25 Tevet 5781 Shabbat Vayechi (And He lived)
9 January 2021
Parasaha Shmot: Exodus 5-6
Haftarah Sh’mot: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 27:6–28:13; 29:22–23 (A); Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 1:1–2:3 (S)
B’rit
Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Sh’mot: Mattityahu (Matthew)
22:23–33; 41–46; Mark 12:18–27; 35–37; Luke 20:27–44; Acts 3:12–15;
5:27–32; 7:17–36; 22:12–16; 24:14–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:23–26
Psalm 89
26 (25) I will put his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
27 (26) He will call to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
28 (27) I will give him the position of firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
29 (28) I will keep my grace for him forever, and in my covenant be faithful with him.
30 (29) I will establish his dynasty forever, and his throne as long as the heavens last.
31 (30) “If his descendants abandon my Torah and fail to live by my rulings,
32 (31) if they profane my regulations and don’t obey my mitzvot,
33 (32) I will punish their disobedience with the rod and their guilt with lashes.
34 (33) But I won’t withdraw my grace from him or be false to my faithfulness.
35 (34) I will not profane my covenant or change what my lips have spoken.
36 (35) I have sworn by my holiness once and for all; I will not lie to David —
37 (36) his dynasty will last forever, his throne like the sun before me.
38 (37) It will be established forever, like the moon, which remains a faithful witness in the sky.” (Selah)
39 (38) But you spurned your anointed one, rejected and vented your rage on him.
40 (39) You renounced the covenant with your servant and defiled his crown in the dust.
41 (40) You broke through all his defenses and left his strongholds in ruins.
42 (41) All who pass by plunder him; he is an object of scorn to his neighbors.
43 (42) You raised up the right hand of his foes and made all his enemies rejoice.
44 (43) You drive back his drawn sword and fail to support him in battle.
45 (44) You brought an end to his splendor and hurled his throne to the ground.
46 (45) You cut short the days of his youth and covered him with shame. (Selah)
47 (46) How long, Adonai? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your fury burn like fire?
48 (47) Remember how little time I have! Was it for no purpose that you created all humanity?
49 (48) Who can live and not see death? Who can save himself from the power of the grave? (Selah)
50 (49) Where, Adonai, are the acts of grace you once did,
those which, in your faithfulness, you swore to David?
51 (50) Remember, Adonai, the taunts hurled at your servants,
which I carry in my heart [from] so many peoples!
52 (51) Your enemies, Adonai, have flung their taunts,
flung them in the footsteps of your anointed one.
53 (52) Blessed be Adonai forever. Amen. Amen.
Dear Avi,
HOLY are YOU O GOD My KING! I slept at 7pm to 9.30 while listening to prophetic words at the Tabernacle room and I dreamt of Anthony. Dean was knocking at the glass pavement and I was inside and he was asking Anthony something about the word of GOD and Anthony answered him well like some kind of a teacher who can explain the words of GOD and I was inside the place where he was. In the dream I saw him dressed like "superman" but it was symbolic to a super man who can explain depths of truth of YOUR WORD. And I felt loved, I felt secured because I was inside the place where he is, it seemed like we lived together already and as I awoke, I could feel his love for me. Wow! I was floating on cloud 9, as I went into the TV ROOM to join our nightly family Communion Worship. It felt so real. I could feel Anthony loving me. Maybe it was YOU, for how could someone who don't know me love me that much? It must have been YOU.
Exodus 5
20 As they were leaving Pharaoh, they encountered Moshe and Aharon standing by the road; 21 and they said to them, “May Adonai look at you and judge accordingly, because you have made us utterly abhorrent in the view of Pharaoh and his servants, and you have put a sword in their hands to kill us!” (Maftir) 22 Moshe returned to Adonai and said, “Adonai, why have you treated this people so terribly? What has been the value of sending me? 23 For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt terribly with this people! And you haven’t rescued your people at all!”
Exodus 6
1 Adonai said to Moshe, “Now you will see what I am going to do to Pharaoh. With a mighty hand he will send them off; with force he will drive them from the land!”
Avi Yakar,
Wow Avi! So great are YOU O GOD! But Adonai, we are so finite and we are baffled by oppression all around us just like the Egyptians. YOU allow bad things so that YOU can display all YOUR glory towards YOUR people. Oh Avi, I pray that whatever YOU have called Anthony and I to do in life, that we will not lose our faith and trust in YOU, but will trust YOU all the way and continue to seek YOUR counsel and guidance, for the next steps as we fully depend on YOU, and trust YOU with our lives. May we not panic easily but may we always see YOUR grace, YOUR hand, hear YOUR voice, YOUR Word and rest in YOUR revealed purpose for everything that is happening.
Haftarah Sh’mot: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 27:6–28:13; 29:22–23 (A); Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 1:1–2:3 (S)
Isaiah 27
6 The time is coming when Ya‘akov will take root; Isra’el will bud and flower,
and fill the whole world with a harvest.
7 [Adonai] will not strike Isra’el, as he did others who struck Isra’el;
he will not kill them, as he did the others.
8 Your controversy with her is fully resolved by sending her [into exile].
He removes her with a rough gust of wind on a day when it’s blowing from the east.
9 So the iniquity of Ya‘akov is atoned for by this, and removing his sin produces this result:
he chops up all the altar stones like chalk — sacred poles and sun-pillars stand no more.
Isaiah 28
5 On that day, Adonai-Tzva’ot will be a glorious crown,
a brilliant diadem for the remnant of his people.
6 He will also be a spirit of justice for whoever sits as a judge,
and a source of strength for those repelling enemy attacks at the gate.
12 He once told this people, “It’s time to rest, the exhausted can rest, now you can relax” — but they wouldn’t listen.
13 So now the word of Adonai for them comes “precept by precept, precept by precept,
line by line, line by line, a little here, a little there,” so that when they walk, they stumble backward, and are broken, trapped and captured!
Isaiah 29
22 Therefore, here are the words of Adonai, who redeemed Avraham, concerning the house of Ya‘akov: “Ya‘akov will no longer be ashamed, no longer will his face grow pale.
23 When his descendants see the work of my hands among them, they will consecrate my name. Yes, they will consecrate the Holy one of Ya‘akov and stand in awe of the God of Isra’el.
Dear Avi,
I am so amazed by YOUR grace!!! I am so amazed at how I am responding to this NEW thing YOU have planted within my Spirit. It's not like before, I feel that I am finally relaxing, finally trusting, finally resting in YOUR WORD and PROMISE. I will no longer be ashamed, no longer will my face grow pale because this is my time and season. YOU will be a glorious crown on my head, a brilliant diamond diadem on me as YOU fulfill all YOUR Promises to me, the time is here. Toda Raba Avi! Oh Father, I am praying for the new heper Karen, may she be a good worker who can stay with our family for long.
Jeremiah 1-2:3
1 These are the words of Yirmeyahu the son of Hilkiyahu, one of the cohanim living in ‘Anatot, in the territory of Binyamin. 2 The word of Adonai came to him during the days of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Y’hudah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It also came during the days of Y’hoyakim the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, continuing until the eleventh year of Tzidkiyahu the son of Yoshiyahu, king of Y’hudah, right up until the time Yerushalayim was carried away captive, in the fifth month.
4 Here is the word of Adonai that came to me:
5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you;
before you were born, I separated you for myself.
I have appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
6 I said, “Oh, Adonai Elohim, I don’t even know how to speak! I’m just a child!” 7 But Adonai said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I’m just a child.’
“For you will go to whomever I send you, and you will speak whatever I order you.
8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you, says Adonai, to rescue you.”
9 Then Adonai put out his hand and touched my mouth, and Adonai said to me,
“There! I have put my words in your mouth.
10 Today I have placed you over nations and kingdoms
to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant.”
11 The word of Adonai came to me, asking, “Yirmeyahu, what do you see?” I answered, “I see a branch from an almond tree [a]. 12 Then Adonai said to me, “You have seen well, because I am watching [b] to fulfill my word.”
13 A second time the word of Adonai came to me, asking, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a caldron tilted away from the north, over a fire fanned by the wind.” 14 Then Adonai said to me, “From the north calamity will boil over onto everyone living in the land, 15 because I will summon all the families in the kingdoms of the north,” says Adonai,
“and they will come and sit, each one, on his throne at the entrance to the gates of Yerushalayim, opposite its walls, all the way around, and opposite all the cities of Y’hudah.
16 I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness in abandoning me, offering incense to other gods and worshipping what their own hands made.
17 “But you, dress for action; stand up and tell them everything I order you to say.
When you confront them, don’t break down; or I will break you down in front of them!
18 For today, you see, I have made you into a fortified city, a pillar of iron,
a wall of bronze against the whole land — against the kings of Y’hudah, against its princes,
against its cohanim and the people of the land.
19 They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you,
for I am with you,” says Adonai, “to rescue you.”
Jeremiah 2
1The word of Adonai came to me: 2 “Go and shout in the ears of Yerushalayim that this is what Adonai says:
‘I remember your devotion when you were young; how, as a bride, you loved me;
how you followed me through the desert, through a land not sown.
3 “‘Isra’el is set aside for Adonai, the firstfruits of his harvest;
all who devour him will incur guilt; evil will befall them,” says Adonai.
Avi Yakar,
Blessed are YOU Adonai Elohim King of the Universe My Everlasting!!! What a wonderful Shabbat! Toda for this day that YOU have made. Although I woke up really early past 4.30am I went back to sleep because I felt I wanted to remember the dream I had last night as I slept in the Tabernacle Room of my house. I dreamt of Anthony and he was so real, and he loves me. I felt so secure and surrounded by YOUR love for me through the man of YOUR choice Anthony. It's like I can visualize and internalize our intimate moments together even though I have never seen him in real person. I only know him from a distance, but the way YOU have connected me to him feels like he is so near. I've never felt this way before, like I've known a person I have never met before, for I see him in my dreams and he loves me in my dreams. Wow! All my dreams are about to come true. I will be loved and cherished the way that YOU do Avi. Toda Raba! Toda! Oh Avi, YOU are my number one, because without YOU there would be no Anthony. He only exists because of YOU, I am who I am because of YOU too. Without YOU we would not be anything else no Anthony and no me. All our fountains are in YOU! Avi, I am sensing the works of evil, duality in this season. I pray Avi, that YOU keep me pure and HOLY, without malice or sexual thoughts about my husband until the day I marry him. Please Avi, make me pure and holy because I sense a sexual awakening in my body but it's not yet time. It is lust not to wait for the perfect time. So I pray help us to wait. I ask YOU to bind the works of the enemy and cleanse us with the precious blood of the Lamb - YESHUA. Cleanse my mind and heart and body, cleanse Anthony as well too. Please Avi, let there be purity the very day that we meet, let there be purity and holiness in everything we do and say. O GOD, I feel so sleepy, I pray awaken me to YOUR truth. Awaken me!!! Empty my bowels today I ask YOU Avi, because I know YOU hear every word that I pray. Cleanse me and heal my colon, and take care of our family Avi. Let me lie down for awhile and i pray that YOU will awaken me.
7.53AM
Praise YOU Adonai! YOU have awakened me! Please heal me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness and evil. By the Blood of YESHUA heal me. My aching back please heal them Avi. Toda for this wonderful blessed day! It is David's birthday and I pray that YOU bless him, toda for healing him and delivering from evil and deception and lies. Setting him free to all that YOU have called him to be. Awaken him, awaken his Spirit within him. I pray all these
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, AMen!
I pray Avi, for everything else that concerns me, every petition of my heart, every request I lay down at YOUR feet this morning! Toda for hearing me, toda for every answered prayers and meeting every need that I have not even thought to ask YOU of. YOU complete all the work YOU started in me, in us. O GOD Almighty! Be glorified all the days of our lives! Be honored, be exalted in our lives!
Ba HaShem YESHUA HaMashiach, Amen!
B’rit Hadashah
Parashah Sh’mot: Mattityahu (Matthew) 22:23–33; 41–46; Mark 12:18–27;
35–37; Luke 20:27–44; Acts 3:12–15; 5:27–32; 7:17–36; 22:12–16;
24:14–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:23–26
Matthew 22
29 Yeshua answered them, “The reason you go astray is that you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God. 30 For in the Resurrection, neither men nor women will marry; rather, they will be like angels in heaven. 31 And as for whether the dead are resurrected, haven’t you read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov’?[b] He is God not of the dead but of the living!”
33 When the crowds heard how he taught, they were astounded;
41 Then, turning to the assembled P’rushim, Yeshua put a sh’eilah to them: 42 “Tell me your view concerning the Messiah: whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.” 43 “Then how is it,” he asked them, “that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord,’ when he says,
44 ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit here at my right hand
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?[a]
45 If David thus calls him ‘Lord,’ how is he his son?” 46 No one could think of anything to say in reply; and from that day on, no one dared put to him another sh’eilah.
Mark 12
24 Yeshua said to them, “Isn’t this the reason that you go astray? because you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God? 25 For when people rise from the dead, neither men nor women marry — they are like angels in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov’?[b] 27 He is God not of the dead, but of the living! You are going far astray!”
35 As Yeshua was teaching in the Temple, he asked, “How is it that the Torah-teachers say the Messiah is the Son of David? 36 David himself, inspired by the Ruach HaKodesh, said,‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit here at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’[a]
37 David himself calls him ‘Lord’; so how is he his son?”
The great crowd listened eagerly to him.
Acts 3
12 Seeing this, Kefa addressed the people: “Men of Isra’el! Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk through some power or godliness of our own? 13 The God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, the God of our fathers,[a] has glorified his servant Yeshua — the same Yeshua you handed over and disowned before Pilate, even after he had decided to release him. 14 You denied the holy and innocent one, and instead asked for the reprieve of a murderer! 15 You killed the author of life!
Acts 5
29 Kefa and the other emissaries answered, “We must obey God, not men. 30 The God of our fathers[a] raised up Yeshua, whereas you men killed him by having him hanged on a stake.[b] 31 God has exalted this man at his right hand[c] as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven. 32 We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 7:17-36
17 “As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly, 18 until there arose another king over Egypt who had no knowledge of Yosef.[a] 19 With cruel cunning this man forced our fathers to put their newborn babies outside their homes, so that they would not survive.
20 “It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. For three months he was reared in his father’s house; 21 and when he was put out of his home, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. 22 So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.
23 “But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra’el. 24 On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn’t understand. 26 When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?’ 27 the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’[b] 29 On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.
30 “After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush. 31 When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of Adonai, 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.’ But Moshe trembled with fear and didn’t dare to look. 33 Adonai said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.’[c]
35 “This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush. 36 This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
Acts 22:12-16
12 “A man named Hananyah, an observant follower of the Torah who was highly regarded by the entire Jewish community there, 13 came to me, stood by me and said, ‘Brother Sha’ul, see again!’ And at that very moment, I recovered my sight and saw him. 14 He said, ‘The God of our fathers[a] determined in advance that you should know his will, see the Tzaddik and hear his voice; 15 because you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard. 16 So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, immerse yourself and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.’
Acts 24:14-16
14 “But this I do admit to you: I worship the God of our fathers[a] in accordance with the Way (which they call a sect). I continue to believe everything that accords with the Torah and everything written in the Prophets. 15 And I continue to have a hope in God — which they too accept — that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. 16 Indeed, it is because of this that I make a point of always having a clear conscience in the sight of both God and man.
Hebrews 11:23-26
23 By trusting, the parents of Moshe hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw that he was a beautiful child,[a] and they weren’t afraid of the king’s decree.
24 By trusting, Moshe, after he had grown up,[b] refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 He chose being mistreated along with God’s people rather than enjoying the passing pleasures of sin. 26 He had come to regard abuse suffered on behalf of the Messiah as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes fixed on the reward.
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