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Addison O. Addison Gethers e-mail address : [email protected] or [email protected] window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS ----- Original Message ----- From: "DREW PARKER III" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 6:29 PM Subject: {dbilg} Re: Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Friday February 13 > > I am glad that you are sending these daily Bible readings. I also have > never used the Message translation before. Thanks Addisonr > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[email protected]> > To: "Deaf-blind inspirational life groups" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:20 AM > Subject: {dbilg} Fw: Daily Bible Reading For Friday February 13 > > >> >> >> O. Addison Gethers >> e-mail address : [email protected] or [email protected] >> window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: >> cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:00 PM >> Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Friday February 13 >> >> >>> Numbers 16-18 (The Message) >>> >>> Numbers 16 >>> >>> The Rebels >>> 1-3 Getting on his high horse one day, Korah son of Izhar, the son of >>> Kohath, the son of Levi, >>> along with a few Reubenites-Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, >>> and On son of Peleth-rebelled against Moses. He had with him 250 leaders >>> of the congregation of >>> Israel, prominent men with positions in the Council. They >>> came as a group and confronted Moses and Aaron, saying, "You've >>> overstepped yourself. This entire >>> community is holy and God is in their midst. So why do >>> you act like you're running the whole show?" >>> >>> 4 On hearing this, Moses threw himself facedown on the ground. >>> >>> 5 Then he addressed Korah and his gang: "In the morning God will make >>> clear who is on his side, who >>> is holy. God will take his stand with the one he chooses. >>> >>> 6-7 "Now, Korah, here's what I want you, you and your gang, to do: >>> Tomorrow, take censers. In the >>> presence of God, put fire in them and then incense. Then >>> we'll see who is holy, see whom God chooses. Sons of Levi, you've >>> overstepped yourselves!" >>> >>> 8-11 Moses continued with Korah, "Listen well now, sons of Levi. Isn't >>> it >>> enough for you that the >>> God of Israel has selected you out of the congregation >>> of Israel to bring you near him to serve in the ministries of The >>> Dwelling >>> of God, and to stand >>> before the congregation to minister to them? He has brought >>> you and all your brother Levites into his inner circle, and now you're >>> grasping for the priesthood, >>> too. It's God you've ganged up against, not us. What >>> do you have against Aaron that you're bad-mouthing him?" >>> >>> 12-14 Moses then ordered Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, to appear, >>> but >>> they said, "We're not >>> coming. Isn't it enough that you yanked us out of a land >>> flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you >>> keep >>> trying to boss us around! >>> Face it, you haven't produced: You haven't brought >>> us into a land flowing with milk and honey, you haven't given us the >>> promised inheritance of fields >>> and vineyards. You'd have to poke our eyes out to keep >>> us from seeing what's going on. Forget it, we're not coming." >>> >>> 15 Moses' temper blazed white-hot. He said to God, "Don't accept their >>> Grain-Offering. I haven't >>> taken so much as a single donkey from them; I haven't >>> hurt a single hair of their heads." >>> >>> 16-17 Moses said to Korah, "Bring your people before God tomorrow. >>> Appear >>> there with them and >>> Aaron. Have each man bring his censer filled with incense >>> and present it to God-all 250 censers. And you and Aaron do the same, >>> bring your censers." >>> >>> 18 So they all did it. They brought their censers filled with fire and >>> incense and stood at the >>> entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron did the >>> same. >>> >>> 19 It was Korah and his gang against Moses and Aaron at the entrance of >>> the Tent of Meeting. The >>> entire community could see the Glory of God. >>> >>> 20-21 God said to Moses and Aaron, "Separate yourselves from this >>> congregation so that I can finish >>> them off and be done with them." >>> >>> 22 They threw themselves on their faces and said, "O God, God of >>> everything living, when one man >>> sins are you going to take it out on the whole community?" >>> >>> 23-24 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the community. Tell them, Back off >>> from the tents of Korah, >>> Dathan, and Abiram." >>> >>> 25-26 Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram. The leaders of Israel >>> followed him. He then spoke >>> to the community: "Back off from the tents of these >>> bad men; don't touch a thing that belongs to them lest you be carried >>> off >>> on the flood of their >>> sins." >>> >>> 27 So they all backed away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. >>> Dathan and Abiram by now >>> had come out and were standing at the entrance to their >>> tents with their wives, children, and babies. >>> >>> 28-30 Moses continued to address the community: "This is how you'll know >>> that it was God who sent >>> me to do all these things and that it wasn't anything >>> I cooked up on my own. If these men die a natural death like all the >>> rest >>> of us, you'll know that it >>> wasn't God who sent me. But if God does something >>> unprecedented-if the ground opens up and swallows the lot of them and >>> they >>> are pitched alive into >>> Sheol-then you'll know that these men have been insolent >>> with God." >>> >>> 31-33 The words were hardly out of his mouth when the Earth split open. >>> Earth opened its mouth and >>> in one gulp swallowed them down, the men and their families, >>> all the human beings connected with Korah, along with everything they >>> owned. And that was the end of >>> them, pitched alive into Sheol. The Earth closed up >>> over them and that was the last the community heard of them. >>> >>> 34 At the sound of their cries everyone around ran for dear life, >>> shouting, "We're about to be >>> swallowed up alive!" >>> >>> 35 Then God sent lightning. The fire cremated the 250 men who were >>> offering the incense. >>> >>> 36-38 God spoke to Moses: "Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, Gather >>> up >>> the censers from the >>> smoldering cinders and scatter the coals a distance away >>> for these censers have become holy. Take the censers of the men who have >>> sinned and are now dead and >>> hammer them into thin sheets for covering the Altar. >>> They have been offered to God and are holy to God. Let them serve as a >>> sign to Israel, evidence of >>> what happened this day." >>> >>> 39-40 So Eleazar gathered all the bronze censers that belonged to those >>> who had been burned up and >>> had them hammered flat and used to overlay the Altar, >>> just as God had instructed him by Moses. This was to serve as a sign to >>> Israel that only descendants >>> of Aaron were allowed to burn incense before God; >>> anyone else trying it would end up like Korah and his gang. >>> >>> 41 Grumbling broke out the next day in the community of Israel, >>> grumbling >>> against Moses and Aaron: >>> "You have killed God's people!" >>> >>> 42 But it so happened that when the community got together against Moses >>> and Aaron, they looked >>> over at the Tent of Meeting and there was the Cloud-the >>> Glory of God for all to see. >>> >>> 43-45 Moses and Aaron stood at the front of the Tent of Meeting. God >>> spoke >>> to Moses: "Back away >>> from this congregation so that I can do away with them >>> this very minute." >>> >>> They threw themselves facedown on the ground. >>> >>> 46 Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and fill it with incense, >>> along >>> with fire from the Altar. >>> Get to the congregation as fast as you can: make atonement >>> for them. Anger is pouring out from God-the plague has started!" >>> >>> 47-48 Aaron grabbed the censer, as directed by Moses, and ran into the >>> midst of the congregation. >>> The plague had already begun. He put burning incense >>> into the censer and atoned for the people. He stood there between the >>> living and the dead and >>> stopped the plague. >>> >>> 49-50 Fourteen thousand seven hundred people died from the plague, not >>> counting those who died in >>> the affair of Korah. Aaron then went back to join Moses >>> at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The plague was stopped. >>> >>> Numbers 17 >>> >>> Aaron's Staff >>> 1-5 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Get staffs from >>> them-twelve staffs in all, >>> one from the leader of each of their ancestral tribes. >>> Write each man's name on his staff. Start with Aaron; write Aaron's name >>> on the staff of Levi and >>> then proceed with the rest, a staff for the leader of >>> each ancestral tribe. Now lay them out in the Tent of Meeting in front >>> of >>> The Testimony where I keep >>> appointments with you. What will happen next is this: >>> The staff of the man I choose will sprout. I'm going to put a stop to >>> this >>> endless grumbling by the >>> People of Israel against you." >>> >>> 6-7 Moses spoke to the People of Israel. Their leaders handed over >>> twelve >>> staffs, one for the >>> leader of each tribe. And Aaron's staff was one of them. >>> Moses laid out the staffs before God in the Tent of Testimony. >>> >>> 8-9 Moses walked into the Tent of Testimony the next day and saw that >>> Aaron's staff, the staff of >>> the tribe of Levi, had in fact sprouted-buds, blossoms, >>> and even ripe almonds! Moses brought out all the staffs from God's >>> presence and presented them to >>> the People of Israel. They took a good look. Each leader >>> took the staff with his name on it. >>> >>> 10 God said to Moses, "Return Aaron's staff to the front of The >>> Testimony. >>> Keep it there as a sign >>> to rebels. This will put a stop to the grumbling against >>> me and save their lives." >>> >>> 11 Moses did just as God commanded him. >>> >>> 12-13 The People of Israel said to Moses, "We're as good as dead. This >>> is >>> our death sentence. >>> Anyone who even gets close to The Dwelling of God is as good >>> as dead. Are we all doomed?" >>> >>> Numbers 18 >>> >>> Duties in the Tent of Testimony >>> 1-4 God said to Aaron, "You and your sons, along with your father's >>> family, are responsible for >>> taking care of sins having to do with the Sanctuary; you >>> and your sons are also responsible for sins involving the priesthood. So >>> enlist your brothers of the >>> tribe of Levi to join you and assist you and your >>> sons in your duties in the Tent of Testimony. They will report to you as >>> they go about their duties >>> related to the Tent, but they must not have anything >>> to do with the holy things of the Altar under penalty of death-both they >>> and you will die! They are >>> to work with you in taking care of the Tent of Meeting, >>> whatever work is involved in the Tent. Outsiders are not allowed to help >>> you. >>> >>> 5-7 "Your job is to take care of the Sanctuary and the Altar so that >>> there >>> will be no more >>> outbreaks of anger on the People of Israel. I personally have >>> picked your brothers, the Levites, from Israel as a whole. I'm giving >>> them >>> to you as a gift, a gift >>> of God, to help with the work of the Tent of Meeting. >>> But only you and your sons may serve as priests, working around the >>> Altar >>> and inside the curtain. >>> The work of the priesthood is my exclusive gift to you; >>> it cannot be delegated-anyone else who invades the Sanctuary will be >>> executed." >>> >>> 8-10 God spoke to Aaron, "I am personally putting you in charge of my >>> contributions, all the holy >>> gifts I get from the People of Israel. I am turning them >>> over to you and your children for your personal use. This is the >>> standing >>> rule. You and your sons >>> get what's left from the offerings, whatever hasn't been >>> totally burned up on the Altar-the leftovers from Grain-Offerings, >>> Absolution-Offerings, and >>> Compensation-Offerings. Eat it reverently; it is most holy; >>> every male may eat it. Treat it as holy. >>> >>> 11-13 "You also get the Wave-Offerings from the People of Israel. I >>> present them to you and your >>> sons and daughters as a gift. This is the standing rule. >>> Anyone in your household who is ritually clean may eat it. I also give >>> you >>> all the best olive oil, >>> the best new wine, and the grain that is offered to >>> God as the firstfruits of their harvest-all the firstfruits they offer >>> to >>> God are yours. Anyone in >>> your household who is ritually clean may eat it. >>> >>> 14-16 "You get every Totally-Devoted gift. Every firstborn that is >>> offered >>> to God, whether animal >>> or person, is yours. Except you don't get the firstborn >>> itself, but its redemption price; firstborn humans and ritually clean >>> animals are bought back and >>> you get the redemption price. When the firstborn is a >>> month old it must be redeemed at the redemption price of five shekels of >>> silver, using the standard >>> of the Sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. >>> >>> 17-19 "On the other hand, you don't redeem a firstborn ox, sheep, or >>> goat-they are holy. Instead >>> splash their blood on the Altar and burn their fat as >>> a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God. But you get the meat, just as >>> you get the breast from the >>> Wave-Offering and the right thigh. All the holy offerings >>> that the People of Israel set aside for God, I'm turning over to you and >>> your children. That's the >>> standard rule and includes both you and your children-a >>> Covenant-of-Salt, eternal and unchangeable before God." >>> >>> 20 God said to Aaron, "You won't get any inheritance in land, not so >>> much >>> as a small plot of >>> ground: I am your plot of ground, I am your inheritance among >>> the People of Israel. >>> >>> 21-24 "I'm giving the Levites all the tithes of Israel as their pay for >>> the work they do in the >>> Tent of Meeting. Starting now, the rest of the People of >>> Israel cannot wander in and out of the Tent of Meeting; they'll be >>> penalized for their sin and the >>> penalty is death. It's the Levites and only the Levites >>> who are to work in the Tent of Meeting and they are responsible for >>> anything that goes wrong. This >>> is the regular rule for all time. They get no inheritance >>> among the People of Israel; instead I turn over to them the tithes that >>> the People of Israel present >>> as an offering to God. That's why I give the ruling: >>> They are to receive no land-inheritance among the People of Israel." >>> >>> 25-29 God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the Levites. Tell them, When you get >>> the tithe from the People >>> of Israel, the inheritance that I have assigned to you, >>> you must tithe that tithe and present it as an offering to God. Your >>> offerings will be treated the >>> same as other people's gifts of grain from the threshing >>> floor or wine from the wine vat. This is your procedure for making >>> offerings to God from all the >>> tithes you get from the People of Israel: give God's portion >>> from these tithes to Aaron the priest. Make sure that God's portion is >>> the >>> best and holiest of >>> everything you get. >>> >>> 30-32 "Tell the Levites, When you offer the best part, the rest will be >>> treated the same as grain >>> from the threshing floor or wine from the wine vat that >>> others give. You and your households are free to eat the rest of it >>> anytime and anyplace-it's your >>> wages for your work at the Tent of Meeting. By offering >>> the best part, you'll avoid guilt, you won't desecrate the holy >>> offerings >>> of the People of Israel, >>> and you won't die." >>> >>> 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. 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