Numbers

God as your only inheritance

March 19, 2016 by untilfulllight

The past few weeks as we read through Numbers and Deuteronomy, you’ve seen how God progressively called the priests from the tribe of Levi, how he gave them specific tasks, specific clothes to wear, and ways to act. After all of this he consecrated them for their work at the tabernacle. They were honored above the other tribes in their service to the Tabernacle.

Like all the other tribes they were no doubt looking ahead to the promised land, to having a place of their own after being slaves for generations. Trekking across the dusty desert, maybe they dreamed of a little patch of land with a home that they didn’t have to take down and move and maybe a little garden or vineyard.

Then God told them something they probably didn’t want to hear.Continue Reading

Why it’s so wrong to complain

February 26, 2016 by untilfulllight

Throughout the story of the Exodus, there has been one consistent response of the children of Israel and that is to complain. From accusing Moses when their work got harder under Pharaoh, to their fear at the Red Sea, to constant complaints about food and water, the complaining never ceases. As we read in Numbers 11, it continues:

Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. 2 When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down. 3 So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.

Even after that judgement they continued…..

4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. 6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”

Free food, every day provided by a miracle from God and they complained.

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, the books people skip, but shouldn’t

February 15, 2016 by untilfulllight

Exodus isn’t too hard because we have the story of the Children of Israel and the exodus with all its drama to keep us entertained, but then we get into the hard stuff.

The later part of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers contain God’s laws, regulations, and rules for his people. Many of these are hard to understand and don’t make sense in our current world of “everything goes” Christianity. It’s so easy today to put God into a box and not have Him or his way of living intrude into our daily lives. But He is our God and is part of all we do. We need to live with an awareness of being His servants always.

To help you in your reading, following is a PDF of an overview lesson I did of this section of the Bible. ***NOTE: I took out the section on Typology–I’ll do a separate post on that.

I do want to do an audio recording of it, but my recording equipment had a major malfunction and it’s going to take me some time to figure it out (or as I suspect, I need new recording equipment).

Regardless, the PowerPoint below should prove helpful. Click on the image below to open the PDF.