Our Family Yisrael

6/28/2008 

A Great Love Story, Moshe and his Wives.
 
Here are a few thoughts to share, in pondering a discussion this week about Moshe and his wives. There is so much more to these words. Think about being in love and living with someone so many years as Moshe and Tzipporah. Was it easy for them to part ways? Was it their choice or were they bound by Torah Commanments to do so? What is the Ruach of Yahuweh, Yahushua telling his people today? A great love story, if you can fathom how much love it takes to love Yahuweh above the love of anything or anyone else. Baruch HaShem Yahuweh!
 
The order of this message is from what I posted in the discussion. May the Ruach HaKodesh show you the things of Spirit and Truth. This has brought many tears to my eyes as the Ruach of YHVH is so beautiful and awesome, to show such love that is the cause for men to do great things for him!
 
I edited and included scriptures as well.
 
Keep in mind this Torah commandment.
 
Shemoth/Exodus 21:4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons, or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
  
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Shemoth/Exodus 4:18 And Moshe went and returned to Yithro his abba-in law, and said to him, Let me go, please, and return to my brothers who are in Mitzrayim, and see whether they still are alive. And Yithro said to Moshe, Go in shalom. 19 And YHVH, Yahuweh, said to Moshe in Midyan, Go, return into Mitzrayim: for all the men are dead who sought your chayim. 20 And Moshe took his wife and his sons, and put them upon a donkey, and he returned to the land of Mitzrayim: and Moshe took the rod of Elohim in his hand. 21 And YHVH, Yahuweh, said to Moshe, When you go to return to Mitzrayim, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in your hand: but I will harden his lev, that he shall not let the people go. 22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, This said YHVH, Yahuweh, Yisrael is My son, even My bachor: 23 And I say to you, Let My son go, that he may serve Me: and if you refuse to let him go, see, I will slay your son, even your bachor. 24 And it came to pass in the derech at the lodging place that YHVH, Yahuweh, met Moshe, and sought to kill him. 25 Then Tzipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me. 26 So YHVH, Yahuweh, let Moshe go: then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the brit-milah (circumcision).
 
(A deeper meaning that also like Moshe, Yahuweh, would ‘circumcise’ his only begotten son, Yahushua, before Kol Yisrael, as the LIVING Passover Lamb, to bring about the circumcision of the heart, the reality of the shadow.)
 
Just thinking about this, if Moshe's son was circumcised was he not then bound under Torah to return his wife Tzipporah to the rightful owner Yithro? Would this then apply that his wife had to return to Yithro? As Moshe did not have a deal to purchase his wife from Yithro? Was the Torah not known before it was written in Shemoth 21:1?  Note that If Moshe continued he would have taken 'property' that did not belong to him?
 
Note this about Yaacov’s wives:
Beresheeth – Genesis 29:14 And Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him about a month. 15 And Lavan said to Yaakov, Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be? 16 And Lavan had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. 18 And Yaakov loved Rachel; and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 19 And Lavan said, It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man: stay with me. 20 And Yaakov served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the ahava he had for her.
 
Torah Commandments
Shemoth 21:1 Now these are the mishpatim that you shall set before them. 2 If you buy an Ivri eved, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has born him sons, or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
 
Would it apply in verse 3 that the Ivri would have had a wife before he became a bond servant?
 
In verse 4 if he was given a wife by his master after he became a bond servant? (In the case of Moshe & Yithro)
 
This was nothing to do with divorce but in keeping Torah? Surely, a different culture than we have today! as Tzipporah the wife of Moshe and any offspring would still belong to Yithro according to Abba YHVH! Note whom is the one whom has given the commandment. It is not up to man to decide what they will do.

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In focusing on the thoughts of what this discussion has prompted this week, it is evident at how serious of a thing it is to obey Abba YHVH when confronted with a specific test, as in the example Moshe is faced with, that his wife Tzipporah did not belong to him in the eyes of Abba YHVH.
 
Though Yithro and Moshe agreed it was ok to return to Egypt with Tzipporah, YHVH would not allow it as Moshe was confronted with the decision to obey Torah commandments of YHVH or not. From man's perspective they, Moshe and Yithro, agreed to do what they thought ok to do. From YHVH's perspective they were both in disobedience.
 
The ultimate decision had to be made by Moshe to obey as he was held between life and death to have his son circumcised as the sign of his obedience to Torah commandments. From his and Tizpporah's, decision and what occurred, he was bound to obey and Tzipporah had no other choice but to return to Yithro. Not as man's choice but by the choice of Abba YHVH. Moshe had to prove his love of Abba above anything else, the greatest commandment. Tzipporah knew very well what it meant to enter into circumcision, which is none other than submitting to YHVH, stating in the most heart rendering way, that his ways are higher than ours!
 
Yeshayahu – Isaiah 55:9 For as the shamayim are higher than the earth, so are My halachot higher than your own halachot, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the shamayim, and returns not there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give zera to the sower, and lechem to the eater: 11 So shall My Word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing where I send it. 12 For you shall go out with simcha, and be led back with shalom: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the eytzim of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress eytz, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle eytz: and it shall be to YHVH, Yahuweh, for a Name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
 
How much more wonderful as we know the 'heart' circumcision of our YHVH Yahushua by his Ruach HaKodesh! We see an example of the shadow, do we know the real thing? Pondering the example given of Moshe and Tzipporah, in only a few written words, but these few words speak volumes, to understand how the situation came to a point in time, knowing the set circumstances, does this move the heart and stir the being at the love of Abba YHVH! A great thing but shown in a moment of time, written in words, of the past.
 
I believe that Tzipporah and Moshe loved each other very much and that this thing that happened caused agony to them personally at what it meant to follow YHVH, Yahuweh, and the statement of Tizipporah about the circumcision was more out of a broken heart that she knew what it meant to have to leave Moshe, leaving her bitter about the situation but nonetheless, heart broken as well.
 
Later, after coming out of Egypt, Yithro was honorable and just to bring Tzipporah and his sons, the sons of Yithro, begotten by Moshe and his daughter Tzipporah, to visit with Moshe. Yithro did not have to do it, but knew that Moshe would enjoy seeing his family as well as spending some time together. Though they could not live together, still a family. Moshe could live with Yithro as a permanent bond servant and live with his family by following the provision made in Torah commandments, but that was not the plan of Abba as Moshe would not ever become a servant to another man again. Honorable people, where actions to follow Torah were of utmost importance, above the things of man.
 
In all of this, how it must have caused a great turmoil within the heart to know what it meant to obey YHVH, to sacrifice the temporal things even people that loved each other to have to live apart and likely never to see each other again, but knowing in the end that YHVH will bring us all back together again as the greatest people to live upon the face of the earth!
 
Also, in thinking about this, where was the seed of Moshe planted? If Tzipporah came with Moshe, maybe a whole multitude of people that now, today, have the seed of Moshe would not ever have been?
 
Baruch HaShem YHVH! Shalom.
  
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Also, a word about Moshe's new wife after Tzipporah. Just one line of thought about it.
 
Bamidbar/Numbers Chapter 12.
And Miryam and Aharon spoke against Moshe because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 And they said, Has YHVH, Yahuweh, indeed spoken only by Moshe? Has He not spoken also by us? And YHVH, Yahuweh, heard it. 3 Now the man Moshe was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth. 4 And YHVH, Yahuweh, spoke suddenly to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to Miryam, Come out you three to the Tabernacle of the congregation. And those three came out. 5 And YHVH, Yahuweh, came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the Tabernacle, and called Aharon and Miryam: and they both came out. 6 And He said, Hear now My words: If there be a navi among you, I YHVH, Yahuweh, will make Myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream. 7 My eved Moshe is not so, who is faithful in all My bayit. 8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of YHVH, Yahuweh, shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against My eved Moshe? 9 And the anger of YHVH, Yahuweh, was lit against them; and He departed. 10 And the cloud departed from off the Tabernacle; and, see, Miryam became leprous, as white as snow: and Aharon looked upon Miryam, and, see, she was leprous, 11 And Aharon said to Moshe, Oh, my master, I beg you, lay not the sin upon us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of its mother's womb. 13 And Moshe cried to YHVH, Yahuweh,, saying, Heal her now, O El, I beg You. 14 And YHVH, Yahuweh, said to Moshe, If her abba had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miryam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not until Miryam was brought in again. 16 And afterward the people left from Hatzeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
 
How, can the same problem apply today as the example of Miryam and Aharon's wife, who spoke against Moshe because of his wife the Ethiopian woman, where obviously the union between her and Moshe was Kadosh under Torah and even ordained by Abba YHVH as they were one flesh together as man and wife? With the relationship that Moshe had with Abba, what other man of the time would not have shown the greatest love for his wife as an example to Kol Yisrael, even the living in the flesh Kol Yisrael of the gentile year 2008?
 
How even as we are married to YHVH Yahushua, those born again of spirit and truth face the same thing, that we are spoken against by those who do not think our YHVH Yahushua is Kadosh nor is in a Kadosh union between he the same one whom is the LIVING Torah, every word of Abba, and his people Yisrael like the Ethiopian woman? Even those denying his true name and his Hebrew-ness?
 
Know that those whom have spoken unrighteous words against Yahushua our YHVH are leprous and full of the sin shown by the written Torah of which they will remain leprous until they repent and find the LIVING Torah, the real Moshe, of which the man Moshe was a shadow picture of, by his life upon this earth. We, whom know, have let the real Moshe intercede to YHVH for us and have become healed and come into the true kingdom of YHVH Yahushua! The LIVING Torah Moshe, YHVH Yahushua, speaks of Spirit and Truth today, and is the one interceding for those whom will repent and find that he is so full of mercy and love to cleanse those deserving death, but will bring them into life. "Moshe is married to the Ethiopian woman", it is Kadosh! Yahushua is the true Moshe and is married to his people the children of Yisrael!!
 
Baruch HaShem YHVH. Have a wonderful Shabbat, in the LIVING Shabbat of the heart of Spirit and Truth, our LIVING Torah, and the love of our life!, our YHVH Yahushua!
 
Shalom, Medad
  
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Well, one more thought as YHVH is moving so strongly this glorious day!
 
Moshe & Tzipporah, a picture of the old covenant bound by written Torah, a heart rendering story.
 
Moshe & the Ethiopian woman, a picture of the new covenant, not of written words but of the relationship where Moshe was in a relationship only under authority of Abba YHVH after fulfilling the written Torah that he was bound to in his relationship with Tzipporah.
 
Yahushua & Yisrael, under the old covenant, a heart rendering story where Yahushua is bound and hung on a cross to release his Yisrael as every word of the Torah must be fulfilled in him. YHVH Yahushua, just as Moshe the shadow, causing his only begotten son Yahushua, as he is the same, to suffer as a bloody sacrifice under the circumcision of the written Torah, bringing the shadow pictures from what they were into the better reality as the LIVING Torah, the LIVING New Covenant, of the circumcision of the heart, not of a new bunch of new written words but the reality of being it, the old covenant of written words as the reality of it as the LIVING word, showing himself as the very word of Abba YHVH in bodily form, whom is the one to live it and bring every bit of himself into the truth by making himself the truth and the word of Abba. Whom else is fulfilling the words of Abba? Our Yahushua, is, our Yahushua lives, our Yahushua causing EVERY word of Abba to come to pass as himself, in himself.
 
Knowing this, the greatest LIVING Torah, and all of his words of whom he is that have not yet been fulfilled, will he not bring himself to pass and fulfill all of whom he is? We will be together as one, Panayim-El-Panayim!! Just like he said, just like he is, at the appointed time!
 
S'hema Yisrael!
 
S'hema, Abba YHVH loves you with all of his being, S'hema!