“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Isaiah 58: 1 Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen
Hallelujah
We, the bride, the church should be as those who proclaim the name of the Lord.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that we, the bride, the church should safeguard ourselves so that we do not move away from the presence of God.
Next, what we are meditating is that Numbers 34: 1 – 29 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“Command the children of Israel and say to them: ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.
Your southern border shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom; then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end of the Salt Sea;
your border shall turn from the southern side of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and be on the south of Kadesh Barnea; then it shall go on to Hazar Addar, and continue to Azmon;
the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.
‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your western border.
‘And this shall be your northern border: From the Great Sea you shall mark out your border line to Mount Hor;
from Mount Hor you shall mark out your border to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward Zedad;
the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your northern border.
‘You shall mark out your eastern border from Hazar Enan to Shepham;
the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; the border shall go down and reach to the eastern side of the Sea of Chinnereth;
the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.’”
Then Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance.
The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land among you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.
And you shall take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.
These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
from the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud;
from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli;
from the sons of Joseph: a leader from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod,
and a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;
and a leader from the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”
These are the ones the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
In the above-mentioned verses, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say to them: you are going to get the land of Canaan including its boundaries as your inheritance. Therefore when you come into the land of Canaan, the land that you get as an inheritance from where it is starting to where it is ending; that is being shown around. That is, Numbers 34: 12 the border shall go down along the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries.
In this manner the boundaries shall be there. Here what is being written specifically is that he said that you shall go down along Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. From this, each one of us must cross Jordan and we have to come to the Salt Sea. This is because if we want to make our Lord Jesus Christ as an inheritance, we must cross the world, which is the tribulation and then only we can attain the word, who is Christ.
Also, what Moses said is that this is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe. But the tribe of the children of Reuben and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and the half-tribe of Manasseh has received its inheritance. The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, across from Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.
Also, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land among you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. And you shall take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance and the names of these people are given below. They are Numbers 34: 19 – 29 These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;
from the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud;
from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli;
from the sons of Joseph: a leader from the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod,
and a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan;
a leader from the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;
and a leader from the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”
These are the ones the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
We can understand that the above-mentioned people were commanded to divide the inheritance for the children of Israel. The pattern regarding them is that they are chosen to proclaim the name of the Lord. From this what we must know is that within every one of us, the names of the previous twelve tribes because they are united in one stone, it is written that all of us must go to proclaim the name of the Lord. But only the tribe of Levi God is separating them for the work of priesthood.
Therefore, my dear people we must all be very truthful in proclaiming the name of the Lord to others. Let us all submit ourselves to change in this manner.
Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly.
- To be continued