Beha’alotcha בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ - In Your Uplifting
Numbers 8:1-12:16
Reading #4 -Numbers 9:15–10:10
My Thoughts:
What a clear message for the directions of His people. When the cloud moves the people move. They only have to watch for it. When the cloud remained the people stayed. Wouldn’t that be so wonderful for the decisions you are making in your life? Can you imagine that you are thinking of buying a new house in a new city. You look at the Tabernacle to see if the cloud is lifting up. It is! So, you move to your new city! Maybe we could get to know Hashem so well that we could “spiritually” see His “cloud” moving. In other words, we would know through prayer, worship and listening where and what He was showing us! Let’s try this!
Challenge:
In chapter 10 we learn about the alerts of the trumpets. When the priests would blow them you would know whether you were journeying or going to war. It was a sense of trusting authority and being in community for major direction on issues. Maybe you don’t have a community where authority can give you direction or warning. Maybe it is time to pray and ask Hashem to place in you one. One that honors and worships the one true Elohim of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. One that follows Torah. One that has trusted leadership. Pray and ask Hashem to lead you to this community. It will help you to be rooted and grounded. And knowing that sometimes leadership can and will make mistakes, but praying for them at all times.
Reading #4 -Numbers 9:15–10:10
9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the Tent of the Testimony. At evening it was over the tabernacle, as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. 16 So it was continually. The cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel traveled; and in the place where the cloud remained, there the children of Israel encamped. 18 At the commandment of Hashem, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Hashem they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped. 19 When the cloud stayed on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept Hashem’s command, and didn’t travel. 20 Sometimes the cloud was a few days on the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Hashem they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Hashem they traveled. 21 Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they traveled; or by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they traveled. 22 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled. 23 At the commandment of Hashem they encamped, and at the commandment of Hashem they traveled. They kept Hashem’s command, at the commandment of Hashem by Moses.
10 Hashem spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 4 If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. 5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward. 6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
8 “The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Hashem your Elohim, and you will be saved from your enemies.
10 “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your Elohim. I am Hashem your Elohim.”
