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Blended Reading Plan from Back to the Bible
Index to Blended Readings
Today's Readings Numbers 23-25; Matthew 1
King James Version with Web Encyclopedia links: Numbers 23; Numbers 24; Numbers 25; Matthew 1
In Numbers 23 and 24, Balaam had many oracles trying to curse Israel, instead God put words in his mouth to bless Israel. He had four oracles (23.1-12; 23.13-26; 23.27-24.14; 24.15-25) then he had further oracles (24.20-25). No matter how he tried God intervened. He did not learn the lesson from his talking donkey and he did not learn here either. Balaam said two remarkable things in this oracles yet he was not the one, but God saying these words. The first is Num 23.19: God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? The second is from Num 24.17 17 "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the sons of Sheth. Many scholars believe this is a prophecy of the Messiah.
What have we learnt today? Balaam was not a godly man, but in the hands of God, he blessed and not curse Israel. He said some remarkable truth even though he himself is a sorcerer.
.In Numbers 25, The Israelites were engaged in sexual immorality with Moabite women. They had invited them to sacrifice to their gods, the Baal of Peor. God was angry and ordered all of the leaders of the Israelires who participated were killed in broad daylight. An Israelite brought a Midianite woman to his family and Phineas, grandson of Aaron killed both of them by running a spear through their bodies. God anger subsided abd his descendants was promised a covenant of lasting priesthood. God told the Moses to treat the Midianites as enemies because of the affair at Peor. There was retaliation at the Midianites in Numbers 31 and there was enmity in Judges 6-8 when Gideon was a judge in Israel.
Balaam
Balaam, Part 1, (Numbers 22.1-35)
Balaam, Part 2,(Numbers 22.36-Num 24.25)
Balaam, Part 3,(Numbers 25.1-18)
Numbers 23 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Numbers 24 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Numbers 25 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Matthew 1 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Matthew 1 deals with the geneaology of Jesus Christ Matthew 1.1-17; Luke 3.23-38
Matthew 1.3-6; Ruth 4.18-22
Matthew 1.7-11; 1Chronicles 3.10-17
Extensive Discussion of Jesus' Genealogy
Matthew 1.18-25 the birth of Jesus.
Matthew portrays Jesus as the Messiah. The book is full of prophecies from the Old testament.
Guzik on Matthew
Deffinbaugh on Matthew
drs Gijs van den Brink on Matthew
Josh Hunt on Matthew
.Commentaries and other References - Matthew
Jesus Saves
How to Become a Christian
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