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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Thursday February 12 > Numbers 13-15 (The Message) > > Numbers 13 > > Scouting Out Canaan > 1-2 God spoke to Moses: "Send men to scout out the country of Canaan that > I am giving to the People > of Israel. Send one man from each ancestral tribe, > each one a tried-and-true leader in the tribe." > > 3-15 So Moses sent them off from the Wilderness of Paran at the command of > God. All of them were > leaders in Israel, one from each tribe. These were their > names: > > from Reuben: Shammua son of Zaccur > from Simeon: Shaphat son of Hori > from Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh > from Issachar: Igal son of Joseph > from Ephraim: Hoshea son of Nun > from Benjamin: Palti son of Raphu > from Zebulun: Gaddiel son of Sodi > from Manasseh (a Joseph tribe): Gaddi son of Susi > from Dan: Ammiel son of Gemalli > from Asher: Sethur son of Michael > from Naphtali: Nahbi son of Vophsi > from Gad: Geuel son of Maki. > > 16 These are the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land. Moses > gave Hoshea (Salvation) > son of Nun a new name-Joshua (God-Saves). > > 17-20 When Moses sent them off to scout out Canaan, he said, "Go up > through the Negev and then into > the hill country. Look the land over, see what it is > like. Assess the people: Are they strong or weak? Are there few or many? > Observe the land: Is it > pleasant or harsh? Describe the towns where they live: > Are they open camps or fortified with walls? And the soil: Is it fertile > or barren? Are there > forests? And try to bring back a sample of the produce that > grows there-this is the season for the first ripe grapes." > > 21-25 With that they were on their way. They scouted out the land from the > Wilderness of Zin as far > as Rehob toward Lebo Hamath. Their route went through > the Negev Desert to the town of Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, > descendants of the giant Anak, > lived there. Hebron had been built seven years before > Zoan in Egypt. When they arrived at the Eshcol Valley they cut off a > branch with a single cluster of > grapes-it took two men to carry it-slung on a pole. > They also picked some pomegranates and figs. They named the place Eshcol > Valley > (Grape-Cluster-Valley) because of the huge cluster of grapes they had cut > down there. After forty days of scouting out the land, they returned home. > > 26-27 They presented themselves before Moses and Aaron and the whole > congregation of the People of > Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported > to the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. Then they > told the story of their > trip: > > 27-29 "We went to the land to which you sent us and, oh! It does flow with > milk and honey! Just > look at this fruit! The only thing is that the people who > live there are fierce, their cities are huge and well fortified. Worse > yet, we saw descendants of > the giant Anak. Amalekites are spread out in the Negev; > Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites hold the hill country; and the > Canaanites are established on the > Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan." > > 30 Caleb interrupted, called for silence before Moses and said, "Let's go > up and take the land-now. > We can do it." > > 31-33 But the others said, "We can't attack those people; they're way > stronger than we are." They > spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They > said, "We scouted out the land from one end to the other-it's a land that > swallows people whole. > Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we even saw the Nephilim > giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt > like grasshoppers. And they > looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers." > > Numbers 14 > 1-3 The whole community was in an uproar, wailing all night long. All the > People of Israel grumbled > against Moses and Aaron. The entire community was in > on it: "Why didn't we die in Egypt? Or in this wilderness? Why has God > brought us to this country to > kill us? Our wives and children are about to become > plunder. Why don't we just head back to Egypt? And right now!" > > 4 Soon they were all saying it to one another: "Let's pick a new leader; > let's head back to Egypt." > > 5 Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in front of the entire community, > gathered in emergency > session. > > 6-9 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, members of the scouting > party, ripped their > clothes and addressed the assembled People of Israel: "The > land we walked through and scouted out is a very good land-very good > indeed. If God is pleased with > us, he will lead us into that land, a land that flows, > as they say, with milk and honey. And he'll give it to us. Just don't > rebel against God! And don't > be afraid of those people. Why, we'll have them for > lunch! They have no protection and God is on our side. Don't be afraid of > them!" > > 10-12 But, up in arms now, the entire community was talking of hurling > stones at them. > > Just then the bright Glory of God appeared at the Tent of Meeting. Every > Israelite saw it. God > said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me like > dirt? How long refuse to trust me? And with all these signs I've done > among them! I've had > enough-I'm going to hit them with a plague and kill them. But > I'll make you into a nation bigger and stronger than they ever were." > > 13-16 But Moses said to God, "The Egyptians are going to hear about this! > You delivered this people > from Egypt with a great show of strength, and now this? > The Egyptians will tell everyone. They've already heard that you are God, > that you are on the side > of this people, that you are present among them, that > they see you with their own eyes in your Cloud that hovers over them, in > the Pillar of Cloud that > leads them by day and the Pillar of Fire at night. If > you kill this entire people in one stroke, all the nations that have heard > what has been going on > will say, 'Since God couldn't get these people into the > land which he had promised to give them, he slaughtered them out in the > wilderness.' > > 17 "Now, please, let the power of the Master expand, enlarge itself > greatly, along the lines you > have laid out earlier when you said, > > 18 God, slow to get angry and huge in loyal love, > forgiving iniquity and rebellion and sin; > Still, never just whitewashing sin. > But extending the fallout of parents' sins > to children into the third, > even the fourth generation. > > 19 "Please forgive the wrongdoing of this people out of the extravagance > of your loyal love just as > all along, from the time they left Egypt, you have > been forgiving this people." > > 20-23 God said, "I forgive them, honoring your words. But as I live and as > the Glory of God fills > the whole Earth-not a single person of those who saw > my Glory, saw the miracle signs I did in Egypt and the wilderness, and who > have tested me over and > over and over again, turning a deaf ear to me-not one > of them will set eyes on the land I so solemnly promised to their > ancestors. No one who has treated > me with such repeated contempt will see it. > > 24 "But my servant Caleb-this is a different story. He has a different > spirit; he follows me > passionately. I'll bring him into the land that he scouted > and his children will inherit it. > > 25 "Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are so well established in the > valleys, for right now > change course and head back into the wilderness following > the route to the Red Sea." > > 26-30 God spoke to Moses and Aaron: "How long is this going to go on, all > this grumbling against me > by this evil-infested community? I've had my fill of > complaints from these grumbling Israelites. Tell them, As I live-God's > decree-here's what I'm going > to do: Your corpses are going to litter the wilderness-every > one of you twenty years and older who was counted in the census, this > whole generation of grumblers > and grousers. Not one of you will enter the land and > make your home there, the firmly and solemnly promised land, except for > Caleb son of Jephunneh and > Joshua son of Nun. > > 31-34 "Your children, the very ones that you said would be taken for > plunder, I'll bring in to > enjoy the land you rejected while your corpses will be rotting > in the wilderness. These children of yours will live as shepherds in the > wilderness for forty years, > living with the fallout of your whoring unfaithfulness > until the last of your generation lies a corpse in the wilderness. You > scouted out the land for > forty days; your punishment will be a year for each day, > a forty-year sentence to serve for your sins-a long schooling in my > displeasure. > > 35 "I, God, have spoken. I will most certainly carry out these things > against this entire > evil-infested community which has banded together against me. > In this wilderness they will come to their end. There they will die." > > 36-38 So it happened that the men Moses sent to scout out the land > returned to circulate false > rumors about the land causing the entire community to grumble > against Moses-all these men died. Having spread false rumors of the land, > they died in a plague, > confronted by God. Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son > of Jephunneh were left alive of the men who went to scout out the land. > > 39-40 When Moses told all of this to the People of Israel, they mourned > long and hard. But early > the next morning they started out for the high hill country, > saying, "We're here; we're ready-let's go up and attack the land that God > promised us. We sinned, > but now we're ready." > > 41-43 But Moses said, "Why are you crossing God's command yet again? This > won't work. Don't attack. > God isn't with you in this-you'll be beaten badly by > your enemies. The Amalekites and Canaanites are ready for you and they'll > kill you. Because you have > left off obediently following God, God is not going > to be with you in this." > > 44-45 But they went anyway; recklessly and arrogantly they climbed to the > high hill country. But > the Chest of the Covenant and Moses didn't budge from > the camp. The Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in the hill country > came out of the hills and > attacked and beat them, a rout all the way down to > Hormah. > > Numbers 15 > > Matters of Worship > 1-5 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When > you enter your homeland > that I am giving to you and sacrifice a Fire-Gift to God, > a Whole-Burnt-Offering or any sacrifice from the herd or flock for a > Vow-Offering or > Freewill-Offering at one of the appointed feasts, as a pleasing fragrance > for God, the one bringing the offering shall present to God a > Grain-Offering of two quarts of fine > flour mixed with a quart of oil. With each lamb for > the Whole-Burnt-Offering or other sacrifice, prepare a quart of oil and a > quart of wine as a > Drink-Offering. > > 6-7 "For a ram prepare a Grain-Offering of four quarts of fine flour mixed > with one and a quarter > quarts of oil and one and a quarter quarts of wine as > a Drink-Offering. Present it as a pleasing fragrance to God. > > 8-10 "When you prepare a young bull as a Whole-Burnt-Offering or sacrifice > for a special vow or a > Peace-Offering to God, bring with the bull a Grain-Offering > of six quarts of fine flour and two quarts of oil. Also bring two quarts > of wine as a > Drink-Offering. It will be a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God. > > 11-12 "Each bull or ram, each lamb or young goat, is to be prepared in > this same way. Carry out > this procedure for each one, no matter how many you have > to prepare. > > 13-16 "Every native-born Israelite is to follow this procedure when he > brings a Fire-Gift as a > pleasing fragrance to God. In future generations, when a > foreigner or visitor living at length among you presents a Fire-Gift as a > pleasing fragrance to God, > the same procedures must be followed. The community > has the same rules for you and the foreigner living among you. This is the > regular rule for future > generations. You and the foreigner are the same before > God. The same laws and regulations apply to both you and the foreigner who > lives with you." > > 17-21 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When > you enter the land into > which I'm bringing you, and you eat the food of that > country, set some aside as an offering for God. From the first batch of > bread dough make a round > loaf for an offering-an offering from the threshing floor. > Down through the future generations make this offering to God from each > first batch of dough. > > 22-26 "But if you should get off the beaten track and not keep the > commands which God spoke to > Moses, any of the things that God commanded you under the > authority of Moses from the time that God first commanded you right up to > this present time, and if > it happened more or less by mistake, with the congregation > unaware of it, then the whole congregation is to sacrifice one young bull > as a Whole-Burnt-Offering, > a pleasing fragrance to God, accompanied by its Grain-Offering > and Drink-Offering as stipulated in the rules, and a he-goat as an > Absolution-Offering. The priest > is to atone for the entire community of the People of > Israel and they will stand forgiven. The sin was not deliberate, and they > offered to God the > Fire-Gift and Absolution-Offering for their inadvertence. > The whole community of Israel including the foreigners living there will > be absolved, because > everyone was involved in the error. > > 27-28 "But if it's just one person who sins by mistake, not realizing what > he's doing, he is to > bring a yearling she-goat as an Absolution-Offering. The > priest then is to atone for the person who accidentally sinned, to make > atonement before God so that > it won't be held against him. > > 29 "The same standard holds for everyone who sins by mistake; the > native-born Israelites and the > foreigners go by the same rules. > > 30-31 "But the person, native or foreigner, who sins defiantly, > deliberately blaspheming God, must > be cut off from his people: He has despised God's word, > he has violated God's command; that person must be kicked out of the > community, ostracized, left > alone in his wrongdoing." > > 32-35 Once, during those wilderness years of the People of Israel, a man > was caught gathering wood > on the Sabbath. The ones who caught him hauled him before > Moses and Aaron and the entire congregation. They put him in custody until > it became clear what to > do with him. Then God spoke to Moses: "Give the man > the death penalty. Yes, kill him, the whole community hurling stones at > him outside the camp." > > 36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and threw stones at > him, an execution commanded > by God and given through Moses. > > 37-41 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them that > from now on they are to > make tassels on the corners of their garments and to mark > each corner tassel with a blue thread. When you look at these tassels > you'll remember and keep all > the commandments of God, and not get distracted by everything > you feel or see that seduces you into infidelities. The tassels will > signal remembrance and > observance of all my commandments, to live a holy life to God. > I am your God who rescued you from the land of Egypt to be your personal > God. Yes, I am God, your > God." > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
