Acharei Mot: After the death — אחרי מות

Thoughts on the Torah portion for Last Week.
 
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Leviticus 12-15
This Torah portion is a summary of the cleanness laws set out in Leviticus 12-15.  For those who missed last week post with a video teaching by Steve Berkson, this teaching covered these four chapters – go HERE to view that teaching.  For many this week is observing the Passover, this seminal event marks the restoration of God’s covenant with His people – the descendants of Jacob.  God initiated this restoration of His people with the father of the home slaughtering a male lamb that represented Israel’s Savior-God.  

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​This event established the father of the home entering into a covenant relationship with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob even Yehovah who later condescended as Yeshua to save all humanity from being eternally lost.
 
Even though Israel apostatized,  God will set His hand a second time at the end of time to recover the descendants of Jacob in order to setup His eternal kingdom.  In the prophecy of Isaiah, three key events signal the initiation of this Endtime restoration of Israel: a revival of biblical law, the arrival of God’s Endtime Servant, and the empowerment of spiritual kings and queens to recover the literal house of Israel.
 
For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah
We saw last week that during the Endtimes a temple would be build and the many peoples would flow to the mountain of the Lord.  Moreover, we see in the Hebrew that the Lord revealed to Isaiah in connection with this prophecy in Isaiah 2:3 that out of “Zion would go forth the Torah”.  Meaning that their would be a revival and restoration of the Law during the Endtimes.  Isaiah uses the word Zion to describe both a place and a type of people.  Zion is a codename in the prophecy of Isaiah to identify His covenant people. Further, Isaiah identifies in this passage what makes Zion His covenant people – the Torah.  Indeed, those who return to God’s righteous law in the Torah are God’s covenant Endtime people.
 
The Endtime David
The most pivot event in Isaiah’s Endtime prophecy is the arrival of God’s Servant.  As an “Elias” who prepares the way for the return of the Messiah, this Endtime servant begins the restoration of all things including God's righteous law, which the Apostle Peter sets out at Acts 3.  This Servant is also the Angel from the East that seals the 144,000 Endtime Servants who gathers the tribes of Israel – Revelations 7:2.
 
Endtime Savior-Kings/Queens
Another event in Isaiah Endtime scenario is the sealing of 144,000 Savior-kings who come out of the nations to gather and take the Law to the House of Israel.  “Nations will come to your light, their kings to the brightness of your dawn. Isaiah 60:3 “Kings shall be your foster fathers, queens your nursing mothers.” Isaiah 49:23.

This looks like this in a table summary:

Revival of Biblical Law

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Arrival of Endtime Servant

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Sealing of 144,000 Savior-Kings

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An Endtime Passover Avraham Gileadi, PhD

Among the new versions of ancient events Isaiah predicts is a New Passover.  As the angel of death passed over Israel’s firstborn sons when he smote Egypt’s firstborns (Exodus 12:1–29), so he passes over a remnant of God’s people when the Assyrians lay siege to them: “As birds hover over [the nest], so will Jehovah of Hosts guard Jerusalem; by protecting it he will deliver it, by passing over it, preserve it” (Isaiah 31:5); “I will protect this city and save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David. Then the angel of Jehovah went out and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. And when men arose in the morning, there lay all their dead bodies!” (Isaiah 37:35–36).

Hebrew Study

Isaiah 31:5

English	Hebrew	Transliteration
As birds	כְּצִפֳּרִ֣ים	k-tsee-pah-reem
hover over	עָפ֔וֹת	ah-fot
so	​​כֵּ֗ן	kehn
will defend	יָגֵ֛ן	yah-gehn
Yehovah	​יְהוָ֥ה	Ye-ho-vah
of Hosts	​צְבָא֖וֹת	tse-vah-oht
on	​עַל־	ahl
Yerusalem	יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם	Ye-ru-shah-leyeem
defending	​גָּנ֥וֹן	geh-nohn
and He protected	​וְהִצִּ֖יל	ve-hee-tseel
passing over	פָּסֹ֥חַ	pah-sohack
and He preserved	וְהִמְלִֽיט׃	ve-heem-leet

Isaiah Chapter 28
Ephraim and its prophets reap disaster for being delusional and for rejecting divine revelation.

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Resource Links for this Week's Portion

TORAH: Leviticus 16:1-18:30
GOSPELS: Matthew15:10-20 Mark 12:28-34

Listen and Read the Portion
First Fruits of Zion

Torah Pearls with Nehemia Gordon

HAFTARAH: Isaiah Chapter 29

Commentary with Avraham Gileadi, PhD