Parasha Bereshit

Parasha Bereshit
Bereshit (Genesis) 1:1 – 6:7
Haftarah: Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 42:5 – 21
Brit Chadasha: several

• “Do not think that I have come to abolish ‘the Torah’ or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not a jot, not a tittle, will pass from the Torah until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:17-20
• “So, the Torah is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.” Romans 7:12
• “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, Yehovah made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the stake.” Colossians 2:13
  
  The Aleph Bet
• In the Revelation of Yeshua Ha Mashiach to John we find 4 references to the Aleph Tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew Aleph Bet; Rev. 1:8, 1:11, 21:6 and 22:13. The translation reads “I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.” Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet. Messiah Yeshua is a Hebrew man and not a Greek man therefore He would have said “I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the ending. He is the entire Hebrew Aleph Bet from A to Z so to speak, therefore He is ALL the Hebrew letters, ALL the Hebrew words. Jn. 1:1 confirms this understanding. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim. He was in the beginning with Elohim.” In its ancient form the Aleph Tav would read “strength of the covenant.” If Yeshua is all the Hebrew words, then we need to understand that:

WORDS ARE THERE FOR A REASON!

The Scripture narrative was written by Hebrews, for Hebrews in a Hebrew culture.

The Renewed Covenant

Brit Chadasha aka the New Testament

• We are living in the age prior to the 2nd advent, the age of the “Renewed Covenant.” It’s important for us to understand that the “Renewed Covenant” isn’t “new,” rather it’s “renewed.” Brit = covenant. Chadash = renewed. When the letter Hey, ה , is added to the end of the word it becomes feminine in gender, Chadasha. The feminine entity we are speaking to is the bride. The “Renewed Covenant,” then, is instructions to the bride on how she is to prepare herself for Yeshua, her bridegroom. The “Renewed Covenant” isn’t taking anything away from the foundation that was established in the Torah and prophets rather it’s reinforcing Torah.

The “Renewed Covenant” is altogether opposite what the modern teachings proclaim. The definition of the “Renewed
Covenant” is found in Jere. 31:31-33: “Behold, the days are coming, says Yehovah, when I will make a “Renewed” covenant with the house ( אֶת־בֵּית ) of Israel and with the house ( אֶת־בֵּית ) of Judah—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers (אֶת־אֲבוֹתָם ) in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant ( אֶת־בְּרִיתִי ) which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says Yehovah. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house ( אֶת־בֵּית ) of Israel after those days, says Yehovah. I will put My Torah (אֶת־תּֽוֹרָתִי ) in their minds and write it on their hearts; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

It’ important to note there were NO covenants given by Yehovah to “gentile” people groups. They were always invited to become part of Covenant Israel with the caveat of obeying the “rules of the kingdom,” Torah!

In my opinion being grounded in Torah is imperative to understanding the “Renewed Covenant.” The Torah written
on our hearts IS the “Renewed Covenant.”

The Torah consists of the first five books of Scripture: Bereshit (Genesis), Sh ’mot (Exodus), V‘yikra (Leviticus), B’midbar (Numbers) and D’varim (Deuteronomy). The first four books are the Words spoken directly from the mouth of Yehovah to Moshe which he wrote down (Ex. 24:4), and Moshe wrote down all the words of Yehovah. D’varim, the fifth book, is a retelling of the first four books, and was written by Moshe.

The Jerusalem council is dated to approximately 48 A.D; the subject matter being how to handle the “gentile” converts. The issue at hand was not the native born, that is the Hebrew believers of Yeshua, because they already knew what they were supposed to do. In Acts 15:20-21 the protocol for “gentile” believers of Yeshua is well established. “But that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from (eating) blood. For Moshe has had throughout many generations those who preach him (teach Torah) in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.” the four abstentions are the behavior of the Nephilim**

1 Jn. 3:4: “Whoever commits sin transgresses also the Torah; for sin is the transgression of the Torah (Torahlessness).”

Mal. 3:6: “For I Yehovah do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.”

Bereshit

בְּרֵאשִׁית “in the beginning”

With that being said let’s begin the 2018-19 Torah reading cycle. The Light of Torah Messianic Congregation frequently
refers to the week of creation as the foundation from which all patterns emerge.

Days one thru six use “two” different Hebrew words for the creative act. The first Hebrew word is “bara” ( בָּרָא ) which
means to create, shape or form new conditions or circumstances by cutting out or carving.

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The letter Bet refers to Yeshua, the Son. Creation was made so Yeshua, the bridegroom, could build His own have a house. He will rule and reign from earth for 1000 years. This concept makes perfect sense when we understand what the paleo or ancient picture of the Bet is, a “floor plan” of a house. In order to build His house, He needs a wife, a bride. A man cannot bear fruit by himself; either can a woman. It’s only when the two are joined, Echad (one) can they produce fruit. The whole of Scripture is about establishing the bride and teaching her the “rules of the kingdom” so they can live in harmony.

In the first seven words of the Scripture narrative this Hebrew word is seen twice.

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארצ

This alludes to “two” creations. Heaven and earth equal two. Two is also an allusion to the pattern of the “second” son. I’ll
point this pattern out to you as we make our way through the Torah. One portion (parasha or sidra) builds on another.

• The second Hebrew word used in the creative act is “asah” (עָשָׂה ). “Asah” means to appoint, ordain, institute or to bring about. Ge. 1:24 – 31: “Then Elohim said, ‘let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so.’ And Elohim made the beast ( אֶת־חַיַּת ) of the earth according to its kind, cattle ( אֶת־הַבְּהֵמָה ) according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good. Then Elohim said, ‘let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So, Elohim created mankind ( אֶת־הָֽאָדָם ) in his own image. In the image of Elohim, he created them; male and female he created them. Then Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, ‘be fruitful and multiply; replenish the earth (ת־הָאָרֶץ ) and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ And Elohim said, ‘see, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree ( אֶת כָּל־הָעֵץ ) whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every ( אֶת־כָּל־יֶרֶק ) green herb for food; and it was so.’ Then Elohim saw everything ( אֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר ) that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So, the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
  
• All the DNA from the six days of creation is exactly where Yehovah placed it. DNA is the building blocks of all life. The male and female created on day six are referred to as “they,” they were created in the image of Elohim.
  
• Ge. 2:1: “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day Elohim ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then Elohim blessed the seventh day ( אֶת־יוֹם ) and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which Elohim had created (בָּרָא) and made (עָשָׂה ). **The work of creation had come to an end**
  
• The Hebrew word for finished is כָּלָה which means to be finished, be ended or be completed. Everything that Elohim “created” and “made” was completed. Taken in its proper sequence, the man formed in Ge. 2:7 cannot be a retelling of the male and female created on day six. A new man formed for a specific purpose.
  
• Ge. 2:7: “And Yehovah Elohim formed ( יָצַר ) man ( אֶת־הָֽאָדָם ) of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. **Now we have a 3rd word used in the creative act, forming, ytzar . This man is formed on the 8th day, the day following the first Shabbat which occurred on the 7th day. This is where the pattern of 8 begins. Recall the number eight is connected to the Abrahamic covenant which has eight pieces.
  
• V 21: “And Yehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.” ** Out of his side came his bride, Chava; out of Messiah Yeshua’s’ side His bride will be grafted in.
  
• Rom. 11:17: “And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.” **The concept for grafting the bride into the bridegroom began in Ge. 2:21 with the 2nd man, Adam. The issue between Adam, Chava and the serpent was knowledge. The illicit knowledge obtained from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
  
• After Yehovah pronounced His creation “very good” He wanted to keep it that way. The command was given to not partake of the “tree of knowledge,” still they had free will. They chose disobedience. What illicit knowledge they learned was imparted to Cain and Seth.
  
• Ge. 4:1: “Now Adam knew Chava ( אֶת־חַוָּה ) his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain ( אֶת־קַיִן ) and said, “I have acquired a man from Yehovah ( אֶת־יְהוָֽה ).” Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel ( אֶת־הָבֶל ). Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the (cursed) ground. **Notice their order is now reversed.
• Cain and Abel were twins. Cain the firstborn became second in status.

The Second Son pattern, “two” bloodlines

The act of killing his brother was only the beginning of his spiritual decline. The historian Josephus has much to say
about his life in the land of Nod.

Descendants of Cain: The serpent bloodline

The Aleph Tav Cain: the Anti Messiah

• The historian Josephus writes: “And when Cain had travelled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a city, named Nod, which is a place so called, and there he settled his abode, where also he had children. However, he did not accept his punishment, in order to change, but to increase his wickedness for he only aimed to procure everything that was for his own bodily pleasure, though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors. rape, robbery, violence unequal weights and measures and much more (Josephus, Book 1, chapter 2, pg. 31)

Seth: the royal bloodline

• “Now the posterity of Seth continued to esteem Yehovah as the Lord of the universe, and to have an entire regard to virtue, for seven generations; but in the process of time they were perverted, and forsook the practices of their forefathers, and did neither pay those honors to Elohim which were appointed them, nor had they any concern to do justice towards men.” (Josephus, Chap. 3, pg. 32)

Ge. 6:1 – 7

• Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them (this is speaking to the male and female created on day six), that the sons of God ( הִים 􀋄 בְנֵי־הָֽאֱ ) saw the daughters ( אֶת־בְּנוֹת ) of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. **The הִים 􀋄 בְנֵי־הָֽאֱ are the “fallen” angels. We will discuss the “fallen” angels later. ** And Yehovah said, ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.’ There were giants ( הַנְּפִלִים ) on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then Yehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And Yehovah was sorry that He had made man ( אֶת־הָֽאָדָם ) on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ** after all, the male and female were made in the image of Elohim** So Yehovah said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” **These are “them” from day five and six.
  
• The “fallen” angels are also referred to in Job 1:6 – 7: “Now there was a day when the sons of God הִים 􀋄 בְּנֵי הָאֱ ) ) came to present themselves before Yehovah, and Satan also came among them. And Yehovah said to Satan, ‘from where do you come?’ So, Satan answered Yehovah and said, ‘from going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.'”
  
• The Book of Enoch, R. H. Charles, pg. 8 reads: “And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born to them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose wives from among the children of men and have children. And Semjaza, who was their leader, said to them: I fear you will not indeed agree to do this deed, (what’s wrong with this deed? Mixing DNA) and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin. And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ And they were in all two hundred who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon.”
  
• The offspring of the “fallen” angels, the Bnei Elohim, and the daughters of men are the Nephilim. Demons are the disembodied souls of dead Nephilim. (Lost in Translation, Vol. 1, pg. 99) A good example is found in Mt. 8:28 – 34: “When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, saying, ‘what have we to do with You, Yeshua, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?’ Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding. So, the demons begged Him, saying, ‘If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.’ And He said to them, ‘go.’ So, when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea and perished in the water. Then those who kept them fled; and they went away into the city and told everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. And behold, the whole city came out to meet Yeshua. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region.”
  
• The moral of this story is: Had these 200 “fallen” angels NOT mated with the daughters of men, corrupting the DNA, we wouldn’t still be dealing with them today. The bad thing is they will be back in force during the tribulation!
  
• The “fallen” angels are also referred to in Job 1:6 – 7: “Now there was a day when the sons of God הִים 􀋄 בְּנֵי הָאֱ ) ) came to present themselves before Yehovah, and Satan also came among them. And Yehovah said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So, Satan answered Yehovah and said, ‘from going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.’ And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born to them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose wives from among the children of men and have children.’ And Semjaza, who was their leader, said to them: ‘I fear you will not indeed agree to do this deed, (what’s wrong with this deed? Mixing DNA) and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.’ And they all answered him and said: ‘Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.’ And they were in all two hundred who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon…. (The Book of Enoch, R. H. Charles, pg. 8)
  
• The offspring of the “fallen” angels, the Bnei Elohim, and the daughters of men are the Nephilim. Demons are the disembodied souls of dead Nephilim. (Lost in Translation, Vol. 1, pg. 99) A good example is found in Mt. 8:28 – 34: “When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, saying, ‘what have we to do with You, Yeshua, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time? Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding. So, the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.’ And He said to them, ‘Go.’ So, when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea and perished in the water. Then those who kept them fled; and they went away into the city and told everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. And behold, the whole city came out to meet Yeshua. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region.”
  
• The moral of this story is: Had these 200 “fallen” angels NOT mated with the daughters of men, corrupting the DNA, we wouldn’t still be dealing with them today. The bad thing is they will be back in force during the tribulation!
  
• In conclusion, there is much more to Parasha Bereshit than the week of creation. We see the first separation of the holy (Aleph Tav light) vs the profane (darkness). If we don’t see it the first time, Scripture gives us this picture again in the relationship between Abel the shepherd (Yeshua the good shepherd) killed by his brother Cain, tiller of the already cursed earth (Yeshua killed by his brothers). If we don’t see it the first and second time, we are given the account of the Nephilim. The fallen angels who mated with the daughters of men created these “mixed seed abominations.” Scripture continues to give us this picture until we reach the conclusion that the line between good and evil, the holy and the profane, was well established in Parasha Bereshit, “in the beginning.”

Haftarah

• Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 42:5 – 21: “Thus says Yehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I Yehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am Yehovah: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
  
• V 21 Elohim desired for the sake of [Israel’s] righteousness that the Torah be made great and glorious.

Brit Chadasha

• Mt. 1:1-17 = the lineage of Messiah from Abraham
• Mt. 19:3-9 = speaks to the creation, male and female
• Mk. 10:1-12 = speaks to the male and female
• Lk. 3:23-38 = the lineage of Messiah from Yehovah
• Jn. 1:1-18 = In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning etc.
• 1Cor. 6:15-20 = and the two will become one flesh
• 1 Cor. 15:35-58 = became a living human being
• (connecting to Ge. 2:7)
• Rom. 5:12-21 = All this happened so that just as sin ruled by means of death, so also grace might rule through causing people to be considered righteous, so that they might have eternal life, through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord.
• Eph. 5:21-32 = therefore a man will leave his father and mother and remain with his wife, and the two will become one.
• Col. 1:14-17 = It is through His Son that we have redemption. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation, because in connection with him were created all things-in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities-they have all been created through him and for him. He existed before all things, and he holds everything together.
• There are a few more but I think we get the point

Resources

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