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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: in the Book of Numbers, and we are in numbers
Speaker 1: twenty nine, and I'll bring up my notes real quick
Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm ready to go. Let's see
Speaker 1: numbers twenty nine. There we go. So we're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about the feast of trumpets, tabernacles, day of atonement.
Speaker 1: I know that we went over this in Leviticus. What's
Speaker 1: happening here is there's a new generation of people, and
Speaker 1: you know, basically, they want to make sure that they
Speaker 1: our God wants to make sure that he is bringing
Speaker 1: it up to them. So they let me just bring
Speaker 1: it up both notes. I got two things that notes
Speaker 1: going here numbers twenty nine. There we go, okay, so
Speaker 1: this is twenty Okay, cool, I got twenty nine right here.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so this is a new generation of people.
Speaker 1: So God is just going over the laws once again
Speaker 1: and the feast and everything, so not the full law,
Speaker 1: but he's going over things that he wants to make
Speaker 1: sure that they know because they're about to go into
Speaker 1: the Promised Land, right, so he wants to make sure
Speaker 1: that he reiterates what they need to do. Let's let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and share the screen, and we don't shy
Speaker 1: away from anything. If you're new to this show, I
Speaker 1: don't skip anything. Even though we went over this in Leviticus,
Speaker 1: there's people right now that are new to the show, right,
Speaker 1: so you guys need to hear this too. So what
Speaker 1: I like to do is go over the whole entire Bible,
Speaker 1: you know, from We're going to go cover to cover,
Speaker 1: you know, So we don't like to shy away from anything.
Speaker 1: And okay, I want to have that pulled up. And
Speaker 1: I also want to have that pulled up. Let's go
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's go ahead and read. We're going
Speaker 1: to be in numbers twenty nine verse one. This is
Speaker 1: going to be offerings at the feast of trumpets, okay.
Speaker 1: And in the seventh month, on the first day of
Speaker 1: the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall
Speaker 1: do no customary work for you. It is is a
Speaker 1: day of blowing the trumpets. You shall offer a burnt
Speaker 1: offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord, one young bull,
Speaker 1: one ram, and seven lambs in the first year without blemish.
Speaker 1: Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil.
Speaker 1: Three tenths of an epha Ephah is a measurement in
Speaker 1: a measurement used and it's it's it's a particular amount
Speaker 1: I could uh, let me see, let's let's find out
Speaker 1: see guys, No, yes, I have that pulled up. What
Speaker 1: is an epha Bible? Okay. Epha as a Hebrew dry
Speaker 1: measure equivalent to a bushel. How much is it? I
Speaker 1: know it tells you one tenth of a homer or
Speaker 1: a little over a bushel. So for those that know measurements,
Speaker 1: you'll probably know what a homer is. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, but it's all good. Let's continue. So
Speaker 1: when you hear epha, it's one tenth of a homer. Okay,
Speaker 1: So every time you hear that, then you know exactly
Speaker 1: what that is. Now, So let's go there. We'll go
Speaker 1: back to my notes and bring that up. Cool, all right,
Speaker 1: So we are so three tenths of an ephaw for
Speaker 1: the bowl, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth
Speaker 1: for each of the seven lambs, and also one kid
Speaker 1: of the goats. Kid means like uh like, basically like
Speaker 1: a baby goat, as a sin offering to make atonement
Speaker 1: for you, besides the burnt offering with its grain offering
Speaker 1: for the new moon, the regular burno offering with its
Speaker 1: grain offering, and their drink offerings according to their ordnance,
Speaker 1: and as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire
Speaker 1: to the Lord. So let's see, let's see if there's
Speaker 1: anything I could kind of Okay. So the chapter begins
Speaker 1: with instructions for the offerings of the first day of
Speaker 1: the seventh month, which is the day of rest and
Speaker 1: sacred assembly. This day is known as the feast of trumpets.
Speaker 1: Yome to rah is what it's called. The offering includes
Speaker 1: a burn offering for the young bull, which you already
Speaker 1: talked about. Additionally, a male goats offered. The Hebrew term
Speaker 1: for trumpets is to raw, signifies a loud noise or shout,
Speaker 1: emphasizing the celibratory and sacred nature of the day. That
Speaker 1: is an event that's happening. And let's see if there's
Speaker 1: any teaching points to that. Okay, uh, where is that? Sorry? Guys?
Speaker 1: All right, cool, perfect, and all right, let's continue. So
Speaker 1: numbers twenty nine, verse seven on. This is the offerings
Speaker 1: of the day of Atonement. On the tenth day of
Speaker 1: the seventh month. You shall have a holy convocation. You
Speaker 1: shall afflict your souls. You shall not do any work.
Speaker 1: You shall present a bird offering to the Lord as
Speaker 1: a sweet aroma. One young bull, one ram, and seven
Speaker 1: lambs in their first year. Be sure that they are
Speaker 1: without blemish. Their grain offerings shall be of fine flour
Speaker 1: mix with oil. Two tents of an eph off for
Speaker 1: the bull, two tents of a one ram, one tenth
Speaker 1: of each for the seven lambs. Also one kid of
Speaker 1: the goats as a sin offering. Besides the sin offering
Speaker 1: for atonement, the regular burn offering with its grain offering
Speaker 1: and their drink offerings. So day of atonement we'll go
Speaker 1: here to the offering is part for the sin offering
Speaker 1: and the regular daily bronc. Okay, cool, we got that,
Speaker 1: and we went over a day of atonement when we
Speaker 1: were in Leviticus. So I'm going to read through this,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to do very much commentary on it,
Speaker 1: all right, because we have gone over this before, but
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna read it. I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: pastors do this. A lot of pastors do this. They say,
Speaker 1: all right, we run numbers chapter twenty nine. You guys
Speaker 1: know we went over this in Leviticus, so I'm not
Speaker 1: going to read this. We're going to skip to you know,
Speaker 1: numbers chapter thirty. Well, we don't do that here because
Speaker 1: we continue to dig and dig and dig. So that's
Speaker 1: offerings on day of Atonement, okay, And next up we're
Speaker 1: going to go to numbers twenty nine, verse twelve. Is
Speaker 1: there any teaching points I could go over for those
Speaker 1: verses that we just went over, I'll read it. Offerings
Speaker 1: on the day of atonement on the tenth day of
Speaker 1: the seventh day of the day of Atonement, and a
Speaker 1: day of atonement is called yan Kapor, which I'm sure
Speaker 1: you guys have heard before. Okay. It is a day
Speaker 1: of fasting and humility. The offerings include one young bull,
Speaker 1: one ram. We already talked about all that in this email.
Speaker 1: Goat the Hebrew word kapoor relates to atonement or covering
Speaker 1: highlight in the days focus on reconciliation with God. That's
Speaker 1: in my notes. So all right, let's continue offerings at
Speaker 1: the Feast of Tabernacles numbers twenty nine, verse twelve. On
Speaker 1: the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall have
Speaker 1: a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. You
Speaker 1: shall keep a feast to the Lord. Seven days. You
Speaker 1: shall present a burnt offering and offering made by fire
Speaker 1: as a sweet aroma, thirteen bowl, young bulls, two rams,
Speaker 1: and fourteen lambs in the first in their first year,
Speaker 1: they shall be without blemish. Their grain offering shall be
Speaker 1: a fine flower mixed with oil two tents of an
Speaker 1: ethaugh for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths of
Speaker 1: fine flower mixed with oil, three tenths of an efall
Speaker 1: for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths of two
Speaker 1: tenths for each of the two rams, and one tenth
Speaker 1: for each of the fourteen lambs. Also one kid of
Speaker 1: the goats as a sin offering besides the regular burn offering,
Speaker 1: its grain offering and it's drink offering. Two okay, And
Speaker 1: so that's the first day, so we'll stop there. So
Speaker 1: the first day, thirteen bulls, two young rams. So is
Speaker 1: it with a milk rid. So starting with the fifteenth
Speaker 1: day of the month, the feast of the Tabernacles Sekut
Speaker 1: is celebrated for seven days. Each day has a specific offering.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go through those, right, So we went
Speaker 1: through the first day already. Now we're going to go
Speaker 1: to the second day. The second day is on the
Speaker 1: second day, present two young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs
Speaker 1: uh in their first year without blemish, and their grain
Speaker 1: offering and their drink offering for the bulls, for the
Speaker 1: rams and for the lambs by the number according to
Speaker 1: the ordinance. Also one kid of the goats as a
Speaker 1: sin offering besides the regular burn offering with its grain
Speaker 1: offering and their drink offerings. So that's the second day.
Speaker 1: Second day cool, and now we're going to go to
Speaker 1: the third day, and on the third day, present eleven bulls,
Speaker 1: two rams, fourteen lambs in the first year without blemish,
Speaker 1: and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls,
Speaker 1: for the rams, for the lambs, for the number according
Speaker 1: to the ordinance. Also, one goat is a sin offering
Speaker 1: besides the regular burn offering, it's grain offering and it's
Speaker 1: drink offering. Now we're going to go to the fourth day.
Speaker 1: This is numbers twenty nine, verse twenty three. On the
Speaker 1: fourth day, present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs
Speaker 1: in the first year without blemish. Now, let me just
Speaker 1: tell you guys before we continue. From our perspective, this
Speaker 1: is like, this is very foreign. So if you're new
Speaker 1: to listening to this, and let's say you haven't gone
Speaker 1: back to Levitikus or learn anything from all that, I
Speaker 1: suggest you go back, Okay, listen to it from there.
Speaker 1: That way you understand what's going on here and why
Speaker 1: we're even dealing with this in the first place. Right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that way you know the context and everything. So let's
Speaker 1: continue on the and you know what to be honest,
Speaker 1: we may not sure because there's kind of a lot,
Speaker 1: but we may be able to finish the book of
Speaker 1: Numbers and get into Deuteronomy pretty soon here. So we
Speaker 1: might be able to finish it, maybe this week or
Speaker 1: next week. Not sure, but I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: getting into the Book of Deuteronomy because it's really really
Speaker 1: interesting and awesome too. So let's continue. And they're grain
Speaker 1: offering and their drink offering for the bulls, for the rams,
Speaker 1: for the lambs by their number, according to their ordinance.
Speaker 1: Also one kit of goats a sin offering besides the
Speaker 1: regular burn offering, it's grain offering and it's drink offering. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now we're on numbers twenty nine verse twenty six
Speaker 1: on the fifth day. So we're on the fifth day.
Speaker 1: Now present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs of
Speaker 1: their first year without blemish, and their grain offering and
Speaker 1: their drink offering for the bulls, for the rams, and
Speaker 1: for the lambs by their number, according to their ordinance.
Speaker 1: Also one according to their ordinance. Also one goat as
Speaker 1: a sin offering besides the regular burn offering, it's grain
Speaker 1: offering and it's drink offering. Now we are going to
Speaker 1: go into the seventh day, which is numbers twenty nine,
Speaker 1: verse thirty two. On the seventh day, present seven bulls,
Speaker 1: two rams, and fourteen lambs in the first year without blemish,
Speaker 1: and their grain offering, for the drink offerings for the bulls,
Speaker 1: for the rams, for the lambs by their number, according
Speaker 1: to their ordinance. Also, one goat is the sin offering
Speaker 1: besides the regular burn offering, is grain offering, and is
Speaker 1: drink offering. So let me just read my notes, or
Speaker 1: actually let's read this first and then we'll go to
Speaker 1: my notes. Okay, So numbers thirty twenty nine thirty five.
Speaker 1: On the eighth day, you shall have a sacred assembly.
Speaker 1: You shall do no customary work. You shall present a
Speaker 1: burnofering and offering made by fire as a sweet aroma
Speaker 1: to the Lord. One bowl, one ram, seven lambs in
Speaker 1: the first year without blemish, and the grain offering and
Speaker 1: their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and
Speaker 1: for the lambs by their number, according to the ordnance.
Speaker 1: Also one goat is a sin offering besides the regular
Speaker 1: burn offering, his grain offering, and his drink offering. Let's
Speaker 1: see what it says on the eighth day is a
Speaker 1: closing assembly. Okay, so we're gonna stop at number twenty
Speaker 1: nine thirty nine. We're going to my notes. The eightey
Speaker 1: is closing assembly, also known as shamini at suret. I'm
Speaker 1: probably pronouncing that wrong and butchering it. I apologize if
Speaker 1: i am. The offerings include one bowl, one ram. We
Speaker 1: already talked about it. The Hebrew term at seret implies
Speaker 1: a solemn assembly of gathering marketing marking the conclusion of
Speaker 1: the festival period. Okay, so it implies a solemn assembly
Speaker 1: or gathering. All right, So let's go ahead and check
Speaker 1: out this. So we're at numbers twenty nine, verse thirty nine.
Speaker 1: These you shall present to the Lord at your appointed feast,
Speaker 1: besides your vowed offerings and your free will offerings, as
Speaker 1: your burnt offerings, and your grain offerings, as your drink offerings,
Speaker 1: and your peace offering. So Moses told the children of
Speaker 1: Israel everything, just as the Lord commanded. Moses. Amen to that.
Speaker 1: So we went through those to see if we got anything.
Speaker 1: In my notes, here find the Lord and strikes Moses
Speaker 1: about additional solemn assembly to be held a day. This
Speaker 1: assembly involves a special burn offering. Okay, we already read that,
Speaker 1: So now let's let's check out some teaching points for
Speaker 1: numbers twenty nine. The Importance of Sacred Times. Numbers twenty
Speaker 1: nine outlines the offerings for the seventh month, emphasizing the
Speaker 1: sacredness of times set apart by God. This includes the
Speaker 1: Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Betomat, and the feasts
Speaker 1: of Tabernact Detailed instructions. The chapter provides specifics and specific
Speaker 1: instructions for each offering, highlighting the importance of obedience and
Speaker 1: precision in worship. Each offering is a reminder of the
Speaker 1: need for atonement and dedication to God. All Right, you
Speaker 1: guys see the extreme detail that God goes to, too,
Speaker 1: goes to for these people. And the thing is, it's
Speaker 1: like that, you know, It's like, we should appreciate the
Speaker 1: fact that Jesus died on the cross and he bridged
Speaker 1: that gap between us and God because being holy, that's
Speaker 1: what the whole Leviticus is about. It's about becoming holy
Speaker 1: or set apart. Okay, so we should definitely appreciate what
Speaker 1: Jesus did on the cross, appreciate that God, the father
Speaker 1: sin has only begotten son to die on the cross
Speaker 1: for us. You know why, because it bridges that gap.
Speaker 1: You know, He's the met between man and God before
Speaker 1: you had to do all these things you know, to
Speaker 1: to you know, and you're still not even holy. You know,
Speaker 1: if you follow the law to a t, you could
Speaker 1: be holy. But who's doing that, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: just it's not working for humans. The only the only
Speaker 1: person I was able to do that is when Jesus
Speaker 1: was a man on the earth. Obviously he was God too,
Speaker 1: But let's continue symbolism of sacrifices. The various offerings include
Speaker 1: burn offerings, grain offerings, and sin offerings symbolize the different
Speaker 1: aspects of worship and relationship with God. They point to
Speaker 1: the need for purification and dedication. Yes, we definitely have
Speaker 1: a need for purification. Everybody does right community worship. The
Speaker 1: communal aspect of these festivals underscores the importance of corporate
Speaker 1: worship and unity among God's people. So fellowship is definitely important.
Speaker 1: That's why, you know, some people they tell me that
Speaker 1: this is their church, and that's great, but we need
Speaker 1: to have fellowship somewhere. So that's why it would be
Speaker 1: really cool if you guys just DM ME and and
Speaker 1: and I could I could at least contact you guys
Speaker 1: and and you know, have some type of communication besides
Speaker 1: me just talking and that way, if you guys have
Speaker 1: any questions, you could always, like I said, DM me
Speaker 1: Josh Monday Underscore podcast, follow me on Instagram. Foreshadowing Christ.
Speaker 1: The sacrifices and festivals foreshadow the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: who fulfills the law and offers eternal atonement for sin. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is definitely what I was talking about. It it's
Speaker 1: foreshadowing Christ. Right, practical applications for you guys for this chapter,
Speaker 1: prioritize worship. Just as the Israelite set aside specific times
Speaker 1: for worship, we should prioritize regular, intentional worship in our lives.
Speaker 1: And you know what a form of worship is obedience
Speaker 1: to God, right, it's it's it's like, that's a form
Speaker 1: of worship. Some people believe that worship is going into church,
Speaker 1: putting your hands up, white people. Why white people play
Speaker 1: songs in music, worship music, and they feel like that's worship. Now, yes,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a form of worship. But God would
Speaker 1: rather you be obedient than than to do that. I
Speaker 1: think you know, I believe you see that throughout the Bible,
Speaker 1: obedience is so important. And you know what, what's crazy
Speaker 1: is The next line that I have is obedience in details.
Speaker 1: Pay attention to the details of your spiritual life, ensuring
Speaker 1: that your actions aligned with God's commands. This is this
Speaker 1: is just It's vastly important. Obedience. Is it easy? No,
Speaker 1: but the Christian walk is not easy. When you when
Speaker 1: you actually come and you get saved by God, you
Speaker 1: get saved by the Lord, and then you end up
Speaker 1: picking up your cross and following him. You think it's
Speaker 1: an easy path. It's not easy. It's not like you
Speaker 1: get saved and then everything just becomes easy the rest
Speaker 1: of your life. It actually, that's when the spiritual battle begins.
Speaker 1: That's when you put a giant target on your back
Speaker 1: for the devil to try to hit. So it's really important.
Speaker 1: Let me just make sure I won't get any text
Speaker 1: messages while I'm doing this, all right? Next one is
Speaker 1: seek atonement. Regularly seek forgiveness and purification through Christ, recognizing
Speaker 1: our need for His atoning sacrifice. Amen to that value community.
Speaker 1: I kind of told you guys about that worship and
Speaker 1: fellowship reflect on Christ's sacrifice, Meditate on how the Old
Speaker 1: Testament sacrifices point to Jesus, deepening your appreciation for his
Speaker 1: work on the cross amen. I don't think I have
Speaker 1: anything here. And if you guys do want to, if
Speaker 1: you do want further additional context on these festivals, then
Speaker 1: go to Leviticus twenty three. That's when if you go
Speaker 1: back to my podcast and see when I'm going through
Speaker 1: Leviticus twenty three, I do a little deeper dive on
Speaker 1: these particular festivals. Okay, this one I just wanted to
Speaker 1: read through, do a little commentary, a little context, but
Speaker 1: not get too crazy. And then and then if you
Speaker 1: want to go to Hebrews ten one through eighteen that
Speaker 1: discusses how Christ fulfills the sacrificial system and offers a
Speaker 1: once for all atonement. So check that out. And I
Speaker 1: know that some people have different opinions on that. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you Sean from Kingdom in context. I listened
Speaker 1: to his show, I listened to his debates, and he
Speaker 1: believes that as Christians we should still follow the law. Now,
Speaker 1: just all I all I I don't tell anybody what
Speaker 1: they should and should not do. All I tell you
Speaker 1: as listeners if you have time. I know that this
Speaker 1: is one of your studies. You listen to Wednesday Sunday service,
Speaker 1: of course, but I also suggest that people listen to debates,
Speaker 1: you know, and and also kind of get a grasp
Speaker 1: on one person's point of view and another person's point
Speaker 1: of view. Right, That's what I do. And I don't
Speaker 1: just put stuff to the side because my pastor says
Speaker 1: something or some church leader says something. I don't do that,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you guys don't either, you guys, especially
Speaker 1: if you're in the Christian and conspiracy community. But I
Speaker 1: study all of it, you know, the Trinity, I study,
Speaker 1: you know. I try to listen to debates and just
Speaker 1: I just suggest that you guys do that. This is great,
Speaker 1: that going through the Bible is great, and then at
Speaker 1: some point if you ever have a question on something,
Speaker 1: you could always list to a debate on it. That's
Speaker 1: that's what I would say, guys on that because he
Speaker 1: with Sean, I get along with them. But on the
Speaker 1: show before we did some biblical cosmology episode before, but
Speaker 1: he would have a different opinion on that portion that
Speaker 1: I just said. He would say, Hebrews ten is not
Speaker 1: about that so just want to let you know that
Speaker 1: there's I don't like to just teach a one thing.
Speaker 1: I like to teach tell you guys, there's different things
Speaker 1: out there, and make sure that I explain that to you.
Speaker 1: Colossians two sixteen through seventeen reminds us that the festivals
Speaker 1: are a shadow of the things that come the substance
Speaker 1: found in Christ. Okay, so we're good. Now we got
Speaker 1: we kind of went over that. The chapter includes the
Speaker 1: summary emphasizing, Okay, we're good. Their themes were good. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: All right, now we're gonna go to numbers thirty. So
Speaker 1: we did a good twenty minutes on that. Perfect excuse
Speaker 1: me clear in my throat, all right, here we go,
Speaker 1: numbers thirty, Verse one. The law concerning vows is what
Speaker 1: the title is. Then Moses spoke to the heads of
Speaker 1: the tribes concerning the chosen of Israel, saying, this is
Speaker 1: the thing which the Lord has commanded. If a man
Speaker 1: makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath
Speaker 1: to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break
Speaker 1: his word. He shall do he shall do according to
Speaker 1: all that proceeds out of his mouth. Or a woman
Speaker 1: makes a vow to the Lord and binds herself by
Speaker 1: some agreement while in her father's house or or in
Speaker 1: her father's house in her youth, and her father hears
Speaker 1: her vow and the agreement agreement by which she has
Speaker 1: bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all
Speaker 1: her vowels shall stand, and every agreement with which she
Speaker 1: has bound herself shall stand. But if her father overrules
Speaker 1: her on the day that he hears, then none of
Speaker 1: her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound
Speaker 1: herself shall stand, and the Lord will release her because
Speaker 1: her father's overruled her. So since she's in her youth,
Speaker 1: obviously she's probably young, and her father would probably know better.
Speaker 1: So if he hears her making a vow to the Lord,
Speaker 1: and that day he corrects it, then God is not
Speaker 1: going to hold her accountable for that. But if he
Speaker 1: hears it and doesn't say anything, then that it's gonna stand.
Speaker 1: You see. And the first chapter or the first couple
Speaker 1: verses there one and two. If a man makes a
Speaker 1: vow or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement,
Speaker 1: he shall not break his word. He shall do according
Speaker 1: to that what proceeds out of his mouth. So obviously
Speaker 1: you want to be careful. What you what kind of
Speaker 1: a vow that you make to the lord. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna swear to the Lord, I'm not gonna do this anymore.
Speaker 1: You better be careful because it says right here, he shall,
Speaker 1: and he shall not break his word. He shall do
Speaker 1: according to all that proceeds out of his mouth, which is,
Speaker 1: you know something that we obviously should already know that
Speaker 1: we should we should be men of our word, right,
Speaker 1: and we should not make a vow. But you know,
Speaker 1: you be a man of your word to when you're
Speaker 1: speaking to men, you know, and and you make a
Speaker 1: vow or to your wife, right. But this is talking
Speaker 1: about a vow that you make it to the lord.
Speaker 1: It also says or swears an oath to bind himself
Speaker 1: by some agreement. So a vow to the lord also
Speaker 1: by some agreement. So he said he shall, okay, you
Speaker 1: know in court when he say shall not, that's different
Speaker 1: than saying should not. Shall not means do not do
Speaker 1: it at all? Okay, It's a it's a more powerful statement.
Speaker 1: So let's see. Is there anything anything introduction to the vows.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna see if I wrote anything here. Okay,
Speaker 1: if I got anything out here, Moses conveys the command
Speaker 1: of the Lord to the leaders the tribes. Is regardting vows.
Speaker 1: A man who makes a vow to the Lord wh
Speaker 1: swears an oath we already read that will not break
Speaker 1: his promise. The Hebrew word for a vow is neither
Speaker 1: emphasizes a solemn promise or commitment made to God. Okay,
Speaker 1: we already read. Okay, here's the other one. This reflects
Speaker 1: the part so when you're when you're talking about the
Speaker 1: vows by the young woman. This reflects the patriarchal structure
Speaker 1: where the father has authority over his daughter's commitments. So
Speaker 1: that's that's why, that's why it says that the father
Speaker 1: can overrule her. All right. Now, we're at numbers thirty
Speaker 1: verse six. If indeed she takes a husband why bound
Speaker 1: while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance
Speaker 1: from her lips by which she bound herself, and her
Speaker 1: husband hears it and makes no response to her on
Speaker 1: the day that he hears, then her vow shall stand,
Speaker 1: and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand.
Speaker 1: But if her husband over rules her on the day
Speaker 1: that he hears it, he shall make void her vow.
Speaker 1: Excuse me what she took and which she uttered by
Speaker 1: her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord
Speaker 1: will release her. So, as you can see in the structure,
Speaker 1: when the woman is at home with the father, the
Speaker 1: father is obviously able to overrule her right. And also
Speaker 1: when you know the husband is the leader of the home,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't I know. People might say, ah,
Speaker 1: that's that's this, that's that. Okay, the husband is the
Speaker 1: leader of the home, but he should also be the
Speaker 1: spiritual leader of the home. Okay, So you can't just
Speaker 1: be the leader. And if you don't love your wife
Speaker 1: like Christ love the Church, she's not going to follow you.
Speaker 1: So here is also, you know, showing the husband's authority
Speaker 1: over his wife's vows. It's also reflecting the maritual hierarchy
Speaker 1: of what God wants right. God wants the man to
Speaker 1: be the leader of the home and also to be
Speaker 1: able to be encouraging to his wife and tell her
Speaker 1: the correct things to do. But what I what I
Speaker 1: would say is make sure if you are the husband,
Speaker 1: that you are making the correct decisions. Make sure you're
Speaker 1: being obedient to the Lord, because if you're not being
Speaker 1: obedient to the Lord, and you're trying to tell your
Speaker 1: wife what to do. You're not leading the home correctly.
Speaker 1: If you're not the spiritual leader. If you come home
Speaker 1: from work and you're just drinking beer the whole time,
Speaker 1: telling your wife make me dinner, lady, you know you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna have a pill battle. Depending on the wife.
Speaker 1: Some wives are probably okay with that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, but I'm just saying others wouldn't be. So.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a leader of your home,
Speaker 1: I suggest, as a man, you be the top tier man.
Speaker 1: You know, you be a top tier man. We're the
Speaker 1: spiritual leader of the home. You're obedient to the Lord,
Speaker 1: and you're letting Jesus take the wheel. You know, God
Speaker 1: is obviously the number one. And then you know a
Speaker 1: husband and wife, right, all right, So you place God first,
Speaker 1: everything else will follow. Let's see, let's get back to
Speaker 1: my notes. Vows made by a merry woman. We already
Speaker 1: read that. Now let's go two numbers thirty verse nine. Also,
Speaker 1: any vow of a widow or a divorced woman by
Speaker 1: which she has bound herself shall stand against her. If
Speaker 1: she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself by agreement. Wait, oh,
Speaker 1: let's see nine. Okay, number nine, it says without a
Speaker 1: male authority figure, her vows stand, highlighting her autonomy in
Speaker 1: this context. Okay, so that was kind of obvious. So
Speaker 1: let's continue number thirty, verse ten. If she vowed in
Speaker 1: her husband's house or bound herself by an agreement with
Speaker 1: an oath, and her husband heard it and made no
Speaker 1: response to her and did not overrule her, then her
Speaker 1: vowels shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound
Speaker 1: herself shall stand. And if her husband truly made them
Speaker 1: void on on the day he heard them, then whatever
Speaker 1: proceeded from her lips concerning her vowels or concerning the
Speaker 1: agreement binding her shall not stand. Her husband has made
Speaker 1: them void, and the Lord will release her every vow
Speaker 1: and every binding oath to afflict her soul. Her husband
Speaker 1: make confirm it, or husband may make it void now,
Speaker 1: or for her husband makes no response whatever to her
Speaker 1: day today, then he confirms all her vowels, of all
Speaker 1: her agreements that bind her. He confirms them because he
Speaker 1: made no response to her on the day that he
Speaker 1: heard them. But if he does make them void after
Speaker 1: he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.
Speaker 1: So if he tries to make them void after he
Speaker 1: already heard them, then that's a mistake. You gotta, you gotta,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it right then. So oh okay, So
Speaker 1: ten through fifteen, if a woman makes a vow in
Speaker 1: her husband's house, that stands unless her husband ullifies it
Speaker 1: on the day. Let's see what it says. The husband's
Speaker 1: role in confirming or nullifying vowels underscores his responsibility and authority.
Speaker 1: You see, God, there's a lot of responsibility as a
Speaker 1: husband in the home back then, there's a lot now.
Speaker 1: But God is just clarifying everything for the man and
Speaker 1: the woman. Right. These are the statues which the Lord
Speaker 1: God commanded Moses between a man and his wife, and
Speaker 1: between a father and his daughter in her youth in
Speaker 1: her father's house. So very good for people to follow.
Speaker 1: Let's see what see what teaching points we can look
Speaker 1: up here for numbers thirty, So the importance of vows. Okay,
Speaker 1: so numbers thirty. Verse two states when a man makes
Speaker 1: a vow to the Lord or swells, Oh, I think
Speaker 1: did I do that already? Let's see. Let's see this
Speaker 1: verse underscores the gravity of making vows to God and
Speaker 1: the expectation of fulfilling them. Next one is authority and accountability.
Speaker 1: Verses three through five discusses the role of a father
Speaker 1: confirm a no fire daughter's vow. This highlights of biblical principle,
Speaker 1: which we kind of already went through. Okay, we kind
Speaker 1: of did a pretty deep dive on that. So we'll
Speaker 1: just go to the practical applications that you can use
Speaker 1: for your life, and then we'll go to numbers thirty one.
Speaker 1: Consider before you commit. This is very important before making
Speaker 1: a vow or promise prayerfully consider your ability to fulfill it.
Speaker 1: Let your yes be yes or your no be no,
Speaker 1: Matthew five thirty seven. Right, So, yeah, I wouldn't make
Speaker 1: a vow whatsoever unless you one million percent no, you
Speaker 1: could fulfill it. You do not. I want to be
Speaker 1: making promises to the Lord at all that you cannot fulfill.
Speaker 1: And if you have some type of addiction, be careful,
Speaker 1: be careful about promising God that you're not going to
Speaker 1: do that particular drug or that particular alcohol, or that
Speaker 1: particular food or whatever you have that you're addicted to.
Speaker 1: Be careful and be careful about promising your wife or
Speaker 1: your husband, or your dad or your mom that you're
Speaker 1: not going to ever do that drug that you're addicted
Speaker 1: to ever. Again, make sure you're a million percent sure
Speaker 1: before you tell somebody that, or else you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a very uphill battle. You're going to continue to just
Speaker 1: backslide and backside and backslide. And if you're making promises
Speaker 1: to God, I don't think you should. It's sane right
Speaker 1: here not to do that, Okay, Seek godly counsel in
Speaker 1: matters of significant commit Seek the wisdom and guidance of
Speaker 1: spiritual leaders or mentors who can provide insight and accountability.
Speaker 1: That's obviously important to you know, young men that are listening,
Speaker 1: that's that are not married yet, choose wisely and choose
Speaker 1: a Christian woman or a believer. I just want to
Speaker 1: let you know it's very hard when you're unequally yoked
Speaker 1: for you to become the spiritual leader of your home
Speaker 1: if your wife is not even a believer. And also
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard with your kids because you're
Speaker 1: going to be trying to teach them the Bible and
Speaker 1: she's going to counter be teaching him whatever she believes.
Speaker 1: So I just say, I'm just giving you young men
Speaker 1: and young women just a little advice. Women, if you're
Speaker 1: going to marry a man, you also want to make
Speaker 1: sure that you're choosing wisely, understand, and you're going to
Speaker 1: be with this person for your whole entire life, and
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure that you're equally yoked, meaning
Speaker 1: that you guys believe the same thing spiritually, because when
Speaker 1: you spiritually believe the same thing and you're making prayers,
Speaker 1: you know, you could be praying all day long and
Speaker 1: your husband doesn't believe in God, and now there's lack
Speaker 1: of faith in the home, not from you, but from him.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something. When I was going through
Speaker 1: Luke Matthew Mark. You see when Jesus goes back to
Speaker 1: his town and Galilee, and what happens is the people
Speaker 1: they see him as just a carpenter's son. How is
Speaker 1: he doing all that stuff? That guy? I know who
Speaker 1: that is, That's Joseph's son. There was lack of faith.
Speaker 1: So Jesus healed a few people and he bounced, he
Speaker 1: was gone. He didn't do a bunch of miracles like
Speaker 1: he did in these other cities, because he marveled at
Speaker 1: the lack of faith. So be careful if you have
Speaker 1: somebody in your home that has lack of faith. If
Speaker 1: you want Jesus to do miracles in your life and
Speaker 1: help save your son that's dying, or save your daughter
Speaker 1: that has infection, all this stuff, well you need to
Speaker 1: make sure your home doesn't have lack of faith. Not
Speaker 1: saying that he wouldn't heal them. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: lack of faith doesn't help that situation out look in Galilee.
Speaker 1: That's an example. Honor your word. Strive to be a
Speaker 1: person of integrity whose words aligned with actions reflecting the
Speaker 1: character of Christ in all your dealings. That is one
Speaker 1: important in your job well obviously in your marriage first
Speaker 1: and in your job as well. When you have integrity
Speaker 1: and you deal with people and you have the right
Speaker 1: character and what you're speaking, your integrity and your words
Speaker 1: aligned with your actions, then you will be unstoppable at
Speaker 1: your job. Okay. Communicate in relationships very important in marriage
Speaker 1: and family. Maintain open communication about commitments, and seek unity
Speaker 1: and decisions that affect your spiritual journey. I agree with
Speaker 1: that one hundred percent. Communication and relationships, and I know
Speaker 1: it's hard. Ladies and gentlemen, I know it's hard because
Speaker 1: me and my wife we have three kids, three, four,
Speaker 1: and six. Okay, we had a one year old, two
Speaker 1: year old, and four year old at one time, and
Speaker 1: it's a madhouse, right, So communication is key if you
Speaker 1: have kids in the scenario, understand that you got to
Speaker 1: still continue to get to communicate with your wife and
Speaker 1: understand that that situations get pretty stressful, but you got
Speaker 1: to continue communicating, have integrity and unity in your decisions,
Speaker 1: and make sure you still continue to lead your wife
Speaker 1: to the Bible and to Christ and your kids. Okay,
Speaker 1: for sure? All right, anything else that I could kind
Speaker 1: of all right, I don't have anything else, okay, So
Speaker 1: additional spiritual scripture, I mean additional spiritual scripture, sorry, additional
Speaker 1: scriptures that you could go to. Ecclesiastes five, verse four
Speaker 1: through five. When you make a vow to God, do
Speaker 1: not delay and fulfillment. He has no pleasure in fools.
Speaker 1: Fulfill your vowel. That's Ecclesiastes five, four through five. Let
Speaker 1: me make sure when you make a vow and do
Speaker 1: not delay fulfill it. It has no pleasure in fools. Fulfill
Speaker 1: your vowel. Okay, So just want to make sure that's
Speaker 1: saying that. In Matthew five thirty three through thirty seven,
Speaker 1: Jesus teaches about the importance of keeping oaths and letting
Speaker 1: your word be trustworthy. Your yes is be yes, your
Speaker 1: nose be nos. Right, So in that those verses, Jesus
Speaker 1: teaches that, So you could go back there check that
Speaker 1: out for about vowels. Okay, James five twelve. Above all,
Speaker 1: my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth,
Speaker 1: or by any other oath. Simply let your yes be
Speaker 1: yes or your no be no, so that you will
Speaker 1: not fall under judgment. Sorry, that portion is actually in
Speaker 1: James and not Jesus. Okay, I'm just telling you. Actually,
Speaker 1: maybe let's check what that is again. You have heard
Speaker 1: that is said to people long ago. Do not break
Speaker 1: your oath or fulfill the Lord's vowels that have been made.
Speaker 1: That's that's thirty three. Okay, perfect, We're good. So if
Speaker 1: you guys want to go back read those James five twelve,
Speaker 1: Matthew five thirty three through thirty seven Ecclesiasts four ecclese
Speaker 1: as Thees five four and five. Okay, all right, nice,
Speaker 1: So now we're gonna go to numbers thirty one, moving
Speaker 1: right along nicely here, all right, now we're gonna get
Speaker 1: off of the vows and the feast, and now we're
Speaker 1: getting into vengeance on the Midianites. Here we go numbers
Speaker 1: thirty one, verse one, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Speaker 1: take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel.
Speaker 1: Afterward you shall be gathered to your people. So Moses
Speaker 1: spoke to the people, saying, arm some of yourselves for war,
Speaker 1: and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance
Speaker 1: for the Lord on midian A thousand from each tribe
Speaker 1: of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to war.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Now this is the uh, the battle part.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm trying to get some some of this, honey,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: For your patience. Sorry, I gotta take a drinker. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go. Did I do one through six yet? Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. We're on numbers thirty one, verse five.
Speaker 1: So there were recruited from the division of Israel, one
Speaker 1: thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. Then
Speaker 1: Moses sent them to war, one thousand from each tribe.
Speaker 1: He sent them to war with Pheneus, the son of
Speaker 1: Aliazar the priests with the holy articles and the signal
Speaker 1: trumpets in his hand, and they warred against the Midianites,
Speaker 1: just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed all
Speaker 1: the males. They killed the kings of Midian and the
Speaker 1: rest of those who were killed Ivi, rickam Her, and Rieba,
Speaker 1: the five kings of Midian. Balem, the son of bor
Speaker 1: was also killed with the sword. Do you remember Balem? Okay,
Speaker 1: remember Balem? So Now I was wrong, It's actually was.
Speaker 1: It was talked about in Joshua as well. I said,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have known unless we read, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: numbers about it. But hey, it's right here. Balem the
Speaker 1: son of Boruh was also killed by the sword. So
Speaker 1: that's through six. Let's see. Let's check this out. Median okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: uh sorry, let me just there's a teaching point, events,
Speaker 1: places and people, practical applications. Nope, I want that. So
Speaker 1: here we go. Numbers soap, So, Moses's father in law
Speaker 1: was a Midianite. So that's kind of interesting that they
Speaker 1: end up becoming enemies like this. All right, So numbers
Speaker 1: thirty one, verse nine and the children of Israel took
Speaker 1: the women of Midian captive with their little ones, and
Speaker 1: took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and
Speaker 1: all their goods. They also burned with fire all the
Speaker 1: cities where they dwelt and all their forts. And they
Speaker 1: took all the spoil and all the booty of man
Speaker 1: and beast. See, wars happened, you know, wars happened. You know.
Speaker 1: I was in the United States Army, Okay, So I
Speaker 1: was always when I got into the Army, I was
Speaker 1: and I ended up deploying. I had that thought in
Speaker 1: my mind, like what if I go to war and
Speaker 1: I kill somebody? Like, is God going to be okay
Speaker 1: with that? You know, knowing especially I joined in twenty thirteen, Okay,
Speaker 1: so it was right after Sandy Hook, and I was
Speaker 1: studying Sandy Hook at the time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and this is you know, at the time,
Speaker 1: I felt like it was a complete false flag and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and I was just studying it. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about that right now. I
Speaker 1: just want to tell you that's what I was studying
Speaker 1: at the time. And I went into the military, and
Speaker 1: once I deployed in twenty fifteen, I was like, thinking,
Speaker 1: man and had I kind of was awake to a
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff. So I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: how would God feel if we were if we were
Speaker 1: in war and I killed somebody, knowing that we're really
Speaker 1: this there for all the you know, all the stuff
Speaker 1: that we know now, and it was just a hard
Speaker 1: thing for me. So I just want to let you
Speaker 1: guys know that. You know, it's it's something hard for
Speaker 1: a soldier, like to a Christian soldier to juggle in
Speaker 1: their mind, especially when there's the military industrial complex and
Speaker 1: all this these reasons why we're there and we're literally
Speaker 1: just you know, thank God. I was in Kuwait and
Speaker 1: I was on a airfield and I was just feeling
Speaker 1: helicopters the whole time. God is great, you know, God
Speaker 1: is great. But as you see, the children of Israel
Speaker 1: took the women of Median captive and their little ones.
Speaker 1: So let's see what they did after this, So numbers
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one, verse twelve. Then they brought the captives,
Speaker 1: the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to alias you
Speaker 1: are the priest, Alias are the priest, and to the
Speaker 1: congregation of the children of Israel to the camp and
Speaker 1: the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,
Speaker 1: and Moses alias are the priest, and all the leaders
Speaker 1: of the congregation went to them outside the camp. But
Speaker 1: Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with
Speaker 1: the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds who had
Speaker 1: come from the battle. And Moses said to them, have
Speaker 1: you kept all the women alive? Look, these women caused
Speaker 1: the children of Israel, through the Council of Balem, to
Speaker 1: trespass against the Lord, and the incident of peor and
Speaker 1: the plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore,
Speaker 1: kill every male among the little ones, and kill every
Speaker 1: woman who has who has known a man intimately. But
Speaker 1: keep alive yourselves all the young girls who have not
Speaker 1: known a man intimately. As for you, remain outside the
Speaker 1: camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, whoever has
Speaker 1: touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the
Speaker 1: third day, and on the seventh day, purify every garment,
Speaker 1: everything made of leather, everything woven of goat's hair, and
Speaker 1: everything made of wood. So obviously that's it's that's hard
Speaker 1: for me. You know to hear this, but they sined
Speaker 1: against God. This is different because you know, they have
Speaker 1: a tabernacle and God is like literally present with them.
Speaker 1: You know, It's just it's just different. You know. It's
Speaker 1: not easy for me to to sit here and tell
Speaker 1: you guys, like, hey, I agree with everything that just
Speaker 1: happened right there. No, you deal with things in the
Speaker 1: Bible that are tough to swallow, but you're not in
Speaker 1: that position and you don't understand, and God obviously knows best.
Speaker 1: So we just got to go with and roll with it.
Speaker 1: But let's continue. I don't really have anything to say
Speaker 1: about that part. Let's see, is there any teaching points
Speaker 1: I'm missing? Yeah, it's called the it's like the purification
Speaker 1: after the battle. After the battle, moseses or the Israelite
Speaker 1: leaders are we turning to the soldiers to camp, which
Speaker 1: we read Moses is angered by the soldier decision to
Speaker 1: spread the media nite women. He commands them to kill
Speaker 1: every male child in non virgin women, but allows the
Speaker 1: virgin women to live. Moses navies are to struct the
Speaker 1: soldiers about the law concerning purification. Yep, we understand that
Speaker 1: they so, even though you're at war, you're still gonna
Speaker 1: have to you know, you're still unclean if you killed somebody,
Speaker 1: so you need to go out seven you know, seven
Speaker 1: days all that. So we're at numbers thirty one, Verse
Speaker 1: twenty one. Then, alias are the priests said to the
Speaker 1: men of war who had gone to battle, to the battle,
Speaker 1: this is the ordinance of the law Lord commanded Moses.
Speaker 1: Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin,
Speaker 1: and the lead. That's the booty. That's what that is.
Speaker 1: Everything can endure fire, you shall put through the fire,
Speaker 1: and it shall be clean, and it shall be purified
Speaker 1: with the water purification. But all that cannot endure fire,
Speaker 1: you shall put through water. You shall wash your clothes
Speaker 1: on the seventh day and be clean afterwards to you
Speaker 1: may come into the camp. So these people obviously were
Speaker 1: worshiping other gods and pagan and you know, God just
Speaker 1: wants it to be clean if they're gonna take it.
Speaker 1: Let's see, So twenty one through forty seven. Okay, we
Speaker 1: didn't go through that yet. So purification, division, offering of tribute. Okay,
Speaker 1: so division of plunders. So we'll continue reading. First one
Speaker 1: structs the soldiers. So right, this is a numbers thirty one,
Speaker 1: twenty five. Now the Lord spoke, this is division of
Speaker 1: the plunder. Okay, Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Speaker 1: count up the plunder that was taken of man and beast.
Speaker 1: You and Alias are the priest and the chief fathers
Speaker 1: of the congregation, and divide the plunders into two parts,
Speaker 1: between those who took part in the war who went
Speaker 1: out to battle, and all the congregation and levy. A
Speaker 1: tribute to the Lord of the men of war who
Speaker 1: went out to battle. One of the five hundred of
Speaker 1: the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, the sheep, take it
Speaker 1: from their half and give it to Alias the priest
Speaker 1: as a heave offering to the Lord. And from the
Speaker 1: children of Israel. Half. You shall take one of every
Speaker 1: fifty drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and
Speaker 1: the sheep from the livestock, and give it give them
Speaker 1: to the levites who keep charge of the tavern nacle
Speaker 1: of the Lord. So Moses and Elias are the priests.
Speaker 1: Did as the Lord commanded Moses, so one thing, I
Speaker 1: would say, So, okay, we'll continue. I have a little
Speaker 1: thing right here, but I want to wait till we
Speaker 1: finished all the way to verse forty seven. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're at numbers thirty one thirty two. The booty remain.
Speaker 1: The booty is like all the money and the gold,
Speaker 1: the silver of the ten, all that stuff that I
Speaker 1: was talking about. The booty remaining from the plunder which
Speaker 1: the men of war had taken, with six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand sheep and seventy two thousand cattle, sixty
Speaker 1: one thousand donkeys, and thirty two thousand persons, in all
Speaker 1: of women who had not known a male intimately, and
Speaker 1: the half the portion of those who had gone out
Speaker 1: to war was in number and three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven thousand, five hundred sheep, and the lord's tribute of
Speaker 1: the sheep was six hundred and seventy five. The cattle
Speaker 1: were thirty six thousand, of which the lord's tribute was
Speaker 1: seventy two. The donkeys were thirty thousand, five hundred, for
Speaker 1: which the lord's tribute was sixty one. The persons were
Speaker 1: sixteen thousand, for which the lord's tribute was thirty two. Persons.
Speaker 1: So Moses gave the tribute, which was the lord's heave,
Speaker 1: offering to Aliazar the priest as the Lord commanded Moses,
Speaker 1: and from the children of Israel's half, which Moses separated
Speaker 1: from the men who fought. Now the half belonging to
Speaker 1: the Congregation was three hundred and sixty seven thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred sheep, thirty six thousand cattle, thirty thousand, five hundred donkeys,
Speaker 1: and sixteen thousand persons. And from the children of Israel's half,
Speaker 1: Moses took one of the fifty drawn from man and
Speaker 1: beast and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge
Speaker 1: of the tabernacle of the Lord. As the Lord commanded Moses,
Speaker 1: thank God, we do not have to be at war
Speaker 1: like that, okay, or they just going to just just
Speaker 1: slaughter like that? Now war is it just happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were trying to go through the land of Median
Speaker 1: and the Israelites said, let us go through. We want
Speaker 1: to drink any of your water, we want to eat
Speaker 1: any of your food, your grain, we have everything we need.
Speaker 1: We just want to go through. And they said no,
Speaker 1: and then they started trying to curse them right with
Speaker 1: Baylim and Baalick, the king Bailick. You know. So there
Speaker 1: was a lot of stuff that led up to this.
Speaker 1: If you're listening and you're you're new to this situation,
Speaker 1: and you know you haven't gone back. You got to
Speaker 1: go back and listen to the whole thing in numbers,
Speaker 1: and you'll see things that happen, like the women seduce
Speaker 1: the Israelites. They came down and seduce them. So that's
Speaker 1: why the women are paying for what they did. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's why all this is happening. And war it happens,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see it throughout the Bible, you know,
Speaker 1: And a lot of the time when war happens, God
Speaker 1: says to kill all the men, women and children, and
Speaker 1: the and the cattle. Uh. That is when usually when
Speaker 1: they're going up against the Amorites or you know, going
Speaker 1: up against the giants. But this happens to be the Midianites,
Speaker 1: and they were were trying to do a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to the Israelites. So let's see if I have
Speaker 1: anything in my notes, it says division of plunder the
Speaker 1: booty of war, including captism livestock is counter divided between
Speaker 1: the soldiers, which we already read, and the rest of
Speaker 1: the Israelites community, with portion given to the Levites. So
Speaker 1: there's a portion given to Levites, because the Levites they
Speaker 1: don't get they don't have land and all the and
Speaker 1: and sheep and everything they get. They get a portion
Speaker 1: because they don't have all that stuff, because they're they're priests.
Speaker 1: God come o Moses to levy a tribute from the
Speaker 1: portions as an offering to the Lord. Yes, all right, now,
Speaker 1: let's continue. Is there anything Let's see. I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to see if there's anything I'm missing places Midian We
Speaker 1: already talked about that. The media Knights were a nomadic
Speaker 1: people descended from Midian, a son of Abraham by Katurah
Speaker 1: Genesis twenty five one through two. The Midia Knights lived
Speaker 1: in the region east of the Jordan River and the
Speaker 1: Dead Sea. It is now modern day northwest Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: northern Jordan, and parts of the southern Israel. The Hebrew
Speaker 1: route word for Midian can imply strife or contention, which
Speaker 1: is fitting giving the conflict described in this chapter. All right,
Speaker 1: so you have that, cool? All right, I don't have
Speaker 1: any anything on that portion numbers thirty one, verse forty eight.
Speaker 1: Then the officers who were over thousands of the army,
Speaker 1: the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds came near
Speaker 1: to Moses, and they said, to Moses, your servants have
Speaker 1: taken account of the men of war who are under
Speaker 1: our command, and not a man of us is missing.
Speaker 1: Therefore we have brought an offering to the Lord. Then
Speaker 1: every man found of ornaments of gold, armlets and bracelets,
Speaker 1: and signet rings, and ear rings and necklaces, to make
Speaker 1: atonement for ourselves before the Lord. So Moses and aliens
Speaker 1: Are the priests received the gold from them, all the
Speaker 1: fashion ornaments and all the gold. Of the offering that
Speaker 1: they offered to the Lord from the captains of thousands
Speaker 1: and captains of hundreds was sixteen thousand, seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty shekels. The men of war had taken spoil every
Speaker 1: man for himself. And Moses and alias Are the priests
Speaker 1: received the gold from the captains of thousands and hundreds
Speaker 1: and brought it into the tabernacle of meeting as a
Speaker 1: memorial for the children visual before the Lord. Let's see
Speaker 1: what teaching points we have here. Divine command and obedience.
Speaker 1: We talked about that already. It begins with the Lord
Speaker 1: instructing Moses to take vengeance on the Midianites. This command
Speaker 1: highlights the importance of obedience to God's directives, even if
Speaker 1: they are difficult to understand. You see, some of this
Speaker 1: is very difficult to understand, especially the way we do
Speaker 1: it nowadays. Nowadays, war is you guys already know. It's
Speaker 1: just a lot of it. It's just politicians who never
Speaker 1: have shot a bullet making decisions for soldiers like myself
Speaker 1: to go out and do things. And we're all fighting
Speaker 1: against other men who are uncles, who are brothers, who
Speaker 1: have sisters or also women who have husbands, you know,
Speaker 1: and wives. The men have wives. And then we're out
Speaker 1: doing the bid for all these politicians. It's terrible, you know.
Speaker 1: Now this is different because they're they're actually they're taking
Speaker 1: directors from God. So so it's judgment time for the Midianites.
Speaker 1: That's what it is is. It's a literal judgment time,
Speaker 1: So judgment on sin the Midianites. This is another teaching point.
Speaker 1: The Midianites had led Israel into sin at pure and
Speaker 1: this chapter shows the seriousness which God deals with uh
Speaker 1: seriousness with which God deals with sin. It serves as
Speaker 1: a reminder of the consequences of leading others into sin.
Speaker 1: You're better off having a millstone around your neck and
Speaker 1: being dropped in the deepest part of the ocean, than
Speaker 1: to cause one of my children to stumble. That's what
Speaker 1: Jesus says. So even Jesus is like that too. The
Speaker 1: women came down and they caused the men to stumble.
Speaker 1: The Balem, you know, was trying to Bailik, was trying
Speaker 1: to get Baalim to curse the Israelites. Okay, so they
Speaker 1: are being judged for their sins. Role of leadership. Moses
Speaker 1: as a leader, faithfully communicates and executes God's command numbers
Speaker 1: thirty one, three through six. This underscores the responsibilities of
Speaker 1: leaders to guide their people according to God's will. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guide your people according to God's will, even if
Speaker 1: it's uncomfortable. I'm sure it's uncomfortable to be put in
Speaker 1: that position. I wouldn't want to be in that position
Speaker 1: of Moses where you have to say, slay all those women.
Speaker 1: That'd be very, very tough for me. I'm just being honest.
Speaker 1: Purification and holiness. After the battle, the Israelites are instructed
Speaker 1: to purify themselves and the spoils of war numbers thirty one,
Speaker 1: nineteen through twenty four. This emphasizes the need for holiness.
Speaker 1: And and they're cleansing for from defilement. Yes, because they
Speaker 1: are murdering people in the battlefield. They're killing and you know, God,
Speaker 1: even though it's God's will, he still they still have
Speaker 1: to cleanse himself right and purify themselves. Distribution of spoils.
Speaker 1: The division of the spoils numbers thirty one through fifty
Speaker 1: four reflects God's provision and fairness, ensuring that both those
Speaker 1: who fought and those who stayed behind were rewarded. Were rewarded.
Speaker 1: And let's check out some practical applications that you could
Speaker 1: use for your life. Obedience to God's word. We are
Speaker 1: called to obey God's commands, trusting in his wisdom and justice,
Speaker 1: even when we do not fully understand his ways. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we don't fully understand always, but we still need
Speaker 1: to trust His wisdom and justice. Guarding against sin. Just
Speaker 1: as the Israelites face consequences for their sin, we must
Speaker 1: be vigilant in guarding our hearts and communities against influences
Speaker 1: that lead us away from God. You guys understand how
Speaker 1: much influences are out there right now in America? My gosh,
Speaker 1: it's terrible. I mean, there's so much out there that
Speaker 1: leads you away from God, and we deal with it,
Speaker 1: you know, we all deal with it as Christians and believers.
Speaker 1: And you know, for those out there that are listening
Speaker 1: to this Bible say that aren't fully believers, yet you're
Speaker 1: dealing with it all the time. There's so much out there,
Speaker 1: so much out there that will lead you away from God.
Speaker 1: That's why this Bible study is vastly important for your
Speaker 1: life and for mine. It's helping me, assisting me into
Speaker 1: understanding and is teaching me to understand the Bible in
Speaker 1: a certain way that I that I never got to do.
Speaker 1: So it's such a blessing. Praise God. Pursuit of holiness,
Speaker 1: we are reminded of the importance of spiritual purification and
Speaker 1: living a life set apart for God. That's what holiness means.
Speaker 1: Being holy is to be set apart, a life set
Speaker 1: apart for God. Equity and generosity. The fair distribution of
Speaker 1: spoils teaches us to be equitable and generous, recognizing that
Speaker 1: we all have that all we have is from God.
Speaker 1: Everything you have is from God. Okay, everything in the
Speaker 1: Book of James, I think it says everything you have
Speaker 1: give glory to the Father the people that we're in here.
Speaker 1: Balam I told you guys about Balim Okay. He was
Speaker 1: a non Israeli, a prophet who previously attempted to curse
Speaker 1: Israel but ended up blessing them. He is killed by
Speaker 1: the Israelites during the battle against the Midianites. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see, all right, we went over the teaching points,
Speaker 1: the practical applications. Perfect, all right, so we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to numbers thirty two. Now, moving right along. We may
Speaker 1: or may not be able to finish numbers today. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. The tribes settling east of the Jordan, now
Speaker 1: this is numbers thirty two, verse one. Now, the children
Speaker 1: of Reuben and the children of God had a very
Speaker 1: great multitude of livestock. And when they saw the land
Speaker 1: of Jazzar and the land of Gilead, that indeed a
Speaker 1: region was a place for the livestock. The children of
Speaker 1: God and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses,
Speaker 1: to Aliasar and the priest and the leaders of the congregations,
Speaker 1: saying at tooth de bonne jesse niema hashbone iliya shabam nebo,
Speaker 1: and beyond the country which the Lord defeated before the
Speaker 1: Congregation of Visual is a land of livestock, and your
Speaker 1: servants have livestock. Therefore, they said, if you have found
Speaker 1: favor in your sight, let this land be given to
Speaker 1: your servants as a possession. Do not take us over
Speaker 1: the Jordan. Okay. So they didn't want to go over
Speaker 1: the Jordan. They didn't want to go into the promised land.
Speaker 1: And Moses said to the children of Gadden, to the
Speaker 1: children of Reuben, shy, your brethren go to war while
Speaker 1: you sit here. Now, why will you discourage the heart
Speaker 1: of the children of Israel from going over into the
Speaker 1: land which the Lord has given them. Thus your fathers
Speaker 1: did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnia, and
Speaker 1: to see the land, For when they went up the
Speaker 1: valley of Eshkol, and the land which the Lord had
Speaker 1: given them for the Lord's anger was a row on
Speaker 1: that day. And he swore and oh, saying, surely none
Speaker 1: of the men who come out of Egypt from twenty
Speaker 1: years old and above shall see the land which I
Speaker 1: swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not
Speaker 1: wholly followed me, except Caleb and the son of jep Nah.
Speaker 1: That Kennesite and Joshua, the son of None, for they
Speaker 1: have holy followed the Lord. So the Lord's anger was
Speaker 1: aroused against Israel, and he made them wander in the
Speaker 1: wilderness forty years until all, until all that generation had
Speaker 1: done evil, and the sight of the Lord was gone.
Speaker 1: And look you have risen in your father's place a
Speaker 1: broad of sinful men, to increase still more fierce anger
Speaker 1: against the Lord. Of anger of the Lord against Israel.
Speaker 1: For if you turn away from following him, he will
Speaker 1: once again leave them in the wilderness, and and you
Speaker 1: will destroy all these people. Then they came near to
Speaker 1: him and said, we will build sheep folds here for
Speaker 1: our livestock, and cities for our little ones. But we
Speaker 1: ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children
Speaker 1: of Visuel until we have brought them to their place.
Speaker 1: And our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities
Speaker 1: because of the inhabitants of the land. And we will
Speaker 1: not return to our homes until every one of the
Speaker 1: children of Israel has received his inheritance. But we will
Speaker 1: not inherit with them on the other side of the
Speaker 1: Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us
Speaker 1: on the eastern side of the Jordan. So let me
Speaker 1: go back and see what's going on here. This is
Speaker 1: verses one through five. It says the tribes of Reuben
Speaker 1: and Gad, having large livestock herds, are attacks attracted to
Speaker 1: the fertile lands. So that's what's happening here. They proposed
Speaker 1: to Daily's other priests and community leaders to these lands
Speaker 1: to be suitable for them. So yeah, it's because they
Speaker 1: have a bunch of livestock. Moses expresses concern about the
Speaker 1: decision might discourage the other Iselites from crossing into Canaan,
Speaker 1: reminding them of the consequences their ancestors face for their disobedience.
Speaker 1: He fears history he might repeat itself, and worries about
Speaker 1: God's anger against Israel. Right now we're jumping into the negotiation.
Speaker 1: The tribes of Reuben Agad offer a solution. They proposed
Speaker 1: to build pens for the livestock because they because they
Speaker 1: have a lot of livestock. Right we talked about that
Speaker 1: right now, and the cities of their families for their
Speaker 1: men of the fighting age will cross the Jordan armed
Speaker 1: to help the follow fellow. Is right. So they're saying
Speaker 1: that they're but their men of fighting age will cross
Speaker 1: the Jordan armed to help their fellow Israelites. Okay, perfect,
Speaker 1: now we're going to be in numbers thirty two, verse twenty.
Speaker 1: Then Moses said to them, if you do this thing,
Speaker 1: if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war,
Speaker 1: and all your armed men cross the Jordan before the
Speaker 1: Lord until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
Speaker 1: and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward
Speaker 1: you may return and be blame us before the Lord
Speaker 1: and before Israel, and this land shall be your possession
Speaker 1: before the Lord. But if you do not do so,
Speaker 1: then take note you have sinned against the Lord, and
Speaker 1: be sure your sin will, your sin will find you out.
Speaker 1: Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep,
Speaker 1: and do what has proceeded out of your mouth. So
Speaker 1: now we're at twenty. Moses agrees to their proposal, with
Speaker 1: the condition if they fulfilled their promise, their families and
Speaker 1: livestock can stay east of the Jordan. But if they fail,
Speaker 1: they will receive their inheritance in Canaan. All right, let
Speaker 1: me get another drink of water. Obviously I still have
Speaker 1: some weird thing going on. All in my throat. All right, um,
Speaker 1: Now we're in twenty five thirty two, we're going to
Speaker 1: be in numbers thirty two, verse twenty five. And the
Speaker 1: children of God and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying,
Speaker 1: your servants will do as my Lord commands. Our little ones,
Speaker 1: our wives are flocks, and all our livestock will be
Speaker 1: there in the cities of Gailad. Gilead. Sorry, but your
Speaker 1: servants will cross over every man armed for war before
Speaker 1: the Lord to battle, just as my Lord says. Now
Speaker 1: we're in thirty two, verse twenty eight. This is going
Speaker 1: to be the assignment of land. So Moses command concerning them,
Speaker 1: and alias are the priests to Joshua, the son of Nun,
Speaker 1: and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children
Speaker 1: of Israel. And Moses said to them, if the children
Speaker 1: of God and the children of Reuben cross over the
Speaker 1: Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the Lord,
Speaker 1: and the lands is subdued before you, then you shall
Speaker 1: give them the land of the Gilead as a possession.
Speaker 1: But if they do not cross over armed with you,
Speaker 1: they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
Speaker 1: All right, So now we're in verse thirty one. We're
Speaker 1: in number thirty two, verse thirty one. Then the children
Speaker 1: of God and the children of Reuben answers, saying, as
Speaker 1: the Lord has said to your servants, will do. We
Speaker 1: will cross over armed before the Lord into the land
Speaker 1: of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritange shall remain
Speaker 1: with us on this side of the Jordan. That's so
Speaker 1: the assignment of land we kind of talked about that
Speaker 1: the valigance the fellow is ship okay, So Gad have
Speaker 1: the tribe of Manassai. Okay. So it says here in
Speaker 1: the notes that Moses, with Eliezar and the community leaders
Speaker 1: grants the land of Jazar and Gilead to the tribes
Speaker 1: of Reuben and God and half the tribe of men
Speaker 1: Assai after the vow to fight alongside their fellow Israelites. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they will send them their sons that are fighting
Speaker 1: aids to war. But they just want to they just
Speaker 1: want that land. So Moses, let's continue numbers thirty two,
Speaker 1: verse thirty three. So Moses gave to the children of God,
Speaker 1: to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe
Speaker 1: of Manassa. The son of Joseph, the Kingdom of Chion,
Speaker 1: king of the Amorites. All right, here we go. Let
Speaker 1: me just reread that. So Moses gave the children of
Speaker 1: God to the children of Ruben and half the tribe,
Speaker 1: and asside the son of Joseph Caun. We talked about
Speaker 1: that the kingdom of Shinia Shinah Shahan king of the Amorites,
Speaker 1: and the kingdom of og king of Bashan, the land
Speaker 1: with its cities and the borders, the cities of the
Speaker 1: surrounding country. And the children of God built Devon, Authoroth
Speaker 1: and Aroar Arthoth and Chippin and Jazar and Jog Binah,
Speaker 1: Beth Namara, beth Haran fortified cities and folds for their sheep.
Speaker 1: And the children of Rumen built Hashbah and Allah Kurjah,
Speaker 1: him Nebu and Bay and baal Mian, their names being
Speaker 1: changed in Shibnah. And they gave other names to the
Speaker 1: cities which they built. And the children of Macar, the
Speaker 1: son of Manassai, went to Gilead and took it and
Speaker 1: disposed the Amorites who were in it. So Moses gave
Speaker 1: Gilead and Macar, the son of Manassai, and he dwelt
Speaker 1: in it also, Jar, the son of Manassai, went and
Speaker 1: took the small towns and called them Havoth Jar. Then
Speaker 1: boh Naba went and took Kannath and its villages, and
Speaker 1: he called it Naba after his own name. All right,
Speaker 1: so that's numbers thirty two. Let's go a couple of
Speaker 1: teaching points. So the tribes of Reuben and Gad saw
Speaker 1: the land of Jezar and Gilead suitable for their livestock
Speaker 1: and requested to settle their insight crossing and Jordan and
Speaker 1: the promised land. We can't have talked about that. We
Speaker 1: talked about Moses' initial response. We talked about that. Let's uh. Now,
Speaker 1: let's go to the practical applications for your life. Evaluate
Speaker 1: your desires. Consider whether your desires align with God's will
Speaker 1: or if they are based on immediate gratification and comfort.
Speaker 1: You notice that they saw that land was beautiful for
Speaker 1: their livestock, and they were like, let's go. We want this,
Speaker 1: but this is not the promised land that God promised,
Speaker 1: so they are looking for instant gratification and comfort. Commitment
Speaker 1: to community. Recognize the importance of supporting and standing with
Speaker 1: your community in their spiritual journey, even if your personal
Speaker 1: needs seem met. Of course, like all the twelve tribes
Speaker 1: are thirteen if you count Manassai and Ephriom, right, if
Speaker 1: you count both of them, So you got thirteen tribes,
Speaker 1: all of them banned together and working together is the best.
Speaker 1: But they wanted to break off Ruben Goad and Manassai
Speaker 1: halfa Manassai right. Faithfulness to promise, be diligent and fulfilling commitments,
Speaker 1: especially those made before God and others, discernment and decision making,
Speaker 1: seek God's guidance and decisions and staying that they do
Speaker 1: not lead you away from His promise and purpose purposes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so see God's guidance and decisions. Right. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Moses during this time, you know, even like
Speaker 1: in some some points like you know, to say he
Speaker 1: doesn't say like Moses went and spoke to God first
Speaker 1: before he made the decision. He made some decisions. He's
Speaker 1: a leader. But I'm sure that he went several times
Speaker 1: back to pray to God, talk to God and got
Speaker 1: you know, because it keeps saying as the Lord commanded, right,
Speaker 1: he keeps saying as the Lord commanded when he when
Speaker 1: he's giving out these the feast and and and and
Speaker 1: sacrifices and certain things like that, right, so we have
Speaker 1: that anything else, Moses, josh No, we don't need to
Speaker 1: talk about that, okay. So here is some connections and
Speaker 1: additional scriptures. You could go to Joshua twenty two one
Speaker 1: through six. It's basically talking about the fulfillment of the
Speaker 1: promise by the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half of
Speaker 1: an Assai, highlighting their faithfulness. So if you check out
Speaker 1: Joshua twenty two one through six. When we get there,
Speaker 1: we'll go over that. Hebrews three twelve through nineteen is
Speaker 1: a warning against unbelief and disobedience, drying parallels to the
Speaker 1: Israelites experience. So if you want to go back to
Speaker 1: that Hebrews three twelve through nineteen, and then if you
Speaker 1: also go to Proverbs three versus five through six, encouragement
Speaker 1: to trust the Lord and not lean on your own
Speaker 1: understanding and decision making. That's what Proverbs three five through
Speaker 1: six is kind of going over. I would definitely suggest
Speaker 1: to check those out. All right, let's go back, We'll
Speaker 1: not go back, let's go forward, and we're going to
Speaker 1: be in numbers thirty three, Verse one let's go forward,
Speaker 1: all right. So Israel's journey from Egypt reviewed. Okay, so
Speaker 1: numbers thirty three, verse one. These are the journeys of
Speaker 1: the children of Israel, who went out of the land
Speaker 1: of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses
Speaker 1: and Aaron. Now Moses wrote down the starting points of
Speaker 1: their journeys to the command of the Lord, and these
Speaker 1: are their journeys according to their starting points. They departed
Speaker 1: from Ramses in the first month. On the fifteenth day
Speaker 1: of the first month, on the day after the passover,
Speaker 1: children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight
Speaker 1: of all the Egyptians, where the Egyptians were bearing all
Speaker 1: their first borm first born, whom the Lord had killed
Speaker 1: among them. Also on their gods, the Lord had executed judgments.
Speaker 1: We kind of already saw that, right, We already went
Speaker 1: over that. So the Bible is saying that as well,
Speaker 1: that God executed judgments on their gods. That's why all
Speaker 1: the plagues were just basically countering their gods. You want
Speaker 1: to worship these, Okay, I'm gonna give you this, you know,
Speaker 1: all right, let's continue. Let's see if I have anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so okay, so we already see that
Speaker 1: God's deliverance stages of the journey. Okay, let's continue numbers
Speaker 1: thirty three, verse five. Then the children visual moved from
Speaker 1: Ramseys in camp at Sakaf. They departed from Seccath and
Speaker 1: camp at Ethan, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
Speaker 1: They moved from Ethem and turned back to pi Hrath,
Speaker 1: which is east of bail Or baal Zephon, and they
Speaker 1: camped near Migdol. They departed before Heiroth and passed through
Speaker 1: the midst of the sea into the wilderness. When three
Speaker 1: days journey in the wilderness of eat them and camp
Speaker 1: that Marah. They moved from Arah and camped that elam
Speaker 1: Elam were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees,
Speaker 1: so they camped there. They moved from Ilium and camped
Speaker 1: by the Red Sea. They moved from the Red Sea
Speaker 1: and camped in the wilderness of Sin. They journeyed from
Speaker 1: the wilderness of Sin and camped at the at dof Kaw.
Speaker 1: They departed from dof Khaw and camp that Alush. They
Speaker 1: moved from a loosh and camped that Raffidium, where there
Speaker 1: was no water for the people to drink. They departed
Speaker 1: from Raphidium and camped to the wilderness of Sinai. They
Speaker 1: moved from the wilderness of Sinai and camped that Kabrath
Speaker 1: had Tavah. They departed from Tavah and camp that his Arath.
Speaker 1: They departed from Hisrath and camped at Ritma. They departed
Speaker 1: from Rittma and camped at Remy and Perez. They departed
Speaker 1: from Remy and Perez and they camped at lib Nah.
Speaker 1: They moved from Libnah and camped at Rishah. They journeyed
Speaker 1: from Rashah and camped at Kiliatha. And went from Kiliatha
Speaker 1: and camped at Mount Shaffar. They moved from Mount Shafar
Speaker 1: and camped that Harada. And they moved from Heredan camped
Speaker 1: at Macloth. They moved from Mcloth and camp that Tanath.
Speaker 1: And they departed from Tanath and camp that Tarah. They
Speaker 1: moved from Tohran camped at Mythkah. And they went from
Speaker 1: Mythkah and camped that Hashmanah. They departed from Hashmanah and
Speaker 1: camped at Mazaath. They departed from Masaath in camp at
Speaker 1: Ni Jacan. They moved from Benigh Jacon and camped at
Speaker 1: or Higadad. And they went from or Higadad and camped
Speaker 1: at job Bothnah. They moved from j Bothna and camp
Speaker 1: that Abana. They departed from Aberna and camp that is
Speaker 1: on Gibor or Geber. They moved from Isnaan Gibor Gebir,
Speaker 1: and camp in the wilderness of Zen, which is Kadesh.
Speaker 1: And they moved from Kadesh and camped at Mount Or
Speaker 1: on the boundary of the land of Edom. Then Aaron
Speaker 1: the Prince the priest went up to Mount Or and
Speaker 1: commanded the Lord and died there in the fourteenth year,
Speaker 1: after the children of Israel came out of the land
Speaker 1: of Egypt. And on the first day of the fifteen month,
Speaker 1: Aaron was one hundred and thirty three years old when
Speaker 1: he died. Praise God for him to be able to
Speaker 1: live that long life of obedience. Right now, the King
Speaker 1: of Arod, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south line
Speaker 1: of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Speaker 1: So they departed from the mount Or in cant that
Speaker 1: asaf Naha. Here we go again. They departed from Zalwana
Speaker 1: in cant that Banun. They departed from Panun and cant
Speaker 1: that Obath. And they departed from Obatha, cant that Elizabrim
Speaker 1: and the border of at the border of Moab. They
Speaker 1: departed from Jim and can't that dip Gad wait dib Gad.
Speaker 1: They moved from Divingad, and can't that Alam Diplathium. They
Speaker 1: moved from Alam dith Liam. And they canted at the
Speaker 1: mountain of Abriam before Nebo. And they departed from the
Speaker 1: mountains of Abriam and camped to the plains of Moab
Speaker 1: where the Moabites were by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Speaker 1: And they camped by the Jordan from Beth Jessmoth as
Speaker 1: far as abel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab. Yes, okay, anything, okay,
Speaker 1: They're just reflecting on the journey instructions for the conquests
Speaker 1: of Canaan. Now, the Lord spoke to Moses in the
Speaker 1: plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,
Speaker 1: speak to the children of Israel. Say to them, when
Speaker 1: you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Speaker 1: then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the
Speaker 1: land before you destroy all they're engravestones, destroyed all their
Speaker 1: molded images, and demolish all their high places. So just
Speaker 1: to let you guys know, they would the high places.
Speaker 1: Why do they do that? Because God is above the firmament, right,
Speaker 1: God is sitting over the you know if you look
Speaker 1: at Isaiah forty twenty two, right, So I believe God
Speaker 1: is close. Some people believe God is far far, far
Speaker 1: far far away and ever expanding and lead us is
Speaker 1: going far far for away. I believe that God is close.
Speaker 1: So they put them at high places because you know,
Speaker 1: there's the first heaven is where the moon, sun of
Speaker 1: the stars are located. So they're trying to get close
Speaker 1: as close to possible to that. That's why they have
Speaker 1: them in high places. Right, So they're demolishing them because
Speaker 1: that's where they would do their rituals on high mountains. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's continue. You shall dispose of all the inhabitants of
Speaker 1: the land and dwell in it. For I have given
Speaker 1: you the land to possess. And you shall divide the
Speaker 1: land by lot as an inheritance among their families to
Speaker 1: your larger. To the larger, you shall give a larger
Speaker 1: inheritance to the smaller. Smaller, you shall give a smaller inheritance.
Speaker 1: There everyone's inheritance shall be whatever falls by him by lot.
Speaker 1: You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
Speaker 1: But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of
Speaker 1: the land from before you, then it shall be that
Speaker 1: those whom will you let remain shall be irritants in
Speaker 1: your eyes and thorns in your sides, and you shall
Speaker 1: harass They shall harass you in the land where you dwell. Moreover,
Speaker 1: it shall be that I do not Moreover, it shall
Speaker 1: be that I do not do to you as I
Speaker 1: thought to do to them. Moreover, more Over, it shall
Speaker 1: be that I will do to you as I thought
Speaker 1: to do to them. So he's saying, get rid of them,
Speaker 1: all of them, or they're going to be thorns in
Speaker 1: your side, right, And he's also saying that moreover, he
Speaker 1: shall that be that I will do to you as
Speaker 1: I thought to do to them. So, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: that's numbers thirty three completed. Let's check out what we
Speaker 1: have here on teaching points. Historical record numbers thirty three
Speaker 1: one through two begins with Moses recording the stages of
Speaker 1: the Israeli's journey as commanded by the Lord. This emphasizes
Speaker 1: the importance of remembering and documenting God's work in our lives. Yes,
Speaker 1: we all have a testimony, and we got to remember
Speaker 1: what God has done for us. We are not perfect
Speaker 1: to start, you know, we're trying to become perfect. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you when God's first, when you first
Speaker 1: get saved, you got to remember the journey. You got
Speaker 1: to remember what God's done for you your whole entire life.
Speaker 1: You might have gone through a hard life like I did,
Speaker 1: you know, like how many times could I have died
Speaker 1: in a duy or drug overdose or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: God saved me. So we got to remember these journeys.
Speaker 1: And then we also have to remember our walk with
Speaker 1: the Lord. When we started walking with God, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to remember everything He's done for us and
Speaker 1: just appreciate it. We have kids, we have a house,
Speaker 1: whatever God has blessed us with. We have to remember
Speaker 1: the journey. So God, that's why this is going to
Speaker 1: you know, kind of going over this God's deliver it
Speaker 1: deliverance and verses three and four recount the departure from Egypt,
Speaker 1: highlighting God's mighty acts of judgment against the Egyptians and
Speaker 1: his deliverance of his people. This serves as a reminder
Speaker 1: of God's power and faithfulness and delivering us from bondage. Yes,
Speaker 1: some of us are still stuck in bondage right now, Lord,
Speaker 1: I ask you, and you show them, is Cheihok's name
Speaker 1: that you break those chains. Lord, Bondage is something. If
Speaker 1: you're still in sin, if you're still fighting with sin
Speaker 1: and constantly fighting with that same sin, you're in bondage. Okay,
Speaker 1: you are in bondage. And I understand what you're going through.
Speaker 1: I have been in bondage before myself. I just asked
Speaker 1: that you just you know, you've got to continue reading
Speaker 1: the Word, and you've got to stick with being obedience,
Speaker 1: stick with this Bible study or another Bible study, whatever
Speaker 1: helps you stick with it. Though you have to go
Speaker 1: to the New Testament one on Wednesday's service as well.
Speaker 1: It'll help you through your walk, you know, all right.
Speaker 1: The Stages of the Journey so verses five through forty nine.
Speaker 1: The chapter meticulously lists each encampment, illustrating the long and
Speaker 1: challenging journey. This reflects the reality of our spiritual walk,
Speaker 1: which often involves various stages and challenges. Yes, like I
Speaker 1: was talking about obedience and consequences and verses fifty through
Speaker 1: fifty six, God commands the Israelites to drive out the
Speaker 1: inhabitants of the land to destroy their idols. Failure to
Speaker 1: obey would result in inhabitants becoming a snare. This underscores
Speaker 1: the importance of obedience to God's commands and the consequences
Speaker 1: of disobedience. All right, next, let's do some practical applications.
Speaker 1: Reflect on your journey. Just as the Israelites had a
Speaker 1: record of their journey, time, take time to reflect on
Speaker 1: your spiritual journey. Consider how God has led and provided
Speaker 1: for you through your different stages of life. We talked
Speaker 1: about that already. We were talking about you know, we
Speaker 1: already kind of went over that. Trust in God's deliverance.
Speaker 1: Remember that God is powerful and faithful to deliver us
Speaker 1: from our own Egypt's situations and bondage of sin. Trust
Speaker 1: in His ability to lead you to freedom. You got
Speaker 1: to have faith that you know that God can take
Speaker 1: away that that sin. You got to have faith. You've
Speaker 1: got to know that the devil is lurking like a lion,
Speaker 1: ready to devour. So don't give him the don't take
Speaker 1: the bait. That's all you got to do is don't
Speaker 1: take that bait. He's gonna put it in your mind.
Speaker 1: He's going to do what he can for you to
Speaker 1: take that bait. Whatever triggers you, those triggers are gonna come.
Speaker 1: But you gotta be strong in the word. You gotta
Speaker 1: stay in the word because faith cometh by hearing and
Speaker 1: hearing by the word of God. So continue to read
Speaker 1: the word. You've got to make that shield of faith
Speaker 1: massive so you could dodge the wiles of the devil.
Speaker 1: And if you refuse the devil, he will flee. Okay,
Speaker 1: he will flee. He's he can't just continue. There's rules
Speaker 1: to this game. He can't just continue to pounce. When
Speaker 1: new pounce. When you pounce, the new pounds and you
Speaker 1: if you keep resisting him, resist the devil, and he
Speaker 1: shall flee. That's James four to seven. Resist the devil,
Speaker 1: he shall flee. If it's written, you have to believe it.
Speaker 1: Stay the course. The journey to the Promised Land was
Speaker 1: long and difficult, Yet the Israelites were called to to
Speaker 1: uh persevere. If your spiritual walk remains steadfast, in your
Speaker 1: spiritual walk, remains steadfast and patient, trusting in God's timing.
Speaker 1: That's something that we all need to understand. All we
Speaker 1: got to have patience. We might think that that we
Speaker 1: have patience, but you know, we got to make sure
Speaker 1: we have patience. Remain stead fashion and patience, trusting in
Speaker 1: God's timing. Yes, that's that's amen to that. Stay the course,
Speaker 1: obedience to God's commands, be vigilant and obeying God's word.
Speaker 1: Understanding that disobedience can lead to spiritual snares and setbacks. Okay,
Speaker 1: disobedience definitely leads to. What it does is it separates
Speaker 1: you from God. That sin will separate you from God.
Speaker 1: So you work so hard to get closer and closer
Speaker 1: to God, and then you sin, boop, You're right back
Speaker 1: here again. And then you know, you start feeling a shamed.
Speaker 1: You don't want to read the word because you feel
Speaker 1: like you're not worth it and you're not worthy. Just
Speaker 1: just fight through it, right, and you'll do You'll do great.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to do great. Events we already talked
Speaker 1: about versus versus that connect to this would be if
Speaker 1: you want to the initition departure from Egypt is in
Speaker 1: Exodus twelve Versus thirty one through forty two, if you
Speaker 1: want to go read those. Deuteronomy eight verse two reflects
Speaker 1: on the purpose of the wilderness journey as a time
Speaker 1: of testings and reliance on God. If you go to
Speaker 1: Hebrews three seven through nineteen, it warns you against hearting
Speaker 1: of hearts and the is as the Israelites did encourage,
Speaker 1: encouraging us to remain faithful. And if you want to
Speaker 1: go to Psalms one thirty six, ten through sixteen, Psalms
Speaker 1: of thanksgiving and recounting God's deliverance and guidance through the wilderness.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead, and we have about twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: so let's so this is kind of going to go
Speaker 1: over the boundaries of the promised land and land allocation. Okay,
Speaker 1: numbers thirty four verse one. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Speaker 1: command the children of Israel, and say to them, when
Speaker 1: you come into the land of Canaan, this is the
Speaker 1: land that shall fall to you as your inheritance, the
Speaker 1: land of Canaan and its boundaries. Your southern borders shall
Speaker 1: be from the wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom.
Speaker 1: Then your southern border shall extend eastward to the end
Speaker 1: of the Salt Sea. Your border shall turn from the
Speaker 1: southern side of a scent a Kabrim ak Rabim, continue
Speaker 1: to Zin and be south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it
Speaker 1: shall go on the Huszar Adar and continue to Asthman.
Speaker 1: The border shall turn from excuse me Asthman to the
Speaker 1: Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
Speaker 1: As for the western border, you shall have the Great
Speaker 1: Sea for a border. This shall be a western border,
Speaker 1: and this shall be your northern border. From the Great Sea,
Speaker 1: you shall mark out your borderline at mount Or. From
Speaker 1: Mount Or, you shall mark out your border to the
Speaker 1: entrance of Hamath. Then the direction of the border shall
Speaker 1: toward Zidad. The border shall proceed to Zephyron, and it
Speaker 1: shall end at Hazar and on. This shall be your
Speaker 1: northern border. You shall mark out your eastern border from
Speaker 1: Hazar to Enon and Sefam. The border shall go from
Speaker 1: Safam to Reblah. On the east side of Ain, the
Speaker 1: border shall go down and reach to the eastern side
Speaker 1: of the sea of Chinnarath Chinnareth. The border shall go
Speaker 1: down along the Jordan and shall end at the salt sea.
Speaker 1: This shall be your land with its surrounding boundaries. Then
Speaker 1: Moses commanded the children of Visuals, saying, this is the
Speaker 1: land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord
Speaker 1: has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to
Speaker 1: the half tribe. Why is that, because obviously Reuben, Gad
Speaker 1: and half of Manassai are staying behind. They're not going
Speaker 1: to cross the Jordan. For the tribe of the children
Speaker 1: of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and
Speaker 1: the tribe of God, according to the House of their fathers,
Speaker 1: they receive their inheritance. They have received their inheritance, and
Speaker 1: the half tribe of Nassaid has received its inheritance. The
Speaker 1: two drive that the two tribes and the half tribe
Speaker 1: have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan,
Speaker 1: across from Jericho eastward toward the sunrise. We don't need
Speaker 1: to go back on that, because we already talked about
Speaker 1: that the leaders appointed to divide the land. Then the
Speaker 1: Lord spoke to Moses, saying, these are the names of
Speaker 1: the men who shall divide the land. Among the inheritance
Speaker 1: and lias are the priest and Joshua, the son of nun,
Speaker 1: and you shall take one leader of each tribe and
Speaker 1: divide the land for the inheritance. These are the names
Speaker 1: of the men from the tribe of Judah. Caleb, the
Speaker 1: son of Jeffeni, which is my middle name, from the
Speaker 1: tribe of the children of Simeon. Shamul, the son of Amahud,
Speaker 1: from the tribe of Benjamin. Eldad the son of Cheslam,
Speaker 1: a leader from the tribe of the children of Dan Buki,
Speaker 1: the son of Jaghli from the sons of Joseph, a
Speaker 1: leader from the tribe of the children of an Assai.
Speaker 1: Heniel the son of Iphod. I'm only laughing because I'm
Speaker 1: probably pronouncing these things, so I'll probably butchering these names.
Speaker 1: And a leader from the tribe of the children of Ephraim. Kamuel,
Speaker 1: the son of ship Tan, a leader from the tribe
Speaker 1: of the children of Zebelon Eliezafan, the son of Paranak,
Speaker 1: children of the tribe of Eshkar, Patil the son of Ason,
Speaker 1: a leader from the tribe of the children of asher
Speaker 1: I Healed, the son of shell Me Sorry Shalomi she
Speaker 1: loam me Okay, and the leader from the tribe of
Speaker 1: Naphtali Paduel, the son of Ambihud. These are the ones
Speaker 1: the Lord I commanded that did divide. They inherited someone
Speaker 1: of the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Speaker 1: Now we're at numbers thirty five. We may let me
Speaker 1: see this is not too crazy. Okay, cool, all right,
Speaker 1: number thirty five, Verse one. I think we can blasts
Speaker 1: through this. All right, guys, let's blast through this, uh,
Speaker 1: guys and girls. That way we finished the book of numbers.
Speaker 1: Let's go number thirty five, Verse one of the Lord
Speaker 1: spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the
Speaker 1: Jordan across Jericho's saying, command the children of Israel, there's
Speaker 1: going to be the cities for the Levites. Command the
Speaker 1: children of Israel that they give the Levite cities to
Speaker 1: dwell in from their inheritance their possession. And you shall
Speaker 1: also give the Levites common land around the cities. They
Speaker 1: shall have the cities to dwell in, and their common
Speaker 1: land shall be for cattle, for their herds and their animals.
Speaker 1: The common land of the cities which you will give
Speaker 1: the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city
Speaker 1: outward a thousand cubits all around, and you shall measure
Speaker 1: outside of the city of the on the east side
Speaker 1: two thousand cubits, on the south side two thousand cubits,
Speaker 1: on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the
Speaker 1: north side two thousand cubits. The city shall be in
Speaker 1: the middle. This shall belong to them as common land
Speaker 1: for the cities. Now, among the cities which you will
Speaker 1: give to the Levites, you shall appoint six cities of
Speaker 1: refuge to which a man slayer may flee. So this
Speaker 1: is talking about a place where they will send somebody
Speaker 1: that has committed manslaughter. Okay, that's what this is. And
Speaker 1: these you shall add forty two cities. So all the
Speaker 1: cities you will give to the Levites shall be forty eight.
Speaker 1: You shall give with their common land. And the cities
Speaker 1: which you will give will be a possession of the
Speaker 1: children of Israel. From the larger tribe you shall give many,
Speaker 1: when the smaller you shall give few. Each shall give
Speaker 1: some of his cities to the Levites, in proportion to
Speaker 1: the inheritance of each receives all right cities of refuge.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the
Speaker 1: children of Vizuels, when you cross the Jordan into the
Speaker 1: land of Canaan. Then you shall appoint cities to be
Speaker 1: cities of refuge for you, that the manslator, who kills
Speaker 1: any person accidentally may flee there. They shall be cities
Speaker 1: of refuge for you from the Avenger, that the manslayer
Speaker 1: may not die until he stands before the congregation and judgment.
Speaker 1: And of the cities which you give, shall give six
Speaker 1: cities of refuge. You shall appoint three cities, of which
Speaker 1: the side of Jordan. Three cities you shall appoint in
Speaker 1: the land of Canaan, which will be the cities of refuge.
Speaker 1: There's six cities shall be for refuge for the children
Speaker 1: of Israel, for the stranger, for the sojourner among them.
Speaker 1: That anyone who kills a person accidentally may flee there
Speaker 1: right anybody that committed manslaughter. But if he strikes him
Speaker 1: with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is
Speaker 1: a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
Speaker 1: But if he strikes him with a stone in the
Speaker 1: hand by which one could die, and he does die,
Speaker 1: he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put
Speaker 1: to death. Or if he strikes him with a wooden
Speaker 1: hand weapon which one could die, and he dies, then
Speaker 1: he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.
Speaker 1: The Avenger of Blood himself shall put the murderer to death.
Speaker 1: But when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
Speaker 1: If he pushes him out of hatred or why lying
Speaker 1: in wait, hurls something at him so that he dies,
Speaker 1: or an emptity, he strikes him with his hand so
Speaker 1: that he dies. The one who struck him, surely shall
Speaker 1: be put to death. He is a murderer. The Avenger
Speaker 1: of Blood shall put the murderer to death when he
Speaker 1: meets him. However, if he pushes him suddenly without enmity,
Speaker 1: or throws anything at him without lying in wait. This
Speaker 1: is explaining what to do with murderers or manslaughters, or
Speaker 1: uses a stone by which a man could die, throwing him,
Speaker 1: throwing it at him without seeing him, so that he
Speaker 1: dies while he's not an enemy, or seeking his harm.
Speaker 1: That the congregation shall judge between the man slayer and
Speaker 1: the Avenger of Blood according to these judgments. So the
Speaker 1: Congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the
Speaker 1: Avenger of Blood, and the congregations shall return him to
Speaker 1: the city of refuge where he had fled, and he
Speaker 1: shall remain there until the death of the high priest
Speaker 1: who was anointed with the holy oil. But if the
Speaker 1: man slayer at any time goes outside the limits of
Speaker 1: the city of refuge where he fled, the avenger of
Speaker 1: blood finds him outside the limits of the city of refuge,
Speaker 1: the avenger of blood kills the man slayor he shall
Speaker 1: not be guilty of blood because the guy that because
Speaker 1: the guy is told not to leave the refuge city
Speaker 1: of refuge. Okay, because he should have remained in his
Speaker 1: city of refuge until his death. Okay, yes, it says
Speaker 1: right there of the high priest. But after the death
Speaker 1: of the high priests, the manster may return to the
Speaker 1: land of his possession. And these things shall be statute
Speaker 1: of judgment to you throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.
Speaker 1: Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be put to
Speaker 1: death on the testimony of witnesses. But one witness is
Speaker 1: not sufficient against testimony against a person for the death penalty. Moreover,
Speaker 1: you shall take no ransom, So you gotta it's two
Speaker 1: or more witnesses, right, two or more If you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the death penalty. Moreover, you shall take no ransom
Speaker 1: for the life of a murder who is guilty of death,
Speaker 1: but he shall surely be put to death. And you
Speaker 1: shall take no ransom for him who has fled to
Speaker 1: the city of refuge, and he may return to dwell
Speaker 1: the land before the death of the priest. So you
Speaker 1: shall not pollute the land which you are. For blood
Speaker 1: defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for
Speaker 1: the land for the blood that is shed on it,
Speaker 1: except by the blood of him who shed it. Therefore,
Speaker 1: do not defile the land which you inhabit in the
Speaker 1: midst of which I dwell, for the Lord dwell among
Speaker 1: the children of Israel. So this is thirty five, right. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do that. There we go. I
Speaker 1: don't really need to go over practical applications for this,
Speaker 1: because I kind of want to get through the Book
Speaker 1: of numbers. I want to start on Deuteronomy. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and go to numbers thirty six, and
Speaker 1: I want at the very end, I'll try to have
Speaker 1: a couple of practical applications for numbers thirty six. Let's see, Oh,
Speaker 1: we got this little tiny portion. We're gonna finish this up.
Speaker 1: Let's go, baby, all right. Numbers thirty six marriage of
Speaker 1: female heirs like heirs. Sorry, Now, the chief of the
Speaker 1: fathers of the families of the children of Gilia, the
Speaker 1: son of Makhar, the son of Manassa, of the families
Speaker 1: of the sons of Joseph, come near and spoke before
Speaker 1: Moses and before the leaders the chief the fathers of
Speaker 1: the children of Israel. And they said, the Lord commanded
Speaker 1: my Lord Moses to give the land as an inheritance
Speaker 1: by lot to the children of Israel. And my lord
Speaker 1: was commanded by the Lord. And my lord was commanded
Speaker 1: by the Lord to give inheritance of my brother Zephiad
Speaker 1: to his daughters. Oh, remember that we talked about that before. Now,
Speaker 1: if they are married to any of the sons of
Speaker 1: other tribes of the children Miseral, then their inheritance will
Speaker 1: be taken from their from the inheritance of their fathers,
Speaker 1: and it will be added to the inheritance of the
Speaker 1: tribe to which they marry. So it'll be taken from
Speaker 1: the lot of inheritance. And when the jubilee of the
Speaker 1: children of Israel comes, then the inheritance will be added
Speaker 1: to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry,
Speaker 1: so the inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance
Speaker 1: of the tribes of our fathers. Then Moses commanded the
Speaker 1: children of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying,
Speaker 1: what the tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks is right.
Speaker 1: This is what the Lord commands. Concerning that the daughters
Speaker 1: of zeph Zelafad, we already talked about this before. So
Speaker 1: the Lord promised them this okay, saying, let them marry
Speaker 1: whom they think best, but they may marry only within
Speaker 1: the family of their father's tribe. So the inheritance of
Speaker 1: the children of Israel shall not change hands from the
Speaker 1: tribe to tribe. For every one of the children of
Speaker 1: Visuel shall keep the inheritance of the tribe of his
Speaker 1: father's and every daughter who possessed an inheritance in any
Speaker 1: tribe of the children of Israel shall be the wife
Speaker 1: of one of the family of her father's tribe, so
Speaker 1: that the children of Israel may possess the inheritance of
Speaker 1: his fathers. Thus, no inheritance shall change hands from one
Speaker 1: tribe to another. Every tribe of the children of Israel
Speaker 1: shall keep its own inheritance. Just as the Lord commanded Moses,
Speaker 1: so did the daughters Zelophad from Malah, Zah, Hoglaw, Milkaw,
Speaker 1: and Noah. Their daughters of Zilapad were married to the
Speaker 1: sons of their father's brothers. They were married into the
Speaker 1: families of the children of Manassa, the son of Joseph,
Speaker 1: and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's family.
Speaker 1: These are the commandments and the judgments with the Lord
Speaker 1: commanded the children of Israel by the hand of Moses
Speaker 1: in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho. Wow,
Speaker 1: praise God, we finished the book of Numbers. That is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Time hair has flown. This is episode thirty already of
Speaker 1: the Old Testament. I can't even believe it. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we'll go over some teaching points. We got about five minutes,
Speaker 1: you know, before it's two hours. The context of inheritance.
Speaker 1: Number thirty six addressed the issue of an inheritance for
Speaker 1: the daughters of Zelophad, who had no brothers. This situation
Speaker 1: raised concerned about the land inheritance within the tribes of
Speaker 1: Israel God's command. The Lord instructed Moses that the daughters
Speaker 1: could marry anyone they wish, provided they married within their
Speaker 1: father's tribal clan, ensuring that the inheritance would not transfer
Speaker 1: between tribes. Obedience to God's law. The daughters of Zelophad
Speaker 1: obeyed the Lord's command, marrying within their tribe, demonstrating their
Speaker 1: commitment to God's instructions. That's right perseverance of tribal inheritance.
Speaker 1: The chapter emphasized the importance of maintaining the tribal boundaries
Speaker 1: and inheritance as initially allotted by God, reflecting his order
Speaker 1: and provision for his people. And then we have a
Speaker 1: practical application trust in God's justice. Just as God provided
Speaker 1: a fair solution for the daughters of Zelopad, we can
Speaker 1: trust in His ways are just and equitable in our
Speaker 1: lives obedience to God's commands. The daughter's obedience serves as
Speaker 1: a model just for us to follow God's instructions even
Speaker 1: when they challenge the social norms or personal desires. Value
Speaker 1: of community in heritage. This persuasion of chapel heriture reminds
Speaker 1: us of the value of our spiritual heritage and community
Speaker 1: ensuring that we contribute to is continually strength. All right, cool,
Speaker 1: we're done with that. Let me just go ahead and
Speaker 1: stop sharing screen if you're watching on video. What a
Speaker 1: great study. Thank you guys for sticking with me all
Speaker 1: the way to the end. If you stuck around to
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Speaker 1: comment on Spotify and say made it to the end,
Speaker 1: all right, and I will shout you out on the
Speaker 1: next Wednesday service if I as long as I record
Speaker 1: it in time for this to come out, I will
Speaker 1: definitely do so. And as you can tell, I, you know,
Speaker 1: I got something going on again with my throat, so
Speaker 1: just pray for me if you can, just pray for me.
Speaker 1: And my nose is a little stuffy too, so anyways,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. So yeah, So we finished
Speaker 1: the Book of Numbers. So next week on episode thirty one,
Speaker 1: we will pick up in deteronomy and I will do
Speaker 1: some great studying on that and make sure that I
Speaker 1: have a good introduction and everything. Okay, So everybody that's listening,
Speaker 1: thank you. I enjoy your comments. I am enjoying you
Speaker 1: guys so much. I really wish I could meet each
Speaker 1: and every one of you. That listened to this show,
Speaker 1: it would be phenomenal, you know. So if you guys
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Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and do as we always do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna end this in prayer. So Father God, in the
Speaker 1: name of Jesus, and you show them a sheak's name.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for this beautiful time spending with
Speaker 1: everybody that's listening, and thank you for providing me with
Speaker 1: this platform to be able to teach. I can't even
Speaker 1: believe Lord that we're already you know, through the Book
Speaker 1: of Numbers already and starting Deuteronomy. So I will remain
Speaker 1: faithful to you, obedient to you, and I will teach
Speaker 1: your word as best as possible. Lord, So if you
Speaker 1: could lead me to a great teacher that teaches the
Speaker 1: book of Deuteronomy, so I can make sure that I
Speaker 1: have some good study points and some great things for
Speaker 1: the audience that's listening. Lord, and we will give all
Speaker 1: glory to you for everything that we have. Lord, everything
Speaker 1: we have, and we appreciate you sending your son to
Speaker 1: die on the cross for our sins. Help us to
Speaker 1: be obedient to your word and help us to live
Speaker 1: out your will. Lord, and anybody that has any of
Speaker 1: us that's in bondage like the like the Israelites were
Speaker 1: in Egypt, please release the bondage. Please break the chains.
Speaker 1: Do not allow the devil to have any kind of
Speaker 1: strongholds on anybody that's listening to the show right now. Lord,
Speaker 1: break the chains and help them to get out of bondage.
Speaker 1: And we do not want to be separate from you, Lord,
Speaker 1: We want to be close to you. So help us
Speaker 1: to not sin and assist us to not sin against you.
Speaker 1: We want to stay close to you. We want to
Speaker 1: be under your wing. Lord. Please, like the Bible says,
Speaker 1: thank you for everything you do for us. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean a literal wing. I'm not saying you have wings. Lord,
Speaker 1: just keep us close by to you, hold us close,
Speaker 1: love on us, and assist us to be obedient. Thank
Speaker 1: you for everything you do for us. We appreciate you,
Speaker 1: Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys. This is perfect. Two hours we
Speaker 1: finished the Book of Numbers, just like I plan to do.
Speaker 1: Thank you God for allowing that. So thank you for listening.
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