Transcript Land Dynamics from Conquest to Exodus

Torah & The Land, pt.3
Torah-Land Dynamics from the Conquest to Exile
Adult Shabbat Class Fall 2010
For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the
Sovereign L-RD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. Isaiah 61:11
“A Good Land of Milk & Honey”
Gift or Conquest? Deut 6:10-12
 Joshua submits to Adonai Tzeva’ot
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– Josh 5:13-15 Question is not if G-D is
on our side, but if we are on His side
Angel promised by Moses - Ex 23:2030
Right timing from right submission:
The 10 spies lack of faith and courage &
their misplaced courage when G-D’s
favor is removed - Num 14:40
Tribal unity required - Num 32:21-22
Conquerors model humble faith &
courage (Joshua & Caleb’s boast is in
G-D)
‘Conquest’ incomplete until Messianic
kingdom (submission to Yeshua)
Idolatry, Injustice after 1 generation
Living by sight - Deut 12:8; Jdg 21:25
Envy of other nations with king
- I Sam 12 (Samuel’s farewell)
3.1
Judges
Ownership Absolute, Occupation Relative
 3 shepherds: Judge, Priest, & Prophet
 Land expansion when leader submitted
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to Divine Messenger (Intrater, p.11)
1. Othniel Judg 2:1; 3:9
2. Gideon Judg 6:11
3. Samson’s parents Judg 13:3
Military defeats when people turned
away in sin
1. Moabites Judg 2:11-23; 3:12
2. Canaaites Judg 4:1-2
3. Midianites Judg 6:1-6
4. Philistines Judg 11:6ff; 13:1
Message to surrounding nations
Living by sight - Deut 12:8; Jdg 21:25
 Idolatry corrupts the Danites
 Policing the Benjamites
Envy of other nations with king - I Sam
12 (Samuel’s farewell)
3.2
Saul & David
The Ruach Ha Kodesh on True & False Shepherds
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King, Priest, Prophet & Ruach
King’s Torah duties & cautions
King’s loyalty: Saul: Obedience better
than sacrifice, David: G-D looks at the
heart (true shepherd)
Men’s Loyalty: Saul & his men -1 Sam
14, David & his men & his men - 2 Sam
23:13-17
David spares anointed 2x, saved by
spider web (respects G-D’s timing &
authority in dealing with Saul; shows
mercy with Jonathan’s son
Mephibosheth)
Joshua, David, Solomon expand
kingdom
Nathan: Davidic covenant & messianic
kingdom, holy seed strife
Dynasty problems: Absalom, Adonijah,
Solomon, Rehoboam
All future rulers measured against
David (type of Chief Shepherd)
3.3
City of Peace, A House for Adonai
Jerusalem means “Foundation of Peace”
 Mentioned in Tanach 792x
 King must not oppress, burden
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or dispossess the people
- Ezekiel 45:7-9
Promise to David
- 2 Sam 7:8-16; 1 Chr 17:7-14
David’s reply
- 2 Sam 7:22-26;1 Chr 17:20-24
Solomon’s prayer 1 Kg 8
Return captive v. 34
Sin & drought v. 36
Disaster v. 40
Aliens pray v. 41-44
Return from exile v. 46-51
House of prayer for all nations
Isaiah 56:6-8
3.4
Faithlessness & Injustice
Israel’s Journey Away From Torah  Exile
 Choice Vine turned wild - Jer 2:21; 5:23-31;
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Hosea 10:1,8
Exchanged glory for idols - Jer 2:10-11,28 ; Is
2:7-8; Ezk 36:16-21
First to be judged as nation - Amos 3:2
Greed, dishonest scales, deceit, complaining
of Torah burden, devouring the needy - Amos
8:4-6; Jer 7: 3-7; 9:2-5
Empty rituals in the absence of righteous living
– Amos 5:21-24
Righteous city now harlot – Is 1:21-23; Hosea
2 betrayed her husband Jer 2:4-8
Child sacrifice – Jer 7:31; 19:4; 32:35
Desolate – Jer 9:10; Zec 7:9-14
Exile, slavery – Jer 17:4
How is Jacob’s deceit different from Esau’s
indifference? Hope for Jacob’s Remnant –
Amos 9:8-15; Is 37:32; Jer 31:17; 33:25
Asaph’s Prayer: Remember the vine You
brought out of Egypt Ps 80
3.5
Going Downhill
Judgments Accompanying Torah-less Government
 Inability to gain full conquest
 Economic/ military defeats reduce borders
 Divided Kingdom decreed by G-D as judgment - 1 Kg:11:31; 12:22-24
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Borders trimmed back & lack of nerve to conquer promised land from Assyria
– 2 kg 10: 32; 13:19
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Assyria used as rod to punish Israel (Assyria also judged)
- Is 10:5-6,12
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Process of restoration
= reversed sequence?
Aliyah
½ nation restored
Military-Economic Expansion
Full Messianic kingdom
Jonah, religious nationalist zealot – 2 kg 14:25; Jonah 1
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Borders cut back further then Assyria punished
– 2 kg 15:19,29
 Exile: Northern Israel – 2 kg 17:3
 Exile: Judah & nationalist zealots
trouble those who do G-D’s will
- Jer 27:6,11; 37:13; 41:2
3.6
Promised Return to Land & Torah
Security & Productivity
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Moses Lev 26:40-45; Deut 30:1-10
Solomon 2 Chr 6:24-26, 36-39
Hezekiah 2 Chr 30:9
Isaiah 11:11-12:6; 27:12-13; 30:2326; 35:1-2; 43:5-7; 44:1-5,21-23; 45:17;
54 ; 61:3-9; 65:21-24
 Jeremiah 16:14-15; 23:3-8; 24:7;
31:1-14; 32:15,37-44; 33:9-18; 50:19-20
 Ezekiel 11:14-20; 20:42-44; 28:25-26;
34:25-31; 36:8-15,22-38; 37:24-28
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Hosea 1:10-2:1;14:4-8; 3:1-5
Amos 9:13-15; Joel 2:18-32; 3:18
Micah 4:6-8; 7:18-20
Zephaniah 3:18-20
Zechariah 10:8-12
3.7
Snapshots of the City - Shofar
 Recalling birth myths
 All are virgin daughters (Miss Dallas)
 City as “Mother” and Motherland
 View from the countryside
 David, Solomon & the city
- Ps 55:9-11; Prov 10:15
 Aborigine in Sydney (dead walking)
 View from the prophets Is 26:5-6
 Zion like Sodom & Gomorrah Is 1:8-9
 Ownership unbreakable Jer 31:38-40
 Recalling downfall stories
 Jerusalem’s watchmen unheard …
 Babylon to be destroyed in one hour
 Cleansed & refined, not destroyed
 “Cherem” & Jericho’s curse if rebuilt
 From Zion’s Galut (exile) to Geulah
(redemption)
Proverbs
10:15
Ezekiel
33:2-6
Unless the L-RD builds, we build in vain
The stone the builders refused became the capstone
Psalm 118:22-23; Zechariah 4:6-8
3.8
Jerusalem, A Chosen City
 This is Jerusalem; I have set her at
the center of the nations." Ezekiel
5:5; 38:10-12
 Nicolaus Copernicus challenged
earth as center of universe in 1543 = a
true geographical claim from solar
system, not universal standpoint.
 The 1581 German cartographer
Heinrich Bunting’s spiritual map of
the world reflects the spiritual
standpoint from Scriptures
 Zion is the focus of G-D’s universal
plan of redemption on the earth. It is
on this planet & in the city of Jerusalem
that G-D's Son, Yeshua, died for our
sins. And, it is that same Jerusalem
that Yeshua has promised to return and
reign over all the world in Zec 14:1-11.
3.9
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