1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Welcome to the Love and Context podcast, engaging in unscripted conversations with your hosts, 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,320 Ben and Spencer. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,420 Whether you're tuning in from your car, your office, your home, or anywhere in between, 4 00:00:11,420 --> 00:00:15,140 we are so happy to have you join us today. 5 00:00:15,140 --> 00:00:21,040 Our mission is simple, to explore the Bible through a powerful lens of love. 6 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:26,200 Together we'll uncover fresh insights and gain deeper understandings of how we can love 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,560 God and love the people in our everyday lives. 8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:34,840 So buckle up and join us on this spiritual journey as we discover timeless wisdom that 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,680 is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago. 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,280 Without further ado, let's dive right in. 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,040 Welcome to the Love and Context podcast. 12 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,760 This is Ben speaking now. 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,160 And this is Spencer speaking just then. 14 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:52,160 Yep. 15 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,360 Alright, so if you guys have been with us for a while, you know that we have been in 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,360 the book of numbers and actually we're going to wrap up the book of numbers today. 17 00:00:58,360 --> 00:00:59,360 Yes we are. 18 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,320 Now the interesting thing, I was actually listening to some teaching on this and a lot 19 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:09,240 of the Jews, well actually the sages will look at this and they'll actually call this 20 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:14,860 the conclusion of Torah, not because Deuteronomy doesn't exist, but because Deuteronomy is 21 00:01:14,860 --> 00:01:18,240 like Moses looking back over everything. 22 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,820 Which we're going to talk about next week as we introduce the book of Deuteronomy. 23 00:01:21,820 --> 00:01:25,120 By the way, do you guys believe we're actually almost done with Torah? 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,120 Yeah. 25 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,380 One more book. 26 00:01:27,380 --> 00:01:29,660 And hopefully you've been having fun with it, so have we. 27 00:01:29,660 --> 00:01:33,440 Now if you think that we've covered everything, you are sorely mistaken. 28 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,640 We have barely skipped a stone across a lot of these things. 29 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,440 As is proof of us taking on like 10 chapters today. 30 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,840 Yeah, 10 chapters today, exactly. 31 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,040 But what we wanted to do is highlight like high level points. 32 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,040 And I did have a conversation with a guy and he's like, well how many episodes did you 33 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,040 do in Leviticus? 34 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,320 And I said, eight more than anybody else. 35 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,320 So. 36 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,320 It's true. 37 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:59,680 Yeah, so we spent a lot more time in these books, but I think what we found is that there's 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,600 a reason that these are the fundamentals for the faith. 39 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:04,600 These stories. 40 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,960 Now, book of Numbers, we told you early on, buckle up, it gets gnarly and it's been gnarly 41 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:09,960 for a while. 42 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:10,960 Yeah. 43 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:11,960 Right? 44 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,080 So just a reminder of where the book of Numbers starts. 45 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,240 They're coming out of Exodus. 46 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,480 They have received their instructions on the mountain. 47 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,520 And it says that God takes them here. 48 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,280 He sends a cloud, they follow the cloud. 49 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,760 The cloud moves, they follow the cloud. 50 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,920 The cloud moves, they follow the cloud. 51 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:30,880 And like for a long time, it's like they're being obedient, obedient, obedient. 52 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,720 It's looking like it's going to go real good. 53 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:34,840 Right? 54 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:40,880 And then it takes a sharp turn because the desert is really hot. 55 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,440 It is. 56 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,400 For any of you who have ever traveled or live in a desert, you would know this and you guys 57 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,200 are, you would be looking at us being like, really? 58 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,200 You state in the obvious here. 59 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,840 You're like, yes, we are 100%. 60 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,120 So what ends up happening is like different things start happening. 61 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,440 Like I remember back when Pastor Nick was on here, there was like this grumble, you 62 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,920 know, going on. 63 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:03,600 And then it starts just like growing. 64 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,600 Right? 65 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:10,080 And then all the way to the point where Moses and Aaron are told to go speak to the rock 66 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,040 and instead they strike it and like it's now permeated all of leadership. 67 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,040 They're not listening to God. 68 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,440 They come to the promised land and they're like, all right, let's go scope it out. 69 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,360 And they're like, ah, I don't know. 70 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:20,360 These guys are real big. 71 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:21,360 You got a real big. 72 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,360 I don't know if I can fight him. 73 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,960 And the only person who was like, we got this was Joshua and Caleb. 74 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:25,960 Yeah. 75 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,960 They're like, oh, we got, we got it. 76 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:28,960 Yeah. 77 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,520 And, and so ultimately Israel is going to have to spend a lot of time in the desert until 78 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,320 the next generation comes up and God says the next generation, if you're ready to go 79 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,320 in. 80 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,440 Now, I do think it's important to know once again, like we talked about in the episode 81 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,640 with Moses leadership, they've still got things to do while they're in the desert. 82 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:45,640 Yeah. 83 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:46,800 They're still supposed to be putting good on display. 84 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,760 They're just not going into the promised land. 85 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,360 You know, that's a big deal. 86 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:51,400 Yeah. 87 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,400 So that's where we've been. 88 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,040 Um, and then last week we talked about Balaam and Balaam, right? 89 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,960 And we had that fun conversation about like, are you going to be like Balaam or Balaam? 90 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,160 Are you going to be like Jethro or Pharaoh? 91 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,160 Where are you going to emulate? 92 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,240 Are you going to trust and see the goodness of God and raise and pull that out? 93 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:09,240 Yeah. 94 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,560 Or are you going to react in fear? 95 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,320 Now we'll get me Balaam, responsive fear. 96 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,480 And then this conversation with Balaam, are you going to be like Balaam or are you going 97 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,520 to be like Abraham? 98 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,600 Are you going to trust the word of the Lord and walk it out in obedience? 99 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,560 Or are you going to try to manipulate circumstances yourself? 100 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,400 And then ultimately, even though a lot of blessings are poured out on Israel, they still 101 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,160 end up in the throes with a bunch of prostitutes. 102 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:33,520 Right. 103 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,560 And it turns out it does not end well for them in that, in that, in that capacity. 104 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,560 Right. 105 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:39,560 Yeah. 106 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,320 By the way, this, this is that section of scripture, which I've actually had, I had 107 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,780 somebody quote to me once talking about being zealous for the Lord. 108 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:49,400 And they were talking about the, in the section of scriptures where the guy takes the spear 109 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,440 and he spears it through the guy and the prostitute. 110 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:53,680 Right. 111 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,560 And he's like, we need to be zealous for the Lord in that capacity. 112 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:02,000 And I was like, listen, that story is really important because it was real corruption. 113 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:03,240 Right. 114 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,660 But when people look at you, they should see Jesus. 115 00:05:07,660 --> 00:05:11,760 And I'm pretty sure that Jesus isn't sticking spears through people's innards. 116 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,160 No, Jesus actually had a different encounter with a prostitute. 117 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,560 Where like, where they brought a prostitute to Jesus being like, she was caught in the 118 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,560 act. 119 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,600 By the way, the man wasn't brought with her. 120 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:22,600 Different side. 121 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,600 Highly questionable. 122 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:24,600 Yeah. 123 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,280 So he was caught in the act and they're like, we need to kill her. 124 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,600 We need to stone her because this is against the law. 125 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,400 And what does Jesus do? 126 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,740 He says, all right, you without faults are the first stone. 127 00:05:35,740 --> 00:05:37,600 And what do they do? 128 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:38,600 Right. 129 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:39,600 Walk away one by one. 130 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,280 They walk away one by one. 131 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:44,920 And then Jesus was like, do they, do any of these men condemn you? 132 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:45,920 Who's left here to condemn you? 133 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,640 And they're like, nobody's like, well, then I don't either. 134 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:54,160 And so Jesus has a different reaction to this encounter with a prostitute than this man 135 00:05:54,160 --> 00:06:00,200 who spears both the prostitute and her lover at the time. 136 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,200 Right. 137 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,160 Well, and we've talked about frequently in Torah, there are some extremes example of 138 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,160 what happens. 139 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:11,120 And in this case, God actually says that it's actually Phineas and his zealous nature that 140 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,480 actually turns the anger away. 141 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:13,480 Yeah. 142 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:14,480 Right. 143 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,480 And I think that's what happened. 144 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,480 And I feel like God respects the zeal, maybe not necessarily the action. 145 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:19,480 Does that make sense? 146 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:20,480 Yeah. 147 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:21,960 Like this isn't actually like the desirable action. 148 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,320 The desirable action would have been for the people, even the ones prostituting themselves, 149 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,680 not to prostitute themselves. 150 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,840 That would have been the ideal reaction. 151 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:33,800 So this is where we pick up in Numbers 26. 152 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,720 Numbers 26 through the rest of Numbers. 153 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:40,360 So if you haven't read that, go ahead and just take some time, pause the podcast, go 154 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,600 and read it right now, unless you're driving, then don't read it right now. 155 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,600 Yeah. 156 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:45,600 Like listen to it. 157 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:46,600 That's fine. 158 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:47,600 But don't read it while we're driving. 159 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:48,600 Yeah. 160 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:49,600 So we pick up in Numbers 26. 161 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,600 And the first thing that happens here is a census. 162 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,200 Okay. 163 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:00,160 So this is actually kind of an important deal because they just had everybody kind of come 164 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:01,160 through their ranks. 165 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,880 They just had a bunch of prostitutes come through their ranks. 166 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:04,880 There was corruption. 167 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,960 There was a lot of sin that happened. 168 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:14,000 And so now what's taking place is the Lord's like, okay, we need to actually gather up 169 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,420 our people and see who's here. 170 00:07:16,420 --> 00:07:18,080 And not to mention they're about to go into the land. 171 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,860 So they need to know who's from each tribe because they're going to get ready to divide 172 00:07:21,860 --> 00:07:23,280 the land between the people. 173 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:24,280 Right? 174 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,660 Because this is just prior to Joshua being given command. 175 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:30,840 And as soon as Joshua has command, they go into the land and they start conquering. 176 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:31,840 Right? 177 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,580 I do want to point out that so in 26, they take the census. 178 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:39,520 And then something comes up at the end of this book that came up at the beginning. 179 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,520 It's Zellifahed's daughters. 180 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:42,520 Right? 181 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,320 Once again, their father had died. 182 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,600 They didn't have any sons. 183 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:51,520 And so they don't have any property because all the sons are dead. 184 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:52,520 Yeah. 185 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,720 And they come and they're like, hey, we're literally going to be without home if the 186 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:57,720 stuff doesn't happen. 187 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,360 So they brought a perform and they said, give us property among our father's relatives. 188 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:06,040 So because they're going into the land and they have nobody to have it allotted to. 189 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,040 Yeah. 190 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,000 So Moses brings her case before God and Lord said, what Zellifahed's daughters are saying 191 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 is right. 192 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,120 You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives 193 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,880 and give their father's inheritance to them. 194 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,440 Wow. 195 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,880 Because in this culture, that is a groundbreaking like massive difference. 196 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,120 Now in modern day, like that we're like, okay, so the daughters got the land. 197 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,880 That makes sense because it belonged to the family. 198 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,640 In general culture, God has just dropped some serious equality knowledge on them. 199 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,640 Yeah. 200 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:42,320 And just to like provide a little more context on this, if you only had a daughter or daughters 201 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,260 and you were about to pass away and your land was about to be passed down, guess what? 202 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:47,920 It would not go to your daughters. 203 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:49,100 No, no. 204 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:54,040 It would actually go to the next, the first born in your family line who was a male. 205 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:55,040 Right. 206 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:56,040 Further up the tribe. 207 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:57,040 Further up the tribe. 208 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,040 Who would choose to take care of your family or not? 209 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:00,040 Yeah. 210 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,960 So typically for women to own property was non-existent. 211 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:09,800 And then to have God say, no, we're going to take care of these women. 212 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,480 We're going to make sure that they have land is huge. 213 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:14,480 Right. 214 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,400 And he actually carries it more than just the daughter. 215 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,720 So he actually institutes this thing so that families don't get forgotten. 216 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,120 Remember what we said at the beginning of numbers, everybody counts? 217 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:24,120 Listen to this. 218 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,360 Say to the Israelites, if a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his 219 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,360 daughter. 220 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,440 If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers. 221 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,840 If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 222 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,160 If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan that he 223 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,560 may possess it. 224 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:45,160 This is to have the force of law for the Israelites as the Lord had commanded. 225 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,160 Okay. 226 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:47,160 Why is that important? 227 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,920 Because no tribe is getting left behind. 228 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,160 No clan is getting left behind. 229 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,660 We're going to make sure that you're remembered, that you matter, that you're a part of us, 230 00:09:56,660 --> 00:09:59,720 even if there's not a clear line of succession. 231 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:05,760 And the other thing with land, just before we get too much further along, is you have 232 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,320 to view land as money, as currency. 233 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,760 Because here, I mean, in America nowadays, you cannot own any property, but you can still 234 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,200 have a lot of money, right? 235 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,200 Oh, yeah. 236 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,200 Yeah. 237 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,200 Right? 238 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,720 You don't have to have real estate to be wealthy. 239 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,400 They didn't back in this day, if you had land, that was currency. 240 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,680 If you had cows, so you got property, right? 241 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:28,680 That's currency. 242 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:33,880 If you had land, you then could have livestocks or crops that you grow that then could be 243 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,720 traded and bartered, and that was currency. 244 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,640 That was more valuable than if you had a few coins in your pocket. 245 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:40,640 That's not to say there wasn't money. 246 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,200 It's like, so somebody is typing on there, and they're like, oh, are you saying that 247 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,200 they didn't use... 248 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,200 No, of course they used money. 249 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,200 But we're saying that we're talking about real wealth, like real sustainability, right? 250 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,080 They didn't define wealth as just as the amount of physical money they had. 251 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,120 They defined it as what they owned. 252 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:57,120 Right. 253 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,120 Yeah. 254 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,120 So once again, here in the book of Numbers, we see God, we're making sure that we know 255 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,120 everybody counts. 256 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,800 It's what happened at the beginning of Numbers. 257 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,320 It's what's happening at the end of Numbers. 258 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:06,560 Everybody counts. 259 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:08,840 There is provision for everybody. 260 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,840 So after this, Moses has a conversation with God because he's like, well, we got to appoint 261 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:17,200 somebody to lead them when I'm gone, because I don't know if you know this, but when you 262 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,520 have 600,000 people and the one person everybody's been listening to dies without a clear line 263 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,520 of succession, what do you think happens? 264 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,240 Where does everything go? 265 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,240 Right. 266 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,360 There's going to be a lot of people like vying for authority, right? 267 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,600 Now it's already been happening while Moses was still alive. 268 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,760 How much more do you think it would happen if Moses died without a clear succession plan? 269 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:38,760 Yeah. 270 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:44,120 God tells him this in its chapter 27, and we're going to start in verse 18. 271 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:49,000 So the Lord said to Moses, take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership 272 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,060 and lay your hand on him. 273 00:11:51,060 --> 00:11:55,140 Love him stand before it before Eliezer, the priest and the entire assembly and commission 274 00:11:55,140 --> 00:11:56,960 him in their presence. 275 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,560 Give him some of the authority so that the whole community, Israelite community will 276 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,040 obey him. 277 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,560 He is to stand before Eliezer, the priest who will obtain decision for him by inquiring 278 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:10,040 of the Urim before the Lord and at his command, he and the entire community of the Israelites 279 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,200 will go out and at his command, they will come in. 280 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,700 By the way, if you want to talk about the Urim before the Lord, that is a Q and A episode. 281 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:17,800 So somebody asked that question. 282 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,160 We'll talk about it. 283 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:21,320 Moses did as the Lord commanded him. 284 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,440 He took Joshua and had him stand before the Eliezer, the priest and the whole assembly. 285 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:29,800 Then he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the Lord had instructed him. 286 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,440 Now we've talked about this a few times, commissioning, right? 287 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:34,440 What is Moses doing? 288 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:39,500 He's taking his identity, he's placing it on Joshua. 289 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,320 What I am is now going into who you are. 290 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,360 You were going to take up the mantle that I leave behind. 291 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,280 Like we are imbuing his identity, this whole idea of sacrifice, right? 292 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:55,640 You're laying hands on, like you're leaning on, casting your identity, your favor, your 293 00:12:55,640 --> 00:13:00,000 authority on the next person. 294 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,120 This becomes really important for us to know as a church because when we commission people 295 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,360 out to be missionaries, when we have new pastors who we're bringing in who are being meant 296 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:14,020 to equip us, the whole assembly is there, recognizing the authority that's being placed 297 00:13:14,020 --> 00:13:20,460 on there, recognizing the identity that's being cast, and they are also participating 298 00:13:20,460 --> 00:13:22,900 in the commissioning, right? 299 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:25,320 Now ultimately the power and responsibility comes from God. 300 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,960 Though we are involved because we're a family. 301 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,480 That's what it's supposed to look like. 302 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:35,560 So church people, if you have somebody getting ordained at your church, show up. 303 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:42,200 If you have somebody who's leaving your church to go start like an orphanage, show up. 304 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,900 If you have somebody who's leaving your church to move to another area to do ministry, show 305 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:47,480 up. 306 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,120 We have a responsibility to show up for our brothers and sisters and our family because 307 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:58,020 they need our identity, they need our support, they need our authority to go with them wherever 308 00:13:58,020 --> 00:13:59,520 God leads. 309 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,200 And with that, think of ministries that had leadership transitions where people didn't 310 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:05,200 show up. 311 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,200 Right. 312 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,680 I'm just going to tell you right now, the ones I have been a part of and the ones I 313 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:15,920 have seen where a leader left and then a new leader came in and nobody really showed up. 314 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,840 Everyone's kind of like testing the waters with this new leader that was brought in. 315 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,240 It usually doesn't go well. 316 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:22,240 No. 317 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,680 There's usually a season of time and it's usually two to three years where there's a 318 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:31,280 really rocky road that that leader is walking down. 319 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,280 Rocky road is delicious. 320 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,000 Well, I wasn't talking about ice cream. 321 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,260 I was talking about the quality of Southeast Alaska's roads. 322 00:14:39,260 --> 00:14:43,460 There's this road that they're walking down where they're kind of to, instead of rocky 323 00:14:43,460 --> 00:14:46,080 road, they're walking on eggshells. 324 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:51,120 So this new leader oftentimes is walking on shards of glass because they're like, okay, 325 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,120 these people don't trust me. 326 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,880 They had, whether it could have been good or bad experience, lastly, but they're like, 327 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,040 there's a trust that's been broken because leadership left and there wasn't really a 328 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,840 good process that brought me into this ministry. 329 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,320 That person gets to walk on shards of glass for like two to three years as they rebuild 330 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:09,320 trust, right? 331 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,960 I just want to pose the question. 332 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,040 Is that a healthy way to transition leaders? 333 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,040 No. 334 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,160 I'd say no because what you're doing is then you're putting them in a spot where they're 335 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:22,560 going to fail and get burnt out quick and then potentially leave. 336 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,840 And then you're right back to where you started. 337 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:29,360 Well, and to your point, we've talked about this a number of times about how the dirt 338 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,320 has to think generationally. 339 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:32,320 What? 340 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,320 Number of times. 341 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,320 Okay, I got you. 342 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:39,560 I heard you say something, but I was talking and I couldn't get past my own brain. 343 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:40,560 It was so funny. 344 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:41,560 I had a lead over. 345 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:42,560 I laughed. 346 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:43,560 That's a number of times. 347 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:44,560 That makes sense. 348 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,320 But we've talked about that, that we have to think generationally, right? 349 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:49,320 I want to talk about tamarisk trees. 350 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,320 Can I talk about that for a second? 351 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,320 What? 352 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Tamarisk tree? 353 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,320 Yeah. 354 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,320 So when Abraham comes to the land that God and God gives him the vision, it says, hey, 355 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,600 this is going to be your land. 356 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:05,880 He plants a tamarisk tree, which takes generations to grow, which means that it has to be tended 357 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,160 in and grow for like decades, hundreds of years maybe. 358 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,480 I'm not a botanist, so please don't hold me on this. 359 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,320 But a tamarisk tree you plant for the next generation, not for you. 360 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,640 It takes a really long time for a tamarisk tree to grow. 361 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,080 So you don't plant a tamarisk tree for yourself, you plant it for your children or maybe your 362 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,720 children's children, right? 363 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,520 So the tamarisk tree can take close to 400 years to grow to its full height. 364 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,680 So you don't necessarily plant it for you. 365 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,200 You plant it for your kids' kids' kids' kids', right? 366 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:41,000 And one of the things that I always wonder is, I think that we always need to live investing 367 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,000 in the moment. 368 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,280 But a lot of times churches live like Jesus is coming back tomorrow, which I think is 369 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:46,280 a great way to live. 370 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:47,280 Mm-hmm. 371 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:48,280 The disciples live that way. 372 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:49,280 Right. 373 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,640 We should live like Jesus is coming back tomorrow because we want to share with every single 374 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,880 person in the way that we live. 375 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,440 But we also have to plan like he's going to not come back for a thousand years. 376 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,640 This goes back to a conversation we had probably 20 episodes ago. 377 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:06,280 What would it be like if we had an entire generation that planted tamarisk trees? 378 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,720 The world would be changed, right? 379 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,480 Like we live in the moment because Abraham still lived in the moment. 380 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,480 He still lived with everything he had to do, but he planted trees for a future promise. 381 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:21,320 Now, I think it's interesting it takes about 400 years to grow because God says you're 382 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,700 going to come back and take this land in about 400 years. 383 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:29,020 So when Joshua and Caleb and all these guys are coming back in, they're actually going 384 00:17:29,020 --> 00:17:31,800 to come and see the very tamarisk tree that Abraham planted. 385 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:32,800 Mm-hmm. 386 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,800 Which is crazy. 387 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:35,800 Yeah. 388 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:36,800 Crazy. 389 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,560 Churches, we need to start thinking generationally. 390 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:40,560 Correct. 391 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:46,200 Because we need to be looking at the young people in our congregation and asking how 392 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,160 can we build them up for leadership? 393 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,480 Is there anything to make you feel like you're getting older than you're talking about young 394 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,120 people in your church? 395 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:54,120 Yeah. 396 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:59,320 I was working with some middle schoolers the other day and I mentioned something that happened 397 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,360 20 years ago and they were like, what? 398 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,360 That was forever ago. 399 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:06,600 And I was like, it really wasn't. 400 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:07,600 It really wasn't. 401 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,880 We need to start looking at the young people in our church and saying, hey, how can we 402 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,760 build them up for leadership? 403 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,680 And how can we pass the torch to them when the time comes? 404 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:22,040 And this idea of making everybody count in numbers and thinking generationally and knowing 405 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,400 where you come from and all these different things. 406 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:26,680 We need to be like that in our churches. 407 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,160 We need to know our history, but we also need to know where we're going and we got to be 408 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,800 planting for tomorrow. 409 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,800 A lot of times we're like, oh, we need to reap, reap, reap. 410 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,000 And Jesus absolutely says, look at the fields, they're ready to go. 411 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,040 But you also plant the fields for tomorrow. 412 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,560 We got to be able to do both. 413 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,260 And so we need to be about the work of reaping. 414 00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:50,220 We also need to be about the work of sowing for generation and generation. 415 00:18:50,220 --> 00:18:55,040 And on people who aren't perfect, but God is going to use. 416 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,440 Do you know what a farmer does before they harvest? 417 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,440 Probably take a nap. 418 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:06,520 But one of the big thing a farmer does before they harvest is they're planning for the next 419 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,520 harvest. 420 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:08,520 Right. 421 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:09,520 Right. 422 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,200 Because as soon as they harvest, they have to have a plan for what's going to go on the 423 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,120 ground next for the next harvest. 424 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,120 Yeah. 425 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:18,960 Well, and interesting thing about modern farming techniques. 426 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,600 So obviously, we're not talking about like ancient Israel, but a lot of times farmers 427 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,480 will grow multiple crops depending on the season. 428 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:26,720 Right. 429 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:32,920 And that requires a fair amount of planning, organization, thinking ahead, like thinking 430 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,920 about the future, but also living in the present. 431 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,400 And that's what we're talking about. 432 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,440 Harvest is happening in the present, but you also have to know, okay, what's after this? 433 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,440 Right. 434 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,920 So with that being said, like now Joshua has been ordained. 435 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:47,920 He's been commissioned. 436 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:48,920 He's going to be the leader. 437 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,080 So God then reminds them of some very important things that are coming up. 438 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,080 Right. 439 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:54,800 So he says you need to remember where you come from. 440 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,480 So he talks about reminding them about their daily offerings. 441 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,480 Right. 442 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,960 These are daily connections with God. 443 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:00,960 Yeah. 444 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:01,960 Sabbath offerings. 445 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,120 Are you going to connect to your identity and who you are? 446 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:08,160 Monthly offerings, making sure that you have like a time, like once a month, man, is connecting 447 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:09,160 you. 448 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,000 Talking about the Passover, like you got to remember that God brought you out of Exodus. 449 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,920 And then he starts talking about like this festival of weeks, this festival of trumpets. 450 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,520 He's going to talk about the day of atonement, the festival of tabernacles. 451 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,800 Like all of these things that are going to tie them back to their history and what God 452 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:23,800 has done. 453 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:24,800 Yeah. 454 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:25,800 Right. 455 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,720 Because he knows like this is a new generation. 456 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,160 They're getting ready to go. 457 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:30,160 Joshua is now in command. 458 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,640 He's reminding him, don't forget where you come from. 459 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:33,640 Yeah. 460 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,920 We're going to talk about in a few weeks, we're going to talk about when Moses comes 461 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,000 back and talk about the 10 words again in Deuteronomy. 462 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,320 The first one is I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 463 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,480 You will have no other gods. 464 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,920 And I said that if you forget he's the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of 465 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,480 Egypt, you're going to have other gods. 466 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:52,480 Yeah. 467 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,040 So you have to remember where you come from. 468 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,360 So like in all this talk about planning for tomorrow, it's not that we forget today and 469 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:59,440 we definitely don't forget yesterday. 470 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:03,680 All of those things have to exist almost like the God who was the God who is the God who 471 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,360 will be. 472 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:06,520 We got to remember all of those things. 473 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,160 You mean scripture ties together? 474 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,160 It's this crazy concept. 475 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,160 Yeah. 476 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,160 Okay. 477 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,160 It's this crazy theological concept I've been working through that scripture is actually 478 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,640 connected to each other. 479 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:15,640 Yeah. 480 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:21,840 Some of you who don't understand sarcasm are going to be like, wait, I'm hoping that people 481 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:27,960 who like watch will be able to see my facial takes and be like, oh, he's joking. 482 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,600 But I do have a pretty dry delivery. 483 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,600 So we'll see. 484 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:31,600 Yeah, we'll see. 485 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:32,600 We'll see. 486 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,680 So then you get into Numbers 30. 487 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,720 Yeah, there's not a lot that I want to really reference in Numbers 30 except that he talks 488 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,720 about a vow. 489 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,780 There's a few instructions that are going to be coming up about like how do you live 490 00:21:42,780 --> 00:21:45,160 in harmony when you're going to be in one spot, right? 491 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,200 And that's going to be this huge section here. 492 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,720 But in Numbers 30, I want you guys to put a pin in that because at some point we're 493 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,180 going to talk about the Book of Esther. 494 00:21:54,180 --> 00:21:58,320 And there is a story in the Book of Esther that actually connects to Numbers 30. 495 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,960 And I will give, you know what, actually, this is a good challenge. 496 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,780 If somebody can help or can write into us on our email and explain to me the connection 497 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:12,920 between Numbers 30 and Esther, we will send you a shirt of The Desert is Really Hot. 498 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,160 I'll order you a shirt and I'll get it sent to you. 499 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,040 You'll have to give me your size because I'm not going to try to guess. 500 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:25,360 That's rife with like, that is rife with miscommunication. 501 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:26,960 Please put Ben through that. 502 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,120 Please put him through that. 503 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:33,360 By the way, I was talking to my wife about the shirts and I was like, oh yeah, I'm going 504 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:34,360 to go order myself a shirt. 505 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:36,760 I was like, whoops, I almost ordered myself an extra small. 506 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,920 And she's like, please do and wear it. 507 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,920 And I was like, huh? 508 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:47,800 So in 30, and I'm going to skip over 31, there's some stuff going on with the Midianites and 509 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,480 I would really love to talk about that, but we're just going to skip over that today. 510 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,880 So if you have questions about it in Q&A, right? 511 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,840 Again, we're covering 10 chapters today. 512 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:59,920 So this is a very jolly surface level dive on this one. 513 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:05,360 So then they talk about the Transjordan tribes and how they're going to reach their deals 514 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:07,760 and what they're going to do because some of them are going to stay on one side of the 515 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:08,760 Jordan. 516 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:09,760 Some of them are going to go on the other side. 517 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,720 And so how are they going to work together? 518 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,680 And then in chapter 33, they retell the story of where they've been. 519 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,480 And they said they went from this place, then they counted here, then they went from here, 520 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:20,480 they went to here. 521 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,640 And it's one of these sections that I think we're tempted to read over really quickly. 522 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,280 And it's so important. 523 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,080 And we've talked about this on the podcast, but remembering where you come from, right? 524 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:36,400 Like remembering your story is so important because you can't be thankful for where you 525 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,720 are at right now if you don't remember where you come from. 526 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,720 Exactly. 527 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,600 And yes, there's an assumption. 528 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,440 I am playing into the assumption that the Lord has changed your life, that he's drawing 529 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:52,360 closer to him, that he's fundamentally changed who you are from the day you said yes to Jesus. 530 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:54,120 That's the assumption I'm going off of here. 531 00:23:54,120 --> 00:24:00,280 But like we, at least in my life, I can't, I am more thankful about the goodness of the 532 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:05,840 Lord in my life when I take time on occasion to remember where I came from. 533 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:06,840 To remember the bad in my life. 534 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:12,160 To be like, oh, this was a craft in my life that the Lord's delivered me from. 535 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,220 And here I am now, right? 536 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:18,640 It allows a lot of the struggles I'm dealing with right now to kind of fade away and be 537 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,680 like, man, I am so blessed. 538 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,880 So in chapter 33 in verse 50, it says, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from 539 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,600 Jericho, which is a familiar place you've probably heard of, the Lord said to Moses, 540 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,520 speak to the Israelites and say to them, when you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out 541 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,900 all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their carved images and their 542 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:44,920 cast idols and demolish all their high places, take possession of the land and settle in 543 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,200 it for I have given you the land to possess. 544 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,700 Distribute the land by lot according to your clans. 545 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,800 There's a bunch of things coming up with either. 546 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:58,020 But in verse 55, it says this, if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those 547 00:24:58,020 --> 00:25:01,920 you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. 548 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,460 They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. 549 00:25:04,460 --> 00:25:11,840 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them. 550 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,180 Like here's the thing. 551 00:25:14,180 --> 00:25:20,000 God is not going to allow other things in your life that are going to draw your affection. 552 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,360 He's not going to deal with this whole idea of other gods. 553 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,360 He's not going to deal with it. 554 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:25,400 He says, no, you're going to be mine. 555 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,580 And if you're not going to be mine, I'm going to make sure that the story is so ingrained 556 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:31,080 in you that you can't help but put it on display. 557 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:36,200 It ties back to Exodus, I believe it's 34, 14, where God says, put no other gods before 558 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:41,280 me for I the Lord your God, whose very name is jealous is a jealous God. 559 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,160 There's the things in our life that pull us from God and the Lord is saying, drive those 560 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,160 out. 561 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Yeah. 562 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:52,240 Now, he is saying that those things that draw you away from me, drives them out of your 563 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,340 lives. 564 00:25:54,340 --> 00:25:57,240 Get them away from you. 565 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,280 And what that is, is that's the father saying, I love you so much that I don't want that 566 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,280 in your life. 567 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,280 Yeah. 568 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:04,760 Like that's going to bring you no good. 569 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,760 Yeah. 570 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:06,760 Right. 571 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,400 And I don't know about you, but there's been things in my life that the Lord has driven 572 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,960 out that I'm so thankful that he's driven out and called me to help drive out. 573 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:15,960 Right. 574 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:16,960 Right. 575 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,720 I think the tendency is sometimes, especially with militant Christianity is to see this 576 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,040 and be like, oh, we're supposed to go toward evil. 577 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,760 No, God towards evil. 578 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,480 The Israelites were not a strong nation. 579 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,660 They were strong because God walked with them. 580 00:26:29,660 --> 00:26:31,580 So we're supposed to go wherever God commands. 581 00:26:31,580 --> 00:26:34,920 And if God has commanded you to go into the heart of evil and to proclaim the gospel, 582 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,120 then go do it. 583 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:41,560 But I also know that God has commanded you to love your enemies as he has loved you. 584 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:42,780 Right. 585 00:26:42,780 --> 00:26:47,800 So you have these weighing commands, so you have to see everything through the lens of 586 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,560 loving God and loving other people, which is what Torah is all about. 587 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,560 Right. 588 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:52,560 We've talked about that. 589 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:53,560 Yeah. 590 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,440 Now there are some hard stories because God has to speak into a context of ancient warfare. 591 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,440 Yeah. 592 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,440 Right. 593 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,200 But these stories are meant to actually bring about something else. 594 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,920 Yeah. 595 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:06,440 So I do want to point out here in chapter 35, we talk about these cities of refuge, 596 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,640 which is where people can flee if they make an accident and actually kill someone. 597 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,280 This is once again, these are rules that are going to help them live at peace with each 598 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:15,960 other when they're in a land. 599 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:16,960 Right. 600 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:17,960 So that they have somewhere to go. 601 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,840 There's also going to be some cities set aside for the Levites because they don't have an 602 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,520 inheritance because their inheritance is God. 603 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:24,520 Right. 604 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,720 And so they said, we still need to have some cities for them because they got to have somewhere 605 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:28,720 to go. 606 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:29,720 Right. 607 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:35,840 Then chapter 36, we have one more time, we have this inheritance of Zealot, Fahad's daughters. 608 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,840 Right. 609 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,120 And God just kind of walks through here once again and making sure that they're not going 610 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:40,120 to be left out. 611 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:46,040 I do think it's interesting that this is actually the conclusion of the book of numbers. 612 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,040 Yeah. 613 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,240 That the daughters and the women are not going to be left out in the cold. 614 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:55,480 Like this is the last action scene that happens in Torah. 615 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,800 This actually echoes all the way forward to the book of James. 616 00:27:58,800 --> 00:27:59,800 Yeah. 617 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,400 So at the end of James chapter one, James is saying, hey, this is true religion. 618 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,840 I can take care of the orphan and the widows. 619 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,840 Okay. 620 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,440 And we read like oftentimes what we'll do in our modern Christianity is we'll read that 621 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:12,440 as a new command. 622 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,840 But do you have to look back at the beginning of James and who's James writing to? 623 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,240 He's writing to the 12 tribes of Israel scattered amongst the nations. 624 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,320 Okay. 625 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,920 So James is writing to the 12 tribes of Israel scattered amongst the nations. 626 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,660 And he's saying, remember this command. 627 00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:34,400 He's not stating it as a new command for them. 628 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,120 He's saying, remember this command. 629 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:37,980 This is true religion. 630 00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:39,960 Take care of the orphans and widows. 631 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:40,960 Right. 632 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:41,960 It's not anything new. 633 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:42,960 No. 634 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,240 This has been, this has been around for a long time. 635 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,180 God wants to take care of those who are being left on the outside. 636 00:28:47,180 --> 00:28:52,720 And once again, we want to remind people that God actually values women incredibly. 637 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:53,960 They're not subservient. 638 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,320 They're equal in what God calls them to be. 639 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,800 So I want to point out one thing because we've talked about a lot, a lot of like skipping 640 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,620 stones across numbers. 641 00:29:02,620 --> 00:29:06,280 So there is a very interesting section in the book of numbers and I want to come back 642 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,560 to really quick before we close. 643 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:13,240 It's in chapter 32 and it's going to be in verse 39. 644 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:18,480 Says the descendants of Makur son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out 645 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,380 to the Amorites who were there. 646 00:29:20,380 --> 00:29:25,200 So Moses gave Gilead to the Makarites, the descendants of Manasseh and they settled there. 647 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,600 Jair, the descendant of Manasseh captured their settlement and called them Havath Jair 648 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:36,120 and Nabath captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Noba after himself. 649 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,560 How many of you have done an in-depth study on that? 650 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,960 I mean, probably no one, probably no one. 651 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:46,560 So I'm going to explain to you why spending a lot of time in Torah is really important. 652 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,760 So I'm going to give you some pieces of stories here. 653 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:55,600 What if I told you that little section is actually connected to Genesis 31? 654 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,360 And people go, what do you mean? 655 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,600 It says, where is the last time that you've heard of this place called Gilead? 656 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:02,600 Genesis 31. 657 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,360 Genesis 31. 658 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,600 It says that, so Jacob is fleeing Laban and Laban comes after him and there's this whole 659 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:14,560 thing about like the gods and the idols and all the things that are happening in there. 660 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,980 And they have food at this place and they call it something. 661 00:30:17,980 --> 00:30:22,240 And the two words when you put them together actually becomes Gilead, it's the same word, 662 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,400 right? 663 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:30,120 Same thing here, Jacob has a child through Rachel by the name of Joseph, who has two 664 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,000 children, one named Manasseh. 665 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,600 In here it says that Jair is a descendant of Manasseh. 666 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,040 Okay, well, here's the problem. 667 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,180 In the book of Chronicles, Jair is not a descendant of Manasseh. 668 00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:45,920 He's actually a descendant of Judah. 669 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,440 So you're like, okay, well, which one is right? 670 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:54,920 Well, it turns out when you actually go into the genealogies that Jair, his maternal side 671 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,560 is in Manasseh and his paternal side, which is where you track it from, is from Judah. 672 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:04,680 So why in the book of Numbers do they track Jair through Manasseh? 673 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:10,160 Because the text is cluing you in that something that happened in Genesis 31, this curse that 674 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:15,000 was coming on to Jacob and his family that showed up in his family and that is repeated 675 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:19,320 through the life of Joseph and his brothers and the torn coat, the blood, all the things 676 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:25,840 that are happening is actually being completed and righted right here in the book of Numbers. 677 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,640 Now I know I just said that to some of you who are listening, you're like, I have no 678 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,160 idea what he's talking about. 679 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,200 And that's the point. 680 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,500 There's so much going on in this text. 681 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:38,240 But in the book of Numbers, God is actually bringing completion to what's going on. 682 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,200 And so this is my encouragement because we've been going through Torah for a while and Numbers 683 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,440 is a hard book and Deuteronomy is not going to be that much easier. 684 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,280 Because there's a lot of questions we're going to have to ask about places we've been and 685 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,440 things that Moses says and things like that. 686 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:58,560 So the women are not commonly mentioned or not commonly held at high esteem. 687 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,760 And so there's this constant underdog story that actually happens throughout Genesis as 688 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:04,760 well. 689 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,760 And that's actually echoed here. 690 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,960 So bear with me for about 30 seconds. 691 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,960 Sorry, I just wanted to be a bear. 692 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,760 You'll see where I'm going with this. 693 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:18,440 So Abram, also known as Abram, has two sons. 694 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,800 Abram also known as Abram? 695 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,920 Yeah, Abram also known as Abraham has two sons. 696 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,240 He has Ishmael and Isaac. 697 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,560 Isaac's his second born. 698 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:32,520 So Isaac is mentioned in the family line, not Ishmael. 699 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,160 And usually the first born is mentioned in the family line. 700 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,160 Correct. 701 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,160 Okay. 702 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,560 So by cultural standards, Ishmael should be mentioned before Isaac. 703 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,560 Right. 704 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,560 Okay. 705 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,000 So then Isaac, he has two boys, Jacob and Esau. 706 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Okay. 707 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,880 Jacob is a second born. 708 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,880 Second born. 709 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,480 He is mentioned in the family line, not Esau. 710 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,080 Because you have the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 711 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,080 Okay. 712 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,840 You get to Joseph. 713 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,080 Joseph has two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. 714 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,760 Ephraim's the first born, Manasseh's the second born. 715 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:15,880 And then when Jacob goes to bless them, he blesses Manasseh over Ephraim. 716 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:21,240 And so along with this story of elevating women and actually mentioning the maternal 717 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:27,360 side, you're doing that from the second born who's been given the blessing of the first 718 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:28,360 born. 719 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:29,360 Right. 720 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,560 And so you have this constant underwriting throughout Genesis and it's echoed here in 721 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:38,800 Numbers of saying that the Lord blesses, quote unquote, the least of these. 722 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:39,800 Right. 723 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:40,800 Right. 724 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,600 Which is echoed in the New Testament. 725 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:43,600 Yeah. 726 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,760 In the writings of James as well. 727 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,360 And so you have this underlying theme that's happening where he's like, okay, now Manasseh 728 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,640 is getting this land. 729 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:58,200 When in reality, if you're going to go traditionally with how birth orders go, it should be Ephraim. 730 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040 But God's saying, no, it's going to be Manasseh. 731 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,040 Right. 732 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,440 And there's a lot in understanding Torah. 733 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,160 And so my encouragement with you is I think sometimes we read these stories and we take 734 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,960 them wildly out of context because we don't even understand the context. 735 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:13,960 Yeah. 736 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,900 Now, for example, like reading this story right here, like if you don't understand that 737 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:21,520 it connects to Genesis 31, you might be like, okay, why is this important for us to see? 738 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,080 Okay, they took over the land. 739 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,560 But this is actually incredibly important. 740 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:26,960 Right. 741 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,240 This understanding is actually very incredibly important because it's going to help us see 742 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:32,800 the conclusion of something that happened back in Genesis. 743 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,880 And God has been redeeming that story since that point. 744 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,400 He's been doing it over 400 years. 745 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:44,240 It's almost like God thinks about the moment, the history, and the future and invites us 746 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:45,240 to be the same. 747 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:46,240 Yeah. 748 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,960 Now, I once again, I'm sure that there's somebody who's listening who's like, man, I really 749 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,240 want you to deep dive into that. 750 00:34:50,240 --> 00:34:51,240 Great. 751 00:34:51,240 --> 00:34:52,240 Ask a question. 752 00:34:52,240 --> 00:34:53,240 We'll talk about it in the Q&A. 753 00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:56,280 I don't want to lose sight of what we're talking about today, which is that everybody counts. 754 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,280 Yeah. 755 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,280 We plan generationally. 756 00:34:58,280 --> 00:34:59,280 We plan for the future. 757 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,920 And we work now, but we also think about what's coming up. 758 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,160 Right. 759 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,280 And here's the thing. 760 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,240 I have people ask me all the time, they're like, what is your opinion on the book of 761 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:10,680 Revelation? 762 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,880 And this is my opinion. 763 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,120 God is the one that determines when the world ends. 764 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,320 My job is to be faithful until then. 765 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:18,320 Amen. 766 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,320 Right. 767 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,320 Amen. 768 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:25,480 And if Jesus Christ didn't know when the hour is, chances are Benjamin Edwards isn't going 769 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,960 to know either. 770 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:27,960 Yeah. 771 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,880 We want a prediction right now. 772 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:30,880 Yeah. 773 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,880 Late time, down to the second. 774 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:32,880 Yeah, right. 775 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,600 And here's my point. 776 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,880 The book of Revelation is a book meant to bring hope to a world where Jesus is king, 777 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,920 but the kingdom has not fully been realized. 778 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:46,840 Where evil still has authority, but the kingdom is moving forward. 779 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,080 Go live like that. 780 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,560 Make sure everybody counts. 781 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,400 Live your life in such a way that you elevate the people around you that you lift up Jesus 782 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,720 and you pull out the kingdom in its midst. 783 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:58,720 Amen. 784 00:35:58,720 --> 00:35:59,720 Right. 785 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:00,720 Amen. 786 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:01,720 All right. 787 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:03,080 Well, that is going to be the book of numbers, guys. 788 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,480 Next week we are starting Deuteronomy. 789 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,480 Deuteronomy. 790 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,680 And so Deuteronomy is a great book. 791 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,000 There's a lot of love. 792 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,520 There's a lot of lament. 793 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:19,120 There's a lot of arguments on whether there's accurate storytelling. 794 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,160 We'll dive into all that, but it is a great book. 795 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,320 So that will be starting next week. 796 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:29,680 Again, you can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, the Tickety Talk. 797 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:30,680 Where else? 798 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:31,680 YouTube. 799 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:32,680 YouTube. 800 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:33,680 Yes, YouTube. 801 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:34,680 You can actually see our faces on YouTube. 802 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:35,680 Yeah, you can see our faces. 803 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,320 Which I don't know if I'm apologizing for anymore because 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00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,600 You owe me a coffee. 830 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:56,880 I don't want that coffee. 831 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,200 I wasn't giving it to you. 832 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:04,240 Then you get I tried to stand up and move. 833 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:08,080 Instead, I just I saw myself on the camera and the stupid move I made. 834 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,480 I'm like, well, it looks dumb. 835 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:19,920 I look like a whale trying to breach itself.