Deuteronomy 9-10
This year, I plan on reading the Old Testament of the Bible within the 2012 calendar year. Follow me on this journey!
Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 9: 40 Days and 40 Nights Fasting
Compare to
Exodus 32; this is the same story but from the perspective of Moses. Moses gathers
the congregation of Israel and reminds them that they can conquer a nation greater
than themselves. The reason that they were going to have the power to drive the
giants out of their land, is because the people residing in the land were wicked.
Moses tells
the congregation that he spent 40 days/nights fasting; drinking neither water or
eating bread. This way he was more receptive of the spirit and this is what probably
enabled himself to see God and receive the Ten Commandments along with other instructions
from the Lord.
Chapter 10: Love God
When Moses
was on the mount for forty days/nights the Lord commanded him to make a small ark
of shittim wood to place the tablets of stone in. All that God requires, is that
the congregation of Israel love and serve him, if they do this, they will also love
and serve their neighbor and the stranger in the land. Because they were once strangers
in the land of Egypt too.
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