Month: June 2017

Shalom.

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue in Numbers 33.1-5.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE ROAD MAP OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND.

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 33.1-5.

Earlier, Moses had agreed to give the Tribe of Gad, and the Tribe of Reuben, and half the Tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the conquered Kingdoms of Sihon, King of the Amorites, and the Kingdom of Og, King of Bashan.

That conquered land that the three Tribes possessed was in Gilead, current-day Jordan, and not part of Canaan.

And the armies of the three Tribes went before The Children of Israel to fight against the Canaanites to conquer Canaan and possess it for the Jewish Homeland.

And the three Tribes built towns in their newly conquered lands, and changed the names of those Towns and Cities.  And drove out the people who lived in them.

THE ROAD MAP OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND.

Now, at the Commandment of The LORD, Moses recorded all the starting points of the Children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, The Promised Land.  The People, along with the armies of Israel were under the command of Moses and Aaron.  But of course they were guided and directed by The LORD THEIR GOD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL by a Pillar of Cloud during the daytime, and a Pillar of Fire during the night time, leading them to their Homeland.

And the Children of Israel, some three million People with a mixed multitude of non-Israelites left from Rameses in Egypt in the first Hebrew month Nisan on The Fifteenth Day, on The Day after The First Passover.

And The Bible says, They went out with a high hand in the sight of the Egyptians.  Meaning, they left Egypt after 400 years under Egyptian slavery with their hands raised high in Praise and Honor, Joy, and Thanksgiving to The LORD THEIR GOD.

Rameses was near Goshen where the Children of Israel lived in Egypt.  EXODUS 12.37-42

EXODUS 12.40  430 YEARS.  30 years of peace and freedom when Joseph, the son of Jacob was Governor of Egypt.  After Joseph died, Israel served the Egyptians as slaves for 400 years. GENESIS 15.13-21

While the Children of Israel were leaving Egypt for their journey to Canaan, the Egyptians were burying their firstborn whom The LORD had killed among them.

And The LORD had executed judgment on the Egyptian gods. That is, I believe, The LORD pronounced sentence on the Egyptian gods and destroyed them all.

It is thought that there were over 2,000 Egyptian gods made of bronze, gold and silver, wood, marble or stone.  Many with human bodies and heads of animals and birds.

I think of the time Moses and Aaron went and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, Let My People Go that they may hold a Feast to Me in the wilderness.  And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go?  I do not know the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.  EXODUS 5.1-2  

Foolish man this Pharaoh.  Pharaoh’s refusal to obey THE LORD GOD and let GOD’S People Go brought on the death of all the firstborn Egyptians.  Perhaps thousands, even millions of firstborn Egyptians GOD killed because the Great Pharaoh refused to obey THE GOD OF ISRAEL.  

Add to that, Egypt was destroyed by the ten plagues that GOD sent upon them because Pharaoh rejected GOD’S Command to let His People go.  

And add to that, every one in Pharaoh’s army was killed in the Red Sea.  

ALL BECAUSE THE FOOLISH PHARAOH REFUSED TO OBEY THE GOD OF ISRAEL.  EXODUS 14.28-31

MOST PEOPLE TODAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD REFUSE TO OBEY THE GOD OF ISRAEL.  

And from Ramses, the Children of Israel camped in Succoth. Succoth was in Egypt before entering the Sinai.  And from Succoth, they moved to Etham which was on the edge of the Wilderness of Sinai.  EXODUS 13.17-22

And from Etham, they walked to a place called Pi-hahiroth that today would be near a lake in Egypt called Bitter Lakes. Bitter Lakes is just above the Suez Canal near Cairo.

Then from Pi-hahiroth, they crossed the Red Sea on dry ground into the wilderness of Shur that is in the Wilderness of Sinai.  And walked three days to Marah.  Marah was in the wilderness of Sinai.  And Marah in Hebrew means bitter. EXODUS 15.22-27, NUMBERS 33.8-10

After resting by the Red Sea, they went further into the Sinai into the wilderness of Sin to a place called Dophkah.  Sin, as in the wilderness of Sin, in Hebrew is SEEN, meaning CLAY.  The wilderness of Clay, is or was a desert place near Mount Sinai. EXODUS 16.1-4

EXODUS 16.4  GOD TESTS US TO KNOW WHAT IS IN OUR HEART.  WILL WE WALK IN GOD’S TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES, OR NOT?   

Dophkah was a campsite for Israel between the wilderness of Sin on the shore of the Red Sea, and the oasis valley of Rephidim.

From Dophkah The Children of Israel moved on to a place called Alush which is in the southern part of Sinai between the wilderness of Sin on the shore of the Red Sea and the oasis valley of Rephidim.

And from Alush, they walked with their flocks, and cattle, and animals to Rephidim in southern Sinai north of the Red Sea. The Red Sea circles around the bottom portion of the Sinai Peninsula that is shaped like an upsidedown triangle.

And in Rephidim, there was no water for the People to drink. But by the Hand of GOD, Moses brought forth water by striking the rock.  And there Israel was attacked by Amalek. EXODUS 17.1-16

So from Rephidim they continued into the desert of Sinai, and camped in a place The LORD named Kibroth-hattaavah, meaning, Because there they buried the People who lusted.

Again The People got themselves into trouble with The LORD Their GOD.  This time because of overindulgence.  Gorging themselves with food.  NUMBERS 11.31-35

And when they were in Hezeroth, oy vay, they got themselves into more trouble.  Miriam and Aaron, Moses’ sister and brother spoke against Moses because he married an Ethiopian woman.  After Zipporah had died.  NUMBERS 12.1-16

So GOD had Miriam shut out of the camp seven days because The LORD struck her with leprosy for her verbal attack against Moses.

And when The LORD healed Miriam, The People moved on into the wilderness of Paran.  The wilderness of Paran is also in the Sinai.  But first, the People camped in a place called Rithmah on the eastern side of the Sinai, moving closer to Canaan.

Then Israel journeyed on to a place called Rissah where the Negev, the southern part of current-day Israel, and the Sinai converge.

Then The Children of Israel camped in fifteen different places in the Sinai wilderness before setting up camp in Ezion-Geber, a place located at the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba that is part of the Red Sea.  The People were at the border of current-day Elat in Israel.  Elat today is a beach resort.

From Ezion-Geber, Israel camped in the wilderness of Zin which is in Kadesh.  Kadesh was located in the Sinai some fifty miles south of Beersheba on the border of the Land GOD has given to The children of Israel for an everlasting possession.

Kadesh is where Moses sent the twelve spies to spy out the Land of Canaan.  But ten of the twelve came back with an evil report saying, It’s impossible for us to take the Land of Canaan.  And for their lack of trust and belief in The LORD, along with many of the Children of Israel who believed their evil report, GOD caused The People to wander in the desert forty years where those who did not believe GOD died, never to enter the Promised Land.  NUMBERS 33.36, NUMBERS 13.1-2, 25-26, 32-33, NUMBERS 14.1-2

From Kadesh, they camped in Mount Hor at the edge of the land of Edom, current-day Jordan where Aaron the High Priest went up into Mount Hor at the Commandment of The LORD and died there in the fortieth year after the Children of Israel came out of Egypt.  And Aaron was 123 years old when he died in Mount Hor.  NUMBERS 20.22-29, NUMBERS 33.37-39

And the Canaanite King Arad who lived in the Negev in the Land of Canaan, today’s southern Israel, heard that the Israelites were coming.  And fought with Israel.  NUMBERS 33.40, NUMBERS 21.1-3

After camping in four locations in current-day Jordan, the Children of Israel set up camp at the edge of Moab, also in today’s Jordan.

The Children of Israel were close to The Promised Land where they would cross the Jordan River and begin to possess the land of Canaan.

After camping in two more locations, Israel set up camp at Dibon-Gad.  Dibon, as this City is called in Numbers 32.3, was taken by the Children of Israel, as was Nebo, and other Cities. And they became possessions of The Children of Israel. NUMBERS 33.44-45, NUMBERS 21.30-31

And the People, some three million, and a mixed multitude, a mighty nation under GOD, walked to the Jordan River in Moab, current-day Jordan. NUMBERS 33.47-49

NUMBERS 33.49  And from Shittim, the Children of Israel crossed the Jordan River into Canaan.  JOSHUA 3.1-17

And The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan River near Jericho saying, Speak to the Children of Israel, and say to them, When you have passed over the Jordan River into the Land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the people who live in the land from before you. And destroy all their pictures.  That is to say, destroy all their imagery of idols on their walls.  And destroy all their images and gods, and tear down their high places where their idols and gods are.

AND DRIVE OUT ALL THE CANAANITE PEOPLE IN THE LAND, AND LIVE IN IT.  

FOR I HAVE GIVEN YOU THIS LAND TO POSSESS IT.   

The words DRIVE OUT,  AND POSSESS in Hebrew is YAH’RAHSH meaning, TO DRIVE THEM OUT, POSSESS THE LAND, AND INHERIT THE LAND.

And you shall divide the Land by lot for an inheritance among your families. The LORD said.

BUT IF YOU WILL NOT DRIVE OUT THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND FROM BEFORE YOU, THE LORD SAID, THOSE YOU LET REMAIN WILL BE STINGS IN YOUR EYES, AND THORNS IN YOUR SIDES, AND THEY WILL BE ADVERSARIES TO YOU IN THE LAND IN WHICH YOU LIVE. 

MOREOVER, THE LORD SAID, IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT I WILL DO TO YOU AS I THOUGHT TO DO TO THEM.

Let’s read NUMBERS 33.50-56

GOD Commanded Moses and the Children of Israel to destroy, exile or kill the entire population in the land of Canaan.  The Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.  Because the Canaanite people were incompatible and an abomination to GOD’S Holy People, and The Holy Land of Israel.

AS A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD, AND HIS WITNESSES, GOD GAVE HIS JEWISH PEOPLE A MISSION TO ALL MANKIND THAT THEY MUST KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS AND THE STATUTES OF THE LORD GOD OF CREATION.

AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED GOD’S MISSION BY WRITING THE ENTIRE BIBLE. THE TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES. 

THE LORD GAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAT MISSION TO BE HIS WITNESSES, TESTIFYING THAT ALL MANKIND ARE REQUIRED TO OBEY GOD’S TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

AND KNOW AND BELIEVE GOD, AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.

DEUTERONOMY 6.4-9, DEUTERONOMY 7.6-13, ISAIAH 43.10, ISAIAH 9.5 IN THE HEBREW BIBLE, ISAIAH 9. 6 IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, JOHN 12.45,49, JOHN 14.9  

But because the Jewish People could not bring themselves to eliminate all the Canaanites, many of The Jewish People were drawn into idolatry and rejected GOD’S Statutes, His Law of Moses.  And because of that, The GOD OF ISRAEL exiled His People from the Land of Israel in 722 B.C.E, 586 B.C.E, and 70 C.E. because of their disobedience to The LORD Their GOD.

722 B.C.E EXILE   2 KINGS 17.6-23

586 B.C.E. EXILE   2 CHRONICLES 36.11-21

70 C.E. EXILE         LUKE 19.41-44

At the end of World War 2 in 1945, after 2,000 years in exile throughout the world, The LORD GOD began the return of His Jewish People to their Homeland, Eretz Yisrael, The Land of Israel.  And Israel declared its Independence May 14, 1948.

And that too is Prophesied in Tnakh.  ISAIAH 11.11-12, JEREMIAH 31.10-14, EZEKIEL 36.22-24

THE KEY TO THIS MESSAGE?  OBEY GOD.  OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  THAT INCLUDES OBEDIENCE TO HIS TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES.

AND BELIEVE THE BIBLE THAT MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM ELOHIM.  THE ONE GOD OF CREATION.

THAT HE IS YOUR ATONEMENT FOR EVERY SIN YOU HAVE COMMITTED.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

Shalom.

Our teaching of Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Numbers 32.1-18.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE COMING MESSIANIC AGE AND THE DIVISION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL FOR AN INHERITANCE.

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 32.1-18.

Let’s briefly review Numbers 32.1-18 before we study the subject of The Coming Messianic Age and The Division of The Land of Israel for an Inheritance.

Christianity calls the Messianic Age The 1,000 year Millennium.

The forty year exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land Canaan that GOD renamed Israel was coming to an end.

The Children of Israel, known today as The Jewish People, some three million strong with a mixed multitude, were at the border of Canaan east of the Jordan River in current day Jordan.  Also known in The Bible as Gilead.

The Borders of the Land of Canaan were from a River in Egypt to the Euphrates River that originates in eastern Turkey and flows through Syria and Iraq, and joins the Tigris River and flows into the Persian Gulf at Kuwait and Abadan, a City in Iran.

Those are also the GOD-Given Borders of The Land of Israel. From a River in Egypt to the Euphrates River.  GENESIS 15.18-21

While the Children of Israel were east of the Jordan River in today’s Jordan, The leaders from the Tribes of Reuben and Gad asked Moses, and Eleazer the Priest, and the Leaders of The Congregation of Israel to give them possession of Jazer and Gilead because the land was ideal for their cattle.

Israel had just defeated those Countries where Jazer and Gilead were located, and conquered them for a possession.

But Moses thought the two Tribes of Reuben and Gad were unwilling to go to war against Canaan.  “Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here,” Moses said to the leadership of Reuben and Gad?

But they said to Moses, We will be shock troops before the Children of Israel until we have established them in their home.  And we will not return to our homes until the Children of Israel have taken possession of their inheritance in the Land of Canaan.

And Moses said, If you will do this thing and go armed before The LORD to war until He has driven out his enemies before Him, and the Land is subdued before The LORD, and then you return to your homes, then your proposal is accepted.  And the Reubenites and the Gadites answered Moses, Your servants will do as my lord commands.

The settlement and inheritance of the promised land, The Land of Israel was beginning.

The Children of Israel had been a nation of slaves at the feet of the Egyptians for 400 years.  As a comparison The United States of America has had its Independence for just 241 years.

And those former slaves whom GOD Chose to be His Chosen People, and His Witnesses, and His Servant to Believe GOD and Understand that HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.  And that before Him there was no GOD formed, and neither will there be after Him, Those former Jewish slaves, with the Mighty Help of THE MIGHTY GOD of ISRAEL conquered Canaan 3,300 years ago.  And today, 3,300 years later, The Land of Israel is still the Jewish Homeland because of The LORD Their GOD.  And always will be The Jewish Homeland because of The GOD of ISRAEL. DEUTERONOMY 7.6-13, ISAIAH 43.10, GENESIS 17.8

THE BIBLE IS THE AUTHORITY.

The Bible is the official and accepted source of Biblical and GODLY information above every book, and above every teaching of man.  The Bible consists of the first five Books of Moses called The Torah, known as The Law of Moses, and also The Prophets, and The Writings of the Psalms and Proverbs, etc., and The New Testament.

And The Bible from Genesis through Revelation is written by Jewish writers.  I say that because some of the teachings from Bible teachers are outlandish and wrong in the ears of GOD and the Jewish writers.

For example, the teaching of a trinity of three different persons, or three different gods is pagan to GOD ALMIGHTY, and pagan to the Jewish writers of The Bible.  And pagan to Jewish People.

The trinity is not Scriptural nor is it mentioned anywhere in The Bible because there is no such thing as a trinity of three different gods.  Because there is only ONE GOD, period.

GOD can appear physically in many different places all at the same time because He is GOD and not a human being like you and me.

Bible teachers who teach that The Torah, The Law of Moses is no longer in effect teach a lie.  And that teaching is hatred toward GOD.  And something the writers of The Bible would never even consider.  Because The Word of our GOD stands forever.  It never changes nor does it ever end.

GOD’s Laws, Teachings and Instructions that are written in The Law of Moses are for the Jewish People and all mankind. And remains the same forever, even throughout eternity. DEUTERONOMY 7.9-10, DEUTERONOMY 32.1-2, ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25, EXODUS 20.6, LUKE 16.17, JOHN 14.15-17

Also, many Jewish People and Rabbis do not believe that Messiah Yeshua is THE JEWISH MESSIAH and GOD ALMIGHTY though that is precisely what is taught in Tnakh, The Old Testament Scriptures.  That MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM ELOHIM.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, HEBREW BIBLE MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE MICAH 5.2, THE NEW TESTAMENT, JOHN 12.45, 49, JOHN 14.9

And it is strange to many Jewish People and the Rabbis that The Yeshua HaMashiakh of The Bible will be King over all the Earth at His return to establish the Messianic Age in Israel for one thousand years.  Though Tnakh, The Old Testament Scriptures teach that The LORD will be King over all the earth at His return.  And there is Only ONE LORD.  His Name and Title are Yeshua HaMashiakh, Yeshua The Messiah. ZECHARIAH 14.9

Jewish People are taught that the coming Messiah will be a Jewish man, a human being like you and me.  Even though it is Prophesied in Tnakh, The Old Testament Scriptures by Jewish Prophets who received that Doctrine from GOD ALMIGHTY to reveal it to the Jewish People and to all the world that The Jewish Messiah Yeshua is GOD ALMIGHTY, YHVH, HA SHEM ELOHIM.  And His Name and Title are Yeshua HaMashiakh, Yeshua The Messiah.

THE COMING MESSIANIC AGE AND THE DIVISION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL FOR AN INHERITANCE.

So let’s learn from The Bible about the Coming Messianic Age, and the Division of The Land of Israel for an Inheritance to The Jewish People, and to Non-Jewish People when Messiah Yeshua returns to Israel and Reigns on The Throne of David in Jerusalem, King over all the earth.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.7, JEREMIAH 23.5-6

There is a sequence of events that must take place some time in the future before The LORD returns, and the Land of Israel is divided to the twelve tribes of Israel for their inheritance.

At that time the Borders of Israel will again be the Borders that GOD gave to the Jewish People from a River in Egypt to the Euphrates River.  Those are the dimensions of the Messianic Kingdom on earth in Israel for one thousand years when Messiah returns.  From a River in Egypt to the Euphrates River.  GENESIS 15.18-21

First, the time must come, and it may not be too far in the future, that The LORD will gather ALL the nations of the world against Jerusalem to battle.

AND THE LORD GOD, WHO IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, WILL GO FORTH AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE ARMIES AND DESTROY THEM.

And this will be the plague that GOD will use to kill the people who battle against Jerusalem.  Their flesh will consume away while they stand upon their feet.  And their eyes will consume away in their holes.  And their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

And at that time during the battle against Jerusalem, there will be a great world wide tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world, nor ever will be.  And except those days are shortened, no flesh would be saved.  But for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

And The Bible says, As the lightning comes out of the east, and shines to the west, so also shall be the Coming of The Son of Man, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM ELOHIM.

And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from Heaven, and the powers of The Heavens will be shaken.

And then shall appear the Supernatural.  GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, IN HEAVEN.  And all the Tribes of Israel and the world will see The Jewish Messiah coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and Great Glory.

And Messiah will send His Angels with the great sound of the Shofar.  And they will gather The Elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to the other.  ZECHARIAH 14.1-2, 12, EZEKIEL 38 & 39, MATTHEW 24.21-31

And at that time, The Prophesy of The Resurrection of the dry bones written in Ezekiel 37 concerning The House of Israel will suddenly happen.  And those Jewish People, The Remnant of Israel whom THE LORD will Resurrect from the days of Abraham will rise from the dead and come out of their graves.  

And THE LORD THEIR GOD will bring them into The Land of Israel to be with their GOD and MESSIAH in the Messianic Kingdom, and Forever. EZEKIEL 37.11-14

AND The LORD will descend from Heaven with a Shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the mighty blast of the Shofar of GOD.

And the dead in Messiah will rise first from their graves. Then those who are alive in Messiah will be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet The LORD in the air.  And forever we will be with THE LORD OUR GOD.

The dead in Messiah, and those alive in Messiah are those who lived or live according to Every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of GOD.  DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

And all His Holy Ones, His Saints, you and me, and His Angels will gather together in the Clouds with Messiah, and will come with THE LORD OUR GOD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA to the MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL.  

Where Messiah’s Feet will stand in that Day upon the Mount of Olives that is east of Jerusalem overlooking the City.

And The Mount of Olives will split open from the east and the west.  And there will be a very great valley.  And half of the Mountain will move toward the north, and the other half will move to the south.

And in that Day, THE BRANCH OF THE LORD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA will be Beautiful and Glorious.  And the fruit of the earth will be Excellent and Magnificent.  

And the Remnant of The Jewish People in Israel will flee to the Valley of The Mountains to meet THE LORD THEIR GOD, MESSIAH YESHUA.

And MESSIAH YESHUA, HA SHEM ELOHIM will build the Temple of THE LORD.  And He will assume His Majesty. And He will sit on His Throne in Jerusalem and Rule over all the earth.  

And Messiah will also be Priest upon His Throne.  And their Counsel will be Peace.  ZECHARIAH 14.3-5, ZECHARIAH 6.12-13, ISAIAH 4.2-3, THESSALONIANS 4.13-18

ISAIAH 4.2  The Hebrew Word for ESCAPED, as in Them that are ESCAPED of Israel is F’LAY’TAHT meaning REMNANT, DELIVERED, and ESCAPED.  

The REMNANT of Israel will have ESCAPED the onslaught of all the armies of the nations that attacked Jerusalem, and will be DELIVERED by The LORD THEIR GOD and will flee to the Valley of the Mountains to be with THE LORD THEIR GOD, MESSIAH YESHUA FOREVER.

AND NOW AT MESSIAH’S RETURN, THE INHERITANCE OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE MESSIANIC AGE WILL TAKE PLACE AND BE DIVIDED AMONG THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, WITH A LARGE PORTION OF LAND SET ASIDE IN JERUSALEM FOR THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD.   

And these are the names of the Tribes of Israel who will inherit the Land.  The Tribes of Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, Judah, Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, and Gad.

And the Land will be divided by lot for an inheritance to the Jewish People and to the non-Jewish People who will live among the Jewish People in The Kingdom of Israel.

And the non-Jewish People will be as born among the Jewish People in Israel.  And they will have their inheritance among the Jewish People and among the Tribes of Israel.

And in the Tribe that the non-Jewish People choose to settle in, there they will receive their Inheritance, saith The LORD. EZEKIEL 47.21-23

And David will be King and Prince over Israel.  EZEKIEL 37.24-25

MESSIAH YESHUA WILL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH. ZECHARIAH 14.9   

And a large portion of the Land will be for The Temple of The LORD.

And the sacrifice will be restored.  EZEKIEL 45.1-2, 15-22

And by the River, upon the bank of the River, and on both sides of the River, trees will grow for food.  Their leaves will never fade, and their fruit will never cease.  For the trees will bring forth new fruit every month.  Because their waters will issue out of The Sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and for medicine.  EZEKIEL 47.12

AND JERUSALEM WILL ASSUME A NEW NAME, YEHOVAH SHAMAH, MEANING, THE LORD IS THERE.  BECAUSE THE LORD GOD, YESHUA THE MESSIAH WILL BE THERE. EZEKIEL 48.35

AND THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN. FILLED WITH JOY, AND GLADNESS, THANKSGIVING AND THE VOICE OF MELODY.  ISAIAH 51.3

As Messiah Yeshua said in His Prayer to The Father which art in Heaven.  Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come.  Thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven. MATTHEW 6.9-10

GOD’S WILL WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL.

And when the thousand years are complete in the Messianic Age in Israel, our new home will be in Heaven The New Jerusalem forever and ever with The LORD OUR GOD, MESSIAH YESHUA.  REVELATION 20.7-15, REVELATION 21 & 22

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom.

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Numbers 32.1-5.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, ISRAEL BEGINS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE PROMISED LAND.

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 32.1-5.

The Tribes of Reuben and Gad had large numbers of cattle. And before crossing the Jordan River to enter and possess the Land of Canaan, they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for their cattle.

The lands of Jazer and Gilead were east of the Jordan River in current day Jordan, east of the Galilee and the Dead Sea.

And the settlement process was beginning for The Children of Israel in The Promised Land, the Land of Canaan.

But Jazer and Gilead were not part of Canaan.

On their journey to Canaan, The Children of Israel had already routed a number of their enemies that attacked them for no reason on that side of the Jordan River.

Israel had sent messengers to Sihon, King of the Amorites, saying, Let us pass through your land.  We will not go into your fields, or into the vineyards.  We will not drink from the waters of your well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.

But the King answered by sending his armies against Israel. And The Children of Israel killed the King and defeated his army.  And Israel possessed the King’s land from Arnon to Jabbok where the land of Jazer was.

And Israel took all those Cities and lived in the land of the Amorites.

And Moses sent spies to search out Jazer.  And Israel took the villages of Jazer and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And the Children of Israel turned up by the way of Bashan where Gilead is.  And Og, the King of Bashan also went out to battle Israel.  And that was a huge mistake on his part.

And The LORD said to Moses, Do not fear him for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, King of the Amorites.

And Israel killed Og, the King of Bashan and his sons, and all his family until there were none of the King’s family left alive.

And the Children of Israel possessed his land also.

I think of the myriads of peoples and nations over the course of history that have attacked Israel and the Jewish People for no cause except for anti-Semitism.  And what their fate will be?  Their fate will be the same as the Kings of Sihon and Bashan and their people.

NUMBERS 21.21-35, GENESIS 12.3, HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 83.2-6, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 83.1-5

In PSALM 83.4 in the Hebrew Bible or PSALM 83.3 in the Christian Bible, The Hebrew Word for HIDDEN, as in, They have consulted against your Hidden ones is STAH’FAHN that means PROTECT, AND TREASURED ONES.

GOD’S ENEMIES ARE ISRAEL’S ENEMIES AND THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.   

So the Leadership of the Tribes of Gad and Reuben came to speak to Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and to the Leaders of the Congregation.  And they said, the Countries and all their land that The LORD conquered for The Children of Israel is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

It would be a favor to us that this land be given to your servants for a possession, and do not move us across the Jordan River.

Now Moses thought their request was a sign of their unwillingness to fight for the Conquest of Canaan, The Promised Land.

And Moses said to them, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?

And why do you discourage the hearts of The Children of Israel from going over into the Land which The LORD has given them?

That is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the Land.  Because when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the Land of Canaan, they discouraged the Children of Israel from invading the Land which The LORD has given to them.

Earlier, The LORD had said to Moses, Send men to search out the Land of Canaan which I have given to the Children of Israel.  Of every tribe you shall send a man who is ruler among them.  And Moses sent a man from each tribe, twelve men to spy out the Land of Canaan.  And Caleb and Joshua were with them.

And Moses told them to see the Land, what it is, and the people that dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many.  And what the Land is that they live in.  Whether it is good or bad.  And what are the Cities they live in, whether in tents or strongholds?  And what the Land is, whether it is fat or lean, if there is wood in it or not?  And be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the Land.

So they went up from the wilderness of Zin into the Negev, and came to Hebron, and other Cities, and searched out the Land of Canaan.

GOD told the Prophet Ezekiel that the Land of Israel is the Glory of all lands. Glory meaning that Israel is The Most Beautiful Of All Lands.  EZEKIEL 20.5-6

And they came to the brook of Eschol and cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes.  And they carried it between two men on a staff.  And they brought pomegranates and figs.

And they returned from searching the Land of Canaan after forty days.  And they went to Moses and Aaron, and to the Congregation of the Children of Israel, and brought back word to them and showed them the fruit of the Land.

And they told them, Surely the Land flows with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.

But the people are powerful that live in the Land.  And the Cities are walled, and great.  And the Anakim are there.  The Anakim were giants.  DEUTERONOMY 2.10-11

And the Amalekites live in the Negev in the south.  The Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites live in the mountains. And the Canaanites live by the sea, and along the Jordan.

And Caleb silenced the People before Moses, and said, We should go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it.  But the men that went up with them said, We are not able to go up against that people for they are stronger than we.

And they spread an evil report about the Land that they searched, and said, It is a Land that eats up the inhabitants of it.  And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.  And we saw the Nephilim there, the giants, the sons of Anak who come of the Nephilim.  And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so were we in their sight.

A scary report for the Children of Israel to hear.  But I think of the words in Proverbs that read, Trust in The LORD with all your heart and do not rely upon your own understanding. PROVERBS 3.5

Do not rely on your own thoughts and fears, but rely on The LORD Your GOD.  Always Trust in what GOD Says. Because GOD’S Word is His Promise.  And GOD’S Word never fails.  He Always does what He Says He will do. Because GOD is not a man that He should lie, nor is He a man that He will change His Mind.  When GOD says it, He will do it.  And when GOD has spoken, He will make it good.  NUMBERS 23.19

THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL FOR SOME 3,300 YEARS THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY THE LAND OF CANAAN.  THE SAME LAND OF CANAAN THAT HAD THEIR GIANTS AND THEIR WALLED CITIES. AND TODAY, 3,300 YEARS LATER, THE JEWISH PEOPLE CONTINUE TO LIVE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL THAT THE GOD OF ISRAEL PROMISED THEM FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION.  GENESIS 17.8

TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND DO NOT RELY ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING.

So after hearing the evil report about the Land of Canaan they were promised by The LORD Their GOD, all the Congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept all night.

And they complained against Moses and Aaron.  And again the People said to them, even shouted at Moses and Aaron, If only we had died in the land of Egypt.  If only we can die in this wilderness.

And why has The LORD brought us to this Land but to fall by the sword and be killed.  Our wives and children will be carried off.  It would be better to return to Egypt.  And they said one to another, let us make a captain and return to Egypt.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the people of The Congregation of Israel.  And Joshua and Caleb who were of the twelve spies, tore their clothes, and they said to the People, the Land that we passed through to spy it out is a very good Land.

If The LORD delights in us, He will bring us into the Land and give it to us, a Land that flows with milk and honey.  A Land that is beautiful and has everything we need.  Even more than everything we need.  But don’t rebel against The LORD.  And don’t fear the people of the Land for they are bread for us. And their defense has left them.  And The LORD is with us.  Do not fear them.

And the whole Congregation threatened to stone them.

And at that moment, The Glory of the LORD appeared in the Tabernacle of the Congregation of the Children of Israel. 

And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this People provoke Me?  And how long will it be before they believe Me despite all the miracles I have shown among them?  I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and make of you a greater Nation and mightier then they. 

And Moses said to The LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear of it.  For you brought out this People with Your might from among them.  And they will tell it to their people because they have heard that You are among them.  And that You go before them by day in a Pillar of Cloud, and in a Pillar of Fire by night.

Now LORD GOD, if you kill all this People as one man, then the nations that have heard of Your Fame will say, because The LORD was not able to bring this People into the Land which He swore to them.  Therefore He has killed them in the wilderness.  And now, I beg You LORD GOD, let the Power of My LORD be Great according as You have spoken when You said, The LORD is Long suffering and of Great Mercy. Forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

And The LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word.

But as truly as I live, Saith The LORD, all the earth shall be filled with the Glory of The LORD.  But all these men which have seen My Glory, and My Miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me now these ten times, and have disobeyed Me, surely they will not see The Land which I swore to their fathers.  Neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it.  But My Servant Caleb because he had another Spirit with him and remained loyal to Me. Him will I bring into the Land where he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

And The LORD spoke further to Moses and Aaron, Saying, How much longer will this wicked Congregation continue to complain against Me?

Say to them, As I live Saith The LORD, as you have spoken in My Ears, so will I do to you.

Your carcasses shall fall in the wilderness.  And all that were numbered of you from twenty years old and upward which have complained against Me, not one shall enter the Land that I swore to you to settle you except Caleb and Joshua.

But your little ones which you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the Land which you have despised.  But as for you, your carcasses will fall in this wilderness.  And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, suffering for your faithlessness until the last of your carcasses are wasted in the wilderness.

After the number of the days in which you spied out the Land, even forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquities, even forty years.  And you shall know your violation of GOD’S Law, His Trust, His Faith, and His Promise.

So The LORD reduced Israel’s punishment.  The entire Nation was not wiped out.  But the current generation who complained against The LORD and disobeyed Him did not inherit The Promised Land.  They died in the wilderness and never entered the Promised Land.  And The Children of Israel wandered in the desert for forty years because of their disobedience, and lack of trust, and their iniquity against The LORD Their GOD.

PETER TEACHES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT MESSIAH YESHUA IS OUR EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW WHO DID NOT SIN.  

YOU DO NOT SIN WHEN YOU WALK WITH GOD BY OBEYING ALL HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.  1 PETER 2.21-22, 1 JOHN 3.4

AND PAUL TEACHES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE OUR EXAMPLE OF THE CONSEQUENCES FOR SINNING AGAINST GOD.  BECAUSE, PAUL WRITES, THE LORD THEIR GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED WITH MANY OF THEM FOR THEY WERE OVERTHROWN IN THE WILDERNESS.

SO PAUL TEACHES THAT ISRAEL’S JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND HAS EXAMPLES FOR US TO OBEY GOD.

THOSE EXAMPLES ARE TO OBEY THE LORD YOUR GOD BY OBEYING HIS LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND PAUL TEACHES THAT THESE EXAMPLES ARE WARNINGS FOR US.  1 CORINTHIANS 10.1-11

1 CORINTHIANS 10.1-2  When writing to the Corinthian Congregation of non-Jewish Believers in Messiah Yeshua, Paul wrote, “ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE CLOUD, AND ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA.  AND ALL WERE BAPTIZED INTO MOSES IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE SEA.”  

PAUL TAUGHT THESE NON-JEWISH CORINTHIAN PEOPLE SOMETHING THAT IS RARELY TAUGHT TODAY.  

HE TAUGHT THEM ABOUT “ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER THE CLOUD, AND ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA”.  

ALL”OUR FATHERS” WERE JEWISH WHO WERE UNDER THE CLOUD, AND ALL CROSSED THROUGH THE SEA.  

AND ALL WERE “BAPTIZED INTO MOSES”.   

BEING BAPTIZED INTO MOSES MEANS THAT YOU WILL WALK WITH GOD BY OBEYING HIS LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

PAUL TAUGHT THESE NON-JEWISH PEOPLE IN MESSIAH YESHUA THAT TO BE FULLY PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND BE A CHILD OF GOD, AND HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD ALMIGHTY WHO IS MESSIAH YESHUA,

AND HAVE AS “YOUR FATHERS” THE JEWISH FATHERS WHO WERE UNDER THE CLOUD AND PASSED THROUGH THE SEA IN THE EXODUS TO THE PROMISED LAND.

AND ALL WERE BAPTIZED INTO MOSES,

PAUL TEACHES THAT JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH PEOPLE MUST LIVE THEIR LIFE BY EVERY LAW, TEACHING, AND INSTRUCTION IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES THAT GOD COMMANDS THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO DO.  ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, ALONG WITH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR ATONEMENT.

THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH DEUTERONOMY IS THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR FAITH. 

TALMUD IS NOT THE BIBLE.

THAT IS THE BIBLICAL FORMULA FOR SALVATION, AND ETERNAL LIFE FOR EVERYBODY ALONG WITH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.

THEN FOR NON-JEWISH BELIEVERS IN MESSIAH YESHUA, YOUR FATHERS WHO WERE UNDER THE CLOUD AND PASSED THROUGH THE SEA, AND WERE BAPTIZED INTO MOSES BECOME YOUR FATHERS AS ABRAHAM, THE FATHER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECOMES YOUR FATHER.

AND TO BE ABRAHAM’S DESCENDANTS AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISES OF GOD, YOU MUST BE OF MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, LIVING BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD THAT INCLUDES OBEYING ALL GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES. GENESIS 15.6, GENESIS 26.5

FOR MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD.  HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE LAWGIVER, THE GIVER OF THE LAW OF MOSES TO ALL MANKIND.  

DEUTERONOMY 32.1-2, JOHN 12.45,49, JOHN 14.9, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6

THEN, BECAUSE YOU OBEY GOD BY OBEYING HIS TORAH, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES, YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS WHO ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.

IN 1 CORINTHIANS 10.11, PAUL TEACHES THAT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS DURING THEIR JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND ARE FOR EXAMPLES THAT ARE WRITTEN AS A WARNING AS THE END OF THE WORLD COMES.

WHY ARE THOSE EXAMPLES WARNINGS?  

BECAUSE AT TIMES ISRAEL DISOBEYED GOD.  THEY DISOBEYED TORAH, GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND 1 CORINTHIANS 10.8 READS THAT 23,000 FELL IN ONE DAY.  

ACTUALLY 24,000 DIED IN THE PLAGUE IN ONE DAY. NUMBERS 25.9

THE WARNING?

OBEY GOD’S TORAH, HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE THAT NEVER CHANGE OR END, ALONG WITH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR ATONEMENT.   

AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER, PAUL’S TEACHING TO YOU IS A WARNING OF LOVE TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE.

EPHESIANS 2.19-22, LUKE 8.21, ROMANS 4.1, GALATIANS 3.29, MATTHEW 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

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