Numbers 26.
ISRAEL’S journey is about over, and so God has them counted again, as they were about to take the inheritance He had planned for them.
The land was theirs— “Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names” (verse 53). Not one was to be forgotten, but the special place of the Levites is again told of; they were not counted or given an inheritance, —the Lord was to be their portion, as He says to them in chapter 18, verses 20, 21.
“Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.”
All those who were sheltered by the blood in Egypt, and who crossed the Red Sea as full-grown men and women, were now dead, except Caleb and Joshua, and Moses. Had they believed God, they would have lived to enter the land, but they entered not because of unbelief.
It will not do, dear reader, to believe something about God; you must believe God, or be lost eternally.
ML 05/11/1924