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The Wilderness Journey by Joe Viel

The Wilderness Journey by Joe Viel. “Teshvo (You shall live / dwell / sit) in a sukkah for 7 days” (Lev 23:7) “…that you may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in sukkahs…” (Lev 23:43) For Israel, this was LIFE / HOME for 40 years. Nicer than a Sukkah.

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The Wilderness Journey by Joe Viel

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  1. The Wilderness Journeyby Joe Viel

  2. “Teshvo (You shall live / dwell / sit) in a sukkah for 7 days” (Lev 23:7) • “…that you may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in sukkahs…” (Lev 23:43) • For Israel, this was LIFE / HOME for 40 years.

  3. Nicer than a Sukkah...

  4. Purpose #1: To make you JOYFULLY thankful for what you have. • People are JOYFULLY thankful for what they receive in excess of what they expect.

  5. Purpose #1: To make you JOYFULLY thankful for what you have. • People are JOYFULLY thankful for what they receive in excess of what they expect. • Secret to being happy with what you have; expect less. • Don’t covet. • Remember the wilderness

  6. Food • Sukkot Tradition -> Eat a fall harvest food you have not eaten all year. • The Wilderness -> Same food (mannah) every day.

  7. Food • Sukkot Tradition -> Eat a fall harvest food you have not eaten all year. • The Wilderness -> Same food (mannah) every day. • God killed those who complained about what was on the menu (Numbers/B’Midbar 11)

  8. Purpose #2: Learn what’s really important in life! Get away from it all, and there’s nothing to distract you.

  9. Purpose #3: Be Inspired to sacrifice. • Leave this... • For this...

  10. Purpose #3: Be Inspired to sacrifice. • Leave this... • For this... • Yeshua left heaven………..for earth.

  11. The Wilderness Journey Represents our Spiritual Growth • We all leave a spiritual Egypt. • We all go to a spiritual Sukkot, Etham, Pi HaChiroth, Marah, etc….

  12. The Wilderness Journey Represents the Future • Future Events are foretold with the 42 Stage Pattern. • The Pattern Has Several fulfillments… • Israel in the Wilderness • Fulfilled in the life of Yeshua • Fulfilled in the life of every believer • Fulfilled in the history of the world. • The “Pattern” gets re-used several times.

  13. Example of Prophecy A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days" [42 months] (Rev 12:1-6, drawing from the symbolism of the first few encampments in the wilderness of Sukkot and Etham)

  14. “woman was given the two wings of a great eagle” (Rev 12:14) • “I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.” (Exodus/Shemot 19:4)

  15. Pi HaChiroth • Pi = “mouth” • HaChiroth = “kindle wrath” • “from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent... the dragon was enraged at the woman ” (Rev 12:15…17)

  16. Pi HaChiroth • Pi = “mouth” • HaChiroth = “kindle wrath” • “the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river ...” (Rev 12:16) • In Exodus, the waters opened up into a mouth that did not exist before.

  17. Stage #4: Marah = Rebellion or Bitterness • “The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months. He opened his mouth to blaspheme G-d, and to slander his Name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven.” (Rev 13:5-6)

  18. Encampment #5: Eilim = “Their Leader” • “He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation” (Rev 13:7)

  19. Encampment #6: Yam Suf • This is NOT “The Red Sea” • It can mean “Reed Sea” or “Sea of the End” • 1 Cor 10 tells us what the Yam Suf Represents spiritually.

  20. Yam Suf = Play on words with Suf Chayyim

  21. Yam Suf = Play on words with Suf Chayyim Yam Suf is the reversal of the process of the life ending

  22. Yam Suf in Revelation... • “All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.He who has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. ” (Rev 13:8-10)

  23. Yam Suf in Revelation... • “All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life (SEFER CHAYYIM) belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.He who has an ear, let him hear. If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. (An “end of life”)” (Rev 13:8-10) • But their death will be reversed!

  24. The parallels continue…. • Every event in Revelation chapters 12 through 16, and into 17, parallel the next encampment of the wilderness. • The symbolism of the Wilderness pattern explains the symbolism of Revelation. This pattern helps you understand the symbols of Revelation like never before! • Symbolism in other parts. (Fig Tree)

  25. Rephidim • Can mean, “spread them” • Can also be a contraction of “Raphot Yadim” = “Weakening of the hands” • The message of Rephidim is…..

  26. Rephidim • Can mean, “spread them” • Can also be a contraction of “Raphot Yadim” = “Weakening of the hands” • The message of Rephidim is…..When your hands are weak, spread them.”

  27. Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them • 3 Stories at Rephidim (Exod/Shem 17-18) • Each involved a problem in dealing with “weak hands” • Each involved a solution of “spreading” the hands.

  28. Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them • Battle of the Amalekites • Hands of Moshe’ (Moses) were physically weak. • Aharon (Aaron) and Hur helped SPREAD his hands so they could win the war.

  29. Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them • “Weakening of the Hands” = Hebrew idiom for “afraid”. • English equivalent: • “Weak in the knees” • “Shaking in your boots”

  30. Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them • At Horeb: • Israel was AFRAID for their life… • “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt … to die?” (Exod 17:3) • Moshe’ (Moses) spread out his hand and struck the rock. Water flowed.

  31. Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them • Hand symbolizes power, strength. • “Weak hands” can refer to the inability to do something. • Exod/Shem 18 : • Moshe’ unable to judge all of Israel. Not enough time in the day. • Moshe’ spread the work out to other people. • “Al Yaday in Hebrew” • Smikah

  32. Rephidim in Revelation... • “He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name” (Rev 13:16-17)

  33. Another Prophetic Pattern: The History of the Nations • The Fall of Man - Leaving Paradise (Encampments 1-3) • The Flood (Between 3rd and 4th Encampments) • The Tower of Babylon (Encampments 4-6) • Abraham, the Father of Many Nations (Encampments 7-10) • Sodom and Gomorrah (Encampments 11-17) • Israel Goes Down to Egypt (Encampments 17-25) • Israel is oppressed and leaves Egypt to become its own Nation (Encampments 26-31) • The Messiah Comes, Dies, and Rises Again (Encampments 32-33) • The Fall of Israel (Encampments 33-34)

  34. Pattern found in Psalms • Psalms 22, 23 and 24 contain this pattern • Ps 22:1 Parallels from Ramses to Sukkot • Ps 22:2-3 parallels Etham • Ps 22:4 parallels Pi HaChiroth • …continues on for each encampment throughout Ps 22...

  35. Psalm/Tehilim 22: The Suffering of the Messiah • Ps 22:15 = Chatzeroth = “surroundings” • Ps 22:16 = Rithmah = “hitched”, “fastened” or “bound” • Ps 22:17-18 = Rimmon Peretz = “separating the pomegranate”

  36. Psalm/Tehilim 22: The Suffering of the Messiah • Ps 22:16 = Chatzeroth = “surroundings” “…dogs have encompassed me.” (Ps 22:15, echoing the theme of Chatzeroth)

  37. Psalm/Tehilim 22: The Suffering of the Messiah • Ps 22:15 = Rithmah = “hitched”, “fastened” or “bound” • “they have piercedmy hands and my feat” (Ps 22:16 in most Christian translations.)This FITS Rithmah! • “like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet”(Ps 22:16 in the JPS)This does NOT fit Rithmah.

  38. Ps 22:16 - Which is it?

  39. Gospel in the 42 Journeys • “He [Yeshua] said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moshe’ (Moses), the Prophets and the Psalms." 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, "This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached …” (Luke 24:44-47) • "the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle (Sukkot) among us (Etham)." (Yochanan/John 1:14, YLT).

  40. Outline of Journey in Torah • Exod 1-19 • Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10 • Numbers 10-end of book • Journey from Egypt to Rephidim • The Law • Rest of the Journey

  41. Outline of Journey in Torah • Exod 1-19 • Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10 • Numbers 10-end of book • Rev 12:1-13:17 • Rev 13:18 • Rev 14:1-17

  42. Outline of Journey in Torah • Exod 1-19 • Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10 • Numbers 10-end of book • Rev 12:1-13:17 • Rev 13:18 = “This calls for wisdom... the number of the beast...is the number of [a] man. Its number is 666.” • Rev 14:1-17

  43. Outline of Journey in Torah • Exod 1-19 • Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10 • Numbers 10-end of book • Rev 12:1-13:17 • Rev 13:18 = “This calls for wisdom... the number of the beast...is the number of [a] man. Its number is 666.” • Rev 14:1-17 • A Discussion of 666 replaces the Law

  44. A discussion of 666 replaces the Law

  45. A discussion of 666 replaces the Law • 2 Thess 2:8 : The False Messiah is called “The Lawless One”

  46. Journey vs Encampment • 1 Journey involves 2 or more encampments. (One journey involved 7 stages) • 42 Journeys listed in Numbers/B’Midbar 33.

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