The Longest Eleven Days

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Deuteronomy - The Law Is Good, If One Uses It Lawfully

Part 2

D. Aaron Wells

Jan 14, 2024

Deuteronomy 1:1-4

Teaching: Deuteronomy - The Law Is Good, If One Uses It Lawfully Part 1, Session 02 - The Longest Eleven Days D. Aaron Wells Winter Session 2024 January 14, 2024 Text: Deuteronomy 1:1-4 II. Deuteronomy 1-4: When we are faithless, he remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself A. Deuteronomy 1:1-4…The Longest Eleven Days 1. Contextual Challenge: Geography a. Geography in the Word of God b. The problem of scholarship c. The problem of uncertainty i. 2 Timothy 2:14 "...not to quarrel about words, which...only ruins the hearers." ii. John 4:21-24 "...neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem..." iii. Galatians 4:21-31 "... the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother..." iv. 2 Peter 3:1-13 "...waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." d. Relationship to Numbers i. Dealing with different names and different sequences. ii. Deuteronomy 1-4, the first discourse, as a selective summary of Numbers iii. Deuteronomy 1:1-4 as a rough outline of the entire first discourse. 2. The Longest Eleven-Days Journey a. Location and timing deduced from Moses' message. b. Location and timing as a witness to the people's faithlessness. c. Location and timing as a witness to God's faithfulness: "...our little ones will become prey," (Deuteronomy 1:38-40, compare Numbers 14:3) of, "...a people greater and taller than we..." (Deuteronomy 1:28)

The Longest Eleven Days

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