OneYearBibleOnline Discussion

In today's reading from Deuteronomy, we see that Moses has advanced to venerable status and exhorts the people & Joshua regarding his fate and theirs:
1So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. 2And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.' 3The LORD your God himself will go over before you.

... It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed."

Joshua is installed as the new leader of the people:

14And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him."

...I suspect that if Moses hadn't already known of and been resigned to his passing, this might have been a real shocker of a statement

Then something really interesting happens:

9Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi...

..."At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, 11when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, 13and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."

Moses really seems to be setting the stage for the continuing education of the people in the statutes of the LORD and trying to keep a good knowledge and remembrance of it throughout the generations. Maybe we could take a cue from this today!

after Moses does this, the LORD speaks with him privately, saying:

16And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them. 17Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?' 18And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.

19"Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel. 20For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant. 21And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give." 22 So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.

Link to the song of Moses, which is a beautiful piece of covenant literature and prophecy : www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deu...032;&version=47;

I think we can learn much from Deuteronomy 31 & 32 about following the LORD even today

RE "I think we can learn much from Deuteronomy 31 & 32 about following the LORD even today "

...AMEN, Timberwolf......When it comes to the nature of the flesh, it always seems to be "Same stuff, different century"!


(Thanks for adding the link.)


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