Today’s Bible Translation
Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 29 CEV, Ch. 30 ERV, Ch. 31 NCV
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Roderick
Podcast Introduction
It’s the Law Monday. We’ll read Deuteronomy 29-31. I’m calling this episode “On the Threshold.“
Summary
Moses is near the end of his life and he has brought the people to the threshold of the Promised Land. However, because of the disobedience we read about in Numbers 20:7-12, it will not be Moses who leads them in. As a matter of fact, God will not allow him to even set foot in it.
But after leading these people for forty years, he doesn’t just fade away. He has parting words for the people; for Joshua, whom God has appointed to be Moses’ replacement; and for the priests.
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Announcer 0:00
Moses will not be able to lead them in.
Steve Webb 0:03
This is the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you from Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. I’m Steve Webb, your OG Godcaster. It’s the law Monday. and our reading will be Deuteronomy 29 through 31. The website is Lifespringmedia.com. and I’ll have contact information at the end of the show. Before we read, let’s pray. Our gracious heavenly Father, we thank you for our time together to read your word and we pray that You would bless us as we read, teach us we ask in Jesus name, amen. Okay, are you ready? Let’s get started.
Steve Webb 0:39
Deuteronomy chapter 29. So Moses finished telling the Israelites what they had to do, in order to keep the agreement the Lord was making with him in Moab, which was an addition to the one the Lord had made with him at Mount Sinai. Moses called the nation of Israel together and told them, when you were in Egypt, you saw the Lord perform great miracles that cause trouble for the king, his officials, and everyone else in the country. He is even told you for 40 years I the Lord led you through the desert, but your clothes and your sandals didn’t wear out, and I gave you special food. I did these things. So you would realize that I am your God. But the Lord must give you a change of heart before you truly understand what you have seen and heard. When we first camp there, King sai Han of Heshbon and King org of Batian attacked but we defeated them. Then we captured their land and divided it among the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasa. Israel, the Lord has made an agreement with you. and if you keep your part, you will be successful in everything you do. Today, everyone in our nation is standing here in the Lord’s presence, including leaders and officials, parents and children, and even those foreigners who cut wood and carry water forests. We are at this place of worship to promise that we will keep our part of the agreement with the Lord our God. In this agreement, the Lord promised that you would be his people and that he would be your God. He first made this promise to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. and today the Lord is making the same promise to you. But it isn’t just for you. It is also for your descendants. When we lived in Egypt, you saw the Egyptians worship disgusting idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold. Then as we traveled through other nations, you saw those people worship other disgusting idols. So make sure that everyone in your tribe remains faithful to the Lord. It never starts worshipping gods of other nations. If even one of you worships idols, you will be like the root of a plant that produces bitter, poisonous fruit. You may be an Israelite, and know all about the Lord’s agreement with us, but he won’t bless you, if you rebel against him. You may think that you can get away with it, but you will cause the rest of Israel to be punished along with you. The Lord will be furious, and instead of forgiving you, He will separate you from the other tribes, then he will destroy you by piling on you all the curses in the book of God’s law and you will be forgotten forever. The Lord will strike your country with diseases and disasters. Your descendants and foreigners from distant countries will see that your land has become a scorching desert of salt and sulfur where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and the boy him after the Lord became angry and destroyed them. and people from other nations will ask why did the Lord destroy this country? Why was he so furious? and they will be given this answer. Our ancestors worship the Lord. But after he brought them out of Egypt and made an agreement with them, they rejected the agreement and decided to worship gods that had never helped them. The Lord had forbidden Israel to worship these gods. and so he became furious and punished the land with all the curses in the book of God’s law. Then he pulled up Israel by the roots and tossed them into a foreign country where they still are today. The Lord our God hasn’t explained the present or the future, but He has commanded us to obey the laws he gave to us and our descendants.
Steve Webb 4:16
Deuteronomy chapter 30. Everything that I’ve mentioned will happen to you both the blessings and the curses. and you will remember these words when the Lord your God sends you away to other nations, then you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord your God, you will follow Him with all your heart and completely obey all his commands that I have given you today. Then the Lord your God will be kind to you, the Lord your God will make you free again. He will bring you back from the nations where he sent you. Even if you were sent to the farthest parts of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you from there and bring you back. The Lord your God will bring you into the land your ancestors had and the land will become yours. He will do good to you and you will have more than your ancestors have it, you will have more people in your nation than they ever had. The Lord your God will make you and your descendants want to obey Him. Then you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and you will live. Then the Lord your God will make all these bad things happen to your enemies who hate you and cause you trouble and you will again obey the Lord, you will obey all his commands that I give you today. The Lord your God will make you successful in everything you do. He will bless you with many children, he will bless your cows, they will have many calves, He will bless your fields, they will grow many good crops, he will be good to you, the Lord will again enjoy doing good for you the same as he enjoyed doing good for your ancestors. But you must do what the Lord your God tells you to do. You must obey His commands and follow the rules that are written in this book of teachings. You must obey the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, then these good things will happen to you. This command that I give you today is not too hard for you. It is not a secret hidden in some faraway land. The command is not in heaven, so that you should say who will go up to heaven for us and bring it to us so that we can hear and do it. This command is not on the other side of the sea, so that you should say, who will go across the sea for us and bring it to us so that we can hear it and do it. No, the word of God is very near to you. It is in your mouth and in your heart so you can obey it. Today I’ve given you a choice between life and death, success and disaster. I command you today to love the Lord your God, I command you to follow Him and to obey His commands, laws and rules, then you will live and your nation will grow larger, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take for your own. But if you turn away from your God and refuse to listen, if you are led away to worship and serve other gods, you will be destroyed. I’m warning you today, if you turn away from God, you will not live long in that land across the Jordan River that you are ready to enter and take for your own. and today I’m giving you a choice of two ways. and I asked heaven and earth to be witnesses of your choice. You can choose life or death. The first choice will bring a blessing. The other choice will bring a curse. So choose life, then you and your children will live. You must love the Lord your God and obey him. Never leave him because he is your life. and he will give you a long life and the land that He the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Steve Webb 7:42
Deuteronomy chapter 31. Then Moses went and spoke these words to all the Israelites, I am now 120 years old, and I cannot lead you anymore. The Lord told me I would not cross the Jordan River, the Lord your God will lead you across himself. He will destroy those nations for you and you will take over their land. Joshua will also lead you across as the Lord has said, The Lord will do to those nations what he did to Sai Han and dog, the kings of the Amorites when he destroyed them and their land. The Lord will give those nations to you do to them everything I told you, be strong and brave. Don’t be afraid of them. and don’t be frightened. Because the Lord your God will go with you. He will not leave you or forget you. Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in front of the people, be strong and brave, because you will lead these people into the land the Lord promised to give their ancestors and help them take it as their own. The Lord himself will go before you, He will be with you. He will not leave you or forget you. Don’t be afraid and don’t worry. So Moses wrote down these teachings and gave them to the priests and all the elders of Israel. The priests are the sons of Levi who carry the ark of the agreement with the Lord. Then Moses commanded them read these teachings for all Israel to hear at the end of every seven years, which is the year to cancel what people owe. Do it during the Feast of shelters when all the Israelites will come to appear before the Lord your God. In stand at the place you will choose to gather all the people, the men, women, children and foreigners living in your towns so that they can listen and learn to respect the Lord your God and carefully obey everything in this law. Since their children do not know this law, they must hear it. They must learn to respect the Lord your God for as long as they live in the land. You are crossing the Jordan River to take for your own. and the Lord said to Moses, soon you will die. Get Joshua and come to the meeting tent so that I may command him. So Moses and Joshua went to the meeting tent. The Lord appeared at the meeting tent and a cloud. The clouds stood over the entrance of the tent. and the Lord said to Moses, you will soon die And then these people will not be loyal to me, but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering, they will leave me breaking the agreement I made with them, then I will become very angry at them and I will leave them, I will turn away from them, and they will be destroyed, many terrible things will happen to them, then they will say, it is because God is not with us that these terrible things are happening, I will surely turn away from them then, because they have done wrong and if turned to other gods. Now, write down this song and teach it to the Israelites, then have them sing it, because it will be my witness against them. When I bring them into the land, I promised to their ancestors of fertile land, they will eat as much as they want and get fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, they will reject me and break my agreement. Then when many troubles and terrible things happen to them, This song will testify against them, because the song will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they plan to do, even before I take them into the land I promised them. So Moses wrote down the song that day, and he taught it to the Israelites. Then the Lord gave this command to Joshua son of Nun, be strong and brave, because you will lead the people of Israel to the land I promised them, and I will be with you. After Moses finished writing all the words of the teachings in a book, he gave a command to the Levites, who carried the Ark of the agreement with the Lord. He said, Take this book of the teachings and put it beside the Ark of the agreement with the Lord your God, it must stay there as a witness against you. I know how stubborn and disobedient you are, you have disobeyed the Lord while I am alive and with you, and you will disobey even more after I die. Gather all the older leaders of your tribes and all your officers to me, so that I may say these things for them to hear, and so that I may ask heaven and earth to testify against them. I know that after I die, you will become completely evil, you will turn away from the commands I have given you. Terrible things will happen to you in the future when you do what the Lord says is evil, and you will make him angry with the idols you have made. and Moses spoke this whole song for all the people of Israel to hear.
Steve Webb 12:14
Well, beloved, chapter 31 ended with these words, and Moses spoke this whole song for all the people of Israel to hear. So that’s really ending the chapter with a cliffhanger, isn’t it? We’ll read the song next week. and by the way, next week, we’ll conclude our reading of the books of the law or the Pentateuch, or the Torah, as it is known by the Jews. But today, I want to say a few words about chapter 31. Moses is near the end of his life, and he’s brought the people to the threshold of the promised land, but because of his disobedience that we read about in numbers 27 through 12, Moses will not be able to lead the men. As a matter of fact, God is not even going to allow him to set foot on the promised land. But after leading these people for 40 years, Moses doesn’t just fade away. He has parting words for the people for Joshua, whom God has appointed to be Moses replacement, and for the priests. Now, Moses knew these people, right. But more than that, God knew these people. and once more, Moses wrote the law down and told the Levites to keep it beside the Ark of the Covenant. He knew these people, and he knew that they would stray from the law and would need to be reminded yet again, what God requires. I think Moses felt a heavy burden of responsibility for these people, even when he knew that his time with them was drawing to a close and I think that’s why he wrote the song that follows this chapter. and his words here in chapter 31, almost sounded cross, but in the final chapters next week, he takes the edge off. Let me know what you think. Let me hear from you send to Boostagram or call the Lifespring family hotline or go to the comments page or write an email. I’ll tell you how to do these things at the end of the show. Tomorrow will be history Tuesday, and our reading will be Esther one through five.
Announcer 14:08
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