Please read Numbers 26.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/num/26/1/s_143001
Meditate on verses 63-65.
These are those who were numbered by Moses
and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
But among these there was not a man of those who were
numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered
the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
For the LORD had said of them, "They shall surely die in the wilderness."
And not a man was left of them, except Caleb
the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Nearly 40 years passed since God had Moses number the males twenty years old and older—those men able to go to war (Numbers 1:1-3; 26:2). Tragically, the men in the first census (except for Joshua and Caleb) were not included in this second census because they were dead:
"Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you
have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely
do to you; your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even
all your numbered men, according to your complete
number from twenty years old and upward,
who have grumbled against Me.’”
—Numbers 14:28-29
And, because those men died, Israel had 1,820 fewer men than when they left Egypt 40 years earlier (Numbers 1:46; 26:51). Oh, the consequences of sin!
Notice in the first census, the Levites were not numbered at all because their job was to care for the tabernacle rather than go to war (Numbers 1:47-53). In the second census, every Levite male from a month old was numbered (v. 62). As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray for God to number your loved ones from the time they are born as belonging to Him, using the words from Numbers 26:62.
“LORD, please number _________ and me as Yours.
Because You are our inheritance, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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