IN FAITH, TO ETERNAL LIFE,

 THE TRAVELLER WHO SETS OUT ON A LONG JOURNEY MUST HAVE DESTINATION IN MIND AND SOME IDEA, TO LOOK IN FEAR, TOWARDS ETERNAL LIFE, OR THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST, AND WHAT HE WILL THINK OF THE JOURNEY AS A WHOLE, NOT ONLY BY HIS POWERS OF OBSERVATION ALONG THE WAY. FOR THE FIRST TIME READER OF THE BIBLE, THE RECORD OF GOD'S JOURNEY WITH MEN THROUGH CENTURIES, LEADING THEM IN HIS OWN WAY AND BY DEGREES TO THE ROCK UPON WHICH IS BUILT HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH, HIS CHURCH. THIS KINGDOM IS THE BASIC THEME OF THE WHOLE BIBLE. THE BEGINNING OF THE ROAD WILL BE IN GENESIS, (O.T.) TO DEUTERONOMY, ALONG THE WAY WILL BE VARIOUS BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, FOR SCHOLARS DON'T BELIEVE JESUS EVER READ THE GOSPELS.
IT  WILL BE BETTER TO FOLLOW.A MORE EXACT TIME LINE. THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN  BY THE PERIOD OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. WHICH IT DEALS.
BEGINNING WITH THE PENTATEUCH, (5 BOOKS) WHICH TELLS US OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM ON EARTH, THE ORIGIN OF THE PEOPLE IN GENESIS, THE INSTITUTION OF THEOCRATIC KINGDOM IN EXODUS, THE LITURGICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE KINGDOM IN EXODUS, AND ITS WORSHIP IN LEVITICUS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE THEOCRATIC NATION AROUND THE ARK AND THE TABERNACLE IN NUMBERS, THE SPIRIT OF LOVE THAT IS TO ANIMATE THE CITIZENS OF DEUTERONOMY. IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA WE WILL READ THE STORY OF THE NEW NATION'S CONQUEST OF THE PROMISE LAND OF PALESTINE. IN JUDGES, WE WILL SEE THE ISRAELITES BATTLING THE SURROUNDING NATIONS IN ORDER TO RETAIN POSSESSION OF THE NEWLY CONQUERED LAND. IN SAMUEL, WHO WILL MEET SAUL, THE REJECTED FIRST KING OF THE ISRAELITES, AND DAVID, THE MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART, WHOSE REIGN SOLIDIFIES THE ISRAELITE HOLD ON PALESTINE,  AND WHOSE PERSON BECOMES FOR FUTURE AGES THE EMBODIMENT OF THE IDEAL KING TO COME. IN 1 KINGS, WE WILL READ OF THE GLORIOUS REIGN OF SOLOMON AND THE SUBSEQUENT DIVISION OF HIS KINGDOM INTO TWO PARTS; THE NORTHERN KINGDOM CALLED ISRAEL AND THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM CALLED JUDAH. MOST OF THE 1 KINGS, AND 2 KINGS DEALS WITH THE NORTHERN KINGDOM.
THE KIGNDOM OF JUDAH COMES UNDER THE REIGN OF KING AHAZ (735-715) WHERE WE READ THE GREAT SERMONS OF THE GREAT JUDEAN PROPHET ISAIAH. WE SEE IN THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY (650-582), WE COME ACROSS THE GREAT PROPHET OF THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAH, ALONG WITH THE SERMON'S OF JEREMIAH.  SAMUEL AND KINGS HAVE NO HISTORICAL SOURCES AS THE PENTATEUCH, SAMUEL, AND KINGS. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE EXILE DID  END IN [539 B.C]. AND THE JEWS RETURNED HOME TO PALESTINE, WE DISCOVER IN THE BOOKS OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERMONS FROM THE PREACHING OF HAGGI, ZECHARIAH, MALACHI, AND JOEL. THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH THERE IS AN HISTORICAL BLACK-OUT [400 TO 175].  LEST ANYONE BE DECEIVED INTERPRETING THE HISTORY OF THE PENTATEUCH COLDLY OR ITS LAWS LEGALISTICALLY, THE BOOK OF DEUTERONMOMY NOYHING SETS OUT TO SHOW THAT THE NATION WAS CONCEIVED AND BROUGHT THROUGH NOTHING MORE THAN GOD'S LOVE. DEUTERONOMY WAS MEANT TO GROW AND DEVELOP ONLY THROUGH A RETURN OF THAT LOVE. WE CAN SEE THAT SAME LOVE IN [JOHN 13- 17], AS JESUS PREDICTS HIS LOVE,AND DEATH BEFORE THE PASSOVER FOR HE KNEW THAT HIS HOUR HAD COME THAT HE SHOULD DEPART OUT OF THIS WORLD UNTO THE FATHER, HAVING LOVED HIS OWN WHICH WERE IN THE WORLD, HE LOVED THEM UNTO THE END. [MATT. 26:2- 12:23].
AND SUPPER BEING ENDED, THE DEVIL HAVING NOW PUT INTO THE HEART OF JUDAS IS-CAR-I-OT, SIMON'S SON, TO BETRAY HIM;  JESUS KNOWING THAT THE FATHER HAD GIVEN ALL THINGS INTO HIS HANDS, AND THAT HE HAD COME FROM GOD, AND WENT  TO GOD; HE RISETH FROM SUPPER, LAID ASIDE HIS GARMENTS; AND TOOK A TOWEL, AND GIRDED HIMSELF. [LUKE 22:27]. AFTER THAT HE PRECEDED TO POUR WATER INTO A BASON, AND BEGAN TO WASH THE DISCIPLE'S FEET, AND TO WIPE THEM [DRY] WITH THE TOWEL WHEREWITH HE WAS GIRDED. THEN COMETH HIM TO SIMON PETER: AND PETER  SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU SHALL NEVER WASH MY FEET. JESUS ANSWERED HIM. IF I WAS THEE NOT, THOU HAS NO PART WITH ME. SIMON PETER SAITH UNTO HIM LORD, NOT ONLY MY FEET, BUT ALSO MY HANDS AND MY HEAD. [HEAD TOO!] 
JESUS SAITH TO HIM, HE THAT IS WASHED NEEDETH NOT SAVE TO WASH HIS FEET, BUT IS CLEAN EVERY WHIT:[ BIT 15:3] AND YE ARE CLEAN, BUT NOT ALL. FOR HE KNEW WHO WOULD BETRAY HIM; THEREFORE SAID HE, YE ARE NOT ALL CLEAN.
SO AFTER HE HAD WASHED THEIR FEET AND HAD TAKEN HIS GARMENTS, AND WAS SET DOWN AGAIN, HE SAID UNTO THEM, KNOW YE WHAT I HAVE DONE TO YOU?
[DO YOU REALIZE]. YOU CALL ME  MASTER AND LORD; AND YOU SAY WELL;  FOR SO I AM. IF I THEN, YOUR LORD AND MASTER HAVE WASHED YOUR FEET;  YE ALSO OUGHT TO WASH ONE ANOTHER'S FEET. FOR I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE: [MAUNDY THURSDAY]. VERILY, VERILY,  I SAY UNTO YOU, THE SERVANT IS NOT GREATER THAN HIS LORD; NEITHER IS HE THAT IS GREATER THAN HE THAT SENT HIM  [MATT 10:24]. IF YOU KNOW [PRACTICE] THESE THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE IF YE DO THEM. BUT I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL.  THIS PROPHESY: [ Ps.41:9] WHICH WAS Fulfilled IN  [JOHN 13:18]. DEUTERONOMY'S PLACE IN THE PENTATUECH IS TO DEFINE THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW COMMUNITY WITH A SPIRIT EXPRESSED FOR ALL TIME IN THE GREAT WORDS OF [DEUT. 6:5].  THEREFORE, "YOU SHALL LOVE YAHWEH, YOUR GOD, WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH". IN HEBREW THIS IS CALLED THE [SHEMA]. ISRAEL WAS TO DRILL THEM INTO THEIR CHILDREN, BIND THEM ON THEIR WRIST,WRITE THEM ON THE DOORPOSTS OF THEIR HOUSES AND ON YOUR GATES. AND LET THEM BE AS A PENDANT ON YOUR FOREHEAD.
DEUTERONOMY'S LINKS WITH NUMBERS ARE CLOSE. NUMBERS CLOSES WITH THE OBSERVATIONS THAT THE COMMANDMENTS AND DECISIONS CONTAINED IN THE BOOK WERE GIVEN THROUGH MOSES  ON THE PLAINS OF MOAB BESIDE THE JERICHO
 WAITING FOR THE SIGNAL TO GO INTO THE PROMISED LAND. [DEUT. [1:1-5]. PSYCHOLOGICALLY, THE CONNECTION IS EVEN CLOSER.  IN DEUTERONOMY MOSES IS REPRESENTED AS GIVING HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. HE REALIZES HE WILL SOON HAVE TO LEAVE HIS PEOPLE. IN DEUTERONOMY THEREFORE, MOSES  OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF HIS HEART BEFORE HIS DEATH WAS PREACHING TO PERSUADE THE CHILDREN NOT TO BETRAY GOD, NEVER TO LOSE FAITH IN HIM, OBSERVE HIS COVENANT AND BE HIS PEOPLE WITH THE SAME LOVE AND DEVOTION THAT A SON SHOWS FOR HIS FATHER. BECAUSE MOSES TRESPASSED AGAINST GOD AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT THE WATERS OF MER-IBAH--KADESH, IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN: BECAUSE YOU SANCTIFIED ME NOT IN THE MIDST OF THE CHILDEN OF ISRAEL, YOU SHALL NOT SEE AND GO OVER TO THE PROMISED LAND WHICH I GAVE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT YOU  AND AaRON THY BROTHER  SHOWED THE PEOPLE THAT YOU SAVED THEM FROM DYING OF THIIRST WHEN I I TOLD YOU TO SAY TO THE ROCK, BRING FORTH WATER,  AND IN  ANGER YOU STRUCK IT THREE TIMES, GIVING THE PEOPLE THE IMPRESSION, THAT YOU SAVED THEM WHEN THE WATER GUSHED FORTH. 
NOW GET THEE UP INTO THIS MOUNTAIN AB-A-RIM UNTO MOUNT NE'BOW, WHICH IS IN THE LAND OF MOAB THAT IS OVER JERICHO AND BEHOLD THE LAND OF CANAAN [PROMISED LAND] WHICH I GIVE TO THE CHILREN OF ISRAEL FOR A POSSESSION: AND DIE IN THE MOUNT WHITHER THOU GOEST UP AND BE GATHERED UNTO THY PEOPLE; AS AaRON THY BROTHER DIED IN MOUNT HOR, AND WAS GATHERED UNTO HIS PEOPLE.
FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP, MOSES YOU MAY LOOK TO THE EAST AND TURN AND LOOK TO WEST, AND TURN AGAIN AND LOOK TO THE NORTH AND TURN AGAIN AND LOOK TO THE SOUTH; BUT YOU WILL NOT SET YOUR FOOT IN THE PROMISED LAND, BUT YOU SHALL DIE, LEAVING BEHIND  THE FINAL BLESSING: , COMMADING US A LAW EVEN THE INHERITANCE OF THE CONGREGATION OF JACOB, REMEMBER, IF YOU THINK THE  THE O.T. DOESN'T APPLY TO US CHRISTIANS "NOW REMEMBER THE PICTURE OF JESUS JESUS AT TWELVE YEARS OLD" DEBATING WITH THE HIGH PRIEST, RABBI'S, IN THE TEMPLE FOR IT WAS HIS BIBLE, DURING PASSOVER. FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR'S AGREE, HE NEVER READ THE GOSPELS.