Tag: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 16The timing of the feast of tabernacles and the feast of weeks were both related to the harvest. The feast of weeks being seven weeks after the beginning of harvest and the feast of tabernacles being seven days after the end of harvest. The commandment that judges shall not respect persons is an injunction…

Deuteronomy 14 – 15I notice that all physical desires are being described as lust here – that seems to blur the distinction between natural desires for food etc. and excessive or unhealthy desires. Lending money is a way to rule over others but borrowing is a form of servitude. Until there are no poor among…

Deuteronomy 13When we act too casually to any form of wickedness we send a message that it is acceptable to some degree. It is interesting to watch our society where individuals may express outrage at horrific crimes but our judicial system has been watered down to the point that we have come to accept virtually…

Deuteronomy 12The Canaanites, like most peoples I expect, built groves and alters and other places for religious rites wherever they felt like doing so. The Lord commands that His people perform their religious ceremonies only where He designates. While they have been in the wilderness they have been permitted to build altars wherever they thought…

Deuteronomy 11Somehow I had got into the habit of thinking that those who actually entered the promised land of the house of Israel did not include any who had personal memories of the plagues and wonders of Egypt. I realize that many of those who were children in Egypt, for example 15 years old or…

Deuteronomy 10I am really wondering about the history of the tribe of Levi. How did they do at keeping the commandments? How well did they preserve their priesthood? It is easy to imagine that they did not do very well about that based on how the rest of the tribes left off keeping the law.…

Deuteronomy 9Wow! Moses tells the people to not think they were brought into this land because they were righteous in order to disposess the people who lived there before them. It is because of the wickedness of the previous inhabitants that the land was cleared, not because of the righteousness of Israel. Israel got the…

Deuteronomy 8Fourty years in the wilderness and their clothing never wore out, nor did their feet swell; these things demonstrate how the Lord blesses His people in subtle but valuable ways.

Deuteronomy 7God keeps His covenants with those that love Him to a thousand generations – that is the whole history of the earth. The people were promised that there would be no woman among them who was barren – the Mills’ would love that promise.

Deuteronomy 6I had not realized that when Christ answered the question about the greatest commandment he was quoting Moses. I had thought he was summarizing the first four commandments in a way that the Pharisees could not dispute. He did not quote Moses for the second commandment which is why they questioned Him on that…