Is there a Gap theory teaching a fall of angels?

The following note is to address the gap theory between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2. The things that captures the eyes at first glance termed as first blush meaning is as follows. This was discussed in our chat group and this was a view presented: 

Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?

Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Hellel, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Jude 1:6 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.

These verses tell of a time before the creation of man. A time that I suspect happened on this land before a great judgment and catastrophe that turned that world chaotic and void.

In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth.

There is a creation.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of  Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.

Going from a created heaven and earth to the earth was without form and void is confusion.

John 8:44 “He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.”

From the beginning in this verse talks about creation in gen 1:1 before humanity.

Which day was mankind created?

Gen 1 v3 created lights

V6-8 created another heaven? Look at v1

And if we keep reading it’s the same. He’s creating another creation after the creation in v1 End of quote. 

As iron sharpens iron, the presentation is legitimate and brain storms to seek and to search what scriptures present. We learn that which brings us to a fence and a solid proof makes us take a position based on scripture. Without Yahusha’s Ruach we wouldn’t be able to cross over to a definite position as sitting on a fence is a dangerous place to be as whatever is not of faith is sin. My prayer is that the readers understand the presentation made from scriptures and not be rigid in the hardness of their hearts. Be it this presentation or any other scriptural presentation. So let’s begin! 

 Gen 1:1 the order of creation is heavens and earth (the spiritual) 

Gen 1:1   In the beginning Elohim created the את heavens and ואת the earth. 

Gen 2:4 gives us the summary of the creation 

Gen 2:4  These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that יהוה Elohim made earth and heavens. 

The heavens and the earth (spiritual) were created in the day Yahuah Elohim made the earth and the heavens (physical)

Hence, Gen 1:2 can’t be a gap theory for a spiritual realm.

Gen 1:2 shows the small beginnings where Yahuah Elohim created from darkness to Light and separated both. The picture is of everything that was external to Him in the physical world, became integral as His body with His Ruach fullness gives it the structure and fullness where thohu and bohu is eliminated. For details please visit my note on ‘Small beginnings’ which is on my blog. 

So when did the Messengers  fall?

Scripture doesn’t give a single timestamp, but we have key scenes to consider from Ezekiel 28

Ezk 28:13  “You were in Ěḏen, the garden of Elohim. Every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, shoham, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald and gold. The workmanship of your settings and mountings was prepared for you on the day you were created. 

Ezk 28:14  “You were the anointed keruḇ that covered. And I placed you, you were on the set-apart mountain of Elohim. You walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire. 

Ezk 28:16  “By the greatness of your trade you became filled with violence within, and you sinned. So I thrust you from the mountain of Elohim, and I destroyed you, O covering keruḇ, from the midst of the stones of fire. 

Ezk 28:17  “Your heart was lifted up because of your loveliness, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour. I threw you to the earth, I laid you before sovereigns, to look at you. 

Ezk 28:18  “You profaned your set-apart places by your many crookednesses, by the unrighteousness of your trading. Therefore I brought forth fire from your midst. It has devoured you, and I will turn you to ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all who see you. 

Although addressed to a human king, the description goes far beyond a human, pointing to a heavenly being (anointed cherub) who was in Eden, and was cast down due to pride. This is widely understood to be a dual prophecy — against the king of Tyre and the spiritual power behind him (often identified as Satan).

Timing? Before Genesis 3, since Satan (serpent) was already fallen and present in the garden.

Key verses: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

You were in Eden, the garden of Elohim; every precious stone was your covering…”

Every precious stone…” — matches the 12 stones of the High Priest (Exodus 28:17–20), but only 9 are listed here — implying a loss of priestly position or authority.

In Eden” — no historical king of Tyre was in Eden. This points to a pre-fall heavenly context.

Ezekiel 28:14 “You were the anointed cherub that covers; and I set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of Elohim…”

Anointed cherub that covers” — this is direct language of the cherubim in the tabernacle who covered the Ark, representing guardianship of divine presence.

Set Apart mountain” — symbolic of Yahuah’s throne, His heavenly dwelling in Tsiyon ie. His people( Isaiah 14:13; Psalm 48:1-2).

This being held a high priestly, guardian role — until pride and rebellion entered.

Eze 28:17 ….I threw you to the earth,….

Cast down to the earth — echoes Revelation 12 and Luke 10:18 (“I saw Satan fall like lightning”).

Isaiah 14: The “Shining One” Who Fell

A taunt against the king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4), but from verse 12 onward, the language transcends human description.

Isaiah 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Heilel, son of the dawn!”

“You are cut down to the ground, who weakened the nations!”

Heilel (הילל ) = “shining one” or “bright one” also root word halal הלל which means ‘praise’ 

In fallen state, that’s how he accesses praise of Yahuah and twists it to deceive.

Son of the morning” = a created being of glory and high rank reflecting the Bright and Morning Star’s esteem. Shows , everything that he had before the fall was Yahusha’s esteem in a reflection/ mirror image.

Fallen from heaven” — not just fallen in rank, but cast down from heavenly position. Here heaven in harmony with Ezekiel 28 is to be understood as Garden of Eden.

Sides of the north:

Isa 14:13  “For you have said in your heart, ‘Let me go up to the heavens, let me raise my throne above the stars of Ěl, and let me sit in the mount of appointment on the sides of the north; 

What is on the sides of the north? 

Psa 48:1  Great is יהוה, and greatly to be praised In the city of our Elohim, His set-apart mountain.

Psa 48:2  Beautiful on high, The joy of all the earth, Is Mount Tsiyon on the sides of the north, The city of the great Sovereign.

The northern approach to Yerushalayim was often the strategic and vulnerable side — most invaders (Assyrians, Babylonians) came from the north. Yahuah seated there shows, Yahuah protected Yerushalayim until they rebelled against Him and He brought Assyrians and Babylonians from this side.

Directly east of Yahudah lies the Yarden river, the Dead Sea, and the Arabian desert — not ideal for moving armies. The Syrian desert and harsh terrain made direct invasion from the east extremely difficult.

Invading empires traveled along the Fertile Crescent: Mesopotamia → up into Syria → then down through Lebanon into northern YasharEL. 

This is why the prophet Jeremiah (and others) constantly warn:

“From the north shall evil break forth…” (Jeremiah 1:14)

Jer 6:1 Blow the trumpet in Tekoa…

for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.”

Eze 26:7 From the north, I will bring Nebuchadnezzar against Tyre.”

Satan: “I will sit on the mount of the congregation on the sides of the north” (Isaiah 14:13)

Babylon was geographically east of YasharEL. Babylon’s armies did not come directly from the east — that route was extremely harsh and impassable for large forces. 

They followed the Fertile Crescent route

Mount Tsiyon where Eden stood becomes the true “mount of assembly”

It is the cosmic center, throne of Yahuah, the joy of all the earth

The Mikphad altar (Hebrew: מפקד ), mentioned in Ezekiel 43:21, was outside the main Temple area, to the east.

Jewish tradition (e.g., Midrash, Targum) often identifies this eastern region — beyond the sanctuary — as the same area where Adam, Cain, and Abel offered sacrifices after being expelled eastward from Eden (Genesis 3:24).

This altar to the east matches the place where sacrifices were burned outside the camp — which Hebrews 13:11–13 applies directly to Yahusha.

Hebrews 13:12 “So Yahusha also suffered outside the gate, to set the people apart with His own blood.”

Hebrews 13:13 “Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.”

The Mount of Olives lies directly east of the Temple Mount. This is where Yahusha was crucified — outside the gate, in the area of the mikphad altar. 

This is also the pathway of the Red Heifer sacrifice (Numbers 19), which had to be done east of the sanctuary, symbolizing purification outside the camp.

Just as Adam and his sons sacrificed east of Eden, Yahusha, the Last Adam, was offered east of the Temple, on the Mount of Olives, as the final atonement.

Genesis 22:2 Go to the land of Moriah… on one of the mountains I will show you.”

This is Mount Moriah, later identified as the site of Solomon’s Temple

2 Chronicles 3:1 “Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahuah in Yerushalayim on Mount Moriah, where Yahuah had appeared to David his father…”

Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac (Yitshaq) is a prophetic shadow of the Father offering His Son — on the same mountain.

There is a continuous, prophetic line from Eden to Mount Moriah, to the Temple Mount, and finally to the Mount of Olives, where the Lamb of Elohim fulfilled what was foreshadowed since Genesis.

These mountains form a unified altar-story:

Adam → Abel → Abraham → David → Solomon → Yahusha

Here was the temple standing where garden of Eden was and Eden was where the once anointed cherub stood with his Battalion which are now termed as fallen angels or demons

Job 38:6  Upon what were its foundations sunk? Or who laid its corner-stone, 

Job 38:7  when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?

Revelation 12:4 — “his tail swept a third of the stars of heaven” (this third number includes carnal YasharaEL and angelic beings ) 

Some teach demons were formed due to sons of Elohim marrying daughters of men and nephilim were born. (Gen 6:4) Nephilim means fallen ones.  They say these are disembodied spirits wanting a body to possess it and they love unclean animals as pigs etc.

The big problem is all this is from a human mind. This is what Yahusha taught 

Matthew 22:30 — “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of Elohim in heaven.”

Angels do not marry, they can’t have sex with daughters of men. Shaul the emissary also teaches the glory of one body differs from another. To believe Nephilim were angels is like saying a tortoise can have sex with a woman and bear turtles 😃

Different orders of creation don’t mix biologically. 

1Corinthians 15:39–40 “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.”

The “sons of Elohim” in Genesis 6 were covenanted, righteous men — not angels — who broke Yahuah’s boundary by marrying pagan, lawless women.

Written Torah was not given but taught by father to son and that’s how Abraham sought wife for his son Yitshaq from his covenanted family and not pagan

Esau grieving his parents by marrying Hittite (Canaanite) women (Gen 26:34–35)

So Genesis 6 reflects:

Sons of Seth (covenant line)

Marrying daughters of Cain or uncovenanted nations

Violating the principle of holy separation (cf. Deut 7:3–4)

2 Peter 2:4 — “Elohim did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to Sheol and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness…”

Jude 1:6 — “…reserved in everlasting chains under darkness until the judgment…”

These are often viewed symbolically or spiritually — not necessarily physical iron chains. 

Just as Shatan is not bound by a physical chain in Rev 20.

Darkness” often = separation from Yahuah:

Outer darkness = outside of the kingdom (Matt. 8:12, 22:13)

Spiritual exile — cutoff from the Light (John 1:5)

These beings are bound in spiritual darkness, awaiting judgment. 

Demons is from Greek daimonion G1140. Hebrew equivalents: shedim, ruachot teme’ot

Deuteronomy 32:17 “They sacrificed to shedim (demons), not to Eloah.”

Psalm 106:37 “They sacrificed their sons and daughters to shedim (demons).”

Zechariah 13:2 And the prophets and the unclean spirit (רוח הטמאה ruach ha temeot)I will remove from the land.”

Chains of darkness = literal?

Can’t be as these spirits work behind idols, in the mouth of false prophets, in unclean relationships, in the soul or mind essence of man and beast etc. 

So, the chains of darkness has to be spiritual/metaphysical confinement — a separation from divine presence

Hence, there is no gap between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2 as Gen 1:1 is a creation account of  heavens and the earth which is spiritual and then transcends to the earthly account where Yahuah began with small beginnings ie. The earth was without a structure, unfilled by Him, waters were in a rage with no directional flow and there was thick darkness. The picture is of everything was external to Him and when He utters Gen 1:3 “ Let there be Light and there was light” , everything that was external became inherent to Him as He made the earth and the heavens in a mirror image of the heavens and the earth. Above all it says He made the heavens and the earth in the Day He made the earth and the heavens. Gen 2:4

Gen 2:4 should be correctly understood grammatically as one may say Yahuah Elohim made everything in one day.

There is no dagesh (dot) in yod of bayom ביום to make it bahayom  (definitive) . So,  it’s not a definite day but a period.

in a day - in English (and Hebrew too) can refer to a definite day — the one on which something was done — without using “the” in a grammatical sense.

👉 This is what we call functional definiteness — the event itself is specific, even if the language is indefinite grammatically. That one-day framing doesn’t contradict the actual duration of the event — it’s a summary perspective.

Gen 2:4  These are the births /תּלדה H8435…

H8435 toledah תלדה is from the word yalad ילד H3205 which means to beget.

The verse would read as ‘These are the begetting of the heavens and the earth when they were created in a period that Yahuah Elohim made the earth and the heavens.

Yom יום also means a period of time. 

Gen 2:17  but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day /bayom ביום that you eat of it you shall certainly die.”

Adam didn’t die within 24 hours — yet the phrase is used to refer to the moment or the era of disobedience beginning. Genesis 2:4 summarizes the whole creation event as one decisive moment — without denying the six-day unfolding described earlier. It’s not about collapsing the timeline, but framing it as a complete, purposeful act — the making of the heavens and the earth — which happened in the appointed creative span
Genesis 2:4 is not trying to redefine the six days as one day, nor contradict Genesis 1. Rather, it’s using biblical Hebrew idiom to frame the entire creation as a unified work, much like you’d say:

“In the day I built this house…” — even if it took 6 days, you refer to it as the day (the era, the season) of building

Gen 2:17 doesn’t have the dagesh (dot) before the yod in bayom ביום. 

🔍 The phrase is: בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ

• בְּ = preposition “in”

• יוֹם = “day”

• The first letter yod (י) does NOT have a dagesh

• So it is בְּיוֹם, not בַּיּוֹם

→ This means it’s not grammatically definite, even though the context implies a specific time.

Just like in Genesis 2:4, this is the idiomatic Hebrew “beyom”, meaning “when” or “in the day (that…)”, and does not have the ha (הַ) definite article, either explicitly or through dagesh-compensation.

Therefore, both Genesis 2:4 and 2:17 use “bayom” in the idiomatic, not definite sense — meaning “when” rather than “on the day.”

This shows us Yahuah Elohim when creating was within the physical realms embedding the Ruach pattern in everything that was created, relating everything to Himself.

Did Adam physically die the same literal day?

• No. Genesis says Adam lived to 930 years (Genesis 5:5).

• So the literal 24-hour death didn’t happen.

But Genesis 2:17 says “mot tamut” — “dying you shall die” — a Hebrew idiom for certain death or judgment now, fulfillment to follow.

So what does “beyom” mean here?

It refers to the era or moment when disobedience begins — not 24 hours. The penalty activates immediately, even if the execution unfolds over time.

Psalm 90:4: “For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by…”

Psalms 90:4 suggest a divine framework where one day = 1,000 years

Adam died at 930 — within 1,000 years — thus “in the day” by Yahuah’s reckoning, he died.

Adam’s “beyom” = his entire mortal lifespan, triggered by the act of eating bringing him within the 1000 years which is LIKE A DAY PASSED. 

The bayom in Pslams 90:4 we already saw is not a definite day and it beautifully ties with Gen 2:4 and Gen 2:17 where the day is a period. Psalm 90:4, Genesis 2:4, and Genesis 2:17 all use the word יוֹם (yom, “day”) in a non-definite, non-24-hour, and symbolic or expansive sense — each time describing a period, not a fixed date or literal calendar day.

🔥 Prophetic Thread:

• Adam dies within one “Yahuah day” (within 1000 years)

• Creation is summarized as one “making day”

• Judgment begins in “the day you eat”, yet spans Adam’s lifetime

• Psalm 90 provides the lens: what is long to man is a single day to Yahuah.

Psalms 90:4- Grammatical understanding

 

The question: The picture is of the concordance that’s on the Bible hub website. Not sure which manuscript they used. If you see in the above picture there is a kaf before yom כיום. Denoting as/like. (Not explicitly stating IS) Then there is a Uau in front of ashmurah/WATCH meaning AND. The conjunction alef uau meaning OR is also missing from the above picture.


Psa 90:4 כי אלף שׁנים בעיניך כיום אתמול כי יעבר ואשׁמורה בלילה׃


Ky- for

Alap- thousand

Shanym-years

Ba aynyka- in your eyes

Kaf yum- as/like day

Athmul- yesterday

Ky- a conjunction and can mean for, because, when, if , surely, indeed, that.

Ya- third person singular??

Abar- crossed over

Uau-and

Ashmurah- watch

Ba- in

Lylath-night

For a thousand years in your eyes as/ like (NOT is) yesterday because it crossed over and a watch in the night

Yahuah lives outside of time. Time is a dimension to him. He can step in and out of it. He was in the beginning and has already seen the end.  I suspect the author of chapter 90 is writing what they think or what’s been passed down. But here is the first time 1000 years is being applied to the Creator. I am not a bible literalist and also know that gematria has some benefit but it’s sumthin that doesn’t interest me too much. Maybe in the future it will. End of question 

Grammatically understanding of Psalms 90: 4

Psa 90:4  For a thousand years in Your eyes Are like yesterday that has past, Or like a watch in the night. 

I see the kaph before yom כיום you shared in Psalms 90:4

Let’s analyze grammatically:

כיום אתמול (k’yom etmol) = “like yesterday 

כ (kaph) is a prefix meaning “like” or “as.

It modifies יום (yom) = day

 כיום = “like a day

אתמול = “yesterday

This is clearly a simile — “a thousand years are like yesterday.”

Simile is a figure of speech compares two different things using the words “like” or “as” (in English), or the prefix כ־ (“k”) in Hebrew.

A simile is when you say something is like something else — to create a vivid or symbolic image.

Example: Time is like a river — it flows on and never stops.”

כיום אתמול

“Like a day [that is] yesterday”

→ This is a simile — it’s comparing a long span (a thousand years) to a very short one (yesterday).

In Hebrew: The prefix כ־ before יום (yom) means “like a day” — that’s what makes it a simile.

ואשמרה בלילה (u’ashmurah balaylah) = “and a watch in the night

(Uau) = “and”

אשמורה (ashmurah) = a noun, meaning “a watch [period] of the night” (3–4 hours in ancient timekeeping)

בלילה (balaylah) = “in the night

ב = “in”

לילה = night

The definite article ה is already built in — ב + ה + לילה = “in the night

But in בלילה, we don’t see the ה (hey) at the front of the word , so where is it?

Night is considered to be a noun here in Psalms 90:4 and that’s why it’s translated as ‘the night’ correctly whereas day here is not definitive and thus there is no hey ה before yom יום 

The scribes did’nt put the hey ה before yom יום because its ’a day’ and not ‘the day’. The ha ה makes the word definitive. In case of the night when you combine the preposition ב־ (“in”) with a noun that has the definite article ה־ (“the”), Hebrew grammar often contracts the two into one word — and the ה becomes hidden, but still pronounced and understood

They put it as a dot (grammar ) in the first letter of the noun and here it’s the lamed of Layla. ( Masoretic text of Bible Hub screenshot you shared בַלַּיְלָה)

*The key here*: Ashmurah is a noun, not a verb, and not marked with definiteness (no article like “the watch”).

In Hebrew, if it were definite, it would be:

האשמרה בלילה = “the watch in the night”

But it is not — it is simply:

ואשמרה = “and [a] watch”

So there is no grammatical definiteness here.

Also, ‘and ו׳ is a connector connecting it to the simile 

The uau ( ו )does two things :

Connects this phrase to the previous simile (“like yesterday”)

Introduces a second comparison (a second part of the simile). In Hebrew poetry, this is parallelism: two comparisons placed side by side, often without repeating the simile marker

Hence, it’s read as “and [like] a watch in the night “.

The uau here is not making the second phrase a separate thought, but is continuing the poetic simile:

“A thousand years in Your eyes are like yesterday that passed **and [like] a watch in the night.”

The structure of the first simile is implied in the second — even if כ־ (“like”) isn’t repeated.

Hence, 2Peter 3:8 refers to Psalms 90:4 where the context is of Yahuah’s coming

2Pe 3:8  But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Psa 90:4.

2Pe 3:9  יהוה is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 

Small Beginnings

Preface:

The following note is a transcript of a reply to a question whether there was a creation before ours. This note presents some words which show us our humble beginning and the Creator Himself spoke upon Himself His destiny in intervening humanity in its likeness to redeem creation from futility ie. Small beginnings to great esteem. Read on! 

 ברא  is the word we first look at which means create and its opposite ארב which means ambush 

 ברא (bara)

Meaning: “to create” (Gen 1:1 – “In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth”).

Root ב-ר-א conveys creative action, bringing something new into existence, a constructive force.

ארב (arab ) Meaning: “to ambush, lie in wait” (e.g., Josh 8:4 – “Set an ambush for the city”).

Root א-ר-ב conveys a hidden, destructive, or hostile action. It’s about waiting in secret to attack.

This reversal is not random—it’s a mirror contrast:

ברא is the divine act of bringing light, order, and life into being.

ארב is the chaotic, covert attempt to undo creation—a work of darkness (ambush in the night, lying in wait).

Pro 1:11  If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait (ארב H693) for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Pro 1:12  “Let us swallow them alive like She’ol, And entirely, like those going down to the pit.

The enemy tries to shed innocent blood—trying to undo the work of the Creator. 

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of Elohim, which was hidden in a secret, and which Elohim ordained before the ages for our esteem, 

1Co 2:8  which no one of the rulers of this age knew, for if they had known, they would not have impaled the Master of esteem.

Yahusha was ambushed as they did a conspiracy to kill Him and both words ברא and ארב have the root word bar בר which means Son.

 And it’s interesting to see both words have אר and רא in where Ar אר means light and Ra רא means appear. The words and their roots are mirrors of each other holding in itself the Basharah/gospel as the Ar אר (Light) and Ra רא (appear) is Yahusha 

Bar בר (Son) and Rab רב (teacher) is Yahusha 

The Creator spoke His destiny in an utterance as this again all ties to Gen 1:1.

Rab רב also means to multiply as it’s a root word in rabah רבה 

Gen 1:28  And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply רבה H7235, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all creeping creatures on the earth.” 

The entire creation was made for Him and by Him and was blessed with a multiplication which would relate directly to Himself as His essence was given to all of it in imagery. 

Gen 1:2  And the earth came to be formless/ תהו thohu H8414 and empty / בהו bohu H922, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters. 

When we turn to YarmeYahu (Jeremiah) we see a similar picture of likeness to Yahudah in judgment and desolation

Jer 4:23  I beheld את (H853) the earth, and saw it was formless (thohu תהו H8414) and empty (bohu בהו H922). And the heavens, they had no light.

Jer 4:24  I looked at the mountains, and saw they shook, and all the hills were swaying. 

Jer 4:25  I looked, and saw there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled. 

Jer 4:26  I looked, and saw the garden land was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of יהוה, by His burning displeasure.

We could first look at the words to see what actually happened 

Thohu תהו translated as formless or waste is actually Covenantless because it has the root word tau (תו ) 

Bohu בהו translated as void has the root word bah בה which is like a vaccum that can only be filled or left void. 

So Elohim was beginning from scratch when there was no covenant, nothing yet for Him to fill in. The imagery is of everything was external to Him. 

Then what were the waters doing?  The waters had no base, no particular flow, no direction, it was chaos, as in the waters were in a rage. 

What He has revealed is only what we believe and stick to. There are many who teach a gap theory that something happened between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2

If something had happened Yahuah wouldn’t have showed us that He started from chaos, no covenant, emptiness and He went on to make the earth and the heavens in the day He made the heavens and the earth.

Gen 2:4  These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that יהוה Elohim made earth and heavens. 

In fact, in whole of Genesis 1 until He reveals the spiritual in the natural , He doesn’t even reveal His name. Here in Genesis 2:4 is the first time His name is mentioned. Showing the chaos was settled, Covenant was made, He had filled in all of creation. Prior to this everything was external to Himself. 

In YarmeYahu passages 4:22 - 27 we see YarmeYahu prophetically prophesying as Yahuah taking Yahudah to the chaotic origin because they had forsaken Him. The goodness of Yahuah is that He says in verse 27 For thus said יהוה, “All the earth shall be a ruin, but I shall not make a complete end. 

So, He doesn’t make a full end of His covenant(tau) , He had already filled in (bah), and everything fell in His perfect will of creation vs redemption. The ultimate goal of creating spiritual heavens and earth in the physical earth and the heavens will be fulfilled. 

This verse is so clear 

Isa 45:18  For thus said יהוה, Creator /Bara ברא H1254 of  the heavens, He is Elohim, creator of earth and its Maker, He established /kun כון H3559) it, He did not create it to be empty (thohu H8414 תהו) , He formed it to be inhabited: “I am יהוה, and there is none else. 

Yahuah creator ie. Same word bara ברא. The verse also says Yahuah didn’t create it thohu תהו translated as vain or empty here but we saw what thohu means.

The verse says he kun/established it. Kan כן in Hebrew means Sure/Yes/Base. The picture is that He set it on a foundation/base. 

The covenanted earth was created in a mirror of His destiny to bring it back unto Himself from chaos, uncovenanted and emptiness,  to order, covenanted and His fullness in it.

Gen 1 creation accounts of 6 days and 7th day rest hold in itself the imagery of the designated timeframe for covenant fruitfulness 

The covenant was declared when Elohim said “Let there be Light and there was Light” Gen 1:3

Shaul the emissary tells us what Elohim meant when He uttered this

2Co 4:6  For Elohim, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of יהושע Messiah. 

Prior to this utterance the creation was thohu תהו and bohu בהו and the utterance showed He structured the formlessness and filled its emptiness with His Ruach, and kept the division intact as He separated the Light from the utter darkness termed in New Testament as outer darkness which is covenant less and outside of Him where ha Shatan and his kingdom is and so are all those who are part of the kingdom of darkness. 

Mat 8:12  but the sons of the reign shall be cast out into outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Mat 25:30  And throw the worthless servant out into the outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

I have made a detailed study on the 7,000 years where Kepha says with Yahuah one day is as thousand years and thousand years as one day. 2Pet 3:8 and the 120 jubilee years designated for mankind which is 120 x 50 =6,000 years (Gen 6:3) which is on my blog and you may refer to it. 

Man was created on the 6th day falling short of the 7th day rest and we see no man ever lived 1000 years, Methuselah the longest to live, lived 969 years. Only Mashiyach lives forever representing us and fulfilling Gen 1:3 as Elohim bodily face to face with creation forever .

Gen 5:27  So all the days of Methushelaḥ were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. 

Was there a creation before ours?

I’m not denying extracts of ancient trees, pottery , materials etc. existing but we have carnal archaeologists who use carbon dating to date them and other ancient materials to millions of years ago. We can’t trust them over Yahuah’s Dabar. For us we have a firm foundation and anything beyond the Dabar is explanation given by men who don’t know Yahuah and can’t relate to His covenant.

If there was a creation before ours why would Yahuah hide it from us?

Deu 29:29  “The secret matters belong to יהוה our Elohim, but what is revealed belongs to us and to our children forever, to do all the Words of this Torah. 

John 1:3 says “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

If anything was made before what was made, then it’s unrelated to Himself. Literally “nothing that has been made” exists outside of His creation. This excludes the possibility of any created thing existing before His act of creation.

Col 1:16-17 For by Him all things were created: in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible… all things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things…”

“All things” covers everything: spiritual and physical realms.

Yahusha (the Word) existed before creation—but nothing else did.

Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, You are Elohim.”

Yahuah existed before the earth—no mention of prior creation.

Heb 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of Elohim, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”

Creation came from nothing visible, not reshaped from a prior creation. 

The words Aleph-Tau where א is the first letter in Hebrew and ת is the last letter shows everything originated from Him and finds it covenant fulfilment (tau) in Him.

If there was a creation before ours, then what was its purpose? Why does it end abruptly without a plan  whereas ours shows definite order out of chaos and chaos once ends in an order of His will, the chaos becomes an imagery of what will happen to those outside of Him.

I know I can’t convince anyone as His witness is greater, but am trying my best to show the witness from scriptures as everything outside scripture is chaos, without a base and a dangerous outer darkness.

Consider er this on basis of Oswald Chambers post which shows the principle “ Blessed are the paupers in the spirit” 

The elect are the only ones who acknowledge this position of poverty which is the bedrock of Messiah’s kingdom.  A sense of absolute futility.

Zec 4:10  “For who has despised the day of small beginnings? They shall rejoice when they see the plumb-line in the hand of Zerubbaḇel. These seven are the eyes of יהוה, which diligently search throughout all the earth.” 

The “day of small beginnings ” refers to the humble beginnings of the second temple compared to Solomon’s grand one.

Many people wept seeing the foundation laid (Haggai 2:3), but Yahuah reminds them not to despise the small start—because He would bring it to completion.

Hag 2:3  Who is there left among you who saw this House in its former esteem? And how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes as naught when compared to it? 

Yahuah brought YasharEL into a realisation that their temple without Him is thohu and bohu ie. Without structure and without His presence.

Yahuah brough Ayob (Job) also to a realisation of being a pauper without Yahuah by bringing great affliction on him. When he passed the test, Yahuah gave him twice more than what he had and lost.

Job 8:7  Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. 

Job 8:8  Indeed, please ask the former generation, and prepare for the research of their fathers, 

Job 8:9  for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Matthew 13:31-32  “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree…”

Job 1:3 (Before the affliction) “His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.”

Job 42:12 (After the affliction) So Yahuah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Let’s compare the count:

1. Before affliction he had 7,000 sheep and after affliction he had 14,000 sheep.

2. ⁠Before affliction he had 3,000 camels and post affliction he had 6,000 camels 

3. ⁠500 oxen before affliction and 1,000 post affliction 

4. ⁠500 female donkeys before affliction and 1,000 female donkeys post affliction 

This we can see in comparison of Job 1:3 and Job 42:12 

Now let’s add the numbers:

Job 1:3 : 7000+ 3000+ 500 +500

Total: 11,000 where number 11 speaks of chaos, falling short of 12 which is Yahuah’s covenanted people e.g. 12 tribes , 12 apostles of the Lamb, 24 elders (12 x 2), 144000 (12 x 12 x 1000), 120 disciples in the upper room etc. All divisible by 6 which is the number of man or humanity. Yahuah perfecting humanity in His two fold witness (heavenly + earthy) in a body to bring us into His covenant of a number related to Torah of life in Himself.

📖 Luke 2:42, 46–47 (Key verses) “And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.” (v.42)

“And it came to pass, that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.” (vv.46–47)

A perfected understanding seen in Yahusha when he was just 12 years old. It shows Yahusha was already conscious of His Father’s business (Luke 2:49: “Did you not know I must be about My Father’s affairs?”).

In Jewish culture, age 12 is close to the bar mitzvah age (13)—the time when a boy becomes responsible for Torah.

Numbers in scripture have a significance and this is what we see:

10 = divine order, law, completion (like 10 commandments)

12 = government, fullness, organization (12 tribes, 12 apostles).

But 11 falls between → it’s one short of fullness, and often a transition into disorder.

So 11 pictures a lack of structure, incompleteness, or a time of testing before alignment.

Matt 20:6 “And about the eleventh hour He went out and found others standing idle…”

The 11th hour is right before completion (12)—it’s a time of urgency and occupancy before judgment or resolution. Idle is not a good state to be in as it’s a non occupancy state. Not here and not there.

After Judas betrays Yahusha and hangs himself, the apostles are reduced to 11 (Acts 1:15).

They are incomplete, in a state of waiting and chaos, until Matthias is chosen to restore 12.

In Biblical Hebrew, אי (ay) literally means:

“Where?” (as in “where is it?”)

א (aleph) has gematria of 1

And י (yod) has gematria of 10 

Total : 11

It implies an absence or unknown location—a kind of void or state of non-occupancy. So אי = “where?” = emptiness, lack of settlement.

We see number 11 in an unsettlement state in gal whose gematria is 33 which is 3 x 11

Number 3 is the divine will of a completed witness x 11 which is chaos. His will, will carry the chaos to perfection is the picture.

Gal גל means round and is picture of a wheel, 

Ezekiel 10:13 The wheels were called in my hearing, “Wheel.” (Galgal גלגל H1534) 

The Vision is of the cherubim heading to a direction and the wheel is moving forward 

Galgal has gematria value of 66 which is number of a man. 

Galgal גלגל shows 6 x 11 where 6 is the number of a man in incomplete cycles. But has the גל Gal 3 x 11 embedded which shows His will, will carry the chaos to perfection for His chosen ones termed in scripture as remnant.

And the direction ends at galgalath ( Golgotha) where galgal meets tau (ת) where Yahusha was impaled. The picture shows of elect of Yahuah finding the Covenant order while carnal man is in the 666 cycles with wheels moving forward but no covenant destination 

Both 33 and 66 are multiples of 11 which is number of chaos. Only tau/covenant, mark, seal can stop the chaos.

Now coming back to Ayob(Job), post affliction count of his possessions given in Job 42:12

14,000 + 6000 + 1000 + 1000 =22,000 

22000 can be written as 2 x 11 x 1000

There are 22 letters in Abary language and 2 x 11 shows Yahuah has embedded His witness denoted by number 2 (two witnesses of Torah and Prophets) in a chaotic number 11.

In Job’s case we see 2 x 11 x 1000 where both Yahuah’s two fold witness brings the Babel language chaos (denoted by 11 in Gen 11) to a divine order denoted by 1000.  Numbers 10,1000 and its multiples are numbers of completeness.

divine order, law, completion (like 10 commandments termed as 10 words).

Ayob rolled on from small beginnings as a pauper to a covenant fullness.

Similarly, Yahuah in the creation account shows chaos in waters and formlessness (thohu: covenant less)  and void (bohu: an emptiness) as there was no base, no direction to the waters, they were raging. Small beginnings leading to divine order, structure, and filling in. He brought a great calm in uttering His divine order 

We see a picture of Yahusha walking on the raging sea in calmness whereas His disciples were rowing against the wind and as soon as He stepped into their boat, there was a calm. 

Mrk 6:47  And when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea. And He was alone on the land. 

Mrk 6:48  And seeing them straining at rowing – for the wind was against them – at about the fourth watch of the night, He came to them walking on the sea, and He wished to pass them by.

Mrk 6:49  And when they saw Him walking on the sea, they thought it was a phantom, and cried out, 

Mrk 6:50  for they all saw Him and were troubled. And immediately He spoke to them and said to them, “Take courage, it is I. Do not be afraid.”

Mrk 6:51  And He went up to them, into the boat, and the wind ceased. And they were exceedingly amazed in themselves, and marvelled.

Also another instance, he was sleeping in the boat whereas there was a rage in the sea and He rebuked and winds and the waves and there was a great calm.

Mat 8:23  And when He entered into a boat, His taught ones followed Him. 

Mat 8:24  And see, a great gale arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered by the waves. But He was sleeping. 

Mat 8:25  And His taught ones came to Him and woke Him up, saying, “Master, save us! We are perishing!”

Mat 8:26  And He said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little belief?” Then, having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm.

Yahusha shows us He is that divine order, He is the structure (His body), He is filling in (Ruach) to bring creation to an occupancy state from non occupancy in Himself.

Outside of Him is chaos, thick darkness denoted by outer darkness, lifelessness and a vacuum that never can be filled . All those outside Him are in this idle, non occupancy state of ‘where is?’ Denoted by 11 (אי ) 

Ayzebel has got this root word ay (אי) in here name and her name means “where is her dwelling?” 

Just as thohu -bohu describes chaos and void, Ayzebel’s (Jezebel’s) name asks:

“Where is her house? Where is her habitation?”

Her reign as queen of YasharEL is rootless, built on idolatry and rebellion.

In the end, she is thrown down (2 Kings 9:33), and her body isn’t even buried in a dwelling place—only her skull, feet, and palms remain (2 Kings 9:35).

2Ki 9:33  And he said, “Throw her down.” And they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot.

2Ki 9:34  And he went in, and he ate and drank, and said, “Go now, see to this cursed one, and bury her, for she was a sovereign’s daughter.”

2Ki 9:35  So they went to bury her, but all they found of her was the skull/ galgalath and the feet and the palms of the hands. 

The same Hebrew word Golgotha is used here 

Her head—the seat of thought, authority, and identity—but severed from her body.

She was a queen who “had no dwelling” (איזבל ) 

“Where is her habitation?” because she was covenantless.

Her skull lying exposed is a sign of utter shame, disinheritance, and judgment.

Matthew 27:33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (that is to say, Place of a Skull),

At Golgotha, Yahusha—the true King—was impaled:

He bore the covenantlessness of Ayzebel’s  house on Himself.

He broke the galgal (cycle) of rebellion and chaos pictured in Ayzebel’s end.

Where Ayzebel’s  head (galgaleth) was a sign of judgment, Yahusha’s head was crowned with thorns—taking on the curse and shame of covenant-breakers.

Gal (33) = heap, wave

Galgal (66) = revolving wheel, chaotic cycles

Ayzebel’s life was a galgal of rebellion → her end was fittingly symbolized by her galgaleth left exposed.

But at Golgotha, Yahusha:

Enters the galgal (history’s cycle of chaos).

Stops the revolving curse of sin and death.

Establishes the Aleph-Tav (את) as the beginning and end of all things. Small beginnings leading to esteem our mind cannot grasp.

Yahusha as a Creator spoke a digit mirror of His own destiny to enter chaos (denoted by Ruach Elohim hovering over the waters) to bring His creation to covenant fruitfulness. So much water of life can be drawn from this.

The pauper beginning of us is a realisation stage moving from poverty to blessedness.

Mat 5:3  “Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

We have small beginnings ( being lowly in the flesh) and Yahusha took the same path having spoken His destiny in the word Bara ברא which has digit mirrors Bar בר Son Ra רא appear vs digit mirrors Ar אר Light, AB אב father, rab רב (multiply as in be fruitful and multiply).

And the word itself Bara ברא create vs Arab ארב ambush 

All showing His humbleness when He created all things related to Himself. 

The creation was subjected to futility and we see this is the words thohu which means formlessness (covenant-less) and bohu which means emptiness (exterior to Him).

So Gen 1:2 is a picture of chaos, a humble beginning where the earth had no structure, void (exterior to Him) , waters were in rage, with no direction and there was absence of His Light.

His name also not yet revealed to creation as the picture is of everything exterior to Him.

Now, He began with Himself as Shaul the emissary says

Rom 8:20  For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope.

He created everything in hope of its deliverance from corruption 

Rom 8:21  that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage to corruption into the esteemed freedom of the children of Elohim. 

So, He began with darkness in uttering Himself to be the Light of the creation Gen 1:3 and 2Cor 4:6

Now everything that was exterior to Him, became integral to Him as He subjected creation to the structure of His Body, His filling in By His Ruach and He became the perfect Tent from above Tabernacling with us. 

The chaos ends in Him. Those outside of Him are still external and in the outer darkness and can’t understand His covenant. A humble beginning leading to great esteem in Him.

Adam means ‘man of low degree’ 

Doesn’t scripture say “What is man that You are mindful of Him, or the Son of man that you visit Him” Psalms 8:4 and Hebrews 2:6 

And this all ties to Yahusha as it says

Heb 2:9  But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the messengers, יהושע, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favour of Elohim He should taste death for everyone.

The Sin at Baal Peor- Balaam Conspiracy

 

Preface

The note explores the biblical conspiracy of Balaam and Balak, where Moab and Midian allied to seduce YasharEL into idolatry and immorality at Shittim, their final wilderness encampment before entering Canaan. Through scriptural analysis, historical context, and prophetic symbolism, it reveals how this plot—driven by deception, false worship, and rebellion—foreshadows end-time spiritual battles. Key figures like Balaam, Cozbi, and Zimri, along with symbolic elements like the acacia and the number 42, point to a deeper narrative of testing, judgment, and Messianic redemption, urging believers to remain faithful to Yahuah’s covenant.

🪓The Conspiracy:

✨The Context:

• Numbers 21:21-35, the Amorites (Sihon and Og) had already conquered Moab’s territory north of the Arnon River. When YasharEL defeated Sihon and Og, they in turn took over that land (Numbers 21:31–35), which Moses later gave to Reuben, Gad, and half-Manasseh (Numbers 32:33; Joshua 13:15–23). Heshbon was built by Reubenites.

📖 Num 21:26  for Ḥeshbon was the city of Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites, who had fought against the former sovereign of Moab, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. 

📖Num 32:37  And the children of Re’uḇěn built Ḥeshbon and El‛alěh and Qiryathayim, 

So geographically, YasharEL was now in land formerly called “Moab” but at that point Amorite-controlled

🏹Building up to the conspiracy:

Numbers 22:4 tells us the Moabites allied with Midian:

📖Num22:1 And the children of Yisra’ěl set out and camped in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ beyond the Yarděn of Yeriḥo. 
📖 Num 22:2  And Balaq son of Tsippor saw all that Yisra’ěl had done to the Amorites. 
📖Num 22:3  And Mo’aḇ was exceedingly afraid of the people because they were many, and Mo’aḇ was in dread because of the children of Yisra’ěl. 
📖Num 22:4  And Mo’aḇ said to the elders of Miḏyan, “Now this company is licking up all that is around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Now Balaq son of Tsippor was sovereign of the Mo’aḇites at that time, 

Balaq the sovereign saw what YasharEL did to the Amorites and wanted to drive out YasharEL from the land they camped and Moab was in dread of the children of YasharEL so they approached the elders of Midyan for a solution.

🏕️Who were the Midianites?

📖 Midian’s origin: Abrahamic but scattered

📖 Genesis 25:1–2 “Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.”

✅ Midian = son of Abraham by Keturah
✅ His descendants are Abrahamic but not part of the covenant line through Yitshaq.

Genesis 25:6 shows Abraham sent Keturah’s sons “eastward, to the east country”—they didn’t settle in one defined land. Instead, they became tribal clans spread across the Arabian deserts.

📖 Gen 25:6  but to the sons of the concubines whom Aḇraham had, Aḇraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Yitsḥaq, eastward, to the land of the east. 

The Midianites were clans and not a centralized nation.

📖 Gen 37:28 “Then there passed by Midianite merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Yoseph out of the pit, and sold Yoseph to the Yishmaelites…”

✅ The Midianites here are traveling merchants in caravans.
✅ Their livelihood depends on moving between regions, not farming settled land.

This nomadic trading lifestyle fits a tribal, decentralized people

📖 Numbers 22:4 “And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, ‘Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us…’”

✅ Midianites are called “elders” (tribal leaders), not a centralized monarchy.
✅ They ally with Moab—again showing a loose tribal structure able to join coalitions when threatened.

• Genesis 37:28 describes Yoseph’s brothers selling him: “to the Yishmaelites,” but Genesis 37:36 calls them “Midianites because one or more clans of Midianites lived among Yishmaelites too and that' why interchangeably they are called as Yishmaelites as well as Midianites in Gen 37:28 & v36. They lived with the Yishmaelites just as they lived in Moab. This shows us that Midianites were a de-centralized nation with tribal heads with no particular territory

📖 Gen 37:27  "Come and let us sell him to the Yishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh.” And his brothers listened. 

📖 Gen 37:28  And men, Miḏyanite traders passed by, so they pulled Yoseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Yishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Yoseph to Mitsrayim. 

📖 Gen 37:36  And the Miḏyanite had sold him in Mitsrayim to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard. 

• “The land of Midian” (Exodus 2:15 – where Moses fled)
  But this “land of Midian” has no fixed borders—it’s more a region of grazing land and oases in northwestern Arabia.

📖Exo 2:15  And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and he sought to kill Mosheh. But Mosheh fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Miḏyan. And he sat down by a well. 

There is further proof that Midian was a de-centralized nation as we read YasharEL later killed the sovereigns of Midian but Balaq was not killed. This shows these sovereigns were actually tribal heads dwelling near Moab, probably Moabite wilderness and not within Moab, for Balaq was not killed.

📖 Num 31:7–8 And they killed the sovereigns of Miḏyan with the rest of those who were pierced: Ewi, and Reqem, and Tsur, and Ḥur, and Reḇa, the five sovereigns of Miḏyan. And they killed Bil‛am son of Be‛or with the sword. 

Midian was punished because their tribal leaders actively conspired in the seduction. Moab was spared militarily because of Yahuah’s earlier word:

✅ Five “kings” suggests Midian was divided into multiple tribal chiefdoms, each with its own leader.
✅ No single king of all Midian—each clan acted independently or formed temporary alliances.

📖 Deuteronomy 2:9 “Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”

👁The Conspiracy:

Balaq consulted Midian for which Midianite clans who gave an advice which brought severe judgment on YasharEL, were later judged as we read in Numbers 31:7-8 where their tribal leaders killed are mentioned.

To understand the conspiracy, we need to see 2 things:

1️⃣ Where were YasharEL encamped at?

2️⃣ What was the conspiracy?

1️⃣ Where were YasharEL encamped at?

📖 Num 33:49  And they camped by the Yarděn, from Běyth Yeshimoth as far as the Aḇěl Shittim (meadow of the acacias) H63 in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ. 

Numbers 25:1 uses the shortened form 'Shittim' and not 'Abel Shittim'

📖 Numbers 25:1 And YasharEL dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab, 

This was their 42nd and final station in the wilderness before crossing into Canaan. And the 42nd stop points to a final stop leading to Mashiyach as number 42 is used in Matthew 1:17 i.e. the 42 generations leading to Mashiyach. Here the testing filtered out the people not worthy to cross over the Yarden, to the Promised Land.

2️⃣ What was the conspiracy?

📖Num 22:4  And Mo’aḇ said to the elders of Miḏyan, “Now this company is licking up all that is around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Now Balaq son of Tsippor was sovereign of the Mo’aḇites at that time,  📖Num 22:5  and he sent messengers to Bil‛am son of Be‛or at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, “See, a people has come from Mitsrayim. See, they have covered the surface of the land, and are settling next to me!  📖Num 22:6  “And now, please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too strong for me. It might be that I strike them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”  📖Num 22:7  And the elders of Mo’aḇ and the elders of Miḏyan left with the fees for divination/קסם qesem H7081 in their hand, and they came to Bil‛am and spoke the words of Balaq to him. 

🪔Who was Balaam?

Balaam, son of Beor, appears in the book of Numbers as a Mesopotamian diviner from Pethor near the Euphrates. He was not a YasharELite prophet but a diviner known for blessings and curses, sought out by kings and rulers.

When Balak, king of Moab, saw YasharEL’s victories over Sihon and Og, he feared this vast people encamped across from Yericho in the plains of Moab. He sent for Balaam to curse YasharEL, hoping spiritual manipulation would succeed where military force might fail.

Though Balaam was a pagan diviner, Yahuah sovereignly intervened. Three times He blocked Balaam’s attempts to curse YashareL, instead forcing him to speak blessings and prophetic oracles over them.

📖 Numbers 22:5–6 He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of his kindred, to summon him, saying, “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me. Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

📖 Numbers 22:12 Elohim said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Even as a pagan diviner, Balaam was restrained by Yahuah, who asserted His sovereignty over Balaam’s mouth and actions. Though Balaam could not curse YasharEL, he ended up delivering a prophecy of the coming Messiah.

In Joshua 13:22 he is termed as a soothsayer

📖 Josh 13:22 And the sons of YasharEL killed with the sword Bil‛am son of Be‛or, the soothsayer/קסם H7080  among those who were killed by them. 

Soothsayers have their origins in ancient occult practices like divination, astrology, spiritism and fortune telling. They would use techniques like reading omens, interpreting dreams or communing with familiar spirits to foretell the future or reveal hidden knowledge. Elohim directly forbids His people from consulting with mediums and spiritists in passages like Deut 18:10,14  The reason is that they ultimately rely on false mighty ones and demons for their information and power.

Deu 18:10  “Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices/קסם H7080 divination/קסם H7081, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens or a sorcerer,  

Deu 18:14  for these nations whom you are possessing do listen to those using magic and to diviners/קסם H7080. But as for you, יהוה your Elohim has not appointed such for you. 

📖 Strong’s H7080 – קסם (qasam)

Meaning: to practice divination, seek omens, determine by lot, consult spirits.
It’s a verb that shows up in forms like qosem (diviner) or miqesamim (divinations).

🔥 Contrast with נביא (nabi, prophet)

• קסם (qasam) = diviner, seeks knowledge through forbidden or human-driven means

• נביא (nabi) = prophet, receives revelation passively from Yahuah.

The word hints at tampering with unseen forces (hidden in waters/chaos) by encircling or binding them. Diviners tried to “enclose” secrets through rituals, unlike prophets who wait for Elohim to reveal.

Balaam starts as a קוסם (soothsayer/diviner) but in Numbers 24:2–4 he momentarily functions like a נביא nabi because Yahuah put His words in his mouth. 

🔥 Balaam’s Oracles

Three times Balaam tried to curse YasharEL, and each time Yahuah turned the curse into a blessing.

📖 Numbers 23:11–12 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed them bountifully!” So he answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak what Yahuah has put in my mouth?”

Balaam even prophesied Messiah: 📖 Numbers 24:17 “I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; a Star shall come out of Jacob; a Scepter shall rise out of YasharEL, and batter the brow of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.”

🪓 1️⃣ Why is Balaam called a “prophet” in 2 Peter?

📖 2 Peter 2:15–16 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. But he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

🔑 Even though Balaam is not a true prophet of Yahuah, he is temporarily functioning in the office of prophet because Yahuah put His words in Balaam’s mouth.

📖 Numbers 23:5 Then Yahuah put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

📖 Numbers 24:2–4 And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw YasharEL encamped tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of Elohim came upon him, and he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, the oracle of him who hears the words of Elohim, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered.”

Even Balaam acknowledges he’s being used as a mouthpiece (“hears the words of Elohim”). But he lacks the covenant loyalty and character of a true prophet.

So Peter uses “prophet” to emphasize:
✅ Balaam had prophetic access only because Yahuah enabled him momentarily.
✅ Balaam’s “madness” (Greek paraphronia παραφροσύνη = insanity, derangement, frenzy) is contrasted with Yahuah’s control over him.

🐴 2️⃣ Why a Athon? Prophetic symbolism of the she ass

The she ass (athon אתון) in Scripture often represents:

• The lowly, common beast of burden.

• Humanity’s earthly fleshly nature (athon אתון  = same root as “aleph tau”).

✅  Aleph-Tav (את)

Aleph-Tau in the word Athon is highly significant.
📖 את is famously the “divine signature” (often untranslated):

• First and last letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet.

• Yahuah calls Himself:
  📖 “I am Aleph and Tau, the beginning and the end.” (Revelation 22:13, in Hebrew thought)

💡 So the presence of את (Aleph-Tau) hints prophetically at Messiah Yahusha, the Aleph and Tau.

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✅ The suffix ון (Uau-Nun)

🕯 What does ון mean?

• Vav (ו) = hook, nail, connection

• Nun (ן) = seed, life, sprouting
  Together: “connection to life” or “hooked to the seed.”

This suffix often turns a word into a noun form or indicates feminine qualities, which fits since an Athon is a she-ass.

• A foil for kings and prophets (who should be wise).

🔥 But here, Yahuah reverses roles:

📖 Numbers 22:28 Then Yahuah opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

The “mute” donkey speaks truth while Balaam, supposedly the “seer” (Hebrew קסם diviner,), is blind and spiritually deaf.

Num 22:31  Then יהוה opened Bil‛am’s eyes, and he saw the Messenger of יהוה standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand. And he bowed his head and fell on his face. 

This is prophetic irony:
✅ The fleshly animal corrects the man of “spiritual” power.
✅ Balaam is reduced to being less perceptive than a donkey.

Balaam's Athon (Numbers 22)	Yahusha’s Donkey (Zechariah 9:9)
Balaam a false prophet, riding to curse	Yahusha the True Prophet, riding to bless
She-ass (Athon) rebukes him	Donkey carries Him humbly to Yerushalayim
Aleph-Tau hidden in Athon	Aleph-Tau revealed in Messiah

👀Athon gematria:

Letter	Value
א (Aleph)	1
תּ (Tav)	400
ו (Vav)	6
ן (Nun-final)	50
Total = 457 ✅

🔥 Prophetic Tie-In

📖 Balaam rode an Athon (457)—a humble beast containing Aleph-Tau—yet:

• He failed to see Yahuah’s Messenger whereas the Athon (she ass) did.

• He “falling short”  Yahuah would preserve His seed in a covenant relationship and would not allow any soothsayer to cast any spell on His people for destruction.

📖 Balaam Struck the Athon 3 Times

📖 “And Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the she-ass (אתון) with his staff.” (Numbers 22:27)
📖 “…What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” (Numbers 22:28)

Here’s the picture:
✅ The Athon (457) saw the Messenger (Malakh Yahuah) clearly.
❌ Balaam (the “seer”) was blind, despite being a “prophet/diviner.”
✅ He struck it 3 times out of spiritual blindness and rage.

Numerically: 457 + 3 = 460.

🔥 Prophetic Meaning of 460

🌿 Hebrew Word:  מפלצות (Miflatzot)

📖 “You shall not make for yourself any graven image, or any likeness of anything… neither shall you set up for yourself a pillar, which Yahuah your Elohim hates. You shall not set up a sacred stone, which Yahuah your Elohim hates. Nor shall you set up any abominable thing (מפלצות) which Yahuah hates.” (Deuteronomy 7:26)

💡מפלצות (Miflatzot) gematria:

Letter	Value
מ (Mem)	40
פ (Pe)	80
ל (Lamed)	30
צ (Tzade)	90
ו (Vav)	6
ת (Tav)	400
Total	460 ✅

Miflatzot = abomination, idols, horrifying thing.

So 460 directly connects to the abominable idolatry Balaam was complicit in at Baal Peor.

✝ The Contrast of 460 in Messiah

💡 Balaam’s Athon endured 3 strikes and saw the Angel, showing:

• The humble, voiceless, and lowly carry divine vision.

• The proud seer (Balaam) is spiritually blind.

Now look at Messiah:
📖 “He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter…” (Isaiah 53:7)

💎 The 3 days and nights Yahusha endured also complete the striking (457 → 460), but instead of abomination (מפלצות), He becomes the perfect atonement and those who acknowledge Him but follow the old Jewish pattern are led to the Abomination of Desolation.

✅ Balaam strikes Athon thrice → rises to 460 = abomination
✅ Messiah struck, scourged, crucified → reverses abomination → brings redemption

📖 “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of Elohim, and afflicted.” (Isaiah 53:4)

🌿 Prophetic Meaning

✅  Athon (457)—the humble donkey Balaam struck.
✅If we add Gimel (ג) = 3, which pictographically means camel, lifting up, giving.
✅ Result: Gathon (Winepress).

📖 “He treads the winepress of the wrath of Elohim Almighty.” (Revelation 19:15)
This beautifully fits because:

• Balaam’s rebellion leads YasharEL to the winepress of Yahuah’s wrath at Baal Peor.

• Messiah enters Yerushalayim on a donkey (Athon) and later bears the winepress judgment Himself at Golgotha.

Hebrew	גת
Root	ג-ת (Gimel-Tau)
Meaning	Winepress—the place where grapes are crushed.

Gath was a Philistine city, famous for its giants (Goliath was from Gath):

📖 “And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.” (1 Samuel 21:10)

📖 “There was yet a battle in Gath, where there was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes…” (2 Samuel 21:20)

This city’s name means winepress, showing it’s a place of strength and pressing (giants = pride and opposition to Yahuah).

In Scripture, the winepress (גת) symbolizes:
🍷 The pressing of grapes (blessing & provision)
⚖️ Or the pressing of nations in judgment (Isaiah 63, Revelation 14).

📖 “I have trodden the winepress alone… for the day of vengeance is in My heart.” (Isaiah 63:3–4)

📖 “So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of Elohim.” (Revelation 14:19)

✅ So Gath becomes a prophetic picture:

• A place of crushing pride (Philistine giants)

• A picture of Messiah’s suffering and victory

• And of final judgment on the nations.

🐍The occult intention did not work, Hence, the conspiracy:

📖Num 25:1  And Yisra’ěl dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to whore with the daughters of Mo’aḇ, 

📖Num 25:2  and they invited the people to the slaughtering's of their mighty ones, and the people ate and bowed down to their mighty ones.  📖Num 25:3  Thus Yisra’ěl was joined to Ba‛al Pe‛or, and the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ěl.  📖Num 25:4  And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up before יהוה, before the sun, so that the burning displeasure of יהוה turns away from Yisra’ěl.”  📖Num 25:5  And Mosheh said to the judges of Yisra’ěl, “Each one of you kill his men who were joined to Ba‛al Pe‛or.” 

We saw geographically, YasharEL was now in land formerly called “Moab” but at that point Amorite-controlled. This means the “daughters of Moab” could refer to women living in that land under Amorite control rather than true bloodline Moabites. Since, the cursing did not work Balaam advised Balaq that the only way YasharEL could be cursed is if they commit whoredom against Yahuah. We can understand this from the words of Masha in Num 31:16

📖 Numb 31:16 “Look, these women caused the children of YasharEL, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against Yahuah in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of Yahuah.”

Balaam advised Balaq to use sexual seduction and idolatry to ensnare YasharEL. The enemy could not overcome YasharEL by force—but through moral compromise, they could cut YasharEL off from Yahuah.

Numbers 25 describes how these women invited YasharEL to the sacrificial feasts of Baal Peor, leading them into fornication and idolatry. This alliance between YasharELite men and pagan women provoked Yahuah’s anger, bringing a deadly plague on the camp.

One YasharELite man, Zimri of the tribe of Simeon, even paraded Cozbi, a Midianite princess (daughter of Tsur, a Midianite leader), into the camp in broad daylight. Phinehas, grandson of Aaron, stopped the plague by zealously killing them both.

👸🏾 Cozbi – The Midianite Princess

Cozbi, daughter of a Midianite chief, was an instigator or symbol of the wider conspiracy. This was not mere personal sin—it was political and spiritual infiltration.

📖 Num 25:6 And see, one of the children of YasharEL came and brought to his brothers a Miḏyanite woman before the eyes of Mosheh and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of YasharEL who were weeping at the door of the Tent of Appointment. 
📖 Num 25:7  And when Pineḥas, son of El‛azar, son of Aharon the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand, 
📖 Num 25:8 and he went after the man of YasharEL into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of YasharEL, and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague among the children of YasharEL came to a stop.
📖 Num 25:9 Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

📖 Num 25:14  And the name of the man of YasharEL who was struck, who was struck with the Miḏyanite woman, was Zimri, son of Salu, a leader of a father’s house among the Shim‛onites. 

📖 Num 25:15  And the name of the Miḏyanite woman who was struck was Kozbi the daughter of Tsur. He was head of the people of a father’s house in Miḏyan. 

📖 Num 25:16  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, 

📖 Num 25:17 “Distress the Miḏyanites! And you shall strike them, 

📖 Num 25:18 for they distressed you with their tricks with which they deceived you in the matter of Pe‛or and in the matter of Kozbi, the daughter of a leader of Miḏyan, their sister, who was struck in the day of the plague because of Pe‛or.” 

👰 Cozbi’s name (כזבי)

In Hebrew:

• כזבי  (Kozbi) is from the root כזב (kazab) = lie, deception, falsehood.

• It literally means:
  👉 “My lie”
  👉 “My deception”
  👉 Or poetically “She is my falsehood”

This fits perfectly with her role: She seduced Zimri (a prince of Simeon) as part of the Baal Peor cult—a fusion of sexual immorality and idolatry designed to deceive YasharEL and bring Yahuah’s wrath.

🗺 Location:

• Shittim (Hebrew: השטים – “The Acacias”)

• Full name Abel-Shittim (Numbers 33:49)

📖Num 33:49  And they camped by the Yarděn, from Běyth Yeshimoth as far as the Aḇěl Shittim in the desert plains of Moab. 

• Located east of the Yarden River, directly opposite Yericho.

• It’s in the plains of Moab, a region YasharEL had just conquered from Sihon, king of the Amorites (Numbers 21:24–26).

👥 Who dwelt there?

This is where it gets interesting:

• Originally Moabite land

• Then conquered by Sihon the Amorite

• After YasharEL defeated Sihon and Og, the territory became YasharELite-controlled but still had Moabites and Midianites in the vicinity.

Numbers 22:4 tells us the Moabites allied with Midian:

“And Moab said to the elders of Midian, ‘Now this company will lick up all that is around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.’”

So even though Shittim was in YasharEL’s temporary camp territory, there were still Midianite and Moabite women nearby, part of Balaam’s plot (Numbers 31:16).

In Numbers 25:6, a Midianite woman (Cozbi, daughter of Tsur) is identified in the very act of fornication.
In Numbers 31:15–16, Moses says it was the Midianite women who caused YasharEL to sin at Peor.
This suggests many of the women involved were Midianites living in Moabite territory or intermarried with Moabites.

So “daughters of Moab” could be a broad term for women from that region, not exclusively Moabite by blood.

The plan was devastatingly effective. YasharEL camped at Abel-Shittim in the plains of Moab—. There, YasharELite men began to mingle with the daughters of Moab and Midian.

Shittim (Hebrew: Abel Shittim, “meadow of acacias”)

📖 Num 33:49  And they camped by the Yarděn, from Běyth Yeshimoth as far as the Aḇěl Shittim (meadow of the acacias) H63 in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ. 

🌱 1️⃣ What are Acacias?

The word Shittim (שטים) comes from:
✅ Singular: Shittah (שטה) = acacia tree
✅ Root: שטט (shatat) = to pierce, scourge, whip

📖 “I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia (שטה), and the myrtle, and the olive tree…” (Isaiah 41:19)

✅ The Acacia is a thorny, hard wood tree found in desert regions.

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🏛 2️⃣ Acacia in the Tabernacle

The Ark of the Covenant, the Altar, and the Tabernacle furniture were all made of Acacia wood (עצי שטים):

📖 “And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thorn bush by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.” (Genesis 22:13)

The סבן (sebak) = thicket/bush is often identified as a thorny bush—quite likely an Acacia in the wilderness of Moriah where this took place.

💡 The ram’s horns tangled in thorns forms a picture of:
✔ Substitution (ram offered instead of Yitshaq).
✔ A crown of thorns encircling the head of the substitute sacrifice.

📖 “And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe.” (John 19:2)

✅ Yahusha became the ultimate ram caught in thorns:

• His head surrounded by the curse of thorns (Genesis 3:18).

• His life offered as a substitutionary sacrifice for all mankind.

✅ At Abel ha‑Shittim (Meadow of Acacias), the people failed, falling to Baal Peor.

✅ Messiah, however, passed the test and bore the curse symbolized by the Acacia’s thorns.

✅ As the true Ark (made of Acacia wood overlaid with gold), He carried His people into the inheritance.

📖 “And they shall make an Ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall be its length…” (Exodus 25:10)

📖 “And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.” (Exodus 25:13)

📖 “And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood…” (Exodus 27:1)

📖 “And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.” (Exodus 36:20)

✅ Why Acacia wood?

• Extremely hard and incorruptible—resistant to insects and decay.

• Grows in harsh desert conditions—symbol of life in desolation.

• Covered in gold: humanity (wood) clothed in divinity (gold).

• Acacia’s thorns prophetically point to Messiah’s Crown of Thorns:

  📖 “And they plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Yahudim!” (Matthew 27:29)

  ✅ Acacia thorns symbolize:

• The curse of sin (Genesis 3:18 “thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee”).

• Messiah bearing our curse upon Himself (Galatians 3:13).

• The hard, enduring wood of Acacia foreshadowing His sinless humanity under suffering.

• ✅ Tau (ת) is the last letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet and carries the numeric value 400.

👀Abel Shittim gematria:

1️⃣ אבל (Abel)

Letter	Value
א	1
ב	2
ל	30
Subtotal: 1 + 2 + 30 = 33

2️⃣ השטים (Ha-Shittim)

Letter	Value
ה	5
ש	300
ט	9
י	10
ם	40
Subtotal: 5 + 300 + 9 + 10 + 40 = 364

Total: 397

🕯 Tau Symbolism

• 📜 Ancient Paleo-Hebrew: Tau was written as a cross mark or sign (✝).

• ✅ Meaning: mark, sign, seal, covenant completion.

• It represents the finality or full measure—the end of a cycle.

📖 “And Yahuah said to him, ‘Pass through the city, and put a mark (תו Tau) upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done.’” (Ezekiel 9:4)

💡 So 400 = mark of completion, covenant, sealing at the end.

📖 “And He said to Abram: Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.” (Genesis 15:13)

✅ 400 years = the full measure of testing in Egypt before redemption.
🔥 Prophetic: a period of bondage + judgment completed leading to Exodus.

397 = falling short of Tau (completion, covenant, fullness).
At Shittim, YasharEL was at:
✔ The threshold of completion (crossing Yarden into Canaan).
❌ But they stumbled at Baal Peor.

They were 3 short of fullness…

📖 “For as Yonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40)

✅ These 3 days and nights represent:

• The full measure of testing (completion of Gimel – ג as gimel gematria is 3). Gimel is the camel walking in the desert.

• Passing through death, burial, and resurrection

• The transition to covenantal fullness (Tau – ת)

📖 “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.” (Colossians 2:15)

✅ The 3 days/nights closed the gap—bringing YasharEL’s unfinished story at Abel Shittim (397) into full completion and sealing (400 Tau).

💡 Prophetic picture: Messiah’s incorruptible humanity enduring the wilderness.

Symbol	Tanakh Reference	Fulfillment in Messiah
Abel ha‑Shittim	Numbers 25:1	Yashar’el’s final test in wilderness
Acacia wood (Shittim)	Exodus 25:10, 27:1, 36:20	Messiah’s incorruptible humanity
Thorns of Acacia	Genesis 3:18	Crown of thorns – Matthew 27:29
Gold overlay on wood	Exodus 25:11	Divinity clothing His humanity
Ark of Testimony	Exodus 25:10-22	Messiah as dwelling place of Yahuah’s presence (John 1:14)

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⚔️ 3️⃣ Shittim: Last Camp Before the Promised Land

📖 “And YasharEL abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.” (Numbers 25:1)

✅ Shittim was the final encampment before crossing into Canaan.
✅ Here the Baal Peor sin occurred—eating food sacrificed to idols and sexual immorality.

🏛️ At Corinth (1 Corinthians 8–10)

The Corinthian assembly faced the same issue in their pagan city, where idol worship was woven into daily life and trade guilds. Pagan feasts were public, and much of the market meat had been sacrificed to idols.

Paul addresses it directly:

📖 1 Cor 10:19–21 “What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to Elohim, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of Yahuah and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of Yahuah and of the table of demons.”

🔑 Like YasharEL at Shittim:

• Eating food sacrificed to idols was seen as fellowshipping with the demon behind the idol.

• Fornication often accompanied idol feasts in Corinth’s temples.

📖 1 Corinthians 10:8 “Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.”

Paul quotes Shittim directly as a warning to Corinth.

Yahusha warns the assembly of Pergamos and Thyatira:

📖 Revelation 2:14 “But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of YasharEL, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.”

📖 Revelation 2:20 “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Ayzebel who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.”

⚠️ Just like Shittim, end-time assemblies face:

• A seductive system (Mystery Babylon) offering idolatrous feasting and moral compromise.

• A warning not to be unequally yoked or participate in its “table.”

Eating from an altar means fellowship with that altar’s deity.

📖 1 Corinthians 10:18 “Observe YasharEL after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?”

To eat from Yahuah’s table and an idol’s table is spiritual adultery.

Pagan feasts were not neutral—behind them were demonic powers. The partakers would be spiritually defiled.

📖 Deuteronomy 32:17 “They sacrificed to demons, not to Elohim, to mighty ones they did not know, to new mighty ones, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear.”

In ancient and modern idolatry, eating pagan offerings often coincides with sexual immorality (temple prostitution in Corinth, Balaam’s strategy in Shittim, Ayzebel’s seduction in Revelation).

🌊 Shittim’s Pattern Repeated

Shittim (Numbers 25)	Corinth (1 Corinthians)	Revelation (Ch. 2)
Seduction by Moabite & Midianite women	Corinth’s pagan feasts & temple cults	Ayzebel/Babylon seduces the servants
Eating food sacrificed to Baal Peor	Question of eating meat from idols	Warning against eating food offered to idols
Sexual immorality	Warning against fornication	Sexual immorality connected to idolatry
24,000 died in judgment	“23,000 in one day” warning	Yahusha threatens judgment on compromisers

✨ Why This Matters Prophetically

Shittim was the last camp before YasharEL crossed into the Promised Land. Likewise, Shaul and Yahuchanan warn the assembly just before the final crossing into the Kingdom (Messiah’s return).

📖 1 Corinthians 10:11 “Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”

📖 Revelation 18:4 “Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.”

The battle is the same: a choice between faithfulness to Yahuah’s covenant table or joining Babylon’s table which is Carnal Torah partaking. The prophetic reversal is promised in Joel 3:18. The place of failure will one day overflow with cleansing and life.

📖 Joel 3:18 “And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine… A fountain shall flow from the house of Yahuah and water the Valley of Acacias (Shittim).”

🔑How does this apply to us?

📖 1 Corinthians 10:18 “Observe YasharEL after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?”

📖Gal 4:24  This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar, 
📖Gal 4:25  for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children. 

Camps claiming they know Yahusha are part of Carnal YasharEL/YasharEL after the flesh as their works show otherwise. They are still bound by carnal Torah practices of sighting of moon to observe their feast days, they grow long beards and call themselves Ephrayim or Yahudah etc., wear kippa's, light candles, wear Levite white clothes as priests, remove physical leaven from homes during Unleavened Bread, build sukka's in their backyards or even rent them to others wanting to have meals there, waive loaves on firstfruits, look at barley ripening etc. and the list goes on. Shaul the emissary was very clear when he said that present Yerushalayim i.e. Yerushalayim of his time (as it still existed) was like Hagar in bondage with her children. He also tells the Corinthians in the same chapter 10 of 1Corinthians where he writes of 23,000 killed in one day and these things are written for our admonishment, he also says in verse 18 that when we observe YasharEL after the flesh, those who eat of the sacrifices partake of the altar. Similarly, with this analogy, we see those who do all things that carnal YasharEL did, are actually partaking of their fleshly altar. The Messianic altar is fulfillment of all the shadows and those serving the physical Tent and its emblems, have no right to eat from the slaughter place of Yahusha. 

📖 Heb 13:9  Do not be borne about by various and strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be established by favor, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.  

📖 Heb 13:10  We have a slaughter-place from which those serving the Tent have no authority to eat. 

📖 פעןר (Peor) – Meaning

✅ Peor comes from the root פער (pa’ar)
This verb means:

• to open wide (especially the mouth)

• to gape, gape open, yawn

• to be wide open, as in gaping in astonishment or hunger

So Peor literally means “opening” or “the gap.”

📖 “They joined themselves also unto Baal:-peor, and ate sacrifices of the dead.” (Psalm 106:28)

🔥 Baal Peor = “Lord of the Opening”

🕯 Spiritual and Prophetic Meaning

1️⃣ “Opening” as Sexual Corruption

Peor’s name hints at sexual indecency and shameless exposure, matching what happened at Baal Peor:
📖 “The people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.” (Numbers 25:1)

💡 The root פָּעַר often carries the idea of mouth or body opened inappropriately—this fits the worship of Baal Peor, which involved obscene rites.

2️⃣ “Opening” as Gaping Idolatry

It also points to spiritual corruption:

• An “open mouth” crying for false mighty ones.

• A gaping hunger for idols and fleshly desires.

📖 “They joined themselves to Baal Peor and ate sacrifices of the dead.” (Psalm 106:28)

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3️⃣ Prophetic Picture

Peor symbolizes the wide open gate of compromise at the threshold of the Promised Land.

📖 Yahusha warns: “Enter by the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.” (Matthew 7:13)

💡 Baal Peor = the broad gate of idolatry and lust before inheritance.

💡 Prophetic picture: At the threshold of inheritance, there is a final test of purity (Revelation 14:4).

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4️⃣ The Meaning of Acacias (שטים)

Symbol	Meaning
Thorny wood	Hardship, piercing trials (Messiah’s crown of thorns)
Incorruptible wood	Endurance, purity, overcoming decay
Growth in wilderness	Life springing up in desolation
Final encampment	Testing ground before inheritance

 ✨ Prophetic Insight

Acacia = the overcomer’s tree
✔ Those who endure the wilderness like the acacia tree will be clothed in gold (divine glory).
📖 “To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne…” (Revelation 3:21)

At Shittim, YasharEL faced seduction. At the end, the Bride must overcome the Baal Peor spirit of compromise (Rev 2:14).

🌿 Moses’ Midianite Connection

It is striking that Moses’ father-in-law, Yithro, was also a Midianite priest (Exodus 3:1). But Yethro recognized Yahuah’s sovereignty and blessed Him (Exodus 18:10–12). This shows Midian was a confederation of nomadic tribes, not a unified nation. Some feared Yahuah, others opposed Him. Zipporah, a Midianite, is called a “Cushite.” This may reflect geographic proximity or skin tone acquired in wilderness, not national origin as we saw Midianites were a de-centralized nation.

Zipporah, Moses’ wife, is also called a Cushite by Miriam as a racist comment because of her dark skin (Numbers 12:1). 

📖 Num 12:1 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

This may reflect geographic proximity, or an idiom for her darker skin. It’s worth noting polygamy is not mentioned in Moses’ case, supporting his unique relationship with Yahuah as one who spoke face to face (Exodus 33:11).

👤 Who was Yithro?

• Hebrew: יתרו (Yithro, meaning “His abundance” or “His excellence”)

• Called a “priest of Midian” (כהן מדין – kohen Midyan, Exodus 2:16; 3:1).

🪔 Was he idolatrous?

There’s no explicit verse saying Yithro worshiped idols, but two clues suggest he was likely a priest of a Midianite religion before his encounter with Moses:

✅ Midianite background:
Midianites descended from Abraham (Genesis 25:2). So they may have retained some memory of Yahuah but were likely syncretistic—mixing Yahuah’s worship with pagan practices (similar to Laban, who had household idols in Genesis 31:19).

✅ Exodus 18:11 (Yithro’s confession):
When Yithro sees Yahuah’s power at the Red Sea, he declares:

““Now I know that יהוה is greater than all the mighty ones, indeed in the matter in which they acted proudly, above them..”

This suggests that before this moment, Yithro didn’t fully know or serve Yahuah alone. His statement (“greater than all mighty ones”) sounds like someone coming out of a polytheistic worldview.

✅ He then offers sacrifices to Yahuah (Exodus 18:12). This is evidence he converted to worship Yahuah exclusively at that point.

📖Exo 18:12  Then Yithro, the father-in-law of Mosheh, brought an ascending offering and other slaughtering's unto Elohim. And Aharon came with all the elders of Yisra’ěl to eat bread with the father-in-law of Mosheh before Elohim. 

Midian’s Gentile nomadic nature fits their role in scripture:

• Sometimes friends of YasharEL (Yithro)

• Sometimes enemies of YasharEL (Tsur and Cozbi)

• A picture of peoples “on the fringe” of the covenant, who can be grafted in or oppose it.

💍 How could Moses marry Zipporah, a Midianite woman?

This is fascinating because it touches Torah’s marriage laws and patriarchal precedent. Torah doesn’t record any divine rebuke for Moses’ marriage to Zipporah.

📖 Yahuah forbids marrying foreigners?

• Deuteronomy 7:3–4 (later command): “You shall not intermarry with them… for they will turn your sons away from following Me.”

• But this command applies to Canaanite nations in the land (Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, etc.).
  The Midianites are NOT Canaanites—they are Abraham’s descendants through Keturah.

📜 Patriarchal precedent:

• Abraham forbade Yitshaq from marrying a Canaanite (Genesis 24:3–4).

📖Gen 24:3 so that I make you swear by יהוה, the Elohim of the heavens and the Elohim of the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Kena‛anites, among whom I dwell, 

📖Gen 24:4 but to go to my land and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Yitsḥaq.” 

• But Midianites are Abrahamic kin—from Keturah.
  So Moses marrying Zipporah may not technically violate the principle of staying within Abraham’s wider family line.

📖 Genesis 25:1–2 “Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.”

🍷The names typology showing this great deception in our times:

1. Moab מואב : from her father

2. Cozbi כזבי : my lie/my deception

3. Tsur צור : rock

4. Zimri זמרי: my praise/my song

5. Shimoni שמעני: my hearing/my obedience. Root word 'שמע' means to hear, listen, obey.

6. Balaam בלעם: 'Not of the people/Devourer of the people'. Root word bala בלע which means 'swallow up/destroy/devour'

7. Balak בלק: “Devastator” or “One who lays waste”

8. Midian מדין: “strife,” “contention,” “judgment”. Root: דון (din) – to judge, contend, strive

1️⃣ Moab (מואב) – “From her father”

The deception begins in the shadow of incestuous origins.
The Moabites, born from Lot’s daughters’ union with their father (Genesis 19:37), represent a corrupted lineage—a people born of human schemes to preserve a name without Yahuah’s plan.

📖 “And YasharEL dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of מואב.” (Numbers 25:1)

Prophetic picture: The end-time harlot (Revelation 17) seduces with her misunderstanding of the Fatherhood and Sonship making it a  “fatherless” system—with traditions and doctrines rooted in rebellion against the intent of scripture.

2️⃣ Cozbi (כזבי) – “My lie / My deception”

Cozbi, the Midianite princess as Mystery Babylon comes within the camp in seducing people of Yahuah, she embodies “the lie” that ensnares YasharEL.
Her name (כזב kub = falsehood) prophesies the deceptive allure of idolatry and sexual immorality.

📖 “כזבי Cozbi the daughter of צור Tsur was killed… for the plague was on account of Peor.” (Numbers 25:15)

Prophetic picture: The spirit of deception (2 Thessalonians 2:11 “Elohim sends them a strong delusion that they should believe the lie”) mingles false worship with seduction rooted in carnal practices just as YasharEL rose up to play with the golden calf saying "This is Yahuah who delivered us out of Mitsrayim". Yahusha warned saying many will come in His name and say "I am He'' (misrepresenting Him).

📖Luk 21:8  And He said, “See that you are not led astray, for many shall come in My Name, saying, ‘I am,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Then do not go after them. 

3️⃣ Tsur (צור) – “Rock”

Tsur צור means rock—but a counterfeit one.
While Yahuah is the true Rock (Deuteronomy 32:4), Tsur צור represents the false foundation of pagan gods worshipped at Peor.

📖 “They joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices of the dead.” (Psalm 106:28)

Prophetic picture: The end-time deception offers a counterfeit “rock” (false messiah, false security).

4️⃣ Zimri (זמרי) – “My praise / My song”

זמרי Zimri's name points to worship—but his act twisted it.
A Simeonite prince, זמרי Zimri publicly flaunts his rebellion with Cozbi כזבי, corrupting “praise” into idolatry.

📖 “And Zimri זמרי… brought in a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and all the congregation.” (Numbers 25:6)

Prophetic picture: Many will corrupt worship in the end by blending praise of Yahuah with carnal YasharEL practices (Revelation 13:4 “They worshiped the beast…”).

5️⃣ Shimoni (שמעוני) – “My hearing / My obedience”

The tribe of Shimoni שמעון (“hearing”) follows the wrong voice.
Instead of Shama שמע (hearing & obeying Yahuah), Shimoni's שמעון’s descendants listen to Cozbi's כזבי’s deception. The plague reduces their numbers drastically (Numbers 26:14).

📊 Simeon’s Drop in Census

• Pre-plague (Numbers 1:23): 59,300

📖Num 1:23  those who were registered of the tribe of Shim‛on were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 

• Post-plague (Numbers 26:14): 22,200

📖 Num 26:14  These are the clans of the Shim‛onites: twenty-two thousand two hundred. 

• Loss: 37,100 men

This loss of 37,100 Simeonites is much larger than the total 24,000 killed in the plague.

So we know:
✅ The census difference includes natural deaths, battles, and 40 years in the wilderness—not just the plague.
✅ BUT Simeon’s drastic drop signals they were the hardest hit tribe in the Baal Peor incident.

Prophetic picture: In the end, obedience is the dividing line—those who hear Yahuah’s voice vs. those seduced by the harlot (Revelation 18:4 “Come out of her, My people…”). People having itching ears to do carnal things.

6️⃣ Balaam (בלעם) – “Devourer of the people / Not of the people”

Balaam בלעם, a hired diviner, teaches Balaq בלק how to devour YasharEL spiritually.

📖 “Behold, these caused the children of YasharEL, through the counsel of Balaam בלעם, to trespass…” (Numbers 31:16)

Though Yahuah used Balaam בלעם to bless YasharEL, his true nature emerges in his greed and manipulation (2 Peter 2:15).

Prophetic picture: False teachers in the end (Revelation 2:14) seduce through greed and compromise, leading many to spiritual destruction.

📖1Sa 15:23  “For rebellion/meriy מרי H4805 is as the sin of divination/qasam קסם H7081, and stubbornness is as wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of יהוה, He also does reject you as sovereign.” 

These are the words of Shemuel to king Shaul

meriy מרי H4805 From H4784; bitterness, that is, (figuratively) rebellion; concretely bitter, or rebellious: - bitter, (most) rebel (-ion, -lious).

meriy could be translated as 'my bitterness' which is an act of rebelliousness and likened to soothsaying, the same line Balaam was on.

🕊 “Is Shaul also among the prophets?”

This phrase appears twice:

1️⃣ 1 Samuel 10:11-12 – when the Spirit of Elohim first comes upon Shaul after his anointing:

“And it came to pass, when all who knew him previously saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, ‘What is this that has come upon the son of Kish? Is Shaul also among the prophets?’”

Here it was a sign of divine empowerment at his calling.

2️⃣ 1 Samuel 19:23-24 – when Shaul is chasing David to kill him and comes near Samuel’s camp:

“And the Spirit of Elohim came upon him also, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, ‘Is Shaul also among the prophets?’”

Here it happens while Shaul is in a state of murderous rage and rebellion.

🌱 מרי Meri and קסם Qasam in Shaul’s Life

⚔️ מרי  (Bitterness/Rebellion)

• Shaul became bitter (מר) toward David as Yahuah’s favor shifted.

• That bitterness produced rebellion (מרי) against Yahuah’s instructions (1 Samuel 15:23).

• The prophet Samuel directly rebukes him: 📖1Sa 15:23 “For rebellion (מרי) is as the sin of witchcraft (קסם), and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahuah, He has also rejected you from being king.”

Bitterness → rebellion → rejection of Yahuah. 

🔮 קסם Qasam (Divination)

• Samuel equates Shaul’s rebellion to witchcraft/divination (Qasam קסם) because rebellion seeks its own way—manipulating outcomes apart from Yahuah.

• Shaul’s loss of the Spirit leaves a vacuum filled by a “distressing spirit” (1 Samuel 16:14).

• Later Shaul literally turns to divination by seeking out the witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28).

This shows how bitterness and rebellion open doors to the occult realm.

👁 Was Shaul’s Prophesying Genuine or a Form of Divination?

First Episode (1 Sam 10)

✅ Genuine prophetic empowerment—a sign of his divine calling.

Second Episode (1 Sam 19)

⚠️ Not from Shaul’s submission, but Yahuah overriding him to stop his rebellion.

• Shaul’s nakedness symbolizes his stripped authority.

• His uncontrolled prophesying may appear spiritual but actually highlights his powerlessness and judgment.

This is NOT divination by his intent, but his earlier rebellion opened the door to an unclean spirit later (witch of Endor episode).

🔥 Prophetic Pattern

Bitterness (מר) → Rebellion (מרי) → Divination (קסם)

This is the same pattern Balaam followed and the same one warned against in Revelation 2:14.

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✨ Insight 

The end-time spirit of rebellion leads religious leaders to use “prophecy” as a tool of control (divination). They pick up the bitterness from waters (OT patterns of cleansing) which are wormwood which is compared to a strange woman or a foreigner or profane person.

📖Pro 5:3  For the lips of a strange woman/זור zur H2114  drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; 

📖Pro 5:4  But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 
📖Pro 5:5  Her feet go down to death, Her steps lay hold of She’ol

📖 זור (Zur) – Root Meaning

✅ Root: זו (zar)

✅ Meaning: to be a stranger, alien, foreigner, or profane

• Figuratively: to turn aside, to be estranged.

• Related noun: זו (zar) = “stranger, foreigner”

• Related adjective: “strange” as in “strange fire” (Leviticus 10:1 – אֵשׁ זור esh zur = unauthorized fire).

📖Lev 10:1  And Naḏaḇ and Aḇihu, the sons of Aharon, each took his fire holder and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and brought strange/זור zur H2114 fire/esh אֵשׁ H784 before יהוה, which He had not commanded them. 

So זור carries the sense of “stranger” or “foreign one”—but also implies alienation from Yahuah when used spiritually.

They may “prophesy” in Yahuah’s name, yet be in rebellion:

📖 “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Adon, Adon, have we not prophesied in Your name…?’ And I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” (Matthew 7:22-23).

📖Rev 8:10  And the third messenger sounded, and a great star fell from the heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water, 
📖Rev 8:11  and the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

7️⃣ Balak (בלק) – “Devastator / Waster”

Balaq בלק, king of Moab מואב, initiates the plot to waste YasharEL.
Unable to defeat them militarily, he weaponizes seduction.

📖 “And Balaq בלק… sent for Balaam בלעם… to curse YasharEL.” (Numbers 22:5–6)

Prophetic picture: The beastly systems of the end (Revelation 17) seek to devastate Yahuah’s people, not by force at first but through corruption.

8️⃣ Midian (מדין) – “Strife / Contention / Judgment”

Midian מדין represents the contention that leads to judgment.

📖 “Harass the Midianites מדינים, and smite them… for they have harassed you with their wiles.” (Numbers 25:17–18)

Prophetic picture: The final conflict is marked by strife and spiritual seduction that requires separation and ultimate judgment (Revelation 18:8). Separation from the strange woman and her wormwood.

🔥 Thread Summary: The Steps of the Deception

1️⃣ Moab's מואב’s roots of compromise open the door.
2️⃣ Cozbi's כזבי (deception) tempts with false intimacy.
3️⃣ Tsur צור (false rock) offers security apart from Yahuah.
4️⃣ Zimri זמרי corrupts worship—praise turns to idolatry.
5️⃣ Shimoni שמעוני fails to hear & obey Yahuah’s voice.
6️⃣ Balaam בלעם teaches how to devour Yahuah’s people spiritually.
7️⃣ Balaq בלק plots devastation through seduction, not war.
8️⃣ Midian מדין becomes the place of strife and divine judgment.

📖 New Testament Tie-In

📖 1 Corinthians 10:7–8 “Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.’ Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.”

📖 Revelation 2:14 “You have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam בלעם, who taught Balaq בלק to put a stumbling block before the children of YasharEL, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.”

Conclusion: Doctrine of Balaam is a soothsayer/diviner coming as a prophet to lead Blessed YasharEL to the cursed system and in the system incorporates a deceptive conspiracy to bring Blessed YasharEL into captivity of rebellion to another father/Moab מואב (which means from my father), i.e. a rock/tsur צור apart from Yahuah, in sexual immorality through 'my lies/deceptions' causing hearing /shama שמע to turn away into a different song/zamar זמר which is of the strange woman/zur זור leading to bitter waters מרי/wormwood which is a waster/balaq הלק and into judgement/midian מדין. And the 42nd stop points to a final stop leading to Mashiyach as number 42 is used in Matthew 1:17 i.e. the 42 generations leading to Mashiyach. Just like YasharEL at Shittim faced one last seduction and failure, so too the body of Messiah faces a final testing (Rev 13:5 – beast allowed to continue for 42 months). The gimel will lead His elect to the Tau while the rest will be led to the gath גת i.e. the winepress of His wrath.

 Summary

1. Geographical and Historical Context:
   • YasharEL conquered Amorite-controlled land (formerly Moab’s) north of the Arnon River (Numbers 21:21–35).
   • Heshbon, built by Reubenites, was originally Moabite but taken from Sihon (Numbers 21:26, 32:37).
   • YasharEL encamped at Shittim (Abel-Shittim), the 42nd and final wilderness stop, symbolizing a critical test before entering Canaan (Numbers 33:49).
2. The Conspiracy’s Formation:
   • Moab, led by King Balak, feared YasharEL’s strength after their victories over the Amorites (Numbers 22:2–4).
   • Balak allied with Midianite elders and hired Balaam, a Mesopotamian diviner, to curse YasharEL (Numbers 22:4–7).
   • When cursing failed, Balaam advised Balak to entice YasharEL into idolatry and sexual immorality through Moabite and Midianite women (Numbers 31:16).
3. Midianite Identity:
   • Midianites, descendants of Abraham through Keturah, were nomadic, decentralized tribes without fixed borders (Genesis 25:1–6).
   • Known as merchants and tribal clans, they allied with Moab and lived among other groups like the Yishmaelites (Genesis 37:28, 36).
   • Their tribal structure included multiple “kings” (chiefs), as seen in Numbers 31:7–8, where five Midianite leaders were killed but Balak was spared.
4. Balaam’s Role and Symbolism:
   • Balaam, a pagan diviner (קסם/qasam), was restrained by Yahuah to bless YasharEL instead of cursing them (Numbers 22:12, 23:11–12).
   • His donkey (Athon, אתון, gematria 457) saw Yahuah’s Messenger, symbolizing Messianic humility and divine insight (Numbers 22:28–31).
   • Balaam’s prophecy of a “Star out of Jacob” points to Messiah (Numbers 24:17), but his greed led to the Baal Peor conspiracy (2 Peter 2:15).
5. The Baal Peor Incident:
   • At Shittim, YasharEL engaged in idolatry and immorality with Moabite/Midianite women, worshiping Baal Peor (Numbers 25:1–3).
   • Zimri (Simeonite prince) and Cozbi (Midianite princess, meaning “my lie”) publicly defied Yahuah, prompting Phinehas to stop the plague by killing them (Numbers 25:6–9, 14–15).
   • The plague killed 24,000, with Simeon’s tribe suffering the greatest loss (Numbers 26:14).
6. Prophetic Symbolism:
   • Acacia (Shittim): Represents incorruptible humanity, thorns of sin, and Messiah’s suffering (Exodus 25:10; Matthew 27:29).
   • Abel-Shittim (gematria 397): Falls short of covenant completion (Tau, 400), symbolizing YasharEL’s failure at the threshold of inheritance.
   • Athon (gematria 457) + 3 strikes = 460 (Miflatzot, abomination): Reflects idolatry’s judgment, contrasted with Messiah’s redemptive suffering (Isaiah 53:4–7).
   • Number 42: Shittim as the 42nd stop parallels the 42 generations to Messiah (Matthew 1:17) and the end-time testing (Revelation 13:5).
7. Key Names and Typology:
   • Moab (מואב, “from her father”): Represents corrupted lineage and end-time harlotry (Revelation 17).
   • Cozbi (כזבי, “my lie”): Embodies deception, akin to Mystery Babylon (2 Thessalonians 2:11).
   • Tsur (צור, “rock”): False foundation versus Yahuah, the true Rock (Deuteronomy 32:4).
   • Zimri (זמרי, “my praise”): Corrupted worship, blending Yahuah’s praise with idolatry (Revelation 13:4).
   • Shimoni (שמעוני, “my hearing”): Failure to obey and hear Yahuah, leading to judgment (Numbers 26:14).
   • Balaam (בלעם, “devourer”): False teachers leading to spiritual destruction (Revelation 2:14).
   • Balak (בלק, “waster”): Beastly systems using seduction over force (Revelation 17).
   • Midian (מדין, “strife”): Contention and judgment, requiring separation (Numbers 25:17–18).
8. New Testament and Prophetic Warnings:
   • Paul cites Shittim as a warning against idolatry and immorality (1 Corinthians 10:7–8, 18).
   • Yahusha warns of the “doctrine of Balaam” in end-time assemblies, urging separation from Babylon’s seductive system (Revelation 2:14, 20; 18:4).
   • Carnal Torah practices (e.g., physical rituals over spiritual fulfillment) align with “YasharEL after the flesh,” partaking in a fleshly altar, not Yahusha’s (Hebrews 13:9–10).
9. Messianic Fulfillment:
   • Messiah’s suffering (crown of thorns, acacia symbolism) reverses the curse of Shittim, completing the covenant (Galatians 3:13; Colossians 2:15).
   • The Valley of Acacias will be cleansed with a fountain from Yahuah’s house (Joel 3:18), symbolizing ultimate redemption.
   • Believers must overcome the “Baal Peor spirit” of compromise to enter the Kingdom, choosing Yahuah’s table over Babylon’s (Revelation 3:21).