Numbers 9:15-23 - The Fiery Cloud

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[font="Times"][color=gray][b]Numbers 9:15-23 - The Fiery Cloud[/b][/color][/font]
[b]NJBC, 2nd Ed. Num 9:15-23 *Imprimatur*[/b]

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[b]Note:[/b] All Sources are given, in proper [i]bibliographic setting[/i].

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[b]22[/b] (e) The Cloud (9:15-23).

Immediately prior to the account of departure from Sinai we find information regarding the cloud that gave guidence on the journey (9:15-23) and the silver trumpets that signaled the beginning of the march (10:1-10). The older J and E traditions knew of the guidence provided by the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, as well as the pillar's function signalling God's prescence in the tent (Exod 13:21-22; 14:19-20,24; 33:7-11). The Priestly tradition incorporates these elements and links them with its theology of the divine presence: the transcendent God manifests himself in the form of his glory ([i]kabod[/i]), which is both signified and concealed by the cloud (Exod 16:10; 24:15-18; 40:34-35; cf. 1 Kgs 8:10-11). The description of the movements of the cloud takes up and elaborates Exod 40:36-40. The constant vigilance required by the unpredictability in the movement of the cloud suggest the universal need for sensitivity to the subtle promptings which provide guidence in the spiritual journey.

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[i]NJBC[/i], 2nd Ed. Pub. 1990, Repr: 1995,1996 & 2000. - Page 84, Numbers (7:1-11:1), [b][5:19-26][/b], [b]22[/b]. [b]Nihil Obstat & Imprimatur[/b].

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[b]The Columns of Fire and Cloud (Num.9:15-23):[/b]

This is the longest and most spectacular miracle in the Bible, for 40 years!... the Columns of fire and cloud over the Tabernacle... of one kilometer high, seen by the 3 million of Israelites.

And it is very important for the end of time, because at the end of time the Tabernacle and the Tent will be found at Mount Nebo, where they were left by Jeremiah, in a huge cave, and the columns of fire and cloud will appear again at the end of time, and they will be seen throughout all Israel and Jordan, and by everybody on television.
This is how they are described in Numbers 9:15-23:
On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; and at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.
So it was continually; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel encamped.
At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they encamped; as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.
Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and did not set out.
Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.
And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud was taken up they set out.
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out; but when it was taken up they set out.
At the command of the LORD they encamped, and at the command of the LORD they set out; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses. (Numbers 9:15-23).

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[b][font="Times"]Bibliography:[/font][/b]

[url="http://biblia.com/jesusbible/numbers2.htm"]The Jerome Bible Commentary: Num.9:15-23[/url]