Not unlike the effects of today’s Coronavirus, the older generation of Israel in the wilderness were dying. Numbers 20 begins with the death of Miriam (1) and concludes with the death of Aaron (28, 29). If you were to die today, what legacy would you leave? When was the last time you murmured or complained about something associated with COVID-19? What was your complaint? How did your criticism or complaint change you, your relationship with God and those around you? Why did the Lord send “fiery serpents among the people” (21:6)? What was Moses’ response when he heard their complaints and saw God’s judgment? (7) How should we be like Moses? What was the Lord’s response? (8) Why did Jesus compare Himself to Moses’ brazen serpent? (John 3:14-16) Why do many (sadly most) people refuse to look and live? (8)

5. Desert Dwelling
• God placed Israel in the wilderness to protect
them from their enemies.

6. Desert Dwelling
• God placed Israel in the wilderness to protect
them from their enemies.
• He separated them from the evil influences of
the world.

7. Desert Dwelling
• God placed Israel in the wilderness to protect
them from their enemies.
• He separated them from the evil influences of
the world.
• He organized them.

8. Desert Dwelling
• God placed Israel in the wilderness to protect
them from their enemies.
• He separated them from the evil influences of
the world.
• He organized them.
• He provided them laws to live by.

9. Desert Dwelling
• God placed Israel in the wilderness to protect
them from their enemies.
• He separated them from the evil influences of
the world.
• He organized them.
• He provided them laws to live by.
• He miraculously provided food and water daily.

10. Desert Dwelling
• God placed Israel in the wilderness to protect
them from their enemies.
• He separated them from the evil influences of
the world.
• He organized them.
• He provided them laws to live by.
• He miraculously provided food and water daily.
• He gave them direction to the promised land – a
pillar of Cloud by day and a column of Fire by
night.

11. Desert Dwelling
• Their clothes and shoes never wore out.

12. Desert Dwelling
• Their clothes and shoes never wore out.
• He prepared them for the spiritual warfare them
would face in Canaan.

13. Desert Dwelling
• Their clothes and shoes never wore out.
• He prepared them for the spiritual warfare them
would face in Canaan.
• He taught them to trust Him.

14. How did the children of Israel respond?

15. How did the children of Israel respond?

16. Seven Murmurings of Israel
against God or Moses
Numbers 11:1 Now when the people complained,
it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and
His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD
burned among them, and consumed some in the
outskirts of the camp.

17. Seven Murmurings of Israel
against God or Moses
Numbers 11:1 Now when the people complained,
it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and
His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD
burned among them, and consumed some in the
outskirts of the camp.
Numbers 11:4 Now the mixed multitude who
were among them yielded to intense craving; so
the children of Israel also wept again and said:
“Who will give us meat to eat?

18. Seven Murmurings of Israel
against God or Moses
Numbers 14:2 And all the children of Israel
complained against Moses and Aaron, and the
whole congregation said to them, “If only we had
died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in
this wilderness!

19. Seven Murmurings of Israel
against God or Moses
Numbers 16:1 Now Korah… with Dathan and
Abiram…, took men; 2 and they rose up before
Moses with some of the children of Israel, two
hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation,
representatives of the congregation, men of
renown. 3 They gathered together against Moses
and Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much
upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy,
every one of them, and the LORD is among them.
Why then do you exalt yourselves above the
assembly of the LORD?”

20. Seven Murmurings of Israel
against God or Moses
Numbers 16:41 On the next day all the congregation
of the children of Israel complained against Moses
and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the
LORD.”

21. Seven Murmurings of Israel
against God or Moses
Numbers 16:41 On the next day all the congregation
of the children of Israel complained against Moses
and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the
LORD.”
Numbers 20:2–3 Now there was no water for the
congregation; so they gathered together against
Moses and Aaron. 3 And the people contended with
Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when
our brethren died before the LORD!

22. 5 And the people spoke against God and
against Moses: “Why have you brought
us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no
water, and our soul loathes this
worthless bread.” 6 So the LORD sent
fiery serpents among the people, and
they bit the people; and many of the
people of Israel died.

23. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses,
and said, “We have sinned, for we have
spoken against the LORD and against
you; pray to the LORD that He take away
the serpents from us.” So, Moses
prayed for the people. 8 Then the LORD
said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent,
and set it on a pole; and it shall be that
everyone who is bitten, when he looks
at it, shall live.”

24. 9 So, Moses made a bronze serpent, and
put it on a pole; and so it was, if a
serpent had bitten anyone, when he
looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

25. THE SIN
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses:
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our
soul loathes this worthless bread.”

26. THE SIN
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses:
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our
soul loathes this worthless bread.”
What is murmuring?
Pride & Unbelief

27. THE SIN
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses:
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our
soul loathes this worthless bread.”
What is murmuring?
Pride & Unbelief
Psalm 106:24–25 Then they despised the pleasant
land; they did not believe His word, 25 but complained
in their tents, and did not heed the voice of the LORD.

28. THE SIN
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses:
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our
soul loathes this worthless bread.”
John 6:41–43 The Jews then complained about Him,
because He said, “I am the bread which came down from
heaven.” 42 And they said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it
then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43
Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not
murmur among yourselves.

29. THE SIN
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses:
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our
soul loathes this worthless bread.”
Why do people complain?
Judging

30. THE SIN
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses:
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our
soul loathes this worthless bread.”
Why do people complain?
Judging
John 6:48–51 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the
manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread
which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it
and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from
heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever...”

31. Get attention
Remove responsibility
Inspire envy
Power
Excuse poor performance

32. 1 Corinthians 10:9-10 nor let us tempt Christ, as
some of them also tempted, and were destroyed
by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also
complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

33. Philippians 2:14-15 Do all things without
complaining and disputing, 15 that you may
become blameless and harmless, children of God
without fault in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation, among whom you shine as
lights in the world,

34. James 5:9 Do not grumble against one another,
brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the
Judge is standing at the door!
Jude 16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking
according to their own lusts; and they mouth great
swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

35. Proverbs 23:29–30 Who has woe? Who has
sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has
complaints? Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger
long at the wine, Those who go in search of
mixed wine.

36. THE SUFFERING
6 So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and many of the people of
Israel died.

37. THE SUFFERING
6 So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and many of the people of
Israel died.
snake = Satan. Jesus destroyed his works
snake = sin. Jesus became a snake (sin) for us

38. THE SUPPLICATION
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We
have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and
against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the
serpents from us.” So, Moses prayed for the people.

39. THE SALVATION
8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent,
and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who
is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

40. THE SALVATION
8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent,
and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who
is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

41. THE SALVATION
9 So, Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a
pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone,
when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
John 3:14–15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have eternal life.

42. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
1. Death without it looking at it (Num. 21:6)
Death without it looking at Him
1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God,
but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.

43. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
2. Lifted up on a pole (Num. 21:8)
Lifted up on a cross
John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up,

44. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
3. Available to all (Num. 21:8)
Available to all (John 3:16)

45. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
3. Available to all (Num. 21:8)
Available to all (John 3:16)
4. The ONLY cure
The ONLY Savior (Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5)

46. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
3. Available to all (Num. 21:8)
Available to all (John 3:16)
4. The ONLY cure
The ONLY Savior (Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5)
5. A SURE cure (Nu. 21:8-9)
A SURE cure (John 3:16)

47. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
6. Required faith (Num. 21:8)
Requires faith (Hebrews 11:6)

48. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
6. Required faith (Num. 21:8)
Requires faith (Hebrews 11:6)
7. Look and live! (Num. 21:8)
Look and live!
Isaiah 45:22 “Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of
the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

49. THE SALVATION
The bronze serpent is a type of Jesus on the Cross
2 Kings 18:4 He (Hezekiah) removed the high
places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down
the wooden image and broke in pieces the
bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until
those days the children of Israel burned
incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
Beware of idols!

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