God the Creator who brought the Israelis out of Egypt and now right to the Promised Land demands absolute perfection. Those who fail are destroyed and God ameliorates this punishment using Moses and Aaron as the catalyst that saves many of the Israeli people so that they survive since they have not actively defiled what God has done for them. I think that is what I understand from these chapters in Numbers. This time of Homo sapiens included many gods that people worshiped but the Creator God, the only true God, had a plan for the world and this was a time of trying to perfect all those who would be part of that plan. Joshua now appears in the writings. But it will be fourty years before the congregation of Israel will enter the Promised Land as God decreed that no one over the age of twenty years at this time in the readings of Numbers would enter the Promised Land. I am at Chapter 20 now and reading these ancient writings in July of 2026.
The world has entered a phase where the temperature is very high across many parts of the world. It is summer and the sun beating down on the earth is at its strongest. But sometimes I do wonder if we feel it more now because of air conditioning; I do know that the temperatures are higher somewhat but not a huge amount. Into July now and this is generally the hottest month and the driest. We have had a great deal of rain which has been wondrous for the land and the green grass everywhere is beautiful. Everything is green - the grass, the wild flowers, the trees with their bounty of leaves very thick this year. Especially the Walnut Tree is heavy with leaves.
Yesterday was a busy day and we ended the evening with a walk/kayak at Petri. Very pleasant and very crowded as many people enjoyed the swimming and the fresh air. The beavers have built a second beaver den as the family splits now and the older children move on to new homes. All of God's creation lies before Him as He listens and watches for the world to follow the commandments that He sent to us through Jesus the Son of God the Creator when He came and lived amongst us over two thousand years ago now. The Christian faith developed from Jesus Christ and His followers.
Today is Sunday, God's day of rest in the Christian parts of the world throughout all the centuries. Church on YouTube once again.
A little work done yesterday as I work away on Chromosome 1. It is the most difficult of all the chromosomes to sort out the four great grandparent's portions to each of the five siblings tested in a family of seven siblings. The ancient portion at the beginning shared by so many and this is not small lengths. I am sharing many 30/40 cM portions with people who are at least seventh and eighth cousins and primarily descendants of colonial Americans. Their trees fascinate me in their depth taking them back to those very early days of colonists coming to the New England/New Amsterdam colonies (but were they Blake or Knight ancestors; that is the question).
Solitaire puzzles to do.
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