Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
How pleasant are the Words spoken from Mt Sinai: Words of tender espousals; Words of love; Words of passion. Let us indulge in an analogy this morning. If these Words are like honey, let us make the Torah the honeycomb. As a honeycomb is squeezed in order to deliver its sweet life-giving substance, so everyone involved in the giving of the Torah was squeezed, pressed and taken with passion.
The people of Israel were squeezed with a rebuke that changed their life. It taught them to compare the life-giving principles of true faith with the death inflicting fiery darts of a ‘golden-calf’ man-made religion. As an ungrateful bride, Israel learned the value of staying close to her Husband.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
How pleasant are the Words spoken from Mt Sinai: Words of tender espousals; Words of love; Words of passion. Let us indulge in an analogy this morning. If these Words are like honey, let us make the Torah the honeycomb. As a honeycomb is squeezed in order to deliver its sweet life-giving substance, so everyone involved in the giving of the Torah was squeezed, pressed and taken with passion.
The people of Israel were squeezed with a rebuke that changed their life. It taught them to compare the life-giving principles of true faith with the death inflicting fiery darts of a ‘golden-calf’ man-made religion. As an ungrateful bride, Israel learned the value of staying close to her Husband.
Moses was squeezed into the role of mediator. He interceded, even put his life on the block in order to save wayward Israel from its adulterous and idolatrous unrestrained passions.
Finally, God was squeezed, pressed by Moses into repenting from the evil he wanted to do to Israel. The torah truly is Words sweet as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Even messiah; the One Who is called: the Word; the Torah incarnate; the Wisdom of creation (Proverbs 8; John 1); the quintessential representation of the Words of God suffered the same fate as this broken Torah.
Even messiah; the One Who is called: the Word; the Torah incarnate; the Wisdom of creation (Proverbs 8; John 1); the quintessential representation of the Words of God suffered the same fate as this broken Torah.
As Moses came down from visiting the throne of the Almighty on the mountain, Yeshua came down from His Father’s throne.
As Moses breaks the Torah when he sees Israel in sin, so Messiah’s body is broken by our sinful lives.
As Moses mediates and successfully intercedes for Israel, returns in the cloud on the mountain for God to re-write the former Words on 2 new tables carved by Moses own hands, so Yeshua goes up in a cloud (Acts 1). He returns to His Father in a resurrected body in order to mediate and intercede on our behalf.
As Moses brings down from the mountain two new tables with the former Words written in them, so Messiah will return. He will bring back with Him the sweet Words of the marriage contract God has made with His people.
As the face of Moses shone so with the glory of the Almighty, so Yeshua will come back in power and glory, and for a thousand years teach us how to benefit from the sweetness and health of these Heavenly Words. May He come soon, even in our days.
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