Want to learn more about Numbers? Use these Bible Studies for personal devotion, group Bible studies, or teaching a church class. Below are links to the lessons in this 13-part series.
Introduction: How are you at math? Did you know that mathematical formulas govern much of our physical world? Scientists are still trying match the things they observe to the math they know. They have a very long way to go to figure it all out, assuming they c...
Introduction: Readers who are not that familiar with the Old Testament will cringe when they read the two chapters in Numbers that we are studying today. Since we are not the people being addressed, are not in their situation (a huge group traveling through a t...
Introduction: This week we turn to the process for equipping God's sanctuary. How does God want to obtain the equipment for His work? How does He want to obtain the workers? If support comes from offerings? Should everyone give the same gift? Can anyone be to...
Introduction: Would you like to be more confident? Confident that you will do well in life. Confident that God is with you. Confident that you have a right understanding of God and His role in your life? Years ago, I spoke with a Christian who told me that when...
Introduction: Do you feel God has let you down? Are you unsatisfied with the life God has given to you? Have you complained that God did not do more for you? Our lesson this week shows that God is receptive to complaints, and that He responds to them, but when...
Introduction: What a change in life! Imagine that you had built your hopes and dreams on a new and wonderful land. You planned to have your dream house and your dream farm. Now you know that will never happen because you distrusted God. You will live and die as...
Introduction: Have you ever had a dispute within your church? (Now that is a dumb question, right?) How can you know who is right and who is wrong? Sometimes it is obvious, but sometimes there are good arguments on both sides. What happens if you supported the l...
Introduction: After the last few weeks, what are your views about rebellion towards God? How about towards His leaders? I'm going to assume the answer is: "I don't want to be a rebel!" Can rebellion exist in something that is not obvious? For example, what if...
Introduction: Have you had a time in your life when you felt you had an excuse for sinning? You had so many things going wrong that it was easy to slip and fall? Have you been disappointed when a spiritual leader you trusted fell into sin? Do you have a differ...
Introduction: How many times have you hoped that God would ignore one little sin problem in your life? You love God and you want to obey, except for this one small area which, you hope, God will show a little tolerance. After all, no one is perfect and we are on...
Introduction: Many years ago I knew an honored and important man who was the president of a university. He fell into sexual sin, lost his job, his reputation, and who knows what else. Have you been blessed by God, and then managed by some silly sin to defeat Go...
Introduction: How do the lives of your parents affect your life? Some children blame their parents for their faults and repeat the parents' mistakes. Others look at the good and bad in their parents, and determine to do better when it comes to the bad. Moses s...
Introduction: In the last chapters of Numbers we see that God is truly bringing His people into Canaan. Numbers chapter 33 contains the historical record of the journey from Egypt to Canaan. The journey now enters the history books and is no longer part of every...
