So throughout the book of Numbers, we see the Israelites trying to navigate life in between.

Dr. Reed Lessing, author of the issues that said are a book of the month,

Hope in the Wilderness, Practical Insights from the Book of Numbers.

Because obviously this is where those who are in Christ, Jesus find ourselves every day.

We're in between.

God has begun a good work through Holy Bapt baptism, our exodus out of Egypt, and yet we're not yet in the promised land.

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This week on the Word of the Lord indoors forever, we continue in the third book of the Psalter covering Psalms 83, 84, and 85.

Do not keep silence, the most high over all the earth.

My soul longs for the courts of the Lord, a day in your courts, and restore us again.

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There is one account in the book of numbers that almost every student of the Bible knows fairly well. It is the bronze serpent. What is that story about and how does Jesus take this story and apply it to

himself? Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us for the conclusion of our

four-part series on the book of numbers, Dr. Reed Lessing. He's Edwin F. and Esther Lash chair of

Old Testament Studies at Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota.

He's author of The Issues, Etcetera, Book of the Month, Hope in the Wilderness, Practical

Insights from the Book of Numbers. Dr. Lessing, welcome back.

Good to be here with you, Todd. Let's jump into Numbers 21. You wanted to focus on verses

four through nine. Yeah, probably for a lot of our listeners,

this is the narrative that immediately pops to mind when someone says the book of numbers,

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