Parsha Vayetze – And went out - B’reshit 28:10 –
32:3
Haftorah: Hoshea 12:13 – 14:10, Yochanan 1:43-51
This Parsha
will bring us to Ya’acov’, and his
marriage with Lea and Rachel, the abusing of his uncle Laban, and Ya’acov returning to his Father’s land. All what we do in life will
have an influence on our future, for good or for bad, if we are in Messiah , Elohim will turn our bad to good as it
is written “all things work for good to those who love Elohim” (Rom.8:28). Ya’acov
had to flee from his brother’s anger Esau
who wanted to kill him. Once again we will turn to the book of Yasher (the Just) to have more details
concerning what happened to Ya’acov
during his journey. If we look the Torah
b’reshit chapter 28, between verse 5
and the verse 10 we have mention of Esau taking a wife, marrying Ishmael daughter, and we don’t know
about Ya’acov condition on his way to
his uncle Laban. In verse 10 we read
that Ya’acov moved from Beershebah (well of oath) to Charan (parched place). We have here
already an indication of what will come upon Ya’acov, who live a place of comfort with his father and mother and
goes to a parched (dry, arid sunburned) place. We have already Ya’acov’s frame of life for the coming
years. Now by reading Yasher we get
important information concerning the distress of Ya’acov. He left at the age of seventy seven! .......Yasher chapter 29 : 30. and Isaac finished commanding Jacob and
blessing him, and he gave him many gifts,
together with silver and gold, and he sent him away; and Jacob hearkened to his
father and mother; he kissed them and arose and went to Padan-aram; and Jacob was seventyseven years old when
he went out from the land of Canaan from Beersheba
and pursued Jacob.*
Thirteen the number for rebellion. Eliphaz
is also Ya’acov nephew! 34. and he closely followed Jacob, and he
lurked for him in the border of the land of Canaan opposite to the city of Shechem
35. and Jacob saw Eliphaz and his men pursuing him,
and Jacob stood still in the place in which he was going, in order to know what
this was, for he did not know the thing; and Eliphaz drew his sword and he went
on advancing, he and his men, toward Jacob; and Jacob said unto them, What is
to do with you that you have come hither, and what meaneth it that you pursue
with your swords. 36. and Eliphaz came near to Jacob and he answered and said
unto him, Thus did my father command me,
and now therefore I will not deviate from the orders which my father gave me;
and when Jacob saw that Esau had spoken to Eliphaz to employ force, Jacob
then
approached and supplicated Eliphaz and his men, saying to him, 37. Behold all that I have and which my father and mother gave unto me, that take unto thee and go from me, and do
not slay me, and may this thing be accounted unto thee a righteousness. 38. and
YHWH caused Jacob to find favor in
the sight of Eliphaz the son of Esau, and his men, and they hearkened
to the voice of Jacob, and they did not
put him to death, and
Eliphaz
and his men took all belonging to Jacob together with the silver and gold that
he had brought with him from Beersheba
they had taken from Jacob.40. and Esau was indignant
(mad) at Eliphaz his son, and at his men that were with him, because they had
not put Jacob to death. 41. and they answered and said unto Esau, Because Jacob
supplicated us in this matter not to slay him, our pity was excited toward him, and we took all belonging to him
and brought it unto thee; and Esau took all the silver and gold which Eliphaz
had taken from Jacob and he put them by in his house............
We
have now a better understanding of Ya’acov’s
journey to his uncle Laban. Ya’acov was in panic when he saw Eliphaz, Esau’s son coming with other men to kill him. He was entangled in
his own carnal nature. In spite of having been raised in יהוה’s Torah of righteousness, he
wasn’t able to dominate his flesh. We see verse 38 that it is יהוה who gave him favour before Eliphaz! This is very important to understand, because we can all
come in this kind of situation, and react in the flesh. To know about יהוה is
not enough, what we need is to have a relationship with him.
The carnal nature in each of us is not to be underestimated ,Ya’acov had acted on his own flesh after
his carnal nature deceiving his brother Esau
to get the blessing from his father. In fact it was Elohim’s will. Was it necessary for Ya’acov to “help” Elohim?
The question may be asked, but the answer is obviously NO! Ya’acov action will have consequences in his life. How it is with
us, how many times have we tried to help Elohim
in His plan for us? We know already that the promise stand, Elohim promised Itzakh to bless his descendance, and Ribkah got also the words from Elohim
that Esau will serve Ya’acov (Chap.25:23), nevertheless, Ya’acov as his name was given him was a “suplanter” a “deceiver”: Gen 27:35 and he said, Thy brother came with
subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
Gen 27:36 and
he said, Is not he rightly named
Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away
my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said,
Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?.
The
name bears already part of the character and has been used among the Hebrews by
divine inspiration so that we can see how Elohim will gives important
indications for the coming generation. Remember that later Ya’acov’s name will be changed to Israel
Nathan
Lawrence from Hoshana Rabbah point to
something interesting in Ya’acov
life: -- Scripture reveals the spiritual law of reciprocity: You
reap what you sow (Gen. 8:22; Gal. 6:7-9). If you don’t sow you will not reap.
If you sow evil or good you will reap the same. Jacob had to learn this law the
hard way. In Job 4:8 we read, “Even as I
have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.”
Jacob gained the birthright through posing as Esau (a deception) and Laban in
turn deceives Jacob by putting Leah under the veil posing as Rachel in Jacob’s
marriage bed. It is very easy to see the principle of reaping and sowing in
others’ lives, but in our own? Very difficult! Aren’t we prone to concoct every
excuse and argument imaginable to
justify our evil actions and then blame the results on others? Prayerfully
take a long and hard look at your life, examine hardships and trials, and
honestly ask yourself the question: am I reaping what I have sown? It is never
too late to repent and make a course correction—to bring your life into agreement
with YHVH’s Word and will and to start reaping the blessings.......
Gen 28:10 and Yaʽaqoḇ went out from Be’ĕrsheḇa and went
toward Ḥaran (parched, dry, sun burned).
Gen 28:11 and he came upon a place and stopped over for the
night, for the sun had set, and he took one of the stones of that place and put
it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.
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..........
To
walk in the day is a euphemism of walking in the Torah! “He went from Be’ersheba and went toward Haran………” The Hebrew meaning of the
place will help us to see the spiritual meaning of this action. .....
Be’ersheba: Srong’s
# H884 בּאר שׁבע be'êr sheba‛written beith, aleph, resh, shin, beith,Ayin. be-ayr' sheh'-bah From H875 and H7651 (in
the sense of H7650); well of an
oath; Beer Sheba, a
place in Palestine
From H2787; parched;
Charan, the name of a man and also of a place: - Haran
A
primitive root; to glow, that
is, literally (to melt, burn,
dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion):
- be angry, burn, dry, kindle. ....Be’ersheba
was the place where Abraham did made
and oath with Abimelech (B’reshit
21:31) a place where Abraham was following godly principle even toward those
who were not following יהוה.
Haran, the parched place where
there is no interest for יהוה, a dry place for the soul where Ya’acov twenty years long, will glow in his soul through Laban’s
injustice until he become angry. Just think about that! יהוה didn’t
take Ya’acov from a place where he
was in trouble just to bring him in a “nice” place where everything runs easy.
No! Ya’acov will be abused from now
on, and during twenty years by Laban, his uncle, his mother’s brother Ribkah. Ya’acov deceitful nature will suffer during the time he will spend
with his uncle. He will have the return of what he did to his brother Esau. Ya’acov destiny was already sealed in
his mother’s womb and from now on יהוה will teach Ya’acov through the hardness of life! This can look similar to many
of us, who came to יהוה having been raised after the tradition of man. Do you know that
today many people are no more able to discern between lies and truth? Excuse is
found for all evil depending on the position the one may have. The world makes
category classifying between small and
big lies, and this is one example. All
this didn’t changed Ya’acov from
becoming one of the patriarchs. Ya’acov
had been raised in the right way and will not depart from it, he needed to be refined by the
challenge of life. Unfortunately today too much people reject the Torah’s
teaching and prefer to follow the spirit of the world “humanism”. Read: Zec 13:9 and I will bring the third part through the
fire, and will refine them as silver is
refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name,
and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, YHWH is
my Elohim……. Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, even
when he is old he turns not away from
it. ....Today there is a discussion in the French parliament to make a
law to forbid to correct a child by giving him a hand on his bums, thus again going against יהוה‘s instruction to chastise a
child Ya’acov was in heaviness of
heart that he had to leave his father’s place to go without knowing what will
become of him. We have some details in the book of Yasher which give us more inside in Ya’acov’s conditions and enlighten our understanding concerning the
dream he had.
Yasher 30 1. and Jacob went forth continuing his road to Haran Luz
Elohim of Isaac thy father; the land upon which thou
liest I will give unto thee and thy seed. 2. and behold I am with thee and will keep thee wherever thou goest, and I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of Heaven, and I will cause all thine enemies to fall before thee; and when
they shall make war with thee they shall not prevail over thee, and I will bring thee again unto this land
with joy, with children, and with great riches. 3. and Jacob awoke from his sleep and he rejoiced
greatly at the vision which he had seen; and he called the name of that place Bethel Haran
The land of the east: Gen 4:16 and
Cain went out from the presence of YHWH, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Nod:Strong’s #H5113 נודnôd
BDB Definition:
Nod =
““wandering” land to
which Cain fled or wandered after the murder of Abel
Gen 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the
east.
Can you see the connection? One more detail: Shinar:
Strong’s #8152 שׁנער shin‛âr BDB Definition:
Shinar = “country of two rivers” 1) the ancient
name for the territory later known as
Babylonia or Chaldea . Shinar later known as Babylonia.
The Land of Nod in
the East is called the land of wandering
also exile (Strong). Caïn was in exile, meaning separate from Elohim presence. There
is a deeper meaning in Ya’acov’s
life, his person and who he is as Ya’acov
and later as Israel, as we discover when we read. Is not the Ya’acov now spiritualy in exile?
Isa 51:1 Hearken to me, ye
that follow after righteousness, ye that seek YHWH: look unto the rock
whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Isa 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father,
and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him. Isa 51:3 for YHWH shall comfort Zion: he
will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden,
and her desert like the garden of YHWH; joy and gladness shall be found
therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Isa 51:4 hearken unto me, my people; and
give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make
my judgment to rest for a light of the people. Isa 51:5 My righteousness is near; my
salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall
wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. Isa 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,
and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall
die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever and my righteousness
shall not be abolished. Isa 51:7 hearken unto me, ye that know
righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of
men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. Isa 51:8 for the moth shall eat them up like a
garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be
for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. Isa 51:9 awake,
awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH; awake, as in the ancient days, in the
generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the
dragon?
Isa 51:10 art thou not it which hath dried
the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a
way for the ransomed to pass over? Isa 51:11 Therefore
the redeemed of YHWH shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy;
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. Isa 51:12 I, even I, am
he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man
that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; Isa 51:13 and forgettest YHWH thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth;
and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as
if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? Isa 51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that
he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. Psa 107:2 Let the
redeemed of YHWH say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; Isa 2:6 for You have forsaken Your people
the
house of Jacob, because they have
become full from the east, and are fortune-tellers like the
Philistines. And they clap their hands with the children of strangers. ……
“And
he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down
in that place to sleep. “
Ya’acov
took a stone to put his head to sleep! Have you ever tried to lay your head on
a stone to sleep? That’s not the most comfortable place to put the head.
The
stone in Hebrew is the word “eben”
meaning “to build”. It is written that he will use it as a pillow! In Hebrew the
word for “pillow” is the word “מראשׁה mera'ăshâh written mem, resh, aleph,shin;he. Meaning, “head rest” It seems that something will
happen during the night, the meaning is hidden and Elohim reveal in “his time”.
The head is the centre of man’s thinking also called in Hebrew “ketter”
in English “will” in the tree of life
it is the highest “sefirot” (attribute) the place that no man can reach, יהוה’s perfect will from whence his will
flow down to “Malkut” the Kingdom.
---- Gen
28:12 and he
dreamed and saw a ladder set up on the
earth and its top reached to the heavens,
and saw messengers of Elohim going up
and coming down on it. יהושע says in Yochanan
1:51 “Truly, truly, I say to you, from
now on you shall see the heaven opened,
and the messengers of Elohim ascending and descending upon the
Son of Aḏam.” ......He repeats
what was happening to Ya’acov. The p’shat (literal) level does not help to
understand the meaning. In the esoteric context we can see more. The ladder set
up on the earth reaching to the heavens with the “messengers” going up and
coming down on it, represent the middle pillar from the tree of life. This
middle pillar is Messiah יהושע (the son of Adam) and connects the earth (Malkut) to the heavens (Ketter) through “Yesod” the foundation and “Tiferet”
as it is written, I am the way (Malkut) the truth (Yesod) and the life (Tiferet), no man comes to the father but through me.(Yochanan
14:6). Can you se the parallel between this verse and the Tree of life? This is repeated in the Tabernacle construction as we
will see in the parsha. The ladder
shows that we have always access to the Father through יהושע Messiah,
the angels going up to יהוה’ throne first (from the earth) and coming down to man thus
making the mediation between man and
Elohim!..Ya’acov had a dream. Sh’lomo says something about dream. Let
us read: Ecc 5:3 for a dream comes
through the greatness of the task………..The King James Version put it another
way: Ecc 5:3 for a dream cometh through the multitude of business; ……. Ya’acov
came from the confrontation with Eliphaz,
Esau’s son and had need to rest from
his trouble. Gen
28:13 and see,
יהוה stood above it and said, “I am יהוה Elohim of Aḇraham your father
and the Elohim of Yitsḥaq. The land on which you are lying, I give it to you
and your seed. ….“ and יהוה stood above it…….” Verse 12 it is written that the
messenger were going up and coming down. The statement “,יהוה stood above it” is to make clear that יהוה is the source of the dream. Many have put this in the
literal only and thus forgot that יהוה is Ruach
(Spirit) and have never been seen by man! (1st Thimot. 6:16). Verse 14-15 יהוה confirm to Ya’acov
the promise He did to his Fathers Itzaqh
and Abraham by repetition. Gen 28:14 “And your seed shall be as the
dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to
the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you
and in your seed. Gen 28:15 “And see, I am with you and
shall guard you wherever you go, and shall bring you back to this land, for I
am not going to leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
Gen 28:16 and Yaʽaqoḇ awoke from his sleep and said, “Truly, יהוה is in this place, and I did not
know it.”
Yasher 29 3.
and Jacob awoke from his sleep and he
rejoiced greatly at the vision which he had seen; and he called the name of that place Bethel
returned
to Haran
Strong’s # H
3372 give the Hebrew word “Yare”
verse 17 with “afraid and dreadful” while Brown
Driver Briggs give also other meanings:” to be in awe, to inspire reverence
“ which would have more sense in this context. The book of Yasher confirms the context.
Gen 28:17 and he was afraid (in awe) and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none
other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of the heavens! (Malkut)” Gen 28:18 and Yaʽaqoḇ rose early in the
morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a
standing column, and poured oil on top of it (anointed). Gen 28:19 and he called the name of that
place Bĕyth Ěl, however, the name of that city had been Luz previously. Beth’el was called before “Luz”.
The Hebrew meaning for “Luz” is Strong’s
# H3870 given by Brown, Driver, Briggs as “almond tree”. This is very interesting has the “almond tree” now
called by Ya’acov “Beth’el (House of El) will be the rod
that buds from Aaron. Almonds are also found in the menorah (candlestick)….. Num 17:8
And it came to be on the next day that Mosheh went into the Tent of the Witness
and saw that the rod of Aharon, of
the house of Lĕwi, had budded, and brought forth buds, and blossomed and bore ripe almonds. Exo 25:31 and thou shalt
make a candlestick of pure gold: of
beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his
bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. Exo 25:32 and
six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of
the other side: Exo 25:33
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three
bowls made like almonds in the other
branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the
candlestick. .....We know that this rod represent
in the “sod” יהושע’s authority which has passed from Levi to Messiah! Gen 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah ,
nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.
Shilo is recognized to be another name
for Messiah. When יהושע came he gave the authority to Kefa (Peter) and the apostles: Mat 16:19 and I will give unto thee
the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven. .........When Messiah did gave the keys to
Kefa, was it not after his departure?
Gal 1:22 and was unknown by face unto the assemblies of Judaea
which were in the Messiah:………………….
2:1 then fourteen years after I (Paul) went up again to Jerusalem
Gal 2:2
and I went up by revelation, and
communicated unto them concerning the evangel which I preach among the
Gentiles, but privately to them which
were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in
vain………
Gal 2:7 but contrariwise, when they saw that the
evangel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the evangel of the circumcision was unto Peter; Gal 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the
apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the
Gentiles:)
Gal 2:9
and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to
be pillars, perceived the favour that was given unto me, they gave to
me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the
heathen, and they unto the circumcision. .........
The order here is clear: Ya’acov
Messiah’s brother, Kefa (Peter)
and Yochanan (John)....... In our
today’s parsha Ya’acov is a messianic picture of יהושע who will go to the pagan world (Laban’s place in the East)
in the end days to gather again the bride from the House of Yahudah (Lea) and the House of Israel or
Ephraim (Rachel).
Gen 28:20 and Yaʽaqoḇ made a vow, saying,
“Seeing Elohim is with me, and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has
given me bread to eat and a garment to put on – Gen 28:21 when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has been my Elohim, Gen 28:22 then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be Elohim’s
house, and of all that You give me, I
shall certainly give a tenth to You.” ……
Here the word ”asar”
(the tenth of what I have accumulate) is directly connected to the number Ten
which is a divine number used in the Torah in many places to indicate the sum
of all numbers, used by Elohim to
indicate divine purpose.
Let us read the Hebrew text and see what we can grasp:
22 and~the~Stone
the~This Which i~did~Set.in.place Monument he~will~Exist House Elohiym [Powers] and~All Which
you(ms)~will~Give to~me >~much~Give.a.tenth i~will~much~Give.a.tenth~him
to~you(fs) (AHRC-MT)
Gen 28:22 והאבןH68 הזאתH2063 אשׁרH834 שׂמתיH7760 מצבהH4676 יהיהH1961 ביתH1004 אלהיםH430 וכלH3605 אשׁרH834 תתןH5414 לי עשׂרH6237 אעשׂרנו׃H6237
Gen 28:22 והאבןH68 הזאתH2063 אשׁרH834 שׂמתיH7760 מצבהH4676 יהיהH1961 ביתH1004 אלהיםH430 וכלH3605 אשׁרH834 תתןH5414 לי עשׂרH6237 אעשׂרנו׃H6237
Gen 28:22 v'ha`eVeN hazo`T
`asher ´
Sam'Tiy matzaVah yih'yeh bayT
`elohiyM v'kol `asher
TiTeN ´ liy ,aSar
`a,aS'renu laC'
How can Ya’acov
pay tithe, while the Torah never mention that he paid tithe?
The answer is to be found in the seed, While Ya’acov promised to pay tithe, this will be fulfilled by his descendants (seed/zera/sperma).
The answer is to be found in the seed, While Ya’acov promised to pay tithe, this will be fulfilled by his descendants (seed/zera/sperma).
Hebrew 7 :5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the
priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the
law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of
Abraham:
I
don’t want to enforce any false idea it can also be the root of Moshe mitzvah (commandment) of tithe found in Vayiqqra (Lev.) 27:30, there is no
mention of this tither in the book of
Yasher. …..
Gen 29:1
and Yaʽaqoḇ moved on and came to the land of the people of the East. ...... “The
people from the East”:
We read: Psa 103:12 As far as east is from west, So far has He
removed our transgressions from us. ........
To understand now what is going on at the well, we
will have to leave the P’shat level
and look in the Sod (mystery or hidden meaning). Remember we saw that Ya’acov in the tree of life has the
position in “Tiferet”(beauty) which
is the position hold by Messiah יהושע.
The sheep are a picture of the believers
(Yoch.10:14-16). The well is the place to get water. The water is a euphemism
for יהוה’s word
(Eph. 5:26). For the stone upon the well’s mouth try to found the connection
with Matt.27:60. Messiah was dead and the “stone” before
the tomb separated him from the living. The stone had to be removed in order
for the talmidin (disciples) to have
access to him, the “living water”
The shepherd who came with the sheep came from Haran
Mat 28:10 Then יהושע said to
them, “Do not be afraid. Go, report to
My brothers, to go to Galil, and they shall see Me there.” Heb 2:11 for both he that sanctifieth and they who are set apart are all of one:
for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, Heb 2:12
saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren,
in the midst of the assembly will I sing praise unto thee. ........ Verse 6 Rahel is coming. Rahel in
Hebrew רחל means “to journey”
also “ewe” the female being the
predominant of the flock (Strong’s# H7354). Rahel
is a picture of the bride of Messiah, she has one flock while the others
shepherd have three (a picture of the different Christians denomination not united)....... Gen 29:2 and he looked and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying by it, for
out of that well they watered the flocks, and a large stone was on the well’s
mouth. Gen 29:3 and all the flocks would be gathered there, then they
would roll the stone from the well’s mouth and water the sheep, and put the
stone back in its place on the well’s mouth.
Gen 29:4
so Yaʽaqoḇ said to them, “My brothers,
where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Ḥaran.”
Gen 29:5
and he said to them, “Do you know Laḇan son of Naḥor?” And they said, “We know
him.”
Gen 29:6
so he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “Well. And see, his daughter Raḥĕl is coming with the sheep.” Gen 29:7 and he said, “See, it is still high day, not the time
for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed
them.” Gen 29:8 but they said, “We
are not allowed until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have
rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, then we shall water the sheep.” Gen 29:9 while he was still speaking with them, Raḥĕl came
with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. Gen 29:10 and it came to be, when Yaʽaqoḇ saw Raḥĕl the
daughter of Laḇan his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laḇan his mother’s
brother, that Yaʽaqoḇ went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth,
and watered the flock of Laḇan his mother’s brother.
Now we can see the “sod” with Ya’acov removing the stone from the well’s mouth, “and watered the
flock of Laban his mother’s brother”.
Who is Ya’acov,
is he not a picture of Messiah יהושע? Who is the flock of Laban, is it not the “believers”
coming from pagan traditions? Who is Rahel,
is she not the bride coming to well? What is the stone covering the well’s mouth, is it not
the stony heart?
Eze 11:19 “And I shall give them one heart, and put a
new spirit within you. And I shall take (remove) the stony heart out of their
flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,
Eze 36:26 “And I shall give you a new heart and put a
new spirit within you, and I shall take the heart of stone out of your flesh,
and I shall give you a heart of flesh,
Many times in the Torah and the Brit HaChadasha (N.T.)
the stone in particular in the burial are and euphemism for man’s heart
condition. By removing the stone from the mouth’s well, the flock had access to
the “water of life” (double meaning: stony heart removed and to have access to
Messiah יהושע the living water).
Gen 29:11
and Yaʽaqoḇ kissed Raḥĕl, and lifted up his voice and wept. .....
Ya’acov
kissed Rahel “the bride” and wept,
read:
Joh 11:35
יהושע wept.
Joh 11:36 The Yehuḏim
therefore said, “See how He loved him!”
Joh 11:39 יהושע said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who had
Who is El’azar
(Eliezer) in this passage from Yochanan,
and what is the meaning of removing the stone? Eddie Chemney gives a beautiful explanation of the parable in Yochanan 11 concerning Eliezer.
Here a summary of it: --- Lazarus
was sick (Ps.69:20, 88:1, Pro.13:12, Is 1:5) associated with the House of Ya’acov
in exile:
Eze 34:4 The
diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick,
neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again
that which was driven away (exiled),
neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have
ye ruled them. Lazarus was from Beth-any (House of affliction)
Afflicted:
Hebrew is the word “any” poor, lowly:
Zep 3:12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted (Heb.any) and poor people,
and they shall trust in the name of YHWH.
Zec 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem Mount
Sinai יהוה became
one with his people and he feels the affliction of his people: Jer 4:17
as keepers of a field, are they against
her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith YHWH. Jer 4:18 Thy
way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy
wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. Jer 4:19 My bowels, my
bowels! I (יהוה) am pained at my very heart; my
heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the
trumpet, the alarm of war.
The two sisters Maria,
Hebrew Miriam and Martha: ---
Ya’acov
is also said to have two sisters:
Eze 23:1 The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying,
Eze
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters
of one mother: Eze 23:3
and they
committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there
were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their
virginity. Eze
23:4 and the names of them were Aholah the elder, and
Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus
were their names; Samaria (Ephraim) is Aholah,
and Jerusalem
Ahola: Strong's H170 אָהֳלָה אָהֳלָהּ 'Oholah (o-hol-aw') (in form a feminine of H168, but in fact for .Oholahh
{o-hol-aw'}) n/p.
1. her tent (i.e. idolatrous
sanctuary)
2. Oholah, a symbol. name for
Samaria
Aholibah
Strong's H172 אָהֳלִיבָּה
אָהֳלִיבָּהּ 'Oholiybah (o''-hol-ee-baw') ((similarly with H170) for hOholiybahh {o''-hol-e-baw'}) n/p.
1. my tent (is) in her
2. Oholibah, a symbolic name for
Judah
Miriam: Strong’s #H4813 from #H4805
Meree and Marah , rebellion, bitterness/...... Martha: Strong’s # G3136 Μάρθα Martha mar'-thah. Probably of Chaldee origin
(meaning mistress); Martha,
Both
sisters are a picture of the House of Israel and the House of Yehudah, Lazarus is a picture of both House, the
House of Ya’acov reunited. יהושע calling Lazarus out
of the Tomb is a picture of the end of the exile of both house at the starting
of the Millennium. Lazarus was in the grave already four days. Messiah came on the
fourth day to restore the House of Ya’acov.
If
we read the account of Lazarus,
knowing that he is a picture of the House of Ya’acov and the sisters are both a picture of the House of Israel
and the House of Yehudah, we can see a beautiful promise in the “sod”.
But let us go back to our today’s parsha. Here again only the “sod” reveal the deeper meaning missed by
all those pretenders false pastors during the centuries. יהושע told
this to His talmidin (disciples), those who would follow him no matter what!
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 meaning), Are
you outside or are you part of the bride to understand the deeper meanings?
Gen 29:12 and when Yaʽaqoḇ told Raḥĕl that he was her
father’s relative and that he was Riḇqah’s son, she ran and told her father. Gen 29:13 and it came to be, when Laḇan heard the report about
Yaʽaqoḇ his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed
him, and brought him to his house. Then he told Laḇan all these matters.
Have
you not wondered why Laban is running
toward Ya’acov and kissed him? Do you
think he is so happy to receive his brother’s son? If so he should have
cherished him during the time Ya’acov
spent there and not cheated him ten
times! We can understand his attitude when we remember what happen with El’iezer (El’azar, Lazarus) when Abraham
sent him to get a bride for his son Itzhaq:
Gen 24:34 and he said, “I am Aḇraham’s servant. Gen 24:35 “And יהוה has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great, and He has given him flocks and herds, and
silver and gold, and male and female servants, and camels and
donkeys………………………….
Gen 24:53 and the servant brought out ornaments of
silver, and ornaments of gold, and garments, and gave them to Riḇqah. He
also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother. .......
Yasher 29 9. and Jacob told Rachel that he was the son of
Rebecca, her father's sister, and Rachel ran and told her father, and Jacob continued to cry because he
had nothing with him to bring to the house of Laban. 11. and
Jacob related to Laban what his brother Esau had done to him, and what his son Eliphaz
had done to him in the road
Laban remembered how El’azar the servant of Abraham blessed them with gift.
Unfortunately, Ya’acov having been
destitute by Eliphaz, Esau’s son, came empty handed, and Laban’s true nature will soon been
revealed.
Have
we not also been destitute by our brethren
Esau’s descendants so that we have nothing to give (gold and silver) to
those around us?
Gen 29:14
and Laḇan said to him, “You are indeed
my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a month. Gen 29:15 Then Laḇan
said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve
me for naught? Let me know, what should your wages be?” Gen 29:16 and Laḇan had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lĕ’ah, and the name of the younger was Raḥĕl.
I am sure that you have read this passage many times,
as I did also. I always guessed the meaning and was not comfortable with the
answer. The “sod” is not easy to found and all is embedded in Messiah יהושע, who is the revealed mystery hidden from the beginning of the
creation. Many years was I wondering
about the meaning of “Leah’s eyes were
weak” other versions say also “tender”.
Anyway I knew there is a connection between the “weak” eyes from Leah and the “lovely form and
appearance” from Rahel. The name
bears more indication:
Rachel: Strong’s #H7353 רחל râchêl
raw-khale' From an unused root
meaning to journey; a ewe (the females being the
predominant element of a flock), (as a good traveller): - ewe, sheep.
Ewe: The female of a sheep! Can
you see the relationship? Who are the sheep? Rachel and Ephraim, Leah was the first to be married to Ya’acov, Yehudah (Ya’acov’s fourth son by Leah) was directly united to יהושע been from the same tribe,
nevertheless, Ephraim (Rachel)“lovely of form and appearance” because they follow יהושע without questioning. Rachel
is the mother of Yoseph who got Ephraim and Manasseh the House of Israel!
Gen 29:17 and Lĕ’ah’s
eyes were weak, but Raḥĕl was lovely of form and appearance. .... The
Hebrew word for “tender” or “weak” is the word “rak”. Shaul speaks the
weak to be without faith in Rom. Rome and Corinth
I
know your first reaction will be that there is no connection between the weak eyes from Leah and the weak in faith that Sha’ul is speaking of food but let see further: 1Co 8:1 now as touching things
offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth
up, but love edifieth………
1Co 8:4
as concerning therefore the eating of
those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol
is nothing in the world, and that there is none other Elohim but one. 1Co 8:5 for though there be that are called mighty ones,
whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be mighty ones many, and masters
many,) 1Co 8:7 howbeit there
is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered
unto an idol; and their
conscience being weak is defiled.
1Co 8:8 but
food commendeth us not to YHWH: for neither, if we eat, are we the better;
neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
1Co
8:9 but
take heed lest by any means this liberty
of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. 1Co 10:28 but if any man say unto you, This is offered in
sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is
YHWH's, and the fulness thereof:
Tit 1:15 unto the pure all things are pure: but unto
them that are defiled and unbelieving
is nothing pure; but even their
mind and conscience is defiled.
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without blemish to Elohim, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim? Heb 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:2 for then would
they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of
sins.
Do you see that the conscience is the seat of the remembrance of sin for those who have
no faith and thus were called “weak” Sha’ul was not speaking of vegetarians as it is taught in
Christianity but of those refusing to eat meat in the assembly fearing that
this meat was offered to idols? The “strong”
were those following Messiah having their
conscience washed from remembrance of sin. With this in mind we can understand
the words: “Lĕ’ah’s eyes were weak”
because Leah is the representative of the House of Yehudah “the elder sister”.
The beauty and lovely form of Rahel
are directly connected to those from the House of Israel, Ephraim. ..... Now we
are going to look in the “sod” in order to understand. Leah
has bear “Yehudah” her fourth son (Sh’mt
29:35), and Rahel “Yoseph”, the two houses. Remember Torah
is a progressive revelation. Ya’acov
(Messiah) want to marry Rahel (the
true Israel) but Leah (The House of Yehudah) will also been married to him,
and will be first “weak” in the faith (confirmed by Shaul) until Elohim
remove the veil of the letter of the Torah. Rahel’s
love is mixed with jealousy when she saw her sister Leah prospering (bearing children), but Elohim didn’t forgot her! Read:
Isa 11:13 and the envy
of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the
adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off. Ephrayim
shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim. .....Ya’acov will
serve seven years for Rahel. Seven is
the number for divine perfection on earth!..... Gen 29:18 and Yaʽaqoḇ
loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥĕl your
younger daughter.” Gen 29:19 and Laḇan said, “It is better that I give her to you
than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.” Gen 29:20 so Yaʽaqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they
seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Gen 29:21
then Yaʽaqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Give me my wife, for my days are completed, and
let me go in to her.”
Gen 29:22
and Laḇan gathered all the men of the place and made a feast. .....Yasher 31: 2. and in the evening Laban came to the house, and
afterward Jacob came there with the people of the feast, and Laban extinguished
all the lights that were there in the house. 3. and Jacob said unto Laban,
Wherefore dost thou do this thing unto us? and Laban answered, Such is our custom to act in this land.
4. and afterward Laban took his daughter Leah, and he brought her to Jacob, and
he came to her and Jacob did not know that
she was Leah. 6. and all the people
at the feast knew what Laban had done to Jacob, but they did not tell
the thing to Jacob. 7. and all the neighbours came
that night to Jacob's house, and they ate and drank and
rejoiced, and played before Leah upon timbrels, and
with dances, and they responded before Jacob, Heleah, Heleah. 8. and Jacob heard their words but did not
understand their meaning, but he thought such
might
be their custom in this land. 10. and in the morning, when daylight appeared,
Jacob turned to his wife and he saw, and behold it was Leah that had been lying
in his bosom, and Jacob said, Behold now I
know
what the neighbors said last night, Heleah,
they said, and I knew it not. Such is
our custom to act in this land (verse 3). Read what
Sha’ul writes to the believers in
Thessalonica: --- 1Th 5:7
for they that sleep sleep in the night; and they
that be drunken are drunken in the night. Night is a metaphor for outside the Torah. Laban a picture of HaSatan (the enemy) was doing his plan in the night, hidden so that
Ya’acov was not able to see the
craftiness of his uncle. .....Gen 29:23 and it came to be in the evening, that he took Lĕ’ah
his daughter and brought her to Yaʽaqoḇ. And he went in to her. Gen 29:24 and Laḇan gave his female servant Zilpah to his
daughter Lĕ’ah as a female servant. Gen 29:25 and in the morning it came to be, that see, it was
Lĕ’ah. So he said to Laḇan, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for
Raḥĕl that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?” Gen 29:26 and Laḇan said, “It is not done this way in our
place, to give the younger before the first-born. Gen 29:27 “Complete the week of this one, then we give you this
one too, for the service which you shall serve with me still another seven years.” Gen 29:28 and Yaʽaqoḇ did so and completed her week. Then he
gave him his daughter Raḥĕl too, as wife. Gen 29:29 and Laḇan gave his female servant Bilhah to his
daughter Raḥĕl as a female servant. Gen 29:30 and he also went in to Raḥĕl, and he also loved Raḥĕl more than Lĕ’ah.
And he served with Laḇan still another seven years.
Gen 29:31
and יהוה saw that Lĕ’ah was unloved, and He
opened her womb, but Raḥĕl was barren. Gen 29:32 and Lĕ’ah conceived and bore a
son, and she called his name Re’uḇĕn,
for she said, “for יהוה has looked on my affliction,
because now my husband is going to love me.” Gen 29:33 and she conceived again and bore
a son, and said, “Because יהוה has heard that I am unloved, He
gave me this son too.” And she called his name Shimʽon. Gen 29:34 and she conceived again and bore
a son, and said, “Now this time my husband is joined to me, because I have
borne him three sons.” So his name was called Lĕwi. Gen 29:35 and she conceived again and bore
a son, and said, “Now I praise יהוה.” So she
called his name Yehuḏah. And she
ceased bearing. ….From
the verse 30 to chapter 30:24, we assist now on something looking like a
competition to win Ya’acov’s favor or
first position. If we see Ya’acov to
be a picture of Messiah, we can see the house of Yehudah and the House of Israel,
Ephraim (Leah and Rahel) seeking
the favors of Elohim.
30:1 Rahel
envied Leah, read: ----- Isa 11:13 and the envy
of Ephrayim (Rahel) shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah (Leah) be cut off. Ephrayim (Rahel) shall not envy Yehuḏah (Leah), and Yehuḏah (Leah)
not trouble Ephrayim (Ephraim). ....Isa 54:1 “Sing, O barren
one, you who did not bear! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have
not been in labour! For the children of the deserted one are more than the
children of the married woman,” said יהוה. Isa 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not. Lengthen
your cords, and strengthen your stakes. Isa 54:3 “For you shall break forth to
the right and to the left, and your seed
inherit the nations, and make the deserted cities inhabited. Isa 54:4 “Do not fear, for you shall not
be put to shame, nor hurt, you shall not be humiliated. For the shame of your youth you shall forget,
and not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.
Isa 54:5 “For your Maker is your husband,
יהוה of hosts is His Name, and the
Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl is your Redeemer. He is called the Elohim of all the
earth. Isa 54:6 “For יהוה has called you like a woman
forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a
wife of youth when you were refused,” declares your Elohim. Isa 54:7 “For a little while I have
forsaken you, but with great compassion I shall gather you. Gen 30:1
and when Raḥĕl saw that she bore Yaʽaqoḇ no children, Raḥĕl envied her sister, and said to Yaʽaqoḇ, “Give me children,
or else I am going to die!” Gen 30:2 and Yaʽaqoḇ’s displeasure burned against Raḥĕl, and
he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of
the womb?” Gen 30:3 and she said, “See, my female servant Bilhah; go in
to her, and let her bear for me, and let me be built up from her as well.” Gen 30:4 so she gave him Bilhah her female servant as wife,
and Yaʽaqoḇ went in to her. Gen 30:5 and Bilhah conceived and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a son. Gen 30:6 and Raḥĕl said, “Elohim has rightly ruled my case, and
has also heard my voice and given me a son.” So she called his name Dan. Gen 30:7 and Raḥĕl’s female servant Bilhah conceived again
and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a second son. Gen 30:8 and Raḥĕl said, “With great wrestlings I have
wrestled with my sister, and I have overcome.” So she called his name Naphtali.
Gen 30:9
and Lĕ’ah saw that she had ceased bearing, and she took Zilpah her female
servant and gave her to Yaʽaqoḇ as wife. Gen 30:10 and Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Yaʽaqoḇ a
son. Gen 30:11 and Lĕ’ah said, “With Gaḏ!” So she called his name Gaḏ. Gen 30:12 And Lĕ’ah’s female servant Zilpah bore Yaʽaqoḇ a
second son. Gen 30:13 And Lĕ’ah said, “I am blessed, for the daughters
shall call me blessed.” So she called his name Ashĕr. Gen 30:14 and Re’uḇĕn went in the days of wheat harvest and
found love-apples in the field, and brought them to his mother Lĕ’ah. And
Raḥĕl said to Lĕ’ah, “Please give me some of your son’s love-apples.”
Gen 30:15
but she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband?
Would you take away my son’s love-apples too?” And Raḥĕl said, “Therefore let
him lie with you tonight for your son’s love-apples* (mandrake).” Gen 30:16 and when Yaʽaqoḇ came out of the field in the
evening, Lĕ’ah went out to meet him and said, “Do come in to me, for indeed, I
have hired you with my son’s love-apples.” And he lay with her that night. Gen 30:17 and Elohim listened to Lĕ’ah, and she conceived and
bore Yaʽaqoḇ a fifth son. Gen 30:18 and Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has given me my hire, because
I have given my female servant to my husband.” So she called his name
Yissasḵar. Gen 30:19 and Lĕ’ah conceived again and bore Yaʽaqoḇ a sixth
son. .................*Mandrake:a low plant mandragora officinarum of the nightshade
family, having a fleshy root, often forked (like a fork, having a double
meaning) and suppose to resemble man. It was therefore suppose to have animal
life and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly
narcotic (drug like opium also call devil’s apple). It is found in the
Mediterranean region.
Yehudah
had five brethren direct from his mother Leah.
Knowing that we have a good hint; by reading the parable of Lazarus (El’azar) in Luke 16 that
picture the condition of the divided house of Yehudah “the rich man” living in luxury like the Pharisee and El’azar (Lazarus) those of Yehudah who eat the crumbs like the
talmidin (disciples)......Here the hint: ---- Luk 16:28 for I
have five brothers, let him warn them, lest they also come to this place of
torture.’ (From Leah: Reuben, Shimeon, Levi, from Zilpah: Zebulon and Issachar)
Gen 30:20
and Lĕ’ah said, “Elohim has presented me with a good present. Now my husband is
going to dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his
name Zeḇulun. Gen 30:21 and afterward she bore a daughter, and called her
name Dinah. Gen 30:22 And Elohim
remembered Raḥĕl, and Elohim listened to her and opened her womb. Gen 30:23 and she conceived, and bore a son, and said, “Elohim
has taken away my reproach.” Gen 30:24 so she called his name Yosĕph, and said, “יהוה has added
to me another son.” Gen 30:25 and it came to be, when Raḥĕl
had borne Yosĕph, that Yaʽaqoḇ said to Laḇan, “Send me on my way, to go to my
own place and to my land. ………….; It is important to take note that at this point Benjamin is not yet born. There is also
a spiritual meaning with a powerful prophetic revelation of the last days in
the birth of Benjamin. Gen 30:26 “Give my wives and my children
for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you yourself know my service
which I have done for you.” Gen 30:27 and Laḇan said to him, “If I
have found favor in your eyes, please stay, for I have diligently watched that יהוה has blessed me for your sake.” Gen 30:28 and he said, “Name me your
wages, and I give it.”
Gen 30:29 so he said to him, “You know how
I have served you and how your livestock has been with me.
Gen 30:30 “for the little you had before I
came has increased greatly, and יהוה has blessed you since my coming. But now, when am I to provide
for my own house too?” Gen 30:31 and he said, “What do I give
you?” And Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Give me naught! If you do this for me, I shall again
feed and guard your flocks:
Gen 30:32 “Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the
speckled and spotted sheep, and all the black ones among the lambs, and the
spotted and speckled among the goats. And these shall be my wages. Gen 30:33 “and my righteousness shall answer for me in time to come, when
you come concerning my wages: every one that is not speckled and spotted among
the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen if it is with me.” Gen 30:34 and Laḇan said, “See, let it be
according to your word!”
Gen 30:35 and on that day he set aside the
male goats that were speckled and spotted, and all the female goats that were
speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the black
ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. Gen 30:36 and he put three days’ journey between himself and Yaʽaqoḇ, and
Yaʽaqoḇ fed the rest of Laḇan’s flocks. Gen 30:37 and Yaʽaqoḇ took for himself
rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips
in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. Gen 30:38 and he set the rods which he had
peeled before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the
flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink.
Gen 30:39 so the flocks conceived before
the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
Gen 30:40 and Yaʽaqoḇ separated the
lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the black in the
flock of Laḇan, but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them
with Laḇan’s flock.
Gen 30:41 and it came to be, whenever the strong ones of the flock conceived,
that Yaʽaqoḇ placed the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, so
they would conceive among the rods. Gen 30:42 but when the flocks were weak, he did not put them in, so the weak ones were
Laḇan’s and the strong ones Yaʽaqoḇ’s.
Gen 30:43 thus the man increased very
much, and had many flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and
donkeys. ……. Again we have inside this account a spiritual meaning Ya’acov been a picture of Messiah. In
the “sod” we see that the goats and sheep represent all kind of believers (Matt.
25:31-33).
Ya’acov peeled the poplar, almond
and chestnut’s rod. ….The speckled ones : Speecled :
Strong’s # H5348 נקד nâqôd ….BDB Definition: 1) speckled, marked with points . 1a) of sheep and goats Y’aacov chose those who had a “mark”, they were predestinated been “mark”! can you see, the spiritual meaning? Eph 1:5 having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Yehoshua the Messiah to himself, according to the good pleasure of
his will, Rom 8:29 for whom he (Elohim) did foreknow, he
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 moreover whom he did predestinate, them he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified. …..The rod
represents the human nature, the white represent purity and the water, the word
of Elohim. “they conceived when they came to
drink”. We could say they “multiply” when they came to drink
at the water, the word of life, a picture of the believers increasing in the
pagan world, taking the water of the Torah and become strong. Again the picture of the strong the one living by faith, the weak the one living outside in the
world here those scattered in the pagan world (Laban last days Babylon
Gen 31:11 “and the Messenger of Elohim
spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Yaʽaqoḇ.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’
Gen 31:12 “and He said, ‘Lift your eyes
now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and
mottled, for I have seen all that Laḇan is doing to you. Gen 31:13 ‘I am the Ěl of Bĕyth Ěl, where you anointed the standing column and
where you made a vow to Me. Now
rise up, get out of this land, and return to the land of your relatives.’ ” Gen 31:14 and Raḥĕl and Lĕ’ah answered and said to him, “Do we still have any
portion or inheritance in our father’s house? Gen 31:15 “are we not reckoned by him as
strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver. Gen 31:16 “for all the wealth which Elohim has taken from our father are ours and our
children’s. Now then, do whatever Elohim has told you.” Gen 31:17 so Yaʽaqoḇ rose and put his
sons and his wives on camels,
Gen 31:18 and he drove off all his
livestock and all his possessions which he had acquired, his property of the
livestock which he had acquired in Paddan Aram ,
to go to his father Yitsḥaq in the land
of Kenaʽan
Gen 31:19 and when Laḇan had gone to
shear his sheep, Raḥĕl stole the house
idols that were her father’s.
Ya’acov (the
picture of the coming Messiah) was told by יהוה to return to the
land of his fathers. We see again Abba יהוה unfolding His plan of salvation embedded in the life of
Ya’acov and fulfilled in יהושע Messiah at his return: -- Eze 34:11 ‘for thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I
Myself shall search for My sheep and seek them out. Eze 34:12 “as a shepherd
seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I shall seek
out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in
a day of cloud and thick darkness. Eze 34:13 “and I shall bring
them out from the peoples and gather them from the lands, and shall bring them
to their own land. And I shall feed them on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl, in the
valleys, and in all the dwellings of the land. Eze 34:14 “in good pasture I
shall feed them, and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Yisra’ĕl.
They shall lie there in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains
of Yisra’ĕl. Jer 23:3 “therefore I shall gather the remnant of My flock out of all the lands
where I have driven them, and shall bring them back to their fold. And they
shall bear and increase. Jer 23:4
“and I shall raise up shepherds over them, and they shall feed them.1 And they shall fear no more, nor be discouraged, nor
shall they be lacking,” declares יהוה. . Jer 23:5 “see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall raise
for Dawiḏ a Branch1 of righteousness (Messiah), and a Sovereign shall reign and
act wisely, and shall do right-ruling and righteousness in the earth. Footnote: 1Or
sprout. Jer 23:6 “in His days Yehuḏah shall be saved, and Yisra’ĕl dwell safely. And this is
His Name whereby He shall be called: ‘יהוה our Righteousness.’ Joh 10:14 “I am the good shepherd.1 and I know Mine, and Mine know Me,
Joh
10:15 even as the
Father knows Me, and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
Joh
10:16 “and other sheep (Ephraim) I have which are not
of this fold (house of Yahudah) – I have to bring them as well, and they
shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one shepherd( Leah and Rahel)
The adversary Laban (a picture of the last days Babylon
Now Elohim intervene to bring
back Ya’acov (Messiah) back to the
place of his fathers with wives Leah
and Rahel (House of Yehudah and House of Israel) We should mention that both Leah and Rahel chose to follow Ya’acov
on their own will. Ya’acov (Messiah) tells Leah
and Rahel that it is Elohim who has taken the flock
(believers) from their father’s hand (Babylon
Gen 31:21 and he fled with all that he
had. And he rose up and passed over the river, and headed toward the mountains
of Gilʽaḏ. Gen 31:22 and on the third day Laḇan was
told that Yaʽaqoḇ had fled. “and on the third day”. Here we have the last pictures
when Messiah will lead the assembly
to Elohim. The last days Babylon
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.
Rev 20:6 blessed and holy is he that hath part in the
first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be
priests of YHWH and of Messiah, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Rev 20:7 and
when the thousand years are expired (end
of the third day), Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, Rev 20:8 and
shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is
as the sand of the sea. ....HaSatan like Laban will try once again to deceive but
will not succeed. Three days equals three thousand years! HaSatan is loosed at the end of the third day since Messiah first
coming. Laban (The last days Babylon, the world system) will be
deceived by Ya’acov (Messiah) at his
departure with Leah and Rachel (Yehudah and Israel) and the flock, all the believers who walk in the Torah
according to Eph. 2:19. Verse 19 we see Rachel
stealing Laban’s idols, it could be
that it is a picture of those believers who have not been fully cleansed from
their false believe (the wheat and the tare!) but let us look at this idols and
may be the reason why Rahel stole
them, what is not obvious in the Torah and has been an open door for many fancy
interpretations! ….. Yasher 31:
40. and Rachel
stole her father's images, and she took them and she concealed them upon the
camel upon which she sat, and she went on. 41. and this is the manner of the images; in taking a man who is the first born and slaying him and taking
the hair off his head, and taking salt and salting the head and anointing
it in oil, then taking a small tablet of copper or a tablet of gold and writing
the name upon it, and placing the tablet under his tongue, and taking the head with the tablet under the tongue
and putting it in the house, and lighting up lights before it and bowing down
to it. 42. and at the time when they bow down to it, it speaketh to them in all matters that they ask of it, through the
power of the name which is written in it. 43. and some make them in the figures
of men, of gold and silver, and go to them in times known to them, and the
figures receive the influence of the stars, and tell them future things, and in
this manner were the images which Rachel stole from her father. 44. and Rachel stole these images which were her
father's, in order that Laban might not know through them where Jacob had gone.
45. and Laban came home and he asked concerning Jacob and his household,
and he was
not to be found, and Laban sought his images to know where Jacob
had gone, and could not find them, and he
went to some other images, and he inquired of them and they told him that Jacob
had fled from him to his father's, to the land of Canaan mount Gilead Asia in many countries it is tradition to consult the shamans (seers) or sorcerers of the
tribes. This practice is forbidden in the Torah.
Gen 31:23 Then he took his brothers with
him and pursued him for seven days’
journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilʽaḏ. Gen 31:24 but in a dream by night Elohim came to Laḇan the Aramean, and said
to him, “Guard yourself, that you do not speak to Yaʽaqoḇ either good or evil.”
Gen 31:25 Then Laḇan overtook Yaʽaqoḇ.
Now Yaʽaqoḇ had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laḇan with his
brothers pitched in the mountains of Gilʽaḏ. Gen 31:26 and Laḇan said to Yaʽaqoḇ,
“What have you done, that you have deceived me, and driven my daughters off
like captives taken with the sword? Gen 31:27 “Why did you flee secretly and
deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and
songs, with tambourine and lyre? Gen 31:28 “And you did not allow me to
kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have been foolish to do this. Gen 31:29 “It is in the power of my hand to do evil to you, but the Elohim of
your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Guard yourself, that you do not
speak to Yaʽaqoḇ either good or evil.’ Gen 31:30 “and now you have gone because
you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my mighty
ones?” Gen 31:31 and Yaʽaqoḇ answered and said to Laḇan, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you tear your daughters away from me.’
Gen 31:32 “With whomever you find your
mighty ones, do not let him live. In the presence of our brothers, see for
yourself what is with me and take it with you.” For Yaʽaqoḇ did not know that
Raḥĕl had stolen them. Gen 31:33 and Laḇan went into Yaʽaqoḇ’s
tent, and into Lĕ’ah’s tent, and into the tents of the two female servants, but
he did not find them. And he came out of Lĕ’ah’s tent and entered Raḥĕl’s
tent. Gen 31:34 now Raḥĕl had taken the house
idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laḇan searched
all about the tent but did not find them. Gen 31:35 and she said to her father, “Let
it not displease my master that I am unable to rise before you, for the way of
women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the house idols. Gen 31:36 and Yaʽaqoḇ was wroth and
contended with Laḇan, and Yaʽaqoḇ answered and said to Laḇan, “What is my
transgression? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? Gen 31:37 “Now that you have searched all
my goods what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my
brothers and your brothers, and let them decide between the two of us!
Gen 31:38 “These twenty years I have been
with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried their young, and
I have not eaten the rams of your sheep. Gen 31:39 “That which was torn by beasts I
did not bring to you, I myself bore the loss of it. You required it from my
hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Gen 31:40 “Thus I was! By day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night,
and my sleep fled from my eyes. Gen 31:41 “These twenty years I have been
in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six
years for your flock, and you have
changed my wages ten times.
Verse 31…..Yaʽaqoḇ answered and
said to Laḇan, “Because I was
afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you tear your daughters away from me.’ …..We see Ya’acov
saying to Laban that he was afraid
although יהוה told him to
leave. We may ask why then was he afraid? Ya’acov
represent the carnal nature, he has still to go a while before been called Israel
this should we mark every time we read the Torah. Does יהוה speak to Ya’acov or to Israel? If wee
follow this pattern we will see when יהוה speak to the carnal man Ya’acov or even his descendants
mentioned by the same name or by Israel
when speaking from the “man from above”. Knowing
that we can also read that יהושע will reign
over the physical descendants of Ya’acov,
Israel:
Luk 1:31 and, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yehoshua. Luk 1:32 He
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and YHWH Elohim
shall give unto him the throne of his father David: Luk 1:33 and
he shall reign over the house of
Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Luke speaks of the House of Ya’acov, the carnal man, thus notifying that יהושע will reign
over a physical Kingdom at the head of the House of Ya’acov. Wo is the House of Ya’acov is it not Israel?..... Verse 41, everything is again explained with numbers to make sure
that there is no error or human thoughts in the account. Twenty: is 10 x 2 or
two time the sum of all numbers, 7 x 2 is 14 or seven the number for divine
perfection on earth for each of the wife Leah
and Rachel, or the House of Yehudah and the House of Israel. And the
number 6 for in 6 days were everything created or the number of man. After six,
comes the Shabbat or “millennium”, thus bringing the all trials of Ya’acov to an end after twenty years
before going back to the House of his father Itzahk. Is it not a picture of how it will be when יהושע after two thousand years will bring the all house of Ya’acov back to the place given to their
fathers Abraham, Itzahk and Ya’acov? The final part of the chapter
reflects the carnal nature of Ya’acov
who has not yet fully overcome his carnal, becoming “Israel land
of Sĕʽir
Haftorah
Hos 12:13
and by a prophet יהוה brought Yisra’ĕl out of
Mitsrayim, and by a prophet he was watched over.
Hos 12:14 Ephrayim has provoked most
bitterly. So his Master left his blood-guilt on him, and repaid him for his
reproach. Hos 14:1
O Yisra’ĕl, return to יהוה your Elohim, for you have
stumbled by your crookedness.
Hos 14:2 Take words with you, and return
to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all
crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips1. Footnote: 1Heb.
13:15 - bulls, referring to offerings.
Hos 14:3 “Ashshur does not save us. We do
not ride on horses, nor ever again do we say to the work of our hands, ‘Our
mighty ones.’ For the fatherless finds compassion in You.” Hos 14:4 “I shall heal their backsliding,
I shall love them spontaneously, for My
displeasure has turned away from him.
Hos 14:5 “I shall be like the dew to
Yisra’ĕl. He shall blossom like the lily, and cast out his roots like Leḇanon.
Hos 14:6 “His branches shall spread, and
his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leḇanon. Hos 14:7 “Those who dwell under his
shadow shall return. They shall revive like grain, and blossom like the vine,
and become as fragrant as the wine of Leḇanon. Hos 14:8 “what more has Ephrayim to do
with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green cypress
tree, your fruit comes from Me.” Hos 14:9 who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of יהוה are straight, and the righteous
walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them.
The prophet Hoshea is calling the House of Israel,
Ephraim, back to יהוה. ….יהושע went also to Gilead
(Galid, the heap of witness) and found
Nathan’el and Israelite in whom is no deceit! We can ponder about the meaning,
seeing יהושע looking for those of the House of Israel the descendants
from Rahel.
When Nathan’el recognized יהושע to be the Son of Elohim,
יהושע gives two powerful declarations:
● 1st”Because I say to you, I saw
you under the fig tree” this referring to the prophet Micah:
Mic 4:4 but each one shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, with no one to make
them afraid, for the mouth of יהוה of hosts has spoken. Mic 4:5 for all the peoples walk, each
one in the name of his mighty one, but we walk in the Name of יהוה our Elohim forever and ever
●2nd. יהושע refers to the account of Ya’acov’s dream to tell
Nathan’el that the middle Pillar is now there and the way to heaven is now
open.
Joh 1:43
on the following day יהושע wished to go to Galil, and He
found Philip and said to him, “Follow Me.”
Joh 1:44 and Philip was from Bĕyth Tsaiḏa, the city of Andri
and Kĕpha. Joh 1:45 Philip found Nethanĕ’l and said to him, “We have found
Him whom Mosheh wrote of in the Torah, and the prophets: יהושע of Natsareth – the son of
Yosĕph.” Joh 1:46 and Nethanĕ’l said to him, “Is it possible for any good matter to come out of Natsareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Joh 1:47 יהושע saw Nethanĕ’l coming toward Him, and said of him, “See, truly a Yisra’ĕlite, in whom is no deceit!” Joh 1:48 Nethanĕ’l said to Him, “From where do You know me?” יהושע answered and said to him,
“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Joh 1:49 Nethanĕ’l answered and said to Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of Elohim! You
are the Sovereign of Yisra’ĕl!” Joh 1:50 יהושע answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig
tree,’ do you believe? Greater than that you shall see” Joh 1:51 and He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, from now on you shall see
the heaven opened, and the messengers of Elohim ascending and descending upon
the Son of Aḏam.” 
