CHAPTER 15 HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. The change of subject which now follows is so forceful, vivid and emphatic, that it is worth sitting and reading it with that in mind in order to gain its impression. It is awesome. The next thirty eight years is left as a blank. Yahweh is portrayed as simply passing... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 15 PROVISION MADE FOR THEIR WALK BEFORE YAHWEH: OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES. In this chapter provision is made for the marking off of Israel as Yahweh's and how sins, both deliberate and unwitting, are to be dealt with. 1). MARKING ISRAEL AS HIS AND CALLING FOR A COMMITMENT TO KEEP HIS COMMAN... [ Continue Reading ]
II) THE CONTRIBUTION OR HEAVE-OFFERING AND DEALING WITH UNWITTING SIN (NUMBERS 15:17). The stress continues to be on the fruit of the ground. Hope for the future was being piled up for the younger generation. One day they, unlike their fathers, would enjoy the full blessing of living in the land. B... [ Continue Reading ]
III) PROVISION IN RESPECT OF SIN WITH A HIGH HAND (NUMBERS 15:30). Numbers 15:30 “ But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he be homeborn or a resident alien, the same blasphemes Yahweh, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.” Those, however, who sinned with a... [ Continue Reading ]
IV) TASSELS ON THE FRINGES OF THEIR CLOTHING (NUMBERS 15:37). The requirement was now made that the children of Israel wear special tassels on their clothing. This was stated to be that they might look on them ‘and remember all the commandments of Yahweh and do them'. In other words they were to be... [ Continue Reading ]