God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

Hello, friends, we're journeing through the Word of God together. I hope you're enjoying the journey. We've come now to a most interesting book in the Old Testament. We've come to the book of

numbers. And interestingly enough, of all of the books in scripture, this book truly is the book

of the journey.

It covers for us the 40-year wanderings of the children of Israel through the wilderness.

So if ever there was a book that dealt with the travels of life, this is it, the book of numbers.

We know, of course, that Moses is the man that God uses to pin the first five books of the Bible,

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

And we believe that these books were recorded during the wilderness wanderings,

which means that Moses is writing from a firsthand account.

And regardless of the circumstances, we're certain of this that he was led of the

Holy Spirit. He's writing under inspiration. Now, from the exodus out of Egypt to the time the

tabernacle was erected was about one year. And then from the time the tabernacle was constructed

through the book of Leviticus covers the first month of the second year of their

journey. When you come to Numbers chapter 1, verse 1, you read these words, and the Lord spake

into Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tabernacle of the congregation on the first day

of the second month in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt.

So we know exactly where this book fits.

Numbers begins with the second month of the second year,

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