Brabbas

It always amazes me that Jesus is found innocent by Pilate through His silence. So much so that Pilate pits him up against Brabbas to set him free. It's hard to imagine the crowd being talked into asking for his release. It would be like us calling for Saddam to be pardoned for his crimes against his country or for Charles Manson to be released because we would rather he go on killing people thanhave someone tell us what's right and wrong.

Keeping what you say

I read about God's commandment through Moses on how men and women are bound to the oaths that they make and even the foolish utterances of their mouth. It makes me want to watch what I saw more. I thought it weird how a woman's word may be overridden by
her father or her husband on the day that they hear of it, but I guess it makes sense, considering that society. Does it make as much sense today? I think so. What if a husband says that he and his wife will do something, and his wife has different plans, as
husbands and wives often do. They can't both keep their word, so there should be a standard so that there is a way out of this without sinning. I've noticed that most husbands wait to make
plans until they check with their wives. I don't know if wives do this. I should ask some.

Jesus also was arrested in Mark. Mark makes mention of someone who was with Jesus that wore only a linen garment. He was so scared when Jesus got arrested that he left the garment behind and fled naked. I always saw that time as sad and not scary, but I guess it was.

The 2.5 Tribes will march before the Lord.

The Rubenites, Gadites, and the Mannassahi's or whatever they're called said they would moarch before the Lord with the Children of Israel... That stuck in my head... before the Lord. I don't quite know why. Befor the Lord.

Moses has to pass the reigns on...

At the end of Numbers, Moses has to pass the reigns on to Joshua, son of Nun, because he did not obey God and struck the rock instead of speaking to it. This made me think that God is serious when he gives us instructions and even though he might make it work out for the moment, he holds us responsible for our disobedience. Moses was a leader of Israel and that means that he was held more accountable by God because the men of Israel weren't able to hold him accountable. Also, the more God speaks to you, as in face to face like he did Moses, the more you are held responsible for. Moses needed that intimacy with God to lead such a disbelieving group of people through the desert. We must not think of God as unmerciful because He did allow Moses to see it and Moses comes back to talk to Jesus later which means that the consequence of not leading the people in did not affect where he was with God eternally. I'm so thankful for that.