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Torah Reading-Numbers 19:1-22:1[1]
Torah Overview
The Red
Heifer – 19:1-21
Miriams Death
& The Lack of Water- 20:1-2
The People
Protest-20:3-5
God Commands
Moses to Bring Water-20:6-8
Moses and
Aaron Err and are Punished-20:9-29
Amalek
Attacks-21:1-3
A New
Challenge- 21:4-13
The Song In
The Book of Wars of Hashem-21:14-20
The Battle
with Sihon-21_21-25, 22:1
Bmidbar/Numbers
19:1-2
Va-y’daber
ADONAI el-Moshe v’el—Aharon lemor
zot chukat
ha-trah asher-tsivah ADONAI lemor
daber-el-b’nei
Yisra’el v-yik’chu eleicha farah adumah l’mimah asher ein-bahh moom asher
lo-ala
aleiha’ol
And spoke the
Lord to Moses and Aaron saying,
“This (is
the) statute of the Torah/instruction that commanded the Lord saying,
Speak to the
sons of Israel, that they will take to you (a) cow, red, flawless, that isn’t
on her (a) blemish, that (has) not gone up on her (a) yoke”
Related
Words:
Chok Law, decree,
statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, custom , boundary
Chukah Constitution, law, custom
Chukat
olam immutable law
(ordinance forever)
Chooki/lo-chooki legal, lawful, licit/illiegal, unlawful,
illicit
Shomer
chok law-abiding (keeper of
the law)
Chok ben-leumi International law (law among the
peoples)
Chok ts’vace Military law (law of army/host)
Torah
Nuggets:
Speak to the
Rock – Bmidbar/Numbers 20:7-12
Num 20:7 The LORD
spoke to Moshe, saying,
Num 20:8 Take the
rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aharon your brother, and speak you
to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall
bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation
and their livestock drink.
Num 20:9 Moshe
took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
Num 20:10 Moshe
and Aharon gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them,
Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?
Num 20:11 Moshe
lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came
forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
Num 20:12 The
LORD said to Moshe and Aharon, Because you didn't believe in me, to sanctify me
in the eyes of the children of Yisra'el, therefore you shall not bring this
assembly into the land which I have given them.
Chumash[2]
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Speak to
the Rock- God
commanded Moses to take the staff that he had used to perform the miracles in
Egypt and which he had used to provide water for the people after they crossed
the sea of Reeds. At that time, he performed
the miracle by sriking the Rock
Exo 17:6 Behold,
I will stand before you there on the rock in Chorev. You shall strike the rock,
and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moshe did so in
the sight of the elders of Yisra'el.
But now he
was told to speak to it.
The Rock- The definite article “the” indicates
that this was a known rock. The Sages
teach that God had created a rock that He used often as a source of miraculous
waters. This was the rock that the
angel revealed to Hagar when her son Ishmael was dying of thirst
Gen 21:15 The
water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Gen 21:16 She
went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she
said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against
him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Gen 21:17 God
heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky,
and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard
the voice of the boy where he is.
Gen 21:18 Get up,
lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great
nation."
Gen 21:19 God
opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with
water, and gave the boy drink.
And from
which Moses was commanded to draw water nearly 40 years earlier
Exo 17:5 The LORD
said to Moshe, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Yisra'el
with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile 1, and go.
Exo 17:6 Behold,
I will stand before you there on the rock in Chorev. You shall strike the rock,
and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moshe did so in
the sight of the elders of Yisra'el.
And that same
Rock accompanied their wanderings as long as Miriam was alive. After her death it ceased to yield water and
was hidden.
Dakes
Notes:
To speak to
the Rock is all that was required of Moses, and it would have been very
effective in proving to Israel the intended truth of benefits received through
Messiah who was typified by the Rock.
1Co 10:1 Now I
would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the
cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 and were
all immersed into Moshe in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 and all
ate the same spiritual food;
1Co 10:4 and all
drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that
followed them, and the rock was Messiah.
The Rock had
already been smitten once, for all men
Exo 17:6 Behold, I will
stand before you there on the rock in Chorev. You shall strike the rock, and
water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moshe did so in the
sight of the elders of Yisra'el
Romans 10
Rom 10:1
Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Yisra'el, that
they may be saved.
Rom 10:2 For I
testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to
knowledge.
Rom 10:3 For
being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own
righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
Rom 10:4 For
Messiah is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who
believes.
Rom 10:5 For
Moshe writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them
will live by them."
Rom 10:6 But the
righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who
will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Messiah down);
Rom 10:7 or, 'Who
will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Messiah up from the dead.)"
Rom 10:8 But what
does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your
heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
Rom 10:9 that if
you will confess with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord, and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 10:10 For
with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
Rom 10:11 For the
Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."
Rom 10:12 For
there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of
all, and is rich to all who call on him.
Rom 10:13 For,
"Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Rom 10:14 How
then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they
believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:15 And how
will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful
are the feet of those who preach the Good News of shalom, who bring glad
tidings of good things!"
Rom 10:16 But
they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Yeshaiyahu says, "Lord, who
has believed our report?"
Rom 10:17 So
faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rom 10:18 But I
say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all
the earth, their words to the ends of the world."
Rom 10:19 But I
ask, didn't Yisra'el know? First Moshe says, "I will provoke you to
jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I
will make you angry."
Rom 10:20
Yeshaiyahu is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who didn't
seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."
Rom 10:21 But as
to Yisra'el he says, "All day long I stretched out my hands to a
disobedient and contrary people."
Hebrews
9:25-28
Heb 9:25 nor yet
that he should offer himself often, as the Kohen Gadol enters into the holy
place year by year with blood not his own,
Heb 9:26 or else
he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at
the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of
himself.
Heb 9:27 Inasmuch
as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Heb 9:28 so
Messiah also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a
second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for
salvation.
Merely
speaking to the Rock at this time would have brought the same benefits, the
same benefits as smiting it before. The
same is true now regarding Messiah Yeshua- all one is required to do is ask and
receive
Matthew
7:7-11, 21-22
Mat 7:7
"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and
it will be opened for you.
Mat 7:8 For
everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be
opened.
Mat 7:9 Or who is
there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Mat 7:10 Or if he
asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
Mat 7:11 If you
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Mat 7:21 Not
everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven;
but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many
will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your
name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?'
Mark 11:22-26
Mar 11:22 Yeshua answered
them, "Have faith in God.
Mar 11:23 For
most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, 'Be taken up and
cast into the sea,' and doesn't doubt in his heart, but believes that what he
says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.
Mar 11:24
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe
that you have received them, and you shall have them.
Mar 11:25
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against
anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your
transgressions.
Mar 11:26 But if
you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your
transgressions."
John 15:7
Joh 15:7 If you remain
in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it
will be done for you.
John 16:23-26
Joh 16:23
"In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell
you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Joh 16:24 Until
now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your
joy may be made full.
Joh 16:25 I have
spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I
will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about
the Father.
Joh 16:26 In that
day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the
Father for you,
Following the flesh, instead of obeying the commands of
God can keep us from entering our promised land.
Fiery Serpents – Numbers 21:5-10
Num 21:5 The
people spoke against God, and against Moshe, Why have you brought us up out of
Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water;
and our soul loathes this light bread.
Num 21:6 The LORD
sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people
of Yisra'el died.
Num 21:7 The
people came to Moshe, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against
the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents
from us. Moshe prayed for the people.
Num 21:8 The LORD
said to Moshe, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall
happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
Num 21:9 Moshe
made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a
serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
Num 21:10 The
children of Yisra'el traveled, and encamped in Ovot.
Fiery
Serpents: The poisen
in their fangs made their victims feel as if they were burning. Snakes were the fitting agents of
punishment. The primevil serpant had
slandered God to Eve and was cursed forever.
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent
was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He
said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of
the garden?'"
Gen 3:2 The woman
said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
Gen 3:3 but of
the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You
shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Gen 3:4 The
serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
Gen 3:5 for God knows
that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil."
Gen 3:6 When the
woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the
eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the
fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Gen 3:7 The eyes
of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig
leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Gen 3:8 They
heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among
the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 The LORD
God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
Gen 3:10 The man
said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was
naked; and I hid myself."
Gen 3:11 God
said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that
I commanded you not to eat from?"
Gen 3:12 The man
said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and
I ate."
Gen 3:13 The LORD
God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said,
"The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Gen 3:14 The LORD
God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above
all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go,
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Gen 3:15 I will
put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her
offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
It was
punished by not enjoying the taste of its food. Now, it punished the ungrateful slanderers who defamed the food
that had a multitude of flavours. (Rashi)
They begged
Moses to pray that God accept their repentance and remove the serpants. Once a
natural force has been unleashed, special merit is needed to remove it or
protect against it, even if the sin that caused it had been forgiven.
VS 8 - Num
21:8 The LORD said to Moshe, Make you a
fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who
is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
Even people who had been bitten were cured when they looked at
Moses copper serpant. The Sages said
(Rosh Hashansh 29a) “Does a serpant cause death or life? Rather, when they looked upward and
subjected their hearts to their Father in Heaven they were healed, but if not
they died (Rashi)
God could have healed them without the serpant but then they would
have thought they were cured by natural means.
It was a miracle within a miracle.
The source of destruction was a source of healing.
God had not specified the material by which Moses was to fashion his
serpant, but chose copper because it contains the letters found in serpant, the
serpant that was attacking the sinners (Chumash)
The brazen serpent here was clearly a type of Messiah, bearing the
sins and sicknesses of all men[3].
Matthew 8:16-17
Mat 8:16 When
evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the
spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
Mat 8:17 that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken through Yeshaiyahu the prophet, saying:
"He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."
1 Peter 2:
21-:24
Pe 2:21 For to
this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving you an
example, that you should follow his steps,
1Pe 2:22 who did
not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."
1Pe 2:23 Who,
when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but
committed himself to him who judges righteously;
1Pe 2:24 who his
own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins,
might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
Isaiah 53
Isa 53:3 He was
despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease:
and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect
him.
Isa 53:4 Surely
he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him
plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he
was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the
punishment that brought our shalom was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Nine Fold
Type of Messiah:
1.
The
serpent was a symbol of sin and Messiah was made sin for us that we might be
made free from sin
2Co 5:21 For him who
knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
2.
The
serpent was lifted up on a pole and Messiah was lifted up on a cross –
Joh 3:14 As Moshe
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up,
Joh 3:15 that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God
so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish, but have eternal life.
3.
The
sick of Israel received healing by looking at the brazen serpent. We receive
healing by looking to Messiah Yeshua
Mat 8:17 that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken through Yeshaiyahu the prophet, saying:
"He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."
Joh 3:14 As Moshe
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up,
Joh 3:15 that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
1Pe 2:24 who his
own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins,
might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
Isa 53:3 He was
despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease:
and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect
him.
Isa 53:4 Surely
he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him
plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he
was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the
punishment that brought our shalom was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
4.
As
the Israelites who looked on the serpent continued to live so those who truly
look to Messiah Yeshua will live eternally.
Joh 3:14 As Moshe
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up,
Joh 3:15 that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
5.
God
provided no other remedy for Israel at that time so Messiah is the only remedy
for those who wish salvation
Joh 3:14 As Moshe
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up,
Joh 3:15 that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God
so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Act 3:16 By faith
in his name has his name made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the
faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence
of you all.
Act 3:17
"Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also
your rulers.
Act 3:18 But the
things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah
should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Act 3:19
"Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted
out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Act 4:12 There is
salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that
is given among men, by which we must be saved!"
Rom 10:9 that if
you will confess with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord, and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 10:10 For
with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
6.
As
the Israelites had to have faith in the brazen serpent as the remedy for their
sin and sickness so we today must look in faith to Messiah Yeshua
Joh 3:14 As Moshe
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up,
Joh 3:15 that
whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God
so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Eph 2:8 for by
grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God,
Eph 2:9 not of
works, that no one would boast.
7.
As
God’s power was the invisible force in the brazen serpent remedy, so it is with
salvation through Messiah Yeshua
Mat 1:21 She
shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Yeshua, for it is he who shall
save his people from their sins."
Rom 1:16 For I am
not ashamed of the Good News of Messiah, for it is the power of God for
salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
Col 2:12 having
been buried with him in immersion, in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Col 2:13 You were
dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you
alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
8. As the
serpent on the pole brought peace and reconciliation to God , so Messiah Yeshua
on the cross brought peace and reconciliation with Him –
Col 1:20 and
through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the
earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his
cross.
Col 1:21 You,
being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
9. As
confession of sin and prayer were necessary for Israel to receive benefits of
the brazen serpent, so they are necessary to obtain the benefits of Messiah on
the cross.
1Jo 1:5 This is
the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is
light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jo 1:6 If we say
that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't
tell the truth.
1Jo 1:7 But if we
walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Yeshua the Messiah, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
1Jo 1:8 If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9 If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jo 1:10 If we
say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
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Blessed are You, YHWH, our God, King of the Universe, Who gave us the Torah of truth and implanted eternal life within us. Blessed are You, YHWH, Giver of the Torah.
Shabbat Shalom B’Shem Yeshua