March 14 – The Serpent in the Wilderness

TODAY’S BIBLE READING CHALLENGE:
Numbers 21:1-22:20
Luke 1:26-56
Psalm 57:1-11
Proverbs 11:9-11

Numbers 21:2 and 5 — Good thing that we’re never as fickle as the Israelites! Yeah … right! We’ve never seen God deliver us from our enemies, restore our prisoners, and then get discouraged?

Numbers 21:8 — The serpent was in existence for 800 years until 2 Kings 18:4 when Josiah had to break it as an idol. But roughly 600 years later Jesus would talk about the serpent in the wilderness in John 3:14.

I’ve a message from the Lord, hallelujah!
This message unto you I’ll give,
‘Tis recorded in His word, hallelujah!
It is only that you “look and live.”

“Look and live,” my brother, live,
Look to Jesus now, and live;
‘Tis recorded in His word, hallelujah!
It is only that you “look and live.”

Numbers 21:17 — Spring up, O well!

Numbers 22:6 — Was Balaam blessed by Satan, by God, or just a savvy soothsayer? Apparently by God – vs. 8 says that He knew the personal name of the LORD. Was this part of the Abrahamic blessing (Genesis 22:18) that people outside of Israel experienced the LORD?

Luke 1:30 — In today’s Old Testament reading, God told Moses to fear not; in this New Testament passage, He tells Mary to fear not as well.

Luke 1:33 — This is an application of the prophecy of Isaiah 9:7.

Luke 1:51-53 — The God of contrasts is the God of the impossible (vs. 37).

Psalm 57:5 and 11 — Be Thou exalted, forever and ever, God of Eternity, the Ancient of Days!

Proverbs 11:10-11 — While we are living for the next millennium, we can bring blessing to the cities that we inhabit in this year.

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