We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--The Way Of Yahweh
Witness stumble throughout the Bible: H5062 nagaph to strike, smite, to be stricken, be smitten, plague, to hurt
Isaiah 5:27, 8:15, 28:7, 59:10; Jeremiah 13:16, 18:15, 20:11, 31:9, 50:32; Proverbs 3:23, 4:12, 4:19; 1 Peter 2:8
This arrangement of the 613 principles, the law of our Lord God Almighty, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is from the book by Rabbi Ralph Messer, Torah: Law Or Grace? Kingdom Principles For Kingdom Living. This book can be ordered online here or in the store if you are in the Denver area here.
The Third Commandment Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
217. You shall not become contaminated through any teeming thing that creeps on the earth --Leviticus 11:43-44 43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. 44 For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
218. A woman who gives birth to a male shall be ritually unclean for seven days; for 33 days she shall remain in blood of purification. If she gives birth to a female, she shall be ritually unclean for fourteen days; for 66 days she shall remain in blood of purification --Leviticus 12:2-5 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. 5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
219. A ritually unclean person may not enter the Sanctuary --Leviticus 12:4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
220. A woman shall bring the prescribed offering after childbirth and purification --Leviticus 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
221. The Kohen shall declare the one with tzara's contaminated --Leviticus 13:3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
222. You shall not shave a nesek affliction --Leviticus 13:33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
223. You shall clearly distinguish one who has a tzara'as affliction -- Leviticus 13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
224. You shall declare a malignant tzara'as of the garment contaminated --Leviticus 13:51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
225. The metzora shall be brought to the Kohen on the day of his purification --Leviticus 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
226. The metzora shall shave off all of his hair, immerse his clothing and immerse his flesh in water --Leviticus 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Fiveamprayer, we have to find out which is the way that we are going? Is it the traditions of men? Is it your own personal preference? How are you or anyone else able to determine the good and right way? Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death. So who do we find who knows the way? Will we ask for the ancient paths? Jeremiah 6:16 (AMP) Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it! Fiveamprayer, let us not be disobedient to our King! When we return to our Hebraic understanding of His word, the scriptures come to life! When we look to the patterns of the Hebrew language we find that this is a verb based language. The focus is on action and motion. When we read the Bible from our present Greek mindset, that came forth centuries ago, places the focus on the nouns which leads to difficulites in translating Scripture. With this overlay of the Greek mindset when reading scripture combinded with our 21st century culture sets us even further from Yahweh's way. We find this in the Hebraic study of the word Torah which is often mistranslated as law in many Bibles. With our Greek mindset, law is harsh and not something we feel that our God should place upon us. The word Torah, H8451 means law, direction, instruction. Now we do find that word law again, hold that thought. With a Hebraic mindset we shall find the actions behind this word, Torah. The root word yarrah H3384 means to throw, shoot, cast, pour. This is what is to direct us. If we look to traffic laws, for example, they give us direction and instruction on how to operate vehicles on the road ways safely. That we would have control in this motion. When looking at yarrah to throw, shoot, cast or pour is an intentional action. There is thought and intention involved. Something is being moved in a direction that you put the effort behind to move. For example to shoot an arrow, you are aiming for the target. Yahweh gives us His word that we would be in motion with thought and intention involved. So that we too reach our goal. The Greek mindset was so focused on nouns that the action would be secondary thus leading to a lesser focus. Take a look at the word faith. In Hebrew it is emunah H530, firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness with a root word of H529 emuwn which is faithfulness, trusting. This shows the action tied to the word being firm, steady then the root gives us, trusting and faithfulness. This shows us that there is an action involved in faith. In the Greek we have pistis G4102 meaning conviction of the truth of anything, belief; a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervor born of faith and joined with it. The Greek definition is focused on man and the secondary relationship to Almighty God, what the man believes over the actual actions. This is an idea that is only an exercise of thought alone even if professed continually by His word and trust there in. What is it that is actually being done? When we look to the origin of the Bible and the writers of the text who were all Hebrew--we cannot divorce the actions-based language nor overlay a noun-focused context and still arrive at the same meaning.
With the process of Hellenism beginning to take over the known world around 320 BC and then future centuries to be perfected in the mindset of various cultures and nations; now we arrive at this current time when looking at Hebraically set text with Hellenized eyes will cause the reader to only grasp at the meaning. Often in error, for the words in Hebrew do not always have an English equivalent or has various meanings--the wrong word could be selected by the translators. Much like trying to reach a box on the top shelf that your fingers can only move a little at a time, we must continue to seek, study and find our way--according to His way. That we stumble no longer in our ideas, listless and lacking understanding. His way is direction and instruction, Fiveamprayer we no longer have to figure it out ourselves! This would also prevent everyone from having their own personal interpretation that hardly matches their neighbor's. A standardized framework for all to use and be led in! All set forth from the beginning by our Creator, Yahweh the King of the Universe! That was followed originally and is to be followed forever more! Psalm 119:89 (CJB) Your word continues forever, Adonai, firmly fixed in heaven. To hear this weekend meditation again click here.
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