This is a confirming Word for Yah's people to BREAK OUT of their comfort zones (It is long, but we'll worth the read)
WORD STUDY – A NEW KING – מלק חדשׁ by Chaim Bentorah
Exodus 1:8: “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.”
There is something very curious here. In this verse the writer refers to the Pharaoh as a king. From here on he is referred to as Pharaoh. One reason could be historical. Do you ever wonder why the Egyptian Pharaoh would so easily make a foreigner a prime minister, second in command? Why this new Pharaoh would so turn against the Hebrews fearing they would become so powerful that they would overthrow the empire? Modern Archaeology has proven that during the time of Joseph or the time of the great famine a large group of foreigners called the sea people or the Hyksos had actually seized the advantage of a nation caught up in famine which weakened the rule of the Pharaoh and they over threw that empire and set up one of their own, modeled after Egypt, of course. Egypt was no longer ruled by Egyptians when Joseph arrived. It was ruled more by warriors than skilled politicians. These Hyksos really had no clue how to run a government other than do it like the Egyptians did when along comes a foreigner, not an Egyptian who showed some real skills. This Hyksos Pharaoh must had seen Joseph as a real God send (pun intended).
About the time of the Exodus the Egyptians managed to overthrow the Hyksos and return the empire back to the Egyptians. You can bet this new Egyptian Pharaoh did not want anything to do with foreigners and he had to be quite paranoid over these other foreigners called Hebrews who helped set up the government. He faced the same problem Trump faces with the illegal immigrants. There were just too many to deport. However, the new Pharaoh could turn these illegals into slaves. If Trump were President and tried to turn the illegals into slaves to build his towers he be out on his ear, impeached within a week. Trump did not have that option that this new Pharaoh had, slavery.
All Exodus 1:8 is saying is that a new King or a Melek Kadash arose. The word kadash means new in the sense of new ideas, plans, you know like out with the old in with the new. Oddly this word kadash new is also used to express the idea of destructiveness (of the old) false humility and jealousy. We know this Pharaoh was destructive to the Hebrews and jealous of them but the false humility shows how he turned the Egyptian people against them. I mean after all for years these people lived together in peace, just as the Jews did with the gentile Germans in the early part of the century. Along comes one man, Hitler, who turned the people against the Jews.
How did the Pharaoh do this? With false humility he presented himself as a Pharaoh. The word for Pharaoh is Pei, Resh Ayin and Hei. The Resh and Ayin ra appeared to be good, but evil was hidden between his words. Just as Hitler was the personification of evil, people readily followed him because of his eloquence and his genius at propaganda. The evil doer becomes truly dangerous when his lips served the interests of his evil intent.
He knew not Joseph. Come on, Joseph was a legend and probably greatly honored in Egypt, but this new Pharaoh did not know him? He knew him alright but he did not yara’ (know) him. The word to know that is used here yara’ is an intimate knowing, a knowing with one’s heart. He could honor Joseph with his mouth, but in his heart he despised him, he did not yara’ him.
The rabbis give another reason the writer chose to refer to this Pharaoh as a Melek Kadash. The numerical value of Melek Kadash is 402. The numerical value of winepress is 402. The Talmud teaches that this new pharaoh was God’s instrument to press the Hebrews so that they would move out of Egypt and into the land that Yahweh promised them. Under Joseph and the favor the Hebrews experienced with the Hyksos, they lived a good life. They had all they could eat, enjoy, and the protection of the most powerful nation in the world. Why would they want to leave all that for the uncertainty of a distant land without the protection of Egypt? But you see they grew too comfortable in Egypt, they had no reason to seek Yahweh's perfect will, so God had to send a Melek Kadash, a winepress, to motivate them to do His perfect will.
As I have said many times, these devotionals are not teachings, it is simply my journal describing my journey to the heart of God. I don’t know about you, but in my present state, I am quite comfortable, I am employed, bills are paid, why would I want to change any of that? Yet, I have a deep sense that I am not in Yah's perfect will for my life, I am depending on Egypt rather than Yahweh for my protection and daily bread. I wonder if God is going to send a Melek Kadash to get me moving?
So how about you, are you comfortable living in Egypt? Do you have a witness in your spirit that you are not really in Yahweh's perfect will? But it is comfortable, affluent and you are reluctant to leave Egypt because it is providing your well being and protection? Maybe there will arise a Melek Kadash in your life?
When I read this Word this morning it was a confirming Word that Janet bat David shared at the Tsiyon Tabernacle that I read just before I read the Word study from Chaim Bentorah. I was praying after I read what Janet had shared this morning and asked Yahweh to speak a Word to my heart to meditate and ponder on today, and I was led directly to the study. The Word He was speaking to me as I pray others will ponder and hear is the word "Comfortable." Yahweh does NOT want His people to be too comfortable in this world, but to prepare our hearts and be ready to do and go where He is leading His Remnant people in these last days.
I will share what Janet wrote that confirms this Word I am led to share with those having ears to HEAR what the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) is saying.
Janet bat David posted an update 1 day, 1 hour ago
Sabbath message of August 1st
5 points of “How we know it is the last days” ……… great explanation for us to use when talking to others who think they have plenty of time to “live the dream.”
Matthew 24:36 “But concerning that day and the hour no one knows, not even the messengers of the heavens, but My Father only.”
People use this verse to argue with anyone who brings up the “last days” mistakenly wrapping themselves in a religious cloak when, in reality, ignoring the rest of the chapter to understand what Y’SHUA was teaching them AND US.
Are we not like the Jewish people in Babylon? When the YHWH time came to leave there and return home, the majority were COMFORTABLE and stayed in Babylon because they had already assimilated so only the remnant returned.
Are we not like the Jewish people in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s?
One Shoah survivor told me the following:
“we (the Jews) were so comfortable …living the life (in Europe) socializing and prospering among the peoples and so when the trouble began, we poo-pooed the rumors and warnings of seers . ….because, after all, we were ingrained in each local city or village. We were butchers, tailors, bakers, bankers, teachers, grocers, musicians, philosophers professors, etc….we were COMFORTABLE. In fact, we were so comfortable that many of the Jews were not even religious anymore and assimilated into society. Some converted to christianity and others were baptized even though they didn’t convert so as to “fit in” and so those who assimilated “thought” they would be safe living as the nations. After all, we thought, we aren’t like those “religious” among us…..standing out as different, keeping the Sabbath, dressing differently, not doing christmas or easter……. and so, in the end, it didn’t matter. We were among them, thinking we had settled into a COMFORTABLE life but NO! They never saw us as any different than our religious brethren. They never saw us as peers. We were always different in their eyes and when the time came, they turned on us…even our own people sold one another for the safety of themselves and their families but it did not save them either.”
And so it will be with us…..IF WE CHOOSE the ourselves and other AND NOT HIM. Those close people and family are going to harm us – some unintentionally and some intentionally. We may be COMFORTABLE among society, thinking we are LUUVVED – “I mean, don’t I have 243 “friends” on Facebook?” SURE.
A wise man once told a group of us……IF YOU CHOOSE YOUR CHILDREN OR FAMILY OVER YHWH RATHER THAN FOLLOW YHWH’S DIRECTION – you WILL perish……THEY WILL SURVIVE BUT you WILL perish. ISN’T that a lesson of the 40 years in the desert?
And so the 5 points proving the last days MUST bring to mind the people in our lives as well as the 2 statements near the end of the Sabbath teaching..#2 – that FAITH IS NOT ABOUT PEOPLE …. #1 – we are in YHWH TIMING and FAITH IS NOT ABOUT US.
We must prepare now….not tuning out the cries of the TRUE watchMAN nor trusting in people or the government or the past so much that we ALLOW them to weaken, twist or ruin our FAITH….. we must NOT walk by SIGHT but rather the “INVISIBLE REALM WE CALL THE SPIRIT” "
