Author: Ron Outland

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 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve noticed a lot of… off things with just about every study Bible I’ve ever had, including that like every translation of verse 30 is read as if God were to begin hating anyone even if they were His enemies (for we should remember the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:43-48 and Luke 6:27-36) but I guess it’s easy to do that when something goes wrong. The lyrics of Fear Is Easy, Love Is Hard by Jason Gray (taken from the A Way To See In The Dark album, released 2011) encapsulate this perfectly. I’ll write them here: [(Verse 1) Turn on the TV for the evening news, they’ve got plenty of fear and nothing to do. Another somebody who’s gone too far, makes you want to put up your guard. Fear is easy, love is hard. (Verse 2) So we draw up another dividing line, we label each other and we choose a side. Peace could come at quite a cost, so we won’t build a bridge across. Fear is easy, but love is hard. (Refrain) Fear will leave you hiding in the dark, but love will bring a light into your heart, so do not be afraid, do not be afraid. (Verse 3) “I’m sorry, baby” is what he should’ve said, but she wouldn’t listen even if he did. They’ll die without forgiveness soon, but no one wants to make a move, when fear is easy and love is hard. (Refrain) Fear will leave you hiding in the dark, but love will bring a light into your heart, so do not be afraid, do not be afraid. (Bridge) It’s hard to give your heart to a world that can break it, to offer love to those you’re afraid will forsake it, but a well-defended heart is always looking for a fight in a lonely war against an endless night… but love can bring a light. (Refrain) Fear will leave you hiding in the dark, but love will bring a light into your heart, so do not be afraid, oh-oh-oh-oh… (Verse 4) It comes down to a simple choice, shouting devils or a still small voice. One is spreading fear and dread, oh, but love has always said, “Do not be afraid, do not be afraid, do not be afraid, do not be afraid…”] (No copyright infringement is intended in the making of this post.)

The correct translation of the words at the end of verse 30, according to the original Hebrew, is “and I shall utterly cast you away.” That’s how we’re to see how God deals with His enemies; once someone rejects Him, He leaves them to their own devices, and that’s not good. Yet Jesus’ sacrifice is for all mankind, so for anyone to dismiss this is killing themselves. I find it incredibly ridiculous that so many people in the “Christian” churches are obsessed with reprobation, so that no one can really hope in Jesus even if they’ve never been to church before… but this chapter is found in pages 74-75 of the NKJV Bible I have for this, pages 95-96 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament, 1995 version) I have for this, pages 155-157 of my VOICE copy, and pages 154-156 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

While I’m on the subject of fear, while it’s indeed important to be safe (and I’ve needed it more than anyone else I could think of here), if someone’s looking for things to be afraid of, that’s not good. The news outlets in EVERY TV SCREEN and in ALL our devices, including social media, is a lot like witchcraft, which Jesus opposes (like how Saul betrayed Him in 1 Samuel 28 by calling a medium to talk to Samuel (he had heard that Samuel had died — I’m not really sure how)) — I’m convinced I can’t spend like any time on these apps, since I’m realizing they’re no longer good for friendship unless you curate your content enough, and no one can really do that anymore. It’s great to chat privately with friends and family members with any of these apps, though. But I don’t think it’s worth it to look at the news, as if it could give holy commandments. What, do they think God speaks mostly through outlets like ABC, CNN, FOX News, etc.? If He did, we wouldn’t have the Bible. I’m not sure where it says in the Scriptures to not pay attention to this except in Isaiah 8:12-13, and I don’t know how I’m going to avoid weaponization of such passages, nor do I know how I’ll avoid that with anything else. I don’t even know how I’ll reach the people among them for the Gospel… for even the Epoch Times isn’t a good outlet, seeing there’s papers from that news source available in grocery stores (and these kinds of heralds are always filled with propaganda, not to mention the truth is seldom as it appears, just as Switchfoot wrote in the Selling The News song (taken from the Vice Verses album, also released in 2011)). I heard there’s a bunch of Chinese companies in the U.S. (some of which are here in the Valley) that are likely to be in hot water, but I know Trump helped China with many things, including COVID-19, and he’s still not sorry for any of this, for he led an insurrection that disguised itself as Christianity after 2021 started. But I do pray for repentance among all the staff in each of these workplaces across the whole country, yes, in all 50 states and all its territories. Indeed, I know there’s a lot of people in China who love Jesus even though it’s illegal to do that there (for communism is enforced), and their faith is much more authentic than that of most of the churchgoers in the U.S., likewise in probably all the other countries where Jesus’ Name is criminalized.

I should also mention (sorry I’ve been putting it off), that the amount of curses is a lot more in this chapter than the amount of blessings in it, but that was because it was a custom in the Middle East long, long ago to have the amount of curses be several times longer and numerous than the amount of blessings in a writing or text. I found this out in college when I was taking biblical classes once. So I hope you’re not offended by this… it may not be effective to read this book first, for it would probably then give a bad impression of the whole Scriptures. Yet God has laid all His promises throughout the Scriptures, and we should focus on them. It’s not worth it to ignore anything in the Bible, though… but that’s what most Bible translators are doing here, for they want to insert hatred and unforgiveness into the Scriptures. They have broken the commandment not to add to the Word of God, something Jesus had warned them against in Revelation 22:18-19, not to mention they’ve removed Matthew 18 and similar passages for themselves… but unfortunately, I fear this truth will never be popular or even accepted by many more people, whether it’s in the churches we go to or not. I’m kind of scared it’s going to be criminalized, actually… I’d rather not be here when it happens, and I want my nieces to be loved enough so that unforgiveness may be criminalized in their lifetimes. For if even the safest nations of the world allow it, this isn’t good.

And speaking of forgiveness, when people do quote Matthew 5:38-48 and Luke 6:27-38, most of them preach that forgiveness and love should be for our enemies, and only for our enemies. And we’re told to forgive people when they’re not sorry, and only when they’re not sorry… I need to share this post online so I can possibly make it viral, if God wills (I don’t have much of a following on any social media app). Jefferson Bethke, before he became an author (or was it during his career?) — he released a viral video about Jesus dying for all mankind, and that worked for me! Too bad a lot of people eventually complained about it… that was in January 2012.

But after all the promises of judgment God gives in verses 14-39 if His people were to turn away from Him, He promises forgiveness and blessing for those who repent and follow Jesus in verses 40-45 (see also Acts 2:38). That’s what Jesus died to accomplish, and His atonement is enough for all mankind forever, just as the Bible also teaches.

I’ll also let you know, Deuteronomy 28 follows a similar pattern, but the curses are twice as numerous, and forgiveness is nowhere to be found, for it predicted World War Two, mostly. But that’s over, now, and the Jewish people have Israel as a nation again, between Syria and Egypt. They will never again be uprooted from their land, just as God had promised.

Sooner or later, I’ll be back with chapter 27 to conclude Leviticus, so stay tuned. Hopefully that’s in the next couple days…

I’m going to be honest with you guys, while I don’t think God’s Name deserves to be blasphemed (some dude does this in verse 11), it’s not right that this is the basis of discrediting Jesus’ words in Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3:28, and Luke 12:10 concerning forgiveness for blasphemy against Him or anything else but the Holy Spirit. But more of that section of this chapter later; the whole chapter can be found in pages 72-73 of the NKJV Bible I have, pages 93-94 of the NASB Bible I have (the 1995 version, Old Testament), pages 152-153 of my VOICE copy, and pages 151-152 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I love how olive oil can be used to light a lamp 🕯️💡 or make a flame 🔥 given the words of verse 2 here. This may be what the bridesmaids had in mind in Matthew 25:14-30 when five of them had foresight to prepare for the bridegroom by using oil to trim their lamps, and they said to their ill-prepared friends that they should wake up a dealer to get some to trim theirs. Nowadays, we use tungsten to light a bulb to turn on the lights, and there’s LED-lights to preserve the environment a little better. But back then, in the 15th century B.C., when Moses lived and when he and Aaron were leading Israel together to the promise land, they didn’t have the technology to make a light bulb 💡🤔 so this is what everyone did until the light bulb was invented after the Civil War. Indeed, industrial stuff exploded in usage after that, but that’s beside the point. We should look to Jesus as our Supplier of oil for our faith…

…and we should look to Him on what to do if someone references verses 13-22 to override His words on not being violent in Matthew 5:38-48.

What I’m about to write down here is what too many people in the U.S. hate a lot, more than they love life, I think — they want unforgiving content to be enforced. I think I’ve said this before, but I don’t remember if I wrote this down in this blog 🤔 it’s really not cool that Satanism began to circulate widely in the media beginning in 1960, and the U.S. was already pretty unsafe, because they were dealing with Cuba’s warheads and loving violence even against Vietnam, where they didn’t need to invade, but sadly, because they had put their greasy nose in their business, it became Communist in 1975. They had already done this with Korea, so that it would be divided, now, and people even in the two Koreas are losing hope that it would ever be unified again. But if it does, I want it to be on Christ’s terms. Even when I talked with Jonathan about turning the other cheek (for that was and still is the way of Jesus, hence the Matthew 5 passage), he tried to trick me into the whole “stand your ground” thing. He was an Air Force veteran, and was in his right mind when he had said this, for it was 2017, and the pandemic wouldn’t start until the beginning of this decade. The end of the pandemic, though, shattered my heart in various ways, most notably in seven people dying in one year, all being unrelated to one another. I mentioned this to a coworker who was in my store (she’s probably since left to resume teaching exclusively at a school somewhere), and she was like, “Who have you been hanging out with?” Indeed, I didn’t know a lot as to why these things happened. I’m still clueless about most of it. But two people I’ve known so far have passed away this year, and both were probably in their 60s. So while I thank God no one below 45 passed away this time, I’m scared my one homeless friend, Kevin, is no longer with us 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 for he mentioned to me late in June, almost two months ago, that he was dying of heart failure, and we thought he had only a week left to live, but he lived for a while after that! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I haven’t seen him since I gave him two gift cards for food, though, one for In-N-Out and one for Raising Cane’s. So I hope to see him again soon… I remember he said to me he’s got plenty of life left in him after the first announcement in late June this year, but I’m not sure where he is… I hope the dude’s OK. He’s 40 years old, and I want him to live to be at least 80 like my grandmother had been.

I also think the attacks the U.S. loves to pull off on Matthew 5:38-48 (as though this chapter were grounds for this, and as if Jesus had contradicted the Scriptures) — the ones doing this show how hateful, spoiled, and unforgiving they are. Even though I don’t want any of us to pull off what God speaks against in verses 14-22, it’s like He had commanded the Church to be more hateful than Satan is. And no one can top that… indeed, it’s like God commanded unforgiveness for even ordinary offences like accidentally knocking over a bottle of shampoo at your local grocery store, whether anything came out or not. I do this FREQUENTLY, and I don’t like that I can be accident prone. The craziest part is, I work in northern Gilbert, so I wonder how the other Arizonans feel right now… I’m sorry that the Church has abused this chapter 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Jesus cannot accept any of that 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ again, I have a dreadful feeling that forgiveness will be criminalized, so that the penalty for it would be death. They already do this with those who destroy Teslas… this atheism, prohibiting destruction of even one’s own Nazi product (for Elon Musk runs Tesla, and he gave the Nazi salute, with all his fans excusing him as if he had autism and actually praising him for his reprobate actions) — this is unforgivable. I mentioned on Facebook in January that if Trump thinks he can do what he wants, he’s surely going to be surprised when God sshowd up to rescue his victims and judge him and his men for everything the politicians have done, with or without Trump’s help. But when they make more atheist laws attacking the basic freedoms we need, no Bible verse will save us from them. For I have a feeling that Trump’s president again because of Bible prophecy. Indeed, why do you think the guy’s staging a peace deal with Russia about Ukraine? For if he had actually wanted peace, he wouldn’t even be a politician, let alone support Russian aggression against them 💔💔💔💔💔 he even said once on Twitter over a decade ago that a leader must never meet with a tyrant like Putin, yet they met together anyway recently. Don’t ask me how I know this; I never followed him there… I don’t even have Twitter anymore. Unfortunately, though, we’ll probably never be rid of him, even after three hundred years pass by. The man’s already in our gold coins, so I know that’s cursed. They even enforce atheism in the Alligator Alcatraz prison they built in Florida for July 4th, but thankfully, I heard it was shutting down, or they’re at least trying to. Yet I know they’ll build more prisons like these where Bibles and everything else are not allowed. Even Sudan’s prisons aren’t THAT foolish. And I’ve read about some of them from a Czech pastor last year when he was falsely charged with something there and then imprisoned with ISIS cellmates. But spoiler alert, he’s forgiven by the Sudanese president in early 2017 and was soon allowed to return home. I’ve told some of my friends this at work before, and so far, no one’s discredited me on this.

But what could be the reason for the slander of Matthew 5:38-48? Could it be that people think Jesus is encouraging people to be wimpy like that one kid who has no friends, eats lunch all by himself in the school cafeteria, and has Crohn’s disease so that he’s extremely careful what to eat? I don’t think so! Another thing I think is inappropriate is that the U.S. military claims to be Christian, yet warmongering is enforced for all the military members, and no one can raise any questions. I also pray against conscription here, if they ever try and enforce it again after 52 years of no military drafts (there were too many volunteers who signed up to obliterate the Middle Easterners when the 9/11 attacks happened and then-president Bush Jr. declared war against the nations who had done this), and likewise over all the other nations that have it, including Mexico 🇲🇽 Sweden 🇸🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 BOTH Koreas, etc. I also pray against the dust storm happening as I write this down, for a HUGE tree branch near where I live snapped off because of it. There’s also going to be a powerful thunderstorm tonight in the Valley, so I pray all my family and our friends are safe 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👨‍👧‍👧👨‍👩‍👧👨‍👧🫂👭🏼👩🏼‍❤️‍👩🏼👯‍♀️🧚🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️👰🏼👰🏼‍♂️👰🏼‍♀️ especially the little humans we have in our lives 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💗💗💗💗💗💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💓💞💕💟❣️❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍🩶🖤🤎 I also pray my friend Hailey can be safe as she goes to Celebrate Recovery tonight to lead people to healing (although I can’t make it because of the powerful dust storm and subsequent monsoon 🌫️🌪️⛈️🌧️🌦️🌩️⚡ I could likely get injured or even killed on the way to church where this will happen) — I’ll have to wait until next week to resume attendance.

Also, people would mention that Trump’s a man of peace, even without all I wrote about throughout this post, but I know there’s none to be found, and that the pattern of Jeremiah 6:14 has repeated itself again. Even if I were in Iceland, the dude would rip us off, and even the safest countries would get angry and lose their footing, knowing Jesus had been subjugated to him, so to speak. But I pray against the U.S. government in their next move(s), for as Christians, our citizenship is in Heaven (Philippians 3:20). So we serve Jesus first and our countries second. So don’t think I wouldn’t pray against the regime until it’s gone! I’d even pray God’s angels obliterate the leaders while they’re sleeping, even in D.C., where nationalism dressed as Christianity burns the hottest. I also bet He would eliminate every building in the city due to its corruption exceeding even that of North Korea, seeing that they fuel the cartels past the U.S.-Mexico border and keep going until they reach the tip of South America. And their wealth should be distributed to all the bottom half of the world’s poor, however little they make, so that they may be able to outsmart their leaders in whichever nations they’re from, too. For a wicked ruler over a poor population is like a roaring lion or a charging bear (Proverbs 28:15). I pray God keeps the vulnerable safe and that many of them can find hope in Jesus 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

I don’t think I have anything else to say, so I’ll leave you with this: if you want me to pray for you about something, you can email 📧 me your requests at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape it to my bedroom walls! I hope you can be safe this week, and I’ll see you in the next chapter! Maybe I’ll be done with this book by Labor Day? We don’t know… but I pray I’m able to do that 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Upon reading everything in this chapter, I don’t have much to say but that all these feasts must’ve been way to difficult for all the Israelites to follow, given Peter’s words in Acts 15:10 about how the Mosaic Law had been overencumbering and that Paul actually said around that time that it was faithless (Galatians 3:12). But I love the concept of parties for good reasons 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈✨✨✨✨✨ I know I enjoyed my time in Arizona State when I was beginning to follow Jesus and wanted to know more about Him. Indeed, every nation has holidays of some variant(s). But the fact that North Korea only has holidays revolving around their “Dear Leader” — I pray for freedom there and for an end to the outrageous everything 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 this chapter is found in pages 71-72 of the NKJV Bible, pages 92-93 of the NASB Bible, pages 151-152 of my VOICE copy, and pages 149-151 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’m also happy to share the article on this site I had written about a few weeks ago! Sorry it took so long… it was about how children deserve safety from all of us. If any of us fail on this, at least one of them may feel worthless. Indeed, I find it difficult to remember God’s love and kindness sometimes, for I know they’re sucking the life from the entire population, the politicians, and anyone who still votes for them God reproved as idolaters. What does this have to do with the post, you may ask? Well, many of the poor and foreigners were probably abused as children… I know I don’t like how I was raised, but it’s better to not be exposed to any false teachings from the Church than to grow up claiming to follow Jesus, I tell you what. I’m getting the “poor and foreigners” thing from verse 22 here, for they need our kindness and support for simply trying to believe hope even exists! I know I’ve needed help with that before, and to be honest, who hasn’t? It reminds me of a post I wrote about an earlier chapter in Leviticus some time back. I mentioned in it that I wanted to leave twice as much food as per the usual recipe of that other Leviticus verse concerning leaving food for those who don’t have much or are homeless. I think it was in chapter 19. I’m still in debt to my college loans, though, and if I manage to increase my savings to a sizeable amount, I think they’ll call me to pay it up. Indeed, they don’t want me to take their time and pay it back, for if I did, they’d only be offended, I’m sure, and Jesus’ kingdom’s latter days would be worse than how the Christian faith started for me.

But… seeing all these feasts and noting that you can celebrate Jesus however you feel He leads you and/or how it seems best… it reminds me of my schooldays when I was a kid and waiting for the next fun day after the next fun day. Indeed, I remember that Eddy said in Ed, Edd n Eddy (my favourite TV show growing up), “To be cool, we have to be two fads ahead of everybody else.” He was speaking to Ed and Edd (he’s often called Double D) about how they’d be ahead of all the others in the cul-de-sac, where the episodes usually took place. At one point, Eddy actually said (because of their fad), “Some people just can’t deal with greatness.” So, yeah. There’s some late 90s trivia for you reading this at home or wherever you are (it was part of the first season, released in 1999) 😅😅 so I don’t think it’s wrong to anticipate excitedly for the next fun thing that happens. And if everyone is true to their words about this, the wait will certainly be worth it. Note that I said “if”. I could go on all day about how I feel patience is used as bait too much.

In the next chapter, I’m honestly not sure what to expect, but I hope to get a good look into it and be back soon to discuss it with you, whether in person or in the comment section! I’ll see you then, and I hope you can take it easy ✌🏼

I’m writing this note to add to the other two tonight… because I’m bored. Yet I find one particular piece of information interesting concerning Mario and Luigi’s wealth from all their games and their jobs across all media outlets Nintendo had been circulating over the last 40+ years, but more of that at another time. And by the time I get to the particular passage I want to talk about concerning this, they’ll either end the series or milk it to too many inappropriate lengths, because of the politicians here and because of their opposition to God and His holy words, for a decade may pass between now and then. But this chapter is found in page 71 of the NKJV Bible I’m using for this journey, pages 91-92 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 149-151 of my VOICE copy (with a short note in-between some of the verses) and pages 148-149 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Upon reading the first half of this chapter (verses 1-16), I can tell that punishment is worshiped. Indeed, it even says in 2 Corinthians 3:7-9 that Moses’ ministry, detailed in the books of Exodus-Deuteronomy, doesn’t bring much glory compared to Christ Jesus Himself and His ministry. God even said in Haggai 2:12 that the laws of Moses about food being “sanctified” —- they don’t work. But from the beginning, Jesus said, the laws of Moses weren’t the end goal (Matthew 19:8), but that He is (Matthew 5:17-18). God even said these laws were not good (Ezekiel 20:25). Indeed, just as Adam and Eve had been married before Satan came in to defame God and spoil His creation, so we need to hear Jesus about what it was like in Eden before anything else happened. Indeed, you notice that God doesn’t mention anything about punishment for the disciples of Jesus in the New Testament (in contrast to Amos 3:2, which many “Christians” think gives them the green light to be punishing, whether emotionally, socially, even physically), quite the opposite is commanded in Ephesians 6:4 and Colossians 3:21, actually… I will die on this hill, no matter how many people oppose me on this. For no one should play God in their homes, especially when their children are trying to grow and learn from them. Indeed, friendship is required for all familial relationships. Otherwise, God won’t forgive them.

There’s also a lot of stuff about animal sacrifices in the second half of this chapter (verses 17-33), but one thing I like is that for the first seven days of its life, a sheep or ox should not be touched (verse 27). Yet I’d go one better: don’t make any animal sacrifices at all, for it can make someone believe the devil’s going to win anyway. And if anyone questions me on this so as to… challenge God’s Word, don’t you remember what Jesus said in Matthew 5:21-48 about several things? He was giving the original interpretation of all the Scriptures He had mentioned during that sermon. One noteworthy subject is vows (Matthew 5:33-37) —- it’s not worth it to make any rash promises. If you can keep one, good, but consult the Lord Jesus before promising anything. I know it wasn’t easy for me to keep the promise of staying at the same house for more than three years (mainly between September 2018 and October 1, 2021 or later), but that was because of the federal loan guys, and I ran into several different obstacles along the way, all stemmed from COVID-19, which I never got sick with, but I can’t put the details about this on here, either. If you want to chat with me about it, I recommend sending me an email: ron.outland4727@gmail.com (it’s been the same email I’ve had for the last ten years or so, now). Another thing I can talk about concerning reinterpretations of any Scripture (contrary to popular opinion) —- Paul did the same thing with Jesus’ words from Luke 10:7 in 1 Corinthians 9:14 in that those who proclaim the Gospel should get their living from it. I know I don’t want to fleece anyone…

I’m not sure when I’ll write on the remaining five chapters of Leviticus but hopefully it’s soon. In the meantime, I need to get to bed… but in the email above, you can write to me any prayer requests you may have, so that I can write them down then tape them to by bedroom walls (though I’m more likely to do that by means of sticky notes, seeing that I have a whole bunch of them). I’ll see you in chapter 23 where we begin to discuss feasts! See you then, ladies and gentlemen!