It is not a completely arid desert, but contains little vegetation and a few trees. “The Hebrew word for wilderness ( midbar) means a place for driving flocks. The wilderness was intended as a temporary place – a place to move through, not to live in. God’s intention was to bring them into the Promised Land of Canaan. The wilderness was never meant to be Israel’s destination. The idea that the LORD spoke to Moses is repeated more than 150 times and more than 20 different ways in Numbers. But only God’s way really works and the book of Numbers tells us about God’s way. In the wilderness, one may be tempted to launch a hundred different schemes and plans to move forward. Now the LORD spoke to Moses: The book of Numbers approaches it all God’s way. On the first day of the second month: “As the tabernacle was erected upon the first day of the first month, in the second year after their coming out of Egypt, Exodus 40:17 and this muster of the people was made on the first day of the second month, in the same year it is evident that the transactions related in the preceding book must all have taken place in the space of one month, and during the time the Israelites were encamped at Mount Sinai, before they had begun their journey to the promised land.” (Clarke)ī. Every year was necessary for the teaching of a lesson, and the revealing of a truth.” (Morgan) They were not years in which God had withdrawn Himself from the people and refused to have anything to do with them. That is the meaning of the forty years in the wilderness. “He placed them in circumstances which developed the facts of their inner life, until they knew them for themselves. The main part of the book of Exodus covers about one year, and Leviticus only a month – but the story of the book of Numbers covers more than 38 years. At the end of Leviticus, they had been out of Egypt for about a year.
They established a priesthood, receiving God’s plan for the priests and the nation at large in Leviticus. Camped at Mount Sinai, Israel built a tabernacle of meeting as the center of worship and sacrifice. At Mount Sinai, the people of Israel also honored an idolatrous image of a golden calf and were afterward corrected by the LORD. At Mount Sinai Moses went up to meet with God and receive the law. Israel then came to Mount Sinai where God appeared to them in a spectacular way. They came through the Red Sea and saw God provide through the desert wilderness. In the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt: As recorded in the book of Exodus, God miraculously rescued Israel from their long slavery in Egypt. Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:Ī. (1) God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai. And, like Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ it is not alone a history of any one person or nation, but it is the picture of the life of all God’s people.” (Charles Spurgeon) A.
#My days are numbered meaning full#
“The Book of Numbers might be called, without any impropriety, ‘Moses’s Pilgrim’s Progress.’ It contains a full account of the progress of the pilgrims through the wilderness until they came to the promised land.
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