Aaron’s Rod Blossoming
Wednesday Evening August 29, 2007 Numbers 17:1-13 “Aaron’s Rod Blossoming” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Numbers 17, as we continue to make our way through this book together. I’ve been able to say this over and over the last few weeks because of the material that we’ve been in, but all the way from chapter 11 to chapter 16 has been a story of Israel grumbling and complaining and murmuring and rebelling against Moses and Aaron–and ultimately, of course, against the Lord. The Lord says that explicitly in the passage tonight. Moses and Aaron are discouraged at the rebellions against them, but the Lord says, ‘Brothers, it’s not against you that they are rebelling; it’s Me that they’re rebelling…