Numbers 12 - Isaiah 4 – Romans 9 – Hebrews 10

Numbers 12
- Miriam and Aaron rebuked Moses for marrying a Cushite woman.
- Why was this wrong to challenge Moses when God had instructed the Israelites not to marry other races?
- Moses was the meekest man on earth.
- God told the 3 of them to come to the tent of meeting.
- God asked Miriam and Aaron why they felt they could speak against Moses when God spoke directly to him?
- The Lord grew angry and left.
- Miriam was leprous.
- Aaron repented and Moses cried out for God to heal Miriam
- The Lord told them to put Miriam outside the camp for 7 days.
- After that she was healed and they moved their camp to Paran.

Isaiah 4
- Why is verse 4:1 separated from the end of chapter 3?
- The men will be so few because of deaths in war that 7 women will fight over 1 man.
- In that day Israel will be fruitful and beautiful for God's sake.
- Those left in Zion will be called holy.
- Jerusalem will be cleaned out when God purges out all those who had done evil.
- He will again be a cloud by day and a fire by night
- He will care for His people day and night.

Romans 9
- Paul tells them that he grieves for them and is speaking God's truth to them in love.
- Paul tells the Romans that Israel was God's chosen people who have had adoption, the glory, covenants, and laws.
- Not all Israelites will be saved but offspring of the promise to Abraham.
- God promised Abraham a son, and chose Jacob over Esau before they were born and had done anything good or evil.
- Jacob was called not because of works but because God had called him.
- God told Moses that he will have mercy on whom He chooses.
- It doesn't depend at all on human will but on God, who has mercy.
- God told Pharaoh that He had raised him up to show God's power over Pharaoh.
- God has mercy or hardens people as He wills, not what we will.
- Paul tells the readers that they cannot question His will.
- God has the right to shape us as a potter would clay. He will use those who He calls to shame the wicked.
- Paul quotes Hosea where God says that He will call people who were not labeled "God's people"
- Isaiah had said that though the Israelites be very numerous, very few would be saved.
- Paul points out that gentiles who did not know the law have been saved by faith and Israelites who tried to keep the law have not been saved because they lack saving faith.

Hebrews 10
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- The law with its yearly sacrifices can never make people perfect.
- If sacrifices were enough they would not have to keep being made every year because the people would have been cleansed for good.
- Yearly sacrifices are a constant reminder of constant sins.
- Christ came to fulfill God's role for Him that was written in the OT.
- Why would God ask the people for yearly sacrifices if He was not pleased by them?
- Christ overrides the first type of sacrifice by offering Himself up as the perfect sacrifice.
- That is the only reason we can rest assured in our sanctification.
- Priests constantly offer sacrifices, where as Christ sacrificed Himself once for all and is now seated at the right hand of God.
- He perfected all sanctified people for all times.
- God said that He would write His laws on our hearts and through the Spirit this has been accomplished.
- If we have been forgiven through Christ there is no longer any need for sacrifices.
- Jesus' blood gives us confidence in our faith freeing us from evil. We have been washed clean.
- We can have faith without wavering.
- We should be asking how we can stir up love and good deeds because of what Christ has done.
- It is necessary to be meeting together.
- If we sin after hearing about the Truth there is no other sacrifice which we can turn to.
- If we continue to deliberately sin then we have judgment wait for us.
- The writer reminds us that under Law of Moses people would die with 2 or 3 witnesses, but it will be worse for the one who spurns the Son of God and grieves the Spirit.
- God is to be feared by those who turn from Him.
- The writer reminds them of the hard times after they were saved. They were locked up and joyfully accepted people plundering their property because they realized what they had waiting for them in heaven.
- How can I have more of an eternal perspective like this?
- We shouldn't forget the confidence we do have through Christ.
- The writer quotes that God disapproves of those who shrink back, and because of the Truth of the Gospel we can walk in confidence and persevere.