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OLD TESTAMENT READING: JOSHUA 19:1-20:9 The dividing of the land into different portions with well-defined boundaries gave each tribe a sense of ownership and responsibility. Each tribe was encouraged to promote the maintenance care, stewardship, loyalty and unity in...
APRIL 18 READING THROUGH THE ONE YEAR BIBLE JOSHUA 16:1-18:28; LUKE 19:1-27; PSALM 87:1-7
Joshua and Eleazar continue to assign territories to the twelve tribes by casting lots at Gilgal. They are fulfilling the instructions given by Moses: Numbers 34:13 13 So Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, "This is the land that you are to apportion by lot...
APRIL 16 – READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE JOSHUA 13:1-14:15; LUKE 18:1-17; PSALM 85:1-13; PROVERBS 13:7-8
Joshua has had quite a life! He has proved to be faithful to the Lord’s command. In chapter 13, he is somewhere between 90 and 100 years old. His comrade-in-faithful-obedience, Caleb, is now 85, and feeling as fit as he was when he was 40 (Joshua 14:11). Caleb is...
APRIL 17 -TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE JOSHUA 15:1-63; LUKE 18:18-43; PSALM 86:1-17; PROVERBS 13:9-10
OLD TESTAMENT READING: JOSHUA 15:1-63 Chapter 15 starts with clear boundaries being given to define the land allotted to the tribe of Judah. This is the tribe from which Boaz, King David and Jesus would come. This land will eventually be the chief area of the Southern...
APRIL 15- READING THE ONE YEAR BIBLE JOSHUA 11:1-12:24; LUKE 17:11-37; PSALM 84; PROVERBS 13:5-6
READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- JOSHUA 11:1-12:24 Today’s reading takes us to the end of Joshua’s initial campaign to fulfill the command given by the Lord. The LORD first said to Moses: Exodus 33:2-3 2 “I will send an angel before you and I will drive out the...
JOSHUA 9:3-10:43, LUKE 16:19-17:10, PSALM 83:1-18, Proverbs 13:4
OLD TESTAMENT READING- JOSHUA 9:3-10:43. THE CONFEDERATION OF THE FIVE KINGS I think it is important to review what was happening at the end of our Old Testament reading yesterday (Joshua 8:30-35). After their victory at Ai (Joshua 8:1-29), Joshua and the new...
APRIL 13 READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE JOSHUA 7:16-9:2; LUKE 16:1-18; PSALM 82
TODAY’S OLD TESTAMENT READING- JOSHUA 7:16- 9:2 The Lord was responsible for the victory at Jericho (Joshua 6:1-27). He made Himself known as Israel’s commander in chief (Joshua 5:13). However, He was not consulted in the plan to take Ai (Joshua 7:2-5), so He can not...
APRIL 11- JOSHUA 3:1-4:24; LUKE 14:7-35; PSALM 80:1-19; PROV 12:27-28
OLD TESTAMENT READING: JOSHUA 3:1-4:24 THE SECOND MIRACULOUS CROSSING Joshua had seen a lot in his lifetime. He was born into slavery in Egypt, had witnessed God raising up Moses and providing deliverance of his fellow-Jews from their Egyptian oppressors. He witnessed...
APRIL 10 DEUT 34:1- JOSH 2:24; LUKE 13:22-14:6; PSALM 79:1-13; PROVERBS 12:26
A TRIBUTE TO MOSES This last chapter in Deuteronomy is written by the hand of another. As predicted, Moses, at the age of 120, climbed Mt. Nebo and died there, in the land of Moab, having seen the Promised Land, but not permitted to enter it apart from Jesus. We don’t...
APRIL 9- TODAY’S READING IN THE ONE YEAR BIBLE DEUT 33:1-29; LUKE 13:1-22; PSALM 78:59-72; PROV 12:25
TAKE LESSONS FROM MOSES AS HOW TO PRONOUNCE VERBAL BLESSINGS ON YOUR LOVED ONES How important it is to bless the Lord! It is also important for us to bless others! We should purposefully bless our loved ones! Even our enemies! We should know how to pronounce a...