Torah Class: Day 84 - Lessons in the Exodus - Camp #11: Mount Sinai

Basis for our Studies:

The Bible tells us that the “End (of the world) is declared from the “beginning” (Isaiah 46:10). Certainly, this means that the early Biblical record of human history bears End-time prophetic significance. But, it’s actually even more specific than that. The original Hebrew word translated as “beginning” in Isaiah 46:10 is תישאר (rê’shı̂yth). This is the root of Bereshith, which is the Hebrew name of the first Book of the Bible, “Genesis”. In other words, prophecies of the End of the World are found in the Book of Genesis.

The Torah is one of the five keys for unlocking End-time Prophecy… Prophecy is unlocked through the Statutes!

The Lessons and Tests of Israel in the Wilderness are Prophetic - for the Last Days

1 Corinthians 10:1-6 – The experiences, lessons and tests of Israel in the Wilderness are “examples” for us.

1 Corinthians 10:11 - “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 

What is being worked on in each Test/Lesson is ONE THING: Shema – Love Yahweh with all your heart, soul and might

·       Deuteronomy 6:4-9  “Hear (shema: to hear intelligently, to pay attention, obey, be a witness and proclaim / live it for others to see), O Israel (those that bear the 42 letter Name): Yahweh our God is one (primary, solely God, supreme, first) Yahweh: And thou shalt love Yahweh thy God with all thine heart (emotions, innermost being), and with all thy soul (breath, will – choices), and with all thy might (strength). And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house (that’s our down-time of resting, at the end of day), and when thou walkest by the way (in the commute, travel time), and when thou liest down (when you first lay down and before you fall asleep at night), and when thou risest up (when you first wake up in the morning). And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes (we are sealed in the forehead and hand… the Shema is the Sealing). And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”

Campsite #11: Mount Sinai (negatively means "thorns" and "hatred"...  and Horeb means "desolate", "parched" and "wasteland") - Numbers 33:15

·       Arabia has various names for this Mountain: Jebel el Lawz – “the mountain of almonds”, and Jebel el Musa – “the mountain of Moses”

·       Israel left Egypt on the first Sabbath of Unleavened Bread (midnight on the night of the Passover…  and days begin at sunset…)

·       45 days after leaving Egypt, Israel has finally reached the holy Mountain of Yahweh… because the Bible tells us that they arrived in the third month, on the very day they had departed from Egypt… which is the 15^th day of the 3^rd month… Exactly 45 days…

o   Exodus 19:1-2 – “In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the Mount.” 

·       50 days from First Fruits (which takes place after the Seventh-day Sabbath, during the Feast of Unleavened Bread) is Shavuot (Pentecost), so Israel reaches the Mountain when it is nearly Pentecost…

Exodus 19:17-18 – “And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Yahweh descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.”

Exodus 20:20-24 – Yahweh commanded Israel from the Mount to not partake in idolatry… Moses builds an altar unto Yahweh – and the cattle enclosure for those offerings is shown on the left.

 Exodus 24:4 – “And Moses… builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.”

While Israel camped at the base of Sinai, where they stayed for several months, they experienced many profound things:

·       Pentecost

·       Yahweh comes down on the Mountain and speaks His Commandments…

·       Moses actually went up the Mountain to meet with Yahweh 7x

·       The famous golden calf incident happens here…

·       The written Statutes and Ten Commandments on stone are happening…

·       Yahweh gives Moses instructions for building the Tabernacle.

Exodus 19:10-11 & 15…  Yahweh meets with Israel on the Mountain on the Day of Pentecost (Feast of Weeks)… and in preparation for this epic meeting with Yahweh (which bears a likeness to Atonement… and its preparation is the same)… The people wash, they are “sanctified” (which means that they confess and repent and do sacrifices for all sin, and there is no marital intimacy.

·       Yahweh’s dwelling Name is Immanuel or Emmanuel…  He manifested in the Flesh – Yahshua…  also under the Name of Immanuel (God with Us, a dwelling with Him Name)

Exodus 25:8 – “Let them make Me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them (Immanuel)”.

Exodus 40:38 – the Cloud and Fire was now on the Tabernacle…

Psalm 24:3-4 – “Who shall ascend into the Hill of Yahweh? Or who shall stand in His holy Place? He that has clean hands, and a pure heart…”

·       The devil tempts us to believe in “cheap Grace”…  which suggests that I can live however I want…  Yahshua’s Blood covers me without any Torah obedience…

·       The Hebrew word for MERCY actually has the meaning that believers typically give to GRACE…  GRACE means “Yahweh camped within”. Yahweh moved out when they did the golden calf…  This was a profound demonstration that there is no cheap Grace. He would not stay camped within while they were engaged in idolatry.

At this camp, Yahweh vowed and Israel…  This vow stands to this day…  If you are Israel, you are in this vow – all who claim Yahshua’s Blood are claiming this blood of the Covenant…  But the Covenant has terms that we must apply – we not only receive the Blood covering, we also promise to Obey Yahweh:

·       Exodus 24:7-8  “And he took the Book of the Covenant (the Torah), and read in the audience of the people (Israel, which is the saved): and they said, All that Yahweh hath said will we do, and be obedient (Israel has a blood vow to be obedient to Yahweh’s Torah…  there is no Israel – Abraham’s Seed – outside of this vow). And Moses took the blood (This Blood is Yahshua’s in symbol, which is the Saving Blood ratifying the Covenant), and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant, which Yahweh hath made with you concerning all these words.” 

Video link from class:

Today we also started the study of the 11th encampment of Israel, which is the Mountain of Yahweh - here is the promised video link that we partially viewed in today's class: 

Ron Wyatt's Untold Story: Discovery of Mount Sinai - part 1

Book Links

Called to Canaan (3 book set, by Danette Davis and Shauna Manfredine)

Video Links

The Second Exodus - part 1: Called to Canaan (1 hour and 34 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 2: Sealed in 42 Camps (1 hour and 12 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 3: Coming out of Egypt (1 hour and 42 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 4: Getting Egypt Out of Us (1 hour and 45 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 5: Lessons in Suffering (2 hours and 12 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 6: The Adoption of Sons (1 hour and 47 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 7: Revelation in the Wilderness (1 hour and 51 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 8: Battles on the Border (1 hour and 35 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)

The Second Exodus - part 9: the Conquest of Canaan (1 hour and 9 minute video, by Shauna Manfredine)