Tag: christianity

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 😆😆😆

I love how Zelophehad’s daughters come to Moses again for what will happen to their land when the Jubilee year (see Leviticus 25) comes and their land is taken from them so that they keep it while they marry in their own clan, but Jesus never cared whom their husbands would’ve looked like, Israeli or otherwise. If all five of them were godly and kind and safe enough for them, that should do it. This chapter is found in page 102 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 130-131 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 204-205 of my VOICE copy, and pages 209-210 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

The chapter may be short, but it follows up from where chapter 27 left off. Some of it actually has certain things God never wanted, but again, the Israelites wanted dead religion in those days, even from Exodus 15-17, so He gave them up to the dead works that the author of Hebrews talks about (see Hebrews 6:1). And 2 Corinthians 3:14-16 still rings true today, for it’s a New Testament texts, and Jesus lives again forever, for death couldn’t hold Him down (Acts 2:24) and He cannot die again (Romans 6:9), for He is God. Zelophehad was descended from Joseph, and Gilead, Joseph’s great-grandson through Manasseh, was later known for being filled with healing balms (Jeremiah 8:22), for they built a city with the same name as him after they took Canaan, I think. I’m not very knowledgeable of how Joshua allotted the land to the Israelites when the conquest was done. But the wealth was eventually plundered when their descendants followed wickedness like sheep 🐑 and for a long time, they couldn’t get their nation back without occupation of the Gentiles. There’s a lot of Jewish people in many parts of the world as a result. But I pray they recognise Jesus, for He is willing to forgive them, and no generation is responsible for their predecessors’ sins. I know I’m not.

If my nieces never get married, I don’t know how the family line will continue, but that’s OK; we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. But for now, I want all of them to have exciting childhoods and have plenty of joy all their days, even when they’re old and grey, long after I’m gone, but it would be nice if Jesus were to come back and take us home. Until then, I’ll continue writing Bible notes 📝 📋 on here, and I’ll write a retrospective to reflect on this book 📖 like I had done with all the others.

In Christ,

Ron Outland

This chapter, found in page 101 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, page 129 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 202-203 of my VOICE copy, and pages 207-208 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy, provides details of how Israel was going to live in the land of Canaan in terms of physical geography, and God also divided the land according to where the 12 tribes would live. This should be a boring premise, like the one with most of the Leviticus chapters, but I’ve had on-and-off interests in geography for as long as I can remember, yet for many people it can be tedious to read this, and I don’t blame them! However, this was a rather special case, since Jesus hadn’t died for all mankind yet, and He was to be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). It eventually happened, the veil was torn, and He rose again to reign forever one day, so we don’t need borders for nations, now. Indeed, Ephesians 2:19-22 says there’s no distinction between Jewish and Gentile humans, and those who receive Jesus, our Cornerstone (verse 20), are built into a lovely kingdom 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 I’ve felt, since I received Him, that there should be no hostility to someone else because they look different. Indeed, everyone is facing a battle we know nothing about. Too bad offence can erupt like a volcano 🌋 with enough force to blow up a small planet in the universe, though. For the truth in 1 Corinthians 8:7 about food offered to idols is not only not common knowledge, but also, that verse is used as a platitude to bar those seeking truth about anything in the name of not being offensive. And I’ve seen people try and stop me from discovering more practical methods to implement good things by means of this. They even referenced 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 then try to tear me apart with every phrase Paul had written there! This… attack on the Word of the Lord Jesus… is unforgivable. Indeed, they’ve removed that part of the Scripture for themselves and have thus incurred the wrath of God in deleting the space in New Jerusalem He would’ve had for them (see Revelation 22:18-19). For their hearts have no love in them, and their souls delight in my ruin, so they abide in spiritual death in every way (1 John 3:14).

Speaking of drawing borders, the world’s divided into all sorts of social and economical barriers within each nation, whose borders were drawn because of the Tower of Babel incident in Genesis 11. But from the beginning this wasn’t so, for if Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil until much later, there would be a lot of diversity among humans living together in perfect peace and harmony with God and there would be no land borders… until someone eats that fruit, of course. Then someone may resist it long enough for the guys to chant for their death and evil would succeed… I don’t know. I’m no expert in interpreting the Divine; I’m not that knowledgeable. But Satan probably would’ve had his way with mankind eventually 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ Jesus would know a whole lot more than me for sure. And I bet Enoch would’ve had all sorts of interesting information to share in his walk with God for hundreds of years before he was taken up to Heaven (Genesis 5:23-24).

I don’t have many other words to say here, so eventually, I’ll be back with chapter 35 about Levitical cities and cities of refuge… this is going to be interesting.

In Christ,

Ron Outland

I pray for the right words to say for this one, too… I’m not sure why Moses had freaked out so much in his latter days, and not just from his unfaithfulness in chapter 20 (though Psalm 106:32-33, in various translations, explains some of it). Jesus was right to say that Moses was the Pharisees’ accuser in John 5:45. Heck, I’m even willing to add that he’s been elevated to being a false god, including in the Church, the libraries, and many other cultures, given the reality of Romans 2:14-15 about our consciences, not to mention everything else in that chapter, and even before that with Romans 1:18-32 (as well as an Acts 15 reference about Moses being read in every synagogue each Saturday in south Europe) — I’m going to say it now so I don’t have to worry about strange occurrences later, all of us can do anything like what’s in that passage, even if we’re saved (though the un-Christian sins, if someone loves God, they won’t pull off again; see Galatians 5:24 and 1 Corinthians 8:3), even down to some nitty-gritty details in some parts. I won’t mention much on here, because I don’t want to highlight any sins, including my own. This chapter is found in pages 99-100 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 127-128 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 199-201 of my VOICE copy, and pages 204-205 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I’m starting to improve in my health right now, so I’m glad I can return to work soon, but it’s because the environment is so demoralising that I was actually starting to lose interest in working in general… I want a safe and lovely environment to work in, but it’s because most of the people love and worship wickedness that I don’t want to be in a grocery store again… it would be cool if I can get the maintenance position when that one guy retires at least a month from now, but I can’t afford to be like Moses here — he actually mentioned “be sure your sins will find you out” (verse 33, NASB), found nowhere else in Scripture… he had freaked out AGAIN, this time concerning a good request that some of Israel’s tribes had, that is, Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh. He conceded, but we should remember that Moses had barked at two of Aaron’s nephews in Leviticus 10:16-18 after Nadab and Abihu died offering strange fire before the Lord Jesus (Leviticus 10:1-2). I don’t know why he was like this… sinful anger never works (see James 1:19-20), but the U.S. wants to criminalise that passage, too, among many others more or less like it (I don’t think that endeavour’s worth it), but not the first part of Ephesians 4:26 in any translation, which I’m OK with, but the voters think that God needs to submit to them 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ I want a peaceful atmosphere where I live, where I work, in my community, among my friends and family — I guess I’m asking too much from others here 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

When the two and a half tribes explained everything to Moses, he agreed to their request, so that’s nice, but he didn’t need to harp on sin of any kind even if what he had said in verse 33 was true. Is that how the preachers respond to even the most reasonable requests? I’ve been trying to learn from the good ones for many years, if I could establish revival anywhere. Indeed, 2 Corinthians 3:15 says that when Moses is read, a veil lies on the hearers’ hearts, but thankfully, Paul says immediately after this that when someone turns to the Lord Jesus, the veil is gone forever (see verse 16 there) 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 I don’t understand why many people would mention daily this is too often quoted out of context, though.

As soon as Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh went to the land east of the Jordan River, they rebuilt the cities that had been in shambles, and a list is recorded in verses 34-42, including where Og, king of Bashan had been defeated (see Numbers 21:35). I should add that he was insanely tall and big, with his bed being 13’6″! (For those who use metrics, that’s over four metres.) Deuteronomy 3:11 is the reference for the huge bed; I forgot to mention it; sorry 😅😅 and apparently, Og was the last of the giants of the Rephaim, but Goliath would later challenge David in 1 Samuel 17, being twice as tall as he was then, being from Gath in Philistia (now the Gaza area where we should pray for love and salvation daily). Deuteronomy 3:11 also mentions that Og was from Rephaim, sorry I forgot to mention that, too 😅😅😄😄 I’m only an ordinary Fry’s employee; I don’t have any claims to be a seminary instructor… and I don’t think I can go for that; there’s too many Trump supporters everywhere, all claiming to honour Jesus with their greedy and vile souls they don’t want to cleanse. Besides, there’s people to uplift and preach the Gospel to, and I don’t want to waste my time not doing that.

The next chapter reviews Israel’s long journeys and the destinations they stopped at during the 40-year journey to Canaan, where they were about to enter. I’ll see you there!

In Christ,

Ron Outland

When I read this chapter, I’ve been struggling to explain how to write this. I don’t know what to do! For Moses doesn’t applaud Israel’s successes in defeating and humiliating Midian even though nothing else was needed after all the guys were killed in combat (including Balaam; see verse 8), as verses 14-15 explain in versions like the VOICE translation. Indeed, Jesus never delighted in anyone’s demise (Ezekiel 18:32), so it’s good that His love for them was mentioned several centuries before He came to Earth. This chapter is found in pages 98-99 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 125-127 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 198-199 of my VOICE copy, and pages 202-204 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I also looked into my Life Application Study Bible for a good explanation of this, which I’ve long since left unused (for I discovered about two years after I had bought it in college that the commentators don’t believe in God’s salvation even being possible for everyone, and after trying to find if they had left any good words there, I left empty-handed, for it’s not about “getting serious about sin” but believing Jesus does His work still today, whether through you, the reader, or someone else) — there’s no helpful commentary among the staff. But corruption does indeed start at the top and works its way down, the VOICE copy says in a later page. Yet the guy who wrote that other comment in the Life Application Study Bible — they’re the same people who berate us and say, “You are Jesus’ disciple, but we are disciples of Moses” (John 9:28) 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ these enemies of the Lord are extremists, rapists who target people and animals without respect to age, boastful about things that don’t even matter, corrupt, vile, hateful, loveless, unforgiving, unable to have mercy on others, and their hearts can’t help but rejoice in the demise of the good so that they cannot leave their sins behind. Indeed, their cursed souls can only fall in love with each and every single one of the above things between the last emoji I put before this sentence and this line of the post, giving only these things the highest praise and worship. God will never welcome them.

Now, let’s get to the actual chapter: verses 1-11 are about Moses’ final conquest before he is to join his ancestors in death on Mount Nebo in Deuteronomy 34; that was a success. This was judgment from Heaven (which, again, God didn’t enjoy and never will) for what had happened at Peor (read Numbers 25:1-9). I guess that was a continuation from where verses 17-18 had left off from that chapter 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ they also left Midian broke, but sadly, they’d seize Israel’s food in Judges 6, quite a bit later, due to their unfaithfulness… however, I do pray reprieve for those suffering conflict and loss of loved ones in countries like Ukraine 🇺🇦 I’m sorry that Russia 🇷🇺 had started this nightmare 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Ethiopia 🇪🇹 also needs healing, but thank God they were never colonised 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 and again, God doesn’t command war today, for what was for one season isn’t for all seasons. Indeed, we live in Jesus’ new covenant, now, because of what He had announced in Luke 4:18-21.

I can only think of so much as I write this down, so with Moses’ unnecessary fury with the people of Israel for leaving the women alive in verses 14-15 and God not commanding them to take them out anywhere in this chapter, not to mention the contents of the next one, it’s safe to say Moses has, by this time, become so spiritually minded that he’s no earthly good. From there, sin is called to rememberance more than anything else until he dies, and I’ve never enjoyed that the Church here always uses this to harp on anything enough to lose an entire generation or two to atheism and unending failure. And when someone good DOES preach a life-changing message, someone (or something) instantly begins to yap about that speaker being loose in the head, calls them humanist, socialist, communist, brain-dead, promiscuous, retarded, even — these accusers speak abusively so that God will judge them in the last day (Matthew 5:22). They’d even use AI to smear their character with images like public nudity, sex with animals, bloody and gory incidents, and claim it all to be of Jesus, all being deep fakes! But social media requires us to label our content as AI if it is indeed AI, which I’m OK with, to be honest. However, they can bypass that one day with a private network, if they haven’t already. I wish hateful stuff never existed…

Verses 21-54 are of the plunder the Israelites grab from Midian, and I like to think that God is at work taking back what is rightfully yours that you’ve lost to the evil one (like in Joel 2:25). I don’t know what your journey is, but hopefully you can enjoy yourself 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I know I don’t have much to my name, and I don’t think I can make it grow any faster, since I may get conceited or begin to lose myself in my assets, not to mention life often deals cruel hands to those who want what’s good. Indeed, with what Moses had said in this chapter, I don’t think he did what was right. I know I don’t want to follow that pattern… when I notice someone actively deceiving any human at my job, something snaps. The same thing occurs whenever I encounter someone being hateful or abusive about anything, parent or otherwise. As a result, because of what I’ve learned from the Holy Spirit through many online posts about needing to be safe when we were younger, I’m convinced parenthood in the U.S. is a sham, and no one can raise a kid and expect them to be safe here, for the evil one has the upper hand against this generation 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I have four nieces, and just the fact someone says they want more in life, knowing they don’t have what they need, yet that someone is berated into oblivion in lieu of “good behaviour” because they want to find Jesus — we all were made to pursue pleasure, but there’s no pleasure under the sun that can bring any real satisfaction. And when someone in the Church asks the deeper things, the children of the devil, who are sadly more abundant and powerful in the church than outside of it, seize their souls so that they can’t get the good answers they deserve and they leave empty-handed, often causing them to question if God is even worth it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 we need wisdom from the Church ⛪️ but most of the time, it doesn’t even exist!

And speaking of not repeating sinful patterns, I don’t want to be like Moses here, often remembering others’ sins and not celebrating the good, like when Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh decide to settle east of the Jordan River because of the good land for their livestock. Also, I have a feeling that if Moses wanted to, he would’ve encouraged the Israelites to constantly say, “Don’t ask questions.” Why do you think Jesus says of His countrymen, “Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have set your hope”? (See John 5:45.) And wouldn’t it be good for me to say that we can’t find Him in very many places in Deuteronomy? Indeed, I’m surprised that book has anything about restoration. But that’s what the U.S. has done with the Scriptures: make a worthless and loveless religion out of that book and claim that anything else in the Scriptures is heresy. These NPCs (non-player characters in a video game) are Moses and the Pharisees, though God didn’t enjoy the Pharisees’ words. And who knows what Moses had been thinking when he wrote these latter portions of the Pentateuch? But it’s more important to gauge Jesus’ opinions concerning this. Indeed, He’s greater than Moses ever will be, but thankfully, Moses was forgiven of his sins, for he trusted in Jesus and was repentant of each error. But it was because of his sins that he died on Mount Nebo… and in the meantime, we need to heed Proverbs 19:19, which says, “A man of great anger will pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again” (NASB). Too bad the country hates this verse and wants to curse it until everyone’s hearts can no longer embrace peace 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓 there’s another proverb that says, “Make no friends with a hot-tempered man,” but I don’t know where it is. Can someone in the comments help a brother out, please? For I think my time at work is exposing me to too many evil men, for I’m in a public environment. Indeed, I don’t think I can be much of a safe human being… and that’s really heartbreaking for me 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 I wish I could actually believe stillness deserves a chance to be sovereign… as it is, I feel I don’t stand a chance.

The next chapter is Moses complaining again about his people, this time because of the good the people of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh had wanted for themselves and to help their brethren remember Jesus with them (see also Joshua 22:10-34 for a similar story) — it was a misunderstanding for both Moses and Joshua, which, if God wills, I’ll get to eventually, but I pray God helps me be like Jesus here… and I’m surprised to find that later books of the Bible don’t harp on sin too much upon finishing the next one. I need some professional help for this…

In Christ,

Ron Outland