About the Reading:
We first learn that Moses is not to cross the Jordan.
We also hear more rules of obedience and laws as well as we hear the 10 commandments.
My Thoughts and Notes:
Deuteronomy 4:9 states:
“Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.”
That speaks to me. It is, in a way, a reminder to myself to remember all that we have read so far and to never forget, never let our children forget.
Imagine, these words have been passed from generation to generation for so many years. It’s really absolutely awesome, isn’t it?
What spoke to you today?
Our Savior quoted passages of Deuteronomy in overcoming the threefold temptation of Satan in the desert (Mt; 4 Dt 6, 13, 16; 8, 3; 10, 20), and in explaining to the lawyer the first and greatest commandment (Mt 22, 35-39; Dt 6, 4). The book is divided as follows: 1. Historical Review and Exhortation (Dt 1, 1-4, 43). 2. God and His Covenant (Dt 4, 44-11, 32). 3. Exposition of the Law (Dt 12, 1-26, 19). 4 Final Words of Moses (Dt 27, 1-34, 12). 3, 18: I charged them: the words which follow were spoken to the men of Reuben and Gad (cf Nm 32). Chapter 4, 10: states Beginning here and continuing on for several verses at least to the end of v 14 is the “reminiscence”, the account of the things that the Israelites should recall and teach their children. Chapter 4, 20: Egypt is called an iron foundry or furnace foe smelting iron, because God allowed the Israelites to be afflicted there for the sake of their spiritual purification; the same expression for Egypt occurs also in Kgs 8, 51; Jer 11, 4; compare the expression, “the furnace of affliction”, in Is 48, 10. I will close with this 4, 25: Grown Old: Israel will lose the freshness of its youthful fervor. 4, 34: Testing’s: the demonstrations of God’s power as in the ten great plagues of Egypt; cf Dt 7,19;29,2.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry I have not stepped up to help you with this blog Jen, I to have been a bit busy. So let me start Deuteronomy 7-11 off for everybody this week. In chapter 7 we see God giving an order to the Israelites to destroy all the Pagans and their poles in which they worship upon entering the promise land. God also warns them about being swayed into worship the Pagan Gods. The one thing in these chapters that sticks out to me was the “Golden Calf incident”. To close out chapter 7 God promises various blessings for following his orders. In Chapter 8 God reiterates to the Israelites to follow all his commandments and by doing so God will continue to watch over and take of them to quote verse 8, 3 : # 4. “The sense is: God takes care of those who love him even when natural means seem to fail.” God promises to go ahead of the Israelites in Chapter 9 and to help and clear the way for the Israelites to enter the Promised Land. God again reminds all of Israelites to keep his commandments and statues then God breaks them down into specific examples so they may again understand what they need to do. God again promise for following his rules he will reward their fidelity. I chapter 12 God presents the Exposition of the Law. This carries us all the way to chapter 32 where Moses offers a song of praise to God. In Chapters 27 we read the final words of Moses. Moses tells of the punishments the Israelites will face for not following Gods laws. This whole book of Deuteronomy seems to repeat in different ways to the hard headed Israelites that they above all else they need to love God above all things and trust in God but most of all follow Gods commandments and statues. Deuteronomy ends with the death of Moses. Moses had angered God earlier so God told Moses he would not enter the promise land with the chosen people. God directed Moses to pick a replacement for him and Joshua the son of Nun was chosen to take Moses place and lead the chosen people into the promise land. After Moses dies Joshua is filled with the Holy Spirit which gives him wisdom and I would assume confidence to carry out the mission.
ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 10:1-6,10-12
ReplyDelete10I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.
6Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did. 10And do not complain as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.
I feel that statment in Corinthians sums up all that we have read so far. What do you think?
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