Deu 31:9-13 And Moses wrote this law
[Study Aired November 19, 2021]
Deu 31:9u And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
Deu 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Deu 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Deu 31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
Deu 31:13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
The heading of the beginning of these verses, in Esword, says “the reading of the law”. This title ten years ago would have had me believing it was a reading of the ten commandments. However, if you notice what we just read, you can see that it was what was just said that is considered a law.
Deu 31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
Deu 31:2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deu 31:3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
Deu 31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
Deu 31:5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Deu 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Deu 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
Deu 31:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
Moses was forbidden from entering the promised land, seeing the LORD God going before them in Joshua destroying the people there, the Israelite’s possessing the people of the land, Joshua as their new leader, God doing unto the people of this land as He did unto Sihon and to Og, (Gog and Magog), being strong and of good courage, not being afraid of them because the LORD God Who created them goes before them, believing the LORD God will not fail them nor forsake them, and finally Joshua causing the people to inherit the land. These are commandments that the people are to be read “at the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles.” Why was the feast of tabernacles chosen for a time for it to be read? Because the feast of tabernacles is to celebrate the increase of all things, all that the LORD had given them. It is also known as the feast of ingathering, when we are to celebrate all that the we have harvested in the year.
Lev 23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Lev 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Lev 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
Lev 23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
Lev 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
Lev 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth dayshall be a sabbath.
Lev 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days [Celebrating all that God has given us in the ingathering, as Christ was the first and the last of the harvest, which was demonstrated when He entered Jerusalem and the people had the palms in their hands. It was a type and figure of the ingathering. Because we are Christ’s Body, when Christ is harvested (crucified) His chaff of flesh was removed, and the true wheat was revealed in His resurrection. He was put through the purge first as the Head and we as the body are Christ’s last wheat in this age.].
Lev 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Lev 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
Lev 23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths [the elect], when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field (Exo 23:15-16).
I want to concentrate on three statements in these verses. The first is “when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land”, then “on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath”, and the last statement is, “And the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.” These three statements about the feast of tabernacles are why our verses today commanded that the laws given in Deuteronomy 31:1-8 are to be read “at the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.”
This law of Deuteronomy 31:1-8 is the same thing we are told happens in the gathering of all things by Christ and when The Father is seen as the All in all. This is the outward fulfillment of the feast of ingathering when all mankind will be brought to the knowledge of truth.
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Christ leads us through all things and Christ is the One to Whom all things are delivered. This is why He is the first fruit and the last. Joshua represents Christ as all things are delivered to “the deliverer”, and Joshua is sent over before the Israelites to lead them in the conquering of all the people of the land. As Joshua is a type of Christ, so the people of the land are a type of the nations in us. Christ enters us, and in the end of His conquering of the nations in us, we give all glory to Him Who was the One doing all the delivering, all the conquering. As Christ delivers all the nations within us to us and we have the rule over them, the people are the food for us and are what is used to get us prepared for the real fight.
Num 14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
Num 14:7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Num 14:8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Num 14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
What was the defense that the people of our land had against us? It was the false doctrine of free will. The defense of all people against the truth always comes back to one truth and one only; that God is All in all, and all people are only what He has created them to be or not be. This truth is the sword in the hand of Joshua/Christ that leads through the nations of peoples in us. The truth starts in rest and ends in rest, “on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath”. This statement is the positive of this verse:
Rev 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
All that I am and all that I thought I was, good and evil, started in rest from any work of my hands and ends in rest, from any work of my hands. When we reach the eighth day of the feast, we have made a complete circle and end up right back in rest. This is showing us that we have nothing to glory in, for all that we were, are and will be was, is and will be of Christ through the Father. The eighth goes into destruction in the sense that there is nothing to glory in for the new man (#8) because he has seen that all that he thought he was, is and will be is of Christ and therefore he is destroyed as an independent and separate being. The strength of the people of my land have lost their defence.
1Co 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1Co 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
1Co 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: [To bring to nought all that exalts itself, IN ME. I see the full circle how God has used what I considered shame and sinful to bring to nought all that I thought good and righteous. I see that it is all Him, from beginning to end, from rest to rest.]
1Co 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
In the end of the year, which means when we have come full circle or are coming full circle in an area of our life, we end up back at rest, or the feast of tabernacles where the law is read from Deuteronomy 31:1-8. This same inward concept has an outward fulfillment in the harvesting of all peoples in the lake of fire. The lake of fire will be the threshing floor where all men will come to be known as they are known. All of Babylonian doctrine in them will be put down, and they will be recreated into sons of God through The Woman and by the Man, Christ.
Isa 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Isa 21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
All of mankind will go through the threshing and purging of the lake of fire to bring them in as the final ingathering of all things. The fire of the lake of fire will purge those in it from all lies. As I said earlier it happens to us in this age, as this verse says in type and figure, when speaking of Josiah.
2Ch 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Then it happens to the world in the lake of fire.
Rev 14:14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Rev 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Rev 14:16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
Rev 14:17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Rev 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Rev 14:19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Rev 14:20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.Rev 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Rev 7:10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Rev 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 7:12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Rev 7:15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
Rev 7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Rev 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
These verses show the harvest of all things, the time of the great ingathering, when all people will come to the truth of Who God the Father is, was and will be in their lives. It will be a time when everything is purified and seen as always in the resting hands of The Father, from Sabbath to Sabbath, from rest to rest. There was never anything to worry about because all has been going exactly according to the plan which was originally laid out by The Father. Our sins of the flesh were, are and will be the goads that prick us to fall down before the feet of Christ, but they are only the chaff that surrounds the real sin, that sin is the sin of self righteousness. Think of a world where there was no sin, I mean it in this way, think of a world where sin is sin, but sin is not seen! This is the world we exist in within ourselves before we come to the truth. We see sin as we want to see sin in others but not in our own world. I see sin in my neighbor and wrinkle my face in disgust, yet I do not see it in myself. This false world inwardly is the false world outwardly. The world gasps in sins of others and condemns sin in others, and yet they are just as sinful behind closed doors. Those doors will be kicked wide open in the lake of fire, and the world will be exposed for the self-righteous, hypocrites we all are from creation. It is needful to be what we are, to be able to be compassionate to those who do not see what we see and to be hard on those who do not see what they are. It is easy to point the finger and wag your finger in disgust and never remember your own sin. This will not be a problem to those who are being purged in this age, who are being prepared for the office as kings and priests.
Exo 23:16….the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
This verse has two main points in it that reveal the plan of God in the harvesting of the world. Number one is that it points out that it is in the end of the year, the end of all time. The second is that it points out who is going to be doing the harvesting “WHEN THOU hast gathered in THY LABOURS out of the filed (world).” First inwardly: When we have come to the truth as mature sons of God, we have been given to gather in everything that has ever been in our life as a work of God. Good or evil is not question any more, because we see it all as having to be exactly what it was created to be, to bring me to where I was predestined to be. All “my labours” have been gathered out of “the world” within me, and I am back at the eighth day, a solemn rest to the people of God where they see God as All in their all. There are no more tears, no more pain, for we have come to see that it was all part of the plan of God to create us each into a vessel of Honor through a vessel of dishonor.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. [Passed away because there is no more seeing ourselves under the law of the flesh, but as all of the part of the plan of God. How can we be sorrowful for what was planned?]
Rev 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
This same process is what will be in the great day of ingathering outwardly, when all people will come to see the purpose of all things. They will come to see themselves as they are seen.
1Co 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Everything God has made is good, no – “very good”.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.