Parashas
Terumah
Exodus
25:1 – 27:21
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 19th in
the Torah Cycle, the underlying theme of Terumah is this: All ABBA YAHVEH 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 YAHVEH helps them. This Torah
portion of Terumah is all about our desire to receive the light.
In this Parashas EL YAHVEH, is about to establish a
another Principle to Yisrael to illustrate how to achieve His Ultimate
objective, that is to create perfect Sons. The Tabernacle is the resting place
for EL YAHVEH 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 YAHVEH
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 the Tabernacle to be a
substitute.
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 YAHVEH’s presence; its three compartments, illustrate the different levels
spiritually, that every believer regardless of their position could achieve.
