Pulelulu Sune 23, 2021
When you come into the land you are to inhabit
Ka mou ka hū ki homou fonua nofo‘anga
* G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible*
Once more we have the repetition and enforcement of certain laws already given. Occurring here, this appears somewhat strange. The explanation, I think, is to be found in the opening declaration, "When ye are come into the land" The people were about to turn their faces from the land which they ought at once to have possessed, and in this reiteration of certain provisions for dwelling within it there was at once a prophecy of the ultimate fulfillment of divine intention and a provision for preserving in their minds the principles of the law by which they were to be governed.
What follows illustrates the fact that the people were not perfectly clear whether the laws were to be enforced in the wilderness. One of their number was found gathering sticks on the Sabbath. They did not know what to do with him and put him inward until they found the will of God. They were immediately instructed that the law of the land obtained at once and that a violator of the law was to be visited with the full penalty for his crime.
Immediately following this a provision was
made for wearing fringes on the borders of their garments, on which was to be
bound a cord of blue. The purpose was distinctly declared. That cord of blue
was a symbol of the deepest truth in their national life, that they were under
the direct government of heaven. Every time the eye rested on that simple sign
the heart was to be reminded of the sublime truth.
*Commentary: David Guzik – Study Guide to Numbers*
Numbers 15:1-3
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, 3 and you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
PEA folofola ‘a Sihova kia Mōsese, ‘o pehē, 2Lea ki ha‘a ‘Isileli, ‘o tala kiate kinautolu, Ka mou ka hū ki homou fonua nofo‘anga, ‘a ia ‘oku ou foaki kiate kimoutolu, 3pea ‘oku mou teu fai ha feilaulau tutu kia Sihova, pe ko ha feilaulau-mōifua, pe ko ha tāmate manu pē, ko e fakaai ha tukumo‘ui, pe ko e me‘a‘ofa, pe ko ha fai ha kātoanga tu‘utu‘uni, ke feia ha ngangatu fakahōifua kia Sihova ‘aki ha manu mei he fa‘ahinga ko ē mo ē:
When you have come into the land: God cared for Israel. These were commands that could only be fulfilled in the Promised Land. Inherent in these commands was the promise that God would lead them there, and would not leave them in the wilderness forever.
God said, "When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am
giving to you." He said, when you come into land, and not if you come into the land. God
has not, and will not give up on Israel. Many a believer under the rod of God's
correction has felt abandoned by God, as if He had given up on them, but God is always near to the believer under
correction.
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