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🗓️ 23 May 2021
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.3 | We finished our 11th book of the Bible today and we're 40% of the way through our reading |
0:17.6 | plan. |
0:18.6 | Can you believe it? |
0:19.6 | It feels like just yesterday we were in the wilderness and here we are today buying |
0:22.8 | a threshing floor in the promised land. |
0:25.3 | This is one of my favorite days in all of scripture. |
0:27.8 | I know I say that a lot but I really love this one and I can't wait to tell you why. |
0:32.7 | In the two accounts of David's census today, you probably noticed an interesting discrepancy. |
0:38.0 | Second Samuel says God insided David to take the census and first Chronicle says Satan |
0:43.7 | insided David to take the census. |
0:46.2 | And this is why it's important to read both accounts so we can compare and contrast. |
0:50.9 | So which is it? |
0:52.6 | Don't resist this tension. |
0:54.2 | It's there for a reason. |
0:56.2 | This may actually be the perfect scriptural example of how evil works within God's plan. |
1:02.7 | Just like the Job story, here we have an enemy of God and his people who wants to perpetrate |
1:07.6 | evil against them and God allows it. |
1:10.8 | By God allowing it, it still falls under his sovereignty and is still used for our good |
1:16.5 | and his purposes. |
1:18.9 | In general, taking a census isn't bad. |
1:21.7 | God commanded it several times as we've read about at length, but this time David is doing |
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