samedi 16 novembre 2013

3 Parsha Lech L’cha – Go for (toward) thyself

3 Parsha Lech L’cha – Go for thyself - B’reshit 12:1-17:27
YeshaYahu 40:27-41:16, Romans 4:1-25, ; Galatians 5:1-6
Daniel ben Ya’acov Israel

With this Parasha we are going to study Abraham’s life and dig unto his life to see what the reason of this study is. The Torah doesn’t give a lot of details concerning the life of Abraham in his first years before he reach the age of seventy. This brought many Christians scholars to speculation and false teaching. We have already seen with the first parsha b’reshit that the Torah was given with Adam who came from Elohim. In traditional Judaism it is taught that seven things came with Adam, one of it was the Torah. We get confirmation in the fact that Elohim told Cain about sin and sin cannot exist without the Torah, because sin is the transgression of the Torah (1st Yochan.3:4) ! Further we have seen also that Hebel (Abel) brought a better sacrifice, here also according to the Torah.
In the Torah Abraham’s story start when יהוה say to Abram to “Go for thyself” or “Go out” “Lech L’cha” in Hebrew. We don’t have any information in the Torah concerning his former life and why Elohim has chosen him. From the first parasha we learn that sin call for judgment! Abram life is an important study to understand our own life. We can divide Abram’s life as following:
  1. Abram call.
  2. Abram promise
  3. Abram struggle
  4. Abram become Abraham
This call is for all of us who want to follow Messiah! Abram was 75 years old (B’reshit 12:4) when he left Haran as we are going to read, he was raised in the tent of Shem and Eber from his youth and was well acquainted with the knowledge of one Elohim, one creator, pure and impure, and all justice and judgment (B’reshit 18:19) where we learn the premises of D’varim 6:6-7. Christianity will tell you as they do many times, that יהוה is Omnipresent, Omniscient and this is why he could call Abram: “He knew his heart”! Is it true?
Yes it is true that יהוה knew the heart of Abram the same as he knows our heart because He is the one who search the heart and try the reins of every man to reward them after their deeds (Yrmeyahu 17:10), but there is another reason to have chosen Abram.
Knowing now the context we read the Torah with an open mind. It becomes easy to understand why יהוה chose Abram after having chosen Noach and his household Abram knew יהוה from his youth and walked according to the teaching from Noach and Shem his son. ----- Gen 12:1 and יהוה said to Aḇram, “Go yourself out of your land, from your relatives and from your father’s house, to a land which I show you. ………
In another midrash I have explained that in order to work in somebody’s life, יהוה will require “separation”, set apartness or to be “Qadosh”, and this is only possible when we remove ourselves form our former way of life and cut every relation to those who were our “friends, family members, even children” if they reject יהוהs way. Are you ready?
Remember that we shall always try to see the “Pardes”, the four ways of interpretation in order to see the “secret” or “mind of Elohim”! For we have the mind of יהושע (1st Corint.2:16). The Prophet YeshaYahu says that Elohim speaks the End from the beginning (Isa.chap. 47). The Hebrew word used for “beginning” is “B’reshit”: the first, in place, time, order or rank. There is no coincidence with יהושע everything take place according to His own will and purpose. This is also truth with our own life. If any person has told you that you’re and “accident” in your parent’s life, I am sorry to say that’s a lie. Everything in life happen because it is יהוהs will.----- 2Ti 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a set-apart calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and favour which was given to us in Messiah יהושע before times of old, The KJV write: “before the world began”.
Gen 12:2 “And I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing! ……. The call is always with a promise, for us it is salvation through Messiah יהושע if we endure to the end...........
Here יהוה make the promise to Abram to make him to become a great nation and that he will become a blessing! Just read what we can found in the book of Hebrew: ---- Heb 11:8 by belief, Aḇraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. Heb 11:9 by belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and Yaʽaqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise,
Heb 11:10 for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim.
Heb 11:11 by belief also, Sarah herself was enabled to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, because she deemed Him trustworthy who had promised. Heb 11:12 and so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore. Heb 11:13 In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.
What is with the other “fathers of faith”: ----- Heb 11:39 and having obtained witness through the belief, all these did not receive the promise..................
Abraham and the others didn’t receive the promise! This is very amazing to read this in the book of Hebrew. Is Sha’ul or the one writing this book wrong? No!
Hebrew tells us that they saw the promise from a distance but obtained witness through belief.
Now it will be יהוה who will have to complete His promise to Abraham and all who followed him (included Noach and his family). At it seems to be confusing but if we consider that יהושע was the First raise from among the death we will understand: יהוה will have to raise Abram, Itzach, Ya’acov, Noach, Shem, Eber, King David and many others who were born before יהושע in order for them to see the fulfilment of the promise. Can you see? The promise is still valid and will be plain when our forefathers see the Fullness of it.
How it is with us? ---- Mar 10:29 יהושע said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the Good News,
Mar 10:30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, everlasting life. …….. We walk by faith not by sight, nothing has changed brothers and sisters, we also have the hope of eternal life and through faith in Messiah יהושע have obtained the promise. We will see the fulfillment of it with our forefathers when יהושע will come to establish יהוהs Kingdom on earth. When we hear יהוהs call we are almost all come from Christianity, the place where יהוה fish us. From this point on, we are like Abram, not knowing where we are going, finish the comfort zone among so call Christian’s family. Now we will be taught to walk by faith alone and to trust יהוה in our everyday life. Finish the flawed teaching of false pastors, the teacher is now the Ruach HaQodesh who will lead us into the truth, the Torah.
Unlike Abram who was raised in the truth from his youth, we will have to renew our mind (Rom. 12:2) to escape the world’s system. The choice is still ours either to follow the Ruach HaQodesh or to fall into the hands of the Beast! ----- Gen 12:3 “And I shall bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you. and in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed.” ………
The Hebrew word for “bless” is the word “barak” which mean: to kneel down” or to come closer in order to fulfill the promise. This word has been misused by Christianity which has turned it in a “money machine” used by “G-d” for those who pay “tithe” to their pastors! Do not be blinded Elohim is not a respecter of person and His blessing is not “money”. I don’t say that Elohim will not make money come into your hands, but he is more interested to restore our soul and make us fruitful in good works (i.e. give money to other!). יהוה is here telling Abram: I will care for you in every way and those who despise you or reject you I will curse. We should again go to the Hebrew in order to understand. The word “curse” in our understanding has more to do with some kind of evil things done by יהוה. This is what you will see especially in Africa where people go to the “marabou” to put “curses” on somebody. This is not יהוה, but the forces of darkness. The word for curse is the Hebrew word:”arar” which means: abhor, or hate. In other word יהוה say to Abram, I will kneel down to those who will kneel down to you, who will be favorable to you and I will abhor and hate those who hate you. Those who will help Abraham’s descendant will receive help from יהוה and the other will be hated and abhorred.
Gen 12:4 So Aḇram left, as יהוה had commanded him, and Lot went with him. And Aḇram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Ḥaran. ……………Once again we will see what יהוה has embedded in the Torah. The gemetria or study of the number will show us that Abram was called at the appointed time. He was 75 years old. Seven plus Five equals twelve. 7 the number for divine perfection on earth, we could also say יהוהs perfect will on earth; 5 the number for Torah, the five books Moshe and also the number for “grace” (Chesed) as it is taught in the study of the “Tree of Life” in the esoteric teaching. Twelve יהוהs number for divine government on earth. ------ Mar 10:29 יהושע said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the Good News, Mar 10:30 who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, everlasting life.
This is a place to meditate and build our faith on יהוה and not on our surrounding which is familiar to us.
Have you not receive brothers and sisters and mothers and children since the day you are in Messiah יהושע or do you still make difference between the children you receive from יהוה and those from the brethren! Have we not all received new mothers in our older sisters? We can think about that! ----- Gen 12:5 and Aḇram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the beings whom they had acquired in Ḥaran, and they set out for the land of Kenaʽan. And they came to the land of Kenaʽan.
Abram took Sarai the daughter of his older brother Haran who died under Nimrod’s violence. Lot was also Haran’s son and nephew of Abram. In other words, Abram married his cousin Sarai. Haran; Abram’s brother died burned, when Nimrod had him thrown with Abram in fire where a messenger of יהוה came to deliver him. Haran died because of lack of faith! They left Haran (read Charan: Karan). The Hebrew word “Haran” means: parched, and comes from the Hebrew word Charan (read Karar), to glow, literally to melt, burn, dry up or figuratively to incite to passion. This is very significant as we know that יהוה told Abram to leave this place where he couldn’t live his faith and worship Him. How is it with us today? Is it different with our family and our friends who reject יהוה and יהושע to follow their own ways?
Abram took Sarai! The word meaning here comes from the Hebrew word “Sar” which means: dominative”, a head person. Later she will be called “Sarah” which means: a mistress, a princess, Sarai also will undergo a change in her life in order to become this princess. 1Pe 3:6 as Sarah obeyed Aḇraham, calling him master, of whom you became children, doing good, and not frightened by any fear. .......
Don’t be chocked we have all one Master; Messiah יהושע and one Elohim יהוה Zebaoth. It is not bad to have a Master. Another meaning for Sarai according to ISBE (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia):
The former name appears to be derived from the same root as Israel, if, indeed, Gen_32:28 is intended as an etymology of Israel. “She that strives,” a contentious person, is a name that might be given to a child at birth (compare Hos_12:3, Hos_12:4, of Jacob), or later when the child's character developed; in Gen_16:6 and Gen_21:10 a contentious character appears. Yet comparison with the history of her husband's name warns us not to operate solely upon the basis of the Hebrew language. Sarai was the name this woman brought with her from Mesopotamia. On the other hand there can be little doubt that the name Sarah, which she received when her son was promised, means “princess,” for it is the feminine form of the extremely common title sar, used by the Semites to designate a ruler of greater or lesser rank. In the verse following the one where this name is conferred, it is declared of Sarah that “kings of peoples shall be of her” (Gen_17:16).
Today women are taught to live on their own to be emancipated, to have their own way of life. The result of it is depravity and destruction of the family. Modern countries promote liberty for women. Their independency has become an instrument in the hands of those who want to destroy the remaining belief in one “G-d” to enforce humanism which is a mix of Greek stoicism belief defining the law of nature as reason and Epicureans who follow after hedonism (pleasure of life).
Emancipate: To set free from the power of another, to free from any controlling influence, to set free from bondage, to give freedom (Everest dictionary) .This movement started in the 60’s.Today many laws encourage this life style for women.
---- Sha’ul warns the Corinthians against the Wisdom of the Greeks: ---- 1Co 1:19 for it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 1Co 2:5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of YHWH. 1Co 2:6 howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
---- Corinth: A celebrated city of the Peloponnesus, capital of Corinthian the land of the Phoenicians, when Athens, Thebes, Sparta and Argos fell away, Corinth came to the front again as the wealthiest and most important city in Greece;(ISB)
Gen 12:6 and Aḇram passed through the land to the place of Sheḵem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time the Kenaʽanites were in the land. Gen 12:7 and יהוה appeared to Aḇram and said, “To your seed I give this land.” And he built there an altar to יהוה, who had appeared to him. Abram goes to Kanaan a land given to him by Elohim. Kanaanite were idolaters, descendants from Kanaan the son of Ham, son of Noach. In B’reshit 9:25, Noach put a “curse” on Kanaan. Read/ ----- Zec 14:21 and every pot in Yerushalayim and Yehuḏah shall be set-apart to יהוה of hosts. And all those who slaughter shall come and take them and cook in them. And there shall no longer be a merchant (Kanaanite: trafficker) in the House of יהוה of hosts, in that day…….. I have explained in the parsaha Noach what happened to the descendants of Ham one of Noach’s sons. Nevertheless, curse is removed for all those who are in Messiah יהושע. The world today ignores the truth, and therefore follows its own doctrine.
Abram’s life influenced other people life that came to join themselves to him. How it is with us, are we also a good image to others, are we bringing people back to the Torah?
--- Gen 12:8 and from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to יהוה, and called on the Name of יהוה. ……. Beyth’El on the west and Ai on the east: The word “ay” written Ayin,Yod and meaning a heap or ruin coming from the word “avah” to crook, lit., or fig., do amiss, to make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, do wickedly.
On the west Beyth’El, “House of El”. If we look what later happen to the House of Israel, we will see that they will be scattered to the west:
----- Psa 103:12 As far as east (Ai) is from west (Beth’El), So far has He removed our transgressions from us........
This verse tells us that as far those who commit iniquity (transgression, rejection of the Torah) is far from Beyth’El, the House of El, so far as He (Elohim) removes our transgression:
----- Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.”1Footnote: 1Dt. 21:23.
Gal 3:14 in order that the blessing of Aḇraham might come upon the nations in Messiah יהושע, to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief. Gal 3:26 for you are all sons of Elohim through belief in Messiah יהושע. Gal 3:27 for as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah.
Gal 3:28 There is not Yehuḏite nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah יהושע. Gal 3:29 and if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs according to promise…….
The Test:
--- Gen 12:9 and Aḇram set out, continuing toward the South.
Gen 12:10 and a scarcity of food came to be in the land, and Aḇram went down to Mitsrayim to dwell there, for the scarcity of food was severe in the land………….Something happen to Abram which was not possible to calculate or to plan. Does יהוה felt short? Just read: ----- Luk 4:1 and יהושע, being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, returned from the Yardĕn and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, Luk 4:2 being tried for forty days by the devil. And in those days He did not eat at all, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. ………….יהוה try his people. If he did with Abram and Sarai, as He did also to יהושע do you think that he will do with us? Of course he will, so don’t be surprised when things happen that do not go as you expect. Pray and wait upon יהוה. -------- Gen 12:11 and it came to be, when he was close to entering Mitsrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See, I know that you are a fair woman to look at.
Gen 12:12-20 “and it shall be, when the Mitsrites see you, that they shall say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they shall kill me, but let you live...
Conclusion: If we are doing right in the sight of Elohim according to His will, in time of distress, He will hear our prayers!
Chapter 13.
-----Gen 13:1 and Aḇram went up from Mitsrayim into the South, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him. ....... Abram journey toward the south: In esoteric thoughts, the south is on the right side the side of mercy (chesed) opposite to the north the side of strength and judgement (gewurah) The tabernacle will be built on the east where the Mercy seat will take place: ---Num 3:38 And those who were to camp before the Dwelling Place on the east, before the Tent of Meeting, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons, guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕl. But the stranger who came near was to be put to death. ............ If the tabernacle is on the East, the opposite is the west, the entrance of the Tabernacle through the inner court. With this in mind we can read again: ----- Psa 103:12 As far as east is from west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us...........Can you see how promises come to us? Abram went to Mitzrayim, Egypt a microcosm the world today. The Torah’s frame is a representation of what happen in the all world today. We know that Egypt is a synonym for oppression it was a shadow of the world today as we understand the scripture in our days. יהוה has chosen a place to make us understand what will be in the “later days”, as Ya’acov will later tells his children and later Moshe. ---- 49:1 and Yaʽaqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that I declare to you what is to befall you in the last days
The world system is the place for the natural food, and also at the same time a place of immorality.
........Pharaoh is a picture of the ruler of this world today “g-d on earth” as he was called, the ultimate ruler, the lawless one. If we remember the parsha B’reshit, we saw that the woman is a picture of the “called out” assembly, the House of Ya’acov Luke 1:33 see also Eph.5:31-32 . Whenever the rulers of this world will touch the “called out” (Ekklesias) or “Assembly” Elohim will plague them. -----
Psa 105:14 He allowed no one to oppress them, and He reproved sovereigns for their sakes, Psa 105:15 Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no evil.”..................In chapter 12:10 it is written: “and Abram went down” it is here written in chapter 13:1 “and Abram went up”. This has a very important meaning as it can be also found before the children of Israel enter the Promise land, they will have to “go down”. In Hebrew thoughts to go down means: to humble ourselves to יהוהs will, to go up is to be elevated by יהוה. Read: ----- 1Pe 5:6 Humble yourselves (go down), then, under the mighty hand of Elohim, so that He exalts (to go up) you in due time,.......
I found another explanation given by Nathan Lawrence: The rabbis note the significance of this passage in that one always speaks of “going up” or “making aliyah” (i.e., ascending) to the land of Israel and Jerusalem. Going up from what to what spiritually speaking? Here the country Abram is leaving represents what spiritually? Where does he end up? What does Beth-el mean? Doesn’t this speak of the spiritual journey each of us is on as we leave the spiritual servitude, bondage and slavery of the world, flesh and the devil seeking to “dwell in the house of YHVH forever” as David states in Psalm 23:6? ------
Psa 23:6 surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of YHWH forever. ---------
Gen 13:2 and Aḇram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. Gen 13:3 and he went on his journey from the South as far as Bĕyth Ěl, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bĕyth Ěl and Ai, Gen 13:4 to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Aḇram called on the Name of יהוה. Gen 13:5 now Lot, who went with Aḇram, also had flocks and herds and tents. Gen 13:6 and the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together. Gen 13:7 and there was strife between the herdsmen of Aḇram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. And at that time the Kenaʽanites and the Perizzites dwelt in the land. Gen 13:8 Then Aḇram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. Gen 13:9 “Is not all the land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I go to the left.” Gen 13:10 and Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of the Yardĕn, that it was well watered everywhere – before יהוה destroyed Seḏom and Amorah – like the garden of יהוה, like the land of Mitsrayim as you go toward Tsoʽar. Gen 13:11 so Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Yardĕn, and Lot moved east. Thus they separated from each other, Gen 13:12 Aḇram dwelling in the land of Kenaʽan, and Lot dwelling in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent as far as Seḏom. ……..
Lot walked by sight: -----Let us see first the meaning of the name according to:
Strong’s:H3876 לוט lôṭ lote The same as H3875; Lot, Abraham’s nephew: - Lot…..H3875 From H3874; a veil: - covering………
Was Lot blind? Do you remember what Shaul says: ----- 2Co 3:15 but even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. 2Co 3:16 nevertheless when it shall turn to YHWH, the veil shall be taken away.
There was a conflict between Lot and his uncle Abram. Lot followed Abram because he knew that his father’s brother was right, he didn’t had the maturity of Abram. When it came to separate, he chose the easy way, the place he could see prosperity, he journey toward the East. Remember the east and west are opposite. Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom. Sodom is known for immorality. Read B’reshit 19:4-5. Sodomite today is accepted in the Society, even protected by laws against discrimination.
Lot represents those who live by sight and thus will run into trouble while
Abram is the pardigm of the perfect faith, following יהוה Elohim and His TORAH. Lot knew that Abram was right but He chose the place were he can see the abundance. Not so Abram, he doesn’t care for that knowing that יהוה will provide. We will see that Lot will be saved from destruction because of Abram. We should think about this situation. What will happen with those from among Christianity who will acknowledge being Abraham’s seed in יהושע but still walking their own ways?
Mat 5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. ............Do not think it is out of context. At this time יהושע came to restore the truth to the Yehudin who were following the tradition of man (Pharisee/rabies). This principle is still valid today, for those who want to teach others. ----- Gen 13:13 But the men of Seḏom were evil and sinned before יהוה, exceedingly so. Gen 13:14 And after Lot had separated from him, יהוה said to Aḇram, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, …………………..יהוה gives the promise to Abram, only after he has been separated from Lot. How it is with us, are we still among our brethren from Christianity who rebel against יהוהs Torah asking for material well being, or having let everything in יהוהs hand trusting him for our best?
Lot will become the father of: Ammon and Moab who later become enemies from the Children of Israel!
Gen 13:15 for all the land which you see I shall give to you and your seed forever. Gen 13:16 “And I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted. Gen 13:17 “Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
This promise 15-17 is still valid today and the descendant have become like the dust of the earth. Unfortunately most of them do not know where they are coming from, and for the majority “they don’t care”, they are to busy with “money making”. Cor 4:4 in whom the mighty one (g-d) of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the Good News of the esteem (glory) of Messiah, who is the likeness of Elohim, does not shine on them. Gen 13:18 So Aḇram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, which are in Ḥeḇron, and built an altar there to יהוה. ……….. Abram dwelt in the plain of Mamre. In Hebrew the word “mamre” comes from the word “mara” which means to rebel, through the idea of maltreating, to whip, be filthy, lift us self! Very interesting as we are going to see in the next chapter Abram is on the way to be called “Abraham”. He will change is nature. יהושע says: ”you must be born from above” (Yochanan 3:3,7)………
Chapter 14
Gen 14:1 and it came to be in the days of Amraphel sovereign of Shinʽar, Aryoḵ sovereign of Ellasar, Keḏorlaʽomer sovereign of Ěylam, and Tiḏʽal sovereign of Goyim, Gen 14:2 that they fought against Bera sovereign of Seḏom, Birsha sovereign of Amorah (Gomohra), Shinaḇ sovereign of Aḏmah, Shem’ĕḇer sovereign of Tseḇoyim, and the sovereign of Bela, that is Tsoʽar. Gen 14:3 all these joined together in the Valley of Siddim, that is the Salt Sea.
Gen 14:4 Twelve years they served Keḏorlaʽomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ...... Therefore in Hebrew gemetria, the number 13 is the number for rebellion. Gen 14:5 and in the fourteenth year Keḏorlaʽomer and the sovereigns that were with him came and smote the Repha’im in Ashteroth Qarnayim, and the Zuzim in Ḥam, and the Ěmites in Shawĕh Qiryathayim, Gen 14:6 and the Ḥorites in their mountain of Sĕʽir, as far as Ěl Paran, which is by the wilderness. Gen 14:7 and they turned back and came to Ěn Mishpat that is Qaḏĕsh, and smote all the country of the Amalĕqites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Ḥatsetson Tamar. Gen 14:8 and the sovereign of Seḏom, and the sovereign of Amorah (Gomohra), and the sovereign of Aḏmah, and the sovereign of Tseḇoyim, and the sovereign of Bela, that is Tsoʽar, went out and joined together in battle in the Valley of Siddim, Gen 14:9 against Keḏorlaʽomer sovereign of Ěylam, and Tiḏʽal sovereign of Goyim, and Amraphel sovereign of Shinʽar, and Aryoḵ sovereign of Ellasar – four sovereigns against five. Gen 14:10 and the Valley of Siddim had many tar pits. and the sovereigns of Seḏom and Amorah (Gomohra) fled and fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains. Gen 14:11 and they took all the goods of Seḏom and Amorah (Gomohra), and all their food, and went away. Gen 14:12 and they took Lot, Aḇram’s brother’s son who dwelt in Seḏom, and his goods, and left. ........
Amraphel (verse 1) was descendant from Noach through Ham, Cush, Nimrod.. They made war with 5 kings:
Zoar= Hebrew Tzoar: to be small, ignoble
Shmeber: name of pinion, illustrious
Sinab: from the Hebrew word “shana” to alter, change. and Besha and Bera.
These 5 kings from Sodom and Gomorrah rebelled in the thirteen year. These wicked kings joined themselves to back Chedor’laomer a Perser king descendant from Canaan descendant from Cush descendant from Ham son of Noach. ---- Gen 14:13 and one who had escaped came and informed Aḇram the Heḇrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ the Amorite, brother of Eshkol and brother of Anĕr, and they had a covenant with Aḇram.
Gen 14:14 And when Aḇram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. ........
Look how was the proportion in the battle Abram entered:
In Gematria (value of numbers) 318 the number of Abram servants: -- Three hundred = 50 x 6 + 6 x 3.
50 is the number 10x 5 or the sum of all numbers and the number for Torah the 5 books Moshe together. We can say that this number represent a decision taken according to the Torah or divine instruction with men (number 6) submitting not to the natural. The number 3 relate to what is solid, real, and complete: past, present and future, thought words and deeds. Three denote divine perfection. The number 3 is part of creation that was in three steps: mineral, vegetal and animal.
Remember that man without יהוהs Ruach is like an animal!
318 the number from the gematria for Eliezer ( helped of El/G-d)in Hebrew:אליעז ר

Counting the value of the letters Alef 1, Lamed 30, yod 10, Ayin 70 , zain 7 , and resh 200 we have the sum: 318.
We found another example in the book of John (Yochanan )21:11, 153 fishes. Which erveal that this practice was well known in the first century, pointing to the work of Yeshua as a Master builder. I will explained later in the book of Shemot/Exodus.

Gen 14:15-18.
Christians who read only the plain text refers to him as to be Messiah the pre-incarnate Messiah, because of Hebrew 7:1 “without father, without mother, without descend, having neither beginning nor end, but made like the sons of Elohim.
This is a poor understanding. The difficulty to understand is to know if the “without father ….’ Is literal or to see this title given to יהושע is a heavenly on in opposition to the levitical priesthood which came from father and mother, all descendants from Levi son of Ya’acov (i.e Moshe and Aaron)? The meaning of “without beginning and without end is because it is a priesthood from above not earthly.
Verse 20. Abram paid tithe to Malkitsedek. Some have interpreted that this is the proof we shall pay tithe. Here the Hebrew word is “ma’asrah” the tenth part of the spoil and nothing else. The same word when translated “tithe” is in regards to יהוהs commands to bring the first fruits of the ground, here the spoil is to be regarded in connection with the word “ma’asrah”, tenth”! Ten is a divine number used by יהוהs to represent the sum of all numbers. In this case it has nothing to do with the Levitical priesthood, if not the allegorical meaning has written in Hebrew 7:9-10. This is not to be taken literally as it is mentioned by the writer of Hebrew (verse 9) “that I may say so”: It is an allegory made by Sha’ul because Levi will descend from Abraham though his father Ya’acov!
Gen 14:21- 24
The chapter 15 recalls the confirmation of the promise, a “brit” as we have the “brit Ha Chadsah” falsely called “new testament”. Abram complain to יהוה that he has only Eliezer (El will help) as heir, but יהוה tell him that his heir will come out of his own bowel and his descendants will be like the stars of heavens.
Do you know how many descendants from Abram are under heaven? Look at the stars in the night. Unfortunately most of them, ignore it, or reject it.
---- Gen 15:1 after these events the word of יהוה came to Aḇram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Aḇram. I am your shield, your reward is exceedingly great.” Psa 3:3 but You, O יהוה, are a shield for me, My esteem, and the One lifting up my head.
Psa 84:11 for יהוה Elohim is a sun and a shield; יהוה gives favour and esteem; He withholds no good matter from those who walk blamelessly. Psa 91:4 He covers you with His feathers, and under His wings you take refuge; His truth is a shield and armour. Pro 30:5 Every Word of Eloah is tried1; He is a shield to those taking refuge in Him. Psa 119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I have waited for Your word.
Gen 15:2-6
Sha’ul speaks of this passage from the Torah when explaining in his epistle the true faith to the believers in Rome
Rom 4:1 what, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to the flesh? Rom 4:2 for if Aḇraham was declared right by works, he has ground for boasting, but not before Elohim. Rom 4:3 for what does the Scripture say? “Aḇraham believed Elohim and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.”
Gal 3:6 Even so Aḇraham “did believe Elohim, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness.” The book of Galatians speaks about the justification by faith and not by work. This is the mean topic of this epistle. Christianity has changed it to make it a book against the Torah. Only those who reject the Torah will come to this conclusion. I recommend to read the book on Galatians from Abiv Mordechai.. Gal 3:7 Know, then, that those who are of belief are sons of Aḇraham.........
This is the conclusion of the matter.
Gen 15:7 and He said to him, “I am יהוה, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.” ………………
The meaning of the name Ur gives us a better understanding:
Ur: Strong’s #H218 אוּר 'ûr oor The same as H217; Ur, a place in Chaldea; also an Israelite: - Ur.
H217 From H215; flame, hence (in the plural) the East (as being the region of light): - fire, light. See also H224.


Gen 15:8-19
This sacrifice is Torah based only clean animals are part of the sacrifice. Later Moshe will put it in written form. Verse 11 the fowls represent the demoniacs forces trying to steal the covenant from Abram.
Read: Eph 6:12 Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the heavenlies. .................
The battle is in our mind, the place where the forces of darkness try to steal the promise from us by lying. The renewing of our mind (Rom.12:2) by studying the Torah and prayers makes us strong to withstand these powers. Verse 13 Elohim tells Abram that his seed shall be “stranger in a land (Egypt).
Read : 1Pe 1:1 Kĕpha, an emissary of יהושע Messiah, to the chosen, strangers of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,
Kefa write to the strangers. Elohim say that He will judge Egypt (World). The land given to the seed of Abram is from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates which is today in Iraq, and ten nations will be eradicated for their wickedness.
Read:
---- Deu 12:29 “When יהוה your Elohim does cut off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, Deu 12:30 guard yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones (g-ds), saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones (g-ds)? And let me do so too.’1 Footnote: 1See also 18:9, Lev. 18:3, Jer.10:2, Ezek. 11:12 & 20:32, Eph. 4:17, and 1 Peter 4:3
Deu 12:31 “Do not do so to יהוה your Elohim, for every abomination which יהוה hates they have done to their mighty ones, for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones(g-ds).
Chapter 16. --- In this chapter we come to the great change of Abram and his wife Sarai. They have been walking with יהוה many years. For Abram since he was three years old, he has been trained by Noach and his son Shem and Eber in divine way. As believers our journey brings us to a change also until we become “born from above”. Saraï take initiative and give Abram her maid Hagar to him. It was tradition in this time that when a woman was barren that she took her maid and gave her to her husband in order to insure the descendant. At the birth, the maid sat on the laps of the wife and the child coming from between her legs became the heir if he was a boy. Hagar was an Egyptian woman taught in the way of יהוה by Sarai. Remember Saraï means “dominative”. It looks like the “church” trying to tell Elohim what he should do. They know about the promise but look at the natural and think: “on this way it’s not possible, let us tell “g-d” what he should do! Hagar conceived and as she bares a son Ishma’El meaning El shall hear. She though that now Abram will despise his wife because she gave a son to him. This was an error and Abram told Saraï to do whatever she thinks to be right.
Gen 16:1 and Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, had borne him no child. And she had a Mitsrite female servant whose name was Haḡar.
Gen 16:2-15
Gen 16:16 And Aḇram was eighty-six years old when Haḡar bore Yishmaʽĕl to Aḇram. …….Eighty Six in Hebrew gemetria is 8 x 10 + 6 or eight for supernatural plus ten the sum of all sum and six for the action of man. Have you seen today many men making children at the age of 86? Most of them are dead!
Gen 17:1 and it came to be when Aḇram was ninety-nine years old, that יהוה appeared to Aḇram and said to him, “I am Ěl Shaddai – walk before Me and be perfect……….Yehoshua speak the same way:
Mat 5:48 Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect.
Gen 17:2-27……….יהוה El Shaddai the All Mighty One has changed the name of Abram into Abraham and of Sarai by adding both the letter “he” or “h” in English, to their name. This letter is the second letter from YHWH’s name. The letter “He” is the fifth in the Aleph-Tov and the gametria of this letter point to the Torah which are the five books Moshe. It is important to understand that it is יהוה who make the promise to Abram to make him the father of many nations, the position of Abram is only to believe what Elohim told him! How is it with us today, do we believe all the promises יהוה has given us in Messiah יהושע? Both will now come into the position יהוה wanted them to be in order to become the Head of יהוהs people. It took 25 years for Abram and Sarai to be transformed and be called Abraham and Sarah since the time they left their family. How long will it taken for you and me? Especially Christians who reject the Torah? Read:
---- Rom 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship. Rom 12:2 and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.
Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.............. Elohim give the covenant of circumcision to Abraham on the eight days. Eight is the number which indicates “behind the natural” for everything in creation was finished in 7 days. Eight represent what is behind man understanding what man cannot grasp in the natural: Eternal life, “Olam aba”. We do not need circumcision in order to be saved as some requires in Acts 15:1, יהושע bring us back to the pure faith of Abraham and the circumcision is a sign of the covenant, a sign of a complete devotion to Elohim. Moshe gave the circumcision to the children of Israel and they rejected it Read:
Jos 5:5 for all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised...
Ishmael was circumcised has he was already 13, the age of rebellion. All the household of Abraham was also circumcised. Today Arabs are circumcised, bearing the tradition coming from Ishmael bearing also the rebellion of Ishamel. In Judaism today, boys are circumcised on the eight days after birth, while Arabs circumcise their children between the age of 5 and 13 years. Abraham was 100 years old when Itzak was born. The Gametria for 100 is 10x10 the perfection of perfection from the sum of all numbers. We could call it the CONCLUSION of יהוהs promise for Abraham’s life. Are we today like Abraham; ready and willing to let everything behind us, father and mother, family relatives and friends in order to follow the One who has called us in יהושע Messiah? Let us pray and check our life to become like our forefather Abraham and Sarah. Abram has become AbraHam, Sarai has become SaraH, and both have gone through the process of sanctification. What is with you and me, are we following יהוה letting him doing what He want? The same process will also be with Ya’acov to become Israel. Nathan Lawrence quotes the Psalm 37 and calls some verses: process of sanctification and spiritual maturity.
Psa 37:4 and delight yourself in יהוה, and let Him give you the desires of your heart. Psa 37:5 Commit your way to יהוה, and trust in Him, and He does it. Psa 37:6 and He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your right-ruling as midday. Psa 37:7 Rest in יהוה, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man doing wicked devices. Psa 37:23 the steps of a man are ordered by יהוה, and He delights in his way. Psa 37:24 though he falls he is not cast down, for יהוה is supporting his hand.
Haftorah

The Soncino Edition Pentateuch introduces its commentary to this Haftorah portion as follows:
The Sedrah [Parashah] opens with the call of Abraham and [YHVH] bidding, “Be thou a blessing” unto all the families of the earth. Such, likewise declares the great Prophet of Consolation,is the Divine charge to the Children of Abraham. Israel, suffering in Exile, might well despair of the fulfillment of the Divine promise, nay, even of God’s remembrance of that promise. The Prophet stills such questionings. In God, Israel has the source of inexhaustible strength. The everlasting God will not fail to carry through His great purposes for mankind through Israel His servant, the child of “Abraham, My friend.” How firmly do you believe this? When the daily rigors and routine of life take their toll, your faith wanes and your upward look dims, the joy of your salvation diminishes, your first love for Yeshua lessens, and your hope in YHVH’s promises for your life is tarnished, what do you do? What is your reaction and response? Do you call to remembrance the ongoing faithfulness of YHVH to his promises and to his Word as Isaiah here encourages us to do? 2 40:27, My way is hid from YHVH. Is YHVH……………..The prophet YeshaYahu remind us that יהוהs promise is eternal for all of Abraham’s descendants, the House of Ya’acov those who follow the steps of יהושע. He call יהוהs people to help his brother to remember יהוה according to His word and that those who will try to change this plan will not exist anymore. The boasting of Ya’acov house will be in יהוה. The schaliach (messenger) Sha’ul in the book to the Romans says that faith alone was the way for Abraham, not work in order to be recognized by יהוה. This is the pattern for those who are called in Messiah. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions from many sides.
Christians say: No TORAH faith alone we don’t need to follow the Torah: WRONG! Judaism: They reject the way of “jesus” even יהושע and follow the Torah after the letter: WRONG! The World view: With the spirit of Humanism, everybody is nice, everybody can believe whatever he want so long that we all can live in “peace”: WRONG! Sha’ul: Salvation is not work it is by FAVOUR through FAITH in Messiah יהושע. This doesn’t nullify the Torah work and faith work together. ----- Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Jas 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Isa 40:27 Why do you say, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and speak, O Yisra’ĕl, “My way is hidden from יהוה, and my rights are overlooked by my Elohim”?
Isa 40:28-41:14
Rom 4:-25
Sha’ul is not encouraging the rejection of the circumcision as many have taught among Christianity, the book of Galatians in its contain is about justification by faith. Sha’ul is explaining to the Galatians believers that justification is by faith in Messiah יהושע and nothing else. This doesn’t nullify the circumcision. We read in the book of Acts that certain Yehudin who believed in Messiah were also requiring circumcision as part of salvation: ---- Act 15:1 and certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved........... Sha’ul answers to this requirement in this way: ----- Gal 5:3 and I witness again to every man being circumcised that he is a debtor to do the entire Torah. Gal 5:4 You who are declared right by law have severed yourselves from Messiah, you have fallen from favour. Gal 5:5 for we, in Spirit, by belief, eagerly wait for the expectation of righteousness. Gal 5:6 for in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love. ………….Once again Sha’ul was not encouraging not to circumcise, but corrected the false view of the believers in Galatia: ”if you search circumcision as perquisite to salvation you are debtor to the entire Torah”. In other words you put yourself in bondage seeking your own righteousness! May יהוה our Elohim bless you through Messiah יהושע as you walk in the Torah in your daily life…………….. You may send your comments to
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