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Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 140 (A Gift Horse)

Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 140 (A Gift Horse)

Posted by | Jan 12, 2025 | , , , , |

THE GIFT HORSE

This week we will do more work with the gift exchange between the bride and bridegroom. These exchanges occur from the time between their betrothal at Mt. Sinai and when the Bride is drawn into the Cloud of His Presence at the resurrection. To review from last week, the Bride sent gifts to the Groom to build a place for His Presence to dwell. In return, the Groom gifted Betzalel and Oholiav with the Divine ruach to transform those gifts into the Mishkan (Tabernacle). The Bride brought the Bridegroom thirteen items as gifts for the building of the Mishkan:

Gold

Silver

Copper

Turquoise wool

Purple wool

Scarlet wool

Linen

Goat hair

Red-dyed ram skins

Tachash skins

Acacia wood

Shoham stones

Stones for the settings

This list does not include items that were depletable, such as olive oil and spices for anointment. Then the Bridegroom gave her similar gifts, each mirroring one of her gifts to Him for the preparation of a Mishkan to make a place for His Presence to dwell with her:

“I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 16:10-14)

Enumerated for easier reading:

Embroidered cloth

Tachash (porpoise or badger) sandals

Fine linen (priesthood)

Silk (“cloud of glory”)

Ornaments

Bracelets (tablets of Ten Words)

Necklace (words of Torah bound around the neck/heart)

Nose ring (justice)

Earrings (Shma)

Crown of beauty (Divine Presence Is 60:19)

Gold (purity of Torah)

Silver (redemption)

Fame (of the Groom’s Name)

Again, the pattern is that the Bride brings earthly gifts, which the Bridegroom matches with spiritual gifts. The Bride contributes earthly resources, and the Groom mirrors them with Heavenly resources.

If she understands that that are two realms, and she understands He is Creator and she is created, she realizes the gifts weren’t hers at all. It was because of Adonai that the Hebrews plundered the Egyptians. He redesignated the wealth of the Egyptians to the Hebrews. The gifts Israel gave were His. He created them. It’s all His.

Adonai puts wealth in our pockets, so we can’t think when we contribute something to the congregation that it’s coming out of our pockets. It’s coming out of His creation. He even gives the ability to earn that money or that gift. Without His giving the ability to earn, we could bring no gift. Lots of people on this earth do not have the ability to earn anything at all. They have disabilities. Some can only earn a little. Simply to be born with the ability to go out and earn, labor, and collect that paycheck is a gift from Heaven.

We are brought up to believe we earn our paychecks, but they all originate in His Creation, and Elohim chose to make us able-bodied and healthy so we could give back to Him. He lets you put it in your pocket as if it’s yours. But we can’t be too sassy because He created both the Bride and the earth that yields its resources to her. That’s hard to acknowledge when we associate reward with the work that we do.

Yes, you contributed. You contributed your earthly natural resources to that paycheck, and you contributed some of that treasure back to Him. This made it holy. Designated. Just like the Bride. She is holy to the Groom. Designated to Him alone. The Groom rewarded you with the spiritual resources so that its status changed. It’s no longer secular, mundane, but a holy offering or tithe. The earth and its fulness belong to Elohim, yet He wants His unique creation, human beings, to take from that earth and offer a fine gift to Him. By passing the resource through the human being, it is elevated to holy status as the gift completes the circle back to the Creator.

Some believers, for whatever reason, choose not to give gifts to their Creator, or they give only sparingly…even though they have enough to do so, like Kain. Whatever the reason, they are limiting what the Groom will give them. The pattern is that He responds with a similar spiritual gift to the natural gift the Bride sends Him. Worse yet, there are non-workers. They have the ability to earn, they are believers, yet they have a pattern of not working at all or being such a lousy worker that they ensure they cannot hold a job to provide for their families, much less give holy gifts to the Creator. While the stingy believer withholds what he has, the non-worker refuses to even earn anything that could lead to the willing heart decision to give.

The Bridegroom wants us fully involved in the gift transaction, contributing to the welcoming of His presence. When we contribute earthly resources, we draw down His presence. He responds with similar gifts from the spiritual realm.

The future temple is the way that the Bridegroom imagined His creation. Every creation starts with an imagination, and so He imagined a creation that would be a fusion of earth and spirit, a perfect fusion that would be willingly obedient. Not spiritual beings, not more angels, but rather, messengers of obedience that would also respond from the earthly side of them. He would respond again with the spiritual, and it would be a marriage of realms.

Isaiah’s list of spiritual gifts to the Bride is an example of how the bridegroom in this interim sends gifts to the bride. She also sends gifts to him, and it heightens the anticipation. You get to know the other person sometimes by the gift. If somebody gives you a gift who’s never given you a gift before, you might be a little anxious because you don’t really know what kind of gift they’re going to think is a gift compared to what you think a gift is. I knew this sweet little old lady years ago, and she would go to thrift sales and bring me the moldiest smelling used clothes when she cleaned her closet. To her, it was the greatest gift of all, and I had to respond as if it was the greatest gift of all, because I understood the heart that was behind it.

There’s some trepidation when someone we don’t know well says, “I brought you this gift,” and we have no idea what’s going to be in the package when we open it! It will tell you a lot about the person, though. When we open the gifts of the Bridegroom, and when He opens our gifts, it tells us a lot about each other. We’re learning the nature and the character, the likes and the dislikes of one another in this interim period.

There’s times when I love to open these spiritual gifts because they’re awesome. They’re splendorous. They’re wondrous. I wouldn’t have even imagined to ask for the gift because I didn’t even know it existed until He gave it to me.

And then there’s other times the Groom gives a gift, and I have some reservations, because, it’s like a gift horse. If you look that gift horse in the mouth, you know that with this gift is going to come greater responsibility, greater demands, greater tests, greater trials. And you know that’s the reason it’s a gift is because those tests and trials are going to take you to another level of holiness, not because He’s unloaded some worn out old nag on you and called it a gift.

There’s going to be a price to pay for accepting this gift, but who would refuse a spiritual gift? We’re supposed to earnestly covet them. That’s a thing we’re allowed to covet, but they do sometimes come with a price when we open them. The bridegroom’s spiritual gifts are designed to increase our holiness because this fusion of heaven and earth called the New Jerusalem will be a completely holy place. Many people will visit from the nations; they will come up and visit at the feasts, but they go home.

Those who are recorded for life in Jerusalem will be called holy:

In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel. It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain. (Is 4:2-6)

There will be people recorded for life, but life somewhere else.  

The Bride is recorded for life in Jerusalem, because, remember, there’s no rebellion in her. She has completely embraced the pomegranates (mitzvot) of the Bridegroom, the customary gift of the Bridegroom to the Bride while she awaits his coming. She has completely embraced His will, and there is no vestige or shred of rebellion left in her that would cause her to violate His will in this extremely holy place. If you violate His will in this extremely holy place, we have the pattern in Genesis. You get kicked out.

You can be recorded for life somewhere else, but not in the most holy place, where there must be 100% obedience and submission. “We will do, and we will hear” is the agreement of the Bride to the Bridegroom’s conditions of the marriage. Through the power of the Ruach HaKodesh, Yeshua is “grooming” the Bride to conform her will to his and the Father’s will.

This gift horse is no nag, but it can be a challenge to ride because it constantly transforms our earthly gifts into holy gifts of willing obedience. Accepting that gift horse is the only way to complete the circle of personal holiness required for residence in New Jerusalem, a place where natural and spiritual have a perfectly harmonious marriage.

In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the LORD’S house will be like the bowls before the altar. (Zech 14:20)

As she prepares, dedicating her earthly work to Him, allowing Him to turn it into a sacred offering, the Bride transforms more and more into the image of the Creator.

Just as He imagined.

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Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 139 (The Bounty on Your Head)

Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 139 (The Bounty on Your Head)

Posted by | Jan 5, 2025 | , , , , |

When those four riders of the apocalypse come, think about…

In Scripture, the head often represents the authority, the will of the person. When we dedicate our heads to Yeshua, we submit our will to him. Because he submitted his will to the Father, he has bounty in his hand. That bounty consists of the Bride, those who respond to the Father, who drew them to Yeshua. They have a marriage covenant with Heaven as described by King Solomon in the Song of all Songs:

Your shoots are an

orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits,

henna with nard plants. (So 4:13)

It was customary for the bridegroom to send pomegranates as gifts to the bride in the interim between the betrothal and the actual ceremony and consummation of the marriage. These are gifts of the Bridegroom to the Bride to “wear” until he comes. It is the way for the Bride to learn the nature of her Groom until they physically dwell together. When she learns who he is, his will, what pleases and displeases him, she adjusts her own attitude and behavior to reflect those desires. She prepares for him just as he prepares for her.

Ultimately, Yeshua is preparing a place for the Bride “in my Father’s House.” Because no one can dwell in the Father’s House in rebellion, the Bridegroom is preparing the bountiful Bride to dwell in the Presence of the Almighty’s House. As she walks in the Father’s will, and therefore Yeshua’s will, the Living Word, she builds the reputation of the King of Kings. She proclaims His Name on earth by her deeds, which are His deeds. She re-introduces mankind to their Creator and Lover of their Souls.

The Good Name built by the pomegranates, whose pips (seeds) represent the 613 commandments, is pictured by the ancient marriage customs. Although betrothed and technically married, the couple lives apart until the final stage of the marriage, kiddushin. Only then will they dwell together. In the meantime, though, the bride is considered already married, forbidden to all others, and she wears the name of the bridegroom. This gift of a good name reflects unity with the Bridegroom, who by His “pomegranates” has set apart the Bride from all other nations and gods who represent an adultery for her:

“And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, before Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from nations and their gods?” (2 Sa 7:23)
“So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’” (Dt 4:6)

The Mishkan (Tabernacle in the Wilderness) is a template of the Famous Name gift exchange between Bride and Bridegroom. The Bride brought the Bridegroom thirteen items as gifts for the building of the Mishkan:

Gold

Silver

Copper

Turquoise wool

Purple wool

Scarlet wool

Linen

Goat hair

Red-dyed ram skins

Tachash skins

Acacia wood

Shoham stones

Stones for the settings

This list does not include items that were depletable, such as olive oil and spices for anointment. Then the Bridegroom gave her similar gifts, each mirroring one of her gifts to Him for the preparation of a Mishkan to make a place for His Presence to dwell with her:

“I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 16:10-14)

Enumerated for easier reading:

Embroidered cloth

Tachash (porpoise or badger) sandals

Fine linen (priesthood)

Silk (“cloud of glory”)

Ornaments

Bracelets (tablets of Ten Words)

Necklace (words of Torah bound around the neck/heart)

Nose ring (justice)

Earrings (Shma)

Crown of beauty (Divine Presence Is 60:19)

Gold (purity of Torah)

Silver (redemption)

Fame (of the Groom’s Name)

The Bride brought earthly gifts, which the Bridegroom matched with spiritual gifts.

The next building block is understanding that the Bridegroom doubles the gifts of the Bride. In fact, the principle that the Queen of Sheba brought Melekh Shlomo a huge quantity of spices (1 Ki 10:10) which could be measured, for it was earthly riches, but which he exceeded so far in his gifts back to her that they had no measure and could only be described as “royal bounty.” These represent spiritual gifts. What is in one’s hand is what he/she controls and represents his/her bounty or wealth.

Bounty = ?????? ke-yad, “hand”

It is the practice of the bridegroom to double the bride’s dowry. If she brings 13 gifts to the Mishkan, then he gives 26. Here is an example of a negative application of the principle:

“Comfort, O comfort My people,’ says your God. ‘Speak kindly to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.’” (Is 40:1-2)

If the Bride gives her Bridegroom sins, he obliges and doubles the consequences of those sins. Not a double-portion gift she wants!

Although only 13 good gifts are listed in Ezekiel, it is thought that those gifts will be doubled in the future, the millennial reign of the Prince of Peace, and in the World to Come, it will be royal bounty without measure, for it will be an eternal royal Mishkan (without measure):

“The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.” (Re 3:12)

The Bridegroom is preparing a place for overcomers. They overcome for the sake of His Name, not to make themselves famous. They are the “shoots” of the pomegranate orchard, full of its pips, which represent the commandments. The shoot is from the same material as the tree. The Hebrew word for shoots is shalakh, “sent ones,” as in apostles and messengers. It can also mean an arrow, which hits the mark once sent. “Torah” itself is from yara, to shoot an arrow.

Once sent, a pip produces a new pomegranate tree, not weeds. They keep and live those mitzvah-pips, and because they overcome in walking in them, their reputation is like Yeshua’s description of his own mission:

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.” (Jn 4:34)
“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” (Jn 5:30)
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” Jn (6:38)
“This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.” (Jn 6:39)
“As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.” (Jn 6:57)
“He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.” (Jn 12:45)

Because we perform the will of the Bridegroom, who gifted us his pomegranates, we proclaim his Good Name even before the resurrection. In submitting our will to the Bridegroom’s will, we are assured he will conclude our marriage contract made at Sinai when we said, and say every year at Shavuot, “We will do and we will hear.”

When he meets us and draws us into the Cloud of his Presence to dwell with him, he will raise us from the dead (1 Th 4:15-18). At that time, we will be able to see the bounty on our heads. It will be more than double bounty…it will be the eternal bounty of the riches of His Presence with us. So let’s re-read the reward that has been placed on our heads:

“The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.” (Re 3:12)

How is this better than the Mishkan in the wilderness? The Mishkan was a movable tent for His Presence on earth. The Temple is the Mikdash, a permanent, holy dwelling for kiddushin, or the “holy consummation” of the marriage. Mikdash, or Temple, holds the Hebrew root kadash, for holiness. Those who bear the Name on their heads are the holy ones.

A pillar in Hebrew, amud, means “something permanent, enduring, immovable.” What’s so incredible is that in the future Temple, it is a merging of the Ruach-built Mikdash above fused with a completely pure building from what He created below, natural and spiritual in perfect harmony as was intended from the Creation. As in the first Temple, in which the two main pillars had names (Boaz and Yachin), so the Bride of Messiah will have the Bridegroom’s new name. She will be bountifully full of pips, ministering healing to the nations with her own shoots and leaves.

The good news? Yeshua has given us the Living Word, a bountiful supply of pips on which to feed and from which to produce more good fruits and healing leaves while we await his coming. The four riders of the apocalypse will be a welcome sight to the Pips. There is indeed a great reward on their heads.

We are not the hippie generation that held empty promises of peace and love. We are the enduring Pippy Generation!

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Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 138 (Eternity Wear)Dr. Hollisa Alewine, Footsteps of the Messiah

Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 138 (Eternity Wear)Dr. Hollisa Alewine, Footsteps of the Messiah

Posted by | Dec 29, 2024 | , , , , |

Eternity Wear

A few weeks ago, we looked at Yeshua’s parables of great treasure. In the Song of Songs, there is another opportunity to see the fruits of wisdom operating in the Bride who awaits the resurrection of the dead. It is only then that she will see the real fruits of her labor for the Kingdom.

The verse in the Song lumps all the choice fruits in there together. We’re much more familiar with an orchard of pomegranates, but other good fruits might be planted with purpose. A henna plant would be planted with purpose in order to harvest the dye out of it. A nard plant would be planted with purpose in order to harvest this very valuable aromatic. All three products that are mentioned in this orchard of “shoots” are things that are not random.They are planted with purpose because the produce from them and the benefit derived from them is extremely valuable.

The orchard planting requires a lot of effort, patience, and planning, but perhaps there was one early decision that determined whether the orchard would even be planted. There are some opportunities that are going to be for us like Jacob’s glimpse into the gateway to Heaven. We’re going to realize a unique opportunity Adonai drops into our laps. We’re going to say, “How awesome is this place?”

But there’s really only one chance. It’s one of those things where you have to be quick. So many opportunities out there aren’t time dependent, but every now and then, the Father puts something before you that is so awesome. You know it’s awesome when you encounter it. And you know there’s a danger that if you keep going through life, and you don’t deal with that thing as fast as you should, it will be an opportunity lost. And this is what Yeshua says in Matthew. He says,

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.” (Mt 13:43-46)

What these two parables have in common, other than a great treasure, is that it cost the buyers everything they had to obtain that great treasure. They really only had one opportunity. If either of those men had delayed, if they had not wanted to risk selling everything for that treasure, there would have been no great return. The question of the treasure is, “Do you really want to start back from scratch?”

You have to build from scratch, even though it’s a great treasure. You have to leave first things behind with their security. Paul had to do it. He took three years apart to re-think everything he knew in light of the revelation of Yeshua in the Torah.

In order to realize the potential of the great treasure, that once-in-a-lifetime revelation, there should be no delay. Had the first man delayed, somebody else could have bought the field. He realizes that when he sees this treasure, it will require everything he owns in order to go back and buy it. Maybe he already had a house. Maybe he already had two fine cars. Maybe he already had the furniture his wife liked. Maybe he had a swimming pool. The house and neighborhood and boat or club membership may be everything that he wanted… and developed through great care and sacrifice.

But now he realizes that he must relinquish everything he has accumulated to obtain that treasure. And then he’ll have to figure out how to invest it because he’s just sold the security that he had.

And then in the second parable, the merchant sells pearls, so it’s certain that he already has a pocket full of fine pearls. But then he finds that one pearl. And he will have to sell every pearl he has in order to buy that one. In either case, if they delay, somebody else could buy that field. Somebody else could buy that pearl. They did not have plenty of time. They couldn’t say, “Well, let me just start selling off a few things, cutting back here or there.” No, both of them had to immediately go out and find buyers. Typically, when you try to sell something quickly, you take a price far below its value, but they were willing to do that in order to obtain this one thing of great value.

So the pressure of the parable is if they had delayed at all, they might have missed the opportunity of a lifetime. And that’s the thing. Life is time.

Our life is time.

How we spend our time. What we purchase with our time. Time is precious. We don’t have a lot of it, most of us. Our generation is structured that way.

Time is so valuable because we know that if we lose it, it is irretrievable. It’s not that every single moment we need to be worried that, oh my goodness, I’ve just lost time. I’m going to weep and gnash my teeth in the long run because I didn’t get this and that done. Yeshua’s saying, there’s going to be a once in a lifetime opportunity for a believer. You have to know when that moment is.

I think for a lot of us, we know when that moment was. We realized at some point that studying Torah wasn’t just doing Jewish stuff. It wasn’t dressing up in Jewish things. It wasn’t an interesting little Sunday School study. We realized this His Word, and it is life. Life most abundantly.

But if you do it, it will cost you everything. If you don’t do it, you probably missed that once in a lifetime opportunity.

Now, can you come back later? Just like Jacob who came back later to pay the tithe? Yes. But… to do it with haste was the once in a lifetime opportunity. Time really does backfill like sand. There are lots of things in our lives that we’ll wait for later. There’s some things in life that we can fix with a repentance do-over. But Yeshua’s saying some things won’t be like that. Don’t be surprised if you get a once in a lifetime opportunity to see if you’re willing to give up everything you have in order to develop the more valuable new treasure.

We must not postpone our spiritual commitments, for each moment is a treasure. Repentance can be a great treasure, an opportunity that if missed, might result in a hard heart. Repentance is also a pearl of great price. The ability to repent can be a once in a lifetime treasure because it can affect your eternity. Somebody who delays may find out that the sands of time really can backfill that. They can become very hard, very resistant as time goes on. The opportunity to repent is a pearl of great price. Will that repentance cost everything we’ve accumulated? It might. If all we’ve accumulated is the garbage of the world, then it’s going to cost all of that worthless stuff we convinced ourselves had some value in it. We should happy that such a pile of worthless things can be sold in order to obtain eternal wear.

For us, finding Yeshua in the Torah is a treasure hidden for nearly the last 2000 years.

Each generation is asked to sell everything. Some are asked to make a different path than their families walk. Make a different path than our coworkers walk. Make a different path than our neighbors walk. Make a different path than our old church walks. We have to invest everything in that once in a lifetime window into heaven.

It might be the last window of its kind. We’re in an awesome place. Yeshua is offering this precious jewel that we can wear in eternity. Other things that we thought were precious, they’re not really eternity wear. Maternity wear is important, but eternity wear everyone should be acquire. We may have to give up other clothes in the closet for eternity wear. It’s worth doing it quickly, though.

Do you remember getting on the monkey bars at school? You swung off on the first rung, and you had momentum. As long as you had momentum, you could go all the way across the monkey bars. But if you weren’t willing to let go of the security of the last rung, and you hung there for a second with one hand, it was hard to catch the next one. You might have missed it. Then you just hung there for a while before dropping to the ground.

When we’re looking at these precious jewels of opportunity, see how important momentum is! The pips of the pomegranates symbolize the mitzvot. The Israelites received those at Mount Sinai when they left Egypt. In that sense, at Mount Sinai, Adonai planted an orchard. He planted that orchard in a very orderly way. The Israelites were camped according to their tribes. According to groups of tribes. Clans. Families. Perimeter of the Levites. The priests. There was an orderly service in the Mishkan. They were prescribed very precisely how things were to be set up every single time it was set up or torn down to move. When they set it back up, everything was orderly, just like a well-planned orchard.

The pomegranates in this pomegranate orchard are a nation who hold these mitzvot. The pips, or the little pieces of fruit in the pomegranate, are thought to generally come out to 613, representing the total number of the commandments. And so it was and is a unique opportunity, the opportunity of a lifetime.

He planted us, the pomegranate orchard, in the wilderness of the peoples. From Adonai come mitzvot commandments to the talmidim (students). Camping there, learning, learning, learning from Moses. Learning, learning, learning from Yeshua. And eventually Israel will be this mature orchard of pomegranates because they’re a royal priesthood as well.

Once they were taught, the disciples became shliachim, or “sent ones.” They were able to reconcile the nations to Elohim, their creator. The “shoots” of the pomegranates comes from the Hebrew verb shalach, “sent.” We were not planted just to be one little beautiful camp of pomegranate trees. Instead, this fully-invested camp of pomegranate trees brings forth fruit and even healing leaves that shoot out to the world. Our fragrance of good deeds is to be shared with the nations. Yeshua is the root from which we shoot into the world if we cultivate our planting.

We never want to be consumed with regret when we realize that we lost an opportunity because we didn’t recognize the value of the treasure of time. We don’t want to regret being too fearful to give up what we had in order to grasp the eternal treasure that is hidden inside this world.

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