This week Chuck begins a new series - The Book of Numbers - with several interesting surprises. Numbers is really a book about arrested progress. In a sense, it never should have happened. It took only 40 hours to get Israel out of Egypt - the Passover. But it took 40 years to get Egypt out of Israel.
Why study the Book of Numbers? ''Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.'' - 1 Corinthians 10:11. That word ''examples'' in the Greek is ''tupos'' - a figure, image, pattern, a prefiguring; a type.
