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Let's you and I talk about
children. Jewish children,
really the Bechorim, the firstborn Jewish
children in each family, were originally set aside to have a privilege
which fell to the Levites (Numbers 3:12-13). The Kohenim came of certain families of the tribe of Levi,
and the remaining families of the tribe did the service of the Tabernacle
(Mishkan) and the
Temple (Beis
Hamikdash). The Mishkan was a sort of traveling temple, until the
Jewish people were settled in Israel. Now I can get to my point about
children.
Think of what a great inheritance befalls the
Jewish child. To them belongs
das rekht fun kinder ("the right of the
child," Yiddish; "Ma'amad HaBanim," "standing or status as sons"; Hebrew), and
the Kavod (the Glory, the Shechinah),
the Beritot (Covenants), the Matan Torah (Giving of the Torah, Yn 1:17; and Ex 31:18), and the Avodas HaKodesh (the
Worship), and the Havtachot (Promises), and the Avot (Patriarchs), and of them would come Moshiach.
Where am I getting this?
Ro 9:4-5.
When Rav Sha'ul was writing
Ephesians he was thinking about children and their inheritance in the
L-rd. Apparently he had been
meditating on Psalm 118:22 which relates the Moshiach to the Beis Hamikdash (compare Psalm 118:22 to Psalm 89:38[39]). Sha'ul knew that the Brit Chadasha Kehillah is the
Guf HaMoshiach, the
Body of Messiah, because when he persecuted it
(the Body of Believers), the Risen Moshiach asked him on the
Damascus Road,
"Why are you persecuting me?" At this point, Sha'ul had his new birth, and in the Holy Spirit
became a child of G-d, was given spiritual eyes to see, and then
understood Hosea 6:2,
that by being born from above, he was raised up with Moshiach in the heavenly realms (Eph 1:3), as all true
believers are, since the new birth is a kind of spiritual "Third Day"
resurrection (Hosea
6:2) pulling us up spiritually to where Moshiach is.
What a privilege to
be born again. By grace are you saved through
faith, and this is not of yourself, it is a gift of G-d. Now Sha'ul had already studied in
Jerusalem as a youth, and he knew very well the
privilege he had as a Jewish young person to be able to enter the
Temple
area. For Gentile children did not have his prerogative. There was a sign threatening death
on the soreg where the outer court was separated
off from where only the Jewish people could enter.
When I was twelve
years old, I had not read the book of Ephesians. However, even if it were explained
to me I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to understand it. Even now, it is a very deep book
that the Holy Spirit has to help one understand. But basically, in this book, Paul
(Rav Sha'ul) is
meditating on all the barriers or roadblocks there are when we think of
approaching the Shechinah (Presence of G-d,
which was associated with the
Temple, the Beis Hamikdash [House of the
Sanctuary]). First there
is spiritual death, we were dead in our trespasses and sins and had to be
raised up spiritually like Lazarus was physically (Yn 11:43 and also 11:44). When we were dead we were
unclean, and uncleanness describes the corrupt "old man" with his
deceitful and stubborn, hard heart.
These Lazarus grave clothes had to be removed (Eph 4:22-25) and we need
the discerning ministry of ministers to keep them off (Eph 4:11-12) and to not
be fooled by the schemes of the devil, so that we can keep our inheritance
(there is no inheritance for the unclean, Eph 5:5) and march
together in a phalanx of unity through the access ("right to enter"
Eph 2:18; and also 3:12, gishah, Hebrew, meaning
access or approach; tsutrit is the Yiddish word
for access). But there are
other hindrances. There are
the demons watching. They
have false doctrine and operate through crafty false teachers. Then there are the firey darts of depression and discouragement and
condemnation and despair. But
in this one book, Ephesians, Paul lays out G-d's master plan to get you
and I access to His Presence. Hallelujah!
Read it through in
English here and here and here and here and here and here.
Or read it through in Yiddish and English here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.
See Isaiah 53:11. (see How
To Point).
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