This is the Bible Book Club, and we're in Deuteronomy.

Welcome to the club.

When last we left you on the Bible Book Club, we did chapters 27 and 28, and Moses began his third

and final sermon to choose God. And the choices are clear. Obedience or rebellion,

blessings or curses, abundance in the promised land, or devastation in exile. Well, I know which

ones of those I would choose in my head, but sometimes in action, it doesn't go that way.

Moses gave them instructions for what they do when they first

get into the promised land and they are to renew the covenant in the valley between two mountains,

the mountains of blessings and the mountains of curses. With half of Israel on one side and half on the

other, they start that really special ritual where they're speaking back and forth, back and forth, across

the mountain over the valley. That's really how they remembered the word because they didn't have

books back then. It's not like you could carry those tablets around anywhere. So they did, it was

auditory remembering, you know, what was that. This episode continues in the sermon to choose God, but I

really had fun with it. It kind of reminded me of Sherlock Holmes when Benedict Cumberbatch,

if you ever saw it, he kind of does this thing where he's in something and then it's like

this zoom in and his brain scrambles and he starts connecting

stuff and then he zooms out and the whole case makes sense. And there were a lot of things in

this lesson. We've talked about this comparison of Moses and Paul that were that kind of

zooming in and then you zoom out and look at the New Testament and it all

makes sense. So I hope you guys can hang with us today. I think it's going to be fun. It was

interesting for me. So chapter 29, we're continuing in this sermon to choose God and Moses is

really zooming in on this second generation because he's about to die and he knows it.

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