There were over 108,000 people at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium during the recent All-Star Basketball festivities.  The view of all those people is staggering, yet it is only 1/6 of the number of MEN of Israel who were following the Lord to the Promised Land.  Each of those men aged twenty or older likely had at least one wife, if not more, and multiple children. The Lord had Moses meet with the leaders of each clan, and then he had them set up their tents in specific places.  How on earth did he manage to do that?  How did … Continue reading Numbers 1-2: Awesome Crowd Control

I am wrung out like a washcloth over today’s Bible reading.  I know that the Lord’s commands are for our good, but I think there must be something about Jewish culture that I am missing.  When I read Leviticus 27:29, my heart skipped a beat.  What does it really mean? 28 “However, anything specially set apart for the Lord—whether a person, an animal, or family property—must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy, and it belongs to the Lord. 29 No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. … Continue reading Leviticus 26-27: Confounded and Confined, but Content

The Year of Jubilee….a time when slaves are set free, and those who have been forced to sell their family countryside lands are given them back.  Every fifty years, the Lord created a time of release…for the land, to let it lie fallow, and for the people. God’s Word is full of wisdom.  Our scientific minds can tell us why allowing the land to lie fallow is a good idea.  They can cite evidence of nutrient depletion, erosion, and other factors that render soil barren unless it is given a chance to rest.  Yet God, the creator of that very … Continue reading Leviticus 24-25: Sweet Release