The Feast of Tabernacles is a lengthy article, and takes us through the entire seven days of the feast. The Last Great Day is in a separate article. We will go through the meaning of the feast, and compare the physical exodus of the Israelites with our spiritual journey to eternal life.

This article is ideal for those who cannot attend the Feast with other brethren as it takes us through each day of the feast. It is ideal for anyone who has a desire to learn the new knowledge which God has restored to His church.

FIRST HOLY DAY EVENING SERVICE

FIRST HOLY DAY MORNING SERVICE

FIRST HOLY DAY SECOND SERVICE

SECOND DAY OF THE FEAST

THIRD DAY OF THE FEAST

FOURTH DAY OF THE FEAST

FIFTH DAY OF THE FEAST

SIXTH DAY OF THE FEAST

SEVENTH DAY OF THE FEAST

FIRST HOLY DAY  EVENING SERVICE

The following verse shows us the true meaning of the feast of tabernacles.

Lev 23:41  ‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

During the feast we remember that the Israelites wandered for 40 years and lived in temporary dwellings……why?

To understand fully the journey to eternal life, we will show the parallel between the exodus from Egypt and the path to eternal life.

We must erect a temporary booth on the first day of the Feast.

Neh 8:15  and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

Lev 23:39  ‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Lev 23:40  ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Lev 23:41  ‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Reminder that we need to spend time in our booth each day during the feast, we don’t need to live in the booth, just dwell in it each day for a short time during the feast. It is ideal to sit in the booth with a family member or a friend and share a cup of coffee while you talk about the time the Israelites lived in booths, talk about how life is temporary, this physical life is short, it is the next life which is eternal.

Neh 8:16  Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the Water Gate and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim.

Neh 8:17  So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness.

Hos 12:9  “But I am the LORD your God, Ever since the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, As in the days of the appointed feast.

We are going to repeat each day of the feast what the feast actually pictures, as this is new knowledge for us and needs to be learnt and understood. To repeat this knowledge every day is the best way to remember what the feast pictures.

The feast pictures the Israelites wandering for 40 years in the wilderness, dwelling in booths. The feast also shows us examples of sin and how we should avoid it.

Lev 23:34  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

Lev 23:35  ‘On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:36  ‘For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:37  ‘These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day;

Lev 23:38  ‘besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

Each day of the feast we will look at a different occurrence during that time to learn from the errors made along the journey which we must avoid if we want to attain what the Israelites did not do… want the Promised Land and enter it.

Every day at the feast the book of the law is to be read, this should happen every seventh year. As we do not know which year we are in, we will read it every year. Why…because we love this book and we can learn a lot from it every feast.

Deu 31:10  And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

Deu 31:11  “when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Tonight we will look at the first subject knowing God the Father and Christ and keeping the Passover on the correct time.

God the Father and Christ.

This is new knowledge restored to this era of the church. We have not had a correct knowledge of the Father or Christ.

Do not read over this verse, read it and re read it, until the meaning of it sinks in. There is one true God and that is the Father.

Joh 17:3  “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

The Father is the only one who has existed for all eternity. He is the one True God.

Christ is the Son of the Father, Christ was born before anything else existed.

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

LET’S GET THESE FACTS CLEAR IN OUR MINDS, FIRST THERE WAS THE FATHER, HE EXISTED ON HIS OWN, THEN CHRIST WAS BORN TO HIM BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE EXISTED. If you want to know how this happened you will need to ask God, we do not know, but because it is in scripture, we believe it.

How has God done any of His miracles? For example, why does the sea stop at the shore? We don’t know how God did this, but we believe He has done it.

God the Father is above Christ He is not equal to Christ, in authority, and never has been, He is the Father, the self existing one. Christ is His Son and is second to Him in everything.

Joh 14:28  “You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

1Co 15:27  For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted.

1Co 15:28  Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

Christ has not existed for eternity, He is from the beginning.

Christ is equal to the Father as a son is equal to his father.

Joh 5:18  Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Joh 1:4  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The beginning is a point in time, look at Genesis 1 v 1 in the beginning God created……now that was a particular time, before that time, the heaven and earth did not exist.

Now apply the same principal to Christ, before the point in time known as the beginning……Christ did not exist.

He was born to God before creation, the Father created all things through Christ.

Eph 3:9  and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

CHRIST WAS THE BORN SON OF GOD BEFORE CREATION.

We are not talking about the birth of Jesus out of Mary here. We are talking about a birth which happened before creation. We also want to state emphatically that we are not saying Christ was created.

CHRIST IS THE FIRST BORN OF ALL CREATION.

Secondly the Passover.

Lev 23:5  On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD’s Passover.

The Passover has been kept on the 13th of Nisan during the Philadelphian era of the church. Prepared 13th eaten 14th. This is the correct day for the Philadelphian era because they do not have the knowledge of eternal life which God has restored to the last era of His church. There are three points which must be known for eternal life in the keeping of the Passover. They are eating the body, drinking the blood and keeping it on the correct day. The Philadelphian era has only the blood and the body, they do not have the knowledge of the correct day. To have eternal life, which is now available, in the Laodicean era, we eat the bread, drink the blood, prepared on the 14th taken after sunset on the start of the 15th. This is the knowledge of eternal life, the bread the blood taken on the correct day.

Ancient Israel had the correct day and ate the body {when they sacrificed the lamb} but they did not drink the blood, they put it on the door posts.

Philadelphia era, accepts Christ’s sacrifice, so they don’t kill the lamb, they eat the meat on the correct night, {night to be much remembered} but not the blood, they actually keep two Passovers, the 13th {bread and blood but wrong date} and the 14th. Bread but not blood {night to be much remembered.}

Laodicean era now has the knowledge of the bread, the blood, and the correct day.

It is one of the keys to the kingdom. We must understand the correct meaning of the Passover and keep it on the correct day to have eternal life.

We will not accept the knowledge of the correct day for the Passover until God opens our minds to the new knowledge which is required for Eternal life. This knowledge must be believed and loved in order to qualify for eternal life.

Act 13:48  Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

2Th 2:10  and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

To keep the Passover on the correct day is the second step to eternal life.

The Passover is on the 14th Nisan. This is the day that Christ died, this is the day that the lambs were killed.

Christ was the Passover lamb, He died for our sins.

The only way He could die on the Passover day, at the approximate same time as the lambs were killed, was to take the Passover service the night before with His disciples. HE KNEW HE WOULD BE DEAD THE NEXT NIGHT.

So just for this one special night He and the disciples had the Passover service one night early.

Today the correct time for the Passover service is after sunset at the start of the 15th.

The 14th is the Passover, it is the preparation day. This is the day we prepare to eat the Passover meal. On the Passover day the 14th, we make things ready for the service, which begins after sunset at the start of the 15th on the holy day, the 1st day of Unleavened Bread.

Joh 19:14  Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”

The actual service starts after sunset on the beginning of the 15th. THE PASSOVER SERVICE IS HELD IN THE HOLY DAY AT THE START OF THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.

The following scriptures show Christ keeping the last Passover with His disciples, these scriptures show the Passover was prepared in the day and eaten after sunset the start of the following day.

Mat 26:19  So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

Mat 26:20  When evening had come, He sat down with the twelve.

Once you take the Passover service and eat unleavened bread, you do not go back to eating leaven for one day and then start unleavened bread again.

These days tie in with the exodus, the death angel passed over the Israelites home at midnight after the first day of Unleavened Bread had started, the Israelites left Egypt some 4 hours or so after this on the 15th, they did not wait in Egypt they were compelled to leave quickly by the Egyptians. They left Egypt in the early hours of the morning on the 15th which is the 1st day of Unleavened Bread.

Christ kept the Passover one day early with His disciples only on ONE OCCASION because He was the Passover lamb He had to die on the Passover day, so He would be dead at the correct time for keeping it today.

THIS POINT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE READER.

Notice in the following scripture that the Jews were going to take the Passover on the correct day. The day that Christ died was the preparation of the Passover, the Passover service was to be taken that night after sundown which would be the beginning of the fifteenth, the first day of Unleavened Bread. Notice these men were yet to take the Passover………

Joh 18:28  Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

Let’s notice the events of the Passover in Egypt and see how it is clearly shown when the events happened.

The lamb is to be killed around 3-5 pm before sunset on the 14th. This is the preparation day this is the Passover day.

Exo 12:6  ‘Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

Put the blood on the door posts.

Exo 12:7  ‘And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

Eat a few hours later, after sunset, with unleavened bread, why……because it is now the first day of Unleavened Bread.

Exo 12:8  ‘Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Exo 12:9  ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire; its head with its legs and its entrails.

Exo 12:10  ‘You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.

Look how they had to eat it, ready to leave, because if they ate it around 7 pm they were going to leave in approximately 6-8 hours time. They would not have been dressed and ready to go if they were not going to leave for another 30-32 hours.

Exo 12:11  ‘And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.

Exo 12:12  ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

The following scripture clearly shows that the Israelites left Egypt on the first day of Unleavened Bread.

Exo 12:17  ‘So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.

Now when did the Israelites keep the Passover? Some hours previously they prepared the Passover, after sunset the start of the 1st day of Unleavened Bread they ate it. Then some time after midnight still on the first day of Unleavened Bread they left Egypt as per Ex. 12 v 17.

Notice clearly that the Israelites kept the Passover, and left Egypt within a 6-8 hour period approximately. Ate Passover at approximately 7 pm left Egypt approximately 1 am.

At midnight the destroyer passed over and killed the first born Egyptians. Ex. 12 v 23 tells of the destroyer.

Exo 12:29  And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

This event probably happened around 1-3 am. Notice it is still night.

Exo 12:30  So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses, but he did not go to the Pharaoh in accordance with Ex 10 v 29, therefore Moses must have received word from him to get out with haste as the next verses plainly show.

Exo 12:31  Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the LORD as you have said.

Exo 12:32  “Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”

The Egyptians wanted them to get out urgently, lest they all should die.

Exo 12:33  And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”

The Israelites left in the night time, probably as early as 1 am to 3 am.

Deu 16:1  “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

The Israelites had been instructed some time earlier to take the spoil with them, no doubt this was started as early as possible after midnight.

Exo 12:35  Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

Notice that the Israelites were instructed about the spoil some time previously.

Exo 3:22  “But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, namely, of her who dwells near her house, articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

The scriptures have proved clearly that the Passover is the 14th the service is to be kept after sunset start of the 15th, which is the fist day of Unleavened Bread. This new knowledge must be believed and loved if we want eternal life.

Remember again the three points required for eternal life regarding the Passover.

Eat the body, Drink the blood, take these symbols on the correct night. This is the new knowledge restored to the Laodicean era of God’s church.

Plus the fantastic knowledge of who God is and who Christ is.

These new truths must be loved, believed and obeyed if we want eternal life.

All the original Israelites over 20 years old (except Joshua and Caleb) died before crossing the Jordan and entering the Promised Land, because of unbelief.

Num 32:11  ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Heb 3:17  Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

As we have said the book of Deuteronomy is to be read during the Feast, to assist with this we recommend reading five chapters each day. We will put these chapters at the end of the daily services.

FIRST HOLY DAY  Morning Service.

1st Service……Our physical existence is temporary…When the Israelites lived in booths that was a temporary condition too. Spiritual life is permanent. Live towards our spiritual life, and be less concerned with our physical.

What does the feast picture? The fact that the Israelites dwelt in booths during the 40 years in the wilderness. God wanted them to learn that life is temporary, this physical existence is short and they needed to learn what was important.

Eternal life is what is important and should be the most important thing to us, having a very close relationship with our Creator, leading to eternal life with Him and Christ. Each day we are going to repeat the meaning of the Feast, and recap on what we have learned the day before. We have such a lot of new knowledge, we don’t want to miss anything.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

Notice verse 43.

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Let’s recap on what we learned last night. To understand the knowledge of eternal life, we have to know Jesus and God the Father, we need to know that the Father is the one true God, and that Jesus is the born Son of God, before creation.

We must keep the Passover on the correct date, the 14th is the Passover.

It is the day we prepare the Passover, then after sunset the start of the 15th we take the service, and eat the bread and drink the wine which are the symbols of the body and blood of Christ.

The Feast of Tabernacles pictures the looking back to the time of wandering for 40 years in the wilderness and living in booths for this time. The Israelites rejected the Holy Spirit of Power or Truth twice during this time. Firstly at Marah shortly after crossing the Red Sea and secondly when they reached the Jordan, and spied out the Promised Land.

Exo 15:25  So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them,

Exo 15:26  and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

Jer 2:13  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns; broken cisterns that can hold no water.

When the Israelites came initially to the Promised Land, only Joshua and Caleb brought back a good report. The other ten spies did not want the Promised Land.

Notice the evil report of the Promised Land given by the other ten spies.

Num 13:31  But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

Num 13:32  And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

Num 13:33  “There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

There is a parallel between the Israelites journey from the crossing of the Red Sea till they finally crossed the Jordan river and entered the Promised Land, and our spiritual journey, of baptism, receiving the Earnest of the Spirit, our period of testing, and finally believing God, accepting the knowledge that leads to eternal life, and the receiving of the Spirit of Power or Truth which is eternal life inherent.

We will look at this amazing parallel during the feast and learn as God’s plan for man unfolds.

Today our subject is the parallel of crossing the Red Sea.

Let’s look at the crossing of the Red Sea.

This was three days from the killing of the Passover lamb.

The Red Sea parted all night, this happened three days from when the Passover lambs were killed.

[This corresponds to the time when Christ was raised.]

Let’s look at the parallel of the death of Christ and His resurrection, and then being raised and His ascension to the Father.

Christ was killed on the 14th. The Israelites killed the lambs on the 14th. They then left Egypt in the early hours of the 15th.

Christ was buried on the 14th before sunset. That year it was a Wednesday. So on Wednesday around 3-5 pm Christ was buried.

To make it easier for the reader, we will use the same week days for the Exodus as shown above for the death of Christ.

After the sun has set it is the 15th the first day of Unleavened Bread, Thursday the Holy Day, the Israelites left Egypt…they travelled Thursday and pitched their tents at Succoth.

They travelled Friday and pitched their tents at Etham.

They travelled Saturday and pitched their tents between Migdol and the sea. They were now at the Red Sea, it was Saturday afternoon about 5 pm.

Once the sun had set, it was now the beginning of Sunday, the Sea started to part, and parted all that night. The parting of the Sea made the Promised Land available. They crossed all that night, which is the parallel from Christ being raised from the dead [from hell] until He went to the Father early on Sunday morning. It is not stated in scripture how long it took Christ to come from hell to where Mary first saw Him, but we do know He was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. That was Thursday Friday and Saturday, Thursday Friday and Saturday night, so He was raised some time in the early hours of Sunday Morning.

The crossing of the Red Sea is at the same time of Christ being raised from hell. [Or heart of the earth.] This was completed Sunday morning. Christ was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Incredible as it may seem to us, that is all it took for the Israelites to travel from Goshen to the Red Sea, that is because God took them on eagles wings.

Exo 19:4  ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

When Christ was raised He appeared first to Mary on Sunday morning, but Christ had not gone to the Father at this time.

Mar 16:9  Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.

Joh 20:17  Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”

Let’s look at the time the Israelites departed from Egypt and the time from Christ’s death we will show the same days and events.

Late Wednesday between 3-5 pm kill the lambs {Passover}.

Christ died at this time.

Christ buried before sunset.

After sunset start of Thursday night {now 1st day of Unleavened Bread} put blood on doors. Eat Passover meal. Possibly around 7-8 pm.

Midnight the destroyer passed over.

Thursday morning before daylight on the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread they left Egypt. Any time after midnight is morning any time from 1am till 5am this could have happened. They left in the night so it was before daybreak.

Christ resurrected Thursday morning and descended to hell.

Christ was raised from the dead in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Christ was in the heart of the earth [hell] three days and three nights. Thursday Friday and Saturday are the three days.

Thursday night Friday night and Saturday night the three nights.

Saturday afternoon they arrived at the Red Sea, and crossed after sunset all Saturday night till they reached the other side on Sunday morning.

Exo 14:21  Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.

Exo 14:22  So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Exo 14:23  And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

Exo 14:24  Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the LORD looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians.

Arrive on the other side of the Red Sea Sunday morning.

Christ was raised from the heart of the earth [hell] in the early hours of Sunday morning.

After Christ appeared to Mary then Christ ascended to the Father on Sunday morning.

As the Israelites came through the Red Sea they reached the other side where the Promised Land was available. The Israelites were not at the Promised Land when they came out of Egypt.

Christ, after His death was to be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth and then be raised. The parting of the Red Sea corresponds to the time between Christ being raised from the dead and His ascension to the Father to be glorified.

Joh 20:1  Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

Joh 20:17  Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”

When Christ was glorified applies to those who have eternal life inherent that is why Christ said My God and your God.

The Father becomes our God when we have the Holy Spirit of power which is eternal life inherent……before that time we belong to Christ only…not the Father.

The parting of the Red Sea made the way to the Promised Land available. The resurrection, raising from the dead and glorification of Jesus Christ made eternal life available. Note this very carefully, at our baptism we have eternal life available we do not at that time have eternal life inherent.

Eph 1:13  In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Eph 1:14  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

As the Israelites crossed the Red Sea they left Egypt and came to where the Promised Land was available. They had a lot more trials and tribulations before some of them actually entered the Promised Land. Only Joshua and Caleb and those who were under 20 years old {at the time of the rejection of the Promised Land} entered into the Promised Land.

God calls us out of Egypt {sin} to where the Promised Land {Eternal Life} is available. We have a lot of trials and tribulations before we reach eternal life.

The crossing of the Red Sea made the Promised Land available, in parallel, eternal life is available once we are baptised and receive the earnest of the Spirit. Once we receive the Holy Spirit of power we have eternal life inherent.

The crossing of the Red Sea is a type of our baptism.

1Co 10:1  Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,

1Co 10:2  all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

When we are baptised we try to leave sin behind {which in this case is pictured by Egypt} then we are subject to many trials etc {which pictures the wondering in the wilderness}.

Once we are baptised eternal life is available. We receive the down payment of eternal life in the earnest of the Spirit.

When the Israelites crossed the Red Sea eternal life was available to them also, in the form of the Promised Land.

Now Deuteronomy chapters 1 - 5 for today.

Deu 1:1  These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deu 1:2  It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

Deu 1:3  Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them,

Deu 1:4  after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.

Deu 1:5  On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,

Deu 1:6  “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.

Deu 1:7  Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

Deu 1:8  See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’

Deu 1:9  “And I spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I alone am not able to bear you.

Deu 1:10  The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Deu 1:11  May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!

Deu 1:12  How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints?

Deu 1:13  Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.’

Deu 1:14  And you answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have told us to do is good.’

Deu 1:15  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.

Deu 1:16  “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him.

Deu 1:17  You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man’s presence, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deu 1:18  And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

Deu 1:19  “So we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then we came to Kadesh Barnea.

Deu 1:20  And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.

Deu 1:21  Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.’

Deu 1:22  “And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’

Deu 1:23  “The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.

Deu 1:24  And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

Deu 1:25  They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ‘It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.’

Deu 1:26  “Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God;

Deu 1:27  and you complained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

Deu 1:28  Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’

Deu 1:29  “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them.

Deu 1:30  The LORD your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deu 1:31  and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deu 1:32  Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God,

Deu 1:33  who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.

Deu 1:34  “And the LORD heard the sound of your words, and was angry, and took an oath, saying,

Deu 1:35  ‘Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers,

Deu 1:36  except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.’

Deu 1:37  The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, ‘Even you shall not go in there.

Deu 1:38  Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Deu 1:39  ‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

Deu 1:40  But as for you, turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.’

Deu 1:41  “Then you answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD; we will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the mountain.

Deu 1:42  “And the LORD said to me, ‘Tell them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.” ’

Deu 1:43  So I spoke to you; yet you would not listen, but rebelled against the command of the LORD, and presumptuously went up into the mountain.

Deu 1:44  And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do, and drove you back from Seir to Hormah.

Deu 1:45  Then you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.

Deu 1:46  “So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.

Deu 2:1  “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.

Deu 2:2  “And the LORD spoke to me, saying:

Deu 2:3  ‘You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.

Deu 2:4  And command the people, saying, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully.

Deu 2:5  Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

Deu 2:6  You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.

Deu 2:7  “For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

Deu 2:8  “And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion Geber, we turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.

Deu 2:9  Then the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

Deu 2:10  (The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.

Deu 2:11  They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

Deu 2:12  The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave them.)

Deu 2:13  “ ‘Now rise and cross over the Valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered.

Deu 2:14  And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.

Deu 2:15  For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.

Deu 2:16  “So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,

Deu 2:17  that the LORD spoke to me, saying:

Deu 2:18  ‘This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab.

Deu 2:19  And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

Deu 2:20  (That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

Deu 2:21  a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,

Deu 2:22  just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.

Deu 2:23  And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)

Deu 2:24  “ ‘Rise, take your journey, and cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.

Deu 2:25  This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

Deu 2:26  “And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,

Deu 2:27  ‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left.

Deu 2:28  You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot,

Deu 2:29  just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us.’

Deu 2:30  “But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

Deu 2:31  “And the LORD said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’

Deu 2:32  Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz.

Deu 2:33  And the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.

Deu 2:34  We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

Deu 2:35  We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took.

Deu 2:36  From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all to us.

Deu 2:37  Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.

Deu 3:1  “Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

Deu 3:2  And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’

Deu 3:3  “So the LORD our God also delivered into our hands Og king of Bashan, with all his people, and we attacked him until he had no survivors remaining.

Deu 3:4  And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deu 3:5  All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many rural towns.

Deu 3:6  And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

Deu 3:7  But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

Deu 3:8  “And at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon

Deu 3:9  (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

Deu 3:10  all the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deu 3:11  “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

Deu 3:12  “And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.

Deu 3:13  The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.

Deu 3:14  Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day.)

Deu 3:15  “Also I gave Gilead to Machir.

Deu 3:16  And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from Gilead as far as the River Arnon, the middle of the river as the border, as far as the River Jabbok, the border of the people of Ammon;

Deu 3:17  the plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deu 3:18  “Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel.

Deu 3:19  But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have given you,

Deu 3:20  until the LORD has given rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’

Deu 3:21  “And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so will the LORD do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.

Deu 3:22  You must not fear them, for the LORD your God Himself fights for you.’

Deu 3:23  “Then I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying:

Deu 3:24  ‘O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?

Deu 3:25  I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’

Deu 3:26  “But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter.

Deu 3:27  Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.

Deu 3:28  But command Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you will see.’

Deu 3:29  “So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth Peor.

Deu 4:1  “Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you.

Deu 4:2  You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deu 4:3  Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.

Deu 4:4  But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive today, every one of you.

Deu 4:5  “Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess.

Deu 4:6  Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

Deu 4:7  “For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?

Deu 4:8  And what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

Deu 4:9  Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,

Deu 4:10  especially concerning the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

Deu 4:11  “Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

Deu 4:12  And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.

Deu 4:13  So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

Deu 4:14  And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.

Deu 4:15  “Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,

Deu 4:16  lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,

Deu 4:17  the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

Deu 4:18  the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.

Deu 4:19  And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.

Deu 4:20  But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

Deu 4:21  Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deu 4:22  But I must die in this land, I must not cross over the Jordan; but you shall cross over and possess that good land.

Deu 4:23  Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

Deu 4:24  For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deu 4:25  “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

Deu 4:26  I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deu 4:27  And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

Deu 4:28  And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Deu 4:29  But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deu 4:30  When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice

Deu 4:31  (for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.

Deu 4:32  “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard.

Deu 4:33  Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Deu 4:34  Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deu 4:35  To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.

Deu 4:36  Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

Deu 4:37  And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,

Deu 4:38  driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

Deu 4:39  Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

Deu 4:40  You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”

Deu 4:41  Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

Deu 4:42  that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

Deu 4:43  Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Deu 4:44  Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

Deu 4:45  These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt,

Deu 4:46  on this side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated after they came out of Egypt.

Deu 4:47  And they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,

Deu 4:48  from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon),

Deu 4:49  and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deu 5:1  And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.

Deu 5:2  The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Deu 5:3  The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.

Deu 5:4  The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

Deu 5:5  I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:

Deu 5:6  ‘I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deu 5:7  ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.

Deu 5:8  ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

Deu 5:9  you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deu 5:10  but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Deu 5:11  ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

Deu 5:12  ‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Deu 5:13  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Deu 5:14  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Deu 5:15  And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Deu 5:16  ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deu 5:17  ‘You shall not murder.

Deu 5:18  ‘You shall not commit adultery.

Deu 5:19  ‘You shall not steal.

Deu 5:20  ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Deu 5:21  ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’

Deu 5:22  “These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Deu 5:23  “So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

Deu 5:24  And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.

Deu 5:25  Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God anymore, then we shall die.

Deu 5:26  For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Deu 5:27  You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’

Deu 5:28  “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me: ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.

Deu 5:29  Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Deu 5:30  Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”

Deu 5:31  But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess.’

Deu 5:32  “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deu 5:33  You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

FIRST HOLY DAY  SECOND SERVICE

Let’s recap on what we have learned so far.

What does the feast picture? The Israelites had to wonder for 40 years in the wilderness and dwell in booths.

Lev 23:41  ‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

We have learned that in order to receive eternal life, we must know the Father and Christ, we must also keep the Passover on the correct day.

We saw this morning the parallel between the Israelites crossing the Red Sea and the time that Christ was raised from the dead or the heart of the earth.

For the afternoon service we will look at what happened at Marah, on the last day of Unleavened Bread. Only one week after leaving Egypt. The rejection of the fountain of living waters, God the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Once the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, they then began their journey toward the Promised Land. It is the same for us after baptism, we must push on and overcome and develop character during this time.

On the last day of Unleavened Bread which was 3 days after the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea the Israelites came to Marah where they rejected God and the Holy Spirit.

Exo 15:23  Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Exo 15:24  And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Exo 15:25  So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them,

Jer 2:13  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns; broken cisterns that can hold no water.

After baptism we soon learn that we do not take very long before we fall into the ever present snare of sin. It was the same for the ancient Israelites, they sinned very quickly after the Passover and continued to do so during Unleavened Bread.

We cannot live our lives, without sinning and so we need Christ’s sacrifice to cover that sin.

The tree, which was thrown into the water; pictures Christ. This tree turned the bitter waters to sweet. Just as Christ is able to intervene for us and has paid the penalty of our sins.

The Israelites rejected God.

Jer 2:11  Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit.

Jer 17:13  O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. “Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living waters.”

The Israelites rejected God, the fountain of living waters, this living water is mentioned in John 4 v 10-15 this is a symbol of the Holy Spirit and in this case it is also a symbol of the Father.

God offered the Israelites eternal life and they rejected it. They preferred the idols and hand made cisterns to God and the Holy Spirit.

The water that God was offering was the only one that mattered, it was the way to eternal life…the Israelites rejected that.

Let’s compare the two accounts of the Israelites in the wilderness and the Samaritan woman in the gospel of John. They were both offered living waters, which lead to eternal life.

Joh 4:5  So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Joh 4:6  Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Joh 4:7  A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

Jesus told the woman, that if she had known who He was, she would have asked for the gift of God which was living waters.

Joh 4:9  Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Joh 4:10  Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Christ shows how the water, which He has to give, will spring up to everlasting life, the living waters pictures the Holy Spirit. Christ also shows the contrast between the usual drinking water and the living water. If she chose to reject the living water she would continue to thirst, but she wanted the living waters Christ had to offer her.

Joh 4:13  Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,

Joh 4:14  “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Notice how the woman wanted the living water.

Joh 4:15  The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

Notice that after Christ told the woman about the living waters, which He could give her, He then proved her to see if she told the truth.

Joh 4:16  Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

Notice the woman told the truth, and wanted the living waters.

Joh 4:17  The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’

Joh 4:18  “for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

Joh 4:19  The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

Later in the account notice she brought other Samaritans to Christ and they believed in Him.

Christ tells her that the Father must be worshipped in spirit and truth. She wanted the spirit {living waters} and she was a truthful person, so she was well on her way to what was required.

Joh 4:23  “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.

The following verse is interesting, the woman no longer had any interest in the normal drinking water which she had originally came to draw. Once she heard of the living waters, which Christ was willing to offer her, she had no desire for the physical water, only the living water.

Joh 4:28  The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,

Now let’s compare this account with Exodus 15.

In John 4 v 7 the woman came to the well to draw water, she needed water.

In Exodus the Israelites found no water, they were thirsty. They needed water.

Exo 15:22  So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

In John 4 v 10 if the woman knew it was God who was speaking to her she would have asked for living water.

The Israelites knew that God was with them, they had only just come through the Red Sea, they were at the waters of Marah, they were thirsty, so why didn’t they behave patiently and wait on God to see what He would say to them? Unfortunately even after the miracle of crossing the Red Sea, they so quickly forgot that, they didn’t believe God or trust Him. They were only interested in the physical things. In their physical needs and desires. They were quick to complain to Moses and about him.

Exo 15:24  And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

In John 4 v 13-14 Jesus explained to the woman that if she drank of the physical water she would thirst again, but the water He had to offer her would spring up to eternal life.

Joh 4:13  Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,

Joh 4:14  “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

The Israelites were only concerned in the physical water, God gave them a statute and an ordinance and He proved them. They were offered the choice of the living water or the physical water, they chose the physical, they rejected God and the living water which is a symbol of the Holy Spirit, God was offering them eternal life and they rejected it.

Notice the account in Exodus and Jeremiah about this event and we will compare the two.

Exo 15:25  So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them,

Jer 2:13  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns; broken cisterns that can hold no water.

John 4 v 15 states that the woman wanted the living waters.

Read again the account in Jeremiah, the Israelites did not want Living Water, they had forsaken God the fountain of living waters. The cisterns are a type of false gods and idols which they seemed to love and worship. The Israelites could not get the Living Waters which pictures the Holy Spirit, because of the attitudes they had and their pursuit of false gods. They did not want the living waters, so their attitudes were not acceptable to God.

John 4 v 16 shows that Christ proved the woman. Notice the Israelites were also tested.

Ex 15 v 25

……and there he proved them

John 4 v 17-19 shows that the woman passed the test and answered Christ truthfully.

Even though God told the Israelites that He was the Lord that healed them and He wanted them to diligently hearken to Him and obey Him, and He offered them living waters which would lead to eternal life. They rejected Him, they did not want living waters……they failed the test.

Exo 15:26  and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

John 4 v 23 shows that the Father wants people to worship Him in spirit and truth.

The woman was capable of that, she was truthful and she wanted the spirit…living water.

The Israelites did not want the living water and did not believe that God was truth.

Therefore they did not qualify to worship Him.

Jer 2:19  Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the LORD your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Notice in John 4 v 28 how when the woman learned about the gift of God the living water, she no longer cared about the physical water, she only wanted the spiritual gift of God. She left her water pot.

The spiritual was far more important to her than the physical.

In stark contrast the Israelites cared nothing for the living water, they only wanted the physical water. The spiritual things did not matter to them, they could only see the physical.

Jer 2:13  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns; broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Israel brought all their trouble on themselves because they rejected God.

Jer 2:17  Have you not brought this on yourself, In that you have forsaken the LORD your God When He led you in the way?

Let’s recap on what we have learned. God brought the Israelites out of Egypt. We must come out of Egypt. We must leave the old ways of this world behind us, we must try to live our lives without sin, we must try to be like Christ.

The feast is to be kept in a joyous mood, as we endeavour to rely on God and pull away from Satan, and sin.

The last day of Unleavened Bread is a solemn day, it pictures the fact that Israel were offered living waters which spring up to eternal life, God offered to heal them in return for obedience to His laws.

Israel rejected God, and eternal life choosing the physical over the spiritual……this is indeed a solemn day……

We have shown that as the Israelites journeyed toward the Promised Land, they rejected God and the Holy Spirit, as early as three days after crossing the Red Sea.

Many people who have been called have done this and the greater majority of humanity wants very little, if anything, to do with God today. Those who profess Christianity, do so on their terms, certainly not on God’s. What God says to do is either ignored or pushed into the outdated basket or reasoned away by most professing Christians today. God’s laws, Sabbaths, statutes are just ignored and labelled Jewish or some such thing. Very few are concerned with what God wants.

If we choose the fountain of living waters we still need physical food and water and God promises to provide these needs if we put Him first in our lives.

Mat 6:33  “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

We must be careful to worship God in truth and in Spirit, if we are to gain eternal life. We must be prepared to accept the new truths God is revealing to His end time church.

SECOND DAY OF THE FEAST

Let’s recap again about what we have learned, the Feast pictures the dwelling in booths for 40 years by the Israelites.

Lev 23:41  ‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

The first truth we must learn to gain eternal life is the truth about the Father and Christ. Then we must learn about the correct date for the Passover. Then we looked at the parallel between the crossing of the Red Sea and Christ being raised from the dead.

Then we saw the Israelites reject God the Father, the fountain of living water, and the Holy Spirit at Marah.

How do we keep the feast today, both spiritually and physically? The reading of the book of Deuteronomy. Every 7 years. Sharing with others, fellowship, sing hymns prayer and Bible study. And live the good life during the feast.

Today we will parallel the rejection of the Promised Land by the Israelites, to our calling today.

Many people are called by God, but only a few value the truth and knowledge of God. Few are prepared to put in hours of study, effort to overcome our own natures and seek God first. Many are pulled and tempted by worldly things, like TV, material pursuits, which take us away from God.

Mat 22:14  “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Let’s look at the parable of the sower explained by Jesus

Remember we are the modern day Israelites, this is our story, it is about us, apply it to ourselves.

Mat 13:18  “Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

Mat 13:19  “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.

Mat 13:20  “But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

Mat 13:21  “yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Mat 13:22  “Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Mat 13:23  “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

We see explained in this parable how some people are easily taken away from the truth, some endure for a little while, but when things get too hard, they give it away, then others are just too busy with the physical things, then the last group who bear fruit. Even in the fruitful group, some put in more effort than others, 100 fold down to 30.

It was the same with the Israelites, when God brought them to the Promised Land, He sent 12 spies to check out the land. Only two of them brought back a good report.

The other 10 thought it was all too hard. These 10 align with the unfruitful mentioned above and have no understanding.

Notice the men who searched out the Promised Land were leaders of the tribes of Israel.

Num 13:3  So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Num 13:17  Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains,

Num 13:18  “and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;

Num 13:19  “whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;

Num 13:20  “whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.

Num 13:21  So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.

Num 13:22  And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Num 13:23  Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

The grapes ripen in the area around July to August.

This is the evil report that the leaders of Israel brought back.

Firstly it was fertile land, the produce they brought back was huge.

Num 13:27  Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

The leaders thought it was too fortified for them to take the cities, and there were giants there.

Num 13:28  “Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Today we face the same problems, it is not an easy stroll into the kingdom of God, we have to face and overcome huge obstacles, but we can overcome them if we rely on God. We are well equipped to win the battle. If we are strong and courageous.

The prize is well worth the effort, put on the armour of God.

Num 13:29  “The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

Notice the attitude of Caleb, he could not see the problem, he had strength and courage to go forward. He wanted the Promised Land. He knew all things were possible with God. Do we have this attitude towards eternal life? Do we rely on God to help us overcome the obstacles in our paths?

Num 13:30  Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”

Even though Caleb spoke out in faith and strength, the others were weak. It was all too hard for them. They just gave up and said the inhabitants were too strong for them. They had no belief in God, they lacked faith, Joshua and Caleb did not.

Today we have Satan and his spiritual cohorts to deal with. They are big strong and powerful. {Just as the Anakim were to the Israelites.} But if we rely on God for strength and courage, we can overcome his influences. Resist the devil and he will flee from us.

The Israelite leaders had a different attitude, they couldn’t see God in the picture at all, they left Him out of it.

Num 13:31  But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”

The leaders of Israel did their best to discourage the Israelites from entering the Promised Land. They only saw the physical, and ignored the powers of God and His ability to help them.

Much like our ministers and leaders who could not speak out and tell their congregations to follow God’s laws when the truth was watered down after the death of Mr. Armstrong.

Today we have people like that, they are wondering stars who feast among us. They do their best to turn us away from eternal life. They sneak into the church and try to take us away from our calling, watering down the truth, and preaching lies.

Notice the following verses in Jude.

Jud 1:11  Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Jud 1:12  These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

Jud 1:13  raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Num 13:32  And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

The size of the sons of Anak, the giants worried the leaders. Today, could we have a bigger or worse or fiercer enemy than Satan and his cohorts? Without God we would not be able to do anything, but if we rely on God we can do anything.

All things are possible with God.

The scouts exaggerated the difficulties that they had to overcome, for example the sons of Anak were approximately 12 foot tall not 80 feet.

Remember the Promised Land was a type of eternal life. This is where we are now, on the banks of the Jordan, only ready to cross over if we want eternal life, and we have courage, love the truth, believe the truth, and obey God.

Num 13:33  “There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

The leader’s evil report was contagious and all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron. Today we are receiving the knowledge of eternal life, it is up to us if we will accept it with great joy, or be like the grumbling Israelites, finding fault disbelieving, doubting and generally forgetting what was being offered by God.

Num 14:1  So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.

Num 14:2  And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Then they blamed God and wanted to return to slavery in Egypt. This is how our thinking can be warped today if we do not listen to the truth, believe God and put our trust in Him.

The following verses show what the Israelites were saying to Moses.

Num 14:3  “Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

Num 14:4  So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”

They wanted to do away with the leaders appointed by God, just as some members of the Philadelphian era of the church wanted to rid the memory of Mr. Armstrong. But God is in charge, we will keep the memory of Mr. Armstrong alive. Remember God chooses who will be the physical leaders of the church, not man.

Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb tried to change the people’s minds and show them that the Promised Land could easily be taken.

Num 14:5  Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Num 14:6  But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

The Promised Land was a land well worth trying to take.

Num 14:7  and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

If the Lord delights in us, we can enter the land. Today is no different, if we are to receive eternal life, we must please God.

Num 14:8  “If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’

Today we must be chosen to do this, we must believe God, love the truth, obey God and have faith.

There was no need for them to fear the giants. God was with them.

Num 14:9  “Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.”

Remember we are the modern-day Israelites.

Today why fear man or the spiritual wickedness in high places.

Rom 8:31  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

The Israelites just would not listen, they had been shown miracles, and yet too soon did they forget and prefer to return to slavery than enter the Promised Land. Not only that but they wanted to kill Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb.

Num 14:10  And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.

Today the church is no different, a great deal of the members chose to reject God and the commandments, and later on most refuse to believe God, and this new knowledge.

Why didn’t the Israelites want to go in? Because they did not believe God.

Num 14:11  Then the LORD said to Moses: “How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?

In fact if we do not believe God we will not enter into the Promised Land. Which for us is eternal life.

Heb 3:17  Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Again it is the same today, very few, if any will believe the new knowledge restored to the church, which is the knowledge of eternal life.

The rebellious Israelites upset God greatly.

Num 14:22  “because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

Num 14:23  “they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.

Num 14:24  “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Notice that Caleb had another spirit. Both Joshua and Caleb wanted the Promised Land.

If we want eternal life, we must obey and believe God and not be rebellious like the Israelites.

Eternal life should be something we want, today it means accepting new truths, believing the new knowledge about the Father and Jesus Christ, the new meanings to the Holy days and their dates. There is much new knowledge being restored to the end time church, we must have faith, be strong and courageous and through much prayer continue our journey to that goal.

When the Israelites were offered the Promised Land they hated it, they wanted to kill Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, they wanted to return to slavery, they rejected God and would not believe Him.

What will we, the modern day Israelites, do now that we are offered eternal life? Will we act as the Israelites did, or will we love the new knowledge of eternal life? Will we want it, will we believe God and the new truths, will we obey them? The choice is ours to make individually, but God says CHOOSE LIFE.

Now Deuteronomy chapters 6 - 10 for today.

Deu 6:1  “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,

Deu 6:2  that you may fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

Deu 6:3  Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you— ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Deu 6:4  “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!

Deu 6:5  You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Deu 6:6  “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

Deu 6:7  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deu 6:8  You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deu 6:9  You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deu 6:10  “So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,

Deu 6:11  houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full—

Deu 6:12  then beware, lest you forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Deu 6:13  You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.

Deu 6:14  You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you

Deu 6:15  (for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

Deu 6:16  “You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah.

Deu 6:17  You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

Deu 6:18  And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers,

Deu 6:19  to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

Deu 6:20  “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?’

Deu 6:21  then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Deu 6:22  and the LORD showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household.

Deu 6:23  Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.

Deu 6:24  And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.

Deu 6:25  Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.’

Deu 7:1  “When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

Deu 7:2  and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

Deu 7:3  Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

Deu 7:4  For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

Deu 7:5  But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

Deu 7:6  “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deu 7:7  The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;

Deu 7:8  but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deu 7:9  “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

Deu 7:10  and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

Deu 7:11  Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

Deu 7:12  “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

Deu 7:13  And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.

Deu 7:14  You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

Deu 7:15  And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

Deu 7:16  Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the LORD your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deu 7:17  “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—

Deu 7:18  you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

Deu 7:19  the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

Deu 7:20  Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

Deu 7:21  You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.

Deu 7:22  And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

Deu 7:23  But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.

Deu 7:24  And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

Deu 7:25  You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deu 7:26  Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.

Deu 8:1  “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.

Deu 8:2  And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deu 8:3  So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

Deu 8:4  Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Deu 8:5  You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

Deu 8:6  “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

Deu 8:7  For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;

Deu 8:8  a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

Deu 8:9  a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

Deu 8:10  When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

Deu 8:11  “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,

Deu 8:12  lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;

Deu 8:13  and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

Deu 8:14  when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Deu 8:15  who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;

Deu 8:16  who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—

Deu 8:17  then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

Deu 8:18  “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Deu 8:19  Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

Deu 8:20  As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

Deu 9:1  “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

Deu 9:2  a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’

Deu 9:3  Therefore understand today that the LORD your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.

Deu 9:4  “Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you.

Deu 9:5  It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deu 9:6  Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deu 9:7  “Remember! Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

Deu 9:8  Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

Deu 9:9  When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deu 9:10  Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deu 9:11  And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

Deu 9:12  “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.’

Deu 9:13  “Furthermore the LORD spoke to me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed they are a stiff-necked people.

Deu 9:14  Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

Deu 9:15  “So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire; and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

Deu 9:16  And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.

Deu 9:17  Then I took the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.

Deu 9:18  And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.

Deu 9:19  For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me at that time also.

Deu 9:20  And the LORD was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

Deu 9:21  Then I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

Deu 9:22  “Also at Taberah and Massah and Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.

Deu 9:23  Likewise, when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and you did not believe Him nor obey His voice.

Deu 9:24  You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

Deu 9:25  “Thus I prostrated myself before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I kept prostrating myself, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Deu 9:26  Therefore I prayed to the LORD, and said: ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deu 9:27  Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin,

Deu 9:28  lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

Deu 9:29  Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’

Deu 10:1  “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood.

Deu 10:2  And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them in the ark.’

Deu 10:3  “So I made an ark of acacia wood, hewed two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

Deu 10:4  And He wrote on the tablets according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.

Deu 10:5  Then I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, just as the LORD commanded me.”

Deu 10:6  (Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his stead.

Deu 10:7  From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of rivers of water.

Deu 10:8  At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day.

Deu 10:9  Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.)

Deu 10:10  “As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you.

Deu 10:11  Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.’

Deu 10:12  “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deu 10:13  and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?

Deu 10:14  Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it.

Deu 10:15  The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.

Deu 10:16  Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.

Deu 10:17  For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.

Deu 10:18  He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Deu 10:19  Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deu 10:20  You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.

Deu 10:21  He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

Deu 10:22  Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

THIRD DAY OF THE FEAST

Once again today we will recap on what we have learned so far, what does the feast picture? That the Israelites had to dwell in booths for 40 years in the wilderness.

These following verses sum it up.

Lev 23:41  ‘You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

We must know the new knowledge about the Father and Christ, we must know and keep the correct date of the Passover, we have shown the parallel between the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ. We then looked at how the Israelites rejected the fountain of living waters which is the Father and the Holy Spirit. Then we saw how the Israelites rejected the Promised Land.

We must keep in mind during the feast that we are the modern-day Israelites. All these things must be applied to ourselves.

Today we will look into the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and the fact that the Israelites had a different attitude than Joshua and Caleb.  Let’s look at our attitudes today and see if they are the same as the Israelites who failed to enter into the Promised Land.

The feast pictures this time, when the Israelites dwelt in booths. Let’s look at the reasons for this, and parallel it with today.

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Booths are temporary and so is our present physical life. God uses this time to test us. Just as this was a time of testing for the Israelites, so it is for us.

Deu 8:2  “And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deu 8:3  “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

Deu 8:4  “Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Deu 8:5  “You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

Deu 8:6  “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

Notice how some of the spies discouraged the Israelites from entering the Promised Land.

Num 32:8  “Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

Num 32:9  “For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

Num 32:10  “So the Lord’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

Because of disobedience they could not see the land.

Num 32:11  ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Today we must accept the new knowledge in the church which leads to eternal life. There will be people who will come into the church and try to discourage us, they will try to turn us away from the truth. Let’s be forewarned against the modern day spies with the evil report of eternal life. They will be against the modern day physical leaders of the church, just as they constantly murmured and rebelled against Moses.

2Pe 2:1  But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

One of the end time truths being restored is who God is.

2Pe 2:2  And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

Notice the way of truth……we must love the truth, we must be whole hearted.

Joshua and Caleb followed God wholly. Joshua and Caleb loved the Promised Land, they could not see any problem with it, certainly they knew about the giants, but they also knew that if God was with them, they were capable of entering and taking the land.

Num 32:12  ‘except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’

Num 32:13  “So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

Because of disbelief they could not enter. They did not have the heart to believe God, love the Promised Land, or obey God.

Today we must follow God wholly, with all our might, with all our heart. This is the way to eternal life.

Mar 12:33  “And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Psa 119:2  Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!

Rev 14:4  These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Unfortunately we see those in the end time church who do not follow God with their whole heart. We see the lukewarm ones who have their mind on the material things of this world, and not on God. Let’s look at ourselves and see, do we discuss God on the Sabbath, or do we simply talk about the weather, or some other gossip. Notice that in the end time church exists the attitude of the ancient Israelites. Also notice that many in the Laodicean church are not whole hearted.

We are the modern day Israelites and all that was at fault with the ancient Israelites is alive and living in us today and we need to know that and accept that and apply it to us today, that is why these accounts are written because we must apply them to us, learn from their mistakes and get these wrong ways out of our lives.

Rev 3:15  “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

Rev 3:16  “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

Because the Israelites rejected the Promised Land God caused them to die during the 40 years in the wilderness. They murmured against God.

Num 14:27  “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.

Num 14:28  “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:

Num 14:29  ‘The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.

Num 14:30  ‘Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.

Do we murmur today about our church leaders or about God?

Mr. Armstrong was the God appointed leader of the Philadelphian era for some 60 years, and now, some in the church, just treat him with disrespect and disregard his memory. That will not happen in this church. Whilst we are teaching you.

If anyone disagrees with who God puts in charge of His church, then they are out of step with God, and those people need to take a long hard look at themselves and change.

Notice the warning by Paul about murmuring and other sins which Israel were guilty of during the 40 years of wondering.

1Co 10:1  Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,

1Co 10:2  all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

1Co 10:3  all ate the same spiritual food,

1Co 10:4  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

1Co 10:5  But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

1Co 10:6  Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

1Co 10:7  And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

1Co 10:8  Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;

1Co 10:9  nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;

1Co 10:10  nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Notice especially the words of verse 11 they are for examples and admonition for the people living in the last days.

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

1Co 10:12  Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

The children of the Israelites went into the Promised Land.

Notice the Israelites despised the Promised Land, today many despise the truth.

Num 14:31  ‘But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

There is always a penalty for disobedience, here we see the children had to pay for their parents mistakes, this no doubt was to ensure that they did not make the same mistakes.

The children of the Israelites had to bear the whoredoms.

Num 14:33  ‘And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.

Num 14:34  ‘According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.

The Israelites were an evil congregation.

Num 14:35  ‘I the LORD have spoken this; I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’ ”

The original spies died of the plague.

Num 14:36  Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land,

Num 14:37  those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Num 14:38  But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.

Num 14:39  Then Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

Why did they have to remember the way which God led them, for 40 years? To humble them, to prove them to know what was in their hearts and to see if they would keep the commandments. These are exactly the same requirements that God requires of us in the spiritual wilderness.

Once we are baptised {parallel with the Red Sea crossing} we wander for a period of time in the spiritual wilderness, during this time, we are tested to see what is in our hearts.

Deu 8:2  “And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Jas 4:6  But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

1Pe 1:22  Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Jos 5:5  For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

Jos 5:6  For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Jos 5:7  Then Joshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

When Caleb spied out the land he brought back word as it was in his heart.

Jos 14:7  “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.

Caleb loved the Promised Land, he wanted it, yes he saw the obstacles that were there, but he knew that if he relied on God he could easily overcome them. What about today…do we have this heart?

Let’s not be like these gentiles.

Eph 4:18  having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

Guard against these things, this was the heart of the Israelites, is it in us today? All we can do is teach you the truth as God has revealed it to us, it will be up to you alone to believe and accept it, this truth will seem strange and scary to you at first, but you must pray to God and ask Him to give you eyes to see and ears to hear and then be doers of the word, not hearers only.

Heb 3:12  Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Let’s be like Joshua and Caleb.

Eph 6:6  not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Caleb wholly followed the Lord.

Jos 14:8  “Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

Jos 14:9  “So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’

Jos 14:10  “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.

Caleb was in great shape at 85 years old.

Jos 14:11  “As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.

Heb 3:8  Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,

Heb 3:9  Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

The Israelites did not have the type of heart God wanted. They did not know God’s ways. We must know God and the new knowledge we need to have a desire to learn. We need to love God, know about Him and Christ, love the truth and obey God.

Heb 3:10  Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’

Heb 3:11  So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

The new knowledge teaches us about God, it shows us who the Father is and who Christ is, we must love this knowledge and desire it, otherwise we are rejecting God.

Look at this warning, do not have an evil heart of unbelief departing from the living God. This warning is for us today, we are the ones waiting to enter the Promised Land, NOW in the form of accepting the new knowledge of eternal life.

Heb 3:12  Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Heb 3:13  but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Heb 3:14  For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

Heb 3:15  while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Heb 3:16  For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

Heb 3:17  Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Previously at the feast, we have not built a booth to sit in during the feast, but now with the new knowledge of the holy days came the understanding that we should make a booth and sit in it for a portion of each day during the seven days of the feast.

The Israelites in the time of Nehemiah did not know to build booths, but when it was discovered that they should do this, the new knowledge was accepted with great gladness.

Neh 8:14  And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,

Neh 8:15  and that they should announce and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and bring olive branches, branches of oil trees, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

Notice where the people built the booths.

Neh 8:16  Then the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each one on the roof of his house, or in their courtyards or the courts of the house of God, and in the open square of the Water Gate and in the open square of the Gate of Ephraim.

Notice that they sat under their booths, it means just that not actually living in them, but spending parts of the day in the booth, today we can erect one in our units at the feast and spend some of the day inside the booth, being mindful during this time that the Israelites lived in the booths 40 years. The word dwell in booths, can mean to sit in the booth and for us today this makes sense.

We cannot take the tree branches today as this could be against the law in some cases, but we could erect a temporary shelter inside our hotel room or unit. This could be a two man tent, or something similar, this is temporary, we can spend some part of each day sitting inside this booth. This would be proper for the feast and is obeying the scriptures.

This also enables us to keep the Last Great Day correctly, because, we only dwell or sit in the booths for 7 days, we do not sit in our booth on the Last Great Day, so to observe this correctly we simply dismantle our booth before sunset at the end of the feast, before the Last Great Day starts.

Notice that the people sat in their booths they did not live in them during the feast.

Neh 8:17  So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness.

Notice that we do not sit in our booth on the Last Great Day. We are commanded to dwell in booths for 7 days, it is only for the duration of the feast.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

The Last Great Day is a separate holy day from the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast lasts for 7 days then is a solemn assembly, for the Last Great Day.

Lev 23:36  ‘For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

Notice that during the feast the book of the law was read.

Neh 8:18  Also day by day, from the first day until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the prescribed manner.

Every 7th year the book of Deuteronomy is to be read at the feast. This is done for some great reasons. So the people can hear, learn and fear the Lord and to do all the words of the law. And so that their children will hear, and learn to fear the Lord as long as they live in the Promised Land.

We do not know which the 7th year is and we love the book of the law so we will read the entire book of Deuteronomy every feast.

Deu 31:10  And Moses commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

Deu 31:11  “when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Deu 31:12  “Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law,

Deu 31:13  “and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”

The forty years of wandering has many lessons for us to learn, we need to look into these lessons and apply them to ourselves as we journey through our spiritual wilderness before we are offered eternal life. To gain eternal life, we must believe God, fear Him, love the truth and be prepared to step out with strength and courage and obey the new truth. We need to have the heart and actions of Joshua and Caleb.

Joshua and Caleb loved the Promised Land, for us today it is eternal life, do we want it, do we love it and are we prepared to have faith and prove to God we are worthy of eternal life?

Now Deuteronomy chapters 11 - 15 for today.

Deu 11:1  “Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always.

Deu 11:2  Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm—

Deu 11:3  His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land;

Deu 11:4  what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day;

Deu 11:5  what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

Deu 11:6  and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel—

Deu 11:7  but your eyes have seen every great act of the LORD which He did.

Deu 11:8  “Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess,

Deu 11:9  and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Deu 11:10  For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

Deu 11:11  but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,

Deu 11:12  a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

Deu 11:13  ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deu 11:14  then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Deu 11:15  And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’

Deu 11:16  Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

Deu 11:17  lest the LORD’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.

Deu 11:18  “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deu 11:19  You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deu 11:20  And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

Deu 11:21  that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

Deu 11:22  “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

Deu 11:23  then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

Deu 11:24  Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

Deu 11:25  No man shall be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

Deu 11:26  “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

Deu 11:27  the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today;

Deu 11:28  and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

Deu 11:29  Now it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deu 11:30  Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

Deu 11:31  For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it.

Deu 11:32  And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

Deu 12:1  “These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

Deu 12:2  You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Deu 12:3  And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.

Deu 12:4  You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.

Deu 12:5  “But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.

Deu 12:6  There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deu 12:7  And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deu 12:8  “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes—

Deu 12:9  for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deu 12:10  But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,

Deu 12:11  then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.

Deu 12:12  And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deu 12:13  Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

Deu 12:14  but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Deu 12:15  “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike.

Deu 12:16  Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

Deu 12:17  You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand.

Deu 12:18  But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands.

Deu 12:19  Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Deu 12:20  “When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.

Deu 12:21  If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.

Deu 12:22  Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them.

Deu 12:23  Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat.

Deu 12:24  You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water.

Deu 12:25  You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

Deu 12:26  Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.

Deu 12:27  And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat.

Deu 12:28  Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

Deu 12:29  “When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,

Deu 12:30  take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’

Deu 12:31  You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deu 12:32  “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

Deu 13:1  “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

Deu 13:2  and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—’and let us serve them,’

Deu 13:3  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deu 13:4  You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

Deu 13:5  But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

Deu 13:6  “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

Deu 13:7  of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth,

Deu 13:8  you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;

Deu 13:9  but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

Deu 13:10  And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Deu 13:11  So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.

Deu 13:12  “If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your God gives you to dwell in, saying,

Deu 13:13  ‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ‘—which you have not known—

Deu 13:14  then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you,

Deu 13:15  you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword.

Deu 13:16  And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

Deu 13:17  So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

Deu 13:18  because you have listened to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Deu 14:1  “You are the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

Deu 14:2  For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deu 14:3  “You shall not eat any detestable thing.

Deu 14:4  These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Deu 14:5  the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Deu 14:6  And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.

Deu 14:7  Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.

Deu 14:8  Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

Deu 14:9  “These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.

Deu 14:10  And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

Deu 14:11  “All clean birds you may eat.

Deu 14:12  But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

Deu 14:13  the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;

Deu 14:14  every raven after its kind;

Deu 14:15  the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds;

Deu 14:16  the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

Deu 14:17  the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,

Deu 14:18  the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.

Deu 14:19  “Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

Deu 14:20  “You may eat all clean birds.

Deu 14:21  “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deu 14:22  “You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year.

Deu 14:23  And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

Deu 14:24  But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you,

Deu 14:25  then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Deu 14:26  And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Deu 14:27  You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

Deu 14:28  “At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates.

Deu 14:29  And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deu 15:1  “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.

Deu 15:2  And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD’s release.

Deu 15:3  Of a foreigner you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother,

Deu 15:4  except when there may be no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance—

Deu 15:5  only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.

Deu 15:6  For the LORD your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

Deu 15:7  “If there is among you a poor man of your brethren, within any of the gates in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother,

Deu 15:8  but you shall open your hand wide to him and willingly lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he needs.

Deu 15:9  Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,’ and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the LORD against you, and it become sin among you.

Deu 15:10  You shall surely give to him, and your heart should not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your works and in all to which you put your hand.

Deu 15:11  For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’

Deu 15:12  “If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

Deu 15:13  And when you send him away free from you, you shall not let him go away empty-handed;

Deu 15:14  you shall supply him liberally from your flock, from your threshing floor, and from your winepress. From what the LORD has blessed you with, you shall give to him.

Deu 15:15  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this thing today.

Deu 15:16  And if it happens that he says to you, ‘I will not go away from you,’ because he loves you and your house, since he prospers with you,

Deu 15:17  then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

Deu 15:18  It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.

Deu 15:19  “All the firstborn males that come from your herd and your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

Deu 15:20  You and your household shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD chooses.

Deu 15:21  But if there is a defect in it, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Deu 15:22  You may eat it within your gates; the unclean and the clean person alike may eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a deer.

Deu 15:23  Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water.

FOURTH DAY OF THE FEAST

Let’s recap on what we have learned so far, the feast pictures the fact that the Israelites dwelt in booths for 40 years in the wilderness.

Lev 23:42  ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”

Notice some of the reasons the Israelites dwelt in booths.

Deu 8:2  “And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

We saw that to get eternal life, we had to know the Father and Christ, this knowledge is being restored in the end time church.

We must know the correct date of the Passover, and keep it on that day. We saw the parallel between the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ. We then learned about how the Israelites rejected the Father the fountain of living water, and the Holy Spirit. Then yesterday we showed the difference between the attitudes of Joshua and Caleb and the Israelites, and parallel this with our attitudes today.

Today we will look at what Christ preached about at the Feast. He pointed people to the Father, and obedience to Him. Jesus told them they did not know the Father…we must know the Father.

Jesus preached in the midst of the Feast which would be today most probably, since today is the middle of the feast.

Joh 7:14  Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Some of the new knowledge that is required for eternal life is to know the Father and Jesus Christ.

Joh 17:3  “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Let’s notice the words of Christ during the feast as recorded in the book of John.

Jesus was in Galilee because the Jews wanted to kill Him.

Joh 7:1  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

Joh 7:2  Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

Joh 7:3  His brothers therefore said to Him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing.

Joh 7:4  “For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

His own family did not believe Him.

Joh 7:5  For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

Joh 7:6  Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world loved His brothers because they were of the world. Jesus was not. Jesus told the world of their evil ways.

Joh 7:7  “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

Jesus went up secretly because of the plots on His life, He was not tempting God and did His best to keep Himself safe until the appointed time of His death.

Joh 7:8  “You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.”

Christ remained in Galilee until His brethren had left. Then He went to the feast in secret. He did this so as not to tempt the Lord.

Mat 4:6  and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

Mat 4:7  Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’ ”

Jesus waited for His brothers to go to the feast.

Joh 7:9  When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee.

Joh 7:10  But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

The Jews sought Him at the Feast, and no one spoke about Him openly for fear of the Jews.

It was obvious that it was Christ’s custom to go to the Feast for its entirety, because the Jews were looking for Him there. He was late going up this one time because of the plots on His life.

Joh 7:11  Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, “Where is He?”

Joh 7:12  And there was much complaining among the people concerning Him. Some said, “He is good”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He deceives the people.”

Joh 7:13  However, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

Jesus did not attend their colleges.

Joh 7:15  And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”

Jesus said that He was teaching the doctrine of the Father.

Joh 7:16  Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Jesus gave the glory to the Father, the words He was speaking were those of the Father.

If we obey God we will know the truth, if it is of God or man. Notice the key that Christ gives is obedience. If we obey we will know the doctrine.

Joh 7:17  “If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

If we do not speak the truth, and the words of God, we seek our own glory. But if we glorify God, we will be righteous.

Joh 7:18  “He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

Joh 7:19  “Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

Because Christ said He was the Son of God they wanted to kill Him.

The Jews denied their plot to kill Christ.

Joh 7:20  The people answered and said, “You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?”

Joh 7:21  Jesus answered and said to them, “I did one work, and you all marvel.

Joh 7:22  “Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Joh 7:23  “If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Joh 7:24  “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”

Joh 7:25  Now some of them from Jerusalem said, “Is this not He whom they seek to kill?

Joh 7:26  “But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is truly the Christ?

This idea of Christ appearing and disappearing was of Jewish thought and not biblical.

Joh 7:27  “However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from.”

They knew Christ’s family and where He lived, but they did not know the Father.

They did not know the ONE TRUE GOD.

Joh 7:28  Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, “You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

Christ explained that He was from the Father.

Joh 7:29  “But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

Today we must know the new knowledge of Christ and the Father. Christ has not always existed. He was the firstborn of all creation.

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Christ is from the beginning.

1Jn 1:1  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life;

The Father has existed for eternity He alone has existed for eternity. He is the one true God. That means that He is the only one who has existed for eternity. The following scriptures prove that very fact.

Isa 57:15  For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isa 45:21  Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.

Jer 10:10  But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

1Jn 5:20  And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

1Ti 6:16  who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

Mar 12:32  So the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He.

This is new knowledge for the end time church, it must be believed and loved, this is the knowledge that Christ will build His church on. It is the rock of knowledge, or foundation on which the church will be built.

Jesus was born of the Father before creation.

If we have a son does anyone call him our brother? No. Once he is born, he is then your son. Christ was born of the Father before creation, He was the Son then and still is the Son now.

Mat 16:16  Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Mat 16:17  Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Back to what Christ taught at the Feast.

Joh 7:30  Therefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

Joh 7:31  And many of the people believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?”

Joh 7:32  The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.

Jesus told them He would only be with them for a little while longer and then He would be resurrected and raised.

Joh 7:33  Then Jesus said to them, “I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I go to Him who sent Me.

Christ told them He could not be found.

Joh 7:34  “You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come.”

The Jews had no idea of His resurrection and rising, and that He would sit on the right hand of the Father.

Joh 7:35  Then the Jews said among themselves, “Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

Joh 7:36  “What is this thing that He said, ‘You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

Christ spoke about the Father during this day of the Feast, we must know Him and Christ if we are to gain eternal life.

We must love the truth and believe it.

There is only one true God and that is the Father. He is the only one who has existed for all eternity.

Christ was born of the Father before creation. Christ has not always existed.

1Co 8:6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

1Co 8:7  However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Isa 46:9  Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me,

Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

We must love the new knowledge of the Father and Christ, we have not known who they are before this. That is because this knowledge has been lost and is only being revealed in the end time church, it has not been available till now. Let’s love these new truths brethren, let’s believe them, and obey them.

Now Deuteronomy chapters 16 - 20 for today.

Deu 16:1  “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deu 16:2  Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the LORD chooses to put His name.

Deu 16:3  You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Deu 16:4  And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until morning.

Deu 16:5  “You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you;

Deu 16:6  but at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.

Deu 16:7  And you shall roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

Deu 16:8  Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.

Deu 16:9  “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

Deu 16:10  Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.

Deu 16:11  You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.

Deu 16:12  And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.

Deu 16:13  “You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.

Deu 16:14  And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

Deu 16:15  Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice.

Deu 16:16  “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Deu 16:17  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you.

Deu 16:18  “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Deu 16:19  You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Deu 16:20  You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deu 16:21  “You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.

Deu 16:22  You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

Deu 17:1  “You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God a bull or sheep which has any blemish or defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deu 17:2  “If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant,

Deu 17:3  who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

Deu 17:4  and it is told you, and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

Deu 17:5  then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and shall stone to death that man or woman with stones.

Deu 17:6  Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

Deu 17:7  The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

Deu 17:8  “If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

Deu 17:9  And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.

Deu 17:10  You shall do according to the sentence which they pronounce upon you in that place which the LORD chooses. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they order you.

Deu 17:11  According to the sentence of the law in which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the sentence which they pronounce upon you.

Deu 17:12  Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.

Deu 17:13  And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.

Deu 17:14  “When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’

Deu 17:15  you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

Deu 17:16  But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’

Deu 17:17  Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself.

Deu 17:18  “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites.

Deu 17:19  And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,

Deu 17:20  that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.

Deu 18:1  “The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and His portion.

Deu 18:2  Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LORD is their inheritance, as He said to them.

Deu 18:3  “And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.

Deu 18:4  The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

Deu 18:5  For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.

Deu 18:6  “So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the LORD chooses,

Deu 18:7  then he may serve in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LORD.

Deu 18:8  They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

Deu 18:9  “When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.

Deu 18:10  There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

Deu 18:11  or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

Deu 18:12  For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

Deu 18:13  You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deu 18:14  For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.

Deu 18:15  “The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,

Deu 18:16  according to all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

Deu 18:17  “And the LORD said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good.

Deu 18:18  I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

Deu 18:19  And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

Deu 18:20  But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

Deu 18:21  And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’—

Deu 18:22  when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Deu 19:1  “When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

Deu 19:2  you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deu 19:3  You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.

Deu 19:4  “And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past—

Deu 19:5  as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;

Deu 19:6  lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.

Deu 19:7  Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.’

Deu 19:8  “Now if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers,

Deu 19:9  and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,

Deu 19:10  lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

Deu 19:11  “But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,

Deu 19:12  then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deu 19:13  Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Deu 19:14  “You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deu 19:15  “One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.

Deu 19:16  If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Deu 19:17  then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.

Deu 19:18  And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,

Deu 19:19  then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

Deu 19:20  And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.

Deu 19:21  Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deu 20:1  “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

Deu 20:2  So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people.

Deu 20:3  And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them;

Deu 20:4  for the LORD your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Deu 20:5  “Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying: ‘What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

Deu 20:6  Also what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it.

Deu 20:7  And what man is there who is betrothed to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man marry her.’

Deu 20:8  “The officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest the heart of his brethren faint like his heart.’

Deu 20:9  And so it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

Deu 20:10  “When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it.

Deu 20:11  And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you.

Deu 20:12  Now if the city will not make peace with you, but war against you, then you shall besiege it.

Deu 20:13  And when the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.

Deu 20:14  But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the LORD your God gives you.

Deu 20:15  Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Deu 20:16  “But of the cities of these peoples which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive,

Deu 20:17  but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

Deu 20:18  lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you sin against the LORD your God.

Deu 20:19  “When you besiege a city for a long time, while making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; if you can eat of them, do not cut them down to use in the siege, for the tree of the field is man’s food.

Deu 20:20  Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

FIFTH DAY OF THE FEAST

Again let us recap on what we have learned, the Feast of Tabernacles, pictures the time that God had the Israelites live in booths for 40 years in the wilderness.

We should be sitting in our booth for a period of time each day.

As we do this, we contemplate the temporary state of the booth, the temporary state of this physical life, why they lived like that, and how God must have felt about their constant rebellions and murmurings.

Lev 23:34  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

Lev 23:35  ‘On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:36  ‘For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:37  ‘These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day;

Lev 23:38  ‘besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.

Lev 23:39  ‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Lev 23:40  ‘And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

We have learned of the new knowledge about the Father and Christ, we have seen the correct day of the Passover, and have seen we must keep it on the correct day.

We have seen the parallel of the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ.

We saw that the Israelites rejected the fountain of living waters The Father and the Holy Spirit.

We saw how the Israelites rejected the Promised Land.

We learned of the attitudes of Joshua and Caleb and how they differed from the other leaders of the tribes.

We saw what Christ spoke about in the midst of the Feast, He spoke of the Father.

The time spent in slavery should be on our mind every Sabbath, it is a reminder of this time, we need to remember what we were before God so mercifully brought us out of the land of bondage. Notice the following scripture and that we are to remember these days on the Sabbath.

Deu 5:14  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Deu 5:15  And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Deut. 32 v 1-44 is the song of Moses it needs to be learned by modern day Israel.

Today we will look at another spirit, why did Joshua and Caleb qualify to enter into the Promised Land.

What was the difference between them and the other leaders of Israel?

How can we be like them today?

Today let’s look at having another spirit.

Num 14:24  “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Deu 34:9  Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Num 32:11  ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Num 32:12  ‘except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’

Num 14:6  But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

They loved the Promised Land, they spoke highly of it. It was exceedingly good.

Num 14:7  and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

Notice the confidence of Joshua and Caleb, they had no doubt that they could inhabit the land, if God delighted in them. God will bring us into this land, God will give it to us, notice that they gave all the credit to God. It was never something they could have done on their own. God was always in the picture with these two.

They could see that God wanted to give them the Promised Land.

It is the same today, God wants to give us eternal life.

Num 14:8  “If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’

Again Joshua and Caleb are not worried by the size or strength of the people of the land. If God was for them, what was their worry? Don’t rebel, don’t fear them, they are defenceless. The Lord is with us, do not fear them.

Joshua and Caleb relied on God, they trusted Him, they believed Him, they loved the land.

This is how we must be today. As we hear the new knowledge of eternal life, it may scare us. We may be worried and scared to leave the old beliefs behind, but if we trust in God and believe Him, the clouds of doubt will soon blow away. The new knowledge may appear too big for us to handle, too hard too difficult, but just like Joshua and Caleb, if we look past the obstacles, if we trust in God then we will be able to accept the truth. We have to love the new truth, just as they loved the Promised Land.

Num 14:9  “Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.”

Because of Joshua’s obedience and love of the Promised Land, and his willingness to rely on God and believe God, he was given responsibilities of leading Israel. Notice Joshua had the spirit.

Num 27:17  “who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

Num 27:18  And the LORD said to Moses: “Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;

Num 27:19  “set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight.

Num 27:20  “And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

Joshua and Caleb were the only ones out of all the Israelites over 20 years old, who entered the Promised Land……why? They followed the Lord wholly.

Num 32:11  ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Num 32:12  ‘except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’

Here is a warning for us in the end time church. We must be prepared to follow the Lord wholly. Unfortunately the last era of God’s church is only a half hearted bunch. We see that some members are lukewarm.

Rev 3:16  “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

If we are not diligent to be whole hearted, what will happen, the same as the Israelites, they did not enter the Promised Land……we will miss out on eternal life……because Christ says He will spew us out of His mouth.

Don’t just sit back and think we will easily roll on into the kingdom from here. Ok we have come through troubles in the church, and we chose to stick with God’s laws, when the church was led into doing away with the Sabbath and the holy days.

We have now been able to see the new knowledge that leads to eternal life. But if we think we can just cruise on in from here ……think again… Satan roams around seeking those whom he may devour. We must be on our guard, we must be whole hearted, we must put eternal life high on our priority list and God must be number one and we must love this new truth, believe God, have faith and have courage. The troubles ahead will make those which we have already endured look like a picnic. Satan will be very upset with the end time church, he does not want them to succeed.

Let’s not under estimate our enemy, when the church brings forth the end time knowledge of God and Christ……Satan is waiting to devour and do away with this knowledge.

Rev 12:4  His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.

We must be very diligent to get rid of this lukewarm attitude if it is in us today. We must love the truth, believe God, trust in God, be faithful, work hard on ourselves, and our attitudes, and rid ourselves of this half hearted approach to the truth, eternal life is at stake.

Deu 1:38  ‘Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Notice the responsibility given to Joshua, he would cause Israel to inherit the Promised Land. He was going to lead them in, he set the correct examples of following God with his whole heart.

These are the same qualities we need today. Are we capable of leading others to the truth, can we be strong and courageous enough in the face of huge difficulties.

Deu 31:7  Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

Deu 31:8  “And the LORD, He is the one who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”

Here we see Moses telling Joshua that he must be strong and of good courage.

Then we see the all important song of Moses which Israel must learn as a witness against them.

Notice that the children of Israel were to learn it. The church must learn this song.

Deu 31:19  “Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

Deu 31:20  “When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant.

Deu 31:21  “Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants, for I know the inclination of their behavior today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them.”

Deu 31:22  Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

Deu 31:23  Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you.”

Deu 31:24  So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished,

Deu 31:25  that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:

Deu 31:26  “Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;

Deu 31:27  “for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after my death?

Deu 31:28  “Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deu 31:29  “For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Deu 31:30  Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended:

THE SONG OF MOSES

Deu 32:1  “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deu 32:2  Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

Deu 32:3  For I proclaim the name of the LORD: Ascribe greatness to our God.

Deu 32:4  He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

Deu 32:5  “They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.

Deu 32:6  Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

Deu 32:7  “Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:

Deu 32:8  When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

Deu 32:9  For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

Deu 32:10  “He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

Deu 32:11  As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,

Deu 32:12  So the LORD alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.

Deu 32:13  “He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;

Deu 32:14  Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

Deu 32:15  “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Deu 32:16  They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Deu 32:17  They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.

Deu 32:18  Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.

Deu 32:19  “And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

Deu 32:20  And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.

Deu 32:21  They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

Deu 32:22  For a fire is kindled by my anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Deu 32:23  ‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

Deu 32:24  They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.

Deu 32:25  The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

Deu 32:26  I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

Deu 32:27  Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, “Our hand is high; And it is not the LORD who has done all this.” ’

Deu 32:28  “For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them.

Deu 32:29  Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

Deu 32:30  How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?

Deu 32:31  For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

Deu 32:32  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

Deu 32:33  Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.

Deu 32:34  ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?

Deu 32:35  Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.’

Deu 32:36  “For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.

Deu 32:37  He will say: ‘Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?

Deu 32:38  Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.

Deu 32:39  ‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

Deu 32:40  For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “As I live forever,

Deu 32:41  If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me.

Deu 32:42  I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.” ’

Deu 32:43  “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

Deu 32:44  So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Joshua was full of the spirit.

Deu 34:9  Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Notice they had another spirit.

Num 14:24  “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Joshua and Caleb had another spirit to the other leaders, they were obedient to God, loved the Promised Land, believed God, relied on God, had faith and trust in Him, they knew they could easily take the Promised Land if God was with them.

Let’s go forward a little in our account to just before the time of the death of Joshua to recap on the type of man he was. This was 25 years after they entered the Promised Land and Joshua was 110 years old.

Jos 23:6  “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

Jos 23:7  “and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them,

Jos 23:8  “but you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

When God was with Israel they were very strong, the same with us, if we rely on God we can do whatever God wants of us.

Jos 23:9  “For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.

Jos 23:10  “One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you.

Notice Joshua reminds them to love God.