THEME: THE HOLINESS OF CARE FOR THE FOUR CLASSES OF POOR WITHIN THE LAND OF GOD’S INHERITANCE. TEXT TO BE EXEGETED: Deuteronomy 26:12-19 The reconciliation of the Torah and the Gospel to each other in relation to this passage from KI TAVO is readily seen in the charge of the...
FI Y4 WK 48 P. SHOFTIM (JUDGES) The Death Penalty by Communal Condemnation (Stoning) – August 26th
THEME: Death by stoning is an act of communal condemnation and execution. But there is a better way if the sinner repents. Deuteronomy 16: 2-7 The death penalty by stoning was to be imposed on any Israelite who became an idol worshipper to serve gods of the nations, to prostrate...
FI Y4 WK 49 KI TEITZEI (When you go out) THE FIRSTBORN FOR THE LORD – September 2nd
THEME: This is a Biblical overview of the matter of the FIRSTBORN (with commentary) as it is founded in the Torah and fulfilled in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus the Messiah). “But you are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an...
FI Y4 WK 47 P. RE’EH (See) NATIONAL ORDER / PRIVATE DEVOTION – August 19th
THEME: There is the community and there is the individual. Both must be properly served in the worship life of the People of God. In Deuteronomy 12:8-14 is an injunction against divided communal worship. (Deut. 12:13) Instead the people were to accept the place that the LORD would choose as...
FI Y4 WK 46 P. EIKEV (REWARD) LAW OR GRACE?
Romans 6-8 and Galatians (especially chapter 5) describe the contrast between living by the indwelling operation of the Holy Spirit of Messiah and living by the self-empowered attempt to perform perfectly the entire burden of the Torah. In Deuteronomy Moses commanded the nation as it was poised to enter the...
FI Y4 WK 45 P. VA’ETCHANAN (I IMPLORED) ADONAI Y’’H: “THE HOLY NAME” WITH “ADONAI”
THEME: The union of the term ADONAI with the Holy Name YHVH: Deuteronomy 3:23, VA’ET’CHAN’NAN EL-YHVH BA’EYT HA’HI’U LEY’MOR I implored YHVH at that time, saying, “ADO’NAI YHVH” MY LORD YHVH (LORD) / MY LORD LORD What a difference a vowel makes: the “—AI” ending on “ADONAI” (“—ahee, a long...
FI Y4 WK 44 P.DEVARIM (WORDS) ADONAI SPOKE (THE GREAT COMMISSION)
THEME: GOD SPOKE—HE STILL SPEAKS. DEUTERONOMY 1:6a Y’’H ELO’HEI’NU DI’BER EI’LEI’NU BE’CHO’REYV LEY’MOR THE LORD Our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying…. MATTHEW 5:1-2 (IN HEBREW) VA’YE’HI CIR’OTO ET-HA’MON HA’AM And it was so that when he saw the people VA’YA’AL HA’HA’RAH VA’YI’SHEV SHAM that he ascended the mountain...
FI Y4 WK 42 P. MATTOT (TRIBES) “TRIBES”: DEEP KINGDOM ANALYSIS
THEME: A deep etymological and exegetical consideration of “Tribe” (Hebrew root: Mem-Tet-Hey) as denoting the foundational substructure of human society that makes possible the Rooted (Established) Capacity of Humankind to Bear Fruit above the surface of the Tribe among the whole of human society in the world. The consequent implication...
FI Y4 WK 41 P. PINCHAS (Phineas) AFTER THE PLAGUE
THEME: Fresh beginning comes after judgment; the fresh beginning of PROMISE. Numbers 26 follows the horrible judgment of Numbers 25—the plague judgment on the whorish behavior of Israel in the matter of Baal-Peor. Twenty-three thousand Israelites died in that plague—a number greater than the 23,000 males of the military census...
FI Y4 WK 39 CHUKAT (The Red Heifer) DEFYING GOD’S WORD THROUGH STRIFE
THEME: Let us not devour each other through strife lest we defy the Word from God’s mouth and thereby suffer loss. AL ASHER ME’RITEM ET-PI LE’MEI ME’RIBAH Because you (plural) defied My Word (Hebrew, “al pi”: literally, “the utterance of my mouth”) at the waters of strife (le’mei Meribah) The...