Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption.

And we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey guys, welcome back to the year in the Bible with Daily Grace podcast. I'm Kristen

and today we're talking about numbers 19 through 21. So in today's chapters we start

off with God reminding the people about purity laws. Remember God is holy and pure. And

in order for the people to come before him, they too must be holy and pure. But thankfully

God didn't leave his people without instructions blindly trying to figure out a way of how to

honor him. Instead, he gave them his laws through the book of Leviticus to show the people

how to worship him and how to be clean. And chapter 19 reminds us of some of these laws.

Then in chapter 20, Miriam, who was Moses' sister died. But not only this, Moses was faced with

another trial very soon after when the people started grumbling before the Lord again, because

there was no water. Instead of just asking Moses to pray for water, they complained against Moses,

saying they would have rather died. They would have rather still been in Egypt to be slaves

and to be thirsty here today. And so Moses and Aaron went before the Lord and God told them to

tell a rock to produce water and it would. And so Moses and Aaron went off. But instead of telling

the water to come out, Moses struck the rock twice with his staff and he said, you rebels,

should we bring water for you out of this rock? And water flowed out from it.

So it may not seem like a big difference to talk to a rock or to strike it with a staff.

But in doing this, Moses actually had to subate God. And from his words, it seems like he was

taking God's place as the one who gave the people water. He wouldn't be able to enter the

promised land now because of this sin to make matters worse. At the end of chapter 20, Moses'

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