The Word to the World
We saw last week that, in Numbers 15, God provided his people with a gracious revelation assuring them of a future loaded with favour. The next generation would inherit the land forfeited by the faithless behaviour of their parents. In the text before us today,
Though there is a lot of legislation in Numbers 15, this chapter is an account of grace more than of law. It is a story of mercy rather than a story of the merely mundane. Though there are a lot of precepts in these verses,
This text brings to a close the tragic account of Israel’s sin of unbelief as they stood on the threshold of God’s Promised Land. Just when we think that things could not get any worse, their belief becomes blatantly exponential—seemingly boundless. In this account we
In Numbers 14, the nation of Israel—the graciously chosen people of God—minimised God as they made much of themselves, manifested in their pursuit of self-preservation. This is the story of a great tragedy in which God is demeaned and humans are destroyed. It serves as