Archive for February, 2008

ReadingThru: Numbers 11-13

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Today’s Reading: Numbers 11-13
Now that the people of Israel are back on the move, they take up with their favorite past-time: complaining. They complain about the food, they complain about  Eldad and Medad prophesying, they complain about Moses’ wife, they complain about giants in the promised land.

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Reading Thru: Numbers 8-10

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Today’s Reading: Numbers 8-10
Num 9:15-18 15 Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and in the evening it was like the appearance of fire over the tabernacle, until morning. 16 So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by [...]

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ReadingThru: Numbers 7

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Today’s Reading: Numbers 7
Today’s reading is one chapter, and for the most part, it is the same six verses twelve times:
Now the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;
and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and [...]

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ReadingThru: Numbers 5-6

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Today’s Reading: Numbers 5-6
In the midst of more stringent commands and laws, a couple of things stand out to me today;
The first is the benediction given to Aaron:
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them:
The LORD bless you, and keep you;
The LORD [...]

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ReadingThru: Numbers 3-4

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Today’s Reading: Numbers 3-4
In today’s reading, God defines the roles of the three major family groups of Levites: Kohathites, Gershonites and Merarites. The men of each family are assigned very specific tasks for the tearing down and setting up of the tabernacle.
I spent several years as a young(er) man in the Army. While it [...]

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ReadingThru: Numbers 1-2

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Today’s Reading: Numbers 1-2
Numbers lives up to it’s name as Moses is commanded to take a census of the men of Israel old enough to serve in the military.  The name “Numbers” is the Greek and Roman name for this fourth book of the Torah. The Hebrew name is “In the Desert”. Both names seem [...]

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ReadingThru: Leviticus 26-27

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Today’s Reading: Leviticus 26-27
Today is our last reading from Leviticus and God makes it very clear which side we should be on. While under the Law the choice is pretty simple:
If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their [...]

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