Numbers&Deutoronomy Flashcards
Numbers title in Hebrew
In the desert.
What is the book of of numbers intended to be?
An essay of the consequences of disobedience, NOT a history of Israel.
What is the length in time of the book of Numbers?
Numbers is approximately 39 years.
Leviticus covers only one month.
9 Rebellions of Numbers
1) complaining about hardships (11:1-3)
2) complaining about the food (11:4-35)
3) Miriam and Aaron challenge Moses (12)
4) the promise land rejected (14)//the ultimate rebellion
5) the levites rebel (16:1-40)
6) the people rebel when levites are killed (16:41-50)
7) complaining of no water (20:1-13)
8) complaining of having no way around Edom (21:4-9)
9) rebellion by sexual immorality with the Moabites (25)
What is the theological principle of the set up of Israels encampment in the wilderness?
God does things in an orderly manner.
The Nazarite 6
//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 //however, 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.
What are the 70 known as?
The Sanhedrin.
Numbers 12:3
Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.
Eldad and Medad (11:26/30)
Joshua wanted them silenced. He would rather they not prophesy at all or else come to the Tabernacle and prophesy together with the rest. He does not desire that they should be punished but only restrained. Yet too often we wish to restrain those with whom we do not agree.
Joshua and Caleb
The only ones who urged with confidence that since God was with them they could succeed.
Moses in intercessory prayer
Moses gives us a powerful lesson. We corporate with God in determining how things turn out!
The judgement upon Israel (14)
This judgement involved the sentence of wandering in the desert for 40 years, until everyone in the order generation had died (except Joshua and Caleb) and a new generation who were born to them in the wildness has grown up (14:3:-33)
What did the judgement upon Israel involve?
This judgement involved the sentence of wandering 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 (num 14:32-33)
How is Israel not entering the promise land a warning to the church today?
This ultimate rejection of the Israelites who were delivered from their bondage in Egypt (salvation) is a warning to the church Ave 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 well.
Name a theological principle from Moses’ failure with the water from the rock?
Those in spiritual leadership have a greater responsibility to honor the holiness of God before the people of God.