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...
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,...
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,...
Bible Readings for June 7th Deuteronomy 11 | Psalms 95–96 | Isaiah 39 | Revelation 9 By the time of Jesus, the signs and frontlets that Moses wanted to see bound to the eyes and hands of Israelites (Deut. 11:18) had largely become an outward show of hypocrisy. Jesus...
Bible Readings for June 6th Deuteronomy 10 | Psalm 94 | Isaiah 38 | Revelation 8 When God commanded in Genesis 17 that every male in the household of Abraham be circumcised, he never intended for circumcision to be merely a physical act. Instead, physical...
Bible Readings for June 5th Deuteronomy 9 | Psalms 92–93 | Isaiah 37 | Revelation 7 In Deuteronomy 9, Moses shatters the final false belief that Israel might hold onto about why Yahweh was removing the inhabitants of the land of Canaan in order to give Israel the land...