Vayalech (ןילך) He Went- Part 1 Audio Podcast Oct 8, 2022

An animal is cut down middle. Standing between the halves, back to back, each partner walks through pieces making an 8 figure, coming back to middle facing each other and say an oath

Giving up rights to self to walk with partner until death. Give oath facing partner

Raise the Right Arm and Mix with Blood

Raise right arms and cut palms and bring together

Blood is mixing with partner’s blood to become one

Exchange Names

As blood is intermingling, names were exchanged

Take each other’s last name to become part of their own name

Make a Scar

Rub blood together and make a scar

Scar was seal of permanent testimony to the blood covenant

Give Covenant Terms

Standing before witnesses give the terms of covenant

Share all that you own with each other

Eat memorial Meal

Take a loaf of bread and feed to each other and share cup of wine

Wine represents blood and bread represents body. Sharing bread and wine together as being One is a new nature

Plant a Memorial

Plant a tree

This will be a testimony of the blood covenant between each other

First Born

Give first born to die for the other partner to test commitment

I am committed in this covenant until next generation – first fruit

In today’s Torah portion we will discuss that whether we have a pastor, leader, Shepard, or elder to lead. Or is the one who commands the Lord?

We will discuss how Moses, even when leaving, renews the covenant of God with Israel and how he charges Joshua

Consider the SIN of Israel

How God is faithful and does not forget His covenant to us and to Israel

God requires our repentance - its prophetic significance for both Israel and us

In this Torah Portion

Moses encourages his people to continue to keep the covenant - holiness.

He informs Israel they are about to enter the promised Land w/o him

Only two out of the original Israel that came from Egypt will enter: Joshua and Caleb

Moses tells Israel to trust in God’s help

God’s word through Moses, God wanted everyone to hear. It is His declaration

the speech on the last day of Moses’s life he gives a speech

This is the same day he was born - the 7th day of the month of Adar (Feb-Mar)

Exodus 7:6–9 NKJV

Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did. And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Show a miracle for yourselves,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.’ ”

Aaron was three years older than Moses

In Hebrew - no serpent but a crocodile

Numbers 33:38–39 NKJV

Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.

Aaron dies on the first of Av (fifth month) at age 123 years old

Moses dies 7 months after Aaron at age 120 years old

He was 80 years old when he went to Pharaoh

He is not 120 years old - 40 years later

The 40 years started on Moses’ birthday (Adar 7)

Not a year later after they left, but the plagues were included in the 40 years

The plagues: From Adar 7 (Moses’ birthday) to when they leave Egypt (Nissan 14 - passover)they leave the following day Nissan 15 = is 5 weeks later - if they were 120 and

Moses was 80 years old when he went to Pharaoh

Cheshvan (8- Oct /Nov) when flood happened

TORAH PORTION

Moses went

Remember when Moses seals the renewed covenant with Israel?

Deuteronomy 29:9–11 NKJV

Therefore keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. “All of you stand today before the Lord your God: your leaders and your tribes and your elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives—also the stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water—

After Moses sealed the renewed covenant with Israel - HE WENT

Deuteronomy 31:1–2 NKJV

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. And he said to them: “I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross over this Jordan.’

After the renewing of the covenant all Israel left Moses and returned to their homes in the Israelite camp

Then Moses went from his own dwelling near the Ten of Meeting and walked through the camps of all 12 tribes to bid farewell to his beloved people

Ramban - to console them over his impeding death, so that their sadness over his departure would not cloud their joy in having sealed the covenant in Ch 29

Moses knew that he was going to die on his birthday. But however, part of his consolation to go with the Lord was that he was very old and his time had come - Rashi

According to Jewish belief:

“Moses knew this was his last day, because as the Zohar teaches the most holy and righteous people are sensitive” to spiritual things and can tell when their soul begins to want to separate from the body.

When Moses says “I can no longer go out and come in” did not mean that his old age impeded him to do it. The Torah says he was still strong

Deuteronomy 34:7 NKJV

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.

Deuteronomy 31:1–2 NKJV

He was still physically fit to go on, but “I can no longer go out and come in” meant that could no longer lead them because God had forbidden his to accompany the nation across the Jordan - Rashi

Ezra - Moses meant to say that he was too old to lead them in war, but he assured them that it made no difference who their leader would be, for God Himself would destroy the enemy.

Presentation

How many of you know that holiness and cleansing is a process- that sanctification is a process?

How many of you know that God is Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent?

Deuteronomy 31:3 NKJV

The Lord your God Himself crosses over before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua himself crosses over before you, just as the Lord has said.

Moses made it clear that God Himself would go before them and will destroy all enemies- Omnipotent

Although Joshua would be their leader, the true power would be God’s

Joshua will only execute as part of the fulfillment of God’s command, not because he had any independent power of his own

Deuteronomy 31:5 NKJV

The Lord will give them over to you, that you may do to them according to every commandment which I have commanded you.

Omniscient-

God knows Joshua will execute

Joshua has been under training with Moses

God knows that if Joshua keeps his part - the law; God will keep His

Deuteronomy 31:8 NKJV

And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”

The Lord is Omnipresent

He is everywhere

He is all around us

Faithful

The Lord is the leader. He is the one who makes us righteous and sanctifies us

He will do it

Deuteronomy 31:7–8 NKJV

Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it. And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”

Joshua has a different spirit (Num 14)

Moses brings Joshua to accountability with all Israel

He charges him to follow through

Reminds Joshua, it is the Lord who will do it

Joshua 1:9 NKJV

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Then Moses brings Joshua and Israel to the Law, so that they can keep set apart and sanctified

Joshua 1:6–8 (NKJV)

Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success (profitable).

The inheritance is given to the righteous

Profitable 1 Tim 4:8

Moses also brings the priests, and elders to the Law of God

Deuteronomy 31:9–13 NKJV

So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”

The call for the leadership is to read the Torah, to make sure everyone hears it, learns it, and carefully observe it

This is to learn to fear the Lord as long as they live even when crossing the Jordan

Let’s use some of our Halftarah to expand on the use of the law

Hosea 14:9 NKJV

Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

The way - the ways of the Lord are right (upright)

The righteous keep walk in the law - are being sanctified

The same way for everybody - the righteous have no problem walking but the transgressors stumble. Is the problem with the way? Is the problem with the upright? or Is it a problem of the heart?

Some would ask me: Are you trying to put you under the Law?

Under the Law

My response is: the question is:

Are you above the Law?

Above the law Picture

Is the Law abolished?

Law abolished Picture

The Bible does not say depart from me you who practice the law; but depart from me you who practice lawlessness

No, I am not trying to put you under the law, nor are you above the law. But I am inviting you to walk in the law as the Lord has given you His own Son for the forgiveness of your sin; His own Holy Spirit to have the desire to obey and follow Him, and His Promise that He will accomplish in you, the same way He did with Moses, and Joshua

In fact the Torah is a testimony of God is is Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent

The Torah is a blessing

Psalm 119:1–3 NKJV

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.

The issue is of the heart

We are blessed (profitable) when we walk in the Torah - 1 Tim 4:8

We are under mercy and grace when we walk in the Torah

Mercy and Grace

Mercy - is God withholding what we do deserve

Grace- is God giving us what we do not deserve

Exodus 34:6–7 (NKJV)

And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

What are the consequences of sin?

I do not want to go to hell, we say.

But the greatest consequences of sin is that we break God’s heart

We do not want to be only saved from our sins, but also from the consequences

But God promised salvation from our sins and eternal life - not salvation from the consequences

Consider the SIN of Israel

Deuteronomy 31:14–18 (NKJV)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of meeting, that I may inaugurate him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of meeting.

Now the Lord appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood above the door of the tabernacle.

And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

And I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

People will rise against God

Play the harlot

They will forsake God

God is broken hearted

They shall be devoured

Many evils and troubles shall befall (happen to) them

Israel is not able to identify Messiah even now

Israel has totally forsaken God. They are very secular now. They have had a rough ride.

Why?

Because they played the harlot - idolatry

Can you explain to me how this can happen to Israel only and not to us, if we play the harlot?

What are the consequences of sin?

I do not want to go to hell, we say. But the greatest consequences of sin is that we break God’s heart

We do not want to be only saved from our sins, but also from the consequences

But God promised salvation from our sins and eternal life - not the consequences

God forgives the sin, but we cannot avoid the consequences

Both Israel and us need the mercy and grace of God

Micah 7:18–20 (NKJV)

Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

You will give truth to Jacob And mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From days of old.

Joel 2:15–27 (NKJV)

Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly (holy assembly);

Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.

Let the priests, who minister to the Lord, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Then the Lord will be zealous for His land, And pity His people.

The Lord will answer and say to His people, “Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied by them; I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations.

“But I will remove far from you the northern army, And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, With his face toward the eastern sea And his back toward the western sea; His stench will come up, And his foul odor will rise, Because he has done monstrous things.”

Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the Lord has done marvelous things!

Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field; For the open pastures are springing up, And the tree bears its fruit; The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.

The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame.

Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.

Hosea 6:1–3 (NKJV)

Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.

Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.

After 2 days He will revive us - a day 1000 years - after 2000 He will revive us - Israel became a nation in 1948 - 2000 years

After 3 - He will raise us up and we will live in His sight - the resurrection of the dead and the millennial reign

We are in the year 5783 in the Hebrew calendar - which goes from creation until now

He is coming as the rain:. He is coming twice. - as the latter rain (Spring )- in the former rain (Fall)

For the Jew, He first came at Mount Sinai; then He is going to come as a King

For the Gentile, He first came as a baby in the form of a servant; He then will come back as a King

He is coming like the rain

According to His feasts

(Spring/ Fall- Feasts)

How many times have you heard this being preached as the Holy Spirit descending at Pentecost and then at the end of the age

Joel 2:23 (NKJV)

Both Rains

Joel 2:23 (NLT)

Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the Lord your God! For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.

BOTH RAINS

The Holman Christian Standard Bible

Joel 2:23 (HCSB)

Children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in the Lord your God, because He gives you the autumn rain for your vindication. He sends showers for you, both autumn and spring rain as before.

Young’s Literal Translation

Joel 2:23 (YLT)

And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered—in the beginning.

Messiah is the Teacher of righteousness (Torah)

Comes down from heaven; goes back to heaven

He connects heaven and earth

According to the appointed times of the Lord: the feasts

Messiah is like the rain cycle

Genesis 1:6–8 NKJV

Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

In the beginning there was a separation of the waters (hammayim)

Separation between water (lamayim) and water (mayim)

The space between the waters is translated as a firmament - “expanse” (an extended surfice)

Then He created the earth and foundations of the earth

The depths of the sea and sheol

†רָקִיעַ S7549 TWOT2217a GK8385 n.m. Gn 1:6 extended surface, (solid) expanse (as if beaten out; cf. Jb 37:18);—abs. ר׳ Ez 1:22 +, cstr. רְ׳ Gn 1:14 +;—𝔊 στερέωμα, firmamentum, cf. Syriac sub √ supr.;—1. (flat) expanse (as if of ice, cf. כְּעֵין הַקֶרַח), as base, support (WklAltor. Forsch. iv. 347) Ez 1:22, 23, 25 (gloss? cf. Co Toy), v 26 (supporting י׳’sthrone) 10:1. Hence (Co Ez 1:22) 2. the vault of heaven, or ‘firmament,’ regarded by Hebrews as solid, and supporting ‘waters’ above it, Gn 1:6, 7(), 8 (called שָׁמַיִם; all P), ψ 19:2 (|| הַשָּׁמַיִם), זֹהַר הָר׳ Dn 12:3; also הַשָּׁמַיִם ר׳ Gn 1:14, 15, 17, עַל־פְּנֵי ר׳ הַשּׁ׳ v 20 (all P).*

Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 956.

Genesis 2:5 NKJV

before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

No rain has fallen down

But Yeshua comes down from heaven; goes back to heaven

He connects heaven and earth

According to the appointed times of the Lord: the feasts

Messiah is like the rain cycle

To unite heavens and earth, man and God

What does water represent in the Bible

The living word

It sounds like the water is what does the washing of our sins

Ephesians 5:25–27 (NKJV)

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

Yeshua shows us the prayer we must pray, so that the water may come to wash us - to teach us how to live the Torah in holiness

In this prayer He asks the Father to bring the Kingdom to earth as it is in heaven

Matthew 6:9–15 NKJV

In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven

Starting with forgiveness

Remember Jacob’s ladder

Ascending and descending

Yeshua said the same thing about ascending and descending

John 1:51 NKJV

And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”

Yeshua is also reported to ascend and descend, just like the water cycle

But the last part of the prayer is to forgive - this is what the Lord will do in His return with Israel

Micah 7:18–20 (NKJV)

Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.

You will give truth to Jacob And mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From days of old.

He does not retain his anger for ever - will cast all our sins to the depth of the sea

He will allow Israel to have another chance as part of His covenant

Then He will establish His Kingdom in Jerusalem and teach how to be righteous as it was His promise in Jer 31:31

Yeshua brings the covenant of the Father to the reality of this earth

CLOSING

We see in this Torah portion the picture of Yeshua in Moses as a Prophet ascending to the Lord- HE WENT just like the water cycle - just like the rain

We find His two descending times in the Seasons and Feasts

To bring this Torah portion to the fulfillment of God’s covenant in Yeshua we need to look at the NT

In Yeshua’s first coming the Kingdom was divided

Not only was the kingdom of Israel divided in Yeshua’s first come, but before His second coming, we, Gentiles, have also disregarded our brothers, the Jewish people

Yeshua seems to be like the water cycle ascending and descending - washing away our sins

As He works through His mercy and grace towards our redemption He also teaches us how to forgive others

Part of their plan of redemption will consist of Jacob (Jacob’s ladder) forgiving His brother Judah, and all the Gentiles that disregarded him to receive forgiveness.

Matthew 18:21–35 (NKJV)

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made.

The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’

Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’

And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done.

Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’

And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

“So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

Jacob and the Jewish brothers will have to forgive those who persecuted them

Jacob will be required to repent and ask for forgiveness

Yeshua is going to come again, just like the rain, to wash away the sins of Jacob and the rest of the world

He is coming - Maranata - Alleluia!!!

Paul speaks about it too:

Titus 3:4–8 (NKJV)

But when the kindness and the love (mercy and grace) of God our Savior toward man appeared,

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and (+)renewing of the Holy Spirit,

whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

What is profitable?

Maintain the Torah

This is why Joshua was given the book of the law and the charge to keep the law, because he had a different spirit.

End Torah:

Then the Lord commanded them

Deuteronomy 31:19 NKJV

“Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:30 NKJV

Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended:

This is next week

Shabbat Shalom

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