Deuteronomy 3:1-22 Bible Study | Episode 843

January 1, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Deuteronomy 3:1-22  Bible Study | Episode #843

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Alive, applying God's word to your daily life. Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God will open up.

His word to you and allow you.

To see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today in Jesus name.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study. We're in Deuteronomy, chapter three, and we're going to take a big chunk of this because first of all, it is a. It is a passage that explains something that we've already been over. It also goes through some. Well, I guess the best way to say it is some. Some interesting things, some things that might be called in our modern time, conspiracy theories. It, well, illuminates some of the things that you might see on the History Channel or something like that, that people are infatuated with it. It deals with those things. And I want to just read it and make comments about it. I think that's probably the best way to do it because this passage is God in many ways, putting his fingerprint on what happened there. There is good archeological evidence for all that we read here. These places are spelled out in detail. So God's basically saying to you, I'm telling you exactly what happened here. And, you know, maybe, maybe 3,000 years, 3,500 years later, as we are today, you'll find that there's evidence of this in the ground deep underground. And we have. We have found that. And so God's saying, I'm just telling you. I'm telling you what history really is. And so when, when we, when we read something in ancient text, and this would be definitely an ancient text, the pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible are ancient, well over 3,000 years old. When we read these things, and especially because we have many, many original manuscripts dating back within a few hundred years of when these things were written, because we have those manuscripts and we in the. And they all are exactly alike, we know that this was what was written. This was what was written by Moses back then. Some people question whether or not it was Moses, but even the New Testament confirms that the words of Jesus Confirmed that, especially as far as the Pentateuch and the major prophets. And so when we're reading this, and by the way, the book of Psalms and Proverbs, also when we're reading this, it's important to kind of look at it and go, okay, what's happening here? Well, what's happening here is that God's doing a big work, he said. Then we turned and went up the way of Bashan and Og. The king of Bashan came out against us. Now, remember, they've already defeated Sihon. He says he and all his people to battle in Edri, meaning this, this and this. This king is a four. Is a far greater king than Sion. He has. He has, like, 60 fortified cities. So he's a. He is a major player in this part of the world as far as the strength of his people. But the Lord said to me, do not fear him, for I've given him and all his people and all his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Si, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og, also the king of Bashan. And by the way, Bashan is going to be a word that you'll see used often. It's going to be connected with, like I said before, the human sacrifice, the sacrifice of infants. And so it's going to have that tie off as we read throughout the rest of the Old Testament and all this people. And we struck him down until he had no survivor left, and we took all his cities. At that time, there were. There was not a city that we did not take from them. 60 cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og, in Bashan. All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides many of the unwalled villages. So those were the cities that had gates and walls, it says. And we devoted them to destruction, as we did Sion, the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction even city men, women and children. But all the livestock in the spoil of the city we took as our plunder. And I talked about that yesterday. So we took the land at the time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan from the Valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon. That means. When it says beyond the Jordan, that means east of the Jordan. That means toward the wilderness, where they came from. So we took the land at the time out of the hand of those kings the Sidonians call Herman Syrion, while the Ammonites call it senior. Now you. You're going. Why does he want us? He say that? Well, he's leaving us breadcrumbs. He's leaving us this trail so that when we, when we dig up these places and when we find these, these things that have writing on them that describe these places, we'll have archeological evidence of the trut scripture. Remember, God uses. God uses actual places in his Word and he uses prophecy in his word as a fingerprint, as a way for him to identify that these are his words and he is a timeless God that knows everything. And so it says all the city of Table Land and all of Gideon and Bashan as far as Salak Adri, cities of the kingdom of Agabation. For only Og, the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the refine. And that is. That is a. That is a. An allu. He's alluding to the. The giants or as in Genesis, the Nephilim, these giant people. These people that were really, really big, large people. How do we know? Because he says, behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabah of the Ammonites? Meaning, doesn't this bed still exists? There is still there. These, this places is where it's supposed to be. Nine cubits was its length. You go, well, what's a cubit? Cubits about a foot and a half. So it was nine and then add four and a half. It was 13 and a half feet long and four cubits in breadth, which is six foot. So his bed was nine and a half feet long and six feet wide. That's a giant. That's a giant. And you go, well, are these giants really real? Well, we have historical evidence in, in the United States of, of pluck giant, giant skeletons being found. You go, well, that's not true. Well, it is true. We do have evidence of it. How do we have evidence of it? There's actually newspaper articles, newspaper articles from all out past the Mississippi river of them finding remains of what they would call Indians back then, Indian remains of people that were 10, 12, 13, 14ft tall. There's. There are footsteps that have been been kept and, and found in the bottom of rivers. And when the, when there was a drought, they were uncovered. These things are out there. It's not, it's not like they're not found now. A lot of it was picked up and taken by our government to, to be kept in museums. They're not shown in the museums, but be kept especially in Washington D.C. i mean, these things have definitely been cleaned up a little bit, historically speaking. But there's evidence even as recent in the last half century to a century of newspaper articles about finding these type of things out in the wilderness, out, out in the giant west that we, we own and operate. We, the federal government owns most of our western land. Out beyond, like I said, the Mississippi river, as you're heading out west into the Big Plain, the Great Plains and, and the deserts of the Southwest and then the beautiful areas up in the Northern Plain regions, we've got evidence of those things. And so it's not one of the, it's not one of those things where people say, well, that just can't be. Well, it can be. And you know, when you have a newspaper printing an article about, you know, them finding a skeleton and measuring it and being 13ft tall, I mean, you know, were they lying? Why would they be lying back then? Maybe they were. But when it just happens over and over and over again, and that's just in this country that's not going around the world and finding the same type of articles all over the world tends to make you think that maybe, maybe there is archaeological evidence to this to be true. And we know that the Bible thinks it's true. We know that God wrote it in his scripture. We know that Moses thought it to be true. So, you know, I think it to be true. And when they went into the Promised Land and they said there were giants in the Promised Land, they probably were and they were concerned about it. But remember, God said he's going to tell me. He's going to tell them that we took possession of the land at the time. I gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites, the territory beginning at Aror, and it was on the edge of the Valley of Arnon and half of the hill country of Gilead with its cities, the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is all. The region of Argob I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh. All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Refine, meaning it's the land of giants. Jair the Manasseh took all the region of Argob, that is Bashan as far as the border of the the Geshurites and the Machites and called the villages after his own name have on Jair. And it is to this day, meaning he's telling you these things are continuing on to my liquor. I gave Gilead and to the Reubenites and the Gadots, I gave the territory From Gilead as far as the valley of Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border. And as far as to the river of Jabok, the border of the Ammonites, the Arabah, also with the Jordan of the border with the Jordan as the border from Chinnereth, as far as the sea of Arabah and the Salt Sea under the slopes of Pisgah on the east. That's a lot of places. God's. God's given you a roadmap of what he gave, which I think is as you read it and you're just doing your personal Bible study. It seems like I don't have a clue what this is. And I didn't like geography anyway. Well, I love geography. And I'm telling you that when God gives you a roadmap of how of the territories and tells you exactly where they're at, we have. We can find these places. We. You. If you look up, you know, Deuteronomy, chapter three, maps, there's maps of all these places. Why? Because we have archaeological evidence to know where they're at. We know basically where all these places are, why God told us where they are, and we can. We could find it. And so these places are all the places that God gave to the two tribes on the eastern side of the Jordan river near. Near the Sea of Galilee, on down toward the great Salt Sea or the Dead Sea. He says, I commanded you at that time, saying, the Lord your God is giving you this land to possess. All your men of valor shall cross a car across over, armed before your brothers, the people of Israel. God saying, I gave it to you, but you're going to go over and you're going to help your brothers possess the whole land, only your lives and little ones. And your livestock, I know that you have much livestock shall remain in the cities that I have given you until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as to you. And they also occupy the land that the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you. And I command Joshua at the. And I commanded Joshua at the time. Your eyes have seen all the Lord your God has done to these two kings. So will the Lord do all the kingdoms into which you are crossing. Meaning I'm going to do the same thing to the Canaanites that are on the other side of the Jordan, between the Jordan and. And the Mediterranean. You shall not fear them, for is the Lord your God who fights for you. What he's saying is, I'm Taking you back. Your parents didn't want to go in because they feared the Rafae, the giants. They feared them. Do not fear them. I have given you the giants into your hand. You've already handled these. Those kings have already been handled. They're going to be more. As you go into the promised land, your brothers who possess the land outside of what is modern day Israel, they're. They're going to go in with you, and you're going to take it. Do not be afraid. Wow. But we're afraid all the time, aren't we? We really are. And I found that especially with men, fear is a powerful, powerful force that directs the lives of men and women. If they are afraid, they will let you know. Men, if they are afraid, oftentimes they'll never let you know. And that fear, when it's not let out and when it's not released, it grows and festers and causes all kinds of dysfunction in life. And so for you men, when God says, you shall not fear them, meaning when God says, do not be afraid all the time, when he says that, I really believe he sure. Is he saying it to women? Sure. But I really believe he's saying it to men. Because fear is the opposite of faith. And it is a struggle for men to deal with in their hearts, especially because they're unwilling to speak about it. They're unwilling to talk it out. And because of that, it causes dysfunction that is numerous and debilitating and deadly. Deadly spiritually, deadly physically. And so God saying, do not be afraid, even though you're facing giants, is him saying, I want you to trust me, even in the situation where you dare not speak. Trust me. And that's a good word from God. I am in charge of history, and I've just proven to you, I'm in charge of history. I'm in charge of who's victorious and who's not. And he says to us, trust me as you go today.

I pray that the Lord will bless.

You and keep you, that he'll make.

His face to shine upon you, and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.