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Thought for Today: Tuesday January 17:
Allow YHVH to fill you with His Love, Joy and Peace. These are Glory-Gifts, flowing from His Living Presence. Though you are an earth vessel, He Created you to be filled with heavenly content. Your weakness is not a deterrent to being filled with His Spirit; on the contrary, it provides an opportunity for His Power to shine forth more brightly. As you go through this day, trust Him to provide the strength that you need moment by moment. Do not waste energy wandering whether you are adequate for today’s journey. His Spirit within you, is more than sufficient to endure whatever this day may bring. That is the basis for your confidence. In quietness and confident trust – spending time alone with HaShem – is your strength.
SERIES E --- YHVH’S LAWS --- LESSON 11
THE JOURNEY BEGINS
THE MOVE FROM MOUNT SINAI
From Numbers 10
Make two trumpets of hammered silver, Adonai Instructed Moses. Use them to summon the people and to signal the time to break camp. The people will assemble at the entrance to the tabernacle when both trumpets are sounded. When one trumpet is sounded, only the chiefs of the tribes will come. When the trumpets are blown in a certain way, the tribes on the east will break camp first. When the second signal is given, the tribes on the south will move. The signal to move will be different from the signal to assemble. Only Aaron’s sons, the priests, may blow the trumpets. This will be a permanent rule for you to follow throughout all generations. When you go to war against your enemies, sound the alarm with the trumpets. Adonai will hear the trumpets and save you from your enemies. Sound the trumpets on days of celebration, on appointed feast days and on the first day of the month when you remember Adonai with your burnt offerings and peace offerings. Adonai will remember His Covenant with you. I am Adonai your YHVH. The day came when the cloud moved from the tabernacle, signalling the time for the people to break camp and move forward. It was the twentieth day of the second month in the second year after the people of Israel had left Egypt. At Adonai’s direction the people set out for the first time since they arrived at Mount Sinai. They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai to the Wilderness of Paran. The first in line was the tribe of Judah, moving behind their standard and led by Nahshon the son of Amminadab. After Judah, the tribe of Issachar came next, led by Nethaneel the son of Zuar. Zebulun was the third tribe in line led by Eliab the son of Helon. When the tabernacle was taken down, the descendants of Gershon and Merari carried it. The tribe of Reuben moved next, following its standard, led by Elizur the son of Shedeur. After that came the tribe of Simeon, led by Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. Then came the tribe of Gad, led by Eliasaph the son of Deuel. The descendants of Kohath carried the holy items of the tabernacle. But before they arrived at the new campsite, the tabernacle was already set up. The remaining tribes followed in this order: Ephraim, led by Elishama the son of Ammihud; Manasseh, led by Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; Benjamin, led by Abidan the son of Gideoni; Dan, led by Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; Asher, led by Pagiel the son of Ocran; and Naphtali, led by Ahira the son of Enan. This was the order in which the tribes of Israel marched when they travelled to a new location. One day Moses spoke with his brother-in-law Hobab, son of his father-in-law Reuel, the Midianite. We are moving now toward the Promised Land, the place which Adonai said ‘I will give it to you,’ said Moses. Come with us and we will do good for you, for Adonai has promised to do good for us. No, I must go home to my own land and my relatives, Hobab answered. Please don’t do that, Moses replied. You know how we must camp in the wilderness and we need you to serve as our eyes. Come with us and whatever Adonai does for us, we will do for you. The people of Israel travelled from Mount Sinai for three days. Leading the entire company was the Ark of the Covenant, guiding them to a place to stop. The people left Mount Sinai during the daytime and the cloud moved ahead of them as they travelled. As the Ark went forward on each move, Moses would say, Arise, Adonai and let Your enemies be scattered; let them that hate You flee before You. When the Ark came to rest in its place he would say, Return, Adonai, to the countless thousands of Israel.
COMMENTARY
LIFE THEY LEFT BEHIND: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
The stringed instruments of ancient Egypt were plucked or strummed with the fingers; they did not have bows, such as those used with a modern violin or cello. The lute was something like a guitar with a full-blown body. It had three strings, instead of the six on today’s guitar. The lyre was shaped a little like a large {U} with strings running across it. As each string was plucked, the others were covered so they would not sound at the same time. Both lutes and lyres came to Egypt from other countries. Harps were very popular and native to Egypt. There were basically two kinds. One looked somewhat like a long boat. It was held to the shoulder and had four strings. The other kind looked more like the harp of today. It was bow-shaped, taller than a man and stood on the ground. They were often played by blind men. Most of the Egyptian wind instruments were flutes of one kind or another. From Greece, the Egyptians learned to use panpipes; they were made up of several flutes of different lengths bound together. The Egyptian clarinet looked like two slender flutes tied together. It was played through both mouthpieces and had finger holes instead of the keys of modern clarinets. The trumpets and horns were much simpler than those in use today. They were long straight tubes that opened into small bell-shaped ends. They were very hard to blow into and could make only a few musical sounds. Percussion instruments were many. There were several different kinds of drums and cymbals, as well as finger castanets to clack together. A favourite instrument was called the {sistrum.} It had a slender handle leading to a thin open metal frame with metal rods and discs attached to it. When it was shaken, it made a great deal of noise. The Egyptians loved to dance and sing, accompanied by their music. Music was played at numerous events, including banquets, weddings and funerals.
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Have you ever accidentally done this instead of that
and ended up preferring the unintended option?
Would God say to you, ~"I was happy to help.
But you are rarely even thankful to Me.
My ways are better than your ways, but you don't seek.
You would have more blessing if you sought My will.
By not seeking My will, you push, you push! ...against Me!
So you stuff up, that you might see My hand,
whether for your pleasure or pain, always for your correction.
You shouldn't have to stuff up to know My will.
You should be seeking My will, to do it.
Time is running out.
Nothing else will matter more in the end..."
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God gave us the #sabbath as a day of rest and restoration. Jesus gives us rest from our sins and restores us to the Father, so the Sabbath is a reflection of him in that way, but Jesus isn't a day off from work. Everybody needs time to relax, recharge, and reflect on God's goodness.
But Moses said to YHWH, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?”
#exodus 6:12 ESV
The use of "uncircumcised lips" shows that the ancient Hebrews always knew circumcision is only an outward sign of an inward condition. This wasn't an idea invented in the first century or even by the prophets of Israel. It predates them all.
SERIES E --- YHVH’S LAWS --- LESSON 10
THE CLOUD
MOVING AT ADONAI’S COMMAND
From Numbers 9
During the first month of the second year after the people of Israel left Egypt, Adonai gave many Instructions to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai. Here are some of the Instructions He gave him concerning the Passover: Celebrate the Passover each year on the fourteenth day of the first month {about the first of April}. Begin the celebration in the evening and proceed exactly as I shall tell you. Moses told the people that the Passover celebration would begin at the time Adonai had Instructed them, the evening of the fourteenth day of that month. Now it happened that some men had handled the dead body of a man and were thus considered unclean. Since that would have kept them from eating the Passover lamb, they came to Moses and Aaron and complained. We are considered unclean because we had to handle a man’s dead body, they said. Must we then be kept from offering our sacrifice at the time Adonai Commanded that we should? Wait, said Moses. I will ask Adonai about this. He took the matter to Adonai and got this reply: Tell the people that they may still keep the Passover if they have touched a dead body or happen to be away on a trip on the fourteenth day of the first month, Adonai said. They may celebrate the Passover a month later, on the fourteenth day of the second month. They will start the celebration in the evening of that day and will eat the lamb with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They must leave no food until morning and must not break a bone of it, following all the other instructions concerning the Passover. However, anyone who refuses to keep the Passover at the regular time, not being ceremonially unclean or away on a trip, will be cut off from the people. He will bear his own guilt for not making Adonai’s offering at the scheduled time. If a stranger lives among you and wants to celebrate the Passover to Adonai, he must follow the same regulations I have given to you. There is only one set of rules for the Passover. On the same day that the tabernacle was set up, Adonai’s cloud covered it. In the evening the cloud changed in appearance so that it looked like fire. All through the night the cloud kept the appearance of fire. It was the same every day and night. By day it was a cloud, and by night it looked like fire. Whenever the cloud moved, the people of Israel followed it until it stopped at another place. Wherever it settled, the people set up camp. The people of Israel broke camp at Adonai’s Command and set up camp in a new place at Adonai’s Command. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, the people camped in that place. No matter how long the cloud remained, the people also remained. Sometimes it stayed a few days, so the people stayed a few days, staying or going at the Command of Adonai. Sometimes the cloud remained only for a night, from evening until morning or for a day and a night. Either way, the people moved with the cloud. Whether the cloud remained above the tabernacle for two days, a month or longer, the people camped for that length of time and would not leave until the cloud left first. They camped at Adonai’s Command and set out at Adonai’s Command. They did all that Adonai through Moses; said they should do.
COMMENTARY
LIFE THEY LEFT BEHIND: BOARD GAMES OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Even before the time of Abraham, people in the Near East loved to play games, especially board games. The poorest peasant scratched outlines of the game boards into the dust. Others used boards made of glazed clay. The rich played on beautifully crafted bone, ivory and wood boards. The game boards could be anywhere from miniature “pocket size” to as large as a table. One of the oldest games in the Near East was called {tau} {it rhymes with now}. Tau was played on a board with twenty squares set up in a {T} formation. Some squares were marked as lucky, others were left blank. It was played much like Parcheesi. One of the games invented in Egypt became so popular it spread to Palestine and other places in the Near East. Its original name is not known. It is usually called {hounds and jackals,} because the playing pieces were pegs shaped like the heads of hounds and jackals. It was a race game that was played by two people. Another board game, now called {the serpent,] is even older than tau. Though the Egyptians played it, they did not invent it. The board for this game was marked with a snake’s body wound in a spiral and divided into segments. The playing piece was in the shape of a lion. No one knows exactly what the rules were, but the idea was probably to guess the number of pebbles or marbles in the other player’s hand and then to move the playing piece closer to the centre. It was not played in Egypt for very long. One of the most popular games in ancient Egypt is a complete mystery to people today. No one has any idea how it was played. The game is called {senet.} Two players sat facing each other across the long senet board. It was marked with thirty squares set in three rows of ten each. The playing pieces were shaped like spools and cones. It appears that the game pieces were never taken off the board, as is done in checkers or chess and senet does not seem to be a race game. After that, no one knows anything about the game, except that it was played by almost everyone from the pharaoh on down. The dice used in board games looked nothing like the little cubes thrown today. The knucklebones of pigs were often used because they had two distinctly different sides. Sometimes throw sticks were the dice, one side blank, the other side marked in some way. Which side came up determined the number of moves. The ancient Egyptians were an active, happy people. No doubt indoor board games like these helped them pass many enjoyable hours of play.
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
Exodus 6:4-5 ESV
The land of #israel belonged to Israel before Israel was even a people. God never forgets a covenant. When Israel cries out to God, He refocuses on His covenant with them.
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