Friday, October 19, 2018

Torah Portion: Noach

This Torah Portion (Noach) is just full of nuggets of "amazing-ness"!!!

I found a new Bible study tool and it is amazing too. You can find it at theWord.net. After you download it, if you click on 'NET' above the center box, it allows you to just hover your mouse over the word in scripture and you can see the Strong's number, word and definition. As I said, it is amazing and makes studying scripture so much easier! 

Here are my notes from the Noach...


Parsha Noach ~ Gen. 6:9-11:32
Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24
Brit Hadashah: Matt 24:36-46; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Heb 11:7

11/5/16:
Discussion Notes:
·         1 Peter 3:18 ~
o   v. 19 – spirits in prison (blinded Israelites)
o   v. 20 – through water
·         Noah – means rest
o   But, eventually, it will be Israel that brings rest.
·         Noah –
o   Just, perfect in his generations (his family) – walked with Yah
o   Col. 1:1(?) Heb. 7:11?
·         One of all the clean animals (from Noah) preserves our life today. (Sacrifices of Noah)
·         Isa. 41 – 49 ~ Read to understand covenant w/ Israel.
·         Eph. 2:18 – “grafted in”
·         Mary thought Yeshua was the gardener when she saw him after the resurrection. Brad Scott   believes that Yeshua was a gardener.
o   John 20:15 – “…Because she thought he was the gardener…”
§  Gardener > G2780 kepouros (kee-pou-ros') n. a garden-keeper, i.e. gardener. [from G2779 and ouros (a warden)]
o   Mark 6:3 – carpenter (#G5045 – tekton - plotter – gardener?)
§  “Is this not the carpenter’s son…”
·         Rev. 6:2 – first seal opened…rider has a bow (rainbow? Rainbow destroyed?)
o   Indigo is missing from gay pride rainbow…leaving even number (6)…number of the beast (& man)
§  Must leave nefesh behind….conquer it!
10/21/17 & 10/13/18:
·         Gen. 7:10 ~ they were “sealed” for 7 days before rains.
·         Gen. 9:25 ~ Canaan cursed by Noah.
·         Ark events…
o   Gen. 7:11 ~ 600th year of Noah’s life…2nd month (Cheshvan), 17th day = rains and floods
o   Gen. 8:4 ~ 17th day of the 7th month (Nisan) = Ark came to rest on Ararat.
o   Gen. 8:14 ~ 27th day of the 2nd month (Cheshvan) = the earth was dry.
o   In the ark for a little more than a year.
§  Gen. 7:24 > “The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.”
o   Similarity to the millennial kingdom?
·         Animals were killed too…they were doing wrong.
o   Gen. 6:12 > “…for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.”
§  Sinful = H7843 שָׁחַת shachath (shaw-chath') v. 1. to decay. 2. to rot or corrode.
·         Root: H1870 דֶּרֶךְ derek (deh'-rek) n-m. 1. a road (as trodden). 2. (figuratively) a course of life or mode of action, often adverb.
§  Man (and Beast) departed from THE WAY  !!!
·         Heb. 11:7 > Noah had holy fear…
o   “…with reverent regard…” G2125 εὐλαβέομαι eulabeomai (ev-la-ɓe'-o-mai) v. 1. to be circumspect. 2. (by implication) to be apprehensive. 3. (religiously) to reverence. KJV: (moved with) fear
·         Shem > Yeshua came from his lineage (Abraham).
·         Gen. 6:16 > “Make a window [H6672 צֹהַר tsohar (tso'-har) n-f. a light {Root is #6671 ‘tsahar’ – meaning to glisten} (i.e. window): dual double light, i.e. noon] for the ark and finish it to within a cubit [H520 אַמָּה 'ammah (am-maw') n-f. 1. (properly) a mother. 2. (unit of measure) the fore-arm (below the elbow). 3. a cubit. 4. (also) a door-base (as a bond of the entrance] from the top.”
o   Literally…To make a light for the box to complete it to a mother above.
o   From Bill Cloud…Suggests something that makes a “circle of light.”
§  It is ambiguous as to what this was exactly; legend says a “precious stone.”
§  It supposedly illuminated the entire ark; according to Midrash:
·         “During the entire twelve months that Noah was in the ark he did not require the light of the sun by day or the light of the moon by night, but he had a polished gem which he hung up: when it as dim he knew that it was day, and when it shone he knew it was night.”
o   Interesting… Prophetic? Yeshua as our precious corner stone…“Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious.” – 1 Peter 2:4
o   And…“And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. . . . The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.” - Rev 21:10-11, 23
o
·         Left Behind > We DO  want to be left behind!!
o   Matt. 24:37-39…”As in the days of Noah…”
§  Noah (& his family) were ‘sealed’, ‘covered’ and…Left behind…while everyone else was taken.
·         Fire and brimstone fell on the people of Sodom...Lot and his family were spared (left behind) while everyone else were taken in judgement.
§  Luke 17:37 > “Where [will they be taken], Master?” He answered, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered”.
·         The corpses of those taken away will be food for the birds.



Sunday, October 7, 2018

Genesis again...Parsha Bereshit!

It is so exciting to start our Torah cycle again each year!  Yahweh shows me so many new things, intricate details that I haven't noticed before. I have been keeping notes on the readings for the last few years. I add to, change and add more each year. I dearly love my study time...time with Yah and His word! Here are my notes for Bereshit...


Parsha Bereshit ~ Gen 1:1 – 6:8
Haftarah: Isaiah 42:5 – 43:11
Brit Chadashah: John 1:1-14; Col. 1:15-17

10/29/16 ~ Bereishit Genesis 1:1 – 6.8 ; Isaiah 42:5 – 43:10
  • Relationship between man and the garden.
o   Vegetation dependent on rain for growth (& man?)
  • Parsh - a – (paragraph) to separate and spread out; to divide out / to consume (in taking of the word of Yah)
  • Sidra – he who stands at the door
  • After Adam ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge…when Yah called for him…Adam HID himself, trying to become invisible. To try and make himself…naught.
  • After ALL that Adam / Eve did…Yah embraced  man. Punishment, yes, but Yah clothed man and, even in the face of man’s disobedience, Yah made sure that man knew he would not be alone.
  • Point of Bereishit…just to believe in Yah. Belief that He created me…and re-created  me.  Our year is new now because we begin the Torah cycle again, NOT that we begin the Torah cycle again b/c it’s a new year.

10/14/17 ~
  • Deut. 31:10-13 ~ At the end of every 7 years (at Feast of Tabernacles), read the Torah in everyone’s hearing.
o   Year – Not the same as in Hebraic thinking…Aviv begins the year.
o   3 Great Feasts are seen as a YEAR, also.
§  Shena - End means to change over or repeat (as in starting the Torah cycle again).
  • All patterns set in the beginning of Genesis, which repeats throughout the Bible.
o   Seth replaces Abel, NOT Cain.
o   Man began…corruption began.
Isaiah 42:5 – 43:11 ~
  • Haftarah – means to open up / release.  Have the seed from Genesis (and now will see the opening up of the seed).
  • Isaiah 42:1-4  ~ Picture of the Mashiach.
  • Create, Light, Called forth, Spread forth…  Breath, Spirit

Discussion:
  • Comparison of Adam/Eve & Cain: (Which was the GREATER sin? Sin against God or Sin against Brother?)
o   Adam & Eve:
§  NOT cursed! (Serpent WAS cursed!! – Gen 3:14)
§  Had a consequence…cursed is the ground, etc. (Gen 3:17)
§  Hid from Yah’s presence
§  Yah covered them!!!  (Gen 3:21)
o   Cain:
§  WAS cursed!! (Gen 4:11)
§  Murderer (against Brother)!
§  Left Yah’s presence (Gen 4:16)
·         Was HIDDEN from Yah (Gen 4:14)
  • Adam’s sin…
o   First sin…sin of OMISSION (failure to do something…) – didn’t guard the House (Beit).
§  Yah told him to guard the garden (House).
§  Failed to cover his wife.
§  Failed to guard the House ~
o   Gen. 3:7 ~ Interesting!  After they BOTH had eaten of the fruit, we are told their eyes were opened.
§  I think this is confirmation that Adam could have ‘covered’ Eve’s sin before Yah, with a very different outcome!
  • Gen. 2:18 ~ ‘helper’ - # 5828 – ezer; ‘for him’ - # 5048 – in front of him (looking at him to see what is at his back)
  •  Shabbat (Gen 2:3 & Job 1:6)
o   First thing Yah made HOLY!
10/6/18:
From FFOZ…
·         Tz’enah Ur’enah says, “Man was created on the sixth day, for within six thousand years the Messiah will come.” The book of Hebrews compares the age to come to the Sabbath and speaks of the Sabbath as a foretaste of final salvation and the Messianic Era. The book of Revelation speaks of a coming millennium of peace—a thousand-year reign of Messiah during which the adversary is bound in chains. The Apostle Peter reminds us that “with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day” (2 Peter 3:8).
o   Why doesn’t it say in regard to the Sabbath “and there was evening and there was morning” like it does for the other days? Because the Sabbath alludes to the world to come, and it is called the day that is completely Shabbat, and there is no night. (MinchahBelulah)