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In Joshua, chapter one, verse one, Joshua had been a close and faithful assistant to Moses during the forty years of wilderness wandering. Joshua, one filled with the Holy Spirit commissioned as Moses’s successor. God was calling him to lead His people into the land of promise. The name Joshua means “the Lord saves” or […]

In Deuteronomy, chapter thirty-four, verse ten, Moses’ distinctions were his intimate fellowship with God and His understanding of the nature and person of God. The foremost desire of all believers should be to know God and experience His close association. The privilege and rights as God’s children. No person in Christ, possessing an inner life

In Deuteronomy, chapter thirty-four, verse one, Moses gets a glimpse of the promised land. Only after death does he inherit the city, which has a foundation whose builder and maker is God. Those who have lived in fellowship with God do not fear death. Due to their trust in God, they can even anticipate the

After Israel had sinned with the golden calf, in Deuteronomy, chapter thirty-three, verse nine, the Levites stood with God even against their nearest relatives. They held fast to the covenant and chastened those who participated in the worship of the golden calf. God rewarded them for their zeal for His cause by appointing them as

In Deuteronomy, chapter thirty, verse twenty, Moses’ song aims to impress upon the Israelites that their whole existence is due to God’s faithfulness and mercy. The Lord alone guided and sustained them. Israel’s response was, in measure, one of wickedness and folly. The song concluded by warning Israel that future infidelity, rebellion, and apostasy would

In Deuteronomy, chapter thirty, verse twenty, the Israelites were to maintain their relationship with God by loving Him and obeying His voice. To express that obedience, however, they had to recognize their inability to fulfill the law by bringing sacrifices of atonement for their shortcomings. Life and salvation are not a guarantee as a reward

In Deuteronomy, chapter twenty-nine, verse nineteen, among God’s people would be those who walk in their sinful way and claim to have peace. Similarly, the New Testament speaks about those within the church who profess peace, salvation, and eternal life. Yet, do not endeavor to follow God’s will. God says that the peace walkers’ profession

Deuteronomy, chapter twenty-nine, verses eighteen through twenty-one, concerns an individual among God’s elected people who turned away from the Lord. The promises of life and blessing give Israel to experience this as a whole. However, as a corporate body or nation, an individual within God’s chosen people participates in the promised blessings only as they

In Deuteronomy chapter twenty-eight, verse sixty-four, the scattering of Israel occurs several times throughout their history when they were taken captive by the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, and the Romans. We do not know of Israel’s falling into actual idolatry in dispersion, except in Egypt of Jeremiah forty-four seventeen and possibly in Babylon of

In Deuteronomy chapter twenty-eight, verse fifteen, Moses prophesied the consequences of turning away from God. Chastisement, destruction, great sorrow, captivity, dispersion among the nations. The curse for Israel, should they not hear to keep God’s commandments, would come upon as a disobedient nation. The curse is its extent as covering all the relations of life.