Mo, you're the MAN!

The Lord said unto Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book.”

Jordan explains, “God’s saying, ‘Mo, I want you to write a book.’ That’s why we are people of a book. If you take the book away, you take us away. Notice it’s God’s idea. Not Moses’. The church I was raised in laughed and said Moses couldn’t write: ‘Dontchaknow, back in those days they were all demented.’ You know, carry around a club on their shoulders. Living in caves. You know, meet some gal on the way, bop her on the head and drag her home and make her cook for ya.

“You ever read Acts 7 when Stephen talked about Moses and said he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians? I mean, have you ever looked at the Egyptians? The culture he lived in? He could get up in the morning and look out at the Pyramids!

“Well, mercy, people today can’t even figure out how they built them! Come to Chicago and go to the Field Museum of natural history and my favorite exhibit there is down in the basement in the Egyptian room. It’s full of mummies and they’ve got this little woman in a little sarcophagus and they’ve got some of the remnants peeled back and this is 3,000 B.C. and she looks pretty good. A little leathery, but her features are there. She’s all there.

“I’ve been involved with the exhuming of bodies in the past and you know what, with all the modern techniques of embalming, you don’t look so good after 10 years. Honest, you don’t! Give yourself 30 years in that hermetically sealed environment in the coffin and you’ll look even worse. You know why? The bacteria that produces decomposition works in that hermetically sealed environment.

“God’s Word, as it was written down, was not written down to be a family history. It wasn’t a journal or a diary. It wasn’t national archives; it was God telling Moses and others to write His Word!”

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Exodus 24:4-7 reads, “And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
[5] And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
[6] And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
[7] And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.”

Jordan says, “By the way, they put it in a book. I know what experts say: ‘Well, books weren’t invented back then.’ What are you talking about? Think about who invented books! They say, ‘Well, they had to roll a scroll,’ like dealing with toilet paper.

“Well, how would you study something rolled out like that? You couldn’t study it. How could you do what we’re doing right now and cross-reference that?  You know who invented books? People who studied because that’s why you have a book like that.”

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Exodus 34:27-28 reads, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
[28] And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.”

Notice he writes the words on a table. This is where Moses is REPRODUCING.

Deuteronomy 31:24  says, “And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished.”

Here Moses is finishing Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy. He’s writing the words.

Jordan says, “You notice it says the writing of the words of the law in a book. A book. There’s a verse in Joshua that talks about THE book. One book! But it’s really got five parts in it. It’s one book because it’s got one author but it’s got a bunch of sections.”