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Deuteronomy Chapter 21 "Persons and Property." This
Bible Study is written by Roger Christopherson, and it's
transcription/ location I am not going to cover this chapter verse by verse, and the reason for this is that most of this chapter simply does not apply to us today. Much of this chapter deals with blood ordinances, and sacrifices, which are fulfilled in the blood of Christ, and simply do not apply to us today. These verses are basically ordinances. "Ordinances" are laws that pertain to a specific thing or matter. The "blood ordinances" are sacrifices that require blood for the penalty of the offence. Once our Lord and Savior went to the cross and shed His blood for the remission of sin, their need never be another blood sacrifice, for as Paul pointed out in Hebrews 10:7; "Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written) to do thy will O God." Jesus Christ came to fulfill all of the promises of the Scriptures that were written of Him. Hebrews 10:9 "Then said He, "Lo I come to do Thy will, O God." He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second." In Christ's death "the first", or "the law of blood sacrifices" was taken away, when Jesus blood was shed on the cross. The blood of Christ then became the only way to our heavenly Father for the remissions of our sins, and this is why we pray in "Jesus name". The name of Jesus is our only acceptable credentials before the throne of God. By faith we acknowledge that fact that we accept it to be true. Hebrews 10:10 "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." We will now study ordinances under the law that pertain to persons, and property. Deuteronomy 21:1 "If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:" If a dead body is found lying in the field, the person finding those remains is to go to the nearest town to see if that person is known there. That city or law enforcement unit that has the jurisdiction will take care of the case. Today we don't take the life of a calf for that person as the old ordinances required, but there is words spoken over that dead person, for the concern for the next of kin's mental well being. This verse is to show us that God cared about all the lives of His children, even the unknown to us. God's will is that all of His children come to Him in repentance, however, He will not force you to love Him and worship Him, that is your choice. There is only one way for true love to exist and that is for an independent choice of the person given their free will. God so loved the Word that He gave is Only Begotten Son, so that the heifer blood sacrifice would not have to be done. We no longer plead for forgiveness over the blood of animals, but in the name of Jesus Christ or Savior. Then we can pray for this city and this departed soul whose body was found lying in the field. This then is a matter for "civil law", and we are to obey civil law. Today we have high tech technology to solve the crime when it happens, to lay to rest the cause of death of that deceased person. Though there are many crimes that go unsolved, they are all going to judged at the throne of God, for there are no mysteries there. The city, however, must still pray that the guilt of that death not fall on their city. Once again the next verses deal with what had to be done when the remains of an unknown individual of a community were found and the cause of death was unknown. The blood ordinance sacrifices required here are not in affect today, for they were all fulfilled in the blood of Jesus the Christ. However we will scan over them. Deuteronomy 21:2 "Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:" Deuteronomy 21:3 "And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with and which hath not drawn in the yoke;" Deuteronomy 21:4 "And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:" Deuteronomy 21:5 "And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:" Deuteronomy 21:6 "And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:" Deuteronomy 21:7 "And they shall answer and say, `Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it." Deuteronomy 21:8 "Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them." Deuteronomy 21:9 "So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord." God requires that the elders of the city do everything in their power to find the murderer if he or she is still in the community, and remove that person from the community. This is as it is today, only our methods are different, as is or law. Deuteronomy 21:10 "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive," This part of chapter twenty one deals with the taking of a war bride, the marrying of a woman of the enemy peoples that have been taken captive. Our nation today has many cases of this type of marriage, for war brides have been taken by our soldiers from the lands of Viet Nam, Korea, Japan, Germany, and other nations that our people were one time enemies with. When a man takes a woman from one of these foreign lands, and brings here home as his wife, if for some reason the two of them don't get along, you can't sell that woman, or make merchandise of her. However, the taking of a bride would not be allow in the cities where there were Nephilim, or fallen angels offspring. Remember from the last chapter in Deuteronomy 20:17, there were certain peoples that had allow their blood lines to become so polluted that God said to destroy everything, man, woman and even the children, including their animals, and idols. Deuteronomy 20:17 "But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee." These are those peoples that had mixed with the married into the fallen angels, and had Nephilim polluted blood in their lineage. The reason for this destruction of all those peoples is in the next verse. Deuteronomy 20:18 "That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God." The reason that God chose that no offspring of the Nephilim be present in any manner, was that Satan chose these fallen angels to come to earth to pollute the lineage of the coming promised Messiah. The Nephilim are those angels spoken of in Jude 6: "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." There has been two prior times where Satan has sent his angels to earth to take the daughters of men, once in Genesis 6:1-6, and the other following the flood of Noah's day. There will be a third time coming very shortly as we covered in the last chapter from Revelation 12:7-9, when Satan and all his fallen angels will come upon the earth at one time. It will not be a secret when this happens, for Satan will come with super-natural powers, so much that if it were possible he would fool the very elect. However it is not possible, for the elect knows that Satan is coming first, and none of the elect can be deceived by Satan playing his role as the Antichrist. In God's plan, Jesus Christ, Emmanuel [God with us] is to be born of a virgin of the stock of Adam. It was Satan's will that their would be no stock of Adam left to conceive the Christ child, that could fulfill the promise of Genesis 3:15. Genesis 3:15 "And I [God] will put enmity between thee [Satan] and the woman [Eve], and between thy seed [the Kenites] and her Seed [Jesus Christ]; It [Christ] shall bruise thy [Satan's] head, and thou [Satan] shalt bruise His [Christ's] heel." The Messiah was promised in this prophecy, and Satan aimed to stop the plan of God when he deceived Eve into a sexual union that produced Satan's son "Cain". The Kenites are the offspring of Cain the first born from that sexual union. Adam also took part in that sexual orgy in the garden of Eden. It took place in a fig orchard, and that is why fig trees are identified as something hidden through deception even to this day. When Cain, "the first murderer", killed his half brother Abel [Adam's son], Satan thought he had spoiled God's plan, however Adam had another son, "Seth", that became the one that the lineage of the promised Messiah would pass through. This set up another problem for Satan, for once the family of Adam started to multiply Satan made this second attempt to interfere with God's plan. This plan of Satan's was to send many of his angels to marry the daughters of Adam's family and have child by them. In time the entire blood-line would be polluted by these offspring [giants] and then the plan of God would be spoiled. Satan's plan would have worked, however, there was one family that did not take part. Noah would not allow his sons to take women of the Nephilim for their wives and allow their children to marry into this evil polluted lineage.. Because of this, God spared Noah, as well as two of every kind, and races. Remember that the attack by Satan and the Naphilim was specifically against Adam, not the other races at that time. Each race was created by God and they are good in the eyes of God. Genesis 6:9 "These are THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH; Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." The term, "and perfect in his generations" is referring only to his ancestry. It does not mean that there was no sin in them. The word "generatons" in the Hebrew Dictionary is #8735, and it comes from the Hebrew prime; "Toledoth" which means "family tree, or family history". When a family history is called "perfect" in the Hebrew text it is called "tamin"; "without blemish as to breed, or pedigree." So the flood of Noah's day was to rid the earth of these hybreds of mixed man and Nephilim that had fill the earth at this time. The flood came and took them all away. However after the flood, and the eight adamic souls with the rest of the races multiplied, a second influx of Nephilim came, and these are called by many different names, such as the Perizzites, the Raphiams and so on, and they inbread into the people living in the land of Canaan. God allowed these people to remain in the promised land until the four hundred years in the land of Egypt was completed, and the Israelites had grown from a family of seventy to millions of people in their captivity. These peoples, the Hittites, Amorites, the Canaanites, and Perizzites and so on had married into the Nephilim on a second influx after the flood of Noah's day, and so polluted these people with not only their blood, but their heathen ways and gods. They are the ones that brought grove worship [Baal and Ashorath], which is nothing but sexual orgies, and the making of idols that reminds and worked people to a state of sexual activity. Remember the goal and purpose of the fallen angels was to pollute the the lineage that the Christ child [Emmanuel] would come through. All this was given to help you understand why the taking of a wife from one of the named tribes of peoples God hated, was for a purpose. Their mind was set on sexual orgies, their worship was of strange gods, and blood line was mongrel [polluted]. The whole idea was to keep a clean pedigree of God's people for the sake of the coming Messiah. So because you took a war bride from another people, other than those named in Deuteronomy 20:17, and you humbled this beautiful woman, you are to be good to her. These verses simply do not apply today on the treatment and putting aside of this woman because we are under civil laws of what ever land we are living in. Christians are to obey the civil laws of the land they are in, and also follow the instruction of the New Testament concerning divorce. Deuteronomy 21:11 "And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;" Deuteronomy 21:12 "Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;" Deuteronomy 21:13 "And she shall put the raiment of her captivity form off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband and she shall be thy wife." Deuteronomy 21:14 "And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her." Deuteronomy 21:15 "If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:" It was common in the days of Moses to have multiple wives. God is laying it out plainly that if you have more than one wife, you cannot favor the children of one wife over that of another. The first born is the first born of the Father, no matter which wife that son was born to. If you did not like or get along with the first wife, that first born still received the rights of the first born, a double portion. Deuteronomy 21:16 "Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the first born:" Deuteronomy 21:17 "But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstorn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." Deuteronomy 21:18 "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:" This is very hard to understand in our day, but the parents had the right to put their children to death for disobedience. However, back then God gave complete rule over their children, which is not so today. This part of the law did not happen that often, for parents very seldom came to the point of giving up on their child, to kill the child. This verse deals with the matter of discipline, and discipline is the one thing that has gone wrong with Christianity today. Today Christians will not discipline themselves in the Word of God, but they will discipline themselves in matters dealing with their traditions. God will bless you when you discipline yourself in God's Word. The discipline of a child should come at the very earliest age. Children are line setters, and they want to know exactly how far they can go in a matter. When they exceed that point, it establishes a standard in their minds, and that is what regulates their conscience as to what is right or wrong. When the standard is based on God's Word, and the lines set are in accordance with God's Word, than that child has a standard for governing his or her entire life. When no standard exists, than you have a child out of control. They will go as far as they can go until they reach a point where they have gone to far. Then that child has become a threat of the community and to the family itself. The child does love it when mom and dad sets the line, and stops them when they get to it. This establishing the limits of discipline creates the love that the parent has for the child, and that the child has for his or her parents. By the time that child reaches teenage, that child has already reached and set its opinions for life. Deuteronomy 21:19 "Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;" Deuteronomy 21:20 "And they shall say unto the elders of his city, `This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.' " Deuteronomy 21:21 "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." Deuteronomy 21:22 "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:" Deuteronomy 21:23 "His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."
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