Day 51 of the podcast, reading Numbers 19-21 NET, read along at:
https://netbible.org/bible/Numbers+19-21/
This is day 51 of our journey.
In today's reading, God continues to instruct His people on how they are to purify themselves when they have become physically or ceremonially unclean. Then, as the nation of Israel continues to wander in the wilderness, a lack of water causes the people to return to their bad habit of grumbling and complaining. God instructs Moses on how to provide water for the people and, while he obeys, Moses also acts out in frustration and is punished for his actions: He will not be permitted to enter the Promised Land. Later, after God grants Israel victory over a king who brought his armies out against them, the people became impatient with the Lord once again and God sent serpents among them. The serpents bit and poisoned the people but God instructed them to make an image of a snake and lift it up on a pole so that anyone who looked to the image would recover from the poison and be saved. This symbol still resonates today as we lift our eyes up to Christ on the cross to be saved from the impact of sin in our lives.
Join me in Numbers 19-21 as God faithfully provides for an unfaithful people.
Key verses:
Numbers 19:9
“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification – it is a purification for sin.
Numbers 20:12
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”
Numbers 21:9
So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.
All Scriptures are from the NET.
