Parashah 46: 'Ekev (Because)

Parashah 46: 'Ekev (Because); Deuteronomy 7:12 through 11:25.

Haftarah (Writings and Prophets): Isaiah 49:14 through 51:3.
B'rit Hadasha (New Testament): Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13; James 5:7-11.

Summary & Overview

TORAH
Deuteronomy 7:12 | Blessings for Obedience
Deuteronomy 8:1 | A Warning Not to Forget God in Prosperity
Deuteronomy 9:1 | The Consequences of Rebelling against God
Deuteronomy 10:1 | The Second Pair of Tablets
Deuteronomy 10:12 | The Essence of the Law
Deuteronomy 11:1 | Rewards for Obedience

Last week we looked at the three tests in the Wilderness where Yshua was
tempted, where He quoted from the Book of Deuteronomy. These tests and
trials are the keys to the restoration that needs to take place in your life. This
week we will look at Household or Family of YHVH and how that is to function
according to Scripture.
The Book of Deuteronomy is compiled in the last few days of Moses life, at the
age of 120, where Moses is speaking to Israel, reminding them of the
importance of taking YHVHs Commandments serious, and to obey Him with all
your heart soul and strength. When you are old, living the last days of your life,
what will you say and do? You will gather you children, grandchildren, friends
and everybody you know, to speak your last words to them. The words of a
dying man are very significant, and Moses would have only spoken those words
that were the closest to his heart, the things that carried him through difficult
times, sharing the wisdom and last minute
advice he thought that would be beneficial
for his loved ones and friends in his life.
The main theme of the Book of
Deuteronomy (Mosess last words), is
reiterating the importance to keep YHVHs
Commandments, study His Word, not
adding or subtracting from it, and to walk in
it to the best of your abilities. This is the
heart and the central message of
Deuteronomy, that makes this Book so
important, to all those who read and study it.

You Guarding the Covenant

Many people believe today, and it is taught in many Congregations, that you will
receive if you believe and what you have to believe is that God is good, and He
wants to give you all the blessings. This doctrine teaches that we are children of
the King, and that all the blessings belong to us, that we are entitled to, as part
of our rightful inheritance.
Q - Is this what the Word teaches?

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 Deut 7:12-15 Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these
judgments, and guard and do them, that YHVH YOUR ELOHIM will guard
for you the Covenant and the mercy which He swore to your
fathers.13 And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will
also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain
and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the
offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to
give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a
male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And
YHVH will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none
of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will
lay them on all those who hate you.
Guard: This verse uses the Hebrew word shemar
rms that is translated as guard. If you guard
(shemar) His Word and Commandments, then He will
guard (shemar) the Covenant for you, that contains
all the blessings listed here. Shamar means, to
keep, observe, guard, watchman, retain, treasure
up. This word is first used in Scripture in Gen 2:15
where it said that YHVH took man and placed him in
the Garden to dress it and keep (shamar) it. The
following verse is the Commandment to eat from
every tree, except the tree of knowledge, of good and
evil, if they break this Commandment, they will die.
This was mans first test or trial.
Spiritual Insight: This reveals to us the blessings and promises of YHVH
are in the Covenant depicted by the Garden. Within the Garden, there was
one Commandment that had the potential to expel you from the Garden,
and the same principle applies to the Covenant. There is one
Commandment, and if it is broken, will remove you from the Covenant, that
contains the blessings/promises of YHVH listed here. This was the first test
man faced and is the first test you will face once you entered His Kingdom
through His Covenant.
Q What is this Commandment that is your first trial?
We found this Commandment in last weeks Torah Portion, and is called the
Greatest Commandment.
Deut 6:4-5 Hear, O Israel: YHVH YOUR ELOHIM, is one YHVH! 5 You shall
love YHVH YOUR ELOHIM with all your heart, with all your soul, and with
all your strength.
Lets analyse this Commandment to see what is expected from us that will
guard your salvation. The Greatest Commandment starts off with information
about YHVH that He is one or echad. This not only means that the Godhead is
one, but that there is a deeper meaning, it means that there is no one else like
Him, no one can be compared to Him, no one but Him. This is a statement of
His supremacy, authority and majesty. Think about how privileged you are to be
in Covenant with this Great God that is echad, and to come in Covenant with
Him, makes you echad as well, raising you up to a new level as a created
being.

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There is more wisdom found in connecting the thoughts of Gen 2:15 and Deut
7:12; this shows us the connection between the Covenant and the Garden of
Eden. Not only that, we see the Garden is connected to the trees, and the trees
relate to fruit and eating. When we look at the Festivals, and the Passover in
particular, which is the first Feats that brings you into this Covenant. This Feast
is related to eating as well, as symbolised by the Passover meal. If you eat this
meal with the wrong motive or attitude, you will bring sickness and even death
upon yourself. [1 Cor 11:27-29] This is similar to eat from the trees in the
Garden the wrong way, contrary to what YHVH instructed.
Later on, we read in Genesis, that man sinned because of eating of the tree that
was not permitted. This shows us the importance of the act of eating and how
this caused man being expelled from the Garden. We find a similar confirmation
to this from the Book of Isiah, where it relates eating to the expelling from the
Covenant.
Isa 66:15-18 For behold, YHVH will come with fire And with His
chariots, like a whirlwind, To render His anger with fury,
And His rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by His sword
YHVH will judge all flesh, And the slain of YHVH shall be many.
17 Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, to go to the

gardens after an idol in the midst, eating swines flesh and the
abomination and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says YHVH.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather

all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see My glory.
Q Does this mean that you will be removed from the Covenant if you eat
unclean food?
No, what expel you from the Garden or the Kingdom is rebellion. The act of
eating food is to sustain and preserve your life, in the same way, should we take
care of what we consume from others that will impact our thoughts and
actions. The regulation regarding food underlines this principle that you should
discern what you take in regarding your spiritual life, so that you will not eat
things behind the tree (tree of knowledge mans ideas), but should purify
yourself from these things that are not of YHVH or Commanded by Him. YHVH
has not placed Commandments in the Word to later supersede them with new
commandments that looks like the worlds actions and thoughts.
When YHVH reveal Himself, He uses His Word, and some people have
received one talent of truth, others two talents and some five talents of truth.
You will be judged according to the truth you received, and if you reject that
truth (bury the talent in the ground), you will be judged because you have
rebelled against YHVH and dismissed the truth He revealed to you.
Remember the Greatest Commandment is the criteria
for being expelled from the Covenant and the
Kingdom, and if you rebel, then you break this
Commandment. You must be careful what you do with
the truth He reveals to you and act on that truth with
the attitude of keeping the Greatest Commandment.
This means that everything you do, everything you eat,
everything you think must be to the glory and honour
of YHVH, in line with the truth you received.

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It is YOUR responsibility to find out and confirm these truths, and if you do not
agree with it, you need to search the Scripture to make sure. You cannot just
base your relationship with YHVH on what someone else believes or preach.
You have to make every truth our own and then walk in it. This is the only way
to love Him with all your heart (emotions), soul (thoughts) and strength (deeds),
with all your actions, thoughts and emotions based on His Truth.
Whenever you are not convinced of a truth yet, ask YHVH to reveal it to you or
discuss it with someone who knows the Word, so that you can know the
absolute truth regarding that matter. If your beliefs are not in line with what is in
the Word, then rather change your beliefs. The best way to test a truth is to
ask yourself, are people in the world doing this and am I free to do the same
or is it different to what the people in the Word did and still do?

YHVH Guarding His Covenant

Deut 7:12 states that YHVH YOUR ELOHIM will guard for you the covenant and
the mercy YHVH will guard the Covenant for you and guard His mercies for
you if you guard His Truths with everything you are and everything you have.
Q What does it mean when YHVH said He would guard His Covenant for
you?
In Hebrew, it reads as follows: Elohim - shamar - berieth - chesed shava - av
Directly translated as: Elohim guard covenant mercy sworn - father
Covenant is the word Beriet, that means, alliance, agreement, constitution,
treaty, pledge. From root word barah that means, to eat, consume, devour.
This meaning confirms the previous section linking the Covenant to the Garden
and to eating (fruit of tree).
Mercy is the word chesed that means, goodness, kindness, faithfulness. It is
first used in Scripture in Gen 19:19 where the
messengers came to Lot before YHVH
destroying Sodom and Gomorrah with brimstone
and fire. He said, if I find grace (chen) in Your
sight, and You has magnified Your mercy
(chesed) It comes from the root word chasad
that means to bow the neck. Mercy will only be
shown to those who bow their necks, where
the neck is holding the head up high,
symbolising pride. This shows that mercy is
conditional, and YHVH will guard His mercy and
grace, only allowing it to come upon those who humble themselves. Just like it
is wrong to take a blessing from someone, without them giving it, so is mercy
not up for grabs for those who want it. Mercy and grace are only allocated and
released over those who submit themselves to YHVH, who humble themselves
before Him.
Swore is the word shava that means, to swear, YHVH swearing by Himself,
to curse. When YHVH cut the Covenant with Abraham, He walked through the
divided animals while Abraham was sleeping, making a Covenant, swearing by
Himself. This term used here in Deut 7, is a reference to this Covenant YHVH

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made with Abraham. Whenever someone breaks the conditions of the
Covenant, YHVHs mercy is released upon them if they humble themselves.
This means that YHVH will pay the consequences of their sin, because He
swore by Himself (shava) when He made the Covenant with Abraham,
becoming a curse (shava).

Elohim is the One Who Guards and protects His Covenant against those who
will refuse to humble themselves before Him. Those who partook in the Covenant
Meal, ate from the Tree of Life, but those who do whatever they please in the
Garden, eats from the Tree of Good and Evil and will be driven out. They who
refuse to bow their necks to His Word, will not benefit from His blessings or have
access to His mercy, and will be cut off from His Covenant He made with
Abraham. They will not enter the Kingdom and will be outside the Garden,
exposed to YHVHs judgement when He will come as the Judge, to consume sin,
wickedness, rebellion and lawlessness, cursing it with fire and brimstone, as He
sworn to our fathers.

Deut 7:12s keywords: Elohim - shamar - berieth - chesed shava -av can be

Elohim is the One Who protects and Guards His Covenant for those who are
part of it, who humbled themselves before Him. They partook in the Covenant
Meal and ate from the Tree of Life and kept His Word, avoiding the Tree of Good
and Evil. They bowed their necks to His Word, took on His yoke and have access
to His blessings and mercy, and are protected inside the Covenant He made with
Abraham. They will enter the Kingdom and will be sheltered under His grace in
the time of His fierce judgement, when He will come as the Judge, to consume
sin, wickedness, rebellion and lawlessness, cursing it with fire and brimstone, as
He sworn to our fathers.

translated and paraphrased as follows, (taking all the information into account):
For the humble and righteous, this passage can be translated as follows:
The choice is yours, whether you will meet Him as your Judge or as your
Saviour. Take YHVHs Word serious and understand that you are responsible
for your own salvation, and you should work it out with fear and trembling before
Him. [Phil 2:12] Make an effort to improve your relationship with Him and do not
tempt Him by trying to take blessings or demand grace because you have rights
as a follower of Messiah. That is just rude and arrogant.

Conditional Love
Deut 7:13 And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will
also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain
and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the
offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to
give you.
The preceding verse states the conditions for releasing the love and blessings
from YHVH. Surely YHVHs love is unconditional, but this verse tells us

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otherwise. As we have seen before, to receive His blessings you have to be in
Covenant with Him and to receive His mercy, you have to humble yourself.
In the same way is His love conditional. The conditions access a different
levels of love you can receive from Him. There are varying levels of love, for
example, you love ice-cream, you love jogging, you love your friends and their
kids, but you will love your children more and your spouse in a more intimate
way. The type of love depends on the kind of relationship you have with the
object, action or person. YHVH loves all people (the world), but He loves His
family members on a different level. So this love He is talking about here is the
love of a Father has for His children and the condition to receive this special
kind of love, is that you have to be His child and part of His Family.
When you are His child and live in His House, then you will abide by His house
rules, just like in a normal household. YHVH stipulated in His Word the things
He likes and disproves of and the things His children must do to maintain the
shalom in the House, preventing disorder and chaos. These House rules are
designed to keep the order so that all the members of the Household can live in
harmony together. We respect our Father and trust that He knows what is best
for us, and that is why we eat what is on His table, we talk the way He advises
us, we treat others the way He teaches us, and we do things that please Him.
We do all these things because we love Him and respect Him as our Father. It
is not that He needs our love, but we surely bless Him when we obey Him and
respect His wishes.
Example: When someone adopts a child, say
an Eskimo girl, and she now moves to her
new home to live with her new parents. She
was accustom to dress up warm in her
traditional clothing, and did things according
to the house she grew up in. But after she
moved in with her new parents, her climate
changed, and she had no use for her
traditional warm clothing. Her family use to dig
a hole in the ice and fish was her staple food. Now she eats what her new
mum prepared for her. Her whole life changed and had to unlearn so many
things and learn so many new things to fit in with her new family and family
members. If she kept all her traditions, bring them into her new home, she
would just be an Eskimo girl, living with strange people, and not become
part of the Family. When you are born again, you are adopted as a child in
the Home of your new Parents, and you must try and become a family
member, fitting into your new Household.
Q How are we accepted into the Household of YHVH?

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 Through adoption, becoming a Bondservant of YHVH. The Commandment of
the Bondservant is the first Commandment that followed the Ten
Commandments, as recorded by Moses. After you heard the house rules
from the Mountain, you have the choice to follow your Master out of free will. A
Bondservant was someone who could not pay his debt and had to work for
seven years for the man he owed the debt to. After seven years he was to be
set free, but if he decided to stay in the House of his Master, and serve him out
of free will, is declared as a Bondservant. As a sign, his ear is pierced by nailing
it to the doorpost (mezuzah) of his Masters house. Then he was adopted as a
child or son into the family and could sit at his Masters table and live in His
House.
Mark 3:31-35 Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing
outside they sent to Him, calling Him. 32 And a multitude was sitting
around Him; and they said to Him, Look, Your mother and Your
brothers are outside seeking You.
33 But He answered them, saying, Who is
My mother, or My brothers? 34 And He
looked around in a circle at those who sat
about Him, and said, Here are My mother
and My brothers! 35 For whoever does the
will of God is My brother and My sister and
mother.
Doing the will of the Father is part of what a
Bondservant or child of God does. If you obey the
will of the Father (house rules), then you are called a brother or sister of Yshua.
If we are brothers and sisters of Yshua in the Household of YHVH, then we
should follow the example of our older Brother, Yshua, and do the will of the
Father as He did. Yshua obeyed His Fathers will (rules, wishes,
commandments), even unto death. He did not comply to somebody elses
understanding of His Fathers will (man-made traditions) because He was in a
relationship with His Father and knew what was expected of Him.
Another thing to notice here is that Yshua is the One Who identifies His
brothers and sisters, not the person who thinks they are. It is like friendship; you
can try to be someones friend, but that is not a real friendship unless the other
person sees you as a friend as well. This means that we have to seek the
Fathers will and walk in it so that we act like and look like a Family member.
Then He will acknowledge you as a family member because you are in a
relationship with Him and His Father, knowing them on a deeper level than
other people in the world, outside of the Family.
John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you
to go and bear fruit.
It is not your choice to be His child, it is His choice, He chose you (to potentially
become His child), and now you must choose Him (do the will of the Father) so
that He can choose you again (as brother or sister). It can be your choice, but if
you do not seek and do the will of His Father, then He will not choose you.
Many believers in Messiah decide to be children of the Father, but they refuse
to do the will of the Father. These are the children of the Serpent, who came

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into the House of YHVH, and they are not chosen because they do not bear the
fruit of the Spirit.
Heb 2:10-12 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by
whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain
of their salvation perfect through sufferings.11 For both He who sanctifies
and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is
not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying: I will declare Your Name
to My brethren;
Who are Yshuas brethren? The ones who sanctify themselves and who wash
with the water of the Word. Those are His brethren and the real children of the
Father.

Mother of Yshua
Mark 3:35 For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister
and mother.
Q - How do I become Yshuas mother?
To be His mother is not in a physical sense, but is the function or
role of a mother within the family unit.
Bring Yshua into the world spreading the message of
Salvation and that Yshua is the Messiah.
Bring other children into the world Be part of the process
of leading sinners to be born again. Every person you have
led to YHVH, is born, as if they came from you, and you
feel responsible for them, just like a mother would.
She nurtures the newborn babies this is when you help
and disciple new believers to help them to be healthy and
grow up in a loving environment.
She ensures that the family functions well this is when
you are part of the Body who help to look after the family,
help to facilitate the house chores and see that all the
family members get along.
The mother cleans the house this is when you contribute
to making sure that there is no dirt or germs coming in
that will affect the health of the Family. She helps to remove
any unclean thing from the House. These can be in the
form of objects, attitudes, false teachings, conflicts, and can even be
people who want to infiltrate and bring disunity within the Family.
She instructs the children to obey the Father teaching individuals in the
Ways of the Father and guide and support the members in their
relationship with the Father.
We should not stay babies or children, but grow up to fulfil the function of a
mother in the House of YHVH. As His children, we need the discipline of the
Father.
Heb 12:6-9 For whom YHVH loves He chastens, and scourges every
son whom He receives. 7 If you endure chastening, Elohim deals with
you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not
chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become

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 partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we
have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect.
Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits
and live?
Kids that visit the House are not under all the house-rules, and the discipline of
the Father applies more to His own children than to the friends from the
neighbourhood. This is because our Father expects more from us and set a
higher standard for us to live by. This standard is called holiness. This means
that you cannot act as the children in the world just to belong or because of
peer pressure. Your Father expects more of you, and He wants you to become
someone great, walking in the plans He has for your life.
This means that the Commandments or house-rules exist to help you to grow
up, so you can walk in holiness, making a difference in the world, being like
your older Brother.
John 19:26-27 When Yshua therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold
your son! 27 Then said he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from
that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
Q - Why does it seem like John singled out as someone Yshua loved more?
It was as if there was a deeper kind of love between them than the other
Disciples. The day Yshua died, John became a physical family member,
receiving the responsibilities to look after the mother of Yshua. This implies that
Yshua especially loved John, revealing more about Himself to John,
expecting more of him than the other Disciples. If you receive more revelation
and truth, you receive a greater responsibility and will get a greater judgement.
Receiving more responsibilities may seem that the Father loves you more, but it
means that you have a more intimate relationship with Him. The more revelation
you receive about Yshua (Truth), the greater responsibility you have to walk in
that Truth (Yshua is the Truth Relating to Parable of the talents).

Male & Female Stages of your Walk

Deut 7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there
shall not be a male or female barren among you or among
your livestock.
It says that you will be blessed above all peoples. This does
not say that you will have no trouble or tests in your life.
What it means to be blessed is that you will have not more
trials that are required. We need the tests to change us and the trials because
we are all in a fallen state. (See last weeks study).

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 Example: To be blessed is like a car that is well looked after. You still need
to maintain it, and it definitely needs fuel
and oil. When you run low on oil, and you
do not top it up, you will cause more issues
and the car will run noisier and hotter and
will break down eventually. To be blessed
is to have enough oil, you will face
challenges, but will not create more issues
in your life that are required to restore you.
I do not want any more tribulation that I
need to change, and for YHVH to reveal Himself to me, that is what it is to be
blessed. When I decide to live my life my way, I invite more trouble into my
life, like running without oil, and I will receive more trials to close the gap
between myself and YHVH.
It does not mean that if you are blessed, that everything goes perfectly, and if
someone is cursed that everything is bad and awful. Many cursed people
appear to be blessed with all their money and fame, but they are bound by
those things that make them seem to be blessed, but they are cursed. It is like
being a sex slave in a wealthy mans house, you have all the blessings, but it
comes at a price.
The verse says that there will be no infertile
male or female among you. This does not If you are not watchful of the enemy
say that there will not be any infertile men or and allow him into your life, you will
women, but it refers to the male and female bring calamity into your life that is a
concept of giving and receiving. reaction from your loving Father,
Blessings do not take away all challenges, Who chasten His children. If you
neither does the promise of not being refuse to acknowledge Him and
infertile, necessarily take away all infertility. respect His wishes, you will provoke
There will be people who will not have Him to anger and release His wrath
children, and that is the trial they must face. upon your life.
It is all dependant on His plan and His will for
your life and every challenge we face, forms
you in a specific way that makes you special and unique.
Barren Male or Female: Barren is the word aqar rqi that that is repeated
twice in this verse. Aqar means sterile man as well as a barren woman. When
something is repeated, it is very important! Aqar is used in Gen 11, 25, 29 to
describe Sarai, Rebekah and Racheal, three patriarch woman that started off
being barren, contrary to the promises YHVH gave Abraham. We read in Gen
25:21 that Isaac intreated (interceded) for Rebecca and YHVH was intreated
by him, then Rebecca conceived.

Intreated is the word atar rti that means to burn incense in worship, to
intercede, listen to prayer, intreat, make prayer. Atar comes from the word
ether that means abundant, to multiply, plentiful, deceitful.

What is interesting is the two words aqar rqi and atar rti looks similar,
sharing the letters ayin-resh that spells ar, ri that means foe, enemy,
watchful against mischief. It has the gematria of 270 that links to words such
as; chasten, discipline, instruct, alien, foreign, calamity, disaster, recognise,

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acknowledge, know, respect, discern, regard, to be displeased, be angry, wrath
(of God).

The letters that change aqar to atar is the q qof that changes to a t tav.
Barrenness is related to prayer and intercession. Qof means turning the
head, or repentance. The tav follows the qof, bringing the burden, yoke and
cross after repentance. The barrenness will be taken away if the spiritually
barren person repents (qof), turning back to YHVHs Word. This is followed by
accepting and placing His yoke (tav) on your shoulders and follow Him, while
you plough the soil wherever you go.
Q What do the male and female barrenness represent in my life?
Both males and females can be barren or sterile. The male concept is related
giving, and female concept is related to receiving. Both these areas in your life
can be barren.
Barren Female: We all consists of male and
female aspects regarding our spiritual side, and
you can be barren in the female part of your
being or your inability to receive spiritually. This
will cause a blockage in receiving from YHVH.
This has not to do with acquiring earthly things or
having your needs met; it has to do with receiving
the spiritual essence you need for your life that
includes the will and purpose of your life, better
known as your calling.
When we study Isaac and Rebecca, their primary goal was to carry the spiritual
seed or birthright, that would transfer the faith to the next generation,
transferring this knowledge of YHVH to their physical seed or children. Their
generations would carry the prophetic seed that would manifest later on as the
seed that produced the Messiah in this world.
Their spiritual need had to be fulfilled first before their physical need came to
fruition because the faith had to exist before the children could be born into
this faith and be raised up in these Ways of YHVH. If it were the other way
around, the children would have been grown up and difficult to instruct in the
ways of YHVH, that will make them ineffective in carrying the birthright to their
generation. Teach children when they are young, and they will always have that
foundation to stand on when they are released into the world.
Personal Application: We are all either spiritually barren or spiritually
pregnant. YHVH kept Isaac and Rebecca physically barren (aqar) so that
they would become spiritually pregnant (atar), asking YHVH to provide the
outcome according to His promise. This trial prepared them spiritually and
during their pregnancy they met YHVH in a personal, intimate way and
understood more of His will and purpose for their lives before He gave them
what He promised.
They had to grow into the faith before they could raise their child in a
mature faith. We touched on this last week when we discussed the fact that
YHVH needs to enlarge your vessel so that you can receive the blessing or
promise. This time, we learn what that blessing or promise is; it is to know
your purpose and why YHVH created you so that could take up that yoke

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 (tav) and walk in it. We are not created for ourselves but for your sole
purpose is to exist for His purpose and pleasure, to receive the birthright
and pass it on to the next generation. By doing that you will experience all the
other physical blessings, but the spiritual baby needs to be born first, then
the physical baby can come (material blessings). Seek first the Kingdom of
YHVH and all the physical blessings will be added to as He promised. If you
miss YHVHs purpose in your life, you are just like livestock that exist to
make the gears turn and the wheels go round, being a part of normal life,
and then you die. What a loss
The way Isaac and Rebekah got spiritually pregnant is through prayer and
worship (atar). The word atar is repeated twice in Gen 25:21, just like aqar is
repeated twice in Deut 7:14. This mirrors these truths and links them together
showing that the one is a requirement for the other. Isaac made a prayer (atar)
and YHVH listened to his prayer (atar), and answered it the moment Isaac and
Rebecca were ready to go into labour.
Sterile Male: This is where the second part of your
barrenness exist, in your male spiritual part or your
inability to give what you have received. The male
part of your spiritual essence is to express what you
have received from YHVH through your female part
of your being. We are similar to Yshua in the sense of
being mediators between the Father and the people in
the world. Whatever we receive from the Father, we
need to reveal or release into the world. There are a
few things that can block this flow and stop you from being effective in the
Kingdom in your capacity as male or giver.
Immature: If you are new to the faith, you are still either spiritually barren or
may be spiritually pregnant, not understanding your role within the Kingdom.
Keep on walking with Him and seek His Will and a relationship with the Father
and the Word.
The Self: If you are self-absorbed, and your faith is all about you and your
salvation and the truth you know, then you will not be able to give out because
you think knowledge is power and people like this use it to elevate themselves
to others. They might still either spiritually barren or may be spiritually pregnant,
or know their calling but sit on it.
Fear of Man: Many people in the Kingdom are spiritually mature but do not flow
in their gifting because they are afraid of what others will say or worried about
making mistakes and then labelled as false teachers, prophets, etc. You need
to surround yourself with people you trust and love you and start to express that
calling in that safe environment where you will be allowed to make mistakes
and corrected in love.
If you struggle with the barren female syndrome, there is hope, that is where
intercession comes in. If you are like Rebecca who is barren, ask someone to
pray with you as Isaac interceded for his wife, and YHVH heard his prayer. The
first step is to make sure that you have repented q (qof) for the things you know
contrary to His Word and then you are ready to receive His Yoke or calling t
(tav). Then stand in faith until the baby is born. The same advice is
applicable for the sterile male syndrome where prayer and intercession with
repentance and release you to start walking in your calling.

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To Summarise
There are five stages you can go through as a believer in Messiah. These are
the roles that make up the Household of the Father:
1. You can be a newborn baby, someone who just come to faith or
someone who newly rededicated their life to YHVH. The aim is not to
stay in the phase and to grow up, listening to the Mother within the
Family.
2. As you grow in faith, you will become a son or daughter of the Father
and brother or sister of Yshua. This is where you need to sanctify
yourself with His Word, walk in Holiness and know the Will of the Father
by heart. You still submit under the mother roles to assist in looking
after the babes and do house chores.
3. The next stage is where have grown up into a young adult and have the
ability to become pregnant and conceive. In this phase, you will seek the
will of the father regarding your life and your calling. This is where you
will become pregnant with the purpose YHVH created you for.
4. The next stage is where have grown up into full maturity and have given
birth to the purpose of the Father for your life. You now need to start to
give out what you have received to walk in His Will for your life, reaching
other. This is where you begin to function in the role of the mother. You
will look after the Household and bring new babies into the world in line
with your calling. You will receive one or more Gifts of the Spirit, that will
equip and aid you in fulfilling a particular function in eth House of the
Father.
5. Lastly, there exists another role within the Household of YHVH, that is
overseeing the mothers. This is revealed in John 19, and are anointed
people who look after the mothers of Yshua. It is someone like Moses
and Joshua who oversaw the leaders in the Torah (OT) and then there
were James and Paul in the Berit Chadashah (NT). James (brother of
Yshua) headed up the Assembly in Jerusalem consisting of the mainly
Jews who accepted Yshua as Messiah, and Paul, who oversaw the
Assemblies who consisted mostly of Gentiles. This function exists to
oversee the smaller Houses of YHVH that collectively make up the
Body of Messiah, that is ultimately headed up under Yshua Himself.

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