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Post by alon on Nov 25, 2022 15:00:48 GMT -8
This Week’s Readings:
Parashah- Exodus 12:13-28
Haftara- Jeremiah 46:13-28
D’rash: Jeremiah 46: 25,27-28a The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him. … “But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord, for I am with you. From a later time when Israel is threatened, God again promises salvation.
Exodus 12:13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. A “sign for you,” not for God nor the Angel of Death as most assume. This is, as was discussed last week an act of faith. But it was also an assurance to those whose trust was in God that they would be spared.
Exodus 12:14,17,24 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. … And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. … You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. We are commanded to remember. The feast recalling the Exodus is to be perpetual, for all subsequent generations. The Exodus story is traditionally told as though we were there making it more real. Without remembrance it is as though events never happened; people then never learn from history and are prone to the same mistakes.
Before Menat Helqi The Portion Of My Inheritance (Ps 16:5) commanded the Hebrews to remember, by far the dominant worldview of history was cyclical. “The circle of life” is a common saying today leading us back to this pagan view of life and events. In this worldview, everything that has happened will happen again, and again. There is no way out. Life and history were plotted on a circle from which one could not escape. But God showed the Jews how to plot history on a spiral. Yes, things tend to repeat along that spiral. But if you remember you can learn from the past and not make the same mistakes. You can advance both your own lot and that of your fellow man. Progress, both temporal and moral now becomes possible. Yes, there were advancements before the Exodus. But most of the advances which truly better men’s lives stem from the Exodus story. It has fueled more movements for freedom than any other. [note: this, if any are interested is worth discussing further.]
Exodus 12:26-27 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. In keeping with the command to remember is the command to teach our children. How else will anyone remember unless they are taught? And it is our responsibility to insure our children are taught right.
Exodus 12:15, 18-20 (redacted) Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. … In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.” “It is better to eat a poor man’s food and to be free than to eat a rich man’s food as a slave.” Dennis Prager. Egypt had an obsession with death, while Torah is about life. Indeed we read “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 Egypt is commonly used as a euphemism for sin in the Bible, while the Hebrew God gives life. Leavening is from decomposition, and thus related to death. This is why we eat unleavened bread- not just to remember the story of freedom wrought by God for all men, but to remember God’s Torah is also freedom from sin. His Torah gives life!
The phrase “cut off” here is from the word כָּרַת kârath. Whle its’ true meaning is lost, it seems to describe a very severe punishment; very likely meaning to be separated with the goats at judgement: “Matthew 25:32-34,41 “Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. … “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’”
Exodus 12:16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. The first and last days of the week of Unleavened Bread are Sabbaths. They are commanded assemblies (if at all possible)! The only exception made here is the preparation of food.
This, the first of the seven “Feasts of the Lord”- the moedim (appointed times) set by Boreh Ketzot HaAretz, Creator of the Ends of the Earth (Is 40:28) Himself (and not forgetting the weekly Shabbat) is stressed as extremely important; even to the point of כָּרַת kârath, being cut off for disobedience. And God expressly stated this applies to the “sojourner or a native of the land.” That to me means Jew and Gentile alike.
Not just “Jewish holidays,” but times in which God interacts miraculously in the affairs of men. God is consistent:
Malachi 3:6a “For I the Lord do not change;
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
This moed and Shabbat instituted at creation set the pattern for all the commanded moedim. They are prophetic:
1. Pesach (Passover)- Crucifixion of Yeshua
2. Unleavened Bread- Burial of Yeshua
3. First Fruits- Resurrection of Yeshua
4. Shavuot- Yeshua sends the Ruach for believers
5. Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah)- Return of Yeshua
6. Yom Kippur- Judgement of Yeshua on unbelievers
7. Sukkot (feast of Tabernacles) we tabernacle with God.
Note that none of these disenfranchise the Jews, nor are they about “the creation of the church,” both of which the church fathers taught and passed down as church dogma. God does not revoke a calling: Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. The Jews are still His chosen people.
Also concerning #4 above, most teach this is when the “church” miraculously sprang up. However historically one need only read accounts of the 1st Council of Nicaea in 325 CE to see there was no unified church; only many different “churches” teaching MANY different things, some of them loosely based on the Hebrew God. The council was called and led by a pagan (Constantine) to unify his empire, and took MANY more ecumenical councils before the “catholic (universal) church” as we know it came about. The Hebrew qahal and Greek ecclesia both mean “assembly,” and is how our Bibles should be translated. “Church” is an intentional mistranslation to give the impression that the “church” just sprang up at “Pentecost.” Which brings up another misnomer- the moed is Shavuoth; “Pentecost” was ONE event on ONE particular Shavuoth.
We do not just keep the feasts, but we strive to understand them. And to understand, we must remember. Read them as though we were there throughout history. Understand the mindset and traditions of each passing generation. Know how these foreshadow Yeshua and how they’ve kept the Jewish people alive and cohesive enough to reestablish their nation and language some 2000 years after being driven from the land. 2000 yrs of oppression and attempts to destroy them. Yet they remain as an example to us, most still keeping the commanded feasts. This is the power of remembrance, instituted by a God who understands His creation.
1 Chronicles 16:12 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
Mekorot: All scripture from the ESV unless otherwise specified; D Prager: Dr Eli of the IBC; my father and others
Next Week’s Readings:
Parashah- Ex 12:29-51
Haftara- Is 21:11-22:4
* Apostolic references will be given in the darashot
Parashah- Exodus 12:13-28
Haftara- Jeremiah 46:13-28
D’rash: Jeremiah 46: 25,27-28a The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him. … “But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord, for I am with you. From a later time when Israel is threatened, God again promises salvation.
Exodus 12:13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. A “sign for you,” not for God nor the Angel of Death as most assume. This is, as was discussed last week an act of faith. But it was also an assurance to those whose trust was in God that they would be spared.
Exodus 12:14,17,24 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. … And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. … You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. We are commanded to remember. The feast recalling the Exodus is to be perpetual, for all subsequent generations. The Exodus story is traditionally told as though we were there making it more real. Without remembrance it is as though events never happened; people then never learn from history and are prone to the same mistakes.
Before Menat Helqi The Portion Of My Inheritance (Ps 16:5) commanded the Hebrews to remember, by far the dominant worldview of history was cyclical. “The circle of life” is a common saying today leading us back to this pagan view of life and events. In this worldview, everything that has happened will happen again, and again. There is no way out. Life and history were plotted on a circle from which one could not escape. But God showed the Jews how to plot history on a spiral. Yes, things tend to repeat along that spiral. But if you remember you can learn from the past and not make the same mistakes. You can advance both your own lot and that of your fellow man. Progress, both temporal and moral now becomes possible. Yes, there were advancements before the Exodus. But most of the advances which truly better men’s lives stem from the Exodus story. It has fueled more movements for freedom than any other. [note: this, if any are interested is worth discussing further.]
Exodus 12:26-27 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. In keeping with the command to remember is the command to teach our children. How else will anyone remember unless they are taught? And it is our responsibility to insure our children are taught right.
Exodus 12:15, 18-20 (redacted) Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. … In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.” “It is better to eat a poor man’s food and to be free than to eat a rich man’s food as a slave.” Dennis Prager. Egypt had an obsession with death, while Torah is about life. Indeed we read “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 Egypt is commonly used as a euphemism for sin in the Bible, while the Hebrew God gives life. Leavening is from decomposition, and thus related to death. This is why we eat unleavened bread- not just to remember the story of freedom wrought by God for all men, but to remember God’s Torah is also freedom from sin. His Torah gives life!
The phrase “cut off” here is from the word כָּרַת kârath. Whle its’ true meaning is lost, it seems to describe a very severe punishment; very likely meaning to be separated with the goats at judgement: “Matthew 25:32-34,41 “Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. … “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’”
Exodus 12:16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. The first and last days of the week of Unleavened Bread are Sabbaths. They are commanded assemblies (if at all possible)! The only exception made here is the preparation of food.
This, the first of the seven “Feasts of the Lord”- the moedim (appointed times) set by Boreh Ketzot HaAretz, Creator of the Ends of the Earth (Is 40:28) Himself (and not forgetting the weekly Shabbat) is stressed as extremely important; even to the point of כָּרַת kârath, being cut off for disobedience. And God expressly stated this applies to the “sojourner or a native of the land.” That to me means Jew and Gentile alike.
Not just “Jewish holidays,” but times in which God interacts miraculously in the affairs of men. God is consistent:
Malachi 3:6a “For I the Lord do not change;
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
This moed and Shabbat instituted at creation set the pattern for all the commanded moedim. They are prophetic:
1. Pesach (Passover)- Crucifixion of Yeshua
2. Unleavened Bread- Burial of Yeshua
3. First Fruits- Resurrection of Yeshua
4. Shavuot- Yeshua sends the Ruach for believers
5. Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah)- Return of Yeshua
6. Yom Kippur- Judgement of Yeshua on unbelievers
7. Sukkot (feast of Tabernacles) we tabernacle with God.
Note that none of these disenfranchise the Jews, nor are they about “the creation of the church,” both of which the church fathers taught and passed down as church dogma. God does not revoke a calling: Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. The Jews are still His chosen people.
Also concerning #4 above, most teach this is when the “church” miraculously sprang up. However historically one need only read accounts of the 1st Council of Nicaea in 325 CE to see there was no unified church; only many different “churches” teaching MANY different things, some of them loosely based on the Hebrew God. The council was called and led by a pagan (Constantine) to unify his empire, and took MANY more ecumenical councils before the “catholic (universal) church” as we know it came about. The Hebrew qahal and Greek ecclesia both mean “assembly,” and is how our Bibles should be translated. “Church” is an intentional mistranslation to give the impression that the “church” just sprang up at “Pentecost.” Which brings up another misnomer- the moed is Shavuoth; “Pentecost” was ONE event on ONE particular Shavuoth.
We do not just keep the feasts, but we strive to understand them. And to understand, we must remember. Read them as though we were there throughout history. Understand the mindset and traditions of each passing generation. Know how these foreshadow Yeshua and how they’ve kept the Jewish people alive and cohesive enough to reestablish their nation and language some 2000 years after being driven from the land. 2000 yrs of oppression and attempts to destroy them. Yet they remain as an example to us, most still keeping the commanded feasts. This is the power of remembrance, instituted by a God who understands His creation.
1 Chronicles 16:12 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
Mekorot: All scripture from the ESV unless otherwise specified; D Prager: Dr Eli of the IBC; my father and others
Next Week’s Readings:
Parashah- Ex 12:29-51
Haftara- Is 21:11-22:4
* Apostolic references will be given in the darashot
