Written by: Peretz Green

 

MESSAGE OF THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

 

Part 2: You are blessed with faith

 

You are blessed with the blessing of Abraham "ve-heyei bracha" (and thou shalt be the Blessing) (Genesis, 12: 2). For the Blessing was above with God and He did not send it down into the world until He spoke with Abraham saying "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing" (ibid). – With Abraham you received the blessing which can never be reversed: "And I will bless those that bless thou, and him that curseth thee, will I curse; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" (ibid: 3). With Abraham you received the blessing of the promise: Unto thy seed will I give this land. So too did you receive with Abraham the blessing: "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered" (ibid, 13: 6). With Abraham, in all humility, you received the redemptional blessing from Malchitzedek, the Priest to EL 'ELYON: "Blessed be Abram of the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth. And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hands, and he gave the tithes of all" (ibid, 14: 19-20). With Abraham you received the blessing of the of the reward: "Fear not Abram; I am thy shield, thy reward shall be exceedingly great" (ibid, 15: 1). With Abraham you received the blessing of the heavens: "Look now toward the heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them: And he believed in the Lord; and He accounted it to him for righteousness" (ibid: 5). And you received with Abraham the blessing of perfection: "And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him: I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect" (ibid, 17: 1).

With Abraham you received the blessing of the eternal Pact: "And I will make My covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly" (ibid: 2). With Abraham you received the blessing of the great universal redemption: "As for Me, behold My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt become the father of a multitude of nations" (ibid: 4). With Abraham you received the blessing of God's close protection: "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou sojournest, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. With Abraham you received the blessing of the Circumcision: And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and this shall serve as a token of the covenant between Me and you" (ibid: 8-13). So did you receive the blessing of the eighth day: "And at eight days old shall every man-child in your generation be circumcised among you, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, who is not of your seed" (ibid: 12). And you have received the blessing of Sarah: "And I will bless her, and give thee also a son of her; yea I will bless her, and she shall become a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall spring from her" (ibid: 16). You are blessed in the blessing of Isaac: "And God said: Truly, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, for his seed after him" (ibid: 19).

You have received the blessing of hospitality: "And he said: My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart, after that ye may pass on; since ye have passed by your servant" (ibid: 18: 3-5). – Even though Abraham was old and tired from the operation he had undergone only three days before: "And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it the young boy, and he hastened to prepare it. And he took cream and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat" (ibid: 6-8). You are blessed in God's trust in Abraham: And the Lord said: "Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am about to do?" (ibid: 17).

You are blessed in the purpose of God's commandment: "For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him" (ibid: 19). You have received the blessing of being allowed, so to speak, with God: "And Abraham drew near, and said: Wilt Thou then also destroy the righteous with the wicked? So have you received the blessing to try to understand the measurements of God's justice: Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou then also destroy and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are therein?" (ibid, 23-24). So are you blessed with the permission, so to speak, to disagree with Him in the laws of justice if you can find a way of justice among men which you maintain is more suitable: "Far be it from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked: far be this from Thee; shall the Judge of all the earth not exercise justice?" (ibid: 25). – You are blessed with a measure of the humbleness of God who accepts the reasoning of man in dealing out justice: "And the Lord said: If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all of the place for their sake" (ibid: 26). You are blessed in Abraham's love of saving as many people as possible: "And he said: Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure there will be found there ten. And He said: I will not destroy for the sake of ten" (ibid: 32). You have received the blessing of prophecy in Israel: "And now restore the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for thee, that thou mayest live" (ibid, 20: 7).

You are blessed in the prayer-healing of Abraham: "And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his maid-servants, so that they could bear children" (ibid: 17-18). You are blessed in the miracle of Sarah: "And Sarah conceived, and bore unto Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him" (ibid, 21: 2). You are blessed in the temptation of Abraham: "And He said: Take now thy son, thy only one, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I tell thee of" (ibid, 22: 2). You are blessed in the alacrity of Abraham: "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass" (ibid: 3). You are blessed in the faith of God's Providence: "And Abraham said: God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son" (ibid: 8). You are blessed in the saving of the angels of God: "But the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said: Abraham, Abraham! And he said: Here am I" (ibid: 11). You are blessed in the Sign of Isaac's resurrection: "And he said: Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou the least unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thy only one, from Me" (ibid: 12).

So with Abraham have you received the second blessing of the angel of the Lord: "And he said: By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, since, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thy only one. That I will greatly bless thee, and I will exceedingly multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened unto My voice" (ibid: 17-18). With Abraham you are blessed in the possession of Machpelah: "And the field, with the cave therein, was made sure by the sons of Heth" (ibid, 23: 20). With Abraham you are blessed in the force of an oath: "And Abraham said unto his servant: Put I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh. And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou should not take a wife unto my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell. The Lord, the God of Heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore unto me, saying: Unto thy seed will I give you this land: He will send His angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from there" (ibid, 24: 2-7).

You have received the blessing of Rebecca: "Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of myriads, and let thy possess the gate of those who hate them" (ibid: 60). You are bless in the modesty of Rebecca: "And the servant said: This is my master: and she took a veil, and covered herself" (ibid: 65). You are blessed in the consolation of Isaac: "And Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death" (ibid: 67). You are blessed in the blessed death of Abraham: "Then Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people" (ibid: 25: 8). You are blessed in the blessing which God gave to Isaac: "And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac dwelt by the well Lechai-ro'i (to the Living God who sees me)" (ibid: 11). You are blessed in the birthright which was sold to you: "And Jacob said: Sell unto me this day thy birthright; And Jacob said: Swear unto me this day: And he swore unto him, and he sold his birthright unto Jacob" (ibid: 31, 33).

Isaac, however, because of his particular blessing from God, after Abraham died, was not permitted to leave the land of Israel: "And the Lord appeared unto him and said: Go not down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I sha; tell thee of. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee, for unto thee, and unto thy seed, will I give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father. And I will cause thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and I will give unto thy seed all these countries, and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves. Because that Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws" (ibid, 26: 2-5). You are blessed in the hundred-fold blessing of Isaac: "And Isaac sowed in that land, and obtained in the same year a hundred-fold: so the Lord blessed him. And the man became great, and grew more and more until he became very great. And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds, and a great household, and the Philistines envied him" (ibid: 12-14). You are blessed in the Blessing of the well upon which there was no diatribe: "He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land" (ibid: 22). You have received the blessing of Beersheva: "And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said: I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for the sake of Abraham My servant" (ibid: 24).

You are blessed in the intelligence of Rebecca who said: "And now my son, obey my voice in that which I command thee. Go, I pray thee, to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids, and I will make them savory food for thy father, such as he loveth. And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, for the sake that he may bless thee before his death" (ibid: 8-10). You are blessed in the words of Isaac when he said: "The voice is the voice of Jacob but the hands are the hands of Esau" (ibid: 22). You are blessed in the good scent of Jacob when he is wearing Esau's garments: "And he came near and kissed him: And he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said: See, the smell of my son is as the smell of the field which the Lord hath blessed. And may God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Nations shall serve thee, and people bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and thy mother's sons shall bow down to thee; cursed be they that curse thee, and blessed be they that bless thee" (ibid: 26-29). You are blessed in Isaac's second blessing to Jacob: "And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest become a multitude of people. And may He give the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojourn, which God gave to Abraham" (ibid, 28: 3-4). You are blessed in the dream of Jacob: "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it" (ibid: 12).