Torah
Parashah – Yitro
Sh’mot
(Exodus) 18:1 - 20:23 p 62
LOVE - AHABA
(ahava -if you use V’s in Hebrew which early does not)
Torah
Parashah:
Starts
with Yitro the priest of Midyan, Moshe’s father in law showing up….
And he
sees what Moshe is doing – meeting with the people all day… and he says – YOU
can’t keep doing all of this!
(There is a whole teaching!! J )
Let’s
look at
Sh’mot 20:7 p 63
You
shall not bring the Name of YHUH your Alohim to vain emptiness: for YHUH will not hold him guiltless that
brings His Name to vain emptiness.
We know
what we were all taught this means not swearing…
“Vain
emptiness” -
“vain”
= interestingly enough – in
Strong’s “vain” H7723
The KJV
translates Strong's H7723 in the following manner: vain (22x), vanity (22x), false (5x), lying (2x), falsely (1x), lies (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage [?]
I.
emptiness, vanity,
falsehood
A.
emptiness, nothingness,
vanity
B.
emptiness of speech,
lying
C.
worthlessness (of
conduct)
Shin=
Sharp, press, eat, two ,destroy, again/
teeth
Waw =
add, secure hook, join, pierce/ tent peg
Aleph =
strong, power, leader, yoke, thousand / ox
That
word “VAIN” is SHUA in Hebrew
Shua = shin waw aleph. And it means “to bring to nothing”!!
This is one big reason why
YESHUA -- CAN NOT be Messiah’s name!
**
Let’s
switch gears for a bit….
IMPORTANT Announcement from The Truth About Cancer, Ty and Charlene:
“GMOs are now officially referred to as “Bioengineered” foods.
This is a term with which the general public is completely unfamiliar, and a
transparent attempt to rebrand GMOs to avoid detection. Not only does this
introduce new vernacular to consumers, it allows regulatory bodies to more
strictly define the products subject to the new labeling requirements.
According to the FDA, “The Standard defines bioengineered foods as those
that contain detectable genetic material that has been modified through lab
techniques and cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in
nature.”
But the new rules are a joke.
This is what the new
GMO labels will look like.
The new label for bioengineered foods (GMOs) is biased and
misleading. The Department of Agriculture defined the purpose of the new labels
this way: “This rule is intended to provide a mandatory uniform national
standard for disclosure of information to consumers about the BE status of
foods.”
Agricultural lobbyists pushed for the acronym “BE” on the
labels, but even the USDA knew that this would confuse consumers. Instead, they
settled on a logo that features the word “bioengineered” twice. According to
the official decision, “This will improve the understanding of the symbol,
as many comments explained that they did not understand what the acronym “BE”
stood for. Symbols were designed to communicate the bioengineered status of a
food in a way that would not disparage biotechnology or suggest BE food is more
or less safe than non-BE food.”
And that’s fantastic. But the new symbol is still
incredibly deceptive. Featuring farmland, a healthy plant, and a sun, the
new symbol for GMOs bioengineered ingredients is inherently biased. This symbol
is deceivingly natural, implying that the product is natural and healthy. These
products are exactly the opposite!
The
Definition:
Perhaps the most
disturbing part of the new GMO labels is the definition of GMOs put forth by
the USDA. The majority of
GMOs aren’t whole foods. They are processed foods derived from GMOs like soy, canola, and corn. These are highly refined products, and DNA
tests may not demonstrate their GMO content. Although many products are derived
from these biologically engineered ingredients, they are not required to meet
labeling requirements.
There’s also an exception
for “inadvertent or technically unavoidable” GMO content. Up to 5% of the product can be
genetically modified without
requiring a label. Consumers deserve to know if there food has been
“bioengineered,” and yet there is a loophole allowing manufacturers to market
GMO products without disclosure. The GMO contamination threshold in the
European Union is 0.9%, a mark that would have been in line with international
standards.
Even worse, the
definition of bioengineered foods excludes many of the cutting-edge practices
that are just recently emerging. For example, CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced
short palindromic repeats) is an emerging process that involves altering the DNA
of organisms. RNAi (Ribonucleic Acid Interface) is another technology that
alters the genetic makeup of an organism to achieve a desired result. None of
the new technologies used to create GMOs are included in the definition
provided by the Department of Agriculture. These cutting-edge methods, likely
the future of GMOs bioengineered
foods, are exempt from the new rule.”
End of announcement
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Prophecy News Watch article last week:
Should we be teaching young boys to reject traditional masculinity? According to the American Psychological Association, that is precisely what we should be doing. In this day and age, "traditional masculinity" has been renamed "toxic masculinity", and an all-out attempt is being made to eradicate traditional forms of male behavior from our society.
Gilette has released a
new ad that is getting a tremendous amount of buzz ad entitled "We
Believe: The Best Men Can Be", and within the first few seconds the term
"toxic masculinity" is used. This is a deeply, deeply offensive
term, and it has no place in our society.
In other words, they
want men to become weak, feminine under-achievers that never take risks and
never go on adventures.
And to a significant
degree, the elite have already made quite a bit of progress in removing
traditional masculinity from our society. Today, millions upon millions
of American men feel lost, defeated and beaten down. And even the APA's
official article about these new guidelines acknowledges that we have a
very real crisis on our hands...
But something is amiss
for men as well. Men commit 90 percent of homicides in the United States and
represent 77 percent of homicide victims. They're the demographic group most at
risk of being victimized by violent crime. They are 3.5 times more likely than
women to die by suicide, and their life expectancy is 4.9 years shorter than
women's. Boys are far more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder than girls, and they face harsher punishments in
school--especially boys of color.
But instead of embracing
masculinity, the solution that the American Psychological Association is
pushing is to try to eradicate it altogether.
They openly admit that they are trying to "change" the
culture, and they argue that traditional masculinity had been hindering our
society "by conferring benefits to men and by trapping them in narrow
roles"...
LOVE
I want you to think about
what LOVE is to you.
What things say “I love
you” to you?
Make a list…
I had a client recently
who was working through lies he believed… and he would stop… and tears would
come…
“what are you thinking? I
asked….
“I didn’t know He loves me
so much.”
Do you know that place?
Torah talks about love 311 times.
LOVE
Tzephanyah 3:17 p 478
“YHUH
your Alohim in the midst of you is mighty; He will save, He will gilah
(rejoice) over you with Simcha (joy); He will rest in His ahabah (love) for you, He will Simcha (joy, happiness) over
you with shirim (song).
LOVE = Ahabah = Strong’s H160
I.
love
A.
human love for human
object
i.
of man toward man
ii.
of man toward himself
iii.
between man and woman
iv.
sexual desire
II.
God's love to His people
Yochanan Aleph 4:8 p 833
“He who does not have ahaba does not
know YHUH, for YHUH is Ahaba.”
(Love = this is agapao in Strong’s)
Mattityahu 5:43 p 681
“You
have heard that it has been said; You
shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy..
(Love = this is agapao in Strong’s)
Yochanan (John) 3:16 p 756
“For
YHUH so loved the olam hazeh (this world), that He gave His only brought forth
Son, that whoever believes on Him should not perish, but have everlasting
Chayim (life).”
LOVE =
Agape / AGAPAO = Strong’s G25
I.
= of persons
A.
to welcome, to
entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly
II.
of things
.
to be well pleased, to
be contented at or with a thing
Defined as “Divine Love”
Mattityahu 6:5 p 681
“And
when you make tefillah (pray), you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they LOVE to petition standing in the
synagogues…”
Love = Phileo =
Strong’s G5368
I.
to love
A.
to approve of
B.
to like
C.
sanction
D.
to treat
affectionately or kindly, to welcome, befriend
II.
to show signs of love
.
to kiss
III.
to be fond of doing
.
be wont, use to do
Defined as deep level emotional love – not romantic.
Qorintyah Alef (1st Corinthians 13:1-14:1 p 860
Yochanan Alef (I
John) 3:4-19 p 832
{3:16 – By this we know
love (Ahaba)… because He laid down His Chayim (life) for us…}
Yochanan Alef 4:7- 5:5 p 833
Mattityahu 7 p
682
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:3-4 p
372
Mattityahu 22:37-40 p 697
He loves us so much… that YHUH won’t let sin come in between His people and
Himself and He comes down and dies and rises …
to take the sin- separation away… and sets us free to love Him!
Scripture gives us many
ways/pictures of His love:
“circumcision
of the heart” Deuteronomy 30:6
YHUH’s
writing His laws on our hearts Jeremiah 31:33
YHUH’s
substituting a heart of flesh for a heart of stone Ezekiel 11:19
Yochanan
3:3 p 756 and 1 John 5:1-2 p
being
born again…
Teshuvah – Col 3:1-4 p 893
Moving out of darkness into light I John 2:9-10 p 831
Yochanan
(John) 15:12-23 p 771
Galutyah (Galatians) 5:22-23 p 881
“But the
fruit of the Ruach Hakodesh is ahaba, Simcha, shalom, patience, chesed,
rachamim, trust worthiness,
23
Gentleness, self-control: there is no true Torah that is again this kind of tob
fruit.”
So – what kind of fruit do
we have in our lives?
It seems to me the fruit /the PRODUCE is the evidence that I am
truly walking in YHUH’s love.
So what
is AHABA – LOVE – when I sit and be quiet?
What is
love when I consider deeply what YHUH has done for me through Yahusha…?
Can I see
the fruit of this in my life?
Sh’ma
Yisra’el
Amein
