In our reading of Numbers 14 today, Fr. Mike highlights how the rebellion of the Israelites which was marked by distrust and fear, will have consequences for their children. We also read today Deuteronomy 12, and Psalm 95. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
Chapter 1: Who is Father Mike Schmitz and what is 'Bible in a Year'?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
Chapter 2: What scriptures are covered in Day 63 of 'Bible in a Year'?
Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. Today is day 63, and so we're going to be reading from Numbers chapter 14, Deuteronomy chapter 12, and Psalm 95. We'll be praying Psalm 95.
As always, the Bible translation that I'm using is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is phenomenal because it has all of the periods divided. It has some notes there that are incredibly helpful. If you want to track down one of those Bibles, you can go to wherever you
awesome bibles are sold also if you would like to download your own bible in a year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year and if you have not yet on day 63 subscribed to this podcast you can go into your app which you are using right now and hit click or punch subscribe and you will be subscribed today as i said we are reading from numbers chapter 14 deuteronomy chapter 12 and we are praying psalm 95
Chapter 3: Why did the Israelites rebel in Numbers 14?
The book of Numbers chapter 14, the people rebel. Then all the congregation raised a loud cry and the people wept that night. And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, would that we had died in the land of Egypt or would that we had died in this wilderness. Why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will become prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? And they said to one another, Let us choose a captain and go back to Egypt.
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel, and Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes, and said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, The land which we passed through to spy it out is an exceedingly good land.
If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord and do not fear the people of the land for they are bred for us. Their protection is removed from them and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them. But all the congregation said to stone them with stones.
Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel. And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs which I have wrought among them? I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
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Chapter 4: How does Moses intercede for the Israelites?
Moses intercedes for the people. But Moses said to the Lord, Now, if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say, because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to give to them. Therefore, he has slain them in the wilderness.
And now I beg you, let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
Pardon the iniquity of this people, I beg you, according to the greatness of your mercy, and according as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now. Then the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word.
But truly, as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness. and yet have put me to the proof these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice, shall see the land which I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me faithfully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. Now since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea. God's punishment of the disobedient.
And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say to them, As I live, says the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you.
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all of your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, not one shall come into the land where I swore I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, who you said would become a prey,
I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of Israel's rebellion?
according to the number of days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year. You shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure. I, the Lord, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked generation that are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.
And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing up an evil report against the land, the men who brought up an evil report of the land died by plague before the Lord. But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.
And Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel. And the people mourned greatly. And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, See, we are here. We will go up to the place which the Lord has promised, for we have sinned. But Moses said, Why now are you transgressing this command of the Lord? For that will not succeed.
Do not go up, lest you be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you. For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are before you, and you shall fall by the sword because you have turned back from following the Lord. The Lord will not be with you.
But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them even to Hormah.
The Book of Deuteronomy Chapter 12 Pagan Shrines to be Destroyed Moses continued, These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall be careful to do in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given to you to possess all the days that you live upon the earth. You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess shall
serve their gods upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree you shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their asherim with fire you shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place you shall not do so to the lord your god but you shall seek the place which the lord your god will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there
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Chapter 6: What instructions does Deuteronomy 12 provide on worship?
There you shall go, and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offerings that you present, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock.
And there you shall eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. You shall not do according to all that we are doing here this day, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes, for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God gives you.
But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about so that you live in safety, then to the place which the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell there,
There you shall bring all that I command you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to the Lord.
And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your menservants and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you." Take heed that you do not offer your burnt offerings at every place that you see, but at the place which the Lord will choose in one of your tribes.
There you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you. concerning eating however you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns as much as you desire according to the blessings of the lord your god which he has given you the unclean and the clean may eat of it of the gazelle and as of the deer Only you shall not eat the blood.
You shall pour it out upon the earth like water. You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grains or of your wine or of your oil or the firstling of your herd or of your flock or any of your votive offerings which you vow or your freewill offerings or the offering that you present.
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Chapter 7: How should Israelites handle sacrifices and offerings?
But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant, and the Levite who is within your towns, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake. Take heed that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as he has promised you, and you say, I will eat flesh, because you crave flesh, you may eat as much flesh as you desire. If the place which the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you,
then you may kill any of your herd or of your flock which the lord has given you as i have commanded you and you may eat within your towns as much as you desire just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten so you may eat of it the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
You shall not eat it. You shall pour it out upon the earth like water. You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
But the holy things which are due from you and your votive offerings you shall take, and you shall go to the place which the Lord will choose and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat.
Be careful to heed all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. warning against idolatry.
When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take heed that you not be ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I may also do likewise?
You shall not do so to the Lord your God, for every abominable thing which the Lord hates they have done for their gods. for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do.
You shall not add to it or take away from it. Psalm 95, a call to worship and obedience.
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