What Does The Bible Book “numbers” Mean?

What Does The Bible Book “numbers” Mean?

Jesus did not discuss Bible passages very much in the way as we do in Bible studies, Bible classes, doctrinal discussions and the like. The community of Israel was small and homogenous enough that the basic presentation of the Tanakh (Old Testament) was taken for granted by everyone. The political party called the Sadduccees tended to be more “liberal” and denied many supernatural things. T did, however, accept the first five books of the Bible as sacred text and the word of God. In discussing with them the generally accepted doctrine of the resurrection from the dead, which the Sadduccees did not believe, Jesus appealed to a relatively weak passage in Exodus rather than the much better one in Daniel 12. The reason was, t did not accept Daniel, but Moses was authoritative to them. In discussing matters with the Pharisees, he did not have this problem. T accepted every scripture as written and literally. The subject was raised concerning the interpretation of Deuteronomy 24.1-4. The question was, under what circumstances could a man divorce his wife? The story. Matthew 19.3-8 New King James Version (NKJV) 3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, t are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 T said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. Notice that Jesus referred to the Adam and Eve narrative as a historical fact. Never did Jesus say a single word that would lead one to believe He felt any other way about that history. Concerning Noah, Jesus used his story as an illustration of His own second coming. Matthew 24.37-39 New King James Version (NKJV) 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, t were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Here again, Jesus referred to Noah as a literal human being and his story of the flood and the ark to be literally true. He claimed that His own return would be, to the unprepared, just as surprising and potential as cataclysmic as the flood was in the days of Noah. In one way or another, Jesus affirmed every single book of the Old Testament by quote or reference except one, the Book of Esther. He probably meant no disrespect by the exclusion.