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It’s great that Moses said in verse 5 here would be what Jesus later references in Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, and Luke 10:27, in two different encounters with others from three different perspectives (though Luke makes no reference to Jesus saying this in the Second Temple). But Moses doesn’t mention to love others as we do ourselves anywhere in this book; rather, God had already said that in Leviticus 19:18, and Jesus refers the two together in all the aforementioned passages. But this chapter is found in page 107 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 137-138 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament (1995 version)), pages 215-216 of my VOICE copy, and pages 219-220 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

There’s a reminder about avoiding disobedience in this chapter after the Shema (verses 4-9), but that doesn’t take up the majority of what’s in these verses. Yet the NKJV titles it “Caution Against Disobedience” ⚠️ I remember saying over a year ago, when I was writing on Leviticus 26, that even the Bible translators were afraid of God 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 read this for more information. But no post I make can save us from wrath; I’m simply hoping to clear some misconceptions, as the Holy Spirit leads. For God didn’t appoint any of us for wrath, just as 1 Thessalonians 5:9 says, but He instead wants eternal life for everyone (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9) 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💝💝💝💖💖💖💖💘💘💘💘💗💗💗💗

And when it comes to teaching the next generation about Jesus, we should let them know about His goodness, first. For I’m convinced the “Church” is able to erase this truth that leads us all to repentance (see Romans 2:4) and even claim that no one has a chance to believe Him, whether they’ve met a Christian or not. But it’s because of those “godly” people who try to keep me from preaching hope to the nations that God will erase the nation(s) that work against Him, first against the hypocrites then everyone who listens to them. Indeed, most people can’t really notice God’s love for them unless it’s demonstrated in a way they can understand. And He always makes it possible for us to do that 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍💟💕💞💓💗💗💗💗💗❣️💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 not that the experiences should be worshiped, but I guess we don’t really know what to do with them 🤷🏼‍♂️ it’s too bad those guys in charge can harp on any sin (like idolatry, impregnanting one’s girlfriend, or even a strange half-truth) to the point the hearers can recognise they’re not safe and fear safety doesn’t exist (but see Ezekiel 34:28!) — and false accusations do exist, too, so someone can ruin our lives more than once out of spite and even claim God is out for blood! Jesus never makes enemies out of others. Never.

I don’t really have anything special to add here, and other thing I may have in mind can be endless and even unrelated to this post, so I’ll end it here and pray I get more hours at work; I don’t have very many right now. I’ll see you in chapter 7! It will be hard to talk about for me, though.

In Christ,

Ron Outland

The first six verses of this passage are the introduction to the rest of the Mosaic Law, and the next 21 are a review of the Ten Commandments, which, like in Exodus 20, were the prelude to all 613 laws the Israelites wanted. But no one could pull that off without fail except Jesus, and God Himself actually said in Ezekiel’s time that it wasn’t good for this to happen (Ezekiel 20:25). You can refer to my previous post about what happens in the souls of those who claim it was only about add-ons. But this passage is found in page 106 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 136-137 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), page 215 of my VOICE copy, and pages 218-219 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Also, when I was reading this passage in the VOICE translation to prepare for this post, I noticed there were several quotations for many of them in multiple New Testament books, including Ephesians 6:2-3, Matthew 19, Mark 10, etc. Three of them deal with the rich young ruler, whoever he was. Too bad the guy didn’t think he could survive without a lot of possessions, though… the theologians and other Bible teachers claim he was sincere, but he may have wanted to use Jesus only for his personal agenda. Indeed, most rich people only have it in mind to buy the Kingdom of God, as I’m sure that’s what those buying lavish houses and resorts in Hawai’i are doing, including in response to the Lahaina fire that had killed over 100 people there a few years ago. But all disaster reports aside, I think it would be great to go to Hawai’i and other Pacific islands 🏝 for a summer vacation, whether in June or around Christmas, depending on where these islands sit between the tropics. I’ve always wanted to do that 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😩😩😩😩😩

I also know that while the Ten Commandments are important for life (indeed, there’s actually a movie about Exodus 20), loving God and others is way more important for all of us, for 1 Corinthians 13 has the truths about if love is absent, it’s only meaningless noise 😓😓😓😓😓 but this time, I don’t think Moses said again about the truth that God was hoping to prove everyone’s faith genuine like he had said in Exodus 20:20. I don’t know why he didn’t mention it again; I usually need to hear something several times for me to really grasp what’s even going on. Indeed, in chapter 16 there, the people had already tried God’s goodness, as if to say, “Let’s see you sweet talk your way out of this, loser!” So I can tell God’s desires for lovely and intimate fellowship were thwarted already. That’s why Paul said the things in 2 Corinthians 3.

There are commandments that are weaponised, though, so I don’t find it fair that many “Christians” would erase Jesus’ sacrifice for others, including in honouring our parents (see verse 16). For parental abuse on others exists, and anyone who tries to silence the victims (and there’s more than I’d like to think about) is exalting rape and other nightmarish acts like ripping open pregnant women. I could go on and on about this all day, and it’s not even 9 am where I live yet. But Paul’s right — we need to be kind to all children ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 indeed, I have four nieces, and I don’t want a single one of them to go without God’s mercies 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 and I pray for safety for those in school among them, and likewise with all their cousins, including my one cousin’s two daughters, who are now grown up, those in Tucson, and also my cousin’s baby he had brought into the world last summer, about three months ago. It’s not fair this falsely Christian population would demonise them and those who want them to be safe… but sooner or later, I’ll get to the rest of Deuteronomy 5, and maybe the next chapter or two with it… I don’t know what I want to do with it. See ya!

I’ll probably spend many moons on this section of this book 📖 in individual notes 📝 📋 like I had been with all the others so far in this blog of my Bible notes 📝 📋 but that’s OK 😁😁😁 for if I’m silent concerning God’s goodness through any of this, the very rocks may cry out, just as Jesus had said of the people worshipping Him in Luke 19:40. This section of Deuteronomy is found in pages 107-121 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 136-156 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament) pages 214-247 of my VOICE copy, and pages 218-249 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I don’t know too much on this book, to be honest, and if you’re reading this and expecting professional commentary, you’ll be sorely mistaken 😅😅😅😂😂😂 I’m legit sorry in advance 😄😅🤣 but God was indeed updating the law of Moses for the generation that was young in the wilderness (see Numbers 14:24 for their ages back then). I would find it interesting to find out whom either I or my cousins and some of their kids came from, though. I just read 1 Chronicles 23 in the HCSB and hypothesized that at least one of them could be descended of Moses or Aaron or even Korah (like in Psalms 42-49). Even my one cousin from Prescott, his baby could be descended from any of these three Levites, but I just discovered from 1 Chronicles 23:12-13 and Numbers 16:1 that Moses and Korah were cousins, so they’re related 😅😅 apparently Moses related to people he didn’t relate to. But throughout this section, Moses addresses the Israelites’ sins several times, but the reference I notice first every time I read this is in chapter 9, with verse 24 saying, “You have been rebellious against the Lord God from the day I knew you.” And I wonder if the community had flushed out Moses’ perception of God’s goodness? Indeed, I remember in Numbers 11:29, he had wished almost 40 years previously that all of God’s people were prophets, that He’d put His Spirit on them. But about 20 chapters later, after Moses had fairly recently committed error at Meribah (read Numbers 20:10-13), he threw a fit about not pulling off anymore killings! I don’t think Jesus enjoyed that… and I’m actually thinking dealing with people at my workplace is aggravating enough most of the time that I’m legit finding it difficult to believe I should mention God’s love and goodness to anyone, period! It’s good I’m not scheduled much this week… even if I got more hours, it won’t matter, for I need to use my savings to pay rent this time, but thankfully, I can put some of my checking balance in there to rack up interest higher and higher if it means I can pay off my debts a bit faster… but those guys are willing to drag on my loan payments for ages and ages. I don’t think I can get them paid off unless I were working a second job with better pay. I’d rather have it be supplemental, though — unions are required to make it work for me, and Fry’s is unionised, but retail sucks. I don’t want to have experience only in this field. However, unions aren’t common in the U.S., and they’ll be able to ban them at anytime, Trump or no Trump. I do feel good playing Christian worship songs with a guitar or any instrument, though. So if I’m criminalised or executed, I’d rather have it be because I did what God had said, for He never does any wrongdoing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 I can’t do well behind bars, though. Yet good things shouldn’t be criminalised in the first place, for Isaiah 10:1-2 forbids this. Even with what Moses spelled out here, God says several centuries later to Ezekiel that this wasn’t good (Ezekiel 20:25). Anyone who says this only refers to what the people added to the Mosaic Law has challenged the Lord Jesus and His reign over the universe. For if Paul hadn’t written what’s now in Romans 7:7-13, there’d be no reason to see that any commandment actually multiplies sin to the extreme, and John later writes in 1 John 4:10 that we hadn’t loved God first, and I don’t see anyone referencing that unless they’re knowingly unreasonable. Such enemies of the Lord are worse than ISIS.

As I was writing that last sentence, I just got an alert ⚠️ in my phone 📱 📲 ☎️ 📞 📳 about a dust storm barreling through my area, so I’m glad I didn’t get Too Good To Go this time (I did that yesterday). I rest my case.

The iconoclastic definition is not creating an image of what we worship, and God encouraged that profusely through Moses that night at the Jordan River opposite Suph (I don’t know where that place was, exactly, but that’s OK). This passage is found in pages 105-106 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 135-136 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 212-214 of my VOICE copy, and pages 216-218 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Of course, the Muslims claim they’re iconoclastic, but they have a crescent moon image everywhere they are, and that strange religion came out of a “Christian” heresy, apparently, in 622 A.D. or earlier. I pray repentance and hope for many of them in the Arab nations, the U.S., and Europe 🇪🇺 and the Arab nations used to have a lot of faithful followers of Jesus long, long ago, but the Islamic stuff colonised all these places and most of God’s Church was destroyed. Since then, there hasn’t been any momentum in these places to rid them of the Islamic stronghold the devil had established. It really sucks, since that’s what happened to Iraq when ISIS terrorised Mosul, a city that used to have a lot of faithful Christian disciples but was later bereaved of godliness 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 and they did that by killing and driving away all the Christians there… that’s just one example of this insanity. And Al-Qaeda kicked THEM out because of their obscene behaviour! (Al-Qaeda had been a deadly terrorist organisation that Osama Bin Laden had probably started.) But I don’t believe in killing them… if we did that to anyone, even if they were causing harm, intentionally or otherwise, we’d be no better than they are, and God may not be forgiving. Indeed, Paul used to kill Christians left and right (Acts 8:3), and he took his campaign to Damascus to obliterate every last one of the Lord’s disciples, but then he met Him, became blind for three days, and became Christian (Acts 9:1-18). I guess Paul didn’t know Jesus was truth 😅🤷🏼‍♂️ such is the case for most of the Muslims, ISIS-based or otherwise. And ISIS had been disbanded in 2017, too, but sadly, we’re dealing with Islamified Christianity, now 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 this mixing of an alien idea with the Holy One is ridiculous, and Jesus will defeat these heretics, for they think violence is the only way to progress God’s kingdom! Shouldn’t they let Him judge His enemies in His own time? But sadly, they don’t believe God is able to keep anyone safe… so they become His enemies, too. Besides, many criminals had been abused as children and have made poor life choices due to their brains being scrambled by their families like how we can scramble some eggs 🥚 for breakfast every morning. I almost never get them, though, for when I was homeless a second time ten or so years ago, they served them every morning for months when I was at a homeless shelter each time I couldn’t find a place to go, and since then, I’ve lost my liking for them, I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️ I know how to scramble some eggs now, but it took me years to remember how to do that, even after I moved to Gilbert. I’m still not that much of a cook, and I don’t expect my food to taste good for others. But I pray repentance for someone who wants what I have and tries to kill me for it, for God loves that human, too. I’d rather live in a nation where neither violence nor unforgiveness is common, though…

A key verse is Deuteronomy 4:24, where God is spoken of as an all-consuming fire (see 9:3 and Hebrews 12:29), and the truth about Him being jealous for His people is loosely mentioned in Joshua 24:19 and 1 Corinthians 10:22. I sometimes wonder if this is mentioned in any church, though. Again, the fact that He didn’t command idol worship is too often ignored in all the communities here, and indeed, Israel was supposed to be the world’s greatest nation, but Canaan had a very strong influence on Egypt, and idol worship more or less resumed even during the Exodus. Eventually, it overtook the Israelites, and one king even brought idols into the Temple Solomon had built! The monarchy wasn’t what God wanted anyway, but offence created that, too. After all this, and Israel was split in two, both nations were conquered by neighbouring empires, and that caused them all to think very long and hard about the whole thing. Only then were they cured of these idol infestations. But it’s not as though God rejects idol worshipers if they haven’t heard the Gospel yet (and there are a lot of them), so I pray we can preach the good news of Jesus I mentioned in the previous post (and in many others in this site), just as Paul had said in Romans 10:15: “How will anyone preach if they hadn’t been sent there?” (That’s in my own words, I guess.)

The final three verses of this passage (41-43) are about three cities of refuge Moses had established for the tribes living east of the Jordan, inspiring nations like the U.S. to create sanctuary cities for the refugees fleeing violence. I love that they’ve done this in many parts of the world so far, but man, rehabilitating a refugee is very hard work, for their spirits are broken due to their homeland being crushed to pieces by godless men loading it over their people… and the U.S. was once partly interested, at least, in doing the right thing, but now, there’s almost no potential for change even with the most receptive audience here. Still, it’s worth it to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the least of mankind, and He will reward or punish us according to what we’ve done for them, whether we’ve accepted Him or rejected Him, respectively. I played a sermon from Hillsong U.K. last night concerning the parable of the rich man and Lazarus (spoiler alert: Lazarus was a common name in Jesus’ time). But before I go, I want to clear a misconception: I don’t believe death should be the way out of a tight situation or any fix for things, and I believe life on this earth is a blessing if we can make it count for God’s kingdom, in case someone twists my words in the last post I wrote and wants to drag me to another mental hospital 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬 yet this world cannot satisfy us, and Jesus is coming back in the future to reign on it and eventually replace it. Literally. I don’t understand why someone would make accusatory humour, though; it shouldn’t be encouraged. Indeed, it isn’t right… but I’ll see you in the next section of Deuteronomy (4:44-30:20)! Pray I don’t develop a closed heart to Jesus, though 😅😅

In Christ,

Ron Outland

I don’t have much to say here, so I’ll make it quick: Moses reviews the victories after Aaron died (see Numbers 20:24-21:35) and he adds some details (or someone else does; I don’t know who posthumously wrote what’s in this book during Moses’ speech) about these things. But this passage is found in pages 104-105 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, page 134 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 210-211 of my VOICE copy, and pages 215-216 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I was reading 1 Chronicles 18 of the HCSB a little while ago today and noticed it was simply another perspective of 2 Samuel 8, at least according to the commentator. Both chapters talk of David’s victories, just as this passage talks of Moses and Israel succeeding against some of the Canaanites, but hopefully there were those in each people group who became a lover of Jesus before they died, looking forward to Him long before Israel were to cross the Jordan. That’s how the people in the Old Testament got saved, including among the Ninevites in Jonah 3 after the prophet went to Assyria to preach destruction to it albeit unwilling to do so — he believed he’d be wasting his time there, instead hoping that God would save them, contrary to popular opinion.

I don’t think I talk enough about any of my victories in this life, however, since I’m only 35 and still haven’t been able to gain much footing in the world, even with God’s help in many things. For although I went to ASU for five years, I couldn’t do much due to me being forced into a bad commute most of the time. Also, some people claimed they were more free than everyone else, and because of that, my mental health and studies eventually fell through the cracks. Not many others were willing to help, either, and I didn’t know insurance was necessary to get counseling on campus, nor could I actually find anything that would help with my budget — too many impose on you, and that’s not fair. I even said one day a few years ago, “How is the U.S. free?” (For freedom of speech was under attack, mostly by the MAGA people who claimed Jesus was being persecuted because some of them were being held accountable, and now, everything good is at risk with no guarantee of victory in anything. And even if at least 50 of them were defeated by God today, they can use AI to immortalise atheism pretending to be Christianity.) Nowadays, I sometimes seek a therapist from the clinic I go to, and I wonder if I were able to do well in life if I had it then… I guess I needed a break. Too bad I was stuck at my mom’s place most of the time, though. No one can grow if a Nazi is breathing down your neck, hoping to break your spirit. And when good things do happen, they’re soon reversed by these same Nazis, hoping to disguise themselves enough so you don’t even know who they are. I’m tired of all this… I even wonder if a bunch of counselors are like that themselves… and I can’t always read someone’s heart even a little well like Jesus can.

I’d eventually find that Dobson had infested the entire nation (and many other places) with his hateful teachings and called them Christian, but it wasn’t until after he died this time last year I’d actually have an idea of what he was like. That guy’s in Hell, now, and all his remaining supporters will be there with him one day. But they will use AI to keep it alive. So in other words, they’ll always be alive, and even the most peaceful people will be driven completely insane because of them. They’ve been at work at this since 1970 in response to the Woodstock thing and the Grateful Dead music. Other satanic movements would spring up, too, most of which claiming to be Christian.

I’d like to finish this post with a very special moment of foreshadowing. I’ll mention the truth that Moses had mentioned all this so that he’d then bring up that he cannot enter the promised land because he had become faithless in loving his neighbours (see Leviticus 19:18 for this commandment), and the next post that brings this up I’ll explain in detail.

In Christ,

Ron Outland

No generation goes bad overnight, and corruption always starts from the top of the food chain and works its way down, so that’s why God has said over and over again we’re here to learn from others when we’re young. But too many at least as old as I am are willing to blame an obscure relative as young as two years old or even their twin brother or sister just for existing! Moses doesn’t blame the younger generation here, and he says in chapter 24 that no one needs to die or suffer for their parents’ or children’s sins (verse 16). But even then, forgiveness is never offered, even in trivial matters. This chapter is found in pages 103-104 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 132-133 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 207-209 of my VOICE copy, and pages 211-213 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I realise I sound like a broken record at this point, but it’s not fair that the U.S. was willing to do the right thing and soon renounced righteousness for the sake of getting more and more people here rich and secure in matters they didn’t deserve safety in… I guess loving one’s neighbour is too much to ask of the people here, even with Jesus’ help and God’s grace available to make it happen… so, He’s decided to leave them behind. And when the chief opponents of the Lord Jesus who claim to worship Him pass away, it’ll actually be a beacon of hope for some of us, but they’ve already made it so that the world’s in a permanent decline and no one can reverse its destruction. The good news is, though, good times are still possible, but they may not be that frequent. Besides, division and discord aren’t what Jesus had in mind. And believe it or not, Moses didn’t want division in the people’s lives, either, but he didn’t follow God very faithfully — he needed to remember that he wasn’t the only one who was righteous. I don’t know why he said God was angry with him in verse 37… but I don’t want anyone harping on this. That’s not what He had planned. But since God never enjoyed being angry in the Old Testament days, we can still say His goodness exists… yet the people who falsely worship Him here love anger and hating everyone else that doesn’t think like them, look like them, walk like them, talk like them, or act like them. I can’t go to a church in this country as a result due to this — I’d rather not even be alive if the Lord wills and if He wants me to see Him, and I don’t want to be around the falsehood-lovers of other countries, either. Even North Korea doesn’t have that many per capita, I think… at least the Body of Christ is more authentic there. Yet it’s an awful place to be where Kim Jong-Un’s grip on the people is only getting tighter and tighter as the years go by. But they can’t hide the truth forever — one guy from 60 Minutes Australia reported this. And I’m from Arizona, and I can see that YouTube video 📹 and share it here.

Moses’ words that he spoke by the Jordan River (verse 1), about ten months after Miriam had died (Numbers 20:1), I don’t really need to repeat here, for I’ve already spent the last few notes (including this one) doing that. But it was the best they could come up with in those days, and so was the U.S. breaking up with Britain 🇬🇧 250 years ago last month. But from the beginning, freedom of concept was always legal in the kingdom of God, just as Jesus had said that from the beginning, divorce wasn’t a thing (Matthew 19:8). It may have been hard to remember for a long time, but the U.S. basically reintroduced it to the world. However, many people have been like Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26 and became false to God in their strength. Pride always comes before destruction (Proverbs 16:18), and I don’t want anymore unnecessary hardship because someone is willing to claim that people with autism can’t have a good ending in life! And the scary thing is, no one usually notices the power trip these proud men have immediately. I guess that’s why discrimination should be illegal in every case. I don’t have anything against freedom of speech. I find it weird enough most nations (including this one) can legally deny the Holocaust. But empowering shepherds of this generation to become traffickers? All I can really do is shake my head, shrug my shoulders, and oh, my God, they’re trying to legalise sexual abuse against children, too?! Nah, I’m out. Don’t want me in the U.S.? Don’t worry, if I can manage it, I’m never showing up in this nation again! For real, though, the countryside where the forests in high elevation are — those places I’ve always loved, and I want to see them again, but this is the darkest era in the nation’s history, and my body can’t handle it. And with mid-term elections being exalted here so that MAGA buttholes will have a guaranteed win in just a few months, this may be just the tip of the iceberg.

I hope I can return for chapter 2, and I pray I can be at peace when I work tomorrow. It’ll be three days in a row, then I’m off again, and the pattern repeats itself for the rest of the week, so I don’t know how far I’ll go by the end of the 22nd. Regardless, I hope you can be encouraged by the Lord Jesus (save for what I wrote on here haha).

In Christ,

Ron Outland

And so here we are on Moses’ fifth and final book, ending the Pentateuch. After this will come 12 historical books, most of which being quite long, with several having been divided in two parts each, for they were too cumbersome for the people to carry. But I’m getting ahead of myself 😅😅 but this book is also a long one like all the others in the Pentateuch, and I’m looking forward to spelling out the love of Jesus here as best as I can.

Two things before I start: I’ve read several parts of the book in the VOICE translation already, and if we’re honest, I don’t think it’s good they did that with Moses’ last words, making it all demagogue-y. This isn’t the heart of God. Also, I’m still reading this in the above translation with the NKJV, NASB, and the first Amplified version, but I may want to use language from other translations that helped us understand the Bible better now than we did when I was 21 in August 2012 when I wrote Bible notes on sticky notes for the very first time. Most Bible versions are harder for me to understand in a foreign language, so it’ll help if I can see the truth in both methods. For about 27 of the chapters in this book are updating the law for the second generation that arose from the Exodus, after all their ancestors besides Caleb and Joshua had perished for their unfaithfulness (Numbers 14:22-24) in the previous 40 years up to that point. Also, not every Bible verse in the Old Testament was written in Hebrew; the other language for some of them was Aramaic, a language that sadly is no longer spoken, but one verse in that language is Jeremiah 10:11. It is nice that we don’t need the law of Moses to follow Jesus — Acts 15 and the book of Galatians explain why. Too bad many “disciples” claim that Jesus was for it though… justice is indeed necessary for this life, but God knew no one could save themselves… I know I couldn’t. And though there’s no direct reference to a new covenant in this book, Jeremiah 31:31-34 is complimentary to this, and as a result, the Israelites and others who wanted something better than what they were born into would be able to seek Jesus, just as Amos 9:11-12 says also (quoted in Acts 15:16-17).

Well, I need to get started… I have a surprise food bag I had ordered from a restaurant for a lot cheaper than originally priced that I need to pick up at 3 this afternoon (I have about five hours at the time of writing this to get there, but thankfully, it’s not far from where I live, even on foot). It’s from Too Good To Go, an app that sells unsold food to you in a surprise bag from a restaurant for much cheaper. You can download it from the App Store (if you have an iPhone) or Google Play Store (if you have an Android, like me). And you can choose which restaurant to pick up a surprise food bag from, yea, that which is available. It’s first come, first serve, and there may not be very many items left from these places (perishable food can expire quickly), so grab them before they’re gone! OK, that’s enough rambling from me for now 😅😅 off to chapter 1!

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 😆😆😆