Numbers & Deutoronomy

Question 1

Numbers title in Hebrew

Answer 1

In the desert.

Question 2

What is the book of numbers intended to be?

Answer 2

An essay of the consequences of disobedience, NOT a history of Israel.

Question 3

What is the length in time of the book of Numbers?

Answer 3

Leviticus covers only one month.

Numbers covers almost 39 years.

Question 4

9 Rebellions of Numbers (KNOW ALL OF THEM)

Answer 4

The Rebellions:

1) Complaining about hardships (11:1-3).
2) Complaining about the food (11:4-35).
3) Miriam and Aaron challenge Moses (12).
4) The Promise Land Rejected (14). (The Ultimate rebellion.)
5) The Levites rebel (16:1-40).
6) The people rebel when Levites are killed (16:41-50).
7) Complaining because of no water (20:1-13).
8) Complaining for having to go around Edom (21:4-9).
9) Rebellion by sexual immorality with Moabites (25).

Question 5

What is the theological principle of the set up of Israels encampment in the wilderness?

Answer 5

God does things in an orderly manner.

Question 6

The Nazarite 6

Answer 6

• Any man born in the tribe of Levi was considered holy to the Lord because of his responsibilities for the tabernacle and all the holy articles.
• However, any man who wished to be holy and separated to the Lord, even if he was not a Levite, could still take special vows of holiness and become a Nazarite. They were considered separated to God for the time set by their vow.

Question 7

What are the 70 known as?

Answer 7

The Sanhedrin.

Question 8

Eldad and Medad - Numbers 11:26-30 (CRITICAL THINKING)

Answer 8

Joshua wanted them silenced. He would rather they not prophesy at all or else come to the Tabernacle and prophesy together with the rest. He does not desire that they should be punished but only restrained. Yet too often we wish to restrain those with whom we do not agree.

Question 9

The Journey from Sinai, and the Great Rebellion at Kadesh Barnea (9-10; 13-14). (CRITICAL THINKING)

Answer 9

Lesson to learn from this:
1) We must not secretly grieve at the gifts, graces, and usefulness of others. This was the error of John the Baptist’s disciples. They envied Christ’s honor because it eclipsed the honor of their master. But John plainly told his disciples that, “He must become greater and I must become less.” (John 3:30)

2) Rarely does our anger achieve anything for the Kingdom. Our zeal must always be tempered with the meekness that comes from wisdom: “for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. (James 1:20).
3) We must not be quick to condemn and silence those that differ from us, as if they do not follow Christ because they do not follow him they way we do.

Question 10

Name Numbers 12:3.

Answer 10

Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.

Question 11

Joshua and Caleb

Answer 11

The only ones who urged with confidence that since God was with them they could succeed.

Question 12

Moses in intercessory prayer

Answer 12

Moses gives us a powerful lesson. We corporate with God in determining how things turn out!

Question 13

What did the judgement upon Israel involve?

Answer 13

This judgement involved the sentence of wandering the desert for 40 years, until everyone in the older generation had died (except for Joshua and Caleb) and a new generation who were born to them in the wilderness had grown up (num 14:32-33)

Question 14

How is Israel not entering the promise land a warning to the church today?

Answer 14

This ultimate rejection of the Israelites who were delivered from their bondage in Egypt (salvation) is a warning to the church Ave today that just as the ancient children of Israel could not enter their prepared rest because of unbelief, so we believers can miss our rest (heaven) and be rejected if we become faithless and hardened as well.

Question 15

Name a theological principle from Moses’ failure with the water from the rock?

Answer 15

Those in spiritual leadership have a greater responsibility to honor the holiness of God before the people of God.

Question 16

Name John 3:14-15.

Answer 16

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so he Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

Question 17

Name Jude 1:11

Answer 17

Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.

Question 18

Name 2 Peter 2:15

Answer 18

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

Question 19

In light of New Testament scripture, what was the Balaam error?

Answer 19

God doesn’t care how much it takes to buy you, God only cares that you can be bought; like Balaam could be.

Question 20

What is the emphasis of the book of Deuteronomy?

Answer 20

Its emphasis is on the people rather than the priests. (contains large amounts of legal detail)

Question 21

What two titles is Deuteronomy known by?

Answer 21

The translators of the Septuagint rendered the phrase “second law” or Deuteronomy. Its title in the Hebrew Bible is “These are the words”.

Question 22

Who is the Author of Deuteronomy?

Answer 22

Moses

Question 23

What is the structure of Deuteronomy?

Answer 23

Deuteronomy is organized as a series of three discourses by Moses.

Question 24

8 purposes of Deuteronomy (KNOW SOME)

Answer 24

1) Covenant Renewal
2) A Successor for Moses
3) Preparation for Life in Canaan
4) Prophetic Fulfillment
5) Prophetic Predictions
6) Kingship
7) Exile & Restoration
8) The Prophet

Question 25

What is the Decalogue?

Answer 25

10 commandments

Question 26

Three themes of Deuteronomy

Answer 26

1. Israel
2. Israel’s God
3. The Covenant which binds them together.

Question 27

Name the Four Theologies of Deuteronomy

Answer 27

1) God is a Covenant-Making and Covenant-Keeping God.
2) Monotheism.
3) Deuteronomic Humanitarianism.
4) Blessings and Curses.

Question 28

What other books weight Israel’s history against He background of Deuteronomy’s instructions?

Answer 28

The authors of the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and 2 Kings weigh Israel’s history against the background of Deuteronomy’s instructions.

Question 29

Two unique points of influence about the book of Deuteronomy

Answer 29

Deuteronomy is the third most often cited book in the New Testament after Psalms and Isaiah.

Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy more than any other book.

Question 30

2 specific times Jesus referenced Deuteronomy

Answer 30

When Jesus named the two greatest Commandments.

Jesus answered all of the devils temptations (Matthew 4) with passages from Deuteronomy.

Question 31

Name the SHEMA verse. (REQUIRED)

Answer 31

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5

Question 32

3 recommended guidelines when reading the Old Testament law (CRITICAL THINKING)

Answer 32

1) See the Old Testament law as God’s full inspired word.
2) See the Old Testament law as something additional built on top of the already existing foundation of the promises and blessings to Abraham.
3) Don’t see the OT as binding on you or anyone else in the New Covenant, except where a principal or command has been specifically renewed in the New Testament.

Question 33

What answer do we give then when we are asked: “Didn’t Jesus say that we are still under the Law, since “the least stroke of a pen” (“no jot or tittle”) would even drop out of the Law?” (CRITICAL THINKING)

Answer 33

What Jesus said was that the Law cannot be changed. The Law and prophets came to an end with Christ’s redemptive act. This did not abolish the old, but fulfilled it replacing it with a law of love.
Since Christ fully obeyed and fulfilled the Law, and since we receive his righteousness (imputed to us) when we repent, then God sees us covered with the righteousness of Christ who perfectly fulfilled the Old Testament Law.