Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast,

where today we're going to be studying Deuteronomy chapters 6 through 8, 15, 18, 29 through 30, and 34.

And we have with us a special guest to discuss this. We're so glad to have

Dr. Carey Mulestein with us again. This is so fun to be able to discuss these things with him. He

has spent a lifetime, a career studying these things, teaching these things, spending time in

the Middle East and opening up his mind and heart to the Old Testament.

Carrie is the author of a number of books including God Will Prevail, which Marian and I both read and love,

and also one of my favorites, I Saw the Lord, which is a book about the first vision.

Carrie took the nine different accounts of the first

vision and put them into one flowing text of the first vision. I absolutely love it. I've read it a

number of times and just enjoyed so much his insights into the first vision. As we begin this

discussion today, Carrie, we start in Deuteronomy, and it looks like we have a lot of chapters to study,

and the church leaders seem to think that Deuteronomy must be very important if we're going to study all these chapters.

It is. It's one of the most important books we can study. In some ways, Deuteronomy is the summary of everything from, in some ways, Genesis 12 through the end of numbers,

certainly Exodus through numbers.

This is Moses summarizing the covenant and the process that Israel has gotten through to be a covenant people and what the

covenant is and what they need to do about it. So it's really important for them at that stage

in life. This is really Moses's valedictory address. They're about to go into the promised land.

He's going to leave them behind. This is really important for them. But it's equally important

for us as a covenant

people who are trying to embark on building a Zion society to have this wonderful summation

of what it means to be a covenant people and the journey that it takes to really be covenant keepers.

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