This week’s Torah portion study will focus on Abraham. We are going to consider our world with Spiritual eyes, and hopefully in the end we will walk away with truths standing on the Rock of the WORD.
The first point of focus is Abraham’s calling. GE 12:1 “Go for yourself from your land, from your relatives, and from your father’s house….” His name is Abram when we start this portion, but his name becomes Abraham by the time we finish. (17:3) Before anything else though there must be a calling, and then the obedience to it.
The calling is our first test, as it is here for our father Abraham. We see he was told to leave his land, his relatives and his fathers house. Certainly this request was a difficult one! Even more so considering the man is 75 at this time. Think about leaving all the wealth, property, routine, comfort, safety acquired over a lifetime. Think about having to leave all those friends and family members behind. It seems like a crazy thing to ask! Nevertheless Yahweh doesn’t have to make sense to me, His ways are not our ways.
We can see that His way of doing things is diametrically opposed to the way of the World, and the way that makes sense to the natural man. When Yahweh instructs we have to let the spirit man take the lead and walk by faith! Here we see Abraham as the father of faith.
In JN 8:51-58 Yeshua is speaking to the Jews saying “your father Abraham”, and possibly from this we form the concept that Abraham is a Jew. Curiously the so called father of the Jews was not a Jew. GE 11:31 says he went out from Ur the land of the Chaldeans. This would make Abraham a Chaldean.
Abraham a Chaldean.
Of course with that being said I would not fail to emphasize here that we as believers today were at one time from a place and considered as many things, some good some bad, before our calling. We all used to be something that we are not today, and we only see here that this is true for our father Abraham. See it from the spiritual perspective!
But wait is he our father or the Jews father, as Yeshua said? That’s a good question that we need to go ahead and clear up. It says in Galations 3:7 “Those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham” (Remember see it from the Spiritual).
Additionally I would like to explain how we get this word Jew that is tossed around and not understood as it should be from the Scriptural perspective. The word has many meanings actually, however it stems from the tribe of Judah. Families of the tribe of Judah are called Yehudim (plural). Hebrew has no J so Yehuda (singular) is how we see it in the original language. Shortened we see it as Yehudi. As that crosses over into the English language we get Jew.
As a side note, what tribe was Yeshua from? If you said Judah you were right, and we now understand this as meaning He is a Yehudi. Excellent!
When Abraham crossed the Euphrates in obedience to Yahweh’s calling, he was then called an Ivri, a Hebrew word meaning “one who crosses over”. Ivri comes from the word ‘Ever (aye-vare) meaning “other side”. In English Ivri is “Hebrew”, and so Abraham is a Hebrew and was known as such to the people of Cannan who knew him as one who crossed over.
There is an important picture for us in this week’s portion (parsha). Each of us has been called and if we obey that calling we cross over from the world and into the Kingdom of Yahweh. Just as Abraham we leave the land and the stuff and the people of our old life behind us. We cross our own spiritual Euphrates and enter into the current promised land that will some day become the new heaven and new earth we know is to come. Just as Israel would in a future event, beyond this moment with Abraham, cross the Jordan and enter their promised land.
When we cross over leaving the world behind we become children of light who have crossed over and out of the family of the children of darkness. There is no grey area seen here, its light and darkness, the holy and the unholy, the sacred and the profane.
Contrary to what the mainstream seems to promote we see it is His way not my way. Its not about what seems right or good as if it were left up to us to decide. Its about what He has already instructed us in the Scriptures.
Nobody is perfect of course, but that statement cannot become the mantra of my walk. It cannot be the excuse for continual and habitual disregard for His ways because they are to hard for me to live by. its often said that we cannot even come close to living up to the commandments, all 613 of them, so don’t even try. Beside if you break one you break them all, they say. These are simply the arguments of those who find His way too hard and decide to put all their hopes on a misguided understanding of Grace. Let me be clear that our Salvation is through faith alone, but you can’t cross the Euphrates and drag all your stuff with you. When I get to Cannan all that junk is left behind.
In Deuteronomy 30:11 Moses is telling Israel that these commandments he gave them were not too hard, so don’t believe you shouldn’t try, and don’t think that means you are trying to earn your Salvation. I already said that’s ours by faith. The commandments are our instruction for life on the other side of the Euphrates. Ezekiel 22:25 “priests who have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things they have put no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.” I would consider this scripture in light of those who teach and preach a message that supports doing things that would be more their way and not His way. Holding the position of those that haven’t left all their junk on the other side of the Euphrates and want to make excuses to keep holding on to it. May your Shabbat be BLESSED with abundant Shalom in Yeshua, and that you walk in newness of life with Him
Found this from.my little brother, Frank Morse Y10371, from 5 years ago, #21yearsisenough #endillegalsentences #societyfirst
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