OCTOBER 16, 2021 Exodus 25:21-22 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark, you shall put the testimony that I will give you. And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony. […]
Abraham takes Isaac to the very land where, many years prior, Abraham had met the king-priest Melchizedek (see Gen. 14). Isaac asks his father, “Where is the lamb?”
Abraham reveals that God will “provide himself a lamb.”
However, a ram and not a lamb replaces Isaac. When the ram appears, Abraham calls the name of the place
Jehovah-Jireh, meaning “the Lord will see to it.”
Moses writes, “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen” (Gen. 22:14). What will be seen in the mount of the Lord? I believe that, by revelation of the Holy Spirit, Abraham saw something that is not actually recorded in the story. He knows a lamb would one day appear on the mountain to bring redemption. That lamb is Christ. This is what Christ spoke of when He said, “Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it” (John 8:56).
From Page 39 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
The act of circumcision became the sign of the Hebrew covenant beginning with Abraham and continuing to this day among the religious Jews. Circumcision is a removal of the foreskin on the Jewish male child, eight days after birth. From the days of the patriarchs, when a son of Abraham marries and consummates his union with his wife, the seed (sperm) in the man’s loins passes through the “mark” of the covenant; thus, the seed is marked by the covenant before it ever enters the woman. This may be why God continually uses the word seed when describing future generations of Hebrews who have not been born (see Gen. 12:7; 13:16; 17:8). God marks the seed while still in the loins of the father (note Heb. 7:9-10).
From Page 33 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
God established ethical principles and required serious penalties for flagrant sins to separate His people from the evil practices of foreign nations:
• Those who offer their children to Molech will be cut off from among the people (v. 2-5)
• Those who follow witches and familiar spirits will be cut off from among the people (v. 6)
• Those who curse their father and mother shall be put to death (v. 9)
• Those who commit adultery shall be put to death (v. 10)
• Those who have sexual relations with a relative other than a spouse shall be put to death (v. 11-12, 14)
• Men who have relationships with men shall be put to death (v. 13)
• Those who commit bestiality shall be put to death (v. 15-16)
• Those who uncover the nakedness of a relative shall be penalized (v. 17, 19-21)
From Page 234 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
This passage describes the miracle of the manna, a heavenly form of sustenance God provides for the Israelites during their forty years in the wilderness.
Manna was a small, round substance (see Exod. 16:14)
Manna appeared like a hoar (white) frost on the ground (see Exod. 16:14)
Manna looked like a coriander seed (see Num. 11:7)
Manna was the color of bdellium, similar to the color of a pearl (see Num. 11:7)
Manna tasted like fresh oil (see Num. 11:8)
Manna also tasted like wafers made with honey (see Exod. 16:31)
Manna was called “angels’ food” (see Ps. 78:25)
Manna was called the “corn of heaven” (see Ps. 78:24)
Christ says He is the “living bread which came down from heaven,” comparing Himself to the manna in the wilderness (see John 6:23-51). The manna represented salvation, as it nourished the people of Israel in the wilder- ness; without it they would have perished. Manna was crushed and beaten before it was eaten (see Num. 11:8), just as the body of Christ was beaten and bruised for man’s redemption (see Isa. 53:4-5).
The phrase hoar frost (v. 14) is unique. The root word for hoar frost in Hebrew is kephowr, a word akin to the word kippur. Yom Kippur is the Hebrew phrase meaning “Day of Atonement,” the sixth appointed season of Israel’s seven feasts. It was the day when the high priest entered the Holy of Holies and sprinkled the blood on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant to “atone” for himself, the priests, and the people. The word atone- ment is mentioned eighty times in the English Bible; the Hebrew word is kaphar, meaning “to cover, to appease and to purge,” is used seventy-five of those eighty times. It is a word used to describe what happened once a sacrifice was offered before God. When the Lord saw the blood being poured out, the sacrificial blood was cover- ing the sin and purging the conscience of the offender. Many blood offerings were atonement offerings for sins and transgressions.
How unique that manna fell from heaven, covering the ground like a frost. It was as though God was looking ahead in time when the true bread from heaven, Christ, would come down and spill His blood on the ground to atone for all mankind, providing the eternal covering for all who would receive this eternal Bread of Life.
From Page 150 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
Balaam makes four major predictions called “parables” (see Num. 23:7, 18; 24:3, 15, 21, 23), which are actually prophecies concerning Israel.
The First Prophecy (23:9-10)
Balaam’s first prophecy predicts that Jacob (Israel) will become a countless multitude as plentiful as dust. God gave Abram (Abraham) a similar prediction when He said Abram’s seed would be numerous as dust (see Gen. 13:16). Balaam says Israel will “dwell alone” and not be “reckoned among the nations.” From AD 70 to 1948, Israel did not exist as a nation; thus, other nations did not recognize her. Since 1948, the Jewish state has often stood alone as enemies have risen from within and without, and Israel has conducted six major wars. The “fourth part of Israel” may allude to the division of the camps into four sections around the tabernacle. From the mountain, Balaam could not even count one-fourth of the number of people in one section of the camp.
The Second Prophecy (23:21-24)
Balaam states that Israel has maintained its spiritual integrity, avoided perverseness, and is destined to become a ruling nation. He mentions a great lion and a young lion, a statement similar to Jacob’s final words of blessing to his son Judah. Jacob predicted Judah would be as a lion and that the ruler would come from Judah (see Gen. 49:9-10).
The Third Prophecy (24:5-9)
The promise of blessing on those who bless and cursing on those who curse Israel (v. 9) is the same promise given to Abram (Abraham) at the beginning of the Abrahamic covenant (see Gen. 12:3). The phrase his seed shall be in many waters (v. 7) may allude to the Jewish people who will eventually dwell throughout the world. As in the second prophecy, the lion emblem represents Judah, the tribe of David, and Jesus Christ.
The Fourth Prophecy (24:17)
The prophecy “a Star out of Jacob” is believed to be what the wise men allude to when they search for the infant Christ Child and report, “We have seen his star in the east” (Matt. 2:2). The word Sceptre used in Numbers 24:17 relates to rulership; Jacob used the word when he predicted that the sceptre would not depart from Judah until Shiloh (a name used to identify the Messiah) comes (see Gen. 49:10). Christ’s birth, accompanied by a unique cosmic sign, occurred in Bethlehem of Judea (see Matt. 2:1).
From Page 307 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
OCTOBER 14, 2021 Exodus 25:10-11 “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it.” Of all the furnishings that […]
OCTOBER 15, 2021 Exodus 25:10-11 “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it.” As I mentioned in yesterday’s […]
Rabbis have taught of two Messiahs: a suffering Messiah, the Messiah son of Joseph, and a conquering Messiah, the Messiah son of David. Rachel was near Bethlehem (Ephrath), the very area where both King David and Jesus would be born. Christ’s first appear- ing was as the son of “sorrows” (Isa. 53:4), but when He appears again He will be the Son of God’s “right hand” (Luke 22:69; Acts 7:56). Just as Benjamin was first called a “son of sorrow” and became the son of his father’s right hand, Christ the Lamb of God came to suffer, yet He will return as the Lion of Judah to rule from the right hand of power (see Rev. 5:5).
From Page 61 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
These chapters detail the various types of offerings God requires the Israelites to present to Him at the tabernacle. Five major types of offerings were offered at the tabernacle and later at the temple in Jerusalem. In the New Testament Jesus speaks of Korban (see Mark 7:11). The original Hebrew meaning of the word Korban was “sacrifice.” The English word sacrifice is found 194 times in the English Old Testament and is translated as zaback or “to slaughter an animal” (see Exod. 3:18), and as olah, meaning to “go up,” referring to the smoke of the offering ascending to God (see Lev. 1:3). Most believers perceive a sacrifice as something they must “give up” as an offering to God. The Hebrew meaning, however, is far from this. Below is a Hebrew commentary on the meaning of Korban:
“It is most regrettable that we have no word that really reproduces the idea that lies in the expression ‘Korban.’ The unfortunate use of the term ‘sacrifice’ implies giving up something of value to oneself for the benefit of another, or having to do without something of value, ideas not only entirely absent from the nature of ‘Korban’ but diametrically opposed to it. In addition, the idea of an ‘offering’ presupposes a wish on the part of the one to whom it is brought . . . But the idea of ‘Korban’ is far away from all this. It is used exclusively with reference with human- ity’s relationship with God, and can only be understood from the meaning that lies in its root, ‘K.R.V.’—to approach, to come near, to enter into a relationship. Korban implies closeness (the root is K.R.V.—near); bringing things together . . . it engenders compassion, never harshness. That is why it is Korban L’Hashem, a gift to the name of Hashem.” (Source: R. Shimshon Refael Hirsch, opening to Sefer Vayikra, The Pentateuch Judaica Press, 1962).
Thus, the true meaning of a Korban is not to give up something, but to draw near to God through a sacrifice.
These numerous offerings and sacrifices were intended to bring a person closer to God, not for a person to give up something of value and feel a sense of loss.
From Page 206 of the Perry Stone Hebraic Prophetic Old Testament Study Bible
