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Read MoreDr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 151 (Walking on Water Part 2 – Sink or Walk on Water?)
by Hollisa Alewine | Apr 27, 2025 | Biblical Basics, Biblical History, Torah Class - Hollisa Alewine, Uncategorized, Understanding Torah, Weekly Torah Portion Reading | 0 |
Sink or Walk on Water?
Part Two
In Walking on Water Part One, we looked at the following account of Yeshua walking on water:
But the boat was already a long distance from the land, battered by the waves; for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea. When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.”
Peter said to Him, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” And He said, “Come!” And Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” When they got into the boat, the wind stopped. And those who were in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “You are certainly God’s Son!” (Mt 14:24-33)
Last week, we found one answer as to why Yeshua walked on water. We’ll look at some other answers next week, but our second question was, “Why was Peter afraid of the wind?” Hadn’t the wind been blowing just as fearfully up until then? He didn’t think about that before he crawled out of the boat?
Knowing what Peter knew about the dangerous time of the morning watch, the last watch of the night, we can venture an educated guess. To know what Peter knew, we refer to the Torah:
“When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city. But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the LORD was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him outside the city.’” (Ge 19:15-16)
The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD; and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace. (Ge 19:24-28)
Yeshua came to rescue the disciples from the windstorm in the last watch of the night [in Roman calculation, the fourth watch; in Hebrew calculation, the third watch]. From the texts above, we can see that the last watch of the night before the dawn is a dangerous time. Especially back then, who could know the precise moment when the sun would break the horizon, ending the last watch and beginning the timeframe of morning?
When the morning dawned, destruction could begin, rescue could end, or righteousness could view the destruction from afar, or “the place where he stood before the LORD.”
In this account of Genesis Nineteen, Peter could see the traditional explanation of the destination of three groups of people: the righteous (Abraham), the lukewarm (Lot and his wife and daughters), and the wicked (the cities of Sodom). Yeshua reminds the Laodiceans in Revelation of the danger of remaining in the category of the lukewarm, who ultimately cannot stand in the same place as the righteous in the Kingdom. It doesn’t mean they are not rescued, but it does mean they are not in good “standing” relative to the righteous.
At the crossing of the Reed Sea, Peter has this reference for destruction following the last watch of the night:
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen (Ex 14:27-28)
The last watch is a time of uncertainty. No one knows exactly when the day will break. Peter knows the east wind that divided and congealed the water will cease blowing and the water will return to its liquid state at daybreak.
Perhaps in that moment he believes he, too, is “appointed to wrath” with the destruction of Israel’s enemies by the one coming from Edom with vengeance. The disciples acknowledge Yeshua as the “Son of God” when he saves Peter. It was a teaching moment for Yeshua to remind the disciples that not only did they believe in him as Messiah, they followed him completely. They were not appointed to a place of wrath, but to obtain a final salvation like their father Avraham, who stood in a righteous place of faith. What they’d just experienced was simply a little test, a tribulation. Yeshua asks, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
“…and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.” (1 Th 1:10)
“…hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.” (1 Th 2:16)
“For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ…”(1 Th 5:9)
The plan was never to save as few people as possible, but as many as possible, including the Gentiles. The disciples’ commission was to go to the nations and proclaim this compassionate salvation so that the Gentiles could choose to also stand in the place of righteous faith like THEIR father Avraham as well:
“…and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised…For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all…” (Ro 4:12, 16)
How could Peter preach to the Gentiles if he was doubtful that Yeshua would save him from the wrath upon the wicked? Before we blame Peter for being so unsure about his own salvation, how many times have we questioned our own relationship with Yeshua?
Or how many put more faith in their job security, ammo, food prepping, or withdrawing from personal evangelism in order to protect themselves from the coming wrath on the wicked rather than in Yeshua’s ability to make us stand in a place of righteousness or take us by the hand to walk us to our rescue?
We, too, sometimes doubt if we are making our “calling and election sure” or if Yeshua will save us from a time of vengeance upon the wicked. The Prophet Isaiah gives a chilling prediction and a comforting reassurance, just as Lot’s family received “the compassion of the Lord”:
“…For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and My year of redemption has come. I looked, and there was no one to help, and I was astonished and there was no one to uphold; so My own arm brought salvation to Me, and My wrath upheld Me.” (Is 63:4-5)
Both the saved tribes and Gentiles will be saved from the vengeance and wrath on the wicked or the lukewarm who choose to remain in wickedness rather than flee from it, holding onto the hand of Yeshua. It is Yeshua’s job to uphold the relationship of those who are saved for the Father. He is the Father’s “own arm” of salvation.
When we are too focused on our ability to hold Yeshua’s hand instead of his ability to hold ours, we falter in obedience, either failing to perform his Word out of despair to protect ourselves or proudly believing others don’t deserve to receive salvation and withdrawing our “righteous” selves from their presence. Neither response is the faith of Avraham, who ran to welcome guests so that he or recue his nephew so he could demonstrate the faithfulness of El Shaddai to His creation.
The people who laugh at your commandment-keeping today will come seeking you in a time of trouble.
The people to whom you could have ministered will arise and accuse you at the end of days. (Lk 11:30-35)
Yeshua tells Peter that he needs to practice his faith. Everyone has a little faith, but not everyone exercises it in a day of trouble, which is only a tribulation, not the inescapable wrath of the Lamb, which will leave no rock unturned in the search to root out the wicked from the earth.
We can learn from Peter’s doubt in the actual test of his faith. In fact, it’s a relief to know that men who literally walked with Yeshua didn’t get things right on the first try.
In 1 Thessalonians 2:16, Paul made a sobering prediction: those who hinder the process of proclaiming salvation to everyone will suffer the very wrath they presume they will escape! Not everyone is a great evangelist, but by practicing, exercising our faith in the Word, we will proclaim Messiah until he returns. A life lived faithfully according to the Word will never hinder those who could be saved. It will invite them to the Shabbat table so that they may see that the Lord is good.
The question is, are we practicing our faithfulness in front of those who have yet to receive Yeshua as the Messiah? Do we engineer our Shabbats, the Feasts of YHVH, kosher eating, etc., so that they do not bring attention to us, or do we let that light shine? If we don’t shine, thinking self-preservation is preferable to the salvation of others, how will they ever make the stand of righteousness that Avraham took?
Avraham stood in a very secure place, only seeing the smoke of Sodom from afar. He suffered no loss from the fires of Sodom (1 Co 3:13). Not like Lot and his family, to whom the smoke was probably clinging, and they suffered a huge loss in their rescue even though it was “the compassion of the LORD”: (1 Co 3:15; Jude 1:23): “…save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.”
Such a salvation was the result of keeping a low profile with friends and family, so much so that Lot’s sons-in-law thought he was joking when he finally spoke up, and the townspeople were furious at him.
The wrath of the Lamb was the risk Peter thought he was taking when he looked at the wind and waves in the last watch. We, too, can be distracted by the news, war rumors, economic woes, political maneuverings, and the abominable behaviors akin to Sodomite living with no boundaries, but we don’t have to worry about Yeshua’s wrath if we take his hand. He is the outstretched compassionate arm of YHVH, the Living Word of our salvation. Spiritual darkness in high or low places has no claim over our salvation, and we will be tested until we grow in our faith in Yeshua.
In Part Three in the next newsletter, we’ll take a look at another significant fear Peter likely had when he looked at the wind and waves. It will extend the idea of the danger of wrath and judgment coming at the dawning of the day. It will reinforce the prophecy that Messiah will come from Edom when he comes in wrath upon the Beast and the nations who serve him, for to come from Edom is to come from the east like the east wind that blew all night to make a way of rescue for the Israelites at the Reed Sea.
Yeshua’s authority over the angels of the four winds and all other principalities and powers is a key to understanding why Peter might have had that sinking feeling that his solid footing in the water would collapse.
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Read MoreDr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 149 (The Geography of Wrath Part Two)
by Hollisa Alewine | Mar 30, 2025 | Biblical Basics, Biblical History, Torah Class - Hollisa Alewine, Uncategorized, Understanding Torah, Weekly Torah Portion Reading | 0 |
The Geography of Wrath Part Two
Before the LORD Destroyed Sodom
Last week, we looked at The Geography of Wrath, a preface to this lesson on the danger of the last watch of the night.
“Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.” (Ge 13:10)
When Lot “lifted up his eyes,” he saw prophetically. Before their destruction, the five cities of the valley enjoyed an Edenic-like climate and prosperity, yet the prophetic phrase “lifted up his eyes” predicts a restoration of that area, which sits in the Arava.
Revelation predicts a great miracles of the two witnesses, which helps us to understand “Sodom and Egypt”:
“And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.” (Re 11:8)
What Sodom and Egypt have in common is that those who were saved and set on a path of righteousness (Lot and the Israelites in the wilderness) looked back at what at enslaved them as more to be desired than the Garden of Eden, the authentic Promised Land, that lay before them if they would walk in their salvation.
When the bodies of the two witnesses are caught up from Jerusalem, it is a witness to be understood as a last warning to believers who, in those last days, continue to cling to the cargoes of Babylon, who persist in begging to go “by way of Zoar to Egypt” instead of repenting and returning to the righteous walk of salvation epitomized by Avraham. The night is far spent by then.
The commercial success of the five cities lured Lot in. The deception was that its fruitfulness “like the Garden” was to be desired over the fruitfulness of the stars promised to Avraham. Lot’s wife preferred the deception of luxury with wickedness over the promise of good gifts from above.The Midrash concerning Sodom details how travelers were lured in, then maimed or killed and their goods confiscated.
“When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.’” (Ge 19:15)
The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, and He overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD; and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace. (Ge 19:24-28)
Before Adonai destroyed Sodom, he sent warning of the wrath to come. Lot was aware of the blessings promised to Avraham, but he was also aware of the righteous life required for such eternal blessings. Lot chose precarious salvation over a life of obedience and teaching his children after him:
“For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” (Ge 18:19)
Lot was troubled by the wickedness of Sodom, but not enough to forfeit living in it: “and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men…” (2 Pe 2:7) It took the wrath of Adonai to remove him, not to abundant life, but bare salvation.
“Insignificance” is the meaning of the small city Zoar in which Lot requested to live, and so was his contribution to the Kingdom of Adonai compared to Avraham. Avraham viewed the valley of Sodom and saw the smoke of the cities ascending like the smoke of a furnace. Sodom’s is the fate of those who choose an easier life in the midst of wickedness, which they desire more than single-minded righteousness. They do not have the sense to even be aware of righteousness walking among them that might delay the wrath of Adonai upon them.
Just as the wicked among the Israelites in the wilderness believed Moses had taken them FROM a land flowing with milk and honey to a place of wrath, so the wicked repeatedly get it wrong. Just because the comforts and luxuries of Egypt and Sodom are “like” the Garden of Eden doesn’t mean it IS Eden. “Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.” (Ezek 16:49)
Likewise, the Israelites in the wilderness were given free food every morning, clothes and shoes never needed mending, and there was little to do but learn Torah. Nevertheless, many craved the foods and relative ease of farming life in Egypt (Dt 11:10) in spite of the horrors of its slavery. Perhaps this is why Zoar is described as “on the way to Egypt.” It describes those who have tasted the goodness of Adonai, yet the sensualities of the world taste better, and they are still enslaved to them even after their salvation:
“It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.” (He 6:5-6)
The smoke of the great furnace portends either great salvation and sealing in the Ruach HaKodesh or great wrath. There are two views of the “smoke of a great furnace.” In the first, the smoke of Mount Sinai accompanying the Presence of Adonai and His Word is a marvel to those who agree to walk in it:
Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. (Ex 19:18)
In the second, the smoke of the great furnace accompanies the wrath of Adonai upon the wicked:
He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. (Re 9:2)
Avraham was in no danger of the smoke of Sodom; Lot was in grave danger.
Avraham walked after Adonai and His righteousness; Lot was merely vexed by the lack of righteousness, but not enough to devote his life to pursuing righteousness.
What Lot pursued was only “like the Garden of Eden.” Its grass always looks greener than the obedience required to pursue righteousness, but in the end, it is destroyed and overturned with wrath. The last watch of the night is a time of great danger to Lots of people who are believers, yet firmly attached to the comforts of a nominally and unenthusiastic righteous life.
The last watch of the night is a last opportunity to flee such false security. It is the last opportunity to flee the people whose wicked agenda vexes the righteous Holy Spirit within. If one waits until the morning’s dawn to flee, he flees with nothing. Only the deeds of the righteous can follow them into the eternal Kingdom of Messiah, for those are the only eternally true and fit deeds.
The overturn of the cities of Sodom likely took place at Passover, for Lot baked unleavened bread for the angel of wrath. Avraham and Sarah had received a message of new birth and laughter, for they were looking for the coming of travelers with whom to share a meal so they could “make souls” for the Kingdom (Ge 12:5). Lot’s concern was simply for the safety of the angels through the night watches. He was not looking to leave Sodom before the morning dawned. Perhaps the miracle is that he agreed to leave at all after the last watch of the night.
May we all view the coming Wrath of the Lamb like Avraham.
From above and far away.
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