Author: Ron Outland

I like that God says “whose heart is willing” to obey Him here, not some religious obligationary tactics (sorry if I got bad grammar here haha). There’s a lot of details on how this should work, and as I was discussing it with some friends last time I was in southern California in early 2013 (this was in the days of when I first wrote Bible notes for everyone to see, and I think I was writing in John’s Gospel, or Acts, I can’t remember… but my friend, Taylor Haze Warren, might remember, since we were at In-N-Out that afternoon in the Palm Springs area. Hey dude, if you’re reading this, I’m glad you and your wife with the same name exist,, and I pray blessings on you both, and if you have any children 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 I’d love to catch up with you sometime. And don’t worry about how I’ve turned out years later, even though I’ve had some setbacks after we last talked, I’m doing much better now, and am actually getting fairly close to becoming debt-free for good! I’d love to hear your perspective on this and COVID-19, though. Sorry if this is inconvenient for you, bro, but I’m hoping to hear from you soon. This chapter is found in page 46 of my NKJV Bible I’m using for this, pages 59-60 of my NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 102-104 of my VOICE copy, and pages 97-98 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I have a study Bible as of last summer in the NKJV, but I don’t think I can use it every time, since my laptop is busted and I don’t know how to write Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic in any technology… I still don’t know any foreign language very good, either. Oh, right, I think there’s a lot of detail, Taylor had said, because God cares how everything in Jesus is done. I think the Bible would’ve been a lot longer if there needed to be a lot of chronicles about later Christians’ devotions to Jesus, but the world would’ve had no room to store the works of Jesus even in the mid-first century A.D. (John 21:25) ✝️ = 💝 And the stories of every Christian’s walk with Jesus ever? The earth would probably fall out of orbit if the stories were written in the places the devotions had occurred, but thankfully, that will never happen (see the psalms). Also, the last verse in this chapter is quoted in Hebrews 8:5, but is soon followed by Jeremiah’s prophecy of a new covenant (Hebrews 8:8-12, 10:16-17, also Jeremiah 31:31-34, cross-references: Ezekiel 11:19-20, 36:26-27).

Any prayer requests you want to mail to me? Drop them in my e-mail: ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I’ll see you in the next chapter where we continue with God’s next set of instructions to Moses! Ciao!

Here in this final section of Exodus we see God commanding the Israelites to build a place for Him until they march towards Canaan. I can’t sat much about this since I’m not very well-versed in this part of Exodus but this section is found in pages 46-57 of my NKJV Bible, pages 59-73 of my NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 102-122 of my VOICE copy (with its notes), and pages 97-119 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’m writing this on my phone since it’s a lot easier for me to type this down, for my laptop is likely on its last legs, but options to type something unique are limited, and there’s no Ctrl, Alt, Delete in it. (The O.G.s recognize that this often helps the computer when it’s struggling.) But anyway, there’s some instructions from God to Moses, and they have fellowship together like beloved brothers. It’s interrupted, however, by Aaron succumbing to the Israelites’ desire to make a golden calf from what they had. And they had LOTS of gold and riches, so whatever you read after this for the three books ahead of this, pay close attention: it’s an important detail to what happens after this book ends. I should also let you guys know that people used the words “golden calf” as an idiom for the idolatry and unfaithfulness to God in today’s world, and really any society throughout history. I know the U.S. worships the media a lot, so we should be salt and light instead of being salty about nothing. There’s also a lot of weaponry worshiped by too many here, and Psalm 44:6 contains the psalmist writing down that he wouldn’t trust in his bow or his sword. And those were probably the majority of weapons available in the days of the psalmists, centuries before Jesus was born. Unfortunately, though, I’m sure people want to criminalize the Bible for promoting peace like this, here in the U.S.! I still remember the ridiculous Lee Greenwood translation they wrote and tried to make reality, but thankfully, Christian publishers like Zondervan didn’t take it. But you never know… politics is way too potent already, and they’re trying to make it the state religion and enforce worship of whatever they believe. When this happens, we’ll need to stand our ground and bow down to nothing but Christ ✝️=💖 and risk losing everything. They might even make it so we can neither live nor die for Him. They’re trying to turn Christianity into a perpetual thing of shame… 😨😰😥😢😭😭😭 and are actually helping the world persecute the believers all across the earth. As it is, I’m going to need some help from God to follow Him should… well, I guess I should refrain from saying anything here. But pray for me, please?

The final six chapters are other tabernacle instructions and it resumes where chapter 31 left off. I’ll comment on them later, for I don’t know much about the content in them. I’m no expert in the Pentateuch, actually… but I’ll see you in the whole of chapter 25! Later, guys!

I need to make a clarification to what I said in my last post… both male and female Christians are the Bride of Christ, and the bride is obviously a woman, so I need to learn that. It’s a tough thing for me; I’m trying my best, and when I tried to write this down on my laptop earlier, it kept freezing and shutting down on me… so I believe Satan’s after my technology 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 this is not good. But I hope everything is good with you. Thanks!

There’s a pretty grand moment here… or so we think. The Israelites had tested God at least three times (look further in Numbers 14:22), and so He gave them over to what they had wanted. There’s more to follow here, but thankfully, we don’t see much Mosaic stuff in the next 16 chapters that remain in this book. The people’s hearts are fully obedient to what God requests around here, though (I mean in this section of Exodus) — but anyway, it’s great that hearts can be in love with God’s commands. But that’s only possible if God renews it… and I can tell you there’s not a lot of hearts renewed even today, as the amount of COVID-19 cases are more or less dropping each month, but the vaccination doesn’t help, either — they halted the mandate, but it’s preparation for the antichrist’s system (read Revelation 13). It just goes to show you: the world leaders are no longer willing to follow God, and the sin of the battle in Armageddon (Revelation 16:16; also James 1:13-15) has been born. This will be completed right before Christ’s return, and it won’t be good for anyone. But this chapter is found in pages 45-46 of the NKJV Bible I’m using, pages 58-59 of the NASB Bible I’m using (Old Testament), page 102 of my VOICE copy, and pages 96-97 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Personally, I’ve been wanting to dig deeper into the Song of Solomon and apply everything in it into this world, not to mention preach that, thankfully, the Kingdom of God allows for freedom of speech. For if we understand that the book is really Jesus’ attitude towards the church (there’s a reason there’s no “proper” ending for that one: the party in Heaven will last forever 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊✨✨✨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎈🎈🎈 and Sarah, Marcela, and their soulmates/girlfriends will be happier than ever with no end 💅🏼🙌🏼💃🏽👯‍♀️👩‍❤️‍👩 that’s how I’d feel if I were female, and that most certainly is not a bad thing to any degree; God made them perfectly gorgeous 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍💖💖💖💖💖 and my nieces apply here, too 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰) — then we will know there’s no sexual anything here, despite what you might think when you read this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I shared on Facebook today this information; I pray it blesses everyone reading this, and I pray I’m more in love with Jesus than a teenage girl with her boyfriend 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁💏👯‍♀️💋 (that last emoji was me to Christ; I don’t want to be not myself; I don’t think I can become female or have romantic interest in guys) 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 — I know what I’m writing here might turn someone off, but just understand that I don’t want to cause another misunderstanding, and I would love to spend every weekend with my wife in a cabin, if I get both in the future. I don’t want us to be sexless robots, you know? Also, I’m just hoping I can make you laugh, too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 we need it in this war-torn, dystopian world. Oh, I almost forgot, I want to light up some incense in my room in the future; I’ve never done it before, but I’ve used some once on New Year’s Day in 2017 when I was staying at a friend’s apartment unit. May God be heartily happy with this 😁😁😁😁😁🚭😊🔥🔥🔥

I pray blessings on anyone reading this post today, and I can pray for you with anything you need! Just e-mail me at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I’ll see you in the final section of Exodus (chapters 25-40)! Later, guys!

The commandments against idolatry of literally any kind I understand, but I don’t think the Israelites had God in mind to be the One worshiped… they wanted dead religion instead. It’s like a dead meme someone thinks is popular (or to put it this way, a Slowpoke Pokémon meme), but thankfully, we are admonished to exert justice for everyone; that’s why I gave this note the title. This chapter is found in page 45 of my NKJV Bible, pages 57-58 of my NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 100-102 of my VOICE copy, and pages 95-96 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

A bit off-topic: I think I learned to type very fast from years of using the computer in my teenage years/early 20s, but whatever 🤷🏼‍♂️ I think it’s good to train for years at something useful even by complete accident 😄😅 I hope we decide to train our hearts to seek justice for everyone, just as Micah 6:8 says… I know I could use some more direction here. This world is too often devoid of any long-term faithfulness to God like this, and I think the devil’s good at subverting everything for his own gain. He can even call his own works God’s justice — and when that happens, everyone suffers, including the people in Heaven. I know for one thing, even when too many people follow evil, I’m not doing it. But if the law requires that, we’ll certainly be punished because we want to do God’s will, just as Paul had predicted (2 Timothy 3:12). I know for one thing, I heard there’s a vaccine mandate for people in the U.S., and the deadline is January 4 next year, so in less than two months. Whatever your beliefs about it are, keep in mind that they actually don’t want freedom for us, nor do they care to improve the technology. I even read something in Relevant Magazine about a fact-checking, but I’m still not interested in the vaccine because of the name “Lucifer” in some scientific terms. Hopefully it doesn’t touch Fry’s or even really any part of Arizona… but I know there aren’t that many countries that are penalizing those who don’t take the vaccine. If that’s the case, maybe it’s not the mark of the beast, but it certainly sounds like preparation for it… this reminds me of the drafts that had happened in the 60s I had heard about for the Vietnam War, after WWII had happened, and things like that.

There’s some weird stuff happening around the world, but I don’t think they care people can and will die from the vaccine, and I don’t expect a way out of this… and I can’t make you follow my convictions about it anyway. I don’t even have perfect theology; only Jesus can do that. I don’t think He wants us fighting any wars against other humans, though. That’s not good. I pray against conscription for the military no matter what country it is that’s pushing it. Still, we don’t want to be enemies of the state in reasonable matters, right? But it says in Acts 5:29, “We must obey God rather than men” (NASB). Unfortunately, though, I can’t make out what exactly the technology is regarding the COVID-19 medicine… if they’re trying to make everyone reject Jesus, I pray for a way out of this… if you want to pray about anything else, you can e-mail me at ron.outland4727@gmail.com, and I’ll read each letter, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! The rest I leave up to you. For any private thoughts, I’ll probably just keep to myself about this. I hope you have a good evening, and I’ll see you in chapter 24! Bye!

I just read this in the New King James Version (that’s what “NKJV” stands for) and I like how I can give meat to dogs even if I were to travel back in time three thousand years, but that’ll never happen, and it’s not like I can afford to keep a dog at my house long-term. But my friend Josh entrusted me to keep watch over his dog, Buddy, while he and his family are away in Ohio until later this month. (He came over last week, and he’s taking his daughter, Liliana, to meet his wife’s extended relatives.) So I can feed raw steak to him, but I’d rather ask Josh if that’s ok, and if I can buy some at the nearby Safeway or Fry’s. Otherwise, if I don’t, I’ll have to cook and eat it. I would’ve given Buddy some broth from my noodles, but I don’t think Jonathan’s for it, and he actually did the 21st century version of chastening on him. I hope he didn’t mean him any harm… I’ll be super-pissed if he did. Oh, by the way, the statement in the beginning of this paragraph is in the last verse, and there’s 31 in total in this chapter. The people are given great protection from marauders and bandits and trusted adults who become their betrayers and their enemies among the brethren, like in Psalm 55. This chapter is found in pages 44-45 of the NKJV Bible I’m using, page 57 of the NASB Bible I have (Old Testament pages), pages 98-100 of my VOICE copy, and pages 93-95 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

And speaking of the Amplified Bible (80s version), I just finished reading that translation ten days ago! 😁😁😁😁😁🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 That marks 6 translations I’ve read from front to back since becoming Christian in mid-2009! Good news, huh? But I just realized I shouldn’t read anything for its own sake but because the Lord wants me to, and I’d rather not ignore the Word of Christ in any part of the Scriptures. I do want to find out what the Passion Translation says in the future, though, if they release the full version (I’ll check real quick… sorry, guys, but the translation still isn’t finished, but there are the Psalms, Proverbs, the Song of Solomon, and Isaiah, as well as the whole New Testament, so I’m like, “This is awesome!” — and when I was writing this, the laptop shut down on me; I think I need a new battery so it wouldn’t do that anymore, so do you think I should get one at Best Buy or something? — my technology’s getting old) — hang on, it’s getting windy outside; I pray no freak storm occurs. It would be weird if it did, for I live in Arizona, but I did hear about a hurricane going through Mexico from its southwestern edge today; it’ll hit Texas soon, so I pray against the storm.

One thing I should mention is that I read through verses 22-24 of this chapter and went, “These look familiar…” and then remembered that I had discussed this with some other college kids at ASU CRU one Thursday night in early 2013. I mentioned that night to the small group I was in for the evening that God didn’t want to kill anyone, and they all agreed. Too bad the global Church is often misled by evil leaders who love to take advantage of others, either through false promises or loveless everything. Indeed, much of Christianity sounds like a bait-n-switch to too many people nowadays, especially since Trump helped contribute to the spread of the virus nearly two years ago simply by being the biggest contributor to the funding for the science lab in China… [inserts Jesus facepalm; see below]

It’s no fun trying to battle unreceptive people’s statements 😭😭😭😭😭😭 it would be really nice if politics had been banned in 2014 or so. But sadly, it’s like Jesus Himself is instituting the leaders of the world to do what they want, and people hate Him all over the world because of them. I hope there aren’t that many people in Europe that take God’s Name lightly… and I’d rather not charge interest to those who don’t have much of anything, like anyone making less than $16,000 per year (see this principle in verse 25). But I think I inspired Jonathan to write some Bible notes of his own! I pray God’s anointing in every word he writes! (He went into my room as I was writing this and asked for some paper, and I said, “You can have all of it.” But he only took about 60 pieces of paper; I didn’t look at how big it was.) I hope I don’t confuse anyone who reads this… for it is written, “Justice makes no sense to the evil-minded; those who seek God know it inside and out” (Proverbs 28:5, The Message).

Any prayer requests you want to e-mail me with? Drop them in my e-mail: ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I hope I see any… but sorry I waited so long to write this down; I guess I needed to take care of some things… don’t worry, it’s all good news from Jesus. I’ll see you in the next one! Later!

This is not what God wanted… this happened per request from the Israelites. Be prepared for me to say this A LOT during this section of the Old Testament, but I’m sure you’re already aware of this… and don’t get me wrong, I love Israel, but for some reason, like the other people groups, they had intended to follow something other than Jesus. Weird, huh? But this chapter is found in pages 43-44 of the NKJV Bible I’m using, pages 56-57 of the NASB Bible I have (from the Old Testament; they have new pages for the New Testament for some reason) pages 97-98 of my VOICE copy, and pages 92-93 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Slavery is mentioned as being legal, and Moses’ followers wanted sexism to draw others away from God. Yet it was everywhere in the world in those days (thank God the slave trade is gone!) — people still want to control others’ thoughts today, though. It’s obvious, isn’t it? They do this with the media and all sorts of sensual entertainment, not to mention misusing God’s name as if tomorrow didn’t exist. But Jesus quotes verse 17 in Matthew 15 and Mark 7 where He speaks with the Pharisees that had come down from Jerusalem (read from the beginning of either one and until verse 20 in Matthew 15 and verse 23 in Mark 7). I do believe Jesus wants to forgive everyone who does this, though. But sadly, I have nothing else to say here; I’ll just return in chapter 22 in hopefully a few days. Ciao!

I know I’m writing more than one note today, but I thought I’d jump here now, since the Ten Commandments are quite famous today here… but I should mention that verse 20 says God is proving everyone’s faith (or lack thereof) to see if anyone will worship Him. Unfortunately, most of what’s in the next 100+ chapters has laws God never wanted Israel to follow. That’s what Ezekiel 20:25 taught me in late 2012… probably around Christmas time that year. There’s not much good in anything throughout the rest of the Pentateuch, actually… but we’re halfway through Exodus, now… this has 40 chapters, in case you’re getting bored. I don’t want to go on about anything specific from here… I’d rather say God champions others while helping us know how we should honor Him… but this chapter is found in page 43 of my NKJV Bible, pages 55-56 of my NASB Bible, pages 96-97 of my VOICE copy (with its notes), and pages 91-92 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’m sorry that I can’t mention anything for the time being on most of these 100+ chapters between here and the end of Deuteronomy… the Old Testament books are HUGE. And I don’t know why they didn’t make Genesis easier to carry when they later did that for the six books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles… but the Ten Commandments are useful, for I hate idolatry; it’ll ruin everything. You might think this is a radical statement, but God would rather have all of us or nothing at all. I pray Jesus helps me to honor Him like this… but on everything in the Law and the Prophets hinges the love God and others reality (Matthew 22:37-40), just as Jesus said. Unfortunately, I feel I’ll actually lose enough that I’d no longer want to be alive… I especially don’t want to lose my nieces to anything unholy… I’d do anything to see them smile 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💘💗💓👯‍♀️👩‍❤️‍👩👭 but I’ll see you in the second half of Exodus! Later!

To be honest, I can’t say much here, but one verse said not to go near a woman… I think the VOICE says it best for this chapter in the waiting period until the third day that no one was to have sex with their spouse during that time… I think the women can learn here 🧜🏼‍♀️💃🏼🧚🏼‍♀️ anyone can, really. This chapter is found in pages 42-43 of the NKJV Bible, page 55 of the NASB Bible, pages 95-96 of my VOICE copy, and pages 90-91 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

If God descended from Heaven like this today, I’d probably melt in fear of what I’d see. Even Moses had said he was afraid and trembling (Hebrews 12:21). I just hope there’s clarity for everyone if that happens… it’s unlikely it will but thankfully, Jesus is considerate of others, even though He gets to do what He wants and that we shouldn’t question it, thankfully. I hope I’m a people person for life… oh, back to what I said earlier: I think every Bible should have notes like what I’m writing here this Sunday morning (I have work later, but I wanted to go to church today but I just slept too late, so Jesus is having me write this instead even though this chapter doesn’t have a lot worth mentioning, but maybe it does, I dunno) — people think God’s too chauvinistic (male-centered… what?!) — they’re also printing Bibles in a fashion that ignores women’s rights often, but thankfully, there’s women’s devotionals, which I’d get for Sarah and Marcela, but I not only don’t see them often as of late, but also, I never have any extra cash… maybe they can read this, though. (Sorry for the run-on sentence 😂😂😂😂😂 I shouldn’t do this…) again, this chapter doesn’t have much I can think of, and I’ve already mentioned a lot in these notes that church is often done unfairly, and that’s not who Jesus is. I’m also starting to feel like maybe no one will send me an e-mail about if they need prayer for anything… sorry… but the next chapter (spoiler alert) has the first rendition of the Ten Commandments, which I’m already going to say, isn’t as important as loving your neighbor (Matthew 22:39, Leviticus 19:18). Still, I can’t imagine what it’s like for the ladies who don’t have much freedom in countries like Iraq 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔 I pray love for all of them 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍 I also don’t want to feel numb to anything like this… I do hate experiencing pain, though… working a lot has a way of discouraging everything, I guess… I don’t know, I want to say hope still exists…

When Moses runs into Jethro (it’s actually a popular name nowadays), he is happy to hear what God had done for Israel just weeks earlier. It’s funny how they soon forgot Him, but I won’t talk about it today. This chapter is found in page 42 of the NKJV Bible I’m using, page 54 of the NASB Bible I have, pages 93-94 of my VOICE copy (there’s a note about this on the top of page 95), and pages 89-90 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I want to remember what God has done for me, and to believe it’ll continue for all my days… I just heard a message about Psalm 23 and I actually love what Tim said in it. I even told him over the phone that when he spoke on vacations, you’d find me California dreaming often 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🌅🏖 But this is what the Lord Jesus is like; He gives peace to all who love Him (see Isaiah 26:3). I hate how many of my friends from college don’t follow Jesus that well or don’t even bother nowadays, even though we’ve had fellowship in the past 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I miss the powerful anointing of Christ on our lives… but maybe Jethro getting Moses to appoint judges for easier situations was the real deal, even though Christ could’ve done it with His angels… I don’t know what Jethro was thinking. I prefer no human governments myself… that’s what God wanted, but it’s everywhere instead… suuuuuuckkkkssssssss… I pray peace between now and the next time I show up at church, even through the retreat next month…

Anything you want to pray about? It can be anything… just write me an e-mail at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each letter, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I still have nothing on them, except for some posters and a calendar, along with a license plate from Hobby Lobby (this I got in 2017). Oh, Jonathan had also hung a smaller wooden cross for me to think of Jesus about… or whomever was to sleep in the room I now have ✝ = 💘 And yes, I’d talk about Him like a teenage girl about her boyfriend 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 and I’d be open about it… in detail. But anyway, I’ll see you in chapter 19! Later!