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What Does the Book of Numbers Teach Us?

Is God out to get us when we’re tested?

“The other two spies, Caleb and Joshua, can’t convince the people to trust that God will provide for them in the land. The majority are sure that God is out to get them—that he must be luring them into the land to kill them by the giants’ swords. They forget that God rescued them from slavery to give them life in the promised land.”
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The nature of these sacrifices allows people to see, taste, and smell the devastating consequences of the harm we cause one another—Yahweh wants people to understand what damaged relationships cost. But he also wants the people to experience the relief of forgiveness.
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