I was reading yesterday and today, and both days I noticed something interesting (and profound, for me). In Number 1:5, YHWH tells Moshe (Moses) “These are the men to take with you: …” He then proceeds to name specifically each of the men that He wants. What’s the big deal? He knows them by name!…
Numbers 27:23 and he laid his hands upon him, and commissioned him as the LORD directed through Moses. Two interesting things stuck me with this verse. 1. Moses laid his hands on Joshua as God has directed him previously, passing some of his authority on to him. It’s interesting to me that the word hands…
Numbers 21:8 Then the LORD said to Moses, ” [fn] Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live. My first thought when I read this verse was about the serpent. Why would God create something…
Numbers 16:45 “Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces. Twice in as many days God was going to eliminate the Israelites for rising up against Moses and questioning his authority from God. Yet each time Moses interceded for the people. Sometimes he…
Numbers 13:16 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. “What’s in a name? A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet!” These famous words, uttered by Juliet on her balcony may be true of a rose,…
Numbers 12: 3-8 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.…6And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. 7Not so with…
Numbers 11:26 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. The people of…
I keep running into the question of the Law vs. Salvation and how they are connected or not connected. Skip did a post about the link between Moses’ Law and Jesus’ Salvation. I was going to just put a link here, but I know that most of the time nobody ever follows the link…. So,…
Numbers 9:8 And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.” Does anyone else think it’s interesting that Moses told the men who had come to inquire about Passover to be still so he could hear from God? The word for stand still here also means…
Numbers 7:89 Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that [was] on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him. Can you imagine hearing the voice of God? …
