Good morning and welcome back to the Daily Study. We are looking inside at Wednesday's reading and you're probably wondering why are we doing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday all scrammed up in one day? As I mentioned at the beginning of the week, this week is a double weekly tour portion, so we are going to get all the readings of both portions. Alrighty, that being said, let's dive into Numbers, Chapter 31, Verses 25-41.
We're up to the part where God then instructs Moses to count the people and animals that had been captured from the Midianites. The soldiers, or allowed to keep half, and the other half had to be given to the rest of the Jewish people. The soldiers then had to give one-fiftieth of their half to the priests, and the people had to give one-fiftieth of their half to the Levites. Moses followed God's instructions, counting the captured people and animals, and then dividing them up and giving the priests and Levites their portions.
What is going on? Let's look inside of the verse. Vaihih, ha-mal-ko-ah-be-go-mer, the plunder consisted of dot-dot-dot-dot. When the soldiers counted the captured people and animals, they found that miraculously the totals were all divisible by 50 and by 500.
This made it possible for them to follow God's instructions regarding the exact percentages of what they had captured to be given to the priests and Levites. This was all the more remarkable considering all the factors that had to contribute to this miracle, the fertility and lifespan of the people and animals, etc. All of which took place long before they were captured in battle. From this we learned that we should never be phased by any seeming obstacle in fulfilling God's directives or accomplishing our divine mission.
Rather, we should recall that God has arranged matters long in advance to enable us to accomplish our divine goals and the most optimal, nanner possible. Wow, so today's reading focused on a moon on having faith and strength and believing in God because God knows what you're going to do even before you're going to do it. So just trust in his plan, and that was it for today's daily study. Looking forward to doing Thursday's portion.