Parashas Vayishlach
Genesis32:4
- 36:43
Please
pray this
Prayer before reading
In the name of Yahushua
Our Messiyah, (Jesus Christ)
I pray for the Spirit of
Understanding
The Spirit of Knowledge and
The Spirit of Wisdom
As I read through this
Parasha
This Parashash
Vayishlach is the eighth Torah Portion, in the yearly Torah Cycle, it continues
on the theme of Jacob spiritual development. We learn in the last Parashas how
Jacob worked on his character. Now we see Jacob in his next stage of
development, on how to be a peace maker?
Jacob had to run
away from home, after deceiving his brother, in which his brother Essa swore to
kill him. Now twenty years later this situation will finally come to a
conclusion. Knowing that Esau had developed a hate rage Jacob for having tricked
him of his birthright and his father’s blessing, Jacob is understandably
apprehensive about facing his brother.
The confrontation
between the Esau and Jacob is recorded to illustrate how EL YAHWEH sent an angel
to save His servant Jacob from the hand of a stronger brother Esau.
Furthermore, it shows that Jacob did not rely on his own craftiness as before,
but strove mightily to ensure his safety through practical spiritual measure.
It shows that in our
battle against the spirit of Esau in our lives, we must be prepared on three
fronts: In Prayer, in gifts, and in battle.
The Torah tells us
that prior to this meeting; Jacob prayed to ABBA YAHWEH, expressing his
humility for all the goodness ABBA YAHWEH has given him. Keenly aware of his
good fortune and prosperity, Jacob sends messengers ahead with gifts of assess
goats, and sheep. When he approaches Esau, he bowed down seven times before his
brother as an act of submission.
The Torah teaches us
in this Parasha as Jacob realized the only hope he had of protecting himself
and his family was to be generous to his brother, a form of the Messiyah and to
diminish himself.
Only when Jacob saw
Esau did he realized what he was truly battling against all this time, it was
his Anochi, the god within. In that moment, Jacob Yisrael, knew that all of his
spiritual works, all his prayers, all his study, none of these spiritual tools
was going to help him, for his struggle was within his own ego. Jacob like
Yisrael today will not recognize Messiyah Yahushua until they learn that their
hope was to lower themselves before Messiyah.
It
is Witten that
the only way a person can become righteous “tzadik”
is to throw themselves down at least seven times in their spiritual life. To
understand this belief, we need to understand that most of us like Jacob at the
beginning of the story. We all have a spiritual work to accomplish, we have our
study to finish, and we have our faith to strengthen. We can prepare all we
want for our battle against our flesh, the Esau in us, unless we learn to
control our Ego, we will achieve nothing.
In order to overcome
our Ego, we must first understand the magnitude of the challenge. The Ego is as
great a challenge as the forces of Edom that were arrayed against
Jacob. Because most of us are still living like proud Jacob, proud of our spiritual
accomplishment, we failed to understand that our only purpose in life is to
diminish the influence of the selfish Ego over our lives.
By humbling
ourselves daily, we diminish the power of our Ego selfish and awaken the desire
to share; it is the only way we can bring the forces of Edom, the flesh, under authority.
Jacob tried to organize his family into two groups, to hide them from Esau, but
it was not until he humbles himself, by bowing down before Esau, that he
overcame. Esau had no choice but to accept Jacob. The spiritual forces of the
Heavenly realm race to his rescue, shifting the balance of Power from Esau to
Jacob. Humbling ourselves is our only effective to exulting ourselves
We can achieved this
level of Righteousness and create the environment for miracle to happen in our
lives. We create the condition for miracles when we reach the spiritual level
of Ayin or nothingness, for in nothingness there is no selfish Ego. At the
level of Ayin we do not care for or worry about ourselves. This is true
mastering of our spiritual selves.
Through true purge of
our selfish Ego and is the annihilation of our own selfish desire, we remove
the spirit of darkness and confusion from us, as we draw near and nearer to the
Light of the CREATOR. That was why Esau the spirit of darkness had no affect on
Jacob. The Light of this Torah portion gives us the ability to create miracle,
provide blessing, and even grant us redemption.
Even when judgment
is meant for us, as the forces of Edom was on its way to Jacob. When
we humble ourselves it nullifies the judgment and changes it into a blessing.
As believers, if we can move one person, one step closer to perfection, it is a
revelation of the Light of the CREATOR, it is more powerful than if we teach a
thousand persons who never progress spiritually. This does not mean that we
should never teach everyone we meet; it does mean that we should always have
the goal of perfection foremost in our lives.
This Parashas
illustrate the point that even though we may recognize someone’s negative
trait, we must always be open to the potential for transformation. This was the
mistake Jacob made when he try to hide his family from his brother.
In addition to
encouraging us to diminish our Ego, this portion of Vayishlach reminds us to
never lose sight of the possibility of redemption and the potential for drawing
Light goes only with the
depth of our physical fall. We are awaken by the example of Jacob to appreciate
our humility and extreme care must be take when dealing with ours and other people’s soul.
Gen 32:4 And
Ya'akov sent malachim before him to Esav achiv unto Eretz Seir, the country of Edom. - The Hebrew account of this verse says
that, Jacob send malachim (messengers) before him. Malachim or messengers are
the Hebrew names for Angels. This teaches that mature believers are greater
than angels, for when Jacob had need of an emissary, he had the right to summon
angels to do his bidding.
The
reason for the greater stature of human beings over angels is that angels are
static. Human beings, however, achieve their standing through their own
striving for perfection. The word malachim can either mean angel or human
emissaries, sent ones or Apostles.
Angels
cannot change their status, while humans are the only created being, who have
this opportunity to do so. How then do we change our spiritual status? It is by
our obedience to the Word of EL YAHWEH. Our perfectness is measure by how well
we pass the test. The Text book is the Torah! We will be judge by the Written
Word of Torah. The angel like the devil cannot improve their status; they can
decline from where they are if they are ever found to be disobedient.
Angels
are messengers (Rev 7:11), sons are rulers (Rev 3:21), and servants are the
ones who do the work (Rev 7:9, 15). After we die, our spiritual position will
never change. Ecc 11:5b and if a tree falls to the south or the
north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie. - As a dead tree does not have the ability to change
it size or position, we humans cannot change our spiritual position after we
die, we become static. That is why Revelation 7:15 say that those who were
standing in front of the Throne had tears in their eyes.
Why? When they found
out what they could have achieve while they were here on earth and they did
not. They were crying in the spiritual sense. Do not be like one of those my
friends; grow spiritually while we are still in this body, or while we are still
alive. These emissaries were sent towards the land of Seir,
towards the Gulf of Aqaba.
