHUH shows us the seen so we understand the unseen!

B’re’shiyt 1:1

7 Hebrew words start the scriptures - 6 are translated, one is not...

B’re’shiyt = “in the beginning”

          = three letter consonant root = raw word that begins all Hebrew words.

Brad says ....
          if Hebrew is the mother tongue - the  basis for which all words come from = the Hebrew 3 letter root,
           and this Hebrew 3 letter root will always reflect the action. 

IE - Mississippi River - all kinds of stuff dumped in it...
many of us have been drinking out of Mississippi River as it dumps into gulf... but it begins at the source... clean (or a lot cleaner than at the gulf!) !

          = example of  taking words back to the root


Bre’shyit = bet resh alaph shin yod tov

          - Take apart prefix and suffix we remove

          1. bet =  which means “to be inside” and remove
          2. yod and tov which gives its feminine singular meaning

          The root is = resh aleph shin = “to cause something to enter into motion”
         
          - Produces action.... 

           - Translated as “beginning, first, first fruits, chief, head,      some”,

-   Brad also suggests - that this is a title and expression of the Messiah ...
-   a word that refers to: “He that begins all things”...

-   It does not refer to time - not time because we don’t have heaven and earth yet .... time is a dimension and time has to have matter or mass in order for there to be time...

-    We have to have something to measure time by -  otherwise can’t have “time”. 

-   YHUH is outside of time and not subject to matter or mass.

-    YHUH can become a man in time and dwell with us.. and yet still be a spirit... because He is Alohiym and He is multidimensional...

-   He can do that...  when He takes on flesh he dwells on man... THEN there is something to measure by... (has to have flesh to die for the people)

The 1st 7 words of Torah constantly show us who is responsible for bringing time and matter into existence.

B’re’shiyt is often
Translated  ROSH =
          If you look on page 3 in your manual you can see references for where this word is translated as ...

          Ezra 1:5 “head” = chief
          B’rehity 2:10 / 3:15  “heads” - rivers and head of serpent    “head”  (bruise = crush)

          B’midbar 1:2 = “sum” title of Messiah... WHO.... a source of all things... not referring to time....  but a person... a title. 


As we study Hebrew words.. words that we would generally see as positive words...
          As we trace them (all the positive words) back we find they are related to similar background of meaning of:
           === something that is collected together/made whole/gathered together and drawn into one.

And as we search back negative words - we are going to see that they (all the negative words!)  also share similar meaning of:
          === taking something and breaking it/crushing it/destroying so not useful for designed purpose...


The beginning word or Torah -  “B’resheet” - goes back to gathering things and making them whole.

          Revelation 1:8 beginning and ending...  I am...
                    1:17-18
                    3:14 to the angel of the church... the faithful and true           witness the beginning....

Not understanding this one can draw conclusion that Messiah is part of creation.. no this is a title... he exists... there is no explanation.

Most religions explain where their god came from -
But Scripture does not do this....
-God exists He just is and we don’t know how He got there.... 
         
Bayit -
Bayit enlarged in the text = faces the opening of the house... this letter is facing all the rest of scripture all the rest of the Words...
           In pictograph = tent like structure... and we know that based on pictographs...  (paleo Hebrew has gone through a shifting evolution... turning letters....  by the time we get to even Dead Sea Scroll =  we get to the opening to the left... we really don’t know if that is how it was in the beginning.... but we know it is a consistent picture of a house or tent like structure.)

The point is --
          -all the Word starts with a house...
and all things of Yah will be in the house and everything not of house will be outside of house...


Mattityahu 13:1 p 688
          “the same yom Yahusha went out of the bayit, and sat by the seaside. (Seaside would have been west of where He was!)

          This is why - in the parable of the sower.. Yahusha went out of house and went to the West... with the purpose of bringing them back to the house. 
          When we think of those who are lost - they are in the West...

{Yabal = yod bet lamid   = to take by the hand and lead to the house and have a family.}

So YHUH begins Torah with  - the house... 

He sets it perfect... but man falls... and in order for man to be in  Yah’s house... He has to bring them back to His house 


Heb 3:1-6  p 815  “faithful to him that appointed him....as Moshe was faithful in his house...”
“He who has built the house has more honor than he who is the house...”  = Refers to Messiah as one who built the house and Moshe as the house.
vs 4 every house built by some man... but he that built all things is YHUH.  = indirect reference to the Messiah here.

Messiah, as a son over his own house, whose house are we if we hold fast...?

We are referred to as the house, He is referred to as the son or builder... b/c in Hebrew, a builder word is the same word as the word for son...

There is also play on words in Matt 16:15-20 p 691
          As Kepha confesses who messiah is... and Messiah says in 16:18  “and upon this Rock I will restore...” - This is a play on words with “builder” and “son”... that you can’t see in English...

house of Yah -
Ephsiyah (Ephesians) 2:19-22  p 884
          In 2:20 = “Rosh Pina” = corner stone in beginning


B’re’shiyt 6:14  p 12 -in the building of the Ark.. ... 
          The image that is being drawn here is  a great disaster and Yah is going to protect his people... by placing them into this great HOUSE... an ark not a boat... They will be placed in there and protected !!!

Ivrim (Hebrews) 1:10 P 814
“And, You, YHUH, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the shamayim are the works of Your hands:”

          = YHUH has laid the foundation....  foundation of ONE temple/ONE tabernacle/ONE house... and that is when you lay the corner stone which is the Messiah....

We must know....
“All things begin in B’resheet 1 - not at Pentecost!!!”

Yochanan  (John) 1:1 p 754
“B’re’shiyt was the Word, the Living Torah, and the Living Torah was with YHUH and the Living Torah was YHUH.”

This starts with a title establishing who “God” / Elohiym / YHUH  is.

MENORAH --

Debarim (Deut) 32:4 p 163
“He is the Rock, His work is perfect:  for all His halachot are just: an Al of emet and without iniquity, tzadik and right is He.”

“He is the rock”   = verifies that his work was perfect... 7 words.. also the number of completeness....

7 words form a menorah...  7 branches including a servant branch... 

One side of Menorah:
          B’re’shiyt Barah Alohim
                    in the beginning Yah created
         
On the other side...  the object of his creation -
          ha Shamayim v-et ha-aretz
                    the heavens and the earth

In the middle  = the Aleph Tov

Let’s look at that picture of the Menorah with the Commandments:

Yah’s commandments are divided up that way

-1st 4 = worship of Yah
-Last 5 relationship with man
-What separates them is the Shabbat = “a covenant sign between you and me”...  = the Messiah himself...

Some people asked why begin with a bet and not an aleph... 
          Because - Yah had no beginning
That is why he starts out with His house

This also refers to all seen and all unseen matter
Qorintyah Bet (2 Corin.) 4:18 p 867
          “We look not and gilah (rejoice) not at the things, that are seen, but at the things that are not seen:  for the things that are seen are temporal; but the things that are not seen are le-olam-va-ed.”

Again - remember we have the natural so we understand the spiritual.
Another way to say this is - YHUH has given us the seen so we can understand the unseen.

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Episode 8 - The Truth About Cancer

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Amein.

Monday, December 2, 2013

5th teaching on B're'shiyt

5th B’re’shiyt teaching...

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Sh’ma

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30 Nov 2013  ~  27 Kislev 5774

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Torah parashah  Miketz ~ at the end ~  B’re’shiyt 41:1 - 44:17

= the story of....Yosef /Joseph  in prison... and Pharaoh having a dream... Yosef interpreting it.... and Ya’akov /Jacob sending his sons to Egypt to get food ... Yosef meeting his brothers... and them going back to get Binyamin.... and then leaving and Yosef planting the gold goblet in Binyamin’s grain bag....  

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I want to remind you of CJB p 1621 and following...  

= “Scripture readings for the festivals and fasts”...

One of the readings for Hanukkah is Zechariah 2: 14-4:7... 

Before we return to our study of B’re’shiyt...   lets look at :

Z’kharyah /Zechariah 4: 1-10 cjb p 775


vs 4:6  “Then he answered me, “This is the word of YHWH to Z’rubavel:  ‘Not by force, and not by power, but by y Spirit says Adonai-Tzva’ot.’ (the Lord God of Hosts).”
In Hebrew, this is 7 words... and the prophet saw each word over a light /flame on the Menorah .... b/c it is the KEY....

YHWH’s light is the KEY.

May we focus on HIS Light in this Feast of Dedication... and always.

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So let’s go back to our study of B’re’shiyt…. and Brad Scott's teaching on B're'shiyt/ Genesis….

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Review....

2 pictures.... 


1.  The first sentence of B’re’shiyt is   a menorah:

with the “et” - the aleph and the tov - as the center - which happens to be the servant candle  (Hitgalut /Rev 22:12-13)

 ... and one side of the menorah the YHWH side:
  “B’re’shiyt bara elohiym”

...and the other side, the side of creation/ world - haShamayim va’et haErezt” 

and remember that Y’shua is the connection- the ladder that we learned about in the Torah portion of the dream Ya’Akov had... the ladder that connects heaven and earth.


the second picture:

  1. The house, the piece of land. and a family:

We talked about how the bet - the first letter - in the oldest version of Torah found - faces the other letters...  as the Torah comes out of the house...

The house is YHWH’s house.

Again we are back to the house the family and the piece of land....

Mattityahu 13:1 cjb p 1239
“That same day, Y’shua went out of the house and sat down by the lake , but such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there while the crowd stood on the shore...”

  • “out of the house” = outside the court of the Tabernacle = “the HOUSE”
  • This teaching is foundational on the principal of the seed... and that is that YHWH’s family is born from His seed - the Torah/ Word - and not from man’s seed / blood and sperm.

  •     The phrase - “to go out of the house” in Hebrew thinking is to leave from the East and go to the West.

  •       The word that has been translated as “shore” is “yam” in Hebrew and it is the same word as “west”... and who is represented by the west - those “out of the house” of YHWH - His beit hamichdash.
- Those out of the House of YHWH are those out of covenant or, said more clearly --- those not keeping Torah.

-  “....sat down by the lake” - “lake” = the Hebrew meaning here is - a great multitude = the Northern Kingdom of Isra’el.


So... what we have:  ...That same day, Y’shua went out of YHWH’s house - the beit hamichdash,  and went to the West - into the Kingdom of Isra’el - the Northern Kingdom  ... with the purpose of bringing them  - the people of the Northern Kingdom - those out of covenant - also known as Isra’el ----back to the house 
- actually doing what He came to do...  

Mattityahu 15:24 cjb p 1243
“He said, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Isra’el.’”

We consistently see that the mission of Y’shua haMashiach...

 ...IS........

...“To take His people - Isra’el - by the  hand, and lead them back to the House - the beit hamichdash - b/c they keep Torah there..... and be family.”


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B’re’shiyt = means   =   
-In the beginning
-a title of the ONE who created
-the head of
-what starts something into motion


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Brad goes on in his teaching to say...

If one rearranges the letters of B’re’shiyt, we get what is in the middle of page 4 in your books...  

1. The words - “bayit rosh” = head of the house, or first house

---this is the first house and the house begins with the head of it...
...and the head is just there - YHWH himself... He is there. He is.  
He always was.
There is no explantion of how the head - YHWH got there...

And as  we talked about before in this teaching  --  The Living God gives no explanation of how HE got there... HE just always was....

.... unlike all the other religions... who can explain there god - they have a story of how their god came to be... but not the Living God.

If you rearrange the letters of b’re’shiyt you also get
the word...
2.  “betisherey” 
which means = in the month of Tishrei.

... According to ancient rabbis - YHWH created all things in the month of Tishrei.  (Sept/ Oct ish... Yom Terruah/ Yom Kippur / Sukkot seasons).

Another thing to note about “B’re’shiyt bara”... is

the gemetria of “B’re’shiyt bara” = is the same numerical value as............. “on Yom terruah the world was created”....

“This COULD be a coincidence but maybe it’s significant” according to Brad Scott...

B’re’shiyt = numerical value is 913.

913 is the same numercal value as 
“Batorah yatzar” = “He formed with Torah!!” = 913

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So let’s go to the second word of Torah - 

BARA ...  the action.

YHWH doesn’t begin with a noun... he begins with an action..
This is how the Hebrew language works...

B’resheet bara .. 

literally says in this sentence that “in the b’resheet created god”

  • or “god in the beginning, created god”... 

  • but we can’t read it literally like this....
Because....it’s just the way it reads in the Hebrew language, which  focuses first on placing the verb before the subject.  
This is a linguist issue... just like if you translate other languages... the sentence structure /order doesn’t match English either.

“Bara” 
looks just like the first three letters of Bresheet 
bet - resh - aleph

Now i want to talk about some language stuff that might seem a bit complicated... but just relax... we’ll figure it out....  

Brad Scott says...
The form in which bara first appears  is the...
  Kol stem in the perfect tense singular...  

we know it is singular b/c it is in the Kol stem....

A word in “kol stem” is “taking it back to the mountain top / the parent /action root”

When something is taken back into the Kol stem it means...
= HE in first person masculine...
referring to the one who is doing the creating - HE singular.

This is important because YHWH created... and the way the word bara is written - makes it clear that the bara was done by a he - first person masculine.

- This is going to be important when we get to the word “Elohim”....

Also - since “bara” is in the “perfect”... 
This means that it was an absolute completed act - right there in the first verse.

“Bara” = to open up and make seen

that is why we do not say - like the Greeks - ex nihilo.
Ex nihilo means “outof nothing”.
What we say is ... “out of those things which are unseen”

-which is the word Shaul uses in the Brit Chadashah when he talks about the things that are seen come from the things not seen.

... It is rather, YHWH’s Word which is spirit and life... unseen.... so it is out of that which we do not see.

Once again this word has somethign to do with the SEED ...b/c that is how a seed operates...
... it is the Word of YHWH, the SEED that created all things and itis unseen...

and YHWH is using a physical seed to describe how hispeople are reproduced - which is unseen...

B/c His people aren’t from the seed of man - blood and sperm.... but YHWH”s people are from the seed of the WORD.

We talked in the introduction that YHWH uses the pictures / things in the natural/ things seen.....
...... to teach the spiritual... things that are unseen.

A seed begins to open up and make visibel what is inside the seed.


It is words and letters that form what all things are created from ....

and these things are concentrated in the seed....

... and are dispersed throughout the universe... and then things,... all things in the universe/ creation ... was created.

That is what it says...

Brad says... “we can banter bakc and forth about symbolic meanins.....
... but we have to take the BEGINNING (and all the Word) literally.

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The pictorgraph of Barah = bet resh aleph
=the strength or power of the head of the house = “bara”.

The strength or power of YHWH the head of the house is displayed in all the universe/creation....

... bringing things into existance .... starting the motion.

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There is no coincidece ....
that the word ROSH - in b’re’shiyt... which literally means to start or cause something into motion.....  
... that same word you also  find it forms the word “bara”.

Bara is a word ONLY used of YHWH.  

Man never baras...

man only forms and makes and manipulates from what is already created.

Only YHWH creates/ baras

Amein.




4th teaching on B're'shiyt

Sh’ma
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23 Nov 2013  ~  20 Kislev 5773

Torah portion: Vayishalach - “He continued Living”
 B’re’shiyt 37
the story of Yoseph being sold to Egypt.
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let’s review Hanukkah....

Remember it starts Nov 27 at sundown...

Mattitias Maccabee was the priest in Moed’im who the soldiers thouht would be willing to sacrifice a pig on the altar of YHWH for riches... But he refused because he knew that He could not violate Torah... and his sons became a rebel band and three years of fighting... took back the Temple...  cleaned it up and found a day’s worth of oil and decided to light the menorah - because a lit menorah always brought the Presence of the Living God... and the oil lasted for 8 days....  

Hanukkah - the Feast of Dedication.... 
the Festival of lights....

This season we remember what a small group of people did in the face and threat of death...  and we remember who the Light of the World is... 

and i invite you to stop and consider what will you dedicate to YHWH this season??

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Okay.... 

Review B’re’shiyt :
The main things from B’re’shiyt teaching of Brad Scott so far....

2 pictures:

1.  The first sentence of B’re’shiyt is   a menorah:

with the “et” - the aleph and the tov - as the center - which happens to be the servant candle  (Hitgalut /Rev 22:12-13)

 ... and one side of the menorah the YHWH side:
  “B’re’shiyt bara elohiym”

...and the other side, the side of creation/ world - haShamayim va’et haErezt” 

and remember that Y’shua is the connection- the ladder that we learned about in the Torah portion of the dream Ya’Akov had... the ladder that connects heaven and earth.


the second picture:

  1. The house, the piece of land. and a family:

We talked about how the bet - the first letter - in the oldest version of Torah found - faces the other letters...  as the Torah comes out of the house...

The house is YHWH’s house.

Again we are back to the house the family and the piece of land....

Mattityahu 13:1 cjb p 1239
“That same day, Y’shua went out of the house and sat down by the lake , but such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there while the crowd stood on the shore...”

  • “out of the house” = outside the court of the Tabernacle = “the HOUSE”
  • This teaching is foundational on the principal of the seed... and that is that YHWH’s family is born from His seed - the Torah/ Word - and not from man’s seed / blood and sperm.

  •     The phrase - “to go out of the house” in Hebrew thinking is to leave from the East and go to the West.

  •       The word that has been translated as “shore” is “yam” in Hebrew and it is the same word as “west”... and who is represented by the west - those “out of the house” of YHWH - His beit hamichdash.
- Those out of the House of YHWH are those out of covenant or, said more clearly --- those not keeping Torah.

-  “....sat down by the lake” - “lake” = the Hebrew meaning here is - a great multitude = the Northern Kingdom of Isra’el.


So... what we have:  ...That same day, Y’shua went out of YHWH’s house - the beit hamichdash,  and went to the West - into the Kingdom of Isra’el - the Northern Kingdom  ... with the purpose of bringing them  - the people of the Northern Kingdom - those out of covenant - also known as Isra’el ----back to the house 
- actually doing what He came to do...  

Mattityahu 15:24 cjb p 1243
“He said, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Isra’el.’”

We consistently see that the mission of Y’shua haMashiach...

 ...IS........

...“To take His people - Isra’el - by the  hand, and lead them back to the House - the beit hamichdash - b/c they keep Torah there..... and be family.”

(We can go home now b/c that’s the sermon. :) )

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we have also talked about the first word of Scripture - B’re’shiyt.

B’re’shiyt = means   =   
-In the beginning
-a title of the ONE who created
-the head of
-what starts something into motion


(I find it very amazing.... some time ago we learned that ...

Ya’akov /James 3:6 cjb p 1512
“Yes, the tongue is a fire, a world of wickedness.  The tongue is so placedin our body that it defiles every part of it, setting ablaze the whole of our life; and it is set on fire by Gei-Hinnon itself.”

That phrase - “the whole of our life” - is transalted from Hebrew = =“the ophan of B’re’shiyt”  !!

Which literally means = “the wheel of B’re’shiyt”

Which better translated is = “The strength and power to keep the cycles of Torah”  

Now why am i reminded of this teaching by the defination of B’re’shiyt?

Because -B’re’shiyt means.... “what starts something in motion”!!

 ... do you see the picture of a wheel starting to roll?  !!  :)

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That is the core things so far...

  1. The picture of a Menorah
  2.   The picture of a house, a piece of land and a family
  3. and that B’re’shiyt means “to start something into motion”...  “the wheel of B’re’shiyt”
  4.   And that the first few chapters of B’re’shiyt are the seed - the prophecy - the core of the entire rest of the Word.... so we have to understand this!!


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Now... let’s go to what was newly introduced on 11-9-13:


We reviewed the picture...
...that every little kid in our culture anyways... draws ...  

= a house, on a piece of land, and a family.

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and then we said...

the word b’re’shiyt means - the head of... the beginning of... 

and...to start something into motion...

It is also a title as it is used here in B’re’shiyt 1:1

Which is an identification of the source of all goodness - WHO did it... outside the bounds of time... before the works of old.

Yochanan /John 1:1-3 cjb p 1329
“In the beginning (B’re’shiyt) was the Word (the Living Torah), and the Word (the Living Torah) was with YHWH, and the Word (the Living Torah) was YHWH.  He was with YHWH in the beginning.  All things came to be through him, and wihtout him nothing made had being.”

= Creation was not in the beginning with YHWH, 
but rather,
 the WORD ... The Living Torah was with YHWH...and HE created ...

YHWH is one... He manifests in many ways.... so YHWH manifested as the ET - the Aleph and the Tov... did the creating... turning something invisible into something visable.

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Now let’s go to 
Page 4 in the study guide
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“Rabbinical commentary: “2 worlds” = this world and the world to come.

Rabbis talk about the “beit” - the first letter of the Torah - as being between our world and the olam habba (the world to come).

This also refers to all seen and all unseen matter...

remember unseen matter takes up a lot more space than seen matter....

YHWH created - not something from nothing, but the seen from the unseen. - in the best translations.

2 Corinthians 4:18 cjb p 1444
“We concentrate not on what is seen but on what is not seen, since things seen are temporary, but things not seen are eternal.”

“In the beginning”-- must be understood in context:

Mattityahu 19:4 cjb p 1247 “He replied, ‘Haven’t you read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female.”
and referring to the same...
Mark 10:6 cjb p 1275 
“However, at the beginning of creation, God made them male and famale.”

Some people read these verses and think it means that creation was with YHWH before time....

so...

We need make sure we understand here that....

... the creation was not with YHWH in the beginning - only the Word / the Living Torah - the “ET” - the Aleph Tov...  (Yochanan /John 1:1 cjb p 1329)

BUT....what we need to know when we look at verses like these in Matt 19 and Mark 10 ... is that..... 
...... “in the beginning” is a way to say.... “ at the start of time”.  

-Remember YHWH is outside of time... and HE always was/is... so HE was... 

.....and then He created.... bara. - at the start of time.

Colossians 1:15 cjb p 1470 
“He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation,”

Miz’mor /Psalm 119:160 cjb p 919 
“The main thing about your Word is that it’s true; and all your just rulings last forever.”

Brad teaches -
YHWH’s word is truth and it is from the beginning and YHWH reveals the same truth to every generation 

...and as you begin to really search for the treasures in the Torah - (1st five books - the beginning - in this case ) -you are going to make more sense of the rest of Torah... and then you will see the fruit.

Fruit from this seed in the begnining... 
.... the same seed that began it all, is in it all...
.... that same truth/ seed will be in all the fruit.

(So if it doesn’t line up with the beginning - it isn’t emet / truth.)



Y’sha’Yahu /Isaiah 48:3 cjb p 512 
“I announced things that happened at the beginning, long ago; they issued from my mouth, I proclaimed them.  then suddenly I acted, and they occured.”

Brad then reminds us ... of the pattern again...

creation - fall- restoration - new

All things were created in the beginning ...in B’re’shiyt 1:1 ......

....and there was a fall... and a restoration...  

and this pattern is going to be duplicated with the individual and all of Isra’el.

We have often talked about the Two Kingdoms and we know .... that there is salvation for the individual.... (baruch haShem YHWH!)

....but that is not the depth of the “Good News” that Scripture talks about 

..... but infact the Good News is that scripture is referring to is....
 - since the bridegroom died and rose - the bridegroom can remarry the bride!! = 
What that means is the Northern Kingdom - those out of covenant can return  and then the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom - the “Jew and the Gentile”...  Judah and Isra’el.... can be restored as one........ and the bride can be spotless and whole!   and haMashiach can return and remarry the bride!!
Baruch haShem YHWH!!  

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Brad Scot’s premise regarding these first two verses of B’re’shiyt ...

1:1 In the beginning God (Aleph Tov) created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of YHWH hovered over the surface of the water.”

... Brad’s premise is that B’re’shiyt 1:1 is an “absolute statement”.

An absolute statement .........
....What he means is that in B’re’shiyt 1:1 YHWH created it all.  Everything was there. 

It was NOT void.  

It became void.

(Brad Scott gives a lot of explanation of this... and we will eventaully get this... but right now we are going to take his word for it because he understand Hebrew better than anyone i know.)

Let’s look at 
Sh’mot /Exodus 20:11 cjb p 82
“For in 6 days, YHWH made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the 7th day he rested.  This is why YHWH blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself.”

...in 6 days YHWH made heaven and earth... 

= the making takes place AFTER vs 1 and is a restoration.

B’re’shiyt bara - 

that word bara doesn’t show up gain until we have the souls of the animals and humans...  there bodies are made of creation stuff....but their breath /life force comes from YHWH...

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remember i said before....

---You might be thinking..... “But i thought that animals don’t have souls!!!”

You might have thought that....  but you didn’t read the B’re’shiyt in Hebrew before either....  
we will get to that ....
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Brad says 
“After creation has been reborn in B’re’shiyt 1:2... now YHWH is going to take His words and shape and form all the “things”, in 6 days.

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Now consider this... 
After man is born again... 
Torah maintains in Romans 8:22 that creation is groaning for its new body, just like we are waiting for a new body.... (us through resurrection )  ....  and in the end there will be a new heaven and new earth.

Sh’mot /Ex 20:11 verifieds that this takes place in 6 days...
... and they are literal days....
... NOT geological time periods.

Sh’mot /Exodus 20:11 cjb p 82
“For in 6 days, YHWH made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the 7th day He rested.  This is why YHWH blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself.”

remember how i have said before... after the Mt. St Helens erruption... science learned that it doesn’t take millions of years to make a petrified forest.. it happened virtually in moments during the erruption!

Brad says...
“You can be pretty sure that how it looked after those six days... is not how it looks now....but it might be close in many aspects.”

We don’t know what it looked like before the flood...
but in B’re’shiyt 1:26 ...it says....
“Then YHWH said, “let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.”

~~ This opened the door for the corruption that is taking place ...
== man got put in charge.!

(Janet’s note - but not only man got put in charge... hasatan fell... and his goal is to corrupt the things of YHWH - so this is the root of why there is a mess in our world.)

Brad notes that there are some versons ( BUT -not the oldest), that some people who say... ...”in the beginning OF his creation”...  Brad says he doesn’t believe this is true b/c he believes that creation - is a perfected thing... an absolute thing... because this fits with the character and nature of YHWH and it lines up with His Torah /Word... as we will discover as we go on....

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(New and not yet covered at all.....)


So now let’s move on to what is NEW in our B’re’shiyt study - that we have not covered at all yet....

Brad Scott points out that the word B’resheet itself contains dozens of doctrines in just the word alone... 
(-He didn’t explain a lot here but I will mention a couple...)

....”You can see the very fist 3 letters of B’re’shiyt repeat in bara... and this gives the whole idea of the creation being involved  since it is buried in the word ‘beginning’.”

...  in the rosh - the root of B’re’shiyt -  the “osh”... is  speaking of fire.... 

--- the shiyt is about the son of Noah = Seth.

and apparently there is a whole lot more... 
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Brad goes on in his teaching to say...

If one rearranges the letters of B’re’shiyt, we get what is in the middle of page 4 in your books...  

1. The words - “bayit rosh” = head of the house, or first house

---this is the first house and the house begins with the head of it...
...and the head is just there - YHWH himself... He is there. He is.  
He always was.
There is no explantion of how the head - YHWH got there...

And as  we talked about before in this teaching  --  The Living God gives no explanation of how HE got there... HE just always was....

.... unlike all the other religions... who can explain there god - they have a story of how their god came to be... but not the Living God.

If you rearrange the letters of b’re’shiyt you also get
the word...
2.  “betisherey” 
which means = in the month of Tishrei.

according to ancient rabbis - YHWH created all things in the month of Tishrei.  (Sept/ Oct ish... Yom Terruah/ Yom Kippur / Sukkot seasons).

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Another thing to note about “B’re’shiyt bara”... is

the gemetria of “B’re’shiyt bara” = is the same numerical value as............. “on Yom terruah the world was created”....

“This COULD be a coincidence but maybe it’s significant” according to Brad Scott...

B’re’shiyt = numerical value is 913.

913 is the same numercal value as 
“Batorah yatzar” = “He formed with Torah!!” = 913


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Let’s talk about gemetria / numbers for a bit...

Pethagarus said “numbers are the language of the universe”...

... we know from a scientific view - everything we see can be put into a numercial value...

This is how computers operate...  according to Brad - not janet :)....

Computers operate in simplest/ rawest form - on a binary system encoded...  just like gemetria...  binary involves 2 numbers.. 
a 0 and a 1.

these express “on” or “off”... and the combinationo of the zeros and ones give us what is translated very rapidly as -  letters and words .

Doesn’t it make sense that there is meaning with gematria?

We know there is also a mess with using gematria in the Jewish mystiscism of kaballah....
But we are not talking about taking numbers and adding this and that and bending this and that to get the answer we want... as Brad says happens in Kabbalah.

We are just talking about the numbers that are there.

i think we need to look at this - numbers - as a revelant way that YHWH communicates things, and this is not Kabbalah.

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That said... let’s look at...

The heptadic structure - 

-that is the structure of the very beginning... Heptadic structure is about 7s.

B’re’shiyt 1:1
“B’re’shiyt bara Elohyim ‘et hashamayim v’et ha’aretz.”

There are 7 words 

 the right side of the menorah... contains
the first three words and they contain 14 letters 

and the last 4 words contain 14 letters .

The aleph - the first Hebrew letter which represents the number 1 and also 1,000 ...  appears 6 times in this sentence...  

== mankind is going to be alotted 6 days or 6k years 
  • expresssed by this letter aleph here, 
  • appearing  6 times in the first sentence of the completed work of bara.

wow.

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So.... we have scratched the surface of  understanding B’re’shiyt.  :)

in summary of the word B’re’shiyt....

B’re’shiyt = 

  • in the beginning or the head of

  • something that starts something into motion

  • gemetria of 913 = which is the same value as “He formed with Torah”

  • gematria of “B’re’shiyt bara” = “on Rosh haShanah/ Yom Teruah the world was created.”

B’re’shiyt - starts with a bet - which represents the house of  YHWH ... which he longs to take us all back to and be a family.

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Amein.