Walk Numbers

In the wilderness

Jeffrey Enoch Feinberg, Ph.D.

• Publisher: Messianic Jewish Communications
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN:
  9781936716128
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Commentary

Devotional commentary emphasizing both traditional and Messianic Jewish intepretations that focus on personal application.

Table of

Contents

In the Wilderness, a Priestly Nation Arises

Lift Up the Nation!

In Your Making Go Up the Lamps, Stay in the Light

Send for Yourself (and Don’t Trust the LORD?!)

Levi’s Bald Spot and Unholy Desire

Statutes Are Simply Beyond Understanding

Balak the Destroyer Fails to Destroy

Inheritance for Pinchas, an Unlikely Priest

Tribes Poised for Inheritance

An End to the Wilderness Journeys of Yisra’el

, in the wilderness,

count, count, count

every soldier twenty years

and up here on the Mount.

Count ‘em tribe by tribe,

every Israelite son.

Separate the Levites

to get priestly work done!

Circle the ark,

Levites camp near Me.

Exchange all firstborns

for the Levites you see.

Count 22,000,

leaving 273.

For the rest, pay 5 shekels—

My redemption fee!

Walk B’MIDBAR!

1:1-4:20

In the wilderness

TORAH—Numbers 1:1-4:20

1st	Count the Army!—Numbers 1:1-2a
2nd	List All but Levites—Numbers 1:20
3rd	Encircle God’s Dwelling—Numbers 2:1-2
4th	Consecrate the Inner Circle—Numbers 3:1
5th	Now, Count the Levites—Numbers 3:14-15
6th	Levites for Firstborns—Numbers 3:40
7th	Raise Up the Kohathites—Numbers 4:1-3a
Maftir	Limits of the Inner Circle—Numbers 4:20

HAFTARAH—Hosea 1:10-2:20(2:1-22

Inner Circle Renewed—Hosea 2:20(22 )

B’RIT CHADASHAH—Revelation 11:1-19

Gentiles Join Inner Circle—Romans 9:33

Hiker’s

B’REISHEET (in the beginning), God creates perfection! But man disobeys, paradise crashes, and the world fragments into nations. Thus begins a long journey to return to God’s Presence and walk in covenant with Him.

v’Eleh SH’MOT (and these are names) of seventy sons of Ya’akov. Reunited as a family in Egypt, they grow in numbers, then suffer slavery until God redeems them. Yisra’el becomes a kingdom of priests—called to build God’s dwelling, unite as a nation, and bring all nations to covenant with the God of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya’akov!

VAYIKRA ADONAI (and the LORD called) to Moshe, and later the nation, to draw near to Him. Under God’s protective covering, Yisra’el abides as a holy nation in the manifest Presence of a holy God. The nation elevates kohanim to abide in close proximity to God and to devote exceptional attention to matters of ritual purity, a necessary state for abiding in the presence of a holy God.

A priestly nation arises B’MIDBAR (in the wilderness of) Sinai, and all stand up to be counted for the LORD! God says to number the army of the LORD of Hosts. Then He surrounds His dwelling with an inner circle of priests and their assistants, to safeguard it from encroachment by those in a state of ritual impurity. The rest of the house of Yisra’el encircles the Levites, camping under the banners of their respective tribes.

Following the pattern established by the theophany at Mt. Sinai,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Walk NUMBERS!
• Contents
• Glossary
• Bibliography