Numbers Chapter 29-36, Moon, vows, kill every one, gentiles into Israel, Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, the Levites cities, cities of refuge, unintentional sin, High Priest yom teruah or Rosh Hashana, no more challenges to authority,

1. Numbers 29-36
Moon, vows, kill every one, gentiles into
Israel, Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh, the Levites cities, cities of refuge,
unintentional sin, High Priest
yom teruah or Rosh Hashana, no more
challenges to authority,

2. Numbers 29
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3. Numbers 29:1, The Seventh Month
• NAU Numbers 29:1 'Now in the seventh month,
on the first day of the month, you shall also
have a holy convocation; you shall do no
laborious work. It will be to you a day for
blowing trumpets.

4. yom teruah or Rosh Hashana
The First Of The Fall Feasts
•These names refer to the 1st day of the Hebrew
month of Tishri. It is the 7th biblical month and the 1st
civil or historic Hebrew month before the Exodus out
of Egypt. The 7th biblical month of Tishri is in the fall
(Sept/October) and starts the fall feasts.
•The first is The Feast Of Trumpets (teruah) the LORD
will call the Jews and they will answer “…BLESSED IS
HE…” (Matthew 23:39)
•Then He will atone their sins (Day of Atonement)
•Then the LORD will tabernacle with them for 1000
years (Booths)

5. Numbers 29:6, New Moon
• NAU Numbers 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the
new moon and its grain offering, and the continual
burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink
offerings, according to their ordinance, for a
soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.
• This is the only use of “moon” in Numbers, one of
only 4 NAU uses of “moon” in the Torah, and the
only use there when this Hebrew word is translated
“moon”

6. Numbers 29:7, Day Of Atonement
• NAU Numbers 29:7 'Then on the tenth day of
this seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation, and you shall humble yourselves;
you shall not do any work.
• NAU Numbers 29:11 one male goat for a sin
offering, besides the sin offering of
atonement…

7. Numbers 29:12-38,
Feast of Booths or Tabernacles
• NAU Numbers 29:12 'Then on the fifteenth day
of the seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no laborious work,
and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for
seven days.
• NAU Leviticus 23:34-43, "Speak to the sons of
Israel, saying, 'On the fifteenth of this seventh
month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to
the LORD….

8. Numbers 30
Let’s read Numbers 30:1-8

9. Numbers 30:1, Keep Your Vows
• NAU Numbers 30:1 Then Moses spoke to the
heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying,
"This is the word which the LORD has
commanded. 2 "If a man makes a vow to the
LORD, or takes an oath to bind himself with a
binding obligation, he shall not violate his
word; he shall do according to all that
proceeds out of his mouth.

10. Numbers 30:1, Keep Your Vows
• NAU Matthew 5:33 "Again, you have heard that the
ancients were told, 'You shall not make false vows,
but shall fulfill your vows to the Lord.' 34 "But I say
to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it
is the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it is the
footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the
city of the great King. 36 "Nor shall you make an
oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair
white or black. 37 "But let your statement be, 'Yes,
yes' or 'No, no'; and anything beyond these is of
evil.

11. Numbers 30:3, Young Woman’s Vows
• NAU Numbers 30:3 "Also if a woman makes a
vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an
obligation in her father's house in her youth,
• Her father, as head of the household, may
have already committed her or the household
resources.

12. Numbers 30:5, Who Will Forgive?
• NAU Numbers 30:5 "But if her father should forbid her
on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her
obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand;
and the LORD will forgive her because her father had
forbidden her.
• Who is the only one who can forgive her sin of breaking
a vow?
• NAU Luke 5:21 The scribes and the Pharisees began to
reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks
blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”
• Jesus is either blaspheming or He is God, and as such
He is the one who forgives this girl’s sin.

13. Numbers 30:5, Forgive
• Her future
sure
changed
when “the
LORD will
forgive her”
• No longer a
“vow
breaker” but
forgiven
under the
law
• Like us!

14. Let’s read Numbers 30:9-16

15. Numbers 31

16. Numbers 31:1, Take Vengeance
• NAU Numbers 31:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the
Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your
people.“
• NAU Numbers 25:16 Then the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying, 17 "Be hostile to the Midianites and strike them; 18
for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with
which they have deceived you in the affair of Peor and in
the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian,
their sister who was slain on the day of the plague
because of Peor.“
• NAU Numbers 25:1 …Israel …began to play the harlot with
the daughters of Moab…. 25:7 …Phinehas …took a spear
…and pierced both of them through…

17. Numbers 31:8, They Killed Balaam
• NAU Numbers 31:8 They killed the kings of Midian along
with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur
and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam
the son of Beor with the sword.
• NAU Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death…
• NAU 1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother committing a
sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him
give life to those who commit sin not leading to death.
There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should
make request for this.

18. Numbers 31:17, Kill Every One
• NAU Numbers 31:17 "Now therefore, kill every male
among the little ones, and kill every woman who has
known man intimately.
• If you saw a rabid dogs ravaging school children you
would want to wipe out all the rabid dogs. Idolatry is
worse! The penalty for sin is death!
• The Canaanites were doing child sacrifice, incest,
bestiality, VD’s, etc.
• Beware to America as we've killed over 50 million
babies.
• See my presentation on Numbers Chapters 26-28, and
an age of accountability, concerning children

19. Richard Dawkins started a
controversy when a woman said, "I
honestly don't know what I would
do if I were pregnant with a kid with
Down Syndrome. Real ethical
dilemma," and he responded with,
• "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the
world if you have the choice." Dawkins later defended his
advice:"If your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase
the sum of happiness and reduce the suffering, the decision to
deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice
to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from
the point of view of the child's own welfare."
• The child's welfare? The child will be thankful it was aborted? The
child would later be offended it wasn't murdered?
• http://scottlapierre.org/2014/08/25/richard-dawkins-abort-it-and-try-again/

20. RICHARD DAWKINS: "ABORT IT AND TRY
AGAIN." Pastor Scott LaPierre
• What really surprised me though was the amount of outrage
Dawkins' comment received, because here's the truth: if you believe
in evolution you SHOULD agree with him! You should say, "We need
to think about what's best for the advancement of the human race
and that means removing from the gene pool those individuals
threatening its progress...and if we're honest, there's no greater
threat than those born with genetic disorders." And here's another
painful, but equally true reality: this thinking isn't very far removed
from Hitler's desire to eliminate the inferior people
orUntermenschen (German for subhuman): Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc.,
to allow the superior Aryan Herrenvolk (Master Race) to develop.
• Dawkins mentioned morality: he said it would be immoral to give
birth to the child. But if you don't believe the Bible, you CAN'T argue
with him! If you disagree with him apart from Scripture what is your
argument based on? It's based on absolutely

21. RICHARD DAWKINS: "ABORT IT AND TRY
AGAIN." Pastor Scott LaPierre
• nothing more than your opinion! In the absence of Scripture,
morality is completely subjective. While people try to identify
right and wrong or good and evil without the Bible, their
positions are based entirely on opinion. When one opinion
differs from another, how is it determined which opinion is
correct? Is it determined by which opinion sounds better? Is it
determined by which opinion can find the most similar
opinions? If the Bible isn't your authority on morality, the only
weight behind your case is how well it can be
argued...including debates about murdering babies. In other
words, in the absence of Scripture, there is no argument
against murdering babies; the absence of Scripture puts us in
the days of the Judges when "Every man did what was right in
his own eyes."
• August 25, 2014 by Pastor Scott LaPierre
• http://scottlapierre.org/2014/08/25/richard-dawkins-abort-it-and-try-again/

22. Numbers 31:18, How Did Gentiles Get In?
• NAU Numbers 31:18 "But all the girls who have not known
man intimately, spare for yourselves.
• Joshua 6:25 …Rahab…and her father's household …,
Joshua spared…
• Exodus 2:16-21, 18:5 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law,
came with his sons and his wife to Moses…
• Exodus 12:48 "But if a stranger sojourns with you, and
celebrates the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be
circumcised…he shall be like a native of the land. But no
uncircumcised person may eat of it.
• Genesis 15:2 Abram said,…I am childless, and the heir of
my house is Eliezer of Damascus?“

23. Matthew 7:6, Don’t Give To Dogs
• Matthew 15:26 And He answered and said, "It is not good to
take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 27 But she
said, "Yes, Lord; but even the dogs feed on the crumbs which
fall from their masters' table.“
• Philippians 3:2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers,
beware of the false circumcision;
• Revelation 22:15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and
the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and
everyone who loves and practices lying.
• Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing
them: "Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter
any city of the Samaritans;

24. Numbers 31:18, How Did Gentiles Get In?
• OT dispensation, born, captives, marry, or purchased slaves,
missionary prophets;
• Psalm 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And
sinners will be converted to You.
• Isaiah 19:22 The LORD will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so
they will return to the LORD, and He will respond to them and
will heal them.
• Jonah 1:2 "Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against
it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.“
• Ruth 1:1-16…man of Bethlehem …went to sojourn in the land
of Moab… 16 But Ruth said, “…where you lodge, I will lodge.
Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

25. Numbers 31:18, How Gentiles Get In Now?
• NT dispensation, all must be converted, born again ;
• Matthew 18:3 and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are
converted and become like children, you will not enter
the kingdom of heaven.
• John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I
say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the
kingdom of God.“
• 1 Peter 1:3 …His great mercy has caused us to be born
again …through the resurrection of Jesus Christ…
• 1 Peter 1:23 for you have been born again …through the
living and enduring word of God.
• Matthew 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all
the nations..

26. But, This Gift Must Be Received
Not Rejected
• Luke 9:5 "And as for those who do not receive you, as
you go out from that city, shake the dust off your feet
as a testimony against them.“
• Acts 13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet in
protest against them and went to Iconium.
• Acts 18:6 But when they resisted and blasphemed, he
shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood
be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will
go to the Gentiles.“
• Matthew 7:8 "For everyone who asks receives, and he
who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be
opened.

27. Numbers 31:25-54, A Bunch Of Booty
• NAU Numbers 31:26…take a count of the booty that was
captured, both of man and of animal; [about 6,700 oz. of gold]
• Then equitably divide it up with all the people
• NAU Genesis 15:16 "Then in the fourth generation they will
return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet
complete.“ [now, 400 years later, it’s full, God will judge them]
• NAU Exodus 3:8 "So I have come down to deliver them from the
power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land
to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and
honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the
Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

28. Numbers 32
Let’s read Numbers 30:1-8

29. Let’s read Numbers 32:1-10
• This is one huge cattle drive and
• NAU Numbers 32:4 …a land for livestock, and
your servants have livestock.“
• Moses fears another 40 years of wandering

30. NAU Numbers 32:16-32
• NAU Numbers 32:16 Then they came near to him and
said, "We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock
and cities for our little ones; 17 but we ourselves will be
armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we
have brought them to their place, while our little ones
live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of
the land. 18 "We will not return to our homes until
every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his
inheritance.
• They volunteer for the “point position” to lead into
battle while leaving their families behind
(unprotected?)

31. Numbers 32:33, Reuben, Gad and the half-
tribe of Manasseh
• NAU Numbers 32:33 So Moses gave to them, to
the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and
to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the
kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and
the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the
land with its cities with their territories, the
cities of the surrounding land.
• These 3 tribes are referred to about 13 X’s

32. Numbers 33

33. Numbers 33:1-49, The Wanderings
• NAU Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the
sons of Israel, by which they came out from the
land of Egypt by their armies, under the leadership
of Moses and Aaron. 2 Moses recorded their
starting places according to their journeys by the
command of the LORD, and these are their journeys
according to their starting places.
• This is a good place to come look up people and
places. We will return here often.

34. Numbers 33:1-49, The Wanderings
• The John MacArthur Study Bible, on page 242
says “…Some sites recorded earlier are not
listed and other sites are only mentioned here.
The God who could lead the Israelites in the
conquest of Canaan (33:50–56) was the one
who led them through the wilderness."

35. Numbers 33:50-56
The LORD’s Instructions For Possession
• NAU Numbers 33:52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of
the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and
destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;
• NAU Numbers 33:54 'You shall inherit the land by lot according to
your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to
the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to
anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of
your fathers.
• NAU Numbers 33:55 'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of
the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom
you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as
thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which
you live. [peaceful possession is conditional, but they already own it eternally]

36. Numbers 33:50-56
The LORD’s Instructions For Possession
• NAU Numbers 33:52 then you shall drive out all the
inhabitants of the land from before you, and
destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their
molten images and demolish all their high places;
• God in His patient, longsuffering has waited 400
years for them to stop sinning;
• KJV Genesis 15:13-16, 16 But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

37. Numbers 33:50-56
Retribution In The LORD’s Judgment
• NAU Numbers 33:56 'And as I plan to do to them, so I
will do to you.'"
• God in His judgment will use retribution fairly and
justly.
• NAU Daniel 3:22 For this reason, because the king's
command was urgent and the furnace had been
made extremely hot, the flame of the fire slew
those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach and
Abed-nego.
• Numbers 35:19, Genesis 9:5-6

38. Numbers 34
The LORD gives instructions about
dividing the land

39. Wikimedia
Numbers 34:1-12
Land of Israel Map
Numbers 34:1-12
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/w
iki/File:Map_Land_of_Israel.jpg

40. Numbers 34:13-15, 91/2 Tribes?
• NAU Numbers 34:13 So Moses commanded the sons of
Israel, saying, "This is the land that you are to apportion
by lot among you as a possession, which the LORD has
commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes.
• 14 "For the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received
theirs according to their fathers' households, and the
tribe of the sons of Gad according to their fathers'
households, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have
received their possession.
• 15 "The two and a half tribes have received their
possession across the Jordan opposite Jericho,
eastward toward the sunrising."

41. Numbers 34:17, Eleazar And Joshua?
• NAU Numbers 34:17 "These are the names of
the men who shall apportion the land to you
for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua
the son of Nun.
• NAU Numbers 34:1 Then the LORD spoke to
Moses, saying,
• “Eleazar and Joshua”?
• Why not Moses and Aaron?

42. Numbers 34:16-29, The Names
• NAU Numbers 34:16-29, … 17 "These are the
names of the men who shall apportion the
land to you…
• Why do you suppose that God decreed the
exact names?
• God gives credence to the upstarts.
• I see no more challenges to authority after the
40 years of wandering (till Absalom?, 2 Samuel
15).

43. Numbers 34:13-29,
Which Tribes Get Land?
• NAU Numbers 34:23 "Of the sons of Joseph: of
the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a leader,
Hanniel the son of Ephod. 24 "And of the tribe
of the sons of Ephraim a leader, Kemuel the
son of Shiphtan.
• Joseph gets 2, Ephraim and Manasseh, so the
12 tribes don’t include Levi, (Numbers 35:1-5)

44. Numbers 35

45. Let’s read Numbers 35:1-5,
The Levites Cities
• NAU Joshua 14:4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes,
Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a portion to
the Levites in the land, except cities to live in…
• God gave the Levites cities that are scattered all over the
land in order that they could minister to all the people.
• NAU Deuteronomy 18:1-2, 10:9 Therefore, Levi does not
have a portion or inheritance with his brothers; the LORD
is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God spoke to
him.) [Joshua 13:14, 13:33]
• Would you rather have land or God?
• KJV Luke 16:9-13 …Ye cannot serve God and mammon. [Job,
Paul, 2 Corinthians 6:4-5, 12:10]

46. Let’s read Numbers 35:9-15
• NAU Numbers 35:15 'These six cities shall be for
refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien
and for the sojourner among them; that
anyone who kills a person unintentionally may
flee there.
• Were/are your sins intentional or
unintentional?
• What’s the penalty for sin? Rom 6:23

47. Intentional, Unintentional, Undetermined
• NAU Numbers 35:15 …anyone who kills a person
unintentionally…
• NAU Numbers 35:16-21 …the murderer shall surely
be put to death.
• NAU Numbers 35:22…without enmity, or threw
something at him without lying in wait,
• Our laws concerning homicide; accidental death,
manslaughter, 1st, 2nd. Degree murder have roots
here.
• Is abortion intentional/unintentional,
accidental/pre-meditated?

48. Intentional, Unintentional, Undetermined
• Are we guilty or innocent?
• We need to flee to the city of refuge!
• Who do you suppose the only “City Of Refuge” is?
• NAU Jeremiah 23:24 "Can a man hide himself in hiding
places So I do not see him?" declares the LORD….
• NAU Psalm 119:114 You are my hiding place and my
shield…
• NAU Psalm 32:7 You are my hiding place; You preserve
me from trouble…[Revelation 6:15-16]

49. Numbers 35:25, The Condition
• NAU Numbers 35:25 …he shall live in it until the death of
the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
• Once they flee to flee to the city of refuge, there is a
condition
• “until the death of the high priest who was anointed with
the holy oil”
• Who’s our High Priest? After He saved you, how long will
it be till He dies?
• Hebrews 6:20 …Jesus…a high priest forever… [Psalm 110:4]
• We live in Him, our High Priest, forever

50. Numbers 35:25, 28, High Priest
• Numbers 35:25 =1st. Mention of High Priest
out of 74 NAS uses, only 2 uses in Torah (5
books of Moses)

51. Numbers 36

52. Numbers 36:6, The Daughters Of
Zelophehad Inheritance
• NAU Numbers 36:6 "This is what the LORD has
commanded concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, saying, 'Let them marry whom they
wish; only they must marry within the family of the
tribe of their father.‘
• NAU Numbers 36:9 "Thus no inheritance shall be
transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the
tribes of the sons of Israel shall each hold to his
own inheritance.“
• Land for peace, are you kidding me!

53. Jesus Christ Is Our High Priest
And City Of Refuge
(He Is Also Our Kinsman Redeemer
And Avenger Of Blood)
Nelson Study Bible on page 288, ties together these 3
Hebrew words, refuge, avenger, kinsman

54. THE END

55. Abortion, Subjective Morality, Down’s
Syndrome, Birth Defects, Mental Illness
• RICHARD DAWKINS: "ABORT IT AND TRY AGAIN."
•
• Pastor Scott LaPierre
•
• Richard Dawkins started a controversy when a woman said, "I honestly don't know what I would do if I were pregnant with a kid with Down Syndrome.
Real ethical dilemma," and he responded with, "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice." Dawkins
later defended his advice:"If your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce the suffering, the decision to
deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of
the child's own welfare." The child's welfare? The child will be thankful it was aborted? The child would later be offended it wasn't murdered?
•
• What really surprised me though was the amount of outrage Dawkins' comment received, because here's the truth: if you believe in evolution you
SHOULD agree with him! You should say, "We need to think about what's best for the advancement of the human race and that means removing from
the gene pool those individuals threatening its progress...and if we're honest, there's no greater threat than those born with genetic disorders." And
here's another painful, but equally true reality: this thinking isn't very far removed from Hitler's desire to eliminate the inferior people
orUntermenschen (German for subhuman): Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc., to allow the superior Aryan Herrenvolk (Master Race) to develop.
•
• Dawkins mentioned morality: he said it would be immoral to give birth to the child. But if you don't believe the Bible, you CAN'T argue with him! If you
disagree with him apart from Scripture what is your argument based on? It's based on absolutely nothing more than your opinion! In the absence of
Scripture, morality is completely subjective. While people try to identify right and wrong or good and evil without the Bible, their positions are based
entirely on opinion. When one opinion differs from another, how is it determined which opinion is correct? Is it determined by which opinion sounds
better? Is it determined by which opinion can find the most similar opinions? If the Bible isn't your authority on morality, the only weight behind your
case is how well it can be argued...including debates about murdering babies. In other words, in the absence of Scripture, there is no argument against
murdering babies; the absence of Scripture puts us in the days of the Judges when "Every man did what was right in his own eyes."
• August 25, 2014 by Pastor Scott LaPierre
• http://scottlapierre.org/2014/08/25/richard-dawkins-abort-it-and-try-again/

56. Waters Above, Solar System, Sun Moon
• Are Science and Creation Compatible?
• Think the story of creation, as described in the Book of Genesis, would hold water if subjected to scientific scrutiny?
“Our findings show that a significant fraction of our Solar System’s water, the most-fundamental ingredient to fostering life, is older than the Sun,”
said Conel Alexander of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who took part in the research.
The verses in Genesis talk about water, too—specifically, about what some say is the division between that water in space and the water here on
Earth: “And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.”
That was on Day 2—predating the sun by two days, according to the biblical order of creation. (Or so it seems at first glance.)
What are religious Jews to make of such parallels between scientific findings and the biblical account of creation? That depends on whom you ask, of
course, with answers ranging, in essence, from “nothing” to “a great deal.”
“These are totally separate things,” says Rabbi Yehoyada Amir, who heads the Israel Council of Reform Rabbis and is a professor of Jewish thought at
Hebrew Union College. It doesn’t even matter if science supports religious tenets, in his view: the Bible is here to teach us values and the role of
mankind in the world, not to give us an accurate play-by-play of how the universe began.
But Nathan Aviezer, an Orthodox physics professor at Bar-Ilan University who grew up in Detroit and has written several books about the interplay of
science and religion, argues that contemporary cosmology has gone a long way toward clarifying the previously opaque opening verses of the Torah.
Take that seemingly confusing part about water beneath the heavens and water above, for instance. In the past, Bible readers had to shrug off that
heavenly water as esoterica that was beyond their understanding. Now we know that there is water in space—or, in the Bible’s words, “above the
firmament.” The current findings provide a further boost to scientific support for a literal understanding of Day 2 of creation, says Aviezer.
“It corresponds even more strongly with what is written in the Bible,” says Aviezer. “It’s good for the Jews.”
-www.haaretz.com, 13 November 2014
The theory of evolution is now considered a scientific fact throughout the academic world. Yet when faced with real scientific scrutiny, large holes are
exposed and usually answered with one word: “time.” Those believing in evolution simply claim that the earth is millions, even billions of years old and
evolved by itself.
Will man find the answer in his desperate search for the origin of life? The answer is yes, and the record is found in Revelation 6:15-16, “And the
kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” That will be the end of the religion of evolution.
(For more on Creation, read The Genesis Factor, Item 2239.)
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57. • Jerusalem Inspiration, Imagine the emotions and
excitement of the Children of Israel as they sit poised
on the banks of the Jordan River, ready to cross over
and inherit the Land. Moses, their beloved leader, gives
a farewell address before his death, bestowing
blessings and encouragement to his people that will
surely stay with them, and help them withstand the
challenges of their journey forward.
• Jerusalem Daily Photo, Today's photo by Boruch Len
shows a breathtaking sunset above the walls of the old
city of Jerusalem.