The sapphire tablets of Shavuot, written by the finger of Adonai, were replaced with stone copies by Moses on Yom Kippur to place in the ark.   Yehoshua's  generation was given written copies to do likewise.   Yeshua  would do something similar if he were the prophet like unto Moses.  He would leave his disciples something as a testimony of truth to comfort them in his absence.

Little children , I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, Where I am going, you cannot come . ( Jn 13:33)

If  you love Me,  you will keep My commandments . I  will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever ;  that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,  because it does not see Him or know Him , but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in  you. I will not leave you as orphans ; I will come to you . After  a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also ...

"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to  you" - NASB

"I  will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you ." - KJV

Like Moses, Yeshua knew that his disciples would feel like orphans when he returned to the Father.  He uses the word:

G3737  orphanos ὀρφανός 

Outline of Biblical  Usage: bereft  (of a father, of parents ) of  those bereft of a teacher, guide,  guardian orphaned.   Strong's  Definitions:  bereaved "orphan" i.e. parentless:-comfortless, fatherless .  Hebrew equiv.  yatum

Yeshua leaves them with the comfort of the Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit, and "My commandments," the Word of the Father spoken faithfully by the Son.  He becomes like the Father to the disciples, and he will ask the Father to give them a hakhel experience like Yehoshua did when he gathered the tribes.  At Shavuot, the commemoration of the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the disciples and converts in Acts Two from many nations saw the tongues of fire and received the Ruach HaKodesh accompanied by the powerful teaching of the Word.

So  the church throughout all Judea and Samaria  enjoyed  peace,  being built up ; and going on in the fear of the Lord and  in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase .  (Acts 9:31)

The "church" is the gathering of believers.  In Hebrew, it is a  kehilah , or gathering, such as  Yehoshua  hakhal , or gathered, the Israelites for the passing of the leadership from Moses to  Yehoshua .  Moses, however, remained with  Yehoshua  all his days, and the Israelites served YHVH. Their spiritual father Moses remained with them every  shmittah  year at  hakhel , a connection to their Father at Sinai.  A comfort to them in their father's absence.  This is consistent with the traditional belief that:

All  the days of Joshua ( Yehoshua ), it was as though Moses were still alive. ( Rashi ,   Artscroll Devarim , p. 327)" 

The wording is thus:

For I know that after  my  death [Moses'] that you will surely act corruptly.  (31:29)

The Israelites did not act corruptly, however, until after Joshua died.  Joshua followed Moses so closely that it was as if he were Moses himself.  Joshua 24:31 reads: "Israel worshiped HASHEM all the days of Joshua."  The sages say, "From here we see that a person's student is as dear to him as his very self."  Examine this against Moses' ambiguous statement:

And he commanded Joshua son of Nun and said, ' Be strong and courageous , for you shall bring the Children of Israel to the land that I have sworn to them, and I shall be with you.'

Who would be with  Yehoshua ?  The plain sense is that YHVH Himself would be with him.  Moses is apparently speaking, though, implying that Moses, too, in some way would be with  Yehoshua .  Moses is accepted as a metaphor of the Torah itself.  YHVH would be with  Yehoshua .  The Torah would be with  Yehoshua .  Yehoshua would become a spiritual father to the Children.

There is a Scriptural principle of a father passing a blessing, approval, and "ordination" to a son to continue his father's work.  This does not mean a mother cannot do it, for there is unity in the father/mother, as we see in the promise given to Avraham/Sarah.  The children are assured:   "He who overcomes will inherit these things, and  I will be his God and he will be My son ." (Re 21:7 )

A  female can be a "son" in the sense of the Spiritual legacy, carrying on the work of the Father and inheriting as a son.  In Scripture, an orphan is usually considered one who is "fatherless." Therein is a beautiful spiritual principle.  It is a picture of how the mother remains with the child, comforting and interceding after the father is separated, like the Ruach HaKodesh.  

Blessings and ordination can also be passed from teacher to student like Moses to  Yehoshua  or Paul to Timothy .  We see hints to this transaction when Abraham and Isaac travel to Mount Moriah for the sacrifice.  There they will see the ram, which according to tradition, supplied the "Last Trump" for Yom Teruah, the resurrection of the righteous, and the "Great Trump" blown for the Jubilee of return at Yom Kippur ten days later when the gathering is complete.  Hakhel.

How do we know that the shofar accompanies the trumpets of Numbers  29:1?  Leviticus 25:9 associates the two, the " teruah " of Yom  Teruah  trumpets, and the " teruah " of Jubilee at Yom Kippur, which is specifically a  shofar .  Now, here's the incredible secret of the shofar.  It helps explain why Yeshua said that the world could not "see" him, yet his disciples could even though they could not yet go there with him, only at the tribal gathering, the resurrection.  

A person who believes in Yeshua believes because he LIVES.  He resurrected and opened the door for the Children of the gathered tribes to enter the Land.  Not just the physical Land of Israel, but the spiritually elevated Land from which Adam and Eve fell, the Israel that has been concealed and misunderstood because people look at the physical Land and fail to see what it represents and why it is so important.  Its physical existence is prophecy to its spiritual existence.  

A son or daughter who believes that he or she, too, may cross over to the Garden at the resurrection is a Hebrew, or Ivri, one who has passed or crossed over.  Abraham crossed over to the Land because he believed in the promise of resurrection, that his descendants could inherit the physical Land, yes, but also its supreme physical and spiritual existence in unity.  

Incredibly, the  verb "to sound" the shofar is AVAR, our familiar crossing word: 

5674a . עָבַר      -       AVAR- to pass over, through, or  by, pass  on

Through the "crossing" of the shofar  teruah  (shout), an  Ivri  (Hebrew) will cross over to the gathering in the clouds.  One must "hear" the sound of the shofar, the voice of Adonai speaking the commandments as at Sinai, where the tradition is that at each utterance, the Israelites died and had to be resurrected until they finally asked Moses to go receive the full message and bring it to them "lest we die."  According to the sages, Isaac did die for a moment, perhaps "a twinkling of an eye," when he saw his father's knife descend, but he resurrected when he heard the angel interrupt and tell Abraham that now He knew that Abraham "feared God."

As Abraham and Isaac walk to the mountain, Isaac must have known at this point:

"Isaac  spoke to Abraham his father and said, " My father !" 

And he said, "Here I am,  my son ." 

And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt (olah) offering ?" (Ge 22:7)

Although Isaac could have overpowered his father and declined to become the  olah , resurrection offering,  he took on his father's will .  According to the tradition, Isaac begged Abraham to bind him tightly lest he lose heart at the last second and struggle.   Hearing and seeing the voice of the shofar on the third day at the Mountain is critical, for it is the voice of the Father.  Another rabbinic tradition lines up with  Yeshua's  words to his disciples that they could "see" something the world cannot see:

"'On the  third day ...and he saw the place afar off'-what did Abraham see?   He saw a cloud enveloping the mountain  and said: 'It appears that that is the place where the Holy One, blessed be He, told me to sacrifice my son.' He then said to Yitzchak: 

'Yitzchak, my son,  do you see what I see ?'

"'Yes,'" he replied.

Said Abraham to his two servants: 'Do you see what I see?'

"'No,'" they answered.

'Since you do not see it, abide here...'

T he shofar has action related to  Vayelekh, "and walked ."  The shofar does more than "cross or pass over." The voice of the shofar "went," just as the inner river of Eden "went" (holekh) and the sound of Elohim "went" (holekh) in the Garden of Eden. When the shofar "went," Moses "spoke."

When the Father called Abraham, he said, "Here I am."  He was a son.

When Isaac called to Abraham, "My father," Abraham said, "Here I am, my son."

In  Yeshua , the Spirit of the Torah inspires the message of resurrection, written on circumcised hearts.   P aired with the letter of the Torah, it becomes a powerful source of comfort and growth.  We are never alone, never without the Father who wrote the Words. We serve sacrificially.  

We ask our Father to bind the cords so tightly that we cannot lose heart.  Every trial, every difficulty, every moment of pain for His Kingdom is another cord or knot that binds you, the child, to the will of the Father.  Do you see what I see on the mountain of instruction, my child?

"And God sat and saw the father binding with all his heart, and the son being bound with all his heart, and the angels were screaming and crying." - Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer, ch.30/31

" My Father ."

"My Son ."

"And both of them  walked  together."

When we go to Israel, we meet the most incredible people.  Often we meet them even before we go to Israel.  One of those incredible people is Brenda Westbeld, and of course her incredible husband, Fred.  Brenda is probably our top Creation Gospel trainer, and she's taught many classes since she was in the first group of certified trainers.  She has such a servant's heart, and over the years she's been willing to teach, work the book table at conferences, and the ultimate sacrifice, to go with us to Kenya to train new students as Creation Gospel teachers.  

You won't find a greater servant's heart than Brenda's.  She writes:

In early 2007 HASHEM was healing and setting me free from many things in my life. A young man I didn't know prayed for me at a conference and told me to keep asking the question, "Who am I in You, Lord?" Later that year at Thanksgiving my niece made the statement, "You ARE Israel!" While still not grasping what that meant, I sat there and wept! 

I started devouring teachings online and sent for the recordings of a 2008 conference that included a teacher named Hollisa Alewine. I determined to write down every word she said and figure this out! In 2010 my husband and I went to Israel with Hollisa and Tony Robinson at Shavuot. Now I look back with so much more understanding and have so much more of an appreciation of where I went! 

Changing my calendar changed my life! The natural result was to separate and gather to like kind and like mind and learn how to walk in Torah. I have been reflecting for the past 2 weeks on what to write in this short message. Writing this was for me, not you. Blessed are You, HASHEM!

Brenda and Brother Francis in Nairobi