Numbers 21 Vipers and The Wars Begin and There Will Be Many


  Good morning, we had a cool front come through yesterday, and it is only 75 degrees as I write this letter to all of you at 4:30 in the morning. Our high for the day is only 92, far better than the 103 we had this past week! Texas summers tend to be a reminder of what Hell might feel like. Someday, we hope to escape to Colorado for the summers!

  Well, I guess I am grumbling and should get my attitude straight. Much like God’s people in the book of Numbers, chapter 22, for this morning’s Daily Bible Challenge, we are never satisfied, it would seem. There is something very different in today’s chapter as we start to read about all the wars as God starts to deliver the promised land into the hands of His people through wars and skirmishes. There will be many more over the next few chapters as they become conquerors, completely wiping out whole cities and their population as commanded by God.

  This is a facet of God that many Christians become very uncomfortable with, especially in the USA. In a way, it is God’s wrath on these people who were not living according to God’s ways. These people would have been descendants of Noah who settled in these lands and were not living according to God’s natural law. Incest, child sacrifice, homosexuality, and bestiality are against God’s Natural Law and were all practiced by the Canaanites.

  This is a very difficult subject for many to digest and warrants much study for a better understanding. A good place to start is to follow this link to Got Question! www.gotquestions.org/Canaanites-extermination.html

  But for now, just know there will be a lot of wars in the next chapters, and it is again one of the reasons this is called a challenge. Studying the Bible is not easy, unless you pick and choose what you want to hear, ignoring the rest! If God were small enough to completely understand, then He would not be Big enough to worship and allow His Lordship over us!

  Talk with you soon!

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