April 12

OT – Joshua 5:1-7:15
Just sayin’ but I bet Joshua was not a popular man when he came around with the knife….

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NT: Luke 15:1-32
Jesus tells these 3 ‘lost’ stories. In each one of them, he makes us out to be foolish right from the get –go. No shepherd leaves 99 for the one. No woman has a party that costs loads when she finds a small coin. And Leviticus 25:47-54 tells us WHY no Israelite man would have allowed himself to be sold and his family not redeem him. Here is what Rashi has to say about that verse in Leviticus:
“The ultimate degradation is for a Jew to be sold as a slave to a non-Jewish resident of Israel. In that unpleasant case, the Torah places a responsibility upon his kinsmen to redeem him, but they must do so without depriving the owner of his legitimate property rights. “The scenario that Jesus outlines simply would not have happened and everyone listening would have known that . But there the Pharisees are shaking their heads and looking wise. I don’t want to give away the end of the story but once those Pharisees figured out Jesus was making them look stupid, they got mad again and started talking and planning Jesus’ ultimate demise. Which is just what Jesus wanted. This is a very strange way to run a religion.

Thanks for your kind words today regarding my lack of post. I will tell you, it is hard not to go back and read yesterday’s. But that is the rule. I am not after perfection, I am after learning limits and doing the best I can.
So for any of you that are still in the ‘perfect’ read mode, I salute you and wish you continued success. It is hard for me not to try for that!