Category: Pentateuch Genesis-Deuteronomy

IN THE BEGINNING… Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy – Pentateuch [5 books] It’s the LAW of GOD!
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You Will Not Be Led into the Promised Land
Introduction:

This brief NEW series is about God and the LORD’s own relationship to man. It follows a pilgrimage from which many turn away.

These human failings by some from the Bible serve as cautions to those journeying toward the eternal place where the Lord welcomes those who do not refuse to follow.

:וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים

And God said:

There’s something about God [‘ĕlōhîm – אֱלֹהִים] you need to understand from the beginning. When God said, it is; that is, God’s word given to man is always a promise.

By contrast and by our tendency to turn from God, men (and women) break our promises, violate our vows and void our covenants with our Creator, even as as we do with our ‘fellow man.’

We are familiar with God as Creator, the One breathing life into men of dust, the One creating a living soul within living and breathing beings. ONLY GOD can do this!

וַיִּיצֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־הָֽאָדָ֗ם עָפָר֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וַיִּפַּ֥ח בְּאַפָּ֖יו נִשְׁמַ֣ת חַיִּ֑ים וַֽיְהִ֥י הָֽאָדָ֖ם לְנֶ֥פֶשׁ חַיָּֽה׃
בראשית 2:7 WLC

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 KJB

The LORD speaks it, it is.

IN THE BEGINNING, GOD creates; but once He makes man [‘āḏām], a relationship between God and man begins.

Moses’ refers to this relationship, here is ‘the Lord God.’ [yᵊhōvâ ‘ĕlōhîm]. God’s chosen should speak of their relationship with the LORD God, the existing One, WHO IS HOLY or separated.

The LORD is G_d and man is not.

Deceit, sin and turning from the Lord God began in the paradise of our creation. We hid from God and man still tries to hide from God.

Covenant

Man was created with complete freedom — freedom to believe God in righteousness. Yet man violated a simple command. We just ‘had to know.’

Mankind wants to have our personal and unique knowledge of what is good and what is evil. I want to judge for myself what and who is good and choose to do evil IF it pleases me.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5 NASB

What follows in Genesis, yet precedes the saving of one faithful man Noah, is sad indeed.

As a father or mother grieves for their child who turns away from the loving parental relationship, so does the LORD, Father of all mankind, sorrow for the souls of men.
Roger @ talk of Jesus {dot}.com – on Genesis 6:6

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:6 KJV

Consequently after the DESTRUCTION of ALL MANKIND by water the LORD enters into a covenant a contract between God and man.

“I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:11

Evil men may appropriate the symbolism of God’s seal in the sky to include all sin into the pantheon of earth worship.

Promise of the End

The LORD’s covenant with man not to destroy by flood provides no promise that the end will not come; and yes, a judgment of all flesh will follow. Do not be impatient for justice or the day of the end.

Men will no longer worship mother nature, but bow down to Christ Jesus, our only Redeemer of sinful flesh.

No covenant of man or offering to an environment of air breathed through masks can prevent the end which the Word has revealed through the Prophets, a new heaven and earth for the resurrection bodies of the chosen faithful. We have just examined part of this mystery revealed through Christ to John in Apocalypse 10 + Gospel of the Seventh Seal.
- Will you have life after death?
  - Yes! But to what end?
The Lord will judge the unrepentant in the fire and judge His own creation at the end of days!

Covenant between God and Abram

The Lord God begins again on a cleansed earth by fathering a people and making several covenants with Abraham.

In this brief series we cannot blaze a trail of a history of covenants between God and man; but understand that broken covenants, including those of Abraham, Israel (Jacob) and Moses, are broken NOT by God, but by many descendants of the promise.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 2:24 KJV

Descendants of the OATHS of their FATHERS remain BOUND to the same AGEEMENTS between the LORD God and a mortal man.

Those covenants prescribed penalty for breaking our word with the Lord God.
The Road Ahead

Lot’s Wife
Death in the Wilderness
Only Two
The Lord God will redeem His people at a time of His own choosing. It is NOT a time of our choosing.

And the cleansing of sin, judgment of souls and refining of faith occurs by the Holy Spirit through His Word and only Son of our righteousness, who IS the Messiah Jesus.

Sinful man in every generation, before the incarnation of the Son of God and until this day, breaks covenant with God time and time again, turning away from the Lord our God, our only hope.

Even by Christ’s new covenant of redemption for our sins, followers of Jesus Christ must heed the warnings of scripture.

Read how those who turned from God to their own ways, as is our own tendency even in this year of our Lord 2021, were rightfully judged. Note the warnings from this brief look at just a few of mankind’s many moments of faithlessness.

I pray that you may once again turn toward the Light of Life and eternal life after inevitable death of the flesh and final judgment of the world.
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February 26, 2021
Loneliness in the Solitary Confinement of Social Distancing
Security

We lay intertwined embraced in warmth flowing from fingertips to toe. Our paradise shattered as I awoke to a loud knock on the door…

We will return to my reaction to this awakening later, but for now we must leave the security of our dreams to a new reality of this prison of our solitary confinement.

Separation

COVID – 19 – – & other causes

What happened to the security of our past?

WHY a ‘new normal?’

(It’s not really normal, is it?)

We often feel like the man in prison wondering how he got there and missing his freedom of being with others.

Look into the soul of the one locked up – – – in a prison away from everyone — even in solitary confinement — to keep him safe — from other prisoners – – – to keep others – – safe from his own threatening condition.

This new reality is not like when we were back home in paradise – – home – – – with those who loved us – – – not like when our security became LIFE – – | | | – behind these confining bars – – | | | with a window looking out – – to a world virtually separated | | | from my lone soul…

We MUST get back HOME – – – – – – – for this is not our home.

Then the LORD God said,
“It is not good for ‘adam to be alone..
Bereishit (Genesis) 2:18 וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים לֹא־טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָֽאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ אֶֽעֱשֶׂהּ־לּוֹ עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ׃

Sin & Trespass

We all know what happened – – – – – –

“Has God really said...? – – –

..you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” – – –

The TREE was desirable to the eyes, | | | but it was the one place the LORD GOD commanded adam not to go.

Cursed is the ground because of you;
With hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
By the sweat of your face
You shall eat bread,
Until you return to the ground,

Because from it you were taken;

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

For you are dust – – – – – -,
And to dust you shall return.”
Bereishit (Genesis) 3:19

So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden,
and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24 NASB

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Jesus, Son of the Father, the Son of ‘adam – The Good News of John 14:

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT in the world outside the Good Garden – – – an eternal place to which the Son of ‘adam invites those banished and condemned to DEATH . . . to return to the Lord our God and Savior.

Separated from walking in Personal relationship with THE LORD GOD . . .

Therefore we pray:

.. and forgive us our sins,
as we have forgiven those who sin against us…

And don’t let us yield to temptation,
but rescue us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:12-13 NLT

Our paradise shattered!

Turn to me and be gracious to me,
For I am lonely and afflicted.
Psalm 25:16

We will return to my dream shattered by awakening from sleep when we continue Loneliness in the Solitary Confinement..
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January 11, 2021
A Day of the silence of the Passover Lamb
The Son of Man is Slain
- Jesus, the King of the Jews
- Day of Preparation
- The Passover Lamb
- He was already dead
- Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby they laid Jesus there.
- Joseph rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! – John 1:36
From the day the Son of Man is delivered into the world and laid in a manger the shadow of the Cross foretold Christ’s Sacrifice.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.. For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
John 1:14,16-17 NASB

וַיִּקְרָ֥א מֹשֶׁ֛ה לְכָל־זִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֑ם מִֽשְׁכ֗וּ וּקְח֨וּ לָכֶ֥ם צֹ֛אן לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם וְשַׁחֲט֥וּ הַפָּֽסַח׃
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and slay the Passover lamb.
Exodus 12:21 WLC; NASB http://blb.sc/002lS2

Jesus has prepared unwilling ears of the Disciples for this shabbath of the pecach, which takes away the sins of the world.

Crucifixion! – Scripture Fulfilled

“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up..

– John 3:13 NASB

The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’?
Who is this Son of Man?”
John 12:34 NASB

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that he who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
Hebrews 11:28 NASB

Now the body of the Son of Man lays lifeless and bloodied, partially wrapped in the shrouds of burial and entombed in darkness sealed away from the living by a guarded stone door.

Jesus the ROCK of Salvation

The Song of Moses

“Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!
2 May my teaching drip as the rain,
My speech trickle as the dew,
As droplets on the fresh grass,
And as the showers on the vegetation.
3 For I proclaim the name of the Lord;
Ascribe greatness to our God!

4 The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and just is He.
5 They have acted corruptly against Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Is this what you do to the Lord,
You foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father who has purchased you?
He has made you and established you.

הַאֲזִ֥ינוּ הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וַאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ אִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

2 יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י תִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב׃

3 כִּ֛י שֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑א הָב֥וּ גֹ֖דֶל לֵאלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

4 הַצּוּר֙ תָּמִ֣ים פָּעֳל֔וֹ כִּ֥י כָל־דְּרָכָ֖יו מִשְׁפָּ֑ט אֵ֤ל אֱמוּנָה֙ וְאֵ֣ין עָ֔וֶל צַדִּ֥יק וְיָשָׁ֖ר הֽוּא׃

5 שִׁחֵ֥ת ל֛וֹ לֹ֖א בָּנָ֣יו מוּמָ֑ם דּ֥וֹר עִקֵּ֖שׁ וּפְתַלְתֹּֽל׃

6 הֲ־לַיְהוָה֙ תִּגְמְלוּ־זֹ֔את עַ֥ם נָבָ֖ל וְלֹ֣א חָכָ֑ם הֲלוֹא־הוּא֙ אָבִ֣יךָ קָּנֶ֔ךָ ה֥וּא עָֽשְׂךָ֖ וַֽיְכֹנְנֶֽךָ׃

The Messiah & the Pharisees

Philip found Nathanael and said to him,
“We have found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
Gospel of John 1:45 NASB

The Pharisees had often come to Jesus before they crucified Him and now faithful men have laid their Messiah in a grave. Joseph, Nicodemus and a remnant of influential Jews believe and follow the Messiah secretly out of fear of their own lives.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
John 5:25

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

“I do not receive glory from men; but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves…

The Pharisees had tested Jesus. Yet most continued to give glory to each other rather than the Messiah who came to teach truth in their midst.

Jesus preached the truth of Scripture to the Jews who claimed to be teachers.

“Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father;
the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
John 5: NASB

The Writings of Moshe

Deuteronomy 32:
New American Standard Bible

.. And you drank wine of the blood of grapes..

18 You forgot the Rock who fathered you,
And forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 “The Lord saw this, and spurned them
Because of the provocation by His sons and daughters.

20 Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be;
For they are a perverse generation,
Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.

…

39 See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can save anyone from My hand.
40 Indeed, I raise My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
41 If I have sharpened My flashing sword,
And My hand has taken hold of justice,
I will return vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.

דברים 32
Westminster Leningrad Codex

18 צ֥וּר יְלָדְךָ֖ תֶּ֑שִׁי וַתִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֵ֥ל מְחֹלְלֶֽךָ׃

19 וַיַּ֥רְא יְהוָ֖ה וַיִּנְאָ֑ץ מִכַּ֥עַס בָּנָ֖יו וּבְנֹתָֽיו׃

20 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אַסְתִּ֤ירָה פָנַי֙ מֵהֶ֔ם אֶרְאֶ֖ה מָ֣ה אַחֲרִיתָ֑ם כִּ֣י ד֤וֹר תַּהְפֻּכֹת֙ הֵ֔מָּה בָּנִ֖ים לֹא־אֵמֻ֥ן בָּֽם׃

…

39 רְא֣וּ׀ עַתָּ֗ה כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י אֲנִי֙ ה֔וּא וְאֵ֥ין אֱלֹהִ֖ים עִמָּדִ֑י אֲנִ֧י אָמִ֣ית וַאֲחַיֶּ֗ה מָחַ֙צְתִּי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶרְפָּ֔א וְאֵ֥ין מִיָּדִ֖י מַצִּֽיל׃

40 כִּֽי־אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶל־שָׁמַ֖יִם יָדִ֑י וְאָמַ֕רְתִּי חַ֥י אָנֹכִ֖י לְעֹלָֽם׃

41 אִם־שַׁנּוֹתִי֙ בְּרַ֣ק חַרְבִּ֔י וְתֹאחֵ֥ז בְּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט יָדִ֑י אָשִׁ֤יב נָקָם֙ לְצָרָ֔י וְלִמְשַׂנְאַ֖י אֲשַׁלֵּֽם׃

Prophesy: Curses on Disobedience

Deuteronomy 28 :: HNV / WLC

20 The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don’t know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always..

45-46 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn’t listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which he commanded you: and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.

יְשַׁלַּח יְהוָה בְּךָ אֶת־הַמְּאֵרָה אֶת־הַמְּהוּמָה וְאֶת־הַמִּגְעֶרֶת בְּכָל־מִשְׁלַח יָדְךָ אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲשֶׂה עַד הִשָּֽׁמֶדְךָ וְעַד־אֲבָדְךָ מַהֵר מִפְּנֵי רֹעַ מַֽעֲלָלֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר עֲזַבְתָּֽנִי׃

פְּרִי אַדְמָֽתְךָ וְכָל־יְגִיעֲךָ יֹאכַל עַם אֲשֶׁר לֹא־יָדָעְתָּ וְהָיִיתָ רַק עָשׁוּק וְרָצוּץ כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃

וּבָאוּ עָלֶיךָ כָּל־הַקְּלָלוֹת הָאֵלֶּה וּרְדָפוּךָ וְהִשִּׂיגוּךָ עַד הִשָּֽׁמְדָךְ כִּי־לֹא שָׁמַעְתָּ בְּקוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לִשְׁמֹר מִצְוֺתָיו וְחֻקֹּתָיו אֲשֶׁר צִוָּֽךְ׃

וְהָיוּ בְךָ לְאוֹת וּלְמוֹפֵת וּֽבְזַרְעֲךָ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

“In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’
And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’
because of the fear which terrifies your heart,
and because of the sight which your eyes see.
Deuteronomy 28:67 NKJV – curse of the LORD on Israel for breaking His Covenant

Judgment by a Savior
- Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. – Amos 7:7 ASV
- Flight of the Prisoners, Artist: Tissot, Photographer: John Parnell, Photo © The Jewish Museum, New York
- “I do not receive glory from men; but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
a resurrection of judgment…
“Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth;
those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life,
those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
The words of Jesus – John 5:28-29 NASB

As the crowds had approached Jerusalem for the seven-day celebration they laid palms before Jesus at the gates atop the holy hill.

Now as Jesus lay in the grave, His broken and bloodied Body partially prepared for burial, the public mourning of the faithful must wait for a sacred celebration of the final feast of pecach.

As Jesus lay on a slab of stone in a tomb sealed by a rock rolled before its entrance, faithful Jews knew well the curses of their own disobedience and separation from the Lord their God.

The Prophet Hosea (~755–710 B.C)

Hosea’s name means: salvation, as did that of Moses’ successor Joshua and as does that of the Son of Man known of Nazareth, Jesus.

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them,
From death I redeem them,
Where is thy plague, O death?
Where thy destruction, O Sheol?
Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.
Hosea 13:14 YLT

After this day of irony in the festival feast would come the sorrowful day of mourning on the first day of the week.

Yet the words of Jesus before summoning Lazarus from the grave surly resounded in the hearts of their recent memory.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.
Do you believe this?”
the Good News of John 11:25-26 NASB

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.” – John 11:27 Hebrew Names Version

The Silence of this Shabbat

There, as Jesus’ loved ones, family and followers mourned silently during the final feast of the Passover, the preparations of their hearts found no solace in His upcoming burial on the first day of the week.

For they had witnessed the brutality of sin against the Sinless One on the Cross of Calvary.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. One who believes in the Son has eternal life,
but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
the Good News of John 3:35-36 Hebrew Names Version
November 21, 2020