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Book messages «Life-Study of Numbers»

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Life-Study of Numbers

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An introductory word _{Message 1}

I. An advancement of the divine revelation
A. In Genesis
B. In Exodus
C. In Leviticus
D. In numbers
II. A comparison
III. The general sketch
IV. The central thought
A. Christ as the meaning of life
B. Christ as God's testimony
C. Christ as the center
D. Christ as the leader, the way, and the goal
V. The sections

Being formed into an army (1) _{Message 2}

I. The children of Israel being formed into a body to fight for God and serve God for the carrying out of God's purpose
II. The children of Israel being formed into an army able to fight for the protection of God's testimony (the ark in the tabernacle)
A. The book of numbers stressing the testimony of God
B. A matter of a formed assembly, not of individuals
III. By being numbered
A. By the families and their leaders
B. According to age
1. From twenty years old and above
2. Excluding all females and the males under twenty years old
3. The firstborn being numbered from birth and the males of the Levites being numbered from one month old
4. The age for a vow and the age for fighting
C. Recognized by the authorities
D. The Levites not numbered among the army
E. The fighting Israelites protecting the serving Levites
F. The formed Israelites being a type of the church

Being formed into an army (2) _{Message 3}

IV. Encamping in array
A. The children of Israel encamping in array typifying God's redeemed people being consummated in the New Jerusalem
B. Every man by his own standard, with the ensigns of their fathers' houses
C. Facing the tent of meeting — with the testimony of God as the unique goal
D. Around the tent of meeting
E. On four sides
1. The camps on the east, south, west, and north
2. The sequence of the four camps
3. Four camps of three armies each yielding the number twelve
F. The tent of meeting with the camp of the Levites, which was to set out in the middle, being in the midst of the camps

Being formed into an army (3) _{Message 4}

V. The holy service
A. The tabernacle of the testimony with all its furnishings and the altar, to which the priests and the Levites minister, being types of Christ in all His rich aspects, whom the New Testament believers minister
B. The holy service of the priests and Levites being in the warfare
C. The holy service depending on fighting
D. The basic principle of the holy service
E. The persons and their duties
1. The priests — the anointed ones who serve God directly
a. Camping before the tabernacle, on the east toward the sunrise
b. To keep the charge of the sanctuary
c. For God's charge to the children of Israel
d. The layman who came near being put to death
2. The Levites — replacing the firstborn of Israel
a. Serving the priest
b. Doing the service of the tabernacle
c. The Gershonites camping behind the tabernacle on the west and being in charge of the tabernacle with all its parts
d. The Kohathites camping on the south side of the tabernacle and being in charge of the ark, the table, the lampstand, the two altars, the vessels of the sanctuary, and the veil
e. The sons of Merari camping on the north side of the tabernacle and being in charge of the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its furnishings, all its service, and the pillars of the court all around, with their sockets, pegs, and cords

Being formed into an army (4) _{Message 5}

F. The duties in the tabernacle's setting out
1. The priests
a. Packing the furnishings of the sanctuary
b. Appointing the Levites to do their service
c. The charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest
2. The Levites
a. The age requirement — from thirty years old up to fifty years old
b. The Kohathites
c. The Gershonites
d. The sons of Merari

Being formed into an army (5) _{Message 6}

VI. Dealing with defilement
A. The cause of the dealing
B. The corporate dealing
1. Dealing with leprosy
2. Dealing with the discharges
3. Dealing with the uncleanness through contact with the dead
4. Keeping the defilements away from the camp
5. The uncleanness that needs to be dealt with within the church
C. The individual dealing
1. Dealing with the guilt of one's sinning against God
2. Confessing his sin
3. Making restitution for his trespass in full
4. Adding one-fifth to the trespass and giving it to the wronged one
5. Making restitution to a relative of the wronged one or to God for the priest
6. The propitiation by a ram being made for him

Being formed into an army (6) _{Message 7}

D. Dealing with a wife over whom her husband was jealous
1. Typifying Christ's jealousy over His believers and His church
2. Bringing the wife to the priest
3. With a meal offering of jealousy
4. The priest presenting her before God, unbinding her hair, and putting dust from the floor of the tabernacle into the holy water which was in an earthen vessel
5. The priest writing the curses in a book, washing off what he writes into the water of bitterness, and making the woman drink the water that brings the curse
6. The priest taking the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, waving the meal offering before Jehovah, and burning a handful of it as a memorial upon the altar
7. The womb of the woman who had defiled herself swelling, her thigh wasting away, and the woman becoming a curse among her people
8. The woman who had not defiled herself being clear and conceiving seed

Being formed into an army (7) _{Message 8}

VII. To be sanctified — to be a Nazarite
A. Signifying the Lord Jesus in His living for God in His humanity
B. By making a special vow to separate oneself to God
1. Separating, sanctifying, oneself to God following the dealing with all the defilements
2. The priests being such by birth
3. The Nazarites becoming such by a vow
4. The accomplishing of God's purpose requiring man's cooperation to complement God's ordination
C. Abstaining from wine and from anything related to its source
D. Not shaving the head

Being formed into an army (8) _{Message 9}

E. Not touching death so that he might not be defiled
1. Not being defiled by the death of the blood relatives, but remaining in his separation to be holy to God
2. Cleansed on the seventh day of the defilement caused by the sudden death of one beside him
a. On the eighth day the nazarite bringing two turtle doves or two young pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting, one to be offered as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, for his propitiation
b. The Nazarite separating himself to God again and bringing a lamb for a trespass offering, the former separation being void

Being formed into an army (3) _{Message 10}

F. At the completion of the Nazarite's days of separation, the Nazarite being brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the Nazarite bringing his offerings to God
1. One male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering
2. One ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering
3. One ram without blemish for a peace offering
4. A basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering and their drink offerings
G. The Nazarite shaving the head of his separation and putting the hair on the fire under some parts of the sacrifice of the peace offering to end the days of his separation
H. The priest taking the shoulder of the boiled ram, one unleavened cake, and one unleavened wafer, putting them upon the palms of the Nazarite, and waving them for a wave offering
I. The Nazarite now permitted to drink wine

Being formed into an army (10) _{Message 11}

VIII. Being blessed by God
A. By God in his divine trinity
1. In the Father — "Jehovah bless you and keep you"
2. In the Son — "Jehovah make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you"
3. In the Spirit — "Jehovah lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace"
B. Compared with the blessing in 2 Corinthians 13:14

Being formed into an army (11) _{Message 12}

IX. Offerings
A. The anointing of the tabernacle with its furnishings and the altar with its utensils
B. The offering of six wagons and twelve oxen
C. The offering of twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, and twelve gold spoons full of incense
D. The different categories of offerings
1. For the worship of God
2. To satisfy God by the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and peace offerings
3. Offered by the twelve tribes in twelve days, the number of the sacrifices being twelve multiplied one time, two times, or five times
E. Affording a time for Moses to speak with God

Being formed into an army (12) _{Message 13}

X. Lighting the lamps
A. After the conversation with God through the offerings
B. The seven lamps giving light in front of the lampstand
C. The workmanship of the lampstand
XI. The presenting of the Levites (the serving ones of the priesthood)
A. Cleansing the Levites
1. Sprinkling the water of purification upon them
2. Shaving all their flesh
3. Washing their clothes and cleansing themselves
4. Offering a young bull for a sin offering and another young bull for a burnt offering and its meal offering
B. Presenting the Levites to God
1. The sons of Israel laying their hands upon the Levites
2. Aaron offering the Levites to God as a wave offering
3. The Levites laying their hands upon the heads of the bulls, and Moses offering one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering
4. Moses presenting the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and offering them as a wave offering to Jehovah
5. Moses separating the Levites from among the sons of Israel
6. The Levites going in to do the service of the tent of meeting instead of all the firstborn of all the sons of Israel
7. God having given the Levites to Aaron and his sons
C. The age for the service of the Levites
1. From twenty-five years old and above
2. From the age of fifty

Being formed into an army (13) _{Message 14}

The ointment
A type of the processed and consummated Triune God
The ointment symbolizing the completed God
The Spirit
Anointed to become God-men
Offering ourselves to the Lord to receive His provision
Christ as the replacement for and consummation of all the offerings
Enjoying Christ as the edible, drinkable, and enterable one

Being formed into an army (14) _{Message 15}

XII. Keeping the Passover
A. At the appointed time
B. According to all its statutes and all its ordinances
C. The one who was unclean through contact with a dead body or who was far off on a journey still required to keep the passover
D. Eating it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, leaving none of it until the next morning, and not breaking a bone of it
E. The man who was clean and not on a journey not refraining from keeping the passover
F. A stranger being permitted to keep the passover with the sons of Israel
G. The importance of keeping the Passover

Journeying (1) _{Message 16}

I. The guidance
A. By the cloud
1. The cloud covering the tabernacle of the testimony
2. At evening and at night the cloud bearing the appearance of fire
3. The cloud being taken up, settling down, and abiding
4. To keep the charge of God according to the word of God by Moses
B. By the two trumpets
1. Made of silver by hammered work
2. For summoning the assembly and having the camp set out
3. The blowing of both trumpets for assembling
4. The blowing of one trumpet for the assembling of the leaders
5. The blowing of an alarm for the camps on the east side to set out
6. The blowing of the second alarm for the camps on the south side to set out
7. The sons of Aaron, the priests, blowing the trumpets
8. The sons of Israel sounding an alarm with the trumpets when they went to war in their own land against their adversary
9. On the day of their gladness, at their appointed feasts, and at the beginnings of their months, the sons of Israel blowing the trumpets over their burnt offerings and over their peace offerings for remembrance before their God

Journeying (2) _{Message 17}

II. Setting out
A. The guidance of the cloud
B. The sequence of the setting out
C. Trusting in man
D. The leading of the ark — the crucified and resurrected Christ in His resurrection
1. The sons of Israel setting out from the mount of Jehovah three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah going before them to seek out a resting place for them
2. The cloud of Jehovah being over them by day when they set out from the camp
3. The word of Moses when the ark set out
4. The word of Moses when the ark rested

Journeying (3) _{Message 18}

III. Failures
A. Murmuring evil
B. Lusting
1. For meat to eat
a. Remembering the food in Egypt
b. Bored of eating manna
1) Manna being like coriander seed
2) Its appearance like that of bdellium
3) Ground between millstones or beaten in a mortar, boiled in pots, and made into cakes
4) Its taste like the taste of fresh oil, or of cakes baked with oil
5) Falling with the dew
2. Moses complaining that the people of Israel were a heavy burden upon him
3. God raising up seventy elders as helpers to Moses
a. God putting the Spirit that was upon Moses upon the seventy elders
b. Moses desiring that all the people of Israel were prophets speaking for God
4. God feeding the people of Israel with quail
a. In His anger God striking the people with a severe plague
b. The lusting people being struck and buried in Kibroth-hattaavah
5. The people of Israel journeying from Kibroth-hattaavah to Hazeroth and abiding there

Journeying (4) _{Message 19}

C. Slandering
1. Moses having married a cushite woman
2. Miriam and Aaron speaking against Moses, the deputy authority of God
a. Because of Jealousy
b. Taking Moses' apparent mistake as an excuse
3. Moses being very meek, more than all men who were on the face of the earth
4. God intervening
a. Coming down in a pillar of cloud and standing at the entrance of the tent, speaking to Aaron and Miriam
b. Vindicating Moses
c. Rebuking Aaron and Miriam
5. Miriam being punished
a. Being made sick of leprosy
b. Aaron begging Moses for her
6. Moses praying for Miriam's healing

Journeying (5) _{Message 20}

D. Not believing in God
1. God commanding Moses to send twelve men to spy out the land of Canaan
a. One man from each tribe
b. To see what the land was
2. The twelve men going up, spying out the land, and cutting down from the Valley of Eshcol a branch with a single cluster of grapes
3. The twelve men returning at the end of forty days
a. Bringing in news that the land of Canaan flowed with milk and honey, but also bringing an evil report
b. Caleb quieting the people before Moses
c. All the assembly of Israel crying aloud, weeping, and murmuring
d. Moses and Aaron falling on their faces before the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel
e. Joshua and Caleb rending their clothes and speaking to all the assembly of Israel
f. All the assembly saying to stone them with stones

Journeying (6) _{Message 21}

4. God's abhorring of the children of Israel
a. God wanting to strike them with pestilence and make of Moses a nation greater than they
b. Moses praying for them according to God's word
c. God forgiving them according to Moses' prayer
1) God not allowing those who murmured against Him to see and enter into the good land
2) God bringing their little ones into the land
3) They and their children being wanderers in the wilderness forty years
4) The men who returned with an evil report dying by the plague before Jehovah
E. Transgressing the word of God
1. The people of Israel mourning greatly and saying that they would go up to the place which Jehovah had spoken of
2. Moses forbidding them
3. The people presuming to go up to the top of the mountain
4. The amalekites and the Canaanites coming down from the mountain and defeating them

Journeying (7) _{Message 22}

IV. Ordinances
A. Concerning the offerings
1. To be applied in the good land
2. For a special vow or as a freewill offering or at the appointed feasts, to offer a satisfying fragrance to God
a. Offering from the herd or from the flock as an offering by fire or a burnt offering or a peace sacrifice
b. With a meal offering of fine flour mingled with oil
c. With wine for a drink offering
d. The same statute and ordinance being for all the people of Israel and the sojourning strangers and the heathens among the people of Israel
3. For a heave offering to God
a. A cake of the first of the dough
b. As a heave offering from the threshing floor
4. For the sin of ignorance of the assembly of Israel, who through ignorance did not do all the commandments of God
a. One young bull for a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah
b. With its meal offering and its drink offering
c. One male goat for a sin offering
d. To make propitiation for all the assembly of Israel, so that they would be forgiven
5. For a person sinning through ignorance
a. A female goat a year old for a sin offering
b. To make propitiation before God, so that the person would be forgiven
6. The person who did anything with a high hand, thus reviling God, being cut off from among the people
a. Such a person having despised the word of God and having broken His commandment
b. His iniquity being upon him
B. Concerning breaking the Sabbath
1. A man found gathering wood on the Sabbath day
2. The man being put into custody
3. All the assembly doing as God commanded Moses
4. The significance of keeping the Sabbath
C. Concerning the people's dress
1. Making tassels on the corners of the garments and putting upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue
2. Looking upon the tassel and remembering all the commandments of God and doing them

Journeying (8) _{Message 23}

V. Rebellion — a more serious failure
A. The rebels
1. Korah
2. Dathan, Abiram, and On
3. Two hundred fifty leaders of the assembly
B. The cause of the rebellion
1. The struggle for position and power
2. The accusation
C. The reaction of Moses
1. Falling on his face
2. Standing on the position of God's deputy authority
3. Being very angry
4. Sending to call Dathan and Abiram

Journeying (9) _{Message 24}

D. God's judgment
1. Korah gathering all the assembly against Moses and Aaron
2. Jehovah speaking to Moses and Aaron
3. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones, and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods, being swallowed by the earth and going down alive into Sheol
4. Fire coming forth from Jehovah and consuming the two hundred fifty men offering the incense
5. The censers of the two hundred fifty men being holy and being made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar
6. The exposure of the unsubdued rebellious nature of the people of Israel
a. On the next day all the assembly of the sons of Israel murmuring against Moses and Aaron
b. God's intervening
c. The propitiation for the sons of Israel through Moses and Aaron

Journeying (10) _{Message 25}

E. God's vindication
1. After His judgment, God commanding that twelve rods be laid before the testimony
2. Aaron's rod budding
3. The budding rod of Aaron being put back before the testimony
a. As God commanded Moses
b. To be kept as a sign for the sons of rebellion
4. The rebellious nature of the people of Israel being exposed to the uttermost

Journeying (11) _{Message 26}

VI. The Levitical service and the Aaronic priesthood, with their reward
A. The Levitical service and the Aaronic priesthood
1. The service of the Levites
a. The Levites being a gift to Aaron and his sons
b. To join Aaron and his sons and minister to them
2. The priesthood of Aaron and his sons
a. For all that concerned the altar and that was within the veil
b. Their priesthood being a service of gift given by God
B. The reward
1. To Aaron and his sons as the priests
a. All the holy portions of the sons of Israel reserved from the fire
1) To be most holy to the priests
2) To be eaten by every male of the priests' houses in a Most holy place
b. The heave offering and the wave offering of the sons of Israel
1) To the sons and daughters of the priests
2) To be eaten by every clean one who was in the priests' houses
c. All the fat of the oil, all the best of the new wine and of the grain, the firstfruits given to God, all the first ripe — to be eaten by every clean one who was in the priests' houses
d. Every devoted thing in Israel

Journeying (12) _{Message 27}

e. Every firstborn of man or beast
1) The firstborn of man and the firstling of unclean beasts being redeemed
2) The firstling of an ox, of a sheep, or of a goat, not being redeemed
f. All the heave offerings of the holy things offered to God by the sons of Israel being given to the priests and to their sons and daughters with them
g. The priests having no inheritance nor any portion in the land of Israel
2. To the Levites as the serving ones in the tent of meeting
a. Every tithe in Israel for their inheritance
1) The Levites being required to offer to Jehovah a heave offering from the tithes they received of the sons of Israel, a tithe of the tithe
2) The tithe of the tithe being given to Aaron the priest
3) The tithe being eaten by the Levites and their households in any place
b. The Levites having no inheritance among the sons of Israel

Journeying (13) _{Message 28}

VII. The water for impurity
A. Its composition
1. A heifer
a. Red
b. Without blemish
c. Having no defect
d. Having never been under a yoke
e. Slaughtered outside the camp before the priest
f. Some of her blood sprinkled by the priest toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times
g. Her skin, flesh, and blood, with her dung, burned in the sight of the priest
2. Cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet being cast into the burning of the heifer
3. Producing ashes for the water for impurity
4. Living water
B. Its usage
1. To be sprinkled upon the unclean persons
2. To be sprinkled upon the tent in which a man dies and upon the open vessels and furnishings in it
C. The priest who sprinkled the blood of the heifer and burned its skin, flesh, and blood, with its dung, the man who burned the heifer, the man who gathered up the ashes of the heifer, and the man who sprinkled the water for impurity washing their clothes and bathing themselves in water

Journeying (14) _{Message 29}

VIII. Further failures
A. Contending for water
1. The people contending with Moses with evil words
2. Moses and Aaron leaving the congregation, going to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and falling on their faces
3. Jehovah commanding Moses to take the rod and speak to the rock with Aaron before the people that the rock might yield its water
4. Moses taking the rod, calling the people rebels, and striking the rock with his rod twice, and water coming out abundantly
5. God supplying the Israelites with manna and water to meet their proper need, without any punishment, but supplying them with quails to satisfy their lusting after the flesh, as a punishment
6. Moses failing to sanctify God in being angry with the people of Israel and in wrongly striking the rock twice

Journeying (15) _{Message 30}

7. The significance of the types

Journeying (16) _{Message 31}

B. Speaking against God and Moses
1. Because the way was hard, the people being impatient and speaking against God and Moses, mainly concerning the food supply
2. Jehovah sending fiery serpents to bite the people, so that many of them died
3. The people repenting to Moses and asking him to pray that God would take away the serpents from them
4. Jehovah commanding Moses to make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole that everyone who was bitten might look at it and live
IX. The result of the failures
X. Further journeying
A. The hindrance of Edom
B. Arriving at the top of Pisgah
1. Passing by the well of beer
2. Israel singing to the well
XI. The stations of the journey
A. In total, forty-two stations, from the land of slavery to the land of rest
B. Typifying forty-two generations, from Abraham to Christ

Fighting (1) _{Message 32}

I. Defeating the king of Arad
A. The Canaanite, the king of Arad, fighting against Israel and taking some of them captive
B. Israel vowing a vow to Jehovah that if Jehovah would give the people of arad into their hand, they would utterly destroy their cities
C. Jehovah hearkening to Israel and giving over the Canaanites, and Israel utterly destroying them and their cities
II. Defeating sihon king of the Amorites
A. Israel sending messengers to king Sihon, asking for a way to pass through his land
B. Sihon not being willing to allow Israel to pass through his territory and gathering all his people to fight against Israel
C. Israel slaying him, taking possession of his land, and dwelling in the land of the Amorites
III. Defeating Og, the king of Bashan

Fighting (2) _{Message 33}

IV. The harassment by Balak and Balaam
A. Balak's evil intention
1. Balak, the king of Moab, joining with Midian, and they sending their elders to induce Balaam to come and curse Israel for them
2. God stopping Balaam from going
3. Balak again sending officers, more in number and more honorable than the former, to induce Balaam
4. God allowing Balaam to go, and Balaam going
5. God's anger burning against Balaam because he went, and the Angel of Jehovah standing in the way as his adversary and using the ass he rode on to speak to him
6. Balaam knowing that it was wrong to go, and the Angel of Jehovah allowing him to go and charging him to speak only what the Angel of Jehovah would speak to him
7. Balak welcoming Balaam at the capital of Moab

Fighting (3) _{Message 34}

B. Balaam's prophesying in parables
1. The first parable
a. Balak bringing Balaam up to the high places of Baal
b. Balaam asking balak to build for him seven altars and provide for him seven bulls and seven rams
c. Balak and all the rulers of Moab standing beside Balaam's burnt offering, and Jehovah putting a word in Balaam's mouth, and Balaam prophesying in a parable
d. Balak complaining to Balaam that he had blessed Israel instead of cursing them
2. The second parable
a. Balak bringing Balaam to the top of Pisgah, building seven altars, and offering a bull and a ram on each altar
b. Balak and all the rulers of Moab standing beside Balaam's burnt offering, and Jehovah putting a word in Balaam's mouth, and Balaam prophesying in a second parable
c. Balak speaking to Balaam

Fighting (4) _{Message 35}

3. The third parable
a. Balak bringing balaam to the top of Peor
b. Balaam asking balak to build for him seven altars, to provide for him seven bulls and seven rams, and to offer a bull and a ram on each altar
c. Balaam seeing that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, not going to seek for omens but setting his face toward the wilderness
d. The Spirit of God coming upon Balaam, and Balaam prophesying in a parable
e. Balak's anger burning against Balaam
f. Balaam's answer to Balak
4. The fourth parable
a. Balaam saying to Balak that he was going to his own people and that he would advise Balak as to what Israel will do to Balak's people in the latter days
b. Balaam prophesying in a parable
c. Balaam prophesying in a parable concerning other peoples
C. Balaam's death

Fighting (5) _{Message 36}

D. Israel's fall into fornication and idolatry
1. The Israelites committing fornication with the daughters of Moab and yoking themselves to Baal of Peor
2. Stumbling over the stumbling block set by Balak, who was taught by Balaam
3. The anger of Jehovah burned against Israel
4. The sin of Zimri and the holy jealousy of Phinehas
5. The revenge of Jehovah on the Midianites

Fighting (6) _{Message 37}

V. The renumbering of the people
A. After the purification by the plague on the fornicators and idolaters
B. In the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho
C. For the inheriting of the land through fighting
D. According to the fathers' houses, age, and the recognition by the authorities
E. The numbering of the twelve tribes
1. From twenty years old and above
2. Some of the daughters being numbered
F. The regulation for the distribution of the land
1. According to the number of people
2. By lot, according to the names of the tribes of the people's fathers
G. The numbering of the Levites
H. Not one being in the first numbering except Caleb and Joshua

Fighting (7) _{Message 38}

VI. The statute of judgment for the women's inheriting of the land
A. The request of the daughters of Zelophehad
1. Of one of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph
2. Being females
3. Having the desire to possess their father's inheritance
B. God's statute of judgment

Fighting (8) _{Message 39}

VII. The death and successor of Moses
A. The death of Moses
1. Jehovah telling Moses to go up to the mountain of Abarim and see the land
2. Moses to be gathered to his forefathers
3. Moses having rebelled against God's word
B. The successor of Moses
1. Moses asking Jehovah to appoint a man over the assembly of Israel
2. Jehovah telling Moses to lay his hand upon Joshua and charge him to be his successor
a. Joshua being a man in whom the Spirit was
b. Moses bestowing some of his majesty upon Joshua
c. Joshua to stand before Eleazar the priest, who would inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah
3. Moses doing as Jehovah commanded him

Fighting (9) _{Message 40}

VIII. The statutes
A. Concerning the offerings
1. The offerings by fire, God's satisfying fragrance — God's food
2. Offered to God at their appointed time
a. A continual burnt offering for every day
b. A burnt offering for every Sabbath
c. A burnt offering for the beginning of every month
d. A burnt offering following the Passover
e. A burnt offering for the feast of weeks

Fighting (10) _{Message 41}

f. A burnt offering for the day of the blowing of trumpets
g. A burnt offering for the day of propitiation
h. A burnt offering for the feast of tabernacles
i. Offerings in addition to the people's vows and their freewill offerings

Fighting (11) _{Message 42}

B. Concerning vows
1. A man vowing a vow to Jehovah or swearing an oath to bind himself by a pledge
2. A woman vowing a vow to Jehovah and binding herself by a pledge while in her youth within her father's house
3. The vow of a married woman being decided by her husband
4. The vow of a widow or of a divorced woman

Fighting (12) _{Message 43}

IX. Overcoming the Midianites
A. The Midianites
B. The commandment of Jehovah to avenge the sons of Israel on the Midianites
C. The strategy of Moses
D. The victory of the Israelites over the Midianites

Fighting (13) _{Message 44}

E. The purging and the purification of the captives and the spoil
1. Killing every male among the little ones and every woman who had been married
2. Those who had killed any person and those who had touched any slain person encamping outside the camp seven days and purifying themselves and their captives
3. Purifying every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood
4. Purging and purifying all metal and purifying whatever could not stand the fire
5. Washing their clothes on the seventh day
F. The distributing of the plunder, both of man and of cattle
1. Half given to those who went to war and half to all the assembly
2. One out of five hundred of the persons and of the cattle from the portion for the men who went to war being given to Jehovah as a tribute
3. The tribute for Jehovah going to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering of Jehovah
4. One out of fifty from the half for the assembly being given to the Levites who keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah
G. The offering to Jehovah by the officers of the army
1. Offered because not even one man of their army was missing
2. Articles of gold to make propitiation for themselves before Jehovah
3. Moses and Eleazar the priest receiving the articles of gold as the heave offering offered to God and bringing them into the tent of meeting as a memorial

Fighting (14) _{Message 45}

X. The prearrangement of the distribution of the good land
A. Concerning the land east of the Jordan
1. The request of the two tribes, Reuben and Gad
a. A desire to receive what God had promised
b. Because of what they had and of what they saw
c. Without crossing the river Jordan
d. Receiving the promise of the good land not with the body of the children of Israel
2. The rebuking and warning of Moses
a. Rebuking them for their selfishness
b. Warning them with the pitiful story of Kadesh-barnea
3. The promise of the two tribes
a. That they would build sheepfolds there for their livestock and cities for their little ones
b. That they would be ready and armed to go before the sons of Israel until they had brought all the people to their place
c. That they would not return to their homes until the sons of Israel had inherited each his inheritance
d. That they would not inherit with the sons of Israel on the other side of the Jordan and beyond
4. The permission of Moses
a. Agreeing with their promise
b. With a condition
c. Allowing them to build cities for their little ones and folds for their sheep
d. Giving command to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the sons of Israel
e. The land given to the two tribes and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph

Fighting (15) _{Message 46}

B. The statutes for inheriting the good land
1. Given to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho
2. The sons of Israel driving out all the inhabitants of the land, destroying all their figured stones and molten images, demolishing all their high places, and taking possession of the land and settling in it
3. Inheriting the land by lot according to their families
4. The consequences of not driving out the inhabitants of the land from before them
C. The boundaries of the good land and its distributors
1. The boundaries of the good land
a. The southern boundary
b. The western boundary
c. The northern boundary
d. The eastern boundary
e. The boundaries of the land to be given to the nine and a half tribes
2. The distributors of the good land
a. Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun
b. One leader of every tribe
c. The difference between the leaders in chapter one and in chapter thirty-four

Fighting (16) _{Message 47}

D. The cities given to the Levites and the cities of refuge
1. The cities given to the Levites
a. Forty-eight cities given to the Levites
b. The pasture lands given to the Levites
c. The large tribes giving more and the smaller tribes giving fewer
d. The forty-eight cities given to the Levites to be scattered among Israel
e. Six cities to be the cities of refuge
2. The cities of refuge
a. To be selected after the sons of Israel crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan
b. The manslayer who killed any person without an intent fleeing to one of the cities of refuge
c. The cities of refuge to be six
1) The significance of the number six
2) The significance of the number three
3) The significance of the number two
d. The cities of refuge being not only for the sons of Israel but also for the strangers and sojourners among them
e. The cities of refuge not being for those who killed with an intent
f. The cities of refuge being only for the one who killed a man without an intent
g. The rescued killer remaining in the city of refuge and living in it until the death of the high priest
h. The one who murdered with an intent to be put to death at the mouth of witnesses
i. No ransom to be accepted for the life of a murderer
j. No ransom to be accepted for him who had fled to his city of refuge
k. The good land not to be polluted and defiled by the blood for which no propitiation had been made

Fighting (17) _{Message 48}

E. A further statute concerning the females among Israel inheriting the good land
1. The five daughters of Zelophehad having requested land for their father's family
2. The heads of the fathers' houses of the families of the sons of Joseph requesting the same kind of land for their tribe
a. Jehovah having commanded Moses to give the inheritance of Zelophehad their brother to his daughters
b. The daughters marrying any of the sons of the other tribes
c. The jubilee coming and the daughters' inheritance being added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belonged
3. A statute being given to the sons of Israel according to the word of Jehovah
a. Allowing the daughters of Zelophehad to marry only those within the family of the tribe of their father
b. The inheritance of the sons of Israel not to pass from one tribe to another
c. Every daughter who possessed an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel to be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father
4. According to Jehovah's commandment, the daughters of Zelophehad marrying the sons of their uncles, and their inheritance remaining in the tribe of the family of their father
5. The case of Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus, marrying Joseph being one that fulfilled this statute

A vital sketch of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God's economy with His chosen and redeemed people (1) _{Message 49}

I. The need of God's chosen and redeemed people to receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself and His economy for their training and building up as His testimony
A. After the participation in God's initial salvation as realized in the Passover
B. Through the enjoyment of the divine provisions
C. Through the experience of being an army that shared in God's fighting against His enemies
D. Reaching and arriving at the mountain of God
1. To receive the divine revelation concerning God Himself That they might be separated unto the holy God as His sanctified people
2. To receive the divine revelation concerning God's economy that they might be built up together with God in His divine Trinity as His dwelling place on earth for His testimony
3. To receive the divine revelation concerning God's priesthood with all its offerings and its services

A vital sketch of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God's economy with His chosen and redeemed people (2) _{Message 50}

II. The need of God's chosen and redeemed people to be formed into a priestly army to carry out the holy war
A. To be numbered according to maturity in life
B. To be built up into one body
C. To journey with God
1. With the presence of God
2. The Angel of Jehovah to take the lead
3. Moving, walking, and living together with Jehovah, the Triune God
4. To pass through the great and terrible wilderness with all kinds of trials, sufferings, and divine care, supplies, and discipline
5. Through forty-two stations to enter into rest in the good land promised by God
D. To fight together with God and for God
1. To defeat the king of Arad and destroy his people
2. To defeat Sihon king of the Amorites with his people and Og king of Bashan with his people
3. To defeat the Midianites with their five kings
4. For the entrance into the God-promised good land that the kingdom of God might be spread and established there
E. To bear with them God's dwelling, the tabernacle of the testimony with the ark of the testimony
1. The tabernacle of the testimony signifying God's chosen and redeemed people built up with Him as His dwelling on the earth
2. The ark of the testimony signifying Christ as the center of God's economy among His chosen and redeemed people
3. The testimony signifying the law, which is the portrait of what God is
4. The tabernacle with the ark being the testimony borne by God's chosen and redeemed people

A vital sketch of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God's economy with His chosen and redeemed people (3) _{Message 51}

III. The frustrations suffered by God's chosen and redeemed people on their journey to the God-promised good land
A. The exceeding lust of the mixed multitude among God's chosen and redeemed people
1. Stirring up the lust of the God-chosen and God-redeemed people
2. As a little leaven that leavens the whole lump
B. The lust of God's chosen and redeemed people
1. Remembering the Egyptian food, which suited their lust
2. Abhorring the God-given manna
3. Everyone weeping at the entrance of his tent
4. The anger of Jehovah burning greatly over them, and Jehovah striking them with a severe plague
C. The rebellion of Miriam
1. Being jealous of Moses' position in the oracle of God
2. Taking as a cloak the weakness of Moses in marrying a cushite woman
3. Being condemned by God, suffering the punishment of leprosy, and being shut up outside the camp for seven days
4. The journey of the people being delayed for seven days
D. The unbelief of God's chosen and redeemed people
1. Provoking God's anger toward them
2. Causing them to forfeit the right to enter the God-promised good land
3. God punishing them by causing them to wander in the wilderness and to be consumed there
E. The Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with two hundred fifty leaders among the assembly of God's people
1. Being jealous of the high position of Moses and Aaron
2. Korah not being satisfied to be a leader in the Levitical service, and Dathan and Abiram not being satisfied to be leaders in the assembly of God's people
3. God's punishment upon the rebels
a. The earth swallowing up Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods
b. Fire coming forth from Jehovah and consuming the two hundred fifty leaders
c. The wrath of Jehovah going forth to consume fourteen thousand seven hundred people with the plague
F. Balaam's plot and teaching
1. Teaching Balak to stumble the God-chosen and God-redeemed people
2. Through this, the God-chosen and God-redeemed people provoking God to consume twenty-four thousand of them with the plague
G. All these frustrations to be considered as means to humble the God-redeemed people by afflictions and to test them on their journey in the wilderness

A vital sketch of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God's economy with His chosen and redeemed people (4) _{Message 52}

IV. The God-chosen and God-redeemed people being ready to take possession of the God-promised good land
A. Having been redeemed from God's judgment by the Passover and saved from the slavery and tyranny of Egypt by the saving power of the Triune God
B. Having enjoyed the heavenly provision and the divine care in their initial journey in the wilderness
C. Having received the divine revelation and training in knowing God, in being built up together with God as His dwelling on earth for His expression and testimony, and in the building up of the priesthood for the divine service
D. Having been formed into a priestly army to journey with God and to fight with God for His interest on earth
E. Having passed through all the frustrations, trials, and disciplines for their purification
F. Having been prepared and having received all the prearrangements for the distribution of the promised good land
G. Now being ready to cross the Jordan, enter Canaan, consume the inhabitants thereof, and possess the good land promised by the faithful God
1. To get settled with God in the good land
2. To be built up with God in His divine Trinity as the mutual dwelling for God and His redeemed people for the expression and testimony of the Triune God on earth among men

A vital sketch of the divine revelation in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers concerning God's economy with His chosen and redeemed people (5) _{Message 53}

V. A full type of the church in the mystical union with the all-inclusive Christ, the very embodiment of the processed and dispensing Triune God
A. A full type of the church
1. Chosen by God
2. Redeemed from God's judgment and saved from the bondage of the fall
3. Enjoying the divine care, and Christ as the heavenly and divine provisions
4. Receiving the divine revelation and being trained in knowing God, in being built up together with God in His divine trinity as His dwelling on earth for the expression and testimony of the Triune God, and in the priesthood for the divine service
5. Formed into an army of God to fight for God's economy
6. Journeying with God and suffering frustrations and trials for its purification
7. Prepared by God to take the all-inclusive Christ as its good land
B. In the mystical union with the all-inclusive Christ, the very embodiment of the processed and dispensing Triune God
1. As the Passover and the unleavened bread
2. As the heavenly manna and the rock that flows out the living water
3. As the divine law for God's expression, bearing God's image that man may know God
4. As the tabernacle of God, with the ark as the center of God's testimony
5. As the propitiation place for God to meet with man in His righteousness
6. As the high priest bearing and embracing God's redeemed people
7. As all the offerings for the believers
8. As the Sabbath and all the feasts to the believers
9. As the real Nazarite living absolutely for God
10. As the red heifer for the washing of the believers' uncleanness
11. As the brass serpent to take away the sin of the believers that they may have eternal life
12. As the cities of refuge for the believers
13. As the all-inclusive land with the bountiful supply for the believers

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