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Lesson OneReady or Not! (Num 20-36)17 Activities5 Assessments
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Lesson TwoCovenantal History (Deut 1-4)21 Activities
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Lesson ThreeCovenantal Challenge (Deut 5–26)12 Activities
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Lesson FourCase Study: Moses (Ex-Deut)11 Activities
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Lesson FiveLooking Back, Heading Home (Num, Deut)12 Activities
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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In | The Two Ways
In Deuteronomy 30, Moses presents two very different fates to the Israelites, depending on their willingness to keep their covenant with God.
| The Choice | The Condition | The Consequences |
| Life and prosperity | For I command you today by loving YHWH your God, by walking in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws | Then you will live and increase and YHWH your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess it. |
| Death and disaster | But if your heart turns away and you do not obey and you are seduced and you prostrate yourself before other gods and serve them | I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. Your days shall not be lengthened on the soil you are crossing |
Adapted from: Daniel I. Block, The NIV Application Commentary: Deuteronomy, 2012, p. 709.
This two-ways tradition can be traced back to the Garden of Eden and forward through both Testaments to early Christian tradition. An early Christian text known as the Didache will open with the words, “There are two ways, one of life and one of death; but a great difference between the two ways. The way of life, then, is this: First, you shall love God who made you; second, your neighbor as yourself.” The continuity between these two passages illustrates the presence in the Old Testament of values we might think of as only belonging to the New Testament. It also reminds us why the book of Deuteronomy has been called The Gospel of Love.