Vayelech

Parsha Vayelech

Deuteronomy 31:1 – 31:30

Please pray this prayer

 before reading

Prayer

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah,

I pray for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parasha

That the Truth of Torah may

Come forth. Amen

Vayelech is the fifty-second Torah Portion. In this portion, we can almost hear the sorrow in the prophetic voice of this great leader as he come to the end of his leadership. He reminder the people “And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant,  And it shall be, when many evils and distresses come upon them, that this song shall answer before them as a witness. For it is not to be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know their thoughts which they are forming today, even before I bring them to the land of which I swore to give them.”

          In this portion called Vayelech we see that Moses himself prophecy little hope for Yisrael, much the same way the sages after the destruction of the Temple 70ad they despaired at the spiritual future of mankind. But in the face of all this darkness, Rabbi Shimon BarYochai revealed the Zohar. He himself stood up against doubt and fear, reminding those who remined that their truth would not be forgotten.

As we experience the Shabbat of Vayelech, we see that one of its greatest lessons is to appreciate the gift of the Soul of Messiyah Yahushua and Moses. The Shabbat of Vayelech reminds us that when we connect to the Torah, we are not just reading it as the Constitution of the Heavenly Kingdom, but that is also a Legacy of Moses.

As we come to the end of another Torah Cycle where we strengthen our bond with the Messiyah and ABBA YAHVEH, then all our spiritual works will not be forgotten, nor will our prayer fall on deaf ears.

In this chapter Moses, having finished his sermon, 

I.                           Encourages both the people who were now to enter Canaan verses 1-6), and Joshua who was to lead them verses 7, 8, 23.

II.                        II. He takes care for the keeping of these things always in their remembrance after his decease, 

1. By the book of the law which was, Written. 

(2.) Delivered into the custody of the priests verses 9, and 24-27. 

(3.) Ordered to be publicly read every seventh year verse 10–13. 

2. By a song which God orders Moses to prepare for their instruction and admonition. 

(1.) He calls Moses and Joshua to the door of the tabernacle verses 14, 15. 

(2.) He foretels the apostasy of Yisrael in process of time, and the judgments they would thereby bring upon themselves verse 16–18. 

(1.)           He prescribes the following song to be a witness against them verse 19–21.

(2.)      Moses wrote it verse 22. And delivered it to Yisrael, with an intimation of the design of it, as he had received it from YAHVEH verse 28, etc.

Deu 31:1  And Mosheh went and spoke these words to all Yisra’ĕl, Every true spiritual leader, should speak all of the Words of EL YAHVEH to the people.  - There are some churches who only preach some of the Word, just enough to keep the people captivated.

Deu 31:2 and he said to them, “I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And יהוה  has said to me, ‘You do not pass over this Yardĕn.’ - Moses does so to the children of Yisrael: not because he was ask to go to Father יהוה , but because he was asked to leave them, fearing that when he had left them they would leave YAHVEH.

He had finished what he had to say to them by way of counsel and exhortation: here he calls them together to give them a word of encouragement, especially with reference to the wars of Canaan, in which they were now to engage.

It was a discouragement to them that Moses was to be removed at a time when it seems like he could not be spared: though Joshua was continued to fight for them in the valley, they would want Moses to intercede for them on the hill, as he did, Ex. 17:10.

But there is no remedy: Moses can no more go out and come in. Not that he was disabled by any decay either of body or mind; for his natural force was not abated, ch. 24:7.

But he cannot any longer discharge his office; for. He is 120 years old, and it is time for him to think of resigning his honor and returning to his rest.

He that had arrived at so great an age then, when seventy or eighty was the ordinary stint, as appears by the prayer of Moses (Ps. 90:10), might well think that he had accomplished as a hireling his day. He is under a divine sentence: Thou shalt not go over Jordan.

Deu 31:3 “יהוה  your Elohim Himself is passing over before you. He shall destroy these nations from before you and you possess them. Yehoshua himself is passing over before you, as יהוה  has spoken. - He encourages the people; and never could any general animate his soldiers upon such good grounds as those on which Moses here encourages Yisrael.

He assures them of the constant presence of יהוה  with them: YAHVEH thy יהוה . that has led thee and kept thee hitherto will go over before thee; and those might follow boldly who were sure that they had יהוה  for their leader. He repeats it again verse 6 with an emphasis:

YAHVEH our EL, the great Elohim, who is thine in covenant, HE it is, HE and no less, HE and no other, that goes before thee; not only who by his promise has assured thee that he will go before thee; but by his ark, the visible token of his presence, shows thee that he does actually go before thee.’’ And he repeats it with enlargement:

 "Not only he goes over before us at first, to bring us in, but He will continue with us all along, with us and thine; he will not fail thee nor forsake thee; He will not disappoint thy expectations in any strait, nor will he ever desert thy interest; be constant to him, and he will be so to thee.’’

This is applied by the apostle to all Yah’s spiritual Yisrael, for the encouragement of their faith and hope; unto us is this gospel preached, as well as unto them He will never fail thee, nor forsake thee, Heb. 13:5. 2. He commends Joshua to them for a leader: Joshua, he shall go over before thee.

One whose conduct, and courage, and sincere affection to their interest, they had had long experience of; and one whom YAHVEH had ordained and appointed to be their leader, and therefore, no doubt, would own and bless, and make a blessing to them. See Num. 27:18. It is a great encouragement to a people when, instead of some useful instruments that are removed, YAHVEH raises up others to carry on his work.

Deu 31:4 “And יהוה shall do to them as He did to Siḥon and to Oḡ, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them. - Two things might encourage our hopes of this: The victories that wehave already obtained over Sihon and Og, from which we might infer both the power of יהוה , that he could do what He had done, and the purpose of יהוה , that He would finish what He had begun to do.

Deu 31:5 “And יהוה  shall give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the command which I have commanded you. – Every word of Torah must improve our experience. The command יהוה  had given them to destroy the Canaanites (ch. 7:2; 12:2), to which he refers here in this verse, that you may do unto them according to all which I have commanded you), and from which they might infer that, if יהוה  had commanded us to destroy the Canaanites, no doubt He would put it into the power of our hands to do it.

Deu 31:6 “Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be afraid of them. For it is יהוה  your Elohim who is going with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you.” - What יהוה  has made our duty we have reason to expect opportunity and assistance from him for the doing of. So that from all this he had reason enough to bid them be strong and of a good courage. While they had the power of יהוה  engaged for them they had no reason to fear all the powers of Canaan engaged against them.

Deu 31:7 And Mosheh called Yehoshua and said to him before the eyes of all Yisra’ĕl, “Be strong and courageous, for you are going with this people to the land which יהוה  has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to let them inherit it. - He encourages Joshua. Observe, though Joshua was an experienced general, and a man of approved gallantry and resolution, who had already signalized himself in many brave actions, yet Moses saw cause to bid him be of good courage, now that he was entering upon a new scene of action.

Yehoshua was far from taking it as an affront, or as a tacit questioning of his courage, to be charged, as sometimes we find proud and peevish spirits invidiously taking exhortations and admonitions for reproaches and reflections.

Yehoshua himself is very well pleased to be admonished by Moses to be strong and of good courage. He gives him this charge in the sight of all Yisrael, that they might be the more observant of him whom they saw thus solemnly inaugurated, and that he might set himself the more to be an example of courage to the people who were witnesses to this charge here given to him as well as to themselves.

Deu 31:8 “And it is יהוה  who is going before you, He Himself is with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be discouraged.” - He gives him the same assurances of the divine presence, and consequently of a glorious success, that he had given the people. YAHVEH would be with him, would not forsake him, and therefore he should certainly accomplish the glorious enterprise to which he was called and commissioned.

Thou shalt cause them to inherit the land of promise. Those that have YAHVEH with them shall do well and therefore they ought to be of good courage. Through YAHVEH let us do valiantly, for through him we shall do victoriously; if we resist the devil, he shall flee, and YAHVEH shall shortly tread him under our feet.

Deu 31:9 And Mosheh wrote this Torah and gave it to the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה, and to all the elders of Yisra’ĕl. - The law was given by Moses; so it is said, Jn. 1:17. He was not only entrusted to deliver it to that generation, but to transmit it to the generations to come; and here it appears that he was faithful to that trust.

Moses wrote this law, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This is the five books of Moses, which are often called the law; though Moses had written most of the Pentateuch before, yet he did not finish it till now; now he put his last hand to that sacred volume. Many think that the law here (especially since it is called this law, this grand abridgment of the law) is to be understood of this book of Deuteronomy; all those discourses to the people which have taken up this whole book, he, being in them divinely inspired, wrote them as the word of YAHVEH.

He wrote this law. That those who had heard it might often review it themselves, and call it to mind. That it might be the more safely handed down to posterity. The church has received abundance of advantage from the writing, as well as from the preaching, of divine things; faith comes not only by hearing, but by reading.

The same care that was taken of the law, thanks be to YAHVEH, is taken of the gospel too; soon after it was preached it was written, that it might reach to those on whom the ends of the world shall come.

The Hebrew word for gospel is Besorah or the good new. The good new is that Yahushua came and fulfilled all of the laws, perfectly, and he has become our mediator.

Deu 31:10 And Mosheh commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths, - He appointed the public reading of the law that was place on the outside of the Ark to the general assembly of all Yisrael every seventh year. This law was not to be internalize, as the one that was place inside of the Ark. The Law that was place on the inside of the Ark was read in the synagogue every sabbath day, Acts 15:21. 

In that year the land rested, was a good time for the people to read the Law that was place on the outside of the Ark. In the Seven year, the people would have more time on their hands. Servants to sin who were then discharged, and poor debtors who were acquitted from their debts, must know that, having their sins forgiven was ther most important thing in the world. As the first six year is to free us from our bondage to the flesh, the seventh year we should remind our selves from what we were freed. It was justly expected they should yield obedience to it, and therefore give up themselves to be YAH’s servants, because he had loosed their bonds.

 The year of release was typical of gospel grace, which therefore is called the acceptable year of YAHVEH; for our remission and liberty by Yahushua engage us to keep his commandments, Lu. 1:74, 75.

At the feast of tabernacles in that year. In that feast they were particularly required to rejoice before YAHVEH, Lev. 23:40. Therefore, then they must read the law, both to qualify their mirth and keep it in deu bounds, and to sanctify their mirth, that they might make the law of YAHVEH the matter of their rejoicing.

Deu 31:11 when all Yisra’ĕl comes to appear before יהוה  your Elohim in the place which He chooses, read this Torah before all Yisra’ĕl in their hearing. - To whom it must be read: To all Yisrael, men, women, and children, and the strangers, verse 12.

The women and children were not obliged to go up to the other feasts, but to this one in which the law that was place outside of the Ark was read. It is the will of יהוה  that all people should acquaint themselves with His word.

It is a rule to all, and therefore should be read to all. It is supposed that, since all Yisrael could not possibly meet in one place, nor could one man’s voice reach them all, as many as the courts of YAHVEH’s house would hold met there, and the rest at the same time in their synagogues.

The hearers were bound to prepare their hearts, and to hear with fear and reverence, and with joy and trembling, as in the day when the law was given on Mount Sinai.

Though there were great and wise men who knew the whole law very well, yet they were bound to hear with great attention; for he that reads is the messenger of the congregation to cause the words of YAHVEH to be heard.

I wish those that hear the gospel read and preached would consider this. By whom it must be read: Thou shalt read it verse 11, "Thou, O Yisrael,’’ by a proper person appointed for that purpose.

"Thou, O Joshua,’’ their chief ruler; accordingly we find that he did read the law himself, Jos. 8:34, 35. So did Josiah, 2 Chr. 34:30, and Ezra, Neh. 8:3. And the Jews say that the king himself (when they had one) was the person that read in the courts of the temple, that a pulpit was set up for that purpose in the midst of the court, in which the king stood.

This Book of the law that was place on the out side of the Ark, was delivered to him by the high priest, that he stood up to receive it, uttered a prayer (as every one did that was to read the law in public) before he read; and then, if he pleased, he might sit down and read.

 But if he read standing it was thought the more commendable, as (they say) king Agrippa did. Here let me offer it as a conjecture that Solomon is called the preacher, in his Ecclesiastes, because he delivered the substance of that book in a discourse to the people, after his public reading of the law in the feast of tabernacles, according to this appointment here.

Deu 31:12 “Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn to fear יהוה  your Elohim and guard to do all the Words of this Torah. - For what reason it must be read. That the present generation might hereby keep up their acquaintance with the law of YAHVEH. They must hear, that they may learn, and fear יהוה , and observe to do their duty. See here what we are to aim at in hearing the word; we must hear, that we may learn and grow in knowledge; and every time we read the scriptures we shall find that there is still more and more to be learned out of them.

We must learn, that we may fear YAHVEH, that is, that we may be duly affected with divine things; and must fear YAHVEH, that we may observe and do the words of his law; for in vain do we pretend to fear him if we do not obey him.

WE must Fear YAHVEH for HE promise to send Deut 28:15 – 68 upon or against us if we move away from HIS Commandments.

Deu 31:13 “And their children, who have not known it, should hear and learn to fear יהוה  your Elohim as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yardĕn to possess.” - That the next generation might be leavened with the pure religion; not only that those who know something may thus know more, but that the children who have not known any thing may also know this, how much it is their interest as well as duty to fear YAHVEH. Also important that when a people reach maturity, as entering into the Land represent, should by then learn to Fear EL YAHVEH. One of the Fruit of the Spirit is the Spirit of Knowledge and the Fear of EL YAHVEH, Isaiah 11:2.

In building our Menorah, the Last Spirit to be develop is the Spirit of the Fear of EL YAHVEH, that is why on the Seventh year the year we become mature, we are warned to read this Law to the people.

Deu 31:14 And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “See, the days have drawn near for you to die. Call Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, so that I command him.” And Mosheh and Yehoshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. - Moses and Joshua are summoned to attend the divine majesty at the door of the tabernacle. Moses is told again that he must shortly die; even those that are most ready and willing to die have need to be often reminded of the approach of death.

In consideration of this, he must come himself to meet YAHVEH; for whatever improves our communion with YAHVEH furthers our preparation for death. He must also bring Joshua with him to be presented to YAHVEH for a successor, and to receive his commission and charge.

Moses readily obeys the summons, for he was not one of those that look with an evil eye upon their successors, but, on the contrary, rejoiced in him.

Deu 31:15 And יהוה  appeared at the Tent in a column of a cloud, and the column of a cloud stood above the door of the Tent. - YAHVEH graciously gives them the meeting: He appeared in the tabernacle (as the shechinah used to appear) in a pillar of a cloud.

This is the only time in all this book that we read of the glory of יהוה  appearing, whereas we often read of it in the three former books, which perhaps signifies that in the latter days, under the evangelical law, such visible appearances as these of the divine glory are not to be expected, but we must take heed to the more sure word of prophecy.

It is a our Seventh year that the Glory of EL YAHVEH will come and rest upon us. When we become the Ark of the Covenant, HE will speak to us with an Audible Voice.

Deu 31:16 And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “See, you are about to sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise and whore after the mighty ones of the strangers of the land into the midst of which they shall enter, and forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. - He tells Moses that, after his death, the covenant which he had taken so much pains to make between Yisrael and their יהוה  would certainly be broken. - That Yisrael would forsake יהוה . And we may be sure that if the covenant between יהוה  and man will be broken the blame must lie on man alone, it is man that breaks it; we have often observed it, That יהוה  never leaves any till they first leave him. Worshipping the gods of the Canaanites (who had been the natives, but henceforward were to be looked upon as the strangers of that land) would undoubtedly be counted a deserting of יהוה , and, like adultery, a violation of the covenant.

Our Father only desire us to leave this world when we become mature like Moses, Father YAHVEH do not require us to die like men, but to live like a god. Moses most certainly lives like a god, for he was a god to Pharaoh.

Gentlemen and Ladies we are gods having a fleshly experience. When we live like gods, it will not be difficult for us to walk towards our final resting place. We will do it without hesitation

Deu 31:17 “Then My displeasure shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, and it shall be said in that day, ‘Is it not because our Elohim is not in our midst that these evils have come upon us?’ - Thus still those are revolt from Messiyah, and will be so adjudged, who either make a god of their money by reigning covetousness or a god of their belly by reigning sensuality.

Deu 31:18 “And I shall certainly hide My face in that day, because of all the evil which they have done, for they shall turn to other mighty ones. - Those that turn to other gods forsake their own mercies. This apostasy of theirs is foretold to be the effect of their prosperity verse 20): They shall have eaten and filled themselves; this is all they will aim at in eating, to gratify their own appetites, and then they will wax fat, grow secure and sensual.

Their security will take off their dread of YAHVEH and his judgments; and their sensuality will incline them to the idolatries of the heathen, which made provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it.

YAHVEH has a clear and infallible foresight of all the wickedness of the wicked, and has often covenanted with those who he knew would deal very treacherously (Isa. 48:8), and conferred many favors on those who he knew would deal very ungratefully.

That there EL would forsake Yisrael; and justly does he cast those off who had so unjustly cast him off: My anger shall be kindled against them, and I will forsake them.

His providence would forsake them, no longer to protect and prosper them, and then they would become a prey to all their neighbors. His spirit and grace would forsake them, no longer to teach and guide them, and then they would be more and more bigoted, besotted, and hardened in their idolatries.

Therefore much evils and troubles would befall them. verse 17, 21), which would be such manifest indications of YAH’S displeasure against them that they themselves would be constrained to own it.

We have these evils come upon us, because our Elohim is not among us? Those that have sinned away their Elohim will find that they pull all mischiefs upon their own heads. But that which completed their misery was that YAHVEH would hide his face from them in that day, that day of their trouble and distress, verse 18.

Whatever outward troubles we are in, if we have but the light of YAH’S countenance, we may be preserving. But, if יהוה  hide his face from our prayers, and us we are undone. The term hid is face, means that we are no longer in is favor, His angels cannot protect us, and our insurance policy has been cancelled.

Deu 31:19 “And now write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Put it in their mouths, so that this song is to Me for a witness against the children of Yisra’ĕl. - He directs Moses to deliver them a song, in the composing of which he should be divinely inspired, and which should remain a standing testimony for YAHVEH as faithful to them in giving them warning, and against them as persons false to themselves in not taking the warning.

 The written word in general, as well as this song in particular, is a witness for YAHVEH against all those that break covenant with him. It shall be for a testimony, Mt. 24:14. The wisdom of man has devised many ways of conveying the knowledge of good and evil, by laws, histories, prophecies, proverbs, and, among the rest, by songs; each has its advantages. The wisdom of YAHVEH has in the scripture made use of them all, that ignorant and careless men might be left inexcusable.

Deu 31:20 And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant. – The goal of everyone of the mighty Hand is to lead each believer to the Land flowing with milk and Honey, which is indicative of Full Maturity. However, even though we have such a great promise, some people will still pursue other false gods.

Deu 31:21 “And it shall be, when many evils and distresses come upon them, that this song shall answer before them as a witness. For it is not to be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know their thoughts which they are forming today, even before I bring them to the land of which I swore to give them.” - This song, if rightly improved, might be a means to prevent their apostasy; for in the indicting of it YAHVEH had an eye to their present imagination, now, before they were brought into the land of promise.

 knew very well that there were in their hearts such gross conceits of the deity, and such inclinations of idolatry, that they would be tinder to the sparks of that temptation; and therefore in this song he gives them warning of their danger that way.

The word of יהוה  is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of men’s hearts, and meets with them strangely by its reproofs and corrections, Heb. 4:12. Compare 1 Co. 14:25. Ministers who preach the word know not the imaginations men go about, but YAHVEH, whose word it is, knows perfectly.

If this song did not prevent their apostasy, yet it might help to bring them to repentance, and to recover them from their apostasy. When their troubles come upon them, this song shall not be forgotten, but may serve as a glass to show them their own faces, that they may humble themselves, and return to him from whom they have revolted. Those for whom יהוה  has mercy in store he may leave to fall, yet he will provide means for their recovery. Medicines are prepared beforehand for their cure.

Deu 31:22 And Mosheh wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Yisra’ĕl.

Deu 31:23 And He commanded Yehoshua son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you are to bring the children of Yisra’ĕl into the land of which I swore to them, and I Myself am with you.” - The charge is given to Joshua, which יהוה  has said in verse 14, he would give him. The same in effect that Moses had given him. The same in effect that Moses had given him verse 7: Be strong and of a good courage, verse 23.

Joshua had now heard from Father יהוה  so much of the wickedness of the people whom he was to have the conduct of as could not but be a discouragement to him: "Nay,’’ says יהוה , "how bad so ever they are, thou shalt go through thy understanding, for I will be with thee.

Thou shall put them into possession of Canaan. If they afterwards by their sin throw themselves out of it again, that will be no fault of thine, nor any dishonor to thee, therefore be of good courage.’’

Deu 31:24 And it came to be, when Mosheh had completed writing the Words of this Torah in a book, until their completion, - The solemn delivery of the book of the law to the Levites, to be deposited in the side of the ark, is here again related verse 24–26, of which before.

Moses was directed where to store this particular book of the law, not in the ark, but in another box by the side of the ark.

This Book of the Law is found in Deuteronomy 28:15 – 68, and it contains the Curse of the Law that will come against us as a Policeman, will come after us if we brake the law of the country we lived in. The following words says, that it may be a witness against thee, may particularly point at that event, which happened so long after; for the finding of this very book occasioned the public reading of it by Josiah himself, for a witness against a people who were then almost ripe for their ruin by the Babylonians. Years later, Christian would used Collision 2:14 to say that there Jesus nail the law to the Cross, so they do not have to do it anymore.

Deu 31:25 that Mosheh commanded the Lĕwites, who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה , saying, - The song which follows in the next chapter is here delivered to Moses, and by him to the people. He wrote it first verse 22, as the Spirit of YAHVEH indicted it, and then spoke it in the ears of all the congregation verse 30, and taught it to them verse 22, that is, gave out copies of it, and ordered the people to learn it by heart. However the law that was place on the outside of the Ark was to be read to them once a year.

It was delivered by word of mouth first, and afterwards in writing, to the elders and officers, as the representatives of their respective tribes verse 28, by them to be transmitted to their several families and households.

It was delivered to them with a solemn appeal to Heavens and earth concerning the fair warning which was given them by it of the fatal consequences of their apostasy from YAHVEH, and with a declaration of the little joy and little hope Moses had in and concerning them.

Deu 31:26 “Take this Book of the Torah, and you shall place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of YAHVEH your Elohim, and it shall be there as a witness against you, - Most Christian have never read this verse. When they read Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; Notice clearly the jest of both verse. "Against us" This is the Law that is against! Which laws are these? Read the following Scripture to find out.

Deu 28:15 Obey YAHVEH your El, and faithfully follow all his commands and laws that I am giving you today. If you don't, all these curses will come against you and stay close to you:
Deu 28:16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Deu 28:17 The grain you harvest and the bread you bake will be cursed.

Deu 28:18 You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.

Deu 28:19 You will be cursed when you come and cursed when you go.

Deu 28:20 YAHVEH will send you curses, panic, and frustration in everything you do until you're destroyed and quickly disappear for the evil you will do by abandoning YAHVEH.

Deu 28:21 YAHVEH will send one plague after another on you until he wipes you out of the land you're about to enter and take possession of.

Deu 28:22 YAHVEH will strike you with disease, fever, and inflammation; heat waves, drought, scorching winds, and ruined crops. They will pursue you until you die.

Deu 28:23 The sky above will look like bronze, and the ground below will be as hard as iron.

Deu 28:24 YAHVEH will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you're destroyed.

Deu 28:25 YAHVEH will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction but run away from them in seven directions. You will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms in the world.

Deu 28:26 Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals. There will be no one to scare them away.

Deu 28:27 YAHVEH will strike you with the same boils that plagued the Egyptians. He will strike you with hemorrhoids, sores, and itching that won't go away.

Deu 28:28 YAHVEH will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.

Deu 28:29 You will grope in broad daylight as blind people grope in their blindness. You won't be successful in anything you do. As long as you live, you will be oppressed and robbed with no one to rescue you.

Deu 28:30 You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will have sex with her. You will build a house, but you won't live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you won't enjoy the grapes.

Deu 28:31 Your ox will be butchered as you watch, but you won't eat any of its meat. You will watch as your donkey is stolen from you, but you'll never get it back. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue it.

Deu 28:32 You will watch with your own eyes as your sons and daughters are given to another nation. You will strain your eyes looking for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do.

Deu 28:33 People you never knew will eat what your land and your hard work have produced. As long as you live, you will know nothing but oppression and abuse.

Deu 28:34 The things you see will drive you mad.

Deu 28:35 YAHVEH will afflict your knees and legs with severe boils that can't be cured. The boils will cover your whole body from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

Deu 28:36 YAHVEH will lead you and the king you choose to a nation that you and your ancestors never knew. There you will worship gods made of wood and stone.

Deu 28:37 You will become a thing of horror. All the nations where YAHVEH will send you will make an example of you and ridicule you.

Deu 28:38 You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little because locusts will destroy your crops.

Deu 28:39 You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you won't drink any wine or gather any grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deu 28:40 You will have olive trees everywhere in your country but no olive oil to rub on your skin, because the olives will fall off the trees.

Deu 28:41 You will have sons and daughters, but you won't be able to keep them because they will be taken as prisoners of war.

Deu 28:42 Crickets will swarm all over your trees and the crops in your fields.

 Deu 28:43 The standard of living for the foreigners who live among you will rise higher and higher, while your standard of living will sink lower and lower.

Deu 28:44 They will be able to make loans to you, but you won't be able to make loans to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Deu 28:45 All these curses will come to you. They will pursue you and stay close to you until you're destroyed, because you didn't obey YAHVEH your El or follow his commands and laws, which I'm giving you.

Deu 28:46 These curses will be a sign and an amazing thing to warn you and your descendants forever.

Deu 28:47 You didn't serve YAHVEH your El with a joyful and happy heart when you had so much.

Deu 28:48 So you will serve your enemies, whom YAHVEH will send against you. You will serve them even though you are already hungry, thirsty, naked, and in need of everything. YAHVEH will put a heavy burden of hard work on you until he destroys you.

Deu 28:49 YAHVEH will bring against you a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth. The nation will swoop down on you like an eagle. It will be a nation whose language you won't understand.

Deu 28:50 Its people will be fierce-looking. They will show no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Deu 28:51 They'll eat the offspring of your animals and the crops from your fields until you're destroyed. They'll leave you no grain, no new wine, no olive oil, no calves from your herds, and no lambs or kids from your flocks. They'll continue to do this until they've completely ruined you.

Deu 28:52 They will blockade all your cities until the high, fortified walls in which you trust come down everywhere in your land. They'll blockade all the cities everywhere in the land that YAHVEH your El is giving you.

Deu 28:53 Because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade, you will eat the flesh of your own children, the sons and daughters, whom YAHVEH your El has given you.

Deu 28:54 Even the most tender and sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

Deu 28:55 He will give none of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all that he has left, because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of all your cities.

Deu 28:56 The most tender and sensitive woman among you-so sensitive and tender that she wouldn't even step on an ant-will become stingy toward the husband she loves or toward her own son or daughter.

Deu 28:57 She won't share with them the afterbirth from her body and the children she gives birth to. She will secretly eat them out of dire necessity, because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of your cities.

Deu 28:58 You might not faithfully obey every word of the teachings that are written in this book. You might not fear this glorious and awe-inspiring name:  YAHVEH your El..

Deu 28:59 If so, YAHVEH will strike you and your descendants with unimaginable plagues. They will be terrible and continuing plagues and severe and lingering diseases.

Deu 28:60 He will again bring all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

Deu 28:61 YAHVEH will also bring you every kind of sickness and plague not written in this Book of Teachings. They will continue until you're dead.

Deu 28:62 At one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky. But only a few of you will be left, because you didn't obey YAHVEH your El..

Deu 28:63 At one time YAHVEH was more than glad to make you prosperous and numerous. Now YAHVEH will be more than glad to destroy you and wipe you out. You will be torn out of the land you're about to enter and take possession of.

Deu 28:64 Then YAHVEH will scatter you among all the people of the world, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve gods made of wood and stone that neither you nor your ancestors ever knew.

Deu 28:65 Among those nations you will find no peace, no place to call your own. There YAHVEH will give you an unsettled mind, failing eyesight, and despair.

Deu 28:66 Your life will always be hanging by a thread. You will live in terror day and night. You will never feel sure of your life.

These are the Laws that Col 2:14 He did this by erasing the charges that were brought against us by the written laws which YAHVEH has established. He took the curses away by nailing them to the cross. This is what El Yahushua did at Calvery for all of humanity who believe in Him. He bore the condemnation for our sin.

The law that is against us is like unto a Policeman stands as a sign against us, much like Deutoronomy 28:15-68 is a deterence, for us to keep the law that is place inside of us.  It is against us as a reminder for us to be fearfull of breaking the Laws of the Kingdom of Heavens. However, when we break the law, the Police like the Laws of Deut 28:15-68 will come upon us and overtake us. If we continue to be disobedience, the Police will continue to arrest us, untill we pay the penalty for disobedience.

Compare the following two verses:

Exo 40:20 He took the Words of YAHVEH's promise and put them in the Ark. He put the poles on the Ark and placed the throne of mercy on top of the ark. - The two following verse one Old Testament and one New Testament proves without a shadow of a doubt that this law was not done away with. Jer 31:33; Hebrew 8:10 “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisrael; After those days, saith YAHVEH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people”.

All two verses above speak of the same goal, the placing of the Law in out inward parts. However, the interesting part is that the Book of Hebrew, a New Testament Scripture repeated the same exact sentiments of Jeremiah 31:33. How then could the whole entire law be nail to the Cross, when the Book of Hebrew that was written after Calvary, repeat that the New Covenant is to place the law in our hearts.

 Deu 31:26 "Take this Book of Teachings, and put it next to the Ark of the promise of YAHVEH our El, where it will be a witness against us. When anyone asks you what was nail to the Cross, just tell them, the curse of my sins. When Yahushua died on the Stake He accomplish the following verses. Lev 16:29  And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: 30  For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before YAHVEH. 31  It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.  32  And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments: 33  And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. 34  And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Yisrael for all their sins once a year. And he did as YAHVEH commanded Moses.

Every year on the seventh month and tenth day, the Day of Atonement our Yahushua HaMashiach perform this sacrifice for us. If we do not celebrate this day in faith, our Messiyah will not be making any atonement for us.

Deu 31:27 for I myself know your rebellion and your stiff neck. See, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against יהוה , then how much more after my death? - He declares what little joy he had had of them while he was with them. It is not in a passion that he says, I know thy rebellion (as once he said unadvisedly, Hear now, you rebels), but it is the result of a long acquaintance with them: you have been rebellious against YAHVEH. Their rebellions against himself he makes no mention of: these he had long since forgiven and forgotten; but they must be made to hear of their rebellions against YAHVEH, that they may be ever repented of and never repeated.

Deu 31:28 “Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I speak these words in their hearing and call the Heavens and the earth to witness against them. - The Law on the outside of the Ark is a continuous witness against us. Therefore when we see these calamities coming against us we may know that it is the Will of YAHVEH for these things to overtake us. Today believers tend to rationalize our sickness, blaming some viruses, when the real cause is sin.

Deu 31:29 “For I know that after my death you shall do very corruptly and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil shall come to you in the latter days, because you do what is evil in the eyes of  יהוה , to provoke Him through the work of your hands.” - because you do what is evil in the eyes of  YAHVEH, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.” - What little hopes he had of them now that he was leaving them. From what  יהוה  had now said to him verse 16 more than from his own experience of them, though that was discouraging enough, he tells them.

I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves. Many a sad thought, no doubt, it occasioned to this good man, to foresee the apostasy and ruin of a people he had taken so much pains with, in order to them good and make them happy.

But this was his comfort that he had done his duty, and that YAHVEH would be glorified, if not in their settlement, yet in their dispersion. Thus our Yahushua, a little before His death, foretold the rise of false Messiyah and false prophets (Mt. 24:24), notwithstanding which, and all the apostasies of the latter times, we may be confident that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church, for the foundation of ABBA YAHVEH stands sure.

Deu 31:30 So Mosheh spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl the words of this song till their completion: - Every good leader will always speak the Law or the Constitution of the Kingdom to the People. An assembly is not to preach to individual every Shabbat, it is for us to sit and learn the Principles of the Kingdom and practice them.

Thank you for experiencing another Torah Cycle. May you continue to grow like the Almond Tree, producing the fruit of the Spirit every day. May you grow in the Spirit of Understand, in Knowledge and walk in Wisdom of Torah?

Haftarah

Hoshea 14:2-10

Hos 14:2 Take words with you, and return to יהוה . Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips¹. Footnote: ¹Heb. 13:15 - bulls, referring to offerings. -  Promising words. These also are put into their mouths, not to influence YAHVEH, or to oblige HIM to show them mercy, but to move themselves, and oblige themselves to returns of duty.

Our prayers for pardon and acceptance from YAHVEH should always be to accompanied with sincere purposes and vows of new obedience. Two things they are to promise and vow:

First thanksgiving. "Pardon our sins, and accept of us, so will we render the words of our lips.’’ The fruit of our lips, a word they used for burnt-offerings, and so it agrees with the Hebrew.

The apostle quotes this phrase in (Heb. 13:15), and by the fruit of our lips understands the sacrifice of praise to YAHVEH, giving thanks to HIS Holy Name. Praise and thanksgiving are our spiritual sacrifice, and, if they come from an upright heart, it shall please YAHVEH better than an ox or bullock, Ps. 69:30, 32.

The meaning of our pardon and acceptance with YAHVEH will enlarge our hearts in praise and thankfulness. Those that are received graciously may, and must, render the calves of their lips, poor returns for rich receivings, yet, if sincere, more acceptable than the calves of the stall.

Amendment of life. They are taught to promise, not only verbal acknowledgements, but a real reformation. And we are taught here.

In our returns to YAHVEH is to establish a covenant against sin. We cannot expect that YAHVEH should take it away by forgiving it if we do not put it away by forsaking it.

We should be particular in our covenants and resolutions against sin, as we ought to be in our confession, because deceit lies in generals. To covenant especially and expressly against those sins which we have been most subject to, which have most easily beset us, and which we have been most frequently overcome by.

We must keep ourselves from, and therefore must thus fortify ourselves against, our own iniquity, Ps. 18:23. The sin that they are covenant against, owning thereby that they had been guilty of it, is giving that glory to another which is due to YAHVEH only; this they promise they will never do.

First, by putting that confidence in people which should be put in YAHVEH only. They will not trust to their alliances abroad: Asshur (that is, Assyria) shall not save us. "We will not court the help of the Assyrians when we are in distress, as we have done (ch. 5:13; 7:11; 8:9); we will not contract for it, nor will we confide in it, or depend upon it.

Having a EL to go to, a EL all-sufficient to trust to, we scorn to be subjugated to the Assyrians for help.’’ They will not trust to their warlike preparations at home, especially not those which they were forbidden to multiply: "We will not ride upon horses, that is, we will not make court to Egypt,’’ for thence they fetched their horses, Deu. 17:16; Isa. 30:16; 31:1, 3.

"When our enemies invade us we will depend upon our Elohim to succour our infantry, and will be in no care to remount our cavalry.’’ "We will not post on horseback, for haste, from one creature to another, to seek relief, but will take the nearest way, and the only sure way, by addressing ourselves to ABBA YAHVEH,’’ Isa. 20:5.

True repentance takes us off from trusting to an arm of flesh, and brings us to rely on YAHVEH only for all the good we stand in need of.

Secondly, Nor will they do it by paying that homage to creatures, which is due to YAHVEH only. We will not say any more to the works of our hands, You are our EL. They must promise never to worship idols again, and for a good reason, because it is the most absurd and senseless thing in the world to pray to that as a elohim which is the work of our hands. We must promise that we will not set our hearts upon the gains of this world, nor pride ourselves in our external performances in religion, for that is, in effect, to say to the work of our hands, You are our gods.

Hos 14:3 “Ashshur does not save us. We do not ride on horses, nor ever again do we say to the work of our hands, ‘Our mighty ones.’ For the fatherless finds compassion in You.” – Pleading words are here put into their mouths: For in thee the fatherless find mercy. We must take our encouragement in prayer, not from any merit YAHVEH finds in us, but purely from the mercy we hope to find in YAHVEH. This contains in itself a great truth, that YAHVEH takes special care of fatherless children, Ps. 68:4, 5.

So he did in his law, Ex. 22:22. So he does in his providence, Ps. 27:10. It is YAH’s prerogative to help the helpless. In him there is mercy for such, for they are proper objects of mercy. In him they find it; there it is laid up for them, and there they must seek it; seek and you shall find. It comes in here as a good plea for mercy and grace and an encouraging one to their faith.

They plead the distress of their state and condition: "We are fatherless orphans, destitute of help.’’ Those may expect to find help in YAHVEH that are truly sensible of their helplessness in themselves and are willing to acknowledge it. This is a good step towards comfort. "If we have not yet boldness to call YAHVEH Father, yet we look upon ourselves as fatherless without him, and therefore lay ourselves at his feet, to be looked upon by him with compassion.’’

They plead YAH’s wonted lovingkindness to such as were in that condition: With thee the fatherless not only may find, but does find, and shall find, mercy. It is a great encouragement to our faith and hope, in returning to YAHVEH, that it is HIS glory to father the fatherless and help the helpless.

Hos 14:4 “I shall heal their backsliding, I shall love them spontaneously, for My displeasure has turned away from him. -  We have here an answer of peace to the prayers of returning Yisrael. They seek YAH’s face, and they shall not seek in vain. YAHVEH will be sure to meet those in a way of mercy who return to HIM in a way of duty. If we speak to YAHVEH in good prayers, YAHVEH will speak to us in good promises, as HE answered the angel with good words and comfortable words, Zec. 1:13. If we take with us the foregoing words in our coming to HIM, we may take home with us these following words for our faith to feast upon; and see how these answer those.

WE should not dread and deprecate YAH’s displeasure, and therefore return to HIM? He assures them that, upon their submission, his anger is turned away from them. This is laid as the ground of all the other favours here promised. I will do so and so, for my anger is turned away, and thereby a door is opened for all good to flow to them, Isa. 12:1.

Though YAHVEH is justly and greatly angry with sinners, yet he is not implacable in his anger; it may be turned away; it shall be turned away, from those that turn away from their iniquity. YAHVEH will be reconciled to those that are reconciled to HIM and to HIS whole will.

Do they pray for the taking away of iniquity? He assures them that he will heal their backslidings; so he promised, Jer. 3:22. Though backslidings from YAHVEH are the dangerous diseases and wounds of the soul, yet they are not incurable, for YAHVEH has graciously promised that if backsliding sinners will apply to him as their physician, and comply with his methods, he will heal their backslidings. He will heal the guilt of their backslidings by pardoning mercy and their bent to backslide by renewing grace. Their iniquity shall not be their ruin.

Do they pray that YAHVEH will receive them graciously? In answer to that, behold, it is promised, I will love them freely. YAHVEH had hated them while they went on sin (ch. 9:15); but now that they return and repent he loves them, not only ceases to be angry with them, but takes complacency in them and designs their good.

He loves them freely, with an absolute entire love (so some), so that there are no remains of his former displeasure, with a liberal bountiful love (so others); HE will be open-handed in HIS love to them, and will think nothing too much to bestow upon them or to do for them. HE will not say in the day of thy repentance, How shall I receive thee again? as HE said in the day of thy apostasy, How shall I give thee up? Or with an unmerited preventing love. Whom YAHVEH loves he loves freely, not because they deserve it, but of his own good pleasure. He loves because he will love, Deut, 7:7, 8.

Hos 14:5 “I shall be like the dew to Yisra’ĕl. He shall blossom like the lily, and cast out his roots like Leḇanon. – What shall be the favour YAHVEH will bestow upon them. It is the blessing of their father Jacob, YAHVEH give thee the dew of heaven, Gen. 27:28. What they need, ABBA YAHVEH will not only give them, but HE will himself be that to them, all that which they need: I will be as the dew unto Yisrael. This ensures spiritual blessings in heavenly things; and it follows upon the healing of their backslidings, for pardoning mercy is always accompanied with renewing grace.

To Yisraelites indeed YAHVEH Himself will be as the dew. He will instruct them; his doctrine shall drop upon them as the dew, Deu. 32:2. They shall know more and more of him, for he will come to them as the rain, Hos. 6:3.

He will refresh them with his comforts, so that their souls shall be as a watered garden, Isa. 58:11. He will be to true penitents as the dew to Yisrael when they were in the wilderness, dew that had manna in it, Ex. 16:14; Num. 11:9.

The blessings of the Spirit are the hidden manna, hidden in the dew; YAHVEH will give them bread from heaven, as he did to Yisrael in the dew in abundance, Jn. 1:16.

What shall be the fruit of that favour which shall be produced in them. The Word thus freely bestowed on them shall not be in vain. Those souls, those Yisraelites, to whom YAHVEH is as the dew, on whom HIS grace distils,

Hos 14:6 “His branches shall spread, and his splendour shall be like an olive tree, and his fragrance like Leḇanon. – His Menorah shall grow as the branches of an Almond tree.  They shall grow upwards, and be more flourishing, shall grow as the Almond tree, or (as some read it) shall blossom as the rose. The root of the Almond tree seems lost in the ground all winter, but, when it is refreshed with the dews of the spring, it starts up in a little time; so the grace of YAHVEH improves young converts sometimes very fast. The Almond tree, when it has come to its height, is a lovely tree, so grace is the comeliness of the soul, Eze. 16:14. it is the beauty of holiness that is produced by the dew of the morning, Ps. 110:3.

They shall grow downwards, and be more firm. The Almond indeed grows fast, and grows fine,  and therefore it is here promised to Israel that with the flower of the Almond he shall have the root of the cedar: He shall cast forth his roots as Lebanon, as the trees of Lebanon, which, having taken deep root, cannot be plucked up, Amos 9:15.  Spiritual growth consists most in the growth of the root, which is out of sight. The more we depend upon Spirit of Messiyah and draw sap and virtue from Him, the more we act in religion from a principle and the more steadfast and resolved we are in it, the more we cast forth our roots.

They shall grow according to the Spiritual season as the Almond Tree grows according to the four seasons of the year.

Hos 14:7 “Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive like grain, and blossom like the vine, and become as fragrant as the wine of Leḇanon. – We shall grow as the vine, whose branches extend furthest of any tree. Joseph was to be a fruitful bough, Gen. 49:22. When many are added to the church from without, when a hopeful generation rises up, then Israel’s branches spread. When particular believers abound in good works, and increase in the knowledge of YAHVEH and in every good gift, then their branches may be said to spread. The inward man is renewed day by day.

They are here compared to such trees as are pleasant, To the sight: His beauty shall be as the olive-tree, which is always green. YAHVEH called thy name a green olive-tree, Jer. 11:16. Ordinances are the beauty of the Assembly, and in them it is, and shall be, ever green.

Holiness is the beauty of a soul; when those that believe with the heart make profession with the mouth, and justify and adorn that profession with an agreeable conversation, then their beauty is as the olive-tree, Ps. 52:8. It is a promise to the trees of righteousness that their leaf shall not wither.

To the smell: His smell shall be as Lebanon verse 6, and his scent as the wine of Lebanon,. This was the praise of their father Jacob, The smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed, Gen. 27:27. The Assembly is compared to a garden of spices (Cant. 4:12, 14), which all her garments smell of. True believers are acceptable to YAHVEH and approved of men. YAHVEH smells a sweet savour from their spiritual sacrifices (Gen. 8:21), and they are accepted of the multitude of the brethren. Grace is the perfume of the soul, the perfume of the name, makes it like a precious ointment, Eccl. 7:1.

The memorial thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon (so the margin reads it), not only their reviving comforts now, but their surviving honors when they are gone, shall be as the wine of Lebanon, that has a delicate flavour.

 Flourishing Assembly have their faith spoken of throughout the world (Rom. 1:8) and leave their name to be remembered (Ps. 45:17); and the memory of flourishing saints is blessed, and shall be so, as theirs who by faith obtained a good report.

They shall be fruitful and useful. The Assembly is compared here to the vine and the olive, which brings forth useful fruits, to the honor of YAHVEH and man. The very shadow of the Messianic Asssembly shall be agreeable: Those that dwell under HIS shadow shall return, under YAH’s shadow (so some), under the shadow of the Messiyahs, so the Chaldee. Believers dwell under YAH’s shadow (Ps. 91:1), and there they are and may be safe and easy.

But it is rather under the shadow of Yisrael, under the shadow of the Messianic Assembly. YAH’s promises pertain to those, and those only, that dwell under the church’s shadow, that attend on YAH’s ordinances and adhere to HIS people, not those that flee to that shadow only for shelter in a hot gleam, but those that dwell under it. Ps. 27:4.

We may apply it to particular believers; when a man is effectually brought home to YAHVEH all that dwell under his shadow, children, servants, subjects, friends. This day has salvation come to this house. Those that dwell under the shadow of the church shall return; their drooping spirits shall return, and they shall be refreshed and comforted. He restores my soul, Ps. 23:3.

They shall revive as the corn, which, when it is sown, dies first, and then revives, and brings forth much fruit, Jn. 12:24. It is promised that YAH’s people shall be blessings to the world, as corn and wine are. And a very great and valuable mercy it is to be serviceable to our generation. Comfort and honor attend.

Hos 14:8 “What more has Ephrayim to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after him. I am like a green cypress tree, your fruit comes from Me.” – Concerning Ephraim; he is spoken of and spoken to in this verse.

His repentance and reformation: Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? As some read it, YAHVEH here reasons and argues with him, why he should renounce idolatry: "O Ephraim! what to me and idols? What concord or agreement can there be between me and idols? What communion between light and darkness, between Messiyah and Belial? 2 Co. 6:14, 15.

Therefore we must break off our association with them if we will come into covenant with YAHVEH.’’ As we read it, YAHVEH promises to bring Ephraim and keep HIM to this: Ephraim shall say, YAHVEH will put it into his heart to say it, What have I to do any more with idols? He has promised in verse 3 not to say any more to the works of HIS hands, You are my EL.

Ephrain and Manassa were the only two tribe to be born in Egypt, the World. The Christian Church was born in Antioch, as Ephrain and Manassah. These two tribe means to be prosperious and fruitfull. The Christian church is the largest religion in the world, thay are certainly prosperious and fruitfull, and also forgetfull.

But YAH’s promises to us are much more for our security and our strength for the mortifying of sin that was promises to YAHVEH, and therefore YAHVEH HIMSELF is here surety for HIS servant to good, will put in into his heart and into his mouth. And, whatever good we say or do at any time, it is he that works it in us.

Ephraim had solemnly engaged not to call his idols his gods; but YAHVEH here engages further for him that he shall resolve to have no more to do with them. He shall abolish them, he shall abandon them, and that with the utmost detestation; for it is necessary not only that in our lives we be turned from sin, but that in our hearts we be turned against sin.

Ephraim had been joined to his idols (ch. 4:17), as christanity is joined to their idols. Christanity is  so fund of their good Friday, easter, their christmas tree, their sunday worship that one would have thought he could never fall out with them; and yet YAHVEH will work such a change in them that they shall loathe them as much as ever he loved them.

See the benefit of sanctified afflictions. Ephraim became smarted for his idolatry; it had brought one judgment after another upon him, and this at length is the fruit, even the taking away of his sin, Isa. 27:9.

See the nature of repentance; it is a firm and fixed resolution to have no more to do with sin. This is the language of the penitent: "I am ashamed that ever I had to do with sin; but I have had enough of it; I hate it, and by the grace of YAHVEH I will never have any thing to do with it again, no, not with the occasions of it.’’ Thou shalt say to thy idol, Get thee hence (Isa. 30:22), shalt say to the tempter, Get thee behind me, good Friday and hello Passover.

The gracious notice YAHVEH is pleased to take of it: I have heard him, and observed him. I have heard, and will look upon him; so some read it. The El of the heavens takes cognizance of the penitent reflections and resolutions of returning sinners.

He expects and desires the repentance of sinners, because he has no pleasure in their ruin. He looks upon men (Job 33:27), hearkens and hears, Jer. 8:6. And, if there be any disposition to repent, he is well pleased with it. When Ephraim bemoans himself before YAHVEH, he is a dear son, he is a pleasant child, Jer. 31:20.

He meets penitents with mercy, as the father of the prodigal met his returning son. YAHVEH observed Ephraim, to see whether he would bring forth fruits meet for this profession of repentance that he made, and whether he would continue in this good mind. He observed him to do him good, and comfort him, according to the exigencies of his case.

The mercy of YAHVEH designed for him, in order to his comfort and perseverance in his resolutions; still YAHVEH will be all in all to him. Before, Yisrael was compared to a tree, now YAHVEH compares HIMSELF to one. HE will be to HIS people. As the branches of a tree: "I am like a green fir-tree, and will be so to thee.’’ The fir-trees, in those countries, were exceedingly large and thick, and a shelter against sun and rain.

YAHVEH will be to all true converts both a delight and a defence; under his protection and influence they shall both dwell in safety and dwell in ease. He with be either a sun and a shield or a shade and a shield, according as their case requires. They shall sit down under his shadow with delight, Cant. 2:3. He will be so all weathers, Isa. 4:6.

As the root of a tree: From me is thy fruit found, which may be understood either of the fruit brought forth to us (to him we owe all our comforts) or of the fruit brought forth by us, from him we receive grace and strength to enable us to do our duty. Whatever fruits of righteousness we brought forth, all the praise of them is due to God; for he works in us both to will and to do that which is good.

Hos 14:9 Who is wise and understands these words, discerning and knows them? For the ways of יהוה  are straight, and the righteous walk in them, but the transgressors stumble in them. – The first two aspect of the Holy Spirit, the first two limbs of the Menorah are the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding. These two spirits produces decernment and knowledge.

Concerning every one that hears and reads the words of the prophecy of this book in the Spirit of Understanding will become wise: Who is wise? He that has understanding. Perhaps the prophet was wont to conclude that sermons he preached with these words, and now he closes with them the whole book, in which he has committed to writing some fragments of the many sermons he had preached.

The character of those that do profit by the Spirit of Truths will gain wisdom and understanding: Who is wise and prudent? He shall understand these things, he shall know them.

Those that set themselves to gain understand and know these things will appear that they are truly wise and prudent, and will thereby be made more so; and, if any do not understand and know them, it is because they are foolish and unwise.

Those that are wise are the ones who walk according to their understanding, in the doing of their duty, that are prudent in practical Torah, are most likely to know and understand both the truths and providences of YAHVEH, which are a mystery to others, Jn. 7:17.

The secret of YAHVEH is with those that fear him, and the Spirit of the Fear of YAHVEH, is one of the branches of the Menorah, Ps. 25:14. Who is wise? This intimates a desire that those who read and hear these things would understand them (O that they were wise!) and a complaint that few were so, Who has believed our report?

The excellency of these things concerning which we are here instructed: The ways of YAHVEH are right; and therefore it is our wisdom and duty to know and understand them. The way of YAH’s precepts, in which he requires us to walk, is right, agreeing with the rules of eternal reason and equity and having a direct tendency to our eternal felicity.

The ways of YAH’s providence, in which he walks toward us, are all right; no fault is to be found with any thing that YAHVEH does, for it is all well done. HIS judgments upon the impenitent, his favours to the penitent, are all right; however they may be perverted and misinterpreted, YAHVEH will at last be justified and glorified in them all. His ways are equal.

The different use which men make of them. The right ways of YAHVEH to those that are good are, and will be, a savour of life unto life: The just shall walk in them; they shall conform to the will of YAHVEH both in HIS precepts and in HIS providences, and shall have the comfort of so doing.

They shall understand the mind of YAHVEH, through the Spirit of Understanding, both in his word and in his works; they shall be well reconciled to both, and shall accommodate themselves to YAH’s intention in both. The just shall walk in those ways towards their great end, and shall not come short of it.

The right ways of YAHVEH will be to those that are wicked a savour of death unto death: that is why christian keep Sunday as their sabbath. The transgressors shall fall not only in their own wrong ways, but even in the right ways of YAHVEH.

Messiyah, who is a foundation stone to some, is to others a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. That which was ordained to life becomes through their abuse of it, death to them. YAh’s providences, being not duly improved by them, harden them in sin and contribute to their ruin. YAH’s discovery of HIMSELF both in the judgments of his mouth and in the judgments of his hand is to us according as we are affected under it. Recipitur ad modum recipientis, what is understood influences the receaver according to the qualities of the receiver. The same sun softens wax and hardens clay. But of all transgressors those certainly have the most dangerous fatal falls that fall in the ways of YAHVEH, that split on the rock of ages, and suck poison out of the balm of Gilead. Let the sinners in Zion be afraid of this.

Brit Chadash

Matthew 28:16-20

Mat 28:16 And the eleven taught ones went away into Galil, to the mountain which יהושע had appointed for them. – How the disciples attended HIS appearance, according to the appointment; They went into Galilee, a long journey to go for one sight of Messah, but it was worth while. They had seen him several times at Yerushalayim, and yet they went into Galilee, to see Him there.

Because he appointed them to do so. Though it seemed a needless thing to go into Galilee, to see him whom they might see at Yerushalayim, especially when they must so soon come back again to Yerushalayim, before his ascension, yet they had learned to obey Messiyah’s commands and not object against them.

Those who would maintain communion with Messiyah, must attend Him there where He has appointed. Those who have met Him in one ordinance, must attend Him in another; those who have seen Him at Yerushalayim, must go to Galilee.

Because that was to be a public and general meeting. They had seen Him themselves, and conversed with Him in private, but that should not excuse their attendance in a solemn assembly, where many were to be gathered together to see him.

Our communion with YAHVEH in secret must not supersede our attendance on public worship, as we have opportunity; for YAHVEH loves the gates of Zion, and so must we. The place was a mountain in Galilee, probably the same mountain on which He was transfigured. There they met, for privacy, and perhaps to signify the exalted state into which he was entered, and his advances toward the upper world.

Mat 28:17 And when they saw Him, they bowed to Him, but some doubted. – How they were affected with the appearance of Messiyah Yahushua to them. Now was the time that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, 1 Co. 15:6. Some think that they saw him, at first, at some distance, above in the air, ephtheµ epanoµ—He was seen above, of five hundred brethren (so they read it); which gave occasion to some to doubt, till he came nearer (v. 18), and then they were satisfied. We are told,

Mat 28:18 And יהושע came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. - The commission which our Messiyah Yahushua received himself from the Father. Being about to authorize His apostles, if any ask by what authority he doeth it, and who gave him that authority, here he tells us, All power is given unto me in the heavens and in earth; a very great word, and which none but he could say.

Hereby he asserts his universal dominion as Mediator, which is the great foundation of the Messianic Faith. He has all power.

 Whence he hath this power. He did not assume it, or usurp it, but it was given him, he was legally entitled to it, and invested in it, by a grant from him who is the Fountain of all being, and consequently of all power. YAHVEH set Him King (Ps. 2:6), inaugurated and enthroned him, Lu. 1:32. As YAHVEH, equal with the Father, all power was originally and essentially his; but as Mediator, as God-man, all power was given Him; partly in recompence of his work (because he humbled himself, therefore YAHVEH thus exalted him), and partly in pursuance of his design; he had this power given him over all flesh, that he might give eternal life to as many as were given him (Jn. 17:2), for the more effectual carrying on and completing our salvation.

This power he was now more signally invested in, upon his resurrection, Acts 13:3. He had power before, power to forgive sins (ch. 9:6); but now all power is given him. He is now going to receive for himself a kingdom (Lu. 19:12), to sit down at the right hand, Ps. 110:1. Having purchased it, nothing remains but to take possession; it is his own for ever.

Where he has this power; in heaven and earth, comprehending the universe. Christ is the sole universal Monarch, he is MASTER of all, Acts 10:36. He has all power in heaven. He has power of dominion over the angels, they are all his humble servants, Eph. 1:20, 21.

He has power of intercession with his Father, in the virtue of his satisfaction and atonement; he intercedes, not as a suppliant, but as a demandant; Father, I will. He has all power on earth too; having prevailed with YAHVEH, by the sacrifice of atonement, he prevails with men, and deals with them as one having authority, by the ministry of reconciliation.

He is indeed, in all causes and over all persons, supreme Moderator and Governor. By him kings reign. All souls are his, and to him every heart and knee must bow, and every tongue confess him to be the Master. This our Messiyah Yahushua tells them, not only to satisfy them of the authority he had to commission them, and to bring them out in the execution of their commission, but to take off the offence of the cross; they had no reason to be ashamed of Messiyaht crucified, when they saw him thus glorified.

Mat 28:19 “Therefore, go and make taught ones of all the nations, immersing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Set-apart Spirit, - The commission he gives to those whom He sent forth; Go ye therefore. This commission is given, to the apostles the mature students of Messiyah primarily, the chief ministers of state in Messiyah’s kingdom, the architects that laid the foundation of the church.

Now those that had followed Messiyah in the regeneration, were set on thrones (Lu. 22:30); Go ye. It is not only a word of command, like that, Son, go work, but a word of encouragement, Go, and fear not, have I not sent you? Go, and make a business of this work. They must not take state, and issue out summons to the nations to attend upon them; but they must go, and bring the gospel to their doors, Go ye.

They had doted on Messiyah’s bodily presence, and hung upon that, and built all their joys and hopes upon that; but now Messiyah discharges them from further attendance on his person, and sends them abroad about other work.

As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, to excite them to fly (Deu. 32:11), so Messiyah stirs up His disciples, to disperse themselves over all the world. It is given to their successors, the ministers of the gospel, whose business it is to transmit the gospel from age to age, to the end of the world in time, as it was theirs to transmit it from nation to nation, to the end of the world in place, and no less necessary.

The Old-Testament promise of a Messianic ministry is made to a succession (Isa. 59:21); and this must be so understood, otherwise how could Messiyah be with them always to the consummation of the world? Messiyah, at His ascension, gave not only apostles and prophets, but pastors and teachers, Eph. 4:11.

How far His commission is extended; to all nations. Go, and make mature believers, disciples all nations. Not that they must go all together into every place, but by consent disperse themselves in such manner as might best diffuse the light of the gospel.

Now this plainly signifies it to be the will of Messiyah, First, That the covenant of peculiarity, made with the Jews, should now be cancelled and disannulled. This word broke down the middle wall of partition, which had so long excluded the Gentiles from a visible church-state; and whereas the apostles, when first sent out, were forbidden to go into the way of the Gentiles, now they were sent to all nations.

Secondly, That salvation by Messiyah should be offered to all, and none excluded that did not by their unbelief and impenitence exclude themselves. The salvation they were to preach is a common salvation; whoever will, let him come, and take the benefit of the act of indemnity; for there is no difference of Jew or Greek in Yahushua HaMashiach.

Thirdly, That Messianic should be twisted in with national constitutions, that the kingdoms of the world should become Messiyah’s kingdoms, and their kings the Asembly’s nursing-fathers.

What is the principal intention of this commission; To disciple all nations. "Admit them disciples; To (1) Justify, (2) Deliver, (3) sanctify and (4) glorify every individual.’ Exodus 6:⁶“Therefore say to the children of Yisrael: ‘I am YAHVEH; (1)I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,(2) I will rescue you from their bondage, and (3)I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷‘(4)I will take you as My people, and I will be your EL. Then you shall know that I am YAHVEH your EL who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. ⁸‘And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am YAHVEH.”

Yahushua HaMashiach establish His covenant with His twelve disciples, His Mighty Hand. He then send them into the world to

(1)               to Justify, meaning to save the people from their sins, by placing the Blood from Messiyah feet over their lives.

(2)               To Deliver, is to cover them under the Blood that flow from Messiyah Side, and wash them in the water that flow from Messiyah’s side, much like Baptism.

(3)               To Sanctify, is the blood that flow from the right and left Hand of Messiyah, represent the Holy Spirit and the Torah.

(4)               To Glorification is the Blood that flow from the Crown of Thorns, this is praise and worship.

These four steps forms the different level to our spiritual growth. A disciple is a sent one, Messiyah does not send spiritual children to preach the good new of the kingdom. Those who are send are spiritually mature individual. How many socalled churches today preach spiritual maturity, or does the Pastor even know the steps to acheaving it.

The work which the apostles had to do, was, to set up the Messianic faith in all places, and it was honorable work; the achievements of the mighty heroes of the world were nothing to it. They conquered the nations for themselves, and made them miserable; the apostles conquered them for Messiyah, and made them happy.

Their instructions for executing this commission.

First, They must  baptism in the name of YAHVEH the Father, Yahushua the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh the Holy Spirit; "

This baptism is the reality of the Name of YAHVEH the Father, the reality of the Name of Yahushua, and the reality of the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Go into all nations, preach the gospel to them, work miracles among them, and persuade them to come in themselves, and bring their children with them, into the Assembly of Messiyah, and then admit them and theirs into the Messianic Assembly, by washing them with water that flowed from the side of Messiyah.

This Baplism is not mearly water, but the Water here is the Torah, the Word. Baptism is to submerge them into who YAHVEH is, who the Messiyah is and who the Holy Spirit is.

The Father name is not God, His Holy Name is YAHVEH (hvhy) as given in Genesis 2:5. The name of the Messiyah is Yahushua (fwvhy) not Jesus. We have church in the world today who deny that the name of the Eternal Father is, was and will always be YAHVEH EL ElYON.

Isaiah 42:⁸ I am YAHVEH, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another name, Nor My praise to carved images.” John 17:⁶ “I have manifested Your name “YAHVEH” to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. The Messianic Assembly does not used the name God, we used His Hebrew name of YAHVEH, Yahushua, and Ruach HaKodesh. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Mat 28:20 teaching them to guard all that I have commanded you. And see, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Amĕn. – It is the duty of the Mighty Hand to guard the Eternal Word, However, today the Word is not been taught my mature believers, bu profesional pastor, who have never completed their sixth days of creation.

They are still in their first day, still trying to learn truth, which is the principle of the first day. It is on the first day or fist year of our spiritual development that we learn what is right and what is wrong, as our Creator seperated light from darkness, truth from lie.

Most christian pastors have never learnt right from wrong, or else they would not have broken the 4^th commandment. If they had completed their first day of creation, they would have learnt that YAHVEH Word does not change.

As Scripture says Isaiah 3:¹² As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.” – There will come a time when men will not be the spiritual head of the home, it will be a woman, and those who led the churches will be spiritual children. That their guides, who should have direct them in the right way, put them out of the way: "Those who lead thee (the princes, priests, and prophets) mislead thee; they cause thee to err.’’ Either they preached to them that which was false and corrupt, or, if they preached that which was true and good, they contradicted it by their practices, and the people would soon follow a bad example than a good exhortation.

Thus they destroyed the ways of their paths, pulling down with one hand what they built up with the other. Those that call thee blessed cause thee to err; so some read it. Their priests applauded them, as if nothing were amiss among them, cried Peace, peace, to them, as if they were in no danger; and thus they caused them to go on in their errors.

These priest will teach against the law, the very essence of perfection, saying that the law was nail to the cross, so we do not have to do them any more. They will teach that the sabbath is for man, and not man for the sabbath, teaching out of stupidy false doctrine. They will never teach a believer to experience the 6^th days of Creation, for they are not looking forward to the 7^th day, for they do not keep it in faith, leaders cannot led where they have never experience spiritually.

Keeping the sabbath in faith is saying, this sabbath rest is what I am striving for, coming into the fulness of EL YAHVEH.