Tzav (Command)

(This was originally posted in my previous blog on 04/01/2007. Tzav is also the Torah portion for today. We read the Torah in a yearly cycle.)

TORAH: Vayikra/Leviticus 6:1-8:36
HAFTARAH: YirmeYahu/Jeremiah 7:21-8:3; 9:23-24
KETUVIM NETZARIM: Ivrim/Hebrews 7:24-8:6; 9:11-28

Lev 8:36 And Aharon and his sons did all the words that YHWH had commanded by the hand of Mosheh.

This Torah portion gives instructions for carrying out various sacrifices and offerings, and then it describes the consecration of the Mishkan (Tabernacle/Tent of Meeting) and its contents as well as the consecration of Aharon and his sons as priests. At the end of the portion, we are told that "Aharon and his sons did all the words that YHWH had commanded".

YHWH commanded, and Aharon and his sons did ALL that He commanded. They didn't pick and choose which commands they would obey; they just simply obeyed ALL.

The first and greatest commandment also contains the word "all":

Mar 12:29 And Yeshua answered him, "The first of all the commands is, 'Hear, O Yisra'el, YHWH our Elohim, YHWH is one.
Mar 12:30 'And you shall love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first command.

If we are loving Him with ALL of our heart, ALL of our being, ALL of our mind and ALL of our strength, will we not be doing "ALL the words that YHWH commanded"?

Mat 4:4 But He answering, said, "It has been written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of YHWH.' "

Yeshua told HaSatan that man shall live by "EVERY word that comes from the mouth of YHWH". That is what Yeshua did, and that is what He wants us to do. We are not to live by some of His words, but by EVERY word that comes from His mouth.

Jer 7:23 "But this word I did command them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I shall be your Elohim, and you be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it be well with you.'

YHWH wants us to be His people, so He wants us to obey His voice so that it will be well with us. If we want to be His, we will walk in ALL the ways He has commanded us.