1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:06,600 Welcome to the love and context podcast engaging in unscripted conversations with your hosts Ben and Spencer 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:13,600 Whether you're tuning in from your car your office your home or anywhere in between we are so happy to have you join us today 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:20,120 Our mission is simple to explore the Bible through a powerful lens of love 4 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:28,600 Together will uncover fresh insights and gain deeper understandings of how we can love God and love the people in our everyday lives 5 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:34,080 So buckle up and join us on the spiritual journey as we discover timeless wisdom 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:41,460 That is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago without further ado. Let's dive right in 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,640 Welcome to the love and context podcast. I'm Spencer not Ben. I'm Ben and I'm not Spencer 8 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:55,480 Yeah, glad you're listening with us today. We are going to be continuing through the book of numbers y'all excited 9 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:00,960 I know I am Ben always makes fun of me because he's like your excited voice doesn't sound that excited 10 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:07,320 I'm like it does not you're right, but I am excited. I mean you're basically like, oh, I'm so excited about what's coming up 11 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:10,440 I can hurt the contain my am excited. Yeah, I am 12 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,720 So if you haven't read numbers seven through ten pause the podcast go do that. Yeah 13 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:22,800 Yeah, and I think this is one of the last sections that we're gonna be talking through before we kind of get into like I've told 14 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,920 You and coming up we said buckle others and hard stories in here. This is one of the last sections that we have before 15 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,480 We start getting into heart some hard stories. Yeah, right 16 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:36,160 Yeah, so in seven through ten, by the way, if you haven't pods podcast and gonna read that it's time to do that 17 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,320 It is it said this in a while, but there's new fangled technology 18 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,480 You can pause a podcast and go read the Bible first and then come back here 19 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:47,580 You can and I also in our show notes I linked going over to the Bible project 20 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:52,400 I think if you watch the read scripture from the Bible project with the whole book of numbers 21 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,360 It's actually gonna be really helpful to to get the whole context of the book. Yeah 22 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:03,280 All right. So when the chapter seven starts up and it says that they have opened up the tabernacle, right? 23 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,360 And so then the people are coming and they're bringing 24 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:12,260 Offerings at the tabernacle and they're bringing these gifts or bringing offerings of worship to dedicate to the temple and to the altar 25 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,120 Right. Yep, because it's being used at the beginning 26 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:20,920 There's two words that show up here repeatedly that I think is worth noting because they're words that are very familiar to us in our modern 27 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:21,880 context 28 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,400 The first word is this word Masa? It's a verb which means to anoint 29 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,600 The definition of this word is to smear or spread across 30 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,800 Now the first place that word shows up in Scripture is actually in Genesis 31 13 where God says 31 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:42,760 He's the god of Bethel where Jacob poured or smeared oil on the stone marker or anointed the stone marker 32 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:48,320 Remember, this is the stone that he laid his head on. Yes late because apparently that's what you do in the desert 33 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:53,600 Yeah, real comfy pillows there. Yeah, you know those those commercials for like the pillow cube, huh? 34 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,880 It's not as comfortable as a pillow cube not a sponsor. How do you know? 35 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:03,040 Assuming somebody out there probably somebody who listens to this uses a pillow cube 36 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,560 You go ahead and just send us a message and you let you go get a rock and tell us if the rock or the pillow cube 37 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,040 Is more comfortable. Mm-hmm. It's probably a rock. There's this idea. It actually comes from spread across 38 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,120 So the idea behind this idea of anointing it actually plays into our second word 39 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,600 Anointing by implication is to consecrate or to separate out 40 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,440 In other words, you are marking something that is going to be separated for something right? 41 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:32,500 So kodas which is also a verb means to consecrate sanctify dedicate to make holy 42 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,960 Set apart for something now these two words show up repeatedly as anointing and 43 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,640 consecrating throughout this section of Scripture 44 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:46,400 Kodas the first place that it shows up in scriptures in the creation narrative where God declares the seventh day. Holy he consecrates it 45 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,280 He sanctifies it he dedicates it. He makes it holy 46 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:51,600 Yes 47 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,160 Now we've talked about holy quite a few times and I really think it's one of those words that I think is wildly misunderstood 48 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,880 So in the modern context like Spencer, what are you deal with a lot of youth? 49 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,320 Yeah, so a lot of youth when they hear the word holy, what is the representation of what this word means? 50 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,040 perfect unattainable 51 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,040 Can't happen solemn. Yeah 52 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:15,920 Yeah, right like boring boring is another way that I've heard it described by teen by teenagers, right? 53 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:22,760 it's really just that idea of like well you're talking about perfection and I'm not gonna obtain that because there's 54 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,120 No way that's gonna happen 55 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,560 Especially in context of teenagers where so many of them are coming from broken homes and poor whole lives nowadays, right? 56 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:37,040 One the whole thing with being holy if you actually ascribe it to being like solemn or revered 57 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,600 I think those things can be encompassing and but I would be very cautious with saying that God's 58 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,860 Boring, you know because God is not boring. He's dynamic and super interesting and does way cooler stuff than we do 59 00:04:47,860 --> 00:04:52,960 Yeah, I mean he literally speaks universes into existence. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah 60 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:59,740 He split an ocean into two oceans so that they could walk across dry land. Yeah all sorts of stuff 61 00:04:59,740 --> 00:05:00,080 Yeah 62 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:06,700 And it's it's interesting because so this idea of holy we want to really reframe this as set apart or different than everything else 63 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:10,720 So they're setting apart the two verbs is you're anointing something 64 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,740 In other words, you are marking it and it's a verb 65 00:05:14,740 --> 00:05:19,840 It's something that you're marking and then you have this kodas this verb which means to set apart 66 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:23,400 You're actually moving it from where it is and setting it apart from everything else. Yeah 67 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,760 That whole set apart notion ties into the New Testament 68 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,920 Testament when people who are starting to follow Jesus after his life death the resurrection 69 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,180 They are doing things that set them apart from the culture of the day, right? 70 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:42,100 They're they're actually echoing what God was establishing in Leviticus. Mm-hmm with his people saying hey, you're gonna live in a way 71 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:49,000 That's countercultural. You're not going to like in Leviticus. You're not going to sacrifice your children, right? 72 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,200 You're not going to carve into your arms as a form of worship 73 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:58,500 Yeah, and then you fast forward to the Roman era like you're not going to offer a pinch of incense to Caesar before trade 74 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,760 Yeah, it's the same. It's the same concept that's happening in the New Testament 75 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:07,320 It's just instead of the sacrificial system being in place Christ had fulfilled all of Torah because he was Torah made flesh 76 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:12,680 Right, right. In other words, he gives the example of how to actually walk that out in communion with God. Yep, exactly 77 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:14,880 We're we've talked about and we brushed on it briefly 78 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:20,380 But this idea that Jesus came to fulfill and then do away with the law is not accurate 79 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:24,880 Mm-hmm. Now there is a different call for Jews and Gentiles right with there's that whole thing 80 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:30,040 We talked about relations this works with the law and so there's different requirements on how we're supposed to put this 81 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,320 Kingdom on display. Yeah, how you put the kingdom on display is how you're holy 82 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,360 How are you different than everybody else around you which I think is a very good challenge for Gentiles, right? 83 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:45,040 Yeah, like so the Jews had a very specific way if you are a practicing Jew today that follows Jesus 84 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,680 You have a very practical way. You don't wear blended fabrics 85 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:53,480 You wear tassels on the end of your row you observe Shabbat on a religious in a religious way 86 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,920 Like you have very tangible ways you put God on display and then you have some non tangible ways 87 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,300 Of course by the way that you love people and all those different things too, but Gentiles we don't necessarily have these tangible ways 88 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:08,220 So what are the actual tangible ways that we put God on display that we show that we trust this story? 89 00:07:08,220 --> 00:07:14,600 Yeah, right. You can actually find that in the end of Romans chapter 3. Yeah 90 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:21,760 Because Romans chapter 3 talks about God's faithfulness Christ's punishment and you get to the end of Romans 3 and 91 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:29,280 This is just a couple verses says after all is God the God of Jews only isn't he the God of the Gentiles? 92 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:29,840 Of course 93 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,780 He is there is only one God who makes people right with himself by faith whether it's Jew or Gentile 94 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:40,080 Well, then if we emphasize faith does that mean we can forget about the law? Of course not in 95 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,880 In fact only when we have faith do we truly fulfilled the law? 96 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,880 Right one and and so we don't want to get we've talked about that a little bit when we were doing Leviticus 97 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,160 So we don't want to get to off the rails 98 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:57,320 But like understand being holy and we were gonna keep coming back to this because I think we're probably gonna spend some time 99 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,320 Going through either Romans or Galatians to talk about more in depth after we're done with our get our series 100 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,120 So both of these words that show up anointing and consecrating 101 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:12,800 They're both words of action the in other words their words that modify the noun. That's how language works, right? 102 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:19,600 Both anointing and consecrations are words of action meaning they aren't the thing they are what is done with the thing 103 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:25,360 Yes. Now the reason I point that out is because in modern understanding we were like anointing consecrate 104 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,380 We talked about all these things, but what are you anointing and consecrating, right? Yeah 105 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,800 So it's not just you anoint and consecrate you actually there is they're meant to modify 106 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,680 The noun which is the person place thing or idea, right? 107 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:42,160 So then in this section they actually go into what are they consecrating? 108 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:48,640 What are they anointing and it lists all the tribes all these leaders and all these other people that brought gifts of worship and adoration 109 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,120 And what they were what they actually brought to God 110 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,560 And worship and adoration and there's a couple of different offerings mentioned here in this chapter 111 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:59,320 And we talked about a few of these there's the burnt offering 112 00:08:59,320 --> 00:08:59,960 Yeah 113 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:04,240 Yeah, we did talk about a few of these burnt offering if you remember Leviticus 114 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:08,120 This is an act of worship committing to follow after God and His righteousness 115 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,120 Now we just got to reiterate a little bit when we're talking offerings 116 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:17,660 We're not just talking about sin offering right like that's often what we hear about in the church context today is like 117 00:09:17,660 --> 00:09:22,680 Oh, well, there was offer there are sacrifices just so that forgiveness of sin. I was like no there's actually 118 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:29,480 Multiple types of offerings for me. I'm a different occasions. The vast majority were not actually sin related. Yeah, they were 119 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,520 There's actually only one that really really is tying directly. Yeah that yeah ties directly to sin 120 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:39,440 So burnt offering is the first one that's mentioned here, which is an act of worship 121 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:41,480 Alright, it's saying hey 122 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:47,880 I am going to strive after God to be with God be in relationship with God and strive after his righteousness 123 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,720 And on a very practical sense you think about like, okay 124 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:56,680 Well, why is that connecting you to the righteousness of God? Okay, when you burn something it rises up and ancient understanding 125 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:59,280 Where is God he's above you? Yep, right? He's in the heavens 126 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:05,760 Another one that's mentioned that is in this section of scripture in numbers is the fellowship or the peace offering and its connection between 127 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:10,640 Humanity and God right this particular offering usually involves a meal of a sort 128 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,560 Either eaten with another person or in the presence of God. Yeah, right. This has come up a number of times 129 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,200 This was in Leviticus 10 130 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,100 This was in or sorry, I think it was a little like it's nine where they were eating before 131 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,240 Aaron was good to go into the temple, right? Yeah, and 132 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,760 Then last one is one that is called a sin offering as this is an offering having to do with 133 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:31,800 ritualistic purity 134 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,160 That would have made sense as the tabernacle has just been completed and they're preparing to enact use for it 135 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:42,120 They're enacting ritual purification when you're a doctor. You should wash your hands before you actually operate, right? 136 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:47,440 And at least I hope they would so do I before you go and do that. We're not saying you're disease-ridden 137 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,720 But at the same time you should probably wash your hands before you stick your hands in someone's guts 138 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:55,440 Yeah, right, right. This is ritualistic purity and it's not necessarily that they're full of sin 139 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,720 But this is to reconnect them with the nature of God. That's the whole thing about the sin offering now if you are 140 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:06,360 Struggling a little bit with this and you're just joining us for the first time go back to our Levitical episode about the sacrificial system 141 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,760 So in the middle of all this at the tail end of these offerings 142 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:15,160 There's this really cool thing that happens in chapter 7 in verse 89. And yes, it goes all the way to 89 143 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,920 We had a discussion. That's a lot of verses in one chapter 144 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,720 It says when Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord 145 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:29,000 He heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony 146 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:34,000 From between the two cherubim. He spoke to him in that way 147 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,400 Okay. So first off, let's just talk about how cool that is. Yeah, okay 148 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:43,880 So one of the things I've had conversations with people about nowadays is they say well God doesn't speak audibly. Okay 149 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:50,400 Well right here in the Bible. He definitely does he does he still does and yeah, and I'd say that he doesn't always speak audibly 150 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:56,120 But where does he always speak audibly in Scripture nor does he always speak audibly in Scripture exactly 151 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,440 But there are points in Scripture where it's very clear that God spoke audibly 152 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,120 Mm-hmm, right and I don't believe that his nature changed between the Old Testament and the New Testament and the modern day 153 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,000 And if you believe that I feel like you might be arguing with Scripture itself 154 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,560 Right, you would be arguing a scripture itself. I'm not even gonna say that you might be 155 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:20,840 So this is really cool I want to talk about some rabbinic conversation that actually happens in Torah around this okay, so a 156 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:26,560 Torah itself. That's the first five books of the Bible. The rabbis are gonna talk about Torah in a lot of different ways 157 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:32,440 They're gonna call it the bread of life the the tree of life a lot of injury imagery that connects it back to the Garden of Eden 158 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,460 So I want to talk about what's actually happening here really quickly in this in this statement 159 00:12:36,460 --> 00:12:38,460 this 789 160 00:12:39,620 --> 00:12:45,140 Restoration of relationship through spoken communication because God is literally speaking with humanity again 161 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:48,220 Yeah, because the last time we saw God in the garden 162 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:54,100 He was walking with them in the cool of the evening the ruach of the evening the spirit of the evening 163 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:59,140 So it's ours already trying to connect you back to like God is reestablishing what happened in the garden 164 00:12:59,140 --> 00:13:04,380 He's reestablishing relationship with humanity in the way that it's supposed to be so what is actually inside of the ark? 165 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:09,660 Well, there's the bread. Yep, right. There's Torah. Yep right now 166 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:12,980 It's actually represented by the Ten Commandments, right tap sound words money 167 00:13:12,980 --> 00:13:17,420 Yeah, ten words and it's not yet happening, but it will come up before we're out of this book 168 00:13:17,420 --> 00:13:20,540 But Aaron's staff is gonna be in there. Yeah, right after it buds 169 00:13:20,660 --> 00:13:23,180 There are two cherubim that are facing each other 170 00:13:23,180 --> 00:13:28,220 So where else have we seen two cherubim facing each other the entrance of Eden? 171 00:13:28,220 --> 00:13:28,700 Yeah 172 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:34,980 There are two angels that are there one represented by a sword and another one by an angel right that are there guarding 173 00:13:35,140 --> 00:13:39,700 The entrance to Eden some of you are gonna be like oh why to like there's a lot of reasons 174 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:42,220 I'm not gonna get into it right now. Otherwise, there's gonna be an hour and a half episode 175 00:13:42,340 --> 00:13:48,420 So what's actually happening here? God's reestablishing this connection that he's lost since Eden. He's continuing his story 176 00:13:48,940 --> 00:13:53,540 Through the people of Israel now you tried to get ahead of me. So let's talk about Jesus 177 00:13:53,540 --> 00:13:59,260 Yeah, Ben just so you know this happens often where Ben's like, okay, I'm setting up a context and I'm like, all right 178 00:13:59,260 --> 00:14:03,660 Let's talk here. He's like no not yet. Not yet. I'm not there yet. Yeah, this happens all the time 179 00:14:03,660 --> 00:14:09,300 If we have points were like a b c d he's like a c b d e f z 180 00:14:09,980 --> 00:14:15,460 We had exactly that's how you do it. That's how you do it. Ben's like no, that's not how you do that 181 00:14:15,460 --> 00:14:20,860 So let's talk about Jesus here. So Jesus makes some claims here that we have to understand 182 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:26,060 So when we're understanding the context of the Ark of the Covenant, we have the bread and we have Torah we have Aaron's staff 183 00:14:26,740 --> 00:14:29,220 Okay, those are Aaron's staff soon gonna be in there 184 00:14:29,220 --> 00:14:35,420 Okay, Jesus makes a statement saying that he is the bread that came from heaven which is not only gonna be manna 185 00:14:35,420 --> 00:14:38,820 Uh-huh, but also what's in the ark? Yep, which is all yep 186 00:14:39,340 --> 00:14:43,620 And then statements also made in the beginning of John that he is the word. Mm-hmm 187 00:14:43,620 --> 00:14:46,260 He's the one was the word. He's Torah made flesh 188 00:14:46,260 --> 00:14:51,980 All right, and then there's also the statement made that he is the high priest in the order of Melchizedek 189 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:53,980 Well, who's the high priest in Israel? 190 00:14:54,580 --> 00:14:59,660 Aaron and his staff is represented in the covenant itself. Yeah, so Jesus in these statements 191 00:15:00,180 --> 00:15:02,900 These are very intentional because he's saying hey, I recognize 192 00:15:03,620 --> 00:15:08,740 The Ark of the Covenant what is in there? That's a place where God spoke from and so here 193 00:15:08,740 --> 00:15:11,420 I'm going to say that I am the embodiment of that 194 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:15,420 Yeah, which is crazy because then Jesus is the one who made the covenant 195 00:15:15,420 --> 00:15:19,900 It's crazy because then Jesus says I'm a representation of the Father what he says I say on earth 196 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:25,700 Yep, right. So God has been speaking from between the two cherubim and now the cherubim made flesh 197 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:33,180 Yeah, right the Torah made flesh the bread they came from heaven the high priest in the order of Melchizedek is now walking and talking 198 00:15:33,180 --> 00:15:36,700 Among you guess what God is actually there speaking with you 199 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:41,300 Yes, and it's not an accident and if you miss that you're gonna miss some really cool stuff 200 00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:46,060 That's being alluded to and so like oftentimes when we view these like we view these as like 201 00:15:46,060 --> 00:15:51,640 Oh, well, Jesus saying I'm the bread that came from heaven and we're like, oh, he's the nourishment. Yes. Yes. Yes 202 00:15:52,500 --> 00:16:00,000 Absolutely, but he's also alluding back to the fact that he is Torah made flesh very rarely does a rabbi waste one 203 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,180 Analogy uses it to connect to like six different ideas. Yeah 204 00:16:05,020 --> 00:16:08,100 So you got at least see that moving forward 205 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:13,620 One of the reasons that we bring these up is because as we go into the New Testament as we as believers go and walk 206 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:19,420 Out our love in context. It's gonna be really important that we understand what Jesus is actually representing, right? 207 00:16:19,420 --> 00:16:21,700 Yeah, what part of the story that Jesus is actually walking into? 208 00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:26,700 We actually had a email question and I thought it was actually a really good question 209 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:29,300 Somebody sent us and it's not gonna show up in our Q&A 210 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:31,900 So I wanted to just met something here because it's connected what we're talking about 211 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:38,540 They asked they understood the context part. But what what heart of love are we hoping to establish? 212 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:45,540 Inside of this because they've always viewed the Bible as being written to them. Yeah now on a very broad level 213 00:16:45,540 --> 00:16:49,780 I want to establish that's absolutely true. Yes, the Bible is absolutely written for you 214 00:16:49,780 --> 00:16:53,100 It just wasn't necessarily written to you because you weren't a turn-of-the-century Jew 215 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:53,620 Yes 216 00:16:53,620 --> 00:16:56,100 It was it wasn't written for the Jews in the time of Jesus 217 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:57,540 It was over for the Jews in the time of Abraham 218 00:16:57,540 --> 00:17:02,500 Huh, even the Jews in the time of Jesus have to interpret through the Abrahamic lens. Yes 219 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:08,140 Yeah through the mosaic lens, right because you got to contextualize the time period. Yeah, absolutely 220 00:17:08,340 --> 00:17:14,300 You do and the question of how does this like draws closer into love understand in the context of Scripture? 221 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:18,800 It actually draws us closer to the heart of God and the heart of God is love 222 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:24,320 Yeah, what our hope is under uncovering this context is not that it changes what you believe it got God 223 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,560 But that it makes the nature of God more true to you. Yes, that's our hope 224 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,960 Yeah, and when you start viewing it and we talked about this a while back on the podcast 225 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,000 But when you start viewing God as a God of love and not a God of anger 226 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,640 Mm-hmm. It changes your whole perspective 227 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:46,280 because oftentimes in church will view God as a God of anger in the Old Testament that I got a love in the New Testament and 228 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,280 At which point you have to ask like well, where did his nature change and the answer is his nature didn't change 229 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,560 So if his nature didn't change and he's a God of love in the New Testament 230 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,360 Which is fulfillment of the Old Testament and he has to be a God of love in the Old Testament, right? 231 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,480 Which then if I read something in the Old Testament 232 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:06,400 I struggle with it and then I need to actually wrestle with that and not just move on without thinking about it 233 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:06,640 Yes 234 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:13,080 I need to actually wrestle and say how does this fit into the knowledge that God is trying to promote love of him and love of 235 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,760 Your neighbor. Yeah, I just think that is a really cool 236 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:23,120 Connection about the speaking from between the covenant like I always love it in the Old Testament where it talks about God speaking 237 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,920 Yeah, there's a story in next week's podcast. So we're gonna be talking about where God does this really cool stuff 238 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,320 Again, it has that would do with the division of the spirit and I can't wait to get to that 239 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,840 There's a there's just a number of stories and numbers that I love. Yeah 240 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:42,320 So jumping over to eight and nine, there's a few things that are worth noting here 241 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:49,440 Okay, they prepare these lamps now this references back to Exodus where they're supposed to refill the oil and trim the wicks so that 242 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:57,240 The lamps never go out. Yeah, so here you have the Lord saying to Moses give Aaron these instructions and 243 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,520 He gives them these instructions to set up the lamps and get them lit, right? 244 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,160 Exactly. The light lit flame is supposed to be the face of God in the place, right? 245 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,540 The presence of God in the place of course is represented by the cloud as well 246 00:19:08,540 --> 00:19:12,480 But the flame is supposed to be like the face of God there. Yeah, right 247 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:18,120 And so you always want to keep those running because you know, you definitely don't watch your lamp to run out 248 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:23,760 Uh-huh, which incidentally might be important in a story that Jesus tells in the New Testament, which we'll get to at some point 249 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,720 Yeah, so they set up these lamps because now it's time for them to be lit. Yeah, they're getting going 250 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,880 Yeah, and then you get to the dedication or the consecration of the Levites 251 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:33,420 Yep 252 00:19:33,420 --> 00:19:37,840 Now in this you get back to this idea of being holy right being set apart 253 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:43,840 If you do any reading about the Levites, you will realize that the Levites are very different than the rest of Israel 254 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,280 Yeah, they're part of Israel, but they are the priests who are supposed to build up priests 255 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,920 Yeah, so the Lord is saying we need to set the Levites apart 256 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:57,160 Yeah, and not every Levite is a priest like some Levites are just involved in the running of the temple 257 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,000 Yeah, and so we need to set them apart 258 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:05,760 And once again because their jobs will be to teach the kingdom how to be a kingdom of priests 259 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:13,320 Yeah, right. So you have to understand that you just gotta understand that yeah priest. We're going to Levi's 260 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:14,520 We're actually going to set you apart 261 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:19,360 You guys are gonna be really weird because you're gonna be at the center of our travels all the entire time 262 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,720 Picking up the temple moving in place to place 263 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:26,380 Teaching us all what it means to put God on display and have a restored relationship with God 264 00:20:26,380 --> 00:20:30,220 Yeah, this is gonna be your job because we as a nation are supposed to do this 265 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,600 Yeah, and when they struggle to do that 266 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:38,080 So does the nation so in the Levi's dedication another thing to note is that it wasn't like oh, hey 267 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,560 Let's just bring the Levi's together. We'll talk about what that looks like 268 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:48,040 No, it actually says it actually says in chapter 8 verse 9 then assemble the whole community of Israel 269 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:53,200 With a lot of people. Yeah, so the dedication of the Levi's was like, hey 270 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,800 Everybody in this nation show up 271 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:04,160 This nation show up. Mm-hmm for this because you need to see who these people are that are going to help teach you how to 272 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,640 Put God's righteousness on display. Yeah 273 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,320 Yeah, I I love that. It's not just like hey 274 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,780 FYI we sent an email out let you know these guys set apart, right? 275 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,800 It's there's this new band bunch called the Levi's they're gonna oversee the priests 276 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,640 Yeah, which is the way bullet points on what they're gonna do. I 277 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:29,200 Do think it's actually important to note that when if your church is also setting people aside for ministry 278 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,960 Uh-huh. It show up. Yeah, even if you're not involved in the yeah the laying on the hands or whatever is happening at your church 279 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,840 Yeah, it's always being set aside for ministry. They're being sent out any of those things like show up. You're part of the family 280 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:45,640 Yeah, this whole idea that we talked about imbuing identity setting apart for ministry all these different things like you're also 281 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,800 Casting your identity with them as you're sending them out to be representatives of Christ to the world 282 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,400 Yeah, right like you we need to be part of this. There's a reason we're a family now 283 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:00,600 I think it's interesting that after they do this that they then go and celebrate Passover for the second time 284 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,540 Yep, right first time being in Egypt now 285 00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:10,680 They're one year out and they're celebrating Passover again, which is really important because we've talked about in the ten words 286 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,920 What's the first commandment? I? 287 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,880 Am the Lord your God put no other gods before me. Yeah 288 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:21,480 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt don't have any other gods 289 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,320 And if you don't remember that he's the God who brought you out of Egypt 290 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,560 You're probably gonna have some other gods here. They celebrate Passover 291 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,160 Before they're about to head out and actually go and do what they're supposed to do 292 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,240 They're reminded of where they come from. Mm-hmm 293 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:39,960 And they remember who brought them out and and who conquered their gods and who brought them to this place, right? Yeah 294 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,240 Inside now we need to remember where we came from 295 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,800 But not saying live like live where he came from I'm saying you need to remember though 296 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,640 Because you can't accurately articulate the story if you can't remember your past. Oh 297 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:58,440 100% yeah 100% you cannot articulate how Christ has changed your life 298 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,880 You're not gonna be able to articulate how he can change someone else's life 299 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,680 So you need to know your story? 300 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,120 Yeah, that's really good. I I think that it's it's really cool 301 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,680 They celebrate this the piece that comes after this that I think that we should talk about. Mm-hmm, right? 302 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,840 And it comes on the back end of chapter 9 and into 10. Mm-hmm 303 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,720 It starts in verse 15 and I'm just gonna read this I want to read 915 through 23 304 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:28,080 It says on the day the tabernacle the tent of the covenant law was set up the cloud covered it 305 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,320 From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire 306 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,880 This is how it continued to be the cloud cover it and a night. It looked like fire 307 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:42,080 Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent the Israelites set out whenever the cloud settled the Israelites 308 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,600 Encamped at the Lord's command the Israelites set out and at his command 309 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,000 They encamped as long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle 310 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,000 They remained in camp when the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time 311 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,640 The Israelites obeyed the Lord's order and did not set out 312 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,880 Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days at the Lord's command 313 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:08,080 They would encamp and then at his command they would be set out sometimes the cloud only stayed only from evening till morning 314 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,880 And when it lifted in the morning, they set out whether by day or by night whenever the cloud lifted 315 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,840 They set out whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year 316 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:22,280 The Israelites would remain in the camp and not set out but when it lifted they would set out as the command Lord 317 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,800 Commanded they encamped and at the Lord's command they set out 318 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:31,800 They obeyed the Lord's command in accordance with his command through Moses and you hear the sound of the Lord's command 319 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,720 You hear that and you're like, yeah, we get it when the cloud was there. They stayed and when the cloud moved they went 320 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,520 If you got it, they wouldn't have to say it so many times. Mm-hmm 321 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:47,440 Because this is still what God is doing and we'll keep trying to move without the cloud 322 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,400 Yeah, and I love the imagery of the cloud and fire 323 00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:51,080 Yeah 324 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:57,320 Because the cloud in the day provides shelter from the heat the fire at night provides heat 325 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,120 Mm-hmm in the cold 326 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,440 Because I don't know if you guys know this but the desert can get real hot 327 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,840 It also can get real cold at night. How many times we said that a lot a lot 328 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,440 The desert can get real hot. It can also get really cold 329 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:18,080 Yeah, so you have a cloud during day the day to cool it down. You have a fire at night to warm it up 330 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,920 Yeah, right. And so when you step outside of that, guess what? 331 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,440 Your protection from the elements is gone. Yeah 332 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,880 Yeah, right and God what he's doing is he's trying to draw you back say no, I'm right here 333 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,440 I want to provide shelter for you. I want to provide warmth for you 334 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,920 And it's not just it's not just the warmth and it's not just the cooling during the day 335 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,960 It also says that when they would go it talks about this in Deuteronomy when they would walk their shoes wouldn't wear out 336 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,960 Their clothes weren't wearing out 337 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:47,160 They got attacked by various creatures like because there's a lot of like dangerous things in the desert 338 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,720 Scorpions on the snakes and all those things we don't like. Mm-hmm, right? 339 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:56,440 And it says that they were protected from these the entire time that they're roaming because the cloud went with them 340 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,480 Yeah, which is once again gonna be very important when we come in to talk about this brown serpent, right? 341 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,960 It's a few weeks from now, but just keep that pin that in the back your head when you're protected by the cloud 342 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:10,720 Nothing else can get you. Yeah, you're protected from the cold. You're protected from the heat 343 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:15,240 You're protected from all the things that would attack you. Yeah, you still have to be in the desert 344 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,560 Yep, and you still have to trust. Yep 345 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:23,680 You're still getting your food each day from heaven and you still got to trust that you're getting led to water. Yeah 346 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:29,320 So, I mean, I don't want to say it's like devoid of faith because you absolutely have to walk in faith in the middle of a desert 347 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:34,720 Which I think is probably where people struggle maybe with understanding walking in the blessing of God 348 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,200 You can be incredibly blessed by God and still walk through the middle of chaos 349 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:45,760 I was thinking the story we talked about a few weeks ago where the people who went to my church and like their kid died in a car crash 350 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,920 Right? Yeah, like they were absolutely blessed by God. Uh-huh. It didn't mean that chaos didn't come to the door 351 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,880 Yeah, it just means in the middle of the chaos 352 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:01,040 They had a refuge now. It's so good. I think if there's something we can talk about chapter 10 353 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:06,800 They make the silver trumpets and then they actually set out. Yeah, they're actually going so that's what happens in chapter 10 354 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,200 But let's just stop here because I want to stop here and talk about this 355 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,400 modern church 356 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:21,280 Do we actually stay where God stays and go when God goes or do we do go and do what we think makes the most sense? 357 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,280 My personal experience 358 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,760 Happens to be the latter 359 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,920 In my life that I tend to rather than seeking what is God doing? 360 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:38,960 I try to go and figure out how to do for myself. Yeah with that said it can be really hard to sit still 361 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:46,240 In a desert like when God like there in that passage. It says whether it stayed a day a month or a year 362 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,760 Right. You're gonna set up camp for a year in one spot in the middle of the desert 363 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,120 Sometimes that happens in our lives. It can be really hard to stay 364 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,000 We can feel the need of like we have to move we have to go 365 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,440 But you might be in that spot where you're like actually I need to stay because the Lord hasn't moved yet 366 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:10,720 We have referenced this before it is just a it's just a quality piece of literature written by Henry Blackaby a long time ago 367 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,160 And it's called experiencing God. It's a study. We're gonna leave that again in the show notes 368 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,440 But I want to talk about his seven realities and just a couple of things that he talks about when you're learning to 369 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:25,840 Hear and do the will of God. Mm-hmm, right? The first reality is this God is always at work around you. Yeah 370 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,480 Like God's always doing something 371 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,920 Right. The second is that God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real 372 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,480 And personal. Yeah 373 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,640 God invites you to become involved with him in his work. Yeah 374 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:49,920 And God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible through prayer through circumstances and through the church to reveal himself his purposes and his ways. Yep 375 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:57,120 God's invitation for you is to work with him through the Bible through prayer through circumstances and through the church to reveal himself his purposes and his ways. Yep 376 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:02,560 God's invitation for you is to work with him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith 377 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:04,560 and action 378 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,000 You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what he's doing 379 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:14,160 And you come to know God by experience as you obey him and he accomplishes his work through you 380 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,840 Now these all line up with what's going on in Torah. God's speaking. God invites you 381 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,200 Yeah, uh, you have to choose are you going to make major adjustments? 382 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,680 Are you going to stay in Egypt where you're in slavery, but you know what's going to happen or are you going to walk into the desert? 383 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,680 Where you don't have any bread or water. Yeah 384 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,320 Are you going to follow God? 385 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,600 And choose to have him be your God or are you going to stay at the base of Sinai? 386 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,160 Yeah, are you going to follow the cloud? 387 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,480 Or are you going to see what God is doing? Yeah, because he's always working around you 388 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,320 Is he work where you are or is he moving on? Yeah, that's the important thing 389 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,520 Yeah, and are you with him when he's doing that? 390 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:56,320 I've heard it said people will make the statement. They're like well don't just stand there do something 391 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,000 And sometimes that is absolutely what you should do do something 392 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,760 Other times though. God is saying don't just do something stand there 393 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,040 Right, and it depends on what God is saying 394 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:16,480 You hit the nail on the head Spencer. You said during the day the cloud provides shade. Yeah, but during the night it provides warmth 395 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:22,800 So what that means is that the way that God interacts with you isn't always going to be the same even though his presence is yeah 396 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,400 And sometimes it's going to warn you and sometimes it's going to cool you sometimes. It's warmth when you're resting 397 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,000 Uh-huh, and sometimes it's cooling when you're moving. Yeah 398 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,480 Well, what does God want me to do? It's going to depend on what he's doing 399 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,720 Yeah, so what we should be doing is looking for Jesus and then adjusting to that. Yeah 400 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,800 Right. Yeah, what is Jesus doing? Where is he calling you? 401 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,600 Where is he in your life? And where is he moving you from? 402 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,640 Where is he moving you to because he's doing all of that all the time 403 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,960 The best thing we can ever teach people to do is see Jesus and follow after him. Yep 404 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,560 Right. He'll take care of the rest. He'll take care of the rest. Yeah 405 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,000 That's probably a good place for us to cut it and for today 406 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:08,960 We've enjoyed having you guys here and having this conversation like seriously look for God moving look for Jesus moving follow after him 407 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,200 Next week, we're gonna have pastor nick on as a special guest and we'll be doing a little bit of a 408 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,560 Talk about some of the other things going on in the next part portion of numbers 409 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:22,240 We can be found on so many places now amazon spotify apple 410 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,040 YouTube. Yeah, tick tock 411 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:32,160 Instagram facebook and just for warning just be prepared to buckle up a little bit in the next few episodes 412 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:38,800 Because we're getting into some very fun stories. Yeah. Thanks for joining us and until next time 413 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,960 That's a wrap for today's episode. 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That is my excited voice. Is it? 425 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,480 Let me do that whole thing again future ben. I'm sorry. You had to cut all this 426 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,440 It was written to the jews in the time of abraham you be quiet 427 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:59,920 I don't know how many belches I had to edit out. It was like 50. It's what it felt like. That's impressive. It's really impressive