Been a busy week this week. I can't wait for Shabbat to start!
This week's Torah Portion is named Ki Tavo.
It is the 50th Torah Portion in the annual Torah cycle.
Here are some of the interesting points in this portion:
The 1st thing I found interesting is in verses 16-19.
16 “This day YHVH your Elohim commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them
with all your heart and with all your soul.
17 You have declared today that YHVH is your Elohim,
and that you will walk in His ways, and keep His statutes
and His commandments and His rules, and will obey His voice.
18 YHVH has declared today that you are
a people for His treasured possession, as He has promised you,
and that you are to keep all His commandments,
19 and that He will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that He has made, and that you shall be a people holy to YHVH your Elohim, as He promised.”
YHVH is still commanding us to do this to this day. He never stopped them. His name is on our hearts and minds. If we are His people, and He is our Elohim, we will declare this today, to follow YHVH with ALL of our heart, ALL of our soul, and ALL of our strength. And if we do, YHVH will put us above ALL other peoples and nations.
It isn't a burden, it is a blessing!
The next thing that I'd like to mention is in chapter 28.
It is about the blessings and the cursings that YHVH gives,
depending on how we act according to His commands.
I have already done a post on this chapter so here it is so you can read it.
Blessings and Cursings
The next thing that I found interesting
about this portion is in chapter 29:2-8.
And Moses called all Israel and said to them,
“You yourselves saw all that יהוה did
before your eyes in the land of Mitsrayim,
to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land.
29:3 “Your eyes saw the great trials, the signs, and those great wonders.
29:4 “But יהוה has not given you a heart to know
and eyes to see and ears to hear, till this day.
29:5 “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness.
Your garments have not worn out on you,
and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.
29:6 “You ate no bread and drank no wine nor strong drink,
so that you might know that I am יהוה your Elohim.
29:7 “And when you came to this place, Siḥon sovereign of Heshbon and Oḡ sovereign of Bashan came out against us to battle, and we smote them,
29:8 and took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh.
I cannot imagine what Israel must of felt like when they realized that day all the miracles that YHVH did for them. It must have felt REALLY bad to know that they and their parents saw ALL this and yet they didn't keep YHVH's commands. But YHVH did it for a reason, as He always does. Praise Yah!
In ending, Deuteronomy 29:9:
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them,
that you may prosper in all that you do.
We have a choice, to keep YHVH's commands or not.
I cannot see why we shouldn't! It is a blessing and always has been and always will be. It has NEVER been a burden. We should WANT to!!! We should do all that He says, so that we may be blessed!
Shalom!
Christian Montanez Dodd
Servant and Emissary of Yahshua, Child of YHVH
HalleluYAH!!