Book Five:
Deuteronomy
Primary Charge of
Moses to the People (cont’d)
Chapter 11: A final
exhortation to future obedience (cont’d)
Yeah, it’s definitely getting to be better written. This chapter is repetitive, but readable and
coherent. God is continuing his final “exhortations”
to the Israelites. It’s getting pretty
exciting, because he’s been promising them forever that he would deliver them
to Canaan, and most of the book has been about the delay of the promise, now finally we’re here. It’s interesting that we are not actually there yet; but there is actually,
perhaps for the first time ever, real suspense right now. Canaan is right
there across the river, and God has to pause one more time to repeat
everything. Is it going to happen or
not?!
And of course he’s as paranoid and insecure as ever. I really didn’t think he was ever going to
actually fulfill his promises, because then he would have nothing to hold over
the Israelites’ heads. So now that he’s
committed to doing it, he is really paranoid because he has no more
leverage. So he makes up a new
threat—follow me, or there will be no rain.
Okay, whatever. We all only
follow you because of your threats; does that make you happy?
Even reading two chapters a day has become too much
(obviously) so I’m going to try reading just one, and I’m going to keep these
notes short. We’ll see how it goes. Hopefully I can at least finish Numbers
before I have to take another year-long break!
—bibletoenail
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