Sept. 21, 2025

Numbers, Talking Donkeys, Fiery Serpents, and the Thin Places

Numbers, Talking Donkeys, Fiery Serpents, and the Thin Places

In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, host Bennett Tanton delves into the Book of Numbers, revealing its supernatural elements and cultural significance. He explores themes of unseen battles, the wilderness as a character, and the lessons from biblical stories like Balaam's talking donkey and the fiery serpents. The conversation emphasizes the relevance of these ancient narratives in understanding modern spiritual warfare and the importance of being aware of the unseen forces at play in our lives.

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we ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code

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the dreams, so with you throw them in better guards

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of mind as broadcasting seeds, and were breaking the design

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of the shi. Yeah, yeah, yo yo, Straight from the broadcasto.

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Static, Welcome back to Broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Bennett Tanton,

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and tonight we're stepping into one of the strangest corners

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of the Bible, the Book of Numbers. And no it's

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not just censusless and dusty laws. It's got a talking

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donkey that sees into the spear world before its master does.

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It's got fiery serpents slithering into camp, biting people into

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a bronze snake on a pole mysteriously cures them, wildernesses

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that aren't empty their battlegrounds were the natural and supernatural collide.

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But here's the thing. If you look at these stories

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only as weird, like Bible trivia, you'll miss the bigger picture.

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What if these aren't just tales of the past. What

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if their windows and how the unseen were old still

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breaks into ours. Because every culture on Earth has serpent legends.

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You've got wing snakes in Arabia, You've got feathered serpent

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gods in meso America, like dragon this in Asia. Right,

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every age has whispered that animals sense what humans can't,

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like dogs warning of earthquakes, livestock refusing to move before

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UFO sightings, pets staring at empty corners like they're watching

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something step through and frankly barking and snarling at it. Sometimes,

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and when you layer that on top of numbers, you

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don't just get a campfire story, you get a supernatural pattern.

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You get cryptid encounters that rhyme with biblical serpents. You

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get governments obsessed with censuses and data, just like ancient

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kings tract numbers to control their people. You get the wilderness,

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whether it's Sinai, skinwalker ranch or the dark corners of

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your own life, becoming the proving ground for battles that

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most people never see. So tonight we're not just retelling numbers.

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We're reading it like a field manual for strange encounters,

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talking donkeys, fiery serpents, cosmic census rolls yeah, and the

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unsettling possibility that the wilderness is still alive, still contested,

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and still home to things that don't fit neatly into

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science or Sunday School. If this episode hits you do

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me a solid like share and review the podcast. That's

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how the show grows, how these seeds spread, and how

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more people start asking the questions that keep you up

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at night. So grab your canteen, lace up your boots,

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and step into the desert because the wilderness fights back.

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Section one, The donkey, the talking donkey, when beasts see

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the invisible. So let's start with the story that feels

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like it belongs in a supernatural witness testimony file. Balem's

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Donkey Numbers twenty two tells of Balem, a mercenary prophet

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for hire. He's on the road ready to curse Israel

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for a fat hey check. But as donkey suddenly veers

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off the path, crushes his foot against a wall, and

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finally just collapses. Balium Baalim loses it. He beats the

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poor animal until something wild happens. The donkey opens its

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mouth and says, why are you hitting me? Haven't I

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carried you faithfully all these years? It sounds absurd, a

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talking donkey. But here's the kicker. This wasn't a hallucination

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or parable. The text says that donkey saw what Balim didn't,

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an angel of the Lord, sword drawn blocking the road.

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The seer was blind, the beast was awake. Now let's

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pursue and tilt our broadcasting seeds lens over this all right?

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Animals seeing what humans don't is not new. Pet Owners

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know the drill. Their dog growls in an empty hallway.

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Cats stare fixed at the ceiling like something's hovering. Their

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indigenous lore is full of stories where animals act as sentinels,

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sounding alarms when spirits move through the land. Even Krypton

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encounters echo this bigfoot sightings where dogs refuse to enter

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the woods, cattle mutilation, cases where herds panic and bolt

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hours before strange lights appear in the sky. So maybe

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Balem's donkey isn't a joke. Maybe it's a data point

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in a much older pattern, creature sensing the invisible long

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before humans catch up. And if that's true, what else

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are we missing because we don't want to look foolish.

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Here's where the unsettling edge comes in. Bailim, a man

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hired for spiritual vision was too blind and stubborn to

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see what was standing in front of him. He's beating

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the very thing saving his life should hit like a

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gut punch. How often do we silence the warnings because

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they come from a place that we don't respect. The

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kid who asks the sharp question, the friend who sees

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through the charade, the natural world that keeps signaling danger

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while we pave right over it, and let's plant this seed.

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If a donkey could be a mouthpiece for the supernatural once,

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what's stopping the same thing from happening again? Are we

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so sure animals don't still bear witness seeing the clash

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of realms? While we scroll past tiktoks and news feeds.

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The wilderness is not quiet. The beasts still bray. The

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only question is are we listening or are we just

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beating them back into silence? Section two The fiery serpents

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and the bronze poll. It's a strange cure for a

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deadly bite. So numbers twenty one is where things take

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a hard left from weird too terrifying. Israel's camp explodes

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into chaos as fiery serpents slither in fighting people, leaving

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them to die in waves. The word fiery and Hebrew

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seraph can mean burning venom, but it's also the root

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of seraphim fiery celestial beings. So what exactly are we

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talking about here? Ordinary desert snakes or something stranger? Creatures

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that straddle that line between biology and the supernatural. Cultures

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across the globe echo this motif. The Egyptians carved winged

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serpents on temple walls. Arabian historians like Herodotus described flying

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snakes in the desert near the Red Sea. In Mesoamerica,

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you've got Quetzucuadal, the feathered serpent god who was both

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a destroyer and a bringer of life. I mean even

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in Appalachian folks, there are whispers of glowing serpents seen

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slithering in river valleys, different times, different places, but always

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the serpent fiery and otherworldly. And then comes to the

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bizarre cure. God tells Moses, make a bronze serpent, mount

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it on a pole, raise it high, and if someone

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gets bitten, all they have to do is look at

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it and they'll live. Imagine that scene, people writhing on

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the ground. Then I'm coursing through them while a strange

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metallic effigy gleams in the desert sun. They look up, desperate,

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and somehow they're healed. That's not medicine. That's something else,

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a ritual, a prototype of faith technology, maybe an act

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where obedience and focus override the chaos of venom. The

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New Testament ties this directly to Christ, saying, as Moses

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lifted the serpent, so must the son of Man be

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lifted up. But even outside Christian theology, this looks like

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a strange supernatural law at work, healing through paradox. And

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here's where the unsettling peace comes in. That bronze serpent

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eventually became an idol. Centuries later, King Hezekiah had to

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destroy it because people were worshiping the sign instead of

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the god behind it. They even named it nah Hushton.

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Humans have a way of clinging to the tool and

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forgetting a source. We do it now with technology and

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politics and even medicine. We worship the fix instead of

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the one who can actually heal. And maybe, just maybe,

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these fiery serpents weren't random punishment. Maybe they were a

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breach event. Think of like Skinwalker Ranch or uh the

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Chi the Chichauan desert, places where the soup, the paranormal,

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and the physical blur. What if these serpents were the same,

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an incursion from that thin place, burning reminders that Israel

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wasn't walking through empty sand, but through contested territory. So

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here's the seed. What if the fiery serpents are still

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with us, not always in scales and fangs, but in

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the poisons that spread through cultures, lies that burn through minds,

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and addictions that sink their teeth in and won't let go.

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Maybe the cure is the same, look up, lift your

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eyes beyond the bite to something that forces you to

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trust what doesn't make sense. The serpent slither, the venom spreads.

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The question is where are you looking when it does?

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Section three The wilderness as a battleground, when the desert

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fights back. If you zoom out, every strange event in

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numbers happens in the same setting, the wilderness. And that's

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it's not just scenery. The desert is a character and

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it doesn't play nice. It strips people bare, it exposes weaknesses,

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It pushes you to the edge until the unseen starts

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pressing in. Think about it. Moses meets God in a

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burning bush out in the wilderness. Elijah hides there and

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later hears God in a whisper. John the Baptist lives

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on the locusts and honey in it, and Jesus himself

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is led into the wilderness to fast and square off

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against who satan. Over and over, the desert becomes the

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proving ground, not the temple, not the palace, the wilderness.

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And it's not just in the Bible. Across cultures, the

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wilderness is the place where weird things happen. I'm going

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to bring it up again. Look at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah,

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strange lights, cryptid sightings, cattle mutilations, or the deserts of

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Nevada home to Groom Lake in area fifty one, where

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whispers of hidden tech and shadow projects swirl. Even go

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to Australia and the outback has dreamed the dreamtime stories

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of serpents being, of serpent beings roaming dry river beds,

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the barren places of Earth carry the same fingerprint. When

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human noise dies down, other voices break through. Here's the

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unsettling part. Israel thought their battle was with thirst and hunger,

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but the wilderness was testing something deeper. Allegiance, obedience and faith.

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Every complaint, every rebellion, every serpent bite was part of

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a larger war. The people weren't just fighting the environment.

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They were fighting forces waiting to exploit their weakness. Now

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shift that to our modern deserts. They don't always look

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like dunes and scorpions, And sometimes they look like cultural emptiness,

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like joom scrolling at two am, like psychological burn pits

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where hope evaporates. Sometimes they look like small towns gutted

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by addiction, or endless feeds engineered to drain your spirit.

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That's wilderness too, and the battles there are just as real.

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So here's the seed I'll plan. The desert is alive

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and it fights back. You can't go through wilderness seasons untouched.

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Either you get forged by them or you get consumed.

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And maybe the real danger isn't the lack of water

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or bread, but the serpent's waiting for you to drop

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your guard. The wilderness doesn't hand out participation trophies. It

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decides who's awake and who's asleep. The question isn't whether

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you'll enter it, you already have. The question is when

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the desert bears its teeth, will you see it as

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a proving ground or as a graveyard? Section four numbers

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and the Unseen War more than a sensusless. So let's

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see honest. Most people flip through numbers and their eyes

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glaze over page after page of genealogies, censises, tribe tallies.

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It feels like the feels like the Bible's DMV paperwork.

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But here's the thing. Those lists weren't busy work. They

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were roll calls for war. Every name mattered, every head counted.

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Israel wasn't just wandering. They were marching through contested territory

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like an army on the move. The text says the

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tribes camped in a precise formation around the tabernacle, the

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glowing hub of God's presence. Imagine it a wilderness staging ground,

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twelve tribal banners flying in the dust, and ordered camp

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radiating out from a supernatural headquarters. To the naked eye,

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maybe it looked like tents in the sand, but in

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the end sne it was a battle formation. This is

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where broadcasting seeds lenses where our lens zooms in consensus

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and lists aren't neutral. Ancient rulers counted people to measure control,

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to levy taxes, and to draft armies. Fast forward, and

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it hasn't changed that much. The Romans used consensus for domination,

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the British Empire did it for colonial control, and today

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governments and corporations don't just count bodies. They count data.

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Every swipe, every search, every single click. It's all part

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of a modern census. The algorithms don't just want your name,

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they want your allegiance. So when we read numbers through

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modern eye, the parallel is eerie. Israel was being counted

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to see who would stand in the war. We are

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being counted now every day in ways we don't even notice.

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Your phone pings, your location, your smart devices listen. You're

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reduced to data points in someone else's war room. The

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only question is what formation are you standing in? And

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here's where it gets even darker. In numbers, rebellion against

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God's order had brutal consequences, or as crew swallowed alive,

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spies struck with plague, entire groups cut off, cut off.

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The point wasn't cruelty. It was that the stakes were

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cosmic order versus chaos, life versus annihilation. And maybe it

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still is. Numbers isn't boring bookkeeping. It's a glimpse at

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the architecture of an unseen war. Back Then, names on

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a scroll determined who carried spears in the desert. Today,

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names in a database determine who gets nudged, censored, or

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amplified in the cultural battlefield. And just like in the wilderness,

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pretending here you're neutral doesn't make you safe. It just

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makes you unprepared. So maybe the next time you roll

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your eyes at a list or shrug off another term

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of service checkbox, you should ask whose senses am I in?

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Who's counting me? And for what war? Section five seeds

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in the wilderness, what it means to us right now?

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By now you can see it. Numbers isn't about dusty

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wanderings and bureaucratic lists. It's about survival in the wilderness

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that was never empty. Israel thought they were just battling sand,

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thirst and boredom. In reality, they were brushing up against entities,

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forces and patterns that still stalk us even today. The

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donkey saw the angel before the prophet did the beast.

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The beasts still sense what we ignore. Maybe that's why

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your dog barks at the tree line before a sasquatch encounter,

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or why livestock panic before UFO sidings. If creation is

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still groaning, then animals may be the first alarm bells.

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Question is do we listen or do we beat the

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donkey until it shuts up? The fiery serpents they've slithered

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into every age, all right. Ancient winged snake miss Mesoamerican

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feathered gods, glowing serpents in the Appalachian valleys. They all

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grime with the desert serpents of numbers, and today their

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venom looked different. It's not always fangs in your ankle.

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Sometimes its propaganda. Weren't worming through your feed, division, poisoning families, addictions,

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burning holes in whole communities. The serpents never left, They

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just changed their skin the wilderness itself. It's still the battleground.

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It shows up in empty deserts where black projects hide,

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and forests where Cryptid's wand and in cultural wastelands where

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meaning collapses. In those barren places, the veil thins. People

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report strange lights. They report voices, also shadows and presences.

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Because the wilderness doesn't light. You hide behind comfort. It's raw.

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It's testing ground. It's where you find out who you

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are and what's waiting for you. And the census it's

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not kid ourselves. We're still being counted, not by scrolls,

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but by data farms, surveillance grids, and systems that track

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what side you're standing on. Just like in numbers, it

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isn't neutral, it's alignment. In the cosmic war, everyone is

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in someone's formation. So here's the sea that I want

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to plant. Don't despise your wilderness, don't run from it,

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because it's the wilderness. It's in the wilderness where the

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strange things reveal themselves and where faith, real faith gets forged.

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Balem's Donkey, the Fiery Serpents, the census rules, they weren't

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just stories for them, they're templates for now and maybe

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that's the unsettling truth. The wilderness never went away. It's

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around us, it's in us, and if we open our eyes,

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you'll see it's still alive, with strangeness, angels with drawn swords,

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serpents with fire, the battle raging for your allegiance. The

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question is, when the wilderness trustes in, will you lift

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your eyes or will you let venom take hold? Numbers

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in the now wilderness never left all right, So here

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we are the book of numbers. What most people write

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off as the boring middle child of the Old Testament

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is anything but boring. It's a record of thin places

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where the veil between the natural and supernatural ripped open.

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A donkey with wide eyes, wide enough to see what

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a prophet couldn't. Fiery serpents that bite like myths come alive.

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Wildernesses that aren't empty at all, But they're contested ground,

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censusless that double as war rosters, and a conflict bigger

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than sand and stone. And if you've been tracking with me,

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you see it. The pattern didn't stop in the desert.

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They never do. Animals still sense what they do, Serpents

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still show up with different skins. The wilderness still tests

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us and every age, every generation is still being counted,

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still being sorted for a war that most people pretend

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isn't happening. So here's the last seed I'll plant today.

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Don't dismiss the strange, don't explain away the bizarre as

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just stories, because sometimes the strangest stories are the most

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honest about what's really going on. Numbers is a warning

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and a roadmap. If you learn to read it, you'll

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start spotting the donkey, the serpents, the wildernesses, and the

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senses in your own life. And once you see them,

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you can't unsee them. If this episode stirred something in you,

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do me a favor. Hit that like button, Share this

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with someone who can handle the strangeness, and leave a

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review wherever you listen. This is how broadcasting seeds grows

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and how these questions spread. Again. I'm Benettantin and this

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has been broadcasting seeds. Stay awake, stay watchful, and remember

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the wilderness isn't empty, It's alive, and it's waiting out

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in the desert where the silence burn a dongy spoke

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while the prophet.

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Serv incid Iron.

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Runs on a.

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Pole under haunteds guy, the Willardess still speaks. Can you

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hear it call? Where the veil grows thin and the

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shadows crawl, The numbers are counting the serpent spies.

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Lift your eyes.

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To the fire in the nose.

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Every census is a war, every name of fright.

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The unseen armies gather out of side.

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Dark still pocket wall.

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We can't see.

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Whispers in the wind of prophets.

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Don't trust the silence. It's alone with wall. The Litliness

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is watching, keeping school, every sipan, every serpent skin marks,

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the batter.

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Raging deep within.

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The Litliness still speaks. Can you hear it call?

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Through the fiery storms an the angel's wall. The venom

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is burning, the cures inside lifts your

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Night to the fire in the night, to the fire,

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to the fire in the night.