Numbers 15:1-23.
THIS shows us God’s unchangeable purpose to bring His people to the home He has chosen for them. After the fourteenth chapter, full of rebellion against Him, it is He who says (verse 2),
“When ye be come into the land—which I give unto you, and will make an offering—”. In spite of their ingratitude and self-will, and everything else so unlike the One who had undertaken for them, His people were to be brought into the place prepared. So, though the Christian knows from many Scriptures, that he does not deserve eternal life, or heaven, yet he reads in John 10:28 the words of the Son of God,
“I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” There are lessons to be learned on the road, but they who trust in Jesus’ blood will be in glory, everyone.
When the people were brought into their land, they would bring free-will offerings, —thank offerings to God, and He gave directions as to the offerings, all of them telling of Christ in life or in death.
ML 02/10/1924