Lesson 13 - Numbers 11 Cont.

[Music] last time in numbers allah we ended with a very curious circumstance that's easy to kind of just read over the list and it concerns the matter that God is going to anoint seventy elders of his room with the same spirit the same Ramadan Moses and their reason for doing this is that Moses need help in meeting these Israelite tribes because the weight of responsibility is not just one man's two great yet he to be seventy men being useful and leading God's people is that they must be of the same spirit as Moses now what's so curious is that the text plane he means that the spirit has to be drawn from that which is already upon Moses and in order that it can be distributed among those seventy proposed leaders now look with me as we read numbers chapter 11 verses 16 and 17 numbers chapter 11 if you have a complete Jewish Bible this will be on page 161 tumor than just reread 2 verses 16 and 17 I don't I said to wash a bring it be seventy of the leaders of Israel people you recognize its leaders of the people and officers of theirs and bring them to the tent of meeting and having to stand there with you I will go down and speak with you there I own takes of the spirit which rests on you and put it on them then they will carry the burden of the people along with you so that you won't have to carry it yourself along now what exactly doesn't need the gods going to draw upon the spirit takes them in the spirit promotions put it upon those 70 elders now we might be touched on that last week and I'd like to begin this meeting by discussing it a bit further at least this means that Moses and the seventy are going to share the same spirit the same holy spirit and this concept ought to be familiar to us because possessing the same spirit is precisely what the New Testament tells us is point of unity among all the leaders listen to Ephesians 4 I therefore the prisoner of the Lord in a manner worthy of the calling with which you could call with all the patients showing forbearance to one another in love being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace there is one body one spirit just as also you were called in one hope of your calling one Lord one faith one baptism one God father of all who is over all and through all and income so this uses she had another example that the New Testament is simply the flora brought forward within the context of Yeshua as suicide that's added to the mix you know we cannot get around the fact that the words of the Torah and there he who context point out that whatever the nature of the Spirit is it's going to be laid upon these seventy men apparently it's going to be have to be taken from Moses even the rabbi's the sages of all see that Moses is some kind of container of the Holy Spirit on earth at this long history and that the Spirit is going to have to be drawn from Moses so that I can be sure only 70 now strains is that might seen in some ways upon closer examination we have this concept of the spirit Rafa dish being torn from somebody for the purpose of being placed onto others brought forward and none of the Christ let's read John 16 John 16 we're gonna read verses 1 through 15 John chapter 16 1 through 15 in to go to a complete Jewish Bible speech 1352 I told you these things so that you won't be caught by surprise it will ban you from the sin of God in fact in time the time will come when he wouldn't kills you will think he's serving God they do these things because because they understood neither the father nor me but I told you this so that when the time comes for it to happen you'll remember that I told you I didn't tell you this at first because I was with you but now I'm going to the one who sent me not one of you is asking me where are you going instead because I have said these things to you you're all wrong with grief I tell you the truth is to your advantage that I go away for if I don't go away the comforting counselor will not come - however if I do go I will send him to you when he comes he will show that the womb is wrong about about righteousness about judgment about sin that people don't put their trust in me about righteousness and that I going to the Father will no longer see me about judgment and that the ruler of this world has been judged I still have many things to tell you what you can't bear them for now or when the Spirit comes he will guide you into all the truth for he will not speak on his own initiative at all say only what he ears he will also announce to you events of the future he will horrify me because he will receive from what is mine and announce to you everything the father adds his money that is why I said that he receives from what is mine and will announced to you now from your study in the New Testament not the total problem cam from John 16 for about two or three weeks because there's so much theology presented here but what I'd like to draw your attention to through today is that the comment is that tell me she will leave the comforter cannot come to the cycles we shoot and the comforter is clearly identified as the spirit so you shoe the saying that until he goes the Holy Spirit can't be made available to other people but for me that leaves a pretty big question just hanging in the air why can't the spirit be available to others until you should still walk around why not and we've learned that if we want to know why find out which of God's patents applies to the situation that'll tell you why so we accept that got principles and patterns and methods of operation never change the solution is that as it was with Moses in the Torah so of us for crying it appears that just as Moses was the sole person with the holy spirit resting upon him for a time in the Torah era so yoshua was the sole repository of the Holy Spirit during his era of ministry a difference that seems to be so it's kind of easy difficult to actually figure it out the holy text and he contrasts them is the manner of the Holy Spirit upon versus the matter of the Holy Spirit within issue that difference is spoken of at length in the modern church as a demonstration of the difference in function of the spirit the Old Testament versus New Testament but an honest reading but shows that there's nothing that actually says well the spirit used to be a pots down tennis or something quite that definitive I think it well be there's very little difference attendant and it's only manner semantics between the Old Testament even culture of several hundred years BC and the New Testament even culture the Hallows day or it could be all the difference in the world as is typical for Christianity but in both cases the time came when you've all been determined it was necessary to share the spirit among more than only is mediators which is only ever been to Moses and then you see now the verses the numbers 11 say that the spirit had to be drawn to Moses how that occurred were not told for Jesus it was a less of matter the spirit be drawn from him then he had to give it up in order for him to be shared because indeed were told when he died and he shouted and yielded up his spirit he died his spirit the Holy Spirit left him which of course is what Christ said in John 16 was the necessary a step towards were nary men albeit only as believers being able to share in that same spirit that was first given to you when he was baptized by his cousin Johanna taught job that spirit that was seen descending upon him like enough the same heads here in there's a lot we find that even though Moses will have that Holy Spirit that was upon him and him alone for a time now draw upon and shared among seventy others the spirits not somehow divided up into small pieces its substance and its wholeness are not diminish they're not too pleased than anyway just because many are gonna happen and I'm pretty sure none of you have a problem with that concept because that's generally how we the church view the only spirit then although we share it we don't need to hold a small tea set and to minish piece of the spirit is it's the same spirit we all hold the same amount I'm pointing this out to you because of basic teaching and preaching Christianity that I'm standing here today to tell you is misguided and absolutely error and that teaching is that the Spirit of God was not cheered among men until Christ came and went we find it right here in numbers that the Spirit of God was shared along 71 individuals thirteen hundred years before he was born so the entire premise of the Holy Spirit being shared among mini-myth simultaneously is once again a Torah principle not a New Testament principle in part and parcel with the matter of the sharing of the Holy Spirit among men is the erroneous belief that at the beginning of the Gospel of John mankind is given a new revelation that was there before in fact John 1 John 16 is often considered the basis for a new religion at least newsy ology called Christianity and so is John what let me read the first five verses of John one to be familiar to your ears John 1:1 in the beginning was the word the word whose God was with God the Word was God he was in the beginning with God all things came into being by him and apart from him nothing came into being that has come into being in him was life life was the light of men and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it now pay attention please the idea the word be incarnating issue was with God and is God did not begin with the Apostle John John was simply stating a well-worn Jewish principle that they're not accepted by all of us was mainstream and it was widespread among the Jewish people the idea of an entity called the word that was in existence from the beginning did not begin with the advent of Christ honors and the subsequent inspired writings of the Apostle John when we go back and look at ancient writings well before the time usually we will find rabbis the same just debating and scratching their heads over the very same things we still do is cut one or is e2 is the word God words the word another God is the word an attribute of God or is he a separate person who is subservient to God eventually a couple of years after Christ's death Gentile Christians decided that God was only two he was 3 so we have the doctrine of the Trinity Father Son and Holy Spirit I'm not here to dispute the baby eels drop doctors I'm here to tell you that the concept of God being a plurality was not a new invention in the New Testament long before Jesus the Jews identified divine P or attribute of God are eternity known as the word and he who word is called main rough-in great Louis so for you Bible scholars logos and memra is the same thing just two different languages and it is what today we translated the English has the word right well how would you take this way from the brightest told you many doctrines of the church's attempted to quote the word to me believe in Yeshua as as totally from tu biblical faith leaders it was done with historically well-documented intent of erecting a wall to separate Jews from Gentile Christians and selenium these doctrines are just erroneous the main thing that separates Christianity intuitive ISM is who is the word and not if he exists the differences between us who the Messiah is and has it already come not others to be inside the Jews also lead to the Holy Spirit today it could be laid upon men and sharing among men and this bodies is long before Joseph and Mary came into the same we're ego here in numbers concerning Moses in these study elders and he was a hotly debated this club about how to think about a God as one high yet he's manifested in more than one way the word the mihrab being one of those ways I'm all the spirit through love another and even another manifestation of you homie this mostly absent from the Western Church and so rarely discussed does the manifestation of wisdom call Sophia yeah this is very close these topics about who God was and was he one or many and what is the essence of my tattoos we're not the source of new arguments set forth by this new Christian religion it was only treated as new because the Gentiles who quickly became the ruling elite over this new religion Roman yours Gianna T distanced ourselves from the Jewish people from long established Jewish scholarship goodness they they even distance themselves from scores of thousands of Jewish Rutgers who didn't accept Yeshua as Messiah so I can accomplish anything here I hope to demonstrate that this man named division of the Bible to Old and New Testaments is a terror artificial thing that assert that do nothing but divide God's people the Old Testament for the Jews the New Testament for the Gentiles in reality the book of Matthew should have been simply the next book following Ezra and Nehemiah in the same way that Exodus is just the next book following following Genesis sadly Matthew was seen by Jews and Christians like essentially the first book of the Bible separate from the previous one more irrelevant and this is wrong line because the Hebrew Bible - not when we call the Old Testament is like the blueprint for a house well we haven't labeled the New Testament is like the house itself though God even move into that house we can enjoy it as it is what if we understand materials were used to build apps weren't the electric wires where the pipes are how that foundation was built words strongest what's inside those walls you've better have them eprints believers we're called to be much more than just occupiers of the house we're to strive to understand all there is that can be known about that house what we can understand and accept the Bible as undividable then we can apply the patterns of the principle is the tour to the Gospels and the epistles because it was always meant to be and have a much better understanding than me how to apply God's principle in command in these two hours well let's move on let's read from verse 18 of nerves love into the end of the chapter numbers 11 starting at verse 18 till the pecan secretes yourselves for tomorrow and eat meat because you cried in the years of that 900 we have good life in Egypt all right anodized gonna give you meat Gilead you want to steal one day two days five ten twenty days got a whole month until it comes out you know you eat because you rejected that and I who's here with you and distressed him with your crying and asking Oh like we ever needed you but Moses says here I am was six hundred thousand men on foot and yet you say I who give the meat eat for a month and whole flocks and herds were slaughter for them would it be enough if all the fish in the sea were elected corny wouldn't even that be enough and I answered Moshe has got a nice boat short now I will see what I said will happen or not Moses went out and told the people without and I had said then he collected seventy of them heaters with people and place them all around the tent and not and I came down in the cloud and he spoke to me took some of the spirit that was long and put it on 70 liters and when the Spirit came to rest on them and they prophesied then but not afterwards there were two men who stayed at the camp one named Al dot and the other made up and the spirit came to rest on them and they were among those listed to go out to the tip and so they prophesied in the camp a young man around and told Moses tell about it make that a prophesy in the camera yeah she was Joshua the son of nun who promised to use and then Moses assistant answered my lord I was the stop them but Moses replied are you so Seles to protect me I wish all of her had at least even the prophets ahead and I'm going to put his spear and all of Moses and the leaders of Israel went back into the camp and I sent out a win which brought winds from across the sea and let them fall near the camp about a day's trip the wind blew side of the camp and all around it covering the ground to a depth of three feet the people staying up all that a that night all the next day gathering the quails the person gathering the least collected ten of eeap's then they spread them out for themselves all around the camp but while the meat was still in their mouths before they had chewed it up the anger event I flirted because the people and I struck the people with a terrible plague therefore that place was named key wrote great breathe because there they feared the people who were so greedy from Cairo the people traveled to husband and early state at hot the first of the two drives that the people brought to Moses and Moses brought to God was now solved when the focal way Moses thought not me but her soft Moses thought that God himself ought to take on the burden of these ill-tempered Israelites God said I'm gonna give you this I'm gonna give the same spirit that I eat you just need more men and then you most young with them you lost your birth the strength and right was that people wouldn't meet they're tired of eating man and the Lord writes to provoke response what mean all enemy so what you people make you vomit in fact an unbelievable amount of meat the Lord is somehow that a quiet and will not be the blessing they had over it's all curse however is a preparation for receiving the meat the people will sanctify themselves being sanctified is a necessary requirement to get prepared for and be in don't always presidents the Hebrew word is eat Kadesh eat Kadesh and it is the physical act of both a thing one's body and washing your clothes you harness once this happens all the rules of ritual purity apply need to touch a dead body you lose that purity no sexual intercourse is a lot until after the event for which the sanctification process was ordered was complete otherwise the purity would be to file now we're going to find this term sanctify yourself and a number of forms in the old test and one very normal is when the Israelites are camping on the eastern bank of the Jordan they're told to eat commish in preparation for being led by the Lord into the Promised Land for the first time now another interesting fact is that this Turner is only applied to lay people this is not the term used when priests do their ritual bathing that term is either a hot or a hair - to wash it in to purify here's what we need to take from this this heat Kadesh form of sanctification is something that while it's a holy endeavor it's not officiated over it's not the fun by priests it is literally been self sanctification the one thing to notice though is that but the sanctification involves is a purely physical act the washing of the body and of the clothing of course it's done a devotion together - to God I think we can equate this to the concept of the difference between following the law for self sanctification that pertains a kind of self righteousness versus putting on the blood of Yeshua for a spiritually sourced divine sanctification that attains a kind of God righteousness that is not physical nor can a man attain for himself herself under any circumstances the thing is that modern Avenger or the whole Christianity says that the latter has replaced the former that's incorrect these two types of sanctification provided and God provided opportunity versus abeyance - the law brings a kind of righteousness that is definitely demanded their God and is pleasing to you but at the same time in Canon does really with internal spiritual sanctification that's been performed by the Lord this is what we call salvation in Christ the spiritual sanctification that can only be apprehended by trust in issue or God it's the only kind of sanctification the sames if that doesn't make the need first activation of our behavior our works be instant God's commandments and my definition is a mystical and it seems to me that this Keith Kadesh a human action himself sanctification is exactly a demonstration of this doctrine and in response to the Lord's concession providing me Moses sceptical as always responds so how you gonna provide me not you're in the middle of nowhere for six hundred thousand men I remember six hundred thousand is simply the size of the Israelite army the men of fighting age add to that the women the children the people lame babies don't leave it we're somewhere near three million people it's not just me for a day or two that says he's going to fight me for a month well now that the Lord stated tell them two problems gonna be resolved he says about to accomplish and the 70 elders are brought to the wilderness Tabernacle it says that then in a cloud you know they descend and he troop on the spirit there was an odd Moses and he put it upon the seventy elders even more what had happened to seventy in speed and ecstasy brutal your BIOS may say prophesied instead of speaking next my only qualm was using the word prophecy isn't for us today or the remainder of the Bible prophecy communicates a little something different and what actually went on here here they were not teaching the word of the Lord or just one meaning of the term to prophesy nor did they speak in the future another meaning for the word prophesied rather it was some kind of very excited speech exactly what it was we don't know what we do know is that the seventy didn't become prophets and we have no indication of these elders ever again being involved with this kind of experience in fact it is specifically stated in verse 25 whatever ability or meaning there was to this short period of ecstatic speech insist the civically it did not continue it happens there and that was the end of it and the idea of all this is that their strange excitable speech validating that indeed they had received the Spirit of God and they spoke it no more now Ksenia it's not a little bit familiar was there another time when the Holy Spirit descended upon people and they and speaking in a special way for a short time surely was the most children who attended Sunday school for any length of time no I how about Pentecost when the Holy Spirit said in those Jewish believers who received the spirit started speaking in other tongues pax 2 1 when the day of Pentecost to come they were all together in one place and suddenly who came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind until all mouth for they were sitting and there appeared to them tongues as a fire distributing themselves resting on each of them and they were all filled a spirit began to speak in other tongues as the spirit was giving them utterance oh my once again it seems that the entire concept of the Spirit of God just descending upon men just versing among men was a result of their being some kind of extended speech that follows it was not a brand new New Testament revelation after all it was a repeat of pattern set down thirteen hundred years earlier outside I recorded in the Torah and we just read about it here and numbers chapter a lot suddenly in verse 26 the scene shows two men held out and made that who were to know where and the Spirit of God was upon them - there's no explanation for this but what is interesting is it says they remain in the camp and what's implied here an in the world tradition that says this was the case that often when camping in a place with only short periods of time perhaps just for a few days the luminous paradigm was outside the kingdom rather than at the center and perhaps it was there just took too long for this enormously long call people spread out for miles as it traveled the finally form up can become a formal camp around the tabernacle so the tavern actively set up some convenient place within the column of the Israelites it's easily imaginable that at the beginning of the column was at least one day's journey possibly two days journey in front of the people who marked the other end of the call that's how long this thing was so here we get this picture of the Holy Spirit descending upon people in this case two men in design camp of Israel and seven began outside the camp of Israel the obvious symbolism is because the holy spirit was just was not intended only for the higher classes or aristocrats or dignitaries or leaders rather the Holy Spirit could be bestowed of someone in any class those who were within the camp of Israel those who are outside Camp in Israel God would cross boundaries to get the holy spirit to those that he deemed as his there could be no clear pattern message here than what God intends to do in times future with you as the means and the messenger of this plan that the Holy Spirit could be available to everybody and fittingly when I was noticed by the Israelites that held that me that received the spirit some of the bystanders started yelling Moses some people I don't think they should have got this spirit I'll be the judge of that and Josh you know who would eventually take over for Moses even pled with losses to tell Ellen animated stop speaking this static language because he just couldn't fathom how it'd be possible it's gonna be appropriate Moses and the same acted that our Lord and Master his schewe would displace as all I wished all of the Lord's people that's in fact I wish the Lord would put his spirit on the son is a chance to connect the dots between this tour experience and the New Testament listen to Paul in first Timothy 1st Timothy 2:1 first of all then I urge that entreaties and prayers petitions Thanksgiving may be made on behalf of all men for kings all in order that we may lead a tranquil quiet life and all this dignity this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved to come to a knowledge of the truth Moses the State of Israel to some higher than all men would receive the spirit Yeshua God our Savior the Stars all meant to be safe to have the sphere same spirit he is Moses despite its flaws was such an exceptionally moving Joshua was all concerned that these two men they'll never make that would receive the spirit completely apart from Moses being in charge of the process used to friend at my chillip Moses in fact they were just kind of standing around and calling their hair far away Moses in the 17th could have never been to the moon Moses had no interest in the personal power you know interest in being seen as special nor didn't matter to him that others were given gifts Lord that right believed in his own he simply wanted with a word for these people whether he understood it or not now that for me is a godly leader is it any wonder that most greatly revered by the Jewish people to this day and to be revered by all certainly within stretched it's described and verse 31 us men coming from the little plane first coming through the direction of the Red Sea it was falling from the sky widespread all and no one how it says they feel from that day's journey on this side to a day's journey on the other side the idea of being bad the marching Hall of the three million Israelites properly stretched a distance of two days turning or more modern times we're talking somewhere probably near 20 miles and the Lord will those whales would fall that law spread out column of weary grumbling Israelites we can all partake see it wasn't that barely a sufficient of whales fell over this two days journey distance it was they felt toward this vast areas on the corner of three feet deep hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of Quinns hundreds and hundreds of tons of plants were there for the taking so in first 32 the people began to gather them up and the least the person who Katherine was 10 hours that's what it actually says well about 50 bushels of weights several slobs recounted this astounding event so great was its impact on the Hughes thank you listen to Psalm 78 verse 26 332 he caused the east wind to blow in the heavens and by his power he directed the Solomon and when he had rained upon them like dust even we would follow like sand of the seasons then he let them fall in the midst of their camp round about their dwellings so they were well filled in their desire to geekdom before they had satisfied their desire followed food was still in their mouths the anger of God was against them he killed over their styles ones so do the choice men of Israel in spite of all that they still said and did not believe in his performance he could this event have actually happened is there is enough whale and all this earth for this to even be a possibility here's what you see the cysts not about that event but not the migration of quails is a regular and normal thing across the Arabian Arabian in Sinai Peninsula in March and eat they crossed the Mediterranean coming from the south in large bands and returning southwards from Europe even more enormous flights towards the end of September on both migrations they are netted for the market the flesh of the birds caught in the spring is commonly dry and indifferent but that of the most hidden in the bottom is excellent though they rise rapidly all the weighing these seldom fly far enough fly far except on their migrations and then they are often overt act and they simply trot exhausted into the sea even onto passing ships thank God would cause this natural thing that was normally enormous in scope to have an innate supernatural scale fits with his pattern of operation that we saw the various planes then he said upon the people of Egypt till the greatest people for the people of Egypt in order to liberate his people from Pharaoh but even more distant tests to the accuracy of this event it says the Israelites spread them out all around the camp see this does not mean that they late whales all in place rather spreading the pact means they pluck them they split them and then spread them open to dry sea there was a common Egyptian method to preserve meat I Drive it they did it with fish beef and fell in fact meat was rarely cooked either before or after it was dry once dry and cured they just ate it as much and these Israelites wouldn't naturally follow the Egyptian way because they had been Egyptians for the past 400 years they didn't know anything else then while they were still eating these quails that is they had yet to run out of this enormous supply to work him against them for their great offense but they would test him says you disrespect 1-under grape from there but the play was that came against and we don't really know we know a lot of people died a place where this happened in Seoul a place where these mini killed Israelites berry named heathrow haha even words meaning the place of crazy well rabbis have done a brilliant job of assessing the overall nature of this planet Eve God's judgment upon them for us your opinion about it's fascinating it is the people crave flesh and is they lusted after flesh the gorge themselves on flesh they wanted flesh so badly God gave them all on it God turned them over to the flesh they preferred flesh to heavenly food not guilty this is not allegory or metaphor this is a physical demonstration of the spiritual principle that's laid out before us of the person issue do we want to eat of the bread of life or do we want to gorge ourselves on the raisin with much it's only just a death God is not gonna force someone where of you it's our choice just like it was the Israelites choice to reject the manna in favor of the flesh of dead birds think about it the mana didn't stop they had choice I wonder how many of with me matches to continue eating them out or those of dead birds once the Israelite area dead they moved on who's Lance called hots world and the best guess as to the location of huts Rome is that it was a place the top of that finger of the Red Sea called the Gulf acaba this is further indication that almost certainly the Israelites were at this time traveling along the western tip of the Arabian radio peninsula until they reached the tip of the Red Sea the Gulf of Aqaba which is the point where the Arabian Sinai Peninsula Smerch from hots wrote their next move would have been west and it's somewhat north they will take another chapter [Music] [Music] yes you issue [Music]

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