Numbers 26 - Isaiah 8 – 1 Corinthians 7 – 2 Peter 1

Numbers 26
- God told Moses and Eleazar to take a census of all of the people.
- They had to be 20 and able to go to war to be counted.
- Who is the "them" referring to in v.3?
- Reuben = 43,730 (Dathan and Abiram and Korah had descendants but they themselves had been swallowed by the earth)
- Simeon = 22,200
- Gad = 40,500
- Judah = 76,500
- Issachar = 64,300
- Zebulun = 60,500
- Joseph = (contained descendants of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Gilead) = 52,700 (Zelophehad had no sons, but only 5 daughters)
- Why did the census take note of these daughters?
- Ephraim = 32,500 Why are Joseph's two sons listed separately?
- Benjamin = 45,600
- Dan = 64,400
- Asher = 53,400
- Naphtali = 45,400
- Their total was 601,730
- God told Moses to divide the land and give a large inheritance to the big tribes and a small inheritance to the smaller tribes.
- Levites = 23,000 (Moses, Aaron, and Miriam's tribe) (Nadab and Abihu died offering an unauthorized offering.) This list was for all males a month old and up.
- The Levites did not get an inheritance.
- None of these people were on the previous census list taken in the wilderness as God had promised except for Caleb and Joshua who had had faith.

Isaiah 8
- God told Isaiah to write on a tablet with Uriah and Zechariah as witnesses.
- Isaiah went to prophetess and she bore a son named Maher-shalal-hashbaz (The spoil speeds the prey hastens)
- God said that before this son could talk Damascus and Samaria will be overtaken by the King of Assyria
- God is bringing the assyrians against them since they have refused His gentle waters.
- The Assyrians will overtake the people like a flooding river
- Why does verse 8 end with O Immanuel?
- Who is the "us" God is with in verse 10- the Assyrians or the Israelites?
- God told Isaiah not to fear what the people fear or to act like the people.
- Isaiah should regard God as holy and fear God alone.
- God will be a sanctuary and a stumbling rock to Israel.
- God told Isaiah to wait for the Lord and hope in Him while all this takes place.
- The people will turn to mediums and necromancers instead of to God.
- The people will become hungry and enraged and grumbled against king and God.
- Their end will be darkness.

1 Corinthians 7
- Paul says that it is good not to have sexual relations.
- People should marry to fight sexual temptations.
- They should each give each other conjugal rights.
- They each have control over the other's body not their own.
- Paul cautions not to deprive one another except for prayer because it gives Satan an "in" for temptation because we lack self control.
- Paul tells them as a "concession" not a command that he wishes they could be like him (single?)
- Widows and unmarried are better off not marrying, but they should if their passions arise.
- Paul says that the Lord charges the married that they should not get divorced.
- Why does Paul say if the wife separates from her husband she shouldn't remarry?
- To the rest (Paul, not the Lord says) to stay with an unbelieving spouse if they want to remain with you.
- How is the unbelieving spouse made holy and is Paul saying a holy person's children are automatically made holy?
- If the unbelieving spouse chooses to go, let them.
- God has called believers to peace.
- A husband and a wife should assume they can "save" their unbelieving spouse.
- We should all seek to lead the life God has assigned to us.
- Paul tells people not to seek out circumcision if they haven't already done it, because it cannot save.
- People need to keep the commandments.
- The saved slave shouldn't seek to be free but if God allows it they should take it.
- We are all slaves of the Lord.
- The free shouldn't be slaves of men, but slaves of Christ because they were bought with a price.
- Paul gives his opinion on marrying and says that the free shouldn't be married and the married shouldn't seek to be free.
- Marriage = worldly troubles
- Paul tells people to be aware that the present world; goods, marriage, mourning, rejoicing will all soon pass away.
- The unmarried is anxious about things of the Lord, but the married man's anxieties are divided between how to please his wife and the Lord.
- The unmarried woman focuses on pursuing holiness in body and spirit, but the married woman has to please her husband.
- Paul wants them to have undivided devotion to God.
- Paul seems to be saying that if anyone is giving into temptation with their betrothed then they should marry.
- Marriage is NOT sin.
- Why would a self controlled individual still keep her as his betrothed?
- Mariage is good, not marrying is even better.

2 Peter 1
- Why is Simon written Simeon?
- Peter is writing to those equal in the faith.
- Grace and peace come from knowledge of God and Jesus.
- His divine power has given us all things (life and godliness)
- He has called us for His own glory and excellence.
- By His power we are able to escape corruption and sinful desire.
- We should pursue virtue, knowledge, self-controlled, steadfast, godliness, brotherly affection, and love. (They go from lesser to greater importance)
- These qualities should increase which will help you stay fruitful and effective.
- A believer who lacks these qualities has forgotten the truth of the gospel.
- If you practice these things you will never fall.
- This is the way to show your election is sure and that you will enter heaven.
- Peter says he will continue to remind them of these qualities.
- Peter "stirs them up" by way of reminder.
- Peter acknowledges that his life will soon end, but he wants them to recall the things he preached to them.
- Peter didn't preach myth but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
- Peter recalls when God spoke aloud to Jesus "This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased"
- Peter reminds them of the prophetic Word and reinds them to pay attention to it.
- The will of man has never produced a prophecy.
- Prophecies come from God through the Holy Spirit