Parasha Shlach Lecha
Numbers
13:1 – 15:41V
Haftarah
Joshua 2:1 – 24
Brit Chadasha
Hebrew
3:7 – 19
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
The 37th Torah Portion is Shlach Lecha which begins with the verb
saying: And YAHWEH 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 twelve scouts resulting in the death of most of them, as well as
the forty years of additional wondering in the wilderness.
We know that the men who were sent to spy out he land of Canaan
were not just the heads of the Tribe; they were tzaddikim righteous souls or Moses would not have allow them to go.
So why did they spread doubt on their return? The spies were afraid of what
would happen if the people entered the Land of Canaan.
They feared that they would lose their position as leaders if they were in the
land, however if they were still in the wilderness they would be in-charge.
Even if the 10 spies were not the most positive people like Calab
and Joshua in Moses generation, it is clear how they could have spoken so
negatively about and the Land
of Canaan. How could they
sin after being in the wilderness and saw the miracles. There must be a deeper
explanation of why the spies acted as they did, as well as some knowledge of
how we can be protected from any trap similar to the one they fell into.
To shed some light on this question, we must look carefull at the
words of Moses when he instruct the spies to go to the land of Canaan.
Moses specifically said to them “go and spy out the land.” In other words,
Moses sent them only to look at the land, not to live in it. When someone is a
tourist in another land, the drawback of that place do not bother him as they
would an inhabitant, because as a visitor, he is not permantly attach to the
place. When Moses sent the spies, they were supposed to be dispassionate about
everything. They were to go as observers, not as immigrants.
From the beginning positive Moses gave the spies a solution to
their Desire to receive for the self alone.. He told them to look at everything
the same way a tourist would. But they ignored this injunction and invested at
the ego level in their evaluation of Canaan,
and this was the reason for their negative report.
In our lives, we too fall prey to illusion, rarely looking at
things with detachment. Detachment means observing our lives the way we would
if we were in a movie , that we are not connected, we are only an observcer.
When we actually live in a certain place and are not just tourist, the desire
to receive for the self alone gain power and we see things, not dispassionately
but from the perspective of how they affect and what is our.
To disconnect from the Desire to receive for the self alone, we
should learn to look at things from a distance, objectively. The only way we
will arrive at the correct judgement is by looking art things without any
connection to the self, without thinking of the Me, the I at any time.
This is also the reason why, in the reading from Numbers 10:31,
Moses asked Jethro to be the eyes of Yisrael. Could not Moses have found an
Yisraelite to do the Job? Why did he have to choose a Midianite? The answer
lies in the principle we have been discussing. Only a person from outside of
Yisralite frome of reference could
really form a true judgment.
This is the only way anyone can gain a perspective not
contaminated by the desire to receive for the self alone. Jethro never take
responsibility for being the eyes of Yisrael. However, the fact that Moses
asked him to do so shows us how we too can be a eye for others. If only we
would learn to subdue our ego and see everything the way a tourists would. Only
in that way our eyes be able to see the truth clearly.
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.
When Missiyah came into the world the first time He like these
spies came to spie 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 Shabbat, 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 something, will view it as nothing.
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.
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 YAHWEH’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 YAHWEH 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 telling the truth, 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).
Num 13:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, -
Num 13:2 “Send men if you please and let
them spy out the land
of Kenaʽan,
which I am giving to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Send one man from each tribe of
their fathers, every one a leader among them.” -
These men were not the leaders of the various tribes, they were obviously
prominent men. If I may say so, except of Joshua and Caleb, the rest were not
mature believers. This shed light even on today’s church, not everyone who says
that they are leaders, they themselves are not mature individual.
Notice in this chapter the term Children of Yisrael
was used to describe the people; meaning immature people.
The implication is that EL YAHWEH gave Moses
permission to send spies, but left the decision up to him. In Deuteronomy 1:21-23,
the Torah provides further information on the sequence of events leading up to
the mission.
These leaders were not the one listed earlier, the
one who were given the spirit of Moses.
Here Moses chose highly popular leaders, as is
indicated by the inclusion of such great men as Joshua and Caleb. Distinguished
men, indicates that when they began their journey, all of the men were equally
righteous.
Num 13:3 And by the command of יהוה Mosheh sent them from the
Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were leaders of the children of
Yisra’ĕl. – The mere fact that they were leaders one would
have assumes that they were also mature believers. This was to be proven not to
be so.
To clarify this historic event, the names: of the
leaders were all given, in the following verses. The leaders were listed in the
order of the personal greatness. That Caleb is listed third and Joshua fifth
implies that two spies were probably greater than either of them, and is
eloquent testimony to the stature of the group.
The tribe of Levites was not represented because
the tribe of Levi was not to receive a share of the Land.
Num 13:4 And these were their names. From
the tribe of Re’uḇĕn: Shammua, son of Zakkur. -
Num 13:5 From the tribe of Shimʽon:
Shaphat, son of Ḥori. -
Num 13:6 From the tribe of Yehuḏah: Kalĕḇ, son of
Yephunneh.
Num 13:7 From the tribe of Yissasḵar: Yiḡ’al, son
of Yosĕph.
Num 13:8 From the tribe of Ephrayim: Hoshĕa,
son of Nun.
Num 13:9 From the tribe of Binyamin: Palti,
son of Raphu.
Num 13:10 From the tribe of Zeḇulun:
Gaddi’ĕl, son of Soḏi. –
Num 13:11 From the tribe of Yosĕph, from the
tribe of Menashsheh: Gaddi, son of Susi. - Only Manasseh, not Ephraim, is
specifically identified with Joseph because the representative of Manasseh was
more similar to his ancestor Joseph than was the one of Ephraim.
Just as Joseph reported gossip against his brother,
so Gaddi of Manasseh reported slander against the Land of Yisrael.
Num 13:12 From the tribe of Dan: Ammi’ĕl, son
of Gemalli.
Num 13:13 From the tribe of Ashĕr: Shĕthur,
son of Miḵa’ĕl.
Num 13:14 From the tribe of Naphtali: Naḥbi,
son of Wophsi.
Num 13:15 From the tribe of Gaḏ: Geu’ĕl,
son of Maḵi. –
Num 13:16 These are the names of the men whom
Mosheh sent to spy out the land. And Mosheh called Hoshĕa the son of Nun, Yahushua.
– Moses was preparing Joshua for the position of leadership. Why then
would he have sent him on a journey such as this? Suppose something would have
happen to Joshua? We can go forward and look at the life of Job, what did he do
to deserve the things that would later experience.
Joshua like Job had to prove themselves as leaders,
prove themselves worthy of wearing the mantle of leadership. In this verse
Mosheh chang Hoshea to Yahushua a type of Messiyah.
Num 13:17 And Mosheh sent them to spy out the
land of Kenaʽan, and said to them, “Go up here into the South,
and go up to the mountains, - Leadership lead even when they were not
there. This is where you should start and this is the limit of your operation.
Num 13:18 and see what the land is like, and
the people who dwell in it, whether strong or weak, whether few or many, -
Moses asked the spies to look closely into the nature of the lands and its
inhabitants. The climate and terrain of some lands are conducive to healthy,
vigorous people, while other countries tend to enfeeble their inhabitants.
Moses asked them to look into the nature of the
people themselves. Asked if it is good or bad, in the sense that, does the land
consume the people, or is it a fertile land of good rainfall.
Num 13:19 and whether the land they dwell in
is good or evil, whether the cities they inhabit are in camps or strongholds, - It
is a land with good natural defenses, or is the cities fortified. It is
essential to know who our enemies are, in order to make plans to overcome them,
as it is essential to know our own strengthen and weakness and how best to
apply them. The spies mist the Mark, what could ABBA YAHWEH do with this Land.
This Torah
Portion of Shlach Lecha awakens those with the desire to see, with the awareness that whatever we consider our
job in this world to be, may have nothing to do with our spiritual mission. If
we allow ourselves to become identified with what we think we are meant to do,
if we decide for ourselves that we are always right, it will take us longer to
figure out the truth, and in the meantime, we could be wondering in a spiritual
wilderness.
Num 13:20 and whether the land is rich or
poor, and whether there are forests there or not. And you shall be strong, and
bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first
fruits of grapes. - Are
there tree? Moses was alluding to righteousness of the people. If the Land had
a righteous person in whose merit the inhabitants would be sheltered from
attack. Also, the condition of the land would be shown in the fruits it
produces.
Similar when we choose a wife, we should spend the
same amount of time investagating her family background and her character, that
was why in the olden days a matchmaker was employed to do the job, this
match,aker carry the same responsibility as a spy.
Num 13:21 So they went up and spied out the
land from the Wilderness of Tsin as far as Reḥoḇ, near
the entrance of Ḥamath. - From the Wilderness of Zin to the expanse at
the approach to Hamath. They traversed the entire land, from south to north.
The southwestern shore of the dead-sea, Hamath is the Syrian city of Hama, and the expanse at the approach is the Bekaa Valley.
Num 13:22 And they went up through the South
and came to Ḥeḇron. And Aḥiman, Shĕshai, and Talmai, the
descendants of Anaq, were there. Now Ḥeḇron had been built seven years
before Tsoʽan in Mitsrayim. - They ascended and he arrived at Hebron. The change from
plural to singular implies that only one of them went to Hebron, to spy out the land. One of the
reasons why we are given the Torah is very clear; when I get to Heavens, I will
not be surprise with what I will face. If we think that we have seen fruit of
the Spirit yet, just wait until we get to the Heavens.
Num 13:23 And they came to the wadi Eshkol,
and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes. And they bore it
on a double pole, also of the pomegranates and of the figs. -
The land of Yisrael
is comparable to the Heavenly
Kingdom. The fruits of
that Kingdom are seen in the quality of the produce the land produces.
I have notice that all through the mission, there
is no mention of them ever stop to pray or to bless the Land. Could it be that
they were in too great a rush to see the blessing for the Land, and not the
Land for the blessing. We can sometime waste so much time gathering information
on the richness of the land and the strength of its inhabitants and not see out
blessing in the Land.
By focusing on the letter of their mission, they
missed its spirit. Today we are still paying for the same mistake.
Num 13:24 That place was called the wadi
Eshkol, because of the cluster which the men of Yisra’ĕl cut down from there. – Probably they furnished themselves with these fruits
when they were leaving the country and returning. The cluster of grapes was so
large and so heavy that they hung it upon a bar, and carried it between two of
them. The place whence they took it was, from this circumstance, called the valley
of the cluster, that famous cluster which was to Yisrael both the earnest
and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan.
Such are the present comforts which we have in communion with YAHWEH,
foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan.
We may see by them what heaven is.
Num 13:25 And they returned from spying out
the land after forty days. - Forty is a time of trial, probation, or
testing. These forty days was a test for the leaders who were chosen by the
people. It was the people request for this expedition. When the people request
anything, our Heavenly Father will always give us the type of teacher or
leaders we ought to have.
When the spies came back from their extensive forth
day tour of the land, they should have reported to Moses, who had sent them;
instead they made their report in a public declaration.
In view of the account in Deuteronomy that the
entire people demanded stridently of Moses that he send spies to see the land;
it is understandable why the report was made in such a public forum. The people
had demanded the mission and they felt entitled to hear the result.
Today, the church send their teachers to bible
school, instead of asking them to go through the sixth days of Creation, to
full maturity, the report of the Kingdom would not be the same. When I try to
preach to the people that we should come to maturity while in the flesh, I have
been told that man cannot reach maturity until Messiyah returns. This is the
type of false report that people have been given, and they believe it. There
are not many people today teaching the people to remember to come to maturity.
I get numerous requests from Africa for
information on how to reach full maturity in this life. I spend May 12 to the
26 in Kenya
doing just that. Yes I experience a lot of obstacles, but it was worth it.
Num 13:26 And they went and came to Mosheh
and Aharon and all the congregation of the children of Yisra’ĕl in the
Wilderness of Paran, at Qaḏĕsh. And they brought back word to them and to all
the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. –
This verse speaks volume concerning the decrement and perceptions of leaders.
The spies who went to the land brought back their interpretation of how they
perceive what they saw. This brings into question, the spiritual maturity of
these so-called leaders. They saw the fruit of the land! They knew that the
land was productive! They knew that the land would be friendly to the people!
Yet they brought back a negative view about it. Is the glass half empty or is
it half full.
Today, we are admonish by Torah to be perfect as
our Heavenly Father is Perfect. Yet, how many leaders teach their congregation
that it is impossible to attained perfection in this life. This particular
story, illustrate a type of leadership who will show you the fruit of the
spirit, but cannot tell anyone how to build their Menorah.
Num 13:27 and they reported to him, and said,
“We went to the land where you sent us. And truly, it flows with milk and
honey, and this is its fruit. - They went to the land! They saw it flowing
with milk and honey, yet it became only a head knowledge, not a heart
condition.
Num 13:28 “But the people who dwell in the
land are strong, and the cities are walled, very great. And we saw the
descendants of Anaq there too. - Here is the BUT of the matter. When someone
only posses a head knowledge, he or she has no substance behind their
conviction. When a person achieves a certain heart condition, their very
essence is indwelling in their purpose.
There is a difference between a person who is
talented and a person with a mission. The talented person does it because he or
she is good at it. However, a person on a mission, act with a purpose. Victory
by any means necessary! Who are the descendants of Amalek in our lives? Those
small, yet powerful voices, which keep on telling us we can never make it, we
are not good enough.
These so-called leaders were advising the nation
not even to attempt an assault on Canaan. They
compounded the frightening effect of their comments, by mentioning the dreaded
Amalekites and the equally powerful nations that would never surrender their
land easily.
These dreaded Amalekites are who we are fighting
even as we speak, they are the enemy of our Soul, the ones who are trying to
stop us from reaching our spiritual Canaan.
These Amalekites are the fallen angel who has been defeated by our leader El
Yahushua at Calvary. All we have to do is to
go in and occupied the land. That land has been given to us as EL YAHWEH as our
inheritance gave it to the Nation of Yisrael.
What then is the issue! Like a lot of believer, we
tend to listen to negative report about the Kingdom, but never someone who keep
reminding us to build our Menorah, learn Torah, so we can go in an occupied our
land.
Num 13:29 “The Amalĕqites dwell in the land
of the South, while the Ḥittites and the Yeḇusites and the Amorites dwell in the
mountains. And the Kenaʽanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the
Yardĕn.” – Job 1:6 “Now there was a day when the sons of YAHWEH came to present themselves
before there King, and Satan came also among them”
These sons are apart of the Heavenly counsel. One of the mighty men of Heavens
or the land.
Their rebellion have cause them to become unfit for
that position. The Creation of Planet Earth is to create faithful sons, to
replace those who were deemed unworthy for the Kingdom.
Why then were they not kicked out as yet? It is
because we who have been given the Word did not benefit from it, as Hebrew
4:1-5 elucidate to us. Exo 23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year;
lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against
thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until You
be increased, and inherit the land. The inhabitance who are still in Heavens
will not be driven out until those of us, who have the desire to be become a
mature believer decided to achieve full maturity, like El Yahushua “Jesus
Christ”, so we can go and take our seat in the Throne room with the rest of the
Mighty Sons.
Revelations
3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with
me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his
throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the MessiyanicAssembly. Those of us who
overcome the desire of the Body are the ones who will achieve this lofty
position. This is what this ministry teaches.
Num 13:30 And Kalĕḇ silenced
the people before Mosheh, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession,
for we are certainly able to overcome it.” – I thank EL YAHWEH for
the Caleb type ministry, who will remind the people, that we can go up at once
and take possession of the land, that which is rightful ours. YAHWEH did not
give us a spirit of fear, but of a sound mind.
Num 13:31 But the men who had gone up with
him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger
than we.” - We cannot ascend. Now, the spies said explicitly
what they had only suggested before. Earlier, after the assembled people had
gone back to their tents unsure who to believe, the spies spread out among them
and spread malicious lies about the land as seen in the next verse, something
they had not dared to do in the presence of Moses and Aaron, Caleb or Joshua.
They claimed that the nature of the land and its
produce is such that its inhabitance will fight furiously to hold on to it.
That is the purpose of the Evil one campaign against humanity and those who
have the desire to reach maturity.
Num 13:32 And they gave the children of Yisra’ĕl
an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through
which we have gone as spies is a land eating up its inhabitants, and all the
people whom we saw in it are men of great size. - The land that devours its people. Yes! It is
not their land; it is for those who choose to earn the right to be there. The
men who are there now are squatter. Squatting and my birthright. It is time for
a few good men, men of the caliber of Caleb and Joshua to arise and take up or
Cross our spiritual jordon, and finish our journey to perfection, so we can be
invited into the Land and take up our rightful position as Mature Sons of EL YAHWEH.
Num 13:33 “And we saw there the Nephilim, sons
of Anaq, of the Nephilim. And we were like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and so
we were in their eyes.” - How sad it is when a leader in the Messiyanic
community, can make a comment that we are grasshopper in our own eyes,
therefore we must be grasshopper in the eyes of Lucifer.
I am a god, and a proud son of the Most High
Elohim. I will not choose to die like a man, but I choose to live like a god,
for I was Created in the image of my Heavenly Father who is the King of all the
gods in Heavens, who I call Meleck YAHWEH, King GOD.
