Divine Instruction
Text: Numbers 13
17 August 2015
DIVINE INSTRUCTION
1. To send spies to recce the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:1)
2. Twelve spies to be sent out (Numbers 13:2)
3. One tribe would select a leader (Numbers 13:2)
4. Each one was one of the tribal leaders (Numbers 13:3)
5. List of names (Numbers 13:4-16)
SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS FROM MOSES
1. To see what the land was like (Numbers 13:18)
2. To check out the people (Numbers 13:18)
3. To check on the cities (Numbers 13:19)
4. Word of encouragement
a) Be of good courage
b) Bring some fruit of the land
c) Season of grapes (Numbers 13:20)
CHECKING OUT THE LAND
1. Land thoroughly checked out (Numbers 13:21-23)
2. Brought back
a) Grapes
b) Pomegranates
c) Figs (Numbers 13:23)
3. Forty days in Canaan (Numbers 13:25)
REPORT OF THE SPIES
1. The land truly flows with milk and honey (Numbers 13:27)
2. The inhabitants of the land (Numbers 13:28-29)
a) People are strong
b) Cities are fortified and very large
c) The tall Anakim were there
d) The Amalekites
e) The Hittites
f) The Jebusites
g) The Amorites
h) The Canaanites
3. Two groups
a) Group of 10 spies
b) Group of 2 (Joshua and Caleb)
4.The Ten spies
a) Not able to go up against the people
b) They are stronger than we
c) They gave a bad report
d) The land will devour inhabitants
e) They saw themselves as mere grasshoppers (Numbers 13:31-33)
5. The Two spies (Joshua and Caleb)
a) Let us go up at once
b) We are well able to overcome it (Numbers 13:30)