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Parsha Lech Lecha “Go Out”

Parsha Lech Lecha “Go Out”. Genesis 12:1 – 17:27. Genesis 12:1. Now ADONAI said to Avram, “Get yourself out lekh lekha לֶךְ-לְךָ of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. Genesis 12:1. Outline of Lech Lecha.

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Parsha Lech Lecha “Go Out”

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  1. Parsha Lech Lecha“Go Out” Genesis 12:1 – 17:27

  2. Genesis 12:1 • Now ADONAI said to Avram, “Get yourself out lekh lekhaלֶךְ-לְךָof your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. Genesis 12:1

  3. Outline of Lech Lecha • 12:1 Elohim Calls Abraham to Leave Ur and Come to Canaan • 12:10 Abraham and Sarah Seek Famine Relief in Egypt • 13:1 The Return to Canaan and Abraham and Lot Part Company • 13:14 YHVH Promises Abraham Land and Descendents

  4. Outline of Lech Lecha • 14:1 The War of the Eastern Kings • 14:8 Sodom Is Defeated and Lot Is Taken Captive • 14:13 Abraham Rescues Lot, Refuses Honors and Pays Homage to Melchizedek • 15:1 Elohim Reassures Abraham and Promises Him a Son

  5. Outline of Lech Lecha • 15:9 The Abrahamic Covenant Is Cut • 15:13 Prophecy of the Egyptian Exile and Redemption • 15:17 Ratification of the Abrahamic Covenant • 16:1 Hagar and Ishmael • 17:1 YHVH Renews the Covenant With Abraham and Gives Abraham and Sarah New Names and a New Destiny

  6. Outline of Lech Lecha • 17:9 Circumcision: the Sign of the Covenant • 17:15 YHVH Promises a Son to Sarah

  7. The Command from Yahveh • A commandment from Yahvehto Avraham to leave his birth country, his roots, in order to live a new life and proclaim monotheism on earth. • Lech Lecha means literally  ”go for yourself ”. • It is the beginning of Jewish history; the birth of the Jewish people begins!

  8. Abraham’s Journey

  9. The Beginning Of Jewish History • An old man with no children is going to become the holder of the divine Covenant, the first living stone of the divine plan of redemption. • The life of this man will forever mark the destiny and vocation of Israel in the coming centuries.

  10. The Beginning Of Jewish History • Avraham will carry the promises made to the Jewish people and to the nations who will join Israel in the worshipping of the Unique Yahveh, Creator of the heavens and the earth.

  11. The Tests of Avraham • Avraham will be confronted by many tests, thereby paving the way for both his natural descendants and spiritual descendants of the nations.

  12. The Tests of Avraham • Upon returning to Canaan after a famine, Avraham ends up in the middle of a battle (that might have been the First World War) opposing four kings against five. He will be the great victor.

  13. Four Kings Against Five • This battleis an image of the spiritual fight that started following the coming and the calling of Avraham. • It is not by chance that Lot, Avraham’s nephew was taken as a hostage.

  14. Four Kings Against Five • The ancient texts of the Jewish literature like the Midrashand the Talmud, teach us that the four kings against which Avraham will fight are an image of the four empires who will try to annihilate Israel:

  15. Four Kings Against Five • When Amrafel was king of Shin‘ar, Aryokh king of Elasar, K’dorla‘omer King of ‘Elam and Tid‘al king of Goyim; Genesis 14:1

  16. The Four Kings • Amraphel, king of Shinar would be Nimrod, king of Babylonia, Avraham‘s old enemy who fought against him before leaving Mesopotamia. • Arioch, king of Ellasar would represent the kingdom of Greece.

  17. The Four Kings • Chedor-Laomer, king of Elam, this is the Medo Persian empire, • Tidal, king of the nations, literally the Goyim; this Roman Empire destroyed the second Temple and sent the Jewish people into exile from whence they would start their return back, since the creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948.

  18. Amalek • Another indication of this spiritual battle is the mention of Amalek who was not yet alive at this time: •   Next they turned back, came to ‘Ein–Mishpat (which is the same as Kadesh), and defeated all the country of the ‘Amaleki, and also the Emori, who lived in Hatzatzon–Tamar. Genesis 14:7

  19. Amalek • It is only later that the Lord will clearly command the destruction of Amalek: •   ADONAI said to Moshe, "Write this in a book to be remembered, and tell it to Y’hoshua: I will completely blot out any memory of ‘Amalek from under heaven. Exodus 17:14

  20. Amalek • Amalekis the symbol of the one who opposes Yahvehsince the beginning, always ready to fight Yahveh’speople, and YahvehHimself. We know his end :

  21. Amalek • Then the one who embodies separation from Torah will be revealed, the one whom the Lord Yahshuawill slay with the breath of his mouth {Isa. 11:4, Job 4:9} and destroy by the glory of his coming. • 2 Thessalonians 2:8

  22. There Was A Purpose… • The capture of Lot was purposeful; those kings were after one thing: • Touching Avraham through his family would awaken his Jewish solidarity and identity.

  23. To Cancel The Promise of Yahveh • It was the final aim to drive the father of the Jewish nation and the father of all future believers into a war where he would be killed, in order to cancel the awesome promises of Yahvehand prevent the divine plan from being fulfilled:

  24. One Man – Three Promises • Now ADONAI יהוהsaid to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. • Genesis 12:1

  25. One Man – Three Promises • I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing.  • Genesis 12:2

  26. One Man – Three Promises •   I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” • Genesis 12:3

  27. One Man – Three Promises • 3 Things God Promises Abraham: • Land • Jewish Nation • He & Descendants would have purpose

  28. One Man – Three Promises • Genesis 17:7 (NKJV)7And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

  29. One Man – Three Promises Genesis 17:8 (NKJV)8Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

  30. Yahveh’sFinal Picture • Today, this same spirit is trying to destroy Avraham together with his physical and spiritual descendants; however, Yahvehwho is faithful to His covenant, gives us the final picture with the mysterious apparition of Melchizedek, מַלְכִּי-צֶדֶק, literallyKing of Justice to whom Avraham tithes,

  31. Yahveh’sFinal Picture • Thereby acknowledging immediately, the divine nature of this apparition and the One to whom the royal priesthood belongs even before the Levitical order, YahshuaHaMashiach, the Cohen Gadol in chief, the great sacrificator :

  32. Malki—Tzedak • This Malki–Tzedek, מַלְכִּי-צֶדֶקking of Shalem, a cohen of God Ha‘elyon, met Avraham on his way back from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him; also Avraham gave him a tenth of everything. {Ge 14:17–20} • Hebrews 7:1

  33. Malki—Tzedak • Now first of all, by translation of his name, he is “king of righteousness”; and then he is also king of Shalem, which means “king of peace.”There is no record of his father, mother, ancestry, birth or death; rather, like the Son of God, he continues as a cohen for all time. Hebrews 7:2-3

  34. Avraham, The Forerunner • Avraham shows the way by giving the tithe to the high priest of Jerusalem (Shalem being the original name of Jerusalem).

  35. Avraham, The Forerunner • Later, offerings to the Temple will be brought to the city of the Great King and later still, at the messianic times, nations will come and worship before the King of kings.

  36. The Patriarch And The People • There are many similarities between the Patriarch’s life and the historical evolution of the people of Israel, as well as its spiritual vocation…

  37. The Parallels Of Avraham • -         The starving at Canaan • -         Going down to Egypt • -         The conquest of Canaan • -         The conflict with Yishmael, forefather of Islam • -         The reconciliation between Yishmael and Yitzchak at the burying of their common father...

  38. Covenant Anguish • Before achieving those blessed peaceful times on earth, Avraham will experience deep anguish with the Covenant that was contracted with the Yahvehof Israel. • It will be an anguish of exile,

  39. Covenant Anguish • The facing of those birds of prey who will try repeatedly to attack Israel, • And the anguish of persecution.

  40. YHVH Has His Birds of Prey • "Then I saw a single angel stationed in the sun's light, and with a mighty voice he shouted to all the birds that fly across the sky, Come, gather yourselves together for the great supper of God…

  41. YHVH Has His Birds of Prey • That you may feast on the flesh of rulers, the flesh of generals and captains, the flesh of powerful and mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all humanity, both free and slave, both small and great!"

  42. YHVH Has His Birds of Prey • "... And the rest were killed with the sword that issues from the mouth of Him Who is mounted on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously and glutted themselves with their flesh." [Rev. 19:17-18, 21;]

  43. YHVH Has His Birds of Prey • "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Say to the birds of prey of every sort and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and come, gather from every side to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, even a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel at which you may eat flesh and drink blood.

  44. YHVH Has His Birds of Prey • You shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, of goats, and of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan [east of the Jordan]. And you shall eat fat till you are filled and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrificial feast which I am preparing for you." [Ezekiel 39:17-18; Ibid.]

  45. Preparation For Fulfillment • Preparation must be done through suffering and sanctification and Avraham is called to sanctification through the circumcision, a symbol of Yahveh’smark on our lives :

  46. The Seal Of Righteousness • In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. • Romans 4:11

  47. The Seal Of Righteousness • This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him, and at the same time be the father of every circumcised person who not only has had a b’rit–milah, but also follows in the footsteps of the trust which Avraham avinu had when he was still uncircumcised. • Romans 4:12

  48. Yishmael And Yitzchak • This Parasha ends with the story of Yishmael, the hard learning of faith in Yahveh. • Today, Israel is still paying the price of this lack of faith.

  49. Yishmael And Yitzchak • However, Yahvehin His faithfulness once again provides for the solution and sends the child of the promise, the spiritual heir and the guardian of the divine revelation, Yitzchak, who will tell us again of the Mashiach...

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