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Tishrei 19, 5762 /
Oct 6,
2001
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- The sixth day of Hag Sukkot / Feast of Tabernacles -
the Marriage of the Lamb
Tishrei 20, 5780 /Oct 19,
2019
Tishrei 20, 5783 /Oct 15,
2022
Vayara Yahweh / Yahweh Saw
SCRIPTURES should be read first
The Last
Great Day (seventh day) of Hag Sukkot (Feast of
Tabernacles) represents the Sabbath Millennium – the
thousand-year reign of Messiah; it is known as “the
climax of the downfall of the power of the nations.” It
is followed by the “Eighth Day,” representing the
restoration, when Yeshua will dwell with us on the
renewed earth.
V.30:20 Then
Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; now
my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne
him six sons.”
Rev 21:3 And
I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold,
the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall
dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and
God Himself shall be among them.”
Jacob had twelve
sons in seven years:
Leah bore
Reuben in year 1
(near end of year),
Simeon in year
2,
Levi
in year 3,
Judah in year
4;
Bilhah
(Rachel's maid) bore
Dan in
year 4,
Naphtali in year
5;
Zilpah (Leah's
maid) bore
Gad in year
5,
Asher in year 6;
Leah bore
Issachar in year
6 (after Reuben brought mandrakes),
Zebulun in year
7 (and also Dinah);
Rachel bore
Joseph in
year 7,
Benjamin in year
8, after leaving Haran.
(V.32) Leah bore a son and
named him Re-u-ven / Behold, a son!,
for she said, "Because Yahweh (mercy) has seen
my affliction; surely now my husband will love me." Reuven
literally means “see between,” prophetically signifying “see
the difference between my son and (Isaac’s first son) Esau.”
Esau voluntarily sold his birthright to Jacob, then sought
to kill Jacob; Reuven did not give up his birthright to
Joseph voluntarily, but did not complain, and tried to save
Joseph from the pit.
(V.33) "Because Yahweh
(Eternal who is Gracious/Merciful) has heard that I am
unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So she
named him Shi-mon.
(V.34) "Now this time my
husband will become attached (an escort) to me, because I
have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named
Le-vi. Levi, a tribe of priests, was destined to
escort many to their heavenly Father.
(V.35) "This time I
will praise Yahweh (the Eternal who is
Gracious/Merciful)." Therefore she named him Ye-hu-dah
/ Praiser of Yahweh.
The names of
these children indicate that Jacob became increasingly
loving toward Leah with each child: first it could be
seen that Leah was unloved, then it could only be heard
in the tone of Jacob’s voice that she was unloved, then
she only wished to be loved as much as her sister.
30:1 Now when Rachel saw that
she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her
sister; and she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I
die." 2 Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and
he said, "Am I in the place of Elohim (Creator
who Judges), who has withheld from you the fruit of the
womb?" 3 And she said, "Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to
her, that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too
may have children."
5 And Bilhah conceived and
bore Jacob a son. 6 Then Rachel said, "Elohim
has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has
given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan
/ Judge.
7 and bore Jacob a second
son. 8 So Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have
wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed." And
she named him Naphtali / Wrestlings.
10 And Leah's maid Zilpah
bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she
named him Gad / Fortune.
12 And a second son. 13 Then
Leah said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So
she named him Asher / Happiness.
Amen*
14 Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben
went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to
his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me
some of your son's mandrakes." 15 But she said to her, "Is
it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you
take my son's mandrakes also?" So Rachel said, "Therefore he
may lie with you tonight in return for your son's
mandrakes." 16 When Jacob came in from the field in the
evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must
come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son's
mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.
17 And God gave heed to
Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Then
Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I gave my
maid to my husband." So she named him Yissachar
/ Recompense. Yissachar has two s’s,
representing Leah’s words, “sachor sechar-ticha,” rewards
for giving her handmaid to her husband, and for hiring out
of the dudaim (mandrakes). Because of the dudaim
incident, Yissachar was conceived: he clung to the Torah
more than any other tribe, making a fragrant aroma ascend up
to God – as “dudaim give forth a fragrance” (SS 7:14)
[From Zohar].
19 And Leah conceived again
and bore a sixth son to Jacob. 20 Then Leah said, "God has
endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell
with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she
named him Zebulun / Honor.
The names of
the tribes prophetically tell the story of Israel:
Reuven – “I have seen (raoh raiti) the affliction of
My people (Ex 3:7); Shimon – “God heard (sh’ma)
their groaning” (Ex 2:24); Levi – “Many nations
shall join themselves (lava) to Yahweh” (Zech 2:15);
Yehuda – “In that day you shall say, ‘Yahweh, I will
praise (yadah) You’ ” (Isa 12:1); Dan – Upon the
nation which they shall serve will I execute judgment”
(dan) (Gen 13:14); Naphtali – “Sweetness drips
(nataph) from your lips” (SS 4:11); Gad – recalls
manna, like coriander (gad) seed (Num 11:7); Asher
– recalls redemption, “All the nations shall call you
fortunate (ashar) (Mal 3:12);
(Note: three
names are omitted in the midrashic explanation.)
Yoseph
– “Yahweh shall set His hand again (yasaph) a second
time to recover the remnants of His people” (Isa 11:11).
Here is the
story: God saw the affliction of His people under
Egyptian bondage. He heard their groaning. Many
nations joined themselves to Yahweh. In that day
they said, “Yahweh, I will praise You.” Upon
Egypt God executed judgment. He fed Israel with
bread from heaven, like coriander seed. He
redeemed His fortunate
people, and
will again, in the future, recover a remnant of
His people.
We are in the
midst of the Feast of Tabernacles, which represents
different futures for two groups of people.
Unbelievers –
idolaters – will experience the wrath of God upon this earth
– the beginning of the last war. Seventy bullocks, offered
over the seven days, represent the seventy nations of this
world which will become one kingdom under Messiah. Isaiah
66:15: “For behold, Yahweh will come in fire and His
chariots like the whirlwind, to render His anger with fury,
and His rebuke with flames of fire.” This will be
ultimately fulfilled in the battle that begins just before,
and ends just after, the Great Last Day, the Sabbath
Millennium. We see some details in Revelation 19:15-16:
And from His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He
may smite the nations; and He will rule them with a rod of
iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of
God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a
name written, "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
Believers –
partakers of the Abrahamic Covenant – will experience the
greatest time of rejoicing that this world has ever seen:
the Marriage Feast of the Lamb. As Leah said (Genesis
30:20), “Now my husband will dwell with me. As we
read in Revelation 19:7-9, “The marriage of the Lamb has
come, and His Bride has made herself ready. . . Blesses are
those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
Readings:
"Blessed are You, Yahweh our God, King
of the Universe,
Who chose us from among all peoples by
giving us Your Torah.
Blessed are You, Yahweh, giver of the
Torah."
Tabernacles Day 6 Sabbath
Num 29:20-22
Reader 1*
Amen. 12 'On the fifteenth day
of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation;
you shall do no laborious work, and you shall observe a
feast to Yahweh for seven days.
29 'Then
on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs one year old without defect; 30 and
their grain offering and their drink offerings for the
bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number
according to the ordinance; 31 and one male
goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt
offering, its grain offering and its drink offerings.
Ex 33:12-34:26
Reader 2*
Amen. 5 Yahweh descended in
the cloud and stood there with (Moses) as he called upon
the name of Yahweh. 6 Then Yahweh passed by
in front of him and proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh God,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding
in lovingkindness and truth; 7 who keeps
lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity,
transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the
guilty unpunished,
Reader 1*
Amen 31 Now Yahweh saw that Leah was
unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
32 Leah conceived and bore a son and named
him Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh
has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love
me." 33 Then she conceived again and bore a
son and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am
unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So
she named him Simeon. 34 She
conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time
my husband will become attached to me, because I have
borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi.
35 And she conceived again and bore a son and
said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she
named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
Reader 2*
Amen 30:1 Now when Rachel saw that she bore
Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she
said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die." 2
Then Jacob's anger burned against Rachel, and he said, "Am I
in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of
the womb?" 3 She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah,
go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that through her
I too may have children."
Reader 3*
Amen 4 So she gave him her maid Bilhah as a
wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 Bilhah
conceived and bore Jacob a son. 6 Then Rachel
said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice
and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan.
7 Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore
Jacob a second son. 8 So Rachel said, "With
mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have
indeed prevailed." And she named him Naphtali.
Reader 4*
Amen 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped
bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a
wife. 10 Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
11 Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named
him Gad. 12 Leah's maid Zilpah bore
Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, "Happy am
I! For women will call me happy." So she named him
Asher.
Reader 5*
Amen 14 Now in the days of wheat harvest
Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought
them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please
give me some of your son's mandrakes." 15 But she
said to her, "Is it a small matter for you to take my
husband? And would you take my son's mandrakes also?" So
Rachel said, "Therefore he may lie with you tonight in
return for your son's mandrakes."
Reader 6*
Amen 16 When Jacob came in from the field in
the evening, then Leah went out to meet him and said, "You
must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my
son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night. 17
God gave heed to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a
fifth son. 18 Then Leah said, "God has given me
my wages because I gave my maid to my husband." So she named
him Issachar.
Reader 7*
Amen 19 Leah conceived again and bore a sixth
son to Jacob. 20 Then Leah said, "God has endowed
me with a good gift;
now my husband
will dwell with me, because I have borne him six
sons." So she named him Zebulun. 21
Afterward she bore a daughter and named her Dinah.
"Blessed are You, Yahweh our God, King
of the Universe,
Who in giving us Yeshua, the Living
Torah, has planted everlasting life in our midst.
Blessed are You, Yahweh, giver of the
Torah."
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"Blessed are You, Yahweh our God, King
of the Universe,
Who selected good prophets, delighting
in their words which were spoken truthfully.
Blessed are You, Yahweh, Who chose the
Torah, Your servant Moses, Your people Israel,
and the prophets of truth and
righteousness."
Isaiah 60:15
Reader 8*
Amen
15 "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated With
no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting
pride, A joy from generation to generation.
[No Psalm]
Revelation 19
Reader 9*
Amen 1 After these things I heard something
like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying,
"Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our
God; 2 because His judgments are true and
righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was
corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged
the blood of His bond-servants on her." 3 And a
second time they said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke rises up
forever and ever." 4 And the twenty-four elders
and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God
who sits on the throne saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" 5
And a voice came from the throne, saying, "Give praise to
our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the
small and the great."
Reader 10*
Amen 6 Then I heard something like the voice
of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and
like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying,
"Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.
7 "Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory
to Him, for the marriage of the
Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready."
8 It was given to her to clothe herself in fine
linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous
acts of the saints. 9 Then he said to me, "Write,
'Blessed are those who are
invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" And
he said to me, "These are true words of God." 10
Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me,
"Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your
brethren who hold the testimony of Yeshua; worship God. For
the testimony of Yeshua is the spirit of prophecy."
Reader 11*
Amen 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold,
a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and
True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. 12
His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many
diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows
except Himself. 13 He is clothed with a robe
dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in
fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white
horses. 15 From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so
that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will
rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press
of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. 16 And
on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, "KING OF
KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." 17 Then I saw an angel
standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice,
saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, "Come,
assemble for the great supper of God, 18 so that
you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders
and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of
those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free
men and slaves, and small and great."
Reader 12*
Amen 19 And I saw the beast and the kings of
the earth and their armies assembled to make war against Him
who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 And
the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who
performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived
those who had received the mark of the beast and those who
worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the
lake of fire which burns with brimstone. 21 And
the rest were killed with the sword which came from the
mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were
filled with their flesh.
"Blessed are You, Yahweh
our God, King of the Universe,
Rock of Ages, righteous
throughout all generations.
You are the faithful God,
promising and then performing, speaking and then fulfilling,
for all Your words are true
and righteous.
Faithful are You, Yahweh
our God, and faithful are Your words,
for no word of Yours shall
remain unfulfilled;
You are a faithful and
merciful God and King.
Blessed are You, Yahweh our
God, Who are faithful in fulfilling all Your words." |