Wednesday Bible Study: Mo ' s rant

Deuteronomy 9 does read as though Moses is speaking extemporaneously. He roams around over future and past events, and actually gets some details wrong. But there is a main point. Yahweh didn ' t choose the Israelites because they are deserving. In fact they aren ' t, and he nearly wiped them out and chose some other people on more than one occasion. For unspecified reasons the people he ' s going to have the Israelites massacre are even worse, however. Anyway, being the chosen people isn ' t an honor. In fact it ' s a burden, although it can pay off if you ' re abjectly subservient and unquestionably and unfailingly obedient. I ' m not sure that ' s a bargain I ' d want to make.9 “Hear, O Israel; you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’3 Know therefore this day that he who goes over before you as a devouring fire is theLord your God; he will destroy them and subdue them before you; so you shall drive them out, and make them perish quickly, as theLord has promised you.Here we are with the giants again. God has already dealt with Og but apparently there are still more on the other side of the river. Remember that these are descendants of mysterious beings called the " Sons of God " who impregnated human wome...
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