Bible Questions #370 -388

Numbers 18: 20 through Numbers 20:7

The people have to stay in the desert-wilderness for 40 years. They will move from place to place, but they will not go into the promised land of Canaan.

God has made all those people in other nations to be afraid of the Hebrew people and their God. God had promised he would make them afraid.

The other nations are waiting and watching to see what the Hebrew’s God is going to do. They have heard of the crossing at the Red Sea and the people going across on dry land. They have heard of the things that happened in Egypt. They heard about how God fed his people with bread from heaven.

They are expecting the Hebrew’s God to do something great for his people. They just do not know what it will be.

But nothing happens-----because the Hebrew people will not trust their powerful God to fight for them. The other nations believe that the Hebrew God is great and powerful. Too bad the Hebrew people could not see how afraid they were.

So the Hebrew people begin to wander around in the desert. The other nations do not know that God is punishing his people.

What will happen to the fear that the nations have----if time goes on and on and nothing happens? Will they stop fearing the Hebrew’s God?

This is a lesson for us. When we do not do what God wants us to do. If you feel you should do something, but you will not do it ----because of fear, or some other reason---other people may be waiting for us to obey God, because God is going to work in people’s lives because of you. But you do not obey.

You miss a blessing to be used of God, and they miss a blessing.

Moses’ sister, Miriam, dies. They are staying in a place where there is not enough water. The people start talking about Moses again---complaining. They get the people together for a big meeting.

Aaron and Moses go to the tent church to talk to God.

370. Numbers 20:7 What does God tell Moses to do?____________________________

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371. Moses goes to the rock. (It is probably part of a cliff of the mountains.) What does Moses do?________________________________________________________Does he obey God?____________________ How does his anger with the people make him do things different from what God said?_______________________________________

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Numbers 20: 10-11

372. God is not happy with Moses. vs. 12 What does he tell Moses? ______________

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This is a hard punishment. We wonder why. We need to remember that God talked "face to face" with Moses. Nowadays God talks to us in our spirits. Our minds and spirits are tied together in this. We feel in our spirits that we should do something, but it is not as clear as it would be if God spoke to us "face to face".

Moses knew clearly what God had told him to do. It was his anger with the people that got in the way and he hit the rock in anger.

We can understand why Moses would be angry. The people were awful to Moses.

But obeying God does not depend on what other people do. Obeying God is between us and God. God does not excuse us because we let our feelings get in the way.　

373. Numbers 20:14-22 Moses asked the King of Edom if they can pass through their land. Edom is the land of Esau----Jacob’s brother. They are related to this group of Hebrew people---"cousins".

Does the king let them pass?___________

374. Numbers 20:23-29 What happens here with Aaron?__________________________

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375. Numbers 21:3 What does the King of Arad do?____________________________

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Now the Hebrew people are angry and they want to fight against this king. They want God’s help. Does God help?______________________________________________

376. Numbers 21:4-9 The people begin complaining against God and Moses again. What are they upset about?_____________________________________________

How does God punish them?___________________________________________

How does God give them a way to be saved?_______________________________
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377. Numbers 21:21-24 Another King will not let them pass through their land. The king attacks them. Then what happens? Vs. 24

378. Do the Hebrew people have some land now? Vs. 25, 26 __________________

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379.How did things go with the King of Og of Bashan? Vs. 31,32 _____________

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380. The Hebrew people go into Moab country. King Balak was afraid of them. The king sent for Balaam who was a prophet. (A prophet is a person who hears messages from God and he tells the people what God said.)

The king wanted Balaam to do what?________________________________

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What does Balaam tell the men who came to talk to him? Vs. 8 ____________

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381. What did God tell Balaam to do? Numbers 22:12 __________________________

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382. Vs. 14 Balak sends more important men and more money and he asked Balaam to curse the Hebrew people. What happened this time? ____________________________

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383. That Balaam asks God the second time if he should go. What does God say? Vs. 20

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384. Numbers 22:21- 35 What happens on the way? This is a most unusual story!

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385. King Balak makes some animal sacrifices and he expects Balaam to curse the Hebrew people. What happens? Numbers .23:10-11 _________________________

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386. King Balak takes him to another place to look down on the Hebrew people. He tells Balaam to curse them. Vs.13 What happens? Vs.25-26___________________________

387. King Balak takes him to a third place. What happens? Numbers 24:9 ___________

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The next book is Deuteronomy. This is a book of history. It is about Moses telling the history of the Hebrew people. It ends with Moses going to the top of Mt. Nebo to look over the land God promised to them.

Moses dies. Deuteronomy 34:5 The Lord buried him so no one knew where. He was 120 years old, but he was still strong like a young man and he could still see good like a young man.

388. Deuteronomy 34: 10-12 "There has never been another prophet like Moses because the Lord talked to him ___________________________. And he did amazing miracles by God’s power------which no one has ever done like that.’