Insight into ScriptureIn chapters 13-19 we read the allotment of the land by tribes and by families. But also notice that in many cases, Israel did not drive out and destroy the godless people living in the land.Casting lots to determine God's will is a form of divination. (18:6-10)
Currently in our readings, Hebron was given to Caleb for his devotion to God. If you remember Caleb went to explore Canaan, he came back with a positive attitude while the other man spread rumors in camp, and created fear among the people.
This picture is of The Machpelah, Genesis 23 records the purchase by Abraham, of a plot of ground in Hebron for a burial cave for his wife Sarah. Later Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob and Leah would be buried here.
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Scripture Reading
Joshua 17:14-18
14 Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?"
15 And Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."
16 The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel."
17 Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, 18 but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."
Thought of the Day
God promised the Israelites all of Canaan. God had shown them in the past that He went in before them and fought for them. This land was theirs for the taking, but fear, lack of faith and trust over came them.
This reminds me of some people I have met. They have sensed that God is prompting them to move. God may even be blazing the way before them, performing signs of the way He wants them to move. They may even have friends and family that are telling them, "God is moving, you need to move with Him." But, only that person can take the step of faith with God.
Are you at that point in your life where you feel God is telling you to take a step of faith and move? What is holding you back?
Maybe you have not felt God prompting you to move. Maybe you have put too many restrictions on God? Your Christian live is an adventure. God is not a God to just sit there, He moves, crashing through borders, and is always expanding. Will you expand with Him or be left in His wake? There is nothing you will ever experience in you life, as that when God moves and you move with Him.
Closing Prayer
Father I pray You have had a great day, and I thank You for the many miracles that happen around me everyday. I pray today Father that I will be still and listen to You and know when You are blazing a trail for me to follow. I pray Father that I hear You speaking through those around me. Father please give me the strength to step out and do Your will. I thank You ahead of time for using me Father and I pray I will do a good job for You!!
I Love You!!!
In Your Name,
Amen.
Bible Trivia
What kind of bread were the Israelites to eat in their Passover Celebration? What was the meaning of this kind of bread?
Hint: Numbers 9:10-11
4 comments:
Unleaven bread was the bread that they ate.
Now for the symbolism of it: It stood for their deliverance from slavery of Pharoah, after the sacrifice of the lamb.
(Exodus 13:3 KJV)
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand The Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten."
It now represents the Christian deliverance from a life of sin under Satan after the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the "Lamb of God."
There was a certain number of days set forth by God that the unleaven bread was to be eaten:
(Exodus 13:7-10 KJV)
"Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. And thou shalt show thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which The Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that The Lord's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath The Lord brought thee out of Egypt. Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year."
Meaning of #7:
The number seven represents the 'totality or completeness'.
This practice of eating the unleaven was not only for that time it was to and does continue to this day. Here is a scripture from the New Testament:
1 Corinthians 5:7-8(KJV)
"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and Truth."
Matthew 16:11-12 (KJV)
How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."
Then and Now, eating things with yeast in it at any other time was OK. FYI, THE ABSENCE OF YEAST IS MAKING THE BREAD UNLEAVEN. The Days of Unleaven (7) is used as symbol of SIN. It is sometimes seen as a metaphor for sinfull pride and hypocrisy (above Matthew 6:11-12)
Close with this, observances found in the Old Testament you will be able to find an application to our Christian life. They all point to what was to come in time .
IN CHRIST
Ecc. 3
Donna
Below is a verse and some thoughts on it. This always happens with me when I start looking over notes and studies. I end up going and going with it and I love it.
Matthew 13:37:
13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Look at what the kingdom of heaven is likened unto: LEAVEN,
here and only here you can see somethhing happen different with the word leaven. Can you imagine the thoughts of the Jews when they heard heaven and leaven(sin, unclean) together. As for that matter what did I think when I first saw those to together?
"Leaven" or "unleavened" appears 88 times and 87 out 88 "leaven" is negative, this one case is the exception! Here in Matthew 13, leaven is positive. Why?
I think Jesus was seeing what would happen between the time He died and the time He returned. He saw that the people would be full of leaven, and they would always be, until His second coming.
That is the beauty of grace—that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We are cleansed by His blood, the leavening is removed by His blood and grace. We sin because we are full of leaven, keeping it out is a continual changing life style and can only be by God's grace and His love for us. GOD MOVES in our life continually if we allow (our will)
Every year,we keep the Days of Unleavened Bread to depict just this process and to be thankful that we have this sacrifice—Christ our Passover—who saves us and forgives us. In the Levitical sacrifices, no leaven could be in any of the offerings that were made (Leviticus 2:11), because they typlified the sinless Christ. Leviticus 23: The two loaves that were offered on the day of Pentecost were made with leaven, because they represent us, the Old Testament and the New Testament, or the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.
A look at 3 last scriptures. One has my attention gripped ***
Luke 12:1
Matthew 16:5-6, 11,
***Mark 8:15 the one that I am studying at present
IN CHRIST
Ecc.3
Donna
Where is Matthew 13 is that?
Matthew 13:33-37 Is the passages I was reading but If I understand what passage you are asking where is..... I believe it would be
Matthew 13:33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Sorry it looks like I had a typo on that it is typed
Matthew 13:37: with 13:33 under it
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