Today we're looking at the end of Moses' life. We will read the worship songs the Holy Spirit inspired him to write, and then I'll pose a question that's been on my mind for the last several books we've studied. Then I'll pray one of my favorite psalms over you.

Today's Reading: Deuteronomy 32-34, Psalm 91

Scripture Read or Referenced:

Deuteronomy 32:39-43

Deuteronomy 33:1, 12, 26-29

Deuteronomy 34

Romans 10

Jude 9

Psalm 91

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Commentaries Most Referenced: Moody Commentary, MacArthur Commentary

This is the Dwelling Place from Entrusted Ministries.

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I'm Stephanie Hickox.

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. And today we're looking

at the end of Moses' life.

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We will read the worship songs.

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The Holy Spirit inspired him to write,

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And then I'll pose a question

that's been on my heart.

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For the last several books we've

studied, and then I'll pray one

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of my favorite psalms over you

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In chapter 32,

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we read Moses's song that God

asked him to write in 31 19.

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This is going to be passed down

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through the generations reminding

Israel of God's faithfulness

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warning them from turning away.

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And 32, 4.

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The rack.

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His work is perfect for all his ways

are justice, a God of faithfulness and

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without inequity, just and upright as he

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This God.

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is absolutely set apart

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from the fickle, pretend God said

the other nation served that we're

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ever changing due to their emotions,

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but our God is unchanging in

the most perfect, wonderful way.

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His tenderness is displayed

in verses 10 and 11.

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He found him in a desert land and

in the howling waste of the

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wilderness, he encircled him.

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He cared for him.

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He kept him as the apple of his

eye, like an eagle that stirs

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up its nest that flutters over.

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Its young.

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Spreading out its wings, catching

them, bearing them on its pins.

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The Lord alone guided him.

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No foreign God was with him.

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He made him ride on the high places of

the land and he ate the produce of the

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field and he suckled him with honey out

of the rock an oil out of the flinty rock

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the phrase, the apple of his

eye is literally translated

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the little man of his eye,

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And then Moses describes the way

that a Mother Eagle pushes her young

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out of the nest watches to see if

they're ready for a successful flight.

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And if they aren't and they start to

fall, she swoops under them, spreading

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out her wings, carrying the eagle until

another time when it can fly on its own.

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This is how God cares for us.

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Not only did he provide physical

care and protection, but he fed them.

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And in some of these cracks

in the cliffs and in the rocky

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places, honeycombs often formed.

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And olive trees sometimes even grew

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And that's what that refers to.

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The honey from the rock and

the oil from the Flinty Rock.

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In 32 17, there's a powerful rebuke.

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They sacrificed to demons

that were no gods, to gods.

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They had never known to new gods

that had come recently, whom

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your fathers had never dreaded.

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You were unmindful of the rock

that bore you and you forgot

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the God who gave you birth.

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Are you surprised That the

word demon is mentioned?

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That's exactly what these fake gods are,

and any semblance of power that they had

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came from Satan and his fallen angels.

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Afterwards, in verse 45, and when Moses

had finished speaking all these words

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to all Israel, he said to them, take

to heart all the words by which I'm

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warning you today that you may command

them to your children, that they may be

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careful to do all the words of this law.

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For it is no empty word

for you but your very life.

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And by this word, you shall live

long in the land that you are

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going over the Jordan to possess.

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I just love that verse.

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This is your very life.

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When we think about our role as

parents, knowing that they understand.

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Their sin, nature, and how Jesus Christ is

the only one that can solve that for them.

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This is our very life that

we teach this to them.

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though they may not have understood

everything about the coming Messiah,

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they were pointed to the God who is

the same yesterday, today, and forever

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In 33 1, a new phrase is introduced

as it calls Moses, the man of God.

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We will see this about 70 more times

in the Old Testament, and it usually

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refers to a prophet or someone

that delivers a message from God.

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Next Moses gives a blessing to each of

the 12 tribes, and I'm sure you won't

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be surprised That I wanna highlight

the blessing of Benjamin, the

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beloved of the Lord dwells in safety.

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The high God surrounds him all day

long and dwells between his shoulders.

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There's a little debate about what between

his shoulders means, but your heart is

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between your shoulders, and perhaps the

Lord is just saying, you're gonna dwell

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with me and I'm gonna be with your heart.

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And these blessings conclude.

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There is none like God O Je run who

rides through the heavens to your

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help through the skies in his majesty.

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The eternal God is your dwelling place,

and underneath are the everlasting arms.

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Any thrust out the enemy

before you and said, destroy?

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So Israel lived in safety.

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Jacob lived alone in a land of grain

and wine whose heavens dropped down dew.

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Happy are you O Israel who was like you?

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A people saved by the Lord, the shield of

your help and the sword of your triumph.

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Your enemy shall come fawning to you

and you shall tread upon their backs.

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The Warrior image is used to

portray God in all of his power,

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That he was, their protection and

their victory and their dwelling place.

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and finally, Moses had delivered all of

the words that the Lord had asked of him.

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And in 34, God takes him.

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To Mount Nebo.

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And the Lord said to him, this

is the land of which I swore to

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Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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I will give it to your offspring.

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I have let you see it with your eyes,

but you shall not go over there.

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So Moses, the servant of the Lord,

died there in the land of Moab,

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according to the word of the Lord,

and he buried him in the valley in

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the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor.

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But no one knows the place

of his burial to this day.

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Moses was 120 years old when he died.

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His eye was un dimmed and his vigor

unabated, and the people of Israel wept

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for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days.

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Then the days of weeping and

mourning for Moses were ended.

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And Joshua, the son of none, was

full of the spirit of wisdom for

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Moses had laid his hands on him.

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So the people of Israel obeyed him and

did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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And there has not arisen a prophet

since in Israel like Moses, whom the

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Lord knew face to face none like him.

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For all the signs and the wonders that the

Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt

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to Pharaoh and to all his servants and

to all his land, and for all the mighty

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power and all the great deeds of terror

that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

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At the end of his life, Moses

had all of his faculties.

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His vision was intact and he

still had plenty of energy, God

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had completely sustained him.

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Even though he's prohibited from entering

the Promised Land, God dwelt with him and

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gave him many blessings on this earth.

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And as I mentioned before, he still

got to enter the Promised Land.

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Add the Transfiguration with Jesus Christ.

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And the Lord himself buried Moses.

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Some speculate that God buried him so

that the Israelites be tempted to make

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a shrine out of his resting place.

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And it's fascinating to read in the

New Testament in the book of Jude,

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verse nine says, but when the Archangel

Michael contending with the devil was

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disputing about the body of Jesus, he did

not presume to pronounce a blasphemous

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judgment, but said the Lord rebuke you

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The angel, Michael and the devil

were fighting over Moses' body,

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The Israelites faithfully mourn Moses'

life and then they look forward to a new

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season of blessing in the Promised Land.

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We know what's gonna happen,

but we can still delight in the

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chapters of victory that are set

before us in the book of Joshua.

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And before we conclude Moses's story.

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I just have to ask, where are

Moses' kids throughout this book?

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He's talked about teaching your children.

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About God's faithfulness

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Speaker 14: over and

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Steph: over and over, and I think it's

fascinating that we don't specifically

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hear about what happened to his kids.

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Yes, they're mentioned in

a genealogy here or there,

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but I've tried to search out the

answer to this and I can't find much.

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I guess if I had to reason through it.

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He was 40 when he left Egypt, and then

he went to Midian and married Zipporah.

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We know he had two sons before God called

him in the burning bush, we know he was

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in Midn for 40 years before that moment.

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And then we have that interesting

circumcision story that happened in Exodus

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four with one of his sons, but we don't

know how old his kids were at that point.

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and Jethro brought them back to Moses

once they were in the wilderness.

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I did Moses think they were

too young to see everything?

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Were they old enough that they

just wanted to stay at home?

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I don't know, but I'm very aware that

in almost every episode I'm encouraging

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you to be faithful with your kids.

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But I also wanna say, this isn't

the only job you have in life.

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As beautiful and influential

as motherhood can be.

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It's not your only identity, your

first and foremost, a servant of the

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savior, and a daughter of the king.

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And though we strive to serve him

faithfully in the season while

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our kids are in our home, God

has other assignments for you.

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And we can delight that seasons will

come and go and change with our families,

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but may our lives always be marked

by their pursuit and presence.

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Of the Lord.

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Let me pray.

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Psalm 91 over you.

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Now, this is one of my very

favorite Psalms and these are the

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life verses of one of my kids.

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The level of protection and

blessing that this represents,

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some of it is left to be fulfilled.

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When Jesus Christ rules over all,

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but whenever I'm praying for protection,

this is the Psalm that I turn to.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you that we

can dwell in the shelter of the most high

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and abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

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We say to you, Lord, you are

our refuge and our fortress,

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our God in whom we trust.

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We know you can deliver us from the

snare of the fowler and from the

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deadly pestilence, and that you

cover us with your opinions and

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under your wings we can find refuge.

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Your faithfulness is a

shield and a buckler.

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We do not need to fear the terror of the

day, nor the arrow that flies by night.

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Nor the pestilence that stalks

and darkness, nor the destruction

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that wastes at noon day,

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A thousand may fall at our side,

10,000 at our right hand, But your

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protection can prevent it from coming

near us and allow us to only look

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and see the recompense of the wicked.

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Help us to make you our dwelling place

most high God, who is our refuge, so

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that evil would not be allowed to

befall us or plagues come near our tent.

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Command your angels concerning us to

guard us in all our ways that they

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would bear us up on their hands, lest

we strike our foot against a stone.

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Help us to tread on the lion and the

adder, the young lion and the serpent.

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And the dangers that are

present in our lives.

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Help us to hold fast to

you in love and deliver us.

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Protect us because we know your name.

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When we call to you, answer us.

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Be with us in trouble.

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Rescue us, honor us and satisfy us with

long life and show us your salvation.

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We thank you for all the blessings you

have for us on this Earth, Lord, and we

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look forward to what will be fulfilled

in eternity for us and our families.

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In the name of Jesus Christ,

the Messiah, we pray.

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Amen.