S2:106 Numbers 31

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

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If God is good, how do bad things happen? How could God command the children to be killed? Does God approve of genocide? How does God’s wrath show His love for His people? In this episode, Emma Dotter takes us through Numbers 31. In this passage, we are reminded of God’s absolute truth in every chapter of the Bible, despite the challenging subject.

Scriptures referenced in today’s episode:

Exodus 34: God’s character and the covenant

Numbers 25: Midianite sexual immorality

Exodus 22:24: Mistreating travelers

Genesis 2:17: Adam’s sin

Romans 5:12: Death through sin

Isaiah 10: God uses secondary agents

Joel 2:13: God’s patience should lead to repentance

Leviticus 25:44, Deuteronomy 20:14 and 21:10-14, 2 Chronicles 28:8-10, Isaiah 14:2: How captive women were to be treated

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, just want to give you a heads up that you may want to listen to today's episode by yourself first before listening with kids around.
0:08.6	Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.
0:16.6	Thanks for joining. Today, we're in Numbers 31, and if you're tracking along with us in the
0:21.6	guided journal, you know that today we're zooming in on verses 13 through 18. And due to the
0:27.3	weightiness of this topic and the extensiveness of the questions it raises, we will be spending
0:33.1	a little bit more time together. So let's just call it what it is. Today's reading is a tough
0:39.3	passage. We've got the vengeance of the Lord, the killing of every male and Midian, the women and
0:45.4	children referred to as their little ones are taken captive. All the little boys are killed.
0:51.4	Any woman that had been sexually active was killed, and the young girls
0:55.6	and virgins are kept for the Israelite men. And as I read this, my heart was grieved for the families
1:02.2	that were broken up, for the women who lost their husbands, for the mothers whose sons were killed,
1:09.0	young sons, for the little boys who lost their lives,
1:12.5	and the young girls that were taken captive from their families and raised by foreigners.
1:16.7	In my head, it plays out like a really bad movie, horrific.
1:22.0	And the people doing this are supposedly the good guys.
1:27.1	How? If God is good, why do bad things happen? Is the God of the
1:32.4	Old Testament a moral monster? Is this genocide? In order to best understand this chapter and the character
1:39.5	of a good God that doesn't need to be wrongly called into question. We've got to rewind. You go all the
1:45.7	way back to Genesis. God creates people. He puts them in the garden. He gives them freedom and a
1:51.0	choice. Out of love, he doesn't force his people to be in a relationship with him. But they choose
1:57.1	wrong and sin enters the picture. Yet even then, we learned that God's going to send a child
2:02.8	to conquer the evil one. And eventually, God makes a promise to Abraham, who's a routine liar, might I add,
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