Breaking a long trip into sections will help to give you a sense of progress as each one is completed. It’s always helpful to have an overall look at your proposed trip before beginning. I know people today, with blind faith in their GPS, who often start with no thought of the route they will […]
Read More… from November 8, 2022 — Let’s Look At The Map First
When you’ve lived 120 years, walking with God for a century, you’ll have something worth saying! Welcome to the fifth book written by Moses! Its first lines set the stage: “These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan…in the plain…” (Deut 1:1). Deuteronomy is composed of a […]
Read More… from November 7, 2022 — The Old Man & The Next Generation
Numbers is like a lavish art gallery adding more portraits of Christ to this wonderful Bible museum. In Luke 24:13-35, two disheartened disciples are wending their way homeward. Their friend, Jesus, had been murdered. They were sure He was the Messiah, but after this, they wondered how they could go on. But then a Stranger […]
Read More… from November 4, 2022 — Christ In All The Scriptures
Why these two court cases are featured in Numbers may be answered in Jesus’ lineage (Lk 3:23). No, you’re not seeing double! The five daughters of Zelophehad featured in our study in Numbers 27, and now here they are again! When they first came to see Moses, they wanted to know if they could have […]
Read More… from November 3, 2022 — Those Daughters Of Zelophehad Again!
Will you give God back the keys to the life He has given you? He’s looking for refreshers and rescuers. Let’s linger longer at these special cities in Numbers 35. As Israel would make progress in claiming the land God had given them—while simultaneously executing His judgment on the wicked Canaanites—certain cities were to be […]
Golan, Ramoth, and Bosor were east of the Jordan, and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the west. When the Land of Promise’s borders were described in Numbers 34, they included territory to be given only to “the nine tribes and to the half-tribe. For the tribe of the children of Reuben…and the tribe of the […]
Have you heard the maxim, “Good fences make good neighbors”? God likes that idea, too. In his famous anti-God song, John Lennon wrote, “Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion, too.” Apart from the bad grammar, it’s also a very bad idea. Throughout history, […]
Read More… from October 31, 2022 — The Benefits Of Boundaries
Numbers 33 reads like a travelog. Don’t you wish there was a movie? Or at least a few selfies? Imagine two or three million people—newborn babies, excited children, old folks, their cows and sheep, and all the baggage—traipsing through a desert. No hotels, restaurants, roads, or signs. God made the sea and river dry, and […]
Would we reach out to help animals, but not our brother or sister? See Mt 12:10-14 and Lk 13:11-17. Numbers 32 introduces a motif we do well to notice. “The children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the […]
Read More… from October 27, 2022 — The Two And A Half Tribes