Star Warriors From CG Workbook Five, Volume 4, Bamidbar The four sides of the camps around the Mishkan render a thematic connection to the function of the Fourth Day of Creation as the gathering of the moedim by the use of Hebrew words “assembled/kahal” and “congregation/edah” in the first chapter of Bamidbar. It was on the fourth day of Creation that the sun, moon, and stars were put into place for the sake of the moedim. The kahal and edah are not identical, but equivalent expressions, rendering nuances of the same theme of gathering for worship and giving testimony (edut). The portion Bamidbar ends with a strange commandment that the sons of Kohath are not to be cut off from the tribe of Levi. Kohath means “assembly.” Another allusion to the Fourth Day is in the war census. The “hosts” (tzvaot), or armies of stars, are first mentioned in Genesis as being completed on the fourth day. The fourth day is a day of war as well as of the Shavuot covenant assembly. The Torah was given on Shavuot on Mt. Horeb, which comes from the same root as “sword.” Indeed, the fourth assembly of Thyatira is emerging as a battleground for two types of teachings: one from the Jezebel woman who teaches her children to depart from the Torah and one from the Woman of Valor who teaches a Torah of kindness to her children who have the testimony of Yeshua and the commandments of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a war for authority over the people of the earth, which is consistent with the theme of governing authority established on the Fourth Day of Creation, a day in which the sun and moon governed. The moedim will be a type of sword that separates the children of the two women, and it is the Ruach HaKodesh moving through those children at the moedim that will set them apart from pure wickedness as well as the children who keep the moedim to serve themselves, not the whole congregation of Israel.
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 23:37:01 +0000
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