Lesson date: 08/29/5860AA

Can anyone say “Safety Briefing”? Remember what happened in Leviticus Chapter 10 when Nadab and Abihu lit the golden incense altar with strange fire? They instantly died by fire. Now we see that the generation that came out of Egypt will die in the wilderness and the children younger than 20 years of age will be allowed into the promise land. Immediately, YHVH once again taught the people what they must do to compensate for their lack of faith in His Word.

Spies were sent into the land and 10 brought back an evil report and 2 brought back a good report. The Children of Yisra’el made a choice and chose the evil report. They were “disciplined” for making the wrong choice. They chose the “evil report” rather than the Besorah, Good News. To make matters worse, upon hearing YHVH’s right ruling they in turn do the opposite of what they are instructed to do. It is time to get their mind right. They are once again instructed how to make a proper offering by fire. It is at times like these that Sha’ul makes a wonderful teacher. Have offerings been done away with? No: Rom 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim – your reasonable worship.

Jer 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ěl after those days, declares יהוה: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

This is what Yeshu’a was trying to do in Matthew Chapter 5 but we were stiff-necked people and did not hear what He was saying. We were too busy trying to figure out how to do away with Torah even though Yeshu’a said: Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to complete.

Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.

“Well Torah is for the Israelites and not for us Gentiles.” Num 15:15 One law is for you of the assembly and for the stranger who sojourns with you – a law forever throughout your generations. As you are, so is the stranger before יהוה.

Num 15:16 One Torah and one right-ruling is for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.’ ”

When I started rereading Bemidbar Chapter 15 it was amazing to me how relevant it was to Revelation Chapter 10.

Num 15:14 And when a stranger sojourns with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would make an offering made by fire, a sweet fragrance to יהוה, as you do, so he does.

“Paul said we didn’t have to do all that stuff any more.”

2Co 2:15 Because we are to Elohim the fragrance of Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

2Co 2:16 To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?

Sha’ul is trying to make us understand that we have to take Torah to a whole new level. No longer is it just good enough to do the Word but we have to live the Word, not the letter of the Law but the spirit of the Law. Psa 51:15 O יהוה, open my lips, And that my mouth declare Your praise.

Psa 51:16 For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in ascending offering.

Psa 51:17 The slaughterings of Elohim are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, O Elohim, These You do not despise.

Heb 13:15 Through Him then, let us continually offer up a slaughter offering of praise to Elohim, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His Name.

Hos 14:2 Take words with you, and return to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips.

The true transformation that took place is not that Torah was done away with but that we are no longer strangers: Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that you, once nations in the flesh, who are called ‘the uncircumcision’ by what is called ‘the circumcision’ made in the flesh by hands,

Eph 2:12 that at that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’ěl and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.

Eph 2:13 But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

Eph 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens of the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,

Verses 18-21 Bread of the Land? 1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Messiah?

1Co 10:17 Because there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

Verses 23-31 – Sinning by mistake? Yes. I did not know I was held to a higher standard than living like a gentile/heathen. I was supposed to live like a fellow citizen of the Commonwealth of Yisra’el: Eph_2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: ((This is one of those verses I like better in the KJV))

1Jn 3:4 Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

((Insert Torah-lessness))

Rom_7:7 What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Perseverance of the saints, one of the main tenets of Calvinism. Once saved always saved. I was foolish enough to believe it. Sinning by mistake is one thing but what happens if it was intentional? Num 15:30 But the being who does whatever defiantly, whether he is native or a stranger, he reviles יהוה, and that being shall be cut off from among his people.

That is why I like the New Testament better because it says once saved always saved? Heb 10:26 For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,

Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart Spirit,

Heb 6:5 and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come,

Heb 6:6 and fall away, to renew them again to repentance – having impaled for themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him to open shame.

Nope! It is impossible.

“But if I am under Torah I can’t even pick up sticks on Saturday.” What were those sticks and what are they today? Is Shabbat a good day to balance your check book? Shop online? The sticks were incidental. The sticks just show us where this man’s heart and mind were. Maybe he was picking up sticks to build a fire after sunset. No sin in that right? But his heart and mind were not on YHVH’s Word. The sticks were a distraction. Why not wait until sunset to pick up the sticks? There would have been plenty of time. YHVH doesn’t want whatever time we have left to be for Him. He wants our love and devotion. Psa 1:1 Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, And shall not stand in the path of sinners, And shall not sit in the seat of scoffers,

Psa 1:2 But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה, And he meditates in His Torah day and night.

Isa 58:13 “If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Sabbath ’a delight,’ the set-apart day of יהוה ‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Isa 58:14 then you shall delight yourself in יהוה. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Ya‛aqoḇ your father. For the mouth of יהוה has spoken!”

Verses 38-41 – If I keep Torah do I have to wear those silly looking strings on my clothes? “to make tzitzit on the corners of their garments throughout their generations,” You tell me.

For a short while I felt self conscious about wearing tzitzit but now I am self conscious if I don’t. Now, I look forward to when I can sit down and relax and take out my yarn and begin tying and wrapping each strand the way I want it. I used to wrap the blue thread 10-5-6-5 but after discovering Yah’s numbering system and how it tied into the actual recording of time I decided that I wanted to show everyone what YHVH had taught me if I would just shut up and listen. Now I wrap blue 7 times and then red 7 times and then alternate blue 7 times and red 7 times for a total of 7 wrappings. I chose the dark blue of the priestly robes because we are supposed to be a set-apart priesthood: 1Pe_2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up, a spiritual house, a set-apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual slaughter offerings acceptable to Elohim through יהושע Messiah.

The red is for the Blood of the Lamb, which is especially relevant for this time of year, our next feasts will be the Spring feasts coming up in Aviv. And the gold/yellow is for the eternal esteem of El Shaddai. Everyone is worried about the Mark of the Beast but how many of those know the Mark of YHVH our Elohim? That is why we are supposed to wear those silly strings so, that when we see them, we will remember His Covenant with us. There is one more thing to think about in wearing tzitzit. You have to ask yourself if where you are and what you are doing consistent with wearing the tzitzit? Is it going to bring honor or shame upon His Covenant? Do I want people knowing that I am a believer when they hear what I say, see where I am or doing what I am doing? It makes me stop and think.

Ahavah vberakhot,