Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.
Aliyah
Reviee 20:14-21
Num 20:14 And Mosheh sent messengers from Qaḏĕsh
to the sovereign of Eḏom. “This is what your brother Yisra’ĕl said, ‘You know
all the hardship (tiredness) that has befallen us, (or found us)
The Israelites find themselves once again at
Kadesh Barnea – the same place they were turned back into the wilderness 38
years previously. Perhaps it felt like dei – javu, the same things were
happening all over again. This time instead of the negative report from the 10
spies – Mirian and Aaron die and Moshe strikes the rock twice for water and in
turn is refused entry into the land.
The
name Kadesh Barnea also just called Kadesh means “a set apart place of desert
wondering” There are some scholars who believe this is the same place as modern
day Petra – a place of refuge. Our destinies seem inextricably linked to
spending significant time in the wilderness.
Deu 8:2
“And you shall remember that יהוה your Elohim
led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove
you, to know what is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not.
Num
20:14 And Mosheh sent messengers from
Qaḏĕsh to the sovereign of Eḏom. “This is what your brother Yisra’ĕl said,
‘You know all the hardship (tiredness) that has befallen us, (or found us)
Num
20:15 that our fathers went down to
Mitsrayim, and we dwelt in Mitsrayim a long time, and the Mitsrites did evil to
us and our fathers.
Num
20:16 ‘And we cried out to יהוה, and He heard
our voice and sent the Messenger and brought us up out of Mitsrayim. And see,
we are in Qaḏĕsh, a city on the edge of your border.
Yahveh did not send “the Messenger” but a messenger.
Num 20:17 ‘Please let us pass over, through your land.
We shall not pass over through fields or vineyards, nor drink water from wells,
we shall go along the sovereign’s highway. We shall not turn aside, right or
left, until we have passed over your border.’ ”
Num
20:18 But Eḏom said to him, “You do not
pass over through me, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
The
king of Edom(descended from Esav) suggested that he was quite content to lay
hold to Esav’s blessing of the sword.
The
spirit of Esav is the spirit of all religion – it is inherently hostile towards
the sons of Yakov. We can certainly be
assured that this same spirit is alive and well and will do all to resist an
end time remnant from returning to the land of Yisrael. The spirit of Esav is
alive and well in modern day Judasim and Christianity and Islam. So let’s arm
ourselves with this reality, because it too soon will end.
Baruch
Ha Shem YHVH the spirit of Yakov is also alive and well all over the earth and
can often be found in the strangest of places and peoples.
Midrash on Ovadyah 1.
Oba
1:10 “Because of your violence against your brother Ya‛aqoḇ, let shame
cover you. And you shall be cut off forever.
Num 20:19 And the children of Yisra’ĕl said to him, “We
shall go by the highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then
I shall pay for it. Let me only pass over on foot, without a word.”
Num 20:20 But he said, “You do not pass over.” And
Eḏom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.
Num 20:21 So when Eḏom refused to let Yisra’ĕl pass
over through his border, Yisra’ĕl turned away from him.
This
would have been a short cut, now they had to travel the long way round to reach
the promised land. An end time people will have to face the fact that there are
no shortcuts – no ‘’Pre-trib Rapture!’’
This
issue of the Edomites refusing Yisrael passage through their territory is
repeated twice. This is perhaps an end time application of Edomite resistance.
Who
are the Edomites? The Roman Catholic and Protestant churches who are the
carriers of the pagan western culture? There may even be an Edomite element
amongst the Yuhadim today.
We
can be certain that an end time Hebrew bride of Messiah will be resisted to the
utmost from returning to the land of Yisrael.
Aliyah
Chamishi 20:22-21:9
Num 20:22
And the children of Yisra’ĕl, all the company, departed from Qaḏĕsh and came to Mount
Hor.
In Hebrew “Mount Hor” is basically a repetition of
the same two words “mountain mountain” – We know that mountains are often
symbolic of challenges. There is possibly a hidden message in this place of
“double mountains” saying that “if you thought the wilderness was tough, entering
the land is going to be twice as tough.”
Mat 24:21 “For then
there shall be great distress,[c] such as has not been
since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Footnote: cOr great pressure, or great affliction.
Mat 24:22 “And if
those days were not shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the sake of the
chosen ones those days shall be shortened.
Num
20:23 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in Mount Hor
near the border of the land of Eḏom, saying,
Num 20:24 “Aharon is to be gathered to his people, for
he is not to enter the land which I have given to the children of Yisra’ĕl,
because you(plural) rebelled against My mouth at the water of Meriḇah.
um 20:25 “Take Aharon and El’azar his son, and bring
them up to Mount Hor,
Num 20:26 and strip Aharon of his garments and put them
on El’azar his son, for Aharon is to be gathered to his people and die there.”
Num 20:27 And Mosheh did as יהוה commanded, and
they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation.
Num 20:28 And
Mosheh stripped Aharon of his garments and put them on El’azar his son. And
Aharon died there on the top of the mountain. And Mosheh and El’azar came down
from the mountain.
Num 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aharon
was dead, all the house of Yisra’ĕl wept for Aharon, thirty days.
Num 21:1 And the sovereign of Araḏ,(Heb – fugitive) the
Kena’anite, who dwelt in the South, heard that Yisra’ĕl was coming on the way
to Atharim, and he fought against Yisra’ĕl and took some of them captive.
Num 21:2 Then Yisra’ĕl made a vow to יהוה, and said, “If You deliver this people
into my hand indeed, then I shall put their cities under the ban.”
“Ban”
- Hebrew “Cherem” means to completely destroy, to annihilate.
This vow is one of the
commandments of Torah to destroy all Canaanite nations.
Deu 20:16
“Only, of the cities of these peoples which יהוה your Elohim
gives you as an inheritance, you do not keep alive any that breathe,
Deu 20:17 but you shall certainly put them under the
ban: the Ḥittite and the Amorite and the Kenaʽanite
and the Perizzite and the Ḥiwwite and the Yeḇusite,
as יהוה your Elohim has commanded you,
Deu 20:18 lest they teach you to do according to all
their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin
against יהוה your Elohim.
YHVH
saves individuals from any place who respond to His call to come out of sin and
repent. One of Yahshua’s talmidim was a Kenaanite. The talmadim of Yahshua were
forbidden to go to these gentile cities. Later we see Shaul visiting these
cities. Why? Perhaps certain peoples and
cultures have given themselves over to the control of evil powers, but there
are always exceptional individuals who refuse to submit to the wickedness of
their prevailing culture – for example Ruth was a Moabite.
Mat 10:4
Shimʽon the Kenaʽanite, and Yehuḏah from Qerioth, who
did also deliver Him up.
Mat
10:5 יהושע sent these
twelve out, having commanded them, saying, “Do not go into the way of the
gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Shomeronites,
Mat 10:6
But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Num 21:3 And יהוה listened to
the voice of Yisra’ĕl and gave up the Kena’anites, and they put them and their
cities under the ban. So the name of that place was called Ḥormah. (Hormah means devoted to destruction – Num
14:45))
Num 21:4 And they departed from Mount Hor by the Way
of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Eḏom. But the being of the people grew impatient because of the way.
Num
21:5 And the people spoke against Elohim
and against Mosheh, “Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light
bread.”
Num
21:6 And יהוה sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people.
And many of the people of Yisra’ĕl died.
Num 21:7 Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, “We
have sinned, for we have spoken against יהוה and against
you. Pray to יהוה to take away
the serpents from us.” So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.
Num 21:8 And יהוה said to
Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent,(Heb – saraph) and set it on a pole. And it shall be
that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
Num 21:9 So
Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a
serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
Joh 3:14
“And as Mosheh lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the
Son of Aḏam
has to be lifted up,
Joh
3:15 so that whoever is believing in Him
should not perish but possess everlasting life.
“The
Brazen Serpent was a picture of the Messiah who was lifted up on an execution
stake; would heal those bitten by the poison of sin. Israel rebelled against
YHVH, and only by being obedient and believing YHVH’s healing of sin, could
they find healing. They needed to turn to the Brass Serpent if they desired
healing. In the same way, man must turn to Messiah who was lifted up on an execution stake (pole) if they want healing from the poison of sin.”
It is
profound that the Hebrew word for serpent “nachash” and the Hebrew word for
Messiah “Mashiach” both have a gematria of 358. (1 J ohn 3:8)
“This "brazen serpent" became an object of adoration to Yisrael, and so remained until Hezekiah destroyed it by breaking it into fragments (II Kings 18:4)
Aliyah Shishi 21:10-20
Num 21:10
And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in Oḇoth. (Familiar
spirits)
Num
21:11 And they departed from Oḇoth and
camped at Iyĕ Ha-Aḇarim,(ruined in crossing over) in the wilderness which is
east of Mo’aḇ, toward sunrise.
Num
21:12 From there they set out and camped
at the wadi Zereḏ. (unusual growth)
Num
21:13 From there they set out and camped
on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from
the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Mo’aḇ, between
Mo’aḇ and the Amorites.
Num
21:14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of יהוה, “Wahĕḇ in
Suphah, the wadi Arnon,
Num 21:15 and the slope of the wadi that turns aside to
the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Mo’aḇ.”
Num 21:16 And from there on to Be’ĕr, which is the well
where יהוה said to
Mosheh, “Gather the people, and let Me give them water.”
Num 21:17 Yisra’ĕl then sang this song: “Spring up, O
well! Sing to it,
Num 21:18 a well the leaders sank, which the nobles of
the people dug with their staves, by the word of the Law-giver.” Then
from the wilderness on to Mattanah, (statute maker staff – statute = chok)
Num 21:19 from Mattanah to Naḥali’ĕl, from Naḥali’ĕl
to Bamoth,
Num 21:20 and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the
country of Mo’aḇ, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland.
Aliyah Sheviee 21:21-22:1
Num 21:21
And Yisra’ĕl sent messengers to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, saying,
Num
21:22 “Let me pass through your land. We
shall not turn off into fields or vineyards, we shall not drink water from
wells, but go by the sovereign’s highway until we have passed over your
border.”
Num
21:23 But Siḥon would not allow
Yisra’ĕl to pass through his border. So Siḥon gathered all his people together
and went out against Yisra’ĕl in the wilderness, and he came to Yahats and
fought against Yisra’ĕl.
Num
21:24 And Yisra’ĕl smote him with the
edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the
Yabboq, as far as the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of
Ammon was strong.
Num
21:25 And Yisra’ĕl took all these
cities, and Yisra’ĕl dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites – in Ḥeshbon and
in all its villages,
Num
21:26 for Ḥeshbon was the city of
Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites, who had fought against the former
sovereign of Mo’aḇ, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the
Arnon.
Num
21:27 That is why those who speak in
proverbs say, “Come to Ḥeshbon, let the city of Siḥon be built and
established.
Num
21:28 “For fire went out from Ḥeshbon,
a flame from the city of Siḥon. It consumed Ar of Mo’aḇ, the masters of the
heights of the Arnon.
Num
21:29 “Woe to you, Mo’aḇ! You have
perished, O people of Kemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his
daughters into captivity, to Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites.
Num
21:30 “Then we shot them – Ḥeshbon has
perished as far as Diḇon. And we laid waste as far as Nophaḥ, which reaches
to Mĕyḏeḇa.”
Num
21:31 So Yisra’ĕl dwelt in the land of
the Amorites.
Num
21:32 And Mosheh sent to spy out Ya’zĕr.
And they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there,
Num
21:33 and turned and went up by the way
to Bashan. And Oḡ sovereign of Bashan went out against them, he and all his
people, to battle at Eḏre’i.
Num
21:34 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Do not fear him, for I
have given him into your hand, with all his people and his land. And you shall
do to him as you did to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at
Ḥeshbon.”
Num 21:35 And they
smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until no remnant was left to him.
And they took possession of his land.
Num 22:1 And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and
camped in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ beyond the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo.
We
need to remind ourselves that when Yahshua returns to rule and reign there will
be no opposition to any word from the Torah.
Rev 19:15 And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, (Torah)
that with it He should smite the nations. And He shall shepherd them with a rod
of iron. And He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Ěl Shaddai.
Rev 14:19 And the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth and
gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the
wrath of Elohim.
Rev 14:20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood
came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about one
thousand six hundred stadiad. Footnote: dApprox. 296 kilometres or 184
miles.
Every word of the Torah will be fulfilled and upheld when Yahshua returns.
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu,
Melech ha-‘Olam, asher natan lanu Toraht-emet, v’chay-yeh o’lam nata-b’tochenu.
Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Blessed are you Yahveh, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have
given us your Torah of truth, and have planted everlasting life within our
midst. Blessed are you, YHVH giver of the Torah – Ameyn
Please
note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are
in no way a final authority on any subject.