1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,120 Welcome to the Love and Context podcast, engaging in unscripted conversations with your hosts, 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:07,360 Ben and Spencer. 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,480 Whether you're tuning in from your car, your office, your home, or anywhere in between, 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,200 we are so happy to have you join us today. 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,120 Our mission is simple, to explore the Bible through a powerful lens of love. 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:26,260 Together we'll uncover fresh insights and gain deeper understandings of how we can love 7 00:00:26,260 --> 00:00:29,640 God and love the people in our everyday lives. 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,880 So buckle up and join us on the spiritual journey as we discover timeless wisdom that 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,760 is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago. 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,680 Without further ado, let's dive right in. 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,640 Welcome back to the Love and Context podcast. 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,800 If you didn't stop following us after the Q&A, we appreciate that you're still here. 13 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,080 And if you are just discovering us, you should go listen to the Q&A. 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,080 It was a lot of fun. 15 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,080 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. 16 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,520 We were going along pretty good. 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,280 And then the last question, nice softball in there for Spencer. 18 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:05,280 And that's the question that'll probably get him most wound up in conversation. 19 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,960 Especially when it comes to theological topics or conversation. 20 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:13,040 That last question, I was like, as soon as Ben read it, I was like, oh, we're going to 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,760 be here for 20 more minutes. 22 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,320 Yeah, I don't know. 23 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,200 I don't know because I haven't edited it yet. 24 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,440 Like those of you know how podcasts work. 25 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,720 I know that we had over an hour's worth of material. 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,020 So we'll see where that actually edits down to. 27 00:01:25,020 --> 00:01:29,080 So because there are things where when we're recording, like you definitely don't want 28 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,460 to hear, for example, if we're having carbonated beverages, there are things that happen that 29 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:33,600 you don't want to hear on the podcast. 30 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,240 Ben burps a lot. 31 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:36,240 It's true. 32 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:37,240 I do. 33 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,120 I get like air pockets and it's just, you know, it's got to happen. 34 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,480 So you're like, I don't need to know this. 35 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:42,480 That's all right. 36 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:43,480 That's all right. 37 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,480 Yeah. 38 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,200 Well, you know, like the thing about the love and context podcast is we want to be real. 39 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,160 We want to be real with you guys. 40 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,240 So today we are actually starting to go through the book of numbers. 41 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:54,240 Yeah. 42 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,240 And we're going to go through Leviticus. 43 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,000 And I think we found that book was completely different than a lot of people anticipate. 44 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Oh, absolutely. 45 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Yeah. 46 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,800 Spencer sounded weird because he got cookie in his mouth. 47 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,800 Hey, don't let him know my secret. 48 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:05,800 Yeah. 49 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:11,360 I think the ongoing secret of this podcast is you eat food all the time while we're recording. 50 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:12,480 I can't stop burping. 51 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:13,680 You can't stop eating. 52 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,840 Ben laughs because half the time we record, I'm eating something. 53 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,480 It was sweet potato fries, spicy chicken sandwiches, cookies. 54 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:21,480 It doesn't matter. 55 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,640 One time it was just like two chunks of cheese. 56 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:24,640 Yeah. 57 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:25,640 And yeah, I was just eating. 58 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:26,640 Yeah. 59 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:28,600 And when you, when I say he say chunks, he literally means just chunks. 60 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:29,600 Like they weren't cut right. 61 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,520 They were just like, I think he just ripped it off the side of the loaf. 62 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,560 At this point, people are going to be like, this Spencer guy sounds really weird. 63 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:38,560 Yeah. 64 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,440 Well, to be fair, Spencer is really weird. 65 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:42,440 And so am I. 66 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:43,440 Yeah. 67 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:44,440 So we're going to be in the book of numbers. 68 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,160 One of the things that I find interesting about the book of numbers is when you have 69 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,160 conversations with people about this book, they typically are like, oh yeah, it's a lot 70 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,080 of numbers, which seems like very on point. 71 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,200 And yeah, of course it's a book of numbers. 72 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,680 The problem is most of this book is actually stories. 73 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:00,680 Yeah. 74 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,960 I think the temptation, like we were like, oh, it's genealogies. 75 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:03,960 I was listening to these. 76 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:09,240 I was like, actually that happens a lot more in Chronicles, like second versus second Chronicles, 77 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,040 like these huge genealogies in the book of numbers, like it happens. 78 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,320 And they talk about like the list of all these people and which is really important. 79 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,840 We're going to talk about why that's important today. 80 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,440 But the book of numbers actually has a lot of stories that you would assume are somewhere 81 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:24,440 else in Torah. 82 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:25,440 Yeah. 83 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,920 A lot of what's going on with Israel after they leave Sinai. 84 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:33,840 So to get us talking about where we're going to be going, the beginning of numbers has 85 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,400 this conversation about genealogies and how they're going to be set up and who gave what 86 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,080 and all the things listed by tribe. 87 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:47,480 And then there's some specific instructions for the priesthood and for like vows that 88 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,720 you'll take. 89 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,160 They have the Aaronic blessing that takes place in here, which is going to be a great 90 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,160 episode. 91 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,160 We're going to talk about that. 92 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,240 Then they talk about the offerings, there's obedience, and then they go about following 93 00:03:58,240 --> 00:03:59,240 the cloud. 94 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,040 As God moves, they follow the cloud. 95 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,640 And then as typically happens, the desert's hot, things get uncomfortable. 96 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:07,980 And people start grumbling. 97 00:04:07,980 --> 00:04:11,560 That's kind of what happens in the middle of the book of numbers. 98 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:12,560 They start grumbling. 99 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,120 They're like, I don't know if I trust God. 100 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,860 I don't know if I trust this Moses guy, all these different things that are going on. 101 00:04:17,860 --> 00:04:23,440 And so then they actually send people into the promised land because God takes them directly 102 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:24,440 there. 103 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:25,440 Yeah. 104 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,340 And they bring back this bad report and are like, yeah, I don't think God can handle it. 105 00:04:29,340 --> 00:04:31,080 So God doesn't let them go into the promised land. 106 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,640 And then they end up wandering the desert for 40 years. 107 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,520 These are all the stories that happen during the book of numbers. 108 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,840 You have the death of Miriam takes place in there. 109 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:41,440 There is the death of Aaron. 110 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,680 There's the story of the bronze snake, which should be familiar with people who read John 111 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:45,680 3. 112 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:46,680 Right? 113 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,320 And then there's this whole conversation with this prophet by the name of Balaq and Balaam. 114 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:55,000 Sorry, Balaam is the prophet and Balaq is the king who doesn't really want to get run 115 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 over by the Israelites. 116 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,040 And this whole conversation then on the back end, once again, it comes back to genealogies 117 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,440 and specific numbers having to do with the tribes. 118 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:04,440 Yeah. 119 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,600 That's the functional aspect of the book of numbers. 120 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,600 Right? 121 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,520 And so there's a lot going on in this book that I think we assume happens elsewhere. 122 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:14,520 Yeah. 123 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,920 What happens in the desert and these wandering times? 124 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:17,920 Yeah. 125 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,040 So today we're going to be tackling kind of numbers one through four, those chapters right 126 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,040 there. 127 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,920 So if you want pause the episode, go read those chapters, come back to it. 128 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,000 If you have those chapters memorized, good for you. 129 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,480 You can follow along then. 130 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,800 But we want to kind of focus in there today. 131 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:36,800 Yeah. 132 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,080 We're going to briefly reference like chapter 32 through the end as well. 133 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,760 So be familiar with those because there's a lot of like similar types of things going 134 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,040 on in both these areas. 135 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,400 Let's just take a look right at the beginning of the book of numbers says the Lord spoke 136 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,160 to Moses in front of the tandem meeting in the desert of Sinai on the first day of the 137 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,240 second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. 138 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:00,400 Okay. 139 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,120 So they're at Sinai and God comes and he says to them, I want you to take a census of the 140 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,440 whole Israelite community by their clans and families listing every man by name one by 141 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:10,440 one. 142 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,640 And they are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are 20 years old 143 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,600 or more and able to serve in the army. 144 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,880 One man from each tribe, each of them, the head of his family is to help you. 145 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,320 And then he lists like this huge list of people who are actually going to participate. 146 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,320 Right. 147 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:25,320 Okay. 148 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,920 You got to take a census because you need to know who was there. 149 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:29,920 Yeah. 150 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,800 You need to be able to track like in your family, where were you? 151 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,560 Were you a part of the community and what was going to be happening? 152 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:37,560 Right. 153 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,960 So then these people that are appointed are leaders from their ancestral tribe and they're 154 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,240 the heads of the clans of Israel. 155 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,760 So these are the people who are going to actually be in charge and be leadership inside of the 156 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:47,760 clan of Israel overall. 157 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:48,760 Right. 158 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,960 So God says right away, Hey, we're going to be heading out into the desert and we're going 159 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,000 to need some sort of organizational system. 160 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,240 And we also got to know what we got. 161 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,360 Take a census, appoint some people, put them in charge, make sure that because otherwise, 162 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:03,520 I mean, what's Moses going to do? 163 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,440 He's like, yeah, we got 400,000 people. 164 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:06,440 I counted last night. 165 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:07,440 It's fine. 166 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:08,440 It's fine. 167 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,440 You know, it's an estimate. 168 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,760 And so you got to be able to divide and like actually understand how these numbers work. 169 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:20,000 Now in desert dwelling, that's going to be really important because you have this massive 170 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,120 group of people walking all over the place all the time. 171 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,440 How easy do you think it is for people to get lost? 172 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,440 It's very easy. 173 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,440 Yeah, it's very easy. 174 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,800 So you also have to know where they're going. 175 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,480 They're headed into the desert. 176 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,360 The desert is scarce on resources. 177 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:34,400 There's not a lot of food. 178 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:35,880 There's very little water. 179 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:37,420 There's very little shelter. 180 00:07:37,420 --> 00:07:40,000 There's very little material to build shelters. 181 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,400 All of these things, right? 182 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,560 And it's not like you're taking five people into the desert and trying to figure out how 183 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,240 to survive with five. 184 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:53,960 You're taking the number that is actually listed here is 603,550. 185 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:55,960 And that's the men. 186 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,040 So there's more than that. 187 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:03,360 So you're probably well into the, let's just double that and say 1.2 million. 188 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,360 At least. 189 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,360 Roughly. 190 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,360 At least. 191 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,200 So you're taking five million people in the desert trying to survive. 192 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:11,200 Right. 193 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,320 And also trying to stay together. 194 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,120 So please understand these rules where they talk about how do you live in community with 195 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:17,120 other people. 196 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,780 You're going to be out in the desert with hundreds of thousands of people and it's hot 197 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:25,080 and you see water and you're all like, I want to drink some water because I'm hot and thirsty. 198 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,120 The desert is real hot. 199 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:27,860 You're welcome, Pastor Nick's wife. 200 00:08:27,860 --> 00:08:29,720 The desert is real hot. 201 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,040 And so there's going to be this temptation to serve myself first. 202 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,760 And yet this instruction, the focal point in Leviticus, love your neighbor as you love 203 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:37,760 yourself. 204 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:38,760 Right. 205 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,640 And then you love your, the foreigner among you, like you love your neighbor. 206 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,800 So we're saying love your neighbor as yourself as they're wandering in a hot place with limited 207 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:53,400 resources where your natural inclination is going to be out for yourself, not out for 208 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:54,540 your neighbor. 209 00:08:54,540 --> 00:08:58,800 You might actually say that love for neighbor is best demonstrated when you have a lack. 210 00:08:58,800 --> 00:08:59,800 Yeah. 211 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,000 Do you actually have love for neighbor? 212 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,760 It's really easy to give out of excess. 213 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:04,760 Oh yeah. 214 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,840 It's a lot harder to give out of need. 215 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:07,840 Yeah. 216 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,640 Side note, little caveat, 10 seconds here. 217 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,160 Learn to be generous when you're poor. 218 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:14,600 Yeah. 219 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:16,200 I actually have nothing to follow up. 220 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:17,840 That's yeah. 221 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,040 So the Levites are going to be of course in charge of setting up the tabernacle, putting 222 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,400 it, setting it up, taking it down every time that they go. 223 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,080 One of the reasons that the tabernacle being easy to set up and take down and it's way 224 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,640 different than a lot of the other temples of the day is because they're having to literally 225 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,600 set it up and take it down on a daily basis. 226 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:35,600 Right? 227 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,920 I do think that it's really important to note that every time God moves, the cloud moves, 228 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,960 they move the tabernacle and then when the cloud stops, they set up the tabernacle and 229 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,020 God dwells there and the people follow him. 230 00:09:44,020 --> 00:09:48,480 It also says in the Bible that the cloud is placing protection over them. 231 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,000 It's making sure that their clothes don't wear out. 232 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,040 It's going to be talking about that in Deuteronomy and that they're protected from wild animals, 233 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,880 which is going to be really important. 234 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,880 You're in the book of Numbers when we talk about the bronze serpent. 235 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,320 I want you to keep that in your head. 236 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:01,980 It's six episodes away. 237 00:10:01,980 --> 00:10:06,800 Have you also ever just considered the practical implication of a cloud and a desert? 238 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:07,800 Oh yeah. 239 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:08,800 Shade. 240 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:09,800 Yep. 241 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:10,800 Yep. 242 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,800 Because I don't know if you guys heard us say this, but the desert's real hot. 243 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:13,800 Yeah. 244 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:18,200 So the Lord by being a cloud during the day is providing shade in one sense, providing 245 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,440 shelter for the Israelites. 246 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,280 And the entire time knowing that the presence of God is moving with you. 247 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:24,280 Yep. 248 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:25,280 Like that's huge. 249 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:26,280 Right? 250 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,440 Because in a very practical sense, they've got to keep track of everybody. 251 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:35,240 So you're going to have households down to tribes down to more and more small units so 252 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:36,800 that nobody's left out. 253 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:37,800 Right? 254 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:38,800 Yeah. 255 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:40,120 Because Moses can't keep track of 650,000 people. 256 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:41,120 No. 257 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Like he can't do it. 258 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,320 There's no physical way for him to do it. 259 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,360 In Numbers 11, they're actually going to talk about the 72 elders. 260 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,720 And even you think about 72 people in charge of 650,000, that's a lot. 261 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,080 That's a lot of responsibility. 262 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,200 I mean, it's no wonder that Jethro comes back in Exodus 18. 263 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,000 He's listen, you can't adjudicate everybody's issues here. 264 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,440 Like you cannot do this. 265 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:04,800 Like this is not going to work well. 266 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:06,560 That would be so exhausting. 267 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:10,320 So it was sitting there over and over again, someone coming in. 268 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,960 And I imagine the complaints aren't too different from each other. 269 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,360 Can you imagine if let's just take a big company like Apple because you love iPhones. 270 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:23,560 Can you imagine that the CEO was taking the complaints for the entire company? 271 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:24,560 It'd be hilarious. 272 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:26,360 Yeah, it would be hilarious. 273 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,080 But like that would be ridiculous, right? 274 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,680 Because you would actually have people who take complaints. 275 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:33,640 And if that complaint has merit, then you bring it up to your next supervisor and it 276 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,400 might eventually get to the CEO. 277 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,640 But most things can be handled long before they reach the CEO because the CEO has to 278 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,720 focus on other things. 279 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,080 And so Jethro's instruction is very practical. 280 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,800 Like we see here in Numbers how they're numerating people so they can keep track of who's doing 281 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,980 what and how many people they have where. 282 00:11:50,980 --> 00:11:52,720 Because you've got to, you're going to be in the desert. 283 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,960 There's people going to be all over the place. 284 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,080 You have to be able to track it. 285 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,960 And we saw back in earlier in Torah that they were attacked by the Malachites in the desert. 286 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:07,160 And the Malachites were a desert war tribe that tended to pick off the weak people, right? 287 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,160 Which actually plays well into what's coming up in chapter two. 288 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,640 They actually start arranging the travel camps when they travel. 289 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,440 Now it's really easy when you're reading this to actually miss what's going on. 290 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:25,200 When they travel, in the front of them, the first tribe moving forward is the tribe of 291 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,520 Judah, which is the biggest tribe, the strongest tribe. 292 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,920 So the entire caravan, the group of people, however you want to look at that, they are 293 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,380 placed in the front. 294 00:12:36,380 --> 00:12:39,840 And can you guess where the second strongest tribe is placed? 295 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:40,840 In the back. 296 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,260 In the back. 297 00:12:42,260 --> 00:12:46,680 Because you would never put your weak in the back, you would put your weak in the middle. 298 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:52,000 Marty Solomon, one of the hosts of the Baymaw podcast, has a statement that I love. 299 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:59,760 He says, where you find your weak and marginalized in your church tells me who you trust. 300 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,520 And what he means by that is if you're weak or marginalized or on the outside of your 301 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,480 church, that you don't actually trust in God, you're trusting in your might to actually 302 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:09,480 protect you. 303 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:10,480 Yeah. 304 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,960 But if you're strong or on the outside and you're weak or in the center, your widows, 305 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:18,480 your orphans, your aliens are in the center, being protected by everybody else around them, 306 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,560 then you know which store you trust because you're taking on the heart of God in that 307 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:22,560 story. 308 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:23,560 Yeah. 309 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:24,560 Yeah. 310 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:30,440 The other side of that on when they're camping is that the Levites are always in the center, 311 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:31,440 right? 312 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,480 Because they're carrying the Ark of the Covenant, they're carrying all the pieces that go with 313 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:35,480 the temple. 314 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:36,480 Yeah. 315 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:37,480 Right? 316 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,440 And when they set up camp, they set up camp with the strong on the outside and they're 317 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:44,440 protected against each other and God is in the center, right? 318 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,800 This is this pictorially, what is that telling the Israelites? 319 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,120 That God's the center of what we're doing, that he is in the middle of everything we're 320 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,120 doing. 321 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,120 Also, it paints a cross. 322 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,120 Yeah. 323 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,480 Yeah, it absolutely does. 324 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,200 I just think that's a, you know, I think people can definitely read too much into that, but 325 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,880 it's a really cool thing to look at. 326 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,880 Yeah. 327 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,280 And there's practical implications for there being a cross. 328 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,640 What that does is it actually gives you 360 line of sight. 329 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,640 So that's one thing it does. 330 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,560 And it also gives you time for neighboring tribes or tribes that are traveling with you 331 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:23,740 to pivot other stronger tribes to pivot one way or another if you are being attacked from 332 00:14:23,740 --> 00:14:27,040 one side. 333 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,080 So I want to point out something because I think we read past statements like this in 334 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:32,880 the Bible way too frequently. 335 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,800 So at the end of chapter two of Numbers in verse 34, it makes a statement. 336 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:42,200 So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses. 337 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,440 That is the way they encamped under their standards. 338 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,320 And that is the way they set out each of them with their clan and family. 339 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:54,420 We have a tendency to talk about all the Israelites do wrong in the desert and they do plenty. 340 00:14:54,420 --> 00:14:57,320 Like that we have full episodes where we're going to be talking about the grumbling and 341 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,920 mistrust of leadership, bad reports and all these different things. 342 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,280 I think it's important to note that they also do what God tells them to do. 343 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:06,280 Yes. 344 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,560 It's not just the one. 345 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,440 It is the other as well. 346 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:10,440 Absolutely. 347 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,960 And that's very relatable to our own lives. 348 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:20,960 There are seasons in life where we are probably more obedient to God and probably seasons 349 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,040 where we're less obedient to God, whether that's intentional or unintentional. 350 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,260 Even those who draw, even those who follow God on a very close level, they have their 351 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:33,600 moments where their obedience might be lacking. 352 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:34,840 Right? 353 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,240 And then carrying out through the rest of three and four, it's going to be talking about 354 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,120 the Levites, the Gershites, the Kohathites, a lot of ites, right? 355 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,340 And how they're arranged because these are specific segments that are responsible for 356 00:15:47,340 --> 00:15:48,600 specific things. 357 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,400 I think it's really important to note that God is setting them up in a very specific 358 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,800 way, so they understand exactly who they are. 359 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:56,800 Yeah. 360 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Right? 361 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:02,760 And they understand exactly the platform of which they're walking from. 362 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,800 And I thought it was interesting, I got to find it here, that that phrase is repeated. 363 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,320 I mean, you take a look at chapter 449, at the Lord's command through Moses, each was 364 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,560 assigned his work and told what to carry. 365 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,940 Thus they were counted as the Lord commanded Moses. 366 00:16:16,940 --> 00:16:18,920 This happens over and over again, right? 367 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:19,920 It happens over and over again. 368 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:20,920 They did what God commanded. 369 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,260 They did what God commanded. 370 00:16:22,260 --> 00:16:25,040 And I think it's really important to note that because otherwise we're just like, oh, 371 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,160 well, you know, they like silly Israelites. 372 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,600 The bigger issue in not recognizing that is we fail to realize that our lives are like 373 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:32,600 that too. 374 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:37,000 Like we have a lot of like times where God says, I need you to do this. 375 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Great. 376 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 We did it. 377 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 We did it. 378 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 We did it. 379 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,800 And then we have other times where I don't think God can overtake this land, or at least 380 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,720 I don't trust that God can overtake this land. 381 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,800 I don't think God can free me from the stronghold of my life. 382 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:49,800 Right. 383 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,920 I think this sin is too strong in my life. 384 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,120 I believe my sin is too bad and that God can't overcome it. 385 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,720 If you're thinking that, that is a straight up lie. 386 00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,720 Yeah. 387 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:00,720 I got a toilet. 388 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:01,720 You can flush that down. 389 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,680 I got a toilet because that is something that needs to be flushed away. 390 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,600 There is literally no thing that you can do. 391 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:14,320 No thing, nothing that you can do that can separate you from the love of God. 392 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:18,400 He will literally crush everything in between you and his presence. 393 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:19,640 Amen. 394 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,360 But you got to want to come close. 395 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:23,360 Yes. 396 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:24,360 Right. 397 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:25,360 Yeah. 398 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,200 So the book of numbers is interesting. 399 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:31,020 There's going to be a ton of really just, just, they're going to be some tough stories 400 00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:32,020 in here. 401 00:17:32,020 --> 00:17:34,240 And so we want to tell you guys just kind of buckle up because this is going to be the 402 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,240 hard one. 403 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,960 Deuteronomy, we're going to be doing a lot of recapping because Moses is coming back 404 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:43,000 and he's looking back on everything that's come and basically giving them a second law 405 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,960 or second interpretation of the law. 406 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,000 Now one of the reasons that's happening in Deuteronomy is a lot of the people who were 407 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,800 about to go take possession of the land weren't the ones who were at Sinai because those guys 408 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,580 were out in the desert for 40 years and died. 409 00:17:55,580 --> 00:17:58,120 And so we're actually talking about the people who are new that are going to be going in 410 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,800 and he's giving them a charge again and reminding them of mistakes that they made along the 411 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:02,800 way. 412 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:03,800 Yeah. 413 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,760 And the book of numbers is an oddly comforting book if you're in your own season of wilderness 414 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:09,760 right now. 415 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:10,760 Yeah. 416 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:16,680 Because it's very relatable when you understand it in that context of being like, man, well, 417 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,440 like I've been there. 418 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,440 Like I've complained about not having enough and seeing the Lord provide and it just wasn't 419 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,760 how I wanted him to provide. 420 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,000 And it was frustrating. 421 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:30,560 You know, like the book of numbers can be a really comforting book for that in the sense 422 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,720 of just very relatable and all of that. 423 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,020 So other things that the book of numbers does iterate at the end. 424 00:18:38,020 --> 00:18:40,320 So you get to the end of the stories, right? 425 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,900 And it starts talking about like how the land is going to be divided, all these different 426 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:47,020 things that are coming up, right? 427 00:18:47,020 --> 00:18:51,680 But in chapter 33, it actually talks about where the Israelites went. 428 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,080 I think that it's really important that you actually know these things because it's actually 429 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,400 memorialized into scripture. 430 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,640 So they actually understand like, hey, when we say we were in the desert, right? 431 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,040 Grafted into the story, we know where did we actually go, right? 432 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,720 And so 33, like it says that like they leave Egypt and the first place that goes to coat, 433 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,360 by the way, that's going to be a really important thing to note when you actually talk about 434 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:16,360 the festival booths. 435 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:19,320 We're not going to talk about it right now, but that's the first place that they end up. 436 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,560 And it goes through all these different places that they go. 437 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,280 Then it deals with the boundaries of Canaan and like all these different things at the 438 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,280 back end. 439 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,080 It talks about towns for the Levites, cities of refuge, like these things that are basically 440 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:33,520 like, how are you going to make sure that peace reigns among you guys? 441 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:34,680 Where are the Levites going to stay? 442 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,800 How are they going to continue to put the story on display for all people to learn? 443 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,800 And then the last thing that happens in the book of numbers, and I want to reference before 444 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,160 we start going into stories past today, right? 445 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:52,020 Is in chapter 36, it's the inheritance for Zelo Fahad's daughters. 446 00:19:52,020 --> 00:19:54,560 Say that 30 times past, right? 447 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,200 And the reason I like to point out this story is because we have this tendency, coming back 448 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:03,200 to our last question in the Q and A last week, we have this tendency to devalue women in 449 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,200 the story. 450 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,200 Yeah. 451 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,920 And then there's a story about these daughters where their dad dies and there's no male heir. 452 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,400 And so they're basically going to be left with nothing because that's the rule of the 453 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,400 land, right? 454 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,720 There's a patriarchal society that is going to be passed through male of sentencing only. 455 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,920 And God says no. 456 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,200 And he makes sure that the daughters are taken care of and that they don't lose their land 457 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,440 and that they set up a, he sets up a something that makes sense inside of their culture that 458 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:32,360 as they marry, like they actually go back and it goes back to their family name and 459 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,600 some different things like that. 460 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:40,920 But God makes sure that there are provision for women in the midst of a patriarchal society 461 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,520 that they're not forgotten, left out to dry. 462 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,520 So good. 463 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:45,520 Right. 464 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,520 That's a really big deal. 465 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,840 And these are the things that are bookending the book of numbers. 466 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,440 Like we see at the beginning, it's make sure nobody gets left behind, right? 467 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,400 And make sure that you understand that when you camp, people are protected. 468 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,540 And when you march, people are protected. 469 00:21:00,540 --> 00:21:03,840 And then on the back end, you see the story about these cities of refuge and you say, 470 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,080 if something bad happens among you, these are places you can go. 471 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,520 And oh, by the way, these daughters who are on the outside, we're going to make sure that 472 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,140 they're brought back in. 473 00:21:12,140 --> 00:21:17,480 It's almost chiastic in its story because it's bookending this book of numbers, which 474 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:21,240 is not about numbers per se. 475 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,400 It's about making sure everybody in the community counts. 476 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:25,400 So good. 477 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,400 Yeah. 478 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,080 The book of numbers, Ben put it beautifully, but the book of numbers, a big part of it 479 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,320 is making sure everyone's accounted for. 480 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Yeah. 481 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,060 And you'll see that throughout the book as well, making sure everyone's there. 482 00:21:38,060 --> 00:21:41,960 So I was thinking about this whole wandering in the desert thing a little bit more. 483 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,440 And I've led backpacking trips. 484 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,120 I've taken people on those and done all that. 485 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:49,880 There's like a threshold you reach as far as how many people you're willing to take 486 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,800 before you're like 603,000 before you're like, is that the number? 487 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:54,800 Yeah. 488 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,040 And, and so for me, we did a backpacking trip last year, a friend and I did, and we took 489 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,280 nine people and that was okay. 490 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:03,560 But we were talking about afterwards. 491 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,560 Yeah. 492 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,120 We want to want to take more than like 10 or 11 people max. 493 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:08,120 Yeah. 494 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:12,840 And so here you're going to go on a desert wandering trip for 40 years. 495 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,440 By the way, I know there's probably 1.2 to 1.5 million of you. 496 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:18,680 Let's get account. 497 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:19,680 Yeah. 498 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,060 The idea of leaving somebody behind, you could think of it, be like, oh, well, it's like 499 00:22:24,060 --> 00:22:25,320 a whole nation traveling. 500 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,440 It wouldn't be that hard. 501 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,360 Actually, the more people you get mixed in, the more difficult it is, the more difficult 502 00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:34,680 it is, the more difficult it is to take care of everyone, to keep track of everyone. 503 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,600 People see people to get left behind and there's the whole crowd mentality of, well, they're 504 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:40,600 probably somewhere. 505 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:41,600 Yeah. 506 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:42,600 Yeah. 507 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,440 But yet God in the story at the end of the story is saying, Hey, you see these people? 508 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,440 Yeah. 509 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,040 They're going to be outcasts and don't leave them behind. 510 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,040 Yeah. 511 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:51,040 Don't leave them behind. 512 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,040 Yeah. 513 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,160 And I think it's, you know, you think about also like initially the plan isn't for them 514 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:55,680 to be in their 40 years, right? 515 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,760 That happens with the bad report and like tons of stuff, which we'll get into, but they 516 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,240 do end up being there for 40 years. 517 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,240 Yeah. 518 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,620 Desert wandering and not very big desert, right? 519 00:23:03,620 --> 00:23:06,760 There's other people who are wandering that desert or in that desert, like roaming people 520 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:07,760 as well. 521 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,920 But then you think about 40 years is a long time. 522 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,000 Like how many people, it's your working career. 523 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Yeah. 524 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 It's your working career. 525 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,680 And there's people who are born in the desert. 526 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,000 There's people who die in the desert. 527 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,100 There's people who are wed in the desert, like they become married. 528 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:26,600 And so being able to detract people in a very real sense is incredibly important for the 529 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:27,720 health of the nation. 530 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,960 It's not important if you don't care about people individually and you only care about 531 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,220 people in power, but that's just not who God is. 532 00:23:33,220 --> 00:23:37,120 And so I think the tendency when you read something like numbers is you're like, oh, 533 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:41,040 what's up with, you know, it's very specific and like, why are we doing all these things? 534 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,960 There's a very practical reason you would number people off, right? 535 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,480 Very practical because we are not God. 536 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,640 We don't know all the sands on all the seashores and all those different things that kind of 537 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,640 go with there. 538 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,040 So we're not going to be able to track people all the time. 539 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,520 And Moses is not going to be able to track them and like leaders aren't going to be able 540 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:58,520 to track them. 541 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,800 And it's so easy for people to be left out. 542 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:07,120 And it's also really easy in places where there's a scarcity for the power to powerful 543 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:12,280 to rule over the weak and to marginalize the weak because might makes right, especially 544 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,000 talking about coming from Egypt. 545 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,300 And God says, no, yeah, you read Leviticus. 546 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:20,140 That's not how we treat people. 547 00:24:20,140 --> 00:24:22,080 So Judah, you're going to lead the way. 548 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,480 Dan, you're going to take up the rear and Levi's, you're going to keep my heart right 549 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,200 at the center of this entire caravan, the entire way. 550 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:36,440 And as long as you stay under my cloud, I would protect you, which is going to be really 551 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,800 important when we come to the bronze snake. 552 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:38,800 So we're just remember that. 553 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:39,800 Yep. 554 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,800 Yeah. 555 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:41,800 Yeah. 556 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,800 So good. 557 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,040 Well, this is probably gonna be a little bit of shorter episode today, folks. 558 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,040 That's probably good. 559 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,400 We have to compensate for like the last one. 560 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,600 It was long. 561 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,760 So a little shorter episode today, but just to give you a taste of what you can expect 562 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,320 from numbers. 563 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,860 Like Ben said, buckle up. 564 00:24:55,860 --> 00:24:59,040 There are some really tough stories in this book. 565 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,840 And we're going to try to tackle those best we can. 566 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,200 If you haven't read the book of numbers, go read through it. 567 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,480 Come up with some questions, stuff like that. 568 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,400 We'll be doing another Q and a little while from now. 569 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,800 Yeah, I'm going to give a resource guide actually. 570 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,780 I think that would actually be really nice here. 571 00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:16,960 So we talk about reading the book of numbers and some people have trouble like sitting 572 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:17,960 down and reading a book. 573 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:18,960 There is an app. 574 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,680 I'm gonna see if I can link it in our show notes called dwell. 575 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,960 Yeah, has a Bible and a lot of different translations with a lot of different narrators, but they 576 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:26,960 are not paying us. 577 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,200 We're just plugging them because I love their app. 578 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,960 But if great job, yeah, they do a great job. 579 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:31,960 It is a paid app. 580 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,840 There are some free features to it, but you can put yourself on different reading plans, 581 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:36,840 different translations. 582 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:37,840 I read through it. 583 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,480 I think six or seven different translations at this point listening. 584 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,320 You might be surprised if you just listen to the book of numbers, how much you pick 585 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,320 up. 586 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,520 Yeah, we're going to we're going to throw that as a link in there. 587 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,360 I would highly encourage in addition to reading your Bible, you start adding listening to 588 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:51,360 your Bible. 589 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:52,840 Absolutely. 590 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:59,020 You guys can find us on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, and once again, of course, at loveandcontext.gmail.com. 591 00:25:59,020 --> 00:26:02,760 If you have questions for us, if you have complaints, send them to care of Spencer. 592 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,880 Yeah, that'd be great. 593 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,920 I will happily deal with your complaints. 594 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,920 All right. 595 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,680 See you guys soon. 596 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,800 That's a wrap for today's episode. 597 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,960 We want to extend a heartfelt thank you for tuning in and spending your valuable time 598 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:17,960 with us. 599 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:23,640 We hope that you found today's conversation insightful and that you take something meaningful 600 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,640 from it. 601 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,440 If you have questions or comments, we would love to hear from you. 602 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:35,040 Reach out to us at loveandcontext.gmail.com and we will be sure to get back to you. 603 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,960 Remember you can always engage with our content on all your favorite listening platforms, 604 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,720 including Apple, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube and one. 605 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:49,240 Don't forget to follow us on social media at love and context on Instagram and Facebook 606 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,240 for updates. 607 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,240 Yeah, thanks. 608 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:57,440 I think you shouldn't be the only one eating cookies. 609 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,440 We know we made it. 610 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,440 That might get us demonetized. 611 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,000 Of course, I don't think we're actually monetized. 612 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000 So good Lord. 613 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Didn't you? 614 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,000 How many of these did you eat? 615 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 I had two. 616 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Yeah, whatever. 617 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000 I ate two. 618 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 619 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 620 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:25,720 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.