by Jacob D. Gerber | Jun 13, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Deuteronomy
Bible Readings for June 13th Deuteronomy 18 | Psalm 105 | Isaiah 45 | Revelation 15 Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are filled with regulations for the Levitical priests in Israel, and in yesterday’s reading from Deuteronomy 17, Moses laid out the...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jun 12, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Deuteronomy
Bible Readings for June 12th Deuteronomy 17 | Psalm 104 | Isaiah 44 | Revelation 14 Deuteronomy 17 serves as the standard against which we should judge the kings of Israel and Judah as we read about them in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. In this passage,...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jun 11, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Deuteronomy
Bible Readings for June 11th Deuteronomy 16 | Psalm 103 | Isaiah 43 | Revelation 13 In Deuteronomy 16, Moses names the three festivals that all Israelite males were expected to attend: Passover, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and the Feast of Booths. As we saw in our...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jun 10, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Deuteronomy
Bible Readings for June 10th Deuteronomy 15 | Psalm 102 | Isaiah 42 | Revelation 12 Toward the end of yesterday’s meditation on Deuteronomy 14, we talked about how the tithes of Israel were meant to take care of the needy as well as the Levites, who did not have their...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jun 9, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Deuteronomy
Bible Readings for June 9th Deuteronomy 13–14 | Psalms 99, 100, & 101 | Isaiah 41 | Revelation 11 Deuteronomy 14 changes the way that we see our offerings to God. Sadly, we can too easily come to look at the act of bringing our offerings to God as a kind of a tax,...
by Jacob D. Gerber | Jun 8, 2019 | Bible Meditations, Deuteronomy
Bible Readings for June 8th Deuteronomy 12 | Psalms 97–98 | Isaiah 40 | Revelation 10 Moses reveals in Deuteronomy 12:8–9 that Israel’s informality in their worship would eventually need to change: “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today,...
