The Missing Link Amid Fear and Faith

If you should say in your heart, ’These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’– you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt… Deuteronomy 7:17-18
Did You Catch That?
Our Father is telling us something extraordinarily important—when we [...]

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Name and Claim is a Foolish Game

And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord [...]

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Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Take the Levites from among the children of Israel and cleanse them ceremonially. Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purification on them, and let them shave all their body, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.” Numbers 8:5-7
Accepting [...]

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Booze, Long Hair, and Dead People

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ’When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and similar drink…no razor shall come upon his head…(and) he [...]

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By the Numbers

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. The Levites shall be Mine: I am the Lord. And for the redemption of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children [...]

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Deadly Serious: The Worlds Best Diet

Say to them: ’Whoever of all your descendants throughout your generations, who goes near the holy things which the children of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has uncleanness upon him, that person shall be cut off from My presence: I am the Lord. Whatever man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a [...]

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Gone a Whoring

Gone a Whoring
“Whatever man of the house of Israel who kills an ox or lamb or goat in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, and does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting to offer an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, the guilt [...]

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In the Third Day (and Waiting for the Sun to Rise)

And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning…Exodus 19:11 + 16
Feast of Pentecost
I copied this blurb from a website called JewFAQ Blog, [...]

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What It Is

And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin… Exodus 16:1a
At first glance, the Wilderness of Sin, the sixth campsite (in a series of seven the Lord will bring Israel) seems like a rotten place, but in reality it is a magnificent vista. It [...]

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Could This Be Your Daily Bread?

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ’Show a miracle for yourselves, ’ then you shall say to Aaron, ’Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.’ ” So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just [...]

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