#36 Haftarah B'ha'alotkha about Zechariah's vision of Y'hoshua as our High Priest

[Music] you [Music] this morning's Torah portion is called veja a latke everybody say BAE ha a latke it means when you step up or when you are elevated it has to do with when aaron is going to trim the wicks of the menorah pour the oil in light the menorah it has to do with the blessing of being a light and so when just like he would serve the menorah there were steps that would lead up to the menorah that would elevate him spiritually that is now not only physically did it elevate him but spiritually whenever we seek to be a light to others it is a blessing for us and we gain more spiritual understanding and blessings whenever we live as a living menorah a living Torah a light to the nation's now it's said that Aaron was very tall and that he could actually reach the top of the menorah 'they wanted to but he understood the blessing of actually doing it as God commanded stepping up on the steps to do it so even though he didn't need to he always followed that instructions beautifully and he could have easily passed on this mitzvot to take care of the menorah - one of the other sons the priest or the other Levites but he religiously observed this commandment himself he loved taking care of the menorah which is like us taking care of our spiritual growth being a light to our communities to our families to the world we will end up receiving a blessing that's not the reason why we do it but in giving you will be given much and in blessing others you will be blessed much so if you will turn with your Bibles to numbers we're just going to read the first few verses of this Torah portion because the whole focus of the pair in the haftorah is about the menorah in zechariah chapter 3 and we're going to see a prophetic foreshadowing of messiah in zechariah so what we're doing is paralleling the prophets section about the menorah with the Torah portion about the menorah in numbers chapter 8 it says out and I said to Moshe tell a on when you set up the lamps the seven lamps are to cast their life forward in front of the menorah now what was in front of the menorah on the other side of the tent of meeting the showbread and what did the showbread represent if the menorah represents the light of the Spirit of God flowing through us and David says thy word is a light unto my path and a lamp unto my feet this means that God's Word is the light and so the true light is always going to shine on the truth of the word and the spiritual bread that the true bread represented represented the Torah so this means that all teachers of light in light sinners have to understand that Torah is applicable for us today Torah means instruction in Hebrew and it's instructions in righteousness and it's instructions in selfless love how to love God outside of the lower self how to love ourself a fellow man selflessly and this is what you sure the light of the world came to represent and to show us so this menorah was to cast light on the showbread showing that if we are going to be living menorahs and this is what revelation says the Assembly of called out believers are we are represented by the seven lamps on the menorah in the temple we are to shed light on the Word of God Aaron did this he lit the lamps so as to give light in front of the menorah as ad and I had ordered mo che now we don't have any light of our own do we every bit of light that we have comes from the father above so this middle lamp in the menorah you can see the menorah behind me represented the father and his spirit it was the oil flowing through this hammered gold menorah and all of the wicks on the three sides to the left and the three sides to the right all pointed towards the center showing that our focus must always be on the source of our light just like the moon and God created in the solar system to represent the bride the moon all it doesn't have any light of its own it is only full when it's fully facing the Sun without any shadow or hindrance from the earth thus we must keep our focus on the father and not allow anything of this earth or material world to shadow the light that God intends us to be says that as Aaron hadn't done this the menorah was made of hammered gold from its base to its flowers hammered work and this is gold represents the purity of our character that God intends when his spirit flows through us to get rid of the lower self to get rid of the flesh what has to happen a lot of times this only happens through trials and tribulations all of us are talked about in our testimonies this morning different hardships and these hardships make our characters get refined just like a refiners fire the fire burns out the dross dross is anything that comes from the earth that's not gold the gold gets purified through the fire through our trials and tribulations our character becomes hammered through heat and mold it into something perfectly suitable to shed light of God's love so this is why the Torah mentions that it was hammered work following the pattern that ad and I had shown mo che this is how he made the menorah now what's interesting is we know that God is the light of the world and he is rejoining us through a symbol called the menorah that is hammered gold and the olive oil which is pure beating all olives think of that even the olive oil is beaten just like Yahshua when the Spirit of God was flowing through him he was beaten and yet it says in Isaiah 53 prophetically he didn't even open up his mouth he was led like a lamb to the slaughter yet he didn't even defend himself imagine if we can become so selfless that we can be falsely accused and we can be physically beaten and we will not even defend ourselves this is the olive oil the Spirit of God flowing through we know that the light of the world which is or how along has a gamma tria 358 and in Hebrew every letter has a numerical value like the olive would represent one the vog Xin Tov you would have 200 the hay would be 5 the iron I believe is 70 the Evolve syncs lumidee cough la mid so I'd be 30 and cough lemon mem mem would be 40 so in Hebrew whenever there's a Hebrew word that has a numerical value totaling a certain number the Jews understand that like frequencies that when they align and they resonate together other words with the same exact value which is few and far between have a correlation even if it doesn't seem like it on the surface so this causes us as Torah students to dive deeper into what is the correlation between this word and this word what's interesting is the word for how olam which means the light of the world has the same numerical value as mushiya because mashiac it says in the scriptures is the word that became flesh and dwelt among us and in John 9 5 he says I am the light of the world and in Matthew 5:14 it tells us that we buy it seeing his example are to become lights of the world as well so everything is reflecting God's light through machine on to us to follow and the greatest revelation of God's love and character was Yeshua laying down his life freely so this menorah of hammered gold could represent the character that's refined by trials and the olive oil that flows through the menorah is like the Spirit of God that flows through us and we see that we manifest then the fruits of the spirit Scriptures tell us that you shall know them by their fruits and another place says you shall know them by their love because love is the first fruit of the Spirit that will be made manifest Galatians 5:22 says love joy peace patience kindness gentleness faithfulness self-control these are the things that we will be operating in if we truly have the Spirit of God we won't be selfish we won't be self seeking we won't be exalting ourselves we will be manifesting the character of God in accordance with Colossians 3:12 through v 12 through 15 now what's amazing is if you look at the light of God flowing through Messiah who is a type of menorah and we are symbolized by beam menorahs we're called ambassadors of this light and the word for ambassadors or emissaries in Hebrew is shelia so when God says you are my rock in Hebrew it sounds like shallick she lucky because the yote on the end of it makes it mine but what's interesting when you write it like that the way God is looking at us to be lights to the world it kamat ria of 358 which is amazing so there's a correlation between these words between the light of the world between mashiac and between us as representatives of that light and so we can see that even in God establishing this Torah mitzvah to light the menorah he was teaching Aaron and the children of Israel a very important principle the light was always to shine on the showbread that means that no matter what light you say you have if you are not upholding the Word of God and all of his Commandments you're not really being a light and the spirit of truth is not really flowing through you many people will say oh I'm full of the spirit when were you born again right but if they are operating contrary to the Word of God the spirit of truth is not in them because the spirit of truth will always lead you into truth which leads you back to the Word of God and that's what repentance is all about teshuva the reward is shoe which means to return doesn't mean like the greased repentance is matsan Oya which just means a change of mind but you could change from one wrong mindset to another wrong mindset couldn't you only in the Hebrew do you get the full connotation that you need to leave that wrong mindset and return to the source and that's what the Word of God is so let us seek to be good living Torres and to seek to be lights to the world the parallel in the haftorah this morning is found in zechariah 2:14 through 4 7 basically it encompasses the whole chapter of zechariah 3 and this is the vision that the prophet zechariah had about this menorah yes Michael Zechariah chapter 2 oh yeah because the Jewish Bible is one verse different than the English Bible so you can just start in verse three with me but we're going to have you open your Bibles and follow along the last verse of probably the last two verses of chapter two where it starts off with sing daughter of Zion you can find that in your Bible it might be versed in to you is that correct okay so we're four verses off in this chapter from the Jewish Bible sing daughters of Zion rejoice for Here I am I am coming now this is yo Dave Ave speaking Hashem is saying I'm going to come so when we see his light come into this world how is he making himself manifest that's what we have to ask because no one has seen God at any time God his Spirit we must worship Him in spirit and truth there is no other God but how is he manifesting himself to be a light to the nation's this is what we have to ask ourselves he says I am coming and I will live among you says I deny when that time comes many nations will join themselves to Adonai now we know that this is prophetically speaking of when Messiah comes this is when all the nations are going to rejoin themselves to Adonai he is the living Torah and he's going to be teaching Torah from the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem and all nations will stream to Jerusalem to learn his ways isaiah 2:2 says the word of the lord will flow from jerusalem and the Torah from zion so it's prophesied that this will be the teaching center this will be the light center of the whole world in the messianic age he says when that time comes many nations will join themselves to yo David Haye they will be my people and I will live among you then you will know that it was out and I say vote who sent me to you now all of a sudden you have two people here you had up to this point I'm coming and I'm gonna live among you and now he says when that time comes you will know that it is yo Dave of hates a vote which is the Lord of Hosts who sent me to you now it's speaking as if there's a second entity there so what is this this is all the lead-up that is leading up to understand the prophetic vision that Zechariah had about this high priest who is a like to the world he says I don't I will take possession of yehuda as his inheritance now who would come from the tribe of Yehuda only those from the tribe of Judah can claim that land of Jerusalem as their inheritance so this is speaking of Messiah and Messiah has to come from the tribe of Judah and it says his portion his inheritance is in the Holy Land and he will again make yerushalayim his choice because in first chronicles 6 6 it says that God has placed his name forever upon Jerusalem this is where his spirit desires to dwell in the Temple in Jerusalem be silent all humanity before Adonai for he has been roused from his holy dwelling place where's his holy dwelling place in the heavens so he's someone some manifestation of God is coming from the heavens now what's interesting is when Yeshua died he was resurrected and ascended to the right hand of God where he's officiating as what what's his role in the heavenly places and the heavenly Holies as the high priest so now this is the lead-up to this whole chapter about the high priest and look at what he calls this high priest after talking about somebody coming from the Holy or from God coming from the holy dwelling he says and then he showed me yahushua the cohen Haga dhol that means the high priest standing before the angel of adonai with the accuser this is hafsat on so he's getting a glimpse of something happening in the heavenly sphere now when you show us in did in the heavenly sphere what had he just done but taking the sins of the world upon himself so he is standing at the right hand of God and beginning his high priestly ministry in the heavenly place for the whole house of Israel but Satan is right there to accuse him he has the sins of the world upon him he cannot rightly officiate as the high priest with these symbolic filthy garments because our character just like menorah represents the character character also in prophetic symbolic terms is clothing so if you have a clean pure white clothing like revelation talks about the bride wearing white robes that would represent what kind of character pure character and if you're wearing filthy garments with dung on them what kind of sins do you think you're carrying that that would represent well this is the picture that Zechariah is seen in vision of Yeshua in heaven with Satan accusing him standing at his right now what's interesting before we even go any further is that historically it's important to note that the very first high priest of the Second Temple period this means after the Jews return from Babylon back to Jerusalem Ezra and Nehemiah led twenty to fifty thousand people at different times back to restore the temple and it's moats and its walls and to restore Jerusalem not everybody came back with them but once that temple was rebuilt the very first high priest in that second temple was named Yeshua is the symbol of the future high priest in the Millennial temple but when you read zechariah he says his name is oliver tov yahushua now what's interesting about this is that you know Yeshua says it's prophesied that Messiah will come in the name of the Lord and only when you spell it this way yo-dee-hey vog machine I am do you see yah the name of the Father in his name when Ezra recounts and remember this is a symbolic chapter so it's symbolically foreshadowing prophetically something much deeper it's not talking about the historical high priest that was the first priest of the temple even though most have always read it that way historically how do we know this at the time that Zechariah had this vision that priests must have been if he was even still alive about 90 to 100 years old so Zechariah is prophesying this about this high priest yet to come not the one that was passed because it was his grandson who was officiating by this time the Zechariah was having this vision and yahushua's grandson was named le shave and he was the high priest at this time so when you read the literal chapter of the history from Ezra 3:8 you have this verse that says then stood Yeshua with his sons and his brethren now do you notice anything different about the way that Ezra spells yahushua's name it doesn't have that hay in it does it it's just yo jean-bob I am and you know sometimes we just get in the habit of saying Yeshua but it doesn't have the name of the Lord in it the true way that you would say Joshua's name in Hebrew was yahushua but apparently this high priest spelled his name this way because they never used to like to write the name of the lord in their name so symbolically zechariah is telling us this is talking about somebody else somebody yet to come the high priest yahushua who would come in the name of the lord where as that first high priest in the Second Temple period was you would hear Yeshua instead of yahushua so if you really want to pronounce the Messiah's name properly you would say yahushua and that way you would have yas name in it but of course as jews we don't want to use God's name in common language so this is specifically the only time that this is mentioned like this besides the one who took over from Moses Joshua of old who led the children of Israel into the Promised Land he was a type of yahushua the messiah also so both those names it's only two people in the scriptures that have the yo'd hey otherwise it's just Yeshua now we've gotten in the habit of saying you sure but we should try to start recognizing that the Sun of God's name would have been spelled yo da and he thus fulfill the prophecy that he would come in the name of the Lord so keep in mind that this chapter is prophetically pointing forward to Yeshua the high priest was officiating in the heavenly sphere after his ascension and it says that Satan is standing at his right side to accuse him and add and I said to the accuser May out and I rebuke you accuser very interesting similar to Jude not verse 9 where Michael the Archangel is contending with hasatan over the body of Moses remember Moses sinned by striking the rock twice positon claimed his life and so Moses couldn't enter the promised land he had to go up from the mountain and ebo see it from afar and then die but God because of his repentance sought to resurrect him as a type of firstfruits and this is why he's on the Mount of Transfiguration why they see him with Elijah Elijah I'm sorry and yet what was Satan doing just like with Yeshua trying to say no no no he doesn't deserve to be resurrected I claimed him as my own and what did Michael the Archangel say the Lord rebuke you out and I rebuke you these exact same words so here is God rebuking this accuser and we know this accuser is accusing all the brother day and night this is why we have to be so careful not to speak any negative words against a brother or sister because if we do we align ourselves as a second witness with the enemy and then the death decree according to torah can take place if somebody has two witnesses or more a matter is confirmed now you know the enemy is already claiming your life if one of us speaks negative against a brother or sister you're acting as the double witness to fact that curse upon their life so let's be careful that no negativity ever leaves our tongue we don't want to align with the accuser we want to align with edifying and building up the body and healing and health and everything that restores a life back to God's original purpose for it yes sister yeah so this is something that's happening in the heavenly place now watch what happens he says the Lord rebuke you accuser indeed may Adonai who has made you Russia lime his choice rebuke you once again it's talking about Jerusalem being made God's choice isn't this man a burning stick snatched from the fire yahushua was clothed in garments covered with dung and he was standing before the angel who said to those standing in front of him take those filthy garments off notice he doesn't defend himself who defends him God how did he operate when he was on this earth when he was being falsely accused he didn't open his mouth this is Isaiah 53 prophesied that he would be the lead like a lamb to the slaughter yet he wouldn't even open his mouth he wouldn't defend him because God was his defense and God would use his life to be a light to show us what true selfless love looks like we should all be willing to lay down our life for whatever God asks us to do that's right this is here for a testimony so that no one would miss what God was doing through him indeed it's Esme out and I who made you rush l'm his choice rebuke you isn't this man brand plucked from the fire yahushua is clothed in filthy garments covered with dung standing before this angel who said to those in front of him take off these filthy garments from him then to him he said see i am taking your guilt away i will clothe you in fine robes because the since he took upon himself were not his own so they could be taken off i said they should put a clean turban on his head and what is the turban called it's literally called the helmet of yeshua that's why Paul talks about daily putting on the mind of Yeshua because it's this selfless example of God's love that needs to flow through us to be a light to the nation's so unless we wake up meditating about being just devoid of self the way you should exemplified how are we ever going to overcome sin it's all sin originates in South baking so they said put a clean turban on his head and I will close you in fine robes so they put a clean turban on his head and they gave him fine robes to wear while the angel of ad and I stood by then the angel of out and I gave yahushua this warning and this warning encompasses the four requirements for a high priest to have access to the most holy place to be in the presence of god remember only once a year a high priest would go through the veil and a priest had to fulfill these requirements in order to be holy enough to be in the presence of god and so this angel tells yahushua this one if you will walk in my ways now if he is the light that is the example for us being a light if he's being told and we're told he's a high priest and we're a kingdom of priests that's what he said when he was on this earth know ye not that you are a kingdom of priests don't you think that we should walk in his ways these same requirements should we should seek to apply to our lives today and there's four of them if you will walk in my ways God says if you will obey my commission if you will rightly judge my house now we've talked about judge in the past meaning to rightly divide the word to teach the whole house of Israel and the nation's this is what it means to rightly judge with perfect balance of justice and mercy the application of the law in love this is what it means to judge his house and for guard my courtyards well when you sure came imagine he's meditating on this text and he realizes it speaking prophetically of him even before he has ascended into heaven and he comes to the temple one day and he sees all these money changers cheating the people selling animals for sacrifices and making a profit off of it and he's thinking I walk in his ways I'm obeying his Commission but the high priest is supposed to judge his house that means telling people where they're in error also and guard his courtyards the courtyard was the outter place of the holy place where the moneychangers were so what does he do he fulfills this text by cleansing the tabernacle of all of these cheaters and all of these leaders that are full of self and pride and ego and greed and he fulfills these four requirements of the high priest walking in his ways because we know he didn't air in one area he says heaven and earth will pass away before one jot or tittle of Torah is done away with he obeyed God's Commission even to death he judged God's house the whole house of Israel he says I come by for the lost house of Israel and those that were leading others astray or cheating the poor and impoverished he cleansed the courtyards and thus fulfilled guarding his courtyards God has an if-then statement here for the high priest if you will do these four things then I will do something for you and you know what that is he says I will give you free access among these standing here now this is a vision he's having of the heavenly throne room the most holy place in heaven so what he's saying is if any High Priest will actually follow these four requirements to the tea he will gain access to the very throne room of God and this is what Yeshua wasn't able to do carry our sins as a living sacrifice before the Father just like the high priest has to carry the blood through the veil to the most holy place and put the blood on the four corners of the Ark of the Covenant and to atone once a year on the Day of Atonement Yom Hockey Purim for all of the house of Israel Yeshua was doing this as our high priest carrying all the house of Israel because the house of Israel had not only represented by stones in the ephod but there was two shoulder plates that had the names inscribed so that literally the high priest would carry the names of the children of Israel before the into the most holy place before the throne of God and this is what Yeshua was doing yahushua carried the sins of the whole house of israel to the heavenly throne room and these sins were taken from him and atonement was made for the children of israel and he gained free access to sit at the right hand of god verse 8 says listen Kohen Gadol Yeshua yahushua means high priest yahushua both you and your colleague sitted here before you because these men are a sign that I am going to bring my servant Samak and who is what's a Samak in Hebrew it's a shoot a branch now we know the prophecy of Messiah says the shoot the branch would come forth from the root of Jesse that means he has to come through the line of Judah through the house of David so yahushua is the shoot that was prophesied and it's so beautiful how he's telling Zachariah that this is much more than just that first high priest of the Second Temple period that he is going to give access to the true high priest to the heavenly throne room and he is going to send his servant the sprout for look at the stone I have put in front of yahushua on one stone are seven eyes now we know that the stone is the word evan in hebrew and evan looks like this you have an olive and then you have a bait and all of the bait and then a noon so feet all of the bait is what word we get the word off or Abba from it it means father this is the word for stone stone in Hebrew Evan Ben B and if I was to just look at the back of this then is the word for Sun like I'm inside Ben daveed so in the word for stone you literally have the father and the son as one and here he's always talking about the stone or the rock of our yahushua the rock of our salvation David prophesied about it constantly he called the Lord the Lord is my rock the rock of my salvation so here he is telling him to look at the ebon the stone I have put in front of yahushua with seven eyes these are the seven spirits i will engrave what is to be written on it says out and I say vote and I will remove the guilt of this land in one day so not only is the guilt of the people lifted in a tone for but the guilt of all the wrong that has been done in the Land of Israel will be lifted and that day is the great day of the Lord the day that Messiah comes back to restore the whole house of Israel do you know it's prophesied that Messiah will return all the Exile of Israel which means all the descendants that have been born and lived in foreign countries over the last two thousand seven hundred and forty years God is going to wake the dead and Messiah is going to gather all of the righteous for all of these last 3,000 well all of there's history really back to the land and the land will have its kilt removed in that day when that time comes says out and I say vote you will all invite each other to join you under your vines and fig trees won't that be beautiful have a big family reunion then the angel now we're in chapter 4 that had been speaking with me returned and roused me as if he was waking somebody up from being asleep and he asked me well now what do you see and he looked up and behold he saw a menorah this is why this chapter was chosen to parallel the Torah portion about the menorah because first you're getting an example of yahushua who is the messiah to come as the light of the world and as our example as his emissaries zechariah looks in vision and he sees a menorah and it's pure gold just like the temple menorah with a bowl at its top and seven lamps on it and seven tubes leading to the lamps at its top and next to it are two olive trees it's actually this depiction here you've got two olive trees and who in prophecy is called the olive tree God has always called the whole house of Israel the olive tree but when the northern 10 tribes rebelled against the rulers in Jerusalem you had all of a sudden two sticks you had two houses and that's what this represents the house of Israel which are all the people that have been scattered around the world from the northern ten tribes and you have this other stick for Judah and Benjamin that went to Babylon for 70 years and came back and rebuilt the temple in the time of Ezra and these two trees meaning that they're descendants from both houses were pouring oil into the menorah this means that they are the ones that are prophesied to preserve the Word of God and the oil the spirit of truth that flows through the reading of God's Word is what gives light to the menorah which the menorah is always represented as an assembly of believers in Messiah so believers in Messiah alone without the olive trees dripping into it have no fuel for their fire very deep symbolic language it says in verse three of chapter four next to it are two olive trees one on the right side of the bowls and the other on the left I then asked the angel speaking with me what are these my lord what does it all mean the angel speaking with him said don't you know what these represent I said no my lord then he answered me this is the word of a deny to Zerubbabel now zerubabbel was a descendant of King David who had come back from the Exile with Ezra and so he's there rebuilding the temple there reestablishing all of these pieces of furniture in the temple and he's thinking how can this all come about our high priest yahushua he's 90 years old he's not even officiating in this temple what does it all mean and he's giving him a glimpse of the final generation the menorahs that are getting reconnected with Torah and just like the two sticks in Ezekiel 37 are to come back together the lost house of Israel the lost sheep were to come back and be unified with Judah and he says this is how it's gonna happen and this is how the Torah portion and the haftorah closes not by force and not by power but by my spirit says the Lord God's Spirit which is represented by the pure olive oil that is the fuel for the fire the very Ruach that gave life to the Word of God and made him flesh flows through us as descendants of both sticks the house of Israel and the house of Judah and returns us to torah so that we can be a light as the emissaries of the light of the world it's a full circle beautiful plan of salvation without us vindicating God's character it's not been fulfilled if Yahshua had simply magically taken away your sins on the cross you wouldn't be sinning today right you wouldn't be struggling with sin this means that he showed you the way to overcome sin which is through self-denial through selfless love so we have to keep our eyes on the light just like the menorah shed light on the table of showbread the Living bread Yeshua was the Living bread that we have to keep our face shining or focused on he was born in a place called the house of bread you know Bethlehem was called house of bread and he's the Living bread from the house of bread that the light is supposed to be shining on to give light to the world so that his emissaries can then as they're scattered in all the nations be a light to the nation's and that's our high calling as this final generation we are to be a light to the nation's but we can't do that unless we first have the Spirit of Truth flowing through us and we are living out this beautiful instruction of selfless love just as Yeshua did to the point where we're willing to give all it's not just about money it's about service it's about acts of kindness like we said this morning and as much as you've done it to one of the least of these you've done it unto me God says and so let us be true emissaries by showing the light of God's love in action not just in Word and theory but in action and that means we have to step outside of our comfort zone we need to be willing to go to the ends of the earth to be alight even if we have to lay down our life even if we have to sleep in an uncomfortable place even if we have to give up our creature comforts or our wealth this is what it means to be a light to the world yes Michael all the branches that's right so you see that same image in Revelation that Michael speaking of with the witnesses identified as two lamps on the menorah not too different menorahs but two lamps remember the seven menorahs in the beginning of Revelation is five of them get a rebuke two don't get a rebuke what's interesting about this is that in ancient times the high priest would light five and then go do a few other chores in the temple and come back and finish the work of the last two well there's two that represent the spirit of brotherly love which is the Church of Philadelphia right and Smyrna you're willing to die for your faith that means you're totally devoid of flesh so exactly that model that we're talking about these descendants these witnesses will come as descendants from both houses the house of Israel and the house of Judah but they will be flowing with brotherly love and being willing to die for their faith and that's what is our example as true emissaries and we'll close with that today let us remember that two things in addition to having the commandments of God and the testimony of Yeshua that john saw in revelation these in time witnesses have brotherly love no rebuke from God in brotherly love because love covers a multitude of sins and they're willing to die for showing God's love and may we be willing to be living sacrifices the only way to do that though is we need to lay down that lower self that ego on the altar of sacrifice and die to self so that we can be raised up a new creature and that's really what it means to be born again living in the spirit realm which is all about selfless love it doesn't worry about this fleshy body this vessel is just to contain the spirit so with that inspiration and meditation let's stand up and we'll close in prayer Abba Father we thank you for your love we thank you for showing us the example in Yeshua that you would have us emulate as your emissaries as being a light of your love in this world help us to not just understand and read your word in theory and have intellectual assent to memorizing the Scriptures but to really living it out let us through our conviction of your selfless love die to self and be living sacrifices going out as your emissaries serving your people and taking this knowledge of how to return the blessings back to our life through a return to your word that only comes through dying to self and so father we ask for your Rococo - your Holy Spirit to empower us to fully be able to be vessels for your service to have no ego no lower self nothing that separates us from you may your spirit fill us up to overflowing and flow through us father so that everything that the nation's seeing us is your pure spotless love we love you we thank you for teaching us this and we thank you for the prophecies that you've given the prophets of old you have said that you do nothing unless you reveal your plans through your servants the prophets and you have even foretold about the one who would come in your name yahushua who would be the greatest example of your selfless love ever exhibited to man so that we might follow that example so we thank you for your host schewe as our messiah and the one to come which all the house of israel will receive as their Savior and Messiah we thank you and we praise you and your holy name we pray amen you

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Keywords: Torah, Haftarah, B'ha'alotkha, Zechariah, Menorah, Light of the World, Y'hoshua, Yahoshua, Yeshua, Joshua, High-Priest, Jesus, Yehoshua, YHVH, eben, stone, rock of our salvation

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Length: 45min 56sec (2756 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 24 2019