Numbers 21:4  And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Purging can be discouraging.

Numbers 21:5  And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

Here they go again.

The lesson is not that complainers die. It’s that the complainer should die. It’s not necessarily that we shouldn’t complain. But that the complainer in us must die.

Numbers 21:6  And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

More carcasses.

Numbers 21:8  And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

Plan of salvation declared

Numbers 21:9  And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Plan of salvation done

Numbers 21:16  And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

Beer? Is this another name for Meribah?

Numbers 21:17  Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

I didn’t know this was a scripture. First we’ll see how biblical that all is. Interesting.

Numbers 21:31-32  Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.  (32)  And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

Why did they need villages? If they would have assembled as the Law said, there should have been no need for villages.

Numbers 22:22  And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

Go. Don’t go. Go. I don’t understand.

Numbers 23:11  And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

I don’t know what to say about that.

Numbers 23:15  And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

While I meet the Lord yonder. We need to go yonder.

Numbers 23:19-21  God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?  (20)  Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.  (21)  He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

God is not a man.  Jesus was? Hmm? Something to think about.

Numbers 25:1  And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Why abode anywhere than by the tabernacle. Moab not good. Don’t dwell with them and you won’t anything them.

Numbers 25:8  And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Ouch.

Numbers 25:9  And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

That’s 10,000 more than Korah’s rebellion.

Numbers 25:12  Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

Wow. For such a violent act? Mortify the deed of the flesh! Cut off the hand! Cut off the foot! Pluck out the eye!