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This isn’t really a favourite passage of mine, since there’s an actual public execution because someone had gathered firewood one Sabbath (Saturday) during the wilderness. The Sabbath being a Saturday will serve as a main plot element in Jesus being in a tomb for three days, much later in Luke 23:56. Indeed, this system God never wanted anyway, since it’s impossible for the blood of goats 🐐 and sheep 🐑 to take away our sins. But this passage is found in page 88 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 112-113 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 178-179 of my VOICE copy, and pages 181-182 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I already don’t like when I sin by accident and/or do anything that may offend someone unawares, for I know I can put someone in danger if I’m not careful enough. And if I have sinned against someone under 18, woe unto me! I never mean for that to happen, though… but you know what I don’t understand? Why do those people who lord it over all mankind claim you’ve put their little ones in danger when they’ve probably had sex with them? But I gained knowledge two weeks ago from a friend of mine from Australia 🇦🇺 that sadly, the U.S. was founded by violence, and Jesus said those who live by the sword die by it (Matthew 26:52). I was texting several large messages to a friend of mine this morning around sunrise concerning this; I don’t think he’s read it yet… but it was pretty early; I’m not sure when the sun rises in his area, but we are in the same time zone most of the time (Arizona doesn’t do daylight savings). But anyways, someone would use this and the following chapters as a weapon to deceive their victims into believing God is so ungracious He has no interest in forgiveness, no matter what it is. Sadly, though, it’s difficult to find ANYONE who even believes God’s love still never fails (see 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NKJV)) — yet I met someone from India 🇮🇳 and wants to do life with us here, and I’m thrilled for it 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 he’s receptive to the words of Jesus, and me and several others celebrated his birthday last night at Pita Island, where the Mediterranean food is a blast! I highly recommend you try that if you’re in Gilbert. I’m really happy he made it here, and I want to see India have more and more godly moments. And thank God just about every nation is more receptive to godliness and kindness than the U.S. is. Even the U.K. can’t be THAT selfish… but many people from different countries do come here to the U.S. for work, and I’m here for it 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 there’s also the World Cup occurring here in North America, with 11 stadiums 🏟 in the U.S. alone. I don’t think there’s any games in Arizona, but it’s still pretty awesome 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 too bad Trump’s willing to transform the hearts of all the people visiting into something like his, though. Even if someone’s heart 🫀 has been restored in Jesus our God, these antagonists who work in the governments here are willing to erase every last trace of what is holy, good, righteous, true, and lovely… and freedom is supposed to be honoured here? *scoffs* I guess that’s why they call it America 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

But enough of my rambling, I pray the lovely men, women, and their families can read this passage in their native tongue when watching the games here, or in Canada, or in Mexico, and then find out about Jesus’ sacrifice for them so they’d recognise His love for them 💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💗💗💗💗💗 it says in Revelation 7:9 there will be a multitude from every nation, tribe, and tongue whose population is so high no one can count them. The Bible is clear on this. There’s no room for debate. And India is the world’s most populated nation, now, so we need to pray for deliverance from the Hindu gods there (but thankfully, freedom of religion and speech is legal there, mostly). And I understand the local Christians’ approach to Jesus in some ways, since I know what it’s like to be trapped in a hostile environment, and I know what it’s like to be stuck in the streets more than once, not to mention for nuclear suffering to happen (though not in a high or extensive amount). But I did give a Bible and 60 bucks to someone outside a Wal-Mart once, and he said his roommate had stolen his rent money 💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸 so I hope he’s doing OK, now 🗣👤👥️🫂👣 I pray the guy can receive Jesus, and likewise for another dude I gave another Bible to one day by Fry’s, as well as ten bucks, although I don’t find it fair that someone was spying on me, and I didn’t know they were there. I don’t want to reveal the details here, though. Regardless, if we follow the media too much, we violate Romans 12:2. And that’s un-Christian.

The story of someone violating the Sabbath in verses 32-36 is particularly easy to manipulate, forcing dozens of episodes containing legalism and unforgiveness on me and my friends. Jesus never wanted that to happen anyway (see Ezekiel 33:11 and 2 Peter 3:9). I respect the fact that people are willing to preach on overlooked passages like this, but man, these people do not respect me back. And when someone sees this and decides to… try the Lord Jesus, as if Paul mentioning that the only way to put Jesus to the test (as per his referencing of Numbers 21:4-9 in 1 Corinthians 10:9), was to do anything like what’s in the Numbers passage referenced above, God will be offended with them because He knows everything the “peace” makers are up to. For a time is coming when sudden destruction and punishment (I remember I looked into the Greek for that several years ago) will overtake them (1 Thessalonians 5:3), and for them, there will be no escape! I don’t want to say worship of true or false peace is common, but I swear, every time a macho dude comes forward to announce his agenda for power, a huge crowd follows them. I haven’t done so hot in dealing with the Trump supporters here, and I actually feel defiled in watching those I know follow the pedophile 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 so if I had lived in the 70s watching Dobson and his satanic content getting so popular that all the lovers of joy and peace whimper and shiver and tremble in fear, I don’t know what I’d do. And I was born in 1990, but thankfully, I hadn’t heard almost anything about the heretic when he was alive (he died in his sins last August). I’m glad the pastor never mentioned anything favourable concerning him around that time, but it’s unfair he and all the others in the Valley worshipped Charlie Kirk for supposedly dying as a martyr (he didn’t talk about Jesus when he died, but about his politics 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 he’s in Hell with Dobson and all the other children of the devil, where all their supporters are going). It’s been nearly nine months since then, and nothing has changed. Indeed, my spirit and soul don’t feel right most days because of the extreme atheism of all the people, especially the “Christians” here. I feel like there may be something like the scenario in Ezekiel 9 where God told his angels to mark those who grieved over all the sins of Jerusalem and take out everyone else with advanced technology, but a lot of people probably have this worthless and unforgivable idea to shoot everyone in a marketplace or a school who disagrees with the “sound” and “divine” words of the president 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I can never say this dude speaks anything besides what’s worth literally less than nothing. What do Trump and his supporters do in their spare time, anyway? Cut themselves to showcase their bloodlust for endless and unrestrained power like Baal’s worshipers did in 1 Kings 18 when they tried to call for him?! I’m not ready for this 😭😭😭😭😭😓😓😓😓😓 heck, just the fact there’s a Trump statue which multiple pastors claim isn’t an idol shows this is the USA’s darkest era yet.

There’s no footnote in the first Amplified Bible translation, so I don’t think I need to say anything else. But I’ll see you in the next one! Later, guys!

In Christ,

Ron Outland

I don’t want to touch on any of the sins the Israelites are warned against today, and God must’ve had to wait at least several years before giving any further instructions to Moses and Aaron after He had pronounced judgment in verses 28-35 in the previous chapter. But this passage is found in pages 87-88 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, page 112 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 178-179 of my VOICE copy, and pages 181 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

As God’s people (most of whom really being His enemies) were perishing, He was giving Moses and Aaron more instructions for the promise land, Canaan. And I wonder if I’ve lagged behind in following Jesus as of late? But I thank God I’m on vacation from work this week 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼😇😇😇😇😇😇🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ I want to go to Hawai’i at some point, or another Pacific island with lovely everything, but I know my only choice is to wait a very long time for that, possibly, even with my savings, all due to my debts I need to start repaying soon (though thankfully isn’t a big amount right now, but it sucks). Besides, I feel for the missionaries who are doing God’s work and spreading His love to unreached places like John Chao once did several years back to the North Sentinelese tribe, though he was martyred for it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 may God reward him for his work there on the day of judgment (see 1 Corinthians 3:10-15)! — I don’t know if I’ll have the chance to do the same thing in the future, and I’d rather live in an actual safe country where I can have all my needs met without having to take out a loan for something. I’m grateful to God for a hotel 🏨 stay almost a year ago in the neighbourhood I used to live in, but this time, I can’t afford that one, especially since next week, when I go back to work, I’ll have to buy new uniforms. And I don’t expect to be allowed to wear shorts when that happens (we’ll all be required to wear new uniforms soon) but I did discover earlier this month that I had gotten a 20¢ raise from my maintenance duties I pull off at work sometimes. And if I get to do that full-time in the autumn 🍂 I’ll have only 🕗➡️🕓 shifts five times a week, which will put me at 4️⃣0️⃣ hours every time, even when I’m sick or need to take a personal holiday to take a break from all that. It’s a shame I can’t go to church when working during the weekends, but I thank God I played a Hillsong Netherlands 🇳🇱 message from Arizona, where I live — it’s about submission, but thankfully, the speaker mentioned it has nothing to do with making people feel less valued and that submission is supposed to be mutual; the wives-submitting things is tossed around too much, and there’s always worldliness when that happens. We as Christians are called to be different from that. And I’m glad God includes the foreigners to the Israelites in His plan for redemption for the entire world, as detailed for something in verses 15-16. So I can take delight in the fact that everyone gets a chance to know Him 🎶🥰💖💝💘💗💓💞💕❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️🩷💜💙🩵💚💛🧡🤎🤍🩶🖤💯💯💯💯💯 to God be the glory 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Maybe sometime later this week, I’ll write on the rest of the chapter, and I’d really love to mention godliness again on here, too, not just my personal stories of life. But for now, let’s rest awhile. And for those who love what’s good and are reading this, I hope you can be encouraged with today’s post! I’ll be back with the rest of this chapter, if I or anyone else can wait that long 😅😅

In Christ,

Ron Outland

This is a key chapter in understanding this book, in that the Lord God finally said He was going to purge Israel of everyone who had no faith in Him. Indeed, how can one not be aware if they’ve read the Bible at least once? For they had tested Him ten times (verse 23) and if any remained, Jesus probably wouldn’t have been born over 2,000 years ago. This chapter is found in pages 86-87 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 110-112 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 176-178 of my VOICE copy, and pages 179-181 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Many churches preach this to highlight Israel’s failure here and invite us to ask ourselves what we can learn from this, which is good, but I should once again say that those who preach this yet think Jesus would’ve guaranteed reconciliation because He had forgiven everyone on the cross or say otherwise (as if Romans 14:15 and 1 Corinthians 8:11 didn’t matter, as well as Matthew 20:28 and Mark 10:45) — that’s like saying enemies of God don’t exist, and while we don’t need to follow the Mosaic Law anymore (read the narrative of Acts 15:1-35 and the book of Galatians), Paul wrote of Alexander the coppersmith who hated the Lord and His message in 2 Timothy 4:14-15 — a footnote in a study Bible I have mentions that imprecatory psalms and prayers exist. I don’t like to think of this, though… yet Jesus said if we deny Him, He will also deny us (2 Timothy 2:12, also Matthew 10:33 and Luke 9:26 (being ashamed of Jesus is also denying Him)) — if we trifle with Him, we’ll be in the lake of fire eventually (Revelation 20:15, also Matthew 25:41). However, He is able to prevent you and me from denying Him 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I have been caught in the crossfire of real enemies of the Lord Jesus, though… some of whom I’m related to. And I was unfortunate enough to be unable to succeed for years after I left home, hopefully to never return. I have a therapist appointment this afternoon, too, so I hope to explain more, but it’ll only be a half-hour long today. Thankfully, though, the next one’s in six days and is twice as long, so I may be able to explain more than I haven’t already covered.

One thing I should mention, though: unfortunately, the U.S., in every single county, will never have a lot of forgiving people, even if it’s “safe”. For if that weren’t the case, Trump and Clinton never would’ve ran for president ten years ago, and several good things would’ve happened here, but I guess the “Christian” churches can’t survive without hateful creeps and the media they worship! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Indeed, everything since 2015 tells us that this is the beginning of the end of all mankind, and even with an authoritarian who had long since ruled Hungary 🇭🇺 recently lost an election, he probably will never concede, and TPUSA probably won’t concede to last week’s SRP election loss (SRP is the main water/power company here in the Phoenix area), just as Trump refused to accept his loss to Biden in 2020, which I didn’t see coming 🤔🤔 I think the nationalists’ losses in 2022 started the heretical organisation mentioned above, hence, that may be how Trump won not long later, too. All these years since 2015, and things are only getting worse, even if corruption can go down here or in some other nation. For we’re in the last days, and freedom is dying as a result, for the devil is only hijacking the Christian faith so he can have all the churches worship the antichrist one day (see Revelation 13:4), and sadly, there’s no stopping him. Funny how we cannot find out when Jesus will take His church into Heaven, though (Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32)… good thing I want to be productive in all my mechanisms until he comes back, as 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 addresses… but we do need to rest every once in a while (Matthew 11:28). I guess that’s why I had to take more than half this week off work… but I do hope to get a second job if necessary, if only to help with paying rent, but if I do get one, I’ll soon need to pay back my student loans, seeing the income will most likely be greater than the poverty threshold this time.

Also, when it comes to missionary travel, I don’t really know if that’ll even be possible for me in the future, whether I’m debt-free or not. For if the American churches can’t help but be idolatrous (usually in the context of “Christian” nationalism), even if I had the right pastoral skills, I won’t be able to establish one here, and I’d hazard a guess in saying better men than me cannot succeed, either, given my “we’re in the last days” comment earlier in this post. So I don’t know what I can do… but I just discovered this footnote in the Amplified Bible (I don’t know why I didn’t cover that in the last note), located in Numbers 13:28, which says, “The scouts probably had not seen walled cities before, having lived their childhood in Goshen in Egypt. Those who forgot God’s power to help them naturally found the situation formidable, as happens in the lives of most people. ‘”But God” makes all the difference between cowards and Calebs.'” I mean, the Lord Jesus is able to stop even the worst enemy from having their way against Him, but the hypocrites have used His Name in vain by claiming He’s with them in their selfish endeavours, so that people would blaspheme Him, just as 2 Peter 2:2 had predicted. We’ve seen this in everything here… and now I’m stuck writing from the fringes of the arena, knowing the “Christians” in every ministry can’t handle me preaching the love of Jesus. Indeed, they won’t listen even if we did. That’s why God will judge the U.S., leaving no stone unturned in eliminating heretical worship here. And with more atheists being spawned in an exponential rate each day, that’ll only add insult to injury, since Psalms 14 and 53 testify that there’s no reasoning with them, since they have rejected Jesus. And honestly, there’s nothing we can do about it. For many people think Christianity’s worse than the other religions based on the hypocrisy that the devil has made since Acts 5:1-11. I don’t want to wait too long to see God’s glory…

All the offences that hinder any good I want to prevent, but I don’t know how it’s even possible. And with the Bible being used more frequently by the religious people who managed to influence the crowd enough to vote for Trump a year and a half ago (again, it’s the same pattern with how Jesus was crucified), only this time, there’s no resurrection… I think that’s why Hebrews 6:4-6 and 10:26-31 were written, for those who reject Christ will never be saved. Indeed, Jesus died for all mankind to cover their sins and cannot die again, as Romans 6:9 says, and if He could die again, He wouldn’t be God, but would end up playing the Father (Hebrews 9:25-26 talks about some of this). For His sacrifice ends sin forever for those who receive it, and He won’t turn them away (John 6:37). Indeed, nothing can remove the one who receives Him from God, as Jesus said in John 10:28-29. I’m sorry many people would preach it’s possible to lose one’s salvation, though… yet it is easy to take God for granted, and I’d rather not pull that off. I’m glad He was happy to take our place on the cross, though 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💝💝💝💝💝💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 and I don’t want to add anything to this. And contrary to popular opinion, Jesus isn’t exclusive, as if He were willing to exclude some people from His love for them. I do want to preach His Name in places where He’s never been preached at before, though, so that it would be fulfilled what it says in Isaiah 52:12: “Those who’ve never been told of Him will see, and those who’ve never heard of Him will understand.”

Even though the U.S. will fall to pieces because of the offences the people have practised (probably inspired from this chapter, given the fact the Israelites had tons of money and livestock, not to mention the favour of others because of what God had done in Egypt) — indeed, this country has about $30 trillion in reserve, a lot of assets, and is highly revered for work opportunities… at least in theory for that last part. I don’t think there’s actually a lot available for me, nor can most foreigners actually make it here to find work if they wanted to, which honestly, sucks. Indeed, this morning, as I was doing a little grocery shopping 🛒 I thought, “If someone wants to live here in the U.S., awesome!” Indeed, I’m not opposed to immigration here. I do wish I could explain the Gospel of Jesus to them, though… most of them don’t know Jesus, and I don’t understand their langauages… it’d be great for me to love the Venezuelan lady and the Moroccan family who are here in Arizona, one of whom works with me alongside the Venezuelan lady so they’d know Jesus, too. Indeed, without those from overseas, I probably wouldn’t have been born here. It’s too bad I don’t have any Christian family members… I don’t know. But I was reading 1 Chronicles 1 in the HCSB today and noticed two descendants from Japheth in verse 5: Magog and Tiras, who later engendered what is now Russia and Scandavania. I pray repentance for the descendants from the people in that chapter, if they’re willing to know Jesus, of course. I want to say receptivity is high, but I can’t tell for sure… if even Sweden 🇸🇪 is starting to oppose God’s works yet have a lot of people claim they’re doing His will, I guess anything’s possible 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ it just goes to show you how far the Great Apostasy has deepened, for Sweden is also cutting off aid to needy countries, and so are several others who are developed, as the U.S. had done. But thank God that won’t stop Jesus from returning to set things right! But anyway, at the time I’m writing this, my therapy appointment is in less than five minutes, so I’ll publish this now and will be back sooner or later with the 40-year wilderness chapters!

In Christ,

Ron Outland

I don’t want to write too much today, mostly because I have work in less than three hours (it’s just after 7 a.m. where I live) — I probably will explain this in further detail in the coming weeks ahead, though. These two chapters are found in pages 86-87 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 110-112 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 175-178 of my VOICE copy, and pages 178-181 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

This story about Israel almost taking Canaan… I sort of understand that the Lord was going to judge them through the Israelites (but He’s never enjoyed anyone’s death; see Ezekiel 18:32, 33:11), but knowing that this was going to occur in the first place does really suck… yet they had a very strong influence in Egypt while Israel was there, so that Israel would be like them… and I also know Jesus wants them saved, too, whether it’s Israel or Canaan (Matthew 24:14, also 1 Timothy 2:4). However, I don’t agree with the words the VOICE staff decides to use for Numbers 14:12, for I’m not convinced they’re… reflective of the Hebrew there. It’s too bad it’s often awkward at best to render a good English version… but if you remember that I had said in Leviticus 26’s note that even the Bible translators are afraid of God, you’ll understand that unfortunately, too many people by now among the staff in probably every team want Jesus to be One of conquest by force, as if He were to work according to the Romans of His time 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 I mean, today’s Palm Sunday, and not addressing Jesus as the One who puts an end to multiple wars and worldly thinking (both lust and power alike) — He may not be forgiving should this be ignored in the churches again. But when they do this today, more and more people will turn away from Him… and I mean people who don’t believe in violence and money-worship. I think those “churches” are of the Illuminati’s plan to exalt satanic content 😓😓😓😓😓 and if a church has been godly here in the past, they’re no longer practicing safety… I think they believe 1 Thessalonians 5:3 a little too well. For there is none here, and yet they lie about the Lord Jesus and say, “Not He, misfortune won’t happen to us, and we won’t see sword or famine, and the prophets are as wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them!” (See Jeremiah 5:12-13.) So when I say this is Israel’s greatest blunder so far (the refusal to enter Canaan and God’s sharp response to them, detailed in chapter 14), this really is their worst mistake yet, and Hebrews 3-4 references this and mentions unbelief as the primary culprit. And unbelief here is probably at an even greater level now… I can’t wait for Jesus to return so I don’t have to see this again 😭😭😭😭😭😭 and yes, I was inspired by a few Threads posts explaining the truth about Palm Sunday to write this, seeing Jesus had come as humble instead of looking like some kind of Chad alpha-male who believes in bravado above everything, including love and humility… and on a donkey, no less! That looks like something most of us would rather avoid, sadly… but I don’t!

I need to explain to my therapist (yes, I’ve been seeing one for professional help the last few weeks) that I actually feel like some stupid, spoiled brat whenever I address an unmet need or even try to fulfill a good responsibility most of the time and therefore cannot feel safe half my days 😬😬😬😬😬 if I get another profound loss because I mention the truth, they’ll be held responsible for this, and Jesus will NEVER forgive them, just as He had rejected everyone at least 20 years old (except Caleb and Joshua, see Numbers 14:24 and Joshua 1:9) during the wilderness journey. Worse still, they’ll claim, “It’s for your own good, son” — Jesus is nothing to them all 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ and yet, if I mention something good in due season but the enemies of the Lord prevail upon me for this (and prevail they will), I’ll be stuck in MORE mega-crap — it’s just easier to say Jeremiah 20:9 is being lived out again. Life is but a fight I was born into, and I don’t belong here… if I can make it past these next few days, I’ll be back with writing a note on Numbers 13. See ya!

Amidst all the jibberjabber I always hear from others at work, I read chapter 12 and am actually afraid that… maybe there was a reason controversial passages like this and Amos 3:2 were written, but then I remember something in Deuteronomy 32 about the Israelites not being God’s real people after all. This chapter is found in page 86 of the NKJV Bible, page 109 of the NASB Bible, pages 174-175 of my VOICE copy, and pages 177-178 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

With what I just said, I’m actually referring to those who know Jesus to be the One to save the earth even in Moses’ time, since there were many prophecies pointing to His birth centuries before, including in Isaiah 7:14. For if all the Israelites were indeed God’s children (yet He has no grandchildren), they wouldn’t have opposed Him like this — one such case being Aaron and Miriam, Moses’ older brother and sister, respectively, being detailed here. And Jesus took all mankind’s punishment on the cross so we’d experience His forgiveness and new life, but it’s not enough to know this (for each human being needs to receive and love Him in response to this, and no one is left out of a chance to know Him — perfection even after receiving Him is still impossible, though, but thankfully not necessary). One song by Casting Crowns, in the middle, has these lyrics: “The Father gave His only Son, the Way, the Truth, the Life had come, but there was no room for Him in the world He came to save” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔 and I don’t know what good this post will do. Indeed, I have a history with this passage (though I didn’t believe myself to be like Moses in every way), mostly in the first half here. For I referenced verses 1-8 to someone in downtown Phoenix when I had discovered an apartment staff member of where I was living at the time had made things up concerning my demeanour — more mega-crap followed, which I don’t want to go into details, but it would be another three years before I’d find a job for sure. People like this can ruin our lives… and that’s how I went to the mental hospital: by someone’s prejudice against my Christian faith. And sadly, the enemies of God… are real, and they’re everywhere…

It’s a shame Aaron and Miriam had opposed Jesus because of Moses’ humility towards Him, and they were all in their 80s, too, so it doesn’t make sense that they, the older siblings, had criticised Moses because he loved Jesus (he’d later write about Him; see Deuteronomy 18:15 and 18, and also John 5:46). They also likely knew He’d take their punishment over 1,450 years after this incident, too, so I’m convinced they’re in Hell, now… their deaths are recorded in Numbers 20, but I don’t want to go into detail about this now. But you what I don’t understand? How does verse 14 here explain something humiliating a guy had done in one culture so that God would reference it? And why is this happening as if His goodness were irrelevant? I don’t want to be around those who say Jesus didn’t take our place on the cross for all mankind, of every generation. It makes about as much sense as Frogger dying in the water even though he’s a [expletive] frog! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ This [expletive] I can’t accept, for the Americans love to portray God as hateful and unforgiving, and that’s why I’d rather not be around the public most days. They hate any idea about God being compassionate or anything else like it, and there’s at least 200 million of them in the U.S. alone, especially the “Christian” nationalists, which number a frighteningly high 120+ million here. And the population’s almost at 350 million, but I pray for those who visit to attend a FIFA ’26 match to experience the love of Christ that they deserve to hear (FIFA is the Soccer World cup occurring here in North America, and it happens in a particular part of the world every four years). I pray the same thing for the visitors for the Women’s World Cup occurring here a year later, and for those from every country watching the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics in southern California 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 at least, for now, though, I can’t wait to get to the Psalms… I want to remember God’s goodness explained in some of them, but I guess people would rather erase it from everyone else’s brains and memories! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Until then, God-willing, I’ll see you in chapters 13-14 where I’ll write multiple notes 📝 📋 and even slip in something concerning the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. Later, everyone!

During the narrative about Moses leading all of Israel out of Sinai to Canaan, after the Passover had been observed, he asked Hobab, his brother-in-law, if he could join him. Initially, he declined, but Moses appealed to his knowledge about the wilderness, for neither he nor the others with him had been to Israel before, so Hobab accepted the offer. I think Jesus wanted to give Hobab a good place where the Israelites were going to be living. And I wonder, if we’ve declined an offer for something familiar, wouldn’t Jesus try again to reach out? This passage is found in pages 84-85 of the NKJV Bible, pages 107-108 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), page 172 of my VOICE copy (the note in between that and chapter 11 goes into the next page for some reason), and pages 174-175 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I think I’m a lot like Hobab in this passage right now, and so are most of us, for I often daydream about getting a place in Gilbert again, and I work here, too, but it’s a shame TPUSA has ruined everything even before the pandemic had started (Trump and his men, along with the other heads-of-state in other countries — they love to trample underfoot the poor and needy ones from among mankind; I didn’t vote for any of this). Now, of course, corruption can go down in any place despite that, seeing they put Biden in charge in late 2020 (though corruption went down for only one year after that, and in 2023), but I guess the voters are callous-hearted against anything good! I didn’t find the COVID-19 vaccine any good, though, for I knew it was satanic and deadly, seeing it had killed thousands more on top of those the virus had already eliminated, and so the last plague was worse than the first. Thankfully, in early 2022, the mandate for the “vaccine” ended for everyone in the country, so I didn’t need to get tested again. And I’m grateful I always came back negative every time, and I never got the virus anyway, so I didn’t need the vaccine, but I couldn’t have avoided that by my own strength; Jesus, I think, had kept me from it. Psalm 91 wasn’t written in vain or to no purpose 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇 I was also kept safe from many other bad things during that time, and the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Booster Course Pass tracks were being released in two 4-track GPs each several times during that era, doubling the game’s tracks from 48 to 96. I still wish they had waited another year or two to release the next Mario Kart game after the Switch 2 came out in mid-2025… oh, well 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

When Moses appealed to Hobab to come on over and live with him and the others in Canaan (remember, Canaan had been the one to populate the area until Israel came over), and Hobab accepted it, I think it’s a lot like Jesus’ invitation for others to experience eternal life in Him, which other Scriptures later explain (see 2 Timothy 3:15). Of course, by this time, the Israelites had tested God on several occasions already, and we’ll later read that they sadly are stuck in Kadesh as He judges everyone who violently opposed Caleb and Joshua (at least, if they were 20 years or older) — for 40 YEARS!! I’m not actually looking forward to this, as I said in a previous post, but shortly after I’m done writing this one, first off, I don’t have much time to write anything else online for today, and second, I’d rather not ride my bike at night, even with my bike lights on, seeing that I now live northwest of the library by several miles, so it’s past U.S. 60, and I don’t need to be at the library every day. But I came to drop off some CDs I had borrowed. The next note will be a short overview of Numbers 11-25 — this will be filled with a bunch of disappointing episodes, just so you know. I’m sorry if you were expecting more successes, but we need to remember the Bible is a brutally honest book, containing controversial stories in many parts, even on part of many of the good guys. But Jesus never did anything wrong, so we can worship Him freely, even if someone were to judge Him as if He were supporting sins of some kind. Maybe many of them don’t know any better? I’m not sure; I can’t say, but I don’t want to conclude that ANYONE is headed to Hell! Even the ICE guys should repent and follow Jesus. Literally. But I’ll see you in the next post! Later, everyone!

I’ve seen a few too many things about animal sacrifices in this section of the Bible by this point, and Jesus had never wanted them to be a thing (Hebrews 10:6, Psalm 40:6), for it’s impossible for them to take away any of our sins (Hebrews 10:4). Indeed, these sacrifices actually remind us of our sins year after year (Hebrews 10:3). But again, the people who followed Moses wanted dead religion, even as they were being delivered from Egypt — Exodus 16 has a passage about God saying, “How long will My people test Me?” And from this came three and a half books full of laws He never wanted. This chapter is found in page 83 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation work, page 106 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 169-170 of my VOICE copy, and pages 172-173 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

In the midst of all this, though, I pray more of the Israelites find Jesus in all these laws and passages and recognize Him as the One who came to save the earth, and we’ll need Him because more propaganda is flooding the earth in various ways, including the idea that war from God through humans works in every season — what worked in one season doesn’t work for another season, for Acts 17:30-31 says what it says for a reason. (Hey, that rhymed!) Indeed, I noticed a note in the VOICE copy (all these notes came with the translation when I first got it nine years ago) that mentions divine war. There was a place for that back in Moses’ time, but now, Jesus wants us all to practice peace, again, because of Acts 17:30-31. I really don’t want to mention how the U.S. defies Him in many communities in such terms, because I’ve said this on here A LOT, but unfortunately, a challenge to worldly culture and/or religion always ends up being a challenge to the government, who should honour Jesus with the laws they make, but I don’t have it in me to run for a political office even though I’m legally old enough to run for president, now — we can’t change the world through political content, just as Jesus didn’t come to lead by force, but by His mercies and compassion for others. It’s too bad the American Church hates this truth, though. So, I’ve decided to seek messages from Christian pastors in other countries, if I can actually understand them, that is. And when they try and do me in because I follow the Lord Jesus apart from the worldly stuff pretending to be holy (which, many so-called Christians deny) — indeed, that’s a whole lot more common than we may imagine — it’ll be like Philippians 1:12-26 again for me, just as it had been with my unjust detainment in a psych ward for four days and a mental hospital for another 30 because someone decided to lie about me based on my faith in Jesus 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 it’d be great if they repented, though, for Jesus wants us to pray for our persecutors, but when this happens due to honouring Him, there’s never an easy fix, for repaying evil for good is straight-up demonic. And that wasn’t the only occasion this had happened to me (though that was back in mid-2014), but a lot of awful stuff followed as a result. Thank God that ended when I was invited to live in Gilbert with a friend from church, but it all fell apart eventually due to the pandemic (I’d rather not mention it here, but I think the Lord Jesus may want me to report this to you, the reader(s), one day) — I’ve faced a lot of housing insecurity ever since.

Despite that, though, the Lord Jesus is faithful to give His people what they need when it happens (if offence is nowhere to be found, I guess), yet many people go in multiple countries without what they need because they’re doing the right thing. And this shouldn’t happen anywhere, much less the USA, but apparently, the Lord’s goodness is earned here 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ this is so unbiblical it ain’t even funny 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ the heretical sermon from almost 300 years ago, “Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God,” has been the theological basis of the country since it first came out, and whenever people preach forgiveness even for ordinary things, the whole crowd loses their minds! 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ For who said forgiveness, love, and hope can only come to those who can earn it? Certainly not God!

People will call me heretical because I preach these truths, though, just as many in Israel had said during the time of the prophets there that men like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos, Micah, etc. had spouted nonsense (one example is Hosea 9:7-9) — why is it considered absurd in the Church that love, hope, and joy exist? I already feel pretty weak in this world; there’s no need to drag me to the ground and kick me in the nuts after clubbing me in the head because I only want what’s right! I guess opposition to the truth is never not present when someone mentions it 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓 — I can see why people think Jesus only shows up to take our problems away 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ if persecution was the only thing we could look forward to for following Jesus in this life, though, 1 Peter 5:10 wouldn’t have been written.

I realize there’s not much to go on from this chapter, though… and I wish I had more to say… but until then, I’ll be looking into Numbers 9 to see what it would teach me. Later, party people!

This is the second-longest chapter in the Bible, behind Psalm 119, which is 176 verses long (this chapter’s just 89 verses long), and the content every six verses, starting from verse 12, is the exact same, going to verse 83 (different translations render each section with some tweaks into it, but I guess the VOICE version decided to do that here so they don’t lose the readers halfway through the chapter). This should look like a boring premise, like how Leviticus doesn’t have a lot worth mentioning, but Jesus tells Moses to write all this down so it can eventually be made known that love-based deeds is a better payoff than fear-based anything. Indeed, this chapter is found in pages 81-83 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation work, now being more than seven years long, pages 104-106 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 166-169 of my VOICE copy, and pages 169-172 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I know I sound like a broken record by this point, but fear-based everything is too common where I work, and I don’t want to encounter any again. Indeed, this is in Gilbert, the safest place in Arizona, never being far from #1 in the country in this category… but the U.S. is dropping like a rock in safety levels, which are already too low to begin with 🙄🙄🙄🙄 yet most of the world’s greatest needs are in nations like Chad 🇹🇩 and Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 only 20 nations have about 85-90% of the world’s deepest needs being unmet. But we’re not doing enough… I don’t know if you have the power to be Jesus to the least of these like He had commanded in Matthew 25:34-40 to alleviate any suffering, though… but if you have a debt you didn’t ask for, that’s actually understandable 😰😰 I’m sorry that I can’t do much about it, though, for I have bills to pay that are due in just two weeks, and I’ve spent too much already. I’m grateful I’ve gotten more hours for work this week, starting at 🕒 this afternoon (I may need to stay later to push in the shopping carts 🛒 again 😅😅 that’s often what happens to me after closing time when I get to work so late), but even if I get more hours this week (I’ve already gotten extra time for not one, but THREE shifts this week as of yesterday afternoon; I guess God told the manager I should get my bills paid since there’s no other way to do it besides SurveyJunkie.com), I’ll need to utilize ALL my wages to put towards either feeding myself or paying my rent… and I’ve bought enough food and lemonade already, but I don’t know how long it will last me — even if I spend NOTHING today, I’ll need to bet on getting even more hours just to get my rent paid without using my savings 💸💸💸💸💸 and I want to do it ASAP so I don’t become neglectful later. But if I’m honest, I think anything else I say about others’ attitudes concerning me will only put me in hot water, for I guess my livelihood depends on if people actually like me, and people can change faster than lightning 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ I wish being honest didn’t get me put in mortal peril…

But that’s not what God wants. For being honest with Him never offends Him, and He won’t ever punish someone who asks Him anything, no matter how challenging or bizarre. If being honest with Him about anything ever provoked Him to offence or renouncing love, He wouldn’t be God, and Jesus’ words about forgiveness wouldn’t have worked. Again, if someone makes fear-based obedience popular, the Lord Jesus is always #devastated 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 and I’ve seen people try and erase the love of God in my life in the past. Now, they’re trying to enforce hateful content and the idea that God doesn’t do forgiveness, and whoever embraces it will never be saved. Indeed, we were ALL warned against this atheism being triumphant, and I know I’ve actually cried once or twice concerning the fact that they wanted to erase all good progress here, for I was saying to Jesus, “DO SOMETHING!!” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 But I had yet to know they had known what they were doing, Trump and his supporters, and I recently came to the conclusion that, in spite of God ending the pandemic a few years ago, corruption going down a bit here, and even many loans being forgiven, such as some of mine, I guess no act of God is ever without criticism!

The love of God should NEVER be attacked by His own church, and I’ve met great people who worship Him in spirit and truth, but it’s an abomination from Hell that even the best of churches can follow false prophets and false messiahs like Muhammed, Buddha, and that one guy who claims Jesus worships him you’ve probably seen. But Trump’s more of a false messiah than all of them, though I’m not convinced he’s the antichrist… I won’t be surprised if he is, though. Indeed, I used to rate heretics on a scale of one to John Calvin when I had first found out about him and how he’d deceived most of the global Church into believing hateful teachings that sound more biblical than anything else. But now, because Trump had made the AI video of himself as a huge golden statue in Gaza a year ago, he’s broken that scale. And I hate Trump’s ideas now more than I hated John Calvin’s ideas over a decade ago when I was fighting Calvinism and trying to warn others about it. I didn’t actually think it was possible, honestly, even during and after Trump’s first term in office several years back. It’s something I should’ve seen coming… and I don’t claim to be an expert on this, either. But Jesus may be the only way to resist all that… yet they’ll claim we’re resisting Jesus, and they’ll paint Trump as if he were naked on a cross like Jesus had been… this cursed image Moses may have warned about in Deuteronomy, which I’ll get to eventually, if God wills — the church has rejected this truth, just as Stephen was right to assertively mention that those who’d then stone him to death, making him the Christian Church’s first martyr ever (read Acts 7 for the message and what happens as a result), were also following idols as their ancestors had been. And the U.S. churches have followed these idols of power, money, and total control for too long. I don’t think this should be happening. Shouldn’t we be faithful to Jesus as He is to all mankind? But I guess I may end up like Stephen because he had spoken the truth — for those who don’t know, Stephen had been slandered against by godless men who claimed he was speaking blasphemies against Moses and God (read the second half of Acts 6), and they may tell me the same thing, but this time, they’ll accuse me of speaking blasphemous words against Trump and God. I think they had Proverbs 24:21-22 in mind when they were doing this to Stephen… and they’ll weaponize this passage to curse the Lord Jesus with when they decide I’m sitting on a throne of lies. The trial was illegal in Stephen’s time, yet Saul (who was also called Paul from Acts 13:9 onwards) was thrilled about the whole thing (see Acts 8:1 (Amplified Bible (Classic Edition))) — he must’ve supervised it. The trials and harm ICE does is illegal in my time, too, and I’m heartbroken about the chaos in Minnesota right now, for I know ICE is occupying that part of the Midwest and many others, but Renee Nicole (not someone I knew) was murdered by them a week and a half ago there, and I wish that state could be released from there. It may seem nice and safe when I step into Gilbert to run an errand or go to work (remember, it’s actually safe there compared to at least 95% of the other places in the U.S.), but ICE’s terrorism reign looms here in Arizona, too, and I remember hearing there was an ICE raid last summer/fall in a town along the 69, which you can take by getting off I-17 at exit 262 (or exit 263, if you’re going south). I do hope my nieces were safe there when they and their mom and maybe some other family members went there last Christmas, though.

I realize I went off on a huge tangent about terrorism in the U.S., so I hope you can forgive my rambling 😅😅😅 but this is a huge issue that must never be ignored. Indeed, we actually saw a net loss 📉 of those who came here from foreign countries to live here last year, and this hadn’t happened since 1975. But that was because of the stuff I had reported on here… I still remember they once suspended immigration throughout the country for several months claiming to be safe during COVID-19 — Trump had made the largest monetary contribution to the science lab in China where they cooked it, larger than all the other world leaders, over 200 in all. The dude even denied it! But I guess this won’t work on many countries anymore… a bunch have embraced Trumpism, the false teaching that Trump’s the face of the Christian Church — the Lord decided to give this country up to this heretical content they’d been pushing since the mid-70s, about 50 years ago. I’m surprised Project 2025 wasn’t thoroughly set up by now, but they had crossed the halfway point already, yet they hadn’t made a lot of progress since last May. But they will continue from where they’ve left off… and when they finish, God’s love will be spoken of as if it had enabled entitlement and laziness. When this happens, weaponisation of opinionated content disguised as Christianity will be enforced, and forgiveness of every kind will be illegal, including for trivial things like accidentally bumping into a table and a piece of wrapped chocolate 🍫 falls to the ground. But if we can, we may be able to undo at least some of the atheist process before it happens ⏪️🔀 I pray we’re able to.

And you may be asking, “What does all this have to do with fear-based obedience?” Well, if they can, they’d enforce fear-based leadership and criminalise love-based everything, and God doesn’t want this to happen. Indeed, fear-based commands shouldn’t be even remotely legal, but I guess they want to treat righteousness as if it were under attack by good people! This is called the “persecution complex,” and it has been popularised by the media for ages here and in many other places. The churches in the country follow this, too, which is weird, because it says in 1 John 2:15, “Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of God is not in him” (author’s translation). Indeed, the people here pretend God’s Name is under attack when someone who loves money is arrested for fraud or even if a rapist is jailed up for life because of what they did 🙄🙄🙄 this sickening abomination from Hell, God says, will never be forgiven. Indeed, He also says these sins will stay with them, even after they pass away, and there will be no end date for their punishment from Him… ever.

Avoiding fear-based obedience is possible, though… but it’s because of the reign of terror the “Christians” are directing that this is becoming impossible, divine intervention or no divine intervention. And I can’t tell when God will resolve anything… I guess that’s part of what Jesus had said in Acts 1:7 about the times and the seasons that God had set for the ages like in Deuteronomy 29:29… I don’t know 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ but at least Jesus knows how to shatter the idea that fear-based leadership, obedience, or commands should be mandatory 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇 I’m not sure how He does it, so I guess we’ll have to spend a lot of time in the Word of God and enough prayer so that we can’t be broken by the world. I know, for my part, that I was reminded in the last 36 hours that the law of Moses wasn’t meant to be what God had intended for life, and that many later Old Testament passages echoed a ton of these commands God hated (see also Ezekiel 20:25-26). Paul reiterates this in Romans 7:7-13 when he talks about his own experience with the Mosaic Law and his sins, which, we can’t avoid at least half the time… I know I don’t think I’m very good at it, and whenever I want to do what’s right, either a sin or even a hateful human being is always there to trip me up. Even though I want only what’s right, we’re trapped in a fallen world that can’t accept good things of any kind, even if corruption goes down in Babylon, of all places… when will Jesus come back?! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 But it’s nice to know people from every tribe, tongue, and nation will be saved, first (Matthew 24:14). Yet the waiting is driving me nuts… but until then, I’ll keep writing Bible notes and hopefully get to Numbers 8, if I can.

I’ve been busy with many things… and I’m meeting with a friend today, but first, it seems fitting to write on Numbers 6 about the Nazarite vow and the Aaronic Blessing at the end, but I cannot say too much right now. But this chapter is found in page 81 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project (when will I be done with this haha 😄 😆 😅 it’s been seven years since I got started), pages 103-104 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament) page 166 of my VOICE copy, and pages 167-168 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Verses 1-21 detail a Nazarite vow (I spell it with two “a”s instead of two “i”s because I don’t want to speak favourably of World War II, but don’t worry, God didn’t have that in mind when He mentioned anything in this chapter), and let me tell you, keeping that vow is a lot harder than it looks or sounds. I’ve had friends who’ve done this vow for a year when I was in college, and while I’ve wanted to do the same thing, coming into contact with a corpse by accident would warrant me having to give sacrifices of different animals to God by means of a burnt offering (verses 9-12), and that would be way too complicated. That’s why I still haven’t done a Nazarite vow yet… but thankfully, that’s optional. I remember watching I’m Not Ashamed twice about Rachel Scott’s walk with Jesus before she was tragically murdered (along with a dozen others) by her classmates because she had honoured Jesus from the day she first met Him — it’s not easy to do that, though — she didn’t do a Nazarite vow, but I’m not convinced that’s necessary for the Christian walk. It would be great to pull that off, but there’s other stuff to honour God with, too.

The last several verses of the book are about the Aaronic Blessing to Israel upon Aaron’s consecration detailed earlier in their journey to Canaan, and I think that’s great… but while I’ve heard that at a friend’s wedding in 2013, I don’t know how I’m going to incorporate that into today’s world when it seems NOTHING gets to warrant the Lord’s blessing even in another country where Gods Name is actually upheld by any church. There’s still some Christians who love Jesus here in the U.S., and thankfully, this hasn’t been criminalized yet, but I’m convinced that’s only the case because there’s a lot of self-censoring here. And that’s happening because… there’s too much fear of the government, either in worship to them or in feeling trapped by them… and if you’re feeling there’s no way out even if you have $50,000 or more in your savings so you can leave and start a new life where safety and kindness is actually upheld (sadly, I know neither are popular here due to the fact this country’s much ruder than North Korea, of all places (they come in 17th place in terms of rudest countries on Earth while the U.S. is at 6th place 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ I want to be in Hawai’i instead)) — I don’t blame anyone who wishes they were from the Southern Hemisphere, like Brazil 🇧🇷 or even South Africa 🇿🇦 — it’s not fair good opportunities were stolen from most of us here, and I’m no exception. I actually fear I can’t get anymore of them… and I just moved somewhere I can enjoy, though it’s not what I would’ve chosen, but let the Lord’s will be done, I guess 😅 🤷🏼‍♂️

I hope to be back by Christmas to speak blessing to you who love this content and to anyone who wants only good things to happen, regardless of where you come from in this world or where you live or even your religious background, for the Aaronic Blessing is for those interested in finding Jesus, and He loves everyone, so verses 22-27 will be my main focus then. For now, though, I bid you adieu.

While this chapter is found in pages 80-81 of the NKJV Bible I have for this round of Bible notes, pages 102-103 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament, 1995 version), pages 165-166 of my VOICE copy, and pages 166-167 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy, I have to be honest, I don’t see a lot of things worth mentioning, for I’m just looking forward to the blessing in the next chapter, which, sadly, isn’t very long. Why did Moses write Numbers like this? And what was he thinking in often getting angry with others about stuff like in chapter 32? These questions I can’t answer, and I’d rather not ask ChatGPT about it right now, seeing that, too, can offer a skewed perspective about things. But one thing I know for sure (spoiler alert): NOTHING goes well for most of the people he’s accompanying, even after the conquest of Canaan (read from Joshua 24:16 until the end of Judges), whether anyone remaining a long time later after the first census had been made knew Moses or not — sorry for the spoilers, guys.

I don’t want to say this story has no happy ending, either… but I’ll save most of the details for later. For now, though, I need to say that unfortunately, the Israelites under Moses had loved unforgiveness as well as the idols they’d served all their lives. And I’m convinced preaching anything isn’t enough, unless one’s life is so unmistakably righteous no one can misunderstand it — ergo, Jesus, who spoke the famous words of Matthew 5-7, called the Sermon On The Mount, which is harder to practice than to remember, for being merciful is sadly easier said than done, given the prescriptions for the adultery test in verses 11-31 here. I wish I could skip all this and go straight to that section of Matthew right now 😅😅😅😅😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 but I have some good news: I’ve been reading the Beatitudes pamphlet, and I don’t want to keep it a secret from others that we should practice forgiveness instead of cruelty. If we don’t do this, God won’t be forgiving, just as Jesus said in Matthew 18:35 after He had mentioned the parable of the unforgiving servant. And there’s no excuse for us if we don’t forgive others, for Jesus died for all mankind, given the truth of 1 Corinthians 8:11 (Greek) and that nothing can replace it, not to mention the fact it’s impossible for Him to die again (Romans 6:9). If it were, He’d need to suffer again and again every so often, and that actually reminds us of our sins every time, like in Hebrews 10:3 when the author of that letter writes about the old covenant system (Leviticus 16 may have been what he was getting it from).

I don’t want to be around unforgiving people, and I’m sure if you’re sensible enough to believe this, you won’t want to do that, either. Indeed, such cronies are nothing but abusive and would literally tear apart their children over a missing earring or something. These times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He calls all mankind to repent and follow Jesus, just as Paul had said in Acts 17:30. He then goes on to say that Jesus died and rose again and will judge the world in righteousness based on this (verse 31). At least, though, God gives many chances for others to believe this, like how a bunch of people were curious about what Paul had said about it (verse 32). Unforgiveness is an absolute deal-breaker, though.

I’m looking forward to covering chapter 6 about the Nazarite vow and the blessing for Aaron and everyone else in Israel, so I want to end this note here. If you have a prayer request, you can email me at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read them, write down each one, then tape them to my bedroom walls! I hope to see you soon in chapter 6!