To Everything There Is A Season
- Posted on MaramTue, 01 Mar 2016 00:27:19 -06002016-03-01T00:27:19-06:0012 17, 2016
- in Bible, Torah, vayakehel, Yeshua
- by Hallelujah Girl
For everything there is a season and a time for every activity under heaven: a time to give birth and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to discard; a time to tear apart and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What gain, then, does the laborer get with his toil? I have seen the task that G-d has given to the children of men to keep them occupied.
~Ecclesiastes 3:1-10
As we begin a new week of the study of Torah, it is easy to see that HaShem chose to bless a unique group of “ordinary” people. Vayakehel, Exodus 35:1-38:20, is this week’s focus in Torah. The title of the portion “and he assembled” comes from the opening verse: Then Moses assembled all the congregation of Bnei-Yisrael and said to them, “These are the words which HaShem has commanded you to do.
Exodus 35:1
It is now time to redirect the peoples attention. Build the Mishkan, the dwelling place of G-d! They messed up pretty awful last week with the building of the Golden Calf in Ki Tisa. In fact this phrase Vayakehel was used last week as well. When Moses delayed in coming down the mountain, the people “gathered together“. ~And when the people saw that Mosheh was so long in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aharon, and said to him, “Arise, make us mighty ones who go before us. For this Mosheh, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
~Exodus 32:1
The Hebrew verb root of vayakehel is the word kahal (קהל), means gather together, assembly, or congregation. In Ki Tisa the people gathered together of their “own accord“, for their own purposes, according to their own terms. As a result, a golden calf, a civil war, their hearts, minds, and souls broken. And what happens next? They gathered, every man at the entrance of his own tent. ~And it came to be, whenever Mosheh went out to the Tent, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Mosheh until he entered the Tent. And all the people saw the column of cloud standing at the Tent door, and all the people rose and bowed themselves, each one at the door of his tent.
Exodus 33:8, 10
They had just misrepresented the essence of this Mighty G-d, Who led them out of slavery! Participated in idolatrous practices! Among them was a plague of death. The survivors backtracked! Went home, put themselves in a time out! Why? After standing at the edge of the mountain and declaring, “Everything HaShem has said, We Will Do and Obey! It was time to withdraw from the community for the sake of community, stand at the entrance of their own tent, and each man needed to lead their families back to the Bridal response they once gave to HaShem. Repentance, return to Torah!
The word door, in the Hebrew is patach (פתח), pronounced paw-takh, means doorway or entrance, opened. I thought it interesting that the first this word is used in scripture was in Genesis 7:11, ~In the six hundredth year of Noaḥ’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The portal to Hashem! It is a picture of your own doorway. Could this be why we are told to write His Word upon our doorposts?
If your community, assembly, or congregation is “divorced” from Torah, you are more than likely part of a group that is misrepresenting HaShem (G-d) to the world. If you have said “I-DO“ to The Bridegroom-King, then it is time to lift your head, look higher, gather with the Redeemed Community. Your calling is to be a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation. Draw near to Torah and claim your inheritance! It’s All about Yeshua! The season of gathering to HaShem is now! Beloved, just so you know, this is on His terms, not ours:
“For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their midst.”
Matthew 18:20
~Yeshua
💗 Hallelujah Girl
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