Moses and the New Generation
I. What were some of the ways the new
generation was prepared for conquest of
the land?
A. There was a new numbering of the
people (Num. 26).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must take a personal inventory and
see where we actually stand.
B. There was a review of their history
(Deut. 1:9-3:29).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must have a true understanding of the
past and how we got to this point.
C. There was a renewed challenge of
obedience (Deut. 4:1-40).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must renew our commitment to the
Lord and realize that all success will be
based on doing things God’s way and
walking in His love.
D. There was a rehearsal of the Ten
Commandments (Deut. 5:1-33).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must establish our boundaries and
determine to function within the confines
of God’s law.
E. There was a challenge to pass these
precepts on to the next generation
(Deut. 6:1-25).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must develop a strategy that makes
provision for our vision to outlive us and
to incorporate the next generation into
what we are doing in the present.
F. There were warnings about
intermarrying and maintaining their
separation from the other nations (Deut.
7:1-26).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must realize that our strength as
believers is in our separation from
anything that is unclean.
G. There was a challenge not to forget the
miracles that God had done for them
(Deut. 8:1-20).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must acknowledge that without God’s
supernatural intervention we cannot take
the steps needed to possess our future.
H. There was a reminder as to why God
was allowing them to dispossess another
people and enter the Promised Land
(Deut. 9:1-29).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must make sure that we understand
why God’s hand is upon us so that we do
not presume to walk away from the Lord.
I. There was an admonition to love the
Lord always from the heart (Deut. 10:1211:1).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must make sure that our priorities are
right, keeping God as first and foremost in
all that we do.
J. There were promises given to those who
served the Lord in the land (Deut. 11).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must cling to the promises that God
has given to us personally and
prophetically.
K. There was the development of cities of
refuge (Num. 35:1-15; Deut. 4:41-43;
19:1-13).
Before we can transition into our future,
we must understand that there is a place
of refuge in God when we seem to be
overwhelmed.
L. There were instructions regarding
conquest (Deut. 20:1-20)
Before we can transition into our future,
we must realize that if we are walking in
the will of God, God will fight for us and
we can go forward with focus and
boldness.
II. What were the keys to their keeping
God’s favor and their possession of the
Promised Land?
A. The keeping of their land inheritance
had certain conditions (Deut. 28:9).
1. The Israelites could inherit blessings on
every side and remain in the land
through obedience (Deut. 28:1-14).
These blessings included the following:
a. They would be blessed in both the city
and the country, wherever they chose
to live.
b. They would be blessed in all that they
produced including offspring, crops and
herds.
c. They would be blessed with continual
and abundant provision.
d. They would be blessed in their travel
and moving about.
e. They would be blessed with victory
over all those who would oppose them.
f. They would be blessed in every
business transaction and every
endeavor.
g. They would be blessed with weather
patterns that brought life to the land.
h. They would be blessed with surplus to
become lenders and not borrowers.
i. They would be blessed by being in a
position above and not beneath.
j. They would be both the envy and the
dread of every other nation.
2. The Israelites could inherit curses on
every side and be expelled from the
land through disobedience (Deut.
28:15-68).
These curses included the following:
a. The opposite of all of the above.
They would be cursed in all of the areas
where they had been blessed.
b. They would experience cursing,
confusion and rebuke in all that they
set their hands to do until they
perished quickly (Deut. 28:20).
c. They would build houses but not live in
them.
d. They would plant vineyards but not
reap the produce.
e. Their animals will be stolen from them.
f. Their crops will be destroyed by
mildew, locust and worms.
g. Their land would be turned to dust.
h. They would have extraordinary plagues
and serious and prolonged sickness cling
to them (fever, consumption,
inflammation, tumors, boils, blindness,
the scab and the itch).
i. They would experience mental and
emotional problems (madness,
confusion).
j. Their carcasses would be devoured by
wild beasts.
k. They would experience domestic
problems.
l. They would experience financial
problems and become debtors to many.
m. They would experience closed
heavens over their life.
n. They would be plundered and
oppressed continually by other nations.
o. They would be put to flight by their
enemies.
p. They would be dispossessed of the land
and taken into captivity.
q. Their children will go into slavery to
other nations.
r. They would become a sore spot for all
of the nations of the earth.
s. They would experience hunger, thirst
and nakedness.
t. They would be enslaved and killed by
other nations.
u. They would be scattered among the
other nations and lose their national
identity.
v. They would find no peace or rest but
will have a trembling heart, anguish of
soul, fear day and night and no
assurance of life.
w. They would become an astonishment,
a proverb, a byword, a sign and a
wonder among the nations as a
testimony of what it means to abandon
the Lord (Deut. 28:37, 45-46).
B. The Israelites could be restored through
repentance and returning to the Lord
(Deut. 30:1-10).