Tag: Deuteronomy

For the Jews there can be no greater prophet than Moses until they come to accept Christ who was greater than Moses as the author of everything Moses did for the people.

There is verity in the concept of the Lord release—that every seven years all debts among the people of Israel should be forgiven and that they should not be stingy in giving when those release years were coming soon. This law was to remain in effect until there were no poor among them. Also, when…

Two things stood out to me. First, the Lord knew that the people would come to abandon His law and made provision that they should remember his prophecy regarding that in the form of a children’s song. Second, that desire being 120 years old Moses was still hale and hearty when the people entered the…

I was unsurprised to find the cursings for disobedience mirroring the blessings for obedience for the children of Israel.

I never realized before how the Lord stipulated that the people of Israel should receive the law by covenant, by individual assent, when they came into the promised land.

The Lord promised that there is enough and to spare in the world. His laws to His people regarding how to live exemplify that principle as they are told to leave some to spare for those in need. They are told to not seek to maximize their gain but to leave for the poor to…

Notice how the Lord requires His people to deal justly. Aside from the nations they were commanded to destroy he requires that before attacking any city they offer peace to the city – those in the city can surrender and be spared. They can only make war on people who have refused the offer of…

It is interesting to hear the laws of how the people were to live. When they released servants they were to do so providing those servants with goods to set them up. They were to be mindful of strangers, widows, the poor and the fatherless. They were directed to explicitly leave good in the field…

After hearing what Moses said about them not receiving the land because if their own righteousness the people must have been in one of two camps – either they were humbled or they were guilty. Moses’s warning was meant to keep them from being proud of their own accomplishment and following the the footsteps of…

Moses reiterated to the people the commandments they had been given so that they could remember what was meant to set them apart from other people.