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In today\u2019s chapter Moses continues to look forward to Israel\u2019s life in the promised land, revealing how the relationship between meat and meet will be different than it is presently.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the desert, when all of Israel were neighbors (<\/span>shachen<\/span><\/i>) with the Tabernacle (<\/span>mishcan<\/span><\/i>) that housed God\u2019s presence (<\/span>Shechinah<\/span><\/i>), all meat was required to “meet” God. That is to say, all meat had to go through the ritual process of temple sacrifices. However, when God enlarges the territory of the Israelites, leaving them many days away from a central place of worship they are allowed to eat meat that doesn\u2019t need to be part of a sacrifice to God. God still demands that it be slaughtered as instructed, and that the blood not be consumed, but the distance allows those who want to eat meat to do so anywhere at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n

This discrepancy is of course predicated upon the other main idea of the chapter, a central place of worship where all sacrifices must be brought. Surprisingly this most important location is neither revealed (recalling Abraham who is told to leave his homeland but not of the destination), nor explicitly chosen: Moses repeatedly uses the future tense \u201cto the site that the Lord your God will choose.<\/span><\/p>\n

It remains hidden for many centuries and is only revealed towards the end of the life of King David when in a last ditch effort to contain a terrible plague from decimating the inhabitants of Jerusalem, David purchases land from Arvonah the Jebusite and builds an altar. In the retelling of the story, (Chronicles 1 chapters 21-22) after God stops the plague, David proclaims \u201cHere will be the house of the Lord and here is the altar of burnt offerings for Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

God has finally chosen, but his choice is connected to David naming Jerusalem as his capital city, bringing the ark to Jerusalem, purchasing a specific plot and building an altar on the plot. It seems that what Moses describes as God\u2019s choice is not a solitary decision made by God alone, but rather one that is intertwined with his obedient servant David, who as king of Israel, represents the collective will of the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Moses spoke of the place that God will choose, the location could not yet be known because the places where we will meet God are not solely determined by God: they are the product of a human-divine partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n

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