Just a Lily on the Prairie

Son 2:14 “O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covering of the cliff, Let me see your appearance, Let me hear your voice; For your voice is sweet, And your appearance is lovely.” Exo 33:21-23 Then Yahweh said: Behold! There is a place by Me, and you will station yourself on the rock. So it will come to be when My glory passes by that I will place you in a fissure of the rock. And I will overshadow you with My palm until I pass by. Then I will take away My palm, and you will see My back, yet My face shall not appear. Adam walked in the Garden with Yahweh. Abraham talked with Yahweh and Moses spent 40 days being shown around Heaven by Yahweh. These people saw HIS face and lived. Yet after the Golden Calf incident, the adultery perpetuated by the young bride right under her Chuppah, Our Bridegroom will not show His face. But He does reveal something very extraordinary. He reveals Messiah yet again to us. How? You ask. Where is Messiah in these verses? Yahweh puts Moses in the “cleft of the ROCK” Let’s look at that first. What is so special about this ROCK? what do we know about the ROCK? What is our first encounter with the ROCK since we have left Egypt?

Exo 17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

So the ROCK is struck and water flows from it. Sound familiar?

Joh 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

Hmmmm Let’s look deeper.

Yahweh puts Moses in a cleft in the ROCK. What is a cleft?

Cleft= A crack, crevice, or split. a fissure A wound of sorts in the ROCK??

Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

Psa 22:16 For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet–

Zec 12:10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Rev 1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

Are ya getting the picture? Messiah is the ROCK!! The ROCK that followed the Israelites in the Wilderness giving them life sustaining water. Messiah is the ROCK that was pierced and wounded from the foundation of the Earth. Yahweh put Moses into that cut in the ROCK so that HE could show Moses HIS glory, or at least part of it. Moses was hidden in the ROCK, he became righteous and acceptable wile hidden in it so that he could see that part of Yahweh’s glory that comes after.

So what is my point is all of this? i am hoping to give you clues to help you find Messiah in the writings of Torah, the Old Testament. But why is it important to see Messiah in Torah? Let’s see what Paul says…

Rom 10:19 But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”

Rom 11:11-15 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

We who follow Messiah and know Him to be the Son of the Living Elohim are commissioned to spread this truth. Not to the heathen nations but to the Jews, our brothers.

Mat 10:6-7 “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

Mat 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

You may say..”Hey is not Messiah contradicting himself?” No He is not. Remember the lost of the house of Israel are dispersed among the nations. So what does this all have to do with Moses being put in the ROCK? It has everything to do with it. When we can see Messiah in Torah then we can show Messiah to our brethren Judah and fulfill our commission and restore the whole house of Jacob.

Let us boldly proclaim the Kingdom of Yahweh and His Messiah to the Lost of the Hose of Israel. Let us be about our Father’s business and have our oil jugs full as we await Messiah’s return!!

Bo Moschiach!! Come Messiah!!