Seeing Past the Smoke

Seeing Past the Smoke

Deuteronomy 1:39 “Moreover, your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.” Observation: Deuteronomy’s early chapters describe...
Living Free

Living Free

Numbers 35:25 “And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy...
Living with Pricks and Thorns

Living with Pricks and Thorns

Numbers 33:52–53, 55 “You shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; and you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I...
Vows

Vows

Numbers 30:2–4 “If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word. … Also if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself … in her father’s house in her youth, and her father hears her...
Remaining in the Desert

Remaining in the Desert

Numbers 14:2–3 “All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, ‘Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land, to fall by the...