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The Light of TorahMessianic Congregation
Parasha V‘yeira
Bereshit (Genesis) 18:1 – 22:24
Haftarah: M’lakhim Bet (2 Kings) 4:1 – 23
Brit Chadasha: Lk. 17:26 – 37; Rom. 9:6 – 9;
Gal. 4:21 – 31; Heb. 6:13 – 20; 11:13 – 19;
James 2:14 – 24 and 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 2:4 - 10
Slide2The Alef TavIn the Revelation of Yeshua HaMashiach to John we find 4 references to the Alef Tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew Alef Bet; Rev. 1:8, 1:11, 21:6 and 22:13.
The translation reads “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.”
Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet.
Slide3Messiah Yeshua is a Hebrew man and not a Greek man therefore He would have said “I am the Alef and the Tav, the beginning and the ending.
He is the entire Hebrew Alef Bet from A to Z so to speak therefore He is ALL the Hebrew letters, ALL the Hebrew words. Jn. 1:1 confirms this understanding. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. He was in the beginning with Elohim.”
In its ancient form the Alef Tav would read “
strength of the covenant
.”
Slide4Ps. 22:22 – 28 I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you. You who fear Yehovah, praise him! All you “
seed
” of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel! For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows. The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek Yehovah will praise him—may your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yehovah, and all the families of the nations will
bow down before him
, for dominion belongs to Yehovah and he rules over the nations
.
Slide5Parasha V’yeiraוַיֵּרָא
meaning to appear, present oneself, to be seen
or to be visible (Niphal verb stem)
Parasha Highlights:
Three men visit Avraham
Avraham intercedes for Sodom
The birth of the “
seed
” of promise, Isaac
Avrahams’ alliance with Avimelech at the well of “sevens”
The “Akeidah” (the 10
th
trial of Avraham)
The birth of Rebecca, Isaacs’ future wife
Slide6Slide7At the end of last weeks parasha, Avraham had just circumcised himself as well as the male population of his camp. He is still recovering from that experience.
18:1 - 3 Then Yehovah
appeared
to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day. So he
lifted
his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were
standing by him
; and when he saw them, he
ran from the tent door to meet them
, and
bowed
himself to the ground, and said, “My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant.
Slide8The three men can’t be both “
standing
” by him and far enough away for him to “
run
” to them. What Avraham experienced was a vision. The three men appearing to be standing outside his tent was a vision. He knew they were en route. He then “ran” to meet them.
He recognized the three men as being messengers from Yehovah so he prostrated himself. The Hebrew word for bowed is
שָׁחָה
. This is the first mention of “
bowed
” and is used in the Hithpael verb stem which means to bow down before those superior in homage.
Slide9Avraham recognized one of these men so he “
bowed
” down before them. The man Avraham recognized was Yeshua whom he had encountered in last weeks sidra; the person Melchizedek (My King is righteous). We don’t bow down before angels. We are told who the third man is in V 33, Yehovah.
An example is found in Rev. 22:8
– 9 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things
and
when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things. But he said to me, "
Do not do
that,
I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren the prophets and of those who heed the words of this book. Worship
Yehovah."
Slide10The numerical value of
שָׁחָה
is 313; 3 + 1 + 3 =
7
. This word also means to give
reverence
and
worship
. It should be no surprise to us then that the numerical value reduces to
7
, the
7
th
day is Shabbat; the day we meet with Yehovah to revere and worship Him.
When we are engaged in a Shabbat service we are completely focused on the reason we’re there; which is to meet with our Creator. We pray all week for His presence and for Him to send the Spirit of Holiness hoping for the same experience the 120 believers had in the upper room as recorded in Acts 2:1.
Slide11Acts 2:1 The festival of Shavuot (the 4
th
festival, a pilgrimage festival, connecting us to the
4
th
day of creation and the appointed times) arrived, and the
believers all gathered together in one place
. Suddenly there came a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then they saw what looked like (
cloven
) tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them. They were all filled with the Spirit of Holiness and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak. (Complete Jewish Bible)
What those in the upper room were experiencing wasn’t new.
Slide12The Greek word for “cloven or tongues” means to cleave asunder,
cut in pieces
to be divided into
opposing parts
or to be at variance. Those in the upper room experienced a
fiery
purification or baptism into the covenant of pieces; a renewal. It isn’t that they were unaware of the covenant of pieces, rather Yehovah wanted to give them an experience so profound they would be forever changed. Can this be the baptism of
fire
spoken of in Mt. 3:11.
This same purification of renewal was experienced by Covenant Israel in Dt. 33:2.
Slide13Dt. 33:2 records…And Moshe said: “Yehovah came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints; from His right hand came a “
fiery
” law (
אֵשׁ דַּת
) for them.
This Scripture is found in Parasha V’zot HaBrachah, and This is the Blessing! The “
fiery
” law is a picture of Yeshua, the “
Alef Tav and fiery law
” walking through the pieces. It is the
fiery law
by which we will be judged Lk. 12:49.
Slide14Slide15The three men appeared to Avraham on the 14
th
day of the first month. The day which would become Pesach, Passover.
18:4 -“Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a morsel of
bread
, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant.” They said, “Do as you have said
.”
The mention of “
bread
” is significant to our timeline because in 19:3 Lot offers the angels “
matzah
.”
Slide1620:1 - And
Avraham
journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and
Shur
, and stayed in Gerar. Now
Avraham
said of Sarah his wife, “
She is my sister
.” And
Avimelech,
king of
Gerar,
sent and took Sarah
.
This is the second time Sarah is said to be Avrahams’ sister. The first time was their sojourn into Egypt, the second time in the land of the Philistines. Can this narrative be telling us that “the
wife
” would be sent to the nations?
Is “
the bride
” of Messiah ever sent to the nations? Does The Father bring her back from the nations?
Slide17Slide18Avraham dwells among the giants
The land of Canaan was filled with tribes of giants. The Philistines are named as one of the tribes of giants along with 35 others. It is entirely possible that Avimelech of Gerar was of giant stature. He was a king of the Philistines. Can you name any other Philistine giants?
Ishbibenob
,
Saph
, Goliath
and one with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. (2 Sam. 21:15 – 20)
Slide19The birth of Isaac18:10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him
.)
V 14 “Is anything too hard for
Yehovah?
At the
“
appointed
time
”
I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son
.” **these words are significant because these words were spoken immediately prior to the judgment that was about to befall Sodom and Gomorrah
(Todd D. Bennett, Walk in
the Light , The Redeemed, pg. 20)
**
Slide20The “
appointed time
” for the concepcion of Isaac would be the following season of Pesach since we have already established the time of year in our sidra.
This is important because the life of Isaac is a pattern for the Son of Elohim. We know this through his fulfillment of the “
appointed times
.” We can also see this from direct references to Isaac as the “only son” of Avraham.
(Todd D. Bennett, Walk in the Light, The Redemption, pg. 23)
Slide2121:1 And Yehovah visited Sarah (
אֶת־שָׂרָה
) as
He had said, and Yehovah did for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which Elohim had spoken to him. And Avraham called the name of his son (
אֶֽת־שֶׁם־בְּנֹו
) who
was born to him—
whom
Sarah bore to him—Isaac
. Then Avraham circumcised his son Isaac (
אֶת־יִצְחָק
) when
he was eight days old, as Yehovah had commanded him
.
Ishmael was the firstborn of Avraham in his flesh; but not the seed of promise. The seed of Isaac, passed through the circumcised cutting of Avraham - he literally passed through the covenant as did Yeshua when He executed the covenant with Avraham.
(The Redeemed, pg. 23)
Slide22The Alef Tav Sarah has become the mother of the promised “
seed
.” She is a “
free
” woman; mother of the Covenant. Her son will follow Torah. Sarah is the “
now
” fulfillment of Ge. 3:15 which reads:
And I will put
enmity between
you and the woman
, and
between your seed and her
Seed
; He
shall bruise your head
, and
you shall bruise His heel
.” Mary, the mother of Yeshua, is the “
not yet
” fulfillment of this prophecy.
The Alef Tav Isaac is the son of promise; directing our attention to Yeshua, the only begotten of The Father. Born into the Covenant as a fulfillment to promises given to Avraham.
Slide2321:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar (
אֶֽת־בֶּן־הָגָר
) the
Egyptian, whom she
had
borne to
Avraham
, scoffing. Therefore she said to
Avraham
, “Cast out this bondwoman and her
son (
אֶת־בְּנָה
ּ
)
for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac
.”
**This is a prophetic picture of the physical nations and Covenant Israel**
We see two spiritual conditions being played out in the narrative between Sarah and Hagar. Sarah represents
the Holy,
mother
of the “
seed
” of promise,
Isaac
.
Hagar, the slave woman, represents
the
profane, Ishmael, conceived outside the covenant.
Slide24Slide25The Akeidah, the binding of Isaac
22:1
- 13
Now it came to pass after these things that God tested
Avraham (
אֶת־אַבְרָהָם
),
and said to him, “
Avraham
!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your
son (
אֶת־בִּנְךָ
),
your only
(
אֶת־יְחִֽידְךָ
) son Isaac (
אֶת־יִצְחָק
),
whom
you love
, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on
one of the mountains
of which I shall tell you.” So
Avraham
rose early in the morning and saddled his
donkey
(
אֶת־חֲמֹרֹו
),
and took
two
(
אֶת־שְׁנֵי
) of
his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the
wood
for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which
Yehovah
had told him.
Slide26Then
on the third day
Avraham
lifted his eyes
(
אֶת־עֵינָיו
) and
saw the place
(
אֶת־הַמָּקֹום
) afar
off. And
Avraham
said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the
lad
and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.” So
Avraham
took the wood
(
אֶת־עֲצֵי
) of
the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire
(
אֶת־הָאֵשׁ
) in
his hand, and a
knife (
אֶת־הַֽמַּאֲכֶלֶת
),
and the two of them went together. But Isaac spoke to
Avraham
his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” And
Avraham
said, “My son,
Elohim
will provide for Himself the lamb
for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
Slide27Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Avraham
built an altar
(
אֶת־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ
) there
and placed the
wood (
אֶת־הָעֵצִים
) in
order; and he bound
Isaac (
אֶת־יִצְחָק
) his son
and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. And
Avraham
stretched out his hand
(
אֶת־יָדֹו
) and
took the knife
(
אֶת־הַֽמַּאֲכֶלֶת
) to
slay his
son (
אֶת־בְּנֹֽו
). But the Angel of
Yehovah called
to him from heaven and said, “
Avraham
,
Avraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.” And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear
Elohim,
since you have not withheld your
son (
אֶת־בִּנְךָ
),
your only
(
אֶת־יְחִידְך
ָ
) son
, from Me.”
Slide28Then Avraham lifted his
eyes (
אֶת־עֵינָיו
)
and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So
Avraham
went and took the
ram (
אֶת־הָאַיִל
),
and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son
.
If we just examine the placement of the Alef Tav’s a picture of the Mashiach emerges.
Slide29Avraham (the Father) AltarYour son (3 x’s) Hand
Your only son (2x’s) Ram
Isaac (2 x’s)
Donkey
Two (2 Advents and 2 redemptions)
Eyes (2 x’s)
The place
Wood (2 x’s)
Fire
Knife (2 x’s)
Slide30V 19 Avraham returned to his two young men, and they stood up and went together to Beer-sheva
, and Avraham stayed in Beer-
sheva
.
Avraham returns but where is Isaac?
It’s clear that the Akeidah, the binding of Isaac, is a type and shadow of the events of Yeshuas’ death. I have one more thing for you to consider. The Rabbis’ maintain that the Akeidah occurred on the Temple mount. If that’s true then how can the Akeidah foretell Yeshuas’ death?
Slide31Did Yeshua die inside or outside the camp
? We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat. The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so
Yeshua
also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him
outside the camp
, bearing the disgrace he bore.
(
Hebrews 13:10-13 NIV)
I have come to believe that Yeshua died “
outside the camp
” on the Mt. of Olives in the same location where the sacrifice of the Red Heifer occurred and in the same location as His ascension.
Slide32Using deductive reasoning we know that Isaac was
37
years old at the time of the Akeidah. Gen 23:1 states that Sarah was 127 at the time of her death. We know that Sarah was 90 years old when Isaac was born (Gen 17:17); 127-90 =
37
years up to the year Sarah died.
Isaac said to his father, bind me securely and then place me upon the altar lest I should turn and move, and break loose from the force of the knife upon my flesh and thereof profane the burnt offering; and Abraham did so.
(The Book of Jasher, pg. 80)
Slide33In conclusion, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a separation of the holy and the profane.
The separation of Hagar and Ishmael from the family unit is more subtle. 21:13 Yehovah
promises Avraham
“Yet
I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed
.”
The Apostle Paul uses this Torah precept in his letter to the Galatians 4:21 – 31
which we will discuss in the Brit Chadasha portion.
Slide34HaftarahM'lakhim Bet (2 Kings) 4:1 - 23
Avraham was a prophet. In the first story the woman was a widow of a prophet, Obadiah. He was a disciple of Elijah along with Micah, Jonah and Elisha. Obadiah hid one hundred prophets in a cave and fed them (1st Ki. 18:13), “I sustained them with bread and water.”
(Encyclopedia of Biblical Personalities)
Slide35The first story not only speaks to the hospitality of Obadiah toward the prophets (having spent his
own wealth) but also the number one speaks to the
first Festival of Yehovah, Pesach (Passover) which is the time appointed for the birth of Isaac.
The second woman is barren, like Sarah. She is exceedingly hospitable to the prophet Elisha. He intercedes and she is given a son. Her son dies but is resurrected only after the prophet lays his body over the child's body
twice
. The boy sneezes
seven
times representing the millennial kingdom
.
The number two speaks to the
2
nd
redemption which occurs at the
7
th
millennia.
Slide36Brit ChadashaLk. 17:26-37: A reference to Sodom.
Rom
. 9:6-9: What is to be called your “seed” will be in Isaac. (At the time set, I will come and Sarah will have a son.)
Heb. 6:13-20: I will certainly bless you, and I will certainly give you many descendants.
Ja. 2:14-24: Avraham had faith in Yehovah, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
2
Pt. 2:4-10: And he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Slide37Ga. 4:21–
31 Tell me, you who desire to be under the
Torah,
do you not hear
the
Torah
? For it is written that
Avraham
had two sons: the one by a
bondwoman (Hagar),
the other by a freewoman (Sarah). But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the
flesh
, and he of the freewoman through
promise
, which things are symbolic. For these are
the
two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai
(Torah) which
gives birth to
bondage (traditions of men),
which is Hagar—for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem
(
Spirit
) which
now is, and is in bondage with her children—but the Jerusalem
(
Spirit
) above
is free, which is the mother of us all.
Slide38For
it
is
written
: “
Rejoice, O barren
, you
who do not bear
! Break
forth and shout
, you
who are not in labor
! For
the desolate has many more
children than
she who has a husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of
promise
. But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the
Spirit
, even so it is now. Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.