DAY 154
Old Testament reading: 1 Chronicles 13-15
“Ezra the Chronicler” gives us additional details concerning David’s error in moving the ark to Jerusalem. The first account is found in 2 Samuel 6, but it provides no detail as to David’s discovery of how to move the ark. In 1 Chronicles 13 we see the outbreak against Uzza because of his error in touching the ark. In chapter 15 we see that David includes himself in the sin that led to Uzza’s death. David makes no bones as to why the breakout against Uzza occurred, “For because you did not do it the first time the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not consult Him about the proper order” (v 13). Recognizing their error, the priests and Levites sanctified themselves and “bore the ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord” (v 15). Hundreds of years had passed, but God’s word was not diminished, neither would He abide any altering thereof. No one can ever read this account and believe that “God is not concerned with the details so long as our heart is right.” Perhaps no religious error has led to more souls being lost than this one. A bigger lie the devil has never told.
New Testament reading: 2 Corinthians 1-5
“Keep the Ten Commandments.” Signs with this message can be found all across the Bible Belt. However, these sign displayers must have never read 2 Corinthians 3, as this chapter contains as strong an argument against modern day Ten Commandment keeping as can be found anywhere in the New Testament. 2 Corinthians 3 is “ungetaroundable” in showing the weakness and nullification of the Ten Commandments. This is done in Paul’s comparison and contrast of the Decalogue with the new covenant known as the gospel of Jesus Christ. One should first recognize the stated inferiority of those things written on “tablets of stone.” Second, there is the mention of new covenant (v 6), indicating there is an old, outdated covenant. Moving directly to the Law of Moses, Paul identifies it as “the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones” (v 7) and “the ministry of condemnation” (v 9). Why would anyone promote the keeping of a law thus described by an inspired apostle? We have the gospel of Christ, God’s new covenant for all men everywhere (Rom 1:16).
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