Bamidbar (Numbers)- In the Wilderness- a Love journey with God Podcast June 11, 2022
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God’s never taken by surprise. His plan is perfect
God announced to Abraham of His plan for Israel to go in captivity and eventually into the wilderness
Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
God considers Israel His first born
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn.
God also redeems Israel to bring them to the wilderness to serve Him.
And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness”; but indeed, until now you would not hear!
The main purpose for the wilderness is:
Will you walk in My Law or not?
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.
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Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,
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In The wilderness
Wilderness or Midbar
The Lord spoke... in the Sinai Desert... on the first of the month : Because they were dear to Him, He counted them often. When they left Egypt, He counted them (Exod. 12:37); when [many] fell because [of the sin] of the golden calf, He counted them to know the number of the survivors (Exod. 32:28); when He came to cause His Divine Presence to rest among them, He counted them. On the first of Nissan, the Mishkan was erected, and on the first of Iyar, He counted them (Rashi- Rabbinical Commentary)
Three reasons God counted them
1-Appreciate the Growth after coming to Egypt- every Jew is important to God
2- To present every Jew to Moses and Aaron- more personal
3- Because people were going into Eretz Yisrael (which they would have, if they had not sinned in the event of the Spies) and needed to prepare an Army
Who leads you into the wilderness?
I the Lord have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”
who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;
He leads you into the wilderness to be tested
Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
He gets you in the wilderness to be persecuted and build character
Now it happened, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, “Take note! David is in the Wilderness of En Gedi.”
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
He leads you in to the wilderness to feed you
Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
In the wilderness we seek for comfort from Him and cry out His name
“Comfort, yes, comfort My people!” Says your God.
“Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the Lord’s hand Double for all her sins.”
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.
‘For thus says the Lord God: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.
In the wilderness He gives His children His name
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
“Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them:
“The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” ’
“So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”
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Names of the Children of Israel
Top- North
Dan - God has judged
Asher- Happy and Blessed
Naphtali - Great wrestlings
Left - West
Benjamin - Son of the Right Hand
Manasseh - God made me forget my toil
Ephraim - God caused me to be fruitful
Right - East
Judah - Praise the Lord
Issachar - God has given my reward
Zebulun - Dwell with me
Bottom- South
Gad - A troop comes
Simeon - The Lord Has heard
Reuben - The Lord has seen
In the wilderness God reveals Jeshua
At the command of the Lord the children of Israel would journey, and at the command of the Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud stayed above the tabernacle they remained encamped.
The cloud stay = shakan
The shakan of Glory
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
O Zion, You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
Behold, the Lord God shall come with a strong hand, And His arm shall rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
And though the Lord gives you The bread of adversity and the water of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, But your eyes shall see your teachers.
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.
This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
Haftarah
“Say to your brothers, ‘Ammi [My People]!’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruchamah [Pitied]!’
Rebuke your mother, rebuke her; for she isn’t my wife, and I’m not her husband. She must remove her whoring from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and place her as she was the day she was born, make her like a desert, place her like a dry land and kill her with thirst.
I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of whoring—
their mother prostituted herself, she who conceived them behaved shamelessly; she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers, who give me my food and water, wool, flax, olive oil and wine.’
Therefore, I will block her way with thorns and put up a hedge so she can’t find her paths.
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them. She will seek them but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; because things were better for me then than they are now.’
For she doesn’t know it was I who gave her the grain, the wine and the oil; I who increased her silver and gold, which they used for Ba‘al.
So I will take back my grain at harvest-time and my wine in its season; I will snatch away my wool and flax, given to cover her naked body.
Now I will uncover her shame, while her lovers watch; and no one will save her from me.
I will end her happiness, her festivals, Rosh-Hodesh, and shabbats, and all her designated times.
I will ravage her vines and fig trees, of which she says, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’ But I will turn them into a forest, and wild animals will eat them.
I will punish her for offering incense on the feast days of the ba‘alim, when she decked herself with her earrings and jewels, pursuing her lovers and forgetting me,” says Adonai.
“But now I am going to woo her— I will bring her out to the desert and I will speak to her heart.
I will give her her vineyards from there and the Akhor Valley as a gateway to hope. She will respond there as she did when young, as she did when she came up from Egypt.
“On that day,” says Adonai “you will call me Ishi [My Husband]; you will no longer call me Ba‘ali [My Master].
For I will remove the names of the ba‘alim from her mouth; they will never again be mentioned by name.
When that day comes, I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the air and the creeping things of the earth. I will break bow and sword, sweep battle from the land, and make them lie down securely.
I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in grace and in compassion;
I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you will know Adonai.
When that day comes, I will answer,” says Adonai “I will answer the sky, and it will answer the earth;
the earth will answer the corn, wine and oil, and they will answer Yizre‘el [God will sow].
Summary
God takes you to the wilderness
He wants to see if you will walk in his Law or not
He will speak to us in the wilderness
He will feed us in the wilderness
We will seek his comfort and cry out his name
In the wilderness he will give us our identity - our name
He will revealed Jeshua
He will bring us in to His love
James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,
but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Shabbat Shalom