NOTES: Journey to the Promised Land
NUMBERS 3-4
-The Lord gives Moses and Aaron commands about the Levites, the Kohathites, the Gershonites, the Merarites and the numbering of Levite Clans
-"The Lord also said to Moses, "I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine, for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether man or animal. They are to be mine. I am the Lord.""
NUMBERS 6
-The Lord gives Moses instructions for anyone who wants to "make a special vow, a vow of separation to the Lord as a Nazirite"
-During his vow of separation, no razor may be used on his head. Then, he is to shave off his dedicated hair and present it into the fire as a sacrifice
NUMBERS 11-14
-"Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused"(11:1)
-Then the people complained to Moses that they had no meat to eat; only manna. Moses went to the Lord and asked for help. The Lord replied and promised that they will have enough meat to eat for a whole month
-"Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a day's walk in any direction." (11.31)
-"But while the meat was still between their teeth...the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague."
-Chapter 12: Miriam and Aaron oppose Moses
-The two began to gossip and talk against Moses for he had married a Cushite woman. The Lord heard this, and rebuked them by making Miriam leprous and confining her outside the camp for seven days
-The Lord commands Moses to send men to explore the land of canaan, and they returned with a report: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey!...But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large" (12:27)
CHAPTER 14: THE PEOPLE REBEL
-The people began to complain and rebel against Moses and Aaron, and threaten to stone them
-The Lord said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they" (14:11)
-"The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now" (v18)
-The Lord says, "Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand...As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. But you--your bodies will fall in this desert. "
ACT OF LOVE #361: Went to a court case and a city council meeting yesterday with three of my friends for government. I didn't bring the worksheet I had to fill out, so I needed to copy my friend's after the meetings. Since they let me borrow their paper, I took the liberty of taking notes and getting all the information down (Judge name, attorneys, courtroom number, city council members, etc).
ACT OF LOVE #362: Since my mom's lower back has been hurting alot, someone suggested that she take a hot bath. We have a jacuzzi in my parent's bathroom, but my mom didn't know how to use it. Took the time to figure out how to use the jacuzzi, and prepared a really relaxing bath for her! She really enjoyed it.
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