Friday, March 7, 2014

DBRP_Mar08_2014 Num1 Ps25 Luke17b


Today we start the book of Numbers. God orders a census of the men capable as soldiers in war. And we hear the list of the clan leaders of the 12 listed tribes, excluding Levi. (The number is 12 because the tribe of Joseph is split in two.)

Numbers is the 4th of Moses' 5 books. And this is the one that I have looked forward to as the hardest book of all to read! In this book we will see that unbelief hinders God's blessings for Israel. HC Mears says, “Numbers might be called the Wilderness Wanderings,” because it chronicles the journey. And “Numbers might be called the book of the March and the Roll Call. ... It might, too, be called the Book of Murmurings, because from beginning to end it is filled with the spirit of rebellion against God.”

“Leviticus dealt with the believers' worship— Numbers deals with the believer's walk.

In Leviticus we see the believers' privileges— in Numbers the wilderness is the drill field.”

Important lessons from the Book of Numbers:

1. We must trust God, not people.

2. God will supply all we need, including food, meat, water, leaders, and land.

3. We must worship God according to his instructions.

Jae Kim reads this for us today! Thanks, Jae! I hope some others of you will send a recording of you reading one of your favorite Psalms. This is our first acrostic poem. Verse 14 is translated as 'secret' by older translations, but is better translated as we have here, or in ESV, translated as 'friendship'. Here we read of the privilege of an intimate relationship with the Lord. 

Today we hear about the suddenness of the coming of Jesus as the Son of Man, and that believers will be suddenly taken out of a context that looks like 'business as usual'. Jesus again says that first He must suffer and be rejected.


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