Numbers

Question 1

What is the Hebrew name for Numbers?

Answer 1

In the desert

Question 2

what is the book of numbers intended to be? what isn’t it?

Answer 2

an essay about the consequences of disobedience. It isn’t a history book.

Question 3

How much time does Leviticus cover? Numbers?

Answer 3

1) 1 month

2) 39 years

Question 4

What are the 9 The Rebellions

Answer 4

1) Complaining about hardships.
2) Complaining about the food.
3) Miriam and Aaron challenge Moses.
4) The Promise Land Rejected. (The Ultimate rebellion.)
5) The Levites rebel.
6) The people rebel when Levites are killed.
7) Complaining because of no water.
8) Complaining for having to go around Edom.
9) Rebellion by sexual immorality with Moabites.

Question 5

The theological principle of numbers?

Answer 5

that God does things in an orderly manner.

Question 6

who were The Nazarite?

Answer 6

any man who wished to be holy and separated to the Lord, even if he was not a Levite, could still take special vows of holiness and become a Nazarite. They were considered separation to God for the time set by their vow.

Question 7

What was special about the house of Levi?

Answer 7

Any man born in the tribe of Levi was considered holy to the Lord because of his responsibilities for the tabernacle and all the holy articles.

Question 8

The 70 that Moses chose to share his burden became?

Answer 8

the Sanhedrin

Question 9

What did Moses do about the gifts of Eldad and Medad?

Answer 9

Moses resists having an envious spirit at the gifts of others, so much so that he could wish that every man had as great or greater gifts than he had.

Question 10

Numbers 12:3 (humble man)

Answer 10

Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

Question 11

What did Joshua want to do about Eldad and Medad ?

Answer 11

Joshua wanted them silenced. He does not desire that they should be punished but only restrained.

Question 12

what do we learn from the treatment of Eldad and Medad?

Answer 12

We must not be quick to condemn and silence those that differ from us, as if they do not follow Christ because they do not follow him the way we do.

Question 13

what did Joshua, and Caleb do that was different from the rest?

Answer 13

Joshua, and Caleb, were the only ones who urged with confidence that since God was with them they could succeed.

Question 14

What lesson do we learn from Moses after the rebellion at Sinai

Answer 14

Moses gives us powerful lesson in intercessory prayer. We really do cooperate with God in determining how things turn out!

Question 15

What is the result of the rebellion at Sinai?

Answer 15

This judgment involved the sentence of wandering in the desert for 40 years, until everyone in the older generation had died (except for Joshua and Caleb), and a new generation, who were born to them in the wilderness, had grown up

Question 16

What is relevant to the church about the ultimate rejection of the Israelites?

Answer 16

This ultimate rejection of the Israelites who were delivered from their bondage in Egypt (salvation) is a warning to the Church Age today that just as the ancient Children of Israel could not enter their prepared rest because of unbelief, so we believers can miss our rest (heaven) and be rejected if we become faithless and hardened as they were.

Question 17

What is the theological principle from Moses not being aloud in the promise land?

Answer 17

those in spiritual leadership have a greater responsibility to honor the holiness of God before the people of God.

Question 18

what is the rock a type of?

Answer 18

the water rock is a new type of Christ.

Question 19

John 3:14-15 (the bronze snake)

Answer 19

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

Question 20

what does the bronze snake and the cross have in common?

Answer 20

just as the Israelites were healed of the poison of the snake’s venom by looking at the snake on the pole, so sinners today can be saved from the poison of sin by looking to Jesus on the cross.

Question 21

2 Peter 2:15-16 (son of Beor)

Answer 21

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

Question 22

In the light of New Testament Scripture, what was “Balaam error?”

Answer 22

God doesn’t care how much it takes to buy you, God only cares that you can be bought; like Balaam could be.

Question 23

what is from the Book of Balaam?

Answer 23

“Balaam, the son of Beor; a divine seer is he”