Mar 9, 2022
NUMBERS 2:
Yesterday in Numbers chapter 1, God ordered a
census of the men capable as soldiers in war. And we heard the list
of the clan leaders of the 12 listed tribes— excluding Levi. (The
number of tribes remains at 12 because the tribe of Joseph is split
in two.)
PSALM 26:
This poem is a personal lament. It is similar
to Psalm 25 but does not contain confession. David asks for God’s
vindication based on his personal integrity and shows his love for
God by his devotion to God’s sanctuary.
LUKE 18a:
Yesterday we heard about the suddenness of the
coming of Jesus as the Son of Man, and that believers will be
suddenly taken out of a context that looks like ‘business as
usual’. Jesus again said that first He must suffer and be
rejected.
I want to challenge everyone to dig deeper into God’s Word— including myself. The last verse of Luke 17 says,
37 The disciples asked him,
“Where, Lord?” Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a dead body, the
vultures will gather.”
Greek does not differentiate between ‘vulture’
and ‘eagle’. Because of the presence of the word ‘dead body’,
translators chose to translate ‘vulture’, but how would it change
your ideas if we read this as ‘eagles’? Also, it is possible that
Jesus’ response was a common proverb. If that is so, what did Jesus
mean by quoting that proverb? When you have questions about words in the
translation you are using, one easy thing to do is to switch
versions temporarily to the NET, in order to read the many
excellent footnotes there.