Leviticus 26-27:
26:1 What is God's concern?
26:12-13 Who does God want to be for Israel?
26:17 What will happen if Israel is disobedient?
26:27-28 What is going to happen?
27:28 How important are the devoted things?
Numbers 1-3:
2:2 What is represented when the tents face the tent of meeting?
3:10 Why is the priesthood to be guarded?
Numbers 4-5:
5:7 What does God want from those who sin?
Numbers 6-7:
6:24-26 What is this blessing asking of God?
7:84-88 What did the people of Israel give up?
Numbers 8-9:
8:21 Why?
8:25-26 What is expected of retired priests? Is there a message in there for us?
9:11-12 What does this show us of God?
9:23 What can we say about the Israelites here?
Numbers 10-11:
10:32 Is the nation of Israel about race?
11:14 What is Moses doing here?
11:18-20 Is this provision or judgment?
11:28-30 What is Moses saying here?
Numbers 12-13:
12:14 What does this say of God's justice?
13:19-20 What does God want to show the nation of Israel?
13:27-33 Who should Israel trust?
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Numbers 2:2 What is represented when the tents face the tent of meeting?
ReplyDeleteWe say our church exists "to make Jesus the centerpointe of everything we do." That was Israel's role as well: to be a nation totally focused on Jehovah God. The arrangement of the camp depicted that in a very tangible way.
Let me go a little further, and hope I don't overdo it. In Chapter 1, a census was taken to determine how many men were eligible to serve in the army. From a military standpoint, arranging the tents so they face in doesn't seem very wise, as it makes the people less able to defend themselves against attack. Might that be part of the point, that Israel's safety rests not in her army but in her God?
Finally, and at the risk of contradicting myself, let me back up a bit. According to http://bible.cc/numbers/2-2.htm, the idea that the tents face inward appears in only a few translations; the rest just say that they should be "some distance" from the Tent of Meeting. If that's the case, maybe we should be hesitant about assigning this verse very much significance at all!
Numbers 9:23 What can we say about the Israelites here?
ReplyDelete"At the Lord's command" pretty much says it all! I was struck too by verse 8,in which Moses, confronted by the question of whether unclean people could celebrate Passover, says, "Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you." He asked, God told him, and we assume they did what they were told. That's the way it ought to be, isn't it?
Numbers 11:18-20 Is this provision or judgment?
ReplyDeleteI think it's a bit of both! It reminds me of two things: (1) the phrase "be careful what you pray for..." and (2) aversion therapy. Just as a man who catches his son smoking behind the barn and forces him to finish the whole pack, God is giving the people what they think they want until they can't stand it any more.
Numbers 13:27-33 Who should Israel trust?
ReplyDeleteNot themselves, certainly! God had just told Moses that His arm is not "too short" (11:23), but the rest of the people didn't get the message (again!). Yes, there are giants in the land, but God is even more gigantic, isn't He?