Lesson date: 04/22/5857AA

This chapter speaks to me today in a special way and so I have treated this chapter differently than the rest. It causes me to reflect on my past and, believe me, it’s not pretty. It causes me to actually dig into my memories and emotions and root out my motivation for doing certain things in my life when I did. Was my motivation because of much prayer, fasting and meditation or because…well, it looks good to me? Unfortunately, many life altering decisions were predicated on the category of “Looks good to me and, oh, I’ll pray about it later, if I get time.”

The decision reached by the tribes of Gad and Re’uben may have been made after much prayer and meditation and after each receiving 55,000+ sheep, 6,000 cattle and 5,000 donkeys from the war on the Midyanites, plus what they already had. Perhaps, in all fairness to Gad and Re’uben, they sat down for a pow wow and reached the decision, “You know, if we didn’t have to dedicate so much manpower to herding thousands upon thousands of sheep, goats, donkeys and cattle we could concentrate on fighting better.” Someone may have even chimed in, “Yeah, and if we didn’t have all these kids and women to worry about too, we could do some real fighting and killing.” Do you think this is what they really thought? Continue reading Bemidbar (Numbers) 32 — Keep Going? Or, Settle Down? A.K.A. “Are we there yet?” →

Lesson date:2/25/5854

Departures = מַסְעֵי “masei/masey” meaning, ‘departures, stages, journeys’, and comes from the root word מַסַע massa – Strong’s H4550 which means, ‘a pulling up, breaking (camp), setting out, a journey, order of march’ and this comes from the primitive root נָסַע nasa – Strong’s H5265 meaning, ‘to pull out or up, set out on a journey, departed’. The connotation for the usage of this verb is to pull up the stakes of the tents to depart. The popular phrase in the American Civil War was “strike the tents”, which was also some of the last words uttered by Robert E. Lee. This word brings to mind another word seen often in scripture ‘sojourner’. We are just sojourners in this world and should not be a part of it. Continue reading Bemidbar (Numbers) 33 →

Lesson date: 3/3/5854AA
42^nd Day of Counting the Omer

Verse 2 begins with Command – H6680 – צוה – tsâvâh -BDB Definition: 1) to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order. If you will do a search in E-Sword or similar program on H6680 you will see something very interesting. It is almost always followed by H853 – את – which, as we have discussed is a prophetic marker rather than being a translatable word. There is speculation among Hebrew scholars that the ancient meaning associated with the word was ‘come’ based upon its appearance in the quote for the Book of Battles of יהוה, in Numbers 21:14-20. I don’t believe this to be the case because of the quote from יהוה in verse 16: “Gather the people, and let Me give them water.” I believe this is a direct reference to the coming of Yeshua. Hmm, maybe that is what they meant to say.

Continue reading Bemidbar (Numbers) 34 — Stay within the Boundaries →

Lesson date: 3/3/5854AA
Day 43 of the Counting of the Omer

The Lěwites received no inheritance of their own and were allotted cities to dwell in from within the inheritance of each tribe and the land they were to receive was to be a substantial size to be for their cattle, livestock and possessions. Each city with its open land for livestock was to be an area of about 1,78km x 1,78km

Continue reading Bemidbar (Numbers) 35 — Cities for the Lewites and Cities of Refuge →

Lesson date: 3/10/5854

At first examination of Chapter 36 we see the predicament of the daughters of Tselophhad being brought up once again.

Mahlah – H4244 – מחלה – machlâh – BDB Definition:Mahlah = disease or sickness.
No’ah – H5270 – נעה – nô‛âh – BDB Definition:Noah = motion or movement. This name is not to be confused with H5146 – נֹחַ – nôach – The same as H5118; rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood: – Noah. Notice that the meanings are diametrically opposed to each other. The KJV makes it appear as though these two names are the same and they are not.
Hoglah – H2295 – חגלה – choglâh – BDB Definition: Hoglah = partridge.
Milkah – H4435 – מלכּה – milkâh – BDB Definition: Milcah = queen.
Tirtsah – H8656 – תּרצה – tirtsâh – BDB Definition: Tirzah = favourable.

Please permit me to expound on these names: Continue reading Bemidbar (Numbers) 36 →