ONTMOETING, ONTFERMING EN ONTSTELTENIS
16 November 2024

ONTMOETING, ONTFERMING EN ONTSTELTENIS
DIE DRIE KERE TOE AVRAHAM GEGROEI HET IN SY KENNIS VAN YAHWEH

  1. Die verhouding tussen Yahweh en die Boodskapper van Yahweh. Wie of wat was die Boodskapper van Yahweh wat telkens in die Skrif aan mense verskyn het?
  • Exodus 3:2 Die Boodskapper van Yahweh het aan Mosheh in ‘n vuurvlam uit ‘n doringbos verskyn … 3:4 Toe Yahweh sien dat hy nuuskierig nader kom, roep Hy na hom.
  • Rigters 6:12 Die Boodskapper van Yahweh het aan Ghiedón verskyn … 6:14 Toe draai Yahweh na hom toe en sê: Gaan in hierdie krag van jou …
  • Rigters 13:3 Die Boodskapper van Yahweh het aan Manoág en sy vrou verskyn … 13:22 En Manoag sê vir sy vrou: Ons sal beslis sterf, omdat ons Elohiem gesien het.
  • 2 Konings 1:3 Maar die Boodskapper van Yahweh het aan Eliyah verskyn … 1:4 Daarom dan, so sê Yahweh: Van die bed waar jy op geklim het, sal jy nie afkom nie.
  • Hebreërs 1:1 Nadat Elohiem baie keer en op baie maniere in die ou tyd gepraat het tot die vaders deur die profete, het Hy IN HIERDIE LAASTE DAE tot ons gepraat deur die Seun.
  1. Die verhouding tussen Yahweh se regverdigheid en sy deernis. Wat ons by Avraham kan leer oor hoe om Sodom en Gomorra situasies te hanteer.
  • In ‘n wêreld waarin ons deur onreg en wetteloosheid en korrupsie omring word, behoort ons fokus op die beskerming en die behoud van die regverdiges te wees, nie op die afrekening met die onregverdiges nie.
  • Ons word geroep om in te tree en intersessie te doen, nie net vir die TIEN (wat naby aan ons is nie), maar ook vir die VYFTIG (wat ons dalk nie eens ken nie).
  • Ons boodskap moet dieselfde verhouding tussen Yahweh se regverdigheid en deernis weerspieël as wat voor die vernietiging van Sodom en Gomorra weerspieël is: Die redding van tien regverdiges tel vir Hom meer as die vernietiging van 1000 onregverdiges. Daar is egter ook tye, soos Y’shua uitgewys het, wanneer die redding van een skaap wat verlore gaan, méér tel as die fokus op 99 skape wat nie verlossing nodig het nie.
  1. Die verhouding tussen geloof en realiteit. Daar is meer as een manier hoe ‘n mens kan kyk na die keer toe Avraham byna sy seun, Yietsgak geoffer het.
  • Het Avraham dalk besluit om sy seun te offer omdat gehoorsaamheid vir hom belangriker as logiese denke was?
  • Het Avraham geweet dat hy getoets word en dalk die hele tyd in sy agterkop gehoop dat Yahweh hom op die laaste oomblik sou keer?
  • Was Abraham dalk in ‘n tweestryd binne-in homself omdat Yahweh hom iets wou laat doen, wat in Yahweh se eie oë verkeerd was? (Jeremia 19:5 “Om jou seuns te gee as brandoffers is iets wat Ek nie beveel het nie en nooit in my hart opgekom het nie”).
  • Wou Yahweh dalk vir Avraham die les leer dat die aarde aan Yahweh behoort, en die volheid daarvan (Psalm 24), en dat selfs ons kinders nie aan ons behoort nie?

Omdat Avraham onwrikbaar in Yahweh geglo het, kon die boodskap dat Yahweh self sy eie Seun sou opoffer, lank voor die geboorte van die Messias begin ontvou. Op dié manier is ons eie geloof gebou op Avraham se geloof, nie net omdat hy op Yahweh vertrou het en nie op sy eie werke nie, maar ook omdat Hy, soos Yahweh, nie terug gedeins het daarvan om selfs sy eie seun op te offer nie.

 

CLOSENESS, COMPASSION AND CONFUSION
THREE TIMES WHEN AVRAHAM GREW IN HIS KNOWLEDGE OF YAHWEH

  1. The relationship between Yahweh and the Messenger of Yahweh. Who or what was the Messenger of Yahweh, who appeared to various people throughout Scriptures?
  • Exodus 3:2 The Messenger of Yahweh appeared to Mosheh in a flame of fire from a thornbush … 3:4 When Yahweh saw that he was approaching curiously, He called to him.
  • Judges 6:12 The Messenger of Yahweh appeared to Ghiedón… 6:14 Then Yahweh turned to him and said, Go into this power of yours …
  • Judges 13:3 The Messenger of Yahweh appeared to Manoach and his wife… 13:22 And Manoach said unto his wife, We shall certainly die, because we have seen Elohim..
  • 2 Kings 1:3 But the Messenger of Yahweh appeared to Eliyah… 1:4 Therefore, thus saith Yahweh, From the bed on which thou hast climbed, thou shalt not come down.
  • Hebrews 1:1 After Elohim had spoken to the fathers many times and in many ways in ancient times through the prophets, He spoke to us in these last days through the Son.
  1. The relationship between Yahweh’s justice and his compassion. What we may learn from Avraham about handling the Sodom and Gomorra situations of our lives.
  • In a world in which we are surrounded by injustice, lawlessness and corruption, our focus should be on protecting and preserving the righteous, not on settling accounts with the unjust.
  • We are called to intercede, not only on behalf of the TEN (who are close to us), but also on behalf of the FIFTY (whom we may not even know).
  • Our message should reflect the same relationship between Yahweh’s righteousness and compassion that was reflected before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: The salvation of ten righteous people, is more important to Him than the destruction of 1000 unrighteous ones. However, there are also times, as Y’shua pointed out, when the salvation of one sheep that is lost, is more important that focusing on 99 sheep that do not need salvation.
  1. The relationship between belief and reality. There are many different ways of looking at the incident when Avraham almost sacrificed his son, Yitzchak.
  • Could it be that Avraham decided to sacrifice his son because obedience was more important to him than logical thinking?
  • Did Avraham know that he was being tested and did he perhaps hope all along in the back of his mind that Yahweh would stop him at the last moment?
  • Did Avraham experience conflict within himself because Yahweh wanted him to do something that was wrong in Yahweh’s own eyes? (Jeremiah 19:5: “To give your sons as burnt offerings is something that I did not command, and never entered my heart”).
  • Could it be that Yahweh perhaps wanted to teach Avraham the lesson that the earth belongs to Yahweh, and the fullness thereof (Psalm 24), and that even our own children do not belong to us?
  • Because of Avraham’s unwavering belief in Yahweh, the message that Yahweh Himself would sacrifice His own Son could begin to unfold, long before the birth of Messiah. In this way, our own belief is built upon on Avraham’s belief, not only because he trusted in Yahweh, and not in his own merit, but also because, like Yahweh, He did not shy away from sacrificing even his own son.