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653. Remembering Israel's Wandering — Deuteronomy 2:1-25

11/7/2018

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653.

Wanderings in the Wilderness

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Today's Passage: Deuteronomy 2:1-25


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New Living Testament (NLT).




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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.



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15th strategy.
Imagine


  • Prepare your heart - that means ask Him to open you to be able to listen well.
  • Ask Jesus to bring you into the very presence of God Himself as you read instructions
  • Imagine the characters in this passage.
  • Are they facing a large enemy? or a challenge?
  • Have they followed God? or have they fled from His guidance?
  • Are they trusting God?
  • Are they experiencing pain, or loss?
  • Imagine them as friends.
  • What would you do if you were there beside them?
  • Would you be willing to encourage them?
  • What would you do if you were experiencing their story?
  • Who would you turn to for guidance? God? A mentor? Satan?
  • Ask God to show you how to lean on Him in times of attack, or challenge.
  • Thank God for His presence with you right now.


1. "Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness toward the Red Sea, just as the LORD had instructed me, and we wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.

2. "Then at last the LORD said to me,
3. 'You have been wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn to the north.
4. Give these orders to the people: "You will pass through the country belonging to your relatives the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. The Edomites will feel threatened, so be careful.
5. Do not bother them, for I have given them all the hill country around Mount Seir as their property, and I will not give you even one square foot of their land.
6. If you need food to eat or water to drink, pay them for it.
7. For the LORD your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing."'

8. "So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber.

"Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,
9. the LORD warned us, 'Do not bother the Moabites, the descendants of Lot, or start a war with them. I have given them Ar as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.'"

10. (A race of giants called the Emites had once lived in the area of Ar. They were as strong and numerous and tall as the Anakites, another race of giants.
11. Both the Emites and the Anakites are also known as the Rephaites, though the Moabites call them Emites.
12. In earlier times the Horites had lived in Seir, but they were driven out and displaced by the descendants of Esau, just as Israel drove out the people of Canaan when the LORD gave Israel their land.)

13. Moses continued, "Then the LORD said to us, 'Get moving. Cross the Zered Brook.' So we crossed the brook.

14. "Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the LORD had vowed would happen.
15. The LORD struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.

16. "When all the men of fighting age had died,
17. the LORD said to me,
18. 'Today you will cross the border of Moab at Ar
19. and enter the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. But do not bother them or start a war with them. I have given the land of Ammon to them as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.

20. (That area was once considered the land of the Rephaites, who had lived there, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.
21. They were also as strong and numerous and tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them so the Ammonites could occupy their land.
22. He had done the same for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, for he destroyed the Horites so they could settle there in their place. The descendants of Esau live there to this day.
23. A similar thing happened when the Caphtorites from Crete invaded and destroyed the Avvites, who had lived in villages in the area of Gaza.)

24. Moses continued, "Then the LORD said, 'Now get moving! Cross the Arnon Gorge. Look, I will hand over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and I will give you his land. Attack him and begin to occupy the land.
25. Beginning today I will make people throughout the earth terrified because of you. When they hear reports about you, they will tremble with dread and fear.'"
Deuteronomy 2:1-25 NLT

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3 Comments
RC
11/7/2018 04:52:19 am

I’m sitting in my red prayer chair imagining the people roaming from one place on to another. I don’t have to go to far in my own experience to understand those feelings of confusion, exhaustion. The questions that arise... should we stay? Move? Fight? Leave the land behind?

And when God gave each direction to leave these ememy lands alone, they listened.

They were reminded that God had given the other people that land.
They were reminded that they themselves had never gone without but had been provided for.

For forty years!

And now after traveling and leaving all these people and the lands they were passing through, God says! “NOW GET MOVING” I will give you this land,attack him and begin to occupy the land!

The word occupy is the word I’m pulled to imagine.
What did it feel like for the Israelites to begin to occupy (with God’s guidance and blessing and strength) this land?
To be given a homeland.
To stop wandering.
To get moving and occupy.
To know that the land was already theirs. They just had to move into it.

All of their parents had died. And the place that had been promised was now theirs. Only The faithful got the promised land.

The other people had the lands given to them, too. The lands that were left behind were others not Israels. The other people too were being taken care of by God as well.

But the Promised Land had to be entered to be occupied. The Israelites had to MOVE into it. They had to go forward or they would not be following God’s guidance.

And that took faith.

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Bc
11/7/2018 08:56:55 am

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CC
11/7/2018 09:08:46 am

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