"Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life." In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. 2. It is a call to obedience. Fr. But then Moses reminds them how that they got together and said, "Oh, we've sinned against God. Deuteronomy 1:6. Begin to move forward in your spiritual development, in your spiritual life. 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. That is the point to do God's will. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. Help me to make the right choices as I continue along the path of life. 17; 1 Kings Lewis BaylyThe Practice of Piety, The Mountainous Country of Judea. "Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you. Giants had dwelt there in times past, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims. But there never was a system that more thoroughly pandered to the evil heart of man, and gratified it in its violence against others, and in its corrupt lusts for itself, than that frightful imposture. Genesis 39: 2-6. Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". The chief point to observe is that there was not a spirit of obedience in the people, and this they lacked because there was no faith in God. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. And it is always our unbelief that places the limitations upon the work that God is seeking to do in our lives. For when severed from Christ then those ordinances only became a snare to men. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. 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. 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. The life that God wants you to live, a life of victory, a life of overcoming. Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. Indeed he could not have written either in its present form, because that in Exodus is Jehovistic, and older than the record in Deuteronomy. Those who persist in hardening themselves must indeed be destroyed; but not by us. 21 et seqq.) They had been bondmen themselves; and if they had been delivered of God, they should cultivate the same spirit as He had shown. As God loved Moses, so Moses confided in God. *Nothing can be weaker than the harping on the phrase "the priests the Levites," as in the writings of Davidson and Colenso (following the superficial scepticism of foreign authors, who themselves followed the old Deists of our own country). This is a solemn lesson that there may be a thorough spirit of disobedience at the very time that people talk of doing whatever God is pleased to command. 35; xxxii. 3. [Note: Craigie, p. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. Pray it during the day too. "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 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. Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. Then they are told not to celebrate the feast indiscriminately where and as they please. 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. "Ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire in the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. "6. Thank Him for bringing you through the land of your [proverbial] enemies, for your enemies stood between you and the Promised Landand now you are that much closer to crossing over into the Promised Land. Ver. Whatever then the blows which fell on Sihon, or on Og, or on any of the others; whatever the ways of God with Moab and Ammon afterwards, or even with Egypt, there never was seen such unsparing strictness as with Israel. If we have," &c. In the same sceptical spirit follows Dr. Colenso. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. There the nation enjoyed a season of rest, ratified its covenant with God, received the Law, constructed a sanctuary, and was otherwise equipped and organized. II. Ver. 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 ). Listen, God'll take you all the way if you'll just believe Him and trust Him for it. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. 16); yet it has pleased his majesty to reveal himself to us in his word, so far as our weak capacity can best conceive him. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. We hear of sin and trespass-offerings, peace and burnt-offerings, meat-offerings and drink-offerings, not to speak of the daily lambs and occasional victims. Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. The remembrance of their own estate as slaves in Egypt till delivered by Jehovah is most suitable in verse 15; but it is certain that this is an appeal to their hearts, not the ground stated by God in promulgating the fourth commandment. 39; vi. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there." The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. 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. A great auditory, no question, he had, as many as could crowd within hearing, and particularly all the elders and officers, the representatives of the people; and, probably, it was on the sabbath day that he delivered this to them. See Romans 8:15. They are then shown what may or may not be eaten, whether beasts, fishes, or fowls. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. ". 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. The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. He was just being led by his own mind. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. They could take possession of no lands whatever of their own will. Prayer Points for Prosperity. 11-52. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. Every part of my life is BLESSED! We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? We'll go in, we'll take the land". In this Second Narration, Moses expressly declares that God not only gave them a visible sign, by uplifting the cloud, but that He also verbally commanded the people to leave Mount Sinai, and to set about the performance of the rest of their journey. At the same time there is the gracious bringing in of God, and of what was suited to the people of God, when ruin was there. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. 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. A few, however, think that the record in Deuteronomy is the more exact, because when Moses recorded the words in Exodus he had heard the decalogue pronounced; whereas, when he repeated it in Deuteronomy, it was in his hands, inscribed in permanent letters. On the other hand, there is no mercy but ruthless severity always served out to those who refuse to fraternise, not to speak of ceaseless enmity to those who condemn and oppose. In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. He may not at all have understood at the moment what was working in the people; but all is told out. Although there were eleven days journey before them before they would arrive at Kadesh-barnea, nevertheless, lest anything should delay the people, who were naturally but too indolent, tie stimulates them by setting before them the ease with which it might be accomplished, telling them that they had but to lift up their feet and advance, in order to attain the promised rest. May I quickly confess my faults and choose life (to the saving of the soul) and not death. 7. 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. Yet they complained against him and refused to go with him into the land he had chosen for them (19-33). Next we see what was the fact when they did go up spite of the warning of God to fight the Amorites. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. The children of Moab had had their wars. But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. Coming to the Valley of Eshcol, searching it out and taking the fruit and bringing it back. They possess that inimitable solemnity which cannot be so much uttered in words as felt in the general bearing of the book. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. * So difficult is it to unbelief that some take the ground of making Deuteronomy belong to an older age when the distinction of priests from Levites was not yet brought in. They were the dues He demanded in virtue of His position as landlord of the people in the land. Accordingly the very large introduction is an address to the people for the purpose of enforcing these claims. Prayer Point #3: Pray for Those Being Persecuted Because of the Gospel. Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. 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. 4; iv. 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. Such is the sceptic's puny effort to lower the character and credit of scripture. 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. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing. It's yours." Such then is the early and remarkably striking introduction to the book. For the LORD your God which goes before you, shall fight for you, according to all that he did in Egypt before your eyes; And yet you went in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God ( Deuteronomy 1:29-32 ). 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. What was meant by this? It is well to remark here that verse 24 is exactly parallel with verse 13; that it is not Moses in verse 13, but Jehovah who commands to "rise up," etc., in both; and that verses 10-12 are a parenthesis of instructive past history for moral profit like verses 20-23. But God, in fact, is always left out of the calculations of unbelief. Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God, who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day." But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. 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. 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. Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Prayer Paraphrased - - I am blessed in the city and I`m blessed in the field! In the delight of His people He delights. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. Undoubtedly the gatherings in of the corn and the wine (that is, the harvest and the vintage) are the well known types of God's final dealings: the harvest when He separates the wheat from the chaff, or at any rate from that which is not wheat; and the vintage when He executes unsparing judgment upon the vine of the earth upon all religion that is vain and denies heaven. The wish emanated neither from God nor His servant but from the people, though Moses, at God's command, did send them to the ruin of that generation, as it turned out And it has been well remarked on the one hand, that he graciously omits to repeat God's offer to make himself a fresh stock after their destruction but for his intercession; while on the other he confesses how he, no less than their fathers, had grieved Jehovah, so that he was not to lead them into the land any more than they, but to give that place of honour to Joshua. In the tenth day of the first month of the forty-first year, they crossed Jordan into the Promised Land after mourning the death of Moses for thirty days. Setting up other gods in the wilderness. 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. It is strange how little we know of the personal history of the greatest of uninspired Jewish writers of old, though he occupied so prominent a position in his time. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." Prayer Point #5: Pray for Israel. In Deuteronomy 3:1-29 it is substantially similar with Bashan. We luxuriate in retired communion, in restful fellowship with God, in converse with fellow-believers, in Church ordinances; and we think how sweet it would be if this could always last. Help me reach greater heights. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. And then comes the exhortation to beware of corrupting themselves by idolatries, by the likeness of any creature. Our, (October, a.d. It is very improbable that both proceeded from one and the same writer, because on the principle of strict literality of language he contradicts himself. Heavenly Father, thank You for this important lesson. God wants to bring you on into the walk of the spirit and the life of the spirit and a life that is dominated by the spirit. "( Romans 6:6 ) Paul the apostle said, "I am crucified with Christ" ( Galatians 2:20 ). There must be times of getting, of learning, of consulting for one's own edification, else it will go hard with us in the work and battle of life. Monday, April 4, a.d. (Deuteronomy 1:22-23) In the same manner an important social arrangement is declared to have been made by Moses at the suggestion of Jethro his father-in-law, who says in prophesying, 'If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able,' etc. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. Moses himself had the deepest sense of the situation, but in no way as one who distrusted Jehovah, for he had well learned to count on His love. 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. 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. That was a tragedy of failure on their part and it was a failure of faith. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, with the institution of the cities where the manslayer might find refuge. Where the world or the flesh governs, the trial is not felt. It is the king's mountain." "Is He then indeed your Father?" 4; iv. There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. There, even were it the family gathered in such a sort as this within their gates, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, all have their part. What shall we wear?These kinds of things, and in that we differ nothing from the heathen, from the animals. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. No compulsion was used to the nations outside. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. And so they departed from Horeb. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. 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. Psalm 42 It reinforces his earlier exhortations in Deuteronomy 7:12-15 and 28:2-12. And this is another chapter from which our Lord quotes when tempted, to which we may refer in passing. We are to observe the statutes and to do them. The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. For he had himself told them to go up into the land; but they begged spies to search it first. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. 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. 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. Moses says, "We turned," not "Ye," merely. Moses mentions how the saying pleased him: here things are stated exactly as they were. We're always the one that put the restrictions upon what God can do for us. They were "a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead." 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 . Of course it is, God went before you and prepared you that place and then led you to it so that they could say, "All the way my savior leads me. But there is another point peculiar to this book. Tempting God was to doubt Him, as many, all of us, are apt to do. A desire to obey God and to keep the law of God, consenting that it's good, that's the right way, that's the way I want to live; seeing the divine ideal, being attracted by the divine ideal and desiring, longing after it. 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 ). Nothing less. 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. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. What love there was in this, if by any means he might impress obedience on the people that were just going into the land! Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. A disgraceful perversion; for Deuteronomy 10:6-7 is manifestly a parenthesis. Here then they are called to action. I'm tempted to smack you in the mouth talking about God that way. The same Spirit which has the power of miracle is the Spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. ], "The Lords gift of Canaan to Israel (Deuteronomy 1:8) and his command to them to enter and to possess the land began here and was reiterated and emphasized repeatedly in the speeches of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy. Not withstanding [Moses said] you rebelled against the Lord: And you murmured in your tents ( Deuteronomy 1:26-27 ). (Gen. Xlix. 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. Ver. This was a lesson for Israel of prime moment. I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. It is granted that they did not all perish in the same way, but they all fell in the wilderness. Even in the very witness of domestic blessing there must be the largeness of heart that goes out to those who have no friends to care for them. The reason is obvious. 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. To hear someone, you know, making all these accusations against God, horrible things, it's tragic. Nobody likes this. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. 11). Crossed over Jordan finally and began the conquest of the land.So, an interesting little commentary. 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 ). The mount of blessing and the mount of curse were there on the other side Jordan. They said, "We have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.". 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. And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. That it is said of both, " God spake all these words." None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. THE CHURCH'S DESTINY - to possess the land. They were not compelled to take this to the one place that God had consecrated. For instance, it is not everybody that is called to serve God in a public way; nor is everyone called to take a particular step or course which might involve him in trouble and persecution. Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? There was no doubt whatever that Esau had behaved so ill that the children of Israel were not likely to forget it. 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, there is the coming out of the old life, being delivered from the old life, and this new relationship that we experience with God, learning to walk by faith, as we are setting aside the things of the flesh life and are beginning this new walk in the spirit. and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. If one were simply a man, one must have to do with the place and state of Adam fallen. Help me to abide in Christ, knowing that His grace is sufficient for every challenge in life. The Promised Land into which God was bringing them is typical to the glorious life and victory in the spirit. deserved. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. ii. That in Deuteronomy has an amplification corresponding to the style of the book. This becomes the centre for all; and the book of Deuteronomy is founded on that fact, Israel being on the Point of entering into the land. 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." We shall find how thoroughly this applies all through the book to the perplexity of poor proud rationalism, but in itself a simple yet very important truth indeed. He quotes accordinglyPsalms 91:1-16; Psalms 91:1-16, intimating to Jesus that, if He were the Son of God, all He had to do was to throw Himself from the pinnacle of the temple; and all must endorse His claims. All this then precedes another lesson. We never can duly understand the Old Testament unless in the light of the New; and if there is anyone who is personally and emphatically "the light," need it be said that it is Jesus? There are deeper feelings in the heart than joy. iv. The Church, as one with Christ, shares in his kingdom, and shall yet inherit the whole earth. 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? So it habitually is where the faith is real; but nature is not yet judged root and branch. 4. "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.' Then follows the appointment, iv. This was their boast. 1. Jehovah your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. 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. "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. Appendix ii. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. 35; xxxii. The land was straight before them, and they might, as far as that was concerned, have gone in and taken possession of it at once. 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. will be blessed. To what were they always inclined? Let me ask, Why were there these three feasts, and these three only? 2. 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. This seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. He did not assume knowledge of Israels history that is independent of the biblical account nor did he recount events previously unrecorded. "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. 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. 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