“Moshe said to Aharon,’Take your fire pan, put fire from the altar in it, lay incense on it, and hurry with it to the assembly to make atonement for them, because anger has gone out from Adonai, and the plague has already begun!’  Aharon took it, as Moshe had said, and ran into the middle of […]

Let’s get our bearings of where we’re at in the Book of Numbers. God has just destroyed the rebels of Israel via two horrifying methods. FIRST, He annihilated Korah and the 250 tribal leaders who joined him by fire. SECOND, He caused an earthquake that opened a huge split in the earth which swallowed up […]

“However, as the community was assembling against Moshe and Aharon, they looked in the direction of the tent of meeting and saw the cloud cover it and the glory of Adonai appear.  Moshe and Aharon came to the front of the tent of meeting.  Adonai said to Moshe, ‘Get away from this assembly, and I […]

“But the very next day, the whole community of the people of Israel complained against Moshe and Aharon: ‘You have killed Adonai’s people!‘“-Numbers 17:6 Wow! The people are just not getting it. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the One who only about a year earlier had rescued the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt, […]

Today we begin Numbers Chapter Seventeen. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. “Adonai said to Moshe, ‘Tell Elazar the son of Aharon the Cohen to remove the fire pans from the fire, and scatter the smoldering coals at a distance, because they have become holy‘.”-Numbers 17:1-2 In our study […]