Deuteronomy 10 - Isaiah 28 – 2 Corinthians 11 – Revelations 10

Deuteronomy 10
- God told Moses to cut two more stone tablets and make an ark of wood.
- God said He'd rewrite the commandments on the tablets
- Moses made the ark of acacia wood.
- God rewrote the words in the same writing as before. God had spoken these same words to the people through the fire.
- Moses put the tablets in the ark and brought it down as God told him to do.
- Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah where Aaron died.
- They traveled to Gudgodah and then to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.
- Here God appointed the Levites to watch over the ark and bless God's name.
- The Lord is the inheritance of the Levites, not what they get from conquests.
- Moses stayed on the mountain for 40 days and night talking with God.
- He said that God listened to him then.
- The Lord said He wouldn't destroy them.
- God told Moses to go lead the people into the promised land.
- God wants the Israelites to fear Him, follow Him, and walk in His ways.
- They were to serve God with their heart and soul, keeping His commandments.
- Moses says God owns heaven, earth, and the heaven of heaven (What is that?)
- God chose to love their fathers and to love them as well.
- Moses tells them to circumcise their hearts (don't be stubborn)
- God is the God of gods and mighty, awesome and not a bribe taker
- He executes Justice for the widow and He loves the sojourner
- That's why the Israelites should love the sojourners (they were once ones themselves)
- Moses again tells them to fear God.
- They should serve God and hold onto Him and swear by Him (This is the opposite of what Jesus says in the Beatitudes)
- He is their praise.
- Their forefathers went down to Egypt (in the times of Joseph) 70 men and have come out as numerous as the stars.

Isaiah 28
- Ephraim was full of drunkards.
- Their glory is fading.
- The Lord has one who is mighty and strong like a storm.
- The proud drunks of Ephraim will be swallowed up like the first figs of the season.
- The Lord will be a crown of glory to those who turn back to Him.
- The priests and prophets stagger with much wine and their tables are full of vomit.
- Who will he teach knowledge? is the question posed by this verse
- Who is the "he" in this verse?
- They keep adding more and more precepts and words.
- God will try to speak to them by foreigners, but they still won't listen.
- God told His people he wants to give them rest for the weary but they won't listen.
- God's word will be precept upon precept to them and they will fall and be broken.
- Isaiah says they have made a deal with death and made lies their refuge.
- God reminds them that God is the cornerstone and a sure foundation.
- God has made a righteousness a plumb line and hail will sweep away those sheltering in lies.
- God will annul their covenant with death.
- They will be overwhelmed and sheered by terror until they understand God's message.
- God will be roused to do His deed.
- Do not laugh at God's decrees and become more inbounded to sin and pride.
- They need to hear what God is saying
- A farmer doesn't continually til the soil, but he plants in it and lets it grow.
- There are certain ways to harvest various crops.
- God will till the soil (discipline them) and then harvest those who turn to Him.

2 Corinthians 11
- Paul asks them to bear with him as he presents them to Christ as his bride with divine jealousy.
- Paul fears they have been led astray like Eve was by the serpent.
- Their thoughts are being led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
- They seem to be accepting all variations of the gospel
- Paul boasts that he is not inferior to the super apostles
- Paul says he is unskilled in speaking but not in knowledge.
- Paul asks them if it was wrong that he shared the gospel with them for free.
- Paul had accepted payment from other churches in order to serve the Corinthians.
- Paul reminds them that he didn't ask them for anything but his fellow brothers from Macedonia supplied his needs.
- Paul will continue to boasting Achaia.
- Paul does this to undermine claims of other false apostles.
- Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
- Satan's servant also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.
- Their end will correspond with the deeds.
- Paul says he will be a fool because the Corinthians let others make slaves of them, take advantage of them, and even slap them in the face.
- Paul says he was "too weak for that"
- Paul boasts that he is Hebrew, an Israelite, an offspring of Abraham, a servant of Christ, 5 times he received 40 lashes minus one, 3 times was beaten with rods, stoned once, 3 times shipwrecked, spent a night and a day adrift at sea,
- He also survived rivers, robbers, danger from Jews and Gentiles, city, wilderness, sea, false brothers, faced many hardships, had sleepless nights, hungry, thirsty, cold and exposure.
- On top of all these things Paul has an anxiety for all the churches.
- Paul said he will boast of the things that show his weakness.
- Paul says God knows he isn't lying.
- In Damascus the governor under King Aretas wanted to seize Paul but he escaped through a window in the wall in a basket.

Revelations 10
- John saw another angel wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, with a face like the sun.
- His legs were like pillars of fire.
- He had a little scroll opened in his hand.
- His right foot was on the sea and his left foot was on the land.
- His voice was like a roaring lion.
- When he spoke 7 thunders sounded.
- A voice told John not to write down what the seven thunders had said.
- The angel swore by him who lives forever and ever that there would be no more delay.
- The 7th trumpet would fulfill the mysteries of God as revealed by the prophets
- The voice told John to take the scroll from the angel.
- The angel told John to eat the scroll which would be bitter to the stomach but sweet to the taste.
- John was told he must prophesy about many people, nations, languages, and kings.
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