Numbers
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3 The Clans, Text: 3:1-39 INTRODUCTION There were about 2,000,000 souls in the wilderness so about 1% of the total population, or approximately 2% of the males were sequestered from the rest as special servants of the Lord. These were the 22,000 constituted by the descendants of Levi. They included the priests and Levites who
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2 The Camp, Text: 2:1-34 INTRODUCTION Today we look at the Israelite encampment in Chapter 2 of Numbers. The arrangement is dictated by the Lord and it is very orderly. God is a God of order. The Apostle Paul says in I Corinthians 14:33 & 40 that Everything must be done decently and in order,
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1 The Combatants, Text: 1:1-54 INTRODUCTION The Book of Numbers, called also “In the wilderness,” opens with the second month of the second year after the exodus, and goes on to the arrival of the tribes in the plains of Moab by the Jordan forty years later. It is history but it also carries forward
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Studies in Numbers Introduction to the book of Numbers INTRODUCTION Michael Card has a song entitled, “In the Wilderness.” The lyric says, “In the wilderness, in the wilderness; he calls His sons and daughters to the wilderness, but He gives grace sufficient to survive any test, and that’s the painful purpose of the wilderness. In
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INTRODUCTION I THE FAITHFULNESS A THE COUNTING 1 The Combatants 1:1-542 The Camp 2:1-343 The Clans 3:1-394 The Compensation 3:40-515 The Carriers 4:1-48 B THE CENTRALITY 1 The Cleansing 5:1-6:272 The Contributions 7:1-8:43 The Church 8:5-264 The Communion 9:1-14II THE FAILURE A THE COMMENCEMENT 1 The Cloud 9:15-10:102 The Constitution 10:11-363 The Complaints 11:1-12:164 The