UNSEEN BATTLE SERIES · BIBLE CARD 5 OF 39
Deuteronomy
Devarim — “Words”
LAW
- Author / Era
- Moses · approx. 1406 BC, on the plains of Moab
- Setting
- East side of the Jordan. Moses’ final sermons before Israel crosses into the Land.
- Key Figures
- Moses, Joshua, the second generation
- Watch For
- The Shema (6:4–5) — the central confession of Israel’s faith, quoted by Jesus as the greatest commandment.
- Connects To
- Matthew 4 (Jesus quotes Deuteronomy three times against the devil) · Mark 12:29–30
Key Verse
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”— Deuteronomy 6:4–5
Points to Christ: The Prophet Greater than Moses
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet … like unto me” (Deuteronomy 18:15).
For the Fire Pit
Moses preaches one sermon for forty days because the next generation is about to forget what the last one bled for.
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