Day 38: October 17, 2025 – Numbers 28-31 and I Corinthians 9-10

The Midianites are defeated and they bring back the booty, but Moses is angry because with the booty the soldiers kept those who had tempted the Israelites into sinning. It was a planned strategy to have the Israelites wander away from God at the hands of the married women of Midian who then led the weak men of Israel into sacrificing to the idols of Midian. Moses commands the soldiers to kill all those who were married. So, these are the Scriptures that people who do not know the Lord object to. Okay, even those of us who do know the Lord can object to this Scripture as well. We do not understand why the nature of the Lord was to eliminate His enemies, in this case to massacre people who ostensibly had nothing to do with the leadership and are innocent bystanders. It doesn’t, for me at least, contradict the nature of Christ. God is a jealous God and will act to save His people from syncretism, which is the amalgamation of different religions into something that is completely unnoticeable. There is one God, and one God alone and anything that would disturb the monotheistic approach needs to be eliminated. I’m okay with that.

So we find in I Corinthians 10:17 the words that I use to describe what it means to be the body of Christ and how the bread at communion is a part of the unity. I had no idea that this was in Scripture. I know that I must have heard it somewhere, probably another past who was doing communion, and early on I liked it and I picked up and I have used it ever since. But the concept that the single loaf at communion not only is the body of Christ which is broken for us upon the cross and that the single loaf is for us the single body of Christ in the church has always been a part of the liturgy of communion for me. Now I have a Scripture from which it came. That is pretty exciting to me.