Deuteronomy 31 and Isaiah 51

Deuteronomy 31
- Moses tells the Israelites he's 120 and no longer able to go out and come in.
- He also tells them God said he can't cross the Jordan.
- God will cross the Jordan before them and dispossess the nations there.
- Joshua will be their leader there.
- They shall do to them as God commanded.
- Moses tells them to "be strong and courageous" and not fear because God is with them.
- Moses pulled Joshua up and told him to be strong and courageous because God is with them and God will not leave nor forsake them.
- God with you = no fear
- Moses gave the Levites a law to read every 7 years at the Feast of Booths
- Moses tells them to read it to everyone among them so they may learn to "hear and learn to fear the Lord."
- Also their children will hear the law every 7 years.
- God said Moses would die soon and needed to commission him.
- God appeared in a pillar of cloud over the tent.
- God tells Moses that the Israelites will whore after other gods in the new land and God will turn His face from them.
- God tells Moses that when the people enter the promised land and are full and content, they will turn from God.
- God gives Moses a song to confront them in their future sinfulness.
- Moses wrote down the song and taught it to the people that day.
- God said that He knows how they will sin before they even get into the promised land.
- God commissioned Joshua and told him to be strong because God was with him.
- Moses told the Levites to put this book of the law (Deuteronomy?) next to the ark.
- Moses says the law will bear witness against them when he's gone.
- Moses also tells them they are rebellious and says they will be even more so when he (Moses) is gone.
- Moses has all the elders called to speak to them that heaven and earth will bear witness against them.
- Moses tells them they will surely turn from God's commandments and provoke God to anger.

Isaiah 51
- Isaiah tells those who pursue righteousness to listen to him.
- He reflects how Abraham was one man but God multiplied and blessed him.
- God comforts Zion, making her wilderness like Eden.
- There will be joy and gladness and thanksgiving in Zion.
- God's justice is a light to the peoples.
- God's righteousness draws near
- His salvation has gone out
- His arms will judge the people.
- People wait for the arms of God.
- The heavens will vanish and the earth will die out. the people will die.
- God's salvation is forever
- God's righteousness will never be dismayed.
- God calls to His people to not fear man or his revilings.
- Those people will will fall but righteousness and salvation are forever.
- They cut Rahab into pieces, dried up the sea, for the redeemed to pass,
- The ransomed of the Lord will return to Zion.
- Joy and gladness will fill them. Sorrow and sighing will leave them.
- God comforts, but God asks why they are afraid of man "who dies".
- The son of man has forgotten the Lord, your maker.
- God's people fear man, when God made the heavens and the earth.
- God tells those that are "bowed down" that they won't go into the pit and be lacking bread.
- God makes the waves of the sea.
- God has put His words in their mouth and they are in His hands because they are His people.
- God tells them to wake up.
- They have drank from the cup of God's wrath (cup of staggering)
- No man yet born has been able to lead
- God asks who can comfort them after they have faced devastation, destruction, famine, and sword.
- The people are full of the wrath and rebuke of God.
- The people are drunk (not with wine) but from drinking God's wrath.
- God pleads for their cause (Is this a reference to Christ?) and takes away the cup of God's wrath.
- They will no longer drink from that cup.
- God will put the cup in the hands of their oppressors.
- God tells His people to bow down.