Deuteronomy (Session 2) Chapters 3-4

okay we are in session two in her expiration of the book of Deuteronomy and we'll be covering chapters three and four in this session Deuteronomy chapter three and we turned and went up now me recall of in chapter one Moses is giving a sermon summarizing their history near the end of the 40-year period he is recounting a lot of history and and so he's describing it in present tense as it's happening but he's actually reflecting back and they what they've gone after they've wandered the wilderness somewhat they've gone up east of the Jordan going north through Edom through moab and now through to Bashan which we would considered like the Golan Heights area we turned and went up the way bhishan and OGG the king of Bashan came out against us he and all his people to battle at it right they have just defeated sigh horn there's two major kings that are going to count for most of the remnant of the ref I mean the residual Nephilim II fear if you will and by the way during the break there are some questions about this so there isn't any confusion the Nephilim were the hybrid offspring the fallen angels and the women that gave rise to the flood and the Nephilim at that time were disposed of through the flood and the angels that had participated that were put in a special judgment second Peter 2 and Jude talk about that but just as chapter 6 verse 4 it was also this also occurred after that so apparently we don't have any record of it but apparently after the flood there were some other fallen angels that indulged in the same kind of thing to develop a form of Nephilim fallen ones that are called Anakim rephaim by several different tribal names that populated that region Satan's apparent intent was to thwart God's plan and create a minefield for the to obstruct God's program for the descendants of Abraham let's move on here though so now we're moving up and there's two primary King Simon we dispose of him at the last part of last chapter and now we have this guy the king of Bashan he came out against the sea and all his people to battle in the dry and the Lord said unto me fear him not for I will deliver him and all his people in his land into thy hand and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto sihon the king of the amorite s' which dwelt at Hezbollah here is a map to give you some geography here just to give you a rough feeling here we've got sion further south is Moab and then further north is is is the bhishan and it dry is about 30 miles just east of the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee if you want just to give you a rough picture of all of this okay the king of the amber i'ts that was signed the guy we just dealt with he had the K he had the country east of the Jordan from Arnon to the Jobbik about 1,500 square miles and he was defeated psy and his sons and all his people smitten with a sword his wall towns were captured and the entire country of the M rites was taken possession by the Israelites this occurred at the end of the last chapter just by way of review aughh the king of the Giants he was the amorite king of Bashan ruling about 60 cities and about 3,000 square miles about twice the area of Sion he was of a different race we understand of the remnant of the Giants the ref aim before the amorite scam a preceding group the amorite s-- by intermarriage with the regime were quote in height like that of the cedars and strong as the Oaks according to Amos two nines is one of these political allusions to these people he's going to perish with all his people and the dry and Israel will take his land so are the king of the Giants but I want you to understand that the region of Bashan is a region associated with these strange goings-on and I think it has echoes even to this day let's move on verse 3 so the Lord God delivered into our hands aaaghh also the king of Bashan and all his people and we smote him until none was left to him remaining we took all his cities at that time there was not a city which which we took not from them threescore cities all the regions of our God the king of odd and Bashan now they came across this rock barrier our gob it's a very about it's like a basalt island there it's about 60 miles by 20 miles rising abruptly 30 feet above the the general terrain providing a very difficult get to but that gave it security that was his pain hold out if you will and if he if he had stayed in there it's unlikely that Israel could have dislodged him but he was foolish enough to come out and they nailed him and they got him and so on so we'd have to get it all that I guess all these cities were offense with high walls gates and bars inside on wall towns a great many inside this area we already destroyed those who did under site on the king of Heshbon I don't destroying the men women and children of every city but all the cattle in the sprawl the cities we took a pray to ourselves and so again it's just like silent oook the took advantage of it and the trust of the soldiers in the Word of God contrasts with her unbelieving forebears that have passed away the rulers these guys are trusting God and so forth and so we'll talk more about the about the destruction of all these people we get to chapter 7 we'll deal that is topic and we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the EM writes the land that was on this side of the Jordan from the river of our nan to Mount Hermon verses 8 through 11 in this area really summarized the conquest of the the territory by these two Transjordan Kings Sion and awed and so the Israelites needed them as encouragement if you will and reminders of God's past faithfulness do you imagine how they felt they had a real victory and we're encouraged and so this clearly was a you know encouraging victory and which Herman the cydonia is called Syria and the Emirates called Cine air all the cities of plane and all the Gilead and Alba SH and under salka and n dry the cities of freedom of the Augen Bashan and only the odd king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Giants behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron is it not and revolve the children nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it after the cubit of a man a cubit is the elbow to the fingertip its nominally about 18 inches give or take a few depending on what authority you look at but you're talking something at the bed that's six feet wide not long slide and nine actually thirteen and a half feet long nine Cubans do the math so uh now there are some scholars that don't quite buy into all this and they say well that was probably not as bad it was really a sarcophagus it was just a large coffin well you know it takes more imagination to be a disbeliever than anyhow number one there is as you go to the Galan Heights there is there are I should say some monuments that have never been excavated and this is an aerial photograph of one called the Gilgal roughly in Gilgal being a circle of the rephaim and my wife and i had the privilege with a friend to get a 4x4 and head up into that region at the time there were artillery shells landing about a thousand yards away they were training he wasn't after us it were they were training but still it was kind of kind of exciting but it's interesting that this is never been excavated and it it's there five circles that made a point on stones about 105 meters diameter it's dated to about 3000 BC it's built on a flat plateau you can only see what it how it's you organize from the air it's why I got that for aerial photograph it's about 10 miles from Astaroth Kearney and it's a there's a losses justice 14 Joshua 12 and Chris Chronicle six there's another one less distinct than the bataya ruins which also has not been excavated that NGO that date back to you know several thousand BC so these are all remnants of the roughing these strange tribes that populated the region so here in the early early history now this issue of the Bulls of Bashan I just want to leave you with something to puzzle if you've done some homework in demonology and do know that this is a strange territorial aspect to demon behavior we noticed that by the very fact that the areas that the roughly more defeated are still troubled to this day it wasn't there's some interesting issues so there's a strange phrase that occurs apparently from Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross if you studied Psalm 22 you've discovered that it reads as if it's dictated first person singular is he hung on the cross he looks down and even quotes what people are saying and it's just a incredibly dramatic portrayal of Jesus I hung on the cross I come into your study I won't take the time here to develop that because we have to keep moving here but I encourage us to read the song he talks about his hands and feet being pierced which is remarkable because that was 700 years before crucifixion was invented it was invented by the Persians about 100 BC and adopted widely by the Romans of course but this is now this is 800 years and this is 800 BC this is the Psalms the discouraged and yet described it so vividly in the fact there's articles in medical journals describing we'll move on but there's one phrase in Psalm 22 thoughts about my not a bone being broken they pierced my hands and my he goes to all esse there's one phrase in there in verse 12 where Jesus apparently says that many Bulls have compass me strong Bulls of Bashan have beset me round not happens at that area the Bashan area the Golan Heights is is an area for cattle racing so many people presume that this somehow is just an idiom is Bulls of Bashan is it is just a term for a very big bull maybe or something there people have conjectures but you see what you got to do with all these things you got to look at it in the Hebrew that's what was written in the first place right and the word that is a beer which is translated bold actually means the mighty ones it's used of valiant people men angels sometimes of animals enemies and princes so it's not just Bowl like a cattle trendabl it's a broader term than that some kind of mighty enemy the Bulls of Bashan have encompassed me around I'm beginning to suspect that what that is an allusion to are the demons around the cross not happy with what's going on because their victory is being assured by that by God's master plan the real import of this verse obviously has to take its significance from really understanding what's really been going on in Bashan and who aughh a king of Bashan really and so forth I'll leave you that to that to study on your own lets us move on verse 12 and this land which he possessed at that time from her which is by the river arnon half Mount Gilead and the cities thereof gave I add to the rubra nights and to the gates remember the two and a half tribes it chose to remain east of the Jordan reuben gad and half of the tribe of manasseh remember that that's what you can start talking to about here I gave the this particular I gave to the room nights the gadites and the rest of Gilead and Oliver Shawn being the Kingdom dog gave ion to the half tribe of manasseh all the regions of our God with all the Bashan which was called get this the land of the Giants so while those were around everywhere somehow this region is particularly identified as the land of the ref ie or the Giants The Walking Dead ji are the son of Manasseh took all the country of our job and the coasts of Gary and the McCarthy and and called and called them after his own name bhishan have of' the air unto this day and I gave Gilead animaker so he's dividing the property among those warriors that were particularly outstanding Jer was a descendant of Manasseh you singled out for special mention here and because of his courage and capturing that whole region of our God and Bashan and that's all of numbers 32 among other places and so the result the area's named after him and likewise makeer that he's the sub tribe of the Manasseh was given to the rest of Gilead because they'd conquered that territory this is numbers again and 32 is the is the this is echoing into the Reuben I to the gannets I gave from Gilead even unto the river arnon half the valley and the border even unto the river Jobbik which is the border of the children Ammon and the plain also in the Jordan and the coast thereof and kynareth the kynareth is the early name for what we call the Sea of Galilee kynareth is a harp and should heart-shaped things so we're not getting as Erdogan says anyway point is even up to the seat of the plane even the salt sea under ash God visca Easter and I command you at that time saying the Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it you shall pass over armed before your brethren of the children of Israel all that are meat for the war but your wives your little ones and your cattle for I know that you have much cattle shall abide new cities which I have given you in other words okay guys you can stay here at least the Jordan but I'm still counting on you when we conquer the land your wires have to join the nation when we fight after that seven-year campaign under Joshua we conquer the land then you can go home you leave it wives and children at home the young ones but he's counting he's giving them a concession to they like the looks of this land so they'd like to have this this high ground called what we call the Golan Heights but the cost of that you've got you can't get out your military duty you've got to join the nation in its Wars conquering the land under Joshua that'll go on for seven years it turns out but when that's all accomplished then you can go home in the net land yours okay that's the deal and the owner of that deal they do that probably a mistake by the way because they picked that out early but it's also the first area to be conquered by the Assyrians because they were always separated they're always east of the Jordan there's there's a lot of misunderstandings that occur in things but to get water go over but still anyway okay until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God have given them beyond the Jordan and then shall you return every man unto his possession which I have given you so that's the deal I commanded Joshua at that time saying thine eyes have seen all of the Lord your God have done unto these two kings so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whether thou pass it so a lot of what's going on here with the Sion and OGG in effect is not encouraging the troops in general it's also strengthening the resolve of Joshua who's going to take Moses place and so uh so this by Moses encouraging Joshua he's also obeying God's commands s what God told Moses to do is to encourage Joshua he's doing that and so forth because he's obviously distinguished himself you shall not fear them for the Lord your God he shall fight for you and I besought the Lord at that time say Oh Lord God thou has begun to show thy servant thy greatness and I mighty hand for what God is there in heaven or on earth that can do according to the Cork's and according to thy might no kiddin you know it's a it's interesting God had told Moses that he's not going to enter the land but now with all this encouragement you sort of get the impression that Moses is thinking that gee maybe he's changed his mind your God can do anything and I mean look at that he's doing here just maybe see and you have begun to show your servant the great your greatness well the this probably refers to God's omnipotence in defeating Sion dog but it's probably allusion to the more recent events rather than looking back 40 years to the exodus and so Moses may be thinking that gee maybe there's a change of heart made the Lord will let me you know out of the penalty box no he doesn't by the way but the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes and he would not hear me well what I mean you're not hearing a good what's implied in these in these praises is that he's hoping the guys will change his mind about him and Ernie land but you wouldn't he would not hear me and the Lord said unto me let it suffice ly speak no more unto me of this matter you know I like that because the the Hebrew sentence by the way implies that Moses had kept asking God for permission and God became furious that's an intensive firm of a bar and then I be used to trying to angry it's even stronger term so on the one hand you got the president Mosley was trying and he got turned down but tell you something else you do get the impression there's an intimacy between him and the Lord he especially Lord to foreign enough already I don't don't bring it up again on the one hand it's a put-down and it also speaks to the relationship they had it was face to face it was you know together there are some passages in the scriptures some with Moses some with Abraham which you almost have to read with a New York accent you know there's a certain hood spot involved you know how often the mostly I didn't ask for this job you gave me these people no you idiot and Abraham in Genesis 18 you know Ernest the 19 what if there's you know 10 righteous or you know the 30 writes in here he negotiates even to the point of pushing his luck right down to the end and you almost have to see those scenes where the real ethnic coloration to really get the flavor of it and Moses in the same way is this these both Abraham and Moses are very Jewish and I'm not trying to be flippant or anything it's just is this interesting anyway but here God says enough already you know let it suffice they speak no more up took me of this manner which reminds me of something else you know I can remember a banana and I were attending a live presentation in London I think it was of fiddler on the roof and during the intermission a couple in Provost turned to us and says you know my husband and I are raised in a Jewish home and we have a tough time following the humor of this musical and how can you follow this you're not Jewish are you because yeah but me and I were there with our two little blonde headed kids and and I just can't we didn't look you know Jewish are you and the Lord is no but the God we worship is he and it's interesting remember as we talk about Jewish things our Messiah is a Jewish Messiah he's the king of Israel you know he's a king of the Jews again we need to remember that among other things anyway then are you going on you get the up onto the top of Pisgah lift up mine eyes east westward northward southward and eastward and beholding with ionize for thou shalt not go over this sword so in other words God saying you gather the hill look in all directions that's great get a good look cuz that's it buddy you know you're not going across the Jordan and but charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him for he shall go over before this people he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shall see and we abode in the valley overt against death they are and no Beth they are is a most couldn't lead the people and so God reminded him his responsibility to get Joshua ready for all of us and Joshua's succession is going to be a major theme throughout the book of Deuteronomy this is the third diamond to be mentioned in only three chapters by the way so that ends that chapter let's go to chapter four we're making a good time on this one now therefore hearken or Israel unto the statutes and up to the judgments which I teach you to do them that you may live and go in and possess the land which Lord the god of our your father's there's that phrase again giveth you see the words now therefore hearken they introduced the practical conclusion see Moses has been recounting all this is old news to them they just lived to these he's recounting history this isn't the first time all this is if you're at this point in Deuteronomy you've read about all this in earlier chapters of the Torah Moses just recounting all this why to lead to practical conclusions you and I want to be alert all the way through this book what are the practical conclusions for you and I we have to be able to answer the so what questions okay that's interesting what's that got to do with me be alert to that because that's why it's here it is here for you alright Paul has said in Romans 15 for whatsoever things are written aforetime were written for our learning that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope so every detail in the Torah even in Leviticus as you probably experienced you go through it with us is there for you and you and I you shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you diminish aught from it or some of our seminaries would pay attention to that verse you shall not add unto the word which I command you and neither shall you diminish aught from it that you may be that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you the second verse of chapter 4 it ought to be put on a plaque and every seminary all the way through here the emphases are going to be our responsibility to be obedient now statutes decrees the NIV our rules of conduct statutory laws which are immutable judgments which are called laws in the NIV here are maybe 40 case laws decisions handed down by the elders by God's to court correction so forth we're not gonna split hairs about what makes statutes and judgments these things are technically different but they have the same impact of effect okay okay verse 3 your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of bail pillar and for all the men that followed Bay off par and the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you now what happened at bale PR you need to understand because it's an illustration from Israel's own history that their lives their very lives depend on obeying God's law at bale pillar the all the Israelites that entered into physical and spiritual adultery with the Moabitess were put to death by the sword or died to plague 24 thousand died in that plague and on the other hand those that held fast the Lord they lived this is all numbers 25 it's also mentioned in Psalm 106 and Hosea 9 and the reason I mentioned it here and another reason it's the key to understanding Revelation chapter 2 the letter to pergamus because it speaks of the doctrine of Balaam Balaam was a prophet that was hired by Balak the adversary king and he didn't curse Israel like the king paid him to do he wouldn't do that but he apparently did tip off the king that the way to get that as long as God is with Israel you can't beat him but the way you get God to turn on this was to get Israel to sin the way in Israel sin is to have your sexiest girls go along the fringes of their land and mix with the guys and pretty soon they'll be be adultery and fornication and also spiritual fornication and then God will turn against of youin and so they did that well God dealt with that then you need to understand that background not just because the lessons in it intrinsically but you really won't understand the letter to pergamus and what that was all about unless you understand the whole episode with Balaam Balak and all that which all happened the LPR but in any case the point is obedience there the point to Israel here the obedience there was a matter of life and death via slapped on the wrist you didn't get you know put in a in a hundred year life imprisonment or something some other horrible thing they it was it was death obedience was a matter of life and death Israel and should be to uni too but he did that but he that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day that's impressed an impressive conclusion to that argument those that we're hearing him were there because they were faithful behold I have taught you statutes and judgments even the Lord that my God commanded me that ye should do so in the land whether you go to possess it see one of the purposes the laws was to give them a full life and it's they obeyed another purpose of the law is here also revealed to make Israel morally and spiritually unique among the nations to raw other nations into an awareness of the Living God Israel was not distinguished from other nations by its natural resources its wealth or military might but by her moral skill and close relationship to God that was her uniqueness and that's what God wanted to manifest before all the nations of the world that was served that was their mission and that would be to come from obedience to God's purposes so because I'm keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of other nations which shall hear all these statutes that say surely this is a great nation is a wise and understanding people that was God's purpose they were to be a beacon in the dark world for what nation is there so great who have God's so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is and all things that would call upon him for see if if Israel would obey the law she would be the envy of all the nations in the world they would see her as why isn't understanding have a God that is near her and that she possesses the righteous decrees in laws what nation is there so great that half statue judges so righteous is all this law which I have set before you this day see the distinguishing resource of Israel was the law wasn't Natural Resources visuals not known for the oil refineries that litter her land she is getting known to be one of the I think she's the second largest fruit exporter in the entire world little tiny country that's you know that's a third the size of San Bernardino County but the real asset of Israel where they realized it is the law but to make it a resource they've got to obey it to manifest it I'm gonna take you to myself would keep thy soul diligently lest I'll forget the things which thine eyes have seen unless they depart from my heart all the days of my life but teach them thy sons and thy sons son now there's a solemn admonition here to be careful to watch and applies that they constantly face the danger of falling into sin which would bring them to the brink of annihilation as a nation and there's sin of course was idolatry the nation would become idolatrous in two related ways the depravity of the human mind is part of it the depravity human mind seeks idolatry covetousness is idolatry Paul tells us but the other thing that the other threat to them is forgetfulness there's a whole emphasis in the book of Deuteronomy to parents again and again and again you'll discover that the the Torah Deuteronomy in particular hammers away that the duty of teaching the kids are the parents not that not the church not the schools they're their influence is limited the parents are the key Deuteronomy 9 and 10 are going to hammer that away and and well all the way through so and the other thing Amber's away is not forgetting much of what's the in Deuteronomy you already know but Moses main burden is that you don't forget it that you continue to recall it apply it and in your life especially the day the foul status before the LORD thy God in Horeb when the Lord said unto me gather with me the people together and I will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they shall that they may teach their children he came near and stood under the mountain and the mountain burned with fire into the midst of heaven with darkness and clouds and thick darkness you know it's interesting all the people are listening to Moses are the children of the parents have died performing to do this you think me that should that should come home they the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire and he heard the voice of the words but saw no similitude only he heard a voice in other words they heard they heard the sound they didn't see anything in I bought life and declared unto you his covenant which he commanded you to perform even 10 commandments and he wrote them upon two tables of stone interesting things about the two tables of stone there are some scholars that believe but all 10 commandments were on each stone it was customary and something that's really important like a covenant to have two copies and the two tables not a big deal but I just mentioned this - these are things that come as a surprise if you've cited this a lot you stumble something hadn't thought about that before but there's a there's a whole historical argument that the the fact that two tables implies the two copies it's a it's an indication of the sacredness of it but whatever it is we want and the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments that you might do them in the land whither you go over to possess it take you there for good heed unto yourselves for ye saw no manner of civility in the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire unless you corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female the likeness of any beast that is on the earth the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground or likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth and so Moses spelling out the significance of this experience at Horeb that they didn't they didn't want him represented they doesn't did not saying don't make any images at all I think don't represent God by any of these images and as the all the religions of the ancient world we worshiped all kinds of titles and all kinds of shapes ezreal was never to limit God in the conceptions of these things that it would make them corrupt it's interesting the scripture teaches us you become like the things you worship if you worship the world the world is harsh materialistic if you versus the world you'll become harsh materialistic if you worship idols of wood stone whatever you will become like that we become like the gods we worship that's another reason you shouldn't worship them but you should worship Christ the more you worship Christ the more you become like him basic basic dynamic let's move on let's now lift up that eyes into heaven when they'll see us the Sun and the moon the stars even all the host of heaven should be driven to worship them and serve them which the Lord that God has divided in all the nations under the whole heaven so you're supposed to renounce all forms of idolatry they came out of Egypt where all these things are very prevalent in Egypt of course and the fact that Israel was taken out of Egypt as mentioned about 20 times in the book of Deuteronomy but in Egypt Israel is likened like being in a smelting place to remove all the impurities of the idea and because you need position but the Lord hath taken you and have brought you forth out of the iron furnace even out of Egypt to be unto him a people of inheritance as ye are this day furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes and swear that I should not go over Jordan that I should not go in unto that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for inheritance but I must die in this land I must not go over Jordan but ye shall go over and possess that good land it's interesting that these judgments even apply to Moses interesting do you knew he would not make it what he's also saying is he won't be there to enforce theirs staying away from idolatry but God will be godly enforcement taking unto yourselves lest you forget the coming of the Lord your God which he made with you and make you a graven image or likeness of anything which the LORD thy God hath forbidden me for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire even a jealous God when thou shalt beget children and children's children you shall have remained long in the land and shall corrupt yourselves and make a graven image or likeness of anything shall do evil the SATA LORD thy God to provoke him to anger it's a strong warning coming here and I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that ye shall soon utterly perished from awful and ruin we run to you go over Jordan to possess it you shall not prolong your days upon it but shall utterly be destroyed and the Lord shall scatter you among the nations and you shall be left few a number among the heathen where the Lord shall I send you there shall be there shall you serve God's the work of men's hands wood and stone where which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell but if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul when thou art in tribulation and all these things are come upon thee even in the latter days if thou turn to the Lord thy God and shall be obedient to his voice see by the way the latter day is he's that that can refer to any time after the initial dispersions but their ultimate reference is that is the time when the Lord Jesus will return to the earth to establish a thousand-year Kingdom and it may shock you to realize that even Isaiah 53 that whole passage is actually prophetic it hasn't been fulfilled yet yes it alludes to the cross but what's Reed ascribing is the reaction of Israel when they finally wake up and discover that at the end of the tribulation so there's a lot to realize there's lot of prophetic implication then when our are in tribulation all these things that come upon me even in the latter days if thou turn to the Lord thy God and shall be obedient to his voice and by the whets with Hosea 5:15 talks about Hosea 5:15 God says I think Jesus says I will return to my place you know the return he must have left it until they acknowledge their offense and in their affliction they will seek me earnestly the LORD thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee nor forget the Covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them see Israel's final return to the Savior will not be to any goodness of human hearts but rather to their merciful God God is always always to God's credit and the Hebrew word translated merciful that's Rahul the first the tender compassion of a mother towards her helpless infant as there is that is a rhetorical device here so even if Israel forgets her God he will not abandon his morally helpless children because he has the tender compassion of a mother and because he has made an inviolable covenant the fact that the Covenant is enviable is important Genesis 15 17 26 28 and 35 those chapters should be under your command they're critical to understand today you won't understand the daily paper unless you really understand the significance that that land has been promised by us a by God's order both moving on for ask now of the days that are passed which were before these since the day that God created man upon the earth and asked for from one from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there have been any such thing as this great thing or have been heard like it did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire as thou had heard and live the answer through there it's rhetoric of course of course not all right God has saved to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation by temptations by signs by wonders and by war and by mighty hand and by a stretched out arm and by great terrors corner all the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes see the true origin of the redemption of Israel lot of Egypt is not open to other varier to other discussions people may try but they don't make sense all these things the voice of God the miraculous signs and wonders all these deeds the plagues is the pillar of fire the party red seed the manna all that it's clear that it was God who redeemed the Israelites not some shrewd stratagem on their part or not some compassion on the part of Pharaoh no it was God I I often say God showing off I don't want to sound be irreverent but it's it's almost as if he was he was setting the stage to demonstrate just how powerful he is I probably is how committed he is to these people and so it was a deliberate show of strength by the creator of the universe most Canadian unto thee it was showed and that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else beside him not of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee upon the earth he showed these great fire and thou hurt us his words out of the midst of fire and so the purpose of this whole miraculous deliverance is to show Israel not not an issue of intellect but their experience that God is alone and this awesome voice and these these demonstrations were intended to not just instruct their minds but rather to instill a discipline of a moral nature it's a big difference between intellectual assent nearly wholehearted abolition of a commitment and that's what he's after here a spirit of submission and it's not just an intellectual thing because he loved thy father's therefore he chose their seed after them and brought the out in his sight front with his mighty power out of Egypt to drive out nations from before the greater and mightier than thou art to bring V in and give the their land for an inheritance as it is this day so this is a because he because of God's love for them know therefore this day and considered thine heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which I command thee this day then it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee that thou mayest prolong my days upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee for ever for ever that must mean just to the close of the Old Testament beginning the new no no no no forever forever and so that it may go well with it mentioned eight times in this book again emphasizing the motive for obedience then Moses severed three cities on this side of Jordan towards the Sun rising that the Slayer might flee he's talked about the cities of refuge here so there might be there with which should kill his neighbor unawares and hated him not in times past at the fleeing and to one of these cities he might live namely bizare in the wilderness and the plain of the country of aruba nights and ramoth in Gilead of the gates and go on in bhishan of the many sites these are three there were six cities of refuge three east of the Jordan three west of the Jordan and he's recounting that here and these will be discussed later in Deuteronomy anyway this is the law which Moses set before the turn of Israel these are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spake unto the children after they came forth out of Egypt on this side of the Jordan in the valley over against Beth Beth pillar in the land of Sion the king of Emirates who well in heshbon who Moses the children Israel smote after they were come forth out of Egypt and they possessed his land in the land of OGG the king of Bashan the two kings of the emirates which were on this side of the Jordan toward the Sun rising all this is summarizing this is all east of the Jordan we're not into the conquest yet Joshua we'll take care of that and for error which is on the bank of the river arnon even to the Mount Sion which is in Hermon and all the plane on this side of the Jordan eastward even unto the sea of the plane under the springs of Pisgah let's hat stand for a closing word prayer

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