Bechukotai - In My Statutes - Podcast June 4, 2022
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Bechukotai -In My Statues
Torah portion: Lev 26:3-27:34
After having studied the last Parashah: laws of the Sabbatical year: Shmita- and limits the debt service ration, now God tells us the consequences of staying in His statues or not
This is similar to what He commands in Deuteronomy
Blessings and Cursing
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
“But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
There are consequences to obedience to His statues
There are consequences to the disobedience as well.
What were we redeemed for? To do our own thing? No.
Many preach about the blessing only- what we are going to get, without explaining both obedience and disobedience have consequences
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name,
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;
And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
Obedience is the hallmark of our Salvation
If we belong to Him, we will obey
We will submit to His obedience
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OBEDIENCE - Blessing
‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Three actions: walk, keep and perform
1-הלך=(halaK) walk1
Walk= Halak
Go, walk, die, flow with, go behind, adhere to, walk around
to live or behave in a specified manner
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.
And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.
“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
WALK. Of the very many occasions when this verb is used in Scripture, the vast majority have the strictly literal sense of moving along or making one’s way. It was the normal activity of men, but where the ability to walk had been lost it was capable of being restored by Christ. This outward healing corresponded to an inward renewal which Jesus claimed to be able to effect (Mk. 2:9). Jesus is further represented in the Gospels as walking and enabling others to walk under conditions not normally given to men (Mk. 6:48). Here
F. S. Fitzsimmonds, “Walk,” ed. D. R. W. Wood et al., New Bible Dictionary (Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 1228.
2- שָׁמַר= (shemar) keep, preserve, be careful with, watch
O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward You.
‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
3- עָשָׂה= vb. do, make
Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 793.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land.
You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.
Out of the obedience, there will be fruit
Because of obedience, He will bless
There will be safety in our land
Because of obedience He will give us PEACE - Shalom
Courage
The enemy will be flee
The covenant of God confirmed
“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
God will make a tabernacle in us
He will not dispise us - but love us
He will walk with us
We will belong to HIM
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.
He has set us free from the enemy
So that we will walk upright
Walk with HIM
SANCTIFICATION is to walk with Him in holiness. Remember this is the main message in Leviticus
therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them—My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.
And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.
A promise to save His flock - Israel
He will judge between SHEEP (Israel) and SHEEP ( the Gentiles)
with one Shepherd
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
“I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.
I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore.
Thus they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people,” says the Lord God.’ ”
“You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God,” says the Lord God.
DISOBEDIENCE
‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Consequences of Disobedience
Terror over you
Disease and fever
sorrow of heart
No fruit - but planting in vain
Enemies will benefit from your seed
Slave to those who hate you
7 times more pushment over your sins
Break pride
Heaven like iron (not able to hear) and earth like bronze (judgement)
And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
No fruit
7 x More plagues to the measure of your sin
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.
‘And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
Wild Beasts
Children robbed
Destruction of your work
Reduction in number and isolation
Punishment 7 x more for sins
And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Sword
Vengeance of the covenant
Pestilence
Delivered to the enemy
Sounds like the Book of Revelation
When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Will eat and not be satisfied
Chastised 7 x for our sins
You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
Each flesh
Destruction of personal altars and exaultation
Destruction of Idolatry
Not listen to your prayers
I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the desperation with which their enemies and those who seek their lives shall drive them to despair.” ’
“The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.
And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.
I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
ASTONISH = שָׁמֵם
9037 I. שָׁמֵם (shemam): v.; ≡ Str 8074; TWOT 2409—1. LN 20.31–20.60 (qal) be desolate, be devastated, destitute, laid waste, ravaged, ruined, deserted, i.e., be in a destroyed and ruined state, implying the object or area destroyed is now abandoned from all help, deserted, or in personal poverty
James Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament) (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997).
I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
The Land of Israel has already gone through the Astonishment
The Millenial reign is the 7th one thousand years - Last torah portion we talked about the land keeping a Sabbath
Here the Lord is saying the land will be paid the Sabbath at the end.
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest— for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; also in their fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Making reference again to the Millenial Sabbath
‘But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt—
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.
Israel confession and repentance of sin
Israel humility and acceptance of guilt
Then the Lord will remember the covenant with Jacob - Issac and Abraham, and
Lord will remember the Land and restore
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.
But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.’ ”
Remnant
Promise of the covenant
Witness to the Nations
‘For thus says the Lord God: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.
But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Summary
The Lord came the first time to fulfill the scriptures
To open the way back to the father
There are consequences to obedience to His statues
There are consequences to the disobedience as well.
We see consequences in the Obedience of Messiah and disobedience of Adam
The Lord gives us a path to choose
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.
“Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
He will not cry out, nor raise His voice, Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.
He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
Costlands = nations = the gentiles
“Behold! My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, And He will declare justice to the Gentiles.
He will not quarrel nor cry out, Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.
A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench, Till He sends forth justice to victory;
And in His name Gentiles will trust.”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord, according to your valuation,
if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Valuation = appraisal
Appriasal on consecreation / sanctificiation/ holiness/ rightousness
50 shekels referring to Jubilee
Valuation from 5 years old to 60 plus
Who sets the value:
‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.
‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives to the Lord shall be holy.
He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy.
If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest;
and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation.
In the year of Jubilee
‘And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
‘If a man dedicates to the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.
but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.
then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the Lord.
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession.
No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction;
For whom the Lord loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Shabbat Shalom