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Hey there,<\/span><\/p>\n I had a question while reading through Numbers for our Old Testament class.*\u00a0 In Numbers 10:29-32, it says:<\/span><\/p>\n Then in Numbers 31, Jehovah commanded that all the Midianites be killed.<\/span><\/p>\n My question is, would this have included Moses\u2019 father-in-law, since he returned to the land of his kindred?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ============<\/span><\/p>\n No, those Midianites were not in their own territory; they were in Moab.\u00a0 So, they were\u00a0not the ones Reuel went home to.\u00a0 Those Midianites were evil.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n ============<\/span><\/p>\n Also, I thought this was really good.\u00a0 Listening to the Old Testament CDs for Numbers, you said,\u201cMoses renamed Oshea to Joshua.\u00a0 “Joshua” is the name “Jesus” in Hebrew.\u00a0 It means “Jehovah is salvation”.\u00a0 Moses was not able to bring the people into the Promised Land, which was a symbol of the law not being able to save us.\u00a0 Moses had to turn it all over to Joshua, and then Joshua took God’s people in!\u00a0 The Old Testament was a shadow of the New Testament.\u00a0 Our Joshua (Jesus) has to take us in.\u00a0 And he is doing it!\u00a0 Moses was unable to do it.\u00a0 Moses turned it over to Joshua twice: once in the OT when he anointed Joshua to take his place, and once in the New Testament when Moses and Elijah met and talked with Jesus on the mountain.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n God told Moses he could not enter into Canaan.\u00a0 Is it possible that God\u00a0did not intend for Moses to enter\u00a0Canaan\u2019s\u00a0land all along, since this was a symbol\u00a0of the law\u00a0versus\u00a0the Spirit getting us to\u00a0the Promised Land?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Amy F.<\/span><\/p>\n ============<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, Amy.\u00a0 God knew what would happen, and He planned to have Moses die before crossing over into Canaan to represent the law’s inability to save us.\u00a0 We must have Jesus!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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