1.6.25 ~ Don’t Let Your Nose Get Hot
Good morning!
What an amazing sixth day of sharing with the people at Iglesia Mana Del Cielo here in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Sunday morning started off with A powerful and spirit lead service that went the exact opposite direction that I anticipated with the Grace Church family. The afternoon Q&A, with the students was focused, layered, at times silly, and revealing of the quality of the students hunger for the Lord (Matt. 5:6).
Last night, the Grace Church building was pretty much packed and I’m anticipating it only being standing room Tonight for the final teaching night. Praying diligently for a solid night of revelation and worship.
As I’ve said dozens of times over the years, the weekly Torah portion always seems to fit perfectly with our current life events. In this week's Torah portion, Vayagosh/and he drew, near Joseph has all his brothers with him in Egypt, including Benjamin, and he has brilliantly hidden his silver cup in Benjamin sack and as the brothers are leaving to go back to Canaan, Joseph sends a messenger accusing the boys of stealing his divining cup... "ok, boys, who stole my cup“?
The servant goes through the bags from oldest to youngest, only to find it, surprisingly, in Benjamin‘s sack....I can only imagine what's going through the brother's mind at this moment??? At minimum, they must be thinking, 'oh no here we go again'. The backstage is set and now Joseph gets to see what's really in their heart? Are they going to sell out my little brother Benjamin the way they sold me or have they grown up and turned over a new leaf? Have they learned anything?
As we know from previous studies, Judah was the instigator of selling Joseph and now that Benjamin has been framed for something he didn't do, we will see if Judah steps forward in a different way for round 2.
Amazingly and beautifully, Judah, this time, offers himself as a ransom for Benjamin; Joseph‘s younger brother. And at that point Joseph could not contain himself any longer and he sent everyone out of the room to reveal himself to his brothers. He brings them around and tells them “I am Joseph"/Ani yoseph.
As you would expect, after 22 years of not knowing whether their brother is alive or dead, at the revelation that he's alive and second in command over the world would be a mic-drop moment; they were stunned and speechless. That is one scene in the scriptures. I would love to be a fly on the wall. I
So here we are. The brothers are there, jaws dropped catching flies...but before we get the cart before the horse, let's back up to Judah stepping forward prior to the revelation that Joseph is alive and ruling the world (Gen. 44:18).
then Judah went up to him and said “oh my Lord, please let your servant speak a word in my Lord‘s ears and let not flare up your anger/v’al yachts, against your servant, for you are like pharaoh himself
That may not read the way that your version reads, but that’s about as close to the original Hebrew as you’re gonna get and what’s interesting about that phrase is do not let flare up your anger. It’s only used two times in the entire TaNAkh (aka the Old Testament).
Literally what the phrase means is don’t let your nose get hot! Well, that wouldn't make much sense in English. We say things like don’t get your nose bent out of shape, which is kind of a weird saying anyway…But in Hebrew when somebody gets angry, their nose gets hot; it starts to flare. But, on the flipside, when someone is self controlled and patient, they say their nose gets long because they’re showing great discernment and patience (Song. 7:4); The nose in scripture is the organ of discernment. God is described as one who has a long nose because he’s patient. He is slow to anger. So Judah says, excuse me sir, we are guilty as the day is long, I hope you won’t get the flaring nose syndrome.
This is found here Genesis 44:18 and only found one other place in the very next chapter when Joseph reveals himself to his brothers (Gen. 45:5)...
“and now do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for a life sustainer God sent me before you“
There’s something very profound going on between these two verses. As we've discovered over the years, when God ordains that a certain word or phrase be found, and it’s used only twice, in two places, you can bet your bottom dollar that somehow those two occurrences and the events surrounding those occurrences have something to do with each other. There’s a lesson to be learned.
So let’s look at the first verse again and then at the second verse. In the first verse (Gen. 44:18) Judah is approaching Joseph and he’s saying don’t let your anger flare up for the failure we've done in the past. Don’t let your anger flare up against us. In the second one (Gen. 45:5) it’s not the brothers appealing to Joseph to not get angry, it’s Joseph appealing to his brother not to be angry at themselves.
You may recall from last week that Joseph is this amazing and incredible picture of our Messiah Yeshua...and if we think of Joseph in the light of the Messiah and these verses, there is a profound lesson here for you and me. In the first one there’s an appeal to Joseph, the rejected savior of the world: "Don’t be angry with me". Forgive me. Deliver me. Hear me out. But in the second one it’s Joseph appealing to us: don’t be angry at yourselves! Huh? Why would he say that??
As I can testify in my own life, so many times I am quick to embrace God‘s forgiveness, and I do accept his forgiveness and his grace. And honestly, I revel in it that he loves us and forgives us, but we have those nagging memories that the enemy keeps throwing up into our minds and into the forefront of our thoughts of something we said, something we did, something horrible that we were responsible for, and we just continued to feel guilty and guilty and more guilty about those things...And somehow it seems for some of us at least it’s easier to accept God‘s forgiveness for what we’ve done than it is for us to let go of the things that we’ve done; for the bad decisions we’ve made; for our failures; for the times we didn’t measure up. UGH.
These are the only two times these phrases are found in the entire Bible. And I think God Is trying to drive home a message to each of us. I think he’s saying, if I have forgiven you, has your standard of judgment and forgiveness become higher than mine? Are your standards so high that I can forgive you but you can’t forgive yourself? He says, I forgave you, quit beating yourself up for what you did in the past. I know that it was just stupid,
I think you understand what I'm saying...No need to flare your nose at yourself or one another when the rejected Savior isn't flaring his nose.
Happy 2nd day of the week!
Shalom
Last night, the Grace Church building was pretty much packed and I’m anticipating it only being standing room Tonight for the final teaching night. Praying diligently for a solid night of revelation and worship.
As I’ve said dozens of times over the years, the weekly Torah portion always seems to fit perfectly with our current life events. In this week's Torah portion, Vayagosh/and he drew, near Joseph has all his brothers with him in Egypt, including Benjamin, and he has brilliantly hidden his silver cup in Benjamin sack and as the brothers are leaving to go back to Canaan, Joseph sends a messenger accusing the boys of stealing his divining cup... "ok, boys, who stole my cup“?
The servant goes through the bags from oldest to youngest, only to find it, surprisingly, in Benjamin‘s sack....I can only imagine what's going through the brother's mind at this moment??? At minimum, they must be thinking, 'oh no here we go again'. The backstage is set and now Joseph gets to see what's really in their heart? Are they going to sell out my little brother Benjamin the way they sold me or have they grown up and turned over a new leaf? Have they learned anything?
As we know from previous studies, Judah was the instigator of selling Joseph and now that Benjamin has been framed for something he didn't do, we will see if Judah steps forward in a different way for round 2.
Amazingly and beautifully, Judah, this time, offers himself as a ransom for Benjamin; Joseph‘s younger brother. And at that point Joseph could not contain himself any longer and he sent everyone out of the room to reveal himself to his brothers. He brings them around and tells them “I am Joseph"/Ani yoseph.
As you would expect, after 22 years of not knowing whether their brother is alive or dead, at the revelation that he's alive and second in command over the world would be a mic-drop moment; they were stunned and speechless. That is one scene in the scriptures. I would love to be a fly on the wall. I
So here we are. The brothers are there, jaws dropped catching flies...but before we get the cart before the horse, let's back up to Judah stepping forward prior to the revelation that Joseph is alive and ruling the world (Gen. 44:18).
then Judah went up to him and said “oh my Lord, please let your servant speak a word in my Lord‘s ears and let not flare up your anger/v’al yachts, against your servant, for you are like pharaoh himself
That may not read the way that your version reads, but that’s about as close to the original Hebrew as you’re gonna get and what’s interesting about that phrase is do not let flare up your anger. It’s only used two times in the entire TaNAkh (aka the Old Testament).
Literally what the phrase means is don’t let your nose get hot! Well, that wouldn't make much sense in English. We say things like don’t get your nose bent out of shape, which is kind of a weird saying anyway…But in Hebrew when somebody gets angry, their nose gets hot; it starts to flare. But, on the flipside, when someone is self controlled and patient, they say their nose gets long because they’re showing great discernment and patience (Song. 7:4); The nose in scripture is the organ of discernment. God is described as one who has a long nose because he’s patient. He is slow to anger. So Judah says, excuse me sir, we are guilty as the day is long, I hope you won’t get the flaring nose syndrome.
This is found here Genesis 44:18 and only found one other place in the very next chapter when Joseph reveals himself to his brothers (Gen. 45:5)...
“and now do not be distressed, and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for a life sustainer God sent me before you“
There’s something very profound going on between these two verses. As we've discovered over the years, when God ordains that a certain word or phrase be found, and it’s used only twice, in two places, you can bet your bottom dollar that somehow those two occurrences and the events surrounding those occurrences have something to do with each other. There’s a lesson to be learned.
So let’s look at the first verse again and then at the second verse. In the first verse (Gen. 44:18) Judah is approaching Joseph and he’s saying don’t let your anger flare up for the failure we've done in the past. Don’t let your anger flare up against us. In the second one (Gen. 45:5) it’s not the brothers appealing to Joseph to not get angry, it’s Joseph appealing to his brother not to be angry at themselves.
You may recall from last week that Joseph is this amazing and incredible picture of our Messiah Yeshua...and if we think of Joseph in the light of the Messiah and these verses, there is a profound lesson here for you and me. In the first one there’s an appeal to Joseph, the rejected savior of the world: "Don’t be angry with me". Forgive me. Deliver me. Hear me out. But in the second one it’s Joseph appealing to us: don’t be angry at yourselves! Huh? Why would he say that??
As I can testify in my own life, so many times I am quick to embrace God‘s forgiveness, and I do accept his forgiveness and his grace. And honestly, I revel in it that he loves us and forgives us, but we have those nagging memories that the enemy keeps throwing up into our minds and into the forefront of our thoughts of something we said, something we did, something horrible that we were responsible for, and we just continued to feel guilty and guilty and more guilty about those things...And somehow it seems for some of us at least it’s easier to accept God‘s forgiveness for what we’ve done than it is for us to let go of the things that we’ve done; for the bad decisions we’ve made; for our failures; for the times we didn’t measure up. UGH.
These are the only two times these phrases are found in the entire Bible. And I think God Is trying to drive home a message to each of us. I think he’s saying, if I have forgiven you, has your standard of judgment and forgiveness become higher than mine? Are your standards so high that I can forgive you but you can’t forgive yourself? He says, I forgave you, quit beating yourself up for what you did in the past. I know that it was just stupid,
I think you understand what I'm saying...No need to flare your nose at yourself or one another when the rejected Savior isn't flaring his nose.
Happy 2nd day of the week!
Shalom
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