Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Deuteronomy.

Hey my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Today we're on the fifth book of the Bible.

This is the last book of the opening chunk of the Bible that Christians call the Pentateuch,

called the Torah, and all of this is written by Moses, but we get a very different version of

Moses in all of them. And now that we're into the book of Deuteronomy, we are getting old man

reflective Moses, who is no longer throwing his energy at the other old people. He is throwing

his energy at the next generation. And his motivation for this is more than just a reflection on his

life and thinking, I want to have a legacy here. And so I need to invest in these young people.

There's something going on here in terms of God's relationship with the people that is prompting

this. And that is, as you'll recall from the previous book Numbers, that it was only supposed to

take two weeks to go from Mount Sinai where God gave the law at the end of Exodus. Then at the

beginning of Numbers, it's supposed to take like just two weeks to walk up to Cane and be like,

well, the God who did all that other miraculous stuff, he's going to deliver these little kingdoms

and tribes and stuff into our hands. And then we're going to have the land that was promised

to Abraham. This is so exciting. But the people despite all they've seen, despite the fact that

they're literally being led by like the visible presence of God with a cloud in the book of Numbers,

they're just not up for it. They don't have the heart for it. And they're really complaining.

And in Numbers 14, the people decide, now we got a deposed Moses, this is a wrong leadership,

we're not going in and taking the land. We don't have any plan B. I don't know what we're going to do

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