THE JOUNEY TO CANAAN

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS Taking stock – the census (Nu.1) Served to count and organizes the people 1st census yielded 603,550 men twenty years old and older The “numbers” in Numbers (See The Promise and the Blessing, pp.131,158) From Sinai to Kadesh Barnea The people stayed at Sinai for a year “Murmurings in the wilderness” (11;12) – challenges to Moses’ authority The reconnaissance of the land of Canaan (13; 14) Twelve spies sent in; 10 brought back negative reports Only two, Joshua and Caleb, encouraged the people in spite of the reports The people desired to return to Egypt and God decided that the all the people would die in the wilderness An abortive attempt was made to enter the land (14:39-45) As a result the people spent 40 year in the desert near Kadesh

MOVING INTO THE TRANSJORDAN Bypassing Edom (20:14-21) The death of Aaron (20:24) The bronze serpent (21:4-9) Opposition (22-24) Balak and Balaam Apostasy and idolatry (25) Enticed by the Moabites Sacrificed to an idol (Baal of Peor) Preparing to enter Canaan Second census (26) Joshua commissioned as Moses’ successor (27:12-23) Land given on the east side of the Jordan (32) Boundaries of the new land (34)

THE LAND OF EDOM

PLAIN OF EDOM

MOAB

THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY Three discourses by Moses: A historical review (1:1-4:49) Covenant laws (5:1-26:19) Reiterations of the Ten Commandments (5:6-21) The shema (6:4-9) Appeal to faithfulness (6-11) Right worship (12,13) Guidelines for living (14-26) Renewal of the Covenant (27-34) Blessings and curses(27-28) Leadership succession (31:1-8) The death of Moses (34)

THE SHEMA Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

MEZZUZAH

THE IMPORTANCE OF FAITHFULNESS Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors. Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Deut. 8:1-3

MOUNT NEBO LOOKING NORTHWEST