2/13/2009 9:28 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The family inheritance
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Numbers 27:1-11 & 36
Message of the verses: “1 ¶
Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,
the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, came near; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah and
Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah. 2 They stood before Moses and before Eleazar
the priest and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the doorway of
the tent of meeting, saying, 3 "Our
father died in the wilderness, yet he was not among the company of those who
gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but he
died in his own sin, and he had no sons.
4 “Why should the name of our father be withdrawn from among his family
because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s
brothers." 5 So Moses brought their case before the
LORD. 6
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 7
"The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You
shall surely give them a hereditary possession among their father’s brothers,
and you shall transfer the inheritance of their father to them. 8
"Further, you shall speak to the sons of Israel
1 ¶ And the heads of the fathers’ households of
the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of
the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before
the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, 2 and they said, "The LORD commanded my
lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel as an inheritance, and my
lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our
brother to his daughters. 3 "But if they marry one of the sons of
the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn
from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the
tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted
inheritance. 4 "When the jubilee of the sons of Israel
comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to
which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance
of the tribe of our fathers."
5 ¶ Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel Israel shall be transferred from tribe to tribe,
for the sons of Israel Israel
shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons
of Israel Israel Israel
through Moses in the plains of Moab
by the Jordan opposite Jericho
I usually
do not copy and past this many verses on my SD but I thought it was necessary
to do so because it will help in the flow of what happens in these two
different chapters.
It is
important to remember that the land belonged to the Lord and it was up to Him
to divide it the way that He saw fit.
Under “normal” circumstances all inheritances went to the men of the
family of which the first two-thirds went to the oldest son and the remaining
third was divided between the remaining sons and if their was a daughter she
would receive a dowry for her inheritance.
In the case above there were three daughters from an offspring of
Manasseh whose father died and had not sons and so they wanted an inheritance
of the land and they came to Moses to discuss this with him. Moses did the right thing by taking it to the
Lord and the Lord told Moses that the daughters were right and should receive
an inheritance of the land. This brought
up another problem which is discussed in chapter 36 for all of the land once it
was divided was to remain in the same tribe and so if these women would marry
someone from a different tribe then their land would belong to the tribe from
which their husband came from and so Moses speaks to the Lord and the Lord says
that if these women would marry within their own tribe there would be not
problem for the land would then remain within the tribes inheritance. That is what they did for they married their
cousins and this took care of the problem.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: “18
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body,
but the immoral man sins against his own body.
19 Or
do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” This is what Paul wrote to the Corinthians
and it is similar to one of the points that was made in the text above in that
just as the land belonged to the Lord for He created it so does my body belong
to the Lord because Jesus Christ died for me and thus I belong to the Lord and
because of this fact I am to flee immorality.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Flee immorality.
- Learn Contentment.
- Learn more of who God is so that I can worship Him better.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path.
2/13/2009 9:59 AM
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