Parsha
Lech L’cha – Go for thyself - B’reshit
12:1-17:27
YeshaYahu
40:27-41:16, Romans 4:1-25, ; Galatians 5:1-6
Daniel
ben Ya’acov Israel (updated October 2019)
With this Parasha
we are going to study Abraham’s
life and dig unto his life to see what the reason of this study is.
The Torah
doesn’t give a lot of details concerning the life of Abraham
in his first years before he reach the age of seventy. This brought
many Christians scholars to speculation and false teaching. We have
already seen with the first parsha
b’reshit that the Torah was given
with Adam
who came from Elohim.
In traditional Judaism it
is taught that seven things came with Adam, one of it was the Torah.
We get confirmation in the fact that Elohim told Cain about sin
and sin cannot exist without the Torah,
because sin is the transgression of the
Torah (1st
Yochan.3:4) ! Further we have seen also
that Hebel
(Abel) brought a better sacrifice, here also according to the Torah.
In the Torah
Abraham’s
story start when יהוה
say to Abram
to “Go for thyself” or “Go out” “Lech
L’cha” in Hebrew. We don’t have
any information in the Torah concerning his former life and why
Elohim has
chosen him. From the first parasha we
learn that sin call for judgment! Abram life is an important study
to understand our own life. We can divide Abram’s life as
following:
- Abram call.
- Abram promise
- Abram struggle
- Abram become Abraham
This call is for all
of us who want to follow Messiah! Abram was 75 years old (B’reshit
12:4) when he left Haran as
we are going to read, he was raised in the tent of Shem
and Eber
from his youth and was well acquainted with the knowledge of one
Elohim,
one creator, pure and impure, and all justice and judgment (B’reshit
18:19) where we learn the premises of D’varim
6:6-7. Christianity will tell you as
they do many times, that יהוה
is Omnipresent, Omniscient and this is why
he could call Abram:
“He knew his heart”!
Is it true?
Yes it is true that
יהוה
knew the heart of Abram the same as he
knows our heart because He is the one who search the heart and try
the reins of every man to reward them after their deeds (Yrmeyahu
17:10), but there is another reason to have chosen Abram.
Knowing now the
context we read the Torah with an open mind. It becomes easy to
understand why יהוה
chose Abram
after having chosen Noach
and his household Abram
knew יהוה
from his youth and walked according to the
teaching from Noach
and Shem
his son. ----- Gen
12:1 and יהוה
said to Aḇram, “Go yourself
out of your land, from your relatives and from your father’s house,
to a land which I show you. ………
In another midrash
I have explained that in order to work in somebody’s life, יהוה
will require “separation”, set
apartness or to be “Qadosh”,
and this is only possible when we remove
ourselves form our former way of life and cut every relation to those
who were our “friends, family members, even children” if they
reject יהוה’s
way. Are you ready?
Remember that we
shall always try to see the “Pardes”,
the four ways of interpretation in order to see the “secret” or
“mind of Elohim”!
For we have the mind of יהושע
(1st
Corint.2:16). The Prophet YeshaYahu
says that Elohim
speaks the End from the beginning (Isa.chap. 47). The Hebrew word
used for “beginning” is “B’reshit”:
the first,
in place, time, order or rank. There
is no coincidence with יהושע
everything take place according to
His own will and purpose. This is also truth with our own life. If
any person has told you that you’re and “accident” in your
parent’s life, I am sorry to say that’s a lie. Everything in life
happen because it is יהוה’s
will.----- 2Ti 1:9
who has saved us and called us with a set-apart calling, not
according to our works, but according
to His own purpose and
favour which was given to us in Messiah יהושע
before times of old,
The KJV write: “before the world
began”.
Gen 12:2
“And I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your
name great, and you shall be a blessing! ……. The
call is always with a promise, for us it is salvation through Messiah
יהושע
if we endure to the end...........
Here יהוה
make the
promise to Abram
to make him to become a great nation and that he will become a
blessing! Just read what we can found in the book of Hebrew: ----
Heb 11:8
by belief, Aḇraham
obeyed when he was called to
go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance.
And he went out, not knowing
where he was going. Heb
11:9 by
belief, he sojourned in the land
of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and
Yaʽaqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise,
Heb 11:10
for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and
maker is Elohim.
Heb 11:11
by belief also,
Sarah herself was enabled to conceive seed, and she bore a child when
she was past the normal age, because she deemed Him trustworthy who
had promised. Heb
11:12 and so from
one, and him as good as dead,
were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the
sand which is by the seashore. Heb
11:13 In belief all these
died, not having received the
promises, but seeing them from a
distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were
aliens and strangers on the earth.
What is with the other “fathers of faith”:
----- Heb 11:39
and having obtained witness through the belief, all
these did not receive the promise..................
Abraham and the
others didn’t receive the promise! This is very amazing to read
this in the book of Hebrew. Is Sha’ul
or the one writing this book wrong? No!
Hebrew tells us that they saw the promise from a
distance but obtained witness through
belief.
Now it will be יהוה
who will have to complete His promise to
Abraham
and all who followed him (included Noach
and his family). At it seems to be confusing but if we consider that
יהושע
was the First raise from among the
death we will understand: יהוה
will have to raise Abram,
Itzach, Ya’acov, Noach, Shem, Eber, King David
and many others who were born before יהושע
in order for them to see the
fulfilment of the promise. Can you see? The promise is still valid
and will be plain when our forefathers see the Fullness of it.
How it is with us? ---- Mar
10:29 יהושע
said, “Truly, I say to you,
there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father
or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the
Good News,
Mar 10:30
who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and
brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with
persecutions, and in the age to
come, everlasting life. …….. We
walk by faith not by sight, nothing has changed brothers and sisters,
we also have the hope of eternal life and through faith in Messiah
יהושע
have obtained the promise. We will
see the fulfillment of it with our forefathers when יהושע
will come to establish יהוה’s
Kingdom on earth. When we hear יהוה’s
call we are almost all come from Christianity, the place where יהוה
fish us.
From this point on, we are like Abram,
not knowing where we are going, finish the comfort
zone among so call Christian’s
family. Now we will be taught to walk by faith alone and to trust
יהוה
in our everyday life. Finish the
flawed teaching of false pastors, the
teacher is now the Ruach HaQodesh
who will lead us into the truth, the
Torah.
Unlike Abram
who was raised in the truth from his youth, we will have to
renew our mind (Rom. 12:2) to escape
the world’s system. The
choice is still ours either to follow the Ruach
HaQodesh or to fall into the hands of
the Beast!
----- Gen 12:3
“And I shall bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses
you. and in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed.” ………
The Hebrew word for “bless” is the word
“barak”
which mean: to kneel down” or to come closer in order to fulfill
the promise. This word has been misused by Christianity which has
turned it in a “money machine” used by “G-d” for those who
pay “tithe” to their pastors! Do not be blinded Elohim
is not a respecter of person and His blessing is not “money”. I
don’t say that Elohim
will not make money come into your hands, but he is more interested
to restore our soul and make us fruitful in good works (i.e. give
money to other!). יהוה
is here telling Abram: I will care
for you in every way and those who despise you or reject you I will
curse. We should again go to the Hebrew in order to understand. The
word “curse” in our understanding has more to do with some kind
of evil things done by יהוה.
This is what you will see especially in Africa
where people go to the “marabou” to put “curses” on somebody.
This is not יהוה,
but the forces of darkness. The word for curse is the Hebrew
word:”arar”
which means: abhor, or hate. In other word יהוה
say to Abram, I will kneel down to
those who will kneel down to you, who will be favorable to you and I
will abhor and hate those who hate you. Those who will help Abraham’s
descendant will receive help from יהוה
and the other will be hated and
abhorred.
Gen 12:4
So Aḇram left, as יהוה
had commanded him, and Lot went
with him. And Aḇram was
seventy-five years old when he set out from Ḥaran. ……………Once
again we will see what יהוה
has embedded in the Torah. The
gemetria
or study of the number will show us that Abram was called at the
appointed time. He was 75 years old. Seven plus Five equals twelve. 7
the number for divine perfection on earth, we could also say יהוה’s
perfect will on earth; 5 the number for Torah, the five books Moshe
and also the number for “grace” (Chesed)
as it is taught in the study of the “Tree of Life” in the
esoteric teaching. Twelve יהוה’s
number for divine government on earth. ------ Mar
10:29 יהושע
said, “Truly, I say to you,
there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father
or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the
Good News, Mar
10:30 who shall not receive a
hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers
and sisters and mothers
and children and lands, with
persecutions, and in the age to
come, everlasting life.
This is a place to meditate and build our faith on
יהוה
and not on our surrounding which is
familiar to us.
Have you not receive
brothers and
sisters
and mothers and
children since
the day you are in Messiah יהושע
or do you still make difference
between the children you receive from יהוה
and those from the brethren! Have we
not all received new mothers in
our older sisters? We can think about that! ----- Gen
12:5 and Aḇram took Sarai
his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that
they had gathered, and the beings whom they had acquired in Ḥaran,
and they set out for the land of Kenaʽan. And they came to the land
of Kenaʽan.
Abram took Sarai
the daughter of his older brother Haran who died under Nimrod’s
violence. Lot was also Haran’s son and nephew of Abram. In other
words, Abram married his cousin Sarai.
Haran; Abram’s brother died burned,
when Nimrod had him thrown with Abram in
fire where a messenger of יהוה
came to deliver him. Haran
died because of lack of faith! They
left Haran (read Charan:
Karan). The Hebrew word “Haran”
means: parched,
and comes from the Hebrew word Charan
(read Karar), to glow, literally to
melt, burn, dry up or figuratively to
incite to passion. This is very significant as we know that יהוה
told Abram to leave this place where
he couldn’t live his faith and worship Him. How is it with us
today? Is it different with our family and our friends who reject
יהוה
and יהושע
to follow their own ways?
Abram
took Sarai!
The word meaning here comes from the Hebrew word “Sar”
which means: “dominative”,
a head person. Later she will be called “Sarah”
which means: a mistress, a princess, Sarai
also will undergo a change in her life in order to become this
princess. 1Pe 3:6
as Sarah obeyed Aḇraham,
calling him master, of whom you
became children, doing good, and not frightened by any fear. .......
Don’t be chocked we have all one Master; Messiah
יהושע
and one Elohim
יהוה
Zebaoth.
It is not bad to have a Master. Another meaning for Sarai
according to ISBE (International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia):
The
former name appears to be derived from the
same root as Israel,
if, indeed, Gen_32:28
is intended as an etymology of Israel. “She
that strives,” a contentious person,
is a name that might be given to a child at birth (compare Hos_12:3,
Hos_12:4,
of Jacob), or later when the child's character developed; in Gen_16:6
and Gen_21:10
a contentious character appears. Yet comparison with the history of
her husband's name warns us not to operate solely upon the basis of
the Hebrew language. Sarai
was the name this woman brought with her from Mesopotamia. On the
other hand there can be little doubt that the name Sarah, which she
received when her son was promised, means “princess,” for it is
the feminine form of the extremely common title sar,
used by the Semites to designate a ruler of greater or lesser rank.
In the verse following the one where this name is conferred, it is
declared of Sarah that “kings of
peoples shall be of her” (Gen_17:16).
Today women are
taught to live on their own to be emancipated,
to have
their own way of life. The result of it is depravity and destruction
of the family. Modern countries promote liberty
for women. Their independency has
become an instrument in the hands of those who want to destroy the
remaining belief in one “G-d” to enforce humanism
which is a mix of Greek stoicism
belief defining the law
of nature as reason and Epicureans
who follow after hedonism
(pleasure of life).
Emancipate:
To set free from the power of another, to free from any controlling
influence, to set free from bondage, to give freedom (Everest
dictionary) .This movement started in the 60’s.Today many laws
encourage this life style for women.
---- Sha’ul
warns the Corinthians against the Wisdom
of the Greeks: ---- 1Co
1:19 for
it is written, I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 1Co
2:5 that
your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power
of YHWH. 1Co
2:6 howbeit
we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not
the wisdom of this world, nor of
the princes of this world, that come to nought:
---- Corinth:
A celebrated city of the Peloponnesus, capital of Corinthian the land
of the Phoenicians, when Athens,
Thebes,
Sparta and
Argos fell away, Corinth came to the front again as the wealthiest
and most important city in Greece;(ISB)
Gen 12:6
and Aḇram passed through the land to the place of Sheḵem, as far
as the terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time the Kenaʽanites were in
the land. Gen
12:7 and יהוה
appeared to Aḇram and said, “To
your seed I give this land.” And he built there an altar to יהוה,
who had appeared to him. Abram goes to
Kanaan a
land given to him by Elohim.
Kanaanite
were idolaters, descendants from Kanaan
the son of Ham,
son of Noach.
In B’reshit 9:25, Noach
put a “curse” on Kanaan.
Read/ ----- Zec
14:21 and every pot in
Yerushalayim
and Yehuḏah
shall be set-apart to יהוה
of hosts. And all those who
slaughter shall come and take them and cook in them. And there shall
no longer be a merchant (Kanaanite:
trafficker) in the House of יהוה
of hosts, in that day…….. I
have explained in the parsaha Noach what
happened to the descendants of Ham
one of Noach’s
sons. Nevertheless, curse is
removed for all those who are in Messiah יהושע.
The world today ignores the truth, and therefore follows its own
doctrine.
Abram’s life influenced other people life that came to join
themselves to him. How it is with us, are we also a good image to
others, are we bringing people back to the Torah?
--- Gen
12:8 and from there he moved
to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with
Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an
altar to יהוה,
and called on the Name of יהוה.
……. Beyth’El on the west and Ai
on the east: The word “ay”
written Ayin,Yod
and meaning a heap or ruin coming from the word “avah”
to crook, lit., or fig., do amiss, to make crooked, commit
iniquity, pervert, do
wickedly.
On the west Beyth’El,
“House of El”. If we look what later happen to the House of
Israel, we will see that they will be scattered to the west:
----- Psa
103:12 As far as east
(Ai) is from west (Beth’El), So far has He removed our
transgressions from us........
This verse tells us that as far those who commit
iniquity (transgression, rejection of the Torah) is far from
Beyth’El, the House of El, so far as He (Elohim)
removes our transgression:
----- Gal
3:13 Messiah redeemed us from
the curse of the law, having become a curse for us – for it has
been written, “Cursed
is everyone who hangs upon a tree.”1
– Footnote:
1Dt.
21:23.
Gal 3:14
in order that the blessing of Aḇraham might come upon the nations
in Messiah יהושע,
to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief. Gal
3:26 for you
are all sons of Elohim through
belief in Messiah יהושע.
Gal 3:27
for as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah.
Gal 3:28
There is not Yehuḏite nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there
is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע.
Gal 3:29
and if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs
according to promise…….
The Test:
--- Gen
12:9 and Aḇram set out,
continuing toward the South.
Gen 12:10
and a scarcity of food
came to be in the land, and Aḇram went down to Mitsrayim to dwell
there, for the scarcity of food was severe in the land………….Something
happen to Abram
which was not possible to calculate or to plan. Does יהוה
felt short? Just read: ----- Luk
4:1 and יהושע,
being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, returned from the Yardĕn and
was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness, Luk
4:2 being
tried for forty days by the
devil. And in those days He did not eat at all, and afterward, when
they had ended, He was hungry. ………….יהוה
try his people. If he did with Abram
and Sarai,
as He did also to יהושע
do you think that he will do with
us? Of course he will, so don’t be surprised when things happen
that do not go as you expect. Pray and wait upon יהוה.
-------- Gen
12:11 and it came to be, when
he was close to entering Mitsrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife,
“See, I know that you are a fair woman to look at.
Gen 12:12-20
“and it shall be, when the Mitsrites see you, that they shall say,
‘This is his wife.’ And they shall kill me, but let you live...
Conclusion: If we
are doing right in the sight of Elohim
according to His will, in time of distress, He will hear our prayers!
Chapter 13.
-----Gen
13:1 and Aḇram went up
from Mitsrayim into the South, he and his wife and all that he had,
and Lot with him. ....... Abram journey
toward the south: In esoteric thoughts, the south is on the right
side the side of mercy (chesed)
opposite to the north the side of strength and judgement (gewurah)
The tabernacle will be built on the east where the Mercy seat will
take place: ---Num
3:38 And those who were
to camp before the Dwelling Place
on the east,
before the Tent of Meeting, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons,
guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the
children of Yisra’ĕl. But the stranger who came near was to be put
to death. ............ If the
tabernacle is on the East, the opposite is the west, the entrance of
the Tabernacle through the inner court. With this in mind we can read
again: ----- Psa
103:12 As
far as east is from west, So far
has He removed our transgressions from us...........Can
you see how promises come to us? Abram went to Mitzrayim,
Egypt a
microcosm the world today. The Torah’s frame is a representation of
what happen in the all world today. We know that Egypt
is a synonym for oppression it was a shadow of the world today as we
understand the scripture in our days. יהוה
has chosen
a place to make us understand what will be in the “later days”,
as Ya’acov
will later tells his children and later Moshe. ---- 49:1
and Yaʽaqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that
I declare to you what is to befall you in
the last days
The world system is the place for the natural food, and also at the
same time a place of immorality.
........Pharaoh
is a picture of the ruler of this world today “g-d
on earth” as he was called, the
ultimate ruler, the lawless one. If we remember the parsha
B’reshit, we saw that the woman is a
picture of the “called out”
assembly, the House of Ya’acov
Luke 1:33 see also Eph.5:31-32 . Whenever the rulers of this world
will touch the “called out”
(Ekklesias)
or “Assembly” Elohim
will plague them. -----
Psa
105:14 He
allowed no one to oppress them,
and He reproved sovereigns for
their sakes, Psa
105:15 Saying,
“Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no
evil.”..................In chapter
12:10 it is written: “and Abram went
down” it is here written in chapter
13:1 “and Abram went up”.
This has a very important meaning as it can be also found before the
children of Israel enter the Promise land, they will have to “go
down”. In Hebrew thoughts to go down
means: to humble ourselves to יהוה’s
will, to go up is to be elevated by יהוה.
Read: ----- 1Pe
5:6 Humble yourselves (go
down), then, under the mighty hand of Elohim, so that He exalts (to
go up) you in due time,.......
I found another
explanation given by Nathan Lawrence: The
rabbis note the significance of this passage in that one always
speaks of “going up” or “making aliyah”
(i.e., ascending) to the land of Israel and Jerusalem. Going up from
what to
what
spiritually speaking? Here the country Abram is leaving represents
what spiritually? Where does he end up? What does Beth-el
mean?
Doesn’t this speak of the spiritual journey each of us is on as we
leave the spiritual servitude, bondage and slavery of the world,
flesh and the devil seeking to “dwell in the house of YHVH forever”
as David states in Psalm 23:6? ------
Psa
23:6 surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I
will dwell in the house of YHWH forever. ---------
Gen
13:2 and Aḇram was
very rich in livestock, in
silver, and in
gold. Gen
13:3 and he went on his
journey from the South as far as Bĕyth Ěl, to the place where his
tent had been at the beginning, between Bĕyth Ěl and Ai, Gen
13:4 to the place of the
altar which he had made there at first. And there Aḇram
called on the Name of יהוה.
Gen 13:5
now Lot, who went with Aḇram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
Gen 13:6
and the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together, for their possessions were great, so that they
could not dwell together. Gen
13:7 and there was strife
between the herdsmen of Aḇram’s livestock and the herdsmen of
Lot’s livestock. And at that time the Kenaʽanites and the
Perizzites dwelt in the land. Gen
13:8 Then Aḇram said to
Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between
my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for
we are brothers. Gen
13:9 “Is not all the land
before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I go
to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I go to the left.”
Gen 13:10
and Lot lifted his eyes and saw
all the plain of the Yardĕn, that it was well watered everywhere –
before יהוה
destroyed Seḏom and Amorah –
like the garden of יהוה,
like the land of Mitsrayim as you go toward Tsoʽar. Gen
13:11 so Lot
chose for himself all the plain of the Yardĕn,
and Lot moved east. Thus they separated from each other, Gen
13:12 Aḇram dwelling in the land
of Kenaʽan, and Lot dwelling in the cities of the plain and pitched
his tent as far as Seḏom. ……..
Lot walked by
sight: -----Let us see first the
meaning of the name according to:
Strong’s:H3876
לוט
lôṭ lote
The same as H3875;
Lot,
Abraham’s nephew: - Lot…..H3875
From H3874;
a veil:
- covering………
Was Lot
blind? Do you remember what Shaul
says: ----- 2Co
3:15 but
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
2Co 3:16
nevertheless when it shall turn to YHWH,
the veil shall be taken away.
There was a conflict
between Lot
and his uncle Abram.
Lot followed Abram
because he knew that his father’s brother was right, he didn’t
had the maturity of Abram.
When it came to separate, he chose the easy way, the place he could
see prosperity, he journey toward the East. Remember the east and
west are opposite. Lot
pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Sodom is
known for immorality. Read B’reshit
19:4-5. Sodomite
today is accepted in the Society, even protected by laws against
discrimination.
Lot
represents those who live by sight and thus will run into trouble
while
Abram
is the pardigm of the perfect faith, following יהוה
Elohim
and His TORAH. Lot
knew that Abram
was right but He chose the place were he can see the abundance. Not
so Abram,
he doesn’t care for that knowing that יהוה
will provide. We will see that Lot
will be saved from destruction because of Abram.
We should think about this situation. What will happen with those
from among Christianity who will acknowledge being Abraham’s seed
in יהושע
but still walking their own ways?
Mat
5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks
one of the least of these
commands, and teaches men
so, shall be called least in the
reign of the heavens; but
whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign
of the heavens. ............Do not
think it is out of context. At this time יהושע
came to restore the truth to the
Yehudin
who were following the tradition of man (Pharisee/rabies). This
principle is still valid today, for those who want to teach others.
----- Gen 13:13
But the men of Seḏom were evil and sinned before יהוה,
exceedingly so. Gen
13:14 And after
Lot had separated from him, יהוה
said to Aḇram,
“Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are,
northward and southward and eastward and westward, …………………..יהוה
gives the promise to Abram, only
after he has been separated from Lot. How it is with us, are we still
among our brethren from Christianity who rebel against יהוה’s
Torah asking for material well being, or having let everything in
יהוה’s
hand trusting him for our best?
Lot will become
the father of: Ammon and
Moab who
later become enemies from the Children of Israel!
Gen 13:15
for all the land which you see I shall give to you and your seed
forever. Gen
13:16 “And I shall make
your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the
dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted. Gen
13:17 “Arise, walk in the
land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
This promise 15-17 is still valid today and the
descendant have become like the dust of the earth. Unfortunately most
of them do not know where they are coming from, and for the majority
“they don’t care”, they are to busy with “money making”.
Cor 4:4
in whom the
mighty one (g-d) of this age
has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of
the Good News of the esteem (glory) of Messiah, who is the likeness
of Elohim, does not shine on them. Gen
13:18 So Aḇram moved his
tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, which are
in Ḥeḇron, and built an altar there to יהוה.
……….. Abram
dwelt in the plain of Mamre.
In Hebrew the word “mamre”
comes from the word “mara”
which means to rebel, through the idea of maltreating, to whip, be
filthy, lift us self! Very interesting as we are going to see in the
next chapter Abram
is on the way to be called “Abraham”.
He will change is nature. יהושע
says: ”you must be born from
above” (Yochanan 3:3,7)………
Chapter 14
Gen 14:1
and it came to be in the days of Amraphel sovereign of Shinʽar,
Aryoḵ sovereign of Ellasar, Keḏorlaʽomer sovereign of Ěylam,
and Tiḏʽal sovereign of Goyim, Gen
14:2 that they fought against
Bera sovereign of Seḏom, Birsha sovereign of Amorah (Gomohra),
Shinaḇ sovereign of Aḏmah, Shem’ĕḇer sovereign of Tseḇoyim,
and the sovereign of Bela, that is Tsoʽar. Gen
14:3 all these joined
together in the Valley of Siddim, that is the Salt Sea.
Gen 14:4
Twelve years they served Keḏorlaʽomer, and in
the thirteenth year they rebelled.
...... Therefore in Hebrew gemetria,
the number 13 is the number for rebellion. Gen
14:5 and in the fourteenth
year Keḏorlaʽomer and the sovereigns that were with him came and
smote the Repha’im in Ashteroth Qarnayim, and the Zuzim in Ḥam,
and the Ěmites in Shawĕh Qiryathayim, Gen
14:6 and the Ḥorites in
their mountain of Sĕʽir, as far as Ěl Paran, which is by the
wilderness. Gen
14:7 and they turned back and
came to Ěn Mishpat that is Qaḏĕsh, and smote all the country of
the Amalĕqites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Ḥatsetson
Tamar. Gen
14:8 and the sovereign of
Seḏom, and the sovereign of Amorah (Gomohra), and the sovereign of
Aḏmah, and the sovereign of Tseḇoyim, and the sovereign of Bela,
that is Tsoʽar, went out and joined together in battle in the Valley
of Siddim, Gen
14:9 against Keḏorlaʽomer
sovereign of Ěylam, and Tiḏʽal sovereign of Goyim, and Amraphel
sovereign of Shinʽar, and Aryoḵ sovereign of Ellasar – four
sovereigns against five. Gen
14:10 and the Valley of
Siddim had many tar pits. and the sovereigns of Seḏom and Amorah
(Gomohra) fled and fell there, and the remainder fled to the
mountains. Gen
14:11 and they took all the
goods of Seḏom and Amorah (Gomohra), and all their food, and went
away. Gen
14:12 and they
took Lot, Aḇram’s brother’s son
who dwelt in Seḏom, and his goods, and left. ........
Amraphel (verse
1) was descendant from Noach
through Ham,
Cush, Nimrod.. They made war with 5 kings:
Zoar= Hebrew
Tzoar: to be small, ignoble
Shmeber: name of
pinion, illustrious
Sinab: from the
Hebrew word “shana”
to alter, change. and Besha
and Bera.
These 5 kings from Sodom and Gomorrah rebelled in
the thirteen year. These wicked kings joined themselves to back
Chedor’laomer
a Perser
king descendant from Canaan
descendant from Cush
descendant from Ham
son of Noach.
---- Gen 14:13
and one who had escaped came and informed Aḇram the Heḇrew, for
he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ the Amorite, brother of
Eshkol and brother of Anĕr, and they had a covenant with Aḇram.
Gen 14:14
And when Aḇram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed
his three hundred and eighteen
trained servants who were
born in his own house, and went
in pursuit as far as Dan. ........
Look how was the proportion in the battle Abram entered:
In Gematria (value of numbers) 318 the number of Abram servants: --
Three hundred = 50 x 6 + 6 x 3.
50 is the number 10x 5 or the sum of all numbers and the number for
Torah the 5 books Moshe together. We can say that this number
represent a decision taken according to the Torah or divine
instruction with men (number 6) submitting not to the natural. The
number 3 relate to what is solid, real, and complete: past, present
and future, thought words and deeds. Three denote divine perfection.
The number 3 is part of creation that was in three steps: mineral,
vegetal and animal.
Remember that man without יהוה’s
Ruach is
like an animal!
318 the number
from the gematria for Eliezer ( helped of El/G-d)in Hebrew:אליעז
ר
Counting
the value of the letters Alef 1, Lamed 30, yod 10, Ayin 70 , zain 7 ,
and resh 200 we have
the
sum: 318.We
found another example in the book of John (Yochanan )21:11, 153
fishes. Which erveal that this practice was well known in the first
century, pointing to the work of Yeshua as a Master builder. I will
explained later in the book of Shemot/Exodus.
Gen 14:15-18.
Christians who read
only the plain text refers to him as to be Messiah
the pre-incarnate Messiah, because of Hebrew 7:1 “without father,
without mother, without descend, having neither beginning nor end,
but made like the sons of Elohim.
This is a poor
understanding. The difficulty to understand is to know if the
“without father ….’ Is literal or to see this title given to
יהושע
is a heavenly on in opposition to
the levitical
priesthood which came from father and mother, all descendants from
Levi son
of Ya’acov
(i.e Moshe
and Aaron)?
The meaning of “without beginning and without end is because it is
a priesthood from above not earthly.
Verse 20.
Abram paid
tithe to Malkitsedek.
Some have interpreted that this is the proof we shall pay tithe. Here
the Hebrew word is “ma’asrah”
the tenth part of the spoil and nothing else. The same word when
translated “tithe”
is in regards to יהוה’s
commands to bring the first fruits of the ground, here the spoil is
to be regarded in connection with the word “ma’asrah”,
tenth”! Ten is a divine number used
by יהוה’s
to represent the sum of all numbers. In this case it has nothing to
do with the Levitical
priesthood, if not the allegorical meaning has written in Hebrew
7:9-10. This is not to be taken literally as it is mentioned by the
writer of Hebrew (verse 9) “that I may
say so”: It is an allegory made by
Sha’ul
because Levi will
descend from Abraham though
his father Ya’acov!
Gen 14:21- 24
The chapter 15
recalls the confirmation of the promise, a “brit”
as we have the “brit Ha Chadsah”
falsely called “new testament”.
Abram
complain to יהוה
that he has only Eliezer
(El will help)
as heir, but יהוה
tell him that his heir will come out of his
own bowel and his descendants will be like the stars of heavens.
Do you know how many
descendants from Abram
are under heaven? Look at the stars in the night. Unfortunately most
of them, ignore it, or reject it.
---- Gen
15:1 after these events the
word of יהוה
came to Aḇram in a vision, saying, “Do
not be afraid, Aḇram. I am your shield, your reward is exceedingly
great.” Psa
3:3 but You, O יהוה,
are a shield for me, My esteem,
and the One lifting up my head.
Psa 84:11
for יהוה
Elohim is a sun and a
shield; יהוה
gives favour and esteem; He
withholds no good matter
from those who walk blamelessly.
Psa 91:4
He covers you with His feathers, and
under His wings you take refuge; His truth is
a shield and armour. Pro
30:5 Every
Word of Eloah is tried1;
He is a shield
to those taking refuge in Him. Psa
119:114 You are my hiding
place and my shield;
I have waited for Your word.
Gen 15:2-6
Sha’ul speaks
of this passage from the Torah when explaining in his epistle the
true faith to the believers in Rome
Rom 4:1 what,
then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to
the flesh? Rom 4:2
for if Aḇraham was declared right by works, he has ground
for boasting, but not before Elohim.
Rom 4:3
for what does the Scripture say? “Aḇraham
believed Elohim and it was
reckoned to him for righteousness.”
Gal 3:6
Even so Aḇraham “did believe Elohim, and it was reckoned unto him
as righteousness.” The book of Galatians speaks about the
justification by faith and not by work. This is the mean topic of
this epistle. Christianity has changed it to make it a book against
the Torah. Only those who reject the Torah will come to this
conclusion. I recommend to read the book on Galatians from Abiv
Mordechai.. Gal
3:7 Know, then, that those
who are of belief are sons of Aḇraham.........
This is the conclusion of the matter.
Gen 15:7
and He said to him, “I am יהוה,
who brought you out of Ur
of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.” ………………
The meaning of the name Ur
gives us a better understanding:
Ur:
Strong’s #H218
אוּר
'ûr oor
The same as H217;
Ur, a
place in Chaldea; also an Israelite: - Ur.
H217
From H215;
flame,
hence (in the plural) the East
(as being the region of light): - fire,
light. See also H224.
Gen
15:8-19
This sacrifice is Torah
based only clean animals are part of the sacrifice. Later Moshe
will put it in written form. Verse 11 the fowls
represent the demoniacs forces trying to steal the covenant from
Abram.
Read: Eph
6:12 Because we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual matters
of wickedness in the heavenlies. .................
The battle is in our mind, the place where the
forces of darkness try to steal the promise from us by lying. The
renewing of our mind (Rom.12:2) by studying the Torah and prayers
makes us strong to withstand these powers. Verse
13 Elohim
tells Abram
that his seed shall be “stranger
in a land (Egypt).
Read : 1Pe
1:1 Kĕpha, an emissary of
יהושע
Messiah, to
the chosen, strangers
of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,
Kefa
write to the strangers. Elohim
say that He will judge Egypt (World). The land given to the seed of
Abram is from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates which is today in
Iraq, and ten nations will be eradicated for their wickedness.
Read:
---- Deu
12:29 “When יהוה
your Elohim does cut off from before you
the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and
dwell in their land, Deu
12:30 guard yourself that you
are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before
you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones (g-ds),
saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones (g-ds)? And
let me do so too.’1
Footnote: 1See
also 18:9, Lev. 18:3, Jer.10:2, Ezek. 11:12 & 20:32, Eph. 4:17,
and 1 Peter 4:3
Deu 12:31
“Do not do so to יהוה
your Elohim, for
every abomination which יהוה
hates they have done to their mighty
ones, for they even burn their
sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones(g-ds).
Chapter 16. ---
In this chapter we come to the great
change of Abram
and his wife Sarai.
They have been walking with יהוה
many years. For Abram
since he was three years old, he has been trained by Noach
and his son Shem
and Eber
in divine way. As believers our journey brings us to a change also
until we become “born from above”.
Saraï
take initiative and give Abram
her maid Hagar
to him. It was tradition in this time that when a woman was barren
that she took her maid and gave her to her husband in order to insure
the descendant. At the birth, the maid sat on the laps of the wife
and the child coming from between her legs became the heir if he was
a boy. Hagar
was an Egyptian woman taught in the way of יהוה
by Sarai.
Remember Saraï
means “dominative”.
It looks like the “church”
trying to tell Elohim
what he should do. They know about the promise but look at the
natural and think: “on this way it’s not possible, let us tell
“g-d” what he should do! Hagar conceived and as she bares a son
Ishma’El
meaning El shall hear.
She though that now Abram
will despise his wife because she gave a son to him. This was an
error and Abram told Saraï
to do whatever she thinks to be right.
Gen
16:1 and
Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, had borne him no child. And she had a
Mitsrite female servant whose name was Haḡar.
Gen 16:2-15
Gen 16:16
And Aḇram was eighty-six years
old when Haḡar bore Yishmaʽĕl
to Aḇram. …….Eighty Six in
Hebrew gemetria is 8 x 10 + 6 or eight for supernatural plus ten the
sum of all sum and six for the action of man. Have you seen today
many men making children at the age of 86? Most of them are dead!
Gen
17:1 and it came to be when
Aḇram was ninety-nine years old, that יהוה
appeared to Aḇram and said to him, “I
am Ěl Shaddai – walk before Me and be
perfect……….Yehoshua
speak the same way:
Mat
5:48 “Therefore,
be perfect,
as your Father in the heavens is perfect.
Gen 17:2-27……….יהוה
El Shaddai
the All Mighty One has changed the name of Abram
into Abraham
and of Sarai
by adding both the letter “he”
or “h”
in English, to their name. This letter is the second letter from
YHWH’s name. The letter “He” is the fifth in the Aleph-Tov and
the gametria of this letter point to the Torah which are the five
books Moshe. It is important to understand that it is יהוה
who make the promise to Abram
to make him the father of many nations, the position of Abram
is only to believe what Elohim
told him! How is it with us today, do
we believe all the promises יהוה
has given us in Messiah
יהושע?
Both will now come into the position יהוה
wanted them to be in order to become the
Head of יהוה’s
people. It took 25 years for Abram
and Sarai
to be transformed and be called Abraham
and Sarah
since the time they left their family. How long will it taken for you
and me? Especially Christians who reject the Torah? Read:
---- Rom
12:1 I call upon you,
therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present
your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim
– your reasonable worship. Rom
12:2 and do
not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind,
so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect
desire of Elohim.
Joh 14:15
“If you love
Me, you shall guard My
commands.............. Elohim
give the covenant of circumcision to Abraham
on the eight days. Eight is the number which indicates “behind
the natural” for everything in
creation was finished in 7 days. Eight represent what is behind man
understanding what man cannot grasp in the natural: Eternal life,
“Olam aba”.
We do not need circumcision in order to be saved as some requires in
Acts 15:1, יהושע
bring us back to the pure faith of
Abraham
and the circumcision is a sign of the covenant, a sign of a complete
devotion to Elohim.
Moshe gave
the circumcision to the children of Israel and they rejected it Read:
Jos 5:5
for all the people who came out had been circumcised, but
all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they
came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised...
Ishmael was
circumcised has he was already 13, the age of rebellion. All the
household of Abraham
was also circumcised. Today Arabs are circumcised, bearing the
tradition coming from Ishmael bearing
also the rebellion of Ishamel.
In Judaism today, boys are circumcised on the eight days after
birth, while Arabs circumcise their children between the age of 5 and
13 years. Abraham was 100 years old when Itzak
was born. The Gametria for 100 is 10x10 the perfection of perfection
from the sum of all numbers. We could call it the CONCLUSION of
יהוה’s
promise for Abraham’s
life. Are we today like Abraham; ready and willing to let everything
behind us, father and mother, family relatives and friends in order
to follow the One who has called us in יהושע
Messiah? Let us pray and check our
life to become like our forefather Abraham
and Sarah.
Abram
has become AbraHam,
Sarai has
become SaraH,
and both have gone through the process of sanctification. What is
with you and me, are we following יהוה
letting him doing what He want? The same
process will also be with Ya’acov to
become Israel. Nathan
Lawrence quotes the Psalm 37 and calls some verses: process of
sanctification and spiritual maturity.
Psa 37:4
and delight yourself in יהוה,
and let Him give you the desires of your heart. Psa
37:5 Commit your way to יהוה,
and trust in Him, and He does it. Psa
37:6 and He shall bring forth
your righteousness as the light, and your right-ruling as midday.
Psa 37:7
Rest in יהוה,
and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers
in his way, Because of the man doing wicked devices. Psa
37:23 the steps of a man are
ordered by יהוה,
and He delights in his way. Psa
37:24 though he falls he is
not cast down, for יהוה
is supporting his hand.
Haftorah
The Soncino Edition
Pentateuch introduces its commentary to this Haftorah portion as
follows:
The Sedrah
[Parashah] opens with the call of Abraham and [YHVH] bidding, “Be
thou a blessing” unto all the families of the earth. Such, likewise
declares the great Prophet of Consolation,is the Divine charge to the
Children of Abraham. Israel, suffering in Exile, might well despair
of the fulfillment of the Divine promise, nay, even of God’s
remembrance of that promise. The Prophet stills such questionings.
In God, Israel has the source of inexhaustible strength. The
everlasting God will not fail to carry through His great purposes for
mankind through Israel His servant, the child of “Abraham, My
friend.” How firmly do you
believe this? When the daily
rigors and routine of life take their toll, your faith wanes and your
upward look dims, the joy of your salvation diminishes, your first
love for Yeshua lessens, and your hope in YHVH’s promises for your
life is tarnished, what do you do? What is your reaction and
response? Do you call to remembrance the ongoing faithfulness of YHVH
to his promises and to his Word as Isaiah here encourages us to do?
2 40:27, My way is hid from YHVH. Is YHVH……………..The
prophet YeshaYahu
remind us that יהוה’s
promise is eternal for all of Abraham’s
descendants, the House of Ya’acov
those who follow the steps of יהושע.
He call יהוה’s
people to help his brother to remember יהוה
according to His word and that those who
will try to change this plan will not exist anymore. The boasting of
Ya’acov
house will be in יהוה.
The schaliach
(messenger) Sha’ul
in the book to the Romans says that faith alone was the way for
Abraham,
not work in order to be recognized by יהוה.
This is the pattern for those who are called in Messiah.
Unfortunately there are many misconceptions from many sides.
Christians
say: No TORAH faith alone we don’t need to follow the Torah: WRONG!
Judaism:
They reject the way of “jesus” even יהושע
and follow the Torah after the letter:
WRONG!
The World view:
With the spirit of Humanism, everybody is nice, everybody can believe
whatever he want so long that we all can live in “peace”: WRONG!
Sha’ul:
Salvation is not work it is by FAVOUR through FAITH in Messiah יהושע.
This doesn’t nullify the Torah work
and faith work together. ----- Jas
2:17 Even
so faith, if it hath not works,
is dead, being alone. Jas
2:18 Yea,
a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith
without thy works, and I will
shew thee my faith by my works.
Isa 40:27
Why do you say, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and speak, O Yisra’ĕl, “My way is
hidden from יהוה,
and my rights are overlooked by my Elohim”?
Isa
40:28-41:14
Rom
4:-25
Sha’ul
is not encouraging the rejection of the circumcision as many have
taught among Christianity, the book of Galatians in its contain is
about justification by faith. Sha’ul
is explaining to the Galatians believers that justification
is by faith in Messiah יהושע
and nothing else.
This doesn’t nullify the circumcision. We read in the book of Acts
that certain Yehudin
who believed in Messiah were also requiring circumcision
as part of salvation: ---- Act
15:1 and
certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and
said, except ye be circumcised
after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved...........
Sha’ul answers to this requirement in
this way: ----- Gal
5:3 and I witness again to
every man being circumcised that he is a debtor to do the entire
Torah. Gal
5:4 You who are declared
right by law have severed yourselves from Messiah, you have fallen
from favour. Gal
5:5 for
we, in Spirit, by belief, eagerly wait for the expectation of
righteousness. Gal
5:6 for in Messiah יהושע
neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision has any strength, but belief
working through love. ………….Once
again Sha’ul
was not encouraging not to circumcise, but corrected the false view
of the believers in Galatia:
”if you search circumcision as
perquisite to salvation you are debtor to the entire Torah”.
In other words you put yourself in bondage seeking your own
righteousness! May יהוה
our Elohim
bless you through Messiah יהושע
as you walk in the Torah in your daily
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