TORAH: Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25
HAFTARAH: Isaiah 49:14-51:3
*Deut. 7:16. "Also you shall devour all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall not pity them." It is instructive to compare this "devouring" with that mentioned in the evil report of the ten spies 40 years earlier, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants" (Num. 13.32), and with the 'bread' in Caleb's good report at the same time, "The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.Do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their
protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them" (Num. 14:7-9).
*Deut. 8: 3. "He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna.that he might make you know that mankind shall not live by bread alone; but by every utterance of the LORD's mouth does the human live."
*Deut. 8:5. "And you knew in your heart that as a man chastises his son the LORD your God chastises you." Cff: Heb. 12:7-11: "If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten.Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it."
*Deut. 8:7-10. "For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you."
*Deut. 8:16. ".that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end---"
*Deut. 9:5-6. "It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people."
*Deut. 9:21. "Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain." No mention is made of where the brook comes from in the original account of Exodus 32:20. In the previous chapter 8:15, the LORD is the One who brought forth water for Israel "out of the flinty rock in a thirsty land where there was no water". I Corinthians 10:4 reveals that "they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Messiah." Ezekiel 47:1- and Zechariah 14:4,8 speak of a future time when living water will tumble forth out from another mountain, this time the Mountain of the Lord in Jerusalem, bringing healing wherever it flows.
*Deut. 9:26-29. "Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD.I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you. Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: 'O Lord YHVH, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, lest the land from which You brought us should say, "Because YHVH was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness." Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.'
*Deut. 10:12-13. Fear, Walk, Love, Serve, Guard! "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to guard the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?"
*Deut. 10:16-17, 21a. "Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome. He is your praise."
*Deut. 11:11-12. "But the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year."
"Comfort ye."
AS MENTIONED LAST WEEK, we have entered a seven-week season (Until the Feast of Trumpets) in which the Haftarah readings are taken from the prophet Isaiah, and continue to speak words of comfort to Zion. The passages below are only some drawn from this week's portion which may be used powerfully in praying for Israel to recognize her Comforter-and for the Body of Messiah to walk, as He walked, before her fellows in the land.
*Isaiah 49:25b-26. "For I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children. I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
*Isaiah 50:4. "The Lord YHVH has given me the tongue of disciples, that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens me morning by morning. He awakens my ear to listen as a disciple."
*Isaiah 50:6-7. "I gave my back to those who strike me, and my cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover my face from humiliation and spitting. For the Lord YHVH helps me, therefore, I am not disgraced; therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed."
*Isaiah 51:1-2. "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek YHVH: Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; when he was but one I called him, then I blessed him and multiplied him" (NASB).
*Isaiah 51:3. "For YHVH will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places. He will make her desert like Eden, and her arava like the garden of YHVH; Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody!"
portions taken from Israel prayer list
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