민수기 Chapter 33

Translation: ESV

1

These are the stages of the people of Israel, as they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD, and these are their stages according to their starting places.

Key Message

God remembers every stage of his people's journey; the wilderness path of our lives is also under God's providential guidance.

▸Chapter 33 records the forty-year journey from the Exodus to the plains of Moab as a list of place names.

Chapter 33 records the forty-year journey from the Exodus to the plains of Moab as a list of place names. The fact that Moses recorded this journey by God's command declares that this wilderness journey was not aimless wandering but God's providential guidance. Each place name is a milestone in the journey Israel walked with God.

3

They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Key Message

God's salvation is not a frightened flight but a bold liberation; it begins from the place of slavery and leads to the journey of freedom.

▸The starting point of the Exodus, the departure from Rameses, is recorded.

52

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.

Key Message

God's people must thoroughly remove idolatrous elements of worldly culture in the promised land; compromise will in the long run weaken the community of faith.

▸The command for when entering the land of Canaan is given.