Torah Portion – Week 47 24-25
Week 47 – “RE’eh” which is “to see”. Deut 11:26-16:17
Ch.11
11:28 – Life or death (choose) – Verses
- 2 Esdras 7
- Mount ebal and gerazim – pic
(blessing or curse)
11:32 –Also keep these statues in a foreign land – Verses
- Book of Tobit (witness)
Ch.12
12:3 – We should be doing the same in our walk – tear down the Idols! (so much Idolatry in our world)
12:4-6– Jerusalem. – Celebrate out of Jerusalem today? – Verses
- Natsarim 6:46-47 (pdf 66)
- (Reminder) – We must balance this command with the dozens of commands to keep the feasts perpetually.
- High places Eze 16
12:7 – The commandment is to rejoice!!!!
12:8 – Days of the judges – Verses
- Spirit of Elijah comes and restores all things (unite the body?)
12:9 – rest – Verses
12:14 – Together we are the temple – Verse
- Holy city – link
12:23 – BLOOD
- Not extremely common in U.S.
- Common in Europe & Asia
- Myoglobin is not blood (steaks)
12:30 – How does the world celebrate Yahuah and Yahusha? (Christmas, easter, etc)
12:32 – Do not add to, or take away (Hannukah?)
Ch.13
13:1 – Test of a prophet (two parts required – sign coming to pass and leading towards Torah)
- Numbers 12
13:3 – Eze 13 & Jer 23 – link
13:4 – This is how we serve him – Verses
- Eze 13 prophecy video- False prophets and teachers
- Even false prophets/teachers can produce miracles – link
- Traists/characteristics – link
- Demonstratable fruit of obedience and presence of the spirit (Gal 5)
- Messiah’s warning – link
13:6 – Loyalty to Him above all – verses
13:9-11 – These rules are not to be carried out in dispersion
- Healthy fear needed within his camp
- Achan
- Korah
- Nadab & Abihu
- Baal Peor
- (may seem savage, or severe, but this world is the result of the lack of healthy fear)
Ch.14
14:2 – He wants us to be holy, set-apart, different than everyone else
- What we eat lets him know who’s his
- This is not a light matter
- Garden of Eden (we cannot say he doesn’t care what we eat)
14:3: Food laws again – important. Isaiah 66:15-17
14:11 – Exclusionary list
14:20 – repeated
14:21 – In his mother’s milk – link
14:24-26 – A good set of instructions for us. Also, wine/liquor is not a sin – drunkenness where there is excess is. Testament of Judah ch. 3
- “whatsoever thy soul lusteth for” is not an open license to consume anything
14:25 – Currency can be tithes also
Ch.15
15:1-3, this is certainly something we can keep in our day! (even loans are candelled)
15:4-5 – a promise of an end to poverty IF we diligently keep his commanements
15:7-11 – Verses regarding the poor & lending – Verses
- Servitude back then (like contract employee today – indentured servitude)
Imagine if Torah was implemented worldwide tomorrow?
- Tyrannical monopolies end
- 1% owning 90% ends
- Debt-based systems collapse
- Debts cancelled
- Ancestral lands return to their owners
- Equalizer / equity
15:19 – Firstling reminer
- If firstling is blemished, he will not accept it
Ch.16
16:6 – Joshua 5
16 :17 – this is detailing out a whole lifestyle – link