REMEMBERING YISHARAL'S JOURNEY (NUM.33)
This is the route the Yisharalites followed as they marched out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. At YAHUSHA’s direction, Moses kept a written record of their progress, and this was their travel iternary, identified by the different places where they stopped along the way. They set out from the city of Rameses in early spring on the fifteenth day of the first month, (on the morning after the first Passover struck Egypt). The people of Yisharal left defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians, who were burying all their firstborn sons, because YAHUSHA had struck them the night before, defeating the false deities of Egypt with great acts of judgment!
After leaving Rameses, the Yisharalites set up camp at Succoth.
Then they left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
They left Etham and turned back toward Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and camped near Migdol.
They left Pi-hahiroth and crossed the Red Sea into the wilderness beyond.
Then they traveled for three days into the Etham wilderness to Marah.
They left Marah and camped at Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees.
They left Elim and camped beside the Red Sea. They left the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Zin.
They left the wilderness of Zin and camped at Dophkah.
They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water to drink.
They left Rephidim, camped Sinai.
They left Sinai, camped at Kibroth
They left Kibroth for Hazeroth.
They left Hazeroth for Rithmah.
They left Rithmah for Rimmon.
They left Rimmon for Libnah.
They left Libnah for Rissah.
They left Rissah for Kehelathah.
They left Kehelathah for Shepher.
They left Shepher for Haradah.
They left Haradah for Makheloth.
They left Makheloth for Tahath.
They left Tahath for Terah.
They left Terah for Mithcah.
They left Mithcah for Hashmonah.
They left Hashmonah for Moseroth.
They left Moseroth for Jaakan.
They left Jaakan for Haggidgad.
They left Haggidgad for Jotbathah.
They left Jotbathah for Abronah.
They left Abronah for Ezion-Geber.
They left Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh.
They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the border of Edom. While they were at the foot of Mount Hor, Aaron the priest was directed by YAHUSHA to go up the mountain, and there he died. This happened in midsummer, on the first day of the fifth month (of the fortieth year after Yisharal’s departure from Egypt). Aaron was 123 years old when he died there on Mount Hor. At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the people of Yisharal were approaching his land. Meanwhile, the Yisharalites left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Then they left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
They left Oboth and camped at Iye-Abarim on the border of Moab.
They left Iye-Abarim and camped at Dibon-Gad.
They left Dibon-Gad and camped at Almon-Diblathaim.
They left Almon-Diblathaim and camped in the mountains east of the river, near Mount Nebo. Then they left the mountains east of the river and camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho. Along the Jordan River they camped from Beth-Jeshimoth as far as the meadows of Acacia on the plains of Moab.
While they were camped near the Jordan River on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho, YAHUSHA said to Moses, “Give the following instructions to the people of Yisharal: When you cross the Jordan River into the land of Canaan, you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved stones and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines. Take possession of the land and settle in it, because I’ve given it to you to occupy. You must distribute the land among the clans by sacred lot and in proportion to their size. A larger portion of land will be allotted to each of the larger clans, and a smaller portion will be allotted to each of the smaller clans. The decision of the sacred lot is final. In this way, the portions of land will be divided among your ancestral tribes. But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live. And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE SIMPLE: ALL THE CANAANITES ARE TO BE DRIVEN OUT OF THE LAND AND YISHARAL IS TO DESTROY ALL OF THEIR IDOLS, WORSHIP OBJECTS AND WHEREVER THERE IS A PAGAN ALTAR, TEMPLE OR HIGH PLACE TO SOME HEATHEN DEITY STANDING, IT IS TO BE TORN DOWN! YAHUSHA HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THE CANAANITES AND THEIR DETESTABLE CHILD-SACRIFICING RELIGION. ONE POINT NEEDS TO BE MADE CONCERNING A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING OF THESE PASSAGES. YISHARAL DID NOT ORDER GENOCIDE ON THE PEOPLE OF CANAAN. RATHER, THEY WERE TO BE DRIVEN OUT. HOWEVER, THOSE WHO RESISTED THE YISHARALITE SOLDIERS OR THOSE WHO REFUSED TO LEAVE AFTER THE WAR WERE TO BE SLAUGHTERED. ANY CANAANITE WHO DECIDED TO FORSAKE THEIR FALSE DEITIES AND AGREE TO BE GRAFTED INTO YISHARAL WERE WELCOME TO DO SO. THIS WAS A YAHUSHA-PRINCIPLE FOR ALL TIME.
