Day 15 of Daily Bible Food

Good morning; today we are reading from Deuteronomy 24 up to 34, the end of Deuteronomy.  Today's reading begins with a man divorcing his wife.  

Even though this was written by Moses, Jesus came in the flesh and reversed this saying a man cannot divorce his wife because they were made one in the beginning; thus they remain together.  

Moses put this in because of the hardness of the men's heart and they were abusing their wives; so it was the lessor of the evils to command a divorce.

Deuteronomy 25 mainly talks about if a brother passes and one had no child that the brother that live

s shall give seed unto the wife of the brother that passed; to keep his name alive in the land of Israel.  Chapter 26 reminds Israel to remember to give the first and best fruits unto the Lord our God because Israel's father who was a Syrian (Abraham) went into Egypt and came out a populated people into a land flowing of milk and honey.  Thus shall we do the commandments with all our heart and soul.  Israel are a peculiar people and holy unto God forever.

If any man do any of these abominations in chapter 27, he shall b

e cursed and all the people shall say amen.  ²¹Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

²⁶Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 28 gives the curses and blessing in detail and it will identify who the children of Israel are today.  If the children of Israel keep the commandments of God, they shall be blessed in the city and in the country, they will have healthy beautiful babies, the Lord will cause their enemies to be smitten, the Lord will bless their businesses, and establish them as a holy people.

All people will see they are called by the name of the LORD (Israel) and want to do as the children of Israel do to attain the blessings they receive; they shall lend to many nations and not borrow; and they shall be the head and not the tail; all this if they keep the commandments of the Lord.  But if they do not keep the commandments, cursed they shall be in the city and in the country, the fruit of their body, land, and cattle shall be cursed.

All they set their hand to do shall be cursed.  They shall get diseases and sickness until they perish.  Their enemies shall smite them and REMOVE them into all nations in the earth.  The Lord will smite them with blindness, and no prosperity, they will not receive help from any man nor nation.  

They will have a wife; but others will sleep with them.  Their kids will go into slavery and they will have no might to do anything about it.  They will build up lands for other nations and not get anything for it.  The will be taken captive into other nations and in these nations they will serve other gods, wood and stone.

The stranger with thee will come up very high and Israel very low until they are destroyed because they simply didn't keep the commandments.   ⁴⁶And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
 ⁴⁷Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
 ⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Husband and wife will be evil towards each other, and even unto her children (domestic violence high in who ever these people are today, and child neglect and abuse is highest in this group of people as well).  
The Lord will bring all the diseases and evilness that He brought into Egypt.  All this for not obeying the voice of the Lord.  Israel will find no ease in the nations they are brought in and they will doubt and their life will hang in doubt also.

The Lord will bring them into Egypt again in ships and be sold into slavery as male and females again and no man shall buy them out of this slavery or captivity. 
 Egypt meant slavery to the children of Israel, not a literal return into Egypt.  So in reading this chapter all we must do is find out which one Israel fell under, the blessings or the curses, and we can easily see who Israel is today.
In Deuteronomy chapter 29; it tells other nations why the land will be as it is and the people rooted out.  It is because they did not keep the covenant the Lord set before Israel when He took them out of Egypt.
In chapter 30; after all the curses have happened (I guess the Lord predicted they will transgress against Him); and they are in the countries where He scattered them and they seek the Lord, then He will RETURN, and gather them from all the countries they are captive in.
³That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
Israel was reminded that the Word is very near to them; and Moses set before the children of Israel life and death, good and evil that they should choose life and live.  ¹⁹I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
In chapter 31, Moses gets ready to pass the torch to Joshua to take the people into the land and gives more admonition to fear God and keep His laws and commandments.  
¹⁵And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
 ¹⁶And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
 ¹⁷Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
 ¹⁸And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
 ¹⁹Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
I had to place these scriptures in here that you may know that God knew the children of Israel will rebel against Him and He would have to chastise them.  And He gave them a song that will testify against them; and Moses wrote the song and gave it to Israel.
²⁶Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
 ²⁷For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
Moses knew that they would be evil after he died because they were so rebellious while he was yet alive.
In chapter 32 the song God had Moses give to Israel; it is a detailed song of what God is and how He operates; it is a great song about the Lord.  Moses was told to go up into the Mt Abarim in the land of Moab and view the land; in that mount; and there he will die.  
Moses was king over Israel (unofficial king), and high priest, he was the prototype of Jesus unto this people as Jesus will be to this people Israel, and to the world.  Thus making Jesus the prophet like unto Moses...
In chapter 34; the Lord shows the land to Moses: ⁵So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
 ⁶And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
 ⁷And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
 ⁸And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
No prophet has rose in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord dealt with face to face.  Moses was indeed a great prophet unto the Lord.  So great that the Lord buried Moses Himself.  He didn't want anyone to deal with his body.  
Thus our reading of the first five books are completed (in 15 days) and really we've read the bible because Moses covered everything we need; but the rest of the bible gives details and testimonials that Moses was indeed true and a true man of God in his dealings.
I thank you for reading and we will resume tomorrow in Joshua 1 through chapter 14, with the ventures of Israel under the hand of God and leadership of Joshua, Moses' successor.  Peace and grace.
DD
  
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Bible Food Deuteronomy 8 through 23

Good morning,

We begin reading in Deuteronomy 8 where Moses is telling the people that God made them wander through the wilderness for 40 years and made them struggle to prove them and see if they will keep His commandments or not.  

God could have taken them directly into the land; but it's like you want to see if someone is really on your side so you drag them around for a while to see if they complain or if they leave you.  Sure enough; they complained.  But God took care of them the entire time in the wilderness.

God showed them that man does not live by bread only but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.  Moses warns also for the children of Israel not get rich and forget their God.  We should definitely remember and do that today as well; because so many people get wealthy and believe it was of their own strength.  

If Israel turned to other gods; God will surely make them perish and proof is in the pudding of other scriptures in which they perished from their land.

In chapter 9 God tells Israel how He is not giving them this good land because they are righteous; but because of the wickedness of the people in the land, plus acovenant He made with Abraham.  This is so because Israel is a stiff neck and rebellious people and the Lord is telling them to go get the land; but not because they are good but because the people (in the land) are bad.  

Moses let's them know he interceded very well for the children of Israel because the Lord was ready to destroy all of them, even Aaron but Moses interceded as the high priest and that is what Jesus is doing for us today to the Father.

In chapter 10 Moses continues giving recap and preparation for them to take the land and let's them know that all God requires of them is to fear the Lord, walk in His ways, and LOVE HIM, serve Him with all your mind and body (that is the soul).  Also to keep the commandments of the LORD, it is for our good.

We also read about the circumcision; and surprising it is not the circumcision of the flesh; but of the mind.  So we should circumcise our mind and not be rebellious and stiff necked anymore.  

Circumcising your mind started here in the wilderness and not with Paul.  You would have to be convinced of something in your mind first before you proceed to do it in your flesh.

In chapter 11 we see that the Lord has His eyes on that land (Jerusalem) always and if we keep His commandments He will do us well and not evil.  We are to teach them (the commandments) to our children and the Lord will be with you and no one will be able to stand before you.  
Imagine a world that taught their children not to steal, kill, commit adultery, lie, be envious, jealous, and covet, and to honor their parents and respect their elders and everyone did it.  That would be near a utopia in itself.
Moses put before the children of Israel, blessing and curses and we'll get into details of that soon.
Moses gives reminders in chapter 12 of the burnt offerings, the taking care of the Levite, the destroying of the temples of the people of the land they are coming in to destroy and not add to the word nor diminish just do everything as is.
Deuteronomy 13 tells us not to trust anyone, a prophet who has a dream or says the "holy ghost" spoke to him, the Lord says let that prophets dream be backed up by the Word of God.  The Lord may do this to weigh your mind and see where you're at.  Don't follow anyone who tells you to go serve other gods.  And the person who tried to persuade you, that person shall be killed.
Chapter 14 tells us of the dietary law, reminding us what foods we can eat and what we cannot eat.  In chapter 15 reminds of the statue of the year of Jubilee and to help the poor that we have ability to help.  
The passover and feast of the Lord are shown in Deuteronomy 16.  Three times a year are all males required to come up to Jerusalem and deal before the Lord, in the feast of Unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of Tabernacles.
If Israel decides later to be like other nations around them and set a king over them the king shall serve the Lord and order the people to do so; he must not hoard all the money, collect too many wives, and cattle to himself, and he must be of one of the tribes of Israel and not a stranger.
The Lord lets us know about Jesus in chapter 18; in that He will raise up a prophet from among their brothers and that prophet will be like Moses and whoever does not listen to this prophet, the Lord will require it of that person.  This is why the Lord did it this way and not showing up in His strength:
¹⁶According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
 ¹⁷And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
Deut 20; tells of statues of men going to war.  If a man has a house or wife that is not dedicated; let him dedicate his place and lay with his wife before another man does so while he is at war.  And when Israel subdued a nation a nation in war; they should kill the men; but keep the women who have not known man, and the children alive.
Chapter 21 gives judgements on different things like inheritance in having two wives, a rebellious son; but the most interesting thing is why the Jews hurried to take Jesus off the cross; it is because the land would be defiled if He remained on the cross.
²²And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
 ²³His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
In Deuteronomy 22, it talks about the marriage statue.  Adultery is utterly prohibited and is an abomination unto the Lord.
This chapter ends with God telling us to love our brother as we love ourselves, even our brothers from other nations and shows us God Himself was living on the earth with Israel because He tells them when they have a bowel movement they should take their shovel and cover it with dirt so that the Lord doesn't step in it nor see it while He is with you.  Isn't that something.
 ¹²Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
 ¹³And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
 ¹⁴For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 
With that have a fantastic day and tomorrow we'll read through Deuteronomy 24 through 34.  Peace in Jesus name.
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