Terumah

Parashas Terumah

Exodus 25:1 – 27:21

Haftarah

Melechim Alef “First Kings” 5:12 - 6:13

Brit Chadasha

Ivrim “Hebrews” 8:1 - 13

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 Parashas

This Torah Portion of Terumah is the 19^th in the Torah Cycle, the underlying theme of Terumah is this: All ABBA YAHWEH wants for us is to truly desire His Light, which is to build our Menorah.

Once we have accomplished this spiritually, everything will be available to us.

The Yisraelites were struggling to find material to build the Tabernacle, but when they awaken within their community, the desire to give more than they were capable of giving, ABBA YAHWEH helps them. This Torah portion of Terumah is all about our desire to receive the light. Terumah is the Hebrew word for offering.

In this Parashas EL YAHWEH, is about to establish a different Principle to illustrate how to achieve His Ultimate objective, that is to create perfect Sons. The Tabernacle is the resting place for EL YAHWEH Presence, also call the Shechinah Glory.

With the exception of the tragic incident of the Golden Calf (32-33), the rest of the Book of Exodus is devoted to the preparations for and the construction of the Mishkan, the dwelling place or the Tabernacle. Today, we as believers are the ultimate objective for the Presence of EL YAHWEH to dwell in.

Even the account of the Golden Calf is not unrelated to the Tabernacle for the very construction of the Tabernacle was made necessary only because the Children of Yisrael lapse into idolatry. Ideally no tabernacle should have been needed after the Revelation at Mount Sinai, the entire nation had a chance to achieve a level of prophecy, unheard of in the history of mankind, a mass Burning Bush experience, only grander in scale, but comparable to that of Moses.

The Shechinah Glory was supposed to rest on the entire Camp, as it later did on the Tabernacle, the Temple and on Yahushua. These three manifestations are the three perfect types in Scripture. The Children of Yisrael lost that position, due to unbelief. It is only after the Children of Yisrael gave up that chance for a high level of spirituality, as a result of the worship of the Golden Calf, did it become necessary for it to have a substitute Tabernacle.

The fact that the instructions regarding the erection of the Tabernacle were given in this chapter is a paradigm of the common principle that the Torah is not always written in the chronological order in which the events occurred.

The commandments regarding the construction of the Tabernacle are given here because the Tabernacle, a physical manifestation of the so-called rituals and laws are interrelated. The redemption from Egypt was not complete with the physical departure from Egypt as Christianity teaches, nor was it to be completed at Mount Sinai, the giving of the Ten Commandment, even though the Revelation at Sinai was the goal of the Exodus. The Exodus from Egypt will not achieve its purpose until Pentecost becomes a reality in our lives. Pentecost is the giving of the Torah and the Menorah (Holy Spirit).

The construction of the Tabernacle was to be a permanent reminder to the Children of Yisrael, of what they could have achieved at Sinai. The Tabernacle as a whole and in its many parts was symbolic of the historic experience at Mount Sinai. The Ark was to be a portable Mount Sinai, meaning that anytime anyone of the Children of Yisrael could make the effort to experience what they could achieve at Sinai.

In essence the Tabernacle was intended to be the central rallying point of the people, surrounded by the tribes and topped by the cloud of YAHWEH’s presence; its three compartments, illustrate the different levels spiritually, that every believer regardless of their position could achieve.