Numbers 33, Psalm 78:1~37, Isaiah 25, 1 John 3

Numbers 33,

1 Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
 
2 At the LORD's command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages:
 
3 The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out boldly in full view of all the Egyptians,
 
4 who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had brought judgment on their gods.
 
5 The Israelites left Rameses and camped at Succoth.
 
6 They left Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the desert.
 
7 They left Etham, turned back to Pi Hahiroth, to the east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol.
 
8 They left Pi Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert, and when they had traveled for three days in the Desert of Etham, they camped at Marah.
 
9 They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
 
10 They left Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
 
11 They left the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin.
 
12 They left the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
 
13 They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.
 
14 They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
 
15 They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.
 
16 They left the Desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
 
17 They left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
 
18 They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
 
19 They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
 
20 They left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
 
21 They left Libnah and camped at Rissah.
 
22 They left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
 
23 They left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
 
24 They left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
 
25 They left Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
 
26 They left Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
 
27 They left Tahath and camped at Terah.
 
28 They left Terah and camped at Mithcah.
 
29 They left Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah.
 
30 They left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
 
31 They left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
 
32 They left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad.
 
33 They left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
 
34 They left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
 
35 They left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
 
36 They left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.
 
37 They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the border of Edom.
 
38 At the LORD's command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.
 
39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
 
40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
 
41 They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
 
42 They left Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
 
43 They left Punon and camped at Oboth.
 
44 They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.
 
45 They left Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad.
 
46 They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.
 
47 They left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.
 
48 They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
 
49 There on the plains of Moab they camped along the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim.
 
50 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the LORD said to Moses,
 
51 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,
 
52 drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
 
53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
 
54 Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.
 
55 " 'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
 
56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.' "

Psalm 78:1~37,

1 O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
 
2 I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old-
 
3 what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.
 
4 We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.
 
5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children,
 
6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.
 
7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.
 
8 They would not be like their forefathers-a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.
 
9 The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;
 
10 they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.
 
11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.
 
12 He did miracles in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
 
13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand firm like a wall.
 
14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.
 
15 He split the rocks in the desert and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
 
16 he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.
 
17 But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
 
18 They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.
 
19 They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
 
20 When he struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?"
 
21 When the LORD heard them, he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,
 
22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
 
23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
 
24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.
 
25 Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.
 
26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens and led forth the south wind by his power.
 
27 He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.
 
28 He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.
 
29 They ate till they had more than enough, for he had given them what they craved.
 
30 But before they turned from the food they craved, even while it was still in their mouths,
 
31 God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
 
32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.
 
33 So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
 
34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.
 
35 They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
 
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;
 
37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

Isaiah 25,

1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.
 
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
 
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.
 
4 You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall
 
5 and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
 
6 On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine-the best of meats and the finest of wines.
 
7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
 
8 he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
 
9 In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
 
10 The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the manure.
 
11 They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands.
 
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

1 John 3

1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
 
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
 
3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
 
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
 
5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
 
6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
 
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
 
8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
 
9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
 
10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
 
11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
 
12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous.
 
13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
 
14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.
 
15 Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
 
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
 
17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
 
18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
 
19 This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence
 
20 whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
 
21 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God
 
22 and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
 
23 And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
 
24 Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.