Hour 5 The Birth of the Nation Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuter
Hour Five The Birth of the Nation
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
The Torah (the five books of Moses)
Genesis The Book of Beginnings
Exodus The Birth of the Nation
Leviticus “is the book on holiness” The Law of the Nation
Numbers The Wilderness Wanderings
Deuteronomy “is the three sermons by Moses and wraps it up” The Laws Reviewed (The Lord’s favorite: more quotes than any other…)
The Seven Dispensations
(Traditional View)
The Age of:
The Age of Grace is misleading because “grace” is always the premise in all ages.
• Innocence Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Adam and Eve were the “Heirs” of the Earth and had the ability to fill the earth with their offspring, to bring all of the plant life, the animals, the fish and all of the birds into subjection of mankind. Who in turn was to be completely subjected to God and to serve Him.
Mankind had a planet to run and they were fully capable to accomplish that task. They were clothed in the Light of God, so their minds were illuminated with His wisdom and knowledge, Adam was so genius minded that he could name all of the animals and remember their names.
They met with the Lord in the cool of the day to commune with Him, I’m sure he asked God questions and received further insights.
This was truly an “Age of Innocence”, there was no evil thoughts, greed, pride, or hatred, etc., only the communion of God with Man and Humanity had a clear destiny.
• Conscience Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
When they sinned, (Adam did so knowingly because of the love that he had for Eve) “entropy” came into the world, death!
Now there was uncertainty and fear, because they tried to hide their nakedness and they tried to hide from the Lord.
I sometimes wonder, did they experience 10 or more “Open Dimensions” and when they fell, 4 of the dimensions stayed open but 6 closed?
Since the number 6 usually represents the number of Man, and the number of the Beast 666. They were now fallen in spirit 6, fallen in soul 6, and fallen in the flesh 6.
Blame and “passing the buck” came easily to them both, Eve blamed the serpent and Adam blamed Eve.
Innocence was gone and Conscience was here to stay, bringing with it, misery.
• Human Government Genesis 8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
God having destroyed the world of men because of man’s wickedness and because of the Nephilim’s evil was to great to be tolerated any longer, shut up 8 people in an Ark and preserved them to re-populate the Earth.
God tells Noah, his and their offspring with their wives to re-populate the earth and that every living thing would fear them and that they were now allowed to eat flesh.
This is a far cry from the Age of Innocence.
• Promise Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
God is calling Abram from the idolatrous City of Ur, because the Lord is looking for a people that will follow Him and His ways to be an influence upon the Earth.
That’s why he told Abram to “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house”.
When that influence is nullified, then God will be able to make of Abram (Abraham) a great nation, and the Lord will bless him, and make his name great; and Abram will be a blessing, eventually to all nations.
And the Lord gave him a promise saying, “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed”.
It has always been God’s heart to bless mankind.
• Law Exodus
Means the “Outgoing”
19:1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
After being freed from Egypt the Lord led them into the Sinai desert (Jesus was driven into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit).
Moses went up to the Lord and the Lord spoke to him from the mountain reminding Moses of what God had done for them.
The lord told Moses to recite these words to the people and remember how He delivered them.
God said that if they would obey His voice and keep His covenant they would be His peculiar treasure.
The people foolishly said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” Man is not able to obey perfect the perfect Laws of God, we are imperfect but vowed to obey perfection? We should be like the man who cried to Jesus, “Lord heal my son” and Jesus asked him “do you believe?” “The man cried, Lord I believe help my unbelief”.
But Israel didn’t do that so the Lord came down Mount Sinai to bring Moses up. That should have been a clue then that God will always have to come down to bring us up.
• Church (“Grace”) Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
The Holy Spirit came down from Heaven to fill empty vessels called men that the word of God could be carried to all of the earth. These men had been fearful and uncertain, God filled them and equipped them, now they were bold and courageous to carry the Word of God from Judea to eventually the Gentiles. God kept His word to Abraham, that he would be a blessing to all of the earth.
Since there was no Bible at that time, God made it so that everyone who came near could hear their dialect spoken to them concerning the wonderful works of God.
The Church was Innocent, but that would not last long, even with God’s Holy Spirit within us, we still “Cannot do anything, without Him” John 15. Not until we see Him, then shall we be like Him.
Grace is always the premise in all of these Ages!
• Kingdom Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
All who follow Jesus Christ shall suffer persecution, some will be killed for His sake, but all will suffer to some degree, because this world is hostile to Jesus and His followers (John 17). But these saints are the tribulation saints, and I believe that they will suffer as no other saint has suffered before, and they will reign with the Lord a 1,000 years.
The Age of Grace is misleading because “grace” is always the premise in all ages.
Three Major Promises
• God’s Covenant with Abraham
– In his seed all nations shall be blessed.
• God’s Covenant with the Nation Israel
– If they faithfully served Him they’d prosper.
– If they forsook Him they would be destroyed.
• God’s Covenant with David
– His family would produce the Messiah who would reign over God’s people forever.
The Book of Exodus: means
(The “Outgoing”)
• Entire race shedding the shackles of generations-long servitude
• Migrating to a new country, emerging in a new corporate life
• They entered Egypt as a family ;they emerged from Egypt as a nation.
• Is there any more amazing national spectacle in all of history?
• A nation that has endured despite repeated, organized global attempts to wipe it out. • That has been Israel’s pattern, not just the Nazi holocaust but from the beginning.
• The Egyptians literally killing the babies, etc.,
• the Persian Empire Hyman, and the
• New Testament the same thing.
It’s really astonishing to see the focus of the world on this peculiar people separated for His purposes.
Three Main Subjects
• The Exodus (Chapters 1- 18)
– The 10 Plagues.
– The Passover.
– The Crossing of the Red Sea
• The Law (Chapters 19-24)
– The Mosaic Covenant.
• The Tabernacle (Chapters 25-40)
– The Priesthood. And the specifications of a portable sanctuary a mechanism by which the Ruler of the Universe engineered so that He could dwell among His people.
• More is said about the sanctuary than any other subject in the Bible.
The Exodus - Background
• Necessitated
– Israel’s expansion in Egypt.
. – Israel’s oppression in Egypt.
• Anticipated
– Moses’ preparation in Egypt.
– Moses’ was exiled in Midian (preparation in Midian 40 years), they also,
• wandered in Midian for 40 years, so there was
• 40 years of preparation and then
• he leads the Israelites for 40 years more through the wilderness = 120 years.
• Precipitated
– Message from God the “Burning Bush”
– Moses’ Mission.
The Years of Oppression
• Israel’s Expansion in Egypt, given by the Pharaoh who favored Joseph
– Prospered in Goshen the choicest land right next to the Delta
• The Pharaoh “who knew not Joseph.”
– An Assyrian, not Egyptian
• (Acts 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
another 2087 héteros – another (of a different kind). 2087 /héteros ("another but distinct in kind")
• Isaiah 52:4 For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.)
• (A vassal of the Hyksos?).
– Insecure due to the increase of Hebrews.
– Oppressed and enslaved them…
• Hysksos may have placed the Assyrian on the throne and may have built
the Great Pyramid (which is not “Egyptian”).
400 + 30 years affliction = 430 years of Galatians
• (Gal 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.).
Moses
• Moses stands out in the pre-Christian world, as the most outstanding individual.
• Born during, but delivered from, this government ordained genocide.
• He took a race of slaves and molded them into a powerful nation that altered the entire course of history.
The Burning Bush
• Levitical symbolism:
– Acacia: Thorn bush of the desert “Symbolizes the Curse”
– Fire: Judgement
– Judged, not consumed: Mercy/Grace
• “I AM that I AM”:
– Jesus claim in John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
• Jesus was crucified because he claimed to be God!
• God’s Prediction of the death of the firstborn Exodus 4
Ten Plagues
“…against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment...
Each plague was geared specifically to a god that they worshipped.
• Water turned to blood Osiris, Isis, Horus, Hapimon,Tauret, Nu
• Frogs Hekt
• Lice (Sand Flies?) Geb
• Scarabs (“Swarms”) Amon-Ra dung beetle, symbolizes creation
• Murrain in animals Apis, Hathor, Bubastis
• Boils (Ashes) Thoth, Apis, Serapis, Imhotep
• Hail, Fire Shu, Nut, Horus
• Locusts Nepri, Ermutet, Anupis, Osiris
• Darkness (that was felt) Ra, Aten, Horus, Tem, Shu
• Firstborn Pharaoh’s own dynasty
We become like the gods we worship
(Psalm 135:18 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.)
• Their obsession with the “Dung Beetle” and “Death”
• Their country is much like that, the poverty and trash
• It is important that you worship Jesus Christ, so that you become like Him
Passover
Hebrews have two calenders; Civil calender and Religious calender
Civil calender starts in September
Religious calender starts in Nisan
• Life: “This month shall be the beginning of months.” celebrates life
• Liberty: Delivered from bondage.
• Deliverance: Covered by the blood, not nationality. If you were Egyptian and applied the blood you would be saved, if you were Jewish and did not apply the blood, you would perish.
• Fellowship: Memorialized as a feast to this day.
• In the month of Nisan, there are three feasts
--Feast of Passover
--Feast of Unleavened Bread
--Feast of First Fruits, collectively spoken of as Passover
• Prophetic: “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29 & 34).
• Jesus our Passover Lamb
Egypt a “Type” of the World
• Material wealth and power.
• Ruled by a despotic prince:
• Pharaoh = type of Satan.
• Fleshly wisdom and false religion.
• Organized on a basis of force, ambition, and pleasure.
• Persecuted the people of God and so does the world. “Ye shall suffer persecution” the world at large is “Anti-Bible”
• Overthrown by Divine judgment. So will this world
Crossing the Red Sea
• Israel was cornered against the Sea;
• Shekinah, as a fiery pillar, blocked the Egyptian army as the Sea parted to allow Israel to cross;
• As the Egyptians followed, they were are drowned.
• (A submerged “land bridge” has been discovered across the Strait of Tiran supporting an Arabian site of Mt. Sinai.)
• The Sinai Peninsula, its location of a traditional site at St. Catherines most scholars today recognize that is an error.
• In over a century of searching they have not found any evidence of over a million people camping there in the past, non of thr features described
Galatians 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
• (@27:00) It’s near Midian and the top of the mountain is burnt, etc., there is a lot of evidence to support the Biblical record
A Measurement Standard
Micah 7:15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvelous things…
Events that the nations would take note of:
• of Judgment Plagues
• of Grace The Blood covering
• of Might Red Sea crossing
• of Guidance Shekinah
• of Provision Manna, water, etc.
• of Faithfulness Abrahamic Covenant
• of Condescension The Tabernacle, where God Himself dwelled
Our “Exodus” in Christ
• Emancipation from Bondage
– Spiritual, not just physical
• Delivered by the shedding of blood
– His blood, not animal anticipatory emblems
• Universal, not national
– “Whosoever believeth on Him shall be saved” (John 3:16).
The Law
• Commandments (Moral) Chapters 19-20
– The Terms.
– The Parties.
– The Altar.
• The “Judgments” (Social) Chapters 21-22
– Rights and practices.
• The Ordinances (Religious) Chapters 23-24
– Sabbaths and Feasts.
The Ten Commandments
1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2) Thou shalt not worship any graven image.
3) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. (Ambassadorship, to represent Him accurately not vocabulary.)
4) Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. (Ordained in Genesis, when God rested.)
5) Honor thy father and thy mother, only one with a promise.
6) Thou shalt not murder.
(Abortion: John the Baptist began his ministry at 9 in long, 1.5 lbs, leaped in the womb…)
7) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8) Thou shalt not steal. (Private ownership ordained…)
9) Thou shalt not bear false witness.
10) Thou shalt not covet.
Why Was the Law Given? (Romans 7)
• Law was given to expose our sin nature (Romans 7:7).
• To incite the sin nature to sin more! (Romans 7:8-23).
• Sin nature cannot be reformed. John 15
• To drive us to despair of self-effort (Romans 7:24, 25).
• To drive us to dependence upon the Holy Spirit alone (Romans 8:1-4).
Gospel Supersedes the Law
• Commandments fulfilled by Christ: For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to every one that believeth (Romans 10:4).
• Ordinances: Shadows now superceded.
• New Dispensation:
– Outward Command vs. Inward Power.
– Objective Code vs. Subjective change.
– Condemning Ethic vs. Transforming Dynamic.
– “Walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.”
A More Complete Deliverance
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:3, 4
The Tabernacle
“The House of Blood”
• In addition to the famed Two Tablets of the Law,
• Moses also received a set of engineering specifications for a portable sanctuary.
• The Scriptures devote more space to the description of the Tabernacle
than any other single subject.
• The Structure
• Furniture
• The Priesthood described in Exodus.
• The Offerings described in Leviticus.
Material Symbolism
• Brass os the metal that could sustain Fire, speaks of Judgment
• Gold speaks of Deity
• Silver speaks of Blood
• Silver is the Redemption Shekel in the Temple
• Jesus 30 pieces of betrayal silver
The Tabernacle (Speaks of Jesus Christ)
John 1:14 KJV: And the Word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us ...
• First thing that you see is a Linen Fence at eye level 75 feet wide, 100 feet long,,,same length as the Ark
• Entering “Eastward”
Altar of Sacrifice
• Laver for washing
• The Tabernacle was portable
Two Rooms
• Holy Place two cubes in length
• Holy of Holies the inner sanctum, only the High Priest could go in once a year.
• Menorah “I AM the Light of the World”. As you entered the door on the left side there is a seven branch candle stick. The Menorah was the only source of light
Isaiah 4:2-4 In that day shall the branch of the...
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches:...
• Table of Shewbread “I AM the Bread of Life John 6” there were twelve loaves for each tribe that was changed every Shavat.
Genesis 2 Vayevarech Elohim et Yom HaShevi'i, and set it apart as kadosh: because that in it shavat (He had rested) from all His ...
• Golden Altar “I AM the Door” In this room, but associated with the Holy of Holies, the Golden Alter. It was outside the veil, because it had to be tended to day and night.
• Ark of the Covenant “The Word Became flesh and Tabernacled Among us” located inside the Holy of Holies.
• Mercy Seat “The Propitiation of our sins” on top of the Ark of the Covenant was the Mercy Seat.
• We note that the Mercy Seat is distinctively separate: it is always described separately and it's made of different materials.
• The Ark was made of wood, covered with gold leaf.
• This is suggestive of both the humanity and the deity of Jesus Christ.
• The Mercy Seat was made of pure hammered gold. (This would seem to make it a more enduring relic.)
• And it’s possible that both of these items are presently bring guarded by the Ethiopians.
• They believe they have a destiny to deliver their sacred relic to the Messiah when He rules from Mt. Zion.
• Holy of Holies “Our sin bearer”
• Holy Place “Intercession for us”
“I AM the Door”
God will add several architectural elements when the Temple is built (we will explore the implications when we get to the Books of Kings).
The Coverings
• Embroidered Linen:
Cherubim (gold, purple, blue, scarlet).
The inside was beautiful
The outside was not much to look at
• Goat’s Hair (Sin Bearer, Scape Goat)
• Ram’s Skins, (dyed red) speaking of the blood
Covered in:
• Porpoise Skins; or Badger Skins, so as not to be desired when looked upon
• And yet when you enter, you discover what it’s all about
When you get to the Monarchy, God is going to add some things onto this.
The Breastplate of the High Priest
• 12 Stones
• 12 Tribes
Each of the names of the 12 tribes is a three letter Hebrew root, that embroidered underneath the stones.
Leviticus: The Law of the Nation
• To be studied rather than just read
• Requirements for Fellowship: Holiness
– Precepts of His Law: Standards, Conduct.
– Penalties attaching to violations.
• Ground for Fellowship: Sacrifice they all point to Jesus Christ
– Anticipatory of the ultimate Sacrifice.
• The Walk of Fellowship: Separation
– Preparation for the Coming Messiah.
Levitical Offerings
• Voluntary Offerings – “Sweet Savour” (to God)
– Burnt Offering.
– Meal Offering.
– Peace Offering.
• Compulsory Offerings: - “Non-Sweet Savour” (for us)
– Sin Offering.
– Trespass Offering.
Appointed Times: Leviticus 23
• Rabbi, Samson Raphael Hirsch
The Jew’s catechism is his calendar.
The Heptadic Calendar
• The Week of Days Shabbat
• The Week of Weeks Shavout
• The Week of Months The Religious Year
• The Week of Years The Sabbatical Year
• Seven Weeks add 1 = The Jubilee Year
– All land reverts to its owners;
– All slaves go free;
– All debts forgiven;
– “The time of the restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21).
The Appointed Times
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years:
• “seasons”: = “the appointed times.”
52 Sabbaths
+7 days of Passover including its related feast days
+1 Shavuot, Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)
+1 Yom Teruah, feast of Trumpets
+1 Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement
+7 days of Sukkot, Feast of Tabernacles
+1 Shimini Atzeret, 8th Day of Assembly
70 Appointed Times in the Jewish Calender
If you take the word “Appointed Times” and put it in a computer
• In the 78,064 letters of Genesis
• Statistical expectation: it would come up, at least five times, at some interval;
• As an equidistant letter sequence, it appears only once in Genesis;
• At an interval of 70;
• It is centered on Genesis 1:14 .
• Odds against this by unaided chance have been estimated at greater than 70,000,000 to one.
The Feasts of Israel
The 3 Spring Feasts (1st Month: Nisan)
– Feast of Passover on the 14th of Nisan
– Feast of Unleavened Bread, starts the next day
– Feast of First Fruits, is the morning after Shavout, after Passover
Passover can be any day of the week depending on what year it is
- Feast of Shavout or Feast of Weeks is Saturday after Passover
• The next morning is the Feast of First Fruits, which is always on a Sunday
• Jesus was out of the tomb, on the Feast of First Fruits on Sunday
The Feast Between these:
• Feast of Shavout or Feast of Weeks (7th Month: Tishri)
The 3 Fall Feasts
– Feast of Trumpets.
– Yom Kippur.
– Feast of Tabernacles.
Passover
• The lamb is examined on the 10th of Nisan. Also, the day that Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem
• Offered “between the evenings”: 14th is“Friday, the 13th” on the Gentile calendar...
• Not a bone to be broken…
• Jesus is our Passover: John 1:29, 36; 1 Corinthians 5:7.
Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Leaven is always a symbol of sin
• Hag haMatzah: Leaven a symbol for sin.
• Three matzahs: one broken, and hidden. Three were crucified upon the hill
The Jews still do this today and they don’t know why.
• Jesus between two thieves
• Joseph: The baker and the wine steward.
• The four cups:
--“Bringing Out,”
--“Delivering,”
--“Blessing,” the cup of blessing at the Passover
--“Taking Out.”
Feast of First Fruits
• “The morrow after the sabbath after Passover…” (Leviticus 23:11)
• The morning of the ultimate “First Fruits.” resurrection of Christ
• When did the Flood of Noah end?
Genesis 8:4
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountains of Ararat.
The Two Calendars
• Rosh HaShana (in the Fall)
Exodus 12:2
“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
Feast of Shavout
• “Counting the Omer” (49 days).
• Feast of Shavout, is the only feast to use Leavened Bread. (Gentile Church)
• Prophetic: The Birth of the Church (Acts 2: Feast of Pentecost.)
• Holy Spirit given at the Birth of the Church
The Mystery of Enoch
• Oldest Prophecy: 2nd Coming of Christ.
• Born on Shavout.
• Removed prior to the judgment
—raptured on his birthday?
• Will the Jewish “clock” restart on the same feast day that it was stopped?
• [The Secrets of Enoch, LXVIII, as recorded in The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden, World Bible Publishers, 1926, p.81.
• While not a Biblical source, (nor necessarily accurate), it may account for the rabbinical tradition.]
Feast of Trumpets
• Coincident with Rosh HaShanna.
• Teki’ah Gedolah, The Great Blowing.
• “Last Trump?” vs. “Seventh Trumpet Judgment?”
• Followed by Yomim Noraim, Days of Affliction.
Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement (Day of National Repentance)
• Day of national repentance.
• High Priest enters the Holy of Holies.
• The Scapegoat
Followed 5 days later:
Sukkot: Feast of Booths
• Feast of Tabernacles.
• Possibly the day of the Transfiguration?
Matthew 17:1 -3
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
• Leave their temporary dwellings for their permanent ones (1 Cor 5:2?).
Numbers: The Wilderness Wanderings
• Hebrew: Be-midbar, “In the Wilderness” (Greek: Arithmoi; Latin: Numeri).
• Includes two census takings of the nation.
• Resumes where Exodus left off.
• It is a book about arrested progress:
- It took only 40 hours to get Israel out of Egypt;
- it took 40 years to get Egypt out of Israel.
Kadesh-Barnea
• After 40 days Moses sent out 12 spies
• 10 Came back terrified:
Numbers 13:33
“And there we saw the Nephilim … and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
There were giants in the land
• Joshua and Caleb:
• “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”
The Lost Opportunity
Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron:
and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died
in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
God threatens a wipe out everybody, but Moses intercedes…
Numbers 14:30
Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered
of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward,
which have murmured against me…”
Moses’ intercession is a riot:
• Think of what the Egyptians will think….
Prayer: God’s method of involving you in what He is doing. Only Joshua
and Caleb—and the children of the murmurers—entered the Land.
40 Years in the Wilderness
• God had prepared him for the 40 years of wanderings;
• Had married Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, priest of Midian (East shore of Gulf of Aqaba) ;
– (Midianites descended from Keturah)
– Real Mt. Sinai in Midian?
Why?
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come
“examples” = tupos: A figure, image, pattern, a prefiguring; a type; a “prototype”
Types
• Manna (John 6:35): Miracle bread… (not gathered on Sabbath: four chapters before the Law given!)
• Brazen Serpent (John 3:14): an anticipatory symbol of Christ! John 3:14-16.
• Waters from the Rock (1 Corinthians 10:4)
--twice and would have modeled two comings of Christ if Moses had followed specifications!
• The Order of the Camp makes the sign of the Cross
Manna
• In need of food, God provided a daily provision of Manna, a miracle bread from heaven
• It was provided only on 6 days, with a double portion on the 6th, to prevent gathering on the Sabbath.
• (Note: This was before the Law was given) Exodus 16 law is in Exodus 20
The Brazen Serpent
• In response to murmuring, God sent fiery serpents which bit the people and they died.
• Moses interceded and was instructed to place a brass serpent on a pole on a high hill; all that would look toward it would be spared.
• Why this strange remedy?
John 3:14-16
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
• Numbers 21 points to John 3:14-16, this is called a “Macro-Code” an anticipatory code of structure
• A computer has an “Anticipatory Code of Structure” a code that anticipates subsequent content.
The Creator, is outside the Time Domain
Hezekiah: “Nehustan” (2 Kings 18:4). [Later finds its way into the folklore
of the Greeks regarding Aesculapius, God of Healing.
• The double serpent on a cross was the symbol for Hermes, the God of Commerce!
Waters at Meribah
• At Rephidim,
• Water from striking the Rock (Exodus 17:6); Jesus smitten for us
• At Mirabah,
• Water for the asking (Numbers 20:8f).
• Moses struck the Rock
• Type: “The Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4).
• Source of Living Water for the asking
• Moses denied entry into the Land!
The Camp of Israel: Numbers 2
• Every detail by Design?
• What might be hidden behind the details of the Camp of Israel?
• “The volume of the Book is written of Me” (Psalms 40:7; Hebrews 10:7).
Men older than 20 years, fit for war
4 Camps
(Symbol: Lion) (Symbol: Ox)
Judah 74,600 Ephraim 40,500
Issachar 54,400 Manasseh 32,200
Zebullun 57,400 = 186,400 Benjamin 35,400 = 108,100
(Symbol: Man) (Symbol: Eagle with serpent in mouth)
Reuben 46,500 Dan 62,700
Simeon 59,300 Asher 41,500
Gad 45,650 = 151,450 Naphtali 53,400 = 157,600
The Four Living Creatures
Isaiah 6: Ezekiel 1:10, Revelation
Rabbinical Precision
• The Camp of Judah: East of Levites
• The Camp of Reuben: South of Levites
• Camp of Ephraim: West of Levites
• Camp of Dan: North of Levites
• Strict obedience denies area Southeast, etc.
• Thus, only cardinal directions N, S, E, W, ordained
• Only width of Levite’s camp allowed located in the Center
• Length proportional to population
• The “Sign of the Cross”
The Four Living Creatures around the “Throne of God”
Isaiah 6: Ezekiel 1:10, Revelation
Deuteronomy: The Laws Reviewed
• The bridge between the first four (outside the Land) and the next seven (inside the Land).
• Sh’ma: The Great Commandment.
• More quotes by Jesus than from any other book.
• Song of Moses.
• The Death of Moses.
– Michael fights with Satan over the body.
– Transfiguration appearance. Matthew 17
– One of the two witnesses in Revelation 11?
Sh’ma
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the
LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind
them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine
eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
“One” = dx’a, echad: compound unity; collective sense; plurality in unity (“one cluster of grapes”).
vs. yacheed, absolute unity (never of YHWH).
• YHWH (“LORD”) appears 3 times.
The Dangers of Compromise
• The Petition of Gad, Reuben, and ½ the tribe of Manasseh, chose land E of the Jordan.
– (A compromise of sight, as Lot had done).
– After participating in the Conquest, they returned to this region of the Golan Heights.
The region of the Golan Heights
• This region was the
– first to fall to idolatry;
– the first to go into captivity;
– it remains the vulnerable buffer zone of Israel, even today.
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