I think it is a truism that the simplest way works best anything convoluted results in a meandering path that is difficult to follow. Deuteronomy points that out to us throughout the many chapters in this book. The rules of life that need to be there in order that God can continue to walk with man, in this case He chose the Israeli people whom he freed from slavery in Egypt. It was a hard and difficult path that the Israeli peoples had to follow and this Book of Deuteronomy was a continuation of how that path had to flow.
Although I was skeptical of the story that the early peoples of the British Isles were descendants of one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, re-reading the first five books of the Bible has reinforced my thoughts in that regard. It was just a thought that grew in the 1800s and was thought about and then shared with this granddaughter when she was just five or six and my grandfather was 75 years of age. As I continue to read I will learn more about the movements of the Israeli people particularly during the times of the Babylonian Empire and all the other Empires that have risen and fallen through the centuries but the Old Testament deals primarily with the time period up to the birth of Jesus Christ.
Joshua is the next book of the Bible and I will read that beginning on Monday. I must admit I am not yet seeing the promise of a Saviour/a Messiah but the people of Israel are following the laws of God as they enter into the Promised Land. Moses has prepared them well for the road ahead and Joshua will lead them following the laws that God has given them. That is how I see this by the end of the book of Deuteronomy. I think that fear of the words kept me from really understanding the flow of words in the Bible when I was younger.
I awoke in the night and read my chapters a bit earlier than usual. I will go back to sleep soon but sometimes my mind becomes too busy and I can not sleep. A lot of items are in my mind at the moment.
The best way to reach our goals with our military spending is also the simplest way. The GST should never have been reduced. It was done to buy votes and I absolutely hate that. Put forward a decent platform and defend it well but do not buy votes with stupid promises to reduce it in his case it was the GST to be reduced to 5% and it should have remained at 7% because it supports government expenditure and in this case it needs to be directed towards defense spending (we were even told that was always the plan to reduce it to 5% and there was no such plan announced by the then Prime Minister Mulroney and it was a fabrication). Raise it 1% every six months as the employment improves and our projects start to pay their way - no rush, the submarines are still a while off. We need to tighten the belt that keeps us on a good and straight path towards adequate defense and an adequate life for the people of Canada. The big item is to live at home when you graduate (unless you can not because you found a job away from home) until you are financially sound so that you can go out in the world buy that beginner home and live your life.
The forest fires in Quebec are affecting the air here and we have a smoke day for today. I had planned to weed the front gardens but it will wait for another day. Hopefully it will pass quickly and we will be back to clean air once again.
I did some work on the matches yesterday looking at My Heritage and Ancestry. There are some new large matches on My Heritage that may be helpful but I will use the note feature to attach them to a grandparent unless I see value in extracting the match into my files.
Perhaps I will work a couple of solitaire puzzles to put me back to sleep once again.
My waking up in the night and working was common during the period that I proofread at home when my daughters were young. I would just do a couple of hours of proofreading and then back to sleep. Now in my 80s it has become a somewhat rarer event.
Sunday and off to Church in another hour and a bit. I have been watching some YouTube videos on the first five books of the Old Testament and there have been comments where the narrator has put forward the idea that within these readings there is mention of the Messiah to come and help the Israeli people with the heavy task that had been placed upon them. What I read is that the task set upon the Israeli people in order to have God live with them was very exacting and precise and any infringement was punished immediately. I do not see any movement away from that precise and exact adherence to the rules set down in the Torah. I do know that I am reading towards the prophecies of the coming of the Messiah.
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