Tag: Numbers
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Speaking apparently
For all the talk of men not seeing the face of God – the promise of there that the Lord will speak to those who accept his covenant “apparently, and not in dark speeches.” While we may not see his face He promised that there should be no need to struggle to understand him. Jesus…
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We prophesy of Christ
The scriptures are replete with prophecies of Christ. There can be no doubt that the law of Moses was meant to point toward a Redeemer.
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Moses part 4
Moses must have been excited at the prospect of Heavenly Father showing Himself to the children of Israel and disappointed after the children of Israel rejected the opportunity at the last moment. He was probably excited and disappointed again when they first speed out then feared to enter the promised land. I just realized that…
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22 July 2010
Numbers 36It’s interesting to see the complication that arose from women being able to inherit. The solution was that women were only permitted to marry within the tribe of their father if they inherited anything from him. It is written as if they are to marry within their tribe always but it seems that there…
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21 July 2010
Numbers 35The Levite cities were to have a ring at least 1500 feet (approximately four football fields) deep surrounding them which they would use to keep their sheep and goods. Actually this also defines this space as 3000 feet deep. Six cities to be chosen later were to be cities of refuge for those who…
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20 July 2010
Numbers 34Notice that the Lord gave the people a specific area of land for their perpetual inheritance. If they were to expand their holdings there is no promise that the expansions would be blessed.
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19 July 2010
Numbers 33With most of these locations meaningless to me, this list of camp sites for the children of Israel is more tedious than the genealogy in the book of Ether where the genealogy is listed from Ether back to Jared without any other information being presented. I didn’t realize that Aaron lived into the fortieth…
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18 July 2010
Numbers 32I had not made the connection that Moses did about the willingness of those two and a hafntribes to take their inheritance outside the land of Canaan being like the spies fourth years earlier discouraging the people from trying to receive the land of their inheritance. When they promised to participate in the battles…
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17 July 2010
Numbers 31It’s interesting to think that Moses only sent about 2.5% of the men to battle that were available from Israel to destroy all the Midianites. It’s also interesting to see that they killed Balaam who prophesied their destiny from the Lord but who, despite his knowledge tried to be as close to the world…
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16 July 2010
Numbers 30The doctrine that father can disallow the vows of daughters and husbands can do the same for the vows of wives sounds chauvinistic but in context it is a way to create unity. Not only is the vow disallowed but the woman is held entirely guiltless for failing to keep the vow. Also, we…