15Parasha Bo - come
Sh'mot 10-1 to 13:16
Yrmeyahu 46:13-28, Romans 12.1-8, 1st Corint.11:20-34
Daniel ben Ya'acov
At the end of this parasha
you can see a different approach of the Ten Plagues, by Greg Killian a “Jews” who believe יהושע Messiah in an orthodox way.
The last plagues and the departure from Mytsrayim (Egypt) under the leadership
from Moshe will again give us insight about what is going to come upon the all
world before the second advent of our Master יהושע Messiah.
As we have now learned in the others Parsaha, we must dig into the Torah and go to the “sod” (mystery) in order to see what יהוה want us to see.
I have written that the children of Israel represent
our carnal nature, according what Sha’ul
(Paul) teach the Corinthians, but let me explain:
1Co 15:45 and so it has been written, “The first man Aḏam became a living
being,” the last Aḏam a life-giving Spirit.
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.
Behind this statement we can see that Sha'ul tells us something very deep. He
says that those born under the first Adam were “earthy” and those born under
the last Adam are from “heaven” or “spiritual”.
Today you still found both groups on earth, those who
follow יהושע in the truth and are “heavenly” or “spiritual”
and those who follow the world pattern and are “carnal” because they still walk after the first Adam.
Regeneration takes part only in Messiah. Therefore our
forefathers were “carnal”. When we
study the Torah we should have that in our mind. Moshe was lead by יהוה and follow him. The Children of Israel followed Moshe and
Aharon in the flesh, as we are going to see in the coming Parasha, and will bear the consequence.
The summary is found in the book of Hebrew:
Heb 3:7
Therefore, as the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice,
Heb 3:8
do not
harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Heb 3:9
where your
fathers (the
children of Israel), tried Me, proved Me,
and saw My works forty years.
Heb 3:10
“Therefore I was
grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always go
astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’
Heb 3:11
“As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My rest...’ ”1 Footnote: 1Ps. 95:7-11.
Heb 3:12
Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief in falling
away from the living Elohim,
Heb 3:13
but encourage one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened by the deceivableness of
sin.
Heb 3:14
for we have
become partakers of Messiah
(the last Adam) if
we hold fast the beginning of our trust firm to the end,
We have here the answer of what יהוה expect from His children. We all know that from those
who were older than twenty and born in Mytsrayim,
NONE of them, save Kaleb and Yehoshua entered the Promise Land!
We must strive to understand, why יהוה want us to learn Torah.
Many brothers and sisters do not make the effort to learn, saying I keep the
Shabbat and the feast and it’s OK!
Do you think it’s OK? Well! Time is getting harder and
soon the world will become a “boiling
iron pot”; on what is your faith built, on “pastor’s teaching, what others tells
you, or are you like the Berean (Acts
17:11) eager to seek, if what you learn from others is true?
I encourage you not to stay on man’s doctrine, (mine
included) unless you have search the scripture yourself to know if it is true
or not.
In the last Parasha
we have seen that “pride” (Pharaoh /
HaSatan) comes before the fall and favour is given to the humble (Moshe / יהושע) (Ya’acov 4:6, 10, 1st
Kefa 5:6)
Let see what Shaul / Paul write and search again to
know why or how Sha’ul does knows:
Rom 9:15
For He says to Mosheh, “I
shall favour whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have
compassion.”
Rom 9:16
So, then, it is not of
him who is wishing, nor of him who is
running, but of Elohim who shows
favour.
Rom 9:17
For the Scripture (Torah) says
to Pharaoh, “For this same purpose
I have raised you up, to show My power in you, and that My Name be declared in
all the earth.”
Rom 9:18
so, then, He
favours whom He wishes, and He
hardens whom He wishes.
Rom 9:19
Then you shall say to me, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?”
Rom 9:20
But who are
you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made
me like this?”
Rom
9:21 Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and
another not for value?
Now let us see what we find in the book of Yasher chapter 81:
57. and Moses said to Pharaoh, Behold though
thou art thy mother's first born, yet fear not,
for thou wilt not die, for YHWH has commanded that thou shalt live, in order to show
thee his great might and strong stretched out arm.
Can you see the parallel in both statements between
what Sha’ul says verse 17 and the
book of Yasher verse 57?
Remember Sha’ul
got his revelation concerning Messiah from Messiah direct:
Gal 1:11
and I make known to you, brothers, that the Good News announced by me is not according to man.
Gal 1:12
for I did not
receive it from man,
nor was I taught it, but through
a revelation of יהושע Messiah.
Gal 1:13 For you have heard of my former
way of life in Yehuḏaism,……….
Sha'ul says
that the good news he got was not from man. but through revelation of יהושע Messiah.
Verse 13, Sha'ul mentions his former way of life in “Judaism”. This way of life INCLUDES a perfect knowledge of the
Torah.
Sha'ul was
known to be able to quote the Torah from B’reshit
chapter 1, to the last chapter of D’varim,
by heart.
If we want also “revelation” we
must take time to learn the Torah and trust Abba יהוה to reveal unto us what he want us to know.
Knowledge increase more and more
as we are coming closer to the end. If Knowledge increase, counterfeit
knowledge increase also. Only if we know ourselves, we will be able to make the
difference.
I remember times ago, I read from
many so called “teachers” “pastors” “prophets” concerning the revelations they
got from “the Lord” (Ba’al) or even
pretending from Yahweh. I was
confused and had hard time to discern.
When I started to put myself to
the Torah study, things became easier
and “revelation” also. I don’t pretend to know all things far from me, but I
trust יהוה that when the time comes, He will let us know in His word
(Torah) what we need to know.
We all need help from other, but
this must be in the spirit of love and do not try to take “position”, but serve
others to help them to learn also.
In this Parsha remain three plagues:
- The
Locust,
-
Darkness
and
- The killing of the first born.
יהוה tells Moshe that He has made all this with Pharaoh, in
order that they relate these events to their children and children’s children.
The result of that is that they all may know that only יהוה is Elohim.
Today if you ask people, they
will tell you that they believe “G-d” but are not able to tell you more. Do
they know the Name of יהוה the Mighty One of Israel, the answer is obvious: NO, they
don’t! They follow the doctrines of man, but have no relationship to the living
Elohim.
Many time people today will reject the truth because
it doesn’t feed with their own tradition or what they believe, their heart is
closed to the truth.
Remember Pharaoh
(HaSatan) says: “I don’t know יהוה”, he wasn’t in the list of his “gods”. (Book of Yasher chapter
79)
Do you think it is different today for sure it’s not?
They glorify all what is awful, homosexuality, gay,
pride, war, power, hedonism (pleasure seeking), reject the truth, go so far to
forbid people with laws, to speak the truth. The schools teach children all
what is wicked. They make movies to glorify evil and the power of darkness.
יהוה is long
suffering but the plagues have now come upon the earth as it was in the time of
Moshe, and people make fun of them, they still boast saying that they will find
a way out. Since now many years they tell ignorant people all around the world
that the “Ozone hole” is the cause of climatic problems.
Now I begin to understand the climatic change which is
due to:
- The plagues in these last days
- The change due to the earth course in her galactic
position
Have you ever wonder how was it possible for people
like Adam, Noach, Methuselah to live
almost 1000 years, and we seldom come to pass the mark of one hundred years?
Remember that Abram
(Abraham) saw Noach, he went to
his place, but he lived One hundred seventy five years!
So called scientist tell and write a lot concerning
the age of the earth, the dinosaurs, but none of them explain the course of the
earth in the universe. I have asked myself many times about how this could
work.
I read one explanation from Yedidah a man who writes midrash
and I found it very interesting. First of all I have read many explanations as
I have shown in the Parsha Noach and
how the water could have fall upon the earth in order to cover the all earth.
Sh’lomo
tells us that what was in the beginning (B’reshit),
it is what will be in the future (Eccl.
1:9). In other words, we are going to found ourselves in the same place as
it was with Noach and before him first
and after that in Messiah the last
Adam, as it was plan by יהוה to have
Eternal life in Paradise.(Gan Eden)
This is simple to understand as the earth has been created by יהוה to follow it cycle which will length six thousand
years before it comes back to the One thousand Years life span
But let us go back to the Parsha.
We have here two forces which oppose the forces of
darkness (Pharaoh) and the light (Moshe), this is a picture of our life
in יהושע Messiah.
יהוה’s purpose was to deliver the
children of Israel (carnal man) in order to serve Him! It is amazing that
people today like Antinomians* Christians
say to be “free from the law” when יהוה says that the children of Israel, our forefathers
should serve Him!
*Antinomians:
One who maintains that, under the gospel
dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is
necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola,
in Germany, about the year 1535 (ISBE; International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia)
The
Locust Plague.
Something amazed me, because when we read Vayiqrah 11, we read that Locust are
clean and can be eaten!
Locust: Strong’s # H697 ארבּה 'arbeh ar-beh'
written aleph, resh,beth,he ( Gemetria: 213)
From H7235; a locust (from its rapid increase): -
grasshopper, locust.
H 7235:
BDB Definition:
1) be or become
great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to become many, become numerous, multiply (of people, animals, things)
1a2) to be or grow great
1b) (Piel) to make large, enlarge, increase,
become many
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to make much, make many, have many
1c1a) to multiply, increase
1c1b) to make much to do, do much in respect of,
transgress greatly
1c1c) to increase greatly or exceedingly
1c2) to make great, enlarge, do much
2) (Qal) to shoot
The same word is used concerning the name of the
locust in Vayiqra, no difference.
Now we also found the Locust in the book of
Revelation, let us see:
Rev 9:1
and the fifth messenger sounded, and
I saw a star from the heaven which had fallen to the earth. And the key to
the pit of the deep was given to it.
Rev 9:2
and he opened the pit of the deep, and smoke went up out of the pit like the
smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, also the air, because of
the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:3 and out
of the smoke locusts came
upon the earth, and authority was given
to them as the scorpions of the earth possess authority.
Rev 9:4
and it was said to them that they
shall not harm the grass of the earth, or any green matter,
or any tree, but only those men who do
not have the seal of Elohim upon their foreheads.
Rev 9:5
and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but to torture them for five months. And their torture was like the
torture of a scorpion when it stings a man.
Rev 9:6
and in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall
long to die, but death shall flee from them.
Yochanan
explain in his vision that Locust are coming out of the smoke and will torture
those who have not the seal of Elohim upon their forehead.
Locusts are clean flying insect according to Vayyiqra 11. It is written in Revelation
that they are commanded: "not harm the grass of the earth, or any green matter, or any tree",
Grass,
green matter (greenish) and tree is a picture of righteous
people:
Job 5:25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be
great, and thine offspring as the
grass of the earth.
Psa 1:3 and he
shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Locust are spiritual beings commanded to harm;"
only those men who do not have
the seal of Elohim upon their foreheads".
Once again we see how spiritual apply for spiritual
apply in the Brit Chadasha (Renewed
Covenant) in opposition to the natural way from the Torah which stand for our carnal
nature.
First we see that this Locust are a plague coming upon
the earth during the last days before the coming of יהושע Messiah and will make suffer those who do not follow יהוה Have you the seal of יהוה upon your forehead? Are you walking in the light, the Torah not only keeping the Shabbat and
the Feast, much more making all what is in your ability to be transformed by
the renewing of your mind, in prayer and supplication? If your answer is yes,
then read Psalm 91 and learn it by
heart, because it is how it will be with you during the last days when the
plagues increase. You will be in the spiritual “Goshen” by faith, under the
shadow of His wings.
Goshen in the Torah represents the place of protection
it is a Euphemism for those today who are in יהושע
These locusts are not to kill people, but to make them
suffer for it is יהוה’s vengeance on those who do not
believe.
The Locust
torment people five month. Five is the divine number for: Torah (five books
Moshe) and for grace (Abraham’s life).
There is only one religion in the world today beside
Catholicism which can pretend to be numerous like locust, and that is Islam!
Pharaoh
represents the force of darkness in the book of Sh'mot/Exodus and his
army the evil spirits coming upon the earth and feels it.
Verse 15 must be read in the light of Revelation 9:4
in order to see the natural for the spiritual.
Exo 10:15 and they (locust) covered the
surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened. And they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the
hail had left, and no greenness was left
on the trees or on the plants of the field, in all the land of Mitsrayim.
Rev
9:4 And it
was said to them that they shall not
harm the grass of the earth, or any green matter, or any tree,
but only those men who do not have the
seal of Elohim upon their foreheads
Here we see that now it is the time to pay back those
who have done evil, nothing will remain for the wicked.
Many times Grass
equals multitude of righteous people fed on the Torah, Trees equal
righteous people, those who walk in the Torah (Psalm 1:3)? But let us read
further:
The ninth
plague: Darkness. 20 - 28.
Once again we will have to go in the spiritual in
order to understand. Remember darkness is separated from light (B’reshit 1:4).Darkness
represent all what is opposed to Elohim:
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.
The
King James says: “comprehend” instead
“overcome”. The Greek word is:” katalambanō »
Thayer Definition:
1) to lay hold of
1a) to lay hold of so as to make one’s own, to obtain, attain to, to
make one’s own, to take into one’s self, appropriate
Yochanan
is speaking here from the “Logos” the
Word of Elohim that became flesh. The
Word of Elohim is now reality with יהושע.
This is in opposition of the Antinomian Christian doctrine who want יהושע to be Elohim,
because they say he is the word and the word was with Elohim. Unfortunately, they reject the word “Logo” has been
including Elohim’s thoughts, but when
we read Psalm 33 we see otherwise:
Psa 33:6 By the Word (dabar) of יהוה the heavens were made, And all
their host by the Spirit (Ruach) of His mouth,
Footnote: 1“The
Word” and “the Spirit” are unanimous, with one accord.
In English we read: …… and all their host by the
breath (ruach) of his mouth. Or by
the speech of יהוה’s word were all created. Where is “Jesus” here?
The plague of darkness indicates the blindness of the
people.
When people among the children of Israel
rebel against Elohim by refusing to
listen to Moshe and Aharon. The result is that they died in Egypt a picture of the world today.
Question: How will it be with those today refusing to follow יהושע and to walk as he walked?
1Jn 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he
walked.
The plague of darkness length for three days:
Three is also a divine number which point to the Beginning,
the middle and the End, past, present and Future.
We should be able to see something.
We all know that Yehoshua
will come during the third day:
Hos 6:2 ‘After two days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us
up, so that we live before Him.
Here the question is to know if darkness has come upon
the earth since Messiah went back to
the father and the Roman Catholic Church
and her daughters from among all the Antinomians
Christians Denomination have overtake the believers’ hearts?
We know that during the plague only those who do not
believe that Moshe was sent by Elohim died. To believe is demonstrated
by our actions. So if we believe יהושע to be
sent by יהוה the Father, we will also walk has he walked (1st
Yochanan 2:6).
Plague during the last days, do not disappeared but are added to the precedent one, which increase the pressure to the people,
and we will see, that like the Mitsrayites
(Egyptians) they will not turn from
their ways, only some few of them will.
People today, boast, everywhere concerning their
knowledge, wisdom, and philosophy, bringing people more and more under bondage.
Signs abound like we saw last month of January in France 2009, as in one night
300 000 thousand hectares of forest was destroyed by a hurricane. It was
not the first, but people had already “forgotten” and rejoice their “good
business” with wood.
I repeat that the word Philosophy is a Greek word
compound from two words:
Philo
which means “man” or "friend" Sopho
which means “wise”
With that in mind read:
1Co 2:5 in order that your belief should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of Elohim.
1Co
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with Elohim. For it has been
written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
Don’t let people foolish you with their doctrines,
those who do not know the Torah, do
not know the truth. When I say to know the Torah, it is to know it through
Messiah Yehoshua in the Ruach not after the letter.
Verses
22-23 tell us that darkness covered the all land of Egypt /Mitsrayim but all the children of Israel had light in their dwelling….
Let us see if we can get some insight from these
verses,
Dwelling: Strong’s # H4186 משׁב מושׁב môshâb môshâb mo-shawb', mo-shawb'
From H3427; a seat; figuratively a site; abstractly a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time);
by implication population: - assembly,
dwell in, dwelling (-place), wherein (that) dwelt (in), inhabited place,
seat, sitting, situation, sojourning.
Light: Strong’s # אור
'ôr ore written Aleph,
vav; resh (Gemetria: 216)
From H215; illumination or (concretely) luminary
(in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.): - bright, clear, + day, light (-ning),
morning, sun.
The light we read here “OR” or “ORE” is what we find
in B’reshit 1:3 Elohim said, “…Let light come
to be,…”1:4…And Elohim separated
the light from the darkness…..
In these two verses, the same word “or” or “ore” is
used. This is not the Light of the SUN but the spiritual light which is the
light of Messiah:
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.”
We see the context of the text points to B’reshit 1:3-4, and we can make the
connection with our Parsha 10: 22-23,
for those who believe Elohim, and the
words spoken of Moshe.
Is the
light of Messiah in your dwelling, you abode, in order that you will be protected
in the plague of darkness?
Verse 25 indicate that the Torah was taught under Moshe’s time as he tells Pharaoh that they
must make “sacrifice” to Elohim,
remember Abel brought sacrifice to Elohim. How is it possible if the Torah
doesn’t exist? The Torah came with
the first Adam and was made for ALL
men, but after they rejected it, יהוה chose a man (Abraham) who will follow and obey him,
and teach his children after him.
I want to compare again the plagues in the book of Sh’mot with the plagues in the book of Revelation:
Exo 10:13 and Moses stretched forth his
rod over the land of Egypt, and YHWH brought an east wind upon the land all
that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the
locusts.
Exo 10:14 and the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all
the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such
locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exo
10:15 for they covered the face of the
whole earth, so that the land was
darkened; and they did eat every
herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and
there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field,
through all the land of Egypt.
Exo 10:21 and YHWH said unto Moses,
Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there
may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Exo 10:22 and Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three
days:
Exo 10:23 they saw not one another, neither
rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Now in the book of revelation:
Rev 9:1
and the fifth
messenger sounded, and I saw a star from the heaven which had
fallen to the earth. And the key to
the pit of the deep was given to it.
Rev 9:2
and he opened the pit of the deep, and smoke went up out of the pit like the
smoke of a great furnace. And the
sun was darkened,
also the air, because of the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:3 and out
of the smoke locusts came upon the earth, and authority
was given to them
as the scorpions of the earth possess authority.
Rev 9:4
and it was said to them that they
shall not harm the grass of the earth, or any green matter,
or any tree, but
only those men who do not have the seal of Elohim upon their foreheads.
Rev 9:5
and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but to torture them for five months. And their torture was like the torture of a scorpion
when it stings a man.
Rev 9:6
and in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall
long to die, but death shall flee from them.
Can you see the parallel, darkness and Locusts? In
both cases the Locusts torment the people, but only those having not the seal
of Elohim on their foreheads (9:4)
the children of Elohim are not
harmed! In Sh’mot the Locust eat every
herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and
there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field,
through all the land of Egypt, but not in
the book of Sh’mot!
If we understand the words of Messiah we can see that those who do not follow him walk in darkness:
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.”
Exo 10:1 and יהוה said to Mosheh, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened
his heart and the hearts of his servants, so that I show these signs of Mine
before him,...
Exo 10:29 and Mosheh said, “You have spoken rightly – never again do I see your face!”
The last
Plague of the first born:
Before we look at the plague, let us look at the
Hebrew word for “First born”, if we can get more understanding.
First born,
Strong’s # 1060 בּכור bekôr bek-ore'
From H1069; firstborn; hence chief: - eldest (son), first-born (-ling).
H1069. bâkar
baw-kar'
A
primitive root; properly to burst the womb, that is, (causatively) bear
or make early fruit
(of woman or tree); also (as denominative
from H1061) to give
the birthright: - make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first
child (new fruit).
H1061.
בּכּוּר bikkûr
bik-koor'
From H1069; the first fruits of the crop: - first fruit (-ripe [figuratively),
hasty fruit.
Now we get understanding as we see that the word
“First born” is directly linked to the Hebrew word “bikkur” which we found in the feats of the “First fruit” HaBikkurin”,
which point to Yehoshua Messiah.
Mat 1:25 but knew her not until she gave birth to her
Son, the first-born. And he called His Name יהושע.
Rom 8:29 because those whom He knew beforehand, He
also ordained beforehand to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to
be the first-born among many
brothers.
Col 1:15 who is the likeness of the invisible Elohim,
the first-born of all creation.
Col 1:18 And He is the Head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the
first-born from the dead, that He
might become the One who is first in
all.
Heb 12:23 to the entire gathering and assembly of the first-born having been enrolled in heaven, and to
Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
We see in this few verses the extension of the “First-born” meaning, pertaining to יהושע Messiah.
Redemption:
The price paid by the “First-born”
Now we have seen that since Adam, the first born have
a predominant place in יהוה’s eyes. They have not always
honoured this position has with Reuben who lost his first right birth to Ephraim, or Ya’acov who took Esau’s
birth right.
Before the last plague, יהוה gave favour to the children of Israel in order that
they spoiled the Egyptians in gold and silver.
Somewhere it is written the wealth of the sinner is
stored up for the righteous:
Pro 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his
children’s children, But the wealth of
the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Sin is the transgression of the Torah (1st Yoch. 3:4).
Let us see why does יהוה gives favour to the children of Israel before they
leave Mitsrayim:
Gen 15:13 And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Gen 15:14
“But the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out with great possessions.
This is a prophetic word of what will happen when יהוה will judge the world and establish His Kingdom. The
righteous will inherit the earth and all what belongs to יהוה. So be patient the day is coming all will be changed to our
favour.
Psa 24:1 The earth is YHWH's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
This includes all pagans and their wealth!
Verse 6
Read
Amo 5:16
Therefore יהוה Elohim of hosts, יהוה, said this, “There is wailing in
all open squares, and in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and shall call
the farmer to mourning, and skilled lamenters to wailing.
Amo 5:17 “And in all vineyards there is
wailing, for I pass through your midst,” said יהוה.
Amo 5:18 Woe to you who are longing for
the day of יהוה! What does the day of יהוה mean to
you? It is darkness, and not light,
Verses
8-10. יהוה will do
as he said and nothing can change it. Unless we repent sincerely we are lost
and fall under condemnation.
Pro 16:4 יהוה has made all for His purpose, and
also the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:18 Before destruction comes pride, and before a fall a haughty spirit!
Pro 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but
its end is the way of death
"so that you know that יהוה makes distinction between
Mitsrayim and Yisra’ĕl.’
One of the purpose of the plagues was that the all
world Egypt see that יהוה make a
difference between His people, the Children
of Israel and those from among the pagan world.(verse 7 below)
Jewish commentator
make a rapprochement between the ten plagues of Egypt and the Ten Steps of Creation in the first chapter of B'reshit (see the attached midrash from Greg
Killian)
These Ten Plagues are also directly connected to the
plagues in the book of Revelation.
Exo 11:1
and יהוה said to Mosheh, “I am bringing
yet one more plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. After that he is going to let
you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall drive you out from here
altogether. ...
Exo 11:10 and Mosheh and Aharon did all these wonders before Pharaoh, however, יהוה hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra’ĕl go out of his land.
Chapter
12; the plan of salvation for the Future generation
Verse 2.This
month shall be unto you the beginning of months (plural) of the year to you. No
error, this month is the first month of the Hebrew calendar, its name is found
chapter 13:4 (Aviv / Abib).
The word Abib is a Hebrew word meaning; to be
tender, green, we will later see that it has to do with agricultural grows in Eretz (land) Israel, pointing to the
plan of salvation.
We will found now symbols in number and name. This was
not understood by most of the children of Israel as it is not today among the “Jews” who do not recognize יהושע as Messiah.
In this place I want also to mention that contrary to
what is taught even among messianic
believers there is no name in the Hebrew Calendar! Names have been add
during the Babylonian Captivity, some of
the month having Babylonians name (Tamuz, the name of pagan deity,) Tishrei,and
others……
A lamb
for a House:
1Pe 1:18
knowing that you
were redeemed from your
futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible,
silver or gold,
1Pe 1:19
but with the
precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
Redeem:
Strong’s# H6299 פּדה pâdâh
BDB Definition:
1) to ransom,
redeem, rescue, deliver
1a) (Qal) to ransom
1b) (Niphal) to be ransomed
1c) (Hiphil) to allow one to be ransomed
1d) (Hophal) redeemed
The price to pay for somebody, for we cannot redeem
ourselves it is יהוה Elohim who chose the way to redeem
us:
Psa 49:6 Those
who are trusting in their riches,
and who are boasting in their great wealth?
Psa 49:7
A brother does not redeem anyone at all, Neither give to Elohim a ransom for him;
Verse 5.Your
lamb shall be without blemish……..
1Pe 1:18 knowing that you
were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible,
silver or gold,
1Pe 1:19
but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
Three
times Pilate confirms that יהושע is blameless.
Joh 18:38 Pilate said to
Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the
Yehuḏim, and said to them, “I find
no guilt in Him
Joh 19:4
and Pilate went outside again, and said to them, “See, I am bringing Him out to
you, to let you know that I
find no guilt in Him.”
Joh
19:6 So when
the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, saying, “Impale! Impale!”
Pilate said to them, “You take Him and impale Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”
Verse 6.
and you shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of the same month…..
There is exactly four day, from the moment to choose
the lamb and the day to kill it. Read between Mattityahu chapter 21 and the day יהושע is arrested and put to death in chapter 27:46, there
are exactly four days!
Joh
1:29 On the
next day Yoḥanan saw יהושע coming
toward him, and said, “See, the Lamb of Elohim who takes away the
sin of the world!
Joh 12:1 accordingly יהושע, six days before the Passover, came to Bĕyth Anyah, where
Elʽazar was, who had died, whom He raised from the dead.
Joh 12:12 On the next
day a great crowd who had come to the
festival, when they heard that יהושע was coming to Yerushalayim,
……..Shall kill it in the evening. The Hebrew read:( Ha Harbayim)
“between the two evenings.
“between the two evenings.
Verse 7.
and they shall take of the blood and strike it ……. on the upper door post of
the House, where they eat it…..
We are the house where Elohim dwells by His Ruach
and the entrance of this house is the heart.
1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a
spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to YHWH by Yehoshua the Messiah.
Verse
7. and they
shall take the blood and strike it ……..
Blood
is the symbol for life:
Spiritual
application:
When we accept to follow יהושע not as Christians preach
but give ourselves to walk as he walked, following the Torah with our best ability, we apply His blood on us the house taking part in His Passover. This is the first step of our
redemption, coming out of our spiritual Egypt,
controlled by HaSatan (Pharaoh).
Verse 8. and they
shall eat the flesh
on that night, roasted
in fire – with unleavened bread
and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
read:
Joh
6:53 יהושע therefore
said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
you eat the flesh of the Son of Aḏam and drink His blood, you possess no life in yourselves.
Lev 17:11 ‘For the
life of the flesh is in the blood,
and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your lives, for
it is the blood that makes atonement for the life.’
Act
20:28 “Therefore take
heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Set-apart Spirit has
made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of Elohim which He has purchased with His own blood
Heb
9:14 how much more shall
the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered
Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve
the living Elohim?
Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of sins,
Verse 9. …but roasted
with fire
Fire
pictures here judgement:
2Pe 3:7 and the present
heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men.
Jud
1:7 Even as
Seḏom (Sodom) and Amorah ( Gomohre) and the cities around them in a similar
way to these, having given themselves over to whoring and gone after strange
flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing judicial punishment of everlasting fire.
Rev
20:14 and the death
and the grave were thrown into the
lake of fire. This is the second
death
Jer 29:21 Thus saith YHWH of hosts, the Elohim of
Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which
prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
Jer 29:22 and of them
shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon,
saying, YHWH make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
Fire is
also a picture of spiritual refiner.
Mal
3:2 “And who is
able to bear the day of His coming, and who is able to stand when He appears?
For He is like the fire of a refiner, and like the soap of a launderer.
Mat 3:11 “I indeed
immerse you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier
than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear. He shall immerse you in the
Set-apart Spirit and fire.
Fire here means going through tribulations as Sha'ul writes to the believers in
Corinth!
1Co 3:13 each one’s work
shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work of each one,
what sort it is.
1Co 3:14 if any man's work abide which he
hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 if
any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Verse 11.
When salvation comes there is no time to waste, but to
take part in haste.
Verse 12.Salvation
comes for the children of Israel, before Judgement comes upon the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt) which is a picture of
the world today, with its “gods", mammon and self glory.
Verse 13.
Mat 26:27 and taking the
cup, and giving thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.
Mat 26:28
“For this is My blood, that of the
renewed covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.
“a token”
Hebrew “owth”, a mark, a sign,
Strong’s # H2142.
Verse 14.
Memorial:
Strong’s # H2145 “zakar” from H2142,
to mark, to remember.
Ordinance:
Hebrew “chuqqah” appointed, custom, manner from H2726
“choq”, an appointed time.
For ever:
Strong’s H5769 “Olam” the vanishing point, time out of mind, perpetual,
without end.
Verses
15-20. Unleavened bread.
Nowadays many discussions are raised concerning what
is leavened, and what is not. Many sincere believers in a form of “philosophy” take it out of context and
lose the meaning. In this particular context it is question of BREAD and the
dough without leaven, and NOTHING ELSE.
To add to it is against the Torah (D’varim 4:2). The bread is a picture of יהושע, the bread of life (Yochanan
6:48,51), the leaven a picture of sin (1st
Cor. 5:5-8, Luke 12:1)
If we understand what Elohim reveals what will be in Messiah,
we will grasp the deeper meaning and stop to play on word which is not
required. The central point here is unleavened
BREAD, which means that as soon as we have been partaker of the blood of Messiah יהושע (the lamb) we are commanded to eat the bread of Life (messiah) and be careful to let our
leaven (sins) behind us in Mitsrayim
(Egypt).
They left Egypt. Seven days shall they eat bread
without leaven and remove their habitation from any rest of leaven.
First of all the children of Israel (carnal man) left
Egypt and lived in tents. Tent is a picture of our body which is also called a
tent:
2Pe 1:14 knowing that
the putting off of my tent is soon, even as our Master יהושע Messiah made clear to me.
Hebrew:
Tent:Strong’s#
H168 “Ohel” a covering, dwelling place, tabernacle, tent.
Seven is the number for divine perfection on earth.
All is accomplished in the number seven.
Verse 18.
on the 14th at even. 14 = 7 x 2. Two been
the number for division as it is until this day between Yehudah and Ephraim, until
the one and twenty (21 = 7 x 3 = past, present, future).
If you got to Christianity,
people will tell you that it’s not possible to live without sin, but let us look
what the scriptures say:
1Jn 3:6 Everyone
staying in Him does not sin.
Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.1 Footnote: 1See 2:4 & 3 John v. 11.
1Jn 2:4 the one who
says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth
is not in him.
1Jn
3:9 Everyone
having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he
has been born of Elohim.
Who is right? For sure the scriptures who say that
those born in Elohim DO NOT SIN,
For sin is the transgression of the Torah!
The lintel and the door post are made of wood. Wood is
a material use as euphemism to the mortal nature of our body which decease.
When we “pass” under the blood of Messiah, we pass from death to eternal life,
if we continue to the end.
Verse 23.
“And יהוה shall pass on to smite the Mitsrites,
and shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two
doorposts, and יהוה shall pass over the door and not
allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
The Hebrew word for “destroyer”
is the word Strong’s #H7843 shâchath
in the primary sense of decay, cast off, corrupt. It seems that the Egyptians, who have not applied the blood,
will be destroyed forever.
Verse 29-30.
When יהוה smote
the first-born the Mistsrayites were
sleeping. They didn’t take very seriously Moshe’s
warning. Today it is the same people laugh and even mock the scriptures.
Verse 34.Here
we see the relation between the dough for making bread and the leaven, there is
no other item mentioned but the dough.
Verse 35.
compare:
Pro
13:22 a good man
leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
Verse 37.
They journeyed from Ramses to Succoth …..
Ramses: Ra-mes, "child
of Ra" the sun god (Fausset), also called Goshem. The Egyptians called themselves "children of Ra" front the
earliest times, even "Mizraim" may be from Mis-ra.
Succoth is
a Hebrew word meaning “booth”. From now on, the children
of Israel will move from place to place on their journey to the promise land. Succoth is also a word describing the
human body which is a dwelling place for the “spirit man”.
About six hundred thousand on foot, beside children ….
Six is the number directly connected to man, as man
was created on the six day. Six is Seven the number for divine perfection,
minus one, the number for יהוה. So we can say that man without יהוה is
imperfect.
Verse
38…..and a mixed multitude went also with them……..
Mixed: Strong’s # H6154 ערב ערב ‛êreb ‛ereb ay'-reb, eh'-reb
The second form used in 1Ki_10:15 with the article prefixed); from H6148; the web
(or transverse threads of cloth); also a
mixture, (or mongrel race): - Arabia, mingled people, mixed (multitude), woof.
Stranger: Strong’s # H5236 נכר nêkâr nay-kawr'
From H5234; foreign,
or (concretely) a foreigner,
or (abstractly) heathendom: - alien,
strange (+ -er).
The condition to take part was: servants bought for
money and circumcised no foreigner and hired servant.
The Passover is strictly for the Children of Israel. It is amazing to see today in Christian congregation, at least once a month, people having their tradition of the “mass”, because they don’t know what יהוה expect from his children, they follow what has been
The Passover is strictly for the Children of Israel. It is amazing to see today in Christian congregation, at least once a month, people having their tradition of the “mass”, because they don’t know what יהוה expect from his children, they follow what has been
created by the Roman
Catholic Church.
Exo 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt
not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Neither shall you break a bone thereof.....
Read:
Psa 34:20 He is guarding all his bones; Not one of
them is broken.
Joh 19:33 but when they came to יהושע and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
Joh 19:36 for this took place in order for the Scripture to be filled: “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”
Do you think יהוה do not watch over His word?
Verse 49
“There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”
After reading this verse it seems amazing to me how
Christianity proclaim everywhere the Torah to be abolished saying “we are not under the law”, “we are free from the law”
Let us read what יהושע say:
Mat 19:16 and see, one
came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good shall I do to have everlasting life?”
Mat
19:17 And He said to
him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – Elohim. But if you
wish to enter into life, guard the
commands.
Joh
14:15 “If you love
Me, you shall guard My commands.
Chapter
13.
Abib
the first month represents the month of deliverance. יהושע died on
the 14th between the two evenings, to fulfil what is written
concerning him.
Luk 24:44 and He (יהושע) said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while
I was still with you, that all have to
be filled that were written in the Torah of Mosheh and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”
Luk 24:45 then He opened their minds to understand the
Scriptures,
Mat
5:17 “Do not think
that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.1 I did not come to
destroy but to complete.
Verse 5…….a
land that flow with milk and honey …….
יהוה will now
lead the children of Israel to the Land of His choice. Milk is a euphemism for
the Torah:
Heb 5:12 for indeed,
although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you
again the first elements of the Words of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food.
Heb 5:13 for everyone partaking of milk is inexperienced
in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
1Pe 2:2 as newborn
babes, desire the unadulterated milk of the Word, in order that you grow by it,
1Co
3:2 I fed you
with milk and not with solid
food, for until now you were not able to receive it, and even
now you are still not able,
Honey represents the sweetness of the Torah.
Psa 19:10 More desirable
than gold, Than much fine gold; And sweeter
than honey and the honeycomb.
Psa 81:16 “He would feed
them with the finest of wheat; and with honey
from the rock I would satisfy you.”
The “rock”
an euphemism for יהוה and by
derivative the Torah (D’varim
32:4,18,30).
Deu 32:3 Because I will publish the name of YHWH:
ascribe ye greatness unto our Elohim.
Deu
32:4 He is
the Rock, his
work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: An El of truth and without
iniquity, just and right is he.
Deu 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten El
that formed thee.
Verse9. ….and it shall be a sign unto thee upon thine hand and
for a memorial between thine eyes.
The hand represents the actions of life and the eyes
or between the eyes is “ketter” the
will of man.
It shall be a sign unto thee!
Sign:
Strong’s # H226 “Owth”, a flag, a
signal, a mark, a token.
This word is used many times by יהוה to “mark” is children. Read:
Exo 31:13 “And you, speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl,
saying, ‘My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign (owth)1 between Me and you throughout your generations, to
know that I, יהוה, am setting you apart. Footnote: 1The
only sign of יהוה
setting us apart, the only sign of the everlasting covenant, is His Sabbaths,
one of them being the seventh day Sabbath. This is repeated in Ezek. 20:12
& 20.
Exo 31:14 ‘And you shall
guard the Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall
certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be
cut off from among his people.
Exo 31:15 ‘Six days work is
done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, set-apart to יהוה. Everyone doing work on the Sabbath
day shall certainly be put to death.
Exo 31:16 ‘and the children
of Yisra’ĕl shall guard the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their
generations as an everlasting covenant.
Exo 31:17 ‘Between
Me and the children of Yisra’ĕl it
is a sign forever. For in six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth, and
on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”
Deu 6:8 and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
Now compare with what Yochanan writes concerning the “beast”:
Rev 13:16 and he cause
all, both small and great, and rich and poor, and free and slave, to be given a mark (sign) upon their right
hand or upon their foreheads,
Rev
13:17 and that no one
should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark (sign) or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name.
Can you see the difference between יהוה’s
children and the children of the wicked one?
13:2. We
found the explanation verse 15:
Exo 13:15 ‘And it came to
be, when Pharaoh was too hardened to let us go, that יהוה killed every first-born in the
land of Mitsrayim, both the first-born of man and the
first-born of beast. Therefore I am
slaughtering to יהוה every male that open the womb,
but every first-born of my sons I ransom.’
The first-born belongs to יהוה! Are
you belonging to יהוה also?
Yes you are:
Heb 12:23 to the entire gathering and assembly of the first-born having been enrolled in heaven, and to Elohim
the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
Rom 8:29 because those whom He knew beforehand, He
also ordained beforehand to be
conformed to the likeness of His Son,
for Him to be the first-born among many brothers.
If you are in Messiah,
he has become your “brother”. So it would be difficult to become also your Elohim in the sense, Christians see him as the “man-God”
which is again the scripture, and heresy as explain by Yochanan:
1Jn 4:3 and every
spirit that does not confess that יהושע Messiah has come in the flesh is not of Elohim. and this is
the spirit of the anti-messiah
which you heard is coming, and now is already in the world.
Docetism
from the Gnostias, taught that “Christ” was divine + “Jesus” a man, a simple man but never
mixed. They were two.
This is why Yochanan
writes against this heresy which continues today among Christian who proudly will tell you: “Jesus” 100 percent man and 100 percent “God”. This is Two hundred
percent! As far as it is known, יהוה has never been seen in the flesh:
1Ti 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the
light which no man can approach unto; whom
no man hath seen, nor can see: to
whom be honour and power everlasting.
Jamieson,
Fausset and brown say: Rome, by the
doctrine of the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, denies Messiah’s proper humanity.
Exo 12:1 and יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in
the land of Mitsrayim, saying, ...
Exo 12:51 and it came to be on that same day that יהוה brought the children of Yisra’ĕl out of the land of Mitsrayim according to their divisions.
Exo 13:1 and יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,...
Exo 13:15 ‘And it came to be, when Pharaoh
was too hardened to let us go, that יהוה killed every first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both
the first-born of man and the first-born of beast. Therefore I am slaughtering
to יהוה every male that open the womb, but every first-born of
my sons I ransom.’
Exo 13:16 “And it shall be as a sign on
your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand יהוה brought us out of Mitsrayim.”
Haftorah
Yrmeyahu 46 :13 – 28, Romans 12 :1-8, 1st Cor.11 :20-34
The Prophet says that punishment comes on all those
who tread Israel with contempt.
Verse 20, destruction comes from the north. In the
scriptures north indicate Judgment, read verse 25.
27-28. these two verses have double meaning and should
be seen in our day context. Today Ya’acov’ s descendants are scattered in the
four corners of the earth, the spiritual Egypt, and this is the promise to all
them that put their trust in יהוה. First correction, then follow redemption as it is written in
Psalm 94:15 but judgment shall return unto righteousness and all the upright in
heart shall walk in it.
Romans
12:1-8. Apostle Sha’ul
exhorts the believers to be renewed in their mind, and not follow after the
world, but after the Ruach in order
that the full body of Messiah (The Kahal,
Assembly) be edified.
1st
Cor. 11:20-34. Sha'ul correct the believers in Corinth, on their
behave. We do remember our Master’s sacrifice in a worthy manner with respect
and dignity. (Vayiqra:Lev. 7:20, 22:3-4)
29. For the one who is eating and drinking unworthily,
eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Master.
31, 32,
Unfortunately today among believers, especially
Christians, the Master’ supper is taken often in an unworthy manner, even as I
have seen by “drunkards” and “adulterer”. Heresy sprays among the “assembly”
because of ignorance and rejection of the truth.
Jer 46:13 The word which יהוה spoke to Yirmeyahu the prophet,
about the coming of Neḇuḵaḏretstsar sovereign of Baḇel, to smite the land of Mitsrayim:
Jer 46:14 “Declare in Mitsrayim, and let
it be heard in Miḡdol. And let it be heard in Noph and in Taḥpanḥes. Say,
‘Stand fast and be prepared, for a sword shall devour all around you.’
Jer 46:15 “Why were your strong ones swept
away? They did not stand because יהוה drove them away.
Jer 46:16 “He made many stumble; indeed,
they fell over each other, and said, ‘Arise! Let us go back to our own people,
and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.’
Jer 46:17 “There they cried, ‘Pharaoh,
sovereign of Mitsrayim, is but a noise. He has let the appointed time pass by!’
Jer 46:18 “As I live,” declares the
Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה of hosts, “For as Taḇor is among
the mountains, and as Karmel by the sea, he shall come.
Jer 46:19 “O you daughter dwelling in
Mitsrayim, prepare yourself to go into exile! For Noph shall become a waste and
a ruin, and be burned, without inhabitant.
Jer 46:20 “Mitsrayim is like a very pretty
heifer, but destruction comes, it comes
from the north.
Jer 46:21 “Her hired ones too, in her
midst, are like fattened calves, for they too shall turn, they shall flee away
together. They shall not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon
them, the time of their punishment.
Jer 46:22 “Its sound moves along like a
serpent, for they move on like an army and come against her with axes, like
woodcutters.
Jer 46:23 “They shall cut down her
forest,” declares יהוה, “for it is
not searched, because they are more numerous than locusts, and without
number (compare with locust).
Jer 46:24 “The daughter of Mitsrayim shall be put to shame. She shall be given
into the hand of the people of the north.”
Jer 46:25 יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl,
has said, “See, I am bringing punishment on Amon of No, and on Pharaoh, and on
Mitsrayim, and on their mighty ones, and on their sovereigns, and on Pharaoh
and on those trusting in him.
Jer 46:26 “And I shall give them into the
hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Neḇuḵaḏretstsar
sovereign of Baḇel and into the hand of his servants. And afterward it shall
be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares יהוה.
Jer 46:27 “But as for you, do not fear, O My servant Yaʽaqoḇ, and do not be
discouraged, O Yisra’ĕl! For look, I
am saving you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their
captivity. And Yaʽaqoḇ shall return,
and shall have rest and be at ease, with no one disturbing.
Jer 46:28 “Do not fear, O Yaʽaqoḇ My servant,” declares יהוה, “for I am with you. Though I make a complete end of
all the gentiles to which I have driven you, yet I do not make a complete end of you1. But I shall reprove you in
right-ruling, and by no means leave you unpunished.” Footnote: 1See
46:28, Isa. 34:2, Isa. 45:17, Dan. 2:44, Amos 9:8, Hag. 2:22.
Rom 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the
compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart,
well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.
Rom 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect
desire of Elohim....
Rom 12:8 or he who encourages, in the encouragement; or he who
is sharing, in sincerity; he who is leading, in diligence; he who shows
compassion, joyously.
1Co 11:20 So when you come together in one place, it is not to
eat the Master’s supper. ...
1Co 11:24 and having given thanks, He
broke it and said, “Take, eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
1Co 11:25 In the same way also the cup,
after supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood. As often
as you drink it, do this in remembrance
of Me.”
1Co 11:26 for as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master until He comes.
1Co 11:27 So that whoever should eat this
bread or drink this cup of the Master unworthily shall be guilty of the body
and blood of the Master.
1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and
drink of that cup.
1Co 11:29 For the one who is eating and
drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the
body of the Master.
1Co 11:30 Because of this many are weak
and sick among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31 for if we were to examine
ourselves, we would not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are
disciplined by the Master, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1Co 11:33 so then, my brothers, when you
come together to eat, wait for one another.
1Co 11:34 and if anyone is hungry, let him
eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And the rest I shall set in
order when I come.
May יהוה the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע bless you, as you walk in the Torah!
Comments can be sent to: danielcahud@yahoo.com
Daniel
ben Ya'acov Israel
The Ten Plagues from another perspective
Written by
Greg Killian
In spite of been a believer in Yehoshua, Greg Killian as a Jew use the term HaShem which I replace with the True Name Yehowah to avoid using Elohim
or יהוה, nevertheless Greg is a great scholar and I have learned
beautiful revelation from his personal study. Here Greg gives us a particular
approach concerning the Ten Plagues in Egypt.
Daniel ben Ya'acov Israel
There is a relationship between
the plagues that Yehowah (Elohim)
sent on Egypt, and the inverse order of creation:
The perversion of Yehowah’s creation began when Pharoah assumed the role of Yehowah - and instead of encouraging the
divinity within human beings he enslaved them. Hence in a fascinating usage of
terms, when Moses pleads to be
released from Jewish leadership because:
Shemot (Exodus) 6:30 "Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how will Pharaoh ever listen to me?"
The Almighty responds:
Shemot (Exodus) 7:1 "I have made you a – Elohim
unto Pharaoh..."
Rashi's
comment that in this context Yehowah
(elohim) means a "judge and an executor of judgment to punish Egypt with
plagues and afflictions," may be alluding to the single most important
reason why the Egyptians were made to suffer the destructive power of the ten
plagues. Moses will become the true representative of a Yehowah unto Pharoah, the
only fitting punishment for Pharaoh who wanted to be a Elohim unto his slaves. By becoming a Yehowah, an executor of judgment and affliction against Egypt, Pharoah's desire to twist humanity into
his own image --rather than allowing humanity to bloom in the image of Yehowah--
will be stunted. The tables are being
turned. Instead of Pharaoh functioning as a Yehowah,
Moses the stutterer --because that is
Yehowah's will-- shall become as Elohim
unto Pharaoh.
And since Pharaoh attempted to destroy Yehowah's
creation by his policy of slavery, Yehowah
will now - measure for measure - destroy Pharoah's creation of Egypt. And
indeed that is what we find. All ten plagues, from blood to the death of the first-born, can be seen in some
way expressing the shadow, or antithesis, of G d's original intention when He
created the world. The plagues become the mirror image of creation.
The commentators point out a
further aspect of the ten plagues. They can be perceived as a parallel to--or
echo of--the ten Divine pronouncements which brought the world into existence
(See Ethics of the Fathers 5:1). The redemption of the Children of Ysrael from Egypt would,
thus, appear to be a counterpart to the creation of the world.
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The process of creation showed God as the master of
nature; the Shemot (Exodus) showed him as the ruler of history, bending the
laws of nature to His purposes.
From a different vantage point,
we can view Creation as a process of building, and the plagues as acts of
destruction necessary for creation..
Our Sages ask why the world was
created by ten pronouncements rather than one; they reply that this was done so
that evildoers would be punished for ruining a world created by ten
pronouncements, and the righteous would be rewarded for sustaining such a world
(Ethics, 5:1). God knew that man, given the power of free choice, would do harm
to the world. He, therefore, created it in ten stages--and the downfall of the
evildoers through the ten plagues would serve to redress the harm done to every
stage. Moreover, there would be men eager to do right--and they would be given
the Ten Commandments to sanctify the world in every respect. The revelation of Yehowah’s Kingship, as a result of the
ten plagues, thus opened the way for the further disclosure of Yehowah’s will, through the Ten
Commandments.[1]
1. Water is turned into blood. Shemot
(Exodus) 7:20
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:2 "Now the earth was unformed and void, and
darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of G d hovered over
the face of the waters."
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Water, is the source of life,
it is the source of creation. In the first plague, the waters of Nile, source
of Egyptian prosperity, is now turned to blood, symbol of death.
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2. Frogs
everywhere. Shemot (Exodus) 8:5
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:20 Yehowah then said: Let the waters swarm with
swarms (sheratz) of living creatures...
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The second plague has the river
swarm forth frogs, living creatures, to devastate the Egyptians.
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3. Dust becomes gnats. Shemot
(Exodus) 8:17
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:11 Yehowah
then created grass, evolving from the earth: "Let the earth put forth
grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its
kind..."
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The third plague has the very
same earth that produced grass and fruit, now produces ghastly gnats.
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4. Beasts everywhere. Shemot
(Exodus) 8:24
5. Livestock all dies. Shemot
(Exodus) 9:6
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:25 Yehowah
created the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their
kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind..."
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The fourth and fifth plagues
bring a mixture of noxious animals and murrain on the cattle to subvert Yehowahs
creations.
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6. Dust becomes festering boils. Shemot
(Exodus) 9:10
7. Hail mixed with fire. Shemot
(Exodus) 9:23
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:6-8 Yehowah created a -heavens in the midst of the
waters, dividing the waters from the waters.
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The earth which was, after
water, the source of evolved physical creations, has now, with the sixth
plague, brought about the -dust all over the land of Egypt which became boils
affect man and beast. Moses extended his hands up to that very same firmament
and caused it to rain down giant hail stones which only brought destruction
in their wake, and produced the seventh plague.
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8. Locusts
everywhere. Shemot (Exodus) 10:13
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In creation it was the earth
which gave birth to living creatures (Bereshit (Genesis) 1:24).
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Moses now causes -the face of
the earth to be covered by debilitating locusts, with the eighth plague.
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9. Darkness.
Shemot
(Exodus) 10:22
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:3 Yehowah said, "Let there be light."
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The very first utterance of the
Almighty pursuant to creation is, "Let there be light", and the
ninth plague is the black viscous darkness which encompasses Egypt.
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10. Death of the firstborn. Shemot
(Exodus) 12:29
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Bereshit (Genesis) 1:1 For the sake of the things called first, God
created the heavens and the earth.
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And of course the final plague
is the most apparent antithesis to creation: the death of the first born.
Pharoah attempted to usurp Yehowah’s
place and subvert creation; Yehowah
Himself, through Moses, brings anti
- creation, destruction, upon Egypt. But at the same time, the Almighty
plants the seeds for re-creation, producing the cure before the disease.
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From the Arizal:
plague
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smiting
sub-sefirah in the holy Nukva
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evil sub-sefirah smitten
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1.
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blood
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malchut
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keter
of Nukva
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2.
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frogs
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yesod
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brains
of Nukva
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3.
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lice
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hod
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skull hair of Nukva and malchut
of Zeir Anpin
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4.
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horde
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netzach
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yesod
of Zeir Anpin
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5.
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pestilence
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tiferet
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hod
of Zeir Anpin
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6.
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boils
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gevura
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netzach
of Zeir Anpin
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7.
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hail
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chesed
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tiferet
of Zeir Anpin
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8.
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locusts
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bina
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gevura
of Zeir Anpin
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9.
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darkness
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chochma
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chesed
of Zeir Anpin
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10.
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firstborn
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keter
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keter-chochma-bina of Zeir Anpin
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1.Blood- the Egyptians believed that since the moon controls the
tides of the ocean that it had power over the water. Therefore Yehowah brought the plague of blood to
show that there is a greater power than the moon that controls the water.
2. Frogs- the Egyptians believed that Mercury was responsible for
controlling all living things in the water. Therefore again Yehowah caused frogs to come out of the
water and jump into the ovens and into the Egyptians’ stomachs, to prove that
there is a greater power than Mercury.
3. Lice- Venus is supposed to manipulate all beauty in the
world. Yehowah thus brought lice,
once of the most disgusting creatures, over Egypt to show that He is the master
over all including the beauty of the world.
4. Wild
animals- they believed that the sun had
a controlling power on those animals that lived in the desert where the sun
shines brightly. However, Yehowah
proved otherwise by causing many wild animals to leave their habitats and enter
Egyptians cities. Thus, Yehowah once
again showed that he has the power to control the instincts of all animals and
where they are to live.
5. Plague
on the Animals- The Egyptians believed that Mars
was responsible for blood and body warmth. The Yalkut Me’am Loez explains that during this plague all body heat
was lost in the animals due to cold air therefore causing them to die. Yehowah showed that he is the once who
controls health and warmth.
6. Boils- it was believed that Jupiter was responsible in the
balance of human body fluids. However, the boils caused an extreme imbalance of
fluids on the skin hence causing a tremendous amount of pain to the Egyptians.
7. Hail- The Egyptians believed that there were gods that worked
with Saturn that control all things that relate to ice, snow, or cold. However,
when Yehowah brought down a hail that
contained fire from within, He proved that there were no such gods that
existed.
8. Locusts- the Zodiac
(12 astral signs) was supposed to have influence on all the animals and control
where they wander. However, Yehowah
showed that He is more powerful than the Zodiac and allowed multitudes of
locusts to cross Egypt’s border and consume everything that the hail had left
over.
9. Darkness- Day and night was believed to be controlled through a
power called the Outer Sphere. Yehowah,
on the other hand, proved that it is He who controls when it is day or night.
Thus He brought 3 days of darkness upon Egypt.
10. Death
of the First Born- The intellectual sphere was
believed to bless all first-born children at birth giving them special
advantages through a direct link with this sphere. However Yehowah confirmed that He is the one and only who controls life and
the well-being of any first born child and thus killed all first-born Egyptian
people and animals.
This
study was written by Hillel ben David
(Greg
Killian).
May YHWH bless you as you keep
the way of the Torah diligently.
[1] Chidushei HaRim in Mayana shel Torah and the Sfat Emet. R. Yehudah
Loew of Prague, The Maharal, in his work Gevuros HaShem, chapter 57.
