Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Israel is about to see fulfilled God’s promise to Abraham of a land.  It’s not an exact analogy (I suppose, by definition, an analogy is...

Moses rehearses the Ten Commandments for the people.  In short paraphrase, they are . . . 1.  No other gods before Me 2.  No idols 3.  Do...

“Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them . . . Beyond the Jordan, in the...

The closing chapters of Numbers are filled with additional instructions about various types of offerings and vows.  And then, in chapter...

I want to make several quick observations from today’s reading.  The Lord said to Moses, “Take a census of all the congregation of the...

An episode both sad and full of hope.  “The people spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die...

The selection of Aaron and God’s provisions for him and his fellow priests is our story, this morning.  From the tithes and offerings...

We have arrived at the story of the spies sent into Canaan to scope out the situation.  The ten spies “brought to the people of Israel a...

Well, the people are about to head out from Sinai and farther into the wilderness.  But, first, they will observe the Passover and...

The people of Israel are making their way through the wilderness (Their own fault, by the way, because of their refusal to trust God.)...

40 years of wilderness wandering crunched down into 36 chapters.  That’s the book of Numbers.  So much left out, and it will be...

Over and over again, in his Word, God says to Israel and to us, “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and...

More instructions regarding offerings and their holiness, festivals, the Sabbath, Passover, and items in the tabernacle.  About the...

Some selected (because there are so many) from today’s reading.  “They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons” (17:7). ...

In the preceding chapters of Leviticus:  instructions about food, childbirth, leprosy, disease found in houses, and bodily hygiene. ...