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 33rd 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.
