The what ifs of the book of Numbers
What if: Anticipation of loopholes is significant in Numbers. Most things fall under one category or another, but what does God say about this or that eventuality? Faith had gotten them into this mess, but the considerations of eventuality is not always unbelief. They trusted that God was laying down the law for them.
But in the earlier season the questioning of God’s authority after he had shown himself as State of the Art in everything that pertained to them. Joshua and Caleb were the God said it, I believe it duo. What if, what if was the majority rule way. Let’s vote on whether to go in and take the land. Lets vote on whether we want Moses to listen to God. Lets vote on whether to allow women to take ownership, if they haven’t got a male heir to guide them. Numbers is a small peak at God’s sentimentality to his people’s hopeless desire to democratic rule. God no higher is the last word. All else can be voted on, but what God has said is not negotiable.
