NUMBERS
The fourth book in the Bible whose author is again Moses. Tradition tells us that it was written around 1400 BC. The time period covered in Numbers is 1450 BC thru 1400 BC.
The central point of this book ...
The 40 years of desert wandering is established in Numbers for the Hebrew people. Israel could have been a nation after two or three years, but this accounting shows the people being terrible fighters with little to no faith, so God sends them to wander in the desert as a means of building maturity and strength.
Important Points found in this book:
1) Spies saw giants in the land Moses wanted to invade and grieved the Lord with their lack of faith. Their long journey was due to the failed tests of endurance, ethics, good judgment and faith. Numbers shows how God wanted to make the Hebrew people strong, but they had become nothing more than resistant complainers. In Numbers 14 God sentenced the Jews to wander for 40 years in the desert.
2) An enemy, Balak, easily taught the people of Israel to worship Baal, a false god, and they upset God so badly that 24,000 of them died.
Key Verses:
“God is not a human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” - Numbers 23:19
“But as for you, your bodies will fail in this wilderness. Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.” - Numbers 14:32-33
Next time we’ll take a look at the book of Deuteronomy... Until then, walk with the King and be a blessing.
In His Name & for His glory,
Rich Keller
Bread of Life Ministries
Resource: Books of the Bible at a Glance; published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 18, 2018).
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