Your Daily Pesuk Sept. 6, 2018

Parashat Nitzavim / פרשת נצבים

• Thu, 6 September 2018 = 26th of Elul, 5778
• כ״ו בֶּאֱלוּל תשע״ח

Deuteronomy 30:7-10 (4 p'sukim)

Deuteronomy 30:7-10 Tree of Life Version (TLV)

7 “Adonai your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 Then you—you will return and listen to the voice of Adonai and do all His mitzvot that I am commanding you today. 9 Adonai your God will make you prosper in all the work of your hand—in the fruit of your womb, and the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil—for good. For Adonai will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your fathers— 10 when you listen to the voice of Adonai your God, to keep His mitzvot and His statutes that are written in this scroll of the Torah, when you turn to Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

7 וְנָתַן֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֵ֥ת כָּל־הָאָל֖וֹת הָאֵ֑לֶּה עַל־אֹיְבֶ֥יךָ וְעַל־שֹׂנְאֶ֖יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר רְדָפֽוּךָ׃

8 וְאַתָּ֣ה תָשׁ֔וּב וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֖ בְּק֣וֹל יְהוָ֑ה וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֺתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּֽוֹם׃

9 וְהוֹתִֽירְךָ֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ בְּכֹ֣ל׀ מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יָדֶ֗ךָ בִּפְרִ֨י בִטְנְךָ֜ וּבִפְרִ֧י בְהֶמְתְּךָ֛ וּבִפְרִ֥י אַדְמָתְךָ֖ לְטוֹבָ֑ה כִּ֣י׀ יָשׁ֣וּב יְהוָ֗ה לָשׂ֤וּשׂ עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ לְט֔וֹב כַּאֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֖שׂ עַל־אֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

10 כִּ֣י תִשְׁמַ֗ע בְּקוֹל֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֤ר מִצְוֺתָיו֙ וְחֻקֹּתָ֔יו הַכְּתוּבָ֕ה בְּסֵ֥פֶר הַתּוֹרָ֖ה הַזֶּ֑ה כִּ֤י תָשׁוּב֙ אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ בְּכָל־לְבָבְךָ֖ וּבְכָל־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ פ

Yesterday, I discussed "Shuvah" to Return.  Again, today we see this phrase in Pesuk 10, "Hazeh Ki T'shuv El Adonai Elohecha"  When you return to Adonai Your God...

What happens when we return?  The pesukim lists what will happen...

1. Our enemies are cursed

2. We will have prosperity

3. Our children will flourish "wombs" birth...etc...

4. Our livestock even will multiply

5. Our soil will even flourish and produce abundance!  (talk about "Prosperity Gospel"!!!)

6. Adonai will rejoice over us!  (Divine Favor).

Sounds like a good deal.  Notice what the condition is...

10 when you listen to the voice of Adonai your God, to keep His mitzvot and His statutes that are written in this scroll of the Torah, when you turn to Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Do all that is written in the Scroll.  Not always what was "added" later by men, (unless it conforms to what is in the Scroll).  Yeshua taught us how to approach this issue regarding Oral Traditions...

Matthew 23:Matthew 23 Tree of Life Version (TLV)

23 Then Yeshua spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying, “The Torah scholars and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses. 3 So whatever they tell you, do and observe. But don’t do what they do; for what they say, they do not do. 4 They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them. 5 All their works they do to be noticed by men. They make their tefillin wide and their tzitziyot long.  6 They love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, 7 greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called rabbi by men.

8 “But you are not to be called rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And call no man on earth your father; for One is your Father, who is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Messiah. 11 But the greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

Some interpreters attempt to take this out of it's "Jewish Context".  Yeshua would never tell anyone to break the Torah by dishonoring one's own father or mother.  Nor is he saying that you should never have a teacher or a rabbi.  We know who our Master is.  There is only One; the Messiah - Yeshua Himself.  He is our Teacher and our Rabbi.  Anyone else is just an "under-shepherd"...

1 Corinthians 11:1 Tree of Life Version (TLV)
11 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Messiah.

This is how we know the good ones from the bad.  Are they following Yeshua?  Are they walking with Him and attempting to be like Him?  That is what we should all do.  He is the Living Torah!

Amen