Showing posts with label keeping Torah. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 7, 2022

In the Wilderness - Torah Portion B'midbar

Torah Parashah – B’midbar /In the Wilderness/Desert

B’midbar/ Numbers 1:1 – 4:20

If you keep the commandments that is a treasure to Yahuah - Harbour Light Ministries

Torah Parashah – B’midbar /In the Wilderness/Desert

B’midbar/ Numbers 1:1 – 4:20

Isra’el is still at Campsite # 11 – Mount Sinai.

(– Information from “Called to Canaan Volume 1” by Danette Davis and Shauna Manfredine.)

Let’s review what has happened at Campsite #11 – Mt Sinai

1.     YHUH’s first order of business at Sinai was to assure His people,

That HE claimed them as His own.  That He promised to bear them on “eagle’s wings” to their Canaan destination.  

(Keep in mind that this was a promise to Yisra’el then…

It is also a promise to Yisra’el now.)

 

Shemoth/Ex 19:4-5 p 62

“You have seen what I did to the Mitzrim, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.

5 Now therefore, if you will obey My voice indeed, and shomer My brit, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all peoples: for all the earth is mine.”

 

Don’t miss here that Yah says,

“above all peoples”… THEN you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above ALL peoples”

Isn’t this interesting?

“IF you will obey and shomer (watch, keep, guard, and remember) my brit – covenant…. THEN you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me – above ALL peoples.”

Seems to me Yah is saying – if you keep His instructions – that is a treasure to Him.

2.     Yisra’el experience some key events at Sinai

a.     They received the 10 Living Words

b.     They received the written law of the Book of the Law, after they broke the marriage Ketubah

c.     They received the instructions for building the Tabernacle, and constructed it, so Yahuah could dwell among them.

d.     They were ratified into Covenant with Yahuah.

 

3.      Moshe went up the Mt Sinai – 7 times. Seven represents spiritual completeness. – 7 times Moshe was giving parts of all the instructions!

 

4.     Yisra’el agreed to obey – to a marriage… and then they fell into worship of a pagan trinity…WHILE professing to worship Yahuah. 

 

Remember the golden calf was a problem for several reasons:

 

A.    The golden calf was NOT a single entity.

There were 3 gods represented in it.

B.   They were blasphemously mixing idolatry into their supposed worship of the Living God.


Exodus 32: 3-4

          “And all the people broke off the golden earrings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon.

4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a golden calf – and they said, These be your alohim, O Yisrael, which brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim.”

          “These be your alohim” – both ‘these’ and ‘alohim’ are PLURAL.

          Plus:

-          The solar disc on its head – represents the serpent/sun ‘god’ as the ‘father’ of the calf.

-          So that means you have

‘father’ = sun disc

 and ‘son’ = calf


-          The female part is represented by the base of the statue.

(This large stone altar is still standing today.  Remember Moshe ground up the calf and the sun disc.)

On these stones are petroglyphs depicting the Egyptian bull god Apis and his cow-wife Hathor. 

In the Egyptian false religion, this ‘bovine’ family represented the unholy trinity. 

     These deities were also known as

     Sun god – and moon goddess, and the false savior – mashiach tachat – anti- messiah.

The modern teaching related to this is – Europa and the Bull.

 

Europa – another name for Samarimis (now called mary) was a virgin.

The sun god changed into a bull and came to earth, enchanted Europa, carried her away, and raped her.  Then he returned to the sky.


The rape resulted in the birth of the sun god’s son – sometimes represented as the calf. 

 

This is the basis for the name of the continent of Europe, and it is where Christianity gets the teachings on the “trinity”. 

 

It is not a coincidence that ALL of the holy days on the current Christian calendar are identical to the pagan worship days for this unholy trinity, manifested as the bovine family of Egypt, but originating in Babylon as Nimrod, Samarimis, and Tammuz.

 

Two of the highest ‘holy’ days for the worship of this trinity are:

1.     Dec 25 -the birthday of the sun ‘god’s’ son

2.     Easter – the day of the unholy son’s resurrection.

 

The son of the sun ‘god’ has many names including Mithras, Baal, Tammuz, Molech and even Jesus!

The days they celebrate his birthday and resurrection day – make it easy to recognize him.

 

But worse than just the calf representing the UNHOLY TRINITY –

As I said earlier, - They were actually “worshipping Yahuah by blasphemously mixing idolatry into their supposed worship of the Living God.

 

“There is nothing more offensive to Yahuah than the mixing of profane, idolatrous practices into His sacred worship. It is the ultimate blasphemy and an act tantamount to the highest level of spiritual rebellion.”  

- Lev 20:2-4 p 96

 

Going to the Parashah for today:

 

So that said, they are still at Campsite #11 – Mt Sinai

And Yah says to take a census:

All the men, 20 and above, able to go to war, and divided them by tribe.

 

So they counted all the men, but didn’t include the tribe of Levi.

 

Then in chapter 2 –

Yahuah gives instructions as to who the leaders of each tribe are and  where each tribe is to stand by their banner. 

 

Chapter 3 is instructions of what each Levite family is supposed to do.

Then counted the males of Levi,

then they counted all the first born males of Yisra’el from a month old and upward.

 

They collected money from Yisra’el and gave the money to the priests.

 

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Torah Portion - By My Regulations - End of Days - Reapers - June 4

4 June 2016  ~  27 Iyyar 5776
Torah Parashah Bechukotai ~ By My Regulations
Uyiqara (Leviticus) 26:3 - 27:34  RSTNE p 102
End of days... (Ref: Lew White - “Reapers - The Coming of the Seraphim on the Days of Yahuah.”
Peter blamed the coming judgment on people living disobediently to YHUH's commands - Harbour Light Ministries


Interesting that I want to teach on the end of days... and our Torah Parashah begins....

“If you have your halacha in My chukim and guard My mitzvoth, and do them;  Then I will give you....rain in due season ....”

I don’t know about you, but there are so many things that I don’t understand... sometimes I feel like I don’t understand enough to teach....

Many times I don’t understand most things...
Like - what my gifts are ... and if they are... 

Does anybody but me feel this way? 

I don’t know much... and the thing that I know is - the more I learn - the more i realize I don’t know very much....

And so here I am... not feeling like much of a teacher....

but I offer you the bit i am learning....  for you to study and work through...

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Let’s talk about the end of days.... 

in part, because we need to know and in part because there is so much mess out there --- answers from persons who have’t gotten their answers from YHUH’s Torah....  answers from person who don’t know that it is always - only about what the Torah says....

And because we have got to know!!...  at least the main stuff :)

There are many questions about the end of days.... 

And I should add  - much confusion about the end of days....

Why is this so difficult?

Because when we read (if we read) the Torah - we read it with a bias of where we  used to be.  - or what we learned in Christianity... and where they still are stuck....

It is very hard to understand - because we have believed lies.

Let’s look at what the Torah says... and understand YHUH’s plans as He reveals them.


End of Days....

Kepha Bet (2nd Peter) 3:1-18 RSTE p 829
from the BYNV
1 “This is now, beloved ones, the second letter I write to you, in which I stir up your sincere mind,
 2 to remember the words previously spoken by the set-apart prophets, and of the command of the Master and Deliverer, spoken by your emissaries,
3 knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last Yomim (days) with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
4 and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.’
5 For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the shamayim were of old, and the arets standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Alahim,
6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
7 And the present shamayim (skies) and the arets (Earth) are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a yom (day) of judgment and destruction of wicked men.
8 But, beloved ones, let not this one thing be hidden from you: that with Yahuah one yom is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years as one yom.
9 Yahuah is not  slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the yom of Yahuah shall come as a thief in the lailah, in which the shamayim shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the arets and the works that are in it shall be burned up.
11 Seeing all these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart behavior and reverence,
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the yom of Alahim, through which the shamayim  shall be destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat!
13 But according to His promise we wait for a renewed shamayim and a renewed arets in which uprightness dwells.
14 So then, beloved ones, looking forward to this, do your utmost to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,
15 and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures.
17 You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless,
18 but grow in the favor and knowledge of our Master and Deliverer Yahusha Mashiak. To Him be the esteem both now and to a yom that abides. Amain.”
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Lew White says -
notice this -Peter links the twisting of Paul’s letters to how lawlessness  - (Also known as Torahlessness!) is bringing about the judgment of all flesh on the Day of Yahuah.

Yochanan Alef (1 John) 3:4  p 832
“Anyone who commits sin violates Torah, for sin is the transgression of the Torah.”
Mattityahu 24:35-37  p 700
“Ha Shamayim and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.  36 But of that yom and hour knows no man, no not even the heavenly malachim, but My Abba only. 37 But as the days of Noach were, so shall also the coming of the Ben Ahdahm be.”

Wow is that loaded!

The earth shall pass away... there will be a new heaven and new earth....

No man knows the day or the hour... what is this?

Yom Teruah... nobody knows - it is the only Moed that is marked as 2 days because until we get close, we don’t know which day there will be a blank sky - a new moon.... 

Remember this is the only New Moon that is a Shabbat...
and it is the Appointed time that is the shadow of Messiah’s return... the trumpet!!  - the warning of what is ahead...

and also lets see it as the announcement that YHUH is at hand!

And then - “as in the days of Noach”....
We have talked about this to know that this has to do with the nephelim... the 1/3 fallen angels - having sex with the daughters of men... and the nephelim race.... and what do you think is going on today?

I get an email from the christian pastor Dale Morgan...  it has a list of the big crises in the world... I can’t read many of the articles...
keep in mind this is christian... and this last email - he had an article on with pictures of animals born deformed.... awful... including those with faces that look human....  there is all sorts of mixing of seed/ DNA going on. 

Abba keep us safe!!  Give us your wisdom!!


So how do we keep safe??  - Is that the right question?? --

What about a seal....?...

Where does Word talk about getting the seal??
A password was used at Judges 12:5-6 p 196
“And the Giladites took the passages of the Yarden River before the Efrayimites: and it was so, that when those Efrayimites who had escaped siad, Let me go over; that the men of Gilad said to him. Are you an Efrayimite  If he said, No; 6 Then they said to him, Say now the word shivoleth: and he said sivoleth; for if he could not pronounce it right; they took him , and killed him at the passages of the Yarden River: and they fell at that time of the Efrayimites forty two thousand.”
SHIBBOLETH (BYNV)
It serves as an example for us as it relates to a seal of authenticity.
In preparation for the Day of Yahuah, we must receive a seal - what is it?
On a day appointed (Acts 17:31), messengers will be sent out to reap the Earth, and they will be looking for a specific seal of protection on a few, but will destroy the vast majority.
They will first remove the ones without a specific seal, then they will gather those who have the seal.
“The most horrifying day of all time is ahead of us, though we hardly ever hear of it.”
Psalm 91  p 529  -describes it for those who have hearts to receive it. For the rest, there is a veil over their hearts.
“Beings are waiting for a command to reap the Earth. These harvesting messengers, or reapers, are referred to by Yahusha as vultures or eagles (depending on translation).”
at Mattityahu 24:28 p 700
          “For wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles (reapers) be gathered together.”
Mattityahu 24 is a chapter in which He explains the distress of the last days. Most likely the “reapers” will be the seraphim, mentioned at:
Numbers 21:6–8 p 124
“And YHUH sent fiery serpents among the people, and they hit the people; and may of the people of Yisra’el died.  7 Therefore the people came to Moshe, and said We have sinned, for we have spoken against YHUH, and against you; ask YHUH, that He may take away the serpents from us.  and Moshe made tefillah for the people.  8  And YHUH said to Moshe Make a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten,when he looks upon it,shall live.”
“serpent” is not in the text ...but the Hebrew word Seraph ... Seraphim....  YHUH’s fiery attendant/s at His altar ... 
Deuteronomy 8:15 p 145
“Who led you through that fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought where there was no mayim: who brought forth mayim out of the rock of flint”
-- And again this is Seraph / seraphim - NOT “serpent”!!!
YashaYahu (Isaiah) 6:2 p p 297
          vs 2 “seraphim” 
Shemoth (Exodus) 7:9 p 53
“When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show a miracle for yourselves:  then you shall say to Aharon, Take your rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.”
serpent = this is the Hebrew word nachash = “telling, to conjur, a snake, metal, smooth, and bronze or copper.”
The seraphim are described as carrying out the work of Yahuah with a fiery passion.
 One Hebrew meaning for seraphim is fiery ones.
Let’s look at what a single “messenger did in the camp of the Assyrian army...In the time of YashaYahu (Isaiah)....
YashaYahu 37:36 p 321
“Then the heavenly Malach of YHUH went forth, and smote the camp of the Ashurim one hundred eighty five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, see, they were all dead corpses.”
Lew says...
This single heavenly being selectively slew 185,000 men, apparently without waking anyone while doing so.
In human terms, we have no idea what such beings may be capable of, but we know there will be a selection process for the ones sent to harvest the Earth on an appointed day.
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We put our name on things we own that are important to us, a distinguishing mark of ownership.
A seal of protection is put on selected people, and it happens to be the Name of the One Who owns them.
The Name of Yahusha is withheld from most people because they will not obey the Commandments of Yahuah.
They believe translations, but not the original inspired text.
The only Name given under heaven by which men can be delivered is YAHUSHA.
Yochanan 3:18-21 p 756 - Yahusha said...
18 “He that believes on Him is not condemned:   but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only brought forth son of YHUH.”

----- And the next few verses talk about the Light - this light is YHUH’s Torah.

This represents the 7 Moedim / feasts / set-apart appointed times of YHUH with His people.

Only one of these 7 appointments is called the Fast at Acts 27:9.
Acts 27:9 p 785
“Now we remained there a long time, even until the Yom Kippur fast was past, and since it had become dangerous for anyone to sail, Shaul admonished them,”
So let’s put that together with Yual (Joel) 2 , Mattityahu 24, Psalm 91 and other texts...  Lew White says “the harvest of the arets (Earth) emerges in stunning clarity.”
and this is what he writes....
“The Fast, called Yom Kafar, will one day be the end of billions of lives as seraphim are released to remove the weeds from the midst of the wheat, and then the wheat will be gathered into Yahuah’s “barn,” the New Yerushalayim.
On Yom Teruah (feast of trumpets), 10 days prior, there will be a "last shofar" sounding as if a global-sized "air raid siren" is being sounded, warning of the coming of the REAPERS.
The ten days prior to Yom Kafar are traditionally known as the “days of awe,” as people bless one another saying “may your name be inscribed,” meaning in the Scroll of Life.
 In truth, what is needed is to be sealed in the Name of Yahusha.
 People in general have no idea what His Name means in Hebrew.
The seraphim will distinguish those covered and sealed, clothed in Yahusha as armor.
They will pass over over His property, and take out the weeds from our midst.
Yom Kafar literally means, “Day of Covering,” or most commonly as “Day of Atonement.”
Yual 2: 1-6 p 459

Please note foot note number 5 in RSTNE... says this is the Islamic beast or empire led by anti-messiah...  But perhaps this is instead - the reapers sent from YHUH....

Ten days before this - on the Yom Teruah (Trumpets), the trumpet will awake those who are the first fruits - those who have died and they will be “clothed in” - given immortality. 

After that - we who are alive will be changed.

Those who are not clothed/ covered - will be taken away with weeping and gnashing of teeth. Because they do not have the seal of YHUH on them!

Our wedding garments – the righteousness of the qodeshim - will show we are prepared to enter into the Wedding Feast, the New Yerushalayim at Sukkoth (Booths, or Tabernacles).

Christianity teaches there will be a rapture - usually before the tribulation... so nobody “good” will have to suffer and be in the earth in that awful time...

BUT - is that what the Scripture says???

Let’s look at what Yahusha said about that...

Mattityahu 13:24-30 p 688

BYNV
“Another parable He put before them, saying, ‘The reign of the heavens has become like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away. And when the blade sprouted and bore fruit, then the darnel also appeared.
And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? From where then does it have the darnel?”
And he said to them, “A man, an enemy did this.” And the servants said to him, “Do you wish then, that we go and gather them up?”
But he said, “No, lest while you gather up the darnel you also uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I shall say to the reapers, ‘First gather the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.’”

Luke talks about this similarly.....
Luke 21:25-36 p 749
“‘And there shall be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars, and on the arets anxiety of nations, in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea, and agitation, men fainting from fear and the expectation of what is coming on the arets, for the powers of the shamayim shall be shaken. And then they shall see the Son of Adam coming in a cloud with power and much esteem. And when these things begin to take place, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.’ And He spoke a parable to them, ‘Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. When they have already budded,  observing it, you shall know for yourselves that summer is now near. So you also, when you see these things take place, know that the reign of Alahim is near. Truly, I say to you, this generation shall by no means pass away till all shall have taken place. The heaven and the arets shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down by gluttony, and drunkenness, and worries of this life, and that yom come on you suddenly. For it shall come as a snare on all those dwelling on the face of all the arets.
Watch then at all times, and pray that you be counted worthy to escape all this about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Adam.’”

Let’s talk about spiritual beings....  they are real...

Lew White says....
.... of the spiritual beings.... “One third of them are fallen beings.
Fallen ones inhabited the Nazi war machine that swept across Europe in the last World War, and now inhabit those of the “Islamic State” we hear about in the news today.

They are deceiving spirits.
"Our enemy is not flesh and blood, they are spiritual entities."

Something terrifying is found at Yual (Joel) chapter 2  p 459

          It describes the reaping of the Earth by messengers (reapers) sent out to remove the weeds (first), and after, gather the wheat into the barn (the New Yerushalayim).

The wheat are going to a wedding feast, and will meet their Bridegroom.

The weeds, the first to be gathered, will be burned- up.

Christian pastors are teaching their sheep about a “rapture” of the saints.

They are misleading the sheep, and not telling
them about :
Malaki 4:4-6 p 497
          “Stand in awe and sin not: commune with your own lev upon your bed, and be still.  Selah.  5 Offer the sacrifices of tzedakah (righteousness), and put your trust in YHUH. 6 There are many that say;  Who will show us any tov?  YHUH lift up the light of Your face upon us.”

And they aren’t teaching their sheep about the coming of reapers!!!

Does any one have a problem with this??!!!

“On the tenth day of the 7th moon one of these years, the world will experience the fulfillment of one of the seven redemptive shadows called “Yom Kafar,” the Day of the Covering.

I don’t know about you - but I sure want my family and friends to be COVERED... and ME too!!

The Day of Covering - Yom Kafar -  is a “fast,” and referred to at Acts 27:9 as we said earlier.

Lew says --- It was also on this day Yahusha was immersed, and the time He transfigured before Kefa, YaAqub, and Yahukanon.

The last unfulfilled Redemptive shadows are still ahead of us, and will occur in the 7th moon one of these years.

Amein
We will continue next time.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Torah Portion Lech Lecha - Guardian Angel Teaching #13 - 24 October

24 Oct 2015  ~  11 Cheshvan  5776
Torah Parashah Lech-Lecha B’re’shiyt 12:1- 17:27 RSTNE p 16
Guardian Angel - Skip Moen - “naked”

Revelation 14:12 - Keep the commandments of YHWH and have the faith of Yeshua. - Harbour Light Ministries

Guardian Angel  - “Naked”

B’re’shiyt 3:1
“Now the serpent was craftier than any beast of the field that YHWH Elohiym had made.  And he said to the woman, Is it emet?  Has Elohiym really said, You shall not eat of eery eytz of the garden?”

         (this is NOT a question in original - He says.. “YHWH said, and implies - so what?”)

King James syas “Now the serpent was more subtle”
subtle = Strongs H6175 = aruwm   = tsade resh vav mem
         root = tsade resh mem = subtle, shrewd, crafty, sly, sensible, prudent
aruwm or arum = has positive and negative uses.

In
Mishle (proverbs) 14:8 =  prudent

Mishle 12:23 = humble

B’re’shiyt 3:1 = shrewd, duplicitous or seductive.

We can’t see in the English translation that this is a world play with the Hebrew “arom, the word used to describe nakedness (B’re’shiyt 2:25) 

“In fact, there are a host of consonants (ARYM) that carry nuances about this event: 
         erwah = nakedness
         arwah = dishonor
         arom = naked
         arum = crafty

do you notice something about the connection between them?
The Hebrew pictograph helps: 
         pictograph = “To see a person connected to chaos.”
In other words, nakedness is now a symbol of disordered existence.

There was a time when being naked reflected ordered, honorable relationships. 
The serpent turned nakedness against itself, using its vulnerability to bring about the destruction of the divine relationship. 

Nakedness became the symbol of chaos.
We are the ones who behold our own chaos.
We are afraid of who we are.
What we lost was NOT INNOCENCE.
We lost ORDER.

Here we see what we know in our own lives...
We are tempted to establish our order in place of  YHWH’s order. 

We should learn that displacing YHWH’s order destroys all order - it leaves us naked and ashamed, exactly the opposite of what we hoped to achieve.

We see that one time our vulnerability was the crown of humanity.

We thrived in dependence on our Creator
But sin’s disorder destroys our vulnerability, not by stripping way our fragile innocence but by removing the trust that makes vulnerability possible.

Vulnerability without trust is chaos.

That’s what the serpent left us.

Scripture shows our predicament even in the word picture of “serpent”
serpent = hahash = a fence separating life and destruction

This is exactly the role that the serpent plays.  He provides choice between life and death.  He is himself the fence separating the two. 

What the serpent left behind is chaos incarnated, existence withtou belonging or connection.

YHWH’s restoration appeals to our deepest loss   - the loss of trust - trust between YHWH and man and between each other.

We can cover up but we cannot hide.
It takes YHWH’s provision and covering to restore our humanity.

Fig leaves don’t cut it.

They were trying to conceal something - but not “private areas”... they were trying to conceal disobedient pride .

Hebrew word for loin covering is hagore from the root hagar = The verb means = to gird, to put on a belt

But the pictograph really tells the story = to make private by fencing the pride of a person.

One of the cognates of this word in Babylon is a military belt that served no useful purpose except to show off the status of the person.  It was a belt of pride in prominent display.       

It isn’t being naked that needs to be covered up - It is far more humiliating.
It’s the evidence that Adam is an idolater.

The Hebrew word for pride = ga’ah = to rise up to be lifted up or exalted.

Precisely what Adam wished to conceal from the eyes of YHWH.
He wanted to put a fence around his self-exaltation. to cover up his rising up against YHWH’s command. The verb ga’ah paints the picture - “what comes from the lifting up of strength”

The things which man did lose were the glory of YHWH and the dominion over nature which were associated with the image;  he lost them when he forgot that he himself was the eikon theou (image of YHWH) and sought to find that eikon (image) elsewhere.  In doing so, he took on the image of corruption and became subject to death thus obscuring the fact that he was originally created in the image of an incorruptible Elohiym.

Once Adam disobeyed YHWH’s word and denied his image-bearing existence, he discovered the terror of his idolatry in confrontation with the one true and holy Elohiym.  He had to cover it up.

What needed to be covered up was the unleashed aggression of the yetzer ha’ra (evil impulse).

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Torah Parashah Lech-Lecha
B’re’shiyt 12:1- 17: 27 RSTNE p 16

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B’re’shiyt 12:1-3 p 16

= The oath of promise- From YHWH to Avram 

This oath is eternal, unbreakable and NOT dependent on humans.  Salvation through Covenant.

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B’re’shiyt 15:1-21 p 18

= The Promise Covenant.
Made with Avram and his descendants, at Avram’s request.

 YHWH promised his own death if the covenant was ever broken.

This Covenant had a death position and was breakable (hence Y’shua’s death as YHWH’s lamb.)

The smoking furnace and the burning lamp walked between. 

The entrance into this Covenant was marked by the “token” of physical circumcision in B’re’shiyt 17.

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B’re’shiyt 12:1 p 16
         “Now YHWH said to Avram, Get out of your country, and from your mishpacha, and from your abba’s bayit, to a land that I will show you.”

B’re’shiyt 12:6
         “And Avram passed through the land to the place of Shechem..”

B’re’shiyt 12:8-9
         “he moved from there to a mountain,”
         “.... Avram went down to Mitzrayim”

B’re’shiyt 13:1
         “Aram went up out of Mitzrayim

B’re’shiyt 14:13
         “Avram the Ivri”
        
         Ivri = “One from beyond”
        
         Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew says:
        
         tzad - bet - resh
         = “cross over to other side; move to different condition.”
         1.  passing over

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Ivri - one who crossed over.

Overcomer -
Gilyahna (Revelation) 2:11; 2:26; 3:5;3:12

Strong’s G3528 nikao
to conquer
         =to carry off the victory, come off victorious
         those that hold fast their faith even unto death against the power of their foes, and temptations and persecutions
when one is arraigned or goes to law, to win the case, maintain one's cause

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Yaakov (James) 2:14-26 p 811

2:26“emunah without mitzvoth is dead also.”

There is one thing to KNOW it..... but if you really have Emunah / Faith - you do it.

Hebrew is not about just knowing it... as Greek is - it is DOING it.

“Sh’ma Yisra’el....”

You see- I can say I know /understand all kinds of things - but if I don’t LIVE it ... then I really don’t believe it.

It’s like - how we think....

I can know it in my head... that I should be positive...
but is my head really positive?

My brain is formulating positive attitude thoughts IF I have the brain chemistry that does it.


Romiyah (Romans) 12:1-2 p 848

“And be not conformed to this olam hazeh; but be transformed by the ongoing renewing of your mind....”

Your brain can not think positively unless it has the positive hormone / chemical release that causes it to do so....

So that means i have to DO something to make it positive.

“we should just be positive.” = “Isn’t that easier said than done?!!”

-  ABSOLUTELY... but I’m not asking that you just suddenly wake up and decide to think happy thoughts....

-  have to do something that changes the chemistry
-  so then you CAN think positively.

What it is NOT is - just deciding to have a certain kind of thoughts...

It’s about we have to DO something to change our brain chemistry so we can then think positively!!

I want you to think of three specific things that you are thankful for...

(every day for a month)....

= fastest way we have to teach optimism.

What else can we do -???

-  worship
-  reading Torah
-  Pray

Think of a good memory....

This is whyYHWH does all the repetition  - so as we review the joyous things He has done for us - this builds the “trees” stronger!!!!

So important to go over and over the things you have experienced with YHWH....  !!

Amein