Numbers 16:1-50

The chapter we are about to read opens a section of four chapters all of which concern the priesthood and its work. In these chapters both the centrality and the indispensability of the priesthood are established by narrative and by law. [Wenham, 133…

Interlude: The Certain Future Rev 10:1-11

After the breaking of the sixth of the seven seals in chapter 6 and before the breaking of the seventh in chapter 8 we were treated to an interlude in chapter 7. Almost as if enabling us to catch our breath, but also adding a new perspective to what …