Following on the heels of my last post, the challenge we are currently facing is that the Scripture seems to be saying that Moses crossed over the Jordan River with the Israelites and is now inside the Promised Land at Mount Ebal and also led the Priests in a covenant renewal ceremony inside Canaan. Is […]

The important thing you need to understand about Deuteronomy Chapter 27 is that what we’re witnessing here are covenant renewal ceremonies. While the Mosaic Covenant was delivered to the children of Israel about 40 years earlier in the wilderness, the Lord through Moses is now calling His people to renew their vows and bring to […]

Let’s take a brief pause today so I can remind you of exactly where we’re at in our study of Deuteronomy and the Torah. As I mentioned earlier, we’ve just entered a new 4-chapter section of Deuteronomy beginning from chapter 26 and ending at chapter 30. This section is radically different than all the previous […]

“You are to write on the stones all the words of this Torah very clearly.”-Deuteronomy 27:8 Do you remember studying about the European inquisition in school? What happened was that certain lay folks outside the established church authority began to get a hold of Scripture for themselves. The reason they did this was because they […]

 “You are to write on the stones all the words of this Torah very clearly.” -Deuteronomy 27:8 We’re told in verse 8 that the teachings of HASHEM through Moses were to be written “very clearly” on the plastered stones. The original Hebrew here is BA’ER HEITEV. A literal rendering would be… …”setting it out well”. […]