There was no doubt whatever that Esau had behaved so ill that the children of Israel were not likely to forget it. 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. THE CHURCH'S DESTINY - to possess the land. "The good that I would I do not. Hence, in the first feast, we find they were to eat unleavened bread. Deuteronomy 8:18. Heavenly Father, thank You for the Word of God and all the wisdom and instructions it contains. We however are not under law but grace. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the . The Lord will conquer your . God had already multiplied the Israelites, and He was ready to give them the land. The conquest of which is commanded by God. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. And if we yield to the flesh, the flesh will govern and rule our lives and we will have the resulted mind of the flesh. This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. Nothing of the sort. This was the substantial meaning of the tithes and other requisitions (ver. They were a people brought into relationship with God, and the object of His words was to guard them from practical inconsistency with that relationship. He would have them happy in Himself, and enjoying all He had given them to enjoy. Here is a list of powerful I AM affirmations that could be used as prayer points. 4; iv. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. "Judah, thou, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; before thee shall bow down the sons of thy father. In Deuteronomy 3:1-29 it is substantially similar with Bashan. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. These figures Moses was inspired to give as a whole to the people, entirely apart from the question whether they were or could be carried out according to the letter while passing through the wilderness. If they were going to possess the land, let them remember it was God's land, not theirs. This is the preamble to the recitation of the law in Deuteronomy, and includes the text of "the Shema," what has become the central prayer of Judaism, and which Jesus identifies as the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:36 and Mark 12:29-30. So Jehovah our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people." God wanted to free them from the horrible bondage of Egypt, yet now they are accusing God of hating them.You remember the case of Job, it said in all of these things, that is the loss of his family and his wealth and all, he did not curse God neither did he charge God foolishly. iii. Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. How much did Moses know about the history of his forefathers, Abraham and Jacob, and of all the old nations and kings mentioned in Genesis, before God called him to the great work of writing Mildred DuffThe Bible in its Making, Appendix ii. It is not so where God governs. [173] Philo was born in Alexandria, about the year 20 before Christ. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. It is well for persons that they are not to stay long under the law, and the terrors of it, but are directed to Mount Zion; Hebrews 12:18. To the end of the chapter follow the most earnest warnings, as well as bright promises: disobedience or obedience would be the turning point in the land. viii. In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. He could have cited from any other, had any other been in all respects so suitable to the occasion. They were tried after this by another case of forbearance. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. His brother was the political head of that community in Alexandria, and he himself on one occasion represented his co-religionists, Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. 9. And so it is important that we not fail where they failed but that we, by faith, take this position of victory, of power, of strength, of walking in the spirit reckoning the old man, the old nature, to be dead with Christ.So, that which should have taken eleven days took them forty years, actually forty-one years to be exact, because it wasn't until the forty-first year on the tenth day that they entered in to the land that God had promised. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.". These were solemn words to bring before the minds of Israel just about to enter into the good land. Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. No wonder therefore that Deuteronomy in general has been but little understood, even by the children of God; that the thoughts of expositors are comparatively vague in explaining it; and that men are apt to read it with so little insight into its bearing that the loss might seem comparatively trifling if it were not read at all. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. 1:6-7. Background of Text: Israel has been delivered out of Egypt. We know the profanity of Esau; we know the solemn circumstances of Moab and Ammon from their very origin; but for all that God would not permit His people to indulge in what did not become Himself as represented however feebly in and by Israel. Such is the fertile topic which we find throughout the book. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.From the beginning of the second month of the first year of the exodus (Exodus 19:1) to the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11). Now, the wilderness experiences where I am trying to bring my flesh into conformity to the will of God, and I'm promising God that I'm gonna do better, that I'm not gonna fail next time. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing." "Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword," the small things as well as great. The law of the sabbath is not given to Christians. What shall we wear?These kinds of things, and in that we differ nothing from the heathen, from the animals. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. But the cry must come, "Who shall deliver me?" They had marched round to the eastern side of the Jordan; they were now on that border of the land, after God's long-continued process of dealing with them in the wilderness had come to its full measure. In the very first place is laid down utter destruction of the high places. ", Next, he presses their singular privilege in His presence with them. Ye have dwelt long enough, c. They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, Exodus 19:1-2 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." XXI. This men forget. God would "give his angels charge concerning him;" and what a fine proof it would be that He was the true Messiah, if He threw Himself down from such a height, and withal the angels preserved Him! We know well that, if God made known His acts unto Israel, He made His ways known unto Moses. "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.". So this fact also is used. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. Heavenly Father, thank You for this important lesson. Nobody likes this. In short how could it be respected as it deserves, if regarded as an almost garrulous repetition of the law? He had compromised Him at a critical occasion, and could not but feel that so it was. Such then is the early and remarkably striking introduction to the book. 4; Isa. And listen to the horrible things they were saying about God. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. God went before you to find the place for you to pitch your tents. What gentle censures, if any, what palpable favouritism towards his own party, where they most deserve reproof and rebuke or perhaps still more stringent measures! The priests were Levites. (7 "You shall have no other gods before [] me. Deuteronomy 1:1-46 lets us see the end of disobedience; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 give us to know as clearly the result of obedience. Consequently we have these three feasts, which set forth particularly Jehovah providing to fill the heart of His people with peace and joy to overflowing, Yet at the first of these feasts Israel were not told to rejoice. 4; Eph. 4; Eph. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." De 1:7 'Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and .read more Scripture: Deuteronomy 1:6-8 He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! Meanwhile they were not to meddle with their kindred, even though jealous and unkind. This is so decided that in the millennial age there will be a strict maintenance of that day with all the authority of God Himself, vested in and exercised by the Messiah governing Israel and the earth. It is remarkable that, even though in this connection Moses gives them what are called the ten commandments, there is nevertheless an express and manifest difference in the form as compared with Exodus; so little is Deuteronomy a mere rehearsal of the earlier books. So, after it has been brought before us from the first, we find their failure to trust Jehovah leads to a fresh command. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after the. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. 364-366.). There is a time in our Christian experience of growth and development and there is sort of the legitimate wilderness experience, but God surely does not want you to spend your whole life in the wilderness. This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. 95. Here we see that God had a most deliberate choice in the smallest matters as well as in the greatest; but He begins with what most nearly touches His presence. there is formality enough, and without having written forms, the heart may frame forms of its own, as we may have observed, if not known it in our own experience, without finding fault with other people, For notoriously, in a legal state of mind people are apt to get through the acknowledgment of sin in what they know has grieved the Lord; but even then there is a want of bowing to His will. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. "6. Is this what you hear? It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. How great the blessing of one who walks, as Christ walked, in dependence on God, not consulting Him only if constrained, but of a ready mind, and assured that by His Spirit, through the written word, He deigns to guide every step of your way where self is judged, and to give you to take the right path with a simplicity incomparably better than all the wisdom the world could muster, if one sought in independence to choose for oneself! Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. And I'm making all of these vows and I'm doing my best to bring my flesh into conformity to God and to God's will, but I find this perverse law that Paul found working. 8. The greater the blessing of God, the more thoroughly you are put on the ground that God has given you, the more He insists on thorough and constant obedience. Our means are the preaching of the gospel, prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. xlv. And so they departed from Horeb. We say, "Oh, but I'm so weak and I've tried so hard and you don't know how long I've been struggling with this thing". He knew fully that Jehovah was doing nothing but what was for His own glory; how could His servant then find fault? There is no better evidence and earnest of God's favour than his putting his law in our hearts, Psalms 147:19; Psalms 147:20. deserved. But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. And be. So these are the words which Moses spake unto all of Israel on the side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea ( Deuteronomy 1:1 ). In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. Again, what can be more simple and appropriate than that Moses at the close should omit the name and counsel of Jethro, and bring the people into greater prominence than himself in the choice of rulers? It was not then and there that Aaron died, as he alas! It is not the Jewish people in the school of Jehovah to manifest what was in their heart, and what He was towards them; but the people strengthened by Jehovah in presence of a power mightier than their own. 1. Besides, "Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." And some of them were slain because they presumed to go without the presence of God. The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted, There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long, The conquest of which is commanded by God, Early in the year 1857. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. Let us now look at the details as far as it can be done in so brief a glance as we can afford to give it at present. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. It is a call to obedience. Help me reach greater heights. It is not merely "thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of free-will offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee," but "seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose: because Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the increase of thine hands; therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.". 303)." The evil that I would not, that I do"( Romans 7:19 ). This was their boast. Whither shall we go up? ( Romans 7:24 ). Preventive against Backsliding. Your fruit baskets and breadboards. They said, "We have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.". On this side of the Jordan: At this point Israel was camped on the great plains of Moab, able to see across the Jordan River into the . God's solution is death to the flesh, crucified with Christ. 8 "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. So, all of these things transpired in Deuteronomy, as far as Moses was concerned, in the last forty days of his life; his final exhortations to the people prior to their crossing and entering into the land. "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Jehovah God of your fathers giveth you. We are to observe the statutes and to do them. A summary of the address is given in the chapter-headings usually found in English Bibles. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. This seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. The heart may be made up to follow the Lord, but the difficulties are still felt keenly; whereas the man who only theorises is ready in his own conceit, in word at least, to do anything; but there is no seriousness of spirit: he does not know himself yet. Such was the genuine result of sending the spies. "We turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed Mount Seir many days. Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. Others might be optional, but these feasts were obligatory. However Judea, here and there, doth swell out much with mountains, yet its chief swelling appears in that broad back of mountains, that runs from the utmost southern cost as far as Hebron, and almost as Jerusalem itself. I do not dwell on this. Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. We know well how the family is apt to trench on generous feeling, and how it is apt to shut itself up to no more or better than a refined selfishness. The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. The inspired editor may have given later names, and added "as it is in this day," or explanatory remarks. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. To have confidence in God is one of the important points here, to cherish full confidence that whatever He gives us is the very best thing for us. All is perfect in its own place, and the imputation of self-contradiction as baseless as it is malicious and irreverent. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. Times we know when the sense of what we have been, of what we are, and of God's putting all our evil away for ever by the death of His own Son, is too deep for joy if not for tears. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". "Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. The law-giver sets before them the manner in which the law dealt with themselves, in one feature particularly, which he presses on them. Now, the cry almost indicated the answer itself; "Who shall deliver me?" Boy, what a horrible thing to say.So, the people were discouraged and they said, The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we have seen the sons of the Anakims ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". God says, then, that enough time had been spent in one place; (1) for, before they left it, an entire year had passed away there. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. He may not at all have understood at the moment what was working in the people; but all is told out. The object is quite different. Therefore it was that, when God told them to go up, they refused and suffered the consequence of their disobedience. It was no longer "How shall I free myself?" Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? We're the ones that place the limits on God's work. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. The first of all rights, and the highest of our duties, is that God should have His rights. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book." I'm tempted to smack you in the mouth talking about God that way. The true Israelite does not require to put God to the test. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." But God will lift you to the highest level you will let him. However, this was not the promised Land. Consequently it is that great feast which finds its answer in Christianity more particularly (the passover being of course the foundation); but this is pre-eminently its character as a present fact. Above all the prime object is to press obedience on the people of God, but the obedience of a people who had already found what it was to have utterly broken down on their own assumed responsibility. At all events, whatever may be His grace, whatever His ways with His people, obedience is that with which He cannot dispense. The time was near the end of the fortieth year since they came out of Egypt. You may not enter into the best that God has. Then is laid down the memorial that Jehovah, who gave them His law, was the same who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. The Church, as one with Christ, shares in his kingdom, and shall yet inherit the whole earth. This was a lesson for Israel of prime moment. And the grand principle too we may just notice in passing: Jehovah reminds them by Moses that He had allowed much while they were in the wilderness which could not be tolerated now (ver. "Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess.". (Introd. "O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me?" [173] Philo was born in Alexandria, about the year 20 before Christ. The tragedy of unbelief, verse thirty-two.Now, I love this.
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