This week’s episode titled Parashat Matot-Mas, is the last from the book of Numbers for the Nazari year 1994. It is a passage in the life of the Israelites that Yahweh trained in the wilderness, which reveals the control the flesh had over the tribe of Reuben and the tribe of Gad. This is shown in their materialistic desires and self seeking or selfish behaviour. The facts of their Lust for the pleasures of this life, as Yehoshua Messiah calls it, reveals the troubling character of those among the brethren who do not have the Spirit of Messiah in them - You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of the Mighty One lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, he does not belong to Messiah (Romans 8:9).