Hebrew Nation Online | Come Out of Her My People – Mark Call

Parsha “Re’eh” (for “See!,”Behold!,” or even “Check it out” — Deuteronomy 11:26-16:18) begins with a blessing, and a curse. And, as Mark points out up front, the fact that even the significance of the distinction there is so often missed is a major indicator of why there is “no power in the [modern] ‘church’.”

The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and includes what amounts to a great summary of just why that is:

Last week, the parsha told us, “Do not even bring an abomination into your house,” lest you be accursed like it.

This week, the admonition is to utterly destroy anything and everything associated with them. And as for false prophets, who try to get us to serve those fakes? Scripture prescribes — in no uncertain terms — a death penalty.

How is it that a ‘church’ which claims to worship ‘him’ has fallen into exactly that trap?

During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa answers that question, as He does.

And as for —

…now they’re taught in ‘sun-god day’ school. Even though the idolatry is soft-pedaled.

It is a fact that, once seen, cannot be un-seen. But it certainly must not be ignored.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

Mark welcomes special guest Harmon Taylor, of ‘Legal Reality,’ back for his first visit on the show since the advent of the new Administration, to discuss the state of the ‘court’ system, and the revelations of the depth of criminality we now understand to have been unleashed on the nation.

He suggests the problem goes deeper than most have even yet realized.

Parsha “Ekev” (for “Because,” or “it follows,” Deuteronomy 7:11-11:25) is, first, a set of promises that follows BECAUSE, or as a result, of the fact that we are to hear and obey His commandments. And as such, it’s also a contrast with what we see taught today.

The Erev Shabbat reading includes that, and more:

During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa muses about the ‘giants’ (Rephaim, Anakim, Zamzuzim, et al) that Moses warned the mixed multitude they would deal with in the land. And HOW, since they were promised to prevail.

They were big and scary, but just how intelligent were they? Arguably, perhaps more so than we might think.

The theme again has idolatry at heart, and His hatred of it. “Do not even bring an abomination into your house,” lest you be accursed like it.

Could it be that He is also talking about the newly created AI gods, made of a different form of stone — silicon? But the lesson is the same, although the threat is greater.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

Parsha “Vaetchanan” (for “And I pleaded,” Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11) is arguably THE portion that contains some of the most important “statutes and commandments” in the Bible. Not only “the Ten,” but also the one known often simply as “The Shema,” for the first word, and the fact that Yahushua called it the Greatest Commandment of all, ‘Hear, O Isreal…YHVH Elohenu, YHVH Echad.” And you shall YHVH with “all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.”

The Erev Shabbat reading includes that, and more:

During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests that there are several elements in the ‘theme’ of this parsha that are not only central to our understanding, but also must serve as a basis for some of the most important questions – and the tests that will answer them! – that explain what has gone wrong with a nation, and a world, that has not only forgotten Him – but apparently HATES Him.

And they are fundamental to what we must ‘come out of,’ and thus Who we serve.

This portion is, at least in part, about idolatry, and certainly obedience to His “statues, judgments, and commandments.” And He says THREE TIMES, in this parsha alone, that He is the ‘Jealous God,’ literally, “El Kana.” There is an important connection in that theme.

And Mark suggest that He has told us EXACTLY what we need to know in order to “rightly divide the Word,” and discern the difference between the fake and the Real. Both “adding to,” and “subtracting from” His Word, as Written, are flashing red warning signs that there is Major Deception Afoot. And Exile was, and remains, the result.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

Note: Original audio file was corrupted; fixed.

This week, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship does a somewhat different combination of the recent ‘double-parsha,’ and combines the end of the Book of Numbers (Masei, Numbers 33 through the end of the Book) with the first parsha, Debarim (Deuteronomy/Debarim 1 through 3:22) in the final Book of the Torah, of that same name. Both have to do with a bit of a recap, as the children of Israel begin to – finally – complete their 40 years b’midbar – in the wilderness – and prepare to enter the land.

And Debarim is vital, and different in many ways, from the rest of the Torah. In large measure, it is not only the last chapter of Moses’ life, but his ‘farewell address.’ And, as Mark never misses pointing out, it is THE most quoted Book by the American Founders during the entire Revolutionary Era. And fundamental to the ‘English – and then American – Common Law.’

The Erev Shabbat summary and reading of the text:

Why does Moses’ recap take the form it does, and why is it so relevant today?

It begins with a poignant reminder: “It is [only!] eleven days journey,” from where they started, to where they were. But it took forty years, and every male, save the two, of fighting age died along the way.

Moses knows he is about to die, and he knows what is coming for the sons of Israel: War. They must take the land.

But other major change is at hand as well. They sandals didn’t wear out – year after year. They didn’t have to plant or harvest food; manna was there for them without fail. All of that will soon be over.

And the ‘giants’ that so terrified their fathers? They were there, and YHVH led them to battle, and those “mighty men” fell before them.

We, too, are facing what look like major, perhaps earth-shattering, change. And giants? They’re still out there, and those who fail to “Trust in YHVH,” have more reason to be terrified than ever.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

We live in times where the continual Battle between Good and Evil has arguably never been so obvious, or important.

On every level – economic, military, political, social, and especially spiritual – we see it playing out. The front of that war that amounted to the “Deep State” versus what is left of the Constitutional Republic is now revealed as open treason. And the question on that front is – will the USA still have a Rule of Law? Will traitors actually be held responsible?

But there is something else happening as well. “Generation Z” we are told, to the surprise of some, may actually be “returning to Religion.” Or at least, religiousity.

How do we deal with that, now?

The Razor

This week’s annual cycle Torah reading is parsha “Pinchas,” Numbers 30:2 through chapter 32) and – in part at least – it wraps up one of the mysteries in the Torah, how can a people so blessed of YHVH fall so quickly into idolatry, and beset by ‘plague?’

But there is far more, and the issue of “vows” literally envelops the narrative.

As it still does today.

The Erev Shabbat reading:

The Sabbath Day midrash is at attempt to connect a collection of dots that range from broken vows and lying prophets to bioweaponry and ELE asteroid impacts.

The prophet Bilaam really wanted to curse the mixed multitude of Israel, but was explicitly forbidden to do so, on pain of death – as he learned “the hard way.” Only “the word that Elohim puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.” And yet, like so many ancient popes and modern traitors in politics, he thought he was smarter than God Himself, and could find a “workaround.” It cost him.

Today we don’t have a Moses to “hang ’em high,” or a Pinchas to literally run them through, ‘en flagrante delecto,’ with a spear.

Which only makes the potential consequences all the more deadly. And imminent.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

It is now not only obvious, but eminently provable that Obama and the Deep State “intel community” committed treason. The only remaining question is whether or not the concept of “justice,” and the Rule of Law, is even a factor in AmeriKa-with-a-K.

But the related question that host Mark Call asks today is, do we understand why “good faith” once mattered? When people not only violate their oaths before God, but pat themselves on the back for doing so, and then are rewarded for their treachery – the Rule of Law is dead.

So what then happens…

This week’s annual cycle Torah reading is parsha “Pinchas,” Numbers 25:10-30:1) and it contains what is sometimes perhaps one of the most perplexing stories in the Torah, that of the cohen or priest Pinchas, who runs through two open idolators with a spear, and is awarded the eternal “Covenant of Peace (Shalom)” by YHVH Himself for the effort.

The Erev Shabbat reading:

The Sabbath Day midrash is all about the ‘apparent’ contradiction. Actually, contradictions, plural:

No wonder it’s been called “problematic.”

And yet the story is undeniable. The connections to the prophet Eliyahu, or Elijah, who was also notably “zealous” (the Hebrew word is the same, as Mark points out) for YHVH are dramatic, and referenced in both the haftorah selection, and even Paul’s commentary in Romans 11.

And Eliyahu, too, had a hand in the deaths of SO many pagan “priests of Baal.”

How do we connect these dots?

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash: