<TITLE>02. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 Well, usually Sunday school lasts four or five hours at home, so... We can't do that because we just got about forty-five, fifty minutes here that we'd like to speak just a little this morning on the Word.
Now, you that's got your Bibles, I want you to turn with me in the Bible over to Numbers the 14th chapter. I want to read a portion of the 14th chapter of Numbers. And let's begin about the 37th verse. Now, listen close to this reading.
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plagues before the Lord.
... Joshua... (Joshua), the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search out the land, lived still.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned.
And Moses said... (Now, listen to this.)... And Moses said, Wherefore now do you trespass the commandments of the Lord? But it shall not prosper.
Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye may be... smitten before your enemy.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant... (and)... the Lord--of the lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
And the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in the hills, and smote them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah.

L-7 Now, this is a Sunday school, so you got a great teacher here, Brother, our precious Brother Littlefield. And I'm kinda feel a little reluctant about approaching a Sunday school class. But I'd like to get a little background on this.
We all know, now, that these... All that happened in the Old Testament was examples of what is going on now. As I said last night, God throws a shadow of a negative before a positive comes. And the Old Testament was a shadow of the New Testament; just like the moon reflects a shadow of the sun until the sun rises. Now, we walk in the shadow of the moon in the night. But when the sun rises, then we have the actual sunlight. But the moon only reflects the sunlight to give us what light we have.
Now, the Old Testament was a type and a shadow of the New Testament to come. The people walked in what Light they had, as the moon reflected. But now that... Hebrews 1, "God in sundry times (old times)... divers manners (many manners), spoke to the fathers by the prophets; but in this last day he spoke to us through His Son, Christ Jesus." Now, that's glorious.

L-8 Now, Israel had sinned, and they had been grumbling and complaining. And they came to a place called Kadesh-barnea. And that was really the judgment seat, for out of there went judgment. And there's where Israel was judged: Kadesh-barnea. We're told it's a little place in the desert the other side of Jordan, that's--that's got a few palm trees. And that they... In there, there's one great spring of water, and several small springs, which means a beautiful type we could get here of God's throne being the house of judgment, and the little judgment places coming up, because Kadesh-barnea means judgment.
And there's where Israel was judged because of their chiding, and disobedience, and interruption of the program of God: a very type of today. The church in its differences interrupts the program of God. God wants us to gather as a one heart, one soul, one mind, a real repeat of Pentecost.


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