Numbers
Key Verse: How long will this people provoke Me? How long will
it be before they believe Me? Num 14:12.
A. PREPARATION AT SINAI FOR THE TRIP TO CANAAN TO ENTER GOD'S REST
1:1-10:10
1. Placing the twelve tribes of Israel around the tabernacle 1:1-10:10
2. Arrangement of the tribes when traveling to Canaan 10:11-36
B. FAILURE OF THAT GENERATION, WHO SAW HIS MIGHTY WORKS
IN EGYPT, TO ENTER INTO GOD'S REST BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF 10:11-20:13
3. Murmuring instead of trusting while traveling from Sinai to Kadesh
leads
God to punish that generation He redeemed out of the bonds of Egypt 10:11-12:16
4. Rejection of the Promised Land by the majority leads God to be angry
with that generation who provoked Him in the desert 13:1- 14:45
5. Rebellion in the ranks of the leadership leads God to explain the method
He uses to keep believers clean and the source of that cleansing water
15:1-20:13
C. PREPARATION OF THE NEW GENERATION TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND 20:14-36:13
6. The trip to Moab teaches the snake-bitten new generation to look to
God and live 20:14-21:35
7. Conquering the East Bank of the Jordan River teaches the new generation
that the remedy
for wrong practice is to be jealous toward God by hating sin just as God
hates sin 22:1-25:18
8. Preparation for dividing and conquering the Promised Land teaches the
new generation to
remember that their covenant-keeping God is holy and faithful, Who keeps
His Word 26:1-36:13
E. CONCLUSION: DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.
9. God wanted all Israel to love Him and reflect a contrite heart in touch
with God. The Mosaic Law
was a reflective light but Christ appeared as a shinning light, Who said,
"Let your light so shine."
The Bible says of Jesus Christ, "In Him was life; and the life was
the light of men" Jn 1:4.