@CarriePie Thanks for the well wishes with my health. Definitely feel better thanks to God🙏 I wanted to continue the journey on here, but God is telling me to finish my journey offline with a family member who has read the Bible twice from beginning to end. I'm no longer going to be on the site. It was definitely nice meeting both @CarriePie @CommodoreTeach and hope you continue your walk in righteousness😀
I also wish you happy health, and I thank you for the courtesy of signing off. Reading the entire Bible is a rather difficult project, and we probably proceeded at a too fast pace. This is one reason why I have KISSed the OT on my website with a lesson entitled "Key OT Teachings". In it I say the following regarding EX-DT:
<<After Moses led the Exodus, he received the Ten Commandments from God, which for our purposes we will consider as one key teaching.
EX 20:1-17. God requires moral perfection (cf. DT 5:6-21). Of course each of the Ten Commandments is important, and Jesus affirmed many of them in the “Sermon on the Mount (MT 5:21-48). The key point is that all commandments teach us to cooperate with the Lawgiver, whose moral will was not ended or rescinded by the death of Messiah.
There are additional moral precepts, such as those found in EX 21, 22 & LV 18-20, but most of the other Mosaic commands are either part of the sacrificial system or instructions for treating various health problems. Jesus taught that God’s standard is perfection (cf. LV 19:1), and he clarified that the Sabbath was made for the sake of humankind (MT 12:7f.), perhaps so they would have a day to rest and worship God. However, Paul indicated (in CL 2:16f., cf. 1CR 10:23&31) that we should serve God every day or continually, and both he and Jesus explained how the perfect “rest” is attained (Paul in 2THS 5:16-22 & PHP 3:7-9, cf. HB 4:9, and Jesus in MT 11:28).
The next key teaching I find is not until after the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. It occurs in the sermon Moses preached just before he died and Joshua led the Israelites in the conquest of Canaan.
DT 30:19. We have moral free will, which makes us accountable for our attitudes and actions, our belief and behavior, with ultimate logical or appropriate consequences, which are termed heaven or hell (cf. Lesson 1). It is this teaching that explains why this life has so much pain and hatred: Most of it results from human sinfulness/ungodliness. If humanity spent as much energy trying to solve problems as it has engaged in KOTH, earthly life would be almost heavenly.
Most of the material in the next few books, Joshua to Ezra is historical rather than doctrinal, but I do find a few important items.>>
I would be willing to carry on with our reading in this fashion unless someone wants to proceed with the "one chapter at a time" approach.
CarriePie?
