Day 89: March 31, Deuteronomy 33-34

33.26-29 - What is the last image of God Moses gives?

Day 88: March 30, Deuteronomy 31-32

31.6 - Where does the strength and courage come from?

31.16-18 - What is God promising will happen?

32.4 - Who is Moses' God?

32.10 - How did God find Israel?

32.15 - What was Israel's sin like?

32.36-39 - How will God react when Israel is at the lowest point?

Day 87: March 29, Deuteronomy 29-30

29.10-15 - Why is it a big deal that the sojourner is mentioned here?

29.19 - How does this reminder serve us?

29.29 - What do we have to hold onto?

30.6-8 - What will God do to their hearts? What is our response (v. 8)?

30.14 - What's the meaning behind this passage?

Day 86: March 28, Deuteronomy 27-28

27.10 - What is made equivalent with the voice of God?

27.26 - What is Israel's relationship with the Law?

28.1 - What is Israel's benefit for obedience?

28.14 - What is God's greatest concern for Israel?

28.36 - If Israel turns to idolatry, what will God give them?

Day 85: March 27th, Deuteronomy 25-26

25.13-16 - What is God concerned with here?

26.5-11 - What should drive our giving to God and others?

26.16-19 - What happens to God and us when we are obedient?

Day 84: March 26, Deuteronomy 23-24

23.21-23 - Why is God so concerned with vows in general, but especially vows in His name?

24.5 - So what is really important?

24.16 - Who has to own up for individual sin?

24.19-22 - Why encourage gleaning?

Day 80: March 22, Deuteronomy 15-16 through Day 83: March 25, Deuteronomy 21-22

15.4 - No poor among us? What about Deuteronomy 15.11 and Matthew 26.11?



15.7-8 - What does this mean for Christians?



15.14 - How are slaves to be treated?



16 - Why remind the people again of Passover, Weeks, and Booths?



16.18-20 - How should we define righteous judgment?



17.2-7 - What of grace? Aren't we all guilty of idolatry?



17.13 - What's the point of the purge?



17.17 - Foreshadowing, anyone?



17.19-20 - What is the King of Israel's foremost concern?



18.9-14 - What are the abominable practices?



18.18-19 - Who is the ultimately fulfilled by?



18.20-22 - Why is the office of prophet guarded so sincerely?



19.15 - What does this ensure?

19.19 - Just?

20.4 - What is God here pictured as?

20.5-9 - Why?

20.18 - Why not apply v. 14 here?

21.1-9 - What does this say of God and death?

21.20 - What makes this young man rebelious? Does this put sin in perspective for us?

21.23 - What does this passage mean to Christians?

22.5 - No pants for the girls?

Day 77: Friday, March 19, Deuteronomy 9-10 through Day 79: March 21, Deteronomy 13-14

9.1-3 - Who is going to win this battle, Israel or God?

9.5 - Is works-righteousness (I am made right before God by how good I am) the reason Israel is getting their land?

9.16-21 - How does God react? How does Moses react?

9.26-29 - What does Moses remind God of?

10.8-9 - What is the job description of the Levites?

10.12-13 - What is the job description of the all Israelites?

10.21 - What does it mean that God is our praise?

11.1 - What two things are tied together in this verse?

11.11-12 - Does this mean God plays favorites?

11.16-17 - Again, what are they not supposed to do? What will happen if they do it?

11.18-25 - Has Moses forgotten he already touched on this?

12.4 - Why?

12.8 - What does living like this imply?

12.30-31 - Does this apply to how we interact with modern day religions?

13.1-3 - Who gives the power to false prophets and dreamers?

13.5 - Why must he die?

13.11 - Why all the violence?

14 - Why remind us of the importance of clean foods and tithing?

Day 76: March 18, Deuteronomy 7-8

Deuteronomy 7-8:

7.2 - Isn't mercy good?

7.5 - What was the problem with the natives of the Promised Land?

7.6-8 - What is God's reasoning for choosing Israel?

7.9-10 - How does God interact with those who love Him? Those who hate Him?

7.12-16 - NOTE: I struggle with passages like these, but I think I'm starting to get a handle on them. I really believe what God is saying here is this, if you as a people are living completely perfect, sinless lives (which they won't and can't) then disease and sin will not have a place among you. I think (and I could be wrong) that disease and barrenness are not necessarily a sign of sinfulness among the person who is barren (look at Hannah in 1 Samuel for an example), but the sinfulness that exists among the people.

7.16 - Why is pity here a bad thing?

7.17-19 - What is God telling them here?

7.25-26 - Again, what is the real evil here?

8.2-6 - What was taught during the 40 years in the desert?

8.17 - What is this?

8.19 - What does idolatry bring?

Day 75: March 17, Deuteronomy 5-6

Deuteronomy 5-6:

Chapter 5 - Why repeat the 10 Commandments?

5.15 - Can we as Christians draw a parallel here about what we are to do on the Sabbath (NOTE: this hit me like a ton of bricks!)?

6.4-5 - Why are these verses important?

6.7-9 - Why should we teach it, wear it as jewelry, and write it on our walls?

6.12 - What are we to take care about?

6.20-25 - How does this transfer to Christians? What experiences should we constantly remind our children about?

Day 71: March 13, Numbers 32-33 through Day 74: March 16, Deuteronomy 3-4

Numbers 32-33:

32.6 - What's the problem?

32.16-19 - Does this remedy the problem?

33.52 & .55-56 - Why are the other people being driven out? What does God tell Israel not to do?

Numbers 34-36:

34 - Why is this chapter important?

35.1-8 - Why is God doing this?

35.9-29 - What does this mean as we look at death and murder?

35.30 Why the caveat at the end?

36.7-9 Why the big deal?

Deuteronomy 1-4:

1.10 - What does this show of God?

1.17 - What is this common theme?

1.29 - Do we respond in similar ways to our great and mighty God?

2.5 - Why were they not to fight?

2.6-7 - How were they to act?

2.9 - Why are the not to fight?

2.25 - Should Israel had been feared?

3.21-22 - Who is the ultimate warrior (not from the WWF :) )?

3.23-29 -What does Moses prayer reveal about him, God, and God's vision for Moses' role?

4.2 - Why is this important?

4.5-8 - What would Israel get out of following God's statutes and rules? Any wisdom for us in this?

4.9-14 - What is Israel to remember and teach their children? What does this tell us about experiencing God?

4.15 - Why the constant reminders to watch themselves?

4.19 & 23-24 - What can become an idol? Why should we fight against idolatry in our own lives and help others fight it as well?

4.28-31 - Why are idols a bad idea?

4.35 - Why has Israel experienced all of this?

4.39 - What is Israel to remember?

Day 70: March 12, Numbers 30-31

Numbers 30:

v. 2 What is most important here?

v. 3-16 Does this invalidate women or show the call of leadership on men?

Numbers 31:

v. 17-18 Is this easy to read?

Day 65: March 8, Num. 22-23; Day 66: March 9, Num. 24-25; Day 67: March 10, Num. 26-27; Day 69: March 11, Num. 28-29

Numbers 22-23:

22.3 - Who is Moab afraid of? Is their fear in the right place?

22.7-8 Is what the Moabites looking for the same as what Balaam is offering them?

22.20 - What is God essentially telling Balaam?

22.28-35 - The talking donkey aside, what strikes you about these verses?

23.11-12 - What is Balaam doing right?

23.19 - What is our God not like?

Numbers 24-25:

24.11 - Can you relate?

24.23 - Who is the fate of Israel, Moab, and the rest of the nations resting on?

25.1 - Why use the word whore here?

25.10-13 - Are you uneasy with Phinehas being a hero?

Numbers 26-27:

26.51 - If this is the number of males over 20, how many people were in the nation of Israel?

27.11 - What is the ultimate goal here?

27.18-23 - What is Joshua's new role?

Numbers 28-29:

Why go over the sacrifices again?

Day 64: March 6, Numbers 18-19; Day 65: March 7, Numbers 20-21

Numbers 18-19:

18:5 - The priests are to keep what away from Israel?

18:24 - Should this passage transition to the church and the pastor?

18:26 - Should this passage transition to the pastor and God?

Numbers 20-21:

20:2-9 - Should the people of Israel have learned by now?

20:12 - What? Why?

20:18-21 - Why the transition between 1st person plural and 1st person singular?

21:2-3 - What does it mean to "devote to destruction?" Is this hard to swallow?

21:5 - What is the root sin?

21:8-9 - What is God showing amidst his judgment?

21:22 - What are the people of Israel promising?

Day 63: March 5, Numbers 16-17

Numbers 16:

v. 8-11 What do these verses say to people in the church today?

v. 31-35 What did they just witness?

Numbers 17:

When it looks like anarchy is about to take place, what does God do for Moses and Aaron?

Day 62: March 4, Numbers 14-15

Numbers 14:

v. 1-4 Do the people of Israel really want to return to slavery? What is the lesson for us as Christians?

v. 8 Who is it really up to?

v. 16-19 What's at stake here?

v. 21-23 What's the consequence?

Numbers 15:

v. 17-21 Is the teaching about tithing, thankfulness for God's provision, both, or neither?

v. 30-31 Do we take from this God being ungracious?

v. 37-41 The tassels are for what?

Day 55: February 25, Leviticus 26-27 through Day 61: March 3, Numbers 12-13

Leviticus 26-27:

26:1 What is God's concern?

26:12-13 Who does God want to be for Israel?

26:17 What will happen if Israel is disobedient?

26:27-28 What is going to happen?

27:28 How important are the devoted things?

Numbers 1-3:

2:2 What is represented when the tents face the tent of meeting?

3:10 Why is the priesthood to be guarded?

Numbers 4-5:

5:7 What does God want from those who sin?

Numbers 6-7:

6:24-26 What is this blessing asking of God?

7:84-88 What did the people of Israel give up?

Numbers 8-9:

8:21 Why?

8:25-26 What is expected of retired priests? Is there a message in there for us?

9:11-12 What does this show us of God?

9:23 What can we say about the Israelites here?

Numbers 10-11:

10:32 Is the nation of Israel about race?

11:14 What is Moses doing here?

11:18-20 Is this provision or judgment?

11:28-30 What is Moses saying here?

Numbers 12-13:

12:14 What does this say of God's justice?

13:19-20 What does God want to show the nation of Israel?

13:27-33 Who should Israel trust?