We can clearly see how Messiah drew invisible lines, and made certain distinctions in the way He related to His disciples. He devoted far more time to instructing the Twelve than to the larger group of Seventy²⁹, granting them a deeper revelation of the Kingdom. He appointed the Twelve to be apostles, not the Seventy, and clothed them with much greater authortiy and responsibility. However, the Seventy were included both in ministry and in holding power and authority over Satan and his demons³⁰.

Of course, the Lord did not choose these numbers at random. Rather, He emulated the precedent set in Torah, as He also testified: “I can do nothing on my own accord, but that which I see the Father do I also do.”³¹

When the children of Israel travelled in the wilderness, Moses chose 70 elders from among them at the counsel of his father-in-law, Jethro. Those seventy G-d-fearing men Moses placed as rulers of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. All the minor cases of the people they decided, but the hard cases Moses judged³². Together with Moses, Aaron and his sons, the seventy elders of Israel came up the mount of G-d, where they saw G-d and ate and drank in His Presence³³. Then G-d took some of the spirit that was upon Moses and put it upon the seventy³⁴.

We see therefore what measure of authority, anointing and spirit those seventy had. Among them, of course, were the twelve tribal leaders, the princes over their father's house, who were made leaders of thousands. Though being of the seventy, they were the twelve that carried a far greater authority and responsibility³⁵. However, even the twelve tribal heads were subject to the authority of G-d’s chosen   three, namely Moses, Aaron and Aaron's sons, a fact against which Korah, a Levitical prince, rebelled and for which he paid with his life³⁶.

Moses, Aaron and his sons were the only ones within the whole camp of Israel who pitched their tents directly in front of the eastern gate of the Tabernacle, THREE tents³⁷; while the Levitical priests encamped around the Tabernacle on the remaining three sides, according to their charge. And adjacent to the Levites encamped the twelve tribes on the four sides of the Tabernacle, in a definite order, with one tribal head in charge of each camp of three tribes³⁸.

Thus we see the number three repeated round about the Tabernacle, each incorporating greater authority over the people and intimacy with the Lord.

But there was one yet superior in authority and intimacy with the Lord, to whom even Aaron and his sons were subject: this one was Moses. With him alone G-d spoke daily "face to face as with a friend." He was as G-d to Aaron³⁹, while Aaron was Moses' mouthpiece, as his prophet to speak to the people in his behalf. For Aaron and his sons was reserved the thigh of the the most holy of all sacrifices, the ram of ordination. It was their high-priestly portion. However, Moses received from that most holy sacrifice an even choicer portion, which moreover did not pass through the fire: that of the bosom, the wave-breast⁴⁰.

Moses foreshadows the one disciple, whom the Lord Yeshua elected from among the choice Three to lean against His bosom, to be His most intimate, His “beloved”; His disciple John [Yochanan]⁴¹. 

Thus, the Church’s (Kehila’s) foundation looks as follows:

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