1Parsha B’reshit –In the beginning
B’reshit 1:1-6:8, YeshaYahu (Isa.) 42:5-43:11, 1 Shmu’el
(Samuel) 20:18-42, Yochanan (John) 1:1-14
We are now starting the new reading cycle 2012-2013.
We will see to improve our understanding trusting Yehowah to reveal what is
important to know in order to become mature people, no more tossed to and fro
by manmade doctrines.
*If you read for the first time this parasha you will find many words with
their English meaning in (-). I am not Hebrew scholar the purpose is that we
all may become more and more familiar with the Hebrew language which brings
more understanding in our Torah study. The second reason is that we also as talmidin (disciples) of Messiah of
Messiah יהושע should
bring light to other and stand for the truth. It is time that the truth is
restored and the true Qahal (Assembly) and
not the counterfeit Church shine in this dark world. The new Torah cycle’s reading in the “one year cycle” start just after the
last Fall Feast Succoth, the Feast of
ingathering which culminate in the Feast of the Great last day. There is also another Torah reading’s cycle
which goes over three years which according to some scholars was known at
Messiah’s time. We follow the one year
Torah’s cycle, so that every year we go through the Torah. We put our trust in
the Ruach HaQodesh (Set Apart Spirit)
to reveal the deep meaning of what יהוה has
hidden behind the Letter. Before starting
this “midrash” (investigation,study)
I would like to explain something which will help readers to understand why the
Torah is so important. According to the
elders and ancients, the Torah’s interpretation is divided in four levels
called PaRDeS.
The First is the P’shat
or literal level, which relate the life of our forefather from the creation to
the coming of our Master יהושע of
Nazareth.
The second Level is the Remez, a hint which point to another related
situation in the spiritual way
The Drash
a midrash or Allegorical way i.e. “the heavens declare le Glory of Elohim”
The Sod or
mystical (mystery, hidden) true behind the letter. יהושע told
his talimidin (disciples):
Mar 4:11 And He said to them, “To you it has been given to
know the secret (sod) of the reign
of Elohim, but to those who are outside, all are done in parables (hidden),
We can see in many passages from the Brit Chadasha (Renew Covenant) that the
disciples were well involved in the SOD teaching when they spoke or wrote,
especially Yochanan, Sha’ul and Kefa, Yehoshua having taught them!
Gal 1:12
for I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but through a
revelation of יהושע Messiah.
Sha’ul received the revelation directly from יהושע Messiah. Why is it so important to understand these
four interpretations? Christianity since
almost Two thousand years has gone astray because of the false interpretation adopted
from the Roman Catholic Church who
changed the truth against doctrines of demons followed today by millions of
people. The Torah is unchangeable :
Isa
46:9
“Remember the former events of
old, for I am Ěl, and there is no one else – Elohim, and there is no one like
Me, Isa 46:10 declaring the
end from the beginning*, and from of
old that which has not yet been
done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,’
*H7225 רֵאשִׁיתּ re'shiyth (ray-sheeth') n-f.
1. the first, in place, time, order or rank
In
Hebrew the first book Moshe is called « b’reshit » (Genesis) from the
root word « rosh » meaning « head or beginning ». So
Yehowah says that he declares the End from the first book Moshe. If we want to
know the end, we should study and ask Yehowah to reveal the hidden truth in the
first book Moshe.
Psa 33:11 The counsel of
יהוה stands
forever, The plans of His
heart to all generation…….
Sh’lomo
(Salomon) explains that in order to
know the End, we should understand the Beginning i.e. “B’reshit”, because there is nothing new under the sun.:
Ecc
1:9 What has
been is what shall be, what has been done is what shall be done, and there is
no new matter under the sun. Ecc 1:10 Is there a matter of which it is said, “See, this is
new”?
It was here already, long ago. ........How does
this things work? People of course change, they are born and they die. The
Torah is like a big circle, like the sun come and goes so is the life cycle. B’reshit the first book of the Torah gives
us all information we need to be able to give proof that יהושע is
Messiah, because this is יהוה’s will and perfect plan for us
who believe. Once we understand little
by little the book of B’reshit,
everything become easy to understand. There
was a time I was confused and couldn’t understand many things in the Torah,
asking myself why should we do that and that today? Why should we learn the
Torah? I knew and believed the Ten
Commandments were not abolished, but I had difficulty to understand the deeper
meaning of the Torah.
I read a lot from orthodox “Jews” midrashim, many are
interesting, but they were not pointing to the Brit Chadasha but based on the Talmud
and mishna from Judaism a man made religion established
by the Pharisee and today by the Rabies.
There are many teachers who still believe that we should do all
according to what is written and that only the literal text is to be accepted,
all other is from HaSatan (the adversary).
Let us check if it is true and may be let us discover the truth behind the
letter. Sha’ul says: the letter kills
but the Ruach (Spirit) gives life (2nd
Cor.3:6). Our brethren from Yehudah
(Jews) follow after the letter seeking to establish their own righteousness, we
know that we cannot please Elohim,
following the letter, but by faith only (Habakkuk 2:4). There is no reason to
boast, because it is Elohim who has done it in order that we may all come into
the Faith which is in Messiah.
Don’t misinterpret me? I don’t say that ALL what was
written by the rabies is wrong, but ALL what is not supported by the Torah is
wrong, no matter who write.
If today you think I will abolish the teaching of the
Torah, just be patient and read, you will discover that it is not so. One day,
I was reading the fifteen chapter of the first book of Corinthians. This
chapter is full of spiritual meaning “sod” (mystery). Let us read part of it
which will help us to see why we should approach the Torah in a way which is not taught in the orthodox circles. In this
chapter Sha’ul is speaking of the resurrection of Messiah, this is the anchor
of our faith, Sha’ul says that if Messiah has not been raised from the death,
our faith is vain, for nothing. He goes further and explains what we have in
Messiah יהושע, let’s read:
1Co
15:45 and so
it has been written, “The first man Aḏam became a living being,” the last Aḏam a life-giving Spirit (יהושע).
1Co 15:46 The spiritual, however, was not first, but the
natural, and afterward the spiritual. 1Co 15:47 The first man was of the earth, earthy; the second
Man is the Master from heaven. 1Co 15:48
as is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so
also are those who are heavenly. 1Co 15:49 and as we have borne the likeness of the earthy, we
shall also bear the likeness of the heavenly. ............
I pray that you may see what Elohim revealed as I was asking many months in prayer, fighting
with my own understanding. ...............
Sha’ul
in this chapter is also speaking of seeds that there are different seeds and
flesh (verses 37-44). From verse 45 he begin to explain the difference
between Adam (who is in English
“mankind” and not “Mister Adam” as many think in the world) and Messiah: Natural versus spiritual. Verse 46
Sha’ul explains that what came first
was not spiritual but natural he goes on saying that the “first man” was of the
earth and the second the Master from heaven.
Verse 48 he explains that the
earthy, so also are those who are earthy.
Now if we look carefully we will understand why Sha’ul was able to see and understand according to the Torah and
not according to the teaching of man Remember
the First Adam was from the earth verse 47,
now read what is about Adam after he lost Hebel (Abel).
Gen 5:3 and Aḏam lived one hundred and thirty years, and brought forth a son in his own likeness,
after his image, and called his name Shĕth. .........
Can you see? Adam
brought forth a son in his own likeness. From Seth we will have Noah and from Noah all descendent of Ya’acov
through Shem the son of Noah.
All were after the First Adam. Only those who are in
Messiah are made or begotten
(regenerated) anew in the Likeness of Messiah. Here is the key to understand that a carnal
man, one who is not “born from above”(Yochan.3:3,7),
not “born again”, cannot understand spiritual truth.
Unlike
Christianity who claim that we have inherit Adam’sin, I don’t accept this fact,
rather according to Sha’ul, we have inherit the “carnal nature” of Adam, like
Seth. There is an interesting verse in the book of Badmidbar (Number), when the
wicked prophet Balaam speak of Mashiach:
Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy all the sons of Shĕth.
Here without doubt it is about Mashiach’s coming who “shall destroy all the sons of Sheth (Seth).
H8352 שֵׁת Sheth (shayth) n/p.
Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy all the sons of Shĕth.
Here without doubt it is about Mashiach’s coming who “shall destroy all the sons of Sheth (Seth).
H8352 שֵׁת Sheth (shayth) n/p.
1. put, i.e. substituted
2. Sheth, third
son of Adam
Sheth means « substituted », very interesting. Seth or Sheth was created in Adam’s image, no more in the image of Elohim, can you follow?
Mashiach comes to bring us back into the image of Elohim (1st Corint.15:45-49)
Sheth means « substituted », very interesting. Seth or Sheth was created in Adam’s image, no more in the image of Elohim, can you follow?
Mashiach comes to bring us back into the image of Elohim (1st Corint.15:45-49)
Destroy: H6979 קוּר quwr (koor) v.
1. to trench
2. (by
implication) to throw forth
Definition from the word “trench”
(Merriam-Webster):
a : a long cut in the ground : ditch; especially : one used for military defense often
with the excavated dirt thrown up in front
Origin of TRENCH
Middle
English trenche track cut through a wood, from
Anglo-French, act of cutting, ditch, from trencher,
trenchierto cut
So we could read the verse:
Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy (cut through, remove) all the sons of Shĕth.
Who are the sons of Seth? Could we find them in Christianity? Think about it. When will that happen? When Mashiach comes and rule in Yerushalayim, “A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Scepter (ruler ship) shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl,”
So we could read the verse:
Num 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I observe Him, but not near. A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl, and shall smite the corners of Mo’aḇ, and shall destroy (cut through, remove) all the sons of Shĕth.
Who are the sons of Seth? Could we find them in Christianity? Think about it. When will that happen? When Mashiach comes and rule in Yerushalayim, “A Star shall come out of Yaʽaqoḇ, and a Scepter (ruler ship) shall rise out of Yisra’ĕl,”
When we read the Torah we should have always in mind
that the Torah works on four levels.
1) The p’shat which is
the story and life of our forefathers
2) The Remez a hint to be found in the
plain text, referring to something in time or place
3) The Drash is a midrash what Elohim
want to teach or allegorical interpretation
4) The Sod which is revealed (unfold)
in Messiah Yehoshua
1Co 2:13 which we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom
teaches but which the Set-apart Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual matters
with spiritual matters.
1Co 3:1
and I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual ones but
as to fleshly, as to babes in
Messiah. Col 1:9
That is also why we, from the day we heard, have not ceased praying for you,
and asking that you be filled with the knowledge of His desire in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
When we approach the Torah, we should pray to Abba יהוה to reveal unto us the spiritual aspect of the carnal
action of our forefathers. The Life of our forefather in the Torah reflects our
carnal nature.
All things have two parts a carnal/literal and
spiritual aspect. If we search we will found some beautiful truth in the Torah.
I will give an example:
Literal or P’shat
level:
Deu
22:10 “Do not
plough with an ox and a donkey
together.
Now the spiritual aspect of it is given us by Sha’ul:
2Co
6:14 Do not become unevenly
yoked with unbelievers.
For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship
has light with darkness?
To work in the field, the ox (clean animal) was not to
be yoked with the donkey (unclean animal), so the believer (picture of the ox,
clean, and the unbeliever the donkey, unclean animal).
This is only one example. By searching and the leading
of the Ruach HaQodesh you will also
find so many spiritual meaning that the Torah
will open again his mystery (sod) to you. With this in mind we are going to
read the first parasha and see the
natural aspect, pointing to the spiritual, passing through the two others level
of interpretation. Remember that there
is one rule which says that we cannot remove the P’shat (literal) in order to explain the spiritual. So we will have to find the spiritual to
confirm the natural.
B’reshit
the book, the most mysterious, from the five books of Moshe, full of hidden
revelation is impossible to uncover in the plain text. Therefore many Christian
commentators cannot unveil the sod of the Torah.
Here one commentary from Keil and Delitzsch who seems
to be lost in their reflexions:
The
work of creation does not fall, as Herder
and others maintain, into two triads of days, with the work of the second
answering to that of the first. For although the creation of the light on the
first day seems to correspond to that of the light-bearing stars on the fourth,
there is no reality in the parallelism which some discover between the second
and third days on the one hand, and the third and fourth on the other. On the
second day the firmament or atmosphere is formed; on the fifth, the fish and
fowl. On the third, after the sea and land are separated, the plants are
formed; on the sixth, the animals of the dry land and man. Now, if the creation
of the fowls which fill the air answers to that of the firmament, the formation
of the fish as the inhabitants of the waters ought to be assigned to the sixth
day, and not to the fifth, as being parallel to the creation of the seas. The
creation of the fish and fowl on the same day is an evident proof that a
parallelism between the first three days of creation and the last three is not
intended, and does not exist. Moreover, if the division of the work of creation
into so many days had been the result of human reflection; the creation of man,
who was appointed lord of the earth, would certainly not have been assigned to
the same day as that of the beasts and reptiles, but would have been kept
distinct from the creation of the beasts, and allotted to the seventh day, in
which the creation was completed - a meaning which Richers and Keerl
have actually tried to force upon the text of the Bible. In the different acts
of creation we perceive indeed an evident progress from the general to the
particular, from the lower to the higher orders of creatures, or rather a
steady advance towards more and more concrete forms. But on the fourth day this
progress is interrupted in a way which we cannot explain. In the transition
from the creation of the plants to that of sun, moon, and stars, it is impossible to
discover either a “well-arranged and constant progress,”
or “a
genetic advance,” since the stars are not intermediate links between plants and
animals, and, in fact, have no place at all in the scale of earthly creatures.
We see here that man’s logic fails to explain what Elohim has embedded in His word.
We will explain it, and it is not behind man’s
understanding if we are lead by the Ruach
HaQodesh (Set Apart Spirit) and do not rely on our own understanding. But
let us read further.
To understand we need divine revelation hidden in the
Torah, the prophets and the Shaliach
(Sent one, Apostles, emissaries). Christians
because of the rejection of the Torah, explain the other way round trying to
demonstrate that the “new testament N.T.” explain the “old testament O.T.”
which of course is totally false and the source of heresy*.
* In the fixed
ecclesiastical sense that it ultimately attained, it indicated not merely any
doctrinal error, but “the open espousal
of fundamental error” (Ellicott on Tit_3:10), or, more fully, the persistent, obstinate
maintenance of an error with respect to the central doctrines of “Christianity”
in the face of all better instruction, combined with aggressive attack upon the
common faith of the “church”, and its defenders (ISBE International Standard
Bible Encyclopedia).
Christian’s doctrine in spite of evidence through
text, proclaim since many centuries that Elohim
has to die in order to be resurrected and to marry again the “church”. There is
no text to support this heresy. The scripture teach us that Elohim is immortal:
1Ti 6:15
which in His own seasons He (Yehoshua) shall reveal – the blessed and only
Ruler, the Sovereign of sovereigns and Master of masters, 1Ti 6:16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or is able to see, to
whom be respect and everlasting might. Amĕn.
As far as we know יהושע die on
the stake! Only by twisting the
scripture Christians have made their own doctrines. In another midrash (teaching) I go in details to explain how Christians twist
the word in order to make their doctrines acceptable to those who do not know
the truth. To go back to the book of B’reshit, creation, Sh’lomo was the man with the higher wisdom (Chochmah in Hebrew). He says that everything that we can see has
already been of old. Everything in the
creation turn as we will see like the wheel in a perfect circle so the life
cycle turn day after day according to the book of b’reshit (Genesis), until all will be accomplish the perfect will
of Elohim. יהוה says through the mouth of the prophet YeshaYahu (Isaiah) that he speaks the
end from the beginning (B’reshit). This is in order that every man may be
confounded and Elohim glorified. Let every man be a liar, יהוה cannot lie (Tit.1:2).
In YeshaYahu 46:9-10 Elohim
says that he is the one who speaks the End from the Beginning. This has two
effects. - First, that only the creator
of all things knows the End, because he created the End on the Beginning. This
is unchangeable and everlasting until it is accomplished. We will see that all
has been accomplished according to what was written, and confirmed by the
prophets.
- Secondly that he has revealed it to those who search
Him:
Psa
25:14 The secret (sod) of יהוה is with
those who fear Him, and He makes His covenant known to them.
The P’shat (literal)
text confuses many people who try to find things which are not told us. Moshe
who wrote under the leading of the Ruach
HaQodesh, was a prophet anointed by Elohim himself.
Exo
3:1 and
Mosheh was shepherding the flock of Yithro his father-in-law, the priest of
Miḏyan. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to
Ḥorĕḇ, the mountain of Elohim. Exo 3:10
“And now, come, I am sending you to Pharaoh, to bring My people, the children
of Yisra’ĕl, out of Mitsrayim.”
Here already we see the Remez with King David who was also
shepherding the flock of his father. The Sod
is explain in Messiah who is the good shepherd (Yochanan 10:14,16).
In YeshaYahu
43:7 we read:
Isa 43:7 all those who are called by My Name, whom I have created,
formed, even made for My esteem.”
Four
steps:
1) called, 2) created, 3) formed and 4) made.
Another four steps:
Exo 6:6
“Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am יהוה, and I
shall bring
you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from their
enslaving, and shall redeem
you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments, Exo 6:7 and shall take
you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And
you shall know that I am יהוה your Elohim
who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites.
1) Deliverance (bring you out from under the burdens)
2) Sanctification (deliver you from their enslaving)
3) Redemption (redeem you)
4) Completion (take you as my people)
Keep the number four in mind, because it is the source
of understanding in approaching the book of B’reshit.
The Torah is a progressive
revelation unfolded more and more as we come to the core of the revelation.
The first chapter of B’reshit is not physical
and cannot be approached with physical understanding. The first chapter takes
place in the mind of Elohim and is reflected in Yochanan (John) Chapter 1: 1-18). I have explain in another midrash (teaching) the logos, the “word” who was with Elohim in
the beginning. If we take the translation from William Tendale who wrote
the first English Bible in 1526 AD
translated from the Greek Septuagint we read:
--- Ihon/John
1:1 In the beginning was that word, and that
word was with god: and god was that
word. 3 All
things were made by it (the Word),
and without it (the Word),
was made no thing, that made was. 4 In it (the
Word) was life, and life was the light of men,
14 and
that word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, and we saw the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten
son of the father, which word was full of grace, and verity.
We
see that Tendale translated using the
definite article “that” instead of the reflexive
pronoun him (self).
The
reason is that unlike Jerome who translated
the Vulgate from the Latin, Tendale use the Greek document, and for
sure didn’t saw יהושע e.g. the Word in the
verses but the Word and inmost thoughts
of Elohim to become reveal in the man יהושע of
Nazareth.
If
we need a second witness we have also another Bible "Bishops from
1568" using also the Greek Septuagint as foundation and come to the same
conclusion using "that Word".
We see the confirmation in the book of Hebrew where we
read:
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word (Yochan.1:1-3) of Elohim,
so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear..................
Here we see the difference in “the word of Elohim” concerning creation, the writer of the book
use another word which in no way contradicts Yochanan/John 1:1:
Word:
Strong’s #G4487 G4487 ῥῆμα rhēma hray'-mah............From G4483; an utterance
(individually, collectively or specifically); by implication a matter or
topic (especially of narration,
command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever: - + evil, +
nothing, saying, word.......... G4483
rheō hreh'-o
For certain tenses of which a prolonged form (ἐρέω ereō) is used; and both as alternate for G2036; perhaps akin (or identical) with G4482 (through the idea of pouring forth); to utter, that is, speak
or say: - command, make, say, speak (of). Compare G3004........ We see that the word was spoken out, uttered, commanded, in
order to bring יהוה logos (inmost thoughts) into
been!
Elohim translated with “God” is also part of the creation
coming down from YHWH, the infinite Ones.
Elohim is a title not a name,
meaning the “mighty ruler, mighty One” there are also pagans “elohim” as
we can see in the Torah. The title “Elohim”
is not limited to the Creator, throughout the scriptures it is use for יהוה but also for man (Moshe, Judges of Israel, Melak/angels of Elohim)
How do we know that the first chapter of b’reshit/Genesis is in the mind of
Elohim? We read what Yochanan writes:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning
(b’reshit)
was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. Joh 1:2 He was in the
beginning (b’reshit) with Elohim. In
the Greek text the word “Logos” was used to explain the “Word”. ....
Logos: Strong’s # G3056 Logos log'-os. From G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic
(subject of discourse), also reasoning
(the mental faculty) or motive;
by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the
Divine Expression (that is, Christ): - account, cause,
communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter,
mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say (-ing), shew, X
speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings,
treatise, utterance, word, work.....
The Logos is the expression of the mind,
the thought. It is like the architect who plans to build a house. The House
doesn’t exist first but just in the mind of the architect, before he draws it
on a paper. We can bring it more clearer, it is also like when you or somebody
say: I will do that or that, draw, build,
make.....
Before you start doing it, it only exists in your mind, you can speak it out or keep in your mind
this is before creation! So we see the first chapter take place in
the fourth heaven called the world of Azilut or world of emanation,
which emanate from YHWH’s mind. Emanation: That which issues, flows,
proceeds from any object as a source, e.g. perfume is an emanation from a flower (Everest dictionary).
Following this pattern everything will become easy to
understand and confusion will be removed.
At this point everything is perfect unity and One
(echad).
Echad a well know term among the
messianic is NOT a “compound unity” as we find the word used many times to say:
Gen 2:21 So יהוה Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one (ECHAD) of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Gen 2:21 So יהוה Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one (ECHAD) of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Gen 4:19
And Lemeḵ took for himself two wives, the name of one (ECHAD)
was Aḏah, and the name of the second was Tsillah.
Gen 11:1
And all the earth had one (ECHAD) language1 and one speech.
Gen 19:9
But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This one (ECHAD)
came in to sojourn, and should he always judge? Now we are going to treat you
worse than them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to
break down the door.
Gen 22:2
And He said, “Take your son, now, your only son Yitsḥaq, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriyah, and offer him there as a
burnt offering on one (ECHAD) of the mountains which I command you.”
Gen 33:13
But he said to him, “My master knows that the children are weak, and the
flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive
them hard one (ECHAD) day, all the flocks shall die.
Exo 9:6
And יהוה did this
word on the next day, and all the livestock of Mitsrayim died, but of the
livestock of the children of Yisra’ĕl, not one (ECHAD) died.
Exo 10:19
And יהוה turned a
very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Sea
of Reeds. Not one (ECHAD) locust was left within all the border of
Mitsrayim.
Exo 12:18
‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first (ECHAD)
day of the month in the evening.
Exo 12:49
“There is one (ECHAD) Torah for the native-born and for the
stranger who sojourns among you.”
Exo 29:1
“And this is the task you shall do to them to set them apart to serve Me
as priests: Take one (ECHAD) young bull and two rams, perfect ones,
And for the
final example:
Deu 6:4
“Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim,
יהוה
is one (ECHAD)!
Now I have
demonstrated that ECHAD, means ONE and not compound unity, there are many
others verse where the Hebrew word “echad” is used with the same meaning.
The second step is like the way of the architect, Elohim gives form to the things to come;
creation exists but without form, it is void. This is the world of “Beriah”
or world of “creation”. We can
follow our first example and say, before the architect build the house, he will
decide in his mind the division of the house the seize, the form….at
this point the house doesn’t exist but in the mind of the
architect. The third step is
the world of preparation called world of “formation” called “yetzirah”.
Here everything takes form like the Architect having put all in order in his
mind will now put in on the paper.
At this point there still is no physical existence as we know it today .. יהוה formed the soul (nephesh) of Adam (mankind) in Gan Eden which is the place where all
followers of Messiah will go back after the Millenium.
After Chawah
(Eve) sin Adam following her, both
were thrown out of Gan Eden which is
the second world or the world of Yetzirah where they had direct communication
with Elohim (B’reshit 3:9-11). Now Adam
and Chawah were in the Natural world
called AsiYah or world of action, which we will see
take place chapter 4 when Adam knew Chawah or had intercourse with her.
Conclusion: When Elohim created man in the first
chapter, Adam had no life but existed already in the mind of Elohim to receive life in Chapter two when
Elohim will breath the n’shamah the higher life which come
from Elohim in the soul of man.
Ephesiens 1 :4 According as he hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love
At this
time we (you and me) already existed in the mind of Elohim.
Foundation: G2602 καταβολή katabole (kat-ab-ol-ay') n.
1. a
deposition, i.e. founding
2. (figuratively)
conception
B’reshit
1:1 should be read: “In
the beginning (b’reshit) He (Ayin,
Sof, The Infinite One who dwell in an unapproachable light) created Elohim
along with the heavens and the earth.
B’reshit
1:1Bereshith
bara Elohim eth א ט hashshamayim
veeth haarets (Hebrew version).
...............
It is noteworthy to see that in the Hebrew text we
will found two letters which are impossible to be translated in other versions
but in Greek, and are omitted in English or French or other versions. Aleph
א and Tav ט in Greek Alpha and Omega the first and last letters of the Hebrew and Greek Alphabet.
This letters used in B’reshit 1:1 B’reshit bra elohim at, demonstrate that everything was perfect from the
beginning, from aleph to tav..........
Rev
1:8 “I am
the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Taw’, beginning and end,” says
יהוה “who is and
who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Isa
44:6 “Thus
said יהוה, Sovereign
of Yisra’ĕl, and his Redeemer, יהוה of hosts, ‘I am the First (Alpeh) and I am the Last (Tav), besides Me there
is no Elohim.
Keep that in mind, in Hebrew understanding, יהוה is the infinite One, who no man has ever seen or approached:
---
Joh
1:18 No one has ever seen Elohim.1 The only brought-forth Son, who is
in the bosom (the heart, the inmost desire) of the Father, He did declare (reveal). Joh 5:37 “And the Father who sent Me, He bore witness of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any
time, nor seen His form.
1Ti
6:16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in
unapproachable light, whom no one has
seen or is able to see, to whom be respect and everlasting might. Amĕn........
יהושע says: Joh 4:24
“Elohim is Spirit, and those
who worship Him need to worship in
spirit and truth.” ........
This is in harmony with the second commandment:
Exo
20:3 “You have no
other mighty ones against My face. Exo 20:4 “You do not make for yourself a
carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the heavens above, or
which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth, Exo 20:5 you do not bow
down to them nor serve them.
For I, יהוה your Elohim
am a jealous Ěl,
Today in the world if we look we see how millions even
billions of people are bound to idolatry, not only in the Roman Catholic Church
with their Maria adoration but also
in many countries like India where thousands of “gods” are worshipped and
receive offerings, and also in Madagascar, and many others.
To have a beginning
we need a frame and this frame is time
in order to have a beginning of
something we must have something to mark
this starting point. This will be with the frame
created by days and nights. Without days and night you have
no time and so will it be in the life to come eternity no more time frame. So was it also before the creation. In
our modern days our watch measure the
time according to the rising and setting of the sun, weeks, month and
years. In opposition to the evolutionist Elohim created the matter out
of nothing. You have surely heard of the Big Bang theory which says that out of big explosion the world and
everything came into existence. The Torah explains clearly how Elohim created everything. Sha’ul make a clear statement in Acts
17:28 which many have overlook: ----
Act 17:28 for in
him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your
own poets have said, for we are also his offspring.
Remember that the same
Sha’ul explains that Elohim dwells in
a place that no man can see:--- 1Ti 6:16
Who only
hath immortality, dwelling in the light
which no man can approach. Yochanan
says I in a different way:
---- 1Jn 1:5
This then is the message which we have
heard of him, and declare unto you, that YHWH
is light, and in him is no darkness
at all.
The reason why we cannot approach Elohim directly is that He is pure light and if we came to him in
the state we are now we were consumed by his brightness. When יהושע will turn over the Kingdom to the Father, we will then
be able to be in his presence, at this time there will be no more darkness at
all.
Not like the world who “make his G-d” Elohim is
the cause of all things, he is omnipresent and a finite man cannot fathom his
thoughts but only what he want us to know!.....
Isa 45:18 for thus saith YHWH that created the
heavens; Elohim himself that formed
the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in
vain, he formed it to be inhabited:
I am YHWH; and there is none else........
יהוה
created, and Elohim formed. The title
Elohim contain the side of Judgement Created: Hebrew “bara” Strong’s #1254 בּרא bârâ'
baw-raw' A primitive root;
(absolutely) to create;
(qualified) to cut down (a wood),
select, feed (as formative
processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Now let us compare with the other word: ---- Formed: Hebrew “yatsar” Strong’s#
H3335 יצר yâtsar yaw-tsar' probably identical with H3334
(through the squeezing into shape); (compare H3331); to mould into a form; especially as a potter;
figuratively to determine (that is, form a resolution): - X earthen, fashion, form, frame,
make (-r), potter, purpose.
We see the name of our heavenly Father appears for the
first time in the account of creation only chapter two in a past sentence:
---- Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created (bara), in the day that YHWH Elohim made the earth and the heavens,.......
But let us go back to the next verse.
Verse 11
tells us: and Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the plant that
yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose
seed is in itself, on the earth.” And it came to be so.
By reading carefully chapter two we can see verse five
that nothing had yet grown:
Gen 2:5
Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for יהוה Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man (Adam) to till the ground,
2:4,
everything was created but do not exist physically. Elohim created ex nihilo which means “something out of nothing”: Elohim said and it was so!
To understand this principle will an enable us to
understand the existence of Messiah. Christians like to say that “jesus” existed
physically before the creation. If so, we will have many difficulties to understand
scriptures. One of the examples is found in the book of Revelation where Yochanan write:
Rev
13:8 and all
those dwelling on the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of
Life of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him.
We see here that Yochanan
speaks of Messiah who was slain at the creation. This is every interesting.
This can only refers to the final sacrifice done by יהושע. This took place as Yochanan knew, in the mind of Elohim, and not physically.
Another
example from the same book:
Rev
17:8 “The
beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the pit of
the deep and goes to destruction. And those dwelling on the earth, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation
of the world,
shall marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. ......
Again we see that concerning those who are written in
the book of life was already decided at the creation. Those saints didn’t live at this time.....יהושע as we
will see came in existence in the year four thousand according to the Torah as
we are going to see.....
The Torah tells us in b’reshit
Gen 1:2 and the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon
the face of the waters......
The earth was without form and void - The
original term תהו tohu and בהו bohu, which
we translate without form and void, are of uncertain etymology; but in this
place, and wherever else they are used, they convey the idea of confusion and disorder. Chaos happened many times in the plan of Elohim and it is not finished with it as
we will see. Scholars have demonstrated as we will see in the next parasha Noach that the earth changed its
position to be what we have today an axial position of 23.5 degree toward the
sun.
Evolutionist and secular scholars
like to demonstrate how the earth moved through evolution and how man came from
his “cousin the ape” to be the
perfect human been we have today! It is interesting and unfortunately that for
some ape they remain monkey! This is not what the Torah
teaches us. I do not deny the existence of Dinosaurs.
The book of b’reshit tells us clearly
that in the beginning. Have you ever
asked the question: Beginning of what? The answer is obvious, the beginning of
the life-form we have today, not the
beginning of the earth, which existed in “tohu bohu form” confusion and disorder and therefore was made desolate and ruin!......
Just read what Kefa / Peter write
what will be in a future time in the light of Ecclesiastes:1:9....... 2Pe 3:10 but the day of יהוה shall come as a thief in the night,
in which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with intense heat, and the
earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up. …….
Is not the Earth to be again void and without form?
But there is also a promise
Rev 21:1 and I
saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, for the former heaven and the
former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more. Rev 21:2 and
I, Yoḥanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed
Yerushalayim, coming down out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband. ..................;
We understand now in different time of creation יהוה destroyed the earth in a process of preparing His chosen ones.
Evil will be eradicated and good will prevail in the process of time. This time
is not unknown or behind man’s
ability to understand as it is in many religions. The Torah unveil all what man
need to know concerning times and seasons. ....... Christians boast themselves
to know the truth unfortunately walk in darkness following the teaching of
those teachers who do not know the truth.
The truth is the Torah
(Yochanan 17:17, Psalm 119: 142,160). In the
age we are living Elohim has sent
great delusion to those who do not love the truth.
2Th
2:10 and with
all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not
receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved.
2Th 2:11
and for this reason Elohim sends them a
working of delusion, for them to believe
the falsehood,1
Footnote:
1Eze. 20:25, John 9:39, John 12:40, Acts 7:42, Rom. 1:24-28. 2Th 2:12 in order that all should be judged who did not believe the
truth (Torah), but
have delighted in the unrighteousness (living like pagans). ....
Strong’s
# 4106 gives us the definition of “Delusion” which is the Greek word “planos”
meaning: wrong opinion, error in a moral sense, a working
of error...................
.יהושע speaking to the Yehudin
(Jews) says: “you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”
(Yochanan 8:32).................
Unrighteousness:Strong’s
# G93
ἀδικία adikia ad-ee-kee'-ah........ From G94; (legal) injustice
(properly the quality, by implication the act); moral wrongfulness (of
charater, life or act): - iniquity, unjust, unrighteousness, wrong.
Iniquity
is the transgression of the Torah:
1Jn 3:4 whosoever
committeth sin transgresseth also the Torah: for sin is the transgression of
the Torah. ...............
Back to the book of B’reshit:……
and the Ruach of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters. According to Hebrew
teaching, this is the Ruach of
Messiah as it is written in: Isa 11:2 The Spirit of יהוה shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of יהוה, Verse 3… and there was light
……
Again here we see light, which is not the daily light,
just because the sun was not yet created at this point.
The sun was created the fourth day, verses 14-18 and
has a special meaning which we are going to see later.
What is the foundation of the world? A Tzadek (Righteous).
Pro 10:25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous (tzadek) is
an everlasting foundation......
A
Tzadek is also referred as light:
Joh 8:12 Therefore יהושע spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall by no
means walk in darkness, but possess the light of life.”
Act 7:52 “Which of the prophets did your fathers not
persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous One
(tzadek), of whom you now have become the betrayers and
murderers,
Verse 4
---
Gen 1:4 and Elohim saw the light, that it was good. and
Elohim separated the light from the darkness. Gen 1:5 and Elohim
called the light ‘day’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’ And there came to be
evening and there came to be morning, the first day.
How can we have “day” and “night” when the sun and the
moon are not created at this stage? Christians
offer an explanation which is out of context of scriptures. Does Elohim speak here about literal or
spiritual day and night on the first day? Remember as we can read the sun and
the moon were created on the fourth day. To change anything that is to try to
twist the work of Messiah and make it
obsolete. To understand we need to go in
the sod of interpretation. Sha’ul in his divine given wisdom makes
a midrash in the sod writing to the believers in Thessalonica, using the verses 4
and 5 of B’reshit he writes:
1Th
5:4 but you,
brothers, are not in darkness, so
that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 1Th 5:5
for you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
We see that Sha’ul
use the Torah to explain the good work (sons of the day) versus the evil work (darkness).
In Hebrew we have the “Yetzer HaRa”, evil deeds, versus “Yetzer Tov” the good deeds..... Good and evil are part of the
creation. Did you know it?
Isa
45:6 so that
they know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none but Me.
I am יהוה, and there
is none else, Isa 45:7 forming light and creating (bara) darkness, making peace and creating
evil (Ra). I, יהוה, do all these.’
Pro 16:4
יהוה has made
all for His purpose, and also the wrong for the day of evil (Ra)………..
Verse 5:
First the evening than the morning: Here we have an understanding that the day
will start at the point of darkness (without Messiah) and then will come the day light will come. Luke speaking of the work of Yochanan the Immerser:
Luk
1:78 through
the tender compassion of our Elohim, with which the daybreak from on high has looked upon us, Luk 1:79 to give light
to those who sit in darkness, and the shadow of death, to guide our feet
into the way of peace.”
According to B’reshit 1:5 man will come out of darkness
into the light .
Joh
1:5 and the light shines in the
darkness, and the
darkness has not overcome it. Joh 3:19
“And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness
rather than the light, for their works were wicked.
Act
26:18 to open
their eyes, to turn them from darkness to
light,1 and the authority of Satan (darkness) to Elohim
(light), in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance
among those who are set-apart by belief in Me.’ Footnote: 1Isa. 42:6-7, Isa.
60:2-3, Rev. 21:24.
Eph
6:12 Because
we do not wrestles 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.
1Pe
2:9 But you
are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a
possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of
darkness into His marvellous light,(this verse is based on
SH’mot 19:5-6)
1Jn
2:8 Again I
write you a fresh command, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away,
and the true light now shines.
Here we see clearly that the
light is to overcome darkness, good versus evil. The world light is found 5 time between verse
3 and 5 .Five is the number for Torah
the Five books of Moshe, Five is also
the letter “He” in the Hebrew
alphabet and represent favor, having the fifth position in the “tree of life” (see the midrash: The tree of life), represented
by the life of Abraham.
Elohim
set the principle of life to be seen and understood in His word. In יהושע’s time people understood that the full revelation was in the sod the mystery embedded in the Torah.
Light need darkness to be revealed, good need evil to be understood. This is a
major principle of life, without evil, good lost its signification and become
void. This principle is valid for many others process, clean and unclean, small
and tall, long and short, patient and impatient, pure and impure, pair and
impair, save and lost etc…….
Gen 1:4 and Elohim saw the light, that it was good:
and Elohim divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5
and
Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day. .....
Elohim
saw that the light was good and
decided to divide (separate, selected, make distinction) from the darkness:
----
Darkness:
Strong’s # H2822......... חשׁך chôshek kho-shek'
From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness;
figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow,
wickedness: - dark
(-ness), night, obscurity............
IGNORANCE! Can
you see? Many people today are ignorant of the truth (Torah) and so are in
darkness, while proclaiming that they are saved
We
see here that the Hebrew word darkness is
not limited to obscurity but embrace the notion of destruction, death, ignorance, wickedness, night!
So
we can understand Sha’ul speaking to
the Thessalonians:
1Th 5:4 but ye, brethren, are not in darkness
(ignorance), that that day should overtake you as a thief....... 1Th 5:5 Ye are all the
children of light,
and the children of the day: we
are not of the night, nor of darkness.........
Now
let me show you something which comes from the creation and how it is reveal in
the Torah:
----
Gen
1:5 and Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day........
We
discover the construction of what is call “one
day” it begins with the evening which
precede the night and it was the first day.......
One
day is equal as we know to one thousand year (Psalm 90:4, 2nd Kefa
3:8). Now look at this and consider:
----
Adam following Chawah (Eve) sinned and his life was reduced to one thousand year,
he died short before Noach (see chart
at the end of the parasha).
The
period of Adam’s life started with erev
(evening) or dusk, moved to darkness
(night) which brought destruction with Noach’s
generation when all righteous people had died, one thousand year (one day):
From
Adam to Messiah, darkness and light rule in alternative movement
until the fourth day when messiah came:
From
Noach to Moshe light and darkness rule over the heathen nation
descendants from Ham and Yapeth (sons of Noach); light through
the patriarchs Abraham, Itzakh and Ya’acov having been preserved by Noach’s son Shem, Eber. Moshe took
over the light, gave to Yehoshua son of Nun, who will bring it
to the Children of Israel in the promise Land. The light will be kept by the Judges
period until King David came to bring
the greatest light of Elohim in
Israel which found its climate in Sh’lomo’s
time and decline also at the end of his life around 1000 B.C.
From
this time (1000B.C.) a period of great darkness (night) came upon the world until Messiah came in the fourth day (b’reshit/Gen.1:14-19) (year 4000).
From Messiah until our days, light
(day) will rule the world in the midst of darkness.
The
Millennium will see the reign of Messiah who is the light of the world and the Qadosh One (Saints) take dominion over darkness, tremendous change will take
place especially in Yerushlayim where
Light will rule.
Rev 21:23 and the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it:
for the glory of YHWH did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof....... Rev 21:24 and
the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the
kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25
and the
gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night
there.... Rev 21:26
and they
shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it....
Can you see how far night
and day, darkness and light are connected with ignorance, wickedness, misery,
destruction, and righteousness, life, and peace?....At the end of the
Millennium, night will be destroyed forever and Light will shine forever.
Rev 22:4 and they shall see his face; and his name
shall be in their foreheads..;Rev 22:5
and there shall be no night
there; and
they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for YHWH Elohim giveth them light: and they shall
reign forever and ever.Rev 22:6
and he
said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and YHWH Elohim of the holy
prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly
be done.
Rev 22:7
behold, I
come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this
book.
Verses 6-9. .....Gen 1:6 and Elohim said, “Let an expanse come to be in the
midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” Gen 1:7 and Elohim made the expanse, and separated the waters
which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. And
it came to be so.
Gen 1:8
and Elohim called the expanse ‘heavens.’ And there came to be evening and there
came to be morning, the second day. Gen 1:9 And Elohim said, “Let the waters under the heavens be
gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it came to
be so.
Heaven: Shamayim (Hebrew) Shemayim (Chaldean) Dual of "the heavens"; in the Qabbalah, the
celestial world of the stars, sun, planets, and moon. "The real meaning of Sha-mayeem is, that the heavens are made of {Hebrew char} i.e., esh fire, mayeem water; also soo
mayeem, the heaven carries
the waters" (Myer, Qabbalah 348). As a
Hebrew dual form, the heavens were anciently conceived of as dual -- the higher
and lower heavens. Nevertheless, it is constantly used likewise to signify
heavens in the usual sense of plurality (Rakefet).
The Water is a vital element in human life. Without
water human being cannot live, we need water every day, when we are thirsty, to
wash ourselves, to cook.
The water is a picture of life itself.
As the body needs water in order to survive, the soul
of man needs also water which is the
word of Elohim
Eph 5:26
in order to set it apart and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,1
Joh 3:5
יהושע answered,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he is unable to enter into the
reign of Elohim. Act 2:38
And Kĕpha said to them, “Repent, and let each one of you be immersed in the Name of יהושע
Messiah for the forgiveness of sins.1 And you shall receive the gift
of the Set-apart Spirit.
Isa 30:20 Though יהוה gave you bread of adversity and water
of affliction, your Teacher1 shall no longer be hidden. But
your eyes shall see your Teacher1, Footnote: 1Or
teachers. See also Joel 2:23.
Isa 44:3 ‘For I
pour water on the thirsty,
and floods on the dry ground. I pour My Spirit on your seed, and My blessing on
your offspring,
In Hebrew thoughts, the world of Yetzirah is also called the world of waters. (Yashanet on Revelation the second heaven).
Verse 7: Elohim
separated the water under the heavens and the water above. …..
Read:
Psa 148:4
Praise Him, heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!
Rev 17:15
and he said to me, “The waters which
you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and crowds, and nations, and
tongues. .......
Here the waters
are and euphemism for people.
Waters...above
it: This "firmament" has the sense of being solid in Hebrew; there
may have been a crystalline "window" of ice in a heat sink 11 miles above the earth's
surface, where extra water was held in reserve for a special contingency
(7:11). It would also act as a receiver for the "music of the
spheres", screen out much of the sun's harmful radiation and produce a
stable, “hothouse" climate, even-tempered throughout the world; these
allowed for the radically-longer lives seen in the chapters ahead…. "Heavens":
or "skies"; the word is dual rather than plural in form, indicating
that there is a pair of two matching things that are described thereby. In
traditional Hebrew thought, it refers to the sky and something “behind” it
which in some way matches it. YHWH has concealed some concepts in His word that
He intends for us to search out. (Prov. 25:2) In verse 1 the heavens already
existed, but now YHWH gave it a more specific meaning. Psalm 68:33 tells us
that YHWH rides on the “Heaven of heavens”—a Hebrew idiom for a “heaven”
superior to or higher than the one we can see—“which were of old”, so this is
what we are dealing with here at this most ancient point of the revealed
history of the universe.(From One Bread Assembly).
Gen
1:9 And
Elohim said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one
place, and let the dry land appear.” And it came to be so. ...........
Until the day of Noach
there was no season, everything was in perfect harmony with the work of Elohim during the Creation. Elohm watered the field and the trees
with the dew from the morning. The seasons appeared after the flood:
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease......
I explain in the coming Parsha Noach how the water which was gathered during the creation
came to be used during the flood.......
We can read from One
bread Assembly:
Gathering:
Heb. miqveh, usually used for waters of ritual purification. The root word also
has the sense of waiting in expectation, and from it is also derived the word
tiqvah, or hope. Note that on the first two days, before the scene of
punishment was washed clean of its defilement, was this creation called
"right". This is like a tidal wave that does not destroy us, but
completely washes away the old order of confusion. From under heaven:
"waters" seem to describe the beings that lusted for YHWH's position,
overrunning the mountains (a symbol of YHWH's throne) before being confined to
the "deep" (v. 2; Psalm 104:6-9). The final uprising of this age also
begins from "the sea" (Rev. 13:1). Earth: Yet there was already an
earth in verse 1. Now He narrows its definition to the dry ground. Later, the
same word would come to have the specialized meaning of the Land of Israel in
particular, for all of this creation is ultimately for the sake of Israel,
because the whole point of all of this is to draw out a people for Himself. The
word Seas is plural, but earth is singular, for it was not until the day of
Peleg that the land was divided into the continents as we know them now.
(10:25) In the same way, Israel was scattered. Earth can only be unified again
as Israel is unified, though there is a great counterfeit afoot……….
11-13 Elohim said:
Gen 1:11 and Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth grass,
the plant that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to
its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth.” And it came to be so. Gen 1:12 and the earth brought forth grass, the plant that
yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed
is in itself according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good. Gen 1:13 and there came to be evening and there came to be
morning, the third day.
He
commanded the earth to produce “fruits after its kind, whose seed is in itself*”.
*mushroom
are fungis, and have no seed and thus cannot be eaten!
Fungi, which is
separate from plants, animals, and bacteria. One major difference is that fungal cells havecell
walls that contain chitin, unlike the cell walls of plants, which contain cellulose. These and other differences show that the fungi form
a single group of related organisms, named the Eumycota (true fungior Eumycetes), that share a common
ancestor (a monophyletic group).
If we learn that the Torah shows us or teach us something, we will look that the word “Tree”
is the Hebrew word “etz” and the word
“tzelem” which means “image” in which
man was created. In the scriptures “tree” is often a metaphor for righteous
people.
Psalm 1:3, YeshaYahu 61:3, Mattityahu 15:13, Yochanan
15:2.
Seed
is the vector of life in different form seed is equal to the Greek word “sperma”.
Rom 1:3 concerning His Son, who came of the
seed (sperma) of Dawiḏ according to the flesh, ...
1Co 15:38 but Elohim giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Verses 14-19
Gen 1:14 and Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day
from the night, and let them be for
signs and appointed times, and
for days and years,
Gen 1:15
and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the
earth.” And it came to be so. Gen 1:16
and Elohim made two great lights: the
greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night, and the stars. Gen 1:17 and Elohim set them in the expanse of the heavens to
give light on the earth, Gen 1:18
and to rule over the day and over the
night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it
was good. Gen
1:19 and
there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the fourth day. ......
Elohim
creates now the light of the sun and of the moon, as well as the stars. Here
again we have a deep meaning and a great teaching.
There are two rulers, the
sun to rule the day and the moon to rule the night. The deeper understanding is
to be seen in that the sun is the picture of Yehowah and His Mashiach ruling
the Earth, the moon is a picture of the Assembly who receive the light from the
sun and bring it to the darkness (world).
First of all the stars which until this very day, no
human being has ever approached....
Psa 147:4
He appoints the number of the stars He gives names to all of them....
Isa 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high and see. Who has created these? He who is bringing
out their host by number, He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of
His power – not one is missing.
Gen 15:5
And He brought him (Abraham) outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens,
and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
To Abraham, Elohim shown the stars and told him that
his descendants will be as numerous as the stars. If we know the principle:
natural for spiritual there is a direct relation between man and stars!
Verse 16:
The greater light to rule the day, the lesser light to rule the night. The stars are also included in the same
sentence. If we find out who are the sun and the moon, we can by logic also find
out what the stars represent. The Sun:
The greater light. The prophet Malachi speaks of it and calls it “Sun of righteousness”:
Mal
4:2 “But to
you who fear My Name the Sun of
Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. And you shall go out
and leap for joy like calves from the stall. .................
This is an allegory pointing to Messiah. The people of
this day knew very well that Messiah would come in the fourth day, according to
Psalm 90:4 they understood that Messiah will come on the fourth day of 4000
years from creation.
In the creation each day represent 1000 Years (Psalm
90:4, 2nd Kefa 3:8) .
Because the sun was created on the fourth day to rule
the day, people knew that when Messiah
will come in the year 4000 He will rule over Elohim’s flock. The Moon
has no light on his own, it receive light from the sun.
Remember יהושע says in Yochanan/John 8:12 “I am the light of
the world: He that follows me shall have the light of life”. The moon follows
the sun and receives its light. In Hebrew thoughts, Sun = Messiah, Moon= Kahal (Hebrew), the Assembly, the chosen
Ones or Ekklesias (Greek).We see here
the Sod or deep meaning of interpretation.
The P’shat/Literal level: The sun gives light so we have the day. The moon gives
light to the night.
The Remez --- The Sun point to Messiah who is the light of the word .
The days are those walking in the Torah who is a light
unto those who believe (Psalm 119:105).
The Moon represent the Assembly who receive his light
from Messiah the Sun of Righteousness (Malachi 4:2). The believers by keeping
the Torah and bringing fruits of righteousness rule spiritually over darkness
of this world the people outside the Torah. We will see later that the creation
of man and woman has also its own interpretation.
Let us also look at another verse concerning the stars.....
Psa 19:1 The heavens
declare the glory of El; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psa 19:2 Day unto day
uttereth speech, and night unto
night sheweth knowledge.... Psa 19:3
There is
no speech nor language, where their
voice is not heard.
Psa 19:4
Their
line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Psa 19:5 which
is as a bridegroom coming out of his
chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race Psa 19:6 His
going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
First of all we shall know that during the day we
don’t see the stars because of the day-light, there are still there and become
seen at dusk.
The firmament or the ark .
Handywork:
Strong’s # H4639 מעשׂה ma‛ăśeh ah-as-eh'
From H6213; an action (good or bad);
generally a transaction;
abstractly activity; by
implication a product (specifically a poem) or (generally) property:
- act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do (-ing), labour, thing made, ware
of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ([handy-,
needle-, net-]) work, (-ing, -manship), wrought.
The firmament or handywork
show the actions, the activity of Elohim
mighty works. Here we can understand why since the days of old, people have
searched the stars. The heavens are divided into twelve zodiac signs. We know that it is forbidden for us to search the
stars in order to know the future.
Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one
that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch..... Deu 18:11 or
a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer....
Deu
18:12 for all that do
these things are an abomination unto YHWH: and because of these abominations
YHWH thy Elohim doth drive them out from before thee.... I know many of us
have look at the horoscope, we did it
out of ignorance but now we know that our future is hidden in messiah יהושע, we don’t have to worry, only those outside the covenant look
at the horoscope to know about their life.
I have neglected astronomy since the day I came to
follow Messiah. Shortly I read from a
man Philipp Todd Derstine who explained beautiful things concerning the
astronomic signs in the firmament which brought me back to look at the signs,
not in order to know about my future, rather to understand the deeper secrets
which יהוה display in front of the all world.....
Quote from Philipp Todd Derstine:
“Yahweh designed the Zodiac to
coincide beautifully with the equinox in such a way that the Zodiac lent
extremely relevant meaning to the feasts as they were occurring. In
other words, Yahweh wanted Passover to be kept near the spring equinox because
it was by His design that the sun was in the sign of Aries during the equinox. Aries the Ram is drenched (immerse)
with Passover meaning. These relationships were well-understood in
Yahshua’s day, as we are about to see..... We can learn…from the statements of
Philo, Josephus, and Musaeus, and not them only, but still earlier writers, the
two Agathobuli, famous as teachers of Aristobulus the Great…These authors, in
explaining the problems of the Exodus state that the Passover ought invariably to be sacrificed after the spring
equinox, at the middle of the first month; and that this occurs when the sun is
passing through the first sign…of the Zodiacal cycle [i.e. Aries, the
Ram]. Aristobulus adds that it is necessary at the Passover festival
that not only the sun but the moon as well should be passing through
an equinoctial sign [a reference to Libra]. There are two of
these signs, one in the spring, and one in the autumn, diametrically opposite
each other. On the day of the Passover--14th of the month
after sunset-- the moon will occupy the position diametrically opposite the
sun, as we can see when the moon is full; the sun will be in the sign of the
spring equinox, the moon inevitably in that of the autumnal [Libra, which Philo calls the Scales].
There can be no doubt that the “first sign of the Zodiacal cycle,”
referred to by Anatolius and Philo, was the sign of Aries the ram. This lines up with the
meaning of Passover, since Isaac’s life was spared in Genesis 22 when Yahweh
provided a ram out of the thicket at the point when Abraham
was willing to sacrifice his son. The Jewish sages believed that this
story took place around Passover. Fred Coulter in his book The Christian Passover presents
strong evidence that the Abrahamic Covenant was ratified on Passover in Genesis
15. In a very real sense, Genesis 22 is the original Passover story,
which is the story of a sacrificial ram sparing the life of the promised seed,
or should we say the Promised Seed giving His Life in order to spare everyone
else’s. YHWH designed the heavens for signs and seasons in a marvelous
fashion which not one of us fully comprehends; but two things are certain, ---- 1)
from Abraham to יהושע the sun dwelt in Aries/Ram during the month of March
and early April, and --- 2)
Yahweh with forethought placed Aries/Ram there during that epoch to picture the
great type and antitype that played themselves out from Mt. Moriah to Goshen
and finally Calvary. ..... In John
1:29 by John the Baptist: “Behold the Lamb/Ram
of God which takes away the sin of the world.” Therefore, Aries is a picture of the Messiah’s first coming, whose
atoning mission was capped on a torture stake on Passover day, March 27, 31 AD, when the sun was still in Aries.
Many in the holyday-keeping movement neglect or reject these kinds of
typological and theological criteria for intercalation, despite the fact that
both Philo and Josephus plainly state that Passover must fall when the sun is
in the sign of the Ram!
Make no mistake, Aries is a
theological concept in the Heavens put there by Yahweh for a purpose, and those in the calendar-setting business who
ignore it are out of touch with a great cosmic spiritual reality.
Back at the time of Abraham’s birth, the precession of the
equinoxes had recently moved the sun from Taurus into Aries during
the spring equinox. By the time of
the Crucifixion (some 2100 years
later), the slow precession of the equinoxes had moved the sun through the
Ram (it taking 2160 years for the sun to traverse 30 degrees, or one
sign of the Zodiac). By the first half of the first Century, the sun was only a
few degrees into the constellation Aries during Passover, and getting ready to transit into Pisces during the
spring equinox over the next two generations.” .... For
the complete text ask I will send it to you at your request........
Philipp helps us to discover how יהוה
has placed marvellous work in the face of the all world. He explains in another
place the famous “star of Bethlehem” at
יהושע’s birth. What was this star that
the wise men were looking at?
Mat 2:1 Now when Yehoshua
was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there
came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for
we have seen his star in the east, and are come to
worship him......
The saw the star in the East! These men were not magi as it is pretended nor kings, but
shepherd train to observe the stars from generations of old.....
During the birth of יהושע Philipp explain
that the star magnitude was so bright that the men new that it was the sign of Messiah’s birth. But how they could
recognize the phenomenon, it was never sighted before? If we look at some modern material like from
Redshif we discover the ecliptic
movement of the planets running their race around the sun, like the earth. They do all at their own speed, so that
we have signs like moon eclipse and sun eclipse when sun moon and earth come in
a particular conjunction. In the year Yehoshua
was born, there was a conjunction which never was before and never has been after,
Saturn and Venus stood in the same axe
so that their magnitude sighted from the earth increased to be a visible sign
in the east e.g. Babylon which didn’t exist before.
Verses
20-22 ---- Gen
1:20 and
Elohim said, “Let the waters teem with shoals of living creatures, and let
birds fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.” ....Gen 1:21 and Elohim created great sea creatures and every
living creature that moves, with which the waters teemed, according to their
kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was
good. Gen 1:22 and Elohim blessed them, saying, “Bear fruit and
increase, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds increase on the
earth.”
Again after the same principle, the P’shat or plain text reveals the literal
meaning we need to go back to the Sod or
secret meaning to understand.
Daniel teaches us that in the last day knowledge will
increase (Daniel 12:4). This is for all mankind either natural or spiritual. In
this last century, knowledge has increase in a tremendous way in the technical as
well as for divine understanding of the scriptures....
We remember that water represent also people and the
sea, nations. We know according to Vayikra
16 that there are clean and unclean animals and birds.... In Hebrew thoughts,
animals and fowls have a meaning. They represent:
People behaviour
Fowls after their kind represent in the sod the different groups of angels and demons in the heavenly
The duality of life is understood in this verse in YeshaYahu 45:7: light and darkness,
peace and evil”. There are many things understood out of its opposite, like
night and day, life and death, good and evil…..
In order to be understood something must be measured
to its opposite like: fast and slow.
Sha’ul
explain that the heavenly place is a mixed place:
--- 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. (this is the world of Yetzirah)
The prophet Daniel speaks in similar words:
--- Dan 10:7
and I, Dani’ĕl, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not
see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they ran away to hide
themselves.
Dan 10:11 and he said to me, “O Dani’ĕl, man greatly
appreciated, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I
have now been sent to you.” And while he was speaking this word to me, I stood
trembling. Dan
10:12 and he said to
me, “Do not fear, Dani’ĕl, for from the first day that you set your heart to
understand and to humble yourself before your Elohim, your words were heard,
and I have come because of your words. Dan 10:13 “But
the head of the rule of Persia withstood
me twenty-one days. And see, Miḵa’ĕl, one of the chief heads, came to help
me, for I had been left alone there with the sovereigns of Persia. Dan 10:14 “And I have come
to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision
is yet for days to come.” 24-31
Gen 1:24
And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to
its kind: livestock and creeping creatures and beasts of the earth, according
to its kind.” And it came to be so. Gen 1:25 and Elohim made the beast of the earth according to
its kind, livestock according to its kind, and all that creep on the earth
according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good. Gen 1:26 and Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over
the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth and
over all the creeping creatures that creep on the earth.”
Gen 1:27
and Elohim created the man in His image, in the image of Elohim He created him
– male and female He created them. Gen 1:28 and Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them,
“Bear fruit and increase, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the
fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creatures
moving on the earth.” Gen 1:29
and Elohim said, “See, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is
on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it
is for food.
Gen 1:30
“And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to
every creeping creature on the earth, in which there is life, every green plant
is for food.” And it came to be so. Gen 1:31 and Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was
very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the sixth
day.
Christianity want to see “g-d and Jesus” in the words “let us make man in our own images”
saying that the “we” refers to “G-d
and Jesus”. This of course is due to misinterpretation. By reading Yob 38:4-7 we get a hint ( Remez) who
was present at creation namely the sons of Elohim, the Malek or messengers.
Job 38:4
Where were you when I laid the
foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. Job 38:5 Who set its measurements, if you know? Or who
stretched the line upon it?
Job 38:6
Upon what were its foundations sunk? Or who laid its corner-stone, …
Job 38:7
when the morning stars sang together, and all
the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?
……27. Elohim
created man in His own image. It is interesting to see that from all the
creation, only man is created in the image of Elohim.
1)
Angels are not made in the image of Elohim, but are servants:
Rev 22:8 And I John saw these things, and heard them.
And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the
angel which shewed me these things.. Rev 22:9 and
he said to me, “See, do not! For I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who are guarding the words of
this book. Worship Elohim.”
Rev 19:10 and I fell at his feet to worship him. And
he said unto me, See thou do it not: I
am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of יהושע: worship YHWH: for the testimony
of יהושע is the spirit of prophecy............
To get the deep meaning we must see that Adam and Chawah (Eve) broke this image by transgressing the commandment of Elohim “do not” in chapter 2:17….
Mankind has the choice either to obey or to disobey
this is the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. In Hebrew it is called Yetzer Tov (Good inclination) Yetzer HaRa (evil inclination). Man
shall walk in the middle path.
This image was broken by Adam and we need the “tikkun”
or restoration of what was broken. This can only come by following Messiah who is in the image of Elohim:
Heb
1:3 Who
being the brightness of his glory, and the
express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his
power, when he had by himself purged our sins, at down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
The image is what reflects perfectly what the original
is. We must consider that Elohim is Ruach
and has no shape or form (Yochanan 5:37),
1st Tim. 6:16) Therefore it can only refers to moral attributes.
Is Elohim male
and female? Let us approach the two aspect of Elohim male and female. This is highly mystical and cannot be
approached with the natural. In order for us to understand, Elohim do the same in the earthly scale
with Adam and Chawah. But let us look if we can understand the two aspect of Elohim which of course annihilate the “trinity” doctrine. First of all we need to know that the Hebrew
word for “Spirit”, “Ruach” is feminine
gender and not masculine. Some
Hebrew words which are in the original plural are translated in singular
because of lack of understanding:
Ecc 12:1 Remember now thy Creators in the
days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when
thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; …………..
The Hebrew text read:
Ecc 12:1 Remember now thy Creators (boreach, plural) in the days
of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou
shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; YHWH of hosts is his name; and thy
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The Elohim of the whole earth shall he be
called.
The Hebrew read:
Isa 54:5 For thy Makers (boayliach ohsaich, plural) is thine husband; YHWH of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy
One of Israel; The Elohim of the whole earth shall he be called. ………….
Joh 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter (Ruach =she=the mother)
will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him (her) unto you.
The son (יהושע the Word made flesh)
is the produce of the Father YHWH and
of the Mother, the Ruach
Christianity
pretends that in Genesis 1:26, YHWH
is speaking with “Jesus”! Is it true, or is it out of the imagination from so
called “scholar” who do not consider the Hebrew context?
Let us look
at it in the original context:
Gen 1:26 and Elohim said, Let us make man (singular) in our image, after our likeness: and let them (plural) have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen 1:27 So Elohim created man in his
own image, in the image of
Elohim created he him(singular); male
and female created he
them.
The
feminine aspect or site of YHWH is the Ruach also called “mother”. In
proverbs wisdom/Chochmah is a “she”:
Pro 8:1 Doth not wisdom cry? and
understanding put forth her voice?
Pro 8:2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the
places of the paths.
Pro 8:3 She crieth at the
gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
In Exodus 20:12 we read:
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which YHWH thy Elohim giveth
thee.
Let us compare with what we read in proverbs:
Pro 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the Torah of thy mother: --- Very
interesting!
The concept is simple: In order for us in our limited
understanding to be able to grasp what Elohim
want us to know, he give us a “copy”
of what is in the heavens above:
Exo 25:9 according to all that I shew
thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Exo 25:40 and look that thou make
them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. …
Heb 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of Elohim when he
was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. …..
No doubt that what was shown to Moshe was a copy of Heavenly things! This is why when we want to
understand the scriptures many times we just need to look in our own life.
Sorry for those who believe the satanic
trinity which destroy the truth:
YHWH the Father and the Ruach the Mother produced together the WORD:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with YHWH, and the Word was YHWH.
Joh 1:14 and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ………….
The Word became flesh in the year 4000 and NOT in B’reshit (Genese) 1:26!........
Elohim
put man in the higher scale of creation to have dominion (to rule) over His creation.
Apart from Elohim, mankind has
developed conquest by forces and violence. Even today in the name of peace
people are killed every day….Man was created on the sixth days this is why in gemetria the number six is the number of
man (666)…One last point needs our reflexion:
Gen 1:31
and Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good. And there came
to be evening and there came to be morning, the sixth day. ....
In the creation, which include all details in the
earth, either trees, fields, seeds, fish, animals, fowls, man, the sun the moon
and the stars, the torah tells that it was very good! My question is:
How then mankind complains today that more than one billion people lack of
food, that there are not enough fishes in the seas, that the earth cannot
product enough food for everybody? Do you know that the answer is in the Torah
and very easy to find: sin,
transgression of the divine commandments is the cause of all disasters. Please
remember always that יהוה is perfect and has commanded us to be perfect as he is!
Chapter
2. ---
We are now going to
step down in the world of creation and change to another heaven, from the
world of emanation where nothing has substance and is ONE in all יהושע says My Father and I are ONE! The world of creation, “Beriah” where nothing exists in its
physical form, but things become now form in the mind of Elohim. I know this
may be difficult for some who claim the literal text only and deny that the
text can be read in a deeper meaning. It was so with many so call Church Fathers who rejected allegories. Today if you search
patiently the scriptures comparing the Brit
Chadasha (Renewed Covenant) to the Torah, you will come to the same
conclusion, we cannot understand if we refuse to look behind the letter. The world of Beriah
(formation) is the world where we find the Throne of Elohim. Sha’ul speaks in 2nd Corint. 12:2 of the third
heaven and call it “Paradise”
verse 4......Paradise is also called “Gan Eden” in B’reshit 2:8. Depending the
way we approach “Paradise” is in the
third heaven. When we count from the world we are living in which is “Azilut” the world of action, it is the
“Paradise” where Adam and Chawah were
walking in the cool of the day is the second heaven, “Yetzirah”, as we can read in chapter three when Elohim drove Adam and Chawah out of
Eden.
Down from Creation in Azilut
the world of emanation it is the
third heaven. Azilut, Beriah and Yetzirah (Paradise).
In this chapter we see the transition from the world
of creation (Beriah) into the world
of formation (Yetzirah) also called
the world of the soul. Here everything takes its final form.
Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed,
and all their array. Gen 2:2
and on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He
rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. Gen 2:3 and Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart,
because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made. Gen 2:4 These are the births of the heavens and the earth
when they were created, in the day that יהוה Elohim made earth and heavens. Gen 2:5 Now no shrub of the field was
yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for יהוה Elohim had not sent rain on the
earth, and there was no man to till the ground, Gen 2:6 but a mist went up from the
earth and watered the entire surface of the ground. Gen 2:7 and יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust
from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of life. And the man
became a living being. Gen 2:8 and יהוה Elohim planted a garden in Ěḏen,
to the east, and there He put the man whom He had formed. Gen 2:9 and out of the ground יהוה Elohim made every tree grow that
is pleasant to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the midst
of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Gen 2:10 and a river went out of Ěḏen to
water the garden, and from there it divided and became four riverheads. Gen 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon,
it is the one surrounding the entire land of Ḥawilah, where there is gold. Gen 2:12 and the gold of that land is
good. Bdellium is there, and the shoham stone. Gen 2:13 and the name of the second river
is Giḥon, it is the one surrounding the entire land of Kush. Gen 2:14 and the name of the third river
is Ḥiddeqel, it is the one which goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the
fourth river is the Euphrates.
Gen 2:15 and יהוה Elohim took the man and put him
in the garden of Ěḏen to work it and to guard it. Gen 2:16 and יהוה Elohim commanded the man, saying,
“Eat of every tree of the garden, Gen 2:17 but do not eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it you shall
certainly die.”
Gen 2:18 and יהוה Elohim said, “It is not good for
the man to be alone, I am going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.”
Verse
5. --- As we have already seen, nothing has grown because
nothing was literally in its place. This is understood in the verse itself:
Gen 2:5
Now no shrub of the field was yet on
the earth, and no plant of the field had
yet sprung up, for יהוה Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground, ….. Elohim had not sent rain on the
earth. This rain is brought by the Ruach
of Elohim…
The creation is still in its state of creation process
and will now undergo the step of “formation”
the final shape. Separation will take form and each entity will receive its own
place. The Creation is after this pattern from the less to the higher…
- Material –
Vegetal
-- - Animal - Mankind
---- They all depend from one another. This is why mankind destroys the
creation by his own selfishness (power to get wealth) and sin, and Elohim will have to stop man’s
wickedness in order to recreate all things as it was previously, when the
circle of 6000 years will come to the End…..
Verse 9….. The tree of life and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil: --- We have here literally two trees which are in
opposition. The one is forbidden to eat by Elohim
to Adam verse 17, the other the tree of life is removed from his reaches
Chapter 3:22, so that Adam (mankind) cannot live forever. It is very
interesting to pray for understanding. Many years I read the first chapter from
the book of B’reshit without any deep
understanding, having followed the teaching of man without knowledge. When I
started to study from the Hebrew perspective, things began to change and my
understanding was more and more enlarged. I realized how יהושע and the Schaliach (Apostles, send ones) spoke
about the Torah and out of the Torah. Every
time we look only at the literal text we miss the most important. יהושע spoke in parable in order to hide some truth from some
groups of people, which he explained only to his talmidin (disciples). Elohim has also hidden revelation behind
the P’shat or literal level. We need
patience and many times the help of other brethren in order to understand. Once
we are trained, we begin to see mysteries Heb. 5:14.
Heb 5:14
But solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained by
practice to
discern both good and evil. ....
From these two trees one brings death, the other
eternal life. We have seen already that tree represent man or people. So these
two trees represent two kinds of people: Tehilim
/ Proverbs 3:18 tell us that wisdom is a
tree of life. Sha’ul says to Timothy that scriptures are able to make
one wise unto salvation (2nd Tim. 3:15). The book of Luke tells us
that the child יהושע grew in
wisdom (Luke 2:52). יהושע is also
called “the Word of Elohim (Yochanan
1/14). We can say that יהושע is the living word of Elohim, because he was without
sin and we know that sin is the transgression of the Torah (1st
Yoch. 3:4).
The tree
of life is the Torah and by extension The
Word:
Rev 22:1
and he
showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of
Elohim and of the Lamb.
Rev 22:2
In the
middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life,
which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations.
What does Yochanan mean by “the leaves
of the tree”, let look what the prophet Yremeyahu
write:
Jer 36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll
(Torah): and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read
it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood
beside the king. Jer 36:22 Now the king sat in the
winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning
before him. Jer 36:23 and it came to pass, that when
Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on
the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
No doubt that leaves and pages or scroll have the same meaning! The tree of the knowledge of
good and evil brought death to mankind, not the inherited sin transmitted by
DNA as the Christians and Roman Catholic want people to believe. We are set
free from the power of sin through Messiah יהושע. No other religion can make
people free from sin. If sin was in the D.N.A. from Adam why then Elohim says to Cain:
Gen 4:6 and YHWH said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance
fallen? Gen
4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if
thou doest not well, sin lieth at the
door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.....
The door was his heart and Cain had to change his
countenance in order to master the power of sin!
Rom 5:12 For this reason, even as through one man sin did
enter into the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all
men, because all sinned –
Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was impaled with Him,
so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, to serve sin no longer.
Col 1:13 who has delivered us from the authority of darkness1 and transferred us into the reign of the Son of His
love,
2Co 5:21
for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might
become the righteousness of Elohim. .....
Just after Elohim
forbid Adam (mankind) to eat of the
tree, Elohim says that he will make
him a help met for him-19-20….
Gen 2:19
and from the ground יהוה Elohim
formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them
to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called each
living creature that was its name. Gen 2:20 so the man gave names to all
livestock, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field.
But for the man there was not found a helper for him, as his counterpart.
We can understand that the helper for Adam will have the same nature as Adam, in the text: “but for man there
was not found a helper for him, as his counterpart”. We see clearly that man is
over beast. Animals are not equal to
mankind. Unfortunately today people under humanistic understanding want animals
to have the same statutes as mankind. In Europe and US pets like dogs have
become same statutes like their masters, business for pets dogs, cats, birds,
fish go over one billion euro only in Europe while many men have no home to
stay:
Ecc 3:21
Who knows the spirit of the sons of men,
which goes upward, and the spirit of
the beast, which goes down to the
earth?
It is clear that the Ruach of man is not the same as the Ruach from animals. Animals will not be resurrected. The tree of knowledge of good and evil
represent the “free will” of
mankind.21-25.
Gen 2:21
So יהוה Elohim caused a deep sleep to
fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh in its place.
Gen 2:22 and the rib which יהוה Elohim had taken from the man He
made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. Gen 2:23 and the man said, “This is now
bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one is called ‘woman,’ because she
was taken out of man.” Gen 2:24 for this cause a man shall leave
his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Gen 2:25 and they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they
were not ashamed.
The woman “isha”
came out of man. Here again there is a deep meaning, presented to us by Sha’ul the schaliach (apostle, sent one) and also explained in the Hebrew
thoughts. The man (Adam) was created first and then the woman, not the other way round. Today the
feminist movement tries to let women believe the other way is also correct “woman emancipation” started 1968 and
now has become for most of the women of this world the general rule. Man cannot
live without woman and the other way is the same……
24….. and they shall be one flesh.
Sha’ul
says to the Ephesians (5:31-32) that
it
is a mystery or as we know now a SOD meaning, hidden truth, and that
he speaks of Messiah and the assembly after having quoted B’reshit 2:24..
Eph 5:28
in this way husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself. .Eph 5:29
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but feeds and cherishes it, as also the Master
does the assembly. ..Eph 5:30
because we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. ..Eph 5:31 “For this cause a man shall leave his father and
mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” .
Eph 5:32 This
is a great mystery: but I speak concerning the Messiah and
the assembly.....
Sha’ul makes the association between man
and wife and Messiah and the Assembly (Qahal, Ekklesia). In Hebrew
thoughts we are taught that the woman is a picture of the Assembly while the
man is a picture of Messiah. So we can better understand why the woman will
have to submit to her husband (Eph. 5:22). The primary was hidden in the
creation on the first day of the sun and the moon...
Like the moon
follows the sun and receives its light, the Assembly / Qahal follows Messiah יהושע in order to receive His light. Today many women seek to get their “own liberty”
“own right” and so reject their divine position from creation. They fight for
position and same right in the so called modern society.................
Chapter
3 --- Before we start the chapter I want to quote from ISBE
(International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia), concerning man's condition before sin:
"Only
in Eden has general revelation been adequate to the needs of man. Not being a
sinner, man in Eden had no need of that grace of God itself by which sinners
are restored to communion with Him, or of the special revelation of this grace
of God to sinners to enable them to live with God. And not being a sinner, man
in Eden, as he contemplated the works of God, saw God in the unclouded
mirror of his mind with a clarity of vision, and lived with Him in the untroubled depths of his
heart with a trustful intimacy of association, inconceivable to sinners"............
Sin blinds the mind, do you remember what Sha'ul says?
1Co 13:12 for now we
see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but
then shall I know even as also I am known.
2Co 4:4 In whom the elohim of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
believe not, lest the light of the glorious evangel of the Messiah, who is the
image of YHWH, should shine unto them.
Chawah
(Eve) took the initiative to listen to HaSatan
(the adversary), the serpent instead to ask her husband. It is taught that
women have a better sensitivity to the spiritual realm, and do not need to pray
like men. If you are a woman reading here do not boast yourselves because this
can easily become a snare if you don’t know the scriptures.
We can see in many Charismatic
Christian Assemblies women self proclaimed prophetess, teachers, and even pastors.
Unfortunately we also see in the Messianic
Movement women proclaimed to be “rabbis”.
When you ask them why is it that Sha’ul
taught that it is not given a woman to teach man but to be silent (1st
Timot.2:12), they push away the saying that it was only for Sha’ul’s time,
it is no more valid nowadays, but Sha’ul
says that it was because the woman
transgressed!...
1Ti 2:12 but I
suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be
in silence.1Ti
2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
1Ti 2:14
and Adam
was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was in the transgression.
The reason for a woman not to teach came from Chawah
not from Sha’ul’s time! Don’t
worry if you read this parasha and
you are a woman, this statement do not make man better than woman, we both need
Messiah, and LOVE!
In chapter 2:15 it is written that Elohim put Adam (mankind) in the garden to “dress” and “keep”. Again
the literal text do not let see the full meaning. When we compare this verse
with the position of Adam after sin we see that there is a difference.
In chapter 3:17-19 we see that the work of Adam
(mankind) will be in the sweat of his face. It was not so in chapter 2. Hebrew teaching reveals that to dress refers to the positive commandments (you shall) and to keep to the negative ones (don’t).
1-4
We find here a discussion between HaSatan
and the woman. Satan is doing the
same today with the “church” “ you
don’t have to keep the Torah” “ you are free from the law” “you are under grace”, the “Shabbat is whatever day you like” , “you can eat whatever you like, all is
sanctified by prayer” .
The first error was
to listen to HaSatan. Does HaSatan lies to the woman or does he
used her ignorance and twisted the scriptures?...........
Chapter
2:17 Elohim says
to Adam “The day you eat of these tree you shall surely die”................
HaSatan tells the woman that she will not die, but
been like Elohim (gods) not the
mighty El of Israel but g-ds plural, just think about that.
Indeed we know that after eating of the fruit, Chawah didn’t die, neither Adam. They lived for more as 900 years.
Adam
and Chawah had children (chap.4:1-2)
Adam live 930 years in the gematria
we see the work of Elohim: 9+3+0=12, divine government on earth. Adam lived 930
years by divine decree, and died having set the path for the next 3000 years
for mankind. Adam (mankind was born to
live forever. The condition for it was to obey to Elohim chap.2:17. Psalm 90:4 and 2nd Kefa 3:8 give us
understanding that in Elohim’s eyes one day equals 1000years. So Adam died in
the same day as he ate of the fruit having not reached the age of 1000 year the first day. So we can also understand that this is not
the end of the story, just because the seventh day is also part of creation and
came in place after Adam was created. The deeper meaning is that the seventh
day represent the plan of salvation for mankind from Adam’ sin to the final
redemption for Elohim’s Elect in Messiah יהושע.
HaSatan (the adversary) tried to tempt יהושע the same way he did with Chawah (Eve). In Luke 4:1-13 יהושע is confronted to HaSatan been brought in the wilderness by the Ruach HaQodesh (Set Apart Spirit), instead to react like Chawah, יהושע reply to HaSatan by quoting the Torah and so HaSatan couldn’t make him fall.
HaSatan (the adversary) tried to tempt יהושע the same way he did with Chawah (Eve). In Luke 4:1-13 יהושע is confronted to HaSatan been brought in the wilderness by the Ruach HaQodesh (Set Apart Spirit), instead to react like Chawah, יהושע reply to HaSatan by quoting the Torah and so HaSatan couldn’t make him fall.
Don’t be surprised
if you found yourself lead in the wilderness!
The teaching of the scriptures is that the woman in
order to have her position shall submit to her husband (Ephesians 5:22-23)
. Read what Sha’ul write to Timothy:
1Ti
2:12 But I do
not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, rather, to be in
silence. 1Ti
2:13 Because
Aḏam was formed first, then Ḥawwah. .1Ti 2:14 And Aḏam was not deceived, but the woman, having been
deceived, fell into transgression. ........... Christians
make this verse void teaching that it is not for today’s church or that Sha’ul’s teaching was misogyny.
Today many women reject Sha’ul’s teaching and go their own ways. We see Christians ministry
filled with woman boasting to have a great anointing from “the lord” Women are as more
precious to Elohim as man, but in
order to follow scriptures we should give our best to respect the teaching of Elohim:” Thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee”. This is Torah Sha’ul didn’t found
out a new “law” but was expounding the reason why women couldn’t teach man in a
public place.
This is not the teaching of man but the word of Elohim. 1st Corint 14:34-35
referring to B’reshit 3:16.
1Co 14:34
Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for they are not allowed to speak, but let them subject themselves, as
the Torah also says. 1Co 14:35 and if
they wish to learn whatever, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in an
assembly.
Unfortunately even in messianic congregation we see
many woman rabbis approved by men. I am not from the “macho group” a man shall love and care for his wife. This does not
mean that the woman can do whatever she wants. The Torah has spoken it and it
is established. ....
3:10
I was naked, I was afraid and I hid myself…
Rev 3:18
“I
advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire,1 so that you become rich; and white garments, so that
you become dressed, so that the shame of your nakedness might not be shown; and
anoint your eyes with ointment, so that you see.....Adam
blamed Chawah (Eve) who in turn tried
to put the blame on HaSatan.....
3:15
enemity between HaSatan’s seed and
the seed of the woman.
Joh 8:44
“You are of your father the devil,
and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father
of it.
Act 13:10
and said, “O son of the devil, filled with all deceit and all recklessness, you
enemy of all righteousness, shall you not cease perverting the straight ways of
יהוה?
1Jn 3:8
The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For
this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil.
The
seed of the woman:
Luk 1:31
“And see, you shall conceive in your
womb, and shall give birth to a Son, and call His Name יהושע.
Again there is a difference between HaSatan seed the fruits of darkness and
the fruit of the light coming from the light.
......
17…..
cursed is the ground…..in B’reshit 8:20-21 we see that the curse is reversed
after having undergone a “mikveh” baptism or purification by water.
Gen
8:20 And
Noaḥ built an altar to יהוה, and took of every clean beast and
of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Gen 8:21 And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and
יהוה said in His heart, “Never
again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of
man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done,
18;
Thorns and thistles represent the
hardship of life…………. Verse
19 :
Gen
3:19 “By the
sweat of your face you are to eat bread until you return to the ground, for out
of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you return.” .
From now on, man will have to give all his strength to
find the way of eternal life. The circle from dust to dust is the way of every
man until the time of redemption.
1Co
15:49 and as
we have borne the likeness of the earthy, we shall also bear the likeness of
the heavenly. 1Co 15:50 and this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood is
unable to inherit the reign of Elohim, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
The earthy man will be changed into a spiritual man as
Adam was before sin.
22. Gen 3:22 and יהוה Elohim said, “See, the man has
become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
This is the last step. Now Adam will be thrown out of
the world of creation Yetziarah where
he was in direct communication with יהוה, to find himself in the world of action the world of Assiyah we are living now, where a
natural body is needed:
Gen
3:21 and יהוה Elohim made coats of skin for the
man and his wife and dressed them.
Many scholars teach that this was not a physical body
but the “nefesh” or soul of man need
a tent or tabernacle to dwell in (Yochanan 1:14)
22. Gen 3:22 and יהוה Elohim said, “See, the man has
become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
Gen 3:23
so יהוה Elohim sent him out of the garden of Ěḏen to till the ground from which he
was taken,
Gen 3:24
and He drove the man out. And He placed keruḇim at the east of the garden of
Ěḏen, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree
of life. ..... From now on, Adam (mankind) will have to wait to the
coming of righteous one, יהושע Messiah in order to be restored unto his Creator.
Psa 103:20
Bless יהוה, you His
messengers, Mighty in power, who do His Word, Listening
to the voice of His Word…..
Remember Sha’ul
speak of Paradise and call it third heaven:
---
2Co 12:2 I knew a man in the Messiah above fourteen
years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I
cannot tell: YHWH knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 2Co 12:3 and I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out
of the body, I cannot tell: YHWH knoweth;) 2Co 12:4 How
that he was caught up into paradise,
and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
I have explained before the third heaven when counted
from the world of Asiayah become the
second heaven, Paradise. the place
where Adam and Chawah were living before יהוה drawn them out. The
angels who kept the word are in the presence of Elohim. We have now access to his throne through the sacrifice יהושע did for you and me.
From this chapter on, Elohim
will expound his plan of salvation. We read and see the beautiful truth which
is embedded in the Torah, revealing Messiah
in the different level of interpretation, but never changing the truth or
replacing it by another Gospel…………..
Chapter 4:
Gen 4:1
and Adam
knew Eve his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Cain, and said,
I have gotten a man from YHWH. Gen 4:2 and she again
bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a
tiller of the ground. Gen 4:3
and in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto YHWH. Gen 4:4 and Abel, he
also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And
YHWH had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Gen
4:5 but unto
Cain and to his offering he had not
respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Gen 4:6 and YHWH said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why
is thy countenance fallen?
Gen 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee
shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. Gen 4:8 and Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain
rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Gen 4:9
and YHWH said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am
I my brother's keeper? Gen 4:10 and he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the
ground. Gen 4:11 and now art
thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy
brother's blood from thy hand; Gen 4:12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth
yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the
earth. Gen
4:13 and Cain
said unto YHWH, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
We have now the sin of Cain. We know that sin is the
transgression of the Torah (1st Yochan./John 3:4). It is very
interesting to see that the Torah is called the Torah of Moshe who was born more than two thousand years after
Cain! From the other side we see that that Torah existed at the creation and
was not the work of man. Torah came with Adam!
In
another place we will learn the difference between the Torah and the Torah of
Moshe.
We
have also the explanation of the refusal of Cain offering in his action: “Cain brought of the fruit of the ground……”
With
Abel we read: “Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of
the fat”
What does the Torah teach:
---Num 18:12 All the
best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they
shall offer unto YHWH, them have I given thee.
How was Abel’s action
understood in the first century, the apostles and talmidin (disciples)?
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto YHWH a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
by which he obtained witness that he was
righteous, YHWH testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet
speaketh.
“a more excellent sacrifice than Cain”. If we look another perspective the order of creation
is first the material world, than the vegetal world before the animals and the
crown of creation is Adam (mankind).
Saying that Abel brought a better
sacrifice was that he came with the blood of animals, wich is what Yehowah
will require in the Levitical priesthood.
Once
again we see that Torah was taught to Abel
for him to know how to bring an offering to Elohim.
Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the
face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive
and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that
findeth me shall slay me. This
curse has a name: exile. The Deluge
would come because men were violent against each other; the sages say the
Temple was destroyed because brothers hated one another for no reason, but were
only interested in having their own opinions heard. We, too, have been in exile
for 2,730 years. Do we want to go home? If we do right, won’t we also be
accepted? (See Y’hezq’el 3:17-21; 18:4-24) That can be the end of the story--if
we allow it to be.(One bread Assembly)……….. 2Ch 7:14 If
my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and
seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Gen 4:15
and YHWH said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be
taken on him sevenfold. And YHWH set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him
should kill him. Gen 4:16 and Cain went out from the presence of YHWH, and
dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Presence of YHWH: geographically, the place
bearing His name (Deut. 26:2; 2 Chron. 6:20). “Nod” means vagrancy, exile,
wandering. Though Adam and Chawwah had sinned, they had a goal to work back
toward; Qayin’s life was now aimless.(One bread assembly)……………
.Let
us see what the Book of Yasher has to
say about this passage:
Chapter
1:26.and
after this Cain repented having slain his brother, and he was sadly grieved,
and he wept over him and it vexed him exceedingly..... 27. and Cain rose up and dug
a hole in the field, wherein he put his brother's body, and he turned the
dust over it. 28. and YHWH knew what Cain had done to his brother, and YHWH appeared to Cain and said unto
him, Where is Abel thy brother that was with thee? 29. and Cain dissembled, and said, I do not know, am I my brother's
keeper? And YHWH said unto him, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from
the ground where thou hast slain him. 30.
For thou hast slain thy brother and hast dissembled before me, and didst imagine in thy heart that I saw thee
not, nor knew all thy actions. 31. But thou didst this thing and didst slay
thy brother for naught and because he
spoke
rightly
to thee, and
now, therefore, cursed be thou from the ground which opened its mouth to
receive thy brother's blood from thy hand, and wherein thou didst bury him. 32. and it shall be when thou shalt
till it, it shall no more give thee its strength as in the beginning, for thorns and thistles shall the ground
produce, and thou shalt be moving and
wandering in the earth until the day of thy death. 33. and at that time
Cain went out from the presence of YHWH, from the place where he was, and he
went moving and wandering in the land toward
the east of Eden, he and all belonging to him. .....
Cain generation:
Gen 4:17 and Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Enoch: and he builded a city, and
called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Yasher 1:35. And at that time Cain also began to build a
city: and he built the city and he called the name of the city Enoch, according
to the name of his son; for in those days YHWH had given him rest upon the
earth, and he did not move about and
wander as in the beginning……
Gen 4:18 and unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat
Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech....
Let
us read more from the book of Yasher
in the same chapter: 3. And it was
in the days of Enosh that the sons
of men continued to rebel and transgress against God, to increase the anger
of YHWH against the sons of men.
4.and the sons of men went and they served other gods, and they
forgot YHWH who had created them
in the earth: and in those days the sons of men made images of brass and iron,
wood and stone, and they bowed down and
served them. 5.and every man made his god and they bowed
down to them, and the sons of men forsook YHWH
all the days of Enosh and his children; and the anger of YHWH was kindled on account of their works and abominations which
they did in the earth. 6.and YHWH caused the waters of the river
Gihon to overwhelm them, and he destroyed
and consumed them, and he destroyed the third part of the earth, and notwithstanding
this, the sons of men did not turn from their evil ways, and their hands
were yet extended to do evil in the sight of YHWH. 7.and in those
days there was neither sowing nor reaping
in the earth; and there was no food for the sons of men and the famine was
very great in those days. 8.and the seed which they sowed in those days in
the ground became thorns, thistles and briers; for from the days of Adam
was this declaration concerning the earth, of the curse of God, which he cursed the earth, on account of the sin
which Adam sinned before YHWH 9.and it was when men continued to
rebel and transgress against God, and to corrupt their ways, that the earth
also became corrupt. 10.and Enosh
lived ninety years and he begat Cainan;
11.and Cainan grew up and he was forty years old, and he
became wise and had knowledge and skill in all wisdom, and he reigned over all the sons of men, and he led the sons of men to
wisdom and knowledge; for Cainan was a
very wise man and had understanding in all wisdom, and with his wisdom he
ruled over spirits and demons; 12.
and Cainan knew by his wisdom that
God would destroy the sons of men for having
sinned
upon earth, and that the Lord would in the latter days bring upon them the
waters of the flood.
13.and in those days Cainan
wrote upon tablets of stone, what was to take place in time to come, and he put
them in his treasures. 14.and Cainan
reigned over the whole earth, and he turned some of the sons of men to the
service of God. Cainan lived was
born around 300 C .E.
and lived 910 Years so that he knew Noach.
Gen 4:19 and Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the
one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Gen 4:20
and Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such
as have cattle.
Gen 4:21
and his brother's name was Jubal: he was the
father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Gen 4:22
and Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an
instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of
Tubal-cain was Naamah. Gen 4:23
and Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of
Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a
young man to my hurt. Gen 4:24
if Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. Gen 4:25 and Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and
called his name Seth: For Elohim, said she, hath appointed me another seed
instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. Gen
4:26 and to Seth, to him also there was born a
son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of YHWH.
The death
of Cain: Yasher chapter 1:
26.and
Lamech was old and advanced in years,
and his eyes were dim that he could not see,
and Tubal Cain, his son, was leading him and it was one day that Lamech went
into the field and Tubal Cain his son was with him, and
whilst they were walking in the field, Cain the son of Adam advanced towards
them; for Lamech was very old and could not see much, and Tubal Cain his son
was very young. 27.and Tubal Cain
told his father to draw his bow, and with
the arrows he smote Cain,
who was yet far off, and he slew him, for he appeared to them to be an animal. 28. and the arrows entered Cain's body
although he was distant from them, and he fell to the ground and died. 29.and YHWH requited Cain's evil according to his wickedness, which he had
done to his brother Abel, according to the word of YHWH which he had
spoken. 30.and it came to pass when
Cain had died, that Lamech and Tubal went to see the animal which they had
slain, and they saw, and behold Cain their grandfather was fallen dead upon the
earth.
31.and Lamech was
very much grieved at having done this, and in clapping his hands together
he struck his son and caused his death. 32.and
the wives of Lamech heard what Lamech had done, and they sought to kill him.
33. and the wives of Lamech hated him from that day,
because he slew Cain and Tubal Cain, and the wives of Lamech separated from
him, and would not hearken to him in those days. 34.and Lamech came to his wives, and he pressed them to listen to
him about this matter. 35.and he
said to his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice O wives of Lamech, attend to my
words, for now you have imagined and said that I slew a man with my wounds, and
a child with my stripes for their having done no violence, but surely know that
I am old and grey-headed, and that my eyes are heavy through age, and I did
this thing unknowingly. 36.and the
wives of Lamech listened to him in this matter, and they returned to him with the
advice of their father Adam, but they bore no children to him from that time, knowing
that God's anger was increasing in those days against the sons of men, to
destroy
them with the waters of the flood for their evil doings. .......
We read verse 29 that it is יהוה decision for Cain to dye this way on behalf of what
he did to his brother Abel. We can learn
that punishment surely comes even if not in the same time as man sin.
Unfortunately many people today boast themselves because they don’t fear sin
and keep going in their own wicked ways until suddenly punishment strike them!
Psa 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of
iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Verse 4:24:
if Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Seven is the number for divine perfection on earth; we
have seen that Cain was judge by יהוה using Lamech. .....
Avenged:
Strong’s # H5358 נקם nâqam naw-kam'
A primitive root; to grudge, that is, avenge or punish: - avenge (-r,
self), punish, revenge (self), X surely, take vengeance. Using the word punish we get a better understanding.
Who was Lamech?....
Gen 5:28 and Lamech
lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat
a son: Gen
5:29 and he called
his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and
toil of our hands, because of the ground which YHWH hath cursed. Lamech was the father of Noach.
It seems strange to read that Lamech
shall be avenged seventy and sevenfold! Barnes in his commentary gives us
following information:
The line of Cain is traced no further than the seventh
generation from Adam.
We cannot tell whether there were any more in that line before the flood. The
design of tracing it thus far, is to point out the origin of the arts of life,
and the first instances of bigamy and homicide in self-defense.
We know that the generation from Lamech didn’t stop after seven Generation but go through Shem Noach’s son, Eber Abraham, Itzakh, Ya’acov…..
Chapter
5: The generation of Adam (see chart at the end )
Gen 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that Elohim created
man, in the likeness of Elohim made he him; Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them,
and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Gen 5:3 and Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat
a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Gen 5:4 and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were
eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:5 and
all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Gen 5:6
and Seth
lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: Gen 5:7 and
Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons
and daughters: Gen 5:8
and all
the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. Gen 5:9 and
Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:
Gen 5:10
and Enos
lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and
daughters:
Gen 5:11
and all
the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. Gen 5:12 and
Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: Gen 5:13 and
Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat
sons and daughters: Gen 5:14
and all
the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. Gen 5:15 and Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat
Jared:
Gen 5:16
and
Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat
sons and daughters: Gen 5:17
and all
the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Gen 5:18
and Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: Gen 5:19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:20 and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and
two years: and he died. Gen 5:21
and Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: Gen 5:22 and Enoch walked with Elohim after he begat
Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty
and five years: Gen 5:24
and Enoch walked with Elohim: and he was not; for Elohim took him. Gen 5:25 and Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven
years, and begat Lamech: Gen 5:26 and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven
hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:27 and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred
sixty and nine years: and he died. Gen 5:28 and Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and
begat a son: Gen 5:29
and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our
work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which YHWH hath cursed. Gen 5:30 and Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred
ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:31 and all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy
and seven years: and he died. Gen 5:32 and Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Chapter
6:
Gen 6:1 and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were
born unto them, Gen 6:2 That the sons
of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them
wives of all which they chose. Gen 6:3
and YHWH said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Gen 6:4 There were
giants (nephilim) in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the
sons of Elohim came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to
them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Gen 6:5 and Elohim 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. Gen 6:6 and it repented YHWH that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Gen 6:7 and YHWH said, I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and
the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Gen 6:8 but Noah found favour in the eyes of YHWH.
To conclude this parsha
we come to the well known passage with the
sons of Elohim and the giants
(nephilim) who had intercourse with the daughters of men. Many things have
been written concerning who are this sons
of men and giants Let us look in
the book of Yasher if we can find some information:
Yasher
chapter 3:
5.
And Enoch rose up according to the word of YHWH,
and went forth from his house, from his
place and from the chamber in which he was concealed; and he went to the sons
of men and taught them the ways of YHWH,
and at that time assembled the sons of men and acquainted them with the
instruction of YHWH. 6. And he ordered it to be proclaimed in all places where the sons of men dwelt,
saying, Where is the man who wishes to
know the ways of YHWH and good works?
let him come to Enoch. 7. And all the
sons of men then assembled to him, for all who desired this thing went to Enoch,
and Enoch reigned over the sons of men
according to the word of YHWH, and they came and bowed to him
and they heard his word. 8. And the spirit of God was upon Enoch, and
he taught all his men the wisdom of God and his ways, and the sons of men
served YHWH all the days of Enoch,
and they came to hear his wisdom………………..14. And it was in the fifty-sixth year
of the life of Lamech when Adam died; nine hundred and thirty
years old was he at his death, and his two sons, with Enoch and Methuselah his
son, buried him with great pomp, as at the burial of kings, in the cave which
God
had told him. 15. And in that place all the sons of
men made a great mourning and weeping on
account of Adam; it has therefore become a custom among the sons of men to
this day. 16. And Adam died because he
ate of the tree of knowledge; he and his children after him, as YHWH God had spoken.
17. And it was in the year of Adam's death which was
the two hundred and forty-third year of the reign of Enoch, in that time Enoch
resolved to separate himself from the sons of men and to secret himself as at
first in order to serve YHWH. 18. And
Enoch did so, but did not entirely secret himself from them, but kept away from
the sons of men three days and then went to them for one day
Chapter
3: -- And when Enoch had ascended into heaven, all the
kings of the earth rose and took Methuselah his son and anointed him, and they
caused him to reign over them in the place of his father. 3. And, as his father
Enoch had taught him, and he likewise during the whole of Methuselah acted uprightly in the sight of God his life taught the
sons of men wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God, and he did not turn from the
good way either to the right or to the left. 4. But in the latter days of Methuselah, the sons of men turned from YHWH,
they corrupted the earth, they robbed and plundered each other, and they
rebelled against God and they transgressed, and they corrupted their ways, and
would not hearken to the voice of Methuselah, but rebelled against him. 5.
And YHWH was exceedingly wroth
against them, and YHWH continued to destroy the seed in those days, so that there
was neither sowing nor reaping in the earth. 6. For when they sowed the ground
in order that they might obtain food for their support, behold, thorns and
thistles were produced which they did not sow. 7. And still the sons of men did not turn from their
evil ways, and their hands were still extended to do evil in the sight of
God, and they provoked YHWH with
their evil ways,
and
YHWH was very wroth, and repented
that he had made man. 8. And he thought to destroy and annihilate them and he
did so. 9. In those days when Lamech
the son of Methuselah was one hundred and sixty years old,
Seth the son of Adam died………………………………..
16. And all the sons of men departed from the ways of YHWH in those days as they multiplied
upon the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another
their evil practices and they continued
sinning against YHWH. 17. And
every man made unto himself a god, and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor
as well as his relative, and they
corrupted the earth, and the earth was filled with violence. 18. And their judges and rulers went to the
daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands
according to their choice, and the
sons of men in those days took from
the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and
taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in
order therewith to provoke YHWH; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt,
for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals 19.
And YHWH
said, I will blot out man that I created from the face of the earth, yea
from man to the birds of the air, together with cattle and beasts that are in
the field for I repent that I made them.
20.
And all men who walked in the ways of YHWH, died in those days, before YHWH brought the evil upon man which he had declared, for this was from YHWH, that they should not see the evil
which YHWH spoke of concerning the
sons of men. Here we see that Yasher
call the sons of Elohim, “sons of men”!
Verse 18 Yasher speaks of the judges and rulers who went to the daughters of men we can see the similarity with the
text of the Torah, but let us look more details:
Barnes
gives us following explanation: They are
called the” sons of God”, because they have his spirit or disposition. The sons
of God mentioned in Job_38:7,
are an order of rational beings existing before the creation of man, and
joining in the symphony of the universe, when the earth and all things were
called into being. The sons of
God, therefore, are those who are on YHWH side, who approach him with duly
significant offerings, who call upon him by his proper name, and who walk with
God in their daily conversation. The
figurative use of the word “son” to denote a variety of relations incidental,
and moral as well as natural, was not unfamiliar to the early speaker. Barnes
make a difference between the “sons of
God” named in the chapter 6 and the
sons of God mentioned in the book of Yob
(Job). Indeed if we look at the details from the sons of God in Noach’s
time they cannot be angels because these beings cannot have intercourse with
women!
Mat 22:30 for in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are
given in marriage, but are as the angels
of Elohim in heaven.
We
also read Yasher calling the giants (nephilim) “Judges”!
Nephilim: Strong’s H5303 נפל
נפיל nephı̂yl
nephil nef-eel', nef-eel' From H5307;
properly, a feller, that is, a
bully or tyrant: - giant.
H5307 nâphal naw-fal' A primitive root; to fall, in a
great variety of applications (intransitively or causatively, literally or
figuratively): - be accepted, cast (down, self, [lots], out), cease, die,
divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away,
down, -en, -ing), fell (-ing), fugitive, have [inheritamce], inferior, be judged [by mistake for H6419], lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be
(X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present (-ed, -ing), (make
to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Now
we can read the verse again with more accuracy, to remove fantasy and fancy
explanation like many would have explain. The nephilim were extra-terrestrial
beings and some of these fancy people expect them to be back in our days!
Renown: Strong’s # H8034 שׁם shêm shame A primitive word (perhaps rather from H7760
through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare H8064); an appellation,
as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character: - +
base, [in-] fame [-ous], name (-d),
renown, report. So let us
look at the verse in a new perspective without removing its original meaning: Gen 6:2
That the
sons of men saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took
them wives of all which they chose.
Gen 6:4 There were tyrans in the earth in those days; and also after
that, when the sons of men came
in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the
same became mighty men which were of old, men of authority. Gen 6:5 and Elohim 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. .............
Now we see that the verse 5 concords with the verses 2
and 4 “Elohim saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earh…..”.The word “giants”
as “nephilim” appears only two times in the Torah, the second time is:
-- Num 13:33 and there we saw the giants (nephilim), the sons of Anak,
which come of the giants (nephilim): and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Here again, the giants
were the sons of Anak a Canaanite, so that those giants were tyrans or violent
men.. It is true that they were of great stature;
Deu 9:2 a people great
and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou
hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!......
Joshua 21: 11 And they gave them the city of Arba
the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah,
with the suburbs thereof round about it. the city...: or, Kirjatharba
Bereshit 23 : 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arbah (city of Arbah); the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Bereshist 35 : 27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre,
unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac
sojourned.
We
have seen that not always the stature which determines the use of the word nephilim the primary used is because of
the wickedness and violence.
Clarke gives us following explanation: --- There
we saw the giants - נפלים nephilim.
It is evident that they had seen a robust, sturdy, warlike race of men, and of
great stature; for the asserted fact is not denied by Joshua or Caleb. Tales of
gigantic men are frequent in all countries, but they are generally of such as
have lived in times very remote from those in which such tales are told. That
there have been giants at different times, in various parts of the earth, there
can be no doubt; but that there ever was a nation of men twelve and fourteen
feet high, we cannot, should not believe. Goliath appears to have been at least
nine feet high: this was very extraordinary. I knew three young men in my own
neighbourhood, two of them brothers, each of whom was upwards of seven feet,
the third was eight feet six inches, and these men were very well proportioned.
Others I have seen of extraordinary stature, but they were generally
disproportioned, especially in their limbs. These instances serve to prove the
possibility of cases of this nature. The Anakim might appear to the Israelites
as a very tall, robust nation; and in comparison of the latter it is very
probable that they were so, as it is very likely that the growth of the
Israelites had been greatly cramped with their long and severe servitude in
Egypt. And this may in some measure account for their alarm. .............
We
have seen in b’reshit /Genesis
chapter 6 according to the book of Yasher,
that the giants or nephilim were violent man or tyrans. There are no indication of their
stature in this place and does not contradict the word used for the sons of Anak who were of great stature
as well as violent men.
HAFTORAH
יהוה takes the
prophet YeshaYahu to remind the
descendants of Ya’acov who he is and
that his promise is firm and doesn’t change. As we read we see that salvation
is in יהוה for his
people. Isa 42:5 Thus said the Ěl, יהוה, who created the heavens and
stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it: Isa 42:6 “I, יהוה, have called You in righteousness,
and I take hold of Your hand and guard You, and give You for a covenant to a
people, for a light to the gentiles, Isa 42:7 to open blind eyes, to bring out
prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house. Isa 42:8 “I am יהוה, that is My Name, and My esteem I
do not give to another, nor My praise to idols. Isa 42:9 “See, the former predictions have come, and new ones I
am declaring; before they spring forth I let you hear them.” Isa 42:10 Sing to יהוה a new song; His praise from the
ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you
coastlands and you inhabitants of them! Isa 42:11 Let the wilderness and its
cities lift up their voice, the villages where Qĕḏar dwells. Let the
inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Isa 42:12 Let them give esteem to יהוה, and declare His praise in the
coastlands.
Isa 42:13 יהוה goes forth like a mighty man. He
stirs up ardour like a fighter. He cries out, yea, shout aloud. Over His
enemies He shows Himself mighty. Isa 42:14 “I have kept silent from of old,
I have been still and held Myself back. Like a woman in labour I now cry out, I pant and gasp at once.
Isa 42:15 “I lay waste mountains and
hills, and I dry up all their plants. And I shall make rivers become
coastlands, and I dry up pools. Isa 42:16 “And I shall lead the blind by a
way they have not known – in paths they have not known I lead them. I make
darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall
do for them, and I shall not forsake them. Isa 42:17 “Those who trust in idols, who
say to the moulded images, ‘You are our mighty ones,’ shall be turned back,
utterly ashamed. Isa 42:18 “Hear, you deaf! And look, you
blind, and see. Isa 42:19 “Who is blind but My servant, or
deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind
as servant of יהוה? Isa 42:20 “You see much, but do not
observe; ears are open, but do not hear.” Isa 42:21 It has delighted יהוה, for the sake of His righteousness,
to make the Torah great and esteemed. Isa 42:22 But this is a people robbed and
plundered, all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison
houses. They have become a prey, with no one to deliver – for plunder, and no
one to say, “Restore!” Isa 42:23 Who among you gives ear to this,
pays attention and hears for the time to come? Isa 42:24 Who gave Yaʽaqoḇ for plunder,
and Yisra’ĕl to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, He against whom we sinned? For
they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah!
Isa 42:25 So He has poured on him His
burning displeasure and the strength of battle, and it set him on fire all
around, yet he did not understand. And it burned against him, yet he did not
take it to heart! Isa 43:1 But now, thus
said יהוה, your
Creator, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and He who formed you, O Yisra’ĕl, “Do not fear, for I
have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, you are Mine. Isa 43:2 “When you pass through the
waters, I am with you; and through rivers, they do not overflow you. When you
walk through fire, you are not scorched, and a flame does not burn you. Isa 43:3 “For I am יהוה your Elohim, the Set-apart One of
Yisra’ĕl, your Saviour; I gave Mitsrayim for your ransom, Kush and Seḇa in
your place. Isa 43:4 “Since you were precious in My eyes, you have been
esteemed, and I have loved you. And I give men in your place, and peoples for
your life. Isa 43:5 “Do not fear, for I am with you. I shall bring your seed
from the east, and gather you from the west. Isa 43:6 “I shall say to the north, ‘Give
them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring My sons from afar,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth – Isa 43:7 all those who are called by My
Name, whom I have created, formed, even made for My esteem.” Isa 43:8 He shall bring out a blind
people who have eyes, and deaf ones who have ears. Isa 43:9 All the nations shall be
assembled, and the peoples be gathered. Who among them declares this, and show
us former events? Let them give
their witnesses, to be declared right; or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”Isa 43:10 “You are My witnesses,” declares
יהוה, “And My
servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand
that I am He. Before Me there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is none. Isa 43:11 “I, I am יהוה, and besides Me there is no
saviour. 1Sa 20:18
So Yehonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is
the New Moon, and you shall be missed, because your seat shall be empty. 1Sa 20:19 “And on the third day, go down quickly and you shall
come to the place where you hid on the day of the deed, and shall remain by the
stone Ětsel. 1Sa
20:20 “And let
me shoot three arrows to the side of it as though shooting at a target, 1Sa 20:21 and see, I shall send the youth, saying, ‘Go, find
the arrows.’ If I expressly say to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are on this
side of you, get them and come,’ then, as יהוה lives, there is safety for you
and no concern. 1Sa 20:22 “But if I say thus to the youth,
‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ go your way, for יהוה has sent you away.
1Sa 20:23 “And as for the word which you
and I have spoken of, see, יהוה is between you and me forever.”
1Sa 20:24 And Dawiḏ hid in the field. And
when the New Moon came, the sovereign sat down by the food to eat.
1Sa 20:25 And the sovereign sat on his
seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall, with Yehonathan standing, and
Aḇnĕr sitting by Sha’ul’s side, but the place of Dawiḏ was empty. 1Sa 20:26 But Sha’ul spoke not a word that day, for he thought, “It
is an accident; he is not clean, for he has not been cleansed.”
1Sa 20:27 And it came to be the next day,
the second day of the month, that Dawiḏ’s place was empty. And Sha’ul said to
Yehonathan his son, “Why has the son of Yishai not come to eat, either
yesterday or today?”
1Sa 20:28 and Yehonathan answered Sha’ul,
“Dawiḏ earnestly asked my permission to go to Bĕyth Leḥem.
1Sa 20:29 “And he said, ‘Please let me go,
for our clan has a slaughtering in the city, and my brother has commanded me to
be there. And now, if I have found favour in your eyes, please let me get away
and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the sovereign’s table.” 1Sa 20:30 Then the displeasure of Sha’ul
burned against Yehonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse,
rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Yishai to your
own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
1Sa 20:31 “For as long as the son of
Yishai lives on the earth, you shall not be established, you and your reign.
And now, send and bring him to me, for he is a son of death.” 1Sa 20:32 And Yehonathan answered Sha’ul
his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”1Sa 20:33 At that, Sha’ul hurled a spear
at him to smite him. Then Yehonathan knew that his father had resolved to put
Dawiḏ to death. 1Sa 20:34 And Yehonathan rose up from the
table in the heat of displeasure, and ate no food the second day of the month,
for he was grieved for Dawiḏ, because his father put him to shame.
1Sa 20:35 And it came to be, in the
morning, that Yehonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with
Dawiḏ, and a small youth was with him. 1Sa 20:36 And he said to the youth, “Now
run, find the arrows which I shoot.” As the youth ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1Sa 20:37 And when the youth came to the place where the arrow was
which Yehonathan had shot, Yehonathan called out after the youth and said, “Is
not the arrow beyond you?” 1Sa 20:38 And Yehonathan shouted after the
youth, “Make haste, hurry, do not stand still!” And Yehonathan’s youth picked
up the arrows and came to his master. 1Sa 20:39 But the youth knew not a speck.
Only Yehonathan and Dawiḏ knew of the matter. 1Sa 20:40 Then Yehonathan gave his weapons
to the youth and said to him, “Go, take them to the city.” 1Sa 20:41 And as soon as the youth had
gone, Dawiḏ rose up from the south side, and fell on his face to the ground,
and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another. And they wept
together, but Dawiḏ more so. 1Sa 20:42 And Yehonathan said to Dawiḏ,
“Go in peace, since we have both sworn in the Name of יהוה, saying, ‘יהוה is between you and me, and
between your seed and my seed, forever.’ ” Then he arose and left, and
Yehonathan went into the city.
The book of Yochanan
has been always interpreted by Christians and Roman Catholics outside the Torah
context and therefore many heresies have been taugt to people. In his
translation; Tendale writes: “it was in the beginning with Elohim “3
“and all came to be through it and
without it ……..Tendale was translating from the Greek text and not from the
Vulgate. He lost his life because he use the word Assembly instead of using “church”
in his bible. The Torah does not teach about somebody living on the side of Elohim as Christians want to have. יהושע was born by the will of Elohim. He had to come has it is written in the book of B’reshit, on the fourth day, heralded by
the prophet Malachi who by divine inspiration wroth by the Ruach HaQodesh that he will come as the “Sun of righteousness”(Mala.4:2).
People of this time were under Romans oppression and had hope that a
king like King David would come to deliver them from the oppressors.
Unfortunately our prison is build from our sin (rejection of the Torah). This I
why his own didn’t received him, they didn’t understood that their own sin was
their bondage. Self-righteousness is a snare for many.
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. Joh 1:2
He was in the beginning with Elohim.
Joh 1:3
All
came to be through Him,1 and without Him not even one came to be that came to
be. Footnote:
1Eph. 3:9, Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:2, Heb. 11:3, 2 Peter 3:5, Ps. 33:6. Joh 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. Joh 1:5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness has not overcome it.
Joh 1:6
There was a man sent from Elohim, whose name was Yoḥanan. Joh 1:7 This one came for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light, that all might believe through him. Joh 1:8 He was not that Light, but that he might bear witness
of that Light. Joh 1:9 He was the true Light, which enlightens every man,
coming into the world. Joh 1:10
He was in the world, and the world came to be through Him, and the world did
not know Him. Joh 1:11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. Joh 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
authority to become children of Elohim, to those believing in His Name,
Joh 1:13
who were born, not of blood nor of the desire of flesh nor of the desire of
man, but of Elohim. Joh 1:14
And the Word became flesh and pitched His tent1 among us, and we saw His esteem, esteem as of an only
brought-forth of a father, complete in favour and truth. Footnote: 1An indication that
His birth was during the Festival of Booths.
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