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Leviticus, Numbers I Cultivate Faith in the Desert I Handmaidens, Harems and Heroines I Lynne Wilson · Scripture Central

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If you sleep with someone who is a slave, you will have your own
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due punishment. Throughout the history of the
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world, I don't think there's been as many women who choose
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prostitution as women who are forced into it.
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They got to a place they were so thirsty and they drank and they
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all got sick. The bitter water was made
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healthy by putting in the tree the crossing of the Red Sea.
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Paul says in 1st Corinthians 10 that that is the symbol of our
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baptism. The woman would come and drink
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the bitter water. Little dust is taken from the
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Tabernacle and put in water. She drinks the bitter water.
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If her belly doesn't swell and if she's still healthy, then
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this suspicious husband is. Hello.
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Welcome back to Scripture Central.
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I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, part of the team that wants to build
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enduring faith in Jesus Christ by defending and illuminating
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Scripture. And as we look at the Old
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Testament, today I'm focusing on the women, the handmaidens,
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harems, and heroines as they seek their Messiah.
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And today we get to look at the books of Leviticus and Numbers.
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Now I know most of our reading for Come Follow Me should be
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just in numbers, but there's a few things in Leviticus that
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we're not touched on, so I want to make sure we do those.
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I've got 6 named women and a lot more unnamed women to include.
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As we discussed some laws that protected women, we're going to
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hear of the last few years of Miriam's life.
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The children that grow up and are allowed to enter into the
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promised land, the daughters of Moab, the daughters of the
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nations. And then we get our five
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daughters of Zevlothian and their great ability to stand up
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and ask for land for their father, and Joshua enters the
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promised land. So that is where we're going
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today. And then next week we'll do
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Deuteronomy. This whole cycle, this Exodus
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cycle, starting from Exodus chapter 1 all the way through
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the books of Moses, is this 40 year period of purification.
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And it's a type and shadow not only of the Messiah, of our
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Savior Jesus Christ, but also of the plan of salvation.
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So if you can zoom out and take a bird's eye view of these
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chapters of the 40 years in the Exodus, we see the prophet Moses
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repeatedly acting as a type of Christ.
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Remember, as they're leaving Egypt, the Passover lamb
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obviously represents the Son of God sacrifice.
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And then we have them leaving Egypt just as the toddler Jesus
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left Egypt, and just as we all must leave the wickedness of the
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world, the crossing of the Red Sea.
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Paul says in 1st Corinthians 10 that that is the symbol of our
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baptism, that they cross the Red Sea just as we will be baptized.
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And they ate the manna and the water just as we have the
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sacrament. And the pillar of light or fire
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and the cloud by day represents the Spirit of God in our lives
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and their lives. You know, you can see this
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beautiful plan of salvation and these beautiful emblems that are
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used in our Savior's life as well.
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The next one I love from our Savior's life.
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Do you remember when the water was bitter?
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They got to a place they were so thirsty and they drank and they
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all got sick. The bitter water was made
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healthy by putting in the tree. You know, Moses took that branch
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and put it in the log and the water became purified.
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And as I think about this is a symbol of our Savior on at the
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end of his life on the tree being hung on the cross is being
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hung on a tree. And it is through that tree that
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the healing takes place. As for our mortal life to become
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immortal, you remember the battle of the Rafidim where
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they're the Amorites are fighting and and it's the where
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death is raging and and Moses, by representing our Savior,
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opens his arms out and and God prevails.
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And remember he has Aaron, a representative of the Aaronic
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Priesthood and her on the other side holding up sustaining him.
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And through the three of them, they are representing, I feel
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the and the power of God, that the organization of God to do
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things. It's, it's, it's just amazing.
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As we continue along through the Exodus cycle, you know, Moses
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climbs up Mount Sinai, receives the law, but Jesus is the
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lawgiver. And his higher law comes later,
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both in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon.
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And hopefully in our conference reports, we're learning more
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about the law of the Lord in a higher, holier way.
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And we've got the story of the golden calf, and we've got the
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story of Satan tempting the Lord, as well as Satan tempting
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all of us. The Tabernacle is built and as
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they prepare to enter in the Lord's presence and as we go
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through this cycle with not only with the women and the men, I
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hope you can zoom out sometimes and see not only types and
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shadows of of God, but this plan of salvation that we all need to
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go through these symbolic representations.
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And in the Old Testament, when we get to the book of Hoshiya,
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he says it's the lives of the prophets that are testifying of
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Christ as well. So I hope that as we jump in now
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to Leviticus and numbers that you can see some of these
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beautiful symbols and put to effort.
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The Levitical priesthood manual, the book of Leviticus mentions
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women a few Times Now. It's usually general like we
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want all the men and women, everyone to be offering
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sacrifices. The Lord commanded quote.
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If anyone meaning male or female sin in ignorance, they must
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bring a sacrifice of the atonement.
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That's Leviticus 4 verse 27. We read also in Leviticus 5 and
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we're you know, it's repeated a lot of times.
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This, this, if anyone this, this word in Hebrew is often
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translated as man in King James, but in other translations it's
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either a soul or a person, but it includes both male and
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female. You know, the word is
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everything. And these beautiful offerings of
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either unblemished animals or your first fruits represent, of
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course, the great and last sacrifice of the Son of God,
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this beautiful type of Christ on an altar which has also been
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anointed to be a holy thing. And if it's been anointed, it is
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a Messiah. It's a Messiah.
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It is a place of sacred worship and holiness.
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This sacrificial system that's taught to Israelites required
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that sin came at a price, but that God provides a way for them
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to be forgiven and cleansed. And the book of Leviticus
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describes many different types of offerings.
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I'm going to talk about four of them.
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There's a thanks offering. It's a voluntary gift and you
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can either use it with fine flour and oil, you add a little
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frankincense and you're just telling the Lord thank you.
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And it has the deliciousness of the smell and the little salt is
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added. This is a way of thanking our
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God. There's the purification
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offerings. There's a sin offering that you
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did not mean to sin. You know, these are animal
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sacrifices and they are to vicariously carry our
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shortcomings and cleanse and restore one status before God.
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Those are all described in Leviticus chapter 4.
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But the sin offering when we know we've been sinning.
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This is in Leviticus 23 and also numbers 15.
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There's a presumption this there we we are defiantly facing
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severe consequences if we do not change.
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And so the Lord has a way saying no, you couldn't turn around.
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I'm thrilled that even nowadays we can give offerings.
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We can give of our time, talents, and energy as
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gratitude. But I also feel like sometimes
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when I need extra blessings, I want to give more in my
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offerings. I want to give not only more
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time, but even more of my means to ask the Lord for help or to
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thank Him or to apologize. The entire chapter 12 of
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Leviticus describes the wonderful way that God has
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allowed a time period for healing, and it's called the
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purification period or the purification era.
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And this is 40 days after a woman has a son and 80 days
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after a woman has a daughter. She has 40 days divided up from
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the seven days before the circumcision and then 33 days
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after that. And you have a seven day period
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before the mother then needs to go to the temple and make her
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offering of either they're a lamb or two doves if two birds,
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2 pigeons. If she doesn't have enough a
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financial means to afford a lamb.
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But this purification period is doubled.
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If she has a daughter, she gets 80 days.
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Not that the delivery's any worse with daughters.
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I've had both. I don't think so.
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I've worked in labor and delivery.
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I don't think there's a difference in gender, but there
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is a difference in the fact that symbolically the woman was
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created second. So they give it twice as much
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time. And I don't think it would
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bother any woman to take 80 days after a delivery to recover and
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to be purified and to allow the cleansing of her body and the
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healing to all take place. Sometimes it's a lot longer than
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80 days, depending on how hard the labor was.
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But at the end of that 80 days or 40 days, we have this
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symbolic cleansing period either doubled for a female or singular
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for a for a baby boy. But either way, this number is
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used from Noah's ark, from the fastings of our Lord, from the
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40 years in the wilderness. 40 is repeated over and over, and
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this is where we understand the symbolic interpretation as we
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continue on in Leviticus. Chapter 19 sort of repeats the
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10 commandments from Exodus 20 and they summarize the 10 by
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referring to two important ones in verse 3.
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It says ye shall fear every man, his mother and his father, and
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keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
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This idea that your mother needs to be revered and honored is, is
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was always a, a wonderful commandment to have.
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It cut me short as a teenager when I was not as as sensitive
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to my, my mother as I should have been.
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But now as an adult and a mother looking on this, I have a whole
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different view. You know, our lives are honoring
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our parents and we have heavenly parents that also need to be
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honored. And some of you may say my
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parents aren't worth honoring. Then you can focus on your
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heavenly parents and you can focus on the next generation
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having someone worthy of being honored or an auntie or whatever
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situation you're in. I also appreciated in Leviticus
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19 the message to protect female slaves.
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Now, remember, a lot of times a woman didn't have a choice if
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she was going to be sold into slavery.
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But Leviticus describes, this is the NIV translation.
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If a man sleeps with a female slave who's promised to another
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man, I think that means they're betrothed, they're engaged, you
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know, they've been, they've been set apart to be married, but who
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has not been ransomed or given her freedom, There must be due
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punishment. So if you go and fall in love
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with someone who's promised to somebody else, you're going to
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be in trouble. But if you sleep with someone
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who is a slave, you will have your own due punishment.
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Now the the female, because she is still, she doesn't have her
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freedom. She is not put to death.
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This is this, this protects her to say you can't just go and
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sleep with a slave. You can't just go and and abuse
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a woman because she's in a different position.
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And we find more laws protecting women dealing with the law of
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chastity as we continue on in chapter 19 of Leviticus, verse
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29. And then chapter 21 talks about
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protecting your daughters from prostitution.
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Throughout the history of the world, I don't think there's
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been as many women who choose prostitution as women who are
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forced into it by someone else. And they don't stay in it
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because of their own choice most of the time.
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God had commanded the fathers not to exploit their daughters.
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Now, according to the law of Moses, a father could sell
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himself, his daughter, his sons, his wife into servitude, into
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slavery for a period of time so that they could pay off his
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debts. And we read that if this happens
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though, and a woman is sold into prostitution, wickedness is
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going to come and the land will be destroyed.
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That is the law of Moses protects young women from being
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forced into any sexual immorality, especially for
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financial gain. Moving on to Leviticus 21, verse
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7 and 13 and 14, we we learn who can marry a priest, a descendant
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of Aaron, and who can marry the high priest.
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First of all, all Israelites were encouraged to marry someone
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of the covenant, marry someone who shares the same values, who
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wants to worship God, who wants to have all of their focus on
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his holy sanctuary and coming unto Him and keeping his laws
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and rights and statutes. But the commandments
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specifically to the priests identify people that need to be
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compatible, marriage partners who are equally pure and clean.
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Verse 7 says they can't take a wife among who's a whore or
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profane. Neither should they take a woman
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who's been put away from by her husband any unholiness because
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the woman also needs to be holy. And then it's even higher.
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There's one more requirement for a high priest.
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He cannot marry a widow, and that is not the case Now.
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We have no problem marrying widows or divorced women if it
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is done with pure hearts, with repentance and but we are all
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commanded as Israelites that we need to be careful in our choice
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of marriage, that we can find people who want to build the
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Kingdom and raise a family up unto Christ.
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We want to find companions who who not only love the Lord, but
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want to teach that love to their children, their grandchildren,
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or maybe if they don't have any children, to their community
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around them and other family members.
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But this idea of the high priest only marrying a virgin, I think
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symbolizes this pure relationship between God and his
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covenant people. As we get into the book of
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Exodus, we'll read a little bit more about that, where the Lord
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often uses this imagery of of marriage between God and his
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covenant people. Isaiah uses it, Hoshiya uses it.
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And, and This is why I think the high priest who represents God
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on earth when he's acting in the ordinances, remember Section 84,
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the oath and covenant of the priesthood says it's in the
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ordinances that the power of godliness is manifest.
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So as the high priest is acting as a type or shadow, a
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foreshadow of our great Savior Jesus Christ, he needs to be
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pure and holy. And so his wife is, is
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specifically said to be a virgin.
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Now the daughters of the priest, just like the sons of the priest
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and the wife of the priest, all join in to these holy offering
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feasts. And they do not own property.
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The property they are given is the the food offerings that are
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brought into the temple. And these holy offerings are
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reserved for their families. And it's not just the priests
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that eat them. The husbands and wives and
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daughters get to join in. The only person that doesn't get
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to do it is if a daughter of a priest, so it's a descendant of
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Aaron, chooses to marry outside of either the covenant or even
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the the priestly lineage of Levi.
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Then they do not get to come back in and enjoy the food that
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is for that family because these other tribes had their own land
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and property and they can go there and eat.
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This is a way the Lord is taking care of his servants.
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Now let's step into the book of Numbers.
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There's a lot of counting in this one, and I assume the
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numbers are fairly accurate. But the idea that we have over
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1,000,000 people, you know, 600,000 that are the age of male
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warriors suggest we have well over 1,000,000 people.
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And, and, but there are parts of the book of Numbers that
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describe more of the Law of Moses.
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And there's a few little details that specifically discuss women
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that I'd like to share with you. One of them says that any woman
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who wrongs another needs to be accountable.
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I love this. Of course, women are agents.
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They have, they are morally accountable for their behavior.
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And the Law of Moses says, hey, you can't blame your father or
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your husband, whatever you if you've committed a sin, you need
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to be morally responsible for it.
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There's also similar language that emphasizes that women are
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held to the same standard of righteousness.
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They have to held equal responsibility for making
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restitution when they have wronged others.
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So Numbers chapter 5 is is very good about that.
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Numbers chapter 5 later on versus 12 to 31 talk about women
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who are accused of unfaithfulness.
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And this is another one of those laws that protected women.
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I love it. It says that if a wife is
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married to a man who all the sudden gets jealous and he
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claims that she's had an illicit relationship, he claims that
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she's flirting with someone else.
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He's acclaimed she's unclean and he wants her out of there.
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And given the scarlet A, there was a ritual that came with the
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law of Moses that said I will protect this woman if she's
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innocent. I'm not going to just trust this
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one husband's view because if we don't have any other witnesses,
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the woman would come and drink the bitter water.
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Little dust is taken from the Tabernacle and put in water.
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She drinks the bitter water. And if she her belly doesn't
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swell and if she's still healthy, then the suspicious
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husband is is not allowed to divorce her, not allowed to
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badmouth her. She's allowed to bear children.
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She's innocent and her whole community knows she was
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innocent. I think it's a wonderful thing.
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I didn't think it was too great that she had to be married to
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the guy still, but I think it's a different time and age and say
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hopefully they could work it out.
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And because that would be the better part even now in many
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cases. But in some cases, it's better
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to allow her to leave. And perhaps that was an option
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than to, I don't know the details.
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And it concludes in Numbers chapter 5, verse 28, that if
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she's innocent, she shall be free and shall conceive seed.
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And they promise both vindication and future children,
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which in that day and age was extremely important.
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One of my favorite laws to understand is the Nazarite vow
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and in numbers chapter 6 we learn more about this time
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period where Israelites could separate themselves and Nazarite
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vow takes it usually a period of time, but sometimes it's for
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life to separate oneself to the Lord's service.
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I see this as a call to a mission or call to a certain
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calling and it requires great commitments.
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Now in that day and age. Interestingly, one of the
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requirements whether they avoided everything that was made
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by a grape. So that's not just wine, that's
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also grape juice and it's raisins and anything that even
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of the Grapevine, one was not allowed to cut their hair, one
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was not allowed to touch a dead body.
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But the main focus were not these three side things.
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It was to separate yourself for God's service, and these
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restrictions were just to help them be different and separate
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themselves. They also have symbolic meanings
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as well, but for women this was particularly significant because
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it allowed them direct access to the higher level of the religion
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dedicated to consecrate themselves before God with God
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as their head. I just, I'd love this.
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I'm sure you remember some of the stories in the Bible.
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Hannah is an opportunity to make this vow before she has Samuel.
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It's a wonderful story. And we also have Samson's mother
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who takes this vow. The next group that I want to
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look at in Numbers 11 is not necessarily a group of women,
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but female imagery. God uses these wonderful
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maternal imagery for His divine nature and for the role of His
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prophets. Moses cries out, Have I
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conceived? Or another translation?
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Have I begotten this people? These are wonderful phrases that
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refer to a woman's role of conceiving and bearing and
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nursing their child. But literally, the Lord and
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Moses use this image to describe God as a nursing father.
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You know, he who nourishes and cherishes his children at the
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breast. It's a wonderful image of our
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God, and I believe it works well for both of our heavenly
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parents. I love the description that our
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God of the Old Testament, Jehovah, embodies both the Lord
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of hosts, these masculine military reigning images, and
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the feminine roles acting both as a father and a mother to
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Israel. It's a metaphor of carrying the
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people not just in the bosom but in the womb.
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It evokes these tender intimacies of nursing the
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mothers and holding that infant close to their heart.
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I just I'm so glad that these female images are used with God.
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You know we call our Heavenly Father a reason, not just
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because of our pre mortal existence, but he is described
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as conceiving and bearing and nursing us these beautiful
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divine fatherhood, the most important kind of attributes we
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can attain. And some of us, regardless of
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our gender, need to work on these nurturing Christ like
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attributes. I'd rather that we didn't say
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some of these attributes were gender related.
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I'd rather we just all tried to become more Christ like for the
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next last few minutes. I want to talk about our six
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named women Now. We've already talked a lot about
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Miriam, but this is the time where Miriam begins murmuring.
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She's speaking against her little brother because of the
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Ethiopian wife. As I mentioned before, I don't
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know if this is a wife that he had when he was in Egypt or if
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he's taking a different wife since then, but it's not.
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It doesn't sound like it's Zipporah, his wife that he
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married in the land of Midian, who's the daughter of Jethro,
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the high priest. In other places in the
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scriptures, it's called a Kushite or an Ethiopian.
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It may refer to an region South of Egypt in Africa.
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I don't know because we use both of these two words.
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But this may have been someone that was new or someone that was
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old, but for whatever reason it is, Miriam doesn't like it.
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And Aaron goes along with it, it sounds like.
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So God defends. Moses punishes Miriam with
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leprosy, as we talked about before, and she repents that her
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brothers plead with the Lord to heal her.
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She is healed after seven days. The group moves on.
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Everyone is thrilled. But by the time we get to
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Numbers 20, Miriam dies. Remember, anyone over 20 in that
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early group is going to die before they leave, except for
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our righteous Joshua and Caleb, the two spies that obeyed the
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Lord. And of course Moses, we learn in
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restored tradition was translated.
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But at Miriam's death, we have a beautiful description in Numbers
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20 of how Israel mourned for her and how they waited and, and and
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loved her. She was the great prophetess of
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that era, and during those 40 years, during that purification
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period, they prepared to answer into the presence of the Lord.
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The last group of women that I want to talk about is the
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daughters of Zelafedin and numbers 26 and 27.
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And then when we move up to Joshua 17, we're going to hear
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about them again. And in First Chronicles, these
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valiant women, by the end of the 40 years, there's these five
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daughters who are still alive and they have no brothers.
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And so they don't get any land assigned to them.
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So they go before Moses and they say, please don't leave us out.
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Our father's name needs to be remembered.
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And sure enough, Moses goes to the Lord, He prays about it, and
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the Lord says, yes, the daughters are right.
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Give them their land. Give the women inheritance when
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the men when there's no sons. And that is wonderful to not
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only see Moses willingness to pray about something like this
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because this is not the norm in the ancient world.
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Women usually did not get inheritance.
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But from these great daughters, 6 generations from Manasseh, you
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know these daughters are Joseph's first born.
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They are bold, they are brought before the Lord and their names
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are listed every time in this order, Mahala, Noah, Hogala,
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Milka, and Tazak. They are remembered in my heart
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for their braveness, their fairness, and their willingness
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to stand up for which is right. And they also went to the Lord's
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anointed and said, May we? And then again when they go into
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Joshua asked may we? And certainly the Lord answered
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their prayers. We've got three more references
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to females at the end of the book of Numbers.
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One of them is quite ironic. This is from Numbers 14, verse
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3. Do you remember when the
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children of Israel are very mad at Moses saying we're going to
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take over the land of Canaan? They, they say, you know, we're
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just going to all die and, and our wives and our children are
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going to be pray and they're going to be sold in for booty to
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these people. And ironically, God turned their
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complaint into a prophecy. And because of their unbelief,
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that entire generation of adults had to die in the wilderness.
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But those young wives, many wives were under 20 and children
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were the only ones who, instead of being sold off as booty, are
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now in the right place to enter into the promised land.
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God reverses what they said and to demonstrate not only the lack
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of faith of the first generation, but that these women
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and children had faith and were willing to make that covenant to
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enter into his presence. The next group of women occurs
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shortly before they're to enter into the promised land.
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But it is very, very sad #16 says there's a group of rebels,
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Koran, Dothan, Abram, and they rebel against Moses leadership.
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And there's this tragic moment when God's judgement is going to
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fall not only on these rebels who challenged Moses leadership,
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but also their families and their wives and their children.
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The Lord says everyone who wants to change and repent can change
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and repent. And those of you that don't, the
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earth's going to open up and swallow them up.
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And their households, their men and their women and the wives
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were included in this collective punishment for their patriarch
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sins. Now, I don't know if those women
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had the rights to stand up and, and, and say, no, I will not
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follow his bad example. I sort of think they may have
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been able to do it because I notice how Miriam can do that
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and how these daughters of Zelophant could do that.
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But for whatever reason, these daughters and and wives were
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taken. As the battles begin between the
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Israelites, we learn of the daughters of Moab who were
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killed. Numbers 21.
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Woe to the Moab. And, you know, the mention of
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both the sons and daughters here to me emphasizes the
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completeness of Moab's defeat. You know, entire families, not
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just the fighting men, fell into these captivity.
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But as we finally end this book, we then have Joshua ready to
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take the children of Israel into the promised land.
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And returning back to this 40 year ecstasycle, I want to just
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remind you that Joshua, Yeshua is the name for Jesus in Hebrew
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versus Greek, and that as Joshua who led the children into the
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Promised Land, so too Jesus will lead us into our promised land.
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And we have these beautiful types of Christ in through the
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prophet Moses and the prophet Joshua.
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And I hope that as you study your beautiful Old Testament
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this week, you can seek your Messiah and find him in your
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life. I have found Him in my life and
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I believe through all my purification periods of 40 years
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walking in the wilderness that He has been walking beside me,
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that He is my help and my salvation.
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I testify of this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.