Numbers 25 – 27

Verse 25:8 is another anger moment that God exhibits that I don’t understand:

He charged into the Israelite’s tent and ran the spear straight through the bellies of the couple. That one act appeased God’s anger and put an end to the death cascading through the Israelite camp.

With the Torah you have a store interlaced with a bunch of rules and regulations the Israelites must follow to be holy before God. I read sections like this and wonder “if” God has really been the same over all time. Again I like the father/grandfather analogy where early on the people of Israel had God as their father and not the Christian Church has Jesus as “dad” with God being Grandpa.

From verse one we see “some of the men” had sex with Moabite women that cost them their lives. Yet today many in the church get involved with people outside the church and marriage all the time. Heck, I did and was not stuck down by God, instead I have a faithful wife and family.  This is why I make this “blasphemous” statement that God has not been the same over time.

Verse 27:7 is another one that I wonder about:

Zelophehad’s daughters make a good point. They’re right, so do as they ask. Give them an inheritance such as would be given to a son. They shall have land alongside their uncles’ families. 

Here a father’s daughters wanted to ensure their family got a share of land, since he had no sons. God’s response seemed to be a “I could have had a V-8” moment. It almost seems like God, in writing the Law through Moses, did not consider all possibilities. So He had to add things. Again this begs the question of God being the outside time, since if He was He should have considered this scenario. It’s almost like the Law was developed on the fly and that’s why it’s so intermingled with a story. Each situation required a new law, like today in the USA where the laws are so complex because man will always figure out the “loophole”.

Verse 27:18 & 19 starts the transfer of leadership from Moses:

^18-19 Single out Joshua (Nun’s son). In him is the breath of My Spirit. Before the whole congregation, bring him to stand before the priest, Eleazar. Put your hand on him, and commission him into leadership.

The Torah still has one more book before Moses leaves the scene, but God is preparing his predecessor in advance and He did with Moses. We see this time and time again that one is anointed and then is “trained” for some time. Like with Moses, David and even Jesus God does not immediately thrust them into their anointing. No with all they are trained over time to ensure their faithfulness to God.