Speak with God and live!

Festival of Tabernacles is a Jewish festival called Sukkot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot

Some times i wish that i am a Jew or at least live in somewhere that follows Jewish customs. Their life is balanced. God set it that way. They have time to work and have mandated time to rest. Singapore is getting more imbalanced. As i am in University, really time to rest does not exist. 

¹⁵ “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. ¹⁶ “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. ¹⁷ Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, ¹⁸ but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Women who led people away from God. Woman have this power over man. This power, though not physical, but tangible. This power is still very evident today, portrayed in many drama serials. woman can "control" men. Just like it was recorded.

³³ “‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. ³⁴ Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the Lord, dwell among the Israelites.’”

Now that is a warning from the Lord that people shall not ever pollute the land as God lives in it and bloodshed will pollute the land. 



⁷ No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors.

The Lord is very clear about inheritance, He said it many times to the Israelites.  Inhertiance cannot  be passed on from one tribe to another. It must stay within the tribe!

²¹ The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance. ²² I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land. ²³ Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. ²⁴ For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Moses could not enter into the promise land bacause of his negiligence of not speaking to the rock, instead he struck it with his staff twice. That angered God and He was decreed by God to die not entering the promise land. Interesting is that he cited Israelites's lack of faith in God as the probelm and the resean why he sould not enter the promise land.

³⁵ You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other. ³⁶ From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. ³⁷ Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength, ³⁸ to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.

Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them. 

Moses is one of them. Can  you speak with God and live?