Numbers 21:4-9 –
New International Version (NIV)
4 “They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red
Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they
spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out
of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we
detest this miserable food!”
6 Then the Lord
sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The
people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.”
So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The Lord said
to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look
at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up
on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze
snake, they lived.”
Why did they leave
Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea (verse 4)?
What did the
people do when they grew impatient (verses 4and 5)?
In your opinion,
why would the people have complained about the manna, “miserable food” (verse 5)?
Why did many
Israelites die (verse 6)?
What sin did the
people confess to Moses (verse 7)?
In your opinion,
why did the people ask Moses to pray that the Lord would take the snakes away
instead of praying themselves (verse 7)?
Who told Moses to
make a snake and put it on a pole so that “anyone
who is bitten can look at it and live” (verse 8)?
What happened when
people who had been bitten by snakes looked at the bronze snake (verse 9)?
In your opinion,
why did God have Moses put the bronze snake on the pole instead of removing the
snakes?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
Mark 9:2-10 - New
International Version (NIV)
2 “After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him
and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was
transfigured before them. 3 His clothes became dazzling white,
whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. 4 And there
appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.
5 Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here.
Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 6 (He
did not know what to say, they were so frightened.)
7 Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came
from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”
8 Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone
with them except Jesus.
9 As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them
orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen
from the dead. 10 They kept the matter to themselves,
discussing what “rising from the dead” meant.”
Who did Jesus take
up a high mountain (verse 2)?
What happened to Jesus there (verse 2)?
What happened to
Jesus’s clothes (verse 3)?
Who appeared
before them (verse 4)?
What did Peter
want to do (verse 5)?
In your opinion,
why were they frightened (verse 6)?
Where did the
voice come from that said “This is my
Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” (verse
7)?
What did Jesus
order them not to tell (verse 9)?
What did they
discuss among themselves (verse 10)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, what might have Moses,
who put the bronze snake up for people to look at and be saved in Numbers
21:4-9, told Jesus when He was transfigured in Mark 9:2-10?
1 Corinthians
10:1-13 - New International Version (NIV)
1 “For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers
and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all
passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in
the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual
food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from
the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless,
God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the
wilderness.
6 Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from
setting our hearts on evil things as they did. 7 Do not be
idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat
and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” 8 We should not
commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three
thousand of them died. 9 We should not test Christ, as some of
them did—and were killed by snakes. 10 And do not grumble, as
some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
11 These things happened to them as examples and were written
down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come. 12 So,
if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 13 No
temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is
faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you
are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.”
What did the ancestors pass through (verse
1)?
How were they baptized into Moses (verse 2)?
What did they eat (verse 3)?
In your opinion, what did Paul mean that
they drank from the “spiritual rock that
accompanied them, and that rock was Christ” (verse 4)?
Where were the bodies of most of them
scattered (verse 5)?
Why did these things occur (verse 6)?
What did the people do that caused Paul to
call them idolaters (verse 7)?
How many died in one day because of sexual
immorality (verse 8)?
In your opinion, how did the Israelites
who were killed by snakes “test Christ” (verse
9)?
What happened to “some of them” who grumbled (verse 10)?
What has come upon us (verse 11)?
When should we be careful that we don’t
fall (verse 12)?
What kind of temptation has overtaken us
(verse 13)?
How far will God let us be tempted (verse
13)?
What will God provide so that we can
endure temptation (verse 13)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, what does it mean that
Moses, who joined Jesus when He was transfigured in Mark 9:2-10, was one of the
people whose body was “scattered in the
wilderness” as stated by Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:1-13?
In your opinion, do you think that the
people of Numbers 21:4-9 who grew impatient and who “spoke against God and against Moses” thought that they were “standing firm” as Paul warned about in
1 Corinthians 10:13?
1 Peter 1:10-16 –
New International Version (NIV)
10 “Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the
grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 11 trying
to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them
was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories
that would follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were
not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now
been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit
sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set
your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at
his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil
desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he
who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is
written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
What did the
prophets search for “intently and with
the greatest care” (verse 10)?
Who pointed out the “sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow” (verse
11)?
What was revealed to the prophets (verse 12)?
In your opinion, why would the angels “long to look into these things” (verse 12)?
How should our minds be when we set our “hope on the grace to be brought to you when
Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming” (verse 13)?
What should we “as obedient children” not do (verse 14)?
What should we be in all we do (verse 15)?
Why should we “be holy” (verse 16)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how
do the examples and warnings Paul gives in 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 help us to
understand about how to follow Peter’s instruction in 1 Peter 1:10-16 to “be holy” and to “be holy in all you do”?
In your opinion, how do you think the
appearance of Jesus when He was transfigured in Mark 9:2-10 will compare to the
appearance of Jesus when He “is revealed
at His coming” in 1 Peter 1:10-16?
In your opinion, how
was Moses putting up the bronze snake on the pole so that the sinners who were
bitten by a snake could look at it and live in Numbers 21:4-9 anticipate the “sufferings of the Messiah and the glories
that would follow” that Peter talks about in 1 Peter 1:10-16?
In your opinion, what do these passages,
from Numbers, Mark, 1 Corinthians and 1 Peter show us about ourselves today?
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