“Deborah’s Drash”
“Sitting at the feet of
Yeshua”
A Study in
Messianic Jews/Hebrews 11 –The Faith Chapter
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7 To [you then] all God’s
beloved ones in Rome, called to be saints and designated for a
consecrated life: Grace and spiritual blessing and peace be yours from
God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.[2]
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revelation, instead of seeking our own revelation from the Word.”
Deborah’s Drash Commentary:
ENOCH: Translation Faith
Hebrews 11:5 Amplified Translation
5 Because of faith Enoch was caught up and
transferred to heaven, so that he did not have a glimpse of death; and he was
not found, because God had translated him. For even before he was taken to
heaven, he received testimony [still on record] that he
had pleased and been satisfactory to God. [Gen. 5:21–24].[3]
Genesis
5:21-24
21 Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became
the father of Methuselah.
22 Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after
he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons a daughters.
23 So all the days
of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.
24 Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.[4]
Jude 14,15
14 It was of these people, moreover, that Enoch
in the seventh [generation] from Adam prophesied when he said, Behold, the Lord comes with His myriads of holy ones (ten
thousands of His saints)
15 To execute judgment upon all and to convict
all the impious (unholy ones) of all their ungodly deeds which they have
committed [in such an] ungodly [way], and of all the severe (abusive, jarring)
things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.[5]
I
Corinthians 15: 51-58
51 Look, I will tell
you a secret—not all of us will die! But we will all be changed! 52 It
will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final shofar. For
the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and
we too will be changed. 53 For this material which can decay must be
clothed with imperishability, this which is mortal must be clothed with
immortality. 54 When what decays puts on imperishability and what is
mortal puts on immortality, then this passage in the Tanakh will be
fulfilled:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 “Death, where is your victory?
Death, where is
your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin; and
sin draws its power from the Torah; 57 but thanks be to God,
who gives us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah!
58 So, my dear brothers, stand
firm and unmovable, always doing the Lord’s work as vigorously as you can,
knowing that united with the Lord your efforts are not in vain.[6]
Alfred Edersheim
Bible History –Old Testament
Enoch
Chapter IV
On examining them more closely,
what strikes us in these genealogical records of the Patriarchs is, that the
details they furnish are wanting in the history of the Cainites, where simply
the birth of seven generations are mentioned, viz.: Adam, Cain,
Enoch, Irad, Mehajael, Methusael, Lamech, and his sons. The reason of this
difference is, that whereas the Cainites had really no future, the Sethites,
who “called upon the name of Jehovah,” were destined to carry out the purpose
of God in grace unto the end. Next, in two cases the same names
occur in the two races—Enoch and Lamech. But in both, Scripture furnishes
characteristic distinctions between them. In opposition to the Enoch after whom
Cain called his city, we have the Sethite Enoch, “who walked with God,
and was not; for God took him;” and in contradistinction to the Cainite
Lamech, with his boastful ode to his sword, we have the other Lamech, who
called his son Noah, “saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work
and toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.” Thus
the similarity of their names only brings out the more clearly the contrast of
their character. Finally, as the wickedness of the one race comes out most
fully in Lamech, who stands seventh in the genealogy of the Cainites, so
does the godliness of the other in Enoch, who equally stands seventh in
that of the Sethites.
Passing from this
comparison of the two genealogies to the table of the Sethites, we are
reminded of the saying, that these primeval genealogies are “monuments
alike of the faithfulness of God in the fulfilment of His promise, and of the
faith and patience of the fathers.” Every generation lived its appointed
time; they transmitted the promise to their sons; and then, having
finished their course, they all “died in faith, not having received the
promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and
embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth.” That is absolutely all we know of the majority of them. But the
emphatic and seemingly needless repetition in each case of the words, “And he
died,” with which every genealogy closes, tells us that “death reigned from
Adam unto Moses,” with all the lessons which it conveyed of its origin in sin,
and of its conquest by the second Adam. Only one exception occurs to this
general rule—in the case of Enoch; when, instead of the usual brief notice how
many years he “lived” after the birth of his son, we read that “he
walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years;” and
instead of the simple closing statement that “he died,” we are not only a
second time told that “Enoch walked with God,” but also that “he was
not; for God took him.” Thus both his life and his translation are connected
with his “walk with God.” This expression is unique in Scripture, and except in
reference to Noah only occurs again in connection with the priest’s
intercourse with God in the holy place. Thus it indicates a peculiarly
intimate, close, and personal converse with Jehovah. Alike the
life, the work, and the removal of Enoch are thus explained in the
Epistle to the Hebrews: “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his
translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” His translation
was like that of Elijah, and like what that of the saints shall be at the
second coming of our blessed Lord. In this connection it is very remarkable
that Enoch “prophesied” of the very thing which was manifested in his own case,
“saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute
judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their
ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches
which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
When Enoch was
“translated” only Adam had as yet died: Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, and
Jared were still alive. On the other hand, not only Methuselah, the son of
Enoch, but also his grandson Lamech, who at the time was one hundred and
thirteen years old, must have witnessed his removal. Noah was not yet born. But how deep on the godly
men of that period was the impression produced by the prophecy of Enoch, and by
what we may call its anticipatory and typical fulfilment in his translation,
appears from the circumstance that Lamech gave to his son, who was born
sixty-nine years after the translation of Enoch, the name of Noah—“rest” or
“comfort”—“saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of
our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.” Evidently Lamech
felt the burden of toil upon an earth which God had cursed, and looked forward
to a gracious deliverance from the misery and corruption existing in
consequence of it, by the fulfilment of the Divine promise concerning the
Deliverer. In longing hope of this he called his son Noah. A change,
indeed, did come; but it was by the destruction of that sinful
generation, and by the commencement of a new period in the covenant-history. We
mark that, in the case of Noah, Scripture no longer mentions, as before, only
one son; but it gives us the names of the three sons of Noah, to show
that henceforth the one line was to divide into three, which were to become the
founders of human history.
It is most
instructive, also, to notice that Enoch, who seems to have walked
nearest to God, only lived on earth altogether three hundred and sixty-five years—less than
half the time of those who preceded and who succeeded him. An
extraordinary length of life may be a blessing, as affording space for
repentance and grace; but in reference to those most dear to God, it may be
shortened as a relief from the work and toil which sin has brought upon this
world. Indeed, the sequel will show that the extraordinary duration of life,
though necessary at the first, yet by no means proved a source of good to a
wicked and corrupt generation.[7]
Key Phrase: And Enoch Walked With God
Strongs Concordance
Walk -1980 – Hebrew 1980
halak haw-lak'
akin to 3212; a primitive root; to
walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively):--(all)
along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, +
be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad,
along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt,
lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the
point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, +
tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to
places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
From The Book
Hebrew Honey by Al Novak[8]
“And Enoch walked with God, and he was
not, for God took him” (Gen 5:24) The Hebrew word for walk is “halak” which
means to go forth and also to go through as a way of life or conduct. This going is to result in an increase of
such blessings as grace and knowledge.”
For more on this Hebrew word and it
relative “ yalak “we need to refer to the word “Go”
“And….Moses…said, Be strong and of good
courage; for thou must go…and the Lord, He is is that doth go before thee, He
will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee; fear not,
neither be dismayed” (Deut 31:7-8)
Go is used about 3,000 times in the
Bible. In verse 7. “Bo”is used
and its primary meaning is enter. This
is most proper since the people are to enter the promised land. In verses 6 and 8 halak is used which
means:
To go
forth – Genesis 7:18
It may be a ship that is going forth, or
it may be a boundary that is going on and on to extend one’s holdings. How we wish to extend King Emannuel’s
terrirory-
Joshua 16:8
From Tappuah the
border continued westward to the brook of Kanah, and it ended at the sea.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their
families,[9]
To go through or over a place – Deut.
1:19
Deu
1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we
went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the
way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we
came to Kadeshbarnea.
There may be a desert place in one’s
life, but he is to go through it to a better land, stopping at oases on the
way.
To go with anyone – Exodus 10:9 The Lord
promises to go with us always.
To have intercourse with – Proverbs 13:20
Pro 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools
shall be destroyed.
This is rich for travelers who have the
Lord with them. They will have sweet
converse
To go away, to vanish – Job 19:10
The Lord may be provoked into leave us,
or we may leave the Lord!
To increase, to go on adding – Genesis
26:13.
Gen 26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward,
and grew until he became very great:
As believers in Messiah Yeshua, we are to continue
to grow in our walk with G-d, growing closer to Him daily through Messiah Yeshua
who has given us access to the Holy of Holies that we might come before the
throne of Grace and find mercy in time of need.
G-d desires that we be like Enoch, and walk closely
with Him, not behind Him dragging our feet, not in front of Him so we do not
see His direction, but with Him, holding onto His hand as He leads us and
guides us through life with His Torah/Word to instruct us .
Not much is said about Enoch, because that one
phrase “Enoch walked with G-d” says it all.
The perfect example of one who walked with G-d
perfectly was Yeshua. He only did and
said what the Father told Him to say and do and was obedient even unto death,
the most horrible death of all, the Cross/Execution Stake because of our sins
and for our sins, the Lamb of G-d who takes away the sins of the World.
In our “Halakha/Walk” of Faith we need to ask
ourselves, are we walking with G-d or are we following our own
paths? Are we willing to walk as Enoch
walked even in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation?
Enoch walked by faith, he did not have the written
Tenack or the Brit HaDasha as we have, idolatry was spreading through the land,
but Enoch lived in strict compliance to the will of the True G-d, by doing so
he had recorded of him the testimony that he pleased G-d. (Hebrews 11:5) He
knew G-d so intimately that he was taken right up to heaven, not tasting death,
taken out of the corruption that surrounded him into the presence of Yahweh.
We know that the earth was becoming more corrupt
because judgment was soon to come in the form of the flood. What a testimony of this godly mans life,
that in the midst of all the paganism that was emerging, he held fast to the
One True G-d, Yahweh.
We also
must press on in our walk with Yahweh through Yeshua Ha Mashiach by
Faith according to His Holy Torah/Word.
As
Rab Sh-ual says:
Phillipians 3
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no
trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.
2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false
circumcision;
3 for
we are the true circumcision, who worship in
the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,
4 although
I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to
put confidence in the flesh, I far more:
5 circumcised
the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of
Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;
6 as
to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the
Law, found blameless.
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted
as loss for the sake of Christ.
8 More
than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that
I may gain Christ,
9 and
may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law,
but that which is through faith in Christ, the
righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
10
that I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His
death;
11 in order that I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.
12Not that I have already
obtained it or have already become perfect, but
I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold
of by Christ Jesus.
13Brethren, I do not regard myself as
having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting
what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
14I press on toward the goal for the
prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect,
have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will
reveal that also to you;
16 however, let
us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
17 Brethren, join in following
my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in
us.
18 For many walk, of whom I often told
you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross
of Christ,
19 whose end is destruction, whose god
is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set
their minds on earthly things.
20 For our citizenship is in heaven,
from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21 who will transform the body of
our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of
the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself. [10]
Let
this be our testimony to those who come after us
that we walked with G-d.
Baruch
Ha Shem Adonai
And _______________ walked with G-d; and he was not, for God took
him
(Put your name in the Blank as a statement of Faith)
“For We
Walk By Faith, not by sight”
11
Corinthians 5:7
Bonus: Prayers of The Bible – Prayers From The Life
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Torah Nuggets:[i]
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Halacha – The Way One Walks or Goes- Derived from the
Hebrew word “Halakh” which means “To Walk”.
The Way to follow the Torah/Word of God.
In this weeks Torah Portion, what is God
saying to me today about my walk with Him?
How can I apply this Torah Portion with
my walk with Yeshua this week?
Bible Study Nuggets From Daily Bible Reading:
Golden Nuggets From Gods Word: (Write
the Revelations and Insights you have received from Him today)
Word from the Lord (Write out verse,
quote or anything that was spoken to you by the Ruach HaKodesh/The Holy Spirit.
Today I
will…. (write down how you will apply what the Lord has spoken to your heart
through His Holy Word to your daily walk with Him in your Journal.)
Worship Time - Psalm
100:4 “I will adore you Adonai” Put in your favorite Worship CD or Tape and Praise
Adonai-See Amidah #1-4 Below and Shema
Waiting Time - Psalm
62:5 – I will wait in Your presence and surrender my thoughts to you! Clear
your mind of the clutter and focus on Ha Shem.
See below for Personal Word Confessions to build up your Faith and
Spirit and to plant the Word in Your Heart
Intercession Time –Ezekial
22:30-31 I will stand in the Gap for
the world and for others as Yeshua is doing for us as our High Priest at the
right hand of The Father
31 Day Cycle of Prayer for the World…(Use a
World Atlas to help you pray for the World)
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*Daily Prayer Reminders: See
Amidah #11-12, 14-17 Below
1 Timothy 2:1 1 First
of all, then, I counsel that petitions, prayers, intercessions and
thanksgivings be made for all human beings, 2 Including kings and
all in positions of prominence; so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives,
being godly and upright in everything. 3 This is what God, our
deliverer, regards as good; this is what meets his approval.[11]
President,
Government Leaders, Family, Friends, Church, Ministers, Spouse, Children, Ministries,
Schools, Salvation, Missions, World Revival – See 40 Day Prayer Focus Below
Petition Time – My Abba
Father hears me when I pray and answers when I pray in faith/trust and
according to His Word. Write down personal petitions for today. See Amidah #7-8 Below
Watching
Time – Colossians 4:2a – I will
keep watch in the spirit and be alert to what & who I need to pray
for. See
Amdiah #13
Prayer Alert: Today
Adonai has specifically laid these people upon my heart to pray for: Write it
down in your Prayer Journal
Listening Time: Psalm
85:8 Write down what Ruach HaKodesh/The Holy Spirit has revealed to you today
in Prayer.
Praise, Waiting, Confession, Singing,
Watching, Intercession, Petition, Thanksgiving, Devotions, Meditation,
Listening and Praise
Suggested Prayer
Books: Prayer’s That Avail Much Volumes
1,2 and 3 by Germain Copeland[ii] and The Artscroll Seder Series[iii].
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Torah/Bible
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First
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Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website
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Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website
Recommended Reading For Further Study
Messiah Volume 1, 2 and 3 Avi Ben Mordachi
http://www.millennium7000.com/
Restoring the Two Houses of Israel- Eddie Chumney
The Feasts of Messiah – Eddie Chumney
Who is The Bride of Christ-Eddie Chumney
Who is Israel – Angus and Batya Wooten
Restoring Israels Kingdom – Angus and Batya Wooten
First Fruits of Zion – Torah Club Volume 1,2,3, 4
and 5
Prayer Helps
Shemoneh
Esreh-Amidah and Ha Adonai Tefillah/The Lords Prayer
Traditional
Jewish Prayers and Blessings
(Jewish
Website by D’vorah, Click here for more insights into Jewish Prayer)
(Daily
Petitions to Yahweh)
(to
build up your faith)
Who I am In Messiah
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(What
Yeshua did for you)
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[1] An excellent Torah Devotional is the Walk Series, Walk Genesis, Walk Exodus, Walk Leviticus, Walk Number, Walk Deuteronomy , by Jeffery Enoch Feinberg, PHD by Lederer Books, a division of Messianic Jewish Publishers. Easy to read, with Hebrew nuggets, and illustrations. Also FFOZ Torah Club is a more detailed study, and worth enrolling for.
[2]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman
Foundation) 1999.
[3]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman
Foundation) 1999.
[4]The New American Standard
Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.
[5]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman
Foundation) 1999.
[6]The Jewish New Testament, (Clarksville, MD: Jewish
New Testament Publications) 1996.
[7]Edersheim, Alfred, Bible
History: Old Testament, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.)
1998.
[8] Hebrew Honey copyright 1965 by Al Novak, Published J. Countrymen Publishers, Houston Texas 77068
[9]The New American Standard
Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.
[10]The New American Standard
Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.
[11]The Jewish New Testament, (Clarksville, MD: Jewish
New Testament Publications) 1996.
[i] An excellent Messianic Jewish Devotional called The Walk Series, Walk Genesis, Walk Exodus, Walk Leviticus, Walk Numbers and Walk Deuteronomy by Jeffery Enoch Feinburg, PhD. Published by Lederer Books Messianic Jewish Publishers is a wonderful Daily Devotional to use for studying Torah, along with FFOZ Torah Club which is more detailed. Both will give you additional insights into Torah.
[ii] This book is filled with Scripture Prayers to help you pray the Word – Harrison House Publishers, Germaine Copeland –Available in any Christian Book Store
[iii] You can order The Art Scroll Seder Series through Amazon. Com or First Fruits of Zion