Numbers 32
- People of Reuben and Gad had a lot of livestock.
- They went to Moses, Eleazar, and the chiefs (Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon) and said if they found favor with them, could they possess the land of Gilead and NOT cross the Jordan with them.
- Moses asked how they could stay there while their brothers went to war.
- Moses said this would discourage the people like the incident of Valley of Eshcol
- That incident is when God became angry and said no one over 20 (except Caleb and Joshua) would see the promised land.
- That incident was also the reason God kept the Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years.
- Moses accuses them of taken their fathers' sinful place and trying to bring God's anger on them again.
- The people of Reuben and Gad said they'd keep their livestock and children there, but that they would go fight with their brothers until they too had their inheritance.
- They said they wouldn't return home until the fighting was over.
- They said their inheritance was on the east side of the Jordan.
- Moses said that if they fought, then that land would be theirs and they would be free of their obligation to the Lord.
- If they don't do what they say they will be punished because they have sinned against the Lord.
- How long did it take them to build pens for their livestock and fortified cities for their kids? Wouldn't that take a long time and prolong the battle Israel was facing?
- They repeated the agreement and the armed men would go and fight.
- Moses talked to Eleazar and Joshua about the agreement.
- If they break the agreement, they lose the land on the east of the Jordan and get an inheritance in Canaan.
- The land east of the Jordan had belonged to Sihon the Amorite and Og of Bashan.
- The people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran.
- The people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah.
- After they had claimed the land, THEN they went and won the land from the Amorites.
- Nobah captured Kenath and named it Nobah.
Isaiah 14
- God will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel.
- They will get their land back and sojourners will join them.
- Their captors will then be their captives, slaves.
- God will give them rest for their pain and turmoil under the King of Babylon.
- The Lord will break the rule of the wicked.
- He will strike down the nations who ruled in anger and persecution.
- The whole earth will be at rest and quiet.
- Sheol will come to meet the wicked the kings and rulers.
- Their pomp, arrogance, has brought them down to Sheol (death)
- Their fall will be great.
- It refers to the Babylonians as the Day Star.
- The Babylonians said their throne will be higher than heaven.
- That is why God has brought them low.
- Others will question the fall of the mighty Babylon.
- They won't even be buried but scattered when they are slain.
- They have destroyed their land and their people.
- Their sons will be destroyed so they can not repeat the work of their fathers and rise up again.
- The Lord will cut off their name, remnant, descendants, and posterity and give their land to the hedgehog (porcupine/owl)
- God will sweep them away with "the broom of destruction"
- God also promises to break the Assyrians in His land.
- God will remove the yoke from His people there.
- He asked who can turn back His hand. (The answer is no one)
- In the year King Ahaz died Isaiah received the oracle concerning Philistia
- It tells them not to rejoice when the rod that struck them is broken (Babylon or Assyria?)
- There will be another serpent to take the place of the first.
- The poor and needy will be safe (Who is this referring to?)
- God will kill their root with famine.
- Philistia should be afraid of the "smoke from the north"
- The afflicted of Israel will find refuge in Zion.
1 Corinthians 13
- This is known as the love chapter and most often used in weddings
- This is the "more excellent way" Paul ended Chapter 12 on spiritual gifts.
- Paul says if he speaks in tongues of angels but doesn't have love he is a loud sound.
- Having all knowledge and faith that can move mountains without love is nothing.
- Giving away everything and being burned for your faith without love gains you nothing.
- Love is:
1) Patient
2) Kind
3) Doesn't envy or boast
4) Not arrogant
5) Not rude
6) Doesn't insist on its own way
7) Not irritable
8) Not resentful
9) Doesn't rejoice at doing wrong
10) Rejoices in truth
11) Bears all things
12) Believes all things
13) Hopes all things
14) Endures all things
15) Never ends
(Paul shows that gifts without love are nothing) (also shows what true love looks like)
- prophecies, tongues, and knowledge (the things the Corinthians found most important) will pass away.
- We know and prophesy in part
- When the perfect (Christ) comes the partial will pass away.
- Paul says he acted like a child when he was a child, but as a man he has given up "childish ways"
- What we see now is a dim view of what is to come.
- Faith, hope, and love are important, but the greatest thing is love.
1 John 4
- John tells the to test the spirits to see if they are from God.
- There are many false prophets.
- Every spirit that confesses God is from God.
- Those that do not confess God are from the antichrist.
- God is greater than the antichrist who is in the world.
- The antichrist is from the world and speaks to the world and the world listens.
- Those from God listen to them.
- Through testing they will know the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error (first "spirit" is capitalized)
- John again tells the to love one another because God IS love.
- God's love was made manifest when he sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him (The Gospel)
- Love isn't that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to die for our sins as a propitiation.
- If God loved us this much, shouldn't we love others?
- God's love is perfected through us when we love others.
- God has given us the Spirit to love others.
- John says they have seen and testify the God the Father sent His Son as Savior of the world.
- Those who confess Jesus as the Son of God abide in God.
- Those who abide in love abide in God and He in them.
- Because of this fact we have confidence for the day of judgment.
- Perfect love casts out fear.
- Fear comes from punishment, but God has perfected us in love and knowledge of Him through the Gospel.
- We love because He first loved us.
- You can't say you love God and hate your brother.
- You can't love God whom you can't see and hate your brother whom you have seen.
- "We" (John and whoever is writing the letter with him) have given a commandment that "whoever loves God must also love his brother".
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Numbers 31 - Isaiah 13 – 1 Corinthians 12 – 1 John 3
Numbers 31
- God told Moses to avenge his people against the Midianites.
- After that Moses would die.
- Moses told the people to prepare for battle
- Army of 12,000 (1,000 from each tribe)
- Moses sent Phinehas (son of Eleazar, grandson or Aaron)
- Phinehas went with vessels from sanctuary and a trumpet
- The killed the men of Israel and the kings: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba
- They also killed Balaam with the sword.
- They took the women and children captive and kept their cattle, flocks, and goods
- The army brought the captives and spoil to Moses and Eleazar at Jericho.
- Moses and Eleazar met them outside the camp and Moses was angry.
- He reminded them of how Balaam’ s advice had brought a plague on Israel
- Moses told them to kill all the women who had been married and all the boys.
- Why did he let the virgin girls live?
- They had to stay outside the camp for 7 days (because they had been by dead bodies)
- Moses reminded them to purify themselves, their clothes, and every wooden thing on the 3rd and 7th day
- Eleazar told them to cleanse the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead in the fire then in water.
- He reminded them to wash their clothes on the 7th day.
- God told Moses to tell the people to divide everything in half, half for those in battle and half for the congregation.
- Then Levy a tribute to the Lord of: 1 out of 500 of people, oxen, and donkeys from the soldiers
- The people would give one out of 50 of the people, oxen, donkeys, sheep, and cattle to give to the Levites
- The total spoils were: 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, 32,000 people (virgin women)
- The army got:
- 337,500 sheep (gave God 675)
- 36,000 cattle (God got 72)
- 30,500 donkeys (God got 61)
- 16,000 women (God got 32)
- Each soldier (assuming no one died) would get about 2,500 sheep, 3 cattle, 2-3 donkeys, and 1-2 women
- The congregation got the same but gave 2% to the Levites
- It says that they counted those who were missing and everyone was still alive.
- The commanders brought in gold articles to make atonement for themselves.
- Their offering of gold articles was 16,750 shekels
- Moses and Eleazar brought the gold as a memorial to the people.
Isaiah 13
- Isaiah received an oracle about Babylon
- They would wave their hand to enter
- God has summoned “might men” to execute His anger.
- There is a loud noise coming from the mountains as God gathers men.
- They are coming to destroy everything
- Destruction from The Almighty will come
- The result is feeble hands and melting hearts
- They will be shocked as God makes the land desolate and destroys sinners.
- Even the stars won’t give them light and the sun will be dark
- God will punish the world for its evil and iniquity and end the arrogance
- Man will become rare.
- The earth will be shaken out of its place and each people will flee to his own land.
- There infants will be dashed to pieces and wives ravished.
- The Medes will come against them.
- The Medes don’t care about gold or silver but they destroy everything.
- Babylon will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
- It will never be inhabited again
- It will be full of wild creatures, like ostriches, owls, hyenas, and jackals
- Their time is coming to an end
1 Corinthians 12
- Paul answers their questions about spiritual gifts.
- Paul reminds them how they were led astray by mute idols.
- No one speaking in the Spirit can curse God.
- There are many gifts through one Spirit.
- There are varieties of service and activities but God empowers them.
- The gifts = utterance of wisdom, utterance of knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, ability to distinguish between spirits, tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
- The Spirit gives gift as he wills
- The body of Christ has many parts like the body has many parts
- The ear or arm can't say they don't want to be part of the body
- Just an "eye" would lack hearing, smell, etc.
- God arranged all members of the body as He chose.
- One Christian is nothing without the body.
- The "weaker" body parts are indispensable, unrepresentable parts are treated with modesty.
- God gives the "weaker" parts equal honor so that there is no division.
- If one member suffers all suffer or all rejoice.
- God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
- Paul says to seek higher gifts and foreshadows showing them a greater way.
1 John 3
- The love God has given us is to be called His children.
- The world doesn't know us because it doesn't know God.
- We will be like Him when He appears.
- Those who hope in Him are purified through Him.
- Sin = lawlessness
- Christ came to take away sin and He had no sin in Him.
- No one who has seen Christ keeps sinning.
- John cautions them not to be deceived.
- Those practicing sin are of the devil.
- The devil has been sinning from the beginning.
- Jesus appeared to destroy the works of the devil.
- John again says that those of God cannot keep on sinning.
- Those who do not practice righteousness or love his brother are not from God.
- John tells them they must love one another.
- We shouldn't be like Cain who murdered his brother.
- He killed his brother because his deeds were evil and his brother's were righteous.
- We have passed from death to life by loving our brothers.
- Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and doesn't have eternal life.
- We know love because Christ laid down His life for us and we should do the same for our brothers.
- If anyone has much according to the world but closes his heart to a brother in need does not have God's love in him.
- Love shouldn't be word or talk but in deeds and truth.
- Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our hearts.
- If we have confidence in God we will receive whatever we ask.
- We should keep His commandments and seek to please Him.
- God's command is to believe in Christ and love one another.
- John repeats loving brother, keeping commandment thought 2 more times to close this portion
- God told Moses to avenge his people against the Midianites.
- After that Moses would die.
- Moses told the people to prepare for battle
- Army of 12,000 (1,000 from each tribe)
- Moses sent Phinehas (son of Eleazar, grandson or Aaron)
- Phinehas went with vessels from sanctuary and a trumpet
- The killed the men of Israel and the kings: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba
- They also killed Balaam with the sword.
- They took the women and children captive and kept their cattle, flocks, and goods
- The army brought the captives and spoil to Moses and Eleazar at Jericho.
- Moses and Eleazar met them outside the camp and Moses was angry.
- He reminded them of how Balaam’ s advice had brought a plague on Israel
- Moses told them to kill all the women who had been married and all the boys.
- Why did he let the virgin girls live?
- They had to stay outside the camp for 7 days (because they had been by dead bodies)
- Moses reminded them to purify themselves, their clothes, and every wooden thing on the 3rd and 7th day
- Eleazar told them to cleanse the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead in the fire then in water.
- He reminded them to wash their clothes on the 7th day.
- God told Moses to tell the people to divide everything in half, half for those in battle and half for the congregation.
- Then Levy a tribute to the Lord of: 1 out of 500 of people, oxen, and donkeys from the soldiers
- The people would give one out of 50 of the people, oxen, donkeys, sheep, and cattle to give to the Levites
- The total spoils were: 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, 32,000 people (virgin women)
- The army got:
- 337,500 sheep (gave God 675)
- 36,000 cattle (God got 72)
- 30,500 donkeys (God got 61)
- 16,000 women (God got 32)
- Each soldier (assuming no one died) would get about 2,500 sheep, 3 cattle, 2-3 donkeys, and 1-2 women
- The congregation got the same but gave 2% to the Levites
- It says that they counted those who were missing and everyone was still alive.
- The commanders brought in gold articles to make atonement for themselves.
- Their offering of gold articles was 16,750 shekels
- Moses and Eleazar brought the gold as a memorial to the people.
Isaiah 13
- Isaiah received an oracle about Babylon
- They would wave their hand to enter
- God has summoned “might men” to execute His anger.
- There is a loud noise coming from the mountains as God gathers men.
- They are coming to destroy everything
- Destruction from The Almighty will come
- The result is feeble hands and melting hearts
- They will be shocked as God makes the land desolate and destroys sinners.
- Even the stars won’t give them light and the sun will be dark
- God will punish the world for its evil and iniquity and end the arrogance
- Man will become rare.
- The earth will be shaken out of its place and each people will flee to his own land.
- There infants will be dashed to pieces and wives ravished.
- The Medes will come against them.
- The Medes don’t care about gold or silver but they destroy everything.
- Babylon will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
- It will never be inhabited again
- It will be full of wild creatures, like ostriches, owls, hyenas, and jackals
- Their time is coming to an end
1 Corinthians 12
- Paul answers their questions about spiritual gifts.
- Paul reminds them how they were led astray by mute idols.
- No one speaking in the Spirit can curse God.
- There are many gifts through one Spirit.
- There are varieties of service and activities but God empowers them.
- The gifts = utterance of wisdom, utterance of knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, ability to distinguish between spirits, tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
- The Spirit gives gift as he wills
- The body of Christ has many parts like the body has many parts
- The ear or arm can't say they don't want to be part of the body
- Just an "eye" would lack hearing, smell, etc.
- God arranged all members of the body as He chose.
- One Christian is nothing without the body.
- The "weaker" body parts are indispensable, unrepresentable parts are treated with modesty.
- God gives the "weaker" parts equal honor so that there is no division.
- If one member suffers all suffer or all rejoice.
- God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
- Paul says to seek higher gifts and foreshadows showing them a greater way.
1 John 3
- The love God has given us is to be called His children.
- The world doesn't know us because it doesn't know God.
- We will be like Him when He appears.
- Those who hope in Him are purified through Him.
- Sin = lawlessness
- Christ came to take away sin and He had no sin in Him.
- No one who has seen Christ keeps sinning.
- John cautions them not to be deceived.
- Those practicing sin are of the devil.
- The devil has been sinning from the beginning.
- Jesus appeared to destroy the works of the devil.
- John again says that those of God cannot keep on sinning.
- Those who do not practice righteousness or love his brother are not from God.
- John tells them they must love one another.
- We shouldn't be like Cain who murdered his brother.
- He killed his brother because his deeds were evil and his brother's were righteous.
- We have passed from death to life by loving our brothers.
- Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and doesn't have eternal life.
- We know love because Christ laid down His life for us and we should do the same for our brothers.
- If anyone has much according to the world but closes his heart to a brother in need does not have God's love in him.
- Love shouldn't be word or talk but in deeds and truth.
- Whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our hearts.
- If we have confidence in God we will receive whatever we ask.
- We should keep His commandments and seek to please Him.
- God's command is to believe in Christ and love one another.
- John repeats loving brother, keeping commandment thought 2 more times to close this portion
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Numbers 30 - Isaiah 12 – 1 Corinthians 11 – 1 John 2
Numbers 30
- Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes
- If a man makes an oath (promise) he shall not break it.
- He shall do all he says.
- If a young woman under her father makes a vow and the father says nothing, she must keep her vow.
- If her father opposes her when he hears her vow, the vow shall not stand
- The Lord will forgive her when her father oppsoes her.
- If a married man hears his wife's vow or "thoughtless utterances" and says nothing her vows shall stand.
- But if the husband hears the vow and opposes her then her vow will not stand and the Lord will forgive her.
- Does God need to forgive a vow that has been opposed if it's not an opposition due to sin?
- A divorced or widow's vow shall stand once spoken.
- Who are verses 9 - 15 speaking to?
- If the husband hears a vow and does not oppose it, then the husband shall bear the iniquity.
Isaiah 12
- You will give thanks (the "you" is porbably Nubia)
- They will give thanks because God was angry but now will comfort.
- God is our salvation so we can trust and not be afraid.
- God is our strength, song, and salvation
- You (or wind) will draw salvation with joy.
- Zion will give thanks and make God known among the people. They will exalt His name.
- Their response should be to sing praises to God
- The inhabitant of Zion should shout for joy and sing because the Holy One is great in their midsts.
1 Corinthains 11
- Paul commends them for remembering him and they remember the traditions he showed them.
- Christ is head of every man --> head of wife is her husband --> head of Christ is God
- Every prophesying man who covers his head dishonors his head.
- Every wife who prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head (same as shaving it).
- If a wife won't cover her head she should just cut her hair short, but that is deemed shameful to do, so she should cover it.
- Man shouldn't cover his head because it is the image of glory of God while the woman is the glory of man.
- Man wasn't created for woman, but woman was created for man.
- The woman should be a symbol because of the angels (messengers sent to report)
- Man and woman or dependent on each other; woman was made from man and woman gave birth to man.
- Nature shows that long hair for a man is a disgrace and long hair for woman is her glory.
- What does Paul mean that "we" and the "churches of God" have no such practice?
- Paul starts the next section by rebuking them and saying he cannot commend them.
- Paul says this because there are divisions in the church when they meet.
- They are NOT taking the Lord's supper properly because some are leaving hungry and others drunk.
- Paul tells them to eat and drink at home!
- Paul says this is despising the church of God and humiliating those with nothing.
- Paul says he delivered the Lord's supper tradition to them, breaking bread to remember Christ's body and drinking from the cup of the new covenant.
- This ceremony is to proclaim the Lord's death and return.
- Eating and drinking wrongly is profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
- Those who are misusing this, puts judgement on himself.
- When God judged us He disciplines us so we aren't condemned with the world.
- Paul tells them that when they partake they should wait for each other so not to be judged.
- Paul ends by saying he'll discuss this with them further when he returns to them.
1 John 2
- John write to "my little children" so they won't sin.
- He reminds them that when they do sin they have an advocate.
- He is our propitiation and the world's of our sins.
- If someone claims to know Him but doesn't keep His commandments, that person is a liar, and the truth is NOt in him.
- By keeping the word, the love of God is perfected.
- We know we are in Him if we walk in the same way as He did.
- John isn't writing a new commandment, but an old one that has been made new because we have a light in the darkness.
- Hating your brother shows you're still in darkness.
- Loving your brother= no stumbling blocks.
- Hating your brother = blinded by darkness and not knowing where you're going.
- Our sins are forgiven for His namesake.
- John addresses multiple groups of people:
- little children = sin's forgiven
- father's = known Him from beginning
- young men = overcomed the evil one
- children = know the Father
- fathers = known Him from beginning (repeated)
- young men = strong, God's word abides in them, and have overcome evil one.
- John tells them not to love the world because that shows the Father is not in them.
- Desires of flesh, the eyes, and pride in possessions is from the world not from God.
- The world and its desires are passing away but God abides forever.
- John tells them the antichrist is coming and many have already come.
- They went out from the group so the people know they are NOT from God.
- John writes to them BECAUSE they know the truth not to teach it to them.
- Antichrist = one who denies Father and Son.
- John reminds them to remember what they have known from the beginning.
- Eternal life is the promise of abiding in God and Son.
- They should abide in what they have been taught and abide in him (lowercase so it is the one who taught them)
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- Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes
- If a man makes an oath (promise) he shall not break it.
- He shall do all he says.
- If a young woman under her father makes a vow and the father says nothing, she must keep her vow.
- If her father opposes her when he hears her vow, the vow shall not stand
- The Lord will forgive her when her father oppsoes her.
- If a married man hears his wife's vow or "thoughtless utterances" and says nothing her vows shall stand.
- But if the husband hears the vow and opposes her then her vow will not stand and the Lord will forgive her.
- Does God need to forgive a vow that has been opposed if it's not an opposition due to sin?
- A divorced or widow's vow shall stand once spoken.
- Who are verses 9 - 15 speaking to?
- If the husband hears a vow and does not oppose it, then the husband shall bear the iniquity.
Isaiah 12
- You will give thanks (the "you" is porbably Nubia)
- They will give thanks because God was angry but now will comfort.
- God is our salvation so we can trust and not be afraid.
- God is our strength, song, and salvation
- You (or wind) will draw salvation with joy.
- Zion will give thanks and make God known among the people. They will exalt His name.
- Their response should be to sing praises to God
- The inhabitant of Zion should shout for joy and sing because the Holy One is great in their midsts.
1 Corinthains 11
- Paul commends them for remembering him and they remember the traditions he showed them.
- Christ is head of every man --> head of wife is her husband --> head of Christ is God
- Every prophesying man who covers his head dishonors his head.
- Every wife who prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head (same as shaving it).
- If a wife won't cover her head she should just cut her hair short, but that is deemed shameful to do, so she should cover it.
- Man shouldn't cover his head because it is the image of glory of God while the woman is the glory of man.
- Man wasn't created for woman, but woman was created for man.
- The woman should be a symbol because of the angels (messengers sent to report)
- Man and woman or dependent on each other; woman was made from man and woman gave birth to man.
- Nature shows that long hair for a man is a disgrace and long hair for woman is her glory.
- What does Paul mean that "we" and the "churches of God" have no such practice?
- Paul starts the next section by rebuking them and saying he cannot commend them.
- Paul says this because there are divisions in the church when they meet.
- They are NOT taking the Lord's supper properly because some are leaving hungry and others drunk.
- Paul tells them to eat and drink at home!
- Paul says this is despising the church of God and humiliating those with nothing.
- Paul says he delivered the Lord's supper tradition to them, breaking bread to remember Christ's body and drinking from the cup of the new covenant.
- This ceremony is to proclaim the Lord's death and return.
- Eating and drinking wrongly is profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
- Those who are misusing this, puts judgement on himself.
- When God judged us He disciplines us so we aren't condemned with the world.
- Paul tells them that when they partake they should wait for each other so not to be judged.
- Paul ends by saying he'll discuss this with them further when he returns to them.
1 John 2
- John write to "my little children" so they won't sin.
- He reminds them that when they do sin they have an advocate.
- He is our propitiation and the world's of our sins.
- If someone claims to know Him but doesn't keep His commandments, that person is a liar, and the truth is NOt in him.
- By keeping the word, the love of God is perfected.
- We know we are in Him if we walk in the same way as He did.
- John isn't writing a new commandment, but an old one that has been made new because we have a light in the darkness.
- Hating your brother shows you're still in darkness.
- Loving your brother= no stumbling blocks.
- Hating your brother = blinded by darkness and not knowing where you're going.
- Our sins are forgiven for His namesake.
- John addresses multiple groups of people:
- little children = sin's forgiven
- father's = known Him from beginning
- young men = overcomed the evil one
- children = know the Father
- fathers = known Him from beginning (repeated)
- young men = strong, God's word abides in them, and have overcome evil one.
- John tells them not to love the world because that shows the Father is not in them.
- Desires of flesh, the eyes, and pride in possessions is from the world not from God.
- The world and its desires are passing away but God abides forever.
- John tells them the antichrist is coming and many have already come.
- They went out from the group so the people know they are NOT from God.
- John writes to them BECAUSE they know the truth not to teach it to them.
- Antichrist = one who denies Father and Son.
- John reminds them to remember what they have known from the beginning.
- Eternal life is the promise of abiding in God and Son.
- They should abide in what they have been taught and abide in him (lowercase so it is the one who taught them)
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Numbers 29 - Isaiah 11 – 1 Corinthians 10 – 1 John 1
Numbers 29
- Offering for the Feast of Trumpets
- 1st day of 7th month = no work, only blow trumpets
- Same offerings needed as previous sacrifices including the goat as a sin offering.
- This is in addition to the new moon's grain offering, regular offering's grain offering, drink offerings according to their own rules.
- Day of Atonement Offerings = 10th day of 7th month
- Here again; one bull, one ram, 7 sheep, and a goat are offered, as well as the sin offering and regular burnt offerings.
- Is the sin offering here still the one goat or something different?
- Feast of Tabernacles Offerings = 15th day of the 7th month
- No work and keep a feast for 7 days.
- Day 1 = 13 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs (grain offerings for each), and a goat as a sin offering
- Day 2 = 12 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 3 = 11 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 4 = 10 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 5 = 9 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 6 = 8 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 7 = 7 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 8 = have a solemn assembly and do no work. on this day the offering is the same as the usual "feasts" sacrifices.
- These things are in addition to vow offerings and freewill offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, and peace offerings.
- Moses relayed these things as God commanded him to.
Isaiah 11
- A "shoot" shall come from the "stump" of Jesse.
- The Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of God shall rest on this person.
- He shall delight in the fear of God.
- He will judge the poor with righteousness, not eyes or ears
- He will strike the earth and will the wicked with his lips (mouth)
- Righteousness and faithfulness shall be his belt.
- The wolf/lamb, leopard/young goat, calf/lion shall lie together
- A "little child" shall lead them.
- The cow/bear, lion/straw, nursing child/cobra, weaned child/adder shall be together
- These opposites show that on God's holy mountain nothing will destroy.
- The earth shall be covered by knowledge of God like waters cover the sea.
- The root of Jesse will be a signal for the PEOPLES (not just Israelites)
- His resting place shall be glorious
- In that day God will again recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, Cush, Egypt, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlines by the sea.
- What does it mean to swoop down on Philistines' shoulders (Will they work together?)
- The Ammonites, Edomites, and Moabites will obey them
- The Lord will dry up the River (Nile?) and turn it into 7 crossable channels
- There will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant to use to return.
1 Corinthians 10
- Paul reminds them that their "fathers" stood under cloud of God and crossed the sea and were "baptized" into Moses.
- They ate spiritual food and drank spiritual drink
- The Rock the drank from was the Rock of Christ.
- God wasn't pleased with most of them and they died in the wilderness.
- They were examples for us, showing us not to desire evil.
- Do not be idolaters (Exodus 32:6 - "The people sat to eat and drink and rose up to play")
- We must avoid sexual immorality - They didn't and 23,000 died in one day.
- When they tested God they were destroyed by serpents.
- When they grumbled the Destroyer killed them.
- They happened as examples for us and were written to teach us.
- Anyone who thinks he stands need to take heed or he will fall (Do not be proud)
- No temptation has overtaken us that is not common to man.
- God is faithful and won't let us be tempted beyond what we can bear.
- He ALWAYS provides a way of escape.
- Paul tells us to flee idolatry because we are in the blood of Christ.
- Paul points back to Jesus' body being the one bread they all partake from (communion)
- Paul's point is that what pagans eat they sacrifice to demons, not God.
- He warns them they can't be with God and with demons.
- He says we shouldn't provoke the Lord to jealousy.
- All things are lawful but not all things are helpful or build up.
- Don't seek our own good, but the good of others.
- Eat whatever is sold in the market.
- If an unbeliever invites you to dinner eat whatever is served without question.
- But if they tell you it was an idol sacrifice refrain from eating it for the server's benefit not your own.
- If you thank God for it, it shouldn't be judged as bad.
- Whatever you eat or drink do it all to the glory of God.
- Our goal should be saving others, and that should be why we please others.
- Paul tells them to imitate him as he is imitating Christ.
THIS PASSAGE HAS MANY WELL KNOWN AND AWESOME TRUTHS!
1 John 1
- John starts off by acknowledging the truth that they believe that was from the beginning.
- They have seen and touched it.
- John proclaims the eternal life which God made manifest to us
- He proclaims to them so that they might have fellowship with us (believers)
- Our ultimate fellowship is with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ
- Their joy is complete is writing to this group
- There are several people writing this letter with John.
- The message is this: God is light and in Him there is no darkness.
- If we claim to walk with Him and are darkness we lie.
- Walking in the light = fellowship with believers and Jesus' blood cleanses us from our sins.
- Those who say they have "no sin" deceive themselves.
- If we confess our sins He is faithful to forgive us.
- If we say we have NOT sinned we are calling Him a liar and His words aren't in us.
- Offering for the Feast of Trumpets
- 1st day of 7th month = no work, only blow trumpets
- Same offerings needed as previous sacrifices including the goat as a sin offering.
- This is in addition to the new moon's grain offering, regular offering's grain offering, drink offerings according to their own rules.
- Day of Atonement Offerings = 10th day of 7th month
- Here again; one bull, one ram, 7 sheep, and a goat are offered, as well as the sin offering and regular burnt offerings.
- Is the sin offering here still the one goat or something different?
- Feast of Tabernacles Offerings = 15th day of the 7th month
- No work and keep a feast for 7 days.
- Day 1 = 13 bulls, 2 rams, 14 male lambs (grain offerings for each), and a goat as a sin offering
- Day 2 = 12 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 3 = 11 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 4 = 10 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 5 = 9 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 6 = 8 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 7 = 7 bulls, (the rest is the same)
- Day 8 = have a solemn assembly and do no work. on this day the offering is the same as the usual "feasts" sacrifices.
- These things are in addition to vow offerings and freewill offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, and peace offerings.
- Moses relayed these things as God commanded him to.
Isaiah 11
- A "shoot" shall come from the "stump" of Jesse.
- The Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of God shall rest on this person.
- He shall delight in the fear of God.
- He will judge the poor with righteousness, not eyes or ears
- He will strike the earth and will the wicked with his lips (mouth)
- Righteousness and faithfulness shall be his belt.
- The wolf/lamb, leopard/young goat, calf/lion shall lie together
- A "little child" shall lead them.
- The cow/bear, lion/straw, nursing child/cobra, weaned child/adder shall be together
- These opposites show that on God's holy mountain nothing will destroy.
- The earth shall be covered by knowledge of God like waters cover the sea.
- The root of Jesse will be a signal for the PEOPLES (not just Israelites)
- His resting place shall be glorious
- In that day God will again recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, Cush, Egypt, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlines by the sea.
- What does it mean to swoop down on Philistines' shoulders (Will they work together?)
- The Ammonites, Edomites, and Moabites will obey them
- The Lord will dry up the River (Nile?) and turn it into 7 crossable channels
- There will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant to use to return.
1 Corinthians 10
- Paul reminds them that their "fathers" stood under cloud of God and crossed the sea and were "baptized" into Moses.
- They ate spiritual food and drank spiritual drink
- The Rock the drank from was the Rock of Christ.
- God wasn't pleased with most of them and they died in the wilderness.
- They were examples for us, showing us not to desire evil.
- Do not be idolaters (Exodus 32:6 - "The people sat to eat and drink and rose up to play")
- We must avoid sexual immorality - They didn't and 23,000 died in one day.
- When they tested God they were destroyed by serpents.
- When they grumbled the Destroyer killed them.
- They happened as examples for us and were written to teach us.
- Anyone who thinks he stands need to take heed or he will fall (Do not be proud)
- No temptation has overtaken us that is not common to man.
- God is faithful and won't let us be tempted beyond what we can bear.
- He ALWAYS provides a way of escape.
- Paul tells us to flee idolatry because we are in the blood of Christ.
- Paul points back to Jesus' body being the one bread they all partake from (communion)
- Paul's point is that what pagans eat they sacrifice to demons, not God.
- He warns them they can't be with God and with demons.
- He says we shouldn't provoke the Lord to jealousy.
- All things are lawful but not all things are helpful or build up.
- Don't seek our own good, but the good of others.
- Eat whatever is sold in the market.
- If an unbeliever invites you to dinner eat whatever is served without question.
- But if they tell you it was an idol sacrifice refrain from eating it for the server's benefit not your own.
- If you thank God for it, it shouldn't be judged as bad.
- Whatever you eat or drink do it all to the glory of God.
- Our goal should be saving others, and that should be why we please others.
- Paul tells them to imitate him as he is imitating Christ.
THIS PASSAGE HAS MANY WELL KNOWN AND AWESOME TRUTHS!
1 John 1
- John starts off by acknowledging the truth that they believe that was from the beginning.
- They have seen and touched it.
- John proclaims the eternal life which God made manifest to us
- He proclaims to them so that they might have fellowship with us (believers)
- Our ultimate fellowship is with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ
- Their joy is complete is writing to this group
- There are several people writing this letter with John.
- The message is this: God is light and in Him there is no darkness.
- If we claim to walk with Him and are darkness we lie.
- Walking in the light = fellowship with believers and Jesus' blood cleanses us from our sins.
- Those who say they have "no sin" deceive themselves.
- If we confess our sins He is faithful to forgive us.
- If we say we have NOT sinned we are calling Him a liar and His words aren't in us.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Numbers 28 - Isaiah 10 – 1 Corinthians 9 – 2 Peter 3
Numbers 28
- God told Moses to remind the people to give the food offering at the appointed time.
-They were to offer, 2 male lambs a year old without blemish daily.
- One lamb was to be offered in morning the other at twilight.
- That was mixed with 12/13 liters of flour and one quart of beaten oil.
- Its drink offering shall be a quarter hin (1 liter) for each lamb as God directed at Mount Sinai
- It should be offered in the Holy Place
- On the Sabbath they were to offer an additional 2 perfect lambs.
- At the beginning of each month they were to offer; 2 bulls, one ram, seven year old lambs, 6/7 liters of flour, mixed with oil.
- The drink offering is 2 liters of wine for the bull, 1.5 liters for the ram, 1 liter for the lamb.
- In addition to those one male goat as a sin offering.
- Passover Offering: 14th day of the first month, the 15th shall be a feast and they shall eat unleavened bread for 7 days.
- They shouldn't do any work on the 1st day, but offer a food and burnt offering to the Lord (same as monthly offerings) along with daily and regular burnt offerings.
- They shall also offer the food of the food offerings for 7 days.
- The 7th day they shouldn't do any work.
- Day of Firstfruits (Feast of Weeks) - they shouldn't do any work.
- The offering shall be the same as above.
Isaiah 10
- Woe to those who write about oppression.
- These people rob the poor and the widow an prey on the fatherless.
- These people will have nowhere to hide and their wealth will be pointless when "ruin" comes.
- His anger is not turned away and his hand in stretched out still (repeated phrase)
- Assyria is God's "rod" (for discipline)
- God is sending Assyria to punish the wicked in the "godless nation"
- Assyria will boast in her conquests and those she has overtaken.
- After God is finished using Assyria, she will be punished for her arrogance.
- Assyria boasts in her strength, her plunder, her wisdom.
- Assyria is like a boastful axe who doesn't see who swings it.
- God will eventually send sickness and fire on them.
- Their remnant will be so few a child could count them.
- In that time Israel will turn back to God.
- Destruction is overflowing with righteousness.
- God seems to comfort the Israelites by saying not to worry because once God's fury has ended and He will pour it out on the Assyrians.
- God reminds them of how He defeated Egypt and Midian for them.
- What does it mean that the yoke will be broken because of the fat?
-Isaiah lists places that God will come through to destroy.
- God falling Lebanon, He is referred to as the Majestic One
1 Corinthians 9
- Paul calls the Corinthians his "seal of apostleship"
- Paul makes a defense to those who question him.
- He says he has a right to eat and rink and to have a wife like others, including Cephas (Peter)
- Paul asks what soldier pays for his own service or who grows grapes but doesn't eat them.
- Paul points back to the Law of Moses and references that an oxen that treads the grain shall not be muzzled. The oxen aren't God's concern, the people are.
- The plower and thresher plow in hope to get a crop.
- Paul asks why he can't reap material things since he planted spiritual things?
- Paul says that although this is his right among them to do, he has withheld that right to not be an obstacle to them.
- Paul says that people serving in the temple get food from the temple and he preaches the gospel so he should make a living from it.
- Paul says that he isn't writing them to get anything.
- Paul says woe to himself if he doesn't preach the gospel.
- By stewarding the gospel he has been given he will receive a reward.
- His reward is preaching the gospel, not in material things.
- Paul has made himself a "slave to all" to win many.
- Paul adapted to win others outside the law, without being outside the law of Christ.
- Paul becomes all things to all people that he might win some.
- Paul is others focused in his preaching.
- Paul tells them to run to win the race.
- Paul says athletes have self control to win a perishable wreath but believers have something that won't perish.
- Paul isn't doing things randomly, like a flailing boxer, but he controls his body to not be disqualified (keeping the racing/boxing analogy going)
2 Peter 3
- Peter says this is his 2nd letter to them.
- Peter's goal is to remind them of the prophets and commandments of Christ to them.
- He also writes to caution them against scoffers who question when Christ will return.
- These men mock the fact that it hasn't happened.
- Peter reminds them that God spoke and created waters and He spoke and flooded the earth.
- Just like the water, fire is being stored up and will destroy the ungodly.
- One day to God is like a thousand years to us.
- Peter says God isn't slow, but patient so that many may be saved.
- Peter reminds them that the end WILL come like a thief in the night.
- Then all sin will be exposed.
- That is why they should remain holy and pursuing godliness.
- Righteousness dwells in the new heaven and new earth.
- Peter encourages them to be without blemish and at peace.
- See God's patience as salvation.
- Peter acknowledges that Paul also wrote them.
- Peter says Paul's writings can be hard for some to understand and they twist Paul's words like they do other scriptures.
- Pater cautions them not to follow lawless men but to grow in grace and knowledge of Christ.
- God told Moses to remind the people to give the food offering at the appointed time.
-They were to offer, 2 male lambs a year old without blemish daily.
- One lamb was to be offered in morning the other at twilight.
- That was mixed with 12/13 liters of flour and one quart of beaten oil.
- Its drink offering shall be a quarter hin (1 liter) for each lamb as God directed at Mount Sinai
- It should be offered in the Holy Place
- On the Sabbath they were to offer an additional 2 perfect lambs.
- At the beginning of each month they were to offer; 2 bulls, one ram, seven year old lambs, 6/7 liters of flour, mixed with oil.
- The drink offering is 2 liters of wine for the bull, 1.5 liters for the ram, 1 liter for the lamb.
- In addition to those one male goat as a sin offering.
- Passover Offering: 14th day of the first month, the 15th shall be a feast and they shall eat unleavened bread for 7 days.
- They shouldn't do any work on the 1st day, but offer a food and burnt offering to the Lord (same as monthly offerings) along with daily and regular burnt offerings.
- They shall also offer the food of the food offerings for 7 days.
- The 7th day they shouldn't do any work.
- Day of Firstfruits (Feast of Weeks) - they shouldn't do any work.
- The offering shall be the same as above.
Isaiah 10
- Woe to those who write about oppression.
- These people rob the poor and the widow an prey on the fatherless.
- These people will have nowhere to hide and their wealth will be pointless when "ruin" comes.
- His anger is not turned away and his hand in stretched out still (repeated phrase)
- Assyria is God's "rod" (for discipline)
- God is sending Assyria to punish the wicked in the "godless nation"
- Assyria will boast in her conquests and those she has overtaken.
- After God is finished using Assyria, she will be punished for her arrogance.
- Assyria boasts in her strength, her plunder, her wisdom.
- Assyria is like a boastful axe who doesn't see who swings it.
- God will eventually send sickness and fire on them.
- Their remnant will be so few a child could count them.
- In that time Israel will turn back to God.
- Destruction is overflowing with righteousness.
- God seems to comfort the Israelites by saying not to worry because once God's fury has ended and He will pour it out on the Assyrians.
- God reminds them of how He defeated Egypt and Midian for them.
- What does it mean that the yoke will be broken because of the fat?
-Isaiah lists places that God will come through to destroy.
- God falling Lebanon, He is referred to as the Majestic One
1 Corinthians 9
- Paul calls the Corinthians his "seal of apostleship"
- Paul makes a defense to those who question him.
- He says he has a right to eat and rink and to have a wife like others, including Cephas (Peter)
- Paul asks what soldier pays for his own service or who grows grapes but doesn't eat them.
- Paul points back to the Law of Moses and references that an oxen that treads the grain shall not be muzzled. The oxen aren't God's concern, the people are.
- The plower and thresher plow in hope to get a crop.
- Paul asks why he can't reap material things since he planted spiritual things?
- Paul says that although this is his right among them to do, he has withheld that right to not be an obstacle to them.
- Paul says that people serving in the temple get food from the temple and he preaches the gospel so he should make a living from it.
- Paul says that he isn't writing them to get anything.
- Paul says woe to himself if he doesn't preach the gospel.
- By stewarding the gospel he has been given he will receive a reward.
- His reward is preaching the gospel, not in material things.
- Paul has made himself a "slave to all" to win many.
- Paul adapted to win others outside the law, without being outside the law of Christ.
- Paul becomes all things to all people that he might win some.
- Paul is others focused in his preaching.
- Paul tells them to run to win the race.
- Paul says athletes have self control to win a perishable wreath but believers have something that won't perish.
- Paul isn't doing things randomly, like a flailing boxer, but he controls his body to not be disqualified (keeping the racing/boxing analogy going)
2 Peter 3
- Peter says this is his 2nd letter to them.
- Peter's goal is to remind them of the prophets and commandments of Christ to them.
- He also writes to caution them against scoffers who question when Christ will return.
- These men mock the fact that it hasn't happened.
- Peter reminds them that God spoke and created waters and He spoke and flooded the earth.
- Just like the water, fire is being stored up and will destroy the ungodly.
- One day to God is like a thousand years to us.
- Peter says God isn't slow, but patient so that many may be saved.
- Peter reminds them that the end WILL come like a thief in the night.
- Then all sin will be exposed.
- That is why they should remain holy and pursuing godliness.
- Righteousness dwells in the new heaven and new earth.
- Peter encourages them to be without blemish and at peace.
- See God's patience as salvation.
- Peter acknowledges that Paul also wrote them.
- Peter says Paul's writings can be hard for some to understand and they twist Paul's words like they do other scriptures.
- Pater cautions them not to follow lawless men but to grow in grace and knowledge of Christ.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Numbers 27 - Isaiah 9 – 1 Corinthians 8 – 2 Peter 2
Numbers 27
- Zelophehad (descendant of Joseph) had 5 daughters who came.
- They told Moses and Eleazar that their father died of his own sins not in the uprising led by Korah.
- They asked for an inheritance in their father's name because he had no sons.
- Moses took their case to the Lord and God said to give them an inheritance from their father's brothers.
- God told Moses to tell the people that if a man has no son, then the inheritance goes to any daughters, then to any brothers, then to the nearest kinsman of his clan.
- God told Moses to climb the Mountain of Abraim to see the people's inheritance.
- God told Moses that he will die there because of Moses' rebellion in Zin because Moses failed to regard God as holy.
- Moses asked God to appoint a good leader for the people.
- God told Moses to commission Joshua in their sight and invest him with some of Moses' authority so the people will follow him.
- Moses did what God asked.
Isaiah 9
- There will be no gloom for "her" (Galilee). The anguish will be taken away.
- The people of darkness have seen the light.
- God has increased them and brought them joy.
- They rejoice and divide the spoil.
- God will break the rod of the oppressor and remove the yolk.
- The warrior will be burned up.
- "For unto us a child is born" (quoted in Bible story)
- The whole government will be on his shoulders (in his control)
- His names will be Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- He will increase his power and bring everlasting peace.
- He will uphold the throne of David with justice and righteousness forever.
- The zeal of the Lord will do this.
- The Lord has sent His word against Judah and Israel.
- The people boast in what they will do but God says He is bringing the Syrians from the east side and Philistines from the west side to take over Israel.
- God will do this because the people did not turn to Him in their troubles.
- God cut off Israel's head (elders and honored men) and the lying prophets (the tail)
- God has no compassion on them because they are all evil doers and speak folly (disgraceful things)
- That is why His anger still remains on them.
- God's wrath will scorch the land.
- The people will eat and not be satisfied and they will devour their own arm (metaphor?)
- Manassah and Ephraim will devour each other and both will be against Judah.
- The phrase "for all this His anger has not turned away and His hand is outstretched still" is repeated 3 times in this passage.
1 Corinthians 8
- Paul addresses food offered to idols.
- He says that they all possess knowledge which can "puff up", but reminds them that love builds.
- We shouldn't boast in our knowledge because those who love God are known by Him.
- Paul reminds them that idols are not real.
- There ARE many so-called "gods and lords" but for Christians there is one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus, for whom we exist.
- Paul reminds them that everyone doesn't know this.
- Some who have worshipped to idols before have a troubled conscience about eating idol food because they are weak.
- Food is no big deal if you eat it either way.
- Paul warns them not to use this "knowledge" to make other "weaker" Christians stumble.
- Eating idol food in front of the weak will not encourage them.
- Wounding the conscience of the weak in sin against Christ for the "knowledgeable"
- Paul says he, himself will never eat meat if it makes a brother stumble.
- How should we know what might make a weaker brother stumble when getting to know that person?
2 Peter 2
- Peter tells them that false prophets will arise from among them.
- These men will even deny the Master (God/Jesus)
- The will divert many and be blasphemers.
- They will exploit Christians, but their end will be destruction.
- Peter reminds them that God didn't spare fallen angels, the ancient world of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah then these false Prophets won't be spared either.
- Fallen angels are in pits of hell awaiting judgement.
- The ungodly died in the great flood
- Made the two sinful cities go extinct as an example to others.
- God also rescued Lot (who was tormented by what he saw there) from those sinful cities
- The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials (temptations)
- God will bring judgement on those who defile passion and despise authority.
- The blasphemers do not tremble at their fate.
- The blaspheme of things they are ignorant of.
- They are blemishes among Christians.
- They are full of adultery and sin and entice "unsteady souls"
- They have gone astray and trained their hearts in greed.
- They have followed the way of Balaam who was rebuked by his donkey while pursuing his own desires.
- They entice with folly and sensual passions the weak.
- The false prophets offer freedom but they are enslaved by whatever overcomes them.
- They are entangled in sin after hearing the gospel, which is worse then never hearing it.
- It would be better for them if they had never heard the gospel
- How? Why? Don't both go to hell?
- Peter uses the dog returns to its vomit reference from Proverbs to prove his point about those who turn away from the truth to their former ways.
- Zelophehad (descendant of Joseph) had 5 daughters who came.
- They told Moses and Eleazar that their father died of his own sins not in the uprising led by Korah.
- They asked for an inheritance in their father's name because he had no sons.
- Moses took their case to the Lord and God said to give them an inheritance from their father's brothers.
- God told Moses to tell the people that if a man has no son, then the inheritance goes to any daughters, then to any brothers, then to the nearest kinsman of his clan.
- God told Moses to climb the Mountain of Abraim to see the people's inheritance.
- God told Moses that he will die there because of Moses' rebellion in Zin because Moses failed to regard God as holy.
- Moses asked God to appoint a good leader for the people.
- God told Moses to commission Joshua in their sight and invest him with some of Moses' authority so the people will follow him.
- Moses did what God asked.
Isaiah 9
- There will be no gloom for "her" (Galilee). The anguish will be taken away.
- The people of darkness have seen the light.
- God has increased them and brought them joy.
- They rejoice and divide the spoil.
- God will break the rod of the oppressor and remove the yolk.
- The warrior will be burned up.
- "For unto us a child is born" (quoted in Bible story)
- The whole government will be on his shoulders (in his control)
- His names will be Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- He will increase his power and bring everlasting peace.
- He will uphold the throne of David with justice and righteousness forever.
- The zeal of the Lord will do this.
- The Lord has sent His word against Judah and Israel.
- The people boast in what they will do but God says He is bringing the Syrians from the east side and Philistines from the west side to take over Israel.
- God will do this because the people did not turn to Him in their troubles.
- God cut off Israel's head (elders and honored men) and the lying prophets (the tail)
- God has no compassion on them because they are all evil doers and speak folly (disgraceful things)
- That is why His anger still remains on them.
- God's wrath will scorch the land.
- The people will eat and not be satisfied and they will devour their own arm (metaphor?)
- Manassah and Ephraim will devour each other and both will be against Judah.
- The phrase "for all this His anger has not turned away and His hand is outstretched still" is repeated 3 times in this passage.
1 Corinthians 8
- Paul addresses food offered to idols.
- He says that they all possess knowledge which can "puff up", but reminds them that love builds.
- We shouldn't boast in our knowledge because those who love God are known by Him.
- Paul reminds them that idols are not real.
- There ARE many so-called "gods and lords" but for Christians there is one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus, for whom we exist.
- Paul reminds them that everyone doesn't know this.
- Some who have worshipped to idols before have a troubled conscience about eating idol food because they are weak.
- Food is no big deal if you eat it either way.
- Paul warns them not to use this "knowledge" to make other "weaker" Christians stumble.
- Eating idol food in front of the weak will not encourage them.
- Wounding the conscience of the weak in sin against Christ for the "knowledgeable"
- Paul says he, himself will never eat meat if it makes a brother stumble.
- How should we know what might make a weaker brother stumble when getting to know that person?
2 Peter 2
- Peter tells them that false prophets will arise from among them.
- These men will even deny the Master (God/Jesus)
- The will divert many and be blasphemers.
- They will exploit Christians, but their end will be destruction.
- Peter reminds them that God didn't spare fallen angels, the ancient world of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah then these false Prophets won't be spared either.
- Fallen angels are in pits of hell awaiting judgement.
- The ungodly died in the great flood
- Made the two sinful cities go extinct as an example to others.
- God also rescued Lot (who was tormented by what he saw there) from those sinful cities
- The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials (temptations)
- God will bring judgement on those who defile passion and despise authority.
- The blasphemers do not tremble at their fate.
- The blaspheme of things they are ignorant of.
- They are blemishes among Christians.
- They are full of adultery and sin and entice "unsteady souls"
- They have gone astray and trained their hearts in greed.
- They have followed the way of Balaam who was rebuked by his donkey while pursuing his own desires.
- They entice with folly and sensual passions the weak.
- The false prophets offer freedom but they are enslaved by whatever overcomes them.
- They are entangled in sin after hearing the gospel, which is worse then never hearing it.
- It would be better for them if they had never heard the gospel
- How? Why? Don't both go to hell?
- Peter uses the dog returns to its vomit reference from Proverbs to prove his point about those who turn away from the truth to their former ways.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Numbers 26 - Isaiah 8 – 1 Corinthians 7 – 2 Peter 1
Numbers 26
- God told Moses and Eleazar to take a census of all of the people.
- They had to be 20 and able to go to war to be counted.
- Who is the "them" referring to in v.3?
- Reuben = 43,730 (Dathan and Abiram and Korah had descendants but they themselves had been swallowed by the earth)
- Simeon = 22,200
- Gad = 40,500
- Judah = 76,500
- Issachar = 64,300
- Zebulun = 60,500
- Joseph = (contained descendants of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Gilead) = 52,700 (Zelophehad had no sons, but only 5 daughters)
- Why did the census take note of these daughters?
- Ephraim = 32,500 Why are Joseph's two sons listed separately?
- Benjamin = 45,600
- Dan = 64,400
- Asher = 53,400
- Naphtali = 45,400
- Their total was 601,730
- God told Moses to divide the land and give a large inheritance to the big tribes and a small inheritance to the smaller tribes.
- Levites = 23,000 (Moses, Aaron, and Miriam's tribe) (Nadab and Abihu died offering an unauthorized offering.) This list was for all males a month old and up.
- The Levites did not get an inheritance.
- None of these people were on the previous census list taken in the wilderness as God had promised except for Caleb and Joshua who had had faith.
Isaiah 8
- God told Isaiah to write on a tablet with Uriah and Zechariah as witnesses.
- Isaiah went to prophetess and she bore a son named Maher-shalal-hashbaz (The spoil speeds the prey hastens)
- God said that before this son could talk Damascus and Samaria will be overtaken by the King of Assyria
- God is bringing the assyrians against them since they have refused His gentle waters.
- The Assyrians will overtake the people like a flooding river
- Why does verse 8 end with O Immanuel?
- Who is the "us" God is with in verse 10- the Assyrians or the Israelites?
- God told Isaiah not to fear what the people fear or to act like the people.
- Isaiah should regard God as holy and fear God alone.
- God will be a sanctuary and a stumbling rock to Israel.
- God told Isaiah to wait for the Lord and hope in Him while all this takes place.
- The people will turn to mediums and necromancers instead of to God.
- The people will become hungry and enraged and grumbled against king and God.
- Their end will be darkness.
1 Corinthians 7
- Paul says that it is good not to have sexual relations.
- People should marry to fight sexual temptations.
- They should each give each other conjugal rights.
- They each have control over the other's body not their own.
- Paul cautions not to deprive one another except for prayer because it gives Satan an "in" for temptation because we lack self control.
- Paul tells them as a "concession" not a command that he wishes they could be like him (single?)
- Widows and unmarried are better off not marrying, but they should if their passions arise.
- Paul says that the Lord charges the married that they should not get divorced.
- Why does Paul say if the wife separates from her husband she shouldn't remarry?
- To the rest (Paul, not the Lord says) to stay with an unbelieving spouse if they want to remain with you.
- How is the unbelieving spouse made holy and is Paul saying a holy person's children are automatically made holy?
- If the unbelieving spouse chooses to go, let them.
- God has called believers to peace.
- A husband and a wife should assume they can "save" their unbelieving spouse.
- We should all seek to lead the life God has assigned to us.
- Paul tells people not to seek out circumcision if they haven't already done it, because it cannot save.
- People need to keep the commandments.
- The saved slave shouldn't seek to be free but if God allows it they should take it.
- We are all slaves of the Lord.
- The free shouldn't be slaves of men, but slaves of Christ because they were bought with a price.
- Paul gives his opinion on marrying and says that the free shouldn't be married and the married shouldn't seek to be free.
- Marriage = worldly troubles
- Paul tells people to be aware that the present world; goods, marriage, mourning, rejoicing will all soon pass away.
- The unmarried is anxious about things of the Lord, but the married man's anxieties are divided between how to please his wife and the Lord.
- The unmarried woman focuses on pursuing holiness in body and spirit, but the married woman has to please her husband.
- Paul wants them to have undivided devotion to God.
- Paul seems to be saying that if anyone is giving into temptation with their betrothed then they should marry.
- Marriage is NOT sin.
- Why would a self controlled individual still keep her as his betrothed?
- Mariage is good, not marrying is even better.
2 Peter 1
- Why is Simon written Simeon?
- Peter is writing to those equal in the faith.
- Grace and peace come from knowledge of God and Jesus.
- His divine power has given us all things (life and godliness)
- He has called us for His own glory and excellence.
- By His power we are able to escape corruption and sinful desire.
- We should pursue virtue, knowledge, self-controlled, steadfast, godliness, brotherly affection, and love. (They go from lesser to greater importance)
- These qualities should increase which will help you stay fruitful and effective.
- A believer who lacks these qualities has forgotten the truth of the gospel.
- If you practice these things you will never fall.
- This is the way to show your election is sure and that you will enter heaven.
- Peter says he will continue to remind them of these qualities.
- Peter "stirs them up" by way of reminder.
- Peter acknowledges that his life will soon end, but he wants them to recall the things he preached to them.
- Peter didn't preach myth but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
- Peter recalls when God spoke aloud to Jesus "This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased"
- Peter reminds them of the prophetic Word and reinds them to pay attention to it.
- The will of man has never produced a prophecy.
- Prophecies come from God through the Holy Spirit
- God told Moses and Eleazar to take a census of all of the people.
- They had to be 20 and able to go to war to be counted.
- Who is the "them" referring to in v.3?
- Reuben = 43,730 (Dathan and Abiram and Korah had descendants but they themselves had been swallowed by the earth)
- Simeon = 22,200
- Gad = 40,500
- Judah = 76,500
- Issachar = 64,300
- Zebulun = 60,500
- Joseph = (contained descendants of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Gilead) = 52,700 (Zelophehad had no sons, but only 5 daughters)
- Why did the census take note of these daughters?
- Ephraim = 32,500 Why are Joseph's two sons listed separately?
- Benjamin = 45,600
- Dan = 64,400
- Asher = 53,400
- Naphtali = 45,400
- Their total was 601,730
- God told Moses to divide the land and give a large inheritance to the big tribes and a small inheritance to the smaller tribes.
- Levites = 23,000 (Moses, Aaron, and Miriam's tribe) (Nadab and Abihu died offering an unauthorized offering.) This list was for all males a month old and up.
- The Levites did not get an inheritance.
- None of these people were on the previous census list taken in the wilderness as God had promised except for Caleb and Joshua who had had faith.
Isaiah 8
- God told Isaiah to write on a tablet with Uriah and Zechariah as witnesses.
- Isaiah went to prophetess and she bore a son named Maher-shalal-hashbaz (The spoil speeds the prey hastens)
- God said that before this son could talk Damascus and Samaria will be overtaken by the King of Assyria
- God is bringing the assyrians against them since they have refused His gentle waters.
- The Assyrians will overtake the people like a flooding river
- Why does verse 8 end with O Immanuel?
- Who is the "us" God is with in verse 10- the Assyrians or the Israelites?
- God told Isaiah not to fear what the people fear or to act like the people.
- Isaiah should regard God as holy and fear God alone.
- God will be a sanctuary and a stumbling rock to Israel.
- God told Isaiah to wait for the Lord and hope in Him while all this takes place.
- The people will turn to mediums and necromancers instead of to God.
- The people will become hungry and enraged and grumbled against king and God.
- Their end will be darkness.
1 Corinthians 7
- Paul says that it is good not to have sexual relations.
- People should marry to fight sexual temptations.
- They should each give each other conjugal rights.
- They each have control over the other's body not their own.
- Paul cautions not to deprive one another except for prayer because it gives Satan an "in" for temptation because we lack self control.
- Paul tells them as a "concession" not a command that he wishes they could be like him (single?)
- Widows and unmarried are better off not marrying, but they should if their passions arise.
- Paul says that the Lord charges the married that they should not get divorced.
- Why does Paul say if the wife separates from her husband she shouldn't remarry?
- To the rest (Paul, not the Lord says) to stay with an unbelieving spouse if they want to remain with you.
- How is the unbelieving spouse made holy and is Paul saying a holy person's children are automatically made holy?
- If the unbelieving spouse chooses to go, let them.
- God has called believers to peace.
- A husband and a wife should assume they can "save" their unbelieving spouse.
- We should all seek to lead the life God has assigned to us.
- Paul tells people not to seek out circumcision if they haven't already done it, because it cannot save.
- People need to keep the commandments.
- The saved slave shouldn't seek to be free but if God allows it they should take it.
- We are all slaves of the Lord.
- The free shouldn't be slaves of men, but slaves of Christ because they were bought with a price.
- Paul gives his opinion on marrying and says that the free shouldn't be married and the married shouldn't seek to be free.
- Marriage = worldly troubles
- Paul tells people to be aware that the present world; goods, marriage, mourning, rejoicing will all soon pass away.
- The unmarried is anxious about things of the Lord, but the married man's anxieties are divided between how to please his wife and the Lord.
- The unmarried woman focuses on pursuing holiness in body and spirit, but the married woman has to please her husband.
- Paul wants them to have undivided devotion to God.
- Paul seems to be saying that if anyone is giving into temptation with their betrothed then they should marry.
- Marriage is NOT sin.
- Why would a self controlled individual still keep her as his betrothed?
- Mariage is good, not marrying is even better.
2 Peter 1
- Why is Simon written Simeon?
- Peter is writing to those equal in the faith.
- Grace and peace come from knowledge of God and Jesus.
- His divine power has given us all things (life and godliness)
- He has called us for His own glory and excellence.
- By His power we are able to escape corruption and sinful desire.
- We should pursue virtue, knowledge, self-controlled, steadfast, godliness, brotherly affection, and love. (They go from lesser to greater importance)
- These qualities should increase which will help you stay fruitful and effective.
- A believer who lacks these qualities has forgotten the truth of the gospel.
- If you practice these things you will never fall.
- This is the way to show your election is sure and that you will enter heaven.
- Peter says he will continue to remind them of these qualities.
- Peter "stirs them up" by way of reminder.
- Peter acknowledges that his life will soon end, but he wants them to recall the things he preached to them.
- Peter didn't preach myth but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
- Peter recalls when God spoke aloud to Jesus "This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased"
- Peter reminds them of the prophetic Word and reinds them to pay attention to it.
- The will of man has never produced a prophecy.
- Prophecies come from God through the Holy Spirit
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Numbers 25 - Isaiah 7 – 1 Corinthians 6 – 1 Peter 5
Numbers 25
- The Israelites began to intermingle with the Moabites at Shittim.
- The Moabites invited the Israelites to eat and worship their gods, Baal, and they did.
- The Lord grew angry with them and He told Moses to hang/impale the chiefs.
- Moses told the judges to kill any chiefs who had yolked themselves with Baal.
- An Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family.
- Phinehas, Eleazar's son, Aaron's grandson, saw this he took a spear and he impaled both of them while they were together.
- This stopped a plague, but 24,000 Israelites had already died.
- The Lord commended Phinehas on his jealousy for God and his atonement for his people and God gave him the covenant of peace.
- Zimri was the impaled man's name and the Midianite woman's name was Cozbi.
- God told Moses to strike down the Midianites because the Israelites were turning toward their wiles (ways)
Isaiah 7
- In the days of Ahaz (Uzziah's grandson) Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, the king of Israel (Ephraim) came to wage war on Jerusalem (Judah), but couldn't.
- When the house of David heard of the Syrians attack they were very fearful.
- Isaiah went with his son Shear-jashub to go meet Ahaz by the Washer's Field.
- Isaiah told Ahaz to be quiet, careful and not to fear the two "stumps" who planned evil against him.
- The Lord said that this would NOT come to pass and that within 65 years Ephraim would no longer be a people.
- Why is the 65 year part in parentheses?
- God says is you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.
- Isaiah told Ahaz to ask for a sign from God (which is forbidden in other scriptures)
- Ahaz said he would not test God.
- Isaiah told him that God would give him a sign that " a virgin will conceive and bear a son and shall be called Immanuel.
- Immanuel will refuse evil and choose good and the land of the two kings Ahaz now fears will be deserted.
- In that day the fly from Egypt and bees from Assyria will settle in the streams (What does this phrase mean?)
- The Lord will defeat them with the king of Assyria.
- Everyone who is left will eat curds and honey from a young cow and 2 sheep.
- All the valuable vines will turn into thorns and briers and the land that is now farmed will only be good for releasing cows and sheep to graze.
1 Corinthians 6
- Paul says that when you have something against a fellow believer you should take it before saint before you go to a worldly judge.
- The world is to be judged by us, so we should be able to settle "trivial cases"
- We will judge angels, so we have the ability to judge in this life.
- Paul says they should be ashamed because no one is wise enough to settle disputes between brothers in the faith.
- Paul is saying they shouldn't have any lawsuits against one another but should suffer wrongs instead.
- The unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
- Those deceived participate in sexual immorality, idolatry, homosexuality, thieves, greed, reviling, and swindling.
- Paul reminds them that they once participated in these things but were washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of Jesus and the Spirit of God.
- Paul says all things are lawful for him but not all are helpful.
- He will not be enslaved by anything.
- The food and stomach go together, but sexual immorality and the body do not go together.
- God will raise us like he raise the Lord.
- Our bodies are members of Christ so we shouldn't use them to sin.
- Going to a prostitute is becoming one with her.
- We are one in spirit because we are joined with God.
- All sins other than sexual immorality are done outside the body.
- Our bodies are holy temples that were bought with a price.
- We don't own our bodies. God does so we should glorify Him with our body.
1 Peter 5
- Peter exhorts the elders, he being one of them, to shepherd the flock of God.
- They should give oversight willingly, not for selfish gain, but eagerly.
- They shouldn't be domineering but live as examples to other believers.
- When Jesus appears they shall receive a crown of glory.
- The younger should submit to elders.
- They should all be humble with each other because God opposes the proud.
- God will exalt the humble at the proper time.
- We can cast all our anxieties on Him because he cares for us.
- We should be sober-minded and watchful.
- Satan is a lion who prowls around us.
- We need to resist Satan and know others are also experiencing suffering.
- After suffering a short time God will restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish us.
- Silvanus had written this letter for Peter.
- He reminds them to stand firm in the grace of God.
- Who is the "she who is at Babylon"? Is this Peter's wife?
- Mark is Peter's son.
- They were to greet each other with the kiss of love.
- The Israelites began to intermingle with the Moabites at Shittim.
- The Moabites invited the Israelites to eat and worship their gods, Baal, and they did.
- The Lord grew angry with them and He told Moses to hang/impale the chiefs.
- Moses told the judges to kill any chiefs who had yolked themselves with Baal.
- An Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family.
- Phinehas, Eleazar's son, Aaron's grandson, saw this he took a spear and he impaled both of them while they were together.
- This stopped a plague, but 24,000 Israelites had already died.
- The Lord commended Phinehas on his jealousy for God and his atonement for his people and God gave him the covenant of peace.
- Zimri was the impaled man's name and the Midianite woman's name was Cozbi.
- God told Moses to strike down the Midianites because the Israelites were turning toward their wiles (ways)
Isaiah 7
- In the days of Ahaz (Uzziah's grandson) Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, the king of Israel (Ephraim) came to wage war on Jerusalem (Judah), but couldn't.
- When the house of David heard of the Syrians attack they were very fearful.
- Isaiah went with his son Shear-jashub to go meet Ahaz by the Washer's Field.
- Isaiah told Ahaz to be quiet, careful and not to fear the two "stumps" who planned evil against him.
- The Lord said that this would NOT come to pass and that within 65 years Ephraim would no longer be a people.
- Why is the 65 year part in parentheses?
- God says is you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.
- Isaiah told Ahaz to ask for a sign from God (which is forbidden in other scriptures)
- Ahaz said he would not test God.
- Isaiah told him that God would give him a sign that " a virgin will conceive and bear a son and shall be called Immanuel.
- Immanuel will refuse evil and choose good and the land of the two kings Ahaz now fears will be deserted.
- In that day the fly from Egypt and bees from Assyria will settle in the streams (What does this phrase mean?)
- The Lord will defeat them with the king of Assyria.
- Everyone who is left will eat curds and honey from a young cow and 2 sheep.
- All the valuable vines will turn into thorns and briers and the land that is now farmed will only be good for releasing cows and sheep to graze.
1 Corinthians 6
- Paul says that when you have something against a fellow believer you should take it before saint before you go to a worldly judge.
- The world is to be judged by us, so we should be able to settle "trivial cases"
- We will judge angels, so we have the ability to judge in this life.
- Paul says they should be ashamed because no one is wise enough to settle disputes between brothers in the faith.
- Paul is saying they shouldn't have any lawsuits against one another but should suffer wrongs instead.
- The unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
- Those deceived participate in sexual immorality, idolatry, homosexuality, thieves, greed, reviling, and swindling.
- Paul reminds them that they once participated in these things but were washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of Jesus and the Spirit of God.
- Paul says all things are lawful for him but not all are helpful.
- He will not be enslaved by anything.
- The food and stomach go together, but sexual immorality and the body do not go together.
- God will raise us like he raise the Lord.
- Our bodies are members of Christ so we shouldn't use them to sin.
- Going to a prostitute is becoming one with her.
- We are one in spirit because we are joined with God.
- All sins other than sexual immorality are done outside the body.
- Our bodies are holy temples that were bought with a price.
- We don't own our bodies. God does so we should glorify Him with our body.
1 Peter 5
- Peter exhorts the elders, he being one of them, to shepherd the flock of God.
- They should give oversight willingly, not for selfish gain, but eagerly.
- They shouldn't be domineering but live as examples to other believers.
- When Jesus appears they shall receive a crown of glory.
- The younger should submit to elders.
- They should all be humble with each other because God opposes the proud.
- God will exalt the humble at the proper time.
- We can cast all our anxieties on Him because he cares for us.
- We should be sober-minded and watchful.
- Satan is a lion who prowls around us.
- We need to resist Satan and know others are also experiencing suffering.
- After suffering a short time God will restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish us.
- Silvanus had written this letter for Peter.
- He reminds them to stand firm in the grace of God.
- Who is the "she who is at Babylon"? Is this Peter's wife?
- Mark is Peter's son.
- They were to greet each other with the kiss of love.
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