Parsha “Bereshiet” (Genesis 1, through 6:8) is the first reading in the new cycle of the Torah, from “in the Beginning” to the first part of the “days of Noah.”

And as Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, noted last week, it’s just too much to try and cover responsibly in just one week. And since the interesting of reading from the last parsha, at the end of Deuteronomy straight through into the first Book, since we never really finish our study of His Instruction, means we read and studied into the first few chapters of Genesis/Bereshiet last week, Mark did exactly that, and spent some time on the first three chapters then.

So, this week, after a brief recap of the story of the ‘nacash’ and Eve/Chava’s deception in chapter 3, and the “first two lies”, the Erev Shabbat story and reading picks up there:

Even beyond the First Two Lies, is the one that actually is NOT in Scripture, but does permeate the Whore Church: That “jesus did away with the Law,” “nailed it to the cross,” and somehow did what the Real Messiah promised repeated He would NOT.

The Sabbath Day midrash is all about the EFFECTS of those “Big Lies,” especially in the presence of the level of Evil seen then – “as it was in the Days of Noach” – and again, now.

Are we there yet? What can we now begin to see that looks like? And the repeated and urgent message is “see that you are not deceived!” Mark takes another look at the progression, the prophecy of Matthew 24, and where the Big Lies may lead next. It’s time to not only ‘connect some dots,’ but even extrapolate a bit.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash: