Rabbi’s Reflections – Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Shalom,
Psalms
Psalm 24:5,6 – Part 5
Psalm 24:5 He will receive a blessing from Adonai, righteousness from God his salvation. 6 Such is the generation seeking Him, seeking Your face, even Jacob! Selah
Anybody want a blessing? The promised blessing is for those who go up on the mountain of the Lord and stand in His presence. However; every one of us has a problem, our hands are stained with blood. Before you hastily declare yourself innocent of any wrongdoing, take a look at the history of mankind. It doesn’t matter, pick any time period. The story of man is filled with violence, deception and murder. None of us is innocent, and our collective guilty verdict demands a death sentence. But wait, here comes the blessing, straight from Yeshua and the Cross.
Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with Him when He pardoned us all our transgressions. 14 He wiped out the handwritten record of debts with the decrees against us, which was hostile to us. He took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 After disarming the principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross.
This “blessing” from Adonai(YHVH) in transliterated Hebrew is, “Yisa Bra’cha’ Ma’at Yehovah(YHVH) U’Tz’dakah MaElohay Yisho.” That first word, “Yisa,” is translated above in the TLV as “he will receive.” Yet, in itself, it has nothing to do with giving or receiving. It has to do with lifting, as in lifting a burden. The Lord is declaring, through this prophetic Psalm, that a burden is lifted by the Lord God (Yehovah Elohay), who is then called Yeshua (“Yisho” means “his Savior”).
This blessing is being explained through the poetry of the Psalm as a lifting of the burden of unclean hands, an impure heart and a vane soul. All of this “sinful nature” (which results in separation from God) is replaced with the blessing from Adonai of righteousness for those who seek Him.
Psalm 9:11(10) Those who know Your Name trust You—for You, Adonai, never have forsaken those who seek You.
Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it shall be opened.”
What is “opened?” Access to the presence of God (in the Holy of Holies), which was prohibited, but is now made available to all who believe.
Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have boldness to enter into the Holies by the blood of Yeshua. 20 He inaugurated a new and living way for us through the curtain—that is, His flesh. 21 We also have a Kohen Gadol over God’s household. 22 So let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and body washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the unwavering confession of hope, for He who promised is faithful. Shalom shalom.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Tue 4-Feb–2025 6th of Sh’vat, 5785
Ex 14:15-25 1 Ki 15 Ps 118 Lk 24:28-53 (Col 3)