Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it as one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about numbers.

Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

The name of this book is Numbers, and I think the name is Trash.

And look, I understand that some of you are gasping right now, you can't say the name

of a book of the Bible is dumb or bad, can't I?

Because that part isn't actually inspired by God.

Christians don't believe that.

It could have been named something better.

Look, I get why they called it Numbers, because there's a census at the beginning,

and there's a census at the end, and in this ancient Near Eastern Bronze Age context,

the fact that the people descended from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Slash, Israel,

and then his sons, we talked about Joseph and Judah, for example,

the fact that these people grew up into this gigantic people group,

just the numbers alone tell a story that God is keeping his promise that Abraham would be

taken from being just like some guy from the middle of nowhere, and that he would become

this great nation with descendants as numerous as the stars.

It's happening, and further, in that ancient Near Eastern context,

numbers is a big deal, like just having a lot of people, that is power.

Having a lot of livestock, having a lot of descendants, a lot of first born sons,

a branched out in diverse family that has chieftains and tribes within it.

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