(Gen. Xlix. For although he may allow himself a dispensation to take from others, let a man steal from him, and it will soon be seen whether he does not condemn the wrong. Father in Heaven, I ask for your blessings . Crossed over Jordan finally and began the conquest of the land.So, an interesting little commentary. Now recognizing my weakness, I'm crying for power outside of myself. So they began the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, which Moses begins to rehearse for them in chapter two. In Deuteronomy 5:14 is the addition, 'thine ox nor thine ass,' as well as the clause, 'that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.' Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. For he had himself told them to go up into the land; but they begged spies to search it first. Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. 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. 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. 2. 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. Moses called Mt. Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to John LightfootFrom the Talmud and Hebraica, Kadesh. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. In the first section, i.-iv. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. 5, 11, 14, 18, 21, 26). 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. 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. Pray it at midnight and midday. By whom? "Hear, O Israel." 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! Let's turn to Deuteronomy. Genesis 39: 2-6. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. The consequence is that, though all have their place, these distinctions may here seem small indeed. in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book." But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. Now wherein lay this fitness not only in the words that were cited, but in the particular book from which they were extracted? As God loved Moses, so Moses confided in God. I dare say we have almost all done so, without referring to any particular mode; for alas! Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. 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. And so they chose one from each tribe to go in and to spy out the land. 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. II. The book of Deuteronomy throughout pre-eminently brings in the authority of God over a people in relationship with Himself, displayed and proved in obedience. It is most instructive to note how exceedingly anxious the early Christians were, that, as soon as a man was converted, he should be "filled with the Holy Ghost." 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. perhaps the more appropriate translation is the one that points to the exclusive demand of this God to be the only God Israel acknowledges and worships (5:6 See also Exodus 20:2). 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. Read: Deut. In the delight of His people He delights. II. Commonly indeed we see that Christians understand a great deal better what the Jews ought to have done, than what they themselves ought to be doing. ". "These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which Jehovah God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth." If they betook themselves to rites and ceremonies as a means of pleasing God, Jesus gave Himself up to unreserved obedience was Himself the constant pattern of One who never sought His own will. 8-10. 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. 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. "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine." The truth is that the solemn circumstances appear to recall to the mind of Moses the awful lapse of Israel when "they made the calf which Aaron made," and Levi, of odd perfidious to the stranger for a sister's sake, consecrated themselves to Jehovah in the blood of their idolatrous brethren; and Moses hews at Jehovah's command tables of stone like the first, and put them, written as before, in the ark which he had made. Next to having Christ Himself is the following in His steps. The orders which God gave them to decamp, and proceed in their march (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:7): You have dwelt long enough in this mount. The truth is that the difference is due to moral development of Israel according to Jehovah's wisdom on the eve of introducing His people into the land, and the more settled and social habits He would have them cultivate there. Whatever we are called out for is what Satan endeavours to destroy. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing Ernst Wilhelm HengstenbergChristology of the Old Testament, DeuteronomyOwing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. 4; iv. . The other whom Jesus called thought about his father and mother; he would like to see them first. Nevertheless the circumstance that he too had failed to sanctify Jehovah their God in his heart as he ought that even he had misrepresented Him when it was above all due to God that His grace should be clearly seen, all this added gravity to the appeals and style of the departing man of God. "Oh, this might be dangerous, and that were presumptuous;" and so men talk on that is, the moment it becomes a real living truth, and not words on paper. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. It is making God less than a man; for if he could not be content without it, how much less the living God? were then offered but of a vast body of systematically-ordered teaching by types. They were about to enter it by special grace; for it is of importance to bear in mind that it was not by the covenant which was made at Horeb that the children of Israel entered the land at all. Temple Cleansed. I do not regard this as evincing the spirit of obedience, but rather a spice of self-confidence. The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. This makes the principle at stake to be felt the more. It might belong to the true God; but "Thou shalt not hearken" if there was the smallest risk of going after other gods. Our, (October, a.d. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. Hence the language differs most sensibly even from the joyous scene of blessing of which the feast of weeks was so redolent. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. 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. They had been bondmen themselves; and if they had been delivered of God, they should cultivate the same spirit as He had shown. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. We however are not under law but grace. [Breakfast with the Jews came late in the forenoon, and these closing days of our Lord's ministry were full of activity that did not have time to tarry at Bethany for it. Let me just refer to this for a moment longer, lest there should be any mistake about what appears to me to be the truth about it. Numbers 13:1-33 gives the fact when God warranted Moses to send the spies; Deuteronomy supplies the motives which wrought in the people to desire them. The less that Israel felt they had failed, the more Jesus felt it for them. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. Heavenly Father, thank You for the Word of God and all the wisdom and instructions it contains. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israels covenant God, has done for his people. This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. [Note: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Pentateuch, 3:284.] Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. About a hundred and twenty-six miles from Mount Horeb to Kadeshbarnea. But also it would appear that the deepest wisdom lay in citing from that book, as well as its most applicable words. Is this what you read? 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. Is this what you feel? "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. 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. To get from the Red Sea into the Promised Land, it was necessary to go through the wilderness, an eleven-day journey, but most of the wilderness experience was illegitimate.Now I feel that the history is a typical history, that there are spiritual analogies to be made to the children of Israel coming out of Egypt passing through the wilderness into the Promised Land. Prayer Point #4: Pray for God's will to be done. Surely this is highly significant. 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. 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. Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." 3. 7. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." A lion's whelp is Judah; from the prey, my son, thou goest up; he stoopeth down, he coucheth as a lion, and as a full-grown lion, who shall rouse him up? It reminds them of his gracious acts on their behalf and calls from them a fitting response of covenant loyalty. Meanwhile they were not to meddle with their kindred, even though jealous and unkind. Prayer Points for Prosperity. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Hence, while he fails not to show that Jehovah was with himself, and how Joshua was to displace him, he does not hesitate to set before all the story of his own shame, so to speak. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. Ver. viii. 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, Ver. And this is enforced in the very words which our Saviour employed. The book of Deuteronomy acknowledges this failure, and takes its stand not only on the fact that it was impossible to deny, it but on the duty of confessing it. It is exactly so here. Is there anything so wholesome! In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. 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. [Note: Craigie, p. But the tone, mind, and heart of Moses are nowhere more characteristically apparent than in these his last words to the people of Jehovah whom he loved. There are many, many Christians who have been long enough, and far too long, in the mount, and it would be welt for themselves if they could hear this voice summoning them to go forward. The place were they were now encamped was in the plain, in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 1:5), where they were just ready to enter Canaan, and engage in a war with the Canaanites. 11). Help me to make the right choices as I continue along the path of life. This was their point of imitating God. He said, "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance or your burdens or your strife? But Jesus knew God Himself as Moses never did, and by His use of it put honour on the book that makes plain how in a state of ruin the one saving principle is obedience. Pray it during the day too. To hear someone, you know, making all these accusations against God, horrible things, it's tragic. Such is the principle: no sparing friends, relatives, "wife of thy bosom," could be tolerated. Now he dwells chiefly on their part in the matter, confessing his own inability to cope with their great increase, which ho touchingly entreats God to swell a thousand times, but withal urges on the rulers to judge righteously. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. THE CHURCH'S DANGER - to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state of apathy or simple receptivity. 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? "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." Nothing of the sort. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." "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. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. Thus, for the renewal of the covenant described in Deuteronomy, the prologue recalls not only the covenants history, but also the ability of the Lord of the covenant to fulfill his promise. (Exodus 18:23) But inDeuteronomy 1:9; Deuteronomy 1:9, etc., Moses speaks of the same institution as his own without any reference to Jethro, or the divine command of which Jethro spoke." There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. All this was now closed. Whereas, even in God's dealings with a nation after the flesh (and such is the truth as to Israel here), there was an admirable check on man and witness of divine government, though the law made nothing perfect. a. We see from this that it is mere ignorance to suppose that there is not a divine system in the book; and this is more remarkable, I think, in Deuteronomy, if possible, than in the preceding books. 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! They had had many a sight of their own hearts, and they had had ample experience of God's ways in patient and gracious government. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. Such was the genuine result of sending the spies. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. 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. If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. 94.]. Such is the sceptic's puny effort to lower the character and credit of scripture. They are each of them seeking supremacy. Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in the fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and the cloud by day ( Deuteronomy 1:33 ). Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, into spiritual trouble and affliction of mind, he knows when they have dwelt long enough in it, and will certainly find a time, the fittest time, to advance them from the terrors of the spirit of adoption. 21 et seqq.) "Can you call Him Father?" What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. Og the king came out, and as with Heshbon, so with Bashan. The type was the land of Canaan; the antitype, so far as it lies in time, is the world, which it is the Church's calling to conquer for Christ, and for her own possession. * This it is well to note, as we should not have discovered it from the Book of Numbers. At the same time we are told how the tribe of Levi was separated, after having brought in (in an episodical way) an allusion to Aaron's death. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. Therefore we can understand it as if He said, When you were in the strange country, when you left it in haste to wander here and there in the wilderness, there were great difficulties and many irregularities which cannot be allowed now. And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. III. I am persuaded that above all the Christian, who has a still nearer relationship with God, is the very last person who ought to exercise a choice in self-will. "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." "3. Deuteronomy 8:18. And then he really started getting on God's case. 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. 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. And this is another chapter from which our Lord quotes when tempted, to which we may refer in passing. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:7 . But one must only expect this from men whose aim is to reduce the inspired writers to their own level, and who think that piety can co-exist with fraud, yea, with fraudulent falsehood about God. 35; xxxii. See Romans 8:15. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. 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 them. The man who said, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest," had no faith at all. It is freely allowed that the ten words have a specific character of the deepest moment for man on earth, as distinguished from what was judicial and ceremonial. [Breakfast with the Jews came late in the forenoon, and these closing days of our Lord's ministry were full of activity that did not have time to tarry at Bethany for it. 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." 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 39; vi. Religion, divorced from active employment, must soon lose its robustness, and degenerate into a sickly religiosity. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. Taking the passage in this light, and reading the wider truth into it, we get the idea of a land which is: 1. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. 2). (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). God said that He's not gonna deliver them into your hand" and how that they armed themselves anyhow and went up against the hill of the Amorites and were pursued by them. It was not in His mind to offer men His law or the sword. They would not go up when Jehovah bid them, and when He commanded them to turn back, they wished to go forward. 10. Plainly then the savage knows quite well that it is unjustifiable to steal. The Lord will conquer your . Moses began his recital of Israels history at Horeb (Sinai) because this is where Yahweh adopted the nation by making the Mosaic Covenant with her. I must despair of all of these self-improvement programs and I must cry out for help outside of myself, for therein is the power of the spirit manifested. But their fathers would not obey at that time. Then they are told not to celebrate the feast indiscriminately where and as they please. He had compromised Him at a critical occasion, and could not but feel that so it was. Your fruit baskets and breadboards. Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? 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. *. Beside the tithe of their increase truly rendered from corn, wine, oil, with the firstlings, which, if distant from the place Jehovah would choose for His centre of worship, might be turned into money, and there spent before Him with a joyful household and the Levite not forsaken, there was to be a tithe at the end of three years, mentioned in the 28th and 29th verses: "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates." And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20. ^A Matt. It is the king's mountain." This was a lesson for Israel of prime moment. Accordingly the majority of expositors take the record in Exodus for the exact one, supposing that, as Moses was speaking to the people in the latter case, he recited from memory, not from the tables of stone, and therefore there is some variation of terms. our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we.". What was meant by this? What we have here is not a repetition; it leads us into things secret what wrought in the people and hindered their blessing. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. I`m blessed physiologically! Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. He has given no title to adopt doctrines, practices, ways, government, or any one thing that is not His expressed will for His children. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land; no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." 12). 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. It is evident that they are somehow or another connected with God, and touch matters of religion, as men would say. iv. They would have further proof of Gods unfailing goodness when they saw the rich land God was giving them. Nothing irritates me more than to have people make foolish charges against God.I was-had a young man come in when we were back over in the little chapel and he was you know, "God led me do this and God led me to do that and God led me here" and then he's, you know, "God led me out there and I almost starved to death. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. "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. 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). O Lord in Heaven, please in my job and at my workplace I ask for promotion and payment increase in Jesus' name. 18, 19, 12, 13; ^B Mark XI. ^D John VII. We're prone to look at the obstacles. Nobody likes this. Its moral turns on this the only possible way of maintaining relationship with God, namely, obedience; what the nature of that obedience is, and how it is modified; how God graciously takes into account the weakness of those brought into this relationship, and how He provides for His own glory in it. This is precisely what does put man to the proof morally. What better blessing after all can be on earth, except Christ Himself, if indeed it be not a part of Christ, than that life of Christ which walks in obedience? The discourse itself. 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 Lord God of your fathers giveth you. They said, "We have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.". 11-52. What is it that characterises Christianity? 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. The very point of faith, for which we are especially responsible, is what we are in most danger of forgetting under pressure or carelessness. Sihon rushed on them to his own ruin; and only so did Israel smite and dispossess the king of Heshbon. 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. John Edgar McFadyenIntroduction to the Old Testament. That it is said of both, " God spake all these words." *Dr. Davidson (Introd. 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