Light and Darkness

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Light and Darkness (78)

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Numbers 25; The scene from Numbers 22-24 shifts from Balaam speaking to king Balak of Moab, to the Israelite camp where a serious sin issue has arisen. Balaam slyly advised […]

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Numbers 24:15-25; The Balaam saga concludes with several oracles from Yahweh-God concerning future events for Israel and surrounding nations. King Balak is informed that a future leader of Israel would […]

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Numbers 23:27-24:14; Returning to our ongoing Light and Darkness series with the third round of sacrifices by pagan King Balak of Moab to try and rid his region of Israel. […]

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Numbers 22:21-41; The second installment of the Balaam narrative, where the pagan seer leaves for Moab with the Moabite digintaries and incurs the anger of Yahweh-God. Three times the angel […]

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Numbers 22:1-20; After twice defeating Amorite kings who attacked them, Israel temporarily settled in captured towns as they looked northward towards Moab. Balak, the king of Moab, was fearful of […]

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Numbers 20:14-29; In this very impactful chapter, Miriam had died and the Israelite complaining about lack of water had prompted Moses to lose his composure. Instead of speaking to the […]

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Numbers 20:1-13; Nearly forty years have passed since the turmoil and challenges of chapters 16 and 17. Moses and Aaron have led the difficult assembly of Israel to the Desert […]