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nearly all encompassed in israel or at least parts still occupied by other nations paid tribute to israel and her king what are the borders god has given you and me what does he want us to accomplish and are we even close his dream and purpose for us is big the secret of spiritual victory is saying yes to god william e nelson daily thoughts from numbers sin like weeds december 31 2017 december 19 2017 thimblefulloftheology leave a comment and the lord spoke to moses in the plains of moab by the jordan at jericho saying speak to the people of israel and say to them when you pass over the jordan into the land of canaan then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it for i have given the land to you to possess it you shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans to a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance wherever the lot falls for anyone that shall be his according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit but if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell and i will do to you as i thought to do to them numbers 33 50 56 esv god can t be more clear that israel s future depends on clearing out all the enemies of canaan in obedience to him he is using israel as the tool of his judgment on these nations the issue is idolatry israel must destroy all their idols and elevated shrines for worship and all the idolaters otherwise their influence will become an irritant that israel will be unable to ignore and she will fall into the same sin and receive the judgment god had reserved for the canaanites our greatest problem is being caught up in the thinking of the world its idolatry and succumbing to viewing god as just one among many sources of life or no source at all we must demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of god and we must take captive every thought to make it obedient to christ 2 corinthians 10 5 if we nourish any sin in our thinking it will demolish us it is said that many years ago the small farmers of scotland were a very superstitious people they would leave a corner of their fields uncultivated in order to pacify certain evil spirits they believed that by sacrificing this one corner to the spirits the remainder of the field would be left undisturbed and yield good results but what happened in fact of course was that the uncultivated corner produced a crop of weeds and when the wind blew it scattered those weeds across the whole field the whole field suffered because of weeds in one corner and so with the christians life one sin which is allowed to dominate can infect a man s whole life ruin his character and negate completely his witness for god the hidden hand international bible encyclopedia thomas daily thoughts from numbers obedience and god s heart december 30 2017 december 19 2017 thimblefulloftheology leave a comment these are the stages of the people of israel when they went out of the land of egypt by their companies under the leadership of moses and aaron moses wrote down their starting places stage by stage by command of the lord and these are their stages according to their starting places they set out from rameses in the first month on the fifteenth day of the first month on the day after the passover the people of israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the egyptians while the egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the lord had struck down among them on their gods also the lord executed judgments so the people of israel set out from rameses and camped at succoth and they set out from succoth and camped at etham which is on the edge of the wilderness and they set out from etham and turned back to pi hahiroth which is east of baal zephon and they camped before migdol and they set out from before hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness and they went a three days journey in the wilderness of etham and camped at marah and they set out from marah and came to elim at elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees and they camped there and they set out from rephidim and camped in the wilderness of sinai and they set out from kadesh and camped at mount hor on the edge of the land of edom and aaron the priest went up mount hor at the command of the lord and died there in the fortieth year after the people of israel had come out of the land of egypt on the first day of the fifth month and aaron was 123 years old when he died on mount hor and the canaanite the king of arad who lived in the negeb in the land of canaan heard of the coming of the people of israel and they set out from mount hor and camped at zalmonah and they set out from zalmonah and camped at punon and they set out from punon and camped at oboth and they set out from the mountains of abarim and camped in the plains of moab by the jordan at jericho they camped by the jordan from beth jeshimoth as far as abel shittim in the plains of moab numbers 33 1 49 esv moses has recorded the journeys of israel for 40 years in very summary fashion with little to no commentary he does comment that the account was by yahweh s command and that their departure from egypt was a triumph over the egyptians whose firstborn were being buried as a judgment by god and that all the plagues were a judgment by yahweh on all the gods of the egyptians by which we should understand fallen angels who represented themselves as gods moses passes quickly over how israel passed through the midst of the sea by a miraculous wind sent by yahweh to dry their path which then closed over the egyptians as they sought to follow he brings israel to their current position near moab but not without commenting that a canaanite king has heard of them a hint of the terror yahweh is putting on the inhabitants of the land in preparation for their defeat and not without noting aaron s death at age 123 in discipline of his failing to obey god by speaking to the rock to provide water moses of course also will have this discipline and this reminds the people of that all this shows yahweh s providential ability to care for his people and serves perhaps also as a mild warning to be obedient this time when they stage for war god is willing to give us second chances and more the thing he most wants us to learn is trusting and obeying last summer i had an encounter with masked men bearing scalpels a surgeon operated on my foot and my life was never in danger yet the horizontal recovery time did give me a chance to reflect on pain that we choose voluntarily sometimes for our own good and sometimes to our peril while rehabilitating i often did exercises that hurt because i knew that working through the soreness would allow my foot to regain its usefulness on the other hand the surgeon warned against bicycling mountain climbing running and other activities that might endanger the healing process basically anything that sounded fun he vetoed on one visit i tried to talk him into granting me a premature golf match some friends get together once a year it s important to me i ve been practicing my swing and if i use only my upper body and keep my legs and hips very still could i join them without a flicker of hesitation my doctor replied it would make me very unhappy if you played golf within the next two months i thought you were a golfer i said appealing to his sympathies i am that s how i know you can t swing without rolling that foot inward and putting weight on the parts that are trying to heal the point was obvious my doctor has nothing against my playing golf as a fellow golfer he sympathizes with me but he has my best interests at heart it will indeed make him unhappy if i do something prematurely that might damage my long term recovery he wants me to play golf next year and the next and the rest of my life and for that reason he could not sanction a match too soon after my surgery as we talked i began to appreciate my doctor s odd choice of words if he had issued an edict no golf i might have stubbornly rebelled he left me the free choice and expressed the consequences in a most personal way disobedience would grieve him for his job was to restore my health the role of a doctor may be the most revealing image in thinking about god and sin what a doctor does for me physically guide me toward health god does for me spiritually i am learning to view sins not as an arbitrary list of rules drawn up by a cranky judge but rather as a list of dangers that must be avoided at all costs for our own sakes philip yancey daily thoughts from numbers leadership and listening december 29 2017 december 19 2017 thimblefulloftheology leave a comment now the people of reuben and the people of gad had a very great number of livestock and they saw the land of jazer and the land of gilead and behold the place was a place for livestock so the people of gad and the people of reuben came and said to moses and to eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation ataroth dibon jazer nimrah heshbon elealeh sebam nebo and beon the land that the lord struck down before the congregation of israel is a land for livestock and your servants have livestock and they said if we have found favor in your sight let this land be given to your servants for a possession do not take us across the jordan but moses said to the people of gad and to the people of reuben shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here why will you discourage the heart of the people of israel from going over into the land that the lord has given them your fathers did this when i sent them from kadesh barnea to see the land for when they went up to the valley of eshcol and saw the land they discouraged the heart of the people of israel from going into the land that the lord had given them and the lord s anger was kindled on that day and he swore saying surely none of the men who came up out of egypt from twenty years old and upward shall see the land that i swore to give to abraham to isaac and to jacob because they have not wholly followed me none except caleb the son of jephunneh the kenizzite and joshua the son of nun for they have wholly followed the lord and the lord s anger was kindled against israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the lord was gone and behold you have risen in your fathers place a brood of sinful men to increase still more the fierce anger of the lord against israel for if you turn away from following him he will again abandon them in the wilderness and you will destroy all this people then they came near to him and said we will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones but we will take up arms ready to go before the people of israel until we have brought them to their place and our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land we will not return to our homes until each of the people of israel has gained his inheritance for we will not inherit with them on the other side of the jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the jordan to the east so moses said to them if you will do this if you will take up arms to go before the lord for the war and every armed man of you will pass over the jordan before the lord until he has driven out his enemies from before him and the land is subdued before the lord then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the lord and to israel and this land shall be your possession before the lord but if you will not do so behold you have sinned against the lord and be sure your sin will find you out build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep and do what you have promised and the people of gad and the people of reuben said to moses your servants will do as my lord commands our little ones our wives our livestock and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of gilead but your servants will pass over every man who is armed for war before the lord to battle as my lord orders so moses gave command concerning them to eleazar the priest and to joshua the son of nun and to the heads of the fathers houses of the tribes of the people of israel and moses said to them if the people of gad and the people of reuben every man who is armed to battle before the lord will pass with you over the jordan and the land shall be subdued before you then you shall give them the land of gilead for a possession however if they will not pass over with you armed they shall have possessions among you in the land of canaan and the people of gad and the people of reuben answered what the lord has said to your servants we will do we will pass over armed before the lord into the land of canaan and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the jordan and moses gave to them to the people of gad and to the people of reuben and to the half tribe of manasseh the son of joseph the kingdom of sihon king of the amorites and the kingdom of og king of bashan the land and its cities with their territories the cities of the land throughout the country and the people of gad built dibon ataroth aroer atroth shophan jazer jogbehah beth nimrah and beth haran fortified cities and folds for sheep and the people of reuben built heshbon elealeh kiriathaim nebo and baal meon their names were changed and sibmah and they gave other names to the cities that they built and the sons of machir the son of manasseh went to gilead and captured it and dispossessed the amorites who were in it and moses gave gilead to machir the son of manasseh and he settled in it and jair the son of manasseh went and captured their villages and called them havvoth jair and nobah went and captured kenath and its villages and called it nobah after his own name numbers 32 1 42 esv moses sees a danger in these tribes wanting land outside canaan fearing it means they are unwilling to obey yahweh s command to conquer canaan along with the rest of the tribes if so yahweh will once again discipline them but to his credit when he learns that they are willing to go over and fight with all israel he relents good leadership listens and accepts reasonable desires on the part of those being led it is ultimately always about the good however of the whole not the individual parts daily thoughts from numbers temptation december 28 2017 december 28 2017 thimblefulloftheology leave a comment the lord spoke to moses saying avenge the people of israel on the midianites afterward you shall be gathered to your people so moses 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