...................................................................LET US LEARN TOGETHER WHAT IS GOOD. Job 34:4b(NIV)................................................................Some people see the Bible as a long and boring book filled with incidents and events from the lives of ancient people who probably never existed. The biblical stories are seen as fables. In this blog, many of the situations and conversations found in the divinely inspired Holy Scriptures have been placed in categories that correspond to expressive sayings and phrases. Reference information, background information and links connecting the people and places are given to help you find a place to begin reading the Bible for yourself.

Friday, September 19, 2014

N-O Means Don't Go

And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.-Numbers 14:39-45***In the desert wilderness of Paran, Moses sent 1 man from each Israelite tribe, except the tribe of Levi, to explore Canaan, the Promised Land. The 12 spies went from Kadesh Barnea in the desert wilderness of Paran, to the desert wilderness of Zin in the south, to the land of Rehob in the north, journeying a total of 40 days. The spies returned with grapes, pomegranates and figs, and a report of strong, gigantic people and huge cities. Caleb the spy was ready to conquer the land. Ten of the other spies spread fear and gave details about the Canaanite inhabitants. The Israelites cried and spoke of returning to Egypt. Over 1 year earlier, Moses and his older brother Aaron led the Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. Joshua was a warrior, and Moses' aide, and 1 of the spies. Caleb and Joshua described the goodness they saw in the land and spoke of the Lord God. The Israelites wanted to stone Joshua and Caleb. The Lord God wanted to strike the Israelites with a plague. The divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that it was the 2nd time the Lord God was willing to destroy the Israelites and have a great nation come forth from Moses. However, Moses intervened on behalf of the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God, and proclaimed reasons to the Lord God, and the Lord God forgave the Israelites. The Lord God told Moses that the men who had seen the plagues he had brought upon the Egyptians, and the miracles he had performed for the Israelites in the desert wilderness would not see or enter the Promised Land. Afterwards, the Lord God bought a plague of death upon the 10 fearful spies, and the Israelites admitted they had sinned. During the 40th year of the journey to the Promised Land, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried upon Mount Hor, and Moses went upon Mount Nebo. The Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua was Moses' successor and led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Jacob's 4th born son Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 11:1-35, 13:1-14:45, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, 32:1-42, Deuteronomy 1:1-6:25 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 14:6-15, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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