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Yoke
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From H5953; ayoke (asi mp osed on the neck), literally or figuratively: - yoke.
Mat 11:28Come unto me, allye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye
shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30For my yokeis easy, and my burden is light.
Being yoked w/ Yahshua is connected w/ being His friend and His disciple.
H441
Strongs #441: AHLB#: 2001 (d)
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ALP) ac:Gu id e co:Yok e ab:L earn : The yoke of the oxen, the yoke of learning. An
older experienced ox is yoked to a younger inexperienced one in order to teach it how to pull a load. A
thousand, as a large number of oxen. [from:la - an ox as wearing a yoke for work] (eng: elephant)
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A-LP) - I. Learn: To learn by example in the sense of being yoked to another.II.
Thousand: To make or bring forth a thousand, a thousand-fold. [freq. 5] (vf: Hiphil, Paal, Piel) |kjv:
teach, learn, utter, bring forth thousands| {str: 502, 503}
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A-LP) - I. Ox: II. Thousand: [Hebrew and Aramaic] [freq. 517] |kjv: kine, oxen,
family| {str: 504, 505, 506}
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PflaA-LWP) - Guide: One who is yoked to another to lead and teach. [freq. 69] |kjv: duke,
guide, friend, governor, captain, ox| {str: 441}
Joh 15:14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
Like a divine paradox, Y'shua promises rest and peace as a person accepts His yoke. To a
modern day person accustomed to emails and cell phones, the idea of a yoke is foreign.
Yet, in ancient cultures farming with a yoke was a common practice. A yoke was usually
made of wooden beams and paired two animals together. The yoke helped the farmer
steer the animals in the correct direction. The yoke would also balance the load to help
the weaker animal.(Deu 22:10) Throughout the Bible, the concept of a "yoke" is used in
reference to submission. Exodus speaks of a yoke of Egyptian slavery that the Hebrews
experienced. The books of Jeremiah and I Kings talk about the harsh yoke of kings.
These ideas seem directly opposite to what Y'shua spoke of. The yoke of slavery is hard.
Y'shua said his yoke is "easy." So, what did he really mean?
In Judaism there is a concept called the "yoke of the Kingdom. Jewish sages believe
that everyone who strives to love **YHWH with all their heart, soul, mind and strength
accepts upon themselves the "yoke of the Kingdom." One rabbi was written,
Abot 3:5 R. Nehunya b. Haqqaneh says, “From whoever accepts upon himself the yoke of
Torah do they remove the yoke of the state and the yoke of hard labor. `“And upon whoever removes from himself the yoke of the Torah do they lay the yoke of the state and the yoke of hard labor.”
Jer 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way
of the LORD,and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the
yoke,and burst the bonds (Psa 2:3).
Jer 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil
them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in
pieces: because their transgressions are many,and their backslidings are increased.
The Torah shouldn't be ignored as ancient rules but acted upon as instructions for living. Yet, the Torah can become a hard yoke of bondage and slavery. Weight is applied when people try to earn their salvation through works. This isn't what Y'shua intended. He said "my yoke (TORAH) is easy and my burden is light." How is the Torah made light?
When we are yoked with Him we and realize that He carries the burden.Y' s hua
makes the yoke easy for us. The yoke of Y'shua was His burden of perfectly walking out
the Father's will. His burden was to give His life as a living example and a living
sacrifice. Y'shua s yoke is the kingdom rule. He showed us how to live. We should
simply follow His example and yoke up with Him. This idea is supported by several other
verses in the Newer Testament.
In Acts we learn that added unbiblical commandments are like a yoke of slavery. "Now
therefore why do you tempt YHWH, to put a yoke upon the neck of the talmidim /
disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" Acts 15:10, Restoration
Scriptures True Name Edition. A dded "works of law" of men being taught as if they
were Torah cloud the difference between man' s law and YHWH's Torah. Neither
Yisraelites of that day nor the disciples could keep all those added burdens, "
Y'shua's yoke is easy and His burden is light. However, it is man made rules and
regulations that weigh us down. The church and the synagogue keep folks busy with
meetings and blind with man-made rules. Compared to the religious leaders of yesteryear
and even our day, Y'shua's burden truly is light. "Stand fast therefore in the liberty in
which Moshiach has made us free, and be not harnessed again under the yoke of slavery,"
Galatians 5:1.
We are delivered from the yoke of slavery to serve YHWH
Lev 26:13Iam the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye
should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you
go upright.
Lev 26:14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
Lev 26:15And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will
not do all my commandments,bu t that ye break my covenant:
Lev 26:16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the
burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed
in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.........
Yahshua came to deliver us from the yoke of slavery
Isa 9:2The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light. The ones who dwell
in the land of the shadow of death, light has shone on them.
Isa 9:3You have not multiplied the nation; You have not increased the joy. They
rejoice before You as in the joy of harvest, asme n shout when they divide the
plunder.
Isa 9:4For You have broken his burdensome yoke and the staff of his
shoulder, the rod of his taskmaster, asin the day of Midian.
Isa 9:5For every boot of the trampleris with shaking, and a coat rolled in blood shall
be burning fuel for the fire.
Isa 9:6For a Child is born; to us a Son is given; and the government is on His
shoulder; and His name is called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The
Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isa 9:7There is no end to the increase ofHi s government and of peace on the throne
of David, and on His kingdom, to order it, and to sustain it with justice and with
righteousness, from now and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will do this.
Isa 14:24Jehovah of Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it shall be;
and as I have purposed, it shall rise up;
Isa 14:25to break Assyria in My land, and trample him on My mountains. Then his
yoke shall depart from them, and his burden shall depart from his shoulders.
Jer 30:7Alas! For that dayis great, for noneis like it. And itis a time of Jacob's
trouble, but he will be saved out of it.
Jer 30:8For it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will break his yoke from
your neck, and I will burst your bonds. And strangers will not again enslave him;
Jer 30:9but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will
raise up to them.
If we refuse to serve YHWH, He sets us back in the yoke of slavery.
Deu 28:47Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of allt hi ngs;
Deu 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against
thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of allt hi ngs: and he shall put a yoke
of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
the goad/pricks
Act 9:5And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:
it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks(goad).
Ecc 12:10The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was writtenwas
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