Noach: Noah — נח

Thoughts on Torah for last week's reading:

Genesis 1-5 
It seems that some people have a misunderstanding of “Salvation History”.  This is a good topic for last week's Torah portion.  Consider this:

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  Consider this:

1. Yeshua’s Atonement and Resurrection was always God’s plan to save Adam and Eve, and their posterity from eternal physical and spiritual death because of Adam and Eve’s transgression.  This plan was revealed to Adam and Eve in the Garden and is embedded in Genesis 3:15 - God didn’t all of a sudden decide to send a Savior at the meridian of time to save humanity.
2. God gave Israel the system of animal sacrifices as a teaching tool so they knew the relationship between sin and death, which system ended with Yeshua’s sacrifice. And to point to Yeshua’s sacrifice.
3. Yeshua’s Atonement and Resurrection by and large is directly connected to the transgression and fall of Adam and Eve, which brought eternal spiritual and physical death into the world. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:22   Indeed, Adam and Eve’s transgression facilitated the sin that each of us commits.
4. Moreover, Yeshua’s Atonement and Resurrection is directly connected to the eternity after our mortal existence. 
5. God gave man His Law:
   1. To bring man life, liberty and happiness in mortality;
   2. So that man could be reconciled one with another through a system of remedies, which provided a standard of justice; moreover, living by the Spirit facilitates exceeding this standard;
   3. That through petitioning God for forgiveness, and feeling genuine regret and sorrow for our sins, we can be reconciled with God; and
   4. To define the type of relationship we have with God and to bring man back into God’s presence.

Isaiah Chapter 1
Isaiah outlines a progression of apostasy which results in perverse children so that sin now becomes generational and embedded in society.

Isaiah applies to two periods - anciently and Endtime.

The Jews rejected Yeshua and the Gospel, which Gospel can now go to the mingled lineages of Israel or the Gentiles.  But this will be reverse in the Endtimes, because the mingled lineages will apostatize except for a few who take the Gospel to Ethnic Israel.

The world at the End of Time becomes as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah.

The appearance of the "King of Assyria" (anti-Christ) will signal the arrival of God's Endtime Deliverer "Servant".

People can repent and become God's Covenant People.

Society will be divided "two cities" one righteous and one wicked.  We see this same situation in Genesis with Salem and Sodom.

Justice and Righteousness to be restored. Corrupt leaders and "mighty ones" will be destroyed.

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Resource Links for this Week's Portion

TORAH: GENESIS 6:9 to 11:32
GOSPELS: Luke 17:20-27

Listen and Read the Portion
First Fruits of Zion

​​Commentary with Nehemia Gordon


HAFTARAH: ISAIAH Chapter 2

Commentary with Avraham Gileadi, PhD