Yitro

Parashas Yitro

Exodus 18:1 – 20:23

Haftarah

Yeshayahu Isaiah 6:1-7:14

Brit Chadashah

Alef Timtheous, I Timothy 3:1-14

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 title of this Torah portion is Yitro “Jethro” refers to Moses father-in-law, his other name is Reuel Exo 2:18 which mean friend of God. It is the 17^TH portion of the Torah Cycle, in which ABBA YAHWEH gave Moses the Torah, ABBA YAHWEH offers the Yisraelites the greatest spiritual revelation of Light ever, and a visit by Yitro to their camp.

If Moses was the conduit for the Torah, why is this portion not called the giving of the Torah, or even Moses, why was it called Yitro? What is so significant about Yitro that it warrant having this Torah portion called after him?

What Yitro brought to the camp spiritually was a prerequisite to them as it is for us to receiving immortality, so let’s take a closer look at this idea. As we learn from Moses encounter with the burning bush, when we are truly ready to connect to the Light of the CREATOR, we attain a state of elevated consciousness where everything that happens is significant.

If a relative or even a friend like Yitro should come to you, the head of a mega Church and said, “I know that you think you are doing a good job, but actually you are not; let me tell you how to do it better,” it is very likely you might be offended. In this Torah portion, however, we see that we put our spiritual selves at risk if we do not acknowledge the messages we receive from everyone, even a person like Yetro.

As believers we cannot receive correction if we are not willing to listen, even to a donkey as blind Balaam, who had to be correct by an ass. When we become fully aware that we should consider everything, and everyone, as if it were coming from ABBA YAHWEH, even when its source is a person who is less that favorable, then we are ready to receive the greater spiritual revelation.

The Torah did not say Moses listened to the words of Yitro, but to the voice of the spirit of the voice of Yitro, and Moses did everything Yitro said. Moses understood the spirit behind everything Yitro said, even if he might not have said it in the right way. There was an enormous spiritual divide between Moses and Yitro, yet Moses was humble and spiritual enough to understand that he had something to gain even from Yitro. Our spiritual growth comes from everything we hear.

The visit of Yitro to Moses was twofold. One Moses showed Yitro the Blessing of ABBA YAHWEH, and as we learn in Exodus 18:11 Yitro said that “Now I know that יהוה  is greater than all the mighty ones, indeed in the matter in which they acted proudly, above them.”  Now it was Moses turn to be blessed by Yitro.

In a river that flow we will find many smooth stones in that river. Those stone did not get that way by the water flowing over it. They got that way when each rock rub against each other, when the influence of the water forces them together. This incident was the Work of the Holy Spirit the Water, bringing Moses and Yitro together, and each person perform a smoothing action that leave the other person more refined. Moses was made the better from Yitro visit and Yitro was made the better by Moses.

Without the interaction between believers, the refining process cannot be complete. We can study all day and all night, but we will not elevate unless we merit assistance from the interaction of other believers.

When a believer is will to listen, even to the smallest child, he or she will be opening themselves to receive more revelation. If a person’s wisdom is greater than his or her spiritual actions, it cannot last because there is no vessel to contain the light he or she is revealing. When we reveal more Light than our Vessel can hold, the excess will floats away.

We can only hold on to the amount of Light that our vessel is capable of. The purpose of our spiritual growth is to create a large enough Vessel, so that all the Light that has been revealed to us, may find a home. He who has an ear the hear let him hear.