(From today's reading: Deuteronomy 1-4)
Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.
What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?
Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
- Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 7-8, 32-34
Point of Interest:
At this point in history, it has been 40 years since the Israelites escaped from Egypt. None of the former generation are left. The nation of people encamped on the eastern boarder of the promised land are basically the children of those that were slaves in Egypt.
The one constant in their lives has been the leadership of Moses. The man who talks with God.
As they prepare to go to war and conquer the promised land, Moses explains that he will not be going with them.
The book of Deuteronomy is the last time Moses will address his people.
1 comment:
Hey I've been wondering what all these are for? Are you leading a bible study? Its cool that you have this on here. hmm, you can fill me in next time I see you? :)
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