It can all kind of be wrapped up into this theme of God's faithfulness versus Israel's fear.

And if that isn't the story that many, many of us live in this day and age, right?

God's faithfulness versus our anxiety.

God's faithfulness versus our worries about the future or our children or all kinds of things.

Will the people trust that Heavenly Father is going to keep his promises to them?

And that might be a pretty familiar question to you too.

Is God going to keep the promises that he made to you?

And that requires an incredible amount of not just you having trust, but growing in trust

over the course of like your 40 years or your time in the wilderness.

So it turns out that you can get the people out of Egypt in one day, but it takes about 40 years to get Egypt out of the people.

Hello and welcome to Fairs.

Come follow me for Old Testament year. I am Jennifer Roach-Leese, and today we are talking about the book of Numbers. Don't be afraid. Numbers is not about math. It's not even actually all that

much about numbers, although there are some in this book. It is the amazing story of Israel as they

wander from Mount Sinai, kind of all the way up into the edge of the promised land. So it's all

the 40 years of wandering. But before we get going, I want to point out one verse in numbers

and have been my ongoing effort to get you to look at other translations outside

of the King James version. So Numbers is a great book for this because it kind of gets weird.

Here's my example. It's Numbers 3511. And in King James, it reads,

Then ye shall appoint for you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the slayer may flee

tideth which killeth any person unawares. And you're probably like, what? What in the world is a

modern person supposed to make? How is just to get meaning out of that? Here's what the NIV says.

Select some towns to be your cities of refuge to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee right they're

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