Deuteronomy
Prophecies and the Last Days
10 pages
The
Book of Deuteronomy — which means "the repetition of the law"
— consists chiefly of three discourses delivered by Moses shortly
before his death. Subjoined to these discourses are the Song of
Moses, the Blessing of Moses, and the story of his death.
The
first discourse. Deu_1:1; Deu_4:40. After a brief
historical introduction, the speaker recapitulates the chief events
of the last forty years in the wilderness. To this discourse, is
appended a brief notice of the severing of the three cities of
refuge, on the east side of the Jordan. Deu_4:41-43. This section
reminds Israel of God's protection and of their ungrateful rebellion,
punished by the long wandering; and warning them henceforth to obey
and not lose the blessing.
The
second discourse is introduced, like the first, by an explanation of
the circumstances under which it was delivered. Deu_4:44-49. It
extends from Chapter 19, Deu_5:1-26, and contains a recapitulation,
with some modifications and additions, of the law already given on
Mount Sinai. The second discourse begins with the Ten Commandments,
the basis of the law, and develops and applies the first table; next
declares special statutes as to: (1) religion; (2) administration of
justice and public officers; (3) private and social duties.
Now
when Israel was to enter Canaan, their permanent abode, they needed
to be reminded of much of the law which they but partially knew or
applied, and to have under divine sanction, besides the religious
ordinances of the previous books, supplementary enactments, civil and
political, for their settled organization. Thus, Deuteronomy is not a
mere summary recapitulation, for large parts of the previous code are
unnoticed, but Moses' inspired elucidation of the spirit and end of
the law. In it he appears as "the prophet," as in the
previous books he was the historian and legislator. Two passages
especially exhibit him in this character.
The
first Deu_18:15-19; "the Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a
Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me;
according to all that thou desiredst of the Lord ... in Horeb, Let me
not hear again the voice of ... God ... that I die not; and the Lord
said, I will raise them up a Prophet ... and I will put My words in
His mouth ... And whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He
shall speak in My name, I will require it of him." In the
ultimate and exhaustive sense Messiah fulfills the prophecy;
Deu_34:10 expressly says "there arose not a prophet since in
Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face." So
Num_12:6-8; Heb_3:2-5, state how the Antitype exceeded the type.
Our
Lord Himself must have had this prophecy in view in Joh_5:46, "Moses
wrote of Me." The Samaritans, who received the Pentateuch alone,
must have drawn their expectation of the all-revealing Messiah from
it: "when He is come He will tell us all things," answering
to "I will put My words in His mouth ... He shall speak in My
name." In Act_3:22, etc., Act_7:37, Peter and Stephen both quote
it as fulfilled in Jesus.
In
the third discourse, Deu_27:1-30, the elders of Israel are associated
with Moses. The people are commanded to set up stones upon Mount
Ebal, and on them to write "all the words of this law."
Then follow the several curses to be pronounced by the Levites on
Ebal, Deu_27:14-26, and the blessings on Gerizim. Deu_28:1-14. This
discourse renews the covenant, reciting the blessings and curses.
In
the Messianic Kingdom, the words of the law will be written on our
hearts and in our minds (Jer 31:31-36).
Deuteronomy
28, where he declares more fully than in Leviticus 26 what evils
should overtake Israel (all 12 tribes including strangers and
foreigners, Christians) in the event of their disobedience, with such
specific particularity that the Spirit in him must be not declaring
contingencies, but foretelling the penal results of their sin which
have since so literally come to pass; their becoming "a byword
among all nations where the Lord has led them"; their being
besieged by "a nation of a fierce countenance, until their high
walls wherein they trusted came down"; their "eating the
fruit of their own body, the flesh of their sons and daughters, in
the straitness of the siege, and the eye of the tender and delicate
woman being evil toward the husband of her bosom and toward her child
which she shall eat for want of all things secretly in the siege";
their dispersion so as to "find no ease, and the sole of their
foot to have no rest among the nations," but to have "a
trembling heart, failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind, their life
hanging in doubt, in fear day and night, and having none assurance of
life"; "the whole land (Deu_29:23) not sown, nor bearing,
nor having grass."
Nay,
more, Moses foresaw their disobedience: "I know that after my
death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way
which I have commanded you, and evil will befall you in the latter
days" (Deu_31:29).
The
delivery of the law as written by Moses, (for its still further
preservation), to the custody of the Levites, and a charge to the
people to hear it read once every seven years, Deuteronomy 31.
The
Song of Moses spoken in the ears of the people, Deu_31:30; Deu_32:44.
In the distant future he
(Moshe) intimates, not merely their continued preservation, but also
a time when Israel, dispersed "among all the nations, shall call
to mind how all these things, the blessing and the curse, have come
upon them, and shall return unto the Lord with all their heart and
soul; though they be driven unto the outmost parts of heaven, from
thence will the Lord their God gather them, and He will circumcise
their heart, and make them plenteous in the fruit of their land, and
again rejoice over them for good" (Deuteronomy 30, also
Deu_32:36; Deu_32:43). The Promised Land, the Messianic Kingdom is
where the Laws of God will be followed because the laws will be
written on our hearts (Jer 31:31-36).
In
Deu_32:8 Moses intimates that from the beginning the distribution of
races and nations had a relation to God's final purpose that Israel
should be the spiritual center of the kingdom of God; "when the
Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when He separated
the sons of Adam, He set the bound: of the people according to the
number of the children of Israel," i.e., that their inheritance
should be proportioned to their numbers.
Psa_90:1;
Psa_90:13-16, with Deu_32:4; Deu_32:7; Deu_32:36; explain Deu_32:5
"they are not His children but their spot," i.e. a disgrace
to them (to God's children).
The
blessing of the twelve tribes. Deu_33:5.
The
book closes, Deuteronomy 34, with an account of the death of Moses,
which is first announced to him. Deu_32:48-52. The book bears witness
to its own authorship, Deu_31:19, and is expressly cited in the New
Testament as the work of Moses. Mat_19:7-8; Mar_10:3; Act_3:22;
Act_7:37.
The
discourses must have been all spoken in the eleventh month; for on
the tenth day of the 41st year Jordan was crossed (Jos_4:19).
Jos_1:11; Jos_2:22, three days previous were spent in preparations
and waiting for the spies; so the encampment at Shittim was on the
seventh day (Jos_2:1). Thirty days before were spent in mourning for
Moses (Deu_34:8); so that Moses' death would be on the seventh day of
the twelfth month, and Moses began his address the first day of the
eleventh month, fortieth year (Deu_1:3).
Tenth
Day of the 41st year would have been in the month of Abib. That tenth
day is also the 10th day of the Exodus chapter 12 when the lambs
enter the homes to be examined. Jesus also entered Jerusalem on the
tenth day of Abib which in that year was the Sabbath. Obama arrived
in Israel on March 20th, 2013, the date that Jesus entered Jerusalem.
Psalms 114 covers the two crossings (Red Sea and Jordan River).
Pictorially this can refer to also the Day of Atonement which is also
another 10th day event. Could it be that we have a picture of the
rapture on the 10th day in the Fall.
Note
the ten addresses by Moses:
1) Deu 1:6-4:40; 2)Deu 5:1-10:5; 3)
Deu 10:10-12:32
4) Deu 13:1-26:19; 5) Deu_27:1-26; Deu_28:1-63
6)
Deu_29:2-29; Deu_30:1-20; 7) Deu_31:2-6
8)Deu_32:1-43; 9)
Deu_32:44-47; 10) Deu_33:2-29
This
book describes the law and this side of the Jordan River or this side
of the Promised Land which for us in this time frame is the Messianic
Kingdom.
What
caught my attention was the amount of times that statutes is
mentioned.
Deu_4:1
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them,
that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God
of your fathers giveth you. Deu_4:5 Behold, I have taught you
statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye
should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Deu_4:6 Keep
therefore and do them;
for this is
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which
shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is
a wise and understanding people. Deu_4:8 And what nation is
there so great,
that hath statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? Deu_4:14
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it. Deu_4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his
commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with
thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong
thy
days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Deu_4:45 These are
the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses
spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of
Egypt,
Deu_5:1
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the
statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye
may learn them, and keep, and do them. Deu_5:31 But as for thee,
stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the
commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt
teach them, that they may do them
in the land which I give them to possess it.
Deu_6:1
Now these are
the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD
your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them
in the land whither ye go to possess it: Deu_6:2 That thou mightest
fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the
days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Deu_6:17 Ye
shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. Deu_6:20
And
when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean
the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD
our God hath commanded you? Deu_6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do
all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always,
that he might preserve us alive, as it
is at this day.
Deu_7:11
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. Read the
Blessings if you obey the commandments of YHVH.
Deu_8:11
Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day:
Deu_10:13
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day for thy good?
Deu_11:1
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and
his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deu_11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments
which I set before you this day.
Deu_12:1
These are
the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land,
which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the
days that ye live upon the earth.
Deu_16:12
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou
shalt observe and do these statutes.
Deu_17:19
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of
his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the
words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
Deu_26:16
This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes
and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul. Deu_26:17 Thou hast avouched the LORD
this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his
statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken
unto his voice:
Deu_27:10
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his
commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Deu_28:15
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall
come upon thee, and overtake thee: Deu_28:45 Moreover all these
curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake
thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which he commanded thee:
Deu_30:10
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law, and
if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul. Deu_30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD
thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and
the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
Deut
28 Blessings are what we get if we keep the statues and ordinances.
But they are also a picture of the Millennium.
Commandments
is another big word in Deuteronomy.
Deu_4:2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish ought
from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which
I command you. Deu_4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which
he commanded you to perform, even
ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deu_4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his
commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with
thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong
thy
days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Deu_5:10
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments. Deu_5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that
they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it
might be well with them, and with their children for ever! Deu_5:31
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee
all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou
shalt teach them, that they may do them
in the land which I give them to possess it.
Deu_6:1
Now these are
the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD
your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them
in the land whither ye go to possess it: Deu_6:2 That thou mightest
fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the
days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Deu_6:17 Ye
shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. Deu_6:25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Deu_7:9
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is
God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them
that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deu_7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do
them.
Deu_8:1
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe
to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land
which the LORD sware unto your fathers. Deu_8:2 And thou shalt
remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty
years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and
to prove thee, to know what was
in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Deu_8:6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy
God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. Deu_8:11 Beware that thou
forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his
judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deu_10:4
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them
unto me. Deu_10:13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his
statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
Deu_11:1
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and
his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deu_11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command
you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land,
whither ye go to possess it; Deu_11:13 And it shall come to pass, if
ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you
this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul, Deu_11:22 For if ye shall diligently
keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love
the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Deu_11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, which I command you this day: Deu_11:28 And a curse, if ye will
not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of
the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which
ye have not known.
Deu_13:4
Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave
unto him. Deu_13:18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD
thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day,
to do that which is
right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Deu_15:5
Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to
observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
Deu_19:9
If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command
thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his
ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these
three:
Deu_26:13
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the
hallowed things out of mine
house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the
stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy
commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed
thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deu_26:17 Thou hast
avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways,
and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments,
and to hearken unto his voice: Deu_26:18 And the LORD hath avouched
thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee,
and that thou
shouldest keep all his commandments;
Deu_27:1
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. Deu_27:10
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his
commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Deu_28:1
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and
to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the
LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Deu_28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself,
as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of
the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. Deu_28:13 And the LORD shall
make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only,
and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to
observe and to do them:
Deu_28:15 But it
shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the
LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon
thee, and overtake thee: Deu_28:45 Moreover all these curses shall
come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou
be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD
thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded
thee:
Deu_30:8
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command thee this day. Deu_30:10 If thou shalt
hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments
and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and
if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul. Deu_30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD
thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his
statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and
the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
Deu_31:5
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto
them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Do
you get the idea that His laws will be in the Millennium. I am
reminded of the phrase in Malachi 3:6
For I am
the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
And
In Isaiah 46:9-10 Isa 46:9 Remember
the former things of old: for I am
God, and there is
none else; I am
God, and there is
none like me, Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and
from ancient times the
things that are not
yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Other
than this on the law is what is found in Chapter 7-8 on the wrath of
God and fire of God and the Messianic Kingdom in 8.
Deu
7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou;
It
is God and His wrath which will prepare the Land of Canaan (Messianic
Kingdom) for His people.
Deu
7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew
mercy unto them:
Deu
7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto
thy son.
Deu
7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against
you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Deu
7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars,
and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn
their graven images with fire.
Deu
7:6 For thou art
an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are
upon the face of the earth.
Since
2007, the land of Canaan is being prepared for the Messianic Kingdom
and Deut 7:2-5 reflect some of these changes. We as followers of
Jehovah/Yahveh are also supposed to do this in our own lives.
Deu
7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are
more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Deu
7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but
shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto
all Egypt;
Deu
7:19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and
the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby
the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto
all the people of whom thou art afraid.
Deu
7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until
they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
As
I read the word hornet, I could not think of anything better the the
Locusts of Revelation 9.
Deu
7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is
among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deu
7:22 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by
little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the
beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Deu
7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall
destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
Deu
7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to
stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deu
7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
shalt not desire the silver or gold that
is on them, nor
take it
unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is
an abomination to the LORD thy God.
Deu
7:26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest
thou be a cursed thing like it: but
thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it
is
a cursed thing.
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