The Meaning Of Life

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In this chapter, God begins passing the Law down to Moses. Some of these laws are civil laws. Some of these laws describe the punishment for breaking the Commandments.

Many of these laws are still in existence today, simply because they make common sense. As an example, there is a law that if you strike another man that causes injury and he has to recover in bed, but he does recover and returns to a normal life, then the one who committed the battery is acquitted, but must pay the victim for lost time. And in this sense, I do not think the word “acquitted” means “innocent”, but rather he will not be punished by death.

I remember once when my brother-in-law, who worked night shift, was trying to sleep during the day, and a neighbor kept calling him repeatedly about a barking dog. My brother-in-law became angry, went to the neighbors house, and punched him in the nose. My brother-in-law avoided jail time by paying a hefty fine, but was required to pay the neighbor’s medical bills.

The laws are too numerous to cover, it is best if you read them yourself. But isn’t it a shame that God had to pass them down? Isn’t it a shame that man allowed Satan to tempt him so much that he would get angry and strike or kill another, or that you would strike or curse their parents? This is the life we have if we do not follow the Lord and let our emotions run our lives.

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We continue with some common-sense laws.

One that struck me personally, was the law that if a fire breaks out on your property, and it damages the grain of another, you must make restitution for the damages. As a retired firefighter, most farmers at the end of harvest would till the ground around their field, so that when they burned it off, it was controlled. But we had one farmer that didn’t want to spend the money on diesel or take the time to till, so he would simply set his field on fire as is, and sometimes it would spread to someone’s standing wheat. Of course it was a civil matter, like many of these laws, but it was one of these Biblical laws that existed back then, and it’s common sense that it exists today.

Please read these chapters…they are full of common-sense and wisdom

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One important passage is this chapter refers to Sabbath rest. We know from the Book of Genesis that the Lord created Earth in six days, and that he rested on the 7th day, making it Holy, a day not just to rest, or to sit around watching television all day, but a day to remember God’s creating abilities, and to worship and thank Him for creating us. The Sabbath Law doesn’t apply only to man, it extends beyond that. And in this chapter, God instructs us to let the land rest every seven years; to till the land for six years, but on the seventh year let is rest. I’m not a farmer, but I wonder if crops would be better if we practiced this today. That “rest” would like allow nutrients build back up in the soil so that our crops are better the next six years. I know people will argue that we now have fertilizers we can spray on the land to replace those nutrients, but that isn’t what the Bible says now, is it?

Finally, the verse I’ve been waiting for, and a verse that I have apparently missed the other times I’ve read the Bible. And I have no idea how I missed it, because it is such an important verse!

20“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. 22But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23For My Angel will go before you and bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will [e]cut them off. 24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

Anytime I see a word in the Bible that is capitalized, other than a word at the beginning of a sentence o a word that is not a proper noun, I perceive it to be Holy. There are many angels, but only one Angel. No, Jesus isn’t an angel, but his is in charge of the angels, an Archangel. And this passage confirms that Jesus was with God from the beginning. And if you re-read that passage, and substitute the name Jesus in lieu of the word Angel, it all makes so much sense.

Jesus has always been here. Jesus has always loved us, and fights for us, and protects us! Praise Jesus!