Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Christ in the Pentateuch
  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus
  • Numbers
  • Deuteronomy
• Christ in the Historical Books
• Christ in the Poetical Books
• Christ in the Prophets
• Christ in His Life on Earth
• Christ in Resurrection Power
• Christ in Future Glory

The Precious Blood of Christ

I Peter 1:18-19

Numbers

In the Book of Numbers we have the record of the failure of the Children of Israel to go in and possess the land. God’s object in bringing them out of Egypt was to bring them into the Land of Promise (see Exodus 3:8). In His tender care over them He did not lead them by the shortest route, “through the way of the land of the Philistines;” for God said, “Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt” (Exodus 13:17). But when, having led them through the Wilderness of Sinai to receive the law, He brought them to Kadesh Barnea, His time had come for them to go up and possess the land. But in Numbers 13 and 14 we have the record of their failure to enter in through unbelief of God’s power and disobedience to His commands. Then began the long years of wandering in the wilderness, which were not part of God’s plan for them, but the result of their disobedience.

What a picture this is of the life of many a child of God today. Redeemed out of the bondage of Satan, yet failing to enter into the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ. Do we not all know, either in the past or in the present, something of the wilderness life of failure and defeat? Yet even in their wandering the Lord did not forsake His people: He had compassion on them, He let them enjoy His provision and protection and guidance day by day.

Pilgrimage and Warfare. Numbers is the book of pilgrimage and warfare. In the early chapters we see God’s complete