SH ‘MINI eighth…שמיני Lev 9:1-11:47

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 SH ‘MINI eighth…שמיני Lev 9:1-11:47

Shemoneh – Shin-Mem-Nun-Heh from the root Shamen Shin-Mem-Nun “to make fat”, “to cover in fat”, “to superabound”, “one who bounds in strength.” “oil”.

If you have the patience and endurance of the saints you will pass through the trials of life and complete the life that יהוה has ordained for you, no matter what it is, no matter what you face and our hope is to come to the eighth day and hear, “well done my good and faithful servant.”

• 7 was so called because the 7th day was the day of completion and rest, 
• so 8, as the 8th day, was over and above this perfect completion and is in fact the 1st of a new series, 
• as well as being the 8th. So it really represents two numbers in one, the first and the eighth…it is 7 plus 1. 

Noah was the 8th person who stepped out onto a new world order, a new earth to commence a new order of things. 8 souls passed through it with him to the new world order of things. 

Think about circumcision, performed on the 8th day – it foreshadowed the true circumcision of heart – that which connected with the new creation or new order of things – the circumcision made without hands.

יהוה rested brethren in order for us to continue…never give up…never accquies to stupid…If then you were raised with Moshiach, seek those things which are above, where Moshiach is sitting at the right hand of יהוה .Be mindful of things above, not on things on the earth.

Don’t defile the 8th day…don’t spoil the treasured future יהוה in store for you if you just set goals and number your days. 

Nadab and Avihu caved to to presumption and defiled their 8th day. 

יהוה created Adam and Eve on the sixth day, then reseted and then they were to continue on the 8th day – the keys to the kingdom of heaven were in their hands…but they defiled their 8th day – the sin of presumption…and held the keys to their own holding cell – hell and death. 

Genesis: יהוה creates everything good
Man corrupts the good, is defiled and punished
יהוה re-creates, reconciles and grants a new beginning. 

Exodus: יהוה establishes a relationship with Israel
Israel corrupts the relationship, defiles itself and is punished
יהוה restores the law and begins anew with Israel. 

Leviticus: יהוה establishes the priesthood
The priests corrupt and defile themselves and are punished
יהוה restores the priesthood affirming a new beginning.

The all encompassing account: יהוה established and planted a vineyard – Israel
He leased it out to the Northern and Southern Kingdom to tend
He sent his prophets to receive the fruit from both kingdoms
But both kingdoms deified and killed the prophets
He sent His Son
both kingdoms defied and killed His Son
But with that stone The Stone which the builders rejected he restored and begins a new structure with the corner stone. 

Mystery Babylon will not make it through to the 8th day…she has defiled herself and is currently in her death throws like Nadab and Avihu.  

The same keys can be used for…the kingdom of Heaven in you. Whatever you may bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven, and whatever you may loose on earth shall occur, having been loosed in Heaven…

VAY 10:1 And Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aharon, took each of them his censer (Machtah, mem, chet, tav, heh – A device used for removing burning coals) and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and offered strange fire before vuvh, which He commanded them not. (where is it okay to put incense and fire in a mactah, in the Torah? I’ve never seen it! 2 And there went out fire from vuvh, and devoured them,and they died before vuvh. 3 Then Moshe said to Aharon, This is that which vuvh spoke, saying, I will be kadosh in them that come near Me, and before all the people I will be esteemed. And Aharon held his silence. 4 And Moshe called Misha-El and El-Tzaphan, the sons of Uzzi-El the uncle of Aharon, and said to them, Come near, carry your brothers from before the Kadosh-Place out of the camp. (Araon’s first cousins, not coheneim, therefore it’s okay for them to become tamei ). 5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; (Devoured their souls, their bodies remained untouched as did their holy garments) as Moshe had said. 6 And Moshe said to Aharon, and to El-Azar and to Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, 2 neither tear your clothes; lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brothers, kol beit Yisrael, mourn the burning which vuvh has lit. 7 And you shall not go out from the door of theTabernacle of the congregation, lest you die: for the anointing oil of vuvh is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moshe.

Heb 9:1 Then truly the first tabernacle NKJ/covenant KJV/priesthood had also ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. Heb 9:2 For the first tabernacle was prepared, in which was both the menorah, and the table, and the setting out of the loaves, which is called Holy Place. Heb 9:3 And after the second veil was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, Heb 9:4 having a golden censer. (NKJ and many modern translations: golden altar of incense) 

“Altar of incense” is not in the text, yet finds itself into many of the modern translations. This addition of “Golden alter of incense” has caused huge confusion because theologians couldn’t reconcile this chapter in particular with the Mss text and a Hebrew TORAH mindset. 

It was the “Golden censer” which is in the text that was brought from the Holy Place (Ex 30:1) into the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur (Lev 16:12). This is what our author is addressing!

Yahusha’s priesthood is greater in that it gives us unrestricted access to the Fathers mercy, unlike the Levitical priesthood that gave the High Priest once a year, limited access to the mercy seat. 

To solidify our understanding of V.4, ‘Mizbeiach’ מזבח for “golden altar of incense” isn’t in the text.

‘Machtah’ מהתה meaning ‘fire holder, censer or snuffdish‘ rendered in the LXX as ‘thumiaterion’ is the actual term that appears here in 9:4 ‘censer.’

Generational iniquity or generational healing:

‘Machtah’: This is the very instrument that killed the first descendants of the priesthood that HERE the writer of the book of Hebrews contrasts as the very instrumental in the transference of priesthood that is used in the life giving ceremony of the priesthood that heals the generations. 

Nadab and Abihu took unauthorized fire before יהוה – the sin of presumption. What is unholy and presumptuous?

On YK (Lev. 16:11) the Kohen Ha Gadol was permitted to put incense, a beaten portion inside the veil and it may be placed before the Ark of the testimony. 

Nadab and Abihu put fire (aish) in a ‘Machtah’ (a tool used for removing burning coals) with incense and brought strange fire (Zuwr – estranged/foreign/a foreigner) before (Panayim) of יהוה.

They presumed to put flaming fire (not coals) and set apart incense in their pans and held it up in יהוה face! 

Instead of heeding יהוה commandments they presumed, they boldly entered into יהוה presence – as foreigners  (Zuwr) using a form of pagan fire worship!

The belly or soul of Torah: 

11:41 and every creeping thing that creeps on it’s belly (mark of the scribe, middle of Torah. The third letter, vav is the very center or belly of the Torah) whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet among all creeping  things that creep on the earth these you shall not eat, for they are an abomination.

What about those pesky dietary commandments. Surely Red Lobster isn’t off the table is it?

Genesis 1:29 Yahweh told Adam and Eve at the beginning of creation, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat [food].” 

Later, in the BoC part of Torah YHWH stipulates that the green plant is given for food (Gen. 9:3). Yahweh limited edible plants to those that are green and propagate by seeds. Those plants that lack either chlorophyll or seeds, or both, are called into question — including fungi such as mushrooms as well as various parasitic plants.

Yahweh told Noah that clean animals were to go aboard the ark by sevens, but he was to limit the unclean to only two, Genesis 7:2. Noah had to know the difference because of the clean food laws.

Genesis 9:3 “Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” 

“Everything” is defined by the change from a plant-only diet to a new diet consisting of plants *and* animals — that is, “everything.” But that doesn’t mean one could eat *every* animal anymore than one could eat *every* plant. Let’s look at the passage concerning the original vegetable diet:

“…I have given every green herb for food, and it was so.” Genesis 1:30

Now “every green herb” above doesn’t mean “every-single existing green herb.” It means “every green herb that is appropriate for food.” I don’t think  Adam or Noah were eating poison ivy salads or snacking on poisonous berries! 

Genesis 6:21: “And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.” 

Noah is commanded to take all the edible foods into the ark. So then, not ‘every green herb’ was edible, only ‘every green herb given for food’ was edible. 

Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

The disputes of the dietary commandments is due to not spending the time in the TORAH so as to understand that the dietary commandments were never simply ceremonial laws restricted to the Tabernacle. This is the crux of the problem. 

The doctrinal proclamation is that יהוה s dietary laws were temporary, as were God’s offering and sacrificial laws. 

The doctrinal belief is that יהוהs Dietary Commandments were ceremonial laws that were rescinded after Yahusha died on the tree. 

But the dietary commandments were never ceremonial laws. 

When the dietary commands are read in context, they have nothing to do with ceremonies; they deal strictly with cleanliness and health. יהוהs dietary commands were not issued as temporary restrictions, but as perpetual commands.

The word ‘ceremonial’ and the phrase ‘ceremonially clean and unclean animals’ do NOT appear anywhere in Scripture, yet many bibles have headnotes preceding Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 that read, “Ceremonially Clean and Unclean Animals.” These added headnotes are NOT Scripture, but instead are an inserted false doctrinal teaching of man.

If יהוה dietary laws concerning clean and unclean animals were temporary in nature, as were יהוה animal sacrifice and offering measures, the Scriptures would clearly state so…but they don’t do they!

יהוהs dietary laws have always been in effect and have never been rescinded. 

The false doctrine comes from a false proclamation, a sin of presumption…presuming that unclean animals were merely ceremonially unclean. There is nothing ‘ceremonial’ about clean and unclean creatures! 

The truth is that careful study shows the Dietary Commandments are perpetual and are no more ceremonial or restrictive than are His Ten Commandments (but then again the Church doesn’t even believe all 10 should actually be kept either!) The distinction between clean and unclean animals is first recorded in Genesis 7:2-3 and lastly in Revelation 18:2; from the first book to the last book of the Scriptures.

LEVITICUS 3:17:
It shall be a PERPETUAL STATUTE for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.

LEVITICUS 11:10-11:
Anything in the seas or the rivers that do not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is an abomination to you. They SHALL REMAIN an abomination to you; of their flesh you shall not eat and their carcasses you shall have in abomination.

Scripture nowhere supports the false doctrinal belief that יהוהs Dietary Commandments are ceremonial or that they were temporary restrictions. 

Leviticus 3:17 and 11:10 confirm that יהוהs Dietary Commandments are not temporary, but PERPETUAL and they SHALL REMAIN in effect.

Job: 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Hos: 5:10 The rulers of Judah were like movers of a border; I will pour out My wrath on them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked in human traditions. Hos 12 Therefore I am as pus to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

Ps. 102. 27 but You are the same, and Your years shall have no end.

Mal 3:6 For I am יהוה , I change not.

Ps. 119:89 Forever, O יהוה, Your Word is settled in the heavens.

Js. 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Heb. 13: 7 remember those leading you, who have spoken to you the Word of יהוה, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct:

8 Yahusha Ha Moshiach the same yesterday and today and forever. Heb 9 Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

Rom. 3:31 Do we then make the TORAH void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the TORAH.

Rom. 7:12 So indeed the TORAH is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.