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.