EXTRACT

There are times of conflict with the enemy, even “in your land”; it speaks of an invasion of divine territory, an inroad of the foe. At such times “ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets”. In times of conflict our being remembered and saved is not by reason of our valiant fighting; it depends on the priestly alarm which regards the matter in its true character before God, and calls in His power. There will be no true spiritual conflict apart from the conviction that there is something at stake which is of God, and which He can and will defend. Spiritual persons discern in it an effort of the enemy, and realise that it is an oppression which has to be met by the power of God. Power comes in when opposition to what is of God is regarded as a work of the enemy. Nothing more falsifies the conflicts of the testimony than to regard them as mere disputes and differences between men who cannot agree. Satan would like the people of God to so regard them. But to “blow an alarm” before God signifies that His attention is called to it as something directly hostile to His interests, and to the peace and prosperity of His people; something is at stake which is of value to Him.

God hears the silver trumpets; He has given them to His priests that He might hear them on such occasions. He will remember and save His people.

C. A. Coates (‘An Outline of Numbers’, pp.129, 130)

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