May 8 Readings

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Index to Blended Readings

Today's Readings Numbers 26-28; Matthew 2

King James Version with Web Encyclopedia links: Numbers 29; Numbers 30; Numbers 31; Matthew 3

Numbers 29 began to speak about the Feast Days which were the Feast of the Trumpets (Lev 23.23-25; Num 29.1-6);
the Day of Atonement (Lev 23.26-32; Lev 16.2-34; Num 29.7-11)
and the Feast of the Tabernacles (Lev 23.33-43; Num 29.12-39; Deut. 16.13-17).

It is so easy to get bogged into the details of the offerings. It's like we are not looking at the forest but at the the leaves of the trees of the forest! We tend not to see the big picture. We have to look beyond the ceremonial details to see that Christ is foreshadowed in the offerings and feast days of Leviticus. All of these feast days have prophetic significance. For example, Passover symbolizes Good Friday, the Feast of the Unleavened Bread symbolizes Jesus was buried, and the Feast of the Firstfruits symbolizes the Resurrection of Jesus, the First Fruit (1Cor. 15.23)

Jewish Feast Days Prophecy of Jesus the Messiah
Jewish Feasts and their Significance

Numbers 30 spoke about keeping vows to the Lord. Don't make a vow unless you mean it. God will not take it lightly but hold you that vow. The vow should not be made rashly. The vow that Jephthah made to the Lord in Judges 11.30, that if God gave the Ammonites to Jephthah, whatever comes out of the door of his house to meet him when he returns in triumph he would sacrifice as a burnt offering. Well, when he came home, his daughter came out of the house and he had to do what he vowed. (Judges 11.39) Jesus said not to break your oaths (vows) when you make them (Matt 5.33-37). Let your yes be yes and your nos be nos.

Numbers 31, God told Moses to take vengeance on the Midianites. They had kill every male including Balaam. They captured the women and children. They were told to kill any woman who had ever slept with a man. This whole situation is horrific. Are you horrified that God had these people killed, you should be. This all happened because of the Midianite part in the sexuality and the worship of Baal Peor (Num 25.16-18), A Midianite woman was specifically mentioned in this passage. Just as how God hate sin and punish for sin because He is a holy God, so we should hate sin in our lives and eradicate sin. He hated sin so much that He had to eradicate the power of sin. This was done with Jesus dying for our sins.

Jewish Feast Days Prophecy of Jesus the Messiah
Jewish Feasts and their Significance

Numbers 29 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Numbers 30 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Numbers 31 with Commentaries, verse by verse



Matthew 2 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Links to Commentaries and other References - Matthew

Guzik on Matthew
Deffinbaugh on Matthew
drs Gijs van den Brink on Matthew
Josh Hunt on Matthew

Links to Commentaries and other References - Matthew

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This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.