A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS

Toldot: “Generations”
Genesis 25:19-28:9
Today’s Reading Genesis 25:19-
“A Tale of Two Brothers”

Genesis 25:19-34 “19 This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebeccah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebeccah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." 24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebeccah gave birth to them. 27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebeccah loved Jacob. 29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)
31 Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright." 32 "Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?" 33 But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.



1. This story is a very important story to us today as we live out the Biblical fulfillment of this prophetic part of the Torah. In this story we find several things that mirror our lives today. We find the “Death of Abraham”--a type and shadow of way that many in the Church have abandoned the ways of Father Abraham for the pagan idolatrous ways of the world around us; we also find Esau and Jacob--the twin sons of the dynamic union between the SON OF THE COVENANT PROMISE--who is represented by Isaac and the COVENANT BRIDE OF THE PROMISED ONE--who is represented by Rebeccah--and she represents US in our walk today as the BRIDE of the promised Messiah! We also see that Esau--who is the true firstborn son--and who has the BIRTHRITE which is a reference to the ROYAL PRIESTHOOD and the BLESSING of firstborn--which gave him RULERSHIP as KING of the family of Abraham--forsakes his position for the love of the World around him. This is a type and shadow of the condition in the heart of the body of Messiah today and these two brothers represent the two natures that are in us. One is "wild" and the other is "obedient." Whatever has control over you will determine the result of the days of your life. If you love the Torah-God's Teaching and Instructions for a successful life--then you will end up like Jacob--with the BLESSING of the COVENANT--but if you live more like ESAU--and love the ways of THIS WORLD--the pagan ways that surround you--you will end your life outside the blessing--and "hated" by the Lord --meaning one who is destined for eternal punishment.

1 John 2:15-16 says “15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God [Torah] lives forever.

Romans 9:6-13 says “6It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 8In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. 9For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."10Not only that, but Rebeccah’s children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand: 12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, "The older will serve the younger."13Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

2. Jacob was very different from his older brother Esau. Jacob was a man of study; he learned from his father Isaac the ways of the Lord--the way of Torah and he learned from his Grandfather Abraham. This was not his natural position by birthright succession--but this became his possession because of the GRACE of his FATHER--a type and shadow of our turning to the Yeshua and the Torah in the last days by grace and studying--while others are following the ways of the pagan idolatrous systems around us. It is always taught that Isaac loved Esau and Rebeccah loved Jacob; but I have never bought that. If you remember, the twins were causing quite a problem for their Mother so she went to inquire of the Lord about this. The Lord told her that "2 Nations would come forth from her womb" and ultimately, "the older will serve the younger." This was a prophecy that the Lord made to Rebeccah and we are to believe that she did not tell Isaac --her husband the one who would issue the blessing--or covenantal rule? No way no how. I would like to propose that rather than a "trick" to fool Isaac--the trick was done to "fool" Esau--who had already shown that He did not care for the ways of the Lord when He took two Hittite women as wives--which the Torah says "greatly disturbed Isaac and Rebeccah;" but what were they to do? Isaac was getting older and his sight was getting very bad, so he was not able to physically control Esau any longer. Esau had defiled the family by bringing in a Hittite as a Wife--and not allowing Isaac to choose a wife for him--as Isaac had done with Rebeccah. Thus, Isaac knew that He could not allow ESAU to be the RULER of the Family--in direct violation of the prophecy the Lord gave to Rebeccah before the boys were born; and as Esau had already traded away the BIRTHRITE--which was the ROYAL PRIESTHOOD for the sake of his belly--to think that He would rule the family in the event of Isaacs death would have been unconscionable. So Isaac--contrary to the way this is normally preached--when we are told that Isaac preferred Esau had worked together with his wife Rebeccah and they had developed a plan that would allow the blessing to go to Jacob--in fulfillment of the prophecy of the Lord, and would allow them to not be killed by Esau when He found out--so Isaac called Esau in and sent him out to gather venison--deer meat. Now remember, Isaac was getting older--and KNEW that Esav was lingering for the day of his death--so he could take the RULERSHIP of the Family--and the covenant blessing; BUT Isaac went on to live MANY MORE YEARS AFTER THIS….so he couldn't have been that far gone. So Isaac sent ESAU out on a set up. Why was it a set up? Well--first of all--Rebeccah was within hearing; secondly the conveyance of the blessing was an act of COVENANT and that required a COVENANTAL MEAL--and NO COVENANT COVENANTAL SACRIFICE OR MEAL was EVER made by offering a DEER--which is what Isaac sent ESAU out after! No--the COVENANTAL MEAL had to be sealed by the offering of A LAMB--and thus Isaac and Rebeccah had their opening to get Jacob in position to receive not only the BIRTHRITE--or PRIESTLY BLESSING OF THE 1ST BORN--BUT ALSO THE COVENANTAL BLESSING OF KINGSHIP AND RULERSHIP!!

This is a type and shadow of GOD sending a strong delusion on the people today --so that they will believe the pagan idolatrous lies of Catholicized religion--it is the same type of ruse as Isaac used for his son Esau and it is the same for those who have the HEART--and LIFESTYLE OF ESAU.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 “7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness

1 John 3:4-10 says “4Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 7Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 9No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.”


3. Well, we all know the story; there is a test of obedience and Faith--and Trust on the part of Rebeccah and Jacob. To receive the blessing of His Father--Jacob had to OBEY the instructions of his MOTHER which would allow Jacob to RECEIVE THE BLESSING of the FIRSTBORN--which meant RULERSHIP--or DOMINION. So to do we today have to obey the HOLY SPIRIT--the RUACH HAKODESH--which each time it is written in the Bible it is written in a "feminine tense"--thus the HOLY SPIRIT which is the Feminine--or nurturing side of God. If we fail to listen to the Holy Spirit--our spiritual MOTHER--who leads us INTO OBEDIENCE to God's Teaching and Instructions--the Torah--we will never receive the blessing of our Father--just like Jacob; it is the same principle for us today.

Jacob obeys the instructions of His MOTHER and comes in and obeys, and then is sent out among the Nations to His Uncles Laban's home--and as He went Jacob left with BOTH the BIRTHRITE --the 1ST BORN PRIESTHOOD of MALCHI-TZADEK and THE RULERSHIP RIGHT OF KINGSHIP OVER HIS FAMILY which traditionally belongs to the firstborn. Even as you are being sent among the nations with the RIGHT OF THE FIRSTFRUITS FROM THE DEAD--which is the LIFE OF YAHSHUA to this LAST GENERATION.

Now, to receive the blessings of Abraham--we must learn to live the way Abraham did. How was that? By Faith? Absolutely--by faith, but coupled with our faith--we need to add what GENESIS 26:5 says about Abraham--that He "Kept ALL GOD'S COMMAANDS DECREE'S LAWS AND INSTRUCTIONS." Even as Jacob had to put on the goat hair that simulated his brothers ARM and NECK--so to do you--after becoming a Believer--have to put on THE LIFESTYLE WAYS OF OUR JEWISH BROTHERS--the WAYS OF THE ISRAELITES--so that you will receive the BLESSING OF THE FATHER--just like Jacob did. YOU will LOOK LIKE the FIRSTBORN--Yeshua--You will SMELL like the Firstborn--and YOU WILL ACT like the FIRSTBORN SON--but in reality--you will still be the 2nd Born and be just like YACOV--JACOB! This tells us that he who RECIEVES the DOUBLE PORTION BLESSING will LOOK LIKE ISRAEL--KEEP THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL--THE SHABBAT OF ISRAEL--but will never surrender his status AS JACOB--the younger son--it is THIS SON and THIS SON ONLY that RECIEVES THE RIGHT TO RULE AND REIGN--the position of the KING AND PRIEST to this last generation of souls.

Proverbs 28:9 says “9 If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.

Proverbs 15:8-9 says “8 The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked,[those outside Torah] but the prayer of the upright pleases him. 9 The LORD detests the way of the wicked [those outside Torah] but he loves those who pursue righteousness [pursue Torah]

Isaiah 1:13-17 says “13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings! [Torahless Church Services] Your incense [Prayers and Praise] is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your evil [Lawless] assemblies. 14 Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; 16 wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil [Lawless] deeds out of my sight! Stop doing wrong, [violating Torah] 17 learn to do right! [obey God’s Torah] Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.”


4. When Esau returns--he begins to prepare the meal for his Father Isaac--he has gone out--killed a wild deer--gone through all the trouble of preparing it for His father--only to be rejected as to RECEIPT OF THE BLESSING. There are people today--who love the world--they will tell you that they LOVE the Lord, but their lifestyle is just like all of those in the nations around them--who do not love the Torah--who spread out their hands to GOD each week and their prayers are TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE TO HIM--even as Esau’s offering was unacceptable to Isaac. Why? BECAUSE THEY FAIL TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO OBEY GOD'S WORD which is the DUTY OF THE PRIESTHOOD. Additionally they ignore the Torah--argue it is done away with--"Jesus did it--so I do not have to" is their rally cry whenever they are questioned about why they break the 10 commandments--failing to KEEP THE SABBATH DAY HOLY. They are people who are always IN THE WORLD--WORRIED ABOUT THE THINGS OF THE WORLD--LIVING amidst the CURSED OF THE WORLD--with the IDOLS IN THEIR HEART crying out to them. They follow the pagan idolatrous ways of the NATIONS and not that of the ISRAELITES--the PEOPLE OF THEIR LORD AND KING. They forsake their BLESSING by their HATING THEIR BIRTHRIGHT. FAITH IS THE CAPITAL OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF MALKI-TZADEK and the TORAH is YOUR BLESSING as born again believers. Only by obeying its commands, precepts, laws and instructions--will you forsake the ways of this the DELUSION and receive the BLESSING that comes from THE FATHER.

Hebrews 12:15-24 says “15See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many. 16See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. 17Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears.

Matthew 7:21-23 says “21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.[The Torah] 22Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers [TORAHLESS ONES!'”]


Matthew 24:45-50 says “45"Who then is the faithful and wise servant,[Torah obedient Servant] whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48But suppose that servant is wicked [LAWLESS] and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,' 49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, [those whose CONFESSION and CONDUCT DO NOT MATCH] where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth

Repent and turn from your heart of Esau--and live in obedience by faith to the Lord Yeshua Messiah; it is not too late, if you repent today. Do not be like "Godless Esau" who took for granted his BIRTHRITE--PRIESTHOOD AUTHORITY--which cost him the BLESSING TO RULE AND REIGN IN THIS LIFE. Yeshua Messiah--the same, yesterday, today and forever.

Have a wonderful week!

Ariel

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"Lech Lecha: Get Yourself Out.."

What exactly is the faith of Abraham?

Was Abraham a Torah obedient individual? Or was Abraham a sinful man, full of rebellion and disobedience towards G-d who somehow found favor with G-d because of his faith apart from works?
Or was Abraham a man of faith because he believed the Word of G-d to be truth, and showed his faith through his obedience to Torah?
How was this different from Lot his nephew?
What does it say to us today?

Genesis 17:1-5
1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. 2I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers." 3Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.”

Genesis 17:6-9
6I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God." 9Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.”

Background

YHVH is going to make his covenant with Avraham, and through this covenant YHVH promised to make Avraham the “father of many nations.”
Why does the word "nations" have an “s” on the end and what does this indicate?
The covenant is not just for Ephraim and Judah, but for every nation that wishes to be grafted into Israel. (Romans 11)
What is foundational to this covenant that would bless the “nations/gentiles?”

Genesis 26:1-5. 1Now there was a famine in the land-besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time-and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. 2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. 3Stay in this land for a while and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. 4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, 5because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."

What? Abraham had the Torah? What will my theologian say about that!

Even thought the modern theologians of our day, our versions of Pharisees and Sadducees, have told us for years that the law of G-d did not come for 430 years after the promise made to Abraham they misquote Rabbi Sha’ul.
Yet we see in this passage very clearly that all nations on earth will be blessed, 5“because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."

'Peat, 'peat and repeat- Mt. Sinai

Abraham knew G-d's Torah, his Teaching and Instructions long before the Israelites reached Mt. Sinai.
This may come as a shock to our religious system, but Mt. Sinai is a retelling of the Torah by the time Moses gets there.
You good talmadin may ask “how can this be?”
Mt. Sinai was a reintroduction to the Teaching and Instructions of G-d that was lost when the Israelites were in slavery in pagan Egypt!

How?
Up to the day of Joseph and his brothers, your ancestors, Torah was passed on from father to son, mother to daughter by word of mouth!
This “oral” hibachi, or telling of the Torah, was lost when they became slaves following the death of Joseph, victims of cultural assimilation.

Why? There are two primary reasons:

One, because when the people of a nation become slaves to another nation, they are stripped of their identities, their heritage, their customs and their culture and are forced to adopt the customs and religious practices of their masters.
Just think how much America has changed in your lifetime with no slavery, culturally forced assimilation, no printing presses, just image over 400 years!
Secondly, when Joseph’s brothers went into Egypt they were only 70, after slavery there were over 500 thousand men, and adding women and children there were over 3 million when they left.

Oral traditions are better kept in small group, hunter gatherer (roughly 25-30 people), or “big man” (up to 1000 people) social structures.
Add to this the identity destruction that results from slavery and it is easy to understand and you will come to see more clearly how conditions of the covenant made with Abraham are the same ones made with Moshe (Moses) and the children of Israel.

So what is different?

Though there are two covenants, the latter made at Mt. Sinai, and the former made with Jerusalem up above which is free, Galatians 4:21-31, you will find that they contain the same law, the Torah, and that the only thing that is different is not the Torah, but how the administration of atonement for the remission of sins is carried out. That is the only change!

Rental Property

It is like renting an apartment; you have to sign a covenantal contract to move in. When you have fulfilled the contract you move out.
Say a new family moves in the same apartment, they would have to sign the same covenant agreement. It is separate from the 1st family’s rental contract, but identical in its rights and responsibilities.
So it is with this covenant of Abraham and the covenant of Moses. It is a renewal with the new tenants at Mt. Sinai.
Because there were millions of tenants now, a sophisticated priesthood was empowered to make atonement for the sins of the entire nation, not just one family!


Genesis 17:10-12
10This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11You are to undergo circumcision and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. 12For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner-those who are not your offspring.

Tutor

Thus the tutor mentioned in Galatians (a sophisticated priesthood that was empowered to make atonement for the sins of the entire nation, not just one family!) Was added 430 years later to the covenant to attend to the issue of sin until Messiah Yeshua could come.
Galatians 3:16-19.

Members of Abraham’s Covenant

People love to claim their part of the Abrahamic covenant. Yet when they come against circumcision they almost always say, “the law is done away with,” thinking it is part of the Mosaic covenant.

They do not realize it is part of the Abrahamic covenant and was given to “BLESS ALL THE NATIONS THROUGH IT.”

Abraham’s covenant sign is circumcision. All covenants are sealed with a “SIGN.”

Things that make you go hmmmm …
Isn’t it interesting that the covenant requirement for the covenant that most “faith” preachers teach as your key entitlement to financial reward requires circumcision as a stipulation for ALL time?
Most pastors today call you a legalist if you ask for a strict rendering of what the Bible says.
Legalist versus what? an illegalist?

Abraham the legalist!
By today's standard, anyone who wishes to obey the Torah, G-d’s Teaching and Instruction, is considered a legalist or one who puts people in bondage.
Yet these same theologians get on TBN and claim the promises of Abraham’s covenant.
But if circumcision, or any other act of obedience to Torah, constitutes “legalism” then Abraham would have to be declared a legalist.

Abraham, legalist or man of faith?
Abraham was a man of the faith, a man who believed and looked forward to the coming of Messiah, but the faith that our father Abraham displayed was everything that the theologians speak out against today as legalism.

A real life example to ponder

Let’s put this into contemporary terms. Imagine yourself driving 20 miles over the speed limit and you discover yourself being pulled over for speeding.

As the police officer writes out the ticket you turn to him and state, “excuse me Officer, don’t you think you are being a little legalistic? After all, Officer, I am under grace, not under the law, right?”

This would be a very unwise thing to say to a police officer, wouldn’t it?

Yet many say it about YHVH’s Word every day!


Watch out for that angry cop!

Every time we call someone a legalist for simply wanting to obey YHVH’s Teaching and Instruction we are like that lawbreaker who was trying to make the cop look bad for their own irresponsible behavior!

Was Abraham under grace?
Both Abraham and Moses were under G-d’s grace as well.
Hebrews 4:2 says, “For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did.”
They heard the gospel and knew the grace of G-d even as we, yet Abraham knew and obeyed the Torah. And Moshe (Moses) likewise, heard the gospel and knew the grace of G-d and knew and obeyed the Torah. And these two men are the two greatest men of faith presented in the Tenach (the “Old Testament“) of scripture.

Hey… did they know something we ought to know?

The scriptures are clear that being under the grace of G-d did not mean that Abraham and Moshe (Moses) were free to violate his Torah (his law).

Being under grace and not under law, does not mean the law is done away and to speak such heresy is to speak against Yeshua himself who stated emphatically that not the least stroke of a pen contained in the Torah would pass away until the heavens and the earth pass away.

Psalm 119:172
172May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous.

G-d commands Abraham to go
Notice that G-d does not tell Avram “where” to go; only that he will show him.
G-d speaks things that are not as though they are and he expects Abram to believe YHVH’s promise of future provision and obey his command.
Abraham does believe, trusting faithfully “Emuwn.”
He leaves his father’s house with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot and all their possessions (no parachute).

Abraham arrives in Canaan: modern day Israel
Abram is only 75 when he leaves his country, his brother, and his father’s house.
When Abram arrives, YHVH covenants with him to have the land for ALL generations.
Abraham is blessed beyond his wildest imagination just like all who fully submit to G-d’s Teaching and Instructions by faith!

What about Lot?

Lot in this portion is very much like the modern organized traditional Christian Church and the lost tribes of Israel that believe they have replaced the covenants of the houses of Judah and Ephraim!

Lot started out in biblical trusting and faithfulness with Abraham who was moving out with his family member. That represents Judah (as did the organized traditional Christian Church and their Israelite brothers the lost tribes of Israel.) They started as one with Judah under King David's unified tent.

Lot gets to Canaan (the Promised Land), goes to Egypt (places of confinement), then back to Canaan getting wealthy along the way (as do organized traditional Christianity and the lost tribes of Israel).

His employees end up fighting with Abraham’s (as do organized traditional Christianity and the lost tribes of Israel with their brothers in the tribe of Judah).

So Lot strikes out on his own

Lot decides in his own power to move and set up his tents toward Sodom, a wicked pagan place. This symbolizes the movement of the organized Christian Church and Judaism away from the Torah, YHVH’s Teaching and Instruction done by faith!

Abraham asks of YHVH and G-d gives him the Promised Land by faith. This represents the Judeans that DID receive Yeshua as Messiah and enter into their rest while keeping Torah, the remnant and their Christian brothers and sisters who kept all YHVH's instructions by faith.

Lot gets taken hostage

Sodom is such a pagan place. There is violence and perversion everywhere. Lot and all he owns are taken into bondage. This is where the “body” is to this day, in bondage with NO real power!

But YHVH had a plan to redeem Lot from the pagans that had captured his family. Abraham and his 318 men trained for war attacked the enemy stronghold and freed Lot and his family.

Genesis 14:14-16
14When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. 15During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. 16He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
It is time for the sons of Abraham to arise for battle!

In the last days the scripture calls for a reawakening of those sons of Abraham who are called of the L-rd.

We have to go get those who are stumbling off to their death.


Jeremiah 16:19-21
19O LORD , my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, worthless idols that did them no good. 20“Do men make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!" 21“Therefore I will teach them- this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.”

The awakening
There is a worldwide revival of people turning back to the Torah.

EV FREE, CGGC, AOG, BAPTISTS, WORD OF FAITH, and 7TH DAY ADVENTISTS all have active messianic congregations that are growing!

People are seeking more than the cotton candy prosperity only messages. They are seeking a real life change.

Micah 4:1-2
1In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. 2Many nations will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 33:24-26
Then the word of the LORD came to me: 24"Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.' 25Therefore say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land? 26You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Should you then possess the land?'”
Are you living in ruins?

Have you been keeping G-d’s teaching and commands?

Or like righteous Lot have you placed the opening of your tent (your heart) toward the pagan sinful world?

Have you been carried away from the truth by false doctrine and held powerless, full of religion?

Do you want to live like Abraham really did in blessing, and power and prosperity?

You must die to your flesh and obey G-d.

YHVH’s covenant with you -G-d’s side of the covenant

Genesis 26:4-8
4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. 6I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you and kings will come from you. 7I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."
Abraham’s results require Abraham’s actions! -your side of the covenant

Genesis 26:9
9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.”

Jesus said in John 15:10-11,
10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Doing the covenant means death to the flesh
A dead person has no reputation! Philippians 2:7
A dead person seeks not his own. 1 Corinthians 13:5
A dead person does not fight back. Exodus 14:14
A dead person is never tempted. 1 Corinthians 10:13
A dead person is never vain. Psalm 24:4
A dead person is never offended. Matthew 11:6
A dead person never opens their mouth! Isaiah 53:7
A dead person never argues or needs to win one! Colossians 3:13
A dead person has no agenda! John 8:50; 1 Corinthians 13:5

Remember

Father Abraham sacrificed his past by leaving all he had known to obtain G-d.

He was willing to sacrifice his future by offering his only son because he knew G-d was faithful to keep his word.

Power in this last revival will be held by those who are obedient to ALL YHVH’s Word.

Not just the parts that we like.
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