Numbers 14:22-45

How long of a journey? “It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea” Deuteronomy 1:2.

חצצרה Hatsatserah “Silver Trumpet” שופר Shofar “Ram’s Horn”

The Journey of the Spies

Heavenly/Eternal Glory 2 Converging Plans The nation Israel The Church Earthly Glory The Millennium Heavenly/Eternal Glory

7 Dispensations C. I. Scofield (1909) – Charles C. Ryrie (2007) Innocency Adam Genesis 1-3 God’s glory – Creation sin – 1 Commandment Conscience Pre-Flood Genesis 4-8 God’s glory – Judgment sin inability of conscience Human Government Noah Genesis 9-11 God’s glory – Restoration sin – Murder & Meat Laws Promise Abraham Genesis 12-Exodus 19 God’s glory – Promise Abahamic Covenant Law Moses Exodus 20-Matthew 27 God’s glory – 1 Nation sin – sacrifice & Sabbath Gospel Christ – 1st Coming Matthew 28 – Revelation 3 God’s glory – the Cross Baptism/Great Commission Kingdom/Millennium Christ – 2nd Coming Revelation 19 - 22 God’s glory – Eternity Heaven on Earth

Main Themes: There comes a time when the LORD’s patience is done, and when that happens, no amount of manipulation can change it. God’s glory is invested in His character: He shows His judgment and His mercy side-by side.

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. There is a point when God’s judgment is final. That point of no return is directly proportional to how much grace He has shown you. When God’s judgment is final, there is nothing you can do about it. New Testament Application:

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. There is a point when God’s judgment is final. That point of no return is directly proportional to how much grace He has shown you. When God’s judgment is final, there is nothing you can do about it. New Testament Application:

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. Review of 14:1-21

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. Group Judgment Spies Immediate People over 20 Eventual People over 20 who attacked Renewed Under 20 Grace

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. There is a point when God’s judgment is final. That point of no return is directly proportional to how much grace He has shown you. When God’s judgment is final, there is nothing you can do about it. New Testament Application:

Enough is Enough! “but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD 22 “Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice, 23 shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.”

Enough is Enough! Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you; your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me. ‘Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ‘Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected. ‘But as for you, your corpses will fall in this wilderness. ‘Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness. ‘According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition. ‘I, the Lord, have spoken, surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be destroyed, and there they will die.’ ”

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. There is a point when God’s judgment is final. That point of no return is directly proportional to how much grace He has shown you. When God’s judgment is final, there is nothing you can do about it. New Testament Application:

Grace Spurned . . . “How Long?” v. 27. “all the men . . . Have seen My glory and My signs . . .” v. 22. “yet [they] have put me to the test these 10 times” v. 22 - Job 19:3: “These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.” - Genesis 31:7, 41: “Yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to hurt me.” - “an expression that denotes consistent action over a long period of time” Dennis R. Cole.

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. There is a point when God’s judgment is final. That point of no return is directly proportional to how much grace He has shown you. When God’s judgment is final, there is nothing you can do about it. New Testament Application:

Fleshly Penance not Repentance Urgency: “They rose up early” (v. 40). Confession: “We have indeed sinned” (40). Obedience: “We will go . . . “ (40). Presumption: “They went up heedlessly” (44). ---------- Hebrews 3:8-11: “Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years. “Therefore I was angry with this generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they did not know My ways’; As I swore in My wrath,‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

Principles: Numbers 14:22-45 God’s power and promises are real, and He will be faithful to them. If you are faithless, God will fulfill His promises to others while you look on. There is a point when God’s judgment is final. That point of no return is directly proportional to how much grace He has shown you. When God’s judgment is final, there is nothing you can do about it. New Testament Application:

The Central Argument of Hebrews

Some Principles for Us . . . God is gracious, but . . . There is a limit to God’s patience. God will keep His promises to the nation: However, individuals may suffer and die. God will ultimately fulfill His earthly glory plan. God is gracious, faithful and true!

Justice & Grace in Tension! sin Grace! justice to the max . . .

Soli Deo Gloria!!!