Numbers 13 - Isaiah 5 – Romans 10 – Hebrews 11

Numbers 13

- God told Moses to send one spy from each of the tribes into Canaan.

- Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua

- The spies were to tell if the people were weak or strong and what their cities were like and whether the land was good or bad (because it was harvest time)

- Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt

- When was Zoan built?

- The took some grapes and pomegranates.

- Why did they carry the grapes on a pole carried by 2 men?

- They returned after 40 days.

- They reported that the land was fruitful but the people were strong and cities were fortified.

- Caleb the son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Isaachar quieted the people and said they could take the land.

- The rest of the men were scared to go and fight the giants who lived in Canaan

Isaiah 5
- Why is this section like a poem to his beloved?
- His beloved cleared the ground for a vinyard and built a watch tower.
- He wanted grapes but it grew wild grapes
- Why does this sound like a bad thing?
- Isaiah is asking the people of Jerusalem why they are yielding wild grapes.
- God is saying that because they are yielding wild grapes He will let destruction come to the vinyard.
- God desired justice and the people of Israel yielded bloodshed.
- God is saying that the houses will be empty and the vines will not yield a good harvest.
- God says woe to those who get drunk and forget Him.
- Man is humbled and brought low.
- The Lord is exalted in His justice and righteousness which the people have turned from.
- Woe to those who lie or bend the truth.
- The people were calling evil good and good evil (following the ways of the world)
- Woe to those who think they are wise and to those who are heroes at drinking.
- These people have despised God's ways and laws and will go down to dust.
- God has inflicted justice and His hand of justice is still bringing judgement on the wicked.
- The Lord will bring outsiders to lay the Israelites to ruin for their sins.

Romans 10
- Paul desires to see Gentiles saved through Christ though they were unaware of the Jewish laws.
- If we ascend to heaven we bring Christ down and if we descend down, we are saying we can raise Jesus from the dead. Christ did not need us to do either of these things.
- The truth is by faith the word of God is in our words and heart.
- Believing in your heart is what will save you.
- Heart = believing and being justified
- Mouth = confessing and being saved.
- For those saved by faith God makes no distinction between Jew and Greek.
- Paul asks how Greeks will believe if they have never heard the gospel.
- He also says that it is beautiful when someone proclaims the gospel to people who have never heard it before.
- Faith comes from hearing the Word of Christ.
- Is Paul saying that all people should be aware of the gospel?
- Paul quotes Isaiah who says that God found those who did not seek Him.
- But Isaiah says that God held out His hand to a disobedient and "contrary" people.
- Why did God choose to save a group of people that were so often so opposed to Him?

Hebrews 11
- This is the faith chapter
- Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- By faith we believe God spoke and created everything out of nothing.
- By faith Abel offered a better sacrifice than Cain.
- By faith Enoch was taken up and never saw death because he pleased God.
- Without faith we cannot please God.
- By faith, Noah built an ark saving his family and condemning the rest of the people.
- By faith, Abraham went out not knowing where he was going and entered the promised land.
- By faith Sarah conceived and had numerous descendants even though she was too old. (why is Sarah seen as having faith since she had Abraham lay with her servant to conceive?)
- These people all died before they saw the things promised to them and didn't look back to where they were leaving from but forward to the better places promised to them by God.
- By faith Abraham offered up Isaac as a sacrifice, figuring God would restore Isaac even if he were killed because of God's promise to make a people from Isaac.
- By faith Isaac gave future blessings to Jacob and Esau.
- By faith Jacob bless the sons of Joseph before he died.
- By faith Joseph mentioned the exodus of the Jews and gave directions for his bones.
- By faith, Moses' parents hid him for 3 months
- By faith, Moses refused to be with the Egyptians and chose to be mistreated, he did not fear Pharaoh, and kept the Passover.
- By faith, the people crossed the Red Sea.
- By faith the walls of Jericho fell after 7 days.
- By faith, Rahab was spared during the invasion of Jericho for helping the spies.
- Why doesn't the writer expound upon the other Bible greats which he mentions in passing such as Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets?
- The writer simply mentions the trials they went through and the miracles that God performed through them.
- How does "sawn in two" also translate as "they were tempted"?
- All of those who had such great faith never lived to see what was promised which was Jesus' death and resurrection which would save those who would believe.

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.

Numbers 11 - Isaiah 3 – Romans 8 – Hebrews 9

Numbers 11
- The people complained and God's anger burned up the outskirts of their camp until Moses prayed to God for the burning to stop.
- The people complained again because all they had to eat was manna.
- They remembered fish and vegetables from Egypt.
- The manna fell with the dew at nights.
- God grew angry and Moses was displeased by the people's weeping.
- Moses asked God why He had laid the burden of caring for all these people on Moses.
- Moses realizes his burdens are too great for him and asks God to kill him if He will not help Moses care for these weeping people.
- God tells Moses to gather 70 elders.
- God said that He will take some of the Spirit that He placed on Moses on these 70 men as well, so that they may share the burden of caring for the people.
- God tells Moses to tell the people that they will eat meat for a whole month until they don't want anymore because of their weeping.
- Moses questioned how God would provide meat for a month for 600,000 people and God asked Moses why He questioned God's ability and word.
- The 70 men prophesied, but only that day when the spirit was given to them.
- Eldad and Medad were in the camp when the spirit rested on them.
- Joshua told Moses to stop the men from prophesying, but Moses said that he wished everyone could do it.
- God brought a quail on a wind and the least quail gathered was 60 bushels.
- While they were still eating the quail, God in His anger sent a plague.
- They named that place Kibroth-hattaavah which means graves of craving.
- Why did God bless the people and then send a plague the same day?

Isaiah 3
- God is taking supplies from Judah and Jerusalem.
- Why will God make the younger men despise and not listen to the older men?
- The men shall rule over rubble in the days ahead.
- Jerusalem and Judah will stumble and fall because of their speech and deeds against the Lord.
- The people do not even try to hide their sin, but they flaunt it.
- The righteous will prosper but woe to the wicked.
- The people have been mislead and the Lord will bring judgement on them.
- The people of Zion are too proud and the Lord will bring them low.
- The Lord will take away all their fine possessions in which they boast.
- The Lord will replace all of their fine possessions with rottenness and they shall NOT prevail in battle.

Romans 8
- There is no condemnation for those in Christ.
- We are free from sin and the law.
- God sent His son to do what we could not do, to meet the righteous requirements of the law.
- Those whose min is on the flesh follow the flesh, while those whose minds are on the Spirit, follow the Spirit (Where is my mind?)
- Flesh = Death
- Spirit = Life and peace (2 benefits)
- The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, and can not please Him.
- If you are in Christ, though the body is dead to sin, the Spirit is alive
- What does it mean that the Spirit will give us mortal bodies?
- We are debtors and need to put to death deeds of the flesh.
- We have received the Spirit of adoption, so we no longer need to fear.
- We are chidlren of God and because of that we are heirs!
- The sufferings we face now can not compare to the glory that will be revealed to us.
- All of creation has been suffering and groaining until now.
- Those who have trusted in Christ groan inwardly as we wait for our adoption and redemption of our new bodies.
- This is our hope eventhough we do not see it.
- We wait for our hope with patience.
- The Spirit intercedes for us even when we don't know what to pray for.
- For those who love God all things work for their good.
- What does it mean "for those He foreknew?"
- The order of our trusting in God is; predestined, called, justified, and then glorified.
- Our response to these things should be, "If God is for us, who can be against us?"
- God gave up His own son, so He will graciously give us all things through Christ.
- Christ died and was raised and is right now intereceding for us with God.
- Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword will try to separate us from this Truth.
- We can overcome all these things through Him who loved us.
- Nothing, not even angels or anything else in creation can separate us for the love of God.

Hebrews 9
- The first convenant's holy place of meeting was in a tent.
- There was the Holy Place in the first section and the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in the second section.
- The ark of the covenant held manna and Aaron's budded staff.
- Statues of cheribum overshadowed the ark.
- The priest could only enter the Most Holy place once a year.
- The first section symbolized the present age.
- Offerings in this section cannot prefect the worshipper.
- Christ sacrificed Himself once for allsecuring eternal redemption.
- If a cow could cleanse a sin, how much greater will Christ?
- Those who are called can now receieve their eternal inheritance.
- A will doesn't take effect until the person dies, so too the first covenant was only sealed in blood.
- Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
- The holy places were copies of "true things" in heaven.
- Christ intercedes for us in the presence of God for us.
- Christ does not have to repeatidly give Himself, but did it once for all times.
- Christ will come again not to deal with sin, which was taken care of once and for all, but to save those waiting for Him.

Numbers 10 - Isaiah 2 – Romans 7 – Hebrews 8

Numbers 10
- When 2 trumpets blow the whole community is to come to the Tent of Meeting.
- When 1 trumpet blows just the leaders are to come.
-First trumpet means the east moves, the second trumpet means the south should move.
- The sons of Aaron are to blow the trumpets.
- The trumpet in battle will remind them that God is with them.
- At celebrations blow trumpets
- 20th day of second month of second year, they set out.
- Nahshon son of Amminadab was in command.
- The Gershonites and Merarites took down and carried the tabernacle.
- Rueben's camp went second.
- The Kohathites carried the holy things
- Camp of Ephraim went next.
- The tribe of Dan went last and was a rear guard.
- Hobab was Moses' father-in-law
- Wasn't Jethro his father-in-law?
- Hobab didn't want to go with Moses but Moses convinced him by promising whatever good things the Lord gives them.
- They traveled for 3 days. The ark led the way. They would stop and start when Moses instructed them to.

Isaiah 2
- The house of the Lord shall be on a mountain and everyone will come to hear the law
- He tells Israel to walk in the light of the Lord.
- The Lord has rejected them because they are living like foreigners.
- Man has gained much wealth but even them man shall be brought low.
- Pride of man shall be brought low and only the Lord will be exalted.
- The Lord has a day when all pride will be brought low.
- He will terrify everything high and lofty.
- Man has made idols to moles and bats and will try to enter caves and cliffs.
- Man will try to hide in these place from the terror of the Lord.
- Of what account is man? ends the passage.
- This passage repeatedly states that the Lord will be lifted up and exalted and man, in his sinful, proud estate will be brought low and humbled by God.

Romans 7
- The law is only binding to man while they live just like a woman is bound to her husband only while he is still living.
- The remarried woman is not adulterous because the law that bound her to her husband is no longer there.
- We have died to the Law through Christ's body
- Being bound to Christ allows us to bear good fruit for God.
- We are no longer captives under the law but are free to serve the Spirit.
- The law itself is not sin but a means to show us how we sin.
- The law makes sin alive so that we can see it.
- The law promised life to those who could keep it (which only Jesus did) but proved death to all who fell short of keeping it.
- Sin deceived and killed us.
- The law exposes sin as sin.
- I do not do the things I want to do but the very things I hate
- Nothing good is in me in the flesh.
- I desire to do what is right but not the ability to do it.
- What does it mean that "I don't do it, but the sin in me does"?
- When we want to do good evil is close by.
- The is an inner war waging that holds me captive in my sin.
- Through Christ I can serve God in my mind even when my flesh follows the law of sin.

Hebrews 8
- We do have a high priest seated at God's right hand.
- Earthly priests offer a shadow of heavenly things since they too need to offer a sacrifice for themselves.
- Christ offers better promises than Moses could have because the covenant is better.
- Moses' covenant was not faultless, so a second one was still needed through Christ.
- In the OT the Lord said a day was coming when He'd enact a new covenant with the house of Judah.
- The new covenant will be different from the first because the people could not keep it.
- God promised to put the law into their hearts and minds in the new covenant.
- They will no longer need to teach each other because they shall all know God.
- God promised, even then, that He will no longer remember their sins under the new covenant.
- The second covenant made the first one obsolete. It vanished away.
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Numbers 9 - Isaiah 1 – Romans 6 – Hebrews 7

Numbers 9
- First month on 14th day God told people to keep the Passover.
- Some men had touched a dead body and asked Moses why they shouldn't keep the Passover.
- Moses went to take their question before the Lord.
- Anyone unclean or on a journey are to keep the Passover on the 14th day of the 2nd month.
- If someone forgets to celebrate Passover they should be cut off from the people.
- The cloud of God covered the Tabernacle.
- If the cloud lifted the people moved if it came down the people set up camp.

Isaiah 1
- Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah
- God said that the people did not know Him.
- Isaiah calls them a sinful nation who has turned from God.
- He compares them to Sodom and Gomorrah.
- God says He does not delight in their sacrifices.
- God says He hates their sacrifices mixed with iniquity.
- God says He will ignore the people's prayers.
- God tells them to cease to do evil and do good.
- God says their sins are like scarlet but He will make them white as snow.
- If they do not turn from their sins they shall be "eaten by the sword"
- God says He will remove the evil and make them a faithful city of righteousness again.
- Those who forsake the Lord and think they are strong shall be consumed.

Romans 6
- Our response to grace should not be to sin more but we should die to sin in Christ who died and was raised again.
- Our old self was crucified with Christ so that sin would be nothing.
- Since Christ was raised from the dead, death no longer has reign over Him.
- We are dead to sin and alive in Christ.
- Live no longer in sinful passions.
- Sin no longer has dominion over believers since we are under grace not the law.
- Paul states a second time that grace does NOT mean we are to go on sinning.
- We were slaves to sin but now we are slaves to righteousness.
- Impurity and lawlessness leads to greater lawlessness, where as righteousness leads to greater sanctification.
- The end of sin is death.
- The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ.

Hebrews 7
- Melchizedek, king of Salem, met with Abraham and blessed him and Abraham gave 1/10 of everything to Melchizedek
- Melchizedek means "king of righteousness"
- He didn't have a geneology.
- Levi can even be said to have paid tithes to Melchizedek through his relationship to Abraham.
- Change in priesthood would mean change in the law.
- Jesus was a descendant of the tribe of Judah.
- Melchizedek was not a priest by bloodline
- The Law made nothing perfect.
- Christ holds his priesthood permanently.
- Unlike other priests Christ does not have to offer sacrifices for His sins and the sins of others.
- The law appointed priests who were weak (sinful).

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Numbers 8 - Song of Solomon 8 – Romans 5 – Hebrews 6

Numbers 8
- There were 7 lamps in front of the lampstand.
- To purify the Levites Moses sprinkled water over them, had them shave their entire bodies, and sacrificed 2 bulls, one was a sin offering and one as a burnt offering.
- God said that he now claims the Levites for Himself rather than the firstborns.
- The Levites were to help Aaron in the sanctuary.
- Levites 25 and up were to serve in the tent of meeting.
- After 50 they retire and no longer do any duties.

Song of Solomon 8
- Why would they hope to be siblings?
- He holds her and embraces her.
- She cautions others not to stir up love until it's appropriate.
- A flood can not wash away love
- A man would not trade love for all the money in the world.
- Why do the "others" ask about their young sister with no breasts?
- What is the vineyard metaphor used in this passage?
- He longs to hear his beloved's voice.
- She tells him to hurry up and come to her.

Romans 5
- We are justified through faith in Christ.
- Through faith we have peace and are under His grace.
- We rejoice in suffering because it produces character which in turn which produces hope.
- Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
- We were reconciled to God by Christ's death and are alive in Him now.
- Sin entered the world through Adam.
- Sin was in the world before the Law was given.
- What does Paul mean by "sin is not counted where there is no law?"
- Adam's sin brought condemnation to mankind where as Christ brought reconciliation.
- In one paragraph Paul calls Christ's work a "free gift" 5 times.
- Adam made us sinners where as Christ made us righteous.
- The Law increased our trespasses.
- Where sin abounds grace abounds even more.
- Grace leads to eternal life.

Hebrews 6
- Can those who were once saved lose their salvation?
- The writer encourages them to move away from "elementary doctrine".
- Those who fall away are crucifying Christ all over again.
- The writer compares people to land....some produces crops and others produce thistles which are to be burned up.
- The writer encourage the Hebrews to keep up their good works and serving they are doing and to avoid sluggishness.
- God swore by Himself to Abraham because there was no one greater.
- Abraham patiently waited and received his promise.
- An oath was never to be broken. It was to be certain, so God made an oath and doubly sealed His word to Abraham.
- It is impossible for God to lie.
- We can therefore trust in God's word like an anchor for our soul.
- Jesus was a forerunner, our high priest for us like Melchizedek

Numbers 7 - Song of Solomon 7 – Romans 4 – Hebrews 5

Numbers 7
- The chiefs of Israel brought 6 carts and 12 oxen to the tabernacle and they were accepted.
- 2 wagons and 4 oxen went to sons of Gershon and 4 wagons and 8 oxen went to the sons of Merari
- Each day one of the 12 chiefs would bring their offering to the alter.
- The order of the chiefs was Nashon, Nethanel, Eliab, Elizur, Shelumiel, Eliasaph, Elishama, Gamaliel, Abidan, Ahiezer, Pagiel, and Ahira
- The gifts they gave were the same: one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering; one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; one male goat for a sin offering; and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old.
- Moses went in and a voice spoke to him from above the mercy seat on the ark between the 2 cherubim.

Song of Solomon 7
- He says her thighs are like a statue done by a master sculptor.
- He drinks wine from her navel.
- He compliments her by comparing different body parts to architechture works in various cities.
- He wants to climb her like a palm tree and lay hold of her fruit.
- She says she belongs to her beloved and his desire is for her.
- What is the word that can be translated villages or henna plants?
- The bride gives her love to her beloved in the vineyard where love has bloomed.

Romans 4
- Paul asks if Abraham was justified by works.
- He didn't work, but Abraham's faith was counted to him as righteousness.
- David had written that blessed is a man whom the Lord will not count his sins.
- Paul asks if the blessing is only for the circumcised but he points out the Abraham was counted righteous BEFORE circumcision was created.
- Circumcision was given as a seal to his righteousness.
- The circumcised also walk in the faith that Abraham showed.
- If faith counts as following the whole law, the promise would be null and void.
- The law brings wrath.
- What does it mean by "where there is no law there is no transgression?
- It depends of faith so that all may rest in grace not their own works.
- Abraham grew stronger in his faith as he got older and did not waver
- What about when he had a child with his servant instead of his wife?
- This could be talking about after the angel told him NOT to sacrifice Isaac.

Hebrews 5
- Every high priest is appointed to act on behalf of all men and atone for their sins.
- He can deal gently with others because he himself is beset with weaknesses.
- He has to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well.
- God appoints the high priests.
- God also appointed Christ to be the high priest.
- The OT also says you will be a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
- The writer is writing for a group because he uses "we".
- He says the readers have become dull in their hearing.
- The writer says by now they should be teachers rather than having to be retaught the basics.
- That is why they do not understand righteousness.
- The mature are able to distinguish good from evil because they have constantly practiced discernment.