Campfire Girls From Creation Gospel Workbook Five, Volume 4, Masei. A keyword is davar, and the next Book of Torah is Devarim, words or things. Davar means: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing. In Masei, the daughters find their portion in the Word of Promise from the commandments. The physical inheritance is meted out on daughters in the Torah portion, shadowing a time when the spiritual and physical inheritance will be poured out on another generation of daughters. Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah. (Numbers 27:1) The daughters are of the tribe of Manasseh (Menashe), which means, “causing to forget.” Indeed, these daughters will cause their descendants to forget the bitterness of their father’s sin in the wilderness, and they will inherit the Land through the merit of a generation of mothers, not fathers. Their very names teach the process of their house’s redemption. They are the granddaughters of Hepher, which means a “well of water.” Zelophehad had allowed the well of the Ruach to become stagnant, which leads to disease. However, when a messenger of Adonai troubles the waters and introduces the motion of the Ruach HaKodesh like a bird, the Bride of the King of Kings emerges in favor: Mahlah = disease Noah = motion Hoglah[1] = partridge Milcah = queen Tirzah = favorable [1] Although Hoglah is of unknown origin, only translated as “partridge,” it may be a compound wordplay recalling the “well” of Hepher. The heh is the definite article “the,” and “gal” can be a well of water or a basin, such as the bowl of an oil lamp. Their father’s name was Zelophehad, which means first-born or first rupture. In another compound wordplay, Tzel-pachad would mean “shadow of fear.” Zelophehad died in the shadow of fear, by the words of his mouth. The sages say he was one who complained about manna and the good things they supposedly had in Egypt. He therefore died by the words of his mouth, a mouth that raced ahead of his spiritual eyes and misplaced the words. Another compound word can be made from Zelophahad, which is tzel (shadow) and pachad (fear). The shadow of fear in his life was not mastered by the faith that the Holy One could prepare a table of manna in the presence of all enemies. His daughters, corresponding to the five books of the Torah, lived by the Word of Torah instead of dying by the campfire. They were the original Camp Fire Girls. Examine the words, (devarim), of Zelophehad’s daughters: Our father died in the wilderness. This can also be translated to say, “Our father died through speaking out.” Obviously speaking out is not faithlessness; it is what one speaks that demonstrates the power or disempowering of the Word in the one who speaks. Zelophehad’s daughters had to speak out before Moses, Eleazar, and the entire congregation in order to press into their promise and portion in the Torah. Dying in the wilderness, however, or dying through speaking out, is to die speaking out faithless words, faithless devarim. It is the opposite of walking on to life through the wilderness by obeying the Davar. Zelophehad’s daughters were very wise, for they knew the chukkah and mishpat of Torah, the proper outcome and application of their judgment even before Moses. Their father walked in fear, yet for them, they acquired the proper fear, the Yirat Adonai, and it was the beginning of wisdom for them. It is interesting that the Hebrew text says that the decision for the five daughters was both chukkah and mishpat. These daughters knew the logic of the Torah’s mishpatim as well as the spirit of the Torah, the chukkah, commandments obeyed through faith alone. It is stronger than a belief; it is staking everything on the result. An example of the difference between belief and faith is that you might believe a bulletproof vest will save a life. However, until you are willing to put on the vest and let someone shoot you, you don’t have faith in it. Zelophehad may have believed in God and a coming Messiah and Prophet, but his daughters had faith in God and His Messiah. They staked their futures on God’s Word. They brought their devarim of Torah to Moses, who asked Adonai, and He confirmed the words of the daughters. Later, when Joshua is apportioning land in Israel, the daughters once again approach Eleazar and the leaders of the congregation. While Moses gave them only a promise of their inheritance, Yehoshua was the one who gave them the actual inheritance. Peter’s explanation of the events of Acts Two is precisely chosen to demonstrate that Yeshua was pouring out an inheritance on the daughters of Israel
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