Deut

Background

Pentateuch

The 5 books of Moses

Last book of the Pentatech

2nd Hebrew generation ready to cross over Jordan into the promised land

Moses' last speeches before crossing over

Moses knows he will not cross over and he will die soon

Moses sounded a bit bitter as he repeat the variation of the phrase combination "because of you", and "The Lord was angry with me"

1:37

3:36

4:21

Uses the past, present, future communication pattern

Past

Recount Hx

Present

About to cross over Jordan to promise land

Future

Blessing and curses

Uses the international suzerainty treaty style which is familiar to the surrounding nations

Reference from The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 2 (D-G)

Preamble

Covenant Mediator (1:1-5)

Historical

Historical Prologue: Covenant History (1:6-4:49(

Prologue

Stipulations

Covenant Life (ch 5-26)

Curses and blessings

Covenant Ratification (ch 27-30)

Invocation of oath deities

direction for deposit of duplicate treaty documents in sanctuaries

Covenant Continuity (ch 31-34)

Periodic proclamation of the treaty of the vassal people

ch 31:9-13

Outline

Narrative mostly(ch 1-4)

Superscription 1:1These are the words

Good summary of Israel history before the Jordan crossing

The recounting of God's great works intent to move Israel to trust God, not blind faith, but a faith that is base on past great works of God.

The importance of keeping the law for the Israelite as a nation as it is life.

Warnings about leaving God

Moses set aside city of refuge at the end for accidental killing

Superscription 4:44 which leads into the 10 commandmentsThis is the law [torah]

10 commandments(ch 5)

Core concepts in Deut

"Exodus" version

10 commandments in Exodus is the Creation version

ExhortationsGiven to encourage before the detail laws are given(ch 6-11)

Superscription 6:1This is the commandment-the statues and ordinances

Surronding deities - worship motivation is primary fearIsrael God - has the fear element, but the unique part is that worship is primary motivated by love and gratitude

6:5

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

6:6

In your heart

Ch 11

Love your God

v13

v22

How to transmit to next generation

Totally integrated into your life.Not just on religious occasions.

6:7-9

11:18-20

6:20-25

Set up triggers fornext generation to askquestions

When triggers hit,will create opportunity topass on God's great work intothe next generation.

When good things happened watch out!

Don't become proud

7:7

fewest of all people

Remember God's Love

7:8,9

But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers ...he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love...

It is a covanent of love

God's love is faithful

Don't become proud

Don't forget God andbecome proud; forget to give thanks.

ch 8

"... man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord..."

Not b/c of Israel righeousnessbut b/c of the canaanites' wickednessIsrael is a stiff neck people and they gotthe track record to prove it.

ch 9

Law(ch 12-27)

Place of worship

ch 12

Punishment for worshiping other Godsor doing detestable practices

ch 13

ch 16:21-22, ch 17:1-7

ch 18:9-13

Clean/Unclean

Clean/unclean animals mostly

ch 14:1-21

includes insects

do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk

Going to the bathroom

ch 12-14

Tithes

ch 14:22-28

Family enjoys the tithes in the presence of God

Share it with the Levites

every 3 years

this tithes is for the levites and the vulnerable of society

Ch 26:1-15

Sabbatical Year

ch 15:1-18

Year of cancel debts

Slaves are free

Slave do not go empty handed

supply free slave liberally

remember you were once slave

First born animals

ch 15:19-23

eat in the presence of God

Feasts

Passover

ch 16:1-8

Feast of the Week

ch 16:9-12

Feat of Tabernacles

ch 16:13-17

Legal

Judge appointment

ch 16:18-20

Law Courts

ch 17:8-13

City of Refuge

ch 19:1-14

Witness

ch 19:15-21

Governing

King appointment

Ch 17:14-20

do not be like other nations

do not take many wives

do not amass a huge military

do not accumulate large amount of

silver

gold

do not consider himself better than others

write a copy of deut for himself

read deut all the days of his life

Prophets

ch 18:14-22

War

ch 20

Exempt from the draft

Has a new house

Planted a vineyard

Engaged

Afraid

Subtopic

Do not destroy fruit trees

Levites and Priests

Ch 18:1-8

Assembly exclusion

Ch 23: 1-6

Moabites excluded

see Ruth on the other side of map

Alians

Do not abhor Edomites or Egytians

Ch 23:7-8

Blessings and curses(ch 28)

very graphic curses

Final Speech(ch 29-31)

Superscription 29:1These are the words of the covenant

Transfer of leadership to Joshua

Israel rebellion predicted

Poetic Song(ch 32)

Blessings(ch 33)

Superscription 33:1This is the blessing

Epilog - Moses' death and Joshua is the leader(ch 34)

Selected Topics

Themes

Rest

War

10 commandments

Circumcise heart

Deut 10:16

Isarel do them

Deut 30:6

God does them

Jerm 4:4

Jerm 9:25

Rom 2:25-29

Col 2:11

Phil 3:3

Torah

When torah is reference,it is most likelly to refer to Deutb/c Deut refer to itself as torah[law].

29:21

30:10

31:26

Relation to other books

Moses desires to cross into the promise land

He is sored about itas demonstrated byMoses repeated reminderof how Israel caused himhis trip to the promise land

God said no but also God's grace

In the transfiguration

He stood with Jesus in the promised land

Jesus

Use Deut 3x against Satan

Mat's and Luke's order slightly different

Mat 4:1-11

Luke 4:1-13

Satan quoted Psalm 91:11,12 once

Jesus quoted Deut 3x

Deut 6:13(worship God alone)

Deut 6:16(don't test God)

Deut 8:3(not bread alone)

Mat's sermon on the mount refer indirectly to the 10 commandments

Deut 6:5 (love your God with everything)when asked what isthe greatest commandment (Mat 22:37)

Deut 8:3 man does not live on bread alone...Jesus is the heavenly bread.

Jesus is Passover Lamb

Hebrew Scripture

Exodus language and images

The rest of the Bible uses it

Lots of political and Christian piousmovements use it

From Yancy's book on what Scripture Jesus read.The main point is that political movement and even Christian pious movement uses the Exodos language and images selectively and thus have a distorted view.Deut has a realistic view of the Exodus experience:Before Exodus, Israel rebel against Moses, do not trust God, complain.After Exodus before Jordan, Israel is a still neck people, extremely negative in life views, complain and whine despite repeated miracles from God, rebel, thankless... got so extremed even God almost got fed up with them and decide to wipe them out.After Exodus after Jordan, they fulfill Deut prophecy where they did conquered the land and within a few generation, they forgotten God.Basically, political and Christian movement view pre-exodus as all dark and that they are the "saints" and they look forward to Cannan which is sort of heaven on earth. They forget that you have to fight in Cannan and it is full of traps that will lead one away from God. They forgot that without God, they will degenerate into tyranny just as their oppressors were (or worst). They forgot the lure of power and how power corrupts. They underestimate the danger of power, judge their oppressors (who abuse power, who are trapped by the lure of power) and forget that they too can fall into the same power trap once they come into power.

Problem

Only look at Exodus

Take Exodus out of context

Forgot about the relationship with Deut and other books of the Bibl

Subtopic

Fail to look at what Deut looked at

What happened before Exodus

What happened after Exodus

Before crossing Jordan

After crossing Jordan (prophetic in Deut and fullfilled in other historical books in the Bible)

Exodus

Has the creation version of the 10 Commandment

Deut has the "exodus" version

Ruth

See Deut 23:3

Ruth is a moabite

King David fall under Deut

Jesus is King David Decendent