#21 B’re’shiyt - Yom, Torah - Chukat- B’midbar 19
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Sh’ma
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28 June 2014 ~ 30 Sivan 5774
Torah Parashah Chukat - B’midbar /Numbers 19:1-22:1 cjb p 171
B’re’shiyt teaching #21 B’re’shiyt 1:5 (based on Brad Scott's B're'shiyt word by word study)
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B’re’shiyt 1:5
“Vay-yiq’ra’ Elohiym la’or yom, val’chosheck qara’ lay’lah. Vay’hiy- ‘erv vay’hiy - boqer, yom ‘echad.”
“And called God the light Day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the day one.”
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Review: of 1:5 so far... Vay-yiq’ra Elohiym la’or...
Vay-yiq’ra’ (= name of book in english = leviticus)
The root = kaRA.
and it literally means = “to summon to a direction”, calling something - to move it or turn it in a particular direction.
When YHWH calls something He changes it forever.
Elohiym = is God - the ONE
La’or = LIGHT
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The new word we are on today is ....
YOM
Yah calls the light - day. YOM.
There are several ways you can look at YOM /day...
YOM is translated in scriptures as =
“day, age, according to the time, in the time, season, to ascend, and to be hot”
the literal meaning of YOM = “to ascend” or “to be hot”.
Yom refers to the part of the day when the sun shines… when it (appears) to ascend….
Yom is a word like TORAH…
Torah speaks of 1st 5 books of Scriptures…it also describes ALL the Tanakh … and it is also used as the entire Word of YHWH - the whole book - both theTanakh and B’rit Chadashah (OT and NT).
Yom is like that - it’s etymology speaks of the light part…but also speaks of the whole 24 hour period - the evening and the morning… so it can mean the whole 24 hours...
BUT -specifically, it is the light or hot part of the day.
Other uses of Yom:…
1. There are symbolic uses of Yom
2. There are also - specific and undetermined periods of time which “YOM /day” refers to.
3. There are times when it is mentioned is just part of a day… … 4. and when you put #s with YOM /day - it refers generally to specific time…
As “YOM” relates to its beginning in B’re’shiyt 1:5 - we have to begin with its literal meaning or else all the symbology in the scriptures, have nothing to base their symbolism on.
That is why Yah specifically makes it a point to associate things with the day - when it is rising - when it is hot, AND also gives it an evening and a morning when it is first mentioned
in verse 5 ....
....and also puts a number to it - which is ECHAD = one.
Brad Scott says that this is so that it has a literal meaning … so when people read it they will not conclude silly things with it like “giant great geological periods of time”…
Which is why YHWH associates it with little literal periods of time … so we know that YHWH is speaking about a literal period of time here and not geological spans of time.
But, there are uses of YOM that are not based on the literal or the small amount.. . like “Day of the Lord”…in our English Bibles.... which should read “haYom of YHWH”.
But we wouldn’t know what YHWH was saying - if he did not begin with the literal meaning of the word Day - the light part, or hot part of one single sun time.
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In the verses with literal meaning it is understood….
1. The p’shat is that YOM is a 24 hour period.
There are many people that would say - “If YOM is a 24 hour period and you are saying that the light that was brought forth in B’re’shiyt 1:3 - is not the sun…. Then, how if there is no sun, can there be a 24 hour period - if there is no sun which we measure this by??”
Scott says.....”Well, the sun is going to be placed for the express purpose of man being placed upon the earth… there is no reason for the sun yet in 1:3… man not on earth yet, and no plants and animals yet that need photosynthesis to grow… Yah is going to place the sun at just the right time when, and in order for, man to mark time and in order for plants to grow…
....That does not mean that just b/c there is no sun - that 24 hours are not being met here... The earth can make one full rotation without the sun.
Man is the one that needs the sun to mark a 24 hour period of time… Yah certainly doesn’t need the sun for 24 hours to pass…
He is establishing the meaning of day here....
and then he is going to use it symbolically… There is nothing that prevents Yah from having a 24 hour period here and putting in evening and morning - even though there is no sun yet.
Just before man and beast come upon the earth - b/c the animals are also going to be in need of sun light etc… Yah is going to place the sun right at appropriate time… The day after plants and vegetables…and right before animals and then man.
Uses of YOM
- The p’shat is that YOM is a 24 hour period.
B’re’shiyt 1:5, 8,13,19,23, 31; 7:12 rain upon earth 40 days and 40 nights.
If Yah wanted us to know that it was 40 -24 hour periods..how much more info does he have to give us? !
However… “if He wanted it to be a “span of time” .. would he have put a # to it… like 40 evenings??!!”
No - there is no other way he could have said it to give us more info that we are talking about 40 -24 hour periods here… The same in the days.. evening and morning in general.
Mattityahu /Matthew 12:40 cjb p 1238
“For just as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the depths of the earth.”
- Yahshua trying to describe prophecy - 3 days and 3 nights in the fish… so shall the Son of Man be 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth….
.... If Yahshua was just going to be there parts of time… would he have said it like this?? -- NO!
He is talking about the time Yahshua will spend from burial - to resurrection…
which is time we are not given specifically in scriptures… all we are told is that he had risen when the women came to the grave, and that they came on the first day of the week -- which is “meaton sabatone” in Greek which is literally translated as … “on one of the sabbaths they came to the grave and it was empty”
So the Yahshua is giving us….specific info using numbers associated with evenings and mornings and days and nights
..........and there is no other way that he could say it than to say it like this if he was talking about literal 24 hour periods.
- Another p’shat teaching = “days with numbers”, “synecdoche” (Greek) = ‘part of a day”
Sh’mot /Exodus 2:13 cjb p 61
our Complete Jewish Bible says...
”One day, when Moshe was a grown man he went out to visit his kinsmen; and he watched them struggling at forced labor. He saw and Egyptian strike a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.”
King James says...
“and when he went out the 2nd day, behold 2 men of the Hebrew strove together”
… now here is the use of a cardinal number but not 1,2,3,4,5,…but rather an ordinal number “second”.
-“shinee”… refers to some point in the day but not a specific time… at some part of the day… = “synecdoche” (Greek) = parts for the whole and the whole for the part…. = greek idiom implies - and - is also understood when people talk about it with Yahshua’s resurrection …
With....death on Fri - resurrection on Sunday - which you can not possibly get “three days and three nights” out of…but they insist that this is “synecdoche” which can mean part of a day… Well even if there was no mention of “3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the earth”… then they could be correct,
-EXCEPT for one thing - you still can’t get 3 nights even if it is part of a night.. if it is a Friday afternoon death and a sunday morning resurrection… you can’t get it.
Use of “synecdoche” =
Sh’mot 2:25 cjb p 61
“YHWH saw the people of Isra’el, and YHWH acknowledged them.”
- could be parts of days…. even tho “number” is associated with days…
other uses:… Vayiq’ra 12:2; D’variym 27:11; 9:1; Mark 9:2; Yochanan 1:39; 12:1
C. Another p’shat teaching of YOM = a specific day / speaking of a specific day…
Sh’mot 12:6 cjb p 71
“You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month of the year for you.”
The word YOM is used when it says..”14th day of the same month”…..
This refers to a specific day in the month.
Other scripture references = Sh’mot 20:8; Vayiq’ra 23:6; Yochanan 2:23; 5:10; Ma’sey hashaSh’liyechiym 2:1
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The Remez teaching of YOM = a hint of something far deeper…
- Remez - undetermined period of time —
- Hagai 2:23 cjb p 773
- Amos 9:11 cjb p 741 - in other words we are not given any description as to the length of this time.
- Eph 6:13 cjb p 1464
- Luke 21:34 cjb p 1322
- Ovad’yah 1:12 cjb p 743
- Remez - determined period of time —
- tz’fan’yah /Zephania 1:14 cjb p 767
- “The Great Day of YHWH is near, near and coming very quickly…” =a determined period of time
- Y’sh’yahu 10:3 cjb p 451 - another reference to a period of time, not referring to 24 hours but a period of time…
- 2 Kefa 3:10 cjb p 1523
“However, the Day of YHWH (The Day of the LORD) will come ‘like a thief’ On that Day the heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will melt and disintegrate, and the earth and everything in it will be burned up.”
There is also - idiomatic use with respect to the days…”back in the days of Avraham”… not speaking of the day and night and even and morning or even a period of time… other than referring to the time in which he lived.
-The same in - 1 Thessalonians 5:5 cjb p 1476
“for you are all people who belong to the light, who belong tot he day. We don’t belong tot he night or to darkness,”
One of the most significant uses of this word Yom is used in reference to “The Day of the LORD/ YHWH”…
Now “The Day of the LORD/ YHWH” - is not referencing a 24 hour period…
.......but the 24 hour period of a natural day in the beginning gives us a foundation of how it is going to be used prophetically
-in Hebrew thinking.... the Day of YHWH is that last day when there is a time of great judgment and cleansing and the Mashiach is going to rule.
This is the Messianic Age… and the time of “Ya’akov’s trouble” would be the beginning of that .....
“that Day of the Lord/YHWH” is a reference to the last 1000 years…
It is also what is recorded in 2 Kefa 3:8 cjb p 1523 - “one day is like a 1000 years and 1000 years like one day…”
The “Day of the Lord/YHWH” - is that 7th day = Shabbat....
2 kefa 3:10 cjb p 1523 “However, the Day of the Lord /YHWH will come ‘like a thief’ ....
....Why does he say it this way?
- he’s defined what days are, and the last day is a shabbat, and there is 1000 years for each day that is presented in the very beginning - that last day being 1000 years…. but it is based upon our understanding being upon a natural day which begins in the night and concludes in the light…
and so…he says but “the Day of the Lord will come as thief in the night” - which is based on a natural pattern from the beginning…
and so with that in mind…
The phrases” -
“in that time”, or “in that day”
“at that time” or “at that day”
“in that day”…
....is a reference to “the Day of the Lord /YHWH”
This is in the Word hundreds of times…
....and it is referencing “The great Day of the Lord /YHWH” which is the Shabbat….
Let’s think about this....
“The Day of the Lord / YHWH” …
....A day begins in eve and ends in morning… the word “day” - used connotatively = 24 hour period…
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....used denotatively - is like the word “Torah” - in that it has a meaning that speaks of multiple things….
Shaul verifies this - in 1 Corinthians 14: 21 cjb p 1436 - where he calls words from Y’sheYahu /Isaiah - “Torah”.
And yet, denotatively we speak of the 1st five books when we say Torah.
But YOM / DAY - as it is used of that last period of time is used as evening and morning…
....remember it starts out in gloominess…and it starts out in night and then ends in the day time in the brightness of the light.
that is the way the Day of the Lord / The Day of YHWH - will be…
“It will begin with the great tribulation and darkness and doom and it will end with brightness of the light.”
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now keep that in mind as we go through a few uses of this…
Ref to shabbat or the 7th day the Great Day of the Lord…
Amos 3:14 cjb p 729 “in the day…”
Z’kharyah /Zach 12:3 cjb p 782 -“in that day”…
Z’kharyah /Zach 13:1 cjb p 783 now up to Yom Kippur time… = further along in The Great Day…
Z’kharyah /Zach 14:8-9 “in that day”…. living waters go out from Jerusalem…
B’rit Chadashah / New Testament examples:
Idomatic Hebrew phrases to speak of the Shabbat - the last day = the Day of YHWH…
Mattityahu 7:22 cjb p 1231 “many shall say unto me… in that day…”
Mark 13: 32 cjb p 1281 - “of That Day and of that hour knoweth no man…”
Mark 14:25 cjb p 1282
John 12: 48 cjb p 1348
i believe these are days referring to the end times…
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In Hebrew - when you say YOM - you are saying - DAY.
When you say “Yom yom” = you are saying “every day”
Hayom - you put a definite article = today
yom yom me = something that occurs daily
yom yom meut = commonness or ordinariness
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Next time we will talk about...
LAY’LAH = darkness, night
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Torah Parashah Chukat -
B’midbar /Numbers 19:1-22:1 cjb p 171
This parashah starts with the Red Heifer Sacrifice....
What is it?
The Red Heifer - is a red cow....
If found 2 single white hairs on that heifer - that cow was disqualified.
The hoofs even have to be red.
No defect - no wart or boil etc...
It has to be “perfect”.
If a yoke was ever put on it - it is disqualified.
.. if you put a blanket on it - it disqualifies it..
...can’t lean on it - or it is disqualified...
...no work - ever.
you could lead it and put a rope on it, only if it was to help it or save its life.
There have only been 7 or 9 red heifer sacrifices in the history of the world (depending on who you ask).
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According to The Temple Institute... there has just been a Red Heifer born recently in the USA and it meets the qualifications and they are raising it as such!!
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One of the gates of Jerusalem... is called the...
Inspection gate - just north and just east of the Temple....
.... and when the doors of the Temple were open and this gate opened... one could see from across the bridge.... right into the Temple and even into the Holy of Holies if the parachet was torn...!!...
From the Inspection gate..... there was a three teared bridge
that went over to the Mt of Olives!
This bridge was built b/c the Mt of Olives and Kidron Valley is a cemetery
- So, because one couldn’t cross a grave - b/c you’d become ceremonially unclean....
- They had to build a bridge so didn’t “walk on death”.
Yechezk’el /Ezekiel 43:21 cjb p 699
“You are to take the bull which is the sin offering and have it burned up at the designated place of the house, outside the sanctuary.”
- Had to burn it in the appointed place.. outside the temple!!
The -Mipqad = the appointed place... the appointed gate - the Inspection Gate.....used for the High Priest.
The Cohen Hagadol - the High Priest -took the Red heifer and inspected it both again and finally, at the Inspection Gate.
Then the person assigned, and the Cohen HaGadol, and the guy to clean up the ashes ... (and probably others!) would take it across the bridge to the Mt of Olives.
The sacrifice (Killing) did not have to be done by a priest.
Sh’mot /Exodus 38:25-26 cjb p 105 - “numbered” -numbering all the men of Isra’el... = a census.
Numbered = Paquad = to number
Sh’mot /Ex 38:26 cjb p 105- Literal Translation: “ a bekah for a head, that is half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone passing over to those numbered, from a son of twenty years ad upward, ...”
“Those numbered”.... (each person counted)
in CJB = “for everyone”
The Hebrew word for “those numbered” (“everyone” in cjb ) is...
.... golgolet = skull, a poll/census, every man
At the end of time, every man will be numbered
By the first century this counting place was called.... “ golgotha”.
- Yes this is where - the exact place --- Y’shua was sacrificed!
So.... when they did the census - this is where they would count the men/people.
This was the main place or GATE people would come into Jerusalem through.
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The altar for the sacrifice of the Red Heifer Sacrifice...
was considered a “clean” place...
At the altar, the person making the sacrifice took the Red Heifer and faced it due west toward the temple ..
the head of the cow would be looking directly at/ “into” the temple..
then priests would open the doors of the Temple,
and would open the curtain to the Holy of Holies...
The Temple curtain around the Holy of Holies had to be open for the sacrifice to be valid.
(This altar outside the Temple was about 200 feet away...so could easily see inside the temple)
and the one making the sacrifice would kill/sacrifice the animal.
B’Midbar /Numbers 19:4 cjb p 171 “El’azar the cohen is to take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle this blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.”
For the sprinkling ... The one killing the cow would - right hand, cut the neck of the cow, and the left hand caught some of the blood.
Then the Cohen HaGadol took the index finger of his right hand ... and 7 times sprinkled it towards the doors of sanctuary...and toward the Holy of Holies.
Remember - he is about 200 feet away...so could easily see inside the temple.....
Blood is sprinkled 7 times toward front of tabernacle... the Holy of Holies.
Then the one doing the sacrifice would light the dead Red Heifer on fire.
After the fire is burning, he would take hyssop and cedar wood and wrap it in scarlet wool and throw it in the fire...( which all had meanings we don’t have time for....)
As soon as the Red Heifer was all burned up ... they would beat the bones and ashes, into fine ashes...
and then take the ashes and put them in “a clean place”
and leave them in the clean place for three days.
“A clean place”....
= newly hewn rock... rock not porous - so newly hewn and no dead bodies in there... It was a clean place and painted white...
They would leave them in this this “clean place” for three days.
After 3 days - they would go get the ashes, and mix them with living water
...and then that water would be used to cleanse the things of the temple and
- The priests were inaugurated into their position of service - only when they had ashes and water of a red heifer was sacrifice.
It didn’t matter that they were born into the role - the family line...
they could only start their service after the cleansing of the red heifer sacrifice.
You could be called a priest from birth, but you could not start your ministry because you were defiled and only cleaned by the red heifer sacrifice.
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So let’s some connections.... with Mashiach...
There were Red Heifers born in 1997 and one in 2002 -both disqualified...
The birth of a Red Heifer always makes big news in Isra’el...
because ... the Mishnah says “the next red heifer will bring the 3rd temple and Messiah.”
So when a red heifer born, there is a celebration...
When Yahshua was born.... the Heavenly Host Sang!
Red heifer watched for three years
Y’shua watched for 3 years of ministry.
He had to have a 3 year ministry...
b/c red heifer has to be watched for three years!!!
The night before Yahshua’s death... they brought him to Cohen HaGadol - the High Priest - for “inspection”
... and then to golgotha....
and to get there... He had to go through the Inspection Gate.
And what was going on at the Inspection Gate...
This is where he fell....The Gate of the Inspection - the “last counting...
and here the yoke had to be removed or it would have disqualified him once he crossed through the gate, he had to be without a yoke
- because... it was at that point that Yahshua was the Red Heifer sacrifice.
(I do not know why it was okay for him to carry stake at all.)
Red Heifer must be acquired through money from the temple treasury. purchased by temple treasury...
The finding of Yahshua was paid for from the Temple treasury to Judas (30 pieces of silver)
The Red Heifer must be without defect/ blemish
Y’ahshua was without blemish/ sin
--Why wouldn’t it be a white heifer??
Why RED??
=In Bible sin is RED... death is black.
Why, if no blemish/sin - wouldn’t this be a white cow??
The traditional Rabbis can’t figure this out -
They don’t know why the very sacrifice that cleanses all Isra’el ... makes those who do the sacrifice - unclean...
Why not a white cow?
Red represents sin and death
white represents truth and life
What the rabbis don’t connect is that the cow had to be red because it is taking on all sins of Isra’el and so it can’t be white..
- you don’t burn something that is perfect...
It’s a perfect cow......but it’s red... and that means it represents all the sins of Isra’el.
So technically what is going on in the Red Heifer sacrifice is ...
.....they were burning sin outside the camp.
The Red Heifer was handed over to high priest for examination
Yahshua was handed over to Kayafus for examination.
why did Yahshua have to be examined??...b/c that was exactly what the Red Heifer sacrifice - the sin sacrifice required.
They led the cow outside the inspection gate to the Mt of Olives to be sacrificed...
There are no priestly qualifications on who burns the red heifer
... it didn’t have to be a priest.
--The Romans had no priestly qualifications to crucify the Messiah...
If the Torah would have required a priest for the Red Heifer sacrifice
- Yahshau would have been disqualified as Red Heifer sacrifice... b/c it was the Romans who did the killing of Y’shua.
The blood had to be sprinkled 7 times toward the temple
one for each day of the week and each millennium of creation (7k years!)
When Adam sinned, what happened?...
It caused all other men to be born into sin and into an unclean state... every generation for the next 7 thousand years = unclean...
So the blood was offered toward the temple seven times to cover the sin of all man.
The curtain in the temple must be open during the sacrifice for the sacrifice to be valid!!
When Yahshua died.... the curtain of the Holy of Holies ripped completely from top to bottom!
-The same curtain that would have been open for the Red Heifer sacrifice....
But remember, there is no Levitical High Priest b/c Kayafus had disqualified himself when he tore his clothes at Yahshua’s trial...
So Yahshua is the only High Priest - Thee Melchizedek!
... So there he is -“overseeing” his own sacrifice.... and he can see right into the Holy of Holies!
- thus validating his own sacrifice!!!!
The curtain around the Holy of Holies was ripped by an earthquake...
How did that happen?....
Well, the stone on top holding the curtain that was around the Holy of Holies was 30 tons....
So the earthquake happens.... the earth is shaking...
and
30 tons of rock fell to the ground...
that must have been a huge noise coming from the temple....
so of course everyone would have looked!!
The Torah requires that the high priest has to LOOK into the Holy of Holies... for the Red Heifer sacrifice to be valid....
when the rock falls... it had to catch Yahshua’s attention, and anyone else who is out there!
.... a major earth quake - doors open , 30 ton rock falls... curtain rips in half... and everyone is looking b/c it is such a huge earthshaking change...
...and another criteria is met by Yahshua’s sacrifice!!
So... when the curtain rips...
Yahshua is on the stake... looking directly into the Holy of Holies....
into the face, the panim - of YHWH!
...and his father turns his head....
YHWH chooses to allow the Benah - the one who is the plan to bring the restoration - to remain on the stake and die.
Remember that YHWH is echad... so this is not two persons.... Yahshua was looking at the strength of YHWH - his own strength an couldn’t do anything but carry on with the sacrifice.
YHWH must turn His head b/c of the crimson red - Yahshua has become sin...because He took on all our sins.
His own strength and power and holiness must look away
Yahshua - full of blood - ripped to shreds - nothing but blood...
Yahshua is RED.
- The first sin sacrifice -the cow - is red.
It is not until the ashes of the red heifer sacrifice are combined with living water that brings forth new life
Immersion is the combination of the death of Messiah and Living water
They took ashes of red heifer - and sit them in a clean place for three days and,
then put them in living water - on the third day...
and then on the 7th day the people are then declared clean.
IN baptism... we are immersed into death of Yahshua .. connecting death of Yahshua with living water...
So - until you are mikvahed... baptism with water and fire.... what fire??
what is the writer of Hebrews talking about? the red heifer sacrifice - burning - fire and water....
The death of Messiah mixed with living water of Word and be baptized with his spirit ...
He is the lamb of YHWH that takes away the sins of the world...
....crucified on the Mt of Olives - where the Red Heifer sacrifice was sacrificed...... looking into the holy of holies...
-- satisfying every single step - the prophecy of the Red Heifer sacrifice
Ashes of Red Heifer sacrifice were then gathered and taken to a clean place in newly hewn stone.
Yahshua was placed in a newly hewn stone of Joseph of Arimathea
- and the cow ashes were put in a mini tomb...
The ashes would be taken to a clean place until the 3rd day... then they were mixed with living water and used for cleansing.
Yahshua/YHWH... rose on the 3rd day and later came back as Ruach HaKodesh (Remember YHWH is echad!)
So.... the death, burial and resurrection represent:
the Yom Kippur sacrifice- sin
the Pesach sacrifice - freedom for slavery and no firstborn death
the Red Heifer sacrifice... a washing of sin that sets priests into their “office”/ role and priests.
you must be sprinkled by that gospel...
when you are sprinkled on the “3rd day” - (His resurrection) - accepting YHWH’s plan walking in his ways..
on the 7th day - 7,000 years.... you will be mikvahed again but this time it will be directly by Him...
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- Ever wondered why he comes back on the Mt of Olives in Revelation??
... b/c that is the place of golgotha.. the counting of the census.. the inspection gate - the entrance of the city...
Yahshua said “I am the way.... to my Father... No one goes to him except through me”...
Where is Father in 1st century Hebrew??
- He is in the Holy of Holies...
the bridge/gate -over the death across the valley.. and the counting of the censes starts...
and nobody goes across that valley unless you pass by HIM. He will be doing the census.
The fist red heifer was in the 3rd Millennium and Y’shua is coming back at the beginning of the 7th Millennium.
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We know that depending who one asks... there have been either 7 or 9 Red Heifers....
If we assume that 7 is correct....
7 cows sacrificed - 8 = new beginnings.... So Yahshua would have been the NEW BEGINNING!
and remember there is a new red heifer just born!......
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I also want to mention :
B’midbar /Numbers 20:7-11 cjb p 172
Sh’mot 17:4-6 cjb p 79
He hit the rock in the beginning...
And how did Isra’el live?
They lived in a time of miracles... for 40 years they lived in miracles...
We might think about this time and think if we’d have seen the sea part and if we’d have seen the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and all the manna from Shamayim...
The rabbinical teaching is that at Mt Sinai - when the Torah was given - it was like YHWH held the mountain over them and said - i will crush you with the mountain if you don’t agree...
and while we know YHWH did not say that... the point of that “picture” is... that there was a lot of signs - lightening and fire and noise going on..... you would have had to be stupid to not agree....
And it is like that in nature... Nature serves YHWH - it does what it was designed to do - unless /until man messes it up.
The Torah says that “even the rocks will cry out” if we do not worship HIM.
So Isra’el lived in Moshe’s leadership - in a time of miracles....
And still they complained.... they constantly changed their minds and wanted to return to Mitzriem - Egypt - sin.
and so at first when YHWH gave them water from a rock - Moshe struck it....
but then in the end he wasn’t supposed to hit it - he was supposed to speak to it.... and instead - probably fed up with the complainers around him - he struck the rock... and because he did that he wasn’t allowed to lead the people into the promised land.
Wow does that seem unfair.
what is the point??
The point is - that for 40 years, these people have been living in a time of miracles.... they SAW YHWH’s presence or the results of His presence....
and going into the Land - they had to know that they had to just speak it and trust that HE would do it....
The reality is - it doesn’t take much spiritual maturity to live in miracles....
but it takes a lot of spiritual maturity - FAITH - TRUST - to live in a place where we don’t see constant miracles....
So how do you live??
Do you TRUST?!!
AMEIN.
What was significant to you?
What did you learn??
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