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Exd 30:11 - 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, When thou takest the sum
of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom

for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague
among them, when [thou] numberest them. This they shall give, every one that pass-

eth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a
shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD. Every
one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above,

shall give an offering unto the LORD. The rich shall not give more, and the poor
shall not give less than half a shekel, when [they] give an offering unto the LORD, to

make an atonement for your souls. And thou shalt take the atonement money of the
children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congre-
gation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to

make an atonement for your souls.

Atonement Money. No Atonement without a Price Being Paid

Atonement money. Because numbering implies

ownership, there must be something to point to the
true owner. A token showing those numbered stand
in need of a ransom for their souls; something that

points to a savior and salvation. David sinned by not
following the instructions of the Lord in how to number and in not taking the atone-

ment money. He knew better, for he had properly numbered Israel before. Satan
stood up against David and provoked him to number Israel. This was Satan’s rage
and revenge against David. But what would make him so angry? David found him-

self in great disfavor with the Lord for the way in which he had numbered Israel, but
he had also handed Satan a tremendous defeat.

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

If – and we must speculate here- if the giants had a kinship of some description to

Satan, if they belonged somehow to Satan, then the elimination of their kind would
be a crushing blow. But the prophecy quoted in Genesis belongs to Christ.