The Amazing Bible. Book Club

Miriam and Aaron and both dead. Eleazar, Aaron's son became the next High Priest. The people are heading toward the promised land. The Canaanites heard they were coming, so they attacked first. The people cried out to Moses, who cried out to the Lord, and they went to war and the Israelites won. They kept traveling and again grumbled. This time the Lord brought poisonous snakes, but the Lord...

Numbers chapter 20 begins with the death of Miriam in Kadesh in the first month. We have to go to Numbers chapter 33 verse 38-39 to find that Aaron died in the 40th year, and then just before Aaron's death, the people were in Kadesh, so it seems safe to say that their deaths were pretty close together. All it says about her death is she was buried. As the Israelites traveled, they again compl...

In these chapters, Moses made two trumpets for the Priests to blow to call the nation to assembly. The cloud of the Lord lifted from the tabernacle, and the people began their journey toward the Promised Land. This section is full of opposition to both Moses and Aaron and their leadership which was given by God. Some people complained about their hardships. Some complained about the food. Miriam a...

In these chapters of Numbers, the Israelites are still in the wilderness of Sinai. The tabernacle is finished, and it is placed in the center of the camp surrounded by the Levites who were to take care of the tabernacle, and around the Levites were three of the 12 tribes of Israel on each side. This book is called Numbers because the book starts with a census, and then after 40 years of wandering...

In this Psalm of Moses, he acknowledges that God was before all of creation and He is eternal. He also acknowledges that humanity is not. Moses shares that life is full of toil and trouble in our 70-80 year average life span. Moses prays unto the Lord, "Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Moses cries out for the Lord to relent and have compassion beca...

Chapters 21 & 22 cover regulations for Aaron, the High Priest, and his sons, the priests, on how to live a holy life unto the Lord, and how not to profane His name. Chapter 23 covers the Jewish Feasts: The Sabbath which was a day of rest each week; The Passover which celebrated how the angel of death passed over the Jewish houses that had the blood of the Lamb on the doorpost; The Feast of Unl...

These chapters of Leviticus cover various laws, and throughout these chapters are two phrases, "I am the Lord your God," and "Be ye holy, for I am holy." These laws reflect who God is, and when we align ourselves up to His laws and His ways, we become like Him. In chapter 20:8, the Lord declares, "I am the Lord who makes you holy." The Lord said a couple of times in t...

These chapters cover various laws. They begin with food laws of what the people should and should not eat. One of the purposes of these laws were to consecrate themselves in order to be holy, like God is holy (11:43-45). Then there were purification laws after having children, and people who had infectious skin diseases. Key words throughout this section is "clean and unclean." There was...

In these three chapters, we see how Aaron was ordained as the High Priest and how his sons were ordained to be priests of the Lord. We see that the Lord has specific details about the process. They had to present a sin offering, burnt offering, an ordination offering which was when Moses put some blood on the priests right ear lobe, right thumb, and the big toe of their right foot. From their head...

This section of Leviticus cover the various sacrifices the Israelites were to bring to the Lord. With all their offerings they were to bring their best. Everyone was to bring an offering, but depending upon their financial status they were allowed to bring different things. The first sacrifice mentioned was the Burnt Offering which was an offering of dedication and surrender to the Lord. Chapter t...

These chapters begin with a reminder that God's people are to work for six day, because this is what the Lord commanded, and then the seventh day is a day of rest. Then the people begin to work. They willfully bring offerings to the Lord in order to build the tabernacle. People with skills, both men and women, used their abilities to make the items needed for the tabernacle. Bezalel and Oholi...

Since Moses was up on the mountain with God for 40 days and 40 nights, the people grew restless, and demanded Aaron to make them gods, so he asked for their gold earrings, and he made them a golden calf. He made an altar and placed it in front of the calf, and they worshipped and partied. On the mountain, the Lord told Moses what the people were doing, and he wanted to kill the people for their si...

These chapters in Exodus begin with describing the priestly garments. Moses' brother Aaron would be the High Priest, and his four sons would become priests. The priests wore special linen undergarments from their waist to their thigh, plus tunics, sashes, and headbands. The High Priest would wear over his tunic a pull over robe with a woven edge around the collar, and at the bottom of this ro...

In chapters 25-27, we have directions on how to build the tabernacle, the courtyard. It described how to divide up the Holy of Holies, from the Holy Place. Directions were also given on how to build the Ark of the Covenant, and the cover with the Cherubim, which is placed in the Most Holy Place. Then in this section two of the three items found in the Holy place are described, the Table of Show Br...

These chapters look at various laws God gave to the Hebrews. We see a few things about God in these chapters. He cares about women and children, the poor, and immigrants. He reminds the Hebrews that they were immigrants in Egypt. These laws call for justice, "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise (21:22-23)...

In chapter 19, the Israelites reach the Mountain of God. Moses was the mediator between God and the people. The Lord offered His covenant that if they would fully obey Him, then they would be His treasured possession. The Israelites would become a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. 19:8a, "The people all responded together, 'We will do everything the Lord has said.'" Before...

In these chapters of Exodus, we have the parting of the Red Sea, and how the breath of God or the Wind of  God parted the waters.  Once the Israelites made it to dry ground, Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the waters came back together. All the Egyptians died. Then Moses and the people sang a song of victory. It praised the Lord for what He had done, for who He is, and because of wh...

In these chapters the 10th and final plague came upon the Egyptians, the plague on the firstborn of both men and animals. It reached Pharaoh in his palace to the depths of the dungeon. "There was not a house without someone dead" (12:30b). The Israelites were spared because they sacrificed a lamb without spot or blemish and sacrificed him and put his blood on the door post. Then at midni...

These chapters cover the first nine of ten plagues that the Lord brought upon Egypt and Pharaoh. Moses and Aaron spoke to the Israelites, and they believed that God sent them to rescue them, and now the next step was to approach Pharaoh. They told him that the God of Israel said, "Let my people go!" We see that God is claiming the Israelites as His own people, and He is their God. We als...

Exodus begins with naming the sons of Jacob, and it tells us that 70 Israelites came to Egypt, which included Joseph who was already there. Then that generation died, and a new king of Egypt, one who did not know Joseph, began to reign. He was intimidated by the number of Israelites in Egypt, so he began to oppress them. The Jews still thrived. The oppression increased. The king commanded the Hebr...

We end Genesis with chapters 46-50. Before Jacob heads to Egypt, he stops at Beersheba where Abraham and Isaac had settled, and from where Jacob left his home to go find a wife. The Lord spoke to him there and reminded him that He would go with him and bless him there, and that he would come back. The Lord also told him that Joseph would close his eyes. Including the two sons of Joseph, there were...

These chapters focus on the life of Joseph, and how God used his life to bring salvation to many people. Joseph was the son of the beloved wife of Jacob, Rachel, who died at childbirth from her second son, Jonathan. Joseph was dearly loved by Jacob, and he was given beautiful coat of many colors. This made his brothers even more jealous. When they saw him in the field, the decided to kill him, but...

In this section of Genesis, Jacob steals his brother's blessing, by deceiving his blind father, Isaac. This angered Esau, and he vowed to kill his brother once his dad died. Their mom, Rebekah, learned about it, and she sent off Jacob to her brother's house to find a wife. On his way there, God appeared to him at Bethel, and He promised Jacob to bless him like his Grandfather and Father,...

In this section of Genesis, we focus on the life of Abraham's son, Isaac. Abraham sent his most trusted servant to go back to Abraham's family to find Isaac a son. He went, and when he arrived at the neighboring well, his 10 camels rested, and the servant prayed to the Lord of his master, Abraham, and asked God to send the one who should marry Isaac. While he was praying, Rebekah came, a...

These chapters cover the story of Abraham, a descendant from Adam and Eve through their third son Seth, then through Noah, and from Shem, which is where we get the word Semitic. The Lord spoke to Abram, and told him to leave his country, his people, and his father's household and go to where He would lead him. He and his wife, Sarai, and Lot his nephew left to go to Canaan. The Lord made a co...