Numbers 34, Psalm 78:38~72, Isaiah 26, 1 John 4

Numbers 34,

1 The LORD said to Moses,
 
2 "Command the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance will have these boundaries:
 
3 " 'Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern boundary will start from the end of the Salt Sea,
 
4 cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon,
 
5 where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Sea.
 
6 " 'Your western boundary will be the coast of the Great Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
 
7 " 'For your northern boundary, run a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor
 
8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,
 
9 continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
 
10 " 'For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
 
11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Kinnereth.
 
12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. " 'This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.' "
 
13 Moses commanded the Israelites: "Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes,
 
14 because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
 
15 These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan of Jericho, toward the sunrise."
 
16 The LORD said to Moses,
 
17 "These are the names of the men who are to assign the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
 
18 And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land.
 
19 These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah;
 
20 Shemuel son of Ammihud, from the tribe of Simeon;
 
21 Elidad son of Kislon, from the tribe of Benjamin;
 
22 Bukki son of Jogli, the leader from the tribe of Dan;
 
23 Hanniel son of Ephod, the leader from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;
 
24 Kemuel son of Shiphtan, the leader from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph;
 
25 Elizaphan son of Parnach, the leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
 
26 Paltiel son of Azzan, the leader from the tribe of Issachar;
 
27 Ahihud son of Shelomi, the leader from the tribe of Asher;
 
28 Pedahel son of Ammihud, the leader from the tribe of Naphtali."
 
29 These are the men the LORD commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

Psalm 78:38~72,

38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.
 
39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
 
40 How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!
 
41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
 
42 They did not remember his power-the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
 
43 the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.
 
44 He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.
 
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
 
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
 
47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
 
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
 
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility-a band of destroying angels.
 
50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.
 
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
 
52 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.
 
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
 
54 Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
 
55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
 
56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
 
57 Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
 
58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
 
59 When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
 
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.
 
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
 
62 He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.
 
63 Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;
 
64 their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
 
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
 
66 He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
 
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
 
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
 
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.
 
70 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;
 
71 from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
 
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

Isaiah 26,

1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
 
2 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
 
3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
 
4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.
 
5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
 
6 Feet trample it down-the feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the poor.
 
7 The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth.
 
8 Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.
 
9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
 
10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the LORD.
 
11 O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
 
12 LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.
 
13 O LORD, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor.
 
14 They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
 
15 You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for yourself; you have extended all the borders of the land.
 
16 LORD, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
 
17 As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O LORD.
 
18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.
 
19 But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
 
20 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.
 
21 See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no longer.

1 John 4

1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
 
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
 
3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
 
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
 
5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.
 
6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
 
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
 
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
 
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
 
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
 
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
 
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
 
13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
 
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
 
15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.
 
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
 
17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
 
18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
 
19 We love because he first loved us.
 
20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
 
21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.