October 21, 2025

"For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he."  prov 23:7  What does a tree bearing fruit and a man thinking in his heart [his conviction within himself], have in common? I think the answer is given in the very first reading of the annual Torah portion… It describes the creation and how Yahweh set in order the constructs and determinations for how humanity should act and live their lives and which same pathways would define them and what their eternal destiny would be. That Torah reading is in Genesis 1:1-6:8

Yeshua teaches the same Torah principle in Luke 6:44-45:  “For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”

Now, we each must decide and choose what our “fruit” will look like, what it will be. I think it is interesting that Israel’s history has been one [much like our own history], with both good and bad crops of fruit… for example, consider Chapter 24 in the Prophet Jeremiah’s writings:

”The Lord showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”

Yahweh goes on to tell Jeremiah what this means, that the bad people’s actions and choices were the bad figs, and the better people’s actions and choices were the good figs… and what would be the consequences of the people being judged, for good or for bad… naturally, all these scriptures are a simple show and tell of what comes of the “seed” one is made up of… it is often called the “Law of the Harvest,” everything produces after its own kind. Yeshua used similar language in Matthew chapter 13, concerning the end of the age when He would separate the good crop into His barn and have the bad crop [tares] gathered up and thrown into the fire, He said:

“Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

Yahweh sees the end from the beginning… and in the very beginning of His publishing His Torah principles, He tells us how the Tree of Life [Torah Word/Yeshua] nourishes us, and how the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil brings death if we eat its poison. Yeshua, said the Word of God was the good seed that the sower went out to sow.  Mk 4:13-14 and luk 8:11  Yeshua said the good seed, the Word of God, was sown in the heart of man [as bad seed could be]… what would make a man think evil in his heart? Today we are eye witnesses of the corrupt fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil… the bad “figs,” and “tares,” of the one Yeshua described in Mat 13,  as the “enemy” of the kingdom:

“Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.”

The Haftarah for Gen 1:1-6:8  is a wonderfully pronounced prophecy, it is Isa 42:5-43:11;  Isaiah gives the overall picture of Yahweh’s lovingkindness and mercy that He has planned for His people. Even though the “enemy” of the kingdom has corrupted the soil of their hearts with bad seed, Yahweh will deliver them and give them new hope. While time marches on towards that day, we who live in the wasteland of the corrupted kingdom, have this everlasting hope with the words of Peter, speaking about the work of the Messiah Yeshua [Jesus]:

“Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because

“All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.” 1 pet 1:22-25 nkjv

Everything concerning life and death, was proclaimed for our learning in the “beginning” Torah portion… everything thereafter is simply details. When Yeshua came He refocused the corrupted seed blindness [lies of the devil yielding tares] afflicting the kingdom and consequently all humanity. Companion scriptures for this portion are John 1:1-14, and rev 22:6-21.  Having a good understanding of this first Torah Portion, the Haftarah, and New Testament scriptures, of this “New Beginning,” which the new Torah year is traditionally called, lets the reader-believer have a view of the “end from the beginning” and I think Yahweh designed it that way… It should be our heart’s desire to partake of the “good seed,” and live mat 6:33…

“ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

When Yeshua said the “kingdom was within us,” I think He meant that the good seed of the Torah and the presence of His Holy Spirit was where His kingdom on this temporal earth journey was to be found… by new birth by the incorruptible seed. Praise Yeshua.

Shalom, John