Numbers

Numbers

Summary: The priestly order has been set up and the tabernacle has been set up. The people move when God moves and rests when God rests. The begin their travel to Canaan. During this time the take a census, Korah rebels, Balaam services are bought to curse but he blesses instead and the spies make a bad report showing lack of faith. Numbers is full of great stories and dry counts of populace. Still God there is much to learn here. This is what I took out of it this round:

Things I Noticed:

1. So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.

2. And when you go to war in your land against the advesary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. 

3. The Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not." (God challenging Moses to have faith in his character.)

4. As soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. 

5. Would that all the Lord's people were prophet's that the Lord would put his Spirit on them! (The Spirit is on them his people now.)

6. Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the Earth. 

7. The descendants of Anak, were there. (The Anakim where descendants of nephalim and thus giants.) 

8. And there we saw Nephilim (sons of Anak, who come from Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves as grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.

9. Freewill offering, grain offering, drink offering, wave offering, guilt offering, sin offering.

10. Behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.

11. You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.

12. Then you shall present a contribution from it to the Lord, a tithe of the tithe. 

13. The angel of the Lord standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. 

14. The wilderness of Zin. 

15. They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. (This is the same Balaam whose donkey spoke to him.)

16. The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee.

17. The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgement. 

18. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. 

19. Blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land or the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. 

Numbers was great but Deuteronomy is my favorite bok of the Tanakh. i have one more letter to Thessaloniki and the I will travel long to find John. He has written about a revelation he has experienced and I hunger to read it. Still he is an allusive Apostle traveling to and fro so until I find him I think I will find solace in the major prophets. Till we meet again, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.