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The Wars of the LORD
Numbers 21 traces Israel's journey through military victory over the Canaanites, the punishment and grace of the bronze serpent, and the conquest of the Amorite kings Sihon and Og. The bronze serpent — condemned people bitten by fiery serpents, healed only by looking in faith to the remedy God prescribed — is taken up by Jesus in John 3:14 as a type of his own crucifixion, teaching that salvation comes by divine initiative alone, received through faith, not works. The same recurring sins of complaint, lack of faith in providence, and idolatry that marked the first generation persist in the second, warning the church that these corruptions follow the sin nature across every generation. The chapter closes with God's sovereign hardening of Sihon and the defeat of the giant Og, both down payments on the promised conquest and demonstrations of God's faithfulness, sovereignty, and goodness to his people.
CTF 2024 Session 7 - Q&A Panel Discussion
A conference Q&A panel addresses a wide range of confessional, theological, and pastoral questions arising from lectures on the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession and its relationship to broader Reformed orthodoxy. Topics range from the nature of creedal subscription and what it means to be Reformed, to the hermeneutics of typology, the mystery language of Ephesians 3, the humanity and knowledge of Christ, divine immutability and impassibility, and the differences between the Second London Confession and the Three Forms of Unity. The panel consistently grounds its answers in the churchly authority of confessions over individual interpretation, the centrality of the means of grace for generational faithfulness, and the necessity of theological humility before the accumulated witness of the church.
Exodus 12 - Part 1
Exodus 12 presents the institution of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread as a blood ritual pointing forward to Christ, the anti-type of the Passover lamb. The chapter is expounded in three movements: the specific blood-ritual instructions God gives to Moses and Aaron (vv. 1–13), the regulations for the memorial Feast of Unleavened Bread (vv. 14–20), and Moses's transmission of those instructions to the elders of Israel (vv. 21–28). The blood on the doorposts was not a sign for an omniscient God who needed locating data, but an outward expression of the faith of those who believed Yahweh's word — a pattern fulfilled when Christ, the blemish-free Lamb, shed his blood so that the wrath of God passes over all who trust in him. The study closes by drawing out the catechetical purpose embedded in the Passover ordinance: that each generation would rehearse the redemptive acts of God and understand that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.