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4. People on the Move: The Book of Numbers Contents Chapters 1. A New Order 1–4 2. Preparing a People 5, 6 3. Worship and Dedication 7, 8 4. Trumpets, Blood, Cloud, and Fire 9, 10 5. From Complaints to Apostasy 11–14 6. Planning Ahead 15 7. Power Struggle 16, 17 8. Priests and Levites 9, 18, 19 9. The Sin of Moses and Aaron 20, 21 10. The “Madness” of the Prophet 22–24 11. Immorality on the Border 25, 31 12. The Second Generation: Admonitions 26–32 13. Cities of Refuge 33–36

5. People on the Move: The Book of Numbers Our Goal {181} AS A people on the move, as a people seeking to reach the Promised Land, as a people called out by God, we could learn from the book of Numbers. The most important lesson is that God will fulfill His promises.

6. People on the Move: The Book of Numbers Lesson 5, October 31 People on the Move: The Book of Numbers Lesson 5, October 31

7. From Complaints to Apostasy Key Text Philippians 2:14, 15 NKJV “DO ALL things without murmuring and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.”

8. From Complaints to Apostasy Initial Words {235} THE PILLAR of cloud lifted from the tabernacle in Sinai. At last they were on their way to the Promised Land! One would think that with something so clear and obvious before them, they so readily and willingly have obeyed His every command. That’s not quite how things tend to work, even with God’s people.

9. From Complaints to Apostasy Quick Look 1. COMPLAINTS About Food (Exodus 11:4-6) 2. COMPLAINTS Against Moses (Exodus 12:1, 2) 3. COMPLAINTS About Canaan (Exodus 13:31-33)

10. From Complaints to Apostasy 1. Complaints About Food Numbers 11:4-6 NKJV “SO THE children of Israel wept again and said: ‘Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!’ ”

11. 1.Complaints About Food The Sin of Ingratitude {236} THE PEOPLE really had no true basis to complain about their diet. The manna could be prepared in various ways—ground in a mill, or beaten in a mortar; it could be baked or boiled. Certainly the God who created so many tasty wonders for all humans wasn’t going to make His covenant people eat something unpalatable.

12. 1.Complaints About Food The Sin of Ingratitude {236} Furthermore, they had milk from the goats, sheep, and cattle. From this they could also make butter. As for flesh foods, the various “peace sacrifices”—vows, thank offerings, and freewill offerings—all ended with a communal meal in which the priests, the offerer, his family and servants, and invited Levite partook of the sacrifice.

13. From Complaints to Apostasy 2. Complaints Against Moses Numbers 12:1, 2 NKJV “THEN MIRIAM and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married…. And they said. ‘Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?’ And the LORD heard it.”

14. 2. Complaints Against Moses Family Nastiness {240} SHE WAS jealous of Zipporah and blamed her for influencing Moses to appoint the judges Jethro had suggested. She called Zipporah a Cushite, probably because she may have been dark-complexioned. Actually Zipporah was a Midianite, a descendant of Abraham through his son Midian by Keturah.

15. The sneer may have been picked up from the fact that some of the Cushite tribes lived among the Midianites in the territory east of Sinai. She could have been designated by either term. 2. Complaints Against Moses Family Nastiness {240} For example, a person of German descent born in the USA could be called a German or an American. But most likely the term was used in a slanderous manner.

16. Numbers 13:32 NKJV “ AND THEY gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, ‘The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.’ ” From Complaints to Apostasy 3. Complaints About Canaan

17. At the Borders {242} AS USUAL, with anything in this sinful world, there always are problems, even when God leads us. Of course, the Lord knew those pagan people were there. Did not the Hebrews think that the Lord could have taken care of the situation for them? After all, look at what He had done to the Egyptians!

18. Nevertheless, forgetting about the power and promises of God, they saw the obstacles set before them and, despite the pleadings of Caleb and Joshua, the other spies filled the ears of the Israelites with gloom and doom. Such fear was a slap in the face of their Divine Partner, whose ability was being questioned. 3. Complaints About Canaan At the Borders {242, 241}

19. From Complaints to Apostasy Final Words {244} OF ALL the horrible things the Israelites said, perhaps the worst was saying that they wanted a captain to take them back to Egypt. When we consider that Egypt symbolized the bondage and slavery of sin, of death, of alienation from God, for these people to act as they did, after having had such an incredible deliverance, was inexcusable.