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When I read this passage in the VOICE translation, too, I notice God said the Israelites had a good idea (verse 28 (VOICE))! I think that was living out of Hebrews 11:6, for without faith it’s impossible to please Him. Cool, ain’t it? This passage is found in page 107 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, page 137 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), page 215 of my VOICE copy, and page 219 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

I really should apologise for my lack of posting in the last few weeks; my last post was just minutes ago, but I hadn’t posted anything since August 23rd, as the date for the blog shows (and so does the post title). But God didn’t want anyone afraid of Him; indeed, even Moses was terrified of Him, as Hebrews 12:21 says. It was quite a theophany, the experience on Mount Sinai (see Exodus 19). But soon, Moses would get into the Shema and elaborate on all God had said in Exodus 20:1-17. Yet no one can see God and live, as He’d later say (Exodus 33:20). However, because Jesus came down to Earth to save it (John 3:17), we don’t need to be afraid of death. Too bad offence can hamper His presence, though.

It’s good not to turn towards the right or left of God’s path for all of us (verse 32), but we need His help to stay on the straight and narrow, for no one can save themselves. I know; I’ve tried, and apart from the Scriptures! I should’ve known better… I’m not sure what you’re facing but hopefully you can believe God because of His matchless love for you and those you’re related to. I don’t expect anything promising, though… indeed, the extreme barbarian stuff ICE is responsible for actually makes me think Jesus ISN’T king over the nation, for Trump kicked Him out, this time for good. For the U.S. had plenty of time to repent from what he’s now repeating, and freedom hasn’t been this low here since the 60s. I think I’ll need to hide from them when they come for me… and yes, I can see that God is actually fighting the country because the people had wanted wickedness claiming to be Christian mandated. But when they do this, I’ll refuse because I love Him. I pray He helps me stand against those who’d drag me down to their level while they hope that forgiveness is erased from the world. I think I’m only buying myself time from another dreadful demise…

I don’t know much about the next chapter, but that’s OK. I’ll see you there, though!

In Christ,

Ron Outland

The name for this book comes from an inexact rendering of the Greek version in 17:16, which says in English, “this is the repetition of the law,” and here, Moses starts his long sermon to all the people (I should add that Eugene Peterson, late author of The Message version of the Scriptures, had written that Deuteronomy is adulthood, in contrast to all the preceding books). The law isn’t really introduced until 4:44, but Moses reviews his history with Israel here. This section of the book is found in pages 103-106 of the NKJV Bible I have for this four-translation project, pages 132-136 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament), pages 207-214 of my VOICE copy (I should add that the intro was in page 206 there), and pages 211-218 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

Moses reviews the 40-year wilderness journey with his people, the victories they had after they left and Aaron died, and he even mentions he himself is also forbidden to enter Canaan, not to mention the cities of refuge in 4:41-43. But when he reviews Israel’s refusal to enter Canaan, I don’t think there was any good news there — I don’t know why he reviewed this twice, both in chapters 1 and 9… it’s too bad severity was the only thing that came about from this in the end… Jesus never wanted it that way. But when we see Moses’ insensitivity to others he had developed in Numbers 31, it would make sense to say that the American churches have decided to follow the laws because they were afraid Jesus was a communist 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 they’ve attacked peaceful people in several different places out of this. And the people still refuse to see the truth… they learned from China 🇨🇳 which had become communist because the opposing parties had done lots of bad things, but not from Germany 🇩🇪 just years before. They’ve since moved away from that big time, but the U.S. was the inspiration for the Nazis’ work, and THEY called IT too extreme! We really got the raw end of the deal here…

I don’t think I got it exact when it came to dividing later sections of this book, for I’m not that good at categorising things haha 😅😅 but I pray we can love Jesus out of this… for at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if we see Him clearly, but it’s that He sees everything perfectly, and so will we one day if we love Him now (1 John 3:2). And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies Himself as He is pure (1 John 3:3). I’m not sure how I can possibly do that, though. I ask God for His help…

I just randomly opened my VOICE Bible to a page in Exodus, and I should’ve noted then there was a calendar for the Hebrews to observe (it was on page 101). This book begins about a year after they leave Egypt for good (but see Deuteronomy 28:68). This section of Numbers is also found in pages 77-84 of the NKJV Bible I have for this part of the journey, pages 98-107 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament, 1995 version), pages 160-172 of my VOICE copy, and pages 159-174 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.

The Numbers 10:11 verse mentions that the Israelites set out from the mountain on day 20 of month 2 of their second year after leaving Egypt, so I think all this took 19 days for the Israelites to prepare for the journey to Canaan so they could take everything there. But I don’t want to skip ahead (though I’ll probably be largely bored of most of what’s in this section of the book as well) — when I first did Bible notes on a New Oxford Annotated Bible in 2012, I noticed it had taken a month (a full lunar cycle of ~29.5 days) for Moses to write Leviticus, and the second year started by God ordering Moses to count all the people in that nation. And given the numbers (no pun intended), and the fact that Israel was the fewer of population (Deuteronomy 7:7), there were more people groups that were in the earth at the time in which each one had a greater population (though that was after the events of this book took place). It says in the Scriptures, “In a multitude of people is a king’s glory, but in the scarcity of people is a prince’s ruin” (Proverbs 14:28 (NASB)). The Lord Jesus never enjoys it when a population or people group declines, and that’s happening in a lot of countries right now, seeing that the world’s getting to crowded, mostly in Asia and Europe 🗺️🌍🌏 I pray against any population decline, but it may be better not to even bother getting married to have children, for Paul said long, long ago in 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 what he wrote down for a reason, for we’ve been in the last days since Jesus ascended back to Heaven.

I’ll say nothing else in this post for today, so if you want to send me a prayer request, you can do so at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each prayer, write them down, then stick them to my bedroom walls! And don’t worry, I somehow got my phone working enough today to write all this down! (I forgot to go to the library anyway.) I’ll see you in the next post, where we discuss chapter 1! Later, guys!