Outline of Deuteronomy History of the Covenant 1

Outline of Deuteronomy • History of the Covenant (1: 1 – 4: 43) • Stipulations of the Covenant (4: 44 – 26: 19) – Moral Law (4: 44 – 11: 32) – Ceremonial Law (12: 1 – 16: 17) – Civil Law (16: 18 – 26: 19) • Ratification of the Covenant (27: 1 – 30: 20) • Leadership Succession Under the Covenant (31: 1 – 34: 20)

Joshua to Succeed Moses (ch. 31)

God Speaks to Moses • You are about to DIE (31: 16) • Your people will WHORE after foreign gods when they enter into the promise land • They will FORSAKE me and BREAK my covenant even though I promised to never FORSAKE them or BREAK my covenant with them. (31: 16)

God Speaks to Moses • God makes a promise… (31: 17 -18) – my anger will be high – I will forsake them – I will hide my FACE from them – They will be devoured – Many troubles and evils will come upon them – WHY? IDOLATRY

Final Acts of Moses • Moses is instructed to write a SONG • Serve as a WITNEESS for God towards Israel when everything falls apart for them. (31: 19) • Serve as words of COMFORT (31: 22) • Moses finishes writing this BOOK of LAW and has it placed in the ARK of the Covenant. • Assembles all of Israel to HEAR his song

The Rock • The LORD is my “rock” and SALVATION • It is a place of REFUGE and hiding • A continual theme throughout the scriptures

JESHURUN (32: 15) • This is the name for ISRAEL that comes from the Hebrew word meaning “STRAIGHT” or “RIGHT”. • In verse 4 it is used to describe “GOD” • It is the name applied to ISRAEL here, to describe how the chosen nation was supposed to LIVE, but instead they are now “crooked” and “fat”

TWO-FOLD PURPOSE (v 17 – 43) • Moses’ Song has TWO purposes: – To prophesy Israel’s apostasy – To serve as a witness against them. • The two TITLES “Jeshurun” and “Rock” establish a pattern for the remainder for the song • Jeshurun/Israel – turned from God, committed Idolatry, engaged in abominable acts, and forgot God.

TWO-FOLD PURPOSE (v 17 – 43) • The “rock” = God was stirred to – JEALOUSY – Provoked to Anger – Would hide his FACE – Would stir them to jealousy by employing foreign nations to turn them back to God.

YOU FORGOT GOD (32: 18) • Forgetting and remembering are key ingredients to the covenantal relationship that God has with humanity. • When we forget God, we stand in danger of God forgetting us and of being cut off forever. • Sinful human beings, like rebellious Israel, will forget God. • God’s grace is the controlling principle for the covenant and for remembrance; we are enabled to remember God’s promises because He does not forget us.

REVERSES the blessing of Aaron given to us by Aaron in Numbers 6: 24 – 26.

A Jealous God (32: 21) They have made me jealous with what is NO GOD; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

God Will Remember (32: 36 - 43) • The Lord will VINDICATE and have COMPASSION on his people (v. 36) • He will show them how USELESS their “gods” are (v. 37 – 38) • “There is no God beside me!” (v. 39 – 41) – I kill and I make alive – I wound and heal – I will take vengeance and will repay

Moses and Joshua Recite Together

Joint Recitation (32: 44) • Moses and Joshua come together to recite “all the words” in the hearing of the people. • Joint recitation of the song validated the transfer of authority from Moses to Joshua and validated the message of the song • The one true God ordained Joshua and inspired the words of the song.

Moses Death is Foretold on Mt. Nebo (32: 48 – 52)

For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel. (32: 52)

Moses’ Final Blessing on Israel • Moses’ blessing takes the hearers back to the moment when God gave them the Law at Sinai • Moses blesses the tribes of ISRAEL • Moses blessing on the tribes hints at their inheritance of LAND and the manner in which they would use or perhaps MISUSE their inheritance.

Moses’ Final Blessing on Israel • Although Moses did not mention the tribe of Simeon by name, Simeon was not excluded from the inheritance of land in Numbers 26. • Joshua 19: 1 -9 explains how the tribe of Simeon received land in the territory of Judah. • Judges 1: 1 -20 records how Simeon joined with Judah to fight their adversaries.

Moses’ Final Blessing on Israel • • • Reuben (33: 6) Judah (33: 7) • Levi (33: 8 -11) • Benjamin (33: 12) • Joseph (33: 13 – 17) • Zebulun (33: 18 -19) Gad (33: 20 – 21) Dan (33: 22) Naphtali (33: 23) Asher (33: 24)

Benjamin’s Blessing

Asher’s Blessing

Death of Moses (chapter 34) • Moses is granted a onetime, unlimited view of the land • Moses will die in the land of Moab and be buried in the valley opposite Beth-peor. • Moses was 120 years old but his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated. • The people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for 30 days. • Moses was unlike any prophet for he has seen God face to face.