Giants, unicorns, talking donkeys, oracles - this may sound like several recent films, but we'll encounter all of these things this week as Chuck continues through The Book of Numbers.
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.