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Introduction

This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 8:1-12:16

In our previous Torah Portion we spoke about Numbers 8:1-4 in the context of the rapture

This week, we will talk about the Torah Portion, regarding The Set Up of the Lamps in the Lampstand: Menorah

Lampstand

The Tabernacle Layout

Faces East

Outer Courtyard (the way; the truth)

Go through the entrance gate

First thing: Altar of burn offering (the way)

Laver (the truth)

Holy Place (the Life)

Door

Table of Showbread

Menorah

Altar of Incense

Close up

other:

the Holy Menorah:

Pure gold - weight 3000 shekels of silver (almost 100 pounds)

7 branches

7 lamps

9 flower blooms

11 fruits

22 cups

Measured eighteen tafachim (palms) in height - from base to start of lamps or 5.25 feetd

called the lamp of God

According to Malbin, the Menorah itself is said to reveal the light of the Torah.

These are sometimes called the 49 Gates of the Torah.

7 branches = First 7 Words of

The 11 fruits the 11 Hebrew words of

9 Flowers the 9 Hebrew words of

22 cups - 22 Hebrew words of

But what about the book of Numbers?

There are 17 tefachim (handbreadths) of the Menorah height (not including the lamps on the top) these 17 tefachim represent the 17 Hebrew words of

Lastly, the Light of the Menorah is spiritual light.

It was not seen from outside, seen only inside the holy chamber, before the holy place of sacrificial atonement - it was not light to be used for profane purposes

Across from it is the table of Showbread

Reminder of God of His everlasting covenant with 12 tribes

Presentation

For our study we are going to use the halftorah

Menorah in the center of both olive trees: Why is the menorah at the center?

- We will discuss this later in this message

Who are the OLIVE trees:

LEFT: 2 tribes: Judah and Benjamin - Oral Torah- Written Torah (JEW)

RIGHT: 10 Tribes - Ephraim - among the (Gentiles) - Living Torah - Yahoshua

These are the two witnesses

To the whole world:

Jewish Messiah to the Jews

The Spirit of God to the Gentiles

Ephraim

Did Jesus establish the Kingdom of Israel in His first coming?

Did Israel recognize Jesus as Messiah?

What did Jesus do?

He left a Helper - the Holy Spirit

Two Witnesses

Ezekiel 37:15–28 (NKJV)

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

“As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’

Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’

Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.

“And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’—

say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”

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And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

“Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.

They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them.

Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

“David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.

Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

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What about the NT and the Menorah?

Jews - Israel

Commandments are the written Torah

The light is Jesus the Living Torah

Aleph and Tav

Revelation 1:10–11a (NKJV)

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

saying, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,” and, “What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia

Revelation 1:12–14 (NKJV)

Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me.

And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.

His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

Summary

The importance regarding how the Lamps are set up in the Lampstand or Menorah is because there is an established pattern from God

The Menorah was built as a unity, as it is one piece, with hammered work- or suffering

It has three branches on each side which signify the Feast the Lord has fulfilled and the ones He is going to fulfill

If we know the pattern we can be ready for the Feasts to come and not be taken by surprise

The positioning of the Menorah in the Tabernacle is also significant as it is in the Holy Place, signifying sanctification and the Life

The Menorah reveals the light to be able to understand the word and plan of God

The Menorah represents the Torah as it speaks of each one of the books of the Law

The Menorah shines light onto the bread (the word of God)to bring it light and to make it applicable to Life

The Menorah shines the Light of God to the two Olive Trees: Judah/ Benjamin and the 10 tribes: Ephraim in different ways

These Olive trees provide testimony of the Light and Life, as The HS brings light to the Gentiles and Life to the Jews through the Torah

The Light of the World found in the Menorah will bring both Witnesses back together

We have been called to witness one another: to the Jew to cause jealousy; to the Gentile to teach them the Torah

The light is a Jewish Messiah to the Jew and the Spirit of God in the Torah to the Gentiles