Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Bamidbar - In the Wilderness - this week’s Prophetic reading
Prophecy 85, 92, 93;
Numbers 1:1-4:20;
Hosea 1:10–2:20;
Matthew 4:1-17;
Hosea 1:10–2:20
1 The Word of YAHUVEH that was to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam,
the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 The beginning of the speaking of YAHUVEH by Hosea. And YAHUVEH said to Hosea,
Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry, and children of harlotry. For the land
has utterly gone lusting away from YAHUVEH1. 3 And he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, who conceived and bore
him a son. 4 And YAHUVEH said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet in a little while I
will call to account the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause
the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. 5 And it shall be in that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of
Jezreel. 6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name
Lo Ruchama, for I will not again still have mercy on the house of Israel; but I
will completely take them away. 7 And I will have mercy on the house of Judah and will save them by YAHUVEH
their Elohim. And I will not save them by bow or by sword, or by battle, by
horses, or by horsemen. 8 And she having weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 Then He said, Call his name Lo Amee, for you are not My people, and I will not
be for you. 10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which
is not measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it is said to
them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living El5.
(Is 10:22, Ro 9:25-26) 11 And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and
shall set over themselves one head. And they shall go up out of the land; for
great shall be the day of Jezreel. (Is 11:11-12, Jer 50:4-5)
Chapter 2
1 Say to your brothers, A people; and to your sisters, Mercy. 2 Strive! Strive with your mother, for she is not My wife, and I am not her
husband. Therefore, let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her
adulteries from between her breasts, 3 that I not strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born,
and make her as the wilderness, and place her like a dry land, and kill her with
thirst. 4 And I will not have pity for her sons, for they are the sons of harlotries. 5 For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted
shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my
water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink. 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and I will wall up her
wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And
she shall look for them, but she shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will
go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now. 8 For she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and I multiplied
her silver and the gold they made for Baal. 9 So I will return and take My grain in its time, and My wine in its season. And
I will take back My wool and My flax she uses to cover her nakedness. 10 And now I will reveal her shamefulness to the eyes of her lovers, and not a
man shall deliver her out of My hand. 11 I will also cause all her joy to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and
her Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, They
are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will set them for a forest,
and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will visit on her the days of the Baals in which she burned incense to
them. Yea, she adorned herself with her nose rings, and her jewels, and she went
after her lovers and forgot Me, says YAHUVEH. 14 Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her to the wilderness, and speak
to her heart. (Eze 20:35) 15 And from there I will give her vineyards to her, and the valley of Achor for
a door of hope. And she shall answer there as in the days of her youth, and as
in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And at that day, says YAHUVEH, you shall call Me, My husband; and you shall
no more call Me, My Baal. 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth; and they shall
no more be remembered by their name. 18 And in that day I will cut a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,
and with the birds of the heavens, and the creepers of the ground. And I will
break the bow and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and I will make
them to lie down securely. 19 And I will betroth you to Me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to Me in
righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in compassions. 20 I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know (Aleph/Tav)
YAHUVEH.
Matthew 4:1-17
1 Then YAHUSHUA was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by
the Devil. 2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He hungered. 3 And coming near to Him, the accuser said, If You are the Son of Elohim, speak
that these stones may become loaves. 4 But answering, He said, It has been written "Man shall not live by bread
alone, but on every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of YAHUVEH." (Deut. 8:3) 5 Then the accuser takes Him to the holy city, and he set Him on the pinnacle of
the sanctuary. 6 And he said to Him, If You are the Son of Elohim, throw Yourself down; for it
has been written "He shall give His cherubs charge concerning You, and they
shall bear You on their hands, lest You strike Your foot against a stone." (Psa.
91:11, 12) 7 YAHUSHUA said to him, Again it has been written "You shall not test YAHUVEH
your Elohim." (Deut. 6:16) 8 Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and shows to Him all the
kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And said to Him. I will give all these things to You if falling down, You will
worship me. 10 Then YAHUSHUA said to him, Go, Satan! For it has been written "You shall
worship YAHUVEH your Elohim, and Him only shall you serve." (Deut. 6:13) 11 Then the accuser left Him. And behold! Cherubs came near and ministered to
Him. 12 But YAHUSHUA hearing that John was arrested, He withdrew into Galilee. 13 And having left Nazareth, having come He lived at Capernaum, beside the sea
in the districts of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 so that might be fulfilled that spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying 15 "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, the crossings of the
Jordan, Galilee of the nations 16 the people sitting in darkness saw a great Light; and to those sitting in the
land and shadow of death, Light sprang up to them." (Isa. 9:1,2) 17 From that time YAHUSHUA began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom
of Heaven has drawn near.