Women's Rights Numbers 27

 

Numbers 27   Women’s Rights

 

There was this man named Zelophehad who had died in the wilderness. He had five daughters and no sons.  According to the Mosaic Law, it looked as if a son were the one who inherited the property, and the women were left out.  These daughters were very aggressive. Every woman today aught to be thankful for the Word of God because it is the Bible that first gave women their rights.  “If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass down to his daughter.”  This proclamation was made about 1500 years before Christ came into the world. The five daughters wanted to possess their father’s inheritance.  They asked in faith, and by faith God gave the inheritance to them.

God hears and answers us, not only in spiritual blessings but also in material things.  Most of us are more or less paupers because we do not come to God as His children and ask Him for things.  God wants to be good to us. More than this, we have possessions – wonderful spiritual possessions in Christ Jesus.  He would like for us to claim these in faith.

Now we return to Moses as he prepares for his death.  God refers to the time Moses smote the rock twice after God had told him to speak to it.  God says here that it was rebellion against His commandment.  Because Moses did this, he is only permitted Moses to look into the promised land; he is not permitted to enter it. Disobedience keeps many of us from entering into our spiritual possessions.  Disbelief will always lead to disobedience. After Moses died, Joshua became Moses’ successor. Joshua was an ordinary man; Joshua reveals what God can do with an ordinary man.  If a person will yield to God, He can take him and use him.

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.