Numbers 1–4: On Kohath, Gershon, & Merari—Israel’s Best Furniture Store (Bible Talk, Ep. 43)

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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By the time we get to the beginning of Numbers, Israel is poised to take the Promised Land. But first, they need to receive their marching orders.

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0:00.0	So not only are they kind of evenly distributed around the camp, but that each camp faces inward toward the tabernacle.
0:10.0	So, you know, when God promises to dwell in the midst of the people of Israel, that's not only meant spiritually and covenently.
0:17.0	Like here we see an actual visual illustration of the fact that quite literally the tabernacle is in the visible center of the camp of Israel and all of Israel faces toward the camp.
0:34.7	Welcome to episode 43 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought to by by Nine Marks. Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches. For more, you can visit Nine Marks.org. My name is Alex Duke, and with me are my two friends, Sam Amati. Jim Hamilton. Episode 43, is this our last episode, Alex? Maybe. Who knows? Yeah, who knows the future? Why would it be our last episode? The Lord could come back.
0:54.5	That's true.
0:54.8	He could.
0:55.6	One of us, you know, something.
0:57.0	I could get hired as, you know, the Mets general manager or something.
0:59.9	I don't know.
1:01.6	Hopefully this is not our last episode.
1:03.0	Anyway, here we are.
1:03.9	We are starting a new book yet again, the book of numbers, the third installment of the Torah. So you might say it's like the Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift of the
1:12.2	Torah. You know, before we get started. Sam, have you seen that movie? I've not seen the Fast and Furious
1:16.6	movies. I haven't seen those either. Honestly, I'm not really sure I've seen that particular one.
1:20.8	Anyway, there, there you are, just to clean our palettes before we transition from Leviticus to Numbers. So here we are. Jim, just remind us for a second where Israel is.
1:30.2	Like, what are they doing?
1:31.5	What are they up to?
1:32.2	Where are we at in the story of Israel here at the beginning of Numbers?
1:34.8	So they've come out of Egypt at the Exodus, and that was narrated for us in the book of Exodus.
1:39.4	They got to Mount Sinai in Exodus 19, and they stay at Sinai through the book of Leviticus all the way to
1:46.4	Numbers 10. And in Exodus chapter 40, verse 17, we read that in the first month, in the second
1:54.0	year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. And then in Numbers chapter 1,
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