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

This week’s show SOUNDS like it might have something to do with what once passed for law, but since the courts have become not much more than a sick joke , that is not really the case at all.

What it is, instead, is a look at why concepts that once mattered in a “nation of Law, and not of men,” STILL matter when we realize that our choices do.

“Rebuttable Presumptions”

The reading of the Book of Bereshiet or Genesis comes to an end with parsha “Vayechi” (Gen. 47:28 through the end) as do the lives of first Yakov, and then Yosef.

“And lived Yakov,” the parsha begins, 17 years in the land of Egypt after he brought his family to be there with Joseph. But most of the story is about blessings, and prophecy.

The Erev Shabbat reading tells that story:

The blessing, and essentially adoption, of Yosef’s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, and the details, and ordering of them, is key to understanding the thousands of years of history that follows.

But the blessing of that other twelve sons, and tribes, that follows is also prophetic, and yet also, at least in places, more enigmatic.

So the Sabbath day midrash this week is a bit more ‘speculative’ this week than usual, both because of the prophetic nature of much of the subject matter, and the “times and the seasons” today.

There is much “food for thought” on the table at this point. As always, Mark welcomes comments, questions, and feedback: [email protected]

The combined two-part teaching is here:

This is the last show of the calendar year 2023, and, while that generally means a “slow news week,” and Mark’s admitted disdain for the resultant slew of “Top 10 News – or whatever – Stories,” there is a way to turn that on its head, and still make an important point:

Why not take a look at the Top News Stories You DIDN’T Hear, and, almost certainly, knew for certain that you weren’t ABOUT to anyway?

This week we see the conclusion to the ‘cliff-hanger’ story of Miketz, where Yosef has tested his brothers, and they stand before him accused, and evidently guilty, of theft.

And this week, as Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship likes to put it, Judah ‘draws near’ (Vayigash, Genesis 44:18 through 47:27) and “mans up.” And, perhaps to put it mildly, that surprises his brother Yosef. And certainly changes history. Or, more to the point, puts it on the track Yah evidently intended all along.

The Erev Shabbat reading tells the story, and IS the central teaching for our instruction and blessing.

The Sabbath day midrash this week, connected largely to the haftorah reading from Ezekiel chapter 37, and for reasons that may, at first, not seem obvious, will no doubt “offend many.”

Indeed, that was what Yahushua told us He would do. And so will we, when we “walk in obedience” to Him, and “for His Name’s sake.”

Which is why this teaching includes not only an “adult content,” warning, but more. After all, even the phrase “man up” will offend many in a world where the very concept of patriarchy, or “men being men,” and not espousing the proper PC BS, already “offends many.” How much more so, then, His Truth – as actually Written?

The Sabbath day midrash begins with the observation that there are SO many aspects of this story that are prophetic, from Judah honoring his word to his father [Father] to the promised ‘great deliverance’ (past, long past, their present, and our future) to the “ruach of Yakov” being revived…into Israel.

But why is the haftorah portion that goes with this story from Ezekiel 37, and the “two sticks?”

It is certainly obvious that this is another of those prophecies that has NOT yet been fulfilled. Just as both of the “two whoring wives,” Aholah and Aholibah, and their descendants, the Whore Church and the Whore Synagogue, are both still scattered, still in exile…they are not even remotely “echad.”

And, if that terminology is “offensive” to some (we have, after all, been warned) then how much more so that both of those adulterous bodies still call the Son of Yah, the Torah Made Flesh, and the Messiah Himself, a “liar”?

Mark suggests that a good part of that answer, and more, lies in warnings like Hosea 5:15. They aren’t even about ready to “acknowledge their offense,” against Him.

There is much “food for thought” on the table at this point. As always, Mark welcomes comments, questions, and feedback: [email protected]

The combined two-part teaching is here:

Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship this week for a two-part look at parsha ‘Miketz’ (Genesis chapter 41 through 44:17) – arguably the second installment in the life of Joseph, and his rise to the Number Two position in all Egypt, with at least a start of the ‘testing’ of his long-lost brothers, and even a cliff-hanger at the end.

As usual, the Erev Shabbat reading is first:

The Sabbath day midrash may be about “what can we learn from this story?” It may even illustrate – again – that His ‘torah’ is about FAR more than just “law,” because here is another example of a parsha that doesn’t really have any statutes, or commandments, but does certainly have a lot of instruction for us it it. Especially now.

The Brit Chadasha reading this week comes largely from Romans chapter 10, where the contrast between what too many people have been mis-taught in sun-god-day skool and His Truth is almost shocking, especially when we consider the lessons of the tests Yosef set up for his brothers. Have they learned anything? Can the same people who sold him into slavery now be trusted?

And how about those who will eventually come to us when the lies and liars they trusted are revealed to be what they perhaps “knew, or should have known” they were? Can we discern between those who need our help, covering, blessing, and provision, and might even be His “malachim,” and “wolves in sheep’s clothing?”

The combined two-part teaching is here:

Parsha ‘Vayeshev’ (Genesis chapters 37 through 40) appears to be mostly the first installment in the life of Joseph, and at least an introduction to his brothers, but is far more. The story begins with a description of his dreams, which turn out to be not only a key component of his life, but the lesson as well.

The Erev Shabbat reading begins there:

In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark picks up with three of the primary themes from the reading, from some of what we are being taught about dreams, and their interpretation, to the elements of testing, and chastening, and growth that we see in the connected story of Judah, who becomes the father himself of a line of kings, including the Messiah, to…

Not only is there the obvious connection of Joseph being sold into slavery, but the insight into the point of prophecy itself.

And that is expanded in the related haftorah reading from Amos. Mark notes that the famous understanding from that prophet, “YHVH does nothing but that He does not reveal His secrets to His servants the prophets,” is just part of the connection. When the warnings have been given – and they have! – and even “the lion has roared,” so, “Who can BUT prophesy?”

The combined two-part teaching is here:

December 7th is remembered, at least by some not ‘Publik Skool Indoctrunatid” as a day of infamy. A sneak attack. But, today, the attack, and the invasion, and the destruction, are not even remotely stealthy.

So this week, it’s time for what Einstein used to call a “thought experiment.” And host Mark Call shows may be a key to understanding what is coming.

Given what is obvious – and Mark begins by laying just some of that out, for reference – that Communist China, and the WEF, and the Deep State (but maybe all of that is redundant) and all the others Servants of Evil, and the Prince of This World – intend to kill billions, and destroy the USA as just a part of that process…

Can you kill off most of the population here, say, 90%, as Deagle has already predicted, but still keep most of the infrastructure ready for occupation by the invaders, already coming by the millions?

And, if you do have to unleash, say, an EMP to take out the power grid and the banking system, doesn’t that strike a blow against what needs to be ready for the coming “Mark of the Beast?”

Mark suggests that if we thoughtfully and prayerfully consider scenarios, and alternatives, and compare against the insanity we see being unleashed on a dumbed-down world, some things will fall into place, while other possibilities can be rejected as unlikely or untenable.

The title of this show really won’t make sense until the end. But it explains SO much:

Parsha ‘Vayishlach’ (Genesis 32:4 thru chapter 36) begins with an encounter that been delayed at this point for two decades, when Yakov returns home, and has to deal with his brother Esau. Does he still want to kill him?

And who was it that he was wrestling with?

The Erev Shabbat reading begins there:

And the Sabbath day midrash picks up there, and with the theme of a continuing struggle. Some elements of the ‘rhyme’ that is prophecy parallel that story, and others seem to be a bit ‘counter-cyclical.’ (Still, it IS interesting that Esau is Yakov’s Big Brother!)

And the haftorah passages from the single-chapter Book of Obadiah demonstrate that what YHVH says will ultimately befall Edom, who is Esau, hasn’t happened yet; meaning that those elements of that struggle are still in-progress, too.

The night that Yakov spent in prayer, and wrestling with…someone…some ‘ish’, or man…has much to teach us.

How, exactly, did Yakov pray?

Why was he re-named, twice, and yet consistently STILL referred to throughout the Book but both his old, AND new, names?

And, of course, don’t we still wrestle with whoever he did?

The combined two-part teaching is here:

In last week’s show, Mark reviewed the importance of energy, and lots of it, to any civilization that wants to survive as such.

This week, the focus is on what that means at an individual and family level, and how understanding just a bit about biology, photosynthesis, and then making some of the simple connections will enable us to see through at least one of the Biggest Lies in history.

Parsha ‘Vayetze’ (Genesis 28:10 through 32:3) begins the new, and most critical part of the live of Yakov, as he leaves home, goes to the place where he sees His ladder, and then sojourns with the infamous Laban and ultimately takes his four wives, and fathers the twelve tribes.

The Erev Shabbat reading lays it out:

This parsha contains a number of interesting and unforgettable images and lessons:

“Jacob’s Ladder” that reaches to ‘the heavens’ and upon which “angels ascend and descend.”

Yakov meeting Raquel/Rachel. Yakov/Jacob sleeping with ‘the wrong one’ on his wedding night.

The mysteries of ‘mandrakes’ and streaked sticks.

And why Raquel took her father’s pagan idols. As well as what followed.

But Mark was led to focus this year on the fact that this is simply the story of the BEGINNING of Yakov’s journey, in so many ways.

And that’s still true.

And often, the focus of the midrash for this parsha tends to be the drama of Yakov evidently lying to his father Yitzak, while impersonating his brother Esau. But just how great was that deception, really, and how does the context matter?

But Mark suggests the story only begins with, ‘what did Yitzak know, and when did he know it?’

We know that there is a conflict described here that is still raging. Because the cycles still ‘rhyme’.

The combined two-part teaching is here: