Thirtieth Stop In this metaphor, Yeshua haMoshiach is our promised rest, as Hebrews says - 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of Eloha. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as Eloha did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. (Hebrews 4:9-11)
They WOULD labor through a series of successful battles with Canaanite tribes – while not suffering even a scratch in them.
Thirty-First Stop Stop 31 was Etzion Gever, which is another compound word from H6096 etzion, spine, and gever, a valiant warrior. Gever is from the same root as Gavriel, ‘my valiant warrior is Eloha’. Etzion Gever means the ‘backbone of a valiant warrior’. The ancestor of Yeshua who corresponds to Etzion Gever is Avihud.
Thirty-First Stop Avihud’s name means ‘my father is renowned’ or ‘an imposing figure or person’. That’s kinda like ‘Chuck Norris was born on May 6, 1945. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945.’ Need I say more? I mean, if Chuck Norris was YOUR father you would win every school-yard debate because your father really COULD beat up the other kid’s father. Y’hovah is Avihud’s Father.. Even Chuck Norris can’t beat him up.
Thirty-Second Stop Stop 32 was at the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh, where Miriam died. They stayed here for just enough time to mourn Miriam. Moshe called it Rithmah earlier (stop 14), I think because they were there for such a long time, as I said before.
Thirty-Second Stop Here it is called by its proper name, because they were on the last leg of their journey and had been set apart unto Y’hovah, and the place was set apart by the death and subsequent ‘sitting shiva’ over Miriam.
Thirty-Second Stop Kadesh is ‘Kadosh’, with a slightly different vowel pointing. The ancestor corresponding to Kadesh is Elyakiym, Eloha raises up (not rises up, but raises up). Y’hovah had set Israel apart, exalted us, and we were on our spiritual ascent to our inheritance.
Thirty-Third Stop The 33rd stop was at Mount Hor, where Aharon died, and passed his mantle to his son, Elazar. Israel stayed here for another time of ‘sitting shiva’. The custom of sitting shiva is that a family in morning is visited by extended family and friends for a shavua - a week of mourning - over the loss of a loved one.
Thirty-Third Stop The visitors will bring meals and take care of any household needs for the mourners, recall the good memories and deeds of the departed and generally mourn with them; to succor them. After the week, the official mourning is over and life returns to normal.
Thirty-Third Stop In the case of Israel, they no sooner finished mourning for Miriam and moved a few miles to Mount Hor (on Edom’s border), than they got to do it all again, this time for Aharon, their Kohen Gadol. Yeshua’s ancestor who corresponds to Mount Hor is Azzur, helpful. His name has the root H5826 azar – succor (assistance and support in times of distress).
Thirty-Third Stop Not only was succor what Israel needed right then, but I think it was Y’hovah who supplied it. They were encamped at Mount Hor, the ‘looming mountain’, which foreshadowed the next event. Hor is from the unused root harar, meaning looming, or a threatening presence.
Thirty-Third Stop Y’hovah ‘sat shiva’ with Israel because HaSatan was going to try to use these back-to-back losses to discourage them. Discouragement from the enemy was looming, and Y’hovah sat shiva to succor them.
Thirty-Third Stop That next event (right away while they were still at Mt. Hor) was that in an attempt to kick Israel while they were down; haSatan inspired king Arad to take some Israelites hostage. What haSatan meant to cause Israel to despair, Y’hovah used to get their Irish up, and Moshe sent a force to wipe Arad out – literally – and to rescue the hostages.
Thirty-Third Stop Israel left behind nothing that drew breath, and suffered not a scratch in doing so. Maybe now you know why Israel is so good at hostage rescue: they’ve had a lot of practice over the millennia.There are 8 moves left before we reach the plains of Moav on the east bank of Yarden, and our new beginning with Yehoshua taking command and preparing us to cross Yarden to take our inheritance.
Thirty-Fourth Stop The 34th stop was Tzalmonah, shadiness, from the root H6757 tzalmaveth, the shadow of death. Ps.23 comes to mind
- 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death [tzalmaveth], I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thirty-Fourth Stop We had just come through the valley of the shadow of death, and Y’hovah gave us victory over the 1st Canaanite tribe who came out against us for the purpose of building our confidence that he had our backs.
Thirty-Fourth Stop Yeshua’s ancestor corresponding to this stop was Tzadok, from the root H6663 meaning ‘righteous’. Y’hovah had brought us through the Wilderness Adventure and was bringing us to our inheritance. He had lifted us up, set us apart and we were righteous in his sight.
Thirty-Fifth Stop Stop 35 was at Punon, which means perplexity or to be distracted. The cause of the perplexing distraction isn’t revealed to us, but Moshiach’s ancestor corresponding to this encampment is Yokim, a shortened form of Y’hoYakim, Y’hovah raises up. In Kadesh, Eloha raised us up. Here, Y’hovah raises us up.
Thirty-Fifth Stop In between, Y’hovah Elohenu succored us by and in his righteousness, first by sitting shiva with us and then by delivering us through our 1st battle against a Canaanite force. I think it was those in between ‘succorings’ that kept us from long considering the distractions the enemy sent our way.
Thirty-Sixth Stop The 36th stop is at Oboth, meaning ‘water-skins’, which suggests refreshing. Yeshua’s corresponding ancestor is Elihud, whose name means ‘my Eloha’s grandeur’ (hod – exalt, an imposing figure, like Avihud).
Thirty-Sixth Stop Do you think Y’hovah was telling them that he was their ‘shield and exceeding great reward’?
After these things ‘Devar Y’hovah’ came unto Avram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Avram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. (Genesis 15:1)
Thirty-Sixth Stop I think it’s a no-brainer, myself. Everything he’d done for us was to build our confidence that, as long as we live in his Toroth, he is our platoon’s point man, our flankers and our rear guard. NOTHING and NOONE can harm us, regardless their bluster to the contrary.
Thirty-Seventh Stop Stop #37 was at Iye haAvarim, ‘the heap or ruins of those who cross over’. This is the border of Moav, one of Lot’s sons by his incestuous (while in a drunken stupor) relations with his daughters shortly after Sodom was destroyed. Lot had crossed over Euphrates with Avraham, and Avraham had saved his butt twice.
Thirty-Seventh Stop Y’hovah had told Moshe that Israel was to do battle with neither their brother Esau nor Lot’s sons, their cousins Ammon and Moav. So they skirted Edom and Moav. I think the ‘ruins of those who crossed over’ may have been ruins of a Moavite or Ammonite city.
Thirty-Seventh Stop We see in Devarim that Moav’s northern border is quite a bit further north that Iyim, and that Ammon has taken all that land from Moav, so what Israel is about to traverse on the king’s highway is not legitimately ruled by either Moav (who’d lost it) or Ammon (who’d occupied it).
Thirty-Seventh Stop Moshe did not ask Ammon’s leave to cross his territory until we actually got to what Ammon ruled by Y’hovah’s gift and not by right of conquest. Knowing that, I think that these ruins are of a Moavite city destroyed by Ammon in that fight and are aptly named.
Thirty-Seventh Stop Yeshua’s progenitor lining up with Iye haAvarim is Elazar, whose name means ‘Eloha succors or helps’. At this time, the succor chol Israel is receiving is that they are not engaged in internal conflict, tribe against tribe, as Lot’s sons had been. I think a 2nd sod thought may be that these last few stops correspond to the first patriarchs - this one to Avraham, as the deliverer of Lot and the master of Elazar, servant of Avraham.
Thirty-Eighth Stop The 38th stop was at Divon Gad, the wasting or pining of a troop or crowd. Why this is named ‘pining of a crowd’ isn’t told us, but perhaps it has to do with the circumstances of the last stop, where brother fought brother to the destruction of a city. Yeshua’s great-granddad was Matthan, whose name derives from nathan, meaning gift, to give.
Thirty-Eighth Stop If I am right about Israel’s empathy for their cousins Moav and Ammon, they are also rejoicing over the gift of Y’hovah that they are not at each other’s throats, because such family squabbles are more the rule than the exception in this world. By the way, if the rest of this teaching is correct, this gift is the gift that Avraham received of Y’hovah, Yitzhak.
Thirty-Ninth Stop Stop #39 is at Almown Diblathim, a concealed (or sod) double-cake of figs. I think when we see the sod of Yeshua’s papa and granddaddy, we might see the reason for the double-cake of figs. Yeshua’s supposed paternal grandfather’s name is Ya’acov. I have no doubt that Yoseph’s father’s name was really Ya’acov and this is not JUST an allusion to Yitzhak’s son, though I think it is that, too.
Thirty-Ninth Stop Ya’acov, the son of Yitzhak, had 2 sons who were tzadikim, Yehudah and Yoseph; each was, in his own way, sweetness to Ya’acov, as one would be progenitor of a line of kings and the other would be the progenitor of a line of Tzadikim, and their lines would merge in the MelchiTzadik, Yeshua – THE double-cake of figs.
Fortieth Stop The 40th stop is Aravim, before Nebo. Nebo is the highest mountain in the Aravim, and likely the Pisgah where Moshe was called to view the entire land of Israel, I think from the Euphrates to the Red Sea and at least to the Nile, and there to die. The whole northern part of the Aravim is called Pisgah, and Nebo is the highest of those mountains.
Fortieth Stop Moshiach Yeshua’s progenitor corresponding to this stop is Yoseph, the husband of Miriam (who I believe corresponds to the plains of Moav in trans-Yarden). Nebo/Pisgah, being the highest in this range of mountains, relates very easily to Yoseph the son of Ya’acov, who was arguably the most tzadik of the tzadakim of the Tanakh.
Fortieth Stop Yoseph, Miriam’s husband, meanwhile is declared a righteous man – a tzadik – in Matt.1
18 Now the birth of Moshiach Yeshua was on this wise: When as his mother Miriam was espoused to Yoseph, before they came together, she was found with child of Ruach haKodesh.
Fortieth Stop 19 Then Yoseph her husband, being a just man [a tzadik- the word man is added], and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel Y’hovah appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Yoseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Miriam thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of Ruach haKodesh.
Fortieth Stop . 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name YEHOSHUA [Yeshua, for short]: for he shall save his people from their sins. 22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of Y’hovah by the prophet, saying, 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, Eloha with us.
Fortieth Stop 24 Then Yoseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of Y’hovah had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name YEHOSHUA.
Fortieth Stop And Yeshua came as Moshiach ben Yoseph in his incarnation, to call the lost sheep of the house of Israel out of their exile.
- My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. (Jeremiah 50:6)
- But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (Matthew 10:6)
- But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (Matthew 15:24)
Fortieth Stop When he returns, he will come as Moshiach ben David to bring the 2 sticks together and to be the one King over both houses who will call scattered Yisrael, both Yehudah and Ephraim, from the 4 corners of the earth.
Forty-First Stop The 41st stop is at the plains of Moav at the foot of the Aravim. It was HERE that Balak sent for Bilaam to curse Israel for him. It was here that Bilaam blessed Israel after seeing the order of the camp. It was here that Balak followed Bilaam’s advice and sent daughters of Moav to entice Israel to adultery and idolatry.
Forty-First Stop This worked for some of the general population, but not for the elders or priests. So Balak sent the daughters of the elders of Midian to entice the princes of Israel, and Zimri, prince of Simeon, took Cozbi princess of Midian to the Mishkan before Moshe and all the people and into the Mishkan itself, where Pinchas stayed Y’hovah’s wrath by pinning them both to the floor of the tent with one stroke of a spear.
Forty-First Stop This was where the last 24,000 Israelites died before entering the land by the plague Y’hovah sent as a result of them succumbing to the doctrine of Bilaam. Israel was finally purged of the entire generation who had chosen the word of the tourists over the Word of Y’hovah.
Forty-First Stop You might think we’re out of Yeshua’s progenitors, but if you’ll notice, there are only 12 patriarchs mentioned so far since YeconYahu (28th stop). Who is the 13th ancestor of Yeshua named in Matthew 1?
Forty-First Stop How about Miriam? When she was found with child, everyone who knew it figured she’d been unfaithful to her espoused husband, Yoseph – even Yoseph – in much the same way that Israel had played the whore with Ba’alpeor. Y’hovah told Yoseph to marry her, as he would do with Israel, and that the son born to her would be Moshiach. Yoseph was a tzadik. He obeyed w/o thinking.
Forty-First Stop He bore the reproach of an adulterer, for what could people think when he didn’t put away his adulterous intended and actually married her?! In their eyes this MUST be his own son. There is controversy over whose genealogy is in Matthew, Yoseph’s or Miriam’s. I think it is Yoseph’s, but I don’t think it makes a lot of difference if it is Miriam’s.
Forty-First Stop The Aramaic clearly says ‘gowra’, guardian, but that could also refer to her husband, as AENT says in the note. It could be, as the Restoration Scriptures’ note says, that Yoseph in v.16 was actually her guardian. Moshe Koniuchowski thinks the Yoseph of 19ff is a different man.
Forty-First Stop I don’t see why her guardian might not become her husband. If he was BOTH, imagine the scandal of an older guardian seemingly impregnating a ward in his care and the despite he might receive from his neighbors, the names they would call Yeshua.
Forty-First Stop ‘Mamzer’ would be POLITE. But Miriam was NOT an adulterous woman. She was the chosen vessel of Y’hovah to bring forth from her flesh (made from the dust of the earth) Moshiach – Y’hovah brought forth the Bread of Life from the earthen vessel, Miriam – hamotzi lechem min haAretz! And they called his Name, Yehoshua.
One Move Left There is only one stop to go, #42. This would be done in the 1st month in time for the 1st recorded Pesach in 40 years. And who would lead them to ‘cross over’ Yarden, but Yehoshua, the shadow of Moshiach Yehoshua, who will lead us into the Kingdom and then the New Earth, wherein dwelleth tzedakah.
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