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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:37 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Wednesday February 25 > Deuteronomy 16-18 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 16 > 1-4 Observe the month of Abib by celebrating the Passover to God, your > God. It was in the month of > Abib that God, your God, delivered you by night from > Egypt. Offer the Passover-Sacrifice to God, your God, at the place God > chooses to be worshiped by > establishing his name there. Don't eat yeast bread with > it; for seven days eat it with unraised bread, hard-times bread, because > you left Egypt in a > hurry-that bread will keep the memory fresh of how you left > Egypt for as long as you live. There is to be no sign of yeast anywhere > for seven days. And don't > let any of the meat that you sacrifice in the evening > be left over until morning. > > 5-7 Don't sacrifice the Passover in any of the towns that God, your God, > gives you other than the > one God, your God, designates for worship; there and > there only you will offer the Passover-Sacrifice at evening as the sun > goes down, marking the time > that you left Egypt. Boil and eat it at the place designated > by God, your God. Then, at daybreak, turn around and go home. > > 8 Eat unraised bread for six days. Set aside the seventh day as a holiday; > don't do any work. > > 9-11 Starting from the day you put the sickle to the ripe grain, count out > seven weeks. Celebrate > the Feast-of-Weeks to God, your God, by bringing your > Freewill-Offering-give as generously as God, your God, has blessed you. > Rejoice in the Presence of > God, your God: you, your son, your daughter, your servant, > your maid, the Levite who lives in your neighborhood, the foreigner, the > orphan and widow among you; > rejoice at the place God, your God, will set aside > to be worshiped. > > 12 Don't forget that you were once a slave in Egypt. So be diligent in > observing these regulations. > > 13-15 Observe the Feast-of-Booths for seven days when you gather the > harvest from your > threshing-floor and your wine-vat. Rejoice at your festival: you, > your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, the Levite, the > foreigner, and the orphans and > widows who live in your neighborhood. Celebrate the Feast > to God, your God, for seven days at the place God designates. God, your > God, has been blessing you > in your harvest and in all your work, so make a day > of it-really celebrate! > > 16-17 All your men must appear before God, your God, three times each year > at the place he > designates: at the Feast-of-Unraised-Bread (Passover), at the > Feast-of-Weeks, and at the Feast-of-Booths. No one is to show up in the > Presence of God > empty-handed; each man must bring as much as he can manage, giving > generously in response to the blessings of God, your God. > > 18-19 Appoint judges and officers, organized by tribes, in all the towns > that God, your God, is > giving you. They are to judge the people fairly and honestly. > Don't twist the law. Don't play favorites. Don't take a bribe-a bribe > blinds even a wise person; it > undermines the intentions of the best of people. > > 20 The right! The right! Pursue only what's right! It's the only way you > can really live and > possess the land that God, your God, is giving you. > > 21-22 Don't plant fertility Asherah trees alongside the Altar of God, your > God, that you build. > Don't set up phallic sex pillars-God, your God, hates them. > > Deuteronomy 17 > 1 And don't sacrifice to God, your God, an ox or sheep that is defective > or has anything at all > wrong with it. That's an abomination, an insult to God, > your God. > > 2-5 If you find anyone within the towns that God, your God, is giving you > doing what is wrong in > God's eyes, breaking his covenant by going off to worship > other gods, bowing down to them-the sun, say, or the moon, or any rebel > sky-gods- look at the > evidence and investigate carefully. If you find that it is > true, that, in fact, an abomination has been committed in Israel, then you > are to take the man or > woman who did this evil thing outside your city gates > and stone the man or the woman. Hurl stones at the person until dead. > > 6-7 But only on the testimony of two or three witnesses may a person be > put to death. No one may be > put to death on the testimony of one witness. The witnesses > must throw the first stones in the execution, then the rest of the > community joins in. You have to > purge the evil from your community. > > 8-9 When matters of justice come up that are too much for you-hard cases > regarding homicides, legal > disputes, fights-take them up to the central place > of worship that God, your God, has designated. Bring them to the Levitical > priests and the judge who > is in office at the time. Consult them and they will > hand down the decision for you. > > 10-13 Then carry out their verdict at the place designated by God, your > God. Do what they tell you, > in exactly the way they tell you. Follow their instructions > precisely: Don't leave out anything; don't add anything. Anyone who > presumes to override or twist > the decision handed down by the priest or judge who was > acting in the Presence of God, your God, is as good as dead-root him out, > rid Israel of the evil. > Everyone will take notice and be impressed. That will > put an end to presumptuous behavior. > > 14-17 When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you and take > it over and settle down, > and then say, "I'm going to get me a king, a king like > all the nations around me," make sure you get yourself a king whom God, > your God, chooses. Choose > your king from among your kinsmen; don't take a foreigner-only > a kinsman. And make sure he doesn't build up a war machine, amassing > military horses and chariots. > He must not send people to Egypt to get more horses, > because God told you, "You'll never go back there again!" And make sure he > doesn't build up a harem, > collecting wives who will divert him from the straight > and narrow. And make sure he doesn't pile up a lot of silver and gold. > > 18-20 This is what must be done: When he sits down on the throne of his > kingdom, the first thing he > must do is make himself a copy of this Revelation on > a scroll, copied under the supervision of the Levitical priests. That > scroll is to remain at his > side at all times; he is to study it every day so that > he may learn what it means to fear his God, living in reverent obedience > before these rules and > regulations by following them. He must not become proud > and arrogant, changing the commands at whim to suit himself or making up > his own versions. If he > reads and learns, he will have a long reign as king in > Israel, he and his sons. > > Deuteronomy 18 > 1-2 The Levitical priests-that's the entire tribe of Levi-don't get any > land-inheritance with the > rest of Israel. They get the Fire-Gift-Offerings of God-they > will live on that inheritance. But they don't get land-inheritance like > the rest of their kinsmen. > God is their inheritance. > > 3-5 This is what the priests get from the people from any offering of an > ox or a sheep: the > shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach. You must also give > them the firstfruits of your grain, wine, and oil and the first fleece of > your sheep, because God, > your God, has chosen only them and their children out > of all your tribes to be present and serve always in the name of God, your > God. > > 6-8 If a Levite moves from any town in Israel-and he is quite free to move > wherever he desires-and > comes to the place God designates for worship, he may > serve there in the name of God along with all his brother Levites who are > present and serving in the > Presence of God. And he will get an equal share to > eat, even though he has money from the sale of his parents' possessions. > > 9-12 When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don't take > on the abominable ways of > life of the nations there. Don't you dare sacrifice > your son or daughter in the fire. Don't practice divination, sorcery, > fortunetelling, witchery, > casting spells, holding seances, or channeling with the > dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It's because > of just such abominable > practices that God, your God, is driving these nations > out before you. > > 13-14 Be completely loyal to God, your God. These nations that you're > about to run out of the > country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. > God, your God, forbids it. > > 15-16 God, your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you. God will > raise him up from among your > kinsmen, a prophet like me. Listen obediently to him. > This is what you asked God, your God, for at Horeb on the day you were all > gathered at the mountain > and said, "We can't hear any more from God, our God; > we can't stand seeing any more fire. We'll die!" > > 17-19 And God said to me, "They're right; they've spoken the truth. I'll > raise up for them a > prophet like you from their kinsmen. I'll tell him what to > say and he will pass on to them everything I command him. And anyone who > won't listen to my words > spoken by him, I will personally hold responsible. > > 20 "But any prophet who fakes it, who claims to speak in my name something > I haven't commanded him > to say, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet > must die." > > 21-22 You may be wondering among yourselves, "How can we tell the > difference, whether it was God > who spoke or not?" Here's how: If what the prophet spoke > in God's name doesn't happen, then obviously God wasn't behind it; the > prophet made it up. Forget > about him. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
