Despite years of repeated warnings to obey the Lord and His commandments or you will be handed over to your enemies, the Israelites still haven’t learned. They repeatedly: strayed from God, were handed over to their enemy, cried out to the Lord to be rescued, were sent a judge to rescue and rule over...
Israel now has a home. They have expelled most of the Canaanites, and the land is being divided up among the tribes; it is a time for rest. Before his death, Joshua reminds the Israelites that they have been victorious in what they have done but only because the Lord has fought for them....
The time has finally come, the Israelites get to walk into the promised land. They enter it in a similar way to how they fled the Egyptians, crossing a dry river floor. While Joshua has seen some amazing things in his life, I wonder what his first reaction to the commander of the Lord’s...
Moses is continuing his last address to the nation of Israel before they enter the promised land. While Moses reviews some of the Law and includes some that had previously not been mentioned, he also covers the reasons why we should obey the commandments. We are told to surround and immerse ourselves with God’s...
The final chapters of Numbers focus on the beginning to the fulfillment of the Lord’s promise that the Israelites would inherit the land of Canaan and instructs men and women on the making of promises and vows. The Israelites have been wandering the wilderness for 40 years. They are the given the instructions...
In Numbers, 21-29, God couldn’t have made it more obvious that Israel was a blessed nation. Everyone that encountered them in battle was defeated and wiped out. They defeated the King of Arad, King Sihon and the Amorites and King Og of Bashan. Through Balaam, God showed Balak, the Moabites and the Midians that...
Continuing on through Numbers, we see that the Israelites are a doubting nation. Israel has become a whining, ungrateful and untrusting congregation. The Lord is providing food for them, but it is not good enough. He has given them leaders that have a direct line to God to tell them what to do and...
Immediately after escaping the Egyptian army through the Red Sea, one of the first thing the Israelites do is complain about bitter water. A little later they complained that they were hungry, saying they would have been better off in Egypt and the Lord heard their cries. He answered it with manna every morning...
