Tag: faith

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

Anyone noticing a pattern here? I found four references of a soothing aroma (verses 2, 6, 8, and 13 (VOICE, NASB)), and I remember years ago, when I first wrote notes 📝 📋 in an NRSV Bible, that Genesis 8:21 was referenced again and again in the Pentateuch, and now, we’re already over 140 chapters into the Scriptures. However, this has taken several years for me to accomplish, for I don’t have a lot of good ideas on what to write in most of the first 17 books of the Bible — but this chapter is found in page 97 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 123-124 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 195-196 of my VOICE copy, and pages 199-200 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

There’s more offerings mentioned in this chapter and the next, plus, there’s more vows after that (all from what I can gauge (did I spell that correctly?) in the NKJV), so I’m doing this in three parts, but I’m not going to say much in any of them, for I remember Romans 12:1 saying we get to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God through Jesus, now, and we shouldn’t worship Bible studies, either, but live out the commandments of Jesus (see John 13:34-35 and 14:15). Indeed, it’s impossible for the blood of cattle and goats 🐐 to take away sins (Hebrews 10:4), nor can a lamb 🐑 do the trick, unless it’s Jesus, of course, but I don’t want to force anything down your throat 😇😇😇😇😇 there’s always something new to learn from the Scriptures, though. But whoever preaches a different gospel, using a passage like this, exploits truth itself and incurs condemnation (Galatians 1:8-9).

This is my second post today, and I don’t want to spend much time on it, since I’m getting hungry but can’t go anywhere because of my sickness 🫩😷🤒 plus, it’s TOO FREAKING HOT!! (I haven’t been outside Arizona since early 2013.) I guess I’ll have to cook something or order carry-out 😅😅 I’ll see you in the next one!

In Christ,

Ron Outland

There’s a LOT to unpack here, like verse 11, where Korah’s descendants didn’t die with him (read Numbers 16:1-35 for the story), probably because of the fsct a young generation doesn’t need to bear the sins of their ancestors. I know I didn’t need that. And now that I’m 35 and my oldest niece is 8 years old, I want to do good to all of them 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 I hope they can enjoy Jesus one day 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 I can’t wait to see them again 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 also, a guy named Zelophehad has five daughters and no sons (mentioned in verse 33), so the next chapter covers that, but I won’t get into it today. Verses 59-60 also mention Levi’s descendants and how Moses, Aaron, and Miriam were born. But verse 61 references Leviticus 10:1-2 where it talks about the strange fire two of Aaron’s sons had offered. This chapter is found in pages 95-96 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 121-123 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 193-194 of my VOICE copy, and pages 196-198 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I still can’t get over the fact that times have sadly changed from the time the note in chapter 25 was written (the VOICE translation came out in 2012), and I want to restore acceptance of good diversity, but it’s a team effort, and it takes all of us to end racism. So sadly, there won’t be a lot of people who love the other humans who more or less look different than me, even if they were born here. And I remember I lived with a friend of mine of Korean descent not that long ago… but it’s nice that there’s still a huge amount of people numbered in Israel in this chapter, not just the guys who were able to go to war, but the women and children with them, yea, those not yet 20 years old. Judah was the largest, so that’s really saying something about Jesus eventually being descended from them, as Matthew 1:1-17 explains (see also Hebrews 7:14). Korah had been descended from Levi, and his descendants eventually wrote some of the psalms, which is great! Indeed, Psalm 46 is a good one, and I hope to get to that 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 this proves that iniquity doesn’t follow any bloodline for very long, especially if someone in it renounces that accursed thing. And yes, cursed objects are real, and there’s a whole lot of them. One example is Star Wars, actually (yeah, this is a hot take without warning ⚠️ haha sorry) — unfortunately, there’s Hindu elements in all media pieces, and I don’t think we should enjoy that. Nevertheless, it’s a pretty good story about how Palpatine’s quest for universal power and for Rey to take it didn’t work. How did he live that long anyway? 😅😅😄😄😆😆 But we shouldn’t write something off as demonic too quickly, for we should engage with the world and not be of it as Jesus did.

I’ll mention more of Zelophehad in the next chapter, but it’s not as though we need only sons to preserve the family name. I know for my part, I don’t really think I can have children right now, even in a different land if it’s actually safe, but I pray women’s rights are elevated in greater numbers in many different lands 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 for if my nieces are dragged away because of some dude’s selfish desire to make them in his own image or say the Bible isn’t good for ladies like them, I’ll have to be stuck with losing whoever is eliminated even if I pray for a resurrection, for we guys should celebrate them daily. It’s nice the U.S. still isn’t too bad for them, but they want to reverse decades of good progress concerning this and call it godliness 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ however, I don’t think there’s enough of us here (or perhaps anywhere else) who are trying to keep women’s rights legal… a lot of guys in Gen Z, I heard, are convinced they shouldn’t even have a voice, double that much of the Boomers (born between 1945 and 1964) — I don’t want to believe this generation is more unrighteous than mine. I remember my experience as a millennial in the previous decade that we were hated for being under 30. They also wrote books about this! This… antagonism and rebellion against the Lord Jesus and Isaiah 51:8 He will never forgive. I mean, the younger humans deserve safety and good opportunities, right? But I guess the “Christians” would rather kick and abuse them into total compliance! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ This isn’t biblical… and if anyone wants to challenge that truth and their safety, they’ll have to answer to Jesus one day. He won’t forget their sins, and He’ll never forgive them, either.

It’s cool that Moses, Aaron, and Miriam were born to Levi’s daughter, Jochebed, who married Amarm, Kohath’s son (Levi had engendered him during their time in Egypt). I’m not sure if Moses had any sons or daughters, but that’s OK. Yet it’s wild how Nadab and Abihu were mentioned about 40 years after their presumption, seeing that they never had children and probably would’ve been nothing but unkind to them if they had been fathers and uncles. At least, though, God doesn’t rejoice in anyone’s demise (contrast Moses’ words he’ll later speak in Deuteronomy 28:63). And with all of Levi being priests, they don’t need to be in the military; I guess they had conscription in those days, but I can’t tell which nations did and didn’t back then. The U.S. still doesn’t have it right now, but that can change because that guy in power wants to amass all the world’s assets for himself, hoping to get immunity and immortality. I heard he only tried to become head of state again because he didn’t want to be locked up, but the charges are real, and so is the Lord’s judgment. When he stands before Him in the day of accountability, he’ll be weighed so deficiently in scales ⚖️ it’ll be like when Belshazzar died in 539 B.C. (see Daniel 5). Jesus will never accept him. Moses also says the atheists’ sins will find them out (Numbers 32:33).

I don’t want to emphasize the judgment fire, though, for there’s too much talk concerning that in the churches in this world, and not enough about God’s love for others. I don’t want to go to a church that harps on any sins… for Acts doesn’t mention any of that, nor do any of Paul’s letters or other New Testament texts. It’s paganism, thats what harping on sin is. I think the Pagan Christianity book 📖 may explain it, but I still haven’t gotten a copy or even borrowed one from the library. If I can find it, I’ll let you know, but I can’t promise I will. I mentioned to one friend this exists, and sadly, he’s not a huge fan of the book. I think he’s following money-lovers instead. But anyways, I have work in just 100 minutes or less, so I’ll head to In-N-Out, get some food, and clock in at Fry’s. See ya!

In Christ,

Ron Outland

The note in the VOICE translation of this chapter mentions that it was an age of diversity, tolerance, and equality at the time it was written and translated from the original languages, as a result of the NKJV and the 1980s Amplified Bible, I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ I note that it was an age of diversity and acceptance, but sadly, the “Christian” church has created an age of sin and discord, and this chapter is worshiped, as if “purity of race” should be “upheld” to “honour” a “chosen one” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 this mega-crap is against the love of Jesus and all of Scripture! But this chapter, before I elaborate on this further, is found in page 95 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, page 121 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 192-193 of my VOICE copy, and pages 195-196 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

People are going to say the work of Jesus didn’t age well because of the satans that polluted the Christian faith with their heresies… one of the first was the ridiculous Judaizer heresy, as if the laws of Moses were necessary to follow Jesus 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ when that didn’t work, Gnosticism came out, and John reported on this in his letters. Later on, cessationism came out shortly after Scripture was completed, and a couple centuries later, the Church started crawling into bed with the Roman Empire, so since then, the Church has been held captive by them, and the denominations that sprang up from them have misled the world further and further until eventually, atheism started springing up all over the world like weeds in a fine garden. But Jesus had answered that, too, in that false prophets and other children of the devil would occupy the kingdom of God and the world (see Matthew 13:24-30; Jesus explains this parable in verses 37-43 there). However, there are a lot of people who are good at upholding an image of paradise that looks presentable — in other words, these spawns of wickedness are professionals at playing God.

When it comes to God’s kingdom or what He does, He isn’t afraid to look stupid to defend the poor and vulnerable and marginalised among us. Yet many of the specimen I spoke of in that last paragraph claim to be the world’s best Christians 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ as if Jesus actually needed enforcers or policemen — this wasn’t what Romans 13 was going for. Indeed, that chapter is the world’s mechanisms of authority, and Jesus said those who lead the world lord it over everyone and act like tyrants, for so they are (Matthew 20:25). They’d even use a Bible verse or two and couch their statements in religious language to hypnotise their followers and everyone else hearing them into spiritual death! (They have no love in their accursed and damned souls; see 1 John 3:14.) But Jesus doesn’t play their game, for He has prophesied their end like in Psalm 73:17-20. However, these enemies of the Lord have retranslated the Scriptures so that it would suit them, hoping I don’t discover their real motives and the original words in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, along with their meanings. But really, what’s your opinion on all this?

Verses 16-18 testify that God tells Moses to be an enemy to the Midianites, too, as the Hebrew literally translates to in plain English. There must’ve been a lot of Midianite involvement in the unnecessary affair that Balaam had instigated (see Numbers 23:28). It’s too bad, for we can be sexual in anything if we’re foolish enough. I know I’m not above sin; indeed, no one is. The good news is, though, Jesus came to set us free from that, but it’s hard to hear Him when anyone harps on even one sin long enough to run it into the ground, like how Eminem, in the second half of the 2000s or so, had run his weird accent into the ground with most of his songs in the records he released (I had only played some of them as they came out; I no longer play those tracks) — yeah, how bold of me to mention that lol 😅😅😂😂🤣🤣 haha sorry everyone 😄😄😄😅😅 — anyone who harps on a particular sin can make it cliché for all the people, even those who love the speakers enough to hear their every word no matter how much it sucks. Indeed, they can actually be convinced that God never loved them, and they’ll probably want to die if they were convinced of that satanic heresy… or become an atheist… whichever of the two. I think all these “preachers” proclaim a different Jesus — Galatians 1:8-9 has very strong words for those who do this. Indeed, the anathema is the strongest swear word in Greek, not just in the Bible, but what they had in those days, I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️ and we shouldn’t be people-pleasers, either (Galatians 1:10). But it does say in Galatians 6:10, “Let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are in the household of faith” (NASB), so that’s nice. This is irrespective of those of different ethnicities, nationalities, age groups, religions, gender, even sexual orientation and the like. I do pray hope for those who don’t know Jesus, though, and if you don’t know Him, now’s the time to start, for we don’t know when He’ll come back to take the Invisible Church from the world, and when that happens, the saying in Matthew 25:10 will indeed happen: “While they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut” (NASB). I’m not sure what it’ll look like for you, but I hope you can enjoy Him 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💖💖💖💖💖💗💗💗💗💗💓💞💕💘❣️❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤍🩶🖤🤎 I can’t promise I know everything about the next steps in extraneous detail, but maybe if a church pastor explains it correctly, he/she can help you with that. In the meantime, I’ll see you in chapter 26!

In Christ,

Ron Outland