We are walking in today: Yoked With Yahweh In 776!
Witness His rulership throughout the Bible: H4910 mashal to rule, have dominion, reign
2 Samuel 7:12; Daniel 4:31, 6:27, 7:14; Revelation 1:5-6
When someone experiences a state of rest, they want to lead others to that rest. Fiveamprayer what is the rest that Yeshua speaks of? The Hebrew understanding of learning is the experienced will patiently teach the inexperienced thus we have the yoke. In an agricultural society this example would have been well known that the experienced, patient oxen would be paired with a new oxen to learn how to plow the fields. If the experienced oxen was not patient, they could rush and harm both animals due to the inexperienced oxen moving too slowly and due to being yoked together cause them both damage. The time lost and the improper plowing would result in an less productive day. The potential harm to the animals could result in even more lost time. This would be very expensive to the farmers seeking to sow and plow their fields. As we are more apt to pay attention to the things that would cost us money or result in a loss of income would peak interest and cause the people to pay attention. The proper yoking would result in the inexperienced learning and increasing in skill with the teaching of the experienced. This yoke is the Torah which is a delightful rest. How can that be? I was often told that the Torah was too hard to bear or uphold. Remember that His burden is easy and His yoke is light? Here Yeshua is the experienced one who is teaching us the inexperienced one in the Torah. The yoke that their father's could not bear was in isolation. They were not learning and working together. That was never to be the application. As we see in the first 5 books of the bible, the directions that Yahweh gives is to the community, family and the individual. When the focus is only on the individual you are hard pressed to walk in His instructions with ease. Also at the time that Yeshua is speaking to the Pharisees and Sadducees they had over the years added additional rules or regulations on top of the Torah ordinances. These additions were so grievous that they themselves did not follow them. These who sit in the seat of Moses were to show them how to walk in the instructons of Yahweh but instead left it to them to determine on their own.
When Jethro comes to visit Moses in the wilderness, he tells him that he is doing a difficult thing. Having only one judge and having the people before him all day and evening will weary them both. In the appointment of various judges or rulers over groups of people and the people being taught the instructions would assist them in being able to live the life appointed from on high. The directions given at mount Sinai where for the people to be holy onto Yahweh and be an example to all the people in the world. This walk in the Torah was to be as a community, never to be walked out alone. This is the burden. The yoke was necessary for the experienced to lead/direct the unlearned. He offers us this yoke in Matthew 11:28-30, He walks with us in this we are not alone! We are to share and know the Torah with others. We are to learn and teach Torah--while He walks with us in the Torah. Being unequally yoked, an ox with a donkey was a picture of a Jew walking with a person from the nations. This is discussed in Acts 15 about the new converts--should be yoked with the more experienced to learn how to live and walk in the Torah. Otherwise they are doomed to failure with out direction--being new they would not know or understand how things were supposed to go. It is by His Spirit that they are included, these new converts and are eligible to be yoked with a more experienced person who lives their life according to the Torah. When Moses followed his father-in-law's advice--he and the people were no longer wearied and the sharing of the yoke brought about mutual satisfaction for the whole community. So truly the burden is walking in the Torah by yourself is being unyoked! The warning that Yeshua gives in scripture is about the leaders being followed according to their teachings of Moses, but not to follow their actual actions. For these are the burdens that they laid and would not move them from another person. This community focus on His instructions will strengthen those who walk in these directions. We can see with the three Hebrew boys who had to answer the king for their obedience to the King of kings! Their faith was not diminished to enter the furnace for they stood together in His instruction. The actual burden we are to experience is His blessings. That we have heaped up blessings that we can not count nor carry! Fiveamprayer we can endure in what Yahweh commands! For Yeshua is the one who walks with us in our community! Having just rulers over the people keeps the burden from being heavy. The people submitting to godly authority--that the example that is set is lived out as well. To hear this again click here.
When someone experiences a state of rest, they want to lead others to that rest. Fiveamprayer what is the rest that Yeshua speaks of? The Hebrew understanding of learning is the experienced will patiently teach the inexperienced thus we have the yoke. In an agricultural society this example would have been well known that the experienced, patient oxen would be paired with a new oxen to learn how to plow the fields. If the experienced oxen was not patient, they could rush and harm both animals due to the inexperienced oxen moving too slowly and due to being yoked together cause them both damage. The time lost and the improper plowing would result in an less productive day. The potential harm to the animals could result in even more lost time. This would be very expensive to the farmers seeking to sow and plow their fields. As we are more apt to pay attention to the things that would cost us money or result in a loss of income would peak interest and cause the people to pay attention. The proper yoking would result in the inexperienced learning and increasing in skill with the teaching of the experienced. This yoke is the Torah which is a delightful rest. How can that be? I was often told that the Torah was too hard to bear or uphold. Remember that His burden is easy and His yoke is light? Here Yeshua is the experienced one who is teaching us the inexperienced one in the Torah. The yoke that their father's could not bear was in isolation. They were not learning and working together. That was never to be the application. As we see in the first 5 books of the bible, the directions that Yahweh gives is to the community, family and the individual. When the focus is only on the individual you are hard pressed to walk in His instructions with ease. Also at the time that Yeshua is speaking to the Pharisees and Sadducees they had over the years added additional rules or regulations on top of the Torah ordinances. These additions were so grievous that they themselves did not follow them. These who sit in the seat of Moses were to show them how to walk in the instructons of Yahweh but instead left it to them to determine on their own.
When Jethro comes to visit Moses in the wilderness, he tells him that he is doing a difficult thing. Having only one judge and having the people before him all day and evening will weary them both. In the appointment of various judges or rulers over groups of people and the people being taught the instructions would assist them in being able to live the life appointed from on high. The directions given at mount Sinai where for the people to be holy onto Yahweh and be an example to all the people in the world. This walk in the Torah was to be as a community, never to be walked out alone. This is the burden. The yoke was necessary for the experienced to lead/direct the unlearned. He offers us this yoke in Matthew 11:28-30, He walks with us in this we are not alone! We are to share and know the Torah with others. We are to learn and teach Torah--while He walks with us in the Torah. Being unequally yoked, an ox with a donkey was a picture of a Jew walking with a person from the nations. This is discussed in Acts 15 about the new converts--should be yoked with the more experienced to learn how to live and walk in the Torah. Otherwise they are doomed to failure with out direction--being new they would not know or understand how things were supposed to go. It is by His Spirit that they are included, these new converts and are eligible to be yoked with a more experienced person who lives their life according to the Torah. When Moses followed his father-in-law's advice--he and the people were no longer wearied and the sharing of the yoke brought about mutual satisfaction for the whole community. So truly the burden is walking in the Torah by yourself is being unyoked! The warning that Yeshua gives in scripture is about the leaders being followed according to their teachings of Moses, but not to follow their actual actions. For these are the burdens that they laid and would not move them from another person. This community focus on His instructions will strengthen those who walk in these directions. We can see with the three Hebrew boys who had to answer the king for their obedience to the King of kings! Their faith was not diminished to enter the furnace for they stood together in His instruction. The actual burden we are to experience is His blessings. That we have heaped up blessings that we can not count nor carry! Fiveamprayer we can endure in what Yahweh commands! For Yeshua is the one who walks with us in our community! Having just rulers over the people keeps the burden from being heavy. The people submitting to godly authority--that the example that is set is lived out as well. To hear this again click here.
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