Bible In A Year: Deuteronomy

The book of Deuteronomy serves as a foundation for understanding the entire Bible. In Moses’ final address, he reminds Israel of God’s covenant, calling them to love the Lord with all their heart and warning that obedience brings blessing while disobedience brings discipline. Deuteronomy explains the cycles seen in Judges, the message of the prophets, and the promise of a new heart for God’s people. This book reveals God’s faithful character and frames the unfolding story of redemption throughout Scripture.

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Framing Deuteronomy’s Importance

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SPEAKER_02 0:27

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Teach Me the Bible Podcast. My name is Alex Wolfe, and I'm sitting here with uh Dr. David Klingler, and we are uh continuing to just trek our way through the story of the Bible, the story of God. And today uh we get to jump into the book of Deuteronomy. Um and for those of you who aren't familiar with my voice or my face, if you're watching on some of our other streaming platforms, I'm actually a student of Dr. Klingler or the Doc as we like to call them around uh the seminary. And uh I'm um is that all you call me? Just the doc, yeah. Okay. That's what me and several others call just the doc. With the it has to have the give proper, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

Yeah.

Why It’s Central To Scripture

SPEAKER_02 1:10

Um but I'm honored to be part of this and honored to be able to sit specifically today where we're going through this book. I've been through quite a personal journey with the book of Deuteronomy. Um Deuteronomy gets kind of a bad rap. It's sort of it's got a negative sort of connotation to, at least in some of the circles in which I was brought up, even in Bible school, uh, when I was going through Old Testament survey, even the professors had a negative attitude towards the book of Deuteronomy. Oh, it's so boring, so many jokes about it. Wow. And so when I came into seminary, uh, and I'm hearing you and some other professors say it's the best book of the Bible, it's the key to understanding scripture. Right. I'm like, you guys are you guys are exaggerating. But but uh it wasn't long until I started singing the same tune. And so uh I just want to encourage our listeners to to lean in to not buy into the negative uh hype about the book and and and really uh spend some time learning it because I think it's going to uh just make the Bible come alive in a special way. Uh and along with that, um we actually also offer more materials on teachmethebible.com um where there's Bible studies and book studies. And in fact, uh there's an entire week by week, chapter by chapter, pretty much study on the book of Deuteronomy if you want to dive in uh even more. So you can visit the website. There's daily devotionals and blog posts, there's questions and answers with with the doc. Um and so uh yeah, just encourage you to lean in and and really learn it. And so uh with that, I'll I'll turn it over to you.

Dr. David Klingler 2:41

Well, our first, yeah, our first um book study that we're that we've got uh um you know several 14 weeks, 13, 14 weeks, something like that, is the book of Deuteronomy. And most people I don't think they'd start in Deuteronomy. I think they'd start, I don't know, where would you start? Romans or John? John, yeah, that's the common. Yeah, that yeah, you start in John. Um but but uh if you want to know the Bible, you learn the book of Deuteronomy. That's right. And um and uh the actually the books after from Joshua uh through the the the Old Testament history, uh so Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, we call that the Deuteronomic History.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

That's right.

Blessings, Curses, And Restoration

Dr. David Klingler 3:21

Uh and the reason why is because everything after Deuteronomy you evaluate by Deuteronomy, right? And so um a passage is like chapter 28. Um when uh when when I was going through uh school, um the first class I took in seminary wasn't Bible study methods, it was actually um your Genesis to Judges class, and and uh Charlie Bayless was teaching it, and uh, and he said the book of Deuteronomy is the most important book in the Bible, and I thought um the man is crazy. And he and he said uh that his mentor, Dr. uh Pentecost, White Pentecost, said the same thing, and I'm and I remember thinking, well, that makes two of you who are crazy. But it doesn't take long uh and uh and until you um you you start to you you start to think maybe they're right. I used to drive back and forth to Dallas uh and we had Bible on CD and and I'd listen to Deuteronomy and I and I remember I can't I can't tell you the number of times I'm driving along and I'm going, no wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, what? Right. That's in Deuteronomy. I know that was in Deuteronomy. That's why they're saying that. That's in Deuteronomy, and and so much of of the core of the faith, uh the the the Deuteronomy chapter 28, all of the the blessings and curses, there's a huge chapter, and we'll talk about it. Chapter 30 is the you know the rest chapter 30 introduces the the really the new covenant, the uh that Israel when they're restored, and and so there's just so and then and then uh a passage that has just become really important, uh, I I think um that that's often overlooked is Deuteronomy 32, the song of Moses. Because it's the history of Israel. And that's right, and and I and I realize this actually, uh I tell you all how I, you know, I I I've I've learned Paul taught me the Bible, right? Uh and so uh what I what I would do is whenever whenever I was in a Pauline epistle, uh and Paul would quote the Old Testament. Um I'd I I the way it started, I'd say, well that that's not what you're saying, that's not what that says, Paul. And I'd go back, or or at least that's not the context within which that's being used. I'd go back and I'd look, and and sure enough, I'd read the context and say, wait a second, I think that is. And so and so I made it a habit of of every time that I saw an old testament quote in a Pauline epistle, I'd just go back there and I'd read that whole section, right? Uh and so um, you know, the uh in in Romans chapter 10, uh there's all kinds of Old Testament quotes, and uh he's quoting out of Joel, he's quoting out of Isaiah, uh, and and then he gets down here and he quotes out of Deuteronomy 32. And I thought, huh. And he got, you know, I went back there and I looked at Deuteronomy 32 and I I was reading through it, and and I was thinking, no, wait a second, this is the story of the Bible. And sure enough, uh, I mean it is. And so and so anyway, so the book of Deuteronomy, um if there's one book that that as you were saying, is is not only uh underrated, but can't be over-emphasized. I mean, literally, maybe other than Genesis as the the sole exception, maybe um, the book of Deuteronomy is the most important book. It it impacts every book after the book of Deuteronomy. It's almost like the epistles, all of it.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Yeah, it's almost like a domino effect once you start kind of when you start understanding and recognizing the contents in Deuteronomy, like you said, just you start seeing it everywhere throughout scripture. Deuteronomy 32, once you wrap your head around the story that's being told in that chapter. I remember I I called you one time while I was writing my thesis, and I'm like, man, I I'm pretty sure I found Deuteronomy 32 in this psalm. Yeah, it's you were like, it's everywhere, it's throughout the whole Bible.

Dr. David Klingler 7:25

So yeah. So let's talk, let's talk, so let's explain. So we we've hyped it up. Let's explain what's uh what's going on. So let's remind ourselves. So the book of Deuteronomy, uh, Deuteronomy Second Namas Law, Second Law. Um, Moses has led these these people out of Egypt. Um they're not you know, they're they he leads them through the sea, uh, and it's not a minute. And they're fighting against him, uh rebelling against him, grumbling at him, wanting to go back. Um and uh and and this is kind of the struggle all the way through, um from um Masa, Meribah, striking the rock, uh Kadish Barnia, um Israel's rebellion, the death of the first generation, all that is piled in here. And so now we're coming out of the the 40 years of uh of funerals, uh and Moses now has blown it, he's not going into the land, and so this is his parting sermon in in some ways. In some ways, it's kind of his parting shot, right? Right. All right. I know how y'all are. Yeah, good point. Yeah, I I know exactly. So so in in chapters uh one through through four, he he tell he reminds them of, you know, look, let's let's rehearse here. You know, this is who you are, this is the Lord, he brought you out. Um then he gives them the in the in chapter five the the great commands, the the ten commandments, uh, and uh and then he he's spelling out for them who they are, what they're supposed to do in the land, what the why they're supposed to do it. Um they start to he's gives some very specifics. And then in uh in chapter 28, that so this is in the form of a covenant. Chapter 28, he says, Okay, now um if you're obedient, if you follow me, in fact, it actually uh begins in chapter uh uh chapter 20 uh 27, but but if you're obedient and if you follow the Lord in the land, then he will bless you in the land. And this is what it'll look like. You'll be uh, you know, your your animals will uh be healthy, your children will be healthy, your land will produce for you, your crops will grow, the rains will come, it'll all be wonderful. Uh for the purpose of the nations um coming to you and saying, What's going on here? That's your opportunity to tell them, just wait. The true covenant blesser is coming, the Christ is coming. Um, but if you uh don't obey me, you know, if uh if Israel doesn't obey the Lord, if they go and serve other gods, then the curses will come upon Israel. And the purpose of the curses uh were to call Israel to repentance, so that they would shoove, they would return to the Lord. That's the that's the word that's going to be used in chapter 30, right? Uh and so um when we get to the book of Judges, we're gonna we're gonna talk about the cycles of sin. What on earth is a cycle of sin? Well, basically what it is is Israel goes into the land, they don't conquer all the ites, all the people they're supposed to conquer. It's spelled out in chapter, uh, chapter 7, chapter 20 of Deuteronomy, uh repeatedly. Um they don't wipe out these folks, uh, and so they these people cause them to follow their gods. Israel goes and follows their gods, then the Lord's anger burns against them, and so he executes the covenant. He says, All right, uh, you have rebelled against me. Here's the judgment. So the curse has come, you know, famine, right? Uh no rain, um, enemies, whatever it is. Um, um, war, famine, death. Heavens and the earth witnessed against you. Yes, yes, yes. Uh, and so yeah, and so these judgments come upon Israel so that they would repent. Uh, it's uh the word that's used all the way through here is uh it's a word that's um that that's translated into the Greek. The Septuagint translates it as a uh as a as disciplining a child. Right. Uh and and the English translates it differently, like chastise or you know, it has this like negative connotation, you know, he's judging you, he's you know, he's chastised. Well, no, the the word is the same word. Uh and it's uh I like how it's trans, it's where we get uh you know the word for a child doctor, right? Uh um yeah, you know, so it's it's a the the the training up of a child, it's it's disciplining a child, and of course the book of Hebrews says the same thing that the Lord disciplines Israel because he loves them and right he treats them as a son.

Song Of Moses As Israel’s Story

SPEAKER_02 12:03

Yeah, that's so important uh uh that was such an important piece for me to grasp at some point because you can read these curses and think, oh my gosh, he's such a harsh God, he's you know, he's boy, but when you understand that he's disciplining Israel, he's putting these on them in order to cause them to repent so that he can bless them, uh that's a different story.

Shema And Forming A People

Dr. David Klingler 12:23

It is, and and you know that that's that's um discipline has to be consistent for it to work. And so anyway, so in chapter 30, uh, you know, he says, So when these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you uh in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you. So if Israel rebels against the Lord, they're going to be banished from the land, they're going to be dispersed among the nations or scattered, is how it's translated. It's a diaspora. Uh and you return to the Lord your God, and you obey him with all of your heart and with all of your soul, according to all that I commanded you today, you and your sons, then the Lord your God will return you. If you return to the Lord, he will return you to the land, he will return you from captivity, restore you from captivity, and he will have compassion upon you. Uh, and he will gather you from all the peoples of the uh uh of uh where the Lord your God is uh has scattered you, and if your outcasts are at the end of the earth, from there he will gather you back, he'll bring you back, uh, he will bring you into the land which your fathers possess, and you'll possess it. Uh, and moreover, he will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers, and he will circumcise your heart uh and uh the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul. Now, uh there's a story in the New Testament that almost all believers have heard. If you've been around church for a minute, you've heard of the prodigal son, right? The story of the prodigal son. Well, uh in the in Jesus is telling this is in Luke chapter chapter 15, he tells three parables, but the third parable is the parable of the prodigal son. Uh, this this father has two sons, one's a sinner, uh, and the other is the Pharisee, right? Uh, you know, and and the sinner sins. That's what sinners do. They sin. So all of the things that that son does in that parable correspond to what Israel how Israel regarded the father in the Old Testament. They regard him as dead. Uh they were banished from the land, they attached themselves to the Gentiles, they suffered all the curses outside of the land. Wow. Uh, and then the son uh comes to his senses and he says, Here's what I will do. I will return to my father, and I will say, Father, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. All through, you know, sons I have reared, but they've rebelled against me, Deuteronomy 32. And so, so this father-son relationship is all the way uh through this Old Testament, through the book of Deuteronomy. Uh you are sons to the Lord your God, uh, chapter 14, verse 1. And so uh and so this son comes to his senses, uh, he repents, he returns, uh, and the father has compassion upon him and he restores him. This is the book of Deuteronomy. It's the story of Israel's history. Yeah. Uh and so uh when Israel would rebel against the Lord, the Lord would judge him, they would repent, the Lord would raise up a deliverer to deliver them from their enemies, or he would relent from their judgment, he would cause, he turned the faucets back on in the rain, or or whatever. Uh and so when you think through the stories, um Elijah uh is a story that a lot of people know in the Old Testament, right? And so Israel's rebelling against the Lord, they're worshiping the Baals, uh, they're worshiping foreign gods. Uh and so Elijah the prophet comes on the scene and says, All right, guys, the rules of the game are if you go after other gods, the rain stops. So the rain stops. And and they get mad at uh, you know, the king gets mad at Elijah for pronouncing the judgment. Well, it's not Elijah's fault. You know, this is the this is the covenant that Israel has with the Lord. So so this uh um if you're obedient in the land, you'll be blessed, if you're disobedient, uh you'll be cursed. Now, uh one thing that's important to recognize is that um that Israel is in covenant relationship with the Lord, right? That the Lord has uh placed these curses on creation Deuteronomy chapter 3. And he has chosen this these specific people to to uh um through whom the nations would be blessed, uh Messiah would come through them, the one that would bring that would restore the blessings to creation would come through this nation. Uh and so um it was important uh that the people see it right now. The blessings weren't for the blessings that the the you know the the stuff, the rain, the the land producing wasn't just for um so that they'd have a good day. It was to show the nations that the pro the one who's going to bring true blessing is coming through um uh through this nation. Uh and so they were to to see it, they were to to uh uh to understand this. And so so the book of Deuteronomy does does several things. First of all, it's the last sermon that Moses is going to give to Israel. Uh second, it reminds Israel of the character of the Lord, right? Um, this is what he's like. He he cares for the orphan, the widow, the alien, chapter 10. He cares for the poor. Uh uh you weren't chosen because you were greater than the nations, mightier than the nations, more righteous than the nations. He set his affection on you to love you. Uh he chose uh Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. So so don't think that you earned anything because you didn't. Uh and so because you didn't earn anything, and because his love is one way, an unconditional love, you care for those who can't uh you know return that uh that love. Right because you're the Lord's not partial, you don't be partial. Your judges aren't to be partial, your priests aren't to be partial, you're to judge with righteous judgment. Um, and so you're reminded uh of the character of the Lord. Israel's reminded of the character of the Lord. Uh the other thing is they're reminded of, okay, now um I know how you are. You're a stiff-necked rebellious people, right? And you're not gonna do it. I mean, I'd like to think you will, but we all know better because you've been showing me that uh after three days after uh you know the deliverance of the Exodus, we walked through this fee three days, y'all are already complaining, and the complaining has not stopped since. So I you know, well, Moses is a prophet. No, Moses just knows these people he's living with, right? Uh it's like, whoa, you you knew that your kid was gonna no, I I know this kid. Yeah, I know what he's gonna do today.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Right.

Dr. David Klingler 18:55

He's gonna because he does it every day, right? Same thing. So so you got the the um the character of God revealed contrasted with the character of Israel. So you know how this is gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Right, right.

Dr. David Klingler 19:07

The uh the covenant stipulations, the the the the the the deal is set out. If you follow me, I will do this. If you don't follow me, I will do that. This is how I will discipline you. Um and when you repent, uh I will restore you, I will judge you. When you repent, I will restore you, and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. The last thing it does, and and and and in at least in some ways, um man, the most important, maybe not, but but certainly right up there at the top is the is the song of Moses, Deuteronomy chapter 32. Uh, that that every prophet after Moses is going to be evaluated by Moses' words. Um a prophet is not evaluated by whether or not what he prophesies comes true.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Right.

Dr. David Klingler 19:57

Uh, because many of what the prophet the prophets prophesy doesn't come true in their lifetime or even yet in our lifetime, right? And so so there are things that are still uh future looking. So in chapter 13, if a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and he prophesies and and what he prophesies comes true concerning what he said, yet he tells you to follow their gods?

SPEAKER_01 20:19

You don't listen to them, right?

Dr. David Klingler 20:21

Uh well then but but how but what you do listen for is is this prophet singing the same song? Is he telling the same story? Is he explaining the same God? Is he um predicting the same history?

SPEAKER_02 20:40

We better know the word.

Testing Prophets And True Authority

Dr. David Klingler 20:41

Yeah, and so and so you you have to know the word of the Lord. In fact, uh my one of my uh favorite uh passages, uh everybody's favorite passage in Deuteronomy, uh is the Shema. This is uh in uh uh in uh chapter six, verse four, uh Shema Israel Adol Nael Oheinu Adonai Chad. Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one, or the Lord alone. And you shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and with all of your soul, and with everything you got. They translate all your might, but it's it's it's yeah, it's it's everything you got, and all in these words which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart. Uh because that which fills the heart comes out of the mouth, you shall teach them diligently to your sons, and you shall talk of them as you sit in your house, as you walk on the way, as you lie down, and as you rise up. And um if you think about Psalm one, right? Blessed is the man uh who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord. It's it's a con it's a contrast between the Shema, this one who um these words are. Are are on his heart and he speaks of them as he walks, as he sits, as he lies down, and as he rides up. Contrast the one, you know, happy is the one who does not do the opposite, right? Hang out with the bad guys. Um but his delight is in the the law of the Lord, and he meditates on it day and night. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf doesn't wither wither, and whatever he does, he prospers. Not so with the wicked. They are like the shaft which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous, for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Uh you know, and so uh this law was to be written on their heart, and they were to meditate on it day and night. It uh the the book of Deuteronomy drives the Psalms, it drives the Proverbs, it drives the prophets, it drives the gospels, it drives the epistles, it drives uh the revelation, uh, the restoration of Israel is the book of Revelation. It's uh it's it's the end of the Song of Moses where uh Israel rebels against the Lord, they reject the Lord, they reject the rock of his salvation, they go after foreign gods, and so because they reject the Lord and they reject Christ, the Lord takes the gospel to the Gentiles, as was foretold in the covenant. But at the end, he will restore them. And so there's nothing in the Bible that isn't driven by this covenant and God's faithfulness to keep his promises to his people, Israel. And so the book of Deuteronomy is absolutely central and core to that. So we could literally, I mean, you and I've been forever on the book. We could just go on and on and on and on. Uh, because I I uh I you know there's some books that you you you just get excited about about teaching, and and this is uh this is one of them. Chapter uh six, the Shema, chapter seven. Uh when you go into the land, you don't intermarry with the ites because they will cause you to follow other gods. And and if you follow other gods, the Lord your God is a jealous God and and he'll wipe you off the planet. Don't do it, right? Uh chapter eight, chapter nine, chapter ten, the care for orphans, the widows, uh aliens, chapter twelve, when you get into the land, um the Lord will choose his place, the place where he is going to set his name forever, Jerusalem. Um the the place where the Lord's name will dwell for eternity. And so it's introduced in chapter chapter 12 and in in 2 Samuel chapter 5 when uh when David conquers Jerusalem and sets up the temple there, at least Solomon does. Uh huge. Chapter 13. Uh, so much uh of what's going on today in our world and in the church is a bunch of people claiming to be prophets who are out saying all kinds of stuff, yet what they're saying directly opposes the word of the Lord.

unknown 25:03

Right.

Justice, Leadership, And The King

Dr. David Klingler 25:03

Uh and uh and our people are responding to experience rather than to the uh to the the the yeah so so uh if a prophet or dreamer of dreams rises among you, he prophesies and it comes true. I don't care. I don't care. Uh Paul's gonna say, I don't care if a if an angel appears in your midst, and if an angel teaches you, preaches to you a gospel contrary to that which you've received from us, let him be accursed. I don't care about your experience, right? Um I don't care if you've seen a magician turn a stick into a snake. Right? I don't care if you've seen uh a magician uh turn uh water to blood. I I don't care if they can do everything that Moses did. Pharaoh's magicians are not on the Lord's side, yeah, right, because their words contradict. And so so uh that's so so so important. Uh chapter 15, care for the the the poor. Um uh not letting uh you know the the the needs of those around us uh uh go unaddressed. Uh chapter uh uh chapter 17, the instruction for the king. So important to understand the story, the instruction for the king. Chapter uh 18. Uh in fact, 16, 17, and 18 spells out the leaders for Israel. Uh that that the judges uh were to judge with righteous judgment. They were not to to take bribes, for the bride blinds the eye of the judge or the priest. So it was the judges, the priests, then the kings, then the prophet. Uh in the ju in the Deuteronomic history, uh, the book of Judges, uh chapters three through sixteen says, Well, the judges are failing, they're doing what's good and right in their own eyes. Uh the priests are failing, the end of the book of Judges, beginning of Samuel. Uh Israel wants a king like the nations. You don't want a king like the nations, they'll subjugate you. You want a king like the Lord. You know, the um the kings do what's good and right in their eyes, the uh the the the prophets fail. Uh and so the Deuteronomic history is walking you through the failure of these leaders from chapter 16 to chapter 18. Right. Huge in understanding the story. Uh cities of refuge, chapter 19. Uh, there's gonna think be things that happen in the story that happen in these cities, and and it's and you're supposed to know that this is a city of refuge. And so example is uh is David's general Joab, who uh who uh yeah, who uh uh violates the the cities of refuge, and and uh and so uh the malicious witness, chapter 19, uh two or three witnesses. Uh you know, when you when in in chat in uh the instruction in chapter 18 of Matthew, uh when your brother is sinning, you go to him, and then you go to him with two or three, and then that that's all coming out of Deuteronomy, right? Right? This is this is the the two or three witnesses and um the the warfare chapter, how Israel's supposed to um uh to to conquer the land. Uh instruction on on divorce uh is is uh in here. I mean, this is it's just one after another after another. Every passage is bigger than the than the last. And so um the the the book of Deuteronomy literally is the most important book. If you want to understand the Bible, right read Deuteronomy, and then watch the watch it play out in the story. And so yeah, so uh we we've got a study, the the Deuteronomy study. Yeah, um we we've uh got uh some material there. Uh but uh if you just read Deuteronomy, yeah, um it is full of amazing truth.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

Absolutely. And I think one of the things uh for me as I reflected on this book um is its usefulness in identifying where we are in the story and our place in the story in relationship to Israel and how he's playing out this covenant. Namely, you you mentioned it earlier that when Israel rejects, the the gospel goes to the nations in order to make them jealous, Deuteronomy 32, uh make Israel jealous. And so um that's essentially where we find ourselves today in light of Israel's rejection of the king, the gospel has come to us, and and we await Israel's repentance and the return of the king. And so um so Deuteronomy lays that out and helps us kind of like you are here sign in a way.

Dr. David Klingler 29:38

And that's always been the way that it's happened. So uh, you know, so during the days of Elijah, Jesus, Jesus is gonna make that very point, right? Um uh Jonah, Israel's rebelling, Jonah sent to the Gentiles. Um uh um Jesus points out there were a whole bunch of other widows in the days of Elijah, and right Elijah didn't go to any of them.

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Right.

Dr. David Klingler 30:03

Uh there are a bunch of widows in Israel, and Elijah didn't go to any of them. There's a bunch of lepers in Israel, and and Elisha didn't go to any of them, went to they went to Gentiles. And so whenever Israel rejects, the prophet goes to the Gentiles, uh, and that's what Paul's doing, that's Paul's ministry.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

Yeah, and uh and in Romans, yeah, Romans 11, when he's talking about how the gospel has gone to you Gentiles in order to make Israel jealous. And then I like what he says at the end of chapter 11 oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways. And you have to come to that conclusion when you think of how God is playing out this Abrahamic covenant to bless all the nations, and this is the way he's doing it. You can't say anything other than that, um, right there.

Deuteronomy Across The Bible

Dr. David Klingler 30:52

So yeah, so the book of Deuteronomy, uh, so important, and we're gonna refer back to the book of Deuteronomy all the way through as we go through the story. Uh, literally no part of this story can be understood without the book of Deuteronomy. One of my buddies who uh who went to seminary uh pulled me aside, this was a while uh uh maybe about six, eight months ago, and he said, Um, I've come to the conclusion that the whole Bible's about Israel. And I said, Yeah. Yeah, it it it is uh it is the selection of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in this nation. Uh and the reason why it's about Israel is because the promised king is coming out of this nation who will bless the nation. But but the Lord will keep his promises to those people. So Israel's rejection, the gospel goes to the Gentiles, sure enough. But that's not the end of the story. God will keep his promises to his covenant people. And so that's the book of Revelation, and that kind of seals it all back up and kind of puts it puts a bow on the end of the story. Awesome.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Awesome. Well, uh again, um given that hopefully we've convinced you that this is the most important book of the Bible and giving you a nice teaser and at least until next week when we get to Joshua. Yeah, that's right. Now that's the best book of the Bible. All right. But uh like we've been saying, we have uh week by week, chapter by chapter study going through this book and with study guides is gonna help you actually take some of the things in Deuteronomy and connect them to other passages throughout the Bible. Uh, and so that'll be incredibly uh helpful for you. So we just again encourage you to hop over to teachmethebible.com and check that stuff out. But um uh well, thank you for for sharing your thoughts and uh thank you for being here. And um thank you all for tuning in, and we'll see you guys next week.

SPEAKER_03 32:44

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