For those who don’t know, a vow, once made, must not be revoked. Jesus said it’s best not to make any vows, period (Matthew 5:33-37). One contrast between males and females here was that the payment was usually double for males, as opposed to females, so I can tell God didn’t want that. For we see that God made all humans fearfully and wonderfully (Psalm 139:13-14). So that was God giving His so-called people (the right verse for this is Deuteronomy 32:5) up to these wack decrees He never wanted, as Romans 1:24-32 details for many things. I don’t like that our minds can be debased… hopefully that doesn’t happen to you… but this chapter is found in pages 75-76 of the NKJV Bible I have, pages 96-97 of the NASB Bible I have (Old Testament, 1995 version — I didn’t know they’d update it until 2020 happened), pages 157-158 of my VOICE copy, and pages 156-158 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
I should also note that Paul, for some reason, wasn’t opposed to vows, given the content of Acts 18:18 and what he did when he got back to Jerusalem after his third mission trip (read Acts 21:23-26) — I guess he was trying to keep a low profile among his Jewish brethren, seeing that they had yet to accept Jesus and the Christian faith hadn’t become distinct from Judaism yet. Perhaps God’s not opposed to any reasonable vow, either, but keeping one will NOT be easy. I’ve tried it, and it almost didn’t work, but thank God He stopped the devil from winning that month! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Will I need to make more promises in the future? Only God knows… but it’s not worth it to sacrifice animals — THAT’S not what God wanted 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😬😬😬😬😬 but one reason everything in my northeast Gilbert living situation fell apart was that my then-roommate was paranoid, thinking everything was unsafe (someone had sacrificed animals in a nearby house). I pray against that practice… we don’t need it anymore, for we can offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to Jesus, because of Romans 12:1.
The property taxes (verses 14-21) I don’t really understand, but I guess this and verses 22-24 are a basis of why people have property laws all over the world, given the content of Romans 2:14-15 (Moses was the tutor in the days before Jesus came (Galatians 3:24)). A bit off-topic, don’t you think it’s ridiculous a lot of people weaponize Romans 2 to ridicule others? I really don’t want to keep talking about this, for I just read a post from one of my first commenters (I had gotten my very first comment on this site after nearly seven years of writing notes on here from another lovely human being last week, but I didn’t know how to reply to her 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 if she’s seeing this, I hope I can say something good to her in return), and I want to communicate to them both well, but I don’t know how to do that without making it awkward 😅😅 blame it on the autism 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
One way to understand verses 28-29 here is to look at the cross-references in Exodus 22:18-20 and Deuteronomy 13:12-18… but this isn’t commanded today, for even in those days God didn’t want death to be one’s final outcome (Ezekiel 18:23, 32, 33:11). And His character is unchanging (Hebrews 13:8); indeed, none of this can be broken (John 10:35). I don’t want to comment on this, for an atheist can look at these verses and claim excuses for not believing God even exists, and I’ve met enough in my lifetime. That’s what the devil’s trying to do to any generation, and when that doesn’t work, he’ll convince the population that God worships the U.S. government. Sadly, it’s often worked… and we seem to be on the losing side. Indeed, even if Trump were to be removed from office in the next 12 hours (it’s currently 4:25 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), his supporters will be faithful to help him out, and they’ll strengthen their kingdom even more, so that the last establishment is worse than the first. For if Jesus was arrested and killed by policemen who relied on shifting sands, so the U.S. politicians can do the same to me and everyone who enjoys my content. So I feel the need to keep a low profile… and I don’t know when I’ll be back to write on Numbers… but first, I’ll write a retrospective on Leviticus, which ends with the words, “These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai” (verse 34, NASB). And don’t forget: the “sons” of Israel — both males and females are included in this, all of them (though I’d rather call the ladies daughters of God). I think this occurs in every gender-neutral word in the original languages the Bible was written in, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. But I’ll write the retrospective really quick, because I don’t want to delay you 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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