Numbers Explained: Understanding the Book and Its Message for Today - Couverture souple

Livre 10 sur 10: The Bible for Modern Life Series

Whitaker, Samuel

 
9781972885055: Numbers Explained: Understanding the Book and Its Message for Today
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ISBN 10 : 1972885057 ISBN 13 : 9781972885055
Editeur : Ascent Press, 2026

Synopsis

Numbers is the book of the wilderness — not the wilderness as romantic metaphor for spiritual searching, but the wilderness as consequence. Israel had been liberated from Egypt, ratified the covenant at Sinai, and constructed the tabernacle. They had everything they needed to enter the land they had been promised. And then, standing at its border, they refused to go in.

The result was forty years of wandering. Numbers is the honest record of that failure: the complaints, the rebellions, the longing for Egypt, the mutinies against Moses. It is also the record of a divine faithfulness that the failure did not terminate — the manna that arrived every morning, the cloud that kept moving, and the promise that was still standing when a new generation rose to receive what their parents had refused.

Numbers Explained walks readers through the historical setting, narrative structure, and major themes of the book — from the wilderness terrain and the two census counts to the Balaam oracles and the daughters of Zelophehad. Part of The Bible for Modern Life Series.

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Éditeur
Ascent Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1972885057
ISBN 13 
9781972885055
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
121
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