Numbers 33-36 / March 8 & 9 (Day 68 & 69)

3/8/2012

Chapter 33
Every time Israel moved, thousands of people with their tents, livestock, possessions, and children had to make the journey. Also, the Levites needed to carry the Tabernacle with all of its furnishings.

Numbers 33:55 says, “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.” God warned them of taking the "easy" rout of only destroying enough of them where they would not be a threat anymore. We’ll read in Joshua and Judges that they did not listen and paid the price for it later.

Chapter 34
The LORD covenanted the land to Israel, so in the end, he will not let any other have it. Joel 3:2 says “I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.” God will not let the land be "divided" to others nations.

2 Comments

shari

3/8/2012 05:50:33 am

I was thinking what an example Moses is to us:
In Numbers 12:3 It says:

Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

I was wondering what is the definition of humble in this verse.

There isn't really another person in the Bible that spoke to God face to face like Moses did. And we know he put up with so much from the Isrealites in the wilderness. And he would of probably been able to enter the promise land pretty quickly if they were not so stiff necked. I think part of his humility was he wasn't wise in his own sight but seeked God on everything.

Joshua

3/8/2012 06:09:27 am

yes, i agree. He was totally dependent on God.

Isaiah 66:1-2 Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? 2) For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.

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