{"id":2501,"date":"2013-09-01T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T11:55:50","slug":"bits-of-torah-truths-parashat-haazinu-the-torah-on-god-buying-and-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/bits-of-torah-truths-parashat-haazinu-the-torah-on-god-buying-and-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits of Torah Truths, Parashat Ha’azinu, The Torah on God Buying and Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weeks reading is from Parashat Ha\u2019azinu (Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52<\/em>), Moshe writes a song that he spoke to the children of Israel in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32:1-52<\/em>.\u00a0 In last week\u2019s Parashah, the Lord God told Moshe that Joshua will lead the people after his death.\u00a0 The Lord told Moshe to write down this song (\u05d5\u05b0\u05e2\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05ea\u05b0\u05d1\u05d5\u05bc \u05dc\u05b8\u05db\u05b6\u05dd \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d4\u05b7\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b4\u05d9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d6\u05bc\u05b9\u05d0\u05ea<\/span>) and the song will be a witness against them (Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 31:29-30<\/em>).\u00a0 In the opening verse of Parashat Ha\u2019azinu Moshe calls Heaven (\u05d4\u05b7\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b8\u05de\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05dd<\/span>) and Earth (\u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5<\/span>) as witnesses to the covenant (\u05d4\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05d6\u05b4\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5\u05bc \u05d4\u05b7\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b8\u05de\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05dd \u05d5\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05d3\u05b7\u05d1\u05bc\u05b5\u05e8\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05b0\u05ea\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05e2 \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05d0\u05b4\u05de\u05b0\u05e8\u05b5\u05d9-\u05e4\u05b4\u05d9<\/span>).\u00a0 Does this suggest that the unmovable things are watching as witnesses of our lives?\u00a0 Note what Yeshua said in Luke 19:40 regarding the rocks that would cry out if the people did not give praise to the Lord for the Messiah.\u00a0 Moshe calling the solid unmoving (unchanging) Heaven and Earth as a witness implies that these things are watching should the children of Israel break the covenant and disobey God.\u00a0 Moshe proclaims the name of the Lord (\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05e9\u05c1\u05b5\u05dd \u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05d5\u05b9\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b6\u05e7\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0<\/span>) saying He is our Rock (\u05d4\u05b7\u05e6\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc\u05e8<\/span>), that His work is perfect (\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05de\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05e2\u05b3\u05dc\u05d5\u05b9<\/span>), all of his ways are in truth (\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05db\u05b8\u05dc-\u05d3\u05bc\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05db\u05b8\u05d9\u05d5 \u05de\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05d8 \u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d0\u05b1\u05de\u05d5\u05bc\u05e0\u05b8\u05d4<\/span>), there is no injustice (\u05d0\u05b5\u05d9\u05df \u05e2\u05b8\u05d5\u05b6\u05dc<\/span>), only righteousness (\u05e6\u05b7\u05d3\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05e7<\/span>) and that He is straight (\u05d5\u05b0\u05d9\u05b8\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05e8<\/span>) meaning that God is upright and just.\u00a0 Moshe then says \u201cThey have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.\u201d\u00a0<\/em> While reading these opening verses, do we take for granted the mercy of God today?\u00a0 Do we examine our hearts and our ways properly today as a devotion to the Lord?\u00a0 Does tour life demonstrate that you are covenant member of the Kingdom of God?<\/p>\n

\u05db\u05ea\u05d1\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9 \/ The Holy Scriptures<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32:6-8<\/em><\/strong>
\n32:6 \u201cDo you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people?\u00a0 Is not He your Father who has bought you?\u00a0 He has made you and established you.\u00a0 32:7 \u201cRemember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations.\u00a0 Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.\u00a0 32:8 \u201cWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. (NASB)<\/em><\/p>\n

While reading Moshe\u2019s song to Israel, in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32<\/em> he makes the statement on how the foolish and unwise people repay the Lord.\u00a0 Moshe states that God is \u201cfaithful and without injustice, He is righteous and upright,\u201d<\/em> whereas the foolish and unwise repay the Lord with corruption instead.\u00a0 Moshe then states in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32:6 \u201c…\u00a0 Is not He your Father who has bought you?\u00a0 He has made you and established you.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 It is interesting how Moshe states that God has bought us and established us, and the context is that of being bought (purchased) out of slavery, from the bondage of Egypt.\u00a0 Another way of understanding this is in the parallel of the Lord God being our Redeemer who has redeemed us from slavery.\u00a0 Moshe continues in his song saying in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 27 Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, \u201cOur hand is triumphant, And the Lord has not done all this.\u201d\u2019 32:28 \u201cFor they are a nation lacking in counsel, And there is no understanding in them.\u00a0 32:29 \u201cWould that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would discern their future!\u00a0 32:30 \u201cHow could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had given them up?\u00a0 32:31 \u201cIndeed their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves judge this.\u00a0 32:32 \u201cFor their vine is from the vine of Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of poison, Their clusters, bitter.\u00a0 32:33 \u201cTheir wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of cobras. 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acted contrary to God\u2019s will is a little difficult to discern.\u00a0 Bilaam\u2019s error is so significant that Jude (1:11<\/em>) parallels Bilaam with Cain and the rebellion of Korach (see Parashat Korach).\u00a0 In addition to this, Yeshua\u2019s words in Revelation 2:14<\/em> states that Bilaam taught Balak to be a stumbling block to Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of sexual immorality.\u00a0 What is interesting here in this week\u2019s study is the subtlety of sin in our lives.\u00a0 Bilaam became guilty when he continued with Balak.\u00a0 The children of Israel foolishly continued in their sin after having been bought and they become guilty before the Lord.\u00a0 Today, having been bought by the blood of Christ, if we continue in sin (i.e. not having a concern for sin with regard to what we do and think) thinking on these Scriptures and elsewhere in Scripture (i.e. Hebrews 10:26-28<\/em>), what would happen such a person?\u00a0 Does willful sin cause us to sell ourselves to the enemy?\u00a0 How does willful sin effect what God has done with regard to \u201cIs not He your Father who has bought you?\u00a0 He has made you and established you?\u201d\u00a0 BTT_Parashat Ha’azinu-2013<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weeks reading is from Parashat Ha\u2019azinu (Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52), Moshe writes a song that he spoke to the children of Israel in Devarim \/ Deuteronomy 32:1-52.\u00a0 In last week\u2019s Parashah, the Lord God told Moshe that Joshua will lead the people after his death.\u00a0 The Lord told Moshe to write down this song […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bits-of-torah-truth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}