Numbers
20:22 ¶ And the children of Israel, even
the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in
mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for
he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of
Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring
them up unto mount Hor: 26 And strip Aaron
of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered
unto his people, and shall die there. 27
And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in
the sight of all the congregation. 28
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his
son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came
down from the mount. 29 And when all the
congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even
all the house of Israel.
From the text Mount Hor was on the border of the coast of
the land of Edom. Coast means border in other contexts as well, not just
the way we have come to mean it as the border with the ocean. In the next
chapter coasts and border are defined as synonyms.
Numbers
21:13 From thence they removed, and
pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out
of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab
and the Amorites.
And
also see;
Numbers
34:11 And the coast shall go down from
Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and
shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
God has determined, as He determines for all people, animals, and
living things, that this is where Aaron is going to die. I’ve already discussed
what it means to be gathered unto his people.
From
its usage the phrase gathered unto his
people refers to going to the place where his ancestors went when they
died. Jacob is said to have yielded up
the ghost. This is a reference to his spirit. Here is a reference to
Jesus’s, who was fully man and fully God, human spirit or ghost, lowercase s and g. Here the human spirit belongs to and ascends to God.
Luke
23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a
loud voice, he said, Father, into thy
hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Again,
not only the soul leaves the flesh at death but here we see the spirit leaves,
as well. Notice Solomon’s question in Ecclesiastes that suggests mankind
doesn’t know what he thinks he knows.
Ecclesiastes
3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that
goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
God
uses the spirit of man as one means to examine him from the inside-out.
Proverbs
20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of
the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
The
Godhead consists of a soul (God the Father), the seat of self-identity and
will, a Spirit (the Holy Ghost called the Holy Spirit or Spirit of God when
referencing acting on physical reality as the very mind of God), and a body, a
physical presence, (Christ or the Word by which all things were created and are
held together) it is important to understand that only God’s three parts can
act independently although guided by one will. If either our soul or spirit
leave us as humans we physically die. Jesus, being fully man and fully God, was
not only the physical image of the invisible God but, as a human, possessed a
lowercase spirit or ghost which He surrendered when He gave
up his brief temporal existence before rising from the dead.
Aaron, like Moses, will not see the Promised Land physically due
to his disobedience in the striking of the rock at Meribah.
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