Deuteronomy (Chapter 7)

Deuteronomy 7 reveals God’s holiness, justice, and covenant faithfulness as Israel prepares to enter the Promised Land. The command to remove the nations from the land reflects God’s judgment on persistent sin and His desire to protect Israel from idolatry. The warning against intermarriage highlights the call to spiritual fidelity, not compromise. This chapter shows that God remains faithful to His promises and calls His people to wholehearted devotion, guarding their hearts from turning away from Him.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Deuteronomy 7 Reset
• 1:00 Nations Listed And The Command To Destroy
• 3:55 Why The Command: Guard Against Idolatry
• 6:10 Covenant Loyalty And Judgment Themes
• 9:20 From Torah To Jesus: Plot Development
• 13:15 Love Your Enemies In A Changed Context
• 16:30 Paul’s Mission And Israel’s Storyline
• 20:30 Fear The Lord, Not The Nations
• 24:00 Blessings, Curses, And Remnant

Transcript

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SPEAKER_02: 0:26

Hey everybody, welcome back to Teach Me the Bible Podcast. We are walking through the book of Deuteronomy. Um, if we're assuming you have listened to last episode, uh, where we made it part of the way through chapter seven, uh, but we're gonna back up, I think, just a little bit and begin at the beginning of chapter seven just to to recall some of what we went over and we're gonna uh see where that takes us today. So I got Dr. David Klingler with me as always, uh, to be our guide through the text today. So, Doc, if you'll pick us up at chapter seven, verse one, we'd all be very grateful.

Dr. David Klingler: 1:00

Yeah, so so it begins when the the Lord your God brings you into the land which you're entering to possess it, and he clears away the nations before you, the Hittites, the Gergeshites, the Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. Uh, this list is old news for the for Torah reader, right? Um, this goes back uh probably at least to to Genesis 15. Um, but even uh before that, with the table of nations, where did these these different people come from? Yeah. Uh and so the Canaanites, where did the Canaanites come from? And and whose side are they on? And and so the these teams, these sides, these nations have been introduced all the way from really the beginning of of the book of Genesis, have tracked through, they've played different roles. Uh, but now uh Israel is told uh that uh again that they're to go in and to utterly destroy uh the uh you know the it's in the land. Um remember back in uh chapter 15 of Genesis, uh uh where Abraham is told that after the fourth generation that Israel, uh Abram's descendants, Abram's seed, will return uh to the land, for the iniquity of the Amorit is not yet complete. And so here's the Amorites, Gergashites, Hittites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hibites, all the ites in the land. You know, and so always jokingly say if there's an id in the land, you know, termite doesn't matter, kill it. That's right. You kill everything, man, woman, child, um, lest they cause you to follow other gods, and that's the point, right?

SPEAKER_02: 2:40

And the sin and the iniquity of these nations is really emphasized, you know, by Genesis on. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 2:48

And so the alignment of the peoples created by the Lord with the Lord and his plan and desires is really important. And and so, you know, so um often it's you know, it's stated, well, you know, this is cruel or unjust, or you know, we have to change what the text says somehow. And that's that's a huge movement right now where everybody's trying to deal to change the conquest. And uh, and you know, the the Lord really isn't one who you know wipes out the opposition. Um well, I I don't know what story you've been reading. Um, but uh the Lord has promised that he will wipe out Israel. Uh He is a jealous God and He will wipe them off the face of the ground. Yeah, it's the basis of their fear if they rebel against Him, right? Yeah. Um, and this is the purpose for creation, to create image bearers, to do what's good and right in His eyes. And so if you're just gonna say, Look, I'm not doing it, well, then here's the just penalty and judgment.

SPEAKER_02: 3:47

And yes, absolutely.

Dr. David Klingler: 3:48

And uh and so this is what's going on. And and so when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, you shall utterly destroy them, you shall make no covenant with them, you shall show them no favor. Now, of course, that as we said last time, they're gonna do it, they're gonna go in there and immediately start making covenants with uh with these people. Furthermore, you shall not uh intermarry with them, you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods. Solomon's gonna do this, right? Um this is gonna be a repeated problem throughout all of Israel, all of Israel's history, intermarrying, intermarrying with the nations, being led astray. Uh, and so uh there's even uh in the law, and we're gonna run into these in the book of Deuteronomy, uh, if anyone among you, you know, any of your countrymen, uh, you know, your father, your mother, your companion, the one who is as your own soul, Deuteronomy 13 is going to say, secretly entice you, saying, Let us go after other gods. Yeah, you're not to pity them, you're not to conceal them, your hand shall be the first to rise against them. And you kill them. You stone them to death, right?

SPEAKER_02: 5:01

Absolutely.

Dr. David Klingler: 5:02

Uh, and so it is a very big deal to uh go against, oppose, follow other gods, or to remake God in your image, or in the image of a four-legged animal animal, like a golden calf, or like anything else that uh that Israel does. So we're gonna see these all the way through the story. So if you want to change, you know, any of these, you have to change all 66 books. You're gonna see it consistently through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Joshua judges Samuel Kings through the prophets.

SPEAKER_02: 5:36

Oh, yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 5:37

Right? Um through Revelation. I mean, it it is yeah, you know, story wide.

SPEAKER_02: 5:42

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 5:43

Uh, you know, revelation-wide, Bible-wide. Um, and that raises all kinds of questions when we get to the New Testament. But when we track down this storyline, uh, let me just, you know, kind of telegraph what I'm saying here. So um Jesus is going to come on the scene. He's gonna say, You've heard it said that you are to, you know, uh, you know, love your brother and hate your enemy. Um, I tell you to love your enemy and pray for them. Well, what's what's happened? Well, what's happened is Israel didn't heed this warning. They intermarried, they were led astray, they went after the gods of the nations, but here's the caveat: the Lord had made a covenant with them. Yes, and he is, uh, as we learned in Exodus chapter 34, he is compassionate and gracious and slow to anger and abounding in loyal love. He's going to keep his covenant, even to a people who reject him, rebel against him, and go follow other gods. And so the redemptive plan is to bring the peoples of the nations to himself to make them jealous, to move them to anger. So, so now when Jesus encounters the Israelite in the New Testament, uh, and he's teaching them, he says, You've heard it said, love your brother and hate your enemy. Here's the problem. Your brother is now rebelled against the Lord, and he is your enemy.

SPEAKER_02: 6:57

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Dr. David Klingler: 6:58

You know, so so you know, Jesus speaking in the Sermon on the Mount to the you know, the people on the hill who are hungry and thirsting for righteousness, the believing remnant, and he's saying, Your brother is going to kill you. Um, and uh and and so herein lies the problem, right? Here lies the problem of the New Testament. So uh so Paul, Paul's ministry in uh the book of Romans, he's he's taking the gospel to the Gentiles so that he might win over his brother. He says, I wish I were cursed for the sake of my brethren. But it's not as though the word of God has failed. Uh Paul himself was an enemy of God, while we were yet enemies, Christ died for us. And and there, the we there. He's talking about himself and and his role as a in rebellion against the Lord, in um, you know, in trying to make himself righteous apart from faith.

SPEAKER_02: 7:45

And so anyway, there's there's a lot going on here. It's another example of how the plot changes and and helps you account for the details later that seem contradictory, but really aren't. It's just the the uh uh the movement of the plot. If we understand the story that's happened through the old testament and where that lands Israel in the New Testament, it makes perfect sense.

Dr. David Klingler: 8:07

And it's telegraphed, right? Exactly. And so Moses is saying, look, don't intermarry with them. I know you're going to, don't do it, but you will. But don't. I'm telling you, you will, but don't do it. Because they're gonna turn your hearts away. That's exactly right, right. And so they will turn your sons away from follow me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will quickly destroy you. See, so the choice is you know, who gets destroyed here? Well, um, I I I love this scene that happens in in Joshua chapter five, where the angel of the Lord appears, uh and uh Joshua asks this angel of the Lord, the Tsar of the, you know, the captain of the Lord of hosts, says, Are you for us or against us? And the answer is neither. Right? Uh I think you got the wrong idea of what's going on here, right? The Lord is not for Israel. The question is, is Israel for the Lord? Yeah, right. Uh the Lord is on the Lord's side. The question is, whose side is Israel on? Whose side are the nations on? Whose side are the leaders on? Yeah. And what we're going to find increasingly is that uh Israel, the nations are already on the wrong side. Um, but Israel, the kings, priests, leaders, prophets, people, they're going to be on the wrong side as well. And only a nations remnant will remain.

SPEAKER_02: 9:21

Exactly.

Dr. David Klingler: 9:22

Is uh Isaiah is going to say it. So again, um, you know, this is just emphasizes the the story. The problem that we have uh is gentile Christians introduced to Christ before we were introduced to the story. We were introduced to Jesus before we were introduced to any kind of theology or gospel, or so we've learned Jesus stories and we've learned how Jesus changed my life. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But we haven't learned how Jesus uh is the fulfillment, the solution to the problem of everyone's lives, yeah. The problem of history, the problem of creation. And so you know, and so we don't know the story. So now we've got to kind of you know, uh it sounds like heresy, right? But you have to set Jesus aside to go find out who Jesus actually is by reading the story in the plot, right? And so uh I got an uh email uh yesterday asking um if uh if we don't start in John, where do we start? Right? And this is from a you know a gentleman who's teaching, you know, Bible story. Well, you start where everybody would start in the story at the beginning. This is what missionaries have found. If you start at the beginning, you're much more successful in communicating why Jesus is relevant. You don't just add Jesus to your list of prophets, he's not just a prophet, he's the great prophet. He's he's not just a man, he is the God man. He's not, you know, so so who Jesus is is only answered by the story. It's not answered by your experience or whatever it is. And so the story uh matters. That's that's the point is that the story and the progress of revelation matters. And so anyway, so what we're seeing here in Deuteronomy chapter seven is Moses' warning to Israel to not intermarry, because they will cause Israel to follow other gods, and then the Lord will judge them. Exactly. Right? Uh for they will turn your sons from following me to serve other gods. The anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will quickly destroy you. So here's what you do, verse five. Uh, you tear you shall uh do to them, uh this is what you do to them. You tear down their altars, you smash down their pillars, you hew down their asherim, their you know, their the you you destroy their graven images, their gods with fire. For you are a set-apart people to the Lord your God. Uh the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession. That language is going to be consistent throughout all of the scriptures. Uh, and again, it's how you know the story. The story doesn't change in the middle, and the definitions don't change. Yes. We have a um Satan has an amazing propensity to change the definitions from the beginning. From the beginning, right? Has God really said? Yeah. Right? Uh challenge what the Lord says, redefine it, uh, reframe it, and and don't think it's just the other guys, you know, the you know, the Baptist or the Methodist or the Presbyterians that are doing it's us, it's all of us. We're all doing it um to for our own purposes and for our own means. Uh and and you know, so it's it's no more right for us to do it than right for them to do it, right? Uh, and it's all satanic. It's all, you know, we must do what's good and right in the eyes of the Lord. The only way to know it is to read it. And uh so anyway. Follow the plot. So so his own possession, this is Israel. So you have the nations, uh uh this people chosen out of the nations to be a prize possession, but his plan is through this prize possession, this own possession, to bring blessing to the nations through the Christ and through the proclamation of his word. He reveals himself to Israel and through Israel for the benefit of all. Right. And so you have all the prophets. Yep, absolutely. Uh so verse seven, the Lord did not set his love on you or choose you because you were more in number than the peoples, for you were the fewest of all the peoples, but because the Lord loved you to keep his oath, which he swore to your forefathers. We tend to uh in these discussions where we try to pit one verse against the other and say, see, the Bible's not consistent, you know. Uh verse seven, we try to isolate and say, Well, see, here it says they're the fewest. But then, well, you know, in uh um, you know, in Exodus, you know, they're concerned about Israel being you know more numerous and you know, they they're gonna turn on us. There's too many of them, right? So which is it? Well, uh, read verse eight, right? That the promise was sworn to our forefathers. It was given to Abram when he was a man.

SPEAKER_02: 14:08

Right.

Dr. David Klingler: 14:08

Abram and his old barren wife, who would have seed and would be like the sand of the seashore, the stars of the heaven, the you know, the um the dust of the earth. Right. Right. Uh they would be numerous. And out of this seed plural would come the seed singular. So anyway, uh so he swore to your forefathers, uh, the Lord brought you out uh by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Of course, this is uh goes back to Genesis chapter 15, and when Abraham Abraham asked the Lord, is Abram at the time, asked the Lord, how will I know that I will inherit the land? And you know, and of course, this was foreshadowing. There's a lot of foreshadowing going on all throughout Torah. Oh, yeah. I was reading, uh, you might find this interesting, Alex. I was reading um um this last couple weeks. Um uh you know, the the we talk about Jewish uh canon and old testament canon, um, and there's a pretty good contingent uh that believed that the that there is nothing new in the prophets or the writings, nothing it was all reaffirming, restating what Moses had already said.

SPEAKER_02: 15:23

Interesting.

Dr. David Klingler: 15:24

Um that that's why Moses was the great prophet. And so you were and it makes sense, right? You were evaluated by whether or not you agreed with Moses. Did your words align with Moses? Did you reaffirm what Moses said? We've said it here. Did you do you sing the same song, right? Are you are you telling the same story? Are you singing the same history? Uh and uh and it it's confirmed all the way throughout. I I like that absolutely so the law, the prophets, uh, and the the the psalms, the writings, all speaks of Christ.

SPEAKER_02: 15:54

I agree with Moses which is which was anticipated by Moses. That was the test, as we're gonna see later, for these true or false prophets.

Dr. David Klingler: 16:03

Absolutely, and for Jesus, by the way. For Jesus, absolutely do not think that I will condemn you before the Father. The one who condemns you is Moses, in whom you brought your trust. If you believe Moses, you'd believe me.

unknown: 16:12

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 16:13

For Moses wrote of me, and that's what we've been doing through our study of Torah. We've been tracking the promise of Messiah. And so, uh, so um, verse nine, know therefore, that your uh the Lord your God, he is God, the faithful God who keeps his covenant and his loving kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love him and keep his commands. That's straight out of Exodus thirty-four, six and seven. But he repays those who hate him to their faces, to destroy them, and he will not delay with him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. Therefore, you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today to do them. And it shall come about. Uh, when you listen to these judgments and you keep them, the Lord your God will keep with you his covenant and his loving kindness, which he swore to your forefathers, and he will love you and bless you, and multiply you, and bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, and the grain, and your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your herd, the young of your flock, your land which he swore to you and to your forefathers to give you. You shall be blessed among all the peoples. There will be no one barren, no male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. The Lord will remove all sickness from you, he will uh put away all the harmful diseases of Egypt, which you have known. You know, these people saw it, right? And he will lay them on all who hate you. So I will bless those who bless you, those who curse you, I will curse. Those who align with you and with your promise and with your word, which you are keeping, um, I will bless. Those who don't, I will curse. Now, is this temporal? Is this eternal? Well, it's looking towards an eternal reality, eternal restoration of what was lost at the fall. Yeah, but it is a temporal display of it, right? And so when you see Israel in the land, when the you know, when the queen of Sheba comes and says, I've been hearing about this. Yeah, what's going on? What's going on here? I've been I've been hearing about this land and this blessing. And she she says, I was not told the half of it. Yeah. Um, man, that's your chance, Solomon. Yeah, you tell him, Oh, just wait. You you think this is something, just wait, right? Absolutely. The true one who brings eternal blessing is coming. Yeah, but if uh, and this is going to be repeated in Deuteronomy 28, yeah. It was already stated in Leviticus 26. Now Deuteronomy 28, these are the blessings and cursings chapters, very important chapters. Um, the the blessing section is much shorter than the cursing section. You know, Deuteronomy 28, 1 through 14 is the blessing, 15 through 68 is curses. There's a there's quite a bit of curses. But if you don't, yeah, but if you say in your heart, um, you know, then then you're gonna get yourself in trouble, right? Um if you should say in your heart, these nations are greater than I, how can I uh dispossess them? They've done that before, by the way. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they've they've already done this at Cadus Barnea, they've rejected uh the the command to go take the land, and they came back and said, Well, there are giants in the land. We don't want it. Um you shall not fear them. Israel was not to fear the nations, not to fear the adversary, they were to fear the Lord. Exactly. And that's why it says fear the Lord.

SPEAKER_02: 19:18

Yes.

Dr. David Klingler: 19:18

Many more times than it says love the Lord, it says, Fear the Lord, right? You are to uh in fact, they're they go hand in hand. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 19:25

Yeah, fear the Lord and do not fear the enemy belong together. They they are often found.

Dr. David Klingler: 19:30

And and fear of the Lord and love of the Lord are they they are complementary, they're two sides of the same coin in uh in many ways. And you would do well to remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt. Well, why would they be good to remember that? Well, number one, the Lord can do it to the enemy, and if they rebel against the Lord, he can do it to them, right? Which is going to happen. He's going to bring the diseases. If you rebel against the Lord, he's going to bring the diseases, judgments, that Which he poured out on Pharaoh and eased. You think those are bad? Just wait. Buckle up. You think anything? Uh it's going to come to you in much stronger force.

SPEAKER_02: 20:08

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 20:09

The great tiles trials which your eyes saw, and signs and wonders, and mighty and outstretched hand by which the Lord your God brought you out. So the Lord your God will do to the peoples uh whom you are afraid. Moreover, the Lord will God will send uh they translate this here. There's some debate about this in verse 20. Uh, send the hornet against them. It's uh uh maybe uh you know distress, uh distress against them. Um you know that there's a question about this uh uh this root uh word here in Hebrew, but we'll leave it hornet uh for now. But it you know, but but uh the hornet would be symbolic of uh the this the trouble that's coming. It's not just hornets that are gonna come against you.

SPEAKER_02: 20:56

Some kind of driving out.

Dr. David Klingler: 20:57

Uh until those who are left and hide themselves um uh from you perish. You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is in your midst. He is a great and fearing fearful God. Yeah, you fear him, you don't fear them. Right? The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little, uh, and uh he will not put uh them to an end quickly, for the wild beast would grow too numerous for you. But the Lord your God will deliver them before you and will throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed, right? So you're gonna see this in some of the stories in the conquest, right? You know, Israel's gonna go into a battle with you know a couple hundred people and uh you know lantern and some clay pots, and you know, a trumpet, you know, blow the trumpet, crash the play clay pot, and see what happens. And the Lord's gonna cause confusion among them and they're all gonna destroy themselves, you know. Uh in other words, yeah, yeah, you're not even gonna have to lift a finger to do it, just like you didn't lift a finger to come out of Egypt. So also you're not gonna lift a finger to yeah, uh so so the size of your army doesn't matter. Or the skill of your army. That's exactly right. And and you know, we we go to the Bible and say, Oh, look at all this great, you know, tactics that Israel implemented, and you know, um fear the Lord, that's the tactic. That's the tactic, right? There is no tactic, there's no battle strategy that's big enough or strong enough to overcome the Lord, right? So uh so the Lord is the one who is great, he is the one you're to fear, he's gonna clear them off little by little, uh, and he's going to cause great diffusion uh confusion among them until they're destroyed. He will deliver their kings, verse 24, into your hand, so uh that you will make their name perish from under the heaven. Interesting that Israel's name will not perish from under the heaven, but theirs will. And no name will be a uh no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. Their graven images of their gods, you are to burn with fire. You shall not covet their silver or their gold that is on them. Remember back to uh this story of of Abram in chapter 14 of Genesis, where you know he goes into battle, uh, he wins the battle, he wipes them all out, all the you know, and he uh and the kings say here, keep the stuff. He says, No, no, no, far be it from me uh to keep your you know your stuff. It was under the ban uh later in the story. Uh lest you say that you made Abram rich. This is not going to be because I took your stuff, that the Lord is going to uh cause uh this great blessing to come, not uh because it was taken from the nations.

SPEAKER_02: 23:38

Yeah, and and Abraham's possessions came out of Egypt, not the people of the land. Same thing with Israel.

Dr. David Klingler: 23:44

Same thing with Israel, yeah. Same thing. Um, so um you shall not covet their their silver or their gold that is with them, nor take it for yourselves, uh, for you shall be snared by it, and it will be an abomination uh to the Lord your God. Uh, this is exactly what Achan is going to do in the book of Joshua. He's going to take some, you know, take the the treasure and hide it in his in his tent, and it's it's going to be a problem for him, right? All he's going to end up with. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. You shall not bring an abomination into your house. It's what Achan's going to do. Uh and uh it uh and like it come under the band. You shall utterly detest it, you will hate it, uh, for it is something banned. And so so these are some marching orders. This is kind of the preliminary marching orders for Israel. They're to go into there to utterly destroy the Amorites, Hittites. You're gonna see this in Deuteronomy chapter 20. We're gonna return back to this discussion in Deuteronomy chapter 20.

SPEAKER_02: 24:52

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 24:52

Uh they're not to make a covenant with the peoples of the land, outside the land they can, but inside the land, they're not. And so it's gonna be repeated. And there's a reason why, lest they cause you know, they cause you to follow their gods. If there's any misunderstanding what that means, keep reading in the story. That's exactly what happens. Israel follows the gods of the nations, they uh play the harlot to the Baals. They've already done it, and they're going to do it in the future. And Moses is gonna tell them. So as we go through, uh next time we'll be in chapter uh eight, but as we as we go through chapter eight, nine, ten, it's the same thing. We're gonna be saying a lot of the same things. But preparing them for what we want to take our time going through Deuteronomy, not only so that you learn Deuteronomy, but so that you see how significant these verses are in how it plays out in Israel's history, not only in the historical books, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, not only in the prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, but in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Romans, um, you know, Acts, uh, the New Testament books, and then ultimately Revelation. You're gonna see all of this same stuff playing out over and over and over. Exactly. And so we cannot change the story, change the plot, change the characters, and make ourselves the main character.

SPEAKER_02: 26:12

Yeah.

Dr. David Klingler: 26:12

God has a redemptive plan, and it is well uh underway in the book of Deuteronomy, and it's gonna play out all the way through the end of the story.

SPEAKER_02: 26:20

Yeah, absolutely. And if you're right that none of the writings or the prophets are saying anything new, and I'm convinced that that's the case, uh, then we really need to know these words, the words of Moses.

Dr. David Klingler: 26:32

They they are the morality, they're God's character revealed, therefore, they are what's good and right in the eyes of the Lord. They are the morality uh that Israel is to have and the means and the manner in which they're going to be judged and how they're supposed to walk. And so uh and and you know, and so this is core to our understanding of the scriptures. If you want to know the Bible, learn Deuteronomy.

SPEAKER_02: 26:54

Yeah, Genesis through Deuteronomy, focus on it. Torah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, so good. All right. Well, uh, we'll end our time today there. Um, hopefully, you're continuing to uh come along this journey with us and and understand these details because, like we've said so many times, um, you need them. You need them for the rest of this story. And so we're gonna continue uh to dissect this book uh in just as much detail as we have been. And so we hope that you'll join us next time as we pick up in chapter eight.

SPEAKER_00: 27:25

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