Remembering Passover

Numbers 9:4–5 “So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover, and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses” (NIV). Observation: A year had passed...

Sky Awake … I Up Now

Numbers 7:19–23 “The offering … was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels … each filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; one gold dish weighingten shekels, filled with incense,...

Grunt Work

Numbers 4:15, 20 “After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The...

Precipice of Decision

Acts 24:25 “When I find it convenient, I will send for you.” (NIV) Observation: Paul had been arrested and sent to the provincial capital of Caesarea to defend himself against false charges of initiating a temple riot. The high priest and his lawyer came to testify...

A Useful Test

Leviticus 26:5, 10 “Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will be eating all the food you want … You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you have to move it out to make room for the new”...

How Could God Have Gotten It So Wrong?

Leviticus 25:23 “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants” (NIV). Observation: God here reiterated His ownership of everything. Knowing that a Year of Jubilee would occur on a fixed, fifty-year schedule...