More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. The fact of Esau's pride and contempt of Israel gave them no license to take their land. the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. They are then shown what may or may not be eaten, whether beasts, fishes, or fowls. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted, There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long, The conquest of which is commanded by God, Early in the year 1857. Moses recounts for them the history of what had taken place before as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. 364-366.). This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. He chose to have a place where He would put His name. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. Need one point out how suited all this is for the last words of one who was just about to depart? There must be times of getting, of learning, of consulting for one's own edification, else it will go hard with us in the work and battle of life. In general, Moses spoke unto them all that the Lord had given him in commandment (Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 1:3), which intimates, not only that what he now delivered was for substance the same with what had formerly been commanded, but that it was what God now commanded him to repeat. The first and introductory address of Moses to the people is here commenced. He may not at all have understood at the moment what was working in the people; but all is told out. And so it is important that we not fail where they failed but that we, by faith, take this position of victory, of power, of strength, of walking in the spirit reckoning the old man, the old nature, to be dead with Christ.So, that which should have taken eleven days took them forty years, actually forty-one years to be exact, because it wasn't until the forty-first year on the tenth day that they entered in to the land that God had promised. We need not dilate on the beautiful detail but at the same time simple truth of this chapter. Now in Numbers it doesn't tell us that they came to Moses to request these spies, but in Deuteronomy is adding a little bit more detail than he gave in the book of Numbers. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. And it is obvious, beloved friends, obedience depends on this that we really do what God commands us now that we are doing what is suitable to our present position and state. So this fact also is used. But their fathers would not obey at that time. Yet he discourses not to them concerning military affairs, the arts and stratagems of war, but concerning their duty to God; for, if they kept themselves in his fear and favour, he would secure to them the conquest of the land: their religion would be their best policy. And I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 29.) 35; xxxii. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. But also it would appear that the deepest wisdom lay in citing from that book, as well as its most applicable words. But there is another point peculiar to this book. i. "But the Lord heard the words of your complaining, he was angry and said, "You're not to go in". Kadesh. In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. 2. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. We see from this that it is mere ignorance to suppose that there is not a divine system in the book; and this is more remarkable, I think, in Deuteronomy, if possible, than in the preceding books. But then as he moves into the eighth chapter of Romans, he found the answer to his cry. But no, God would not have them to meddle. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the, (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. It is well to remark here that verse 24 is exactly parallel with verse 13; that it is not Moses in verse 13, but Jehovah who commands to "rise up," etc., in both; and that verses 10-12 are a parenthesis of instructive past history for moral profit like verses 20-23. Ver. Not any ordinary fleshly sin on our part, as many suppose. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. Covenant favour would surely do as much for Israel as providence had done for Moab and Ammon! "The importance of history has two focal points: (a) there is the covenant tradition of promise, from Abraham to Moses; (b) there is the experience of God in history working out in deed the content of the promise. That generation had passed away no doubt. "Judah, thou, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; before thee shall bow down the sons of thy father. Jehovah your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. And be. Nevertheless the circumstance that he too had failed to sanctify Jehovah their God in his heart as he ought that even he had misrepresented Him when it was above all due to God that His grace should be clearly seen, all this added gravity to the appeals and style of the departing man of God. This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. "5. We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. Pray it at midnight and midday. We know the profanity of Esau; we know the solemn circumstances of Moab and Ammon from their very origin; but for all that God would not permit His people to indulge in what did not become Himself as represented however feebly in and by Israel. Others might be optional, but these feasts were obligatory. Here is a list of powerful I AM affirmations that could be used as prayer points. "You've encompassed this mount" God said, "long enough. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land; no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." But in Deuteronomy the point is to centralize them all around Jehovah Himself. And Moses said, "No, don't. Thus: God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. "6. I`m blessed socially, physically, mentally and psychologically! Gifted by God (ver. "Can you call Him Father?" (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea.) Psalm 138:1-2. For edition we have restored the fuller text of the earlier published edition, while retaining a few of the editorial refinements of the Met Tab edition. 1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. This is a benigner method of conquest, and it will prove successful if we advance with faith and courage. It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. I dare say we have almost all done so, without referring to any particular mode; for alas! 5, 6; 1 Tim. "The saying pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eschol, and searched it out. He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. It is after this will come the full time of joy for the earth. The time was near the end of the fortieth year since they came out of Egypt. The intercession of Moses prevailed so far for his brother and the people, that the one lived till near the end of the wanderings in the desert, and the others, instead of perishing as a whole at once, lived to take their journey from a land of wells (Beeroth) to Mosera where Aaron died at Mount Hor, and thence to Gudgodah, and to Jotbath, "a land of rivers of waters:" such was the patient goodness of God to both, as the long interval made the more marked.*. If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. The book of Deuteronomy acknowledges this failure, and takes its stand not only on the fact that it was impossible to deny, it but on the duty of confessing it. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. Jehovah went along with them; and of course the faithful turned back just as much as the unfaithful. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. I do not dwell on this. For we must remember that the sabbath does not mean a seventh day, as some persons (I am sorry to say) equivocate; but the seventh day and no other. Faith leads to obedience: first of all the acceptance of His word brings and secures blessing by faith for our souls; and then, having received it, we surrender ourselves to His will. They had marched round to the eastern side of the Jordan; they were now on that border of the land, after God's long-continued process of dealing with them in the wilderness had come to its full measure. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.". Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. Boy, what a horrible thing to say.So, the people were discouraged and they said, The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we have seen the sons of the Anakims ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). The fact is that, no matter what might be the measure of carrying them out in the wilderness, God was setting forth by them the shadows of good things to come. Let me just refer to this for a moment longer, lest there should be any mistake about what appears to me to be the truth about it. 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) This is the grand pith of the chapter as it appears to me. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. Help me reach greater heights. Is not this very notable? It is possible, however, that the ipsissima verba may be in one or other. In other words, he is saying that God went before you through the wilderness to search for the best place for you to pitch your tent and then led you by the fire and by the cloud.Oh, if we only realized how all encompassing the work of God is that surrounds our lives. To get from the Red Sea into the Promised Land, it was necessary to go through the wilderness, an eleven-day journey, but most of the wilderness experience was illegitimate.Now I feel that the history is a typical history, that there are spiritual analogies to be made to the children of Israel coming out of Egypt passing through the wilderness into the Promised Land. deserved. "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.".