Eikev-Consequence ( עקב)–Audio Podcast -Aug 5, 2023
Notes
Transcript
Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25
REVIEW
We started the book of Deuteronomy/ Devarim 3 weeks ago
The Torah goes on to recount the 42 stations from the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land.
We spoke of Devarim = Deuteronomy
elle-ha deverim = these are the words
Picture of Journey
An 11 day journey that lasted 40 years
Reason why the journeys are moments and opportunities to learn
The first generation that came out of Egypt was “thick headed”
they were quiet listening to all the list of mistakes and errors committed during the journey.
It is very difficult to learn is you are not listening
Devarim is like an executive meeting to evaluate where we have been, where we are, and where we need to go.
Maturity/ MATURITE
When somebody is able to do that, they have developed a higher level of maturity - spiritual growth.
They are accepting a rebuke that belongs to someone else.
Then we call them Mature
The mature does not: Fight, Flight, Freeze
Your ability or inability to receive through listening shines your level of maturity - picture
An obedient generation stands and receives the rebuke of the word.
Listens
Pays attention
Understands and obey
Shema in Hebrew:
Verse 5
Shema Yisrael Adonia elo-hei-nu; Adonai echad
Verse 6
ve-a-hav-ta et Adonai
e-lo-hei-cha
be-chol
leva vecha
uve-chol
naf-shecha
uve-chol
mo-o decha
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!
5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
What happens when we don’t listen - forget = shakah
More about that today
Picture of 4 Laws
We have different words for the word law in English
That is a problem because we just generalize things w/o knowing what we are saying
We understand that the word of God is only the moral law of the Decalog
There are 613 laws in the Torah
All have a special function
Law #76- To say the shema twice
Shema
We spoke about listening to the Torah
He has made Himself manifest through the years
He has promised to come back
He has kept the promise through devarim
He has been communicating with us
in a written form
In the form of the Torah
In the voice of the Father
In the thunder, fire and lightening that came from heaven
In the person of the Son
Yeshua Hamashiach
We explained to listen in to obey
The way we demonstrate we love God
Introduction
Introduction
Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25
In this Torah Portion we will talk about consequences
As a causation
To do that, we will first define some terminology
Then, we will explain the concepts found in this Parshiyot and the purpose of each one of the concepts
We will talk about immediate consequences
An End Times consequences
PRESENTATION
Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11
Like the other Parshiyot in the Book of Deuteronomy
the Parshah of Eikev (“Because”) consists entirely of Moses’ final address to the people of Israel
It begun on the 1st of Shevat in the year 2488 from creation (1273 BCE)
and concluding 37 days later on the 7th of Adar, the day of Moses’ passing.
Let us begin by defining and explaining a few concepts
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
Because
6813 עֵקֶב (ʿē·qěv): c. [see also 6813.5, 6813.6]; ≡ Str 6118; because, i.e., a marker of a cause or reason for an event
Ekev indicates a cause for an event
This is known as causation
We must be careful not to confuse or mix up causation with correlation
In other words, the phone and computer stopped working because the battery was dead
The phone has nothing to do with the computer
But they both correlate in that both are not working
Maybe the following picture will give you a better insight
The storks do not determine how many children are born
But the number of storks seem to be related to the number of children
An example of because as a causation in found
18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
You cause me to bless you since you obey Me
All the nations will be blessed
Another meaning of the word Ekev, although written the same way, but pronounce differently is:
Heel
6811 I. עָקֵב (ʿā·qēḇ): n.masc.; ≡ Str 6119; TWOT 1676a—1.heel, i.e., the back of the foot below the ankle on a mammal 2. hoof, i.e., the curved covering of horn on the bottom of a horse’s foot, corresponding to a nail or claw 3. movements, formally, footstep, i.e., the places one moves about in a daily routine as a figurative extension of a footstep 4. track, footprint, i.e., the imprint of a foot in dirt, as a by-product of walking or stepping
When we walk leave a track, a foot print
Your walk can cause you to be obedient or disobedient
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
Since you listen and walk (do/keep) the law
God will keep His covenant
This does not mean that you influence God or bribe Him
It means you please Him, by showing Him love in your obedience
In other words, He can trust you because you are obedient
The way you walk can also cause disobedience
4 “Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.
When we have been blessed and take the glory of God to make it our own - self-righteous
The righteousness belongs to God
In Hebrew righteousness is [sadaqak]
7407 צְדָקָה (ṣeḏā·qā(h)): n.fem.; ≡ Str 6666; TWOT 1879b—1. LN 88.12–88.23 righteousness, justice, rightness, i.e., the state of doing what is required according to a standard ; 2. justice, i.e., the state or condition of fairly deciding what is right in a legal case, without prejudice ; 3. innocence, i.e., the state of not having any sin or its associated guilt, according to a standard
Disobeying His righteousness/ law becomes wickedness
It becomes wickedness
Defined as evil doing
We cause evil
8402 רִשְׁעָה (riš·ʿā(h)): n.fem. [see also 8402.5]; ≡ Str 7564;1. wickedness, evil, i.e., a state or condition of evil, with a focus on the deeds which violate law
But evil is not only doing things that belong against the law of God
Consider the word wicked in this passage
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Wicked is also: to be disagreeable
Not to agree with God’s law
You can be saved and not agree with God’s law
8273 I. רַע (rǎʿ): adj.; ≡ Str 7451; 1. bad, evil, wicked, no good, i.e., pertaining to that which is not morally pure or good according to a proper standard, implying this evil hinders or severs a relationship to a person or principle which is proper; 2. unit: רַע בְּ־ עַיִן (rǎʿ b- ʿǎ·yin) displeased, troubled, formally, bad according to the eye, i.e., pertaining to that which is not agreeable and brings anger or loathing or worry and anxiety
You find this same application in:
4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
Suspicions = feelings that someone has committed a crime or done something wrong - suspect
When we talk about Evek as a negative, unpleasant outcome,
Rashi interprets this as an reference to those mitzvot (laws) which a person tramples with his heels—the Torah is telling us to be equally diligent with all of God’s commandments, no less with those that seem less significant to our finite minds.
Ibn Ezra and Nachmanides interpret it in the sense of “in the end” (i.e., “in the heels of,” or in the sense that the heel is at the extremity of the body)—the reward being something that follows the action.
In this segment of his “repetition of the Torah” Moses extols the blessings of the land that the people are about to enter (without him), but warns that these blessings are dependent upon the people remaining faithful to the covenant they entered into with God at Mount Sinai to keep His Torah and fulfill its commandments (mitzvot):
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13 And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16 Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Covenant
Covenant. The notion behind [sadaqak] is closely related to → ברית berîṯ in its reference to demeanour commensurate with the covenant
Demeanour is behaviour
Another word for demeanour is bearing - bearing the image of
In the times of ancient Israel they understood [sadaqak] righteousness and [risha] wickedness to be considered for a judgement
Whenever the community or society was endangered, the judge was to determine whose behavior was threatening the inner cohesion of the community.
The judge’s decision and judgment took the form ʾattâ ṣaddîq, hûʾ rāšāʿ, “you are right, he is an evildoer.”
The guilty party is no longer directly addressed, but is rather mentioned only in the third person as an allusion to his status outside the community.
The innocent are “justified” (hiṣdîq) insofar as either the judge or the king opposes all attempts to harm them.
Hence those who stand within this community are ṣaddîq as long as their lives and demeanour do not violate that community.
Those who question the status of others as ṣaddîq or seek to rob them of that status show by such action that it is they who are rāšāʿ; as such, they place themselves outside the community.
The OT covenant community acquires its specific character in that God too is a member of the covenant.
He demonstrates his righteousness by upholding that covenant (Ps. 111:3, 5, 9).
Of course, God’s righteousness is immeasurably greater than all human righteousness, even though both are called ṣdq.
God demonstrates his righteousness by maintaining both the covenant and, ultimately, creation itself.
The appropriate and righteous human response is to live within and commensurate with this God-given community.
Whenever this covenantal relationship between God and human beings is violated, God cannot be the guilty party because right is inseparable from God.
Indeed, God is both the origin and guarantor of all righteousness; there is no righteousness apart from him.
Hence if God is ṣaddîq, human beings are rāšāʿ as long as they are separated from God.
As such, they must confess their sins and attest God’s own righteousness, “so that you [God] are justified (tiṣdaq) in your sentence” (Ps. 51:6[4]).
A breach can occur between God and a person even without that person consciously turning against God or abandoning him.
An example is the discussion in Job where this apparent breach is interpreted as a testing of the righteous person.
This is what disagreeing with God would look like
The law with its commandments and ordinances helps ensure that righteousness will indeed function within society.
Both berîṯ and → תורה tôrâ are used to express God’s actions, and in this context ṣdq and tôrâ can be parallel.
God manifests his own beneficent righteousness by giving human beings his law, and corresponding human righteousness consists in living in accordance with that law.
If the people remain true to God, they have nothing to fear from their powerful enemies
17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—
18 you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
When you understand that the nations are more numerous than you, and that you, with your own power, cannot defeat them, but are totally dependent on God’s help, then you need not fear them.
But if you begin to believe that you can defeat them on your own, then you indeed have great cause for fear.
(Maasei Hashem)
21 You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.
22 And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
How do you stay true to God?
22 And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.
24 And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.
1 “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.
Forget/ Remember
1 “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.
2 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.
3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
Remember = not to forget
11 “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
Do not forget His commandments
But we can also forget about the Lord, if we do not keep the commandments
14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
We get prideful and think we can take it from here God
I can do that now
And take the glory
17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
We must remember- not forget- He is God
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
Let us not go after other gods
Like the Israelites did
We also need to remember or must not forget what happens when I forget God
7 “Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.
We need to remember what happened to our ancestors to learn from their experience
27 Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,
28 lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”
29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’
18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the Lord swore to your fathers,
19 to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.
20 “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord our God has commanded you?’
21 then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
Hornet = poison to blind Israel
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
Be aware of the Test
3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
1 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
2 Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lord your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—
3 His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;
4 what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lord has destroyed them to this day;
5 what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;
6 and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—
7 but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord which He did.
8 “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,
9 and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’
What is the purpose of the test? -
To humble us
2 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.
3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;
16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—
Why did they need to be humbled - as we do
4 “Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.
5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Obedience to the Commandments
Through the testing he will cause (ekev) us to obey
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
12 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good?
1- Fear the Lord
2- Walk His ways - don’t forget His ways
3- Love Him &
4- Serve Him with all your heart and soul
5- Keep His commandments
1 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.
13 ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14 then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
If you obey Him… then...
How?
18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Teach
speaking
when you sit
walk by the way
when you lie down
Write
doorpost house
doorpost of Gate
22 “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—
23 then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
If you keep all.... then....
Love Him
Walk His ways
Hold fast of Him
then....
24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
His Two Comings - Moses the Type of Messiah
First Coming
Moses reminds the people, “Also in Horeb you provoked God to anger, so that God was angry with you to have destroyed you."
Moses goes up the first time to receive the tablets
The tablets are the covenant
Sacrifice needs to happen for 40 days - no bread/ No water
Jesus suffered for our transgressions - He said I thirst on the cross
9 When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Moses receives two tablets of the covenant- they are delivered them to him
Devarim was on the tablets of the covenant
10 Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.
Number two = agreement
When you are in the covenant you are in agreement
Remember wickedness?
No in the covenant you are in disagreement
YHWH sends Moses back down in a hurry because the children of Israel had made themselves a different image
Moses intercedes for Israel and goes down
12 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’
13 “Furthermore the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.
14 Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’
Moses describes what happened when he came down from the mountain:
He comes down with the Torah in hand
He brings the Torah to persuade them to move away from their sin
15 “So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.
He brings the tablets on to their eyes
They can see the covenant with a form
A description of the righteousness of God
He explains he pleaded for them
Just like Jesus who brings the Kingdom of God and calls to repentance and interceded for us
and takes the sin away - Just like Jesus
17 Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me at that time also.
20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
21 Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.
After destroying the idol- their sin, Moses returns to the summit of Mount Sinai for another 40 days to receive the second tablets from God:
the Lord has gone back to the father and has promised to come back again.
Then God says
1 “At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’
3 “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.
4 And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the Lord had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.
God entrusted the safe keeping of the covenant to Moses
So He did with Jesus
Moses second time
5 Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the Lord commanded me.”
6 (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead.
7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water.
8 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day.
9 Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him.)
Moses lists all the places where Israel has faltered
Yeshua will do the same when He comes back again
God sets apart Levi for Himself
He will do the same at the end times with the 144K
10 “As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you.
11 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’
Before the People: [paneh]: in the face of people, or in front of the people
Everyone will see Messiah when He returns
The same way Yeshua is waiting for the Father to tell Him
Go and get your bride and the Promised Land of Jerusalem
CLOSING
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
Eikev - Consequence - עָקֵב= heel
The Heel
Ibn Ezra and Nachmanides interpret it in the sense of “in the end” (i.e., “in the heels of,” or in the sense that the heel is at the extremity of the body)—the reward being something that follows the action.
heel - end of the body - Ohr HaChaim, who explains that true satisfaction and fulfillment comes at the “end”—the complete fulfillment of all the mitzvot
This was prophesied in the Torah
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
The last Generation
End times heel commentary
Tzemach Tzedek sees it as a reference to ikveta d’meshicha, the generation of “the heels of Moshiach” (the last generation of the exile is called “the heels of Moshiach” by our sages because:
a) they are the spiritually lowest generation, due to the “descent of the generations”
b) it is the generation in which the footsteps of Moshiach can already be heard. This is the generation that will “hearken to these laws,”
as Maimonides writes: “The Torah has already promised that the people of Israel will return to God at the end of their exile, and will be immediately redeemed.”
If you believe you are the last generation:
Remember:
1- Fear the Lord
2- Walk His ways - don’t forget His ways
3- Love Him &
4- Serve Him with all your heart and soul
5- Keep His commandments
Because of the promise to the fathers
Promise
15 The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.
17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.
18 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
Last Generation
These are the children of Abraham
Let’s add to this generation more information about The Day
3 Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
And you know as of this day, etc." Moses emphasizes the word "this day" to remind the people that they will not acquire this knowledge only after the conquest
but they know as a fact already now that God will pass ahead (or pass over/ goes over before you) of them, etc.
It was important that the people should acknowledge this as fact prior to it actually having happened at this point
The word He goes over before you
6296 I. עָבַר (ʿā·ḇǎr): v.; ≡ Str 5674; 1. pass over, cross over, travel through, i.e., make linear motion often along a particular route or path
The same word used in, for cross over
The same word that is used for Hebrews in the Torah
HEBREW (Hebr. “‘Ibri”; Aramaic, “ ‘Ibrai,”
13 Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.
It would appear from the passages cited that the Israelites were known to other peoples by the name “Hebrews,” and that in the earlier period of their history this name was used by them in contrasting themselves with other nations
To be set apart from them
If you have been grafted in to Israel, you are also a Hebrew in the soul
It would also seem customary that the Lord always goes before Israel
4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
raha = causation to let you see
to the Hebrew - the one crossing over
But you are not crossing over
13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.”
Not keeping the Torah caused Israel to be against God
But you
1- Fear the Lord
2- Walk His ways - don’t forget His ways
3- Love Him &
4- Serve Him with all your heart and soul
5- Keep His commandments
And let God...
21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.
helak [walk} - went before them
But
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.
Until the last generation
What you do - the way you walk has an impact on what the Lord is going to do when He returns
1- Fear the Lord
2- Walk His ways - don’t forget His ways
3- Love Him &
4- Serve Him with all your heart and soul
5- Keep His commandments
Yeshua gave the same directive:
15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.
25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
29 “And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe.
30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
When He returns He will parade His people
24 They have seen Your procession, O God, The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; Among them were the maidens playing timbrels.
26 Bless God in the congregations, The Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin, their leader, The princes of Judah and their company, The princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength; Strengthen, O God, what You have done for us.
29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, Kings will bring presents to You.
30 Rebuke the beasts of the reeds, The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, Till everyone submits himself with pieces of silver. Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
31 Envoys will come out of Egypt; Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; Oh, sing praises to the Lord, Selah
33 To Him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which were of old! Indeed, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe strength to God; His excellence is over Israel, And His strength is in the clouds.
35 O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!
Yeshua riding and leading everyone Hebrew in a procession
the tribes are clearly identified
He is coming to rebuke the enemies
Save the true Israel
He comes in the clouds
You also see this in
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 saying: “I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”
13 And again: “I will put My trust in Him.” And again: “Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.”
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham.
My prayer to all the last generation of Hebrews is
13 O seed of Israel His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
14 He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
15 Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
16 The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
17 And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
Keep the covenant of the Lord;
Remember His Torah/ Live the Torah/ Teach the Torah
Shabbat Shalom