The time has finally come, the Israelites get to walk into the promised land. They enter it in a similar way to how they fled the Egyptians, crossing a dry river floor. While Joshua has seen some amazing things in his life, I wonder what his first reaction to the commander of the Lord’s...
Moses’s life is coming to a close. By the end of the book, the Israelites will have a new leader and are about to enter the promised land, the land of milk and honey. He is hoping that Israel will understand that they will be blessed beyond measure if they obey His commandments and...
Moses is continuing his last address to the nation of Israel before they enter the promised land. While Moses reviews some of the Law and includes some that had previously not been mentioned, he also covers the reasons why we should obey the commandments. We are told to surround and immerse ourselves with God’s...
The final chapters of Numbers focus on the beginning to the fulfillment of the Lord’s promise that the Israelites would inherit the land of Canaan and instructs men and women on the making of promises and vows. The Israelites have been wandering the wilderness for 40 years. They are the given the instructions...
In Numbers, 21-29, God couldn’t have made it more obvious that Israel was a blessed nation. Everyone that encountered them in battle was defeated and wiped out. They defeated the King of Arad, King Sihon and the Amorites and King Og of Bashan. Through Balaam, God showed Balak, the Moabites and the Midians that...
Continuing on through Numbers, we see that the Israelites are a doubting nation. Israel has become a whining, ungrateful and untrusting congregation. The Lord is providing food for them, but it is not good enough. He has given them leaders that have a direct line to God to tell them what to do and...
This passage of Numbers was comforting to read for my need to have everything in it’s proper place, and was a refreshing change of pace compared to the Law of Leviticus. Moses is called by God to take a census of all the men aged 20 years and over of each tribe, the warriors and...
Three books down, 63 more to go! Consequently, I have been dreading reading some portions of the Bible and one of those books was Leviticus. While I have read Leviticus before, my knowledge consisted of knowing it contained a lot of the Law and frankly reading about a lot of rules does not sound...
Leviticus can be extremely overwhelming read. It is easy to get bogged down in all of the details surrounding the expectations of all the different kinds of offerings. I was struck with how incredibly gracious that the Lord created provisions for those of all economic standing to be able to participate in bringing offerings...
One week down, only 83 days of reading left. In Exodus 29-40, the Israelites quickly stray from God and build a golden calf as a god, but face severe consequences for their actions. The speed in which the Israelites go from we have been delivered to we have no God, He has left us...
