FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – KY THISSA:

And YHWH came down in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the Name, YHWH. And YHWH passed before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH, an Ěl compassionate and showing favor, patient, and great in mercy and truth, watching over mercy for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

And Moshe hurried and bowed himself toward the earth, and did obeisance, and said, “If, now, I have found favor in Your eyes, O YHWH, I pray, let YHWH go on in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people. And forgive our crookedness and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

And He said, “See, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I am going to do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of YHWH. For what I am doing with you is awesome.

FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – KY THISSA:

And YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying, “And you, speak to the children of Yisra’el, saying, ‘My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, YHWH, am setting you apart. ‘And you shall guard the Sabbath, for it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be cut off from among his people. ‘Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, set-apart to YHWH. Everyone doing work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put to death. ‘And the children of Yisra’el shall guard the Sabbath, to perform the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. ‘Between Me and the children of Yisra’el it is a sign forever. For in six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”

When they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.
Exodus 18:16 ESV

The minute statutes that Moses gave to the people are the statutes of "God and His laws", not the statutes of Moses. God’s Law existed before the Ten Commandments were given at Sinai or else Moses had nothing to explain to the people.

This is because Moses knew God’s character, which dictates his Law. If you know God, you also know his Law. If you don’t know God’s Law, then you don’t know his character either.

Check out the Torah Portion reading for this week!

Remember this tonight:

Love -- is not -- February 14
Love -- is -- John 3:16

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
#proverbs 15:22

Success depends on good counsel, but how do you know who to lean on? Proverbs 14:33 has something to say about that:

Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
Proverbs 14:33

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Question 340: Does YHVH Choose People For Destruction?

Answer:

Peter was right in saying (2 Peter 3:16) that in Paul's epistles there were some things hard to be understood. The verses in Romans 9:15-20 are confessedly difficult. They appear to be contradictory to the conclusion which Paul reaches at the close of his argument (Romans 11:32) "YHVH hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all." Perhaps we would understand his argument better if we knew more of the people to whom he was writing. It may have been, that among them were some who had the audacity to criticize YHVH's method of government and Paul wanted them to realize that YHVH was not under obligation to save any who rebelled against Him. That fact we must admit. No man can claim as a right that YHVH shall forgive him. We know, from Moshiach's own words and from Paul's own letters that YHVH does forgive all who come to Him in penitence. But when a man defies Him, as Pharaoh did, Paul contends that YHVH makes an example of him, that men of all times may see what is the end of defiance of his rule. We do not imagine that Paul meant that YHVH directly hardened Pharaoh, but that the hardening is was the effect of the removal of the plagues and was "permitted." The very mercy had the opposite effect on the man that it should have had. Pharaoh misunderstood it, as men now misunderstand YHVH's long-suffering and think they will escape altogether. Our side of the question is not YHVH's sovereignty, which we can never understand, but the sublime fact that "whosoever will" may come to Moshiach and be saved

Question 339: Can Evil Emanate From YHVH?

Answer:

This is a topic that has caused much controversy. Evil is the negation of good. YHVH is the source of all goodness and no evil dwells in Him; but with the withdrawal of His guiding and protecting Spirit from man, evil comes. In 1 Samuel 16:14, we are distinctly told that this was the case with Saul. The Spirit of YHVH had forsaken him and then his soul was an easy prey to the spirit of evil. He was hypochondriac and his distemper was aggravated by his wicked temper and his consciousness that as the result of his own sin and folly he was in danger of losing his throne. The passage in Isaiah 45:7 "I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil" does not refer to moral evil, but to discord or disturbance in the order of the universe as a whole. Thus, as light and darkness are opposites, so in the next clause of the verse, peace and disorder are opposites. Evil is the negation of good and distinction must be made between natural and moral evil. Among natural evils are wars, earthquakes, storms, plagues or whatever disturbs or disarranges the perfection of natural things; whereas moral evil is thought, word or act that is contrary to the revealed Law of YHVH and is therefore sin. It is the peculiarity of Hebrew writing to delight in contrasts. You find a long series of them in Proverbs. They are always of the same nature of parallelisms. Thus, in the passage in Isaiah 45, the prophet used the converse of the peace he has been talking of. We should say war or physical disturbance. He uses the word evil in the sense of punishment or misery. It is the state of the nation that he is considering. It serves YHVH and is faithful to him and is prosperous. The prosperity comes from YHVH. It deserts him and disobeys him and is punished by captivity and oppression. They also come from YHVH. In that sense He creates the condition which they regard as an evil. There is a similar argument in Romans 11:22. Moral evil He never creates.

Question 338: Why Did Paul Advice Timothy To Drink Wine?

Answer:

We suppose he thought it would do him good. He evidently believed that Timothy's ailment, whatever it was, would be relieved by this common practice of his day.