May 28, 2023 - Pentecost - The Spirit Rested On Them"

Scripture Passage: Numbers 11: 24-30

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Context, always context
Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord

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Like a Refrain
...again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt...Like a Refrain

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Moses' version
 14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—

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A mighty hand and an outstretched arm
23 The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short?..."

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Notice the distances
24 So Moses ... brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. 

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Multiplication
25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders.

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Particular people/times/tasks
 When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.

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Distance annointing
26 However, two men ... had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.

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In-groups and Control Issues
27 A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
28 Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

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Foreshadow
29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”