(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Deuteronomy 10:1–11, “At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead. From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee. And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.”
For Israel the future was founded on the past. The most significant event in the past was when God called Abraham and Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness (Gen 15: 6). Everything after that was based on faith, first and foremost (Rom 4:13, “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”) Moses went up to the mountain in faith and received the tablets containing the Law but Israel showed they were not yet ready for the Law so Moses broke the tablets that the Lord had given him. Later Moses carved two more tablets of stone and a ark to contain them. He went up to the mountain and the Lord wrote the Law on the tablets for the second time. This time they were prepared, having previously sinned then confessed and come back to the Lord in humility. After they were given the Law, Israel resumed the journey towards the Promised Land. The first high priest died and was replaced by his son. The only true constant in this life is the Lord Himself and the security of His Word.
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