Tuesday, December 18, 2012

What Do You have in Mind?

Hello Everyone!
I have noticed most of us don't get to post our comments as we used to. It seemed ,in these past few months, we got caught up doing school works and opt-out to follow the bible reading planner. I though about if we get to reading one chapter a day instead of the two or three, which was on the calendar, that might help us to keep in touch with the daily bible reading planner and also to publish comments daily. It is one chapter a day after all. 
       The actual plan was to finish reading the bible in a year( if I get this correctly) and the calendar we have been using was made for that purpose. If we all agree to this comment or come up with one we can stick to, we will need to make a new calendar. Ayan you will:) Let me know if you guys have something in mind.

Best
Eden

Friday, August 17, 2012

Judges Chpater 17


A Levite
Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.”
Reading this passage of the chapter, I wondered if Micah had stolen the eleven hundred shekels of silver form his mother or he just took them, with good intentions, and forgot to mention that to his mother. I am not quite sure about it. I’ve noticed he returned back all of the shekels of silver that he took away from his mother, once he heard her utter a curse, to a person who took them.
After he returned them back to his mother, this is what she did.
So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah’s house.

Why idol? Isn’t she a believer: what about Micah himself, why would he allow an idol to be placed in his house? Later on the chapter, we noticed Micah himself made some gods and installed on his sons to be as his pries.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest. In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

In the last paragraph, after Micah has installed the young Levite as his priest, he thought the Lord will now be good to him. Why did Micah thought the Lord would be good to him this time I don’t really know. Could Levite are those who are chosen to become a pries and serve the Lord? Is the Levite descendent of Aaron’s generations (those chosen by the Lord them to serve him in his house)?
I did a little search to find out why Micah had thought the Lord to be good to him this time as a result of his installation of the young Levite.  I found some bible versus that helped to clarify and answered some of my questions. Hope it will help you too as your read this part of the chapter.

12 Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house. 13 And Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.”

Here is the bible versus that I mentioned above.

The Levites then took on the duty of serving God. "At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day" (Deuteronomy 10:8).

That service included serving the priests.

 "And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary" (Numbers 8:19).


You are good and that your Love endures forever!