{"id":2658,"date":"2023-12-24T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2023-12-24T07:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T14:01:02","slug":"parsha-vayigash-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cVayigash&#8221; teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week we see the conclusion to the &#8216;cliff-hanger&#8217; story of Miketz, where Yosef has tested his brothers, and they stand before him accused, and evidently guilty, of theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this week, as Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship likes to put it, Judah &#8216;draws near&#8217; (Vayigash, Genesis 44:18 through 47:27) and <em>&#8220;mans up.&#8221;<\/em> And, perhaps to put it mildly, that surprises his brother Yosef. And certainly changes history. Or, more to the point, puts it on the track Yah evidently intended all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading tells the story, and IS the central teaching for our instruction and blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/SSM-12-22-23-Vayigash-teaching-only-Yehuda-mans-up-hope-QQQ-then-morality-depression-QQQ-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath day midrash this week, connected largely to the haftorah reading from Ezekiel chapter 37, and for reasons that may, at first, not seem obvious, will no doubt <em>&#8220;offend many.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, that was what Yahushua told us He would do. And so will we, when we &#8220;walk in obedience&#8221; to Him, and &#8220;for His Name&#8217;s sake.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is why this teaching includes not only an &#8220;adult content,&#8221; warning, but more. After all, even the phrase &#8220;man up&#8221; will offend many in a world where the very concept of patriarchy, or &#8220;men being men,&#8221; and not espousing the proper PC BS, already <em>&#8220;offends many.&#8221;<\/em> How much more so, then, His Truth &#8211; as actually Written?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath day midrash begins with the observation that there are SO many aspects of this story that are prophetic, from Judah honoring his word to his father [Father] to the promised &#8216;great deliverance&#8217; (past, long past, their present, and our future) to the &#8220;ruach of Yakov&#8221; being revived\u2026into Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But why is the haftorah portion that goes with this story from Ezekiel 37, and the &#8220;two sticks?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is certainly obvious that this is another of those prophecies that has NOT yet been fulfilled. Just as both of the &#8220;two whoring wives,&#8221; Aholah and Aholibah, and their descendants, the Whore Church and the Whore Synagogue, are both still scattered, still in exile\u2026they are not even remotely &#8220;echad.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, if that terminology is &#8220;offensive&#8221; to some (we have, after all, been warned) then <em>how much more so<\/em> that both of those adulterous bodies still call the Son of Yah, the Torah Made Flesh, and the Messiah Himself, a &#8220;liar&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark suggests that a good part of that answer, and more, lies in warnings like Hosea 5:15. They aren&#8217;t even about ready to &#8220;acknowledge their offense,&#8221; against Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Vayigash: Lost Sheep, but Still Two Sticks &#8211; the Whore Church and Whore Synagogue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WT-CooH-12-23-23-Vayigash-Two-Sticks-The-Whore-Church-n-Whore-Synagogue-podcast-xxxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-vayigash-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-6\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-vayigash-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2023-24 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Vayigash&#8221; (Genesis 44:18-47:27), the related haftorah (Ezekiel 37, &#8216;two sticks&#8217;) and the concept of &#8220;taking offense&#8221; at Him and His Word. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,69,4,35,31,11,1698,12],"tags":[1937,88,315,63,1936,104,208,1938,198,212,310,203,1319,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}