Exodus 2:10: “And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.”
We may not have realized that Moses was not named by God but by Pharaoh’s daughter. This child became such an important man in the plan of God, not only bringing the children of Israel out of bondage and leading them to freedom from their slavery in Egypt; but also being the one to receive the Torah instructions from the Most High. So it does seem a little strange that he had a name that means:
to draw out of water.
Meaning of משה Moses: Child, Rescued From Drowning In Water. Delivered, Extracted, Loan. Hidden, Covered.
From the Egyptian noun mes, child, or from (1) mo, water, and (2) uses, saved from drowning.From the Hebrew verb משה (masha), to extract from water, or the noun משה (mashe), a loan.From the Greek verb μυσω (muso), to hide or cover.
The ancient Hebrew rabbis, teachers and sages saw much more to the name Moses than just the first and most obvious one, that the definition of Moses meant, draw out of water.
According to the scriptures, it was Pharaoh’s daughter who drew Moses out of water, while his sister Miriam watched, those waters were the waters of the Nile river.
Ex.2:4 The baby’s sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.
Egyptians did not worship the One True God of the Hebrews, they had many gods; most who were connected to the land and natural elements. Others included animals and other creatures, as well as fallen angels and demonic entities..
This daughter of Pharoah drew him out of the one of the most significant Egyptian gods. This god they worshipped was called Hepi, Hepi was a fertility god who was the god of the annual flooding of the Nile. When the Nile flooded, fertile solii was deposited onto the banks of the river. This gave them the ability to farm the land, raise good crops and provide food for the people.
A good question is, why was Pharaoh’s daughter’s at the Nile?
In Exodus 2:5 we are told that she came to wash herself or to bathe. This gives us an image of her coming to take a bath in the sacred waters, which was holy to the Egyptians. On second thoughts this is probably unlikely, because especially a daughter of Pharaoh who took luxurious baths in tubs filled with all sorts of fragrances, like myrrh and frankincense, would not on purpose choose the option of the Nile rivers’ questionable cleanliness.
The word used in Hebrew here for
washing or bathing
is rachats
which also means: to pour water upon yourself.
Strongs 7364 rachats: to wash, wash off or away, bathe
Original Word: רָחַץ Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: rachats Phonetic Spelling: (raw-khats’) Definition: to wash, wash off or away, bathe self
A primitive root; to lave (the whole or a part of a thing) — bathe (self), wash (self), to pour water upon yourself..
When the Nile overflowed, it was the signal that Hepi had arrived; and one of their beliefs was that as a fertility god it was said to cause women to become pregnant. It is likely that Pharaoh’s daughter’s went to Nile at the point of the flooding overflow when Hepi was said to have arrived. Women would anoint themselves with water from the Nile by washing, bathing and pouring water over themselves, hoping Hepi would cause them to become pregnant. We have to remember that their mindset was totally different from our modern western way of life and culture. In India today many people bathe in the Ganges river because it is a sacred holy river to them.
So for the daughter of Pharaoh to find a baby floating down the Nile in a basket it was like a gift from the god Hepi, especially for her.
Once she realized it was a baby Hebrew boy she knew she would face criticism and this is why she named him Moses meaning: drew out of the waters (of the Nile) indicating this child was a gift from the god Hepi.
Interestingly the name Moses also means to separate and as we know from the rest of the story in scripture during his life, he was actually drawn away from the gods of Egypt and separated from them.
Another connection is revealed in that the name Moses comes from the same root word as Messiah and we know that Moses was a picture, a type and shadow of the Messiah and in the same way that Moses would free his people from slavery in Egypt, the Messiah would come and free us from our sins.
If we take the name of
Moses in Hebrew isMOSHAH
משׁה
above are the Hebrew letters for M SH and H
and if we turn that first letter M/Mem, in the name Moses, into a preposition, which means the word: “from”, it would read:
from shach.
Shach means:
a little lamb.
This shows Moses’ compassion and the concerned feelings he had for others. It could also be a type and shadow of the future Messiah who would come as a lamb and deliver HIs people at the first Passover at the Exodus.
Remembering that in the Hebrew alefbet each letter has a numerical value and the rabbis/teachers have noted that words of equal value in the Hebrew language have connections to similar themes. The numerical value of His name Moses indicated that he would live a long life. Moses in Hebrew without the vowels is: Mem = 40, Shin = 300 and Hei = 5 for a total of 345. He lived for 120 years. The Hebrew word for the number 120 is beshagamwhich is spelled Beth = 2, Shin = 300, Gimmel = 3 and Mem = 40 and gives a total of 345.
The children of Israel called Moses,
Moses our teacher
which in Hebrew is Mosheh Rabeynu.
As previously noted the numerical value of Moses is 345, the numerical value of teacher is Resh = 200, Beth = 2, Yod = 10, Nun = 50, Vav = 6, a total of 268.
By adding 345+268 = 613. 613 is the number of commandments in the Torah and it was Moses who brought these commandments from the Lord God to His people.
One 19th century Hebrew teacher, Rabbi Hirsch, noted that the word Moshah has a similar sound to the word mosahwhich in Hebrew means: to melt away, to vanish.
We could take a cautionary message from this for ourselves.
Although Moses was probably one of the greatest people who ever lived, before the presence of God he became as nothing and just melted away and vanished. So too we, in our self elevated positions as teachers, pastors and church leaders need to mosah like Moshah; meaning we need to vanish by melting away in the presence of our Heavenly Father Who is the one true God, then, people will not see us, they will only see Him.
A little later in the book of Exodus in chapter 10 and verse 23 we read :
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
We are all familiar with the call on Moses life to bring the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage. There are memorable parts of the biblical account where God did many miracles and the plagues that came upon Egypt. One of the plagues was darkness. This was so disturbing to Pharaoh that he agreed to let the people of Israel go.
Why was Pharaoh so disturbed about total darkness, weren’t there candles, torches and oil lamps in all of Egypt? It only lasted three days, but when light returned the record tells that Pharaoh was very ready to let the people go.
The scripture says:
King James Bible And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Amplified Bible Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that darkness may come over the land of Egypt, a darkness which [is so awful that it] may be felt.”
Berean Standard Bible Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Contemporary English Version The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch your arm toward the sky, and everything will be covered with darkness thick enough to touch.”
International Standard Version Then the LORD told Moses, “Stretch your hand toward the sky and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that one can feel.”
(Hebrew Word References Above Are From Bible Hub.com)
These words describe the darkness as being thick and tangible, that it was not only be so dark that it was impossible to see anything at all but palpable and tangible in the way that it could be felt, like thick oil. If that is accurate no wonder Pharaoh was ready to let the Israelites leave!
“They saw not one another,” we are told, “for three days”
Exodus 10:23.
The darkness was one which “might be felt” Exodus 10:21.
Such a supernatural manifestation of absolutely impenetrable “blackness of darkness” would cause to anyone a feeling of intense fear and horror.
To the Egyptians it would be peculiarly painful and terrible. Ra, the sun-god, was among the principal objects of their worship, especially in the Delta, where Heliopolis and Pithoni were cities dedicated to him. Darkness was a creation of Set–the Evil Principle, the destroyer of Osiris–and of Apophis, the Great Serpent, the impeder of souls in the lower world. It would have seemed to the Egyptians that Ra was dead, that Set had triumphed over his brother, that Apophis had encircled the world with his dark folds, and plunged it in eternal night. This explains Pharaoh’s early call for Moses, and permission that the people should depart, with their families (Exodus 10:24): a promise of release which had the restriction, Only let your flocks and herds be stayed.
In order to have total darkness means that the creator of the universe had to put out the lights of the sun, moon, and stars for three days. Those who experienced the total eclipse on 8th of this month had a brief taste of that total darkness. Remember that the Egyptians worshipped the sun, moon, and stars. Their chief god was the sun god Ra. They worshipped the stars, they looked to the constellations to tell them when to plant their crops when to harvest them and when the Nile would overflow its banks and irrigate the land.
It was no coincidence that all their gods were being shown as no contest to the Creator God of the Hebrew children of Israel.
If the people of Egypt saw light coming from Goshen where the Hebrews were, it surely would have been even more disturbing.
It is very interesting that some of the Hebrew Rabbis teach that this light literally came from the people themselves. However it was not shining through them, rather it was reflected off of them. Giving the picture that the light where the Israelites were living was Gods’ Light reflected off them. This could have been the case, if His people literally had a light shining from their very being, and it is not impossible as Moses face shone after he had been in the presence of the Most High.
And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him. Ex 34:35 KJV
The Hebrew says in this verse that there was‘or bemoshevotham. This literally means:
a light from within the dwellers
The use of the word “dweller” might also suggest angelic beings. Angels of light.
There is no doubt however that, this light, in Hebrew (‘or) was
a divine light.
Shekhinah שְׁכִינָה
Shekinah Glory is a Hebrew term that refers to the divine presence of God on earth. The word “shekinah” means “dwelling” or “one who dwells”. Shekinah Glory is often symbolized as a cloud or pillar of fire. The Hebrew Bible mentions several places where the presence of God was felt as a Shekinah, including the burning bush, the cloud on Mount Sinai and the wilderness Mishkan. The word shekinah does not appear in the Bible, but the concept clearly does. The Jewish rabbis coined this extra-biblical expression, a form of a Hebrew word that literally means “he caused to dwell,” signifying that it was a divine visitation of the presence or dwelling place of God.
The etymology of “Shekinah” is from the Hebrew word shākan, which means“to reside or permanently stay.”The rabbis used the term Shekinahto describe the presence of God amongst His people ( Exodus 19:16-18; Exodus 40:34-38; I Kings 6:13)- The glory of God dwelling in the Temple (2 Chronicles 7:1)– How God dwells in the mountain (Psalm 68.16-18; Joel 3:17)
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 4:6
This is the light of Genesis 1:3 when God said: “Let there be light.”
He had not yet created the sun, moon or stars this light was Divine light. God is light. 1John1:5 God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all.
What the Hebrew teachers/sages do, is that they take the preposition and pronoun away from the word
bemoshevotham
be moshev otham
and the word moshev remains.
4186 moshab/moshev:
a seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling, dwellers
Original Word: מוֹשָׁב Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: moshab Phonetic Spelling: (mo-shawb’) Definition: a seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling, dwellers
This is a literal play on the word Moshiach or Messiah and if the light coming from the people was reflected off them, then it was the Shechinah glory which was present in each household.
As the use of the word dweller here is a play on the word Moshiach/Messiah, could it also suggest that it was the Light of Messiah Yeshua/Jesus which was reflecting off the people?
The word Moshovotam spells out moshav tam which means: a complete resting place. And we know that wherever we find the light of our Heavenly Father we will find a complete peace, a resting place, His true shalom.
mo-shawb’: assembly, dwell in, dwelling-place, wherein that dwelt in, inhabited place, seat
Or moshab {mo-shawb’}; from yashab; a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication, population — assembly, dwell in, dwelling(-place), wherein (that) dwelt (in), inhabited place, seat, sitting, situation, sojourning.
Scripture tells us in John 8:12 Messiah Yeshua/Jesus said of Himself :
I Am the Light of the World.
And
John 10:30-36 I and my Father are one.
This means: He is the light of God
and so in Him, we can find moshav tam.
If we can imagine just what it must have been like in those Hebrew households for three days living in the light of the Messiah, the true shekinah glory light of God? The same shekinah glory that would accompany them for the next 40 years and came to rest on the mishkan, dwelling with them?
Not only that, but if this concept is in any way accurate, to look around and see that shekinah glory light, reflected off the people around you, right before that first passover; must have been an amazing 3 days – not of darkness, but of the presence of God. What a miracle that must have given the Hebrew children a reason to praise and worship their Deliverer.
LIGHT FROM THE DWELLER –
‘ORBEMOSHEVOTHAM –
~אור במושׁבתמ
As Holy Spirit filled believers, the light of our Heavenly Father and Messiah dwells in us, in Him we live and move and have our being,(Acts 17:28); and because we are now representing Messiah, the light of the world, people around us should see
Messiah/Christ in us the hope of glory, the
or bemoshevotham
~אור במושׁבתמ
Light from the dweller!
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
As this year the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars are not in sync., we are between the two calendar dates for Passover/Unleavened Bread and First Fruits.
This gap in the dates, gives us an opportunity to focus on the single most miraculous event in time and eternity.
It is an event that we should remember all year, not just as the seasons make their turn.
Gethsemane and Calvary are in truth
the Gateways to Life /Chaim
and why Messiah said
I am the Way the Truth and the Life.
Derek, Emet and Chaim.
It is impossible for us who are bound in human flesh, to understand Messiahs agony, however, we don’t have to misunderstand it.
Matthew 26:36 – 38
It was the agony of God and man in the person Yeshua/Jesus as He came to face to face with sin; and on the cross He experienced total separation from His Father because as He became sin – as the sin offering – the Holiness of God could not look upon that sin.
It is not possible for us to experience Gethsemane and Calvary. We cannot learn about them through personal experience because they represent something totally unique.
They are the gateway,
the door, the dalet
into life for us.
It was not death on the cross that He was facing, that caused Yeshua/Jesus to agonize over when He was in Gethsemane; because He stated that His purpose was to die. He knew that was why He came.
It was not a shock to Him, He was completely aware of His Heavenly Fathers’ plan and the process He was to complete. Most likely His concern was that He might not get through this struggle as a Son of Man. He was confident at getting through it as the Son of God because Satan couldn’t not touch him there; the previous temptations had proved that. The pressure was the adversary’s assault against Him, with the focus that our Lord would come through for us on His own; solely as the Son of Man.
If Messiah had done that He could not have been our Savior.Hebrews 9:11–15
And we should read the account of Gethsemane and His agony in the light of His earlier temptations in the wilderness. The devil departed from Him until an opportune time. Luke 4:13. In Gethsemane was an opportune time, but satans attack was overthrown once again. The adversarys’ final assault against our Savior was in the garden of Gethsemane as the Son of Man.
The agony in Gethsemane was the agony of the Son of God in fulfilling His destiny as the Savior of the world. The veil is pulled back here, to reveal all that it cost Him to make it possible for us to become Sons and Daughters of God; HIs children, His Family. We should also remember that the Jews have a priority over the Gentiles, in that the Messiah Himself, Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach, came first as a Jewto the Jews. We are told in Romans 9:5, of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
and reminded again in Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;to the Jew first, and also to the Greek/heathen/gentiles.
HIs agony was the basis for the simplicity of our salvation.
The cross of Yeshua/Jesus was a triumph for the Son of man, and not only a sign that our Lord triumphed; but that He had triumphed to save the human race.
Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being has been provided with a way of access into the very presence of God.
Our gateway to God, our Heavenly Father.
1 Peter 2:24.
It cost him everything.
The cross of Calvary is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. It was not a martyrs death, it was the ultimate triumph and shook the very foundations of hell.
There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and undeniable, than what He accomplished on the cross. It changed everything for ever.
He made it possible for the entire human race to be brought back into a right standing relationship with the Father. He made redemption the foundation of human life, that is, He made a way for every person to have fellowship, communion and an intimate relationship with the creator of the universe.
That cross was not something that happened
TO Jesus/Yeshua, He came to die.
The cross was His purpose in coming.
The great divide was restored by a great collide.
He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8.
The incarnation of Yeshua Messiah would have no meaning without the cross.
We must be sure not to separate –
God was manifested in the flesh –
from
He made Him to be sin for us.
1Timothy 3:16; 2Corinthians 5:21.
The purpose of the incarnation was redemption.
The Most High God came in the flesh to take sin away, not to accomplish something for Himself.
Not only is the cross the central event
in time and eternity…
it is the answer to all the problems in both.
The cross is not a cross of a man, but the cross of the only creator God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords; and it can never be fully understood through the human experience.
The cross is our Heavenly Father God, Adonai Elohim Melech haOlam, displaying His nature. It’s the Gate through which any and every individual can enter into oneness with Him. However it is not a gate we pass right through, it’s the one where we enter His presence and where we abide – in the life/chaim that exists and is found there.
The heart of salvation is Messiahs cross and the reason it’s so easy for us to obtain, is that it cost the Father so much!
It was the place where a Holy God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision.
It is why the Way to life was opened, and we must remember, all the cost and pain of that collision was absorbed by the heart of our loving Father God.
The great division was restored by a great collision…. and the result was NOT
chaos, devastation and total destruction
but peace, healing and total restoration.
Colossians 1:20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
Let our prayer this week be for the eyes of our understanding to be enlightened, that we may know Him and power of His cross and resurrection…
Phil 3: 10-17 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Ephesians 1:18-23 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
have different dates for the Passover/Pesach week.
The Hebrew Calendar and Gods Appointed Times/Feasts, are always on the exact same date every year, whereas on the Gregorian calendar the months in which they fall are different.
This year, Sunday 24th March is/was Palm Sunday with Good Friday on March 29th followed by Resurrection Sunday on 31st of March. However Passover/Pesach according to the scriptures is always in the month of Nisan on the 14th day which is 22nd of April on the Gregorian calendar that is used today.
In Leviticus 23:1–2, the Lord told Moses, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord’s appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:’”
Pope Gregory influenced the changes to the biblical dates in an effort to remove everything Jewish from Christianity and the roman catholic churches initiated new doctrines out of which every western denomination evolved.
Gregory XIII was the pope from 1572 to 1585, who promulgated the Gregorian calendar and founded a system of seminaries for Roman Catholic priests. The Gregorian calendar, a solar dating system now in general use. It was proclaimed by PopeGregory XIII as a reform of the Juliancalendar. He issued a papal bull, “Inter Gravissimus” and decreed that 10 days be skipped when switching to the Gregorian calendar on February 24, 1582 that established it as the new and official calendar of the Catholic world. The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Passover and called it Easter. It also gave us the leap year.
The Pesach/Passover, Appointed Time, set in by the Father is always in the month of Nisan which begins on 9th April.
4These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteentha day of the first month. 6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Breadb to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.8For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
Pesach/Passover according to scripture begins with the feast of the firstborn on nisan 14 (Monday 22 April)
The feast of unleavened bread begins 15th Nisan (23rd april) and
feast of first fruits which is also 1st day of counting the Omer to Pentecost/Shavuot on Nisan 16th (wed 24thapril )
Passover continues through the week and ends 22Nisan (tues 30th Apr).
Passover/Pesach is the remembrance of the children of Israels exodus and deliverance from Egyptian bondage as slaves, freed from cruel servitude. The Lord came down and delivered His people and by the sacrificial blood of a perfect lamb placed on their dwellings. The death angel passed over them and their deliverance was assured.
This was a type and shadow of the sacrificial death of Messiah, the perfect Lamb of God, whose blood has been applied to our house/our very being, and we are delivered from the devil/the cruel taskmaster of this world/ redeemed from sin and death and set free into newness of life. This is mainly what christians celebrate today not realizing the original passover is significant.
There will also be a greater exodus to come when Messiah returns and executes judgment over the sin in this worlds systems; and the demonic realm that inspires it. We will be delivered finally from the sin and death that is rampant in this world as He comes to take those of us still here to be together with Him.
The Passover/Pesach, did not begin with Messiahs death just 2000 years ago, and is not the only thing we are to remember at this appointed season. For those unfamiliar with the Pesach/Passover, according to the directions in the Torah, we must begin with reading
Exodus 6:2,3 I am the Lord I appeared to Abraham and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them.
Moses and Aaron were commissioned by YHVH to go before Pharaoh and deliver the message to let my people go.
Note the divine name
YHVH יְהוָ֔ה
was already known in a cognitive sense by the pre Moses fathers. But this passage and the accompanying revelation of YHVH’s
4 verbs of redemption YOD HEY VAV HEY
is intended to indicate the direct experience of the power and glory not seen by the forefathers.
The 4 verbs/action words of redemption are in the Exodus itself and are the 4 cups of Passover/pesach.
1 I will free
2 deliver
3 redeem
4 take you
That is the basis of the annual remembrance of His redeeming power; the action which was ultimately fulfilled with Yeshua Messiahs sacrificial death as the Passover lamb whose blood secured their salvation from death (angel). Followed by the:
free, deliver, redeem, take you out of bondage
as slaves to Egypt -(a type of the world)
and Pharaoh/type of the devil/adversary.
The combined destiny of sin and death, without the sacrificial blood,
(the wages of sin is death); Romans 6:23
(the life is in the blood) – Leviticus 17:11
(a life for a life) Deut. 19:21.
We lose the fullness of meaning in what we call communion, because we only have 1 cup – the cup of redemption which is the third cup.
So when Messiah references the cup. I shall drink, and the cup Messiah Yeshua took during the meal are far more significant than we realize.
Our exodus will be complete when we exit this earth, either when we transition as He calls us home, or when He returns and He will drink the cup with us in the kingdom to come.
God waits to judge, until the iniquity of sin is full; and these are judgments against
the kingdom of darkness,
the adversary and
the fallen angels.
I will take them out from under the burdens
I shall rescue you from their service
I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm and great judgments
I shall take you to me for a people
I shall be an Elohim to you and you’ll know that I am Yahweh
I shall bring you to the land and give it to you as a heritage.
The arm is Yeshua/Messiah and great judgments will come in the end days.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them.
4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.
5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’ ”
The four I wills in vs 6-8
I will take you out 1st cup of sanctification
I will rescue you 2nd cup of judgment
I will redeem you 3rd cup of redemption
I will take you 4th cup of praise
This is the cup He will drink with us anew in the kingdom on His return.
Exodus 3:15 God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob–has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
It is here that Yahweh tells Abraham His name is YHVH.
And God speaks to Moses and says to him, “I [am] YHWH, יְהוָ֔ה
We are now at the 4thI will of Exodus 6:6-8.
I will take you as My people.
He is bringing us out from under the worlds/Egypts burdens.
Our Heavenly Father/Yahweh is bringing everything together as He did at Mt Sinai, where He personally came down to make covenant with the sons of Israel; and He will personally come down to complete His plan of the ages.
The Nail Pierced Hands of Messiah
Reveal The Love-Filled Heart Of Our Heavenly Father.
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Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent,
to be well pleasing to Him.
2 Corinthians 5:9.
Another translation reads:
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
Paul declares that the aim of the Christian life is to please Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach, who in turn, is well-pleased with His followers.
Messiah’s heart fills with joy when He sees us walking in the paths in which He would have us go because as the scripture says:
John 4 :34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.
And we are to do likewise:
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.
We are to be like David who said in Ps 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law/teaching is within my heart.
Some translations use the word accepted in this verse, which is also correct. The use of the word pleasing or well pleasing, suggests a more intimate relationship between ourselves and our Heavenly Father and Messiah. One that, as we are obedient to His will for our lives with a willing, humble heart of love and adoration; His response would be a loving joyful one which pleases Himgreatly.
Ps 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the L ORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
Taking delight in the Lord means that our hearts truly find peace/shalom and fulfillment in His plans for us.
Ps 147:10,11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. ESV
His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His steadfast love.
The pleasure Messiah has in them that fear Him/reverently respect Him, and in them that hope in His mercy’ and do His will; is what fills His heart as He looks at those who are following His instructions as His disciples. This well pleased demeanor will be clearly revealed in the day of final judgment.
Matt. 25:23. His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of your Lord.
The word pleasing and pleasure are related, and we read in Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
In this kind of pleasure that is spoken of in verse 11 “and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created”, lies the key to finding our purpose in life. We were created to provide our Heavenly Creator Father with the pleasure of being involved in our lives, of providing for us, of interacting with us and communicating with us; and when are in harmony with Him, flowing together with His plans, we are pleasing to Him.
So many people struggle with feelings of insecurity, a poor self image and low self-worth, and question just what is our purpose in life; and many spend much time, effort and resources trying to find answers to their questions.
Truthfully, the key to finding our purpose is found in this verse:
“For you created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created.” Rev. 4:11.
This is our ultimate purpose, we were created for His pleasure! However this doesn’t this mean we are simply playthings in His hands.
Looking at the word “pleasure” from a worldly perspective, we may be inclined to think that we are just one of His hobbies. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the Bible describes the God of Creations’ relationship with us as that of a Father:
Psalm 103:13 is clear on that.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him, and the same theme runs through the whole Bible, leading to the free and wonderful gift of Salvation.
God, is the perfect Father and is actively involved in our affairs and because He is, the concept of being created for God’s pleasure can perhaps be better understood from the position of a parent.
Being a parent is not meaning that parents should “play” with those placed in their care, or that they should use them for their own selfish reasons.
Instead, loving parents will take pleasure and find fulfillment in being connected to and involved with their children, by acting on their behalf for what is in their best interest, in communicating with them, in giving them guidance and in being actively involved in their lives. There is a subtle difference, but any caring parent will understand that the idea of, taking pleasure in our children is completely unselfish.
This is the kind of pleasure that is spoken of in Revelation 4:11 “and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created”, and again, herein lies the key to finding our purpose in life. We were created to provide God with the pleasure of being involved in our lives, of providing for us, of interacting with us and communicating with us.
When we do the following things, we are bringing pleasure to our Heavenly Father and fulfilling His purpose for us.
When we actively pursue a relationship with God;
allow Him to be our provision, our Rock, our help in time of trouble;
make the effort to spend time with Him;
and
seek His will for our lives,
It is not important where we are in our walk in life, or if we have even discovered His direction for our lives. It is more important that in our search for purpose, we can be certain that when we make an effort to spend time with, and put our trust in Him, allowing Him to be our provision and our strength, we are fulfilling our purpose in life.
The best part being that, when we make it our first priority to bring pleasure to our Heavenly Father, we are opening the door for Him to provide us with guidance and knowledge of His will.
It is this decision of the individuals will, to place Messiah and His will for us above all other choices in life.
For each individual believer we should be able to say we live
that I may please Him-
It is not doctrines, denominations, creeds, opinions, professions, or even a faith that simply trusts in Him for salvation, that makes a true believer in Messiah Jesus/Yeshua..
We are believers/Christians/disciples in the exact measure in which Messiah’s will is positioned and important in our lives; and without a doubt, the common characteristic of all real believers/Christians/disciples, is summed up in this verse,
‘We labour that whether present or absent we may be well-pleasing to Him.’
We are to make it our goal, and it requires a conscious decision and a sustained effort to keep this goal always in front of us. It means we are to hold ourselves to the highest standard, moment by moment, day in and day out.
This is a commitment which is not making our first priority to win souls, or to plant churches, or to have revivals, but seeking only to be well pleasing to Him. A lack of spiritual experience is not what leads to failure, it is a lack of working to keep our eyes focused on the right goal.
We should examine ourselves before the Father at least once a week, to check if our lives are measuring up to the standard He has set for us. We think nothing of weekly putting out our trash, rubbish and garbage for collection. Things we no longer need, want or require. Items that are dirty, broken, unclean and no longer a part of our lives needs. This has a spiritual significance as we can expel any spiritual trash that has accumulated during the week, keeping this house/our physical house and all our spiritual aspects cleansed with the Blood of Messiah by not giving place to anything we would not want Him to see we have.
Anything we take on, that distracts us even to the smallest degree from the main goal of being approved to God 2 Tim. 2:15; may have an impact on how we are used in His service going forward. When we discern where the goal is leading us, we will understand why it is so necessary to keep, looking unto Yeshua/Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:2. Paul spoke of the importance of controlling his own body so that it would not take him in the wrong direction. He said: I discipline my body and bring it into subjection lest I myself should become disqualified. 1 Cor. 9:27
We must learn to do the same, and relate everything to the primary goal, maintaining it without interruption.
Our public worth to our Heavenly Father is measured by what we really are in our private life. Is our primary goal in life to please and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how spiritual it may sound to ourselves and others?
In Phil. 4:10 Paul said
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection.
This is a very serious statement and should not be prayed or declared lightly, because the next few words hold immense sobriety for the individual…
the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
The Amplified Bible reads: And this, so that I may know Him [experientially, becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him, understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person more completely] and [in that same way experience] the power of His resurrection [which overflows and is active in believers], and [that I may share] the fellowship of His sufferings, by being continually conformed [inwardly into His likeness even] to His death [dying as He did];
In the Aramaic Bible in Plain English: That by it I may know Yeshua and the power of his resurrection, and that I may share in his sufferings and be conformed with his death,
And the power of his resurrection, this was a glorious manifestation of Divine powerRomans 1:4. That resurrection power is now the power in the believers spiritual life: it stimulates the spiritual resurrection from the death caused by sin unto the life of righteousness. Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12.
And the fellowship of His sufferings.
According to the best manuscripts, there is a very close connection between these words and the previous ones,
Romans 8:17; 2 Timothy 2:11, 12.
To know the quickening power of His resurrection, we must share His sufferings.
As we meditate on the sufferings of our Savior we begin to feel a deeper, a more real understanding of what He experienced. This in turn will help to prepare us if, when we are called to suffer, we are to take it patiently, looking unto Messiah Yeshua/Jesus, then our sufferings will become united with His sufferings, “we suffer with him.” And he who hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows feels for us having been touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
This fellowship in suffering leads us through by His grace, to fellowship with Him in glory.
2 Corinthians 4:10; Romans 6:5.
Being made conformable unto his death; rather, becoming conformed. The means it is now, in the present: it implies a continual progress. It is taken from the word μορφή, meaning: form, used in Philippians2:6, and indicates, not just an external resemblance, but a deep, inner conformity. The reference here is not to a death by martyrdom, but to that daily dying to the world and to self, which Paul declared when he said that he was “crucified with Christ” Galatians 2:20; 1 Corinthians 15:31.
The true servant and disciple of Messiah is committed to Him first before anything or anyone else; and to the Fathers will, plan and purpose.
Today we should ask ourselves…Is it our primary goal as His servant, to be well pleasing to Him?
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, 
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