Read Through the Bible in 2013: July 15-20

Take Ten

7/15/2013	Hosea 6, 7	I John 3, 4
7/16/2013	Hosea 8-10	I John 5
7/17/2013	Hosea 11, 12	II John
7/18/2013	Hosea 13, 14	III John
7/19/2013	Jonah 1, 2	Revelation 1, 2
7/20/2013	Jonah 3, 4	Revelation 3

For more information concerning the Old Testament book of Jonah, and the New Testament books of II John, III John and Revelation click this link.

Journal Through the Bible: Week 27 Friday

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Deuteronomy chapter 9

In this chapter Moses remembers many of the times that the people rebelled. He reminded them not to boast when things inevitably turn out well for them.

Does God issue any commands?

• The people were to remember how they had provoked God in the wilderness and at Mount Horeb and avoid provoking Him further.

Does God make any promises?

• God would drive out the children of Anak for the Israelites but not because the Israelites were righteous but because the children of Anak were wicked and God was fulfilling His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Does this chapter teach anything about Jesus?

• Like Moses, Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the wilderness in preparation for the task that God had for them to fulfill. (Moses was remembering his 40 days on Mount Sinai and recounting it to the people.)
• Moses recounted how he interceded for the people. Jesus is our intercessor.

Does this chapter teach anything about yet-future events?

• None that I saw.

Journal Through the Bible: Week 27 Thursday

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Deuteronomy chapter 8

Moses told the people that all the things that had transpired (hunger, thirst, etc.) were to test them to see if they would trust God because life does not consist in what someone can eat or drink. He warned them not to forget the LORD that provided all things for them on the journey or upon settlement in the land. (There really is no such thing as a self-made man.)

Does God issue any commands in this chapter?

• Through Moses God commands the people to remember Him and all His ways.

Does God make any promises?

• All of the provisions they would need would be abundantly supplied if they would trust God: bread, water, wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olives, honey, iron, brass.
• The obverse curse was that if they would not trust God they would perish like the nations of Canaan.

Does this chapter teach anything about Jesus?

• When being tempted by Satan in the wilderness Jesus quoted Deuteronomy 8:3 to overcome the temptation to turn the stones to bread. He knew that food is temporary (Esau is a good example of someone who found out about this too late!) but God's word is eternal and fills the spirit.
• Jesus told listeners to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and things like food and shelter would be given to them. This is the message that Moses is preaching to the people in this chapter.
• The warning that Moses gave them about forgetting God when they were rich and prosperous is the same type of warning Jesus gave when He told of the rich man who looked out on all his fields and dreamed of building bigger barns without giving any consideration to his soul which was going to be required of him that very night. (Luke 12:15-21)

Does this chapter teach anything about yet-future events?

• It is for certain that if God rewards those who seek to do His will by providing for their every need in this world we need not worry about the provisions of the world to come!

Journal Through the Bible: Week 27 Wednesday

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Deuteronomy chapter 7

Moses delivered an inspirational speech declaring the love of God for them and the blessings that would result if they loved Him in return.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 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;  Deut. 7:7-9

Does God issue any commands?

• The people were told that God would help them destroy the 7 mighty nations that lived in the land and that they were NOT to make treaties with them including marriage contracts.
• The people were commanded to destroy all the idols of the Canaanites.

Does God make any promises?

• God promised that if they did not destroy the Canaanites and their idols but intermarried with these 7 forbidden nations God would punish them 
• God would be faithful to keep the covenant; He would love them and bless them if they kept it also.
• Moses told them of God's promise to keep all the diseases of Egypt from them if they followed His rules of purity.
• God would fight their battles for them.

Does this chapter teach anything about Jesus?

• The people were told that Jehovah would fight their battles for them because they would not be able to defeat the enemy alone. Jesus fought our spiritual and physical battle also because we could not defeat our enemy, Satan, alone.
• Just as Israel was undeserving of God's love but they found grace in His sight and they became His chosen people, Christians are undeserving of God's love but have found grace in His sight and became His chosen people through the redemptive work of Jesus.
• Moses' speech is given to the people to encourage them prior to his death. It is similar to the speech given by Jesus to His disciples prior to His death which is recorded in John chapter 14.

Does this chapter teach anything about yet-future events?

• Verses 13 through 15 tell of the miseries of sin being taken away from the world of the Israelites when they inherit their land. They are reminiscent of the passages in Revelations that tell of all sickness, death, tears, and sorrow being taken away when the new world becomes the inheritance of the redeemed.
• God told the Israelites that all the miseries would be laid upon those who were foreigners and alien to His laws. The same will be true for those who do not have their citizenship in Heaven and the New Earth.
• Nothing that was an abomination to God was to be found in the land that He chose as His own. There will be nothing abominable in the eternal land where God promises to dwell with man forever.