Exodus 30:11–16
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Our modern overlords, both corporate and governmental, are obsessed with numbering the people. They want to know your habits, your income, your preferences, your location, and your vaccination status. They want to quantify and manage the human herd. The desire to number what you think you own, to measure the arm of the flesh, is an ancient one. It is the pride of kings and the folly of nations. When King David, in a moment of vainglory, decided to count his fighting men, a plague fell upon Israel. Because numbering the people, apart from the express command and provision of God, is an act of presumption. It is to claim for Caesar what belongs to God. Our secular culture believes in a different kind of numbering. It is a numbering that seeks to establish value based on human metrics.