{"id":22494,"date":"2022-07-17T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy_21_10-23-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:16:55","slug":"deuteronomy_22_1-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/deuteronomy_22_1-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Harder to Understand Verses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deuteronomy22:1-12 \u00a0 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 22:1-12<\/strong>.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:1-4 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If the brother does not live near you or if you do not know who he is, take it home with you and keep it until he comes looking for it. Then give it back to him.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Do the same if you find your brother’s donkey or his cloak or anything he loses. Do not ignore it.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him get it to its feet.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-4: \u00a0 Here Moses tells the current generation of Israelites to be good neighbours to each other, using illustrations about one Israelite losing something valuable to them.\u00a0 Likewise, when you come across something that your neighbour has lost, \u201cdo not ignore it\u201d (v1, 3).\u00a0 Rather do for your neighbour what you would have them do for you.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:5 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God detests anyone who does this.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 5: \u00a0Why does verse 5 prohibit a man from wearing women’s clothing and vice versa?\u00a0 It’s because clothing is an expression of a person’s identity.\u00a0 What you wear reflects how you see yourself.\u00a0 This is especially controversial in Western culture where it’s all about “be whoever you want to be”.\u00a0 But we must remember that God created people to be male and female for a purpose (Genesis\u00a01:27 and 5:2, also Matthew 19:4).\u00a0 True lasting peace comes from understanding, accepting and embracing the way God made you.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 6-7: Why does Moses tell the Israelites to take the eggs but let the mother bird go free?\u00a0 It’s because the mother bird can produce more eggs in the future.\u00a0 In other words, use your resources wisely.\u00a0 Don’t just use up all you have today.\u00a0 Save and think about the long term too “so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life” (v7).<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:8 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 8:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Moses tells the Israelites to build a parapet, which is a protective barricade on their balconies and rooftops, so as to keep visitors safe.\u00a0 The lesson is similar to the message of verses 1-4: look out for your neighbour\u2019s well being.<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:9-11 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 9-11: \u00a0It is not entirely clear what Moses\u2019 reasons were for prohibiting the Israelites from planting two kinds of seed in the same field (v9), or for forbidding the Israelites from wearing clothes of wool and linen woven together (v11).\u00a0 As for not plowing with an oxen and a donkey yoked together, I could see that prohibition making sense given the difference in size, strength and nature between an oxen and a donkey.\u00a0 I could see the oxen not getting much help from the weaker, smaller donkey and having to bear most if not all of the weight of the yoke.\u00a0 I could also see the donkey being trampled on and struggling trying to walk side by side with the oxen.<\/p>\n

If there is any message we are to take from these verses, it could be this general principle: just as Jesus said \u201cwhatever God has joined together, let man not separate\u201d (Matthew 19:6), so whenever in Scripture God makes it clear that two things are to be kept separate, we must not try to join them together.\u00a0 For example, the New Testament warns Christians against yoking themselves romantically or otherwise to someone who doesn\u2019t follow Jesus (see 2 Corinthians 6:14-18).\u00a0 As another example, don\u2019t try to combine the plan of salvation from other religions with the plan of salvation that Christianity offers so as to create a new faith, because they simply will not mix (John 14:6).\u00a0 These would be two clear cases where God in Scripture tells His people not to join what He intends to keep separate.\u00a0 (Some scholars have tried to interpret these verses as indirect, symbolic prohibitions against committing adultery, although to conclude that adultery is specifically what Moses was trying to address with these verses seems a bit of a stretch.)<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 12: \u00a0Why make tassels on cloaks?\u00a0 Tassels were a visual reminder to the Israelites that they belong to God and were to obey God’s commands (see Numbers 15:39-40).\u00a0 What can we learn from this?\u00a0 Sometimes it helps to place a visual reminder in our line of sight to remind us of who we belong to and the people God has called us to be (e.g. wearing a cross around your neck, placing verses in your car, office or room).<\/p>\n

Father, thank You for every lesson we can learn from Your Word, even those verses which are harder for us to understand.\u00a0 \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Deuteronomy 22:1-12.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:1-4 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0If the brother does not live near you or if you do not know who he is, take it home with you and keep it until he comes looking for it. Then give it back to him.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0Do the same if you find your brother’s donkey or his cloak or anything he loses. Do not ignore it.
\n4\u00a0\u00a0If you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him get it to its feet.
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\nOn verses\u00a01-4: \u00a0 Here Moses tells the current generation of Israelites to be good neighbours to each other, using illustrations about one Israelite losing something valuable to them.\u00a0 Likewise, when you come across something that your neighbour has lost, \u201cdo not ignore it\u201d (v1, 3).\u00a0 Rather do for your neighbour what you would have them do for you.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22497,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22494\/revisions\/22497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}