Parable of obedience

 

 

 

 

In Jeremiah 35 the example of a non-Israelite family obeying instructions given by their fore-father many generations back and comparing this family to the people of Judah not obeying the instructions given by Yahuah.

It is a parable of an earthly father vs the Heavenly Father giving instructions to the family for guidance and for long healthy lives.

Jeremiah tested this family to see if they would still obey the instruction given to them many generations back by taking them into the temple and asking them to drink bowls of wine – Jeremiah 35:2-5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This nomadic tribe the Rechabites of which the fore-father was Rechab gave the following commands to his children and the generations after them (Jeremiah 35:6-7).

1)      Not to drink any wine.

2)      To build no houses but to stay in tents only.

3)      To have no fields for sowing seeds.

4)      To have no vineyards.

They told Jeremiah that they will not drink the wine offered by him as they still want to obey their fore-father’s command (Jeremiah 35:6).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After several generations the Rechabite people still obeyed the commands given to them.

Hear now Heavenly Father Yahuah speaking about the obedience of Judah towards the commands given by the Almighty Father.

Jeremiah 35:12-14 Then the Word of Yahuah was to Jeremiah, saying, so says Yahuah of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel: Go and tell the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, will you not receive instruction, to listen to My Words says Yahuah. The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechabare done, in which he commanded his sons not to drink wine. And to this day they do not drink, but obey their father's command. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; and you did not listen to Me.

Yahuah even sent prophets but still they did not listen.

 

Jeremiah 35:15  I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, each man now turn back from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall live in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers. But you have not bowed your ear, nor listened to Me.

Jeremiah 35:19 Yahuah blessed the Rechabites because they obeyed their fore-father (a non-Israelite) on non-biblical commands and Yahuah is chastising Judah because He sent His prophets and warned them by His living word and they refused (Jeremiah 35:17).

 

 

 

 

 

To Judah it was opposite from the Rechabites as punishment came upon Judah.

Jeremiah 35:17 so Yahuah, Elohim of Hosts, the Elohim of Israel, says this, Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil that I have spoken against them because I have spoken to them, but they did not listen. Yea, I have called to them, but they did not answer.

What do we learn from this parable; 1) an earthly father giving commands for his family to follow, which they do for many generations and 2) a Heavenly Father giving commands to his family to follow, which they don’t follow even to this day.

What is your answer? Mine is as follows; now I can understand why it’s not going well with us. Many will say there is a Heavenly Father (believe) but they will not follow His ways. His ways that lead us on the right path of blessing, guidance and health.

So finally, is Judah still been punished or are they now obeying the word of Yahuah?

 

 

Free the slaves

 

 

“When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught – Exodus 21:2.

I understand as I learnt from scripture lectures that Abraham was the first Hebrew and that Isaac, Jacob and his decedents are Hebrews, also known as the children of Israel. Jacob’s children or decedents are Israelites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does Exodus 21:2 mean that the tribes of Israel could take a fellow Israelite as a slave or is a Hebrew person more than just an Israelite. If Abraham was a Hebrew than Ishmael who is also a son of Abraham also a Hebrew.

Does the verse in Exodus 21:2 speak about an Ishmaelite?

Jeremiah 34:9 also speaks about Hebrew slaves.

Jeremiah 34:9 That every man should let his man servant, and every man his maid servant, being a Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; no one was to keep a Yahudiy, his brother, enslaved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why does it mention Hebrew and not Israel slaves?

Could it be the mention of Hebrew slaves to be from the tribes of Ishmael? If you read further in Jeremiah 34 than it is found not only to be from the tribes of Ishmael but also from Israel. Read the last part of verse 9 and 14.

Both Jeremiah 34:9 and 14 is speaking about “his brother who is a Hebrew,” meaning to me it is an Israelite slave.

Jeremiah 34:14 At the end of seven years each man should let go his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to him. When he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to Me nor stretch out their ear.

 

Jeremiah 34:17 “Therefore thus said Yahuah, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release, each one to his brother and each one to his neighbour. See, I am proclaiming release to you,’ declares Yahuah, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the scarcity of food! And I shall make you a horror to all reigns of the earth.

The disobedience of verse 17 for not letting the slaves go free after 7 years was another reason Judah in this case been punished. Read Jeremiah 34:18-22.

I must wonder how the slaves in those days are compared to modern day slaves. I mean we are a type of slave to this worldly society or system; we are not free. We may have more freedom than those in prison or maybe not all depending on what you want to be free from.

The only place I can be completely free is spiritual but again many people allow themselves to be demon possessed (enslaved) as well.

 

 

 

If you change the “slave” to “servant” than it does not have the same meaning.

Is this a mistranslation of scripture?

 

Who made or formed it?

 

 

So says Yahuah its Maker, Yahuah who formed it in order to establish it; Yahuah is His name: Call to Me, and I will answer you; and I will tell you great and inaccessible things; you do not know them- Jeremiah 33:2-3.

Yahuah is the Creator. Yahuah clearly states that in the end time all will know that it is Yahuah doing these things. Call by His Name and He will answer you.

 

Jeremiah 16:21 “Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And they shall know that My Name is Yahuah!”

 

 

 

 

 

The promise to the house of Israel and house of Judah (Jeremiah 33:14) will be as follows.

Jeremiah 33:15-16 ‘In those days and at that time I cause a Branch of righteousness to spring forth for David. And He shall do right-ruling and righteousness in the earth. ‘In those days Yahudah (Judah) shall be saved, and Jerusalem dwell in safety. And this is that which shall be proclaimed to her: ‘Yahuah our Righteousness.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We believe the Branch to be the Messiah/Prophet. The Branch of righteousness and ‘Yahuah our Righteousness. Is this talking about the son and the Father? Is the Branch not connected to the trunk, other words the Branch is the right hand or strong hand of the Father who is the trunk? It is the son and His Father, connected as one. One in thought, same personality and mind but they are a son and a father. We worship the Father whose Name is Yahuah and His son’s name is Yahusha.

 

 

Almighty’s character

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The character of Yahuah is spoken by Jeremiah and confirmed in various other verses.

Jeremiah 32:18-19 who show kindness to thousands, and repays the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them– the Great, the Mighty El, Yahuah of hosts is His Name, great in counsel and mighty in work, for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

 

Exodus 34:6-7 And Yahuah passed before him and proclaimed, “Yahuah, Yahuah, an El compassionate and showing favour, patient, and great in kindness and truth, watching over kindness for thousands, forgiving crookedness and transgression and sin, but by no means leaving unpunished, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Numbers 14:18 ‘Yahuah is patient and of great kindness, forgiving crookedness and transgression, but by no means leaving unpunished; visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’

Deuteronomy 5:9-10 you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, Yahuah your Elohim, am a jealous El, visiting the crookedness of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below Yahuah says He will save us, destroy the wicked nations but that we will first be judged and punished the sins we did.

Jeremiah 30:11 ‘For I am with you,’ declares Yahuah, ‘to save you. Though I make a complete end of all gentiles where I have scattered you, yet I do not make a complete end of you. But I shall reprove you in judgment, and by no means leave you unpunished.’

The prophet says in Jeremiah 32:17 ‘Ah, Master Yahuah! See, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is no matter too hard for You. Jeremiah 32:20-22 ‘For You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Yisra’el and among other men. And You have made Yourself a Name, as it is this day. ‘And You have brought Your people Yisra’el out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great fearsome deeds. ‘And You gave them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

 

 

 

 

But they did not hear and was punished: Jeremiah 32:23 ‘And they came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah. They did not do all that You commanded them to do, so You brought all this evil upon them.

But after the punishment is complete, they will be returned from captivity (the bad place) to the good forever place. This all will happen one day.

Jeremiah 32:37-44 Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands, there where I have driven them in My anger, and in My fury, and in great indignation. And I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to live in safety. And they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim. And I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me all the days, for good to them and to their sons after them. And I will cut an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do good to them. But I will put My fear in their heart, that they shall not depart from Me. And I will rejoice over them, to do good to them; and I will truly plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.  For so says Yahuah: As I have brought this great evil on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I am speaking to them. And fields will be bought in this land, of which you say, it is adesolation, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for silver, and write in a document, and seal it, and call witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the Shephelah and in the cities of the Negev. For I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahuah.