- Jim Staley Torah Portion "Lech Lecha"
- The Way Biblical Fellowship Torah Portion: Lech Leha (2015 - 2016)
- Rob Skiba Virtual House Church
- 2013 Broadcast
- 2016 Broadcast
TORAH:
Genesis 12:1-17:27
PROPHETS:
Isaiah 40:21-41:16
NEW TESTAMENT:
Acts 7:1-8;
Romans 3:1-5:11;
Galatians 3:1-29;
Colossians 2:8-23;
Hebrews 7:1-19; 11:1-12
TORAH
Terah stayed at the cross roads of Haran. He never left because he did not leave his old life behind, originally being the second in command to Nimrod.
Abram walked out in faith with courage. He had no idea what he was doing at all. He did not know what God had in store for him in the future. We see Abram is insecure because he brings his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot from Haran to Canaan, but God told him to go on his own.
Abram followed YHVH's way as best he can, which made him great. (Contrast to Tower of Babel who tried to make themselves great without God in the picture.)
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God uses famines to push Abram where he needed to be.
Abram meets Rikayon or Narmer, who according to the Book of Jasher is the first unifying pharaoh who was crowned by Nimrod or Osiris.
Lech Lecha ultimately means: Come out of her my people, lest you partake in (Babylon's) plagues!
Lot was acting lukewarm. He sought materialistic things. Abram and Lot's personalities clash and they depart. This is because Lot was never meant to come in the first place.
Abram, amazingly, had three Amorite (who are Nephilim) allies, named Mamre, Anur and Eshcol. Maybe it was because Abram was so blessed, some half human half Nephilim sought salvation which leads me to believe that part Nephilim human hybrids have souls and can be saved!
Before YHVH made covenant with Abram in 1841 BC, he needed to ready him.
Melchizedek: Random mystery figure. Who was he? From the royal priesthood. Yeshua comes from his order. Dose this make Melchizedek a pre-incarnate Jesus?
Abram rejected material wealth and gave it instead to his three Nephilim allies. This is because he did not need it. He had Yahweh, the God of the universe and of all gods.
The horror of great darkness is the same as the 9th plague. Demonic presence.
"The inequity of the Amorites is not yet full." By the time the Israelites make it into the Promise land, the whole land will be completely overrun by evil Nepilim. Sin passes to the 3rd and 4th generation.
Sarai lacked in faith in YHVH to have a child at her old old, instead, she used her innate Mesopotamian law to give Abram her handmaid Hagar from Egypt to have a child with him instead. Sarai is hurt when it comes to childbirth.
Ishmael is the father of the Arabs.
The additional "h" in Abraham means revelation. We who have taken the courage to pass the Haran crossroads in our life, have a new name in Heaven.
I found the metaphor of the Haran crossroads intriguing. On our spiritual walk with Jesus, we must make choices. He has given us free will, so the choices are to either give up everything, humble ourselves and carry our cross. We must NOT be like Terah who stayed in his confront zone and camped out. We must be like Abram, who went on and even went back to help his parents and family who are lost. Abram's brother was at Haran too but according to Jasher he died there too in the furnace of Chasdim.
PROPHETS AND NEW TESTAMENT
YHVH can renew and change lives.
God gives us a spirit of boldness. We are of Abraham's seed when we accept Messiah.
Describes the circle of the earth. A flat earth under a dome.
Terah might have been spiritually dead at Haran when Abram left.
430 years begins from Abraham's promise to Moses at MT Sinai and the 2nd Intermediate Period which is God's judgement on Egypt.
We are all guilty for breaking Torah (which is sin) Faith without works is dead. Circumcision is through faith.
Law and grace go together. They cannot work without one another.
Righteousness is listening the doing what God says to do through faith.
Jesus is the key to get to Haran. Listening to what God has called for us to do is using the key to open that second gate.
Just doing Torah is a cruse. Having faith with that is a blessing.
Law was given so we do not sin. It is not grievous.
The teachings and doctrines and lies of men must be left behind before truly serving YHVH "It's better to put your trust in God than in man." Pslam 118:8.
We are circumcised spiritually when we are grafted into Israel.
The Torah is Yeshua's shadow. With the Torah done away with, there is no shadow. With no shadow, there is no Yeshua casting it. In Egypt, if a being has no shadow (crucial part of the 5 part soul,) they never exited.
Priests came from the Tribe of Levi. Yeshua came from Judah.
Faith is the most important thing. Every patriarch had it. No faith it is impossible to serve God.
The idea of walking in faith is the most important aspect, the most fundamental component to be with God. It is impossible without it. Faith is what leads to works to justify the faith.
The theme of these portions is to hearken unto God's commands and promises. He has a will and a destiny for us all. YHVH says He knew us before he stitched us up in the womb of our mothers. He even knew us before the universe was created. We have been given a spirit of boldness and of a sound mind. We need to be prepared to step out of our confront zones in Haran, go through unbearable trails, to be squashed on, to go through the refiner's fire in order to come out the other side where God wants us better than we can imagine. We need to stop being lukewarm, weak Christians, and stop trusting in men so we can finish the race and complete the path on the cross roads we fear most, through Him.
Shalom
Jonathon Karagiannis 20/10/18
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