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.
The Story of Va’etchanan is always read on Sabbath Nachamu the Sabbath of
Consolation, the Sabbath following the 9th of Av. Although the
energy of Sabbath is very powerful, the question is: can this single Sabbath
actually console us and help us forget all the troubles we have experience up
until now.
To answer this question it is important to understand that the power of the
Negative side lies not only in causing us to doubt, but also in keeping us In
doubt and fear for a week, a year, or many years. Often, when we have done something
that we reget, we doubt ourselves and our ability to become beings of sharing,
or love. This feeling can stay with us through our lives ad that is the
negative side at work.
The Sabbath of consolation does not teach us to ignor negative situation. Yes,
the Temple was destroy in 70ad because Yisrael did not recognize the Messiyah
Yahushua came in the flesh. The Children of Yisreal experience a great deal of
pain because of unbelief. Should the Yisraelites continue to weep for the Temple or are their eyes
blinded for a season? The later is true. Luk 21:24 And they shall fall
by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Isa 53:1 Who
hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of Yahweh revealed?
Isa 53:2 For
he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he
was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But
he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace
was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7 He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought
as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He
was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation?
for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my
people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And
he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he
had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 Yet
it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shall make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days,
and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11 He
shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and
he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
This story teaches us that anyone can reach the tree of life that stands in
the middle of the Garden of Eden. This is what Messiyah Yahushua did when He
died on the Stake, so all can achieve through His Blood and hard work their
spiritual growth.
It does not matter what a person may have done in the past. The important
thing is to believe in Mesiyah Yahushua and all opportunity will be given us to
transform yourself as as to finally reach the Tree of Life.
“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.
The story of Ve’etchanan open with Moses pleading with Yahweh El Eliyon
through prayer. Moses knew that prayer was a powerful tool for connection with
the Creator. He was not asking for anything; rather, it was to maintain his
connection to the Creator. When we ask for help of the Creator through prayer,
we too are creating a closer connection to the Creator.
It is essential to understand that we are not alone in this world and that
we need to ask Yahweh for help. Asking Yahweh should not be something we do
only when we need, it is an important tool for us to use all the time to
connect to the Light.
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, but Messiyah Yahushua will.
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 accept Messiyah Yahushua as lord and we arrive at the first heaven, or
the first day of Creation, and if we 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 YAHWEH Will for all of mankind. So
in asking permission for YAHWEH to go over is not really a challenge to YAHWEH,
it was more of 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: "You hast
begun to show thy servant thy greatness.
Moses requested that ABBA
YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH, of HIS Wisdom, Power, and
Goodness, the better we are prepared for further discoveries.
Those that see the works
of YAHWEH and admire HIM in them, like Moses had expressed himself concerning YAHWEH
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 YAHWEH
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 YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH 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 times 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 YAHWEH of both.
There was judgment in the denial of his request, and that in something in His
anger too: YAHWEH was wroth with me for your sakes.
YAHWEH 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.
YAHWEH 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 sake, that it might
be a warning to them to take heed of offending YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH would not hear
him. YAHWEH 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. YAHWEH may accept our prayers, and yet not grant us
the very thing we pray for.
Deu 3:27 ‘Go up to
the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and
look with your eyes, for you do not pass over this Yardĕn. - YAHWEH put an honor upon Moses prayer in directing
him not to insist upon this request: Speak no more to ME of this matter.
It intimates that what YAHWEH does not think fit to grant we should not think
fit to ask, and that YAHWEH takes such a pleasure in the prayer of the upright
that it is no pleasure to HIM, no, not in any particular instance, to give a
denial to it.
YAHWEH promised Moses a sight of Canaan from the top of Pisgah. Though he should
not have the chance to walk on it, he should have the prospect of seeing it;
not to tantalize him, but such a sight of it, would bring him some
satisfaction. This would enable Moses to form a very clear and pleasing idea of
that Promised Land. Probably Moses had not only his sight preserved for other
purposes, but greatly enlarged for his purpose. If he had not had such a sight
unique only to him, others could not have from the same place, it would have
been no particular favor to Moses, nor the matter of a promise.
When the Hebrew text says
that Moses was put on the mountain and he saw “the last ocean,” “hayam ha’acharon,” those words actually
mean “hayon ha’acharon, or he saw “the last
day.” This confirms that Moses’ vision of the land was not physical; instead,
ABBA YAHWEH opened to Moses all the secrets, all the future of Yisrael.
ABBA YAHWEH showed Moses the building and destruction of the first, second
and third temple all in a moment. Moses gained not only a vision of the future
but of the Gemar HaTikkun.
Why was it so important for Moses to pray so intently for him to see the
promise land? It is only in this world
that we can correct, the only place where a person can elevate himself
spiritually. A person cannot do spiritual work to perfect the ego or to elevate
it in the spiritual realms.
Unfortunately, we think that we always have time: I will not take this
opportunity, I will do it tomorrow. We do not realize that we do not have
limitless time to correct, to elevate, and to grow, for once our soul leaves
this world that opportunity is no more.
Moses beg the Creator because he knew that this is the only place and now
is the only chance he will ever have to see the objective of our spiritual
journey in the natural. Many of us on the other hand, take our opportunities
for granted.
Deu 3:28 ‘But
charge Yehoshua, and strengthen him and make him brave, for he shall pass over
before this people and causes them to inherit the land which you see.’ – In this verse we see a
picture of Yahushua who will lead His people into the final fight to restore
the Kingdom of Heavens.
Duet 3:29 “And we dwelt in the valley opposite Bĕyth Peʽor. - Those to whom YAHWEH gives a charge, HE will be sure
to give encouragement to. It is a comfort to the friends of the Messiyanic
Assembly (when they are dying and going off) to see YAH’S work likely to be
carried on by other hands, when they are silent in the dust.
