by admin | Dec 29, 2025 | 3 John, Balaam, Balak and the 24,000, Section Seven
The story of Balaam and Balak has been too fruitful to abandon. To continue I’ll introduce the “24,000” (Numbers 25:1-5 ESV). While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their...
by admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon,[1] Moses’ account of the words yehôvâh (יהוה) spoke to him after all the military men had been eliminated from the community[2] continued. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his...
by admin | Nov 29, 2015 | Chapter 12, Love, Rejoice in hope, Romans, Section Three
I’m still considering Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer[1] as a description of love rather than as rules to obey. I’m focusing now on the aftermath of the death of the Levite’s concubine. The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | Section Three
After the incident with the golden calf, after Yahweh relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people[1] honoring the covenant they violated, after He spoke his long name to Moses, He revealed a revised covenant. It was similar to the original...
by admin | Jul 1, 2013 | Exodus, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly [Table]. They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them – they have made for themselves a molten calf and have...