Veyeilech

Parashas Vayeilech

Deuteronomy 31:1 – 31:30

Please pray this prayer

Before reading

Prayer

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

Vayelech is the fifty-second Torah Portion. In this portion, we can almost hear the sorrow in the prophetic voice of this great leader as he comes to the end of his leadership. He reminder the people “And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant,  And it shall be, when many evils and distresses come upon them, that this song shall answer before them as a witness. For it is not to be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know their Thoughts which they are forming today, even before I bring them to the land of which I swore to give them.”

          In this portion called Vayelech we see that Moses himself prophecy little hope for Yisrael, much the same way the sages after the destruction of the Temple 70 ad they despaired at the spiritual future of mankind. But in the face of all this darkness, Rabbi Shimon BarYochai revealed the Zohar. He himself stood up against doubt and fear, reminding those who remind that their truth would not be forgotten.

As we experience the Sabbath of Vayelech, we see that one of its greatest lessons is to appreciate the gift of the Soul of Messiyah Yahushua and Moses. The Sabbath of Vayelech reminds us that when we connect to the Torah, we are not just reading it as the Constitution of the Heavenly Kingdom, but that is also a Legacy of Moses.

As we come to the end of another Torah Cycle where we strengthen our bond with the Messiyah and ABBA YAHWEH, then all our spiritual works will not be forgotten, nor will our prayer fall on deaf ears.

In this chapter Moses, having finished his sermon,

I.                           Encourages both the people who were now to enter Canaan verses 1-6), and Joshua who was to lead them verses 7, 8, 23.

II.                        He takes care for the keeping of these things always in their remembrance after his decease, 

1. By the book of the law which was, written. 

(1.) Delivered into the custody of the priests verses 9, and 24-27. 

(2.) Ordered to be publicly read every seventh year verse 10–13. 

2. By a song which ABBA YAHWEH orders Moses to prepare for their instruction and admonition. 

(1.) He calls Moses and Joshua to the door of the tabernacle verses 14, 15. 

(2.) He foretells the apostasy of Yisrael in process of time, and the judgments they would thereby bring upon themselves verse 16–18. 

(1.)           He prescribes the following song to be a witness against them verse 19–21.

(2.)      Moses wrote it verse 22. And delivered it to Yisrael, with an intimation of the design of it, as he had received it from YAHWEH verse 28, etc.

Deu 31:1 And Mosheh went and spoke these words to all Yisra’ĕl, - Every true spiritual leader, should speak all of the Words of EL YAHWEH to the people. There are some churches who only preach some of the Word, example righteousness by belief. Or just enough to keep the people captivated.

Deu 31:2 and he said to them, “I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And יהוה  has said to me, ‘You do not pass over this Yardĕn.’ – I have experience 120 cycle, or the years of my pilgrimage is 120. Moses does so to the children of Yisrael: not because he was ask to go to Father יהוה, but because he was asked to leave them, fearing that when he had left them they would leave YAHWEH. Gen 47:9  And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

He had finished what he had to say to them by way of counsel and exhortation: here he calls them together to give them a word of encouragement, especially with reference to the wars of Canaan, in which they were now to engage.

It was a discouragement to them that Moses was to be removed at a time when it seems like he could not be spared: Though Joshua was continued to fight for them in the valley, they would want Moses to intercede for them on the hill, as he did, Ex. 17:10.

But there is no remedy: Moses can no more go and come. Not that he was disabled by any decay either of body or mind; for his natural force was not abated, ch. 24:7.

But he cannot any longer discharge his office; for. He is 120 years old, and it is time for him to think of resigning his honor and returning to his rest. He had fulfilled his role, he had achieved Spiritual Maturity, and it was time for him to go and for someone else to develop his leadership skills.

He that had arrived at so great an age then, when seventy or eighty was the ordinary stint, as appears by the prayer of Moses (Ps. 90:10), might well think that he had accomplished as a hireling his day. He is under a divine sentence: You shall not go over Jordan. Moses was a leader who manage by objective.

Deu 31:3 יהוה  your Elohim Himself is passing over before you. He shall destroy these nations from before you and you possess them. Yehoshua himself is passing over before you, as יהוה  has spoken. - He encourages the people; and never could any general animate his soldiers upon such good grounds as those on which Moses encourages Yisrael in this verse.

He assures them of the constant presence of יהוה  with them: YAHWEH thy יהוה. That has led thee and kept thee hitherto will go over before thee; and those might follow boldly who were sure that they had יהוה  for their leader. He repeats it again verse 6 with an emphasis.

YAHWEH our EL, the great Elohim, who is your in covenant, HE it is, HE and no less, HE and no other, that goes before thee; not only who by his promise has assured thee that he will go before thee; but by his ark, the visible token of his presence, shows thee that he does actually go before thee.’’ And he repeats it with enlargement.

 "Not only HE goes over before us in-order to bring us in our fulness, but HE will continue with us all until we complete our journey; HE will not fail us nor forsake us; He will not disappoint our expectations in any situation, nor will HE ever desert our interest; we must be faithful to HIM, and HE will be so to thee.’’

This is applied by the apostle to all off YAHWEH’S spiritual Yisrael, for their encouragement of their faith and hope; unto us is this gospel preached, as well as to them in the past, HE will never fail thee, nor forsake thee, Heb. 13:5. 2. He commends Joshua to led them: Joshua, he shall go over before thee.

A leader conduct, courage, and sincere affection are essential for our spiritual interest, this they had long experience; and one whom YAHWEH had ordained and appointed to be their leader, and therefore, no doubt, he would own and bless them. See Num. 27:18. It is a great encouragement to a people when, instead of some useful instruments that are removed, YAHWEH raises up others to carry on his work.

Deu 31:4 “And יהוה shall do to them as He did to Siḥon and to Oḡ, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them. - Two things might encourage our hopes of this: The victories that we have already obtained over Sihon and Og, from which we might infer both the power and the glory of יהוה , that HE could do what HE had done, and the purpose ofיהוה , that He would finish what He had begun to do.

Deu 31:5 “And יהוה  shall give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the command which I have commanded you. – Every word of Torah must improve our spiritual experience. The commandיהוה  had given them to destroy the Canaanites (ch. 7:2; 12:2), to which HE refers here in this verse, that you may do unto them according to all which I have commanded you), and from which they might infer that, ifיהוה  had commanded us to destroy the Canaanites, no doubt He would put it into the power of our hands to do so today.

Deu 31:6 “Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be afraid of them. For it is יהוה  your EL who is going with you. HE will not fail you nor forsake you.” - What יהוה  has made our duty we have reason to expect opportunity and assistance from him for the doing of. So that from all this he had reason enough to bid them be strong and of a good courage. While they had the power of יהוה  engaged for them they had no reason to fear all the powers of Canaan engaged against them.

Deu 31:7 And Mosheh called Yehoshua and said to him before the eyes of all Yisra’ĕl, “Be strong and courageous, for you are going with this people to the land which יהוה  has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to let them inherit it. - He encourages Joshua. Though Joshua was an experienced general, and a man of approved gallantry and resolution, who had already signalized himself in many brave actions, yet Moses saw cause to ask him to be of good courage, now that he was entering upon a new frontier.

Yehoshua was far from taking it as an offense, or as a tacit questioning of his courage, to be charged, as sometimes we find proud and peevish spirits invidiously taking exhortations and admonitions for reproaches and reflections.

Yehoshua himself is very well pleased to be admonished by Moses to be strong and of good courage. He gives him this charge in the sight of all Yisrael, that they might be  a witness to him at his inauguration, that he might set himself to be the ultimate example of courage to the people who were witnesses to this charge given to him as well as to themselves.

Deu 31:8 “And it is יהוה  who is going before you, HE HIMSELF is with you. HE does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be discouraged.” - He gives him the same assurances of the continuous Divine presence, and consequently of a glorious success, that he had given the people. YAHWEH would be with him, would not forsake him, and therefore he should certainly accomplish the glorious enterprise to which he was called and commissioned.

You shall cause them to inherit the land of promise. Those that have YAHWEH with them shall do well and therefore they ought to be of good courage. Through YAHWEH let us do valiantly, for through HIM we shall do victoriously; if we resist the devil, he shall flee, and YAHWEH shall shortly tread him under our feet.

Deu 31:9 And Mosheh wrote this Torah and gave it to the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, who bore the Ark of the Covenant of יהוה, and to all the elders of Yisra’ĕl. - The Torah was given by Moses; so it is said, Jn. 1:17. He was not only entrusted to deliver it to that generation, but to transmit it to the generations to come; and here it appears that he was faithful to that trust.

Moses wrote this Torah, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This is the fifth books of Moses, which are often called the law; Though Moses had written most of the Pentateuch before, yet he did not finish it till now; now he put his last inscription to that sacred volume. Many think that the law here (especially since it is called this law, this grand abridgment of the law) is to be understood of this book of Deuteronomy; all those discourses to the people which have taken up this whole book, he, being divinely inspired, wrote them as the word of YAHWEH.

He wrote this law. That those who have or who will hear it might review it for themselves, and put it to practice. That it might be safely handed down from generation to generation. The Messiyanic Assembly to has received abundance of advantage from the writing, as well as from the preaching, of the divine things; faith comes not only by hearing, but by reading.

The same care that was taken of the law, thanks be to YAHWEH, is also taken of the renewed Covennt; soon after it was preached it was written, that it might reach to those unwilling witness the end of the world. The Hebrew word for Gospel is Besorah or the good new. The good new is that Yahushua came and fulfilled all of the laws, perfectly, and he has become our mediator.

Since He has fulfilled Torah, it should give us the assurance that we too can fulfilled it in our lives also. The law is the personification of perfection, the difference between Yahushua and ourselves is that He did it perfect because He was under the Law. We can do it under Grace, because we have all sinned and fall short of the requirement of the law. The Hebrew word Messiyah means anointed of YAHWEH, meaning to reach spiritual maturity. We too can become Messiyah or the Order of Melchesideck. These are they who have being describe in Revelation 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in My Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in HIS throne. These are who Job 1:6  Now there was a day when the Sons of YAHWEH came to present themselves before YAHWEH, and Satan came also among them. These Son or of the Order of Melchesideck part of the ruling counsel in the Heavens.

Deu 31:10 And Mosheh commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths, - He appointed the public reading of the law that was place on the outside of the Ark to be read to the general assembly of all Yisrael every seventh year. This law was not to be internalizing, as the one that was place inside of the Ark. The Law that was place on the inside of the Ark was read in the synagogue every Sabbath day, Acts 15:21. 

In that year the land rested, was a good time for the people to read the Law that was place on the outside of the Ark. In the Seven year, the people would have more time on their hands. Servants to sin who were then discharged, and poor debtors who were acquitted from their debts, must know that, having their sins forgiven was there most important thing in the world. As the first six year is to free us from our bondage to the flesh, the seventh year we should remind ourselves from what we were freed. It was justly expected they should yield obedience it, and therefore give up themselves to be YAH’s servants, because he had loosed their bonds.

 The year of release was typical of Messiyah grace, which is called the acceptable year of YAHWEH; for our remission and liberty by Yahushua engage us to keep His commandments, Lu. 1:74, 75.

At the Feast of Tabernacles in that year. In that feast they were particularly required to rejoice before YAHWEH, Lev. 23:40. Therefore, then they must read the law, both to qualify their mirth and keep it in due bounds, and to sanctify their mirth, that they might make the law of YAHWEH the matter of their rejoicing.

Deu 31:11 when all Yisra’ĕl comes to appear before יהוה  your EL in the place which HE chooses, read this Torah before all Yisra’ĕl in their hearing. - To whom it must be read: To all Yisrael, men, women, and children, and the strangers, verse 12.

The women and children were not obliged to go up to the other feasts, but to this one in which the law that was place outside of the Ark was read. It is the will ofיהוה  that all people should acquaint themselves with His word.

It is a rule to all, and therefore should be read to all. It is supposed that, since all Yisrael could not possibly meet in one place, nor could one man’s voice reach them all, as many as the courts of YAHWEH’s house would hold met there, and the rest at the same time in their synagogues.

The hearers were bound to prepare their hearts, and to hear with fear and reverence, and with joy and trembling, as in the day when the law was given on Mount Sinai. Though there were great and wise men who knew the whole law very well, yet they were bound to hear with great attention; for he that reads is the messenger of the congregation to cause the words of YAHWEH to be heard.

I wish those that hear the gospel read and preached would consider this. By whom it must be read: You shall read it verse 11, "You, O Yisrael,’’ by a proper person appointed for that purpose.

"You, O Joshua,’’ their chief ruler; accordingly we find that he did read the law himself, Jos. 8:34, 35. So did Josiah, 2 Chr. 34:30, and Ezra, Neh. 8:3. And the Jews say that the king himself (when they had one) was the person that read in the courts of the temple, that a pulpit was set up for that purpose in the midst of the court, in which the king stood.

This Book of the law that was place on the outside of the Ark, was delivered to him by the high priest, that he stood up to receive it, uttered a prayer (as everyone did that was to read the law in public) before he read; and then, if he pleased, he might sit down and read.

 But if he read standing it was Thought the more commendable, as (they say) King Agrippa did. Here let me offer it as a conjecture that Solomon is called the preacher, in his Ecclesiastes, because he delivered the substance of that book in a discourse to the people, after his public reading of the law in the feast of tabernacles, according to this appointment here.

Deu 31:12 “Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn to fear יהוה your EL and guard to do all the Words of this Torah. - For what reason it must be read. That the present generation might keep up their acquaintance with the law of YAHWEH. They must hear, that they may learn, and fear יהוה , and observe to do their duty. See here what we are to aim at in hearing the word; we must hear, that we may learn and grow in knowledge; and every time we read the scriptures we shall find that there is still more and more to be learned out of them.

We must learn, that we may fear YAHWEH, that is, that we may be duly affected with divine things; and must fear YAHWEH, that we may observe and do the words of his law; for in vain do we pretend to fear him if we do not obey him.

WE must Fear YAHWEH for HE promise to send Deut 28:15 – 68 upon or against us if we move away from HIS Commandments.

Deu 31:13 “And their children, who have not known it, should hear and learn to fear יהוה  your EL as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yardĕn to possess.” - That the next generation might be leavened with the leaven of the pure religion; not only those who know something may know more, but that the children who have not known anything may also know this, how much it is their interest as well as duty to fear YAHWEH. Also important that when a people reach maturity, as entering into the Land represent, should by then learn to Fear EL YAHWEH. One of the Fruit of the Spirit is the Spirit of Knowledge and the Fear of EL YAHWEH, Isaiah 11:2.

In building our Menorah, the Last Spirit to be developed is the Spirit of the Fear of EL YAHWEH, that is why on the Seventh year the year we become mature, we are warned to read this Law to the people.

Deu 31:14 And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “See, the days have drawn near for you to die. Call Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, so that I command him.” And Mosheh and Yehoshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. - Moses and Yehushua are summoned to attend the Divine Majesty at the door of the tabernacle. Moses is told again that he must shortly die; even those that are most ready and willing to die have need to be often reminded of the approach of death. It is only those who knew the purpose of life and have attain it, they have no fear of dying.

In consideration of this, he must come himself to meet YAHWEH; for whatever improves our communion with YAHWEH furthers our preparation for death. He must also bring Yehoshua with him to be presented to YAHWEH for a successor, and to receive his commission and charge.

Moses readily obeys the summons, for he was not one of those that look with an evil eye upon their successors, but, on the contrary, rejoiced in him. Evil men like Saul look with distaste on their successor, righteous men like Moses look at them with pleasure.

Deu 31:15 And יהוה appeared at the Tent in a column of a cloud, and the column of a cloud stood above the door of the Tent. - YAHWEH graciously gives them the meeting: He appeared in the tabernacle (as the Shekinah used to appear) in a pillar of a cloud.

This is the only time in all this book that we read of the glory of יהוה appearing, whereas we often read of it in the three former books, which perhaps signifies that in the latter days, under the evangelical law, such visible appearances as these of the Divine Glory are not to be expected, but we must take heed to the more sure word of prophecy. It is our Seventh year that the Glory of EL YAHWEH will come and rest upon us. When we become the Ark of the Covenant, HE will speak to us with an Audible Voice.

Deu 31:16 And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “See, you are about to sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise and whore after the mighty ones of the strangers of the land into the midst of which they shall enter, and forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. - He tells Moses that, after his death, the covenant which he had taken so much pains to make between Yisrael and their יהוה  would certainly be broken. - That Yisrael would forsake   יהוה  and we may be sure that if the covenant between יהוה  and man will be broken the blame must lie on man alone, it is man that breaks it; we have often observed it, that יהוה  never leaves any till they first leave him. Worshipping the gods of the Canaanites (who had been the natives, but henceforward were to be looked upon as the strangers of that land) would undoubtedly be counted a deserting of יהוה, and, like adultery, a violation of the covenant.

Our Father only desire us to leave this world when we become mature like Moses, Father YAHWEH do not require us to die like men, but to live like a god. Moses most certainly lives like a god, for he was a god to Pharaoh.

Gentlemen and Ladies we are gods having a fleshly experience. When we live like gods, it will not be difficult for us to walk towards our final resting place. We will do it without hesitation

Deu 31:17 “Then My displeasure shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide MY face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, and it shall be said in that day, ‘Is it not because our Elohim is not in our midst that these evils have come upon us?’ - Thus still those are revolt from Messiyah, and will be so adjudged, who either make a god of their money by reigning covetousness or a god of their belly by reigning sensuality.

Deu 31:18 “And I shall certainly hide My face in that day, because of all the evil which they have done, for they shall turn to other mighty ones. - Those that turn to other gods forsake their own mercies. This apostasy of theirs is foretold to be the effect of their prosperity verse 20): They shall have eaten and filled themselves; this is all they will aim at in eating, to gratify their own appetites, and then they will wax fat, grow secure and sensual.

Their security will take off their dread of YAHWEH and his judgments; and their sensuality will incline them to the idolatries of the heathen, which made provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it.

YAHWEH has a clear and infallible foresight of all the wickedness of the wicked, and has often covenanted with those who he knew would deal very treacherously (Isa. 48:8), and conferred many favors on those who he knew would deal very ungratefully.

That there EL would forsake Yisrael; and justly does he cast those off who had so unjustly cast HIM off: My anger shall be kindled against them, and I will forsake them.

His providence would forsake them, no longer to protect and prosper them, and then they would become a prey to all their neighbors. His spirit and grace would forsake them, no longer to teach and guide them, and then they would be more and more bigoted, besotted, and hardened in their idolatresses.

Therefore much evils and troubles would befall them. Verse 17, 21), which would be such manifest indications of YAH’S displeasure against them that they themselves would be constrained to own it.