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Romans
4:16
16
Therefore,
[inheriting] the promise is the outcome of faith and depends [entirely]
on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of grace (unmerited favor),
to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants—not
only to the devotees and adherents of the Law, but also to those who
share the faith of Abraham, who is [thus] the father of us all.[2]
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Deborah’s Drash Commentary:
NOAH/NOACH: Active and Preservation Faith
Hebrews 11:7 Amplified Translation
7 [Prompted] by faith Noah, being forewarned
by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign, took heed and
diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the
deliverance of his own family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he
passed judgment and sentence on the world’s unbelief and became an heir and
possessor of righteousness (that relation of being right into which God puts
the person who has faith). [Gen. 6:13–22].[3]
Genesis 6-10 NASB
1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on
the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2 that
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took
wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
3 Then
the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not
strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall
be one hundred and twenty years.”
4 The
Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of
God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 Then the Lord saw that
the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 The
Lord was sorry that He had made
man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 The
Lord said, “I will blot out man
whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping
things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”
8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are the records of the
generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah
walked with God.
10 Noah
became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the
earth was filled with violence.
12 God
looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted
their way upon the earth.
13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of
all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of
them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.
14 “Make
for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and
shall cover it inside and out with pitch.
15 “This
is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its
breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
16 “You
shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set
the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second,
and third decks.
17 “Behold,
I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh
in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the
earth shall perish.
18 “But
I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your
sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 “And
of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into
the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
20 “Of
the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come
to you to keep them alive.
21 “As
for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to
yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.”
22
Thus Noah
did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.[4]
Chapter
7
The
Flood
1 Then the Lord said to
Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have
seen to be righteous before Me in this time.
2 “You
shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and
of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
3 also
of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on
the face of all the earth.
4 “For
after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty
nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I
have made.”
5 Noah
did according to all that the Lord
had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon
the earth.
7 Then
Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark
because of the water of the flood.
8 Of
clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that
creeps on the ground,
9 there
went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 It
came about after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the
earth.
11 In
the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth
day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst
open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
12 The
rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the
sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered
the ark,
14 they
and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after
its kind, all sorts of birds.
15 So
they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of
life.
16 Those
that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him;
and the Lord closed it behind
him.
17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the
water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18 The
water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on
the surface of the water.
19 The
water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains
everywhere under the heavens were covered.
20 The
water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
21 All
flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every
swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
22 of
all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the
spirit of life, died.
23 Thus
He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man
to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted
out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with
him in the ark.
24 The
water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Chapter 8
The
Flood Subsides
1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that
were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the
water subsided.
2 Also
the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the
rain from the sky was restrained;
3 and
the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and
fifty days the water decreased.
4 In
the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the
mountains of Ararat.
5 The
water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the
window of the ark which he had made;
7 and
he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up
from the earth.
8 Then
he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of
the land;
9 but
the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to
him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he
put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.
10 So
he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
11 The
dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beak was a freshly picked
olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth.
12 Then
he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return
to him again.
13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the
first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the
earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the
surface of the ground was dried up.
14 In
the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
15 Then
God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 “Go
out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.
17 “Bring
out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and
animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed
abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
18 So
Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.
19 Every
beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the
earth, went out by their families from the ark.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird
and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 The Lord smelled
the soothing aroma; and the Lord
said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for
the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again
destroy every living thing, as I have done.
22 “While the earth remains,
Seedtime
and harvest,
And cold
and heat,
And
summer and winter,
And day
and night
Shall not
cease.”
Chapter 9
Covenant
of the Rainbow
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and
said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 “The
fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on
every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the
fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
3 “Every
moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I
gave the green plant.
4 “Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that
is, its blood.
5 “Surely I will require your lifeblood; from
every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s
brother I will require the life of man.
6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man
his blood shall be shed,
For in
the image of God
He made
man.
7 “As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate
the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with
him, saying,
9 “Now
behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants
after you;
10 and
with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every
beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast
of the earth.
11 “I
establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by
the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the
earth.”
12 God
said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you
and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
13 I
set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me
and the earth.
14 “It
shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be
seen in the cloud,
15 and
I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to
destroy all flesh.
16 “When
the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the
earth.”
17 And
God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established
between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
18 Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham
and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These
three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was
populated.
20 Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.
21 He
drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22 Ham,
the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brothers outside.
23 But
Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and
walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were
turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
24 When
Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
25 So
he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of
servants
He shall be to his
brothers.”
26 He
also said,
“Blessed be the Lord,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be
his servant.
27 “May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell
in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be
his servant.”
28 Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
29 So
all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.
Alfred
Edersheim –Bible History of The Old Testament
CHAPTER V
The
Universal Corruption of Man—Preparation for the Flood.
(Gen. VI.)
It is a remarkable circumstance that all nations should
have preserved in their traditions notices of the extraordinary length to which
human life was at the first protracted. We can understand that knowledge of
such a fact would be most readily handed down. But we should remember, that
before the “flood” the conditions of vigour, constitution, climate, soil, and
nourishment were quite different from those on which the present duration of
life depends. A comparison between the two is therefore impossible, for the
best of all reasons, that we have not sufficient knowledge of the primitive
state of matters. But this
we can clearly see, that such long continuance of life was absolutely
necessary, if the earth was to be rapidly peopled, knowledge to advance, and,
above all, the worship of God and faith in that promise about a Deliverer which
He had revealed, to be continued. As it was, each generation could hand down to
remote posterity what it had learned during the centuries of its continuance.
Thus Adam was alive to tell the story of Paradise and the fall, and to repeat
the word of promise, which he had heard from the very mouth of the Lord, when
Lamech was born; and though none of the earlier “fathers” could have lived to
see the commencement of
building the ark,
which took place in the year 1536 from the creation, yet Lamech died
only five years before “the flood,” and his father Methuselah—the longest-lived
man—in the very year of the deluge. If we try to realise how much information
event in our own days, when intercourse, civilisation, and the means-of knowledge
have so far advanced, can be gained from personal intercourse with the chief
actors in great events, we shall understand the importance of man’s longevity
in the early ages of our race.
But, on the other hand,
it was possible to pervert this long duration of life to equally evil purposes.
The rare occurrence, during so many centuries, of death with its terrors would
tend still more to blunt the conscience; the long association of evil men would
foster the progress of corruption and evil; and the apparently indefinite delay
of either judgment or deliverance would strengthen the bold unbelief of
scoffers. That such was the case appears from the substance of Lamech’s
prophecy; from the
description of the state of the earth in the time of Noah, and the unbelief of
his cotemporaries; and from the comparison by our Lord between “the days of
Noe” and those of “the coming of the Son of man,” when, according to St. Peter,
there shall be “scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is
the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
The corruption of
mankind reached its highest point when even the difference between the Sethites
and the Cainites became obliterated by intermarriages between the two parties,
and that from sensual motives. We read that “the sons of God saw the daughters
of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”
At that time the earth must have been in a great measure peopled, and its state
is thus described, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.” This means more than the total corruption of our nature, as we
should now describe it, and refers to the universal prevalence of open, daring
sin, and rebellion against God, brought about when the separation between the
Sethites and the Cainites ceased. With the exception of Noah there was none in
that generation “to call upon the name of Jehovah.” “In those days there were
‘giants’ (in Hebrew: Nephilim) in the earth … the same were the
mighty men (or heroes) which were of old, the men of renown.” Properly
speaking, these Nephilim were “men of violence,” or tyrants, as Luther renders
it, the root of the word meaning, “to fall upon.” In short, it was a period of
violence, of might against right, of rapine, lust, and universal unbelief of
the promise. With the virtual extinction of the Sethite faith and worship no
further hope remained, and that generation required to be wholly swept away in
judgment.
And yet, though not only
the justice of God, but even His faithfulness to His gracious promise demanded this, the tender
loving-kindness of Jehovah appears in such expressions as these: “It repented
Jehovah that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him”—literally, “it
pained into His heart.” The one term, of course, explains the other.
When we read that God repented, it is only our human way of speaking, for, as
Calvin says, “nothing happens by accident, or that has not been foreseen.” It
brings before our minds “the sorrow of Divine love over the sins of man,” in
the words of Calvin, “that when the terrible sins of man offend God, it is not
otherwise than as if His heart had been wounded by extreme sorrow.” The
consequence was, that God declared He would destroy “from the face of the earth
both man and beast,”—the latter, owing to the peculiar connection in which
creation was placed with man, as being its lord, which involved it in the ruin
and punishment that befel man. But long before that sentence was actually executed, God had declared,
“My Spirit shall not always strive with man,”—or rather, “dwell with man,”
“bear rule,” or “preside,” among them,—“for that he also is flesh,” or, as some
have rendered it, “since in his erring,” or aberration, he has become wholly
“carnal, sensual, devilish;” “yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years;” that is, a further space of a hundred and twenty years would in mercy
be granted them, before the final judgments should burst. It was during these
hundred and twenty years that “the long-suffering of God waited,” “while the
ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.”
For, to the universal corruption of that generation,
there was one exception—Noah. It needs no more than simply to put
together the notices of Noah, in the order in which Scripture places them: “But
Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah;” and again: “Noah was a just man, and
perfect”—as the Hebrew word implies, spiritually upright, genuine, inwardly
entire and complete, one whose heart had a single aim—“in his generations,” or
among his contemporaries; and lastly, “Noah walked with God,”—this expression being the same as in the case of
Enoch. The mention of his finding grace in the eyes of Jehovah precedes that of
his “justice,” which describes his moral bearing towards God; while this
justice was again the outcome of inward spiritual rectitude, or of what under
the fuller light of the New Testament we would designate a heart renewed by the
Holy Spirit. The whole was summed up and completed in an Enoch-like walk with
God. The statement that
Noah found grace is like the forth-bursting of the sun in a sky lowering for
the storm. Three times the sacred text repeats it, that the earth was corrupt,
adding that it was full of violence, just as if the watchful eye of the Lord,
who “looked upon the earth,” had been searching and trying the children of men,
and was lingering in pity over it, before judgment was allowed to descend.
Nor was this all. Even so, “the long-suffering of
God waited” for one hundred and twenty years, “while the ark was a preparing;”
and during this time, especially, Noah must have acted as “a preacher of
righteousness.” The building
of the ark commenced when Noah was four hundred and eighty years old;
that is, before any of his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, had been
born,—in fact, just twenty years before the birth of Shem. Thus the great faith of Noah
appeared not only in building an ark in the midst of a scoffing and unbelieving generation, and
that against all human probability of its ever being needed, and one hundred and twenty years before
it was actually required, but in providing room for “his sons” and his “sons’
wives,” while as yet he himself was childless! Indeed, the more we try to
realise the circumstances, the more grand appears the unshaken confidence of
the patriarch. The words in which God announced His purpose were these:
“The end of all flesh is come before Me,”—that is, as some have explained it,
the extreme limit of human depravity;—“for the earth is filled with violence
through them,”—that is, violence proceeding from them (“from before their
faces”),—“and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” Noah and his family were alone
to be preserved, and that by means of an “ark,”—an expression which only occurs
once more in reference to the ark of bulrushes in which Moses was saved. Noah
was to construct his ark of “gopher,” most likely cypress wood, and to “pitch
it within and without with pitch.” The ark was to be three hundred cubits long,
fifty broad, and thirty high; that is, reckoning the cubit at one foot and a
half, four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five broad, and forty-five
high. As the wording of the Hebrew text implies, there was all around the top,
one cubit below the roof, an opening for light and for air (rendered in our
version “window”), in which, it has been suggested, some translucent substance
like our glass may have been inserted. Here there seems also to have been a
regular “window,” which is afterwards specially referred to (ch. viii. 6). The
door was to be in the side of the ark, which was arranged in three stories of
rooms (literally “cells”), or the accommodation of all the animals in the ark,
and their storage of food. For “of every living thing” Noah was to bring with
him into the ark,—seven pairs, in the case of “clean beasts,” and one pair of
those that were not clean. Then, when the appointed time for it came, God would
“bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the
breath of life, from under heaven.” But with Noah God would “establish” His
“covenant,” that is, carry out through him His purpose in the covenant of
grace, which was to issue in the birth of the Redeemer. Accordingly, Noah, his
wife—for here there is no trace of polygamy,—his sons, and his sons’ wives were
to go into the ark, and there to be kept alive during the general destruction
of all around.
Thus far the directions
of Scripture. Much needless ingenuity has been wasted on a calculation of the
exact space in the ark, of its internal arrangements, and of the accommodation
it contained for the different species of animals then existing. Such
computations are essentially unreliable, as we can neither calculate the exact
room in the ark, nor yet the exact number of species which required to
be accommodated within its shelter. Scripture, which sets before us the history
of God’s kingdom, never gratifies such idle and foolish inquiries. But of this
we may be quite sure, that the ark which God provided was literally and in
every sense quite sufficient for the purposes for which it was intended, and
that these purposes were fully secured. It may perhaps help us to realise this
marvellous structure if we compare it to the biggest ship known—the Great
Eastern, whose dimensions are six hundred and eighty feet in length,
eighty-three in breadth, and fifty-eight in depth; or else if we describe it as
nearly half the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It should be borne in
mind that the ark was designed not for navigation, but chiefly for storage. It
had neither masts, rudder, nor sails, and was probably flat at the bottom,
resembling a huge floating chest. To show how suitable its proportions were for
storage, we may mention that a Dutchman, Peter Jansen, built in 1604 a ship on
precisely the same proportions (not, of course, the same figures), which was
found to hold one third more lading than any other vessel of the same tonnage.
All other questions
connected with the building of the ark may safely be dismissed as not deserving
serious discussion. But
the one great fact would stand out during that period: Noah preaching
righteousness, warning of the judgment to come, and still exhibiting his faith
in his practice by continuing to provide an ark of refuge. To sum up Noah’s
life of faith, Noah’s preaching of faith, and Noah’s work of faith in the words
of Scripture: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet,
moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”
5
Chapters in the Torah are about Noach and the Flood. This was a turning point in the History of the World. The earth had become so vile and evil that
G-d finally had enough, but because He is a covenant keeping G-d he made a way
of escape for the righteous, even though Noach was the only righteous person
left on the earth, He made a way of escape for him, so the Redeemer could come as promised in
Genesis 3:15
Genesis
3:15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the
woman,
And between your
seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you
on the head,
And
you shall bruise him on the heel.”[5]
When
Yahweh told Noach that there would be a flood, he did not doubt but put his
faith to action even in the midst of ridicule and scorn he built the Ark that
would preserve the righteous by faith.
Yeshua is our Ark of safety we know in His Word that He is coming again
and gave us warning of what it would be like prior to His return.
Mat 24:37 But as the days of
Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Mat 24:38 For as in the days
that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Mat 24:39 And knew not until
the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be.
Luk 17:26 And as it was in
the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they
drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Alfred
Edersheim points out these faith facts.
But the one
great fact would stand out during that period:
Noah
preaching righteousness, He continued
to preach repentance and forgiveness to those who would repent and put their
faith in Yahweh.
warning of
the judgment to come,
He continued to bring a
message of judgment, even though it was not the kind of message that would
tickle the ear of the hearer, he said what Yahweh told him to say, to bring
people to repentance
and still
exhibiting his faith in his practice by continuing to provide an ark of refuge.
He did not stop for one
minute even though not one drop of water had yet hit the ground, he continued
to hammer away, collect the animals, and continue his work by faith because He
knew that the flood would come because Yahweh decreed it would be so.
To sum up Noah’s life of
faith, Noah’s preaching of faith, and Noah’s work of faith in the words of
Scripture: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved
with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”
Romans 3:18-20
18 For Christ [the Messiah Himself] died for
sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous (the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty),
that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He
was made alive in the spirit,
19 In which He went and preached to the spirits
in prison,
20 [The souls of those] who long before in
the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God’s patience waited during the
building of the ark in which a few [people], actually eight in number, were
saved through water. [Gen. 6–8].[6]
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The Story of Noach is an awesome
picture of Faith, Judgment, Forgiveness and New Beginnings for those put their
faith in Messiah/Christ the Ark of Safety.
Bonus: Prayers of The Bible – Prayers From The Life
of Yeshua
Torah Nuggets:[i]
Click
link for
Torah Portion Teaching:
Messianic
Israel Ministries Torah Study
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)
Today’s Countries to Pray for are:
Click Here For Map of World and Countries
*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.[7]
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].
Click on
the Links for Daily Prayer and Bible Study helps
Torah/Bible
Study Helps
Lots and Lots of Study Helps, Concordances,
Commentaries, Various Translations Etc.
First
Century Judaism/Christianity
Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website
The Sabbath and
Biblical Festivals
Learn about the Sabbath and Feasts of YHWH
Eddie Chumney’s Hebrew Roots Website
Learn about the Tabernacle
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
Scriptures
(What
Yeshua did for you)
Click Here
to Return to Index Page
Lots more to See and Read !
Baruch HaShem Adonai –
Shalom B’Shem Yeshua Ha Mashiach
Deborah
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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 New American Standard
Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.
[6]The Amplified New Testament, (La Habra CA: The Lockman
Foundation) 1999.
[7]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