Joshua Lesson -Disorder

1.What was God’s response to Miriam and Aaron murmuring in chapter 12 of Numbers?

Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses, complaining about his marriage to an Ethiopian woman and challenging him as their presiding authority (12:1–3). The Lord chastens and punishes Miriam and Aaron for their murmuring (12:4–16).

2.Read Numbers chapters 13 & 14. What was the report from the spies? What was Joshua & Caleb’s report?

Report of the Spies (Numbers 13:25-29)
1. At he end of forty days the spies report to the whole assembly.
a. The cities are fortified and large.
b. The land does flow with milk and honey.
c. The people and large and powerful.
Caleb Disputes Reports (Numbers 13:13:30-33)
1. Caleb wants to take possession of the land
2. The ten spies express fear. They saw themselves as tiny, little grasshoppers who would be crushed by big giants. Joshua and Caleb tear their clothes and assured the people of the goodness of the land. (Numbers 13:17-20)

3.What was the reaction/response of the people of Israel to the spies’ report?
Israelites Murmured (Numbers 14:1-3). 1. The people listened to the other ten spies and refused to attack the land.
2. The people cried they should have died in Egypt.
Joshua and Caleb Pleaded (Numbers 13:17-20)


4.What was God’s response to Israel’s rebellion?
God's Anger Kindled (Numbers 14: 10b-12)
1. And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will these people reject me?
2. God is angry reminds them of His past faithfulness.
Moses Pleads for Mercy (Numbers 14:13-19)


5.When Israel decided to enter promise land what was the result? Why?

1. The Lord granted the prayer of Moses so far as not at once to destroy the congregation.
To Wander 40 Years (Numbers 14:26-35)
1. God then commanded Moses to have the Israelites turn back into the wilderness where they would be doomed to wander for another thirty-nine years.
2. All who were over twenty years of age died in the wilderness. Only their children would enter into the promise land.
Spies Die (Numbers 14:36-38)
1. The ten spies that used emotional scare tactics to arouse the people were destroyed immediately.
People Leave Camp (Numbers 14: 39-43)
1. The Israelite people decided that they would obey the first command.
2. Moses warned them not to attack the Canaanites, for God was no longer with them.
3. They marched into southern Canaan anyway.
People are Defeated (Numbers 14: 44-45)
1. The Israelites suffered a terrible defeat and, upon their return, were forced to march into the wilderness

6.Read Hebrews 3:12-4:16. What relationship do you see between these verses and Numbers chapter 13 &14? Which could be considered a type and which an antitype?

Hebrews 3:12-14
"The deceitfulness of sin"! In this context, to be deceitful is to be seductively and enticingly misleading. Sin promises what it cannot deliver. It promises pleasure, contentment, fulfillment—life—but its delivery on these things is fleeting and ultimately unsatisfying. Its deceitfulness is the very reason why it has addictive qualities. It lures us on to try to capture what it can never deliver.
The pleasure is never quite enough to produce the contentment and fulfillment one desires. Thus, people are forced into greater and deeper perversions until it results in death. All along the way, from its inception to death, sin quietly produces hardness of heart. Like a callus that forms over a break in a bone or stiffens a person's joints, sin paralyzes right action.
"Hardness" is translated from skleruno, from which name for the disease multiple sclerosis is derived. In a moral context, it means "impenetrable," "insensitive," "blind," "unteachable." A hardened attitude is not a sudden aberration, but the product of a habitual state of mind that reveals itself in inflexibility of thinking and insensitivity of conscience. Eventually, it makes repentance impossible. The will to do right is completely gone.
The will is the power or faculty by which the mind makes choices and acts to carry them out. An old adage says: "Sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny." At first, against his will, a person engages in some forbidden pleasure out of weakness, curiosity, or sheer carnality. If the practice continues, he sins because he cannot help doing so; he is becoming addicted to it. Once a sin becomes a habit, he considers it to be almost a necessity. When it becomes a necessity, the destiny is produced.

In Numbers 13:26-33. We may wonder that the people of Israel staid forty days for the return of their spies, when they were ready to enter Canaan, under all the assurances of success they could have from the Divine power, and the miracles that had hitherto attended them. But they distrusted God's power and promise. How much we stand in our own light by our unbelief! At length the messengers returned; but the greater part discouraged the people from going forward to Canaan. Justly are the Israelites left to this temptation, for putting confidence in the judgment of men, when they had the word of God to trust in. Though they had found the land as good as God had said, yet they would not believe it to be as sure as he had said, but despaired of having it, though Eternal Truth had engaged it to them. This was the representation of the evil spies. Caleb, however, encouraged them to go forward, though seconded by Joshua only. He does not say, Let us go up and conquer it; but, Let us go and possess it. Difficulties that are in the way of salvation, dwindle and vanish before a lively, active faith in the power and promise of God. All things are possible, if they are promised, to him that believes; but carnal sense and carnal professors are not to be trusted. Unbelief overlooks the promises and power of God, magnifies every danger and difficulty, and fills the heart with discouragement. May the Lord help us to believe! we shall then find all things possible.
Numbers 14:1-4:Those who do not trust God, continually vex themselves. The sorrow of the world worketh death. The Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and in them reproached the Lord. They look back with causeless discontent. See the madness of unbridled passions, which makes men prodigal of what nature accounts most dear, life itself. They wish rather to die criminals under God's justice, than to live conquerors in his favour. At last they resolve, that, instead of going forward to Canaan, they would go back to Egypt. Those who walk not in God's counsels, seek their own ruin. Could they expect that God's cloud would lead them, or his manna attend them? Suppose the difficulties of conquering Canaan were as they imagined, those of returning to Egypt were much greater. We complain of our place and lot, and we would change; but is there any place or condition in this world, that has not something in it to make us uneasy, if we are disposed to be so? The way to better our condition, is to get our spirits in a better frame. See the folly of turning from the ways of God. But men run on the certain fatal consequences of a sinful course.
Numbers 14:5-10
Moses and Aaron were astonished to see a people throw away their own mercies. Caleb and Joshua assured the people of the goodness of the land. They made nothing of the difficulties in the way of their gaining it. If men were convinced of the desirableness of the gains of religion, they would not stick at the services of it. Though the Canaanites dwell in walled cities, their defence was departed from them. The other spies took notice of their strength, but these of their wickedness. No people can be safe, when they have provoked God to leave them. Though Israel dwell in tents, they are fortified. While we have the presence of God with us, we need not fear the most powerful force against us. Sinners are ruined by their own rebellion. But those who, like Caleb and Joshua, faithfully expose themselves for God, are sure to be taken under his special protection, and shall be hid from the rage of men, either under heaven or in heaven.




7.Give your assessment of the warning to us from Hebrews 3:12-4:16?
Think about the similarities of the parable of the “four soils” with these verses. How do they relate to Israel at Kadesh?
We all need to guard against unbelief as we would against an enemy. Paul is not speaking about a heart in which unbelief is merely present, but a heart that is controlled by unbelief, the kind of heart that will drag a person down even as Peter was dragged down into Galilee's water when he took his eyes off of Jesus. The peril of unbelief is that it breaks the trust on which our relationship with God is based. Unbelief leads to falling away, which is the opposite of drawing near. "Drawing near" is a major theme of Hebrews.
Falling away is the supreme disaster of life, the ultimate defeat, because it completely thwarts God's purpose for creation. It is essential we remember that when a person falls away, he is not merely falling away from a doctrine or even a set of doctrines, but from a living, dynamic Personality.
Faith needs to be cultivated. It grows by reading and studying God's Word, and by meditating on it. It grows in an atmosphere of trial or experience because it is exercised through use. It also grows, as we find here in these three verses, in an atmosphere of exhortation from others who are fellowshipping with us. Exhortation is a preventative of falling away, which is a major reason why fellowship is so necessary. Without it, a person may hold his own, and perhaps his faith will not slip very much, but one who is not fellowshipping with others of like mind will rarely ever grow.


8.What was God’s response to Koroh’s murmuring in Numbers chapter 16?
What is God’s response to our murmuring?

The whole generation from 20 years old and up will die in the wilderness. Why? Complaining! A couple of million people die because of their complaining. In Numbers 16, we see the rebellion of Korah, he doesn't like Moses' leadershipin Ref Numbers 16:28-35.

Israel's response to this judgement is fascinating: rather than fear, they murmur.
Numbers 16:41 On the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD."
They are blaming Moses for their judgement. If they thought that Moses did that, they sure shouldn't have murmured against him. God responds again to their murmuring;
We are to demonstrate hospitality to one another and not murmur or complain when you are taken advantage of. They were doing the right thing with the wrong attitude.
We are to be submissive to God, and the token of our submission is to be an attitude of life that does things without murmuring or disputing. Your children might obey you, but is their attitude one of murmuring or disputing
The spies started the complaining and the whole congregation picked it up. This sin is so contagious that it spreads like wildfire. You get one disgruntled complainer and it won't be long before it spreads to many. Whenever a person murmurs, he is finding fault, and when you find fault, you must blame someone (never yourself). When this happens, some will agree with the complainer and some won't and now you have a faction which leads to disunity.

9.Why was Moses prohibited from entering the promise land? Give the Bible reference.
In Numbers 20:8, the Lord told Moses, "Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink." Numbers 20:9-11 records Moses' response: "So Moses took the staff from the LORD's presence, just as He commanded him. He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, ‘Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?’ Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank." Numbers 20:12 gives us the Lord's response, "But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."

First, Moses disobeyed a direct command from God. God had commanded Moses to speak to the rock. Instead, Moses struck the rock with his staff. Second, Moses took the credit for bringing forth the water. Notice how in verse 10 Moses said, "must we (referring to Moses and Aaron) bring you water out of this rock." Moses took credit for the miracle himself, instead of attributing it to God. Third, Moses did this in front of all the Israelites. Such a public example of direct disobedience could not go unpunished. Moses’ punishment was that he would not be allowed to enter the Promised Land (Numbers 20:12).

10.Read Numbers 21:1-9 and John 3:14-18. Give your opinion of their association? Which would be considered a type and which a antitype?
There was only one remedy for Israel’s waiting. They should have focused their lives on God.
Numbers 21:4-9 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"
Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live." So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake ,he lived.
Today our lives must be focused on God through Christ.
John 3:10-15 "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life