WE ARE AT THE BOOK OF NUMBERS MAKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE BIBLE.
THERE IS NOT THAT MUCH TO EXPLAIN IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS, IT IS PRETTY CLEAR AND READING THAT BOOK IN A MODERN TRANSLATION, THERE WILL BE NOT MUCH THAT NEEDS EXPLAINING.
WHAT TO DO IN THE WAY OF SUSPECTED ADULTERY IS IN CHAPTER 5. OBVIOUSLY GOD WORKED IN A VERY REAL WAY IF THIS COMMANDMENT WAS SISPECTED OF BEING BROKEN.
CHAPTER 6 IS THE LAW FOR A NAZERITE. JESUS WAS NOT A NAZERITE AS TO THIS LAW; HE WAS FROM A TOWN CALLED NAZERETH, HENCE A NAZERITE.
THE PASSOVER COULD BE OBSERVED UNDER CERTAIN SITUATION IN THE SECOND MONTH, AS CHAPTER 9 SO INSTRUCTES.
THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED OF NOT HAVING MORE MEAT TO EAT—— GOD SENDS THE QUAIL AFTER THE SABBATH, WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE NOT A BLESSING PER SE - CHAPTER 11.
IT IS TO BE NOTED IN CHAPTER 11, GOD GIVES MOSES 70 MEN TO HELP HIM GUIDE THE PEOPLE. THEY ARE GIVEN THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WHEN SOMEONE WAS JEALOUS FOR MOSES HE REPLIED, "…WOULD GOD THAT ALL THE LORD'S PEOPLE WERE PROPHETS, AND THAT THE LORD WOULD PUT HIS SPIRIT UPON THEM?" A TEACHING THAT TEACHES ONLY A RELATIVE FEW WERE SAVED UNDER THE OLD COVENANT, A RELATIVE FEW EVEN IN OSRAEL LET ALONE THE REST OF HUMAN KIND. IT ALL GOES HAND IN GLOVE AS TO WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL TAUGHT IN ROMANS 9 THROUGH 11. IT IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS TAUGHT IN THE GOSPELS. THAT NOT MANY, BUT THE FEW ARE CALLED TO BE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION, THE REST WILL BE IN THE GREAT WHITE THRONE GUDGMENT AGE, REVELATION 20. THEY WILL BE RESURRECTED AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO SEE THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT, AND SALVATION WILL BE SET BEFORE THEM.
CHAPTER 12 IS NOTEWORTHY CONCERNING RACIAL MARRIAGES. MIRIAM AND AARON SPOKE AGAINST MOSES FOR MARRING AN ETHIOPIAN WOMAN. IN GOD'S SIGHT IT WAS PERFECTLY FINE—— MIRIAM AND AARON WERE PUNISHED.
IN THIS CHAPTER WE ARE TOLD MOSES WAS VERY MEEK, ABOVE ALL MEN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. WOW….. THAT IS SOMETHING FOR ONE OF THE GREATEST MEN WHO EVER LIVED. A LESSON FOR US ALL.
CHAPTER 15 MUST BE NOTED FOR DELIBERATE SABBATH BREAKING—- GOD TAKES VERY SERIOUSLY THOSE WHO WILL NOT OBSERVE THE WEEKLY 7TH DAY SABBATH. MOSES WAS UNSURE ABOUT THE INTENT OF THE MAN BREAKING THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT. GOD KNOWS THE HEART AND THE INTENT; THE MAN'S INTENT WAS REBELLIOUSNESS AGAINST GOD'S LAW OF THE SABBATH DAY. HE WAS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.
REMEMBER, IF YOU KNOW THE TRUTH, THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS THE GOD WHO BECAME JESUS CHRIST. THAT I HAVE PROVED IN OTHER STUDIES.
WHEN THAT GOD BECAME JESUS THE CHRIST ON EARTH, HE OBSERVED THE 7TH DAY SABBATH, PROVED OVER AND OVEER AGAIN IN THE FOUR GOSPELS. PAIL SAID, FOLLOW ME AS I FOLLOW CHRIST—— THE WEEKLY SABBATH, THE 4TH COMMANDMENT, HAS NEVER BEEN "DONE AWAY"—- PAUL OBSERVED THE WEEKLY SABBATH AS HE FOLLOWED JESUS ALSO OBSERVING THE WEEKLY 7TH DAY SABBATH. PRETTY SIMPLE WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE AS A CHILD; I MEAN AN 8, 9, 10 YEAR OLD CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT I'VE JUST SAID.
JESUS SAID YOU MUST BECOME AS A CHILD TO ENTER GOD'S KINGDOM.
YOU READ AND BELEIVE THE EASY TO UNDERSTAND SCRIPTURE ON A SUBJECT FIRST, THEN YOU TACKLE THE OTHER SCRIPTURE ON THE TOPIC.
THE REBELLION OF KORASH IN CHAPTER 16 IS A LESSON FOR DELIBERATE SIN AND REBELLION AGAINST GOD.
WE HAVE THE MIRACLE OF AARON'S ROD BUDDING, IN CHAPTER 17.
CHAPTER 18 COVERS THE SUBJECT OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS, THAT I'VE EXPOUNED IN MANY STUDIES.
CHAPTER 20 AND MOSES NOT DOING CORRECTLY THE MIRACLE OF WATER FROM THE ROCK, HE WAS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND. THIS SHOWS GOD IS NO RESPECTOR OF PERSONS. MOSES DID IT WRONG AND SO HE HAD TO BE PUNISHED.
CHAPTER 22 - 24 WE HAVE THE WELL KNOW INCIDENT OF BALAK, BALAAM, AND THE DONKEY/ASS SPEAKING.
CHAPTER 27 WE ARE TOLD JOSHUA WILL SUCCEED MOSES.
CHAPTER 28: 16, 17 ARE THE VERSES THAT PROVE THE PASSOVER IS AT THE BEGINNIONG OF THE 14TH DAY, JUST AS THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD FEAST IS THE BEGINNING OF THE 15TH DAY.
AGAIN JUST EASY VERSES TO UNDERSTAND, IF NOT TANGLED WITH FALSE DECEPTIONS OF MAN.
THE LAWS OF VOWS ARE GIVEN IN CHAPTER 30. SUCH LAWS DO NOT APPLY TODAY, AS JESUS INSTRUCTED IN THE GOSPELS; VOWS FOR OLD ISRAEL WERE BECAUSE THE VAST VASY MARJORITY WERE CARNAL PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
CHAPTER 33 IS THE JOURNEY FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN.
THE LEVITES WERE NOT GIVEN ANY LAND TO INHERIT IN CANAAN, BUT WERE GIVEN CITIES—- CHAPTER 35. AND WE ALSO HAVE THE "CITIES OF REFUGE" FOR THOSE GUILTY OF MAN-SLAUGHTER.
AND LASTLY IN CHAPTER 36 WE HAVE THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE MARRIAGE OF HEIRESSES.
AS I'VE SAID, IF ONE READS THE BOOK OF NUMBERS IN A MODERN TRANSLATION, IT SHOULD ALL BE STRAIGHT FORWARD. OBVIOUSLY MUCH IN IT WAS FOR A TIME WHEN ISRAEL HAD A TABERNACLE AND PRIESTHOOD.
Keith Hunt
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