We are in Numbers 21 which is a TYPE of Christ in all of the Old Testament. We will learn about the “snake on the pole,” and how that is still so applicable today. It is a powerful passage.
We continue the IN THE DESERT series by jumping 39 years in the story to Numbers 20, but the story is very familiar. What we learn is that each generation has to learn the same lessons — and God hates our PRIDE. Although this account is thousands of years old, it was reaffirmed in the New Testament and is extremely applicable today.
Our Scriptural text is Numbers 14, where we see rebellion emerge in the life of God’s people.
We’ll learn that the Promised Land, for Israel, is a type of the life God intends for us. A whole generation of Israelites never experienced the Promised Land because fear kept them from moving forward to experience the life God wanted for them. Our fear can do the same to us!
We will look into the ugly power of jealousy as we move into Numbers chapter 12. We will learn that our jealousies sometimes focus us on things that don't matter, and we will see that God has no room for us to be jealous of those who have authority over us.
We jump to chapter 11 of Numbers to hear the people complain “in the desert”. We are going to learn some good things about complaint — why we often complain, and how we can identify and stop it.
We begin a series called IN THE DESERT. In this first study, we will look do an overview of the Book of Numbers as we prepare to study in-depth in the following weeks.