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SUMMARY OF THE BIBLE

Deuteronomy 15 and 16

Chapter 15

God warns Israel not to get “smart” when the seventh year is approaching and try to wickedly etch their way out of taking care of the poor. If the poor man cries to God, God will hear him and it will be sin to you. God tells Israel to give and be happy in doing so.

Lesson

He says that if we obey His law, poverty will not exist. And because His law will never be perfectly obeyed, poverty will always exist. Regardless of the extent of poverty in our land and across the world, the command remains: Be openhanded. We can work toward the ideal of ending poverty by following God's guidelines.

Chapter 16

Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name.

Lesson

You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy chapter 13 Moses warns the Israelites against following false prophets, who might lead them into idolatry. In chapter 14 Moses lays out the dietary laws for the Israelites

Bible Summary Deteronomy 10 -12

Deteronomy Chapter 10: Moses broke the tablets of the law, not only out of anger, but also as a powerful visual representation of Israel’s breaking of the law of God. Now God commanded that they restore the law. God wanted His written word to be the starting point for Israel’s right walk with Him. Therefore, He restored the tablets, even writing on the second tablets with His own hand and God also instructed Moses that he should put it in the ark which He has made.

Israel also began the journey to the promise land and God warned the Israelites not to disobey his commandments again and to fear the Lord your God and finally to love one another

Lesson learnt: Fear God always

Deteronomy Chapter 11: This chapter God is still warning the Israelites to obey his commandments and always do what will bring blessings to them.

God warned them not to serve another God and to love Him always.

Lesson learnt: God wants us to always obey his commandments and love Him always.

Deteronomy Chapter 12: God commanded that the places of pagan worship be completely destroyed, and that they shall not worship the LORD your God with such things. The place of worship was to be a place of giving. Of course, there were other places where an Israelite could give and be generous but giving had to begin at the place of worship God has appointed. God would not accept just any offering of worship. He had to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth.

Lesson learnt: We must watch God in truth and in spirit.

Chapter 7 God brings Israel into a land that they are about to possess. There were 7 nations : Hittities, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivities and the Jebusites. God is going to destroy them and deliver them to Israel. They wil be offered up to God for holy destruction.Do not make peace with them, do not marry them and do not worship their God.

God kept this promise by giving Israel the possession of land promised for the ancestors.God loves you, bless you and increase you.

Israel was apart.

Summary: We can depend on God to supply all of our needs. God will keep His promise.

Chapter 8 Don't forget God. Keep God"s commandments. The difficulty on living in the wilderness. Men and women don't live by bread only we live by every word that comes from God's mouth. Relay on God.

Summary: God is the key to prosper. If we follow and keep Him first in everything we could accomplish a lot. God is love and He also disciplines.

Chapter 9 Moses tells Israel they are crossing the Jordan River and that God is ahead of them and to not be afraid. Israel is going to take over Anakite. Moses also tells Israel not to get big headed in thinking that they did good when it was the wickedness of the nation. God kept his promised to there ancestors and Israel possess the land. Israel had been disobedient and were worshipping other gods. Moses reminded the people of Israel how God brought them out of Egypt and they sinned against God. Moses save them from destruction because Moses seeked God in prayer on behalf of Israels disobedient and God didn't release his anger on them.

Lesson learned: God dislikes wickedness and disobedience. He will fight our battles is we bring our concerns to Him.

Summary of Deut 4-6

Deuteronomy meaning “second law -giving”.  Moses will be addressing the Israelites and reminding them of the laws, decrees, commandments that were previously given by the Lord. This takes places at the end of Israel’s 40 years period in the wilderness where the new generation is preparing to enter the promised land which is Canaan

 

Chp 4

 

Moses is speaking to the new generation that is getting ready to go into the promised land.  Once again, he is reminding them of the commandments given. He indicates that they are do not add or subtract from what he is saying but to keep the laws and decrees which  

the Lord has given them. They are reminded of what happened at Baal Peor that those that followed Baal were destroyed but those who held fast to the Lord were still alive. He reminds them not to forget the things that they have seen or allow them to fade from their hearts.  They were instructed to teach their children and their grandchildren these laws and decrees. They are reminded of the day they stood before the Lord at Horeh and He spoke to them from a blazing fire.  Warnings are given again against idolatry, that they were not to make any idol or any image of any shape.  They were not be enticed about the sun. the moon or the stars into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord God had apportioned to all the nations under heaven.  They were reminded not forget the covenant that the Lord had made with them, reminded that God is a consuming fire, a jealous God that they were to worship God and God alone.

 

.   Moses warns them that if they became corrupt while living in the land God gave them. That the heaven and earth would be called as witnesses against them that they would quickly perish from the land. They would no longer live there but would be destroyed and scattered among other nations where they would worship man-made gods which could not see or hear.   However, if they were to repent and seek the Lord thy God, they would find Him, if they were to seek Him with all of their heart and their soul because God is a merciful God.

 

Moses indicates that he would not be crossing over the Jordan with them because he would die in the land but they were to always keep God’s laws and decrees in their hearts and worship the Lord only.

 

In chapter 5 Moses summons all the Israelites warning them to take heed to the decrees and laws, to learn them and follow them. They are remined of the covenant that the Lord made with them at Horeb. Moses continues explaining the Ten commandments the first commandment the Lord states “ I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.  You shall have no other gods before me.” He reminds them that he is the one that brought them out of Egypt, out of slavery and that they were to have no other gods before Him because doing so would anger Him. He indicates that these laws should be impressed upon their children and their children’s children.

 

In chapter 6 Moses gives the most important commandant to the Israelites, to love God with all their heart, soul and strength. 

 

Lessons learn

 

As it is with these previous chapters that Moses gave warnings and reminders to the Israelites, so it is with us today --- to be reminded to take heed to His laws and decrees, obey  His commandments, continue to teach them to the next generation and most of all love the Lord God with all of our heart, soul and strength.  Because when we love Him, it’s easy to obey Him and that comes by speding time in His Word and in His Presence

Deuteronomy 1

The chapter expresses Moses' final words to the Israelites. In so many instances have they made God angry. They've complained ,doubted , refused to follow His instructions.

According to the commands of God they were able to conquer the enemy nation's around them .

Moses mentioned the negative reports of the 10 spies.

Deuteronomy 2

Moses continues speaking to the Israelites about their wanderings. He tells them they have traveled along the Red Sea route to reach the wilderness because God commanded this. They made their way around the hilly Seir areas.

Moses stated that the Lord was the one who blessed the Israelites. Also he reminded them of the salvation of the Lord from the king of Heshbon.

Deuteronomy 3

After defeating the King of Heshbon, the Israelites went to Bashan. King Og of Bashan and his army fought them at Edrei. God told Moses they were not to be afraid of King Og and to do to him what they had done to those in Heshbon. The land was divided among the tribes in Israel.

Moses then reminded the Israelites that God had commanded them to take possession of the land that had been given to them. He also told them that all able-bodied men were to be ready to fight and that they were to be the first ones to cross over the Jordan. However God didn't allow moses to cross River Jordan .

God told him to commission Joshua and to strengthen him, as well as encourage him because Joshua was going to lead the people across the Jordan to their inherited land.

Lessons learnt

God is committed to the loving relationship with us. God reminds us of how much he loves us and how he has demonstrated that love in so many ways. He pleads with us to respond to his love by loving him in return with all our heart, soul and strength.

Also God is not a respecter of persons . God did not allow moses to enter the promised land . Achieving our ministry goals demands self control , humility ,temperance and patience.

And numbers 35 God commands Moses to give the Levites cities to live in. The cities of refuge are introduced. Procedures for dealing with accidental and intentional killings are outlined. The Israelites were told how to deal with tmurderers, who have fled to a city of refuge. Chapter 36. The heads of the families of the tribe of Manasseh expressed concern about inheritance. God commands that a woman’s inheritance must remain with her own tribe. The daughters of Zelophehad loss ahead, marry within their own tribe to ensure their inheritance stays with their father’s tribe.

Summary of Numbers Chapter 33-34

Chapter 33

Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had brought judgment on their gods.

lesson

In this chapter we see Moses recount the journey of the isrealites from Egypt to the place where they are camped now. They are about to enter the promised land. God gives them a few instructions on what to do to the canannites when they get to the land and tells them the consequence if they dont obey him.

Chapter 34

God told Moses to tell the Israelites when they enter Canaan that the land will be allotted to them as an inheritance, and that the land will have certain boundaries.

The southern area will include some parts of the Zin Desert, along the Edom border. The southern border will begin in the eastern region from the southern area of the Dead Sea. It will cross south of the Scorpion Pass, then keep going to Zin. It will then go south of the Kadesh Barnea. It will extend to the Hazar Addar and then over to Azmon, there it will turn and join the Wadi area of Egypt. The boundary will conclude at the Mediterranean Sea.

lesson

God reminded Moses to command the children of Israel the land they are coming into is an inheritance from God. In particular, the land was God's promise to Abraham, a gift to Abraham's descendants that they would inherit the land of Canaan.

In numbers, chapter 31 we read about the Israelite war against the media night. God commands Moses to lead the army, the Israelites kill all the Midianite men and take women, children and life stock as plunder. The Israelites divide the plunder among themselves instructions on how to purify the soldiers and the plunder and instructions on how to distribute the spoils of war. Numbers 30 to the tribes of Rubin and God request to settle in the land east of Jordan River. Moses initially rebuke him. The two tribes promised to help conquer the land of Canaan. Moses agrees to their proposal warning them not to break the promise we see the have tribe of Manasseh also settles east of the Jordan and the chapter end with the settling of the tribes east of the Jordan river.

Bible Summary Numbers 28 - 30

Numbers Chapter 28 – 29 The following two chapters concern details of the sacrificial system God instituted as part of the covenant made with Israel at Mount Sinai. These sacrificial offerings include; The morning and evening offerings, The Sabbath offering, The monthly offering, Offerings at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Offerings at the Feast of Weeks, Offerings at the Feast of Trumpets, Offerings at the Day of Atonement and Offerings at the Feast of Tabernacles. As Israel was now on the threshold of the Promised Land, they needed to be reminded of the essential place of sacrifice. As part of the covenant God made with Israel at Mount Sinai, it could not be ignored or rejected.

Lesson learnt: Always obey God’s instructions.

Numbers Chapter 30: A vow made to God is no small thing. God commanded that His people should be careful to keep their vows, and to fulfill every oath they make. And God instructed Moses how each vow made should be redeemed.

Lesson learnt: God don’t want promise and fail vow on what you know you can do.