Parashas Achareimot

Parashas Acharei  Mot

Leviticus 16:1 -18:41

Please Pray this

Prayer

First before reading.

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 Parashas

The Torah portion of Acharei Mot which means After the death, is the 28 reading in the yearly Torah cycle which precedes the portion of Kedoshim, begins with the word; ‘The Creator spoke to Moses’ ‘Acharei Mot’ of the two sons of Aaron ‘Nadav and Avihu,’ when they came close to the Creator and they died.

The word acharei mot, meaning after the death at the beginning of this portion do more than refer to the event that take place after the death of Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron. These word mean that we have the power to be after death, to transcend its power. This power or capability is the ability to decide where we will be after death, is the Light revealed on the Shabbat of Acharei-Kedoshim.

There is a state that a tzadikim, or elevated soul, the ego achieve, where the connection to the body is no longer selfish. When we reach thisstate of spiritual maturity, we gain complete dominion over the Angel of Death. He can no longer touch us. This is the state that Revelation 3:21 talks about, those who gets to rule and reign with Messiyah.

We can decide that we have completed our work here on Earth, and we can just let go. In the case of Aaron two sons, even though they were priest, they still had more work on their ego to do.

The Shabbat of Acharei Mot-Kedoshim is one of the Shabbats that is not about arriving at a new understanding. It is a Shabbat that overwhelms us with devekut. It is the Shabbat when the level of being acharei mot, after death, is revealed to us and to the world.

It is the Shabbat of overwhelming Light, of overwhelming joy, of overwhelming love.

This Parashas introduces the Yom Kippur service by saying that EL YAHVEH spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two sons, Nadab and Abihu, which implies that there was a connection between the two: the tragedy and Yom Kippur service.

In addition these verses added a new dimension to the cause of their death, by saying that they died when they approached before EL YAHVEH, details that was omitted from the narrative of 10: 1 – 2, which mentioned only their sin of offering an unforebiden incense or fire.

From the description here in Parashas Acharei, it seem that they were punish only for entering an area that was forbidden to them. This apparent discrepancy will be discussed. Why is the death of the righteous Nadab and Abihu mentioned in conjunction with the chapter on Yom Kippur service?

As Yom Kippur brings atonement, and extends the life of the righteous, which is pleasing to EL YAHVEH, the death of the righteous does not please our Creator. Only the people, who recognize Yom Kippur as the Day of Atonement and treat it as such, are those to whom life will be given. Those however, who callously observe Yom Kippur as Nadab and Abihu did with their worship do not find atonement.

Those who do not honor the righteous in life do not benefit from their ascent to Heavens in death. Verse 10:1 speaks of strange fire and unforbiden incense, while this chapter speaks only of their approach before EL YAHVEH.

Although Nadab and Abihu had all the right to bring fire before EL YAHVEH, there is a proper way of doing it, as we learn from their experience that there is also a wrong way of doing it.

Lev 16:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh after the death of the two sons of Aharon, as they drew near before יהוה, and died. – Again we see the proof that what is been written here is the Word of The Creator, and not Moses’ words, as is so often disclosed by those who reject the law. The lesson being taught here is a believer must be careful how he or she draws near, how we come to EL YAHVEH is prayer and in worship, how we bring our gifts. We cannot assume to just finish eating pork and the next minute singing Him praise with unclean lips. No uncleanness can come before a perfectly Holy Elohim. Light and darkness cannot mix.

Lev 16:2 And  יהוה said to Mosheh, “Speak to Aharon your brother not to come in at all times to the Set-apart Place inside the veil, before the lid of atonement which is on the ark, lest he die, because I appear in the cloud above the lid of atonement. – Moses a truly obedient person, did what he was told to do. EL YAHVEH spoke to Aaron as he was commanded. When EL YAHVEH tells us to speak to someone, He has already prepared the heart of that person to receive that Word. HE alone knows the heart of man, and what is require for them to progress spiritually.

This message to Aaron, was a Word that was design for a moment such at that time. It was not for a few weeks later, it was for that moment. It could be that maybe Aaron was planning and doing something rash, by even trying to enter the Holy of Holies to make atonement for the rest of his sons, or it could be the more obvious, reason that Yom Kippur was drawing close and EL YAHVEH was preparing Aaron for the occasion.

This is the imperfection of the old Covenant, the high priest could only enter the Holy of Holies one a year, while the new covenant, Yahushua our Messiyah is in the Holy of Holies, 24/7. In the old covenant there was a veil, in the new covenant there is no veil. The original veil was rent in two when Yahushua died on the Stake.

Lev 16:3 “With this Aharon should come into the Set-apart Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering. – Aaron was now being prep, on the stringent requirement of those who were qualified to enter the Most Holy Place. The most expensive sin offering was a young bull and a ram the best of the smaller offering were to be sacrifice. Today, we enter the Holy of Holies by the Blood of the most expensive offering ever conceive by EL YAHWAH, the Greatest Sacrificial Bull of them all is El Yahushua.

 

Lev 16:4 “He should put on the set-apart linen long shirt, with linen trousers on his flesh, and gird himself with a linen girdle, and be dressed with the linen turban – they are set-apart garments. And he shall bathe his body in water, and shall put them on. – The person who wants to enter into the Holy of Holies must posse’s holy linen long shorts, with linen trousers for his flesh. Meaning that a certain state of righteousness must be achieved by our flesh.

That person must gird their behavior with a linen girdle of righteousness, and their mind must be under the influence of Total righteousness, which the Linen Turban represents.

These are the garments, the character of those who are set apart, those who are holy. They must wash their bodies in the Blood and the Water that flows from the side of Yahushua, before they put on their garments to enter into the Holy of Holies.

Lev 16:5 “And from the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl he takes two male goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. – On their way into the Holy of Holies the High Priest must bring on behalf of the congregation two male goats as a sin offering and one ram as a burnt offering.

Today our High Priest El Yahushua, just show His nail pierce feet and spear pierce side as symbol of those offering. However, we are still requiring to bring the cost of the Lamb to the congregation. 

Lev 16:6 “And Aharon shall bring the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house. – Our Messiyah and Savor El Yahushua is our High Priest or Kohen Hagadol, the One who sits permanently at our Fathers Right Hand, He is the one who brings our atonement to the Father.

Lev 16:7 “And he shall take the two goats and let them stand before יהוה at the door of the Tent of Meeting. – The Blood and Water that flow from His Side is the two goats, describe here in this verse. Our Kohen Gadol will stand before EL YAHVEH and present us, along with our report card to our Father. That report will show our achievement and our failures. The atonement that El Yahushua will make for us, will depends on our wiliness to be obedient. The step and the mindset we have will determine the Grace, the quality and quantity of rain we will receive the next spiritual year.

When Yahushua sees the mind of David in us, it will encourage Him to speak more forceful on our behalf. To say to our father, this one, this one right here, is making all the necessary effort to achieve perfection before he dies, give him some more Grace.

This Grace is similar to the rain fall that starts a few weeks after the Yom Kippur service. That why we must always ask, for EL YAHVEH to send us the right rain in the right season. What type of rain are you praying for?

Lev 16:8 “And Aharon shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for יהוה and the other lot for Azazel. – Aaron shall cast lot to see which one of the goats will be the blood offering and which one will represent the water.  Today we do not need to cat lots anymore; we have the blood and the water that flow from the side of El Yahushua, all we have to do is to apply the blood or the water as we feel necessary.

Lev 16:9 “And Aharon shall bring the goat on which the lot for יהוה fell, and shall prepare it as a sin offering. – And El Yahushua will present the Blood that flows from His side first, as a sin offering.

 

Lev 16:10 “But the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell is caused to stand alive before יהוה, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness to Azazel. – He will then present the Water that flow from His side as the offering that wash away our sins. The same way the Red Sea washes away Pharaoh army, to be seen no more.

What sinful nature will be wash away from us this year? What will we overcome, never to be experience again? Or are we still carrying that dead man on our shoulder, when Yahushua has given us the ability to cast him into the red sea spiritually.

Lev 16:11 “And Aharon shall bring the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall slaughter the bull as the sin offering which is for himself, - Since El Yahushua as no sin, He does not need to offer this sacrifice any more. He is the only High Priest that had no sin, therefore He does not need to present a sin offering, He is seated at the Right Hand of our Father. He will never leave the Holy of Holies, our Father Right Hand ever.

Lev 16:12 and shall take a fire holder filled with burning coals of fire from the altar before יהוה, with his hands filled with sweet incense beaten fine, and shall bring it inside the veil. – This verse indicate that we must worship El Yahushua for He is our High Priest, He is our defence Attorney, He is the one who know us best, He will ask for on our behalf what we are not capable of asking for our selves.

 

Lev 16:13 “And he shall put the incense on the fire before יהוה, and the cloud of incense shall cover the lid of atonement which is on the Witness, lest he die. – Our Kohen Gadol is the Channel by which our worship will ascend to the Throne Room, to the Mercy Seat, to the Very Presence of EL YAHVEH. He will present our worship to our Father.

Lev 16:14 “And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the lid of atonement on the east side, also in front of the lid of atonement he sprinkles some of the blood with his finger seven times. – El Yahushua, praise be His Holy Name, will take our sin offering and with His own Finger place it in His side and place it on the Lid of Atonement on the east side, and in front of the Mercy seat El Yahushua will sprinkle His blood seven times.

   

Lev 16:15 “And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, and shall bring its blood inside the veil, and shall do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the lid of atonement and in front of the lid of atonement. – Today when we bring the cost of the Lamb to our Priest/Pastor, El Yahushua will present Himsels as our defence attorney, our Kohen Hagadol. El Yahushua will present the Blood from His feet as a sin offering for the People, and sprinkle it on the Atonement seat, and seven time in front of the Throne.

Lev 16:16 “And he shall make atonement upon the Set-apart Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. And so he does for the Tent of Meeting which is dwelling with them in the midst of their uncleanness. -  Our Lord  and Savor shall make atonement upon the Sanctuary. The sin for which the bull and the he-goat atone is that of contamination of the Sanctuary and its sanctities, meaning that someone entered the Temple or who ate the flesh of the offering while contaminated.

The offerings atone both for sin of contamination that was done intentionally and for sins that were committed unintentionally.

Yahushua our Kohen Gadol will sprinkle the His blood, first for those who are in the Ministry, and then for the People.

EL YAHVEH Presence the Shechinah, remain with El Yahushua always, there we have access to HIM through Yahushua. If His Presence was not in the Holy of Holies, no atonement could not be possible; only as long as the essence of His Holiness remains in the Holy of Holies can the Redeem community sins can be cleansed by His Blood.

Lev 16:17 “And no man should be in the Tent of Meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, until he comes out. And he shall make atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl. –  On Yom Kippur no other person is allow to intercede on behalf of our sins. No other person must be even seen in the Tabernacle that day.

As El Yahushua make atonement for us one a year on Yom Kippur, His service as our Kohem Gadol in that Awesome Place and that awesome day is to seek atonement for those who believe in Him.

If anyone do not believe is El Yahushua as our Messiyah, they will not receive that awesome privilege of having the Best Kohen Gadol of all time intercede for us.

 

Lev 16:18 “And he shall go out to the altar that is before יהוה, and make atonement for it. And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. – El Yahushua shall leave His Throne at the Right Hand of EL YAHVEH to make an atonement for all those who believe in Him. He shall present His Blood as the Blood of Atonement. El Yahushua our Messiyah will place his Blood that was shed at Calvary on the horn of the Altar and all around it, for those who believe in Him.

Lev 16:19 “And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and set it apart from the uncleanness of the children of Yisra’ĕl. -  El Yahushua our Kohen Gadol shall clear away the ash of the previous incense from the Altar of Burn Incense. And place His Blood seven times on it.

This would symbolize that last year praise and worship was past, next year praise and worship must be done with a new sets of spiritual criteria. Yahushua said to the Lady at the well a time will come when he who worships Me will worship Me in Spirit and truth.

We worship Him at what ever level of our spiritual growth. If we are in the first day of creation, we must worship Him at the level of revelation we have been given. If we are in the fifth day of Creation then we also worship EL YAHVEH at that level of Spiritual growth we have experience.

The Blood that was place on that Altar seven times represent the seven levels of praise and worship we must bring to that Altar. The Blood place there on Yom Kippur was to sanctify it once a year in preparation for our spiritual growth.

Verse 20 –22 The He goat to Azazel. The concept of an animal carrying away all the sins of a nation or people can be seen in the life of El Yahushua death on the Stake at Calvary.

This ritual of the scapegoat is to inspire the Hebrew people, those who believe in Yahushua, and those who do not yet believed to believe in Him for the removal of their sins. This portrayal of the scapegoat is to help people to believe that a sacrificial lamb had been sacrifice for us all. That the provision had been made for man to free themselves from the burden of past, present and future sins and removes them as far as the east is from the west.

One valuable lesson that can be learnt here, it is not just good to seek after forgiveness, as atonement represent. It is even more important to repel the hostile traits that dwell in us, that create the opportunity for us to sin.

Lev 16:20 “And when he has finished atoning for the Set-apart Place, and the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. – The final part and the most important part of the service, is to know that the tendencies those human desires, that allow us to become victims to temptation, had now been removed.

While it is good to ask for forgiveness, it is even more importance to make sure the root cause that causes us to sin have been sacrifice, permanently.

Lev 16:21 “Then Aharon shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and shall confess over it all the crookednesses of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man. – Since Yahushua is the High Priest and He is also the Lamb slaying from the foundation of the world, He cannot lay his hand on His own head. The relevance of this verse today is that, when we confess our sins to Yahushua, and pay the required atonement; Yahushua, will take upon himself to atone for our sins, and take the curse of our sins, which is found in Deut 8:15 – 68, and nail it to the Stake.

Lev 16:22 “And the goat shall bear on itself all their crookednesses, to a land cut off. Thus he shall send the goat away into the wilderness. – Since the atonement of sins require a blood sacrifice, El Yahushua our Messiyah, died as our atonement goat, bearing on Himself all of our crookedness, and take it to a land cut of from us, by the Water that flows from His Side. 

Lev 16:23 “Aharon shall then come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments which he put on when he went into the Set-apart Place, and he shal lave the there. - EL Yahushua our Kohen Gadol does not take of His garment ever, He also do not leave the Holy of Holies. His garment is on Him at all times.

Verse 24 – 28 describe the conclusion of the service. As noted above, the service it describes was performed before the High Priest put on his Golden Vestments.

Lev 16:24 “And he shall bathe his body in water in the set-apart place, and shall put on his garments, and shall come out and prepare his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people, -  This rule only apply to the earthly Kohen Gadol not to our present Kohen Gadol. The second part of this verse is done by El Yahushua our Ruling Kohen Gadol. He is the one that present our burnt offering. El Yahushua shall provide atonement for His people, those who believe in Him. An elevated offering that will brings us one step closer to perfection, full maturity.

This chapter does not list all of the offerings of the day. In addition to the two Tamid “Continual” offering that are brought every day of the year, including on Yom Kippur, these are offerings that are brought as part of the Yom Kippur mussaf offering “additional offering” service, which are listed in Numbers 29: 8, 11.

Lev 16:25 and burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar. – El Yahushua shall burn the fat, that material excess that has cause us to sin is offered up by us to him, who is our High Priest.  

Lev 16:26 “And he who sent away the goat to Azazel washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, and afterward he comes into the camp. – When El Yahushua died on the Stake He fulfilled the requirement of this passage, in the natural. Today, we must exercise the Water that flow from His Side, and washes away our sins as the goat that removes our sins far away from us. 

Lev 16:27 “And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Set-apart Place, is brought outside the camp. And they shall burn their skins, and their flesh, and their dung with fire. – When El Yahushua was crucified outside of the city, He in essence made atonement for all past, present and future sins, all at the same time. 

Lev 16:28 “And he who burns them washes his garments, and shall bathe his body in water, afterward he comes into the camp. – The application of this verse today is in the officer of the Pastor, who must take the individual and their offering outside the camp in order to make atonement for them.

The Pastoral minister must be very carefull that in the process of helping another person deal with their spiritual issues, they too must wash themselves against cross contamination in the process.

Meaning that before and after a counseling section, he or she should cove themselves in the Blood for protection abnd wash themselves in the water that flow from the side of Yahushua.

Verse 29 34 illustrate the eternal commandment of Yom Kippur. Having outlined the Yom Kippur ritual to the Hebrews, the Torah now begins to state the commandment to implement Yom Kippur as an annual festival. In addition to the temple service, which had been the sole focus of this chapter so far? We also will see the additional commands to fast and refrain from work.

Lev 16:29 “And this shall be for you a law forever: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you afflict your beings, and do no work, the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. – The command to refrain from work, to refrain from any effort to increase one spiritual elevation. This is a time to stop and look over the spiritual strive we have made over the last spiritual season. Yom Kippur is that time when our report card is to be handed in to our High Priest for presentation to our Father. No effort should be made on that day to increase any further the status of our yearly spiritual report card.

 

Lev 16:30 “For on that day he makes atonement for you, to cleanse you, to be clean from all your sins before יהוה. – On that day, El Yahushua will make a presentation to our Father on our behalf, on what will it take for that individual to improve for the next spiritual year, or the next Torah Cycle.

We must remember that the success of the last spiritual year, is the building block for the following year. If we do not honor the holy days set by our Creator, how are we going to receive the blessing that is associate with it.

The cleansing that Torah is illustrating here is the removal of those things in our lives that cause us to have a poor spiritual report card. Yom Kippur is the time after the fall harvest were the fruit tree will be pruned in preparation for the fall rainy season, where the roots of the fruits tree grows deeper into the Word, in order for the tree to bring forth better fruits in the coming year.

 

Lev 16:31 “It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you shall afflict your beings – a law forever. – It is a Sabbath of complete rest, unlike the other high festival when food preparation and related work are permitted, every form of labor is forbidden on that day. The Torah describe the other festivals as day of rest, while it define Yom Kippur as a Sabbath of complete rest.

Lev 16:32 “And the priest, who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, the set-apart garments, - The Kohen Gadol who is anointed to serve at High Priest is El Yahushua. This verse tells us three things about this Kohen Gadol:

§  Although the entire chapter mentioned Aaron by name, his anointed successors is El Yahushua.

§  In the event the anointment oil prepared by Moses is not available, A Kohen Gadol assumes his office by virtue of wearing the eight golden vestments of the Kohen Gadol.

§  Finally, the verse indicates that the Kohen Gadol’s son is first in line to succeed him, provided he is qualified.

Lev 16:33 and he shall make atonement for the Most Set-apart Place, and make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar, and make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. – The Hebrew word for atonement is kawfar, which also means to reconcile in terms of “put to right” Bring together, reunite, bring together. From the definition of these words, Yom Kippur seems to elucidate a different means.

If the Spirit of Understanding is correct, and I do not believe or know him never to be wrong. Yom Kippur is the time when El Yahushua looks over the latest group of the Fruit of the Spirit that was produce on that day.

Some of us might be in our first day of Creation, some might even be in their forth or even in our sixth day of Creation. However if we were in our seventh day of Creation we would be one of those who El Yahushua would be presenting to our Father as a product of Creation.

Lev 16:34 “And this shall be for you a law forever, to make atonement for the children of Yisra’ĕl, for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as יהוה commanded Mosheh. – This is the day when all our sinful nature are brought before our Heavenly Father. Will the answer to all 612 commandments found in Torah be overcome or fail.   

Chapter 17

The King of the Universe outlines the service outside the Tabernacle in verse 1 – 9. The general rule is that offerings must be slaughtered and their service performed in the Sanctuary area, while non-consecrated animals may be slaughtered anywhere except in the sanctuary area.

In the case of offering, they may not be offered elsewhere, even if the service is dedicated to EL YAHVEH.

Lev 17:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, - Anytime a new set of rules are given, our Heavenly Father signs His Name, with I spoke to Moses. 

Lev 17:2 “Speak to Aharon, to his sons, and to all the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘This is the word which יהוה has commanded, saying, - After Moses spoke to the Mighty Hand Ministry, it must then be taught to the people. All righteous Teachers like Moses, will convey exactly what they are taught and convey the Commandments to the Redeem community; this is not only true for the commandments but the entire community.

 

Lev 17:3 “Any man from the house of Yisra’ĕl who slaughters a bull or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp, - Anyone from the redeem community who slaughter a bull or a lamb or a goat, where ever he slaughter it, he must bring a portion of it to the Tabernacle.

Lev 17:4 and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to bring an offering to יהוה before the Dwelling Place of יהוה, blood-guilt is reckoned to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people, - If he does not bring a portion of it to a Kohen/Pastor, the guilt of shedding blood will be on him as if he had shed blood.

Until the time of Noah, man was forbidden to kill animals for his own needs; it was only after the Flood that EL YAHVEH’S covenant with Noah gave man permission to kill animals for food, Genesis 9:3.

But in an instance where man is not permitted to kill an animal, such as slaughtering a consecrated animal outside the Tabernacle, the act of slaughtering reverts back to its status before Noah, and slaughtering such an animal is indeed tantamount to bloodshed, of course, the death penalty applies only to the taking of human life.

When any person kills an animal without a legitimate purpose, he allows himself to be influence by the same bloody characteristic that can cause people to commit murder. Therefore, his act is considered as bloodshed, since it is his bloody instincts that have taken control of him.

  

Lev 17:5 in order that the children of Yisra’ĕl bring their slaughterings which they slaughter in the open field. And they shall bring them to יהוה at the door of the Tent of meeting, to the priest, and slaughter them as peace offerings to יהוה. – Today we do not slaughter an animal for sacrifice. However, if we do slaughter an animal for consumption, a part of it must be put aside for the Priest/Pastor.

Even if the animal was slaughtered for any reason other than the offering at the Tabernacle, it is still required for us to present the animal as a piece offering. This would be like saying a blessing over the slaughter. Blood should never be spilt, even for domestic reason without say a blessing over it.

Lev 17:6 “And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of יהוה at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall burn the fat for a sweet fragrance to יהוה. – When we say a blessing over the slaughter in el Yahushua name, He will present our slaughter to EL YAHVEH on our behalf. That why we are told not to eat the fat of the animal, so when we burn the fat on the fire when we are cooking the flesh of the animal, it will be a sweet fragrance to EL YAHVEH.

 

Lev 17:7 “And let them no longer slaughter their slaughterings to demons, after whom they whored. This is a law forever for them throughout their generations. – When we do not say a prayer and burn some of the fat on the fire, we are in essence sacrificing our slaughter to demon. The children of Yisrael shall not follow the same practice they learn while they were in Egypt, where they did not offer apart of their slaughter to EL YAHVEH.

Someone who worship demons, think that they have independent power to choose their own way.  They will stray form EL YAHVEH who alone should be the focus of all human service.

Lev 17:8 “And say to them, ‘Any man of the house of Yisra’ĕl, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who offers a burnt offering or slaughtering, - How the matter stands now, and what use we are to make of this law. It is certain that the spiritual sacrifices we are now to offer are not confined to any one place. Our Saviour has made this clear (Jn. 4:21), and the apostle (1 Tim. 2:8), according to the prophecy, that in every place incense should be offered, Mal. 1:11. We have now no temple nor altar that sanctifies the gift, nor does the gospel unity lie in one place, but in one heart, and the unity of the spirit. Messiyah is our altar, and the true tabernacle (Heb. 8:2; 13:10); in him YAHVEH dwells among us, and it is in him that our sacrifices are acceptable to YAHVEH, and in him only, 1 Pt. 2:5. To set up other mediators, or other altars, or other expiatory sacrifices, is, in effect, to set up other gods. He is the centre of unity, in whom all YAH’s Yisrael meet. Yet we are to have respect to the public worship of YAHVEH, not forsaking the assemblies of his people, Heb. 10:25. EL YAHVEH loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob, and so should we; see Eze. 20:40. Though YAHVEH will graciously accept our family offerings, we must not therefore neglect the door of the tabernacle.

Lev 17:9 and does not bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to do it to יהוה, that man shall be cut off from among his people. -  The last two verse should be treated as one. When we do not recognize El Yahushua, or bring a blessing over our sacrifice, that person shall be cut off from among the people.

Every time we slaughter an animal, is an opportunity for us to offer up apart of it through El Yahushua to our Father.

Verse 10 – 14 we find the prohibition against eating blood and the command to cover it.

 

Lev 17:10 ‘And any man of the house of Yisra’ĕl, or of the strangers who sojourn among you, who eats any blood, I shall set My face against that being who eats blood, and shall cut him off from among his people. – Anyone from the redeem community, the Nation of Yisrael, we are forbidden to consume any form of blood.

   

Lev 17:11 ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your lives, for it is the blood that makes atonement for the life.’ – The spirit of the animal is in the blood. What this seems to imply is that, that nature of the animal is in its blood. Therefore, when we eat the blood of an animal we are actually taking on the nature of the animal or the spirit of the animal.

Scripture says that a Spirit that sin must die, when an animal die, and its blood is spill it is for the soul of the one who sins.

The life of the flesh depends on the flow of blood within the vein. The moment blood cease to flow within a body, is the very moment the spirit leave the body. Elohim design the blood as a medium that goes upon the altar for atonement, as if to say “let one life be offered to atone for another.” Therefore, it is not appropriate for it to be eaten.

The life giving force in animals is borne by the blood that is why blood is the appropriate agent for atonement, not because EL YAHVEH has any desire for blood per se, but because it represents man’s dedication of his life to Him.

Lev 17:12 “Therefore I said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘No being among you eats blood, nor does any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.’ – We should not allow a person who eat blood to reside among us. The person will have a very violent temper much like that of a ferocious animal. One of the fruit of the spirit is gentleness, not fierceness.

Verse 13 – 14 covers the requirement for the covering of blood. 

Lev 17:13 “And any man from the children of Yisra’ĕl, or from the strangers who sojourn among you, who hunts and catches any beast or bird, which is eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust, - If a hunter from among the Hebrew people, is hunting far from home, kill an animal; he must drain the blood from the animal, then cover it with earth. The explanation is given in the next verse.

 

Lev 17:14 for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood is for its life. And I said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Do not eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood. Anyone eating it is cut off.’ – The soul of the animal is in the blood; therefore the blood may be said to represent life. This makes a strong case against blood transfusion. If we take the blood of an unclean person in a blood transfusion are we not taking uncleanness into our body?

  

Lev 17:15 “And any being who eats a carcass or what was torn by a beast, be he a native or a stranger, he shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean. – Anyone who eats a carcass that was not slaughter in the proper was, or one that was torn by a beast, is not permitted for us to eat.

The spiritual implication here is, we must not partake of any dead thing, or doctrine. Those things that cannot produce life. Or those doctrine created by unclean animals or religious animals. Animal torn by beast are doctrine created by religions.

Anyone who participates of these doctrines shall wash themselves in the water that flows from the Side of El Yahushua, and will be clean after evening.

Lev 17:16 “And if he does not wash or bathe his body, then he shall bear his crookedness.” – Anyone who does not wash themselves in the Blood and Water that flow from the Side of El Yahushua will not be clean from their crookedness. This is a wonderful revelation to the redeem community.

Chapter 18

Chapter 18 elucidates the principles of the Kingdom concerning Immorality and forbidden relationship. This chapter is the first of two that deal with the laws of immorality and the forbidden sexual relationships. In it the Torah sets forth the prohibitions, in line with the principle that, they do not punish unless they give a warning. Once the warning, the prohibitions, has been set forth here, the punishment is related in Chapter 20.

Lev 18:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, - Our Creator uses this verse, to illustrate a point, that He is the Creator, therefore He alone must determine the parameters in which those in His Kingdom must operate.

The opening words of this chapter are similar to those used when the Ten Commandments were given. This demonstrates the supreme importance of morality in Elohim’s scheme for the Hebrew people.

Just as the nation cannot exist without the acknowledgement that EL YAHVEH is our El, so it must accept upon itself the laws of sexual purity contained in this chapter.

Lev 18:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘I am יהוה your Elohim. – Moses was instructed to speak to the Redeem community on behalf of Him who is the King of all the others Elohim.

Moses spoke to the People in EL YAHVEH Name as if EL YAHVEH Himself was speaking. In the plain sense, Moses told the people that he had been commanded to speak to them EL YAHVEH’S Name, and then he would quote the exact Words that was spoken to him, not a paraphrase of what he was told.

Normally, Moses face was covered with a veil, because the people could not tolerate the Glory that was resting upon Moses. When he conveyed the Word of EL YAHVEH to the people, however, he would remove the veil, so that it would be clear to the people that he was speaking on behalf of EL YAHVEH.

Lev 18:3 ‘Do not do as they do in the land of Mitsrayim, where you dwelt. And do not do as they do in the land of Kenaʽan, where I am bringing you, and do not walk in their laws. – Since we are a set apart people, callout from the word, our lot in life, is to be a people separate unto holiness. There are two kinds of people in this world, one system represent by the Nation of Yisrael, and the other by the nation of Egypt. We are admonish not to do in our part of the world as the Egyptian do in theirs.

Even though we were living in the Egyptian system, at one point or another, now that we are called out, or now that we are separated as a peculiar people, our action must not be as those of the Egyptians.

The deeds of the Canaanites and the Egyptians were the most abominable of all the nations. The apparent implications are that there is harm in imitating the foul deeds of the world system that are evil.

By singling out these two nations, the Torah teaches the Hebrew people never to think complacently that as long as they do not commit the vulgar and obscene sins epitomized by the Canaan and Egypt. Therefore, a Hebrew person, the set apart one, must scrupulously avoid even the first step on the road to corruption.

The exhortation not to follow the traditions of the nations is couched in terms of literally their decrees, the same term used to describe the commandments of Torah that defy human logic.

It is common for people to think that a nation’s culture is predicated upon a set of rational norms, and that any civilized person would accept them, unless he or she is demented.

The truth is, however, that man’s culture is an accumulation of establishes practices, many of which are not in the least logical. This explains how different societies have widely divergent cultures practices, and how so many of them can consider other societies to be even comical, primitive, or even barbaric.

The different between biblical Judaism’s decree and the decree of other religion or societies is simple that the former are EL YAHVEH given, while the latter are devised created by man and canonized by his habits.

Therefore, the Torah cautions us to avoid falling into habit-forming, mind–molding traps of imitating the practice of alien societies. We must not imitate the nations among whom we live, or in anything which has been adopted by them on rational grounds, which belong to their religious or are immoral; but do not imitate anything which is irrational or has been adopted on grounds derived from their religions, or for forbidden or immoral purpose. You may not, therefore, join in the celebrating of their holidays, or observe their customs, which have their basis in their religious views.

We must not, however, do anything which will disturb their holidays or mar their festive spirit; and do not parade your nonparticipation in their holidays in a manner that might arouse animosity.

Verse 4 – 4 illustrate that EL YAHVEH’S laws and decrees. Laws are practice that would be dictated by reason even if Torah did not command them, such as the prohibition against robbery, immorality, idolatry, blasphemy, and bloodshed.

Decrees are those that are unfathomable by human intelligence, such as the prohibitions against the consumption of forbidden meats, wearing mixtures of wool and linen, and the law of the removal of contamination.

Because these laws are beyond human logic, the verse end with I am EL YAHVEH, meaning that these are His decrees and it is not up to us to decide whether or not they are worthy of your approval.

Therefore, the Torah’s decrees are eternally valid, if we understand them or not. By juxtaposing the logical law with the Metallurgical decrees in this verse and the next, the Torah implies a similarity between them, as if even the laws are not subject to human logic.

Many of life’s most important decision, such as the ideals, of people we love and sacrifice we make are based on consideration that reflects the person’s true inner self. This sort of commitment is required for a proper acceptance of the Torah’s logical laws, because human intelligence is not a reliable measuring-stick even for such parts of man’s legal code.

For example, no law is as universally accepted as murder, yet logic can permit a woman to argue that a fetus is consider less that human, even less than a animal life.

Lev 18:4 ‘Do My right-rulings and guard My laws, to walk in them. I am יהוה your Elohim. - Torah demands that one must accept this Divine origin and unchanging nature of the Torah’s laws with the same faith that one accepts its decrees.

We must safer guard or carry out, meaning to perform the commands. Safeguard implies the responsibility to take any necessary steps to avoid the possibility of transgression.

Carry out also has the connotation of performing the positive commandments that require active performance, while safeguard refers to negative commandments and the need to refrain from violating them.

Lev 18:5 ‘And you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, which a man does and lives by them. I am יהוה. – The term by which we live refers to particular to the social command between man and man, such as the law governing property and debts, and those forbidden murder and robbery. Only if society adheres to this body of law can life be peaceful and stable.

The term, by which we shall live, was given for the sake of life, not death. Therefore, if the performance of a commandment may endanger life, such as the familiar case of a patience that must be rushed to a hospital on the Sabbath, the need to preserve life supersedes the observance of the Sabbath.

The exceptions are the three cardinal sins: Idolatry, forbidden sexual relationship, and murder; in cases where violation of these command would cause desecration of EL YAHVEH’S Name.

These commands were design to teach us, that a person should not perform commandments apathetically. Rather, we are enjoined to find in the commandments our primary source of love, joy, and peace, enthusiasm, and the life we are to live through these commandments.

Verse 6 – 18 express the restriction on forbidden relationship. The laws governing sexual relationship are the key to Hebrew holiness. This is were we find safeguard in chastity; there is where one find holiness.

This concept is expressed in the first steps of a Hebrew marriage, in which the groom betroths his bride and says, you are consecrated to me. This formula speaks of consecration because, from its outset, a Hebrew marriage is founded on holiness.

The name given to these illicit relationships is the uncovering of nakedness or shame. Consequently, close relatives are forbidden to marry one another. The Torah classifies the levels of forbidden closeness in terms of blood relationship, and it is regards husband and wives as having the same level of closeness.

The definition uncovering of nakedness or shame is well chosen. Sexual relationship among animals is purely for reproduction, the natural instinctive, to reproduce, for the survival of its genetic line. Humans are the only flesh that participates in sexual act for the shear pleasure of it.

That is why restriction must be place on our sexual activity, apart from the close genetic ties. Consequently, close relatives are forbidden to be taken as a wife. Torah classifies the levels of forbidden closeness in terms of blood, or close DNA relationship, and it regard husband and wives as having the same level of closeness.

Lev 18:6 ‘No one is to approach anyone of his own flesh to uncover his nakedness. I am יהוה. – The Creator of the Universe who creates the DNA, which determine our physical attributes, determine that the close proximate of each person DNA would create a problem for their children.

These restrictions are any close relatives. We shall not attempt to mate with them. The term I am EL YAHVEH, seem to imply that even if we do not understand it, it must be obeyed. Today with the discovery of DNA we can see the problem that arise when a man and a woman who’s DNA is too closely match, usually create some abnormalities within the family.

Lev 18:7 ‘The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you do not uncover. She is your mother, you do not uncover her nakedness. – A woman shall not mate with her father, or a man should not mate with his mother. It is even forbidden to see one’s parent naked.

Lev 18:8 ‘The nakedness of your father’s wife you do not uncover, it is your father’s nakedness. – This does not mean that she is your mother. It means any of your father wives.

Lev 18:9 ‘The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home or elsewhere, their nakedness you do not uncover. – A man should not take for a wife, any of his father daughter, or any of his mother daughters.

Lev 18:10 ‘The nakedness of your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, their nakedness you do not uncover, for theirs is your own nakedness. – A man should to take any of his son’s or his daughter’s daughters.

Lev 18:11 ‘The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought forth by your father, she is your sister, you do not uncover her nakedness. – A man should not take for a wife any of his fathers wives daughter, of half sister.

Lev 18:12 ‘The nakedness of your father’s sister you do not uncover, she is your father’s flesh. -  A man shall not take is fathers sister or half sister as a wife.

Lev 18:13 ‘The nakedness of your mother’s sister you do not uncover, for she is your mother’s flesh. – A man shall not take his mother’s sister as a wife.

Lev 18:14 ‘The nakedness of your father’s brother you do not uncover, you do not approach his wife, she is your aunt. – A woman shall not be the wife of her father’s brother. A man shall not take his father wife as a wife.

Lev 18:15 ‘The nakedness of your daughter-in-law you do not uncover, she is your son’s wife, you do not uncover her nakedness. – A man shall not take his son’s wife as his wife.

Lev 18:16 ‘The nakedness of your brother’s wife you do not uncover, it is your brother’s nakedness. -  A man shall not take his brother wife as a wife. Unless the brother died and leave the wife childless, then one of his brother may produce children with their dead brother wife.

Lev 18:17 ‘The nakedness of a woman and her daughter you do not uncover, nor do you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are her relatives – it is wickedness. – A man shall not take a woman and her daughter as wives, at the same time. Notice it did not say a man must not have two women as wife, just a woman and her daughter.

Lev 18:18 ‘And do not take a woman as a rival to her sister, to uncover her nakedness while the other is alive. -  A man shall not take two sisters as wives at the same time. Notice Torah did not say a man couldn’t have two wives. It just restricts whom we cannot have as wives at the same time.

Lev 18:19 ‘And do not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness in her monthly separation of uncleanness. -  This law applies to both the regular monthly period and to a zavah as discuss in 15:19 – 30.

Lev 18:20 ‘And do not have intercourse with the wife of your neighbour, to defile yourself with her. – It is also prohibited for a man to have a material relationship or take her as a wife. This would defile himself by her. Why would he be defiled?  We are told that we cannot have any other Elohim but YAHVEH, if the woman had another husband; she is in essence having more that one god at the same time. We become one with the person who we take as a wife. A clean woman will not have a relationship with more that one man. A defile woman will have intercourse with several men, like a harlot.

Lev 18:21 ‘And do not give any of your offspring to pass through to Moleḵ. And do not profane the Name of your Elohim. I am יהוה. – Molech is an idol whose worship, is describe in the preceding verses. It is a very prevalent practice among the Canaanites. It is the only sin in this chapter that does not involve sexual conduct, but it is included because, like immorality, its practice contaminated the land and led directly to the Divine expulsion of the Canaanites.

Molech is mentioned her as an example of the idol worship that made the inhabitants of the Land so contemptible in Yah’s eyes. Those people who allow their children to practice idol worship such as: piercing of their body parts, Tattoos, sports events that require them to violate the Sabbath ect.

Verse 22 – 23 defines Sodomy and Bestiality. The harshness with which the Torah describes them testifies to the repugnance in which EL YAHVEH holds those who engage in these unnatural practices.

Lev 18:22 ‘And do not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination. – This is describing any homosexual act. None of the relationships describe here with this term of disgust, because they involve normal activity, though with prohibited mates Homosexuality, however, is unnatural and therefore abominable.

Lev 18:23 ‘And do not have intercourse with any beast, to defile yourself with it. And a woman does not stand before a beast to mate with it, it is a perversion. – From a spiritual point of view, a woman the church should not embrace the doctrine of demons.

Verse 24 – 30 describe the holiness of the land, which represent the Kingdom of Heavens. The concluding verses of this chapter provide an important insight into the nature of the Land of Yisrael. The Land’s holiness is such that it cannot tolerate the sort of sins describe in this chapter, and it was about to vomit out the Canaanites inhabitance.

These activates are the practices that Lucifer and his angels endorses. These are the same principle the evil one encourage the nations to practice. The nation of Yisrael is an example of the Kingdom of Heavens; anyone who practices these acts will be cast out of the Kingdom. Anyone who practices these abominable practices will not be allowed to enter into the land or the Kingdom of Heavens.

Lev 18:24 ‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you. – Those that possess this mindset were driven out; those who possess this same mindset will not be allowed to enter into the land also.

Lev 18:25 ‘Thus the land became defiled, therefore I punished it for its crookedness, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. -  The Kingdom of Heavens was defiled once by such a mindset, the restoration of the Kingdom will not allow the same mindset to enter the Kingdom again.

Those denominations that ordain priest and priestess will never produce any souls that will be allow to enter the Kingdom of Heavens. Although the expulsion of the Canaanites had not yet taken place, the verse speaks of it in the past tense. Once a person or a nation has reached a point where EL YAHVEH’S Wisdom determines that an outcome is certain, Scripture speaks of it as if it is already happened. It is in the nature of prophecy that it looks to the inner spiritual value that determines future events.

Lev 18:26 ‘But you, you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings, and not do any of these abominations, the native nor stranger who sojourns among you, - As a good citizen of the Kingdom of Heavens, we must safeguard these laws. The angels who followed Lucifer did not safeguard these laws, therefore they rebelled.

The word “you”, means every single individual must embark on this journey, in order to prove themselves as a good citizen in the Kingdom of Heavens. What we practice here on earth and embrace or make part of our constitution while on planet earth, will become a permanent part of our spiritual nature when we die.

 

Lev 18:27 because the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and thus the land became defiled, - The angels who rebel with Lucifer in the Kingdom of Heavens, had also done these same abominations and the Kingdom was defiled. The purpose of El Yahushua is to restore the integrity of the Kingdom for His and our Father.

Lev 18:28 ‘So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. – We are admonish here, not to let the Kingdom reject us also, as it did to Lucifer and His rebellious angels.

Lev 18:29 ‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those beings who do them shall be cut off from among their people. – We are spiritual being having a fleshly experience, those whose souls embrace these teachings, will be cut of from the Kingdom of Heavens, even while they are still in the flesh.

All these sins mentioned in this chapter incur Kares, even those that are subject to the spiritual death penalty. The death penalty is imposed only if the sinner was warned that his actions are forbidden and that it was a capital offense.

Otherwise, if he committed any of these acts intentionally, he or she will be punished by death.

Lev 18:30 ‘And you shall guard My Charge, so as not to do any of these abominable practices which were done before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them. I am יהוה your Elohim. – Everyone in the redeem community shall make sure to guard or to safe-guard himself or herself from being contaminated by these Canaanites teachings.   

 HafTorah

Isaiah 58: 1 –12

The prophet Isaiah, in the close of the former chapter, had foreseen and foretold the kind reception which the gospel of Messiyah should find among the Gentiles, that nations and their kings should bid it welcome, that those who had not seen him should believe in him; and though they had not any prophecies among them of gospel grace, which might raise their expectations, and dispose them to entertain it, yet upon the first notice of it they should give it its deu weight and consideration. Now here he foretells, with wonder, the unbelief of the Jews, notwithstanding the previous notices they had of the coming of the Messiyah in the Old Testament and the opportunity they had of being personally acquainted with Him.

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of YAHVEH revealed? –  The contempt they put upon the gospel of Messiyah. The unbelief of the Jews in our Saviour’s time is expressly said to be the fulfilling of this word, Jn. 12:38. And it is applied likewise to the little success which the apostles’ preaching met with among Jews and Gentiles, Rom. 10:16. N

Of the many that hear the report of the gospel there are few, very few, that believe it. It is reported openly and publicly, not whispered in a corner, or confined to the schools, but proclaimed to all; and it is so faithful a saying, and so well worthy of all acceptation, that one would think it should be universally received and believed. But it is quite otherwise; few believed the prophets who spoke before of The Messiyah; when He came Himself none of the rulers nor of the Pharisees followed him, and but here and there one of the common people; and, when the apostles carried this report all the world over, some in every place believed, but comparatively very few. To this day, of the many that profess to believe this report, there are few that cordially embrace it and submit to the power of it.

 Therefore people believe not the report of the gospel, because the arm of YAHVEH is not revealed to them; they do not discern, nor will be brought to acknowledge, that divine power which goes along with the word. The arm of YAHVEH is made bare (as was said, ch. 52:10) in the miracles that were wrought to confirm Messiyah’s doctrine, in the wonderful success of it, and its energy upon the conscience; though it is a still voice, it is a strong one; but they do not perceive this, nor do they experience in themselves that working of the Spirit of Understanding which makes the word effectual. They believe not the gospel because, by rebelling against the light they had, they had forfeited the grace of EL YAHVEH, which therefore he justly denied them and withheld from them, and for want of that they believed not.

This is a thing we ought to be much affected with; it is to be wondered at, and greatly lamented, and ministers may go to YAHVEH and complain of it to him, as the prophet here. What a pity is it that such rich grace should be received in vain, that precious souls should perish at the pool’s side, because they will not step in and be healed!

Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. - The contempt they put upon the person of Messiyah because of the meanness of his appearance. This seems to come in as a reason why they rejected His doctrine, because they were prejudiced against His person. When he was on earth many that heard Him preach, and could not but approve of what they heard, would not give it any regard or entertainment, because it came from one that made so small a figure and had no external advantages to recommend Him. Observe here,

The low condition He submitted to, and how He abased and emptied himself. The entry he made into the world, and the character He wore in it, was no way agreeable to the ideas which the Jews had formed of the Messiyah and their expectations concerning him, but quite the reverse.

It was expected that His extraction would be very great and noble. He was to be the Son of David, of a family that had a name like to the names of the great men that were in the earth, 2 Sa. 7:9. But he sprang out of this royal and illustrious family when it was reduced and sunk, and Joseph, that son of David, who was his supposed father, was but a poor carpenter, perhaps a ship-carpenter, for most of his relations were fishermen. This is here meant by His being a root out of a dry ground, His being born of a mean and despicable family, in the north, in Galilee, of a family out of which, like a dry and desert ground, nothing green, nothing great, was expected, in a country of such small repute that it was thought no good thing could come out of it. His mother, being a virgin, was as dry ground, yet from her He sprang who is not only fruit, but root. The seed on the stony ground had no root; but, though Messiyah grew out of a dry ground, he is both the root and the offspring of David, the root of the good olive.

It was expected that he should make a public entry, and come in pomp and with observation; but, instead of that, he grew up before EL YAHVEH, not before men. YAHVEH had His eye upon him, but men regarded Him not: He grew up as a tender plant, silently and insensibly, and without any noise, as the corn, that tender plant, grows up, we know not how, Mk. 4:27. Messiyah rose as a tender plant, which, one would have thought, might easily be crushed, or might be nipped in one frosty night. The gospel of Messiyah, in its beginning, was as a grain of mustard-seed, so inconsiderable did it seem, Mt. 13:31, 32.

It was expected that He should have some uncommon beauty in his face and person, which should charm the eye, attract the heart, and raise the expectations of all that saw him. But there was nothing of this kind in Him; not that He was in the least deformed or misshapen, but he had no form nor comeliness, nothing extraordinary, which one might have thought to meet with in the countenance of an incarnate deity. Those who saw Him could not see that there was any beauty in Him that they should desire him, nothing in him more than in another beloved, Cant. 5:9. Moses, when he was born, was exceedingly fair, to such a degree that it was looked upon as a happy presage, Acts 7:20; Heb. 11:23. David, when he was anointed, was of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to, 1 Sa. 16:12. But our Lord Messiyah had nothing of that to recommend him. Or it may refer not so much to his person as to the manner of his appearing in the world, which had nothing in it of sensible glory. His gospel is preached, not with the enticing words of man’s wisdom, but with all plainness, agreeable to the subject.

Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. - It was expected that he should live a pleasant life, and have a full enjoyment of all the delights of the sons and daughters of men, which would have invited all sorts to Him; but, on the contrary, He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

It was not only His last scene that was tragical, but his whole life was so, not only mean, but miserable, Thus, being made sin for us, he underwent the sentence sin had subjected us to, that we should eat in sorrow all the days of our life (Gen. 3:17), and thereby relaxed much of the rigor and extremity of the sentence as to us. His condition was, upon many accounts, sorrowful. Yahushua was unsettled, had not where to lay His head, lived upon alms, was opposed and menaced, and endured the contradiction of sinners against himself.

His spirit was tender, and He admitted the impressions of sorrow. We never read that he laughed, but often that he wept. Lentulus, in his epistle to the Roman senate concerning Yahushua, says, "he was never seen to laugh;’’ and so worn and macerated was He with continual grief that when He was but a little above thirty years of age He was taken to be nearly fifty, Jn. 8:57.

Grief was his intimate acquaintance; for Yahushua acquainted Himself with the grievances of others, and sympathized with them, and He never set his own at a distance; for in His transfiguration He talked of His own decease, and in His triumph he wept over Yerushalayim. Let us look unto him and mourn.

The low opinion that men had of Him, upon this account. Being generally apt to judge of persons and things by the sight of the eye, and according to outward appearance, they saw no beauty in the Messiyah that they should desire Him. There was a great deal of true beauty in Him, the beauty of holiness and the beauty of goodness, enough to render Him the desire of all nations; but the far greater part of those among whom He dwell, and conversed, saw none of this beauty, for it was spiritually discerned.

Carnal hearts see no Excellency in Yahushua our Messiyah, nothing that should induce them to desire an acquaintance with him or interest in him. He is not only not desired, but he is despised and rejected, abandoned and abhorred, a reproach of men, an abject, one that men were shy of keeping company with and had not any esteem for, a worm and no man. He was despised as a mean man, rejected as a bad man.

He was the stone which the builders refused; they would not have him to reign over them. Men, who should have had so much reason as to understand things better, so much tenderness as not to trample upon a man in misery, men whom He came to seek and save rejected Him: "We hid as it were our faces from him, looked another way, and his sufferings were as nothing to us; though never sorrow was like unto his sorrow. Nay, we not only behaved as having no concern for Him, but as loathing him, and having him in detestation.’’

It may be read, He hid as it were his face from us, concealed the glory of his majesty, and drew a veil over it, and therefore he was despised and we esteemed him not, because we could not see through that veil.

Messiyah having undertaken to make satisfaction to the justice of EL YAHVEH for the injury man had done Him in his honor by sin (and YAHVEH cannot be injured except in His honor), He did it not only by divesting himself of the glories deu to an incarnate deity, but by submitting himself to the disgraces deu to the worst of men and malefactors; and thus by vilifying himself He glorified His Father: but this is a good reason why we should esteem Him highly, and study to do Him honor; let the Messiyah be received by us whom men rejected.

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of YAHVEH, and afflicted. - ,

A further account of the sufferings of Messiyah. Much was said before, but more is said here, of the very low condition to which He abased and humbled Himself, to which He became obedient even to the death on the Stake.

He had griefs and sorrows; being acquainted with them, He kept up the acquaintance, and did not grow shy, no, not of such melancholy acquaintance. Were griefs and sorrows allotted Him? He bore them, and blamed not His lot; He carried them, and did neither shrink from them, nor sink under them. The load was heavy and the way long, and yet He did not tire, but persevered to the end, till he said, “It is finished”.

He had blows and bruises; He was stricken, smitten, and afflicted. His sorrows bruised him; he felt pain and smart from them; they touched him in the most tender part, especially when YAHVEH was dishonored, and when He forsook him upon the Stake. All along for the first time He was smitten with the tongue, when He was caviled at and contradicted, put under the worst of characters, and had all manner of evil said against him. At last He was smitten with the hand, with blow after blow.

He had wounds and stripes. He was scourged, not under the merciful restriction of the Jewish law, which allowed not above forty stripes to be given to the worst of male factors, but according to the usage of the Romans. And his scourging, doubtless, was the more severe because Pilate intended it as an equivalent for his crucifixion, and yet it proved a preface to it. He was wounded in his hands, and feet, and side.

Though it was so ordered that not a bone of him should be broken, yet he had scarcely in any part a whole skin (how fond soever we are to sleep in one, even when we are called out to suffer for him), but from the crown of his head, which was crowned with thorns, to the soles of his feet, which were nailed to the cross, nothing appeared but wounds and bruises.

He was wronged and abused: He was oppressed, injuriously treated and hardly dealt with. That was laid to his charge which he was perfectly innocent of, that laid upon him which he did not deserve, and in both he was oppressed and injured.

He was afflicted both in mind and body; being oppressed, he laid it to heart, and, though, he was patient, was not stupid under it, but mingled his tears with those of the oppressed, that have no comforter, because on the side of the oppressors there is power, Eccl. 4:1. Oppression is a sore affliction; it has made many a wise man mad (Eccl. 7:7); but our Lord Jesus, though, when he was oppressed, he was afflicted, kept possession of his own soul.

He was judged and imprisoned, as is implied in His being taken from prison and judgment, verse 8. YAHVEH having made him sin for us, he was proceeded against as a malefactor; he was apprehended and taken into custody, and made a prisoner; he was judge, accused, tried, and condemned, according to the usual forms of law: YAHVEH filed a process against him, judged him in pursuance of that process, and confined him in the prison of the grave, at the door of which a stone was rolled and sealed.

He was cut off by an untimely death from the land of the living, though he lived a most useful life, did so many good works, and they were all such that one would be apt to think it was for some of them that they stoned him. He was stricken to death, to the grave which he made with the wicked (for he was crucified between two thieves, as if he had been the worst of the three) and yet with the rich, for he was buried in a sepulcher that belonged to Joseph, an honorable counselor.

Though he died with the wicked, and according to the common course of dealing with criminals should have been buried with them in the place where he was crucified, yet YAHVEH here foretold, and Providence so ordered it, that he should make his grave with the innocent, with the rich, as a mark of distinction put between him and those that really deserved to die, even in his sufferings.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with His stripes we are healed. – A full account of the meaning of Messiyah’s sufferings. It was a very great mystery that so excellent a person should suffer such hard things; and it is natural to ask with amazement, "How came it about? What evil had he done?’’ His enemies indeed looked upon him as suffering justly for his crimes; and, though they could lay nothing to his charge, they esteemed him stricken, smitten of EL YAHVEH, and afflicted.

Because they hated him, and persecuted him, they thought that YAHVEH did, that he was his enemy and fought against him; and therefore they were the more enraged against him, saying, YAHVEH has forsaken him; persecute and take him, Ps. 71:11. Those that are justly smitten are smitten of YAHVEH, for by him princes decree justice; and so they looked upon him to be smitten, justly put to death as a blasphemer, a deceiver, and an enemy to Caesar.

Those that saw him hanging on the cross enquired not into the merits of his cause, but took it for granted that he was guilty of every thing laid to his charge and that therefore vengeance suffered him not to live.

Thus Job’s friends esteemed him smitten of YAHVEH, because there was something uncommon in his sufferings. It is true he was smitten of YAHVEH, (or, as some read it, he was YAH’s smitten and afflicted, the Son of YAHVEH, though smitten and afflicted), but not in the sense in which they meant it; for, though he suffered all these things.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and YAHVEH hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. – Every single human have forsaken the way of salvation. We have all sinned. Therefore Deuteronomy 25:15 – 68 the curse of sin is against us. Collisions 2: ¹²Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of Elohim, who hath raised him from the dead. ¹³And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; ¹⁴Blotting 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; ¹⁵And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.  The curse of the laws contain in Deut 28 which was against us, was nailed to the Stake by our Messiyah.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. – Before Yahushua went to the Stake He ask if it was possible to take this cup away, but nevertheless let YAHVEH Will be done. On the Stake He never complain once. Yahushua HaMashiach was totally faithful to His duties.

Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. - The consequence of this was  Messiyah’s resurrection and advancement to perpetual honor. This makes the offence of the Stake perfectly to cease; He yielded Himself to die as the perfect sacrifice, as a lamb without blemish, and, to make it evident that the sacrifice He offered of Himself was the ideal covenant

Isa 53:9  And he made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. –  That He was discharged: He was taken from prison and from judgment; whereas He was imprisoned in the grave under a judicial process, lay there under an arrest for our debt, and judgment seemed to be given against Him, He was by an express order from heaven taken out of the prison of the grave, an angel was sent on purpose to roll away the stone and set Him at liberty, by which the judgment given against Him was reversed and taken off; this redounds not only to His honor, but to our comfort; for, being delivered for our offences, he was raised again for our justification. That discharge of the bail amounted to a release of the debt.

That He was preferred: Who shall declare to his generation? His age, or continuance (so the word signifies), the time of his life? He rose to die no more; death had no more dominion over Him. He that was dead is alive, and lives for evermore; and who can describe that immortality to which He rose, or number the years and ages of it?

And He is advanced to this eternal life because for the transgression of His people He became obedient to death. We may take it as denoting the time of his usefulness, as David is said to serve his generation, and so to answer the end of living.

Who can declare how great a blessing Messiyah’s by his death and resurrection will be to the world? Some by His generation understand His spiritual seed: Who can count the vast numbers of converts that shall by the gospel be begotten to Him, like the dew of the morning?

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the EL YAHVEH to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of YAHVEH shall prosper in His hand. – The services and sufferings of Messiyah’s state of humiliation. Come, and see how he loved us, see what He did for us. He submitted to the frowns of Heaven: Yet it pleased YAHVEH to bruise him, to put him to pain, or torment, or grief. The scripture nowhere says that Messiyah is His sufferings underwent the wrath of YAHVEH for us; but it says here.

That YAHVEH bruised him, not only permitted men to bruise him, but awakened His own sword against him, Zec. 13:7.

Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities. – He substituted himself in the room of sinners, as a sacrifice. He made His soul an offering for sin; He himself explains this (Mt. 20:28), that He came to give His life a ransom for many. When men brought bulls and goats as sacrifices for sin they made them offerings, for they had an interest in them, YAHVEH having put them under the feet of man.

But Messiyah made Himself an offering; it was His own act and deed. We could not put Him in our stead, but He put himself, and said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit, in a higher sense than David said, or could say it. "Father, I commit my soul to thee, I deposit it in thy hands, as the life of a sacrifice and the price of pardons.’ Thus he shall bear the iniquities of the many that he designed to justify, shall take away the sin of the world by taking it upon himself, Jn. 1:29.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. - This mentioned again: He bore the sin of many, who, if they had borne it themselves, would have been sunk by it to the lowest hell. See how this dwelt upon; for, whenever we think of the sufferings of Messiyah, we must see him in them bearing our sin.

He subjected Himself to that which to us is the wages of sin: He has poured out His soul unto death, poured it out as water, so little account did He make of it, when the laying of it down was the appointed means of our redemption and salvation. He loved not His life unto the death, and His followers, the martyrs, did likewise, Rev. 12:11.

Or, rather, He poured it out as a drink-offering, to make His sacrifice complete, poured it out as wine, that His blood might be drink indeed, as His flesh is meat indeed to all believers. There was not only a co liquation of His body in His sufferings (Ps. 22:14, I am poured out like water), but a surrender of His spirit; he poured out that, even unto death, though he is YAHVEH of life.

He suffered Himself to be ranked with sinners, and yet offered Himself to be an intercessor for sinners. It was a great aggravation of his sufferings that he was numbered with transgressors, that he was not only condemned as a malefactor, but executed in company with two notorious malefactors, and he in the midst, as if he had been the worst of the three, in which circumstance of his suffering, the evangelist tells us, this prophecy was fulfilled, Mk. 15:27, 28. Nay, the vilest malefactor of all, Barabbas, who was a traitor, a thief, and a murderer, was put in election with him for the favor of the people, and carried it; for they would not have Yahushua released, but Barabbas.

In his whole life He was numbered among the transgressors; for He was called and accounted a Sabbath-breaker, a drunkard, and a friend to publicans and sinners. It was a great commendation of Messiyah’s sufferings, and redounded very much to His honor, that in His sufferings He made intercession for the transgressors, for those that reviled and crucified him; for he prayed, Father, forgive them, thereby showing, not only that He forgave them, but that He was now doing that upon which their forgiveness, and the forgiveness of all other transgressors, were to be founded. That prayer was the language of His blood, crying, not for vengeance, but for mercy, and therein it speaks better things, a more complete Covenant.

Brit Chadasha

Hebrew 7:23 – 10:25

Heb 7:23  And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: - There were many High Priest “Kohem Hagadol” since Aaron. These High Priest we limited by death, when one died another was appointed to filled his place.

Heb 7:24  But this Man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. – Our Kohem Hagadol today is Yahushua our Messiyah, since He lives forever, He is our High Priest forever. There will never be another High Priest to replace Yahushua.

Heb 7:25  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto YAHVEH by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. – There is a remarkable change in the number of the priests under this new Covenant. In that of Aaron there was a multitude of successively high Priest; but in this new covenant base on the Blood of Yahushua there is but one and the same. The reason is plain, The Levitical priests were many, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.

 Their office, how high and honorable, could not secure them from dying; and, as one died, another must succeed, and after a while must give place to a third, till the number had become very great. But this Yahushua our high priest continues for ever, and His priesthood is aparabaton—an unchangeable one, that does not pass from one to another, as the former did; it is always in the same hand.

There can be no vacancy in this priesthood, no hour nor moment in which the people are without a priest to negotiate their spiritual concerns in heaven. Such a vacancy might be very dangerous and prejudicial to them; but this is their safety and happiness, that this ever-living high priest is able to save to the utmost, in all times, in all cases, in every juncture—all who come to EL YAHVEH by Yahushua.

Heb 7:26  For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; - He is such a high priest because He became like us, He was also completly holy, harmless, and undefiled. Observe,

Our case, as sinners, needed a high priest to make satisfaction and intercession for us. No priest could be suitable or sufficient for our reconciliation to YAHVEH but one who was perfectly righteous in his own person; he must be righteous in himself, or he could not be a propitiation for our sin, or our advocate with the Father.

YAHVEH Messiyah was exactly such a high priest as we wanted, for he has a personal holiness, absolutely perfect. Observe the description we have of the personal holiness of Yahushua expressed in various terms, all of which some learned divines consider as relating to his perfect purity.

He is holy, perfectly free from all the habits or principles of sin, not having the least disposition to it in his nature; no sin dwells in him, though it does in the best of us, not the least sinful inclination

He is harmless, perfectly free from all actual transgression, has done no violence, nor is there any deceit in his mouth, never did the least wrong to YAHVEH or man.

He is undefiled; he was never accessory to other men’s sins. It is a difficult thing to keep ourselves pure, so as not to partake in the guilt of other men’s sins, by contributing in some way towards them, or not doing what we ought to prevent them. Yahushua was undefiled; though He took upon Him the guilt of our sins, yet He never involved Himself in the fact and fault of them.

He is separate from sinners, not only in his present state (having entered as our high priest into the holiest of all, into which nothing defiled can enter), but in his personal purity: he has no such union with sinners, either natural or federal, as can devolve upon him original sin. This comes upon us by virtue of our natural and federal union with the first Adam, we descending from him in the ordinary way. But Messiyah was, by His ineffable conception in the virgin, separate from sinners; though he took a true human nature, yet the miraculous way in which it was conceived set him upon a separate footing from all the rest of mankind. He is made higher than the heavens. Because He lived according to the Word.

Heb 7:27  Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. – Yahushua need no daily sacrifice to atone for His sins as the other High priest do. The other characters in the verse plainly belong to the personal perfection of Messiyah in holiness, as opposed to the sinful infirmities of the Levitical priests; and it seems congruous to think this must do so too, if it may be fairly taken in such a sense; and it appears yet more probable, since the validity and prevalence of Messiyah’s priesthood in are placed in the impartiality and disinterestedness of it.

 He needed not to offer up for himself: it was a disinterested mediation; He mediated for that mercy for others which He did not need for Himself; had He needed it himself, He had been a party, and could not have been a Mediator—a criminal, and could not have been an advocate for sinners.

Heb 7:28  For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. – The Law requires an High Priest, which was given to the imperfect sons, until a perfect Son in the Person of Yahushua our Messiyah was found. It was the requirement of the Law that a perfect man was to be the High Priest. This was fulfilled in Messiyah forever. That was the reason why Yahushua was the only one who could have died on the Stake. The slaughter of Bulls, sheep, and goat was a shadow of the Perfect Lamb to come. Once this was accomplished, we enter into a New Covenant.

Chapter 8

In this chapter the apostle pursues his former subject, the priesthood of the Perfect Son of Man.

I.             He sums up what he had already said verse 1, 2. 

II.           He sets before them the necessary parts of the priestly office verse 3-5.  

III.         Largely illustrates the Excellency of the priesthood of Messiyah, by considering the Excellency of that new dispensation or covenant for which Messiyah is the Mediator verse 6 to the end.

Heb 8:1  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest, who is set on the Right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens; - Here is,

A summary recital of what had been said before concerning the Excellency of Messiyah’s priesthood, showing what we have in Yahushua, where He now resides, and what sanctuary He is the minister of, Observe,

What we have in Yahushua; we have a high priest, and such a high priest as no other people ever had, no age of the world, or of the church, ever produced; all others were but types and shadows of this high priest. He is adequately fitted and absolutely sufficient to all the intents and purposes of a high priest, both with respect to the honor of EL YAHVEH and the happiness of men and himself; the great honor of all those who have an interest in him.

Where He now resides: He sits on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high, that is, of the glorious Elohim of heaven. There the Mediator is placed, and He is possessed of all authority and power both in heaven and upon earth. This is the reward of his humiliation.

Heb 8:2  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which YAHVEH pitched, and not man. – When Moses was ask to build a Tabernacle, he builds it according to the one he saw in the Heavens. Imperfect man was the high priest of the Tabernacle build by Moses, but Yahushua is the High Priest of the Tabernacle in the Heavens.

Heb 8:3  For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. – Every high priest job is to offer the gifts and sacrifices in the Tabernacle. Aaron and his sons offered the sacrifice according to the right ruling of the Kingdom. Yahushua our Messiyah offered our gifts and sacrifice for us today. That is why we must do everything in the Name of Yahushua our Messiyah.

Heb 8:4  For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: - If Yahushua our Messiyah was on earth, He could not be a Priest, He was not of the tribe of Levi. The Law stipulates that the High Priest must be of the Leviticus tribe.

Heb 8:5  Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of EL YAHVEH when He was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. – The Tabernacle of Moses was a shadow of the Tabernacle in the Heavens. Moses was given the details of the earthly Tabernacle while he was on the Mountain.

Heb 8:6  But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. – The Ministry or High Priesthood of Yahushua our Messiyah is establish on a better covenant. The Blood that flow from the Feet, the blood and water from His side, the blood from His left and Right Hand, and the Blood from the Crown of Thorns are all part of the better covenant.

The five places where our Messiyah bleeds from represent an Altar of the Tabernacle. The Blood for His feet, the Brazen Altar.

The Blood and Water from His side the Laver.

The Blood from His Left Hand the Altar of Showbread.

The Blood from His right Hand the Menorah.

The Blood from the Crown of Thorns the Altar of Burnt incense.

Each place where Messiyah bleed, represent one of the Altar of the Tabernacle. This indeed is the better Covenant.

The original covenant was based on the blood of bulls, sheep and goats, which was not for any specific Altar. The blood of the animals was place on different Altar at different time to symbolize the different sacrifices and gifts.

Heb 8:7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. – The first covenant was based on the blood of the animals which could not make us clean. However it was only a shadow of the perfect Lamb to come.

Heb 8:8  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith YAHVEH, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisrael and with the house of Judah: - The Covenant that EL YAHVEH made with Yisrael was broken by the foolish children. Yahushua had to die to do away with that covenant. The old covenant was made with the Nation of Yisrael, today it is made with individual. Whosoever will may come?

Heb 8:9  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith YAHVEH. – That it was not sure or steadfast; for the Jews continued not in that covenant, and YAHVEH regarded them not. They dealt ungratefully with their Elohim, and cruelly with themselves, and fell under YAH’s displeasure.

Heb 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisrael after those days, saith YAHVEH; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a Elohim, and they shall be to me a people: - This verse is the identical to Jeremiah 31:33, both new and old testament speaks of the same covenant. The Objective of our Father is to write His Laws on our heart, as it is symbolic when Moses places the Ten Commandments in the Ark of the Covenant. We are the Ark of the Covenant. We have been given a new covenant, in every generation, this covenant must be establish, the writhing of the Laws of the Kingdom on our Heart, that we may fulfilled Ezekiel 36:“²⁶A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. ²⁷And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. ²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your EL.”

Notice the ending of Hebrew 8:10 and Ezekiel 36:26 and ye shall be My people. This is the covenant in any age. It is for us to achieve perfection. YAHVEH Covenant with his people that he will put his laws into their minds and write them in their hearts. He once wrote His laws to them, now He will write His laws in them; that is, He will give them the Spirit of understanding to know and to believe His law; He will give them the Spirit of Knowledge to memories to retain them; He will give them hearts to love them and consciences to recognize them; He will give them the Spirit of Wisdom the courage to profess them and power to put them in practice; the whole habit and frame of their souls shall be a table and transcript of the law of Torah. This is the foundation of the covenant; and, when this is laid, duty will be done wisely, sincerely, readily, easily, resolutely, constantly, and comfortably.

Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know YAHVEH: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. –  He articles with them that they shall grow more and more acquainted with their Elohim: They shall all know me from the least to the greatest, insomuch that there shall not be so much need of one neighbor teaching another the knowledge of YAHVEH.  In the want of better word, one neighbor should be teaching another to know YAHVEH, as they have ability and opportunity for it. This private instruction shall not be so necessary under the New Covenant as it was under the Old.

Heb 8:12  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. – EL YAHVEH Covenant with them about the pardon of their sins, as what always accompanies the true knowledge of YAHVEH: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.

The generosity of this pardon. It does not result from merit in man, but from mercy in YAHVEH; He pardons for His own name’s sake.

The fullness of this pardon; it extends to their unrighteousness, sins, and iniquities; to all kinds of sin, to sins highly aggravated.

Heb 8:13  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. – The fixedness of this pardon. It is so final and so fixed that YAHVEH will remember their sins no more; He will not recall His pardon; He will not only forgive their sins, but forget them, treat them as if he had forgotten them. This pardoning mercy is connected with all other spiritual mercies.

Unpardoned sin prevents mercy, and pulls down judgments; but the pardon of sin prevents judgment, and opens a wide door to all spiritual blessings; it is the effect of that mercy that is from everlasting, and the earnest of that mercy that shall be to everlasting.

This is the Excellency of the new covenant, and these are the articles of it; and therefore we have no reason to repine, but great reason to rejoice that the former dispensation is antiquated and has vanished away.

Chapter 9

The apostle, having declared the Old- Covenant antiquated and vanishing away, proceeds to let the Hebrews see the correspondence there was between the Old and the New Covenant; and that whatever was excellent in the Old was typical and representative of the New, which therefore must as far excel the Old as the substance does the shadow. The Old was intended to be producing a perfect Lamb in EL Yahushua, to prepare for the institutions of the gospel. And here he treats, 

I.     Of the tabernacle, the place of worship verse 1-5. 

II.   Of the worship and services performed in the tabernacle verse 6, 7. 

III. He delivers the spiritual sense and the main design of all verse 8 to the end.

Heb 9:1  Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. – The first Covenant was to be establish in an earthly Tabernacle as the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. The New Covenant was to be establish in the Tabernacle in the Heavens.

Heb 9:2  For there was a Tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the Menorah, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. – The three Altar to be experience in the Holy Place was the Menorah which represents the Blood from the Right Hand of Messiyah. The second Altar was the Altar of Shewbread which represent the Blood from the Left Hand of Messiyah and the Altar of Burnt Offering the Blood from the Crown of Thorns.

Heb 9:3  And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; - Behind the veil was the Ark of the Covenant, the representation of perfection. The fulfillments of the previous three Altars are essential for us to become the Ark of the Covenant. Inside of the Ark are the Ten Commandments, Aaron Rod and the Pot of Manna.

Heb 9:4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; - A mature individual, will be endowed with the very essence of Glory. He will have the Torah written on their heart, Hebrew 8:10, they will have the Holy Spirit establish in them, Ezekiel 36:26 and they will be a Pot of Manna, the ability to teach or feed other from what is inside of them.

Heb 9:5  And over it the cherubim’s of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. – The Spiritual implication of this verse, is that at this level of spiritual growth, we will be able to hear the audible Voice of the Creator. We are told that He will speak to us from the top of the Mercy Seat, Number 7:89.

Heb 9:6  Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of YAHVEH. – From the description of the place of worship in the Old-Testament dispensation, the apostle proceeds to speak of the duties and services performed in those places. When the several parts and furniture of the tabernacle were thus settled, then what was to be done there?

The ordinary priests went always into the first tabernacle, to accomplish the service to EL YAHVEH.

No one but priests were to enter into the first part of the tabernacle, this was to teach us all that persons not qualified, not called by a Divine calling, must not intrude into the office and work of the ministry.

The ordinary priests were only to enter into the first part of the tabernacle, it would have been fatal presumption in them to have gone into the holiest of all; and this teaches us that even ministers themselves must know and keep in their proper stations, and not presume to usurp the prerogative of Yahushua, by offering up incense of their own, or adding their own inventions to the ordinances of Yahushua HaMashiach, or lording it over men’s consciences.

These ordinary priests were to enter into the first tabernacle always; that is, they were to devote themselves and all their time to the work of their office, and not alienate themselves at any time from it; they were to be in an habitual readiness for the discharge of their office, and at all stated appointed times were actually to attend to their work.

The ordinary priests must enter into the first tabernacle, that they might there accomplish the service to EL YAHVEH. They must not do the work of YAHVEH partially or by halves, but stand complete in the whole of his will and counsel; not only beginning well, but proceeding well, and persevering to the end, fulfilling the ministry they had received.

Heb 9:7  But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: - Into the second, the interior part, went the high priest along would go on the day of Atonement. This part was an emblem of heaven, and Messiyah’s ascension thither. 

None but the high priest must go into the holiest; so none but Yahushua could enter into heaven in His own name, by His own right, and by His own merits.

In entering into the holiest, the high priest must first go through the outer sanctuary, and through the veil, signifying that Yahushua our Messiyah went to heavens through a holy life and a violent death; the veil of His flesh was rent asunder.

The high priest entered but once a year into the holiest, and in this the antitype excels the type (as in every thing else), for he has entered once for all, during the whole dispensation of the gospel.

The high priest must not enter without blood, signifying that Yahushua, having undertaken to be our high priest, could not have been admitted into heaven without achieving a perfect life. Yahushua did not need any blood, because He never committed any sin. We however, can enter either in by the Grace the Blood of Messiyah provides.

The high priest, under the law, entering into the holiest, offered up that blood for himself and his own errors first, and then for the errors of the people. This teaches us that Yahushua Messiyah is a more excellent person and high priest than any other, for he has no errors of His own to offer for. It teaches us that ministers, when in the name of Yahushua they intercede for others, must first apply the blood of Yahushua to themselves for their pardon.

When the legal high priest had offered for himself, he must not stop there, but must also offer for the errors of the people. Our high priest Yahushua, though He needs not to offer for himself, yet forgets not to offer for His people; He pleads the merit of His sufferings for the benefit of His people on earth.

Heb 9:8  The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: - That the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was standing. When Yahushua died on the Stake, the Curtain to the Holy of Holies was rent from top to bottom. This was one lesson the Holy Spirit would teach us by these types; the way to the heavens was not so clear and plain, nor so much frequented, under the Old Covenant as under the New. It is the honor of Yahushua and the gospel, and the happiness of those who live under it, that now life and immortality are brought to light. There was not that free access to YAHVEH then that there is now; YAHVEH has now opened a wider door; and there is room for more, yea, even for as many as are truly willing to return unto him trough Yahushua.

Heb 9:9  Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; - That the first tabernacle was only a figure for the time then present. That none of the gifts and sacrifices there offered could make the offering perfect as pertaining to conscience; that is, they could not take away the desert, or defilement, or dominion, of sin; they could not deliver conscience from a dread of the wrath of YAHVEH; they could neither discharge the debts, nor resolve the doubts, of him who did the service.

A man might run through them all in their several orders and frequent returns, and continue to do so all his days, and yet not find his conscience either pacified or purified by them; he might thereby be saved from corporal and temporal punishments that were threatened against the non-observers, but he could not be saved by them from sin or hell, as all those are who believe in Messiyah.

Heb 9:10  Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. – The Set Apart Spirit signifies that the Old-Covenant institutions were by external carnal ordinances imposed upon them until the time of reformation. Their imperfection lay in three things:

Their nature. They were but external and carnal meats and drinks, and divers washings. All these were bodily exercises, which profit little; they could only satisfy the flesh, or at best sanctify to the purifying of the flesh.

They were not such as were left indifferent to them to use or disuse, but they were imposed upon them by grievous corporal punishments, and this was ordered on purpose to make them look more to the promised Seed, and long more for him.

These were never designed for perpetuity, but only to continue till the time of reformation, till the better things provided for they were actually bestowed upon them. Gospel times are and should be times of reformation, of clearer light as to all things necessary to be known, of greater love, inducing us to bear ill-will to none, but good-will to all, and to have complacency in all that are like Elohim, of greater liberty and freedom both of spirit and speech, and of a more holy living according to the rule of the gospel. We have far greater advantages under the gospel than they had under the law; and either we must be better or we shall be worse. A conversation becoming the gospel is an excellent way of living; nothing mean, foolish, vain, or servile becomes the gospel.

Heb 9:11  But Yahushua being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; - Yahushua is a high priest by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, a tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, but his own body, or rather human nature, conceived by the Holy Ghost overshadowing the blessed virgin. This was a new fabric, a new order of building, infinitely superior to all earthly structures, not excepting the tabernacle of the temple itself.

Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. – Yahushua, our high priest, has entered into the heavens, not as the old covenant high priest entered into the holiest, with the blood of bulls and of goats, but by His own blood, typified by theirs, and infinitely more precious. But our high priest entered into heaven once for all, and has obtained not a yearly respite, but eternal redemption, and so needs not to make an annual entrance. In each of the types there was something that showed it was a type, and resembled the antitype, and something that showed it was but a type, and fell short of the antitype, and therefore ought by no means to be set up in competition with the antitype.

Heb 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh: - The Set Apart Spirit further signified and showed what was the efficacy of the blood of the Old Covenant sacrifices, and thence is inferred the much greater efficacy is the blood of Messiyah.  The efficacy of the blood of the legal sacrifices extended to the purifying of the flesh: it freed the outward man from the curse of the laws that was place on the outside of the ark, Deut 31:15, and entitled him to, and fitted him for, some external privileges.

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of our Messiyah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to EL YAHVEH, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim? –   He infers very justly hence the far greater efficacy of the blood of Yahushua our Messiyah: How much more shall the blood of Messiyah.

What it was that gave such efficacy to the blood of Messiyah.

First, It was His offering himself to YAHVEH, the human nature upon the altar of his divine nature, he being priest, altar, and sacrifice, his divine nature serving for the two former, and his human nature for the last; now such a priest, altar, and sacrifice, could not but be propitiatory.

Secondly, It was Messiyah’s offering up Himself to YAHVEH through the Set Apart Spirit, not only as the divine nature supported the human, but the Set Apart Spirit, which he had without measure, helping him in all, and in this great act of obedience offering himself. Thirdly, It was Messiyah’s offering himself to EL YAHVEH without spot, without any sinful stain either in His nature or life; this was conformable to the law of sacrifices, which required them to be without blemish.

What the efficacy of Messiyah’s blood is; it is very great. For,

First, It is sufficient to purge the conscience from dead works, it reaches to the very soul and conscience, the defiled soul, defiled with sin, which is a dead work, proceeds from spiritual death, and tends to death eternal. As the touching of a dead body gave a legal uncleanness, so meddling with sin gives a moral and real defilement, fixes it in the very soul; but the blood of Yahushua has efficacy to purge it out.

Secondly, It is sufficient to enable us to serve the living Elohim, not only by purging away that guilt which separates between YAHVEH and sinners, but by sanctifying and renewing the soul through the gracious influences of the Set Apart Spirit, purchased by Yahushua for this purpose, that we might be enabled to serve the living Elohim in a lively manner.

Heb 9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. – The gospel is here considered as a testament, the new and last will and testament of our Messiyah and Savior Yahushua. It is observable that the solemn transactions that pass between Elohim and man are sometimes called a covenant, here a testament.

A covenant is an agreement between two or more parties about things that are in their own power, or may be so, and this either with or without a mediator; this agreement takes effect at such time and in such manner as therein declared.

A testament is a voluntary act and deed of a single person, duly executed and witnessed, bestowing legacies on such legatees as are described and characterized by the testator, and which can only take effect upon his death. Now observe, Yahushua is the Mediator of a New Covalent; and he is so for several ends and purposes here mentioned.

To redeem persons from their transgressions committed against the law or first testament, which makes every transgression a forfeiture of liberty, and makes men debtors, and slaves or prisoners, who need to be redeemed.

To qualify all those those are effectually called to receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. These are the great legacies that Yahushua by His last will and testament has bequeathed to the truly characterized legatees.

Heb 9:16  For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. – To make this New Covenant effectual, it was necessary that Yahushua our Messiyah should die; the legacies accrue by means of death. This He proves by two arguments: From the general nature of every will or testamentary disposition.

Where a testament is, where it acts and operates, there must of necessity by the death of the testator; till then the property is still in the testator’s hand, and He has power to revoke, cancel, or alter, his will as he pleases; so that no estate, no right, is conveyed by will, till the testator’s death has made it unalterable and effectual.

Heb 9:17  For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. – The death of Messiyah nullifies the old covenant, as the death of a partner nullity the marriage. The wife cannot remarry while her first husband is still alive. After the death of the first husband a new covenant may be establish.

Heb 9:18  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. – From the particular method that was taken by Moses in the ratification of the first covenant, which was not done without blood. As the blood from a virgin establish the covenant with her husband.

Heb 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, - All men by sin had become guilty before EL YAHVEH, had forfeited their inheritance, their liberties, and their very lives, into the hands of divine justice; but YAHVEH, being willing to show the greatness of His mercy, proclaimed a covenant of grace, and ordered it to be typically administered under the Old Covenant, but not without the blood and life of the creature; and YAHVEH accepted the blood of bulls and goats, as typifying the blood of Messiyah; and by these means the covenant of grace was ratified under the former dispensation.

The method taken by Moses, according to the direction He had received from YAHVEH, is here particularly related.

Moses spoke every precept to all the people, according to Torah. He published to them the tenor of the covenant, the duties required, the rewards promised to those who did their duty, and the punishment threatened against the transgressors, and he called for their consent to the terms of the covenant; and this in an express manner.

Then he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and applied this blood by sprinkling it.

This blood and water signified the blood and water that came out of our Saviour’s pierced side, for justification and sanctification, and also shadowed forth the two sacraments of the New Covenant, baptism and atonement for sin, with scarlet wool, signifying the righteousness of Messiyah with which we must be clothed, the hyssop signifying that faith by which we must apply all.

Heb 9:20  Saying, This is the blood of the Covenant which YAHVEH hath enjoined unto you. – Every Covenant must be establish by blood. The Blood that flow from the feet of Yahushua is to justify us into His Kingdom. The Blood and the Water from His Side is to sanctify us from our old ways. The Blood that flows from both His Hands is the bread and the wine of the new covenant. The Blood from His Crown of Thorn is for our acceptance as the Wise Virgins.

Heb 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. –  The people, intimating that the shedding of the blood of Messiyah will be of no advantage to us if it be not applied to us. And the sprinkling of both the book and the people signified the mutual consent of both parties, YAHVEH and man, and their mutual engagements to each other in this covenant through Yahushua HaMashiach, Moses at the same time using these words; this is the blood of the testament which YAHVEH hath enjoined unto you.

Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. – This blood, typifying the blood of Messiyah, is the ratification of the covenant of grace to all true believers.  He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the utensils of it, intimating that all the sacrifices offered up and services performed there were accepted only through the blood of Messiyah, which procures the remission of that iniquity that cleaves to our holy things, which could not have been remitted but by that atoning blood.

Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. –  The necessity of purifying the patterns of the things in the heavens. This necessity arises both from the divine appointment, which must always be obeyed, and from the reason of that appointment, which was to preserve a proper resemblance between the things typifying and the things typified. It is observable here that the sanctuary of YAHVEH on earth is a pattern of the heavens, and communion with YAHVEH in His sanctuary is to His people a heaven upon earth.

Heb 9:24  For Messiyah is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into the heavens itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim for us: - he necessity that the heavenly things themselves should be purified with a better sacrifices than of the blood of bulls and goats; the things themselves are better than the patterns, and must therefore be consecrated with better sacrifices. These heavenly things are the privileges of the gospel state, begun in grace, perfected in glory.

These must be ratified by a suitable sanction or consecration; and this was the blood of Messiyah. Now it is very evident that the sacrifice of Yahushua is infinitely better than those of the law.

From the places in which the sacrifices under the law, and that under the gospel, were offered. Those under the law were the holy places made with hands, which are but figures of the true sanctuary.

Heb 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; -  Messiyah’s sacrifice, though offered on earth, was by Himself carried up into the heavens, and is there presented in a way of daily intercession; for He appears in the presence of YAHVEH for us. He has gone to the heavens, not only to enjoy the rest and receive the honor due to him, but to appear in the presence of YAHVEH for us, to present our persons and our performances, to answer and rebuke our adversary and accuser, to secure our interest, to perfect all our affairs, and to prepare a place for us.

Heb 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. – From the sacrifices themselves. Those under the law were the lives and blood of other creatures of a different nature from the offerers, the blood of beasts, a thing of small value, and which would have been of none at all in this matter had it not had a typical respect to the blood of Messiyah; but the sacrifice of Yahushua was the oblation of himself; He offered His own blood, truly called, by virtue of the hypostatical union, the blood of YAHVEH; and therefore of infinite value.

From the frequent repetition of the legal sacrifices. This showed the perfection the law required; but it is the honor and perfection of Messiyah’s sacrifice that gives us the Grace, a second chance so-to-speak to achieved perfection.

Being once offered, it was sufficient to all the ends of it; and indeed the contrary would have been absurd, for then He must have been still dying and rising again, and ascending and then again descending and dying; and the great work had been always in fieri—always doing, and always to do, but never finished, which would be as contrary to reason as it is to revelation, and to the dignity of his person: But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

The gospel is the final dispensation of the grace to men. From the inefficacy of the legal sacrifices, and the efficacy of Messiyah’s sacrifice.

Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: - The appointment of Elohim concerning men contains in it two things: That they must once die, or, at least, undergo a change equivalent to death. It is an awful thing to die, to have the vital knot loosed or cut asunder, all relations here dropped at once, an end put to our probation and preparation state, and to enter into another world.

It is a great work, and it is a work that can be but once done, and therefore had need to be well done. This is matter of comfort to the godly, that they shall die well and die but once; but it is matter of terror to the wicked, who die in their sins, which they cannot return again to do that great work better.

It is appointed to men that after death they shall come to judgment, to a particular judgment immediately after death; for the soul returns to Elohim as to its judge, to be determined to its eternal state; and men shall be brought to the general judgment, at the end of the world. This is the unalterable decree of YAHVEH concerning men, they must die, and they must be rewarded. It is appointed for them, and it is to be believed and seriously considered by them.

Heb 9:28  So Messiyah was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. – The appointment of YAHVEH concerning Messiyah, bearing some resemblance to the other.

He must be once offered, to bear the sins of many, of all the Father had given to him, of all who should believe in His name. He was not offered for any sin of His own; He was wounded for our transgressions. YAHVEH laid on Him the iniquity of all His people; and these are many, though not so many as the rest of mankind; yet, when they are all gathered to him, he will be the first-born among many brethren.

It is appointed that Messiyah shall appear the second time without sin, to the salvation of those who look for Him.

He will then appear without sin; at His first appearance, though He had no sin of his own, yet he stood charged with the sins of many; He was the Lamb of YAHVEH that bore upon Him the sins of the world, and then he appeared in the form of sinful flesh; but his second appearance will be without any such charge upon him, he having fully discharged it before, and then his visage shall not be marred, but shall be exceedingly glorious.

This will be to the salvation of all who look for him; He will then perfect their holiness, their happiness; their number shall then be accomplished, and their salvation completed. Observe, It is the distinguishing character of true believers that they are looking for Messiyah; they look to him by faith; they look for him by hope and holy desires.

They look for him in every duty, in every ordinance, in every providence now; and they expect his second coming, and are preparing for it; and though it will be sudden destruction to the rest of the world, who scoffs at the report of it, it will be eternal salvation to those who look for it.

Chapter 10

The apostle Paul knew very well that the Hebrews, to whom he wrote, were strangely fond of the Levitical dispensation, and therefore he fills his mouth with arguments to wean them from it; and in order thereto proceeds in this chapter, 

I.                   To lay low the whole of that priesthood and sacrifice verse 1-6. 

II.          He raises and exalts the priesthood of Messiyah very high, that he might effectually recommend him and his gospel to them verse 7–18. 

III.       He shows to believers the honors and dignities of their state, and calls them to suitable duties verse 19 to the end.

Heb 10:1  For the Ceremonial law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. – I have a problem with this translation. It describes the Ceremonial Law. In ecclesiastical usage, which means the performance of Divine worship with a prescribe and formal actions. It is our Creator EL YAHVEH who prescribes the method on how we must approach a Holy Elohim. These processes never change. In Leviticus 23 we are given the Holy days by our Creator, with a specific day and dates.

The Shabbat was on the seventh day. Passover was to be on the 14 day of First Month, Pentecost 50 days later. Feast of Trumpet the 1^st of the 7^th Month. On the 10^th was the Day of Atonement; on the 15 of the 7^th month was the fest of Tabernacles.

Christianity in its wisdom did away with this day in 324 when they became the State Religion of the Roman Empire. Christianity then changes the scripture to justifier there action in 324.

The ways we approach a Holy Elohim have not change, and it will never be change. Without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sin. These principles never change.

We cannot approach an holy Elohim without going through El Yahushua our Messiyah Blood. There is simply no other way.

Heb 10:2  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. – There are a lot of people who think that if they atone for a sin in the past and if they does that same sin again in the future they do not have to atone for it. This is simply not true. Every sin must be atone for on its own merit.

This kind of thinking perpetrated by the church is a very dangerous teaching. It does not require the sinner to take responsibility for their sins. If I do not take responsibility for my fault, I will never be able to overcome my fault. By taking responsibility for my action, I apply the Blood of Yahushua and atone for my transgression, the Holy Spirit come and help me to overcome that transgression.

Heb 10:3  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. – We must own up to our fault and Yahushua will make atonement for them on the Day of Atonement. This day of Atonement, our Messiyah stands before our Father and speak on our behalf, as the High Priest make atonement for them one a year.

Heb 10:4  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. – The blood of bulls did not take away the sins, yet the Blood of Yahushua took away our sins once and forever. This means that once a sin was atone for under this new covenant, it was totally forgotten.

Heb 10:5 wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: - When Yahushua came into the world He reiterate that sacrifice and offering was not the purpose of Creation, it was the absolute obedience that He manifested. Sacrifice and offering was a result of sin.

Instead of a total obedient body, El Yahushua had to come and die for the development of His Body. He is not sitting at the Right Hand of our Father waiting for His Body to achieve perfection by overcoming their fault, and prove their loyalty to the Commandments of the Kingdom of Havens.

Heb 10:6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. – Our Father takes no pleasure in Sacrifice and offering. We never hear of El Yahushua making any Sacrifice and offering for sin. Yet we hear Father YAHVEH saying this is by beloved Son in whom I am well please.

Heb 10:7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O YAHVEH. – El Yahushua our Messiyah was illustrated in the five Books of Torah. The purpose of Torah was to produce a Perfect Son. That was the goal of EL YAHVEH for Adam before he sinned. The Goal of the evil-one is to stop the Perfect Son from been created. The six days of Creation is an illustration of such a point.

Heb 10:8  Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; - The law tell us what we must do if we sinned. However this is not the main reason of the Law. The reason for the Law is to establish perfection. We cannot achieve perfection without the law telling us what is right and what is wrong. Our Father does not take please in our sac rice and sin offering, He does take pleasure in our obedience to His Statue and ordinances.

Heb 10:9  Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O YAHVEH. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. – The whole purpose of creation was for all human to do the Will of our Father, which is His Commandments. Yahushua took away the first covenant to establish a more perfect Covenant by the first Perfect Human.

Heb 10:10  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Yahushua our Messiyah once for all. – The Blood and water which flows from the side of El Yahushua is the perfect sanctification process, the Red Sea was also a type and shadow of the same process, which did not clean the Children of Yisrael from there short coming.

Heb 10:11  And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: -  Can one ever imagine if we should sacrifice a Bull or A goat today for everyone sins. There would not be enough animals to be slaughter. As the Red Sea was a type and shadow of the Blood and Water that flows from Messiyah Side, it was the only tool available to them, until Yahushua HaMashiach arrival.  They did it by faith, as we keep Sabbath by faith in the Millennium rule. Going through the Red Sea was a test of faith as keeping Passover is a Test of faith.

Heb 10:12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the Right Hand of YAHVEH; - The Blood that flow from: the Feet, His Side, His Left and Right Hand and the Crown of Thorns was fulfilled on that great day at Calvary. Never to be done again. However the application of that Blood continues even today. I did it this morning when I woke up and will do it again the evening.

Heb 10:13  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. – The application of this blood will continue until the evil-one is place under the Feed of Yahushua. Or until the Kingdom is restored.

Heb 10:14  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. – He we see the purpose of Creation. The perfection of those who are sanctified. Meaning, those who came trough the Red Sea would make it into the Promise Land. A perfect person is he who have the: 10 commandment, the Holy Spirit and they become a pot of manna to other people.

Heb 10:15  Whereof the Set Apart Spirit also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, - The Set Apart Spirit is given to us to help us regain what we have loose through sin.

Heb 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith YAHVEH, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; - This is also written in Hebrew 8:10, and Jeremiah 31:33. This is the same as the ten commandments being place in the Ark of the Covenant which is us. This can only be done without the Set Apart Spirit, Ezekiel 36: ²⁶A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. ²⁷And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. ²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be yourElohim.

Heb 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. – When we have the Ten commandments written in out hearts and the Holy Spirit, it is when we will have all our sins forgiven. Perfection is such a thing as having our sins remembered no more.

Heb 10:18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. – At this point in our spiritual development, we need not have any more sin offering. This is the perfection I am talking about.

Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, the boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Yahushua HaMashiach, - Believers should not have the boldness to achieve perfection trought the Blood of Messiyah Yahushau.

Heb 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; - As believers we have a new covenant that shield us from any harm as we walk the road to perfection.

Heb 10:21  And having an High Priest over the house of EL YAHVEH; - We have an High Priest in the House of EL YAHVEH who interceed on our behalf. One who carry the curse of the law that was place on the outside of the ark of the Covenant, the law that was nail to the Stake. The law that was against the believer who sin, Deut 31:26

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our - hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. – Let us draw near to perfection trough faith, with the assurance that He who start a good work in us is faithful to complete. Let us wash our body in the Blood and water that flow from the Side of Yahushua that sanfifies us, as we take up our cross and follow Messiyah

Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) – Let us hold  fast to the promise of becoming the Ark of the Covenant, a form of the Wise Virgin, who was called to the wedding feast of the Lamb

Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: - Let us encourage one another to strive every day for our Ultimate Destination, the Holy of Holies, doing good word which is righteousness in love for Yahushua HaMashiach.

Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. – On our journey to perfectio, let us not forsake like minded believers who are on their way to perfection, or untill we enter the Sabbath rest.