 Good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon guys. I am in a wonderful mood to fight despite a lot of sleep I think I slept maybe four hours maybe three or four hours, but Two things happen one. I saw something online Actually not online, but some other things that I've been just kind of following I may maybe I'll let you guys know about it. Um, but then also this Got my coffee Got my coffee. So That being the case We're going to go into it. I don't think that we'll be we will be before you too long this time For this particular session. So as I'm getting some things ready if you guys have any questions Go ahead and matter of fact go ahead and submit them now Matter of fact, yeah Do you all have especially regarding what we've covered thus far any particular questions before we get going? I want to make sure that we all are together in the right place so Let's see I need a big colts mug. You mean tell me this one isn't big enough I need a bigger one or that one back there Yeah, I think I'm good mark, but thank you though So, uh, we are going to be starting off in a book That let's just be honest That didn't get a whole lot of love doesn't get a whole lot of matter of fact This might this is one of those books where If you bought your bible within the last year the pages of this book probably are still sticking in this particular book Just is what it is. There's some books. We just don't read a lot up. We don't read a lot in Numbers, which is where we're going to be today. We don't read a lot in obadiah Obadiah, where is that at? We don't read a lot in nahum. We don't read a lot in Zechariah So therefore Now these books are obviously they are important And so let me just put it on the screen so we can know we're going with our look at our little timeline our little timeline The book of numbers is one of the chronicle books. It is not uh, you you It is not a book A complimentary book like Leviticus a Deuteronomy So when we read in chronological order, it's genesis exodus Numbers and then joshua. So what does that mean now? We've already covered. We've gone through Leviticus and portions of Deuteronomy What that means is we'll also go through them as we go. So now what's the rule you can only cover What we've covered thus far Because we're trying to put ourselves in the place of the people who are hearing this from moses Who are there on the ground? So that way we can earn what we're saying. We don't read into anything. We don't take from Malachi we don't take from Jonah we don't take from Mark we don't take from the book of acts revelation. We don't take those and read those into it More importantly, we don't take and read our own church's doctrine our own Own personal doctrine our own confessions. We don't take those and read those into it I would really love though to be honest with you The people who tend to criticize or not necessarily criticize but yet criticize but also disagree On certain points. It would be helpful. It would be beneficial if a lot of them were here Because what's happening is we end up arguing this point arguing that point arguing that point Remember we're arguing things in many cases from our own standpoint Instead of from god standpoint, who is the one who is determining what's happening not us him god And so if we see how god is if we see what god is saying we tend to have a One of the one of the commandments one of the 10 commandments Is not to create for ourselves a god our own god Carved or graven images, but what we do is we create a god out of our mind and out of our heart A god that reflects us a god that looks like us think about there are gods out there who are lgbtq gods Gods who are if you're in sin, this guy is tolerant of sin. He loves me If I saw a guy I saw a pastor who say that uh, his marriage was messed up because he was married to the wrong woman And so his god is a god that is okay with with that kind of thought not not the okay not not that you can't be forgiven No, but To make the statement that I had to let her go because this was not the woman that god gave me Yeah, so we have a god of that of that nature And so when we do this because here's what we notice The folks that tend to disagree They do it in parts. I think this passage means that because it means this to me But if we see this is a god who doesn't change and this is always how he has been Then guess what? We don't have a lot of the guesswork is taking that because I don't think that god wants a lot of the guesswork in it Do you all agree? I don't I don't think he wants us guessing Uh, would you say? I mean, uh You're curious about this debate Uh in the debate and I'll say this I haven't even looked at the bait. I didn't I didn't look at it um I did not do what I was supposed to do in the debate in that I did not comport myself to the rules of the debate Why because I I never do those debates Those sort of debates never lend itself to you being able to explain things thoroughly because If I'm asked a question, I can't respond with a question. I can't elaborate You just can't do it and so Uh in terms of decorum and so forth and and debate etiquette, I failed which I don't care I on as a matter of fact, I approach it more like a like a legal case I approve because I'm setting up my points. I didn't know what the rules were Honestly, I have a text from you know, what I was supposed to do But it didn't state that state your verses your your scriptures and so forth here And so and that's my fault. That's not that's not dr. Brown's fault or or marlins I if you're going to enter into a fray You should understand what the what the rules are and I didn't but I really don't care to be honest I really don't care. I could care less about comporting myself In that more than I do Care about getting the truth out And incidentally incidentally incidentally he threw out a couple names of some scholars who disagreed with what I said And they absolutely do not disagree. They disagree with a conclusion And so I'll deal more with that Later on but I have a I have a I have a problem I have a problem if you're going to make a statement and then impugn me for for for saying that my Point on this is wrong and there are other scholars disagree and then you throw a scholar who doesn't disagree Yeah, so we'll we'll talk about that more later Corey, what does the bible say when you have no faith? You don't receive salvation like Pharisees. You don't get healed like those well And this is it's off topic, but I but I clicked on it. So I'll answer Faith is required to please god But if we act as though That that if we act as though that a lack of faith stops you from getting healed Well, then there's a lot of people who did not have faith think about what Jesus did as he's gone People didn't know who he was But he was healing them So there's a lot of folks who didn't have faith faith is good Don't get me wrong. You want to have it's better to have faith now in terms of salvation You've got to have faith. That's how you are saved. So Anyway, that being the case you You These scriptures were given so that you can have faith so that you can see so you can understand what god has done and then place your Place your faith in what you have received in his text. Is it dr. Brown one? Okay Okay That's that's funny fine. He won I've literally answered every single one of his verses before And again so far so far at counting no one has refuted Uh, the text that I brought up and the reason for that text being brought up now and I'll leave this after this But the reason for that text being brought up Is it that text means what I say it means in every Greek Every greek grammarian who points to that that text says the same thing everyone that I've seen everyone I've never seen one say differently Then it literally means it is impossible for anything in the future for you to be taken away from it I'll cover that more later. So anyway, so let's go ahead and jump into but if you have any questions about The bible study if you have any questions about The uh the study what we've covered thus far because Even in what we talked about in the in the debate or various other things Whether it's salvation whether it's the end times all of those different things Whatever it is these things have their genesis in no pun intended like it's pun intended in genesis in uh exodus in leviticus in numbers these things didn't just pop up when jesus makes a statement He's not making statements just out of thin air. So they came from nowhere God has his plan and he's following his plan. He's working his plan out Just because some people weren't privy to it or didn't understand doesn't mean that that it all of a sudden just showed up Just because you just discovered it just because you just discovered america doesn't mean that america wasn't always there. So That being the case so If you see the foundation if you just see how god is responding how god is acting Well, then I think that we can and this was funny We end up seeing and believing and agreeing Similarly when we just follow this tactic this way of reading and this way of understanding and we're looking at things from God's standpoint now. There are some people who just want to see things from their own standpoint. There are those um And we're cord but isn't that you well could have been at some point in time it was but remember guys A lot of not everything but a lot of what I believe now is totally different than how I used to believe why Because I've adopted this particular principle of how to read Not that I didn't know how to read before But this again the same way that I read every other thing else the same way that you read everything else We all we all literally read things the same way those that have The ability to comprehend those that made it through Grade school Those that made it through high school We all have we read literally the same way And so we apply this to the text and let's just kind of keep In mind what god is trying to accomplish. Amen. So now we're in numbers. So let's go to numbers chapter one Now a couple things are happening and we're not going to read every bit of numbers But we're going to hit the highlights we hit the main points number one in numbers There is this census that's being taken Okay, and I want you to focus on two of them the one in the beginning and the one in the end There's something that happens In the beginning of numbers I'm sorry in between the beginning and the end. There's something really important The reason for these different numberings some of you all already know and so Let's go ahead and read then the lord spoke to moses in the wilderness of sinai in the tent of meeting on the first of the second month In the second year after they had come out of the land of ease. So a lot of time has passed a year Take a census he says verse two of all the congregation of the sons of israel by their families by their fathers household According to the number of names every male. He says every male Head by head from 20 years old and upward who is whoever is able to go out to war In israel you and erin shall number them by their names now what that means is He's going to take all the able-bodied men that are 20 years and up So if a person is 35, but not able-bodied couldn't go to war. He's not counted if a man is I don't know older and that particular man is just too old to to do anything same thing He can't he won't be counted. So the seniors in the group not counted the the disabled But who else is not counted in this group? Women are not counted in this group nor our children again 20 and up Now when we when we figure out how many people were actually numbered we have to go to verse 46 To see who all or the total number of the people in this census He says even all the numbered men were 603,550 Okay, now Also, who's not mentioned in this are the levites They're not going to war. They are their their job is to service the The temple so to speak. I don't mean the temple but but to service god To service the ten of medians to service the the ambulance and so forth. That is their job Are with me. So in this 63,000 no women no children no disabled No, no old or elderly And then no Levites I can say old since i'm i'm getting there one of these days I guess you get a certain age then you're allowed to say old and nobody gets upset When you're 20 when you're 30 you can't call people old But when you're 50 you can call whoever you want to call even if they're older than you. So that's what I did So that part is important guys We have the census now. I cannot read everything because There is some tediousness to it. There are some instructions Regarding vows matter of fact, there is even an instruction if a woman and man are married And the the man suspects the woman of cheating interesting The man suspects the woman of cheating There's a way to handle it She may have gone out and lay with another man. She may not have And god has a remedy for that. How does he how does he do that? She has to drink this bitter water And god will let them know if she did or she didn't there are other different things or things regarding a nazarite vow and so forth We won't cover that you have a trial of jealousy We won't cover all of those things. What we will go is we're going to go to something That we are all very familiar with A lot of us can Matter of fact, not a lot of us all of us can sympathize with this all of us can sympathize with this and that is this complaining Now the people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the lord And when the lord heard it his anger was kindled. This is uh chapter 11 His anger was kindled and the fire of the lord burned among them and consumed Some of them some of the outskirts of the camp. So some folks In the suburbs of the camp got burnt up The people therefore cried to moses and moses prayed to the lord and fire died out So hey moses. Listen. Can you can you talk to god? Ask god to relent now. They didn't stop their complaining They didn't stop their complaining, but they just go to god and so And there's something really really interesting Not really a riddle, but there's a question that I'm opposed to you guys to see If this is what god says is if it's what he means. How do you take this? So Verse two the people therefore cried to moses and moses prayed to the lord and the fire died out verse three So the name of that place was called to bear up because the fire of the lord burned among them the rabble Remember when they came out of egypt? There was this multitude this mixed multitude this rabble that came amongst them the rabble who were among them had greedy desires Which sometimes happens these folks come in who are not accustomed to your customs But that came and they had these greedy desires and also the sons of israel wept again and said Who will give us meat to eat now? Look what they're saying We remember the fish which we used to eat free in egypt man. We had it good under this old Repressive oppressive regime. We had it better then we used to eat meat Remember the fish we used to eat while that fish was wonderful Now i'm pretty sure at the time they were eating fish. They didn't like it remember These are the very site. These are the very same people guys Not their ancestors not their parents not their great grandparents This is not that they read in a history book. They experienced this. These were the very same people Who a few years earlier? They were two years a year and a half earlier. They were complaining About how bad it was in egypt These were the very same people Who were complaining about how bad it was in egypt and now what do we see now? They're complaining about how bad it is now how much better it was in egypt Of course, they were also complaining once god took them out of egypt and brought them to the river What do they do they complain again? You brought us out here to die. We could have died back then Same people so he says Uh verse five we remember the fish we used to eat free in egypt the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks And the onions and the garlic i have no idea what a leak is But now i know we have them i just don't know what they are But now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manner We are so sick of this man This manna that you've given us. I don't want it. We we don't want it sick and tired of what you've done for us god Isn't that not us? That's how we that's how we are leaks are like onions. Okay. I'll buy that a giant onion. Okay Maybe i've had them before why wouldn't you just call them a giant? Why would see this one understand? Why not just call them? onions giant onions right Don't give it a different name Or just call it a leak onion Who's in charge of this stuff anyway verse 17 now the manna was like coriander seed and his appearance like that of Deliom I hope i said that right the people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in The mortar and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it and his taste was the taste of cakes baked with oil Sounds good, but I guess after a while you get tired of okay fine When the dew fell on the camp at night the manna would fall with it Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families each man at the doorway of his tent so every everybody's complaining Each man at the doorway of his tent and the anger of the lord was kindled greatly and moses was displeased So moses of the lord, why have you been so hard on your servant? God now moses gets in the act god Why have you gotten so why are you treating me so hard? Okay, so so let me get this straight moses They're complaining now you're complaining Okay, verse 11 Uh in the middle of it and why have I not found favor in your sight that you have laid the burden of all this people on me Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth that you should say to me carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries A nursing infant to the land which you swore to their father. So he's putting it on god I didn't come up with this idea god. This is my plan. This is your plan and now i'm getting burdened with these people Where am I to get meat? Look what he says where am I to get meat to give to all this people For they weep before me saying give us meat that we may eat I alone am not able to carry all this people because it is too burdensome for me So if you are going to deal with us, look what he says, please kill me at once If I have found favor in your sight and do not let me see my wretchedness poor moses poor moses just Lord, don't play with me. Just kill me now So the lord says verse 16 the lord therefore said moses Gather for me 70 men something about something about 70 70 men from the elders of israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers And bring them to the ten of meeting and let them Take their stand with you then look what he says and I will come down and speak with you there And I will take of the and this is interesting right here guys I want to make a point right here Because this has been this point that i'm getting ready to make Was brought up later. Look what he says then I will come down and speak with you there And I will take of the spirit who is upon you And will put him upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people with you So that you will not bear it alone Why is that passage there important? Think about this for a second He just made this statement. I will take of the spirit who is upon you And will put him upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people with you so that you will not bear it alone Well, excuse me. What was the importance of what was just spoken to? Not necessarily for them, but it is important but for us Because there's an issue that has been brought up again a lot of these issues that we deal with If we just simply go back and read and stay with the text and see what it's saying And none of these things are changing What is he saying? Yeah, you you're on the right path Jeff causing the rest the residing of the spirit. Remember, I've had this discussion before let me put a time out here Exactly timing upon them. I had this discussion before About whether men in the Old Testament were regenerated in other words was their heart regenerated Now we've seen the bible says that he is going to change their heart He's going to regenerate or circumcise their heart put his spirit in their heart when in the future He even tells us to some degree when after they are taken out of the land and brought back in So he tells us sort of when But in this case the spirit who is and he it's a who it's a he it's a person He That's on you I will notice what he says then I will come down and speak and I will take the spirit who is upon you And we'll put him upon them Not that he will be in their heart. He is not regenerate. He has not regenerated Moses's heart Nor will he regenerate their heart But he is going to take the spirit that's upon him that's giving Moses the strength And we'll do the same with them now. What does that mean? Can we glean? That by the spirit it takes the spirit to Leave you In order for you to be obedient you have to You either need to have the spirit in you or upon you Can we glean that you either need to have the spirit either in you or upon you To to be led by God. Well, maybe now the spirit is upon moses But moses is doing that an awful lot Moses has a heavy burden. So is that what what the spirit upon him is requiring? Those who don't have as heavy of a burden do they need the spirit upon them now God is giving them Things for them to see God is showing them signs and wonders. God is showing his hand before them They are by the way as they're leaving Well, we won't see this. We won't read this but they see the cloud of God They've seen his glory They've seen his wonderful and mighty hand. So they've seen these things They've seen enough things to give them or to remind them that God is for them Enough things where they can have faith in what God is doing. But again, they're just miserable old five dollars worth of dirt complaining Forget about what all God has done. It's like what children do Right children will forget that you just bought them 500 dollars worth of clothes or you bought them some video games Bought them a phone paid for this paid for that plus the fact that you feed them you house them You give them cool air and warmer. You give them water to bathe themselves water to drink all this stuff Do all these things But God you don't do anything for me, but mom and daddy you don't do it right now Our kids do that because we did that We never go anywhere. I just you just Came back from the fair. You just went to the circus Just like children so That part we can understand with we can see what they're doing. So They've seen these things and God expects them. God expects that what he has done Is enough for them to have faith God expects that and so maybe they don't need the spirit to be in them or even upon them Just to see the mighty works of God Now we know what's going to happen later That the spirit will be in us He will regenerate our heart and then after that after our profession of faith he will come to reside in us But the question is here Did moses was moses regenerator? Well, it looks to be that no, he wasn't regenerated. He just had the spirit upon him Okay, later on david makes a statement. Don't take your spirit away from me Was the spirit upon david? Well, the spirit seems to be upon david Okay, so now Let's continue Say to these people verse 18 Consecrate yourself for tomorrow and you shall eat meat For you have wept in the ears of the Lord saying oh that someone would give us meat to eat For we were well off in Egypt Again complaining about and we do this complaining about how how much the better how much better the world has it than we do Therefore the Lord will give you meat and you shall eat you shall eat not one day Nor two days nor five days nor 10 days nor 20 days But a whole month until it look he says until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes Loasome to you because you have rejected the Lord who was among you And have wept before him saying why did we ever leave Egypt? So notice what he says you have rejected the Lord Who is among you So God has been there all this time and you're complaining to his face Now look what Moses says but Moses said the people among who whom I am Are 600,000 on foot yet you have said I will give them meat so that they may eat for a whole month To the flocks and herds be slaughtered for them to be sufficient for them He's asking and he's asking kind of in a in a flippant fashion Or should all the flesh of the sea be gathered together for them to be sufficient for them? So Moses like this is just too many people. How am I going to feed all of these people? Again Who asked you to feed them? He just said I will feed them You look at things from your perspective from your lens as though you're the ones that are doing things But God is the one so look what he says he says the Lord said to Moses Is the Lord's power limited now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not Notice what he says Is the Lord's power limited Is the Lord's power limited no I didn't ask you to do Moses. I didn't ask you to do anything other than to follow what I said I didn't say for you to go Moses Moses Just do what I told stop thinking Moses. Just do what I tell you to do I can I can just imagine Again, if I was God, which is a good thing. I'm not Moses be quiet. Just do what I said to do So Moses went out verse 24 and told the people the words of the Lord also He gathered 70 men of the elders of the people and stationed them around the tent By the way, if you look at how he had him stationed He has all the people stationed around this tent now on the inside You've got the Levi's and he breaks them down Into three groups. We won't get into that but they're all around On the outskirts And so they go out and speak to them verse 25 and the Lord came down in the cloud And spoke to him and he took of the spirit who was upon him And placed him upon the 70 elders and when the spirit rests upon them They prophesied but they did not do it again So the spirit comes on them and they start giving this revelation. What was the prophecy? We don't know We don't know but two men had remained in the camp the name of one was Eldad and the name of the other Medet And and the spirit rested upon them now They were among those who had been registered but had not gone out to the tent and they prophesied in the camp So a young man So a young man ran and told moses and said Eldad and Medet are prophesied in the camp then joshua Son of none the attendant of moses from his youth said moses my lord restrained them Look what moses says moses said Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the lord's people were prophets and that the lord would put his spirit upon them Then moses returned to the camp both he and the elders of israel Man moses said i wish everybody was like this I wish everybody was like this Now this is joshua A man of god who joshua is Will and can make mistakes do things wrong Thank god for god's correction, but even his love in correctness. Amen now Chapter 11 verse 31 Now there went forth a wind from the lord and it brought quail From the sea and let them fall beside the camp about a day's journey On this side and a day's journey on the other side all around the camp and about two cubits deep On the surface of the ground the people spent all day and all night and all the next day and gathered the quail He who gathered least gathered ten homers And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp while the meat was steel between their teeth Before it was chewed the anger of the lord was kindled against the people And the lord struck the people with a very severe plague so God has given them chicken i'm just i'm being facetious. He's giving them chick filet He gave them chick filet to eat and then while they were eating Sucking their teeth and using toothpicks to clean their teeth out. He strikes them with COVID he strikes him with a plague So that because he's angry So the name of that place was called kibirath Hattava Because they buried because they buried the people who had been greedy from kibirath Uh hattava the people set out for hesroth and they remain at hesroth I won't go too far into that but now look at what's happening next Now we've got Someone's always got a complaint then miriam and erin. This is moses's sister and brother You all remember miriam miriam was the young lady who when moses was a baby Put in the basket. She was the one who told faro's daughter About moses's mother possibly being oris and i would go and get one of the ladies Who's uh one of the one of the jewish ladies to come And nurse him that was miriam good good job miriam for looking out for your for your little brother But they were upset they spoke against moses because of the kushite woman whom he had married for he had married a kushite woman And they said so racist miriam and erin And they said if god didn't have a problem with why do you have a problem with it? And they said has the lord indeed spoken only through moses really what they were was just jealous Has he not spoken through us as well and the lord heard it now the man moses was very humble More than any man who was on the face of the earth Well kind of be honest Him being more humble than the rest of these jokers probably wasn't that difficult Maybe it was i don't know but at least this camp these guys he's walking around with they didn't they didn't seem very humble But anyway verse four suddenly the lord said to mose and erin And to miriam you three come out to the tent of meeting like your father says come here So the three came out Then the lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent and he called erin and miriam When they had both come 40 said hear now my words if there is a prophet among you I the lord shall make myself known to him in a vision I shall speak with him in a dream not so with my servant moses for he is faithful in all my household With him I speak mouth to mouth even openly and not in dark sayings and beholds And he beholds the form of the lord Why then were you afraid to speak were you not afraid to speak against my servant against moses? So you all know the kind of relationship that I have with moses I speak to him now. He says face to face, but he didn't mean face to face by the way Let me just let me just pull this up again um So I with him I speak uh, I speak mouth to mouth Even openly and not in dark sayings. So this word in mouth is pay pay el pay, which is It's kind of idiomatic guy. I didn't have an actual mouth Um, of course the word is also for opening or doorway, but but anyway, so he's speaking to moses right before him And you don't regard that as as as anything that's special. You think it's just a cheap thing As a matter of fact something that you covet You didn't you didn't you didn't think you thought it was wise to speak against this man You see how I speak with other prophets, but how I speak to him face to face You didn't think that was a problem, huh? So the anger of the lord verse nine Burned against him and he departed but when the cult when the cloud that was drawn from over the tent Miriam was lepros as white as snow As erin turned towards Miriam behold she was lepros then erin said to moses Oh my lord, I beg you do not account this sin to us in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sin, so Why didn't Miriam get it why did why didn't erin get it just just Miriam, huh? Verse 12 oh do not let her be like one dead whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother's womb Moses cried to the lord saying oh god heal her I pray but the lord said to moses if her father had but spit in her face Would she not bear the shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp and afterwards she may be received again So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again I bet Miriam won't say nothing again Can you imagine what those seven days were like afterwards? However, the people moved from hesra and camp in the wilderness of faran Now we're gonna be reading chapters 13 and 14 because there's some interesting things that we have to we have to bleed from there That's why we're going through all of this um Chapter 13 important part Then the lord spoke to moses saying because remember guys they hadn't gotten to the land that they were going to They have to get there. So what is it now? What's interesting is they keep seeing the hand of god move so far When god has dealt with the enemies of israel How has he dealt with it? When egypt pursued them And they crossed on dry land Who gave them the crossing who who part of the sea who caused the ground to be dry? god did that When they got on the other side and the egyptians pursued Who closed up the waters or the egyptians and destroyed all of them? god did Who gave them manna god did who gave them meat god did? Very important very important and they know this remember this generation that we're speaking of these very same people They were there in egypt and saw all this so they were literally eyewitnesses to all of this The only people that didn't see this would have been a baby Would have been a newborn Someone that's a year old maybe two That's important. Let's let's continue then the lord spoke to moses saying Send out for yourselves men that they may spy out the land of canaan which i am which i am which i am Going to give to the sons of israel you shall send a man from each of their father's tribe everyone a leader among them So moses sent them from the wilderness of parant And at the command of the lord all of them all of the men who were heads of the sons of israel these Then uh Were their names i won't read their names except to go down to verse five from the tribe of simian Shapa the son of haraib from the tribe of juda Caleb the son of jefuno question We have a question What's the question korey? Oh by the way, these are the names of the of the men who moses sent out to spy the land But moses called hoshea the son of noon joshua. So let's go back up to hoshea And what verses he and he is in Don't go on. I just saw it. I just saw it. There it is verse eight Uh from the tribe of efrem hoshea the son of noon. So who's hoshea hoshea is uh joshua So we have joshua who is from by the way from the from efrem But then in verse six we have Caleb The bible told us earlier though that Caleb the son of jefuno was a uh What's word kiss of night kinesite kinesite? That's not a that's That's not of that tribe That's not of that tribe Now it could be one of two things His father marries into that to that tribe the woman Or he's just simply a doctor now by the way, we told you before the name. Caleb means dog It's not totally clear how Caleb um becomes known to be part of uh, the the tribe of juda But what we do know for a fact is that he is not natural Um as the others are he is not as they was just pure so to speak He's not a he's not a hundred percent And again his name is dog That's what Caleb that's what Caleb means in hebron interesting I bring that up for another reason i'll i'll broach this now and and come back to the reason in just a little bit So let's drop down further And let's go to verse 17 Now when moses sent them to spy out the land of canaan, he said to them go there into negab Then go up into the hill country see what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak Whether there are few or many how is the land in which they live? Is it good or bad and how are the cities in which they live are they like open camps or with fortification? Now we know the land is good because god told me i'm going to send you a land that's floy with milk and honey The problem with that is and i don't know if god necessarily told him To ask them these questions or not. We don't know we don't know so He says make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land now The time was the time of the first right great. So bring back some stuff So they went up to inspire out the land in the wilderness of zin as far as rahab at lebo hamath When they had gone up into the into negab Or the negab They came to hebron where ahemah shishai and tamai the descendants of anak work now now remember remember who anak is It literally actually means tall or long necks. So these are big people These were big people big giant people big gigantic people. These were giants But wait a minute. Cory Wait a minute. Cory. I thought these giants Were descendants of these angels who cohabitated with women Well, I think again I think again and that was that's been my point because we still have these giants even up to the point to where David has to fight off some dot have to find us some giants So yeah, these aren't the these clearly aren't descendants of Some angel and human cohabitating but that'd been the case Um, now hebron was built seven years before zoan in Egypt Then they came to the valley of escrow and from there they're cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes And they carried it on a pole between two men and some of the pomegranates And the figs that were placed uh that the place was called the valley of escrow Because of the clusters which the sons of israel cut down the trees now Here's a report verse 25 when they returned from spine of the land at the end of 40 days They proceeded to come to moses and erin and to all the congregations of the sons of israel in the wilderness of parana at kadesh And they brought back a word To them and all the congress you all know the story Thus they told him when went to the land Where you sent us and it's certain and it certainly does flow with milk and honey And this is its fruit Nevertheless the people who live in the land are strong and the cities are fortified and very large and moreover We saw the descendants of anach there Amalek is living in the land of negah and the hittites and the jeffrey sites and the amarylites Are living in the hill country and the cananites are living by the sea and by the side of the jordan We got a problem moses or houston. We got a problem Then calip quieted the people This is calip speaking now. Therefore moses said Man, this is a question. He says i thought the giants were destroyed by the flood. That's that was that's to my point um It's not and i don't think that it's referring to When we're looking at genesis 6 that's referring necessarily to giant these are men of stature men of renown And i don't think that these now there might have been some giants that were some tall folks that were destroyed But all of human race wasn't all of the human race wasn't destroyed and so clearly Through noah and his children and repopulated being fruitful and and multiplying Giant folks were born Are with me and so and they weren't born of some sort of angelic or fallen angel Having a relationship with a human being So that's been my point. That's been my point all along then calip speaks He says he quieted the people before moses says we should by all means go up and take possession of it For we will surely overcome it But the men who had gone up with him said we are not able to go up against the people for they are too strong for us Well, so was egypt So they gave out To the sons of israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out saying the land Through which we had gone and spying it out is a land that devours its inhabitants And all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size They're also we saw the nephilim The sons of anna are part of the nephilim and we became like grasshoppers in our own site And so we are in their site. So again, these people speak about these nephilim Weren't the result as far as I can tell I might be wrong. I could be wrong But these nephilim weren't the creation of angels or demons having relationship with these women They're just men having relationships with women Anyway, then all the congregation looked up their voice and cried and the people wept that night again complaining once again All the sons of israel grumbled against moses and erin What it's like they don't learn but then again, we can say the same thing. It's like we don't learn as well Uh, would that we had died in the land of egypt you keep going back to egypt Or would that we have died in this wilderness? Why is the lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword our wives and our little ones will be Come plunder, uh, would it not be better for us return to egypt? They really are it is funny when you think about it though So they said to one another let us appeal appoint leaders and return these guys are serious Let's appoint leaders and go back to egypt Okay Then moses and erin fell on their faces in the appearance of i mean the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of isra josh with the son of non and cable the son of jifuna Of those who have spied out the land tore their clothes and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of israel saying The land which we possess That we pass through to spy out is exceedingly good land if the lord look what look what they say If the lord is pleased with us then he will bring us into this land and give it to us A land which flows with milk and honey only do not rebel against the lord Thank god for somebody with some sense and do not fear the people of the land for they will be our pray Their protection has been removed now the people are complaining saying that They're they're going to kill us and our children are going to be their spoils and so forth Okay, speaking of their children. So what does so what does god say? Here's where he gets it. Here's where it gets gooder or interesting. I should say this is where it gets good The lord said to moses listen to this The lord said to moses How long will this people spurn me? in other words translated for me You know i'm getting tired of these people moses How long they'll keep on spurning me and how long will they not believe in me? Despite all the signs which I perform in their midst interesting tidbit that we can take from this is You can show all the signs to people You can show as many signs and wonder to people Even today These folks that are looking for a sign you can keep showing you can show them whatever sign you want to They won't believe If you don't trust god if you're trust if your faith in god isn't in him Then signs and wonders won't do a thing for you Now the signs and wonders are present To give you faith in him And then after that you want more there's nothing more for you to get Tell you what take the few signs that you've gotten and literally go to hell because that's where you're gonna go Literally go to hell. That's exactly where you're gonna go because what I not me god has done is not enough It's not enough for you. And so you want more and you want more and you want more and what do you do? You grumble a complaint as a matter of fact You have perfected the art of grumbling and complaining so much so that you will get up tomorrow and And drive a half an hour drive an hour to a church where they will grumble and complain so much so that somebody's going to get up And prophesy a false prophecy about how good god is going to do you or that god is going to give you some stuff Directified to remedy the very things you complained about because god's hand isn't enough You want more you want to reach into his pocket and bring you more You want him to keep giving you stuff because what he gave you wasn't enough his word isn't enough And so your punishment will literally be not you guys but others But your punishment for those that are like this your punishment will literally be that you will go to hell Not my words god's word So let's go back to it the lord said how long will these folks burn me despite all the signs that i've done they don't believe me 12 here it is it gets interesting right here I will smite them with pestilence and dispose them and I will make you into a nation greater and miter than they houston I'm sorry. I got this still on the screen houston. We got a problem I will I will look what god says I will smite them With pestilence and dispose them and I will make you into a nation greater and miter than they We have a big problem here now God wait a minute hold up lord stop the presses. We got to figure something out We've got to figure something out Now he says I will make you into a nation greater and miter than they Do anybody see the problem if he if god destroys all of them And then starts with and then makes moses into this great nation. Does anybody see the problem here There's a there's a there's a glaring problem. There's a there's a there's a big problem Uh that I see There's a big problem And I don't know if you guys see it Yeah, he made the promise to abram now the promise can still be fulfilled through uh through moses because this promise is made through abram because Obviously he is a descendant of abram No, so so it wouldn't nullify the promise abram because all of them all of these people are descendants of abraham All of them what you guys are getting on you're on the right track You're on the right track not abraham It's not it's not the promise through abraham that we're talking about It's not even through jacob and isa these folks are these these are literally descendants Physical descendants of abraham isaac and jacob That's it right there. Let's put on the screen juda juda is the issue here. Let's put on the screen juda is a lions well from the pray my son you have gone up He crouches he lies down as a lion and as a lion who dares to rise him up The scepter shall not depart from juda Problem is moses is not of that lineage moses is not out of the tribe of juda So god Excuse me. I got a problem. I got a question lord How then could you destroy them and start over with moses? Well There's two possible answers Well, no, there's only two answers. There's only there's only two possibilities only two And this is why I broke this earlier one And I think this is probably the more the more likely Is that He's not saying what he's doing. He's really merely just testing moses Because moses does respond in kind the right way Or if he were to do it If he were to do it we still got jay we still got calip We still have calip and and calip has been brought into the tribe of juda. And so is could that possibly be What is referring to? Ultimately, we don't know It would seem to indicate or seem to me that he's probably speaking um In a way to just test moses to see what moses will do I still believe because obviously then this is god that gets a prophecy that it's coming through juda God knows that it is he's coming through juda because who comes through juda ultimately Who comes with this lineage? Well david Then obviously jesus So it would wait a minute god. How do you So what does moses do verse 13? But moses said to the lord then the egyptians will hear of it For by your strength you brought us up out of this people from their midst And they will tell to the inhabitants of this land They have heard that you oh lord are in the midst of this people for you. Oh lord are seeing eye to eye while Uh, your cloud stands over them and this word eye to eye. This is outpining I'm sorry Yeah, I'm So anyway while you're While your cloud stands over them and you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of cloud by night And notice what he says though He says and they will tell to the inhabitants of this land that They have heard that you oh lord are in the midst of the people So moses recounts what's going to happen. What should happen that when you take us before them The inhabitants will know that you got that very same guy who delivered us out of egypt that you go before us That you speak with us face to face That you stand in the cloud over us You go before us in a pillar of cloud by day in a pillar of fire by night now if you slay these people as one man Then the nations who have heard of your fame will say because the lord could not bring this people into the land Which he promised them by oath Therefore he slaughtered them in the wilderness. So he'll say white sake. They'll say that you couldn't you couldn't do what you could do lord But now I pray let the power of the lord be great Just as you have declared the lord is slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness Forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty Visiting iniquity on the fathers on the children on the third and fourth generation Pardon, I pray the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kind He's a pillar in the god's goodness. Just as you also have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now So what does the lord do? So the lord said I have pardoned them according to your word But now, you know what this kind of reminds you of Does this not sort of harken back to Joe praying for his friends You know what? You prayed for them So therefore I will forgive them Because you did so Moses is a mediator absolutely right anola Absolutely right anola So the lord said I have pardoned them according to your word But indeed as I live all the earth will be filled with the glory of the lord All the earth will be filled with the glory of the lord All the earth will be filled with the glory of the of the lord It's gonna happen Surely all the men who have seen my glory and my signs Which I perform in Egypt and in the wilderness yet have put me to the test these how many times We didn't cover all 10 times, but these 10 times 10 times and have not listened to my voice Shall by no means they will not see the land which I swore to their fathers Nor shall they shall any of those who spurn me see it But my servant Caleb Because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully I will bring into the land which he entered and his descendants shall take possession of it huh Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys Turn tomorrow and set out to the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea now So he is going to he is going to Cause them to die now they grumble to complain for these 40 days And so for each day there's going to be one year of their sentence So over the next 40 years they will all die. Here's what's sad about it Here's the sad part Let's go to verse 31 He says your children however, he's he's telling that you all are gonna die. You're not gonna make it He says your children however, whom you said remember they these people said that our children will be pray Know these people that these kids of yours who you thought would become pray They won't become pray. You will they'll see it The children who you said will become pray I will bring them in and they will know the land which you have rejected But as for you your corpus will fall in this wilderness Look what he says though your son shall be shepherds for 40 years in the wilderness And they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until your corpses lie in the wilderness Think about the picture here though four second guys the picture is They suffer until you die Mom and daddy Soon as you die we can we can get blessed Man Are you there thought about that? Until you die when you died then we can cross over So your funeral will actually be a blessing According to the number of days which you spied out the land 40 days for every day You shall bear the guilt a year even 40 years And you will know my opposition. I the lord have spoken Surely this I will do to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me in the wilderness They shall be destroyed and they and there they will die. So Now we're almost there. We're almost there So he's made his point of what he's going to do with him as a matter of fact Move a little forward. I'm not sure if I want to cover Yeah, I won't cover that I won't cover that Now all of this is happening They're getting ready to go into the land Remember what moses spoke moses said well, wait a second the people know about who you are moses pleading with god So moses knows that the very people that they're going to take over Whose land they're getting ready to go into? They know about god And the people that he's leading so fast forward to Numbers chapter 23 You guys heard this story before About this man named blam block Is a king who does not want to deal with these jews And so he asked balam to cursive. Let's go to verse 8 and so The word goes to balam and he asked god. Well, sure. God says no. No, you're not on cursive. No, don't go Block sends another regiment of people to ask him. And so what does balam do ask god again? God says go but then god says he's angry with him because he's going because you came and asked me again You asked me to I told you but fine go go We get to verse 8 of chapter 23 God tells balam though as he's going that you will speak what I tell you to speak So in verse 8 block wants to Wants him to curse the children of israel This is vitally important and this is why we're going to come to an end at this point in time This is vitally important. So notice what's being stated here as balam Is only going to say what the lord wants him to say. Oh by the way Oh by the way And we didn't cover it before but when balam is going and his donkey Sees the angel of the lord. Who is the angel of the lord? The angel of the lord is none other than the pre incarnate christ Who is called god? Yeah, I had to because I didn't want to spend too much time and we'll we'll probably come back and cover it though. Jeff We know it's god because this because he goes on and tells him He's the one that's talking to balam right now says that I will put in your mouth what you ought to say this angel of the lord Tells him that I will put I who the angel of the lord god will put Into your mouth what you ought to say So now let's pick up in verse 8 and they're speaking How shall I curse because black is upset that balam did not curse him Balam says, how shall I curse whom god has not cursed? Stop right there. How shall I curse whom god has not cursed? There is something rich and theologically deep and important in that statement How shall I or anyone else curse whom god has not cursed? Or put it other way. How shall I curse whom god has blessed? Now what I will do harkening back to what he said to abraham I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you But if god has not cursed his people Then you won't either Nothing else will how shall I curse whom god has not cursed and how can I denounce whom the lord has not denounced? Again, we are seeing a pattern of how god behaves his character If god has decided to make you a blessing you will be a blessing. You'll be blessed. You will not be cursed Amen I tried to bring this up when we were talking about the end times I bring this up when we're talking about what he's going to do with israel But I also bring this up when he's dealing with we're dealing with us as well Okay Now you said balams donkeys spoke in Hebrew very very very realistic as though it can't happen Very brooklyn lew the skeptic ask a question brooklyn lew I want you to I want you to use logic brooklyn you lew Because I think you believe that you are a logical person I don't and I have no doubt that you are very logical If god lew Can I call you lew if god can create the earth Keep it in perfect balance and harmony if god can do all those things and he can create eight He can create these animals Can he also make the animal talk he's got now Logic dictates that if there is a guy I'll I'll I'll play with you If if there is a god Then making a donkey talk is not difficult at all If he can create it, then he can create it do what he wants it to do We're not saying that you can make him talk We know you can't make him do anything. I can't make him do anything But again, we're talking about god so lew in all logic just logic just just regular human even skeptical logic If there is a god Then god can do what he wants to with whom he wants to Including the donkey You ain't got to believe it to your peril To your destruction you don't have to believe it, but I recommend you do if you're gonna if you're gonna believe the other things Then you ought to now if you don't believe the other things well, then fine I wouldn't listen if I don't believe in god I wouldn't believe in a talking a talking donkey if I don't believe in god I wouldn't believe in jesus on the cross if I did not believe in it. That's if And so since you don't within hey, it it makes perfectly good sense, but for the rest of us it makes absolute Perfect sense. So now that being the case Verse nine as I see him from the top of the rocks and I look at him from the hills Behold a people who dwells apart and will not be reckoned among the nations Who can count the dust of jacob or number the fourth part of israel? Let me die the death of upright and let my end be like his Like who like israel? Then bloke said to belong what have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold you have actually blessed them I didn't ask you to bless my ask you to curse them And he he replied must I not be careful to speak what the lord puts in my mouth the lord puts in my mouth So I'm going to speak it then bloke said to him Please come with me to another place from where from where you may see them Although you will only see the extreme ends of them and will not see them all in the word. There's so many of them Have you seen how many of these jews are out there? Can you do some can you do something about all of these jews? No That's that's going to be his point No And he said to bloke verse 15 stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the lord over there Then the lord met bloke and put a word in his mouth and said return to bloke and thus you shall say so What does he say? Let's drop down. He says Arise over bloke and here give me give to me. Oh son of the poor god is not a man Important guys god is not a man that he should lie have you heard that verse before? God is not a man that he should lie nor a son of man that he should repent He has said and he and and will he not do it Can we stop right there and just praise god for this statement? He has said and will he not do it in other words guys going forward Please get this in your heart Please take this into your heart Please use this to apply to everything that you are going to read everything that you have read And everything that you're going to read hello gerald from the philippines God is not a man that he should lie He's not a man that he should repent Has he said? And will he not do it so if he said it he will do it Let me say it again if god said it he will do it what it whatever he said he will do So as we go forward, I don't need you trying to figure out what god how god is going to figure this out He can't do it. No, if he said he will he will Doesn't need you to figure it out Just like one of my favorite cartoons quick drama giron babalu. He said just a minute bobby babalu I'll do the thinning around here. I'll do the thinking you ain't got anything thinking sit back shut up and watch me be god How about that? How about you watch me bring this nation back? He said can a nation become a nation in a day What did israel become 1948 a nation in a day all the promises that he has for israel he will have them All the promises guess what? Because some of you guys are like are like gentile heper israelites. You want everybody wants to be jewish But all the promises that he has for you He will do can I give you one? Uh-oh, let's let's go back in this deep water If he promised to bring you to the father at the very end If he promises to raise you up if he promises to save you Guess what he will do just what he said the promises that he made to israel Will be fulfilled the promises that he made to you through christ through your profession of faith in christ His promise to save you he will do as he said Has he said? And will he not do it stop calling god a liar like you If you don't get anything else out of this get that Where indeed is your faith stop telling me that you're faithful But you don't believe that god is faithful enough to deliver you and to save you stop with your lies God is faithful to do exactly what he said not because of you Or there's something special about you or something special about israel But because he said it so he will do it It's like some some guy who is some guy on the basketball court. Hey, watch me do this and he goes and do it Some trick shot artists with a gun. Hey, watch me do this Some artists put the paintbrush watch me do this God even more so watch me do what I said. I'm going to do and then watch him fulfill it Amen Behold, I have received a command to bless when he has blessed then I cannot revoke it Wow When he that's god has blessed It will not be revoked Let me say that again If god is the one that's blessing It will not be revoked now We'll go ahead and put a pause in it On that but I want to jump ahead and show another verse Let's go back to numbers one Over here and then let's go over here to numbers Reverse that 20 Okay, yeah By the way, there's something really weird that I do something really weird that I do The keyboard is right here. My trackpad is right here. You would think the trackpad would be right here That's why I do this. I don't know why again One day when I get a hold of technology, I'll be dangerous. I'll be dangerous But remember in numbers one God tells moses to number them He numbers him. Do y'all remember what the number was? The number of them all if we go down to verse 46, let me just zoom verse 46 We number all of them the number of all of these jews Who are a fighting age are 603,000 They're gonna die So what will the number be of these young people? those under 20 who live including Joshua and Caleb what's the number of them the number of them will be 601,000 so first of the same Now did it have to be 603,000? No, but the point is though that what he started off with is what he's ending with So i'm taking 600 plus thousand or 600,000 people into this land 600,000 into this land Fine the first 600,000 forget them But this other 600,000 i'm taking them in Because if god said he will do it will he not do it? Amen, amen When you get a hold of technology the coast will win Super Bowl There's a response i want to give for that for that uh mean response I'll just drink my drink It could be it could be worse could be raider for life, which they won't ever win a Super Bowl again I'm kidding. I had to shoot at you. I can't just shoot at the cowboys only I gotta shoot at the raiders Because really I don't like your coach Your coach your coach's spurned, uh, the Indianapolis Colts, but anyway The lesson here guys is our not our faith in us our desires, but it's got to be our faith in god and his ability Have we not seen thus far from genesis up to where we are in numbers now we're leaving numbers What's the next book that we go to The next book that we go to will be the book of joshua The book of joshua And so up to then by the way, you should have had all these books read thus far You should have had all these books read thus far. And so go ahead and start reading joshua Good stuff coming You're gonna see a lot of things Reiterated you're gonna see the power of god. You're gonna see some things you're gonna see another remember We already saw a red sea crossing We're gonna see another sea crossing or a river being crossed and then going across on dry land the same way We're gonna see guy and notice when god does the killing it's god doing the killing when god does the blessing It's god and the blessing now he's gonna use them But for the most part we stand back and look and see that this is god's hand not you guys So I don't know how tough you guys are with fighting even though you are a fighting age but If there's ever an army to sign up for it's god's army It's it's it's like being in an army where every there are really no boots on the ground It's really everything being done by drone strike. Well in this case, it's god strike so We're about to see a lot more miracles. We're gonna we're gonna move and zoom a lot more so so in this case we covered We covered uh numbers on next week. We won't get through all of joshua but We'll get through a good portion and as we go through judges judges is a book that we'll probably go through in one sitting But now notice though guys look at where we're getting though. I want y'all notice on the screen As we finish up with joshua And we go to judges. What do we have? We've got these complimentary books that we're gonna have to start looking at and in some cases We're gonna have a bunch of books that we're going to be Covering Okay, so there'll be a lot coming. But what we've done is we have built up. Hopefully a foundation Okay, so that being the case guys. I love you all God bless y'all. Thank you all for being patient thus far. That's the 13th or 14th session. I forgot that we're probably gonna end up with At least 60 sessions at least at least probably a lot more than that though But anyway, we've got time if we don't have time well then guess we'll be we'll be in heaven. Amen. Amen