OCTOBER 13, 2025

God’s Plans Require Believers to Act on the Instructions He Gives
Numbers 33:50-56  (HCSB)
Instructions for Occupying Canaan

50 The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, 51 “Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places. 53 You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess. 54 You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes. 55 But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live. 56 And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.”

Braxton Craig
I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. This week we begin at the end of Numbers in Chapter 33, with the instructions for the Israelites occupation of Canaan. The Lord came to Moses while in Moab and provided a list of instructions that would lead to an Israelite victory. This is just another instance where the Lord has given a set of instructions for the Israelites to follow for His will to be done. The instructions are intended to drive out the occupying people of the promised land and their idols. The complete eradication of the occupying people and their ways were being done to keep the Israelites from temptations to adopt their ways. 
We have already seen the Israelites turn away from God when He didn’t work in their time frame. In Exodus while Moses was receiving the Ten Commandments, the people thought that Moses had been gone too long so they had Aaron build a “god” to go ahead before them.

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