1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800 Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,640 in a year. 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:13,960 Today's reading is from Deuteronomy chapters 32 to 34. 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:14,960 Chapter 32 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,640 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:25,800 Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as rain drops on the tender 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,320 herb and as showers on the grass, for I proclaim the name of the Lord, ascribe greatness to 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:32,360 our God. 9 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:38,000 He is the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of truth and without 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,040 injustice, righteous and upright is he. 11 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,800 They have corrupted themselves, they are not his children, because of their blemish, a 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,020 perverse and crooked generation. 13 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:51,780 Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? 14 00:00:51,780 --> 00:00:54,160 Is he not your Father who brought you? 15 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,640 Has he not made you and established you? 16 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:01,720 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations, ask your Father and he 17 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,600 will show you, your elders and they will tell you. 18 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,800 When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when he separated the sons 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:13,040 of Adam, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,800 Israel, for the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the place of his inheritance. 21 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,840 He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland a howling wilderness, he encircled 22 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:29,480 him, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye, as an eagle stirs up its 23 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:35,320 nest, hover over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on 24 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:36,400 its wings. 25 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,680 So the Lord alone led him, and there was no foreign God with him, he made him ride in 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,120 the heights of the earth, that he might eat the produce of the fields, he made him draw 27 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:51,480 honey from the rock, and oil from the flinty rock, curds from the cattle and milk of the 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:57,960 flock, with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the choices tweaked, 29 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,960 and you drank wine, the blood of the grapes. 30 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,640 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked, you grew fat, you grew thick, you are obese, then he 31 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,520 forsook God who made him, and scornfully esteemed the rock of his salvation. 32 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,600 They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him 33 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:21,440 to anger, they sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they did not know, to neither 34 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,520 new gods, new arrivals, that your fathers did not fear. 35 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:31,140 Of the rock who begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who fathered you. 36 00:02:31,140 --> 00:02:35,680 And when the Lord saw it, he spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and 37 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,600 his daughters, and he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end 38 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:41,780 will be. 39 00:02:41,780 --> 00:02:46,200 For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith. 40 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,580 They have provoked me to jealousy by what is not God. 41 00:02:49,580 --> 00:02:52,760 They have moved me to anger by their foolish idols. 42 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,240 But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation. 43 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,200 I will move them to anger by a foolish nation. 44 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,560 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell. 45 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,600 It shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 46 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,720 I will heap disasters on them, I will spend my arrows on them. 47 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,080 They shall be wasted with hunger, devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction. 48 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,840 I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of serpents of the 49 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:22,840 dust. 50 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,480 The sword shall destroy outside, there shall be terror within. 51 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,800 For the young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of grey hairs, I would 52 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,800 have said, I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among 53 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:36,800 men. 54 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,640 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest 55 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:46,840 they should say, our hand is high, and it is not the Lord who has done all this. 56 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,000 For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them. 57 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,040 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter 58 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,040 end. 59 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:01,400 How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight? 60 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,120 Unless their rock has sold them, and the Lord has surrendered them. 61 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,360 For their rock is not like our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 62 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,480 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. 63 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:20,720 Their grapes are grapes of Gaul, their clusters are bitter, their wine is the poison of serpents, 64 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,800 and the cruel venom of cobras. 65 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,520 Is this not laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures? 66 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,960 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, their foot shall slip in due time, for the day of their 67 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,120 calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them. 68 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,640 For the Lord will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that 69 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:46,200 their power is gone, and there is no one remaining, bond, or free. 70 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,840 He will say, where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge? 71 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:55,360 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering? 72 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,300 Let them rise and help you, and be your refuge. 73 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:03,040 Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me. 74 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:09,800 I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. 75 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:15,600 For I raise My hand to heaven, and say, as I live forever, if I wet My glittering sword, 76 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,360 and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, and repay 77 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,700 those who hate Me. 78 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:26,480 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood 79 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,880 of the slain and the captives, from the heads of the leaders of the enemy. 80 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,920 Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants, 81 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,280 and render vengeance to His adversaries. 82 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:42,200 He will provide atonement for His land and His people. 83 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:46,400 So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the 84 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,200 hearing of the people. 85 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,380 Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, and he said to them, Set your 86 00:05:52,380 --> 00:05:57,800 hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children 87 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,520 to be careful to observe, all the words of this law. 88 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,360 For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life. 89 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,520 And by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan 90 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:10,800 to possess. 91 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:17,080 Then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying, Go up this mountain of the Abarim, 92 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,300 Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, view the land of Canaan, 93 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:26,760 which I give to the children of Israel as a possession, and die on the mountain which 94 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,560 you ascend, and be gathered to your people. 95 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,960 Just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people, because you 96 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:39,480 trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kaddish, in 97 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,560 the wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow me in the midst of the children of 98 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:44,560 Israel. 99 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,000 Yet you shall see the land before you, though you shall not go there, into the land which 100 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,160 I am giving to the children of Israel. 101 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,400 Chapter 33 Now this is the blessing with which Moses 102 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,760 the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 103 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,600 And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Sare. 104 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,320 He shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints. 105 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,120 From his right hand came a fiery law for them. 106 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:13,960 Yes, he loves the people. 107 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,080 All his saints are in your hand. 108 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,220 They sit down at your feet. 109 00:07:18,220 --> 00:07:19,880 Everyone receives your words. 110 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,600 Moses command a law for us, a heritage of the congregation of Jacob. 111 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,800 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the leaders of the people were gathered. 112 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,040 All the tribes of Israel together, let Reuben live and not die, nor let his men be few. 113 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:39,200 And this he said of Judah, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. 114 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:44,160 Let his hands be sufficient for him, and may you be a help against his enemies. 115 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:50,200 And of Levi he said, Let your Tumim and your Urim be with your Holy One, whom you tested 116 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,960 at Massa, and with whom you contended at the waters of Mareeba, who says of his father 117 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,400 and mother, I have not seen them, nor did he acknowledge his brothers. 118 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,120 Or know his own children, for they have observed your word, and kept your covenant. 119 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,540 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law. 120 00:08:07,540 --> 00:08:12,200 They shall put incense before you, and a whole burnt sacrifice on your altar. 121 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,760 Bless his substance, Lord, and accept the work of his hands. 122 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,040 Strike the loins of those who rise against him, and of those who hate him, that they 123 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,680 rise not again. 124 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,560 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him, who shelters 125 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,900 him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. 126 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:36,400 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord is his land, with the precious things of heaven 127 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:41,480 with the dew, and the deep lying beneath, with the precious fruits of the sun, with 128 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:46,360 the precious produce of the month, with the best things of the ancient mountains, with 129 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,500 the precious things of the everlasting hills, with the precious things of the earth and 130 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:51,780 its fullness. 131 00:08:51,780 --> 00:08:56,680 And the favor of him who dwelt in the bush, let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, 132 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,380 and on the crown of the head of him who is separate from his brothers. 133 00:09:00,380 --> 00:09:06,160 His glory is like a first born bull, and his horns like the horns of the wild ox. 134 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,460 Together with them he shall push the peoples to the ends of the earth. 135 00:09:10,460 --> 00:09:14,740 They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. 136 00:09:14,740 --> 00:09:20,480 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice Zebulun in your going out, and Issachar in your tents, 137 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,320 they shall call the peoples to the mountain. 138 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:28,160 Therefore they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall partake of the abundance of 139 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,640 the seas, and of treasures hidden in the sand. 140 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,360 And of Gad he said, Blessed is he who enlarges Gad. 141 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,880 He dwells as a lion, and tears the arm and the crown of his head. 142 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:45,540 He provides the first part for himself, because a law giver's portion was reserved there. 143 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:47,320 He came with the heads of the people. 144 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,980 He administered the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel. 145 00:09:51,980 --> 00:09:57,360 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, he shall leap from Bashan. 146 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,540 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the 147 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:05,700 Lord, possess the west and the south. 148 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,460 And of Asher he said, Asher is most blessed of sons. 149 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:13,880 Let him be favored by his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil. 150 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:19,240 Your sandals shall be iron and bronze, as your days so shall your strength be. 151 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,760 There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, and in 152 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,020 his excellency on the clouds. 153 00:10:26,020 --> 00:10:30,920 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. 154 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,240 He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, Destroy. 155 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:40,400 Then Israel shall dwell in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new 156 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:41,400 wine. 157 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,920 The heavens shall also drop dew. 158 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:48,520 Happy are you, O Israel, who is like you, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of 159 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,480 your help, and the sword of your majesty. 160 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:57,280 Your enemies shall submit to you, and you shall tread down their high places. 161 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,660 Chapter 34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab 162 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:05,160 to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. 163 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:10,100 And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, and the land 164 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:15,680 of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the south, and 165 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:20,880 the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zohar. 166 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,240 Then the Lord said to him, This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and 167 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,160 Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. 168 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,440 I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there. 169 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,900 So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word 170 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:42,580 of the Lord, and he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-Pior. 171 00:11:42,580 --> 00:11:45,720 But no one knows his grave to this day. 172 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,500 Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. 173 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:53,200 His eyes were not dim, nor his natural vigor diminished, and the children of Israel wept 174 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,400 for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. 175 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,640 So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended. 176 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:04,240 Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands 177 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:09,880 on him, so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. 178 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:15,360 But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face 179 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:20,520 to face, in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt 180 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:26,340 before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land, and by all that mighty power 181 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:32,340 and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel. 182 00:12:32,340 --> 00:12:37,160 And with this we conclude the last of the first five books of the Old Testament, the 183 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,160 Pentateuch. 184 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:43,140 And God willing tomorrow we'll begin the book of Joshua. 185 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:46,760 I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you 186 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,200 again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 187 00:12:49,200 --> 00:13:04,000 God bless you and have a great day.