#47 Haftarah Re'eh - Isaiah 54:11-55:5 (Elul and the Reward of Repentance!)

[Music] [Music] you [Music] you this morning's haftorah is the haftorah for the tour portion ray a and ray a means to see and we've been talking about the symbolism of the month of e lo leading up to Rosh Hashanah Yom Cara the coming of the bridegroom receiving the bride and have you felt like you've kind of been seen the bride materialized spiritually with spiritual eyes you know when we look around oftentimes we're limited by what we think is real this material world is but 3 percent of what is real there's more in the spirit realm than there is in the physically materialized world and so the beautiful thing about how God does nothing unless he reveals his plans through his servants the prophets is that it helps us to have the spiritual eyes and the spiritual ears to see and understand what he's doing and this haftorah is the Torah portion that is always spoken in read in the synagogue's during the month in the beginning of Elul so I thought we would talk a little bit about eloah and the section in Isaiah that we're reading today is Isaiah 54 11 through 55 5 it's a very short haftorah but it's all about the reward of repentance because we're looking forward to the Messianic age and it says the scriptures say he comes and his reward is with him and if you miss the month in which we're reading this you'll miss that actually the hoth tour is the description to encourage us as the 3rd haftorah of consolation to encourage us as a reward if we will repent in this time if god's people repent they will have returned to them the blessings of health and prosperity and all the things that were lost through sin so a little overview on this HOF tour and I thought I would introduce some Hebrew terms for you so you get more familiar with the Hebrew terminology this is the third hot core of consolation and yes I Yahoo which is Isaiah Hanavi means the Prophet describes the utopian times of miss Chiaki when the unveiling values of societal assumptions and norms will be lifted and the reality of our absolute dependency on Hashem will be realized and accepted in the Messianic age money and other assumed values and goals will be replaced by the currency of autogas Hashem what is Abu Dharr Shem Tov oh das means service and Hashem horses the name of God so instead of what I'm gonna get you know money is always a barter right and it's always self seeking like I'm only gonna give you this if you give me something in return and it's this medium of exchange but what happens when we are recreated in the image of God is we live out selfless love and how is selfless love lived out through acts of kindness to each other with expecting nothing in return total altruistic love and that is the currency that's replaced in the Millennial Kingdom what we call in hebrew abu das hashem is we serve God by serving our fellow man this is why you schewe says in as much as you've done it to one of the least of these you've done it unto me and your us Shamim you might know the word Shammai in from Genesis 1:1 the heavens will ye Ross is the word for fear which we've described through our previous Torah portions as holy awe it's not something to be afraid of it's like when you understand God and all of his goodness and his love for you you look up in the heavens and you have such amazing ah but with who he is and what he's doing and so this money and other values in the Millennial Kingdom are replaced by service to God and the awe of the fear of God Oh of heaven God will be recognized by all as the only provider of sustenance in contrast to our present assumed self-sufficiency and independence the words of Isaiah offer us hope in knowing that closeness to Hashem in the end of the godless and last night I introduced this word to Galus and this is another word for anyone that's from Israel who is still outside of the land the Gallus is anyone who's still in the Diaspora that they're longing as we're repenting we are longing to not only return to Torah but to return to the land and see the restoration of all things when Messiah comes and he rebuilds the temple and so the Gallus is like all of us that are still outside of Israel all we have to do is trust the beginning of the words of the parish ah in Deuteronomy this parsha in Isaiah 54 parallels Deuteronomy 11 and the very first words of Deuteronomy 11 26 are this is the blessing Moses is telling people the blessings he wants to restore people the blessings that you should listen to the commandments of Hashem so the blessing comes as a byproduct of us observing Torah and keeping the commandments and all the blessings that we're going to see described in the haftorah today are o reward for our repentance and what does repentance mean in Hebrew it's teshuva it's not only having a change of mind because you could go from one bad mindset to another Biden might say Hebrew has an even more specific connotation of returning to the source so true repentance is returning to commandment keeping it is returning to the Torah the we're in the third week of the Hopf tours of consolation and in the first week we saw God relating to Israel as his servants and I keep bringing out how it's all about relationships so we're gonna look at even more definitions of relationship today last week in the second haftorah of consolation we saw three additional models he referred to us as a loving father but also as a mother beautiful of showing the fullness of the divine essence in sometimes he's like a loving father when he instructs us and sometimes he's like a loving mother when he wants to protect us he referred to us as our deliverer and he also referred to us as a precious treasure and then he also referred to our sins of the past as one a woman who goes away as a divorcee well today we're gonna see him in this short little compact haftorah as our consoler this is the third hopper of consolation and it's amazing that even the words consoled our in the very first line when he refers to Jerusalem as a storm ravaged city that is unconsolable a ship with Hashem as the builder and restorer of Jerusalem he built it our sins caused its destruction and he's gonna rebuild it through mashach we're gonna see him as our teacher we're gonna see him as our healer we're gonna see him as our protector and all-powerful creator master of the universe sometimes we have this like that servant relationship a servant has a master-servant relationship a provider a faithful covenant maker and he introduces his name yahaha which is a name revealing his character of love when you say the holy name which is only to be uttered in holy speech you hear hava which means self existent one you hear off which is father you hear Ahava which is love so literally hidden in his name and all name is indicative of a character you see his character revealed audibly in self existent father of love which is beautiful and he reveals himself as Yoda hey Bob Hey our Elohim our God and finally the Holy One of Israel and each one of these different aspects of relationship with the divine source revealed something unique like the first five or six consoler builder teacher healer protector they're all nurturing aspects of relationship they're all good things that he wants to do for us he wants to console us he wants to restore us he wants to teach us he wants to heal us he wants to protect us very nurturing and like I said earlier it's the love that truly motivates us it's not the reward of anything or the punishment of anything that's gonna truly motivate us it's only when we see God as he really is and that's why it says in John that he first loved us it's that first love experience when we realized while we were yet enemies he was reconciling the whole world to himself through Yeshua that moves us into right relationship you know if you tell a child who's in rebellion to change or to repent or to ask for forgiveness or go make things right with their siblings they put their foot down and they don't want to do it it's usually only a kind word a soft word a gentle word explaining things to them that their heart in two I'm sorry daddy yeah I want to make things right but if you talk to them harshly then what happens they put down their foot in that same kind of harshness there's this mirror so the very first way that God introduces himself to us is very nurturing to woo us into right relationship but then there's a need for us to maintain respect with the creator of the universe so he reveals himself as the all-powerful creator and master of his servants that he's created and then the last ones I think of as awe-inspiring because he's our provider all the source of our blessings come from him as their source he's the one that makes covenant and keeps covenant with us he is yeah-ha-ha the self-existent father of love that is awe-inspiring in itself and the Holy One of Israel brings it home specifically and more intimately to us as his chosen peculiar people his bride which is to be a light to the nation's so as we read this haftorah I'd like you to think about these different things and I'll bring them back out as we go through and you'll see them revealed in the scriptures you know I say it's gonna be speaking about all of these rewards of repentance and here we are in the new moon of II Lowell and this is the month leading up to the fall feast a time to prepare the bride to get ready to meet her king so it's very important that we're not just focused on the reward but we're focused on how can we be purified in this time as a bride without spot or blemish you know the monthly Lowell this is the name of this sixth month on the Hebrew calendar in Hebrew the RS sound is the olive then you have the low-mid the valve and the low-mid and it's an acronym what's amazing is here you have it all if flama devolve la midi lowell this is how it's spelled and it tells us about God's love in Song of Solomon two four or six three there's actually a phrase Ani lado de video Deeley I am My Beloved's and my beloved is mine ela is an acronym to take our minds to him as our beloved and it's that realization that he's our beloved and how much he loves us that Woo's us into wanting to repent so before we even get into the month on this very first day of it all I want you to imagine this beautiful divine source our Creator as our beloved and every Shabbat we invite him into our homes as our beloved we actually say Lahab Dodi we we sing a song about him coming as a beloved that feminine essence that is Shekinah and so very beautiful this whole month I want you to meditate on him as our beloved and us as his here we are at the first day of e lowell and we have 40 days that lead us to yom kippur 40 days of repentance the first 30 lead us to Rosh Hashanah which is not only the creation of the world but also looks forward to the coming of Messiah come the day of darkness and the day of trumpeting it is a new moon in which there's no light then there's seven days of awe between the two days of the new moon feast and the eve of Yom Kippur and this is a beautiful symbolism leading us up to pure bride preparing for the bridegroom and his coming this passage today that we are reading is all about the Messianic age and so as a bride we are looking at our future inheritance our future home through this imagery the first verse of the Torah portion says behold I said before you this day a blessing and a curse the blessing if you will hearken unto the commandments of the Lord which I command you this day the definition of a curse is just the loss of blessings it's not something arbitrary that God ever does to his creation we curse ourselves when through cause-and-effect we remove ourselves like pulling a plug from the source of power the light bulb goes out we pull the plug on the source of all blessings those blessings come as health become as wisdom they come as prosper come as right relationships with our spouses there's all these blessings that God desires for us to thrive that's why your shoe says I come to give you life and give it abundantly and what do we say yeah just give me the reward but I don't want to do anything I don't want to follow the eternal principles no we should be glad to return but it's just a paradigm shift for us because sometimes we've been taught that God's instruction in righteousness and blessings is burdensome its rules and restrictions and that's what makes people say what oh is he just arbitrarily telling me to do something that has no meaning if we only realize that this is instruction from a loving daddy who did want desires to prepare us as a bride without spot or blemish to return to him to all of the tour is about how to draw near to him and how to return the blessings that he originally created us with so here we are in Isaiah 54 and we're gonna start this haftorah in verse 11 he says storm-ravaged City unconsolable City for the last 2000 years it's been desolate as her children have been migrating north and west open to all the nations of the world he gives comfort to this on consulting he says I will set your stones in the finest way and I'm gonna lay your foundations with sapphires do you know the foundation of God's throne in the heavenly sphere is sapphire that's the first stone that's underneath his footstool and when he came down on Sinai he cut from his own footstool the tablets of stone that he wrote with his own finger the Ten Commandments to give us like a betrothal ring of his covenant well here he's telling us that this unconsolable it for the last two thousand years is gonna be consoled he's gonna rebuild it and this is where we see this aspect of relationship as him as our builder and restorer he's gonna make the windows shine with rubies and the gates with garnet and the walls of Jerusalem with gemstones now the theme changes from the relationship of builder and restorer to teacher when he says and all your children will be taught by Adonai in that day that Jerusalem is restored in the temple is rebuilt guess what's going to be time Torah who's it going to be taught by the living Torah if you reference this with Isaiah chapter 2 verse 2 and 3 look at how specific it is and it shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the top of the mountains so Jerusalem's gonna be raised up so that all the nations can stream to it to learn and she'll be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow to it and many people shall go and say come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob he's known as the God of Israel even by the nations and he will teach us his ways and we will walk in his past this is true repentance he's gonna teach us his ways and we're willing now to walk in his path for out of Zion shall go forth the Torah this is what's being taught so Torah was never done away with no matter what your pastors or priest may tell you Torah is forever he says Yeshua said even not one jot or tittle will be destroyed before all heaven and earth pass away so in the Millennial Kingdom it's all about restoration the word of the Lord is gonna stream from Jerusalem because the Living Tour is teaching it and writing it on our hearts in fulfillment of Jeremiah 31 where God tells Israel and Judah noticed that there's no new covenant for the nation's he says this is my new covenant for the house of Israel and the house of Judah so if you want to be a part of the New Covenant be grafted into Israel and he says I'm gonna make a new covenant the reason it's new is because I'm gonna write my Torah which was once written on the scrolls now I'm gonna write it on your heart so that you can live it out naturally that's the only thing new about it it's not like the Torah was ever done away with the only thing that's new is that now it's gonna be rewritten on our heart just like Adam had it written upon his heart and we can be recreated in his image and this is a beautiful glimpse of the Millennial Kingdom the whole purpose of it is to teach Torah and have it written upon our hearts to fulfill that new covenant so we won't need to refer to a scroll any longer and it won't be burdensome to us we will live it out naturally as an outflow of our love you know our love is just in a response a heartfelt response to the love that's already been shown to us it's nothing new we have no love of our own we're just conduits of his love if we'll open ourselves up to returning to him and then he says and your children will have great peace another reference to the millennial kingdom remember Isaiah 9:6 said and I think I have a slide for that in a little bit that talks about Yeshua as the Prince of Peace but Ezekiel 37 talks about this covenant of peace that God is going to make when his sanctuary is in our midst once again it says moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them how long will that coming it lasts everlasting and I will establish them and multiply them and I'm gonna set my sanctuary in their midst forever so once we have torah written upon our hearts then we're no longer harboring darkness then we can be in the sight of a holy omnipotent god and his new jerusalem and his sanctuary can descend and be amongst us until then he's merciful availing himself through mashiac because if he came down in his full glory it would be like a consuming fire and so this is a reference even to the purpose of the millennium at the end of the millennium we know sin and death are destroyed and God's sanctuary comes down from heaven to dwell with us we know how that comes about we know that even the implement of his salvation is referred to as a Prince of Peace in Isaiah 9:6 it prophesized that a child would be born and a son given and the government would be upon his shoulder so this kingdom this Millennial Kingdom is going to be upon this child that's born and his name shall be called wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father the Prince of Peace so when Isaiah is prophesying the father is prophesying through him and he says that all the children are going to be taught by Adonai referring to torah and your children will have great peace it's through the living Torah the Prince of Peace that we receive this peace and I always like to have fun with words and I always say that the Prince of Peace will be teaching the principles of peace in the Millennium of peace from the city of peace because yerushalaim even means city of peace so you can see every is referring to God as a God of peace this is why Paul and Romans 16:20 says the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet he's not doing it by force he could snap his fingers and Satan would be eradicated how is Satan gonna be defeated in the end by you vindicating God's character in your life by you being a bride without spot or blemish by you showing that God's law is not burdensome and living it out in acts of kindness and selfless love this is what ultimately crushes hafsat on otherwise it would have been done from the creation or before the creation of the world when he first rebelled or then you could say he could have been crushed at the cross right well then why are we still sinning the only time he's gonna be crushed is if we can stop sinning if we can follow you shoe as example and be overcomers this is why revelation says blessed are you who overcome you will be given the right to eat of the tree of life blessed are you who gains the victory I will make you a pillar in my father's sanctuary and all of these references are references to God's people overcoming and vindicating God's character and this is how this conflict between good and evil will finally be ended but only if we will repent and if we will return in holiness the very definition of sin is the transgression of the Torah and sin cannot exist in a perfect world and in the presence of God so sin has to be done away with that but he doesn't use her power will so it can only be done by our own free will our own choice and that's why we're called a remnant there's a very few people who will take this mission and accept this challenge to be a bride without spot or blemish verse 14 says in righteousness you will be established far from oppression nothing to fear this is referring to him as our healer far from ruin it will not come near you he's a protector also any alliance that forms against you will not be my doing so no matter what happens know that God is only seeking to bless you any alliance that forms against you we know there's gonna be an alliance against Jerusalem in the last days right it's not God's doing even though sometimes prophetically things are spoken about as if God is doing them in the first person right sometimes Isaiah says like God creates light and darkness good and evil in other passages John says or Joel says that he is going to gather the nations against Jerusalem like Zechariah 14 is it really God that's gathering them is he forcing those nations to come against his people just so that he can save them no but this is the way human language conveys prophetic images here he's saying any alliance that's formed against you will not be my doing whoever tries to form such an alliance will fall because of you it is I who created the craftsman and who blows on the coals and forges weapons so even the people that come against us what he's saying now is I'm the all-powerful creator do you think I'm too powerful to save you from them you know they are fashioning little weapons of warfare I created them and the knowledge to do all of these things he says I also created the destroyer who works havoc referring to how Satan if he created him don't you think he can control him but he's allowing sin to manifest with freewill so that in the end like the wheat and the tares you don't know which is which they both look good on the surface until they both bear fruit then you can tell one from the other there's fruits of the spirit there's also fruits of self-seeking and selfishness and this is how he separates the sheep from the goats in the last days he says no weapon made will prevail against you in court you will refute every accusation whose the accuser of the Brethren hasatan there's a court case apparently you're being accused day and night this is why we have to be so careful with our tongue because you know if you say one negative thing about your brother you're aligning with hasatan against him and you know hasatan alone cannot bring about the death decree against a brother but when you say something negative about somebody according to torah it's by the witness of to the death decree can be enacted so you're aligning with hasatan and giving him the power to bring destruction into that person's life now we don't desire that even for our worst enemies but how frivolously we speak and how easily we say something negative or we choke in just about someone derogatorily we have to be so careful with our tongue because it gives it's meant to give life but it can also bring death and this is what the scriptures are referring to as a double edged sword one side brings life that's healing and uplifting in unity and encouragement that's what we're called to do like Paul says edify the body of Messiah that means to build up versus the other side when we're not thinking and we say something negative about somebody and it causes division and destruction he says in court through his power we are going to refute every accusation whether of the enemy or otherwise this is a beautiful picture the servants of adonai they're going to inherit all of this the reward for their righteousness is from me now in the tour portion we had looked at different aspects of repentance and relationship and righteous deeds and we've talked this morning about the need for repentance and we've talked about these different aspects of relationship and here we see him as an all-powerful creator and master but also now we see this reference to the importance of our righteous deeds it's not just about believing in God or believing in Yeshua even the demons believe James says faith without works is dead it's important for us to practice our righteousness to put it into application and here he says the servants of ad and I are going to inherit all this the reward for their righteousness so there's a reward for right doing how do we know what is right father's instruction in Torah so simple and it's so beautiful and so here we see the reference to the righteous deeds that perfectly parallels the Torah portion in Deuteronomy 11 through 14 then chapter 55 Isaiah the haftorah just covers five verses in chapter 55 and it looks at Hashem as our provider and our faithful covenant maker and our God and he says and you might you might recognize this phrase all you who are thirsty come to the water who used this phrase who used this imagery here yo Jeeva he is speaking through Isaiah and Yeshua he says in John 7:37 in the last day speaking of the last day of the feast this is the day where we rejoice in the Torah the living Torah everybody is rejoicing in the Torah and there's a water libation where the priest would carry up from the pool of siloam water to be poured in the Laver and as all the people withdrawn to this walkway when you were in Israel with me I took you to this walkway remember and you could see the how they used to do this Yeshua stood up and spoke out loud so everyone could hear saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink you know the people they knew this passage in Isaiah 55 they knew he was quoting scripture on his own behalf he then says he that believeth on me as the scripture has said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water now we know where this passage if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink he is right here he's quoting isaiah 55:1 but what is he quoting here he says he that believeth on me as the scripture says so he's telling everyone he's quoting scripture out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water who can tell me you get a prize where this is found it's your homework but you're not gonna find it in the Bible we have today do you know that many books have been taken out of the Bible and nowhere in the scriptures that we call the Bible today is this quote and it's in other scriptures that they had part of the scrolls part of the Dead Sea Scrolls that he's quoting from and so it's kind of funny sometimes you're reading the New Testament and unless you really cross-check everything you just assumed okay it's in there somewhere and you don't really look but you won't find it anywhere in the Old Testament and so this melts us realize you know Yeshua and his disciples we're studying the book of Jubilees and Jasher and Enoch and a Baruch and Ezra had two other books and Daniel had other books and there's so much other Scrolls that have been confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls that I love to encourage people to go back and to read because if our master and Savior and Messiah not only read from these memorize them taught them to his disciples Jude and Peter loved the Book of Enoch they quoted from them how important do you think it is for us and for our understanding of the end times so many of these books were purposely removed because they like Isaiah were so focused on the prophecies of the last days and sometimes the powers to be do not want you to have that knowledge because knowledge is power so there's a reason so here we see all you who are thirsty come to the water you without money come by and eat it reminds me of revelation 3:18 where he says come buy from me gold tried in the fire and white raiment it's all about the things that are going to be restored through God's power yes come buy wine and milk without money so it's not about this barter or this medium of exchange any longer God freely gives and he asks us to freely give as we've been given this is the aspect of his character of selfless loving we need to begin to practice that now not wait for the Millennial Kingdom he says it's free why spend money for what isn't food your wages for what doesn't satisfy you know it reminds me when he says it's free of the free gift of salvation you consequently see Paul talking about the gift of salvation as a free gift and Romans 5:14 and through 18 says nevertheless death reigned from Adam all the way to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the simul to dove Adams transgression who is the figure of him that was to come so he's referring to Yeshua as the second Adam there's only two men who did not have an earthly father first Adam the second Adam one was formed by the hand of God and breathed into him the spirit the Ruach the other one the Word of God which is seed and in the parable of the sower and the seed you know the Word of God is seed just like semen it was planted in the womb of Mary so both were created in different ways some things are spoken into existence some things are formed by God's own hand and other things the word is and so we see the word becoming flesh who's the figure of the first Adam and he says but not as the offence so also is the free gift for it through the offence of one many be dead much more of the grace of God and the gift by grace we're gonna see this term of grace in the next verse which is by one man Yeshua he has abounded to many this grace and not as it was by one the sinned so is the gift for the judgment was by one to condemnation that's through Adam everyone received condemnation through Adam but the free gift is of many offenses being justified through the second Adam for if by one man's offense death reigned by one much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Yeshua HaMashiach therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life so when Hashem is speaking of come take from me everything that I want to give to you it's free it is the beautiful example of his selfless character that was exemplified in the Word made flesh the greatest example of God's character of selflessness was in Yeshua laying down his life for us and that's our model Paul says have the same mind being you which was in Christ Jesus right Ephesians 5:1 says be imitators of your heavenly father as little children by beholding we become changed into that same likeness we need to be imitators but if you think your dad is something other than he is if you think he's harsh punishing condemning judgmental you're gonna be changed into the wrong image that's why it's so important for us to not only understand but to teach others about the true character of God and his selfless love we're gonna look at the eternal covenant here he says in verse two listen carefully to me and you will eat well and you will enjoy the fat of the land referring to the restored inheritance open your ears and come to me listen well and you will live very similar to the very first words of the tour portion in Deuteronomy 11 26 listen to the Commandments do them shahboz to hear and to do and you will be blessed then he says as the faithful covenant maker in verse 3 I will make an everlasting covenant with you this is a beautiful aspect of his desired relationship with us and then he talks about the grace that he assured to David and I thought we would look at jeremiah 32:40 because it refers to an eternal covenant it says I will make any everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear that holy awe in their hearts that they not depart from me so where can you think of what is the origins of our covenant as Israel with our forefathers the very first covenant was made with Abraham not the very first covenant in the Bible because there was an ad emic covenant there was the Noah covenant there was a Mosaic Covenant then Abraham our Abraham before Moses Moses but if you look at the plethora of scriptures we can find a scripture for him making the eternal covenant with Abraham as well as with Isaac as well as with Jacob our forefathers and it's interesting when he refers to the covenant with Jacob you're gonna see a little demarcation from him as an individual Jacob the individual and Israel prophetically talking about all of us in jacob's loins genesis 17:7 says I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee he's talking to Abraham in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee with Isaac just twelve verses later he says to Sarah God said to Abraham Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed and you shall call his name Yitzhak and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him well who was his seed Jacob so we have to find a text that proves that God made an everlasting covenant with Jacob see you want to be grafted into this family even if you can't trace your roots through either house of Israel or Judah you want to be grafted in because the eternal covenant is made with this house that's why when Jeremy got speaks through the Prophet Jeremiah and chapter 31 about the new covenant he doesn't say hey world guess what I've paid all your debts and I'm gonna make an eternal covenant with you and you can just keep sinning and disregarding the Torah no he says I'm gonna make a covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah and this is the Covenant I'm gonna write my Torah on your heart so if you want to be a part of the New Covenant be a part of Israel you know how many people use that text reference to support doing away with Torah they say I'm not under the law I'm under the New Covenant have you ever heard that in the Christian world and yet the very New Covenant definition is to have Torah written upon our hearts so that we can live it out it's not to do away with it and it's not for anybody but Israel so be grafted into Israel and that's what Romans 11 is talking about Paul's talking about being grafted in in psalms 105 verse 10 king david refers to the eternal covenant that God made with Jacob and it's interesting how he uses both names Jacob and Israel to refer to Jacob the individual and Jacobs descendants the whole house of Israel which includes us he says and confirmed the Same unto Jacob for a law now it's interesting this word law that David uses is a Hoke what he's saying is that what God gave to Jacob few will understand the hook is one of those laws that defy human logic and reason so he could have said a Torah he could have said a mish pot but he said that God established a law with Jacob and to Israel referring to all of Jacob's seed and to the overcomers because when Jacob overcame in wrestling with the angel he received a name indicative of his character overcoming from being the holder of the heel to the Prince Yosh RL of God the upright one of God and so he says and to Israel for an everlasting covenant so that everlasting covenant is yours and mine to claim and yet what is the text here say in verse three God's gonna make an everlasting covenant with you the grace I assured to David so he makes a reference to David so now we have to go and find can we find this reference to David second Samuel 23 5 David said he has established with me in everlasting covenant so God's Word will not return to Him void the prophet Isaiah was not saying something new why is he establishing an everlasting covenant with David that is actually going to bless the whole house of Israel because Messiah was prophesied to come through David's seed and this is how he has an everlasting covenant Messiah is prophesied to sit on the throne of David and so it's ordered and secured in every part will he not bring about my salvation my yeshua and my every desire beautiful so here this little reference from my Isaiah we can see throughout the scriptures and especially to the house of Israel promised to our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob everything is pointing to Yeshua the in the end of the haftorah he says I have given him as a witness to the people who's the ultimate witness that we reflect Yeshua is a witness of what it looks like to live selfless love and Torah observance in human flesh that's the witness that came to for us so that we could see where we couldn't see according to the letter of the law and the letter of the law causes us to point out our own faults and be full of guilt and self condemnation and point out other people's faults and cause division and judgment the true witness shows us what it looks like to uphold the commandments of God and to live out a selfless love he says I've given him as a witness to the peoples a leader and a lawgiver for the people he is our lawgiver he's the word that spoke the law into existence you will summon a nation that you do not know and a nation that doesn't know you will run to you for the sake of Adonai your God what is this nation the descendants of Israel look like they are the rest of the world they look like Americans they look like Europeans they've assimilated right there's a nation that doesn't know him and yet what's happening is they're waking up and as it's getting closer to his coming they're running to him in teshuva returning to the Torah and when he comes it says a nation that you will summon a nation that you do not know because they don't look like Israel of old and a nation that doesn't know you will return to you will run to you it's beautiful for the sake of yo devolve hey your God the Holy One of Israel who will glorify you Ephesians 2:7 says that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of His grace remember it said that the eternal covenant was the grace he assured to david the who showed this grace that came from david's loins he came to show the exceeding riches of His grace in his kindness this word grace here in Isaiah 55 3 referring to the everlasting covenant the grace that he assured to David is hesed and Hess said is not just general grace but like loving-kindness here we see Paul understood that and he refers to not only has said but then he specifies in his kindness in his heaven toward us through Yeshua HaMashiach God's grace is manifested in abundant kindness he's given us what we don't deserve he's paid our debt he's restored us and he's restored the city where he's placed his name and he's sending Yeshua to write Torah back on our heart the way he originally intended us to be created for by cressid you are saved through faith through the kindness of God and through your kindness to others you're saved through faith that not of yourselves it is the gift of God so Yeshua the Word made flesh came not to abolish the Torah but to show us how to live it he said that in Matthew 17:20 imagine seeing him come on the clouds of glory as we enter into this month of repentance this month of e lowell and leading up to the next new moon one month from today Rosh Hashanah Yom Torah is the day of trumpeting that refers to the Lord show the sin with a Chou and the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall rise up and we who are alive and remain will be caught up with them why for intimacy for relationship for restoration of all things this beautiful Word made flesh he has had a plan from the foundation of the world this is why he's called the lamb slain from the foundation of the world to save his people to restore them to right relationship and yet there's a part for you and me to play and that's our willingness to return into ship teshuva and repentance return to Torah I want you to meditate over the next 40 days in any way that you are out of harmony with Torah maybe you're not keeping the holy days maybe you're not doing acts of kindness to widows and orphans maybe there's some other area that you know personally in your life that is separating you from God isaiah 59:2 says thy sins have made a separation between you and your God it's not God who's left you he is seeking to restore you it's our sins that have created that separation so as we repent over the next 40 days let's meditate on ways that we can draw closer to him through returning to him in love and to his Torah with that let's stand and we will close with this blessing praise to you out and I our God sovereign of the universe rock of all creation righteous one of all generations the faithful God whose word is deed whose every command is just and true for the Torah for the privilege of worship for the prophets and for the Shabbat that you Adonai our God have given us for holiness and rest for honor and glory we thank you and bless you may your name be blessed forever by every living being praise to you out and I Sabbath and for its holiness we thank you Alba father for being so kind to us for showing such hesed such grace even while we were undeserving we thank you for establishing an everlasting covenant with our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob and renewing it through the blood of the Lamb Yeshua HaMashiach so that we might see what selfless love looks like in human form and by beholding become changed into that same likeness we thank you Father we ask forgiveness where we have fallen short we desire to return to you and yet we don't even know how to live we don't even know how to pray so by faith we have a heart willing to return to your word and where we fall short and where we don't even know how to pray for one another or uplift one another we know your spirit intercedes with groanings deeper than words and we just pray that as we understand more clearly how important it is for us to be unified as the bride together that we would only speak words of edification upon one another to build up the body of Messiah in holiness and to encourage one another with an encouraging word never a discouraging word may we father be an example of your selfless love to this world this is our heart's desire and this is our prayer in your Holy Name we pray amen you

Channel: Assembly of Called-Out Believers

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Keywords: Haftarah, Haftarah Reeh, Elul, Repentance, Teshuva, 3rd Haftarah of Consolation, Reward, Relationship with God, Rabbi Isaac, Rabbi Yitzchak, Assembly of Called-Out Believers, Called Out Believers, Re'eh

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Length: 46min 25sec (2785 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 12 2018