1 So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.

 

2 And he said to them, "I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I am no longer able to go out and come in. YHVH has said to me, 'You shall not go over this Jordan.'

 

3 YHVH, your god, himself will go over before you; he will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them; and Joshua will go over at your head, as YHVH has spoken.

 

4 And YHVH will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.

 

5 And YHVH will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

 

6 Be strong and of good courage, do not fear or be in dread of them: for it is YHVH, your god, who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you."


7 Then Moses summoned Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall go with this people into the land which YHVH has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall put them in possession of it.

 

8 It is YHVH who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you or forsake you; do not fear or be dismayed."

 

9 And Moses wrote this law, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHVH, and to all the elders of Israel.

 

10 And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time of the year of release, at the feast of booths,

 

11 when all Israel comes to appear before YHVH, your god, at the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

 

12 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear YHVH, your god, and be careful to do all the words of this law,

 

13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear YHVH, your god, as long as you live in the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess."

It is understandable that this I AM consciousness is what is required to lead the ‘people' or thinking, into the Promised Land or Enlightenment.


The Law has to do with guidance for the Mind, our masculine side. The Feast of Tabernacles is a time of thanksgiving or commemoration of the peoples' entrance into the Promised Land. Metaphysically, it represents the "passing over" from one level of consciousness to a higher one.

 

14 And YHVH said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

 

15 And YHVH appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door of the tent.

Moses' mission was at an end. YHVH chose Joshua to replace him. Joshua, which means God is Savior, or YHVH is Salvation is identical with the name Jesus (Greek).


16 And YHVH said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to sleep with your fathers; then this people will rise and play the harlot after a strange god of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

 

17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our god is not among us?'

 

18 And I will surely hide my face in that day on account of all the evil which they have done, because they have turned to other gods.

 

19 Now therefore write this song, and teach it to the people of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.

 

20 For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.


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