8.28.25 ~ The Pattern of Life
Good morning!
Ignorance is not bliss (1 Cor. 10:1)! Especially when it deals with the biblical pattern for our spiritual journey in Christ/Messiah (1 Cor. 9:24-10:12).
The Apostle Paul connected the Gentile believers in Corinth with the 'Fathers' that were baptized into Moses, the cloud and the sea. They all ate the same spiritual meat (bread from heaven) and they all drank from the Rock (Christ) that followed them (1 Cor. 10:1-4). Their baptism/mikveh was a complete identification with Moses, the cloud (comforter/HS), and the sea (place of death, burial and resurrection to their past slavery in Egypt). Their food was the bread from heaven, Yeshua (Ex. 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Jn. 6:31,32). They drank from the Rock that brought forth living water (Ex. 17:6) and that Rock was Christ (Deut. 32:4-37; 1 Cor. 10:4).
Most of us have no problem immersing ourselves into the 'cloud/HS-Comforter' and 'the sea/baptism', 'feeding on the bread from heaven', 'drinking from the Rock', but most struggle with being baptized into Moses. My experience shows its an ignorant and faulty bias that has been passed down from generation to generation of believers (Jer. 16:19) and we've just accepted them from our 'fathers' because of the honor due them. This is not the fault of anyone, specifically the well intending fathers, but then again it's the fault of all of us, because we haven't been good Bereans, testing everything (Acts 17:11).
Yeshua said that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Moses was the only individual in recorded history to have God speak to him mouth to mouth (Num. 12:8) and face to face (Ex. 33:11; Deut. 5:4; 34:10). Yet, today, in more churches across the Land we will uphold Paul's letters above God's mouth to mouth, face to face encounters with Moses. No other man in all Scripture had a mouth to mouth, face to face teaching encounter with God, but Moses.
Yeshua taught us to pray, '...thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven...(Matt. 6:10). Why would He have us pray that way? Because, the original pattern is established in heaven first and then it is to be duplicated on earth. We see this type-antitype, mold-cast, imagery all throughout Scripture.
Yeshua is the Word/Dabar/Logos of God that's been from the beginning (Gen. 1:1-3). He's the Word/Dabar/Logos made flesh (John 1:14). The Word/Dabar/Logos was established in heaven and then manifested on earth (Heb. 1:2-3). Every Word/Dabar/Logos that God spoke is the reality of Yeshua. These Words are unchangeable (Heb. 6:8), immortal (1 Tim. 1:17), and can never be changed or done away with (Matt. 5:17-19); unless man chooses to do so, forsaking the Rock of their salvation (Deut. 32:15-18; Jer. 2:13).
The Tabernacle that Moses built was an exact replica of the Tabernacle in heaven (Ex. 25:9; Heb. 8:5; 9:24). Theologians call this a type-antitype. In the manufacturing world it's called a cast-mold; an exact replica.
If I was going to mass produce an object and I wanted them to be exact copies of one another I would take the original 'cast', make an imprint of it in a impressionable substance to form a mold, fill the mold with whatever substance I want to duplicate, allow it to set up and it will form another cast identical to the original.
The Apostle Paul tells us that the journey of the Israelites is a type-antitype, cast-mold, for our journey (1 Cor. 10:6,11). The physical Israelite journey is the original pattern (type, cast) and
our journey is supposed to be the identical replica (antitype, mold). Paul reiterates this in Gal. 4:19 where he labors like a mother giving birth until Christ is formed in you. The Word is the seed (Lk. 8:11). The womb is the incubator for the seed to grow and develop. The birth is the physical expression of that which cannot be seen; the Word (Heb. 11:3; Rom. 1:20; Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17; Heb. 11:27).
Though often ignored, because it's part of the TaNaKh (aka Old Testament), the journey of the Israelites is the blueprint for our journey. All over the world people are looking for meaning and
direction, yet by the enemy's design, we have become ignorant to the blueprint laid out for us in the Torah and re-emphasized by the Apostle Paul. Maybe this year will be the year we bring heaven to earth!
Finally, let's make a statement concerning the calling of every child of God: to be Kings and Priests (Rev. 5:10). Now, let's look back at two verses in this week's Torah portion, shoftim/judges and let you meditate on these thoughts regarding the coming King and the kings with Him...
"“When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ “you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
“But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ “Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, “that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel. (Deut. 17:14-20)
Shalom!
The Apostle Paul connected the Gentile believers in Corinth with the 'Fathers' that were baptized into Moses, the cloud and the sea. They all ate the same spiritual meat (bread from heaven) and they all drank from the Rock (Christ) that followed them (1 Cor. 10:1-4). Their baptism/mikveh was a complete identification with Moses, the cloud (comforter/HS), and the sea (place of death, burial and resurrection to their past slavery in Egypt). Their food was the bread from heaven, Yeshua (Ex. 16:4; Neh. 9:15; Jn. 6:31,32). They drank from the Rock that brought forth living water (Ex. 17:6) and that Rock was Christ (Deut. 32:4-37; 1 Cor. 10:4).
Most of us have no problem immersing ourselves into the 'cloud/HS-Comforter' and 'the sea/baptism', 'feeding on the bread from heaven', 'drinking from the Rock', but most struggle with being baptized into Moses. My experience shows its an ignorant and faulty bias that has been passed down from generation to generation of believers (Jer. 16:19) and we've just accepted them from our 'fathers' because of the honor due them. This is not the fault of anyone, specifically the well intending fathers, but then again it's the fault of all of us, because we haven't been good Bereans, testing everything (Acts 17:11).
Yeshua said that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Moses was the only individual in recorded history to have God speak to him mouth to mouth (Num. 12:8) and face to face (Ex. 33:11; Deut. 5:4; 34:10). Yet, today, in more churches across the Land we will uphold Paul's letters above God's mouth to mouth, face to face encounters with Moses. No other man in all Scripture had a mouth to mouth, face to face teaching encounter with God, but Moses.
Yeshua taught us to pray, '...thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven...(Matt. 6:10). Why would He have us pray that way? Because, the original pattern is established in heaven first and then it is to be duplicated on earth. We see this type-antitype, mold-cast, imagery all throughout Scripture.
Yeshua is the Word/Dabar/Logos of God that's been from the beginning (Gen. 1:1-3). He's the Word/Dabar/Logos made flesh (John 1:14). The Word/Dabar/Logos was established in heaven and then manifested on earth (Heb. 1:2-3). Every Word/Dabar/Logos that God spoke is the reality of Yeshua. These Words are unchangeable (Heb. 6:8), immortal (1 Tim. 1:17), and can never be changed or done away with (Matt. 5:17-19); unless man chooses to do so, forsaking the Rock of their salvation (Deut. 32:15-18; Jer. 2:13).
The Tabernacle that Moses built was an exact replica of the Tabernacle in heaven (Ex. 25:9; Heb. 8:5; 9:24). Theologians call this a type-antitype. In the manufacturing world it's called a cast-mold; an exact replica.
If I was going to mass produce an object and I wanted them to be exact copies of one another I would take the original 'cast', make an imprint of it in a impressionable substance to form a mold, fill the mold with whatever substance I want to duplicate, allow it to set up and it will form another cast identical to the original.
The Apostle Paul tells us that the journey of the Israelites is a type-antitype, cast-mold, for our journey (1 Cor. 10:6,11). The physical Israelite journey is the original pattern (type, cast) and
our journey is supposed to be the identical replica (antitype, mold). Paul reiterates this in Gal. 4:19 where he labors like a mother giving birth until Christ is formed in you. The Word is the seed (Lk. 8:11). The womb is the incubator for the seed to grow and develop. The birth is the physical expression of that which cannot be seen; the Word (Heb. 11:3; Rom. 1:20; Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17; Heb. 11:27).
Though often ignored, because it's part of the TaNaKh (aka Old Testament), the journey of the Israelites is the blueprint for our journey. All over the world people are looking for meaning and
direction, yet by the enemy's design, we have become ignorant to the blueprint laid out for us in the Torah and re-emphasized by the Apostle Paul. Maybe this year will be the year we bring heaven to earth!
Finally, let's make a statement concerning the calling of every child of God: to be Kings and Priests (Rev. 5:10). Now, let's look back at two verses in this week's Torah portion, shoftim/judges and let you meditate on these thoughts regarding the coming King and the kings with Him...
"“When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ “you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
“But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ “Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. “And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, “that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel. (Deut. 17:14-20)
Shalom!
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