MAY 8, 2023 Deuteronomy 20:19 When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the […]
MAY 7, 2023 Deuteronomy 20:19 When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the […]
MAY 6, 2023 Deuteronomy 20:19 When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the […]
MAY 5, 2023 Deuteronomy 20:8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and say, “What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.” In this and the previous verses, certain allowances are made for those who can’t or shouldn’t fight […]
MAY 4, 2023 Deuteronomy 20:1 When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Many years ago, there was a popular song that contained this lyric: “I beg your […]
MAY 3, 2023 Deuteronomy 19:21 Life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. What, exactly, did Moses mean by this statement? In times past, this has occasionally been interpreted quite literally, whereby people lost eyes, hands and feet for different offenses. There are cultures, even today, who will […]
MAY 2, 2023 Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. Justice is so important in the Kingdom of God that, even if someone had committed a sin against another, if […]
MAY 1, 2023 Deuteronomy 19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. From the very beginning of Creation, we see that boundaries are important to the Almighty. From Day One, […]
APRIL 29, 2023 Deuteronomy 18:21-22 If you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid […]
APRIL 28, 2023 Deuteronomy 18:15-16 The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this […]
APRIL 27, 2023 Deuteronomy 18:13-14 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you. As mentioned in the previous devotion, the people of God are not to follow the ways of the nations, and in particular, […]
APRIL 26, 2023 Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. It is human nature to want to […]
