tent-dwellers, ever moving on. The sixteen months' wilderness experience of Israel and

the life-long pilgrimage of Abraham (Heb. 11:) are examples of how we may enjoy the

blessings that are ours in Christ, by faith. The actual entry into the land, and the fall of

Jericho under Joshua, anticipate the day of redemption and the redemption of the

purchased possession.

The book of Exodus, and Numb. 1:-12: record the first wilderness experience, and

contain much that illuminates the believer in his experience to-day. The remainder of the

Book of Numbers deals with the period of unbelief and resumption of the journey.

Deuteronomy concludes the story, and Joshua, a type of the risen Christ ("Moses My

servant is dead: now therefore arise", Josh. 1: 2), leads Israel into the land of promise.

The truth of the mystery is of course entirely dissociated from what we have been

considering. So far as the dispensational teaching of the epistle to the Ephesians is

concerned, it is an act of unbelief to attempt to discover in the O.T. that which God never

revealed there. Its distinctive doctrine, too, transcends anything that is set forth in type in

the law, yet we may learn from these O.T. types the broad principles that underlie the

distinction between the truths of Hope and Prize, between Ephesians and Philippians,

between Living and Reigning, between the Overcomers, like Caleb, and Overcome, like

those who perished in the wilderness. It is naturally outside the scope of these articles to

attempt a detailed exposition of these books--all that we can hope to do is to point out

those more obvious passages that illuminate the ways of God and His people, suggest

lines of practical teaching, and generally set forth those underlying fundamentals of

dispensational truth which it is the prime object of The Berean Expositor to make plain.

Two numberings of Israel are recorded in the book of Numbers. They are recorded in

chapters 1:-4: and 26:-27: Two distinct objects are in view. In the first numbering,

service is before us; in the second, inheritance. In both, ability to go forth to war is

In the numberings of the tribes of Israel, Levi is omitted, and Joseph is represented by

both Ephraim and Manasseh, thus retaining the number twelve. The numbering of the

tribe of Levi was done separately, and is recorded in Numb. 3: 14-29, where a special

reason for this distinction is given.