These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you . . . in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess . . .  Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey . . .  Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and w...  Read More

Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: "This is what the LORD commands: When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said. Numbers 30:1-2. God is a Promise Keeper. He never breaks His word!In fact, the Bible states: "God is not human, that He should lie, not a human being, that He should change H...  Read More

The LORD of Heaven's Armies says to the priests: "A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am your father and master, where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have shown contempt for my Name . . .  You have shown contempt by offering defiled sacrifices on my altar . . .   "You defile them by saying the altar of the LORD deserves no respect.  When you give blind animal...  Read More

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: "Stand at the gate of the LORD's house and there proclaim this message: " 'Hear the word of the LORD . . .  This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, "This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!". . . " ...  Read More

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites. After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people . . . for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin . . . you disobeyed my command to honor me as holy before their eyes.". . . Moses said to the LORD, "May the LORD . . . appoint someone over this c...  Read More

The daughters of Zelophehad . . . came forward and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah's followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and had no sons. Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no...  Read More

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against them.The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them...  Read More

Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, He did not resort to divination as at other times, but turned his face toward the wilderness. When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him and he spoke his message:"The prophecy of Balaam . . . the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly, the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who ...  Read More

This was the message Balaam delivered:"God is not a man, so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind.Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through? Listen, I received a command to bless; God has blessed, and I cannot reverse it!No misfortune is in His plan for Jacob; no trouble is in store for Israel. For the LORD their God is with th...  Read More

Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.  . . . "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place?           . . . And there is no water to drink!"Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. The LORD said to Moses, "Take the staff, a...  Read More

". . . not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it. But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it."  Numbers 14:23-24.Of the twelve spies who went to explore the Promised Land, ten came back wi...  Read More

But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. 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 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 gre...  Read More