This week's Torah portion includes Numbers 10. The first verses talk about two special trumpets which are not shofrot, they are chatsoserah, a totally different word which means silver (metallic) horns. Only the High Priest could authorize these chatsoserah to be blown for marching, new moons, and other specific things. In the NT, some sacred Name or Hebraic-ish bible translations use shofar for the horns being blown in NT prophecy. It's almost a certainty those are chatsoserah, not shofrot. A key difference is that we laypeople may own and blow shofrot. We will never have our lips touch the holy trumpets of the Temple or those in the New Testament.
When you consider decisions about new moons and such, do you consider authority? In Torah, authority trumps accuracy (no pun intended). If the Kohen Gadol says to go out, you go out. If the Kohen Gadol says it's the first day of the 3rd month, it's the first day of the 3rd month. Those of us in the west consider accuracy over authority because we are raised to be, effectively, sovereign in our lives. But in Torah, we do not have the authority to make certain decisions, they are reserved for the Kohen Gadol. In Yahweh's kingdom, we will be subjects, not sovereign people who need to be convinced. We will either obey or find ourselves out of the kingdom. We should also consider who have the authority to order the prophetic chatsoserah to be blown and take heed not to follow men, but to follow Yahweh and His Messiah, trusting that their timing is just, regardless of our perspectives. #shabbatshalom
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Luke 2:46
When Yeshua stayed at the Temple after Passover when he was 12, he probably taught the Jewish teachers a lot, but he was there to learn from them, not the other way around. If the Son of God humbled himself to listen to the religious experts of his day, how prideful must we be to insist we don't need teachers or that we know better than them all?
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Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
Luke 2:41
Joseph, Mary, and their children, including Yeshua, kept the Passover in Jerusalem every year. We can't all go to Jerusalem and there's no Temple or altar there anyway. It's impossible to keep Passover today strictly as God commanded it to be done. Yet we still keep Passover as much as we can where we are as a memorial of God's salvation in Egypt, but more importantly, of God's salvation at Golgotha.
Exodus 22:21, “You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.” Believers are instructed to do what is reasonable to live in harmony with each other and that includes the people who may not live near you. Because believers should be the example for the world we live in, we should try to treat everyone equally. Of course this does not intend for believers to allow themselves to be taken advantage of…
Thought for Today: Shabbat June 10:
Whenever we realize we have not taken advantage of a magnificent opportunity, we are opt to sink into dispair. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Moshiach and let us go on into the invisible future with Him. Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step, Amen!
"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?"
1Cor 6
Shabbat Shalom from Eastern Oregon!
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