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Friday, March 27, 2020

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


Understanding more about seed and other things…

The amazing truth of the parable of the wheat and the tares - Harbour Light Ministries


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 2nd 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

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Seeing the Spiritual in the Natural


Seeing the Spiritual in the Natural

Seeing the Spiritual in the Natural - Harbour Light Ministries


B’re’shiyt/ Genesis 1:1 –
We know based on the 1st verse of the Bible – that Creation was a done deal – a finished / completed work, done by one… the Aleph Tov… Yahusha…

B’re’shiyt 1:2
The earth became – tohu vavohu (a waste, wilderness, confusion – shockingly confused) = what hasatan does to the “seen.” Darkness …. And YHUH’s face (al’p’ney = focus, face, presence, countenance)  is on the deep and so there is vibration/ frequency….  T’hom – a great noise!
And “The Spirit of YHUH moved ( move, shake, hover) - upon the face of the waters.”  - more frequency

1:3 = the Ore  = light, fire, air = more than just light

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          Rabbit trail - Dr Monzo talked about

                    Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
Another word for plasma = ether.    (All the greats – Tesla, Maxell and others believed in ether, except for Einstein.)

Ether eventually becomes light
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1:4 Divided light and darkness

1:5 Ore = day and darkness = night
          Did his work and then there was evening and then morning – the light came and that was the end of the first day.

1:6 Firmament

1:7 waters divided under and above the firmament

1:8  firmament = “heaven” – end of second day

1:9 waters gathered à and dry land appeared

1:10 naming dry land Earth, and gathering waters

1:11 grass, herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth…”
L’miymo – in this verse =  “after his kind” = “like produces like” – what comes forth can not be different from what it came out from.

1:12 it was good

1:13 3rd day

1:14 lights in the firmament – for signs and seasons, days and years.

1:15 it was so

1:16  - 2 great lights and stars

1:20 – moving creatures in water

1:21 – created great whales and every living creature that moves in waters and birds

1:22 YHUH blessed them saying “Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl multiply in the earth.”

1:24 – living creatures on land
1:25 the beast of the earth – after it’s kind and the cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth – good

1:26 Adam is made in Yah’s image

1:27 – “male and female he created them
1:28 Yah blessed them and said – be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish and birds and living creatures on the earth. 

1:29 He gave every herb bearing seed and tree to us – “it shall be for meat” 

Assignment: watch the movie Biggest Little Farm to see how many things are said and done that line up with Scripture. How many things they are talking about in the natural - also speak about the Spiritual!

Monday, February 23, 2015

36th B're'shiyt Teaching - Torah Portion Mishpatim - February 14

36 B’re’shiyt 1:11  -  Mishpatim - Feb 14, 2015

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14 Feb 2015  ~  25 Shevat 5775
36th B’re’shiyt teaching - B’re’shiyt 1:11
Torah Sh’mot (Exodus) 21:1 - 24:18

Let the grass grass. - Harbour Light Ministries
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We should also note that this weekend in many christian churches ... it is “Evolution Sunday”. 
Some churches are doing “Creation Sunday” instead. 

It’s just amazing the mess out there and the mess that religion embraces.

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Torah Parashah teaching video by Rabbi Fohrman at Aleph Beta...


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So we get to this Torah Portion... right after Moshe has been given the 10 commandments...

all of a sudden there is a bunch of rules...

Ever wonder why?

Well it occurs to me that we need to consider who YHWH is talking to... 
Isra’elites...  people who have been living as slaves under a very harsh and inhumane pharaoh...

So they have no idea what “healthy” is.

Just like us when we react out of our hurt and lies that we believe...
until we learn truth and health...

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---  Hand out  -----

So they’ve just gotten the 10 Commandments -
also known as
The 10 Living Words

Then Torah goes on (in our Parashah) to give a series of laws for the people of Isra’el.

This Parashah contains 53 mitzvoth/commandments = 23 imperative commandments and 30 prohibitions.

These laws include:

-indentured servant
-penalties for murder, kidnapping, assault, and theft
-civil laws pertaining to redress of damages, the granting of loans,
- the responsibilities of the “Four Guardians”
-   the rules governing the conduct of justice by courts of law
-   laws warning against mistreatment of foreigners
-   the observance of the moeds/ set apart feasts
-   the agricultural gifts that are to be brought to the Temple
-   the prohibition against cooking a baby goat in its mother’s milk
-   the mitzvah of prayer

YHWH promises to bring the people of Isra’el into the Promised Land,

and he warns them against taking on the pagan ways of the land’s current inhabitants.

The people of Israel proclaim  in
Sh’mot 24:3
“All the words that YHWH has said, we will do.”

Leaving Aharon and Hur in charge of the camp, Moshe goes up Mt Senai and stays there for 40 days and 40 nights to receive the BOOK OF THE LAW.

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Let me also make a note about a foot note in the Bibles that we use.. RSTNE...
page 64 the foot note for
Sh’mot 21:10 “If he will take himself another wife,”

The foot note says - “Scriptural plural marriage declared eternally kosher in Torah -

HLM disagrees with this footnote.  Remember these footnotes are a man’s opinion - whom we don’t happen to agree with in this one.

“IF he will take himself another wife” - is NOT saying it is okay to do or okay to do forever.

So i crossed out that foot note.

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I find it very interesting....

Sh’mot 23:31-32 p 66
“And I will set your borders from the Sea of Reeds even to the Sea of the Plishtim, and from the desert to the river for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and you shall drive them out from before you.  32 You shall make no brit with them, or with their elohim.”

-- the foot note says...  “All peace accords with others on the land are forbidden.” 
hmmm...

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It’s  also important to note ...

That according to the Melchizedek teaching we’ve been slowly learning...

Sh’mot 24:12 p 66
is the start of the Book of the Law

Sh’mot 24:12 p 66
          “And YHWH said to Moshe, Come up to Me into the mount, and be there: and I will give you tablets of stone and a Torah and mitzvoth that I have written; that you may teach them.”

Now let’s note that Dr Perry would say that in English that word Torah should be LAW... but in Hebrew it is Torah. 

Also important to understand is

Sh’mot 24:6-8 p 66

Blood seals the Covenant of Promise.

It is sealed - so it can’t be added to.

So what happens following... what is given after is a different covenant...
 ==The Covenant of Law.

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The 36th B’re’shiyt teaching from Bradley Scott’s work

B’re’shiyt 1:11

Starts on page 37 in study guide

B’re’shiyt 1:11
“vay-yo’mer Elohiym tad’she‘   ha’arets deshe’ ‘esav maz’riy’a zera’  ‘etz p’riy ‘oseh p’riy l’miyno  ‘asher zar’  o-vo  ‘al-ha’aretz vay’hiy ken.”

“And said, Elohiym, Let bring forth the earth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the tree fruit yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: So and it was.”

“And YHWH said, Let the earth bring forth grass (vegetation), the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.”

RSTNE = “And Elohiym said, Let the earth bring out grass, the herb yielding zera and the fruit eytz yielding fruit after its kind, whose zera is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so.”

We talked last Shabbat about
Tad’she = let bring forth
and we also talked about the “saying it twice” = YHWH saying this is really important.

“let the grass grass”
“let the seed seed”

and talked about a few more words

Then we got to :

MAZ’RIY’A  ZERA

MAZ’RIY’A  = Yielding

ZERA = seed

-The nature of a seed when it is in something - is that it yields. 

The king James translators have translated this as “yielding seed”...

What it really should be is  = “SEEDING SEED”.

Zera = SEED, seeding, to sow

          vav -resh-ayin

This is in agrarian terms...

YHWH commands the earth  - the Zera /Seed - to bring forth more grass and herbs, trees, and other vegetation ... in which contain the seed to produce more grass and herbs and trees and other vegetation.

The creation, which is plant life, becomes the pattern for the use of seed throughout Scripture.

When we see SEED elsewhere in the Scriptures

B’re’shiyt 3:15  p 10
          “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your zera and her Zera; He shall crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel”

Mattityahu 13:18-33  p 688 - “the parable of the sower”

Galutyah /Galatians 3:16 p 876
          “Now to Avraham and his zera 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.”

 - This is talking about Avraham’s seed - not as many seeds but  as ONE seed.

B’re’shiyt 3:15 - two seeds  - Man is either one of those 2 seeds..

Man only has ONE seed in them - gentile and Jew...

If you do not have chayim in you... then you have the seed of the knowledge of good and evil in you..

The principal is set forth here of the use of the word ZERA / SEED...not mixing or sowing diverse seed...

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Now, this is very interesting with what we know about GMO seed today.
YHWH clearly expects what HE puts in seed to be what comes forth and  we know from later in Torah that mixing seed is NOT okay!

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There are many uses of SEED and it will also be used to reference sperm of man.


In B’re’shiyt 3:15 we have two seeds... the seed of man and the seed of the serpent

In the garden of eden there are two seeds that produced 2 trees....

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We know that trees start out with seeds...
and YHWH starts the principal of L’MIYNO which we will get to - the seed after it’s own kind...

B’re’shyit 4:25 p11
          “And Ahdahm knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Sheth; For Elohim, she said has appointed me another zera instead of Hevel, whom Qayin killed.”

Why is the term “appointed another seed” used here?
  This is the beginning of the line of faith....Hevel was killed by Quain and now the seed of faith - is Seth... in the image of Adam.. (not the image of YHWH).

-So technically, believers have 2 seeds in them...

While non believers only have one seed... they only have the seed of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so they only can make decisions based upon what is right in their own eyes... what is “good” in that tree.


Brad says - “believers have the seed of the Tree of Chayim in them”...

BUT - WE know that Christianity lives in the Tree of Tov and Ra!!! 
“Believers” - might be the key word...

Brad goes on to say
“This is the battle that takes place within the believer - who still has his old nature...

 Gal 5
the spirit is constantly battling against the flesh / the seed of adamic nature... that is what the battle is all about ...

...What seed within me ???

What do i bow to??

B’re’shity 12:7 p 16
          “And  YHWH appeared to Avram,and said, To your zera will I give this land; and there he built an altar to YHWH who appeared to him.”

There’s the physical seed...going down through Avraham... through YIsra’el.


We know that there is a spiritual seed - the seed of the woman that flows through Avraham as well - to believers...

Galatians 3 tells us that we are of the Seed of Avraham through faith and through preaching/teaching and receiving of God’s word.

Let’s look at... this is important....
 Luke 8:11  p 734
          “Now the parable is this: The zera is the word of YHWH.”

          This is the parable of the sower
And it says right here that the SEED is the WORD of YHWH.

That is the true seed - the seed that Yah is trying to express to us through the term “Avraham’s Seed”

In
B’re’shiyt 21:12 p 22
“And Elohiym said to Avraham, Let it not be severe in your sight because of the lad, and because of your bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Yitzchak shall your zera be called.”

Sh’mot 32:13 p 73
          “...I will multiply your zera as the cochavim of the shamayim, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your zera, and they shall inherit it le-olam-va-ed.”

There is the continuation of the seed being planted in one generation after another.

D’varim 22:9 p 154
          “You shall not sow your vineyard with different zera; lest the fruit of your zera that you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard, be DEFILED and forfeited.”

*** Important note.. in RSTNE - it says kadosh - and this is a typo - it should be DEFILED. ****

This is a principal about mixing seed...
          When you mix seed --  the good will be destroyed.

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D’varim 30:19  p 162 “I call the shamayim and the earth to record this yom against you, that i have set before you chayim and death, and blessing and cursing; therefore choose chayim, that both you and your zera may live;”

Yeshayahu 54:3 p 337
          “For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and Your zera shall inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.”

We still have ONE seed.

Malachi 2:15 p 495
          “And did not He make them echad? And the rest of the ruachim are His also.  And why echad?  That he might seek a zera from Elohiym.  Therefore take heed to your ruach, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.”
Searching continuously for a Godly seed


Mizmor /Psalm 25:13 p 504
          “His being shall dwell at ease; and his zera shall inherit the earth”

Mizmor 37:25-28 p 508
          “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the tzadikim forsaken, or his zera begging lechem.  26 He is always full of rachamim, and lends; and his zera is blessed.  27 Depart from evil, and do tov; and dwell le-olam-va-ed.
28  For YHWH loves mishpat, and forsakes not His kidushim; they are preserved le-olam-va-ed but the zera of the wicked shall be cut off.”

In the Greek - Sparo = seed, where sperm comes from

Mattityahu 13:24- The parable of the Seed / Sower / ground in which the seed is sowed.


Brad says - “One of the biggest mistake modern theologians make is to identify the SEED as the Messiah.”

He goes on to say....”But Y’shua gives the interpretation of the parable, by saying that the SEED is the Word of YHWH.”

BUT what I discovered  - in Mattityahu 13:38 “The field is the olam hazeh; the tov zera are the children of the malchut;”

AND... in

Luke 8:11  p 734
          “Now the parable is this: The zera is the WORD of YHWH.”


          ... and that is what is sown - the WORD OF YHWH.

According to
Mark 4:13 p 710
          “And He said to them, Don’t you know this parable/ And how then will you know all other parables?

He says understanding the focus and nature of this parable  will enable you to understand the meaning behind all parables.

In Mattityahu 13:18-23   p  688 -   Y’shua gives us the understanding of the parable..

In 13: 20 “with simcha receives it”
 = excited, celebrating -  received with joy...
          ....but the seed did not take root...

Brad said - “some people when they start to get a Hebrew Torah understanding they get excited....but it doesn’t take root....and pretty soon the joy goes away...
Pressure from others begins to take over and they walk away and go back to old ways... when persecution comes along ... condemning them...they say  - “Its “too hard” , “It’s  to contrary to culture i live in.”.....
          and they drop away

In 13: 22 - 3rd seed... cares of the world... becomes unfruitful...

Many times you find that the things of this culture are contrary to the Word of YHWH and pretty soon you will find....that the cares of this world become more important that keeping YHWH’s Instruction...

It’s easy to do Valentine’s Day....

 13:23  
The last seed.. the good ground...  the SEED Is the Word... we know it was manifest in Y’shua... Y’shua is the rock of our salvation but rocks are still rocks.  He is the bread of  life but you still need bread to eat.  He is the fountain of living water but you still need water in order to survive
b/c he is an expression of those things, does not change those things.

Those who truly receive the seed are the ones that bare fruit - some 100 some 60 and some 30 fold

So the point of the parable of the sower and the seed ...
 .....  as it relates to the maz’riy’a zera 

          is....  right here in the beginning B’re’shiyt 1:11....

is that YHWH has used the ZERA /SEED as an example of his ever continuing faith that comes by hearing the Word and the Word being PLANTED in you. 

SO... SINCE LIKE CAN ONLY PRODUCE AFTER LIKE...

The WORD has to be in the one who speaks the Word to you... b/c it only reproduces after itself.


This is a big deal... it makes it very important - who you read, who you listen to ... whose words you will give up your time and pay attention to....

Another way to say this is - “You can’t give what you don’t have.”

If the truth is not in you - it can’t come out of you.
or anyone else for that matter!

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Let’s look at the Parable of the Sower in Mark a bit....

Mark 4:4 p 709
          “And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.”

The Word being snatched away - by SAtan -

-who doesn’t want you to have the Word -

BECAUSE --  if the WORD is planted in you and it germinates  --
--then someone else will hear it and that same Word will be planted in them!! ...

...and that will reproduce!!!...

.... and this is how the Kingdom of YHWH grows and hasatan doesn’t want that to happen.

Yochanan 8:37-39 p 763
“I know that you are Avraham’s zera; but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.  38  I speak that which i have seen with My Abba; and you do that which you have seen with your abba.   39  They answered and said to Him, Avraham is our abba.  Y'shua said to them, If you were Avraham’s children, you would do the works of Avraham.”

--Y’shua is saying to these people that the true seed of the woman is the Word of YHWH.

He’s pointing out to them... you can’t give what you don’t have and clearly you don’t have it... b/c what you are speaking is not of the WORD.

Y’shua said to them... “If you were Avraham’s children, then you would do the works of Avraham.” -

-- in other words - the seed of FAITH...

This takes us back to the “doubling of words”... the - saying it twice... b/c it is very important!

grass reproduces grass...
peaches reproduce peaches

IF you are a true believer in YHWH then you would do what YHWH says. 

BECAUSE like kind produces like kind.

Can also go to
Galutyah (Galatians) 3:16,19 p 876
16 “Now to Avraham and his zera were the promises made.  He said not, And to your seeds, as in many; but as One, And to your Zera, which is Moshiach.
19 What purpose then does the Torah (book of the law) serve: it was added because of transgressions, until the Zera should come to whom the promise was made; and heavenly malchim through the hands of a Mediator ordained it.”

I Kefa 1:23 p 825
          “Having been born again, not of corruptible zera but incorruptible, through the word of YHWH which lives and abides le-olam-va-ed”

Gilyahna (Revelation) 12:17 p 919
          “And the dragon was angry with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her zera, that shomer the mitzvoth ofYHWH, and have the testimony of Y’shua haMoshiach.”

Brad says...

“ZERA / Seed - YHWH chooses to use this term - “ZERA/ “seed” - to talk about faith. 

The same word that is used to multiply life, is the same word that is used to multiply eternal life inYHWH.”

So in order for us to understand the spiritual , we must first understand the physical.

In order for us to understand what the WORD of YHWH does.... 
we must understand how a seed produces... after itself... 
It can only produce what is in it.

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That is one of the reasons Y’shua bawled Nikidomon out  in Yochanan 3 p 756....
b/c  Nik was’t even understanding the physical... 

and   Y’shua was using physical things to understand the spiritual. 

That is why Y’shua turned to Nik and HE said... “If i told you earthly things and you do not believe, then how will you understand if i tell you spiritual things?”

YHWH gives the physical to be a picture of the spiritual.

so that is why knowledge of how reproduction / seed works... helps us understand how the spiritual works.


46 chromosomes = have to have to have life in that cell.

when you look at sperm of man and egg of woman - you will see 23 chromosomes in each.

Egg and sperm meet...

-In order to have life - two things must become ONE.

-The sperm and the egg - individually can not produce life.

Hebrew uses the word “to know” in reference of a man and a woman having sexual relations. 

“Adam knew Chava” means they had sexual relations...

“to know” is not about two people making love... but it is only used (“to know”) when reproducing a child.
“To know” = Two things become one = reproduction

“To know” also refers to eternal life
Yochanan 17:3 p 772
          “And this is eternal chayim, that they might know You, the only emet and Y’shua haMoshiach, whomYou have sent.”

Mattityahu 7:22-23 p 682
          “ A great many will say to Me in that yom, Master, Master, have we not prophesied in your Name? and in your Name have cast out shedim? And in your name done many wonderful mitzvoth and nisim?  23 And then will I profess to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you what work Torah-less-ness.”

“knew” = yada
In other words...
“I never had an intimate relationship with you in which two things became one and now reproduce” 

that is the meaning behind “know”

I don’t know about you - but i do NOT want Y’shua to say to me...

.... “I never had an intimate relationship with you in which two things became one and produced fruit through you.” !!!

Yochanan 1:12  p 754
          “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of YHWH, even to them that believe on His Name:

Here - receiving is in context with being born again...
 == to receive seed.

the word of Yah is sown and if it is received... IT PRODUCES FRUIT!!!
-  LIKE KIND OF YHWH’S WORD!

....Otherwise the seed /Word of YHWH is just words on paper --
-- unless they are received ...they do nothing/ produce no fruit.

 -- and if they are received - a oneness takes place and life can be reproduced!!

- The word of YHWH is the sperm and mankind is the egg.



Parable of Sower..

most modern christians see seed as the Messiah and speaking of those with and without eternal life.

This parable is speaking of 4 diff reactions to the Word of YHWH.

         
If that commandment that gives - is not obeyed - then it is not received and it can not reproduce


Yochanan 17:3 p 772

Yochanan17:8  p772
          “For i have given to them the words which You gave Me and they have received them, and have known surely that  I came from You, and they have believed You did send Me.”

one reproducing after itself.  the law of multiplying is based on the concept of the seed.
this is important to see - theological reasons but also to rebut evolution.


ZERA / SEED in scripture totally contradicts evolutionary thinking....


When i read the Word it tells me YHWH created the animals and the grass and the trees... and like kind produces after like kind.

When i look out my window - i see the things of the WORD.

So when i consider the spiritual ... i know that Zera/ Seed is the WORD of YHWH and .... those who have that Zera will bear HIS FRUIT.

What kind of fruit are we bearing?

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AMEIN.