Daily Bible Portion (Monday)
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"JOURNEYS"
(Weekly Reading>>Numbers 33:1-36:13, Jeremiah 2:4-28; 4:1-2, Matthew 5:33-37, James 4:1-5:20)
The account of their journey through the wilderness is also prophetic of future events as Ezekiel 20:35 points out,
Each of us has gone through highs and lows in our sojourn through life but whatever the disappointments already encountered we continue forward to be overcomers. Past difficulties do not define who we are nor do they govern our future. How we handle the valleys in our lives gives us our mountain top experiences. Future redemption for each individual and for the nation beckons us to rise to the next challenge. Faith is seeing ourselves as Jesus sees us – complete and whole. Not only is this a physical redemption but, more importantly, a look at our spiritual walk with Jesus.
Some names of the camps listed and their meanings are:
Ramses (child of the sun), Succot (tents), Etham (seabound), Migdol (tower), Marah (bitter), Elim (oaks), Red Sea (sea of reeds), Desert of Sin (bush), Dophkah (drover), Alush (crowd), Rephidim (beds), Desert of Sinai (a bush), Kibroth Hattaavah (the graves of lust), Hazeroth (enclosures), Rithmah(noise), Rimmon Puez (pomegranates of the wrath), Libnah (white), Rissah (dew), Kehelathah (a whole; a congregation), Haradah (fear), Makheloth (congregations), Tahath (depression, humility),Terah (turning, duration), Mithchah (sweetness), Hashmonah (fruitfulness), Moseroth (bonds, discipline), Bene Jaakan (children of Jaakan), Hor Haggidgad (cleft, mountain), Ezion Geber (giant backbone), Kadesh (holy), Mt. Hor (hill), Punon (precious stone), Oboth (desires), Dibon Gad (wasting of God), Almon Diblathian (hiding place of two fig sacks), Mountains of Abarim (mountains beyond), Beth Jeshimoth (house of deserts), and Abel ****tim (meadow/brook of the Acacias).
The biblical account of the journey is extremely valuable information that assists geographers and archaeologists attempting to locate and identify many of these places, as they all point to the truth of the written Word. In the forty years journey through the wilderness there had been only forty-two stages where they encamped. Of these, fourteen stages took place during the first year in the wilderness, and eight in the final year.
When You Cross the Jordan River
(Numbers 33:50-56)
Yahweh now gives instructions of how the Israelites are to enter and conquer the land.
•Firstly, the Israelite army was to drive out all the inhabitants living in the Promised Land. No person from any of those nations was to remain. Any intermingling could ensnare the Israelites, thus the purification of the land was necessary.
•Secondly, they were to destroy all pagan carved images, cast idols, and demolish all high places of worship that belonged to those dispossessed nations. There was to be no pagan idolatry worship left in the land when Israel came to settle in it. Thus, the land was to be cleansed of all displays of false religions.
•Thirdly, they were to take possession of the land by dividing it into lots according to the tribes of Israel. “For I have given you the land to possess” (Numbers 33:53).
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"JOURNEYS"
(Weekly Reading>>Numbers 33:1-36:13, Jeremiah 2:4-28; 4:1-2, Matthew 5:33-37, James 4:1-5:20)
The account of their journey through the wilderness is also prophetic of future events as Ezekiel 20:35 points out,
“I will bring you out from the nations and I will gather you out of the lands in which you have been scattered.”
Each of us has gone through highs and lows in our sojourn through life but whatever the disappointments already encountered we continue forward to be overcomers. Past difficulties do not define who we are nor do they govern our future. How we handle the valleys in our lives gives us our mountain top experiences. Future redemption for each individual and for the nation beckons us to rise to the next challenge. Faith is seeing ourselves as Jesus sees us – complete and whole. Not only is this a physical redemption but, more importantly, a look at our spiritual walk with Jesus.
Some names of the camps listed and their meanings are:
Ramses (child of the sun), Succot (tents), Etham (seabound), Migdol (tower), Marah (bitter), Elim (oaks), Red Sea (sea of reeds), Desert of Sin (bush), Dophkah (drover), Alush (crowd), Rephidim (beds), Desert of Sinai (a bush), Kibroth Hattaavah (the graves of lust), Hazeroth (enclosures), Rithmah(noise), Rimmon Puez (pomegranates of the wrath), Libnah (white), Rissah (dew), Kehelathah (a whole; a congregation), Haradah (fear), Makheloth (congregations), Tahath (depression, humility),Terah (turning, duration), Mithchah (sweetness), Hashmonah (fruitfulness), Moseroth (bonds, discipline), Bene Jaakan (children of Jaakan), Hor Haggidgad (cleft, mountain), Ezion Geber (giant backbone), Kadesh (holy), Mt. Hor (hill), Punon (precious stone), Oboth (desires), Dibon Gad (wasting of God), Almon Diblathian (hiding place of two fig sacks), Mountains of Abarim (mountains beyond), Beth Jeshimoth (house of deserts), and Abel ****tim (meadow/brook of the Acacias).
The biblical account of the journey is extremely valuable information that assists geographers and archaeologists attempting to locate and identify many of these places, as they all point to the truth of the written Word. In the forty years journey through the wilderness there had been only forty-two stages where they encamped. Of these, fourteen stages took place during the first year in the wilderness, and eight in the final year.
When You Cross the Jordan River
(Numbers 33:50-56)
Yahweh now gives instructions of how the Israelites are to enter and conquer the land.
•Firstly, the Israelite army was to drive out all the inhabitants living in the Promised Land. No person from any of those nations was to remain. Any intermingling could ensnare the Israelites, thus the purification of the land was necessary.
•Secondly, they were to destroy all pagan carved images, cast idols, and demolish all high places of worship that belonged to those dispossessed nations. There was to be no pagan idolatry worship left in the land when Israel came to settle in it. Thus, the land was to be cleansed of all displays of false religions.
•Thirdly, they were to take possession of the land by dividing it into lots according to the tribes of Israel. “For I have given you the land to possess” (Numbers 33:53).
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