OLD TESTAMENT TEST 3 Flashcards
What is a better title for the book of Number?
“In the Dessert”.
Note: it takes the name from the two numberings of the Israelites, the first at Mt. Sinai, and the second 39 years later on the plains of Moab (26)
what is he primary purpose of the book of Numbers?
Note: Numbers is almost completely silent for more than 37 years in the desert, this silence reflects the book’s primary purpose.
Numbers is NOT intended to be a history of Israel, but an essay about the consequences of disobedience.
How many months does does Numbers cover?
It covers almost 39 years
Note: the book of Leviticus covers only one month.
How many rebellions where there against Moses?
Name four?
there were 9 rebellions against Moses.
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) complaining because of water (20:1-13)
7) rebellion by sexual immorality with the Moabites (25)
what is the theological principle as far as the order of marching?
The theological principle is that God does things in an Orderly manner.
what is a 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 separated to God for the time set by their vow.
the anointing of the 70 on Sinai, became a group that became known as what?
these 70 became a group that would later be know as the SANHEDRIN.
note: an example for us when we envy the gifts that God give to those we don’t like. How does Moses responds?
Eldad & Medad (11:26-30)
Moses responds by resisting an envious spirit at the gifts of others and even desired that every man received God’s Spirit.
Eldad & Medad (11:26-30)numbers.
in what verse does the meekness and humility of Moses is Emphasize?
Numbers 12:3
Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.
1) Eldad and Medad. what text talks about Eldad and Medad?
2) what was Joshua’s Response?
1) numbers 11:26-30
2) Joshua’s response was that he wanted them silenced. He does not desire that they should be punished but only restrained.
A lesson in Power
2. Eldad and Medad (11:26-30
Lesson to learn from this:
3) 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 they way we do.
Rebellion #4) The Final Rejection
12 spies, where send, which two were the only ones to give a positive report?
Two men, Joshua and Caleb were the only ones who urged with confidence that since God was with them they could succeed 13:30; 14:6-9
the judgment upon Israel.
> moses intercedes for the people and God spares them. What do we learn from Moses?
Moses gives us powerful lesson in intercessory prayer. We really do cooperate with God in determining how things turn out.
The judgment Upon Israel (14)
what did this Judgment involved?
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 (14:32-33)
what poses as a warning to the church today?
Hebrews 3:14 – 4:7
disobedience, 7God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:
“Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts
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
