Psalm 42 It reinforces his earlier exhortations in Deuteronomy 7:12-15 and 28:2-12. Yet they complained against him and refused to go with him into the land he had chosen for them (19-33). ii. 12). "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. 5; John iv. 1. Such was the genuine result of sending the spies. It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. "What is the mountainous country of Judea? They are cardinal elements of the teaching of the book and show that, as Baly has said, Palestine was, in fact, the Chosen Land for the Chosen People; not, it should be noticed, chosen by them, but chosen for them (p. 1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". In Deuteronomy 16:1-17 (where I now stop) we have the winding up of all this part the termination of the statutes which had to do with religion. Let me ask, Why were there these three feasts, and these three only? (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). His eyesight is still keen, he can still hear very well and he is addressing these people, rehearsing for them the work of God in their past because many of them were born while in the wilderness. This was their boast. Monday, April 4, a.d. ^b 12 And ^a 18 Now ^b on the morrow [on the Monday following the triumphal entry], ^a in the morning ^b when they were come out from Bethany, ^a as he returned to the city [Jerusalem], he hungered. Thus, we see, the second exhortation contains a lesson about other people, as the first was the danger of disobedience on their own part. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israel's covenant God, has done for his people. And in the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him commandment unto them; After they had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelled in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, on the eastside of Jordan, Moses began to declare this law ( Deuteronomy 1:2-5 ). Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? So he's getting up there now, about a hundred and twenty years old. 6, 7). 24; 2 Cor. 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. Obedience is the claim. 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 . But we are wrong. 1. Hence therefore we see why it is that the first circumstance in their history brought before them was that God told them not to go up to the mountain of the Amorites; but they would go up in self-will and self-confidence, and utterly failed before their enemies. Now the life of the spirit begins with the death of the old nature, the old man, which is the position that we must take by faith. The heritage of the descendants of Jacob shall be restored unto thee!" After the praise and worship session, go with your prophetic sword into battle using these 13 prayer points for DAY 6. In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. There is thus a presentation of a faithful God, whose demand was for a faithful people." If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. He might not grant such a liberal concession to others as he left to himself. The discourse itself. Consequently there is here a heavy blow struck at the tendency towards idolatry. What have I to ask beside? There may be lands where everything morally is at the lowest point, and where therefore a wrong is less severely estimated than elsewhere. Occasionally in Deuteronomy he supplemented what he had written earlier with other explanatory material. Our adversaries? These seven canons were next expanded by R. Ishmael (in the first century) into thirteen, by the analysis of one of them (the 5th) into six, and the addition of this sound exegetical rule, that where two Alfred EdersheimThe Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. I have called it therefore an abstract typical system; for the value of it does not at all depend on the fidelity of the people to it. 5, 6; 1 Tim. Edomites or Moabites or Ammonites, unfeeling and disposed to injure Israel, still God would educate His people in remembering whatever bond of nature there was: if blows came, God would not forget the delinquent. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. In Deuteronomy 6:1-25 we find the first of those texts which our Lord quotes. (October, a.d. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children;" and they were to bind them for a sign; they were to make much of them at all points outside the house and inside, and always. No compulsion was used to the nations outside. These were solemn words to bring before the minds of Israel just about to enter into the good land. May I not venture to think that other considerations entered, and that His citation of Deuteronomy only is in no way meant to disparage fitting words found elsewhere? He that believes may calmly confide in God under all circumstances. But they saw the giants in the land and the high-walled cities instead of God. Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. The fact is that, no matter what might be the measure of carrying them out in the wilderness, God was setting forth by them the shadows of good things to come. - J.O. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. What we find here is a warning not to yield to the sight of their eyes or the violence of their hands, guarding against a covetous spirit which pays slight regard to that which God had assigned to others. Posted 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. The law of the sabbath is not given to Christians. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. This was the substantial meaning of the tithes and other requisitions (ver. If you suspect a rogue is in your employment, you may test him by marking a piece of money to see whether he steals or not: am I then going to mark something for God to see whether He will keep His word or not? May my inner and outward actions, attitude, words and motives reflect a heart that loves the Lord with . Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give your father ( Deuteronomy 1:6-8 ). [Note: Craigie, p. The intercession of Moses prevailed so far for his brother and the people, that the one lived till near the end of the wanderings in the desert, and the others, instead of perishing as a whole at once, lived to take their journey from a land of wells (Beeroth) to Mosera where Aaron died at Mount Hor, and thence to Gudgodah, and to Jotbath, "a land of rivers of waters:" such was the patient goodness of God to both, as the long interval made the more marked.*. 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. 24; 2 Cor. No, not merely so, but by ourselves. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? It's yours." Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the John LightfootFrom the Talmud and Hebraica, Barren Fig-Tree. With this then most fittingly He begins. Moses says, "We turned," not "Ye," merely. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. It is very possible that not a single institution during that time may have been strictly enforced or obeyed among the people. The less that Israel felt they had failed, the more Jesus felt it for them. 1 when all these blessings and curses i have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the lord your god disperses you among the nations, 2 and when you and your children return to the lord your god and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything i command you today, 3 then the lord your god Redemption accomplished; Christ the head of the church above; the Holy Ghost sent down here below; and all this borne witness to in the worship and in the ways of Christians and the church. And so they chose one from each tribe to go in and to spy out the land. It is not a book for the wilderness, except for their hearts to look back on whilst on the borders before they entered the land. Now in Numbers it doesn't tell us that they came to Moses to request these spies, but in Deuteronomy is adding a little bit more detail than he gave in the book of Numbers. Yet for all that, even though it was but the governmental display of God with a nation (not fully as with Christ, but provisionally by Moses), there is not a fragment of it that does not, when candidly examined, prove the goodness and the holiness of God, as much as it illustrates also on the other side the rebelliousness of man, chosen man, even the people of God. This claim, based on God's act of bringing Israel out of enslavement in Egypt, is also highlighted at the end of this chapter (6:20-25 . Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. Kadesh. 2). Surely this is very significant, and points out a manifest difference in the character and scope and design of the book of Deuteronomy as compared with Exodus. 1. What nation had such a wonder as God Himself in their midst God Himself near the least of them? Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. Thus then the circumstances of Moses, as well as of the people, were precisely those suited to impress the lesson of obedience. )Ver. We can all understand an orderly arrangement where there are types all arranged in a consecutive manner; but here in these moral exhortations it is, though in another way, just as sensible. But he found that there was another law, a perverse kind of a law, that whenever he would do good, evil was present with him. 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 ). So, after it has been brought before us from the first, we find their failure to trust Jehovah leads to a fresh command. To apply what now occupies us here, give me the chief, fundamental, and most salient points of Christianity, and I will show you that these are the very truths that Christians are most in danger of forgetting. If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. God is saying to you, "Hey, you've been there long enough, walking in circles. Conceive the state of mind which could say that "in Deuteronomy Moses repeatedly lays the blame of his expulsion on the people (Deuteronomy 1:37; Deuteronomy 3:26; Deuteronomy 4:21); but according toNumbers 20:12; Numbers 20:12 God punished him thus for not believing Him, while inNumbers 27:14; Numbers 27:14 his punishment was occasioned by the legislator's own disobedience"! The lawgiver, about to be taken from them, looks back on all the past; but he looks forward also to the land they were about to enter. But God wants us to not be governed by the flesh but to be governed by the spirit; and thus, there is this spiritual warfare seeking the dominancy in your life. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. Again, in Deuteronomy 5:16 two new clauses are supplied, 'and that it may go well with thee,' and 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.' Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. For what are we here but to please God? Thus: God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. 12-18; ^C Luke XIX. And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. Nothing of the sort. . They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. (Exodus 20:1; Deuteronomy 5:22. And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. We shall meet with others ere long, we shall come to civil ones, but we are not going beyond the religious charges at present. A summary of the address is given in the chapter-headings usually found in English Bibles. But God, in fact, is always left out of the calculations of unbelief. May the Lord give us hearts to rejoice in all His, grace and truth and glory! iii. This is clearly shown. If it were merely a question of man, nobody would think of choosing for another. All this is brought out to Israel as the fruit of obeying Jehovah. "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. The inspired editor may have given later names, and added "as it is in this day," or explanatory remarks. 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. The point urged here is, that when they came and stood, as far as any then could stand, in the presence of God, they had seen no similitude of Jehovah. It was revealed as the great operative truth, continually impressed on Israel their one true God. 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. His Father will take care of him. 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. Why did they not? Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. It is the due conduct of a people in relationship with Jehovah; no longer the bringing out of typical institutions, but the development of the moral ways which become the people with whom Jehovah had a present connection and intercourse on earth. - 1 Timothy 2:3-5. 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. There is another remark to be made. Now this is a foolish charge that they brought against God and it is something that we oftentimes are prone to do. It will be observed that first of all in this chapter, it was not activity but subjection. "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee: but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 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. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. They were only tenants, and had to pay Him rent. 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. In general, Moses spoke unto them all that the Lord had given him in commandment (Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 1:3), which intimates, not only that what he now delivered was for substance the same with what had formerly been commanded, but that it was what God now commanded him to repeat. 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. For Egypt, the area of bondage, slavery, hardship, is the type of the life of the world, in the world, slaves to our flesh to Satan; and so it is typical of our old life. ^A Matt. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. Indeed He found His moral glory in this very fact, that He alone of all men that ever lived never in a single particular swerved from that which after all is the sweetest, loveliest, highest thing in man here below absolute devotedness to another, doing the will of His God and Father. What we have here is not a repetition; it leads us into things secret what wrought in the people and hindered their blessing. There is no mercy shown in the vintage. This makes the principle at stake to be felt the more. If one were simply a man, one must have to do with the place and state of Adam fallen. 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. Bearing this in mind, any reader can see that "at that time" in verse 8 really coalesces with "at that time" in verses 1-6, and therefore is in perfect accord withNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26; and yet is it repeated in p. 336. "Jehovah God that hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt" He was the only God. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. The mount of blessing and the mount of curse were there on the other side Jordan. Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise. What did it matter about all others? It is the same principle here again as elsewhere. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. In fact He acted as the landlord. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing. ( Romans 7:24 ). Besides, "Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." Moses called Mt. Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. It is not correct therefore that the sabbath-day is done with: many people in Christendom think so; but I take the liberty of having a stronger view about the sabbath than even those who think themselves strongest. When we compare, for instance, the way in which Moses, under the direction of God, was to lead on the Israelites, and the way in which Mahomet perverted the word into a fable for ambitious ends, and allowance of human lusts and passions, who cannot see the difference? The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. The trip from Egypt to Sinai was only preparation for the giving of the covenant. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which was shown in the mount. 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