The Rise of the Kingdom

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0:00 Are you guys ready to study the Bible tonight? Yes, we're ready. Alright. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Father, thank you for the rain. Thank you for life. Thank you for the gift of being able to breathe, of being able to live with the natural life that you have given us. It is so amazing that you have made us not for natural life, but for supernatural life.

0:52 So, we thank you for the life of grace. I ask that this evening, you would help us understand the narrative, to help us understand what's going on in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel. And may we respect and honor your word, for what it truly is. Let's go ahead and pray this prayer together. Lord Jesus Christ, be present now, and let your Holy Spirit bow, all hearts and love and truth today, to hear your word and keep your way. Give us the grace to grasp your word, that we may do what we have heard.

1:47 Instruct us through the scriptures, Lord, as we draw near, O God adored. To God the Father, and the Son, and Holy Spirit, three in one. To you, O blessed Trinity, be praised throughout eternity. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is the feast of St. Luke, the evangelist. And you know, St. Luke was not an apostle. He was an evangelist. He was a companion of St. Paul. So, the four evangelists, Matthew and John, are apostles. But Mark and Luke were not part of the original twelve apostles. Mark was a companion of St. Peter. And tradition has it that Mark wrote his gospel in Rome, where Peter was as bishop.

2:39 And so, Mark got most of his tradition from Peter. And then Luke got his tradition, what he wrote, he got largely from St. Paul. And it's really neat, because Luke not only wrote Luke, but he also wrote Acts. Acts is an extension of Luke. It's like Luke is the gospel, and then Acts of the Apostles is the life of the early church, after the resurrection of Christ. And Luke kind of gives a defense of St. Paul in Acts of the Apostles. And we'll look into that more when we get into the New Testament and this Bible study. But I just wanted to say that today we're celebrating the life of Christ as lived out in St. Luke, the evangelist. And there are, on the church's calendar, the highest form of celebration is a solemnity. So this would be like Sundays, or Christmas, or the Annunciation.

3:38 And then we have, below that, we have feasts. So today is a feast day, which would be celebrating St. Luke. Then we have memorials. So yesterday was a memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, who lived, who actually, St. Ignatius' tradition has it, that he was born about the time that Christ died and rose from the dead. And then he learned the faith at the feet of St. John the Apostle. He was ordained the Bishop of Antioch by St. Peter, who was also the Bishop of Antioch before him. And then St. Peter went on to Rome. Ignatius was martyred in his old age, in his 70s, in the Roman Colosseum, in the teeth of lions. And we still have his letters. We have seven of his letters that he wrote on his way, when he was under arrest, when he was being taken to Rome from Antioch.

4:31 He wrote these seven letters to Christian communities. He wrote a letter to the Philadelphians. So that got sent across the Atlantic, right? No. No, Philadelphia was an actual place back then. And Philadelphia is kind of named after Philadelphia in Asia Minor. It means brotherly love. Delphos, brothers, and phylos, love, love of the brotherhood. And then he also wrote a letter to the Magnesians, to the Ephesians. And it's just, he's a great guy. I like him a lot. So we celebrated his memorial yesterday. And then we have optional memorials, if you're a little bit lower down on the calendar. And then below that, we have just regular days. So, anyways, I just thought I would share that with you guys.

5:19 It's one of those kind of cool little things to know. Because I always, like, yesterday was a memorial of St. Ignatius, but I would always call it the Feast of St. Ignatius. But it's actually nice, a memorial, not the feast. So, feasts are more rare. But, anyways, and I don't know why we would call them feasts. Maybe it's because we're supposed to eat a lot on those days. Okay, so what I want to do is I want to show some typology that the Bible is doing here between Adam and Israel. Remember, you know, Adam is spoken of in the Genesis narrative. Israel is largely spoken of in the Exodus narrative. Adam is God's firstborn son. Remember, we saw that Adam was made in the image and likeness of God. And then Adam's son, Seth, was made in the image and likeness of Adam. So, if Seth was made in the image and likeness of Adam, and Seth is Adam's son, then to be made in the image and likeness would mean that you are a son.

6:16 So, Adam would be the son of God. And we see at the end of Luke chapter 3, we have the genealogy of Jesus going all the way back to not just David, and not just Abraham, and not even just Adam, but it goes all the way back to God. to show that Adam had this divine sonship. So, Adam, and remember, if you're the first son in the family, even if you're an only child, you're still the firstborn son. So, if I had one child, and that was my son, I don't know, Michael, he would be my firstborn son, even though there are no more. If I had ten girls, then a son, my son would still be the firstborn, even though he's really the 11th born. And so, Adam, by being God's son, is the firstborn. Israel, we're told, in Exodus 4.22, is God's firstborn son.

7:12 Remember, God spoke to Moses from the burning bush, and he said, go to Pharaoh, and tell Pharaoh that Israel is my firstborn son. Let him go, and if you don't, I will do what? I will kill your firstborn son, right. And then, the firstborn son is, kind of has a royal priestly prerogative. He has rule. So, if the father dies, guess who reigns over the family, and serves as the family head, and has this kind of kingship over the family? The firstborn son. Firstborn son also had kind of a natural priesthood, according to an Israelite worldview. So, Israel, while all of Israel's firstborn sons were priestly, God tells Moses that all of Israel is his firstborn son, and then at Mount Sinai, God says to them, if you shemar my covenant, if you shemar my covenant, guard my covenant.

8:15 Remember the same command that was given to Adam in the garden. If you shemar my covenant, you shall be to me a kingdom of priests. You will be a kingdom of priests. Well, of course, Israel, like Adam, did not shemar the covenant. They, like Adam, fell. Adam succumbed to the serpent, and took the forbidden fruit. And so, Israel succumbs to the Egyptian gods, their Egyptian idols, especially through the worship of the golden calf, which was the Egyptian Apis cult. And by doing so, they forfeited their royal priesthood. And who got the royal priesthood? Who got the priesthood? The Levites. Why the Levites? Why not the Danites or the Issacharites? Because the Levites were jealous for the covenant.

9:10 They were, I wouldn't say jealous, they were zealous. There we go. Wrong letter. A Z instead of a J. Okay, so we have our, we have, Israel is kind of put on probation. Right at Mount Sinai. We have this probation that Israel is put under. So, God says, okay, you guys don't want to follow me. You don't want to have faith in me. Well, then I'm going to have you, I'm going to mandate animal sacrifice every single day. And why animal sacrifice? Is God pleased by just seeing all these sheep die, and just all the smoke rising up, and God just gets a kick out of it? No, no. These were the gods that they worshipped. They worshipped rams. They worshipped sheep, worshipped cattle.

9:58 And so, when they're commanded in Leviticus to kill their gods every single day, it's a form of constantly renouncing their idolatry. And so, they're put on probation. And the Levitical priesthood comes about. And so, the Levitical priesthood isn't going to be forever. It's not going to continue into the New Testament. Okay? Because it's a temporary priesthood. God wants for Israel to be royal and priestly. Okay, so, let's go ahead and turn to Revelation chapter 1. Verse 6. Basically, it's talking about how God, through Jesus Christ, has made us into a kingdom, priests for His God and Father.

10:56 Okay, Jesus has made us into a kingdom, priests for His God and Father. And this is an allusion to Exodus 19.6. Exodus chapter 19, verse 6. Because, in the New Testament church, the Levitical priesthood is going to be done away with, and we're all going to get this royal priesthood. We're all going to be, we're basically going to, Israel is finally going to get back on track in the New Testament. And so, I just wanted to point that out. And we'll see in Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is going to be the firstborn son of Joseph and Mary. And He's going to be both king and priest and prophet. And then it's by being joined to His body that we take on His life. And His life is reproduced in our souls.

11:50 And we become kings, priests, and prophets by participation in Jesus Christ. Okay, so let's turn back to Numbers chapter 14. Numbers chapter 14, verse 34. Numbers 14, verse 34. Right before Numbers 14, verse 34, we have Israel. And Israel is, you know, coming out from Mount Sinai. They're now reorganized under the Levitical priesthood. They, God is, is leading them by a pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night.

12:46 And they're going to the Holy Land. But before they go into the Holy Land, Moses sends out how many spies? Twelve spies. Representing what? Why twelve? Yeah, a leader from each tribe. And how many of those twelve spies say, we can take it? Two. So, Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb had faith. They trusted that the Lord is trustworthy and they put His trust in Him. And they said, we can do it. God says, we can take it, we can take it. Yes, there are big people in the land, they're very numerous, but we can do it. The tens say what? No.

13:33 No, this is impossible. These people are way too big, they're too numerous for us. So, what do the people do? They follow the ten or the two? The ten. And they practically have a mutiny right there. They say, God must have brought us out here just to die at the hands of these people. We wish, how we wish that we could go back to Egypt and die there. We can't take this land. So, what does God say? God punishes them by giving them what they ask for. He says, okay, you don't think you can take the land? You're going to wander out here in the wilderness for 40 years. Why 40? Why not 30 or why not 50? It's a generation. A generation. So, 40 years, that generation is going to die off. So, in Numbers 14, 20, I'm sorry, 14, 34, we read, 40 days you spent in scouting the land.

14:27 40 years shall you suffer for your crimes, one year for each day. Thus, you will realize what it means to oppose me. Okay, let's go ahead and skip along to Numbers 25. Numbers 25, verse 1. Now, in Numbers 25, verse 1, we have something huge happens. Now, remember, when did the golden calf happen? Mount Sinai, but what chapter of Exodus? chapter 32.

15:16 Okay, Exodus 32. This was huge. This was like Adam's forbidden fruit incident. This was humongo. Well, something just as big, just as great, just as severe, just as grave is going to happen, not with the first generation, but with this second generation. Remember, God said, you first generation, you're not going to enter the land, but the second generation will. The second generation is about to go into the land. They're right across the Jordan River. And let's say, let me get a blue marker here so I can, we'll have a graphical user interface up here. Everything will be color coordinated. We have the Sea of Galilee up here. We have the Jordan River. And then we have the Dead Sea.

16:06 And then the plains of Moab are just to the east of the Jordan River. This is the plains of Moab. And this is where Israel is. They're close to coming into the land. The second generation. But, what happens in number 25 is this. While Israel was living at Shittim, the people degraded themselves by having illicit relations with the Moabite women. Remember, the plains of Moab. So they, the Moabite women. Now, ever since the beginning in Genesis, you know, back in the first ten chapters of Genesis, remember when the sons of God had relations with the, or they went into the daughters of men. And we saw that the sons of God were the Sethite men.

16:58 And the daughters of men were the Canaanite women. The perverse women. And so they had relations. And what happened? The Canaanite women kind of seduced the Sethite men, the sons of God, because they have this genealogy going back to God, this divine sonship, through the, the correct son. Well, this has been, and then remember when Abraham wanted to find a wife for his son Isaac? He said, not here among the Canaanites, he says, go back to my homeland and get him a wife. And then remember when Rebecca told Isaac that they needed a wife for their son Jacob?

17:45 She says, not here, not around these people, but have them go back to my homeland. So we have the same thing happening here. Israel ends up having a mixed marriage with an idolatrous people. And this ends up, this ends up, having these relations with these women, being seduced by these women, caused them to fall into this great idolatry. So the, it says that the people degraded themselves by having illicit relations with the Moabite women. These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their God. And the people ate of the sacrifices and worshiped their God. When Israel thus submitted to the rites of Baal of Peor, the Lord's anger flared up against Israel. Okay, this is huge.

18:34 What we're having is we have the second generation's apostasy. The second generation's apostasy. And the apostasy is Baal or Baal Peor worship. Baal means Lord. And so, you guys remember in the New Testament when I, when Jesus uses the term Baalzebub or Baalzebub from the Gospels, Zebub means flies. And Baal means Lord. So it's Lord of the Flies. Okay, who's an English teacher here?

19:24 Isn't that cool? Yeah? And so, the Baal Peor worship happens at Beth Peor. Beth Peor is the location. And Beth Peor is right here on the plains of Moab. And so, the second generation sins. And why was Leviticus given as a book to the people? What was, I mean, what instigated Leviticus being given? It's the priestly code and the holiness code, but why have it at all? What happened to cause that to happen? The golden calf. Sin. So, St. Paul tells us in Galatians 3.19 that the law was added because of transgressions.

20:17 We have transgressions, we have law. In the book of Numbers, we have history, which gives a little history of Israel's rebellion, the rebellious people, and we have laws given. Elsewhere in Numbers, we have history, then law. History, then law. It sounds like a university degree. So, basically what's happening is that every time that there are transgressions, more law is given. Why? Why is more law given? God is trying to keep Israel in check. It's like, you know, your kid, you say, okay, I want you home at 11 o'clock sharp, and they get home at 11.30, so what do you do? You go, okay, 10 o'clock. They get home at 11 o'clock. You go, that's it, 9 o'clock. You keep setting the curfew. Why? Because you want to put a hold on your wayward son.

21:06 You want to put them in check. You want to control your children so that they don't go off and ruin their lives and, you know, hang out with the wrong people and, yeah, it's all like golden calves. okay, so we have, we have the second generation's apostasy and guess what's the result of this apostasy? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. would not, would probably would not exist if it were not for this event. Because guess where Deuteronomy is given? The plains of Moab. Let's turn to the beginning of Deuteronomy. The beginning of Deuteronomy.

21:58 Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 5. Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 5. Moses began to explain the law in the land of Moab beyond the Jordan as follows. that's kind of like saying President Bush went and delivered an address at ground zero or you know of the twin towers that fell on September the 11th or it's like saying President Bush went and delivered an address at Gettysburg. It's a very significant location. It's where something big happened.

22:45 And so by having Moses give the law the second law on the plains of Moab we have it's kind of like the laws being given where the huge apostasy of the second generation took place. Now why is Deuteronomy called Deuteronomy? Because of the name of the laws. I heard someone else say why. The second law. Right. So Deuteronomy remember the first law was given at Sinai. The second law comes from Deuteros which means second and Nomos which means law.

23:35 okay so we have so if someone's like an antinomian he's like you know he's lawless you know this is where we get this from. So we have the second law it's given at on the plains of Moab and at Sinai when the first law was given there was a theophany a manifestation of the theos a manifestation of God a theophany there was lightning smoke trembling earthquake horns you know trumping blasting it was this huge manifestation of God and Moses went up and got the law and brought it down from God but in Deuteronomy we're hundreds of miles away from Mount Sinai 40 years later and it's just old Moses sitting there droning on and on just law after law no theophany no great exuberance of God it's just will this guy ever get this over with it's like a boring university lecture it's like understanding the scriptures some nights and so Deuteronomy chapters 1 through 11

24:56 is history and basically it's a history of Israel's unfaithfulness of Israel's sinfulness and Deuteronomy 12 through 26 are the laws that are in response to that unfaithfulness oh let's just pause real quick okay you got the dvd paused okay let's reverse it just a little bit to numbers 27 turn there with me numbers 27 there are so many cool things in this narrative I would love to go over each and every one but we be here for five hours a night and so I have to pick and choose and I'm sitting here trying to figure out what I'm going to teach in this Bible study I'm like oh I really want to talk about Miriam's leprosy I'm like no I can't do that because I don't have time so I'm going to turn to numbers 29 numbers 27 you want to hear about that right numbers 27 verse 15 Moses is getting old and he needs a successor to succeed him so he says then Moses said to the Lord may the Lord the God of

26:19 all spirits of all mankind set over the community of man who shall act as their leader in all things to guide them in all their actions that the Lord's community may not be like a sheep without a shepherd hmm shades of Mark 6 34 huh the feeding of the 5,000 Jesus looks at them and he goes oh they seem to me to be like a sheep without a shepherd well I mean this isn't coincidence this is how the gospel authors wrote they wrote with allusion they're alluding back to this verse because who is Jesus what's his Hebrew name Joshua yeah Joshua is the Hebrew name of Jesus the Greek form so this would be like if I went down to Mexico and I'd be Carson and I come up to America and I'm Carson I go over to Italy and I'm Carson I go into France and I'm Carson you know it's it's different you know and so it's Joshua in Hebrew and it's Jesus in Greek and so we have Joshua who is going to be appointed when the people look like a sheep without a shepherd

27:35 so Jesus is being appointed when there's a sheep without a shepherd and the Lord replied to Moses verse 18 take Joshua or we could if we read it in Greek take Jesus son of none a man of spirit and lay your hand upon him lay your hand upon him have him stand in the presence of the priest Eleazar and of the whole community and commission him before their eyes invest him with some of your own dignity that the whole Israelite community may obey him he shall present himself to the priest Eleazar to have him seek out for him the decisions of the Urim in the Lord's presence and as he directs Joshua all the Israelites with him in the community as a whole shall perform all their actions Moses did as the Lord had commanded him taking let's use the Greek form taking Jesus and having him stand in the presence of the priest Eleazar and of the whole community he laid his hands on him and gave him his commission as the Lord had directed through Moses

28:38 so in the New Testament we're going to have the laying on of the hands and Paul tells Timothy a young bishop he says do not lay hands too readily on anybody it's either in 1st Timothy or 2nd Timothy I can't remember do not lay your hands too readily on anybody laying on of the hands was not just a fuzzy warm feeling that you know they got because they just thought this would be a good idea no this is an Old Testament symbol it's a prophetic action saying you will succeed me in my ministry this is where we get apostolic succession from okay we have the bishops who succeed the apostles because the bishops have their hands laid upon them and today we do this on ordinations we have actually whenever a bishop is ordained three other bishops lay their hands on that bishop's head they really want to make sure he gets ordained so they have three bishops not just one and whenever a priest or a deacon is ordained

29:33 just one bishop lays his hands upon his head and so I just I love that because this again you can see the New Testament in the Old the Old explains the New and the more that we know the Old Testament is the more that the Gospels and the Epistles come to life okay so let's turn again to Deuteronomy let's turn to Deuteronomy now Deuteronomy prophesies what's going to go on in the rest of the Old Testament so well that contemporary or I guess some people might call them modernist biblical scholars say oh Deuteronomy wasn't written by Moses it wasn't it was it's not that old it couldn't be it was written after all the events took place it's kind of like the book of Revelation talks so well about the the Jewish Roman war and the fall of the fall of Jerusalem that biblical scholars go oh well the book of Revelation couldn't have been written until after the Jewish Roman war well hold on there that's kind of like

30:39 taking a presumption a pre-assumption and saying that can't be true because we don't believe in prophecy or miracles therefore it didn't happen that way so biblical scholars have been saying well Deuteronomy must have been written after all these events because Deuteronomy will prophesy what's going to take place in Joshua Judges 1st Samuel and on and even even into 2nd Samuel 1st Kings 2nd Kings and beyond that into the exile and the return and so but something really cool has happened in biblical studies another one of those little like ahas where we go hmm maybe it is historical because Deuteronomy is structured quite meticulously after a Hittite treaty covenant a Hittite treaty covenant and these Hittite treaty covenants were were made in the 2nd millennium BC the treaty covenants that were made in the 1st millennium BC later on after all these events had taken place were structured differently

31:53 now I can't get into all the significances of how they're structured that would again we would need 5 hours tonight to go through that but it was really cool when I was taught in my graduate courses how this was so and we went through all the different points and Deuteronomy is structured just like these ancient Hittite treaty covenants because guess what the Hittites were Israel's neighbor in this time when Deuteronomy would have been written and so the Israelites would know how treaty covenants were written and stuff and so this would fit the age and so going back and recovering Hittite treaty covenants and looking at them and analyzing them we go wow Deuteronomy really seems to fit that in the same way that if you analyze the book of Revelation it really fits the book of Daniel the book of Daniel is structured in a certain way and the book of Revelation is structured in that same way so you can see

32:42 that Revelation whoever wrote Revelation most likely John the apostle and evangelist used Daniel as his structure and so whoever wrote Deuteronomy was using these Hittite treaty covenants and how they're kind of structured as their structure so that's just kind of a cool little you know archaeological evidence of the veracity and the historicity of the scriptures and these covenants these Hittite treaty covenants were made between a suzerain king and his vassals and he they entered into these covenants because well the suzerain king was like a feudal lord he had the lands he had you know he had the power he had the wealth and that's why the vassals entered into it the suzerain kings entered into it because the vassals were potentially wayward vassals potentially rebellious and the suzerain kings wanted to have like control over them through this this treaty covenant and so and what was really cool

33:45 is that in these covenants the suzerain kings would call the vassals their sons they would say like you are my son today for we have entered into this covenant and the vassals guess what they would call the suzerain kings father right so it's like a father son and again what's the definition of a covenant it's a kinship bond entered into by two or more people it makes kin it makes family so we see this happening in in other foreign nations and so this is also enlightening because Deuteronomy is like God has a very potentially rebellious son Israel right second generation they they fell into sexual immorality right well guess what they did with the golden calf they rose up to revel an idiom for sexual immorality this is part of the fertility cults in Paul's day men guess what you did if you were a Greek pagan you would go up to the to the pagan temple and you would have relations with the temple

34:58 prostitute and your daughters would have to serve as temple prostitutes this is part of the fertility cults of Greece well it didn't just happen in Greece it also happened before that and so in the part of the Egyptian part of their cult was this fertility aspect where they would have like prostitutes well this is what's happening at with worship of Baal Peor worship at Beth Peor is that we have like a fertility cult going on they're not just having illicit relations they're worshiping through their illicit relations right it's like I just came here for a bible study I need some whiskey I need to blur this a little bit this is a little a little strong and so we have God we have I mean Israel the second generation who God is trying to groom to be faithful okay I killed all your parents in the desert you know let them all die out okay guys come on you know you can now be the star quarterback

35:58 your dad failed but now you can do it you know you're now top of your class and they fail big time so God enters into Deuteronomy with them in order to keep them in check this potentially wayward rebel son and the law in chapters 12 through 26 is divided we have three things that are given in chapters 12 through 26 we have legal concessions so they sell things like Doritos and Pepsi the second thing is that we have ritual stipulations so we have ritual stipulations these are like ceremonies or like for instance one of the ritual stipulations is going to be a central sanctuary and another ritual stipulation is going to be the sacrifice of the firstborn of the animals before Deuteronomy anytime you wanted a hamburger you had to take the cow to the Levite to get it slaughtered anytime you wanted any meat from any of those animals that are considered clean in Deuteronomy just set aside your firstborn

37:22 the rest you can sacrifice by yourself and so only the firstborn animals have to be set aside and sacrificed by the Levites at the central sanctuary that's a ritual stipulation the third thing you'll find are redemptive curses so they're curses they're bad things but God doesn't remember God does not curse for the sake of cursing he curses to teach a lesson to redeem to bring life I mean the reason you punish as a parent isn't because you just want to get retribution right it's because you want for your child to learn right from wrong and to become upright and the reason again last time in a previous study I talked about excommunication the church doesn't excommunicate just because she's just royally pissed off at this public center no it's a means of bringing this center back into communion with the church so the church won't just excommunicate anybody they'll only excommunicate people when they'll

38:28 see that this person would actually take that in a positive way and repent and come back otherwise they just use it as oh the church is persecuting me and then they might use the media and then it goes against the very purpose to begin with but some of the legal concessions we have polygamy is given concubinage so concubinage with like foreign slave lives divorce and remarriage slavery none of this existed before Deuteronomy these are legal concessions Moses is giving in he's I believe it was Aristotle I can't remember exactly which Greek philosopher said it I believe it was Aristotle he said the wise ruler gives laws that are lesser to govern the people when the people can't uphold the laws that they should so like for instance even though the speed limit should be 55 people are going to end up breaking it anyways so make it 70 and really enforce 70 you know in that way as you guys know

39:50 if we set speed limits out there at 55 many less people would die on our highways it's a it's a proven fact but we value speed and convenience more than we do than life it's true we really do we know the facts we know that if you set the speed limit at 70 more people will die it's a proven fact you set at 55 but it's a legal concession by the way I drive 75 so I'm not saying I'm perfect here or anything okay we also have usury charging interest on loans to your brethren and the reason why this was condemned was because usury would bring your brethren your kinsmen more and more into debt it's like taking advantage of your brother you know and they would so they would just it was like an endless hole if you guys ever read proverbs you'll see how this is so also running out of space here I'll put it over here genocidal warfare genocidal warfare this is also called harem warfare h-e-r-e-m it's a type

40:59 of warfare where you destroy everything men women children beasts houses goods you just kill and burn everything so that's why jericho was jericho that harem warfare yes jericho was i believe it was harem warfare yes and so i mean this isn't god's plan god doesn't want this this is how we see that because some people will look back in the re-deuteronomy and they're like dude look at what god let them do this must have been an evil god you know the god in the new testament is mercy love but in the old testament god is just vengeful and he's out to just destroy the canaanites well no it's israel that wants to destroy and also why does god allow this to happen because if israel doesn't destroy everything including the women guess what's going to happen mixed marriages idolatry and and what's more important faithfulness with god and being in union with him for all of eternity or a temporal friendship

42:01 or or uh marriage to somebody who leads you away from god i mean obviously we know what the answer is uh if you have an eternal perspective and so this is what deuteronomy has and this is the first time that this is ever introduced and so israel is not given what he needs israel is given what he wants it's like if i had a kid and i don't but if i had a kid and if he just really wanted a skittle and i said i'm like no you can't have any skittles okay here's one and he got he's begging me i really want a skittle i really want a bag so i give him a little bag of skittles and he just keeps coming back so i'm like fine here's a five pound bag of skittles have at it and so my kid just eats all the skittles and he's oh he's so happy but then what happens belly ache sick to death i don't ever want to skittle again dad i just did a redemptive curse i just gave him what he wanted and now he realizes

43:02 that he won't learn unless if he experiences the wrath of of the good that he wants so these laws are programmed to bring israel to desire what it needs not what it wants okay god still wants israel to have a new heart a what's going to be called later on in deuteronomy we'll look at this a circumcised heart heart of flesh not a heart of stone and who had the hardened heart who had the heart of stone first in the bible pharaoh so i mean when you're telling the israelites you have a hard heart that's like saying you're pharaoh i mean not good you don't want to do that that's that's not good pr okay and so but however priests the levitical priests are held to a higher morality they cannot marry non-virgins they can't marry divorcees they can't divorce and remarry they can't have concubines they're held to like a higher standard of morality because the levites already kind of have a repentant

44:16 heart they already they already went to moses side and carried out the redemptive curse at the golden calf in exodus 32 so the levites are held to a higher standard of morality god's like okay and why in the land when they end up taking over the land why don't the levites get their own land why do all the israelites get land we have the land of judea from judah we have the land of you know east manasseh and west manasseh issachar benjamin but why is there no land of levi why don't the levi just get levitical cities and they don't get land the tribes did tithe to them yeah the tithe was a tax the tithe means tenth so you gave like a ten percent tax of your incomes like your federal income tax before they had the temple there wasn't a temple there were just levitical cities before there was a central sanctuary the reason is that that scripture gives us is that the lord will be their heritage

45:17 not this land but the lord will be their heritage and that's kind of like a slap in the face to the other tribes it's like saying you don't want me i'm not your heritage but the levites will have me as their heritage this is like god still trying to tell the israelites live up to a higher calling like your levitical brothers and sisters but i'm going to by the way the ancient rabbis said that moses allowed for divorce and remarriage because the israelite men were so hard of heart that should divorce and remarriage not be allowed guess what the israelite men are going to do they're going to pull a king henry the eighth that's right they're going to kill their wives what other way is there out of marriage you know this is the way how they're going to get out of it and so the ancient rabbi said that Moses allowed for this to happen again it's giving a concessionary law in order to rule the people

46:21 so that you don't have a greater evil murder of innocent people happening okay so let's go to deuteronomy chapter 12 this is the first chapter of when the law is given in deuteronomy deuteronomy chapter 12 deuteronomy 12 and in the new testament we have four gospels we have matthew mark luke and john is like the deepest gospel it's it's the deepest it's the most profound gospel in the pentateuch we have genesis exodus leviticus numbers and deuteronomy is like the most profound of the torah of the pentateuch it's like the most profound book and deuteronomy is is really really a great book to read and to study but in chapter 12 we have the lord commanding that eventually there will be one sanctuary and eventually we'll find out that solomon will build the sanctuary it's going to be the temple but in verse 10 of deuteronomy 12 we find out what is going to be the key to build the temple when should

47:30 we build the central sanctuary well verse 10 in the law but after you have crossed the Jordan and dwell in the land which the lord your god is giving you as a heritage again there we go the israelites are going to get it as a heritage but the lord himself is the levite's heritage when he has given you rest from all your enemies round about and you live there in security when you have rest from all your enemies round about and you live there in security then to the place which the lord your god chooses as the dwelling place for his name you shall bring all the offerings i command you okay so we have to wait for that homeland security to happen and it still hasn't happened well if we turn to second samuel chapter seven you don't have to turn there i'm just going to read from it real quick second samuel seven we're going to cover second samuel seven big time next week it's it's one of the central

48:32 chapters of all of the old testament it be second second samuel chapter seven begins like this when king david was settled in his palace and the lord had given him rest from his enemies on every side he said to nathan the prophet here i am living in a house of cedar while the ark of god dwells in a tent and then um david and then god says to say to david uh it was i who took you from the pasture and from the care of the flock to be the commander of my people israel i have been with you wherever you went and i have destroyed all your enemies before you and i will make your name great like the ones of the earth i will fix a place for my people israel i am skipping through a couple of verses uh and god will establish a house for you you will not build a house for me but your son solomon will build a house for me okay so david sees that deuteronomy 12 10 has been fulfilled in the law so now it's time to

49:29 build that central sanctuary and but he wants to do it but god says no i'm gonna make a house for you david it's an idiom saying i'm gonna make a dynasty for you your sons will succeed you and eventually jesus is going to be the final one of those sons of the of the successors of king david but he says i will build a house for you but you will not build a house for me your son will build a house for me and so solomon becomes the temple builder solomon ends up oh we'll get into this next week i just i could take this huge tangent but i'm gonna save this for next week because otherwise i would have nothing to teach next week and then that would be bad you guys would be bored all right so let's look at deuteronomy 18 15 deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 15 this is another huge verse from deuteronomy moses tells the people deuteronomy 18 15 a prophet like me will the lord your god raise up for

50:39 you from among your own kinsmen to him you shall listen and then basically he talks about how you should listen to him he's gonna be a big time prophet you should wait for him and listen to him a prophet like unto me listen to him well the israelites and especially the samaritans knew that this had not been fulfilled in jesus's time that prophet like unto moses had not come and so matthew in his gospel matthew portrays jesus as a new moses throughout his gospel what happened to moses happens to jesus just as moses escaped the slaughter of the innocents so jesus escapes the slaughter of the innocents as moses passed through the red sea to save his people so jesus is going to pass through the waters of the river jordan and just as moses went up mount sinai up the mountain to give the law so jesus goes up mount up the mount to give the sermon on the mount and matthew specifically says jesus

51:56 went up the mountain there there's a high steeping slope but there's no mountain like what an israelite would consider a mountain not like mount ebal or mount gerizim or mount sinai no the matthew kind of exaggerates a little bit to show that jesus is the new moses and what does jesus give up on top of on the mount in matthew five through seven he says you heard it said of old that you shall not murder he refers back to the law that moses gave but i say unto you if you harbor anger towards your brother from your heart you have committed murder you have heard it said of old if you commit adultery if you you know if you commit adultery but i say unto you if you lust after a woman from your heart you've committed adultery jesus gives what the new law is going to look like the law of the holy spirit it's going to go way beyond and way deeper than the national kind of law that moses gives moses

52:55 is giving a law to make you a good citizen don't kill don't murder no don't commit adultery don't bear false witness jesus says be holy i don't want you to be just a good citizen i want for you to be transformed inside and become a new person and be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect in heaven this is the new law that's being given and then we see this new law come at pentecost what was pentecost a celebration of the giving of the law from moses on mount sinai and when the is when the is the jews are celebrating this in the new testament the new law comes the holy spirit and fills the apostles and this is the principle by which we live as christians we don't live excuse me we don't keep covenant with god by going okay i need to build a central sanctuary okay i need to sacrifice once a day okay this is how i'm going to keep covenant with god no we keep covenant by living the new life

53:58 of the holy spirit wisdom understanding knowledge counsel fortitude piety fear of the lord these are the means by which we live out the new law it's the life of grace life in the spirit the new life in jesus christ okay i want to take too much of a tangent here okay we have 20 minutes left so let's look at matthew okay it says a prophet like me will the lord your god raise up for you from among your own kinsmen to him you shall listen what does god say at the transfiguration about jesus to peter james and john this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased listen to him a quotation from deuteronomy 18 15 and who's standing there with jesus at the transfiguration elijah and moses the guy who wrote that in deuteronomy 18 15 kind of cool huh so we have the beloved son part comes from abraham and isaac and the listen to him comes from deuteronomy 18 15 so we've been sitting there at the feast

55:23 of the transfiguration every year listening to this gospel and we're like okay that's cool beloved son listen to him but we totally miss the old testament significance we miss the this is the prophet that's like unto moses that's going to come into the world so jesus is not just king and priest but he's also prophet he's our high priest he's the king over the kingdom of heaven and he's the great prophet like unto moses okay let's turn to chapter 28 of deuteronomy we have you know we have all these laws given laws here laws there law everywhere and then we get into deuteronomy 28 and finally whenever you have a covenant what are the terms of the covenant what do we call that the covenant law okay so the law is like the terms of the covenant how do you keep the covenant in the new testament how do we keep the covenant the life of the holy spirit the new life in christ the indwelling presence of the holy spirit

56:36 as an israelite how did you follow the the sinai covenant am i giving you guys a headache no exodus 20 through 23 the book of the covenant you follow the the covenant law the book of the covenant okay this deuteronomic covenant how do you follow the deuteronomic covenant you follow deuteronomy the covenant law and when you're in a covenant why do you get into a covenant i mean what what's the benefits of the covenant if you keep it you get something good but what are they called no not rules no no but if you keep those rules what do you get why do you swear this oath to enter in this covenant no blessings very good all right blessings so what does jesus give when he goes up the mountain in matthew 5 he gives the eight beatitudes the blessings right yeah the blessings but what if you don't keep the covenant what do you get the curses all right good so we have the covenant law the covenant blessings

57:57 the covenant curses and how do you enter into a covenant you have to do what swear an oath so you have the covenant oath covenant oath covenant law covenant blessings covenant curses you guys getting it capisce understand all right good all right i'm gonna have to keep drilling this into you all right we're gonna become israelites okay little by little we're gonna get it of course they didn't get it too well either of course they didn't get it too well too either that's right so deuteronomy 28 we have the blessings of the deuteronomic covenant okay we have some blessings deuteronomy 28 4 this is kind of indicative of the new testament blessed be the fruit of your womb huh interesting kind of a remanence of luke 142 mary's womb is to be blessed the blessed is the fruit of your womb mary jesus so we pray that in the hail mary blessed be the fruit of your womb jesus and then we have some more blessings

58:59 going up through verse 14 so we have blessings given if you keep the deuteronomic covenant from verses 1 through 14 of chapter 28 and then the curses are given given starting in verse 15 and they go to verse 25 right no they go a little bit past that right they go to verse 30 no verse 40 right no verse 50 verse 60 verse 68 wow that's a lot of curses that's a lot of curses and what are the curses of the deuteronomic covenant somebody start naming them look at them look at the subtitles if your bible has that okay okay hold on so we're going to have sickness so we're going to have pestilence what else ok so we're going to have despoilment ok we're going to have exile eventually what else fruitless labor ok invasion ok we're going to have invasion that's part of pestilence ok we're going to have exile we're also going to have siege remember what's a siege no you don't get taken over you get

1:00:32 it's like an embargo they won't let you in or out of the city so you end up starving to death and this is what and then we have we have despoilment we have famine we have invasion siege we also will have captivity and exile let's turn to Deuteronomy 29 I'm sorry let's turn to Deuteronomy 30 actually no let's turn to Deuteronomy 29 I'll kind of let's go Deuteronomy 29 and let's look at verse 9 verse 9 you are all now standing before the Lord your God your chiefs and judges your elders and officials and all the men of Israel together with your wives and children and the aliens who live in your camp oh they had aliens back then see there is such a thing down to those who hew wood and draw water for you that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God which he concluded with you today under this sanction of a curse which covenant the Deuteronomic covenant is what we call it so that he may

1:01:55 now establish you as his people and he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob but it is not with you alone that I am making this covenant under the sanction of a curse not just the second generation it is just as much with those who are not here among us today as it is with those of us who are now here present before the Lord our God so it's intergenerational it's going to continue through the descendants of Israel everybody's going to be under the sanction of this curse through Deuteronomy and there's also shades of shades of one week after Easter when Thomas comes up and he sees the Lord doubting Thomas and the Lord said blessed are you but even more blessed are those who are not here among us and who believe without seeing so you kind of have a shade here of this is not just with you guys but it's also with those who are not here among

1:02:57 us well so it's going to be with a new covenant the new covenant is not just for the apostles it's also for those who believe afterwards who don't see the resurrected body of Jesus in all of his glory now and then in the rest of chapter 29 Moses tells Israel not if you break this covenant not you know maybe you might break this covenant he says when you break this covenant and when the curses befall you let's look at verse 24 and the answer will be because they forsook the covenant which the Lord the God of their fathers had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt and they went and served other gods and adored them gods whom they did not know and whom he had not let fall to their lot that is why the Lord was angry with this land when all these things which I have set before you the blessings and the curses are fulfilled in you and from among whatever nations the Lord

1:04:16 your God may have dispersed you ponder them in your heart then provided that you and your children return to the Lord your God and heed his voice with all your heart and all your soul just as I now command you the Lord your God will change your lot taking pity on you he will again gather you from all the nations wherein he has scattered you so after all of these curses befall Israel we're going to have restoration all Israel is going to come back together again God's going to gather them verse four though you may have been driven to the farthest corner of the world even from there will the Lord your God gather you even from there will he bring you back the Lord your God will then bring you into the land which your fathers once occupied that you too may occupy it and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers the Lord your God will do they love the Lord your God with all

1:05:30 your heart and all your soul and so may live so wow circumcision I mean that's pretty graphic I mean knife or flint cutting foreskin blood taking it off well God's gonna go in and he's gonna literally transform the hearts of you little pharaohs he's gonna do heart surgery let's turn to Ezekiel 20 Ezekiel chapter 20 Ezekiel chapter 20 Ezekiel 20 is gonna be your homework I want for you guys to go home and read all of Ezekiel 20 Ezekiel 20 is like Deuteronomy 1 through 11 it's history it's part of the prophecy of Ezekiel but it's a history lesson talking about Sinai the book of the covenant the golden calf the law the Levitical laws Leviticus Deuteronomy Ezekiel 20 and we're gonna turn to verse 25 and this is where it talks about Deuteronomy Ezekiel 20 25 and if you're not there yet don't worry about it just I'm gonna read it for you therefore I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances

1:07:03 through which they could not live have I let them become defiled by their gifts by their immolation of every firstborn so as to make them an object of horror what is he talking about child sacrifice right no the firstborn animals no did you know if I wouldn't have pointed that out to you some biblical scholars look back and they're like God commanded child sacrifice because they don't know Deuteronomy that well and you'll find this if you look up the commentaries on the book of Ezekiel you actually have biblical scholars going God commanded child sacrifice here no of course not this is the gifts of the firstborn the immolation because guess what every time you brought your firstborn sheep and you're bringing that up to that Levite the Levite held to a higher standard of morality than you have to bring this to him to get sacrificed and you're reminded of your idolatry so it's an object of

1:08:06 horror to you and let's continue in Ezekiel to Ezekiel 36 Ezekiel 36 and Ezekiel 36 prophesies what we saw in Deuteronomy 30 Ezekiel 36 verse 24 for I will take you away from among the nations gather you from all the foreign lands and bring you back to your own land okay so Ezekiel knows Deuteronomy he's giving a recap of what Deuteronomy promises I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you what does Peter say in response to the Israelites what should we do to be saved at Pentecost he says repent and be baptized every one of you for the forgiveness of your sins an allusion back to Ezekiel 36 25 verse 26 I will give you a raise your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes careful to observe my decrees this is what we call sanctifying grace in the new

1:09:34 testament we're given the spirit within us sanctifying grace why sanctifying because it makes us holy sanctus is a Latin word for holy and it's grace because it's a gift it's gratia means gift it's not something we earn it's something we're given okay now I have seven minutes to get all the way to King Psalm you guys excited okay so we just had a prophecy of all of the rest of the Old Testament here and guess what in Jesus' day even though the Jews had come back to the land from exile they had been exiled into Babylon and they had come back they still consider themselves to be under exile to be in exile why because they were still under captivity they were still oppressed by Romans that's right so they were waiting for the Messiah to come to free them from Roman occupation and so when Jesus comes he restores Israel through his church through the ministry of the twelve apostles where all are

1:10:57 restored to the new Israel and this is why this restoration of all the tribes not just all the tribes but also with the Gentiles this is why the church is called catholic according to the whole or loosely universal okay so right after this Deuteronomy is given Israel enters the land of Canaan and we have the book of Joshua and the book of Joshua is basically about how Israel under the leadership of Joshua takes the land of Canaan little by little the next book is the book wow I just skipped over a whole book of the Bible I'm telling you this Bible study is going to be on every book of the Bible we just went through one all right judges is a period of Israel's history where you have a reoccurring cycle that happens seven times of sin supplication where they cry out to God for help actually after sin they're in servitude I'll let that out sin servitude supplication then they're saved by a judge

1:12:24 you know Barak Deborah Gideon Jephthah okay so they have a they have a salvation under a savior and then we have silence with material surplus they become fat again okay seven times this happens and there are how many judges yes twelve way to go Larry all right thank you it was you right it was Gloria was it really Gloria oh my gosh oh my oh you guys are killing me here this is like this is torture this is like tickle torture okay so we have twelve judges who's the last judge samuel the name of samuel what was the hebrew name for exodus remember i gave it to you exodus means to be drawn out but what was the hebrew name of the book it was the hebrew name for names because it says this is the book of the names and that was shema or shemo let's take shemo the name for name and let's add the shortened firm for god l to the end of that shema l samuel shema l that's what samuel means it means the name

1:13:55 of god so if you guys want the animal if you want to name your kid name of god name him samuel so but don't name your kid leah unless you want to name her a cow i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i don't want for people to be going to father and saying this bible study is putting people down i might have a little mutiny here you guys might stab me in my back like who is that julius caesar i don't want to be like julius caesar and i want for you guys this will be your homework i want for you to compare these verses i want you to compare first samuel two one through ten with luke one forty six through fifty five and i also want you to compare first samuel two twenty six with luke two fifty two okay first samuel two the canicle of hannah she's so happy that she had a son finally god answered her prayer luke one forty six to fifty five mary's magnificat structured after hannah's magnificat we're

1:15:27 told in the gospels that jesus grew in wisdom before god and stature before men i think that's how it said well samuel grew it in wisdom and in stature before men luke is using first samuel as a backdrop when he's writing the infancy narrative and we'll also see that in second samuel six and pretty much all of luke one and i forgot what verse and on we'll just say one and following you'll see how mary is presented as the new ark of the covenant luke will use the same terms for mary that are used for the ark of the covenant in second samuel six luke is writing his gospels using the two books of samuel which used to be a united book it's only now that we divide them used to be just the book of samuel okay and so finally it's going to be in so we have the book of judges this is where we have this history and then first samuel is going to be about the appointing of the first king of israel who

1:16:54 is going to be who saul very good saul and next week when you tune back in we'll be taught we're going to start with the anointing of saul in the beginning of saul's ministry and this is going to feed into david and solomon and guys just as i guess last week when we talked about the law was so huge that study we i mean it was just so huge to know about the golden calf and the law being given so next week is going to be humongo i mean why is jesus called the son of david why does he reign upon the throne of his father david why is jesus referred to as the son of god we'll see why what that title means but next week we're going to talk about the davidic covenant it's going to be again humongo so make sure you come back and if you see anybody who was supposed to be this bible study night and wasn't tell them just how sorry they should be you