Vaetchanan

Parasha Va’etchanan

Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11

Please pray This

 Prayer

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 Parasha

That the Truth of Torah may

Come forth. Amen

Torah Portion Va’etchanan, which means “and I besought,” is the 45 Portion in the Torah cycle, it begins with Moses begging the Creator to let him enter into the Promise.

“O Master יהוה , You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand, for who is a Mighty”god” One in the Heavens or on earth who does according to Your works and according to Your might.” Let me go over, I pray You, to let me see the Good Land that is beyond the Jordan, those pleasant Mountain and Lebanon.

We know from Torah that Moses originally intended to lead the Yisraelites not only out of Egypt, but into the Land of Yisrael as well. We also know that this never happened.

          The message of this Torah Portion is this: we must seize every opportunity, they are not limitless, nor are they available everywhere. They can only be found here in this world. Whether it is our relationship with our: CREATOR, Spouse, Parent, Children or Friends, our chances to work on it are finite in number and infinitely precious.

          We all start our spiritual journey when we were arrive at the first heaven, or the first day of Creation, we are to faithfully carry our cross until we complete all sixth days of Creation and arrive victoriously back into the seventh Heaven.

          Moses desire was for him to set foot in the Promise Land the Earthly represent the seventh Heaven. He also knew that this was actually YAHVEH Will for all of mankind. So in asking permission for YAHVEH to go over is not relying a challenge to YAHVEH it was a desire to fulfilled Torah.

Deu 3:24 ‘O Masterיהוה , You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand, for who is a mighty one in the Heavens or on earth who does according to Your works and according to Your might?  - What Moses pleads here for was two things: — The great experience which he had had of YAH’s goodness to him in what he had done for Yisrael: "Thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness.

Moses requested that ABBA YAHVEH perfected or complete what HE has begun. YOU hast given me the privilege to see thy glory in the conquest of these two kings, and the sight has affected me with wonder and thankfulness. O let me see more of the outcome of my EL, my King great work! This great work, no doubt, will be carried on and completed; let me have the satisfaction of seeing its completion.’’

The greatest work in this world that anyone can achieve is to complete the sixth days of Creation or to experience the Seventh Heaven spiritually. It is not aiming for the wealth of the whole world, and your soul fail to achieve what it was destined to achieved.

The more we see of YAH’s glory in HIS works, the more we shall desire to see it come to a conclusion. The works of YAHVEH are great, and therefore are sought out more and more by all those that have pleasure in HIM.

The good impressions that had been made upon Moses heart by what he had seen: For what Elohim ”gods” is there in Heavens or earth that can do according to thy works? The more we are affected with what we have seen of YAHVEH, of HIS Wisdom, Power, and Goodness, the better we are prepared for further discoveries.

Those that see the works of YAHVEH and admire HIM in them, like Moses had expressed himself concerning YAHVEH and HIS works long before (Ex. 15:11), and HE still continues of the same mind, that there are no works worthy to be compared with YAH’s works, Ps. 86:8.

Deu 3:25 ‘I pray, let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yardĕn, this good hill country, and Leḇanon.’ – When Moses prays, he said, “Ve’er’eh et ha eretz hatova” or “let me see the good Land.” We knew that ABBA YAHVEH took Moses to the top of a mountain, where HE showed all the Land to Moses, for this is what Moses soul required.

What he begs: I pray thee let me go over. EL YAHVEH had said he should not go over; yet he prays that he might, not knowing that the threatening was conditional, for it was not ratified with an oath, as that concerning the people was, that they should not enter. 

Hezekiah prayed for his own life, and David for the life of his child, after both had been expressly threatened; and the former prevailed, though the latter did not. Moses remembered the time when he had by prayer prevailed with YAHVEH to recede from the declarations which HE had made of HIS wrath against Yisrael, Ex. 32:14. And why might he not hope in like manner to prevail for himself?

Let me go over and see the good land. Not, "Let me go over and be a prince and a ruler there;’’ Moses seeks not his own honor, is content to resign the government to Joshua; but, "Let me go to be a spectator of thy kindness to Yisrael, to see what I believe concerning the goodness of the land of promise.’’ How emotionally does Moses speak of Canaan, that good land, that goodly mountain!

 Those who may hope to obtain and enjoy YAH’S favors that know how to value them. What he means by that goodly mountain we may learn from Ps. 78:54, where it is said of YAH’S Yisrael that he brought them to the border of HIS sanctuary, even to this mountain which HIS Right Hand had purchased, where it is plainly to be understood of the whole land of Canaan, yet with an eye to the sanctuary, the glory of it.

Deu 3:26 “But יהוה  was enraged with me, for your sake, and would not listen to me, and יהוה  said to me, ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me about this matter. – In the Torah, the CREATOR tells Moses that because he did not perform the miracle as HE specified, Moses would not be allowed to lead the Children of Yisrael into the Promise Land.

So why does it say Moses begged? Moses certainly begs the CREATOR. He said “let me see the Land. Let me enter and see the Land.”

The Hebrew word used in Moses’ prayed is “ve’etchanan.” Why was this so important to Moses and why were his prayer not answered? Many time we pray for things, but our vision of what we need does not match the CREATORS, for we do not have the spiritual clarity to know how things should be. However, when a prayer comes from the soul, it is always answered. When we pray for things and do not receive it, it is because our soul did not join in our prayer.

YAH’s answer to this prayer had in it a mixture of mercy and judgment that he might sing unto YAHVEH of both. There was judgment in the denial of his request, and that in something in His anger too: YAHVEH was wroth with me for your sakes.

YAHVEH not only sees sin in HIS people, but is very displeased with it. Even those that are delivered from the wrath to come may yet lie under the tokens of YAH’S wrath in this world, and may he was denied some particular favor which their hearts are much set upon.

 YAHVEH is a gracious, tender, loving Father; but HE can be angry with HIS children when they do amiss, and denies them many a thing that they desire and are ready to cry for. But how was HE anger with Moses for the sake of Yisrael? Either. For that sin which they provoked him to; see Ps. 106:32, 33.

The removal of Moses at that time, when it seems that he could not be spared, was a rebuke to all Yisrael, and a punishment of their sin. It was for their sakes, that it might be a warning to them to take heed of offending YAHVEH by passionate and unbelieving speeches at any time, after the similitude of his transgression.

 If this were done to such a green tree, what should be done to the dry? He acknowledges that YAHVEH would not hear him. YAHVEH had often heard him for Yisrael sake, yet HE would not hear him for himself.

It was the prerogative of Messiyah, the great Intercessor, to be heard always; yet of Him His enemies said, He saved others, Himself He could not save, which the Jews would not have upbraided Him with had they considered that Moses, their great prophet, prevailed for others, but for himself he could not prevail.

Though Moses, being one of the wrestling seed of Jacob, did not seek in vain, yet he had not the thing itself which he sought for. YAHVEH may accept our prayers, and yet not grant us the very thing we pray for.