Embracing the Torah: Discovering Life and Rest in Yeshua

It's the time of year in which we get to begin the cycle anew. God has created a life cycle for us and he has given us his Torah that it would be a benefit, it would be life-giving, and within its very pages it would be like the tree of life. It would give wisdom and peace and shalom to everybody who grabs a hold of it. [00:00:31]

So as we continue in this year week by week to the snippets, the small little parts of the Torah that we're going to study every single week, may it be a tree of life to you. May Yeshua, who is found within every page of the word of God, come alive. For when God spoke these words through Moses, until the great fulfillment of Yeshua, we get to see the pages, the heart, the nature, the prophecies, the covenants, the stories, the heroes, the failures, the redemption, the grace, the mercy, and the fullness of God being revealed. [00:58:08]

Now this is very important for us, because when we come back to Genesis chapter 1, it's a chapter. It's a chapter unlike any other chapter in the entire scriptures. It is the cornerstone, it is the foundation by which all other scripture is laid upon. [00:03:11]

And when Moses began to put the ink to the paper and to be able to actually write down the words of the Lord, the story of God, the story of creation, the story of the earth, there's something about the heart of God that we have to have. Because if we don't have the proper lens, if we don't have the proper view, we can really take the entire Torah and all of the scriptures of the Tanakh and the Brit Hadashah and all of the writings, we can take them out of context. [00:03:51]

And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Now, this is a really strange and marvelous and almost a mystery in and of itself. Before the earth was without form and a void and darkness. Now, what is this darkness? We're going to see this theme repeat itself multiple times. And it's very simple. We think, oh, it's the beginning of time. Yes, it was dark. [00:07:25]

But it's not just any darkness. This darkness is the figurative. Now, you have to understand that the Hebrew people, the Jewish people were very picture minded. The writing itself, the ancient Hebrew is it was almost like a hieroglyph, a pictorial that was trying to reveal something. [00:07:54]

And so we have to understand, like, what is real? What is literal? What is figurative? And this is going to be debating and debating and rabbis and pastors and scientists and scholars. That. Nobody agrees. But what we do know is that in this place that God created in this void, there was a darkness that represented the lack of revelation and understanding of God. [00:08:18]

And that God knows and God created and it's leading to something. And we ask ourselves, what is it leading to? Because in some of these days, something is created. So the next day can happen. And in other things, the next day happens. So the previous day can live and thrive. And so we begin to. See that God himself understands both the flow of time, but also the order in which all things need to be. [00:15:06]

And if God knew that from the very beginning, and if God ordered that from the very beginning, can we have faith and can we have trust that from that day until the day of Yeshua, from Yeshua's day until our day, and from our day until the return of Yeshua, when all things are made new, will we trust the creator? [00:15:42]

And God said, let the earth sprout vegetation and plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed each according to its kind on the earth. And it was so. Now, this is fascinating here because now we're seeing a little bit different picture that before God created light, there was light. God formed the earth and we created the waters and the dry land. [00:18:41]

And God said, let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. So on the fourth day, something very different happens. It's different than the light of the first day, whereas the light of the first day is a revelation. A wisdom, an understanding of who God is and the fullness of who God is. In this time, we now have time. [00:20:19]

And God made the beast of the earth, according to their kinds and the livestock, according to their kinds and everything that creeps on the ground, according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. But then we come to something that is the most, one of the, one of the most wondrous portions of the entire Bible in verse 26, then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion. [00:27:07]