1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:07,720 in a year. 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:13,400 Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 29 to 31. 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,680 Chapter 29 These are the words of the covenant which the 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,400 Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,480 covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:29,040 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that the Lord did before 8 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:34,240 your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,960 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs and those great wonders. 10 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,760 Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,280 to this very day. 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:50,320 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness, your clothes have not worn out on you and 13 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,320 your sandals have not worn out on your feet. 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,920 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or similar drink, that you may know that 15 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,680 I am the Lord your God. 16 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:04,600 And when you came to this place, Sihon king of Hezbon and all king of Bashan came out 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,560 against us to battle and we conquered them. 18 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:12,280 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Rubenites, to the Gahdites and to have 19 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,440 the tribe of Manasseh. 20 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,680 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that 21 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:19,760 you do. 22 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,760 All of you stand today before the Lord your God, your leaders and your tribes and your 23 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,640 elders and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones and your wives, also the 24 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,000 stranger who is in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your 25 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,000 water. 26 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,520 That you may enter into covenant with the Lord your God and into His oath, which the 27 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:44,720 Lord your God makes with you today, that He may establish you today as a people for Himself 28 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,680 and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you and just as He has sworn 29 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,840 to your fathers to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 30 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:57,960 I make this covenant and this oath not with you alone, but with Him who stands here with 31 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:03,260 us today before the Lord our God, as well as with Him who is not here with us today. 32 00:02:03,260 --> 00:02:07,160 For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations 33 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:12,640 which you passed by and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them, wood 34 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:18,800 and stone and silver and gold, so that there may not be among you man or woman or family 35 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:24,480 or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods 36 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:30,000 of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or warm 37 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 wood. 38 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,440 And so it may not happen when He hears the words of this curse that He blesses Himself 39 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,600 in His heart saying, I shall have peace even though I follow the dictates of my heart, 40 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,400 as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. 41 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:49,000 The Lord would not spare him, for then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy would burn 42 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,560 against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, 43 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,720 and the Lord would blot out His name from under heaven, and the Lord would separate 44 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:02,960 him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant 45 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,800 that are written in this book of the law, so that the coming generation of your children 46 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,440 who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a far land would say when they 47 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:18,000 see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it, the whole land 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 is brimstone, salt and burning, it is not sown nor does it bear nor does any grass grow 49 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,600 there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adma and Zeboeim which the Lord overthrew 50 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,760 in His anger and His wrath. 51 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,520 All nations would say, why has the Lord done so to this land? 52 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,620 What does the heat of this great anger mean? 53 00:03:38,620 --> 00:03:43,240 And people would say, because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, 54 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,780 which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 55 00:03:46,780 --> 00:03:51,720 For they went and served other gods and worshipped them, gods that they did not know and that 56 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,720 He had not given to them. 57 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:58,040 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that 58 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:03,360 is written in this book, and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath and 59 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,440 in great indignation, and cast them into another land as it is this day. 60 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,720 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong 61 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:18,080 to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. 62 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,840 Chapter 30 Now it shall come to pass, when all these 63 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:26,160 things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I said before you, and you call 64 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,600 them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, and you return to 65 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,600 the Lord your God and obey His voice according to all that I command you today, you and your 66 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,960 children with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will bring 67 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,880 you back from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations 68 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,160 where the Lord your God has scattered you. 69 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:51,720 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your 70 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,920 God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 71 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,200 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you 72 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:00,520 shall possess it. 73 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,800 He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 74 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,560 Then the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to 75 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,720 love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul that you may live. 76 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:17,040 Also the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate 77 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,880 you, who persecuted you, and you will again obey the voice of the Lord and do all His 78 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,440 commandments which I command you today. 79 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,640 The Lord your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of 80 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:33,060 your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. 81 00:05:33,060 --> 00:05:37,860 For the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your fathers. 82 00:05:37,860 --> 00:05:41,920 If you obey the voice of the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes 83 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,920 which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with 84 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,160 all your heart and with all your soul. 85 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:53,120 For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far 86 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:54,120 off. 87 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,600 It is not in heaven that you should say, Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it 88 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,280 to us, that we may hear it and do it. 89 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:05,760 Nor is it beyond the sea that you should say, Who will go over the sea for us and bring 90 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,680 it to us, that we may hear it and do it. 91 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:13,080 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart that you may do it. 92 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:19,240 See, I have said before you today, Life and good, death and evil, in that I command you 93 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:24,000 today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His 94 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,840 statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply. 95 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:31,520 And the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 96 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:36,080 But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away and worship other 97 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:41,120 gods and serve them, I will announce to you today that you shall surely perish. 98 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,440 You shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and 99 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:46,440 possess. 100 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,200 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have said before you life 101 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,920 and death, blessing and cursing. 102 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,840 Your true life, that both you and your descendants may live, that you may love the Lord your 103 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:03,880 God, that you may obey His voice and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life 104 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:08,060 and the length of your days, and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore 105 00:07:08,060 --> 00:07:12,880 to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them. 106 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,960 Chapter 31 Then Moses went and spoke these words to 107 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:21,020 all Israel, and he said to them, I am one hundred and twenty years old today, I can 108 00:07:21,020 --> 00:07:26,120 no longer go out and come in, and the Lord has said to me, you shall not cross over this 109 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:27,120 Jordan. 110 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:32,120 The Lord your God Himself crosses over before you, He will destroy these nations from before 111 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,200 you and you shall dispossess them. 112 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,560 Joshua himself crosses over before you, just as the Lord has said. 113 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,160 And the Lord will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites and 114 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,420 their land, when He destroyed them. 115 00:07:45,420 --> 00:07:49,440 The Lord will give them over to you, that you may do to them according to every commandment 116 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,040 which I have commanded you. 117 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:56,200 Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them, for the Lord your God 118 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,560 He is the one who goes with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you. 119 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,940 Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, be strong and of 120 00:08:04,940 --> 00:08:09,440 good courage, for you must go with these people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their 121 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,360 fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it. 122 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,160 And the Lord He is the one who goes before you, He will be with you, He will not leave 123 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,080 you nor forsake you, do not fear nor be dismayed. 124 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,680 So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi who bore the 125 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,480 ark of the covenant of the Lord and to all the elders of Israel. 126 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,680 And Moses commanded them saying, at the end of every seven years, at the appointed time 127 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:39,960 in the year of release, at the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the 128 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:45,260 Lord your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel 129 00:08:45,260 --> 00:08:46,840 in their hearing. 130 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:51,520 Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and a stranger who is within 131 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:56,280 your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully 132 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:01,640 observe all the words of this law, and that their children who have not known it may hear 133 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,280 and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the 134 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Jordan to possess. 135 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,600 Then the Lord said to Moses, behold the day's approach when you must die. 136 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:17,200 Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of meeting that I may inaugurate 137 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:18,200 him. 138 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,120 So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of meeting. 139 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,160 Now the Lord appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud 140 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,560 stood above the door of the tabernacle. 141 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:33,280 And the Lord said to Moses, behold you will rest with your fathers, and these people will 142 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,540 rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go 143 00:09:37,540 --> 00:09:42,080 to be among them, and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with 144 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,080 them. 145 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,240 Then my anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and 146 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:52,200 I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall 147 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,440 befall them, so that they will say in that day, have not these evils come upon us because 148 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,360 our God is not among us? 149 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,920 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, 150 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,560 in that they have turned to other gods. 151 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:11,560 Now therefore write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. 152 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:16,040 Put it in their mouth, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of 153 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:17,040 Israel. 154 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,080 When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their 155 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:26,040 fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other 156 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,000 gods and serve them, and they will provoke me and break my covenant. 157 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,500 Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify 158 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:39,560 against them as a witness, for it will not be forgotten in the mouth of their descendants. 159 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:43,400 For I know the inclination of their behavior today, even before I have brought them to 160 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,880 the land of which I swore to give them. 161 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,840 Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel. 162 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:54,880 Then he inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of good courage, for 163 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,840 you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will 164 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,980 be with you. 165 00:10:59,980 --> 00:11:04,360 So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they 166 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,880 were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, 167 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:13,760 saying, Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord 168 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,560 your God, that it may be there as a witness against you. 169 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,080 For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. 170 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,800 If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord, then 171 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,440 how much more after my death? 172 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,380 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these 173 00:11:31,380 --> 00:11:35,060 words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 174 00:11:35,060 --> 00:11:39,640 For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn aside from the way 175 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,280 which I have commanded you, and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you 176 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,480 will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your 177 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,480 hands. 178 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,400 Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song 179 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:59,840 until they were ended. 180 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,440 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 181 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,600 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 182 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:33,600 God bless you and have a great day.