This Side of the Jordan
Numbers 32:1-42 This Side of the Jordan J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 32. In Numbers 29, our focus was on the public worship of the church in Israel as they come before the living God via the sacrificial system. In Numbers 30, the focus was on vows and a whole range of categories of religious vows were described and certain principles and rules were laid down for those vows and certain consequences were addressed for the breaking of those vows. Last week, in Numbers 31, we came to a frankly harrowing passage in which a terrifying picture foreshadowing God’s final judgment on the wicked was displayed and God’s command to Israel to utterly wipe out the Midianites. And as we looked at that passage, we said that from it…