We have already covered the blessing for Reuben and for Judah. Urim and Thummim were to be used for by the nation

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1 Moses is Finishing Well June 12, 2014 Deuteronomy 33:8-34:12 Page 1 He is delivering, under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the for the nation There is one tribe missing from the blessing, Simeon We have already covered the blessing for Reuben and for Judah Urim and Thummim were to be used for by the nation Numbers 27:21 Moreover, he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his command they shall go out and at his command they shall come in, both he and the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation. Exodus 28:30 You shall put in the breastpiece of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron s heart when he goes in before the LORD; and Aaron shall carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the LORD continually. Aaron the high priest He was to continually bear the breastplate of before the Lord in the Holy of Holies The nation s judgment was to continually be on his He was to be inquired of by the nation for guidance and direction Who is our High Priest? What did He say we needed to do? John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. As the High Priest, Jesus just doesn t tell us the way or point us the way, Just as the nation was to always be on the heart of the High Priest We are on the Heart of our High Priest

2 Page 2 Hebrews 7:25 28 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever. The act of faithfulness for Levi took place as a result of the golden calf. They stood up for the Lord that day As a result of their faithfulness, they are to enjoy They will be the of God s law to the nation They will be privileged to continually be in the of God and offer to Him They will be privileged to offer up sacrifices to Him and be in They will be able to discern God s will He protects them As NT believers, what are we? Revelation 1:6 and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. We are Kings and Priests: As Priests, we are: of God s Law Privileged to able to be in His presence We are privileged to be able to offer up our incense (prayer) directly to the throne We are in the position to be able to offer up a sacrifice of praise to our King Hebrews 13:15 16 Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

3 We are able to discern God s will for our life He us Page 3 God is to always be the for Benjamin He is literally to be carried on God s shoulders When the tribes receive the land in Joshua Benjamin receives land that in the very middle will lie Jerusalem Jerusalem is where God chooses to have the temple built and where His presence will reside and ultimately from where Messiah will rule Benjamin, the son of prosperity, and beloved of his father should bear his name with right. He would be the beloved of the Lord, and as such would dwell in safety with the Lord. The Lord would shelter him continually. The participle expresses the permanence of the relation: is his shelterer. Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament, vol. 1 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996), Next to the blessing for Levi, this is the Joseph, the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, would become the most powerful in the north of the nation They would be A promise of and abundance from the seas Haifa commercial center and port for Israel Oil pipeline running from Kirkuk to Haifa Gad has a history of taking care of business militarily, they had a They were also willing to judgment They did not shirk their responsibilities under the law As a result, they wound up getting the of the land Dan is not a lion but a cub They wound up moving as a tribe They were the first to go into They are the only tribe in the 144,000 in Revelation How satisfied and full of favor is this tribe?

4 Page 4 Matthew 4:12 17 Now when Jesus heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED. From that time Jesus began to preach and say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Messiah did most of His ministry there It is interesting to note that the bulk of Israel s lie in what would be Asher Moses then closes out his final words to the nation God made the heavens with His fingers Psalm 8:3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; Imagine then the protection provided by His everlasting arms Imagine the of those arms In this conclusion Moses provides us reasons why God is worthy of our praise For battle and for behavior in all of life the people who would trust God would enjoy victory. James E. Rosscup, An Exposition on Prayer in the Bible: Igniting the Fuel to Flame Our Communication with God (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2008), 318.

5 Page 5 So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen Moses Steps Aside Deuteronomy 34 Why auf wiedersehen? It means This is not the end for Moses It is a transition Luke 9:29 31 And while He was praying, the appearance of His face became different, and His clothing became white and gleaming. And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah, who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. Revelation 11:3 6 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way. These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire. Why did God keep the burial site secret? It was necessary for Jesus to die before entering His rest, because he was the true Mediator who came to reconcile His sinful people unto God; Moses must die without entering the typical rest because as the OT mediator he had by official transgression disqualified himself for [sic] completing the mission which prefigured that of the sinless Son of God. Unlike Moses, who after his death was succeeded by Joshua (Deut 33:9), the Messianic Mediator would succeed himself after his death because it was not possible that death should hold him. Tom Constable, Tom Constable s Expository Notes on the Bible (Galaxie Software, 2003), Dt 34:1. The people would have seen Moses go up to the top of Mt. Nebo They would have possibly even have seen him scanning the horizon Then they would have seen him walk out of their view down the other side It is there that he breathed his last

6 Page 6 If Jehovah, therefore, would not suffer the body of Moses to be buried by men, it is but natural to seek for the reason in the fact that He did not intend to leave him to corruption, but, when burying it with His own hand, imparted a power to it which preserved it from corruption, and prepared the way for it to pass into the same form of existence to which Enoch and Elijah were taken, without either death or burial. Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament, vol. 1 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996), Moses has sinned and he had to pay for that Just as with Aaron before, the people mourned for thirty days Joshua is now the for the nation He has been provided the spiritual gift of We will see he also has many other gifts as well This brings us to the end of the Torah The Law Pentateuch Torah בראשית Bereshith ואלה שמות we elleh shemot ויקרא wayyiqra במדבר Bemidbar אלה הדברים elleh haddebarim Authorship Moses

7 Page 7 John 5:45-47 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words? Luke 24:44 Now He said to them, These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. Jesus solved the problem for us Jesus quoted from each book of the Torah and attributed authorship to Moses Jesus Validated the Torah Matthew 19:4-5 Quoted Genesis 2:23 24 Mark 12:18-27 Quoted Exodus 3 Matthew 8:3-4 Quoted Leviticus 14 John 3:14-15 Quoted Numbers 21:8-9 Additional Evidence: Exodus 17:14 Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Numbers 33:2 Moses recorded their starting places according to their journeys by the command of the Lord, and these are their journeys according to their starting places. Additional Evidence: Deuteronomy 31:9 So Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. Past teachings, study notes and slides of Through the Bible with Pastor Ken Brown are available at: