Bible Survey

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Bible Survey

• Deuteronomy

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Title
• yrIªb'Dgth
• hr"ÛATh hnEv.mi
• Deuterono,mion
• (Deuteronomion)

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Author
• Moses

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• Date
• 40 years after the Exodus
• 1406 BC

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• Theme
• Faithfulness to the Covenant

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• 1. Preamble
• 2. Historical Prologue
• 3. Stipulations
• 4. Ratification
• 5. Provisions for Perpetuity

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Treaty Between Mursilis And Duppi-Tessub
• Preamble
• These are the words of the Sun Mursilis, the
  great king, the king of the Hatti land, the
  valiant, the favorite of the Storm- god, the son
  of Suppiluliumas, the great king, the king of the
  Hatti land, the valiant.

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• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Preamble
• Deuteronomy 11-5 These are the words which
  Moses spoke to all Israel . . . . 3 In the
  fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh
  month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel,
  according to all that the LORD had commanded him
  to give to them, 4 after he had defeated Sihon
  the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon,
  and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth
  and Edrei. 5 Across the Jordan in the land of
  Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law.

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Historical Prologue
• Treaty Between Mursilis and Duppi-Tessub
• Aziras was your grandfather, Duppi- Tessub. He
  rebelled against my father, but submitted again
  to my father. When the kings of Nuhassi land and
  the kings of Kinza rebelled against my father,
  Aziras did not rebel. As he was bound by treaty,
  he remained bound by treaty. As my father fought
  against his enemies, in the same manner fought
  Aziras. Aziras remained loyal.

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• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Historical Prologue
• Deuteronomy 123-27 I took twelve of your
  men, one man for each tribe. 24 "They turned and
  went up into the hill country, and came to the
  valley of Eshcol and spied it out. 25 "Then they
  took some of the fruit of the land in their hands
  and brought it down to us and they brought us
  back a report and said, 'It is a good land which
  the LORD our God is about to give us.' 26 "Yet
  you were not willing to go up, but rebelled
  against the command of the LORD your God 27 and
  you grumbled in your tents . . . .

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Stipulations
• Treaty Between Mursilis and Duppi-Tessub
• . . . honor the oath (of loyalty) to the king .
  . . and I, the king, will be loyal toward you,
  Duppi- Tessub.

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Stipulations
• Deuteronomy 61-2 Now this is the commandment,
  the statutes and the judgments which the LORD
  your God has commanded me to teach you, that you
  might do them in the land where you are going
  over to possess it, 2 so that you and your son
  and your grandson might fear the LORD your God,
  to keep all His statutes and His commandments
  which I command you, all the days of your life,
  and that your days may be prolonged.

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• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Ratification
• Treaty Between Mursilis and Duppi-Tessub
• Should Duppi-Tessub not honor these words of
  the treaty and the oath, may these gods of the
  oath destroy Duppi-Tessub together with his
  person, his wife, his son, his grandson, his
  house, his land and together with everything that
  he owns. But if Duppi-Tessub honors these words
  of the treaty and the oath that are inscribed on
  this tablet, may these gods of the oath protect
  him together with his person, his wife, his son,
  his grandson, his house (and) his country.

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Ratification
• Deuteronomy 281-2 Now it shall be, if you
  diligently obey the LORD your God, being careful
  to do all His commandments which I command you
  today, the LORD your God will set you high above
  all the nations of the earth. 2 All these
  blessings will come upon you and overtake you if
  you obey the LORD your God . . . 15 But it shall
  come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God,
  to observe to do all His commandments and His
  statutes with which I charge you today, that all
  these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

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• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Provisions for Perpetuity
• Treaty Between Mursilis and Duppi-Tessub
• The words of the treaty and the oath are
  inscribed on this tablet

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• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Provisions for Perpetuity
• Deuteronomy 319 9 So Moses wrote this law and
  gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who
  carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
  to all the elders of Israel.

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
• Provisions for Perpetuity
• Deuteronomy 272-4 2 So it shall be on the day
  when you cross the Jordan to the land which the
  LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up
  for yourself large stones and coat them with lime
  3 and write on them all the words of this law,
  when you cross over, so that you may enter the
  land which the LORD your God gives you, a land
  flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God
  of your fathers, promised you. 4 So it shall be
  when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on
  Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you
  today . . . .

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• Purpose of Writing
• To impress upon the Israelites the importance of
  keeping the covenant which they had made with the
  Lord. Just as nations were bound to keep their
  covenants with foreign kings or face the
  consequences, so Israel is bound to honor the
  terms of her covenant with the Greatest King, the
  Lord, or face the consequences.
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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Christ in Deuteronomy
• Moses

Deuteronomy 1815, 18-19 15 The LORD your God
will raise up for you a prophet like me from
among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen
to him . . . 18 'I will raise up a prophet from
among their countrymen like you, and I will put
My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them
all that I command him. 19 'It shall come about
that whoever will not listen to My words which he
shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it
of him.
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• Christ in Deuteronomy
• Moses and Christ had parallel personal histories
• (1.) Both had their lives threatened as children
• (2.) Both were rejected by their families
• (3.) Both led stubborn and faithless people

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• Christ in Deuteronomy
• Moses and Christ held parallel offices
• (1.) Prophet
• (2.) Priest
• (3.) King

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• Christ in Deuteronomy
• Israel

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• Christ in Deuteronomy
• Parallels between Israel and Christ
• (1.) Both are the result of miraculous
  conceptions
• (2.) Both had their survival threatened early on
• (3.) Both sojourned in Egypt
• (4.) Both were baptized in the Jordan River
• (5.) Both wandered in the wilderness
• (6.) Both suffered a death and resurrection

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• Christ in Deuteronomy
• Areas in which Christ fulfilled the Covenant
• (1.) During his wilderness sojourn, rather than
  grumbling, he was content to live on the Word of
  God.
• (2.) Rather than resisting his death on the
  cross, he willingly submitted to it as Gods will.

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• Christs Use of Deuteronomy
• Interestingly, Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy
  frequently throughout his ministry. During what
  must have been one of the most trying times in
  his life, his temptation in the wilderness, he
  quoted Deuteronomy from memory.

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Bible Survey Deuteronomy

• Place in the Canon
• In a sense, Deuteronomy is a summarization of
  the Bible so far. It describes just what has
  been going on between God and the world. The
  essence of that interaction is the covenant with
  Israel. God has rescued Israel and Israel must
  respond with faith and love and obedience.
  Ultimately, she does not succeed in this demand
  and is judged accordingly. By contrast, Jesus
  Christ does succeed in fulfilling this demand of
  the covenant, but is still judged as a substitute
  for all those who do not succeed, including you
  and me.