In today's readings, we trace the route of the Israelites in Numbers and hear the song of Moses in Deuteronomy. Fr. Mike reflects on a hard lesson from these passages; that God will allow us to choose something other than him, even though it hurts us. The readings are Numbers 33, Deuteronomy 32, and Psalm 118. 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 78 in the Bible in a Year podcast?
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. 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 78, and we have only three days, including today. We have only three days left in Numbers and Deuteronomy. We have only three days left of the desert wanderings. And on the fourth day, we begin Joshua and conquest and judges. It is... Great time.
So day 78, we're reading Numbers chapter 33, Deuteronomy chapter 32, the song of Moses we heard about yesterday that was going to be proclaimed and sung again and again so the people of Israel would not forget. And we're also praying Psalm 118. As always, I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, the second Catholic edition of the Bible and using the Great Dimensional Bible.
If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You can also subscribe to this podcast and your podcast app to receive daily episodes. As I said, today is day 78. We're reading Numbers chapter 33, Deuteronomy chapter 32, and Psalm 118.
Chapter 2: What are the Israelites' stages of journey in Numbers 33?
The Book of Numbers Chapter 33 The Stages of Israel's Journey from Egypt These are the stages of the sons of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to their starting places.
They set out from Ramses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the sons of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. Upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
So the sons of Israel set out from Ramses and encamped at Sukkoth. And they set out from Sukkoth and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-Haharath, which is east of Baal-Zaphon. And they encamped before Migdal. And they set out from before Haharath and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness.
And they went a three days journey in the wilderness of Etham and encamped in Marah. And they set out from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim, there were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees and they encamped there. And they set out from Elim and encamped by the Red Sea. And they set out from the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dovka. And they set out from Dovka and encamped at Alush. And they set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. And they set out from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth Hatava.
And they set out from Kibroth Hatava and encamped at Hazeroth. And they set out from Hazeroth and encamped at Rithma. And they set out from Rithma, and encamped at Ramon Perez. And they set out from Ramon Perez, and encamped at Libna. And they set out from Libna, and encamped at Risa. And they set out from Risa, and encamped at Kehalatha.
And they set out from Kehalatha, and encamped at Mount Shephar. And they set out from Mount Shephar, and encamped at Haradah. And they set out from Haradah, and encamped at Mekeloth. and they set out from achaloth and encamped at tahath and they set out from tahath and encamped at terah and they set out from terah and encamped at mithkah and they set out from mithkah and encamped at hashmonah
And they set out from Hashmanah, and encamped at Moseroth. And they set out from Moseroth, and encamped at Benidjakan. And they set out from Benidjakan, and encamped at Horhagidad. And they set out from Horhagidad, and encamped at Jatbatha. And they set out from Jatbatha, and encamped at Abranah. And they set out from Abranah, and encamped at Ezean-Geber.
And they set out from Ezean-Geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, that is Kadesh. And they set out from Kadesh and encamped at Mount Hor on the edge of the land of Edom. And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.
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Chapter 3: What messages does the Song of Moses convey in Deuteronomy 32?
For I have given the land to you to possess it. You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. The book of Deuteronomy chapter 32, the song of Moses.
Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished in the ears of all the assembly of Israel. Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord, ascribe greatness to our God. The rock, his work is perfect. for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he. They have dealt corruptly with him. They are no longer his children because of their blemish. They are perverse and crooked generation. Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you, who made you and established you? He says, He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness he encircled him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone did lead them.
Chapter 4: How does God respond to the Israelites' actions in the wilderness?
And there was no foreign god with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the produce of the field. and he made him suck honey out of the rock and oil out of the flinty rock, curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of wheat, and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
But Jerushan waxed fat and kicked. You waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek. Then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the rock of his salvation. They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods. With abominable practices, they provoked him to anger.
They sacrificed to demons, which were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come in of late, whom your fathers had never dreaded. You were unmindful of the rock that begot you and you forgot the God who gave you birth. The Lord saw it and spurned them because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them.
I will see what their end will be for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no God. They have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people. I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
For if fire is kindled by my anger and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. and I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them. They shall be wasted with hunger and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence.
And I will send the teeth of beasts against them with venom of crawling things of the dust. In the open, the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child and the man of gray hairs. I would have said, I will scatter them afar.
I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men, had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is triumphant. The Lord has not wrought all this. For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. If they were wise, they would understand this. They would discern their latter end.
How should one chase a thousand and two put 10,000 to flight unless their rock had sold them and the Lord had given them up? For their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For the vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of poison. Their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries? Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip, for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly. For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on their servants.
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