2. Deuteronomy 1:6. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. Not so. We're always the one that put the restrictions upon what God can do for us. deserved. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt J. Every step in really obeying God puts the man morally to the test, and is more or less attended with severe trial. Monday, April 4, a.d. For instance, a man knows perfectly well that he has no right to steal. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. I'm tempted to smack you in the mouth talking about God that way. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. 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. Ver. What God lays on one He does not necessarily enjoin on another. It was otherwise with Mahomet. It is pentecost. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. 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. 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. 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. 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. Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book." 11). 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. 30.) 8-10. 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. And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. They failed to enter in by faith to that which God had promised to them. They are no longer to go up and take possession of the land, but to turn back and take their journey into the wilderness. We are to observe the statutes and to do them. and we have seen the sons of the Anakims there ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). Even before the law from Abraham's days there certainly was no injunction more solemn or more obligatory than the circumcision of every male child; yet we are assured that no male was circumcised during Israel's wandering for forty years through the wilderness. A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." "Jehovah God that hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt" He was the only God. The broader character of the book, with its aim of bringing forward the people, and consequently the tribal divisions, rather than particular families, fully accounts for this. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. (October, a.d. "Can you call Him Father?" 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. Besides, if these high places had been dedicated to heathen gods, Israel must not dare to consecrate them to the true God. But where is the savage even who does not know the wrongness of stealing? Is it not a beautiful indication of what the true God is, even in His least institutions? "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." When Peter and John came to the Samaritans, and found that they were, 'And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain; 18. Prayer Points for Prosperity. Far from being done with, we know from the word of God that He will maintain the sabbatical rest strictly, and enforce it in the days of the kingdom; so that, if a man does not bow to His authority, he will assuredly come under divine judgment: so much does Jehovah make of it in itself, and so much will He make of it for the obedience of others in the day that is coming. This therefore gives its tone to the book. Is there anything so wholesome! xlv. "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. Thus: God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. "Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned" "we have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight." kind this book, while it does not want allusions to what God had said in all the other books, has, no less than the rest of them, its own peculiar character. I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. Did He warrant Israel to coerce Sihon with threats of vengeance or win by cajolery? Hence the story of the Amorites, as we saw, is given. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. Forever and ever. These feasts made an appeal to a male Israelite which none besides could make. "But the Lord heard the words of your complaining, he was angry and said, "You're not to go in". 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. 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. I pray that by Your grace, I would choose to live a victorious life that trusts Your Word, submits to Your will, and honours Your name in every eventuality of life. 5, 6; 1 Tim. 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. That borders on blasphemy. 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. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. He had compromised Him at a critical occasion, and could not but feel that so it was. Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". May I learn the lessons You desire to teach me so that I may mature in the faith by trusting Your Word and obeying Your commands. The essential revelation of God to us is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Father displayed by the Son, and made known by the Spirit. [Note: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Pentateuch, 3:284.] It was because of this very truth: Jehovah was with them. Was not this a positive promise? Certainly they could not; this Jehovah spreads in the most forcible manner before His people for their cheer and stay. Thus we come to what might be called the direct charges, having done with all the introductory part. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of Egypt." It did not alter their duty, if the antecedent history of Moab and Ammon, just as much as that of Esau, was far from good. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. Tempting God was to doubt Him, as many, all of us, are apt to do. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. His Father will take care of him. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. Some there are, no doubt, who assume that God has not in these things expressed any will of His, own. "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." Men have reasoned with great detail, especially in recent years, enquiring how all this could be done in the desert by a people who found it hard enough to pass unscathed themselves, though they had Jehovah their God with them to feed them with angels' bread, and water if need were from the rock. India, China, Africa, etc., - he knows them all, yet he says, "Go in and possess.". But they saw the giants in the land and the high-walled cities instead of God. Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. 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. And Israel bow to the will of their God. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. There is another remark to be made. Is not this in wonderful harmony with the rest, following on the confession of the one true God of Israel? In short, whatever it be to which God summons us is precisely what the devil endeavours to obscure, and so to hinder our testimony. 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 . We see that what has been remarked is just what is expressed in this verse: "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only," (what exercise of faith was there in that?) "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them." "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. 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. 35; xxxii. 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. It is not the liberty of grace, which the feast of pentecost is, but rather the epoch in type when the liberty of glory shall arrive. With this then most fittingly He begins. In Deuteronomy 15:1-23 we find a similar principle as to the year of release. Need one point out how suited all this is for the last words of one who was just about to depart? 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. 2. Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. Giants had dwelt there in times past, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims. (Gen. Xlix. They must learn not to seek what God would not give them. 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? 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 ). Grace has brought us out of the condition of a nation in the flesh or of men in the earth. Nothing of the sort. ^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. (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. 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. 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 to all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them ( Deuteronomy 1:2-3 ); So, there's an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadeshbarnea to the beginning of entering into the Promised Land, but they have been journeying for forty years and eleven months on an eleven-day journey. 11-52. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. British Library, Harleian MS. 5596. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. It is not the Jewish people in the school of Jehovah to manifest what was in their heart, and what He was towards them; but the people strengthened by Jehovah in presence of a power mightier than their own. They said, "We have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.". Shake it Up De 1:6 "The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. "Reckon ye your old man to be dead with Christ. Now, shut up". Appendix ii. The fact of Esau's pride and contempt of Israel gave them no license to take their land. 226-228.) Now recognizing my weakness, I'm crying for power outside of myself. our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we.". [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. "We turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed Mount Seir many days. iv. 12). That is the point to do God's will. Your fruit baskets and breadboards. You may not possess all of your possessions and yet, if you spend your life roaming in the wilderness it's not God's will, it's not his desire, but he will be with you there and help you there. xlv. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. See Romans 8:15. 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. 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 ). He knew fully that Jehovah was doing nothing but what was for His own glory; how could His servant then find fault? 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." Who shall deliver me from this bondage to my flesh?" Still more since Christ: misused ordinances are practically the same thing in principle, asGalatians 4:1-31; Galatians 4:1-31 teaches. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. 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). 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. 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. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? Ye have dwelt long enough, c. They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, Exodus 19:1-2 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise. 1. Not that I doubt the sabbath-day to be of the deepest possible moment, and so lasting in its claims that, when the millennium comes, that day of rest will be in full force again. Consequently we have these three feasts, which set forth particularly Jehovah providing to fill the heart of His people with peace and joy to overflowing, Yet at the first of these feasts Israel were not told to rejoice. Then follows the appointment, iv. Is this what you read? He wanted to leave them his blessing nay, he wanted them to have the best blessing that God could give them. But it was not a question here of truth or its forms, but of obedience: this is ever in view. 7). 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. 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. The first chapter takes cognizance of themselves; the second chapter puts them to the test in the presence of other people. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? The consequence is that, though all have their place, these distinctions may here seem small indeed. And some of them were slain because they presumed to go without the presence of God. 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. (I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the Mount.)" It is granted that they did not all perish in the same way, but they all fell in the wilderness. "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. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the, (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." The tragedy of unbelief, verse thirty-two.Now, I love this. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. ii. 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. We have to consider whether we are undertaking it out of some human desire of heroism. It is not the people's consecration to God, but their discipline, the trial of heart, and exercise by the way to which Jehovah subjected the people; and a most instructive section it is in this point of view. In such a case there is no room for will, nor sparing of the heart. If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. What did it matter about all others? Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. It appears to be a fresh discourse to a certain extent. Moses says, "We turned," not "Ye," merely. [Note: Peter C. Craigie, The Book of Deuteronomy, p. The fixed use of the name Horeb to designate the mountain group in general, instead of the special name Sinai, which is given to the particular mountain upon which the law was given, is in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book. Genesis 39: 2-6. And yet the inability to bring the flesh into conformity with the spirit of God. It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. Next we see what was the fact when they did go up spite of the warning of God to fight the Amorites. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." They might be greater, stronger, wiser, more than the Israelites; but what of Jehovah? There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. He's looking now outside of himself for the help. This too explains why the book of Deuteronomy is made use of in the New Testament in so very striking a manner, and in circumstances so eminently critical. It was only eleven days journey from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, and about the same from Kadesh to the plains of Moab where the people now were, but they had taken forty years to get there. In Deuteronomy 6:1-9, . 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. Such is the fertile topic which we find throughout the book. And what was the Lord's answer? 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. If God had held to the terms of that covenant, never could the people have found their way into Canaan; but God was pleased to bring in fresh terms by a way which will be shown before we have done with this sketch of Deuteronomy; and it was simply and solely because of those fresh terms of mercy which God Himself brought in of His own grace that Israel entered there. May we not forget it ourselves! He and other sacred authors are to be regarded as nothing more than representatives of the intelligence of their age in relation to the Deity. This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the Law and were organised as a church militant, an army encamped around the tabernacle of God. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. 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. 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. When things aren't going right, I hear people sometimes make very foolish charges against God. Rekam, and that Double. In the very first place is laid down utter destruction of the high places. It is evident that they are somehow or another connected with God, and touch matters of religion, as men would say. He that believes may calmly confide in God under all circumstances. Such conversion does not suit God, who must have His own. Thus was kept up a thorough sense of discipline in the people, and above all dependence on and confidence in Jehovah. The spring of obedience was wanting. 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. The section summarizes events recorded in greater detail in Numbers 10:11-42. It is the design of the book which governs the description in each case. 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. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, with the institution of the cities where the manslayer might find refuge. "Why would God leave there and then you know, dump me?" "O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me?" 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. When such a death is really before one in service, then perhaps the difficulties would be incomparably more felt; for the Lord does not call to such a course or end to gratify human nature, or to give an opportunity for glorifying man, but always for His own glory. 8). How many one has known who would have liked much to be martyrs! vol. Hence, I need not say, there is peculiar solemnity in its character. 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. Deuteronomy 31:1 "And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel." "Moses went and spake": Though some interpreters view this verse as the conclusion to the foregoing address in (chapters 29-30), it is better to see these words as an introduction to the words of Moses which follow, based upon the general pattern of Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy 9:1-29 another topic is prominent. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. 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. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. (The Pent. But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. 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