Come Follow Me OT Podcast 20, “You Can Have What You Want or You Can Have Something Better," -- Num. 11-14, 20-24
Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast
Scot Facer Proctor
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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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May 9-15
Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined today by John Hilton lll, who is a professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, an author and humanitarian. In our lesson today, the Children of Israel are in the thick of the wilderness journey, and if hunger and thirst, were not enough to bear, now there are fiery, flying serpents to contend with, and a powerful, spiritual solution which few of the people are willing to do. Why won’t they do this simple thing?
The Children of Israel have also come to the promised land, and while it is indeed a land flowing with milk and honey, ten of the spies who have gone in to take a look, come back into camp terrified. They feel like grasshoppers among giants in this new land, and, therefore, anyone over twenty, except Joshua and Caleb, will wander and die in this wilderness rather than having the abundance the Lord was willing to offer them, if they had just trusted Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | We are Scott and Maureen Proctor and we are delighted to be with you today. |
| 0:26.1 | We are going to be studying Numbers, chapters 11 through 14 and chapters 20 through 24. |
| 0:32.9 | Now this is the only opportunity we have to study the book of Numbers and the Come Follow |
| 0:37.5 | Me curriculum and I was thinking Maureen about something that we have seen a number of |
| 0:43.4 | times in Israel that is one of the most exciting things I think that's ever been discovered |
| 0:49.2 | and it's called the Priestly Blessing and it is located in the sixth chapter of Numbers |
| 0:56.8 | verses 25 I believe to 28 but the thing that was fun about this this was only discovered |
| 1:03.0 | in 1979 and the archaeologist who discovered it well it wasn't really him who discovered |
| 1:09.2 | the Gabriel Barcai was kind of working in the Hinom area the southern part of the valley |
| 1:16.3 | of Hinom just south of Jerusalem and he didn't have any budget at all and so he was employing 12 |
| 1:23.8 | and 13 year old boys to work with him and one of the boys name was Nathan and he had a hammer |
| 1:30.8 | that he just happened to find and professor Barcai was kind of saying would you kind of |
| 1:36.9 | go on your way maybe go over in that tomb over there and just work a little bit and he didn't |
| 1:41.0 | realize he had a hammer so he got kind of bored and he started pounding on the floor of this |
| 1:46.8 | of this tomb and he broke a hole in it and he brought a perfectly preserved pot over to the |
| 1:52.8 | professor to the archaeologist and they found that there is this Janiza this kind of repository |
| 1:59.6 | of all these sacred items and one of them was the Priestly Blessing from Numbers and it was 28 |
| 2:06.1 | hundred years old so it became and is to this day as far as I understand the oldest scriptural |
| 2:13.0 | text that we have dates to 800 BC and it's so exciting because oftentimes they will have a |
| 2:19.1 | display in the Israel Museum so of course that priestly blessing it's actually verses 24 to 26 the |
| 2:26.0 | Lord bless thee and keep thee you recognize these verses the Lord make his face shine upon the |
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