Tag: Numbers 36

Parashat Massei (מסעי): Numbers 33–36

Post author By Hallel Fellowship
Post date July 31, 2016
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When life or our trust in the LORD seems to get too tough for too long, it’s tempting to give up. Yet we should look back on how far we have come in our new life in the Kingdom of Heaven through the mercy given us on the name of Yeshua haMashiakh (Jesus the Christ). Our journey from our old life is much like Israel’s journey from bondage in Mitsraim (Egypt) to freedom at Sinai and rest in the Promised Land, a trek recounted for the second generation in the Torah passage (parashah) Massei (“journeys of”).

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Numbers 34-36: Maximum justice, maximum mercy

Post author By Richard
Post date November 19, 2011
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Maximum Justice v. Maximum Mercy weighted in a balance

In the closing chapters of the book of Numbers, among a discussion of land grants to the tribes of Israel we read of a justice-and-mercy system for murderers that prophetically links ransom of the accidentally guilty to the death of the high priest.

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Numbers 34–36: Big vision for Israel’s borders in Messianic age

Post author By Richard
Post date June 16, 2007

The borders of the modern state of Israel are a fraction of the territory the LORD granted the long ago. The promises for a much larger area from Genesis to Revelation speak to the wider vision of many nations in the Kingdom of Heaven and how our vision for our own potential may be too narrow.