Fri, Jan 13 - Mem Quiz 6b & Numbers Catch-Up

Next Quiz/Test: Today was Memory Quiz 6b: Psalm 15:1-4 (NIV, 1984)
- Next Friday is your Unit 6 Test! Study guide is already posted
- You have until Friday, 1/20, to retake Memory Quiz 6a

Handouts: Memory Quiz 6a

Reminders:
- Service Hours: There are three things to turn in for this on April 16: Essay, Record Form, Comm. Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 6: Laws, Blessings, & Numbers! (Leviticus 23-27 & Numbers)
Journal: None given, students studied for their quiz

Settling Korah's Rebellion:
- A cause of Korah’s rebellion was this complaint:
Why does Aaron get to lead the priests?
- Read Numbers 17:1-11
- - How did God show who He choose? He will cause his staff to bud
- - - Who did He choose? Aaron!
- - - Describe what happened. Aaron’s Staff sprouted, budded, blossomed, & produced almonds!
- - - Why is this odd? Old dead pieces of wood don't have this happen...

- Note: Chapters 18-19 are more rules for the Levites & Priests

Numbers 20:
- 20:1-5) Miriam Dies & …
- - Lacking water, the people again complain because they don't have water
- 20:6-8) God commands Moses is to speak to the rock & water will come!
- 20:9-13) But Moses sins by striking the rock instead! (see handout, p28)
- - Moses lets his anger & pride get the better of him.
- - God disciplines Moses for this by not allowing him to enter the Promised Land
- 20:14-21) Edom denies Israel passage through their land, so Israel must go around.
- 20:23-29) Aaron Dies

A Loss, A Victory, Complaints, & A Snake:
- 21:1-3) Israel loses to & then wins against Arad

- 21:4-9) Israel is impatient, hating manna, & speaking against God & Moses
- - God sent poisonous snakes
- - Moses creates a Bronze Snake, put on a pole
- - - Looking to it will save you!
- - - How is the Bronze Snake like Jesus?
- - - - See John 3:14-15 (NIV), "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.a]">"
- - - - By believing in God & physically looking at the Bronze Snake, one would be healed & saved from death
- - - - By believing in God & spiritually looking at Jesus (following Him in faith), one is spiritually healed & saved from spiritual death!

- Israel defeats the Amorites & Bashan

- Moab begins to fear...

Numbers 23-24:
- Balak asks Balaam to curse Israel
- Num 22:41) Baal is 1st introduced, this is the name of one of the main false gods in the region Israel was moving to & it becomes a MAJOR problem for them!
- Num 23-24) Each curse becomes a blessing!
- - Balaam blesses Israel when asked to curse them: (Num 23:7-10, 23:18-24, 24:3-9 & 24:15-20)
- - Balak complains every time because Balaam is doing the opposite of what he wants! (Num 23:11-12, 23:25-26 & 24:10-14)
- - Each time Balak asks Balaam to move to a new place & tries again to have Balaam curse them (Num 23:13 & 23:27)
- Summarizing the blessings Balaam gave:
- - Israel’s great growth
- - God’s faithfulness to them
- - Prosperity & success
- - Rise of a conquering military ruler

Numbers 24-26:
- Numbers 25) Balaam’s other counsel (Num 31:16)…
- - Have Midianite women (from Moab) seduce the men of Israelite to sin with them
- - Some Israelites even sacrifice to their false gods!
- - This happened at Peor (meaning, 'a gap')
- Numbers 26) The second census of Numbers is taken; there are 601,730 men
- Numbers 27:15-23)
- - What is going on here? Moses is seeking a successor!
- - God appoints Joshua, so…Moses commissions Joshua