Numbers – Life’s Journey & Warfare Title and Theme Hebrew: “In the desert” – “And He spoke” (120 times) Septuagint: Numbers – Census (twice) Content The trip of God’s people in the desert towards the Promised Land Preparation Census and getting organized : 603,550 => 2 million from 70 or 66 in 430 years; Levites: 22, th day of the 1 st month of the 2 nd year – the Passover 20 th day of the 2 nd month of the 2 nd year – Departed from the Desert of Sinai The Trip Complaints and rebellion Israel had to spend 40 years wandering the desert because of sin

Numbers – Life’s Journey & Warfare Outline 1.Israel at Sinai, preparing to depart for the promised land (1:1 – 10:10) Journey from Sinai to Kadesh (10:11 – 12:16) 2.Israel at Kadesh, delayed as a result of rebellion (13:1 – 20:13) Journey from Kadesh to the plains of Moab (20:14 – 22:1) 3.Israel on the plains of Moab, anticipating the conquest of the promised land (22:2 – 32:42) Appendixes dealing with various matters (33 – 36)

Numbers – Life’s Journey & Warfare Preparation for the Journey (1-10:10) The census of the people1 Ordering the camp2 Levites in place of the firstborns3 Organizing the service4 Cleansing the camp5 Law of the “nazirite”6 The offerings of the 12 tribes7 Ordination of the Levites8 Divine leadership and guidance9 The sound of the trumpets10

The Camp Naphtali AsherDan* Judah* Issachar Zebulun Ephraim* Manasseh Benjamin Gad SimeonReuben* Merari Gershom Kohath Moses & Aaron Moses and Aaron from the family of Kohath

The March Judah*IssacharZebulun Ephraim*ManassehBenjamin The Tabernacle Garshonites carry curtains and covers, and Merarites carry frames, crossbars posts and basis Kohathites carry the Tabernacle Furnishings The Ark Dan*AsherNaphtali Reuben*SimeonGad

Numbers – Life’s Journey & Warfare From Sinai to Moab (10:11-21) The journey from Sinai to Paran10 Complaints of Israelites – fire & quails11 Moses marriage to the Ethiopian woman12 Sending the 12 spies13 The spiritual falling away – defeat14 Collection of laws15 The rebellion of Korah and his allies16-17 The responsibility of the priests18 The red heifer and the cleansing water19 The water of Maribah – Moses’ sin20 The way of victory – the bronze snake21 Sinai to Kadesh In Kadesh Kadesh to Moab ** * * * * * * *

Numbers – Life’s Journey & Warfare Moab – Balaam (22-25) Balak hires Balaam to curse Israel22 Balaam’s prophecies23-24 Incarnation (23:7-10) The Cross and the Resurrection (23:16-24) Pentecost (24:1-14) Preaching the Gospel (24:15-25) The Baal of Peor and Israel's apostasy25 *

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ 11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ” 12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers 16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:7 – 4:13

The Promise of Rest 1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, 7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. The Word Discovers Our Condition 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Numbers – Life’s Journey & Warfare Preparation to Cross the Jordan (26-36) The second census26 Law of inheritance & the successor to Moses27 Offerings, feasts and vows28-30 The war against Median31 Settlement for the Transjordan tribes32 Summary of the journey33 Borders of Canaan34 Cities of the Levites and cities of refuge35 The inheritance for women36

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Complaints and Rebellions 1.Complaint regarding hardship – fire – Taberah 11 2.Craving other food (meat) – plague – Kibroth Hattaavah11 3.Miriam and Aaron against Moses – leprosy – Hazeroth12 4.Fear of the people of Canaan – denied entrance; plague – Kadesh14 5.Fighting the Canaanites on their own – defeat14 6.Korah, Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron – earth opened up and swallowed them; fire16 7.Complaint regarding the death of Korah and his followers – plague16 8.Complaint due to lack of water and striking the rock – denied entrance20 9.Complaint regarding hardship – poisonous snakes21 10.The Baal of Peor and Israel's apostasy25