Fr. Mike dives into the recurring issue of the Israelites rebelling against God and remaining stuck in their past as we read about the revolt of Korah, Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron. Today's readings are Numbers 16, Deuteronomy 15-16, and Psalm 97. 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: What is the focus of Day 65 in the Bible in a Year podcast?
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 your podcast is brought to you by ascension 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 it is day 65 and we are reading from numbers chapter 16 as well as from deuteronomy chapter 15 and 16 we're also praying today from psalm 97
as always i'm reading from the revised standard version second catholic edition and as always also i'm using the great adventure bible from ascension if you want to get your own great adventure bible you can buy it i guess you could also download your own bible reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com bible in a year if you haven't yet subscribed subscribe to the podcast please do that that would be phenomenal as i said today is day 65 we are reading from psalm sorry numbers chapter 16 deuteronomy chapter 15 and 16.
Chapter 2: Who are Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and why did they revolt against Moses?
as well as praying through Psalm 97. The book of Numbers, chapter 16. Revolt of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Now Korah, the son of Izar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pelleth, sons of Reuben, took men and they rose up before Moses with a number of the sons of Israel, 250 leaders of the congregation chosen from the assembly, well-known men.
And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, you have gone too far for all the congregation are holy, every one of them. And the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?
Chapter 3: How did Moses respond to the rebellion against him and Aaron?
When Moses heard it, he fell on his face and he said to Korah and all his company, in the morning, the Lord will show who is his and who is holy and will cause him to come near to him. Him who he will choose, he will cause to come near to him. Do this, take censers, Korah and all his company, put fire in them and put incense upon them before the Lord tomorrow.
And the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi. And Moses said to Korah, hear now, you sons of Levi, is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
And would you seek the priesthood also? Therefore, it is against the Lord that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you murmur against him? And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. And they said, We will not come up.
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us? Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
And Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them. And Moses said to Korah, Be present, you and all your company, before the Lord, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.
And let every one of you take his censer and put incense upon it, and every one of you bring before the Lord his censer, two hundred and fifty censers. you also and Aaron each his censer. So every man took his censer, and they put fire in them, and laid incense upon them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation. Korah, Dathan, and Abiram are punished. And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Separate yourselves from among this congregation that I may consume them in a moment.
And they fell on their faces and they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will you be angry with all the congregation? And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the congregation, Get away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
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Chapter 4: What was the outcome of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram's revolt?
And he said to the congregation, Depart, I beg you, from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins. So they got away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
and dathan and abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents together with their wives their sons and their little ones and moses said hereby you shall know that the lord has sent me to do all these works and that it has not been of my own accord if these men die the common death of all men or if they are visited by the fate of all men then the Lord has not sent me.
But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.
And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split asunder and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households and all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods. So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol and the earth closed over them and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. And fire came forth from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense. Then the Lord said to Moses, Tell Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, to take up the censers out of the blaze, then scatter the fire far and wide.
For they are holy, the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives. So let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, to be a reminder to the sons of Israel. A plague strikes the rebels. But the next day, all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord.
And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting, and the Lord said to Moses, Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces.
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Chapter 5: What lessons are drawn from the punishment of the rebels?
And Moses said to Aaron, Take your censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them. For wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun. So Aaron took it, as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people.
And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living. And the plague was stopped. Now those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah. And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting when the plague was stopped.
the book of Deuteronomy chapter 15 and chapter 16.
Chapter 15, concerning the sabbatical year. At the end of every seven years, you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release. Every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner, you may exact it.
Chapter 6: What are the key teachings in Deuteronomy chapters 15 and 16?
But whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release. But there will be no poor among you. For the Lord will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, if only you will obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
For the Lord your God will bless you as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
If there is among you a poor man, one of your brethren, in any of your towns within your land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.
Take heed, lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, the seventh year, the year of release is near, and your eye be hostile to the poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cried to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him.
Because for this, the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore, I command you, you shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor in the land. If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, He shall serve you six years.
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Chapter 7: How are the Sabbatical Year and Passover observed according to Deuteronomy?
And in the seventh year, you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this day. But if he says to you, I will not go out from you because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you, then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your bondsman forever.
And to your bondswoman you shall do likewise. It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, For at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do. Regulations Concerning Livestock All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock, you shall consecrate to the Lord your God.
You shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock. You shall eat it, you and your household, before the Lord your God year by year at the place which the Lord will choose. But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind, or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. You shall eat it within your towns.
The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer. Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water. Chapter 16 Keeping the Passover Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God. For in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God from the flock or the herd, at the place which the Lord will choose to make his name dwell there. You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction. For you came out of the land of Egypt in hurried flight.
that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out from the land of Egypt. No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns which the Lord your God gives you,
but at the place which the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell in it. There you shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at the going down of the sun at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall boil it and eat it at the place which the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread.
And on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it. keeping the feast of weeks. You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
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