In March, we will read and explore Numbers, Deuteronomy, and more of Psalms. We will finish Matthew, and read the whole book of Romans! Fasten your seatbelt and get ready to learn more about who GOD is, through reading His Word. At the end of March, we will be 1/4 of the way through the Bible already!!
Ligon Duncan said this of Numbers:
Now you need to understand that the Hebrew name for the Book of Numbers…you’ve caught as we read in the English why we call this book the Book of Numbers…because of that verse in which God instructs Moses and Aaron to take a census. That’s where we get the name Numbers for this book. They were to number Israel. But the Hebrew name for this book was In the Wilderness. So Paul is getting ready to apply to you what happened in the wilderness. Notice what he says: “They were laid low in the wilderness.” Now what is his next word?
“Now these things happened as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also craved. And do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.’ Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents. Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”
Did you hear the Apostle Paul give you a quick outline of the Book of Numbers there? And then what does he say? ‘These things happened and were written down for you.’ Now that ought to considerably change our approach to this Book of Numbers. Far from being musty, dusty, irrelevant Hebrew history, this is a book for today, for Christians, for our times, for our lives. I even like the name of the book: In the Wilderness. That’s where sanctification happens–in the wilderness. Did then, does now. If you’re in the wilderness, this book’s for you.
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