Gottlieb Beit Midrash: Parashat Vayishlach 5785 / פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּשְׁלַח
Torah: Genesis 32:4(3)-36:43
Haftarah: Hosea 11:7-12:12/Obadiah 1:1-21
Adonai is Merciful.
Is the Angel of the Lord God?
Jacob wrestled with God.
The angel Jacob wrestled with was an angel and God.
God has to limit Himself but He wants to interact with us.
He limits Himself as an angel to interact with us.
In the New Testament we know the Word was God.
It's like God and an angel but ultimately It is the Word which is God.
Yeshua came as a baby in the New Covenant.
God physically walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden.
Yeshua comes down to interact with us in certain areas.
John 1:1
Yeshua came down to test Jacob's faith in God.
If we look at it as Yeshua it establishes His humanity later.
Look for Yeshua in the Torah.
Always look for the Prophecies.
God as an Infinite Being can interact with us finite beings.
The word Memra is Aramaic and means Word.
Logos is Greek and means Word.
The Word can take forms like the Form of Yeshua.
He is the Creator.
When we read the Gospel, He tells people He is the Living Walking Torah.
He kept every part of the Torah.
He cannot break Himself.
Yeshua was the Spoken Word of God.
Rachel's tomb is the third holiest place in Judaism.
The patriarchs' tomb and the Temp Mount would be the two holiest.
Rachel's tomb was in Bethlehem.
Yeshua was born in Bethlehem.
Matthew 10:34-36
Micah 16
His first coming brought a sword to Israel.
Bethlehem is the House of Bread.
Yeshua is the Bread of Life.
Matthew 2:17-18
We're adopted in His Family and become the sons of God.
Everyone who encounters Messiah has the same name change.
We are grafted into Israel.
We are all grafted in together.
Epeshians 2
When you place your faith in Yeshua, you are no longer any human being.
We are given that new name.
We are not the same people we were.
We become a completely different person.
We have a new name and that name is in the Book of Life.
Israel must deal with Yeshua before the final ingathering.
The Jewish people have already started gathering to Israel.
The final ingathering isn't yet.
Matthew 24:31
Zechariah 12:10-14
Psalm 118:26
What are the "birth pains of Messiah" - The troubled times that proceed His Coming.
Jeremiah 30:5-7
Revelation 12:1
John 16:21
Jeremiah 30
With our life in Yeshua, we will make it through.
Yeshua was bound for sacrifice.
Yeshua is called the Good Shepherd.
He is the Lamb of God.
He plays multiple roles in Biblical history.
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