千本樱节目串词:每周一妥拉2012/2/5-2/11

 每周一妥拉2012/2/5-2/11

从古时起，世界各地的犹太会堂会一周一次在安息日读经，从摩西五经（妥拉）到先知的书（先知书）。每周的读经内容都有一个希伯来名称，其出自经文内容起头的字。每周惯例读经的实例刚好记载在路加福音四章16节，耶稣来到拿撒勒的会堂，读了一段先知书（以赛亚书61章）。我们发现每周一次阅读这些内容，不仅提供我们机会，与世界成千上万的犹太人来确认神话语的内容，在我们为以色列与犹太人的代祷上，圣灵更时常贴切的启发具体的内容祷告。

这周的阅读（2/5-2/11）称为『叶忒罗』（Yitro）『米甸祭司叶忒罗』，读经进度为：

妥拉：出埃及记18:1-20:26

先知书：以赛亚书6:1-7:6；9:6-7

*出埃及记 18:21-22: 『并要从百姓中拣选有才能的人，就是敬畏神、诚实无妄、恨不义之财的人，派他们作千夫长、百夫长、五十夫长、十夫长，管理百姓，叫他们随时审判百姓。』

摩西的岳父建议他在百姓中间设立『士师』的制度，但这里的『拣选』（select）与25节的『拣选』（chose）不同，希伯来文是hazeh，有着留意，先知性看见，预先看见与预先想到之意。在弥赛亚肢体中拣选敬畏神、充满真理与诚实的领袖，并拥有超自然异象与先知性洞见是非常重要的。

*出埃及记19:4b. 『我如鹰将你们背在翅膀上，带来归我。』比较申命记32:10-12『耶和华遇见他在旷野─荒凉野兽吼叫之地，就环绕他，看顾他，保护他，如同保护眼中的瞳人。又如鹰搅动巢窝，在雏鹰以上两翅搧展，接取雏鹰，背在两翼之上。』

*出埃及记19:5. 『如今你们若实在听从我的话，遵守我的约，就要在万民中作属我的子民，因为全地都是我的。』比较诗篇25:10 『凡遵守祂的约和祂法度的人，耶和华都以慈爱诚实待他。』

请祷告：以色列人能领悟神仍渴望『将她带向祂』，所以祂用祂儿子耶稣的血释放一个新的约（杰里迈亚书31:31-33），而『恩典和真理都是由耶稣基督来的。』（约翰福音1:17）；当以色列拥抱那约，她会发现祂仍在说话，当她听见并响应祂的声音，她会再次发现自己在祂心中珍贵的地方。

*出埃及记19:6, 10. 『你们要归我作祭司的国度，为圣洁的国民。这些话你要告诉以色列人。耶和华又对摩西说：你往百姓那里去，叫他们今天明天自洁，又叫他们洗衣服。』启示录1:5-6教导我们，要成为祭司的国度与圣洁的国民，是透过耶稣的爱，祂的血洗去我们的一切罪恶。

*出埃及记19:16-20. 『到了第三天早晨，在山上有雷轰、闪电，和密云，并且角声甚大，营中的百姓尽都发颤。摩西率领百姓出营迎接神，都站在山下。西乃全山冒烟，因为耶和华在火中降于山上。山的烟气上腾，如烧?一般，遍山大大的震动。角声渐渐地高而又高，摩西就说话，神有声音答应他。耶和华降临在西乃山顶上，耶和华召摩西上山顶，摩西就上去。』

比较希伯来书12:18-29 『你们原不是来到那能摸的山；此山有火焰、密云、黑暗、暴风、角声与说话的声音。你们乃是来到锡安山，永生神的城邑，就是天上的耶路撒冷。那里有千万的天使，有名录在天上诸长子之会所共聚的总会，有审判众人的神和被成全之义人的灵魂，并新约的中保耶稣，以及所洒的血；这血所说的比埃布尔的血所说的更美。你们总要谨慎，不可弃绝那向你们说话的。所以我们既得了不能震动的国，就当感恩，照神所喜悦的，用虔诚、敬畏的心事奉神。因为我们的神乃是烈火。』

*出埃及记20:4. 『不可为自己雕刻偶像，不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉他，因为我耶和华─你的神是忌邪的神。』在这周的先知书阅读─以赛亚书9:7是以名词的形式来使用『忌邪的』（Jealous）；然而，在那里翻为『热心』（zeal）（藉由热心，神将会建立祂儿子的政权直到永远）。公义的忌邪或热心总是释放在大蒙眷爱的人或事上；然而，当肉体是由自私的动机所带动，相同的字则翻为『嫉妒』（envy）。

*出埃及记 20:13. 『不可杀人。』一些古英文翻译会用『杀人』（kill）这个字，但在希伯来文里杀人（kill）和谋杀（murder）是不同的字。

*出埃及记20:21. 『于是百姓远远地站立；摩西就挨近神所在的幽暗之中。』这里的幽暗与以赛亚书60:2所说的幽暗一样，但遮盖『万民』的幽暗将会被主的兴起驱散，祂的荣耀将被『看见』。现代希伯来文幽暗（araphel）的意思是『雾』，而以色列多半『在雾中』寻找她的神。

请祷告：帕子能从神古老百姓中间移开，光在他们心中升起，神的荣耀将被看见─使他们被吸引进入『未知之云』里，来找到那位从远处知道他们，并用慈爱吸引他们的神。

*出埃及记20:26. 『你上我的坛，不可用台阶，免得露出你的下体来。 』当亚当与夏娃觉得羞耻躲藏起来时，是神供应他们合适的衣服（创3:21）。唯有透过神儿子的工，我们（以色列）才能再次发现自己披上公义，不再感到羞耻。『总要披戴主耶稣基督，不要为肉体安排，去放纵私欲。』（罗马书13:14）


极其充满能力的先知书
以赛亚书 6:1-7:6; 9:6-7

这周的先知书阅读（以赛亚书6:1-7:6）包含了相当于主在西乃山同在能力的彰显，使得伊莱贾先知对圣洁有着敬畏的启示。在主圣洁『高高』同在面前，有撒拉弗、有声音、有震动与烟云，以赛亚看见自己嘴唇不洁。当炭沾了他的嘴，他的罪便除掉，他的罪恶就赦免了，而且神给了他一个信息带给百姓，一个关于『帕子』遮盖以色列全家的信息，这帕子到今日仍在，另外还有给存留者的应许。在简短的信息说明后，阅读进度不可置信地跳了二章，到以赛亚书9:6-7：『因有一婴孩为我们而生；有一子赐给我们。政权必担在祂的肩头上；祂名称为奇妙策士、全能的神、永在的父、 和平的 君。祂的政权与平安必加增无穷。祂必在戴维的宝座上治理祂的国，以公平公义使国坚定稳固，从今直到永远。万军之耶和华的热心必成就这事。』

请祷告：主圣洁神圣的启示伴随着本周的阅读，祂的热心与忌邪已看见这『婴孩』的诞生，很快祂会再次回来，以公平公义来治理祂的国，直到永远！

下周的阅读进度（2/12-2/18）被称为『典章/审判』（Mishpatim），妥拉─出埃及记21:1-24:18；先知书─杰里迈亚书34:8-22, 33:25-26。

马汀和娜玛?赛维士（Martin & Norma Sarvis）

于耶路撒冷

THIS WEEK'S TORAH PORTION:

From ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (The Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world. This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage. An illustration of this practice appears to have been recorded in Luke 4:16 where Yeshua (Jesus) arrived in the synagogue in Nazareth and was asked to read the portion (Isaiah 61) from the Prophets. We have found that in perusing these weekly readings, not only are we provided opportunity to identify in the context of God's Word with millions of Jewish people around the world, but very often the Holy Spirit will illumine specific passages pertinent that week in our intercession for the Land and people of Israel . All texts are those of English translations of the Scriptures.

The readings for this week are called Yitro-"And Yitro (English: Jethro) the Priest of Midian":

TORAH: Exodus 18:1-20:26
HAFTARAH: Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:6-7

*Exodus 18:21-22: "Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders.let them judge the people at all times."

Moses is counseled by his father-in-law to set up a system of "judges" amongst the people. Yet the word for "select" here is not the same as that for "chose" in verse 25. Rather it is Hebrew "hazeh"-to watch, envision, see prophetically, foresee. It is of critical importance for the Body of Messiah in Israel that the choosing of leaders of godly fear, truth and honesty be done with supernatural vision and prophetic insight.

*Exodus 19:4b. ".I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself." Compare Deuteronomy 32:10-12, "He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings, so YHVH (the LORD) alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him."

*Exodus 19:5. "And now, if you will truly heed My voice and guard My covenant, you will become for Me a treasure among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine." Compare Psalm 25:10, "All the paths of the LORD are grace and truth (Heb: chesid and emet), to such as guard His covenant and His testimonies."

PLEASE PRAY: For Israelis to realize that God still longs to "bring her to Himself", that He has released a New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-33) in the blood of His Son Yeshua, in whom "grace and truth are realized" (John 1:17); that as she embraces that Covenant, she will find that He is still speaking, and as she hears and responds to His voice, she will find again the treasured place in His heart.

*Exodus 19:6, 10. "You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 'Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.'" Revelation 1:5-6 teaches that becoming a kingdom of priests and a holy nation comes about through the love of Yeshua and the washing away of sins by His blood.

*Exodus 19:16-20. "Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thundering and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the shofar was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because YHVH descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the shofar sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and Elohim answered him by voice. Then YHVH came down upon Mount Sinai , on the top of the mountain. And YHVH called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up." Compare Hebrews 12:18-29, "For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a shofar and the voice.But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn registered in Heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Yeshua the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks.Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. FOR OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE."

*Exodus 20:4. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image.you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I am YHVH your God, a Jealous god." This word for "Jealous" (kana) is used in its noun form in the last sentence of this week's Reading from the Prophets, Isaiah 9:7. However, there it is translated "zeal" (through which the LORD will establish the government of His SON forever). Righteous jealousy or zeal is always released on behalf of someone or something which is intensely loved. However, when activated in the flesh for selfish motives, the same word is translated "envy".

*Exodus 20:13. "You shall not murder." In some older English translations the word "kill" was used. But the word for kill and that for murder are different words in the Hebrew.

*Exodus 20:21. "So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick cloud where God was." This "thick cloud" (araphel) is translated "deep darkness" in Isaiah 60:2. But that darkness is over the "peoples", and will be dispelled by the rising of the LORD, when His glory shall be "seen." Today in Modern Hebrew araphel means "fog"-and Israel for the most part is "in a fog" regarding finding her God.

PLEASE PRAY: For the veil to be removed from the eyes of God's ancient people-that a light rise in their hearts and God's glory will be seen-that they will be drawn into the "Cloud of Unknowing" to discover the One who has known them from afar and drawn them in lovingkindness.

*Exodus 20:26. "Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it." It was God who first provided suitable clothing for hiding that which had awakened shame in Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:21). It would only be through the work of the Son that all humankind can again find themselves clothed, in His righteousness, and our shame taken away. "Clothe yourselves with the Lord Yeshua Messiah, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature" (Romans 13:14).

An exceptionally powerful Haftarah

Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:6-7

The readings from the Prophets for this week (Isaiah 6:1-7:6) contain, in parallel to the manifestation of the LORD's presence in power on Mount Sinai, the awesome revelation of Holiness made to the prophet Isaiah. Before the holy presence of the LORD "high and lifted up"- the seraphim, the Voice, the shaking and smoke, Isaiah sees himself as unclean and his lips as unclean. Yet his lips are touched with the coal, his iniquity taken away. and his sin purged. And he is given a message for his people-a message describing a "veil" which would settle upon the House of Israel (and which continues until the present day).and the promise of a remnant. After a shorter message of instruction related to current events, the reading incredibly leaps two chapters to Isaiah 9:6-7, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of HOSTS will perform this!"

PLEASE PRAY: For divine revelation of the Holiness of the LORD to accompany this reading-and of His Zeal and Jealousy which has already seen the birth of the "Child"-who will soon be released to return and rule over His kingdom in judgment and justice forever!

Martin & Norma Sarvis
Jerusalem

[The Torah and Haftarah portions for next week 12-18 February Mishpatim ("Now these are the Judgments which you shall set before them") will be, TORAH: Exodus 21:1-24:18; HAFTARAH: Jeremiah 34:8-22, 33:25-26]