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{{DOD-February}}
Again in chapter 16 we have the principal annual feasts covered. The Passover (verses 1-8); the Feast of Weeks (verses 9-12); and the Feast of the Tabernacle (verses 13-17). Then in verses 18-22 [[God]] assures the people that the judges and officers that are to judge the tribes will give the people just [[judgment]].
In verse 1 of chapter 17 we notice the offerings that were sacrificed to the [[Lord]] must be unblemished or they were an abomination unto the [[Lord]]. Verses 2-7 cover the condemnation of all idolators. Their condemnation was [[death]] by stoning, before witnesses. [[God]] tells the people in verses 14-20 that "when thou art come unto the land which the [[Lord]] thy [[God]] giveth thee, and shall possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me." The kingdom came some 400 years later (see I [[Samuel]] 8). [[Samuel]] told the people that in asking for a king they were rejecting [[God]]. This is not a contradiction, it is just the fact that [[God]] foreknew that they would want a king. He is not approving their actions here in Deuteronomy, but He is foretelling them that generations later they would desire a king over them and would reject the form of government which [[God]] had given to them.
Chapter 18 contains one of the most specific predictions of Christ found in the [[Old Testament]]. [[Jesus]] Himself understood it ([[John]] 5:46) and so did [[Peter]] (Acts 3:22).
The Hebrew nation was being founded of [[God]] as the medium through which one day all nations would be blessed. The statement concerning the [[Messiah]] definitely tells us that we would be given another Prophet ([[Jesus]], Who would bear [[God]]'s message to all nations). Judaism was to be superseded by Christianity (the day of [[grace]]). [[God]]'s plan of salvation is found in Ephesians 2:8,9: "For by [[grace]] are ye saved through [[faith]]; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of [[God]]: Not of works, lest any man should boast." We are not saved by keeping the Law, but by [[faith]] in the finished work of [[Jesus Christ]], who completely fulfilled the Law.
