Today’s annual Torah portion is Kedoshim, “Holiness,” in Leviticus 19:1-20:27.
Today’s triennial Torah portion is Sefer toldot, “Book of generations,” in Genesis 5:1-6:8.
Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Joshua 3 and 4.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 116.
No Greek Testament reading today.
Torah.
The Annual Leviticus 19:1-20:27 Kedoshim Outline is here.
Finding Messiah in Kedoshim is here.
Finding Messiah in Torah is here.
Leviticus in Chiastic Structure is here.
The Triennial Genesis 5:1-6:8 Sefer toldot Outline is here.
Essential Studies.
Leviticus 20, Standards of holiness
This chapter is one of the sore spot passages in Torah, that people turn to when they make a case that the God of the Old Testament is vengeful, wrathful, angry, and judgmental. However, some wickedness is so heinous that the only just and merciful course is capital punishment. God is smarter than we are, and He understands the long term effects, over the course of several generations, that allowing these behaviors to flourish in a society has. We are on the front end of a society which allows some of these. We do not know what the end result of our little societal experiment in flaunting God’s standards will be. Our great- great- grandchildren may very well, through the grief of experience, realize what merciful wisdom it would have been if we had paid heed to these statutes of YHVH. At any rate, the people who suffer the most when these standards of holiness in intimacy and relations are ignored, are the children who are produced by them, or who are enslaved to feed the appetites thus unleashed. They become the true victims of instability, negligence, and abuse. May YHVH send His Spirit of repentance and humility through this land!
Joshua 3, Crossing on dry ground (Additional studies: Joshua Index)
Psalm 116, Reverse parallelism (Additional studies: Psalms Book Five (107-150) Index)
Three-year Bible.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in 2 Kings 19.
Suggested study: 2 Kings 19, Bible for Beginners.
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