PART 2

11. THE WILDERNESS

๏ From Mt Sinai to entering the PL,
Num 10ff
๏ The people complain often
๏ Aaron and Miriam rebel, Num 12
๏Spies are sent into the land—13
๏ The land is good … the report is
bad…the people rebel
“We are not able to go up against the
people, for they are stronger than we
are…The land, through which we have
gone to spy it out, is a land that
devours its inhabitants, and all the
people that we saw in it are of great
height…” Numbers 13:31-32
“And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son
of Jephunneh…tore their clothes” Num 14:6
๏ God speaks…the people rebel
and try to enter…defeat 14:44-45
๏ Num. 13:1–19:22: Israel spent 40
years camped near Kadesh-barnea,
a large oasis about 50 miles SW of
Beersheba, the border of Canaan.
๏ Israel was on the edge of the
Promised Land.
THETABERNACLE
TABERNACLE, HEB. MISHKAN,
“DWELLING-PLACE.”
๏ A place where the people could
properly worship God.
๏ Once a year, the high priest would
enter the Holy of Holies on the Day
of Atonement (Leviticus 16).
๏ Expensive
๏ 860 Kg of gold
๏ 2920 Kg silver
๏ 2052 Kg bronze
๏ “Art expressed as worship” Schaeffer
๏ The Feast of Tabernacles
 remembers the wilderness.
๏ Priests carried the Ark and altars
on their shoulders, the rest was on
ox-drawn carts.
 Exodus 26–27, 35–38
Holy Place—table of
showbread, golden
lampstand, altar of
incense

Taken from the ESV Study Bible

 Holy of Holies
—ark of the
covenant

Taken from the ESV Study Bible

 The tabernacle is at the back of
the courtyard

Taken from the ESV Study Bible

 1.1 x 0.7 x 0.7m

2 tablets with the

10 commandments

Manna

Aaron’s staff

Ex 25:16, Heb 9:4

Taken from the ESV Study Bible

12. ENTERING THE
PROMISED LAND
๏ The Jordan parts—as had the Red
Sea, Joshua 3
๏ The Ark of the covenant goes first
๏ The ark is referred to 14 times in
Joshua 3—God is leading them
“The priests will carry the Ark of the
Lord, the Lord of all the earth. As soon
as their feet touch the water, the flow
of water will be cut off upstream, and
the river will stand up like a wall.”
๏ The covenant is renewed through
circumcision, Joshua 5
๏ This had begun with Abraham, Gen
17
๏ The battle to take the land begins
at Jericho
KEY PEOPLE
(Continuing from
3. Abraham)
4. JACOB
5. JOSEPH
6. MOSES
7. JOSHUA
๏ Name originally Hoshea, ‘help,’
๏Joshua, ‘Jehovah is help/
saviour’
๏ Born a slave in Egypt
๏About 40 at the Exodus
๏ Spent time in the Tent of Meeting
๏Went part way up Mt. Sinai Ex 32:17
๏ Prepared by God/Moses
๏Explored the Promised Land—a man
of faith
๏ Led Israel into the Promised Land
๏Conquered 6 nations and 31 kings
๏ Died aged 110.
๏Approx. 25 years in the Promised
Land.
Joshua died and for 400 years Judges 17:6,
21:25 tells the story…
IN THOSE DAYS ISRAEL HAD NO KING;
ALL THE PEOPLE DID WHATEVER
SEEMED RIGHT IN THEIR OWN EYES.
Judges 17:6, 21:25