Entering the Promised Land – Numbers E9

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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After years of wandering in the wilderness and what seems like way too many rebellions against Yahweh, Israel has finally arrived on the edge of the promised land. What could possibly go wrong now? And yet even here, two of Israel’s tribes rebel, repeating the sins of Adam and Eve and dividing themselves from their brothers. Join Tim and Jon as they wrap up the Numbers scroll.

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0:00.0	We are on our last stop in the scroll of numbers.
0:07.8	The wandering through the wilderness is over.
0:10.6	The 12 tribes of Israel are at the East Bank of the Jordan River.
0:14.8	They're ready to pass through the waters and make their home in a new garden land.
0:19.8	The land promised to them.
0:21.6	Except two and a half tribes.
0:24.5	They look around at the east side and they think, you know, this land ain't bad.
0:29.3	We wish to stay here.
0:30.7	They see a land that is not the land.
0:33.4	The God said, is there a stench here?
0:35.4	But they see the land that it's good for their animals.
0:39.0	And then they ask, could it be given to us?
0:42.3	As we've been reading the Hebrew Bible, we've been trained to notice that when humans see
0:46.4	something as good, it often leads to a foolish choice in our own destruction.
0:52.3	Humans are really bad at discerning good from bad.
0:56.0	And the archetypal story that teaches us this is the woman at the tree, seeing the fruits,
1:01.7	desiring it and taking it.
1:03.8	By the time you're in numbers, this has happened dozens of times, the woman at the tree moment.
1:08.7	The language there has been used in later stories to set up an analogy to the taking of something
1:14.8	that God has said, that's not the thing for you to take.
1:17.3	This story is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the complexity of life that we often confuse
1:22.8	good with bad.
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