THE TRIBES THAT SETTLED EAST

Posted by on Oct 20, 2010 in AM Bible Study | 0 comments AM Bible Study Group; October 20, 2010 Numbers 32:1-42 Theme: This chapter describes how the tribes east of the Jordan came to settle in their land. As the people begin their close approach to the land, to conquer and take that which God was giving them, another potential crisis arose. The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad—and later, as we’ll see, half of the tribe of...
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VENGEANCE ON MIDIAN

Posted by on Oct 13, 2010 in AM Bible Study | 0 comments AM Bible Study Group; October 13, 2010 Numbers 31:1-54 Theme: This chapter describes God’s call to the people of Israel to take vengeance on the Midianites for bringing the sin of immorality and idolatry upon them. This passage is a difficult one. It deals with the fact that the Midianite people had deliberately caused Israel to sin, through the advice of Balaam, in order to draw them away...
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THE BINDING POWER OF THE VOW

Posted by on Oct 6, 2010 in AM Bible Study | 0 comments AM Bible Study Group; October 6, 2010 Numbers 30:1-16 Theme: This chapter describes God’s law to the people of Israel concerning the making of vows. Following immediately after God’s instructions regarding the offerings of the feasts comes these instructions regarding vows. The fact that they are given here in the book of Numbers may have been because the story—a few chapters...
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THE CALENDAR & THE OFFERINGS

Posted by on Sep 29, 2010 in AM Bible Study | 0 comments AM Bible Study Group; September 29, 2010 Numbers 28:1-29:40 Theme: This chapter describes the offerings that the Jewish people were to make throughout their calendar year in the promised land. As the people of Israel prepared to enter the promised land, God gives them several instructions for life and worship. Among the instructions He gives are those regarding the regular feasts they were to...
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TWO PROBLEMS & TWO SOLUTIONS

Posted by on Sep 22, 2010 in AM Bible Study | 0 comments AM Bible Study Group; September 22, 2010 Numbers 27:1-23 Theme: This chapter describes some of the problems that God gave solutions to as the people prepared to enter the promised land. Immediately after the second census was completed, problems that related to the people and their entry into the land were dealt with. Two of those problems—and the solutions that God provided—are the focus of...
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THE SECOND CENSUS

Posted by on Sep 15, 2010 in AM Bible Study | 0 comments AM Bible Study Group; September 15, 2010 Numbers 26:1-65 Theme: This chapter describes the second numbering of the people of Israel before they entered the promised land. This chapter describes for us the second numbering of the people of Israel just before the second generation entered the promised land. In this context, not only were the people about to conquer the Canaanite peoples, but they...
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