We have completed the entire Torah Cycle, and as we dawn on the new Torah Cycle, we look with anticipation upon the year before us. Again, much thanks is given to Rabbi Jack in Toronto who has faithfully supplied comments for this. Again, I have another post from him and thanks to those who have logged in and read. God's continued grace to you and yours, Brad
"הוכחה ניצחת"
"I Rest My Case"
Parashat HaShavua BeReshit / In The Beginning
This Week's Reading List:
BeReshit / Genesis 1:1-6:8
Yeshayahu / Isaiah 42:5-43:10
Yochanan / John 1:1-5
Bereshit {1:1} In the beginning G-D created the heavens and the earth. {1:2} Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. G-D's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Ever since Darwin came up with his teaching on “The Origin of Species” around 1884, better know today as “The Theory of Evolution” , the understanding of creation has been under fire. The belief in a Creator of the heavens and the earth along with everything that is in them, including man, has been relentlessly contested ever since. Now, even though Darwin’s theory has never been proven correct and even though Darwin himself repudiated his theory on his death bed, “The Theory of Evolution” has managed to survive, prosper and even thrive. It is now being taught almost universally as fact in most public schools around the world.
All of this is despite the fact that Darwin's “Theory of Evolution” is actually a theory in crisis. It is in crisis in light of the tremendous advances we have made in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics over the past fifty years. However, all of this man-revealed evidence is secondary when you consider the amount of prophetic biblical evidence that proclaims that G-d truly is heaven and earth’s Creator. I offer, as evidence, this passage from the prophet Yeshayahu (Isaiah), the same prophet that prophesied the birth of Yeshua HaMashiach.
Yeshayahu {40:1} “Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your G-d. {40:2} “Speak kindly to Jerusalem; and call out to her, that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of HaShem’s hand double for all her sins.” {40:3} A voice is calling, “Clear the way for HaShem in the wilderness; make smooth in the desert a highway for our G-d.” {40:4} Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; and let the rough ground become a plain, and the rugged terrain a broad valley; {40:5} Then the glory of HaShem will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together; for the mouth of HaShem has spoken. {40:6} A voice says, “Call out.” Then he answered, “What shall I call out?” All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. {40:7} The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of HaShem blows upon it; surely the people are grass. {40:8} The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our G-d stands forever. {40:9} Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Tzion (Zion), bearer of good news, lift up your voice mightily, O Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), bearer of good news; lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Y’huda (Judah), “Here is your G-d!” {40:10} Behold, the L-rd G-D will come with might, with His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him. {40:11} Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, in His arm He will gather the lambs, and carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes. {40:12} Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and marked off the heavens by the span, and calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in a pair of scales? {40:13} Who has directed the Spirit of HaShem, or as His counsellor has informed Him? {40:14} With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge, and informed Him of the way of understanding? {40:15} Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust. {40:16} Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering. {40:17} All the nations are as nothing before Him, they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless. {40:18} To whom then will you liken G-d? Or what likeness will you compare with Him? {40:19} As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, a goldsmith plates it with gold, and a silversmith fashions chains of silver. {40:20} He who is too impoverished for such an offering selects a tree that does not rot; He seeks out for himself a skilful craftsman to prepare an idol that will not totter. {40:21} Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? {40:22} It is He who sits above the vault of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. {40:23} He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. {40:24} Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, but He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the storm carries them away like stubble. {40:25} “To whom then will you liken Me that I should be his equal?” says the Holy One. {40:26} Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars, the One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power not one of them is missing. {40:27} Why do you say, O Ya’acov (Jacob), and assert, O Yisrael (Israel), “My way is hidden from HaShem, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my G-d"? {40:28} Do you not know? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, HaShem, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. {40:29} He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. {40:30} Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, {40:31} Yet those who wait for HaShem will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.
I rest my case! The “Theory of Evolution” is not only a theory -- it is a form of idolatry. It denies the existence of a Creator and calls His creation pure chance. May G-d have mercy on the souls of those that believe it and teach it!
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Baruch HaShem
Rabbi Ya'acov Farber
Hallelujah for our Lord, our Teacher,our Rabbi, "YESHUA" King Messiah for ever and ever!!!
