Deuteronomy 3-4. 5-7, 8-10

Deuteronomy 3-4

Voice of God.  Was it always the same?  Having watched the 10 Commandments movie I have this remembrance of the 'voice of God' being deep and throaty.

Whatever timbre, Moses heard it several times. Was it truly audible to others? Obviously the nation of Israel 'heard' it; however many of the people he's speaking to weren't even born!

Deuteronomy 5-7

5:28 heard the voice of your words? Why not just heard your words?

Deuteronomy 8-10

Humble
Humbled

10:12 ...what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. (Cross reference Mic. 6:8, Deut. 6:5)

The verse begins: And now, Israel...

I hesitated to include it knowing the balance of the verse is reiterated in the NT. I've struggled with replacement theology and disavow it.

I know there is still a physical Israel; however as I sat here pondering the word Israel, the Lord bought to my remembrance how the church is Jew and Gentile, in ONE body.

We've been grafted in...I've 'known' this but don't think I've fully embraced it. I know God will graft physical descendants of Abraham back into the covenant, but the true Israel isn't a physical nation.

It's always been a spiritual nation with a physical manifestation. Prior and during Christs' first advent it was in a set apart nation. Now we are a set apart people, scattered across the globe.

Looking to Israel the nation for signs or as a watch is focused on the wrong entity. We're to keep our eyes upon Jesus. He is the master timekeeper. All history DOES NOT revolve around Israel, it revolves around Christ Jesus.

He told us He would (and did) send the Holy Spirit to remind us of Him, His words. Not to be caught up in end time prophecies or 'watching' Israel for signs.

I'm beginning to wonder if some of my early Christian life wasn't wasted focusing on 'the signs', preoccupied with end time theories, if a large segment of Christianity isn't duped into watching, reading and listening to end time philosophy.

What a perfect dupe by the deceiver. Just enough 'good' to keep people thinking they're on the right path. Studying Scripture to 'read' the signs versus reading the Word to find Him. To fall in love with Him. How incredibly sad.

Shame on the charlatans who peddle their indulgences to the masses and those who are willfully deceived. Shame on all of us for our lack of diligence to His word. To study it, meditate on it, eat it and live.

...know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. Deut. 8:3