Benjamin



Numbers 13                                                                                                    numbers 11
 
Numbers 13:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
  • Send thou = This was spoken in consequence of People's request. 
  • "We will" of Number =  This was walking by "sight. "
  • Numbers 13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
  • Search, for God had told them about it. 
  • Deuteronomy 8:7 For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
    8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
  • Compare to 1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.
    7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.
    8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken Me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
  • God already espied it in Ezekiel 20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
  • Canaan =  The land of the seven mighty nations
  • Appendix 23 and 25: The "Nephilim", or "Giants" of Genesis 6
  • They are enumerated and named among Canaanite Peoples: "Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
  • Children = sons.
  • Ruler = prince.
3 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.

9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.

11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
  • Verse 1 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
  • Notice who sent the men out to spy, God told Moses = verse 1 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
  • God already told Moses this land was like milk and honey
  • Southward = For first nine miles, on account of the roads, then by the mountain passes eastward.
18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
  • They wanted to see what kind of people they were going against.
19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
  • It was the land of milk and honey, it took two men to gather one cluster of grapes.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
  • They spy the land for forty days.
  • Forty = The number of Probation
  • At the end of Elul (our August), exactly six months from setting up of the Tabernacle
26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
  • The second group of the giants.
  • Anak = giants = Genesis 6 giants was the cause of the flood
  • Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
  • These were of Cain seed = Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites
  • Amalekites = probably of foreign, a descendant of Esau; also his posterity and their country: Amalek.
30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
  • Caleb was the only one that stood up and said  Let us go up at once
  • Caleb = whole-hearted
  • Stilled = silenced
  • Well able = the conclusion of faith
  • Caleb said, God's going to give us this land, let go.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
  • Just like reading tomorrow newspaper. God told Moses I am going to bring you into the land of milk and honey. What are the the people saying? We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
  • If you have read God's word He going be with us through the tribulation of Satan. Most teach their words. Teaching their words.. You don't need to read the Old Testament, the book of Revelation, etc... because your going to fly away.
  • What does God said? Ezekiel 13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
    3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
  • Ezekiel 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
  • Men = 'ish or 'enosh.
  • Not able = the conclusion of sight.
  • They are stronger than we = the conclusion of unbelief, which always leaves God out.
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
  • They brought up an evil report of the land
  • We saw =The language of unbelief.
  • Brought up an evil report = sent forth a slander.
  • They lied, this was a false report
  • Numbers 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
  • Pastors today are teaching a fly away before the 7th trumpet, they tell God's people you don't need to read the book of Revelation.
  • Do you want to be with this group?
  • Joshua and Caleb are types of the very elect
  • God told them I will be with you
  • The song of Moses, God has told His Very Elect. I Will Be With You
  • God used Moses and Aaron to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt
  • God open the red sea and the children of Israel came through the waters
  • The end times waters are peoples
  • The two witnesses will be with the 7,000
  • Satan kills the two witnesses = Moses or Aaron came into the promise land
  • Only Joshua and Caleb in that generation came into the promise land
  • The elect will be delivered up and bring the children of Israel and the whole world out of Babel
33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
  • God destroyed the first group of the giant in Noah Flood.
  • God was going to destroyed this group also.
  • Giants = Hebrew word nephilim.
  • Jude 6 (KJV) And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
  • Those mentioned in Genesis, 6:4 were all destroyed in the Flood; these came from a second irruption of fallen angels, "after that" after "those days" = the days of Noah.
  • Sight = It is all "sight" where there is no faith
  • Grasshoppers or locusts. These men are the Kenites. Study The book of Joel
  • The children of Israel tempted God, God plan was for them to go into the promise land
  • God wanted to wipe them out
  • But Moses stopped God
  • Numbers 14:11 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
    Numbers 14:26 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
    27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
 
Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
 
  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25
 
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