#31 - Torah Parashah Emor - Aspects of Holiness

[Music] you [Music] you this morning's tour portion is called amore everyone say amore amore means speak it's one of the most used words in the Torah and we're going to learn how God speaks to us and why he speaks to us and it's your tour portion you're gonna learn beautiful things about how it's all about holiness God is speaking to us through his word and we know with the revelation of Yeshua that the word became flesh and dwelt among us and gave us even even greater understanding of the written Torah in this week's Torah portion it covers the holiness of the priest and why Yeshua has to have a bride without spot or blemish because Torah says that a priest can only marry a virgin and it's gonna talk about the holy days and it's gonna talk about the holy place in the mikdash the tabernacle the holy place had the menorah and the table of showbread and the altar of incense so all of these things from chapter 21 through 24 in Leviticus is with a focus of different aspects of holiness that he's speaking to us so that we can be a kingdom of priests it's no longer just the Levites who are intended to be priests but all of God's people who will be renewed and sanctified just as his original covenant with Israel was to have priests from every tribe and this is what Yeshua has renewed so that we can be a kingdom of priests this is why he says know ye not that you will be priests and it's sometimes it's translated as priests and kings with me in the kingdom speaking of the Millennium but it's actually supposed to be translated a kingdom of priests he's the king and he's the high priest and we will reign as holy priests underneath him and if you look at this wording more in the Hebrew you have an olive and you have a mem and you have a race the olive is the first letter of Elohim the mem you could look at as the word for Messiah or you could look at it as my name is waters and in prophecy waters always represent people's nations and tongues so Elohim is speaking to the people through his word and this race is the word for Rosh which is the head it's like the ultimate Prince that's the word for Prince or for the head which is Yeshua so whether you look at the members be Messiah or the race be Messiah we know that he's reaching his head people through Messiah his word and this is how he speaks to us you can find it in your Bibles in viagra or Leviticus chapter 21 we'll start in verse 1 and we go through chapter 24 for chapters which in the midst of is one of the most beautiful chapters on the holy days and we're gonna look at the symbolism and we'll take most of the time this morning looking at the symbolism of the holy days and how they are prophetic foreshadowing of everything that Yeshua would fulfill as the suffering servant and as the prophet like unto Moshe and as the high priest and as the king chapter 21 and 22 covers the laws for the priests to know how to be holy as an example for the people chapter 23 is the laws on how to keep his holy days which starts with the weekly Shabbat and then goes into the annual holy days and chapter 24 is about the holiness of maintaining the holy place how the priests were supposed to press the oil or the menorah prepare the unleavened bread twelve of them one for each tribe representing Israel because your shoe is not the only one who's to be a living Torah this shows us that each one of us from each one of the tribes is to be a living Torah you choose just our example he came to show us the way so the fact that it's unleavened bread and that there's 12 of them shows that we too are to be unleavened with sin so the very first verse says Vaio mer here you can see that a more the real word right here by o'mara adonai el mo che Amer again so you see it two places and spoke adonai el ma che tu mo che sane no matter their see it in two different places and Jaco NIEM the priest Binet a on the sons of Aaron this is who you're supposed to tell this instruction to so because the rest of the tribes had lost the privilege of being priests because they bowed the knee to the golden calf God said for the time being the only tribe that didn't bend the knee to the idol worship of the golden calf would become the priests in their place so the Levites just happened to have the same amount twenty-two thousand one month old - - one month old and older basically was the same number of the firstborn that were intended to be priests from all of the other tribes 22,000 basically lost that privilege by bowing the knee to idol worship and so here we conceive this root word or mare in two different places and the whole focus of this beautiful portion is about holiness and the beauty of holiness first Peter 1:15 says but now you must be holy so the New Testament isn't promoting like many Christians say that Yeshua came to be the holy one and to be an overcomer so that we can continue to sin and be unholy we are called to holiness he's our example but now you must be holy in everything you do how much just in what we say or just in what we do or how about even what we think the source of everything in everything just as God who chose you to be his children is holy for he himself has said and then Peter quotes the Torah insane you must be holy because I am holy that's from Leviticus Ephesians 1:4 Paul says just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love so this first two chapters are gonna talk about the laws of holiness for the priest as an example chapter 21 says out and I said to Moshe speak to the Coenen the priests the sons of Aharon saying to them no Cohen is to make himself unclean for any of his people who dies so when you're a set apart person even death or being looking close association with death was a way of making yourself unclean because God is only the source of life there's no death in him he's light and there's no darkness in him he's only in love and there's no mixture so what he's teaching through the priest is don't let there be any mixture of life and death light and darkness be an example except for because of the compassion of the Lord he understands that those that are closest to us like our immediate family if you need to bury a husband or a wife or a father or mother or a child this was an exception because God is always showing that the heart it's an issue of the heart as far as compassion he may also make himself unclean for his virgin sister who is never married and therefore dependent on him so his sister until she's married is basically underneath his covering if she if her father has passed on he may not make himself unclean because he is a leader among his people doing so would profane him konima not to make bald spots on their heads or Mar the edges of their beard or cut gashes or mark their flesh why because this was a practice that was done by the pagans that would commemorate the dead once again we have the hope of the resurrection we're not supposed to mourn the dead as if we don't have any hope and this is what they would do is make permanent marks in their hair or in their bodies remembering their dead ones and so even tattooing began with commemorating the dead or you know that bowl haircut that you sometimes you see they would cut off their beard or they would shave their head a lot of women in India to this day will shave their head when their husbands die it's a sign of mourning he's telling the priests don't do these things rather they are to be holy for their God and not profane the name of their God so now he's bringing up the name the Holy One the yo hey Bob hey for they are the ones who present Yoda evolve a with offerings made by fire the bread of their God therefore they must be holy and now we see some beautiful symbolism of our high priest as he's going to fulfill Torah he will understand now why he's calling us to be holy as his bride because Cohen priests cannot marry either a adulterous woman or prostitute or anyone who is not completely pure here in verse 7 it says a Cohen is not to marry a woman who is a prostitute who has been profaned or who has been divorced because he is holy for his God rather he's speaking now to the assembly you are to set him apart as Holy so there's a responsibility for the Assembly to make sure that their leader maintains this high level of holiness because he's an intercessor on their behalf and then he has a responsibility to intercede and hold them accountable says because he offers the bread for symbolizing or speaking of the showbread of your God he is to be holy for you so this priest was an intercessor and it's for you and since it's for you you hold him accountable make sure that he doesn't do these things because I am Adonai who makes you holy and I am holy the daughter of a priest who profanes herself by prostitution or adultery profanes her father she is to be put to death by fire this is why remember when jacob found out that tomorrow was pregnant even though he was the one that pregnant hated her he didn't know it what did he do he was going to go follow Torah and have her burned as someone who had profaneness why because she's the daughter of a priest many people don't realize that Tamar was the granddaughter of Melchizedek the high priest in wind Melchizedek died his son Eber became the high priest so this when you just been when the Scriptures speak of Yeshua being of the order of Melchizedek it's referring to his lineage through Judah and Tamar he's literally physically of that lineage and this is why they had to follow this commandment this is in Genesis 38 verse 24 he says the Cohen who is ranked highest this would be the Cohen hog a dole the high priest among his brothers the one on whose head is the anointing oil is poured and who is consecrated to put on the holy garments is not to stop grooming his hair or he's not supposed to tear his clothes go into where any dead body is or make himself unclean even where his father and mother dies so now there's even a higher calling for the high priest he may not leave the sanctuary then or profane the sanctuary of his God because the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him I am yo-dee-hey Vevey he is to marry a virgin he may not marry a widow or a divorcee or an adulteress for all famed woman or a prostitute he must marry a virgin from among his own people this is another reason why Israel is the bride when you look at the symbolism of Yeshua being our high priest and everyone Paul says can be grafted in to Israel but there's no separate bride there's no separate woman that says oh I want access to God apart from being married to Yeshua this is what's called a harlot in Revelation where certain churches will say that's nice that Israel was chosen in the past but we replaced Israel this is called replacement theology this is a hidden form of harlotry God intends for us to be grafted into the bride who's from his own people and there's beautiful symbolism in these glimpses of Messiah we go through a process in studying the Torah called the part parties is an acronym for the Passat the Ramez the DRA SH and the sewed the first letter of each word spells orchard or garden in the Hebrew parties is like the Garden of Eden where we get deeper and deeper into the word and and the fruit that comes from Torah Bashan is just the literal plain meaning which we discussed are the laws of holiness for the priests and the holy days they appointed times to come to meet the father and the holy place in the Ramez which is just beyond the literal we go a little bit deeper and we see that God's character through this whole Torah portion in him speaking to us through his word which is ultimately made flesh in Yeshua is all about him making us holy even as he's holy and where the word could not fully show us what holiness looked like embodied in human flesh the word became flesh and showed us total selfless love and laying down his life and so we see hidden glimpses of Messiah and here we're speaking about the priest the first glimpse that we're gonna see is the priest has to seek a pure bride and we just learned that she must be from his people his own tribe now you she was from the tribe of Judah but the greater tribes are the whole house of Israel and so we see why revelation speaks about the the virgin bride and symbolism of 144,000 coming from every one of these tribes we will also see in chapter 23 a prophetic glimpse of Messiah in the purpose the prophetic purpose of the holy days everyone is pointing to both of these comings first coming and second coming and then in the last chapter we will see symbolism of Yeshua in the holy place furnishings even the menorah represents him in the table of showbread and the altar of incense and so ultimately we don't just take this head knowledge and say oh now I understand these things it's all about our application how do we apply it to our own lives he's our example he's shown us how to be holy he lived a life of self-denial fasting and praying complete connection with the Father everything that he had done was because of his connection to the Father and you have that same connection you have that same access to the Father this is why he said even greater things you will do because where he was one in one body we are many and we can do these great works around the whole world and so in this context he was saying even greater things you would do through the Ruach so when we get into chapter 23 then we will dissect this symbol as I'm showing you sure in each one of the holy days but I just wanted to show you kind of what the different sections of going from the literal push shot to the Ramez and then the drawing deeper into the anomalies of the word everything reveals Yeshua and this is what he would have brought out as he walked along that road to Emmaus and the disciples after his death didn't even recognize him and he says what are you speaking of and they said have you not heard about this the prophesied one the prophet of God he came and he died and he began to expound the scriptures the Torah everything it says pertaining to himself this means the way that we should read Torah is to look for these hidden glimpses of Yeshua everywhere it's pointing forward to him and what a beautiful description of our high priest the bridegroom and how he must marry a virgin and she must be grafted into Israel so that we can be a set apart bride we see in verse 16 out and I said to Moshe tell her own none of your descendants who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God knowing what the defect may approach no one blind lame with mutilated face or body a broken foot or broken arm door hunchback stunted growth a cataract in his eye or festering running sores no one descended from Aaron the colon who has such a defect may approach to present the offerings for ad and I made by fire he has a defect him is not to approach to offer the bread of his God he may eat the bread of his God both the especially holy the most holy and the holy only he's not to go in the curtain or approach the altar because he has this defect so that he will not profane my holy place because holiness makes us perfect everything's pointing to what he's doing is he's not judging negatively somebody who has a defect but what he's saying is in perfect holiness you will be completely restored so nothing that is a cause of sin like a defect is to be in close proximity with that which is eternal and this is what he's representing here he says I am a tonight who makes them holy so Moshe said these things to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel now the sons of Israel as this Torah portion began saying speak to the co name the priest to the sons of Aaron the sense of Israel Aaron were to be the priests they work from the tribe of Levi not every Levite was a priest though every priest was a Levite but not every Levite was a priest this is because Levi had three sons Gershon Kohath and Merari and only kohat had a son named Amram who was the father of Moses and Aaron so you can see why not every Levite was a priest only those who were sons of Aaron this is a picture from my whiteboard two years ago and I kind of diagrammed this for you so I thought rather than rewriting it on the board I'll just show you from two years ago that Jacob had twelve sons and one of those sons was Levi Levi had three sons Gershon Kohath and Merari many people don't know why AMRAAM and his sons were chosen over the other two brothers but when I brought out the meanings of the names whenever you have a question as to something significant in the Word of God go back to the Hebrew the Hebrew explains so much there's symbolism everywhere Gershon means exile or foreigner and so the foreigner has the ability to be grafted into Israel but the foreigner cannot apart from Israel be a kingdom of priests so Gershon name is not indicative of one who would be able to fulfill God's original covenant of the whole assembly being a kingdom of priests murari means bitter and we know the very first ordinance on the priest was to be anointed with the cure for any bitterness any negativity in ela Shawn Hara it was the oil and blood on the right earlobe the right thumb and the right big toe which is actually the cure for leprosy or Zara ah which is caused by speaking or thinking negative against your fellow brethren as an assembly of God we need to be fully United and the priest could not have any division in his mindset so Murari could not be a good name for the the priests kohat actually has this word the root of his name means assembly Co Hall is the hebrew name for the assembly like we would be a co hall they assembly have called out believers and God brought a great assembly from Egypt and a mixed multitude Egyptians and those from what was the tribe of his father-in-law the midian yeah the meeting nights were grafted in thank you for some reason I also went blank there was this ability to be grafted in to the greater assembly what kohat is got the same route of qahal meaning assembly and then AMRAAM arm is people rom is exalted just like Avraham or ah from so this assembly of exalted people is what the Hebrew lineage is actually signifying and then Omron has a her own and so we can see the priestly lineage coming from Levi to kohat to Omron to our own and only the sons of Aaron which were native a V who Eleazar and Hammar could be priests in their offspring of course native and v who did something that God didn't ask him to do in his presence and so they were harboring darkness and came into that light and were killed so that only leaves Eleazar and Hammar Eleazar ended up becoming the high priest and after Aaron died so you can kind of see today those that we call : with the last name : or Levite or any of these most likely Cohen would have to be a descendant of Eleazar or Hammar so that just kind of gives you a little overview of who the priests are but that wasn't God's original design he had intended for all of Israel all of them the firstborn to be a kingdom of priests each one of us and this is what you sure is restoring in all of us Exodus 19:6 says and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words that you shall amor unto the children of Israel in the profits we know that Isaiah says unless they speak according to the Torah and the testimony there's no light in them so we always love to have a double witness in something from the prophets that confirms what was written in the Torah Isaiah 60:1 6 says but you shall be named the priest of the Lord men shall call you the ministers of our God and you will eat the riches of the Gentiles and in their glory you will boast it's not the wrong kind of boasting it's not anything self focused or self-exalting what this is referring to is in the Millennial Kingdom when we can see that because of us dispersed amongst all the nations as a kingdom of priests we've brought in Gentiles into a fullness of not only the gospel but into being able to be in the kingdom and to live for eternity and to learn Torah from the source so in their glory we will boast we will boast that because God dispersed us amongst all the nations the world ended up becoming saved and this is exactly what Paul says in Corinthians he says God was reconciling even his enemies the whole world to himself through Yeshua HaMashiach and this is why you schewe says I come for the lost house of Israel they're the ones out amongst the Gentiles they must remember who they are return to Torah so that they can be a light to the nation's this is the true gospel so we'll go through chapter 22 and then we will look at the holy days how didn't I said to Moshe tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the people of Israel which they set apart as holy for me so that they will not profane my Holy Name I am yo Dave Ave so when we profane when we take something holy and we make it common look at how it's associating it with not only profaning God but profane and His Holy Name now we've only been taught that if you say his name and a cuss word or if you make take an oath and you don't keep that oath this is profaning his name but he's basically saying if you take something holy which is set apart for me and you profane it by making it comment you're profaning my name what does that say about Shabbat as we're leading up to Leviticus 23 and the very first holy day is the weekly Shabbat this has been set apart from the foundation of the world from creation for only holy use and when we say that's nice God but I need to work or I need to buy and sell or I need to do my own thing me me me we're not only profaning the Sabbath profaning him and his holy name so this has huge implications as we are seeking to be called out of the world and the false system and return to the mindset of being a holy people royal priesthood we need to really take to heart these serious things that he's saying anything that has been set apart is holy for the Lord we have to maintain as holy and this is why God moved from the fourth commandment saying just to remember the Sabbath and not to work in it to later by the time that the Israel entered the land he'd added an additional word which went from suhoor which means to remember some more means to guard and protect it this is to keep it holy to do whatever you can like you would take care of your wife or you attend to a garden take care of Shabbat this is why we prepare for Shabbat a day in advanced and so that we don't have to do anything that would profane the day or the Lord he says tell them any descendant of yours throughout all your generations who approaches the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate to Adonai and is unclean will be cut off from before me I am Adonai and this is why Babylon fell because remember bel Shazzer who was son a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar brought out these holy things that Nebuchadnezzar had remained even though he had captured many things from Jerusalem he'd kept them in a special room so they would continue to be set apart not used and intermixed with the pagan culture and Belshazzar brought him out for his party basically saying that I'm equal with God I can use these holy things and it was that night that that hand wrote on the wall mini-mini Tekel you farsan you have been weighed and found one team your days have been numbered and that very night cyrus the anointed one came and dammed up the Euphrates River and captured Babylon and in so doing set the Jewish people free and return them to Jerusalem years later to restore the temple and so you can see how God works but what was the very night that this had occurred on the night that he was using these holy things and profaning them verse 4 says any descendant of Aaron with Zara ought this is that disease that's caused by Lashon Hara negative speaking or a discharge is not to eat the holy things until he is clean anyone who has touched a person made unclean by a dead body or who has had a seminal omission or who has touched a reptile or insect that can make him unclean or a man who is unclean for any reason and who can transmit to him his uncleanliness the person who touches any of these things will be unclean until evening and it's not to eat the holy things unless he bathes in water so if for some reason you become unclean by touching something dead or being associated with someone that's unclean or sick we realized that we're unclean until sundown and then we bathe our body and then we're made clean again and this is the process of God always returning us back to that purified state after sunset he will be clean and afterwards he may eat the holy things because they are his food but he is not to eat anything that dies naturally or is torn to death by wild animals and their male thereby makes himself unclean I am Adonai so even blood makes one unclean ceremonial unclean and this is why even a woman would go through a mikvah once a month after her period of need is called in the Hebrew and then she's made clean again and man whenever he would kill an animal or make a sacrifice he would go through this process of cleansing and you even see the Laver outside of the tabernacle because they were making sacrifices before they would go into the holy place even the priests had to wash that blood off of their hands after Oh verse 9 says the priest must observe this charge of mine otherwise if they profane it they will bear the consequences of their sin for doing so and die in it I am out and I who makes them holy no one who is not a priest may eat anything holy nor may a tenant or employee of a colon eat anything holy now what's interesting is David who's from the tribe of Judah is a type of future Messiah who will reign as high priest and King and there was certain intermarriage between Judah and Levi early on even though the Torah says for you to marry within your tribe so you see when David came from the battlefield and he was famished and he came in the priest gave him the old yea unleavened showbread and David ate it and he was there in the holy place which is a type of future Messiah who will be in the holy place as both high priest and king and this is why you schewe said to reign on the throne of David if a colon acquires a slave either through purchase or through his being born in his household he may share his food if the daughter of priests colon is married to a man who is not a Cohen she is not to have a share of the food set aside from the holy things but if the daughter of a Cohen is a widow or a divorcee and has no child and she sent back to her father's house being under his covering that's when she was young she may share in her father's priestly food but no one not a Cohen is to share in it if a person eats food by mistake he must add one-fifth to it and give the holy food to the priest they are not to profane the holy things of the people of Israel for they have been set apart for Adonai and thus caused them to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering by eating their holy things because I am Adonai who makes them holy you see how many times he keeps reminding the people I am Adonai I am holy I'm the one who makes you holy be holy even as I am holy throughout these passages you see him reminding us over and over and over again verse 17 says out and I said to Moshe amor speak to Aaron and his sons and to the entire people of Israel and tell them when anyone whether a member of the house of Israel or a foreigner living in Israel brings his offering either in connection with a vow or as a voluntary offering and brings it to Adonai as a burnt offering in order for you to be accepted you must bring a male without defect from the cattle the sheep or the goats you are not to bring anything with a defect because it will not be accepted from you whoever brings a sacrifice of peace offerings to Adonai in fulfillment of a vow or as a voluntary offering whether it comes from the herd or from the flock it must be unblemished and without defect in order for it to be accepted this is the original sin of Cain that self that was ever so subtle in his life even though there had never been death up to that point and only Adam and Eve had sinned but repented when he was making an offering to the Lord he withheld the best of his flock remember he was a shepherd of the flocks we're able I'm sorry Cain was produced the fruit of the land and Abel was a shepherd of the flocks and whether you're producing food and fruit like we do at Sukkot we bring an ingathering of harvest before the Lord present offering or whether you're bringing an animal it's to be the best without blemish and Cain we're told from the Dead Sea Scrolls brought substandard he saved the best for himself and gave the substandard produce to the Lord this is why his sacrifice was not accepted it wasn't because it was fruit versus animal it was because of the self involved in holding back the best for ourselves first 22 says if it is blind injured mutilated or has abnormal growth or has festering or running sores you're not to offer it to a deny or make such an offering by fire on the altar to Adonai if a bull or lamb has a limb which is too long or too short you may offer it as a voluntary offering but for a vow it will not be accepted in animal with a bruised crushed torn or cut genitals you are not to offer to Adonai you are not to do these things in your land and you're not to receive any of these things from a foreigner for you to offer as bread for your God because their deformity is a defect in them they will not be accepted from you I don't I said Tim O'Shea when a bull sheep or goat is born it is to stay with its mother for seven days but from the eighth day on it may be accepted for an offering made by fire however no animal is to be slaughtered together with its young on the same day either a cow nor a sheep or you this is because of the compassion of life the mother is the life giver and all of us come from a mother so in these sacrifices you know that every single one of these you know a lot of them are a year old or younger they've come from a mother but you don't sacrifice a mother with the young you want to perpetuate life if you were to bring mother and young together not only would it be an abomination but it would in that whole species and this is the premise for why God says do not cook a kid young goat in its mother's milk it's the compassion that milk is used for the sustenance and growth of the child it's not the fact that meat and cheese can't be eaten together because we know even Abraham brought meat and curds before the Lord and they were eaten and accepted so we have to understand all of these Torah Commandments in their proper context he says in verse 31 if you are to keep my mitts vote and obey them you're not to profane my Holy Name so once again even keeping his mitzvot which are holy and obeying them is likened unto honoring God's holy name he says I am to be regarded as holy among the people of Israel I am yo David Haye who makes you holy who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am a denying now this is the lead-up the great context in which he gives the holy days these meeting times the mode deems for him to meet with us because speaking is all about relationship first you speak to create something then you want to instruct that something right as children of course we procreate but God speaks things into existence and then he instructs his children and then when his children go wayward he corrects them and he tells us what instruction brings us into closer proximity with his selfless love so that we can grow into deeper relationship with him so all of this theme about him speaking to us and making us holy is all leading up to this beautiful thing of sharing now these divine date times I call them divine dates because if you are really preparing yourself as a bride without spot or blemish for the bridegroom and your bridegroom your betrothed says hey I want to meet with you every week I want to meet with you and seven times a year I want to meet with you this is gonna be the only time that I can come on a long trip and we can build relationship before the wedding and we say that's nice but I think I'll come a day late or maybe I'll come a day early or maybe I'll come as some people say well every day is holy they say this to justify not keeping Shabbat right well every day is holy to the Lord no not every day is holy every day is common and it's for work the seventh day is holy to the Lord thy God in it you shall not do any work the fourth commandment says you or your son or your daughter your manservant your maidservant your ox your cattle even the stranger within thy gate for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them but on the seventh day he rested and he blessed it and he sanctified it he did three things we always when we open up Shabbat have the kids say Shekinah what three things did God do on the first Shabbat amen it's great do you want to share what the holy days of the Lord are no okay go ahead say no loud you want to come up here so everybody can hear you every Shabbat we remind the children what the purpose of Shabbat is and that Shabbat is not the only holy day but that there's other holy days and so we will see here you can stand in front so that you can because you might not be able to see okay go ahead are they meekly owner she thought and then where they found a little bit of kiss 23 very good the weekly run miss Shabbat and then there's Passover and little matzo which is occlusive unleavened bread 50 days later YUM and then in the fall is yom teruah right code and then Sukkot its seven-day feast it's the Feast of the gathering of the fall harvest and after the seven days the eighth day is called wash in many hats today very good which means the eighth day assembly and what's the other name for jhemini at surrett we rejoice in the Torah because Torah is completed the whole Torah cycle is completed on that day it's called Simchat Torah so it has two different names very good Shekinah well done it's so wonderful to constantly bring these things to mind not only for our young children but for all of us because like our forefathers it doesn't take but one generation if you assimilate you let go of Shabbat and you observe other religious practices these things will be forgotten in one generation and so it's so important to reintroduce them as God is waking us back up to return so in Leviticus 23 we are gonna see these holy days and we're gonna talk about the symbolism in the past you can find videos where I've shared on how to observe them what the moon is doing what the Sun is doing what the agriculture is doing but today I think we will focus on more of how they prophetically point to Yeshua and why our brother Judah does not recognize Yeshua as the Messiah yet he will but this has a big part of why he's not recognized yet the very first one vid is 23 add a nice system O'Shea tell the people of Israel the designated times of Adonai this is these divine days which you are to proclaim as his holy convocations are my designated times so these are not the Feast of the Jews as the world calls them he says these are my designated times and these are holy and remember what he said if you profane something that's holy your profaning my holy name so it's very important for us as the descendants of Israel to observe these appointed times that are his and he starts off in verse 3 work is to be done on six days but the seventh day is a Shabbat of complete rest a holy convocation you are not to do any kind of work it is a Shabbat for Adonai even in your homes so he starts off and then he we know that this is commemorated in the fourth commandment it goes all the way back to creation before there was ever Israel before there was ever a Jew this was for all mankind God set apart the seventh day for rest why because children of God are princes and princesses they're free they're not slaves a slave works seven days a week but free men they rest especially on their father's holy days exodus 31:13 tells us that this is the sign a sign in Hebrew is owed it's like a mark positon has a sign a mark a counterfeit in these days that are not Shabbat the Islam worships on Friday Roman Catholicism and most of the Protestant world on the day of the Sun the first day of the week but the seventh day is the sign between God and His people and it's like the diamond on the ring of the betrothal he says you are to speak to the people of Israel and say above all you shall keep my Sabbath's for this is a ode a sign between me and you how long just for a couple years throughout all your generations forever amen we know it from Isaiah 66 it is forever because he says when there's a new heaven and a new earth all flesh will come before me on the new moons and the Sabbath's so if he orchestrated this from the foundation of the world and it's going to be in the renewed world why would he ever do away with it in between he hasn't he says that the very purpose of this throughout all our generations is so that you will know that I am yo hey Bob hey who sanctifies you this is exactly what we're talking about today through the observance of these holy days we will remember and our children remember that it's him who makes us holy by observing these holy things now we realize it's not burdensome it's not rules and restrictions these are laws of love and how to love him and how to be made holy and how to draw near to him because light cannot coexist with darkness and through sin which is the transgression of the Torah we have been separated from him isaiah 59:2 says that as well so it's through re embracing these that we can draw near to him and this is what a loving father desires all of these instructions are laws of love and how to draw near to him so that we will be children of light once again Isaiah 56 six and seven says everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath I will bring to my holy mountain now this goes greater than just Israel he's saying everyone who keeps from - finally Sabbath these are those who are grafted into Israel who are observing Shabbat who can't even trace their lineage what is he saying they're gonna be in the Millennial Kingdom that's what it means that he's gonna bring them to his holy mountain then he goes into the annual holy days so the seventh day is every week that we observe this this is a divine day but then there's seven times throughout the year and what's interesting is if you count Shabbat as the first one in Leviticus 23 and then you look at we will say in the seventh day is number one okay then you would say Pesach is number two second one that's introduced and hog matzah the feast of unleavened bread is the third holy day that's instructed now we have this festival that's called the Kareem it's the firstfruits but it's not a separate holy day and sometimes it falls within the week most of the time it does falls within the week of unleavened bread so it's not a separate holy day so that's why we don't count that as a separate holy day only when Passover is at the end of the week like it was in the year that Yeshua was crucified when he was crucified on Wednesday he was in the grave Thursday Friday and Saturday three full days and three full nights Leviticus is gonna tell us which we're gonna read very soon that you start counting the fifty days of the Omer from the day after the Shabbat after Pesach well since that Shabbat was three days later the Kareem ended up being the firstfruits that Sunday and that's when he rose from the grave and we're gonna see the symbolism of that Vince Chavo would be the fourth holy day mentioned and we're gonna talk about the symbolism of each of these as we go through them yom teruah would then be the fifth yom kippur would be the sixth now look at how beautiful this is because Sukkot is a seven-day feast and it represents the seventh millennium the millennial kingdom this is what Shavuot represents and this is why zechariah 14 says that all nations will come up to jerusalem on the feast of Sukkot during the millennium because it represents the millennium it's the feast that Yeshua was born in he was born on the first day of it and it's the time that he would the Millennium will begin again so here Sukho which represents the seventh Millennial day is the seventh holy day the feast now not all holy days are feast like Yom Kippur is a fast right so sometimes people use these misnomers and they'll say the Feast of the Lord they're not all Feast of the Lord their holy days of the Lord some days we feast some days we fast and then the eighth day what's beautiful Simchat Torah is actually called the eight-day assembly it ends up being the eighth one representing after the Millennium after sin and death are destroyed the new heavens and the new earth begins the 8th millennium begins eternity and this is where we are made at one with God without sin and we can forever be in his presence and his new jerusalem descends so now as we go through revelry I mean Leviticus 23 you can see the seven and eight holy days that we are discussing and we'll look at the symbolism of them verse five in the first month on the fourteenth day of the month between sundown and complete darkness now when it's sundown is it at the beginning of the day or at the end of the day at the beginning so this was yeah the evening in the morning were the first day so this is telling us that this is at the beginning of after the thirteenth day the fourteenth day is the beginning this would be the first day of unleavened bread this is why in the New Testament sometimes they refer to Passover as the first day of unleavened bread and people say why it's actually cuz they're following Torah to a tee on the fifteenth day of the same month is the festival of matzah seven days you're to eat matzah on the first day you are to have a holy convocation don't do any kind of work on this day bring an offering made by fire to Adonai for seven days on the seventh day is a holy day do not do any ordinary work so the first day and the seventh day of this week-long matzo starting with Pesach and ending on the seventh day is a weeklong feast but only the first day in the seventh day our holy days that you don't do any work on them now what are they pointing to on the tenth of Nisan Israel would bring the lamb into the home on the tenth of Nisan Yeshua entered into Jerusalem and the land would be inspected for four days and then sacrificed on the fourteenth day and Yeshua was inspected for forty for four days and sacrificed exactly when the lambs were being sacrificed in Jerusalem on the fourteenth day of Pesach what's interesting is that all of these holy days have origins that go much before they started being observed or introduced in the wilderness Pesach for instance refers to the Lamb who was slain from when the foundation of the world amen and so we see that it represents not only his sacrifice but as our example the need for us to die to self no one is gonna willingly lay down their life as long as they're holding on to some aspect of self right and self preservation or self exaltation or self gratification so his example literally symbolizes our need to die to self Yeshua is the Passover lamb and Paul in first Corinthians five seven and eight says for indeed Messiah our Pesach has been sacrificed in our place therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness this is that division the bitterness of people dividing themselves from one from another the Apostles understood this and this is why fifty days later what is the purpose of the fifty days as we're counting the Omer to be in complete unity one Accord it says they were in one Accord in Jerusalem if they were not unified and if they were not at the place where he placed his name the Spirit of God would not have poured out upon them it says that weird who observed this feast with the matzo the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth it's beautiful hagh matzah is what we call it in the Hebrew and we are reminded of Yeshua how he was beaten and and stripped and pierced much like the matzah is stripped and beaten and Isaiah 53 refers to this fulfillment in the suffering servant you know his first coming he didn't come as a messiah Messiah means Messiah which is anointed as king they never saw him anointed as king so how can they call him Messiah it would be against Torah but they did see him beaten and sacrificed and in this way he fulfills Isaiah 53 and the prophet like unto Moshe of Deuteronomy 18 isaiah 53:5 says he was pierced for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with His stripes we are healed you see the little piercings and the stripes much like you sure was this amazing symbolism that teaches us that we need to not only die to self but we need to live a sinless holy life this is what unleavened bread represents and then ultimately this gives us new life so that death cannot have any hold in us this is what leads to those who will be resurrected and he's the firstfruits of the resurrection the big Kareem and so we see the priests would come this is the feast of barley down here I've got the the pro tour the agriculture that's happening during shava ode it's wheat and in the fall its grapes figs olives pomegranates and at Troggs and here the barley would be taken as a sheave and lifted up from the field and waved cut off from the field just like you sure was cut off from the land of the living but then lifted up and presented before the Father is symbolizing him because what did he say he said hold Mary when Mary saw him right after he rose from the dead do not hold on to me or touch me for I have not yet ascended to the Father he's going to be presented as a firstfruits of the grave go instead to my brothers and tell them I am ascending to my father and your father to my god and your God this also tells us how you sure looked at himself in a relationship to the Father he's always recognizing and giving homage to that father is God he's not saying I'm God right he is the son of God and we have to understand his rightful place this is one of the big contentions and reasons why Jews will never be converted to understand the beauty of Yeshua fulfilling all of these mitzvot because we're using wrong terms for him we're saying putting him in the place of God or a secondary God and we're calling him Messiah when he has not yet fulfilled the requirements of Messiah Messiah is prophesied he will rebuild the temple and return the Exile of Israel and he will usher in a messianic age where there's total peace and freedom from all other nations and reign as king this has not happened yet so sometimes we're using terms that are not appropriate which is causing other people to say no that doesn't fit with Scripture so this is why I won't recognize him but if we would simply put him in his rightful place say you know in his first coming look at how he's fulfilled the spring feast all point to exactly what he fulfilled he's the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 and he's the prophet like unto Moshe who's meek and humble and Deuteronomy 18 he has fulfilled these and the fall then will point to his second coming where he will be recognized as a bridegroom as a priest and as a king mushy acht and he will be anointed but what's happening in between is this chavo which is in between the spring and the fall and it's very interesting that we count fifty days seven complete Sabbath's seven complete weeks and if Pesach and matzo and bickering represent our death to self the false identity and newness of life and holiness shava o represents entering into covenant through the holy spirit of truth because it is a day that God always makes covenant or renews covenant with man and what is happening in the heavenly sphere with Yeshua is he's reigning as a high priest already so this title of high priest is already happening simultaneously as he's interceding in the heavenly throne helping us enter into covenant the only way we can enter into covenant is to return to the covenant and the Covenant book which is Torah so if tour has been done away with all of this gets lost and people don't understand the beauty of this he says I'm gonna send one the comforter more powerful the Holy Spirit we know that the Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth right and in John 17:17 Yeshua says father sanctify them speaking of all his people in thy truth thy Word is truth so we have to return to the word to understand the truth to be sanctified which means to be set apart there is no holiness when you do away with the word of God so Shavuot is a beautiful symbol that reveals not only Yeshua as the high priest in heaven Hebrews 9:11 says but Messiah has become a high priest of good things to come see there's still so much more to come the fulfillment of all the rest of the prophecies in the fall feast by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with hands do you know Shavuot just like Passover began much before it didn't begin in the wilderness chavo was actually observed by Noah when Noah came out of the ark after a year of the flood and he built an altar to the Lord God renewed his covenant with mankind and he says I will not no longer let the earth be destroyed by water and he sent a rainbow to confirm that covenant to ratify that covenant that was on Shavuot that that happened that the rainbow given Isaac Yitzhak Abraham's son son of the Covenant which God had promised Abraham was born on Shavuot the 10 commandments and all of Torah was given for our forefathers on Chava Oh God made a covenant this was the time of the betrothal with the future bride so many people another misnomer say that God married Israel on this date no he just betrothed her the wedding comes on yom teruah much later this is the betrothal the bride has to remain in waiting without spot or blemish until the bridegroom comes back the bridegroom will always go and prepare a place off of the father's house called a Hoopa for the wedding and during that time she needs to be watching and waiting and keeping herself pure and then he comes back on a day that she doesn't expect usually on a dark day so that he can surprise her with his whole entourage and Herald which is a new moon this is the only holy day that falls on a new moon and he comes and gets outside of her house to surprise her usually after midnight and blows a trumpet and then the herald or proclaims behold the bridegroom cometh well this is exactly what's being described from the Old Testament to the New Testament from Joel to Paul about the second coming on yom teruah on this exact date this is what it's for shadowing but some of the significant things that happen on Shavuot is that the Spirit of God will always descend when the people are unified Noah and his wife and his three sons were unified after coming out of the ark the Israel was unified at the base of Mount Sinai the Apostles were unified in Jerusalem the Spirit of God comes down as a flame of fire to the point where it's even scorched the Mount now it's called Jabal al lawz but Sinai over there in Saudi Arabia has scorched granite at the top so much that it's melted the granite turned it to glass to this day's black and glass you can see the the glory of the rainbow the glory of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost that's one indicator the other thing is that languages that are understood and everyone could understand what God was saying but it scared them so they said God no longer speak to us speak to Moses and whatever he tells us we will do and this is how we got the written Torah otherwise if we our forefathers had not been afraid of God's voice he intended to speak to us intimately and that's what today's message is all about speaking how he wants to speak to us a relationship is only built on communication and a bridegroom and a and a a bride love the sound of each other's voice so we shouldn't be afraid of God's voice but we see this even symbolized the flame of fire and the voices in that on enta cost on that very day it said that the Spirit of God descended like flames of fire upon their head and everyone heard the message of Yeshua and how he had fulfilled prophecy in their own tongue the true fulfillment of the gift of tongues is understanding these languages so beautiful how we see symbolism of in Noah Yitzhak Israel the disciples and we have to remember that on this day that we're counting up to which is one week and one day from today we want to be unified so that God can descend his spirit upon us and empower us all the more to give this beautiful message to the world now we come to the fall yom teruah the day that messiah will receive his bride on a day of trumpeting Paul says the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpet of God first thessalonians 4:16 he's quoting Joel Joel also talks about it as a day of trumpeting and there's probably eight to ten different scriptures that talk about this day hidden in prophecy throughout the Old Testament prophets referring to the day of trumpeting being the day of the Lord so this is how we see just like he fulfilled the spring feasts point-by-point in his first coming now we're going to start to see what is yet to come and how he's gonna fulfill the fall feast Yom Kippur comes 10 days later what's interesting is that yom teruah new moon feasts are usually observed over two days you said two days aside because you don't see the moon and you're not sure which one of the dark days is the actual first day of the month so if you took the first two days out of Tishri and then yom kippur begins on the eve of the ninth of Tishri which begins the tenth day of Tishri you have seven complete days in between there and what's amazing is that in the twelve steps of a jewish wedding they have preserved this symbolism in that a bride remains in the Hupa for seven days so there'll be seven days between yom teruah and yom kippur that the bride he's caught up his bride on yom teruah and he takes her according to Isaiah 26 into his chamber for a little while during the indignation because the indignation is the seventh plague the fall of Babylon on the earth and so he's actually hiding his bride in the heavenly Hoopa for seven days and then coming out on yom kippur and yom kippur means Kippur comes from the root word to cover in Hebrew so it's like a veil that's covering us and that gets lifted on Yom Kippur the bride comes out of the Hupa and she knows him even as she is known and then there's multiple things that happen on Yom Kippur usually the year of Jubilee is announced the Kings are always coordinated on the year of Jubilee and on Yom Kippur and judgment not only are we made at one after coming out of the Hupa and seeing him having that veil lifted there's that one minute for us but what's happening for the earth judgment and this is what the twofold aspects of Yom Kippur are you see the judgment represented by the goats and the sins placed on the one goat in him sent away but atonement in that the veil can be lifted even the veil in the temple was a symbol of the bridal veil being lifted in the future that Messiah is coming then we have five days after this you would have five days for a wedding supper remember how revelation talks about the wedding supper of the Lamb there's five days from Yom Kippur to Sukkot what ezekiel describes the earth after the fall of Babylon and the wicked being killed by a hundred-pound hail and fire and earthquake he says the the flesh of kings and captains and mighty men that came up against Israel at Armageddon which was right before yom teruah are being eaten by vultures so there's a feast for vultures on the earth at the same time that there's a feast of the marriage of the lamb in the heavenly sphere you see this dual application Sukkot then is the time that Zechariah 14 says that the Lord descends and his feet touch the Mount of Olives and he's called king of all all the earth in that day this is when he comes back and all of his holy ones with him some scriptures talk about him descending with all of his Holy Ones and people haven't understood it in the past it's because the marriage has already occurred and he's now coming back with all of his Holy Ones this is the whole context of this message this morning it's how he wants us as a kingdom of priests and as a bride to be made holy so that we can be and experience that as his bride and then come back to Jerusalem on Sukkot some future year beginning the seventh millennial day the Messianic age here's a little depiction of the Millennial Kingdom temple being rebuilt by Yeshua and then it's interesting we have down in verse 36 after it describes the seven days of Sukkot it has this separate feast and it says seven days you're to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai but on the eighth day you're to have a public assembly this is a time that represents the purpose of the Sukkot representing the Millennium is that Yeshua is writing Torah upon our hearts for a thousand years and this is why sin can be done away with at the end of the thousand years when the eighth day begins which is after the thousand-year millennium we can rejoice that Jeremiah 31 is totally fulfilled that Torah is written upon our heart that's what the renewed covenant is of Jeremiah 31 he says it's not like the Covenant of old which I made with your forefathers where I gave them a written Torah I'm gonna write my Torah on their hearts he says in Jeremiah 31 31 through 33 and so this is what the eighth day assembly represents it's a public assembly where we can totally rejoice that sin has done away with tours written upon our heart that there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth and that God Himself will descend from heaven in the New Jerusalem and be able to dwell with us forever after the earth will become then the center of all cosmic worship imagine however many other creations he's created like the joke talks about the sons of God coming and presenting themselves and giving an account of their different dominions you imagine that happening on this earth and us being able to experience that amazing that God would choose to live with his bride and then it describes the New Jerusalem coming down a door and has a bride another wedding symbolism why because when the bride at yom teruah becomes one with her husband messiah she's no longer a bride right that says the two shall become one flesh now Messiah is like the bridegroom awaiting the New Jerusalem and so she's adorned as a bride and all of heaven descends with all the heavenly hosts and angels so it's beautiful to think a thousand years apart two different types of weddings symbolizing two different aspects of our salvation and the total restoration of all things so this is what Leviticus 23 was pointing to foretelling the first coming and this period of 2,000 years in between and the second coming and just like Moses was humble and meek God promised that there would be a prophet like unto Moshe but Moses couldn't bring the children of Israel into the Promised Land could he it took you Xhosa forty years later and there's forty Jubilees in between this time of Yeshua is first coming and second coming it's amazing symbolism and he comes back like Yehoshua more like a king arrayed for battle to save us from Armageddon and so you see Moshe representing this aspect Yehoshua representing this aspect and the total fulfillment of him being mashiac and recognized by Jew and Christian and Gentile alike in that day all knee will bow and everyone will recognize him because he will truly have fulfilled being mushy acht and fulfill all the scriptures so then verse 37 he says these are the designated times of adonai that you are to proclaim as holy convocations and bring an offering made by fire to adonai a burnt offering a grain offering a sacrifice and drink offerings each on its own day besides the Sabbath's of Adonai your gifts all your vows and all your voluntary offerings that you give to Adonai but on the 15th day of the seventh month the fifteenth day of the seventh month is the beginning of the Sukkot feast here it goes from the 15th to the 21st he says when you have gathered all the produce of the land what's the produce the grapes the figs the olives the pomegranates the edgehog so when the prophets refer to the day of the Lord and refer to him treading down the winepress of his wrath this is because the grapes are ripe at that time he's telling you the exact time of year which is late September early October every year this is why he says you're to bring the produce of your land and you're to observe the festival of Adonai seven full days the first day is to be a complete rest and then remember how this was the first day and the seventh day during Passover and unleavened bread here the holy day is the first day and the eighth day because he wants our focus to constantly be looking forward to that eighth day a complete rest no work on the first day you're to take choice fruit palm fronds thick branches River willows and celebrate in the presence of Adonai your God for seven days so here's a well maybe here it is here's the four species that we just described here so you have the palm frond you have this is the Myrtle here palm fronds the longer one then you have the curly willow or the willow by the brook and then the get Trog is held in the hand that's the palm of a good fruit each one of these is symbolized for Sukkot the Millennial day representing every different kind of person the beautiful thing is that some plants have fragrance but don't produce fruit some plants have fruit but don't have a fragrance like the date palm the curly willow has neither fruit nor fragrance but the Myrtle is fragrant but has no fruit the edgehog is the only one that has a beautiful fragrance and it produces fruit and what this represents is spiritually is some people have the fruits of the spirit and they're like a fragrant aroma to the Lord that's having both producing good works other people do good works but they have no knowledge of Torah they don't know why they're done they just think well this is what's to be done right they might not necessarily have the fruits of the spirit but they produce good works other people vice-versa but the edgehog is the ultimate goal of the millennium having Torah written upon our hearts so that we are a fragrant aroma to the Lord and this represents our prayers as well as the fruits of the spirit which are love joy peace patience goodness kindness faithfulness self-control all of these things that are made manifest when the Spirit of God truly resides in a and so this is a beautiful symbol that the moyen begins with people of all different types that are going to be learning Torah not everybody's perfected at the beginning of the millennium but by the eighth day everyone can rejoice in the Torah Simchat Torah that towards fully written upon heart and then we'll all be represented by this priceless at Trog verse 41 says you are to observe it as a feast to add a nice seven days in the year it is a permanent regulation generation after generation keep it in the seventh month you are to live in a Sukkah for seven days asuka is a temporary dwelling why because the millennium is just a temporary period compared to eternity and it's not gonna last forever because there's gonna be a new heaven and new earth so when the children of Israel who are in the wilderness they dwelt in booths also temporary dwellings this reminds us not only of the past but it also reminds us of the future in the Millennium and but ultimately looking forward to eternity so that generation after generation you will know that I am the one who made the people of Israel live in cyka cyka when I brought them out of the land of Egypt I am Adonai your God thus Moshe announced to the people of Israel the designated times of Adonai it's so beautiful now the focus of him speaking to us moves from us being holy priests and knowing how to observe his holy days and what they were pointing forward to - now looking forward to being able to officiate in his holy place and what the symbolism of the holy place represents is our sanctified walk the process of being made holy which has a need for after the cleansing in the outer core you come into the holy place and you see the showbread which represents Torah and that's been living Taurus and you see the menorah which represents the light of God shining through us even though that we're falling humanity just like the oil flowed through the used undergarments of the priest and could be a great light and in the menorah always illuminated the Torah across the room from it and then right in front of the veil was the altar of incense which represents our prayers which has sinned as a fragrant aroma these three aspects are all necessary not one can be missing in our process of sanctification being made holy we need to be studying the Torah and having it written upon our hearts we need to be a light to the nation's that means living it out we can't be a light unless we're living in vow that's why he says not only here but do right that's what your mom means and then constant communication with the father will enable us to have the same power that you sure had over sin to be overcomers so the very first thing that's mentioned here is the process of preparing the menorah in closing chapter 24 here is only 23 verses hadn't I said to Moshe order the people of Israel to bring you pure oil this is representing the desire of God's people to obey in a pure heart a child a pure child will always say yes daddy trusting that what he says is right and good and for their in their best interest and this pure olive oil is to come from crushed olives representing that our characters are refined and processed back to that place of a child through tribulation and trial and the crushing ordeals that we go through so Israel is to bring pure oil from crushed olives for the light and remember what David said thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path so God's Word is actually the light that shines through us to keep lamps burning always not like the five virgins who let their lamp go went out because they didn't have enough of God's Word written upon their heart outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of meeting this word meeting here is actually the tent of Moet the holy days are called modes in Hebrew he's calling the holy place the tent of mow had his appointed time where he's meeting with us it's beautiful Adonai I mean Aaron is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening to morning another clarification that evening becomes first and then the morning we in our spiritual walk move from darkness to light and so God has put everything in the solar system to relay this message to us that he's moving us from darkness to life the day begins in darkness moves to light the week goes from common to that which is holy at the end the month moves from the dark part of the month that's the beginning of the month to the lightening of the full moon the year the solar cycle begins in the winter time this is when the Sun has seen the least there's the least amount of light and moves to the summer solstice which is the majority of light more than darkness so you can see everything that God has put even in his creation to show us that he's gonna move mankind even though he's falling in sin from darkness to light and here Aaron is to keep this light burning eternally from evening to morning this is to be a permanent regulation throughout all your generations he is always to keep in order the lamps the pure menorah before adonai you know it's one of the only pieces of furniture that is pure solid gold has no wood on the inside of it most of other things even the Ark of the Covenant is acacia wood with overlaid gold but being a light represents that this gold was hammered just like the olive oil was hammered and crushed and pressed the gold was even crushed in hammered and pressed and it represents that God purifies us through the trials and tribulations that we go through sometimes we receive crushing blows sometimes we go through horrible beatings and tribulation but if we will allow it it will be for our good if we will keep our eyes on him and not allow bitterness or cynical ISM to creep in if you shew it says in Matthew 24 when the love of many grows cold when a nicotine shell abound in the last day is the love of many will grow cold so we have to be careful to guard ourselves against that to not let our love grow cold to be like the hammered pure gold that just shines the light of his love because we're reflecting his light we have no light of our own and this is another symbol in the solar system of the Moon having no light of its own but when fully facing the Sun it can fully reflect the light all of these beautiful symbols are constantly to remind us verse 5 says sure to take fine flower and use it to bake 12 loaves before we get into that there's a beautiful text in 2nd Corinthians 4:6 that says for God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness have shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory and glory and Greek is doxa which means character the character of God selfless love is what is going to be shining forth from us in the view of yahushua who's the greatest revelation of that selfless love this is what the menorah is all about and just like he's the living tour and we're to be living tour us he's the menorah as the example but we're also to be lights and little menorahs john 8:12 says then spake yeshua unto them saying i am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of Life and in Revelation we know that the Assemblies have called out believers messianic believers that have the commands of God and the testimony of yahushua are identified as menorahs remember the seven branch branches of the menorah are in Revelation 2 through 4 John 3:19 says and this is the condemnation that the light came into the world but men loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil light will always expose what's happening in the darkness if you're selfless you'll say yes Father I have sinned I'm sorry let it be exposed let me be cleansed but if you want to hold on to a sin this is when you don't want the light to shine on it and this is the way the majority of the world was now this showbread twelve loaves each one was a gallon of flour and God told Moses to have Aaron arranged them in two rows six in each row representing the 12 tribes of Israel on the pure table before Adonai he said to mix with the flour frankincense in each row to be an offering made by fire to Adonai in place of the bread as a reminder of it regularly every Shabbat he's to arrange them before Adonai they are from the people of Israel as a covenant forever they will belong to Aaron and his sons and they are to eat them in a holy place because for him they are of the offerings for Adonai made by fire especially holy this is a permanent law so we're gonna see this reinstituted during the Millennium the imagine seeing issue officiating as High Priest and doing these things that are representing us in the process of sanctification for the whole house of Israel it will be a beautiful thing to see through his eyes and to understand I mean here we're just seen through a glass dimly as Paul says right we're just starting to see the beauty of everything that it was pointing to he's gonna reveal it even more fully so this is the reason for the reinstitution of the tabernacle and the sacrificial system and the offerings so that we won't miss one aspect of Torah has been arbitrary because if we misunderstand and we think God is arbitrary then we're gonna misunderstand his character he says in verse 10 there was a man who was the son of a woman of Israel and an Egyptian father he went out among the people of Israel and the son of a woman of Israel had a fight in the camp with a man of Israel in the course of which the son of the woman of Israel uttered the name of the yo-dee-hey Vevey in a curse so they brought him to Moshe his mother's name was slow me now Shalom it means peace much like a Solomon's name meant peace and she was the daughter of debris the Roe word of debris is devar which is the word of God the word of God will always bring peace we teach it to our children and so she this woman should have known and instructed her son in the Oracles of God so that this never occurred but shows the influence of the father who was an Egyptian she was from the tribe of Dan who were the judges of Israel so they put this man under guard until Adonai would instruct them on what to do and out and I said to Moshe tell the man who cursed outside the camp no no take the man who cursed outside the camp have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head have the entire community stone him then the people of Israel tell them whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin see if you know if you are living in a very nice environment and you have no idea what sin does the wages of sin is death it's not the wages of an angry god God had to instruct them as to what sin would do so they wouldn't continue sinning so in mercy he's showing them the effects of sin before because our lives are such because of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world that sin doesn't kill us immediately when it if it wasn't for you sure the lamb sin would kill us immediately so he had to instruct to these people who had been indoctrinated and polluted from 210 years in Egypt what sin really does and what it means to be a holy people and the huge effect cause and effect of sin leading to death and this is why these instructions which sometimes people misunderstand they say oh this sounds like such a harsh God to command this but this is how he's preventing the whole house of Israel from being lost they said everyone must be involved in this the entire community must stone him the foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemy is the name of the Lord and we know the definition the according to Torah what blasphemy is many people wonder have i blasphemy or what is blasphemy but numbers chapter 15 describes what blasphemy is chapter 15 verse 30 says if an individual who does something wrong intentionally whether a citizen or a foreigner he is blaspheming Adonai so the true definition of blasphemy is when we know something to be wrong and yet we choose because of the self to still do it thinking that all God doesn't have any control over me and this is the amazing thing because as God is seeking to move us from the wrong knowledge into his knowledge he's trying to teach us we have such a high calling to live up to the light that he has instructed us in if we don't live up to the light that he's given us he cannot give us more light plus if we go against what light we have it's going to lead to death and so this term blasphemy is very deep in its essence we really need to be living up to the light that we're given it's okay that our forefathers didn't have all the light and sometimes even in our life you can see how far you've come in a knowledge of Torah and the Scriptures say God winks at our ignorance that's because in the past we didn't know maybe about Shabbat or about the holy things of the Lord but once you know then you're called to a high responsibility and calling to really live out what he's left you in understanding and so I just share that in context because so many times blasphemy is even given a wrong connotation or a wrong definition but according to Torah it's just simply doing something that you know that you should not do or if you know what is right to do and you do not do it Paul says to him who knows what to do and does not do it it is sin and first John or Romans 6:23 says the wages of sin is death and so it's so important for us to live up to the light that we have in closing 4:17 says anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution life for life if someone injures his neighbor what he did is to be done to him break for break I for eye tooth for tooth whatever injury he has caused the other people is to be rendered to him in return this is because Israel had to learn this is like the most basic understanding but you shoe it took the written Torah and took it even further and he's like in selfless love if somebody does wrong to you don't and that the same would be done to him forgive even up to seven times seventy which is symbolic of forever unconditionally and so we see the written Torah meeting Israel where they were at after two hundred ten years of the Egyptian slavery and influence but God doesn't desire for us to remain there through Yeshua is first coming he has taken the Torah and expounded upon it showing the principles of selfless love in a higher walk of spiritual spirituality and in his first coming if he said you know the Torah says you shall not commit adultery but I say to you you shall not even think about a woman wrong in your mind now he's taking it from action to even our thoughts and if he's doing that in his first coming imagine what his second coming will be like when he's teaching his Torah on a whole nother level now even beyond the thought it has no place in us no desire to gratify the self self exalt oneself over another to any form of self will be totally eradicated through writing Torah upon our heart and it'll be the pinnacle of having Torah written upon our heart and that spiritual walk that God takes us through which many people misunderstand a lot of times because about the way it's written to Israel in ancient times it doesn't mean that he desires for us to remain there he was trying to shock them and to realize him the seriousness of their sin what they're doing to one another but then ultimately if something happens in the future and you have this understanding you have more of a forgiving spirit totally devoid of self not wanting to see anyone harmed and this is the beautiful progression of the word which was once written then became flesh and now is gonna dwell amongst us each time it gets better and better and we get more holy by being in close proximity and learning from him so with that let's stand and close out this tour portion it is so beautiful to see all of these symbols even Yeshua as the Living bread of those twelve bread in the tabernacle everything is pointing to Yeshua as an example for us to be made holy and to walk in holiness so I encourage you in that walk and when you see a brother fail don't condemn him lovingly put your arms around him and encourage him on the spiritual journey that we're all on together Abba Father we thank you for revealing yourself to us through your Torah the beauty of how you desire for us to be made holy and to be a kingdom of priests once again in a renewed covenant with you to meet you on these beautiful divine date times throughout the week and throughout the year to be made holy on your holy days and as we set apart your holy days we become set apart as your holy people Father now we can see the symbolism of each one of these beautiful instructions and how father you even desire for us to dwell with you in your holy place and how holy you are so we just pray that as we are on this walk father you would forgive us for our shortcomings that you would continue to have mercy on us and recreate us in your image father continue to reveal yourself to us through Yeshua and the beauty of his selfless love which is a total exemplification of your character so that by beholding we might become changed into your likeness we truly desire this father and we thank you for bringing us together in these last days to return your people that have been dispersed amongst the nations back to you through returning them back to your Torah we love you and we thank you for this high calling and your holy name we pray man you

Channel: Assembly of Called-Out Believers

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Keywords: Torah, Parashah, Emor, Speak, Leviticus 23, Holiness, Priests, Holy Days, Moedim, Appointed Times, Divine Dates, Holy Place, Be Holy, Pastor Isaac, Rabbi Yitzchak, Called-Out Belivers

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Length: 88min 47sec (5327 seconds)

Published: Sun May 13 2018