Numbers

Introduction

The Levite who penned Numbers, probably the same one that wrote Leviticus, continues where the book of Leviticus left off, furthering the self-interest of his clan (1:47-53, 2:33, 3, 7:4-11, 8:5,6, 18), which extends now to retirement at 50 (8:23-26) and to the Levites receiving "all the tithes in Israel" (18:21-32). He also sees fit to remind the Ezraelites that "what [anyone] gives to the [Aaronid] priest will belong to the [Aaronid] priest" (5:10).

He gets bolder now, though, advocating human sacrifices, as well as marauding butchery for the sake of stealing other people's land. In doing this, the author becomes a little careless and his mendacity and contradictions start to become very transparent.

(All scripture quotations are taken from the NIV, unless otherwise indicated in the text.)

Murder, human sacrifice and land grabbing

The god of Numbers is shown to be a liar (and can thus be identified as being none other than the Devil) in 14:20-38, since he claims to forgive his people in verse 20 and then immediately (v. 21-) demonstrates that he has not forgiven them at all; far from it, for he seethes with hatred and venom (14:21-35), even being so malicious as to bring a plague upon his "forgiven" people (14:37,38).

This plague perhaps comes as no surprise, since the Devil did something very similar in 11:31-34, where he rewards his worshippers with tons of quail and then strikes them down with "a severe plague" entreated to them "while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed" (v. 33). Those followers of the Devil that were still alive after that little party then "buried the people who had craved other food" (v. 34).

Numbers, as with Leviticus, is riddled with sacrifice, with the dedication of the tabernacle (Chapter 7) being yet another excuse for wanton carnage. (Incidentally, whilst considering Chapter 7, we note the twelve days of Christmas similarity in verses 12 to 83.)

Chapter 15 is also little more than sacrificial slaughter described, as it was in Leviticus, as producing "an aroma pleasing to the Lord" (15:3,7,10,13,14,24). The aroma of bacon being cooked in a frying pan may be pleasing to the physical senses, but when one considers exactly what this is, it must be abhorrent to the spirit. This strikingly illustrates one of the differences between God and the Devil. "God is a Spirit: and they that worship God must do so in spirit and in truth." (Christ's words, from Mary Magdalene 4:24.) Whereas the Devil deceives and manipulates people via the cravings of the physical senses.

Ezra ensures that he and his descendants are provided for under any circumstance, even a 'perfect' flock, by introducing atonement blood sacrifices for those that Ezra or his priestly descendants can claim are "sinning unintentionally" (15:27-29). Those who have eyes to see (as Christ says) will recognize the blatant contradiction of "unintentional sin."

That Numbers was not written by Moses is clearly evident from 12:3, which states, "(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)" The most humble man on the face of the earth could not, by definition, describe himself as being the most humble man on the face of the earth.

The fact that Numbers was neither written nor dictated by God is just as clear, though far from amusing. Throughout its many pages, one can highlight in this book so many things which are the complete opposite of God's qualities. For instance, does anyone really think that God would tell someone that they would have to eat meat "until it comes out of [their] nostrils"? (11:19,20.) Or that God would say to Moses, "If [Miriam's] father had spat in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days?" (12:14.) Or that a man should be stoned to death for gathering wood on the sabbath? (15:32-36.) Or that God would need men to "explore the land of Canaan"? (13:2.) And so on, and so forth.

Indeed, this brings us to a very interesting and enlightening point. Chapter 13 describes various devious plotting and scheming against a people who do nothing more than live their lives in a land that the Ezraelites lust after. But notice how the cunning and treacherous behaviour of the Ezraelites is blamed upon God. Hence, God becomes the scapegoat (see the Leviticus commentary on this site) for the Ezraelites! This is repeated over and over again in Numbers.

Likewise, Chapter 16 describes further deceit and genocide which Moses (possibly the junior scapegoat) allegedly blames upon God (undoubtedly the senior scapegoat) with statements like "the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea" (16:28). It is quite possible that Moses did utter such words, since a few bits of metal were seemingly worth more to him than the lives of 250 men (16:36-38). There is even a little poetry to glorify death and destruction in 21:27-30.

As a precursor to this poetry, we see claims such as: "The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: 'This is a requirement of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke. Give it to Eleazar the priest; it is to be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence. Then Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times towards the front of the Tent of Meeting. While he watches, the heifer is to be burned - its hide, flesh, blood and offal. The priest is to take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer. After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water. He may then come into the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean till evening. The man who burns it must also wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he too will be unclean till evening." (19:1-8.) What sort of god would say this? Well, one who promotes the priestly class, the slaughter of the innocent, superstition and the Ezraelites' scapegoat. This thing is the Devil, as is abundantly clear from the depiction of a stupid, weak, unstable and unhinged god that is provided in Chapter 25. One who is obsessed with gore and numerology (23:1-2,14, etc).

Balaam's "oracles" of Chapters 23 and 24, and in particular 24:3-9, sum up the usual brainwashing, lies, deceit, self-interest and propaganda of the Zionist movement, with the book of Numbers degenerating even more, if that is possible, into vengeance, murder, genocide (31:1-24) and human sacrifice, which had been hinted at in 8:15-19 and 18:14-15, but is more explicitly stated in 31:25-35 and particularly 31:40, where 32 young women are sacrificed. True to form for the Ezraelites, God is made the scapegoat for their evil (31:41-50).

Apparently, we cannot redeem an ox, a sheep or a goat, but must "burn their fat as an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to ..." the Devil (18:17).

Numbers therefore chronicles nothing more than a wandering, Devil-worshipping, blood-thirsty bunch of warmongers and troublemakers, carting a whole load of worthless junk around with them (they are described as going "from place to place" for example after their departure from Sinai - 10:12-28). Perhaps this is why the former German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, incarcerated both Khazars and Gypsies in the labour camps until the planned deportation of them from Germany (known as the "Final Solution") could be resumed after the cessation of hostilities against the German people (which international Jewry in Britain and America started via the Treaty of Versailles). This seems to be a strong possibility. It is also most likely that the Ezraelites were not taken out of Egypt by Moses, as they would have us all believe via the book of Exodus, but were rightly booted out by the Egyptians (indeed, we get an inkling of what the Egyptians were really like in 11:5, "We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost - also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic").

It should definitely be noted also, that amongst all of this superstitious, perhaps Masonic, ritual concerning the tabernacle, covering, curtains, ark, table, lampshade (!) and so on (Chapter 3), the self-interest of the author's tribe of Levi, occultist nonsense regarding a (possibly) unfaithful wife (5:11-31), Harry Potter-like rubbish telling us that "Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole [such that] when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived" (21:8,9), "enquiring of the Urim" (27:21) and the two verses (55 and 56) of Chapter 33 that are used today to "justify" the abuse, rape, torture and murder of the Palestinian people, we have mention made of the Passover lamb, none of whose bones are to be broken (9:12). This shows that there is something very wrong indeed in the association of Christ with a lamb singled out for ritualistic slaughter at a Jewish festival.

Genuine scriptures within this otherwise vile and obscene Torah book:

• Do not pollute the land. (35:33)
• Bloodshed pollutes the land. (35:33)