Deuteronomy 14, Isaiah 32

Deuteronomy 14
- It starts off by reminding them that they are sons of God (before listing what they should and shouldn't do)
- They shouldn't cut themselves or shave their heads for the dead.
- They are God's treasured and chosen people out of the whole earth.
- This chapter lists food restrictions.
- They are allowed to eat; deer, gazelle, the roebuck, wild goat, the ibex (addax), the antelope, and the mountain sheep. (Any animal with a two parted cloven hoof that chews the cud.)
- The animals that chew the cud with no parted hoof NOT to be eaten are: camel, hare, rock badger.
- The pig parts the hoof but doesn't chew the cud so shall NOT be eaten.
- Those animals shall not be eaten or touched.
- In the water they can eat anything with fins and scales, but if it doesn't have fins and scales it should NOT be eaten.
- They may eat clean birds but these they may NOT eat; eagle, bearded vulture, black vulture, kites, falcons, ravens, ostriches, the nighthawk, seagulls, hawks, the little owl, short-eared owl, barn owl, tawny owl, carrion vulture, cormorant, stork, heron, hoopoe, or the bat an all winged insects.
- They may NOT eat anything that died naturally, but may give it to the sojourner or he may sell it to a foreigner.
- They were NOT to boil a young goat in its mother's milk either.
- They were to tithe for all crops grown each year.
- They should eat the tithe of their grain and firstborn livestock so that they may fear the Lord always.
- How does this make them fear the Lord?
- If carrying the tithe to God's chosen land is too much, they may turn the tithe food/livestock into money and carry that.
- Why are they able to spending their tithe on whatever they want like food or strong drink?
- They shall eat there and rejoice with their household.
- The Levites should not be neglected
- At the end of every 3 years, they should bring the tithe of their produce into their towns for the Levites, sojourners, fatherless, and the widow.
- Didn't they spend their tithe money on food and strong drink?
- When they do this, God will bless them in all that their hands do.

Isaiah 32
- The king will reign in righteousness and the prince rule in justice (Is this referring to God and Christ?)
- They shall be like a shelter from a storm or like water in a dry place (desert)
- Then people will see and hear and give their attention.
- The hearty of the hasty with understand and those who stutter shall speak clearly.
- The fool will not be called noble nor the scoundrel called honorable.
- The fool speak folly and his heart is busy with iniquity, ungodliness, and he utters errors about who God is.
- The fool leave those without food hungry and the thirsty without drink.
- The scoundrel is evil and plans wicked to ruin the poor and needy by lying to them.
- "But he who is noble plans noble things and on noble things he stands" (v.8)
- Isaiah tells the resting women to rise up with their complacent daughters.
- In a little over a year they will shutter because the grape and fruit harvest will NOT come.
- Isaiah tells the complacent to shudder and dress in sack cloth for the "pleasant" fields and soil which will grow briar's and thorns.
- The palace will be forsaken and the populous city will be deserted.
- The watchtower will be a place for animals until "the Spirit is poured upon us from on high" (a possible connection to Acts?)
- The wilderness will then be fruitful again and the field be called a forest
- Then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness live in the fruitful fields.
- Righteousness's effect will be peace, quietness, and trust (security) forever.
- God's people will live in peace, security, and quiet resting places.
- It will hail when the forest falls and the city will be laid low.
- Why this negative thing in the positive section of peace and security?
- Happy are the people who sow next to the waters and let their oxen and donkeys range free.