The children of Israel make a vow to God

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...

 

Numbers 21

 

1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.

 

2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If THOU wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

 

3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

 

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New Testament Church:  We tear down their gods, destroy their graven images, kill their gods by presenting the truth of the God who created the heaven and the earth, the true God.  We allow nothing of their previous gods to live in them for we counter their gods with the truth of the Word of God, burning their gods alive with the Word from our God.

 

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Numbers 21

 

4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

 

5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

 

6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

 

 

I Corinthians 10

 

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

 

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

 

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

 

7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

 

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

 

9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

 

10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.  (Numbers 21)

 

11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

 

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There is such a difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament:

 

In the Old Testament, the people were not given the Holy Spirit of God so they most often saw with their natural eyes.

 

In the New Testament church, all who are born of God are born of the Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit lives inside each believer to guide him into all truth, to teach him all things, to remind him of that which Jesus says, and to show him things to come.  (John 14:26 & John 16:13)

 

Numbers 21

 

7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

 

8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

 

9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

 

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Numbers 21

 

10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

 

11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

 

12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

 

13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

 

14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

 

15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

 

16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

 

17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

 

18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

 

When they sinned in searching out the land (Numbers 13-14), God set a penalty upon the children of Israel, that they would wander about in the wilderness for 40 years until all who were of the evil generation above the age of 20 died in the wilderness.  Their children would be brought by God into the promised land because the fathers said God would not be able to do this thing.

 

Numbers 14

 

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

 

22  (God says)  Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

 

23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

 

24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

 

28 (God says)  Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

 

(Record:  examples of faith ... James 1 ... no shadow of turning)

 

29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,

 

30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

 

31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.

 

32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

 

33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

 

34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

 

35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

 

36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

 

37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

 

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

 

39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

 

(But even though they then mourned, God did not change HIS mind and they wandered 40 years in the wilderness and none of them who spoke against God lived to see the promised land.)

 

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