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Deuteronomy Chapter 33

Omniscient – You know about survival.  I am trying to survive.  You know Moses’ blessings.  You know why.  You know what each mean.  You know Reuben and Judah and Levi.  You know Benjamin and Joseph and Ephraim and Manasseh.  You know Zebulun and Issachar and Gad.  You know Dan and Naphtali and Asher.  You know Simeon.  You know my questions.  You know my heart and my my mind My LORD.  You know me. You are all-knowing.

Omnipotent- You can do anything.  You bless each the way You want to.  You do what You want.  You make me understand if You just wanted to.  You are all-powerful.

Omnipresent – You are everywhere.  You are at Sinai and at Seir and at Mount Paran.  You are in the midst of ten thousand holy ones.  You are at Massah and at the waters of Meribah.  You are at the ancient mountains and the everlasting hills.  You are of the earth and in the bush.  You are at the ends of the earth.  You are in my going forth and in my house.  You are here with me. You are in Your WORD.  You are in my heart and in my mind.  You are all-present.

Eternal – You are the cause of time.  You are now and when.  You are all the day, and of the months.  You are then and according to my days.  You are 3,400 years ago.  You are now.  You are time.

Immutable – You do not change.  Moses said of Judah, “Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people.”  “Shatter the loins of those who rise up against Levi, an those who hate Levi, so that they may not rise again.”  And according to Asher’s days, so shall your leisurely walk be.  Israel dwells in security.  Your enemies shall cringe before you and you shall tread upon their high places.  You will never be made to change.

Self – Existent – You exist by Yourself.  You choose.  You decide.  You make up Moses’ existence.  You make up Reuben’s existence and Levi’s existence and Judah’s existence.  You make up Benjamin’s existence and Joseph’s existence.  You make up Ephraim’s existence and Manasseh’s existence.  You make up Zebulun’s existence and Gad’s existence and Dan’s existence.  You make up Naptali’s existence and Asher’s existence.  You make up Your Word’s existence.  You make up my existence.  You decide when Moses will die.  You will exist even when Your creation does not.

Self-Sufficient – You do not need any of Your creation to bring about Your will or Your purpose.  You choose to use Moses, Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, Zebulun, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, Asher, Simeon, Your WORD and me because it is Your good pleasure, not Your need, that governs Your choice.

Infinite – There are no limits or bounds to Your person or dominion.  There is no limit to ten thousand holy ones, or the ten thousands of Ephraim, or the thousands of Manasseh. You are limitless.

Transcendent – You are apart from Your creation.  You teach me about Yourself.  You teach me the blessings of the sons of Israel.  You teach me Reuben’s blessing and Judah’s blessing and Levi’s blessing.  You teach me Benjamin’s blessing and Joseph’s blessing.  You teach me Zebulun’s blessing and Issachar’s blessing.  You teach me Gad’s blessing, Dan’s blessing, Naphtali’s blessing, and Asher’s blessing.  You teach me You are the God o Jeshurun.  What does this teach me about You?  What does it teach me about Your character and Your power?  What does it teach me about Your ways?  How do I demonstrate My love for You?  How do I know? 

Sovereign – It is You I worship.  You bless who You want to bless.  You do whatever You want.  You are in complete control and You are doing Your foreknown plan!

 

Holy – You are a morally excellent, perfect being.  You separate Israel out of all the nations for Your purpose.  You separate each tribe for Your purpose.  You separate me by Your truth through Your Son for Your purpose. 

Gracious – You show Your favor to Your people by having Moses the man of God bless the sons of Israel before his death.

Merciful – You show Your people Your compassion by having Moses charge them with a law, a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Righteous – You are always right.  You teach the right way.  Your blessings are Your way.

Longsuffering - You are patient with Your people and slow to anger.  You give them Your law to follow.

Just – You reward the righteous who follow You, atone for sin, and You punish the unrighteous who do not listen to You or obey You.

Loving – You love Your people and You take care of them.  You bless them and give them what they need.

Good – You give Your people a part of Yourself.  You came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; You shone forth from Mount Paran, and You came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; at Your right hand there was flashing lightning for them.

Wise – Your wisdom cause You to do the things You do.  Indeed, You love the people; all Thy holy ones are in Thy hand, and they followed in Thy steps; everyone receives of Thy words.  Your wisdom is higher than my wisdom.  Your thoughts are higher than my thoughts.

Truthful - You always speak the truth.  Your blessings are reality.  Your word is Your truth.

Faithful – You always do what You say.  Blessed are you, O Israel; who is like you them, a people saved by You, who is the shield of their help, and the sword of their majesty! Faith is not knowing that You can do what You say, but that You will do what You say.

Wrathful - You destroy all unrighteousness who do not listen to You or obey You.

Jealous – You will not share Your people or Your land who are rightly and morally Yours with any other creature.

 

Incomprehensible – The sons of Levi and Simeon – Jacob said – Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are implements of violence.  Let my soul not enter into their council; let not my glory be united with their assembly; because in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they lamed oxen.  Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel.  I will dispense them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

·      Tribe of Simeon – their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.  Simeon is missing from Moses’ blessings.  Num 25:1-15.  Levi – killed the man and woman and turned away Your wrath from the sons of Israel, so that You did not destroy the sons of Israel in Your jealousy.  The man son of Simeon – brought Midianite woman to his family and made You Jealous.

·      Levi – good violent?  Simeon bad violent?

·      Camp arrangement – Levites surround the tabernacle and protect it. 

·      Moses’ blessing – Let Thy Thummin and Thy Urim belong to Thy godly man, whom Thou didst prove at Massah, with whom Thou didst contend at the waters of Meribah; who said of his father and his mother, ‘I did not consider them’; and he did not acknowledge his brothers, nor did he regard his own sons, for they observed Thy word, and kept Thy covenant.  They shall teach Thine ordinances to Jacob, and Thy law to Israel.  They shall put incense before Thee, and whole burnt offerings on Thine altar…

·      Angelic priest warriors surrounds and carries Your tabernacle -all that is Holy - Archangels?

·      Benjamin – Jacob’s blessing

·      Benjamin is a ravenous (a wolf that tears) wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, and in the evening he divides the spoil.

·      Angelic Human Guardians?

·      Moses’ blessing – may the beloved of the LORD dwell in security by Him, who shields him all the day, and he dwells between His shoulders.

·      Joseph – Jacob’s blessing – Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; it’s branches run over a wall.  The archers bitterly attacked him, and shot at him and harassed him; but his low remained firm, and his arms were agile, from the hands of the mighty One Jacob (From there is the Sheperd, the Stone of Israel), …Human’s sheperds?

·      Angelic Human’s sheperd’s

·      Moses’ blessing – Blessed of the LORD be his land, with the choice things of heaven, with the dew, and from the lying beneath, and with the choice yield of the sun, and with the choice produce of the months…

·      Zebulun – Jacob’s blessing Zebulun shall swell at the seashore; and he shall be a haven from ships, and his flank shall be toward Sidon

·      Issachar – Jacob’s blessing – Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between sheepfolds… a slave of forced labor

·      Angelic Trumpeters call humans

·      Moses’ blessing – Rejoice Zebulun, in your going forth, and Issachar, in your tents.  They shall call peoples to the mountain; there shall offer righteous sacrifices; for they shall draw out the abundance of the seas, and hidden treasures of the sand.

·      Are the tribes of Israel Your angels in Heaven?  Does Your Word describe ten thousand holy ones?  Does they describe the flashing lightning for them?  Do Your angels have to obey these same human laws?

·      Who is Your tribe of Reuben?

·      Jacob said – Reuben, you are my first-born; my might and the beginning of my strength, preeminent (dominant) in dignity and preeminent (dominant) in power.  Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence (dominance), because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it – he went up to my couch.

·      Gen 48:3, 4 – Angelic Satan?

·      Gen 29:32; Ex 6:14; Num 1:21; - Gen 36:23

·      And Leah conceived Reuben and said, “Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

·      The sons of Reuben, Israel’s first-born:  Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

…their numbered me, of the tribes of Rueben, were 46, 500.

·      Camp arrangement – on the southside shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their armies and the leader of the sons of Reuben:  Elizur the son of Shedeur and his army even their numbered men, 46,500.  Then Moses blessed him saying, “May Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”  Why would he say that?  Does that hurt Your heart My LORD?  Is it my own growing pains?  Am I suppose to evaluate You?  Your WORD?  Am I being rebellious?  Are You sorry You made me?

·      Who is Your tribe of Judah?

·      Jacob said – Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.  Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up.  He couches (bows down), he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who dares rouse him up?

·      Jesus, Your son Your Word?

·      Judah – The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and not him shall be the obedience of the peoples.  He ties his foal to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine; he washes his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.  His eyes are dull (darker than) from wine, and he teeth white (whiter than) milk.  (Kings until Jesus the King comes)

·      Judah (praise) Leah’s son by Jacob

·      Camp arrangement – east side toward the sunrise

 

Tribe

Numbers 1

Numbers 26

 

Reuben

46,500

43,730

Simeon

59,300

22,200

Gad

45,650

40,500

Judah

74,600

76,500

Issachar

54,400

64,300

Zebulun

57,400

60,500

Ephraim

40,500

32,500

Manasseh

32,200

52,700

Benjamin

35,400

45,600

Dan

62,700

64,400

Asher

41,500

53,400

Naphtali

53,400

45,400

Totals

603,550

601,730

< 1820

 

·      What does this have to do with Jacob’s blessing and Moses’ blessing and camp arrangement and mothers?

·      What does this mean?

·      Moses said – and this regarding Judah, so he said, hear O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people.  With his hands he contended for them; and mayest Thou be a help against his adversaries.  Jesus Your Son Your WORD.

·      Gad – Jacob’s blessing – raiders shall raid him, but he shall raid at their heels.

·      Moses’ blessing – Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad; he lies down as a lion, and tears the arm, also the crown of the heard.  Then he provided the first part part for himself, for there the rulers potion was reserved; and he came with the leaders of the people; he executed the justice of the LORD, and His ordinances with Israel.

·      Satan’s demons?

·      Dan – Jacob’s blessing – Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.  Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned snake in the path, that bites the horses heels, so that the rider falls backward, for Thy salvation I wait, O LORD.

·      Angelic warriors?

·      Naphtali – Jacob’s blessing – Naphtali is a doe let loose, he gives beautiful words.  Moses’ blessing – O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, take possession of the sea and the south.

·      Angelic warriors?

·      Asher – Jacob’s blessing – As for Asher, his food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal dainties. 

·      Moses blessing – more blessed than the sons of Asher; may he be favored by his brothers, and may he dip his foot in oil.  Your locks shall be iron and bronze.  And according to your days, so shall your leisurely walk be.

·      Angelic warriors?

 

You will know them by their fruits.

Hosea 7:1

Hosea 6:11

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