Not only did the Lord say the right thing, but the ground, the line, and the spirit of the book whence He chose His answers were such as took the becoming place under such circumstances before God. "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.". 5-8; 1 Cor. The Blessedness and Glory of the Promised Land, The Impartiality of God to be Reflected in the Judges of His People, Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb. . In comparing the allegorical Canons of Philo with those of Jewish traditionalism, we think first of all of the seven exegetical canons which are ascribed to Hillel. 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. Our, (October, a.d. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. I pray that I may abide in Christ and He in me and that my life would be a testimony to Your goodness and grace. A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. ^A Matt. ", Next, he presses their singular privilege in His presence with them. The same with Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; while the Israelites lay encamped near this mountain, the Lord spoke unto them: saying, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: or near it; for hither they came on the first day of the third month from their departure out of Egypt, and they did not remove from thence until the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, Exodus 19:1 so that they were here a year wanting ten days; in which space of time the law was given them, the tabernacle and all things appertaining to it were made by them, rulers both ecclesiastical and civil were appointed over them, and they were numbered and marshalled in order under four standards, and so ready to march; and all this being done, they must stay no longer, but set forward for the land of Canaan. ( Romans 7:24 ). 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. (7 "You shall have no other gods before [] me. So is it with the Church, when she concentrates her attention too exclusively on her own spiritual improvement, and forgets her mission to the world. They're each of them seeking to rule our lives. What did it matter about all others? So it habitually is where the faith is real; but nature is not yet judged root and branch. and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. 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. For although there were flocks and herds led into the wilderness with the children of Israel at the command of Jehovah, and they may have added more from enemies they conquered, the fact just now referred to meets and removes a host of objections raised about it, and proves that the nature of these ordinances has not been understood. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. 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? So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". This is a universal and abiding principle. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." Rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 1:1-6:22) Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project The Book of Ezra begins with a decree from King Cyrus of Persia, allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple that had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC (Ezra 1:2-4). And he started complaining so much about God I grabbed hold of him. *Because this is such a beautiful prayer to pray for your immediate family, the people of God, or to bless others as well as yourself, I have used the plural "we/us" but you can also use the singular "I/me" while praying! All this is brought out to Israel as the fruit of obeying Jehovah. Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? "Now therefore hearken, O Israel." But the cry must come, "Who shall deliver me?" Every motive of gratitude and compassion should urge us to it. But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. Ver. ". 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).This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the . 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. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you." Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. II. Surely this is highly significant. 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 ). They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. In Deuteronomy 5:12 the term keep corresponds to remember in Exodus 20:8, and the last clause of the former verse, 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded,' is wanting in Exodus. 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. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son." So he's getting up there now, about a hundred and twenty years old. In this case too we have the fact that there had been a great deal of fighting in previous days. What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. He cites from none other. We need not dilate on the beautiful detail but at the same time simple truth of this chapter. vol. All the previous part prepares the way. 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 Mosaic Covenant is central in Deuteronomy. It is the same principle here again as elsewhere. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. (1) These are the words. O. T. i. p. 235) ventures to set portions of this chapter in juxtaposition with two from elsewhere, in order to show that God's speaking to the inspired writer was simply his own mind and conscience enlightened from on high. See Romans 8:15. He wanted to leave them his blessing nay, he wanted them to have the best blessing that God could give them. The Christian is not a mere man, nor is he a Jew. This is the point here, and thus we see the connection with all that has gone before. Why did they not? "The Deuteronomist, writing at a later period of the same arrangement [the mission of the spies in Numbers], represents the people proposing the measure to Moses, who on consideration resolved to execute it, because it approved itself to his heart and conscience: 'Ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land; and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe.' As the epithet applied to God, "Jehovah our God," presupposes the reception of Israel into covenant with Jehovah, which took place at Sinai, so the words, "ye have dwelt long enough at this mountain," imply that the purpose for which Israel was taken to Horeb had been answered, i.e., that they had been furnished with the laws and ordinances requisite for the fulfilment of the covenant, and could now remove to Canaan to take possession of the promised land. "Virtually all of Palestine and Syria are included in these terms [in Deuteronomy 1:7], an area larger than Israel ever possessed in fact, even during the reigns of David and Solomon." The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet." The copulative conjunction is prefixed to the last four commandments in Deuteronomy. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. Deuteronomy 14:1-29 insists on what became the children of Jehovah their God in abstaining from unseemly maimings or disfigurements for the dead, as well as from any food which He, who knew better than they, pronounced abominable. And so they departed from Horeb. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. Deuteronomy 1:6. 4. It is ever the same duty of submission to God's will. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. What did not so much manifest obedience is left out, though it might have an important spiritual meaning in its place; for certainly other feasts (as the feast of atonement, for instance) had. It is not therefore a question of how far the offerings, etc. Many of them did not see the miracle of the Red Sea being parted. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. He said, "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance or your burdens or your strife? This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. "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. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. They were to be guided simply not by what Jehovah had done in providence by Ammon, Moab, or Esau, but by His will as to themselves. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. The aged lawgiver in these last words was led of the Holy Ghost to speak home to their souls. Thus was kept up a thorough sense of discipline in the people, and above all dependence on and confidence in Jehovah. Prayer Point #4: Pray for God's will to be done. Then follows the appointment, iv. He knew fully that Jehovah was doing nothing but what was for His own glory; how could His servant then find fault? It is the design of the book which governs the description in each case. Or, if the cognate clause used in both books, 'that God wrote them on two tables of stone,' be not literally pressed in one case, there is no necessity for doing so in the other. * This it is well to note, as we should not have discovered it from the Book of Numbers. [They said] Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, and to destroy us ( Deuteronomy 1:27 ). The quotation is from Dennis Baly, The Geography of the Bible.]. So it is that it does not withhold from us the over-heatedness of a Paul, as well as the weakness of a Barnabas; that it tells out the stumbling both of Thomas and of Mark: all is openly communicated for our instruction. This is now developed. The same principle is steadily pursued on all sides. Both were powerful motives not to dread the Canaanite races, who were destined to extirpation. Therefore, I must take a position of faith and recognize that the old nature, the life of the flesh, was crucified with Christ in order that I might now live after the new nature, the nature of Christ, and living now after the spirit. Were they to lay hands on the Moabites who were not so near of kin as the Edomites? And what was the Lord's answer? "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. 1. III. Covenant favour would surely do as much for Israel as providence had done for Moab and Ammon! The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. In other words, he is saying that God went before you through the wilderness to search for the best place for you to pitch your tent and then led you by the fire and by the cloud.Oh, if we only realized how all encompassing the work of God is that surrounds our lives. O. T. p. 65) says: "From Deuteronomy 10:8 it is plain that the Levites were not appointed at Sinai but later; whereas we learn fromNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26. that their institution took place at Sinai." The Church, as one with Christ, shares in his kingdom, and shall yet inherit the whole earth. Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." O. T. i. pp. 24; 2 Cor. They had been bondmen themselves; and if they had been delivered of God, they should cultivate the same spirit as He had shown. 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? His brother was the political head of that community in Alexandria, and he himself on one occasion represented his co-religionists, Alfred EdersheimThe Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, A Plain Description of the Essence and Attributes of God, Out of the Holy Scripture, So Far as Every Christian must Competently Know, and Necessarily Believe, that Will be Saves. 2. He chose to have a place where He would put His name. It was not yet Christ manifested, but man under trial of the law and its ordinances and restraints, dealt with as living in the world, and instructed in view of this present life. But it was not a question here of truth or its forms, but of obedience: this is ever in view. 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. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. In the harvest there is the gathering in of the good and the extinction of the evil; but the vintage knows nothing but vengeance from God. 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 is very careful, in the face of the passover, that there should not be a forgetfulness of that escape which brought them out together then. So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. Could they match with Him? i. p. 42, note 4.) 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. We now begin to understand a little of the very beginning of God's Book--of the times in which it was written, the materials used by its first author, and the different kinds of writing from which he had to choose; but we must go a step farther. Know ye not that the old man was crucified with Christ? Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? This is pursued to the end of the chapter, with the institution of the cities where the manslayer might find refuge. A people holy to Jehovah must not eat anything that dies of itself, nor accustom itself to an uncomely act, were it with a dumb and dead kid and the milk of its dam. The aged lawgiver in these last words was led of the wilderness experience was.. 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