A parallelism in #genesis 12:11-17 contrasts Pharaoh's treatment of Abram with Abram's treatment of Pharaoh.
Abram's faith wasn't perfect, but God loved him and protected him anyway. This parallelism shows how God was watching over Abram in Egypt despite his lack of faith.
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Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 12:10
This verse contains an obvious little #chiasm.
Famine > Sojourn in Egypt < Famine.
Famine and exile are metaphors of separation from God. Spiritual famine ends when we learn to be in the world without being of the world.
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It has been claimed that most Christians today naturally keep 90 percent of the commands of Torah, whether wittingly or unwittingly, simply by being excellent followers of Jesus according to their particular church doctrines. This statement is false and is made by those who either do not know the Torah or who wish to deceive ignorant people into believing their religion and its practices are okay. Such teachers are assuaging their own guilt and wishes, thinking that if they say such things loud and long enough, they will become true. They will not, and simple math is all that is necessary to disprove and discredit their claim:
· There are arguably 613 Commands in the Torah.
· There are 77 positive commands (thou shalt) which can be kept today.
· There are 194 negative commands (thou shalt not) which can be kept today.
· There are 26 additional commands which can be kept today, contingent upon living in the land of Yisrael.
This means that, of the 613, only 271 Torah commands can currently be kept by anyone outside the land of Yisrael – which is roughly 44 percent of the total. If one lives in the land of Yisrael, 279 commands could currently be kept, which is roughly 49 percent of the total possible. This is the best that could presently be accomplished by a perfect Tzadik – a fully righteous man who knows the Torah and scrupulously practices it to the best of his or her ability.
I have personally surveyed numerous Christians and Torah-observant believers over a period of two decades regarding their keeping of the commandments of Torah. I went through each of the commands, explaining each in its turn to those who did not understand them, and asking each person six questions:
1. Should you keep this command?
2. Should you not keep this command?
3. Would you keep this command?
4. Would you not keep this command?
5. Do you keep this command?
6. Do you not keep this command?
The results were amazing and eye-opening, and no one could possibly have guessed them. Relatively pious Christians kept (or tried to keep) an average of just 43 positive commands and 42 negative commands of the Torah, a total of 85 or about 31 percent of the possible 271 commands which can possibly be kept today. All of those surveyed acknowledged that this was an ideal number, and that they did not do so well in practice. This means that Christians, on average, keep or try to keep only 14 percent of the total 613 Torah commands.
Messianics and other supposedly Torah-observant believers in Yeshua fared somewhat better, keeping (or trying to keep) roughly twice the number of commands as their Christian counterparts. They averaged about 150 commands kept, which is about 55 percent of the 271 possible to keep today, or about 24 percent of the total 613 commands of Torah. These numbers varied widely, as there is little agreement between supposedly “observant” groups about what Torah commands are binding upon believers today.
So much for the “90 percent” claim. If you are going to throw around such numbers, you should first do the math.
“Man does not live by bread alone, but by EVERY Word that comes from the mouth of YHWH.”
“If you love me, keep my commandments.”
“And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands. The one who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.”
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Elohim and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For Elohim shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be excellent, or whether it be evil.”
Shalom, friends,
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