Moses: Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.
YHWH: Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.

Unlike Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses had never seen the Promised Land, although he had heard of it his entire life. At the very end, he walked only on its edges and saw the heartland from a distance. Though a man might give his entire life to God's service, there is no guarantee that he will see the full fruit of his work until after the resurrection.
#deuteronomy 3:23-27

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BIBLE STUDY LESSON 21

SERIES V --- JOURNEYS FOR YESHUA

SHIPWRECKED ON MALTA

PAUL IS SHIPWRECKED

From Acts 27:27-28:6

Day after day the storm raged, and the ship which carried Paul was driven before the wind. The sailors had given up all hope of being saved, but Paul had told them an angel of Adonai had promised that they would not perish. About midnight of the fourteenth night of drifting on the Adriatic Sea, the sailors felt that the ship was approaching land. When they took soundings, they found the water was one hundred and twenty feet deep. A little later, they found it was only ninety feet. They realized that the ship would soon run aground, perhaps on rocks, and thus could destroy the ship and all on board. To slow the progress of the ship, the sailors put out four anchors and longed for daybreak. At one point they tried to escape, lowering the lifeboat into the sea with the excuse that they were putting out more anchors. Paul stopped that by telling the centurion and the soldiers, [Unless those sailors stay on board, you will not be spared.] The soldiers cut the rope leading to the boat and let it drift away on the sea. In the night hours that remained, Paul encouraged everyone to eat. [This is the fourteenth day that you have been on alert without food. You must eat, for you need the strength to survive, which you will!] Paul took some bread, and while everyone watched, thanked YHVH for it, broke it, and began to eat. This encouraged the others to do the same thing. Soon all two hundred and seventy-six, the number who were on board, were eating. After they finished, the crew dumped the wheat overboard, lightening the ship further. When daylight came, they saw a coastline, but did not recognize it. However, they saw an inlet and decided to try to run the ship aground on the beach. They cut the anchors loose into the sea, loosened the ropes that had bound the rudders, hoisted the foresail to the wind, and headed for it. But at a point where the water currents met, the ship ran aground on a sandbar. The ship’s bow was anchored rigidly in the sand, while the stern shifted with the pounding of the waves. Before long, the stern broke apart. The soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners so that they could not swim away and escape. But the centurion refused, for he liked Paul, and wanted to spare him. He ordered those who could swim to go overboard first and swim to land. The others would follow on planks or other objects from the ship. The plan worked, and everyone reached shore safely on what they soon learned was the island of Malta. The people of Malta were very kind to the shipwrecked men, building a fire on the beach to warm and welcome them, for it was cold and rainy. Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and was laying them on the fire when a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. [This man must be a murderer,] the people of the island said to one another. [He has been spared from the sea, but justice has caught up with him now.] But Paul calmly shook off the viper into the fire and was not hurt by it. The people of the island watched Paul, expecting him to swell up or die, but nothing happened. When they realized that he was not affected by the poisonous snakebite, they decided that Paul must be a god.

COMMENTARY

PAUL’S VOYAGE TO ROME

When Paul claimed his right of appeal to Caesar, Festus had no choice but to send him to Rome. At Caesarea he was put aboard a grain ship, accompanied by his friends Luke and Aristarchus. After stopping at Sidon, the ship sailed for Myra in Lycia. There Paul and his companions boarded a second ship bound for Italy. It was late autumn, and the winter winds made the trip very dangerous. With much difficulty they sailed as far as Crete, where a fierce storm drove the boat out to sea. With their ship wrecked off the coast of Malta, they waited out the winter weather on the island. In the spring they set sail once again on a ship named the {Castor and Pollux.} By way of Syracuse and Rhegium they finally reached Puteoli on the coast of Italy. Paul stayed a week with believers in the harbour town before making the final leg of his journey to Rome.

O Adonai YHWH, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
Deuteronomy 3:24

The miracles that we witness on earth are only the beginning. Stay tuned through the credits. The real wonders are yet to come.

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When we live the way we are designed to live the promise from the Creator is to bless everything that we are involved with. Deuteronomy 7:13, “He will love and bless you. He will make the number of your people grow. He will bless you with children. He will bless your fields with good crops. He will give you grain, new wine and oil. He will bless your cows with calves and your sheep with lambs. This is the way it will be in the land he promised your ancestors he would give you.” (ICB)

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Did you know: Adonai Elohiym washes the eyes by tears in this world today, until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.