March 14 Numbers 33-36 (ESV) Recounting Israel’s Journey 33:1 These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. 2 Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to [...]
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March 14 Numbers 33-36
Posted: March 14, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
Be sure your sin will find you out.
Posted: March 13, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: be sure your sin will find you out., Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Moses, Numbers, Promised Land, Scripture
Ever wonder where the saying, “Be sure your sin will find you out” comes from? In Numbers 32, we read of the tribes of Reuben and Gad making a request of Moses to be allowed to stay with all their livestock and not go across the Jordan with the rest of the people. But Moses [...]
March 13 Numbers 31-32
Posted: March 13, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 13 Numbers 31-32 (ESV) Vengeance on Midian 31:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”3 So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord‘s vengeance on Midian. 4 You shall send [...]
Sacrificial Calendar App?
Posted: March 12, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, blood sacrifice, daily Bible, Numbers, OT sacrifices, Sacrificial Calendar App?, Scripture
If Moses had an iPhone calendar app, the alarm would sound often. Today’s reading of Numbers 28-30 caused my head to spin a bit. I can hardly imagine keeping track of all the offerings required: daily, Sabbath, monthly and special holidays. Here’s some help from the notes section (Numbers 28-29) of the ESV Study Bible [...]
March 12 Numbers 28-30
Posted: March 12, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 12 Numbers 28-30 (ESV) Daily Offerings 28:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’ 3 And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall [...]
March 11 Numbers 26-27
Posted: March 11, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 11 Numbers 26-27 (ESV) Census of the New Generation 26:1 After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to [...]
Lessons from an ass
Posted: March 10, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Balaam's ass, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, J. Ligon Duncan III, Lessons from an ass, Numbers, Scripture
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III, of First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Mississippi: 1. There are some things that you don’t have to pray about. In answer to Balaam’s question, ‘Can I go and earn some big bucks from Balak by cursing Your people?’ God has said ‘No, you may not go with them, and no, you may [...]
March 10 Numbers 23-25
Posted: March 10, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, March Bible Readings, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, March Bible Readings, Numbers, Scripture
March 10 Numbers 23-25 (ESV) Balaam’s First Oracle 23:1 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”2 Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram. 3 And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt [...]
The Brazen Serpent on the pole is Christ
Posted: March 9, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, bronze serpent, daily Bible, Henry Law: The Bronze Serpent the remedy of God and the gospel of free grace, Numbers, Scripture, The Brazen Serpent on the pole is Christ., Type of Christ
The Bronze Serpent From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For [...]
Christ a sure Refuge
Posted: March 14, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, March, NumbersTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Christ a sure Refuge, daily Bible, Henry Law, Numbers, Scripture
“Among the cities which you shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities for Refuge.” Numb. 35:6. Henry Law comments at Grace Gems.com: REFUGE is a thought dear to every Christian heart. It is, as haven to the ship, when clouds blacken–as dove-cote to the bird, when hawks pursue. When once the wrath [...]