DECEMBER 20, 2022 Deuteronomy 4:5-6 Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments … Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” As he had already done so many times before, […]
DECEMBER 19, 2022 Deuteronomy 4:3-4 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you. In previous verses God, through Moses, admonished the people to carefully consider what was […]
DECEMBER 18, 2022 Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Imagine a crystal clear stream that flows down from the mountaintop into the valley and meanders along until it makes it way […]
DECEMBER 17, 2022 Deuteronomy 4:1 Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you. There are many occasions where Messiah is quoted as saying, “Let him who has an ear, hear.” […]
DECEMBER 16, 2022 Deuteronomy 3:26 But the Lord was angry with me on your account and would not listen to me. So the Lord said to me: “Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.” This verse fascinates me — the LORD got angry with the man He had chosen to speak with, face to face. […]
DECEMBER 15, 2022 Deuteronomy 3:24-25 O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon. After recounting the battles that […]
DECEMBER 10, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:39 Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. Certainly, it is natural for parents to be concerned about their children and, at times, […]
DECEMBER 14, 2022 Deuteronomy 2:25 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you. As Moses continued retelling the story of their journey, he recounted how Israel was prohibited […]
DECEMBER 13, 2022 Deuteronomy 13-14 So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them. Thirty-eight years […]
DECEMBER 12, 2022 Deuteronomy 2:7 For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. In the very first part of Moses’ discourse in Deuteronomy, the great teacher emphasized the reward of doubt, fear and […]
DECEMBER 9, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:39 Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. Moses reminded them that, when Israel embraced the spies’ evil report, they accused God of […]
DECEMBER 8, 2022 Deuteronomy 1:31 The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. There is a rabbinic adage based on this passage that says, “A loving father carries his son when he is too young or too weak to make the […]
