Bamidbar

Parashas Bamidbar

Numbers 1: 1 – 4:20

Please Pray this

Prayer

First before reading.

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah,

I pray for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parashas

Bamidbar, which means “in the wilderness,” is the 33^rd Torah Portion and first in the Book of Numbers., and the last before Pentecost. Its name is derive from the beginning of the first verse, “then the CREATOR spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai….” The Book of Numbers tells the story of the Children of Yisrael’ journey through the wilderness on their journey to the Promise Land, their subsequent forty years of wondering.

The Book of Numbers end with the Yisraelites back at the borders of Canaan, ready again to take what the CREATOR had told them is their inheritance.

The Torah tell us that the CREATOR came to Moses in the Sinai desert and told him “take a census of all the congregation of the children of Yisrael, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the numbers of their name, every male in their polls.” The Creator were not asking Moses to count the people the way we usually do.

Our system is inaccurate; we see an individuak as one person; we see a couple  as two; and so their souls. The spiritual number associate with a person could be very different. One person like Moses or Aaron or even King Davis or the Apostle paul, could be sourounded by  thousands of other souls. While most of us may not see the souls attached to us, Men like Moses and Aaron could.

One way of assessing a person’s spiritual worth is by the number of people they bring to the various altars of the Tabernacle. The CREATOR told Moses and Aaron that they should count those who was over twenty years old, those who are in the spiritual realm of young men, or those who are spiritually in the Holy Place.

This Torah Portion Bamidbar is always read on the Sabbath prior to Shavuot “Pentecost.”

We read the Torah portion of Bamidbar before Pentecostr “Shavuot” because it helps to prepare us to receive the Light of the Tree of Life on Pentecost. Why you may ask? Because Bamidbar is the Sabbath when the CREATOR told Moses and Aaron to go down and infuse sparks into the soul of those who truly awaken their desire for growth and change.

This is the Sabbath when we sow the seeds for an ibur on the Sabbath of Bamidbar, we are about to move one stage closer to the perfect Light of Shavuot, the removal of death from our world. It is the time for ABBA YAHVEH to see how many of HIS son has reached the second or final stage in their spiritual development, which is the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.

 As we come close to Shavuot, the CREATOR gives us gifts according to the degree we are ready to receive it, and the strength to finish off the negative side, the following year. The world depends on our spiritual work. Fortunately, on the Sabbath of Bimidbar, Messiyah Yahushua and the Ruach HaKodesh come to each of us and awaken a sense of how vitally important we are and our spiritual work really are.

The Book of Bamidbar/Numbers deals with the laws and history of the Tabernacle as it journey through the Wilderness. There are similarities between the journey of the Tabernacle and our own personal lives.

These comparisons suggest that the Tabernacle and later the Temple were to serve as substitute for the Heavenly presence that rested upon the Mount at Sinai. By making the Tabernacle central to the Hebrew people, not only geographically but conceptually, the people would keep the purpose of their existence among themselves.

Just as they were commanded to surround the Mountain at Sinai, keeping the Very Presence of יהוה  in their midst, they were to strive comparatively to go up, to draw near to the mountain to fellowship with יהוה .

This Book contains the Commandments to safeguard the principles of the Tabernacle. The fact that the twelve tribes were to camp, to be arrayed around it, and for the conduct of the Kohanim and the Levites when it was dismantled and transported. All of these commands enhance the glory and prestige of the Sanctuary, both corporately and individually.

Verse 1 – 19 describe the census in the Wilderness. יהוה  Command Moses and Aaron, with the participation of the tribal leaders, to take a tribe by tribe census of all the males above the age of twenty.

Since it was יהוה  will for the Children of Yisrael to go directly into the Promise Land, it was essential for them to conduct a Census to determine the allotment of the Land and for any military campaign. However, the sin