Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Sunday Service, Episode twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: Josh Monday. If you don't know me, I'm a Christian rapper,
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Speaker 1: So Angela, you said, I listened to the end. Thank
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Speaker 1: heals your throat and your wife has a speedy recovery.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Angela. Yes, so, as of right now, my
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Speaker 1: took out a capsule contraction in her breast area and
Speaker 1: it's called the capsular contraction. It's like she got it removed.
Speaker 1: So right now, she's in so much pain. It's close
Speaker 1: to her heart the way that the area that they
Speaker 1: did the surgery. So you know, just keep her in
Speaker 1: your prayers, everybody, please, And my throat, man, my throat
Speaker 1: has been screwed up for like the whole entire week.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, like every day I'm dealing with this
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Speaker 1: you know, I get caught slipping just like you guys
Speaker 1: probably do. And you know, you just got to pick
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Speaker 1: So just want to let you guys know that. And
Speaker 1: we are going to be on numbers okay, numbers sixteen already,
Speaker 1: what a blessing verse number one okay, And this is
Speaker 1: going to be the rebellion against Moses and Aarin. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna jump straight to my notes number sixteen. Where are you?
Speaker 1: You're right there? So this is the rebellion against Moses
Speaker 1: and Aaron. So you got people that you know, Moses
Speaker 1: and Aaron are kind of lifted up because Aaron is
Speaker 1: the high priest Moses is the one going up to
Speaker 1: Mount Sinai able to speak to God face to face.
Speaker 1: And even as you guys know last study in numbers twelve,
Speaker 1: Aaron and Mariam were even kind of trying to test
Speaker 1: to see, you know, is Aaron really I mean, is
Speaker 1: Moses really the one? Is he the only one? Why
Speaker 1: do you speak to him? And God was saying, I
Speaker 1: speak to him face to face or you know, in
Speaker 1: the new King James, mouth to mouth in the King James,
Speaker 1: and basically putting them in their place. So now you
Speaker 1: have a rebellion of the people against Moses and Aaron, okay,
Speaker 1: and the rebellion is going to be ran by these
Speaker 1: characters that I'm going to tell you guys about right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we have number sixteen, verse one. Now Korra, the
Speaker 1: son of Ishar, the son of Kohof the son of Levi,
Speaker 1: with Dathan and Abriam, the sons of Ilieb and On
Speaker 1: the son of Pelath, sons of Reuben, took men and
Speaker 1: they rose up before Moses with some of the children
Speaker 1: of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the Congregation
Speaker 1: represented of the congregation men of renown. Wow, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: that says men of renown, what does that mean? They
Speaker 1: gathered together against Moses and Aaron and said to them,
Speaker 1: you take too much upon yourselves. For all the congregation
Speaker 1: is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is
Speaker 1: among them. Why then do you exalt yourself above the
Speaker 1: assembly of the Lord. So what they're trying to say,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they have some pride, first of all,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like they have some jealousy. So they're saying,
Speaker 1: you know, you took way too much upon yourselves, for
Speaker 1: all the congregation is holy, saying we're all holy. That's
Speaker 1: what they're trying to say, every one of them, and
Speaker 1: the Lord is among them. Why do you exalt yourself
Speaker 1: above the assembly of the Lord? Is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: See this is Ran. It's by Deathan abriam Iliab along
Speaker 1: with Karah who led the rebellion. Okay, so just let
Speaker 1: you know. So it looks like two one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty leaders of the congregation represented the congregation men of renwn.
Speaker 1: Let's see what that What does that mean? Right there?
Speaker 1: Let's go check that out. Men Every noun now probably
Speaker 1: just means like men of respect. Right, Let's see what
Speaker 1: that means, because I know that I know that is
Speaker 1: set in Genesis sixty four, the men of renown. So
Speaker 1: let's go numbers. All right, let's check that out. Whenever
Speaker 1: I see little little things like this, I always like
Speaker 1: to to look it up for you and kind of
Speaker 1: see what it means. So number sixteen, and let's go
Speaker 1: there real quick. Where you're at. Numbers sixteen? Verse one.
Speaker 1: Famous in the congregation is what it says. Fifteen. Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So in the King James, it says, famous in the congregation, Wow,
Speaker 1: with certain children of theseel two hundred princes of the Assembly,
Speaker 1: famous in the congregation, men of re nown, reputation, fame, glory,
Speaker 1: that's what it means. Okay, the men of renown. Wow.
Speaker 1: So so in the King James, it says, and they
Speaker 1: rose up, it says, and they rose up with certain
Speaker 1: children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the Assembly,
Speaker 1: famous in the congregation men every now like men of
Speaker 1: respect or men of glory is what it's saying. Okay.
Speaker 1: So they gathered up and they got a This is
Speaker 1: like a little rebellion against Moses and Aaron. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. So now we got number sixteen, verse four.
Speaker 1: So when Moses heard it, he fell on his face,
Speaker 1: and he spoke to Korah, and all his company is saying,
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, the Lord will show who is and who
Speaker 1: is holy, and will cause him to come near to him,
Speaker 1: that one whom he chooses, he will cause to come
Speaker 1: near to him. Do this, take censors, and all of
Speaker 1: your company, put fire in them, and put incense in
Speaker 1: them before the Lord tomorrow, and it shall be that
Speaker 1: the man whom the Lord choses is chooses, is the
Speaker 1: holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, you son
Speaker 1: of Levi, sons of Levi. Then Moses said to Kara,
Speaker 1: here now, you sons of Levi, is it a small
Speaker 1: thing to you that God of Israel, that the God
Speaker 1: of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel
Speaker 1: to bring you near to himself to do the work
Speaker 1: of the tabernacle of the Lord, to stand before the
Speaker 1: congregation to serve them. And that he has brought you
Speaker 1: near to himself, And that all of your brethren, the
Speaker 1: sons of Levi, with you, are seeking the priesthood also there,
Speaker 1: for you and your company are gathered together against the Lord.
Speaker 1: And what is aaron that you complain against him, and
Speaker 1: Moses sent a call sen a call sent to call
Speaker 1: Dathan and Abriem, the sons of Iliam. But they said,
Speaker 1: we will not come up. It is a small thing
Speaker 1: that you have brought us out of the land of
Speaker 1: flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness,
Speaker 1: that you should keep acting like a prince over us.
Speaker 1: So you see how they're there's a little jealousy, little envy,
Speaker 1: little bit of uh of spite there. You see what
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying. They're like, they're saying, for
Speaker 1: you to think that you're a prince over us. Now
Speaker 1: they're losing that faith in Moses and Aaron. It looks
Speaker 1: like even though God is working through them and God
Speaker 1: has been providing miracles, God has I mean, they fought again.
Speaker 1: They've they even sent the spies through the land and
Speaker 1: God and then and then Caleb and Joshua, we're all
Speaker 1: saying let's go, you know, so or Caleb was saying
Speaker 1: let's go, and uh, you see what was going on there.
Speaker 1: So now we got people that are just uh filled
Speaker 1: with pride, acting like they want to try to challenge.
Speaker 1: They're questioning the authority, claiming the entire community was holy,
Speaker 1: and Moses and Aaron were making themselves more important than
Speaker 1: the rest of the people. That's kind of what they're feeling, right,
Speaker 1: So let's see what's going on here. So it says, moreover,
Speaker 1: this is number sixteen fourteen, So let's see what happens here. Moreover,
Speaker 1: you have not brought us into the left flowing, the
Speaker 1: land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance
Speaker 1: of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes
Speaker 1: of these men, we will not come up. So they're
Speaker 1: a little mad because they're not able to go into
Speaker 1: the land flowing with milk and honey. Because Caleb's able
Speaker 1: to go, Joshua, the son of Nune is able to go,
Speaker 1: and also all of their children are going to be
Speaker 1: able to go. But these people that have been complaining,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to go. So that
Speaker 1: could be the reason why this set off this rebellion,
Speaker 1: right number sixteen, verse fifteen. Then Moses was very anger
Speaker 1: and said to the Lord, do not respect their offering.
Speaker 1: I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have
Speaker 1: I hurt one of them. And Moses said to Karah,
Speaker 1: you know it's kind of funny that then Moses was
Speaker 1: very angry and said, to Lord, do not respect their offering.
Speaker 1: I have not tooken one donkey from him. It's like,
Speaker 1: do you really have to tell God that? I mean,
Speaker 1: God already knows, bro, you don't got to tell God that,
Speaker 1: all right. It's kind of funny how he says that,
Speaker 1: nor have I hurt one of them? Like God's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that, all right. Number sixteen. Verse sixteen, and
Speaker 1: Moses said to Kara, tomorrow you and your company will
Speaker 1: be present before the Lord, and they as well as Aaron.
Speaker 1: Let each take his censor and put incense in it,
Speaker 1: and each of you bring his censor before the Lord.
Speaker 1: I could kind of try to find out what the
Speaker 1: censor is for you guys, because I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means. Okay, what is the censor? So we're going
Speaker 1: to verse sixteen. Incense and his censor. What is the censor.
Speaker 1: Let's see what that is. His censor is fire holder. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's a fire holder. So bring your incense and
Speaker 1: your sensor, which is a fire holder, put fire in
Speaker 1: it and laid incense on it, and sit at the
Speaker 1: door of the Tabernacle of meeting, and Moses and Aaron
Speaker 1: and Karab gathered all the congregation against them at the
Speaker 1: door of the Tabernacle of Meeting. Then the glory of
Speaker 1: the Lord appeared to all the congregation, and the Lord
Speaker 1: spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, separate yourselves from among
Speaker 1: this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
Speaker 1: So the Lord was like, hey, let me just like
Speaker 1: he's about to consume them, which I believe is destroy them. Right,
Speaker 1: Let's see if that's what I see if I'm tracking here.
Speaker 1: So the Lord is like, you know, you guys are
Speaker 1: trying to come out them. Sounds like sees consumed, determine, fail, finished, complete,
Speaker 1: be accomplished. Let's see to be finished or ended, so
Speaker 1: I can basically consume maybe that is end them. Like
Speaker 1: it sounds like the Lord is not not happy. And
Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the congregs,
Speaker 1: saying and get away from the tents of Korra, Danthan
Speaker 1: and Abriam. Wow. Oh sorry, let's go back to number sixteen,
Speaker 1: verse twenty. You see, the Lord sounds like he's upset.
Speaker 1: Separate yourselves from among this congregation that I may consume
Speaker 1: them in a moment, and they fell on their face
Speaker 1: and said, Oh God, the God of the spirits of
Speaker 1: all flesh, shall one man sin? And you angry with
Speaker 1: all the congregation. And the Lord spoke to Moses, Saint,
Speaker 1: speak to the congregation, saying, get away from the tents
Speaker 1: of Kora, Danathan, and Abriam, the three that are involved
Speaker 1: in this situation, the three that are involved in this upheaval.
Speaker 1: This again good. This is the kind of stuff bro like, like, bro, sorry,
Speaker 1: this is the kind of stuff ladies and gentlemen that
Speaker 1: I enjoy reading. I know that it's bad that he's
Speaker 1: going to destroy these people, but it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: like these are the things of the Bible that kind
Speaker 1: of bring the Bible alive. Like this is like this
Speaker 1: is like Game of Thrones type stuff. You know, it
Speaker 1: kind of gets uh you know, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: mean Game of Thrones is kind of a bad example
Speaker 1: because of all the bad stuff that's in it, you know,
Speaker 1: but just the action and drama and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's what I mean. I've been watching House of David.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys watched that lately, but
Speaker 1: I've been kind of following that series just to kind
Speaker 1: of see and like, I like to see things in
Speaker 1: a movie because I'm more like a visual person. I
Speaker 1: like to read as well, but I'm like a really
Speaker 1: visual person. So when I'm watching the movie, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of feeling like, how would I feel if I was
Speaker 1: reading this? Like is this what it would look like
Speaker 1: if it was brought to live? Like I need to
Speaker 1: bring this live to you guys. You know that's what
Speaker 1: I need to do. Like, I hope I could do
Speaker 1: that in a way. So God, you hear my prayer, Lord,
Speaker 1: please assist me on doing that. So number sixteen, verse
Speaker 1: twenty five. Then Moses rose and went to death. Then
Speaker 1: and Abram and the elders of Israel followed him, and
Speaker 1: he spoke to the congregation, saying, depart now from the
Speaker 1: tents of these wicked men. Touch nothing of theirs unless
Speaker 1: you be consumed in all their sins. So they got
Speaker 1: away from around the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abriam
Speaker 1: and Dathan Abraham came out and stood at the door
Speaker 1: of their tents with their wives, their sons, and their
Speaker 1: little children. Oh now we're on number sixteen twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Now I might not like this part. Let me see,
Speaker 1: And Moses said, by this, you shall know that the
Speaker 1: Lord has sent me to do all these works, for
Speaker 1: I have not done them on of my own will.
Speaker 1: So he's basically saying, like, I'm doing God's will, and
Speaker 1: you guys are coming against me. You know it's not
Speaker 1: my will, it's God's will. So for them to kind
Speaker 1: of backstab him like that, it's not cool. So I'll
Speaker 1: just read my notes here. I put divine judgment as
Speaker 1: punishment for the rebellion, the earth opened up up. I
Speaker 1: don't want to tell you that yet, let's continue. By this,
Speaker 1: you shall know that the Lord has sent me to
Speaker 1: do all these works, for I have not done them
Speaker 1: by my own will. So he's like, I'm doing God's will,
Speaker 1: and you guys are stepping and coming against me. Numbers sixteen,
Speaker 1: verse twenty nine. If these men die naturally like all men,
Speaker 1: or they are visited by the common fate of all men,
Speaker 1: then the Lord has not sent me. But if the
Speaker 1: Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its
Speaker 1: mouth and swallows them up with all the belongings to them,
Speaker 1: that they may go down alive into the pit, that
Speaker 1: then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord. Wow,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. This is divine judgment on these people.
Speaker 1: Number sixteen, verse thirty one. Now it came to pass,
Speaker 1: as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground
Speaker 1: split apart under them. The earth opened its mouth and
Speaker 1: swallowed them up with their households, and all the men
Speaker 1: with Karrah, with all their goods, so that they all
Speaker 1: so they and all those with them went down alive
Speaker 1: into the pit. The earth closed over them, and they
Speaker 1: perished among the assembly. Then all Israel who were around
Speaker 1: them fled their cry, for they said, lest the earth
Speaker 1: swallowed up us, us up. Also, Okay, now understand that
Speaker 1: by them having this rebellion, it's almost like saying, I
Speaker 1: don't trust who you chose. Lord, I don't think you
Speaker 1: made the right decision. You're choosing the wrong people. He
Speaker 1: should have chose us. So it's basically like going against
Speaker 1: God's word, totally going against God's will. And also Moses
Speaker 1: kind of warned them saying, hey, I'm not doing my will,
Speaker 1: I'm doing God's will. So it was a big mistake
Speaker 1: on their part. Now, what I'm seeing here is a
Speaker 1: biblical cosmologist and someone that believes that Sheil is in
Speaker 1: the earth. It almost seems like the earth opened up
Speaker 1: and swallowed them and they ended up going to the
Speaker 1: pit or sheeld alive and then obviously dying because they're
Speaker 1: going to die from not being able to breathe. That's
Speaker 1: what it seems like to me. And I know that
Speaker 1: people that don't believe in supernatural stuff would say, ah,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. It is probably just an earthquake, you know.
Speaker 1: But the way that they're the way that they're defining
Speaker 1: this situation, the earth is swallowing them up. Lest the
Speaker 1: earth swallow us up. Also, like the earth swallowed them up,
Speaker 1: and it talked to about it closing on them, Like
Speaker 1: the earth opened, they fell down into the pit and
Speaker 1: then it closed. Let's continue number sixteen, verse thirty five,
Speaker 1: And a fire came out of the lords and consumed
Speaker 1: the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.
Speaker 1: So wow, that's crazy too. So as the punishment for
Speaker 1: the rebellion, the earth opened up and swallowed Donathan Abraham
Speaker 1: and their families and their possessions, while fire consumed the
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty men who had offered incense as
Speaker 1: part of the rebellion. That's crazy. So we'll go back
Speaker 1: to the Bible sixteen verse thirty five, and a fire
Speaker 1: came out from the Lord to consume the two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five men, the two hundred and fifty men
Speaker 1: who were offering incense. So the Lord brought fire down
Speaker 1: on these people. This is a serious infraction because you
Speaker 1: don't see this happening a lot. You don't see God
Speaker 1: getting involved so much all the time. I know he
Speaker 1: created fires in the last couple chapters, but this is
Speaker 1: just crazy that he's gonna have the earth open up
Speaker 1: swallow them, and then fire's gonna come down. A fire
Speaker 1: came from the Lord consumed them. So yeah, God was
Speaker 1: really mad there, you know. Let's continue number sixteen thirty six.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, tell Eliezar, the
Speaker 1: son of Aaron, the priest, to pick up the censors
Speaker 1: out of the blaze. The censors is where you put
Speaker 1: the fire right that we just talked about, for they
Speaker 1: are holy and scatter the fire some distances away. The
Speaker 1: sensors of these men who sinned against their own souls.
Speaker 1: Let them be made into hammered plates as a covering
Speaker 1: for the altar, because they presented them before the Lord.
Speaker 1: Therefore they are holy, and they shall be assigned to
Speaker 1: the children of Israel. So Eliezar the priest took the
Speaker 1: bronze censors which those who were burned up had presented,
Speaker 1: and they were hammered out as a covering on the altar,
Speaker 1: to be a memorial for the children of Israel, that
Speaker 1: no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron, should
Speaker 1: come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he
Speaker 1: might not come like Karah and his companions, just as
Speaker 1: the Lord had said to him through Moses. Wow, so
Speaker 1: very interesting, so very very interesting stuff right there, and
Speaker 1: we get away with all these sins nowadays, you know,
Speaker 1: like we do so much against God, you know. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm surprised that God never put fire on
Speaker 1: me back in the day when I was going crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna this is what I'm doing. If you can't
Speaker 1: see me on the camera, this is I'm drinking honey
Speaker 1: and I'm literally goggling with it, like I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get my throat to be good for you guys. I
Speaker 1: was doing this on Wednesday Service the whole show. You
Speaker 1: heard this noise and then I'm like trying to drink this, honey.
Speaker 1: Those that could see me on camera. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you see me, if you're listening to this and you
Speaker 1: see me on camera, comment below. If you don't see
Speaker 1: me on camera, still comment below. Let me know if
Speaker 1: you like the podcast so far, and if you like
Speaker 1: this part to study so far, because I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it. So all right. So number seventeen,
Speaker 1: verse one and the Lord's this is the budding of
Speaker 1: Aaron's rod. This is really interesting as well, very interesting
Speaker 1: because I was studying this and I was like, what
Speaker 1: what is up? There's so many supernatural things that happen
Speaker 1: on these episodes, So, I mean, so many supernatural these episodes,
Speaker 1: so many supernatural things that happen in the Book of Numbers.
Speaker 1: So this is another thing. So the budding of Aaron's rod,
Speaker 1: Number seventeen, verse one, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Speaker 1: speak to the children of Isuel, and get from them
Speaker 1: a rod from each father's house, all their leaders according
Speaker 1: to their father's house, twelve rods. Write each man's name
Speaker 1: on his rod, And you shall write Aaron's name on
Speaker 1: the rod for Levi, For there shall be one rod
Speaker 1: from each of the head it meets father's house. So
Speaker 1: obviously from each each tribe of Israel is going to
Speaker 1: have a rod, right and Aaron, tribe of Levi is
Speaker 1: going to have Aaron's name on that rod. So number seventeen,
Speaker 1: verse four. Then you shall place them in the tabernacle
Speaker 1: of meeting before the testimony where I meet with you,
Speaker 1: and it shall be that the rod of the man
Speaker 1: whom I chose will blossom. Thus I will rid myself
Speaker 1: of the complaints of the children of Israel which they
Speaker 1: make against you. Then Moses spoke to the children of Israel,
Speaker 1: which with and each of the leaders gave him a
Speaker 1: rod apiece for each leader according to their father's house,
Speaker 1: twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Speaker 1: And Moses placed the rods before the Lord in the
Speaker 1: tabernacle of witness. So they're gonna put their rods in there,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna find out who's chosen to still be
Speaker 1: the priest. Because you guys want to complain against the US,
Speaker 1: complain against Moses, and complain against Aaron. Well, let's see
Speaker 1: who's rod God chooses for to be the priest right right,
Speaker 1: each name Yep okay. So and then the rod is
Speaker 1: a staff. Okay, think of it as a staff, because
Speaker 1: when I hear the word rod, I don't think of
Speaker 1: it as you know, we don't use that kind of language, right,
Speaker 1: we don't use hey, grab me that rod. It would
Speaker 1: be like more like grab me that staff. So that's
Speaker 1: what it means. In the it's a staff a branch,
Speaker 1: so you could think of it as a tree branch
Speaker 1: or a shaft is another way to say that in
Speaker 1: the strongest concordance. Okay, and so now we're in numbers seventeen,
Speaker 1: verse eight. Now it came to pass on the next
Speaker 1: day that Moses went into the Tabernacle of Witness and behold, wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: and behold the rod of aaron of the House of
Speaker 1: Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms
Speaker 1: and yielded ripe almonds. So his rod or staff or
Speaker 1: his branch bears fruit. Okay, that is for me, that's
Speaker 1: like an idiom of what happens later when Jesus is
Speaker 1: talking about the branch of it is a bear fruit
Speaker 1: or you know, know them by their fruits or we
Speaker 1: need to produce fruits. Right, So I think this is
Speaker 1: really interesting right here that it's fascinating that this happened
Speaker 1: and supernatural too, like God is involved in this, right,
Speaker 1: So this is really When I read through this, I
Speaker 1: was like it sprouted and put forth buds and produce blossoms.
Speaker 1: Like it's like it kind of hit me from left field.
Speaker 1: When I was reading this, I was like, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: really cool. Number seventeen, verse nine. Then Moses brought out
Speaker 1: all the rods from before the Lord to all the
Speaker 1: children of Isuel. And they looked, and each man took
Speaker 1: his rod or staff, right or branch Number seventeen, verse ten.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said to Moses, bring Aaron's rod back
Speaker 1: from before the testimony to be kept as a signed
Speaker 1: against the rebels, that you may put your complaints away
Speaker 1: from me lest they die. Thus did Moses, Thus did
Speaker 1: is this just as the Lord had commanded him. So
Speaker 1: he did so. The children of Israel. Israel spoke to Moses, saying,
Speaker 1: surely we die, we perish, We all perish. Whoever comes
Speaker 1: near the tabernacle the Lord must die. Shall we utterly die? Man?
Speaker 1: So to resolve the issue, Yeah, so this to resolve
Speaker 1: the issue, the challenge to resolve the issue Moses instructs
Speaker 1: each of the twelve tribes to give him a rod,
Speaker 1: and these rods are placed before the Lord of the tenth.
Speaker 1: So that's to you know, to kind of resolve the issue,
Speaker 1: to show who is chosen, right the miracle. The next day,
Speaker 1: Moses to Aaron, rod represent the tribal Levi has sprouted
Speaker 1: budded blossom which you kind of read about and born almonds.
Speaker 1: The other rods, okay, the other staffs, they remained unchanged,
Speaker 1: so they're not chosen. The significance, what's the significance of this?
Speaker 1: This miracle serves as a sign that God has chosen
Speaker 1: Aaron and his family, the Levites, to be priests and
Speaker 1: to lead the people in worship. So now they know,
Speaker 1: you know, like they know who it is now. No
Speaker 1: need to complain, No need to murmur or complain or
Speaker 1: think that he's not holy enough or we're more holy. No, God,
Speaker 1: the one that created the heavens and the earth, just
Speaker 1: chose erin once again. The symbolism the blossoming rod symbolizes
Speaker 1: God's power and authority. The fruit represents the blessing and
Speaker 1: fruitfulness that comes from God's chosen leaders. There we go, Amen,
Speaker 1: The aftermath is Aaron's rod is then placed in the
Speaker 1: ark of the Covenant as a reminder of God's choice
Speaker 1: and warning against the rebellion. So anything else that I
Speaker 1: have in my notes, God solutioned. We kind of already
Speaker 1: saw that vindication. Yeah, so it's basically God's vindication of
Speaker 1: Erin so that way they just know once again, like
Speaker 1: even though He's already told them ready. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a very powerful chapter. We're going to go to numbers
Speaker 1: eighteen now, and I got these cool little study guides
Speaker 1: from which will start in numbers nineteen, I believe. Let
Speaker 1: me see, excuse me, yep, I got some cool little
Speaker 1: study guides that starts in numbers nineteen. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go to numbers eighteen. So we are at
Speaker 1: numbers eighteen. Verse one. Then the Lord said to Aaron,
Speaker 1: you and your sons and your father's house with you
Speaker 1: shall bear the iniquity related to the sanctuary. And you
Speaker 1: and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity associated
Speaker 1: with your priesthood. Also bring with you your brethren of the
Speaker 1: tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they
Speaker 1: may be joined with you and serve you while you
Speaker 1: and your sons are with you before the Tabernacle of Witness.
Speaker 1: They shall attend your needs and all the needs of
Speaker 1: the Tabernacle. But they shall not come near the articles
Speaker 1: of the sanctuary and the altar, lest they die. They
Speaker 1: and you also they shall be joined with you and
Speaker 1: attend the need to the needs of the Tabernacle of Meeting,
Speaker 1: for all the work of the Tabernacle. But an outsider
Speaker 1: shall not come near you. And you shall attend the
Speaker 1: duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar,
Speaker 1: that they may be no more wrath on the children
Speaker 1: of Israel. Behold, I myself have taken your brethren, the Levites,
Speaker 1: from among the children of Israel. They are a gift
Speaker 1: to you, given by the Lord to do the work
Speaker 1: of the Tabernacle of the Meeting. Therefore, you and your
Speaker 1: sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything
Speaker 1: at the altar and behind the veil, and you shall serve.
Speaker 1: I give your priesthood to you as a gift for service.
Speaker 1: But the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
Speaker 1: So these are the duties of the priest and the Levites,
Speaker 1: letting him know that no outsider needs to come in anymore.
Speaker 1: And basically he's just telling them the duties, their duties. Okay,
Speaker 1: now let's check out this offerings for support of the priest.
Speaker 1: Let's see what this is. This is going to be
Speaker 1: talking about offerings or tithing. Okay, this is something that
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about it before we start this number
Speaker 1: eighteen eight. So sometimes when you go to you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I noticed with families sometimes you know, you go
Speaker 1: to tithe and maybe the husband's more willing to give
Speaker 1: and the wife's not. Or sometimes the wife is more
Speaker 1: willing to give and the husband is not. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes both are just happy to give, you know. So,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about in a church setting. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about what meaning what we have going on here.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like a church setting and like tithing,
Speaker 1: and and to be honest, when it comes to the Bible,
Speaker 1: they talk about, you know, ten percent tithe, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's what they they were required to do back
Speaker 1: in the day. That was that was what they were
Speaker 1: required to do. Now you know, it's it's different. It's
Speaker 1: like the new testing is more give whatever's on your heart, right,
Speaker 1: So there's not like a percentage or something like that.
Speaker 1: Now some people are stark on that ten percent, you know,
Speaker 1: like like they have to give ten percent and God
Speaker 1: will bless you. You know, if you do give like that,
Speaker 1: you know that that's God will will bless you in
Speaker 1: different ways. Not saying he's gonna bless you but money,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna bless you in different ways, you know. So,
Speaker 1: But God loves a cheerful giver, right, But I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. With my ministry that I do here, I
Speaker 1: I try to get paid from you know, if Spotify
Speaker 1: wants to pay me, which I don't get paid from them,
Speaker 1: or if you two wants to pay me, then cool.
Speaker 1: If you know Colt the Conspiracy wants to pay me
Speaker 1: for doing these shows, cool, But I don't ask for
Speaker 1: money from the viewers or the people. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't have a Patreon, but but people still give, which
Speaker 1: is crazy once in a while, you know, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I had this this one gentleman that blew my mind.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. You know, his name is Brad,
Speaker 1: and he's just an amazing guy, and Brad Gillis is
Speaker 1: his name, and uh, he blew my mind, you know.
Speaker 1: But but the thing about it, I think it's better
Speaker 1: for me to not ask for money or anything. Since
Speaker 1: I have a full time job. God has blessed me
Speaker 1: with the full time job. I work in the water industry.
Speaker 1: I'm also a disabled vet. I have all this stuff
Speaker 1: going on, you know, you know, and if someone decides
Speaker 1: to bless me with money, if someone decides to bless
Speaker 1: me with money, then I'll have God lead you to that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and be like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you know money for the industry, because I don't have
Speaker 1: a building. First of all, I don't have overhead. It's
Speaker 1: just me, my little smiley face here. So what do
Speaker 1: I need? You know, all I need is just people
Speaker 1: to be getting saved. That's what I need. So I'd
Speaker 1: rather you guys do. And then there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are struggling out there, and I would never
Speaker 1: want someone that's struggling to try to send me money.
Speaker 1: No way. I want you to keep your money or
Speaker 1: take it and give it to the homeless or something.
Speaker 1: So but anyways, but in that's church setting, where they
Speaker 1: have overhead, they have people and all these different things
Speaker 1: going on. That's different I can understand because that's that's
Speaker 1: how the pastor makes his living and that's his job.
Speaker 1: This right here, this is right here that I'm doing.
Speaker 1: This is like my extracurricular activity for the Lord and
Speaker 1: I get blessed in different ways. So so my point
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying right now is not for you
Speaker 1: to offer anything to me. This is for me just
Speaker 1: to tell you, like from a church standpoint, you know,
Speaker 1: so I just want you guys to know that. But
Speaker 1: this is offerings for support of the priest. This is
Speaker 1: you know, back then in the Old Testament, you know,
Speaker 1: it's different. This is what God is saying to to
Speaker 1: the to the priest, and the Lord spoke to Aaron. Here,
Speaker 1: I myself have also given you charge of my heave offerings.
Speaker 1: Oh my whole point to saying that sometimes there's like
Speaker 1: a husband that that that that doesn't want to give
Speaker 1: and the wife does want to give or the you know,
Speaker 1: either way. So what I would say is both get
Speaker 1: together so you don't cause fights or any kind of arguments.
Speaker 1: Both of you get together and pray about it, right
Speaker 1: and then also you know, if you don't want if
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to give money or he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to give money to the Lord, at least try to
Speaker 1: give something like maybe serve, maybe watch the kids for
Speaker 1: the church, maybe do something if if if you're not
Speaker 1: financially able in the position to do that, you can
Speaker 1: maybe give your time, you know. And there's just different
Speaker 1: avenues you could do to give to the Lord. It's
Speaker 1: not about just like, hey, let me just write a
Speaker 1: check though it in the and the hat and I'm good.
Speaker 1: You know, you could either do there's other different ways.
Speaker 1: So just wanted to let you guys know that if
Speaker 1: you guys are attending a church, there's ways to provide
Speaker 1: for the church where it's not just financial. Maybe if
Speaker 1: someone doesn't like to give money to the church, you
Speaker 1: can maybe provided in a different way. Sometimes they have
Speaker 1: events that they throw firework carnivals. Maybe you could, you know,
Speaker 1: volunteer or something. There's just different ways you can you
Speaker 1: can offer to the Lord. But let me just continue.
Speaker 1: This is numbers eighteen, verse eight. And the Lord spoke
Speaker 1: to Aaron. Here, I myself has also given you charge
Speaker 1: of my heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the
Speaker 1: children of Israel. I have given them as a portion
Speaker 1: to you and your sons as an ordinance forever, this
Speaker 1: shall be yours of the most holy things reserved for
Speaker 1: the fire. Every offering of theirs, every grain offering, and
Speaker 1: every sin offering, and every trespass offering which they render
Speaker 1: to me shall be most holy for you and your
Speaker 1: sons in the most holy place. You shall eat it.
Speaker 1: Every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.
Speaker 1: This also was yours the heave offering of their gift,
Speaker 1: with all the wave offerings, and the children of Israel.
Speaker 1: I have given them to you and your sons and
Speaker 1: the daughters of you as an ordinance forever. Everyone who
Speaker 1: is clean in your house may eat it. So this
Speaker 1: is more like almost like the member when we were
Speaker 1: in Leviticus, is kind of like Levitical laws, kind of
Speaker 1: just retold just to make sure that everybody knows, just
Speaker 1: to make sure that you know, to make sure that
Speaker 1: Aaron knows. So numbers eighteen verse twelve. All the best
Speaker 1: of the oil, all the best of the new wine,
Speaker 1: and the grain, their first first fruits, which they offer
Speaker 1: to the Lord. I have given them to you. Whatever
Speaker 1: first ripe fruit is in their land, which they bring
Speaker 1: to the Lord, shall be yours. Everyone who is cleaned
Speaker 1: in your house may eat it. Every devoted thing in
Speaker 1: Israel shall be yours. Everything that first opens the womb
Speaker 1: of all the flesh. Flesh which they bring to the Lord,
Speaker 1: whether man or beast, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn
Speaker 1: of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of
Speaker 1: unclean animals you shall redeem. And those redeemed of the
Speaker 1: devoted things shall redeem when one month old, according to
Speaker 1: your evaluation for the five shekels of silver, according to
Speaker 1: the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty guarrant gharas.
Speaker 1: But the firstborn of a cow, the firstborn of a sheep,
Speaker 1: or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem.
Speaker 1: They are holy. You shall speak of their blood on
Speaker 1: the altar and burn their fat as an offering made
Speaker 1: by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. And
Speaker 1: their flesh shall be yours, just as the wave, breast
Speaker 1: and the right thigh are yours. All the heave offerings
Speaker 1: of the holy things which the children of Israel offer
Speaker 1: to the Lord. I have given to you and your
Speaker 1: sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever. It
Speaker 1: is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord, that
Speaker 1: you and your descendants with you. Then the Lord said
Speaker 1: to Aaron, you shall have no inheritance in their land,
Speaker 1: nor shall you have any portion among them. I am
Speaker 1: your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.
Speaker 1: So they get all these special things, but they're not
Speaker 1: getting an inheritance of land, nor shall you have any
Speaker 1: portion among them. I am your portion, My God, is
Speaker 1: your portion, your inheritance among the children of visual I'm
Speaker 1: sure I don't know. I'm just speculating that they'll have
Speaker 1: an inheritance in the Kingdom of heaven. Come on, So now,
Speaker 1: why would the Lord do that. I'm just speculating here,
Speaker 1: Probably because they don't want to get that greed going
Speaker 1: in their mind. They don't want to get their mind
Speaker 1: thinking about their inheritance and their land and their money
Speaker 1: and they're this and that, Like he doesn't want them
Speaker 1: to be thinking about that, that greedy part. What's happens.
Speaker 1: You know, if you ever see somebody die, you see
Speaker 1: the family come running for that land, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what happens. And so it seems like God is saying,
Speaker 1: I am your inheritance. So God knows best. We know that.
Speaker 1: Now here's the part about the tie. I was one
Speaker 1: chapter ahead Ties for Support of the Levites. Now, let
Speaker 1: me mind you, the Levites don't have a job. They
Speaker 1: don't have land, and they don't have sheep. Right, they're
Speaker 1: not they don't have a garden because they don't have
Speaker 1: a place to live. They're like literally doing this all
Speaker 1: the time. So this is their job, right, So this
Speaker 1: is what's the This is the ties to support the Levites. Behold,
Speaker 1: I have given the children of Levi all the tithes
Speaker 1: in Israel as an inheritance, in return for the work
Speaker 1: which they perform the work of the Tabernacle of Meeting.
Speaker 1: Here After, the children of Israel shall not come near
Speaker 1: the Tabernacle of Meeting, lest they bear the sin and die.
Speaker 1: But the Levites shall perform the work of the Tabernacle
Speaker 1: of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall
Speaker 1: be a statute forever throughout your generations that among the
Speaker 1: children of Israel they shall have no inheritance for the
Speaker 1: tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer up
Speaker 1: as a heave offering to the Lord. I have given
Speaker 1: to the Levites as an inheritance. Therefore, I have said
Speaker 1: to them, among the children of Israel, they shall have
Speaker 1: no inheritance all right. Now let's see what it says
Speaker 1: about the tithe of the Levites. So this is getting interesting.
Speaker 1: It's kind of good stuff to know, you know, for
Speaker 1: Old Testament, to kind of see what where God was
Speaker 1: at with the priest. So now we're at me go
Speaker 1: back to my notes. We're still in eighteen, all right,
Speaker 1: So eighteen numbers eighteen, verse twenty five. Then the Lord
Speaker 1: spoke to Moses, saying, speak thus to the Levites, and
Speaker 1: say to them, when you take from the children of
Speaker 1: Israel the tie which I have given you from them
Speaker 1: as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave
Speaker 1: offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe.
Speaker 1: And then you heave offering shall be reckoned to you
Speaker 1: as though it were grained as the threshing floor, and
Speaker 1: as the fullness of the wine press. Thus you shall
Speaker 1: also offer a heave offering to the Lord from all
Speaker 1: of your tithes which you receive from the children of Issuel.
Speaker 1: You shall give the Lord heat Lord's heave offering from
Speaker 1: it to Aaron, the Priest. Of all your gifts. You
Speaker 1: shall offer up every heave offering due to the Lord
Speaker 1: from all the best of them. The consecrated part of them.
Speaker 1: Therefore you shall say to them, when you have lifted
Speaker 1: up the best of it, then the rest shall be
Speaker 1: accounted to them. The Levite counted to the Levites as
Speaker 1: the produce of the threshold floor, as the produce of
Speaker 1: the wine press. You may eat it in any place
Speaker 1: you and your households, for it is your reward for
Speaker 1: your work in the tabernacle of meeting. And you shall
Speaker 1: bear no sin because of it when you have lifted
Speaker 1: up the best of it. But you shall not prof
Speaker 1: the holy gifts of the children of Israel, lest you die.
Speaker 1: So talking about the tithes, but you know understand, you
Speaker 1: know why they would get the tithe and you guys
Speaker 1: should understand exactly why that's even going on. In the
Speaker 1: first place. We've gone through all of the Book of Leviticus,
Speaker 1: which is just I mean just, I mean the whole
Speaker 1: book was like that almost I didn't really get it.
Speaker 1: You guys stuck with me through that. Yeah, praise God,
Speaker 1: you know, because as the teacher of that, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is getting really interesting. So now we're in numbers nineteen,
Speaker 1: I kind of got like a little steady guide. It's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Helps me out. It's actually from Bible Hub,
Speaker 1: so it'll help me. So numbers nineteen Laws of Purification.
Speaker 1: So it looks like we're gonna be going over the
Speaker 1: red heffer ritual. So let's ooh wow, Okay, it's a
Speaker 1: quick chapter. So we have numbers nineteen verse one. Now,
Speaker 1: if you have made it to this point, I want
Speaker 1: you to comment on Spotify and say hey, I made
Speaker 1: it to numbers nineteen. God is Great or whatever you
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Speaker 1: If you guys could leave a written review, that'd be
Speaker 1: really cool. Numbers nineteen, verse one, Laws of Purification. Now
Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying this is
Speaker 1: the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying,
Speaker 1: speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you
Speaker 1: a red heifer without blemish, in which there is no defect,
Speaker 1: and on which say yoke has never come. You shall
Speaker 1: give it to Elias are the priests, that he may
Speaker 1: take it outside the camp and shall be slaughtered before
Speaker 1: him and Eliezar. The priest shall take some of its
Speaker 1: blood with its finger and sprinkle some of its blood
Speaker 1: seven times directly in front of the tabernacle of meeting.
Speaker 1: Then the heifer shall be burned in its sight, it's hide,
Speaker 1: its flesh, its blood, and its oval shall be burned,
Speaker 1: And the priest shall take cedar wood and hysup and
Speaker 1: scarlet and cast him in the midst of the burning
Speaker 1: fire of the heifer. Then the priest shall wash his clothes,
Speaker 1: he shall bathe in water, and afterward he shall come
Speaker 1: into the camp. The priest shall be unclean until evening.
Speaker 1: The one who burns it shall wash his clothes in water,
Speaker 1: bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening, because
Speaker 1: they touched the dead body. Right then the man who
Speaker 1: is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer
Speaker 1: and store them outside the camp in a clean place,
Speaker 1: and they shall be kept from the congregation of the
Speaker 1: children of Israel. For the water of purification. It is
Speaker 1: for the purifying from sin. Okay, So that's what the
Speaker 1: whole thing is, for purification, purifying of sin. The red heifer.
Speaker 1: Now you hear a lot about the red heifer in
Speaker 1: you know, for the end times to come. That's very
Speaker 1: interesting that they have this in the Book of Numbers
Speaker 1: as well. So what it says in my study guide
Speaker 1: about those first ten verses. In these verses, God instructs
Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron about the red heifer ritual. I read,
Speaker 1: heifer without blemish to be slaughtered outside the camp and
Speaker 1: lie Aaron sun is to sprinkle some of the blood
Speaker 1: in front of the tent meeting. The heifer is then
Speaker 1: burned along with the cedar wood. We understand we already
Speaker 1: read that and the scarlet wool. The ashes are used
Speaker 1: in the water of purification. So that's what the ashes
Speaker 1: are used for the water purification. Wow, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: So we'll continue in verse ten, it says Numbers nineteen,
Speaker 1: verse ten, and the one who gathers the ashes of
Speaker 1: the heifer shall wash his clothes and be uncleaned until evening.
Speaker 1: It shall be a statute forever to the children of
Speaker 1: Issuel and to the stranger who dwells among them. Okay,
Speaker 1: so keep that in mind, that red heifer, this whole
Speaker 1: thing for the end times. And when we go over
Speaker 1: that in the New Testament and we go to over
Speaker 1: to Revelation Book of Daniel, you know prophecy, right, just
Speaker 1: just keep that in mind for when we go over that.
Speaker 1: Stick that in the back of your head until we
Speaker 1: get to the Red Heifer and everything that is supposed
Speaker 1: to happen. I know that people have different eschatologies, okay,
Speaker 1: and people will jump all over me like the Red
Speaker 1: Heffer doesn't it already happened and we're in Satan's little
Speaker 1: season whatever people want to say, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about from some eschatologies, believe the red
Speaker 1: Heffer is going to happen. All right now, you guys
Speaker 1: already know where I'm at with eschatology or end Times.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm at. So many people have
Speaker 1: gone over end Times on my show that I'm kind
Speaker 1: of just I need to get back and study it.
Speaker 1: But right now I'm studying the Book of Numbers, so
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to jump over to that. Let's continue
Speaker 1: all right now. We're gonna go through the Laws of
Speaker 1: Purification Verses eleven through twenty two. He touches the dead
Speaker 1: body of anyone. He who touches the dead body of
Speaker 1: anyone shall be unclean seven days. He shall purify himself
Speaker 1: with water on the third day, and on the seventh day,
Speaker 1: then he will be clean. But if he does not
Speaker 1: purify himself on the third day on the seventh day,
Speaker 1: he will not be clean. Whoever touches the body of
Speaker 1: anyone who has died and does not purify himself defiles
Speaker 1: the tabernacle of the Lord. That person shall be cut
Speaker 1: off from Israel. He shall be unclean because the water
Speaker 1: purification was not sprinkled on him. His uncleanliness is still
Speaker 1: on him. Right, we're in numbers nineteen, verse fourteen. This
Speaker 1: is the law. When a man dies in a tent,
Speaker 1: all who come into the tent and all who are
Speaker 1: in the tent shall be uncleaned seven days. And every
Speaker 1: open vessel which has no cover fastened on it is unclean.
Speaker 1: Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain
Speaker 1: by a sword, or who has died, or a bone
Speaker 1: of a man or a grave, shall be uncleaned seven days.
Speaker 1: Let me look something up real quick, Okay, So we'll
Speaker 1: look into the notes real fast. So the remaining versus
Speaker 1: outline the laws of purification, including how one becomes impure
Speaker 1: by touching a dead body and how one is to
Speaker 1: be purified. Thereafter, the text further provides instruction for people
Speaker 1: who have come into contact with the dead, the specific
Speaker 1: steps for purification and the consequences of non compliance. So
Speaker 1: understand guys that, yeah, there's just there's instructions that are
Speaker 1: provided for people that do this, and God is saying
Speaker 1: that you're unclean, so let's continue numbers nineteen seventeen. So basically,
Speaker 1: you're unclean or you're unholy. Numbers nineteen, verse seventeen. And
Speaker 1: for an unclean person, they shall take some of the
Speaker 1: ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin, and
Speaker 1: running waters shall be put on them in a vessel.
Speaker 1: A clean person shall take hiss up and dip it
Speaker 1: in the water, sprinkle it on the tent, on all
Speaker 1: the vessels of the persons who were there, excuse me,
Speaker 1: on the one who touched a bone, the slain, the dead,
Speaker 1: or a grave. The clean person shall sprinkle the unclean
Speaker 1: on the third day, and on the seventh day. On
Speaker 1: the seventh day, he shall purify himself, wash his clothes,
Speaker 1: and bathe in water, and at the evening he shall
Speaker 1: be clean. But the man who is unclean and does
Speaker 1: not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from
Speaker 1: among the assembly. Because he has defiled the sanctuary of
Speaker 1: the Lord. The water of purification has not been sprinkled
Speaker 1: on him, he is unclean. It shall be perpetual statute
Speaker 1: for them. He who sprinkles the water purification shall wash
Speaker 1: his clothes. And he who touches the water the purification
Speaker 1: shall be unclean until evening. Whatever the unclean person touches
Speaker 1: shall be unclean, and the person who touches it shall
Speaker 1: be unclean until evening. So luckily, here in America, we
Speaker 1: don't really have to deal with that. When someone passes away,
Speaker 1: most of the time you don't have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: You call the police, you call fire department, you call
Speaker 1: the ambulance, and an ambulance. You call the ambulance and
Speaker 1: they will come and they will call a corner. The
Speaker 1: corner will take the dead body and you don't really
Speaker 1: have to touch it. So we really don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about it as much. But back then they didn't
Speaker 1: have a corner they could call. They had to do
Speaker 1: it themselves orhas you know, maybe like a family member
Speaker 1: do it. And God is just saying like, hey, there's
Speaker 1: different steps you have to take to become clean again,
Speaker 1: and you need to follow these and this is just
Speaker 1: really strict, and it's something that that there's a reason
Speaker 1: for it. And a lot of the reasons for things
Speaker 1: is because God wants to separate you from the people.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're touching dead bodies, there could be some
Speaker 1: diseases and there could be something so you're unclean. So
Speaker 1: just like when you have some type of disease, God
Speaker 1: is separating you from the camp. You know, there's certain
Speaker 1: things that God does, there's laws that God sets forth
Speaker 1: for reasons, right, and holiness and separation happens. Right. So
Speaker 1: the chapter underscores the importance of holiness and separation from impurity,
Speaker 1: reflecting on God's nature and his call for his people
Speaker 1: to be set apart. Right, that's what the whole thing's about,
Speaker 1: being set apart practical applications. Just as the Isleites were
Speaker 1: called to be holy, we are too to be called
Speaker 1: to pursue holiness in our daily lives. Avoid spiritual defilement,
Speaker 1: of course, avoid things that cause you to be separate
Speaker 1: from God. Anytime you sin, you're separate from God. So
Speaker 1: the practical applications would be pursue holiness, recognize the need
Speaker 1: for cleansing, acknowledge the areas in your life that require
Speaker 1: spiritual cleansing and seek God's forgiveness and renewal. That's definitely important.
Speaker 1: Embrace God's sacrifice. That's something I always say, Embrace what
Speaker 1: God did for us on the cross, right, and embrace
Speaker 1: what Jesus did for us on the cross because it
Speaker 1: provides us with complete purification from sin. So that's why
Speaker 1: I always say, like, there's all these laws that are
Speaker 1: put in place. You have to follow the law, you
Speaker 1: have to fallow this, you have to follow that in
Speaker 1: order to even pray to God. You know, now we
Speaker 1: have Jesus dying on the cross, and he is the
Speaker 1: bridge between us and God. So all that unholiness between
Speaker 1: us and God, it gets bridged by us leaving what
Speaker 1: Jesus did on the cross, right, So it's just amazing.
Speaker 1: Anything else I could kind of at the events burning
Speaker 1: the half for additional suitorod I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: anything else I can kind of go over in these notes.
Speaker 1: So connections to the scriptures. So if you want to
Speaker 1: look up Hebrews nine, verses thirteen through fourteen, that this
Speaker 1: passage connects the purification rituals of the Old Testament to
Speaker 1: the Superior cleansing and the power of Christ's blood. If
Speaker 1: you go to one Peter one fifteen through sixteen, a
Speaker 1: call to holiness echoing the theme of being set apart
Speaker 1: as God's people. And then if you go to Tewo
Speaker 1: Corinthian six seventeen and encourage the believers to separate themselves
Speaker 1: from impurity and live as God's holy people. If you
Speaker 1: want to go to those, you could see what I
Speaker 1: just explained. Right there, there's a whole bunch of study
Speaker 1: notes and everything. So now I'm going to go to
Speaker 1: numbers twenty verse one, and I got this neat little
Speaker 1: study guide here to help me, and I got notes,
Speaker 1: So what a blessing? All right? Numbers twenty verse one.
Speaker 1: Then the Children of Israel, the whole congregation came into
Speaker 1: the wilderness of Zen in the first month, and they
Speaker 1: stayed in Kadesh, and Mariam died there and was buried there. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now we have Mariam who is Aaron and Moses
Speaker 1: family member. That's their sister.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So children of visual the whole congression came into the
Speaker 1: wilderness of Zen in the first month, and the people
Speaker 1: stayed in Kadesh, and Marriam died there and was buried there.
Speaker 1: So Marriam passed away. That's going to be Moses and
Speaker 1: Aaron's sister. So let's let's go numbers twenty verse two.
Speaker 1: Now there was no water for the congregation, so they
Speaker 1: gathered together against Moses and Aaron and the people. The
Speaker 1: people contended with Moses and spoke saying, if only we
Speaker 1: had died when our brethren died before the Lord, why
Speaker 1: have we brought up the assembly to the Lord and
Speaker 1: to the wilderness, and we and our animals should die here?
Speaker 1: Why have you brought us okay, why have you brought
Speaker 1: up the assembly of the Lord into the wilderness that
Speaker 1: we and our animals should die here? So they're some
Speaker 1: more contentions, some more grumbling, some more complaining, and they're
Speaker 1: putting it all on Moses, right, so saying that they
Speaker 1: wish they would have died, you know, and the other
Speaker 1: people died like man. Now we're in numbers twenty verse five.
Speaker 1: And why have you made us come up out of
Speaker 1: the Egypt to bring us to this evil place? Is
Speaker 1: it not a place of grain or figs, or vines
Speaker 1: or popranates, nor is there any water to drink? So
Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly
Speaker 1: to the door of the tabernacle meeting, and they fell
Speaker 1: on their faces, and the glory of the Lord appeared
Speaker 1: to them. Now that this is, you know, the famous thing,
Speaker 1: the famous uh part, when Moses hits the rock. Right.
Speaker 1: So then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, take the
Speaker 1: rod or staff, right, you and your brother Aaron, gathered
Speaker 1: the congregation together, speak to the rock before their eyes,
Speaker 1: and it and it will yield its water. Thus you
Speaker 1: shall bring water from out of the rock and give
Speaker 1: drink to the congregation and their animals. So Moses took
Speaker 1: the rod from before the Lord as he commanded him,
Speaker 1: and Moses and Aarin gathered the assembly before the rock,
Speaker 1: and he said to them here now you rebels, must
Speaker 1: must we bring water from out of this rock. Then
Speaker 1: Moses lifted his hand and instruct the rock twice with
Speaker 1: the rod, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation
Speaker 1: of the animals drank. So then the Lord spoke to
Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron, say, because you did not believe me
Speaker 1: to hollow me in the eyes of the childreners there,
Speaker 1: therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land
Speaker 1: which I have given them. So so we'll go into
Speaker 1: the steady God. So Verses one through five, and the
Speaker 1: first month, the Israelites arrived at the desert of Zen
Speaker 1: and stay in Cadessh. There, Miriam dies and is buried.
Speaker 1: The community faces the water shorders, and they gather against
Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron, complaining about their circumstances. Now Verses six
Speaker 1: through eleven, which we were kind of going through. Right there,
Speaker 1: it says Moses and Aaron seek God's counsel at the
Speaker 1: tent of meeting, which is what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Right They're supposed to go to the Lord. So they did.
Speaker 1: Right right there, God instructs Moses to speak to the
Speaker 1: rock before the Israelites and it'll yield water.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: So Moses is instructed by God, like right here, thank
Speaker 1: the rod. You and your brother Aaron gathered congregations speak
Speaker 1: to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield water.
Speaker 1: So Moses did not do as God instructed. You can
Speaker 1: hear what you can hear his tone right here, because
Speaker 1: you have an exclamation point here. Now you rebels must
Speaker 1: must we bring water out of this rock. Then Moses
Speaker 1: lifted his hand, struck the rock twice with the rod,
Speaker 1: and water came out of bundantly and the congregation of
Speaker 1: the animal's rank. So God still blessed them with the water.
Speaker 1: And still because they needed water, God wanted them to
Speaker 1: depend on the Lord. Now, Moses and there did the
Speaker 1: correct thing by going to the Lord. Right, they brought
Speaker 1: the matter to the Lord, which is perfect. But when
Speaker 1: when you bring a matter to the Lord, and the
Speaker 1: Lord and tells you to do something, you better do
Speaker 1: it correctly and don't do so much frustration because you
Speaker 1: tell here now, you rebels, you see how he's mad?
Speaker 1: Must we be bringing from out this rock? Then Moses
Speaker 1: lifted his hand and struck the rock twice too, boom boom,
Speaker 1: like as if he was mad. It sounds like. Then
Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to Moses in entry, because you did
Speaker 1: not believe me to hollow me in the eyes of
Speaker 1: the children miser Therefore, you should not bring this assembly
Speaker 1: into the land which I've given them. This was the
Speaker 1: water in Marabah. Because the children of Isuel contended with
Speaker 1: the Lord, then he has hollowed among them, separate from them.
Speaker 1: Let's see what it says here in the study Guide.
Speaker 1: Because of Moses's disobedience, God decrees that neither Moses nor
Speaker 1: Aaron will lead the Israelites into the Promised Land. This
Speaker 1: event is referred to as the waters of Mirabah, where
Speaker 1: the Israelites quarreled with God, where he showed himself holding
Speaker 1: among them. Let's see that that word Maraba, Marabah. I
Speaker 1: think I've heard that before. I think I told you
Speaker 1: guys that means quarrel with God. Let's make sure that
Speaker 1: I'm correct. Here, we're in numbers twenty verse thirteen. Numbers
Speaker 1: twenty verse thirteen. This is the water of Maraba. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what that means. I think it means quarrel
Speaker 1: with God. Strife or contention, That's what it means. Marabah
Speaker 1: means strife or contention, Strife for contention. So Maraba strife
Speaker 1: for contention, that's what they have against the Lord, strife
Speaker 1: or contention. The name of the water supply of Cadesh
Speaker 1: and the southern border promised to lend that people also
Speaker 1: murdered here against God. Okay, yeah, so we did talk
Speaker 1: about Marabah before. I think of the Book of Exodus,
Speaker 1: and we spoke of that. And Mirrabal was in Exodus
Speaker 1: seventeen seven, and he called the name of the place
Speaker 1: Massah and Marabah numbers twenty verse thirteen, this is the
Speaker 1: water of Maraba, and then numbers twenty twenty four, which
Speaker 1: we'll read right now. It also says Marribal, So it
Speaker 1: just kind of wanted to look that up for you guys.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's go to numbers twenty verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: Now Moses sent messengers from Kadish to the king of
Speaker 1: Edom Edomites. Oh, you know the Edomites are from Esau, right,
Speaker 1: is that who this is the king of Edom. Let's
Speaker 1: see eat them, eat them, eat them, eat them, eat
Speaker 1: them and eat them read eat them Edomites. Yeah, descendants
Speaker 1: of Esau. Yes, the Cysts. So now Moses sent messengers
Speaker 1: from Kadesh passage through Eatom refused. Oh that's what That's
Speaker 1: what the the the main thing of this is. It's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting here. Now Moses sent messengers from
Speaker 1: Cadesh to the king of Edom or the Edomites. Thus
Speaker 1: says your brother, Thus says your brother Israel. You know
Speaker 1: all the hardship that has befallen us, How our fathers
Speaker 1: went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a
Speaker 1: long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
Speaker 1: When we cried out to the Lord, we we heard
Speaker 1: our He heard our voice and sent the angel and
Speaker 1: brought us up out of Egypt. Now here we are
Speaker 1: in Kadesh, a city at the edge of your border.
Speaker 1: Please let us pass through your country. We will not
Speaker 1: pass through fields, or nor will we drink water from wells.
Speaker 1: We will go along the King's highway, and we will
Speaker 1: not turn aside at the right hand or to the left.
Speaker 1: That we have passed through your territory. Then Edam said
Speaker 1: to him, you shall not pass through my land, lest
Speaker 1: I come out against you with sword. So the chosen
Speaker 1: of Israel said to him, we will go by the highway,
Speaker 1: and if I or my lovestock drink any of your water,
Speaker 1: then I will pay for it. Let me pass through
Speaker 1: on foot nothing more. Then he said, you shall not
Speaker 1: pass through. So came out against them with many men
Speaker 1: with a strong hand. Thus Eden refused to give Israel
Speaker 1: passes to his territory. So Israel turned away from him.
Speaker 1: How interesting the way that they're talking here. Thus, your
Speaker 1: brother Israel, you know, your brother Jacob. The way that
Speaker 1: they're talking here, Let me see what the Because Moses disobedience,
Speaker 1: God decreases that neither. Okay, that's twelve and thirteen. Let's
Speaker 1: see what the study guide says about these verses, because
Speaker 1: the way that they're talking is is really really interesting
Speaker 1: that thus, your brother Israel, your brother Jacob. Right, so
Speaker 1: they're talking about their descendants and counter with Eaedom. Moses
Speaker 1: sends messengers to the King of Edom asking for permission
Speaker 1: to pass through his land. Despite repeating pleas, the King
Speaker 1: of Edom refuses and shows up with the formidable army.
Speaker 1: The Israelites turn away and do not engage in a confrontation.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's interesting right there. Right, So it's
Speaker 1: fascinating when excuse me, when you notice certain names or
Speaker 1: certain things like eat them. Sometimes maybe some people would
Speaker 1: read that and not connect that to the Edomites, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's his descendants, right, and that's why they say, that's
Speaker 1: your brother Israel, who is Jacob. So we'll continue numbers
Speaker 1: twenty Verse twenty two the death of Aaron. Wow, now
Speaker 1: we have Aaron dying. Now the Chosen of Israel. The
Speaker 1: whole congregation journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Horror
Speaker 1: or Horror, I don't know, it's h R. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm saying that correctly. Forgive me if I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it right. Maybe it's Or instead of Horror.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Mount Or, and the Lord spoke to
Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron in Mount Horror, by the border of
Speaker 1: the land of Edom, saying, Aaron shall be gathered to
Speaker 1: his people, and he shall not enter the land which
Speaker 1: I have given to the children of Israel, because you
Speaker 1: rebelled against my word at the water of Marabah. Take
Speaker 1: Aaron and Elias are his son, and bring them up
Speaker 1: to Mount Horror, and strip Aaron of his garments and
Speaker 1: put them on Aliae'zer's son, Elias are his son, For
Speaker 1: Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.
Speaker 1: So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they
Speaker 1: went up to Mount Or in the sight of all
Speaker 1: and congregation of all the congregation, Moses stripped Aaron of
Speaker 1: his garments and put them on alias Or his son,
Speaker 1: and Aaron died on the top of the mountain. Then
Speaker 1: Moses and Elisiard came down from the mountain. Now, when
Speaker 1: all the congregations saw that Aaron was dead, all the
Speaker 1: house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days. So so
Speaker 1: they mourned for Aaron. What I would say, you know, personally,
Speaker 1: this is just me. I'm not a I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: you guys can mourn for You can mourn for like
Speaker 1: the people because they're gonna be missing Aaron and missing
Speaker 1: his leadership. But don't mourn for Aaron, because I mean,
Speaker 1: where's Aaron gonna go. He's gonna go to Paradise hopefully,
Speaker 1: which at the time was inside the earth. You had
Speaker 1: shield on one side and then you had Paradise on
Speaker 1: the other side. So at least he's going to Paradise.
Speaker 1: He's not going to Heaven yet, not until Jesus dies
Speaker 1: on the cross. So so let's see death of Aaron.
Speaker 1: God tells Moses and Aaron. This is out of the
Speaker 1: study notes, right, This is out the study Bible. It
Speaker 1: says God tells Moses and Aaron to go to Mount Or.
Speaker 1: There Aaron will die and be gathered to the people
Speaker 1: since he will not enter the promised land. Moses follows
Speaker 1: God's instruction, and in the presence of the entire community,
Speaker 1: Aaron dies on Mount Or. Number twenty is a pointed
Speaker 1: chapter in the Bible that focuses on the people of
Speaker 1: visual during their wilderness wanderings. This chapter describes a complaint
Speaker 1: due to the lack of water, the miraculous provision of
Speaker 1: water that the rock, Moses acts of disobedience, Aaron's death
Speaker 1: and their action of king edom. Yeah, oh, that's just
Speaker 1: going over with. The number twenty is about the death
Speaker 1: of Miriam. Aaron's death marks another transition and leaderships and
Speaker 1: serve as a reminder of the mortality and the accountability
Speaker 1: of God's leaders. Definitely practical applications, Like what can we
Speaker 1: put as practical applications in our life? Trust in God's instructions. Amen,
Speaker 1: That's something we should definitely do when even when circumstances
Speaker 1: are challenging, we must trust and obey God's specifics instructions
Speaker 1: rather than relying on our own understanding. Amen to that.
Speaker 1: That's very true. Guard against frustration. Like Moses, we must
Speaker 1: be cautious not to let frustration lead us frustration lead
Speaker 1: us to disobedience. Seeking God's peace in difficult times is crucial. Yes,
Speaker 1: So don't be quick to be angered, right, don't be
Speaker 1: quick to anger. Take a deep breath, especially if it's
Speaker 1: an instruction from God. You should handle it, you know,
Speaker 1: you should handle it like something special. You know like
Speaker 1: you're carrying something special. You're doing something special because because
Speaker 1: God instructed you instead of taking your frustrations out on
Speaker 1: the rock, which sounds like you have an attitude which
Speaker 1: you know, ay, God gives us. God gives us these children,
Speaker 1: these little children, these kids that we take care of,
Speaker 1: you know, these babies that God gives us, these precious
Speaker 1: little things. And then sometimes we get frustrated with them,
Speaker 1: and God's instruction is to raise them up in the Lord.
Speaker 1: That would be something we give us to a practical application.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we might get frustrated against our kids and it
Speaker 1: gets frustrating, of course, but God has instructed us to
Speaker 1: take care of these little ones. Whether therefore you eat,
Speaker 1: or you drink, or whatever you do, do all to
Speaker 1: the glory of God. One Corinthians ten thirty one. Right,
Speaker 1: So do all to the glory of God. So try
Speaker 1: to guard yourself against frustration, guard yourself against anger. That
Speaker 1: is such a good thing. Practical applications. Another one would
Speaker 1: be acknowledge God's holiness. Recognize the importance of honoring God's
Speaker 1: holiness and our actions and words. As Moses, failure to
Speaker 1: do so had significant consequences. You see, now, God's not
Speaker 1: able doesn't talk to us and tell us like, hey,
Speaker 1: since you made that choice, I'm gonna do this. See,
Speaker 1: but it's happening in the spiritual So sometimes we might
Speaker 1: do something that causes God to put our life on
Speaker 1: a different track than it was going to be on
Speaker 1: if you would have just obeyed, Which is amazing. These
Speaker 1: little choices that we make, these little anger that we get,
Speaker 1: these little frustrations that we get, we might be pushing
Speaker 1: our life into it. You know, there's a four the road.
Speaker 1: We might be putshing it in a different way because
Speaker 1: we weren't obedient to the Lord. Leadership accountability leaders are
Speaker 1: held in a high standard, but must lead by example,
Speaker 1: demonstrating faith and obedience to God, that's for sure. So
Speaker 1: all right, so that is numbers twenty. Hopefully you guys
Speaker 1: like this little study guides. I kind of enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I like it. I think it's it really assists me
Speaker 1: on giving you guys practical applications what that own't always
Speaker 1: get to do. Here we go, now we're going to
Speaker 1: be on numbers twenty one. Verse one, Canaanites defeated at Urmah,
Speaker 1: the king of Arid, the Canaanite who dwelt in the south,
Speaker 1: heard that Israel was coming on the road to Athereum.
Speaker 1: Then he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoners.
Speaker 1: So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said,
Speaker 1: if you will indeed deliver this people into my hand,
Speaker 1: then I will utterly destroy their cities. And the Lord
Speaker 1: listened to the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites,
Speaker 1: and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the
Speaker 1: name of that place was called Ormah. So what do
Speaker 1: we need to know? I don't know. What does horma mean?
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. Numbers twenty one, verse three.
Speaker 1: He called the place Hormah. Why why is it called Hormah?
Speaker 1: Is there some kind of because they defeated him? Or
Speaker 1: what horma means? Devotion? A town of the Canaanknites, conquered
Speaker 1: by Joshua, a lot of the Judah and located in
Speaker 1: the south, located in the south of Judah. Devotion is
Speaker 1: what Horma means. So the name place was called devotion. Wow,
Speaker 1: all right, very very interesting. But it's just so it's
Speaker 1: kind of just the way that they speak, right, I
Speaker 1: think that's It's fascinating the way that so Israel made
Speaker 1: a vow to the Lord and said, if you will
Speaker 1: deliver this people into my hand. Like Jacob already passed away, right,
Speaker 1: So who's speaking here? The way that they the way
Speaker 1: that they it's almost like it's almost like Jacob is talking,
Speaker 1: but no, Israel is talking. Isn't Jacob Israel just to
Speaker 1: me the way that I will Like j Israel made
Speaker 1: a vow to the Lord. Like it's like it's almost
Speaker 1: like it's like, wouldn't wouldn't Like it's say, the people
Speaker 1: of Israel made a vow to the Lord, if you
Speaker 1: will indeed deliver these people into our hands. But it
Speaker 1: says if you, if you indeed deliver this people into
Speaker 1: my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. And
Speaker 1: the Lord listened to the voice of Israel. Who is
Speaker 1: the voice? Who is the voice of Israel? This is
Speaker 1: something I would I would love to study. Like, I
Speaker 1: know this might sound off to you guys, And maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe is Jacob talking to God like
Speaker 1: from Shield or Paradise, is Jacob talking to God? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Am I tripping? But am I looking
Speaker 1: too deep? Let's see what it says here in a
Speaker 1: study guide, which they're probably not gonna say something like
Speaker 1: I said, all right, uh, numbers twenty one. It says
Speaker 1: the Israelites win a victory over the Canaanites after making
Speaker 1: a vow to God. They destroy their towns, demonstrating God's
Speaker 1: favorite towards them. All right, let's continue, and let's go
Speaker 1: to the Bronze Serpent. And if you hear a dog
Speaker 1: bar and I'm sorry, guys, like I say, my dog
Speaker 1: just loves to bark when I'm doing a podcast. It's
Speaker 1: like he loves it. The bronze Serpent. Then they journeyed
Speaker 1: from Mount Or by the way of the Red Sea
Speaker 1: to go around the land of Eaedom, and the soul
Speaker 1: of the people became very discouraged on their way, and
Speaker 1: the people spoke against God and against Moses. Why have
Speaker 1: you brought us up out of Egypt to die in
Speaker 1: the wilderness. For there is no food, no water, and
Speaker 1: our soul lows this worthless bread. So the Lord sent
Speaker 1: fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people,
Speaker 1: and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore, the
Speaker 1: people came to Moses and said, we have sinned, for
Speaker 1: we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray
Speaker 1: to the Lord that he may take away the serpents
Speaker 1: from us. So Moses prayed for the people. Then the
Speaker 1: Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent and set
Speaker 1: it on a pole, and it shall be, and it
Speaker 1: shall be that everyone who is bitten when he looks
Speaker 1: at it shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent
Speaker 1: and put it on a pole, and it was if
Speaker 1: a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked upon the
Speaker 1: bronze serpent, he lived. So this is a little fascinating
Speaker 1: part to not grumble or complain. The Israelites grumble again.
Speaker 1: This is going to be in the Study Guide. The
Speaker 1: Israelites grumble against God and Moses about their conditions, leading
Speaker 1: to a divine punishment of fiery serpents whose bite kill many.
Speaker 1: In response to the people's repentance, God commands Moses to
Speaker 1: make a bronze serpent and lift up a pole. Whoever
Speaker 1: looks at it after they've been bitten will live. After
Speaker 1: being bitten, will live. So they get bitten by these
Speaker 1: fiery serpents, and then all of a sudden, the people,
Speaker 1: after the people of Israel die. Then they repent and
Speaker 1: they say, we have sinned. Well, we have spoken against
Speaker 1: the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that
Speaker 1: we take away the serpents from us. So they are repenting.
Speaker 1: They are now, they're they're leaning on the Lord, which
Speaker 1: God wants you to do the whole time. He wants
Speaker 1: you to lean on him. So it shows that you
Speaker 1: repent and you pray. Now God will give a show,
Speaker 1: give you away a way out. Our way out is
Speaker 1: Jesus and what he did on the cross. Their way
Speaker 1: out right here is the bronze serpent. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: continue from Mount Or to Moab. The Mobites who that's
Speaker 1: going to be the Moab right, the Mobites? Who are
Speaker 1: the Mobites? Well, the Mobites are Actually when Lot hooked
Speaker 1: up with his daughters, the Mobites came about Edomites, Moabitestomites.
Speaker 1: Zeta was eat them, Esau Wasomites. Okay, the Moobites. And
Speaker 1: there's another tribe that came out. I can't remember the name.
Speaker 1: I can look it up. Let me all right, hold on,
Speaker 1: Moobites and Amorites, Ammonites, sorry, Moobites and Ammonites, descendants of Lot.
Speaker 1: That Moobites and Ammonites. That's what it was, not the Etomites,
Speaker 1: because Ittomites came from Esau. I just want to mention that.
Speaker 1: Go back to that study guide. And now we're on
Speaker 1: numbers ten are twenty one. Ten. Now the children of
Speaker 1: Israel moved on, and guys, just let you know. The
Speaker 1: dog is barking. There's a helicopter going ahead. There's probably
Speaker 1: something going on outside, so you're probably gonna be hearing
Speaker 1: that dog bark a little bit, all right, Numbers twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse ten. Now the children of Israel moved on and
Speaker 1: camped at Obath. And they journeyed from Obath to and
Speaker 1: camped at Isabriam and the wilderness, which is set east
Speaker 1: of Moab towards the sunrise. From there they moved and
Speaker 1: camped in the valley of Zuried. From there they moved
Speaker 1: and camped on the other side of Arnan, which is
Speaker 1: in the wilderness and extends from the border from the
Speaker 1: border of the Amorites. We know about the Amorites, king
Speaker 1: of Bashan, Amorites giants. For Arnan is the border of
Speaker 1: Moab between Moab and the Amori. Therefore, it is said
Speaker 1: in the Book of Wars of the Lord. I wonder
Speaker 1: what that is. Therefore, it is said in the Book
Speaker 1: of the Wars of the Lord. What I want to see?
Speaker 1: What that? I need to look that up.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: We have in Sufa the brooks of Erna Arnan and
Speaker 1: the slope of the brooks that reaches the dwelling of
Speaker 1: r and lies on the border of moeb Wow. Let
Speaker 1: me see real quick.
Speaker 2: The Book of the Wars of the Lord, the Book
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Of the Lord, Oh, you can get in pdf. The
Speaker 1: Book of the Wars of the Lord is one of
Speaker 1: the several Noncanatical books referenced in the Bible which have
Speaker 1: now been completely lost. What is the Book of the
Speaker 1: Wars of the Lord about? The Book of the Wars
Speaker 1: of the Lord is cited in the medieval Book of
Speaker 1: Josher as being a collaborative record written by Moseesh Joshua
Speaker 1: and the children of Israel. It was probably a collection
Speaker 1: of victory songs written about the Israel's military conquests of Canaan.
Speaker 1: There's probably some I'll have to do some research for
Speaker 1: you guys on that. But there must have been some
Speaker 1: crazy wars in there, about giants and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's I saw something that said on PDF.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The Book of the Wars is a
Speaker 1: biblical text mentioned in numbers twenty one fourteen, likely a
Speaker 1: collection of early Israelite war songs, hymns, and other literary generations,
Speaker 1: recounting you always victories discusses the Book of the Wars,
Speaker 1: which is mentioned. Oh, it discusses. So it's not actually
Speaker 1: the Book of Wars of the Lord. Hmmm, where's the
Speaker 1: Book of the It's a lost document, man, I bet
Speaker 1: you there's some crazy stuff in that book. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: who knows? That could be locked in the Vatican. It
Speaker 1: could be locked somewhere where they don't want us to
Speaker 1: see it because it's probably got stuff that has to
Speaker 1: do with giants and stuff that they try to hold
Speaker 1: back from us all the time. You know, I'm just speculating,
Speaker 1: But I need some more, honey, He'll tell my voice
Speaker 1: was about to go out. Oh, I can feel it
Speaker 1: all right. Let's get back to the Bible numbers twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse sixteen. From there, they went to beer, which is
Speaker 1: a well where the Lord said to Moses, gathered the
Speaker 1: people together, and I will give them water. Then Israel
Speaker 1: sang this song spring up, bowell, all of you sing
Speaker 1: to it the well, to leaders sank Dug, to the
Speaker 1: notion's nobles by the lawgiver with their staves. It's going
Speaker 1: to try to sing it, but sorry, it ain't happening.
Speaker 1: Let's go numbers twenty one, verse eighteen. We kind of
Speaker 1: read that part. And from the wilderness they went to Matanah,
Speaker 1: from Mattanah to Nahlil, from Nihilil to Bemouth, and from
Speaker 1: Bemouth in the valley that is in the country of
Speaker 1: Moeb to the top of Piska, which looks down on
Speaker 1: the wasteland. All right, now we're in numbers twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse twenty one. Then Israel sent messengers to Shshan, king
Speaker 1: of the Amorite, saying, let me pass through your land.
Speaker 1: We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards. We
Speaker 1: will not drink the water from your wells. We will
Speaker 1: go by the King's highway until we have passed through
Speaker 1: your territory. But Sinhan would not allow Israel to pass
Speaker 1: through his territory. So Sinhan gathered all his people together
Speaker 1: and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and he
Speaker 1: came to Jehaz and fought against Israel then Israel defeated
Speaker 1: him with the edge of the sword and took possession
Speaker 1: of his land from the Arnan to Jabuk. As far
Speaker 1: as the people of Amen, Amen is like the Amonites. Right,
Speaker 1: So there's moa Bites and there's Amonites. Right, so you
Speaker 1: have the people of Amen. Right. Notice that I'm glad
Speaker 1: I looked that up, because always a pain in Israel
Speaker 1: side the Moabites and the Amonites. Crazy thing is Ruth
Speaker 1: is a mobite. You read about Ruth, she was a mobite,
Speaker 1: and she's actually in Jesus's line, which is very interesting.
Speaker 1: Let's continue, for the people of the border of Amen
Speaker 1: was fortified. So Israel took all these cities, and Israel
Speaker 1: dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon
Speaker 1: and in all its villages. From Heshbon was the city
Speaker 1: of Sehon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against
Speaker 1: the former king of Moeb and had taken all his
Speaker 1: land from his hand as far as Arnan. Therefore, those
Speaker 1: who speak in Proverbs say, come to Heshbon, let it
Speaker 1: be built, Let the city of Sihon be repaired. For
Speaker 1: fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city
Speaker 1: of Sehon Sehon it consumed are of Moeb, the lord
Speaker 1: of the heights of the Arnan. Woe to you, you Moeb,
Speaker 1: you have perisho people of Chamash. He has given his
Speaker 1: sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to Sihon,
Speaker 1: king of the Amorites. Excuse me, but we have shot
Speaker 1: at them. Hesbone has perished as far as the bone.
Speaker 1: Then we laid waste as far as Napah, which reaches
Speaker 1: to Medeba. Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Speaker 1: Then Moses sent to spy out jizarre Jazir, and they
Speaker 1: took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there. Oh,
Speaker 1: look at this one king Ah defeated. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the one king, a king of Bashan. These are the
Speaker 1: ones that everybody talks about. These are very interesting because
Speaker 1: I get excited because it's you know, it's about the giants,
Speaker 1: and we know we went over Genesis six and we
Speaker 1: have Gary Wayne's book, all these people that speak about
Speaker 1: giants and and uh, these are the parts that that
Speaker 1: you know, people need to understand to understand why the
Speaker 1: flood happened. To understand all this stuff you know, so
Speaker 1: numbers twenty one, verse thirty three. King Og defeated, and
Speaker 1: they turned and went up by the way to Bashan.
Speaker 1: So Og, king of Bashan, went out against them, he
Speaker 1: and all his people to battle Edri. Then the Lord
Speaker 1: said to Moses, do not fear him, for I have
Speaker 1: delivered him into your hand, with all his people and
Speaker 1: his land. You shall do to him as you did
Speaker 1: to Sahon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbah.
Speaker 1: So they defeated him, his sons and all his people
Speaker 1: until there were no survivor left him. They took they
Speaker 1: took possession of his land. King Og, let's go. King
Speaker 1: Og is defeated and his sons and all his people
Speaker 1: until there was no survivor left in him. So none
Speaker 1: of his family survived, and they took possession of his land.
Speaker 1: Uh Oh, I bet you there's some crazy things in
Speaker 1: that that book. I bet. Let's see thirty three Conquests
Speaker 1: of the Amorit Kings. The chapter concludes with the Israelites
Speaker 1: request to pass through the Lens of Amorites, met with hostility.
Speaker 1: With divine intervention, they conquered the lands of the king Sahon,
Speaker 1: and king Og, the king of Bashan. Let's go okay,
Speaker 1: So we kind of went through that teaching points victory
Speaker 1: over the Canaanites, and chapter begins with the Israelites defeating
Speaker 1: the Canaanites at Murah, seeking after God's guidance, making a
Speaker 1: vow to him, which we talked about the bronze Serpent.
Speaker 1: We kind of already talked about that. The Journey in
Speaker 1: battles the israel Skatina of the Journey facing various challenges
Speaker 1: and including battles against the Shon and Og, which demonstrates
Speaker 1: God continue provision and protection. Also, God is saying to Moses,
Speaker 1: do not fear him. Why because he is a giant
Speaker 1: king of Bashan. Right, the Amorites are also a giant tribe.
Speaker 1: They say in Amos to ten, I think it is.
Speaker 1: I have to look it up. Amos two ten. They're
Speaker 1: like as big as cedars. Right, let's see, is it
Speaker 1: almost two ten? Let me make sure. I don't want
Speaker 1: to give you guys a reference if it is not
Speaker 1: the correct one. Amos two verse ten. Yet I destroyed
Speaker 1: the Amorites before them, though they were tall as cedars
Speaker 1: and strong as oaks. So it's actually going to be
Speaker 1: amost to nine. Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them.
Speaker 1: They were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks.
Speaker 1: I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below. I
Speaker 1: brought you out of Egypt and led you, led you
Speaker 1: forty years in the wilderness to give you the land
Speaker 1: of the Amorites. That's what God is talking about this
Speaker 1: situation here. You see, this is an Amos. He's talking
Speaker 1: about this, this whole situation here, and he was saying
Speaker 1: that they were tall as cedars and as strong as
Speaker 1: the oaks. Why well, because because they were giant tribes.
Speaker 1: Practical applications that we can kind of take from numbers
Speaker 1: twenty one. Seek God's guidance. Like the Israelites, we should
Speaker 1: seek God's direction in our battles and challenges, trusting in
Speaker 1: His wisdom and strength. Of course, if you're going through something,
Speaker 1: take it to the Lord. If you're going through any
Speaker 1: kind of battle, spiritual battle, whatever you're going through, take
Speaker 1: it to the Lord. Ask for God's guidance, his direction,
Speaker 1: his wisdom, and his strength. Repentance and healing when we stray.
Speaker 1: Repentance is key to restoration. Just as the Israels look
Speaker 1: to the bronze serpent for healing. We must look to
Speaker 1: Christ for our spiritual healing. Yes, repentance is key. When
Speaker 1: you realize you messed up, you better repent, right, you
Speaker 1: better repent because you see that God immediately once they repented,
Speaker 1: God immediately was like, okay, I'm gonna forgive this and
Speaker 1: give you a way out right. That's what God does.
Speaker 1: Christ is our way out right. We sin and we
Speaker 1: looked at Christ, you know, for what he did on
Speaker 1: the cross. We ask for forgiveness. We repent. Repent is
Speaker 1: doing a one to eighty. It's like about face in
Speaker 1: the army. Right. Trust in God's provision in times of need.
Speaker 1: Remember that God is our provider. He knows our needs
Speaker 1: and will surprise the It will supply them according to
Speaker 1: His riches and in glory. Right. So that's an obvious one.
Speaker 1: Sometimes what we have at the current moment, we think
Speaker 1: that we deserve more. We think we deserve more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me just I'm gonna say good night to my wife.
Speaker 1: She said, I love you good night. I gotta send
Speaker 1: it love you goodnight. She's get well soon, miss Monday.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to say good night to her.
Speaker 1: She took care of my kids tonight, even though she
Speaker 1: was she has a tube hanging out of her side,
Speaker 1: you know, like she has a tube and is draining
Speaker 1: right now. So she still put the kids to sleep
Speaker 1: tonight so I could do this podcast early. God bless
Speaker 1: her heart for that, because I was gonna put the
Speaker 1: kids to sleep, and then you know, end up doing
Speaker 1: this podcast till like eleven thirty, and then I go
Speaker 1: back into the room full of sleep and my kids
Speaker 1: going to wake up at like six, six thirty, I
Speaker 1: don't know, sometimes seven. Sometimes you get to sleep till seven.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm off right now for like a week,
Speaker 1: so I can tell my wife what she's recovering. But
Speaker 1: what a blessing for her to to put the kids
Speaker 1: to sleep and let me do the podcast a little
Speaker 1: bit early. But what else can we get from this?
Speaker 1: Celebrate victories, acknowledge and celebrate the victories God grant. God
Speaker 1: grants us recognizing his hand and our successes for sure,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, when God grants us victory, definitely recognize
Speaker 1: his hand in our systs. Yeah, celebrate to God, give
Speaker 1: glory to God whenever there's whenever you have any victory
Speaker 1: like that, for sure. Another king who confronts and is defeated,
Speaker 1: less taken my Israelite. So let me just check something
Speaker 1: real quick. So I am just gonna look something up.
Speaker 1: Where is that mentioned? Oh, was the last of the Raphites.
Speaker 1: His bed was decorated with iron and more than nine
Speaker 1: cubits long of four cubits wide. Oh, that's Deuteronomy three Okay.
Speaker 2: Where is that?
Speaker 1: At the defeat of King of Bashon. I just want
Speaker 1: to show you guys this. We turn up alongside the
Speaker 1: road towards Bashan, and the King of Bashan with the
Speaker 1: whole army marched out to meet us. Okay, I want
Speaker 1: to find out what verse that is. Let's see, let's see.
Speaker 1: I just want to get to it quickly. Where is that? Eh?
Speaker 1: What Bible verse talks about it? Okay, just one second, sorry,
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy three eleven. I'm gonna go there real quick. Since
Speaker 1: we're talking about King of Bashan, we talked about that
Speaker 1: being the tallest cedars and all that stuff. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Deuteronomy three eleven. And the new king James.
Speaker 1: We're only odd. King of Bashan remained the remnant of
Speaker 1: the giants. Indeed, his bedstead was an iron bedstead, it
Speaker 1: is not the Rabbi of the people of Amen. Nine cubits,
Speaker 1: it's lengthd in four cubits. It's withth according to the
Speaker 1: standard cubit. So why is the Bible going to mention
Speaker 1: how big his bed is? Well, it says that king
Speaker 1: of bashan remain of the remnant of the giants. Probably
Speaker 1: another if you're reading out of other text, it's probably
Speaker 1: going to say nepheline right, So it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: He slept on an iron bedstead. So his bed was
Speaker 1: made of iron, and it's nine cubits, and it's lengthd
Speaker 1: in four cubits, and it's with a cubit. I think
Speaker 1: it's eighteen inches. So if you did eighteen a royal
Speaker 1: cubit is eighteen. Let's see nine cubits in its length
Speaker 1: divided by twelve, that's thirteen point five feet long, four
Speaker 1: cubits in width eighteen times four divided by twelve six,
Speaker 1: So it's what fourteen by six feet. Some are like
Speaker 1: that fourteen by six feet. Some people said it's like
Speaker 1: fifteen or sixteen by by six by seven feet or something.
Speaker 1: So it's a big bed, all right. So that's the point.
Speaker 1: I think we got enough time to knock out numbers
Speaker 1: twenty two. So let's go ahead and go there. Oops. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is going to be an interesting uh. Another
Speaker 1: fascinating chapter in the Book of Numbers Numbers twenty two,
Speaker 1: Verse one, Bloch sends for Balamb. Then the children of
Speaker 1: Israel moved and camped in the plains of Moeb on
Speaker 1: the side of the Jordan across from Jericho. Now Balak,
Speaker 1: the son of Zipper Zippor is the son of Zippor,
Speaker 1: saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. And
Speaker 1: Moab was exceedingly afraid of the people because there were many.
Speaker 1: And Moab was sick with dread because of the children
Speaker 1: of Israel. So Moab said to the elders of Midian,
Speaker 1: Now this company will lick up everything around us, as
Speaker 1: an ox licks up the grass of the field. And Bailik,
Speaker 1: the son of Zappor, was king of the Moabites at
Speaker 1: that time. Then he sent messengers to Balam, the son
Speaker 1: of Bjor, at Pethor, which is near the river in
Speaker 1: the land the sons of his people, to call them, saying, look,
Speaker 1: a people has come from Egypt. See the cover of
Speaker 1: the face of the earth. See they cover the face
Speaker 1: of the earth, and they are settling next to me,
Speaker 1: and he's just like saying that, like next to me. Therefore,
Speaker 1: please come at once curse this people for me, for
Speaker 1: they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be
Speaker 1: able to defeat them and drive them out of the land.
Speaker 1: For I know that he whom you bless is blessed,
Speaker 1: and whom he whom you curse is cursed. So so
Speaker 1: Bile's fear and request. Seeing the victory of the Israelites,
Speaker 1: King Black of Moab felt threatened and formed an alliance
Speaker 1: with the Midianites. Midianites is kind of interesting because that's
Speaker 1: where Moses's father is from. He's a Midianite.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: We went over that they sent elders to Belahm, a
Speaker 1: soothsayer in Pethor with divination fees, to invoke a curse
Speaker 1: on the Israelite So he's speaking send messages to Belah
Speaker 1: the son of Or. He's a he's a soothsayer, right, divination,
Speaker 1: which is an abomination to God. Right, kind of like
Speaker 1: a soothsayer is a soothsayer is kind of like a
Speaker 1: like a witch or something like like kind of like
Speaker 1: a witch or a warlock. I would say Okay, a
Speaker 1: witch or a warlock would be like a soothsayer. So
Speaker 1: he's trying to have him put a curse on the Israelites.
Speaker 1: He's trying to invoke a curse on the Israelites. So
Speaker 1: we'll continue. This is a numbers twenty two, verse seven.
Speaker 1: So the elders of Moeb and the elders of Median
Speaker 1: departed with the divine yars divination divin ears fee in
Speaker 1: their hand. And they came to Balaam and spoke to
Speaker 1: him the words of Bloch. And he said to them,
Speaker 1: lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to
Speaker 1: you as the Lord speaks to me. So the princes
Speaker 1: of Moab stayed with Balam the Lord. So who is
Speaker 1: he talking about, Well, he's talking about Bail, as the
Speaker 1: Lord speaks to me. So the princes of Moab stayed
Speaker 1: with Balaam. Then God came to Balah and said, okay,
Speaker 1: m maybe I don't know, maybe I'm tripping me. Let
Speaker 1: me see what that what that means there, let me
Speaker 1: just reread that number twenty two, verse seven says, so
Speaker 1: the elders of Moeb and the elders of Midian departed
Speaker 1: with the divine yars fee in their hand. And they
Speaker 1: came to Belam and spoke to him with words of Bloch.
Speaker 1: And so Bloch said to them, lodge here tonight, and
Speaker 1: I will bring back word to you as the Lord
Speaker 1: speaks to me. So the princes of Moeb stayed with Belong. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then God came to Balaam and said, who are these
Speaker 1: men with you? So Balaam said to God, block, the
Speaker 1: son of the four king of Moab, has sent me saying,
Speaker 1: look at people has come out of Egypt, and they
Speaker 1: covered the face of the earth. Come now curse them
Speaker 1: for me. Perhaps I should be able to overpower them
Speaker 1: and drive them out. And God said to Balaam, you
Speaker 1: shall not go out with them. You shall not curse
Speaker 1: the people, for they are blessed. So Balam rose in
Speaker 1: the morning and said to the princes of Bulah, go
Speaker 1: back to your land, for the Lord has refused to
Speaker 1: give me permission to go with you. And the princes
Speaker 1: of Moab rose and went back to Balloch and said,
Speaker 1: Balaam refuses to come with us. And then Bloch sent
Speaker 1: princes more numerous and more honorable than they, and they
Speaker 1: came to Balaam and said to them thus Belock, the
Speaker 1: son of Zippor, Please let nothing hinder you from coming
Speaker 1: to me, for I will certainly honor you greatly, and
Speaker 1: I will do whatever you say to me. Therefore, please
Speaker 1: come curse this people for me. Then Balaam answered and
Speaker 1: said to the servants of Block, though Block were to
Speaker 1: give me his house full of silver and gold, I
Speaker 1: could not go beyond the word of the Lord my
Speaker 1: God to do less or more. Now, therefore, please you
Speaker 1: also stay here tonight, and I may know what more
Speaker 1: the Lord will say to me. And God came to
Speaker 1: Balaam at night and said to him, if the men
Speaker 1: come to you, If the men come call you, rise
Speaker 1: and go with them, But only the word which I
Speaker 1: speak to you, that you shall do. So Balem rose
Speaker 1: in the morning, sattled his donkey, and went to the
Speaker 1: princess of Moeb. So let's just see what this says.
Speaker 1: Balloch sent a more prestigious delegation, promising great honor and
Speaker 1: a roar. Balm was told by God to go out
Speaker 1: only speak what he commanded. So Baalam's sent off his donkey,
Speaker 1: set off his donkey. So I just this is just
Speaker 1: an interesting part here, because it's a it's a if
Speaker 1: he's doing divination. Baylim invited the messengers to stay overnight
Speaker 1: a waiter for God's instruction. So Bailick fear the because
Speaker 1: seeing over the victory, King Bailick of Moeb felt threatened
Speaker 1: and formed alliance with the Mediannites. They sent elders to Balem,
Speaker 1: a soothsayer. So Baalam's a soothsair, So who is Balem's God? Like,
Speaker 1: I wonder why it says that? Then Balem answered and
Speaker 1: said to the servants of Bailick, through Bailick or to
Speaker 1: give me his full house of golden silver. I cannot
Speaker 1: go be from the Lord my God. So if he's
Speaker 1: a soothsayer, how is the Lord my God? Like? What
Speaker 1: is he talking about? So I have to see something.
Speaker 1: I have to look this up. I'm sorry, baaliums God. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I just want to look this up. I apologize. Who
Speaker 1: is Baalam's god? He is? Baylim, a non Israelite prophet,
Speaker 1: is known for being commissioned by King Baylick of Moab
Speaker 1: to curse the Earzelites, but instead he blesses them as
Speaker 1: he only utters what God Yahweh inspires him. Okay, I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure that he's talking about Yahweh,
Speaker 1: because excuse me, sometimes sometimes that word Elohem or God
Speaker 1: can be used for different gods, but that's capitalized. So
Speaker 1: I was sure that he was. They were talking about Yahweh.
Speaker 1: That's why he's a diviner or a prophet who living
Speaker 1: in Moab in a regional rule by kim Be like h.
Speaker 1: But he's still following. He's still afraid of of Yahweh. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's see what what happens here. Then God's anger
Speaker 1: was aroused because he went and the Angel of the
Speaker 1: Lord took his stand in the in the way as
Speaker 1: an ad against him. So it says, Balem the donkey
Speaker 1: and the angel is what this is called. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to Let's go back to the steady guide. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be verse twenty two through thirty. Here, so came
Speaker 1: to beal on the night. If the men come and
Speaker 1: call you, rise and go with them, but only the
Speaker 1: word which I speak to you, that you shall do. So,
Speaker 1: Baylim rose in the morning, saddled his donkey and went
Speaker 1: to the to the princess of Moeb. Then God's anger
Speaker 1: read UH numbers twenty two, twenty two. Then God's anger
Speaker 1: was aroused because he went and the Angel of the Lord.
Speaker 1: The Angel of the Lord took his stand in the
Speaker 1: way as an adversary against him, and he was riding
Speaker 1: on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
Speaker 1: Now the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing
Speaker 1: in the way with his drawn sword in his hand,
Speaker 1: and the donkey turned aside out of the way and
Speaker 1: into the field. So Balim struck the donkey to turn
Speaker 1: her back onto the road. Then the Angel of the
Speaker 1: Lord stood in the narrow path between the vineyards, with
Speaker 1: a wall on his side and a wall on that side.
Speaker 1: And when the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord,
Speaker 1: he pushed herself. She pushed herself against the wall and
Speaker 1: crushed Balem's foot against the wall, so he struck her again.
Speaker 1: Then the Angel the Lord went further and stood in
Speaker 1: the narrow place where there was no way to turn
Speaker 1: either to the right or to the left. And when
Speaker 1: the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord, she laid
Speaker 1: down under Balim. So Balem's anger was aroused, and he
Speaker 1: struck the donkey with the staff. Then the Lord opened
Speaker 1: the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balim,
Speaker 1: this is see listen, what if I had done to
Speaker 1: you that she had struck you with these three times.
Speaker 1: And Balim said to the donkey, because you have abused me,
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish there were a sword in my
Speaker 1: hand for now I would kill you. So the donkey
Speaker 1: said to Baalim, and may not. You're donkey in which
Speaker 1: you have written ever since I would become yours to
Speaker 1: this day, Ever since I became yours to this day,
Speaker 1: was I never disposed to do this to you? And
Speaker 1: he said no. So, first of all, how come Balem?
Speaker 1: Maybe because he's a soothsayer and he does divination, Maybe
Speaker 1: he's used to animals talking to him. I don't know,
Speaker 1: But his donkey's talking to him right here, and he's
Speaker 1: talking back to him and having a conversation like there's
Speaker 1: no problem. Most of us would be like, donkey, are
Speaker 1: you talking? Hold on, let me just get my phone
Speaker 1: out and record you. But they don't have phones back then.
Speaker 1: But anyways, let's continue. This is a supernatural situation, right,
Speaker 1: talking donkeys, right? And he said no. Then the Lord
Speaker 1: opened Balem's eyes and he saw the Angel of the
Speaker 1: Lord standing in the way with his sword, with his
Speaker 1: drawn sword in his hand, and he bowed his head
Speaker 1: and fell flat. On his face, And the Angel of
Speaker 1: the Lord said, no, why have you struck your donkey
Speaker 1: these three times? Behold, I have come out to stand
Speaker 1: against you, because your way is perverse before me. The
Speaker 1: donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times.
Speaker 1: If she had not turned aside for me, surely I
Speaker 1: would also have killed you by now, and let her live.
Speaker 1: And Baylif said to the Angel of the Lord, I
Speaker 1: have sinned, for I do not know you stood in
Speaker 1: the way against me. Now, therefore, if it displeases you,
Speaker 1: I will turn back. He says, I'm afe. If I
Speaker 1: displease you, let me just go back. Please you know.
Speaker 1: Then the Angel of the Lord said to Baalim, go
Speaker 1: with the men, but only the word that I speak
Speaker 1: to you, that you shall speak. So Balem went with
Speaker 1: the princess of Balloch. Now, when Block heard that Bayleem
Speaker 1: was coming, he went out to meet and at the
Speaker 1: city of Moeb, which is on the border of Arnan,
Speaker 1: the border of the territory. Then Balloch said to Balem,
Speaker 1: did I not earnestly send you calling for you? Why
Speaker 1: did you not come to me? Am I not able
Speaker 1: to honor you? And Balem said to Block, look, I
Speaker 1: have come to you. Now I have have I any
Speaker 1: power at all to say anything? The word of God
Speaker 1: puts it in my mouth that I may I must speak.
Speaker 1: So Balem went with Bailik and they came to kajath Azuth.
Speaker 1: Then Bailick offered oxen and sheep, and he sent some
Speaker 1: of the Baylim and the princes who were with him.
Speaker 1: So there's just a lot of fascinating stuff that happened
Speaker 1: in this chapter right here or this little portion. So
Speaker 1: let me read what it says in uh the study guide.
Speaker 1: Bailey's been counter with the angel. Then God opened Balem's
Speaker 1: eyes to see the angel, who rebuked him from mistreating
Speaker 1: his donkey. Explained that the donkey had saved his life.
Speaker 1: Baalim confessed his sins and offered to return, but the
Speaker 1: angel instructed him to continue, but only speak what God
Speaker 1: would say. So now we have a Baalem's first prophecy
Speaker 1: is going to be. So it was the next day
Speaker 1: that Bailick took Balem and brought him to the high
Speaker 1: places of Bail, that from there he might observe the
Speaker 1: extent of the people ball right bail. That is, so
Speaker 1: he brought him to the high places of bail for
Speaker 1: that he might observe the extent of the people. So
Speaker 1: let's read what the study guide says here about that.
Speaker 1: When Balem met Bailick, he reinerated that he could only
Speaker 1: speak what God commanded, and they went to her Zath.
Speaker 1: In the verses twenty two through thirty, God was angry
Speaker 1: with Balim went sent an angel to oppose him. And
Speaker 1: just to let you guys know, the Angel of the Lord,
Speaker 1: which is capitalized, is the Messenger of the Lord. Some
Speaker 1: people believe, you know, if you believe in the Trinity,
Speaker 1: some people believe that that's Jesus in the Old Testament. Okay,
Speaker 1: some people don't, but some people do. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of debates on that subject. So just letting you
Speaker 1: guys know that that could be that. The teaching points
Speaker 1: of this chapter is the fear of Israel. Baylik, the
Speaker 1: king of Moab, is terrified of the Israelites because of
Speaker 1: their numbers and their recent victories. He seeks to curse
Speaker 1: them through Balim, a renowned prophet. This highlights how the
Speaker 1: presence and power of God's people can instill fear in
Speaker 1: those who will oppose them. If everybody has faith, if
Speaker 1: everybody if everybody has faith in God, then you know,
Speaker 1: and and there was other people that were opposing them,
Speaker 1: then you would be in You'd be a force to
Speaker 1: reckon with right. God's sovereignty. Despite Balem's intentions, God is
Speaker 1: in control. He instructs Balem not to curse the Israelites
Speaker 1: because they are blessed. This demonstrates that God's blessing cannot
Speaker 1: be overturned by human schemes. Very true. Balem's dilemma. Balem
Speaker 1: is caught between obeying God and the temptation of wealth
Speaker 1: and honor offered by Bailik. His struggle reflects the tension
Speaker 1: between divine obedience and worldly desires. Yes, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: The talking Donkey. God opens the mouth of Balem's donkey
Speaker 1: to speak, revealing Balem's spiritual blindness. This miraculous event underscores
Speaker 1: God's ability to use any means to communicate his message.
Speaker 1: Very true and God's message through Balim. Despite Balem's initial intentions,
Speaker 1: God uses him to bless Israel instead of cursing. Thems
Speaker 1: that God's purposes will prevail regardless of human intentions. What
Speaker 1: are our practical applications we can get out of this chapter? Trust?
Speaker 1: In God's protection. Just as God protected Israel from Baalik's schemes,
Speaker 1: we can trust that He will protect us from the
Speaker 1: plans of those who seek to harm us. Trust in
Speaker 1: God's protection obedience over worldly gain. Baalim's story reminds us
Speaker 1: to prioritize obedience to God over the pursuit of wealth
Speaker 1: or honor awareness of spiritual blindness. We should be vigilant
Speaker 1: against spiritual blindness and remain open to God's guidance even
Speaker 1: if it comes from unexpected sources. God's sovereignty in our lives.
Speaker 1: Recognize that God can use any situation or person to
Speaker 1: fulfill his purpose in our lives, even when it seems unlikely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even when it's a donkey okay, so very good stuff,
Speaker 1: very good stuff. A connection to additional scripture is God's
Speaker 1: protection is in Psalm's ninety one eleven. For he will
Speaker 1: command his angels concerning you, reguard you in all your ways.
Speaker 1: The angels will guide you in all your ways. That's
Speaker 1: really good. That's a really good verse. Obedience to God
Speaker 1: First Samuel fifteen twenty two. Does the Lord delight in
Speaker 1: burnt offerings and sacrifice as much as in in baying
Speaker 1: the voice of the Lord, Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice.
Speaker 1: That is actually on that movie, how said David. I
Speaker 1: heard Samuel say that God's sovereignty Proverbs nineteen twenty one.
Speaker 1: Many plans are in a man's heart, but the purpose
Speaker 1: of the Lord will prevail. So true, so true. What
Speaker 1: a beautiful study we had. I love it, and I
Speaker 1: like this little Bible study guide that I have that
Speaker 1: helps me kind of explain everything to you guys. Comment
Speaker 1: below if you like that, or comment if you just
Speaker 1: want me to do my old start, my old style.
Speaker 1: I kind of like this because there's practical application, and
Speaker 1: there's some things that that I can bring out that
Speaker 1: I might not have been able to explain. So next
Speaker 1: week on Sunday service, we were going to be in
Speaker 1: Numbers twenty three. Next week in Wednesday service, we're going
Speaker 1: to be in Luke chapter one. Yes, amen, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop share screen and tell you that I appreciate you
Speaker 1: sticking with me. If you stay to the end, comment
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Speaker 1: tell everybody that's listening, I really I love you, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, and I really really appreciate having this time,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a good study. I had
Speaker 1: the energy tonight. I felt great. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: work today, so it was a lot easier for me
Speaker 1: to do the study. I've actually had a few days off,
Speaker 1: praise God, to kind of rejuvenate and recuperate. Even though
Speaker 1: I am, you know, my wife is you know, in bed,
Speaker 1: and I'm taking care of the little ones. It's a
Speaker 1: little different kind of work, even though it's a lot
Speaker 1: of work. And I'm also doing homeschooling with my daughters.
Speaker 1: So what a blessing. I have my daughter Ario, she
Speaker 1: sits right next to me, and then I'm doing I
Speaker 1: got these these things to go over for her, you know.
Speaker 1: And I had to do a little activity book today.
Speaker 1: It was called Ariel's Fruit Book, and the whole book
Speaker 1: was like I see an apple, and then she would
Speaker 1: draw an apple and she would write icee an apple.
Speaker 1: And then I see an orange and then she would
Speaker 1: draw an orange and she put icy an orange and
Speaker 1: it would be an orange writing. And then she's only six, right,
Speaker 1: so she's in kindergarten. So just just a blessing to
Speaker 1: do stuff like that. Not used to doing that because
Speaker 1: my wife does the teaching because I'm always at work
Speaker 1: right so and let's it makes me appreciate what my
Speaker 1: wife does. And it also makes me appreciate the time
Speaker 1: that I have with my daughter during this week that
Speaker 1: I'm off. You know, so what a blessing. But everybody
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Speaker 1: And then, also, like I always do, I'm gonna end
Speaker 1: this in prayer. So, Father God, in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for this glorious day. Thank you
Speaker 1: for this beautiful time that we have studying the Book
Speaker 1: of Numbers and what are an amazing battles. And you
Speaker 1: know all the obedience that that that we need to
Speaker 1: learn to do, you know we need to instill in
Speaker 1: our life. Lord, So help us all to do that,
Speaker 1: Help us to be obedient to your word, help us
Speaker 1: to when we when we have a situation arise, help
Speaker 1: us come to you first and pray, you know, put
Speaker 1: everything on the all so that you can handle it,
Speaker 1: because you know we can do nothing, but we could all.
Speaker 1: We could do all things through Christ, who strengthens us.
Speaker 1: We can do all things through you, You strengthen us, Lord,
Speaker 1: and we can do nothing. You know, we could try,
Speaker 1: you know, we could try as men to do stuff,
Speaker 1: but we really if we put it on your alter
Speaker 1: and put it in put it, we give it to
Speaker 1: you to take care of, it's so much better. And
Speaker 1: just help us to put these applications to use the
Speaker 1: stuff that we're learning in the Bible, the things we're
Speaker 1: learning in your word, Lord, to help us to apply
Speaker 1: it to our life. You know, knowledge is important, you know,
Speaker 1: for us to know all these things in the Bible,
Speaker 1: but to actually use it as wisdom and help everybody
Speaker 1: that's listening to have wisdom in their life and when
Speaker 1: they get, you know, when situations arise, help them Lord
Speaker 1: to be able to overcome those situations. But thank you
Speaker 1: for everything. Lord, We love you, we appreciate you. In
Speaker 1: Jesus' name, Amen, and you're shure the Michiak's name. Amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to next week's show. Some really really deep,
Speaker 1: crazy battles happening and stuff and amazing. So looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing you guys next week. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for listening. We love you and God bless you.