This is the fastest I’ve gone through a book in the Bible so far when it comes to writing all these notes 📝 📋 from every chapter, and I have no regrets in getting through the last 12 or so in the last month. I had plenty of fun writing on the stories that appear in the book to make it more interesting, but I didn’t enjoy the unfaithfulness all the unbelievers exhibited, nor did I enjoy Moses himself actually being stupid and denouncing the good in chapters 31 and 32 when the new generation did what was right. Indeed, who isn’t like this in the school of hard knocks? I think it’s at a point where they can shoot the students who are supposedly misbehaving and not go to jail. For we can’t tamper with anyone’s natural growth patterns. But I guess it’s because God has no grandchildren that the disciplinarians have decided in their depraved and deluded souls to scar and maul the hearts of even the adults who want them safe! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 My second niece recently started kindergarten, I think, and her older sister is now in the 3rd grade, so I pray God keeps them safe somehow, for I feel like I’m one of the few people ON EARTH who would uplift a younger human’s well-being. For Biff Tannen is the god of the U.S., and I can’t identify with him, but most people more or less follow him like they’d follow Jesus if they were willing to, and with no hindrances. Indeed, that guy is the country’s “Dear Leader”, and there’s no signs of it slowing down. However, the Holy Spirit is stronger than he is, but offence has blocked Him from ever lifting the nation again, just as offence had made it so that God had to make the Israelites wait 40 years until everyone from the first census except Caleb and Joshua was dead. Those under 20 could take the land, but Moses and Aaron couldn’t enter, either. Regardless, Jesus still had a plan for Moses, and we see them talking in the Transfiguration (read Matthew 17:1-13, Mark 9:1-13, and Luke 9:27-36 for the whole story).
This is just one story out of many in how offence this the devil’s secret weapon, and most people in any church, in general, don’t want to talk about it. I don’t really know why… but I guess I can’t get an answer right now… but overall, I think Numbers is a good book. Quite underrated in numerous circles, though. I remember I discovered the stories in 2012 and did notes 📝 📋 on them, some being in a bus 🚌 lol. I didn’t really know much of what I was reading in that section of the Bible when I first picked one up in September 2009, just weeks after I first began following Jesus, but now I think there’s a lot of moments worth mentioning. I don’t really know what I’m up against with Deuteronomy, though… pray for me lol 😆😆😆
Ron And His Stories 