Parashas Va’era
Exodus 6:2 –
9:35
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
This Torah portion of Va’era is the fourteen Parashas in the Torah
reading cycle, it begins with the
Creator’s revelation to Moses: I am יהוה. The
Name of the Creator, which represents a high level of revelation and Light. יהוה goes
on to say I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as EL SHADDAI, but by this
NAME יהוה, I did not make
myself known to them. To Moses, however, the CREATOR is revealing a greater Light of HIMSELF.
Why does the revelation of the higher
Name of the CREATOR occur in the Portion of Va’era? It has to do with the
conclusion of the last Parashas Shemot. In it Moses tells the CREATOR that the
suffering of the Yisraelites had only become worst since he spoke to Pharaoh.
This seams to imply that Moses did not have the necessary revelation of Light
from the CREATOR to affect the necessary change in Pharaoh Response. Therefore,
the CREATOR decide to reveal HIMSELF as יהוה.
In this Parasha, יהוה made
it clear that HE had given more to Moses that anyone else before him. In this
Parasha we can draw from the lesson of Moses, when we do not accept the
establish status quo, we cannot press יהוה for
a further revelation of HIMSELF to us.
Moses skillfully coined the phrase
that if the Believers, the children of light did not believe in his present
level of enlightenment, how would the Pharaoh the prince of darkness. The Torah
tells us that the Children of Light could not hear him, because of the years of
slavery. This influence of the darkness was so great that it was keeping the
generation of Moose from responding to the Light. Moose was the right conduit,
however the Children of Light could not respond to the level of light Moses was
reflecting, due to the effect of slavery in the flesh.
In this Parasha, we may call on the
ABBA יהוה to help us to see and ask for a great revelation of
the broadcast Light. As we overcome the doubts that block our revelation from
flowing. Elisha was in a hopeless situation, because of the King of Aram intent
on killing he and his apprentice. The next morning the two men woke up to find
themselves surrounded by Aran’s army. The Apprentice Gehazi did not know what
to do, Elisha took him by the hand, and ask him what do you see? He reply, I
see angels surrounding the mountain to protect us. It was only then that a
miracle happened. The light of the sun grew so bright that it blinded the eyes
of Aran’s soldiers.
Why was it so important for Elisha to
take Gehazi by the hand and ask him what he saw? By taking Gehazi by the hand,
Elisha establish a spiritual bond between them, he took Gehazi a set higher for
him to received a higher revelation, where he could see the world in its
spiritual context. The spiritual perspective of a person in the valley is not
the same as one on the mountain top.
The message Moses was conveying to
ABBA יהוה is that because of the time spend in slavery in Egypt, they had
developed a spirit of doubt which would make them unable to accept the light
that Moses brought. Like Gehazi, it is all about their spiritual consciousness.
On this Sabbath of Va’era we may pray earnestly for El Yahushua to grant us
grace that we may ask for more revelation of Light for us and our family.
There is a reason why Aaron and not
Moses was ask to create the first plague of the turning the Nile
into blood. When Moses was place in the ark and place on the water, it was the
river that protected Moses, it would be spiritually inappropriate for ABBA יהוה to ask Moses to strike the very river that protected
him.
We may read this and think what
feeling does a river have? Here in this Parasha we have been provided with an
insight into the nature of consciousness. All inanimate object are connect
through a network of energy of light.
There are four level of consciousness:
inanimate, vegetable, animal, and human. Everything in our world are alive,
even a chair. By developing the
awareness of the interaction between ourselves and everything else will help us
to complete our correction our tikkum,
for that is the purpose of life. Throughout our life as it were in Moses we
also need assistance from object such as water, trees, rocks, fire, he was
constantly interacting with inanimate object. However, most of us are unaware
of the role inanimate object play in our spiritual development.
On this Sabbath Moses approaches the
ABBA יהוה and ask how he can bring about the final correction
the Gemar HaTikkun if the Yisraelites of his time did not listen to him. Moses
was not just talking about the believers of his day; he was speaking
prophetically about us. Without the awareness of faith or belief, how can we
escape the war machine of the Mighty Army of Pharaoh? How can we overcome the
force of darkness and bring the Light of the CREATOR in our world.
Without faith in Messiyah Yahushua, we
just cannot do it. So how can we arrive at Faith? We achieve it by looking for
the Truth that dwells in Messiyah Yahushua, because the whole world speaks of
Him, much the same way we desire the Word of Torah.
The prophet Isaiyah explain that prior
to the Final Correction, the dark before the calm, there has to be some level
of concealment, so we must find a way to see through the darkness.
One of the blessings of Va’era is that
we can ask for the Spirit of Might and Council of Moses by not accepting things
as they are and by treating all things with respect. When we see the world as a
source of infinite possibility, when we look through the Spirit of Wisdom, we
will be looking beyond the surface to the greater truth that lies beyond the
veils of what is to what it will be, our doubts become the fertilizer for our
faith, and miracles become possible.
At the end of the last Parashas Moses
was seen complaining that Elohim had send him in vain, for instead of helping
the people, he had only make it worst for them. In this Parashas we see EL
YAHVEH response to Moses. YAHVEH spoke sternly to Moses, comparing him to
unfavorably to the Patriarchs, who maintain their faith without complaint, even
though they were not privilege to see the fulfillment of the promise. While
Moses who had been told that the redemption was at hand, he was so
disillusioned that he could not wait for EL YAHVEH to carry His plan to its
conclusion, as he defined it.
The ten plagues of Egypt that occur in this Parasha,
represent the ten level of Satan’s negative kingdom of darkness. When we read
about the plagues in the original Hebrew, we are inoculated with a spiritual
antidote to help us overcome those negative forces.
