Iyar 8
Distortions
“Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽaqoḇ and you rulers of
the house of Yisra’ĕl, who DESPISE right-ruling and DISTORT all that
is straight …” (Mic 3:9 ISR)
The Hebrew word
that has been translated into the word “despise” is the word tâ‛ab (Strong’s H8581), and means,
literally, to regard as an abomination.
Many versions of our Bible use the word “abhor” instead of “despise”, both
are correct. Noah Webster defines
“abhor” as “To hate extremely, or
with contempt; to loathe, detest or abominate; To despise or neglect;
To cast off or
reject.”[1] Regardless of which definition we use, the
word tâ‛ab has a strong, negative connotation.
“Distort”
is the word translated from the Hebrew ‛âqash (Strong’s
#H6140) – a word which is only found five times in the Tanakh (Old Testament). To
twist, to pervert, and to make crooked are all meanings found within this word ‛âqash, further endorsing the ugly and negative undertones we discovered with
the word tâ‛ab.
And what is “right-ruling”, and “all that is straight”? Is it not the divine instructions in moral
and righteous living that our Elohim has laid out for us in His Torah? To “loathe, detest and despise” the Word of
our Creator, and then to “turn and twist it” to mean something that is
completely unrecognizable – is this not something that we are still seeing today? And what is disturbing is that it is predominantly
those who are in the positions of authority, those who are in leadership that
continue to operate in this fashion. They are the ones who dictate just what is the proper interpretation of the
Scriptures, when in reality, the truth is far from them (see John 14:6; Mat
15:8).
Look at the fruit of those people you see in leadership positions (Mat
7:16-20). Do they truthfully love the
Elohim of Abraham, Issac and Jacob (see Deu 6:5)? Or are they in love with the
power that their position gives them? Do
they cling to the Torah of our Creator, and strive with everything in them to
walk in all of His ways (Deu
10:12-13)? Or do they pick and choose –
like a smorgasbord – only those parts of the Word that they believe are relevant for today (see Mark 7:6-9)?
Be careful, folks, whom you follow.
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