“Numbers 27:15-16: “And Moses spoke unto the Lord saying: ‘Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation.” Since we were introduced to Moses in the Book of Exodus, there is one phrase that is repeated over and over. In fact it is repeated 175 times.
Deuteronomy 31:8 “And the LORD, he [it is] that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.” “Abused children will always protect the abuser, because it is all they know. They fear the person, hate the circumstances, but anything is
Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof. “Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.” Will Rodgers “Do not distress thyself with tomorrow’s affliction, for thou knowest not
Numbers 21:5: “And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.” Cassius: Brutus hath rived my heart: A friend should bear a friends
Numbers 21:4: “And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.” Maybe I am the odd one out, but I keep hearing all these testimonies about people who walk a tough road and how God sends miracle after miracles to deliver them. How God supports them and gets them through.
Numbers 21:6: “And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.” Exodus 12:37 mentions that a mixed multitude, an unspecified number of non-Israelites were tagging along during the Exodus. They caused no end of frustration for Moses and because of their pagan background
Numbers 10:35-36: “Whenever the ark set out, Moses said: ‘Arise O’Lord let the enemy be scattered, may your foes flee before you.’ Whenever it came to rest, he said: ‘Return Lord to the countless thousands of Israel.’” This passage is set off in the original scrolls with two inverted nuns. They appear in some
Psalms 25:16: “Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am alone and afflicted.” “Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Tillich Paul Tillich was probably the most influential theologian
Numbers 16:3-6: “They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, ‘You have gone too far! For all the community is holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above the Lord’s congregation?’ When Moses heard this, he fell on his face.” The Talmud,
Numbers 10:35: “And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.” Do you ever stop to think what enemies Moses is talking about? It really does not appear that there were any
