- Torah Portion "Va'etchanan", Love, and the Cities of Refuge - Jim Staley
- The Way Biblical Fellowship: And I Pleaded (Torah Portion: Vaetchanan) 2015 - 2016
- Rob Skiba Virtual House Church
- 2013 Broadcast
Scriptures in Week 45:
TORAH:
Deuteronomy 3:23 - 7:11
PROPHETS:
Isaiah 40:1-26; 62:6-7
NEW TESTAMENT:
Matthew 4:1-11; 22:33-40; 23:31-39;
Mark 12:1-44;
Luke 10:25-37; 22:13-38;
Acts 13:13-43;
Romans 3:27-31;
1 Timothy 2:1-6;
James 2:14-26
TORAH
This whole Torah portion gives us incredible insight to God's love for His people. It is common sense when God has a desire to see His people live a good life by keeping the commandments. The language of this Torah Portion is the language of a loving father to his children. He is the one that is pleading for us to prosper by listening to what. He says. God knows best because He is the Creator. He is getting us to walk in His righteousness. He knows what is best for us.
Va'etchanan may also mean: "and i asked for YHWH's grace."
In verse 24 in chapter 3 refers to the idea that their are other gods in Heaven, which makes sense because the angels are called Elohim as well in the first chapters of Genesis. It also confirms what all the mythologies say about their many gods living in the heavens. These forces described in Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, Norse and Hindu mythology are all demonic forces according to the Bible. These demons or gods do not have the power and love that YHWH has.
Similarity, Moses was only allowed to see the land from afar, Abraham in Genesis 13 had a similar observation.
"Deuteronomy 3:28 World English Bible (WEB)
28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
This is pictures Yeshua as He is the one that leads us in the Second Coming. But it says here that Moses is strengthening Yeshua and made him braver. Is this even possible?
"Luke 2:46-52 World English Bible (WEB)
46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. 47 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”
49 He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?” 50 They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."
Yeshua here was refined by the word of God which includes the words of Moses.
"Proverbs 3:1-4 World English Bible (WEB)
3 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
but let your heart keep my commandments:
2 for length of days, and years of life,
and peace, will they add to you.
3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 So you will find favor,
and good understanding in the sight of God and man."
So this adds a whole other meaning to the Deuteronomy 3:28, for it perfectly pictures Yeshua being trained and raised up by Moses which would train Him later to lead His people into the Land.
If you add to the Torah (like the Talmud, Zohar, Mishnah and modern Judaism) you are not keeping the Torah. But if you take away from it (like Christianity) you are nullifying the perfection of the word of God. Remember, this is different if you are in a situation that might stop you from keeping a particular law. For example, you might be a teenager that is willing to keep the law but your family does not and you are not able to celebrate the feast days properly because of this. This is a mere circumstantial issue and has nothing to do with taking away from the law, because you have a desire to do it, however, your situation does not allow you. Rejoice in this, for in the future, you will have freedom to do these things you so longed to do. The practise of keeping all the commandments and not taking or adding to it, is what i term is Natsarimism.
Also, some would say that Yeshua added to the Torah as it is said on the sermon of the mount. However, He clearly is teaching the right way as He said that He is not come to destroy the law but to fulfil it.
If we are breaking YHWH's commandments around other people we are teaching others to break them to and if there is no repentance, we are in danger for being the least in the Kingdom of Heaven.
"Deuteronomy 4:6 World English Bible (WEB)
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
When people say the law is done away if, they subscribe unconsciously to the notion that wisdom and knowledge is done away with. The Torah are instructions for living out the life of Messiah. This is what people should say, when they see the Natsarim. They would know that YHWH is the true God because they see how we work, they see what we do. They see the blessing and our strength in tribulations when we walk in obedience.
The Torah is not to depart from our hearts because it is possible that it can. We can have them dear to our heart, but if we are zealous we will teach this to others.
"and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." Deuteronomy 4:10 World English Bible (WEB)”
When we hear the word of God and read the things in the Bible, if we fear God, that means we recognise His authority and are willing to please Him, so in that reverent fear, we will do His will.
The covenant was not only the Ten Commandments, it was all the words that YHWH spoke to Israel at Horeb. The Old Covenant is the law and our desire to do them. The New Covenant, is the same law written on our hearts.
When Moses says that it is the people's fault that he is not to enter into the promise is related to when his anger kindled inside him and he struck the rock two times in Torah Portion Chukat. This should speak volumes to us, that if anger that made Moses make a mistake that caused him to be disquilfied to enter into the Promise Land. This is why we should not be abusing grace.
"26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins," Hebrews 10:26
Moses is being very condemnatory and hateful here. Why is he stumbling? It was this very moment that kept Moses and Aaron from entering into the Promise Land.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." 1 Corinthians 13:1
For a moment, they got caught up in works and full of themselves. YHWH's instructions was to speak to the rock. Not smash it. Moses and Aaron, unlike the second generation, it is the leaders that sinned. It is a shame and a sad thing. Moses did not sanctify YHWH and paid the price. This is why it is so important to judge people saying that they are going to Hell if they are sinning. Only YHWH says that. We should NEVER play God.
By striking the rock a second time Moses unintentionally presents a distorted picture of Messiah being struck twice. Yeshua was only struck once for our iniquity - Moses ruined the picture of salvation.
This is a sign, after 40 years of leading a million people, Moses was ready to retire. He seems a bit worn out at this point which is understandable. Because of this, YHWH constantly reminds Moses of his big mistake of not sanctifying Him at the waters before the eyes of the children of Israel.
Making any graven images to worship is a problem, even if you are ascribing YHWH to it.
"Hebrews 12:18-29 World English Bible (WEB)
18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”[a];[b] 21 and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”[c]
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,[d] and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire."
This is such a relevant passage for today:
"Deuteronomy 4:27 World English Bible (WEB)
27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away."
We are so few in number once you come to Torah.
We are being told that when i captivity, the words of Moses are going to be seen as enlivenment, but there will come a pint in the future that people will do them again.It is amazing that this prophecy here is being fulfilled.
"Deuteronomy 4:30 World English Bible (WEB)
30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice. 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them."
Though it is not explicit, there are subtle language techniques in verse 32 that points to a Exodus. Since the last few verse were speaking in an end times context, it would be safe to say that it is talking about the Greater Exodus.
"Deuteronomy 4:32-35 World English Bible (WEB)
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him."
So if we are in this second Exodus that is coming, then it would be important that we study the Torah so it will guide us when these things happen again of a worldwide scale.
"Jeremiah 23:7-8 World English Bible (WEB)
7 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring[a] of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land."
When people start to listen top YHWH and begin to repent then this will be the byproduct.
When we decide to keep YHWH commandments, we are also doing it for future generations that will come from our line.
We are to have a desire to want to do YHWH's commandments because He wants us to. Let us be David - a man after man's own heart.
The commandments are for us so we can live a good life loving others and God with all our ability. However, despite the simplicity of the words He says, He has also given us freewill so we do not feel in bondage. Some use the freewill to find death.
"Deuteronomy 30:16-19 World English Bible (WEB)
16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you today, that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;"
The next chapter is what Yeshua quotes three times when He is the wilderness tempted by Satan. It is significant because this chapter is the Shema.
There is no word for obey, because it is the same word for hear - Shema. That is the Hebrew mindset. The Greek is hearing but not doing.
The Bible Project
were combined with other passages from the Torah (Deut. 11:13-21
and Num. 15:37-41
), and were prayed in the morning and the evening. This prayer has been one of the most influential traditions in Jewish history, and functioned both as the Jewish pledge of allegiance and a hymn of praise.
).
When the shema tells us to blind the commandments on our hands and on our foreheads is a spiritual things and not a physical thing like what Kabbalist do. It would be shocking to realise that the cube that some Jews wear is a symbol of the cube of Saturn (Satan) and Metatron - a fallen angel. What this is really meant to tell us that we are to think about His commandments and to do them which is symbolised by the hand.
Different shapes hold and conduct different energies this is why the universe is made of sacred geometric patterns that are the blueprint for all existence such as the Platonic solids the five elements. Ancient temples were built using such knowledge to conduct different energies and is why they were built on lay lines.
Originally in Kabala the entire Jewish occult system is shown as a cube and the entire alphabet fits into this cube of space which also contains the five Platonic solids. The Hebrew Alphabet is the energy of their thought form they call god. And relates to the element of earth and that of Saturn which rules earth. This is the reason ancient altars where cube shaped as well it symbolized Saturn and earth.
This is what the tefillin the black box the Jews wear on their head relates to. It contains the Shema prayer which is a formula arranged with the Hebrew alphabet which is a series of charged yantra's that ties into their energy matrix. The Shema sequence is what unites the Jew with their "god" in Judaism. This unites them and connects them into the energy matrix. Which is the cube.
The Jews state:
"The tefillin acts like an antenna that draws down a powerful spiritual force from theses seven dimensions."
Here the same Kabbalist Jew tells us further on how this connects to the cube of Mecca:
"According to both Kabbalah and Islam, there are seven heavens, or seven dimensions in the spiritual world that directly influence our world. This is why there are seven notes of music, seven seas, seven continents and seven days in the week. We have seven layers of negativity within us and we want to bind and slaughter those selfish layers that make us treat others with disrespect.
The Zohar explains this is the secret behind Abraham binding his son Isaac. Each of us are required to sacrifice our ego for the sake of sharing with others. The tefillin act like an antenna that draws down a powerful spiritual force from theses seven dimensions that negates and sacrifices the influence of our selfish nature and ugly ego. 99% of Jews have no clue that this is why we bind tefillin on our left arm. We use the left arm as the left embodies our ego and the negative (Isaac) , whereas the right refers to the soul and the positive (Abraham).
Each year, Muslims embark on a pilgrimage (Hajj) to walk around the Ka’ba in Mecca seven times. This mirrors the process of binding our tefillin.
The purpose of Hajj for Muslims is to connect to the same event of Abraham binding Isaac (Muslims relate this to Abraham binding his son Ishmael).
The connection is profound. Only Kabbalah explains the true spiritual purpose.
Perhaps this is why the Ka’ba in Mecca is known as the House of Allah.
Ka’ba and Allah, as we know, spells Kaballah."[1]
The process described is how the Muslims are unconsciously tying themselves into the Jewish matrix during this mass ritual. Seven is the number of Saturn. All Muslim's must pray five times a day facing the direction of the cube in Mecca. They do this on the solar power points of the day to make the energies stronger to charge this though form.
And from Islam:
"Tradition goes that the Kaaba was ordained by Allah to be built in the shape of the House in Heaven called Baitul Ma’amoor. Allah in his infinite Mercy ordained a similar place on earth and Prophet Adam was the first to build this place.
The Bible, in the Chapter of Genesis describes its building when God ordained Abraham to erect a Shrine for worship when Abraham was ordered to go to the Southern desert with his wife Hagera and infant son Ismael.
The Old Testament describes this building as the Shrine of God at several places, but the one built at Ma’amoor is very much similar to the one at Makka. There is no doubt that it was referring to the stone built house at Makka.
Qur’an brought this story into the full light of history. In Sura 3:90 Qur’an says
“Allah has spoken the Truth, therefore follow the creed of Ibrahim, a man of pure faith and no idolater”.
The first house established for the people was at Makka, a Holy place and guidance to all beings. Qur’an firmly establishes the fact that Ibrahim was the real founder of the Holy Shrine. When Prophet Ibrahim built the Holy Shrine in Makka, his prayers were that this place should remain a center of worship for all good and pious people; that Allah should keep his family the custodians of the Holy place."[2]
This cube is also built to the dimension of six which is the number of binding of bringing down astral energies into the material and it also unfolds to form the six pointed star the symbol of Judaism. The above Islamic passage is important it shows that the Christian Religion and Islam tie into each other on the occult level and thus the Torah and Kabala. The city of Heaven is the New Jerusalem in the New Testament which is also given dimensions that relate to six. Which is to descend out of heaven to earth. Note the Islamic passages tie into the Torah and thus the Bible in Genesis as well. And the biblical characters such as Abraham and on. Jesus is even in the Koran as well as Essa with the tale of his divine birth and such and is a major character in Islam. The Islamic religion ties people into this Jewish thought form of Christ. Note Mohammed is also described as being a Jew.
The tale of Abraham sacrificing Isaac also ties into the place of the Mecca Cube. In the Talmud, Abraham actually does sacrifice Isaac in a blood sacrifice to Yahweh. Three days later Isaac is then resurrected by Yahweh. This ties into the thought form of Christ as well the ultimate blood sacrifice that is resurrected three days later. The reason for this here is this ties into the actual ritual
murders the Jews commit by what the Kabala calls sympathetic magic on the astral and charges the energy of the murders with more power. Islam has mass rituals devoted to offering up the blood of humans and animals as well into this. Note the three days for each. Three is the number of Saturn and the square of Saturn. Three days is also 72 hours. The 72 is the number of the cube as well. This is binding this in with the 72 names of the Jewish god which is shown as Metatron which is shown as the CUBE. The Christian ritual of communion ties into Jewish ritual murder direct as its a sympathetic enactment of how the Jews do this. Including the symbolic drinking of the blood and eating of the flesh while standing around the image of a ritually murdered person on a cross. This ties in unconsciously.
The cube for the Christians is the cross. in Kabala its admitted the cross of Christ is the Kabala cube this acts as the focus point for these energies to descend and channel through as well. Every Christian church has always had the cross at the front of the altar were the intention is directed during mass. In Kabala the cube unfolds into the Christian cross and is given six the number of bringing energy into the material.
The cube in Kabala also represents GOVERMENT in the Jews case their world government they are working to manifest with the matrix of energy the spell of Christianity and Islam are generating and feeding into the thought form of the cube of energy. Which is why the cube is the symbolic shape of the world government of the Jews and government is traditionally ruled by the concept of Saturn.
So as you can see, this is not what YHWH wants us to do.
When we get the abundance of things, we need to be careful and remember it is YHWH that gives us these things. This i can testify as i was given around 3 thousand dollars from all my loved ones for my 18th in which i completely never asked for. This was so overwhelming and broke down in tears to thank YHWH for this money, is not what i want or even need, but i knew that i could use it one day for His glory. I feared, i might get greedy and forget Him.
If you wanna survive the tribulation? The Torah is the answer.
"Deuteronomy 6:24 King James Version (KJV)
24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day."
This is a strategic problem for each nation. If you do not obey God’s ways, you
have a strategic problem. You don’t want to value what God hates and put it in a
museum, or in our parks, or on our money.
Something happened when Ham went into Noah when Noah was drunk to make
Noah curse Ham’s son, Canaan. We don’t know what happened, but it was
sever enough to curse Ham’s son.
It sounds severe when people read about God’s judgment on all these “–ite”
nations. It was about cleaning up the bloodline of the Nephilim.
These altars actually release “DNA” in to the area around them.
DNA is an information packet. Corrupt DNA is corrupt information that must be
dealt with.
You don’t see anyone neutral. Covenant: We are desighed to be covenant
people. If we do not make a covenant with God, we will make a covenant with
something else.
It’s not always religious, but it is something you give yourself to. If you don’t
follow God’s instructions, you end up breaking your covenant with God.
Don’t break covenant with God. Don’t enter covenants with evil.
Where there is evil going on in the world, there is almost always something in the
history that is related to idolatry. We don’t like to think of it in those terms today,
but it is. Every generation has the choice to either break the idolatry or to “renew
its lease.”
Va'etchanan may also mean: "and i asked for YHWH's grace."
In verse 24 in chapter 3 refers to the idea that their are other gods in Heaven, which makes sense because the angels are called Elohim as well in the first chapters of Genesis. It also confirms what all the mythologies say about their many gods living in the heavens. These forces described in Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, Norse and Hindu mythology are all demonic forces according to the Bible. These demons or gods do not have the power and love that YHWH has.
Similarity, Moses was only allowed to see the land from afar, Abraham in Genesis 13 had a similar observation.
28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
This is pictures Yeshua as He is the one that leads us in the Second Coming. But it says here that Moses is strengthening Yeshua and made him braver. Is this even possible?
"Luke 2:46-52 World English Bible (WEB)
46 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions. 47 All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48 When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”
49 He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?” 50 They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."
Yeshua here was refined by the word of God which includes the words of Moses.
"Proverbs 3:1-4 World English Bible (WEB)
3 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
but let your heart keep my commandments:
2 for length of days, and years of life,
and peace, will they add to you.
3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 So you will find favor,
and good understanding in the sight of God and man."
So this adds a whole other meaning to the Deuteronomy 3:28, for it perfectly pictures Yeshua being trained and raised up by Moses which would train Him later to lead His people into the Land.
If you add to the Torah (like the Talmud, Zohar, Mishnah and modern Judaism) you are not keeping the Torah. But if you take away from it (like Christianity) you are nullifying the perfection of the word of God. Remember, this is different if you are in a situation that might stop you from keeping a particular law. For example, you might be a teenager that is willing to keep the law but your family does not and you are not able to celebrate the feast days properly because of this. This is a mere circumstantial issue and has nothing to do with taking away from the law, because you have a desire to do it, however, your situation does not allow you. Rejoice in this, for in the future, you will have freedom to do these things you so longed to do. The practise of keeping all the commandments and not taking or adding to it, is what i term is Natsarimism.
Also, some would say that Yeshua added to the Torah as it is said on the sermon of the mount. However, He clearly is teaching the right way as He said that He is not come to destroy the law but to fulfil it.
If we are breaking YHWH's commandments around other people we are teaching others to break them to and if there is no repentance, we are in danger for being the least in the Kingdom of Heaven.
"Deuteronomy 4:6 World English Bible (WEB)
6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
When people say the law is done away if, they subscribe unconsciously to the notion that wisdom and knowledge is done away with. The Torah are instructions for living out the life of Messiah. This is what people should say, when they see the Natsarim. They would know that YHWH is the true God because they see how we work, they see what we do. They see the blessing and our strength in tribulations when we walk in obedience.
The Torah is not to depart from our hearts because it is possible that it can. We can have them dear to our heart, but if we are zealous we will teach this to others.
"and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children." Deuteronomy 4:10 World English Bible (WEB)”
When we hear the word of God and read the things in the Bible, if we fear God, that means we recognise His authority and are willing to please Him, so in that reverent fear, we will do His will.
The covenant was not only the Ten Commandments, it was all the words that YHWH spoke to Israel at Horeb. The Old Covenant is the law and our desire to do them. The New Covenant, is the same law written on our hearts.
When Moses says that it is the people's fault that he is not to enter into the promise is related to when his anger kindled inside him and he struck the rock two times in Torah Portion Chukat. This should speak volumes to us, that if anger that made Moses make a mistake that caused him to be disquilfied to enter into the Promise Land. This is why we should not be abusing grace.
"26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins," Hebrews 10:26
Moses is being very condemnatory and hateful here. Why is he stumbling? It was this very moment that kept Moses and Aaron from entering into the Promise Land."Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." 1 Corinthians 13:1
For a moment, they got caught up in works and full of themselves. YHWH's instructions was to speak to the rock. Not smash it. Moses and Aaron, unlike the second generation, it is the leaders that sinned. It is a shame and a sad thing. Moses did not sanctify YHWH and paid the price. This is why it is so important to judge people saying that they are going to Hell if they are sinning. Only YHWH says that. We should NEVER play God.
By striking the rock a second time Moses unintentionally presents a distorted picture of Messiah being struck twice. Yeshua was only struck once for our iniquity - Moses ruined the picture of salvation.
This is a sign, after 40 years of leading a million people, Moses was ready to retire. He seems a bit worn out at this point which is understandable. Because of this, YHWH constantly reminds Moses of his big mistake of not sanctifying Him at the waters before the eyes of the children of Israel.
Making any graven images to worship is a problem, even if you are ascribing YHWH to it.
"Hebrews 12:18-29 World English Bible (WEB)
18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, 20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”[a];[b] 21 and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.”[c]
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,[d] and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven, 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire."
This is such a relevant passage for today:
"Deuteronomy 4:27 World English Bible (WEB)
27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away."
We are so few in number once you come to Torah.
We are being told that when i captivity, the words of Moses are going to be seen as enlivenment, but there will come a pint in the future that people will do them again.It is amazing that this prophecy here is being fulfilled.
"Deuteronomy 4:30 World English Bible (WEB)
30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice. 31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them."
Though it is not explicit, there are subtle language techniques in verse 32 that points to a Exodus. Since the last few verse were speaking in an end times context, it would be safe to say that it is talking about the Greater Exodus.
"Deuteronomy 4:32-35 World English Bible (WEB)
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? 33 Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him."
So if we are in this second Exodus that is coming, then it would be important that we study the Torah so it will guide us when these things happen again of a worldwide scale.
"Jeremiah 23:7-8 World English Bible (WEB)
7 Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 8 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the offspring[a] of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land."
When people start to listen top YHWH and begin to repent then this will be the byproduct.
When we decide to keep YHWH commandments, we are also doing it for future generations that will come from our line.
We are to have a desire to want to do YHWH's commandments because He wants us to. Let us be David - a man after man's own heart.
The commandments are for us so we can live a good life loving others and God with all our ability. However, despite the simplicity of the words He says, He has also given us freewill so we do not feel in bondage. Some use the freewill to find death.
"Deuteronomy 30:16-19 World English Bible (WEB)
16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I denounce to you today, that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;"
The next chapter is what Yeshua quotes three times when He is the wilderness tempted by Satan. It is significant because this chapter is the Shema.
There is no word for obey, because it is the same word for hear - Shema. That is the Hebrew mindset. The Greek is hearing but not doing.
The Bible Project
The Shema refers to a couple lines from the book of Deuteronomy (6:4-5), that became a daily prayer in Ancient Israelite tradition. It’s the equivalent of the Lord’s prayer (“Our Father in heaven…”) in Christian tradition. The Shema gets its name from the first Hebrew word of the prayer in Deuteronomy 6:4
, “Listen, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone.” The English word “listen” renders the Hebrew word “shema.” In traditional Jewish prayer practice, these lines from Deuteronomy 6:4-5were combined with other passages from the Torah (Deut. 11:13-21
and Num. 15:37-41
), and were prayed in the morning and the evening. This prayer has been one of the most influential traditions in Jewish history, and functioned both as the Jewish pledge of allegiance and a hymn of praise.
The Shema appears in the opening section of Deuteronomy, which is a collection of speeches attributed to Moses before the next generation of Israel entered the Promised Land. Moses challenges them with his wisdom and warning because he doesn’t want these Israelites to repeat their parents’ mistakes. Rather, he invites them to respond to God’s grace and mercy with love, faithfulness, and obedience. The book is designed to have three large sections, as you can see in our video on Deuteronomy (see above). In this blog, we are going to focus on a small section of Deuteronomy 6
(aka “the Shema”)—the centerpiece for the first opening section of Moses’ speech to the people.
“Listen, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your being, and all your might.” -Deut. 6:4-5
Translating the Shema
Bible geeks, you will find this part really interesting. But be warned, it’s kind of complicated! From ancient times, there has been much debate on how exactly to translate and interpret the Shema, due to ambiguity in the grammar of the main sentences. In Ancient Hebrew, there is no present-tense verb equivalent to the English verb “is.” There is a word for “was” (Heb. hayah) and “will be” (Heb. yihyeh), but “is” doesn’t exist; rather, two words are put next to each other and the word “is” is inferred.
For example:
English: “The car is red.” Ancient Hebrew: “The car red.”
Ancient Israelites obviously had a concept of the verb “is,” they just didn’t use a word to express it in their language. Rather, they used this grammar tool of simply placing two words together (Hebrew grammar nerds call these nominal clauses).
The problem in translating and interpreting the Shema arises from the fact that it’s made of two back-to-back sentences that lack the word “is.” In Hebrew, the prayer consists of four nouns in a row.
Hebrew: YHWH ‘elohenu YHWH ekhad English: Lord our god Lord one
As you can see, we’ve got four words, and depending on where you place the word “is,” you can end up with different sentences.
- The Lord our God is one Lord.
- The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.
- The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
At the end of the day, the meaning between these options isn’t drastically different, but each one has a different emphasis. Is the point that the Lord God is one and not many (#1 or 3), or is the emphasis on the fact that only the Lord is our God (#2)? Does the Shema claim that Israel’s God is one being, or is it highlighting that the Lord alone is Israel’s God and not any other?
As you’ll see in a moment, this last meaning seems to fit the overall context of Deuteronomy much better. In other words, the Shema isn’t trying to make a philosophical statement about God’s essence or being (that God is “one”). Rather, the Shema is a pledge of allegiance to the Lord God of Israel that excludes allegiance to any other gods.
Polytheistic Threat
As you read further in Deuteronomy, this will make perfect sense. The Israelites have been steeped in polytheistic cultures for generations. From their roots in Canaan, to the long years in Egypt, to their travelling through Canaanite territory in the wilderness, they have been surrounded by people worshipping many different gods. Moses clearly believes that loyalty, obedience, and love to their one true God is the only way to life. One of the greatest threat to Israel’s future was dividing their allegiance between many gods. And so, the Shema is a daily reminder that “The Lord our God alone is our God.” The prayer goes on from here to show the value of passing this conviction on to later generations to spare them the tragic results of idolatry to other gods.
“You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.” -Deut. 6:7
Meaning of the Shema
The opening line “Listen, O Israel” does not simply mean to let the sound waves enter your ears. Rather, the word “listen” here means allow the words to sink in, provide understanding, and generate a response. In other words, in Hebrew, “hearing” and “doing” are basically the same thing, but what is Israel to do in response to hearing that the Lord alone is their God? “Love the Lord your God.” In context, love isn’t simply the warm, fuzzy, emotional energy we feel when we like someone. In the Bible, love is action. You love someone when you act in loyalty and faithfulness. And so for Israel, to love meant faithful obedience to the terms of their covenant relationship. Those terms are the laws and commands that will make up the body of the book (Deut. 12-26
). Obedience to these laws was never about legalism or trying to earn God’s favor. Obedience in the Old Testament is about love and listening. If an Israelite loves God, it will make it easier to listen and absorb his teachings and guidance. This is why the words “listen” and “love” are so tightly connected and repeated through these opening speeches of Deuteronomy.
Shema Usage in the New Testament
As we mentioned above, the Shema became a twice-daily prayer within Judaism. It was so widely practiced in the second-temple period, Jesus himself grew up praying it. This prayer was formative for Jesus, and he drew upon it in his teachings. He was once asked which command in the Torah was the greatest:
Jesus answered, “The first of all the commandments is, ‘Listen, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” -Mark 12:29-31
In the book of Revelation, John the visionary drew upon this prayer to describe Jesus’ followers. Part of the Shema prayer in Deuteronomy 6:8
contains these words: “You shall bind these words as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as symbols between your eyes.” The physical location “on your hands” and “between your eyes” is a symbol with fairly obvious meaning. Your eyes are the place where you see and you use your hands for almost everything you do. This prayer was to guide the vision and action of every moment of life. This is why John the visionary says that in the new creation, when God’s people live in intimate proximity to God and the risen Jesus, “They will see God’s face, and his name will be on their foreheads” (Rev. 22:4).
This is in contrast to people who reject the way of Jesus. They have given their allegiance to other powers that are bent on destroying them (depicted as “beasts” in Revelation 13
). John the visionary also drew upon the Shema to depict a human life on the path of destruction:
“The Beast also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads.” -Rev. 13:16
For John, the choice is a stark one. You either give your allegiance to Jesus and allow it influence how you see and act, or your allegiance will belong to destructive powers that will also govern how you see and what you do in life. One path leads to life, the other to death. All of these ideas and images come from Moses’ words in Deuteronomy, specifically from the Shema.
The Shema for Christians
The Shema is a beautiful prayer. There’s a reason why God’s people have been praying these words for millennia. They are simple words with the capacity to reshape the course of an entire life. The Shema can keep God’s love and loyalty in the forefront of your mind and drive you towards obedience, not out of obligation or duty, but out of love. The words of Jesus in the Gospel of John are obviously derived from the Shema:
“The one who has my commands and keeps them, that’s the one who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and I will reveal myself to him.” -John 14:21
And remember whose love started this whole chain reaction of love leading to obedience. “We love, because he first loved us.” -1 John 4:19
At the end of the day, following Jesus is about love. Love that came to us when we weren’t looking for it. And as we receive this love, it generates gratefulness, humility, and a commitment to honor and love in return. Love gives birth to more love, which, in turn, results in faithfulness and obedience. These are truths than can transform us from the inside out. Can you imagine a better way to never forget, than memorizing and praying the Shema twice a day? Maybe you should start today.
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| This is what Jesus hated - traditions and doctrine of men that nullity the Torah. |
When the shema tells us to blind the commandments on our hands and on our foreheads is a spiritual things and not a physical thing like what Kabbalist do. It would be shocking to realise that the cube that some Jews wear is a symbol of the cube of Saturn (Satan) and Metatron - a fallen angel. What this is really meant to tell us that we are to think about His commandments and to do them which is symbolised by the hand.
Different shapes hold and conduct different energies this is why the universe is made of sacred geometric patterns that are the blueprint for all existence such as the Platonic solids the five elements. Ancient temples were built using such knowledge to conduct different energies and is why they were built on lay lines.
Originally in Kabala the entire Jewish occult system is shown as a cube and the entire alphabet fits into this cube of space which also contains the five Platonic solids. The Hebrew Alphabet is the energy of their thought form they call god. And relates to the element of earth and that of Saturn which rules earth. This is the reason ancient altars where cube shaped as well it symbolized Saturn and earth.
This is what the tefillin the black box the Jews wear on their head relates to. It contains the Shema prayer which is a formula arranged with the Hebrew alphabet which is a series of charged yantra's that ties into their energy matrix. The Shema sequence is what unites the Jew with their "god" in Judaism. This unites them and connects them into the energy matrix. Which is the cube.
The Jews state:
"The tefillin acts like an antenna that draws down a powerful spiritual force from theses seven dimensions."
Here the same Kabbalist Jew tells us further on how this connects to the cube of Mecca:
"According to both Kabbalah and Islam, there are seven heavens, or seven dimensions in the spiritual world that directly influence our world. This is why there are seven notes of music, seven seas, seven continents and seven days in the week. We have seven layers of negativity within us and we want to bind and slaughter those selfish layers that make us treat others with disrespect.
The Zohar explains this is the secret behind Abraham binding his son Isaac. Each of us are required to sacrifice our ego for the sake of sharing with others. The tefillin act like an antenna that draws down a powerful spiritual force from theses seven dimensions that negates and sacrifices the influence of our selfish nature and ugly ego. 99% of Jews have no clue that this is why we bind tefillin on our left arm. We use the left arm as the left embodies our ego and the negative (Isaac) , whereas the right refers to the soul and the positive (Abraham).
Each year, Muslims embark on a pilgrimage (Hajj) to walk around the Ka’ba in Mecca seven times. This mirrors the process of binding our tefillin.
The purpose of Hajj for Muslims is to connect to the same event of Abraham binding Isaac (Muslims relate this to Abraham binding his son Ishmael).
The connection is profound. Only Kabbalah explains the true spiritual purpose.
Perhaps this is why the Ka’ba in Mecca is known as the House of Allah.
Ka’ba and Allah, as we know, spells Kaballah."[1]
The process described is how the Muslims are unconsciously tying themselves into the Jewish matrix during this mass ritual. Seven is the number of Saturn. All Muslim's must pray five times a day facing the direction of the cube in Mecca. They do this on the solar power points of the day to make the energies stronger to charge this though form.
And from Islam:
"Tradition goes that the Kaaba was ordained by Allah to be built in the shape of the House in Heaven called Baitul Ma’amoor. Allah in his infinite Mercy ordained a similar place on earth and Prophet Adam was the first to build this place.
The Bible, in the Chapter of Genesis describes its building when God ordained Abraham to erect a Shrine for worship when Abraham was ordered to go to the Southern desert with his wife Hagera and infant son Ismael.
The Old Testament describes this building as the Shrine of God at several places, but the one built at Ma’amoor is very much similar to the one at Makka. There is no doubt that it was referring to the stone built house at Makka.
Qur’an brought this story into the full light of history. In Sura 3:90 Qur’an says
“Allah has spoken the Truth, therefore follow the creed of Ibrahim, a man of pure faith and no idolater”.
The first house established for the people was at Makka, a Holy place and guidance to all beings. Qur’an firmly establishes the fact that Ibrahim was the real founder of the Holy Shrine. When Prophet Ibrahim built the Holy Shrine in Makka, his prayers were that this place should remain a center of worship for all good and pious people; that Allah should keep his family the custodians of the Holy place."[2]
This cube is also built to the dimension of six which is the number of binding of bringing down astral energies into the material and it also unfolds to form the six pointed star the symbol of Judaism. The above Islamic passage is important it shows that the Christian Religion and Islam tie into each other on the occult level and thus the Torah and Kabala. The city of Heaven is the New Jerusalem in the New Testament which is also given dimensions that relate to six. Which is to descend out of heaven to earth. Note the Islamic passages tie into the Torah and thus the Bible in Genesis as well. And the biblical characters such as Abraham and on. Jesus is even in the Koran as well as Essa with the tale of his divine birth and such and is a major character in Islam. The Islamic religion ties people into this Jewish thought form of Christ. Note Mohammed is also described as being a Jew.
The tale of Abraham sacrificing Isaac also ties into the place of the Mecca Cube. In the Talmud, Abraham actually does sacrifice Isaac in a blood sacrifice to Yahweh. Three days later Isaac is then resurrected by Yahweh. This ties into the thought form of Christ as well the ultimate blood sacrifice that is resurrected three days later. The reason for this here is this ties into the actual ritual
The cube for the Christians is the cross. in Kabala its admitted the cross of Christ is the Kabala cube this acts as the focus point for these energies to descend and channel through as well. Every Christian church has always had the cross at the front of the altar were the intention is directed during mass. In Kabala the cube unfolds into the Christian cross and is given six the number of bringing energy into the material.
The cube in Kabala also represents GOVERMENT in the Jews case their world government they are working to manifest with the matrix of energy the spell of Christianity and Islam are generating and feeding into the thought form of the cube of energy. Which is why the cube is the symbolic shape of the world government of the Jews and government is traditionally ruled by the concept of Saturn.
So as you can see, this is not what YHWH wants us to do.
When we get the abundance of things, we need to be careful and remember it is YHWH that gives us these things. This i can testify as i was given around 3 thousand dollars from all my loved ones for my 18th in which i completely never asked for. This was so overwhelming and broke down in tears to thank YHWH for this money, is not what i want or even need, but i knew that i could use it one day for His glory. I feared, i might get greedy and forget Him.
If you wanna survive the tribulation? The Torah is the answer.
"Deuteronomy 6:24 King James Version (KJV)
24 And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day."
This is a strategic problem for each nation. If you do not obey God’s ways, you
have a strategic problem. You don’t want to value what God hates and put it in a
museum, or in our parks, or on our money.
Something happened when Ham went into Noah when Noah was drunk to make
Noah curse Ham’s son, Canaan. We don’t know what happened, but it was
sever enough to curse Ham’s son.
It sounds severe when people read about God’s judgment on all these “–ite”
nations. It was about cleaning up the bloodline of the Nephilim.
These altars actually release “DNA” in to the area around them.
DNA is an information packet. Corrupt DNA is corrupt information that must be
dealt with.
You don’t see anyone neutral. Covenant: We are desighed to be covenant
people. If we do not make a covenant with God, we will make a covenant with
something else.
It’s not always religious, but it is something you give yourself to. If you don’t
follow God’s instructions, you end up breaking your covenant with God.
Don’t break covenant with God. Don’t enter covenants with evil.
Where there is evil going on in the world, there is almost always something in the
history that is related to idolatry. We don’t like to think of it in those terms today,
but it is. Every generation has the choice to either break the idolatry or to “renew
its lease.”
"1 Corinthians 13:1-4 World English Bible (WEB)
13 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,"
Love is being able to love those that annoy and hurt you. It is not puffed up and behaving rudely. Therefore if you are easily provoked to anger, you do not love because love cannot be truly provoked. Love does not think evil. If someone hurt you, a mindset with love would know that person did not mean it and the situation of why it happened is unknown. If you did deserve it, counterattack the enemy by saying that i deserved this for sin that i got away with in the past.
"6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;"
So of someone is suffering in anyway shape or form we are to not rejoice in inequity or the calamity of our enemies. We rejoice in the truth no matter where it may be found or who it may be found with. Rejoice in the prevalence of the truth, where ever it may come from.
"7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
We do not ever give up on our king, we do not ever give up on the covenants and the promises. We are not to give up to those we love: spouse, children ect, because He did not give up on you.
"8 Love never fails"
When we are in a tough situation, our default should be love. Regardless of how we feel, we should love the person knowing that we are missing information on the scenario. Yeshua loved with no reserve. That means the expression of love is to be our best expression of love. It is giving everything we have. That includes our life. We need to be vindicated. It is our fleshy desire to be made just. We should not default to our mind and intellect. We are proven by science to be 70 % wrong when remembering things.
When Yeshua comes all things with no love will cease to exist. When we are judged, everything we did, say or think will be weighted. The only things that get to say as our reward are two things:
13 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,"
Love is being able to love those that annoy and hurt you. It is not puffed up and behaving rudely. Therefore if you are easily provoked to anger, you do not love because love cannot be truly provoked. Love does not think evil. If someone hurt you, a mindset with love would know that person did not mean it and the situation of why it happened is unknown. If you did deserve it, counterattack the enemy by saying that i deserved this for sin that i got away with in the past.
"6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;"
So of someone is suffering in anyway shape or form we are to not rejoice in inequity or the calamity of our enemies. We rejoice in the truth no matter where it may be found or who it may be found with. Rejoice in the prevalence of the truth, where ever it may come from.
"7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
We do not ever give up on our king, we do not ever give up on the covenants and the promises. We are not to give up to those we love: spouse, children ect, because He did not give up on you.
"8 Love never fails"
When we are in a tough situation, our default should be love. Regardless of how we feel, we should love the person knowing that we are missing information on the scenario. Yeshua loved with no reserve. That means the expression of love is to be our best expression of love. It is giving everything we have. That includes our life. We need to be vindicated. It is our fleshy desire to be made just. We should not default to our mind and intellect. We are proven by science to be 70 % wrong when remembering things.
When Yeshua comes all things with no love will cease to exist. When we are judged, everything we did, say or think will be weighted. The only things that get to say as our reward are two things:
- Obedience (clean hands.)
- Pure heart
When someone like a waiter does a bad job for example, tip them 10. If tithing is done with a right heart, it is fulfilled.
If someone spits on you, rejoice because you are three days from your destiny. Rejoice if the world kicks you to the kerb. The harder you fall, the faster you fly.
We are to be judged now. We should want others to judge us because since we fear the living God, and we are going to have to open our chest on judgement day and we should be sacred at what He will see. Ask God to judge you now and soon, we might be judged by our enemies. This is when we are anointed.
PROPHETS AND NEW TESTAMENT
All will know that glory of YHWH when we follow Him.
The word of God to Isaiah is the Torah the foundation. The word of YHWH stands for ever so that includes the Torah which is supposedly done away with.
The word of God to Isaiah is the Torah the foundation. The word of YHWH stands for ever so that includes the Torah which is supposedly done away with.
{sigh} I still get Christians sending me Isaiah 40:22 allllllllllllllllllllllll the time claiming the authors of Scripture (specifically Isaiah) allegedly knew the Earth was a globe. To be fair, I have used the same argument before myself. But that was when I was doing the same thing these people are doing, which is grossly mangling the text to force meanings it does not support. Words mean things and sorry, but circle does NOT mean ball/sphere/globe!
Today, someone sent this video to me:
At the beginning of this episode, Eric Hovind says, “This is the show where we believe the Bible is literally true andscientifically accurate in every single detail.” Oh really? I think not. Not that I don’t think the Bible can be taken literally or believe that it is scientifically inaccurate, but rather I said “I think not” because I don’t believe the hosts are doing either one of the things they hold up as a foundational truth for their show. They are not taking the Bible literally, and their view of “science” is directly opposed to what the Scriptures actually say.
Frankly, this is becoming an epidemic among those who claim to believe the Bible, while simultaneously believing many of the demonstrably false claims of modern “science” (especially as it pertains to Creation vs Evolution). It is most disturbing coming from the likes of Kent and Eric Hovind, David Reeves and others, who do an otherwise amazing job of obliterating the false claims of evolutionary biology and geology, which are in direct opposition to the Biblical narrative – while somehow still maintaining absolute faith in modern cosmology – the very thing that gave birth to the false claims of all the other “ologies” to which they are so articulately opposed in the first place. I’ll deal with this issue a lot more in a future post. For now, I want to address Eric Hovind’s and Paul Taylor’s comments regarding the Biblical support of a flat Earth cosmology.
At 19:50 minutes into the above video, they talk about Isaiah 40:22. Then Paul Taylor says, “What’s interesting though is that the Hebrew word (chug) that is translated as ‘circle’ is actually used in so many places to mean a sphere! It’s a three dimensional circle.” I don’t know what kind of drugs this man must be on, because that statement is patently false – at least according to the Scriptures and I will prove it in a moment. But first, let’s talk about how the Scriptures do have a word used for a spherical object…
As the above graphic shows, Isaiah knew the difference between a ball (sphere) and a circle – and so did the KJV English translators. Speaking of, {a-hem} I must point out that KJV only types need to take note because you are contradicting these “inerrant” 1611 scholars by forcing them to agree with notions of a spherical Earth versus what they actually stated – i.e. that it is a circle. You can’t do that. By your own dogmatic attitude (psychosis) you demand that it is a “perfect translation.” According to you, it has absolutely no errors! Remember, YHWH Himself “preserved His word” (7 times I’m told) through these men and through them alone. I hear your (bogus) arguments alllllllll the time. I get it. OK. So, I’ll hold you to your own standard (are you paying attention Mike Hoggard, Kent Hovind and Steven Anderson?). Therefore, you can NOT twist their 1611 circle into a sphere! They obviously knew the difference between a ball/sphere/globe and a circle and being brutally honest with the text, they chose to translate it as circle.
Now let’s look at the words Isaiah used in Hebrew. I know KJV only types hate that, but believe it or not, the Scriptures didn’t originate in English. The “perfect” 1611 scholars, derived their English from the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts. So, we should be able to do the same. In Isaiah 22:18, we find the first use of the word “dur” (ball) in the Scriptures:
As you can see, the same word shows up 2 more times: once more in Isaiah (29:3), describing someone completely surrounded and again in Ezekiel 24:5, describing something rounded like a pile or a mound set up for burning. The word carries the meaning of something spherical-like in nature (or as in Isaiah 29:3 as something that is all aroundyou).
Whereas, the word in question (“chug”) concerning the Scripture’s description of our world is defined as:
Once again, we have a word that is only used only 3 times in Scripture. But let’s apply the “law of first mention” to see how it was initially introduced to us in the Bible:
Job 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Is YHWH walking on a sphere or a “circuit” up there? Well, what is a circuit? The dictionary defines it as:
It is a circular path. I see no mention of anything in that, which would demand a definition of a sphere. YHWH is walking on a circular path.
Then we come to Proverbs and Solomon describes how the dry land “appeared” in Genesis 1 by saying:
Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Set a compass on the face of the deep? What does that mean? This?
Well, no… not exactly. Although it is interesting that a compass is used to draw a circle, which is what Isaiah later describes. In the KJV, we aren’t really getting the full picture. It just says “set a compass,” but in the Hebrew, the word used for “set’ is:
What was inscribed? A “compass?” Well… Solomon used the same word Isaiah did for circle (Isaiah 40:22′ “chug”). Ahhhh… OK. So now we’re getting somewhere. Isaiah’s “circle” was – according to Solomon – inscribed into something! Here are a few other examples of how this word “chaqaq” was used (by Isaiah):
Isaiah 22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
With the above in mind, we find that the New American Standard Bible gives us a clearer rendering of Solomon’s words based on a more accurate representation of the Hebrew word “chaqaq”:
Proverbs 8:27 When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Or in the King James 2000 Bible we see:
Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he drew a circle upon the face of the depth:
How do you inscribe or draw a ball into something? You can’t. No. In each of these cases, we are talking about a circle. According to the Concordance, the Hebrew noun “chug” comes from the verb form of the same word:
Note, that this form is used only once, in the first book of written (canonized) Scripture:
Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
What does it mean to have “compassed the waters”?
In every single case, the word “chug” is used (both as a noun and a verb) to describe something circular, not spherical!
Watching the above posted video, you will also note that Eric and Paul conveniently ignored the issue of Job’s description of the Earth as a “seal.”
Job 38:14 It {the Earth} is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Backing up to the previous verse, we see:
Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Where are the “ends of the Earth” to take “hold of” on a ball? This description fits perfectly with a circular Earth, which is pressed as a seal though. This is clarified a bit more in the English Standard Version:
Job 38:14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.
Get some wax and a seal. Press the seal into the wax and you will get the picture: you end up with a circular, pressed flat seal with raised features on it.
And… LOL! Please don’t even try to use the KJV’s use of “turned” to try and “spin” some notion of Biblical support for the Earth’s rotation/orbit. Please – don’t. I’m begging you. The Bible consistently describes this place as stationary and firmly set on pillars.
“Circling” back around to Isaiah 40:22, the last and final (Biblical) use of the word “chug,” there is simply no way you can force it into meaning a sphere. So, Paul Taylor is lying to you and people like Kent and Eric Hovind, David Reeves and others are choosing to remain willfully ignorant of the literal truth of Scripture, which is in direct contradiction to the “science” (falsely so-called) that they are believing in, and trying to manipulate the Bible into supporting.
Like it or not, believe it or not, accept it or not, your Bible is a flat Earth book! Deal with it however you must, but don’t try and force it to say something it absolutely does not even remotely support. Thus, for the love of all that is Holy, sane and true, please stop sending me Isaiah 40:22 and stop trying to use it to justify your belief in a spinning, heliocentric, globular Earth!
Thanks.
- Rob Skiba
"2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins."Isaiah 40 King James Version (KJV)
We are accounted to Jerusalem here. We could be counted double for our sins. We cannot take the blood of Yeshua for granted.
Just like Job, Isaiah is asking a lot of questions. The answers YHWH gives is meant to be somethings we need to think and mediate about. Speaking of Job:
"Job 14:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one."
So did Yeshua make all foods clean?
You shall not put YHWH to the test. Where have we seen this before?
"Matthew 4:6-8 King James Version (KJV)
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
Yeshua cannot be doing away with the Torah because He says the greatest commandments are right from Deuteronomy!
Yeshua quotes the shema in Mark 12.
The mercy of Yeshua to pray for Peter to be faithful and so YHWH can give him faith.
We are accounted to Jerusalem here. We could be counted double for our sins. We cannot take the blood of Yeshua for granted.
Just like Job, Isaiah is asking a lot of questions. The answers YHWH gives is meant to be somethings we need to think and mediate about. Speaking of Job:
"Job 14:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one."
So did Yeshua make all foods clean?
You shall not put YHWH to the test. Where have we seen this before?
"Matthew 4:6-8 King James Version (KJV)
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
Yeshua cannot be doing away with the Torah because He says the greatest commandments are right from Deuteronomy!
Yeshua quotes the shema in Mark 12.
The mercy of Yeshua to pray for Peter to be faithful and so YHWH can give him faith.
Shalom
Jonathon Karagiannis - 17/8/19
Jonathon Karagiannis - 17/8/19
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