8/2/2025
THIS COMING SHABBATH IS ‘SHABBATH CHAZON’
Shabbath Chazon is the “Sabbath of the Vision” and is always the Sabbath which immediately precedes the fast of the 5th month, Tisha B’av, on which both of the Temples at Yerushalayim were destroyed. It is the last of “the three admonition readings,” which reflect the somber mood between the scriptural “Fast of the fourth month” and the “Fast of the Fifth Month” (Zekaryah 8:19), and are found in the haftaroth of Parashoth Mattoth, Massey, and Devarym. It is called the Sabbath of Vision, because the first words of the haftarah for the day are “Chazon Yeshayahu” – “Isaiah’s Vision.” The scripture readings are: Devarym 1:1-3:22 and Yeshayahu 1:1-27.
“The vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim in the days of Uzziyahu, Yotham, Aḥaz, Ḥizqiyahu – sovereigns of Yehuḏah.
“Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth! For YHWH has spoken, ‘I have reared and brought up children, but they have transgressed against Me. An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’el does not know, My people have not understood. Alas, sinning nation, a people loaded with crookedness, a seed of evil-doers, sons acting corruptly! They have forsaken YHWH, they have provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra’el, they went backward. Why should you be stricken anymore? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints. From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.
“Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.’
“Unless YHWH of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Sedom, we would have been made like Amorah. Hear the word of YHWH, you rulers of Sedom; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah! ‘Of what use to Me are your many sacrifices?’ declares YHWH. ‘I have had enough of ascending offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courtyards? Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New moons, Sabbaths, the calling of gatherings – I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly. My soul hates your New moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil! Learn to do excellent! Seek judgement, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together,’ says YHWH. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you submit and obey, you shall eat the excellent of the land.’”
May you all recognize, understand, and repent of your sins before He who sits on high, then turn and be forgiven through the blood of our blessed Messiah, so that you can reign with YHWH and with His son in the coming Kingdom.
YHWH im’ka, Ovadyah
Thought for Today: Tuesday July 29
Evil is very much real, and one time or another, most of us have wondered why does YHVH not stop it… Sometimes He does, but not always, and the Bible says that evil is a mystery that we won’t fully understand until we get to heaven. In the meantime, YHVH calls us to trust Him and have confidence in His Love, no matter our circumstance.
It is rather amusing that Noah named his son "Name".
Christians owe a debt to Jews. The knowledge we have of God has come through them. That's why heroes of the faith like Dietrich Bonhoeffer did what they did to protect Jews and oppose those who sought their destruction. That is the topic of discussion in this concluding part of our conversation with David Altman.
It is the Jews who gave the Torah to the world. That's a good thing since the Torah contains the teachings, instructions, and commands of God. Why, then, do Christians regard the Torah as a strange and burdensome thing? That's one of the questions David Jones and Barry Phillips explore in their midrash, "Keeping ALL Commands." But honoring Torah is actually obeying our God, which is an expression of our relationship with Him. That's one of the messages we hear in the music of Teshuva.
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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
Romans 11:2 ESV
Elijah's statements in vs 3 and 4 are from 1 Kings 19:10 and 14 in which he believes he is the only faithful, living prophet left in Israel. God responded by showing his power and, in 1 Kings 19:18, saying that he had left 7000 prophets in Israel who had not surrendered to Baal. If 7000 prophets still remained, how many ordinary faithful men and women must there have also been? Even Israel at her darkest moment held many thousands of people who persevered in faithfulness to God.
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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
Romans 11:2 ESV
God has not rejected the physical descendants of Jacob. In Genesis 28:15, God told Jacob that he would not leave him until he had fulfilled his promises. The same principle holds true for all of God’s promises. Over and over, God said that he would temporarily repudiate Israel for rebellion and exile them from the land, but every time he also promised that he would preserve a remnant of Jacob who would repent and return to the land. This is illustrated by the reference to Elijah to whom God said that he had reserved a remnant of the prophets of Israel who had not bowed a knee to Baal.
God's covenants with Israel cannot be ended by Israel's unfaithfulness, because he promises to restore their children for the sake of those same covenants. The “people whom he foreknew” aren’t people of whom he was aware before he created them, but people with whom he has a previously established and continuing relationship. This is the primary meaning of foreknow/proginosko as Paul uses it.
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