- BaMidbar / Numbers 1:1-4:20
- Sh’muel Aleph / 1 Samuel 20:18-42
- Romim / Romans 9:22-33
Bamidbar {1:5} These are the names of the men who shall stand with you. Of Reuven: Elizur ben (the son of) Shedeur. {1:6} Of Shimon: Shelumiel ben Zurishaddai. {1:7} Of Y’hudah: Nahshon ben Amminadab. {1:8} Of Yissass’khar: Nethanel ben Zuar. {1:9} Of Zevulun: Eliab ben Helon. {1:10} Of bnei Yoseph (the children of) Ephrayim: Elishama ben Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel ben Pedahzur. {1:11} Of Binyamin: Abidan ben Gideoni. {1:12} Of Dan: Ahiezer ben Ammishaddai. {1:13} Of Aser: Pagiel ben Ochran. {1:14} Of Gad: Eliasaph ben Deuel. {1:15} Of Naphtali: Ahira ben Enan.
As we are entering into the study of the Book of Numbers something struck me as I read through Parasha Bamidbar. It was how HaShem asked Moshe (Moses) to count and number all the tribes of Yisrael (Israel). Also, I was impressed with how the names of all the tribe leaders and the number of each tribe were recorded in Scripture for all time. Here we are, thousands and thousands of years after the fact, reading and pronouncing the names of people from generations past whom HaShem had Moshe record in this Book.
However, this is not the only place in Scripture where the names of people are recorded. We find throughout the Bible names of people who are forever inscribed for us and for future generations to read and remember for all time to come; some of these names are recorded for good and others for bad.
There is something else we are told throughout the Bible and that is that HaShem has books in heaven into which all our names are inscribed.
Mizmor (Psalm) {69:28} Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Malachi {3:16} Then they that feared HaShem spoke often one to another: and HaShem listened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared HaShem, and that thought upon His name.
Pilifim (Philippians) {4:3} And I entreat you also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Further reference of there being books in heaven in which names are recorded can be found at least five times in the Book of Hitgalut (Revelation) ; Hitgalut 3:5; 13:18; 17:8; 20:12; 22:19. So, I think we can all be sure that HaShem has our names written somewhere in one of His books in heaven, either for good or for bad. There they remain recorded, not for just all generation to see and read, but for all eternity to see and read. If this be the case, and Scripture affirms that it is, and if my name is recorded in a book in heaven for all eternity to see and read then I sure want to be certain that it is written in a book for good.
The other day, during a discussion I was having with an unsaved Jewish man, I was asked my opinion on salvation. He wanted to know whether I believed that if someone who died having not accepted Yeshua HaMashiach as their kaporah (atonement), L-rd and Saviour, whether they would go to hell. My answer to him was as follows: “I do not know what is in the hearts of a man, only G-d knows that. Nor is anyone who dies going to stand in judgement before me. Each person will stand before HaShem and give an account about how they lived to G-d. It is then that they will find out if there name is written, or not, in the Book of Life. However,” I said, “there is a way to be one hundred percent certain that your name will be written in the Book of Life and that way is by receiving Yeshua HaMashiach as your final kaporah, L-rd and Saviour. In that way when you, on your judgement day, finally stand before G-d in heaven you will be confident that you will be spending eternity with G-d in heaven.
Maasei HaTalmidim (Acts) {16:30} And after he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” {16:31} And they said, “Believe in the L-rd Yeshua, and you shall be saved, you and your household.”
Are you uncertain as to your final destination (heaven or hell)? Is your name written in the Book of Life? Know for certain that it is written there by asking Yeshua HaMashiach to be your final kaporah so that you might be forgiven of your sin. In that way you will know, without a doubt, that your sin has been paid for and you eternal destination secure.
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