BIBLE READ-THROUGH: Day 1 (GENESIS 1-28:22): Reflection and Discussion

Thank you kindly for the link.

Yes that link is helpful.

Still not sure why God would speak with Balaam as he is not the ne of his people. Balaam listens to God, but late on God’s people kill him anyway

Forgive my lostness here....where is that located, exactly?

Thank you.

Numbers 22

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When you guys finish your "40 day"
study I will do a topic with tips
and links for Bible study.

I am reading along.

I get stumped often along the way.

Please explain to me where the wives of Cain and Able came from, big missing link?

No proof of any facts.
People only have speculation.

God didn't feel it was important
for Moses to tell where they came from.

Last Edited by Servant-of-the-LORD on 07/28/2021 11:41 PM

Thank you for the link.

Was Balaam a prophet or a priest?

i apologize for my confusion, but the Israelites killed Balaam?

Balaam is an interesting study.

i was doing a search, and apparently he was a pagan.

Apparently he came up with a devilish plan for the king of Moab, and that was to tempt the Israelites, and get THEM to sin against themselves and the living God.

When i first saw the name "Balaam", i got it mixed up with "baal".

i really DO need to pray BEFORE i read, study, and comment on the Bible hahaaa

I really do appreciate it when you post daily the chapters to be read. I feel it creates an imprint and helps me to continue with my commitment. So please if you can post the daily reading

Today's reading is for day 7 (or is it day 6?), and it's Deuteronomy 1 - Deuteronomy 27:26.

Maybe we can encourage each other....i've been having the hardest time keeping up lol

But this comes to mind, just as i'm typing these words, and that is:

"If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles." -C S Lewis

Thank GOD for His grace....He is pleased even with our "efforts" to read the Bible.



Last Edited by ShiningLightIntoDarkPlaces on 07/29/2021 09:58 AM

No one's PUSHING anything.

THis is a discussion thread.

Please contribute to the discussion, or else leave....that's my "contribution."

I love the CS Lewis quote. Very helpful

Yes, some of the OT is very dense and repetitive listing multiple genealogy and rules and offerings. I understand all this detail was necessary as God wanted his covenant with the people to be crystal clear and that going back and worshiping other gods or falling into behaviors acceptable to these gods meant you were no longer a child of God. he wanted them to know that ignorance is no longer an excuse

i agree that they are necessary....i just have difficulty staying focused.

i'm praying though that God enables me to stick with this, because i have never ever read through the entire Bible.

i would mostly delve into Proverbs, Psalms, Isaiah, and Job (one of the most difficult and excruciating books of the Bible i've ever read.)

We heard a sermon using the illustration of the Titanic Sunday.

The man (filling in for our preacher, who was away) told of a newspaper article exclaiming before the Titanic sailed that it was so sea-worthy that -QUOTE " Even God Himself could not sink it...."

Draw your own conclusions about mocking God!

"Elijah and Enoch," two saints who didn't die.

But scripture says, "It is appointed unto man ONCE TO DIE..."

So the conclusion I come to is that they didn't die (and the only two ever mentioned who didn't), they MUST COME BACK TO BE THE TWO WITNESSES, who will be killed...."

i apologize if you misunderstood my post. My intent is/was not to state that it is ok to mock God, but that God doesn't "fear" it nor does He "cringe from it."

He will STILL be in the business of winning hearts, minds, and souls.

He won MY heart, and i HAVE mocked God in the past, amongst other things.

He never ever got angry or impatient with me. He KNEW how desperately i needed Him and His healing. i was like a "spooked horse", and what does a spooked horse do when you "corner" it? It "fights".

But a gifted horse healer sees beyond that horse's flailings, and zeroes in on earning that panicked horse's trust.

That's what God did with me, and what He does with all of the inexplicably wounded and in excruciating pain.

He is our "Healer", our Comforter, and the Lifter of our downcast head.



Last Edited by ShiningLightIntoDarkPlaces on 07/29/2021 10:47 AM

Many believe they were daughters of Adam and Eve.

Sounds sick, in our world today, but remember, they WERE told to "be fruitful and multiply..." and no reason to think they only had three sons (Abel, Cain and Seth)

AND

since they were created from God's own Hand Himself, there were no "recessive birth defects" which could be handed down by marrying a close relative! They may have been (and probably were) almost a generation difference in age. Meaning, the wives might have been as much as 15-20 years YOUNGER than the men (brothers) they married!

So they probably didn't "grow up in the same household" together - as siblings do today. These men probably had moved into their own households and had their own crops/cattle/etc. before taking their wives.

Pure speculation on my part, as I really don't have anything scriptural to base these opinions on.

That is a good point, and a good study.

To me, the image of the snake held up on a pole which Moses held up is to bring together two allegories:

The snake, which will be destroyed when the "seed" of the woman bruises his head....

and the idea that the people were "SAVED" by looking UP onto the "tree" (pole the snake is on was referred to this way), pointing to the way the Savior would hang on a TREE to die for our sins. Look upon HIM and be saved.

Oh, no, I didn't mean that YOU were talking about mocking God at ALL!

I was just stating that many have thought they could mock God with no consequences, only to find afterward they were sorely mistaken!

Sorry if you took offense. It was NOT directed at YOU!

I love your contributions to this thread....

i'm not offended at all.....no worries.

i just wanted to clarify why i responded as i did to that particular post.

i'm hoping that God uses this thread and the first thread where the OP invited us all to begin reading the entire Bible for His glory and that His grace supersedes all of our stumbles and bumbles (believers and nonbelievers alike) as we seek God in His Word.

Some may not know God, and thus have misconceptions about Who He is, and His Father-heart for us.

i didn't understand or desire "father" at all. i had an alcoholic, raging biological father, and then a crazy foster father. So i sher didn't want a "father", and rejected Father God. What did i want one of THEM crazee pieces o' work for??!!

Yet, God showed me what a heavenly and sane and genuinely loving Father was. He never ever got mad at me. His patience and His grace was endless. He showed me the way to healing, and He lifted my downcast head.

He knew i was, in essence, a crumpled up heap of crushed heart and soul, and THAT is what was under all that ferocious, spooked-horse fighting.

If He can win MY heart n' soul, He can win anyone's.

Thank you for your kind words.

i appreciate your input as well.

DAY 7: DEUTERONOMY 28 - JOSHUA 21:45.

This verse below is one of the most DELIGHTFUL in all the Bible, and reveals God's delight in our obedience. It reminds me of Job, and how God placed a "hedge of protection" around him, his family, and his household, that Satan complained about when he spoke of Job to God.

It's this verse:

"And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God." -Deuteronomy 28:2

God, in essence, does the same with us, when we obey Him, and hearken unto His voice (because we "believe" Him, just as Abraham did).

THIS is what pleases God, as evidenced by God's response to Abraham when he BELIEVED God.

Moses dies at 120 years old, in the land of Moab, as written in Deuteronomy 34:5-6.

RAHAB.

So here we are, delving into the book of Joshua, for he is now the leader/shepherd of the people.

And our Joshua is a "spy leader", for he sent out two of his men to spy on Jericho. These two men find refuge with a most unlikely ally. She was a prostitute, and her name was Rahab. She had heard about their God and ALL that He had done for His people, and she BELIEVED in this God.

Now Rahab is an intersting study, for as we read on, we read that Rahab "lied" to her king when he came inquiring about these two men she had hidden.

What do y'all think about Rahab?

Last Edited by ShiningLightIntoDarkPlaces on 07/30/2021 06:55 AM

Thank you for posting today’s reading and some beautiful excerpts. I have not read them yet but will contemplate your question when I do

Thank you

Thank you, and you are most welcome.

Jesus NEVER called Abraham a liar.

Speaking of Jesus, and WHO He was/is, what is written in the book of Isaiah, about His identity at His birth?

There's a list.

Do you know which verses i'm referring to?

Thank you kindly.

Today’s Bible reading

Joshua 22 to Judges 21.25