Aliyah Reviee 20:14-21
וישׁלח משׁה
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 and distress) 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 ‘’dejavu’’
- the same things were happening all over again. This time instead of the
negative report from the 10 spies – Miriyam and Aaron are dead, and Moshe is as
good as dead after he struck the rock twice for water (instead of speaking to
the rock) and in turn is refused entry into the land and there is mounting
hostility against Israel from various nations. (sounds familiar)
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 with ancient Israel - spending significant
time in the wilderness. (The central theme of the book of Numbers)
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.
It will be through obedience to the Torah and walking in humility before
YHVH that we will be able to discern the spiritual forces that will prevail in
the last days.
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.’ ” Gen 27:21-41
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 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 Judaism and Christianity and Islam. So,
let’s arm ourselves with this reality, and know it too soon will soon end – does
the USA represent a modern day spirit of Esav?
The spirit of Yakov is also alive and well all over the earth and will
not only witness the complete destruction of the Esav spirit but also witness
the return of Messiah.
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. (maybe its much
closer than we realize)
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, but now they have to travel the long
way round to reach the Promised Land. An end-time remnant may also have to face
the prospect of being forsaken by all in the wilderness of the nations.
Eze
20:33
“As I live,” declares the Master יהוה, “do not I, with a mighty hand, with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, reign over you?
Eze 20:34 “And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather
you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.
Eze 20:35 “And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the
peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there.
Eze 20:36 “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the
wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,”
declares the Master יהוה.
Eze 20:37 “And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring
you into the bond of the covenant,
Eze 20:38 and purge the rebels from among you, and those who
transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but
they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ěl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
Eze 20:39 “As for you, O house of Yisra’ěl,” thus said the Master יהוה, “Go,
serve each of you his idols, and afterwards, if you are not listening to Me.
But do not profane My set-apart Name any more with your gifts and your
idols.
Eze 20:40 “For on My set-apart mountain, on the mountain height of
Yisra’ěl,” declares the Master יהוה, “there all the house of Yisra’ěl, all of
them in the land, shall serve Me. There I shall accept them, and there I shall
require your offerings and the first-fruits of your offerings, together with
all your set-apart gifts.
Eze 20:41 “As a sweet fragrance I shall accept you when I bring you
out from the peoples. And I shall gather you out of the lands where you have
been scattered. And I shall be set-apart in you before the nations.
Eze 20:42 “And you shall know that I am יהוה, when I bring you into the land of
Yisra’ěl, into the land for which I lifted My hand in an oath to give to your
fathers.
Eze 20:43 “And there you shall remember your ways and all your
deeds with which you were defiled. And you shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight because of all the evils that you did.
Eze 20:44 “And you shall know that I am יהוה, when I have dealt with you for My Name’s sake, not according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Yisra’ěl,” declares the Master יהוה.’ ”
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? All those people and nations in the world that hate
the Jews and hate their right to occupy the land of Israel.
In the last days we will witness YHVH doing a ‘’new thing’’ - Isa 43:18 “Do not remember the former events, nor consider the events of old. Isa 43:19 “See, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness (Heb ‘’Bmidbar’’) and rivers in the desert.
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” הר ההר –
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.” in
fact this time it is going to be impossible to occupy the Promised Land without
the intervention of Messiah.
The cruel false messiah
will offer the Jews a false peace treaty to deceive them and attempt to
completely annihilate the Jewish people and all their friends.
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.
Isa 13:12 “I
shall make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than
the gold of Ophir.
The word
‘’scarce’’ is not used but implied. The prophecy alludes to the preciousness of
an end-time remnant.
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 talmidim 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 Yisra’el.
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. (evidence of the
serious underlying demonic problem for them then and for us now)
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. Yisrael 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 John 3:8)
Aliyah
Shishi 21:10-20 – Prophetic insights into end time journey back to the Promised
Land.
Num 21:10 And the children of
Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in Oḇoth. (Familiar spirits Strongs
88 & 178)
Num 21:11
And they departed from Oḇoth and camped at Iyĕ Ha-Aḇarim,(ruined in
crossing over S5863 – ‘’a falling away’’) 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, (S769
‘’joyful bubbling’’) 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.” (a gushing river)
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, (a gift of YHVH) (statute maker staff – statute = chok)
Num 21:19 from Mattanah to Naḥali’ĕl, from Naḥali’ĕl (strength of the stream) to
Bamoth, (Baal high place)
Num 21:20 and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Mo’aḇ, to the top of Pisgah (a place of contemplation) which looks down on the wasteland.
Aliyah
Sheviee 21:21-22:1
Num 21:21 And Yisra’ĕl sent
messengers to Siḥon (warriors) 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 (trodden down) 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 (Heb ‘’stronghold): 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.
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 stadia[d]. Footnote: dApprox. 296 kilometres or 184 miles.
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. Amein.”
Blessed are you YHVH, 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 – Amein.
Please note these notes are under construction and are subject to correction and are in no way a final authority on any subject.