Monthly Archives: February 2020

February 29 occurs every 4 years. Take some time today to catch up on your relationship with God. Spend some time in prayer, thought, and perhaps fasting.

In verses 1-8 of chapter 22 we are given the law of brotherhood. We may note in verse 5 that God gives instructions that women and men should not put…

Chapter 19 records again the cities of refuge. We have already seen that they were protection for those who were guilty of causing accidental death, what is today called manslaughter.…

Again in chapter 16 we have the principal annual feasts covered. The Passover (verses 1-8); the Feast of Weeks (verses 9-12); and the Feast of the Tabernacle (verses 13-17). Then…

Apostasy is having a knowledge of the truth and yet turning away from that truth. In chapter 13 we see the doom of the false prophets. The penalty to any…

In chapters 10 and 11 Moses makes his closing appeal before he starts to review and apply the various laws that would govern the lives of the people in the…

Having reminded his people of the events of the past, Moses now warns them of the perils of the future. For centuries Israel was a slave nation, and then for…

Moses had reminded the people of God's guidance in chapters 1-3. It had taken the people forty years to get to the Plains of Moab, yet chapter 1:2 states that…

Today we begin our reading of the fifth book of the Bible, and the fifth book of Moses, called "Deuteronomy." This book does not contain a new law, replacing the…

These chapters deal with the assigning of the inheritance, looking ahead to the time when the nation would possess Canaan. Each tribe is assigned its portion--the Levites their special cities,…