Parashah 13: Sh'mot (Names)

Parashah 13: Sh'mot (Names) - Exodus 1:1 through 6:1

Haftarah (Writings and Prophets): Isaiah 27:6 through 28:13; 29:22-23;
Jeremiah 1:1 through 2:3.
B'rit Hadasha (New Testament): Matthew 22:23-33; 41-46; Mark 12:1827; 35-37; Luke 20:27-44; John 17:1-26; Acts 3:12-15; 5:27-32; 7:17-36;
22:12-16; 24:14-16; Hebrews 11:23-26.

Summary & Overview

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1:1 | Introduction
1:8 | The Israelites Are Oppressed
2:1 | Birth and Youth of Moses
2:11 | Moses Flees to Midian
3:1 | Moses at the Burning Bush
3:13 | The Divine Name Revealed
4:1 | Moses' Miraculous Power
4:18 | Moses Returns to Egypt
5:1 | Bricks without Straw
6:1 | Israel's Deliverance Assured

Last weeks Torah Portion is foundational and set the stage for the rest of the
Torah and what the Restoration Plan of YHVH entails. Here is a brief summary
of the 12 utterances spoken by Jacob over his 12 sons that will be referred to as
we study the Book of Exodus:
1. Ruben Behold the Son, this is the revelation of the Messiah and His
work and His attributes; Strength, Dignity, Power & Stability.
2. Simon - Their sin (self-will) provoke YHVH to Anger. Introduction of the
Priesthood, Sacrificial System and Forgiveness.
3. Levi - Same as above.
4. Judah YHVH changes His Name, His destiny by inserting a Dalet or
Door into His Name YHVDH. The introduction of Messiah Who is the
Door and the Way to the Father (YHVH). He will be the King and
Lawgiver of His people coming from the Tribe of Judah.
5. Dan The revelation of YHVHs Judgement against Sin. The Messiah
become sin in our place and then became the Judge. The Messiah is
introduced as Saviour and Judge.
6. Naphtali This message of Salvation will get out into the world so that
man can be restored back into the Kingdom, into the Fathers presence
through entering the Door (Messiah). The introduction of the Goodly
words or Gospel message that starts with the message of Repentance.
7. Gad The enemy tries to stop people from hearing the Goodly words
by taking people captive through bondage of sin. YHVH raised up an
army under the command of David, the Beloved Messiah Who will lead

His army against the enemy so that the people can be liberated from sin
by hearing the Truth that will set them free.
8. Asher The enemy tries another strategy, he attack people from within.
The people of YHVH are infiltrated by rebellious Leaders that feeds the
people with fat bread; a message the tickles the ear, making them
happy instead of holy.
9. Issachar YHVH is raising a people that will fund the Goodly words
message of Salvation in order to spread it across the whole world.
10. Zebulon Because of iniquity that dwells within the people YHVH, He
raises up a people that will be able to fish people out of the nations and
bring them into the Boat so that they can be discipled in the Word (Truth
thin bread).
11. Joseph The blessing of Joseph is transferred to Ephraim who plays
and important part in the end time restoration plan of YHVH and the
reuniting of the Two Sticks in the Hand of Messiah.
12. Benyamin The workers that embrace both Yshua (Gospel Message)
and the Torah (thin bread) plays an important part in the last day events
during the famine (Tribulation) before the Millennium of Rest (1000 year
peace).
You need to have an understanding of this Roadmap of YHVHs Restoration
Plan in order to understand the rest of the Torah and every aspect of these
prophecies that will play out throughout Scripture right up to the Book of
Revelation. All the people mentioned from here on will play an important part to
fulfil this Plan. If you make yourself available, then you can also be part and a
character in His Restoration Plan playing out.

These are the Names These are the Characters

Exo 1:1 Now these are the names (Shemot) of the children of Israel who
came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob: 2 Reuben,
Simeon, Levi, and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4 Dan,
Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 All those who were descendants[a] of Jacob
were seventy[b] persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already). 6 And Joseph
died, all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 But the children of Israel
were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly
mighty; and the land was filled with them.
We commonly know this Book as the book of Exodus where Israel leaves Egypt
but the start of this book is about Names, shemot. We have learned that your
name means your character and destiny, so we can read the opening verse as
follows; Now these are the characters with their destinies, the children of the
Righteous people of Elohim who came to Egypt. In the previous Parashah
we have looked at these characters with their prophetic destinies within the
Restoration Plan of YHVH and in this Book, we will see them playing out
through different characters, the descendants of Joseph and His Brothers.
Its all about people; we find the names of the children of Israel, the names of
the Patriarchs and the Name of God as revealed to Moses and the Israelites but
we do not find the name of the Pharaoh ever mentioned.

Prophetic Picture and Overview of the Exodus

Messiahs First Coming: Moses grew up and became a Prince in Egypt for 40
years. Then Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew and he intervened and
killed the Egyptian. He later saw two Hebrews fight and tried to stop them. They
accused him of being a murderer and he fled Egypt and went to Median and
spent 40 years in the Wilderness. This one act of redemption was rejected by
his people and is a prophetic picture of the First Coming of Messiah were His
own people rejected Him.
Messiahs Second Coming YHVH called Moses to redeem Israel from
Egyptian slavery and Moses went back where YHVH did a mighty deliverance
through him. This is a picture of the Second Coming of Messiah where His
people will receive and believe in Him. This confirms to us that the Story of the
Exodus is a prophetic picture for Messiahs Second Coming and that we need to
learn from these events in order to prepare for His coming.
The story of the Exodus is the story of redemption of people
who are trapped in a System of bondage. The world we live in
today is no different to those times where enslaved people
made clay bricks to build a System that actually enslaves
them. We are trapped in such a System where we exist to
support and sustain the very material System that enslaves
us.
The Book of Revelation describes the spiritual
side of this System known as Babylon; that means
mixing and confusion and this is the current state
the faith world is in right now. There are close to
40 000 different denominations that call
themselves Christian and around 30 different
Judaic Sects. This shows that mixing and
confusion are present within each of these
denominations all-submitting under a Babylon
system of worship. At the end of the day, there will
only be two sticks that will be moulded into One by
the hand of Messiah. One God, One Messiah and One Faith.
With this said, we need to study and understand the Book of Exodus as well as
the Book of Revelation to get the full picture of end time events so that we can
be prepared for what is coming. Genesis gave us the foundation and overview
Map of YHVHs Plan. Exodus and Revelation provides us with the detail of what
we can expect and how to prepare for the coming Anti-Messiah as well as the
real Messiah. Deception is the greatest danger that will entrap believers
because of a lack of knowledge. This is why it is so important to study and know
the Word with the right understanding and interpretation in order to avoid
deception.
The Tribulation period with its plagues are foreshadows of the plagues
mentioned in Revelation, and we will experience similar events described in
Exodus before the Second Coming of Messiah. YHVH wants to lead His people
out of Bondage prior to them entering the Promised Land, and this is called The
Greater Exodus. This Book is a prophetic parallel and blueprint of the Greater
Exodus that will happen at the end of time.
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YHVH calls Moses

Moses shepherds the flocks of his father in law and
came to the mountain Horeb, the mountain of YHVH
also known as Sinai. Sinai comes from the word
sina that means thorny. Horeb means dry,
desolate and hot. If you pronounce Horeb slightly
different it becomes cherev that means sword. This
is the mountain where Moses will receive the Ten
Commandments, the Sword or the Word of YHVH
that will cut away everything that is from Egypt and
not of YHVH. This is also the place that initiated the
Feast of Shavuot or Pentecost that was fulfilled by
the outpouring of the Spirit of YHVH on His people. The Spirit and the Word is
One or Echad.
On this mountain, Horeb or Sianai Moses saw a sinah-bush or thorn bush that
was burning but not consumed by the fire. Later on, all the people of Israel will
see this Burning Bush on the of Mount Sinai or Mount Thorn where YHVH
will speak to them and give them His Sword of His Word. See how everything is
linked together and how the one is a shadow of what is to come.
Bush is the word senah and was burning in the fire and was not consumed.
Why not burned up? There must be something that fuels the fire if the bush is
not consumed. We have learned that the Shin s represents fire as well as the
Spirit of YHVH and that is what Moses encountered; the Spirit of YHVH. It is
similar to the creation scene where the Spirit of YHVH hovering over the waters
before light (revelation) came into existence. Here the Spirit of YHVH hovered
over the thorn bush revealing His Plan to Moses, enlightening him.
Personal Application: Seeing a bush on fire is not a big deal.
Seeing a bush on fire not being consumed is a big deal and
something of note. Seeing someone on fire for a cause is a big
deal if the cause does not destroy the person. Moses saw an
image of himself where he was the bush and his mission the
fire and YHVH fuelled the fire without Moses being destroyed
in the process. This is a beautiful picture of how YHVHs
Anointing works and what it looks like when His Spirit is
equipping us. He gives us the ability and strength to fulfil the
task without us being consumed or destroyed in the process
because He provides the fuel that fuels the fire. All you have
to do is allow it to burn so that His Light can shine in this dark world.
Prophetic Picture: Moses left his flock at the foot of the
mountain when he had the torn bush experience. Later on
he will come back to the same mountain, leave the flock
(Israel) at the foot of this mountain and have a second
torn bush experience receiving the Ten Commandments.
The thorns in the bush represent the Commandments, the sword that will
proceed from Yshuas mouth that will prick those who oppose it and cut away
things that is not part of YHVHs Character.

Rev 1:16 and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword and his
countenance was as the sun shins in his strength . . ..

YHVH Reveals Himself to Moses

Exo 3:11 But Moses said to Elohim, Who am I that I should go to
Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?
When YHVH called Moses at the burning bush, Moses felt
overwhelmed and asked who am I as if he thinks that
everything will have to be done in his own strength and ability.
When YHVH calls you to do something, it might seem
impossible, and you will feel inadequate. Joshua had the
same experience when YHVH called him, and he felt
inadequate, and YHVH had to tell him that he is a mighty
man of God. We tend to see ourselves from our own
perspective and point of view as if you are the person who
knows yourself the best. But what if you believe lies about
yourself? YHVH is the One who created you and knows you
the best, and you have to listen what He has to say about
you. He knows the truth about you, and you need a
revelation from Him of who you are before you can step up and become the
man or woman He intended you to become.
Exo 3:13 Then Moses said to God, Indeed, when I come to the children of
Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and
they say to me, What is His name? what shall I say to them?
Then Moses asked YHVHs Name as if the people are asking and not him. Is
Moses too afraid to admit that he does not know YHVH, the God of his fathers?
In verse 6 YHVH revealed Himself to Moses saying I am the God of your
fatherthe God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob , but
Moses still did not know His Name.
Q Why did Moses ask Gods Name when God introduced Himself to Moses
earlier? Isnt it good enough to know Him as the God of Abraham. Isaac &
Jacob?
That is the whole point; it is their God, not Moses God. They
know God personally, and Moses still has to experience God
before he could say it is his God. Moses also asked His Name
on behalf of the people, and it seems that he is actually
asking YHVH to become his personal God as well as the
personal God of the people of Israel.
Exo 3:14-15 And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM.
And He said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me
to you. 15 Moreover God said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children
of Israel: The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever,
and this is My memorial to all generations.

The word memorial is the word zeker in Hebrew and is also used in Exo 17:14
where YHVH told Moses to record the victory over Amalek in a book as a
memorial and to lay it upon Joshua or rehearse it to Joshua.
The phrase lay upon or rehearse is the word sum, that means to put upon
and sign. It is found in the story of Cain where he received a sign. It is also
found in the story of Abraham where he put water on the shoulder of Hagar
before sending her into the wilderness. It was also used in the story of Abraham
and Isaac where the wood of the sacrifice was put on Isaac. This word is also
used where Abrahams seed is described as a sign of the covenant.
The Name of YHVH is to be a memorial or a sign that is put upon something
or someone. In other words His Name will be a sign that is upon you. The fact
that the victory over Amalek needed to be written down as a memorial reveals
to us that everything that is written in the Word of YHVH is a memorial and a
sign that needs to be put upon every believer, just like His Name.
This implies that putting on His Name is similar to
putting on His Word like a Yoke you carry in this
life. Yshua said in Matt 11:30 that His Yoke is easy
and His burden (memorial / Name) is light. Yshuas
yoke is the same yoke that Moses received only with
all the traditions removed that caused it to become
heavy and unbearable. Putting on His Name is the same
as putting on or obeying His Commandments. The memorial
that is on you when you say you belong to YHVH is seen
through the Commandments you carry through obedience that
is a visible sign to the world, like the fire of the burning bush on your life.
The context of Matt 11:30 is where Yshua said that no one knows the Father
except the Son and no one knows the Son except the Father and that the Son
has the ability to reveal the Father to man. In order to get a revelation of the
Father you have to have a revelation of the Son, Yshua. Yshua is the Word of
YHVH and the Father is only revealed through the Son or His Word. Yshua said
that His yoke is light implying that He has stripped the Word from traditions of
man that actually hides the Father. This is one of the things Yshua came to do,
to cleanse His Word from anything that hides or distorts the image of the Father.
He did not come to take away the Word / Commandments but to make it light,
the Yoke still exist and have not been abolished as people believe. Remember
when Yshua said these words the New Testament did not exist and the Word
was everything left of Matthew. Abolishing the Torah is removing the Name of
YHVH and destroying the Revelation of the Father.
The Jews do not pronounce the YHVHs name and
I think this is the reason; this Name can only be
accurately pronounced through your actions, not
your mouth or through sound. The Name YHVH is
a personal Name that you will only know if you
obey His Commandments and carry His Yoke,
have His memorial upon you. You can know of
God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but for Him to become personal
where He reveals His YHVH Name to you, is only possible if you walk in His
shoes. That is why YHVH asked Moses to take off his shoes; it is a sign of
becoming Holy Like Him, walking the way He would walk.
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As explained in the previous Torah Portion, people know Jesus or Yshua as

their Saviour, but they do not know Him as the Word and the One Who reveals
the Father.
If you want to see the Father you have to see Yshua as the Word and when
you study and do the Word then only will you see the Father as your personal
God with the Name YHVH that you can pronounce through living your life holy
unto Him as a memorial and a sign for the world to see.

Salvation can become Bondage The First Enemy

Centuries passed since Joseph and his family moved to Egypt, some estimate it
to be between 200 and 400 years. During this time things gradually changed
from a life of freedom and prosperity to a life of bondage and slavery. The place
of salvation and blessing became a place of bondage and slavery.
Q Can this happen to Believers today?
If we take this to a spiritual level in the context of the prophetic
words spoken over Asher where king Saul and king Agag,
depicts leaders feeding YHVHs people fat bread, teaching
them doctrines that tickles the ears, making them happy
instead of holy. This leaves them in fleshly bound state, not
eating thin bread (the Word) that cleanses your life.
Salvation is good as a starting point but it is not a place to set
up camp. Anything that starts out as good and life-giving can
become bad and stagnant like water that is not flowing.
Believers like this stopped growing in the Word, not becoming
mature in the Word, or becoming an active part of His Plan and
Purpose. Believers are obsessed with the cross, and what
Yshua (Jesus) did for them and they keep on reverting back to
the salvation message, but no one teaches them to grow up and mature in the
Word.
Your faith is not knowledge that is passive; faith means to be faithful in the truth
you receive, actively seeking more truth and revelation so that you can grow into
maturity and into His Likeness.
Hebrew Study Tip
Any Hebrew word can be taken to its root word and the meaning of the
Root word can be used to get insight into its meaning. This is especially
helpful when looking at Names and Places. Additional insight can be
found in reading passages where this root word is found in order to get a
story to colour in the background and reveal insight and hidden wisdom.

From One Enemy to Six Enemies

Exo 3:16-17 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them,
The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,
appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen what is done to
you in Egypt;17 and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of
Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and
the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk
and honey.
We have looked at the First Enemy, namely Pharaoh and the System bounds
believers to their salvation while they make bricks for his kingdom. YHVH
revealed the salvation plan from bondage to Moses and this includes 6 new
enemies Israel have to face and conquer before entering the Promised Land
flowing with milk and honey.
We will now have a look at each of these enemies so that we can know our
enemy in the time to come when we will take part in the Grater Exodus,
leaving the System of bondage, mixing and confusion prior to the Coming of
Messiah and entering into the Promised Land.
1. Canaanites Comes from root word kena
that means, to
humble. This enemy teaches just the opposite namely spiritual pride.
This enemy do not want you to leave the bondage of the first enemy
(eating fat bread) and keeps people in bondage through spiritual pride.
The only way to escape the bondage is to humble yourself and submit to
to YHVHs Word in order to rid yourself from all the weight you have put
on eating false teachings. These false teachings are made up by mixing
YHVHs Word with mans word, mixing straw & clay, in order to create
bricks that build false kingdoms.
Believers are kept immature and
happy by making them proud of the
false kingdom they are building and are
part of. The Canaanites mission is to
encourage spiritual pride in order to
keep believers in religion, making
bricks to build and sustain a man
made kingdom.
2.

Hittites - comes from the root word cheth that means

terror. This enemy is fear that is directly opposing any
form of faith. This is the strongest of all the enemies and is
the barrier that has to be broken in order to follow YHVH in
faith. You might be convinced of the Truth, but you may be
too afraid to take the first step to leave Egypt. The Hittites
mission is to cast fear in the hearts of YHVHs people.

3. Amorites - comes from the root word amar that means to talk
or to boast. This word is found in Psalm 94:4 where it talks about
people who utter and speak hard things. The word hard is found in 1
Sam 2:3 where it warns us not to let arrogance come out of our mouths
because YHVH weighs all actions. This places the words you utter
and the actions you do in the same category and weigh the same.
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What you say will receive the same judgment as what you do. We know
that saying; actions speak harder than words, but in this context they are
the same. Yshua said in Matt 5:22 that if you call someone a fool, you
will be guilty of a sin that will cause you to end up in the fires of hell. The
Amorites mission is to get people not to take words serious and to
encourage believers to say what they want. The Amorites promotes
evil speech including idle talk, slander and boasting.
4. Perizzites - comes from the root word perizziy
that means unwalled towns of cities and is found in Est 9:19 where the Jews held a
feast after their victory over Haman. This is where the King set a second
decree in place to give grace to the Jews. The first decree said that all
the Jews had to be killed on a certain day this decree still stood and
could not be taken back. The second decree allowed the Jews to have
weapons to defend themselves so that their enemies could be destroyed.
This Second Decree did not annual the First Decree because the word
of a King cannot be taken back or annulled even by the king himself. This
is a picture of the New Covenant that was given by the King to give
Grace to man because the First Covenant has a death penalty for sin
that cannot be annulled. With this grace YHVH gave His People
weapons (His Word and His Spirit) so that they could defend
themselves and so that their enemies can be destroyed. The New
Covenant can never annual or abolish the First
Covenant, only add Grace and is parallel and
of equal weight to the First Covenant. The
Perizzites represent the enemy that teaches
that the First Covenant is done away with and
leaves YHVHs people living in cities without
walls, without protection against the enemy
and exposes them to the consequence of their
ignorance and sin. The Perizzites mission is
to abolish YHVHs Torah.
5. Hivites comes from the root word chavvah
that means small village or tents as well as
life giver. This word is found in Num 32:41
where Ruben and Gad nearly provoked YHVH
to anger by not crossing over the Jordan to
possess the Land because of the sake of their
families and livestock. Moses reminded them
what happened to Israel when they provoked
YHVH to anger and they decided to assemble
the armies and cross the Jordan to face their enemies as YHVH
instructed. Ruben is about revealing the Messiah but is unstable as
water and Gad is about speaking goodly words, spreading the Gospel.
This enemy is trying to stop the true Gospel Message.
Q What is the true Gospel message?
It is the good news of Salvation to all people who believe and have faith
in Jesus / Yshua but starts with; Repent, for the Kingdom of YHVH is at
hand Chavvah means life giver that supports the message of
salvation but also means wickedness.
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Wicked people are people without faith. Wicked is the word "ra-ah" that
also means to shepherd. This means the Shepherds are evil and
teaches another meaning of what faith is really about. They teach a
Gospel Message without repentance that only supports faith that is head
knowledge. They do not teach a faith like our father Abraham, being
faithful in the truth you receive. The Hivites are the bad shepherds who
are supposed to bring life but bring a distorted and unstable Gospel
message creating a wrong image of Messiah. The Hivites mission is to
stop the Gospel Message of Repentance and Salvation and teach a
false image of Messiah and what faith really means.
6. Jebusites comes from the root word yevus that means a place
trodden down. Jevus or Jebus were a Canaanite tribe who built and
inhabited Jerusalem prior to its conquest by King David. The Books of
Judges and Kings state that Jerusalem was known as Jebus. Jerusalem
was trodden down and we are waiting the rebuilding of the Temple after
Israel became a nation and Jerusalem was given back to the Jews. This
place this enemy right in the context of the end times and rebuilding of
the Temple in Jerusalem is the panicle event that will reveal the Antichrist
and the return of the true Messiah. Deception is the major enemy that we
need to be cautious of because many of the elect will be deceived during
this time not knowing it.
We have learned in the previous two weeks Torah Portions that the
famine in the land depicted the time of the Tribulation and that salvation
and reconciliation happened during this time. This enemy called the
Jebusites operate during this time and is pictured in the story where the
word jevus is found and that is in Judges 19:10. In this story we read
about a Levite who was looking for his concubine who played that harlot
and ran away to her fathers house. A harlot in a spiritual sense is the
bride of Messiah defiling herself with pagan traditions and worship.
He found her at her father's house (back in the culture she came from)
and they lodged there for 5 days (he gave her grace) before going up to
Jebus or Jerusalem. It was near evening (end times) and they lodged
with an old man at Gibeah, the birthplace of King Saul.
Gibeah means place of forbidden worship that confirms the concubine
playing the harlot. We looked at the prophecy spoken over Asher where
King Saul represented rebellious Leaders who give their followers fat
bread. Have this thought in the back of your mind as we continue with
the story.
An old man, a Benyimite lodged them and sons of Belial (worthlessness,
wicked men) came and knocked on the door and demanded the release
of the Levite so that they can know him (have sex with him). The Levites
depict the Jews and this enemy wants to defile Judah with false worship
as well. The old man said to these men that they could have his daughter
and the concubine instead.
This sounded just like the story of Laban when YHVH destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah (end time context as well). We continue
They took the concubine and defiled her all night long, and she died at
the door of the house. The Levite took her home, cut her up in 12 pieces
and send her to all the tribes of Israel. All of Israel then came up against
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Benyamin to set things right and Benyamin

refused to hand over the men who raped and
killed the concubine. The whole of Israel
declared war against Benyamin and three
battles took place. Israel lost two times and
repented twice before they defeated Benyamin
at the third battle and they lost all their women
and children. Israel swore never to give any of
their daughters to the sons of Benyamin and raged battle against
Jabeshgilead and brought forth 400 virgins to give to Benyamin at the
feast of Sukkot so that Benyamin can still exist as a tribe.
Q What does this all mean?
Since we are looking for the enemy that is portrayed by the Jebusites we
need to understand who the main players are. Benyamin represents the
mixed multitude of Believers in Messiah / Jesus, believers who think the
Torah is still relevant and some that is not quite convinced yet. There is a
conflict of opinion within Benyamin because they are made up of people
of different cultures who still cling to forms of forbidden worship
(Gibeah). They are a messy group, and we see evidence of this
reflected in this story.
We see Israel stepping in with Judah
leading the first battle. They lost, repented
and a second battle raged between Israel
and Benyamin. We have read the prophecy
in Eze 37:16-19 where the House of Judah
and the sons of Israel, (representing the
Jews and all those who returned to join
Judah) are one stick, and they are joined
together with the stick of Ephraim
representing the believers in Messiah, in this case, Benyamin.
What we learn from this is that the joining of the two sticks results in a
battle where internal enemies are destroyed within each House before
they can be joined to become one stick. The Jebusites is an enemy within
that wants to stop the joining of the two Sticks. Each Stick or House
needs to do some cleansing before they can become part of the 12
Tribes of Israel. Benyamin had forbidden worship that speaks for itself;
everything that is not scriptural and backed up in the Torah should not be
done in the name of Worship to YHVH and they need to cleanse
themselves from traditions with pagan origins.
Judah, on the other hand, lost twice, and this means that they need to go
through two changes; one is to accept Yshua as the Messiah, and the
other is to rid themselves from all rabbinical traditions that are forbidden
by YHVH in His Word; not adding laws to the Torah.
All of this happen before the Second coming of Yshua and both Houses
needs to confront its enemies that lingers and feeds on traditions. These
traditions come from the spirit of the Anti-Messiah working within both
camps. The Jebusites mission is to cling to traditions and
forbidden worship and to stop the joining of the Two Sticks.

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All these enemies need to be defeated prior to the coming of Messiah.

Isaiah puts it in the context of what will happen at the Second Coming
and why it is important to defeat all 7 enemies prior to His coming.
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 will YHVH plead with all
flesh: and the slain of YHVH shall be many. 17 They
that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's
flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be
consumed together, says YHVH. 18 For I know their
works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my
glory.
Q What tree is he talking about?
The tree was found in the Garden of Eden and Satan wrapped it
with his presence. This is the image of sin and is the same
image found in Babylonian worship; a tree with a snake
wrapped around its trunk.
Q - What other forms of Babylonian worship (mixing) can you
think of that has a tree as its centre piece?
Everybody needs to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling
before YHVH returns. Phil 2:12. YHVHs people perish for a lack of
knowledge of the Word and a lack of knowledge of their enemies.
Hosea 4:6.

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