Numbers 14
All the congregation wept and cried and grumbled against
Moses and Aaron.
V2ff Their disbelief in God is made evident
V4 – Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.
V5 – Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the
congregation. Caleb and Joshua tore their clothes.
V7-9 – “The land which we passed through to spy out is an
exceedingly good land. If the Lord is pleased with us, then He will bring us
into this land.”
V 10 – The people threatened to stone them.
GOD SHOWS UP
He says to Moses “how long will this people spurn me? And
how long will they not believe in ME despite all the signs which I have performed
in their midst?”
(Note: list of the signs thus far………..)
God does have a limit and the children of Israel had reached
it…………..
They have tested ME 10 times. (?what were the 10 times? Get
list)
VV11-21 God threatens to annihilate Israel – Moses please
with Him to forgive them one more time as He had all the way from Egypt till
now (v19)
V22-23 God says – all the men who have seen My signs and My
glory which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness – they will not see the
land promised to them.
V24 – exception – Caleb – “he has had a different spirit and
has followed Me fully.”
V26 – ordered to move out to the wilderness by the Red Sea.
God said to Moses – as I live, just as you have spoken in My
hearing, so will I surely do to you. (see v.2 – “would that we had died in this
wilderness!) All who are 20 years old and up will die in this wilderness.
V30 – except Caleb and Joshua
V31 – your children, whom you said would become prey – I
will bring them in.
V33 – 40 years – in the wilderness (note: so they actually
were in the wilderness longer than 40 years. – time left Egypt to now
approximately 2 to 3 years? So 42-43 years?)
V36-37 – the 10 men who brought back a bad report were
immediately killed by plague
V40 – the people went up to the hill country they decided
they would “repent and take the land now.”
(note: they thought they would repent and not face the
consequences of their sin. Those who tried to go anyway were killed. They did
not go with God’s authority or power. (I wonder how many died here?)
Numbers 15
God gives Moses instruction on the offerings the people are
to make when they enter the land.
V13-16 – If there were foreigners who were with them they
had the option to do the same things.
V 16 – there was to be a single law which governed the Jews
and the foreigners that were with them…
V17-29 – God makes provision/instructions for unintentional
sin.
V30-31 – Anyone who does something defiantly – whether
native or alien – he should be cut off form the people.
V32-36 – a man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath. God
told them ot stone him to death.
V37 – make tassels of blue cord to hang on the corners of
their garments. These tassels to remind them to keep the commandments and not
follow after their own eyes.
V41 – I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the
land of Egypt to be yoru God. I am the Lord your God!
Psalm 90
A prayer of Moses to God:
- · God is eternal
- · Man is not
- · Our lives are limited and even if they were longer labor and sorrow will make it a mixed “blessing.”
- · Show us your loving-kindness so there can be some meaning to this existence.
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