The Wilderness Journey by Joe Viel

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The Wilderness Journeyby Joe Viel
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• Teshvo (You shall live / dwell / sit) in a
  sukkah for 7 days (Lev 237)
• that you may know that I made the children of
  Israel dwell in sukkahs (Lev 2343)
• For Israel, this was LIFE / HOME for 40 years.

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Nicer than a Sukkah...
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Purpose 1 To make you JOYFULLY thankful for
what you have.

• People are JOYFULLY thankful for what they
  receive in excess of what they expect.

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Purpose 1 To make you JOYFULLY thankful for
what you have.

• People are JOYFULLY thankful for what they
  receive in excess of what they expect.
• Secret to being happy with what you have expect
  less.
• Dont covet.
• Remember the wilderness

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Food

• Sukkot Tradition - Eat a fall harvest food you
  have not eaten all year.
• The Wilderness - Same food (mannah) every day.

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Food

• Sukkot Tradition - Eat a fall harvest food you
  have not eaten all year.
• The Wilderness - Same food (mannah) every day.
• God killed those who complained about what was on
  the menu (Numbers/BMidbar 11)

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Purpose 2 Learn whats really important in life!

• Get away from it all, and theres nothing to
  distract you.

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Purpose 3 Be Inspired to sacrifice.

• Leave this...

• For this...

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Purpose 3 Be Inspired to sacrifice.

• Leave this...

• For this...

• Yeshua left heaven..for earth.

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The Wilderness Journey Represents our Spiritual
Growth

• We all leave a spiritual Egypt.
• We all go to a spiritual Sukkot, Etham, Pi
  HaChiroth, Marah, etc.

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The Wilderness Journey Represents the Future

• Future Events are foretold with the 42 Stage
  Pattern.
• The Pattern Has Several fulfillments
• Israel in the Wilderness
• Fulfilled in the life of Yeshua
• Fulfilled in the life of every believer
• Fulfilled in the history of the world.
• The Pattern gets re-used several times.

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Example of Prophecy

• A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven a
  woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under
  her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
  2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she
  was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign
  appeared in heaven an enormous red dragon with
  seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his
  heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out
  of the sky and flung them to the earth. The
  dragon stood in front of the woman who was about
  to give birth, so that he might devour her child
  the moment it was born. 5 She gave birth to a
  son, a male child, who will rule all the nations
  with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched
  up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled
  into the desert to a place prepared for her by
  God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260
  days" 42 months (Rev 121-6, drawing from the
  symbolism of the first few encampments in the
  wilderness of Sukkot and Etham)

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• woman was given the two wings of a great eagle
  (Rev 1214)
• I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you
  unto myself. (Exodus/Shemot 194)

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Pi HaChiroth

• Pi mouth
• HaChiroth kindle wrath
• from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a
  river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away
  with the torrent... the dragon was enraged at the
  woman (Rev 121517)

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Pi HaChiroth

• Pi mouth
• HaChiroth kindle wrath
• the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth
  and swallowing the river ... (Rev 1216)
• In Exodus, the waters opened up into a mouth that
  did not exist before.

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Stage 4 Marah Rebellion or Bitterness

• The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words
  and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for
  forty-two months. He opened his mouth to
  blaspheme G-d, and to slander his Name and his
  dwelling place and those who live in heaven.
  (Rev 135-6)

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Encampment 5 Eilim Their Leader

• He was given power to make war against the
  saints and to conquer them. And he was given
  authority over every tribe, people, language and
  nation (Rev 137)

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Encampment 6 Yam Suf

• This is NOT The Red Sea
• It can mean Reed Sea or Sea of the End
• 1 Cor 10 tells us what the Yam Suf Represents
  spiritually.

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Yam Suf Play on words with Suf Chayyim
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Yam Suf Play on words with Suf Chayyim
Yam Suf is the reversal of the process of the
life ending
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Yam Suf in Revelation...

• All inhabitants of the earth will worship the
  beastall whose names have not been written in
  the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was
  slain from the creation of the world. He who has
  an ear, let him hear. If anyone is to go
  into captivity, into captivity he will go.
  If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
  with the sword he will be killed. (Rev 138-10)

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Yam Suf in Revelation...

• All inhabitants of the earth will worship the
  beastall whose names have not been written in
  the book of life (SEFER CHAYYIM) belonging to the
  Lamb that was slain from the creation of the
  world. He who has an ear, let him hear. If
  anyone is to go into captivity, into
  captivity he will go. If anyone is to be
  killed with the sword, with the sword he
  will be killed. (An end of life) (Rev
  138-10)
• But their death will be reversed!

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The parallels continue.

• Every event in Revelation chapters 12 through 16,
  and into 17, parallel the next encampment of the
  wilderness.
• The symbolism of the Wilderness pattern explains
  the symbolism of Revelation. This pattern helps
  you understand the symbols of Revelation like
  never before!
• Symbolism in other parts. (Fig Tree)

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Rephidim

• Can mean, spread them
• Can also be a contraction of Raphot Yadim
  Weakening of the hands
• The message of Rephidim is..

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Rephidim

• Can mean, spread them
• Can also be a contraction of Raphot Yadim
  Weakening of the hands
• The message of Rephidim is..When your hands are
  weak, spread them.

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Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them

• 3 Stories at Rephidim (Exod/Shem 17-18)
• Each involved a problem in dealing with weak
  hands
• Each involved a solution of spreading the hands.

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Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them

• Battle of the Amalekites
• Hands of Moshe (Moses) were physically weak.
• Aharon (Aaron) and Hur helped SPREAD his hands so
  they could win the war.

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Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them

• Weakening of the Hands Hebrew idiom for
  afraid.
• English equivalent
• Weak in the knees
• Shaking in your boots

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Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them

• At Horeb
• Israel was AFRAID for their life
• Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to die?
  (Exod 173)
• Moshe (Moses) spread out his hand and struck the
  rock. Water flowed.

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Rephidim - When your hands are weak, spread them

• Hand symbolizes power, strength.
• Weak hands can refer to the inability to do
  something.
• Exod/Shem 18
• Moshe unable to judge all of Israel. Not enough
  time in the day.
• Moshe spread the work out to other people.
• Al Yaday in Hebrew
• Smikah

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Rephidim in Revelation...

• He also forced everyone, small and great, rich
  and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on
  his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one
  could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which
  is the name of the beast or the number of his
  name (Rev 1316-17)

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Another Prophetic Pattern The History of the
Nations

• The Fall of Man - Leaving Paradise (Encampments
  1-3)
• The Flood (Between 3rd and 4th Encampments)
• The Tower of Babylon (Encampments 4-6)
• Abraham, the Father of Many Nations (Encampments
  7-10)
• Sodom and Gomorrah (Encampments 11-17)
• Israel Goes Down to Egypt (Encampments 17-25)
• Israel is oppressed and leaves Egypt to become
  its own Nation (Encampments 26-31)
• The Messiah Comes, Dies, and Rises Again
  (Encampments 32-33)
• The Fall of Israel (Encampments 33-34)

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Pattern found in Psalms

• Psalms 22, 23 and 24 contain this pattern
• Ps 221 Parallels from Ramses to Sukkot
• Ps 222-3 parallels Etham
• Ps 224 parallels Pi HaChiroth
• continues on for each encampment throughout Ps
  22...

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Psalm/Tehilim 22 The Suffering of the Messiah

• Ps 2215 Chatzeroth surroundings
• Ps 2216 Rithmah hitched, fastened or
  bound
• Ps 2217-18 Rimmon Peretz separating the
  pomegranate

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Psalm/Tehilim 22 The Suffering of the Messiah

• Ps 2216 Chatzeroth surroundings
• dogs have encompassed me. (Ps 2215, echoing
  the theme of Chatzeroth)

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Psalm/Tehilim 22 The Suffering of the Messiah

• Ps 2215 Rithmah hitched, fastened or
  bound
• they have pierced my hands and my feat (Ps
  2216 in most Christian translations.)This FITS
  Rithmah!
• like a lion, they are at my hands and my
  feet(Ps 2216 in the JPS)This does NOT fit
  Rithmah.

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Ps 2216 - Which is it?
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Gospel in the 42 Journeys

• He Yeshua said to them, "This is what I told
  you while I was still with you Everything must
  be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law
  of Moshe (Moses), the Prophets and the Psalms."
  45 Then he opened their minds so they could
  understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, "This
  is what is written The Messiah will suffer and
  rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and
  repentance and forgiveness of sins will be
  preached (Luke 2444-47)
• "the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle
  (Sukkot) among us (Etham)." (Yochanan/John 114,
  YLT).

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Outline of Journey in Torah

• Exod 1-19
• Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10
• Numbers 10-end of book

• Journey from Egypt to Rephidim
• The Law
• Rest of the Journey

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Outline of Journey in Torah

• Exod 1-19
• Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10
• Numbers 10-end of book

• Rev 121-1317
• Rev 1318
• Rev 141-17

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Outline of Journey in Torah

• Exod 1-19
• Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10
• Numbers 10-end of book

• Rev 121-1317
• Rev 1318 This calls for wisdom... the number
  of the beast...is the number of a man. Its
  number is 666.
• Rev 141-17

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Outline of Journey in Torah

• Exod 1-19
• Exodus/Shemot 20, Leviticus, Numbers 1-10
• Numbers 10-end of book

• Rev 121-1317
• Rev 1318 This calls for wisdom... the number
  of the beast...is the number of a man. Its
  number is 666.
• Rev 141-17

• A Discussion of 666 replaces the Law

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• A discussion of 666 replaces the Law

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• A discussion of 666 replaces the Law
• 2 Thess 28 The False Messiah is called The
  Lawless One

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Journey vs Encampment

• 1 Journey involves 2 or more encampments. (One
  journey involved 7 stages)
• 42 Journeys listed in Numbers/BMidbar 33.

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Yam Suf Play on words with Suf Chayyim

• Myyx Pws End of Life
• My Pws End of Life with Life removed
• Pws My words reversed

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Ps 2216 - Which is it?

• wr)k in Dead Sea Scrolls
• yr)k in Masoret
• JPS yr) klike a lion
• Others y r)k piercers of