RaYBaSH’s Haftarah Hashings
Parashah # 1: B’reshiet “In the Beginning”
Yesha’yahu/Isaiah 42:5 -
43:10
By: Yehudah ben Shomeyr
Commentary:
We have seen in
the Torah portion and the Brit Chadasha portion that Yeshua the Messiah, the
Word of God, according to Genesis 1, John 1 and Colossians (Gen.1:1-3, 2:7,
John 1:1:1-3, 10-14, Col. 1:14-17), is The One who created the universe. He spoke
it in to existence. Here in Isaiah, in the Haftarah portion he says that the
Creator is also the Redeemer of the fallen world that decided to turn away from
God.
Isaiah
42:5 Thus saith the God ADONAI, He that created the heavens, stretched them
out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He giveth
breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein;
Isaiah then says
that the Creator (Yeshua) is also the Redeemer and Saviour (Messiah) of Israel and the world He created.
Isaiah 42:6-8 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee 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 the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
The Jews, the Nation of Israel is to be a Light to the Nations? How? Two ways:
1. Torah (The Law): It has been called
Israel’s wisdom (Duet. 4:6)
2. Yeshua the Messiah which is the Living
Manifestation of the Written Torah. The Saviour and Deliverer of the world! He
enables us to follow and keep the Torah by following in His footsteps.
Isaiah 43:1-3 But now
thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O
Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name;
thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and
through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel Egypt Ethiopia
If any doubt God’s
existence, look at Israel from the Exodus of Egypt till now. By all accounts we
should not exist and be wiped out of existence, LORD knows many have tried. But
we are still alive and exist today despite all the wars, pogroms, exiles,
captivities, holocausts, and terrorist attacks. God clearly loves and has His
Hand on Israel and has a purpose for her, and that is as mentioned before, to
be a light and bring salvation to the nations throught the Written and Living
Torah.
God has chosen us,
Israel, and those who have decided to join themselves to Israel, through
Adoption/Conversion, to be God’s servant under the leadership of His servant,
the Messiah, the Living Torah, to proclaim The Truth to the world that ADONAI,
He alone is God, and through Him alone is Yeshua/Salvation!
What an awesome
responsibility!
The Besorah (Gospel)
message and the plan of redemption is spelled out from Genesis, to Isaiah and
to John; a continuous congruent thread. And as we have seen in the Torah
portion, the message is so thorough that it saturates the very letters of the
texts themselves to even detail prophetically via the symbolism of the Hebrew
letters and even the Kabbalah, the plans that has been revealed in the Brit
Chadashah (New Testament).
Shabbat Shalom and
Shavuah Tov!
-- Yehudah ben
Shomeyr
RaYBaSH’s Brit Chadashah Connections
Parashah # 1: B’reshiet “In the Beginning”
John 1:1-18, Col. 1:14-17, II Pet. 3:3-14, Rev. 21:1
By: Yehudah ben Shomeyr
We have seen in
the Torah portion that Yeshua the Messiah, the Word of God, according to
Genesis 1, John 1, and Colossians 1 is The One who created the universe. He
spoke it in to existence. We see the Godhead present at and in creation in
Genesis 1:1-3a. In the beginning God… God the Father. The Spirit of God moved
upon the waters… The Holy Spirit. God said let there be… Yehsua, the Living
Word. Isaiah said in the Haftarah portion that The Creator is also the Redeemer
of the world that decided to turn away from God (Isaiah
42:5 - 43:10).
Genesis
1:1-3a 2:7 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth
was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the
spirit (breath) of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said… And
ADONAI God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life. And man became a living soul.
The Living Word of
God (Yeshua the Messiah). All things were made by and through Him.
John 1:1-3, 10-14 In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and
without him was not any thing made that was made… He was in the world, and the
world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and
his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Yeshua, who is the manifest image of the invisible God created
everything.
Col. 1:14-17 In whom we have redemption
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is
the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by
him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he
is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Just as there was
a creation of the world, there will be its destruction and recreation. Where He
washed the sin and evil of the world away by the flood waters of Naoh’s time,
He will in the future burn away the sin and evil through a refining fire which
lines up with the Laws of cleanisng of leprosy in Leviticus 13.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the
last days 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 the creation. For
this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were
of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that
then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the
same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men. But,
beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some
men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these
things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
conversation and godliness, looking
for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on
fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according
to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing
that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace,
without spot, and blameless. - II Pet. 3:3-14
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. – Rev. 21:1
We all long for
the redemption of the world and the created order to be the Eden it was meant
to be as we await the World to Come.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together until now. – Rom. 8:22
Shabbat Shalom and
Shavuah Tov!
-- Yehudah ben
Shomeyr
