Deuteronomy - Scarlet Thread
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today
1. The Preamble (1:1–5) provides the setting in which the text is presented to the vassal by the Great King.
2. The Historical Prologue (1:6–4:49) rehearses the past relationships between the contracting parties.
3. The General Stipulations (5:1–11:32) are the basic principles of relationship. These reveal the purposes of the Great King and alert the vassal to the guidelines for implementing those purposes.
4. The Specific Stipulations (12:1–26:15) further define the general stipulations by particular cases. In specific situations the vassal would not always be able to deduce the proper application of the general principle without further guidance. Thus the Great King had not only to lay down generalized expectations but to anticipate peculiar or unique circumstances.
5. The Blessings and Curses (27:1–28:68) outline the consequences of faithfulness and disobedience to the covenant. Faithful obedience to the terms of the covenant, that is, to the stipulations laid down in Deuteronomy, would ensure that the vassal would be appropriately rewarded. Conversely, disobedience would bring swift and sure retribution at the hands of the Great King.
6. The Witnesses to the Treaty (30:19; 31:19; 32:1–43) testify to its worth and to the commitments made by the contracting parties. Even the Great King acknowledges the need to stand by the promise He has solemnly sworn.
15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. 16 This is what you requested from the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’ 17 Then the LORD said to me, ‘They have spoken well. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This truly is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
22 “If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, 23 you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds,ay you have been healed
They have returned to the iniquities of their fathers who refused to obey my words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke my covenant I made with their ancestors.
Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished.
For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.,l 6 But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been established on better promises.