Rabbi Brian Bileci As a Messianic [Sicilian] Jewish Rabbi [simchatyeshua.com] at a Messianic Synagogue, & Executive Pastor at [DestinyChurch.tv], I embrace the Torah, Jewish Feasts, customs of my forefathers & the Messiah of Israel. I teach Hebrew for beginning levels and love teaching the Hebraic roots of our faith.
![Isaiah 61:1
1. THE CLOUD OR SHEKINAH GLORY WAS A MANIFESTATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Numbers 9:15 On the day the Tabernacle was erected, the CLOUD covered the Tabernacle. By evening until morning, the CLOUD above the Tent of Testimony had an appearance like fire. 16 It was that way continually. The CLOUD covered it, and by night it appeared like fire. 17 Whenever the CLOUD lifted up from above the Tent, then Bnei-Yisrael would set out, and at the place where the CLOUD settled, there Bnei-Yisrael would encamp. 18 At the mouth of Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael would set out, and at the mouth of Adonai they would encamp. All the days that the CLOUD remained over the Tabernacle, they would remain in camp. 19 When the CLOUD would remain over the Tabernacle many days, Bnei-Yisrael would obey the command of Adonai and not set out. 20 At times the CLOUD stayed over the Tabernacle only a few days. At Adonai’s word they would encamp, and at Adonai’s word they would set out. 21 At times the CLOUD remained only from evening until morning. When the CLOUD would lift, they would set out. Whether by day or by night, when the CLOUD lifted, they would set out. 22 Whether for two days or a month or a year, while the CLOUD remained over the Tabernacle, Bnei-Yisrael remained camped and would not set out. But when it would lift, they would set out. 23 At Adonai’s word they would encamp, and at the mouth of Adonai they set out. They obeyed Adonai’s order by Moses’s hand. TLV
1 Corinthians 10:1 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the CLOUD and all passed through the sea. 2 They all were immersed into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. TLV
2. THE CLOUD GUIDED ISRAEL THROUGH THE WILDERNESS JUST LIKE WE ARE LED BY HOLY SPIRIT
Numbers 10:11 On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the CLOUD lifted up from above the Tabernacle of the Testimony. 12 Then Bnei-Yisrael set out on their travels in the Sinai wilderness. The CLOUD came to REST in the wilderness of Paran. 13 So they set out the first time by the mouth of Adonai by Moses’s hand. TLV
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and grieved His Ruach HaKodesh [“Holy Spirit”]...11 Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses: “Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put among them His Ruach HaKodesh [“Holy Spirit”]? 12 Who caused His glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? Who divided the waters before them—to make Himself a Name forever? 13 Who LED them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble. 14 Like cattle that go down into a valley, the Ruach Adonai [“Spirit of the LORD”] gave them rest. So You LED Your people, to make Yourself a glorious Name. TLV
Matthew 4:11 Then Yeshua was led by the Ruach [“Spirit”] into the WILDERNESS to be tempted by the devil. TLV
Matthew 17:5 While He was still speaking, suddenly a bright CLOUD overshadowed them; and behold, a voice from out of the CLOUD, saying, “This is My Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased. Listen to Him!” TLV
Romans 8:14 For all who are LED by the Ruach Elohim [“Spirit of God”], these are sons of God...16 The Ruach [“Spirit”] Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. TLV
3. THE GLORY CLOUD CONNECTED TO MOSES FORESHADOWS OUR TRANSFORMATION FROM THE GLORY WE HAVE IN MESSIAH
Numbers 10:34 The CLOUD of Adonai was over them by day when they advanced from the camp. TLV
Rabbi Menach finds an allusion in it to the Shechinah
Numbers 11:16 Adonai said to Moses, “Bring me 70 of the elders of Israel whom you know to be elders of the people and their leaders. Take them to the Tent of Meeting, so they may stand with you there. 17 Then I will come down and speak with you there, and, I will take some of the Ruach [“Spirit”] that is on you and will place it on them. TLV
Numbers 11:25 Adonai descended in the CLOUD and spoke with him. He took some of the Ruach [“Spirit”] that was on him and placed it on each of the 70 elders. It so happened that when the Ruach [“Spirit”] first rested on them, they prophesied—but never again. TLV
Exodus 34:34 ... Then Moses would come out and tell the people of Israel the things the Lord had commanded. 35 The Israelites would see that Moses’ face was SHINING... ICB
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Ruach Adonai [“Spirit of the LORD”] is, there is freedom. 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being TRANSFORMED into the same image from glory to glory—just as from the Lord, who is the Spirit. TLV](https://www.simchatyeshua.com/wp-content/plugins/feeds-for-youtube/img/placeholder.png)