Numbers: Failure in the Desert

Question 1

Remembering and celebrating God’s mighty acts in the past is a good _________ for expecting his ________ and _________ in the future.

Answer 1

prelude
guidance
protection

Question 2

Those first four chapters organized the entire ________, both _______ and ______, around the tabernacle. It was the dwelling place of ______ in the midst of his people, and its ________ and _________ had to be done according to his instructions.

Answer 2

nation
laity
clergy
God
care
maintenance

Question 3

Aaron does not actually _______ the people. He is merely the _________, the _________ of the Lord’s blessing.

Answer 3

bless
instrument
transmitter

Question 4

The Israelites had an inner attitude of ________ that plays a dominant role in the book of Numbers. They were prone to reject God’s _________ and _________ for their lives.

Answer 4

rebellion
provisions
leadership

Question 5

The rebellion of ________, _________, and _________ seriously threatened Israel’s leadership, especially the priestly line of Aaron.

Answer 5

Korah
Dathan
Abiram

Question 6

Moses’s ______ at Kadesh is a reminder that no human leader, not even Moses himself, is exempt from the consequences of unbelief.

Answer 6

sin

Question 7

The Old Testament knows no distinction between ______ and ______.

Answer 7

faith

obedience

Question 8

________ is the correct response to God’s word

Answer 8

Faith

Question 9

The book of Numbers is basically ______ on events that occurred during the more than thirty-seven years of desert wandering.

Answer 9

silent

Question 10

Numbers is not a _________ of Israel but rather an ______ about the consequences of ________.

Answer 10

history
essay
disobedience

Question 11

The laws of chapters 15-20 look to the future in the land and imply that the rebellion of a simple __________ cannot prevent ______ from fulfilling his promises to the _______.

Answer 11

generation
God
patriarchs

Question 12

The accounts of Korah’s _______ and Moses’s ______ at Kadesh indicate that the promises of God will be fulfilled in spite of the failure of Israel’s ___________.

Answer 12

rebellion
sin
leadership.

Question 13

While Isarel’s _____ and religious _______ seemed to imperil the ________ plan for the future, God _______ and ________ continued to insist that they would enter the land.

Answer 13

sin
apostasy
covenant
patiently
lovingly