Dr Paul Allen

“Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?” ( Deuteronomy 32:6 ) This rebuke was by Moses, as he warned the people of God just before their entrance into the Promised Land. It contains the first use of the Hebrew nabal (translated “fool” or “foolish”) in the Bible. Here it is applied to God’s chosen people after they had been redeemed out of Egyptian slavery by God. This implies that the most foolish of all people are those who have known about God and His great salvation and yet have turned away from His Word. Paul writes in similar scathing terms of those who had known of God’s great deliverance of their fathers from the evil world before the Flood, and yet then abandoned Him for idolatry. “When they knew God, . . . their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” ( Romans 1:21-22 ). David used the same word about those who decide they ca...

Dispute of Jesus and the Pharisees over tribute money (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 2 Kings 22:1–23:32 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found” (22:13a). Deuteronomy is one of the four most-frequently quoted Old Testament books in the New Testament and is prominent in the teachings of Jesus . Certainly, this reveals Deuteronomy’s importance in our Savior’s ministry and the overall pattern of His teaching. Regarding the pattern of His teaching, for example, the structure of the woes that Jesus pronounces upon the scribes and Pharisees  in Matthew 23:1 –36 is remarkably similar to the covenant curses recorded in Deuteronomy 28:15–68. As with these curses, Jesus’ woes condemn the Pharisees in an escalating fashion, reaching a climax in the destruction of unrepentant sinners. Even though Deuteronomy holds such an important place in Scripture, God’s people ha...

English: Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar, as in Numbers 27:12, by James Tissot (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Hidden in Deuteronomy is yet another prophecy about the Messiah ; it predicts the way in which the Savior would die and the length of time he would remain on the cross. Deuteronomy 21:22–23  If someone guilty of a capital offense  is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,   you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight.  Be sure to bury  it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse.  You must not desecrate  the land the  Lord  your God is giving you as an inheritance. says that God cursed any man executed for breaking one of God’s commands. His body hanging on a pole was a public display of  udgment.  Jesus took on this curse for all of humanity when he died on the “cross” (1 Peter 2:24), fulfilling the prophecy in Deuteronomy 21:23. The ...

HIGHER CRITICISM : DEBUNKING THE DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS AUTHOR: EDWARD D. ANDREWS The higher critics tear it all apart—it being God’s Word! FOR ABOUT 3,500 years, Moses’ first five books have been the foundation of the Old Testament, which itself had paved the way for the writing of the New Testament. These five books were actually the first mini-canon by which all other Bible books could be compared. Many scholars have claimed, however, that Moses was not the writer of the first five books of the Bible. Their claim is known as the Documentary Hypothesis.  Moreover, this hypothesis also calls into question the writership of the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings. Our entire discussion in this small book will be focused on the Documentary Hypothesis, which will be defined in section two below, and further explained and developed throughout the other sections in this book. First, I think it best that we set down the Jewish and the conservative Christ...