Num 25:10-26:65
Strong themes:
26:1b-51 {sx10+p} The number of the believing generation
26:52-27:5 {s+s+p} Those who will inherit the land
That is,
26:1b-27:5 {sx10+p+s+s+p} Belief inherits the promise
These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho. But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Sinai. For YHVH had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” So there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. Num 26:63-65
Belief inherits the promise of land, a foreshadow of the promise of eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord, and that unbelief does not inherit the promise. This is the gospel of grace through faith, preached from Torah.
Num 27:1-23
The next strong theme:
27:12-23 {s+p} Joshua, not Moses, will lead the people in and cause them to inherit the land
In this strong theme, YHVH repeats that Moses will not lead the people in to the Promised Land because he rebelled against Him and did not hallow Him in the eyes of the congregation at the waters of Meribah (Num 27:13-14). Unbelief cannot inherit the land, and rebellion is a fruit of unbelief. So Joshua is inaugurated shepherd to lead the people in. This is also prophetic, for no one can inherit the promise by obedience to the Law (by obedience to Moses by type), but only as Yeshua (“Joshua” is the anglicized form of the Hebrew name, “Yeshua”) is Shepherd over them, they can inherit the promise.
YESHUA – His work on the cross to cleanse us from our sins – will cause God’s people to inherit the promise, not Moses – our own works of obedience to the Law. This is why Paul stood so strongly against those in his own day who misunderstood, saying that justification – right-standing before God – depended on obedience. Paul did not preach disobedience to the Law! But he taught that salvation does not depend upon our own works, but upon Yeshua’s work on the cross, which cannot be added to or taken away from. Our acts of obedience proceed from the new nature of those now saved, and serves as a second witness, besides the confession of our mouths, that we have indeed become children of God by grace through faith. Let every fact be confirmed upon the testimony of two witnesses, Amen?
Num 28:1-29:40
The Hebrew paragraph divisions:
28:1-8 {p} Daily offerings, morning and evening
28:9-10 {p} Offerings for the Sabbath
28:11-15 {s} Offerings for the new moon
28:16-25 {s} Offerings for Passover and Unleavened Bread
28:26-31 {p} Offerings for the Feast of Weeks
29:1-6 {s} Offerings for the Feast of Trumpets
29:7-11 {s} Offerings for the Day of Atonement
29:12-16 {s} Offerings for the 1st day of Tabernacles (13)
29:17-19 {s} Offerings for the 2nd day of Tabernacles (12)
29:20-22 {s} Offerings for the 3rd day of Tabernacles (11)
29:23-25 {s} Offerings for the 4th day of Tabernacles (10)
29:26-28 {s} Offerings for the 5th day of Tabernacles (9)
29:29-31 {s} Offerings for the 6th day of Tabernacles (8)
29:32-34 {s} Offerings for the 7th day of Tabernacles (7) = 70
29:35-40 {p} Offerings for the 8th day following Tabernacles (1)
These paragraphs resolve into the following strong themes:
28:1-10 {p+p} Daily and weekly (Sabbath) offerings
28:11-31 {s+s+p} Offerings for the new moon and spring feast days
29:1-40 {sx9+p} Offerings for the fall feast days
Messiah Yeshua fulfilled the spring feasts in His first coming, and Sabbath rest prophesies of the millennium of rest we will enjoy upon His return. Our daily offering and feast day offerings, of offering ourselves as a living sacrifice in worship of our great Creator and Redeemer (Rom 12:1), is the only proper worship in response to all Messiah Yeshua has done for us.
The strong themes divide the instruction for the spring feast days, from the instruction for the fall feast days. This is just one of the many ways and places, that Scripture separates the feast days into three spring celebrations, and three fall celebrations. Three … a sign of Messiah.
Please note that the priest operating in his priesthood, offers seventy bulls during the week of Tabernacles, and one bull on the eighth day following. By thematic analysis, we realize that seventy, in Scripture, refers to the seventy nations which rebelled against YHVH at the Tower of Babel rebellion (Gen 10 and 11). Just as the High Priest serves as priest before YHVH for Israel, Israel in this way serves as the priesthood nation before YHVH for the seventy nations which have fallen away. Tuck this tidbit on the back burner …
Looking at the Chiastic structure for the entire Torah portion Pinchas:
1A) 25:10-26:1A {p+p} YHVH’s covenant of PEACE with Phinehas;
1B) 26:1B-27:11 {sx10+p+s+s+p+p} The believing generation who will INHERIT THE LAND;
CENTRAL AXIS) 27:12-14 {s} MOSES WILL NOT GO IN, BECAUSE HE REBELLED AGAINST YHVH’S COMMAND, TO HALLOW HIM;
2B) 27:15-23 {p} Joshua inaugurated to lead the people and cause them to INHERIT THE LAND;
2A) 28:1-29:40 {p+p+s+s+p+sx9+p} The APPOINTED TIMES of YHVH’s offerings by fire as a sweet aroma.
Phinehas as a type of Messiah reveals that Messiah, operating in His priesthood (as shown in the appointed times of YHVH, spring and fall), establishes a covenant of peace for Israel which extends to the seventy nations which rebelled at Babel. Messiah takes up His priesthood that no more wrath come upon Israel, or the nations. So the angels sang at Messiah’s birth:
“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” Luk 2:14
Next we have that the believing generation enters its promise under Joshua, not Moses. Those who do works in unbelief or apart from faith, will not inherit salvation (enter the promise) on their merit, but those who believe will inherit salvation. Do we then nullify the Law through faith? By no means! Rather, we establish the Law (Rom 3:31). Obedience flows from the saved (the New Testament calls it sanctification), but is not the means of being saved (called justification).
So the theme of Pinchas: The everlasting priesthood of Yeshua (Phinehas by type) establishes the covenant of peace between God and Israel, even to all seventy nations, so that Yeshua (Joshua by type) leads those who believe to inherit salvation by grace through faith, but unbelief or works of the Law will not inherit salvation.
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