Monologue 6

Since, I always had been very much inquisitive about everything. As a child when I came to know that God himself had buried Moses, I used to feel passionately that I should go to the top of Pisgah, to plains of Moab, to mount Nebo and search the place where God might have had buried the Moses, and come down again to my people and tell them that “See! I have found the secret of God!”

Death of Moses

Deuteronomy 34: Moses dies (should I use the word kill?) himself upon the word of the God, and God buries Moses.
If the person is recognized as ‘prophet’ i.e. God’s man, the tendency is to blur his pre-birth and post-death connections.
The tendency in Indian context can also be figured out as the concept of being 'swayambhu'.

Deuteronomy 30: Restoration Promised

Read somewhere that the restoration promised here was fulfilled somewhere in Ezra. The restoration which it is said that it should take place in 20th Century is predicted somewhere ahead after the Deuteronomy.
The restoration promised here denotes one more fact that the organism of this faith viz. “Judaism” is very unique and community specific. Independently at ideological level it does not have a strong universal appeal. The question is how this community specific faith is being interpreted and was interpreted by Marathi Protestant Christians.

Deuteronomy 22

Deteuronomy 22 Laws of morality

Monologue 5

Many years after … many thousand years after I know there will be some prophet like…like Moses whom people would love …whom people would look upon as an inspiration…whom people would consider as the essence of finest human elements ….that prophet will be like a…like a conscience of all the people who would guide them through all the adversities of their life…but that would be many many years after. Right now there is no one …there is only a Lord with me. He only talks to me and guides me. Sometimes I feel that He stops talking to me then I feel very helpless. I just brood over that why he has suddenly stopped talking to me? Is He not there? Is there no more anything which I can understand about Him? He seems almost finished for me and then all of a sudden I understand that its not He who is finished its me who has finished! Its me who has finished and that’s why I am not able to understand him. Its because of my inefficiency that I am not able to understand his sufficiency. He is infinite I am finite! He is the perfect and I am imperfect! He is the absolute and I am impotent!
At the time when I used to realize this I used to feel completely exhausted and tired! Then I used to feel too much tired. I used to feel tired of knowing that I am potent. I really tell you I used to feel very much tired. And I used to feel more tired as I used to realize that this journey of understanding Him can not be stopped. I have to walk. I used to just realize that the quest of understanding Him is not yet quenched. It has to go on…and I used to start again to walk…

and here enter the Messiah

After the 4 books, in the 5th book, in Deuteronomy 18 a prophet...a Messiah is guranteed by God through Moses. Messiah who later changed the course of human history. Undoubtedly from the time when the Messiah was promised i.e. since 1500 BC i.e. in thses 3500 years there had not existed a personality with purest essence of human being other than Jesus Christ. He is the Messiah.......undoubtedly! But lets try to see the paragraph Deuteronomy more closely.
As I surfed the net I came across one interpretation which tried to connect the paragraph where the prophet is promised with its preceding paragraph. In the preceding paragraph God just warns sons of Israel not to get deceived by the people who might say that they have the power to interprete omens or dreams, or they can caste the spell or call up the deads i.e. they are the people with divine powers. Emergence of such kind of people was very much possible at that time. To restrain people from such kind of things a prophet was promised by God. God knew that come what may people would fall victim to such kind of things so its better to promise the one prophet who would be Moses says "a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen"
Another thing is that, that the prophet was promised to the people of Israel. That means the prophet was the need of the people of the Israel. Such kind of need need not to be necessarily true for all the people of the world.
In case of Marathi Protestant Christians, who are mostly converted from the lower castes of India....there was never such a immidiate need of a person who is a prophet. My point is come what may Marathi Protestant Christians would never understand in real sense that what was exactly the need of such kind of "promise of prophet". The reason is quite simple that the socio-political-economical-cultural structure of "sons of Israel" and "Indian lower castes i.e. Marathi Protestant Christains" was never similar. So the "need of the prophet" was a very unique need limited to only the people of Israel of that time.
Another important thing here is that I am talking only abou the "need of the prophet" amd not the need of the values which Christ brought with him.
I know for sure that lot of Marathi Protestant Christians spend their precious time in understanding and explaining to others that how the work of Jesus Christ was the design of the God. Marathi Protestant Christians explain this concept to others about which they thenselves are not convinced. I think by doing this they do nothing bbut just harm the core of the Christ which are his values.
Christ is not Christ just because his years on this earth was the pre-thought design of the God, he is hrist because of his values. Thats why the universal appeal of Christ lies in his values and not the peripheral thing.
A common history is always needed to carry the faiths, beliefs ahead. With common history ot becomes easier for community to carry their faiths and beliefs ahead. In case of Marathi Protestant Christians or lets say the Indian Castes who got converted in Christianity this option of "common hostory" doesnt exist as the history of "people of Israel" is literally pretty far from them. Excluding history waht remains are the values. I think Christ is better understood in converted communities of recent years rather than in the communities who are following it for centuries.

Old Testament allows monarchy

Deuteronomy 17 allows the monarchy and puts complete hold on the system called "king"