Parasha Shlach Lecha
Numbers
13:1 – 15:41V
Please Pray
this
Prayer, before
reading
Prayer
In the name of Yahushua
Our Messiyah,
I pray for the Spirit of Understanding
The Spirit pf Knowledge and
The Spirit of Wisdom
As I read through this Parasha
That the Truth of Torah may
Come forth. Amen
This is the thirty seven Torah Portion.
Shlach Lecha which begins with the verb saying: And YAHVEH spoke to Moses
saying “Shlach Lecha,” Send men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which
I gave to the Children of Yisrael; of every tribe of their fathers shall you
send a man, everyone a prince among them.
In this Torah Portion Moses was told to schlach, or send out a scout from every
tribe. When they return, they reported all kind of difficulties, which
frightened the camp. The negative report of the ten scouts resulting in the
death of most of them, as well as the forty years of additional wondering in
the wilderness.
In order to void the same spiritual
mistake today, every believer need to understand where the scouts went wrong.
From studying this text, we need to ask, what did they did wrong? If Moses did indeed told them to
go spy out the land and the spies did what was ask of them truthfully, then
what did they do wrong?
The first important consideration we can
take from this Torah Portion, is the danger of being right! Everything the
scout said was accurate, according to how they saw it. But what they forget in
their accurate assumption, they did not leave an room for the Will of the
CREATOR, they lack the consciousness.
When Missiyah came into the world the
first time He like these spies came to spy out the Land spiritually, when the
people wanted to crown Him King He refused. They like the spies were only
seeing from the physical point of view. Messiyah came first to defeate the
Devil spiritually before He would do it physically. The goal of the first set
of spies were to establish a spiritual ownership over the Land of canaan, so
that when they enter the land the land would welcome them. They would not have
to fight their way to their inheritance.
The spiritual disconnection between what
the spies though their job was and the job itself, on the physical level, they
were right, but their job had a deeper spiritual dimension, which they neglect.
Because the spies thought they were right, their minds was closed to any other
possibilities and they were wrong.
In this Torah Portion of Shlach Lecha,
the Land of Yisrael is referred to as the Land of Canaan. Indeed, this is not
often the case in the Torah. The gift of both the spiritual and physical land
of Yisrael is to awaken a level of humility unheard off anywhere else.
In Hebrew, the word Canaan, Kena’an Is similar to the word lehikana’an, which means to surrender. So Moses
told the spies then, as he is telling us
today that on this Sabbath, we need to enter the domain of humility and we need
to surrender. Those who have spiritually enter the land of Canaan are those
who, even if they have achieved the first few days of Creation, will view it as
nothing until we enter into the Sabbath rest, full maturity.
As the Nation of Yisrael stood at the threshold of the Land
of Yisrael, Moses told them that it was time for them to go and conquer it.
However, a pivotal incident took place. Twelve of the leaders of the nations,
one from each tribe, were sent to survey the land, and bring back a report.
However, the report they brought back caused the people to lose faith in their
ability to occupy their Divinely ordained inheritance.
A window of orppertunity was open for them to achieve their
spiritual goal, but because of unbelieve that opportunity was not available for
another 40 years.
As a result the entire generation was condemned to death in
the Wilderness and Yisrael’s entry into the Land was delayed for nearly
thirty-nine years. The actions of the spies present many questions. Why was it
necessary to send spies, as if EL יהוה YAHVEH’S promise was not
sufficient?
After the disastrous outcome of this mission, why did Moses
and Joshua themselves send similar expeditions to Jerico? Why did EL YAHVEH
allow Moses to send spies? If Moses was in favor of the stratagem, why did he
blame the people for having made the decision they made? Since Moses gave the
spies a detail list of questions about the Land, why were they condemned for
making accurate statement, as they perceived it? Many years later in
Deuteronomy, Moses himself, gave an equally frightening pictures of the awesome
power of the Canaanite nations that were waiting to fight the Hebrews; why,
then, were the spies punished for saying essentially the same thing?
Such questions will be discussed in the following comment. The
illustration of the spies follows the incident of Miriam’s criticism of Moses
and her punishment. Although the spying mission took place some time after, the
experience did not taught the nation the gravity of malicious gossip,
nevertheless, the wicked spies did not learn their lesson and were not deterred
from slandering the possibility of entering the Land (Full Maturity). On this Sabbath
let us pray for the spiritual eyes to see the window of opportunity given to us
to enter into our spiritual rest.
