Tuesday, September 18, 2012

AZAMRA Bible: Isaiah 37-38

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BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Isaiah 37-38
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

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ISAIAH CHAPTER 37

On hearing his ministers' report about Ravshakeh's blasphemies, Hezekiah was obliged to rend his garments (Rambam, Laws of Idolatry 2:8). It is a sign of his loyalty to the path of King David that in the face of the Assyrian threat, Hezekiah immediately sent messengers to the prophet in order to know what to do.

Isaiah told the king's ministers that God would put another spirit into Sennacherib "and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land" (v 7). Rashi (ad loc.) explains that Sennacherib would hear the rumor IMMEDIATELY but that his return to his own land would take place only LATER. This is what actually happened. As we read in verse 9, Sennacherib heard a report that Tirhakah king of Kush (in Africa) was on his way out to war against him, and he immediately turned south to march to Egypt to fight him. It was then that he sent messengers to Hezekiah not to think that he was abandoning his plan of capturing Jerusalem (vv 10ff). After defeating the armies of Egypt and Kush Sennacherib did indeed return to Jerusalem laden with plunder, and this was when "the angel of HaShem went out and smote the camp of Assyria" as we read near the end of the present chapter (v 36), forcing Sennacherib to return in disgrace to his land, where he was killed by his own sons (v 38).

The message Sennacherib sent to Hezekiah when he went to fight Tirhakah king of Kush was filled with exactly the same kind of arrogant bombast that his henchman Ravshakeh had spouted forth at the walls of Jerusalem, as described in the previous chapter. Hezekiah took Sennacherib's letters and spread them out in the Temple, where he skillfully used the Assyrian king's blasphemies to add strength to his own appeal to God to deliver Jerusalem in order to show that He alone has power, unlike the idols of wood and stone that had proved incapable of saving the nations who worshipped them (vv 15-21).

God answered Hezekiah through the prophet Isaiah (vv 21-35), castigating Sennacherib for his arrogance. "Through your servants you have taunted HaShem saying, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon" (v 24). "The height of the mountains" is the Temple Mount, while "Lebanon" refers to the Temple building (Rashi ad loc.), which Sennacherib evidently had visions of destroying.

"Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and from ancient times that I have formed it?" (v 26) – "Why should you boast? None of these are your achievements. It has been My decree for many years that you should be the one to exact retribution from the nations, as it says, 'Woe Assyria, rod of My wrath' (Is. 10:5)" (Rashi ad loc.).

Precisely because of Sennacherib's arrogance, God would put His hook in his nose and His bridle in his lips (v 29) in order to show him forcibly that he was nothing but His instrument.

"And this shall be a sign to you: you shall eat this year such as grows of itself…" (v 30). In this verse the prophet is no longer addressing Sennacherib but Hezekiah, telling him that the coming destruction of the Assyrian army and Sennacherib's ignominious return to his land would be the sign of another miracle that would take place thereafter. This would be that the people of Jerusalem and Judah would have ample food to eat in the coming three years despite the fact that the Assyrian armies had devastated their entire country and that during the siege of Jerusalem cultivation of the land had been completely impossible (see Rashi on v 30).

Just as Isaiah prophesied, Sennacherib was forced to return to Nineveh. Rashi (on v 38) explains that Sennacherib had vowed to his god that if he returned home safely he would offer his two sons as a sacrifice, and this is what motivated them to kill him before he could kill them!

CHAPTER 38

"In those days Hezekiah fell mortally sick…" (v 1). Rashi (ad loc.) states that Hezekiah fell sick three days before the fall of Sennacherib's armies. The king's mortal illness just as the armies of the world's greatest superpower were closing in on his last remaining stronghold in the capital immeasurably increased the direness of the peril facing his kingdom.

Isaiah's grim message that Hezekiah was to "die" (in this world) and "not live" (in the world to come, Rashi on v 1) would have thrown any lesser person into complete despair, but Hezekiah had an ancestral tradition that "even if a sharp sword is resting on a man's neck, he should never hold himself back from prayer" (Berachos 10a). "And Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed" (v 2). The "wall" to which he turned is the "wall in the heart". He directed his "face" i.e. the power of his mind, to this "wall" in order to break down all his inner barriers to complete repentance.

As discussed in KNOW YOUR BIBLE on II Chronicles ch 33, the rabbis taught that Hezekiah's flaw was that he had never married because he had seen with holy spirit that his son Menasheh was destined to be a terrible villain. The act of repentance that now saved Hezekiah's life was that he nevertheless took it upon himself to marry and have children. There is a hint of this in Hezekiah's prayer of thanksgiving after his recovery as recorded in our present chapter, when he said, "A father shall make known Your truth to children" (v 19). We know that Menasheh was twelve years old when he succeeded Hezekiah (II Kings 21:1), and since the latter lived for another fifteen years after his illness, we may infer that Menasheh was born three years after his recovery.

Hezekiah's recovery was not an unequivocal joy to him because it came not in his own merit but in the merit of King David. Thus Isaiah said to him, "So says HaShem the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer…" (v 5). For a full discussion of the sign God gave to Hezekiah – turning the clock back ten hours – see KNOW YOUR BIBLE on the parallel account in II Kings ch 20.

"The writing of King Hezekiah king of Judah when he was sick and he lived from his illness" (v 9). Hezekiah's evocation of the suffering he endured in his illness (vv 10-19) is somewhat reminiscent of Job's cries of pain over his suffering. Hezekiah was aged only thirty-nine when he lay on what seemed to be his deathbed, contemplating what he thought would be his complete excision from this world and the next. His miraculous delivery filled him with faith in the resurrection: "The Lord is upon them, they shall LIVE" (v 16). The Targum renders: "HaShem, You have said of all the dead that they shall live, and before all of them you have revived my spirit and brought me to life and sustained me".

"Behold, for in peace I had great bitterness" (v 17) – "When I was given the news that there would be peace, it was nevertheless bitter for me, because my healing was attributed to the merit of others – 'So said HaShem the God of DAVID YOUR FATHER'" (Rashi on v 17). Rashi (ibid.) also offers a simpler explanation of Hezekiah's bitterness – for when he heard the news of Sennacherib's coming overthrow, he thought that he himself was going to die of his illness. This was what made his appreciation of God's mercy in saving him all the greater. He would turn his recovery into the occasion for songs in the Temple all the days of his life (v 20).

"And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs and spread it on the festering sores and he shall recover" (v 21). "This was a miracle within a miracle, because a fig cake can turn even healthy flesh putrid, but here the Holy One blessed be He put something that spoils into something that was spoiled – and it became healed!" (Rashi ad loc.).

ABY

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Please Say Yes to Abba Yahweh and His Laws.

It is written in the Koran:
‘1. Surah Al-Fatihah:

1. In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
2. All the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).
3. The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
4. The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
5. You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything).
6. Guide us to the Straight Way
7. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).

This is the 'start' in the Koran......

For more, what the Koran is teaching about: ‘Muslims Hate Jews, Christians all other faiths’ ‘Their Guide Book says to kill, behead and burn all non-believers’ click:
Index of The Quran (Satanic Verses of violence to us)

For more information about the development of these ‘Chaldean’ in our days go to our News-Blog: http://thewatchmenfromisraelnews.blogspot.co.il/

Please read the Mitzvoth go to: Positive Commandments and the Negative Commandments), easy to read. It is very important to know them. I don’t ask you this to become a good Jew! But to learn who you really are. That you can find your real identity. In a good understanding of the rest of The Scriptures. And that you understand that Rabbi Shaul is talking to a real Israel,

1Co 10:1 I do not want you to be without da'as (knowledge), Achim (brothers) b(in) 'Moshiach, that Avoteinu (our fore Fathers, you Yehudah and Ephraim! Nobody else.) all were under the anan (cloud),

(‘Achim (brothers) b(in)Moshiach are Yehudah and Ephraim who were all under the anan (cloud). The seed (literal) of Abraham, Yitzhak and Ya’acob) read it for yourself :)

Exo 13:21 And Yahweh went before them (Yehudah and Ephraim -Israel) by day in an ammud anan (‘Pillar of a cloud), to guide them haderech (the Way); and by lailah (night) in an ammud eish (‘Pillar of fire), to give them ohr (light); so they could travel yomam valailah (day or night);

Exo 13:22 He took not away the amud heanan (‘Pillar of a cloud) by day, nor the ammud haeish (‘Pillar of fire) by night, from before HaAm (the people, Yehudah and Ephraim) and passed through the sea.
Exo 14:22 And the Bnei Yisroel (Yehudah and Ephraim) then went into the middle of the yam (sea) upon the yabashah (dry land); and the mayim (waters) were a chomah (wall) unto them on their right, and on their left.

Exo 14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the yam (sea), even kol sus (all horses) Pharaoh, his chariots, and his parash (rider).

Exo 14:24 So it came to pass, that when came the watch of the boker (morning), Yahweh looked down on the machaneh Mitzrayim (camp of Egypt) through the ammud eish (pillar of fire) and of the anan (cloud), and caused confusion over the machaneh Mitzrayim (camp of Egypt),

Exo 14:25 And turned awry their chariot wheels, that they drove them with difficulty; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the presence of Yisroel (really when Yehudah and Ephraim where together, not like today); because Yahweh fighting for them against the Egyptians,
So let we further listen what Rabbi Shaul has really to say:)

1Co 10:2 And all into Moshe Rabbenu were given tevilah (a ‘mikwah’ immersed) in the anan (cloud) and in the sea,

1Co 10:3 And all of the same spiritual okhel (food) ate [SHEMOT 16:4,35; DEVARIM 8:3; TEHILLIM 78:24-29],

1Co 10:4 And all of the same spiritual drink drank, for they were drinking from a spiritual TZUR (Rock) following them [SHEMOT 17:6; BAMIDBAR 20:11; TEHILLIM 78:15; 105:41], and that TZUR was Moshiach (Yeshuah – Yeshuah Yahweh).

And now one of our neviim:

Hab 2:3 For the chazon (vision) is yet for a mo’ed (an appointed time); it speaks of HaKetz (the End), and does not lie; though it tarry, wait for him

Moshiach— see: Sanhedrin 97b, ‘It has been taught; R. Nathan said: This verse pierces and descends to the very abyss:11 For the Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though he tarry, wait for him (Moshiach); because it will surely come, it will not tarry.12]; because he (Moshiach) will surely come, and will not tarry.

(11) Just as the bottom of an abyss cannot be reached, so is it impossible to grasp the full purport of this verse (Rashi).
(12) Hab. II, 3.

Believe…..

Hab 2:4 Hinei (behold), his nashamah (soul) which is puffed up is not upright in him; but the tzaddik (righteous) shall live by his emunah (believe).

Through Moshiach, Yeshuah from Yahweh who give you emunah (believe)…..

Gen 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He credited emunah (faith)] to him as tzedakah (righteousness).

Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk?

The Koran teaches us that you have to die…….

But, please Yudah (Jews) and Ephraim (most Christians) Listen to His Voice:

Hab 1:12 Art thou not mikedem

(‘everlasting’ also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: Dan 7:14 And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet. [1] (worship as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach). His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.] see Michah 5:1[2];)

Yahweh Elohai (my Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed them (these Chaldean) for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur (Rock), Thou hast ordained them (these Chaldean) for reproof.

Maran Rabbeinu Yeshuah and Rabbeinu Shaul are teaching that you, Yehudah and Ephraim all Israel, come together to the same point as where you were when you said:

Deu 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yahweh Eloheinu (our Elohim) shall say; and speak thou unto us all that Yahweh Eloheinu shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

But don’t ‘make’ from one of them Rabbeinu Yeshuah, Rabbeinu Shaul or Rabbeinu Mosheh another ‘mighty one’ but accept them in your live for what they really are….

Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in:

Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi (prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me.....

Exo 32:30 The next day Moshe said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh; maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."); unto him ye must listen;

Deu 18:16 According to all that thou desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev (to be burnt dried up, ruined, wasted) in the Yom HaKahal (day of the congregation), saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav (your Elohim), neither let me see this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more, that I die not.

Deu 18:17 And Yahweh said unto me, They have well-spoken that which they have spoken.

Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi (prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Joh 10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have samchut (authority) to lay it down, and I have samchut to receive it again. This mitzvah I received from HaAv (the Father).

Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My Name), I will require it of him.

Joh 8:28 Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu [YESHAYAH 41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the Father) of me taught me, these things I speak.

Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiah Yeshuah – is Yeshuah Yahweh. Like it is said in:

Gen_49:18 I have waited for Thy Yeshuah (Salvation), Yahweh.

Exo_15:2 Yahweh is my oz and zimrah (song of praise), and He is become to me Yeshuah (salvation); He is Eli (my Elohim), and I will praise Him; Elohei Avi (the Elohim of my Father), and I will exalt Him.

And not a half-god, or another mighty-one who came between HaShem and us! (Not, ‘It Suph’!) I believe many of us (Jews and Ephraimites!) have to learn that!

[1] Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח

Please let us come together in Prayer (by singing/praying The Song of Moshe and The Song of The Lamb) and Teshuvah in the Love of Yeshuath YHWH. Yehudah, Ephraim and all 'the called out ones',
Until comes in fulfillment,

Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David (The whole House of Israel, Jews and Ephraim), and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourned for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehudah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah not trouble Ephrayim.
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