Post by alon on Oct 13, 2019 11:46:02 GMT -8
Name of Par’shah- Ha’azinu, Listen
Par’shah- Deu 32:1 – 32:52
Haftara- 2 Sam 22:1-51
Brit Chadashah- Rom 10:14-21, 12:14-21; Heb 12:28-29
D’rash: Ha’azinu, the very first word of this
portion means “give ear.” It begins what we call the “Song of Moses.” In Hebrew, the word for song and poem are the same word: שָׁר shir. I don’t know if Moshe spoke or sang this, but either way it would have had a very large impact on his listeners, s was intended:
Deuteronomy 32:44-47 (ESV) Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
Moses called upon the heavens and the earth, which would include all therein, to “give ear” as he gave this farewell. Certainly it was to the Jewish people, however he addressed it not specifically to them, but to the heavens and the earth:
Deuteronomy 32:1 (ESV) “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
To me this means all of us, as individuals and as nations. This is a warning, and Israel is our example. Now true, at the time there was no other nation following the God of Israel. And it is true that, unlike other gods, the God of Israel went with His people. But it is also true that throughout biblical history any gentile, person, family, or nation could give up their rebellion, join Israel, and share in the promise. So I take this warning to heart.
But more than all this, I think this poem lays out a trial at court. Let all in the heavens judge, and all on earth be the jury. Contemplate God’s justice, and take it to heart. Be warned, if He will judge His own thus, he will judge us also. He laid out God’s case, the things He had done. His loving treatment of this people thus far:
Deuteronomy 32:4-14 (ESV)
“The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and upright is he.
Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?
Remember the days of old;
consider the years of many generations;
ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
“He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
the Lord alone guided him,
no foreign god was with him.
He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.
Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.
Moshe makes God’s charge against them warning the people of a future rebellion:
Deuteronomy 32:5,15-18 (ESV) They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children because they are blemished;
they are a crooked and twisted generation. …
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked;
you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
then he forsook God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you,
and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
He also warned them of God’s punishment for their actions. Their sentence:
Deuteronomy 32:19-25 (ESV) “The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
I will spend my arrows on them;
they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
However, like all prophecy of God’s retribution, it ended with a message of their ultimate redemption; their sentence had a limit:
Deuteronomy 32:36,43 (ESV) For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, bond or free. …
“Rejoice with him, O heavens;
bow down to him, all gods,
for he avenges the blood of his children[k]
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him
and cleanses his people's land.”
There is more, but I am already a page long. I could collapse the poem, but that would detract from its impact. The main point is we, as those who have chosen to follow the God of Israel and who have been grafted into the root-stalk of Israel should take both warning and comfort from this poem. Everywhere in the world today Christian nations are on the cusp of judgement. And we will partake in that judgement, even though we eschew those things our peoples do wrong: grow fat off His goodness, and now forsake our God; worship of strange gods, sacrificing to Molech with our abortion industry; and worshiping our own strength and goodness.
The Hebraic view of time is not linear, but a spiral. And along that spiral events reoccur. This scenario has played out time and again with Israel, which is now dispersed among the nations. That’s us. And we as professing Christian nations, and more as Meshiachim will be held accountable. My own belief, this recent welcoming of Muslims wholesale into our countries is God allowing us to choose our own path to judgement. And it will be harsh. But I read the book, and in the end, we are delivered!
Par’shah- Deu 32:1 – 32:52
Haftara- 2 Sam 22:1-51
Brit Chadashah- Rom 10:14-21, 12:14-21; Heb 12:28-29
D’rash: Ha’azinu, the very first word of this
portion means “give ear.” It begins what we call the “Song of Moses.” In Hebrew, the word for song and poem are the same word: שָׁר shir. I don’t know if Moshe spoke or sang this, but either way it would have had a very large impact on his listeners, s was intended:Deuteronomy 32:44-47 (ESV) Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
Moses called upon the heavens and the earth, which would include all therein, to “give ear” as he gave this farewell. Certainly it was to the Jewish people, however he addressed it not specifically to them, but to the heavens and the earth:
Deuteronomy 32:1 (ESV) “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,
and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
To me this means all of us, as individuals and as nations. This is a warning, and Israel is our example. Now true, at the time there was no other nation following the God of Israel. And it is true that, unlike other gods, the God of Israel went with His people. But it is also true that throughout biblical history any gentile, person, family, or nation could give up their rebellion, join Israel, and share in the promise. So I take this warning to heart.
But more than all this, I think this poem lays out a trial at court. Let all in the heavens judge, and all on earth be the jury. Contemplate God’s justice, and take it to heart. Be warned, if He will judge His own thus, he will judge us also. He laid out God’s case, the things He had done. His loving treatment of this people thus far:
Deuteronomy 32:4-14 (ESV)
“The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and upright is he.
Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
who made you and established you?
Remember the days of old;
consider the years of many generations;
ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
“He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
the Lord alone guided him,
no foreign god was with him.
He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.
Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.
Moshe makes God’s charge against them warning the people of a future rebellion:
Deuteronomy 32:5,15-18 (ESV) They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children because they are blemished;
they are a crooked and twisted generation. …
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked;
you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
then he forsook God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you,
and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
He also warned them of God’s punishment for their actions. Their sentence:
Deuteronomy 32:19-25 (ESV) “The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
For a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
I will spend my arrows on them;
they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
However, like all prophecy of God’s retribution, it ended with a message of their ultimate redemption; their sentence had a limit:
Deuteronomy 32:36,43 (ESV) For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, bond or free. …
“Rejoice with him, O heavens;
bow down to him, all gods,
for he avenges the blood of his children[k]
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him
and cleanses his people's land.”
There is more, but I am already a page long. I could collapse the poem, but that would detract from its impact. The main point is we, as those who have chosen to follow the God of Israel and who have been grafted into the root-stalk of Israel should take both warning and comfort from this poem. Everywhere in the world today Christian nations are on the cusp of judgement. And we will partake in that judgement, even though we eschew those things our peoples do wrong: grow fat off His goodness, and now forsake our God; worship of strange gods, sacrificing to Molech with our abortion industry; and worshiping our own strength and goodness.
The Hebraic view of time is not linear, but a spiral. And along that spiral events reoccur. This scenario has played out time and again with Israel, which is now dispersed among the nations. That’s us. And we as professing Christian nations, and more as Meshiachim will be held accountable. My own belief, this recent welcoming of Muslims wholesale into our countries is God allowing us to choose our own path to judgement. And it will be harsh. But I read the book, and in the end, we are delivered!
