“Deborah’s Drash”
“Sitting at the feet of
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Messianic Jews/Hebrews 11 –The Faith Chapter
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Deborah’s Drash Commentary:
Abraham/Avraham: Faith for this life and Faith that transcends death
Part I
Hebrews 11:8-10 Amplified Translation
8 [Urged on] by faith Abraham, when he was
called, obeyed and went forth to a place which he was destined to receive as an
inheritance; and he went, although he did not know or trouble his mind
about where he was to go.
9 [Prompted] by faith he dwelt as a temporary
resident in the land which was designated in the promise [of God, though he was
like a stranger] in a strange country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob,
fellow heirs with him of the same promise. [Gen. 12:1–8].
10 For he was [waiting expectantly and
confidently] looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm
foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God.
Bereshit/Genesis 12:1-8
1 Now the Lord
said to Abram,
“Go forth
from your country,
And from
your relatives
And from
your father’s house,
To the
land which I will show you;
2 And I will make you a great nation,
And I
will bless you,
And make
your name great;
And so
you shall be a blessing;
3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the
one who curses you I will curse.
And in
you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 So Abram went forth as the Lord
had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old
when he departed from Haran.
5 Abram
took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they
had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set
out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.
6 Abram
passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now
the Canaanite was then in the land.
7 The
Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he
built an altar there to the Lord
who had appeared to him.
8 Then
he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his
tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar
to the Lord and called upon the
name of the Lord.[2]
So much scripture is devoted to
that Faith of Avraham that will take several days to go through His walk of
Faith with Yahweh.
From the Jewish New Testament
Commentary by David Stern
The
Tanakh itself extols Avraham’s faith (Nehemiah 9:7–8), as does
Sha’ul (Romans 4, Galatians 3). Our author devotes more space to him than to
anyone else, giving no less than four instances of his trusting: his
obeying God’s call to leave home for an unknown land (v. 8), his steadfast
hoping for the unseen heavenly city (vv. 9–10, 13–16), his trusting God to
provide an heir through Sarah despite its natural impossibility (vv. 11–12),
and his offering that heir as a sacrifice (vv. 17–19). The passage may also be
divided into these two parts: faith for this life (vv. 8–12), and faith that
transcends death (vv. 13–19). [3]
Alfred Edersheim – Bible
History-Chapter X Commencement
of the History of God’s Dealings with Abraham and his Seed.[4]
This may suffice on a
matter which has engaged only too much discussion. It is far more important to
think of the kingdom of God, the history of which is given us in the Holy
Scriptures; for now we are at the beginning of its real appearance. If God had
at the first dealt with mankind generally, then with one part of the race, and
lastly with one division of nations, He now chose and raised up for Himself a
peculiar people, through whom His purposes of mercy towards all men were to be
carried out. This people was to be trained from its cradle until it had
fulfilled its mission, which was when He came who was the Desire of all
nations. Three points here claim our special attention:—
1. The election
and selection of what became the people of God. Step by step we see
in the history of the patriarchs this electing and separating process on the
part of God. Both are marked by this twofold characteristic: that all is
accomplished, not in the ordinary and natural manner, but, as it were,
supernaturally; and that all is of grace. Thus Abram was called alone out
of his father’s house—he was elected and selected The birth of Isaac, the heir
of the promises, was, in a sense, supernatural; while, on the other hand,
Ishmael, the elder son of Abram, was rejected. The same election and selection
appears in the history of Esau and Jacob, and indeed throughout the whole
patriarchal history. For at the outset the chosen race was to learn what is the
grand lesson of all Scripture—that everything comes to us from God, and is of
grace,—that it is not man’s doing, but God’s working; not in the ordinary
manner, but by His special interposition. Nor should we fail to mark another
peculiarity in God’s dealings. To use a New Testament illustration, it was the
grain of mustard-seed which was destined to grow into the tree in whose
branches all the birds of the air were to find lodgment. In Abram the stem was
cut down to a single root. This root first sprang up into the patriarchal family,
then expanded into the tribes of Israel, and finally blossomed and bore
fruit in the chosen people. But even this was only a means to an end.
Israel had possessed, so to speak, the three crowns separately. It had the
priesthood in Aaron, the royal dignity in David and his line, and the prophetic
office. But in the “last days” the triple crown of priest, king, and prophet
has been united upon Him Whose it really is, even Jesus, a “Prophet like unto Moses,” the eternal Priest
“after the order of Melchizedek,” and the real and ever reigning “Son of
David.” And in Him all the promises of God, which had been given with
increasing clearness from Adam onwards to Shem, then to Abraham, to Jacob, in the
law, in the types- of the Old Testament, and, finally, in its prophecies, have
become “Yea and amen,” till at the last all nations shall dwell in the tents of
Shem.
2. We mark a difference
in the mode of Divine revelation in the patriarchal as compared with the
previous period. Formerly, God had spoken to man, either on earth or from
heaven, while now He actually appeared to them, and that specially as the Angel
of Jehovah, or the Angel of the Covenant. The first time Jehovah “appeared”
unto Abram was when he entered the land of Canaan, in obedience to that Divine
call which singled him out to become the ancestor of the people of God.
After that a fresh appearance of Jehovah, and of the Angel of the Covenant, in
whom He manifested Himself, marked each stage of the Covenant history. And this
appearance was not only granted to Abraham and to Hagar, to Jacob, to Moses, to
Balaam, to Gideon, to Manoah and to his wife, and to David, but even towards
the close of Jewish history this same Angel of Jehovah is still found pleading
for rebellious, apostate Israel in these words: “O Jehovah of Hosts, how long
wilt Thou not have mercy on Jerusalem?” The more carefully we follow His steps,
the more fully shall we be convinced that He was not an ordinary Angel, but that
Jehovah was pleased to reveal Himself in this manner under the Old Testament.
We shall have frequent occasion to return to this very solemn subject. Meantime
it may be interesting to know that of old the Jews also regarded Him as the Shechinah,
or visible presence of God—the same as appeared in the pillar of the cloud
and of fire, and afterwards in the temple, in the most holy place; while the
ancient Church almost unanimously adored in Him the Son of God, the Second
Person of the blessed Trinity. We cannot conceive any subject more profitable,
or likely to be fraught with greater blessing, than reverently to follow the
footsteps of the Angel of Jehovah through the Old Testament.
3. The one grand
characteristic of the patriarchs was their faith. The lives of
the patriarchs prefigure the whole history of Israel and their Divine
selection: In the words of a recent German writer, amidst all varying events,
the one constant trait in patriarchal history was “faith which lays hold on the
word of promise, and on the strength of this word gives up that which is seen
and present for that which is unseen and future.” Thus “Abraham was the man of
joyous, working faith; Isaac of patient, bearing faith; Jacob of contending and
prevailing faith.” But all lived and “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 in the
earth.” And it is still so. Without ignoring the great privilege of those who
are descended from Abraham, yet, in the true sense, only “they which are of
faith, the same are the children of Abraham;” “and if ye be Christ’s, then are
ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” To adapt the words of a
German poet:
“What
marks each one within the fold
Is faith that does not see;
And
yet, as if it did behold,
Trusts, unseen Lord. to Thee!”[5]
Avraham Faith’s Obedience – His
Journey of Faith-Overview
I.
He was called to go into a new life and a new land
II.
He was promised the Land
III.
He Obeyed, not knowing whither he went
IV.
He soujourned in the promised land with Isaac and Jacob
V.
Jacob was 15 years old when Avraham died
VI.
He dwelled in tents with his heirs
VII. He
looked for a permanent dwelling- a city in heaven
Romans 4:1-25
1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather
according to the flesh, has found?
2 For
if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not
before God.
3 For
what does the Scripture say? “Abraham
believed God, and it was credited
to him as righteousness.”
4 Now
to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
5 But
to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly,
his faith is credited as righteousness,
6 just
as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits
righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose
lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And
whose sins have been covered.
8 “Blessed is the man whose
sin the Lord will not take into
account.”
9 Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised
also? For we say, “Faith was credited to
Abraham as righteousness.”
10 How
then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while
circumcised, but while uncircumcised;
11 and
he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe
without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,
12 and
the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but
who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had
while uncircumcised.
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he
would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
14 For
if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is
nullified;
15 for
the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no
violation.
16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it
may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to
all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those
who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17 (as
it is written, “A father of many nations
have I made you”) in the
presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead
and calls into being that which does not exist.
18 In
hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations
according to that which had been spoken, “So
shall your descendants be.”
19 Without
becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since
he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
20 yet,
with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew
strong in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and
being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.
22 Therefore
it was also credited to him as righteousness.
23 Now
not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,
24 but
for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who
raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 He
who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised
because of our justification.[6]
I He was called to go into a new
life and a new land
Hebrews/Messianic
Jews 11: 8 [Urged on] by faith Abraham, when he was
called, obeyed and went forth to a place which he was destined to receive as an
inheritance; and he went, although he did not know or trouble his mind
about where he was to go.
Here we have the key to
Avraham’s walk of faith:
Urged on by Faith Abraham, when
he was called, he obeyed and went forth…..
Our
journey of faith has nothing to do with what we see with our eyes, but what the
Lord has promised according to His Holy Torah/Word. As Alfred Edersheim put it
“Idolatry is the religion of sight in
opposition to that of faith”
Faith/trust
in G-d was what motivated Avraham. The
world that Avraham lived in before he was called can best be described by
Aflred Edersheim, in book on Bible History:
A
modern German writer has well said:
“The birth of heathenism may be dated from the moment when the presumptuous
statement was uttered, ‘Go to, let us build a city and a tower whose top may
reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name.’ ” Even Josephus, the ancient
Jewish historian, regards Nimrod as the father of heathenism, the
characteristic of which is to find strength and happiness in sin, and not in
God. Its essential principle is to reject all that is not seen, and to cling to
that which is temporal. Thus we also may be heathens in heart, even though we
are not such in mind, and do not worship stocks or stone. Indeed, it is very
remarkable, that neither nation nor tribe has ever been discovered which did
not acknowledge and worship some superior Being; and yet from the most savage
barbarians to the most refined philosopher, they have all been destitute of the
knowledge of the one living and true God. The only exception in the world has
been that of Israel, to whom God specially revealed Himself; and even Israel
required constant teaching, guidance, and discipline from on high to keep them
from falling back into idolatry. Idolatry is the religion of sight in
opposition to that of faith. Instead of the unseen Creator, man regarded that
which was visible—the sun, the moon, the stars—as the cause and the ruler of
all; or he assigned to everything its deity, and thus had gods many and lords
many; or else he converted his heroes, real or imaginary, into gods. The
worship of the heavens, the worship of nature, or the worship of man—such is
heathenism and idolatry. And yet all the while man felt the insufficiency of
his worship, for behind these gods he placed a dark, immoveable, unsearchable Fate,
which ruled supreme, and controlled alike gods and men. It was indeed a terrible
exchange to make—to leave our heavenly Father and His love for such delusions
and disappointments. The worst of it was, that man gradually became conformed
to his religion. He first imputed his own vices to his gods, and next imitated
the vices of his gods. Assuredly, the heathen nations were the younger son in
the parable, who had left his father’s house with the portion of goods that
belonged to him—heathen science, art, literature, and power—to find himself at
the last driven to eat the husks on which the swine do feed, and yet not able
to satisfy the cravings of his hunger! Blessed be God for that revelation of
Himself in Christ Jesus, which has brought the prodigal back to the Father’s
home and heart!
But even so, God did
not leave Himself without a witness.
The inward searching of man after a God, the accusing voice of his conscience,
the attempt to offer sacrifices, and the remnants of ancient traditions of the
truth among men—all seemed to point upward. And then, as all were not Israel
who were of Israel, so God also had at all times His own, eves among the
Gentile nations. Job, Melchizedek, Rahab, Ruth, Naaman, may be mentioned as
instances of this. It will be readily understood that the number of those “born
out of season,” as it were, from among the Gentiles, must have been largest the
higher we ascend the stream of time, and the nearer we approach the period when
early traditions were still preserved in their purity in the earth. The fullest
example of this is set before us in the book of Job, which also gives a most
interesting picture of those early times.
Two
things may be regarded as quite settled about the book of Job. Its scene and
actors are laid in patriarchal times, and outside the family or immediate
ancestry of Abraham. It is a story of Gentile life in the time of the earliest
patriarchs. And yet anything more noble, grand, devout, or spiritual than what
the book of Job contains is not found, “no, not in Israel.” This is not the
place to give either the history of Job, or to point out the depth of thought,
the vividness of imagery, and the beauty and grandeur of language with which it
is written. It must suffice to take the most rapid survey of the religious and
social life which it sets before us. Without here referring to the sayings of
Elihu, Job had evidently perfect knowledge of the true God; and he was a
humble, earnest worshipper of Jehovah. Without any acquaintance with “Moses and
the prophets,” he knew that of which Moses and the prophets spoke. Reverent,
believing acknowledgment of God, submission, and spiritual repentance formed
part of his experience, which had the approval of God Himself. Then Job offered
sacrifices; he speaks about the great tempter; he looks for the resurrection of
the body; and he expects the coming of Messiah.[7]
G-d
always has a remnant of believers and out of this backround, Avraham was called
from Ur[8]
and he obeyed and he went forth. G-d
has also called us who have put our faith and trust in Him and in Messiah
Yehsua to obey and go forth, and to walk by faith in His Word.
So
we can see that the first key to Avraham’s faith was he obeyed:
Rom 6:16 Know ye
not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye
are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Exo 19:5 Now
therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then
ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exo
23:22
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak;
then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine
adversaries.
Deu 13:4 Ye shall
walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey
his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
Deu 27:10 Thou shalt
therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments
and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
If you are not obeying, then you are rebelling, Obedience is the
opposite of rebellion. The Tenack
compares rebellion to witchcraft
1Sa
15:23
For rebellion is as the
sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath
also rejected thee from being king.
“Idolatry is the religion of sight in
opposition to that of faith”
G-d
has called us also to leave the idolatry of the world and to walk by faith,
because faith is what pleases
G-d. Avraham’s faith is our example, that when
G-d calls us, we must obey and go forth in His Name.
To
be continued….
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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
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22:30-31 I will stand in the Gap for
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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.[9]
President,
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Schools, Salvation, Missions, World Revival – See 40 Day Prayer Focus Below
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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
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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 New American Standard
Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.
[3]The Jewish New Testament
Commentary,
(Clarksville, MD: Jewish New Testament Publications) 1996.
[4]Edersheim, Alfred, Bible
History: Old Testament, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.)
1998.
[5]Edersheim, Alfred, Bible
History: Old Testament, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.)
1998.
[6]The New American Standard
Bible, 1995 Update, (La Habra, California: The Lockman Foundation) 1996.
[7]Edersheim, Alfred, Bible
History: Old Testament, (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.) 1998.
[8]
Ur
light, or
the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees," the birthplace of Haran (Gen_11:28, Gen_11:31),
the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial
centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. It stood near
the mouth of the Euphrates, on its western bank, and is represented by the
mounds (of bricks cemented by bitumen) of el-Mugheir, i.e., "the
bitumined," or "the town of bitumen," now 150 miles from the sea
and some 6 miles from the Euphrates, a little above the point where it receives
the Shat el-Hie, an affluent from the Tigris. It was formerly a maritime city,
as the waters of the Persian Gulf reached thus far inland. Ur was the port of
Babylonia, whence trade was carried on with the dwellers on the gulf, and with
the distant countries of India, Ethiopia, and Egypt. It was abandoned about
B.C. 500, but long continued, like Erech, to be a great sacred cemetery city,
as is evident from the number of tombs found there. (See ABRAHAM .)
The oldest
king of Ur known to us is Ur-Ba'u (servant of the goddess Ba'u), as Hommel
reads the name, or Ur-Gur, as others read it. He lived some twenty-eight
hundred years B.C., and took part in building the famous temple of the moon-god
Sin in Ur itself. The illustration here given represents his cuneiform
inscription, written in the Sumerian language, and stamped upon every brick of
the temple in Ur. It reads: "Ur-Ba'u, king of Ur, who built the temple of
the moon-god."
"Ur
was consecrated to the worship of Sin, the Babylonian moon-god. It shared this
honour, however, with another city, and this city was Haran, or Harran. Harran
was in Mesopotamia, and took its name from the highroad which led through it
from the east to the west. The name is Babylonian, and bears witness to its
having been founded by a Babylonian king. The same witness is still more
decisively borne by the worship paid in it to the Babylonian moon-god and by
its ancient temple of Sin. Indeed, the temple of the moon-god at Harran was
perhaps even more famous in the Assyrian and Babylonian world than the temple
of the moon-god at Ur.
"Between
Ur and Harran there must, consequently, have been a close connection in early
times, the record of which has not yet been recovered. It may be that Harran
owed its foundation to a king of Ur; at any rate the two cities were bound
together by the worship of the same deity, the closest and most enduring bond
of union that existed in the ancient world. That Terah should have migrated
from Ur to Harran, therefore, ceases to be extraordinary. If he left Ur at all,
it was the most natural place to which to go. It was like passing from one
court of a temple into another.
"Such
a remarkable coincidence between the Biblical narrative and the evidence of
archaeological research cannot be the result of chance. The narrative must be
historical; no writer of late date, even if he were a Babylonian, could have
invented a story so exactly in accordance with what we now know to have been
the truth. For a story of the kind to have been the invention of Palestinian
tradition is equally impossible. To the unprejudiced mind there is no escape
from the conclusion that the history of the migration of Terah from Ur to
Harran is founded on fact" (Sayce).
[9]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