Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Lech Lecha / Go Forth - this week’s Prophetic reading
Prophecy 39, 122, 153;
Genesis 12:1-17:27;
Isaiah 40:27-41:16;
Matthew 1:1-17;
Isaiah 40:27-41:16
27 Why will you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel; My way is hidden from
YAHWEH, and my judgment is passed over by my Elohim? 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? YAHWEH, the everlasting Elohim, the
Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there
is no searching to His understanding. 29 He gives power to the faint, and to him with no vigor He increases might. 30 Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men stumbling shall stumble; 31 but the ones waiting for YAHWEH shall renew power; they shall go up with
wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be
faint!
*~Isaiah Chapter 41 ~*
1 Be quiet before Me, O coasts; and let peoples renew their power. They come
near; then they speak: Let us draw near together for judgment. 2 Who raised up the righteous one from the east? He called him to His foot; He
gives nations before him, and subdues kings; He gives them as dust to his sword,
as driven stubble to his bow; 3 He pursues them; he passes on in peace; he does not go by the way with his
feet. 4 Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning?
I YAHWEH am the first (Aleph/Tav) and the last; I am He. 5 The coasts have seen and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn
near; yea, they come. 6 Each man helps his neighbor, and says to his brother, Be strong. 7 So the carver strengthens the refiner; and he smoothing with the hammer, him
who struck the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good. And he made it strong
with nails; it will not totter. 8 But you Israel are My servant, Jacob whom I have elected; the seed of My
friend Abraham; 9 whom I have made strong from the ends of the earth, and called you from its
sides; and I said to you, You are My servant. I chose you, and have not rejected
you. 10 Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your Elohim; I
will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the
right hand of My righteousness. 11 Behold, they all shall be humiliated, all who are provoked with you; they
shall be as nothing; men who contend with you shall perish. 12 You shall seek them and shall not find them; men of your strife shall be as
nothing, even men of your battle as ceasing. 13 For I, YAHWEH your Elohim am strengthening your right hand, who says to you,
Do not fear I will help you. 14 Fear not, worm of Jacob, men of Israel; I will help you, states YAHWEH, and
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 Behold! I have made you a new sharp threshing sledge, a master of teeth; you
shall thresh mountains and beat them small, and shall make hills like the chaff. 16 You shall winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the tempest
will scatter them. And you shall rejoice in YAHWEH; you shall glory in the Holy
One of Israel.
Matthew 1:1-17
1 The Book of the genealogy of YAHUSHUA Messiah the Son of David, the son of
Abraham. 2 Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and
his brothers. 3 And Judah fathered Pharez and Zarah out of Tamar, and Pharez fathered Hezron,
and Hezron fathered Aram, 4 and Aram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon
fathered Salmon, 5 and Salmon fathered Boaz out of Rahab, and Boaz fathered Obed out of Ruth, and
Obed fathered Jesse, 6 and Jesse fathered David the king. And David the king fathered Solomon out of
her who had been the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon fathered Rehoboam, and Rehoboam fathered Abijah, and Abijah
fathered Asa, 8 and Asa fathered Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat fathered Jehoram, and Jehoram
fathered Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah fathered Jotham, and Jotham fathered Ahaz, and Ahaz fathered
Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, and Manasseh fathered Amon, and Amon fathered
Josiah, 11 and Josiah fathered Jehoiachin and his brothers, at the deportation of
Babylon. 12 And after the deportation of Babylon, Jehoiachin fathered Shealtiel, and
Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel fathered Abiud, and Abiud fathered Eliakim, and Eliakim
fathered Azor, 14 and Azor fathered Sadoc, and Sadoc fathered Achim, and Achim fathered Eliud, 15 and Eliud fathered Eleazar, and Eleazar fathered Matthan, and Matthan
fathered Jacob, 16 and Jacob fathered Joseph, the kinsman-redeemer of Mariam, out of whom
YAHUSHUA was born, the One called Messiah. 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and
from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the
deportation to Babylon until the Messiah, fourteen generations.