Haftarah Vetchanan
Haftarah Vetchanan
Yeshayahu – Isaiah 40:1-26
Isa 40:1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your Elohim.
Isa 40:2 “Speak comfortably to Yerushalayim; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of YHWH’s hand double for all her sins.”
This will be accomplished with the judgement at Yom Kippur, at the second advent of Yeshua HaMasiach..
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:3 The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of YHWH in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our Elohim.
Isa 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
This is the voice of one of the two witnesses. During the lifetime of Yeshua, his cousin Yochanan fulfilled the role of Elijah and performed this prophecy, but that was just a foreshadowing of the mission of the two witnesses during the first 3 ½ years of the Tribulation. Enoch and Elijah will perform this ministry at that time.
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:5 The glory of YHWH shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of YHWH has spoken it.”
“All flesh” means this refers to the second advent, not the foreshadowing which occurred in 1st century Judea.
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Isa 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because YHWH’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
Isa 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our Elohim stands forever.”
This is a message our generation needs to hear. They imagine that they have inherent immortality, but they do not.
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:9 You who tell good news to Tziyon, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Yerushalayim, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Yehudah, “Behold, your Elohim!”
Isa 40:10 Behold, Adonai YHWH will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
Isa 40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
The “good shepherd” theme.
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isa 40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of YHWH, or has taught him as his counselor?
Isa 40:14 Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Isa 40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Isa 40:16 Levanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
Isa 40:17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Isa 40:18 To whom then will you liken Elohim? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
Isa 40:19 A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.
Isa 40:20 He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.
Not just physical idols, but anything we consider to be more important than faith and obedience to Elohim is an idol.
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:21 Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isa 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
Isa 40:23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
Isa 40:24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
Modern man suffers from the delusion that he is master of his own future and destiny. He will be very much disabused of this false notion.
Isaiah, continued:
Isa 40:25 “To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
Modern man no longer believes in creation, claiming to have in essence created himself, to be the pinnacle of “evolution” and the highest existing know intelligence. But the ones who knows our names will call us to account, and we will have no excuse and no ability to overrule the King of Kings.
Next: Talmidim Vetchanan.
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