Israel is on the back march from the Promised Land. They are in the earlier days of their 40 years wandering. One group isn’t about to wait for their return. I don’t know how long it has been since Israel turned back from the brink of their victory. What I do know is that this […]
God “gathers Aaron to his people.” Another way of saying Aaron dies. God chose the setting and the timing. Moses and Aaron have been together since a short time after God called Moses. Aaron has been his voice to Pharaoh, his voice to the people, and his hands in action for God. It is time […]
It appears that the rift between Jacob and Esau didn’t heal. Israel asks for passage through the lands that Esau’s descendants held and was FIRMLY told to go another way. Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom to ask permission to cross their lands. He didn’t want to assume they would be alright with […]
God gives the people water from a rock again. This time is different because it changed something in Moses that time. Ouch in more ways than one. I don’t want you to think I forgot about the first thing that happens in our reading today. I didn’t miss the personal loss Moses and Aaron suffered. […]
God gives a special procedure for purification after contact with a dead body. There were PLENTY of those about that same time. I’m going to come out sand say that I don’t understand this whole process. I don’t know how often this was to take place. Was it only when the ashes ran out? And […]
