Epistle Vetchanan
Epistle Vetchanan
John chapter 14
Joh 14:1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in Elohim. Believe also in me.
Joh 14:2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
Joh 14:4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way.”
This has nothing to do with dying. The dead are dead, they “know nothing,” their “thoughts perish,” they “do not praise Elohim” as the Psalmist tells us. Yeshua is talking about the Parousia, in which Obedient Believers will be transformed into immortality without ever having dying (along with dead Obedient Believers). This event is represented by Yom Teruah on Elohim’s prophetic calendar, the Day of the Awakening Blast – the Feast of Trumpets.
The 7 years of the Tribulation is the only opportunity that Believers will ever have to live in any “mansions in heaven” because after that everyone including Yeshua returns to Earth on Yom Kippur for the Battle of Armageddon and Judgment Day (including the Resurrection of the Just – the Tribulation Saints) and then to inagurate the Messianic Kingdom at Sukkot and rededicate the 3rd Temple and welcome back the Shekinah at Chanukkah.
In Hebrew “you know the way” is becomes “you know the derech,” or “you know the halacha.” This is a play on words, of course. Without Torah obedience, they get nowhere.
John, continued:
Joh 14:5 T’oma said to him, “Adonai, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Joh 14:6 Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Joh 14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
In the Kingdom, Yeshua will not be called “Yeshua” anymore. He will be fully manifested as YHWH Tzeva’ot, and will be called “YHWH our Righteousness” and other titles.
Zec 14:8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Yerushalayim; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be. Zec 14:9 YHWH will be King over all the earth. In that day YHWH will be one, and his name one.
No more “trinity” nonsense. There is only one Deity, one Being that is Elohim.
John, continued:
Joh 14:8 Philip said to him, “Adonai, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
Joh 14:9 Yeshua said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
Joh 14:10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
Joh 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
Joh 14:12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
Yeshua has ascended to heaven and in that form acts as our High Priest in the Heavenly Temple and as our Defense Attorney before the Throne, where hasatan accuses the saints night and day.
Rev 12:10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our Elohim, and the authority of his Messiah; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our Elohim day and night.
John, continued:
Joh 14:13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Joh 14:15 If you love me, keep my mitzvot.
Yeshua, as YHWH Incarnate, gave us every commandment in the Tanakh. They are all HIS mitzvot. He is the same Being that came down on Mt. Sinai and gave the Torah. He is the same being that planted the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (including knowledge of the Torah) in Gan Eden. And he is the same Being that writes the Torah on our hearts and minds when we receive the Ruach HaKodesh – that IS the “new covenant,” the same old Torah in a new location, within us, where it cannot be distorted or tampered with in any way by anyone.
Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’el, and with the house of Yehudah: Jer 31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says YHWH. Jer 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra’el after those days, says YHWH: I will put my Torah in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people: Jer 31:34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know YHWH; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says YHWH: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
John, continued:
Joh 14:16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,–
Joh 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
This is the “new covenant,” the Spirit of Truth, and the Torah is truth.
Psa 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your Torah is truth.
John, continued:
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Joh 14:20 In That Day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Joh 14:21 One who has my mitzvot, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
First John 5:3 For this is the love of Elohim, that we keep his mitzvot. His mitzvot are not grievous. First John 5:4 For whatever is born of Elohim overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
Faith and obedience are one and the same. There is no faith without obedience, and one who refuses to obey loves the world more than they love Elohim.
John, continued:
Joh 14:22 Yehudah (not Iskriot) said to him, “Adonai, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
Joh 14:23 Yeshua answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
Joh 14:24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
Joh 14:25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
He’s trying to make it excruciatingly plain to us that Yeshua’s word is the SAME word that YHWH gave us. They are One and the Same Being. If you love Yeshua, you must obey His words – all of them, everything in the Tanakh. He reveals himself only to those who are Obedient Believers.
John, continued:
Joh 14:26 But the Counselor, the Ruach HaKodesh, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
And of what was learned during the Torah cycle we read every year.
John, continued:
Joh 14:27 Shalom I leave with you. My shalom I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
Joh 14:28 You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
Joh 14:29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
Joh 14:30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
Joh 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
Even as should we – obey every one of the Father’s commandments, which are Yeshua’s commandments, as YHWH Incarnate. The disobedient do not receive the promise of being kept from the hour when those who dwell on the earth will be tried by fire. Only those who understand the true meanings of faith and righteousness receive that promise.
Next: Kollel Vetchanan.
Loading...