Deut 14:21. What does the command that prohibited boiling a kid in its mother's milk teach us? (w06 4/1 31).
"Do not eat any animals found dead. You can give it to the foreign resident inside your cities and he can eat it, or you can sell it to a foreigner. Because you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. "Don't boil a kid in its mother's milk."
Deuteronomy 14:21
It teaches us of Jehovah's great compassion for the order he has established and the relationship between a parent and their young. This command is out of respect for an animal that reflects the high moral sensitivity of our heavenly Father. This command protected the dignity of the animal in question and also prevented false practices and traditions.
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It teaches us and makes us understand that Jehovah has a sense of what is upright, compassionate and tender, since serving a kid in its mother's milk would be contrary to the natural order established by Jehovah, our creator provided a mother's milk to feed their young, but boiling the young in milk would result in injury and death, so the Israelites were not to behave ruthlessly but compassionately.
It also appears that this practice was part of a pagan rite to make rain, if this were so the provision would serve to protect the Israelites from the useless and cruel religious traditions practiced by the nations around them.
What spiritual pearls have you found about Jehovah, the ministry, and other topics in this week's Bible reading?
Deuteronomy 13: 1-4. Today there are people who are dedicated to predicting the future and many people believe in them and trust because things they say come true, things so general that it will happen to everyone in life at one time or another. These are all traps of Satan and we must stay away from them, we know that we do. But today it is not necessary to go to a person of this, it is enough to download an app for the mobile that tells us the affinity that we will have with a certain person, for example. There are many ways in which this practice is disguised today, and we must be vigilant no matter how harmless we think it is.
Deuteronomy 13: 8. It reminds us that we should not be convinced by what other people think about a certain aspect. And not only that, but we must not show compassion or protect him. If this happens to us with someone close to us, we must not say: "he will know" but we must show what the Bible says about this aspect and be firm in this mandate that God has given us.
Deuteronomy 14: 2. As it happened then, today, of all people, he has chosen us as his special property. The pride and respect we feel for having the honor of belonging to God's people should force us to fear all his commandments and show that we are truly worthy of his Kingdom, we have to distinguish ourselves from other people, and this we achieve if we live in according to what the Bible tells us through its Word. In this way, we will be honoring his holy name
Deuteronomy 14: 3. Today there is still the restriction of not eating anything with blood. We know the solemn significance of blood for Jehovah and show that we respect his authority by also being aware of the importance of blood and its use. So, as loving and God-fearing Christians our stance on blood will always be firm.
Deuteronomy 14: 22-29. Although today we are not required a fixed proportion that we have to donate to the work of God. We are aware that in this material system there is nothing free and that everything you want to do is worth money. Our global work spans many and different fronts and we know the effort, work and costs involved, that is why, out of love for Jehovah, we humbly and sincerely support all that the organization does for us and throughout the world. .
Deuteronomy 15: 2. From this verse we can draw an analogy with the forgiveness that we must show to our brothers. When a brother can do something to us that affects us emotionally or otherwise, we should not think “you will pay for this or you will return it to me”. These are not Christian thoughts, a true Christian will not take into account the offense of the brother and even if he does it again, he will be there with him helping him.
Deuteronomy 15: 5. We are all more or less impulsive, especially in situations in which we are subjected to the limit. But as this verse says, we must listen to everything that God tells us, so that in these situations in particular, and in all of them in general, we react in the appropriate way that Jehovah wants and not impulsively putting our feelings first.
Deuteronomy 15: 8. This verse reminds us and encourages us to be observant and givers with our siblings and families who have fewer resources. God's people are humble and loving and we help each other when we need it. Any of us can go through a bad situation at any time because of this system, we have a responsibility to be there for them.
Deuteronomy 15:14. This verse like others in this chapter teaches us to be kind in heart to our brothers. We should not be mean people as verse 10 says, but be generous and open our hearts and hands to our brothers, even when they have not asked us for anything.
Deuteronomy 13: 3. The Word of God here associates divination with spiritism, which includes seeking omens, as in dreams and which implies the influence of wicked spiritual forces, because wicked spirits sometimes induce dreams that correctly predict the future, God warns his people to turn away from the "dreamer of a dream" that would stimulate false worship, even if the sign or wonder of which he spoke is actually carried out, today this trend with its variants is still present in many parts of the world. world, but like the Israelites, we also heed the prohibition to avoid anything related to divination.
Deuteronomy 13: 4. Just before the time when the Israelites were to enter the Promised Land, Moses advised the Israelites that they had to follow Jehovah, fear him, obey him and adhere to him, this does not mean that they should have a morbid or terrifying fear but that they should fear him displease him in some way and should also adhere, on this a certain expert points out that that word denotes a very close and intimate relationship with someone in this case God, in fact, we will enjoy this precious and close relationship with Jehovah if he is real for us and we love him so much that we fear to dislike him in some way.
Deuteronomy 13: 6. This verse shows a situation that occurred in ancient Israel and that can also occur in our days, here it is planted that the possibility that a very close relative tried to convince an Israelite to worship other gods was possible, appealing to their closeness or relationship, the unfaithful family member or friend would try to get the Israelite to allow himself to be carried away by his words and to turn away from Jehovah, in our days we can also suffer pressure from family and close friends who try to use their relationship to encourage us to stop serving Jehovah, do not allow anyone to separate us from Jehovah's worship
Deuteronomy 14: 1. This verse condemns the practice of cutting or mutilating oneself to show the pain for the death of someone, although the emotional pain is very great, self-mutilation should be avoided, because in addition to showing lack of respect for the human body, it can be related to the False religion, although in most places self-mutilation is no longer practiced or if it was never practiced, there are instead other customs that are related to false religion in which an excessive show of pain must be made for those who have deceased, shows hope in resurrection should prevent such extremes in displays of mourning for the dead.
Deuteronomy 14: 7. The Mosaic Law forbade the Israelites to eat certain animals, among them were ruminant animals and among those ruminant animals were hares, some people may say that the Bible is wrong when it considers hares as ruminant animals, that is, to chew for a second the food, in that case we can explain that the Hebrew word that is used to ruminate means to vomit and that the Israelites understood ruminant to be something very different from what is today, we can also use the information from the work Insight in which it is explained that hares are ruminants by eating foods that have already been digested once.
Deuteronomy 15: 1-3. During the sabbatical year there had to be a break or release from debts that an Israelite would have incurred, although others see it differently, some commentators are of the opinion that the debts were not actually canceled, but rather, The creditor should not urge a fellow Hebrew to pay his debt, since that year the farmer would have no income, instead, other experts of the Law hold the view that debts related to charitable loans were canceled to help To a poor brother, be that as it may, the sabbatical year brought great relief to everyone in many ways.
Deuteronomy 15: 7,8. The Israelites could show confidence by willingly obeying divine instructions, when they were commanded that they should help the poor, it is true that they could apply it reluctantly and still help the poor a little, but by doing so with that A bad attitude would not be creating an atmosphere of brotherhood nor would they show that they trusted that Jehovah would meet their needs, Jehovah looked at what they had in their heart, and if they were really generous, he would bless everything they did, if they really trusted in that promise, they would be moved to do good, and in return they would receive many blessings.
Deuteronomy 15:15. This verse reminds us of everything that happened with the Israelites, they stayed in Egypt for more than two centuries, more or less half of that time they lived in peace with the Egyptians, the Pharaoh, who knew and appreciated Joseph, had received them kindly but the situation of the people of God was going to change completely, eventually a new king rose over Egypt who did not know Joseph and the Egyptians made the children of Israel work as slaves, Pharaoh even ordered that they be killed to all the Hebrew males as soon as they were born but a baby named Moses survived, Jehovah saw the sufferings of the Israelites and decided to deliver them through Moses and that is how Jehovah saved his people from their oppressors.
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